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Well, most control does play some combination of Pithing Needle, Sorcerous Spyglass, Field of Ruin, and/or Ghost Quarter which are all able to answer Maze. This deck doesn't have many answers to those outside cryptic (which can be countered when playing against control) or Life from the Loam (which is slow, a 1-of, and potentially mills your other 1-ofs forcing you to play it again hoping for no grave hate) Dont get me wrong, land based decks are pretty resilient against control, but they DO have answers for this type of deck
This is actually exactly how the deck performed in Standard and Block Construction all those years ago. Blue/White control was the best deck in both formats, but it was utterly incapable of dealing with the good old "10 land drops"-plan
Once you know it's a Maze's end deck, you surgical Maze's End in most cases (Prime time being the 2nd best option), so Gateway plaza doesn't really do much there. Pull from eternity could be an interesting 1 of though in the case your maze does get surgicalled/extirpated, and since the deck runs at least 4 white sources in gates and ways to get those out easily you shouldn't ever have any issues casting it.
@@smithereen7430 sure, if you can activate it the same turn you can play it (with amulet for example and 3 other mana sources). If you play it and it only enter's tapped, opp could have GQ + Extirpate/surgical or if you are against ponza they could stone rain it before you can activate it.
Interesting deck design. I like the Loam plan in case they blow up a land, but I would have run a single Gateway Plaza. It's a terrible land to play in Modern and doesn't get around the second Ghost Quarter on its own, but it's more like a conventional tapland with Amulet of Vigor out, and you can tutor it up with 12 cards in this deck
Wheel of Sun and Moon would be perfect for this deck! Cast it on yourself to get your lands back into your deck, cast it on on opponent who relies on their graveyard, and it makes you Mill proof!
What Seth keeps saying is why I love Titanshift. We don't need to play spells to win. Just make the land drops. Decks have a hard time dealing with lands. Fun deck, Seth. Keep up the great content!
I've been playing this deck -the standard bits for years. I've called it Amulet End and ive taken it too many events. I like your take on the deck, I dont run most of the standard bits but might look at adapting the deck a bit now.
Even at the start, this deck is proof that Wizards NEEDS to address the lack of serious reprints. There is no reason this deck should be over $800 dollars in paper.
@@ecoKady just did the math, 12 of the cards represent 73% of the budget. That's a problem. They absolutely can print snapcaster more. It's been printed three times, two out of those three were mythic rarity in limited print run sets. MM3 and UMA made NO appreciable difference in the price of the card. In fact it wasnt until almost a year after MM3 that the price stopped INCREASING.
If you’re implying they should reprint snapcaster into standard again then I’m gonna have to stop you there that caused the single biggest case of “play this deck if you want to win in standard” that has happened in the history of modern magic when it was first printed.
@@zackestin1368 not implying into standard, but they need to do something. In order to buy into a modern deck that is somewhat competitive, I'd have to stop attending FNM for months. In the end, I genuinely liked the Mythic Editions because they provided a premium version of a product that was pretty well in supply. On the other hand, I think that Ultimate Masters was a spit in the face to the community, that boiled down to, "Here's a price hike on the same shit you were already buying." They said that Ultimate Masters was a premium product, except it wasn't. It was the same curly cardstock as always. The Box Toppers did not justify booster packs triple the cost of standard packs.
@@Foxribble19 short answer? no, its not worth it. Longer: its a bad land, that some dimwits see as (Gate card=exodia piece). if people were really worried about destroyed gates, they'd just run multiple copies of the guildgates.
Not good ones. Mission Briefing is the closest for Snapcaster (and it's mostly fine). There isn't really anything that directly replaces Cryptic though, sadly.
I have been looking forward to this video ever since I heard it won. This deck is by far my favorite deck you have done so far. Would it be a bad idea to run one wolf run in the manabase as a alternate win condition? So if they deal with Maze's End we can just smash them with Prime Time. Would you replace anything in the SB or MB after playing the deck? I really want to build this deck now. The plus to building this deck is you can change your tier 1 deck in Amulet Titan into this or build this as a step to building Amulet Titan. Is there a reason we run Relic over Bogg that we can just fetch with Titan?
