MTG Arena - Standard - New Gyruda

[@williamearl1389]

Sure, Lois, a Dream Trawler is a Dream Trawler but Gyruda could get us anything! Even a Dream Trawler! And you know how much we need one of those right now!

[@ShamPain808]

Hey LVD, just wanted to say, you’re pretty cool. Thanks for the consistently good content.

[@madisonking8057]

I second this, even when my intrest in magic wanes I can always enjoy an LVD video

[@Kryptnyt]

It's pretty crazy how much mileage he gets out of the two arena formats

[@crovax1375]

That Bookwurm vs Ruin Crab interaction! 😂😂😂

[@georgewesland9243]

LOL take that mill decks!

[@RooZvonBooZ]

Bloody brilliant xD

[@Bilias123]

"I'm okay throwing Charming Prince under the Bus." - By far the hardest rage u will ever hear from LVD - U are just the best :) said already and keep saying: pls never stop!

[@Chris-et3xh]

Get someone who loves you as much as LVD loves wolf haven 🐺💚

[@SwamiDayswani]

*mindstone

[@dichsedichse]

River hoopoe?!

[@zacharysain8516]

Or how much he loves cathartic reunion

[@dichsedichse]

@Braydon Jacoby you are very definitvly not a Bot, not at all, who would think that...

[@KyonNolex]

Bro, literally stayed up hoping to see an upload today. Was worth it. Love it

[@shikabaneconga]

so weird seeing this comment and having Pacific Standard Time, stayed up to 9pm woooh calm down there (obvious joke)

[@shaunkingkgttoatyerrdvhjus6850]

I'm glad we had the same reaction

[@thrillhouse4151]

Wow Kogla and Charming Prince are quite the pair!

[@zappyice]

Glass caskets are a nice option for early game removal in case you run into the random husbringer or the new 1/3 version of it

[@LegenVD]

Definitely want those in the 75.

[@TheNecrossix]

@@LegenVD I know Gyruda is makes the deck faster, but what about a Yorion version? Just a thought.

[@tofu585]

@@TheNecrossix adding 20 cards and removing the guarantee of gyruda really messes with the consistency

[@thefool8224]

@@tofu585 .unless its your opponent playing it. when they do it they get the most consistent god draw in existence

[@r_t9419]

scooping opponents, that bookworm interaction and the final play vs counters... just beautiful

[@brianc5897]

Built deck this morning legend! It is a house , you are one of the best deck builders i have seen! Keep up the good work dude.

[@LegenVD]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@thcdreams654]

Anytime I see Gyruda I remember that awesome Limited run you had with him in Ikoria.

[@eq2lornick]

It is very rare that I will say that a mill deck match up was interesting... but that actually turned into an interesting game at the end with the bookwurm interactions.

[@Scarlettshardd]

The Kogla combo with charming prince is pretty solid, wow.

[@louisheilman4835]

Thanks for all of the fantastic decks, great fun to watch!

[@darkelf3144]

It's crazy that I play the same 3 decks everyday and make miss plays all the time, but LVD plays a new deck everyday and is always near-optimal. Pretty damn impressive!

[@Derael]

This game vs mill reminded me of a abzan counters deck I built a while ago. It played a cheeky 1-of skeleton (forgot how it's called), and I could always put it on top of my library if I had 1/1s that tap to put a counter on themselves on the battlefield. Won me a few games vs mill.

[@RooZvonBooZ]

Match 4 was so good :) Cool stuff my dude

[@aaronwilliams7031]

LVD, Dranith Magistrate is currently an all star in my Mardu Humans deck, Interacts very well with a lot of standard at the moment, it's a must kill for some of the biggest decks in the format.

[@LegenVD]

I'm aware, that's why I put it in my Annoying Abzan build!

[@CyberBuster93]

6:02 Me when I wake up in the morning 😭😂

[@ZeroFate643]

In the mill matchup, we probably should have held a bookwurm activation instead of replaying the Quandrix Cultivator. We already had lethal on board and the only way we lose is if Oppo had multiple ways to mill at instant speed.

[@LegenVD]

Good point!

[@jzoobs]

"We"?

[@RandomPerson-mv8bn]

@@jzoobs USSR anthem intensifies

[@User-jo7jp]

@@jzoobs when most people watch their favorite players they tend to root for them like a hometown sports team. same thing where if the 49ers win the superbowl, people from san francisco say "we won the game."

