The flavour of plot is that you are the big villain, monologuing about your plans to the hero.

Foretelling an event is secretive, plotting an event is public knowledge. Got it.

Screaming at my screen that picklock prankster's adventure is an instant...

For anyone curious I looked it up and the difference between vermin and varmint is that vermin refers specifically to small pests like mice and insects. Varmint is broadly just any troublesome animal like a wolf to sheep even, technically.

At 50:05 I love the new lore that “The Magic Gods” are the ones asking if you had fun at the end of a match 😂

Varmits were unrionically my prerelease draft all star. Its so easy to get a massive amount of bodies on the board.

I wasn't expecting the first 20 seconds 😅

Seth just shipped a winning game at 29:00... he had 2 adventure fairies and a fairy in hand against an opponent with 4 life.... seth why?

Were you really out of the game at 29:00? You have all these potential vigilant (can't be exiled to gain life) flyers and opponent is at 4 with 2 cards?

29:03 with 3 1/4 fliers and opponent t 4 life. Like that was one of the weirdest positions to concede in.

I love all the recent budget episodes. Sometimes it's just a different take in monored, but these have all been so good

Plot is face up because every good villain monologues about their evil plan before it's realized

That intro was peak

When Seth finally actually said 'Analyst' instead of 'analysis', I literally felt a knot in my shoulder vanish

23:55 Opponent steals an island and plays it "What are they gonna steal from us?" later "Jokes on you opponent we got no blue mana" 😂

"unpretentious main phase play with fire" KILLED ME LMAO

Magic's flavor is peak, "I have outlaws, dragons, machine beings, angels to help me to victory!" "...so I'm going to maul them, and then you, to death with squirrels"

Thanks for teaching us about ground squirrels

Attacking with the 0 power Archeologist probably confused the heck outta that opponent, what a power move! 😂😂😂

I need Seth to write a children's book called "Everyone Punts". To go on shelves next to "Everyone poops".

When you said Varmint Time it just made my mind to to Muddstah's "game review time"

The sourcing of that intro clip is already impressive.

Yeahh you mention the bo3 grave hate: one of those was def me, it's a shame since just as you mentioned it was incidental casualty from temur analyst :( I was playing a bant Flicker list which can do really cool stuff but g1 was decided quickly then G2 I just hit the turn 2 RIP and it was over. Still fun to run into you on ladder!

6:16 the disbelief in seth's voice was so funny to me

Analyst❤! Oh, and I think the difference is that Varmints can be vermin, but not the other way around, because varmints live outside and prefer it that way, vermin invade homes and cities and sewers. It’s a subtle difference, but it’s like the difference between rats/mice and something like prairie dogs, possums, and armadillos. 😀 Squirrels and chipmunks are both at the same time, it depends on if they’re in the woods, or stuffing your attic with nuts.😂

I was looking at this card with Immodane's Recruiter and Bitter Reunion They let you give your Varmints haste, and Immodane's Recruiter makes your varmint swarm 3/1s with haste

Only time I ever play standard or historic or anything really on arena is when Seth puts together a budget deck. Love it.

Seems like in a lot of game this deck is starved on blue sources, this deck could use more of then

This reminds me of a deck I played back in the 90s. It used Ertais familiar to mill a lot of creatures into the graveyard, then I smacked Tombstone Stairwell on the board and attacked with a lot of zombies for lethal. I might craft this.

I tired this deck yesterday and it is really fun. Thanks for sharing!

I feel like there should be more than 2 islands in this deck considering the number of blue spells present. Seth was pinched on blue mana literally every game lol

Great Deck and love the idea behind it!! As always, awesome content guys

Interesting deck. Even more fun to watch

Vermin are small, rat creatures in nature, and Varmints are slightly larger rats that are a cross between a squirrel and a possum

I dont know if anything is funnier than Atraxa being overwhelmed by a large pile of homey badgers.

I’m thinking about making this deck. I was considering, because I’m cheap, replacing some of the rares with bitter reunions to give the varmints haste. You’re already running riveteers land, so throwing a couple of mountains might not hurt that much.

