Teaching Arena Zoomers About Hard Locks and Chalice | Against the Odds | Historic MTG Gameplay

Back in the early days of Magic cards that made it so you couldn't play the game - Stasis, Blood Moon, Winter Orb - were plentiful, but for the last decade or two of Magic Wizards has mostly stopped printing the cards, but thanks to the new Anthology we've got two new locks on MTG Arena! What are the odds of teaching some Arena zoomers what it's like to NOT be able to play Magic with Chalice of the Void and two different hard locks? Let's find out!

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0:00 Start
4:20 Match 1
9:22 Match 2
13:35 Match 3
24:05 Match 4
36:36 Match 5
52:50 Wrap Up

[ChessWyrm]

"I think we've taken away opponent's will to play Magic. They're downloading Heartstone as we speak." -- Seth, 2022

[E_D___]

"you don't need a win condition if your opponent already thinks you won"
-Art of War

[atomiccocoanut]

Grandpa yelling at kids "Get off my client!". absolutely love it

[jamesrule]

(People having fun playing Magic the Gathering)

Seth: Got to put a stop to that immediately.

[sahjhan]

This isn't Against the Odds, this is Against their Will

[kaszael]

One other thing Overwhelming Splendor does in shutting down activated abilities is preventing the enchanted player from Cycling/Channeling as they are also activated abilities. No Boseiju'ing the Splendor away! This deck is awesome Seth, thank you!

[alaraplatt]

seth: "let's see if arena players can handle Night of Soul's Betrayal with Overwhelming Splendor!"

arena player: reads Night, concedes before ever seeing Splendor

[Edricama]

I love how Seth keeps referring to lock pieces all as relics of ages past when some pieces are from 2017, 2018, and 2020.

[jamesreynolds]

The opponent was actually chalice checking you when they got their squirrel countered

[myshkin_]

I still remember the first time i got 9 Lives Solem locked, when they played the Solemnity i distinctly remember thinking 'and...ur still dead to sprite-dragon on board who cares if it wont grow'. needless to say i was confused at first when they didnt die, I stuck around for 2 more turns wondering why they wouldnt die before finally reading and seeing the interaction...felt like a complete dunce said GG and dipped.

[AsAMonkeyInAPinata]

I love how this series is basically like watching a highway man educating people about the dangers of the roads by mugging them 😂 (to be clear, love the content for real)

[seanclark]

I do like seeing a prison deck show up in a meta that is largely synergy based like historic, as prison tends to wreck synergy and combo decks. It will be interesting to see if this deck becomes popular enough to warrant a shift in the metagame

[ElusiveOtter]

There’s something so magical about playing Chalice, passing the turn, waiting several seconds knowing their trying to cast a spell, then watching the opponent hover over Chalice. 😍

[DamselinEmotionalDistress]

that second player got so scared of getting locked that he took the lock piece over the wrath i think

[Crusina]

Actually Seth, I didn't grow up with all these cards but my first intro to magic was my dad's stasis deck. Like my first match ever was vs it.

So it's not all roses for us lol

[ctomsky]

I can't imagine how salty Arena players must get about this considering how they'll auto-scoop to a T-1 Cauldron Familiar, lol

[VRanger]

The rite of passage all new players much go through.
The classic Solitaire moment where you just watch the opponent play the game and you're stuck there because you genuinely want to the see the game end or are to stubborn to quit.

[Miluric]

The accidental BM in the last game killed me. I like Enchantress decks and this was a great callback for a paper player like myself.

[royalfishness]

Thank you for keeping locks alive :) Back in the OG Ravnica days, I built several soft-lock decks, now that I think about it. Had a B/W Dovescape+Teysa+Twilight Drover version, a Muse Vessel+all the land bounce and stealing possible, and the best one, a Dredge list with Zur's Weirding+Firemane Angels to stop any draws. Good times, for me :)

[iamtheVRTEX]

This has such "get off my lawn" energy, I love it.