MTG Arena - Historic - Cat Pact

[@Bennettr1212]

"and they decided to lose the game? I don't know why but I'll take it." You cheeky bugger :'D

[@rainerzufall5741]

didnt know he's a dad

[@PhilleeLeePhive]

"may I offer you some salt for your wound?"

[@devlabz]

LOL

[@tristanbutcher8211]

The fact that it makes them click the “you lose the game” even if it’s the only option is so brutal

[@soybomb777]

Just put your paw on the dotted line...

[@ChairmanMeow1]

FINALLY, A CAT DECK. I HAVE BEEN ASKING OFF ON FOR MONTHS!! THANK YOU LVD!!!

[@LegenVD]

You're welcome!

[@adrianakuzmikova1697]

you could just make the deck yourself. I don't understand WHY like 90% of players just steal decks from other people and don't make their own.

[@darkswami88]

@@adrianakuzmikova1697 because making a balanced deck is kinda hard

[@dkznikolaj7013]

Imagine if you could do this irl... Contract a demon, get rich, get famous, and when the time is up, you just point at some random dude and say "Take his soul instead" and the demon is just like "A'ight"

[@Kumagoro42]

But for that to work, you have to give them a kitten.

[@adrianakuzmikova1697]

@@Kumagoro42 look at that kitten's tail. its no ordinary kitten :)

[@Silentpoppy]

I mean as long as the demon gets someones soul its probably fine with whatever :p

[@Emek999]

I appreciate that you balance both the entertainment and educational value of your videos; keeping a bad draw to see how it plays out as an example, rather than only streaming the best games you played. I basically learned to play and really enjoy Magic from your videos. Well done!

[@crovax1375]

Remember everyone. Sharing is caring!

[@40dayfreetrial70]

your profile pic is fitting :)

[@tbdabbholm]

We didn't vote for it, but if we had it would've been this

[@austinmueller5481]

It was a harmless gift.

[@dom_rocks7923]

"Have this cute demonic pact, it's harmless!"

[@heitortremor]

That first win was hilarious. Love the dry humor!

[@bluesideking]

This is the content for which I subscribed

[@robthehood1765]

A grixis control build of this was the second modern deck I ever faced around 5 years ago... and I thought you only gave me nostalgia for magic duels LVD!!

[@sincostan0321]

*Here, hold this*

[@ICameHereToComplain]

Finally back in Historic, now we can see how this jank goes up against more than 3 of the same decks

[@BeyondAllReasonEMU]

regular uploads, quality video, quality sound, perfect narration with editing when talking about something outside the game to allow us to follow, intriguing decks and game play with simple but beautiful structure. but only 80k subs wut??

[@HarverTheSlayer]

I knew it, Lvd. I just knew that the first deck that you'd make after the new Historic Anthology would have Harmless Offering in it. And I love you for proving me right!

[@SweetSassyMuffins]

Me laughing as soon as he showed Harmless Offering... OMG it's Nine Lives ALL OVER again.... beautiful jank sir! LMFAO deck 10/10

[@RogueOnslaught]

Ahhh I've missed your historic content! Thank youuu!

[@Bakershem]

As if Grim Tutor isn't the sickest card ever. Candles in the background, ambient ominous sounds as you're making a selection, and the card even comes out dripping in blood! Damn black is cool.

[@bumpy1031]

If they’re gonna concede anyway.. make them lol

[@kismet8010]

That thumbnail is so adorable

[@externallife1043]

Cats and demons, so it's a tribal deck.

[@Bakershem]

"The creatures outside looked from cat to demon, and from demon to cat, and from cat to demon again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

[@JohnDoe-xk2sj]

Awesome offering, thank you very much !

[@Dexterity_Jones]

That thumbnail though.. adorable as F

[@besNait]

Are you ignoring it's tail?

[@reverantjuli1]

Damn. I love the idea behind the deck. Definitely gonna try it out these days.

[@39853612]

The card back is the icing on the cake for this deck, amazing

[@callumreilly9107]

27:55 "Alright, so not exactly Sophie's Choice here" he's so calmly cheeky, it's very funny

[@SirMcAwesome]

I knew it! LVD's videos are fake! All these opponents are paid actors and this video proves it. Look at how they all willingly chose to lose the game.

[@adrianakuzmikova1697]

I think this was edited not to include match ups vs control decks. I have made one deck with this combo and it almost always loses vs control decks.

[@understandingthenews8147]

Nice to see that you built this first :)

[@geronimoG]

Harmless offering ist also a good combo with your nine lifes deck that you recently published. It is also very fitting to the cat theme.

