Against the Odds: Kaya's Extraction (Modern, Magic Online)

[@Coio]

whoa. that's some serious meme material indeed

[@HelloWorld-hy9xq]

Somehow, Seth manages to beat burn and lose to nantuko shade. Just nantuko shade. Edit: That’s a lot of upvotes.

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761]

I just read that as naruto shade. Send help.

[@MTGGoldfish]

That Shade wrecked us.

[@kithkindeck]

@@MTGGoldfish Every time you say it, I have a feeling you're going to say ''Nantucket Shade'' (like the island).

[@TheRasuo]

now this is the kind of jank i subscribed for

[@rowdygleason89]

“Opponent says this is miserable to play against” This is how we know we’ve succeeded. We’ve won the psychological battle.

[@SirDerpinmire]

That made me laugh so hard

[@Khazuki_]

38:54 Seth, probably better known as Saffron Olive, being launched into space.

[@Kaslay]

Looks like Team Goldfish is blasting off again!

[@GoblinWar]

56:40 is him landing

[@t4rv0r60]

that was his R2D2 impression

[@fo-ef8qo]

Seth: hey guys we're finally playing surgical tribal. Me: YES YES MY BODY IS READY Seth: also it stars one of the most unlikely new planeswalkers Me: yesyesyesuesyes Seth: also it has circle of protection Me: GOD YES GOD THIS IS THE BEST YES YES

[@kithkindeck]

It's like he filled an olympic pool with seawater and sifted it until all was left was this decklist and three metric tons of salt.

[@DDNEV]

*progressively more excited Vince McMahon meme*

[@danw.1250]

Seth, Ely here-- I have to say having my Lords of Atlantis ripped from my hand in game two did not feel good. I haven't had so much fun losing. Btw, how do you keep up the commentary, play, and provide witty banter in chat? You are a talented fellow, sir.

[@Palooka37]

Oh man, that game seemed ROUGH. Kudos to you for not salting out. :)

[@grim3646]

Yeah that was an interesting match. I’m just happy that the deck actually worked lol

[@danw.1250]

It's tough to feel rage when playing Seth, he's just so damn chipper its infectious.

[@niklasbauer7026]

Great play on your part, and thanks for letting him ult at the end as well! Best game I've watched in ages!

[@mrjollyweeper6316]

Sideboard card tribal?

[@bazingalen]

Extripates A Teferi Control Player with only one win con: Wait, that's illegal

[@iwakuralain3064]

@@sabbysmith354 Do you have a source for that because that sounds like bullshit to me.

[@brunnun]

Sabby Smith I don’t know what you mean by match loss but as far as I know if someone is durdling without a wincon and the judge confirms it they get a warning and they lose the match they are *presently* in. If that’s what you meant we agree. I’m not 100% sure if either of us is right though

[@RappingRain]

It’s definitely not illegal. They can claim they could beat you with a Colonnade or JTMS or Clique or Snap.

[@kinkajuu1]

@@sabbysmith354 if you count the number of cards in both decks and they have fewer, you can claim to mill them out.

[@Krossfyre]

@@kinkajuu1 Your opponent would have to prove that they you also have no way to win and would get milled out. That would require them to have seen your deck too, and in paper magic they would have to basically write down your deck and track everything.

[@LunaLasceria]

56:24 - Prepare to witness the first time in the history of Magic where the reveal clause of Silvergill Adept turns out to be a MASSIVE downside...

[@somethingknew9152]

Imagine fighting a shadowborn apostle deck or something like that. Beautiful.

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761]

This post was made by the nevermore gang

[@gustavowadaslopes2479]

And unsing Unmoored Ego and making then draw the rest of the library, getting only swamps.

[@OscatJ]

@@gustavowadaslopes2479 Read unmoored ego again, specifies up to 4, probably to save shadowborn, relentless rats and similar from being completely hard countered by a single card

[@gustavowadaslopes2479]

@@OscatJ dang it

[@JoaoCameloN]

@@OscatJ or for you to name island against merfolk, or mountain against burn... actually burn would probably enjoy that.

