I just wanted to thank you Phil for all the hours of entertainment and wish you and all the members of the community happy festivities! That said, this deck seems right up your alley.
For your average player it's a fine one-of. With Phil's luck he will get it thoughtseized, wastelanded or turned into a mountain every time it is on the battlefield
I’m guessing the game 1 opponent expected to find a land off Devourer of Destiny, and maybe they intended to cast OUAT, but had a brainfart and forgot to do it before casting Lotus Petal? With 9 looks at a second and third land, that keep doesn’t seem that sketchy at all.
That was me. I bricked on Mana source with Devourer and I think I drew into the OuaT. I think 5-6 looks at a mana source is reasonable, I just got owned by rng. My chalice lined up badly and it looked bad on camera. That's life.
When suppression field is good, it's ancestral recall. When it's not, it's sorrow's path. Usually it's sorrow's path. But when you open with SF on turn 1 and your opponent pauses slightly, plays back a (possibly tapped) fetch land, and reaches for Advil you pretty much know it's over.
I played a similar deck in modern when TOR was legal that leverage TOR + Essence Reliquary to gain "perma" protection. Wondering if some of those mox diamonds should be Witch Enchanters. Otherwise sick deck! Would love to see more mono whizzy prizzy in the new year.
If ensnaring bridge is prevalent enough to sideboard for, would one or two copies of Witch Enchanter be worth it in the main board over plains? With flagstones it might be worth running a surveil land to fetch as well.
This deck was sweet!! Would love to see you run it back with the one ring. Also, quick question. Why does no one play the initiative anymore? Was it bc of psychic frog? You held the monarch for a long time in most of your games. With frog gone maybe an initiative/one ring deck is viable again?
@@andrewwang7699 I've seen a few games on this very channel where phil keeps a leyline of the void opener and then loses to thoughtseize plus reanimate on an initiative creature
Compared to that, court of grace isn't even a creature, and jailor isn't a threat on an empty board in the same way. It's still card advantage, but it's a 10 turn clock instead of a 3 turn one.
Witch Enchanter's a 4 drop opposed to Loran being a 3 drop. That extra mana could mean a big difference in when he'd need to cast them to disenchant something.
why are there some regular Plains and some Snow-Covered Plains? i don't see any reason to have some of both unless there's some niche card i'm not thinking of
Suppression Field seemed pretty effective in this league, and Moon Stompy tries to get 3 mana on turn 1, but I’m a Commander player and you play good Legacy, so you decide.
You probably need to stop running a glut of lands in these mono W decks. Razorgrass Ambush and Witch Enchanter's flexibility would compensate heavily for all these dead draw floods I see you going through league after league. Just drop the Mox Diamonds for purely Chrome Moxen.
I'm sure playing 8 lands that deal three damage to you and are Wasteland-able in your Ancient Tomb deck has no downside whatsoever... I've been advising against this exact thing for like a year in Moon Stompy shells with my coaching clients.
@@ThrabenUniversity Haven't seen any of your coaching content, and I'm not saying a 4-4 split is correct, but surely some amount of them is better than all basics for the modularity they provide in both top deck wars and as good Chrome Mox pitch targets in the opener. I can understand the Wasteland fear in general for stompy shells, but in this deck with 4 mainboard Suppression Field?
@ADNudes 3 life or tapped lands that are mediocre spells late game are amazing against control shells. And awful against tempo/combo. But the meta has zero control decks. Frog tempo and Eldrazi pushed them out, opening the door for combo. Boshnroll was running friggin Stiflenaught, a tempo shell, at Legacy events because it was the closest thing to control that was playable. Bans may change this but I still see a ton of Eldrazi, big mana decks and combo. Tl;dr you'd have a point in an utterly opposite meta
I want to get a clip of "The London mulligan is the most powerful thing that exists within the game of magic." and set it as an alarm clock so I can start every morning with some wisdom.
i dream of matching up against phil and making horrible misplays to the point where he exasperatedly sings the praises of the london mulligan
even phil dreams about that
Or "that is a legal magic, the gathering play".
😂
Sub 7 minutes to The London Mulligan. New PB, great gold split.
Phil working hard to keep his London Mulligan WR run
LOLOLOL
I just wanted to thank you Phil for all the hours of entertainment and wish you and all the members of the community happy festivities!
That said, this deck seems right up your alley.
this deck should be called mono W since it consists on the opponent watching you get a win
What a fun league!
I could almost hear what James would have been saying during the Grixis match. 🤣
Thoughts on Witch Enchanter? A land that can also be pitched to a Chrome Mox, plus random mainboard artifact hate
For your average player it's a fine one-of.
With Phil's luck he will get it thoughtseized, wastelanded or turned into a mountain every time it is on the battlefield
Also half a threat for all the flooding he's been doing
I’m guessing the game 1 opponent expected to find a land off Devourer of Destiny, and maybe they intended to cast OUAT, but had a brainfart and forgot to do it before casting Lotus Petal?
With 9 looks at a second and third land, that keep doesn’t seem that sketchy at all.
That was me. I bricked on Mana source with Devourer and I think I drew into the OuaT. I think 5-6 looks at a mana source is reasonable, I just got owned by rng. My chalice lined up badly and it looked bad on camera. That's life.
That Round 2 Game 1 Suppression Field was sending a message.
Also liked the synergy with Peacekeeper, nice!
Seeing ex-psychic frog decks getting battered around unleashes so much dopamine.
I love suppression field, watching people realize it taxes fetch lands never gets old.
I missed this gameplay. Good to see its back and merry Christmas.
