Can I Win a Game with 99 Mountains and a Monkey? | Brewer's Kitchen

[@BrewersKitchen]

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[@Spirited_skiing]

“After 100 games” Respect.

[@geranium44horse]

dang

[@cameton_youtube]

Just got into watching your videos from the podcast, you do a really great job :D

[@samwalter940]

The monkey's paw curls again!

[@shadowisp]

lol... and what meaty interesting games they were.

[@XoRiZleroX]

Should have mulligan to one or two to show dominance. Especially against the thoughtseize.

[@kristiandahl1310]

That's something I would totally do

[@oelboy]

If you always mulligan four times it looks as though you just kept a full land hand as a last resort.

[@XoRiZleroX]

@oelboy But that's just how you get them. When they try another form of hand disruption and they get another hand of just lands.

[@saqvobase4301]

The best part of this deck is that you draw the perfect hand every game.

[@dracosfire7247]

It’s immune to Duress AND Thoughtseize!

[@ReigoVassal]

This deck has 1000% consistency

[@alfred8936]

"Let's set a stop on their upkeep so it looks like we're holding up interaction" is some absolutely devilish shenanigans, gotta respect it

[@bernabes8424]

That sequence of Turn 0 scoops to Ragavan was hilarious

[@deaexmachina6534]

Been there done that :D

[@christopherlockheardt9051]

I laughed my entire way through that video. You are a deranged genius.

[@sharlockshacolmes9381]

With the amount of turn 0 scoop to ragavan I've seen on my side and the opponent's I'm surprised it's still not banned in historic brawl

[@0urher0nik0]

I’m gonna be honest, sometimes I scoop cuz I’m on the draw with a couple bad hands and I just don’t have the capacity to push through it lol

[@Couldnt_Be_Bothered]

It's not actually that busted of a deck. It's just that ragavan is a rather annoying card if you don't have removal or blockers.

[@sharlockshacolmes9381]

@@Couldnt_Be_Bothered being on the draw against raga an is just a noxious even with a 1 drop blocker 90% of the time they'll bolt it and then they only need to connect once to pull ahead. The problem is not so much that it's busted it's that there is literally only card that counters it on turn 1 if you're on the draw and it's sword to plowshare. Most people don't want to play against that and that's reason enough to ban it in a casual format

[@Couldnt_Be_Bothered]

@@sharlockshacolmes9381 There are multiple annoying commanders in historic brawl. That's not a valid reason for a ban. I bet more people are sick of rusko than ragavan.

[@Enja_Near]

​@@sharlockshacolmes9381lay down arms, isolate, dead weight, disfigure, lightning bolt, shock and it's functional reprints, cut down, fatal push

[@HakureiIllusion]

This means that, mathematically, a mono-red deck with a 30% winrate can in fact go up to a >50% winrate simply by putting Ragavan in the command zone.

[@LithmusEarth]

What.... that's... math damn.

[@jeffe2267]

I assume you're just being goofy for a joke, but -- it could be winning those 30% of games off of the same opponents who would salt scoop, so the math doesn't work that way.

[@Pedropapt]

Not quite, that 20% happens independent of the deck so it includes some matches the mono-red deck would naturally win too. Meaning it's more around 0.8*0.3+0.2=44%. So it doesn't reach 50% but 30% was given as a 'lower bound' so in this case a 38% would be the 'magic' number for >50% win rate (in theory).

[@toolittletoolate]

@@Pedropapt No cus this deck only had ragavan and it's 20% so adding ragavan obviously mean +20%. Duh. If that wasn't enough to put your onto the joke, nothing will.

[@provostparkpass]

Where does Ragavan go to get a drinks? The Monkey Bars

[@castineyra13]

Amazing. The salt flows! Always a banger when you upload 🤌

[@matthewhalsan6459]

Funny enough I actually still expected ragavan to have a winning record, but fun to watch.

[@dyonisus2234]

Fully on the same boat, feel a little silly looking back 😅

[@Tvboy777]

Technically it did though? If you count all the turn 1 scoops.

[@dyonisus2234]

@@Tvboy777 he says 23% winrate at the end, over 100 matches! :)

[@toolittletoolate]

If you just flood the deck with removal so monkey can always get in, it's ap retty powerful deck. In that when you remove the first two things people play and keep getting monkey hits they'll often salty scoop.

[@Wiseclone5555]

I built this deck a couple months back. The winrate might be abysmal, but man, you really do get a lot of wins in a short amount of time.

[@ty_sylicus]

"Well hello there random person on the internet" Me: "OMG THAT'S ME!!"

[@moonmist1390]

It’s technically optimal to mulligan to 0 so they don’t gain information from hand disruption (unless you’re on the play)

[@Zosh_]

Actually not really since your opponent is less likely to salt scoop. So the win rate would go down.

