1,000 Counters = 1,000 Damage?!? | Lost Caverns of Ixalan MTG Spoilers (Day 3)

[@MTGGoldfish]

Apparently Stifling The Millennium Calendar doesn't do anything. Good call everyone!

[@einstein4555]

When you counter the calendar trigger, it also counters the sacrifice so it will instantly trigger again

[@theoneandonlyflexo]

You beat me to it. Countering state-triggered abilities is almost always useless.

[@boontish1104]

And also if you prevent it from being sacrificed it will trigger indefinitely

[@dyciefisk2535]

The march of time is inevitable after all.

[@thesamuraiman]

​@@boontish1104 So is that how you beat infinite life? 🤣

[@boontish1104]

@@thesamuraiman Yep. Your opponent will have to keep gaining life while you take no game actions and then you call a judge on them for slow play.

[@Henzoid]

Stifling the Millennium Calendar would do exactly nothing. Player 1: Puts the 1000th counter on the Calendar Calendar: Triggers Player 2: Stifles the trigger Calendar: Re-triggers in response, winning the game

[@poiri]

While true, it technically doesn’t trigger in response, just right after the stifle resolves

[@Henzoid]

@@poiri oh you're right, if it worked the way I said it did, it would just infinite loop and get stuck

[@ThatoneGuy-ts7xd]

Oh yeah the Sack is an effect not a cost so if you stifle it wouldn't sacrifice and could then retrigger

[@stephenbradford8524]

You can use Goldberry to move a time counter from Rose Tyler to the Millennium Calendar, thus potentially bypassing your upkeep. Magic as Richard Garfield etc. :)

[@timothykrzywonski]

Poetic ingenuity isn't a card for a dinosaur artifact deck. It's a card that gives some value to either. In particular, oni cult anvil decks getting extra pay offs from casting artifacts is pretty sick.

[@matterhorn731]

One thing worth noting with Tarrian's Journal is that _flipping it_ is instant speed. So if you draw a second copy, you can cast the new one and then flip the old one in response, circumventing the legend rule. Could be useful in an aggressive deck that empties your hand quickly since the downside is lower and your creatures are cheap to recast.

[@yoyoguy1st]

If I’m not mistaken the legend rule is based off of state based actions, nobody is allowed to respond to it, the game just see both on the battlefield at the same time and force you to send one to the graveyard without a chance to respond

[@matterhorn731]

@@yoyoguy1st Which is why you hold priority after casting the second copy and _then_ flip the first copy. You flip the first while the second is on the stack, not on the battlefield.

[@Foreign501st]

Seth seems exceptionally excited for this set. I can't wait to see what decks you make and play with this set!

[@MTGGoldfish]

I am! Honestly, I was expecting it to be fine, but as soon as I saw the preview stream I was blown away by just how good it looks. Way better than I was expecting.

[@fenderslasher]

Mobile Thrown great for Mirrym! Extra dragons and double Terror of the Peaks triggers. Basically quadruple damage.

[@brianpendleton2674]

Double Scourge of valkas triggers too, and the enchantment with the same trigger.

[@lesternomo6578]

🤮

[@thelunchlady8276]

The real question is: What is the mobile throwing?

[@mrfroboto1]

Is anyone else surprised at how many of these names Seth has been getting 90-100 percent right? He's killing it!

[@willcampbell4787]

I was, and then he called Hamza hamas lol

[@hanschristopherson8056]

You can always count on seth to be excited about new panharmonicons

[@efnfen]

He's like a panharmonicon for etb synergy hype

[@AAtac-hw2sf]

"It´s day three of Return to Phyrexia spoilers and today we see the card of the set that I am most hyped about, Magus of the Panharmomicon"

[@JayoticMTG]

Sadly the Unwinding Clock/Seedborn Muse trick won’t work with the Millennium Calendar because it specifies “during YOUR untap step”.

[@tommylanders1997]

But it does let you use the double ability each turn, which is where the bulk of your counters will be coming from

[@Archflip]

Okay, wow. Didn't realize the value of Mobile Throne, but yeah, I see the strong case you made for it and yeah, seems like it gets some ridiculous value. Ward 2 is relevant as well in making it hard to remove.

