MTG Deck That Forces You To Lose

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Magic The Noah

Жыл бұрын

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@simonsm2228 Жыл бұрын

"Death is a boolean function" - Magic the Noah, 2023

@LexaByteNV Жыл бұрын

This is how a Black player thinks.

@pencilwatchesstuff791 Жыл бұрын

"Die or die not. There is no try." - average monoblack player, probably

@koenvandiepen7651 Жыл бұрын

Wel he is not wrong

@accessyourinnerlight971 Жыл бұрын

Schrodinger's Box

@methyod Жыл бұрын

@@LexaByteNV wouldn't a black player actually be the only person not thinking this?

@amberhernandez Жыл бұрын

A friend of mine hates playing --Modern-- Legacy (life is pain), so he has a "hostage negotiation" deck where his opponent has to save him from himself. It involves a F(irst) T(urn) S(uicide) strategy with Griselbrand, and that's just gorgeous to me.

@albertoguarnieri5182 Жыл бұрын

Explain.

@redriot-unbreakable9476 Жыл бұрын

you can't just say this without clarifying what it is

@amberhernandez Жыл бұрын

Oh, sorry folks; didn't check back until now! I don't have his entire decklist since it's been a while, but I recall the dream hand for FTS needed at least three Dark Rituals (it's incredibly gimmicky), an Elvish Spirit Guide + Crop Rotation, and a fetchland to bring out a shockland. You could tap the shock when it hit, then sacrifice it to Crop Rotation (using ESG to pay it) for another fetch + shock combo and tap it for enough floating w/three Rituals to cast big G and pay for game. If you didn't get FTS, there were other cards like Street Wraith to pay life + thin out the deck, and even dig up a Griselbrand if you didn't open with one of the four. Loss conditions were your opponent getting rid of your Griselbrands or taking you out first. I will say, he did get counter-decked at one point by someone who donated him a Platinum Emperion, and he didn't talk for the rest of the night, bahahaha!

@Videodude810 Жыл бұрын

What does FTS mean in magic?

@thelastfinale805 Жыл бұрын

@@amberhernandez yeah what is FTS?

@isaacrobertson4374 Жыл бұрын

Lightning bolt could also act as a +3/3 buff on Death’s Shadow for one red mana if used correctly

@miguelgp8607 Жыл бұрын

It can also serve as a 3/1 haste, cant be blocked, creature that dies after it attacks

@imreadydoctor Жыл бұрын

Bolt or Giant Growth in a single card!

@megapussi Жыл бұрын

bolt ur opponents face = they take 3 damage bold ur own face = they take 12 damage (cuz all 4 of ur death shadows will hit them)

@ragglerock2682 Жыл бұрын

@@megapussi and all 4 death shadows have trample

@natben6099 Жыл бұрын

@@megapussi don't joke about that. It really happend to me. I hat 17 life, he had 2 6/6 death shadows, I let them pass, thinking that worse case scenario, I would get bolted, and he bolted himself giving them both +3/+3 and I LOST!!!

@Videodude810 Жыл бұрын

I love how with all of his calculations, he's assuming every card in the entire deck will be played when he has 1 life.

@mdb45424 Жыл бұрын

There's tons of pay life stuff in black course this deck is vulnerable to burn

@CyberCross222 Жыл бұрын

@@mdb45424 it's also vulnerable to fog. Biggest glass cannon strategy I've ever seen

@mdb45424 Жыл бұрын

@@CyberCross222 there was the idol was was a biggie but you sac permiments when it got damage

@thaddeusgenhelm8979 Жыл бұрын

I mean, he did open up with "This deck is absolute trash. Probably." The fact that most of his math is based on a false premise is basically written on the tin =P

@dervakommtvonhinten517 Жыл бұрын

@@mdb45424 tons of burn, tons of removal, tons of counter. this just doesnt work

@teamcosmicseeds Жыл бұрын

Platinum emperion sez "you cannot sacrifice life, you are not permitted!"

@tyukan2000 Жыл бұрын

The only flaw of this deck is that Agadeem's hits only creatures that each have different CMCs and so can only ever get 1 death's shadow back (still a 4 mana 12/12 ain't bad). PS: Shatterskull also don't hit face

@pencilwatchesstuff791 Жыл бұрын

No colossal dreadmaws is a bigger flaw tbh.

