Glimpse Affinity IMPROVED! Phil's Best Performing Deck Returns! (Legacy)

[@chaotic_doc]

Not only did I love the original deck, but it got me to get a loan account just to play it

[@ThrabenUniversity]

[@2gunntrekking356]

Phil, seriously try the neoform/craterhoof combo! That will make a great legacy affinity “elves” combo!

[@enbofficial3044]

Just discovered your channel. Saddened to hear about your mom. I went through this about five years ago. It changes you forever. Glad you are still maintaining the channel. Good stuff!

[@mtgkid0205]

Sorry for your loss. I loved the deck and thanks for all the entertaining MTG decks

[@jianshen2223]

Found you through your previous glimpse affinity video too. Stayed for the clear lines, variety of decks, and fun plays

[@Locustnism]

Sorry to hear about your loss. Anyway I really enjoy decks that doesn’t utilised dual lands/RL doing well. Always a budget consideration for new players getting into legacy. Hopefully we can see you playing more decks like this that remains competitive without RL/duals.

[@Raaayyyyyyyyyy]

audio seems great in this video. not as quiet as they used to be which is good!

[@thebrainless13041990]

Go for 2 copies of beck//call and 1 paradoxical outcome of hurkly recall. This lets you keep more hands and helps to keep the combo going

[@UNCLEBEN2021]

Still working my way back on this content and it always holds up big fan of Phil of the future and past Phil you're a gem sir

[@ThrabenUniversity]

This video was excellent jank.

[@molecularproductions]

@ThrabenU Thanks for the great content! Your personality, calm demeanor, and great commentary keep me watching. So sorry to hear about your loss. Hang in there, man!

[@FineAndAndy]

This is always a fun glass canon deck to watch. I like the resiliency offered by the Salvage Titans. It seems to give some game through hate (like Chalice and Ouphe) that opponents might mulligan into oblivion for.

[@donaldseals4075]

Sorry about your loss, losing family is hard. Deck is awesome, maybe one of these days I'll get it put together in paper. Thanks for the content you put out.

[@ZoltarDeathNnja]

I like the match 1 sideboarding "take out some of the top end" for nettlecyst. You took out a bunch of 1 drops for a bunch of 3 drops. :P

[@jackkosidowski8794]

Thank you for always Philling my days with Legacy content.

[@TapeOfDucks]

Started playing this deck after your first video, been playing veil of summer in the side over carpets

[@compacta_d]

You can loop Salvage Titans by saccing the first to pay for the second and then returning to hand using the ability to keep that combo going. I just realized watching this now. Sorry for your loss and hope you are doing alright.

[@ThrabenUniversity]

Yeah, I didn't realize that until a bit later on in the league! It's sick!

[@81-jdowlwp]

at 5:42 you could have sacced the other salvage titan on the board, and then get him back into your hand by discarding the lands to keep the chain going. :)

[@jacrdn2186]

so sorry to hear about your loss, I love the mtg content, keep up the great work!

[@Narcomoeba1]

Bwahahahahahaha! You made me laugh at 26:35 when you tried to combo off with glimpse. You were like... "oh yeah"... "here we go" (casts glimpse of nature, casts memnite, and thats it)... "Rude!" lol. :)

[@JuanGarcia-rg2sd]

I feel that this is the quintessential jank deck, it doesn't fire often, but it looks and feels amazing when it does

[@maimmoose7901]

sorry to hear about your loss love the deck and the audio sounds good. On a different note have you ever checked out Sapphire storm as an archetype? just a fun cool thing that might be up your alley I do a donation league if I could but don't have stable income right now.

[@hardcoreeconomist1089]

We love anything you play. Hope you're doing well!

[@RinandStyx]

Audio sounds good 👌

[@tammyadventures313]

Sorry for your loss. 😞 🙏

[@froggywoggy473]

Your excitement to play this deck was so palpable! It's such a wild ride, haha.

[@giooriglia9866]

Yep, i love seeing this again ❤

[@MH-dn3jz]

Love to see this deck. The audio sounds good volume-wise. Practically when your mic kicks on as you talk, it creates an ambient background that flicks on or off that's a little distracting.

[@tpslowbie]

Sorry for your loss Phil

[@seqranger1]

I took this build and changed out some of your top end for urza's sagas, worth a try like that. You can keep more hands without mulling and the constructs can become beasts

[@possiblystevo9141]

retract is a good option for this kind of deck beyond the turn 1 nut draw,, also paradoxical outcome as a more niche case (as in my lack of paper budget niche)

[@ThrabenUniversity]

Yeah, I think I tried out of those out in another build.

[@carrikmcnerlin1770]

Audio level is great today

[@strainrx]

Sorry about your loss Phil :(

[@TraeKryzer]

2:35 Not to mention of course being instant speed for 0 mana means it's just unexpected. People can see the Tormod's crypt coming.

[@AnivaGlutt]

I may have been lik 100 of the 30k i loved this decklist, its what i put on when im chilling and want something easy to watch

[@effiefoemperor]

Glad the prior version of this did well number wise. I'm a little shocked about that as the deck doesn't really strike me as that good (you piloted it well but it's just too fair for me personally). Is there any room at all in it for Urza's saga? Access to shadowspear and those gobots could be good.

[@ThrabenUniversity]

I think activating the Urza's Saga is too hard in most games, tbh.

