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Salubrious Snail
United States
Приєднався 26 гру 2017
Howdy! I’m Alex and this is my youtube channel. I make videos about EDH deckbuilding from an analytical perspective, and I aim to help people to get the most out of their decks for the time and money they put into them. New uploads on the 10th, 20th, and 30th of each month.
Contact me: alex@salubrioussnail.com
Channel art is by Mechacatten
Contact me: alex@salubrioussnail.com
Channel art is by Mechacatten
How I Built My Most Powerful Deck (for $100)
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Your Pet Cards Deserve a Better Home
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Is Gonti Confused or am I Confused?
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How to be a Greedy Bastard in EDH (and get away with it)
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When (not) to Upgrade Your Decks
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Does Power Level Matter?
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My Playgroup's Best Deck is $20
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Can Gruul Control? | Patron deck breakdown #1
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The Problem with cEDH
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Some channel updates + Q&A
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The Art of the Mulligan
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What is going on with Blame Game?
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Snail's Guide to Winning an EDH Game
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Support me: www.patreon.com/salubrioussnail Join my community: discord.gg/wRQ2BbNEdY www.salubrioussnail.com "Win More" vs. Win Conditions EDHRECast episode: ua-cam.com/video/-st7tK4MU0s/v-deo.html Combo video: ua-cam.com/video/SKKgFbU72bU/v-deo.htmlsi=sbhUfnFMp_5FxRFN 0:00 Intro 2:52 Building a focused deck 6:36 Midrange and breaking parity 12:05 Interaction 15:57 Conclusion
The Hidden Lore of an EDHRec Page
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Your Manabase Deserves Better
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The Way to Fit More Cards into your Cards
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The Way to Fit More Cards into your Cards
How WotC Made Cycling Bland in EDH
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How WotC Made Cycling Bland in EDH
You're Probably Playing the Wrong Ramp (in EDH)
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You're Probably Playing the Wrong Ramp (in EDH)
Aggro Ideology: A Guide to Spee-DH
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Aggro Ideology: A Guide to Spee-DH
The Problem with Board Wipes (in EDH)
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The Problem with Board Wipes (in EDH)
A Weird Trick to Make Cool Midrange Decks
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A Weird Trick to Make Cool Midrange Decks
I have a lot of pet cards to be sure, but lately I've been vibing with Peacekeeper
This Xyris player and I would be good friends
This is a really well done deck tech, I'm glad the algo sent me this way! Like some others have been saying, I really appreciate how you took the time to point out some of the decks weaknesses as well as its strengths. As someone that usually likes building his own decks, when I do follow someone elses build I feel like sometimes people can have ownership bias and tend to only tell you about all their best games/plays with their list but won't highlight the weak points, and then when someone (like me) comes along to copy it or use it as a baseline it can be a little harder to pin down whats going wrong. 10/10 video in my book!
I will never be able to have fun in a casual game unless i have a efficient mana base otherwise it is just too random for me and if i wanted to have uncertainty in my games i would play a chaos deck
My first ever trip to a card store one of my friends found me a constant mists in a common bin for 20 cents. That and spore frog were the pet cards of my first ever deck, but they've just been doing nothing since I dismantled it. (deck was not fun, i had no idea what i was doing) You've inspired me to build a Questing Beast fog deck to bring out their potential! Thank you Mr. Snail
The answer to how: tutor for a low-dollar combo.
Seems like a good deck for Titania's Song
I thought you couldn't have coppies in commander. The visuals are showing sets of 4. Is this not literal and just meant to represent ramp, control, etc? If anyone could explain, thank you
I had to rewatch to see what you were talking about. When it shows at 3:42 those cards are references to “buff”, “protection”, and “removal” spells without showing specific cards but give the general idea.
@@specialk5523 sorry! I should have referenced a time. Thank you!
3 v 1 when one person has a big scary deck is actually my favorite pod dynamic.
I love the fact that my sweatiest deck is malcom francisco also
Bold assumption they are making it to turn 4.