[@bullshifterz]

@@User-jo7jp hardly the same thing

[@roosvandendoel7385]

dude, ur the best, like ur videos r so calming

[@dinklebob1]

Love this deck. Very fun when it pops off. I get using Verdant Mastery because it's a new card, but it's mostly worse than a Migration Path or Vastwood Surge (which don't burn rare WCs). I can't see getting one-two extra lands in hand being worth an additional mana or giving your opponent ramp.

[@LegenVD]

Sometimes you run out of lands in hand too, but they all have their advantages.

[@bottlingsho5431]

Love the deck! I remember the old gyruda decks, maybe replace verdant mastery with sad robot?

[@Phaymyr91]

That bookworm tech has convinced me to sideboard them in my budget decks lol

[@zaifir8119]

against rogues it just gets clinged to dust i think, but its still probably worth it if the deck can't run a good escape card. Quandrix Command can do this aswell, but it has to be in hand and not in the graveyard.

[@andreavila6610]

Thassa is sooo good! Flickering decks are panic inducing

[@masterkurosaki100]

Last match was incredible; opponent grind out to the last play.

[@Sir_Master]

Game 2 against Kavu Lord-ah yes my favorite MTGA avatar.

[@arapp93]

I was really curious which direction you were going to go with the wurm, didn't even think of Gyruda!

[@lukecash3500]

Kinda surprised with Lotus Cobra some fabled passages couldn't find their way into the mana base, must be too strict with the mana requirements to have room for those I guess?

[@jzoobs]

Not enough basics, and a lot of them get milled maybe?

[@marsiumouse]

Coming in tapped before turn 4 might be a big deal for a deck that wants to play its threats as efficiently and early as possible, especially if the cobra doesn't come out/gets removed

[@evancalgary7684]

Solem simulacrum would be good in this deck as well but nice job as always lvd

[@TheDarkZoren]

I think Quandrix Cultivator is a better pick right now. yeah, simulacrum draws you a card on death but the cultivator can survive a lot of red's removal and provides better stats. It also adds to your blue devotion for Thassa while simulacrum provides none. Lastly the land come into play untapped which can prove the difference in some cases.

[@soybomb777]

Can't wait for Gyruda 3-D

[@xelnecra]

26:45 would dream trawler really be bad here? I thought it was great to let you discard book worms again, buying you more time against mill.

[@LegenVD]

That's definitely a good use for it, although that did not end up being the biggest constraint.

[@jazoinklastname4289]

This is so cool!

[@MrEquinoxParadox]

I read the title, said "no way, this cannot be!" This is a good day.

[@joshcahill6880]

Used this deck today to rousing success!!! It does get hammered by agro decks though, any side board suggestions??

[@phil817]

If that game against mill had gone longer, Dream Trawler could have been a discard outlet for the Bookworms, food for thought.

[@LegenVD]

Yup, good interaction to keep in mind.

[@mati.vilchez]

What a beast.

[@kharnthebetrayer1575]

Man those 1st two matches .... went against 2 piles that don’t know what they are as a deck !!!

[@Bluecho4]

That was a fun game against the mill deck.

[@mememaster5748]

Notification squad where you at

[@arapp93]

We in this

[@silencia08]

Ah Gyruda the card that made me install Magic Arena.

[@martinmackenzie5127]

Thassa cool deck!

[@demanoth]

When op used the dog to proyect the bat... What a bad play

[@m4p0]

Hey LVD, I have an idea for a historic deck that is probably trash, but if there is someone that can make it work it's definitely you. Ok, hear me out: Storm Kiln Artist + Revel In Riches + something to make many copies of a spell (storm/Thousand Year Storm or the like) ideally at instant speed so that it can be fired off at the opponent's end step, bonus points if it's cheap removal to create even more treasures.

[@DanyF02]

38:50 Could you not have switched the triggers there to still get 2 bounce on Kogla? (If prince targeted Kogla of course.)

[@LegenVD]

Thassa requires you to target a creature when the trigger is placed on the stack, so there's no window where you can target Kogla in this hypothetical scenario.

[@hsMaskman]

With the Indatha Triome giving access to black mana and Gyruda being able to just grab it anyway, is there any particular reason not to run one or two copies of Massacre Wurm? Seems like it would have been pretty strong against a few of the decks you ran up against.

