Much Abrew: Dread Dryad Valakut (Modern)

[@jackpabich763]

Seth: I don't like London Mulligans Also Seth: Mulls to 1 for GY hate

[@fo-ef8qo]

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em lol.

[@TheQueerLeaf]

😜

[@0Whitelottus0]

Dredge deserves it

[@Chapterhouse86]

@@DimT670 Couldn't agree more. The Mulligan system needed reworking and this is a lot better for everyone. I know it enables combo to some degree, but still better than it was before.

[@jacobmayer4206]

When you’re that one person that mulls you your hate vs dredge

[@magicguy1345]

Honestly, after seeing you trounce Tron, Infect and Dredge, I was really hoping you'd take down Bogles and hit Modern Boogeyman bingo

[@winssports4830]

He'd have lost to bogles

[@robspear03]

Bogles wrecks this.

[@abheekpandya8717]

Seth is actually so good that he punted two full turns on purpose to give his opponent a chance and still won.

[@fo-ef8qo]

Winning the mull to 1, its almost like the magic gods forgot about the time you bm'd your opponent by timing yourself out instead of winning with a big karnstruct attack.

[@randompeeps71]

When was this

[@joserene-t5z]

What deck was this?

[@Tawnos_]

A couple months ago Seth had a deck where he forgot it was only game one, the editor made great humor out of it.

[@fo-ef8qo]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppjTqZ2dntqle6M this is one of his longer videos. Match in question starts around 28:00. It is a great deck/vid though

[@MineRoyale.]

Heartless summoning got very popular very fast on this channel.

[@kurtgrgelwrx8376]

and I absolutely love it xD

[@MTGGoldfish]

It is a really sweet card :)

[@Kealan124]

And every deck with it has the same problem. Whenever you don't have Heartless Summoning, you die before you can start casting your 5 and 6 drops. You're playing ramp with only one ramp spell in the deck.

[@robspear03]

@@Kealan124 Agreed.

[@Deussu]

Waiting for the inevitable "Heartless Panharmonicon".

[@ajalford5605]

If you don’t make a “strategic punt” sticker, we will all cry softly into our teddy bears each night.

[@anaphysik]

9:15 Technically it was 21 hits, which is 5% miss rate. Basically you rolled a natural 1. EDIT: Byan Tan points out that only 18 of those 21 are useful hits, so the miss rate is more like 8%. Basically you rolled a natural 1 ...on a d12, that is.

[@bryantan4228]

anaphysik Not even 21 hits. Heartless Summonings count as misses because he can’t play copies beyond the first (few cards benefit from the second copy and it disables Fotd) 18 hits total

[@AricHaldan0782]

@@bryantan4228 I would just consider that 18 good hits and 3 bad hits. It's still a card and can be useful if the heartless summoning gets removed.

[@JoeNokers]

@@bryantan4228 you can still put heartless summoning into your hand, so its a hit.

[@bryantan4228]

Wim De Cock Game 1 Dredge usually doesn’t run enchantment hate. Sure it gets put into hand but it’s uncastable

[@anaphysik]

@Byan Tan - Good point. Without looting effects/etc, they're dead and thus virtual disadvantage.

[@KoaCharvel]

One of the craziest videos I have seen yet!

[@MTGGoldfish]

It was a fun one!

[@danlewis7707]

Dude. Crushed it. This deck is the truth! So fun to watch. Loved it. That performance against Delver was expected. Tempo usually beats midrange.

Evil won today. What I witnessed was unpure. Greed in its penultimate state - and greed succeeded.... But Leyline just *is* that good.

[@Mr2ndAmendment27]

This is my new deck in Paper !! I already have everything but the heartless summoning and Collective Brutality .. when life goes back to normal im ready to take this to an FNM !!

[@MTGGoldfish]

Nice! It's really fun!

[@ryanvm9728]

My name is Seth, PROBABLY better known as "I'm too lazy to count damage"...

