I AM THE LAW! Legacy Boros Control. Honest Control with only Red and White. Comet Eorlingas MTG LotR

[@danarmchuk6902]

Mad respect to this fair plateau challenge.

[@CheeseWedge056]

This deck seems like the perfect interpretation of the brew that I'd sent across. Thanks for staying true to the vision of getting a stable board and winning with whatever you have left once the dust settles. I think that this deck struggles due to the issue of being a control deck without force of will in the legacy format, but I'm still very happy with how it did. The deck very much struggles with combo decks, and with big creatures. One card I liked in some builds is a copy of meekstone to tutor off ursa's saga for the secondary issue, winning against combo is a matter of games 2 and 3 needing to line up. Thanks for taking it for a spin, and for contributing your thoughts at the end to improving the deck.

[@MaxMckayful]

Fantastic challenge idea, really enjoyed this. Love when this channel gets exploratory on concepts / ideas / stips

[@RicTakaden]

If nothing else, I think round 2 was exactly what was intended for the brew challenge, and was a ton of fun to watch!

[@lalalalala235]

53:24 i respect it

[@GeoQuag]

I think Mardu control is really solid for non-blue options. Bowmasters and thoughtsieze give more proactive plans.

[@jochenkirn9468]

Match #2 was almost the Legacy equivalent of casual EDH. Totally battlecruisin' all the way. Awesome!

[@BoshNRoll]

Thanks!

[@graefx]

Magic as Richard Garfield envisioned it lol. That was a fun league. The back and forth of threats and answers in R5 was great.

[@Interesting_Failure]

There is something extremely funny about the line "Urza's Saga, tutoring Pithing Needle, naming Comet, Stellar Pup", in game 3 of a legacy match, without Comet even being on the field. The fear factor is real.

[@crucible_of_words]

Last month I played something similar, bet went into The One Ring and Wastelands (with a higher land count). Also no Comet at the time so ran good old Ajani Vengeant lol. Somehow got a positive record, feels like you can gobble up creature matchups easily with Boros Control which is something. Also, your fourth round opponent is one of my members and they love Ratchet, always donating decks with it, I really enjoyed how much of a wild ride you had when playing against them and seeing all the weird stuff going on.

[@yeen4204]

ooo I loooove this. non-blue control is something I’ve half-jokingly messed around with in the more powerful end of casual edh a handful of times, including boros. it’s a great time

[@jackshaw1157]

Dry Jeskai

[@AaronRotenberg]

Warm mono-white

[@Dreg_s]

No land in 26 cards perfect RW legacy game 😎

[@koytru]

26:53 "It turns out these brews, when crashing into eachother, are pretty sweet" my man you sound like a commander player and I am absolutely here for it

[@juicehansen8713]

I think the person you played in the last round is my irl buddy! That looks like his exact deck he plays every week at our local! If it is, that's awesome. If not, crazy coincidence. Sweet video though!!

[@LtPuffin]

Rounds 2 & 3 were just awesome games of MTG. I think this deck is fun as hell. GG to the submission and GJ brewing I love it.

[@markolson8569]

Don't know where else to say this, but every time I see Cast into the fire, my mind just goes to "So COME ON! Cast in the FI-YA!"

[@zzztopspin]

I love a good boros brew. This was my favorite league to watch in weeks!!!

[@PVDH_magic]

Awesome league and some Good Boy shenanigans, hell yeah! Jax was certainly not the first Storm players to die to Lightning Helix, though. - Signed: Someone who played Naya Zoo in a Storm riddled Legacy field.

[@BoshNRoll]

Thank you for the historical information. :)

[@PVDH_magic]

That's what I do. I drink and I know things.@@BoshNRoll

[@Korwinga]

That round 4 opponent was cooking hard. I really want to see the rest of their deck.

[@LizardKing1470]

My favorite archetype 🤯 My modern deck is boros control. Boros 4 color control that uses blood sun and lotus field to get lots of mana for spells to win the game. Used to be strictly boros but almost every iteration had some jank to create enough advantage to win.

[@insomniclipse9400]

I watch your channel a lot but I usually only watch about 2 matches. This deck however seems really fun to play and im already an hour in. It just runs the fun stuff while still being a good deck. The maindeck ruination is fucking hilarious and works really well.

[@justsomeguy66]

I play a very similar deck to this but with blue for shark typhoon and dress down, it's so much fun to play though any combo deck is very tough 😅

[@jochenkirn9468]

Just heard "wallowing in Missouri," which is exactly what I do all day, every day.

[@BoshNRoll]

Rough beats

[@damirkrancpiler2246]

"Plow your mom" sounds weird and great at the same time.

