thanks! ya, i love seeing lantern content, too. unfortunately, there's not a whole lot of it. i imagine that it's not a deck that event grinders would prefer, since they have to put in more effort for the same reward they could possibly get by playing something like scam, amulet titan, etc., where there are *way* fewer important decisions to make. i also think that a player would have to really like studying how the inner workings of the game is constructed in order to enjoy. due to those two criteria, i figure that the population of people that truly enjoy the deck is probably relatively small.

@@phlsphr42 i'd say you're right about it not being popular, but also because it's not as versatile as others, once your plan is out there it can be easier to navigate around. I'd also argue it's worse after sideboarding against quite a few decks. artifact removal, enchantment removal, leyline of sanctity, leyline of combustion, etc.

@@lutherannn i don't know about it being not as versatile. for some time, after kgc, oko, uro, etc., were introduced, i found that lantern didn't perform as well as before and stopped doing any significant work on it. however, i regained interest after a little discussion in the discord around this time last year, and decided to give it another go at development, to see what could be done. the results were extremely surprising. it turned out that the deck was *very* good against a significant portion of the metagame at the time. it had great matchups against rhinos, scam, living end, scales, hammer...it turned out that i had been wrong, and that the deck was legitimately good again. unfortunately, people refused to believe it. the reason i started this channel was to try to provide proof, and fortunately it was enough for zac to try it out, and you know the rest. but now, there appears to be no zac. you can see the proof, here, on this channel, just like in the early days, but people *refuse* to acknowledge that it might actually be decent again (just like the early days, where people refused to believe that it was good to begin with). there are answers to the deck, just as there was in the past. we had to worry about ancient grudge, kolaghan's command, maelstrom pulse, nature's claim, shatterstorm, shattering spree, stony silence...there have always been answers to lantern. but, due to how the deck functions, what truly matters is whether lantern can effectively neutralize those answers. from what you can see on this channel, it appears that lantern *can* do so. but it won't matter if people are already convinced of what they believe to be true. until then, it's just us playing the deck. the only other significant lantern content is kanister (whose deck is *very* different than this one, and you can observe the difference in results), and others who struggle with piloting it. some may try to pick it up and fail, and then blame the deck. but as you can see, so long as you're moderately competent in piloting it, and you're piloting a build that has had some real thought put into it, it is a decent deck.

Ah, yeah, fair, lol. I've been doing that since the start, so people could browse the wns to see how I navigated them and the losses to see what went wrong. I started the channel years ago to provide information rather than entertainment, but I absolutely see your point. Thanks!

@@phlsphr42 Ah ok. Though when I learn a deck I am interested in the loss as much as in the wins since both types of game show what to expect when playing it.

@@A_Wise_Monkey ya, I upload my losses, too :) EDIT: This was round 5 from a league, where I went 4-1. The loss was against ChrisMTG77, the Amulet Titan match that I uploaded the same day that I uploaded this one. You can see my game records in the background, and match them up with the video uploads. There are few that I don't upload, those are me messing around with other decks (like a league where I went 3-2 messing around with Amulet Titan).