Infinite Illusions | Chronozoa | Modern | Against the Odds

[@Egovinco98]

Step 1: play budget infect and post good result Step 2: Play against the odds with Maindeck Solemnity Step 3: Profit. Laugh maniacally

[@MTGGoldfish]

Got 'em.

[@TheQueerLeaf]

Lol

[@MrCytree]

*Infect player stares impotently at his decklist while Seth and the internet cackle in glee.

[@jakobostheimer4066]

They prob have nature’s claim in there sideboard

[@cloaking111]

I mean, get in those noble hierarch/dryad arbor beats

[@kelvinliu-huang5955]

Showing Chronozoa tech was definitely wrong in first game.That's probably why the opponent didnt concede until seeing it. Finks beatdown was the way to go.

[@elesh.n]

@@jakobostheimer4066 Speaking as an infect player the existence of chalice and blood moon make force of vigor a better pick

[@Tehnameless1]

Corona-zoa? Crazy stuff, never change Seth

[@vinrod1802]

Infininte Coronoa-zoas at that

[@tiztumta]

Amazing as always! Against The Odds is my favorite series of MTG content on KZbin. Not only because Seth himself with his good vibes but the content is always challenging and funny.(And i bet is way harder and requires more label to produce this type of content than just play the meta decks in stream). Thanks for making pass by this quarentines in a fun and smoother way 🙏

[@MTGGoldfish]

Thanks :)

[@badgersauce]

"Nice Supreme Verdict, opponent" That must have felt so good

[@anaphysik]

5:19 "Not tricks -- illusions" Ha, nice Arrested Development reference, Seth!

[@taylorbruning2652]

Didn't catch that till you said something lol

[@diegoulisesdiazcortes1077]

A trick is something a whore does for money

[@DimT670]

Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the against the odds.

[@centurosproductions8827]

Man, when I voted for this, it was dead last in the poll. Glad I got to see one of my favorite Magic cards built around anyway.

[@ThomasJohnsen2]

(In a Jerry Stiller yelling voice) "Solemnity now, solemnity now!!!"

[@MrShinyObject]

Gonna be weird when you play almost this exact same deck in two weeks in pioneer with Mothra. Can't wait!

[@thatonekidtrex]

16:52 seths gotta be doing this on purpose at this point

[@davidstokes6406]

24:20 "I think I said its name wrong; and not only wrong but wrong in about 20 different ways." Every video, Seth. We love ya' man.

[@totalcoward]

I remember playing with Chronozoa back in Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013. Takes me way back

[@badgersauce]

I've wanted to build a deck around Chronozoa ever since I got one way back in the day. Glad to see it realized here

[@EbonAvatar]

"No one knows what Chronozoa does, so let's teach them a quick lesson." Seth you were enjoying this way too much :)

[@dankurach5340]

Seths basics are always so on point. Nice flex 💪

[@MTGGoldfish]

Gotta have the nice basics ;)

[@sleighte]

Great timing! I'm about to finish up an EDH build where the only goal is to get out as many Chronozoas as possible

[@thecollectiblecollectabill2298]

normally i would care about the spoilers. because there's no pre-release at my LGS to interact with people though, i couldn't care less, im so so so so glad the 'preview season' was over so fast so i can watch your videos again!

[@averagefox5126]

I come here for the Magic gameplay. I stay for Seth's pronunciation of card names

[@endermeap6488]

This deck should play altar of dementias instead of viscera seers. It allows for same turn wins and also you don’t have to splash black. (You might still want 1 viscera seer to chord for though, and 1 overgrown tomb to maybe cast it)

[@blackiscolor7732]

Endermeap bud i agree with the first half but only cuz it helps him finish out the game... HE SHOULD DEFINATELY keep vicera

[@MTGGoldfish]

I feel like with Altar of Dementia Chronozoa is less important (since we can do the same thing with any persist or undying creature, and there are a few that are cheaper than Chronozoa). Other upside is we can tutor up our creature-based sacrifice outlets but we can't tutor up artifacts.

[@endermeap6488]

I did say keeping 1 viscera was a good idea

[@OnlyBadSalmon]

9:40 did I miss something, or could Seth have Chord of Calling for Viscera Seer, played Chronozoa next turn and went infinite?

[@Luciferian.Latino]

He calls that play at 8:50 but got distracted and autopiloted a bird into play.

[@ValdisTan]

Convoke is either generic cost or the colour of the creature chrono is blue

[@tomhourie9172]

@@ValdisTan yeah, but he was able to cast it, and did, and grabbed the bird. he could have grabbed the viscera seer, since he already had 4 mana with which to play the chronozoa

[@MTGGoldfish]

We could have played the Bird and convoked, we mostly just forgot the convoke part.

