Bryant Cook plays Lotus Field Combo in a Pioneer League on Magic: The Gathering Online! These matches were played on: 02/28/24
Lotus Combo is a deck named after its crucial card — Lotus Field. We're looking to pair with Thespian's Stage to copy the Lotus Field. Once we have a pair of Lotus lands, we use effects such as Hidden Strings and Pore Over the Pages to create mana.
From there, we have powerful sorceries such as Dark Petition, Behold the Beyond, and Emergent Ultimatum to create an advantage. Eventually, we play a Lier, Disciple of the Drowned, allowing us to play draw spells from our graveyard until we can draw our entire library into Omniscience. At this point, we Fae of Wishes, cast Chandra, Hope's Beacon, and then Bala Ged Recovery (copied by Chandra) getting back two other copies of Bala Ged Recovery. We then minus Chandra to deal five damage. Now, we Bala Ged Recovery to get back the Chandra! Rinse & repeat! Alternatively, you can win with a giant Lair of the Hydra.
In today's video, we're playing a brand new card from Murders at Karlov Manor — Archdruid's Charm! It searches for Lotus Field, can kill creatures with low toughness such as Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, or answer a Dampening Sphere! This card is perfect for Lotus Field Combo.
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04:19 — Round 1 vs. Grenjabob with Bant Lotus Field Combo
12:23 — Round 2 vs. CrazyMorango with Abzan Amalia Combo
18:49 — Round 3 vs. Lacansa with Izzet Phoenix
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37:30 — Round 5 vs. FedeA with Rakdos Vampires
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Arch tru's charm for Murders at Karlov
Manor is a gigantic upgrade for Pioneer Lotus field combo not only does it
find Lotus field it also finds Lier, Disciple of the Drowned or fa of
wishes let's go check out today's deck list this is the decklist that we'll be playing
today and while it's changed it a little bit if you watched my recent videos you would have seen
that Chandra was the win condition in the main deck today that's changed it has become a fay
of wishes well why is that in the
intro I talked about how we're now playing Archdruid's Charm well
in order to understand why you would play fav wish is you have to know what this card does so it's
a green green Green three Mana for an instant and the first mode is you could search your library
for a creature or a land if it's a land you put it onto the battlefield tapped okay so you could
search your library for fa of wishes which is a little bit better just because you can't search
for a Chandra, Hope's Beacon so what y
ou can do is search for the Fae of Wishes and then go get your
Chandra and and a lot of other lists are playing approach of the second sun but approach doesn't
offer you any utility it just wins the game Chandra wins the game while also killing things
like Sheoldred so my personal opinion Chandra is better than approach okay so now that that's out
of the way the second mode of Archdruid's Charm is that you can put a plus one plus1 counter on
a creature you control and then you can have that
creature fight another creature okay so you get
a little bit of utility in killing things like Thalia guardian of thin with your aboral grazers
I love that the third mode you get to Exile an artifact or enchantment like you know Damping
Sphere for example and I think that's a huge upgrade for this deck you now have seven built-in
ways between Boseiju and Archdruid's Charm to answer Damping Sphere or deafening silence or
whatever so I like that a lot and the a lot of lists are cutting uh im
pulse I'll say they're
going down to two copies and instead they're adding a land to help support Archdruid's Charm
I'm not doing that today instead I'm just going to play the four copies of impulse cuz I really value
consistency and I'm only playing two copies of Emergent Ultimatum because you can Fae of Wishes
for one out of the sideboard and now with the way that the deck is built if you have Omniscience in
play and they give you Fae of Wishes you can just go get another ultimatum so tha
t's another really
nice aspect here as well so that's really the only change if you're interested in why I'm not
playing Surveil lands well I think that they kind of don't make sense in this strategy it's one of
the few decks in all of magic where I don't like the Surveil lands and instead I'm still playing
the temples of mystery so the way that this deck works is that you have silver bullets that you
need to find off of Emergent Ultimatum such as your omniscience if you Surveil away omnisc
ience
your deck gets a lot worse so instead I'm choosing to play the temple still there are people out
there experimenting with the Surveil Lands I just don't think that it's the correct Choice another
positive upgrade for this strategy was a Krenko's Buzzcrusher on the sideboard if you're unfamiliar
it's a for Mana 44 with flying and trample and when it enters the battlefield you get to choose
