And then he turned himself into a tree. Funniest thing I’ve ever seen!

"Scaled Scorch" Seth: "Skallid Scorch"

I am pretty sure the flavour for the fountainport is, sack a treasure draw a card. As in.... you know throwing a coin in the fountain for a wish, not savking your offspring 😂😂😂

18:27 Land should remain as an island even if Eluge Leaves. ": it is an island ...as long as it has the counter"

I can get why the creatures from the Imagine Critters section aren't a bunch of humans or elves or what have you reimagined as bloomburrow animals, as you'd either have a weird disconnect between the art and the creature types or you'd have mechanically different versions of existing cards. You can get away with changing a planeswalker's art into an animal as they don't have creature types, but it's just weird to do it with creatures.

Gev, Scawleed Scorch is my new favourite intentional mispronunciation and I am grateful. Almost spat coffee over my monitor on that one

I love that frogs jump from your hand to the battlefield and back to your hand

“Not enough Fursonas” - Seth 2024

A note on Scavenger's Talent at level 3, it's not just a "Sac 3, reanimate something", it's a "Sac 3, reanimate something, and mill target player for 6", since the level 2 mode will trigger on the three sacrifice targets for the level 3 mode.

A lot of really interesting build arounds in today's batch. Also RIP Karn who by now has got to be the unluckiest planeswalker in the multiverse

The turtle had reach because it's back is full of missiles

There is going to be SOMEONE out there making an EDH Rat Colony deck composed entirely of this new collector version, and I shudder to think of how crippling that would be financially.

Karn: "I am the taker of Phyrexia's head!!!" Also Karn: TREEEEEEEEEEEEEE

9:39 Seth has evidently never seen the word "Dour" before

normal people when they see Kitsa: Powercreepy looter me when I see Kitsa: BLITZBALL IN MAGIC BABY!

Its very mana intensive, but you can cast a bunch of spells at instant speed with Festival of Embers and then sacrifice it in response to have them resolve and hit the graveyard. Weird corner case, but that does give it some combo potential

I think Frogs is the deck mightcaller is worse in. Frogs very much feel like a control tribe and mightcaller doesn't support that gameplan at all. I also don't think there's a reason to go all-in on frogs like the other tribes. You'll certainly put multiple frogs in your deck if you're going for a bounce game plan since they work well together, but I think there are better blink targets and blink enablers in standard that you'll use over the weaker frogs. While in mice you'll be playing worse cards than generically good ones BECAUSE they're mice.

Baleful Strix and Ink-Eyes on Arena is very hype, mostly so for Baleful Strix in timeless

Keen-Eyed Curator probably better known as Raccooze

28:28 "Lasping Jasper Flay" Never change Seth.

I feel like a major thing most people are forgetting about Portent of Calamity is that we'll still have a whole bunch of discounting effects in standard post-rotation, including Mindsplice Apparatus. So the cost issue isn't as big of a deal as people are thinking. Having Portent and maybe Flow of Knowledge can cover Sorcery, Witness Protection and One with the Multiverse can fill enchantments, your usual suite of counterspells for instants, Cityscape Leveler and Surge Engine cover creature and artifact (plus Mindsplice Apparatus ofc), and then finally lands are a given. The main issue is that while there's no shortage of Artifact Creatures to pull double duty, it looks like after rotation we'll have a whole 2 Enchantment Creatures for the same purpose and neither is in blue.

Just realized that they are focusing on frogs being able to bounce. Like they are about jumping back into your hand. So cleaver if that’s on purpose

7:50 Champion of the Cherished

[Eluge, the Shoreless Sea] Yay, I just like the idea of Flood counters being used for something other than turning opponent's lands into islands for island walk.

“Bedrock Turtis” “pride of the hull clad”. Always makes me giggle hahaha.

Thank you Seth for your good vibes and this fluid/pleasant video editing as always for spoilers. 🧡 from France bro 👋

20:45 there are some plants that launch their seeds like bullets. The turtle art appears to be referencing this. It can hit flying birds with the seeds.

The turtles reach is a reference to this plant with jumping seeds If you look at the turtles back you see seeds or flower flying off of it

Oh boy, can't wait to show all my friends my new Gev, Skalded Stortch deck with Lasping Jasper Flan in it!

