Infinite Landfall Moraug | MTG Modern | Against the Odds

[@andrewbader6927]

21:39 second retreat means you can infinite tap there board then infinite scry for a pay off

[@stephenhousman6975]

I was wondering about that and my thoughts were correct. Seth apparently punted that one away.

[@CMOJoker]

My thought too. My only guess is he was thinking of each creature as his land drop and forgot he had an actual land drop for turn still.

[@simpletonic]

Yes, I was like Yes! Then he puts it on the bottom... He coulda untapped the whole team then got ready to tap the opposing team till he finds his card...maybe he got tired of the scry looping lol

[@arashinoguardianyeah9083]

I was just about to say the same thing...looks like seth got too excited and punted this one away...but hey, that's one of the reasons we love him

[@gochadc]

Came to the comments to check if I was not the only one thinking about it. This is basically a win for the game that it's gonna be counted as a lose :(

[@JonathanHecht]

Seth: "Ok, we can win next turn" Kitesail Freebooter: "Prepare for trouble!" Meddling Mage: "And make it a double!"

[@kindredspirit9703]

Kitesail Freebooter: "To protect the world from Devoted Devastation!"

[@theegust85]

@@kindredspirit9703 To unite all humans against our opponent

[@kindredspirit9703]

@@theegust85 "To denounce the evils of Tron proponents"

[@alech-b3749]

To extend our reach to mantis riders above

[@TheSkizz89]

@@kindredspirit9703 To unite all Humans against fringe creations.

[@jekanyika]

I imagine Seth was commentating the whole scry loop.

[@johnmeier1]

Tap and untap. Tap and untap. tap and untap....

[@fo-ef8qo]

Hit our birds, draw some cards, hit our birds, draw some cards

[@stormycat0905]

The montages in this video are phenomenal.

[@MTGGoldfish]

Glad you liked them!

[@stormycat0905]

@@MTGGoldfish need more of them to be honest

[@PlagueGamer]

Lol. Love the piano music 🎶 for the sped up part XD

[@louiscohen3016]

Yeah me too love ragtime :)

[@BaconBringer22]

*Hears ragtime music* Oh, Seth wins now.

[@terryschmitt8050]

My parents had a player piano when I was growing up and Maple Leaf Rag was one of the song rolls they had. This video brought me back to my childhood listening to the piano playing that song. Thanks for the great content Seth.

[@ToastAtDusk]

absolutely LOVE that he said Moraug, Furry of Akoum in the dech tech

[@jessievohsen6686]

Thankyou seth and everyone at goldfish for providing me with such great content that lets me get away from my horrible life for a little bit every now and then. Without you I probably wouldn't be here right now so thankyou.

[@matthiasvecanski7044]

Couldn’t Seth have won the last game/match 1 vs Humans by keeping the Retreat, playing Retreat, land for turn and then scry+untap with the bounce land loop?

[@PsychicHawk174]

I think he could’ve tapped down the attackers on the opponent’s main phase to avoid taking damage.

[@abz123zya]

Yes he could have, and used the retreats to tap all their creatures and survive

[@TonD19]

Yep. Use one trigger to tap a creature, the other to untap his creature, repeat. End step, scry the entire deck, win.

[@MTGGoldfish]

Ugh. Oops.

[@AshenKing97]

This is all live gameplay, even our favorite players make mistakes and sometimes the lines of play can be hard to see. Especially since Seth plays so many decks he might not have mastered the deck enough to see some intricate things. He's doing his best and playing interesting decks and that's why I love watching him!

[@michaelwallover4730]

Didn't expect the Maple leaf Rag while watching Magic.

[@oblongpolecat3867]

pretty sure after Seth talked about Jaddi Offshoot being in his sideboard he said "LandFart" instead of landfall and I refuse to believe otherwise.