[@MaleusMaleficarum]

I like it for my N'gathrod Horrors... 😆

[@Hanmacx]

Ward 2 is especially important, because it triggers twice

[@Hanmacx]

Choose Angel and play Sigarda's Summons Now it affects all your creatures

[@Krellitlikeitis]

Ooo, seth, you have to play Jeskai Calendar. You can play Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset to untap the Calendar and get a second activation each turn, doubling things even faster!

[@RoboJay-jq3cu]

Millenium Calendar is Peregrine Dynamo EDH support. Also fun in Unwinding Clock Zirda artifacts with all the voltaic key shenanigans. Such a fun card and cool build-around for various formats. And a fun reference to when the world ended in 2012.

[@hobez64]

Millenium Calendar seems real funny for some cards in the Timey Winey Doctor Who deck. Don't even need 1k counters, just put 40 on it and hit someone with Rose Tyler to kill them

[@MaleusMaleficarum]

That's what I was thinking.

[@duane6386]

Rose Tyler gets a time counter for each other permanent you control with a time counter on it, not for each time counter on permanents you control

[@NerdByAnyOtherName]

Millenium Calendar by itself and assuming no land drops beyond the second: Turn 1: Play land, tap it to cast Calendar Turn 2: untap 1 land -> add a counter (total counters 1), play land, tap 2 lands to activate Calendar (total counters 2) Turn 3: untap 2 lands and Calendar -> add 3 counters (total counters 5), tap 2 lands to activate Calendar (total counters 10) Turn 4: untap 2 lands and Calendar -> add 3 counters (total counters 13), tap 2 lands to activate Calendar (total counters 26) Turn 5: untap 2 lands and Calendar -> add 3 counters (total counters 29), tap 2 lands to activate Calendar (total counters 58) Turn 6: untap 2 lands and Calendar -> add 3 counters (total counters 61), tap 2 lands to activate Calendar (total counters 122) Turn 7: untap 2 lands and Calendar -> add 3 counters (total counters 125), tap 2 lands to activate Calendar (total counters 250) Turn 8: untap 2 lands and Calendar -> add 3 counters (total counters 253), tap 2 lands to activate Calendar (total counters 506) Turn 9: untap 2 lands and Calendar -> add 3 counters (total counters 509), tap 2 land to activate Calendar (total counters 1018) > sac to do 100 to each opponent -> (most likely) win Any additional lands drops, creatures, mana rocks, instances of proliferate, etc. will speed this up a little but likely not by more than 1 turn and only under the most optimal of circumstances. Not relevant to standard, but in other formats with wider card pools there are Deepglow Skate, Vorel of Hull Clade, and Gilder Bairn that can independently double the counters on Calendar, with Vorel and Gilder being able to do so repeatedly without additional effects, which will hugely speed up the process.

[@lucasaugsten]

You keep count of the calendar's counters with 3 d10 dice, one for unit, one for tens and one for hundreds

[@progressquest]

Or grab a paper and pencil?

[@pneuma08]

You could also use literal paper and a pencil.

[@lucasaugsten]

@@progressquest seems like more work than just carrying a bag of dice that you can use to count the counters directly on the card, this one and any other that uses counters.

[@damienjohnson3450]

@@pneuma08 Sounds wasteful.

[@pneuma08]

@@damienjohnson3450 Right, in the spirit of minimizing waste, just use draft chaff commons from the bulk box at the store. They are sure to have a few thousand of those lying around doing nothing useful.

[@josephhernandez6430]

I'm pretty sure Dauntless Dismantler is mesnt to be a anti-treasure card, since it can hit them for 1 mana and make them enter tapped

[@MTGGoldfish]

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[@sifuculreif6448]

Time Travel in the Doctor Who Commander precons means you can move a bonch of Suspend time counters onto The Millenium Calendar. This card DEFINITELY goes in Commander if nowhere else.

[@wldnrkls]

i think journal is fantastic in rakdos mid/sacrifice. you can use it to upgrade your blood tokens in the early game and recast your sheoldreds in the late game when you're out of gas

[@jarvvoitlus9458]

two 0/1 eggs... with haste! I think Palani's Hatcher is even better than I first considered because if anything in the set cares about creatures/dinosaurs entering the battlefield or grants them anthems, even the eggs themselves can do work cuz they don't have defender?

