Standard isn't ready for their friendship.

Magic: The Gathering Arena deck tech & gameplay with a green/white Dinosaur ramp deck, featuring Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines and Vaultborn Tyrant from Outlaws of Thunder Junction in Standard.
Patreon: / legenvd
00:00 - Deck Tech
04:05 - Match 1
08:41 - Match 2
12:40 - Match 3
21:02 - Match 4
25:21 - Match 5
30:39 - Match 6
35:24 - Match 7
Decklist:
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"Movement Proposition" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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[@RConnickJr]

Going from one life against Monored to a casual nineteen with a full grip of cards and twenty power on the board is just everything.

[@noodlesalad]

That opponent's head exploded trying to process what just happened to them.

[@dominicmiller4019]

“Not a bad turn”

[@kueapel911]

@@dominicmiller4019 it really isn't a bad turn

[@jesseknorr8037]

The Shock I hid in my sleeve since T1:

[@TheyCallMeDio]

You can hear him chuckle when the opponent conceded

[@konachan01]

Nothing is more satisfying then seeing mono red see his opponent go from 1 life to 19 life in one phase and suddenly having a board of angry vengeful dinos.

[@warmropes1]

found the control player lol

[@r3games1985]

Mono Red will still F you up. Go away and try to play this slow crap.

[@masterkurosaki100]

Seeing monored instantly concede after seeing life total go from 1 to 19 and 4 large creatures on the field was hilarious.

[@chrisreyes5012]

Sooooo satisfying!!

[@00110000]

23:50 Dang, Gabechill has no chill

[@Atzros]

"Your go" "Your go" "Your go" *scoops at Topiary Stomper* aieeee topiary stomper-sama don't stomp meeeee! i genuflect!

[@GruulNinja]

Sometimes, people take forever for no reason

[@alfaayed6262]

@@Atzros AAAAAIIIIIEEEEE YAMEROOO STOMPER-SAMAAAAA

[@AesirOdinn]

Falling to 1 health, to then get back to 19 health the next turn is like the ultimate flex and the worst nightmare of mono red. Just peak plays

[@shafttao5940]

Just tried this, and got to play Smugglers Surprise for full spree twice. My opponent had seen enough, sweet, on to the next one! Love the content, thank you!

[@LegenVD]

Great to hear!

[@TheInfamousHerb]

Your explanations are fantastic, I greatly appreciate how you specify the legality of moves as you are contemplating them, citing which ones are instant speed, how the new modal spells work, etc. Thank you.

[@LegenVD]

Glad it was helpful!

[@astuteanansi4935]

34:35 "Tinybones commits a crime... although *I* feel like the criminal here."

[@R-R-R-R-R]

I like your calm, analytical and almost perfectly sophisticated manner in every video

[@Kuryux]

11:55 Holy cow, from 1 to 19 in 1 turn!!

[@euferix270]

„Not a bad Turn“

[@OhOneNine]

The premature "Your Go" always cracks me up.

[@AgentN101]

The upload on a Saturday is a welcome surprise!

[@marklussier3249]

Very Fun deck. I have been looking for a super fun deck to put into paper Standard, as well as arena, and thanks to you, I have found it! Always great watching you Luca and learning from you too! I am an old dog and love new tricks!

[@bvddh]

I've been playing something similar in Gruul, Terror of the Peaks is also very fun with all the 4+ power synergies as both an enabler and a payoff.

[@LegenVD]

Will have a red version going up on the MTG Arena channel soon!

[@urias134]

Neat deck idea. Thanks for playing some green 💚

[@darkerthoughts2]

Amazing deck and play!

