Recently been avoiding any tutors and been enjoying cards that just reveal from top of library. I really enjoy the pace and not having to search and shuffle all the time. And also the element of surprise in what might be in the top 4 cards etc
Tempt with Discover is usually a 4 mana search for 1 land, at least at my table. Nobody else ever searches for a land with this thing. It's not terrible since it can be any land, but for 4 mana, that's not great.
I too was confused about Etali and seeing that they flip till they hit a spell is HUGE. Glad he was mentioned here 😂 good job as always Nerds! Love y’all!
I love Lurking Predators in my Neyith Fight club deck. it usually goes: Land, Land, Fight spell, Land, Ramp spell, Impervious Greatwurm for free, that cant be responded to.
my experience with tempt with discovery. If one person says yes, most of the time everyone says yes it's either gonna mostly give you 1 land or 4 lands
I agree for all of them. Many players told me "lurking predators ? LMAO !" Until they got destroyed. As for Etali, i instantly put him in a Naya deck. Too good to pass up
Pet cards I never see others play but I put in almost every I can are lurking predators, black market, overwhelming remorse, akroma’s memorial, public enemy, life insurance, and a few more.
I think with Luxior, the opponent puts the counter on their "creature". With patron, YOU have to put the counter on something an opponent controls for the trigger.
I can connect with the love for Elminster’s Simulacrum. I played against an Ur-Dragon deck and made a copy of Karrthus, and it ended up being one of the greatest moments my playgroup has ever had.
I have a Flash deck, with Damia, Sage of Stone as the Commander, and it’s basically a “draw-go” deck. I think it has one Sorcery in it. Anyway, I might have to find room for Elminster’s Simulacrum.
@@kayel9489 I can, from experience, tell you that you will not miss Sol Ring in your deck. Unless you actually want to win by turn 4, then you might miss it 🥳🍻
Speaking from experience, the moment you trigger Ob-Nixilis for the 2nd or 3rd time it's likely going to be a the biggest target on the board, for good reason. I have straight up killed people when thy were at 30 life just because I had an Ob-Nixlis on board and cast splendid reclamation.
Ob Nixilis The Fallen is easily one of my favourite cards in my Yarok lands deck. The ability to drain at least 6 life and gain 6 power and toughness every turn can get out of hand pretty quickly…once I one shot an opponent from nearly full with Awaken the Woods off just the life drain
@@ThomasB-zw3sg there are 12. Ten of them were added as a cycle of indestructible two color artifact taplands in Modern Horizons 2, the other two are Cascading Cataracts and Darksteel Citadel.
Besides not wanting to buff my opponents creatures there are other better draw engines in green, maybe it your meta but using Generous Patron seems like one of those it could bite you later on. Unless im really hard up on lands(which almost never happens) i will always say no to tempt with discovery. If a player hasnt learned to say no then they havent played against the card enough. Everyone i know who saw farewell knew it was going to be an overperformer. It just hoses artifact and enchantment heavy decks. I Saw Etali in preview and new it was going to be broken. And now that iv seen gameplay with Etali and just one instance of this going off can put you so far ahead.
I love Tempt with Discovery. One thing I use it for is if even 1 person gets a land, my second land is Demolition Field. So if the player get's their coffers or something, I can immediately stop their ramp.
That is so wrong and not a got move i cant even explain it to you. Basically, if that is the second land you're planning to get with tempt, dont play the card in your deck.
@@blakem000 given the scenario only one opponent picks a land which is cabal coffers and you then pick your demolition field as your second pick, you just spent 6 mana for a single utility land plus a basic land, while your opponent also gets a basic land and has a cabal coffers in his graveyard, which he can recure later. Please explain me where this is a good deal for you.
i've got an etali token deck i use green good stuff and treasure tokens to ramp and then copy etali with stuff like twinflame etc. sure the original goes back to the zone but the copy stays and triggers. this is bonkers ngl and btw sunbirds invocation is absolutely op with etali idc about the backside i just rush through everyone's decks and call it a day :D
Generous Patron has also been incredibly good with Volo, Guide to Monsters as the token versión will see the 2 extra counters enter and you will end up drawing 6 cards.
