MTG Arena - Historic - Refurbish Gift

[@RaynmanPlays]

30:46 "But we might be in trouble against a more aggressive deck." Opponent: *Mountain*

[@lsur5487]

Dude has crystal ball on standby.

[@nosmer9458]

Its always a mountain when you get a slow hand.

[@lyleisrael5691]

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[@noeljesus8641]

@Lyle Israel instablaster ;)

[@979259]

I had a lot of fun with this deck a little while ago. I think sanctuary and meteor golem are both brilliant additions.

[@lukecash3500]

This takes me back to when Maynard and Manfeld were in the finals of the Ixalan pro tour. Manfeld had a sultai energy deck with winding constrictor, longtusk cub, etc. it was a sweet midrange list (attune was still standard legal too). Maynard had a grindy, relatively control oriented list with ipnu rivulet, countervailing winds, refurbish, GPG, angel of invention and champion of wits. Good stuff.

[@RoyalJester17]

I'm just waiting for a blue white deck with ice effects and dragons. So we can call it: Blue Ice white dragons

[@RooZvonBooZ]

Oh man, haven't heard that name in years. XD Magine LVD playing Yu-Gi-Oh 😂

[@LeMuzi]

really liking your calm commentary in game great deck

[@Derael]

I think the version with black that plays the Naga that can tutor a card into your graveyard might be interesting with 1 card wonders like Platinum Angel. It's a solid body to reanimate by itself due to lifelink, and will put the best card in your deck into your graveyard to reanimate next turn.

[@kyleisenberg1701]

Wow! Great set of games. I don’t know what was more satisfying meteor Gollum the spirit dancer or doing 80 or so damage on one turn!

[@jerodast]

Definitely the battle between exponential amounts of life gain and exponential amounts of army building for me :) Most of the time someone has already won by that point, so it was great to see both decks actually functioning yet still having to fight each other - something that doesn't often happen in lategame play outside of boring trading of counterspells.

[@kyleisenberg1701]

@@jerodast totally agreed!

[@MondSemmel]

At 22:15: Wow, I wouldn't have come up with the idea of milling the haste creature of the Neoform opponent. However, if that's the plan, I think your best bet was to wait for them to flood the board with Neoform creatures, wait until they barely don't have lethal on board, and *then* try to mill their 1-of Rubblefort from their now smaller library. You might be able to still win from that position with Refurbish -> GPG -> Deputy (which you'd already milled), assuming they don't have an Abrade for your GPG. Another interesting question is whether you should've used the Minister's first mill charge on them, too, since you're both combo decks, they threatened to be faster than you, and they're quite fragile to mill effects.

[@LegenVD]

I thought about it some more while I was editing this video and came to roughly the same conclusion. Although there is a chance we can prevent them from getting any creatures in play by milling all Dualcasters. So we have to weigh the instant-win (no Dualcasters left) vs the likelihood of winning after they have an army of 3/3 creatures, even if they can't attack right away if we happened to mill every Rubblefort. Either way the odds are not in our favor.

[@MondSemmel]

​@@LegenVD Fair point. Though if you'd survived the turn, as I mentioned you did have Refurbish -> GPG -> Deputy of Detention. Assuming they'd completed their combo but had milled Rubblefort, they'd have a board of roughly 4x Dualcaster Mage, 4x Glasspool Mimic, and a Combat Celebrant, all with +1/+1 counters. Maybe slightly less, since they might have at least one of those 9 cards in hand. Then you untap, Deputy their Dualcaster Mage (which exiles all 4x Mages and 4x Mimics since they have the same name), and leave them with a Combat Celebrant. Then they untap, and need removal for both your Deputy and potentially your GPG - so something like Sea Gate Stormcaller plus Abrade would probably be unbeatable, but if they didn't have both, I suppose they'd kill Deputy, get back 4x Dualcaster Mage (2/2s now) and turn 4x Mimic into 4x Combat Celebrant, and then every turn the game would come down to whether you could draw or mill more Deputies than they could draw removal. ... Though now that I think about it, them using a single piece of instant-speed interaction in your end step during the next two turns would likely still be lethal, since your removal is all sorcery speed.

[@Mamutkailiai]

I really liked this deck. One of those elegant ones. Thank you.

[@thcdreams654]

Fantastic display against a variety of decks. It's really cool to see it pop off and turn the tide. Thanks.

[@RooZvonBooZ]

Thanks for still making videos! I always love to see them Lvd brews!