[@AntiPeach]

56:37 is the moment everyone should be waiting for. Well played Seth

[@jeffreylooter535]

When I heard “surgical extraction tribal” I knew it was going to be a good episode

[@MTGGoldfish]

You can vote for next week's bad lord Against the Odds deck here! www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/against-the-odds-kaya-s-extraction-modern-magic-online

[@VRanger100]

38:54 for the mating call of the Saffron. XD Love his reactions since he's normally so casual then all of a sudden boom!

[@Mastblood]

Seth why no copies of ashiok? She seems perfect for this deck basically exiling 3 cards every turn is just fuel for kaya

[@ryanpattison6]

First thing I thought. But I guess he decided it was better to go all in on the discard

[@horsebones727]

Isn't Ashiok a dude?

[@runemast77]

Ashiok or bust

[@benbutler8980]

@@horsebones727 Ashiok is nonbinary iirc

[@MasterVash]

@@horsebones727 Ashiok doesn't have a gender. Ashiok is Ashiok. Or an it, I guess.

[@phillipmeade7640]

Man, I want to play this deck soooo bad. This deck needs to come on stream. Come on Seth bring it to stream night!!!

[@connormacleod908]

Seth: I'm gonna build a interesting deck based on a new planeswalker. Seth:*Builds free win orzhov*

[@aaronnava5656]

6:00 Seth may never have played Surgical Extraction tribal before, but I remember some good times with Psychogenic Probe in a previous video

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761]

I was wondering why it wasn't in the deck.

[@SteelDrivingMan]

You had me at "Surgical Extraction Tribal". Love you, man!

[@zero1101]

48:06 The naming is the hardest part Every day you get one more yard You take it on faith You take it to the heart The naming, is the hardest part

[@WGG-01]

With a three color deck and a not that big need for blue for most the deck would it be slightly better to run mana leaks instead of logic knot? I know knot is good in most cases but it seems having double blue cards like that when they will end up being about the same as mana leak seems kinda iffy

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761]

Knot has delve, and we typically dump our hand turn 2

[@WGG-01]

Drake the troll i know logic knot has delve but if you noticed in all the games it looked really bad playing logic knot mainly due to colored mana restraints. With mana leak he could comfortable hold up two counters with 4 lands while with logic knot he could only hold up around 1 due to most likely not having 4 blue sources. I am not saying logic knot is a bad card I am just saying it is probably a worse option than mana leak in this deck

[@matthewjennings7645]

Over a year later, and this is still my favorite video and deck you've ever done Seth.

[@JacoDeltaco]

you monster 🤣

[@kiyan5340]

I can't wait to lose all my friends when I play this

[@carvalho9626]

56:44 "Lord of Atlantis" HAUAHAUHAAUAHAUAAHAUAHAUAHAUAHA LOL

[@jacjr6193]

Seth I think taking the Vials against GW Taxes and Merfolk might’ve made the game slightly easier. Except for that game 2 when you ripped 3 lords from the hand 😂

[@bryantan4228]

56:53 Seth types “git rekt biatch” in chat

[@malikismyname]

Well... that was awsome! Really want to see this deck play some more games! So sweet:)

[@Rogue_Biologist]

That final win was so satisfying to watch, such a fun trolling deck Seth :)

[@dpresv]

Seth: removes thoughtseize from deck Also Seth: "oooohhh we really need discard spells for seismic assault!"

[@aaronnava5656]

I think Death and Taxes might be an even tougher matchup than the wrap-up suggested--If I understand it right, Leonin Arbiter turns off your extractions unless you pay, too. Like around 39:00 I was thinking that you could play an untapped land and Extirpate their Ghost Quarter, but no, you'd need a third land for that.

[@bryantan4228]

So what's interesting about this deck is that it's actually not much different than Against the Odds: Psychogenic Probe. The only reason this deck is better isn't because of Kaya, as Kaya is about as effective a win con as Probe, but the way the modern metagame has shifted.

[@oneoranota]

Kaya is miles better than probe. She gains you life and get rid of the 1 mana threats. Basically, she destroys burn.

