'Obliterator Surprise' Opponent: Surprise! I can't read!

First time I've been able to see the video before the official thumbnail

“2024 Magic is just ‘how can I snowball?’” - asks Seth, as he’s making more snowballs for his pile of snowball brews

I have played against a mythic orange Wizards employee. In the loading screen they write "Make sure to say hi!", so I emoted "hello". They didn't respond and went on to beat me brutally. In my 15 years of Magic, it was the only moment of Wizards being honest to me.

6:21 Necro-*what now Seth*

Wait, he isn't dead, Smuggler's Surprise! Obliterator in hand, and death in his eyes!

Ah yes, a way to get around the "downside" of your opponent not attacking into or blocking your 5/5

The opponent who sac'd their own board is the true definition of "reading the card explains the card"

Seth was surprised that virtuoso doesn't see more play. Then he remembered that he sided in 7 additional removal spells like most midrange decks in standard.

42:37 Seth asks the Magic Gods for Removal. They grant his wish. He didn’t think through his wish very thoroughly. Seth concedes.

"If our opponent was alive" Seth, he just disconnected. He didn't have a heart attack 😂

“Necropussy” - Seth

This series is always such a fun reminder that Magic can be about more than just wins and losses.

Lookout is the sneaky MVP. That crime ramp is so nuts.

30:50 shoulda been a sports announcer Seth 😂

I love you Seth, it is NECROPSY, there's NEH-CROP-SEE

Actually, smuggler's surprise lets you hexproof and inderstructible your creatures, so if you have enough mana you don't care about removal

Pronouncing Necropsy (like... Necro Autopsy) like "Necropussy" sure is a choice. And I'm here for it.

HEY! That’s me in the last one, Dragon16 So mad I got mana screwed, iirc I muliganned a 1 land hand into a 0 land hand… my deck had a lot of crazy I’m sad I didn’t get to show off. Was a sucky loss, but GG’s, hope to encounter you on ladder again in the future

30:54 bro is sounding like a Mexican commentator for Futbal 😭

I play an Abzan Meme deck in Timeless I call “Domestic Dispute”. It’s Obliterators and Vindicators with a bunch of fight spells, etc. You would not believe how many people will swing into me then scoop once the trigger hits and they realize what they did 🤣

And for the record, Seth did play against WotC staff during the MH3 streamer event today.

Seth's Dog panting while he's explaining the deck is funny as hell! love the deck! always enjoyed seeing peoples reactions to this card when i ran it in modern black devotion.

23:26 awesome. opponent probably thought both strikes would hit.

That was the great "scoop" ever. MTGO literally said "okay, Time stop." 😂

hello, i just found your chanel again after a long time and want to say i love the decks you are building and the shows you are producing. im a disabled veteran and your chanel brings joy to my day. thank you

Slightly unnerved by the way Seth says Necrop*ssy. Is he the real Graveyard Trespasser?

Anyone else hear the extremely high constant pitch during the video?

Perfect timing, I just finished listing a Phyrexian Fight Club EDH deck that's basically exactly this

Yes! I love Phyrexian Obliterator; its one of my favourite cards ❤

Thanks for showing the probability calculator. That is a tool I will use in the future when deckbuilding.

Loving smugglers surprise with Vaultborn Tyrant. I made a “Dino Surprise” deck with it and instead of Obliterator and Ghalta I use Etali, Tyrranax Rex, Trumpeting Carnosaur and Kogla and Yidaro

Ran into this deck on the ladder and I had no clue what they are actually trying to do with obliterators. I was playing unblockable Menace creatures with a Rope equipped - the deck, so obliterators didn't have the option to block. Never occurred to me that they could flash them in and block xD That's way cooler of a gameplan than what I experienced, because my jank was jankier. Though I was confused why they didn't attack, they had the opportunity to deal at least 10 damage that game but didn't swing in - ended up winning with 22 life so it didn't matter but it seemed free at the time.

Honestly - you don't need anything to make Obliterator better...it is literally perfection.

Your dog panting in the deck into is crazy

Is it just me, or is there a high-pitch whine going through the video (absent in the ad read because it's probably an old audio recording)

love the idea!

Video good. Thumbnail perfect

All the cards in the world will never replace knowledge of the rules and mechanics! My friend and I once had a board state where he had an Abyssal Persecutor, me down to -4 life, but no way to sac it. I was playing mono green with a splash of the 3 legendary Eldrazi. I attack him with lethal trample damage, but no Eldrazi, because annihilator would work against me. He of course blocked with Abyssal Persecutor in such a way that it would die, and then we had to dig into the rules to figure out who wins. We concluded, and were eventually proven right when we asked a judge about it, that I won, because Abyssal Persecutor, and it's ability, remain on the board until the cleanup step, meaning that my friend lost before his Abyssal Persecutor could die and result in my loss!

W0bee here. I've been waiting for this to come up for a few weeks. Amazing how his monolog was just about what I was thinking in game three.

Another strat is playing the obliterator and doing a little bit of fighting with your opponent creature

23:31 😂 best ever

I played Staff once. They were playing some kind of janky game eldraine tap deck, and i went infinite on turn 4. So I could say that I have 100% winrate against WOTC.

Opponent: "Fine. I'll do it myself"

I mean if you're running obliterator in golgari, there are fight spells that will force them to sac. That's how I play it at least. Green ramps and fights while black is obliterator and tutors and kill spells. Also Leyline Prowler! ramps you while defending you fairly competently.

