I love sinkhole so much. Very little says "I'm dedicated to you not having as much fun as me" as sinkhole.
@NRGFL06 ай бұрын
Lantern of Insight is typing...
@IeuroI6 ай бұрын
/Time Sifter enters the chat
@Borkybaby2 ай бұрын
If I could take this comment and inject it into my veins I would 😂😂😂 if you are a sinkhole degenerate then you know baby!!! Reason tangle wire has been my card forever haha
@stevedavid91856 ай бұрын
Round 1 game 2 "And my opponent tilts off into the stratosphere..." The reason I still play pox in paper right there. When the planets align and a well timed smallpox just dumpsters your opponents plan it is absolutely exquisite!
@data_abort6 ай бұрын
Even if they didn't give straight up, they were tilted enough you know they're not going to open on chalice.
@violabrockman52846 ай бұрын
even before watching i love the story told by the chapter bars on this one... round one being no time at all but your deck pushing every other round to basically the same length
@AaronRotenberg6 ай бұрын
Winning on turn 18 with a Liliana the Last Hope emblem is Magic as Richard Garfield Intended ™️.
@gabrote426 ай бұрын
Ultimating a poaneswalker so much is the testament of a good stall strategy
@PinkPajamas4646 ай бұрын
45:45 the odd use of surgical from the opponent was to get one more card in the graveyard to be able to play hogaak
@MuffCabbageMauler6 ай бұрын
Agreed. Thraben talks too much shit about his opponents. Wish he would quit being so snarky.
@italostanley26086 ай бұрын
21:57 Amazing lol
@BlauerDegen6 ай бұрын
"And my opponent tilts off into the stratosphere." Beautiful.
@oneinfinity6 ай бұрын
51:08 You could have just used the Ashiok as one of the cards exiled as a cost for the Cling.
@faceoctopus45716 ай бұрын
I was thinking the same thing, even if it doesn't effect card quality of future draws, it is still making more efficient use of escape fuel.
@brianontiveros-kersch24126 ай бұрын
@1:10:55 the reason your opponent attacked with 3 creatures to kill Lili is because Snuff Out is a commonly played legacy card.
@contradict89966 ай бұрын
and bowmasters
@jasonslade62596 ай бұрын
I feel like where the legacy metagame is, Ensnaring Bridge could be in the main. That said, this list is sweet.
@Eagle06006 ай бұрын
I'm only two and a half games in, but ensnaring bridge is holding up the midgame so well that seems like a very good idea.
@callumvlex70596 ай бұрын
37 :16 jumping straight from "winter gloves" story to "my hand's now very slow" I was briefly worried about your hand, you know the cold one.
@swampybwoy6 ай бұрын
1:02:56 evil laughing Phil
@85mcarnold6 ай бұрын
1 hour and 44 minutes? This is going to be a proper Pox league.
@mightyone37376 ай бұрын
After I tried Phyrexian Totem in Pox, I never looked back... Pox is good at keeping the board clear, and a 5/5 Trample you can turn on for only 2B is pretty sweet IMHO. I run them with Erebos' Titan, some Animate Dead and some Pestilence, and my fantasy hand is a Dark Ritual into a Phyrexian Totem into an Inquisition or Innocent Blood, followed by a Phyrexian Arena turn 2 after a Mishra's Factory. Pox can be better than people think, but you need to include things like card draw and an efficient clock, especially because Pox rarely runs enough removal to deal with high creature count decks. I also like Bloodghast type decks, those seem decent in principle, and I love that you can run x4 Bloodghast and maybe x1 or x2 Buried Alive, especially in a Smallpox deck where you both run extra lands and can afford to discard the second Buried Alive. I really think you want an aggressive clock in Pox, it's an overly slow deck that isn't actually bad at gaining an early edge, and the problem is the deck gets overcome by the opponent drawing better cards over time. Sinkhold is a bad card turn 8 in almost every game, and Hymn to Tourach tends to go down sharply in value as the game goes long, Pox is ironic because it's supposed to be a fast deck, but people run it like it's a slow deck. You need fast clocks, be they Rotting Regisaurs or Erebos' Titans or Phyrexian Totems, and you also want card draw, but interestingly enough Phyrexian Arena comes out sooner than The One Ring, so if you play both on curve (turn 3 and 4) you're not much behind in many match ups, and Arena is still a lot cheaper (but is probably being driven up by Commander). The thing is though, Phyrexian Arena giving you 1 extra card is usually what you actually want, when you have lots of Innocent Bloods to hit and have a Totem out the opponent is probably in trouble!
