$65 Surveil, but with a Surprise! | Budget Magic

[@TransformersBoss]

29:40 Seth: “We want to mill the Sinister Sabotage, since we don’t want our opponent to know we have one” Opponent: “jeez, he’s milling a counterspell? What, does he already have one or two in hand? Oh, he’s leaving up two Islands and a Swamp. Yep. He’s got more in his hand.” Seth, multiple times: “boy, it’s a good thing we milled that Sabotage so he doesn’t know we have one!”

[@danielsniff6405]

That's what we like to call a self sabotage

[@superdimentiobrolyX]

im leaking braincells from witnessing this, how does seth get away with brainfarting so hard it goes back around to genius

[@Eruedraith127]

Tbf, even face up counterspells can really force bad plays out of an opponent when you have board control like Seth did in that match, it's not unreasonable to ditch the 3rd answer in favor of finding another threat. Wrong equation right answer lol

[@xchronox0]

@@Eruedraith127 And it ended up paying off. Milling the Sinister Sabotage is the only reason he was able to draw Pile On exactly when he needed it. Not that it was something he had information on, but it was definitely correct to try and find something less redundant.

[@matthewtullis7205]

listen all yall its a sabotage

[@CallsignShowtime]

23:48 I had literally just muttered to myself "talking a lot of smack for a guy in Settle the Wreckage range"

[@MTGGoldfish]

I probably deserved to get got by that one.

[@LlywellynOBrien]

Yeah, I physically felt it coming. I kept thinking he should hold one back to make it a hard choice. Glad it didn't matter.

[@zaclock-4228]

I rarely want to yell at your videos, but not casting the Dreamthief multiple turns in a row game 1 *because* you wanted to cast a Convoke spell instead killed me.

[@henrye3935]

When Seth gets a game plan in his head he sticks to it no matter what. Even if there are tons of different and better plays to make. He's my favourite content creator, I've watched him since the inception of Goldfish, and he's never changed lol

[@crazycappie]

just seth doing seth things

[@0Whitelottus0]

Wouldn’t have it another way

[@duaneshaffer4427]

@@henrye3935but it’s not even a different play. It’s literally just remembering one mana creatures are free with convoke spells

[@roywebb-pullman1496]

Yeah I stopped watching after the second turn of that.

[@SethG27]

I was the round 4 opponent. Was really looking forward to this coming out so I could see your side of the match. GG Also cool to see the combo in the sideboard didn’t know that from the games.

[@jameshayes-barber9340]

8:09 Seth being shocked he drew what he knew he was goignt o draw was fun

[@MTGGoldfish]

I have the memory of a literal goldfish.

[@Waffleman3609]

I feel bad for the poor bronzie in that last game, fighting with their custom mill jank deck against someone three tiers of tanks above them

[@zackestin1368]

Current state of explorer is fun

[@noahhager1187]

@@zackestin1368 me playing bo1 yoink in the background

[@mrpinguimninja]

never feel bad for a mill player

[@erisdiscordia5429]

@@mrpinguimninja or a white life gain player. Or a control player. Or dredge player. Or a storm player. Or a wizards player. Or a merfolk player. Or an elf player. Or...

[@Darkened_Fire]

Oh wow, the 2020 magic nostalgia of surveil vs UW Settle the Wreckage and Dream Trawler control is incredible

[@fabnasio]

I was waiting for Approach of the Second Sun lol

[@johnstephens9058]

23:48 Not playing the disinformation campaigns to empty his hand before attacking hurt me

[@demiurge2501]

The new surveil tap land is going to be great here

[@TransformersBoss]

Seth pronounced Nostradamus a lot better than I would’ve expected

[@ccggenius]

Of course he did, it wasn't written on a Magic card.

[@itsfriedeggs]

Winning off the opponents archfiend was hilarious!Never seen spellTHIEF before. Lots of a value in that one drop, might slap that in a cube!

[@dumbledalfthewizard9486]

Not Seth completely failing to realize M1 G2 he could use Metamorphic Alteration to turn the Resplendant Angel into a Faerie Dreamthief

[@TransformersBoss]

Yeah. He was saving it for the combo-win, but doing that was like saving up money for a vacation while you’re literally starving to death…

[@dumbledalfthewizard9486]

tbh the combo was boarded into way too much it makes the curve of the deck so much worse @@TransformersBoss at least if you don't board out your 4-drops

[@Savaniel]

"Man, I wish there were a new budget Magic" *Hit refresh* Perfect timing, Seth!

[@raphaelpinson7031]

"Our sidebooard plan against monored is to turn their creatures into archfiend of the dross". Never change Seth

[@neros_soren]

Man...this deck triggers some serious nostalgia for me. I literally started playing MTG more intensely back with Dominaria/Return to Ravnica. And my first deck was Dimir disinformation campaign. Also........I am playing 2 Settles in UW control. On Arena and in paper. Maindeck no less. It just blows out so many decks, that generally think "4 mana...emperor or deluge?". Also a really good answer for mono green devotion game one, because they generally do not stop throwing everything on the field.

