@@TheOnlyBootlegger my awkwardness is not related to power level. It's related to how unintuitive the interaction is for me. I used to think of Serum as "you get a free mulligan". Didn't realize that with London you have to bottom before the effect
I understand the flavor of having only cololess lands, but having forests would allow him to cast the green non domain pump spells when he loses leyline, and I think that's worth losing some scry lands
Yea, I didn't really understand the manabase. A few scrylands didn't seem worth it. I get the flavor of it, but also I thought there were like way better utility lands than just a scry 1
Match 3 game 1. You confuse might of old krosa with groundswell. You don't need a land, you just cast it main phase to get +4/+4 which would have been enough for lethal. It may have drawn a removal spell on your creature instead of them destroying the leyline.
Finally a modern video again! I get that the format is trash for against the odds/budget magic/much abrew since MH2, but it was mtggoldfish videos that really got me into modern when I started magic back in 2014 so it’s nice to watch them again
Don't worry, they'll still be some Modern (probably just not as much as in the past because, as you mentioned, it's not as easy to play jank as it used to be). I expect we'll be playing it a ton in a few months though when MH3 and Assassin's Creed come out, I'm super hyped for those sets (especially MH3)
@MTGGoldfish Seth Try play the land that makes all land into forests in addition to other types called Yavimaya. If you do this you can cast Leyline and half of your other spells.
This deckbuilder was definitely going on hardmode for no reason. Swap Blessing of the Nephililm out for Aspect of the Hydra, swap Faith's Shield out for Taymiyo's Safekeeping, and run some green sources in the mana base instead of this jank. Even if you dont add any other colors to your manabase but green, the only spells you cant cast are then Scamp and Agent. much more reliable.
Agree, he needs to run some Forests and Plains and would even run some Gruul and Simic lands just in case. I would not be running too many colorless - Urza's Saga is only a good land in Artifact centric Decks (but this isn't an artifact deck). - Escape Tunnel is not useful if we don't have basics in this Deck since the other function is more useful if we have Mirrex/Skrelv's Hive or even Venerated Rotpriest. But for that, just run an Toxic/Infect Hybrid Deck that has both plans in mind (try slam with a Big Infected creature and if that does not work you start slaming with smaller Toxic Creature (using Escape Tunnel to ensure they get overwhelmed by the Poison) or get your bigger Toxic Creatures in play and slam him - If you want to run Inkmoth Nexus, you should also run Blinkmoth Nexus too
I agree on Faith's Shield swapping out for Tamiyo's Safekeeping, simply because Faith's shield doesn't protect Leyline from Boseiju, but Blessing of the Nephilim is strictly better than Aspect of Hydra in this deck. Maybe another pump spell to consider is Might of the Nephilim.
@@MTGGoldfish This deck has potential! Right now you took a lot of advantage of the surprise factor, but you also were hampered by the lack of refinement.
I pulled a Leyline during Draft at my LGS. My draft deck didn’t need it, but I kept it anyway just to have it. Excellent decision. Picking it over a useful card didn’t even hurt the deck either, I got first place!
I love how there are so many janky ways to win with infect. Turns out even 1 and 2 mana 1/1s are good when you're opponent starts at a psuedo 10 life. Also this reminds me of how glad I am gitaxian probe is banned lol
I would love to see a revised version of this deck with all of Seth's ideas & some more testing. Would be hilarious to see it become even more lethal after going 3-2.
First round of match 5, the turn you got the urzas saga you could have animated inkmoth, used might of alara to get in for 6. opponents turn you block with your 6/6, then when you draw blessing of nephilim, you play it on inkmoth to win the game. Hindsight is 20/20 though, and I wasn't playing the match, so I don't know if I would have seen it either.
