Jeskai Gearhulks | MTG Historic | Against the Odds

[@nothumanaftrall2068]

Gearhulks were a fantastic and balanced cycle of creatures and I miss them :(

[@Metallicity]

I think not playing an Emeria's Call or two was a huge miss. In fact, I was half expecting this deck to just be loaded with MDFCs to make sure Combustable Gearhulk would always be hitting for +10 damage on ETB. Not saying that's a better build, but it certainly feels more like Combustable Gearhulk against the odds, rather than a Refurbish/GPG deck.

[@ryancrouch813]

Yeah immediately after the deck tech I was like "Wait, how are you NOT playing a full playset of Sea Gate and Emeria?" Or at least 2 of each. Really didn't feel like Combustible was given the spotlight

[@dispenserjakethedog5579]

The problem is they are mono colored. And the mana is clunky enough as you see in many games

[@MTGGoldfish]

Yeah, probably worthwhile. Good call.

[@seilaoquemvc2]

@@dispenserjakethedog5579 the islands and the plains at the very least, could be replaced for seagate restorations and emeria's calls without any real drawback to mana quality. but yeah, the color screw is a big issue.

[@Optimator7]

Completely cutting basics can be dangerous as well, for Field of Ruin and similar effects

[@zachgray4767]

"Ohhh b- OHHH BOY. Opponen- Oh, God." This is the soundtrack that plays in ever Mono-Blue Tempo match.

[@timkruz2607]

Use MDFC lands with Combustible Gearhulk. It's fun in modern and probably in other formats too.

[@bjarkov12]

Oh yea! Seagate Restoration and Emeria's Call here we go :D

[@chocolatepiegames3617]

One of my favorite mtggoldfish videos of all time. I revisit this video every once in a while. Would love it if you made an updated version!

[@lucidlullaby894]

8:29 Hits you with the 0/1 goat The disrespect

[@rp4619]

It’s not about dealing damage, it’s about sending a message

[@tatesmith4527]

6:10 oops, that wasn't strategic clicking!

[@geraldjacobs7824]

I love the gearhulks, so I knew I had to watch this

[@genbu2870]

Seth's eternal enemy collection Narset, Hullbreacher, Smothering Tithe and Greed

[@MackNJacishopper]

I feel pretty strongly like this deck should be running the blue mythic dual spell land. High CMC and a great card to cast with gearhulk etb.

[@Boconopo34]

Torrential Gearhulk only casts Instants. Sea Gate Restoration is a Sorcery. If you meant Combustible Gearhulk then yeah, I agree it's interesting.

[@ChaosForce08]

People already mentioned the MDFCs, but I'm also surprised to not see any Commit//Memorys since they do the thing with Torrential Gearhulk and do 10 apiece with Combustible (the MDFCs are much better, though).

[@MacTruckBrickHouse]

Historic hasn't been so much of a cool blast from the past so much as reliving the trauma that kaladesh burned in me

[@RockStarholic]

"Narset is so good against this deck" baloney!!! Narset is good against every deck you play... lol.

[@gustavowadaslopes2479]

He does love drawing cards.

[@RockStarholic]

@@gustavowadaslopes2479 Narset's hidden text... protection from Seth's fun.

[@amandaspear6148]

@@gustavowadaslopes2479 ikr remember when he'd draw cards instead of winning? 🤣😂🤣😂

[@MTGGoldfish]

That's probably why I dislike Narset so much :)

[@gustavowadaslopes2479]

@@MTGGoldfish being mono-color and Control oriented probably colaborate.

[@Radix59]

I would love to see a Modern Against the Odds with Spellweaver Helix or Spellbinder... they seem super fun!

[@pangalacticgargleblaster2610]

There is! You are looking for the worst fears against the odds

[@Radix59]

@@pangalacticgargleblaster2610 Cool! Thanks

[@alexandersepa3037]

wait in the first game you said you would discard a strategic planning but then discarded a sacred foundry?

[@adamgrotto8163]

This is similar to what I ran back in Kaladesh standard! I loved this deck so much. Had almost 0 bad matchups.

[@ccggenius]

So weird seeing Gift without being cheated by Gate to the Afterlife.

[@ericdravenashecorven]

Yeah, now it's just being cheated by Refurbish.

[@scogel8911]

Back when it was in standard it was being cheated into play with refurbish more often than Gate

[@ericdravenashecorven]

@@scogel8911 That's fair haha.

[@brighamschellinger147]

This was my favourite deck in standard. If it didn't cost a million wild cards I'd build it.

