I have a hard time watching others streamers ater watching a couple LVD videos. The way he narrates the game and explain his plays is next level. Entertaining and instructional.
Literally the only Magic UA-camr worth watching if I'm being honest. Chill dude, good plays, and just fun to watch. I cannot say the same for any one else.
The way these cards function together is crazy. It's like layers upon layers of synergy. Watching a fabled passage shuffle the top card away, then double trigger a dread presence to hit face for like 8 with Vito is a sight to behold.
Right?! I love this deck and amazed with its inner workings. Even after playing MTG since the 90's and being is high Diamond, I am not smart enough or posses enough patience and attention span to make this deck work. Well done LegenVD, well done.
The way you deckbrew is so unique! Besides not being a 2 card combo that wins the game, you managed to make all the deck working acording to the wincon in such a way that it's more consistent and you can achieve your wincon in many ways. Really nice job, man!
Played a version of this deck in standard when WAR was released. Used the explore package (jadelight, branchwalker, wildgrowth) and the 5/5 dino to accelerate. Path of discovery as well so when citadel hit the field you could play your entire deck by exploring lands off the top to hit more action. Tons of fun, cool to see what pieces it gained this rotation
Fires of invetion (prohibited), Winota (close to being prohibited in all formats), embercleave (next candidate) and finally Vito (remember, next to be prohibited). All these cards have a common denominator, they can define the game in a single movement. Your deck is risky, but effective, I like it.
I have toyed with this concept the most since M21was released, and I find it better in Abzan. Charming Prince and Knight of Autum are really good...but the star has to be Sorin. Giving lifelink to all your creatures is nasty with Vito. And he can recurr Prince, Knight, Vito etc and another two good inclusions: Fiend Artisand (can tutor Azusa, Vito, Dryad, Presence etc while suffling for the Citadel, a total beast in this shell) and Mire Triton (gainlife, shuffling, deathouch to hold the fort, fills the GY for both Sorin and Fiend etc another awesome piece here)
As many synergies as were explained in the intro, you missed one: Vito giving lifelink to Dread Presence would turn every swamp play into 6 damage, not just 4. It deals 2 and you gain not 2 but 4, since you gain 2 from lifelink and 2 from the effect. Plus if you can add effects that return lands from the grave, then even in the event you run out of lands to tutor you may be able to infinitely recur fabled passages while tutoring nothing with them. As a possible suggestion. It may also be worth it to splash blue for Spark Doubles to use on Azusa and Vito.
I just put 1 Vito in my historic bolas citadel deck. Sometimes you get 100-200 life in one turn with the wildgrowth walkers and with the full combo you find Vito or worst case reanimate him with command the dreadhorde :D
There were some instances where you could have added a lot more damage to the dome by activating Vito before playing a lot of lands. Dealing 6 damage each land + attacking should usually finish the match :)
This deck is awesome! Reminds me of the Devil's Play/Experimental Frenzy Deck where you got addicted to slamming down 5 lands per turn. Speaking of which, how many Azusa would you think to slot into that Devil's Play deck?
Using Vito's ability can give your Dread Presences lifelink, which will effectively double their damage and healing output. Might be worth it occasionally, especially when you don't have things in hand to cast using all your mana.
i used two copies of Pulse of Murasa because i was lacking rare wildcards. worked out quite well. you deal 6 dmg with vito in play, get a creature or land back on your hand for cmc 3.
Nice one. This was the 1st convincing showing of the Citadel I saw. I also tried those decks from the last two Players Tours and on those decks the Citadel never did anything useful. I was more happier with Casualties of Was instead of the Citadel...
Thanks, for this. It is stupid fun when everything works. Seems that teh algorithm screws me badly, i get mana flooded 2 out of 3 games :) Any tweaks you would suggest?
hey LVD, great video as always. Any plans of featuring a ramp deck with ugin? I checked out channel fireball as you recommend but I couldn't find the recommendations/spotlights in the way you make them, which is very helpful.
@@LegenVD thanks for responding. I'm a bit unemployed at the moment, but one of the things I'm looking forward to the most when my financial situation stabilises is to be able to support awesome creators like you :)
Is it true that all the jumpstart cards will be added to historic? If so, I recommend using Vito and Exquisite blood. You just need to either gain life or make your opponent lose life. Then, you have an infinite loop :)
I played this deck before M21 and prefered playing karn main and citadel in the side. That way you don't have to pay 6 life by playing citadel of the top of your library and at least get an aditional karn activation :)
Been playing this deck in BO1 and its' pretty lethal except when facing an early leyline of combustion deck (then its' lethal in the opposite direction)
Wait, at 19:00 (aprox.), why not playing Fabled Passage first, sac it to fetch a Forest, play the Grazer and then play the Overgrown Tomb tapped? Is there is a point in shocking the Tomb?
