I used to always mulligan one land hands and lose the game. Then I learned Seth's philosophy of one land one keep. Now I keep one land hands. I still lose but now I have a cool catchphrase.
@@shatzinorris1417 did all modern players become historic players on arena? the power level of the format is bonkers now thanks to all the modern horizons and didgital cards.
@@goncaloferreira6429 im pretty they didn't. modern players were either playing on modo or paper, and mtga is super god damn expensive without having the advantages of modo or paper. Historic also sucks as a format imo
6:15 it would have been the better play to use the Lightning Helix on your own Nemesis to get the No-lifegaintrigger on top of dealing the same amount of damage to the opponent
@@thebobcat5814 the opponent was tapped out at that point and the Nemesis-play would have prevented potentially losing to them playing a Sheoldred and himself not drawing any burnspells. It would have been the objectively better play longterm, the fact that it wouldn't have changed the outcome doesn't matter for it to be the better play
Yea Sheoldred coming down next turn shows why your play was better. Seth just got a lucky deck right after, but Sheoldred would have started stabilizing with lifegain
Seth: If you're not feeling well, a home remedy our family has used for decades has been hot tea with honey and lemon juice. Honey soothes and coats your throat, lemon juice delivers vitamin C, and the hot tea is a delivery system that has its own benefits. It works surprisingly well and is also very budget friendly. I have a friend who more than once has told me "I'm sick, I don't like how it tastes but I need to get over being sick. Make me another mug of it!" and now does it regularly at home at those times. Hope you feel better soon! Also, glad to see old-school Modern Burn on the menu for Standard. Apparently Jund isn't good enough to take on Standard but Boros Burn is? Who'da thunk it?
Also if you're playing this deck in BO3 and boarding in scorching shots etc. You should be able to hold these for threats and burn your own nemesis if you need them to go to face.
When they remove your screaming nemesis, you can lightning helix it in response (which kills it but it was gonna die anyways) and make it deal 3 damage to the opponent so they can't gain life for the rest of the game (then you dont have to worry about Sheoldred)
Ive really liked Heartflame Duelist in burn decks. It may not be Bonecrusher Giant, but having a burn spell on a creature is nice. And basically giving lightning helix double lifelink in funny
The absolute mad lad he played with the lifegain deck was playing flying Bob and Virtue of Persistence in the same deck. I guess sometimes you just want to deal seven damage to yourself and draw a card.
There are just so many options in standard right now. I just built a card draw control deck with Homunculus Horde as the win con. It is a blast to play and actually wins a decent amount.
I just can't see that Kellan being good when Cut Down and Goferdathroat and tons of other removal is everywhere. He's a Savannah Lions that maybe impulse-draws a card, but when is that useful? Spend 2 mana on that turn 2, then whiff a card off the top (can't do anything that turn), then see if he can connect again on turn 3 to maybe give one card? I can't imagine that pushing him to the 3/2 double-strike is ever the right play, that's way too much mana into something that still dies to Cut Down or Stab or Defile. At least Hired Claw always puts damage in and going to a 2/3 can foil SOME removal.
Hey Seth, might I recommend Burt's Bees Honey & Pomegranate cough drops/lozenges? I had them recommended to me when I lost my voice working a convention, and they should help alleviate the creaky voice from being sick and keep you from losing it from strain!
I think it’ll always just be too slow/mana intensive to use its ability, and playing it for the triggered ability requires using your burn spells on creatures, which isn’t something the deck wants to do unless required
Don't forget, you can Lightning Helix/Strike etc your own Screaming Nemesis!! So if they remove it, hit it with the helix, reflect the damage and boom you've prevented their life gain all game.
So I have been brewing a Simic Kill combo with Millennium Calander, Soul Caldron, Zimone + the infinite mana combo (Sleep Cursed Fae + Kami + Realm Scorcher Hellkite) Cause the mode that people haven’t thought about on Zimone is she can double counters on artifacts. So the idea is turn 1-2 Calander then get Zimone into the yard and Cauldron her onto a dude then you have her very powerful counter doubling for doubling anything really but if you happen to get the infinite mana combo and the Calander with 1 counter on it you immediately win the game Snakeskin veil is VERY good in the deck
Not that it ended up mattering but it might have been a better move to helix you nemesis in response to the go for the throat which would let you deal 3 to the opponent anyway and permanently lock out healing from sheoldred, cottage or virtue. The risk here being they have another removal spell of course but locking out lifegain is a huge deal for burn
I would LOVE for wizards to prioritize making midrange-y burn decks the focus for monored over RDW. Of course the strategy of cheap aggressive creatures will always exist but WotC doesn’t need to be constantly trying to one up themselves to make strong tools for that strategy.