[@zachgray4767]

I'm a simple man. I see Chronozoa, I click Like.

[@thelunchlady8276]

I need to confess a secret: Whenever I hear Seth say, "It's time for against the odds." or a similar phrase, I get a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

[@ninshjok]

Love these crazy decks, laughed a lot! love the content

[@Brando88Kern]

Lol, game 2: "Uhhhhhh, we are trying to make Infinite Elementals, in Modern." Shit. I hate when Seth switches decks on me a quarter of the way through the video.

[@Krossfyre]

At 52:17 Seth points out that the combo beats everything the opponent can do. Would be hilarious if opponent responded with Declaration in Stone if they felt like being a bit janky.

[@beniaminstawiarski7577]

He could just respond by sacing the targeted chronozoa and dec in stone would fizzle.

[@beniaminstawiarski7577]

I just read other comments and noticed you corrected someone on the same thing with settle, lol. Btw, you have a really nice name there m8!

[@Krossfyre]

@@beniaminstawiarski7577 lol, you're right. Which now means that at least 2 cards are required to beat Seth. Pithing Needle/Phyrexian Revoker/something else + Declaration in Stone. So I'm still technically correct, though the odds of an opponent having that is basically none, unless they're playing a budget control deck lol.

[@lillyw7064]

Saffron Olive at 18:00 your op most likely did bauble before swiftspear because they wanted to see if they wanted to fetch or not off their first land

[@JuanGarcia-mb8qv]

16:45 Seth on a roller coaster xD

[@invaderzimm7871]

I feel like this deck need at least one murderous red cap. Why not.

[@invaderzimm7871]

The mana base already supports it anyway.

[@andrewrowe1441]

Path on upkeep! Seth!

[@Mister_Tedious]

Nice one, just as I was about to go to sleep 😴😁

[@AdamKeeton]

Idk if this deck is in bad taste or not, but I love it. Corona-zoa....

[@nicholasjohnston9737]

There's definitely something here. Like the actual combo only takes up so many slots, you've got this set up like the other chord combo decks, but it seems like this could go into a more tempo shell more reminscant of the old twin decks.

[@braindeadrichie6094]

Super fun video!

[@MTGGoldfish]

Glad you liked it!

[@davidstokes6406]

I hate infect, so that first game was a thing of beauty. Would love to see the infect player's face when you main decked Solemnity.

[@taylorbruning2652]

If only you made a "zur prison" deck my friend plays one and it's absurdly good not a lot of decks have enough enchantment hate plus you enjoy prison style decks :) Awesome content Never change

[@Dsparky121]

35:25 was it a misplay to run out a second one instead of the seer, I’ve we ran out the seer it could be hit by removal but then we aren’t waiting on a land to cast the last combo piece

[@jlawsl]

I guess my deck also had a few Hex Parasites in it so I could have counter removal for Chronozoas already in play. They also played pretty well on killing early game plainswalkers and any other counter based decks. I ate many Hydroid Krasises the turn they were played.

[@randomchicanery6491]

Chronozoa is my favorite card. I know its jank but i love it

[@faceoctopus4571]

If you attacked jace at 49:00, jace would go to one loyalty. Sure jace has a bounce ability and you don't have the mana to replay kitchen finks, but if jace does that at one loyalty, he dies. Jace's uptick ability also does not give him enough loyalty to get out of finks killing him on the subsequent turn. You could have at least waited for your opponent to stop you from killing jace with your on board finks before scooping.

[@petershipman8391]

7:50 Seth trying not to say opponent is screwed lol

[@zachgeraets910]

5:08 Wheel of Sun and Moon seems better than Ashiok. Might be a little tricky to cast, but with 8 mana dorks, it shouldn't be that bad. And Zur finds it

[@a.velderrain8849]

Same problem as Rest in Peace. It's a replacement effect, the card will never go to graveyard.

[@MataiBowen]

Say it with me! Mitochondria. Is. The. Powerhouse. Of. The. Cell.

[@Zach0451]

No

[@kaszael]

ATP FTW!

[@TheQueerLeaf]

😜

[@iwakuralain3064]

I am so happy this won

[@RoxyGotMoxy.]

Seth, can you please try to make a deck around Archmage's Ascension? Would be a grindy, silver-bullets control deck and a bunch of cantrips to tick up and use Ascension once online. Just imagine being at 5 mana with one card in hand, opponent attacks and your response is casting a Quicken to tutor up a Supreme Verdict and cast it as an instant :P

[@rodeofrancisco6130]

I always get half my lands on the field, get settle the wreckage'd and still draw land out of 20.

