Every Modern Magic: the Gathering Combo Explained (MTG)

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Modern is a huge format overflowing with combos and today I'm going to explain each and every one of them! Is there a combo that I missed that you are curious about? Let me know in the comments and I'll do my best to explain it!
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0:00 Start
1:13 Yawgmoth Combo
2:52 Indomitable Creativity
3:54 Amulet Titan Combo
4:59 Living End
5:46 Glimpse of Tomorrow Combo
7:16 Hammer Time
7:43 Underworld Breach Combo
8:46 Twiddle Storm Combo
9:25 Traditional Storm Combo
10:31 Infect Combo
11:19 Devoted Druid Combo
12:15 Hardened Scales Combo
13:33 Scapeshift Combo
14:25 Thopter Sword Combo
15:25 Belcher
16:46 Neobrand Combo
18:15 Ad Nauseam
19:20 Copy Cat Combo
20:22 Tameshi Combo
21:41 Kiki Combo
22:13 Goblins Combo
23:49 Oops, All Spells
25:43 Heliod Combo
26:37 Jeskai Ascendancy Combo
28:07 Inverter Combo
28:22 Selective Memory Combo
28:36 Knightfall Combo

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  • @ryanhebertson7457
    @ryanhebertson7457 Жыл бұрын

    You forgot the most powerful combo!!! 6 forests and a Colossal Dreadmaw!

  • @mutaharyourmomisinmyharema1373

    @mutaharyourmomisinmyharema1373

    Жыл бұрын

    This one is forbidden

  • @DJMcCoo1io

    @DJMcCoo1io

    Жыл бұрын

    Honestly, it should be banned. a 6/6 with built-in evasion is too strong for turn 6

  • @CromwellMTG

    @CromwellMTG

    Жыл бұрын

    Almost as classic as a forest and a charging badger

  • @v-niftytrickster4166

    @v-niftytrickster4166

    Жыл бұрын

    You forgot Vivien combo

  • @v-niftytrickster4166

    @v-niftytrickster4166

    Жыл бұрын

    You forgot Vivien combo

  • @12triproberts
    @12triproberts Жыл бұрын

    It's kinda wild how impactful MDFC's are as Modern combo enablers- If it weren't for Modern Horizons sets, Zendikar Rising might be the most impactful set of the last few years.

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, the MDFCs have done a lot for some unique combos. They are super good!

  • @lukecraig4984
    @lukecraig4984 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for making videos like these! It's really helpful for people like me that get confused in some modern videos when I don't understand why you lost

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I've gotten quite a few comments saying similar things which is part of why I wanted to make the video.

  • @dinnerpartyempire
    @dinnerpartyempire Жыл бұрын

    Seth I have to say seeing this huge variety of videos, including timeless, best of its kind teaching like this, magic cheaters, best creature each year, as well as all the deckbuilding innovation in the playing magic section, it makes me so happy to see. So glad for the whole mtggoldfish people, you all share so much "you-ness" that I can't help but be inspired to live well and stick by my good pals.🏆🥭

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @dementievatz
    @dementievatz Жыл бұрын

    In some of these, it’s kind of hard to differentiate between “this is just how the card works” and “this is a combo.” Like, if cascading into Living End is a combo, what about cascading into Rhinos?

  • @theyonlycomeoutwhenitsquiet

    @theyonlycomeoutwhenitsquiet

    Жыл бұрын

    Presumably the difference lies in the scale of results.

  • @nimbus6694

    @nimbus6694

    Жыл бұрын

    Combo decks are built around few payoffs and many ways to get to those payoffs. Living end is a combo because the rest of the deck is full of evokes and cyclers to make sure the LE resolves, and in contrast, cascading into rhinos is a high value play in a tempo deck. Combos value both card quality over redundancy (so burn and dredge are not combos) and value ways to get to those combos (so UW control with mystic sanctuary+cryptic command is not a combo deck)

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, what counts as a combo is a tricky question. Initially I had a part in the intro talking about the definition, but ended up cutting it because it was sort of long. I landed on: a synergy involving more than one card that either immediately wins the game or puts the player so for ahead they virtually win the game and should literally win within a couple of turns. It's murky for sure, but by this definition Living End would be a combo because it builds a board so bit it usually wins in a turn or two, but Rhinos isn't because two 4/4's doesn't necessarily win the game.