Dayum, the value/combo player in me really likes the idea of Portent of Calamity in commander with Scroll Rack. 5 mana to draw 4 and play 1 for free, with the one likely being the best and/or most expensive card from your hand (that you've put on top of your library with Scroll Rack)? Sign me up!

Welp I can already see crimes face when he learned Jace the Mindsculptor is coming to arena😅. In also excited

The second ability on Scavenger's Talent is interesting because it doesn't specify what kind of permanent. Could be a treasure token, food token, creature - whatever. Not sure off the top of my head what combo that might open up, but seems cool. I was thinking about Warren Soultrader because you kind of get double mill triggers for the treasure and the creature sac if you have something like Gravecrawler out. Of course you lose a bunch of life repeating that but I think you could mill an opponent before killing yourself.

Eluge, the Shoreless Sea, could be a card for modern merfolk in the side board. we already play so many counter spells. this pairs well with harbinger of the seas

I wish Eluge was a sea monster

I look forward to pushing standard on arena with this set. I look forward to rotation as this set should add a lot to the format.

This is super sick!! Finally convinced to buy this set. One thing abt the mycotyrant is that descend counts permanent cards not permanents so its a bit less broken but still v cool!

Something interesting about eluge is it only cares about the amount of lands with flood counters on, and not the amount of flood counters itself, so you can't just proliferate for even more free profit.

Seth’s favorite snack is Combos

Also Eluge can be used offensively if you have an islandwalk threat you need to get through

Colored mana cost reduction: Edgewalker It's unique because it *only* reduces colored mana.

Portent of Calamity only lets you cast ONE spell from among the ones you found. However you may cast it forever, not just until end of turn.

The fact that frogs are all about bouncing is a flavor win

the only thing in favor of playing festival of embers instead of any other options to flashback your graveyard instants and sorceries is it allows to cast them by using their alternate costs if they have any (like overload). I don't know if that's relevant for anything, but was worth pointing it out.

Eluge immediately made me think of ways to give it islandwalk so it can attack in peace and keep groving. Turns out it is easier to "just" make it unblockable. The first ability of scavengers art with camellia, seedmiser, makes a good basis for going infinite You just need some kind of sacrifice outlet for creatures and food. Fountainport makes me think that there is a hidden fish tribe in the set. Blacksmiths talent seems really good. Equipment decks would love to include this.

Kitsa might literally be vintage playable in Lurrus UBx... It gives you grind power with looting and replayability of pitching things that Lurrus can recast, it's recastable WITH Lurrus itself, Prowess triggers off Moxen meaning synergy with Hurkyl's Recall and PO and easier to turn on the copy effect, and then if you manage to hit the ceiling of copying an Ancestral or Time Walk you're basically just styling on your opponent at that point. Oh and it pitches to Force.

rottenmouth viper would be awesome to reanimate with the coiling rebirth. getting 2 etb triggers would be a blow out

The Blacksmith Class card is also good at being a 1 mana card thats both an enchantment and artifact, which could be helpful for powering up some effects that care about both of those like some of the NEO cards

Really excited for bird of paradize and marrow gnawer in arena !

Cannot wait for frogs ! 🐸

coiling rebirth is gonna go so hard in my horror self mill deck can't wait to resurrect two sewer nemesi, somnophages or abberations

portent is good in prowess since it can double trigger prowess. I would play it with the kitsa and also with spells that can cast other spells. could be a solid combo enabler.

We are missing the red legendary elemental bease

Im glad for the Gitrog art

Man, that David Petersen art is SO cool.

Patchwork Banner is great in a kindred deck. Heraldic Banner is good in mono-colored decks that aren't kindred (or at least heavily one creature color over another)

Festival of Embers lets you play the spell side of an Adventure card from your graveyard because it isn't specifically looking for instant or sorcery CARDS and now I wanna rebuild my Prosper deck.

Starscape Cleric isn't just jank, it is one of the best cards from Bloomburrow for aristocrates and lifegain commanders. Most of the time an update over Dina, Soul Steeper

Yeah, as soon as I saw Gev, I thought of crimes and outlaws.

