Against the Odds: Kaldra (Modern)

What are the odds of assembling Kaldra in Modern? Let's find out!
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Games: 10:04

[@MTGGoldfish]

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[@awsomness62]

MTGGoldfish Why didn't you use lightning greaves instead of swiftfoot they have equip 0 just cheaper boots

[@ecoKady]

Mirror Gallery would apply to your opponent as well. I wonder if someone will pick up on that. You could have out 2 Nabans at the same time with a Mirror Gallery! Legendary Creature + Mirror Gallery + clone effects = fun.

[@awsomness62]

Rick Thom I just looked at the legality and it says they were printed in mirrodin and modern legal

[@darkonekosuke2]

Sun forger could be neat, such value

[@iainarlt7668]

Goreclaw

[@SmugLookingBarrel]

OH my gosh, I never realized that the set symbols are based off the Kaldra pieces! Mirrordin is a sword for Sword of Kaldra Darksteel is a shield for Shield of Kaldra Fifth Dawn is a Helm for Helm of Kaldra

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761]

Oh my. That's really interesting

[@Coren024]

they are also in the set they are the symbol of, which means that people knew Helm of Kaldra would be in Fifth Dawn because it is mentioned on the shield.

[@justharry2190]

each of them was the prerelease promo for the set too

[@ashra8281]

This episode of against the odds is brought to you by Tomer. Get you're unquestionably constructed commander decks, with maybe way too much card draw in the description down below.

[@paytonhammaker5758]

Basilica Scholar does sound like a cool card...

[@SidneyGutteridge]

Payton Hammaker generals kabutoo sounds good tbh

[@psychotropican666]

Filleter Husk! Gonna fillet some goldfish...

[@Jesin00]

If they exile the Kaldra token, you can just recreate it for 1 mana.

[@Skywarp2099]

24:20 "There were only two counters in the deck!!! Now I know how Tomer feels."

[@Gingerbreadley]

Man remembering how long it took tomer to do this is still pretty damn funny.

[@naphackDT]

Mind you, tomer tried it in a 100 card singleton format where there were 3 players trying to ruin his fun.

[@leonardoboccaletti1790]

When people ask that Vengevine player what was the worst deck he ever lost to in modern, he has his answer...

[@Small_Panda]

Leonardo Boccaletti I still remember when Seth lost to a crappy standard vampire minotar deck in modern. He was like this will go down as my worst loss in modern of all time this man is playing standard and I'm losing. It was like some jank red black madness vampire and minotar aggro minotars. That ended up winning a against the odds later on and Seth got crushed lol.

[@deathpyre42]

got the link to that?

[@MTGGoldfish]

This is so true!

[@Small_Panda]

deathpyre42 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKLZi5-opNSVZ80 this is him playing the deck i can't recall what he lost playing

[@deathpyre42]

Thanks

[@hwago123]

I feel like having open of the armory and mox opal and darksteel citadel plus inventor's Fair might add more speed to the deck and consistency. I'll post a list in a bit.

[@marlowelain205]

Love your pronunciations of absolutely everything

[@totalcoward]

I actually really hope we run into D&T so we can see them play Pithing Needle on Helm of Kaldra. It’ll literally be the most ridiculous thing to ever happen in modern Edit: Immediately disappointed

[@lsmith12341985]

Games @ 10:04

[@Fauna_CR]

Probably should have Open the Armory for more consistency.

[@virgilmacmanus7568]

Christian Reinagel Totally agree. I feel like 4 Open the Armory would be way better than the 4 Semblance Anvil.

[@DonovanPresents]

I also like Haunted Plate Mail for the removal heavy meta. It is basically a crew if you have no creatures.

[@virgilmacmanus7568]

Donovan Simmons That's pretty spicy! So spicy, it just might work

[@baileyrose6459]

Hey Seth, great deck! I love Against the Odds and wanted to suggest two cards you haven't gotten around to janking-out yet: Mitotic Slime - 8 bodies for 5 mana in a sacrifice deck Favor of the Mighty - Salvage Titan, Gurmag Angler, cheat big stuff into play

[@MTGGoldfish]

Sound sweet!

