In round three, at 31:30 your opponent plays pithing needle naming urza's saga. Then, you search with urza's saga, and realize you no longer have any targets to fetch at 32:14. Then you play a useless urza's saga at 33:00, instead of pitching it to the forsaken city. This makes you "a card short" at 34:30. It's not a brainstorm mistake, its the saga play.

@Dreg_s

2 жыл бұрын

CSI: MTGO right here

@gregthewalnut603

2 жыл бұрын

Look at the DETECTIVE over here. Good note.

20:39 "Needle on Brainstorm, got 'em." I like how Brian can laugh at himself when he says something absurd.

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

Someone has to laugh at me

watching you smear delver after they double wastelanded you was so damn cathartic, I was literally cheering irl

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

That was the best moment of my life.

@xevious4142

2 жыл бұрын

So dirty

"If lands enter the battlefield tapped, and they never untap, it is very hard to cast spells." Sage advice from Mr. Bosh 😆

I don't play Magic anymore, but I really like your content. It feels peer-to-peer and relaxing. Keep it up!

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

The "I don't play Magic but like listening to you" crowd is a big part of my audience. Love to fill that niche! :)

@myndzi9926

2 жыл бұрын

@@BoshNRoll Same boat here. I played a lot of Legacy back when I could afford it; I don't play Magic anymore, but your videos help me get the fix. I'm always flirting with the idea of playing again, but not ready to put a ring on it just yet.

i think commune with spirits could be interesting tech. i think its better than preordain cuz it digs deeper and finds saga, city, maze, and stasis.

@Kryptnyt

2 жыл бұрын

Think if you opted for those, you'd run too low on blue cards and have to find replacements for FoW in sideboard

@NezMog

2 жыл бұрын

While not blue, it does get around Narset and is Green for FoV

@froiDchaT

2 жыл бұрын

Cool idea 👍

@kaseybennett7415

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Kryptnyt I could honestly see a world where the deck pivots into Daze over FoW, but idk if that's actually correct

There are few things in MTG that feel quite as good as paying for a Daze with a Spirit Guide.

1:17:04 that laughter that says "I'm fucked but I'm having fun"

I have seen many crazy shit happen on this channel. But the first match in the first game was absolutely hilarious, I loved it

I have Stax as the archetype i enjoy playing the most and I must say i'm touching myself seeing this deck. I'd love to build this and play on the table to see my oponents face.

YES TURBO STASIS IS BACK. Haven't played Turbo Stasis in 20 years.

It’s always a glorious day when the YT algorithm puts BnR and ThrabenU as the first two suggestions to watch.

Stasis, my oldest and truest love

"Octopi is the oldest plural form of octopus, coming from the belief that Latin origins should have Latin endings. However, octopus is not a simple Latin word, but a Latinized form of the Greek word októpus. Consequently, its “correct” plural form would logically be octopodes."

Living in Hong Kong, was about to sleep but this video popped out. Good thing no work tomorrow

Brian bringing the good stuff as always 👏 this iteration of the deck feels great

Would love some more stasis! Great vid 👌

Staaaaasiiiiiiiiiis!!! Loved that first game

Round two, you kinda got tunnel vision from 24:20- 26:30. You could have end of turn brainstormed on two different turns. While you would have died to double bolt, you were trying to find a four outer out of 42, and spending blue on their turn meant you would have an extra blue for either fluster or that final brainstorm that was in your hand when you conceded. You also could have grabbed another island instead of a second saga- yes, if they wasteland you there's not a quick route to black vise, but it does let you have enough blue to cantrip one more time. Once they are in the lock, you can get vise eventually.

I’ve been playing stasis in paper magic since the 90s. This, meaning root maze with spirit guide, is the best build, and it was the probably the only deck to get better when they unbanned black vise. Unfortunately, force of vigor being a popular side board card is an unsolvable problem. I like to think I put Abolish in side boards for legacy tournaments in the Tri-City area in the early 2000’s.

@NorrYtt

2 жыл бұрын

Would a 1-of As Foretold potentially take over a game? Also, I see Kiora, Master of the Depths not cast much due to always being behind on tempo, but wouldn’t any planeswalker at all be very powerful when Stasis hits? Kiora Behemoth Beckoner can untap a land up to 7 times would that be enough? Jace Beleren is like Howling Mine that can also mill them out. Garruk Wildspeaker can untap lands and also attack them to death since he untaps more than one Island at a time. Tamiyo, Compleated Sage can be a Stasis or Root Maze from your graveyard. And another thought is if you can cast a 4 mana spell why not cast Cryptic Command which can tap their team and/or bounce a problem permanent, and if you slam Stasis right after those permanents don’t matter anymore.

