THE OATH IS FOREVER! Vintage Oath of Druids Combo. Show and Tell Atraxa MTG Eternal Weekend

[@jeremyyates2207]

After watching enough of your Vintage content, I'm convinced every MTGO Vintage player is playing while at work and simply does not have the time to sit around to see if they are going to actually lose or not. It's amazing to watch.

[@Cthuski]

Vintage snowballs so hard that if your opponent has significantly more cards than you it's safe to say your dead. Even if you aren't deterministically dead and maybe even 10% to be in it still its life equity to just spare everyone the clicks

[@jeremyyates2207]

I know. Just being playful :). Trust me, I play enough Vintage Cube and am super fast to the trigger on conceding. I am the person I wrote this about haha.

[@fergusfisher1315]

The only people with enough money to play vintage have full time jobs. Even on MTGO

[@RumpledNutskin]

​@@fergusfisher1315 vintage costs about the same as modern on mtgo, sometimes even cheaper. The reserved list doesn't exist on mtgo

[@THE_BASED_GOD]

@@fergusfisher1315 ...vintage decks cost the like 400-500 usd range on MTGO. Its literally cheaper than paper Modern.

[@TheEpp90]

Commenting until we get the Island and Ponder artwork tier lists.

[@nomatyx5789]

Bump lmao

[@TheEpp90]

This is worth repeating. If you don't see my comment in a video yet, feel free to join my voice to get those tier lists made!

[@brawlerike1]

Hundred percent would watch

[@tsimehcMTG]

Less than an hour - love vintage

[@BoshNRoll]

A series of one-sided slaughters.

[@AaronRotenberg]

Every once in a while, you see a comment saying "Unban Oko in Modern!" And then you watch a game like 24:32, and you remember how absolutely f'ed up that card is.

[@TheAlmightyGoiter]

If I could only ban one card, I think it would be Oko. Any format. Even in thunder junction limited he was a nightmare.

[@joryvuylsteke6900]

I wish there wasn’t a reserve list so more people could play this on paper it looks so fun! I know you can use mtgo but it’s not the same

[@BoshNRoll]

Agreed. F the reserved list. :(

[@ericjonsson]

Printers exist. Pry the Vintage format from Wizards clutches and play proxy events.

[@bobmahannah905]

Love your vintage content, thanks brian! GL at eternal weekend

[@LemorasCards]

Always love seeing more vintage gameplay.

[@thedoh.]

My experience with Oath mirrors your own. I played it in a localish charity 1k and did very well against the frogs and fair decks, but got creamed by doomsday (and awful mulligans). If I had to play it again, I think Consign to Memory would be pretty good in the main (-1 Show & Tell, +1 Consign) and then get a free slot in the board as well.

[@Phnxkon]

Hurray for non modern eternal MtG!

[@Jayjordancomedy]

There was like a year where every vid was Legacy 😂😂 Let us have our fun, too

[@heatherzeis8614]

Against Jewel in R1 I think I would keep the top and board out Island. Citadel+Top is one of your most potent combos (that doesn't require passing the turn) and I think keeping that in the deck is important despite the Null Rod nonbo. I also typically board down to 1 Show and Tell because it's so volatile in the matchup and I can tutor for it in edge cases. Just my $0.02.

[@senken12]

At the end of round 2 (commenting before round 3), you said "I feel on top of the world and deep in the underworld" I am now fully expecting an Initiative match-up so you can be deep in the undercity too

[@dawsonbullock9625]

Can’t wait to see what you decide to rock at eternal weekend

[@andreasserwein1655]

33:41 why not vampiric for forbidden orchard, fight over tinker, drop oath with orchard plus sea and trigger next turn?

[@niteus4907]

Dread it, run from it, Oath arrives all the same

[@paperskate654]

40:55 given that they scooped to it I wonder if it would have been too cute to mystical tutor for probe? If they don't scoop you get the info and are still leagues ahead unless they kill you on untap

[@TehTechnoGuy]

serra's emmissary giving you protection from crip flips is bonkers

[@johnmichaelbushman]

Brian: Creatures can't be equipped to creatures. YuGiOh players: ..........................

[@chillywings]

35:33 their hand DID have artifact things. They had a line to vault key. So can't say your decision was wrong on those grounds. Perhaps there was a better angle to counter that line, but hard to say your choice was bad. Also funny you were like is Esper PO still a deck? Why yes, yes it is lol. Also, maybe it's just 'win more', but PO picking up a fist full of artifacts to discard to frog would be nuts. Could probably one shot your opponents

[@Ratchetcat974]

Wotc really needs to allow proxies for reserved list. I’d love to play legacy or vintage at eternal weekend. I could always use counterfeits, but I’d rather not risk it.

[@bryantmoyle1706]

I love oath so much, wish I could play it in paper

[@darkstarpress9455]

Shoutout to Montolio who has a great KZbin channel

[@slowlylosingitaaaaaa]

love me some good ol reliable oath

[@xylerianproductions7245]

Has Valgavoth seen any traction in oath sideboards yet? His hate on graveyards has been huge in the formats I’ve tried him on but I haven’t touched vintage in a while.

