Unleashing otters in Standard.

[@00110000]

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[@mawoh3027]

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[@alispeihie5447]

Fr

[@DanielGalllego]

indeed goes ballistic

[@frontlinefromage9503]

This brings electric sparks of pure, unharnessed joy to my izzet mage heart

[@kevincastner4541]

Well done

[@KiuhKobold]

This deck is otter this world

[@edwincollins5847]

Get out …… GET OUT RIGHT NOW!!

[@KiuhKobold]

@@edwincollins5847 Can't I convince you to look the otter way around? :3c

[@edwincollins5847]

@@KiuhKobold noooooooooooo!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@charlieday7731]

Is it just me, or is the graphic for the tokens not like it used to be? I thought the tokens stacked on top of each other in a pile? Great games, by the way!

[@lss_setr]

Why can't I find the Shivan Reef on MTGA?

[@LegenVD]

Make sure you have the "not collected" filter enabled.

[@edkolbe1850]

This deck is all about timing.... i dont think you can play it around high noon

[@NyancyCat]

I saw Stormsplitter in Arena myself recently and thought "Wow, this is kind of mediocre, what's an extra couple of 1/4s gonna do for me?" and then when you said "exponential" i just paused the video and said "...Ohhhhhhhhhhh," out loud to myself.

[@taylorg11]

This was me as well

[@gastonzamora4985]

If you add Bria into this then your otters come in with Prowess and gain +1/+1 when you cast a noncreature spell, making this even more exponential

[@parkerdixon-word6295]

I think this deck gets the award for "Powerful deck that I least want to see anyone ever have to play in paper." Not even because I don't want to see it across from me, I just think that keeping track of the triggers, the exponential number of stormsplitters, which ones are tapped and which ones aren't, and how much power they have all sounds like absolute hell without Arena doing it for you.

[@0NBalfa0]

it's mostly annoying doing the floodcaller math but most of the time, it either is small enough numbers that are manageable or large enough that it doesn't matter.

[@asraarradon4115]

It's Scute Swarm all over again.

[@parkerdixon-word6295]

@@asraarradon4115 At least every Scute Swarm is a 1/1. One exponential equation is more annoying than basic arithmetic, but it's manageable. Needing to keep all the otters in separate generations so you know how many of them have gotten how many pseudo-prowess buffs is an additional layer that pushes it over the edge, imo.

[@asraarradon4115]

@@parkerdixon-word6295 Yeah, it may be a little more complicated. But you used to mutate onto Scute Swarm, and you would have to keep track of all the different power sand toughnesses for which ones were made before and after the mutates, and which one create new ones with those stats. Wasn't exactly easy with Scute Swarm either.

[@eduardobarros3986]

Unless you make it a point of playing Hundred-Handed One in every deck, you shouldn't really bother keeping track of the exact number of otters or their stats. It's just a question of knowing binary: either your opponent storms off for game, or they don't and you get an extra turn to live.

[@theaeskey2502]

I love that otter tribe in bloomburrow is both adorable and powerful!

[@Neon-Geco]

do not draft otters though lol

[@theaeskey2502]

@@Neon-Geco I did. I went 7-0.

[@Neon-Geco]

@@theaeskey2502 lucky deviation, in general it is the weakest thing to draft

[@jacksun23]

@@Neon-Geco any archetype in draft can be great if you're the only one in the pod drafting it

[@CyberBuster93]

Not only splitting storms, but calling floods! The convoking and untapping truly makes this deck one of the coolest storm decks ever!

[@hazardhanson]

You put thia deck up an hour ago and ive come across it 3 times already 😂. Insane influence

[@lcay3826]

Convoke and untap idea is awesome

[@theaeskey2502]

That first game was nuts!!! 😱 I didn’t realize storm splitter copies triggered too.

[@masterkurosaki100]

Second game was more crazier 😵‍💫🫨

[@alexisXcore93]

yeeeeeeep, it goes exponential, math rocks!

[@theaeskey2502]

@@alexisXcore93 I failed third grade long division don’t hold it against me.