  • @davidhansen5067

    @davidhansen5067

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MTGGoldfish It's a strange, strange Modern we play where cascading into Crashing Footfalls is a "midrange" deck. 😹

  • @seancpp
    @seancpp Жыл бұрын

    Additionally in Heliod combo, if you have a Conclave Mentor on the battlefield with the spike feeder combo, it can grow your creatures infinitely big since you'll net an additional +1/+1 every time you do the loop

  • @wldnrkls

    @wldnrkls

    Жыл бұрын

    how does an infinitely big creature matter in that situation

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Good point! Conclave Mentor can help power up the combo for sure.

  • @Il_Dilettante

    @Il_Dilettante

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@wldnrkls if your opponent has an alternate win condition you will still lose

  • @erysecret
    @erysecret Жыл бұрын

    I loved Ad Nauseam but the banning of Simian Spirit Guide really took the legs out from under the deck. Without that free mana, its too slow now. Still, it was nice to see it again in this list, like looking at an old friend!

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, Ad Naus isn't nearly as heavily played as it used to be. At one point it was a tier one deck, but losing the extra mana from Simian Spirit Guide really slowed it down by making it so you can't combo off while tapped out. It still shows up on occasion, but it's tier three at best now.

  • @SymmetricalDocking
    @SymmetricalDocking Жыл бұрын

    I honestly thought this was going to be a youtube short and a troll video before I clicked it

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Ha, no, it's a serious one.

  • @coreysierchio4650
    @coreysierchio4650 Жыл бұрын

    Tell me Yargle & Multani will make an appearance in Part 2 of this series, lol. *Thanks for the Content!*

  • @mangoalias608
    @mangoalias608 Жыл бұрын

    ok, off to build a deck with every single one of these combos in it. should be really reliable

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Ha, that could actually be pretty funny.

  • @techoutsider5631

    @techoutsider5631

    Жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately, Amulet Titan requires lands and Belcher only works if you don’t have lands.

  • @yodaman849

    @yodaman849

    Жыл бұрын

    @mangoalias608 You might as well make it a battle of wits deck while you're at it.

  • @-homerow-
    @-homerow- Жыл бұрын

    This video is super epic! Thanks for these series. Love it!!!

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @michaelweinacht6724
    @michaelweinacht6724 Жыл бұрын

    Tron and infect seem to fall under Synergy in the Synergy/Combo spectrum, though there can be combo kills within the decks like Mindslaver lock. You could also talk about former combos that were banned like Blazing Infect, KCI, Twin, Punishing Fire, and Eggs.

  • @urschniwurschni8603
    @urschniwurschni8603 Жыл бұрын

    Super cool and informative video!

  • @EffinChat
    @EffinChat Жыл бұрын

    The Yogmawth combo segment reminded me of the existence of MoggWarts so i skipped forward to the Goblins Combo part to be bitterly disappointed that Conspicuous Snoop was the combo that you talked about

  • @Fafnir_92
    @Fafnir_92 Жыл бұрын

    I love this kind of materials!

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @TripsAhoy
    @TripsAhoy Жыл бұрын

    Good informative video! ❤❤❤

  • @wolfkillalpha6403
    @wolfkillalpha6403 Жыл бұрын

    That was a lot of help thx

  • @ImJarriedOfSuburbia
    @ImJarriedOfSuburbia Жыл бұрын

    I like how you didnt mention that you created the Hammertime Deck and how impactful it was

  • @paramoecium9308
    @paramoecium9308 Жыл бұрын

    I can think of 3 other ways to win with Neobrand. Very cool combo

  • @LVL99Totodile

    @LVL99Totodile

    Жыл бұрын

    Same, also I think Thoracle might be the worst win con. Personally gut shot is my favorite since it takes so few slots and can hit monkey. Thrasta is also great though.

  • @AfterAllofTime
    @AfterAllofTime Жыл бұрын

    You forgot about the secondary combo in belcher using pyromancer’s ascension and a loop of bala ged, noxious revival, manamorphose, and desperate ritual to make infinite mana, draw infinite cards, use skyclave to make infinite angels using the infinite mana and recursion and then finally giving them all haste through song mad treatury

  • @woower100
    @woower1009 ай бұрын

    Neobrand player here. Gut shot win con is the best right now. Even more convoluted than oracle. (There are many other ways to win, and can also kill turn 1)

  • @chapeldweller
    @chapeldweller Жыл бұрын

    NeoBrando Combo is so fun to pull off though I haven't played the Thassa's Oracle version. I've played the OG with LabMan/Lightning Storm. Then after Simian got banned I played the Thrasta version.

