This card broke the poison deck.

[@erikpierce7555]

Love how the game 6 opponent kept saying GG, and then hit the "really?" face until they conceded. My favorite types of games to win.

[@fouroakfarm]

What an asshat

[@Bluecho4]

What a petulant opponent.

[@alexandersims1613]

Bruhh, saw the same thing n came to the comments. Happy that loser took an L after playing 3 forges and expecting a free win.

[@LetMeCookBro69]

Opponent really that 1 card gonna win him the game lol. It always the Red players with the premature GG

[@ReaperOfMars-]

I loved how LegenVD just didn’t say anything about the blatant bm from opponent in game 6😂

[@davestier6247]

Giving the gift of compleation to your opponents provides a glistening amount of value

[@JRandall0308]

More of that strange oil! Thanks?

[@davestier6247]

@@JRandall0308 gotchu fam, you know it's working when you feel your humanity slipping away and you turn all awesome

[@bumfricker2487]

step 1: cover yourself in glistening oil

[@DrHankVenture]

Come on you gunners

[@mantidream8179]

Ah yes, the tale of Tamiyo, who could forget all the good she did... ...for Phyrexia.

[@electric_dream_machine]

Tale of Tamiyo 2: Electric Boogaloo

[@pyrobob5724]

Man us making her relive her final chapter over and over again....

[@WhipLash42o]

@@pyrobob5724 WoTC sure as hell is, she died forever ago and we're still hearing about it. Meanwhile Gideon, the leader of the Gatewatch gets naenae'd on by Bolas and his "lmao I secretly counterplayed the Blackblade eons ago" move and all he gets is a monument and a mid set of reprints. (The RIP reprint in his book was cool though, don't @ me.)

[@johndoe9343]

@@WhipLash42o Oh yea, and lore wise, I guess her spirit or something talks with Nashi. So we get cards involving that too.

[@ASoberBear]

…. - wait, wha-

[@ilsna4]

Tale of Tamiyo upgrading the poison deck just like Tamiyo getting captured and being poked and prodded by Jin Gitaxias and thus helping him upgrade the glistening oil to compleat planeswalker. Idk her lore but it's kinda morbidly hilarious

[@superduper853]

That accidental self mill in game 3 was hilarious haha

[@Guevon_Pajaro]

Lol yeah, I've learned the hard way playing the deck that you have to be careful how many of that saga you cast. It can get dicey (depending on luck) if you cast 2+ of them

[@joeeee8838]

Match 6 was beautiful

[@COZYTW]

The opponent was overconfident, but forgot that it was killing him insidiously.

[@astuteanansi4935]

@@COZYTW He had "Darth" in his name, too. Guess his overconfidence really *was* his weakness.

[@RedJadeArt]

This is the most phyrexian-feeling deck I’ve ever seen. Like you’re literally corrupting Tamiyo’s knowledge to fuel a bunch of counters, proliferate and creature kill. Absolutely dope xD

[@its_kins]

thank you for continuing to revisit the poison mechanic youve got the best stuff on the tube, LVD, serious

[@johndoe9343]

I love toxic and I love toxic fans

[@YourPalJamieEllis]

It was so kind of that Darthtater..."person" to give us such an unapologetic emote villain to root against. Thank you for your devotion to the narrative of LegenVD's videos, Darthtater. It was so satisfying to watch you lose. 🥰

[@kevincastner4541]

I love the idea of using the art & lore across the sets to connect the dots for a functional deck. LVD, you contain multitudes, sir.