[@rexone9564]

This episode was fantastic! Did you guys remember that time when saffron olive said ‘hey guys I spent $1700 on arena and built jeskai Gift’

[@winssports4830]

He spent 1700 this year not just on this deck lol.

[@MTGGoldfish]

That's why I had to spend $1700! To get all the Gearhulks.

[@winssports4830]

@@MTGGoldfish oh wow guess I misunderstood and I watched your video about the 1700 lol. I apologise for my misunderstanding. That's nuts lol.

[@JohnDoe-wp6cy]

21:30 I think you made the right choice, he would have drawn at least 2 card per turn plus all the manipulator he plays, there were no way he wouldn't have the hand full of counter

[@seilaoquemvc2]

man..... ever since kaladesh remastered was announced I was thinking about a way to play both Combustible and Torrential in the same deck with Sublime Epiphany... but I was really missing on Refurbish... lol. I remember my jank Combustible gearhulk + emerge stuff + Eldritch Evolution deck from back in the day and it was awesome. I might try this somewhere down the line. great stuff! PS: I think in the end of the day, the "Fatcaster mage" is somewhat underutilized... there's just Sublime Epiphany and Thirst for Knowledge as instants in the deck.... Ditto he's crazy bananas with Epiphany though.

[@Platonic69]

There's no such thing as too aggressive of a concession against mono blue tempo on a mull to 5 with 1 land

[@11goofyboot]

Well they could have had 7 lands in hand

[@jjohansen86]

20:30 In Game 3 or Best of One that's an early scoop, but nobody should yell at you for scooping early when it's actually a strategic advantage not showing your opponent what you're doing and you're almost 0% to win the game, which double Curious Obsession definitely puts you in that territory.

[@ruudvanlaarhoven5776]

Could you even copy the Torrential Gearhulk EtB trigger with the Sublime Epiphany and cast a Thirst for Knowledge too? The option lighted up when you flashed it back against Gruul game 1.

[@gaetanoscaduto4076]

Seth: I spent 1700 on Magic Arena. Also Seth: Who wants to see 3 color Gearhulks!?

[@gaetanoscaduto4076]

@Nick Fanchette yep

[@Haimi-fv5xj]

Ok so I’ve got this mono blue draw go control that I play on non traditional historic. It uses the torrential gearhulk/sublime epiphany package. It’s reaaally fun. Basically you win on turn 6 if you manage to disrupt your opponent’s tempo enough. You get to flashback sublime epiphany countering a spell, drawing a card, bouncing a thing, and making a second gearhulk which gets you another free spell. It’s a huge tempo swing that just wins you the game. Alternatively you can sublime after you have cast the gearhulk. Really fun. It’s got some weaknesses, like sometimes you are stuck with sublime in hand and not much else. It runs a playset of search for azcanta, that 3/1 adventure fairy and that bounce spell that mills all players for 2. It also runs The counterspell that makes you scry, but it mills the card instead and the one that’s modal where either they have to pay 3 or counter, or you get to dig (from amonkhet). And a playset of opt.

[@jackpabich763]

Although a very different deck, this gives me nostalgia of the standard deck with Combustable Gearhulk+Ghalta that was played a few years ago. That was some deck...

[@Optimator7]

I'm in love with this deck

[@Indomakio]

Thank you for this deck Seth! Combustible Gearhulk is my favorite jank card and this video it's been a blast. Could you try it in Pioneer and/or Modern please? Also, maybe Scholar of the Lost Trove could be a good addition, since it flashbacks Gearhulks, Epiphany , GPG and Refurbish.

[@Ched_TTV]

@ 49:31 the way Seth said refurbish was a bit.... haunting

[@bennymarty6972]

With Combustible you'd want to run the mythic Double face lands. The white angel one and maybe the blue one as well. I'd even consider some aftermath cards as well to one shot kill opp.

[@ebonezra8073]

I'm just dropping this here because it's the most recent: super sad *Tainted Remedy won't be revisited next. I've wanted that card to work for so long.

[@MTGGoldfish]

Some day.

[@poppmagic]

I feel like the gearhulks are just too good of value. Like red either does a ton of damage or draws cards, on a 6/6, Blue is a 5/6 that’s hard grave value, and white is virtually a board wipe slapped on a 4/5

[@bolassnowman7429]

Modal Double Faced Card: MDFC. So I was about to ask, then it just took me a while, but I figured it out. I didn't pay much attention to the 3rd Zendikar set so I had no idea what Seth meant when he said MDFCs. Now I do. I need to get back into MTG more

[@SnoopPogg]

I’ve been playing the Torrential/Epiphany combo in my BUG reanimator list, it is so sweet with Back for More too.