[@stephentoothman7852]

Kaldra in a Tron shell might work, plus then it's regular Tron and "kaldra Tron"

[@ShiningSpear]

We need to come up with a third theme so it can be Tron Tron

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761]

@@ShiningSpear the kaladesh modules?

[@leonardoboccaletti1790]

Tomer is going to be proud!!!

[@angelicadale2524]

I don’t like how Seth pronounces “Basilisk”

[@SheyVick]

I think at this point he mispronounces cards on purpose

[@Noriyatsu]

same goes for kabuto (kha-bhu-toe) he saying it kabutu... forvo.com/word/kabuto/

[@MaeseEidos]

Nobody likes how Seth pronounces anything. And for a reason.

[@natoraishido]

Honestly I believe he just doesn't understand phonetics at this point. Or fantasy creatures, which is funny since, you know...

[@lengthao7652]

The token should’ve at least have reach. Should try doing open the armory kaldra. Instead of casting the kaldra pieces just reanimate them. It’s seems like a fun deck idea.

[@deathpyre42]

Um, got a list for that?

[@lengthao7652]

deathpyre42 no but a fun tech card I’m thinking about that could be in the deck is mirror gallery. Why not have all the kaldra cards in play lol

[@stormcrow1685]

deathpyre42 www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/1273993#paper

[@JeffThomas35]

Seth, this is my favorite video of yours. I love the humor and the excitement.

[@reidr7288]

Keep stonerorge mystic banned *in the musical voice of Vince*

[@AdamGuite]

Reid’s Beads IN MODERN

[@AdamGuite]

Lol my favourite little schtick of his by far

[@dawidwidera1819]

Sigarda's Aid or Open the Armory in place of useless (it wasn't used single time) anvil, and deck will run smoother.

[@Wearywastrel]

It was used exactly once and it was super key to him winning the game. Also, it was side boarded in all but one game and did nothing a majority of the time. :/ A self mill strategy with open the vaults would have been better.

[@Anynewprovince]

You did it! Too bad it wasn't a flying boi

[@Vonsen]

I definitely think you should have splashed green just for ancient stirrings. It is such a powerful card for this strategy.

[@chapelstadium1430]

I'VE WAITED SO LONG FOR SOMEONE TO POST SOMETHING LIKE THIS AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@ericwilson3211]

seth pls i need sleep why do you keep doing this to me lmao

[@mrTjstephens1]

This is insane, I love it! Kuldra is actually true TRON!

[@piYPmvY3aTC]

Seth assembles kaldra at 33:13 and 37:45

[@bazingalen]

Lizard Wizard thank you Soo much

[@dearberlin]

Assembling it and still losing to the cute Bogles, that's a technically won game for sure xD

[@oliviergermain3106]

I was expecting Kaldra to be a cooler looking creature... This token just looked like the equipments floating together under water... :/ Still cool to see it tho ^-^

[@Ornithopter470]

It looks like a morph

[@bryantan4228]

Call the cops. Tomer is holding Seth hostage.

[@joseph-yt2qk]

I do enjoy an episode like this every once in a while. I don’t want every against the odds to be this hard to accomplish, but watching the Kaldra’s, and the Eternal dominion’s lose and lose and lose and lose and lose and then finally win is super satisfying!

[@MTGGoldfish]

It sort of goes back to the roots of the series. There was a time where going 1-5 was close to average. I think that when it happens too often it's boring, but once and a while having a really hard to achieve goal is good.

[@5fwwfw]

Well, that was painful , but at least Tomer must be proud.

