As a sometimes Lotus Field player, you should definitely be hitting the opponent with the Ashiok minus every turn in r4g2. The Lotus Field deck is full of important 1-ofs, so much so that they play Temples over surveil lands so they don't have to surveil important pieces into the graveyard. If you exile enough of their key cards, they often have a very hard time winning even if they can get Ashiok off the battlefield. E.g. if you exile their one Fae of Wishes, they literally can't win with Approach anymore. And the loyalty on Ashiok is largely irrelevant since they don't play any normal-sized creatures; it's either going to stay in play, get bounced, or get one-shotted by something like Chandra or Dromoka.

Partway through the video, I said "Huh, these are some really unusual Modern decks." Then I saw the title and understood.

@BoshNRoll

3 күн бұрын

The solution to every meta is to play a different format.

@matthewkile8

2 күн бұрын

This is so true it hurts

I really appreciate seeing some Pioneer content here! I know you mostly do Legacy, and I appreciate that content a lot, too, but I play Pioneer regularly!

There's a card called Mosswood dread night that will probably get me to invest and finally play pioneer. I just want to jam 4 of those and whatever else .

@Marksmaan

3 күн бұрын

It's awesome in Insidious Roots. I play a standard roots deck with it and Tenacious Underdog for beats and grind potential. You want the list? It's a bit slow, but a ton of fun.

@xaropevic7918

3 күн бұрын

The deck it shines the most is standard golgari midrange imo

@user-fq2jv3ds7h

3 күн бұрын

@@xaropevic7918 well I ain't playing standard so gotta wait for pioneer the rock to be good

Emerge is one of my favorite mechanics, I hope it gets more love. Happy to see you playing this deck

32:42 i did the math its 0.0004%

@stephentimothybennett

3 күн бұрын

A bit higher if you allow any 4-of. There are 8 4-ofs in the deck, but he's seen a copy of half of those, leaving 4 possible sets of 4-ofs to hit. So there's 4 times as many ways to get four of a kind, leaving a probability of 0.0016%. The calculation is (16/51) * (3/50) * (2/49) * (1/48), which comes out to 0.0016%.

2 күн бұрын

why 16 and not 4?

@stephentimothybennett

2 күн бұрын

There are 4 different card names that have 4 copies in the library, so there are 4 x 4 = 16 different first cards you could hit. After that, there are only 3 copies of that same card, etc.

Flush out that hole with your deep-fiend.

@peterheinisch2294

3 күн бұрын

Probably still nicer than Plowing your Mother

My personal take on the flavour of the Mosswood Dreadknight having trample is similar to charging badget having trample! It's not the length of the weapon, but rather that they are that relentless that if they aren't entirely stopped, they will charge all the way through - even if dealt a lethal blow, they refuse to relent. (Made even better by the Dreadknight coming back, time after time.)

Call that Foul Emissary Belle the way it attracted all those Lovestruck Beasts!

Xmas came early my fav content creator plays my favorite format

Thanks again Bosh for playing the deck

Elder Deep Fiend pack, smoke 'em if you got 'em

This video shows the amount of win percentage that could be gained from extensive format knowledge

I generally don't like putting even four Painlands in a deck, so six seems really ambitious. Also, the deck has 13 blue sources, not 9. I think your Legacy brain mistook Watery Grave for Polluted Delta.

I am constantly looking for updated EDF decks in pioneer blessssss

36:16 Archfiend is a very interesting idea. I remember someone dying to triple tap target creature spells with it, but a 6/6 is big

Shout out for the Pioner content. Keep it coming please!

49:15 Two Explores 👍

Was wondering why all the lands look weird then realized oh it's not legacy XDDD

Always love seeing Pioneer, especially Sultai!

36:04 i don't know that your opponent having specifically another fatal push is something you have to be too worried about ;)

Love your content and your positive attitude! Prefer Legacy and Modern but this deck is definitely interesting and might just tempt me into the pioneer waters!

I'm fiending for this content!

With so many adventures, you think it's worth leaning in a bit with a payoff or is that too cute and dilute what the deck is trying to so?

@BoshNRoll

3 күн бұрын

The adventures are already 2-for-1s that enable your big stuff. You could try to make room for Edgewall Inkeeper, but I don't think it's worth it.

@Marksmaan

3 күн бұрын

@@BoshNRoll That's what I thought you were going to say lol. I've tried adventures in Pioneer before and it never really worked. It's just, being a 1/1 for Beast and how explosive it can be is cool. But there's still plenty of card advantage even outside the adventures with Emissary and Empath. Why do all the cool things have to be too cute?

Fierce empath is a great place for this deck

Elder Deep Friend:)

I love the pioneer content!

32:32 The chance of this happening is 1/249,900 or ~0.0004% Also the chance of drawing all of the pain lands before drawing any other land in round 3 is 1/134,596 or ~0.0007% The chance of both happening in the same video is 1/33,635,540,400 or ~0.000000003%

BoshNRoll playing a golgari deck with a blue splash wondering if 9 blue sources is too low. Me looking at the rakdos deck with a green splash I am working on with 8 green sources.. In my defense the cards only require 1 green. Using ye old hypergeometric if you want to have a 95% chance to get 2 out of your 9 blue sources you need to see 25 cards.

In round four at 58:02 why didn’t you upkeep tap opponents lands with deep fiend?

@BoshNRoll

3 күн бұрын

Because their lands have hexproof.

@joshdoughty5211

3 күн бұрын

@@BoshNRoll oh right, nvm I forgot lotus field has hexproof

I gotta ask, why no up the bean stalk? Is it too slow?

@UnrelatedUsername

3 күн бұрын

Pioneer, card isn't in that format.

@thelilblueguy6016

3 күн бұрын

Beanstalk is in pio. Sees play in Niv to Light ​@@UnrelatedUsername

@pufflepuff8961

3 күн бұрын

@@UnrelatedUsername check scryfall, card is currently standard legal and not banned in pioneer.

@UnrelatedUsername

3 күн бұрын

@@thelilblueguy6016 Oops, I guess I assumed it was a LOTR card because of how strong it is.

@BoshNRoll

3 күн бұрын

It doesn't sac to Eldrazi or attack for damage. What would you cut from the existing engine for beanstalks that makes the deck stronger?

Bosh smoke pack em you if got em

First

pioneer?! what the F is pioneer?

@janmelantu7490

3 күн бұрын

The Zoomers’ Eternal Format. RTR-present, no fetchlands, no modern horizons.

@justass3001

3 күн бұрын

A pretty cool format, it should’ve got some bans a week ago, but alas

@mightymitch1421

3 күн бұрын

@@janmelantu7490 Lucky bastards who haven't been turned into cash piñatas by bullshit direct-to-format sets.

pioneer is such a miserable format imo. none of the decks are fun to play against and the threats are so much more powerful than the answers

good old pooroneer, forgot that 'format' was even a thing