@inteventso Жыл бұрын

Command dreadhorde would be what I put but I don't follow the set rotation (idk what the rotation even is)

@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos Жыл бұрын

@@inteventso modern doesn't rotate

@ShredAimlessly92 Жыл бұрын

As soon as I saw Death’s Shadow I knew where this was going lmao

@LexaByteNV Жыл бұрын

This is one of the rare times I've agreed with your takes, Noah. A very rare time

@sawyerstever5933 Жыл бұрын

I think the aesthetic of random shit rattling around on Noah's desk as he talks into his Tyler1 microphone is what makes this channel for me.

@azmodanpc Жыл бұрын

ASMR - rando shit rattle. The ASMR you didn't know you wanted (or needed)

@jacegmn3309 Жыл бұрын

I like how the lands are more than 50% percent of the cost of this deck

@Zeequals Жыл бұрын

honestly that's not that unusual in magic these days sadly

@Ubernaught012 Жыл бұрын

@@Zeequals "these days" the last 10 years I think

@Zeequals Жыл бұрын

@@Ubernaught012 yes I do believe that these days are included in that, good observation

@Ubernaught012 Жыл бұрын

@@Zeequals "these days" implies recency.

@williamdrum9899 Жыл бұрын

@@Zeequals These days? It's always been like that. Unless you play Tron

@TheLastShadow45 Жыл бұрын

Fun fact: If you have Platinum Angel and go into negative life Death's Shadow ability turns into +X/+X

@MountainisFullofDragons Жыл бұрын

I just googled it and it says negative life is treated as 0 now

@egoalter1276 5 ай бұрын

Fucking lame

@3xPin Жыл бұрын

Is there any evidence that Noah has EVER actually played M:tG?

@limevolt7618 Жыл бұрын

His favorite color is green

@daverapp Жыл бұрын

@@limevolt7618 So, no, then.

@kendallpeebles7481 Жыл бұрын

@@daverapp He hates blue?

@blegh277 Жыл бұрын

@@kendallpeebles7481 idk seems common he does know rakdos tho

@fafs67 Жыл бұрын

@@limevolt7618 Yeah, definitely not an MTG player.

@limontree476 Жыл бұрын

"Death is a boolean function" Shrodinger has entered the chat

@DawnfireGalinndan Жыл бұрын

While Agadeem's Awakening has the good part on the land side where you give your Death's Shadows +3/+3 to play your land, I think Call of the Death-Dweller would be better for actually getting your Shadows back out. Agadeem's Awakening can only ever get 1 Death's Shadow back from the gy at a minimum of costing 3 mana, whereas Call of the Death-Dweller will always cost 3, and will always be able to get you back one or two Death's Shadows. And THEN, you can also distribute a deathtouch counter and a menace counter between them.

@marcoottina654 Жыл бұрын

that's actually a solid idea

@flabberjiggles4825 Жыл бұрын

Yeah but agadeems let's you use your life as a resource by playing it as an untapped land

@ZakumPlayer Жыл бұрын

The best lesson about mtg I learned was "if your opponent beats you with 1 life left, it's the same as beating you without losing any life at all"

@key.key.937 Жыл бұрын

But it IS funny to have over 40/20 life left when winning

@OurFantasyLife Жыл бұрын

One correction: For Agadeem's Awakening (6:20) you couldn't retrieve two Death's Shadow because they both have the same cost. Each creature you return with Awakening has to have a different mana cost.

@w4lk4 Жыл бұрын

There's 4 in the deck tho

@palinexo9319 Жыл бұрын

holy shit. Never seen such a technically "bad looking" presentation actually be THAT GOOD and then also on top be presented in just the perfect way to make the edgy janky style totally play out! Very nice! i have no clue about that game yet i still feel like i understood most of what you explained low key got the idea and had a ton of fun with this content

@hentaimage95 Жыл бұрын

Played it a lot back in 2015/2016 and it rocked. I was sick of the meta closing consistently by turn 4, splinter twin, amulet combo, affinity, tron, infect etc. The deck allowed me to consistently close the game by turn 3 and even turn 2 with some luck or good matchups. I grearly advise you to try it eith your friends, i dont know how the lists has changed but at the time the combo was: cicle as many cards as possible, colossal growth for 1 green mana, temur battlerage for the lethal.