I'm curious to see if you can come up with a boros goblin deck. Have been trying to brew one, but balancing the creatures with the draw/payoffs and pumps has been problematic for me. But I'm just a Pilot who can read peoples minds. I'm an awful deck mechanic...
Honestly, I am very surprized that I do enjoy standard again after its been not super fun the past half year or so. I do hope burn will replace the prowess decks tbh. Idk. I think I prefer playing against it.
48:23 Why would you not have played Boros Charm on your main phase when they were tapped out? I get waiting in most cases, but there was not a ton to wait for there - they just wound up untapping and keeping counter mana up. Not trying to backseat drive or anything I'm just curious if I'm missing anything.
why not helix your own screaming nemesis in response to their removal so you can redirect the 3 and prevent lifegain, then you dont need to fear the sheoldred.
In game one, your opponent cast Go For the Throat on your screaming nemesis (tapping out) while you had mana up for Lightning Helix. Is it correct in that position to lightning helix your screaming nemesis in response? This still gets you the 3 damage to redirect to your opponent's face, while also letting you put the screaming nemesis 'emblem' onto the opponent.
Dont forget you can also hit your own nemesis to launder the damage and still kill their healing. Also, man does this deck make me wish tai wakeen was playable. Feel better!
20:04 attack and if they block, you can double strike nemesis to kill Amalia AND get the no-heal trigger. If they block with weenies, even better. If they don't block, you get 3 face damage and kill Amalia with charm. I don't get what is the point to stand pat and charm face...
@@fernandom.m.pereira4093 "If they don't block you get 3 face damage and kill Amalia with the charm" seems to require him to think the charm alone would be able to do that, which is what I'm responding to there.
There is so much random lifegain in standard right now. I have been mixing different variations of this deck and it’s does okay but struggles to string wins together
This is very close to the Boros burn I've been playing since Foundations dropped. I've just been having trouble with the sideboard. Any non-budget sideboard cards to would recommend? I'm currently doing: x2 Torch the Tower, x3 Get Lost, x2 Not on My Watch, x1 Pyroclasm, x2 Rest in Peace, x2 Scorching Shot, and x3 Urabrask's Forge. Thanks for all advice.
10:54 no, that food wouldn't have changed anything. If you let the food resolve they go up to 7, then lightning strike brings them back down to 4, exactly where Boros Charm would have killed them anyways...
Having also build a variant of Boros Burn, you can also...upgrade? Probably upgrade, on Arena they're all rares, with the standard Prowess Haste Goons instead of Screaming Nemesis, Hired Claw and Kellen, and running Invasion of Regatha for an additional 4 to the face. That said, i play bo1, so Nemesis is definitely a card i'd sideboard for if I was building for bo3. But if you really wanna meme on people, you can run Hidegetsu's Second Rite. You deal damage in 1s, 2's 3's and 4's, it's fairly reasonable to get them to 10. It is a meme, but it's a FUN meme.
idk why you gotta use the textless versions of cards during the deck tech, you know, the time when people are trying to read and understand the cards. is it just to torment me so I have to take 15 seconds looking it up on scryfall?
Nice. But I would probably have either 'Bovine Intervention', 'Not on My Watch' or 'Repel Calamity' on my sideboard instead of 'Scorching Shot' to take care of bigger creatures. Edit: Kellan might actually be good in a deck with pump spells, when it gains double strike.
@Volttikoira yeah, you're right, didn't think about that. But still as a sideboard card as an answer to threats that Scorching Shot can't would be beneficial too. Destroy Evil can do it, but it's kinda dodgy.
