Honestly Anvil plus Dockside Chef is kinda like playing an elvish visionary every single turn and that's kinda awesome

I feel like this set's design is kinda elegant inasmuch that so much of everything going on in it kinda compliments each other in spite of the clashing "Modernity Vs. tradition" thing it has going on. The Sagas happen to usually be evasive bodies on the other end that let you get in for Ninjutsu and then recast the saga, Ninjas happen to also be artifacts for the artifacts matter stuff or have ability counters when they enter, or reconfigure creatures can help with that, which then modify things along with the various auras like the black one that's also a removal spell. with how much incidental looting there is along with channel, it's so easy to just like... run stuff that have artifacts and enchantments matter, modified matters, graveyard synergies, all while not sticking to your strict draft archetype. It kinda was fun watching the LRR PPR and seeing Grahm Stark have what was effectively a goodstuff pile with all of 1 vehicle. it was legitimately more of a Ninja Control build then anything.

Thank you so much for this series Nizzahon, they are so helpful.

I'm going to the kamigawa prerelease on saturday, and it will be my first time doing sealed. I know it's different from draft, but as someone who usually only watches your top 10s, I'm really glad I have this resource to get an in depth look at the set with helpful commentary!

For the Black/White deck payoff you forgot the 3 mana 3/2 common rat Samurai. It gets useful keywords if you have enchantments and/or artifacts, and most secret thing of all it benefits from the white Samurai attack alone abilities! Super sneaky... like a rat.

Super helpful! Can’t wait for the set.

I feel like this is the first set in a long time that’s worth investing in in paper. Super hyped for this set!

I, too, ended up as defining BG and UG as "graveish stuff" and "rampish stuff"

Very helpful primer for prerelease, thank you.

Red-Black Artifact Sacrifice will synergize well in standard with Red-Black Treasures Matter from the Forgotten Realms set

Black green theme isn't graveyard its value/two for one's. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Channel cards are kinda part of the BG strategy, like the greater tanuki

Looking forward to how the meta shapes up around this set. I wonder who will make more use of Vehicles - aggro, or control decks?

Not jazzed about these archetypes for limited. I do have some ideas for constructed that may be some fun.

I can't help but feel like Black/White is going to be an underpowered deck in the format. Green/White just needing enchantments and Blue/Red just needing artifacts seem much more streamlined and like they'll be more consistent. Not to mention I feel like Red has more good artifact stuff than Black, and Green has more good enchantment stuff than White, so it's kind of trying to work off the worse parts of each of the artifact and enchantment decks. Which is a shame because Black/White is my favorite color pair.

Heck yeah great video!

Enchartifacts?! Nizza, my dear friend, it’s ‘Artichantments’. 😏

Nice! I got Raiyuu and Isshin in my sealed!

So...I feel like Samurai aren't really going to do that well, since it kind of feels like if you have all those creatures out to gain the ability from only swinging one of them, you'd be better served by just, you know, swinging out if you're in a position with a large number of those on the field at once?

Black Green also has access to Reito Sentinel, Spring Leaf Avenger, Unforgiving One, and Junji. You can splash blue also with a common dual land and get access to Tamiyo. Not sure why this was missed.

The hotsprings work really really well with Riot. Why choose between haste and a counter when you can have both?

An interesting thing about Satoru, (and Im not saying its a good strategy but its a fun, interesting one) is that you can play whatever massive creature you want, even if out of colors and just get it into play with Satoru.. Were you going UB Ninjas and opened a Green massive dragon? You can play it.. you'll probably lose more games than you win by doing that but hey, it will feel glorious if you pull it off xD

I’m looking forward to many sealed games.

I don't really like Suit Up as well but I guess that if you can consistently make 1/1 pilots it's not that bad

I wanna force Mechtitan Core in draft.

Im not sure how I feel about the cyberpunk setting of this set.

cool

Me, a 40 year old man watching mtg videos. KZfaq: hey bro, you want some Barbie dolls dude?

Wait so the land enchantments like “Crackling Emergence” count as a “modified” creature ? I guess the enchantment that actually animates the land itself counts as the modification. ?

For the algorithm!!

Im glad they kicked they "once per turn" "activate only at sorcery speed" guy off the team for this set 😂

I need to enchart after that coffee smh

With Enthusiastic mexhanauts ability does it just lower the casting cost or can It lower the ninjutsu cost too? I know it’s a ability of the card so probably not. Just wanted clarification.

Yo land fall an modified sweet

It's so hard to remember. Red-blue: artifacts: which inclues equipments, vehicules, and artifact creatures Blue-White: vehicles: which need to be crewed by small creatures Red-white: attacking with one creatures, which benefits from equipments Black red: equpment? Red-green: modification, which inclues equipments, auras, and +1/+1 counters White-green: enchantments: which includes auras, sagas, and enchantment creatures Blue-green: sagas? Black-white: enchantments (sagas, auras) + artifacts (vehicles, equipment) I'm so confused.

He failed. He shouldve put norika and heiko next to each other so we could see the art together as one piece

Please please please please stop saying Nin JIT su. It’s Nin JOOT Su. It’s not just you, it’s a lot of people. It feels like nails on a chalkboard every time.