37:40 This isn't actually a bug, this behavior has to do with how the process for casting/activating X-cost spells/abilities works. When you activate an X-cost ability, you first choose the value for X, then pay costs, and then choose targets. Since you chose X=3, and since you didn't have any one-mana artifacts, there's no combination of artifacts with Automated Artificer that you could exile in order to get a total mana value of exactly 3. The correct way to use the ability would instead be to select X=4, then exile Automated Artificer and another artifact to pay the cost.
It is a bug though. The artifact has not been working for me at all, I never get the option to choose more than one artifact, often I can't choose any at all.
The cost for the ability requires you to exile artifacs with total mana value X to get something back that costs X or less. If you want to get back a 3-cost by sacrificing two 2-drops, you have to select X=4. Otherwise if you select X=3 it'll let you pick one of your 2-drops but not the other because you end up going above the activation cost. Honestly they should've just made the cost say total mana value X or greater and then it'd be a lot more intuitive.@@szandorkane6372
17:05 Small note: instead of bouncing Tishana's Tidebinder to free the Barracks of the Thousand temporarily, you can use Otawara to bounce the land itself, since it's an artifact, and replay it. (Your line likely was superior anyways.)
I found adding a couple Teferi's along with Celestus really helped with life gain and ramp. It is a little win more, but Tef also helps meld Urza and then being able to activate him twice really gets the wheels turning. I added Farewell at my top end. I rarely want to exile graveyards or Artifacts, however I can plan around either if I need to. That said the versatility of wiping Enchantments can really turn some games around in the current meta. Between Ossification, Leyline Binding, Up the Beanstalk and the various Virtues, farewell can really stop you from getting buried in value. Not sure how I overlooked Mirrex, thank you for that one!
@@willdomm4122 Teferi who slows the sunset. Untap land, arti and creature and give you +3 (or 4 if you untap mind and weak stone) and really crafting and melding simple
Thank you for your awesome content Legend, you're my favorite MTG content creator by far. Keep up the good work, i've been watching your videos for around 2 years!
50:13 I think that is my favorite euphemism in life. 'That's interesting' when is meant 'that to me is incomprehensibly insane'. Somehow, it sounds like 'I am starting to have trouble with it, but I still would like to be able to respect you'.
Urza , Prince of Kroog. You can copy artifacts, Planeswalkers, or any permanent when Encroaching Mycosynth is in play. Works great and can be oppressive when you can make multiple copies of Mightstone Weakstone, or anything else.
You can also do some really neat shenanigans with Tefari by untapping a land and artifact with full control with the moon smithy. Also, Mirror Box would play well in this deck.
Happy that Akal Pakal showed up twice. It's a pretty underrated card - I built a Historic Brawl deck around him, which puts lots of ramp artifacts and artifact tokens into play, and has Rise and Shine and Masterful Replication as out-of-nowhere wincons. Would love to see you give him a go there!
First opponent really copied one of the best decks available right now, then proceeded to play some of the worst magic possible. Truly a sight to behold.
Cool deck, I love artifact decks like that that don't just ramp into You-win-the-game. Looks fun to play. Btw, ignore me if it's none of my business, but have you seen any positive change on your end since youtube started to crack down on ad-blocks?
Counterspells for control/ramp, sweepers and lifegain for aggro. The main is already decent vs midrange. Can't dilute the deck too much since we need a critical mass of artifacts.
10:04 Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't Takenuma, Abandoned Mire's ability not work with Dennick in play? Or is this some weird rules interaction I've never seen?
So in that first game I gotta ask,if you target raffine and do not pay the ward cost with glyphbridge, does the ward counter the whole ability or just the forced targeting and would still destroy creatures?
Unstable Glyphbridge, importantly, doesn't target and Ward only triggers off targeting. It says "choose", which is a sneaky way of getting around it because Magic is fairly literal with targeting, as in it has to explicitly say "target" for it to target.
LengenVD, What do you think about trimming two Thran Spiders for braided net (Since you only need one to sink mana) and bringing in 2 copies of Karn, Legacy Reforged going down a Thousand Moons Smithy and a mightstone and Weakstone?
Sorry for my question, I'm still quite new to competitive magic plays. Couldn't Dennick be double blocked by the spiders at 18:48? It would be exiled and one spider would still be remaining, or am I missing something?
@@LegenVD At 14:40 you had 1 card with two options, and plenty of mana to spare. By the time you cast it and drew your cards, the timer started a few seconds later. It's not rocket science to play a single card when the opponent's hand is empty, with no possible way to counter or respond.
@@SuperMontsta There are multiple options with Mightstone, several targets to choose from, many ways to tap our mana, even a few activated abilities to think about. It's very easy to tap incorrectly and shut down future options because of that. I appreciate your concern for the opponent's and the viewer's time though!
If you're familiar with all the cards it should be easy enough to skip to the games using the timestamps. Someone who might be getting into Standard for the first time could be watching, so I need to cater to a wide range of viewers.
