THIS REANIMATOR LIST IS SPICY! Pivot Reanimator Depths (Legacy Transformational Sideboard MTG)

[@MH-dn3jz]

20:17 IT'S ANOTHER REANIMATE FROM THE TOP ROPE WITH A STEEL CHAIR

[@amarimars]

HIS CANTRIPS ARE GONNA BE FEELING THAT TOMORROW!

[@Eisenwulf666]

HE GOT THE CHAIR STEVE, HE GOT THE CHAIR! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

[@Ragnarok633]

My favorite personal experience with a transformational sideboard was at a LotR prerelease. My packs let me build a very solid UG scry elf deck but I had a bunch of pretty okay RB orc stuff leftover. So I literally just built a second deck. It caught so many people off guard when I'd sideboard in an entirely different deck.

[@jadegrace1312]

My favorite was back in 2015 Numot the Nummy was playing in a cube event against someone whose only win con was brain freeze. He sided in something like 1000 basics iirc.

[@IaCthulhuFthagn]

Sealed sure is the place for making good transformational sideboard stories.

[@Melissanoma]

KZbin defaulted to 360p and I misread the blurry Spoils of the Vault as Spirit of the Night. I was like "that is some hot reanimator spice" until i raised the resolution and saw the real card.

[@Mmoll1990]

The technological equivalent of beer goggles.

[@carrikmcnerlin1770]

This deck costs ~$725 in paper according to the moxfield link. Most expensive cards in this deck are the 4 Urborgs at ~$40 a pop. Handful of cards in the $10-20 each range and Atraxa is hanging around 30 bucks a copy right now.

[@alexortiz9777]

600 on tcgplayer if you remove the printing preferences. And yeah, urborgs and lotus petals seem to be the highest individual cards

[@rood6616]

When you board in the juke its best to keep the 4 entombs and 1 atraxa/archon. It still allows you to attack plan A+B. Shaving 3 swamps is totally fine since you are boarding in 8 extra lands. GGs

[@heronfountain6215]

Congratulations on the early access!

[@TheCraftBrewers]

I laughed so hard with the Leovold sequence.... Dear, oh dear! That poor oppo. xD

[@NormalTheBand]

My transformational sideboard experience was playing Four Horsemen back in the day! You could pivot totally off that gameplay and move into the double combo of Show and Tell Emrakul PLUS Painters Servent Grindstone.

[@robmarney]

One benefit of the transformational sideboard is how cheap it is. Urborg is the only card above $10 in the entire plan!

[@jonahbaca6192]

20:42 "Absolutely Phil-thy!"

[@glennolson6505]

Technically, ThopterDepths wasn't a transformational sideboard deck; it was more of a double-combo deck that came about when Gerry Thompson realized the opportunity cost of slotting the Thopter/Sword combo into the Hexmage-Depths deck was significantly less than the advantage gained by doing so.

[@suntzu6122]

Love the deckbuilding concept of a transformational sideboard. My personal favs is creatureless vs creatures. Its pretty mean if you do it right ;D

[@Svarnir_Frostfang]

I absolutely love the concept of Tranfomative side boards. I'm sad they dont usually work well though.

[@patrickpersianni5314]

Maybe you need to look up heartbeat decks lol

[@NathanielJordan23]

Early access!! ThrabenU's accreditation must have gone through 🎉 This kind of tricky sideboard nonsense is my kind of 4d chess

[@mclark347]

The biggest problem that most transformational sideboard decks had was that while sideboard cards *can* be narrow, a lot of them aren't so narrow that the same sideboard strategy from your opponent doesn't just answer both halves of the deck. Especially since the majority of your 75 has to have some overlap in terms of general strategy.

[@yuyu63]

32:48 i think the play here is spoils for a hexmage then cast with the petal and depths to have 3 blockers for the troll

[@spackal2946]

Side boarding this irl would be such an aggravating experience lol

[@LucasTheDrgn]

The worst part about playing Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant as a wincon is your opponent conceding before you can resolve the trigger

[@miterbinnesdirty]

Fantastic league!

[@twodo]

Round 3 was.. I'm surprised you stayed calm, Phil.

[@swampybwoy]

10:40 evil Phil laugh

[@andrewfontaine5607]

Your way out in game 3 of set 3 is spoils for hexmage and hope it’s in your top 2 cards. It’s a slim chance but a chance

[@adrienneladd8375]

i hope someone asks for a 20 post deck, it just feels extra absurd

[@IzidioAlex]

Mutated Cultist in some list like that it's a good start point for MH3 brews

[@zwarrior1983]

Is insatiable avarice bad tech here? The flexibility of tutoring for a card in the mid and later game plus potentially burning the opponent to death or just simply filling your hand seems like something to include…

[@jumpinjehosephat1877]

33:00 Spoils for Hexmage would have worked IF it was the top card.

[@charlessmith208]

Or troll, land cycle, animate dead

[@psychevolvexrp777]

Why do you not have 1 surveil Land in the deck

[@TheForbiddenDance]

Taking thay shadowspear instead of the reanimate was a huge punt. What was the worst case with the shadowspear? They put it on a fairy or topdeck a void walker while you have a 20/20?

[@ThrabenUniversity]

You are probably vastly underestimating how often I die to aggro after not killing my opponent in a single attack step.

[@TheForbiddenDance]

I probably am, but they still need a creature to put it on, right? Any saga nonsense is a few turns off and the only other creatures we had seen as directly castable only are a few power

[@Myrph]

Genuine question, at 15:20 is there a world where you use Animate Dead on the opponent's Murktide Regent instead of your Grief with the Exhume in hand to then Exhume the Grief on the following turn when your opponent (presumably) hasn't got a creature in grave to return?

[@Myrph]

I guess the exact scenario that follows with the surveil land putting another Murktide Regent into the graveyard is the precise scenario where the above strategy would backfire!

[@ThePhysicalReaction]

These coward opponents keep committing harakiri: they should face your monsters in battle like true klingon warriors.

[@NotKjell]

Transformational sideboard aren't really that rare though are they? Just depends on what you mean, or to what extent. This is sorta the meme dream extreme: combo A game 1, combo B game 2 that dodges all the combo A sideboard hate. This league showed the issue though, since combo B rarely dodges all hate (dodged graveyard stuff, but still cared about swords/force/wasteland etc.). But isn't it pretty common for combo decks to be able to board out their combo? Twin won a lot of games as a combo-less blue moon deck game 2/3, etc. Still transformational, just less extreme.

[@PurpleDragonSpike]

I'd argue that they're fairly rare.. Especially if we are going far back as twin to be the example haha. I think it's not usually a full transformation and more of a juke plan these days

[@Googleflax]

Sorry if you mentioned it at some point in the video, but what's the purpose of the Urborgs when all the lands in your deck are basic Swamps? I can't see a way it hurts your opponents, and at 7:00, you can see some downsides to it compared to a Swamp.

[@LordWeregerbil]

It's good for when makes use of his sideboard, since Urborg makes his Dark Depths tap for mana, which makes the combo faster

[@JEstey10000]

Biggest problem with the Transformational Sideboard in this league: opponents not preparing enough hate. When Reanimator is running so well, why would you ever want to switch off of Reanimator?

[@GoosGanG1]

At 32 minutes you had 1 out... spoils for vampire hexmage of lotus play herzmage so u can block troll... yes u need to not die to spoils and u need them to attack with troll letting you kill it and survive two turns ro attack but it would have been cool to see

[@Space_Control]

Does anyone remember when Legacy wasn’t just who can be the most degenerate? So long ago it was called 1.5…