[@miguelangelgonztorr8674]

Maybe is good in this deck the card board the weatherlight, can find artifacs and sram or danitha

[@timslack966]

Several commentors mentioned some ideas I also had in mind. Maybe something like... //Creatures: 2 Kemba, Kha Regent 4 Puresteel Paladin 1 Sram, Senior Edificer 2 Steelshaper Apprentice //Enchantments: 1 Sigarda's Aid //Sorceries: 4 Ancient Stirrings 2 Open the Armory 4 Steelshaper's Gift //Instants: 4 Path to Exile //Artifacts: 1 Batterskull 3 Helm of Kaldra 1 Pariah's Shield 3 Shield of Kaldra 3 Swiftfoot Boots 3 Sword of Kaldra //Lands: 1 Buried Ruin 2 Ghost Quarter 4 Horizon Canopy 1 Inventors' Fair 5 Plains 2 Razorverge Thicket 4 Temple Garden 3 Windswept Heath

[@TADMOORE]

36:47 you can even hear Seth's chair squeak in his excitement to the chance of assemble Kaldra AND win aggainst Bridgevine!!!

[@Joker22593]

I can't believe you didn't include worldbreaker! That just wins the game!

[@jeffreydenenberg7101]

I never noticed before how all the kaldra pieces were from different sets in the block and how the set symbol for that set was the kaldra piece that was in it

[@Ahayzo]

"Now I know how Tomer feels" It's ok Seth. We will need you to get an abacus by tomorrow morning though

[@solarmanatee4667]

You should really wait until you have 2 pieces of kaldra before casting steelshaper's gift so that you have a higher chance to draw a relevant piece. 6 cards you need to draw is more than 3 cards.

[@sator_project]

I think Danithas would be better in place of the Anvils, if you want that effect. The body is a lot more relevant in the situations where Anvil isn't worth the mana. Speaking of mama, I would trying swapping out some of the Boots for Paradise Mantle. It cycles you faster, and the bit of ramp could be relevant when you're trying to make a 12 mana 9/9. Also if you really need the hexproof of Boots, you have 4 Steelshaper's Gifts to find it. Finally, the only reason why I wouldn't jam a Batterskull in the 4 Steelshaper's jank deck is that I'd be worried about winning too many games with that card. Still, congratulations making Kaldra in Modern. That''s something to be proud of.

[@MTGGoldfish]

More Danithas could work, although it's slightly annoying that she's legendary.

[@tyson263]

General's KABOOTOO. Never change Seth

[@Wearywastrel]

He accidentally said it right at one point :p

[@phillipjones4983]

dedicated to tomer?

[@SirDanyTheWarrior]

I just realized that each expansion symbol from the block is each part of the kaldra-tron

[@funa2865]

When you have swung with the kaldra token you can cast the ability of the helm again to create a new kaldra that is untapped by sacing the old Kaldra. Basically if you can grant kaldra haste she functionally gets [1]: gain vigilance this turn only.

[@funa2865]

My bad she naturally has haste lol.

[@ibrahimmagic1377]

SAFF YOU ARE THE BEST MTG CONTENT CREATOR ON KZbin PERIOD I ADMIRE YOU I LOVE YOUR VIDEO KEEP ON POSTING MORE VIDÉO PLEASE

[@Joods41]

How about focusing on green for ancient stirrings and mana dorks to equip stuff while grinding for Kaldra?

[@Ornithopter470]

I'd love to see a version of this in a kind of hammertime shell.

[@GeorgeMaj15]

Why not add Tron lands? Could cast those bigger things faster. I guess you have some important double white with paladin though...

[@Zosh_]

No ancient stirrings?

[@MTGGoldfish]

I was thinking Steelshaper's Gift would be enough, but maybe it's not.

