Totentanz is not totenzan. I blame Phil for not correcting this.

11:07 I think the game was lost here when you didn’t use open mana to cast the otherworldly gaze to dig for lands.

When you target your own stuff with Fading Hope, hold full control so you can respond to the trigger and cast another spell to maximize draws / minimize fizzles.

20:40 That awkward moment when Timely Interference ruins your whole combo. I had some nasty bombs incoming 😁. Glad it made you laugh. Also nice innovative deck! GGs

Seth: "Lets find out if this deck is competitive" Also Seth: * plays best of one. *

As a limited player just going to point out that both take the fall and timely interference are both highly playable cards in their respective formats. Take the fall is a crime enabler that can often let you win a combat and go up a card (-4/-0 if you control an outlaw) and timely interference was in DMU which had a potent aggro UR spells deck as well as the 5/5 ward 2 serpent that got cheaper for every instant and sorcery in your graveyard. I've run upwards of 4 or 5 timely interferences and often play two in dimir decks to cantrip and drop early serpents

21:49 Props to Fellow Mtg KZfaqr Xaero staying in and taking the beats

Glad to see you pilot this combo! I rode it a few days to mythic. The one tweak I figured out for sure after I brewed it was that Homestead Courage is a must-have, it allows a guaranteed double cast

I think you conceded early at 12:40. You could have blocked a 1/1 and the recruiter. Then if you draw a land you can go duplimancy plus spell in the next turn

Hey Seth, what are the odds that the person who sent the email and the one who made that reddit post was the same person?

Isn't Duplimancy staying in standard still(Around 35 minutes in)? I though it was the Innistrad, Kamigawa and Capenna sets rotating out in July? Regardless, this was a glorious combo. Excellent work Seth!

When Seth said take the fall wasn’t limited playable, I cried internally

8:49 if you had played a land and cast one of the Otherworldly Gazes, you would have found the song to give out haste.

I wonder if the deck should play Bitter Reunion in it. The deck seems like it doesn't really do anything until you start to combo off, but you still need ways to get to the combo. Bitter Reunion helps you dig to your combo pieces and then when you go off, you just sac the enchantment to give your creatures haste.

20:05 looks like your cantrips turned out to be can'trips

Such fun cards. I cooked some people in limited with a Calamity, Galloping Inferno and Outcaster Trailblazer. Definitely strong potential.

11:07 should’ve used an Otherworldly Gaze here, to try to get a land under the Trailblazer. You had the mana, you had 3 of them, better than risking it on the top-deck!

This is awesome. I'm definitely going to feature this on my channel at some point.

Yeah that poison control game, shoulda ran out the duplimancy after playing your 7th land on 2 poison counters. That makes a single bring the ending useless.

This is a hilarious deck! Also, that punt against toxic control hurt XD

Who is Totenzan? Is he a friend of Sir Cootious Route?

I would love to see more of that land destruction artifact deck you showed a while back!

I'm just watching the Tech Deck, and I'm already laughing hard... This is so fun to watch

This is a neat concept. I want to try and find a home for this in Commander.

This deck strikes me as not so much "glass cannon" as "talcum powder cannon."

The Soul Partion game reminds me how much new players really need to learn “see weird card, destroy weird card”. If you don’t understand why your opponent is playing a strange card, the more you should respect it!

This guys delivery reminds me so much of chills

So about the problem of finding the haste enabler; I think that if you are careful about what you do, you should always be able to virtually draw exactly your deck because of fading hopes and non cantrips. To prove it mathematically would be quite complex, but you can choose to draw less or more cards by either playing a cantrip or fading hope. Normally if you play 9 spells you'll be drawing 45 cards +1 for each cantrip. However if you fading hope as your Xth spell you can draw 9-X cards less. Unless you're very unlucky and both your fading hopes and haste enabler are on the bottom of your library, you should be able to control how many cards you're drawing and plan it all out. Edit: for example with a turn 4 combo, after the 5th spell, the most difficult number would be 25 cards, which would require 3 consecutive fading hopes + a non-cantrip to draw exactly 25.

Been playing duplimancy since domunited. Stoked to finally see the card finally get some respect

Okay, first off: I love this show!!! Bought the signed Tokens already :) And since it's immensely funny to me (for I know how to pronounce german) I wanted to point out: It's not totensan. it's toten tanz. as in tanzania. hahaha thanks and have a great day

Been playing the Duplimancy in jank Pioneer decks, and it does go crazy. Also, Outcaster in the Dopplegang Ping deck is OUTRAGEOUS!! People are sleeping on this card!