[@Silverback947]

Just watching the deck tech, I wonder why you would play kitchen finks over murderous redcap. Is infinite life better than infinite damage?

[@MTGGoldfish]

I mean, we get infinite life with Finks and it scrys us until infinite damage in Chronozoa. So it sort of does the same thing.

[@Optimator7]

Magnificent deck

[@MTGGoldfish]

Thanks!

[@Molly-ml1wn]

0:27 to skip spoilers

[@jaydub5515]

Why no Blood Artists?

[@PalPlays]

Heartless Act seems a suitable replacement for Path to Exile when Ikoria comes out.

[@jlawsl]

I made that deck a while ago. I was waiting for a card that removed the counters when it came into play. Then it came.

[@maxsternburg1956]

Had to use the hypergeometric calculator for the lands on the infect game. The odds of you getting 11 lands out of your first 14 cards was 0.0198855% you did use fetches so the actual odds of you drawing 7 lands out of your first 11 card are about 3.4%

[@PalPlays]

Wheel of Sun and Moon might be better graveyard hate than Ashiok. You can tutor it with Zur and it's one-sided.

[@Bladerxdxi]

What's with the previews in the newer videos?

[@thecollectiblecollectabill2298]

do u think replacing the kitchen finks with 9 lives is a reasonable idea?

[@hollow3951]

At 9:38 I feel like getting another BoP was definitely a misplay, getting a sack outlet would have won the game when you played chronozoa.

[@Akamatsu12]

At 21:00 You still had a chance at ripping phyrexian unlife off the top followed by solemnity. A slim chance, sure, but not unwinnable

[@dhalden93]

Or just using Zur to pull it out of the deck?

[@melissagrenier2200]

The truly against the odds thing would be to pull this combo off but also have 3 copies of heartless summoning in play at the same time.

[@GoronRob]

Melissa Grenier They played a deck a while back (using some Ally card that made wolves) that actually did result in an infinite, unbreakable loop. But since MODO has a creature cap, it would stop after a while and let them attack. Game would be a draw in paper. Kinda cheating but kinda cool.

[@melissagrenier2200]

@@GoronRob the creature cap wouldn't be hit with the 3 heartless summoning chronozoa solemnity loop though.

[@MTGGoldfish]

That would make it a lot harder for sure.

[@GoronRob]

@@melissagrenier2200 Oh yeah! Of course. Something makes my brain hurt about this one, idk why haha

[@alpozleyen3375]

good content!!

[@MrAngelofdestruction]

Match starts at 5:40

[@PalPlays]

1st opponent was so stunned to be playing against SaffronOlive that he just played lands and passed ever turn. Oh what's that? He literally couldn't do anything? Nah that can't be it.

[@benlittle5543]

Nice arrested development reference

[@Crazymachin3gun]

Do u think I should mainboard mystical dispute in my mono blue flash deck?

[@rasmusandersen2835]

the scoop at 21:00 was a mistake, you could've drawn phyrexian unlife into solemnity and survived

[@aarlavaan]

Funny. One of the first things I did when solemnity was printed was build a deck almost exactly like this.

[@Borkybaby]

Did vanishing take the place of “fading” ? I remember fading reading that when you can’t remove a counter then you sac the creature. Referring specifically to blastoderm from nemesis

[@Hanmacx]

Vanishing was an update on Fading It uses time counters that can be used for other purposes

[@Borkybaby]

Hanmacx good lookin out thanks fam :)

[@MTGGoldfish]

Yeah, it's a slightly changed version of fading basically. The big difference is that with Fading the creature dies the turn after the last counter is removed (when you can't remove a fading counter) but with Vanishing the creature dies when the last counter is removed.

[@Borkybaby]

MTGGoldfish thanks bro. Happy I’ve been reading that right hahaha. Appreciate you Seth.

[@cannibal7739]

you should take out a kitchen finks or two for crashing drawbridge, the haste is worth it.

[@drunkenwhaler6890]

Giving opponents chronovirus?

[@grim3646]

Oh my god... fucking meta. If this shit was on paper, you tell them the deck name and they will scoop before the match starts!

[@TheQueerLeaf]

😜

[@DuffyElmer]

1:06:46 RIP my ears in headphones

[@eliaswolter2955]

Pls Play an Orzhov/Rakdos/Mardu Warrior Aggro deck for budget magic in pioneer or modern. Unfortunaly you don’t have the battlebond payoffs or dark confidant in budget range.