[@vincentvangoo7078]

Hey, Legenvd! First off, love your content! I started watching you almost a year ago, some time after the lotr set came out and you quickly became my favourite magic youtuber. You have the best, most fun decks on your channel and are so good at the game. Recently i came up with a combo kill for standard. I would make a deck around it but im not good enough at deck building to make it not super janky, nor do i have the wild cards for it. But i think you might like the idea and make a deck around it. The idea is to get yargle&multani into the graveyard and then play [rakdos joins up] bringing back yargle with 2 +1 counters on it. Then we just kill yargle in any way and the enchantment deals 20 damage to our opponent! We could use insatiable averice with a surveil or lively dirge to tutor yargle into our graveyard. Maybe this could work in some sort of jund reanimator deck? Hope you like this idea! : )

[@LegenVD]

Already had that one in the works!

[@vincentvangoo7078]

@@LegenVD That's awesome! I'm looking forward to seeing it!

[@BilingualRainbow]

I'm just starting to learn how to play magic and really wanted to find a fun dinosaur based deck to run. This video was a great watch, you are fantastic with explaining what's going on. Appreciate you my dude.

[@LegenVD]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@dumplingdepinto]

Very original take on ramp 👏🏼

[@DanyF02]

That last game was wonderful to watch.

[@KevShaw808]

Super fun looking deck, thanks for uploading!

[@mr.marker6449]

I’m surprised how well invasion of zendikar has held up

[@AesirOdinn]

Lot of value for real

[@honestabe411]

Why would that be surprising

[@caljam82]

I love battles as a concept, I wish they would make more. There definitely was battles in outlaws that could have been printed

[@tns4]

@@caljam82 and the lord of the rings set, missed opportunity

[@pixelpox11]

@@tns4 Maybe they will print lord of the rings 2 :)

[@justinmullen1980]

“One is not dead”. Words to live by boys.

[@thcdreams654]

Cool deck and great set of games. Crazy turnarounds. Congrats on 125K.

[@Johnygosu12]

i added Tyrannax Rex to this Deck. Realy works great. Especially against Control Decks! :)

[@joshuapkingston4565]

What are some upgrades to deal with blue control decks that that are heavy on interrupts and artifacts (new player, go easy!)?

[@0rcd0c]

Roxanne would be so cool in this etb + power>=4 deck. Did anyone have success with a Naya version of this style of deck?

[@paulopbga]

Loving this deck, cant wait to use it once i grind enough currency

[@MowJoeJoJo]

This deck. Once it turns the corner. It turns HARD.

[@CyberBuster93]

The edit on Elesh Norn's mouth in the thumbnail 😳

[@RenounceDarkness_]

“Tinybones commits a crime… although I feel like the criminal here” line is pure gold 😂

[@meadowgrain]

Any Selesnya content is welcome and cherished 🎉❤

[@d0zeboy]

The first two wins against boros convoke and mono red were like poetry

[@TwoTonTiger]

That discard deck in match 6 looked super brutal. Kaervek is a nasty way to amp that up!

[@orocabout964]

nice

[@Uberriffic.]

So sticking with the theme of big stompy fun time, if you plan on playing a deck with Calamity, Galloping Inferno, avoid using Invasion of Zendikar alongside it. There's currently a bug where if your creatures have a target to attack other than your opponent (such as a battle or planeswalker) Calamity will only make a single token copy of the creature that saddled it.

[@Jeffko78]

I will never get tired of seeing mono red decks getting out-valued like that lol

[@ninjablade2]

What do you think about putting high noon into this deck? what would you swap out?

[@LordZurkov]

I think this deck wants to double spell often enough that High Noon would be a serious nonbo

[@ninjablade2]

@@LordZurkov Dang, fair enough, it seemed like the sort of thing you drop early to slow the opponent down and then destroy yourself late to deal some dmg and un-restrict yourself once your opponent's resources ran low, but maybe i'm not thinking it all the way through I just saw how much it hampers Boros convoke and agro in CGB's video i was thinking it looked like it might be able to slot into a big-creatures deck too since you can blow it up yourself late game

[@edmontoraptor]

Primal Command can help as a sideboard option against mill decks since you can shuffle your graveyard back into your library and then find another Vaultborn Tyrant.

[@Xsasan2001]

11:52 I bet opponent didnt see you at end step with 19 live and a bunch of heavy blockers! Really nice Game!