A while ago I had built a Ramos Dragon Engine commander deck based around Maze's End/a similar strategy and it admitly wasn't very good. But I'm very surprised that you're able to win rather easily with Maze's End.
Man Seth, you got crazy lucky in a bunch of those games with your opponent negging your Temur gates and not your one-of's. Looking at your graveyard and seeing all blue, green, and red is a pretty dead giveaway. Still an impressive performance, can't wait to hear about this one in the year end video.
Against Whir Prison was a very entertaining game! I love the deck!
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WOW this is the best of against the odds ! refine this deck more Seth, great job ! i suggest put more gate like things to gain life like plazas ande more ramp of gates type cards
Thoughts on Crackling Perimeter as an alt win con for this deck as a sideboard option. It's a cheap enchantment that can help us out when Maze's End becomes unavailable as a win con for us.
56:38 I don't think archive trap's alternative cost should've been enabled, since surgical extraction says the caster searches the library and archive trap requires that the opponent has searched their own library.
You can add 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth to the side board for mill, you might even be able to hard cast it (why i choose the lowest CMC). It's still weak to surgical but that's 1 less against surgical for your other threats, and to surgical it they have to let your shuffle back atleast once.. if only blood moon had outs like that
This deck could probably use a copy of gateway plaza. If your opponent blows any of your one-of gates then you need a life from the loam to win, so having another uniquely named gate seems useful as a backup
The fatal scoops playmat should have a nametag on both fish. The bottom fish is Seth and the top fish is Win. Then the name Fatal Scoops would be perfect
You should run Lab Maniac as a gimmick sideboard, you can mill yourself super fast with a couple of Summits online and all that deck thinning. It's another wincon if they strip one of your one-of-guildgate
I don't usually watch Modern videos and I only play EDH, but my latest deck is Jodah Maze's End. It's too bad I can't use the Titan, but it's still not bad. You should try running 1 copy of Scapeshift as well. Nothing like sacrificing a couple shocks to grab some gates before you activate Maze's End. lol
I got an unreasonable amount of satisfaction from watching that control player do his usual "land, go" nonsense, sitting back smugly thinking he was in great shape. Only to watch him see the gates slowly pile up and realize he was about to lose.
Game 1 Match 1 why didn’t you play that extra amulet early? It’s pseudo ramp with tap lands when you have multiples. Works similarly to wilderness reclamation in that multiple untapped triggers let you get a little more mana out of your land drops
So, I've been thinking about this deck for a while and it sounded WAY worse than it seems to be playing. Is there a reason for the lack of Goats? (Other than wanting to win with Maze's End?)
I would've thought something a little more direct with maybe exploration, or azusa. Then life from the loam to get back stuff, or even a self mill deck running crucibles or muldrotha maybe. Just some thoughts.
Those are both decent plans. I think the challenge with being a more graveyard based deck is that there's a ton of graveyard hate in Modern right now thanks to Dredge and Phoenix being really popular.
Surely this deck instantly loses to any Field of Ruin / Ghost Quarter effect unless you find the one of Life from the Loam? Not to mention Blood Moon type cards. Crucible of Worlds might help with the former
Did you think about putting in plaza of harmony in the deck? I guess aggro would be the only reason for running that land but still a good number of decks are.
12:43 You could've played the second Amulet to net mana from etb land untaps and powered out a Titan that turn. I guess you were playing around Cryptic?
Game one match one your opponent definitely should have ipnu rivulet on you to possibly tormods crypt a land, but he probably assumed you didn’t have any 1 of gates I guess
Was planning on changing the name of the series and then used this game to inspire the new name of the series... "Against the Odds" is now the new name of the series.
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Seth pronouncing circuitous route 2 different(wrong) ways in one end step really highlights what this channel is all about
I would have to say that Seth pitching two spells into a Chalice in the same match.....
Timestamp?
@@elesh.n 15:37
This is peak Seth
also "use the cupon code" was pretty good
Somewhere in Japan right now, there's a streamer playing this small infamous U.S. tournament deck for his viewers and going 0-5.
Lmao
15 minutes in and he's already said "circutious route" and "bottled colster"
Never change, Seth
bottle coaster
These pronunciations are just a cloisterf*ck.
Sir Cutiest Root, the most kawaii treant.
