A Guide To Ritual Yawgmoth!

[@providence8773]

Thank you very much Mr Meat, this content made available for free is a true blessing to me 🙏

[@MekanikKommandoh88]

Great vid. I’ve been considering Yawg for awhile and this list finally convinced me to pull the trigger. More deck techs need to be like this.

[@JulioDRai]

It was a treat listening to this, very informative!

[@johnperez7606]

Another solid list from the Meat Master!

[@jayrod115]

Goated video. Excellent breakdown!

[@ABx0316]

This is great and highly appreciated

[@somefishhere]

I'm going to make Ritual Yawg my deck! I've always been a fan of Strangleroot Geist decks and thsi is everything and more. Thanks for the deep dive!

[@johndoriansmith]

22:08 thank you for the shoutout Meat 🙏

[@meatmtg]

🕺🙏

[@danielzlatkin4824]

My dude, thank you for this.

[@meatmtg]

Np! 🕺

[@nolanpearson211]

Great explanation man! I will say, I have done really well with necro over thoughtseize here lately. It's a very good answer to nadu and breach tron, and it's okay against goryo's and even necrodom decks. I just run into the thoughtseize bug way too much but maybe i just have bad luck

[@meatmtg]

Ty! I don't like Necro all that much, a lot of the time it isn't good enough and vs Nadu its likely they can stick a Nadu before you can cast Necro.

[@nolanpearson211]

@@meatmtg i'll agree its much worse on the draw. I've also been running P Tower which has helped me cast it on turn 2 more consistently.

[@somefishhere]

22:08 The math on the land DFCs is basically, we run 21 lands and 4 1cmc dorks because we want to hit our land drops consistently. Adding in an untapped land DFC raises that percentage a bunch, but there are diminishing returns for each additional land, so we only add in 1-4 DFCs, in this case, just 1. It also helps that the MH3 DFCs have reactive answer sides, which make them way better than the zendikar DFC cycles.

[@violin23232323]

Thanks for the deep dive

[@DanielWilson-k2d]

Oh man, I want to talk about MTGO but there are so many aspects.

[@meatmtg]

@@DanielWilson-k2d ask away!

[@adampio2834]

Plague engineer also does a good job of stopping eldrazi tokens off Kozilek's Command. I've played different variations of that deck recently and needed to use that mode to ramp faster when tight on mana or after damping sphere, break the ice, etc,. A plague engineer naming eldrazi would have been brutal for those scenario's so I think it's still good to leave in against K Command decks.

[@meatmtg]

Ooo true! 🤔I'll try it out

[@JulioDRai]

Correct me if I'm wrong but even if you pick the "exile a creature" mode with K Command and target the Plague Engineer with it the tokens would still die because of how the card is worded, the modes would resolve in the order "tokens > scry+draw > exile creature > exile gy".

[@meatmtg]

@@JulioDRai I would need to test it! 🤔

[@Zauzzie]

@@JulioDRai Yep! the tokens would be in play a moment while the engineer is and they are resolving, same reason bowman still triggers if they draw and remove him.

[@Momentomori916]

Awesome video, my brother. I've yet to play this version on mtgo, but I have had an absolute field day playing this on paper at my locals. Fingers crossed you find chatterfang to be a staple so I can excuse myself buying a raised foil version 😅

[@meatmtg]

Thank you! 🙏🕺I'm glad you're having a good time with it! Well, I did get another 5-0 with the deck yesterday w/ chatterfang, but he never came up in any of the games 😅I think Woe is the best for that slot atm.

[@Momentomori916]

@@meatmtg Woe Strider has been an absolute menace every time I've played it. Especially with multiple copies of MM on the field, it's almost lights out

[@rosewoodley5342]

@@Momentomori916 mm?

[@Momentomori916]

@@rosewoodley5342 marionette Apprentice. Should have been MA, but I was thinking of marionette master when I typed this. My apologies

[@hernanpimentelcampos230]

Congratulation!!🎉 great video! What you think about 2th plague instead of chatterfang? Energy is the worst match up.

