Yawgmoth

And what I noticed when I was testing this was like, man, I really needed that.

The power level and the rebound potential of these standard decks, like the Black-White Lifegain deck, which I forgot to mention, that's very popular too, they're main decking four of a one-mana Yawgmoth's Will.

So even with the turn you cast Singularity Rupture and wipe their board, they're just going to recast their board on their turn.

So you actually have to get ahead at the same time you cast the Rupture.

And it's like this Bolas the Citadel, Tolarian Academy, play a bunch of Moxin, pick them all up with Paradoxical Outcome, just have like this massive board full of Artifact Rocks and, you know, keep drawing cards.

And even if your Bolas the Citadel gets stopped, then you can kind of like just go again and play Yawgmoth's Will and like do all these crazy things.

That's a deck in Vintage.

And I played that deck a lot.

So we put S2 for Kennen and then S1, best in the format, for Blue Farm.

Next up is Krik, son of Yawgmoth.

We've got a buddy that's probably played this forever.

Yeah.

yeah um it's my turn yeah okay we have gowron gowron gowron eager for battle two black red for a legendary creature click on warrior three three whenever another creature dies put a plus one plus one counter on gowron sacrifice another creature gowron gains trample and until end of turn if you sacrifice to cling on this way you draw a card and lose a life So we have a free sac outlet on a commander.

If we can have some sort of way to hack our creatures to be Klingons, this is a Yawgmoth's Will, right? We're sacking a creature, drawing a card, and losing a life.

If there are ways that we can create creatures whenever a creature dies, you know, or have some sort of, like, easy creature engine that makes Klingons, then this card becomes really bonkers.

And then obviously it's going to be really

big.

there's also probably something that's like uh like an equipment or something like that that we're not thinking about that's like whenever uh this creature gets a counter like gets a plus one plus one counter um do a thing because it might be like when you get a plus one plus one counter like make a dude and then that just like is draw that's actual like Yawgmoth's You meant bargain, right? Yeah, I meant bargain.

Yeah, yeah.

So, yeah, I don't know.

Next is Valgavoth Terror Eater, the actual end boss of this set.

It's a weird turbo creepy moth that looks almost like Yawgmoth with its ribs ripped open.

Six black, black, black for a nine, nine elder demon, which is alpha ass, like ranking, like pricing right there.

I know that's right.

uh but that is our uh staples now we move into the show and tell ironically for this horror show there's not a lot of staples in the art like i would think that people would be stapled together or something but you know we take the wins uh i'm gonna go first uh my first card is walk-in closet slash slash forgotten cellar so this is a room and a walk-in closet costs two and a green and it says you may play land from your graveyard i'm already sold But then on Forgotten Cellar, which is three green green, when you unlock this door, you may cast spells from your graveyard this turn.

And if a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile instead.

So basically for three green green, you get a Yawgmoth's Will, which is like wild.

Like what? A green Yawgwill? Yeah.

I got locked against another tie amp who had three rule of law pieces and an opposition agent at the same time.

So all four, and the pod was myself, a Yawgmoth player who I don't know, and then Kyle Schaff on Rok'Sai.

And Kyle and I were just like, we are absolutely smoked.

And I actually ended up being the bad guy, forced to draw by threatening to cast Pure into the Abyss on a different player while Yawg had an OBM.

Although this kind of reminds me of the game I was playing this week that we were talking about where I was against the time with three rule laws and oppo.

They had a patrol signaler in play at one point, as well as a badger mole cub and an earthman savannah and a couple of other things.

And the Yawgmoth player played their bowmasters and they're like, oh, I'll ping off the savannah to... cut this guy off on mana and i was like no no no no no no no kill the patrol signaler right now and they're like what like what the hell is patrol signaler i've never seen this card like what even is that i'm like take it from me we need that

gone or we could just die no you were right right i was right

Diversify.

So if Storm has, you know, not quite as m- many lands as they want, they've lost their key Yawgmoth's Will or Doomsday to a Thoughtseize, their life total's at 10 because they're being beaten down, so they've got to win in the next two turns.

You put all that together, and you have a real plan.

But if your plan is, "Oh, well, Thoughtseize them once," and then not win the game, that's a bad plan.

But if they don't have the creature, the card's still useful.

Um, Strategic Betrayal's another fantastic card.

The Strategic Betrayal hits the Yawgmoth's Will plan and also hits the Vivy plan.

So you want sort of flexible cards, and because they're a bit slower, you can afford to be a little bit less efficient.

Gix.

Yawgmoth, Praetor.

Yawgmoth, Praetor.

Yeah.

Man, th- these are some names, brother.

So I, I won't, I won't yammer on too much on this, but the, the point is I loved this, and I loved putting the Pest token into play every upkeep.

Um, and there were some funny interactions, like you had Yawgmoth, which we'll see the return of, and Razaketh, and Hoarding Rootlord specifically were the three cards that really broke this deck.

'Cause you would end up very quickly with so many Pests in play that your aristocrat stuff just became terminally online.

And I was...

So as people fight, I'm suddenly able to continuously contribute, 'cause I can keep casting the stuff that's in my hand.

Right.

Um, and one time I even had those plus Yawgmoth in play.

So [laughs] the, uh, the little flips Kenan player didn't really get to play that game.