This was the comment i came here for.
I need art now
baby Groot
Tron player: "I assemble 3 different lands to win the game."
Maze's End player: "Hold my beer..."
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Today I learned that Modern control decks have no answer to Maze's End, and Seth isn't even close to knowing how to pronounce the word "circuitous".
Well, most control does play some combination of Pithing Needle, Sorcerous Spyglass, Field of Ruin, and/or Ghost Quarter which are all able to answer Maze. This deck doesn't have many answers to those outside cryptic (which can be countered when playing against control) or Life from the Loam (which is slow, a 1-of, and potentially mills your other 1-ofs forcing you to play it again hoping for no grave hate)
Dont get me wrong, land based decks are pretty resilient against control, but they DO have answers for this type of deck
Also the control deck hit simic guildgate twice
This is actually exactly how the deck performed in Standard and Block Construction all those years ago. Blue/White control was the best deck in both formats, but it was utterly incapable of dealing with the good old "10 land drops"-plan
Seth: we don't care about chalice on one.
Also Seth: let's use surgical extraction. Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Literally 3 seconds later. Yeesh.
"we don't care about chalice on one... oooh surgical extraction"
he's not going to...
...
oh my god.
I’m surprised we aren’t running 1 copy of Gateway Plaza just in case. This is defense against the Ghost Quarter Surgical plan
Once you know it's a Maze's end deck, you surgical Maze's End in most cases (Prime time being the 2nd best option), so Gateway plaza doesn't really do much there. Pull from eternity could be an interesting 1 of though in the case your maze does get surgicalled/extirpated, and since the deck runs at least 4 white sources in gates and ways to get those out easily you shouldn't ever have any issues casting it.
It's just sooo bad. I couldn't bring myself to do it.
@@rpglover5955 Pull + Loam is a bit fancy, and it's slightly harder to extract Maze's End since you can try to play it around GQ.
@@smithereen7430 sure, if you can activate it the same turn you can play it (with amulet for example and 3 other mana sources). If you play it and it only enter's tapped, opp could have GQ + Extirpate/surgical or if you are against ponza they could stone rain it before you can activate it.
You only need 9 different gates in play. Maze's End can fetch for the 10th and win. Love the deck!
Interesting deck design. I like the Loam plan in case they blow up a land, but I would have run a single Gateway Plaza. It's a terrible land to play in Modern and doesn't get around the second Ghost Quarter on its own, but it's more like a conventional tapland with Amulet of Vigor out, and you can tutor it up with 12 cards in this deck
Run splendid reclamation and you can cheese in multiple gates at once.
@@dudeofdargon that is what I did once. Loam, grisly salvage, satyr Wayfinder, Splendid reclamation, mazes end. Sweet pile'o'cards.
This was so good, watching a year later it is still one of my favorite
I don't think just anyone could have won that much with the deck. Showcases how good of a player Seth is. Nice job!!!
Is there a 'Every card in this deck is hard to pronunciate' deck in modern ?
Enlighten me
Sounds like a good Against the Odds episode :)
MTGGoldfish you madman. Such a masochist. They will end you in the comments of that video. DEW IT.
That game against Dimir Mill... I did not think that it was possible to pull that off, insane! X-D
That 8whack deck was super spicy. Some really interesting decks this video.
Its called Gobots. There is a really good primer for it. Just google it.
The pronunciation of Circuitous Route is painful, but this is a spicy meatball of a deck. Neat!
Wheel of Sun and Moon would be perfect for this deck! Cast it on yourself to get your lands back into your deck, cast it on on opponent who relies on their graveyard, and it makes you Mill proof!
Ohh, that does sound like a good sideboard option.
I'm so gate-ful for this
What Seth keeps saying is why I love Titanshift. We don't need to play spells to win. Just make the land drops. Decks have a hard time dealing with lands. Fun deck, Seth. Keep up the great content!
«Chalice for 1, we don't care about it. Oh, surgical extraction! Ooooooh…»
Lol, Seth, please, never change =)
CirCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOtious route. He actual legend
Sweet deck and great results! The mispronunciations were hilarious and on point too haha
I think I've decided on my Paladin's name for my upcoming Dnd campaign.
