THE WIGHT ENGINE IN ACTION! DredgeVine Hogaak (MH3 Graveyard Midrange- Legacy MTG)

[@thegreatmajora13]

phil, in game 2 against eldrazi, you had green mana for most of the match thanks to their yavimaya.

[@derekcline950]

I have never wanted to scream so hard at my screen haha

[@MrSocrates_]

Quite frankly, he realizing that or not probably wouldn't matter for the match. Every Eldrazi that appears against him seems to have the nut draw and the best Kozilek's Command of the world

[@vipershark1]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@Dhips.]

That made me sad too.

[@nitemare187]

Phil is such a good guy. Every time I see him geek out about helping people I can’t help but root for him. I’ve been enjoying this content for over a year and I just look forward to him every day.

[@alexanderneimeth4538]

Happy to see your partnered with dragonshield. My personal favorite sleeve brand as well. Congratulations!

[@fel_95]

Congrats on the partnership!!

[@kithkindeck]

Congrats on the new sponsor! I bought a literal case of D-SHield emerald greens five years ago for my piles of commander cards and have been very satisfied.

[@ThisGuyChris]

You couldve dealt with the arcon against the renimator with grist's minus ability to remove the animate dead if it wasnt bounced when you went for the witherbloom line, didnt matter in the end thou 😅

[@greatbrandini3967]

Came to the comments to say this

[@jeremiahgoertz4182]

I have Dragon Shield sleeves from around 20 years ago that are still playable. Most durable ever. Congrats of the sponsorship!

[@Zauzzie]

Obligatory "It's not gonna be different this time, Phil"

[@thegreatmajora13]

Well, I'm happy the deck I sent in at least put up a winning record. Sad that wight is too slow, I really liked that card during spoiler season, but it is what it is. Still wild to me that you only saw flare of malice against Nadu.

[@ThrabenUniversity]

I do not understand how that happened from a mathematical standpoint. The chance of drawing a card in your opening hand when you play 3 copies of it is 31.5%. Given the number of mulligans and natural draws over the course of 4 rounds, it's just absurd that we never saw a single one.

[@SpaghettiArmMan]

Congrats on the dragon shield sponsorship. Those my favorite sleeves! Glad to see them team up with you

[@Nitrox_Costa_]

Yet to see the full video, but already glad to see you partner with dragon shield. Congratulations! :)

[@joshuafornelli8673]

Grats on the partnership, man!

[@CPrs3394]

Ey Dragon Shield, good to hear they're still going!

[@kylecarson3318]

What a great sponsor Phil. Dragon Shields are awesome

[@jackkosidowski8794]

Love the Dragonshield partnership! Always my go to sleeves.

[@StevenRiseNYC]

27:43 - "I physically cannot answer an Archon of Cruelty outside of Flare of Malice" as he holds the Witherbloom command in his hand for animate dead :/

[@scottdwyer7058]

He also could have flipped Grist and blew up the animate dead and stopped having to freak out about daze.

[@gavinbowers137]

Dragon Shield has earned my respect. I recently bought a couple boxes of sleeves from them which had minor cosmetic issues. They gave me a voucher for a full replacement

[@Catalyst2812]

I’m so glad you scored a dragon shield partnership❤️ proud of you, phil!

[@dalemackenzie4320]

dannnng Affiliation with one of the big dogs in tcg is huge! Congrats my guy

[@usagi2988]

That land count makes me nervous... like, I get the whole "curve tops out at 2" thing, but it still makes me nervous.

[@CHANDLERTRON]

Congrats with the sponsor ! Dragon shield is amazing

[@reecemendes5059]

Keep killin' it Phil. Congrats on Dragon Shield!

[@BobertJoe]

I was at a prerelease this weekend and somebody was on some megaman dragonshields, and midmatch, one of them split. I was legitimately shocked, I have literally never seen a dragon shield split before then. I have some blue ones that Ive been using since 2014 and have not split a single one.

[@PT-pn5ge]

Came acrossa similar deck last night while playing Eldrazi Breach in modern... the Flare of Malice on a breached Emrakul is a giant kick in the pants

[@datsundreams]

congrats on the new affiliation brother

[@LordOfCrabz]

I hope to win some of that awesome Dragon Shield stuff! Congrats on the team up!