[@timslack966]

I thought the same about ancient stirring during the first match. Another commentor pointed to open the armory. More tutors might allow playing only 3 of each kaldra. Maybe something like... //Creatures 2 Kemba, Kha Regent 4 Puresteel Paladin 1 Sram, Senior Edificer 2 Steelshaper Apprentice //Enchantments: 1 Sigarda's Aid //Sorceries: 4 Ancient Stirrings 2 Open the Armory 4 Steelshaper's Gift //Instants: 4 Path to Exile //Artifacts: 1 Batterskull 3 Helm of Kaldra 1 Pariah's Shield 3 Shield of Kaldra 3 Swiftfoot Boots 3 Sword of Kaldra //Lands: 1 Buried Ruin 2 Ghost Quarter 4 Horizon Canopy 1 Inventors' Fair 5 Plains 2 Razorverge Thicket 4 Temple Garden 3 Windswept Heath

[@Dan1loBC]

Maybe you can try a different approach to this deck with "artifact reanimation" with stuff like refurbish, instead of relying on pure card draw from */2 creatures

[@Lucifer0the0morning]

Wouldn't it be much easier to play one of those Quest for the Holy Relic shells, so that you only need to play 1 of each kaldra pieces, steelshaper's gift + Refurbish for backup ?

[@watchmybat]

Can you try the Hellkite Charger RR4, Bear Umbra GG2 combo? Hellkite Charger “Flying haste. Whenever Hellkite attacks, you may pay RR5. If you do, untap all attacking creatures and after this phase, there is a additional combat phase” Bear Umbra “Enchant creature. Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has whenever this creature attacks untap all lands you control”

[@gaspachazo815]

Let's revisit with the Stoneforge unbanning!

[@HeWhoSlayethCain]

You built my EDH deck in Modern. Awesome.

[@ultimus1998]

Any thoughts of replacing Semblance Anvil with Ancient Stirrings Seth?

[@andrewtierney1218]

I almost excepted "hey guys it's Tomer here as a guest on against the odds!"

[@gregoryromine6671]

Why not splash green for ancient stirrings for them deep digs?

[@Boenobleman]

I don't think that's how you pronounce basilisk collar

[@Padsoldier]

I think this deck could've been a Tron deck - instead of the equipment package (Semblance Anvil, the draw-creatures, the non-Kaldra equipments) play tronlands, Expedition Map, Open the Armory for more tutors, colorfilter artifacts (Chromatic Star, maybe Prophetic Prism). Having the big mana available might make assembling Kaldra easier, and makes you slightly less vulnerable to creature removal, but you also have more tutors available for finding a missing piece (which could also mean you can play less Kaldra pieces and more useful cards).

[@MTGGoldfish]

Hmm, that could work. For some reason I tend to avoid Tron.

[@mallrat5321]

I just had a crazy idea what if you that in some form of boggles shell I wonder how that would turn out.

[@danickjulien2309]

6:41 : What is that card??? Never heard of it before... ;)

[@sethchapman1425]

Thinking this should be a control deck with kaldra as finisher. w/u for colors maybe even r/w/u.

[@atog28]

Seemed like a Wrath of God would have been a great maindeck option. This decks creature count is so small, that it wouldn't mind resetting the board.

[@Wearywastrel]

And even if it does care settle would have been nice to have.

[@MTGGoldfish]

More removal could be good.

[@imakuni67]

I think a more colorless version with Urzatron would work better. Honor-Worn Shaku works well with legendary equipment

[@MTGGoldfish]

Hmm, mabye Kaldra Tron Tron is the the way to go

[@kevinprice674]

So kaldra makes infinite mana with ashnods altar so i want an infinite mana kaldra deck

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761]

Not in modern

[@MTGGoldfish]

That sounds sweet for Commander, it's just not legal in Modern :(

[@scottd.5705]

I've never heard of semblance anvil. Am I missing something or could that be used for redundancy in heartless myr? Seems really good, you can tutor/dig for it with the same things you can for the myr. Edit immediately after posting, I guess it doesn't kill the myr. Still seems interesting.

[@MTGGoldfish]

It could work in a ramp-based Heartless Summoning deck, it's just risky since if something goes wrong you 2-for-1 yourself.

[@DakingofAP]

That Kaldra token art is so ugly LOL

[@Welverin]

DakingofAP It's even worse because it's just three pieces floating in the air.