[@KebbieG]

@@oneoranota Probe is just better than Kaya with Sac lands. Sac lands deal 3 damage sounds nice.

[@Mordalon]

@@KebbieG Kaya provides a greater amount of utility.

[@kaszael]

As soon as I saw the decklist, I knew I had to add Kaya to my probe deck. It desperately needed another wincon.

[@nomukun1138]

No. Kaya provides lifegain. graveyard hate, and exiles Aether Vials. Probe deals more damage but nothing else. This is a lockout control deck, not burn.

[@andrewmarinkovich8657]

When Kaya was first spoiled I thought she might be able to go into some kind of weird Modern deck where you'play Leyline of the Void and maybe a couple of Relics or other graveyard hate cards in the main board. But, still, you have to get to her ultimate and survive long enough so it was just a passing consideration. Glad to see you sort of made it work with the Surgical/Extirpate/Unmoored Ego plan.

[@kirvo11985]

I have been trying to make this deck for years! Thank you Seth for making it playable for me!

[@milkstacheproductions2650]

Seth you might’ve made my new favorite deck. i had a concept esper mill deck that ran hand disruption, mill, and surgical extractions. the deck would take cards out of the opponents hand and deck and then exile them with surgical extractions, and it was so much fun but it always felt like a bad deck. The win con was milling the opponent which is bad as it is and powers some opponents graveyard decks, and there was never a real upside to exiling the opponents cards. I made this deck maybe a year ago before the ravnica sets came out and I’m watching your video at like 1 am because I’m too excited to see how the deck will preform and just 10/10 I’m so happy to see this deck you made

[@benjaminedds9257]

This was exactly what I wanted to see! Loved to see Kaya killin in Modern. NOW Let's see her in Standard. Thanks Seth!

[@Beefman.0]

Got a t1 win against living end by thoughtseizing into a surgical, then got a t3 with unmoored ego This deck feels incredible to play, highly recommended

[@ecoKady]

This is my favorite deck in quite a while. It would be hard to pull off in Standard, but there sure are a *lot* of ways to copy and recast Unmoored Ego in Standard...

[@shanegedekoh121]

love this deck. never forget your artifact/enchantment removal. Disenchant, Forsake the Worldly, Anguished Unmaking.

[@djelibaebi]

I've been trying a standard version of this deck on mtga since the set came out to ,,,, uh *some* success.

[@erikwiseman1702]

Man, that merfolk match was great; it was nice to finish off the video with that one.

[@antedeguemon1194]

"Maybe you should diversify your win conditions, modern players" - Seth, Probably Better Known as Saffron Olive, while running a deck with one win condition.

[@MTGGoldfish]

Our backup win condition is making it so our opponent can't play anything!

[@Nuthouse01]

This deck is the spiritual successor to Lantern Control and I love it

[@Beefman.0]

I’ve always dreamt of a deck as great as this

[@shorty1815]

*the most common way to play Kaya is not to play her

[@MultiTaz333]

The original Kaya was way better

[@Mordalon]

Kaya still plays a role. Not everything has to be generically good in all matchups.

[@DimT670]

This aged badly didn't it?

[@georgelacatus1495]

What a video! Definitely should be revisited or played on stream in the future

[@georgelacatus1495]

But only AFTER 5-colour monowhite humans w/mana tithe now

[@Zentenski]

As the end of the year is coming around, this is probably still my favourite Against the Odds of the year^^

[@alexnas9634]

im only at 37 minutes but ive play tested a rakdos panza a few years ago and in one match on both games i locked him out of lands because he only ran 4 basics and on the first game i blew him up badly, unmored ego seems like a better slaughter games too, so i was reminded of that deck when you locked his win cons out lol

[@christopherwoodbury7520]

What a delightful deck. Almost as much fun to watch as Teferi's Pool Party.

[@jabendeacon]

This deck is a Tron killer.

[@gustavowadaslopes2479]

Would love to see tron´s face. It~s one of the reasons I think the deck might want a tinby bit of mill, just to get some cards faster to the graveyard.