[@LegenVD]

Still way too difficult to cast.

[@bumpy1031]

If you gave me a free land I’d stick around to see you play it out. It’s the least I could do.

[@haveiszalfaroqie1628]

It's been a long time I'm wondering, but which format did (do) you play in the videos? The evergreen event or casual Play?

[@joao17771]

rest in pepperoni, cobra

[@raulpacheco7488]

20:35 I cant believe you were playing against Annoying Abzan lmaoo

[@brucedoezema6886]

Does bruvac double your mill too or just opponents....?

[@LegenVD]

It doesn't double self-mill effects.

[@whiskaselgato8068]

The bookworm play was outstanding and annoying, as a bookworm would be

[@jzoobs]

Kogla is the card I never want to see in Brawl.....kills my Commander and then attacks and eats my six man's enchantment......serves me right for not packing removal I guess :P

[@vumasster]

Monke auto include in any brawl deck with green, even with the addition of Vorinclex at 6

[@StuartFerguson55]

So, isn't Kaervek, the Spiteful extremely well positioned in the current standard meta? It's basically a 1 sided board wipe against like 30% of decks. Would be cool to see another annoying abzan deck featuring that card. Edit: Oh I didn't even see that he ended up playing against that deck later in the vid.

[@christtwitch4013]

How is this deck playable without sweepers?!

[@olafthemoose9413]

You play early creatures that can block so you don't really need sweepers

[@christtwitch4013]

@@olafthemoose9413 u certainly won't stop any monored winota or monowhite with those weak ass blocks man

[@a7wingedsheep]

Here i was hoping you'd get EVEN with that mill deck.. alas...

[@halcyonrain463]

n i c e

[@RaynmanPlays]

If you're reading this, I wish you love and hope throughout your day. And if your day is lacking in these, take some of mine.

[@hahaplo]

mmm tried it out. way to manny weaknesses on this deck. for the memes sure but lacks removal of treaths or defence in the air. 0-15 this deck went

[@LegenVD]

Try mulliganing more aggressively.

[@Nightwindale]

How is this standard?

[@LegenVD]

It's an older video:

[@Nightwindale]

@@LegenVD Sorry, im blind. KZbin just fed it to me like a "new" one

[@RW77777777]

I don't see it. none of the matches are against meta decks except for the tier 2 W/G counters which drew 8 land to your 3, and even then you could have died multiple times despite your deck performing as best as could be hoped I don't see a few Charming Princes keeping you alive to turn 4-5

[@alexandernathe1467]

Thats true for a lot of his content. The games are cherry picked. Still fun to watch and original ideas. I often tried out the decks and got smashed alot in meta.

[@douglasingersoll7486]

Hello 🙂

[@strangelaw6384]

Only lvd would prefer bringing back a charming prince over a freakin questing beast. It takes skill to weigh and change game plans on the fly, but it takes guts to stick to your original game plan.

[@fricktarf]

Did you get a new microphone?

[@dantelarka6112]

I'm pretty sure he's slowing down his voice or doing some processing on his voice? His voice definitely seems more calm and deep.

[@waloacme]

This deck needs a mana sink.

[@LegenVD]

Thassa is a manasink and so is Kogla if you have Charming Prince.

[@waloacme]

@@LegenVD That's true. But I guess I was thinking about "creature" lands maybe?

[@LegenVD]

@@waloacme Don't think we can afford to fit in any colorless lands.

[@waloacme]

@@LegenVD Very true. I spent all day trying to make it work. No success.

[@chantingt]

I miss the days of the free companion, Gyruda just disappeared from the meta...

[@spiritreaper9595]

What if, (wild concept) people didn’t pull all of there decks for arena from online? I might lose to this bs but at least I have my dignity.

[@reckiuh]

Imagine thinking any other MtG KZbinr is better. The gap in skill and deckbuilding creativity is so big it’s not even funny

[@winterbreaksable]

Thasa is a messed up card

[@sognametalwindir5212]

P.o.s. mill is the most annoying thing ever. That bullshit made me quit playing.

[@EJisArete]

I was wondering why I was seeing this stupid companion again. Darn Net deckers. I used to enjoy brewing decks. Now, why bother?