[@MTGGoldfish]

Shhh ;)

[@davebrianorbon5680]

I've played Valakut decks, sometimes it annoys me when people want me to count the damage. Like isn't it obvious that you're dead?

[@darkencroix6412]

@@davebrianorbon5680 I've played them too. "Three times two times five," was a very common line, but took only like half a second. Most people had the requisite third grade education to comprehend it.

[@davebrianorbon5680]

@@darkencroix6412 when it comes to numbers I don't really try too hard. 😔

[@ryanvm9728]

Dave Brian Orbon Andami mong alam Dave! Miss mo na kami kalaro sa Block no? Lol

[@aarongettman3652]

Seeing how much laughter and fun you had playing this deck low-key makes me want to buy all these cards and start playing.

[@Ubermunki3]

Gotta see this deck again. Excellent video. Thanks Seth!

[@absolutegamer7412]

I love how Seth's bests decks can often win even after several punts. Talk about power deck building. Ya'll have to give him some props for that.

[@peterbraunschweig2779]

I knew Dread Presence was going to do something cool as soon as I saw it. Good to see it finally happened!

[@a.artmaster8733]

Sweeet deck! Prime-time land decks are in my top 3 favorites.

[@Devn8tr]

You build my dream commander deck into a modern deck. Graveyard lands with dread presence and dryad in jund.

[@chuckstevens4985]

Everything about that dredge player made my head hurt.

[@zackdantonio2473]

Best commentary ever about punting 😂😂😂😂 I had to replay it a few times and laughed every time

[@ExtremeMedium]

Still outstanding content Seth. Please though - I know a lot of people have been asking this and I feel I have to reiterate - please drop the little "preview" clip at the beginning. It takes the fun out of experiencing the ridiculousness of those situations when seeing them in the matches.

[@gnarly814]

Nah it was still sick

[@GR_DONKIN]

I like the preview clip

[@Molly-ml1wn]

I did not know it was possible for me find cards that would improve my Muldrotha Lands Commander deck

[@jackpabich763]

What did you find? PrimeTime is illegal

[@Molly-ml1wn]

Dread Presence

[@redstonepro5412]

@@Molly-ml1wn is heartless summonings in the deck ? Because i think it is great in decks that play powerful but a bit clunky cards like gitrog and muldrotha

[@MTGGoldfish]

Sometimes Modern has some good Commander cards too!

[@jackpabich763]

@@MTGGoldfish Got Dread Presence in Cube. It was extremely powerful. Loving these Titan decks!

[@rodrigogalilea9409]

Keep up with the Strategic Punting XD, sweet games

[@evablackx1]

ROFL! congrats on the mull to 1!! Big fan!

[@MTGGoldfish]

Thanks!

[@jrodthebold9617]

Did not disappoint, thanks Seth!

[@fo-ef8qo]

So I started watching this late sunday when it was first posted, and I just finished watching it, and I'm glad I did because in the future when you ask what you did to incur the magic gods' wrath I can add "BM'd your opponent by punting so badly they scooped the match after game 1" (But also I hope you know when I say that you know I'm kidding you and I love your vids and the channel and I'm greatly appreciative of the entertainment you've brought me over the years

[@StahliCell]

I cannot believe you actually won that (you know what i'm talking about) congrats and thanks for the amazing video as always

[@superfanboyguy]

Wow! Congratulations to winning on a mulligan to one. I’m impressed.

[@D1g1talAli3n]

Turns out prime time is a good magic card

[@LucksackGames]

😮

[@MTGGoldfish]

Yup.

[@Sosroseno]

Yeaaaah Seth sticking it to Dredge and Tron!

[@sebastianfranz682]

This deck looks great! Absolutely ma cup of tea

[@fiendbear4417]

Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like that deck would sing with a couple of scapeshifts

[@_Niffum]

Love your attitude and sass.

[@ErroneousClique]

That mulligan to 1 win over Dredge was sick.

19:50 Congrats on the mull to 1 win.