This deck makes me shiver, lol. I would replace some of the colorless lands in some amount of forests or one of each basic land (other than swamp). It also lets you tutor basics with Escape Tunnel
35:23 I knew I’d heard that name before. From Wikipedia: “Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is a Russian politician who became deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia in 2020.” And apparently someone with his namesake made a big-brain Leyline deck…
31:29 but the evaaaaasion tho. What you really need is a spell that gives hexproof and flying for one mana. Like a Water Wings that costs one less in exchange for losing the size change
Yeah, I also think adding some green lands instead of especially Escape Tunnel would make the deck a lot more consistent, and if there is an alternative to Blessing of the Nephilim in green, then you wouldn't have to play white and Faith's Shield and could auto-include 4 Tamiyo's Safekeeping.
I know we didn't have a poll and Seth didn't build this deck himself and all that, but I really feel like this deck should be an "Against the Odds" video 😂😂
Great content. I prefer the safer hexproof infect pump plans. Vines of vastwood. Occasionally steal wins but often times have one or two hexproof spells in hand against removal
@@MTGGoldfish I think confusing might of old krosa with different pump effect. Just needed to use might in main phase - not sure it would have made a difference but definitely some confusiong there
I agree with the end take. The colorless lands do have some utility but it doesn't feel worth fundamentally Blood Mooning your deck. You could keep the Gemstone Caverns, Serum Powder, and Leyline plan while actually being able to cast spells. This deck is already trying to be blazing fast so maybe some Mana Confluence and City of Brass. Get some Forces and evoke elemental sideboard action going on.
This video was hilarious. Are you going to make more Modern decks with Murders at Karlov Manor cards? I love basically all your content, but Arena visuals are so busy and hard to follow, I can't watch them. Will you continue to play on Magic Online as well?
Looks at might. Talks about land drops. Mydude. You where thinking of groundswell. And that card has alway been rubbish in infect imo. So glad we got better spells now.
The way Serum Powder works with London Mulligans is.... unsetling
It's not that bad. Once or twice a decade, we get a glass-cannon deck that plays Serum Powder, and the deck disappears completely.
@@McArRuIzO Vintage would like a word with you
It's the same way it worked with Paris or Vancouver. You just have to go down to your actual hand size before you Powder.
@@TheOnlyBootlegger my awkwardness is not related to power level. It's related to how unintuitive the interaction is for me. I used to think of Serum as "you get a free mulligan". Didn't realize that with London you have to bottom before the effect
It's super weird.
I understand the flavor of having only cololess lands, but having forests would allow him to cast the green non domain pump spells when he loses leyline, and I think that's worth losing some scry lands
Even a single forest would protect him from Field of Ruins, etc.
Yea, I didn't really understand the manabase. A few scrylands didn't seem worth it. I get the flavor of it, but also I thought there were like way better utility lands than just a scry 1
@@kelvinliu-huang5955it would also give him fetchables for escape tunnel, just in case
There is a Land, can do same as zhalfiring void , untapped, but can make colour too for tap 1
@@Volkan-uh2by Crystal Grotto. Like you said, strictly better! And in this deck, a massive boon
Match 3 game 1. You confuse might of old krosa with groundswell. You don't need a land, you just cast it main phase to get +4/+4 which would have been enough for lethal. It may have drawn a removal spell on your creature instead of them destroying the leyline.
Was looking for this comment
Same.
Finally a modern video again! I get that the format is trash for against the odds/budget magic/much abrew since MH2, but it was mtggoldfish videos that really got me into modern when I started magic back in 2014 so it’s nice to watch them again
Don't worry, they'll still be some Modern (probably just not as much as in the past because, as you mentioned, it's not as easy to play jank as it used to be). I expect we'll be playing it a ton in a few months though when MH3 and Assassin's Creed come out, I'm super hyped for those sets (especially MH3)
@MTGGoldfish Seth Try play the land that makes all land into forests in addition to other types called Yavimaya. If you do this you can cast Leyline and half of your other spells.
Oh yeah thats actually really smart!
A _very_ good idea.
I thought it was really funny that at 36:30 you can hear the fear of God entering Seth's voice for a second. Great video!
Seth's victory cry at 18:30 filled me with joy
Seth's absolute bafflement and joy when he first achieved a winning record with the deck fills my heart with joy
Seth confusing might of old krosa with groundswell at 20:48 hurt my soul a little bit but awesome deck!