Sir Cootius Root
Crackling perimeter should have been a side board option. But I love that you think this deck has some legs.
48 seconds, I think that's the lowest I've ever seen
Man, this deck is sweet and cheap.
*Surgical Extraction*
Nevermind.
actually the misty are more expensive (which are replaceable) and you can also replace surgical with expertitate and it does same thing just cheaper
@@lifeiaskedfor I think this is how Seth would pronounce Extirpate XD
@@lifeiaskedfor could even use Wooded Foothils or Windswept Heath
amulets /titans/ loams/criptic are not cheap !!
I am so happy I picked up some.
I'm so happy this deck is being played!
Seth's "WOOOOOOWWWW" at the end of the last match was worth watching this video alone
9:00 games start!
Ah, the good ole' Aimulette of vigor. lol (Also i laughed at circutious route)
It's like the hardest formation of tron there is
usually I enjoy Seth's mispronunciations, but AIMulet is too much for me.
Weirdly enough this is the one that gets me. If you're reading this Seth it's 'am-you-let' as you would pronounce each of those individually.
You must have missed the episode he did on transmogrifying wand, where he pronounced it as "trans-mah-gore-ifying"
AYEmulet. AIIIMulet.
Hilarious and so fun to watch. Seth, I think only you can make Maze's end look this sweet. Thanks!
Thanks!
I loved playing Maze's End in Standard with Sphinx's Revelation. Hopefully this is a good deck and I can troll my local FNM with it lol.
I've been playing this deck -the standard bits for years. I've called it Amulet End and ive taken it too many events.
I like your take on the deck, I dont run most of the standard bits but might look at adapting the deck a bit now.
uh oh seth... MODERN GATES AGAIN? THE GATE WORSHIP WALL WAS SUCH A FAIL
1:07:20 You can actually cryptic bounce snap, cast and flashback bolt with negate back up =)
Every time Seth misses lethal, he starts mispronouncing another card.
Even at the start, this deck is proof that Wizards NEEDS to address the lack of serious reprints. There is no reason this deck should be over $800 dollars in paper.
Modern is what it is. They can't have printed Snapcaster Mage more than they have.
@@ecoKady just did the math, 12 of the cards represent 73% of the budget. That's a problem. They absolutely can print snapcaster more. It's been printed three times, two out of those three were mythic rarity in limited print run sets. MM3 and UMA made NO appreciable difference in the price of the card. In fact it wasnt until almost a year after MM3 that the price stopped INCREASING.
If you’re implying they should reprint snapcaster into standard again then I’m gonna have to stop you there that caused the single biggest case of “play this deck if you want to win in standard” that has happened in the history of modern magic when it was first printed.
@@zackestin1368 not implying into standard, but they need to do something. In order to buy into a modern deck that is somewhat competitive, I'd have to stop attending FNM for months. In the end, I genuinely liked the Mythic Editions because they provided a premium version of a product that was pretty well in supply. On the other hand, I think that Ultimate Masters was a spit in the face to the community, that boiled down to, "Here's a price hike on the same shit you were already buying." They said that Ultimate Masters was a premium product, except it wasn't. It was the same curly cardstock as always. The Box Toppers did not justify booster packs triple the cost of standard packs.
@@ecoKady "They can't have printed Snapcaster Mage more than they have." That's objectively untrue.
SIding out Gate's Ablaze against Whir Prison seems like a mistake since they often side into Sai Master Thopterist.
getting countered twice by chalice on 1 because you forgot is great
1:05:00 you could have cryptic-> bounce snap-> flashback bolt->attack with snap for letal. But you win it anyway :)
Why isn’t there a gateway plaza?
N. B. I’m confused on why people are suggesting this card, can you explain?
Jay Mirabito It’s an 11th gate which helps slightly with people destroying gates to prevent the win.
@@taylorjones1641 yes that's true but is it truly worth it to pay an additional 1 mana just so you can say I have 11 different gates in my deck?
@@Foxribble19 short answer? no, its not worth it.
Longer: its a bad land, that some dimwits see as (Gate card=exodia piece). if people were really worried about destroyed gates, they'd just run multiple copies of the guildgates.
14:38 I thought I'd heard all the pronunciations of circuitous route but apparently now there is circutious route to add to the list, I like it.