This combo is nuts, I love it

2:46 it feels a little risky to have only one copy of Song, if it’s at the very bottom, you could deck yourself trying to draw it. Sure you could have all copies of it on the bottom if you had multiple, but it massively decreases the odds and gives you a buffer. Edit: well then, didn’t expect it to happen in the first match

I think it's normally right to bounce the real trailblazer with fading hope, especially if you had to make it smaller with some of the cantrips

I run a copy in my Rotpriest deck. So much fun

I’ve used Duplimancy to make tons of Urabrask for tons of mana and also with tons of Annointed Peacekeeper to lock out the opponent. This looks awesome

clicked on this video because i thought it sounded interesting. saw the gameplay going on in the first 5 seconds. understood what was happening and started laughing uncontrollably. 5/5 stars

You *may* have had it at 33:30 , the only counterspells they run are quenches unless you have 3 or more poison counters, and you were only at 2. I think it was probably your only out

In game 1 you had 13 cards in deck with 8 draws off trailblazer and access to a land play for 1 more mana if you used the mana from a land to play a gaze and milled 3 if song wasnt among them then used a cantriping target that would have drawn all but 1 card in your deck maximizing the chances of hitting song.

I've been using this deck for a little while, too, and I found that white works as a much better splash than red because of Homestead Courage, which flashes back in case you don't draw another targeting card.

tried this deck for an hour and never once had the combo go off lol

I like Vesuvan Duplimancy with Rox, the new Cat Druid. I use Witness the future to get the little targeting spells back into the deck, and eventually get Paradox engine out. Don't even need to go for a Jace win... the metorites usually are enough damage to kill if the opponent doesn't just scoop right away. I was using Garruk enchantment (trample is nice if it had to come to that) but Trailblazer could be fine too. All the Rox mana buffs stack so after a couple casts you can tap mana tokens for 3+ each... makes for fun big cost stuff too.

I once played against a deck that was a Zur Duplimancy deck. The Deck was based around Zur and a bunch of instant speed protection. Once zur and duplimancy is down you make duplimancy a creature and target it with a spell and it makes a copy of it which multiplies exponentially with each targeting and aslong as you protect zur with the spells you cant interact with the duplimancys. It caught me completely off guard and seemed like i fun brew i always wanted to make a deck similar to it.

I love seeing these extremely niche combo decks go off

Reminds me of my shorecrash copy deck for explore

At 14:58, you can Fading hope the smallest one to have enough damage to kill

I'm wondering if the Surveil lands might be helpful in this deck, especially for the digging

My favorite deck vs. Sparky is a Duplimancy combo with Wingmantle Chaplain. It's too slow for competitive play, but man when Moonshaker Cavalry hits with max tokens, it's... well, usually a crashed game, but the most damage I've been able to achieve with it is a little over 500k. It also duplicates the Duplimancies, so shenanigans all around!

If you have the chance, ask Phil how he pronounces 'Totentanz' and ask him About the 'Ratcatcher from Hameln' that story must be the origin, lore wise :)

"Song of Totenzan" its song of totentanz never change seth i love you this wway

I love this spell!

How do you get the cards you need for these matches in Arena? Is there a way to buy singles in Arena?

Once the chain gets going you have to mind the cantrips in such a way that they draw to hit you to zero 35 cards in deck? 2nd TB - 1 card 3rd TB - 2 cards (3 total) 4th TB - 3 cards (6 total) 5th TB - 4 cards (10) 6th - 5 (15) 7th - 6 (21) 8th - 7 (28) So along this chain you need 7 card draw cantrips to gaurantee hitting the haste

Maybe splice in white for Idyllic Tutor? Definitely could fizzle the combo at some points, but it would be a few more psudo copies of at least Duplomancy.

this deck looks Hella similar too the venerated rotpiest deck you made a while back. I wonder if they got any legs together.

Save you can trips for the end targeting opponent creatures.

This is a cool combo but i hate non deterministic wincons which you demonstrated quite nicely this is

Could you put Ivy into the deck for multiple targets per cast?

I feel like this deck gets much better with adventure creatures whose adventure works with the duplimancy combo.