Given that Dread Presence got countered there wasn't really an advantage. Maybe if we draw another Dread Presence, then we would still have an uncracked Fabled Passage to get an additional Swamp.
LVD you’re an amazing player and content creator. Thank you for all I’ve learned. How about some brawl? These decks are turning into a pretzel of convoluted lanes
Love this archetype, Vito, however, seems like a gimmick. It might look nice when it wins, but I'm sure it'll look very miserable against reasonable decks. I've played Presence decks in any variation, Historic and Standard, more than 100+ games. From my experience, you have to win with a combination of beat-down/Presence triggers or straight up Presence OTK (which, admittedly, is easier in Historic with Scapeshift or even Explore). Anyway, I don't think incidental reach on a weak stick is very exciting.
I was brainstorming something like this after I saw Azousa or w/e spoiled. Gonna steal this almost card for card, but I'm 99% sure the surveil demon is better than the black cav.
The life loss is brutal, but you make a good point. We are very low on interaction, so having the destroy target creature from Cav is nice, and when it dies, Azusa AND Vito are targets to bring back if they die/are sacrificed, so it's not bad
She is legendary. And dryad is more important because it makes all your lands swamp and allow you play 1 extra land. Azusa lets you play 2 more but you can play multiple dryads. That being said i can see playing myself 3 Azusa here maybe.
@@lordfifth4520 I didn't say cut Dryad. I think dryad is very powerful and is a key piece to the deck. My point was that Azusa was very powerful as well. I see the legendary argument but the list has Scavenging Ooze so playing an Azusa then exiling for some life later on seems pretty good. Maybe I'm wrong.
It is killing me seeing all these cool decks using cards I really want to play with from m21 but I only started at theros and I swore I wasn't gonna use any of my wilds now for sets that are going to rotate. Think I might actually try and play historic...
@@LegenVD I'm just saying at one point you had 3 fabled passages in hand and a citadel out, I would've played the passages to shuffle the deck 3 times and hope to hit more dryads/azusas to play more lands etc etc
While this deck is very fun, it's way too fair for standard. Maybe good for the play queue, but this deck is probably the quickest 10 losses on ranked I've seen.
using Vitos active to give Dread Presence Lifelink before playing additional lands should boost the damage even further
Good point, probably should've used it more often.
What about font of agonies?
I have a hard time watching others streamers ater watching a couple LVD videos. The way he narrates the game and explain his plays is next level. Entertaining and instructional.
Literally the only Magic UA-camr worth watching if I'm being honest. Chill dude, good plays, and just fun to watch. I cannot say the same for any one else.
Lol so true! If I want to watch some magic instead of playing I go here.
The way these cards function together is crazy. It's like layers upon layers of synergy. Watching a fabled passage shuffle the top card away, then double trigger a dread presence to hit face for like 8 with Vito is a sight to behold.
Right?! I love this deck and amazed with its inner workings. Even after playing MTG since the 90's and being is high Diamond, I am not smart enough or posses enough patience and attention span to make this deck work. Well done LegenVD, well done.
There are so many crazy decks you can create which has even more layers to it! MtG is a superior game !
LVD is a man who enjoys playing more than two lands per turn. :)
The way you deckbrew is so unique! Besides not being a 2 card combo that wins the game, you managed to make all the deck working acording to the wincon in such a way that it's more consistent and you can achieve your wincon in many ways. Really nice job, man!
Bolas, I hate all the planewalkers and even the avatar but I love the citadel!
CGB brought me here. Great content!
20:57 this whole sequence is so good at showcasing the power of this deck.
This was deeply stressful. "And we're on 1 life..."
But still my favorite deck in standard so far. I'll miss Bolas' Citadel.
This deck seems so cool... it just goes on and on. Kinda weak to getting low early aka mono red.
@@dkznikolaj7013 if anyone still played aggro. isn't everyone just ramping to ugin? =P
This deck is so extremely cool!
Thanx a lot. This is real magic :)
Hot damn LVD, another amazing deck. I didn't even realise the synergy between Dryad and Dread Presence, and I love both of those cards.
Played a version of this deck in standard when WAR was released. Used the explore package (jadelight, branchwalker, wildgrowth) and the 5/5 dino to accelerate. Path of discovery as well so when citadel hit the field you could play your entire deck by exploring lands off the top to hit more action. Tons of fun, cool to see what pieces it gained this rotation
Wow this deck and that first game was... *Chefs kiss*
Fires of invetion (prohibited), Winota (close to being prohibited in all formats), embercleave (next candidate) and finally Vito (remember, next to be prohibited). All these cards have a common denominator, they can define the game in a single movement. Your deck is risky, but effective, I like it.