  • @augustandre7122
    @augustandre7122 Жыл бұрын

    Glad to see the majority of my decks represented here. Making a gauntlet of various formats (5 modern, 3 pauper, 2 pioneer, 2 legacy) Yawgmoth, amulet titan, grixis shadow breach, esper scam, and Neobrand :) infect and ad nauseam make up my legacy decks, zubera Storm and oops all spells in pauper :) Neoform and lotus field in pioneer. Only non combo decks are Rakdos burn in pauper and maybe esper scam/ death's shadow (when siding out combo tings) yay combo🎉🎉🎉

  • @felixstoll5359
    @felixstoll5359 Жыл бұрын

    Vizier Druid Combo is my love

  • @esrohm6460
    @esrohm6460 Жыл бұрын

    my favorite combo will always be my opponents misplays into shame scoops. one of the most fundamental combos of all trading card games

  • @jangrokortenhaus3036
    @jangrokortenhaus3036 Жыл бұрын

    I'm glad your voice is better! :)

  • @sashacutie3
    @sashacutie3 Жыл бұрын

    Great video. Sad u missed restore balance combo

  • @eightgaming3865
    @eightgaming3865 Жыл бұрын

    The mindslaver combo from mono blue Tron is missing.

  • @logansmall5148
    @logansmall5148 Жыл бұрын

    Acerak + Intruder Alarm + Mana Dorks = Infinite trips through the dungeon.

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Hmm, maybe I should have added an Acerarak combo to the list, but I've seen it more often in Pioneer than Modern.

  • @toulcol
    @toulcol Жыл бұрын

    Colossus hammer "loses flying" clause is relevant in hammer time if you have a true paladin and no sigarda's aid. Unless you are have an inkmoth, which can equip the hammer, lose flying then get it back by transforming again.

  • @metalhev3989
    @metalhev3989 Жыл бұрын

    Standard combo: cast Invoke Despair, which will draw another Invoke Despair 100% of the time, then cast it again

  • @heshreds4049
    @heshreds4049 Жыл бұрын

    For the first combo to work you need creatures with "persist" not undying. creatures like kitchen finks

  • @cloaking111
    @cloaking111 Жыл бұрын

    It's kind of wild that Oops all spells decks existed long before MDFC lands, thoracle, Creeping chill. Sad that most of these combos don't show up anymore.

  • @GB-kw8vg
    @GB-kw8vg Жыл бұрын

    I’m surprised song of creation combo didn’t make the cut. Along with invention turns

  • @grizz8400
    @grizz8400 Жыл бұрын

    Planebound Accomplice + Vivien on the Hunt

  • @johnsmith-mp4pr
    @johnsmith-mp4pr Жыл бұрын

    As ForeTold or Electrodominance , Crashing Footfalls , Goryo's vengence, Solitary Confinement lock, bogles, tron.

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    The definition of a combo is tough. In some ways I think most Modern decks (outside of control at least) could be considered combo decks if you think about it long enough.

  • @johnsmith-mp4pr

    @johnsmith-mp4pr

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MTGGoldfish true

  • @chubbygrunt90
    @chubbygrunt90 Жыл бұрын

    Missed Ragavan plus Basic Mountain

  • @sidneysimons2738
    @sidneysimons2738 Жыл бұрын

    Seth, your pronunciation of “Conspicuous” cracks me up 😂

  • @CLove511

    @CLove511

    Жыл бұрын

    Most words with three to five syllables, to be honest

  • @headhunterhades3816
    @headhunterhades3816 Жыл бұрын

    Surprised that the Raven’s Crime/Spellweaver Helix/Dark Petition combo wasn’t included

  • @seangoldman6833
    @seangoldman6833 Жыл бұрын

    Grishoalbrand is such a weird deck but I do have to admit that I find versions that play Thrasta and Fortifying Draught to be amusing. Something about a hasty, trampling, death dino makes me laugh.