an opponent and then destroy non-basics it doesn't Target those non Basics which means that in th
e
mirror match you can destroy copies of lotus field I have a feeling that more of my Lotus Fields will
be destroyed than me destroying Lotus Fields but it's an option that we have access to that we can
search for with this Archdruid's Charm which is why we're also playing Dromoka and the sideboard
even though traditionally I'm not a huge fan of this card and Zacama is back we can go back to
the Zacama control plan just because we have four tutors for the Singleton Zacama and uh that's
all
I've got so if you're interested in more stick around and watch the rest of the video and
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match number one we are on the play all right this looks good we have the classic Arboreal Grazer
into Temple openin
g and then we have Archdruid's Charm that can go get our Thespian's Stage since
we already have Lotus field impulse is there to find our payoff spells all right so we'll lead on
the basic Forest play the Arboreal Grazer and then we'll put Temple of mystery onto the battlefield
get that scry trigger another Lotus field that can go to the graveyard I'm sorry this isn't a Surveil
land this is a scry land so it goes on the bottom of Our Deck even I'm forgetting I've been playing
so many of the
Surveil lands in other formats Seachrome Coast okay and we found the stage very
good for us let's play impulse another Archdruid's Charm another Sylvan Scrying or another Arboreal
Grazer I'm going to choose to take the charm we'll put Lotus field onto the table I have a feeling
that our opponent's playing Spirits just because I haven't seen too many of the control decks with
Seachrome Coast in it it could also just be the mirror match except they're playing white for
the strict Proctor but
my gut tells me spirits another Coast sure a Boseiju, Who Endures I'm just
going to copy my land immediately in case there is a field of Ruin in the future pass still no plays
from the opponent okay so they are on Lotus field combo they could also just be on the control
version but I don't think that's the case I think that they're on the strict Proctor build
hidden strings I'm going to Bala Ged Recovery getting back in impulse so now I can pass the turn
while holding open Beseech you and i
f they don't do anything I can also just go find lier on the
end step or even Fae of Wishes into a Emergent Ultimatum they copy Seachrome Coast they play an
Impulse okay so it is the Mirror match I think I'm just going to impulse here we find the ultimatum
perfect and a vizier okay hidden strings untap our l hands yes yes no tap here for black will
cycle vizier untap the land draw Fae of Wishes okay we'll play the Emergent Ultimatum omniscience
lier and dark petition opponent concedes nice
all right so the Strict Proctor build is really good
against The Melia combo but in general I think that the mana's a lot worse and well your Strict
Proctor dying is pretty bad so in the mirror match I have these Voyaging Satyrs so we can increase
speed and unfortunately we're boarding out impulse that's just the card that needs to go when you're
trying to be fast all right and then you have a Krenko's Buzzcrusher that can also come in so that
way you can find it with the Archdruid's Charm
you might be wondering about silence I used to board
in silence in the mirror match and I found that it's really good after you've already assembled
your Lotus field combo but if you're already assembling Lotus field combo I feel like like
you have this it's really good on the turns that you can copy stage and hold open silence but now
with the Buzzcrusher I don't know if that plan is nearly as good so I'm actually not going to board
and silence because I'm not there's nothing else I want t
o take out I like every card in my deck and
well you could just be saying like oh well silence is good you should bring it in what am I taking
out every single card is good you don't want to be boarding out of boreal grazers uh this hand is
the nuts so we'll keep this could be a turn three win depending on what our draw step is we have a
couple draw steps but we have turn two Voyaging Satyr into turn three Lotus field with hidden
strings they have the spar's headquarters I'm going to keep t
he Bala Ged Recovery now because we
drew another land so Bala Ged Recovery with hidden strings and two UNT well two Lotus yield effects
is always plus one Mana so I might be able to hard cast Amici on turn three the scry you got it we
just need a find a payoff here Emergent Ultimatum let's see it Otawara we'll play a Voyaging Satyr
pass the turn they have Lotus field okay come on Deck give me something to do here turn three when
Vizier okay so we'll float some Mana we'll play the Lotus fiel
d sacrifice our two lands we will
now cycle vizier please deck give me something good here dark petition we have so many hits we
find St stage I'm going to Bala Ged Recovery back the Vizier and we'll untap Lotus field float some
Mana here let's cycle the Vizier again untap Lotus field draw okay so that gets lier let's think