This deckbuilder was definitely going on hardmode for no reason. Swap Blessing of the Nephililm out for Aspect of the Hydra, swap Faith's Shield out for Taymiyo's Safekeeping, and run some green sources in the mana base instead of this jank. Even if you dont add any other colors to your manabase but green, the only spells you cant cast are then Scamp and Agent. much more reliable.
Agree, he needs to run some Forests and Plains and would even run some Gruul and Simic lands just in case. I would not be running too many colorless
- Urza's Saga is only a good land in Artifact centric Decks (but this isn't an artifact deck).
- Escape Tunnel is not useful if we don't have basics in this Deck since the other function is more useful if we have Mirrex/Skrelv's Hive or even Venerated Rotpriest. But for that, just run an Toxic/Infect Hybrid Deck that has both plans in mind (try slam with a Big Infected creature and if that does not work you start slaming with smaller Toxic Creature (using Escape Tunnel to ensure they get overwhelmed by the Poison) or get your bigger Toxic Creatures in play and slam him
- If you want to run Inkmoth Nexus, you should also run Blinkmoth Nexus too
Running scion of Draco would be dope too
I agree on Faith's Shield swapping out for Tamiyo's Safekeeping, simply because Faith's shield doesn't protect Leyline from Boseiju, but Blessing of the Nephilim is strictly better than Aspect of Hydra in this deck. Maybe another pump spell to consider is Might of the Nephilim.
I'd love to see you run this back with a functional manabase to see if the colorless lands actually make a difference.
seeing seth's live reaction was a banger through and through
The shy cry of pure fear at 20:31
Did you consider might of the Nephilim? I used to use that in a jank nephilim deck, but here it seems like 2 mights of alara in a single card
Ohh, I totally missed that card! I think it's worth playing a couple of copies. One-shot kill with Leyline and an infect creature!
@@MTGGoldfish This deck has potential!
Right now you took a lot of advantage of the surprise factor, but you also were hampered by the lack of refinement.
I pulled a Leyline during Draft at my LGS. My draft deck didn’t need it, but I kept it anyway just to have it. Excellent decision. Picking it over a useful card didn’t even hurt the deck either, I got first place!
Probably worth running just for the mana fixing anyway
What did you run?
4 mana GGGG fixing, yup sounds good
So why the colorless lands instead of like... basic forests? Doesn't that accomplish the same thing with significantly less risk of bricking?
Because there are colourless lands that offer utility and still come in untapped.
@@deejay.zedemexthe scry lands don't seem worth it to me
I was asking the same question.
Style points
The colourless lands are funny but running them over basic Forests (or, let's be honest, Boseiju) is questionable
Seth having a mono black magic deck building moment :
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth over the gray havens allows the chance to cast a layline
when the future looks bleak and grey, We pull out our rose-coloured glasses and run with the devil.
-Me
this deck is completely and utterly weird but super fun to watch!
Seth getting excited for a win literally makes me excited lol.
Should we just have a scion of Draco in here to give our stuff protection and other keywords
I love how there are so many janky ways to win with infect. Turns out even 1 and 2 mana 1/1s are good when you're opponent starts at a psuedo 10 life.
Also this reminds me of how glad I am gitaxian probe is banned lol
I would love to see a revised version of this deck with all of Seth's ideas & some more testing. Would be hilarious to see it become even more lethal after going 3-2.
First round of match 5, the turn you got the urzas saga you could have animated inkmoth, used might of alara to get in for 6. opponents turn you block with your 6/6, then when you draw blessing of nephilim, you play it on inkmoth to win the game.
Hindsight is 20/20 though, and I wasn't playing the match, so I don't know if I would have seen it either.
This is the result of taking a busted mechanic and handicapping youself so hard in the deckbuilding that you start rooting for Infect again.
Been looking forward to this one, I hope it goes well!
Edit: Match 1 was brutal lmao
Finally modern. Miss the days when we could have 3 modern videos in a week.
