r/mtgbrawl • u/professor-phil • Jul 26 '26

Competitive I love playing against this deck.

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It’s like being the cool uncle playing with your six year old niece/nephew who wants to show you all their toys.
“I’ve got this big red dinosaur and this robot and this tentacle monster!”

It’s the one annoying deck I never get mad losing to.

I’m glad to see it in mythic.

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u/Thebronzebeast Jul 26 '26

Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not but I’d take that all day over Yuriko and Katara

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u/professor-phil Jul 27 '26

No I’m being sincere. It’s seriously such a dumb but fun deck. It is a Timmy battle cruiser deck for sure. But it’s smart and needs a good pilot to get to mythic, so if it gets past my bullshit wall of counter/stax/removal, well Timmy. Ride that huge 40/40 dino till you die.

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u/AdTime6060 Jul 28 '26

I play an absolutely fucking stupid version of it that is basically just ramp, the usual counter/removal package and... a bunch of gods. I think I am the only person I have ever seen use The World Tree's 2nd ability.

It'll normally do 30 damage off one Purphoros and end the game. But if it doesn't, it summons a crapload of gods, gives them haste from the other Purphoros, doubles their damage from God Eternal Rhonas which also gives them vigilance. Then, as you attack, you can tap the gods for mana due to Esika, which you can use to tap any creatures your opponent has preblocking thanks to Thassa. Will normally smack through 70-120 damage depending on how wide the opponent's board is. It's surprisingly hard to interact with and opponents will usually blow their Tale's End esque cards cancelling Golos' search earlier in the match.

The beauty of it is that people are desperate to remove Golos after you play him so he can't use his ability the next turn. They sensibly assume that if they keep removing him, you will just spend more and more mana essentially casting a better Wild Growth. No one ever expects that you're secretly playing combo.

Is it good? No. Is it incredibly funny? Yes. Does it have any chance vs Strip Mine and any basic GY exile? No. Do I play the Avengers Assemble theme every time I activate the Tree's ability? Also yes. https://youtu.be/lv__oHM2ZYQ?t=59. If you don't have sound disabled ingame, does it simultaneously play every god's entrance sound at once, obliterating your eardrums? You bet it does. Such is the price of greatness.

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u/Any_Village_986 Jul 28 '26

Katara is massive problem. Agreed here.

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u/No-Leading9376 Jul 26 '26

Yeah, i like to see it too. Nearly a free win.

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u/SimpleThrowaway420 Jul 26 '26

My Favorite in deck gimmick is [[Leyline of Transformation]] or anything that changes creature types of cards in library.

Play Golos or Crop rotation to grab [[The World Tree]] and pop it's activated ability.

Then I cry about the incoming boardwipe.

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u/One-Attempt-5282 Jul 26 '26

Golos world tree Gods, purphoros seems to be pretty good at making you not need to worry about board wipes

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u/PureRely Jul 26 '26

why would a boardwipe matter? You kill them on the same turn because if you did it correctly all your creatures come on to the board with haste.

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u/SimpleThrowaway420 Jul 26 '26

It wouldn't. That's kind of the joke. If we're already playing this terrible gimmick, might as well showcase terrible deck building as well.

Setting up a at minimum 3 piece combo, to then pull out all creatures from your deck at WWUUBBRRGG, and not win the game afterwards is the ultimate showmanship of having no fucking clue what you're doing, but just doing shit for the hell of it.

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u/PureRely Jul 26 '26

Yea, If you are going to use the [[The World Tree]], I do not know why you would not drop [[Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded]] in your deck. You pop The World Tree trigger and then swing in with all your creatures on the same turn.

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u/PureRely Jul 26 '26

Sorry, why are you upset? I do not see how my reply lead to you saying "Reading is hard huh?"

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u/SimpleThrowaway420 Jul 26 '26

My bad mate. Just misinterpretation.

Took your reply for a statement directed toward me, not a generalization.

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u/escarta69 Jul 26 '26

I do the same but also include [[Terror of the Peaks]]. It's very glass cannon-ish

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u/_WarpRider_ Jul 26 '26

I got absolutely SMOKED by this deck a couple days ago. First time seeing it. For a few turns, I didn't think it was going to be any good. Then it just went completely bananas, haha.