[@morgoth2425]

curious, why board out thought monitor's over thought casts? is the lower cmc more important than the glimpse synergy?

[@andrewbader6927]

if you have both titans you can sac the first to the secound then exile 3 artifacts to get it back to keep going

[@grantwilliams1597]

You deserve more subs!

[@furtsmagee1513]

Yeaaaaaaaah budddy good video

[@michaelviviano7564]

I wonder if it's worth it to play the blue green artifact land since green mama is so important. It makes some turns slower, true, bit does make glimpse more reliable.

[@canadianhighlanderbremen7717]

Sorry for your loss Phil. :(

[@joeaquilino19]

love you brother

[@mattfaas3040]

We love glimpse!!! We love glimpse!!! We love you!!!

[@anthonynorwood8441]

Love the deck I am getting this in paper. Also at the time of this comment your deck list has 62 main and 13 side

[@ThrabenUniversity]

Hmmm, I'll look into that. Looks like TopDecked might have some import issues.

[@anthonynorwood8441]

@@ThrabenUniversity ya the list has the 5 drop improvise guy and 4 titans so I am sure you moved all the titans to main and didn't make the rest of the changes

[@impendio]

Grixis reanidelver is a wild ride

[@chuckharris4855]

Thoughts on adding a couple of retracts?

[@ThrabenUniversity]

I think 1 is probably solid!

[@christersee4229]

What will you replace? Thought cast?

[@christersee4229]

@chuck harris what will you remove to add the extract 1 thoughtcast?

[@chuckharris4855]

@@christersee4229 yeah that sounds fine, i feel like you don't want too many colored spells in the deck. Personally I don't own glimpse so I use beck call and genesis chamber in a more budget list.

[@christersee4229]

@@chuckharris4855 i was playtesting it and was brainstorming if ill remove 1 thought cast or 1 thought monitor but i dont want to lessen the creature count.

[@Thurokiir1]

I'm surprised you board out the thought monitors as aggressively as you do! I have a question, would you rather have 4 power or 4 draws in a deck which revolves around drawing cards quickly?

[@ThrabenUniversity]

"It depends." I don't think the question is simple here.

[@allisontyler5575]

I think you could saced the titan to the titan and kept going off game 1

[@ThrabenUniversity]

Yup! I missed that early on, but figured it out later in the league!

[@asoberewok6567]

If my opponent mulled to 3 and just went memnite, memnite pass I’d concede on the spot just out of shear respect.

[@adNauseam6798]

You probably already have but have you thought of using portable hole at all?

[@ThrabenUniversity]

I don't think this deck wants too much interaction. You're trying to combo, and if that fails, just turn dudes sideways.

[@kiriyamathelama1809]

This deck us amazing

[@guffe5813]

how bad would playing 2 green blue artifact dual lands be, seems you were missing green quite a lot

[@ThrabenUniversity]

I think it's reasonable to play one or two more mana sources.

[@guffe5813]

@@ThrabenUniversity how far are you from gaea's cradle?

[@ThrabenUniversity]

@@guffe5813 not far, but the green mana isn't necessarily what you want when comboing. You want more blue.

[@guffe5813]

@@ThrabenUniversity tolarian academy?

[@ThrabenUniversity]

@@guffe5813 Banned!

[@petemagnuson7357]

How long before this deck is just named Salvage Titian Storm

[@charlieburzynski603]

You could play multani's presence against chalice on 0

[@Metallicity]

Nice call only moving half the Salvage Titans to the main deck. This way, your next video can still improve the list again by maining all four.

[@christiancorralb]

For the algorithm

[@ethanfordford6621]

This deck has two advantages over other glimpse zero combos… it can play magic not just combo, and it got cmc that’s pretty high (Also I don’t get why you keep cutting thought monitor over thought cast)

[@ThrabenUniversity]

Thought-Monitor requires more artifacts in play to start doing its thing. Sometimes casting your card earlier is better than having a better late game.

[@ethanfordford6621]

@@ThrabenUniversity okay I can understand that but thought monitor is both a creature and only “2” mana more making it more important to the combo kill part of the deck I think? But I might be underestimating the “2” cost since thought cast does do some heavy lifting in this deck

[@ThrabenUniversity]

@@ethanfordford6621 I've played a ton of leagues where thought monitors just got stuck in my hand. "2" is actually a pretty big number by leagacy standards!

[@ethanfordford6621]

@@ThrabenUniversity so would it then be worth splitting it up with myr enforcer since that also is a 7 drop? (Probably not since that blue mana symbol is pretty scary)

[@coldensapir3901]

Literally no reason not to play storm cards instead of oracle; they’re so much more efficient and resilient to counter magic.

[@bariltrailette]

Sorry why he say improved?

[@ThrabenUniversity]

I played this a couple of weeks ago. This is the updated list!

[@bariltrailette]

@@ThrabenUniversity ok bad matchup.

[@jstrobel3620]

I’m not an expert or anything, but I feel like you have a few too many thoughtcast/thought monitor cards in the deck?

[@stellabiderman4056]

The audio is awful :( I had to stop listening because the background noise was going to give me a migraine

[@ThrabenUniversity]

Hmm, this is new. The new few videos will have this, but I'll figure out what this is asap and fix it!

[@alaricpaley6865]

Please back off the mic a bit, I can hear the spit in your mouth every time you talk and it's real unpleasant.

[@lordtyrus1]

Sorry for your loss Phil

[@Licw-Luxus]

lol