I haven't had a chance to play games with it yet myself, but another card I wonder about a lot for this (especially as a budget option) is Slickshot Lockpicker. Still a creature, can plot for when it's needed, and will let us directly flashback some Varmints.

It’s so overtly crazy, the opponents never believed it was coming.

I’m getting Innistrad Spider Spawning vibes from this deck. Cool budget brew Seth!

Could be fun to add red for imodane's recruiter. when you cast the varmints for zero you have mana up to give them haste.

Surprised more people aren't talking about Rise of the Varmits. I've been brewing with i a ton. I've found Gruul is the best combo allowing to give your varmints haste, plus the thrill of playing a Devilish Valet then dropping a Rise if the Varmits feels soooo good!

23:53 The most excruciating thing here is seeing them take YOUR ISLAND

Tip: if you click the number next to a stack of units, you can declare the whole stack to block, or attack. And then you can individually split the units out to the stack.

Fun list. Makes me wanna experiment with a Gruul list. Use the plot and use the mana to sac a Bitter Reunion for some haste

53:10 there is a cut that made my brain break

Wild America shoutout! Nice!

For future reference when gang-blocking, you can just click the number above the tokens and click what you want to block.

Varmints should have been squirrels. That way we could get some cross synergy with Bloomburrow in the next set. Thank you fir coming to my ted talk.

The little varmints that could

I would try to combo with Imodane recruiter to increase the damage even more and have letal in that one turn.

Case of the Locked Hothouse + Tatyova, Steward of Tides = create 2 4/4 flying creatures with haste for free ... tech: Lost in the Maze(which you can play off the top with case) to tap any flyers in the way, or buy time on defense

Vermin has a negative connotation, meaning the creature is a pest or unwanted creature. A varmint can refer to the same kind of small, furry, troublesome creature, but it lacks the same negative connotation usually. It's more like just a wild animal in general, if that makes any sense, while vermin is very specifically an unwanted pest. Some vermin are varmints and some varmints can be vermin as well, but on the whole they're distinct groupings. For example, a Rat might be both vermin and varmint, a regular mouse is a varmint that could be vermin but isn't necessarily vermin, and the same might go for a raccoon (some people keep raccoons as pets), and a cockroach or mosquito is an example of a vermin that isn't a varmint.

@33:00 Ertai can counter abilities

Aw, when I saw Varmints I thought you were playing the interesting combo deck I saw on ladder that uses Rise of the Varmints+Devilish Valet to OTK you out of nowhere. That was an interesting deck.

8:43 The standard legal mono red sweeper for you would be End the Festivities, not likely main deck, but i could see it in sideboards to use against go wide token decks like this

No Vilespawn Spider from VOW? {u}{g}, 2/3 creature with reach, at the beginning of your upkeeep mill a card, then {2}{u}{g}, {t}, sac ~: create a 1/1 green insect creature token for each creature card in your graveyard. No, 1/1 insects are not 2/1 varmints, but it does self-mill, puts a creature card in the graveyard when it sacs itself, and does a decent Rise of the Varmints approximation in mid-to-late game. You could use them in place of Blanchwood Prowler, which underperformed every time it showed up.

So sad to not see ol 'stick here but the deck looked great

Wow I literally already have all the rares for this. The deck seems super fun

@22:10 you had exactly leathel even if you didn't kill Atraxa, that's how overwhelming the varmints were

I am shocked founding of the third path isn’t in this deck! It works with adventure cards mills for cards and lets you recast the varmits. It may not be a create itself but it does pull it’s weight!

Exceptional opening

Love that intro 😭😀

29:05 You had a good chance of winnign with Picklock beeats. They were at four life and you had three in total. Picklock has flying and vigilance so Wandering Emperor cant exile them or make tokens to block it. Your life total was high enough that even if they did deal with the faeries that gives you tons of time to rebuild for another varmit wave or just beat them down with creatures.

