Honestly I think it would have been a fine card if it worked the way it was intended to (i.e. worded so that you can't untap the same land twice). I even wonder if the judge ruling could have gone differently. This... seems a bit like cheating.
@@sarahmiller4980 The wording on the card is clear if you're deeply familiar with game terminology, and any competent judge would rule it the same way. It's a triggered ability, and not a replacement effect. If the card said "that permanent enters the battlefield untapped *instead* ", that would make it a replacement effect, and prevent all of these shenanigans.
"Aural" refers to sound. The word you're looking for is "aurally", which note is pronounced differently than "orally". Consider the words 'aura' and 'oral' to find out how to say it properly.
Do Ad Naus. The deck has a lot of strange interactions that I think a lot of players don't understand, especially when it comes to Ad Naus + Phyrexian Unlife, and how Unlife literally buys you an extra turn as long as you're still at 1 life or higher when you pass.
@@jacobmayer4206 As do I. I get tired of explaining that no, I did not just kill myself with ad naus, and no, I get 0 poison counters from it because loss of life =/= damage. Also using Angels Grace to stop Pact of Negation trigger.
I love playing Ad Nauseam. Currently in a paper modern league and are 9-2 with a lock for top eight. Having to explain to some of the newer players how the interaction works is actually just AIDS.
@@RappingRain And then explaining either win is also fun. Holding priority with Lightning Storm, or casting Spoils on a card not in your deck. And for some reason, if you combo off in game 2 or 3, they always make you play it out again anyway.
Just a PSA, the way you stack the amulet triggers with the slayer's stronghold and boros garrison does matter, there is a bug in modo that does not allow you to stack them and can lead to game losses. The most important thing, if you're playing in paper is that you don't both slayer stronghold's triggers last (which would make them resolve first) because that way you would not be able to activate its ability twice. Happy titaning everyone!! :)
As a non-computer scientist, the fact that I've always imagined stack resolution as top-to-bottom and that anyone I've seen ever explain or illustrate the stack has explained or illustrated it as top-to-bottom... his method also hurt my brain.
Love the modern focused videos, and I would really like to see one on hardened scales affinity. For some of us the idea of tuning in and watching some players bored tone as they stream with a deck while having TONS of time where absolutely nothing of note is happening has lost it's appeal. That's why videos like this are so awesome, visual, didn't have to waste 3 hours to see what the deck really wants to accomplish, some of it's strongest points, and where it struggles. Just please promise to never stop returning to MTG's history when the urge strikes you! You do that in such a remarkable way that offers unique and logical perspectives. Also, you're video editor is someone I haven't complimented before, and I have to say he is equally awesome!
Its a passable deck now, When bloom was legal it was borderline oppressive. But only if the person operating the deck was adequately skilled at piloting it.
My favorite Modern deck is not the best, but is fun to confuse people with. It is Bant Ally Mill with a sideboard for overpowering the opponent (if you don't want to run mill for whatever reason). I haven't even built the full thing, but it runs like this: Turn 1 drop a land, drop Hada Freeblade, turn 2, make sure you have at least one forest out, drop harabaz, turn 3, drop any land, summon a second harabaz druid with the land, stop there, turn 4, drop a halimar excavator (opponent has to mill 4), use rite of replication kicked by tapping both harabaz's (8 mana, blue) and your last land, target halimar, opponent has to mill 270 extra cards (9*6*5 = 270). Might sound slow or easy to counter, it is, that's why there is the backup of just ally assault for ping damage, you can even go the extra mile of just not summoning Hada and summon Halimar on turn 3 instead, and you avoid using blue lands if possible. For this deck the optimal start is, go first and have in hand: Forest, Forest/Plains (either works), Harabaz, Harabaz, Halimar, Rite of Replication, Forest/Plains or Hada. That's all you need, though getting the land on draw of turn 2 and a Hada in hand is best for just speeding this deck up the most.
Wow, this was an enlightening video. I played against this deck at an fnm but the guy playing it had borrowed it and wasn't 100% sure on how to play it. Now that i see it laid out I understand just how lucky I was.
I've had my eye on this deck for a long time now. I've just finished building the deck but have been practicing for about 5 months. I really think this deck has potential to become one of the best decks in the meta
I think we'll all agree the hardest combo is the one with mindlsaver, sky swallower, mirrorweave and chaos confetti that lets you tear your opponent's deck to shreds.