[@kingmcgooey4805]

i dont even play magic anymore but I love watching the fury of the olive

[@MTGGoldfish]

Ha, thanks

[@wookieesden3133]

So much the same. I haven’t played in at least a year but I still watch all his vids.

[@Erik_Sjostrom]

Oh this strategy brings me back, my first ever standard deck was dimir surveil on a budget.

[@TheIllegalGuy]

I have a grixis midrange deck that also sneaks in the combo using dig through time to get to the finish, this version looks like great fun!

[@TransformersBoss]

Seth throwing shade at all the new-fangled Gods that don’t recur or protect themselves warms my soul

[@astuteanansi4935]

Mr. mole not recurring itself when it's clearly supposed to be part of the same group as Illharg, which *does* recur itself, is incredibly weird to me

[@Shimatzu95]

I love how the dog is always: My master sounds like he is in trouble -> proceeds to bark

[@keeperofcheese]

have you literally never heard "thief" pronounced before? Never change Seth, we love you.

[@knife1406]

blast from the past from ravnica standard on arena

[@ringoderbar1522]

I'm a little disappointed that there was no Nightveil Sprite in the deck, but still great video! Love your content!

[@MrNukealizer]

Oh, so it's explorer? I normally skip all the pioneer videos since they're in MTGO, and I only clicked this one since it didn't have a format in the title. All the talk about pioneer is confusing though. Good to finally see more explorer on the channel.

[@MindstabThrull]

I think this deck is ok having a handful of lands (not a lot) that enter tapped. At common and uncommon you have a reasonable number of ETBT dual lands with upsides. I might start with some combination of Choked Estuary, Waterfront District and/or Mistvault Bridge.

[@MaskedTai]

I definitely would have used Metamorphic Alteration in match 1 game 2 to turn their resplendent angel into a dreamthief, think you just needed more time there. Would have kept you alive!

[@miketate3445]

It makes me so happy to see Guilds of Ravnica Dimir live on.

[@fo-ef8qo]

"who plays settle the wreckage?@" said The Seth, playing surveil

[@MTGGoldfish]

They got me good :)

[@jackmanning156]

Just in time for my lunch break, thanks Seth

[@rykx0r]

Why are you eating lunch at 0853?!

[@coopergw3463]

​@@rykx0r wait till you learn about timezones, unless im being baited

[@rykx0r]

@@coopergw3463 more a goof than bait

[@swampybwoy]

“Cast disinformation campaign, get our Twitter on.” 😂

[@dumbledalfthewizard9486]

Seth: I need a way to kill this Inti Seth holding Price of Fame:

[@MUYAMATA]

you should try and make this a full deck! this could be a viable deck on current meta! I really love the idea of a surveil dork growing deck it's really nice! maybe adding the usual fatal pushes, delve spell, drown in the lochs, and thoughtseizes this could be good! can we please get the non budget version?

[@counterburn1216]

As part of never concede gang, I’m proud of you for match 3 against Rakdos

[@azuraflame1]

glad to see you playing this deck i've been wanting to see more synergy based decks

[@deejay.zedemex]

You must construct additional Pile Ons.

[@WarbossMorgorTeefsmasha]

this deck just got so much better cus of the surveil lands and the dog that surveils when a creature enters with 2 power or less

[@Malik1378]

I want to see this deck with the new Surveil lands

[@oafkad]

Love 🐻 cameos

[@uselesscommon7761]

It's not as surprising as the wurm surprise but still surprising

[@SrPacoTaco]

I thought Bear was trained to get upset when YOU get thoughtseized, not when you make the opponent discard. Gotta refine that haha

[@wudgethenumbers]

MKM has Snarling Gorehound, which is effectively a Surveil Sister to Spybug and Phantasm's Pridemate, and if the face commanders come to Arena for Historic and Timeless like they have in other recent sets - though they could easily end up a casualty of the Hasbro layoffs - new Mirko is nuts.

[@Malik1378]

Perfect timing 🎉

[@coremagnumplays4684]

after this game i created a "nobody ever expects this" deck ... with 4 mana tithes and 4 settles... hope yall can make a deck about that too :D

[@SteelManAJ]

Not so why Seth saying THEFT instead if THIEF irked me so much EVERYTIME LOL!

[@michaelsilk275]

I play something similar with cruel somnophage and mill, and get back with Unseal the Necropolis. There’s some cards in this I need to check out.

[@ghostguin1398]

Should've waited for mkm surveil lands. Cool deck - inspires me to get the mkm precon.

[@swisssaga4419]

hmm a one off tocasia‘s dig site would be a nice way of smoothing out your draws in the late game and repeatadly triger disinformation campaign

[@LlywellynOBrien]

It turns out seth's boar was the wreckage all along.

[@rfs8194]

you must construct additional pile ons

[@The0ddity]

39:00 I see no reason why Seth can't enchant the opponent's Archfiend with Metamorphic Alteration and then choose his opponent's Archfiend. Am I missing something? There is no specification on Metamorphic Alteration saying "choose another creature" or "target another creature" and when he went to play it, both of the opponents creatures illuminated, as if both were legal targets (41:03).