[@majordude83]

I think he figured out exactly what WotC wanted us to figure out. I'm calling this out as one of the first notable examples of WotC designing for a 3-year Standard. Functionally, the card doesn't really make sense in the DSK (it's completely unplayable in limited, as there isn't an "instant/sorcery" deck, as so many colors care about enchantments). It makes sense with the storyline, but it seemed kinda out of place as the only saga in the set, etc. WotC said one goal for 3-year standard was to be able to design cards to bolster specific archetypes/decks in standard, which wasn't possible before since they design cards 2 years in advance. Two years ago, when all the Blue/Black toxic cards came in ONE, everyone who tried this deck said the same thing: this could be a very strong deck, but it needs one more good+cheap card draw spell (for whatever reason, I remember Crokeys specifically said it needed a 3-mana draw three), and then, exactly 2 years later, we get this card, which can provide a boatload of card advantage in this exact shell for 3 mana, and calls back to ONE art.

[@camfunme]

Geez that Tamiyo triggers be lucky in Game 1. 0.0172% lucky. 6:08 Tale of Tamiyo trigger 1 (with Instants: 30; Lands: 17; Enchantments: 2 in deck). 1) (30*29 + 17*16 + 2*1) / (49*48) ~= 48.64% -> mill 2 Land draw Land 2) (30*29 + 14*13 + 2*1) / (46*45) ~= 50.92% -> mill 2 Instant draw Instant 3) (27*26 + 14*13 + 2*1) / (43*42) ~= 49.06% -> mill 2 Instant draw Instant Combined chance ~= 12.1500% 7:18 Tale of Tamiyo trigger 2 (with Instants: 25; Lands: 13; Enchantments: 2 in deck). 1) (25*24 + 13*12 + 2*1) / (40*39) ~= 48.59% -> mill 2 Instant draw Instant 2) (22*21 + 13*12 + 2*1) / (37*36) ~= 46.55% -> mill 2 Instant draw Land 3) (20*19 + 12*11 + 2*1) / (34*33) ~= 45.81% -> mill 2 Land draw Instant 4) (19*18 + 10*9 + 2*1) / (31*30) ~= 46.67% -> mill 2 Land draw Instant 5) (18*17 + 8*7 + 2*1) / (28*27) ~= 48.15% -> mill 2 Instant draw Instant 6) (15*14 + 8*7 + 2*1) / (25*24) ~= 44.67% -> mill 2 Land draw Enchantment 7) (15*14 + 6*5) / (22*21) ~= 51.95% -> mill 2 Instant draw Land 8) (13*12 + 5*4) / (19*18) ~= 51.46% -> mill 2 Instant draw Land 9) (11*10 + 4*3) / (16*15) ~= 50.83% -> mill 2 Instant draw Land Combined chance ~= 0.1413% Or back to back it's ~= 0.0172% or 1/5,824 games

[@Schmokk88]

Logic Mathematics do not work in this program - or as Wakanda would say "we don't do that here"

[@davestier6247]

@@camfunme tldr; arena is rigged

[@wanderingwobb6300]

Missing every mirror march coin flip meanwhile

[@crytical7]

Is that the chance to get that many draws, or the chance to get that exact sequence?

[@strangelaw6384]

@@crytical7 In the above, the listed "probability for each step" is the probability of getting any combination of two card types in two consecutive mills, based on the present state of the deck. For example, step 2) is the probability that two same card types are milled given which cards has already been milled/drew in step 1). I don't really agree with this math because, if we care about how many steps are in one trigger, then the probability of the upcoming two mills being successful should be under the condition that the last two mills were successful, not the condition that the last two mills and draws were those specific cards. So, I think step 2) of first trigger should be P(two successful mills given that previous two mills are lands and I drew any card) +P(two successful mills given that previous two mills are instants and I drew any card) +P(two successful mills given that previous two mills are enchantments and I drew any card) And step 3 has even more terms. Honestly, I wouldn't bother calculating the prob of having three/nine steps in one trigger. I would just monte carlos for the answer.

[@scottkane7742]

"I guess we're out of cards in our library. That's a bit of a problem."

[@crypto091]

*Proceeds to win game* this is why i watch LVD

[@scottkane7742]

@@crypto091 Absolutely.

