I Explode Yargle's Corpse on an Ill-Tempered Loner | Against the Odds

[@bensteinhauser784]

Seth's love for Fling is rivaled only by his love for Panharmonicon.

[@MasterCrvo]

A little fresh Siege Rhino, anybody?

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

Siege PanharmoniFling anyone?

[@epothos1]

Or blood moon

[@rekenner]

Barbed Servitor being suspected is probably a joke about the "The Butler did it" trope

[@Icameron259]

Perhaps, but the gameplay reason is probably just they thought another indestructible stuffy doll blocker would be obnoxious (especially in limited).

[@Cerebrosum]

Also just look at it. I mean...

[@leanin2it]

Aftermath Analyst: “I perform analyses, it’s what I do.” Seth: “You’re an analysis.”

[@grubgobbler3917]

He finally noticed though!

[@bencheevers6693]

Analyzers*

[@koolaiddude7685894]

9:16 -Nissa- ❌️ _Neeeeeeeeeeessa_ ✅️

[@BobBoican]

A̶f̶t̶e̶r̶m̶a̶t̶h̶ A̶n̶a̶l̶y̶s̶t̶s̶ ❌ Aftermath Analysiseses ✅

[@1_____________________]

Thanks to Seth I can't say "Bloodtithe Harvester" anymore

[@jancukasu]

@@BobBoican Anal-sissies

[@lesternomo6578]

i was just about to comment about that loll he said nissa then just *had* to say it like that

[@createeel99]

@@1_____________________ thanks to seth, I literally can't stop narrating magic games in what I have now coined the "saffron accent"

[@benjaminlewis3678]

Seth got so close to realizing he’s been mispronouncing Aftermath ANALYST

[@JustDan_777]

He fixed it once I'm so happy

[@Beowulfgang_Amadeus]

He commented on saying it wrong all the time... then went back to saying it wrong.

[@MidgarMerc]

Seth might be dyslexic

[@austinmitchell2053]

It’s easy to make plural if you say it right…

[@babatazyah]

Idk if I can take like, 3 more years of Aftermath Analysis

[@EllipticalReasoning]

I feel like match 2 was a serious throw with refusal to discard. The deck only needs 4 lands to function, and seth paid 6 life against monored to keep lands 5 and 6 - after refusing to discard yargle in the first game in a deck built around discarding yargle to win.

[@TheMadManHimself]

Just want to say I really appreciate the deck breakdown and the primer. I know you’ve said that they’re commonly skipped but I love seeing them

[@bradenpeters9573]

Probably the most useful I’ve seen Barbed Servitor being. It’s such a trap in draft.

[@funkypants7297]

I had someone get rid of its suspect with airtight alibi and that was scary lmao!

[@strika234]

i feel like not discarding lands against burn is a punt honestly. You lost like 6 life each game for no reason

[@ДимитърПоптолев]

He was planning on casting the Yargle ... which doesn't make it any less of a punt tbh.

[@3rdtimesacharm84]

@@ДимитърПоптолев yeah casting a 6 drop against red aggro doesn't seem like a good game plan lol 😂

[@lopppopp9581]

Dude

[@casimiroperez2775]

Are you still waiting for Seth to become a good player? 😂

[@AutkastKain]

I'm glad I watched this for the simple fact that I got to see Seth try to say the flavor text of Yargle at 34:30

[@Hyralc]

51:00 "If they tap out, they don't know they're dead" bro *you* don't know they're dead, the corpse explosion was a non-surveil topdeck

[@antedeguemon1194]

He's the lisan al gaib

[@evanshaner991]

He manifested it to the top of his library through sheer will and unwavering faith, apparently.

[@Crusina]

NOOOOO SETH!!! I WAS LITERALLY UPLOADING A VIDEO LIKE THIS TO SEND TO YOU!!! The only difference is that the combo I used was was yargle/corpse explosion/tangled colony to make 18 rats.

[@sentientvcr346]

That's so beautiful!

[@Deer_God]

Seth: *doesnt discard yargel in the discarding Yargle deck* also Seth: “did we punt?”

