TIL: Power Word Kill can kill Vampires. Who Knew?

"The beatings will continue until basic land count improves" - Seth, probably

"can't afford to draw 10..." As he exiles 5 with Chandra. Never change Seth

18:30 "We have to hit a sweeper here" Meanwhile Chandra is on board and can just -3 to kill both Bonecrushers

14:04 “well, I guess Sheoldred’s not the end of the world” Literally named ‘The Apocalypse’

''Can't kill bloodtithe harvester with Power Word Kill'' Advice given to me as a new player, reading the card explains the card, Seth :)

The amount of times you used basics to activate field when you had a sunken citadel on board grinds my gears.

I love the smell of blood in the water the second Seth realizes it’s only like 1 or 2 basics. A shift from the apprehensive and careful to bloodthirsty

Seeing you wreck the Lotus Field deck with Buzzcrusher was SOOOO satisfying. Excellent gameplay

This is why I run 15 basics in the sideboard.

"Arena players are greedy!" Pot and kettle, Seth

"We need a creature to attack, better exile it so i cant cast it"

MOMMMM! Seth’s playing Ponza again!!!

Ya know, the genius of this is its actually not even toxic land hate - the cards give the opponent a chance to just go trade for a basic but they literally CAN'T so really its their own fault lol. Hilarious to watch.

Does Seth think that Power Word Kill doesn't work against vampires?

That boros opponent had the fastest scoop in the west. Seth was on two life! Immodane's recruiter was still lethal!

this deck is probably healthy for the format, its good when people are greedy and bad when they aren't. kind of like modern dredge and graveyard hate. even though it can feel oppressive, the way it influences deckbuilding actually decreases degeneracy overall.

Seth you've done it, you have created the morally good ponza deck!

Your commitment to activating Chandra for mana after casting spells was impressive.

5:20 Yes you can. Power Word Kill says nothing about Vampires.

I'm done with Seth not using citadel to pay 2 for lands abilities. haha

I love how the Rakdos opponent plays a few Fields with only 2 basics. They should increase that number.

1st opponent definitely stuck it out for the content 😂

My main competitive deck way back in the day was 4x Sinkhole, Strip Mine, Stone Rain, Ice Storm, Pillage, Thermokarst... Along with Nev's Disk, Nether Void, Bolts, Shatter, etc. to quickly clean off anything you might actually get to play. Such a fun time in Magic 😂

To everyone shouting to Seth for not killing a vampire with Power Word Kill, I get him, I too get confused with it because of a highly played removal back in Innistrad called Victim of Night which destroyed a Non werewolf, Nom Zombie and more importantly NON VAMPIRE creature, so, I think he might be dealing with the same thing lol

Just faced this on the ladder, thanks so much Seth

Mad props to first opponent for sticking it out

53:10, you draw fatal push to kill the 1/3 and then you could have buzz..

Once again Seth is on his villain origin story where he eventually assembles mono red prison in newer formats. Chalice, land destruction, Chandra..

35:10 "The beatings will continue until morale improves"

Watching the Lotus field deck lose was sooo cathartic

"Would you like to search for a basic?" hahahahaha 😂

53:00 fatal push proctor then buzzkill?

i use to play magic when i was younger. i think tid be cool if you made a video explaining how to play and basic strategy . thanks for doing what you do.

9:12 an all-time favorite Seth moment for me. The ruthlessness of that giggle 😂

Every time I hear Seth say "flawless victory " I'm instantly sold

I made an Izzet LD deck back in the day that used Cleansing Wildfire with a bunch of Copy effects so that I could blow up a ton of lands at once. The thing that made it work though, was that I would get a Confounding Conundrum on the field first, which states that "Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, if that player had another land enter the battlefield under their control this turn, they return a land they control to its owner's hand." So sure, they'd get to dig some basics out of their deck whenever I blew one up, but after the first one, they had to put it back in their hand.

Great, now I wanna play land destruction in pioneer. Thanks a lot, Seth! (No, really, thank you, this deck is hilarious and amazing)

73 turn permissions decks OK land destruction decks NOOOO WE CANT HAVE THAT

I think against mono colors you need to double down on the Deadly cover up plan. Maybe have a second sweeper in the sideboard. Path, or anger of the gods.