[@Legov7]

I was very happy that you proliferated the Overlords time counter in the third game.

[@johndoe9343]

It's about time someone taught the overlords a thing or two.

[@kokoro-no-me]

This is such a morbidly flavorful deck it’s amazing

[@Kuryux]

42:20 dat feeling when the spammer get got XDDDD

[@LookADistarction]

Oooh. I loved the poison archetype in ONE limited and this looks fun enough for me to build in paper! Thanks LVD!

[@reidyo5404]

Boo this man! 😂 Just kidding, but I was not a fan of one limited. Poison was a tad bit annoying

[@TheKillaShow]

Game 6 was incredible. F that forge dork.

[@zakkbatman410]

Freakin love the deck I took one Anoint With Affliction out and put a Infectious Inquiry in for a wild 3 cost Draw 2 give a poison counter. Seems to work nice when I just couldn't get Tamiyo out

[@anjoniomarcos]

kudos for new ajani as well o/

[@MattTorres]

@7:44 holy hell I laughed so hard my side hurts lol.

[@MattTorres]

I'm actually incredibly impressed with how much card draw on avg that saga gets you. I guess it works best in a control setting where you're like 90% lands and instants.

[@MattTorres]

@439801RS yeah just the last chapter doesn't do much for a creature deck

[@Spoe9922]

It took me until game 5 to realize you still have to pay for the cards you exile. I was asking myself “why not exile all the cards and just win the game?”

[@hurkersmm]

Kind of cool to see this archetype get an upgrade. Even the old version was annoying to tokens decks, because they just can't interact with it in any way.

[@paulmills2862]

This deck Rocks!! added some shellys and vensur in the board with some counterspell/duress goes off haha

[@SuperMakkaraperunat]

After seeing this poison deck go against so many monoreds, I got insipired to build a deck around the red Leyline and Venerated Rotpriest. I hope it works

[@ryleyy3]

Case of the Ransacked Lab goes really well in this this deck

[@LegenVD]

I've featured it in the previous iteration of this deck! Don't know if there's room for both in the same deck, but they all play well in this archetype.

[@matthewludivico1714]

This is a great deck idea for getting graveyard casts using enchantments for spell slinging decks! Not relying on creatures or Flashback text makes is more flexible. New Tamiyo saga is almost exactly Jin Gitaxias/Great Synthesis❤. Graveyard hate and enchantment removal is a great counter to this deck, so a deck upgrade probably needs some protection for competetive play. Also Cut Down to me is not always great removal in Duskmourn....I am testing Freeze in Place, because being tapped 3 turns is sometimes a better option than killing opponents' creatures that have death triggers.

[@edwardrobinson2853]

Being 2 mana and sorcery speed makes freeze in place very awkward though, particularly in BO1 vs all the red aggro, boots enchantments, gruul etc aggro it lines up really poorly compared to cut down which can prevent them firing off their pump spells. Cut down obviously still not ideal but I think much better in those match ups (and also against for example the tokens deck where you can kill forge tokens to buy time and fizzle the caretaker’s talent level up sometimes)

[@edwardrobinson2853]

*Boros enchantments

[@nathanielnizard2163]

this deck is crazy. There are rarely times in magic when deckbuilding leads to decks that are degenerate is absolutely unpredicted ways in standard. Back in ixalan there was this explore mass reanimate for example, way later down the line there was that winota dogs deck. This deck is of that caliber.

[@firstname-lastname]

My fave mechanic, poison. Thanks for the idea for such deck :)

[@jrvaughn9038]

Wow! Out drawing Caretakers Talent was nuts. Nice brewing, I definitely gotta give this deck a try.

[@thcdreams654]

Dig the new avatar bro. Nice deck and good set of games. Great work all around. Thanks.