@athath2010 Жыл бұрын

Isn't colossal growth 1G, with an R also needed for the kicker effect?

@fatkatboy Жыл бұрын

I'm glad I found your content. Mtg was overdue for a content creator that wasn't afraid to relentlessly shitpost. If anyone gives you any guff, they're probably just compensating for all their useless white decks. Keep up the good work.

@austintomlinson7863 Жыл бұрын

Notably, you could also try to find cards that remove all of Death's Shadow's abilities if you want the 12/12* without having to lose all the life. *13/13

@plsdontpokeme3298 Жыл бұрын

It would be a 13/13 if it had no abilities.

@hugoyee8857 Жыл бұрын

Dress Down :)

@gabzsy4924 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for spending a minute of my life to explain to me that when you're alive you are not dead and that when you're dead you're not alive while shouting "alright" in my ear every 5 seconds.

@doodlealchemist1257 Жыл бұрын

"Death is a boolean function" is one of the sickest phrases ever ngl. Im stealing your words once I play dimir.

@SirDoge7 Жыл бұрын

"Either you're alive or you're not alive." Counterpoint: Schödinger's cat

@FaceD0wnDagon Жыл бұрын

Aw, I thought we're were gonna be building an Ad Nauseam OHKO deck like the good old days. Oh well. For context, in Alara/Zendikar standard, Death's Shadow, Ad Nauseam, Lightning Bolt, Devastating Summons and Goblin Bushwhacker were all in standard at the same time. You could easily make a deck that won the game on the spot if you cast Ad Nauseam and survived until untap. Sure, casting a 5 mana spell that lost you a ton of life and hoping to wait until next turn to win was not always reliable, but it was fun, and you could still play it as a normal-ish aggro deck until that point.

@goodcreeper653mincraft2 Жыл бұрын

Noah is smart because life is a resource and however much you have left does not matter if you’re still alive. It only matters if it hits zero. Good job Noah you get a cookie. 👍

@articerile Жыл бұрын

Death's Shadow of Mortality Because sometimes Lightning Bolting yourself is the better play.

@youknowwhoelselikesthisvid8040 Жыл бұрын

Nice video! As for the Thud/Fling strategy I played around with a pure red modern deck that was a token based deck that fuelled my Thunder-Thrash Elder since it had Devour 3, and then I'd eat most of my goblins save for a few other creatures. Infernal Plunge fuelled a lot of combos because of its low cost for a Dark Ritual-tier boost of mana. (BTW it would've been a total abuse of Altar of Dementia)

@Samagachi Жыл бұрын

Combine death’s shadow with platinum angel to make it even stronger

@mueezadam8438 Жыл бұрын

The total exuberance with which red arrows are used gives me life

@rogelioaornelas9310 Жыл бұрын

You’re just trying to make black creatures into green ones and I respect it

@Yetinokles Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I have 4 blood mires sitting in my binder for years and finally know where to use them

@xinlou6707 Жыл бұрын

As someone who wanted to get into magic. Be it in the Magic Arena game on PC or with my friend who wanted to join finances to buy some cards/decks , you convinced me that green big unga bunga monsters is the most fun and best thank you for this now we compete who will use the green deck when we meet to play for funs :)

@daylearmstrong4447 Жыл бұрын

This is a lot like the already existing deck grixis death's shadow, which isn't super popular ATM but some of the principles in it are the same. With three colors you have 8 shock lands and can run 7-8 fetch lands, plus as you pointed out thoughseize. The deck also runs format staples like expressive iteration, ragavan etc. There is also a meme deck Seth (better known as saffron olive) made called "12 shadow" basically a mono black that combos your health down for this big meaty bois

@samtricks1966 Жыл бұрын

This deck is amazing. I’m inspired

@nogard0497 Жыл бұрын

Love this deck idea!