[@theaeskey2502]

@@masterkurosaki100 amen. This was a 🥵 deck FR.

[@graog123]

of course they trigger. the copies resolve & appear before the spell reslves does

[@LordVonUndZuHelmchen]

Hits like no otter

[@jasonm.6442]

oh man... I don't often craft decks from the internet, but when I do it's from LVD. I've only played 2 games with this deck so far, already one of my favorites in a long time. Sooo much fun!!

[@LegenVD]

Glad you like it!

[@fwmlp]

Since the announcement of Bloomburrow I wanted to make Stormsplitter work but I always found it too slow. Thanks for showcasing me that it actually works when you have a great deck builder behind it!

[@bass-dc9175]

Convoke pretty much negates the otherwise insane manacost behind stormsplitter. And Floodcaller is just bonkers.

[@shruiken15]

I have been waiting so long for a new U/R deck from you! Happy to see it is Otters!

[@honestabe411]

Same, do I continue to invest in izzet despite the pain?

[@skettaman]

dude thank you so much for making this video, instantly crafted the deck and having so much fun (i only needed another 2 stormsplitters and floodcallers so was an easy yes). Been having a blast with it in unranked

[@LegenVD]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@manmeetsdestiny6921]

Otterly insane!!

[@asraarradon4115]

ba dum tss!

[@skipper7152]

Finally an otters deck! And with stormsplitter as centerpiece no less 😮

[@No1ofConsequence]

I will forever love the flavor text on Stormsplitter

[@atanasis4011]

I'm new to the game and love the deck, thank you !

[@edwincollins5847]

I wonder how it fairs with discard decks that’s running rampant

[@FluffySpikeM]

Otterrific. Was on the fence about Stormsplitter being a legitimate playable or a meme card. Glad it can perform at least... REALLY WELL, huh?.. Thanks to convoke spells. Nice catch (pun intended).

[@demonprince9]

Feels alot like Jeskai Ascendancy

[@CyberBuster93]

No otter deck is better than this one! xD

[@FlynnApollo]

That Match 2 ending was so good!

[@KhanShotFirst]

At 19:20, ignoring the bobs and burning face would've netted 4-5 more damage that turn, plus anything from flips. Really hard to predict the full line from 20 down to 0 with draw engines in play, though!

[@LegenVD]

Yeah especially against a deck with tons of lifegain we were unlikely to burn them out from that position.

[@SirSeal007-1]

I got absolutely wrecked by this deck my first game when the set came out and have been trying to find it since

[@alancruz1405]

Adorable and letal: OTTER the Mafia of animals.

[@thatonefergie]

Plotted cards have a weird interaction where they can only ever be cast as a sorcery, even if another affect such as Valley Floodcaller giving noncreature spells flash. Such interactions is why plotting opposing counterspells with Aven Interrupter renders them completely useless.

[@freespeach99]

@15:52 “all this is quite satisfying” LMAO

[@reishadjessup9828]

Wait I didn’t realize the stormspliter ability stacks like that. 😮 Whoa

[@thejesteramongfools]

Could you image Transscendent Message in this deck. I mean the 4 blue is tough so I get why but still draw X

[@Reiknot1]

my god i need more of this deck!!!

[@TheMrMadmonky]

Using 3 tree city set to otter is pretty fun and I have any duplicates pulled as fodder for highway robbery

[@masterkurosaki100]

Deck is Otter this world.

[@alexanderfrench9236]

Such a satisfying combo in Arena this one. Some of the epic combos can come out a bit scuffed in the animations. But this is a thing of beauty

[@martinnewman4637]

Congrats on breaking stormsplitter in standard. This is awesome!

[@gunshowmoe]

Love it, would be sick to see a Glarb deck!

[@Zeitmass]

This deck is nuts!