It took me until, like, your fourth game to realize you're just casting Song for the Haste. I couldn't figure out the play without a positive mana gain.

in game 2 I think you could've played otherworldly gaze on untap to find the land and then draw and won but im not too sure

It feels like game 2 could've gone better. He used Falling Hope at sorcery speed (could've waited and bounce something next turn) Didn't use Otherwordly Gaze with 2 mana open (could've dumped the 2 cards after Diplomacy); that would've let him draw Boseiju 2 turns earlier.

in the game against the poison deck i think you should have gone for it when you only had 2 poison because you could have paid the 2 for bring the ending, but once you had 4 poison its just a hard counterspell, so that was your best shot. thats my opinion at least as someone who played the poison deck for a while.

Could there be a Venerated Rotpriest hybrid version of this deck?

What about the convoke. There is a blue draw card that can fit into the deck and help you get the combo.

Why not add venerated rot priest to speed up the clock with poison counter's?

Ivy in the deck to double up on casts seems fine

Pausing early in the video to wonder if his real opponent is going to be the timer.

Nice Modest Mouse Tee

Gaia's blessing would work strangely well for mill issues

So even though this was uploaded 2 days ago, arena won't let me play it, and I have no clue why, any ideas?

To control draw so you don't deck out just return your own tokens to hand once you have enough to oneshot the opponent. You are still getting the new token as you targeted your own permanent but the card draw does not get out of hand.

I would add Analyze the pollen maybe? More consistant to find the Trailblazer if you can't find it and it's one mana

Need this for brawl

If you combine this deck with a Venerated Rotpriest & Ivy Spellthief deck… it works real good!

Isn’t rotation only rotating out the 4 oldest sets? If so that’s only the two innistrad sets, kamigawa, and new capana. So this combo is still going to be in standard.

That 3rd opponent was misplaying so much, its hilarious how no one on Arena knows how to play control

Yo I have been working on a jeskai Knights/humans (runs 1 human matters card but all Knights that matter are human) deck for explorer and it's been going pretty hard. It's a super lord deck with 4 different lords. And blue gives counters

11:40 you could have won that game by casting the plotted Trailblazer to make the fourth mana to cast the Duplimancy, and that gives you one blocker. Next turn you cast the Trailblazer in hand, which gives you the one mana to combo off so the deck really went 7-4, for a 63.6% win rate.

Totentanz! It means “Death Dance” of “Dance of Death” in German.

You can draw more/less cards with fading hope to target your whole deck. Also when you want more, not less, keep the fading on the bottom of the stack, don't resolve it...

Second game I feel that if you had played the guy from plot and used the mana to play the duplicate. Then blocked with him, the following turn you'd be at 3 with a guy in hand and duplicate on the table. Dropping the guy gives you the mana to go off.

33:16 you know they run the poison counter, which only taxes if they don't have 3 infect. i would have gone for it

you should add bitter reuinion. it's card draw and gives haste

I think the deck would really benefit from incedental scry, just to pad out the bottom of the deck with non song cards

If you want to guard against your Totentanz being at the bottom of your deck, I suggest Loran's Escape, Daring Escape and/or Boon of Safety for their scrys. This way, you'll know what's on the bottom of your deck.

the way this man pronounces cards is gonna make me cry omg

Yeah I think the "2 songs" call is 100% right after that first game

Vesuvan might work a lot better with buyback targeting cards

WOTC devs: "it makes mana, and it draws cards. What could go wrong?"

This is one of those decks that that looks really good but whenever i try to play it I'll never see the combo and when I do iam either mana flooded or screwed 😂

I want to see Slogurk plus flipped invasion of kaldheim

This is giving very "hit my swans" vibe except "hit my human druid" doesn't have the same ring

Seth isn't Dominaria United rotating Next year? So Duplimancy is in for another year

Seth calling Totentanz Tottenzan is so triggering as a German as "Totentanz" means dance of the dead which is pretty metal, but his pronunciation makes it sound like a word from Sims

So what you're saying is that Control decks tend to match up well against Combo decks? :D Also btw it's TotenTANZ... you know.. because you can Tanz if you want to, you can leave your friends behind...

This deck is great if you get a the vesuvan diplomacy and Outcaster Trailblazer in opening hand or in the first 4 draws. otherwise this is rough.

It's not totenzants - it's TotenTanz. "Dance of death" in German.

Lost to this yesterday

They should make a creature named Totenzan now