[@CaulkMongler]

In my head canon, Tamiyo lived out the rest of her life in peace studying to her heart’s content 🥲

[@hardcard254]

The other day I managed to win a game thanks to Prologue to Phyresis + Cursed Recording + Invocation of the Founders (Invasion of Arcavios transformed). 10 poison counters in a single turn simply by making copies of Prologue to Phyresis, seemed like a promising combo, but need to find a way to make it easier to pull with my limited collection.

[@arthurgwg]

Game 3 with the empty library win? Amazing!

[@getlooky736]

Spoilers, jerk.

[@gresh1134]

Building a version of this deck in paper as my first Standard deck! It looks like a lot of fun, and can be pretty affordable with a weaker mana base

[@alainassaf]

Yey ! Budget deck is back on the channel :)

[@CyberBuster93]

Ooooo this control deck definitely is toxic! Awesome job as usual Luca!!! 🔥🤘

[@GrahamJ-ct4ti]

Thanks LVD, that was a cool one.

[@thepukeguy593]

Cool update! I feel like 1 emergency card of Step Between Worlds would fit in nicely here. Can reload library and get right back to business.

[@babygirlvenere]

so I haven’t played Brawl in a while and that is a baller new Ajani

[@Sylvr369]

Ah, so you're the reason that I faced like 4 Poison Control decks in a row while doing my dailies.

[@SM-hr3zo]

Sweet deck. I built a toxic deck with Ral, Crackling Wit, proliferating and cantripping it to its ult, and then storm-poisoning opponent to death. Quite reminiscent.

[@sambarney8244]

This is a really cool deck, but one thing I noticed was that against red buff spells you often removed their creature a step early, which means they get to save their pump spells. You always want to wait until they cast something right before damage is dealt

[@J.Tarrou]

What do you mean? Practically all of the creatures he removed against red/boros were in response to pump spells or were after the op tapped out for something else. Maybe you could say 32:10 was a misplay, but there's nothing the opponent could have for one mana that could kill him outright, op had one card in hand, and they were on a three turn clock. They might not even have played the monstrous rage if LVD hadn't cast anoint first. I probably wouldn't have if I were them.

[@sambarney8244]

@@J.Tarrou you wanna let the pump spell resolve then see if they go for another, unless your removal destroys the creature and you're trying to limit heartfire damage

[@J.Tarrou]

​@@sambarney8244 Not necessarily. Look at a card like Demonic Ruckus. If you let it resolve before killing the creature, op gets to draw a card, because the enchantment will go from the battlefield into the graveyard. If you kill the creature in response to it being targeted, Demonic Ruckus never makes it to the battlefield, which means op doesn't get to draw a card. Similar for Turn Inside Out and Felonious Rage, both of those cards give the creature a "when this target dies" effect. If you let the spell resolve before killing the creature, you're giving your opponent access to that effect, but they don't get the effect if you kill the creature in response to it being targeted.

[@sambarney8244]

@@J.Tarrou you make a good point. I guess it really boils down to personal play style. I'd rather try and get the blowout than play it safe but let them keep some of their cards

[@sambarney8244]

Although I would still defend waiting until the last possible chance to remove it in this case because it's an exile spell so it denies death value and because even if they have demonic ruckus, if you made them waste another card then they're only card neutral in terms of value

[@victorcoronado8962]

I was stuck in platinum 3 then I saw this video and made this deck now I'm mythic 85% lol

[@LegenVD]

Nice job!

[@mokeymale8350]

Guys, I swear the shuffler is fine. Games 1 and 3 didn’t happen

[@breakingthewall2112]

I have been playing Tale of tameo in an azorious Rakdos Joins Up combo deck. It has an 70 to 80 percent win record and so good although peeps finally running more graveyard hate recently. So good I love Tameo

[@PatentlyAwesome]

Great deck, I really like this.

[@tavaresliggons3824]

Sweet deck

[@davidk3849]

Anyone else running this in the Foundations Meta? I like the deck and am finding out how to sideboard.

[@shadystorms150]

New cool cat icon!