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[@PaintedPix]

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[@markbuckler4793]

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[@maxwellromza8390]

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[@0rphros]

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[@ericgee6114]

I wonder what the win con was for match 2. It def felt like a big chunk was missing from their draws

[@hjt091]

Aetherflux Reservoir, probably

[@kusperXD]

Vito wuld be other, quite fun with the revenge

[@ericgee6114]

Ah thanks. Forgot all about it. Just kept wondering why go so far into gaining life

[@nickritchie2154]

Could also have been a Lich's Mastery deck. Tends to run lots of lifegain and card draw.

[@abhikan7654]

Could have just been castle ardenvale.

[@kiernanoh]

That lifegain deck looked pretty fun

[@jerodast]

Anytime you get to REVEEEENGE! multiple times seems pretty fun haha.

[@hypercross86]

Gift deck with Ajani avatar against lifegain deck with Bolas avatar. Nice.

[@Silverhand264]

That w/b opponent surely had an Aetherflux in there somewhere...I hope. Or he was just...weird o_o

[@haveiszalfaroqie1628]

Could also Vito for instakill.

[@jerodast]

Yeah I was wondering how he was planning to overcome Zeno's paradox there :)

[@edwardmayne9114]

Pretty sure you missed lethal on that last game, though it didn't make a difference. Chart a course, dropping angel. Play deputy to take the ram away and bring angel back and swing for lethal.

[@senor_m6673]

in the last game you could have won on your turn by playing deputy on the ram and getting back angel, since it also buffs your other creatures. didnt matter in this case, but you are usually keen to make the best plays :)

[@LegenVD]

Sometimes you want fun things to last longer.

[@senor_m6673]

@@LegenVD i guess thats a reasonable explanation :)

[@MrSandalz]

Fun! Awesome deck as always :)

[@saddamc.h.5639]

freshly baked

[@ls-metro9362]

Lvd’s (not so) secret love for God-Pharao’s Gift 🖤

[@RecycledCabbage]

I just realized that the last opponent was named "Fblthp" and him throwing around the gates does feel like he's on theme, although he wasn't rocking the Fblthip avatar

[@thenextchicken]

My Go-To deck for ladder currently. I love it! Interesting build, mine looks different but is geared to BO3.

[@francescoc4950]

When will we hve a cube video? I'm wainting for it!

[@LegenVD]

Haven't been streaming lately, so don't have any cube footage.

[@francescoc4950]

thanks for the reply :)

[@johnkotzki2138]

You are a Legend😉

[@leonelbanegas4417]

As always nice content, keep it coming!

[@Legov7]

LVD: Deals 37 damage in one Attack Opponent: barely alive at 53HP Edit: well ok. 106 then

[@Azarios]

I'm so in love with these gift decks. Trying to build my own for just casual games and all. Any card suggestions are welcome!

[@zanepeltz5999]

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[@cixelsyD1988]

Don't understand why people enjoy playing the neoform combo deck, it's about as fun as rolling dice by yourself

[@sjgb214]

My best guess is it makes for quick wins/losses for dailies

[@Kryptykal]

It depends on the build. It can be a really difficult deck to play with and against

[@jerodast]

It's the kind of thing where I appreciate the satisfaction of coming up with the combo, and pulling it off once or twice, but if it was an RPG I would want them to patch it out shortly after I discovered it because it made playing my own character boring as hell.

[@QueenDaenerysTargaryen]

I remember when refurbish was everywhere in standard, the same for fabricate and gift.

[@davidarmstrong5001]

Awesome deck! I'm running this now. Good for mythic ladder?

[@CloakedJester]

Quick question, although on match 3 the chances of milling the haste source were slim, wouldn't waiting for them to get most dual casters and mirror rogues out of the deck increase your chances of milling the card you want ?

[@yurianonio9410]

Nice mydude

[@wesleyswank1527]

How 'bout that algorithm? Also this deck is super cool. Probably. I haven't watched the video yet.

[@marctosh705]

If you’re running minister how no aether hubs in manabase? It adds additional energy for self mill, and also enables more mana fixing

[@fuduzlp]

Love your videos!

[@collegeisdabomb]

Love your videos so much

[@TheDambia]

Pretty fun deck!

[@javelin9979]

epic match 2 💯

[@wimfranken826]

Gpg didn't get it's keyword eternalize added, while some other cards got mill keyword, i wonder why?