about this for a second I can hidden strings right now that would bring me up to seven Mana
Archdruid's Charm for lier is an eight Mana line I could get recovery back to
Hidden strings
and that way next turn I untap with lier and play or I could Archdruid's Charm for the Krenko's
Buzzcrusher and destroy their Lotus field I think that works yes yes and yes I want to Cipher we
can Cipher onto the Voyaging Satyr okay so I can get lier attack no lear's bad because I I ciphered
so let's get the Krenko's Buzzcrusher just trying to make sure I don't mess up here so I attack with
the Voyaging Satyr hidden strings triggers I untap those two so it's I get one point
of damage in
okay so we'll go to combat attack we'll Now cast hidden strings untapping the Voyaging Satyr in
the Lotus field yes yes post-combat will make red untap the Lotus field tap the Lotus field
again Krenko's Buzzcrusher destroy their his field you do not want to Target your own let me
tell you pass the turn well as the Singleton the Buzzcrusher is already carrying its weight they
play a Mana confluence and a Sylvan Scrying they pick up another copy of lotus field okay Pore Over
the
Pages we'll copy our Lotus field now we'll go to combat and attack for five Swing Swing Voyaging
Satyr will now untap both of our lands Target 1-1 target two yes yes and now I can Pore Over the
Pages floating one Mana so we'll have seven but not seven Mana that cast Emergent Ultimatum we did
find the ultimatum here we will discard the vizier float more blue Mana well then cycle vizier untap
the Lotus field and now I do have the ultimatum Mana oh well now I can just do everything all
right
we got lucky and found hidden strings yes yes no hard cast the omniscience and then
Emergent Ultimatum we'll get lier dark petition and Fae of Wishes we'll do lier first and then
dark petition so it resolves first and that's the match sweet we're officially 1-0 in this Pioneer
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play Love winning die rolls in this format okay okay so we have sanctum to go find Lotus field and
then we have Archdruid's Char
m to find more copies of Thespian's Stage this is probably a keep we'll
play that Botanical sanctum and pass the turn a blooming Marsh okay could be a Mia combo another
sanctum okay let's go get our Lotus field now we don't need to cast Archdruid's Charm for the
Lotus field these can be saved for something else as that that turn okay it does look like
a Melia combo and there she is that was a very good draw for us we'll play the Fae of Wishes
so interestingly enough the cipher mode here is
going to be very good pass the turn I can even
uh use the Archdruid's Charm to kill the Amalia next turn because Fae of Wishes has one power uhoh
they just have the whole combo on turn three yikes okay well that's not going to happen anymore
and they're going to kill my Fae of Wishes I'm in trouble actually am might just dead yeah I'm
just dead the Amalia clears the way for blockers and then swings for lethal wow good start okay so
we want Voyaging Satyr it's a speed based matchup impulse c
an get sided out and then path of peril
tends to be pretty good against them it's another great Target off of dark petition so I think
those are what we want to do here the some list play like four Thoughtseizes in the board I don't
think it's worth boarding in Leyline just for you know that ah this hand needed one more land we
have to Mulligan I mean this hand plays it's just very slow we'll keep it in bottom the breeding
pool turn one Temple we find the stage so that's fine my issue is he
re is that our hand is looking
like a turn four is that going to be good enough they have the first turn luminarch veteran we'll
play the Botanical sanctum pass the turn actually this might not even be a turn four so turn four
is going to be copy Thespian's Stage I'd have to find another hidden strings or a vizier in order
to even play Pore Over the Pages on turn four all right so no turn two play is good for us there's
the Vizier so it looks like we can play PO with the pages on turn four
now land number three they
attack the sage you so I could try to copy right now our opponent's been holding open Mana so I am
not thrilled with the idea of trying to copy in my main phase I'm going to just pass ah they found
Thoughtseize that's brutal I'm going to copy in response do you have the Beseech you they don't
okay so I guess I missed a window on my turn to cast the poor but it looked like that they were
holding open two Mana for Beseech you there okay they have five in hand Vo ing
Satyr I guess we'll
just cycle the vizier here untap the Lotus field drop the vizier it's another Voyaging Satyr that's
unfortunate okay so I can play Boseiju and then I guess we'll play a pair of Voyaging Satyrs Mana is
no longer the problem but we just need to find a card that has text on it a Prosperous Innkeepers
Overgrown Tomb they still have four cards but they're not really doing much so Archdruid's Charm
gets lier good draw it also gets Fae of Wishes Fae of Wishes gives me Emergent
