Wish they still did world championship decks. They’d be so fun to play with today. Pokémon does it and they’re a blast to play with years later to replay formats past.
I'm building the same Selesnya Hexproof deck for a Modern Tournament in May, but I'm changing it around a little. Reid is my favorite player to watch, and I like how he can use decks that aren't as accepted in the format and be able to go to the World Championship Finals like he did with this. Kor Spiritdancer is a great card, but I'm switching it out for a 2 drop hexproof/unblockable that I think will even out the buff that Spiritdancer has in this deck.
Invisible Stalker i'm guessing? It's a good card, but you'd lose all the card advantage given to you through Spirit Dancer. I believe Spirit Dancer is the reason Reid won plenty of the games in these finals, he ended up getting plenty of card-draw, which basically pushed him a couple of turns ahead. I know it doesn't have Hexproof itself, but I think the card definitely makes up for that with all the easy draw.
I dont really understand how josh kill the first kor without flinting garruk, and when he trigger the ability again targeting dryad finally flints. Please solve this. Thanks
I have two questions: One: What is the difference between Standard and Modern? Two: what do the players keep taking notes for and taking notes of? Hope someone can answer these for me.
In Standard, you can only play the editions that are more recent (in a range of basically a year), and in Modern you can play any editions from 8th edition to Theros (which is the most recent one). And also, they take notes of their life points, and sometimes, when needed, other essencial information about your oponent (like when you play a Thoughtseize, sometimes people write down their opponent's hand)
And if you use thoughtseize and you write their hand down its also good reminder of what they have. Example you know he has a mana leak you wanna pull that out his hand first or etc.
It is also tournament rule to catalog any and all changes in your life total and writing it down is obviously the easiest way to do that. You are also able to write down any information you gain from your opponent through discard spells/Gitaxian Probe type effects
*SPOILERS* In game 5 Reid Duke had Leyline of Sanctity out since the beginning of the game, giving him hexproof. Since Reid has hexproof, Liliana can't target him for the Sacrifice -2
I don't understand how Josh won game 4 with an Abrupt Decay when he was hitting a Gladecover Scout - which is hexproof - under a Leyline of Sanctity, which is... also hexproof. Isn't Abrupt Decay a spell?? And even if the Scout's hexproof is an "ability" and therefore countered by Abrupt Decay, Leyline of Sanctity is an enchantment, so he can't hit him anyway? wtf am I reading this completely wrong??
He's hitting an enchantment, not the gladecover... enchantments are not hexproof (unless stated on them) just by being on an hexproof creature. Leyline does nothing because the abrupt decay is not targeting the player, so it has no effect.
2.12 Electronic Devices At Competitive and Professional Rules Enforcement Levelduring drafting, deck construction, and playing of matches, players may not use electronic devices capable of taking and storing notes, communicating with other people, or accessing the internet(with the exception of taking brief personal calls with the opponent's permission). The Head Judge or Tournament Organizer of a tournament may further restrict or forbid the use of electronic devices during matches. He isnt allowed to use it. but having it is fine.
Knight Tiger the sad thing is that almost all of the decks in the tournament were $1800-$2500... but reids witch was $800 ( and in my opinion the best ) but ya i would love to play with their decks and them with mine :)
That’s actually wrong for 3 reasons: 1st: josh was tapped out and had just played his deathrite so he had no mana to cast anything 2nd: he had no cards in hand, so not possible to have dismember. 3rd: josh was at 4 life and Reid had 13 points of damage, and josh had a 2/2, 1/2, and 5/6 tarmagoyf (assuming he did have a dismember out of nowhere played and in graveyard), that’s 10 points of toughness, so Reid gets through for 3, which is enough to win since josh woulda paid dismember phyrexian mana. And Reid could have done 14 points if he played daybreak instead of rancor, which would have josh dead even if he could play dismember without losing life! 44:18 if you want to rewatch to check that what I’m saying is true
wait a minuteeeee. josh claims to be playing jund. Jund is primarily red with green and black. Where is the red at? out of all three games all I have seen is green and black lol
They are not. Lifelink means the creature's controlling player gains life; Armadillo Cloak's effect gets ITS controller life. It can be used to neuter one of your opponent's creatures in a pinch (though I can't imagine Reid Duke ever using it that way, but it does come up in Pauper vs Atog). Armadillo Cloak is not modern legal, however. Too old.
as said before... cloak isn't legal in modern... but no they are not the same thing... cloak is better most of the time (e.g. being able to cloak opponent creature to stop it from hitting you - you gain the life)
Because armadillo cloak is from invasion- a set not allowed in modern. But I believe you should be able to play armadillo cloak instead(not as well) as unflinching courage because multicoloured cards look awesome in the old card frame
Because armadillo cloak is from invasion- a set not allowed in modern. But I believe you should be able to play armadillo cloak instead(not as well) as unflinching courage because multicoloured cards look awesome in the old card frame
Omg, Josh's shuffling is atrocious. He should really take a few days off of Magic and work on that. I'd be embarrassed sitting at the finals of a Grand Prix and shuffling like some scrub who's never picked up a deck in his life. It's so bad they should revoke his Player of the Year until he learns how to riffle.
They explined it in the video, he knew Reid Duke had dryad arbor in his deck and he could fetch it with the verdant catacombs in response to lilianas -2 ability. He could just sacrifice the dryad arbor and next turn kill the planeswalker easily, Josh needed a to find the perfect moment when to cast it.