That's pretty funny. I just had to explain what "taking the red pill" meant to somebody who was mortified when I told her it's modern, not necessarily related to the Matrix context.
tempt with discovery should be answered with a no to search or (funnier) with you taking your strip mine variant ob nixilis is an amazing finisher in landfall, even if B is not the most common color for it, windgrace must include card imo
Ob nixilis the fallen is in my angel demon deck with a crazy combo of three cards One is the worse lands in my opinion it returns to my hand every time it taps but if done right with this it is good
That six mana copy spell is going straight into my mono blue Thyrax deck that cares about big dumb bomb spells! Much more fun to play than say.. Bounce all their permanents.
I played against Etali, primal conqueror recently as a commander. The deck felt unstoppable. There are so many ways for green and red to quickly ramp into seven mana, and the entire rest of the deck was just ways to make copy tokens of etali, each of which was a four for one. It felt like playing CEDH against Godo, bandit warlord where the instantly kill the entire table the first time it is cast. On turn five, there were multiple copies of apex devastator, etali, a number of random other spells cast for free hitting the entire table for lethal. There aren't many commanders I don't want to play against but I don't see many decks outside of CEDH and its quick infinite combo's being able to beat him or it.
I get why serras emissary is good, but I don’t know why platinum angel is? I’ve found that it can stall the game long enough after reanimating it with some sort of easy reanimation in Sharuum
Can someone explain why Luxior, Giada's Gift on an opponent's planeswalker would trigger Generous Patron? Because you still need to put the counters on the planeswalker right? So if an opponent activates a +1 planeswalker ability, Generous Patron doesn't trigger, because it is not you putting the counters on it?
farewell is a total slam dunk BUT i have yet to be convinced that there is a better white boardwipe than winds of abandon. farewell will be exceptionally relevant in so many more instances that i don't disagree that it is in fact the best boardwipe in white but the symmetrical nature of exiling everything simply isn't ideal for me personally. i play several selesnya decks and to be blunt i'ma try to get all my shit back from the gy and loop rude awakening with an eternal witness/skullwinder and finally into a praetor's counsel and rude awakening again with a nyxbloom ancient. edit: to wit, just played a game on cockatrice where i was staring down 30+ 34/34 humans {kyler + call the coppercoats + kindred summons.) everyone else conceded but i had a selfless squire and a blessed respite. they swing and i get a squire with 900+/900 pt. they swing again i fog. i top deck a skullwinder cast wrenn n seven and mill winds of abandon with enough mana to grab it with winder and overload it. G-G .
@@polk-e-dot8177 Most of the convoke cards suck that's why. It's only relatively recently with Clever concealment and Lethal scheme where the cards are really good and very playable
I just looked up the rules for Serra's emissary and it says you can't chose Supertypes or subtypes it has to be a basic type like Land, Artifact, creature, ect. Subtypes include a specific type of creature but you could do blanket protection from creatures
Generous patron is insanely underplayed in lathiel. I really don't get it. Every game i play it it draws 5-10 cards minimum. put counters on their mana dorks! they aren't going to attack you with that no matter what
I run the new etali in my Mr. Orfeo and had kodama on field when I pulled etali of of a ziatora envoy trigger.....GG. I cheated out 20+ mana worth of spells and creatures.
@Devildude EMZ the reminder text of Convoke says "your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color" It's right there on the card lol
Video begins at 2:50
Yeah the 3min intros really hold them back imo
@@eulefranz944 just click past it bruh they have to talk about sponsors at some point
U r a saint sir
Thanks
Gonna start doing this on every video cause the 3 minutes of ad reads is understandable but frustrating
Farewell is incredible. So versatile and hates on every deck type. If someone resolves one in a way that only benefits them it’s really hard to beat
100% never understood people being down on Farewell.
hates on every deck type except superfriends you mean
@@LucidRealityAI came here to say this
Recently been avoiding any tutors and been enjoying cards that just reveal from top of library.
