Orcish Bowmasters & One Ring Nerf + Alchemy: Eldraine Set Review

Edit: I realized I missed Paths of Tuinvale in the set review so adding my thoughts on it here instead. The perpetual cost reduction is interesting since that's a very powerful effect alongside cards like Ominous Traveler like we've seen in the past but we don't have any payoffs like that in Alchemy currently, and using it as a combo piece in Historic seems very clunky to me. The ability to reuse flash creatures is appealing particularly in mono blue or simic decks that don't have much 'hard' removal and would want bounce effects anyway so that's the home I think it's mostly likely to slot into, although you would need a reasonably high creature count.

Just going over my thoughts on the new rebalance to Bowmasters and The One Ring which is likely to have a huge impact in both Historic and Alchemy, as well as a review of all the new Alchemy: Eldraine cards going over their potential homes and applications in both formats. Let me know in the comments what you think about the rebalances, the new Alchemy set, and any potential applications I might have missed with the new cards.

0:00 Intro
1:00 Orcish Bowmasters Nerf
13:46 The One Ring Nerf
18:03 Alchemy Eldraine Set Review
18:09 Dedicated Dollmaker
21:38 Cerise, Slayer of Fear
23:26 The Conundrum of Bowls
24:05 Talion's Throneguard
25:41 Tome of Gadwick
27:09 Dunbarrow Revivalist
28:34 Underbridge Warlock
30:05 Heir to Dragonfire
31:57 Overcooked
34:24 Victory of the Pyrohammer
35:42 Draconic Debut
37:26 A Golden Opportunity
38:23 Hex, Kellan's Companion
40:25 Swine Rebellion & The Three Pigs
42:55 Porcine Portent
44:12 Drover of the Swine
45:42 Accident-Prone Apprentice
47:40 Grow Old Together
48:10 High Fae Prankster
48:54 Jewel Mine Overseer
50:53 Outfitted Jouster
51:42 Steady Tortoise
53:02 Stormkeld Curator
54:18 Syr Joshua and Syr Saxon
54:59 Loch Larent
55:40 Captivating Crossroads
56:27 Outro

[Yesnomu]

I am still annoyed to lose my wildcards from Bowmasters, but I'm glad the meta will be opened up so much again. I do think some changes were needed, but I really wish they compensated players for nerfs like other games do.

[isnacks]

The audacity to act like every player hasn't already crafted 4x of each is crazy on wizards behalf

[lucasfranz]

Something interesting with high fae prankster, you can swap vesperlark’s power and toughness and it will return itself from the graveyard

[dustinross]

Bowmasters should have lost Flash and kept its ETB, or had a "triggers once per turn" condition added. Those would have been much better compromises.

[BPLYR]

the fact they dont refund WC's is fkin disgusting. Print something OP, ruin the card. Lose your WC's, do it again and again

[michaeldavidson]

Amazing the reminder of how many decks bowmasters single-handedly forced out of the 2 formats - super excited for this shakeup

[teekayone]

I'm very pumped for card draw to be a thing in Alchemy again. There are a ton of cards that didn't work because of the must-run nature of Bowmasters.

I'm pretty interested in trying faerie decks again just because Faerie Mastermind will be playable, and I think having a little more top end gas will help.

[elormkumahor]

Do you think your Anvil Bombardment deck is dead with bowmaster nerf? What would be the replacements? It was a fun deck

[User_Frindly]

Nicee was wating on this vid ^^ also UW Ctrl is back baby❤

[glazed]

I think all they had to do with the one ring was make the damage you take something you can't get rid of and when you play a new ring it doesn't reset but continue. My way of thinking of how this could work would be like 6 mana Chandra emblem. You get an emblem that says you take one damage at the start of you turn, you tap again you get another one, and then if you over do it you die. That would make is much fairer and have an actual downside.

[cloudmane]

Give us our 4x rare wc’s back. This is a soft ban on bow masters

[styfen]

Oh yay. Izzet Wizards vs Black removal format ahead.

[doormatt]

overcooked + spiteful banditry seems like a heck of a one, two punch. that's a shell i really want to explore. i'd love to hear your thoughts!

[MTG_Creative_Combos]

So does Dedicated Dollmaker + Saheeli Rai create infinite Saheelis/ artifact comes into play triggers?

[hunterpauli]

I am up 8 wildcards after not crafting these big red flags!

[ZephOx_]

I feel like Wizards DESTROYS cards everytime they nerf them.
I think nerfing Crucias to 3/2 would have made it just the right strenght because it took cut down and you could still trade with the old bowmie.
Bowmasters goes from the ultimate 4x in every black deck to a borderline sideboard option is crazy. I think it should still make the 1/1 Orc on etb, even if it doesn’t deal damage.
The One Ring is a tricky one, there isn’t really a way to nerf it without changing the card completely.

[doormatt]

orcish bowmasters nerf is the best thing to happen to arena. completely resets the meta for alchemy and historic. they were so warped around that one card it was awful. now the meta feels fresh again for 2 entire formats. huge win, and the only thing i can say is i wish it happened sooner than it did. lol.
i'm so excited to get to play with rusko again! he was completely unplayable with bowmasters in every deck.

[stanislavschulz]

I am trying to use Growing Old Together in Alchemy. I think this is just good in a creature-heavy Simic deck and my first idea is a shell with a bunch of cheap creatures with abilities (like Surge Engine and Sleep-Cursed Faerie) to never run out of gas. Put in Agatha's Soul Cauldron and Restless Vinestalk and it seems to me like an aggro deck with nice late game

[GoofyMushroom]

Can you do a little update on the mono green devotion deck? No need to be a long video, just to know which build I could run to reach mythic in historic

[edwarderiksson]

Maybe the best token to copy with chariot is chariot itself?