[@joshlemagne]

Poetic Ingenuity also gives you a treasure if you attack with dinosaurs, even if they're 0 power.

[@matthugenberg8869]

Important note, the hatcher does NOT make trample creatures like regisaur alpha

[@MTGGoldfish]

That's true, that is one upside of Alpha I probably should have mentioned.

[@thepoorgamer3208]

Enigma Jewel/ Millennium Calendar, flip the jewel double activate Calander

[@Webcomentarista_Aditivo]

Poetic engenuity is good on brudiclad, doble the tokens every combat

[@grandogrando6505]

Millennium calendar is so flavorful, as society progresses (more permanents untap) the doomsday clock moves forward

[@Johnny0nFire]

As a man who loves to play commander and plays a Ghave +1/+1 counters deck and an Atraxa +1/+1 counters deck… I think that first card just instantly made it into my lists

[@yomommashaus]

All will be one was the first thing I thought of - can win the turn after you play it as long as the calendar has been cooking for a few turns. Also, you can slide the calendar into your battles/all will be one deck as a 1 or 2 of or something.

[@Zarren_Redacted]

I don't know if it just "clicked" with me right away, but I don't get the confusion with the cat. I think the only thing I'm not sure on are X/X's vs 0/0's and that's just because I can't remember if X/X's get treated as 0/0's or not in this regard.

[@FreeOfFantasy]

Sunken citadel: If you have a Hope Tender and turn that into a land, for instance with Ashaya you have infinite mana. Similarly Ashaya opens up a lot of combo potential by making creatures lands and letting the citadel pay for it's abilities.

[@mattdeters8306]

Magda, Brazen Outlaw can OTK with the Calendar in Commander. The Magda/Clock Of Omens combo creates infinite tapped treasures. You then use Magda to tutor out the Calendar and Gonti's Aether Heart. Activate the Aether Heart to take an extra turn. On the untap step of the extra turn, you untap your arbitrarily large number of tapped treasures, put that many counters on the Calendar, and win.

[@TheMegaMagikarp]

Me going into the video: Seth is gonna butcher the cat name Seth: nails it the first time Me: *visible confusion*

[@JosephParker_Nottheboxer]

Matzanthil the great door cards about cart types in graveyard, surely discarding your hand with Tarrian's Journal is a good way to get all the permanent types into your graveyard without putting them though the battlefield first. Then you're getting maximum value from both cards nice and early.

[@JanAinali]

The fun sneaky thing on Mobile Throne that will catch many people the first time is that Ward is a triggered ability. So it will be Ward 2 twice as it will have the chosen type too.

[@T_Peazy]

Floor3d with how well Seth is doing with these pronunciations.

[@blobzombie]

Until he hit Stalactite Stalker. 😆

[@FirstnameLastname-ju7em]

He's on thin ice since he pronounced Abuelo 'Aboolio'

[@garmatey3816]

The "Descend X" mechanic specifies an exact number of permanents necessary to have in GY for effect to happen (doesnt work with less and doesnt scale up with more) so I guess "Fathomless Descent" is just used for cards that scale with how ever many permanents you have in GY. Very confusing though, especially using the verb in one key word/phrase and the noun in the other

[@arplee4823]

There's also descended which is if/how many times you put a permanent from anywhere into your graveyard.

[@garmatey3816]

@@arplee4823 oh Jfc…

[@Megamaduo]

i have some backgammon doubling cubes I use to keep track of Paradox Zone. They have 64 on the largest side so you'd only need 16 of them to trigger the calendar!