I had Titan bloom before the ban, most difficult deck I've ever played, but also most rewarding! This video took me back to a turn 2 double primeval Titan play, then ban was well deserved lol
discord.gg/KXHEdb For those interested, here is the discord link. This is the best place to learn about amulet titan, as well as gain infornmation about card choices, alternative options, anything else. Please join if interested!
ahaahahaa attacking with a titan....thats cute....ive YET to see a titan player actually use the thing to attack, they just throwdown a valakut and throw the hand at you.
Hi Jon! Can you do a video on Ad Nauseam in Modern? I'm interested in your thoughts on the mana base seeing as how there is almost no other deck quite like it as far as lands go
From playing this deck, I was far too antsy to summoners pact for Azusa, playing some more simic growth chambers, transmuting tolaria west for a second summoners pact, then getting the titan. Still wins like. And not that anybody is probably interested, but some lists these days have cut the hornet queen and one cavern to play 2 trinket mage, with a second sideboard explosives, tormod's crypt, and academy ruins. There's also more white based lists that are playing 3 selesnya sanctuary and 1 gruul turf so they get sideboard sigarda host of herons, gaddock teeg, path to exile, and still play your sideboard ruric thar. Apparently this version is better
The alternative path with this combo is searching for Tolaria West and a bounceland, getting Tolaria West back to your hand, using it to find Summoners' Pact, and using that to find another Titan next turn, making this deck a good grind deck as well. This is actually the primary play of titan, the straight playing a titan and attacking for 20 doesn't happen as often as it sound in practice because it dies to removal.
Turn 1 win. Swamp, 2x Simian Spirit Guide, Faithless looting. In the remaining 3 cards + the 2 top cards of the library, you need Goryo's Vengance + Griselbrand. Draw the deck by use of Shoal gaining life, use the last 2 more spirit guides, cast a ritual and a manamorphos (for a black mana) , cast a faithless looting to bin Borborygmos, vengence him and nuke away with lands for the win.
My favorite Modern deck is UR Gifts Storm. Partly because it's one of the only decks I can afford, but also because I love all of the math & lines of play that a Storm deck has to go through.
This is really close to the deck I play in modern. This deck isn’t that hard to play it’s just if you start with a bad hand and also have bad mulligans it takes a few turns for a lethal titan. I would defiantly recommend playing this deck because most people won’t know what’s coming until you hit them and it’s also really fun to play.
Fantastic content as always. I've always thought this deck seemed really interesting but I didn't fully understand how the combo actually works with the stack. Great explanation and super well-produced.
Excellent Video! Although I'd prefer you keep Amulet Titan on the down low:) This deck is hard to play correctly. Mistakes are common, especially when you play fast. Plays are not obvious, so play it somewhat slow until you've had a ton of matches.
As a yugioh pLayer, I have never ever played mtg nor was I thinking if playing, until daddy pewds as well as this video popped up. I will check for some vids so I learn about some basics.
Wait...the old Rav lands can target themselves with the bounce effect? How does that work? I thought bouncing another land was part of the "cost" to play the Rav duel lands? Bleh I've been out of the loop for too long.
There's also a version of this deck that gets Hive Mind into play and casts Pacts, making your opponent copy them and lose on their upkeep when they can't pay. It wasn't as popular as Prime Time stompy, but it made the rounds a little. That version really took the loss of Summer Bloom hard.
@@Ninjamanhammer the whole reason it was insane with summer bloom was because bloom made just enough for the pact combo. The pact combo was what got that deck banned, not titan
the truth is, hive mind and titan got into the same deck, bc you could use the the "enabler" for both and you had space for the hive minds and 3-4 additional pact of titans anyway, even after you put pact of negation in for further protection. you just killed with whatever was available. it was the consistency of the added hive mind combo that put the deck over the top. w/o the other it isnt consistent enough even with summer bloom. but the policy is to ban the enabler, bc some day there will be another 6 mana win option.
I'd love to see high quality videos like this about some of the things that happen in Vintage and Legacy - Vintage formats are totally my thing for some reason.
Doomsday is easy imo. If that's as hard as this game gets, this game isn't hard. It's not though. The foresight you need for interaction and control until you combo is much more difficult than doomsday-> pile up/cantrip/cantrip/led/hold priority and crack/labman/cantrip
I once tried to make a Primal Surge deck. There are only a few other Sorceries/instants in the deck and they all are tutor cards. They're used to fetch all the non-permanents in the deck with Primal Surge being the last. Then you cast Primal Surge and dumb your whole deck onto the battlefield and kill your opponent with a bunch of enter the battlefield triggers. Of course this combo is hard to pull off, especially if your opponent knows what deck you're playing and how to counter it. Still...it's a pretty fun deck.