Been very entertaining watching this deck develop. Always nice to see some spice that's not full meme. Very interesting deck. And hard locks just fill that salt-generating itch in a way nothing else quite does.

This deck is right up my alley, such a good video

Love your videos, you play a ton of sweet decks and your reactions to both good and bad things speaks to me on a spiritual level.

@BoshNRoll

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Favorite genre of deck

That last game was super cool, LOVED the Saga Kiora Saga play So beautiful, locking with Root Maze and Stasis

Love these Stasis decks! I’ve been kicking around the idea of Including Stern Dismissal somewhere in the deck. It kills construct and Marit Lage tokens, tempos Murktide and other expensive creatures, and it can insulate Root Maze and Stasis from removal. My favorite part is that if needed you could run out a Stasis without the full lock just to slow the game down and make land drops and then end step bounce it, untap all your permanents, play your lock pieces, and then replay the Stasis.

@ianferrel

2 жыл бұрын

Stern Dismissal reads "...an opponent controls".

@l337ath3ist

2 жыл бұрын

@@ianferrel oh, darn… I probably should have looked it up first. For some reason I thought it was strictly better than Unsummon.

@ianferrel

2 жыл бұрын

@@l337ath3ist Remembering to read the card gets the best of us all at some point ;)

squinting at the thumbnail I thought the green border read "River Boa" and my old green stompy loving heart skipped a beat

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

River Boa is a banger

Octopuses is the preferred English plural, Octopi is the Latin plural and Octopodes is the Greek plural.

@DarkestFiction

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but that opens you up to Octopo-DEEZ NUTS jokes

If they weld your construct at any point into a pithing needle at 58:00 you just name welder with it it and then you still have a construct and they don't have a welder.

I feel like this really needs at least 1 Lotus Petal. I love the direction you took this deck.

Wow, I played a very similar dark depths vampire hexmage paper deck like uh 7-10 years ago. It's nice to see it back with more options. I played sink hole and juzam djinn, urza's sage and thespian stage makes things so much more interesting. I need to revive my version.

match 1 game 3 was mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm _chef's kiss_

simic blood moon prison lookin fine

Do you think daze has a home here? Pivot a little more into control with the FoW’s and allow you to really get your hooks in? Once you have stasis out, lands in play aren’t as important. Possibly cut howling mines? I thought the mines were the weakest slot, since they offer opponent advantage too.

Octopi, Octopuses, and octopodes are all considered to be correct plural forms of octopus

Been falling asleep to your videos a lot lately. Trying to be a little more appreciative by engaging when I start the videos. Goodnight and thank you!

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

Sleep tight!

Stasis is such a great deck.

Commune with spirits seems kinda good. It sees 4 cards and digs for all 3 combo pieces.

I feel like chain of vapor is a sketchy piece of interaction in this deck. Yes it is cool to bounce something while denying your opponent the mana to recast it, but them being able to bounce a lock piece back feels like playing with fire

@WiwuX

2 жыл бұрын

worst case you can bounce your own stasis in their end step, letting you untap your lands and replay stasis on your own turn Similarly, even if they sac a land to bounce stasis they just paid to let you untap your lands. You don't want to bounce their stuff if you already have root maze (unless you have green mana in hand) or vise on board. At the point that you have all of these out then chain doesn't matter because you've already won.

That game one gave me the feels

That mono black depths looks so fun. Not sure if it's good but I really like it

For some reason, Black Vise always brings me such joy.

Has there ever been consideration for Garruk Wildspeaker as the enabler/wincon planeswalker? Can't be red blasted, attacks for 1.5 a turn, and leaves tokens behind for a big attack with a stasis bounce.

I wonder if playing a bunch of alternate cost spells; whether it be Force of Will, Force of Vigor, or whatever in the maindeck would be a good plan with Ancestral Vision to refuel. Stasis can certainly stall long enough that Vision pays off. Also Brian, how dare you waste more of my life with Stasis. Why am I even watching this?