Ultimatum so we'll
play the charm grab Fae of Wishes hidden strings untap yes yes no and I will now cast granted we'll
grab a Emergent Ultimatum tap for blue untap the Lotus field untap Lotus field black green play
the Emergent Ultimatum that game was a little bit messy but we got there now it's game three
on the draw I think I'm just going to resubmit this seems reasonable I mean I don't have a Lotus
field but I do have double or scry land I'm going to keep it the Voyaging Satyr for Speed
is just so
important from one Thoughtseize interesting to see if they take the Voyaging Satyr or not this hand
actually has a couple pretty good pecks Voyaging Satyr would be number 1-1 in my opinion number two
would be Pore Over the Pages number three would be the lier disciple of the drowned path of peril
okay we get our scry action on don't need another Thespian's Stage that can go to the bottom of the
deck pass the turn the and Prosperous Innkeepers we draw our own Beseech you we'll pl
ay the
Thespian's Stage let's play Voyaging Satyr pass the turn there's Amalia they find a court
of calling so next turn they could have lethal no they been the court of calling interesting
little afraid of that Emergent Ultimatum let's play the temple we don't find Lotus field cycle
the Vizier untap a temple of mystery and we draw another Boseiju we have to pass here I could
just be dead there it is and our Boseiju do not interact here we had a couple draw steps steps
plus a few looks to
find Lotus field we just never found it we had four Sylvan Scrying four Lotus
Field Four Archdruid's Charm I'm not going to make them click through all of this we can just go to
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right let's try to bounce back after that tough loss we're on the play for the third match sure
we'll keep this is not a first turn Grazer we have have to play the Bala Ged on turn one and then
turn two we can put the extra l
and into play all right so Bala Ged pass the turn Steam Vents into
slight of hand so likely is it Phoenix R draw for turn and it's another copy of hidden strings not
the worst we'll play the aboral Grazer which puts Lotus field onto the battlefield and then next
turn we can Sylvan Scrying for another Thespian's Stage they play a basic Island into Ledger
Shredder Emergent Ultimatum was a great draw we'll cast a Sylvan Scrying go grab the Thespian's
Stage we'll play it and then we will play a
nother copy of Sylvan Scrying uh maybe I shouldn't have
done that admittedly I forgot about the Ledger Shredder trigger I was just thinking that it was
kind of free as a land drop for next turn might have been a punt because the way that it works
is if I get a land off of the Sylvan Scrying next turn I have more options so so for example having
the land to put into play means that when I copy Lotus field I'll already have two Mana which means
that hidden strings I don't have to Hidden strin
gs into hidden strings just to untap my Thespian's
Stage so having this extra land has it's it makes your combo turn so much better so I'm not even
sure if this is a punt as much as it is just me forgetting about the letter shutter trigger
because I think if I had remembered I'd probably still make this play they play a path sure wow
main deck Ashiok well I'm glad that I got Otawara the Exile a dark petition and the other ultimatum
that's fine we draw for turn it's another dark petition so
we need to just copy here and then
pass the turn main deck Ashiok that is not one that I saw when I was looking at lists because I
did do some studying on the Pro Tour list before recording this video but I did not see this they
Ash again they hit my Fae of Wishes is so the only way I can win this game now is Lair of the
Hydra they play Otawara for turn they attack no blocks I'll go to 18 they're leaving open Mana
so I might just pass here because I don't want to lose like a spell Pierce or
something so I
think I'm just going to pass and let them Ashiok me again but if they hit the Lair of the Hydra I
Lose I'm willing to accept that all right well I guess I'll make you tap some Mana if I'm going to
try to win on my next turn anyway if fire impulse the Grazer sure they play a tap land and Ashiok
they did not hit the Lair of the Hydra we will Otawara the Ashiok we draw Botanical sanctum I
I can play the sanctum even though I'm winning with Lair of the Hydra because our Lotus fi
eld
can act as Lair of the Hydra well I mean our stage can at least hidden strings yes yes no blue
green hidden strings again The Ledger shutter does get to trigger okay and now we'll play Emergent
Ultimatum we'll grab omniscience lier and a Pore Over the Pages they give me omniscience and lier
okay we'll put lier on the stack first so that way it resolves last Sweet let's Now cast dark
petition because we get three block from having two instance res sorceries in the graveyard we'll
grab P
ore Over the Pages let's cast it untap untap discard a spare land play an Impulse take another