This deck has the added bonus of causing severe psychic damage to any opponent who loses to it.
I'm pretty sure that aspect of the hydra is better than might of old krosa in this awesome deck
Yep, I think you are right. We can't cast it without Leyline anyway and it will always be +5/+5 at a min.
@MTGGoldfish it's only +4/+4 if you have 1 leyline and no glistener elf. But even still, extra +1/+1 on elf and it goes bananas with double leyline
34:56 earned my like. "And I'm at a loss for words" 😂
I would love to see this deck again in the near future with your upgrade ideas.
Remember your new year's resolution to be less fearful and make them have it more!
21:00 Might of Old Krosa is not Groundswell, my dude
Awesome deck, trying it out now
Good luck!
Happy to see you covering Modern! ❤❤
This deck makes me shiver, lol. I would replace some of the colorless lands in some amount of forests or one of each basic land (other than swamp). It also lets you tutor basics with Escape Tunnel
yea the Crystal Grotto and Yavimaya Cradle of Growth disrespect was wild - it would make the deck really strong!
Thanks for putting the format on the title
That groundswell sure looked a lot like a might of old krosa
Meme decks that can steal matches are my spirit animal.
i dont know what landfall spell you were thinking of, but might of old krosa doesnt need a land
Wouldn't it have been best at 40:45 to put in the Leylines to deal with either the Carrion Feeder or the Insidious roots or both?
30:24 I thought you were saying Face Shield and I was like What did I miss?? 😂😂 🎭
Lol, yeah I thought it was some COVID-era special edition card.
So glad to be here first for my favorite style deck... nothing beats a good old leyline to start a game
Draw go Seth is when Crim is on the shoulder and winning the arguement ;)
Just giving some engagement. Love how the guild pacts is shaking up 60 card formats.
This is a wild enough list that I'd like to see another video where you revamp and try to improve it
Big Brain Brewing is a great name for a UA-cam channel
21:04 you could've used faiths shield as it says "Target Permanent," right?
nvm it was a boseiju
😭
"This deck has exceeded my expectations." after one match win feels like how I play MTGO all the time.
Truly the game Richard Garfield imagined.
I think all colorless lands is too cheeky, but this deck definitely has something going for it
I assumed they had some janky colorless I didn’t know that made 2 mana and such. But no.
35:23
I knew I’d heard that name before. From Wikipedia:
“Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is a Russian politician who became deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia in 2020.”
And apparently someone with his namesake made a big-brain Leyline deck…
31:29 but the evaaaaasion tho. What you really need is a spell that gives hexproof and flying for one mana. Like a Water Wings that costs one less in exchange for losing the size change
You could Spirit of resistance too for a bit of survivability to your infect.
You could play “treasure vault” and keep the colorless land meem alive; and also have color mana when the leyline is removed.
Just wait until he runs into the meta breaking 40 enchantment removal spells deck
this deck feels like: choose your options carefully: heads i lose tails you win
What about including a 1 of spara's headquarters for the boseju games?
Yeah, the manabase is super greedy. I think it's probably worth playing some colored lands, but it does make the deck a bit less meme-y.
@MTGGoldfish I love your content! Thanks for responding❤️
Hey Seth,
Don't know if you'll see this, but how about an against the odds deck with Leyline of the Guildpact and Coalition Victory?
Yeah, I also think adding some green lands instead of especially Escape Tunnel would make the deck a lot more consistent, and if there is an alternative to Blessing of the Nephilim in green, then you wouldn't have to play white and Faith's Shield and could auto-include 4 Tamiyo's Safekeeping.
I know we didn't have a poll and Seth didn't build this deck himself and all that, but I really feel like this deck should be an "Against the Odds" video 😂😂
27:14 I was like YOU CAN CAST THE BLESSING nooo
realized he had no land types lmaoit would have given +0/+0
This is peak IKEA Gun. This is magic should be.
Risky, but fun! How horribly would Enchantment protection dilute the flow?
This is basically vintage aggrovine, if you can go for a turn 1 vine you always go for a turn 1 vine
26:29 But you have Gemstone Caverns. Oh, you saw that like 5 seconds later.
