Which of these decks were your favorite? What do you think of the Chinese meta? Let me know down below!

Hi! I am the pilot of the Kydele deck here😊 This whole deck is tuned according to Sam Black's theory of flying under the radar & no “bad” tutor/fast mana. Similiar to the cutting Seedborn Muse idea, I intentionally cut Ad Naus and PitA. Those cards win you games once resolved, but facing increasing RoL effects and midranged blue decks with tons of interactions, I would rather cut them and pursue more medium level threat that other players might just let you resolve, such as Inner Sun and Orrery. Usually people ignore it or have to use counterspells on more game-winning spells, and those medium level threat grinds insane value in mid and late game. Extra turn spell is just another thing that generates unlimited value but people hesistate to counter it, with extra synergy with Inner Sun and Citadel. For mana dorks, I cut every 1 toughness dork but Bloom Tender due to the unbelivable prevalence of Bowmasters, as we try to drag the game into late game it is almost certain we will be Bowed at least once. Finally, the adding of Necrodominance gives the deck new ways to end the game in a sudden. With Kydele on the field, if you Necrodominance for 37, you generated 38 colourless with Kydele. That more than enough for you to secure a win with Borne Upon a Wind or Crop Rotation & Emergence Zone, and you can bring down Madara to remove a stax piece. Here's some math: with 88 cards in deck and no source of flash in hand and 1G/U open, activating either necro with 37 cards will have 76% plus winrate. One last word, the deck is tuned to local stax/midrange meta, and has been tested out with 1000+ games in the last few years. Not all cedh decks are with all low MV cards that allows a turn 2 Ad Naus. Sometimes some cards that looks stupid and battle level are not as stupid as it seems with the right strategy and synergy.

I played in this Command Fest. It was great! About the winner, he has been playing this deck for the past 3 years. He truly mastered Oswald. A well deserved first place.

HOLY FUCK THE PAST 3 YEARS I PUSHED OSWALD and worked with the 1 other specialist to make the flash speed twiddle variant and it's amazing to see the meta. 2 yisans in top 16 and an Oswald taking first. Top decks win through stax right now like rule of law, they win through silence effects, and they put straight to the battlefield. AWESOME VIDEO LETS GO OSWALD WE UP!!!!

Oswald Fiddlebender, the Gnome, the myth, the legend. The hero we all deserve. I have been playing this deck for years and love it. However, I have never played it in a tournament setting. That is not about to change now but I love seeing it take one down!

"If you give me a mean comment about it... i WILL tell your mom" 😂😂😂

Great vid and coverage as usual. Wild top 4

The oswald fiddlebender list is by far my favorite. I've tried out the stax version of the deck before, but this turbo-eggs version is 🔥

AYO, love the shave man! looks super clean!

Great spread of decks! 💯

I was today years old when i learned that there isnt a monkey on Meathook Massacre

Great video, and the clean shaven look is nice! 👍

Bloodboiler is there to combo with Barry (Battered Golem). It's a way to go infinite through Null Rod effects. Null Rod is super, super good in Magda. Apple is an infinite combo with Welder to generate treasures and win. Thanks for bringing this content to a wider audience!

Lookin sharp dude!!!

I’m surprised no isochron scepter in the kydel deck. Maybe just because it’s easier to punish imprint? Idk, I’d risk it

Good video! Korvold is old is on Red Elemental blast and Pyroblast, I think you accidentally said it wasn’t brotha. Keep up the great work!

Very cool to hear Oswald winning an event! You know Mr Gaddock Teeg aprroves of this for sure! ❤❤❤

Go Oswald! My second favorite was that Thras/Tevesh. I like the sound of that.

Always love seeing Korvold make it!

nice recap. thanks.

That first Korvald list definitely had both pyroblast and red elemental blast in it. 11:38

pongify and rapid hybridization can also be used for both a nadu trigger and a creature for nadu triggers from that one nadu deck

11:34 REB: Hey! I'm on display over here!