impulse cast that impulse Archdruid's Charm let's search for a creature land actually hold on I
can play it for free we'll grab a vizier I can always just grab the the Hydra later and then
put it in playoff of Grazer I don't need to do it off of the charm they get recovery let's cast
it for free I'll get back Pore Over the Pages make some more Mana okay discard another Botanical
sanctum we're just
trying to generate as much Mana as possible before winning with Lair of the
Hydra 21 cards left in Our Deck get rid of the the Boseiju Sylvan Scrying we can go grab the Lair of
the Hydra let's play the aboral Grazer we'll put Lair of the Hydra into play and then let's search
Our Deck again I guess go grab an another Vizier let's cycle the vizier untap the the Thespian's
Stage that's a Lotus field and now we'll copy the Lair of the Hydra use hidden strings to untap
it and I guess we'll unta
p the other Lair of the Hydra too why not and then we'll animate the Lair
of the Hydra so you might be wondering why I went back to adding in Lair of the Hydra it wasn't
an accident it's really twofold so one having a land that when wins the game when you're playing
Archdruid's Charm is very good and I don't regret cutting it in the previous video I think it was
probably right at the time but now you have the Archdruid's Charm but then there's a secondary
effect of that Niv to Light the dec
k that plays main deck cranial extraction effects came back
into the metagame so having two win conditions is pretty valuable okay so we're facing Phoenix I
don't really like Grazer much in this matchup so I'm fine just boarding all four of those out I do
like dragon lord MOA and then boarding in silence once again having the Dromoka defined with your
Archdruid's Charm just goes a long way good hand we will keep Spirebluff Canal and passes the turn
we find dark petition we'll play the sanct
um pass and step they play an opt Spirebluff Canal we draw
for turn it's a bed recovery I'm going to play the recovery now and keep the Botanical sanctum
because on turn four this is is an untapped land where I can cycle Vizier and Pore Over the
Pages they free the Fay Milling over a phoenix spell Pierce Ledger shudder Andy land they get the
spell Pierce back land number three and it looks like no Ashiok for now Thespian's stage good draw
I think I'm just going to play the Lotus field thoug
h pass the turn and step they consider they
main phase opt putting one card on top here and then a consider so it looks like they're trying to
get their Phoenix back and another opt so Arclight Phoenix will come back they have the land here
that gives them spell Pierce back up they swing for three this deck is truly like the Delver of
secret strategy of Pioneer we draw another copy of Thespian's Stage I'm just going to copy here and
pass the turn you might be saying why copy on your own tur
n it's kind of free just to avoid I mean
it's not a played card but something like I don't know uh field of Ruin and holding open the silence
on their turn when I know they have a spell Pierce doesn't make a whole lot of sense they attack with
the Phoenix I'm at 14 they treasure Cruise they're up to eight cards in hand they're in their cleanup
step and they discard a slight of hand I'm going to play Thespian's Stage we'll tap for white and
let's play a silence they free the Fay in response
okay so they pick up consider I'm going to pay
for Spell Pierce and it looks like our Silence has resolved I can now cycle the Vizier untapping
Lotus field one of the nice things about silence over something like mystical dispute is I got to
play this proactively you can't mystical dispute it um I think it's just really good if I'm being
honest so that's why I play it discard the sanctum that could have been a little bit better of a Pore
Over the Pages but I'm not going to complain Pore Ove
r the Pages again we find Dragonlord Dromoka
discard an extra Lotus field we've already played our land for the turn we have seven Mana so I
can dark petition for our hidden strings here I think that's probably the play and now we'll
untap yes yes no so now we have nine mana and Archdruid's Charm for lier is an eight Mana line
so you'd have one Mana floating so what we do is we Bala Ged recover y back the hidden strings
and now we'll tap for blue actually do I tap for green I think it's act
ually better to tap for
green here and then we'll hidden strings because this way you end up with one less green Mana
overall and now we'll go grab our lier which is protected from something like a lightning Axe
by the way because we played silence sweet hidden strings untap untap when you're ciphering from the
graveyard or flashing back from the graveyard it's free to Cipher onto your Lier like it's not going
back to the graveyard anyway and now we can Pore Over the Pages untap untap disca
rd Sylvan Scrying
I guess let's Pore Over the Pages again we find Omniscience discard a Boseiju we can dark petition
let's go get another hidden strings and now we hidden strings yes yes no so I could omniscience
right now but I'd be tapping out of mana and with lier it says you can play spells from your