Crab mill. U/B mill and the only creature is Hedron crab. While Ensnaring bridge is good I use darkness and side board in snapcaster against more aggro heavy decks. Side board has Crypt incursion and surgical extraction against old titans and other shenanigans
I've got to be missing something. If your opponent puts down any 1 Mana cost creature on their turn one then they would be able to block some of the damage and be left with at least one hit point and then you would lose the game when your upkeep comes around.
Amulet Titan isn't even in the top 20 of the hardest combos in MtG ! Try Doomsday, Four Horsemen, Body Double/Reveillark, Flash Hulk etc. - hell, even Legacy ANT with Dark Petition is harder than Amulet Titan !
I love to go Rogue, winning Turn2/Turn3 with Heartless Summoning/Altar of the brood/Myr retriever or Heartless/Havengul Lich/priest of urabrask/periouls myr.
First of all, I have never heard anyone else call them "Karoo lands". They're bounce lands. Because they bounce a land when they enter. Now doesn't that sound much less silly? Second of all, bit weird watching this a year later now that Modern Horizon has come and gone, Hogaak has gotten banned, and we've somehow ended up with Amulet Titan being one of the top decks in the meta, right alongside classics like burn and tron. I think Modern players just like complicated decks..
I havent played magic in awhile, and I never thought I’d say this but like… it’s been years since I was absolutely housed by a spikey combo deck. I miss that feeling of “oh that’s a lot board activity for turn two…”
You're attacking with a 10/6 double striker on the second turn, they're dead!...Unless they played pretty much any 1-mana chump, in which case they live by 1-ish and you have a "lose the game" effect queued up in your next upkeep, likely without the Mana to pay it off.
Why turn 2 20 people when you can turn 2 32 people with two 8/6 double strike titans? All you need to do is assemble exodia. I mean the perfect 7 for those of you who didn’t get the reference. Amulet titan is a fun deck if you can forgive it for its fail rate and its level of difficulty in mastering it. I enjoy the deck a lot though I wouldn’t recommend it unless you have the time and willingness to learn it.
My current favorite viable deck is a Coin Tribal deck I made, bases off of Krark's Thumb to get insane values out of cards like Stitch in Time, Fiery Gambit, and Mana Clash.
the most bizzare deck I ever tried designing involved essentially trying to find as many combos as possible with overlapping parts in them. All in all it was a reasonably effective deck and almost literally never played even remotely the same as it did in any previous game which kept things interesting. on the downside though the damn thing was an absolute *NIGHTMARE* to play against and even worse to be the person playing it since trying to make any decision was playing the odds on hundreds of win conditions and a couple dozen survival tactics. sooo it never made it past the point where you take the cards you already have and then just write the rest on pieces of paper to playtest it. my goal in designing the deck was to make something fun to play/playagainst and I ended up with the single least enjoyable deck I've ever seen, even worse than the one a friend of mine designed to try to get someone to quit magic (a control deck that wouldn't even let the opponent LOOSE the game, let alone win)...I think the big difference is that with my combo deck both players had a good chance of winning at all times, making it so that those impossible decisions it forced always actually mattered.
I still want to build an amulet bloom/ amulet titan deck. Even if it's not legal anymore. I just don't know if I want that much money sunk into cardboard.....again.....after breaking my addiction to it.
I built a landfall like deck that could win consistently on the second turn. It would produce infinite combo of lands coming into play it would have infinite mana and everything else that you would ever need or want. You could play Lands from your hand, deck, or graveyard with just the standard parts of the deck. With just one more enchantment you could also do the combo with Lands that were exiled. If you have any of the newer cards that allow you to play Lands for the graveyard or allow you to pay mana to play the Lands you can do the combo without fastbond. The deck is built with the intention to play an infinite number of Lands and win via abilities that trigger from you putting them into play.
Here's a more difficult combo: Magistrate scepter with one charge on it. Vorel with illusionist's bracers puts it up to four. Magistrate scepter gets an extra turn. Reassembling skeleton attacks, probably gets blocked and dies, two Mana to return it, sundial of the infinite to stop healing, end turn and do it again
I had a version of amulet bloom before good players got ahold of it and fixed it. It used Tome of Need to fetch a singleton Patron of the Moon to get infinite mana off of a bounce and an amulet, then deck the opponent with Skyscribing or Increasing Confusion. Well that was the plan, mostly it won off of t2 Titans and being untouchable via Lifegift.