[@jerodast]

Eternalize is an activated ability on the card that "gets eternalized". GPGift has a triggered ability that affects a card _separate_ from itself. So, they're just not the same ability and therefore couldn't use the word Eternalize - although obviously the effect _was_ designed to be just like Eternalize in its results! On the other hand "mill" is defined as the EXACT same thing as previous mill effects. It's simply a change of phrasing. Also note that GPG was in the _same set_ as Eternalize cards, so they definitely would've used that word if it was the ability they wanted. That mean's it's really an entirely different situation from how "mill" was _retroactively_ applied to a ton of old cards.

[@jerodast]

I do think a lot about this stuff a lot though :) I guess GPG could've said: *"At the beginning of combat on your turn, all creatures in your graveyard gain Eternalize {0}, then you may activate one of those abilities, then all those creatures lose the ability. Any token created as a result of that ability being activated gains haste until end of turn."* Obviously it is not very elegant to phrase the temporary and limited use of an activated ability! The other option might've been to define lowercase "eternalize" to be a lowercase keyword action in addition to the keyword ability, and GPG would've said: *"At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may eternalize one creature in your graveyard, and the resulting token gains haste until end of turn."* They probably thought this wasn't worth it just to make one card work, and might've been afraid that people would get confused about whether the GPG use of "eternalize" was an activated ability or not, or only applied to cards that already had Eternalize.

[@josh2824]

Nice

[@dougcarey2233]

Meteor Golem is quite the back-breaking play with GPG. Love it! Also, that Orzhov deck needed the 4-mana 50 life/damage artifact. Aether Flux Reservoir?

[@LegenVD]

Either Reservoir or Vito or Lich's Mastery were likely cards in their deck.

[@everwake2689]

Are you on holiday, LVD? I keep missing your streams.

[@12bravo68]

Same, but he said he's taking a bit of a break until the next expansion drops. Think the current set was a bit of a flop for a lot of pros \ content creators.... Sadly.

[@TheSouthpawSharpshooter]

Luca Van Deun? 0:13

[@LegenVD]

That's me!

[@PaintedPix]

Thanks!

[@Malverde888]

Would love to see a more busted esper version

[@santiproductions9318]

Out of curiosity why haven’t you uploaded any cube videos?

[@LegenVD]

Haven't been streaming them.

[@gorkensenleganoso9566]

It was sad that the sultai energy won the final

[@ColossalRage13]

Match 2: Ugin the punching bag

[@al0never]

I'm from Russia and this video was uploaded in 6 AM. Mmm... Nice! I'm sleeping, but I'm watching this video

[@halcyonrain463]

I bet you could conquer the ladder with a brew of yours

[@charmanderpipperstrom6779]

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[@Valcyon]

How to watch an LVD video: Step 1: Like Step 2: Comment Step 3: Watch the video

[@anthonydevere2760]

Why don't you spell channel name LegendVD?

[@mtgold379]

Nice video I started doing vidoes to :D

[@electric_dream_machine]

That second opponent really needs to get a life.

[@stevenkrizo5537]

I suspect he was running the "Aetherflux Reservoir" card that deals 50 damage for 50 life and just didn't draw it in time.

[@Andy_Paris]

I see what you did there!😅

[@cloudmane4159]

So many taplands

[@LegenVD]

It's not that bad once you consider Sanctuary coming into play untapped starting from turn four onwards.

[@al0never]

Hey, LVD! Do you have instagram or Facebook?

[@LegenVD]

I don't, although I'm on Twitter.

[@JukesMcGee]

kor spirit dancer decks are as brain-dead as mono-red and mutate tbh.

[@douglasingersoll7486]

HOG4LIFE.

[@captaindc]

Yo

[@carlosvargas6027]

No skyclave apparition?? Is it worse than Deputy?

[@jameshanus3813]

The deck doesn’t have enough white sources to consistently play a turn 3 skyclave.

[@carlosvargas6027]

Oh, I understand. You're playing mystic sanctuary. Double white on turn 3 can be hard to get.

[@carlosvargas6027]

@@NecromancyForKids Yes, I understand the differences between both. Anyways, Apparition is way better as it doesn't bring back the card to the opponent and the most relevant targets in the format are CMC

[@jerodast]

@@carlosvargas6027 Even better than "almost sure", you can be "totally sure" by watching the part of the video where he describes his thinking on using Deputy instead of Skyclave because of the mana base!

[@carlosvargas6027]

@@jerodast that's what I was saying, because of Mystic Sanctuary. It demands playing a higher island count.

[@TheJokeKiller1]

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[@halcyonrain463]

Play in ranked!!

[@nicu.1871]

fuck. 3rd.

[@SethG27]

Platinum Angel seems better than golem

[@LegenVD]

It is heavily matchup dependent.

[@WelwoLied]

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