@olivierschurter1756

2 жыл бұрын

I guess when you lock you dont need the vision anymore

@deteresaFlamenco

2 жыл бұрын

This is basically a Premodern deck lol. I guess Brian secretly just wants to play more Premodern.

I love stasis. Hell yeah!

so that we are in the same standing a version forcing back to basics + root maze with 8 fetchs 8 basics candelabra and urza's saga would not work better?

1:31:00 I heard on NPR's Cephalipod Week from a marine biologist the most correct plural of octopus is octopodi ("ock-tup-o-dee")

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, checkmate. I'd trust NPR

LFG STASIS!!

I wonder how this deck would play if u switched the kioras and mines for a full set of forces main. also curious about a more robust crop rotation package (mainly maze of ith, I could see it stalling a game for a long time)

Island? That's right, ALPHA! Forest...hold on, let me che---ALPHA!

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

GARFIELD TAKE THE WHEEL

@Vorlinds

2 жыл бұрын

@@BoshNRoll I read this comment at 1am, and my wife were quite confused. It took me 12 full hours to realize you were talking about (Richard) Garfield, not (I'mSorryJon) Garfield.

Love all the stasis decks, this one and the last one both

Round 4, game 1. On turn 2 couldn't you have played forsaken city and stasis while opponent was tapped out to play around pyroblast, then played the fetch on turn 3 to get green and play root maze then?

Great deck! Is veil of summer maybe a consideration?

is 3 mana kiora worth it? she should provide enough draws to get the full lock together

What about Meekstone as 5th sorta stasis that can be searched with Urza saga?

obligatory algorithmic contribution

M1G2 you didn't even need their life total, they had fewer cards in deck, not the most engaging content, but that will win you the game eventually, hopefully before your timer runs out.

Void Snare is sorcery spd chain of vapor. If you're interested.

From the wrapup, it's Teferi Who Slows The Sunset

hey brian great vid as always, after watching i couldnt help but think garruk wildspeaker may be better than kiora bc it is not blue but meets the criteria as being an untapper, 4 mana even though double green is a higher cost than U/G, and winning on its own. I know it wouldn't pitch to FoW but that seems like a reasonable tradeoff to make it dodge the rampant blast effects.

Have you considered Veil of Summer instead of Defense Grid?

Glacial Chasm to deal with creatures?

I'm personally a fan of "Octopodes." It's almost certainly wrong, but since everyone argues over the plural of Octopus anyway, might as well just say whichever floats your goat.

Hi bosh, what are you thoughts on having a one of wasteland in decks with crop rotation that are trying to do something else as a tool vs lands?

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

I like that in decks like Infect and Elves, not sure it adds much to this deck since all the resources are dedicated to assembling the combo.

Have you tried a version of this deck that runs enlightened tutor? The deck is soft to wasteland anyway you might as well go all in.

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

I have! There’s a bunch of stasis on the channel already

more of this deck we sickos like it

13:16 suuuuch justice

The original idea of this deck was in Premodern, In Premodern you have Gush there, although you don't have enemy fetches, duals, brainstorm or FoW.

@nicholasfarrell5981

2 жыл бұрын

You do have all the other free spells from Masques block, though.

@7:50 25 lands, a preposterous number for a legacy deck (that isn't lands)

STASIS HYPE

if you splash white , use E Tutor to get your enchantment / artifact , quality over quantity and back then I had time for the 4 mana enchantment kismet , also used some spells that returned Islands to keep stasis ( and tap creatures ) until Forsaken City appeared ... I used Chain of vapor as you did at the end of opponents turn to untap and then replay

@malaven11

2 жыл бұрын

i was thinking the same thing. also lets you play 3feri over defense grid

What it sounds like to get shit on 28:53

Octopuses is a correct plural. But it's pronounced "Oaf" (Collector Ouphe).

Wanna see the video! Could you also try a build with stasis and dack fayden?

Went to like this video after round one and realized I'd already liked it. What a treat.

do you think a one of mox opal/lotus petal would be good for moments when saga pops and you want another mana under stasis? maybe metalcraft is too tall of an order but petal doesn’t care if it untaps under stasis anyway

@johnportwood6701

2 жыл бұрын

They would still enter tapped and not untap.

@MagikBased

2 жыл бұрын

Petal needs to tap for mana actually so they wouldn't really work with root maze but something like amulet of vigor could help him get himself out of the lock.