  • @chapeldweller

    @chapeldweller

    Жыл бұрын

    It's the best feeling ever every time I get the deck to go off. Nothing beats smashing an opponent's face with a giant dino before they get to play a single land.

  • @dannyspiterijr
    @dannyspiterijr Жыл бұрын

    surprised not to see asmo/time sieve combo here

  • @tianruixiao9239
    @tianruixiao9239 Жыл бұрын

    The only combo here I feel a bit iffy about is Hardened Scales, to me it was more of an aggro synergy deck and brings us back to the combo vs synergy debate. Also would've been great if you could include historical combo decks like KCI, maybe do that for another video!

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, that one is a bit of a stretch. It might be a case where it plays like a combo deck a lot of the time but doesn't actually have a "combo".

  • @JohnnyDeLeo1
    @JohnnyDeLeo1 Жыл бұрын

    Is it bad that I really wanted this to be in a “Yako every country in the world” song? Can we get a remix Seth?

  • @einstein4555
    @einstein4555 Жыл бұрын

    You forgot 8Key It's a weird artifact deck that puts charge counters on everything to take infinite turns with Magistrate's Scepter

  • @Hinaguy749
    @Hinaguy749 Жыл бұрын

    No Calibrated Blast combo?

  • @theforesttroll
    @theforesttroll Жыл бұрын

    My favorite combo is murktide regent c:

  • @baranpourtahmaseb-sasi1421
    @baranpourtahmaseb-sasi1421 Жыл бұрын

    I like how the language and standards of magic has evolved to consider equiping a creature or pumping a creature for lethal as a "combo"

  • @onewayraildex4827

    @onewayraildex4827

    Жыл бұрын

    I think the combo part of hammer time comes from cheating the equip cost to zero, allowing you to pump anything to 10/10 or higher for free

  • @Forbiddenviper347
    @Forbiddenviper347 Жыл бұрын

    Splinter twin combo?

  • @robertoiovine5147
    @robertoiovine5147 Жыл бұрын

    Now,you can do video on “how to counter,or the best cards to counter these combo”.

  • @robertoiovine5147

    @robertoiovine5147

    Жыл бұрын

    Enjoy the idea

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, that could be a good follow up. I like it.

  • @robertoiovine5147

    @robertoiovine5147

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MTGGoldfish love your work btw

  • @dylanmiller9162
    @dylanmiller9162 Жыл бұрын

    New drinking game-take a shot every time SaffronOlive says ‘on the spot’

  • @dylanmiller9162

    @dylanmiller9162

    Жыл бұрын

    Alternative: ‘draw your entire/whole deck’

  • @ericd1022
    @ericd1022 Жыл бұрын

    Voldaren thrillseeker + Yargle and Multani

  • @wldnrkls
    @wldnrkls Жыл бұрын

    if hardened scales is a combo, so is elves

  • @brysonlambes7175
    @brysonlambes7175 Жыл бұрын

    I'm kind of sad that the mdfcs meam that oops all spells plays lands now.

  • @sirplayalot11x
    @sirplayalot11x Жыл бұрын

    Me after the video ends: "Through the breach is dead..." **Sadge Naruto Music**

  • @andrewhuang8336
    @andrewhuang8336 Жыл бұрын

    Sad that kitchen finks combo is not featured

  • @v-niftytrickster4166

    @v-niftytrickster4166

    Жыл бұрын

    You talking the old birthing pod combo of melira, kitchen finks or Murderous recap, and viscera seer? Good times

  • @CasualKing21
    @CasualKing21 Жыл бұрын

    I'm not seeing the Mindslaver lock for Mono-U Tron here...

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Ohh, I should have added that one. Good call.

  • @brianbishop5322
    @brianbishop5322 Жыл бұрын

    Scurry Oak + Heliod + Ajani's Welcome.

  • @StevoM08
    @StevoM08 Жыл бұрын

    🎶Don’t be conspishus. Don’t be conspishus.🎶

  • @twhite9615
    @twhite9615 Жыл бұрын

    If u need 4 or 5 pieces for a combo, can u really classify it as a combo?

  • @jonathansundstrom8390

    @jonathansundstrom8390

    Жыл бұрын

    If it goes infinite and kills on the spot, I think so

  • @Memnarch
    @MemnarchАй бұрын

    Amulet of Vigor Simic Growth Chamber Deeproot Pilgrimage Infinite Merfolk token combo PLEASE???