In match one whenever you started to get on the "soap box"
I joined in with you and I just couldn't stop laughing
18:28 That SF hoses clues was honestly something I forgot about, but what a wondefful surprise
This is sick! Would love to see this deck / similar decks in future videos!
When suppression field is good, it's ancestral recall.
When it's not, it's sorrow's path.
Usually it's sorrow's path. But when you open with SF on turn 1 and your opponent pauses slightly, plays back a (possibly tapped) fetch land, and reaches for Advil you pretty much know it's over.
Pre-liking this video of good ol' legacy prison content
1:41 "There a ton of activated abilities that are not activated abilities"
Not with suppression field out there's not
You fought James Kisau on round 3 ? I'll try to watch the match on his channel at the same time :D
31:30 opponent probably didnt snap fatal push because of your archon 😂
@ThrabenU 5:15 he did , in fact, exile all four cards. He was fishing for a second land and got nothing in 6 looks.
G2R1 Suppression Field was beautiful
I played a similar deck in modern when TOR was legal that leverage TOR + Essence Reliquary to gain "perma" protection. Wondering if some of those mox diamonds should be Witch Enchanters. Otherwise sick deck! Would love to see more mono whizzy prizzy in the new year.
If ensnaring bridge is prevalent enough to sideboard for, would one or two copies of Witch Enchanter be worth it in the main board over plains? With flagstones it might be worth running a surveil land to fetch as well.
GGs Phil!
The white land that you can pay mana to do 4 damage looked good in afew spots here.
Court of Grace is gross. What a cool card. I love a good 4 mana card that just wrecks!
tbh I want to make you an overlay that displays a crown on your head whenever you become the monarch
Id also like to see a keljordan outpost in this dexks sb ❤
This deck was sweet!! Would love to see you run it back with the one ring.
Also, quick question. Why does no one play the initiative anymore? Was it bc of psychic frog? You held the monarch for a long time in most of your games. With frog gone maybe an initiative/one ring deck is viable again?
iirc initiative was not great because getting your initiative creatures reanimated is a disaster, and because frog beats all of them in combat
@@andrewwang7699 I've seen a few games on this very channel where phil keeps a leyline of the void opener and then loses to thoughtseize plus reanimate on an initiative creature
Compared to that, court of grace isn't even a creature, and jailor isn't a threat on an empty board in the same way. It's still card advantage, but it's a 10 turn clock instead of a 3 turn one.
Suppression Field? More like Depression Field. Gottem.
I'm not well versed on legacy is there a decent legacy version of modern lantern control?
No, though people have tried.
at the start of match 3 how in actual hell do you just call out grixis control with nothing to go off of?????? thats a wild guess beyond anything
If it was vs James Kisau (spelling?), that is their signature deck.
@@ThrabenUniversity ooohhh valid then
@@lordlucario8828James is a known MTGO grinder and content creator, basically never plays anything else.
@@lane9668 noted then!
Why no Seasoned Dungeoneer? I feel there Is a valid reason to not run It, but I can't really get it
Just watching the deck tech now, any reason not to play Witch Enchanter in the Loran slot?
Witch Enchanter's a 4 drop opposed to Loran being a 3 drop. That extra mana could mean a big difference in when he'd need to cast them to disenchant something.
Plus like someone mentioned previously with Phil's luck it will get thoughtseized or turned into a mountain
why are there some regular Plains and some Snow-Covered Plains? i don't see any reason to have some of both unless there's some niche card i'm not thinking of
Boomer tech against Predict
Just pumping these out huh 😆
Chrome mox seemed quite bad this league. Gave me strong aether vial vibes
21:50 the frog diff, a game that was a scoop would have been favorable for your opponent if frog was in their hand. good riddance!
Is Damping Matrix a valid sideboard option in Blood Moon decks in the current state of the meta?
I think it comes down too slowly on average, but it's been suggested by quite a few people.
Suppression Field seemed pretty effective in this league, and Moon Stompy tries to get 3 mana on turn 1, but I’m a Commander player and you play good Legacy, so you decide.
Suppression field is a big nonbo with the one ring unfortunately
You probably need to stop running a glut of lands in these mono W decks. Razorgrass Ambush and Witch Enchanter's flexibility would compensate heavily for all these dead draw floods I see you going through league after league. Just drop the Mox Diamonds for purely Chrome Moxen.
I'm sure playing 8 lands that deal three damage to you and are Wasteland-able in your Ancient Tomb deck has no downside whatsoever... I've been advising against this exact thing for like a year in Moon Stompy shells with my coaching clients.
@@ThrabenUniversity Haven't seen any of your coaching content, and I'm not saying a 4-4 split is correct, but surely some amount of them is better than all basics for the modularity they provide in both top deck wars and as good Chrome Mox pitch targets in the opener.
I can understand the Wasteland fear in general for stompy shells, but in this deck with 4 mainboard Suppression Field?
@ADNudes 3 life or tapped lands that are mediocre spells late game are amazing against control shells. And awful against tempo/combo.
But the meta has zero control decks. Frog tempo and Eldrazi pushed them out, opening the door for combo. Boshnroll was running friggin Stiflenaught, a tempo shell, at Legacy events because it was the closest thing to control that was playable.
Bans may change this but I still see a ton of Eldrazi, big mana decks and combo.
Tl;dr you'd have a point in an utterly opposite meta
I want to get a clip of "The London mulligan is the most powerful thing that exists within the game of magic." and set it as an alarm clock so I can start every morning with some wisdom.
Half the Eldrazi players Irun into who jam Eldrazi straight up make misplays like that it makes me think it's a really cheap deck to rent.
theres one landers and then theres blowing up your only land lol