I think you forgot about the combo where you use apocalypse chime to activate barren glory. You need to run only cards from the Homelands expansion. Which has no basic lands. Need I say more?
I wonder if yugioh looks as weird to MTG players as MTG looks too me lmao. No hate just was never was around this card game. Everyone was either playing yugioh or pokemon. To each his own lol.
I now have interest in modern again. I thought I would never play after KCI got banned, but now there is another skill intensive combo deck I know about. So I’ll play that.
Being a bit of a noob in the modern scene, it'd be nice to see on how to mess with the decks too. I mean, it explains it well, and I can guess that artifact removal would be ideal on the Amulet Vigors, but, be nice to have a pro/more experienced player mention it. :)
The 2 hard parts of the combo are remembering it and convincing your opponent you're not making it up.
oml i remember playing KCI and having to have a note on my phone of EXACTLY how to explain the combo to people who didnt get it, what a deck
I believe some prankster at Wizards deleted the word "nonland" from Amulet of Vigor.
Honestly I think it would have been a fine card if it worked the way it was intended to (i.e. worded so that you can't untap the same land twice). I even wonder if the judge ruling could have gone differently. This... seems a bit like cheating.
@@sarahmiller4980 The wording on the card is clear if you're deeply familiar with game terminology, and any competent judge would rule it the same way. It's a triggered ability, and not a replacement effect. If the card said "that permanent enters the battlefield untapped *instead* ", that would make it a replacement effect, and prevent all of these shenanigans.
Or they deleted the word "basic" from primeval titan
These videos are very pleasing visually and auditorily. Please keep it up :)
Agreed! Very well done. I like the visual stack reference
So true
Agreed 💯 great clarity.
"Aural" refers to sound. The word you're looking for is "aurally", which note is pronounced differently than "orally". Consider the words 'aura' and 'oral' to find out how to say it properly.
Totally agree with you
When sb ask "what's this deck'plan B?" the ONLY correct answer is: "make sure plan A works"
"Azusa beatdown"
@@hungjury7482 "and what if that doesn't work?"
"Stall to deck your opponent...?"
enemy turn 1: Plays a 1/1 weenie.
amulet titan: well played!
The Titan does have trample so if they shocked and/or fetched for that 1/1, which happens a lot in modern,the Titan still wins.
You also can have enough mana to pay the pact after you go off.
@@fidly4 "I play my Titan!"
P A T H
get fucked incel
@@Garl_Vinland "I play my Titan!"
S L A U G H T E R P A C T
edit: or, if you're fancy, P A C T O F N E G A T I O N
@@snakeorbreak6258 Opp: Forgets to pay Pact cost, loses anyway
Opponent: "Tap forest. Cast fog." XD
Pact of negation :)
Oops...Force of Will
What about the mana tithe
@@sandwichboy1268 Congratulation of countering the titan, now it's your turn 2 and you have to pat 3UU to not lose on upkeep.
Just wanted to say that this deck got waaaaay better with the London Mulligan rule now...
L Kelley As did almost every other goldfish deck.
Pretty Deece is the only reason I watch this channel. I would sub if you had your own channel.
That's the exact reason i haven't subscribed. Anticipation.
Ooooooooooffffffff, Ryan and Nicole
me too
Do Ad Naus. The deck has a lot of strange interactions that I think a lot of players don't understand, especially when it comes to Ad Naus + Phyrexian Unlife, and how Unlife literally buys you an extra turn as long as you're still at 1 life or higher when you pass.
I play Ad Naus
@@jacobmayer4206 As do I. I get tired of explaining that no, I did not just kill myself with ad naus, and no, I get 0 poison counters from it because loss of life =/= damage. Also using Angels Grace to stop Pact of Negation trigger.
right! i double sleeved it today. its so great bc its almost budget. half the deck is the sideboard leylines.
I love playing Ad Nauseam. Currently in a paper modern league and are 9-2 with a lock for top eight. Having to explain to some of the newer players how the interaction works is actually just AIDS.
@@RappingRain And then explaining either win is also fun. Holding priority with Lightning Storm, or casting Spoils on a card not in your deck. And for some reason, if you combo off in game 2 or 3, they always make you play it out again anyway.
I've been playing this deck for around seven months, can confirm, confusing as shit to play.
Just a PSA, the way you stack the amulet triggers with the slayer's stronghold and boros garrison does matter, there is a bug in modo that does not allow you to stack them and can lead to game losses. The most important thing, if you're playing in paper is that you don't both slayer stronghold's triggers last (which would make them resolve first) because that way you would not be able to activate its ability twice.