graveyard okay well Omniscience specifically says from hand so in order to win with the lier still
you would want to have some Mana floating that's my point here and now we'll play the Amic
i play
the Dragonlord Dromoka because I can can't tell me otherwise all right and now we can did I mess
up I guess I did I should have yeah I messed up a little bit that's okay full impulse which finds
em Emergent Ultimatum I should have Bala Ged the hidden strings one more time but I got lucky
I found a Emergent Ultimatum everything's okay hidden strings poor and our opponent concedes
sweet all right we are now 2-1 two matches left to go you're still watching make sure to give
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with us I'm pretty good at winning this die roll thing huh all right fourth match not very good
at the drawing L thing we will Mulligan okay so we can afford to keep this I'm going to bottom
the Otawara because it d
oesn't make green mana and we do have this Archdruid's Charm in her hand
lead on the Botanical sanctum pass the turn all of Storm Giants okay so likely Azorius Control
could be as at Phoenix but probably Azorius Control we'll play the basic forest and send it
back opt maybe it's just as a phoenix I'm going to impulse now I'll take the third green source
for my Archdruid's Charm and it is Phoenix there's the shredder we're going to main phase this charm
to go get our Lotus field we don't wan
t to risk it being countered grab the field enters play we
have to sacrifice two all right pass our TR is so good let me tell you I'm a big fan our opponent
is going to attack for one sure I go to 19 and they're passing Sweet I could try to jam here I'm
just going to play it safe I don't think we're in any danger at the moment so just take my time
don't slip up and lose to a spell Pierce they free the Fay they pick up a consider and now
while they're tapped out I will copy my Lotus field fl
oating a mana and then play impulse let's
pick up the lier disciple of the drowned and then our next turn I plan on starting to party they
play an island they swing so they drew a land for turn here Sylvan Scrying I mean I'm still not
under any pressure so I think what I'm going to do here if they're just going to leave open Mana is
I'm just going to get another that being stage and Bully them with Mana it's kind of free to do I'll
make them think that I might have a Archdruid's Charm here
instead of just tapping a Lotus field
for no reason and set the galvanic iteration so that means that they're on the Time Walk build the
uh temporal Mastery is it called I can't remember been a while they get rid of a phoenix off of
the Shredder trigger and then another Phoenix okay so they're highly incentivized this turn to
play some spells to get back their Phoenix's they play Storm carve Coast seven cards in hand the
treasure Crews leaving back two Arclight Phoenix in the graveyard that
's spell number one for the
turn they cast an opt that triggers the Ledger Shredder they discard a Spirebluff Canal and the
opt can now resolve and a slide of hand they've reached the appropriate Storm count to get back
their Phoenix's and they skip their attack step on accident but it's not going to matter I'm going
to win the game anyway they disc skirt a lightning axe well we drew Omniscience how about that easy
peasy lemon squeezy play the omniscience Pore Over the Pages untap our lands
discard a temple dark
petition go grab an Emergent Ultimatum we'll play the ultimatum get dark petition Fay of wishes and
Pore Over the Pages is sweet all right game number one goes to us once again you want to bring in
silence and then the Dromoka board out a boreal Grazer resubmit game number two our opponent is
taking a mulligan we are lacking a Lotus field but this hand seems fine enough to me they lead
on a Spirebluff Canal pass the turn we'll play a turn one Temple of mystery scry an
other Temple
can go on the bottom they play a lane and pass so they did not have a one drop on turn one we find
another hidden strings we'll just play a land and pass no free the Fay interesting they play Steam
Vents we draw silence I'll just play a stage pass the turn and step they Prismari command discards
a pair of Phoenix that's scary slide of hand they play a land untap so they're choosing to not do
anything this turn I'm going to copy my Botanical Sanctum gives me the third Green in c
ase we draw
an Archdruid's Charm instead I just draw the Lotus field perfect play the Lotus field and let's copy
it pass we're lacking a way to win the game right now but next turn I have a draw step I have a
Vizier cycle and I can even Bala Ged back the Vizier so we have three looks at a card that's
a payoff our opponent plays an opt puts a card on the bottom and passes and Archdruid's Charm is
good enough okay so let's start by casting silence the galvanic iteration okay and they're going
to spell Pierce I'm going to cycle vizier now then we'll Target a Lotus field draw card another
