Remember, people... if it's a "may" search effect, like in Ranger-Captain of Eos, you can simply choose not to search to deny your opponent a card if Opposition Agent is out.
Just out of curiosity, could anyone explain why Nick wouldn't flash in Opposition Agent in response to Alex cracking his fetchland? It seemed like the best value he'd be getting out of it.
Sort of. If he plays it then, people will start playing around it and he doesn’t get as much value, plus it might get removed earlier and not stop people from doing worse things. Getting a land is fine but you’d rather show the mana for it and pretend you don’t have it so that people tutor for more relevant cards that you can steal
Nick here. My thought process is, if you are going to take someone out of the game by turn one oppoing their fetch. You need to be aiming to win within a turn or two or you have a hand that can deal with your other two opponents. I had neither of those things. So taking him out of the game, very well could have been detrimental to me myself winning. I have had people take me out of games with similar plays then they could do nothing while some other opponent combos off and wins while I am sitting there with unplayable interaction.
Nick here. My thought process is, if you are going to take someone out of the game by turn one oppoing their fetch. You need to be aiming to win within a turn or twoor you have a hand that can deal with your other two opponents. I had neither of those things. So taking him out of the game, very well could have been detrimental to me myself winning.
That ending is why its often a good idea to put a shuffle effect card like a titan in a cedh deck if there is a slot for it. Some of them fit really well into slower stax decks or where you can cheet them out in other ways
15:45 is impossible, Kinnan entered the battlefield that turn. He did have two other creatures to use it on (though he used Deathrite), so it is fine, but it was almost completely impossible to do
@@guitarID Kinnan says "of any type that permanent produced" so with Lotus it should only be able to produce 4 mana of the same color. As @vOid said he also uses birds, but I lost it in the narration since only lotus is mentioned. My bad.
6:57 this should be impossible to do because jeweled lotus's mana can not be used for anything but commanders unless there is an interaction i am missing because even if kinnan lets you add another mana since its the jeweled lotus creating it wouldnt the commander restriction still apply?
Again some very cool games, but again, no effort is made by Nick to play his commander, so Nick and may as well have any Esper based commander so he can use the cards in its mana base 🙂
Why the heck doesn't drake ever pay for rhystic study? In my book thats a huge missplay. He's got oodles of unspent mana and yet still feeds the study why?
Nick is responsible for his own death when he tried to counter the Elemental blast. He should have let it resolve. He still would have won even if Thoracle was destroyed.
Ah, yes, Brain Freeze with as much as the general meta plays Breach Freeze, Turbo naus, and Thoracle I'm surprised there hasn't been that much of a rise in stax style decks. Personally, I've been on the Jorn stasis lock deck. Recently had a 3-hour game cause everyone refused to concede to my Orb of dreams, Stasis, Forsaken City hard lock in hopes they would draw a way to remove stasis that couldn't be countered. 😂 stubborn play group...
Remember, people... if it's a "may" search effect, like in Ranger-Captain of Eos, you can simply choose not to search to deny your opponent a card if Opposition Agent is out.
Nick is a much kinder person than I. I would of slammed down that op agent in response to the fetch and laugh
in response to praetor's grasp lol
@@arthurventreschi2465 it doesnt work against praetors grasp
Yeah no idea why he wouldn't. I get the social contract of edh but this is all win no feel bads
I love when casting The Prismatic Bridge actually comes up in Esika. So rare and so cool
Who ever cast esika???
Amazing video as always pwp keep up the good content
That first game was wheely cool
Just out of curiosity, could anyone explain why Nick wouldn't flash in Opposition Agent in response to Alex cracking his fetchland? It seemed like the best value he'd be getting out of it.
Probably waited for more juicy target (like vamp tutor/imp seal)
Greed. People always want to hit a proper tutor of it but strip mining someone t1 is amazing and it was a misplay not to.
Sort of. If he plays it then, people will start playing around it and he doesn’t get as much value, plus it might get removed earlier and not stop people from doing worse things. Getting a land is fine but you’d rather show the mana for it and pretend you don’t have it so that people tutor for more relevant cards that you can steal
Nick here. My thought process is, if you are going to take someone out of the game by turn one oppoing their fetch. You need to be aiming to win within a turn or two or you have a hand that can deal with your other two opponents. I had neither of those things. So taking him out of the game, very well could have been detrimental to me myself winning. I have had people take me out of games with similar plays then they could do nothing while some other opponent combos off and wins while I am sitting there with unplayable interaction.
@@Theronxz couldn't you play it in response to praetor's grasp?
someone explain please, why nick dont played the opposition agent when alex fetched the taiga?
You should ask why he didn’t he cast it when Chad casted praetor’s grasp
@@topgapprentice it doesn’t work on grasp, because he don’t search his library
might have been holding it up for a real tutor,, also the fetch was cracked knowing there was an opp agent, so Nick may have thought he can stop it.