[@3rdtimesacharm84]

It wasn't a punt to not rummage, it was a punt to not discard Yargle with that removal spell since your not gonna be casting it for 6 mana against a red aggro deck

[@the_r4ts]

Agreed, but obligatory *you're

[@3rdtimesacharm84]

@@the_r4ts not if your typing on a phone, it would considered common slang such as lol as the idea is to lower the amount of thumb presses when typing

[@mralumina3566]

I literally never heard that's a slang on phone lol. If anything on phone my spelling is better since they have these spelling suggestion which is a one tap away to fix your stuff. On pc on the other hands, so many typos because I have to right click and check spelling.

[@Tinholl]

​@@3rdtimesacharm84im not a grammar nazi but there's a difference between slang and bad grammar, bro...

[@3rdtimesacharm84]

@@mralumina3566 I suppose your not old enough to remember having to pay per character. Us older folk have it ingrained inside of us to use as few characters as possible 😉

[@brendanpulsford]

Seth does a better job pronouncing Yargle's flavor text than a good chunk of card names (this is not a criticism)

[@theEevee098]

I think the issue with Deadly Complications/ Barbed Servitor isn't that you didn't stick the creature, but that you continually chose to attack with it rather than keep it back on defense when you could have. Also you got lucky one game thinking you had the full combo in hand because Deadly Complication looks a lot like Corpse Explosion, but then you happened to top deck the Corpse Explosion.

[@thecollegecraftsman2865]

I'm so glad to see someone else using corpse explosion, I've been running a couple of them in my grixis shadow's deck and it's never let me down

[@imakuni67]

10:15 Barbed Servitor is also better than other Stuffy Dolls because it does life loss instead of damage.

[@jamesrule1338]

The name of the deck is a winner if nothing else.

[@demiurge2501]

seth and those stuffy doll cards i tell ya

[@Hanmacx]

0:57 The Answer is very simple You don't play a card, have Ill Tempered Loner transform into Howlpack Avenger Then ANY Damage, no matter how small, on ANY of your creatures instant kills your opponent because Howlpack Avenger can Damage Barbed Servitor which causes the Avenger to trigger AGAIN

[@surfinggarchomp2820]

I'm pretty sure deadly complication is a sorcery because of limited. Being able to kill a creature and do a combat trick would be insanely good.

[@clvssi]

Seth, have you seen the vein ripper reanimation combo? If you haven’t, the deck I got beat by tried to get a bunch of treasures in rakdos then use the pull side of push pull to reanimate 2 vein rippers with haste, swing for 12 then drain for 8 on end step.

[@eon2330]

Only seth can think "vs mono red aggro, its best to self burn 3 health, and keep the 6 drop that can at best block 1 creature in hand, instead of setting up my combo that only needs 1 more card".

[@Beam_on_team]

The 4 mana kaya is actually pretty nice, I was messing around a few weeks ago with a mardu deck where the allstar was the MKM Rakdos - it's a lot better than it looks, especially when your random 1/1 suddenly becomes a 6/6 flampler on t4 that draws 2 cards. I was also REALLY impressed by just resolving one against most decks

[@AeroSW]

Phyrexian Vindicator must be asking if he is a joke to SaffronOlive.

[@rylanchampion5972]

4 white is pretty mana intensive

[@w1ll3m.]

Brash Taunter would like a word with him too.

[@nomeacuerdo]

Seth reading Yargle’s flavor should be everyone’s ringtone

[@yoadzephyr6660]

in that last game, the hidetsugo consumes all in seth's sideboard "am I a joke to you?"

[@zachhuey4426]

34:00 I love the good old topdeck war.

[@DonovanPresents]

36:24 servitors can be considered butlers and in murder mysteries the butler could've always done it!

[@ZNEO3NZ]

Its also covered in razor wire, anything can happen while serving tea in spiked armor!

[@sarcastic_ocupie1669]

If you had an unyielding gatekeeper it would counter the suspect of barbed servator

[@Zebedee18]

Can't believe we got an Ill-Tempered Loner deck and no room for Angelfire Ignition (Infinite Life). Still, great video!

[@Hanmacx]

Can't believe he didn't use Howlpack Avenger

[@Tinil0]

Why the hell can Seth pronounce "Gnshhagghkkapphribbit" perfectly fine but he can't pronounce Takenuma?!