[@MrSeanfish]

The whole mulligan to 0 strategy is only the right decision in a best of 3 game after you’ve already mulliganed a few times. If you’re sure you’re going to lose before the game begins you can safely mulligan to 0 in order to gain as much information about the opponent as possible while concealing your information from them. Then use the information advantage during sideboarding for game 2 and 3

[@TheLoneAlpaca]

This is the funniest comment I’ve read in my whole life Ty

[@dreamwalking]

3:30 This reminds me of running my Izzet Wizards deck in Standard and then Historic when it rotated. Sometimes I would go Island, Siren Stormtamer, and the opponent would just concede, giving me a free win because they thought I was Mono-Blue Tempo.

[@KrikrTriwas]

Wouldn't the safer way to play this deck be to dash Ragavan every turn? That way he can dodge a lot of enchantment removal, and your opponent can sometimes swing back in theory and expose themselves to another monkey hit.

[@chartypeplays2396]

If you waited and hoped that the opponent would swing and leave no blockers, then that would be a lot of time spent waiting just on the off chance that the opponent might make a blunder. I think it made sense to do what he did and just scoop when the opponent plays a blocker. Also yes, that would let you avoid sorcery-speed removal, but playing Ragavan turn one leaves you more mana to cast whatever you exile turn two and onwards.

[@Trix465]

Actually hilarious, i dont think a mtg arena video has ever made me laugh this much!

[@NicoGIulianelli]

best MTG content there is. pls more, more, more.

[@benji-menji]

20% chance to die of cringe is quite the power.

[@MagicalMasterMind]

The scooping montage got me 😭

[@provostparkpass]

wall of blossoms UNBEATABLE!

[@thegamesninja3119]

"Monkey!" - Dennis "King Koopa" Hopper

[@cornball7883]

Ashling the Pilgrim plus 99 mountains is the OG

[@jezzsmith7593]

Loved the mid-video land change up strategy, classic! I really thought the scary lands would perform better :(

[@jackwaggin3616]

I wish there was more videos from you. They are so fun to watch!

[@Swaggingdaily]

Ashling is shaking in her flaming boots right now

[@Thomsco]

This brew has no right to be as entertaining as it is. Another top tier video.

[@waituntilthis8850]

Brewers kitchen is the only reason why im subbed to mtggoldfish this shit is top tier

[@AntonioDuran-m8i]

Evil genius having a goof day. Loved it!

[@CathDad4]

A land descruction deck conceeding the second his land is destroyed is literal perfection.

[@yurilopes420]

the slight, smooth zoom in and out when something happens is ABSOLUTELY MARVELLOUS as a video editor, those small details make or break a video. amazing man

[@hunhun7155]

i really hope this is meant sarcastically

[@deutschigmann]

Really loved the power up strategy at 3:00 😆

[@tatybara]

that land destruction running into a 99 land deck is such a funny confluence of events

[@MakeVarahHappen]

This is like the Barry Bonds of decks.

[@prufrock1977]

Genius! Thank you for doing this!

[@asducommentaire7475]

You could do this as an alternate speedrun from the bat one

[@OsvaldoChannel1]

this is giving me feels of the brawl deck that was only 1 mana ramp and Oko back in the day. People would SCOOP at the sight of Oko alone.

[@dyonisus2234]

Ah yes, the infamous Brewer's Kitchen x Meme or Dream crossover fans have been asking for 😂 amazing content as ever!

[@DemiNiBlack]

Rough video to make for sure, but you presented this hilariously and excellently! We're really impressed by your editing, comedic timing, and presentation of the games.

[@todaywithrhea917]

This is hilarious. Loved the content and your humor!

[@Billchu13]

Quality content! Your commander is a villain so the maindeck answers are justified. Also helps that blocks and removal stop it.

[@Windows98.]

So glad to catch another Brewers Kitchen vid, my favorite arena content creator

[@jfrizzell6645]

Well thank you for showing us this entertaining look at the other side of trying something creative!

[@benjaminbogel7554]

good video, nice job. my own record was 11:39. nearly the same 22%. but only won one game without conceding. that was against nahiri equipments. got a quite big hexproofed ragavan. mostly lost with early scopes. but one game lost directly against bolas, god-pharaoh +2 as commander. like your videos. like to see more.

[@TheChannlz]

This was amazing, thankyou Phil

[@fitnesshunter6302]

I kindve want to do this but with like 7 spells. No way to get mana screwed still since the most spells you can ever start with is 7 and if you are on the draw you will always draw a mountain of that's the case. The fun part is figuring out which spells

[@Cheerwine091]

And because of Arena’s hand smoother, you’re actually way more likely to start the game with at least one of those spells

[@smegmalasagna]

Early scoops are the reason why I would like brawl to have a ranked que.

[@aericconline3684]

3:21 is so dang funny. I have watched it dozens of times now.

[@jixster1566]

-runs land destruction -gets own land destroyed -instantly concedes

[@teamcyeborg]

I'd personally run this with one of every mountain art I own

[@flashfan2]

I dont think a turn one scoop is ALWAYS salty I think it is a form of protest. In a casual formate you play to have fun and for a weak deck the monkey is not fun to play against

[@bodaciouschad]

I've seen this exact deck multiples times the past 2 weeks. Its surprisingly common... and yes, most people will just concede to ragavan on the play because against the actual build of the deck your winrate is

[@lutz4820]

The bonus game was awesome!!!

