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[@33elk]

In case you guys aren't aware I've been accepted into the MTGO creator program alongside Trinket! What does this mean? If you like my vibe check out my stream here on KZbin or follow on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/33_elk Seeya there! :D

[@kazko2563]

I was pumped to see you're a fellow Zurzoth enjoyer! Do you have a decklist?

[@brandonmccall6664]

You mean to tell me the two magic KZbinrs I watch the most are making a podcast together? Best news I’ve gotten in a while, looking forward to the first episode

[@wademiller2376]

What's the podcast? I searched and this didn't come up in audio as a podcast anywhere

[@brandyourfan9244]

​@@wademiller2376 The Magic Mirror Podcast.... I believe, if you're still interested

[@Bartuk_3000]

the combo at 4:59 also works with 1 MV creature that gives a treasure when they die, surch as shambling ghast

[@naitsab_33]

More Elk Collabs, let's go

[@roondar6141]

The best part about Leadership Vacuum is if someone Mutated their commander then all the Mutated cards go to the command zone, because Mutate makes all those creatures one creature But because only your commander can be cast from the command zone all the other creatures are just stuck there forever

[@otterfire4712]

I feel like it should mechanically send the cards to exile or grave to prevent this pseudo blue screen of cards

[@TRemIk42]

Yooo Elk and Trinket Collab! I love it :D you guys helped me out a lot on deck building and seeing the game in a different light ! Cool stuff

[@zackkelley2940]

Fractured Identity, Nine Lives, and Patrician's Scorn? Zedruu... Zedruu wants all three of those.^^

[@Kodaxor]

Came here to say this!

[@starmanda88]

Omg I couldn’t be happier. I love both y’all’s channels so much 😭😭 hooray!!!!

[@BeoTCG]

Honestly appreciated how free form the video was felt very human lol

[@autin2343]

Another great use case for Surge To Victory: storm cards. Since you're casting the copy you would get exponentially more copies of the spell for each creature that connects

[@SaintHoop]

1:17 "like ward.. or Nadu" lmao

[@RCCrisp]

While I have taken it out of my deck I can say that while it was in my deck Staff of the Storyteller was absolutely gas. Only reason why it's outnis my token deck (Malcator, Purity Overseer) is running blue so there are some better card draw options but in any other W/x token deck it'll draw you so many cards.

[@OpticPlay_]

Been wanting to make a Ghyrson Starn deck, I’ll definitely be putting in fiery confluence. Thanks guys great video for a new player like me.

[@0rcd0c]

An alternative for 13:00 in a token deck is Fireflux Squad. Same cmc but repeatable effect on a creature

[@Crosscompass]

Just a heads-up, reality scramble still does pair with squee alright as with current rules you can put it back to the commandzone instead of the bottom of the library: 903.9b If a commander would be put into its owner’s hand or library from anywhere, its owner may put it into the command zone instead.

[@thetrinketmage]

Yes, but you would need to pay the commander tax each time so it’s not as mana efficient as sending him to the graveyard

[@Crosscompass]

@@thetrinketmage correct!

[@mcmc9176]

This video is amazing, not only am I watching my two favorite mtg youtubers starting to collaborate more and more but I also just love this video shining light on more casual yet strong cards (also this has made me rediscover my love for the strixhaven precons gotta be one of my favorite) and the best part is you two have a amazing rapport with each other that makes it feel like we're sitting around a table talking bout our favorite cards while we're waiting for the pizza to be delivered in-between games. Keep up the great videos both of ya!

[@MrCMaccc]

Arguing the copy is worse is only semi true. Being an enchantment gives your opponent more opportunities to interact, but also opens you up for it as well. Court of Vantress lets you make token copies (assuming you're the monarch) and other things if you put some effort to build around it

[@arikparmley4238]

i run fiery confluence in my Ojer Axonil deck and it comes in pretty handy.

[@nunyabusiness3957]

100% a finisher in Ojax. Even at base power that's 12 dmg. Spend 1 mana for an Infuriate and thats 21. Absolutely amazing.

[@RG_-_GR]

I put Leadership Vacuum in my wip Zevlor, Elturel Exiled deck. Zev will (hopefully) be able to return all players' commanders to their zone AND I will get to draw up to three cards! It's a bonkers cheap good card that I've never seen anyone play.