silence so instead of paying for the spell Pierce I'm just going to silence them again yeah nice
mystical dispute sure a third Spell Pierce or I guess it's technically a second Spell Pierce but
it's done its job we tapped them out that's all we were trying to do here okay so now we can head
in strings untap and tap yes yes no all right so let's just talk through some options here so I can
Archd
ruid's Charm go get lier and then lier would yeah I think it's probably just lier all right go
grab our Le disciple of the drown and now we can hidden strings yes yes no we'll play the Boseiju
as our land for the turn we'll Bala Ged Recovery getting back the hidden strings and then we'll
make some more blue Mana hidden strings again yes yes no and now we'll play the lier all right so we
currently have seven Mana we can arch with charm for fa of wishes so it's actually granted that's
a seven
Mana line okay and then if we want to cast em Emergent Ultimatum that's another seven Mana
so we need 14 Mana all right so we have seven here hidden strings are each plus four so seven plus
8 is 13 and Bala Ged Recovery in the middle is 14 so by my math that's a win so we'll start with
Bala Ged Recovery get back hidden strings okay now we'll untap yes yes no play the oh no I've already
played a land my bad okay so now I can Archdruid's Charm will go grab Fae of Wishes hidden strings
yes ye
s yes and we'll Cipher onto the lier blue Mana blue Mana hidden strings yes yes and yes
we'll tap for black tap for green fa of wishes by Fae of Wishes I mean granted we'll go get the
sideboard Emergent Ultimatum and then play it to Blue Mana floating we'll do omniscience Pore Over
the Pages dark petition and the opponent concedes so now we are three in 1-1 match left to go with
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have Temple of mystery and impulse to help find our Lotus field but I do have an arch Steward's
charm we would need to f
ind a third green source that isn't Otawara but I think that this hand
is just fine turn one blood token so likely the vampires deck turn one duress this is likely the
charm but let's see what they take here wish I had a little bit of a faster hand if I was facing the
vamp Empire's deck kind of slow we draw another Temple we'll scry Grazer is a great pickup here
pass the turn blood tithe Harvester sure thing we play the Temple of mystery Otawara can go on
the bottom we'll play the Arboreal
Grazer putting Botanical sanctum onto the table pass they attack
I will happily block another Blood tithe Harvester we found the Thespian's Stage good deal play
stage pass the turn we can get the Lotus field on their end stop they discard a fatal push to
draw a card no land so we'll take six here going to 14 they discard another fatal push Cavern of
souls yep and on their end step we will go get that Lotus field triggers we get rid of a pair of
Temple of mystery and that's the ball game swe
et play Otawara for turn let's tap for blue copy the
Lotus field Actually I don't even think we needed to draw the hidden strings so I could have just
played my land for turn and that's six mana and then we use vizier and then tapping the Thespian's
Stage for the colorless and I believe that works so you would have to tap Lotus field for blue
the first time so you'd float blue untap tap for green so that doesn't work so if you I think the
colors actually don't work that's the Difference Mak
er here is you have seven but the color is just
align where you would have needed a good draw off of the vizier and now we'll cycle the vizier untap
Lotus field we drew the Lair of the Hydra Emergent Ultimatum good deal we've taken game number one
versus vampires we want Leyline of sanctity I mean the question is like I think that aboral Grazer
is actually not bad it stops their busted draws of just like turn three 65 vampire I'm we're going to
board out two grazers and then maybe one impul
se let's try this I don't really like Voyaging Satyr
in the matchup and I don't think you want to bring in Zak game number two we've opened up a stellar
hand we have Leyline of sanctity we have t one aboral Grazer we have a stage we also have Sylvan
Scrying so we have everything we want including a Fae of Wishes to go get our sideboard copy of
Emergent Ultimatum Leyline will enter basic swamp and Archdruid's Charm that was a great draw for
us play the stage pass so one of the few ways we co
uld lose this game is by letting ourselves lose
the Damping Sphere at the moment so I'm wondering if maybe we should try to play this game a little
bit more conservatively but I also don't know if that's an option and there's the Damping Sphere
that's fine I'd rather they play it before I put a Lotus field onto the table so that's good
news okay what's Sylvan Scrying I just want an untap green Source here I might actually grab
the breeding pool let's do that so I thought about grabbing Bose
iju but the thing is I don't want
to accelerate them our opponent Mulligan to five they're on low resources why would I want to give
them a land Boreal gra are just holding down the fort breeding pool will enter dark petition was
