Is Ghalta Win More? | MTGGoldfish Podcast

[@brandonbagley795]

Ghalta is a lock for vintage cube. Looking forward to setting up some fun combos

[@rudeoldguy]

Surprised they didn't mention the Kumano saga with Ojer. It's both a pump spell and a burn spell for one mana that already sees play in 60 card formats. I think Ojer could see some play in standard.

[@Naya_3193]

Just here to say that the best part of pro tours to me is the draft portion, I really love limited, i's literally the only format where magic remains pure, combat matters and basically: Magic as Richard Garfield intended.

[@MistaHoward]

Same here. I never give a single shit about PT coverage aside from vintage/legacy/modern and draft. Other formats are boring as hell. So basically I only watch draft because WOTC hates those other formats. I especially give no shits about historic which isn't even MTG.

[@josquinlanglois2554]

I rarely get excited for a red card but Ojer Axonil is a sweet magic card

[@-homerow-]

Ojer + Zirda + Phyrexian Alter + Amulet of Vigor + Impact Tremors

[@-homerow-]

The ol' 5 Card Combo 😄

[@brawlfan9999]

combo with Virtue of Courage seems pretty good, combine it with dorks that tap for damage and you have a pretty dangerous deck

[@kamikazehansu]

Day of the Moon also works for tokens. ;)

[@orzhov12]

I would have preferred Huatli to put the land into play and the activated ability to be like one or two more mana instead.

[@Icameron259]

That would make it a significantly better card, yes. Honestly, I don't think it would even be too good if they didn't increase the activated ability cost, since she's still significantly smaller than Topiary Stomper (albeit can attack/block earlier) and activating it would still get pretty rekt by opponents holding up Cut Down.

[@halfwaytonowhere5693]

Just getting into the game in mid life. Thanks for the content. Really enjoying the process of learning the game. Mostly playing arena. But excited to play paper, both standard (if i can find anyone to play against), and first try at commander.

[@pokedadsam9041]

43:17 I was hoping map tokens had something like dungeon exploring. We have lost caverns that need artifacts found in them. 😂

[@vulcanh254]

It's so weird and interesting how green is either the best color by far or unplayable. There's no in-between it seems. Remember Esika's Charriot + Ranger Class? Then green was S tier. The second they lost Ranger Class though it fell apart and none of the green creatures mattered. It was also pretty strong when you could t1 elf and t2 Courser of Kruphix.

[@arghanothername]

Ojer’s flip is legend rule protection, which they missed

[@STS-qi1qy]

Day of the Moon was definitely designed as an anti-token goad against the Villain pre-con that seems token creature based.

[@rocker1296]

So the thing about Day of the moon is that you choose a card name, so it gets around hexproof, and it hits all tokens of a chosen name, and it regoads each turn. I think it'll be good, not super busted, but it'll be good

[@seandun7083]

Though notably choosing a card name requires you to name an actual card so for the most part only token copies will be affected as you can't name "soldier token"

[@DerpyLaron]

28:57 Ojer reads storm to me. Fill your deck with pump spells that cantrip, cheap burn spells, Rituals, him and grapeshot. Dig for grapeshot and burn spells asap. worst case you don't pump him you need a storm count of 5 if you didn't do any dmg before hand. If you did as the burn deck and find a pump spell you can easily win with a storm count of 2-3. Now will that be consistent in anyway? Probably not

[@manwithnoname9580]

Day of the Moon is that card that is good in specific play groups. The ones that play Rats, Nazgul, etc. After that, it just feels okay.

[@Metroid23456]

K9 is nuts in Rona, Herald of Invasion decks. Its a legend and it gives every creature in your deck ward 1. Seems good to me.

[@Mr.Kronk2]

im so excited to blitz in Ghalta in my Toolbox deck to later reanimate him. he seems like such a cool bomb.

[@-homerow-]

Glad everyone is back safe and sound from Vegas :)

[@loach5348]

Make Tomer a regular member lol, he’s a great addition to the discussion

[@r4v4g3r]

no

[@Deathkeeper43]

From the waiver wire: Sword of Fire and Ice Sword of Forge and Frontier The Reaver Cleaver Champion's Helm Masterwork of Ingenuity

[@Theconkeror]

I like the idea of Ojer with Mayhem Devil. Each ping becomes 4 damage, and it also plays nice with your decks sac outlets because it gives you another bonus for sac effects like Cauldron (turning it into a land).