[@BrotherRooster]

Your positivity really sells the content with these vids Seth. However over the last few vids I'm not sure if Ive missed an in-joke? You keep referring to Aftermath Analysis rather than Aftermath Analyst. So much so that in this vid you even question what the plural of analysis is... Don't know why I end up fixating on this. Keep the content coming :)

[@synckar6380]

27:15 I'm almost kinda sad since there's such a great line to play and survive here. Untap, Corpse Explode the Servitor, boardwipe the opponent leaving the Gix, and regain the Bitter Triumph for next turn.

[@WildMageMadness]

I thought I was free of Seth saying Aftermath Analysis instead of Aftermath Analyst. Cool to see all the combos working though.

[@SlaytheDivine]

Watching Seth become self aware to Analyst made me pull a Leo meme at my TV

[@m.k.1547]

Barbed servitor plus a Lure effect might also Work to use the servitor more offensively

[@thechestrockfield]

You like Weird AL. Do you remember his version of Complicated??

[@bencheevers6693]

If you want to continue down the deadly complications route this might be a good deck for case of the stashed skeleton to tutor but that still seems too bad to me, it's just a way to have a 2 drop that can get in for that chip damage that isn't really a problem anyways but then when you cast deadly complications it 'makes' a blocker and puts a demonic tutor into your hand. Hard to analyze the total cost of that combined effect but when it works I *suspect* it's great but might be too much junk when it doesn't line up

[@DeadBodyMan]

I fell for the meme and built a Barbed Servitor / Phyrexian Obliterator deck that relies on Fight spells to win. It performs better than it deserves to because people scoop when they have to sacrifice lands to Obliterator.

[@I43573]

M1 G1 you could have played the yargle, hoped they didn't topdeck, and then fling/explode the yargle to win...

[@alfredlewis8476]

Used something with ziatora as the sac outlet, where even if you dont kill you still get the three treasures

[@justinslagel48]

In game 1 match 1, instead of Corpse Exploding to kill the Nissa, wouldn’t hard casting Yargle, then next turn flinging him and Corpse Exploding have been fatal? Small punt maybe? Thoughts?

[@nicklittle8399]

Glad to see we're still pronouncing it "broother's hood end" haha

[@osaka199]

My take on indestructible as it is right now is that it makes no sense there are so many 1/1 indestructible for 4 mana cards when there's so much exile flying around. I guess that being a 1/1 gives them some protection of "why would I use removal on this" but also sometimes you just gotta and it's not nearly enough protection to justify the cost. Specially when there's also 1 mana -1/-1 cards that also kill the indestructible 1/1.

[@Shimatzu95]

If it wasn't for 2 exile bordwipes being the most played sweepers (at least it feels that way), the -1/-1 effects would be much more relevant to deal with indestructibility, and there are usually not a lot of playable ones around in addition to being almost always black.

[@MrZymolysis]

Feel like splashing blue for ill timed explosion might be worth looking into

[@MidgarMerc]

Seth really trying to naturally play a 6 mana blocker vs monored -_-

[@jancukasu]

34:31 How come Seth can always properly spell "Gnshhagghkkapphribbit", but NOT humanly words like "Analyst"?

[@coreysierchio4650]

Yargle is Life. Yargle is Love. *Thanks for the Content!*

[@tanzanit3512]

Seth finally junding them out!

[@christianbarrett3040]

I was planning to do something like this but with marauding raptor in a different format

[@zigzag2370]

Add in ill. Timed explosion and you get to discard yargle to wipe then board then corpse explosion the final damage needed to kill the opponent and all you need is servitor in play or a way to make your looner indestructible for the ill timed explosion turn😊

[@fuzzbuzz6581]

Isnt there a goblin that does this too? Taps to fight I think. Idk lol all I play is historic.

[@swampybwoy]

The title and intro cracked me up so much 😂

[@donovans8904]

Many Yargles were harmed in the making of this episode

[@TheLevifrancisco]

At this point the ANALYSIS has to be deliberate. No way no one has told him its actually Analyst.

[@Tornakin-98]

Aren’t there 3 Stuffy dolls in standard now?

[@mistriousfrog]

Yeah phyrexian vindicator. But at 4 White, he doesn’t play well with others.

[@jellywillreturn]

13:53 to receive vindication

[@wormspeaker]

The Barbed Servitor is such a sussy baka.

[@HostileLoather]

"Gnish-haag-kap-ribbit" or something like that.

[@vividsyntax5301]

Best title in a while. And great games!