Happy titaning everyone!! :)
As a computer scientist, the stack building from bottom to top hurts my mental model.
Also, hardest combo? KCI is preeeety rough
As a non-computer scientist, the fact that I've always imagined stack resolution as top-to-bottom and that anyone I've seen ever explain or illustrate the stack has explained or illustrated it as top-to-bottom... his method also hurt my brain.
I like the Hardened Scales Affinity deck. It's quite cool
Love the modern focused videos, and I would really like to see one on hardened scales affinity. For some of us the idea of tuning in and watching some players bored tone as they stream with a deck while having TONS of time where absolutely nothing of note is happening has lost it's appeal. That's why videos like this are so awesome, visual, didn't have to waste 3 hours to see what the deck really wants to accomplish, some of it's strongest points, and where it struggles.
Just please promise to never stop returning to MTG's history when the urge strikes you! You do that in such a remarkable way that offers unique and logical perspectives. Also, you're video editor is someone I haven't complimented before, and I have to say he is equally awesome!
i get really excited every time there's a new episode of pretty deece, i love this show! please make more
Do a spotlight on Mono Blue Tron; the often misunderstood "Tron" deck.
You mean the Tron deck that really isn't a Tron deck?
@@RappingRain aka the most interactive deck in Modern that everyone dismisses before playing
The quality in this video is awesome. Absolutely LOVE! Keep up the great work
If only I could cast Fork on Jon to make additional episodes of Pretty Deece.
That would only apply when he's on the stack. I think we need a Quasiduplicate at this point.
Doomsday combo would like to have a word with you
Welcome to Summer 2019, where London Mulligans make this, just, so much better.
My first modern deck... Until It was banned :(
It earned its ban. Be proud.
It's still playable in Modern.
@@wildwest8069 Sure, but I am a super fan of Jeskai Flying Men, so I stopped playing Amulet Titan just to slam my hasty flyers :)
Its a passable deck now, When bloom was legal it was borderline oppressive. But only if the person operating the deck was adequately skilled at piloting it.
Love it
Hardened Scales Affinity is my favorite deck in modern. Wonder if it is famous enough for a Pretty Deece segment
My favorite Modern deck is not the best, but is fun to confuse people with. It is Bant Ally Mill with a sideboard for overpowering the opponent (if you don't want to run mill for whatever reason). I haven't even built the full thing, but it runs like this: Turn 1 drop a land, drop Hada Freeblade, turn 2, make sure you have at least one forest out, drop harabaz, turn 3, drop any land, summon a second harabaz druid with the land, stop there, turn 4, drop a halimar excavator (opponent has to mill 4), use rite of replication kicked by tapping both harabaz's (8 mana, blue) and your last land, target halimar, opponent has to mill 270 extra cards (9*6*5 = 270). Might sound slow or easy to counter, it is, that's why there is the backup of just ally assault for ping damage, you can even go the extra mile of just not summoning Hada and summon Halimar on turn 3 instead, and you avoid using blue lands if possible. For this deck the optimal start is, go first and have in hand: Forest, Forest/Plains (either works), Harabaz, Harabaz, Halimar, Rite of Replication, Forest/Plains or Hada. That's all you need, though getting the land on draw of turn 2 and a Hada in hand is best for just speeding this deck up the most.
Here's a better T2 win...
Turn 1: Forest. Glistener Elf.
Turn 2: Forest. Might of Old Krosa. Berserk.
Swing for the win.
Berzerk isn't legal in modern and in legacy your going to have a much tougher time given extreme early game mana ramp
Wow, this was an enlightening video. I played against this deck at an fnm but the guy playing it had borrowed it and wasn't 100% sure on how to play it. Now that i see it laid out I understand just how lucky I was.
I've had my eye on this deck for a long time now. I've just finished building the deck but have been practicing for about 5 months. I really think this deck has potential to become one of the best decks in the meta
I think we'll all agree the hardest combo is the one with mindlsaver, sky swallower, mirrorweave and chaos confetti that lets you tear your opponent's deck to shreds.
Just gotta say that Pretty Deece is great, really fun and informative videos!
This show is basically all I watch on this channel, but that's worth a sub from me.
I had Titan bloom before the ban, most difficult deck I've ever played, but also most rewarding! This video took me back to a turn 2 double primeval Titan play, then ban was well deserved lol
I've got nothing to say, I'm just commenting, liking and subscribing to game the algos cus I love these videos.
discord.gg/KXHEdb For those interested, here is the discord link. This is the best place to learn about amulet titan, as well as gain infornmation about card choices, alternative options, anything else. Please join if interested!