[@brawlfan9999]

A thing to consider with Palani's hatcher, is that token doubling effects happen both for the egg tokens and the 3/3 tokens, so if you have a mondrak in play when you cast Palani's hatcher, you will make 4 eggs, then sacrificing an egg will make 2 dinos. If you then play Ojer Taq in a dream scenario, the next egg you sac will make 6 dino tokens

[@Laevus2321]

For Calendar counters in paper, I'll just use the life counters from the Archenemy set (recently redone in Phyrexian bone colours). I bought 4 to use as life counters with friends when playing Commander before we switched to using the Lifetap app (amazing app by the way!). Now, I use them to track massive numbers of counters for Pir & Toothy decks, or P/T of people's Jodah or Ashaya, or crazy amounts of mana in the pool. They go up to 99, and don't change the number if they get knocked over - I highly recommend getting some for paper Magic. Two of those will do the job just fine!

[@jarrodreed8183]

I think you are looking at poetic ingenuity all wrong. It’s a bitter blossom for artifact decks that makes treasure on the side

[@as95ms98]

That 5 colour common crafting card is perfect in my 5C Tribal Ramos deck!

[@christopherpoet458]

6:00 - I am going to love this card. I have a green white cat tribal deck that is already annoying for some people and this fits right in. I might even put this in the 99, make Atraxa Prators Voice the commander and add in Black cards (notably the Amobkhet set) to fill in a few week links that plague the deck.

[@Pauls2theWall]

Sovereign Okinec in my Kylar Human Tribal will be so dirty. +20 counters on each creature?! (When Kylar is left alone to do Kylar things)

[@danielmcarthur8169]

The millennium calendar...the evolved form of millennium puzzle...believe in the heart of the card Dire fleet cannon....the hilarity of filling a cannon with map tokens

[@LaveryJJ]

When it comes to the core, don’t forget that lands are permanents. You’re adding mana for each land in your graveyard too.

[@Sey318]

I can't wait to see the millenium calendar against the odds

[@thesamuraiman]

•Descend has a fixed value. •Fathomless descent has variable value. That's the only difference. I think its kinda neat. They're both ability words though. They have no inherent rules text tied to them (like landfall or morbid). So you have to read each card's full ability anyway.

[@DaveBerryForPresident]

Seth: "There's some pretty popular mono-color ramp decks that use Paradox Engine with The One Ring." Me: Oh? I wonder why that is? *>leans in, staring

[@yomommashaus]

As someone else mentioned, Throne's ward 2 is a triggered ability so it gets ward 4, like a semi-hexproof..

[@Chpow01]

So, a fun thing to do with the Calendar is using Ozolith and animate artifact effects while you have doubling season in play... things get silly *fast*. If you add an extra combat step effect you can end things even faster... sure... It's janky, but could be pretty fun if pulled off.

[@makotoxchihiroyaoifangirl8409]

For The mellenium calendar, a way to get the first time counter on it without waiting to your next turn is to use nesting ground along with permanents that come into play with time counters, i.e creatures with vanishing mechanic. Another way would be Sphinx of the second sun as after your post combat main phase you would get the untap, upkeep draw.

[@ianford9221]

or just play a basalt monoloth and tap and untap it over and over

[@makotoxchihiroyaoifangirl8409]

@@ianford9221 That does not get the first time counter on The Mellenium Calendar. Also you can not untap and tap Basalt monoloth during your untap step as you don't have prio as stated in the video. The untap step is the first step of the beginning phase. The following events happen during the untap step, in order: All permanents with phasing controlled by the active player phase out, and all phased-out permanents that were controlled by the active player simultaneously phase in. Note the timing which means tapped permanents phasing in will almost immediately get to untap. If the day and night cycle has started, the number of spells cast in the previous turn is checked, and if the appropriate conditions are met, day turns to night or night turns to day, including the transformation of Daybound and Nightbound permanents. The active player determines which permanents controlled by that player untap, then untaps all those permanents simultaneously. (The player will untap all permanents they control unless a card effect prevents this.) No player receives priority during this step so spells or abilities cannot be played. Any state-based effects or triggered abilities that happen during this step are delayed until the upkeep step.

[@ReyosBlackwood]

If you have an 8 drop on the battlefield you'd better already be getting counters on your 1 drop, particularly when just the land you used to play it untapping on your next turn puts the first counter there already.

[@makotoxchihiroyaoifangirl8409]

@@ReyosBlackwood I am just stating ways to get the first time counter on The Millenium Calendar without having to wait until your next turn.

[@ReyosBlackwood]

@@ianford9221 nope, it only counts untaps in the untap step, and there is no priority in that step to use monolith.

