Rat Scam vs Temur ScapeTurns || North 100 Showdown

It's the North 100 Showdown! Wheeler and Nelson are showcasing some of their favourite Canadian Highlander decks in a 1v1 showdown.
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[@janmelantu7490]

If you’re playing Raven’s Crime, you could use the 7-point deck name “That’s so Raven’s Crime”. You could also go for the Scam angle with “Rack-eteering” or “Rat-Level Marketing” or “Multi-Rat Marketing”. Or you could go for the plain discard angle with “Head Empty No Thoughts”

[@lhii616]

Multi-level Ratketing

[@asteros6387]

@@lhii616 Multi-Level MaRating?

[@Jedicake]

annnnnnnnnnnd janmelantu is now my new favorite person.

[@RandomNickname1234]

Hand Empty No Thoughts

[@yuvalsela4482]

multi level markRATting

[@ImJustHereToWatch14]

Wheeler has MASSSIVE "He can't kep getting away with this" energy

[@Myth01010101]

Thanks for playing, it was great to watch you guys.

[@raisins7777]

Saw in Half uses modified p/t, rounded up. Ravenloft was a 5/6, so the two tokens are 3/3s.

[@N8Maple01]

Except that copies are of the card as printed. Also, both of these men have been judges for years. If they agree on the the result, there is a very good chance they are correct.

[@Mordalon]

@@N8Maple01 Maybe it's a good chance, but are you certain they were right in this instance? The copies aren't just "as printed", last known information tracks what that creature's P/T was when destroyed. The Skullspore Nexus is a recent example of a card specifically designed around being able to modify a dying creatures stats in order to increase the size of the token it creates.

[@raisins7777]

@@N8Maple01 They make mistakes all the time. This is straight from the gatherer rulings. "Use the power and toughness of the creature from when it was last on the battlefield to determine the power and toughness of the tokens."

[@ToSGod]

@@N8Maple01Judges can still make mistakes, like this time. And it’s ok. It’s far too late for this interaction, but maybe they will remember it in the future to help them win a game.

[@spiralhaze2070]

28:15 2 mana, ping enemy for one, take out JTMS and leave 5 power on the board at instant speed. cool card

[@girlhunter2102]

Boomer Magic meets 2023 Magic.

[@francescoarchidiacono5370]

"Monoblack Eat Your Cheese" seems like a good name for a Rat version of Ruin-your-evening

[@Irsaan88]

Massively underrated comment

[@gkiyo]

These deck names are pure art. What a match up.

[@elmerinase5734]

I love the intromusic so much. What a banger.

[@hiygamer]

Shouldn't the Saw in Half tokens Wheeler made in game one have been 3/3s? When the Ravenloft Adventurer died, it has 2 +1/+1 counters on it, making it a 5/6. It wouldn't have changed the eventual outcome of the game, but it would would have changed the combat math, because at 21:27, Wheeler would have been attacking for lethal.

[@Kieza12]

Nelson is a delight every time he's on the show

[@poikl73]

so excited for these decks + more Nelson!!

[@davidstreicher1103]

It occurs to me that Karakas combos pretty well with Call of the Ring. Every turn you can make any creature you control legendary, then bounce it with Karakas and replay it to recur its ETB effect- could make for an interesting way to lockdown an opponent with Spellstutter Sprite.

[@maximiliangunther9597]

Ben "I have a hand full of lands, but refuse to loot with my ring bearer" Wheeler

[@BagelFrog]

Love seeing more Nelson! Really love the dad energy he brings

[@sandmanlives3]

Excellent, as always. Thank you. I love me some North 100 showdown! Also Scrats gets my vote for the deck name.

[@flatluigi]

Unsure if it mattered (since I don't know what was in his hand), but the fancy Nature's Lore that Nelson plays in the last game notably doesn't put the forest into play tapped, so he might've been able to play a 2 mana spell and then follow up with Uro on the next turn.

[@TsukunAP]

"Ratting your evening" could be a good one

[@irt3hsaint]

You mention Tolarian Academy, i just picked up a copy, largely due to you playing Paradox Academy on N100, so I'm trying to adapt it to 7pt!

[@Drecon84]

I love seeing some really different decks pup up here. We're usually just seeing a bunch of the same cards in these matches, but now there's actually a lot of different things going on.

[@Liz-Istrata]

Love to see somebody come and play The Rock at some point on this series.

[@Sientir]

I really like the placement of the Jace Funko Pop in the background with the boardgame behind it making it look like he has ENORMOUS EARS. :D Also, I was just thinking I wanted to watch some Magic, and here it is, one of my favorite Magic shows!

[@Sheer_Falacy]

It's basically puppet Jace, just need the sound affects for the real Arena experience.

[@vell__]

if anyone's wondering, that board game is Wingspan.

[@joeyjacob4868]

I've been trying to brew mono-black ruin your evening ever since the mono-white ruin your evening episode. Haven't come to a exact 100 that i'm happy with, but it's been fun watching new cards come out and change how i want to build it.