[@vaentkhing579]

hype for dragon shield- congrats!!

[@dago6410]

My favourite creature based deck since hornstill

[@Dhips.]

Phil: That is so Wight of the Reliquary Us: Phill, stop trying to make Wight of the Reliquary happen. It's never gunna happen.

[@Eisenwulf666]

Dragon shields are great! Great partnership! Also, it's not going to be different, Phil!

[@Zayki-Anubisai]

Anyone else notice recently purchased dragon shield sleeves splitting more often? My 9+ year old decks are in dragon shields without a single sleeves breaking. New modern deck I've sleeved with DS sleeves I've had 20 plus sleeves split on me. That said I'm still buying dragon shield atm just curious if anyone else noticed this...😮

[@jeromelim2928]

I use the dragonshield app! And i love hogaak! This will be a great video!

[@rhettk6263]

For wight i love the "landfall create a creature" idea like necrobloom, field of the dead, and among others in legacy its only field thats playable so in the future try that idea out

[@juke854]

I think the 18th land should be a Dryad Arbor. It helps cast Hogaak a lot. Think about these scenarios for example. You have empty board and in the graveyard is Gaak and one bloodghast and bunch of other cards. You draw a fetch land, fetch Arbor, bring back ghast and then cast Hogaak. Or there is Hogaak and Vengevine in bin. You draw a Satyr Wayfinder and cast it. Find a fetch (or Dryad). Then fetch Dryad, cast Hogaak, bring back Vengevine. Or if you have one creature in play already, every fetch will get you to cast Hogaak. And once adding Dryad Arbor helps cast Hogaak a lot, I would then maybe add fourth one in the deck.

[@odoylerules1435]

I thought of a cool combo with hogak and a new card. So you can play birthing ritual in your deck and sac hogak every turn and then play big creatures to birth into. Might be bad, might be good just an idea. Also, birthing ritual with bloodghast and gravevrawler is just pure value also. As you can sac them to birthing ritual every turn almost.

[@colinpatton1541]

congrats on the partnership!

[@noctrineshowdown]

He had a yavimaya in round1 game2, you could have cast your green spells still. Big sad.

[@johannesblank1552]

Haven't played Magic in years, but I've gone through more than a hundred Dragon Shield boxes, all my Marvel Champions, Lord of the Rings LCG, most of my board game stuff use clear Dragon Shields. They really hold up!

[@theduckcompany]

Finally got back into magic after a year off. Looking to play somesort of wight deck in timeless. Not the same thing but your wight experimentation is giving me plenty of ideas.

[@rgirado]

Phill. I know the legacy meta is kind of broken right now. The modern cats deck you played not long ago was a lot of fun to see. Are you planning on releasing more modern or non legacy content until we get it fixed, or does it depend on what people donate?

[@ThrabenUniversity]

Fully dependent on what people donate.

[@Shadowjackal]

Dragonshields used to be great, their quality has gone down so much in the last 2 years however that the new sleeves are literally tearing before my older ones ive owned for 6-7 years. I hope they fix whatever they messed up soon

[@EGarrett01]

I do think this deck is better than it looked here, the mana base is just very flawed with wanting two colored mana so often on turn two and having the three wastelands in there.

[@JoeKell365]

this seems like it should have at least one copy of Phyrexian Tower, and maybe some number of Boggart Trawler

[@thesnax9177]

I feel that painful wince when you remember how long ago freshman year was :')

[@orsettomorbido]

13 years later? Daaamn!

[@carpetworms_]

I’ve had the same dragon shield sleeves since 7th grade

[@christianthurow]

Eldrazi's look scary strong lately.. this deck is one to keep a close eye on. Maybe their lands are OP?

[@DankAudioStash24]

17 Lands like it's a draft deck... seems unfair to the Wight.

[@DankAudioStash24]

Dragon Shield, fuck yeah ❤

[@jeromelim2928]

23:17 goodbye whirling summoning sickness thing 😅

[@data_abort]

55:59 Nadu needs to go for being too durdly like KCI or eggs. And while I dont think you have to ban it on power level alone, the fact that it is widely played helps make the ban case.