[@francescopapaitaliani6399]

Palani's hatcher trigger Atla Palani's ability once every turn, so if you play Atla on turn 4 on turn 5 you can play a hatcher, hatch the egg, get a 3/3 and a random creature

[@keithmoore5076]

I like poetic ingenuity. I won't be playing many real dinosaurs, but it'll probably be fine.

[@Psyman2]

You can put time counters on it with anything that can move counters. Probably easiest with anything that has vanishing though. Like Deadly Grub + sac outlet + Resourceful Defense I don't play Arena so I don't know which of these cards is arena legal. But that way you can Mainphase1 Calendar, have creature with Vanishing in play, sac it, move counters via Resourceful Defense to calendar, do some infinite combo with paradox engine and win on the spot. Even if you don't abuse paradox engine, getting it kickstarted with 3 oder 4 time counters takes a full turn off the clock.

[@ReyosBlackwood]

I saw that cat and immediately though "That's going in my Arahbo voltron deck"

[@ngbrother]

Mobile throne is auto-include in Magda decks. It is an artifact creature that is a dwarf and is also a Zorn! So it is A+B win condition with Magda.

[@comokazijeff]

I think you play Tarrian's Journal like you play a Lurrus. The flip side just lets you have card advantage once a turn. It is clunky though unless you have a way to refill your hand after discarding.

[@simplyyunak3189]

The core can be a really strong card but consider this if you play paper magic: do you really want to count your graveyard every time you tap this land for mana? It just makes games take even longer in commander. Thats why we dont play tutors and fetch lands.

[@Falsehopebrewing]

The millennium calendar showing the power of compound interest

[@christopherpoet458]

47:22 - This is going right into my Mono White Angel Deck. righteous valkyrie, resplendant angel, youthful Valkyrie, herald of war, akroma (even better pared with akroma's memorial). Just so good! Trying to think of other tribes I would want this in and aside from the obvious, I could see it in cats too. I have quite a few cat lords and cat cards with extra triggers this would duplicate. EDIT: And I just realized how bat s*** crazy this will be in humans. Oh boy.

[@jaxsonbateman]

I think the idea with Tarrian's Journal - if you aren't doing something cheesy with intentional-self discard - is to run your hand down to empty or almost empty, then flip it - so the self-discard isn't too painful, and you get massive value out of the backside. That said, in a world with artifact tokens being so plentiful (food, blood and treasures all in standard; clues in other formats), I think the front side could be extremely strong.

[@herrerabeast]

Mobile Throne is going into my Be'lakor Demon tribal deck for sure. A Jodah legends deck that uses specific creature types or effects that make all creatures the same type would be fun as well.

[@joshuakruger4851]

The bonesplitter is so good though! Red/white equipment has been fiending for good 1 to equip cards.

[@asdf-pd1uj]

Dire Fleet Flail is still a super solid equipment in any Equipment EDH deck, especially lower power ones, or even artifact sacrifice themes like Bosh or Slobad. It can be a way to deal with problem creatures repeatably late game if it sticks around and you have mana to spare

[@EffinChat]

Tarrian's journal makes me want to attempt another go at a madness Vengevine deck where you cast super cheap madness creatures to trigger Vengevine early. Ideal hand: One With Nothing, Swamp, 3 Vengevines, and 2 of the free madness Rootwallas

[@T1_True_Bob]

I like Calender in control as well, especially with Urza’s saga. Saga for calander (or play it for 1), then just play the slow control game. And if your opponent doesn’t make you use your mana, just spend 2 to move towards the end of the game.

[@Samantho87]

I guess the cat is good with backup cards that put the counters on themselves

[@dcnole]

I play a lot of mono black agro. The deck's biggest weakness is just running out of cards. Tarrian's journal provides decent card draw early, and then when it gets to turn 7 or 8 and you're down to just a card or two, you discard the Fleshgorger you want to cast for 7, or an extra Sheoldred when you already have one in play, or the Underdog you don't mind discarding anyway, and you get to start casting all those smaller creatures who have died whenever you have leftover mana. I'd run 2 of this in a heartbeat.