[@tommasocavalla5583]

Try lorcana if you wanna challange that big brain of yours some more and have tons of fun 😁

[@brianh5844]

Game 1 was impressive but I believe you also just had on board lethal the turn before he wrathed for what it's worth. You can cast three more spells (shock, stoke, pearl) and remove two blockers (with shock and stoke), attacking with four creatures against 1 blocker. You get in with three: (9 + 7 + 6 = 22). 22 > 18. Am I missing something? Granted, you were going for the most explosive finish possible but still thought it worth mentioning the lethal here.

[@LegenVD]

You're right! Was too focused on comboing with Stormsplitter.

[@shanehare5954]

Hahahaha "trigger warning". But anyway I play a similar deck but it's nowhere near as refined as this. And I legit judt started playing MTGArena. Like 3weeks ago since I have no one to play paper magic with at the moment. That said I love your ideas and content keep it up. And if you have any tips how to speed up my collection in-game so I can craft the cards I need please fill me in

[@LegenVD]

Make sure to get 4 daily wins and do your quests! If you like drafting it's also the fastest way to complete your collection, especially if you can maintain a high winrate. That's how I used to complete sets basically for free.

[@shanglia6294]

otter tribe is really strong now, 1 mana draw two cards is insane in standard

[@adamchilton6652]

Dour Port-Mage is a beast in this deck. When the otters exile at the end of your turn you draw a card for each one. If you have a profts eidetic memory out, you basically draw 15-20 cards and keep them

[@LegenVD]

That's a cool interaction!

[@heywes]

LVD can you make Otter spellslingers? I've been hoping you would since the set launched.

[@smileygoldfish]

Otters are the best bloomburrow tribe hands down

[@sofer2230]

Shame Sorcerer Class isn't in Standard, or it would've been amazing with Valley Floodcaller.

[@nitiratp]

Otter madness! ;)

[@CyberBuster93]

Otters Strike Back! This deck is explosively awesome! An absolute headache to try to keep track of triggers in paper, but thank goodness Arena can handle it xD

[@AesirOdinn]

Ah yes, the powerful scute storm.

[@heitortremor]

I love otters!

[@emescub]

WHAT?! TOKENS MAKE MORE TOKENS?! WTF!!!!!!!!!

[@ismaellamas]

Noob here trying to learn. What's the point of double blocking at 28:30? Thank you

[@LegenVD]

It has menace, so can't block it alone.

[@davehenson8846]

I am dying laughing watching this deck work. I want to play this in the worst way!

[@DrNateamundo]

I was hoping to play this deck so I've crafted the cards and double checked I have everything. For some reason Stoke the Flames and Meeting of Minds are showing as not legal. Checked the format and everything - Not sure why it's not letting me play this deck in Standard? Am I missing something?

[@LegenVD]

Your deck format might be set to Alchemy instead of Standard.

[@DrNateamundo]

@@LegenVD Thanks for replying! Unfortunately I already tried that! Really not sure why it's happening

[@Toracero23]

damn the first game is amazing it's very powerfull actually

[@rupert7565]

Great video and very interesting build! Still hoping to see ral from you.

[@Zii_Vii]

I knew I was going to see you make a deck with this thing. I just didn't think it would ever work 😂

[@thejesteramongfools]

I feel like there is a pioneer deck in here somewhere. I might just have to build it.

[@amaurycourtois1387]

This triggers and boards deserved an opening with some classic music.

[@josephzaczkowski5820]

First game was peak magic

[@Gnocchi10000]

Possum, on to the next one.

[@jamesgambardella6401]

Curious how invasion of segovia would work with storm splitter

[@dmacpher]

Oooo nice, I run an otter storm like deck in alchemy, gonna have to try this

[@ttsq]

just to record this, he must have lost 50+ matches.. and just picked the ones he won.. and edited.. considering the meta, this deck is always auto loss to any sheoldred deck.. or may be he just got lucky with his opponents..

[@LegenVD]

Sheoldred isn't a huge part of the meta anymore and decks that play it often just run 2 copies. If you watch the video we faced a deck with Sheoldred and were one good draw away from winning through it. As I mention in the video this is by no means a competitive deck and I wouldn't recommend it for ranked play.