[@AdraTheGhost]

I discovered Elk a while back and seeing him on your channel is amazing. I would love to see you two do some sort of magic podcast honestly.

[@ryanrodgers3099]

Sweet picks! I will definitely be picking up a surge to victory. It goes infinite with any extra combat spells too (providing you can actually connect in *a* combat, but if you can't... why are you casting it lol). HUGE Fiery Confluence guy. I don't think I've ever lost a game with Neheb after resolving Fiery Confluence. That's kind of best case scenario, but still. Big agree on Fractured Identity in politics. It's very fun. You make everyone except the permanent's controller so happy that you basically don't have to worry about the crackback. It's great.

[@Smokin_Choochang]

12:25 first thing I thought of was spells with frantic search like effects. Lowkey a second turn due to the untapping of hella lands. Good video, loved the marvel-level crossover 🤙

[@soibitum]

I play and have pulled off multiple times fractured identity, nine lives, Scorn. It's in my Zedruu deck, and the first time I pulled it off, the table was like no that's not how it works, and a bystander was like," No wiat... yeah, that works.. "

[@billjensen51]

yep in my Zedruu deck too, a good fit for it imo

[@thembosupremepizza1827]

THREE THREE ELK MENTIONED WOOOOOO

[@MrNeelneel]

Loved this collab and really enjoy the better than a booster series. This series is like the exact opposite of the EDHrec echo chamber.

[@magicaggy]

yall have great chemistry! excited for the podcast

[@kozad86]

Wake up, babe, new trinket mage!

[@laurentrobitaille2204]

By “babe” you mean domy mommy Elesh Norn right?

[@SwagzLife]

@@laurentrobitaille2204 I've had enough narcissistic mommies to know that Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar is the goat

[@Thoughtmage100]

Can't wait for the podcast! I'm looking forward to whatever you two are going to talk about.

[@TheLuckySpades]

I'm with the Elk for Fiery Confluence, I run it in my All Chandras deck, usually to wipe the board a bit (basically Anger of the Gods minus the exile), or to push a lot of damage with a damage modifier, also very fun with Chandra's Incinerator, aince that turns it into "burn your opponents for 6 and get 3 shocks for their creatures" The artifact removal is more situational, but very good when you need it

[@bryankopkin6869]

I absolutely agree with Leadership Vacuum. It was in the Kadena precon a while back and it has impressed me every time I play it. Awesome card

[@philippmosena6852]

And I will continue to support this tandem since you are both amazing and even better together.

[@tertmemelur1880]

it's a blast to see two of my favorites content creators collaborating I hope you can keep doing stuff together this is amazing content !

[@tertmemelur1880]

and really hyped for the podcast this'll be amazing !!

[@AlluMan96]

I must say, I think I have to agree with Elk on Copy Land. It's not bad, but it's not really too crazy. As Elk said, being an enchantment is really bad for the interaction and the recursive element of landfall, which is worth considering. Not to mention that their more conventional equivalents, Vesuva and Thespian Stage, are both also budget-friendly as well, each being cheap enough to have been in this video even while also being colourless, making them more flexible in the kind of deck they can be played in. If your deck is really built around copying a specific land and getting it's triggers/effects, I suppose having one slightly less efficient equivalent in there is good for it. I could see Copy Land actually being decent as an option for enchantress decks more-so than lands decks, being able to get some land-utility like the coffers trick you mentioned while on-synergy. For my money though, I'll always enjoy Thespian Stage best. It might miss out on immediate utility, but being able to better choose the timing of when it becomes that copy can help you scout out the best thing you need and still functions as mana in the meantime.

[@peterd8251]

I liked the discussion and vibes, I'll be checking out the podcast!

[@M3taPhy5ical]

You guys are great! so happy you teamed up with each other! Keep making these great videos please!

[@glentiki]

Chandras Ignition with Oversimplify is wonderful - Consolidate all power to a single beefy boy, and then you have a big power whack. Another player used Oversimplify to cleanup my board, and then Oversimplify in hand won me a game.