I really enjoy the pace and not having to search and shuffle all the time. And also the element of surprise in what might be in the top 4 cards etc
Based
Tempt with Discover is usually a 4 mana search for 1 land, at least at my table. Nobody else ever searches for a land with this thing. It's not terrible since it can be any land, but for 4 mana, that's not great.
Crop rotation or map over discovery all day long gets you any land anyway without caring if you get any bonus or not
In my experience, either that happens or everyone grabs a Ghost Quarter type land
I too was confused about Etali and seeing that they flip till they hit a spell is HUGE. Glad he was mentioned here 😂 good job as always Nerds! Love y’all!
Farewell is nuts. But playing it, then getting it back from your graveyard to play it again? Truly the dream. 🤤
I really like your list of Overperformers. I may pick up a few of these cards for my Commander decks. Thank you for the video Nitpicking Nerds.
I love Lurking Predators in my Neyith Fight club deck. it usually goes: Land, Land, Fight spell, Land, Ramp spell, Impervious Greatwurm for free, that cant be responded to.
my experience with tempt with discovery. If one person says yes, most of the time everyone says yes it's either gonna mostly give you 1 land or 4 lands
I agree for all of them. Many players told me "lurking predators ? LMAO !" Until they got destroyed. As for Etali, i instantly put him in a Naya deck. Too good to pass up
Pet cards I never see others play but I put in almost every I can are lurking predators, black market, overwhelming remorse, akroma’s memorial, public enemy, life insurance, and a few more.
I think with Luxior, the opponent puts the counter on their "creature". With patron, YOU have to put the counter on something an opponent controls for the trigger.
Came to say this, unless there is some weird interaction I can’t think of
@@michaelmcgee7683 I thought they meant with proliferation
@@WillyBay Ah, didn’t get that he was still talking about proliferate at that point.
Tempt with discovery all 3 opponents get strip mine and you just get your 4th best land
Serra's Emissary has won me so many games already it's bonkers. Easily A-tier at least.
Almost auto win against mono green decks
I can connect with the love for Elminster’s Simulacrum. I played against an Ur-Dragon deck and made a copy of Karrthus, and it ended up being one of the greatest moments my playgroup has ever had.
This is the exact reason why I don't run Karthus in my personal Ur-dragon deck. Meta has too many clones and a few players even play bribery.
Fuck the Ur Dragon
@@DuxBellorum13 same. Also if it dies to removal a simple reanimate is basically the death of me
I have a Flash deck, with Damia, Sage of Stone as the Commander, and it’s basically a “draw-go” deck. I think it has one Sorcery in it. Anyway, I might have to find room for Elminster’s Simulacrum.
Serra's Emissary is straight gas! One of my wincons in Shadrix when approaching late game.
I just built a henzie deck for lurking predators. It was insane. I want to see if it's worth it in 40 or 30 creature decks though.
I put Protean hulk in my henzie just because its a guaranteed two card combo.
I was very confused about the rating for etali before. Glad it came back.
Lethal Scheme is awesome in my Alela Noncreature Reanimator
I would like to think farewell was brought up because of the game I had with you guys.
40 is the correct creature count for Lurking Predators. The whiff rate at 30 is noteworthy.
I’m running it in my deck with 38 creatures, I wanted to put 40 but I’m still trying to figure out what cards to cut to include two more
@@kayel9489 sol ring and cultivate 👍
@@brendans1983 I don't run cultivate in my deck, but sol ring is a possibility
@@kayel9489 I can, from experience, tell you that you will not miss Sol Ring in your deck. Unless you actually want to win by turn 4, then you might miss it 🥳🍻
@@brendans1983 actually my deck is pretty fair, sol ring is a ramp on it, not combo piece or enabler
Speaking from experience, the moment you trigger Ob-Nixilis for the 2nd or 3rd time it's likely going to be a the biggest target on the board, for good reason. I have straight up killed people when thy were at 30 life just because I had an Ob-Nixlis on board and cast splendid reclamation.