[@chandlercook8714]

Etron match 52:31 you played lands backwards. should have done ghost quarter. tapped swamp an quarter for heartless, green for azusa, then verdant for excavator then land from yard for dryad. slowed you down one whole turn but still worked out

[@MTGGoldfish]

Yeah, I really messed that turn up.

[@chandlercook8714]

@@MTGGoldfish it's alright, the victory on the Mull to 1 was impressive.

[@dougiedoug7543]

Wow!!! I want to see more of this deck! #makeitmeta

[@MindLaboratory]

57:56 - that's a speech for the ages right there

[@Junogray]

This deck was amazing, now I really want to build it myself, maybe with a few changes

[@daltonmekis]

Endstep at 19:15 you should have drawn off of Peatland. You have excavator so it’s still guaranteed prime time unless they just drew pretty much exactly lighting axe (which would be a 2 for 1 on a 2/3. And if you draw an untapped land, you still get to prime time even if all that happens

[@taylorbruning2652]

I'm enjoying the Modern/Pioneer Content :) I know you're sort of against "mainstream decks and archetypes" somewhat however it would be cool to see you pilot and hear you comentate on some semi-competitive tier 1.5/2 decks and some fringe decks

[@MTGGoldfish]

I was thinking about trying to do something like this. While we've played basically every janky deck in existence, we don't play tier decks very often. We should probably try them at least ones :)

[@taylorbruning2652]

@@MTGGoldfish :)

[@robspear03]

Problem with assuming any deck is a specific "tier level" is subjective, therefore interpreting what is "good" and "great" gets difficult. What is tier 1 to you might be tier 2 to another player, anecdotally.

[@Germynator31]

Yes a 53:00 the punt was as big as you thought. Play Heartless Summoning of the Ghost Quarter + Swamp, Fetch with Catacombs for a Forest, play Azusa and Excavator for {G} each. Proceed to unload

[@bencouch1178]

53:00 what you should have done was play ghost quarter before Azusa and use ghost quarter for summoning, then you have 2 green sources. Play azusa, play excavator, play another green source from graveyard to dryad.

[@cedricwestcott1852]

God damn you next leveled that E Tron player for sure

[@MorrisLiveProductions]

wow the deck looks awesome

[@turnipy88]

52:22 the line was play Ghost Quarter, tap Swamp+GQ to play Heartless Summonings, tap Forest to play Azusa, play Verdant, crack Verdant for a green source for Excavator, play more lands from the Graveyard, etc.

[@Pringlesman]

Such a cool deck.

[@gorramnelf]

Beating Dredge and Tron are all the reward I need! Posted before he spanked infect! Wooohooo!

[@heroapolo8365]

Valakut + Dryad, its my second win con, in my amulet titan deck

[@gryffinp]

The Virgin "Keep a playable hand and fight Dredge fairly" vs the Chad "Mull away good hands looking for hate cards" vs the Thad "Mull to one leyline and begin the game with zero cards in hand".

[@MrTrapitup]

Wow there is a lot of pioneer cards in this! Is there a possibility to make a pioneer version?!

[@barrymcbride1799]

Love the commentary but your use of the word WE when you punt is hilarious to me. I Love it my dude-- keep up the content!

[@SchulzCubed]

At 53:39 the play Line that gets the most value is to: Heartless summoning, verdant into Azusa. GQ your own forest to play Ramunap. Play forest from GY play Dryad. Play GQ and second Ramunap This is bordering on Lands and i can get behind it.

[@zacharymccutcheon8607]

Strategic punting for the win. :D

[@comokazijeff]

Mull to one!! Insane!!

[@cgriggsx4]

This is basically my Lord Windgrace EDH deck

[@Fleet1wood]

Find myself wondering whether the rot farms would be better turned into more overgrown tombs? Seth was consistently running short of fetchable lands, and there were a couple of times the rot farms were slowing down the early game.

[@Jonathan-qk5ed]

Game 1: proof of Modern being a fair format, Dredge not being a broken keyword, and Prime Time not being more than a simple ramp spell...

[@redstonepro5412]

And fotd beeing a really fair and beatable card

[@Jonathan-qk5ed]

@@redstonepro5412 Exactly, see you understand...