Does this card work in modern? Is there any reason to use it instead of some other mass-reanimator like all the cascade decks?

The artistic design of Varmints is kinda strange. They have a big, beaver-like tail, but otherwise are a cross between an armadillo and a Gremlins gremlin. They're cute in the Rise of the Varmints art, but gross looking on the token.

i would love to pair a one of turtle for bouncing in the early game and shegeky loops later

Other than the mana base what upgrades do people recommend?

Honestly it would have been better thematically to have swapped the definition of Plot and Fortell. It would make more sense for Fortell to be known to all, but the Plot would be hidden.

Best intro EVER!

What's funny is that at the end of game 2 against domain, they were just dead on board if you swung out *through* the Atraxa. The best they could do is block one of the 14 varmints and the Echo and Ertai, which would put them exactly dead to the 27 damage from 13 varmints and the archeologist 😳

Wonder how good rosenof varmints is with the legendary creature that changes all of the tokens you create into a 3/1 dog with vigilance or 2/2 cat with haste suddenly youre able to win on the spot

Someone steamrolled me around a week ago by playing this game plan but all the Rise of the Varmints are plotted to then put a Devilish Valet on the battlefield and swing with a stupidly lethal threat

Says there is no combo with analyst.. proceeds to play 12 + sac lands 😂 love the deck idea

i tried building sultai graveyard/varmints in standard but i was really unimpressed. 2 mana 18/18s with no evasion that either get chumped for days or die to removal.. I was hoping varmints would help the deck push through, but i didn't get to cast it very often.

I want to see this deck concept, but with Anger. XD

Plot and foretell should swap hidden and revealed. Makes way more sense flavourwise that way

Hi Seth! Thoughts on Bitter Reunion in the deck?

Varmints plus Devilish Vallet is my favorite deck right now

Isn't the flavor of the "Plot" mechanic related to land? Like plotting a stretch of land for development.

Make a version of this deck that has a actually functioning mana base please.

Wish I could See a Varmints and first day of class deck

33:06 Ertai can counter abilities. It could have countered that land effect and blocked

Could you do another Pioneer budget deck next?

Love the deck, but I don't think Seth knows the spell side of Picklock Prankster is an Instant (unless he's just being unpretentious).

@29:00 Why concede? Am I missing something? Oppo only has one mana and you could topdeck a sorcery, blue mana, or another creature; or just run out your fliers one by one? You have life total and untapped advantage. Isn't he in a better spot than the oppo?

Met someone with Temur version of this while playing Grixis Poison, i thought i was against Temur Worldsoul combo but they then cast Devilish Valet and cast Rise of the Varmint. Too bad i have Invoke Calamity in hand, dude scooped immediately when i recast Ill-Timed Explosion from my graveyard lol

Amazing intro

There is also a new creature that costs 3 mana its name has lockpicker in its name unsure of what its full name is but it is uncommon in ourlaws and has an etb that gives spells in our graveyard flashback... for 3 mana and leaves behind the 2/3 body ...its actually how i have been playing limited with rise.ofnthe varmints 😅

At game 2, did seth forget that picklock prankster's adventure is instant speed? He kept ertai up to counter board wipes but kept forgetting to cast the prankster at end step.

12:00 foretell and plot should switch names

I feel like you could fuse this with the insidious roots deck to make a really powerful self mill brew.

it’s the plural tense i believe right ? vermin is plural varmint

Why ertai as your counter - just because it's one more varmint if milled? Negates would be easier to hold up and not risk drawing your opponent into another wrath.

run aftermath analyst as removal protection

Can’t even keep dang varmints off my farm

Every match “missing blue mana”

I think I can fuse this with my insidious roots deck😮

Picklock Prankster’s adventure is also an instant Seth! Think how pretentious you could be!

There are already a lot of comments about 29:00 but I have to wonder at this point is he throwing to make us comment more? You have 3 flyers in hands ( hands adjacent) and you're opponent is at 4. To quote Jim Davis I don't think we're done her but okey.

I love me a good build-around uncommon