[@haruuc]

He 100% did. Haha

[@coreypunch9000]

4:52

[@suedonym3296]

I just noticed that the teaserclips at the beginning of your videos have really improved - they leave me with questions and wanting to see more now, instead of spoiling the best moments! Great work on those as of kate (:

[@theyonlycomeoutwhenitsquiet]

The music was an inspired choice. Loved seeing that edit, it made my whole evening better. Thanks for the stuff Seth, always a great pleasure to see you do weird stuff

[@scottsbarbarossalogic3665]

This would be much better to play in paper, where you show the loop, and then get the concede. Very sweet deck

[@TheChibidono]

Seems like a lot of cool infinite loop decks are a nightmare in modo but a short show loop plus explanation away in paper.

[@Zentenski]

The musical interludes are lovely. Thanks, editor!

[@kieranheaton4951]

In commander(Lord windgrace) I use world shaper, squandered resources, ashnods altar (you can use phyrexian too) and Nim deathmantle to creat infinite landfall. Love field of the dead and valakut!

[@JoeGrzzly]

57:20 Through the Spore Frog and the Caustic Caterpillar is my favorite Dragonforce song.

[@tike481]

Holy smokes, this is such a sweet looking deck! Just blows me away as I would love to see more decks like this become mainstay in modern.

[@kingginger3335]

Love the music choice going Scott Joplin for the infinite Scry abilities. Good stuff

[@FalloutFan011]

Might I say, Mr. Seth (also known as SaffronOlive), your music choice during the sped up parts of the video IS PERFECT I was laughing soooooooooooooo hard watching those portions XD XD

[@ninjadave3281]

Loved the musical interlude. Nice touch.

[@philiphallam3750]

Best part of this entire video was use of Scott Joplin's The Maple Leaf Raf. Source: Some guys who learned The Maple Leaf Rag back in the day as his final piano piece.

[@faceoctopus4571]

Liked that you did the fast forward thing. Maple leaf Rag was a classy choice.

[@Jamie261090]

@21:57 You scryed a 2nd Retreat to the bottom, drew a land and conceded. With 2x Retreat, couldn't you have tapped down opposing creatures forever? (using 1 trigger to tap an apposing creature and 1 trigger to untap your Scout)

[@PercyWellington]

@21:38 if you have double retreat, cant you tap down their whole team? One trigger untap your scout, second trigger tap their guy. then once you've tapped their team, infinite scry for the win. I think you had it there.

[@computersocsci]

You make the most amazing decks, Seth!

[@alech-b3749]

Okay this is exactly what I expected when you said "we had to go pretty deep to go infinite" on stream🤣 love it

[@otisnt5718]

That alternate art Moraug is so sweet

[@SkorianDnb]

3 different Lotus Cobra artstyles in one deck ...aaargh. Seth! What are you doing to meeee? xD Great deck btw ;D

[@natejablonski]

I think it's four

[@Freezingfist1]

Temur. Is there anything it can't do?

[@MystiaLore]

Coffee =)

[@stephenhousman6975]

being grixis

[@LoDuris1]

Dear Editor, we love you for your cuts in this episode. You have earned a rest after this lol

[@BrandoCliftDean]

I love that this video is introducing the youngsters to the great Scott Joplin!

[@sebastianfricke3454]

Seff you are soo cool, i always watch your videos before i go to sleep :D your voice is incredible

[@MTGGoldfish]

Thanks!!!

[@mariano_molina]

First match, if you keep the Retreat on top and double up, you can infinitely keep him tapped (each land self bounces and creates 2 Retreat triggers, one untaps a creature and the other taps theirs). He doesn't have direct damage and then you can do infinite scrying and win next turn.

[@tavitalvensaari6355]

Tap Sakura-Tribe Scout, trigger Piano Music.

[@dudumangs7140]

You mean this one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qn3cg6N9gLyLiNU

[@gleesmw]

Question - End of match 1 would the 2nd retreat not mean that you could have played a land untapped 2 of your creatures and basically tapped down their creatures every turn?