The thing i notice the most is trying to hold back in anticipation of the opponent. Play what you need and adjust off of that

2:48 Sunken City, now they're not going to see this coming

I love obliterator decks. Have a infect fight obliterator deck that's fun.

This sort of stuff is why Tamiyo: Collector of Tales is among my favorite planeswalkers. Ha! lol I had not seen smugglers surprise until this video, got my arena daily done and opened a pack with smugglers surprise. Noice.

Nice!

I think this deck is a cool meme. I think the issue is that you don't have enough early game plays. Maybe one for Mosswood Dreadknight?

What was the plan in the 3rd game vs Jodah? Just play Obliterator or keep up the removal. What was the point of another land? Am I stupid?

... Ideally, the smuggler's surprises will make them *hexproof, indestructible* Obliterators

This is my favorte card. 4 of these and 4 sheoldred the apocalypse with 4 gix command and 4 tergrid.

This is a sorcery, but I like "Lively Dirge" for the obliterator. Its spree abilities are +1 search your library for a card and put it in your graveyard and +2 return up to 2 creatures with total mana 4 or less from graveyard into battlefield. 4 obliterators, 4 dirges, fight spells. Its neat

16:55 "I don't wanna win the game, I want to smuggler's surprise" -Seth, 2024 🤣

did something very similar with fight spells. Way easier to pull off. We have instant speed 1 mana fights in the format, you can do it turn 4 with the right hand. It doesnt need to be during combat. The spell itself is usually killing a creature, making the number of creatures they need to sac even more brutal. I get you want your surprise, but honestly there are easier ways of achieving the same goal

51:00 Actually, population size would be 49 because you had already drawn 11 cards, successes is only 20 because you had already drawn or fetched 5 lands. This would make the chance of failure 6.3% rather than 5.9%. Not a big difference but still something to keep in mind, especially in longer games.

Yes, Seth, you play against a WotC before. It was in one of the streamer Early Access events last year(2023).

There’s no “uh” sound after the P in Necropsy, it’s just Neh-crop-see. 😊

I wonder if the deck would work a little more consistently with more ramp and less crime. Hostile Investigator doesn't really advance the plan much, and the singleton Stomper whiffing so easily on only 2 basics probably doesn't help either. I would be interested to see a version with the 2-mana ramp spell, a couple more basics, and the set of Stompers. The first competitive deck I ever tried to build was Tooth & Nail when it was in Standard, so this was a fun deck to watch!

Cool deck, but I kinda wanna try out Sword of once and future on Glissa now.

23:00 😂 wait for it. Takes less than a minute. 🎉🎉🎉

You could add in some bushwhack. It's helpful to fix your lands. And later game you can force the damage on the obliterator.

My kind of monster!

I acutally played one of the devs today in Bo1. Its the 2nd or 3rd one that I remember playing.

I would swap out the Hostile Negotiatior for Roaming Throne. Either doubling the Obliterator triggers or the Tyrant would be nuts.

Bushwack works good too

Please consider a high pass filter on the audio. There's a high pitch whine in the video.

I did once play against a “mythic orange” employee, their display name also indicated they were a test user. I never felt more that I had to win a random best-of-one

more like sunken city surprise! I play that in my OG homarid deck

I love that the idea of "removal check" cards is getting more popular becuase it very nicely reframes "dies to doomblade" arguments

The way Seth says however makes me think he's a secret jjk fan XD

My first commander deck had masako the humorless for the specific purpose of tricking people into getting obliterated

I've seen the dream flawless... but from the wrong side. Opposite my friend's Obliterator deck that uses fight spells instead of trying to flash into combat.

2:48 dont think i missed that super secret Sunken Ruins tech.

Please can you suggest a Pioneer version of this gate with better alternative for some cards?

I played against one mythic orange name, not long after I started on arena. Don't remember who it was though lol.

Necropo- WHAT, SETH?

There is a card unlike any other that counters this… It causes one of your opponents creatures to deal damage to another of an opponent’s creatures… I once made someone that played Obliterator sac their entire board, off their own Obliterator!

Tooth and Nail at instant speed is nasty

That card won’t stop me! I can’t read!

I have played since the closed beta and i faced a orange named player for the first time last year.

I'm always thinking about how I can snowball.

23:39 very funny

2:47 sunken city

23:55 if I was to take a guess I would think your opponent may not have realized there’s a phase between first strike and the rest of damage. They may have thought all damage gets calculated then any effects happen. I’m curious if others over look this. This seems like the kind of ruling you’d mess up once and never would forget it.

Could put in fight spells to trigger obliterater

59:27 One of the several times Seth could've added the hexproof/indestructible for free, and a time it mattered. Neat deck otherwise!

Best card with smuggler surprise is always calamity otk, it's like it was created for that

You got hurt by that single forest in almost every match. :( You don't even need it in the deck. If you're fetching with Stomper, you already have 2 green.

I just played against this deck last night.... Hopefully I'm not in this video lol saw the deck list and thought huh that looks familiar

You should put a fight card in there.

Just use 'fight' cards like Tail Swipe, Bushwack, etc, faster and less costly than Smuggler's, but whatevs

If this deck contains casual Bushwack, things can be faster a lot

I totally forgot obliterator was in standard I watched the entire intro assuming this was the weirdest historic deck

I think there's a high-pitched hum in the background of this video. It's missing from the pre-recorded Card Kingsom sponsor segment, and present the rest of the time.

18 minutes in, not a single obliterator has been played yet

Honestly, Investigator has no right being a freaking _mythic._

So.... I've won a ton of games with this deck. Probably 20+ wins. I still haven't gotten to Surprise anyone with an Obliterator.