@mightyone37376 ай бұрын
I run Ensnaring Bridge in my Rack/Pox deck. It's a very, very good card in there, I support including it if you can expect a small hand size, that deck uses 5 discard Enchantments that sit out and shrink hands, once one is out and Bridge is out I can't be attacked meaningfully. That deck uses Bontu's Reckoning as a cheap wipe that works with my deck rarely needing mana to deal damage (when things are going well), but it's only got x1 of each main board, sometimes I prefer Reckoning, sometimes I prefer the Bridge. I think Rack decks are exactly where you want a card like Reckoning, it also has some synergies with Smallpox by costing only 3 mana, it's the perfect panic button vs 'go really wide' decks that otherwise roflstomp Pox.
@O-S-BАй бұрын
As a long time Pox player, this is a very interesting comment with some very interesting take on that deck. Do you still playing Pox ? Maybe we can share some ideas.
@dastigart890423 күн бұрын
Care to share a decklist? Have you seen how good Court of Ambition was for Bosh n Roll for the reasons stated? It's card draw + clock + discard...
@CatPartyNYC6 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for playing this list. It's truly inspiring. It's great to see what else Mono Black can to these days besides scam.
@ControlerAlpha6 ай бұрын
9:55 i love that they titled off like that. They had creatures and mana but couldn't handle the salt.
@sorek__6 ай бұрын
I love watching Pox. There are not many decks like that in whole Magic, it's special in itself. Yes it's hard to win with Pox, you need to think a lot and have patience. But the joy of victory (sometimes with psychological warfare) is absolutely awesome. Shame you do not play explorer/pioneer, I would love to see you play BR sac (cat-oven combo) but without knowing format a lot it's nearly impossible to play.
@Badguyty6 ай бұрын
Small pox is always castable. I once used it to draw a game.
@data_abort6 ай бұрын
That must have crushed opp.
@OctupleThreat2 ай бұрын
9:48 If you look at the priority window and attention prompts you can see someone having a PTSD flashback in realtime
@Zauzzie6 ай бұрын
Just started the video and its over an hour in a half so I know this is gonna be a grinddddd lol
@TheLiquidCastle6 ай бұрын
a 2 of sedgemoor witch+chain feels like it's leading to really clunky results, without having watched the video yet =/
@atomskpk9976 ай бұрын
Stabilizing after a feed the swarm on a troll is most impressive
@Borkybaby6 ай бұрын
Man throw in some thorns just for the tickles haha. I can watch pox/stax all day everyday omg hahah. That first match hahha. Best feeling in magic… taking peoples souls
@user-lh5fp7bf2c6 ай бұрын
That match 2 was why I play mtg. I'm not really interested in having a lot of friends but it's fine... good stuff
@Melissanoma6 ай бұрын
about not running bowmasters, big difference between engineered plague and plague engineer is the original is symmetrical. your creature has 2 toughness so it's safe if you choose human, but bowmasters would not be safe from orc.
@assault4106 ай бұрын
Need a bigpox that kills planeswalkers
@AaronRotenberg6 ай бұрын
It's called Invoke Despair.
@JeffMendoza6 ай бұрын
Awesome play, just missing some innocent blood.
@72182346 ай бұрын
also im at 2nd round and every game so far has been hillarious :D 4d chess all around, and that bridge moment!
@luxaeturna18926 ай бұрын
1:33:00 The classic Wooded Foothills Bayou
@pokeyclawz87276 ай бұрын
Mono red players conceding way too early is such a staple of every format lol
@mac_arthurluu6 ай бұрын
Have you considered using surgical extraction? Would have been better against annoying reanimate decks
@Red_Mag36 ай бұрын
I saw a Restore Balance league that relied on emptying your hand into artifact mana and either Beseech the Mirror or As Foretold to immediately balance your opponent to 0 lands and no hand. Might be an idea.