[@brandyourfan9244]

Day of the Moon is great against token decks. Goad an army for three turns. Seems good

[@Infernoman64]

hearing Crim explain how to get tron cards in Arena and watching richards Reaction...I know how Richard feels...Ugh Alchemy

[@l4unchp4dgaming38]

Ghalta and Skullspore Nexus in Xenagos sounds super dope.

[@TheRipcurrent]

Got excited to see Crim's 🐕. Love it!

[@patbates13]

With Ojer, the land side isn't legendary. I wonder if there is some way to cycling between sides as the front side will make enough damage to flip the land side back?

[@zackestin1368]

historic wizards is definitely going to show up a lot, it and one ring decks are a lot of the field.

[@zackestin1368]

WRT mono green, the leyline thats banned in explorer is also legal in historic

[@JFlynn1207]

Richard is on point when talking about watching draft gameplay.

[@gemyniraptor8626]

The ManaLogs just basically put out a vid explaining why cards like Ghalta are printed: Mana Tempo. If I spend 8 mana to play my big haymaker and it gets immediately removed by a 2 mana spell, then I'm at a massive disadvantage and big boi creatures never see play. So MTG design has gone two routes: either give creatures a meaningful ETB/Cast trigger so that they still impact the board or give them protection. And since people got bent on Shroud>Hexproof, Ward is the new protection ability that help balance the resources spent between the creature and the spell spent to remove the creature. Ghalta isn't a WinMore, shes a natural progressing of game design and the arms race that is Control vs Stompy

[@Shimatzu95]

My guess is that ghalta goes into show and tell decks. If you think about it hey are build to cheat something big into play and if they bring a second creature along thats even better. Reanimation could also work but it would depend largely on there being enough one shot options and/or consistent carddraw to make sure you get something worthwhile out of it.

[@ilyafoskin]

Allowing mechanics to bleed over to successive sets is very important because as it is, a standard deck built around a mechanic which only appears in one set will almost always be less competitive than a colour pair good stuff deck pulling the best generic cards in those colours from all of standard. We need each mechanic to appear in at least 3 successive sets to give us enough cards to build around and then maybe mechanic themed decks will rival XY midrange deck and Mono X aggro.

[@maybeisuckatlife]

Ghalta should be excellent in my Svella deck 😊

[@TheJadeFist]

Day of the Moon, there is that one red equipment card you can equip to an opponents creature for 1 mana, and it's reusable.

[@-homerow-]

Wrong intro card. It is okay, no one really cares. Just stating it so it has been said.

[@corbenmurphy1807]

They switched the intro scene and the exit scene, I think. I'm commenting for visibility

[@MTGGoldfishPodcast]

Oops. Thanks! We'll make sure to get it right next time. Sorry about that.

[@Stopbeingcringe3]

@@MTGGoldfishPodcastwe will riot if you do not give us a 10 hour episode next week

[@bryanleblanc5648]

​@@Stopbeingcringe3chill dawg

[@-homerow-]

Clash on

[@Balderdashes]

Borderlands Ranger has been a standard playable card every time it’s been legal, I would be surprised if Huatli isn’t at least playable

[@shadowpsyke]

River Song's Diary's problem is that it's best (I think) in a Narset turns deck. You could also play it in a land destruction deck. Or an infinite wrath deck. None of these sound fun.

[@vinnythewebsurfer]

Woooow, look at Seth being the one raining on the red players parade with the silly little burn god(guy)

[@MTGGoldfishPodcast]

I've been hurt too many times recently with mythic four-drops that seem good in burn. Solphem, Urabrask...hopefully this one is different. It is a cool design!

[@michaelcollins4534]

Isn't 4 cmc like way too high for burn, even in standard?

[@TheCardq]

Probably the best thing to do with ghalta is just run it with a haste enabler or a few protection creatures.

[@ivrissgaming8006]

Ojer might be an against the odds card for modern using devil tokens and goblin bombardment. With 0 pump each sac to the bombardment will deal 8

[@Shimatzu95]

I am verry worried about maps. My gut tells me if those tokens end up being just in green they might just be actual ramp.

[@alexdominic5382]

Is river songs diary not good in spell slinger tho? For reoccurring value??