Its interesting how non-optimized Nadu decklist still can get top 5. Just shows what great pilot can do.

slowly building that real card deck, just got my consultation, oracle, and pact.

I think the main Oswald line he's running is just recursion based sacrifice: Sacrifice Scrap Trawler to KCI, then it triggers and brings back Myr Retriever which sacrifices to KCI and restarts. Now I don't see too many cost reductors outside of Helm of Awakening for this to be net positive but if you throw any mana rock into the mix like Grim Monolith or Mana Vault and it turns mana-positive and henceforth Infinite targetting Walking Ballista. This can also net infinite mana with many of the draw card artis he runs so I'm guessing if there's a piece missing (Like Ballista) he attempts to just draw into it by force as part of the combo anyway. I usually like to at least keep Rings of Brightheart + Basalth Monolith since both being 3 CMC can be tutored with a doubler on Oswald: If done right this means you get your mana a turn earlier for example Illusionists Bracers equipped then sacrificed to bring Brightheart + Basalt to get your infinite mana and infinite untaps, but KCI is also a solid choice given the graveyard recursion once you establish an efficient line it can probably turn the corner even faster and make room for more defense stuff (I.E. Grand Abolisher is more efficient in this deck but not Oswald tutoreable, it's usually better to have Conqueror's Flail but more mana intensive to do so)

I also cut Birds of paradise from most of my decks... bowmasters is so harmful to the format. I kept track over 30 games and of the 12 I played birds 0 times did I get to untap with it before getting pinged down. Anecdotal I know, but in general if I can avoid 1 toughness creatures now I do Especially if they need to tap to be useful. I had the same problem with bloom tender, but bloom tender can be a combo piece on the rare occasion it does untap.

Do chinese players have good access to restricted cards? I assume not after seeing these lists

Hello, I am the deck creator of Oswald Fiddlebender. Given that this is new building deck, many people don't know how it operates. I would love to share the strategy guide for this deck with everyone. I completed this guide about two weeks ago and just published it today on the Chinese social media platform I collaborate with. If you are interested, I can discuss the possibility of reposting it with them.

To me flare makes sense in talion to protect a win line because it lets you pull of thoracle safely. Or if you're just close to a winning state you can stop someone else's win and go for it on your turn.

Not sure if mentioned, Talion being a must draw can be awkward with Consult lines. Idk if flare is good enough as it's booty outside of that situation, but turning off Talion for a win attempt is real.

never knew that was a hand in the meathook massacre art

I live in Singapore, most people here are PL 6-8 and there were this one china tourist came into LGS and he claimed to be PL 6 and launched the game off with tutor and infinite combos.

*Lesssss goooooo*

I'm here to praise Magda ❤

The old Modern KCI loops can easily produce infinite mana, for example KCI + Trawler + Retriever + Mox Opal + any 1 mana artifact is infinite.

Anna was running Tymna/Kydele for a bit! super cool to see it played elsewhere, def gives me some ideas i wanna show her

ah makes sense, I was like "where's the beard??"

I still like stern scolding to stop creatures and not give my opponent a 2/2, if anything Id use it with strix serenade for redundancy

Yaaaaaaaa RAKDOS THE MUSCLE

I'm telling your mom you shaved, she'll be disappointed LOL

Asia and any other place outside of the US is always crazy because they played to win. In the US they play to not lose.

SHAVED FACEEEEE

lol I didn’t notice the beard until you said it and then that’s all I could look at after. Why did you do that lol

Who is this new host ?

Dont tell my mom

Chinese event huh? I wonder if they allowed proxies 🙄🤣😆

My mom is asking where is you beard she kind of liked that?

too fucking hot out here

It's basically pronounced goo-ang jo

"NaDu Is ToO gOoD, BaN iT" bunch of clowns let a deck breathe and meta adjust

Beards are for men are like push up bras for women 😂

I'm highly skeptical of this post and it's authenticity, China lied about the corona virus, who knows if thisbis just a group of Chinese nationals posting content that's can be perceived as a mtg tournament, again considering most of China doesn't allow gambling or trading card games or much of anything for that matter.