@Geroaergaroe6 ай бұрын
That R1 moral damage to the opponent.
@nephisolo6 ай бұрын
Playing pox is like saying it’s not important for me to win, it’s important for you to lose. I’m here for that energy
@Eagle06006 ай бұрын
At around 21:40, I think you missed the fact that Sheoldred's Edict could remove the Murktide Regent through the orc army. Of course, Orcish Bowmasters prevents that immediately afterwards, but at the time you had an out.
@RobotKid20006 ай бұрын
Match 2 was so enjoyable.
@72182346 ай бұрын
51:46 why was castle medium? Isn't it an engine at this point and best value play except lili?
@impendio6 ай бұрын
The ashiok kill was peak
@piet_5016 ай бұрын
14:00 what was the reason not to use the boost from the 2nd land to make it a 4/4 and win the combat? Summoning sick, didn't consider it since usually it's a land
@taranweeks43936 ай бұрын
Good call, I was wondering the same thing!
@bricknolty54784 ай бұрын
23:30 Is there any consideration to not shrinking the Army? If they draw Bowmaster, they could attack Lili and cast it before damage to slow down her minus ability. But if they draw Borrower first, and you didn't shrink, they can just hit her that way, too.
@user-xm3ue6us7lАй бұрын
Before we start. What if those 4 combo pieces were just old daddy pox?
@nielsscharfenberg81546 ай бұрын
Thraben playing mbc Smallpox with Sinkhole? Sooo good ❤❤❤
@mattfaas30406 ай бұрын
i love love love pox!!! but only when its not being played against me lmao
@StoneAgeDudemanGaming6 ай бұрын
What a way to describe sinkhole. You're going to look me in the eye, acknowledge that at one point DINGUS EGG was banned because of the degeneracy of sinkhole, and say it's from a more civilized time? You're trying to sell me something here, Phil.
@Eagle06006 ай бұрын
In round 5, sideboarding after game 1 at around 1:27:00 or so, what was the reasoning for leaving out the Ensnaring Bridges? They stop both zombies and Marit Lage while you draw to removal and build up your own zombie swarm. Are they too easy for Lands to remove?
@ThrabenUniversity6 ай бұрын
I kept that out rationalizing that I need every opportunity to end the game ASAP since I am NOT the beatdown in this matchup. They have inevitability over me.
@a_fuckin_spacemarine75146 ай бұрын
This was black magic at it's best!
@freya002YT6 ай бұрын
Nice
@cwu16 ай бұрын
3x Castle Locthwain main don't make too much sense imo, since they depend on you having a swamp out to be ETB untapped
@joshdavis37436 ай бұрын
57:45 you at four, 2 from castle, two bow master pings. 2+2=4, 4-4=0, 0=dead, 2 games to one=oppo wins match.
@andeol926 ай бұрын
It looks like you are really struggling vs m-u where they put tokens in play. Maybe having some orcish bowmaster somewhere in the 75 may be a good idea ?
@JacoDeltaco6 ай бұрын
Seth playing 36 warth in standard and Phil playing pox in legacy it Christmas again
@Spinefist6 ай бұрын
nice games :)
@fartman6665 ай бұрын
I'm newer to legacy and have been queing with this in the tournament practice lobby, but after I win a game, people just leave :( they can't take a lil' sinkhole
@IeuroI6 ай бұрын
Call the Midwife: Phil Gallagher Edition it's an ICE B I R T H boys
@nobodyfromnowwhere75106 ай бұрын
You might not like Castle and Cling, but this deck NEEDS them. All that land and rituals with no card draw or selection would be trash.
@MahouShoujoAutumn6 ай бұрын
It’s pox time!!!!
@kennethacuna99966 ай бұрын
im a simple guy i see pox, i click
@Eisenwulf6666 ай бұрын
This list is almost "edgy" in a way, looks like fun! Also, while i almost never concede if i'm not dead on board, i can kind of understand first round opponent😂 They've had a long day, they wanted to relax playing magic and think :" my deck is not top tier but i have a good sideboard against the current meta, i have some tricks maindeck, i can do pretty good.." and then, out of the blue, Phil with a random smallpox deck! 😂
@kiriyamathelama18096 ай бұрын
Compromised
@imbingle6 ай бұрын
round 1 speedrun?