[@yomommashaus]

Also, you can wait to reanimate at the end of opps turn for creatures you want to semi-haste

[@anxez]

Dauntless Dismantler is a decent counter to out of control treasure production. That's pretty big in commander.

[@aw-qs6wt]

Wandering/Mobile Throne + Miirym: 1. get 2 wandering thrones, since it enters as dragon. 2. next dragon that enters the battlefield brings 3 copies of itself

[@TheJimmythebass]

My first thought for Sunbird Standard//Sunbird Effigy in commander is Niv-Mizzet Reborn. You want to be recasting Niv as much as possible to get maximum value from him anyways so having a way to put him back in the command zone that also gives you a mana dork that can pay for his entire base cost seems strong

[@Shimatzu95]

This probably wont work(unless they have written it weirdly) because niv would no longer be exiled.

[@half_angle317]

As a guy who has a muldrotha commander deck, I’m excited to use these graveyard related cards in the new set to my deck.

[@obsydian_k]

Matzalantli, the Great Mask + Maskwood Nexus + Karn, the Great Creator + Moonmist/Waxing Moon

[@Artaimus]

Sovereign on 4, Unnatural Growth on 5. "At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn." Attacking with just him alone, he becomes a 6/8 at beginning of combat, swings and sees he's +3 and puts that many +1/+1 counters on him, making him a 9/11. End of turn he goes back to a 6/8. Next turn he becomes a 12/16, swing for +9 counters to be a 21/27. Continue as needed.

[@thek838]

A major thing you missed on Poetic Ingenuity is changelings. Just use low Mana changelings to proc it's effect especially Changeling Outcast which can't be blocked. Then you use those treasures to go into your big dinosaurs easy. And use artifacts for ramp which helps that goal along with just more dinosaurs been created for you. Plus ya just ignored raging dinosaur, along with there is actually a decent amount of dinos with low mana value.

[@representativejoints1188]

The mobile throne is the best Pirate I've seen so far, which was the main thing I wanted to see this set.

[@jaxsonbateman]

Vorinclex/Doubling Season and similar should mean you only end up with 3x the number of counters on Calendar, if I'm not mistaken. When the ability is resolving, it's going to put X counters on the Calendar, where X is the number of counters already on it (as the ability resolves). Vorinclex/Doubling Season would make that 2X instead, so after resolution you end up with X+2X, or 3X. If you have out two Doubling Season effects it gets even wonkier, as you end up with X+4X for 5X.

[@bunnyman1142]

Sovereign with Unnatural Growth nearly triples the power of your board every turn, which is kind of interesting.

[@petrie911]

That moment when you trigger the Millennium Calendar and the Oloro player is still alive. Fathomless is so you know its descent effect scales arbitrarily instead of having a fixed number. It is weird that there is the keyword action descend *and* the ability word descent, though. Also don't knock Bonesplitter for being a common. That was the same block that gave us Cranial Plating.

[@myky992]

can confirm roaming throne good, had someone on arena play Emrakul against me and they conceded while controlling my turn, realizing not even that was enough with my board state

[@Tikomer]

As a brawl player, Mobile Throne seems super fun. Probably my favourite card so far!

[@stevesmith5883]

For Mobile Throne, Annihilator is a triggered ability! This is defo going in my Eldrazi tribal deck, Annihilator 8 on my Kozilek and Ulamog Idm if I do.

[@BleachSubvert]

Sunken Citadel, Ashaya and either Hope Tender exerted, Krosan Restorer with threshold or Ley Weaver can get pretty nutty, especially with the last 2 if you have a creature with a mana sink ability

[@raphaelpinson7031]

Raging hammerskull will be great in explorer fight rigging because you run rotting regisaur in the deck anyway and you can easily tweak the deck to include a couple dinosaurs in the finishers

[@gauwal]

stifle doesn't work against the millennium calendar, it just triggers again, as it's a state based trigger.

[@DARKLIGHTNING7]

The millennium calendar seems pretty fun with timecrafting, or with fate transfer moving all the time counters from another permanent

[@catman08724]

The great door is absolutely nasty in my Muldrotha list

[@migsterman67]

Millennium Calender say when permanents untap in YOUR untap step. Not at any other time. So it wouldn’t trigger with seedborn muse or Panharmonicon surely(?)