Great content. I prefer the safer hexproof infect pump plans. Vines of vastwood. Occasionally steal wins but often times have one or two hexproof spells in hand against removal
39:56 does that go infinite with tyvar?
Maybe put in blossoming defense for extra pump and hexproof for creatures?
21:09 just punt? Might of old Krosa on infect and attack? in response to boseiju might?
Might of Old Krosa is only +2/+2 there since we didn't have a land enter the battlefield so we would still be short of lethal doing it that way.
@@MTGGoldfish I think confusing might of old krosa with different pump effect. Just needed to use might in main phase - not sure it would have made a difference but definitely some confusiong there
Might of Old Krosa is not Groundswell as I remember, it require you to cast it main phase, not landfall@@MTGGoldfish
I just don't see the point in all the colorless lands? Like couldn't you use some lands that produce colors, and have a strictly better deck?
They all have activated abilities, but I don't know if that's enough upside to make it worth not being able to cast spells when we don't have leyline.
It’s almost like Seth took a look at the deck and said “naw, it’s to strong. I have to give it a handicap”.
Came prehandicapped when Seth found it.
Should there be 1 Gemstone in the main and 3 in the side? We're already all in why not go full out. Maybe the Grey Havens starts in the board ?
Why not crystal grotto in case leyline is removed later in the game as a redundancy to clsoe things out?
I am kinda extremely interested in seeing a nykthos, leyline brew. I mean 4 green pips for free could lead to some pretty cool stuff
I agree with the end take. The colorless lands do have some utility but it doesn't feel worth fundamentally Blood Mooning your deck. You could keep the Gemstone Caverns, Serum Powder, and Leyline plan while actually being able to cast spells. This deck is already trying to be blazing fast so maybe some Mana Confluence and City of Brass. Get some Forces and evoke elemental sideboard action going on.
What's the calculator that he always pulls out to work out the odds of drawing a card? Diometric distribution something?
Hypergeometric distribution probability calculator
can someone elaborate why the colorless lands!??!?
meme
Great, now I have to try Domain Infect but not built to be bad
This video was hilarious. Are you going to make more Modern decks with Murders at Karlov Manor cards?
I love basically all your content, but Arena visuals are so busy and hard to follow, I can't watch them. Will you continue to play on Magic Online as well?
Wouldn’t using basic wastes make pump spells go for six?
this deck seems like it'd be really cool if it were just running some coloured lands honestly
Hold on, is infect actually playable in this meta?
How about plague of vermin for against the odds
I dont think Insidious Roots is better in Timeless for now because we dont have Carrion Feeder (also no Verdant Catacombs).
Outstanding content
maybe a version of this with Scion + land grand and basic forest would work with all the mulligans
Honestly, I think this deck might have potential. It just needs a bit of de-janking and some tuning. Might of Old Krosa is super awkward for sure.
Awesome game play👍🏻
I love how your Terror of the Peaks in your chest is less than a Ticket on MODO, but its $40+ in paper 🙃🤓👍🏻
Why wouldn't you run Mana Confluence??
why not run 1 of Darksteel citadel to fetch with Urza's saga to fetch if you still want a land?
Not sure what you'd cut, but Scion of Draco might be really good in this deck. It's down on turn two.
18:25
Wow. Using Izzet Charm to deal 2 damage to Glistener Elf instead of countering Blessing. Not the biggest-brain move.
since we need leyline anyways, shouldnt we have at least a few scion of dracos? the hexproof seems good too
Take out the kitesail for scion of draco?
Looks at might. Talks about land drops.
Mydude. You where thinking of groundswell. And that card has alway been rubbish in infect imo. So glad we got better spells now.
this is hilarious! the most glass cannon of glass cannons
Tyvar’s stand seems better than Tamios safekeeping for the deck cause it’s a pump spell if you need it right?
The only problem with Tyvar's Stand is it can't protect Leyline of the Guildpact.
I could see a competitive Solitaire player enjoying this deck.