[@chummer2060]

I use staff of the storyteller in my Gut, Truesoul Zealot deck. Its great! Ayara loves veinwitch coven, too

[@bronzieblue63]

Wanted to also point out Marshland Bloodcaster, as well as Morbid Opportunist from the OTJ se Marshland is 4B for a 3/5 Creature Vampire Warlock It's ability is "1B, Tap: Rather than pay the mana cost of the next spell you cast this turn, you may pay life equal to that spell's mana value." And Morbid Opportunist is a 2B 1/3 Human Rogue card draw engine that draws one card per turn if another creature dies. So by the time your turn comes back around, it's very likely it'll draw you at least one or two cards, not even including the one you could be drawing on your turn if you get one of your creatures to die. Also, I know this one doesn't qualify as far as pricing is concerned, but thinking about Copy Artifact, it's a super expensive card and may only cost 1U to cast, but for only about $5, Phyrexian Metamorph does the same thing as Copy Artifact, AND it can also copy a creature but it costs 3U, but that Blue in its cost is Phyrexian so really it's more like a 3 mana pay 2 life. Wanted to bring that up since it has that notable extra flexibility, so if you have a great ETB you want to repeat, you can absolutely do so, otherwise if you have big value artifacts like Banner of Kinship or even just a mana rock, it can copy that too and you'll still get good value out of it.

[@drkatz1192]

Would listen to you guys talk all day on a podcast! I don’t play Red, so looking forward to future episodes if you do it again! Great recommendations here though, and I appreciate that your content is tailored to high power EDH, but not necessarily CEDH. Good stuff!

[@D_A_D_]

The last combo there sounds like it belongs right at home in a Zedruu deck

[@zebwaddle4539]

I play Fiery Confluence in my Taii Wakeen deck, and because of the individual triggers it is hilariously effective.

[@gifford5870]

I play fiery confluence and I like it a lot. I actually use the artifact mode a fair amount personally. It can just hit three powerful artifacts if you need to or destroy one and do a mini board wipe. It’s super good against decks that drop a ton of 1/1 tokens. It saved me from a board of 1/1 spirits one time. Still lost to their commander eventually but it gave me an extra turn.

[@semi-decent1844]

I was running surge to victory in my ydris deck for a long time. I think my best use was casting talent of the telepath like 5 times which milled out that player and let me cast the best instants and sorceries from their deck to beat the rest of the table

[@tuckeryoung3881]

13:55 the tucking of the squee...

[@EntropicUsername]

Oversimplify is a card that's been on my mind regularly, and it's the only real, hard creature board wipe in Simic but... I just don't come across decks that want it very often. Simic is usually creature based, and usually isn't the deck that runs this kind of creature sweeper; they're the decks that demand it, and Simic seldom has a good plan to come out ahead or profit from this, and wants something that tiptoes around their board in some way. I'd usually prefer just bouncing my opponents' stuff to get blockers out of the way so I can hit them in the face.

[@frend420]

I already run nine lives and fractured identity in my Zedruu The Greathearted deck. Adding Patrician's Scorn would add an aditional wincon.

[@kenniron6313]

YES! I’ve been screaming about Oversimplify since I found it.

[@colinlibra7968]

I had a friend who played a vorinclex that i had managed to yoink out of his graveyard. He used fractured identity as retaliation on it.

[@nicograsso3907]

om hy god I can't stop laugh at the fact that you used the moderen horizons three deck for the example of cards designed for commander because thatrs just so perfect

[@Teedo_]

Friend of mine had fiery confluence with wayta and polyraptor. Can confirm, was a problem

[@zackkelley2940]

It's 4 cards.... and 3 out of those 4 you're likely running anyway.^^ There is also Ornithopter, Phyrexian Walker, and Shield Sphere if you want more 0 drop creatures. Might I suggest adding Carnival of Souls to it? Whenever ANY creature comes into play (Yours, your opponents, token or nontoken) lose 1 life and add a black.

[@rjswonson]

Fiery confluence is actually so goated, I play it in my Taii Wakeen deck. It is sometimes just a wincon with taii's effect. Like a 3 damage boost from taii becomes 15 to each opponent.

[@gretchling5012]

song that plays when you encounter a caterpillar jumpscare

[@thetrinketmage]

I’m always surprised when people recognize that song!