Circulation Route remains the best one.
Sir-Cootieist Root
not that far off, which is scary
20:00 Thopter Prison kept Ensnaring Bridges in? He didn't see the Snapcasters game 1, did they? Did he really keep them in for 2-4x Prime Times?
Are there any budget replacements for snaps and cryptics?
Not good ones. Mission Briefing is the closest for Snapcaster (and it's mostly fine). There isn't really anything that directly replaces Cryptic though, sadly.
When you run cryptic command in five color deck
Seth you’re a legend
Finally, a deck with Amulet and Titan that has no bad matchups!
I have been looking forward to this video ever since I heard it won. This deck is by far my favorite deck you have done so far.
Would it be a bad idea to run one wolf run in the manabase as a alternate win condition? So if they deal with Maze's End we can just smash them with Prime Time.
Would you replace anything in the SB or MB after playing the deck? I really want to build this deck now. The plus to building this deck is you can change your tier 1 deck in Amulet Titan into this or build this as a step to building Amulet Titan.
Is there a reason we run Relic over Bogg that we can just fetch with Titan?
Sir Cutious Roo, the bane of Seth's pronunciation.
A while ago I had built a Ramos Dragon Engine commander deck based around Maze's End/a similar strategy and it admitly wasn't very good. But I'm very surprised that you're able to win rather easily with Maze's End.
Man Seth, you got crazy lucky in a bunch of those games with your opponent negging your Temur gates and not your one-of's. Looking at your graveyard and seeing all blue, green, and red is a pretty dead giveaway. Still an impressive performance, can't wait to hear about this one in the year end video.
Yeah, if our opponent has Surgicaled bettered we probably lose. I'm not sure their choices were 100% wrong, but they were questionable.
Maze’s End is my favorite EDH wincon
Good stuff Seth! I watch you cause you bring skill to the jank lol good video sir keep it up!
Against Whir Prison was a very entertaining game! I love the deck!
WOW this is the best of against the odds !
refine this deck more Seth, great job !
i suggest put more gate like things to gain life like plazas ande more ramp of gates type cards
Why didn't the whir opponent fetch tec edge/ghost quarter with tolaria West in game one?
Lab maniac in sideboard as a backup wincon?
**rolls up newspaper**
No! Bad! Off the furniture!
Thoughts on Crackling Perimeter as an alt win con for this deck as a sideboard option. It's a cheap enchantment that can help us out when Maze's End becomes unavailable as a win con for us.
56:38 I don't think archive trap's alternative cost should've been enabled, since surgical extraction says the caster searches the library and archive trap requires that the opponent has searched their own library.
Match 1, game 2
Opponent taps out for 1 UUU
Me: "Is this a cryptic?"
Opponent: "I want a bridge against the lands deck"
He was so shocked to beat that deck when it literally has almost no answer or interaction against it.
The trawling of the viewer continuous with sircyutious route and ayyyyyymyulet.
I've been on a bringtolight scapeshift splended rec amulet mazes end monster and it's been fun
I've been waiting so long for this.
hey Seth, here is a hint on how to side board. when you are against a fast red deck you cut the 6 drops and keep the 2 drops
You can add 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth to the side board for mill, you might even be able to hard cast it (why i choose the lowest CMC). It's still weak to surgical but that's 1 less against surgical for your other threats, and to surgical it they have to let your shuffle back atleast once.. if only blood moon had outs like that
Yeah, normally I don't plan for Mill since it isn't very popular, but we could hardcast an Eldrazi in this deck so it might be worthwhile.
Gateway Plaza is a gate too, if we're talking about protection against land destruction.
Maze’s end. Nice. Control has no answers to it. Great video
Thia deck was awesome! Nice match-ups
This deck could probably use a copy of gateway plaza. If your opponent blows any of your one-of gates then you need a life from the loam to win, so having another uniquely named gate seems useful as a backup
The fatal scoops playmat should have a nametag on both fish. The bottom fish is Seth and the top fish is Win. Then the name Fatal Scoops would be perfect
You should run Lab Maniac as a gimmick sideboard, you can mill yourself super fast with a couple of Summits online and all that deck thinning. It's another wincon if they strip one of your one-of-guildgate
Sounds fun!