[@Shimatzu95]

You missed 2 things with the journal. 1: you dont need to have cards in hand to use it. So it might be interesting for aggressive decks, at least for grindier matchups. 2: you can just discard reanimation targets to use with the backside.

[@30LayersOfKevlar]

Fathomless descent is just a flavor keyword. In this case it denotes caring for graveyard mechanic.

[@davidross5305]

Mobile throne is gonna be crazy in the warrior commander deck for the double attack triggers

[@MetalHev]

I mean, the calendar is pretty easy to win with. Plop it on the field, do the usual control stuff until you see the exploding animation. And if you're in a hurry you can pay 2 a few times I guess, but that's no fun.

[@mephiston6983]

sphinx of the second sun is costly, but will give you a second untap phase each turn.

[@gabrote42]

18:52 Saccing it is not a cost, so it would immediately trigger again after State-based actions because the condition is still true

[@wingdinggaster6737]

By the way with the Millenium Calendar, you could probably use it with that infinite Merfolk tokens combo that I believe you have a video on. Simic Merfolk Tribal + Millenium Calendar seems fun.

[@evakajetaniak]

"Hamas" instead of Hamza 😂😂 5:10

[@MrSchneides]

I feel like the calander just needs its own calculator sitting on top of it.

[@DragonAttack515]

Or you be good in math

[@ben_clifford]

12:02 My initial back-of-the-napkin calculation was that this should take 6 turns, not 9. But I was wrong (math below). Of course, just adding permanents to the board (esp early) speeds up the clock considerably. And any increase of time counters, counters, activated abilities, or untapping the Calendar will speed things quickly, too. Ok, the math: T1: Play land, cast Calendar -> 0 counters T2: Untap land, getting 1 counter. Play land, tap 2 lands and Calendar, doubling counters. -> 4 counters T3: Untap 3 permanents (2 lands + Calendar), getting 3 counters (up to 10). Tap 3 lands and Calendar, doubling counters. -> 20... Note that, starting this turn, there will always be extra lands tapped. I'm just doing that to get the untap triggers for maximum effect, but in a real game, this would mean that you would have leftover mana for interaction and protection. T4: Untap 4 permanents, adding 4 counters (up to 24). Play land. Tap 4 lands and Calander, doubling counters. -> 48 counters T5: Untap 5 permanents, adding 5 counters (up to 53). Play land. Tap out, doubling counters. -> 106 counters T6: Untap 6 permanents (up to 112). Play land. Tap out, doubling counters. -> 224 T7: Untap 7 permanents (up to 231). Play land. Tap out, doubling counters. -> 462 T8: Untap 8 permanents (up to 470). Play land. Tap out, doubling counters. -> 940 T9: Untap 9 permanents (up to 949). Double counters. -> 1898

[@qazaq25]

Not the best use but the Mobile Throne seems tailor made for Brenard, Ginger Sculptor. It's already a golem so you can pick a different type for other synergies, it will double the number of golems made by splicers and if it dies when Brenard it on board you will just end up getting even more triggers...

[@DaelinD]

Seth and names inspirered by Mesoamerican languages is a game-ending combo. Whether it's winning or losing depends on if you are probably better known as SaffronOlive.

[@Morte_n]

Sovereign Okinec Ahau works really well with Wedding Announcement! Since the hymn effect grants everything +1/+1 you can now give everything a free +1/+1 counter (even himself). Any sort of similar effect just turns really strong. Be it King Darien, Ritual of Hope, Restless Prairie, Virtue of Loyalty or something like Glorious Sunrise. Other shenanigans are Unnatural Growth (just absurd xD) or Zopandrel which both just close games out really quickly! Already on his own he is a 9/11 when attacking and then it just starts snowballing... I think Jetmir is cool, no doubt, but just way too clunky and if you can get to the 9 creatures the game should be won already when everything gets +3/+/0 trample, double strike and vigilance. So a G/W or G/W/X go wide token deck could really abuse this one. Or you throw it into the 5-color legendary pile deck with Jodah! :D