Coiling rebirth seems to with the 6/6 new Snake, you gift them a card but then they discard 2

Festival of embers is expensive but hear me out. If you have eluge in play and 5 lands...there's an instant or sorcery from bloomburrow that lets you blink a creature for 1 blue. If you have 2 of these in hand.. you can blink Eluge 4 times for almost nothing..reducing spell cost by 5 blue or colorless. Not bad!!!

The izzet otters are amazing

All the treasure decks and bargain etc makes scavengers talent scary

Kitsa will be the reason I break my vow and finally build a mono blue deck.

Schön, dass (Karn) Bernd das Brot es geschafft hat.

I like how Coiling Rebirth is sort of playing off the set's Offspring mechanic.

Vinelasher seems stupid good I need a Play-set yesterday

Could you stack a bunch of instants (maybe starting with a sorcery) with Festival of Embers, then sac the Festival so everything goes to your graveyard instead?

Eluge seems a decent addition to a Merfolk deck or any other deck that cares about islandwalk.

i again want to bring up Viashino got changed to be lizards

Eluge is super cool. Good thing vexing bauble only cost 1 😂

Ink-Eyes is Just Ink-Eyes!? How is that 'reimagined' !?!?!?!?!

I know it’s a stretch, but we probably could’ve use champion of the Prairie for valley mightcalle to keep the champion theme? Putting it out there and want to hear better names from yall

It looks like the turtle has reached because it has something shooting out of its shell

I think where eluge is gonna be good in a storm or a prowess deck, you just have a bunch of blue cantrips and the eluge, it enters the battlefield all of them are free, then you storm off and win?

My clement affinity storm deck is gonna love the new frog wizard lol

Gifting cards + sheoldred gonna be EVIL af ❤😂

I'd have to point out one thing. With Portent of Calamity you didn't take into account Magus Lucea Kane and her ability to copy this spell multiple times. This can really put this over the top when used right.

I'm really curious if a legit tier tribal deck(or hopefully multiple) develops out of Bloomburrow. These tribes are not common creature types so it'll have to be pretty pushed, and in theory, only gets 1 set to power them up(BB)

Hey buddy, you can hyper reduce Portent of Calamity using Eluge

My issue with Scavenger's Talent is that the last trigger is an "IF you do", not a "WHEN you do". Were it a WHEN, you could mill yourself 6 more cards to find something spicier to pull out of the yard. But as is, you'd get something out of your yard before you'd even choose who to mill.

Karn, the Great Treeator

Baleful Strix in Timeless might just get me to play Arena again

9:30 oh fuck yes, my mono blue ninja deck is gonna love the frog wizard

Mycotryant specifies "permanent card" so the plan to sacrifice tokens to mill would work but the "get all the tokens back" won't trigger if you're only sacking tokens since they are "Permanents" but not "Permant cards"

Frog tribal is going to be my first deck

There are still 4 legendary calamity beasts that haven't been revealed yet

Omniscience comes back into standard with Foundations. Wouldn't Portent of Calamity create a deck that's basically a slower version of the Show and Tell deck from timeless but in Standard?

Portent of Calamity can be a turn 3 omnisience without using show and tell if you just use vampiric tutor or something

Is there really no "Wolf Calimity Beast" we saw in the trailer!?

Champion of the Harish

I an so hyped for the green black yagra eats all squirrel deck especially with that class and a sacrifice alter sac a squirrel thats a food get a fresh 1/1 squirrel opponent mills 2 do it as much as you like

Eluge is great, I'm looking for WotC to make just a few more Flood Counter cards and ill brew the most devious Xolatoyac EDH deck of all time.

I don't see fountainport as flavour fail because you sacrifice the fish or treasure token, rarely the offspring.

Wise Mystical Karn

hard to imagine how a raccoon is supposed to be a 7/7 - that's even larger than colossal dreadmaw

Kitsa's my new favorite commander

Eluge has one mana protection, in the form of shore up shame there’s no way in standard to bounce it to your hand for one mana though

greenshell seems funny with disa the restless

Dour Port-Mage works well with bin Ninjitsu I bet

Sooo is land destruction now okay in order to get rid of these flood counters ?