This deck was sweet back then, right now with 2020 cards (Field of the dead, Uro and Dryad) just makes me puke
Simian spirit guide x2
Azusa x1
Amulet of vigor x2
Prime time x1
Any green bounce land x1
Turn 1 prime time win gg
The speaker is clear and consistent and visualizations make these videos my favorite to watch, please keep it up! Love these!
ahaahahaa attacking with a titan....thats cute....ive YET to see a titan player actually use the thing to attack, they just throwdown a valakut and throw the hand at you.
BG Rock is ithe best. However, you should cover Jeskai Ascendancy Combo
Hi Jon! Can you do a video on Ad Nauseam in Modern? I'm interested in your thoughts on the mana base seeing as how there is almost no other deck quite like it as far as lands go
From playing this deck, I was far too antsy to summoners pact for Azusa, playing some more simic growth chambers, transmuting tolaria west for a second summoners pact, then getting the titan. Still wins like.
And not that anybody is probably interested, but some lists these days have cut the hornet queen and one cavern to play 2 trinket mage, with a second sideboard explosives, tormod's crypt, and academy ruins. There's also more white based lists that are playing 3 selesnya sanctuary and 1 gruul turf so they get sideboard sigarda host of herons, gaddock teeg, path to exile, and still play your sideboard ruric thar. Apparently this version is better
so like this combo loses to your opponent having a 1/1 to block 1 of your damage and then you lose cause on turn 3 you cant pay for the pact
This is the turn 2 kill. If the opponent has a blocker you can slow down and assemble the combo more slowly while still playing the pact.
Besides, there are Pact of Negation to stop those from coming in, multiple pacts doesn't matter if they lose
Maindeck slaughter pact?
The alternative path with this combo is searching for Tolaria West and a bounceland, getting Tolaria West back to your hand, using it to find Summoners' Pact, and using that to find another Titan next turn, making this deck a good grind deck as well. This is actually the primary play of titan, the straight playing a titan and attacking for 20 doesn't happen as often as it sound in practice because it dies to removal.
Turn 2, Amulet pilot pulls off hardest combo in MTG, explaining it step by step. Finally looks up at opponent 5 minutes later, sees Path to Exile
That's why Pact of Negation is used in the deck. XD
This deck got me into magic (amulet bloom) always will be my favorite
Turn 1 win.
Swamp, 2x Simian Spirit Guide, Faithless looting.
In the remaining 3 cards + the 2 top cards of the library, you need Goryo's Vengance + Griselbrand.
Draw the deck by use of Shoal gaining life, use the last 2 more spirit guides, cast a ritual and a manamorphos (for a black mana) , cast a faithless looting to bin Borborygmos, vengence him and nuke away with lands for the win.
OG’s call bounce lands karoo lands. Respect
My favorite Modern deck is UR Gifts Storm. Partly because it's one of the only decks I can afford, but also because I love all of the math & lines of play that a Storm deck has to go through.
This is really close to the deck I play in modern. This deck isn’t that hard to play it’s just if you start with a bad hand and also have bad mulligans it takes a few turns for a lethal titan. I would defiantly recommend playing this deck because most people won’t know what’s coming until you hit them and it’s also really fun to play.
A few vision karoos were the first lands I ever bought.. still play them.
TCG player should have a series on getting how to work around the stigma of playing magic haha it’s hard to get people into cards
Fantastic content as always. I've always thought this deck seemed really interesting but I didn't fully understand how the combo actually works with the stack. Great explanation and super well-produced.
Simic Growth Chamber trigger doesn't target, you choose a land upon resolution. 0:32
My favorite deck no longer exist poor sweet splinter twin
Excellent Video! Although I'd prefer you keep Amulet Titan on the down low:) This deck is hard to play correctly. Mistakes are common, especially when you play fast. Plays are not obvious, so play it somewhat slow until you've had a ton of matches.
As a yugioh pLayer, I have never ever played mtg nor was I thinking if playing, until daddy pewds as well as this video popped up. I will check for some vids so I learn about some basics.
How about a Modern Protean Hulk combo video?
DAMN that's some quality editing. Your videos are a literal must for complex combo decks.
Wait...the old Rav lands can target themselves with the bounce effect? How does that work? I thought bouncing another land was part of the "cost" to play the Rav duel lands? Bleh I've been out of the loop for too long.