Would love to see you play TheGreatWhiteDragon on mtg arena
How many surgicals/extirpates does mill play main deck? You literaly can't loose until they extract your loam (game 1).
Why no Gateway Plaza?
He likes losing to Surgical?
in the very last match , you could have also cryptic bounced the snappy to bolt him out
I don't usually watch Modern videos and I only play EDH, but my latest deck is Jodah Maze's End. It's too bad I can't use the Titan, but it's still not bad. You should try running 1 copy of Scapeshift as well. Nothing like sacrificing a couple shocks to grab some gates before you activate Maze's End. lol
One-of Scapeshift could be interesting. Maybe I'll give it a try!
Someone in a MTG facebook group pointed out that in GDR/RNA black doesn't have Gates payoffs. Why? Lore or just because?
I got an unreasonable amount of satisfaction from watching that control player do his usual "land, go" nonsense, sitting back smugly thinking he was in great shape. Only to watch him see the gates slowly pile up and realize he was about to lose.
Game 1 Match 1 why didn’t you play that extra amulet early? It’s pseudo ramp with tap lands when you have multiples. Works similarly to wilderness reclamation in that multiple untapped triggers let you get a little more mana out of your land drops
Chalice of the Void on one.
So, I've been thinking about this deck for a while and it sounded WAY worse than it seems to be playing. Is there a reason for the lack of Goats? (Other than wanting to win with Maze's End?)
I would've thought something a little more direct with maybe exploration, or azusa. Then life from the loam to get back stuff, or even a self mill deck running crucibles or muldrotha maybe. Just some thoughts.
Those are both decent plans. I think the challenge with being a more graveyard based deck is that there's a ton of graveyard hate in Modern right now thanks to Dredge and Phoenix being really popular.
Surely this deck instantly loses to any Field of Ruin / Ghost Quarter effect unless you find the one of Life from the Loam? Not to mention Blood Moon type cards. Crucible of Worlds might help with the former
Who would win in an aimulet fight, Mr. Tallies Man or Sir Cootius?
Did you think about putting in plaza of harmony in the deck? I guess aggro would be the only reason for running that land but still a good number of decks are.
that's what I thought too. plus it enters untapped and will almost always produce colored mana
I considered it, there's just not much room in the manabase when you have something like 16 gates and four Maze's End.
With London Milligan is serum powder good?
I think Saruli Gatekeeper would be better than the Archway Angel in the sideboard.
This is probably why mazes end wasn't reprinted in standard with all these new tool's, nice games
Game 2 vs Mill; why you don't scoop early
that game against mill was awesome
I can't believe we won that match!
12:43 You could've played the second Amulet to net mana from etb land untaps and powered out a Titan that turn. I guess you were playing around Cryptic?
There was a Chalice of the Void on one :(
@@MTGGoldfish Oh, duh. I lost sight of it in their ocean of 0-1 cmc artifacts.
Does this deck want some number of Wilderness Reclamation? To win on the end step?
Making mana on our end step is somewhat useful (for Cryptic and Snapcaster) but we don't really have a ton to do at instant speed).
Could have played splendid reclamation and looting effects to get all the gates on the field
Does seem like a fun plan, although there's a lot of graveyard hate at the moment.
Hi Seth! Any reason you went with Destructive Rev and Grudge sideboard as opposed to Nature's Claim, if we're gonna be playing an I Win card anyways?
You can flashback Grudge, but yeah Nature's Claim should probably be in over Destructive Revelry.
Grudge is good against Hardened Scales/Affinity thanks to flashback. Destructive Revelry might be better as Nature's Claim though.
AIM-U-LET? are you kidding me Seth? Come on dude? AIMULET? WOW.
Playing gates in standard. I guess when it is time for to move to modern - this is gonna be my deck.
I was thinking could you run that one card that reanimates all of your land as a side board card against mill. Just a 1 of.
Game one match one your opponent definitely should have ipnu rivulet on you to possibly tormods crypt a land, but he probably assumed you didn’t have any 1 of gates I guess
Was planning on changing the name of the series and then used this game to inspire the new name of the series... "Against the Odds" is now the new name of the series.
explore wasn't good enough?