[@toast_recon]

34:00 yup, you could have won previous turn. Play gq, gq your own land, that's 8 dread presence damage. Your opponent was at 11 and you had 3 power on boatd

[@phoebesnow7142]

18:46 how did Seth play an additional land there? Am I going mad? Nevermind. Am mad.

[@mattd6244]

cheating like he always does mtgo has a special script for him and they let him re do the configurations. He has his own super computer hooked up to the database that prints magic cards and he can shut off peoples internet

[@MrTyJJ]

Explore

[@allankhanjani1948]

Matt D that genuinely made me laugh

[@JustAnotherPest]

Explore.

[@tacocookie1015]

Explore lets you play an additional land on the turn you cast it.

[@hydra66]

we need a highlight reel of Seth's achievements like mull to 1

[@esrohm6460]

At 52.33 if you would of played Ghost Quarter, used the Swamp and Quarter to play Heartless Summoning, cast Azusa, Lost but Seeking with the Forest, played Verdant Catacombs search a Forest, cast Ramunap Escavator, play verdant from the grave fetch a Forest, play Dryad of the Ilysian Grove and play a Land from grave you would of done what you though you couldn't have done. The fault i you logic was that you played the Land in the wrong order Leaving up a Colorless instead of Green even so it was passible to tapped in a way to leave up green. Still no dread presence but 2 more spells cast.

[@Gimmy_the_Pirate]

For what concerns me you could post a video with HS and THA FROG every day!

[@zackshue7017]

Should this deck run 1 or 2 prismatic omens?

[@itze_]

That plague engineer was painful

[@8628416]

That game 2 vs Dredge is just.... Pure gold... and hate....

[@schwartzbrick]

"If only we could donate this heartless summoning." I think that's called Golgari Charm?

[@thatsdynamo]

I feel like a one of Vesuva could be strong in this deck

[@Jonathan-qk5ed]

Yeah

[@MTGGoldfish]

Ohh, I do sort of like that idea. It's going to be awkward early in the game, but later in the game it seems like a great tutor target for Primeval Titan to copy Valakut or Field of the Dead. I might try one next time I play it.

[@Germynator31]

@@MTGGoldfish that's the definition of win-more. Completely unnecessary... Don't get me wrong though. It's an awesome deck. Sadly it's 750 bugs for a fun take on a tier 1 archetype. The only card I'd swap is the Explore. Okay, it makes additional land drops - but with no interaction on turn 2 and it jumps you from 2 to 4 mana. All the early creatures are 3cmc, so there is really no point?! Rather play some more interaction or a creature your opponent needs to react to

[@joshuascott1954]

So, Question.... Is there a reason to not run scapeshift in this deck?

[@nicholasearle9572]

How did heartless summoning become such a great card? Thanks Seth for the great content!

[@Brando88Kern]

PleasantKenobi made the Heartless Summon/Gitrog Monster really popular. Check out his content too for other builds.

[@zotha]

Heartless Summoning has always been an amazing card but still suffers from being the only card that does anything like what it does. This makes any deck that builds around it really inconsistent, since the build around aspect means you want to be playing 3+ cmc (tending to 4 and 5) cards in the rest of the deck.

[@nicholasearle9572]

@@zotha Great insight! Thanks!

[@bokeshow]

Deck is sweet

[@absolutegamer7412]

Mull to one unbeatable :)

[@gaspachazo815]

Why no Prismatic Omen out of curiosity?

[@KebbieG]

Why no Pact? It hits Titan and the Frog.

[@evankraabel5415]

So what you wanted to do on turn 3 of the first game vs ETron is: Play GQ, tap it and swamp for summoning. Play azusa off forest, play fetch, get green mana, play excavator. 1 land left. Play fetch, get green again, play druid, play fetch again and leave it in play. Then you can play dread presence before your land next turn and drain them for 18 assuming you have the fecthables. You have the fetched land from the one in play plus 4 plays of fetch into real land. So as long as were assuming they dont interact like they didnt in reality, you can get a kill without even needing to draw a titan.