[@felipesampaiodeoliveira62]

8:36 so mean, i loved it lol

[@dan_tars]

8:29 "Target the right Demonic Pact here..." *Targets the left Demonic Pact there*

[@PrematureMalone]

Harmless offering was the first deck I made when the set came out today, but mine's chromatic black. Love the combo. Put in a full playset of the new curse as well.

[@edgarlim21]

We love you LVD!

[@ondrejkromer5732]

I love the thematic sleeves

[@jamesparochetti5279]

Always appreciate your videos and well thought out plays. Fun to see they made a red Donate

[@thesarcasticliberal]

This reminds me of a deck I once made that used Donate on Oath of Lim-Dul with Underworld Dreams. Oath is aggressively bad and forces you to discard or sacrifice a permanent for each damage you take (e.g. take 3 = 3 sacs/discards), but lets you draw for BB--with Dreams out, this means that you can donate it to an opponent and then every draw will deal 1, which forces a sacrifice or discard until they have literally nothing in hand or play except the Oath. At that point, every time they draw, they take 1 and immediately discard the card before they can interact with it.

[@19fabregas]

I’m definitely building this deck, looks a lot of fun

[@simonemauro302]

Really interesting video. I wonder what it could potentially be when inquisition of kozilek and faithless looting will be on the format.

[@dasmause5682]

LVD makes you adopt a cat to make you lose: a second video within just a couple of weeks

[@milramas]

Hope to see more historic decks

[@zhelyazkogrudov6476]

you sir are indeed a legend

[@marc-andrecote2948]

I feel like your could cut 2 thrills and the valakuts, and to add fable passage is super relevant since you play push imo, with the 2 spots id probably get the X lifegain n exile card, or something in general that helps survive. Or more hand disruption since you lose to counter spell like... Elspeth nightmare, versatile enough. Nice video

[@Sombres]

the cat card giving nine lives would be purrfect

[@HarverTheSlayer]

That was actually my first thought when I saw Harmless Offering (mainly because I had forgotten about Demonic Pact). Give the opponent Nine Lives, drop a Cleansing Nova, boom.

[@yeeticusmaximus326]

I have the harmless offering play mat irl and it’s the cutest thing ever

[@UTUB2kholle]

The first goblin player definitely punted the game away by not denying you lifegain :o

[@CyberBuster93]

FOR SCIENCE!!!! 😂 I absolutely love when you know a hand isn't optimal but keep it anyways just to see how it plays out man 💕🤘

[@aidenspooks6211]

Whoa some historic, ahhhh no cool intro, I still love the videos.

[@MidgarMerc]

I'm most excited for Thraben Inspector from this batch cause I want to try to make Azorius or Bant flicker work in Historic. Use Thassa, cloudblazer, charming prince, etc to generate a bunch of value

[@LtVadim]

23:23 If that would be a game of poker, you'd be a clear winner. Shuffler is fine!..

[@thcdreams654]

Look what the cat dragged home.

[@r12365]

I'm still at the Deck Tech but why not go Bloodchief's Thirst over Fatal Push? Also gives you the option to remove planeswalkers. Seems like you value the insant speed a lot, why?

[@yonahgreene]

Fatal push has revolt so you can take out a 4 drop at instant speed if you cracked a passage etc.

[@r12365]

@@yonahgreene He specifically mentioned that he has no ways to enable revolt.

[@yonahgreene]

@@r12365 my bad then you are right interesting that he doesn't just run fabled passage or something

[@LegenVD]

Game two is a good example of why instants are important. You could run a few copies of Fabled Passage, but you still need enough untapped black on turn one and you want some actual duallands to help cast some of our double colored spells more reliably. It's always a balancing act when building the manabase. And the majority of creatures in Historic have cmc 2 or less anyway.

[@r12365]

@@LegenVD Thank you very much for the detailed answer!

[@Avatarbee]

LVD: "Next turn our opponent should lose the game." Opponent: "That's where you're wrong!" *explodes*

[@OkosHugPillow]

Cats, I love cats, I live for cats. Yes I know, you'd think it would be elk, but it's not. Who would turn their enemies into something they love? Not me. I was expecting a cat tribal, though I know you've done that before. This was not that. Of course I will watch though. Every video LVD makes is excellent and the gameplay is always top notch. Cast your magikarps my friends! If you cast it and put it on the board, then bounce it back to hand so it can gain some experience without fainting, it will soon evolve into Gyarados! Then you will be one step closer to becoming a Pokemon Master.

[@caster8469]

I have a mat with the harmless offering art on it

[@nayaleezy]

oooo Historic! ❤️❤️❤️

[@Breakbeat.]

