Indeed! He’s got a good channel and is enjoyable to watch. If he truly did brew the deck then credit where credit is due, congrats to the man.

Anyone else just super stoked that a deck like this can even exist in modern? There’s a not-insignificant amount of doomsaying when it comes to modern and when occurrences like this happen I feel rewarded for being a modern player. Just like when Amulet Bloom burst onto the scene, yes it was a powerful deck but the cards had existed for years and nobody had thought to put them together. It’s innovations and new ideas like that which make modern such a fun format, there’s so many undiscovered gems sitting there and no FNM is safe from these brilliant off-meta brews. Big tournaments can give the impression of a stratified and sometimes static format but in reality at a grass roots level modern has a real wild-west feel about it. And I love it.

Merfolk wants to play spreading seas and a lord to make all their creatures unblockable.

it is similar to Merfolk indeed. It seems to me that humans has a better disruption package while Merfolk has better card advantage and evasion, at the cost of less interaction. Humans used to be faster, but the current deck isn’t optimized for speed and UG Merfolk has gotten quicker.

Opening something like Zig makes your Companies into 5-drops. The card basically has a lot of tension with Vial, which encourages you to build your decks so that you don’t have that many traditional mana sources. And as Trevor mentioned, running Company suddenly gives opposing Denials a juicy target.

The mana can’t support it. Including the Noble Hierarchs you have seven green sources, ten if you count fetchlands. That’s pretty risky. Also, pilot had an article today where he explained that Collected Company slowed the deck down.

Half of it arrived today. I was giddy like a child haha.

Yes, it’s not perfect, but wow it’s a fun deck. It is pretty good though. Lots of ‘free win’ potential which is a solid trait for what’s effectively a weirder brand of merfolk. Humans is, after all, a ‘fish’ deck.

Good for Collins for doing a great job metagaming in a format where people constantly complain there is “too much” diversity to prepare (thinking of a certain SCG article of late).