[@mattm7798]

Breeches seems like a really nice payoff for a pirate aggro deck. The first and third mode is Ragavan, and the second means they can't just chump block your pirates.

[@keithstolz1106]

Sooooo they aren’t going to talk about Cavern of Souls being reprinted into standard? Or how it will help tribal decks in pioneer, and maybe lower the price of the card? The Cavern of Souls art is even in the background. I guess we just talk about more commander stuff. A little constructive criticism but, I still love the Goldfish crew.

[@Suppaichu]

Day of the moon and blink don't target, that's VERY relevant.

[@VinegarAndSaltedFries]

Skullspore is gunna be great. That card is gunna be awesome. Bargain being in Standard giving your creatures second life and then token value it’s gunna be good.

[@brningpyre]

Ojer, Gutshot, Grapeshot = 16 dmg (can also combo with mutagenic growth) Can attack with other stuff, too. On the other hand, it still dies to a single Fury trigger, Unholy Heat, etc. But that's more Fury being a miserable card than anything.

[@misiu5203]

Ojer Axonil + Oni-Cult Anvil? 4 damage every turn seems good.

[@SifSehwan]

"I think this card is hot garbage." - Crim Our no bullshit savior!

[@Hyenadont]

I will never get off my high horse in that the "good" episode "Blink" is a plagiarism of iirc "my summer homework" children's short story written for the 9th doctor in the doctor who activity book, up to and including the name of the episodes MC Sally sparrow. The only change they made was how Moffat, for no particular reason, wanted to make children cry, so they made it horror with the dogcrap weeping angels. Not to mention this was the only episode where the angels were any good and not the aforementioned dogcrap they became.

[@felipeguidolin1055]

CAST ON!

[@PALIGames]

sylvan caryatid needs a reprint, a 0/3 hexproof mana dork is kind of needed.

[@michaelcollins4534]

Richard perfectly explains why limited is the best format, and dare i say the only good format left

[@gregtheintense]

Another great episode. :D

[@maxxlanglois]

Never been less excited for a commander set than with Doctor Who. One crossover a year is already too much for me imo. But hey to each their own

[@wigglytough5745]

I love Dr. Who and i love the fact that they are doing suspend matters and all that, the card designs are so unique. But i hate universes beyond, i hate that The Flux is tied to a episode of Dr. Who so that if i play it in another deck it's going to look so out of place

[@Sw0rDf1sH]

Draft is now my favourite format to watch and I think its one of the most interesting ways to play. I love using the draft token from the Arena mastery pass each set. I would also play it more on Arena if it was more accessible than using a fairly large number of coins or gems.

[@connormohs6046]

No mention of the Jurassic park cards?

[@connormohs6046]

For those curious, it’s pronounced “Ohare Ashon-eel”

[@DocShotsPhotography]

Idk myojin of life’s web isn’t seen in commander

[@MrRockguy84]

mono green selvala bro storm approves

[@thatonedudejake]

I think richard would like pauper

[@Bubblenuts13]

Sneak attack Ghalta and put the Xenagos from your hand into play.

[@-homerow-]

"I mean, obviously you play Grixis" crim had me crackin up on this episode 😆😆

[@Cybershroom]

just make a reanimator soup with Ghalta and Greater good as an engine.

[@wiigamer1995]

map token prolly is "t: target creature explores" explore need a creature therefore it should cost 0

[@eric4946]

You guys ought to plug for subs a bit more. The podcast is great I’m sure plenty people forget this is a separate channel.

[@swordshaver]

ghalta flash will be pretty funny i think

[@LK90512]

I don't know exactly why but green timmy design always manages to get under my skin. 8 mana to dump your hand onto the battlefield is just not ok, it's so boring. And they keep pretending that 8 mana in green is a lot, when you can consistently get them by turn 5. Then you drop this and the game might end on the spot, such fun games.

[@tonysmith9905]

red can kill you before turn 5 White can wrath the board or kill you before turn 5 Control can counter every thing you do or just wrath Combo can win before turn 5 What's the problem?

[@lovetownsend]

Love this channel but you guys so competitive :/ every card is garbage unless it is god-tier. Tomer is my favorite to listen to cause at least he talks about fun janky cards

[@TheSpunYarn]

Ojer Axonil is rad as hell but PLEASE guys its pronounced "oh-HAIR" not "oh-JERR"

[@guillermofischer1837]

No mention to the World championship? do you really only play EDH?