  • @KuzaFkto
    @KuzaFkto Жыл бұрын

    No elves? :c

  • @brycerathsack7885
    @brycerathsack7885 Жыл бұрын

    If infect is a combo deck then every deck is a combo deck. Who could forget the most busted combo of all time: basic Island?

  • @OGNoNameNobody
    @OGNoNameNobody Жыл бұрын

    Oh, no....my worst fear. No week 1 _Budget Magic_ episode. Is MOM as bad as I suspect it is...?

  • @BrunoNunes83
    @BrunoNunes83 Жыл бұрын

    isn't dredge some kind of combo too?

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe, one of the things I realized working on the video is that there are some combo decks that don't really have clear combos. Dredge plays like a combo deck for sure, but what would the actual combo be? I'm not sure.

  • @davidhansen5067

    @davidhansen5067

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MTGGoldfish From the hip, I would propose that the combo is Cathartic Reunion, Narcomebia, and dredge cards.

  • @minchangzhu7706
    @minchangzhu7706 Жыл бұрын

    you forgot mindslaver+academy ruin+tron lands combo

  • @Lucat27
    @Lucat27 Жыл бұрын

    Conspishus snoop 💀

  • @marioroz3142
    @marioroz3142 Жыл бұрын

    No Lantern, Eggs or Cheerios? 😢

  • @funkydiscogod

    @funkydiscogod

    Жыл бұрын

    Wasn't Eggs banned a while ago?

  • @v-niftytrickster4166
    @v-niftytrickster4166 Жыл бұрын

    You forgot Vivien combo

  • @mekhihernandez4478
    @mekhihernandez4478 Жыл бұрын

    Rip simian spirit guide

  • @gamevision1155
    @gamevision1155 Жыл бұрын

    Isn't there a miracle deck that takes a ton of turns to win the game?

  • @v-niftytrickster4166

    @v-niftytrickster4166

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah UW or just Blue taking turns was a super sweet deck a while ago. I saw a match of it versus GW hate bears and Gaddok Teeg really shuts down turns haha. I loved the turns deck though.

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    There are taking turns decks, although I haven't seen one in a long time, they have sort of faded away since the last Modern Horizons set.

  • @ericd1022
    @ericd1022 Жыл бұрын

    Now do KCI

  • @aidenjanz2690
    @aidenjanz2690 Жыл бұрын

    Fact is, there will never be “all” of the combos. It is infinite for this game

  • @Slow_riot_
    @Slow_riot_ Жыл бұрын

    Restore balance!

  • @joaosallaberry
    @joaosallaberry Жыл бұрын

    Kinda sad that half of the combos are thassa's oracle mills.

  • @MTGGoldfish

    @MTGGoldfish

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, a lot of combos add with Thassa's Oracle :(

  • @shotokantiger4982
    @shotokantiger4982 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome video. But all I kept hearing was Thassa’s Oracle should be banned

  • @Grombrindal
    @Grombrindal Жыл бұрын

    Now that modern has devolved into a less powerful version of standard sure lets look at some combos

  • @guyinthecorner0
    @guyinthecorner0 Жыл бұрын

    I feel like Thoracle got a lot of spots when they're all the same combo, but they just start differently. Cast thoracle, empty livrary, resolve thoracle ability

  • @a_fuckin_spacemarine7514
    @a_fuckin_spacemarine7514 Жыл бұрын

    Ragavan+other broken MH2 stuff. There's your combos.

  • @vze1ruuh
    @vze1ruuh Жыл бұрын

    Yea, you missed all the legacy combos 😂😂😅

  • @bastienm347
    @bastienm347 Жыл бұрын

    So walking ballista, Thassa's oracle, grinding station and maybe valakut should be banned. That's the most mana cheap and uninteractives combo enablers. Especially the two first. Infinite mana should be a little more work to win you the game than casting a walking ballista. And Thassa oracle... Mill yourselves is so lame ! Winning should be killing you opponent or milling him. Milling yourself should loose you the game. That's why there is so many ways to do it. you should not win by doing that

  • @cynos55
    @cynos55 Жыл бұрын

    When will they finally ban that goddamn thassas oracle so we can actually play magic...

  • @bt6616
    @bt6616 Жыл бұрын

    Lord listening to Seth mispronounce approximately all of the words is painful

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