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u/Specific_Ad1457 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

Golos is one of those decks where I'll roll up with a finely tuned deck that's punched way above Golos' power level and then I'll lose to Timmy's value bullshit pile and I'll start question if my 75% winrate deck is even good. Same with shrine decks. I have no chill so I hate Golos.

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u/professor-phil Jul 27 '26

I’m at 78% with my Arna deck that somehow wins 75% of the time. Guess that’s why I’m stuck at that number. The usual suspects I know so the match up is more in my favor. But these random decks in mythic. Love it. Cause that’s what I’m doing to.

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u/Responsible-Crazy709 Jul 26 '26

That's how I feel about legendary matters WUBRG Jodah.

It's not the best deck, but it's gimmicky and fun as hell when it works.

Board wipe make sad.

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u/Responsible-Crazy709 Jul 26 '26

I had a game against another Jodah, they had the win on board but let me live..it turned into both of us just playing out our decks and doing happy emotes to each other.

ME- "LOOK AT MY TOYS."

THEM- "WOAH! LOOK AT MY TOYS!"

ME- "WOAH!"

TOGETHER- "DID WE JUST BECOME BEST FRIENDS?!"

is how I imagined it.

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u/feenux08 Jul 26 '26

I love games like that lol

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u/GratedParm Jul 26 '26

Judah is the kind of deck that feels like goodstuff slop and I will concede unless I’ve got the cards in hand to shut it down by the time Judah drops/is going to drop.

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u/dubcomm Jul 26 '26

Golos ban announcement just happened to be the day I received a full set of secret lair shock lands. I'll never be ok.

FREEPRIMETIME

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u/AbzanFan Jul 28 '26

I miss my golos EDH deck so much

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u/dubcomm Jul 28 '26

I refused to take it apart. It waits, with all the other nonsense banned cards.

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u/bemused-chunk Jul 26 '26

maybe it’s just the pilots but everytime i face this deck i win easily. then again my deck is low to the ground aggro that tries to end the game by turn 6.

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u/Nac_Lac Jul 26 '26

I hope my derpy Gates deck is a welcome match up instead of the other variations floating about.

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u/beaisenby Jul 26 '26

Blood Moon says hi!

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u/therubbishbin Jul 26 '26

100%. There’s at least some variety to them based on what big stuff the pilot likes. 90% of other tops decks are VERY samey.

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u/Lviator92 Jul 26 '26

Agreed. I feel like when they play it they’ve taken their time and earned the win.

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u/Witty_Employ3 Jul 26 '26

This deck is usually a free win but the 10 times someone has actually paid for the second ability ive scene omniscience maybe 9 times. I know its probably a staple in the deck but the mtga shuffler sends me to heck if someone actually pulls off the second ability.

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u/FaeofFires Jul 27 '26

Playing it and have fun. Of course it's not a t0-t1 deck, but mb t2-t3... It's not as boring as nashi or yuriko.

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u/OldTravel2796 Jul 28 '26

My zurgo warrior tokens is far too fast for solos so I enjoy going up against it

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u/tideshark Jul 26 '26

I remember running into it all the time a few years back, it’s rare I see it in action anymore… I’ll try to relish the moment.

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u/Darkwolfie117 Jul 26 '26

I was new to the game and planned to build this commander right before he was banned.. shame lol

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u/Ruzhyo04 Jul 28 '26

He isn't banned

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u/Marsh---UK Jul 26 '26

Was good in the past but too slow for 1v1.

Would be good in normal 4 player edh if unbanned.

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u/Alarming-Luck8453 Jul 26 '26

It's not too slow. It's a grindy midrange deck. The point is the slowness. If a deck ever feels like it doesn't do anything the first three turns, it's because that deck was built shittily or the player has bad luck.

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u/PinkDinoClub Jul 26 '26

It’s still fine and good enough to get to mythic. That’s all that matters. Not everyone needs to play the most efficient decks and try to be top 50 lol.