[@jabendeacon]

@@gustavowadaslopes2479 I was pondering something similar. Something small and efficient like Thought Scour could be helpful in match-ups where cards like Logic Knot are too weak and slow.

[@TheMattmatic]

@@jabendeacon Thought scour should be a given. Great cantrip in this deck.

[@LunaLasceria]

34:07 - "Hopefully they don't have another Crusher" we say, while we have an Extirpate in hand that could be used to get rid of all the Crushers and priority from them cracking a Fetch. But no, of course Instants must always be cast on the opponent's End Step.

[@colinjones5379]

Oh man I want to see more of this deck, this is hilarious.

[@BigFlexLuthor]

This was pretty hype. Good stuff Seth

[@Diotialate]

I miss Cranial Extraction. The ol' Hanna, Ship's Navigator + Jester's Cap combo.

[@NickK1291]

@Seth can you play this deck some more on live stream? If you feel it needs tuning, even better! I just can't get enough of this deck 😁

[@isaacrobertson4374]

Dude I love these *cheap* playable decks!!

[@peewee130946]

Your joking right? Lol

[@VictorTheLegend]

@@peewee130946 no shit Sherlock

[@56majima72]

Sarcasm is true.

[@zemyla]

It's pretty cheap except for the mana base.

[@MasterQuestMaster]

This isn't budget magic, so it's expected.

[@TheSLATEcleaner]

This deck plus Ashiok was a meme I suggested back when Kaya was spoiled. So happy to see it played. Edit: Also glad to see she's as good versus burn as I theorized. I thought Burn and Affinity would be Kaya's best matchups.

[@Sidewinder_Circa]

Instant love for this deck. I see Kaya, I like.

[@pepperjacktv6827]

Hello Seth it’s Saffron olive probably better known as everyone

[@Foyoon]

Hello Saffron Olive it's everyone probably better known as Seth.

[@toast_recon]

@@Foyoon hello everyone it's Seth MacFarlane probably better know as OliveGarden

[@Sethsters]

The Seth scream at 38:55 is an instant classic.

[@monogreen]

Hey Seth, this decks reminds me of a blue/black land destruction deck that's been floating around my local legacy meta for a while that you might want to play in one of these videos. I don't remember the whole list, but the important bits are 4 Delver 4 Snapcaster Mage 4 Wasteland 4 Stifle 4 Surgical Extraction 4 Extirpate

[@he8mybbybakribs407]

And ppl wonder why i play unmoored ego mainboard, love the deck

[@Atmapalazzo]

honestly, you punted that game one against taxes. You needed to extirpate the quarter.

[@horsebones727]

I was SO confused! Is there a reason for this Seth?

[@skyhops4618]

He couldn’t afford extripate with Leonin Arbiter on the field

[@PolskiSuzeren]

Michael Villanueva could still do it on draw step and hit their hand. If you know that another ghost quarter kills you, it at least buys a turn.

[@MTGGoldfish]

I didn't expect two in a row off the top :(

[@ruudvanlaarhoven5776]

@@MTGGoldfish you also should have Ego'd the angel the turn they tapped down to three mana

[@vanflowers6829]

Games start 6:57

[@jasonoshman1079]

Thanks

[@JustAnotherPest]

39:40 The word you're looking for is "catastrophic."

[@TheVampire989]

Next time, I challenge you to do Kaya's Extraction in pure Orzhov colors, with even more extractors and solid removal with paths and settles!

[@Paulovitch]

I laughed so hard throughout most of this video. Thanks seth

[@FidasEternas]

Hey, this is like my mono black deck I submitted forever ago!

[@gavingalloway9768]

Although I love this idea, I certainly wonder about consistency. I run a Kaya Esper Control deck in Arena that I'm sad to say is the most brutally effective deck I have in Arena (since I'm not a control player.) It uses basic control elements with Drowned Secrets to supplement the yard and Phryexian Scriptures and Mnemonic Betrayal to set up Kaya's ultimate for a oneshot.