Yeah, but then they bounce themselves, wasting a landrop
pretty deece is the best tcgplayer videos
My favorite modern deck is splinter twin, and I cry myself to sleep every night.
legacy*
was*
this is my modern deck and i have to agree, the mulligan is the hardest choice to make in a given game
There's also a version of this deck that gets Hive Mind into play and casts Pacts, making your opponent copy them and lose on their upkeep when they can't pay. It wasn't as popular as Prime Time stompy, but it made the rounds a little. That version really took the loss of Summer Bloom hard.
yeah that version was the one he mentioned that had summer bloom
A1Comrade
No, the versions with summer bloom tended to win with Titan as well.
@@Ninjamanhammer the whole reason it was insane with summer bloom was because bloom made just enough for the pact combo. The pact combo was what got that deck banned, not titan
Bloom was insane with the titan build too. The titan version was the most played, even when bloom was still around.
the truth is, hive mind and titan got into the same deck, bc you could use the the "enabler" for both and you had space for the hive minds and 3-4 additional pact of titans anyway, even after you put pact of negation in for further protection. you just killed with whatever was available.
it was the consistency of the added hive mind combo that put the deck over the top. w/o the other it isnt consistent enough even with summer bloom. but the policy is to ban the enabler, bc some day there will be another 6 mana win option.
Beautiful!!
I love these videos about combos and deck strategies.
I'd love to see high quality videos like this about some of the things that happen in Vintage and Legacy - Vintage formats are totally my thing for some reason.
My favorite Modern deck is Abzan Company minus the Infinite Mana combo.
"Hardest combo in MTG"? I've got two words for you: Legacy. Doomsday.
Doomsday is easy imo. If that's as hard as this game gets, this game isn't hard. It's not though. The foresight you need for interaction and control until you combo is much more difficult than doomsday-> pile up/cantrip/cantrip/led/hold priority and crack/labman/cantrip
@@TylerRayPittmanthe person was referring to the storm combo version of doomsday. Lab man is much easier to play in comparison.
I once tried to make a Primal Surge deck. There are only a few other Sorceries/instants in the deck and they all are tutor cards. They're used to fetch all the non-permanents in the deck with Primal Surge being the last. Then you cast Primal Surge and dumb your whole deck onto the battlefield and kill your opponent with a bunch of enter the battlefield triggers. Of course this combo is hard to pull off, especially if your opponent knows what deck you're playing and how to counter it. Still...it's a pretty fun deck.
Crab mill. U/B mill and the only creature is Hedron crab. While Ensnaring bridge is good I use darkness and side board in snapcaster against more aggro heavy decks. Side board has Crypt incursion and surgical extraction against old titans and other shenanigans
I play tested a crab mill, it was a lot of fun.
Fantastic video, it's a shame pretty deece is gone :( it was good content.
great video! In my opinion there are more complex combos though :) What´s with worldgorger combo in vintage ? that shit´s cray
These videos have AMAZING production value. Love them.
i subscribed only because of how well you explained the combo. awesome!
3:14 - And at the end of the attack phase your opponent casts a Fog.
I've got to be missing something. If your opponent puts down any 1 Mana cost creature on their turn one then they would be able to block some of the damage and be left with at least one hit point and then you would lose the game when your upkeep comes around.
Amulet Titan isn't even in the top 20 of the hardest combos in MtG ! Try Doomsday, Four Horsemen, Body Double/Reveillark, Flash Hulk etc. - hell, even Legacy ANT with Dark Petition is harder than Amulet Titan !
Great video! Would you mind posting the background song? I really liked it.
Anyone know what hes using to edit this, is it After Effects?
I love to go Rogue, winning Turn2/Turn3 with Heartless Summoning/Altar of the brood/Myr retriever or Heartless/Havengul Lich/priest of urabrask/periouls myr.
First of all, I have never heard anyone else call them "Karoo lands". They're bounce lands. Because they bounce a land when they enter. Now doesn't that sound much less silly?
Second of all, bit weird watching this a year later now that Modern Horizon has come and gone, Hogaak has gotten banned, and we've somehow ended up with Amulet Titan being one of the top decks in the meta, right alongside classics like burn and tron. I think Modern players just like complicated decks..
I havent played magic in awhile, and I never thought I’d say this but like… it’s been years since I was absolutely housed by a spikey combo deck. I miss that feeling of “oh that’s a lot board activity for turn two…”
You're attacking with a 10/6 double striker on the second turn, they're dead!...Unless they played pretty much any 1-mana chump, in which case they live by 1-ish and you have a "lose the game" effect queued up in your next upkeep, likely without the Mana to pay it off.