I run Tempt with Discovery in my Gitrog deck as one of several ways to tutor for Dakmor Salvage. I never care if anyone takes the deal.
I ALWAYS say yes to Tempt with Discovery… and I get my Strip Mine 😎
Ob Nixilis The Fallen is easily one of my favourite cards in my Yarok lands deck. The ability to drain at least 6 life and gain 6 power and toughness every turn can get out of hand pretty quickly…once I one shot an opponent from nearly full with Awaken the Woods off just the life drain
I've killed people when they're at 30+ life by casting splendid reclamation with him on board
Etali is quite the archaeologist. Quite passionate.
You two are over performers, and I love you for it ❤ Hope you've been well Joe and Beezy! Lots of love as always from Australia!
When someone casts Tempt with Discovery in my playgroup, we have the agreement to search for Stripmines.
Imagine they pull out 4 indestructible lands
@@a.velderrain8849 you can always destroy his original lands ;)
@@ThomasB-zw3sg Not if they were also indestructible. Or you can grab Lotus Field and Vesuva, sac the original lands.
@@a.velderrain8849 how many indestructible lands are there?
@@ThomasB-zw3sg there are 12. Ten of them were added as a cycle of indestructible two color artifact taplands in Modern Horizons 2, the other two are Cascading Cataracts and Darksteel Citadel.
Ob Nixilis is the main finisher for my Windgrace deck - I can usually kill two players when I scapeshift -> Splendid reclamation
I see in the thumbnail Farrewell. Uhhh, I see a 6 mana board wipe that exiles EVERYTHING in the game. Like no duh that cards crazy
Besides not wanting to buff my opponents creatures there are other better draw engines in green, maybe it your meta but using Generous Patron seems like one of those it could bite you later on.
Unless im really hard up on lands(which almost never happens) i will always say no to tempt with discovery. If a player hasnt learned to say no then they havent played against the card enough.
Everyone i know who saw farewell knew it was going to be an overperformer. It just hoses artifact and enchantment heavy decks.
I Saw Etali in preview and new it was going to be broken. And now that iv seen gameplay with Etali and just one instance of this going off can put you so far ahead.
Serra’s Emissary is so good. One of my favorite targets to reanimate in Celestine
Lurking predators is the one cheat in my myrkul all creatures deck
I love Tempt with Discovery. One thing I use it for is if even 1 person gets a land, my second land is Demolition Field. So if the player get's their coffers or something, I can immediately stop their ramp.
its 7 not 8 like he said.
That is so wrong and not a got move i cant even explain it to you. Basically, if that is the second land you're planning to get with tempt, dont play the card in your deck.
@@tbclabamba8051 I whole-heartedly disagree, but that's your decision.
@@blakem000 given the scenario only one opponent picks a land which is cabal coffers and you then pick your demolition field as your second pick, you just spent 6 mana for a single utility land plus a basic land, while your opponent also gets a basic land and has a cabal coffers in his graveyard, which he can recure later. Please explain me where this is a good deal for you.
@@blakem000 compared to this one hypothetical opponent, you made a net income of one utility land for 6 mana which is horrendous
generous partron can fit in a volrath dack very well with the -1/-1 counters
Krarkashima player here. Lurking predators once shut down my infinite submerge cast boardwipe.
THESE VIDEOS ARE THE SCEROTONIN I NEED
Super fun getting to do a commander draft with y’all at Command Fest in Orlando! Pleasure to meet you!
Just noticed your shelves are painted. Chef's kiss!
i've got an etali token deck i use green good stuff and treasure tokens to ramp and then copy etali with stuff like twinflame etc.
sure the original goes back to the zone but the copy stays and triggers.
this is bonkers ngl and btw sunbirds invocation is absolutely op with etali idc about the backside i just rush through everyone's decks and call it a day :D
Generous Patron has also been incredibly good with Volo, Guide to Monsters as the token versión will see the 2 extra counters enter and you will end up drawing 6 cards.
