Enduring Vitality

Yeah.

And you're gonna win the game because you have infinite mana with an Enduring Vitality, using Kinnan activations to flip into Thrasios and win the game.

Whether you play Basalt Monolith or not, whether you're trying to do that on turn three versus turn five or not, I think all of the-... of the Kinnan builds are very similar because-

Yeah

There was a moment you were playing and it was more mana efficient for you to cast Elvish Spirit Guide than to exile it for a green mana, because you-

[laughs] I'll never forget this, oh my God.

Because you had, like, Shang Chi, and you had, uh, Enduring Vitality and Kinnan out, or whatever it was.

It was better for you to cast a three-mana creature, which I thought was so funny.

Mm-hmm.

A board state that I assembled more than once at Breach the Bay was Arasta, Enduring Vitality, and Shang Chi in play at the same time.

Yeah.

And then essentially, I'm just, like, able to farm in resources.

Right.

Right.

Uh, I had a game where I flipped Wandering Archaic into Enduring Vitality into Marionette Apprentice, and then the last flip was Razaketh.

You know?

I think it-

Because again, if you, like, blink your creature, now you can't tap it with Enduring Vitality or something.

Right, all your +1/+1 counters on Yoshimaru are gone now.

Like, that's not good.

Right, yeah.

Yeah.

But this also does a very similar thing, so if you're playing Enduring Vitality, if you're doing any of the Cryptolith Rite stuff, if you're doing any of that, you wanna tap your creatures for mana right away, 'cause you have Kinnan in play or whatever, extra mana.

This is gonna be really helpful to that, and it's a legend for Sisay, and a legend and a color that Sisay really wants, being red, so.

Including last week when we were talking about Kennen.

The ability to give pseudo haste, turning enduring vitality and cards of the like into way more powerful effect.

And now all of a sudden every card in your deck is a Rite of Flame if you need it to be.

It really has done a lot for the green strategy.

That's what we're trying to show.

shift into, yeah.

In the past, we have gotten some comments from people not understanding why Enduring Vitality is good, saying, well, why don't these decks play Crypto Thrite? And in the past, that reason has been the Enduring Vitality, it's good, but it's not like incredible.

And Enduring Vitality being specifically a creature that you can easily tutor for and also being like sort of unkillable because like why would anyone waste a removal spell on it because it's just going to come back? Those have made the enduring vitality good, but now the mana ability is like much better, much better even so than the evasiveness, the stickiness or the creature aspect of it.

Right.

So, Enduring Vitality...

I feel like you're

politicking me right now, and I want to kill Super Skrull right

now.

I'm being dead honest, and people...

Like, every time I explain how the deck works, people are like, that sounds like it sucks, but, like, I'll explain why it's good, right? So, the four-card combo is Enduring Vitality, or an Enduring Vitality effect, right? Kinnan, or a Kinnan-like effect.

Haste Enabler, so Shang-Chi or Tyvar.