[@deidrehouse2743]

I miss having the deck tech part in a separate video, I always skip it, it's usually really obvious why the cards are in the deck just from watching the games.

[@epothos1]

“Well that was fun” he says with a grimace playing against hate-bears

[@jimmylee6041]

It seems like this needs more token producers like Lingering souls and Blade Splicer with all the equipments. And adding blue may improve the deck which can deal with some of the bad matchups.

[@jw5950]

"We got it, we got it! Kaldra coming through!" League record: 0-10

[@alexbianchi15]

Can I get a time stamp to an assembled kuldra?

[@maxiewawa]

24:20 did you edit out the best part of the video!!!!!!!??????? "Waaaaaaaaaw yeaaaaaaah there's my Sword of Kaldra"

[@mikeshaver-miller745]

I feel like Basilisk Collar is just a better brew around than Kauldra. You could have made the Pingening a thing! Complete the deck with cards like glaring spotlight to kill anything and everything! You could play izzet Staticasters and whatnot to deal with lingering souls

[@totalcoward]

Against The Odds: Tomer Edition.

[@WaterZer0]

Open the Armory > Semblance Anvil You are never having trouble casting the pieces (except with Thalia out); you are having trouble GETTING the pieces. I cannot believe you've done this.

[@stormcrow1685]

Semblance Anvil just seems bad. I would play 2 Open the Armory and 2 Mind Stone instead of it. This deck also has too many Srams. Cut 1 for another Danitha. Cut the General Kabuto for a Batterskull. Also, where’s Leonin Abunas in this sideboard??

[@coreysierchio4650]

Taking down the new hotness. Way to keep things cool Seth.

[@ZeroHourOtaku]

24:22 when the dream dies

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761]

Dreams never die. They just become infect players

[@Okiesmokie]

When I clicked on this video I thought it was going to be a special Tomer edition of Against the Odds

[@MTGGoldfish]

I should have gotten Tomer to do it!

[@hwago123]

Here's the best Kaldra list I could come up with. I actually beat U/W control with this deck just now. I originally had ornithopter, but changed it to Salvage scout since it can rebuy one of my artifacts, and it's still a cheap creature that can carry equipments. I didn't want multiple of each Kaldra because they are just bad. It's hard for opponents to deal with though once you have Kaldra Tron enabled. // 60 Maindeck // 19 Artifact 1 Helm of Kaldra 1 Shield of Kaldra 1 Sword of Kaldra 4 Mox Opal 1 Batterskull 1 Swiftfoot Boots 4 Flayer Husk 4 Mishra's Bauble 1 Loxodon Warhammer 1 Sword of Light and Shadow // 7 Creature 4 Puresteel Paladin 3 Salvage Scout // 3 Enchantment 2 Sigarda's Aid 1 Faith's Fetters // 4 Instant 4 Path to Exile // 19 Land 4 Darksteel Citadel 2 Inventors' Fair 4 Horizon Canopy 8 Plains 1 Ghost Quarter // 8 Sorcery 4 Open the Armory 4 Steelshaper's Gift // 15 Sideboard SB: 2 Gaddock Teeg SB: 3 Rest in Peace SB: 4 Leyline of Sanctity SB: 1 Oppressive Rays SB: 1 Dismember SB: 2 Disenchant SB: 1 Wrath of God SB: 1 Day of Judgment

[@MTGGoldfish]

Sweet!

[@hwago123]

the deck is just better without the Kaldras, so I switched them out for a couple Swords and Godsend. That allowed me to put the ornithopters back in since I care less about reviving equipments. It's by no means great deck, but I've beaten both HollowOne and U/W so far and R/W Walkers so far. It's not bad at least, and that's what counts. I could see it take down an FNM. Fun to play for sure. Batterskull OP

[@tomjackal5708]

you should definitely go down anvil for.... more collars and maybe second danitha? lifelink is pretty big and anvil was 90% dead

[@ecoKady]

Great video Seth! Wizards was really scared of Kaldra being good, iirc. It sure does feel like it should have nearly every keyword ability found on creatures and be a 12/12.