Joe: "I am a truther!"
Beezy: I do not think it means what you think it means..."
That's pretty funny. I just had to explain what "taking the red pill" meant to somebody who was mortified when I told her it's modern, not necessarily related to the Matrix context.
tempt with discovery should be answered with a no to search or (funnier) with you taking your strip mine variant
ob nixilis is an amazing finisher in landfall, even if B is not the most common color for it, windgrace must include card imo
Glad you guys finally read the new etali lol
Ob nixilis the fallen is in my angel demon deck with a crazy combo of three cards
One is the worse lands in my opinion it returns to my hand every time it taps but if done right with this it is good
That six mana copy spell is going straight into my mono blue Thyrax deck that cares about big dumb bomb spells! Much more fun to play than say.. Bounce all their permanents.
I played against Etali, primal conqueror recently as a commander. The deck felt unstoppable. There are so many ways for green and red to quickly ramp into seven mana, and the entire rest of the deck was just ways to make copy tokens of etali, each of which was a four for one. It felt like playing CEDH against Godo, bandit warlord where the instantly kill the entire table the first time it is cast. On turn five, there were multiple copies of apex devastator, etali, a number of random other spells cast for free hitting the entire table for lethal. There aren't many commanders I don't want to play against but I don't see many decks outside of CEDH and its quick infinite combo's being able to beat him or it.
I've been running an Ob Nixilis the Fallen landfall deck, and it's legitimatly so much faster than it looks.
I LOVE choosing instant with Serra's Emissary
I get why serras emissary is good, but I don’t know why platinum angel is? I’ve found that it can stall the game long enough after reanimating it with some sort of easy reanimation in Sharuum
I have a farewell in one of my commander decks, i only use it as threat because no one wants to say farewell to their board states
Lurking Predators is a board state on a stick if it survives one rotation, love this card
Lurking Predators for an enchantment deck can run the theros enchantment creatures for stupid value
I saw you guys at Commandfest Orlando but I was too shy to say hi 😅
Best ObNixilis play Ive gotten in my mardu deck was using him to hit a twelve point Chandra;s Ignition with Firesong and Sunspeaker out
Lurking predators is in my werewolves, usually win if the card gets to stick
Can someone explain why Luxior, Giada's Gift on an opponent's planeswalker would trigger Generous Patron? Because you still need to put the counters on the planeswalker right? So if an opponent activates a +1 planeswalker ability, Generous Patron doesn't trigger, because it is not you putting the counters on it?
farewell is a total slam dunk BUT i have yet to be convinced that there is a better white boardwipe than winds of abandon. farewell will be exceptionally relevant in so many more instances that i don't disagree that it is in fact the best boardwipe in white but the symmetrical nature of exiling everything simply isn't ideal for me personally. i play several selesnya decks and to be blunt i'ma try to get all my shit back from the gy and loop rude awakening with an eternal witness/skullwinder and finally into a praetor's counsel and rude awakening again with a nyxbloom ancient.
edit: to wit, just played a game on cockatrice where i was staring down 30+ 34/34 humans {kyler + call the coppercoats + kindred summons.) everyone else conceded but i had a selfless squire and a blessed respite. they swing and i get a squire with 900+/900 pt. they swing again i fog. i top deck a skullwinder cast wrenn n seven and mill winds of abandon with enough mana to grab it with winder and overload it. G-G .
Got to resolve new Etali twice in the pre-release. Such value
Thank you for using the non Seb McKinnon farewell. Also I tried buying dragon shields from your link and the site was being a butt.
The battle angels card is importantly a knight as well as an angel. The knight support/precon is what spiked it to 30
Would you lads consider re-ranking the boardwipes? Weve had a few absolute bangers since the first vid
It's more funny to say yes to tempt with discovery when you have demolition field, strip mine, ghost quarter, field of ruin, etc.