Really nice of your game 1 opponent letting you play your board wipe not once, but twice, when they could have kept it out of your hands. Honestly i lowkey wish youd cut games that feature an opponent making such a large, glaring mistake. Especially when those games are 20 minutes long.
I love how Luca knows every card in his opponent's deck as soon as they play their first land. Truly a knowledgable and skilled player. 🧠
… and a very stale metagame.
… and a very stale metagame.
37:40 This isn't actually a bug, this behavior has to do with how the process for casting/activating X-cost spells/abilities works. When you activate an X-cost ability, you first choose the value for X, then pay costs, and then choose targets. Since you chose X=3, and since you didn't have any one-mana artifacts, there's no combination of artifacts with Automated Artificer that you could exile in order to get a total mana value of exactly 3. The correct way to use the ability would instead be to select X=4, then exile Automated Artificer and another artifact to pay the cost.
Makes sense!
Thank you for this explanation
It is a bug though. The artifact has not been working for me at all, I never get the option to choose more than one artifact, often I can't choose any at all.
The cost for the ability requires you to exile artifacs with total mana value X to get something back that costs X or less. If you want to get back a 3-cost by sacrificing two 2-drops, you have to select X=4. Otherwise if you select X=3 it'll let you pick one of your 2-drops but not the other because you end up going above the activation cost. Honestly they should've just made the cost say total mana value X or greater and then it'd be a lot more intuitive.@@szandorkane6372
Mostly correct. You always choose targets before paying costs.
Classic Urza, destroying the world with an army of robots when he’s not doing Eugenics
But why not both?
so many war crimes, so little time, which is why he invented the Tolarian Academy
@@vumasster Then again, Urza was a Planeswalker back when that meant being godlike in power and immortal. So he wasn't exactly lacking time.
The main character of magic the gathering everybody
Mtg hitler
I just wanted to say that I love the Market Gnome. He is just a little helpful guy doing his best
Dude has tamales. Best buddy
Thran spider is such an underrated card in artifact leaning decks. It has ramp, that big booty, and the _sneaky_ reach! You get A LOT for your mana.
17:05 Small note: instead of bouncing Tishana's Tidebinder to free the Barracks of the Thousand temporarily, you can use Otawara to bounce the land itself, since it's an artifact, and replay it. (Your line likely was superior anyways.)
I found adding a couple Teferi's along with Celestus really helped with life gain and ramp. It is a little win more, but Tef also helps meld Urza and then being able to activate him twice really gets the wheels turning. I added Farewell at my top end. I rarely want to exile graveyards or Artifacts, however I can plan around either if I need to. That said the versatility of wiping Enchantments can really turn some games around in the current meta. Between Ossification, Leyline Binding, Up the Beanstalk and the various Virtues, farewell can really stop you from getting buried in value.
Not sure how I overlooked Mirrex, thank you for that one!
Which teferi did you add?
@@willdomm4122 The one that let you gain life and ramp 😅
@@willdomm4122 Teferi who slows the sunset. Untap land, arti and creature and give you +3 (or 4 if you untap mind and weak stone) and really crafting and melding simple
32:15 I know the opponent conceded, but you wouldn't have been able to pay the ward cost with automated artificer because ward is a triggered ability.
Indeed, should've tapped it to cast Leveler instead.
Between Powerstones, Artificer and now Foundry it's a lot to keep track of.
@@LegenVD i know. i didn't even know the difference until my powerstone deck went up against make disapear.
Match 3 was brutal, so much white arty ramp lol. Provides me a lot of value
Very cool deck, love seeing these new artifact synergies
Thank you for your awesome content Legend, you're my favorite MTG content creator by far. Keep up the good work, i've been watching your videos for around 2 years!
50:13
I think that is my favorite euphemism in life. 'That's interesting' when is meant 'that to me is incomprehensibly insane'. Somehow, it sounds like 'I am starting to have trouble with it, but I still would like to be able to respect you'.
At 17:05, you could also Otawara your own glyphbridge to be able to recast the wrath. Fun shenanigans when your board wipe is also a permanent!
Always love super durdly/synergistic artifact decks
Been waiting to see Smithy on this channel! It's just such a neat card and I like it.
This is so awesome!!! Love seeing artifact decks in action! Awesome job, Luca! 😄
Match 1 was crazy!!!! Love seeing magic games like that! Awesome job, Luca!!!
Urza , Prince of Kroog. You can copy artifacts, Planeswalkers, or any permanent when Encroaching Mycosynth is in play. Works great and can be oppressive when you can make multiple copies of Mightstone Weakstone, or anything else.
Urza is a mad lad. Literally Mad Scientist!
Yess, was waiting for this.
me too! lol
You can also do some really neat shenanigans with Tefari by untapping a land and artifact with full control with the moon smithy.
Also, Mirror Box would play well in this deck.
Great content. Been watching most of these on my TV I gotta remember to leave comments!
I have been using a similar deck with Abuelo, bouncing enter the battlefield effect artifacts. Add virtue of knowledge and... Good times.