This deck was so fun to watch.

I feel this deck at a spiritual level

26:03 Case of the Filched Falcon does not work the way you want with Vehicles. Because the Crew ability makes it an artifact creature WITHOUT setting power and toughness, it you put the counters on a Smuggler's Copter if will remain a 0/0 even if you crew it. Still a really good interaction but does not make it a 7/7 EDIT: Fixed spelling mistake

9:51 so, i just looked at this playing in the background, and thats my friend you are fighting RN, he actually complained to me about this exact match, and thought that by staying, he could deck you out by thinking you didnt have a finisher

Best video of the year so far.

@51:50 Couldn't Seth have destroyed the vizier first with power word kill and then move to combat into second main in order to dissipate the potential floated mana and then cleansing wildfire to the lotus field in order to play around the Boseiju? Just a thought

*Rihum: A Hero for the Ages.* Stood bravely against the Land Destruction deck, probably in awe and disbelief; but his gallantry will not be forgotten.

Ah, that explains why I've seen this deck 10+ times today

Wow, that deadly cover up is very strong!

Very fun to watch

Thanks Seth!

“Opponent, would you like to search up a basic?” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I used to play a deck using green that would let me destroy one of their lands and then search their hand, library, and graveyard to exile all other cards with the same name. Wish I could remember the cards. Back around the time when Coldsnap was new on MTGO. Going to drive me crazy trying to remember the combo.Liquimetal Coating was new.

I love this deck so much lmao

Back in the day I played jund land destruction. But back then we had sinkhole, stone rain, ice storm, strip mine pre restriction, all the power 9, and win with juzam or channel/fireball.

"We need a way to beat mono colored.". It's already in the deck. Deadly cover up can exile any card, including basics. Add a few Smashing Success to the sideboard because it can hit basics and it's an instant, so on a good day you can have Chandra out, hit two lands with Wildfire on your turn and two more with Success on the opponent's turn.

YES! I haven't seen the video yet but seeing Deadly Cover-up I know it's already gonna be brutal :D

Played against a Goblin deck in explorer Bo3, I was runing rakdos sacrifice. Game 3 I had a swamp and my 2 field of ruin as lands, so I fired one off turn 3 just to get a mountain and fix my mana. To my surprise, the goblin deck, with a Black splash that I never saw used, playing almost only red, had no basics. So I started the game with 2 strip mines, fixed my mana slowly and recovered from a dead mulligan. Run basics, friends, run basics

Awesome deck 👽

I think I played against somebody doing this exact deck. Unfortunately for them I had all forests. Bloom-kin is love, boom-kin is life!

I recently tried to brew a version of this for Modern that would loop Ghost Quarter with extra land drops and Crucible effects.

This is fairly close to my modern decks gameplan so I'm very happy to see this

Confounding Conundrum is the build around card for all the new "fair" land destruction.

That new thopter is sick

59:53 Transformational sideboard plan, turning all your jank land destruction into midrange threats? The shell of it is kinda already there, but maybe we give up on the silver bullets in favor of just solid cards to become a pseudo-Rakdos games 2 and 3 against mono-color strategies? You only really need an 8-card package to do it, swapping out the Cleansing Wildfire and Dire-Strain Rampage for like Sheoldred and Graveyard Trespasser and Fable of the Mirror Breaker, since the Assassin's Trophy is still solid removal and the Deadly Cover-Up still functions as a wrath.

I dont know how settled and standardized pioneer meta decks are, but deadly cover up is also great because it gives you your opponents entire decklist minus sideboard in best of 3.

Drafted deadly cover up and noticed the lack of basic land in the exile. Thought to hit you up Seth for LD. Had to chastise myself, because you don't need that, you know the line. So more or less I've been waiting to see how you brew it!

I think Crumble To Dust really should be in the sideboard for matchups like the Ensoul Artifact deck. It lets you exile a land, remove all copies of it, and get hand/deck information from it. It's 4 mana, but I think the 1 mana increase is worth it in situations like that. Or if they are able to give a permanent protection from a color, the devoid on it allows you to go around it.