Saying "it reminds me of modern burn 2015" made me wonder - what cards, printed specifically for modern, could be put into standard legal sets? Like, which cards from Modern Horizons (the first one) could be printed into a standard set without being completely broken?
Good Fortune Unicorn was from MH1 originally and was reprinted in Foundations. That said, I don't think the unicorn ever saw constructed play, but it's still a direct answer to your question
Copied decklist to play some games on lunch, first series destroyed a golgari deck super fun, also did your suggestion and took out Kellen. Think for a non budget version put in slick shot?
Personally I'm trying Ghitu Lavarunner which is basically a 1 mana 2/2 always in this deck. I find it's a cheap beater that I don't feel it cuts into my burn mana, however screaming nemesis is a real house so I could see SS being a nice add to pull away removal early.
Video #3 of requesting *Kaito Tribal* from Seth. I _know_ its not gonna be on a *_Budget Magic_* entry(4 rare, 8 mythic MINIMUM), but I must hold to the Oath!
I used to always mulligan one land hands and lose the game. Then I learned Seth's philosophy of one land one keep. Now I keep one land hands. I still lose but now I have a cool catchphrase.
This guy keeping tap lands 😂😂😂
10:36 Seth you had lethal even if you let them resolve the food lmao
I'm trying to see if there are any "extra lifegain" effects, but I don't see one. I think you're right.
I came to see if someone else said this...
He was silly maxing
yeah, 4 life plus a food = 7 life, lighting strike plus boros charm = 7 damage.
@@dragon101woof8Aren’t we all?
Burn becoming a standard deck after getting forced out of modern by mh3 about sums up 2024 magic for me.
burn not being a modern playable deck is a massive detriment to the format
It pains me to say it, but modern is dead. And modern horizons sets are the killers.
Burn wasn't good before MH3 lol
@@shatzinorris1417 did all modern players become historic players on arena? the power level of the format is bonkers now thanks to all the modern horizons and didgital cards.
@@goncaloferreira6429 im pretty they didn't. modern players were either playing on modo or paper, and mtga is super god damn expensive without having the advantages of modo or paper. Historic also sucks as a format imo
Don't overwork yourself and get well soon, Seth!
Thanks!
Those arena matches are basically the coal mines of kentucky :(
@@tylerblalack6684 ok
@Bersarker think of how many clicks the man must make for each 45 minute video ☠️
@@tylerblalack6684 ok
Can we give Seth some respect for the amount of will power he must have used to not include hidetsugu’s second rite
6:15 it would have been the better play to use the Lightning Helix on your own Nemesis to get the No-lifegaintrigger on top of dealing the same amount of damage to the opponent
i mean, it didnt matter either way. its smarter to leave it up so you can do that as a response to them gaining life. if that makes sense
@@thebobcat5814 the opponent was tapped out at that point and the Nemesis-play would have prevented potentially losing to them playing a Sheoldred and himself not drawing any burnspells.
It would have been the objectively better play longterm, the fact that it wouldn't have changed the outcome doesn't matter for it to be the better play
I came looking for this comment. You are objectively correct
Yea Sheoldred coming down next turn shows why your play was better. Seth just got a lucky deck right after, but Sheoldred would have started stabilizing with lifegain
@@thebobcat5814 you don't get a trigger if you don't have a nemesis to trigger off of
Nothing has ever made me feel as old as hearing the modern burn deck that carried me through high school and college being called “old school.”
Seth: If you're not feeling well, a home remedy our family has used for decades has been hot tea with honey and lemon juice. Honey soothes and coats your throat, lemon juice delivers vitamin C, and the hot tea is a delivery system that has its own benefits. It works surprisingly well and is also very budget friendly. I have a friend who more than once has told me "I'm sick, I don't like how it tastes but I need to get over being sick. Make me another mug of it!" and now does it regularly at home at those times. Hope you feel better soon!
Also, glad to see old-school Modern Burn on the menu for Standard. Apparently Jund isn't good enough to take on Standard but Boros Burn is? Who'da thunk it?
27:54 case closed! Good work detective olive.
If you wanna save some wildcards or money, you can swap in those duals that come in untapped when your opponent has
Also if you're playing this deck in BO3 and boarding in scorching shots etc. You should be able to hold these for threats and burn your own nemesis if you need them to go to face.