Dawn of Hope, my beloved
This was well made and brilliant to listen to. The analysis is deep and accurate. I truly enjoyed this video
This feels like a kink. Which I support!
You could run brainstorm due to its nature as straight up draw (avoiding the problem that creature-based draw has) as well as allowing the cards put back on top to be milled through fransisco
All the calculators are locked behind a pay wall. Cool stuff!
They're not, they just have their own tab now. www.salubrioussnail.com/calculators
I find it effective to say " fuck you swing on me" every turn
This sounds like the friend that made the deck and is now breaking it down for the friend who didn't think it would work.
Not the biggest fan of SBS, as such I reflect my way of play as “strike me down now or I shall forever be problematic”
Love Malcom because it doesn't say a pirate has to deal "combat" damage to create a treasure. love turning a [[Reckless Fireweaver]] or [[Ingenious Artillerist]] into a pirate and pinging everyone into oblivion. excellent video, love the discussion of thoughts!
A friend of mine also has a Xyris deck and it's quite difficult to deal with it because it draws so many cards and gets so many snakes is a pain in the neck. By the way, Sword of War and Peace, which is among the cheapest "swords of A and B", works amazingly with Xyris. For me, a powerful strategy allows for many card slots dedicated to interaction while being consistently powerful and that is just what you're describing here.
What do you use to edit?
GIMP for visuals, Audacity for audio, Kdenlive for video
Haha. Mana? I play MonoWhiteOneDrops.
*laughs in 28 lands in my 99*
any commander with card draw built in is gonna ball
Another consequence of these artificially inflated numbers is that, every now and then, it boosts a card that just straight up doesn't work in the deck. For example, 19% of The Beast, Deathless Prince decks currently run Sundial of the Infinite, an effect that immediately ends The Beast's effect and the other threaten effects he encourages you to run. Somebody put it in their deck, not knowing the difference between "at the beginning of the next end step" and "until end of turn". Then that inspires others to use this cool tech that doesn't actually work.
man i wish i wasnt a fucking idiot so i could build a deck with this much thought put into it. i wish i was as smart as you man :( awesome vid though!
If I spend $400 on a deck and win 80% of my games I have less fun than when I spend $40 and win 20% of my games Then again get a lot of joy in saving $360 AND having fun with friends
If this deck were budgetless, what are some trades you’d make (besides the mana base obviously)
I'd add Call Forth the Tempest, Rain of Riches, and Apex Devastator
I play combo decks because I don't like sitting out on the sidelines for an hour after someone kills me right before a boardwipe. This way, I don't make other people sit on the sidelines doing nothing. I prefer to kill all my opponents at the same time.
It would cost me more to print out my usual high quality proxies at Staples and sleeve them over a land then it would to buy this deck and run it unsleeved 😂❤
Thopter assembly is my favorite card to pair with time sieve
One of those videos that make the deck total value go up by like minimum 20$ and makes some of these cards go up by 0.20$ on its own lmfao.
24 lands. 12-14 rocks. That's ideal. Not 34 lands. Unless you're playing casual and trying to win on turn 12.
For anyone wanting to build this deck, you might want to check out sergeant John Benton first. He has the same passive of "you and your opponent draw cards equal to damage this creature dealt". He is a selesnya commander instead of temur and he doesn't have flying but he has trample and haste. Also he doesn't create tokens when opponents draw but he makes up for it by costing 3 instead of 5 mana. So you can go for the same gameplan but faster. With turn one ramp, you can get him out turn 2 and start drawing. Also white has a lot of interesting multi use spells that both buff amd protect a creature. Also you can use some board wipes like promise loyalty if an opponent build to much of a board state with the cards you gave them.
There's still a bit of the old style around. Decadent Dragon comes to mind.
I hate all the mono-green cards from the new decks. I really hope bloomburrow brings back some nice themes. Im still using my werewolf deck because nothing is getting me excited about the new cards.