Elminster's Simulacrum is literally "I'll take a Noxious Gearhulk, a Skitheryx, and an Elesh Norn MOM for 6 mana please" 😂
Lurking Predators combined with Congregation at Dawn, lineup exactly the creatures you want on top of your deck.
Just curious if you all think you will be at the Mn Minneapolis magic con?
Great visual formatting
Lurking Predators, I love this card, too bad my opponent’s don’t, they tend to remove it asap 😂
Wait. I thought convoke couldn't remove a colored mana. >=> I've been sleeping on some convoke cards.
The creature needs to be blue to pay for blue mana. Any creature can pay for colorless mana.
@@jdRamza Yeah I guess I misread it. And I don't really see a lot of convoke cards so I never bothered to look back at it
@@polk-e-dot8177 Most of the convoke cards suck that's why. It's only relatively recently with Clever concealment and Lethal scheme where the cards are really good and very playable
I may have missed it but are the nerds no longer sponsored by tcgplayer?
You fellas aren't going to MagicCon Minneapolis by any chance are ya?
Joe, are you gonna put Lethal Scheme in your Isshin deck on Moxfield? I just proxied it up the other day and it wasn't in there yet
the new Etali is going in My animar, now i Have two blight steels, imagine that with hullbreaker horror!! emm
Grave Titan is a great overperformer 😉
Yes. He's a hyper-efficient paperweight.
Yo Johannes Voss has playmats hell yeah
Lurking predators in Henzie is bonkers
I just looked up the rules for Serra's emissary and it says you can't chose Supertypes or subtypes it has to be a basic type like Land, Artifact, creature, ect. Subtypes include a specific type of creature but you could do blanket protection from creatures
Elminster's Simulacrum....😊 TY
Checked my local card stores for lethal scheme, wanted to put it in 3 decks. All gone…
Cherries knows 911 was an inside job? Love the channel even more.
Shorikai ftw, I run him as a vehicle commander and he's v fun to play as
Generous Patron is a house in my Hapatra Negative Counters deck.
Picking up a Generous Patron to play with Black Sun’s Zenith
Serra's Emissary is the white Hoof
I play a pretty evil version of etali that has him as the commander and then a whole bunch of copying creature spells.
My first reaction to seeing farewell was it should be banned. Probably as close to something like sharazad we will ever see.
Thanks for reminding me to check if cool stuff is shipping to aus again or not.
Edit: Lame.
Pretty dope
Elusive Spellfist?
Grave Titan
Generous patron is insanely underplayed in lathiel. I really don't get it. Every game i play it it draws 5-10 cards minimum. put counters on their mana dorks! they aren't going to attack you with that no matter what
Generous Patron is nuts alongside Gluntch
Sadly you don’t put the counters with Gluntch so it doesn’t trigger Patron
@@RuudAwakening oh that stinks
Lurking Pred would be disgusting in my 53 creature Jetmir semi stax deck
I run the new etali in my Mr. Orfeo and had kodama on field when I pulled etali of of a ziatora envoy trigger.....GG. I cheated out 20+ mana worth of spells and creatures.
Farewell is an auto include in any deck containing white
How does lethal schemes can be casted for free ? I thought it was a 2 mana card since you can only pay for 2 generic mana
You can convoke creatures to pay for the colored mana as long as they are black creatures
Black creatures can pay for black mana
@@anonymoususer5351 even if the card only states 1 colorless ? Damn I didn’t know that 😮
@Devildude EMZ the reminder text of Convoke says "your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color"
It's right there on the card lol
@@anonymoususer5351 hahaha reading the card explains the card, oops
nerds, good sleeves
With tempt of discovery, I usually say yes and grab strip mine.
This is the way.
Threw that Ob Nixilis in my yarok deck. Speak now or forever hold your peace
I've been saying Farewell is the biggest funkiller. I can't stand that card and wish it would get banned.