Is the boros creature land worth it over the desert?
Burn has so many options now, I made a mono red version of this that's 20$ and it still kicks ass lol
Standard feels great reminds me of the good days in modern
I'm incredibly hyped for the next year of Standard. The format seems like it should be super sweet!
Feel better soon Seth! Also, burning your own nemisis allows it to ping stuff and apply the no-lifegain effect.
Pyroclasm would be nice here, goes great with Nemesis
Yeah, that's probably worth including in the sideboard. Good call.
When they remove your screaming nemesis, you can lightning helix it in response (which kills it but it was gonna die anyways) and make it deal 3 damage to the opponent so they can't gain life for the rest of the game (then you dont have to worry about Sheoldred)
People out on the ladder already playing this deck... the Saffron Olive effect.
Aww, this makes me nostalgic, with boros charm and lava spikes and lightning helixes
People may call this Boros burn, but in my decklist it known as “Experiments with napalm”
I’ve been watching Seth for about 10 years now and this is probably the 10th time I’ve seen him with a husky voice too 😋 get well soon Seth
Hope you feel better Seth! I also got sick and sound like death, although I always start feeling better right when my voice goes out.
Ive really liked Heartflame Duelist in burn decks. It may not be Bonecrusher Giant, but having a burn spell on a creature is nice. And basically giving lightning helix double lifelink in funny
The absolute mad lad he played with the lifegain deck was playing flying Bob and Virtue of Persistence in the same deck.
I guess sometimes you just want to deal seven damage to yourself and draw a card.
There are just so many options in standard right now. I just built a card draw control deck with Homunculus Horde as the win con. It is a blast to play and actually wins a decent amount.
Viashino Pyromancer in standard yet again! Ya love to see it 🦎 🔥
Get better Seth! Need you for this new meta!! Also I hope you feel better
I wish i had seen the video before crafting 4 kellans 😢 my precious wcs. Damn prof got me good this time.
Prof barely plays dawg you played urself
I just can't see that Kellan being good when Cut Down and Goferdathroat and tons of other removal is everywhere.
He's a Savannah Lions that maybe impulse-draws a card, but when is that useful? Spend 2 mana on that turn 2, then whiff a card off the top (can't do anything that turn), then see if he can connect again on turn 3 to maybe give one card? I can't imagine that pushing him to the 3/2 double-strike is ever the right play, that's way too much mana into something that still dies to Cut Down or Stab or Defile.
At least Hired Claw always puts damage in and going to a 2/3 can foil SOME removal.
Burn decks, now standard for real.
Hell yes, been waiting for this one.
FYI at 6:16, you should probably Lightning Helix your own Screaming Nemesis to trigger it, thus preventing opponent from gaining life in the future
Hell yeah, actual burn deck
Wow that case looks so good in this deck
Get well soon, Seth!
Hey Seth, might I recommend Burt's Bees Honey & Pomegranate cough drops/lozenges? I had them recommended to me when I lost my voice working a convention, and they should help alleviate the creaky voice from being sick and keep you from losing it from strain!
Screaming nemesis is the truth, such a simple but good card
Every time I see Boros burn in standard I wonder if Taii Wakeen will have a role.
I think it’ll always just be too slow/mana intensive to use its ability, and playing it for the triggered ability requires using your burn spells on creatures, which isn’t something the deck wants to do unless required
Card's bad. Too slow. Clunky.
I’m playing a one of cursed recording in my burn and it’s great when it’s great.
10:55 what a smart play
Don't forget, you can Lightning Helix/Strike etc your own Screaming Nemesis!!
So if they remove it, hit it with the helix, reflect the damage and boom you've prevented their life gain all game.
Shout out to the opponent that is the offspring of Dinosaur Jr.
You sound sick, if you’re sick, I hope you feel better soon.
Is there a good substitute for Screaming Nemesis? With the popularity Mono Red Prowess and Burn Decks that card is $25.
Sadly no! If you want to play minored, then you have to eat it!
So I have been brewing a Simic Kill combo with Millennium Calander, Soul Caldron, Zimone + the infinite mana combo (Sleep Cursed Fae + Kami + Realm Scorcher Hellkite)
Cause the mode that people haven’t thought about on Zimone is she can double counters on artifacts.