[@BoshNRoll]

It’s obviously great if it’s in play vs a graveyard deck, but you don’t get to pick what comes out of Oath or what’s in your hand with Show. I like normalizing expectations and building a plan around always seeing 10 cards whenever my thing works.

[@hayokamikaze5896]

What are your thoughts on Pyrogoyf Oath? It seems like how people are trying to make control Oath work again

[@knightofthesun2595]

Gotta love the oath pack

[@lucasmilano9358]

The point you made about eternal formats at the end of the video is true, but I got a chuckle at the idea of playing eternal formats to ‘save money’ as a broke college kid. that IS an aspect that has certainly changed lol. as a broke college kid, the idea of playing paper eternal formats is very funny

[@BoshNRoll]

Yeah times have changed a lot. When I was in college you could buy into a Legacy deck for the cost of 1-2 Standard decks. After a few months of Standard rotation, you could have a set of fetches/duals/forces instead. Paid for itself very quickly if you didn't care about PTQing.

[@abrahamdrinkin2534]

Druid pack put an over costed egregious creature into play and win if you got em

[@kendrickvickers2610]

Why no blightsteel colossus? Can be brought with oath and tinker and is a faster timer then others

[@BoshNRoll]

Blightsteel has been too slow for the format for a few years. I had Sphinx of the Steel Wind in the sideboard for the overlap you described, but it doesn't line up how I'd want against the current metagame.

[@Snake9332]

R1g1, did you think to tutor Lotus and try to go double Oath? I know it's probably not powerful enough, but that was a line I saw. Unless I'm completely crazy 😅

[@nousernameleft999]

huh. the abrupt decay on trinisphere just seems way too dangerous circa 15:20 i am not an expert even remotely but i feel like I'm destroying the trinisphere either after deploying null rod successfully or eot with the plan to untap and cast null rod backed by fluster

[@nousernameleft999]

for the latter the sequencing is vamp tutor instead of abrupt decay, let one extra turn cycle pass and then abrupt decay followed by fluster backed rod

[@Dreg_s]

Anyone else remember this deck from last time?

[@vex_dk]

why no main deck null rod anymore if you are afraid of jewel and breach?

[@BoshNRoll]

Because that card was bad in 80+% of matchups and it wasn't worth that cost overall. You can play cards like Consign and Thoughtseize that have wide application and still cover the weak spots.

[@SjorsTromp]

You boarded out Mana Crypt when you board in null rod, why not board out Mox Ruby instead?

[@BoshNRoll]

Because Ruby doesn't kill me when Null Rod is in play.

[@asbeel_fst5100]

Why dont you put into the flood maw, I think its a great sideboard card it works as a bounce with an oath trigger after gifting the fish even against non creature decks

[@BoshNRoll]

There's like 7 cards I'd like to put in 1 slot in the deck. Just trying the different options based on what I'm worried about.

[@sapphstar]

Does this deck really need four atraxa?

[@BoshNRoll]

This build does. There are other versions that play fewer/different monsters. But you have to adjust all the support slots to account for those changes.

[@KingDoopliss20]

i'm not a vintage player so maybe my take is.. what ever... but like.. how is shops still unrestricted? how many cards got restricted cus fo that land. i do not understand.

[@samuelapp]

Its because the vintage people think of it as a Pillar in the format. Its vintage, here we can play shops! If they restrict it then the format will flip upside down.

[@rekenner]

Because people bought 10 grand worth of a playset, so they restrict all the things around Shops. So It's a dumb reserved list thing.

[@kamimoros]

What do you think about Valgavoth instead of Atraxa? It doesn‘t pitch to force but it basically has hexproof and hits like a truck

[@rekenner]

It's better against exactly Plow but just worse against everything else. It doesn't pitch to anything AND it doesn't dig for interaction. Like getting a Valgavoth into play against Jewel Shops is just like ... "Uh. Nice idiot that does nothing. I untap and win."

[@music00soba]

bosh pack smoke em if you got em

[@nickraupp6104]

Honestly tragic this is less than an hour.

[@WhiteBorderMTG]

You should test a Valgavoth in the list, I played 3/1 atraxa/valgavoth at a vintage tournament a few weeks ago and Valgavoth was an absolute house.

[@rekenner]

It doesn't work with Flash, it doesn't pitch to anything, it's harder to hard cast, it's much easier to go over the top of... What upsides does Valgavoth have?

[@natty1115]

EARLY GANG

[@maciejwawrzyn4674]

There is more sinilarity between legacy and low power formats like standard or pauper (ok especially pauper) than legacy and vintage. Every vintage player not named Actuallylvl1 or BoshnRoll is a little baby scooping to the tiniest inconvenience. One woould imagine if your deck is full of most powerful cards you should be able to turn the tide a reasonable amount of time, and also knowing how degenerate and unstable these decks are chances are your oponent deck will also brick out the second you blow some air at it, why scoop early.... idk