[@meatmtg]

I think that's fine! Chatterfang was mostly just for fun 🕺

[@Android-FanBoy]

I love you man.

[@scrubzmackenzie]

Blessed be the ritual, Yawg gamers

[@brunomagical]

Great vid, have you tried the new soul Warren combo? It seems faster to combo, there are many similarities with yawg

[@meatmtg]

Ty! I tried it when mh3 first dropped, need to revisit it

[@PubmasterDrax]

I've taken this modern list and have created a Historic version for it on Arena, and it's been great. I'll post the list as a reply to this for anyone that's interested. As for the paper version, I've been between Chatterfang and Woe Strider. Chatterfang goes wide, and Woe Strider has gotten me out of bad draws and synergizes well with Apprentice.

[@PubmasterDrax]

Here ya go! Feel free to import and play! It's been insanely fun! Deck 4 Birthing Ritual 4 Blooming Marsh 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire 4 Young Wolf 4 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician 3 Chord of Calling 1 Haywire Mite 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 2 Boseiju, Who Endures 2 Nurturing Peatland 4 Delighted Halfling 2 Chthonian Nightmare 1 Boggart Trawler 3 Prosperous Innkeeper 1 Phyrexian Tower 2 Forest 3 Marionette Apprentice 4 Overgrown Tomb 1 Underground Mortuary 1 Swamp 1 Jet Collector 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons 1 Tranquil Frillback 2 Woodland Cemetery 1 Accursed Marauder 1 Woe Strider 1 Honest Rutstein 1 Gloomshrieker 2 Darkbore Pathway 1 Plague Mare Sideboard 3 Fatal Push 3 Thoughtseize 1 Reclamation Sage 1 Soulless Jailer 1 Surgical Extraction 2 Damping Sphere 1 Scavenging Ooze 1 Accursed Marauder 1 Abrupt Decay 1 Vexing Bauble

[@Zauzzie]

@@PubmasterDrax Played this list a bit and deff felt fun vs the fair decks, I was wondering about the Plague Mare then I had it take out 8 cats vs energy and I'm sold lol without bowmaster I went up to 4 Marionette Apprentice since they are so good with Nightmare Birthing

[@PubmasterDrax]

@@Zauzzie yeah, the Plague Mare is pretty nuts against energy. Admittedly, not having bowmasters means you can up some counts of Innkeeper and Apprentice to 4, but I do like having the Marauder in the main just in case. Glad to hear you're enjoying the deck! I figured this was a good list to start with

[@somefishhere]

@@PubmasterDrax Loving it

[@subtleknife1]

I’m never not gonna think “little shithead” now when I see a Collector Ouphe 😂

[@deadshuriken]

Thanks for the primer Meat 👍. Have you considered Phlage in this list?

[@meatmtg]

My brother in christ how are we ever escaping Phlage from the gy 💀

[@deadshuriken]

Treasure tokens and good vibes

[@raindrainxi]

Hey man, this was great! Everything was straightforward and very understandable. This version really looks like the Pod toolbox decks of old. The general consensus I get from Discord is that this version plays much easier than the Agatha version, which is why this is the preferred version currently. Do you agree with that?

[@meatmtg]

Ty! I wouldn't say this is the preferred version because its easier. I'm of the opinion that Ritual is very strong and can win a game on its own if left unchecked. Giving yourself a mini 'chord' every endstep if you have a creature is so so good

[@johnsmith-dn8kv]

THE RITUAL COMMENCES.

[@TheAwayDoom]

❤

[@rolioli9887]

Where do you want to bring in the accursed marrauder from the sideboard?

[@meatmtg]

You can check my SB guide in the description to see where I bring it in 🕺

[@Zauzzie]

Just saw a 5-0 list of your post today with no ritual, Grist, 3 nightmare, Cauldron and Malevolent Rumble. Will there be a video on that the list seemed really cool but way weaker to Graveyard hate. It did seem like a much faster list though

[@meatmtg]

Gonna be streaming with it this week! 🕺

[@luthix3314]

Renegade rallier could be good in the birthing ritual version and if you're abzan anyways might as well have ocelot pride to go off with that chatterfang. 😁

[@unstablepinecone]

YESSS

[@gregoryteixeira8024]

Hello, hello, sir.