So the idea is turn 1-2 Calander then get Zimone into the yard and Cauldron her onto a dude then you have her very powerful counter doubling for doubling anything really but if you happen to get the infinite mana combo and the Calander with 1 counter on it you immediately win the game
Snakeskin veil is VERY good in the deck
Not that it ended up mattering but it might have been a better move to helix you nemesis in response to the go for the throat which would let you deal 3 to the opponent anyway and permanently lock out healing from sheoldred, cottage or virtue. The risk here being they have another removal spell of course but locking out lifegain is a huge deal for burn
I would LOVE for wizards to prioritize making midrange-y burn decks the focus for monored over RDW. Of course the strategy of cheap aggressive creatures will always exist but WotC doesn’t need to be constantly trying to one up themselves to make strong tools for that strategy.
Less creatures more burn ❤️ I think it’s doable the only creatures I’ve been running are nemesis
I hope you feel better seth
Seth, kind of looking under the weather. Rest up bud, we want you healthy.
Turns out Screaming Nemesis is what finally broke UW Recommission! I'm in mythic!
Did you try the burn phoenix in any testing? It’s been pretty strong against black removal!
I'm curious to see if you can come up with a boros goblin deck. Have been trying to brew one, but balancing the creatures with the draw/payoffs and pumps has been problematic for me. But I'm just a Pilot who can read peoples minds. I'm an awful deck mechanic...
Honestly, I am very surprized that I do enjoy standard again after its been not super fun the past half year or so.
I do hope burn will replace the prowess decks tbh. Idk. I think I prefer playing against it.
Hope you get well soon seth. Love your content but take care, its more important :)
48:23 Why would you not have played Boros Charm on your main phase when they were tapped out? I get waiting in most cases, but there was not a ton to wait for there - they just wound up untapping and keeping counter mana up. Not trying to backseat drive or anything I'm just curious if I'm missing anything.
interestingly I've been playing burn control recently and it's been a blast, crimson pulse might be able to get me over the line in diamond
after testing, I've found virtue of courage to be more reliable
why not helix your own screaming nemesis in response to their removal so you can redirect the 3 and prevent lifegain, then you dont need to fear the sheoldred.
In game one, your opponent cast Go For the Throat on your screaming nemesis (tapping out) while you had mana up for Lightning Helix. Is it correct in that position to lightning helix your screaming nemesis in response? This still gets you the 3 damage to redirect to your opponent's face, while also letting you put the screaming nemesis 'emblem' onto the opponent.
It's lightning helix! Oh my god! Oh my god!
Kaito is why I play 2 Lithomantic Barrage in the side
Standard is the new modern. Modern is the new legacy.
Dont forget you can also hit your own nemesis to launder the damage and still kill their healing. Also, man does this deck make me wish tai wakeen was playable.
Feel better!
20:04 attack and if they block, you can double strike nemesis to kill Amalia AND get the no-heal trigger. If they block with weenies, even better. If they don't block, you get 3 face damage and kill Amalia with charm. I don't get what is the point to stand pat and charm face...
One little thing I'd note, Boros Charm is Players and Plainswalkers, can't target creatures.
@@thaddeusgenhelm8979he's talking about the Double Strike mode.
@@fernandom.m.pereira4093 "If they don't block you get 3 face damage and kill Amalia with the charm" seems to require him to think the charm alone would be able to do that, which is what I'm responding to there.
I hope your pneumonia gets better soon my dude!
So many Standard decks to play.
There is so much random lifegain in standard right now. I have been mixing different variations of this deck and it’s does okay but struggles to string wins together
This is very close to the Boros burn I've been playing since Foundations dropped. I've just been having trouble with the sideboard.
Any non-budget sideboard cards to would recommend? I'm currently doing: x2 Torch the Tower, x3 Get Lost, x2 Not on My Watch, x1 Pyroclasm, x2 Rest in Peace, x2 Scorching Shot, and x3 Urabrask's Forge.
Thanks for all advice.
10:54 no, that food wouldn't have changed anything. If you let the food resolve they go up to 7, then lightning strike brings them back down to 4, exactly where Boros Charm would have killed them anyways...