[@endermeap6488]

Yea, since with two every land is a tap and untap

[@sparkzfox2890]

22 minutes in your deck came through for you!!! Second retreat would've tapped down all your opponents attackers and infinite untap your own creatures! You could've scrying for the win on their turn Seth!

[@Etaripamai47]

Every time seth can play minotaurs, I want him to play minotaurs

[@Infernoman64]

"Several min and a million clicks later" You now are hearing that in the Spongebob narrator voice...manually.

[@praetorxak5361]

21:55 keep the retreat you can tap down all of their creatures

[@tianruixiao9239]

This is fun, i was brewing a edh list with retreat to coralhelm and inf landfall

[@malign3158]

13:35 is why actual tabletop/voice chat will always be superior. “I scry 1 until I decide to stop” ‘Oh ok, go for it’ “Alright I found what I wanted and I will win” ‘no problem, next game?’

[@RocketSlug]

This is probably a better build than my crazy idea of Elite Arcanist with Crop Rotation

[@baumtree7967]

at 21:50 why did you scry the retreat to the bottom? two of them would have been able to tap down your opponents entire board constantly and scry infinitly.

[@MrShinyObject]

Protip: if you have valakut exploration and a scout in play, use the scout first. If you hit a land with valakut exploration you can play it as your land for turn.

[@realperson69]

50:48 It’s subtle, but THIS is where you lose game three against Rogues, by fetching an untapped Stomping Ground when a basic Mountain would suffice. Those two points of life ended up being the difference between 11 and 13 life against 12 power in the air. Granted, opponent could still have had removal or counters, but *shrugs*.

[@coreysierchio4650]

*Ragtime music plays* "Is that you, Lord Vinheteiro?"

[@spawnofmelkor]

Bet this solitaire deck was so much fun to play against.

[@bakyra4683]

21:37 why not keep the 2nd Coralheim and have infinite taps? it wins you infinite turns against creature deck! :D

[@SkinnyMidwest]

Am I the only one to recognize the Daniel Johnston shirt? Cool shirt, Seth!

[@Canadian_Ry]

Lol Interesting choice on the 1920's-ish piano music for the montages. Did you take a page out of Johnlikesgames' book? Hey, great minds think alike. This was a fun deck to watch in action. So many ways to make use of the landfall triggers. Since you've got blue in the deck, it would be pretty easy to substitute in a mill strategy. Well done MTGGoldfish!

[@NH-wx1fq]

I'm stealing this combo for commander. Who picked out the piano music??? Love it.

[@evanlightner]

With what commander?

[@notsm]

> puts in 4 different Lotus Cobra > "mismatch, so ugly..."

[@natejablonski]

Agreed. I thought Seth was into four mismatched versions of one card, but I guess that must be exclusive to Mono Red Prison?

[@Egovinco98]

kinda hoped you would get randomly matched vs that Conundrum deck, so any land acts as bounce land also 40:00 ish, was it really correct to blow up Prism over waiting for a Unlife, they already blew 1 AG 45:00 ish, did OP know you have 2 bouncelands? why did he not try to Field of Ruin you?

[@AxillaryPower2]

does anybody actually know Seth better as SaffronOlive?

[@uucue]

Yeah, Seth is ambiguous since you could (though less likely) be referring to Seth Manfield

[@mateusviegas4553]

@@uucue or Sethron, hurloon general

[@x3mskbord]

random opponents of his who aren't aware of this channel probably better know him by his mtgo name, SaffronOlive

[@terrynagle7410]

That one made me laugh my ass off thank you for playing it

[@Chrisuan]

I love how you were ahead on time after that infinite click-sanity We need to tell people about F6 lol

[@MinghaoLi-c7d]

Good job Seth!

[@Cornelius135]

I'm really surprised people didn't scoop to the on-board combo. I guess it's new, so they wanna "see" it, but it's pretty clearly a win so many times. They didn't even get music to pass the (rag)time.