Unless they played that 1mana chump out of a fetch/shock of course.
One little mistake. You don’t have to target anything for the bounce land triggers. You just pick up a land on resolution
turn 1: mountain
amulet player turn 1: forest, amulet, go
turn 2: mountain, exile simian spirit guide, bloodmoon.
amulet player: conceeds
monored three-drop stompy is TOO fun
Why turn 2 20 people when you can turn 2 32 people with two 8/6 double strike titans? All you need to do is assemble exodia. I mean the perfect 7 for those of you who didn’t get the reference. Amulet titan is a fun deck if you can forgive it for its fail rate and its level of difficulty in mastering it. I enjoy the deck a lot though I wouldn’t recommend it unless you have the time and willingness to learn it.
My current favorite viable deck is a Coin Tribal deck I made, bases off of Krark's Thumb to get insane values out of cards like Stitch in Time, Fiery Gambit, and Mana Clash.
the most bizzare deck I ever tried designing involved essentially trying to find as many combos as possible with overlapping parts in them. All in all it was a reasonably effective deck and almost literally never played even remotely the same as it did in any previous game which kept things interesting.
on the downside though the damn thing was an absolute *NIGHTMARE* to play against and even worse to be the person playing it since trying to make any decision was playing the odds on hundreds of win conditions and a couple dozen survival tactics.
sooo it never made it past the point where you take the cards you already have and then just write the rest on pieces of paper to playtest it. my goal in designing the deck was to make something fun to play/playagainst and I ended up with the single least enjoyable deck I've ever seen, even worse than the one a friend of mine designed to try to get someone to quit magic (a control deck that wouldn't even let the opponent LOOSE the game, let alone win)...I think the big difference is that with my combo deck both players had a good chance of winning at all times, making it so that those impossible decisions it forced always actually mattered.
I still want to build an amulet bloom/ amulet titan deck. Even if it's not legal anymore. I just don't know if I want that much money sunk into cardboard.....again.....after breaking my addiction to it.
I built a landfall like deck that could win consistently on the second turn. It would produce infinite combo of lands coming into play it would have infinite mana and everything else that you would ever need or want. You could play Lands from your hand, deck, or graveyard with just the standard parts of the deck. With just one more enchantment you could also do the combo with Lands that were exiled. If you have any of the newer cards that allow you to play Lands for the graveyard or allow you to pay mana to play the Lands you can do the combo without fastbond. The deck is built with the intention to play an infinite number of Lands and win via abilities that trigger from you putting them into play.
Here's a more difficult combo:
Magistrate scepter with one charge on it. Vorel with illusionist's bracers puts it up to four. Magistrate scepter gets an extra turn. Reassembling skeleton attacks, probably gets blocked and dies, two Mana to return it, sundial of the infinite to stop healing, end turn and do it again
I had a version of amulet bloom before good players got ahold of it and fixed it. It used Tome of Need to fetch a singleton Patron of the Moon to get infinite mana off of a bounce and an amulet, then deck the opponent with Skyscribing or Increasing Confusion. Well that was the plan, mostly it won off of t2 Titans and being untouchable via Lifegift.
I think you forgot about the combo where you use apocalypse chime to activate barren glory. You need to run only cards from the Homelands expansion. Which has no basic lands. Need I say more?
I wonder if yugioh looks as weird to MTG players as MTG looks too me lmao. No hate just was never was around this card game. Everyone was either playing yugioh or pokemon. To each his own lol.
I now have interest in modern again. I thought I would never play after KCI got banned, but now there is another skill intensive combo deck I know about. So I’ll play that.
Me: "Fuck modern i'm gonna focus on legacy."
Amulet Titan: *exists*
Me: "mmmmmmmmaybe give it another shot?"
These videos are amazing. You should do one on Grishoalbrand
revisiting this video after Dominic Harvey's Amulet Titan went top 4 at Pro Tour Lord of the Rings, feels good man
I'm watching this video on 2020 and this deck now has Dryad of the Ilysian Grove and valakut... and it is busted!
Being a bit of a noob in the modern scene, it'd be nice to see on how to mess with the decks too. I mean, it explains it well, and I can guess that artifact removal would be ideal on the Amulet Vigors, but, be nice to have a pro/more experienced player mention it. :)
and what about the four horseman?
I really enjoy playing this combo deck in modern: tappedout.net/mtg-decks/09-08-18-famished-paladin-combo/
Yea try doing all this in a real game, nobody could follow you and lots of people only BARELY understand advanced mechanics.