[@Bradmpearce]

The "sack of crap" got me 😂

[@andreapoggi4621]

Less than 3 mins in and jeez, love this deck

[@peterheinisch2294]

53:26 A good quote

[@petemagnuson7357]

Would something like faithless looting be a consideration in this style? Filling the space of cantrips to let you find the right interaction for the right deck

[@BoshNRoll]

Faithless looting is card negative. If you’re not using the graveyard as a direct resource, it’s a very bad deal.

[@KyleWalters126]

Boros Midrange is the sauce I didn’t know I needed for the tacos of my life

[@Frizzbo]

Suggestion for Boil in the sideboard over the other ruination

[@The_Supervillain]

Chanting "go to 3" *cries/laughs in burn*. Jokes aside, very cool challenge.

[@senken12]

Round 2: The purest form of magic is 2 brews smashing against each other

[@lolsatandudewtf]

59:34 OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS LMAO gotta love some janky legacy

[@MaxMckayful]

Bone Dry Jeskai Control? I'm in!!!

[@firedrake110]

This feels like a deck that would really use Overmaster well, and it'd be a simple card to board out in combo matches where resolving artifacts and enchantments is the key rather than sorceries

[@vitortrindade5617]

Maybe invasion of gobakhan could help the combo matchup?

[@tinyprince]

Maybe. Two mana is a lot to pay for a bad Thoughseize.

[@TheAldjiunar]

I loved watching this deck. Non-meta control just speaks to me.

[@sleepingbeluga4000]

I like the thumbnail. Don't see enough wrath of God these days

[@CoilingSliver]

Man, this league was full of spice🔥

[@thefloodedstrand]

You ever thought about running Idol of Oblivion over Staff in this deck? I think if there’s ever a deck where idol is better than staff is a deck that has plenty of removal and plenty of token generating sources. This deck has bolts, helix, swords, solitudes, emperor so handles removal, therefore the chump blocking of Staff’s 1/1 isn’t as valuable. And this deck makes a bajillion tokens, even the fable shaman token makes treasures which triggers Idol but doesn’t trigger Staff. There were enough times in these matches where the mana advantage of Idol would’ve helped where Staff was limited.

[@danielkings2443]

Cool brew challenge. I’m pretty scared against combo without blue or a chalice

[@onstructures]

I lost it at 53:20, I want to thick... LOL

[@lolsatandudewtf]

This is super cool. I always thought boros control should be more supported by WOTC. One piece of advice in round 3 game 2 at 50:34: I would have activated staff with W instead of playing retrofitter and trying to hit that next land drop right then and there. You would have hit the vista a turn earlier, but even if you didn't, you'd get one card deeper for next turn. It didn't matter there because of how it shook out, but it really could have mattered.

[@gersoncoelho]

This was a very cool challenge! Yeah :)

[@muphinnp]

WOOOF WOOF WOOF

[@jeffe2267]

Sick deck, sick games.

[@dimensionalineage]

Why no Rip Apart? That mega-versatile card exemplifies control to me in exclusively Boros; would have done major work in R2G1 against the massive constructs... and all the other troublesome artifacts in other matches, pinging Karn, et al.

[@pks4289]

Really liked the BW Painter deck!

[@85mcarnold]

Round 2 Game 1 was a banger.

[@spencermcafee5105]

53:25 lol

[@alexanderkobler2019]

This would have been a good deck for a burning wish package to grab cards like meltdown for game 1.

[@slowlylosingitaaaaaa]

just taking a look at this deck I’m wondering why there’s no mindbreak trap in the sideboard, I see this just losing instantly to all combo

[@alexmaragh7766]

I feel like you could also gone into red death an deaths which could be fun

[@screamcollector]

the transformer cards hurt my brain. why do they all have multiple complex and unrelated abilities that interact

[@jfb-]

game2 round1 could have pitchcast solitude so that you could reflection it and take out both constructs, taking off a lot of pressure

[@BoshNRoll]

Reflection had summoning sickness.

[@jamesmorgan9554]

Buddy! You missed the easy pun "I am the Paw!"

[@styyber]

What a fun league

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[@Zii_Vii]

I just can't imagine playing legacy without blue or black. Shit, I can't imagine playing mtg without blue or black rofl. Tells you what kinda mage I am.

[@justass3001]

Playing legacy without blue, black OR prison pieces is honestly playing legacy wrong

[@MackNJacishopper]

Comet looks so hilariously busted sometimes.

[@RyuKage92]

Still love your exclaimed comments.

[@Reversespacehippie]

Obligatory algorithmic contribution

[@RiKSh4w]

So, who's paying to see a Ratchet Rescue Racer deck next week?

[@Totescolin]

Go to 3! Go to 3!

[@hopeforthebestx]

Sick

[@andrewpalella9923]

Judge Dredd is absolutely boros. Does that mean his brother in the shitty shitty movie with Stallone is rakdos?