[@fphonne2314]

Hello Meat! I was enjoying your stock list on sb sheet. Would you update it soon to your new list? I have rcq this weekend, so I am curioused which version will be the best to practice on in current meta

[@meatmtg]

I think my current list for ritual only has one change, which is -1 FOV +1 Fatal Push in the SB. 🤔I can try to update it before then🕺

[@fphonne2314]

@@meatmtg are you still put grist in? In this video, you said it doesn’t fit well with ritual. So I thought you will gonna remove him

[@meatmtg]

@@fphonne2314 OH yeah I forgot about that 😆you can play Grist still if you want or you can swap it out for another 1-of. I was testing Plague Engineer for aggro energy MUs not 100% sold on it tho

[@fphonne2314]

@@meatmtg I think plague engineer is better than grist right now. It can also target nadu tokens, eldrazi tokens etc. Also not sure but using woe and chatterfang both to be real aggressive might be a good idea🤔

[@Renamawn]

Mr meat i went 1-3 with the old iteration with grist. Went against 2 jeskai controls, and a UW control losing to each. Wrath of the skies just messed this deck up so bad what are we supposed to do against the decks that have 4 of these in the 75? I think of the 12 ppl that showed up to our weekly modern event 8 of them were running at least 2 of those cards.

[@meatmtg]

Wrath is pretty brutal, you have to try and play around it as much as possible via early aggression with bowman & wolves while not playing out too much to the board. Try to keep a haywire in your back pocket to deal with ring. Grist is also great vs them as they don't have much in the way of planeswalker interaction.

[@Renamawn]

@meatmtg darn I was hoping you weren't going to say that xD it just feels bad. You finally resolve a birthing ritual. And you have 4ish creatures and they just cast wrath for WW and use existing energy to clear everything off the board. I played 4C omnath before yawg because of you but with so many wraths in my local meta I'm really split on going back to 4cc :(

[@meatmtg]

@@Renamawn Postboard you take out some number of rituals and just try to play a 'fair' game, using thoughtseize to interact and bowman to pressure. I also like surgical in the MU to hit Rings, Wraths, or Phlage

[@Renamawn]

@@meatmtg that's very true

[@ragingbull914]

Is this build better than the grist, soul cauldron version?

[@meatmtg]

Its hard for me to say if its better or not. I think both are good in their own right 🕺

[@ragingbull914]

@@meatmtg its so hard when the decks you play have so many good options to build and you just don’t know what to play lol. Thanks for the quick response I really enjoy your videos and output on yawgmoth builds. Keep up the good work

[@carlosleon8535]

do you think Agatha's soul cauldron will comeback in the list?

[@meatmtg]

Yeah! Its still seeing lots of play in non-ritual builds of the deck

[@IrenicuSYT]

What do you think about the Arboreal Grazer version that Control4Daze is using?

[@meatmtg]

I tried it and I'm not a fan. Not enough lands to make grazer consistent. Even if you have grazer & 2 lands, Halfling living nets you more mana if you're allowed to untap.

[@jerryodell5869]

What are your thoughts on arboreal grazer?

[@meatmtg]

I tried it and I'm not a fan. Not enough lands to make grazer consistent. Even if you have grazer & 2 lands, Halfling living nets you more mana if you're allowed to untap.

[@johnsmith-dn8kv]

Where would this yawgcord happen to be?

[@meatmtg]

Aren't you already in it? 😆

[@meatmtg]

Oh you aren't! There's someone else who's name is John Smith in the server haha. Here you go! discord.gg/Y8J7KsMf

[@James-tk2yl]

How's Accursed Marauder been?

[@meatmtg]

Very good! Especially with Nightmare loops🕺