[@YoruNoTenshi95]

If he did that the archfiend would still keep its counters. For the combo to work you need to metamorph a creature that does not have oil(?) counters on it.

[@Atmapalazzo]

41:28 ...VINDICATION!

[@JohnWeaver81]

Love a bit of surveil

[@matthewludivico1714]

Just in time for the new Kaya planeswalker, Spirits Justice

[@Skylersuzy]

Lol so much fun to watch

[@gabrielemarogna9444]

What format is this? Why cut down and not fatal push?

[@dylanmahoney4889]

I want to buy this deck in paper this looks like so much fun. Like that budget dimir draw two deck you made.

[@RatRatham]

You got a sideboard, I'm in.

[@Lio_Braga]

What's on top? A land and a dream.

[@ezrabartsch1505]

Love your videos Seth!

[@gabetira]

Why cutdown instead of fatal push in pioneer?

[@smood3598]

First BO3 is the classic shuffler ****ery that punishes you hard out of nowhere

[@yarrrthekraken]

Which information campaign?

[@corywilliams2533]

Honestly closing the video after game one not casting a dream thief into convoke… twice I just can’t

[@miguelfreitas5343]

23:55 You wanted to go back to Ravnica Standard with this Surveil deck? You opponent beat you to that 😉

[@LandOfForeverSummer]

I feel like creeping chill is an easy include in this deck. Sad it’s not here

[@usof75756]

Seeing someone drop the crab after the land in platinum hurts my brain.

[@Crusina]

Seth why don't you include some tapped dual uncommon/common dual lands? i mean it odn't see why on a budget you wouldnt have a few.

[@johnsnow5125]

Duel of the Planeswalkers PTSD

[@DonovanPresents]

Tbf, that last match you were playing against a bronze ranked player, so it might be their own brew of mill

[@nosyamthegreat8768]

Look at this and tell me with a straight face arena doesnt mess with land draws oml

[@gregbarnett2123]

I assume Seth does the mispronunciation thing for engagement and feeding the algorithm, but I really struggled with him saying dream-theft rather than dream-thief this video

[@RLKC8]

58:42 Why is it a platinum against a bronze. what

[@poiri]

Some of it is Seth having possibly lower MMR than other platinum players due to playing so much jank. But most of it is likely just that Seth or the opponent was queued long enough for Arena to expand the pool of available opponents enough, why it took so long, I have no clue.

[@3rdtimesacharm84]

Isn't Sinister Sabotage like a strictly better Cancel? Like even if the last opponent was playing a budget deck, there are literally better Cancels than Cancel out there LOL

[@samwalter940]

God I love Bear.

[@erisdiscordia5429]

Say what you will about companions, I want bear barking at my opponents.

[@WilliamGranath]

No shelly?

[@MTGGoldfish]

Shelly is super far away from budget.

[@Kristjan0209]

first game you could have played the faerie and then used it for convoke. you missed so much damage

[@EthanBeattie-wh4zx]

Poor match 5 opponent was in bronze with a jank mill deck, I understand your struggle my friend

[@TransformersBoss]

Game 3 against Waste Not, did the dude keep an opening hand with 2 copies of Field of Ruin, since he got traumatized by game 2 Hall of the Storm Giants?! 😂

[@mikeshaver-miller745]

No wispering snitch? 😢

[@MuxusGoblinGrandee]

second, just saw the blue dot and clicked

[@houssemsama1535]

Merchant is that you ?

[@SilverWolf340]

Ooo surveil

[@obadijahparks]

Doom whisperer, blood operative....

[@MTGGoldfish]

Doom Whisperer is sweet, might be a bit expensive for the deck though.

[@zackmiramontez8772]

Match 3: you shouldn't have hesitate going for it. The odds of the opponent realizing what that convo would have done was pretty high. No sense in killing his own creature

[@274pacific]

Put the format in the video title.

[@NightChime]

Acting like disinformation campaigns weren't a significant thing before 2018. Never change, Seth.

[@mitchhak2]

Mtgo

[@imaginexcreative4913]

I love your content so much, i only wish you would name cards properly cuz this happens like every video, its my only gripe. Dream THIEF not theft, but im just being a bitch about it, doesnt really matter lol

[@imaginexcreative4913]

he fixes it later but you get my point lol

[@thygamerguy]

Was the 5th opponent bronze 1?? Lmao upheld was either bronze or gold

[@miketaylor5716]

Seth, I've watched your content for years but I don't appreciate you calling this pioneer. No lotus field deck, no amalia combo deck, no copter. Format is miles away from pioneer.

[@SethG27]

The format has amalia.

[@haileydee9954]

Seth out here scamming wins

[@jonaskramer7205]

Disinformation campaign soon gets countered by no more lies😂

[@shorty1815]

What do you mean, they foretold disinformation campaigns? Fox News existed back then 😂

[@clintcook8691]

The first game is proof that the shuffler is rigged

[@TheMusicHavenV2]

Lol

[@appa5894]

If you touch my hand, I scoop. Irl or online. It's worse than control decks

[@ghostguin1398]

Should've waited for mkm surveil lands. Cool deck - inspires me to get the mkm precon.