[@drew-id]

I also have a squee reality scramble deck.... but I scramble my background into foodchain

[@raynmanshorts9275]

The first three of @33elk's cards work together. Token + life gain synergies. Stick 'em all in an Abzan deck with a Commander that can do tokens and/or lifegain. The fourth one is pretty much made for token decks, too, so I guess a Dune or 5-color deck with all four of those. Not really sure about a token or life gain deck that's 5 color or Dune is really a thing, though. I see token decks as kind of a Selesnya thing that can add one of the other colors for a subtheme synergy (in this case, black), but making it 4 or 5 color doesn't seem to be worth it.

[@peterdafox]

Y'all just sound like you're having such a good time. 😊

[@thetrinketmage]

It was fun to record!

[@JonahRaffoDay]

I think copy land is pretty good in mono blue decks. Imo its a 3 mana rock floor (which feels bad but the tempo loss isn't huge in lower power) and on the other hand you copy something like nyxthos in your deck, or other players strong lands and just gain a massive advantage in mono blue. I do think the card is actually better in mono blue decks then lands deck in general. At least if your regular pods abuse powerful lands like mine does. Even a maze of ith or glacial chasm can be super clutch to copy. The ceiling utitliy is very high. Great reccomendation.

[@DJSoSadRN]

Hyped for the podcast.

[@W0lfguard1997]

Surge to victory is so utterly insane. Played it in my Ovika deck. 6 mana create 6 goblins with +6-8 attack that do stupid shit like give you an extra turn.

[@xeoknight845]

[[Tempt with Mayhem]] is one of my favorites

[@AssimilateAndChill]

Every time I see Leadership Vacuum I think “god, that card is insane, how is it that cheap?” and then proceed to forget it exists without putting it in a single deck

[@MP-Fin]

Good video. Hello from Finland

[@Raghetiel]

Fiery Confluence in Wayta is really good

[@NazoPureChaos]

11:18 I feel like any sort of Seize the Day extra combat spells just go infinite with Surge to Victory, right? You'd need to guarantee that at least one creature connects, but you weren't going to cast Surge if that wasn't the case anyway.

[@MRemopantalones]

I really like Copy land as a 3 mana rampant growth, personally

[@Telomerase9]

Yoooo I'm very excited for the podcast

[@quadeflanders7905]

I'm definitely gonna back up reality scramble. I use it to polymorph out guile in my Baral and Kari Zev deck(guile is the only creature), but I also love using it on some spare mana rocks or servo tokens to try and flip into a sphinx bone wand. Any deck with spare permanents and big hits can make great use of this spell. There's also the 6 mana instant version Reweave. It's not quite as good, but why not run both?

[@DragonicDude]

i like this catagorical approach more so. could you do other kinds of staples

[@jaceg810]

Me, looking to add cards to my deck of little dorks: I can play red, lets see, I run too few instants/sorceries for the surge. All my permanents have cmc 2 or less, so the polymorph is questionable. Ohh confluence, with the premium effect of killing little dorks

[@christop3147]

I play Rousing Refrain in my Kylox Extra Turns deck and oh boy does it slap when I can exile Time Stretch and take a billions extra turns

[@Packrat-themage]

loved the video. i am playing an Elminster deck and fractured identity and scheming fence are godlike in my table, i stole an important trigger from my enemies with scheming fence and if i dont have anything to steal with fractured identity i just kill them with leveler.

[@75GreenHat]

I play Fractured Identity in my Historic token deck (with Alistair the Brigadier as the commander) and it has put in work both with political deals as you said and also swinging the game in my favour as you can do stupid things with any token doubler

[@Attivian]

I've Fractured Identity my opponent's Smothering Tithe and they were so salty. Everyone but them making treasure by the buttload.

[@devan9197]

I'm really on the fence about copy land. It seemed pretty good when it was spoiled as just the floor of a mana rock and the ceiling of a really powerful land. However, it is still an enchantment which means its very vulnerable. I was considering putting it in my UW tokens control list but with no cool lands of my own to copy it doesn't really feel worth it.

[@sunbro7853]

Babe Trinket and Kenrith posted!

[@thetrinketmage]

Kenrith?