[@kryoling]

I AM BEAMING AS WIDE AS MY MOUTH CAN GO! I SCREAMED 'RAT SCAM?!' AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS WHEN I SAW THE THUMBNAIL!

[@ShinerCCC]

35:49 Wheeler and Nelson both forgetting about the actual 5th entry into the suite of 1 mana hand attack spells (Divest is the 4th), Dreams of Steel and Oil

[@2424Lars]

This is the wildest North 100 showdown title I've seen sofar!

[@Krazy4golf11]

With deck names i would also like to add "its a rat scam" to the tune of im a scat man

[@lewkycharmes]

Hey all, I've been struggling to see a reason for this channel not to be in the hundreds of thousands of subs, this channel, cast and crew are amazing. Please share with your MTG friends whenever you can. 🤗/hugehugs

[@Luteloots]

Thanks I'm now going to have nightmares about legendary Bowmasters. Karakas Bowmasters would be mind numbingly stupid.😊

[@Helperg]

I have a WB deck with a similar archetype of having any given individual creature being more of a hastle to deal with than it's worth. I can my deck "negative calories" to keep woth the old tradition of naming decks after food-related affairs. I hope this engagement has engagemented

[@FineOtter]

Deck name suggestion: Mono-Black Ruin Your Pantry

[@TyranitarStudios]

In 3 months we'll have Ikoria's 4th birthday, damn

[@steamer86]

Watching this made me realize that Kefnet, Sylvan Library and any Turn card (but especially time twister as its fun) is a infinite turn loop, which is really cool!

[@m1gr3nA]

i'm failing to see what the loop is. i assume you want to loop extra turns. could you explain? also time twister does not give you another turn, did you mean time walk?

[@steamer86]

I meant the Temporal mastery my bad Wrong time card. Loop is for the infinite turns: I am not sure how Kefnet interacts with Miracle cost but assuming Time Walk is on top. Draw, reveal and copy with Kefnet, draw 2 more cards with Library, use Library to stack the time wallk back on top. Rinse and repeat

[@m1gr3nA]

@@steamer86 ah got it. if you have time walk on top you use kefnet to copy it from sylvan draw and then float it second from the top to not draw it in draw step. this will work with scroll rack too with some extra steps i guess. very nice, i will have to try it. thanks for the explanation.

[@wiigamer1995]

what would the best canlander pile look like assuming there is no points list? 🤔

[@AkryllyK]

Probably paradox academy but you have access to every mox and lotus and recall and time walk

[@ronaneverett529]

Probably time vault with full power

[@Enigma-od6ex]

I really like the name "death of a thousand 'master' splinters"

[@jonathangodbolt1671]

How about "Big Cheese" instead of Rat Scam?

[@pierrefilion7426]

Love when Nelson is on

[@KierenAmero]

Can anyone from the Newmarket Monthly tournament elaborate what store this is hosted at? Newmarket is only like an hour's drive for me, and I'm always down to play some more Magic.

[@DarrickMaverick]

if i had to make a guess i'd say its from enter the battlefield, but i also haven't been in Newmarket in months sooo...

[@freyja6522]

It's the last Saturday of each month at Enter the Battlefield.

[@ProfMaple]

So I want you to know this Canadian Highlander video has inspired me to build a pauper commander deck called rat scam now as most of the scam cards besides the elementals are common 😂

[@firstlast446]

I'm surprised Ratten your evening was not suggested in the video

[@moxavenger]

Niiiiiice thumbnail!

[@JEHNLEROY]

I really wish N100S episodes came out weekly. I would take bi weekly even, but I’m a sicko.

[@Khord22]

OKAY BUT consider the deck name *Scram*

[@pogowitwiz]

"Scrats" is strong, but I swear there's something to the idea of a Shadowmoor version of RYE. Instead of noob-traps it's all seasoned cards and info effects, so something like "(thought)Seizing the Day" might work, but then you run into its acronym being "STD."

[@donaldtaylor724]

Seize the day is already the name of a card, so there’s awkwardness there too

[@buhlian]

While playing old school I have definitely mulled to 5, played a Library, and sat there for 3 turns. It's not about winning, it's about making a statement. This is the way.

[@bardunshield]

So Rats and Ruin your Evening. First thing that came to my mind is "On the Rat to Ruin".

[@KaiserChef]

Late to the party but "Ratatouille ruined my dinner" would be my vibe for deck name.

[@cliff5n0t3s]

Soooo if they have a “Command Zone” at Magicfest how about forming a “Canadian Embassy” zone in the CZ?

[@Eleventyearl]

I'm playing "rats" or sometimes referred to as "mono black good stuff" (game two, a synopsis)

[@Crowned_Goblin]

I love my Canlander dads.

[@hummbirb1384]

I just saw the title and knew I had to watch this, there is no way these are real deck titles

[@emilysmith2965]

Is AEther Vial in the New Year’s Cube???