[@SilverIronManTV]

I've been working on and playing with the tribe scout + retreat combo for awhile. I'm glad to see it in the limelight. Any reason you didn't include Oboro? It's effectively the same thing as a bounce land but being able to use it for mana really helps

[@xhuntbig5684]

Match 1 game 3 Seth could've kept the retreat he scried away and tapped down the enemy team until he found what he needed.

[@petersmythe6484]

(Regarding around 30:30) I am glad your opponent let you play it out, it is always disappointing and you don't get to show your excitement when you have some jank Against the 'Odds combo that your opponent scoops prior to.

[@frienetic]

This deck is an Ergo nightmare

[@maciek19882]

You can do infinite Moraug in standard too. With the selesnya creature

[@TotallyTribal]

Is retreat necessary to combo off? Doesn't marogg untap creatures by himself? So just bounce a land, untap during combat, then land etc

[@jordillatser5897]

But can't you go to combat to untap creatures with Moraug? Attack but not with the elf? And in standard the combo also exists with Murasa Root gazer and another one or a wayward guide-beast

[@stewartmorris9771]

Is there a new recording schedule? I may be going crazy but videos seem to be coming out at different times than they used to. Keep up the great work!

[@natejablonski]

IIRC Much Abrew moved to Friday but otherwise just the time changed to noon eastern

[@stewartmorris9771]

@@natejablonski Ah ok. That makes a ton of sense. Thank ya!

[@urpalalis]

any reason for llanowar scout over skyshroud ranger? is the extra 2 toughness worth the extra generic mana?

[@alfredmonostra55]

So keeping the 2nd retreat on the sry would have won right? With 2 retreats he could play land, untap scouts, then infinite land drops to tap down all creatures and scry entire deck before next draw.

[@VRanger100]

I can never tell with opponents who let Seth combo off. Do they do it so Seth runs the clock out or are they the type to never give up regardless the 0.1% chance for the mis-click. I appreciate seeing the combo in full since we get the occasional music montage at least.

[@freeejazzz]

How long were the actual matches if you didn't have The Entertainer interludes?

[@dvorak2676]

didn't vote for moraug, but actually glad it was chosen :)

[@bryantan4228]

Is Retreat to Coralhelm really necessary? You can get infinite untaps and infinite landfall triggers with Scout, bounceland, Moraug 1: Scout in bounce land, bounce itself trigger Moraug 2: Go to Moraug's combat, untap scout. 3. Scout in bounce land, bounce itself trigger Moraug 4. Go to Moraug's combat, untap scout etc etc

[@cjfeinberg7613]

No, Moraug only triggers if the land enters on your main phase, and he doesn’t give you extra main phases. Also, retreat being cheaper is important.

[@calebcr6662]

Do you think shoving the ruin ghost combo in here somewhere would work? The mana base would have to be tweaked but maybe easier to get off than Moraug?

[@natejablonski]

The red also gives the Valakut enchantment to combo that way. Even if this wasn't Against the Odds with Moraug, I don't think so.

[@kalikbeggs6540]

is there a modern version of infinite land combo?

[@c.jhamblin5759]

During the last game if the first round, shouldn't you have kept retreat on top? With two, you could infinitely untap a sakura tribe elder to keep playing bounce lands, and the second trigger can be used to perma tap your opponents creatures. You essentially had them hard locked out of the game there, the only issue would be time

[@samsweet4089]

Id love to see a greater gargadon deck that isnt a restore balance deck, I feel like it could be sick with chromatic star and ichor wellspring type stuff

[@turnipy88]

Why didn't the Rogues player Field of Ruin the bounce lands?

[@dakotajohnson5937]

have you ever thought about comboing off with hidden strings instead of retreat?

[@kingginger3335]

Would Ashaya + Quirion Ranger be a viable combo in Modern?

[@elkor2792]

Wouldn't skyshroud ranger be better than that 2 drop?

[@kaoticshadow]

does double retreet not just let you tap down the opps entire team over and over and over again? One to untap your guy, one to tap his.