[@sunbro7853]

@@thetrinketmage Kenriths transformation

[@thetrinketmage]

@@sunbro7853 is that a KZbin channel?

[@ayylith]

@@thetrinketmage Kenrith is a 3/3 elk now

[@thetrinketmage]

@@ayylith I'm dumb

[@jabrieljabriel3207]

I just love trinket

[@RazorDevil1]

i casted reality scramble last week and my buddy said "im scooping" because he thought it was that one card scrambleverse LOL

[@RazorDevil1]

i play illuna polymorph btw, and just slap down big threats every turn. treasure token = portal to phyrexia

[@friendlybucket7268]

fractured identity on phage the untouchable, this was a combo ive seen in an esper control player and it was just dumb but effective :) such a busted card

[@adamorescan1123]

I believe in fiery confluence

[@brechtian802]

I drew 3 with Mystic Confluence in a game 2 days ago lmao

[@jaredgibson6624]

Fractured identity +your own leveler

[@Bouillestfu]

I use fractured identity to give Phage The Untouchable to everyone😅

[@pretty_fly_for_a_jeskai]

Im running Copy Land in my birds tribal, at worst to me it doubles up on whatever utility land im getting value out of at the time. Since I added it in, Ive had 3 separate instances of copying Three Tree City from an opponents board, and since its a new instance of the card, choosing Birds for mine. I genuinely would rather keep Copy Land so long as Three Tree is considered an auto include for Kinship decks. It's so funny to me that despite refusing to pay 25+ dollars for one new land card, I still get to play with it anyways. Usually its not a spot removal target until it's too late or the player I copied from gets salty and even if the latter, Im running Blue myself.

[@drunkcapybara7004]

I also love the idea of Fractured Identity as a funny giant middle finger to someone for playing a really annoying card: Oh, you like playing with this card? Go try a game against it then, three times!

[@Jeramiahstool]

The trinket mage 3/3 elk ship is sailing

[@devan9197]

Woohoo 33 elks

[@thetrinketmage]

That’s a lot of elks

[@friendo6257]

Copy land is better if it synergizes with your own lands. Banking on copying something good your opponent has is risky.

[@FoldingScreenMonkey]

Surge with Hit the Motherlode... Hello

[@lordmalkom1675]

Indoraptor + Fiery Confluence Really evil

[@matthiasb5624]

I wish boosters were this cheap in poland here you can expecta $5-6 price range for Bloomburrow play boosters

[@seanedgar164]

"I don't know if there's any other way to get rid of a board of indestructible creatures in these colours", blue mass bounce? Doesn't exile but they still buy you a turn

[@seanedgar164]

With oversimplify also, really good in a mutate deck, I won a 3 player game by mutating the removal bat after someone gave me the fractal. Kill one person's and swing the other guy with flying lol

[@MrXaoras]

i didnt know simic has exile boardwipe lol. My friend who plays aristocrats is gonna hate this

[@FranciscoJG]

Veinwitch Coven doesn't say "once per turn" because of the mana cost, I suppose.

[@oscarguzman3017]

33elk is a banger of a moniker

[@Morgoth780]

We did it! We broke phyrexian altar!

[@bretts3046]

Copy Land on Dark Depths 🥰

[@33elk]

doesn't work :)

[@bretts3046]

@@33elk No? Why not?

[@33elk]

@@bretts3046 same reason vesuva doesn’t work.

[@bretts3046]

@33elk Well that stinks 🤣

[@camcombs2068]

What about Zedru for the nine lives/patricians scorn/fractured identity combo? I feel like that a couple of the other cards mentioned could make for a very fun “ politics “ deck

[@camcombs2068]

If you do make one though please post a deck list I’d love to see what you guys do 👀

[@thetrinketmage]

Maybe I can get Elk to make one

[@p0kem0nlvl1]

me proxying cheap cards anyways because they look cool

[@zackkelley2940]

I do not think Copy Land and Tolaria West work the way you want it to. Copy Land can only copy lands on the field. The transmute ability only works if it's in your hand.

[@thetrinketmage]

Elk is implying that you use tolaria west to search up the land you want to copy

[@zackkelley2940]

@@thetrinketmage Didn't think of that.

[@mlgblumage4188]

Now kith >:3