[@SurrealSam5808]

Why did you chord for bird in game 1 instead of viscera seer? You had enough Mana without it and you would have had infinite health and chronozoas a turn earlier

[@shawnhale2631]

Why no melira? It's Chordable. Doesn't work with Corona-zoa, but is good for the lifegain Strat.

[@Alikaoz]

Never had I seen someone die to a fetchland outside of EDH before.

[@maxjaspersmiley]

@mtggoldfish do you ever consider running a >60 card deck post sideboard vs mill?

[@MTGGoldfish]

It's difficult in constructed since it throws of your land-spell ratio. I do it in limited sometimes though, since you can add more lands if you want to.

[@Garymaster4321]

Wouldn´t it be better against mill to keep more than 60 playables?

[@joev1083]

I understand that you can't play rest in peace in your sideboard, but wouldn't Wheel of Sun and Moon have worked?

[@RATHERfantastic1]

Am I missing something? The chronozoa tokens would have summoning sickness, and they would just sacrifice themselves for vanishing in the upkeep making more...with summoning sickness. How does it win?

[@necrocreature9117]

They don't come into play with any vanishing counters, and with the way vanishing is worded, it's when the last counter is removed, thus, if the counters aren't removed, it never vanishes

[@RATHERfantastic1]

On second thought I read vanishing wrong. Yeah this is dope.

[@RATHERfantastic1]

@@necrocreature9117 yeah I didn't read vanishing right. I went back and read it right as you posted you're reply. Oops. Thank you though!

[@necrocreature9117]

@@RATHERfantastic1 Yeah! It's a pretty great interaction

[@seanremlinger2277]

Should have at least one ETB land fetcher in their too, just so you can nab a basic when someone attempts to blood moon you.

[@faceoctopus4571]

I think against mill there were times you should have sac'd a creature to avoid uncapping it once they had orb out.

[@nicho4381]

I appreciate you

[@MTGGoldfish]

I appreciate you too :)

[@LottieSquidHugs]

wait a minute. chronozoa plus a stack of mutations. Does it Work

[@cloysterd]

If you play Chronozoa and mutate stuff onto it, it keeps the time counters and the Vanishing ability, so nothing really interesting happens. Any token copies will also have Vanishing and enter with counters (unless you have Solemnity).

[@gillablecam]

The token copies will have all the mutated stuff, so big boy chronozoa is a definite possibility

[@LottieSquidHugs]

Cameron Gill CHRONOZOATRON

[@seanclark4071]

My favorite part was the solemnity against the infect player, I mean what are you supposed to do against that, other than cry

[@magicguy1345]

Game 3 Match 3 I think you should've just played one of your other Chromozoas and taken the mill 4. You were dead to any mill spell at that point anyway, and if they didnt have it, you would have swung for lethal the following turn.

[@OGNoNameNobody]

....might wanna consider *Heralic Banner* for more beefy 'zoas. Maybe.

[@luotti91]

i'm waiting for a budget midrange or control

[@keel1701]

If I were doing 4 color I'd do Pandemonium instead for instant kill when the cells split. That sounds more entertaining to me.

[@walrusassociation9317]

This deck would just be better if it played murderous redcap instead of chronozoa, right?

[@lkeasbey1]

This needs a pair of Gaea's Blessing in the SB for mill.

[@PalPlays]

20:57 Drawing Unlife would have bought you another turn.

[@Itachi21x]

I felt sorry for the infect guy :(

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

This one came from 5th place and won, in the polls?

[@stephenhousman6975]

how much you want to bet that the UW control deck had rest in peace in their side board? That would also hose your deck since it doesn't technically die.

[@jebooiii6462]

The upside of playing jank: your opponent has no idea how to play against it

[@MTGGoldfish]

Seems possible. RIP is really good against us (which is why we can't play it in our sideboard even though it would be good with Zur.)

[@LandOfForeverSummer]

Against mill, why didn't you put your whole sideboard in your deck?

[@TheArbieo]

Against mill would you ever just shove your sideboard into your deck?

[@chriscunningham6401]

Naming a child or pet Opponent now, so I can sound just as disappointed in them as Seth is when opponents ruin his fun haha

[@IntegralKing]

Infinite Elemental with trample vs an infinite number of Chronozoas ... you'll need a 1st year number theory class to figure that one out

[@RoxyGotMoxy.]

Infinite multiplying things that look like bacteria? Ok this deck should be called Chrona Virus 😜

[@nicholasweissflog]

"the kitcheniest of finkses" :P

[@lizaruinfinity3869]

Mitosis Combo