[@hickknight]

God the turn 0 concede when they see the monkey. Now that's quality content.

[@lnf720]

I was so excited to see one of your videos and slightly disappointed to see it was only 5 minutes. I know it's a lot of editing but please release more videos.

[@ls2260]

Reject Humanity, return to Monke

[@Enja_Near]

Every single oneof those turn 0 scoops is people soft banning monkey until monkey finally gets the real one.

[@thestarmandx4448]

I always scoop to Monkey. If enough non-games are played out maybe it'll get the ban.

[@gman8133]

Now this is the Arena content I've been waiting for

[@ryandowns6233]

i made this joke to my friends! ragavan has my highest winrate of any deck. it's hands-down the best deck for just getting your weekly wins as fast as possible.

[@TotalTimoTime]

Not running chandra avatar, lightning bolt sleeves and bolthund pet definitely cost you some games!

[@sh41]

The land destruction deck was the best meta-matchup ever

[@crowsenpai5625]

You had us in the first half on that bonus game.

[@LuisCruz-wv9qc]

Mmmmm… Monkee…

[@jniteshade5352]

I really haven't minded playing against ragavan in historic brawl. Just Mulligan for interaction and then you get down blockers by the time they recast it. Haven't lost a game to it since the first week it was out.

[@JosephRios]

"Wall of Blossoms... unbeatable."

[@MJawad-qj9dc]

Love this man xD such a nice charging video

[@blueeyedenvy9715]

Phil coming through with the best videos!!

[@dowgthepug8433]

every time he uploads a vid i get supa excited

[@frogpizza]

This checks. I've been playing hist brawl with monkey and my win rate is pretty high, if you count turn 0 scoops. Good attempt

[@Elementalist371]

As always, such good videos and enjoyable content

[@Darkeep12]

You should have used the new SMOrc avatar and lightning bolt sleeves for extra intimidation.

[@EkstraBjarne]

lol amazing episode and commentary

[@shaden489]

this is about what i expected honestly

[@adamtobiasz8793]

There really should be more of these videos.😊😊😊😊😊

[@kyrarose4517]

okay real talk, those mountains look SICK

[@belloboonerber3954]

Great vid bud

[@astuteanansi4935]

4:31: "I used the salt to destroy the salt"

[@JackTR21]

Bonus game had me rolling

[@TimeSpinner]

I can't believed someone found a way to make Ravagan balanced.

[@EffinChat]

When Seth and Phil take each others KZbin series for a ride

[@MrJoberg]

Finally a deck which doesn’t consume all my wildcards.

[@masongrae5010]

I feel like maybe if it was all ramp rituals and rocks it could possibly work

[@MagicGame_]

Wall of blossoms? *Cough Unbeatable.

[@fromadhdtodndtomtg]

Laughing, literally laughing through this whole video.

[@TheyCallMeDio]

I can't believe you've done this

[@BasicandBizarre]

Still my favourite video of yours for how completely ridiculous it is. I pulled a Ragavan during March of the Machine, and I keep wanting to show up to a commander night with this deck just to see if anyone gets the joke.

[@jugularstab]

I did this as a meme, completely unaware of this video. My record ended up at 3-7.

[@ryanquinn1257]

I actually use ragavan as a mono red eldrazi commander. It’s absolutely silly. It just helps me ramp on turn 2/3/4. Then some fun like rogues passage, hot soup but usually ragavan is just a lightning rod that ppl carry over modern hatred into EDH for haha.

[@haeleon654]

I was just waiting for someone to Thoughtseize and be like "...what the heck is this idiot doing" Love your content, keep it up!

[@franciscomuro8427]

I haven’t played Historic Brawl but is it like other games of commander where people on average don’t run much interaction? This is more of a general statement and observation as I did clearly see people playing removal cards.

[@Sharingandud]

There's probably more single target removal as this is 1v1, but I also don't play the format so I may be wrong.

[@1AlasBabylon]

There is interaction, but when you play a format where your opponent *always* has Ragavan on turn 1 and you don't always have your one of Fatal Push/Swords/Lightning Bolt/Bloodchief's Thirst/whatever...

[@jy-az-33]

Wall of Blossoms, Unbeatable, Scoop.

[@Orvieta]

MagictheJ...something only got to 98 lands, we got a new emperor now.

[@-VINihilist-]

You're my favourite person on this channel

[@jarzz3601]

one of the decks of all time very fast

[@dylanr.27]

That last game was hilarious

[@simonetozzi7912]

If you want to be 100% sure to always have a land on turn one, you can play any number of lands between 93 and 99 lands in a brawl deck, the other cards being non-lands. In other words, you are not forced to play 99 lands with that objective in mind, but I suppose you are doing this as a challenge.

[@DarklordZagarna]

The deck is called Oops All SPELLS, not Oops All Land.

[@JamesHornsbyMusic]

"Wallow Of Blossoms. Unbeatable." 🤘

[@togethergutlesss]

Ive only ever scooped to monky if my deck is too slow and bad match up ive played against it enough times to know how the match will play out its not that tough to beat if you have lots of early interaction.