[@horsyman3]

Awesome deck! Also I made one for standard not too different from this idea using Kaya in Magic Arena and it is pure plague for most of the standard decks played there.

[@phlsphr42]

Not sure why you wouldn't play out the Seismic game one. You can continue to exile every nonbasic land they pitch to Assualt, and eventually either gain a bunch, kill them with Snaps (or they're forced to pitch lands to kill Snap), or deck them because then they don't have enough to kill you. @26:29, you could have played the Field of Ruin instead of the Polluted Delta, killed their Sheltered Thicket, then extracted all of them during their draw phase, possibly cutting them off of the third land drop, but at least taking out those sources of damage/land for them.

[@alexissalazar1439]

What a game against merfolk, keep up the good content seth

[@leegammon1267]

When you said; countryside crusher my day was made lol

[@QuestionMarc]

@39:00 can't you play your fetch and pass the turn? If he activates ghost quarter, you respond by paying the 2 mana so you can search, then crack your fetch, then you've got 3 lands again and he is stuck under his own arbiter as you said. Your opponent got really lucky, but you still gave up before even thinking about a way out. Or did you forget you can pay for the Arbiter?

[@effiefoemperor]

Very cool, I have a similarish idea in legacy. Great video!

[@revotor8142]

I love Kaya and this deck is the perfect way to play her

[@fabrakh6910]

Ensnaring Bridge package? Cutting the wraths and something else. Doesn't seem too hard to empty the hand, protects Kaya, and discard and surgical effects are great for removing bridge answers. Anyway, fun deck!

[@anonymoususer69]

Liking this video just for the concept I don’t care how it turns out

[@MegaSalami]

I always wanted to make a Deck Stripper deck, but I was thinking more like Grixis, for Anger and that 4 drop, red, extraction for lands

[@jalapenojoel271]

i need to see more of this deck!!

[@tobyclark7152]

This is what we needed to beat KCI

[@cbrsdf1]

Maybe, but KCI has a mana ability, so even with a split second in the stack, you can respond to it

[@PalPlays]

@@cbrsdf1 Thanks Obama!

[@jackmchough957]

I really wanna see this deck played again

[@DamonXWind]

I brewed a list a lot like this not too long ago, but plan B was Liliana of the Veil and Tarmogoyf

[@m4k11k4m]

I really want to see you play this against Tron. Please find some Tron games for us.

[@welersoncarvalho4245]

15:00 he says that after getting a swamp and not getting a watery grave with that fetch...

[@ThePedro1233]

Would be down for more of this!

[@jerrymcdaniel6643]

I've only gotten to the discard part of the deck tech and I already hate this LOL with much love

[@DarthTUK]

Seth! With the printing of Deadly Cover-Up I dare you to revisit this deck.

[@petefry82]

Nice deck, pretty epic match v. Merfolk

[@williamstocker8107]

That Lord of Atlantis unmoored ego was brutal

[@MTGGoldfish]

That was one of my favorite part of the episode!

[@schnitenhuvendoombringer8099]

I feel like Ashiok would be a pretty decent include in this deck. Not only pretty solid on its own but it works well with Kaya

[@jegtak4386]

Why did you surgical your own inquisition? at 17:48?

[@Zentenski]

Oh, this was wonderful to see :D

[@thekillerfroggy]

I want to witness the first time someone plays this mirror match and casts Unmoored Ego on their opponent's Kaya.

[@GalaticCyrus]

i love the list of the guy playing countryside crusher and oops all lands into seismic assault lol. such good jank

[@sudonpc-inputerror8999]

Holy crap Saffron Olive's face is totally different than what I expected, wow.

[@gabrielvega1713]

16:50 why go down surgical instead of extripate?

[@Virtua..]

why didnt you extirpate field at 39:00 on draw step, at least you would stop him from playing the one he drew

[@elibroide]

What you say about Merfolk? :) Thank you for the video, awesome deck!

[@joseph-yt2qk]

6:03: Sethhhhhh! You forgot about the Psychogenic probe deck ATO. Surgical tribal was the whole plan of the deck. What was that? Like 150 episodes ago? Keep up!