I have toyed with this concept the most since M21was released, and I find it better in Abzan. Charming Prince and Knight of Autum are really good...but the star has to be Sorin. Giving lifelink to all your creatures is nasty with Vito. And he can recurr Prince, Knight, Vito etc and another two good inclusions: Fiend Artisand (can tutor Azusa, Vito, Dryad, Presence etc while suffling for the Citadel, a total beast in this shell) and Mire Triton (gainlife, shuffling, deathouch to hold the fort, fills the GY for both Sorin and Fiend etc another awesome piece here)
pbs.twimg.com/media/EbZjBFlWkAAcTzE?format=jpg&name=small My fav deck so far M21
Brilliant deck design Legend. Doesn't surprise me, since you're deck building skills are out of the norm.
I am a simple man.
I see LVD and Bolas Citadel.
I like.
As many synergies as were explained in the intro, you missed one: Vito giving lifelink to Dread Presence would turn every swamp play into 6 damage, not just 4. It deals 2 and you gain not 2 but 4, since you gain 2 from lifelink and 2 from the effect.
Plus if you can add effects that return lands from the grave, then even in the event you run out of lands to tutor you may be able to infinitely recur fabled passages while tutoring nothing with them. As a possible suggestion.
It may also be worth it to splash blue for Spark Doubles to use on Azusa and Vito.
I just put 1 Vito in my historic bolas citadel deck. Sometimes you get 100-200 life in one turn with the wildgrowth walkers and with the full combo you find Vito or worst case reanimate him with command the dreadhorde :D
still crazy that azusa is standard legal and surprised about no cultivate
Except Azusa is pretty meh in standard without the bouncelands. Dryad of Elysian Grove is way better(and isnt even played by ramp decks lmao)
Also crazy swing rewind with Simic Flash being a thing...
Ahhhh this is my kind of Golgari deck, life play, sac, graveyard fiddling and multi lands a turn. Love it.
There were some instances where you could have added a lot more damage to the dome by activating Vito before playing a lot of lands. Dealing 6 damage each land + attacking should usually finish the match :)
This deck is awesome! Reminds me of the Devil's Play/Experimental Frenzy Deck where you got addicted to slamming down 5 lands per turn. Speaking of which, how many Azusa would you think to slot into that Devil's Play deck?
I would start out with two copies.
Using Vito's ability can give your Dread Presences lifelink, which will effectively double their damage and healing output. Might be worth it occasionally, especially when you don't have things in hand to cast using all your mana.
37:18 what the hell is this trigger?!
Looked very strange indeed. I think it was just Citadel telling you "you can play this land!"
First match against MonoBlackMagic Shrines deck. Great one!
i was kind of expecting Valakut in Jumpstart to push this even further in Historic, but with a return to Zendikar around the corner one can still hope
This deck is so cool i like this video so much
i used two copies of Pulse of Murasa because i was lacking rare wildcards. worked out quite well. you deal 6 dmg with vito in play, get a creature or land back on your hand for cmc 3.
Nice one. This was the 1st convincing showing of the Citadel I saw. I also tried those decks from the last two Players Tours and on those decks the Citadel never did anything useful. I was more happier with Casualties of Was instead of the Citadel...
I made a simic ascension deck with the new hydra, and it is a kinda fun idea.
Thanks, for this. It is stupid fun when everything works. Seems that teh algorithm screws me badly, i get mana flooded 2 out of 3 games :) Any tweaks you would suggest?
hey LVD, great video as always. Any plans of featuring a ramp deck with ugin? I checked out channel fireball as you recommend but I couldn't find the recommendations/spotlights in the way you make them, which is very helpful.
Ugin is in the Patreon poll!
@@LegenVD thanks for responding. I'm a bit unemployed at the moment, but one of the things I'm looking forward to the most when my financial situation stabilises is to be able to support awesome creators like you :)
Is it true that all the jumpstart cards will be added to historic? If so, I recommend using Vito and Exquisite blood. You just need to either gain life or make your opponent lose life. Then, you have an infinite loop :)
Yup, will definitely build that at some point.
I played this deck before M21 and prefered playing karn main and citadel in the side. That way you don't have to pay 6 life by playing citadel of the top of your library and at least get an aditional karn activation :)
Looks a lot like my historic gitrog monster deck. Definitely making this.
Amaizing video, hope you make a deck with Stormwing Entity =)
Definitely on the to-do list!
Omg! I am in fact, looking for Magic cards!!!! =D
Been playing this deck in BO1 and its' pretty lethal except when facing an early leyline of combustion deck (then its' lethal in the opposite direction)
Wow! What a deck!
Deck looks amazing
Can u setup infinite combo with some lich on this Vito, like Soren maybe?
Wait, at 19:00 (aprox.), why not playing Fabled Passage first, sac it to fetch a Forest, play the Grazer and then play the Overgrown Tomb tapped?
Is there is a point in shocking the Tomb?
