The Most Toxic Turn 3 Combo Kills in Standard | Against the Odds | Magic: the Gathering (MTG)

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Standard is here and we kick off our exploration of the format with the most toxic meme deck of all time: Venerated Rotpriest Combo!

Today's video was recording during the #MTGArena early access event. Thanks to Wizards for letting us use a free stocked account!

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[AaronRotenberg]

A lot of people were calling this deck "Poison Ivy" in preview season.
It seems like it's going to be the Standard equivalent of Hammer Time.

[yuramayzing]

I've been using the green march for a while now, it works especially nice with prototype creatures since it will get the bigger one out on the field AT INSTANT SPEED, but I am glad to see others finally noticing it.

[LunaLasceria]

Deck Intro: We'll mulligan pretty aggressively to find Rotpriest...
Gameplay: [Keeps a bunch of 7s with no Rotpriest.]

Even after he tells himself to mulligan, Seth just hates taking mulligans too much 😆

[Potatomuffin]

Always appreciate decks that take forgotten cards and put them to use.

[jameswood]

Didn't expect one of these on a Sunday... a very toxic way to start my Sunday off. I love it.

[LadyMapi]

That Mindsplice Apparatus deck seemed sweet.

It was also pretty encouraging to see a bunch of non-black decks in Standard... we'll see if that's the case in actual standard, or if it's just Early Access jank.

[triproberts]

I think this deck wants to be more all-in if it's a glass cannon. The Tainted Observer is more useful as a blue and green pitch card to both Marches than anything, so Winterhorn Blessing would be better as another targeting spell that gives a little interaction and gets multiple casts off of one card if the deck needs to mulligan. I also get how Stormchaser Drake is an attractive alternate wincon, but I wonder if Colossal Skyturtle is better as an uncounterable modal card that bounces, recurs Rotpriest, and pitches for both colors.

[alterego]

Last time we had a 3-turn kill in standard, I think it was when minion of the mighty and terror of mount Velus were together. Although that needed basically the literal nuts to pull off.

[twiztid]

Was hoping to see your side of your game with CGB during the early access event

[xxskabxx]

Seeing a lot of attention paid to this fella. I foresee ban talks in the works

[sutfolsemaj]

There was a turn 2 win in standard in Theros-Khans of Tarkir, where you would play turn 1 land, springleaf drum, ornithopter, springleaf drum, then on turn 2 play land, tap both lands and a drum with your thopter to play jeskai ascendancy, cast a briber's purse or astral cornucopia for X=0, untapping your ornithopter and prowessing it, then tap the ornithopter again to the other drum to cast a retraction helix on your ornithopter. Now it can tap to bounce your 0 mana artifact, which untaps your ornithopter and gives it +1/+1 every time it's played. I'm not sure if it ever happened in a real game or not because it does seem staggeringly unlikely to have those 8 cards by turn 2, but it was technically a possibility.

[michaelloughnane]

not that it mattered, but during game 2 could you have won faster by casting march x=2 twice, holding priority before the first resolved?

[benyseus]

There’s a more optimized version with curiosity and tamiyo’s safekeeping, bring the ending, etc… cutting useless cards like bloated contaminated and that other 3 drop. The deck is more streamlined and approaches tier 1 in standard having basically no bad matches

[loz]

AN AGAINST THE ODDS ON SUNDAY? COUNT ME IN!

[danelo]

Oh fuck. I knew bringing back poison was a terrible idea.

[jrjamesson]

croaking counterpart works on opponent's creatures too, might have been good on Amazonian's annex sentry.

[christopherpennell]

There was a turn 3 kill when runaway steamkin was in standard, Turn 1 tin street dodger, opponent at 19. Turn 2 steamkin, 1 more goblin damage, opponent at 18. Turn 3, various combinations of samut's sprint, infuriate, and uncaged fury for the kill. Used to love doing this to threeferi. It was still an awesome deck besides that too. I ran dreadhorde arcanist, and mizzium tank with the usual skewer and light up the stage. Took me to ranked mythic, and never saw a single other person run it. Everyone else was doing the ghitu lavarunner and viashino pyromancer version. This version annihilated the red mirror. Mizzium tank was secretly awesome, and triggered itself. It was my first deck that really got somewhere, so a bit biased; but that standard was awesome.

[wesmorris]

Last turn 3 kill I remember in standard was when minds desire was in standard. Well combo kill that is

[AntiPeach]

When against the odds accidentally shows the top tier deck in standard

[emctwoo]

Is there a longer video of meme comps vs goats somewhere?