[@MTGGoldfish]

Yeah, I was thinking that too. It also might be that Mirrordin was 15 years ago now, so maybe a 9/9 Kaldra was scarier back then.

[@oliviergermain3106]

All we need now is a mirror gallery to create an endless army of 1 mana Kaldras!

[@awsomness62]

No lightning greaves?

[@onyourleft846]

Creating Kaldra loops out with ashnods altar. 1 mana for kaldra, sac it for 2.

[@nicholaswomack9027]

I think running the tron lands wouldn't have been a bad idea in this deck, just as a way to make big mana fast

[@MTGGoldfish]

Yeah, Tron lands could be good.

[@chromaticcaos]

Helm of the host + grand arbiter Agustin IV, ultimate jank out via taxes!

[@Wearywastrel]

Ew, that's just mean... I love it!

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761]

This is why I'm banned from playing blue

[@snakeman830]

Needs Open the Armory for more consistency and Sigarda's Aid so that the pieces aren't worthless before you get all three.

[@MeriadocMyr]

Is it really necessary to protect kaldra by giving it hexproof? After all you can make a new token for only 1 mana.

[@MTGGoldfish]

Maybe not.

[@samuelvanetten4324]

Yo Saffron, is it perhaps possible to make a real compadative equipment deck? With Sigarda's aid and other equipment Creatures?

[@MTGGoldfish]

Hmm, sounds like fun! Maybe it could work for budget magic, I'll see what I can do.

[@samuelvanetten4324]

@@MTGGoldfish Oh awesome you responded! But I got alot of wacky, budget, against the odds ideas but a real equipment and/or aura decks is really hard because I can never find the sequence or balance equipments or equipment creatures. And the creatures with high affinity are kor, knight, soldier and warrior creatures. Those are the creatures who receive a effect when equipped.

[@Webcomentarista_Aditivo]

isn't it a good deck to play board to wetherlight? I mean, in this deck it is almost like a 2 mana acient stirings

[@MTGGoldfish]

If any deck could make it work it's probably this one.

[@Webcomentarista_Aditivo]

I think that would allow you to play less copies of keldra picies and more relevant things, like prision cards

[@darkonekosuke2]

I’m so confused about g1 m1, how was Seth dead? He had a path for the third flier and could’ve made his paladin a 3/3 deathtouch lifelinker to start cracking in.

[@MTGGoldfish]

Thalia was making things really rough since we didn't have enough to Path and also equip :(

[@darkonekosuke2]

MTGGoldfish doesn’t paladin make the equip cost free?

[@toolcheat]

Please update this deck with stone forge mystic would be very cool :p

[@themagicgeek4765]

Hey Seth how much would it be to mail you a playset of Panharmonicon to have you sign and send back?

[@MTGGoldfish]

Free! Just include a SASE so I can get them back to you. PO Box 110, Clyde NY, 14433

[@jamesstell7200]

seems like this deck could use ancient stirrings as effectively as any other deck.

[@edwardpang6439]

is that like a Praying Mantis token?

[@PikachaoArt]

i haven't seen this yet but you better at least mention Tomer here

[@cosmotect]

I have a complete foil kaldra set, it is the cornerpiece of my collection, even though far from the most expensive :)

[@MTGGoldfish]

Awesome!

[@kelvinhu2063]

At 14:40 if Seth hadn't paid a life to horizon canopy for no reason opponent would not necessarily have won the game next turn at 15:14, as they would've needed an untapped land to pay for all the attacks (Sram can eat one of the dorks) to guarantee victory. And if they'd just attacked with the two 3/3's, Seth would've had another turn.

[@MTGGoldfish]

We ended up casting Path though, so we used all of our mana.

[@Markthanan]

Whats the point of having Semblance anvil in the deck, if it's never going to be used ?!

[@MTGGoldfish]

It's good, but only in certain situations.