[@rubencp93]

First time I saw this saga was from an opponent playing with the Slimes Sorcery. I don't remember who I was watching, I just thought it was a very funny deck. This deck has an easier time winning, though.

[@ericwolf9664]

I'm not looking forward to seeing this spammed all over the ladder. Does look strong though. Leyline of the void, leyline binding, and azorius mill would probably be the best things to go at it with.

[@Dvivon]

I only discovered you recently since bloomburrow and you are by far my favorite mtg youtuber (: Ever thought about making a Q&A video?

[@LegenVD]

I've done an interview on Humans of Magic a few years ago.

[@marklieberman1527]

I feel like tale of tamiyo would work well in a hedge shredder ramp landfall deck.

[@bestosensei]

@LegenVD Late to the party here, but this is my favorite deck I've played in a long while. Any tops for upgrades in this standard or, if possible, BO3 upgrade tips? Thanks!

[@josephdelulio8945]

New upload let's goooo

[@fracked7077]

I'd love to see some Bo3 versions of your brews!

[@OfficialMaddeck]

I love dimir poison, its the only budget deck that gets me to diamond. However i like adding blighted rat and other one drop toxic deathtouch dude. I think it confuses the matchmaking into pairing against creature control decks, that almost always lose to poison.

[@goodolarchie]

Darthtater in game 6 is proof that very young people are still entering MTG

[@7flavorshrimp62]

I could see this in a blue green rotpriest deck to target rotpriests with multiple spells pretty easy. Would probably be too slow in this meta though.

[@howieb3556]

Would a couple Innkeepers talent be good here? I know it lowers the card draw a bit

[@howieb3556]

If only LVD was a captain in Ender’s Game. His strategies would make them change the name to “Legend’s Game”…. Actually sounds like a better title 😝

[@ghoulapool]

Cool deck idea. I went 0-5 in platinum, each time decking myself. So I think this jank probably isn't ready.

[@hirayan8177]

is the aetherhub link not working for anyone else? Everything isnt loading properly

[@LegenVD]

Seems to be working on my end.

[@TheSilentStorytellerMKD]

Ah the GG talents... played 3 cards and hoped to win XD

[@happybrain2674]

thats evil and i love it^^

[@theaeskey2502]

Tale of tamiyo is busted. Would love to see you do the lumera version of it with all the ping lands from OTJ

[@kaemonbonet4931]

Tamiyo is insane in this deck. Just casual draw 7

[@nobelphoenix]

Opponent was a bit too eager to concede on game one, they still had only 3 poison counters while we were almost out of cards, I'm not even sure if we could actually close that game if he stopped playing anything for example, and gave us no targets.

[@alaingamache3908]

Of course … I play the deck and first three games I drew zero Tamiyo and flooded to an ungodly number of lands … MTGA sometimes

[@justinbeck2899]

Thanks I’m going to hate playing against this

[@paulhiggins140]

Game 6 is why I always just auto-mute my opponents

[@honestabe411]

You can turn it off in settings. I turned off emotes for a year 😂

[@paulhiggins140]

@@honestabe411 right, I turned it off in settings so long ago that I don't even know how to turn it back on at this point

[@dmacpher]

So gonna splash green on this!

[@muya7012]

Bo3 version please. This deck have potential

[@CyberBuster93]

PIXEL AJANI!!!! 🔥💪

[@xKingxTitus]

This deck is filthy. Low key salty you showcased it bc I’m not looking forward to playing against it lol

[@Big_Dai]

Eeeeh, now I want to see someone losing on the 3rd turn after playing The Tale of Tamiyo. How unlucky (statistically) would one need to be?

[@itsyaboymarcelluswallace]

Let me guess blue black poison where every card you do builds poison? Ive been seeing it all week and idk what to do

[@itsyaboymarcelluswallace]

I was right thats crazy

[@itsyaboymarcelluswallace]

@@439801RS ive seen a few types of this deck number 1 and number 2, ive only just found out about this channel

[@aretwodeetoo1181]

Play mill 😂

[@xmiiasma3997]

Anyone have any good sideboard ideas?