[@MTGGoldfish]

Nice!

[@alonsoobannon8229]

Match 1 says discard strategic planning but discards sacred foundry lol

[@ethanfordford6621]

I feel like showing your a “white deck” was the worst part of the strategic concession

[@jaytdl9041]

Game 2 against goblins with the lethal swing you technically should have waited untill they tapped krenko, then with the ability on the stack abrade Krenko so that when its ability resolves it will check and see there are 0 goblins and make no tokens therefore making abrade a 2for1 and still accomplishing removing the only blocker.

[@geraldjacobs7824]

Love gearhulks, so this is fun to see

[@Anavrin9]

My favorite deck I've ever played in Magic was similar to this but used Madcap Experiment as well as Refurbish. I was so damn disappointed when I saw Madcap wouldn't be in Kaladesh Remastered.

[@MTGGoldfish]

I'm surprised they didn't put Madcap Experiment in Kaladesh Remastered. It doesn't seem likee it would be too broken.

[@keepthebeatfresh8165]

16:31 is possibly my favorite mulligan.

[@HawaiianJuicebox]

You also could have killed Krenko in response to it's ability, so he'd make 0 tokens

[@connorcowan7606]

Perhaps not a popular opinion, but I think that Embalm and Eternalize were some of the best mechanics in recent history

[@bjarkov12]

Historic is a time machine back to Standard in 2017

[@MTGGoldfish]

Pretty close :)

[@jacobfruth6194]

What about the possibility of Rielle in this deck? There seems to be a heavy amount of discard

[@shotokantiger4982]

Torrential gearhulk + sublime epiphany = splinter twin

[@aq_qa]

Doesn't gearhulk exile on resolution? P sure that doesn't work like we would want it to.

[@7someone]

So Cataclysm Gearhulk can do things and stuff. good to know.

[@bennymarty6972]

Also could 4cmc Narset have a home in this build? Her -2 would most likely one shot anything and at the same time prep de gy for gpg

[@jonathandias3524]

Do you think that this shell could work in Pioneer?

[@johnhawley2684]

Panharmonicon seems really good in this deck, lots of etbs to be copied

[@danielemmanuel7829]

The deck seems greedy enough, it probably doesn’t need Panharmonicon

[@BuckysKnifeFlip]

Like Seth needs more excuses to play panharmonicon. Haha

[@twlvfngrs]

Do you tempt him!!

[@allenyang5697]

That's actually what the first Panharmonicon AtO was about!

[@Optimator7]

Kinda win-more

[@leovalenzuela8368]

Sure would be cool if the editor wasn't cutting everything so close to the bone... I had trouble following the plays with all the animations removed. The ones that hurt the most were the GY-filling animations from people choosing to take damage from Combustible GH.

[@biggymiggy6408]

I would play this so much If I had the mythic wildcards!

[@MTGGoldfish]

Yeah, the amount of mythics is the downside.

[@benjaminmichael1582]

Combustible gearhulk was my first mythic I ever pulled....crazy man

[@madlulz]

It's always nice to hear that Magic continues to find new players

[@benjaminmichael1582]

@@madlulz well yeah when Kaladesh first came out but yeah

[@madlulz]

@@benjaminmichael1582 Yeah that's still a new player buddy

[@benjaminmichael1582]

@@madlulz yeah and you said “continues” in the present tense even though that was 4 years ago that’s why I was clarifying cause I thought you thought I pulled it in a kaladesh remastered pack that’s all

[@Optimator7]

I pulled a Combustable Gearhulk at pre-release. It inspired me to make a Feldon EDH deck. tappedout.net/mtg-decks/magitek-machinations/

[@shogotube]

Before the $1700 you didn't have the Gearhulks. How much did you spent for this deck? BTW, I love Gearhulks and I'm planning a penta Gearhulk deck haha.

[@FlawlessRhythmGG]

You got lucky dodging all the Tormods Crypts, Leylines, and Lanterns. With my luck, I would run into graveyardhate.deck everytime.

[@MTGGoldfish]

It's not to hard to dodge in Historic since most decks play Grafdigger's Cage as their graveyard hate and we don't really care about Grafdigger's Cage all that much.

[@kinkajuu1]

GPG dodges cage, ugin etc. hmm, i wonder if its possible to make a good modern/ legacy deck lol. trash for treasure, goblin welder, i dunno lol.

[@ynsryr]

are the triomes really not worth playing in historic?

