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jhesss i haven’t drawn. an-cheessss-well (is crushing opponent 224-5) but-hhmm i jusss haven’t drawn well you see…oh another land the world is a vampire) (you are good man quit complaining, makes it hard to watch)
Good work man!!!
While i think that whole constructed is boring, the standard is especially boring.
Please do more Modern and Legacy in the future – those are more intresting for me than standard, since this format only care about “Best Deck” vs “Anti-decks”, looks like Gatecrash brought us Reckonerer as a big bad guy.
The wolf-bitten captive might still be better, but I don’t think you have it right in regards to the experiment one/mayor interaction. Everything except for restoration angel (and hellkite in the board) is a human, so anything that would evolve a 1/1 experiment would also evolve an experiment with mayor on the board since it would also come into play larger (excepting weird corner cases where it’s evolved twice and you play resto, or once and 2 mayors on the board. Either case you’re happy with your 4/4 experiment i would guess).
You don’t like domri in this shell? also, I’m a big fan of lightning mauler to enable some of the BTE nut draws, to give added punch to the higher CMC creatures (especially good with frontline) and also to make post-sweeper recovery easier.
Finally, your creature mix sort of feels like it’s hedging between the super aggro multi 1-drop version and the higher CMC more mid-rangey version with huntmasters and restos. aren’t you better off focussing on one or the other of those strategies rather than trying to hedge your bets? Having a split like this just seems like it’d make your draws more inconsistent. If you’ve got the aggressive one-drop shell the it’d seem that hellrider/ghor-clan plays better with that, there’s no real synergy between your 4-drop and your cheaper creatures unlike those two options.
PS. please ignore marc, this is exactly the sort of content I want on this site! Standard is the most popular format, Marc’s view is in the minority. I haven’t yet had a chance to watch the vids but am excited to do so. Top level standard event play is what a lot of us want to see…
Thanks for all the comments guys, i really appreciate the input. Now, let me go through the Q & A:
@chmiic – not sure what to tell you. I guess that’s just who i am, and I’m not going to moderate my spontaneus reactions, even if you feel you can’t watch with them. I don’t feel i complain too much, and that it’s not accounted for – i also underline if i get really, really lucky, especialy after dumb play. There are poeple who love always jolly Will Smith, and there are those who love to look at Al’s Pacino character’s struggle with life.
@anoon – i disagree with you stongly. I feel like this standard is one of the most diverse from the ones i had a pleasure to play in and, even more, it will be fluctuating between agro, midrange, control and even some grave-combo, the recent winner from last big event will be hated out, like it happens with agro decks via jund now, and that will switch to something else hating out the new king, and so on, so on. I think this is exciting, and needs you to be aware of the required sideboard (or even deck changes). As to what PB said here: I plan to cover all the constructed format, exception being maybe legacy, even Pauper. I’m in the process of recording another Modern movie right now.
@Marc – you are right, I was wrong about experiment one in this aspect, i still feel it’s not better in THIS deck then captive. There is a number of uses where it’s better and very few where it’s worse. You are wrong about it being never relvant in the late game, even on the recorded daily here i’ve got a game where it being a 6/6 mattered A LOT. And not once has this situation came up. Being pumped up by mayor, being able to use up the mana from burning-tree shaman among others also matter.
@PB I’ve actualy tried domri in this deck, but it was usualy underperforming. Removal option is not so important, as my cratures are usualy bigger, and the issue is keeping them on board and not removing enemy creatures. Draw ability i found too random. I’m going back to garruk 1 md/2 sb split now, mainly because of jund matchup.
Deck has those midrangy options mainly to just trump all the aggresive matchups and at little cost of speed.
Deck also “seems” to work as the actual 75 i show in this article just top8ed Grand Prix Quebec (not the one that won, but one that lost to zombies in quarters).
The thing that sells me on Domri is azorious charm. That card hurts the deck pretty much more than anything (esp when played on CoP), and being able to get a guaranteed card back in the exchange is nice. It kind of feels like playing a triumph of ferocity (which in practice draws you a card a similar proportion of the time) that can also just win you the game if the opponent doesn’t interract with it quickly enough; the latter, along with the fight option, being what allows it to be maindecked instead of sideboard fodder. Also the list I’m using atm (similar to Edel’s at the pro tour) has smiters which obviously works quite nicely with his fight ability. Anyway, I’m provisionally running a few maindeck in my list, but maybe spear is just better.
Another question after watching (most) of the vids now, do you really see much blind obedience? I haven’t seen all that much and it’s not appearing very often in top 8 lists from what I see. It seemed to be one of those cards hyped big early in the season that just hasn’t lived up to expectations. I did see it land in one of your games there, but I don’t feel like it’s common enough to dismiss lightning mauler, let alone hellrider (which still gets value even with obedience out) on its own.
On the garruks, are you talking the big or little version?
And fwiw, I totally agree with you on captive over experiment one. ex1 is only better in the flinthoof boar decks where you can reliably get it up to 2 counters. Without that option I don’t think it’s worth it.
Small garruk, and it won me a match against a weird monoB removal deck already, it should be fine against jund and possibly some control as well, especialy as reckoner hype seems to be over. Card is also very decent in the actual mirror or the “fast mirror” (gp winner)
I’ve actualy not seen nearly any oedience lately (it has been very popular when i was building this list) so it might be a good idea to get back to maulers. On the other hand after maulers wining the GP it seems that it might come back. I myself thought about playing two against this deck. If obedience is not back it might be a good idea to replace silverblades and one wolfbitten with maulers, they seem more synergic with the rest of the deck.
I didn’t like hellriders for many reasons, not only obedience, reckoner being the biggest issue but not the only one, so for sure not getting back to them.
last game in the end u should chumpblock reckoner with 2/2 champion making him dead on board with 2 lethal angels, 4 life (out of pillar range) with one open mana
Hey MiM, enjoyed the videos, nice to see the commentary from your side as well. I’m SethDrone (r1) on modo, look forward to seeing more of your DE reports in the future.