@phreakerfighter4950

2 жыл бұрын

well root maze isn’t always in play. if you’re just on stasis on its own to buy time for a full lock like in the depths game it could be good, and the petal could help you with mana to get there. and if esg works well for the deck a petal wouldn’t be that much of a hinderance in an opener.

@phreakerfighter4950

2 жыл бұрын

and I mean that petal doesn’t care if it untaps under stasis since to use petal you have to tap and sacrifice it anyway

Is Void Snare better than Chain Of Vapor in this deck since you can cast it with stasis out?

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

Being able to Chain your own stasis in their end step for a mana reload is good

Great video! Would be so cool if you could make this competitive. I bet daze would be a first.

Is there a reason to play preordain over ponder?

@BoshNRoll

Жыл бұрын

Ponder wants shuffle effects, which are very bad with root maze.

This was spicy! Such a Rollercoaster. Sorry you had to stay up so late recording but I appreciate the content 👌

This may be random, but what about a singleton Ghost Town to flip back into your hand to pay for Stasis in a pinch? You can also Rotation for it. Or maybe Trade Routes?

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

Those don’t work with Root Maze :(

@hollywoodmkx

2 жыл бұрын

Oboro would be better to flip and pay for Forsaken City.

is deafening silence a reasonable consideration for something like storm which can just beat you through the stasis lock

@music00soba

2 жыл бұрын

root maze is your anti storm because it taps artifacts

@jolssoni2499

2 жыл бұрын

@@music00soba LED doesn't care about being tapped.

@music00soba

2 жыл бұрын

@@jolssoni2499 but lotus petal, moxen, wishclaw talisman all do. lands entering tapped also have non zero effect as well

I thought black vise was banned. Guess not haha!

Is the reason you're running Preordain over Ponder that raw card selection is just THAT important in this deck, and you don't ever want to reset a scry with a Ponder shuffle? That's all I can think of for why to run a cantrip that on average sees fewer cards.

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

Root Maze makes the cantrips that need a setup shuffle wayyyyyy worse.

What about… stasis rootmaze bouncelands amulet of vigor? Hmmmm

rOwOt maze

why aren't we playing bant? has better mana and access to teferi which does grid/mine but better and force pitchable plus e tutor for the entire combo. also why preordain over ponder?

kiora stax decks should be "putting the suction cups on" rather than "the hooks in" hahahaahah

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

Affixing the suckers

@malaven11

2 жыл бұрын

@@BoshNRoll affecting suckers has effects on suckers!

To be honest the issue with the 2nd delver player was just not finding Stasis in the top 20 cards of your deck each time. Deck feels like it needs an enchantment tutor of some form. I am not sure about crop rotation honestly as if you get the lock you have legitimately 15 turns in which you could draw an urza's saga. Feel there is something cool here but needs more tuning.

@MehrGills

2 жыл бұрын

Enchantment tutor also gets saga lol

@chaselewis5372

2 жыл бұрын

@@MehrGills .... sometimes forget it's an enchantment

@MehrGills

2 жыл бұрын

@@chaselewis5372 yeah. The only text on saga that makes it worse is specifying {0} or {1} rather than artifact with mana value 1 or less. Every other single word on saga makes it better each time you read it tho

It's octopodes technically. Greek root word.

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

Oopdopooders

Octopuses is most correct for English, but its Latinate plural is octopodes.

I'm surprised that Stasis can do as well as it did in a post Force of Vigor world.

Depending on how pedantic you want to be, you could reasonably assert that "octopodes" is the correct plural, but most linguists (who would likely say that language is not prescriptive) would say that any of the three pronunciations are "correct" (i.e. valid)

Stasis. Mmmmmm..... 😋

Would Kiora Behemoth Beckoner be better in this deck? 3 mana is more reasonable, and you shouldn't need 7 untaps to win

@BoshNRoll

2 жыл бұрын

You may very well need more than 7 untaps to win

@callumvlex7059

2 жыл бұрын

@@BoshNRoll I stand corrected

@jasoncarlson4417

2 жыл бұрын

I think you're on to something. 4 mana is a really hard ask.

Octopusses might be correct but octopie are delicious ❤️

Killed me with the Padme Amidala meme 😹

Why play chain of vapor, can someone explain why its a good card? : )

Crumbling vestige is a land that could break parity in the lock and functions well under just a root maze.

It's like this entire deck is trying to sell people on playing creatures with Vigilence lol