Happy that Akal Pakal showed up twice. It's a pretty underrated card - I built a Historic Brawl deck around him, which puts lots of ramp artifacts and artifact tokens into play, and has Rise and Shine and Masterful Replication as out-of-nowhere wincons. Would love to see you give him a go there!
Legend thumbnails are slowly replacing OG cart art in my head.
Fantastic!
babe, wake up: new Standard video just dropped
Zoetic glyph seems like it should have a place somewhere in this pile.
I made an akal pakal hbrawl deck, the card selection is nuts
Another good alternate win condition card for this deck could be the halo fountain
Awesome vid!
this is the kind of blue white deck I can get on board with
Been trying this archetype since the set dropped with mixed results. Very excited to see a fresh take on it!
First opponent really copied one of the best decks available right now, then proceeded to play some of the worst magic possible. Truly a sight to behold.
I thought I'd get to see the assembly worker meme trio 😔
You missed Mirror Box so you can make multiple copies of Urza.
Cool deck, I love artifact decks like that that don't just ramp into You-win-the-game. Looks fun to play.
Btw, ignore me if it's none of my business, but have you seen any positive change on your end since youtube started to crack down on ad-blocks?
LVD, u know u can use the bottom right button to skip turn instead of pressing next 195127 times right? XD
Legenvd what would you play, in sideboard in best of 3 in this deck?
Counterspells for control/ramp, sweepers and lifegain for aggro. The main is already decent vs midrange.
Can't dilute the deck too much since we need a critical mass of artifacts.
10:04 Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't Takenuma, Abandoned Mire's ability not work with Dennick in play? Or is this some weird rules interaction I've never seen?
Dennick prevents the cards from being targeted, but Takenuma allows you to simply choose a card rather than targeting.
Luca, could you please mention format in video title?
Expected more timeless content sadge
This deck is sweet! It it were BO3, what do you think would be a good sideboard?
So in that first game I gotta ask,if you target raffine and do not pay the ward cost with glyphbridge, does the ward counter the whole ability or just the forced targeting and would still destroy creatures?
Unstable Glyphbridge, importantly, doesn't target and Ward only triggers off targeting. It says "choose", which is a sneaky way of getting around it because Magic is fairly literal with targeting, as in it has to explicitly say "target" for it to target.
@@lanerenner9410 interesting thanks for the answer
37:45 - the mainest skill of any mage: read magic cards carefully :D artificer's cmc is 2, you tried to return spider with cmc 3
nice
LengenVD, What do you think about trimming two Thran Spiders for braided net (Since you only need one to sink mana) and bringing in 2 copies of Karn, Legacy Reforged going down a Thousand Moons Smithy and a mightstone and Weakstone?
Tried Karn in a few decks but am always disappointed with it. Spider is almost untouchable in the deck, just does everything we need.
@@LegenVD OK, thanks for the information.
Sorry for my question, I'm still quite new to competitive magic plays. Couldn't Dennick be double blocked by the spiders at 18:48? It would be exiled and one spider would still be remaining, or am I missing something?
Normally, yes! But since we have Glyphbridge in hand we wouldn't want to lose the 2/4 Spider.
@@LegenVD Ahh, I missed the Glyphbridge requiring a power 2 or less creature, now it makes total sense! Thanks for clearing up!
How do you feel about Oaken Siren to replace Artificer?
Nice idea for a deck, but it just gets runover on ladder in pretty much any matchup
why in a billion years would they otowara the glyphbridge 😭
whats the blinking thing on top of the oppos graveyard
sigil to represent dennick’s ability
dennick, it has hexproof
😊
What gameplay settings do you use in arena
Hello, better late than never
Almost running the timer out when doing nothing but playing two cards 🤦♂️
Timer is there for a reason! Pausing to think about your plays will provide better results than going into autopilot.
@@LegenVD At 14:40 you had 1 card with two options, and plenty of mana to spare. By the time you cast it and drew your cards, the timer started a few seconds later.
It's not rocket science to play a single card when the opponent's hand is empty, with no possible way to counter or respond.
@@SuperMontsta There are multiple options with Mightstone, several targets to choose from, many ways to tap our mana, even a few activated abilities to think about. It's very easy to tap incorrectly and shut down future options because of that. I appreciate your concern for the opponent's and the viewer's time though!
I like your videos but I feel like the deck tech could be more succinct
If you're familiar with all the cards it should be easy enough to skip to the games using the timestamps. Someone who might be getting into Standard for the first time could be watching, so I need to cater to a wide range of viewers.
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Really nice of your game 1 opponent letting you play your board wipe not once, but twice, when they could have kept it out of your hands.
Honestly i lowkey wish youd cut games that feature an opponent making such a large, glaring mistake. Especially when those games are 20 minutes long.
I do cut a lot of those games, but my time on this earth is limited.
That game 1! Infinite grind out on esper. Top class @legenvd
that op hard threw that game just giving him his board wipe, twice lol