a fine draw we can remove the Damping Sphere on their end step a third mut Vol from them hope you
don't have anything in your hand that cost double black or just red all right so they're going to
punch for two damage that's acceptable we will block okay on their en
d step we will remove the
Damping Sphere Pore Over the Pages I will just pass okay so they play essentially an Elvish
Visionary I mean it's a vampire but you know what I mean and they play another land still
three cards in hand and their end step will go grab Lotus field good deal sacrifice two lands
so the Bala Ged Recovery and the basic Forest hden strength Vizier is not bad though all right
so let's start by excuse me cycling the Vizier untap Lotus field another vizier okay just want
to
do some quick math here so we have six Mana this brings us up to seven I think that works oh
but then you have to tap the stage so I'm actually one short of the play I want to make so I wanted
to copy stage and then Pore Over the Pages but it's not an option so we will Pore Over the Pages
now floating one mana and there's a hidden strings discard a land that would come in to play tapped
will now copy the Lotus field so I played this game a little bit more slowly than I could have
well than
I needed to but I wanted to make sure we didn't lose to Damping Sphere and well it paid
off we got the 4-1 only losing to Thalia combo my thoughts on the decklist I'd run it back card for
card no changes losing to Amalia is something that happens in the format like our opponent had a
turn three game one and then in game three they had discard into a turn four so that happens um
sometimes you do just lose in the game of Magic the Gathering you don't have to make a change
every time but I lo
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23:45 You can animate lair of the hydra, and with that trigger on the stack, use thespian to copy lotus field. Now your thespian is a tapped 20/20 lotus field. Use one more vizier to untap it so you can swing. This plays around infinite targeted removal since it gets hexproof THEN becomes a creature. There is never an opportunity to target it with removal this way. To do this, you need to save a vizier. Not sure if you knew this already and just didn't do it cause phoenix is probably not killing a 20/20, but this can be relevant against other decks. 29:00 you had lier ciphered so you could just attack to untap anyway
As a Lotus Combo player (or just a degenerate combo player in general), every time you post a Lotus field video, it makes me happy. Archdruid's charm is the truth, I feel it added the tutor we needed and deserved while leaving petition open to grab a kill enabler like Ultimatum, also, animating a massive lair, and dropping a +1/+1 counter on it to blow up a large creature makes me happy, and can be done the turn Lair drops, even tapped. Love your videos dude!
I’ve been trying to pick up this deck as I get into pioneer, you’ve been super helpful!
Omg I love this deck. Can't wait for the Pioneer season to begin! Great content as always Bryant
I've come to realize penny dreadful is my favorite format. You know what would be cool to have on sleeves of a penny dreadful deck.? That portrait of Penny and Amy from that one big bang theory episode.
Such a clean run, this feels like the strongest the list has been since underworld breach but i gotta say i really miss my turn 2 discontinutiy cheese )':
best pioneer deck with a great pilot! your commentary is wonderful bryant wp gg
I couldn’t shut up about this card during spoiler season, my friend wanted to strangle me. I totally agree about Impulse, I’ve always felt like I want more than I can fit in my deck
Back on Lair of the Hydra again? What do you think of people playing 3 Stages? Do you think that you need to switch up the mana base to support the triple green of the Charm? I think I agree with you on the Impulses too.
Charm seems like a perfect addition to the deck. Triple green is kinda of steep cost, but seemed doable. My only concern is that it makes the deck kinda slow when you draw the second one. Is 4 charms the correct number?
This card seems so good that I'd be trying it in modern lotus field combo if needing 3 green wasn't such a big change from the current mana bases.
At 10:30 how did that work on a HEXPROOF opponent’s field?
at 40:59 enlighten me as to why we don't fetch for lotus field here ^^' ? :D
I have tried to play lotus field twice at my locals and have gone 1-2 both times. Probably just me
Idk how this can be anything other than the best deck in the format. Phoenix beats the crap out of lots of decks but this slaps Phoenix and basically all non-aggro decks. What are Lotus Field’s bad matchups?
I play a lot of phoenix in paper and online, and I have never seen a main deck Ashiok... Comment below if you think I'm wrong but that's just cringe.
All my homies hate Dromoka 🥲
Wtf, how this deck wins? only by people conceding? So if opponents does not concede you lose?? what im not seeing on this deck XD