[@Etaripamai47]

Holy crap that game 1

[@BalamTryba]

i think once u've mulled to 3 or 4 it might be correct to continue to mulligan until you get the first leyline because your odds of winning are already so low, and it's the only one card that can make a difference and buy time

[@MTGGoldfish]

Yeah, at a certain point we're sort of pot committed to going all the way. We aren't going to beat Dredge with a 3-4 card non-Leyline hand anyway, so there's not much downside to keep going at that point.

[@anthonyanderson2447]

this deck is legit the gitrog deck but with the scapeshift/amulet titan/titan field deck's dryad/valakut package and titan's thrown in lol XD at that point u already have the most expensive parts u could just upgrade straight into amulet titan for a pretty small investment (amulets are costly iirc)

[@devidviezzi9126]

FINALLY DREADSHIFT

[@kartoffelnpommesgut]

Well, this one is a sweet deck I must say.

[@MTGGoldfish]

I enjoyed it :)

[@kartoffelnpommesgut]

@@MTGGoldfish it really looke like you did. Great brew.

[@bigwig8657]

Tron not getting to tron by turn 8 with 2 redraws and 2 stirrings is more bizzarre than winning on a mull to 1 😋

[@ZerFayt]

I wonder how it would have went if you fought against more blue control-based decks. Solid games tho:)

[@horschtguenter]

52:26 Seth could have just gone Quarter Summonings Azusa Catacombs->Forest Excavator Catacombs->Forest Dryad Catacombs->Forest Excavator Go

[@TCGEvolved]

I think Seth played this deck so he could Ghost Quarter Tron to death.

[@ty_84_plus]

I feel like grisly salvage would help avoid a sone of the whiffs... Plus it's an instant that can grab the utility lands (Edit: trading off potentially getting lands for being able to dig for heartless summoning)

[@robspear03]

This deck is uber clunky without Summoning. I dont think the trade off is worth it.

[@elizakleinman1332]

Explore seems really bad here. How many times did you actually cast it?

[@Nrdyco]

In that 1st gamr... why did you have the tomb enter untappef/take 2 dmg?

[@flashamm]

Hoping to draw something he could play that turn is most likely reason

[@kylerocco7467]

Deck seems sweet but i question the sideboard. I feel like the tracker is way over kill in this deck for value.

[@darkencroix6412]

It's mostly for verse blue control. Drop it when they tap, then let it help you out value them.

[@renandasilvapereira5243]

That could work at Pioneer, or am I crazy?

[@thecapuzzi2045]

Dredge: *exists* Seth’s mull to one: “I’m about to end this whole man’s career”

[@KSwig101]

Noooooo i was waiting to make this, don't tell people about it... sadness too late hope I can still get my valakuts

[@gianscro4191]

Why you don t use scapeshift in this deck?

[@darkencroix6412]

What would you cut?

[@ooja92]

When was this recorded that there's a veil of summer in the sideboard? Or did bannings change since I last played Modern?

[@peterhattemer1694]

Veil of Summer has never been banned in Modern

[@MTGGoldfish]

Veil of Summer is still legal in Modern (it's was recently banned in Pioneer though).

[@almogdov]

Strategic Punting. Put that on a T-shirt.

[@spikescafe3940]

Why single matches and no league this week?

[@FedeMumble]

Nice

[@blondiwithstyle]

15:36 - the reason why I don't play my dredge deck :P

[@blackiscolor7732]

you should do a series where viewers give you a deck building challenge that you have to fulfill like scapeshift no valekut no field of dead or something of the likes

[@MTGGoldfish]

Ohh, that sounds like a fun twist on Against the Odds. I like it :)

[@blackiscolor7732]

MTGGoldfish or boggles without hexproof creatures just protection effects

[@stalkerstomper3304]

The preview at the beginning of the video was the ONLY preview that I approved of since this goofy experiment began of previews. If it isn't a mulligan to one... DON'T DO IT!!!! 😂