@BouncingTribbles Жыл бұрын

I have fond memories of death battles. Both players able to deal some damage and heal some damage. Both players going below zero multiple turns in a row could feel epic as long as it didn't happen to often

@HendrikdeSmidt Жыл бұрын

I love how he somehow recreated the original primordial version of a multi-format top tier all star deck and still managed to forget that TBR exists

@moshimeshowu747 Жыл бұрын

What is TBR? I'm new to magic

@HendrikdeSmidt Жыл бұрын

@@moshimeshowu747Temur Battle Rage

@Anew522 Жыл бұрын

Love the idea. Working on a commander deck of this rn

@krismanwaring402 Жыл бұрын

Death is a boolean function is the funniest line I've heard oml

@Redpanda9791 Жыл бұрын

Noah you are my spirit animal. Thank you for existing. 🙂

@icespectre5982 Жыл бұрын

I would recommend satyr fire dancer since it copies dmg dealt to face to a target creature which is nice tbf. Casting lightning bolt to face and then copying that very dmg to kill a creature that could be in your way is pretty handy. I just forget if its still legal of not.

@AnIndividual Жыл бұрын

Oh dearie me, the gremlin in my walls is back with more knowledge.

@ComDenox Жыл бұрын

"Death is a boolean function" Funnily enough, if you code "if (life)" where life is a number, any computer would interpret life as false if it's 0 and true if it's greater than 0. So that joke is surprisingly accurate.

@GoddamnAnge Жыл бұрын

Willow the wisp and hatred. 2000s had scourge block, great tribal themes

@Tletna Жыл бұрын

I couldn't tell if this were humor, seriousness, satire, or insane but genius ravings.

@gozol9646 Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile the 2 cent Shock that's in my hand:

@kosm866 Жыл бұрын

"Neeeeowwww" XD that got me

@inteventso Жыл бұрын

I love and hate how great this deck sounds. I want it

@gerojtaylorxk4894 Жыл бұрын

I'm afraid of myself... I'm a YGO player but love this MTG videos...

@VeilofDeathMTG Жыл бұрын

I played Grixis Death Shadow in Modern Recently...so I see you like my shadow ;)

@RazorDevil1 Жыл бұрын

you had me going till the lands, jfc

@ruttokyrpa3472 Жыл бұрын

Can you do a video about bridge construction?

@craney6034 Жыл бұрын

Yes

@danielrehfeldt Жыл бұрын

I really want to see this deck played

@edschramm6757 Жыл бұрын

"or you'll have to play against it" I heard you like Gutshot

@kamerondonaldson5976 Жыл бұрын

every extra point of life is a buffer between being alive and being not alive.

@rodolfocastro6405 Жыл бұрын

Don’t forget that you can cast lightning bolt to damage yourself! This deck strategy is brilliant!

@mtgqc1785 Жыл бұрын

that's rad ... now i wanna build this deck for some reasons

@cheftony2383 Жыл бұрын

Bolt= 1 mana +3/+3 to death shadow stonks

@Kwevin6659 Жыл бұрын

I've had a friend burning inquiry turn 1, he hit every land I had before I even had a turn. 10/10 deck just for the inquiry, wins every time

@Oxygen1004 Жыл бұрын

I'm in love with how this video is made, it's so bad it's good

@lametown2269 Жыл бұрын

You totally had me on board as a budget shadow list until burning inquiry

@musnireggie Жыл бұрын

Subbed I once played fortune thief and gave it hexproof lol

@thatothermainprotagonist4956 Жыл бұрын

I have one question, what if your command has all six colors..... where was that color combo in the friendship tier list?

@TURBOCOW9000 Жыл бұрын

Malakir rebirth might be a good option

@Bonefinger Жыл бұрын

Agadeem can only get creatures with different mana cost. so it can't bring back 2 death'S shadow, and shatterskull can'T do 4 damage to the face for 4 mana , not sure how you read those cards ahah

@pencilwatchesstuff791 Жыл бұрын

Hey the poor guy can't afford new glasses having to pay for both college and his cultivator colossus addiction.

@mshumai 10 ай бұрын

"Death is a boolean function..." Easy for you to say -Schrödinger's cat, probably.

@ulyssesthedm Жыл бұрын

This deck actually looks glorious lol

@ssj458goku Жыл бұрын

Just a yugioh player passing through who happened to have this appear in their feed and was reminded of a certain archetype from the thumbnail This is quite reminiscent of the Dinomorphia (or Dinomorbious as it is famously known as) archetype whos titular monster, a self harming dinosaur-themed super sentai lady, comes with an insane 4000 attack stat-line (for reference, you start with 8000 lifepoints) but loses atk equal to your lifepoints. She can also chop your life points in half to copy the effect of a trap card you have already used, which will often be to protect yourself from damage or even summon another of herself. So as you can imagine, archetype is all about paying your life points to activate effects and such in order to pump your boss as high as possible while keeping your opponent from breathing on, and killing, you with your 1 lifepoint.