[@chaosphilosopher]

I really hate to say this, it's aftermath ana LIST (-lyst). Think a list of aftermaths not the sister of aftermaths.

[@Sey318]

Find someone who loves you as much as Seth loves fling.

[@michaelcollins4534]

I feel like barbed servitor could've been a 2 drop with no changes, and it would still be a bad card. Who makes a stuffy doll that can't block

[@tempy2440]

36:00 its suspicious because its of rakdos

[@Eddyb1e]

This reminds me of the old video with the whale exploding on the beach...

[@kango182]

I love repulsive mutation! I use it with ojer kaslem for an extra big hit in a land fall deck.

[@kango182]

I also use it in my master biomancer gruff triplets deck.

[@RelaxWithRussellASMR]

Aftermath Analysis is Insane.

[@wookieesden3133]

Me, playing Magic in the 90’s: a 5/4 for 6 with no downside?! Wow! Seth in 2024: this 18/6 for 6 is just not worth much.

[@alicetheaxolotl]

Trying to hard cast the 6 drop against an aggro deck was certainly a game plan😂

[@c.trammell]

I still need to see Seth in a cowboy hat

[@LlywellynOBrien]

Seth attempting to pronounce whatever Yargle says is just hilarious given his ability to pronounce regular english words.

[@littlel9906]

if you went purely by seths decks youd think callous sell sword is the best card in standard

[@Bestglookser]

Seth you’re a fan of eternal sunshine of the spotless mind??

[@frogpizza]

analyst.

[@smashmagnum9312]

Analisi

[@knobbonk]

ANNA LIST

[@ReyaadawnMTG]

I've just started maindecking Unlicensed Hearse. The graveyard is too relevant to too many decks right now.

[@TheLunaLockhart]

I mean it's the wrong word, but, analyses is the plural of analysis 👍

[@patritchie1317]

Flavor win for WOTC: *Neesa's Aftermath Analysis*

[@maxwellsanger8569]

This deck wants more discard/mil. Maybe even branch into 4c for blue.

[@CockroachED]

Analyst not analysis.

[@seanheath4492]

Also, if he insists on using the wrong word, "analyses" instead of "analysises." :P

[@OGNoNameNobody]

Aww....someone is not aware of Seth's Kayfabe. Welcome, new guy.

[@ryanbolson23]

19:27 shuffler is fine folks

[@Hanmacx]

You should have used Howlpack Avenger more

[@MindLaboratory]

We need a deck called "Loner Tribal" just for the name

[@breslin90]

Now we gotta do yargle and Rakdos joins up for an easy 20 damage

[@thelunchlady8276]

Still waiting for a Yargle pirate. Y'ARRRRR-gle.

[@SmokeADig]

Middle?

[@Crazymachin3gun]

U got the best sfx on youtube

[@brianontiveros-kersch2412]

How have you STILL not learned how to pronounce the word "Analyst" yet? You played the deck and 90% of the comments were about the fact that the CREATURE is an ANALYST not an ANALYSIS.

[@jakevuckturd1201]

Phyrexian vindicator?!?!?!?

[@as95ms98]

I'm a simple man. I see Yargle, I click.

[@NeoSlimey]

Exploding on an ill-tempered loner, huh? Reminds me of my ex... god I miss her

[@elliotbanbury6442]

I thought geological appraiser is banned in standard?? Is it an old recording??

[@TMidander]

Nope, you're thinking of pioneer.

[@hmvollbanane1259]

It's not banned in standard

[@Atmapalazzo]

It's analyst non analysis.

[@r4g1ngph03n1x]

Analyst Seth, Analyst. Not Analysis

[@bencheevers6693]

Analyzers*

[@butdoesitscrub3457]

Sick

[@Red_Mag3]

2nd Video of Seth calling Analyst "Analysis"

[@Red_Mag3]

13:50 he's starting to realize ....

[@jyrinx]

Oof. I know Magic players can't pronounce things, but Seth whiffing twice coming up with the plural for the _wrong word_ was hard to watch. (The card is Aftermath Analyst, not Aftermath Analysis.)

[@jyrinx]

Oh whew, he caught himself. I'm sure this says something unflattering about me but I feel much better now.

[@cyremurgaming-mtgdnd4953]

Idk sideboarding out your core combo feels like you're not committed to the game plan...

[@Shimatzu95]

At the same time being a gy deck in the current meta is, well nor great.