[@joshuakruger4851]

This deck kinda cooks. Love Trailblazer and it's cool to see it in a ramp deck instead of a stompy deck

[@MP-dz3xs]

Let's Go!

[@treysharkk1]

I got 4 of those worthless smugglers surprise. Thought they were trash. But this deck is insane. Went from 1 life to 18 in 1 turn. Absolutely absurd. The value and live gain is insane. And enough removal to last

[@Big_Dai]

Life gain*

[@MrMuzculz]

how do you get games that arent prowess aggro?? crazy

[@Alan-oe3dq]

Quite the power move against mono red

[@DarryHirty]

I am a simple man. I see dinos, i press like.

[@capricorncomplex]

This is the stuff that had been missing from the last few sets. Bout time they printed fun cards.

[@natshrivera2097]

the last game was brutal no way out exect there is

[@mityapizzedaz1990]

I got simply overrun by this deck today. There was no just no water to outpace it or go over it

[@JoseSilva-lf1ve]

Why did the shifting rift on game 3 didn't remove the buried in the garden?

[@LegenVD]

They technically control the Aura, but that doesn't change that it's enchanting our land. Same happens when you steal an equipment, you still have to pay to move it onto your own creature.

[@alfaayed6262]

29:57 it's kinda ironic and lore accurate. ofcourse the throne of Elesh Norn can't do anyting to her

[@mauromapelli4836]

See mono red explode makes me ultrahappy.

[@soybomb777]

based on some of the recent MVC quotes, I think someone's been getting into Fallout recently

[@kevinjennings3701]

Welp, this deck is actually terrible in standard, for those wondering. Sure you occasionally pull off a fun comeback win against mono red / Boros - but it's also an instant lose to U/W Control. For reference, after 20 games I am siting at 7-13 - awesome deck!

[@abelk.johnsen309]

Everything is "terrible" in standard except for a dozen highly optimised lists. Play bo3 if you want to play real magic

[@Johnygosu12]

Tyrannax Rex is a great dinosaur to add to the Deck

[@noobtube2799]

I would love for you to at the end tell us your final record so we can see all the games.

[@davestier6247]

This list provides Mesozoic levels of value

[@Pookielove1123]

If I were to make this a pioneer legal deck what do you think would change? I wanna make this as my first pioneer deck because I love the Tyrant!

[@cloud9847]

There really needs to be an emoji of IceCream falling off a cone for mono red when they can't finish a game at 1hp.

[@rumbathehoova1810]

I'm trying to make these decks myself but I'm having issues getting wildcards on a FTP account, does anyone have tips to get wildcards?

[@Big_Dai]

No, but get good at Drafting! Easier way to complete a new set.

[@abelk.johnsen309]

​@@Big_Daithis

[@daemonstail9226]

Freaky Elesh Norn

[@longboy5639]

Mill is back bby

[@brandao.rafael]

In match 4, unfortunately unlike the name suggested, Gabechill was not chill

[@nitiratp]

You should call it Delesh Dinos ^_^

[@Say_Tin]

luca ur cool

[@LegenVD]

You too!

[@GaryX2k3]

30:26 Triggers go "Brrr!"

[@louisnemzer6801]

11:24 Textbook illustration of "one is not dead"... puts 18 power on the board and gains 18 life 😅😅😅

[@BigRedShooter]

😮

[@r3games1985]

Do you want to feed other players? Make this deck.

[@NickTemperistic]

Oh wow this is hot

[@bryanpilger4338]

Gabechill was pretty salty. Pathetic lol

[@iNstantQue]

Remember boys and girls, 1 isn't dead!

[@olboe2008]

Lol draw 9 cards get 18 life put 6 creatures in play is not a bad turn? what is a good turn for you?

[@Big_Dai]

LVD has seen way too many things throughout his career..

[@DoubleDownAzn]

Mono reds are legit the clowns of mtg

[@whoopsmymeds]

I wish I could bottle the way you say "trample"

[@whoopsmymeds]

Update: also "ramping"