@baroquerookbr3214 Жыл бұрын

My dude low key just put pulse of the forge in a deck in 2023. I'm here.

@haminaya6021 Жыл бұрын

Phyrexian Purge may be a nice addition

@Retroloft556 Жыл бұрын

I'm rolling with Scourge of the Skyclave as well as DS and Temur Battle Rage to finish in Historic.

@__-be1gk Жыл бұрын

I love how you can turn any pile of jank into a thousand dollar deck just by having a good manabase

@canceledlogic7656 9 ай бұрын

The irony is that the beginning of this video is actually good advice

@purplefilth6157 4 ай бұрын

I never once played Magic, but this logic definitely reminds me of my Play to Win rush warlock in Hearthstone.

@---uc8sx Жыл бұрын

Death is a boolean function is totally another name for Death Note in another universe

@XxjazzperxX Жыл бұрын

Pro tip: if you proxy the cards you don't need to sell your soul and family to get a fun deck.

@zakirbakar3540 14 күн бұрын

Immortal coil has entered the chat

@Ashes-001 Жыл бұрын

oh no, trample, my worst enemy

@TheGoMetal Жыл бұрын

Message of the Video: YOU ARE ALIIIIVE!!!

@roterwimpel4196 Жыл бұрын

thats a pretty nice deck

@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos Жыл бұрын

Ask anyone who's cast Necropotence, Ad Nauseum, or Yawgmoth's Bargain: the only life point that matters is the last one.

@gilliam510 Жыл бұрын

i've seen bad decks and then you hit me with thiz

@Snowy_Yuki666 Жыл бұрын

I wanna see some play this deck

@jedstanaland2897 Жыл бұрын

You might be able to create a two negatives make a positive situation with your life total by using platinum angel and the kirin and the other items that allow you to get below zero life. There is also a black card that automatically sets your life to zero the next thing is that there is only one card that that actually sets your life to negative through some shenanigans. All of these things are in black and red and Artifact except for the kirin.

@Asteri_agalriarept Жыл бұрын

Death Shadow has a ruling from 2020 stating that negative life is considered 0 life for the purposes of this ability. Otherwise, Shadow would be extremely busted

@williamdrum9899 Жыл бұрын

There's also Mutagenic Growth which pumps your Shadow for +2/+2 but you can pay 2 life to cast it for free which gives it +4/+4, two of which doesn't go away at end of turn!

@julianlastname5730 Жыл бұрын

I feel like a deaths shadow prowess deck could actually work. Take out the creatures that aren’t deaths shadow, put in 4 monastery swiftspear, 4 soulscar mage, and this might actually be pretty good

@yuvalsela4482 Жыл бұрын

noah, im curious about your thoughts on Mill

@Doomblaaade Жыл бұрын

Can't wait to bolt myself on turn one

@coolbyrne8676 3 ай бұрын

"Alright-"

@lowfatlatte0 Жыл бұрын

my nine lives deck would live to fight something like this XD

@Urinal Жыл бұрын

Surprisingly, this might he the best deck Noah has built. Could use a platinum angel though just in case.

@unstopable_rob Жыл бұрын

Death's shadow just makes me wish mana burn still exists

@mdb45424 Жыл бұрын

Here's a fun deck design. Build a deck around treacherous link. Here's a hint shining meteor to the players face hitting at turn 5

@zacknattack Жыл бұрын

paper mario: the thousand year door

@yoshiisnotokay2750 Жыл бұрын

Noah, can you please show how Rolling Thunder plus Wildfire Eternal would work? It’s red

@My1xT Жыл бұрын

stupid question, what happens if your live goes negative, like there are cards that prevent you from losing. would it get then more power as negative times negative is positive? or just no changes at all

@pandabunny8521 Жыл бұрын

this video was very cool i enjoyed it slight issue with the deck though it only has 56 cards not 60 unless i miscounted but i counted 3 times so i doubt that