[@joakimbredaljacobsen3231]

When you are controlling another player while searching, you also get to see their hand and otherwise hidden zones :)

[@JimmyJames-om2uw]

Wonderful match

[@andrewc7866]

Nelson + Wheeler Showdown 😁😁😁

[@ashdog9235]

I love miracle as a concept but it can be kinda awkward to play

[@stankmongerjones]

*Gex voice* I haven't seen a bloodbath this big since the pool party at Olivia Voldaren's house!

[@malcomstringer4619]

The fact that he didn't use Rat Pack for a name is a missed opportunity.

[@flyingtoastr]

Game 2 is kinda emblematic for why I don't really like Eternal formats at the moment. Black is just so much better than every other color that it's getting exhausting.

[@TenPace]

Always love watching showdown but I noticed and missed some of the betweem-game chatter, at least between 2 and 3.

[@AutkastKain]

I still want to find someone to play this format with. I only live like 4 hours from Canada

[@AwesomethChuc]

Rat-tening your evening

[@TheTrashGremlin]

it wasn't the cause of my carpal tunnel, but playing Canadian Highlander and commander have definitely exacerbated my case lmao

[@tgva8889]

I feel like the reason Nelson lost game 1 felt was because Wheeler went off with the Initiative, I don't think the discarding mattered that much. Nelson probably wouldn't have had that much time to even deploy a lot of those cards given the speed of the initiative and the damage Wheeler was threatening because of it, if he'd just played higher power creatures instead of the rats it might have ended up roughly the same. Game 2 he won because of the Orcish Bowmasters and I feel the rats were a lot less impactful than just completely dumpstering the Jace and preventing Nelson from leveraging any of his card draw without dying horribly. I think game 3 the discarding affected Nelson's plays a bit, but honestly I don't think it mattered as much because he just got very far ahead on cards in the end thanks to Uro so the discard was either not that impactful or negative because it helped Uro get out further. Still not sure if you would rather be playing other cards than a bunch of Ravenous Rats.

[@Xalyn937]

I wanted to make a deck like rats so much...its surprisingly brutal.

[@nathanialshicks]

Love Wheelers deck, wish Acquisitions Expert and Elderfang Disciple got to hit the table at the same time so it could explained that they're dating.

[@ff0213]

In geometry, an octadecagon (or octakaidecagon) or 18-gon is an eighteen-sided polygon. - So maybe Octadecagon Rat King

[@wassupyall3881]

Where's the one ring???

[@sashabdreadful]

Dang that really Showdowns my North 100

[@Jakester542]

Formally submitting the name “Cellar Dweller Date Night” for the deck lol

[@marxmeesterlijk]

relentless rack. Oops all 8 rack.

[@crowsephonedangerzone]

how about Ruin your Breakfast?

[@GreyOrb]

Thinking of a good nickname for 'Rat Scam', I discovered an important fact: Don't ever spoonerize it.

[@Jay-yr9oi]

Scam 2 the Squeakuel?

[@lightfut]

I never realized the voice of Grief was a tone-shifted Mickey Mouse

[@stankmongerjones]

Mono-Rat Ruin Your Wiring?

[@Arakasi0]

Rattatouin Your Evening

[@asterwilliams]

Ruin Your Morning, Scrats, and Multi-Rat Marketing are all great

[@narfidy444]

Mono Rat Ruin Your Evening

[@Stormshader]

I don't get the Rats. Wheeler's deck looks like a mono-black version of his vampire-deck to me.

[@alexscarr5794]

Ratatouille Your Evening for the deck name.

[@heykak]

man I heard about Rat scam on SAWLM.

[@EmitationKrab]

Personally I would just name Wheeler's deck "At Least 7 Rats"

[@hiygamer]

The amount of hand hate from Wheeler in this episode was brutal. Mono black can be seriously nasty.

[@Scottynsb765]

Insert rats copypasta here

[@austinknudtson9478]

Go blank does discard and exile graveyard

[@gradyturnbull1137]

A delight

[@Pedro49676]

what a cool rats deck

[@NStripleseven]

Missed opportunity to call the deck Scram

[@gkiyo]

Mono-rat ruin your evening?

[@elitearmsgaming5732]

Name the deck bizzaro evenings

[@TheGamblingisgood]

Abbreviate Ruin your evening yo RYE, and youve got RYETS as a deck name

[@derekdenis]

Rodent to Ruin

[@LucasTheDrgn]

Rat Scam is short for Ratthew Scamuel

[@whitneyweiss3067]

idk even know how nelson remains cheerful despite what happens in g1 and g2.

[@TheOnlyOrk]

land land as far as the eye can see

[@clargoon]

Ratting your evening

[@kamikazehansu]

Scat Ram Discrat 88Rat Brainrat Nezumeme

[@SailorwaveII]

"Rat with Nothing" perhaps?

[@hamishian0]

25:30 Ruin your kitchen Ruin your library Ruin your base... Nelson got there 1st

[@Asiis]

Scam is so fun to watch other people play! But please, ban the hell out of them wizards.