[@DEV-Plays]

with all these bounce lands is there a good reason not to run amulet of vigor?

[@fienddube]

Cool deck, but (a) you don’t need infinite combats. Generally just a couple will do it thanks to Moraug’s pump. I’ve killed people a goddamn Birds of Paradise lol. And (b) some kind of tutor might help. Would Summoner Pact work or is that green only?

[@natejablonski]

Unfortunately Pact is only green. Could run Eladamri's Call if you can squeeze in a little more white mana

[@und3rt3h1nfluence]

2nd game against ad nauseum, I don’t think Seth should have cracked cindervines on the prism and waited to use it on unlife if/when OP plays it. Also it pings for one on each noncreature spell which would be dangerous for ad naus.

[@MrBurrito]

the first round, that second retreat to coralhelm would have done it. with 2 you can tap down opps creatures forever and untap your guy, and next turn scry until you hit what you needed. :(

[@KingMasteron1]

... I, I think almost the entire deck is pioneer legal. Seth PLZ? 🥺

[@derrickthewhite1]

Sakura-Tribe Scout is not, and its four of eight pieces we need to win. Which is sad.

[@randompeeps71]

@@derrickthewhite1 isn’t there a 2 mana one that was printed within the past year or two?

[@derrickthewhite1]

@@randompeeps71 Llanowar Scout? that's the four copies we get to keep that we already had, but that makes two parts of a combo we only have four copies of apiece. Skyshroud ranger also works, but that's not pioneer legal (so we could play this deck with more/lower cmc copies of the effect, if we wanted). Budoka Gardener is the same situation.

[@argonnas2]

Bounce lands arent legal in pioneer

[@AshenKing97]

I don't get why omnath and uro are cards but moraug doesn't have haste and base camp enters tapped lmao. Thanks for making another fun interesting deck Seth! When I pulled the showcase moraug I immediately wanted something to play him in and now I have it!

[@thatdude8114]

F in the chat for Seths right pointer finger

[@imakuni67]

Playing Magic as Scott Joplin intended.

[@maxsternburg1956]

Would Walking Atlas be better than Llanowar Scout since it doesnt require green mana to play, or is it also being an artifact too much of a drawback?

[@MTGGoldfish]

Since we already have a bunch of green mana for other cards I think that llanowar Scout is better. Apart from artifact removal, the problem with Walking Atlas is it's a 1/1 and there are a lot of Lava Dart decks in Modern. Llanowar Scout is a bit more likely to survive removal.

[@maxsternburg1956]

@@MTGGoldfish Makes sense to me, I didnt consider the toughness. Thanks for taking the time to reply! Love your content

[@jasonl1184]

They worded it specifically not to go infinite with prime time lol.

[@Methos1919]

And Sword of the Animist

[@hippolord570]

match 1 game 2 you had infinite scute swarm tokens since you can play it with cobra mana

[@ryanvm9728]

I'm trying this with Black instead of Red, using Ob Nixilis, the Fallen and Retreat to Hagra.

[@nathanjohnson5088]

Why does seth always go to his second main phase before getting all the extra combat steps?

[@anix712]

I think it's to avoid any possible confusion from this (from Moraug's gatherer page): "If the landfall ability resolves during your precombat main phase, the additional combat phase will happen before your regular combat phase. You’ll untap creatures you control at the beginning of the additional combat but not at the beginning of your regular combat." You don't want to accidentally count your regular combat phase into your attack, only to get to it and not have your creatures untap.

[@TheQueerLeaf]

Maybe a banefire to park the infinite mana combo

[@lepeixe22]

This deck feels SOOO legit, but i feel like it's missing something, maybe something to get retreat more often

[@Atmapalazzo]

Game 3 against Humans you keep retreat on top to win. You can use it to tap their entire team down and then scry for win

[@Crazymachin3gun]

What happened to modern mayhem and golfish gladiator and the old against the odds deck remastered lol