[@claytonleal7947]

I think if wight lands came in untapped it would be a strong strong card. as is i think we are waiting on another land to be printed that cracks it wide open. having instant speed bojuka bog access is awesome so i think if we get 1-2 more etb lands that would be perfect. Sejiri Steppe and mortuary mire are the only other etb lands that have any relevance and i think its pretty clear both are just subpar but 1 more set with spell effects as an etb trigger on lands then i could see wight suddenly being a buildaround kinda card

[@youareliedtobythemedia]

Dragonshields are awesome

[@jaceg810]

29:47: Is it not possible to play wasteland, return bloodghast, then flip grist and use the disenchant to remove the animate dead, and thus dealing with archon? Nevermind, petty theft, they saw the line

[@exposfan94movies]

Round 1, Game 1 might be the perfect example that Legacy has too many Sol lands available. Maybe we need to start looking at a ban of Eye of Ugin?

[@ThrabenUniversity]

Nah, I don't think the Eldrazi deck has anything that is bannable at this time. It has some absurd starts, but I think it's a very solid, but not overpowered deck if people actually have maindeck/sideboard slots to respect it.

[@alecwoodard9464]

As a career long connoisseur of mediocre two-drops for GB, how could you say something so evil yet so correct about my son, Phil

[@joshdavis3743]

29:20 transform griest kill AD?

[@christopherneil8265]

But have you tried playing wight in a deck with lands

[@worryjspverybadatd2125]

Clicked video because I thought the title said "witch engine"

[@joshdavis3743]

10:50 that is crazy you lost.

[@Fyrefrye]

How do you feel about Prized amalgam as another recursive creature and potential pitch card? It does push you into sultai if you want the chance to hard cast it, but it also comes back by itself if you manage to use reanimate, bloodghast, grave crawler, or cast a Gaak from the yard. But at that point I have to ask why you'd be playing this instead of a direct UB or UBG Dredge deck. And that's the end result for me, I would rather be questioning if Grist or Flare could/should be slotting into existing Dredge or dedicated self-mill decks. As for Wight, it feels REALLY strange to me to be playing a deck with a land tutor and not having some number of win conditions or utility built into the land base. All the deck has for Wight to grab is one surveil, some color fixing, and 3x wastelands that were already questionable because of how few lands the deck is otherwise playing and how color-specific the cards it wants to play already are. (the deck has 65 colored mana pips in the main deck compared to only 38 colorless, and that includes the 3x5 colorless of Hogaak you get to "cheat")

[@ThrabenUniversity]

It seems fine, but not overly exciting. I'd rather just cut Wight and play a more traditional Gaak list though rather than lean into its synergies.

[@KooroshForootan]

Did the match 3 opponent just salt off the face of the earth?

[@TheQueerLeaf]

Nice !

[@MrSocrates_]

Those Legacy games are starting to look like that same Modern format you abandoned years ago. Rough days for brews

[@davidfields5375]

This is an OK modern deck + wasteland, which arguably made it worse

[@MrFireInTheDisco]

Yo I only buy dragon shield. Cause my first deck still holds up

[@Senpiezza]

Is anyone starting to feel nervous about Glaring Fleshraker? In a post-Grief world, Eldrazi may be too strong

[@data_abort]

Flash raker can't be the problem to me because it's too fair. We would have to see about Eldrazi. Even if the combo is Koz-kommand for large X and Raker, that seems an eminently fair way to win by legacy standards. There is always Eye if you want to weaken Eldrazi. It was too good for Modern.

[@ThrabenUniversity]

I *think* traditional options (more removal, Blood Moon, etc) can keep eldrazi in check if the metagame isn't fighting tooth and nail vs UB shells.

[@Mastblood]

The more i watch wright of the reliquary be played the more I'm convinced that its just not a legacy playable card. The cost of sacking a creature is too much and the land coming in tapped is Brutal. Trying to build around it and putting bad cards into your deck like bloodghast and gravecrawler just isnt a competitive stratagy.

[@alecwoodard9464]

The EtB tapped part of the clause is so tough, totally agree

[@MrPetterPaker]

Cool deck on paper. Sadly it is too slow for the meta 😢

[@gabrielarchanjo6028]

Match 1 game 1 is one of the most bullshittiest things i've ever saw in gaming.