Having also build a variant of Boros Burn, you can also...upgrade? Probably upgrade, on Arena they're all rares, with the standard Prowess Haste Goons instead of Screaming Nemesis, Hired Claw and Kellen, and running Invasion of Regatha for an additional 4 to the face. That said, i play bo1, so Nemesis is definitely a card i'd sideboard for if I was building for bo3.
But if you really wanna meme on people, you can run Hidegetsu's Second Rite. You deal damage in 1s, 2's 3's and 4's, it's fairly reasonable to get them to 10. It is a meme, but it's a FUN meme.
kellan really needed his second level to cost only R, or make it a 3/2 in addition to the impulse draw, but probably both
Me at the Dentist watching MTG
idk why you gotta use the textless versions of cards during the deck tech, you know, the time when people are trying to read and understand the cards. is it just to torment me so I have to take 15 seconds looking it up on scryfall?
It's so scary that I could basically drop my bolts and have a standard legal deck... Lol
Nice. But I would probably have either 'Bovine Intervention', 'Not on My Watch' or 'Repel Calamity' on my sideboard instead of 'Scorching Shot' to take care of bigger creatures.
Edit:
Kellan might actually be good in a deck with pump spells, when it gains double strike.
Scorching shot has the upside of targeting your own nemesis for 5 damage, which is something non damaging removal cant' do
@Volttikoira yeah, you're right, didn't think about that. But still as a sideboard card as an answer to threats that Scorching Shot can't would be beneficial too. Destroy Evil can do it, but it's kinda dodgy.
Started play boros burn and all I’ve seen are GW life gain decks lmao. I’ve seen two since fdn dropped outside of this
Wow indeed… wow..in…deed
Oh so thats what i just played against on Arena
The main takeaway from this is that I'm not the only one who says "let's get shwifty" when I play my good cards. 😂
How is Boros Charm standard legal? What standard set is it in?
Burn, Lets go
Come on baby light my fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥
You could always use a shot on a nemesis as a 5 damage burn spell to face after swinging. Seemed under utilized
How many hours of physical speech does Saffron do a day?
how’s that deck $100 with $160 of Screaming Nemisis’?
Saying "it reminds me of modern burn 2015" made me wonder - what cards, printed specifically for modern, could be put into standard legal sets? Like, which cards from Modern Horizons (the first one) could be printed into a standard set without being completely broken?
Good Fortune Unicorn was from MH1 originally and was reprinted in Foundations.
That said, I don't think the unicorn ever saw constructed play, but it's still a direct answer to your question
What was wrong with the original video title?
There's very few times I root for opp over Seth, BW Bats is one of those times. Still, great showing
I think red overlord be better than lynx considering ur play alot of non basics same cost to impending and 4 damage
25:10 block with foundry + helix to kill Amelia??
Copied decklist to play some games on lunch, first series destroyed a golgari deck super fun, also did your suggestion and took out Kellen.
Think for a non budget version put in slick shot?
Personally I'm trying Ghitu Lavarunner which is basically a 1 mana 2/2 always in this deck. I find it's a cheap beater that I don't feel it cuts into my burn mana, however screaming nemesis is a real house so I could see SS being a nice add to pull away removal early.
Is there a deck new Kaelan is good in or is he just not very good, as I predicted?
watched
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Plz bring back the format in the title
kellan is a dei pick🥴
48:25 sounds like the professor in the background
I am here ro apologize for spreading misinformation due to my inability to read cards properly
How did you win vs Lifegain?! 😯😯
100$ being budget is wild
Playing a similar deck almost to mythic since release. Look up Blooming Blast. You're welcome.
blooming blast is so good, throws me back to playing modern back in the day with searing blood/blaze. so awesome…
@@thebobcat5814 yeah. Also Hidetsugu's Second Rite somehow accounts for half my wins, which is kinda comical.
@@MetalHevThat's actually some interesting tech, might try it out.
28:38 those who know 💀💀
Video #3 of requesting *Kaito Tribal* from Seth.
I _know_ its not gonna be on a *_Budget Magic_* entry(4 rare, 8 mythic MINIMUM), but I must hold to the Oath!