[@shlappyjacks8692]

Opp had lethal @41:48 he could have swung with ring leader and krenko forcing blocks on krenko then he can sac his board with skirk to make mana for castle for 3 damage.... but instead he casts instigator lmaoooo

[@wookieesden3133]

Man, watching a blue vs blue deck match is *riveting*! "Play a land. Pass. Opponent plays a land. Passes." So many turns of nothing but playing lands and maybe drawing an extra card. Bah humbug. #greenstompy

[@cristopholis]

Starting out strong with a miss click at 6:08 😅

[@pedros4253]

Eternalize tokens have a non zero CMC??? WHAT??? WTF, my mind is blown. I don't get it. Can someone explain me this, plz?

[@pedros4253]

ok, not technically an eternalize token, but still, how?

[@1countawesome1]

The token is a copy of the creature. It copies everything, CMC included. Sublime Epiphany tokens also have a CMC for the same reason.

[@spunit262]

Eternalize explicitly doesn't copy Mana cost and by extension doesn't copy CMC, but God-Pharaoh's Gift doesn't have that explicit exception.

[@Infernoman64]

I watched this whole video and didn't hear one Hulk Smash? Disappointed lol

[@kakashi37]

Sweet deck but it doesn't feel like an Against the Odds one.. :)

[@Ched_TTV]

Why does no one call it Sakdos

[@willgary8792]

But a ton of ppl do

[@Ched_TTV]

@@willgary8792 oh I just never see it used

[@eap-yb1co]

Not Fatal Push punts. Just: Fatal Punts

[@alexandersepa3037]

8 min after release pog

[@LilSenwolf]

You could cheat them out with purphoros bronze blooded

[@TraucerDaUrbania]

Not really cheating them out by much if you gotta cast Purph first

[@P3rvenc]

Why not bounce opponents token

[@DonovanPresents]

When you discard the wrong card 🙃

[@afish8883]

If youre looking for deck ideas bistercoil weird and paradise mantle can combo for a budget storm deck with cantrips

[@Litt1eFishy]

Yeeeee

[@madlulz]

Fires would look good in this .dec, wouldn't it? lol

[@redstonepro5412]

it is banned

[@madlulz]

@@redstonepro5412 NO.... REALLY?

[@madlulz]

@@redstonepro5412 Also no it's not banned. It's suspended. Learn your facts doofus.

[@Boconopo34]

@@madlulz It's officially banned. Learn your facts, I guess.

[@madlulz]

@@Boconopo34 lol no it's not but okay

[@mcintyre0591]

Jeskai Gearhulks? 5 color Gearhulks is a true against the odds jank deck

[@cruetusnex]

20:40 I'd insta concede against mono blue greed. That deck is cancer, so boring to play against. Not worth the time.

[@necrodancer3896]

poggggg

[@pipelock1551]

Aye

[@ecoKady]

I will never understand why Curious Obsessions exists. What a dumb Magic card. That said, it's kind of refreshing to be upset with something as innocent as a one mana aura than the best planeswalker of all time, for instance.

[@HeWhoSlayethCain]

Jeskai's all wrong....it's supposed to be Mardu Gearhulks...

[@robspear03]

Wtf...a man-bun? Really?

[@skatzoheros9]

2/10

[@Optimator7]

You're 2/10

[@skatzoheros9]

@@Optimator7 Ty nothing's personal though I believe that's a weak deck for bo3 historic. If you like it and think otherwise build it and play with it. I also believe that olive knows that too I don't think he would rated maximum 5/10. Anyways I'm not claiming I'm flawless or my opinion is right but that's it like it or not. And ofcourse has nothing to do with olive as a player . I personally rate him as 9/10 in cedh and 10/10 in modern format , that's why I follow him.

[@SephonDK]

@@skatzoheros9 Wow, can you be more Spike. It's an Against the Odds deck. It's not supposed to be a tier 1 deck. It's a meme deck on purpose. See Saffron's 35 rhinos for an example of how your measurement makes no sense here; it's supposed to be fun nonsense.

[@skatzoheros9]

Sure man I totally understand that that's why the rating is so low , it supposed to be based in a nice idea but can't be in competitive level. And don't misunderstand me I'm playing magic since ice age , I had a thousand good ideas that in competitive level I rated them 0/10 but I still enjoying playing. My favorite deck actually still is a non competitive level and it's a UR only arcane magic arround Ire of Kaminari which milling myself till burn my opponent . In ratings I have it 1/10 but still enjoying playing specially cause it's so darn hard to win with it and gives me the total satisfaction when I do finally win. That's also why I cannot understand why u disagree with the rating of the deck. Yes it's fun but its also a low rating deck. Nothing wrong about it.