[@ivannintendo]

This is not what Tamiyo would have wanted

[@ericbarr734]

11:22 you should pick the Vraska's Falls too. They give poison counters even if the opponent doesn't sacrifice anything. Edit: I didn't realize the copies still cost mana, I thought it was like Mizzix's Mastery I actually think you should be proliferating the saga too, as it gets you to your win condition quicker. Edit: The whole "spells cost mana" thing changes this math too. This is what I get for questioning LVD

[@davidhower7095]

Depends on how much mana you have to cast things. Nearly got him killed in game 3

[@ericbarr734]

​@@davidhower7095 Oh! I misread Tale of Tamiyo. I thought the copies were free. Yeah that definitely changes the lines

[@honestabe411]

Reading the card explains the card

[@ericbarr734]

@@honestabe411 Reading truly is the hardest part of Magic

[@miro5052]

Is your avatar from a secret lair?

[@LegenVD]

It's in the store right now as part of the extra life promotion, you can see the slide on the home page at the end of the video.

[@kingjames4886]

DECK YA!!

[@bryantan4228]

14:00 Opponent should have just attacked and then cast the flash aura in response to your spell lol. red players always so greedy

[@syntaxerror2409]

Game 6 was splendid more like DarthLoser what an idiot deserved to lose

[@skipper7152]

Maybe this deck needs a few more cards than 60 haha

[@LegenVD]

Could consider adding a few more proliferate effects to help with the closing speed.

[@N7spectre117]

Pre-GGing LVD, hahah! rip

[@PositiveAttitudee]

this is Toxic...literally

[@Cephalopopo]

This version of the toxic deck is way worse than the standard one.

[@NickTemperistic]

7:40 Just goes to show us how bad the algorithm is. Would never happen like that in paper magic.

[@LegenVD]

I promise you there's no difference if your paper deck is sufficiently shuffled.

[@NickTemperistic]

@@LegenVD I've never drawn 5-10 lands in a row in paper and I shuffle my deck like a Dog goes after a sprinkler

[@LegenVD]

@@NickTemperistic Over a large enough sample size you most definitely will!

[@NickTemperistic]

@@LegenVD Literally used to play 2 hours a day after school with my buds and it never happened to any of us. 2-3 lands in a row at most

[@honestabe411]

⁠@@NickTemperistic Although it’s naive to think that the algorithm is programmed to approximate real life shuffling, I think there are sufficiently few types in this deck and you can expect multiple triggers from the saga. Try it in paper just use commons that have the same types as this deck, starting turn 4 I bet you’d be surprised

[@beleagueredbeluga5228]

Another cringe early gg'er bites the dust. Bravo boros players.

[@Silverbullet58640]

Mathematically dead, the worst kind of dead if you ask me.

[@KT-ki6gz]

I love most of your decks but this one loses to literally everything 😂😅

[@theaeskey2502]

Notification squad.

[@0rphros]

I am SICK of poison decks............ Ha ha ha

[@venger5705]

9/10 ? hummm

[@braedenwinstead1984]

Day 6 of asking for forgefire automation

[@aretwodeetoo1181]

Card is absurd...

[@pmangano]

This deck is the most toxic ever made [pun maybe intended] Its full controll with a built in win condition, it loses against basically nothing. The only way this absurdly non interactable piece of garbage loses is to mana flood probably. I hate it so god damn much. I managed to beat it only once with my manifest dread - bounce deck by hitting a turn 3 ghalta who dropped a valgavoth from hand which is just absurd dumb luck

[@EyeofValor]

The poison decks are boring and brainless.

[@vanikkan872]

You really had to promote one of the most stupid archtypes... dimir poison ...

[@honestabe411]

Your opinion is objective?