[@cha0sniper]

That or Gruul

[@jaredschroeder7555]

Awww, no isochron? Itd be a fun sideboard card to decimate some decks

[@Interesting_Failure]

Silly question, maybe, but would you consider a one-of Dwarven Mine? I'm not sure what the odds are on it screwing you by showing up at a bad time are (and they'd have to be pretty low, as the benefit is fairly marginal), but the idea is you can fetch it to get a storyteller counter.

[@music00soba]

man i really wanna jam some comet now guess its time to rebuild winota

[@gabrielarchanjo6028]

Round 1 game 3 makes me think why wizards don't seem to try to fix this resource system.

[@scottsmith6750]

Can you pithing needle LED? Thought it might be good for Match 1

[@BoshNRoll]

No, it’s a mana ability.

[@travisbur7110]

Would this kind of deck work in modern? I feel like you'd still have a lot of good removal, and there are more creatures to remove.

[@insomniclipse9400]

staff of the storyteller and forth eorlingas are the main sources of card advantage and they aren't legal in modern. It would be interesting to see a modern take on the deck though. I just cant think of card draw spells in boros as good as those 2. The thing about control decks is they usually need some consistent way to play the long game and get card advantage to have enough removal for whatever the opponent does. Maybe palantir would be a way to go in modern. Idk about the one ring though since it kills you. I don't really play modern so I haven't played with the one ring enough to determine how much a control deck would want it.

[@natesage8645]

@@insomniclipse9400 I think the closest thing Boros has in Modern is Thrilling Discovery, but that’s not even card advantage it just goes neutral

[@jakehr3]

Because we need good legacy deck names, can we name this deck Animal Husbandry or Animals or Animal Handling? For the Horses and Dogs win conditions

[@BandingCowboy]

That control deck made me want to puke. I know you like it but its infuriating seeing so many spells get countered haha

[@WarpKL]

Not playing blue is too painful

[@zzztopspin]

Lol.. Round 3, you had 10 damage to face with comet! Two creatures is strong tho

[@cakataarjack3966]

Opponent playing counterspell tribal

[@noahwick3217]

i don't know why someone would wan't to play sans blue control without some of the strongest tools for that archetype, stax is an incredibly potent form of control

[@BoshNRoll]

Creative expression and play preferences are as valid as anything else when we’re just playing in the sandbox. I wouldn’t take this to a tournament.

[@shurbblybubbs]

"Or they can just play karn or some dumb shit ... Oh Yeah"

[@TheBu213]

I know you still won, but wouldn't have lightning helix, swing with all be lethal at 57:32 if you'd targeted face? :P

[@BoshNRoll]

We don't talk about combat lethal when control decks are popping off.

[@piquanta7]

26:00 you conceded and he hadn't made one unlockable yet... Should have waiting

[@Weasels42]

4 attackers and 3 blockers. The opponent didn't have to use key to make blocking impossible

[@piquanta7]

@@Weasels42 I'm a dummy

[@BoshNRoll]

Turns out when I have fewer blockers than they have attackers, one is already unblockable.

[@gregkachmarik7838]

Why on earth is mana tithe not in the 75

[@musicalcacti]

Hello!

[@BoshNRoll]

Hello!

[@piquanta7]

1:15:10 why not cycle dragon and eternalize it's not a cast trigger for standstill then they are forced to cast a spell to deal with it and you draw 3

[@BoshNRoll]

Jace just bounces it then I have nothing and am still under Standstill.

[@piquanta7]

You would kill his Jace by doing so

[@Korwinga]

@@piquanta7 Jace was on 3, and bouncing is only -1 loyalty.

[@piquanta7]

@@Korwinga I really need to get my eyes checked

[@nousernameleft999]

at 6:15 you name pithing needle as a bad card... but it's a 1 mana answer to LED and lotus petal. is it actually bad to cut those off in an adnaus game?

[@TheRixler]

It’s not an answer to LED or lotus petal because it can’t prevent mana abilities.

[@nousernameleft999]

@@TheRixler oh right, I'm so used to playing revoker.... thank you lol

[@haiyukafox]

53:25

[@piquanta7]

1:26:46 why not bolt wandering emperor in response to activation?

[@BoshNRoll]

Adding and removing loyalty from planeswalkers is a cost of the ability, it happens before the ability is even put on the stack. If I bolt in response, they get an emperor at 1.

[@piquanta7]

@@BoshNRoll literally got into a fight with someone about this 2 weeks ago and they insisted that you can respond to the uptick. Glad to know I was right

[@drpibisback7680]

​@@piquanta7Fun fact, this is also why Doubling Season gives planeswalkers double their starting loyalty but doesn't double their ticking up - entering with counters is an effect, but the ticking is considered a cost even when it's positive.

[@tinyprince]

Though it was very much justified in this video, lately you do seem to get angry at the game more than you usually do.

[@BoshNRoll]

I’m never really angry at the game. I’m just making content.