Instantly subscribed, you're great at making videos! I want to build this deck right NOW, I want to try and solve the problems you highlighted AND I'd love for you to make more and more videos about decks! You really put the deckbuilding into the perfect perspective, one which I lost in the last months, and this explains why I'm not loving and buying any decks that I try to build anymore... Thank you, you gave me refound energy to go on and deckbuild!
Nice video! I like how the individually unassuming cards make up a great deck! As a follow-up to this video: What non-budget options would you consider? Black market connection comes to mind immediately.
If I could add a single non-budget card it would be Grim Hireling, card is just straight up a double Malcolm. Beyond that, mostly just updates to the draw and interaction of the deck.
That's why I supplement EDHRec with curated scryfall searches at which I've become quite adept and going to discord communities so I can learn more about how the deck generally functions. Going to discord is more for my higher powered decks and less so necessary for anything I want to be low-mid power. And my decklists are kept unlisted on Moxfield for the most part. If there's one I'm particularly proud of, I'll let it go public but I don't actually contribute to the data.
These videos are the only thing that have me even considering getting back into EDH. My (only) (semi) local store, for some god forsaken reason, will lump fresh-buyer-practically-a-newbie players into pods with the kind of people who run Ad Nauseam turn three combos and guys who are cheating out Craterhoof Behemoth on turn 4. The store charges you 2 dollars per "pod", and then every time you take out a player in your pod you get a dollar in store credit, so of course these pros and whales are treating it like a job because "if you beat the other three players you technically make money" and will mercilessly stomp everyone, including a 16 year old kid with anxiety running a freshly opened, not even sleeved Coven deck, a guy in a wheelchair trying to do janky multi-card combos without any tutors, myself, who didn't have the kind of money to spend 15 to 30 dollars on a single card and are running tap lands like Thornwood Falls and game plans along the lines of "do your best with what you have and maybe try to get one of the others before the pro(s) at the table crush(es) you like the bug you are," and everyone else between. I brought up my concerns and the fact that I and others just can't compete with these other folks, and I was told that we should buy some cards to make our decks stronger. Awesome idea. I'm sure it works great for the Comp-Sci majors that make +70k a year, but it would be difficult for me to afford right now and was literally impossible for me back when I was actually playing. I think I'll keep watching you for the fascinating mathematical breakdown, but I should probably just stay away from MTG for the foreseeable future.
mana curve looks like a treadmill preset
Waw, that's the best and clearest deck tech i have ever seen ! I tip you my pirate hat ;)
This almost reminds me of my Zada, Hedron Grinder deck. I only have 3 goblins on the table... but next turn I attack with 25 goblins or creatures that have 75 power and trample.... and I drew 40 cards.... have fun blocking haha Great fun!
Cool deck, I imagine it plays quite similar to strong yuriko lists
Is there a video that you have of your other big decks like the Glissa one etc?
I have decktechs for my Glissa, Meria, and Archelos decks over on my Patreon. I've also talked about two of my other decks in detail in videos here, those being my Radha deck and my Sharuum deck (which was in my cycling video from 6 months ago).
Your playgroup sucks at magic "I take very threatening damage AND let my opponent draw a large amounts of cards..? Yes" Your playgroup sucks at magic
I have a very nice deck for Yarok. I utilize the graveyard since most of the creatures enter the battlefield to mill. Instead of using Reanimate instants or sorceries, I use ETB cards like Animate Dead and Necromancy. With those changes, my game plan has gained more consistency. They key part is that I also don't mind if my graveyard is exiled because my deck, at its core, is still an ETB deck, not a graveyard deck.
Some how you chose my girlfriend’s Commander (Toski) and my commander (Tovolar) and I 100% agree, I ripped all my non Mana dork ramp out of my werewolf deck. I had them in hand and I never wanted to cast them ever. My mana dorks also are werewolves so they help my game plan
You say a lot of words a bit weird. But "Niv-Mizz-eht" was silly af.