Oh man that game at the beginning was hilarious. How didn’t they scoop 😂

11:15 well you just said it, you're close to milling out

Filched is definitely a word. To filch is to steal. So the case of the filched falcon is the case of the stolen falcon. Probably the coveted falcon specifically.

At 19:02 woudn't Fatal Push been better to get rid of the Bonecrusher Giants?

@18:35 had a really cool line. Fatal push a bonecrusher, copy target the other one, and then Wildfire yourself with those two on the stack for Revolt.

Looking forward to another video! Also only 7 likes so far wow

I swear, Seth has the perfect KZfaqr voice

In explorer you can have funnier version of the locking out the opponent and this is thanks to all the exile cards sharing name effects as there are so many of them. Let them be landflooded, remove their every wincon instead while also milling them out (since you exile their library over time)

34:59 Yes, Seth, your Chandra is probably resolving against 1R from the opponent :D

I love how Teferi and Azorius control are incredibly rampant, but it's land destruction control that WoTC puts a stop to.

How does the Buzzcrusher go around the Lotus Field's hexproof?

I want to see Seth do this with Mythweaver Paq in Historic Brawl. Theres enough non basic land destruction with ghost quarter like effects in it. Especially so when you copy them. Add in playing lands from graveyard effects and you really punish greedy mana bases.

Seth I LOVE YOU, and I understand the flawless victory being opponent with no boardz, but historically, a flawless victory is to loose 0 health ;) Keep up the amazing brewing!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Neat deck! I'm a UBW esper player and I always ran 3 basics specifically because of fetches like this. (one of each color so I could pick any of them if I needed a specific one). I'd like to think that'd buy me enough time before I ran out of basics to at least get to a turn where I could stabilize with some consistent card draw and counter spells to prevent most of the future destruction effects from hitting. I could see myself losing easily though, even if I didn't draw into any of the basics. I always kept a fourth basic in my sideboard, you might be convincing me to run 3 basics in the side so I can go up to 6 total in the followup games at least :) Also, whenever my flipped Azcanta inevitably got blown up I would definitely cry

This is kind of hard to watch…I love it!!!

i was really hoping to see one of the cards on Arena that doesn't let you search your library. like Ashiok, Dream Render wouldn't let you replace your Field of Ruin with a basic, right?

Any reason to not cut all deadly cover ups game 2? 5 mana wrath seems ambitious against burn and at least wildfire draws a card

I love how every single time he just ignores the fact that sunken citadel can activate field by itself and taps two other lands :D

25:05 Filch is a word, it means to steal

Field of Ruin is my favourite piece of mana fixing in MTG

I don't think I've ever seen cleansing wildfire used as anything other than ramp before.

Best land destruction achieved games if ever seen.

Would death rite shaman make the list better because you could get to 5 mana faster and gain life against mono red to get all the lands out of their deck?

"Filched" is definitely a word, just not one that sees any use any more. To filch is to stealthily take, to swipe, to steal. If you read old novels, you might run across it.

Well, you could do a side changing deck thing, but keep the anti lotus lol, the rest make a changing deck way, with extra creatures or maybe a combo

Using Deadly Coverup to fix the monocolor issue is just too cool.

Some additions that this deck needs, Ashiok (the war of the spark one) As this can help u fight people with basics 4 Scheming Symmetry as u force them to shuffle with all the land destruction and its a 1 mana tutor. Boseiju it's another land destruction spell

Why not bring War of the Spark Ashiok? For 3 mana you get to just shut down searches entirely, which helps in the mono color matchup

51:50 could have used the removal spell first. Opponent might not respond with boseiju and even if they do, at least you won’t fizzle when they respond to you targeting lotus field.

Run a couple of darksteel citadels? Target darksteel citadel with cleansing and profit?

I was today years old when I learned you can use sunken citadel to tap for two when you cycle a triome

I just put together a rakdos pioneer land destruction deck based around Rowan scion of War but it also runs buzzcrusher, cleansing Wildfire, and deadly cover up, that's funny