Given that Dread Presence got countered there wasn't really an advantage.
Maybe if we draw another Dread Presence, then we would still have an uncracked Fabled Passage to get an additional Swamp.
"Nice!" Congrats on the 69k!
I lov the way u say "AHAA!"
What is happening at 37:19? Is it the Citadel that bugs out and shows you the howl deck?
LVD you’re an amazing player and content creator. Thank you for all I’ve learned. How about some brawl? These decks are turning into a pretzel of convoluted lanes
If you use vitos lifelink anthem ability with a dread presence, would it drain twice as much?
Comedy Man Yeap.
Sweet deck
So which one do you think works better for Historic, this one or the Experimental Frenzy one? And will you add a couple Azusas to the latter?
A few Azusas in the Frenzy deck seem good. I think I prefer Gruul in Historic.
How do you keep count of how many lands you already played each turn? 🤣
Why not play cultivate? It seems like that would be really good with dread presence
Could be a fine replacement for Gift of Paradise, they both have their advantages.
how could Dread Presence trigger on Fabled passage or forests?? There's no ability anywhere that make them Swamps
The dryad makes lands having every basic land type (even fabled passage).
Fascinating deck,
Great Deck Legend :)
Love this archetype, Vito, however, seems like a gimmick. It might look nice when it wins, but I'm sure it'll look very miserable against reasonable decks. I've played Presence decks in any variation, Historic and Standard, more than 100+ games. From my experience, you have to win with a combination of beat-down/Presence triggers or straight up Presence OTK (which, admittedly, is easier in Historic with Scapeshift or even Explore).
Anyway, I don't think incidental reach on a weak stick is very exciting.
Wait.. if you have Vito and Dread presences.. why not activate it to gain life from the damage your presence deals? Good for Citadel
I was brainstorming something like this after I saw Azousa or w/e spoiled. Gonna steal this almost card for card, but I'm 99% sure the surveil demon is better than the black cav.
The life loss is brutal, but you make a good point. We are very low on interaction, so having the destroy target creature from Cav is nice, and when it dies, Azusa AND Vito are targets to bring back if they die/are sacrificed, so it's not bad
Coolest synergies ever
Looking at the list I think you should run at least 3 Azusas. She seems crucial to the deck and can help power through games. Just my opinion though.
She is legendary. And dryad is more important because it makes all your lands swamp and allow you play 1 extra land. Azusa lets you play 2 more but you can play multiple dryads. That being said i can see playing myself 3 Azusa here maybe.
@@lordfifth4520 I didn't say cut Dryad. I think dryad is very powerful and is a key piece to the deck. My point was that Azusa was very powerful as well. I see the legendary argument but the list has Scavenging Ooze so playing an Azusa then exiling for some life later on seems pretty good.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Alieldrazi built this shell-like 2 months ago ... add FOTD and go historic ... destroys
Such a degenerate non-interactive non-deterministic combo deck, but I enjoyed watching you play it!
id love to craft the deck, if only i had started playing during m20
It is killing me seeing all these cool decks using cards I really want to play with from m21 but I only started at theros and I swore I wasn't gonna use any of my wilds now for sets that are going to rotate. Think I might actually try and play historic...
legit didnt realize this was standard
I had to put the fourth Citadel in. Its too important to not draw.
Yup that's a deck wowzee
>Sees hand with only three lands
*Sad LVD noises*
the bolas legacy
why not play the fabled passaeges to shuffle for citadel on match 1?! i was screaming at my screen hahahah
Not sure what you mean, we couldn't play more lands.
@@LegenVD I'm just saying at one point you had 3 fabled passages in hand and a citadel out, I would've played the passages to shuffle the deck 3 times and hope to hit more dryads/azusas to play more lands etc etc
@@UlfMTG You can do the same "reshuffle" by just playing land off the top without spending the Passages in hand.
Man Arena is all about cat noises even when i don't see any cats
I don't have connection speed for this
What the. What kinda magic is this?
While this deck is very fun, it's way too fair for standard. Maybe good for the play queue, but this deck is probably the quickest 10 losses on ranked I've seen.
Bolas Citadel is too fair for standard... jfc, WotC...what have you done...
sweet
I played the deck and lost every single game
That happens to me a lot with UA-cam decks.
Same, im 2/11 for this deck
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Love the videos, huge fan, but this deck was not good at all.
man, I feel like standard’s gonna be so bland when it rotates :/
Really? REALLY? I can't wait for rotation. Standard is at its worst ever! Can't believe they let Teferi spread his misery for the entirety of it.
Since it gets rid of T3feri and Wilderness Reclaimation, I'm willing to give it a chance.
@@RagingGoblin Yeah I'm not sure why Teferi needs to be OP in every set lol
Yeah, I'm sick of wrecking people with Teferi, as well as being wrecked by Teferi myself.