[@MTGGoldfishPodcast]

It's just a week late. Normally we would have discussed it last cast but being away in Vegas threw off our schedule.

[@mralumina3566]

I came from the future and historic is plauged by alchemy pig cards. I hate pig so much

[@vulcanh254]

Nah Historic is dead to me. If the cards can't be used IRL it's completely worthless and a waste of time. I wish people weren't pretending like it's a cool idea to mix Alchemy in. I also don't understand why they don't have two Historic formats. One with alchemy + rebalances and one without. Obviously the pure version would be a few thousand times more popular than the alchemy sullied one so maybe that's why they don't want it.

[@as95ms98]

...isn't that what Explorer is though? The only set that isn't legal there is LotR, but besides that it's historic without alchemy cards.

[@vulcanh254]

@as95ms98 Explorer is trying to become pure pioneer. Historic has a lot of modern and legacy power level cards. They're kind of similar I guess but there's no Thought Monitor in explorer or pioneer for example, the literal best affinity payoff.

[@MasterCrvo]

​@@as95ms98all of the bonus sheet cards from Strixhaven, Brothers War, March of the Machine, and Wilds of Eldraine are mostly legal in historic, by default. Mana Tithe, Mind Stone, Necropotence, Griselbrand...these cards are in Historic, but not Explorer. Liquimetal Coating, Stone Rain, and more. I'd love to play a real-cards-only historic, AND actual-every-card-Pioneer...I'll keep dreaming. :D

[@TheEvolver311]

​@@as95ms98jumpstart

[@TheEvolver311]

Historic would actually be a gross format if it was a format that could be played IRL

[@megapixzel]

They are right about the poor layout of blink. I was staring at the whole time and didnt notice. Even 1. Text 2. Text 3. Literally say "Repeat 1" 4. "Repeat 2" would be better

[@markito420gaming]

Whoooo 4th

[@jrightly]

People who complain about alchemy are as bad as Americans saying immigrants take their jobs

[@Shimatzu95]

Or they just dislike cards doing different things than what the physical ones do and/or dislike the "virtual" mechanics like shuffling extra cards in your deck or perpetual.

[@DiscardatRandom]

It ain’t that deep dawg

[@jrightly]

thank you for backing up my point.@@Shimatzu95

[@TheEvolver311]

​@inyourwalls8134 naw he is totally correct it's just a reactionary position It'd be like me whining and crying about how commander is destroying 60 card constructed

[@MasterCrvo]

This is the stupidest defense of Alchemy I've ever read. You're entitled to your opinion. As are the Alchemy detractors. Stop making it personal, it's a bad look. I think Alchemy cards make historic a worse format. I wouldn't be bothered by a separate format for Alchemy cards. I'd much prefer a with/without Alchemy option. WotC changed the rules of Historic, in my opinion, for the worse. Comparing arena to immigration is pathetic, puerile, facile shit-stirring. Real troll behavior.

[@JEDWOLFF]

I am so happy ya'll finally watched Doctor WHO!😁😁😁

[@Theanthill216]

I have zero care for historic period; also have zero care for arena/standard, pioneer, legacy, and modern. I play paper only; casual edh, pauper edh (commons and uncommons, and 60 card pauper (to have a competitive format and its also super cheap). People who take edh too seriously and pubstomp or play cedh into casual lgs pods need to either buy a precon or go play an actual competitive format, which every other mtg format is. 60 card is for sweaty, 100 card to have a game experience.

[@MasterCrvo]

Alchemy cards are the worst.

[@TheEvolver311]

Are your pearls ok? You're clutching them so tightly

[@MasterCrvo]

@@TheEvolver311 - "I can't handle your opinion, have a poorly crafted put down". Seems you like a format some other people don't, and seems like you take it a little personally that we all don't agree with you. I can barely believe anyone likes Alchemy or Alchemy cards, but I try to refrain from calling Alchemy players WotC-Simps, Hearthstone-Magnons, Magic v0.9 players, or whatever. That's rude, and not very community minded. In your case, you might reply in a more genial expression of your own opinion. "Alchemy cards are the worst" -me "This opinion always surprises me, I live Alchemy".