@arifdewi7856 ай бұрын
i luuv pox
@michaelday7955 ай бұрын
Could you like the discord for the pox server please?
@ThrabenUniversity5 ай бұрын
discord.gg/ZSgnhkJe
@bigstupidgrin6 ай бұрын
It’s sad that actual factual pox isn’t good to my knowledge. Is it good in any format?
@cruetusnex6 ай бұрын
Round 4 game 1: I heavily disagree with down ticking Ashiok so aggressively. 1. They can't search their library while it's alive, natural order targets don't matter. 2. The odds of hitting all natural order targets are very slim just randomly milling 4. 3. You want to keep Ashiok as healthy as possible, since it staying alive is huge for you, and as you point out, bowmasters can hurt it. I see the idea to clear the yard for fiend artisan and reclaimer, that seems fine. But not every turn? I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on this, I could be wrong. But coming from playing amulet titan in modern, it's a common misplay to down tick Ashiok in that MU.
@cruetusnex6 ай бұрын
Looks like round 2 you're more into this idea.
@ThrabenUniversity6 ай бұрын
Uh, if memory serves, in game 1 the board was fully empty, while in the other game I either had less removal or there were already creatures on board.
@cruetusnex6 ай бұрын
@@ThrabenUniversity I was just thinking that down ticking provides you no additional value, while weakening Ashiok to things like bowmasters or endurance. Even on the off chance of milling a Natural Order target, they couldn't have searched for it anyways. Care to provide more insight? Even to an empty board keeping Ashiok healthy means it stays alive longer means N/O and other searching never happens or happens much later into the game.
@72182346 ай бұрын
08:10 just curious but isn't torpor orb an actively worse card than the rest vs blood moon stompy due to turning out fury's evoke?
@ThrabenUniversity6 ай бұрын
Shutting off Sticker Goblins, Muxus, Initiative creatures, etc. vs these sorts of decks is incredibly important.
@Kristjan02094 ай бұрын
round 3 game 2 you drew 9 lands in a row
@Omnous6 ай бұрын
In round 2 game 1 could you not have made the second Mishras a 4/4 with its own pump to survive the 3/3?
@ThrabenUniversity6 ай бұрын
Summoning sickness.
@Dracklen2486 ай бұрын
14:10 missed second factory activation to save the second mishras, it can target itself.
@ThrabenUniversity6 ай бұрын
Summoning sickness.
@Logan-ql4ku6 ай бұрын
Pox could be the worst deck in the format and I'd still rather watch that than delver. :) Also, playing pox without Urza's Saga just seems so suboptimal for me. Shadowspear to offset life gain and having bodies to deal with bowmaster tokens among other things just seems too good to pass.
@yakovdavidov71026 ай бұрын
SECOND
@maxeckl50946 ай бұрын
couldn't you make the Mishra's Factory into a 4/4 with both tapping at 14:04 ?
@justass30016 ай бұрын
Not sure but its probably summoning sick
@RobotKid20006 ай бұрын
The other was summoning sick
@maxeckl50946 ай бұрын
ah sure
@lostinflymusic6 ай бұрын
yeah thought the same, was kind of painful to watch... it doesn't matter if it had summoning sickness or not, the +1/+1 is an activated ability, it just can't attack.
@ThrabenUniversity6 ай бұрын
You should reread rules on summoning sickness. Once it is animated into a creature, it cannot tap to activate that ability ;)
@sinart116 ай бұрын
Game5 killing all lands of a lands player feels sick.
@syntaxlost92396 ай бұрын
Wait... This isn't Brian! Who are you and why are you playing Pox?!
@ThrabenUniversity6 ай бұрын
I mean, I'd argue that I'm probably better known than Brian for Pox at this point XD
@syntaxlost92396 ай бұрын
@@ThrabenUniversityYou only need two games with a Bosh deck and then you'll be more BoshNRoll than Brian too.
@suzettedarrow87396 ай бұрын
Is this a "Pox Deck" or is this a "Top Deck Bridge or Removal Deck"? Kappa
@impendio6 ай бұрын
Maybe Game 1 Opponent wasn’t having a good day and you just ruined it for good. Hope he is doing better now…