Nick here. My thought process is, if you are going to take someone out of the game by turn one oppoing their fetch. You need to be aiming to win within a turn or twoor you have a hand that can deal with your other two opponents. I had neither of those things. So taking him out of the game, very well could have been detrimental to me myself winning.
Yes game 1 looked wheely fun! Lol
TIL about that jeweled lotus kinnan interaction from game 1. Really neat!
That ending is why its often a good idea to put a shuffle effect card like a titan in a cedh deck if there is a slot for it. Some of them fit really well into slower stax decks or where you can cheet them out in other ways
Pretty much all brain freeze decks run Thassa’s oracle anyways so they’d just cast that after you shuffle everything back in
15:45 is impossible, Kinnan entered the battlefield that turn. He did have two other creatures to use it on (though he used Deathrite), so it is fine, but it was almost completely impossible to do
Seeing an Esper deck (other than Tivit) win made me so happy
My main deck is an Aminatou combo/control deck. I love playing Humility/Night of Soul's Betrayal when I only have 5 creatures in my deck
What is alex's game plan? im unfamiliar with temur pod lines and cant find anything on it.
I like the new video title thing you guys are doing.
what set are these dual lands from? taiga and underground sea etc??
RIP to that T1 Pod....
Definitely going to try Xanthid Swarm in some decks.
I went to check out the Sen Triplets list but I think the Esika list was posted twice. Any way to get the Sen Triplets list? Great games by the way!
Sorry about that! Description has been updated. Here you go: bit.ly/S25E08-Sen-Triplets
@@PlayingWithPowerMTG awesome, thanks!
How was Alex able to cast Tana with just Jeweled lotus?
He also used birds of paradise
Also kinnan makes jeweled lotus tap for an additional mana of any color
@@guitarID Kinnan says "of any type that permanent produced" so with Lotus it should only be able to produce 4 mana of the same color.
As @vOid said he also uses birds, but I lost it in the narration since only lotus is mentioned. My bad.
He tapped BoP to cast it as well.
@@marcocapolli I think narration only mentions mana abilities that like, lose life or sacrifice themselves on activation. Which makes sense to me :)
Whoa zen triplets!!!
into the am tees are amazing
Favorite part of the game(s)? Absolutely silence on the stack.
6:57 this should be impossible to do because jeweled lotus's mana can not be used for anything but commanders unless there is an interaction i am missing because even if kinnan lets you add another mana since its the jeweled lotus creating it wouldnt the commander restriction still apply?
Sen Triplets was a really exciting inclusion to me.
I love the triplets
Why He/Him banners over the players?
I feel like i never see anyone actually play sen triplets.
So uh... removal?
Always pay Rhystic tax, what are we doing people
Nick loses internet points for not naming "You're Already Dead" as the Consultation card.
Personally, I prefer Borborygmos Enraged.
Honestly, I like naming Demonic Consultation.
The Esika decklist is repeated twice, and is overwriting the Triplets list.
Thanks. Here you go: bit.ly/S25E08-Sen-Triplets
@@PlayingWithPowerMTG Thanks a lot!
Again some very cool games, but again, no effort is made by Nick to play his commander, so Nick and may as well have any Esper based commander so he can use the cards in its mana base 🙂
Where's gut shot when you need it
the first Opposition Agent it's the worst Opposition Agent
Notion Thief = good card.
Why the heck doesn't drake ever pay for rhystic study? In my book thats a huge missplay. He's got oodles of unspent mana and yet still feeds the study why?
Nick is responsible for his own death when he tried to counter the Elemental blast. He should have let it resolve. He still would have won even if Thoracle was destroyed.
Thoracle wasn't on the battlefield though, which is why it got countered by FoW
@@trinket3571 Ah, true. Mb
Ah, yes, Brain Freeze with as much as the general meta plays Breach Freeze, Turbo naus, and Thoracle I'm surprised there hasn't been that much of a rise in stax style decks.
Personally, I've been on the Jorn stasis lock deck.
Recently had a 3-hour game cause everyone refused to concede to my Orb of dreams, Stasis, Forsaken City hard lock in hopes they would draw a way to remove stasis that couldn't be countered. 😂 stubborn play group...
That’s not that wild. Both Boseiju and Otowara are uncounterable and would remove the stasis for at least some amount of time.
So sick of Thassa's Oracle.
I was really hoping not to see a thoracle win from sen triplets. It's a good wincon, but boring and played out.
First
I really hope Dockside will be banned
Great matches! Keep it up guys!
there is no sen-tripplets decklist, its just the Esika list twice.
Here you go: bit.ly/S25E08-Sen-Triplets