19:50 I even felt that one

[@nonturtle6430]

Opponent has made decision, and they decided to lose the game, don't know why. --LVD, 2021

[@daemeonp]

must be nice to be able to log in

[@jorgeenriquemendozaortiz1792]

Hey legen greetings, are you going to do a video with a death shadow deck for historic? love your channel man, you have a lot of good content

[@LegenVD]

It's currently an option in the Patreon poll

[@Verd254]

Yus, historic is bacc

[@MasterChakra7]

Thoughtseize really is the most disgusting card in Magic

[@cuencamh]

My version runs 4 x Pact of Negation, just a free counterspell to ensure the combo (since I woul lose anyways next turn to demonic pact if op counters harmless offering).

[@Fazoer]

Diabolic, nice.

[@PaWnAable]

Keep up the great content

[@emregeylani]

"opponent has to make a decision and they decided to lose the game? I don't know why but I'll take it." Thanks for the laugh :)

[@Sir_Master]

Ah yes I made this a day or two after historic anthology came out-I was surprised to have never seen another Cat Pact list until now

[@LK90512]

I get that the Rakdos build with Demonic Pact is the sensible choice, but how could you resist the all-cat Harmless Offering / Nine Lives combo?

[@svgringer3446]

Rarely do KZbin videos make me chuckle. If I do, it's an LVD video.

[@llongone2]

So, you choose death?

[@zappyice]

you prob could have ran the mardu triome (maybe over the pathways) if you wanted to actually cast kaherea but yeeting your companion is also fun to lol

[@LegenVD]

Wanted to have 12 untapped black sources for the early interaction. Not really concerned about casting Kaheera.

[@jameshanus3813]

Eww taplands...

[@ivayloivanov2676]

21:56 Ok, let's try and meow our opponent to death

[@mus0u]

never clicked a video so fast based on the title alone

[@mcd9468]

What a nice jank deck to finish the day

[@GrosBoulet]

A mirror match with this deck would be quite funny

[@andrebatista2768]

8:35 sassy LVD is the best LVD

[@MrMidnight3194]

"Not exactly Sophies Choice here." LOL

[@mikebellsfitnessshorts2783]

This should be great.

[@infinitedraw]

Just another reason to maindeck enchantment removal... I mean I'd totally play this combo too... it's a warning for everyone else?

[@owN-77]

yes!

[@everwake2689]

"With the cat sleeves, opponent might think we're playing cat tribal." *plays Blood Crypt turn 1* What kind of cats do you hang around with, LVD? Don't think I want to meet them!

[@gabrielarchanjo6028]

At game 1 i know you are glad that goblin granade is a thing.

[@adrianakuzmikova1697]

you didn't have any matches vs control decks? for example those who use teferi? or you edited them out so we don't see you lose? :)

[@LegenVD]

Weren't very popular back then :)

[@adrianakuzmikova1697]

@@LegenVD what are the top 3 strongest decks in historic right now? and the best budget historic deck?

[@LegenVD]

@@adrianakuzmikova1697 mtga.untapped.gg/meta/tierlist?format=historic

[@adrianakuzmikova1697]

@@LegenVD I am not a premium member of untapped so I cannot see any of that. can you copy paste the top 3 historic decklists?

[@bastienclarke1810]

Fun!

[@DreamCloudLu]

8:39 I don't know why lol

[@MrCommandor1998]

Oh god, they finally added it to arena, I'm afraid to check monoblackmagic channel now

[@infinitedraw]

He's due to overdue to post, but he's working on membership round 3 decks according to the 'Community' posts on the channel.

[@andredinglasan241]

What happened to the classical music intro ):

[@jacksepticeyesdadisburning7982]

He said they took too long to edit considering he makes daily videos, but he might do something similar in the future.

[@TCstorm08]

"toxic" lvd. fucking love it.

[@kristjanpaluoja6454]

Not a single game against UW control or SUltimatum - with only 4 Thoughtseizes it is tough to fight Teferi or Sultai Control, even Bant with all exiles would have more than enough tools to exile the pacts

[@LegenVD]

Those would definitely be harder matchups, although I rarely see those decks in best of one.

[@Kiwii.3ru]

laughing cause i see your wacky wendsday cat pact from 3 years ago kek in my up next while watching this

[@josh2824]

Nice

[@haveiszalfaroqie]

I just realized the cat's tail has teeth and apparently can bite? Anyway, how to unsee?

[@MetaPixeI]

Finally historic 😭

[@ruleofthumb]

Love the Historic decks! Its too bad that Goblins seem to be like 75% of the meta. Would love to see your decks up against a better variety of opponents.

[@СашаГриминов-с6ч]

The next should be marit lage deck

[@mcd9468]

8:30 lol

[@jacksepticeyesdadisburning7982]

Honestly, i'll take the loss if you hand me a kitten. That's a good trade.

[@crustyandcruel]

This man is playing necrodonate in 2021

[@vydumannaproch]

I think deck needs blue for countering opponent's counterspells

[@orangetv8487]

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