[@ttsq]

@@LegenVD thx for clarificatin.. i appreciate it and love your videos :)

[@Just_som_Ottur]

Haters gon hate

[@LeBaraDreak]

when i saw all the tokens popped i felt pity for the opponent 😵‍💫

[@ostrogodo]

Live to die an otter day

[@thiagochavier8339]

13:59 Strange green screen. What happened here, editing bug? 🤔

[@LegenVD]

More like a rendering bug since it doesn't show up in the video editor.

[@Jerry-zf3ip]

Otter madness

[@madisonking8057]

The deck never seemed like it was too slow, but it did seem like it flooded out or ran out of gas pretty often. Is there and MDFC lands in rotation like spikefield hazard you could include to remedy this issue?

[@LegenVD]

Not in Standard.

[@MultiWaveWave]

Holy shit what a combo on the first game!! This deck is pure 🔥🔥🔥

[@starmanda88]

Oh this is what I live for!!! Thank you for this wonderful video.

[@fraginatrix]

Dat machine gun sound when they all hit the field tho

[@Slamstarproductions]

Awesome

[@Druidoftheyew]

Second guy was like" na na lets see where he goes with this"

[@lol-hy4mk]

I was just trying to build the same thing lol

[@Shadowquacker]

To cast Meeting of Minds for “free” you’d need the Floodcaller and thus would have a blue creature to convoke it with.

[@LegenVD]

The multicolor Otters also work!

[@zekelockman1477]

Thoughts on Invasion of Segovia? It makes all the non creature spells have convoke and also can be flipped early very easily

[@LegenVD]

I've built around it in the past and it can be good. It would incentivize us to play fewer spells that already have Convoke to get more out of it, at which point we start to rely on drawing the Battle a little too much.

[@Ren-1979]

O_o

[@damnroyal9460]

Curious if content creators get free wildcards or do you all spend a ton of money to acquire them?

[@LegenVD]

They used to give some gems for streaming the game, but that was discontinued years ago. I buy packs with every new set release now that I'm no longer actively drafting.

[@damnroyal9460]

@@LegenVDRight on man. Great build, thanks.

[@calvinmobley9628]

As soon as I saw this card during spoiler season, I knew it was gonna be a problem. The scute storm lol.

[@EmptyShadow]

Scute Swarm Cute Swarm Cute Storm Seems legit

[@carlosbkn2025]

omg i want to play this with the banner!

[@pro_moja]

why shock and not play with fire

[@LegenVD]

No longer in Standard.

[@hanswurst1504]

Coolest bloom deck ive seen so far!

[@lol-hy4mk]

Pls do Ral storm sometimes

[@Rob-ch1fy]

I've been playing a ton of otters, it's the deck I made mythic with and in my experience slickshot show off is better than the storm splitter. Also a huge fan of how kitsa performed in my lists.

[@LegenVD]

No doubt there's a more competitive Otter deck, but Stormsplitter is by far to coolest.

[@Rob-ch1fy]

@@LegenVD stormsplitter is very cool but so is kitsa and her spell doubling. Unfortunately she's currently bugged and doesn't let you trigger her if she was used to convoke a spell even after being untapped by floodcaller and wizards won't respond to my bug report.

[@tdimensional6733]

Five Billion Otters

[@velikanskaglava2087]

Nice set for animal lovers

[@dallinhilton3189]

This is incredible

[@MrEforEveryone]

Triggers!

[@jazzyroam1986]

so cute

[@lukesdewhurst]

Finally

[@xnick_uy]

Nice looking Convo-deck

[@honestabe411]

sorry this is hot garbage, rip my WCs

[@LegenVD]

Like I said in the outro it was never going to be very competitive.

[@honestabe411]

@@LegenVD it’s my fault I’m a sucker for izzet in standard although it hasn’t been good since like phoenixes

[@MTGBlockConstructed]

Bloomburrow has so many great cards. I love this Set!

[@TheWorldsStage]

its so otter good!

[@-Karnage]

Looks fun

[@vf7467]

Great as Always!