For today's video I'll be playing through another Premier Draft of Modern Horizons 3! Twitch: / gomletx Patreon: / gomletx Drafting: 0:00 Deckbuilding: 13:54 Gameplay: 15:30
12:51 Kami is one of the best blue black payoffs what 😭😭 it gives so much reach against the slow eldrazi decks and life gain against the aggro decks. 2 or 3 would be perfect for this deck especially with all the draw 3 you have
41:50 Shadow of the Sacred Sun: The card itself has to be in play to recognize the prerequisite of the *beginning* of the postcombat main phase. Because it is not in play until *after* the beginning of the postcombat main phase, the prerequisite is not satisfied and thus it is required to play the card before the combat phase in order to benefit from its effects on the same turn that it is played.
Yes but why is it phrased like that. Why not, at the end of your postcombat main phase, or at the beginning of your end step? I assume some edge case where there are multiple postcombat main phases or something along those lines.
@@mikemosz Because the card is designed to trigger at the beginning of the postcombat phase. There are many cards that trigger at the beginning of phases - the most common being the upkeep phase. Why is *this* particular card designed to specifically trigger at the beginning of the postcombat main phase? I don't know specifically, but I would look at other cards in the set and it's surrounding sets to look for synergies. If there are none, then it's likely triggering at this time to balance the effect of the card in the game such as the player using it having to sacrifice their ability to do combat tricks if they want the card to be on the board early in the game and on their own turn. The card is actually worded perfectly to dictate when it needs to be in play and when the trigger happens. M:tG works like programming code. Just as cards affect other game systems and board states such as hand size, library size, and life total, cards in play potentially are affected by the game state: "when a player has 13 life...". Regardless of the card, it has to be *in play* before it can recognize the triggers that activate it. There isn't a better way to logically word this particular card to communicate effectively when it needs to be in play for the prerequisites to trigger and for the card to activate. Understanding these systems and how the wording on each card interacts with games systems and other cards used to be a puzzle that was printed in Wizards magazine. They are a lot of fun and really challenge player understanding of the game. You should look them up if you ever want some brain twisters :) They're basically like white board coding puzzles. ("Using the M:tG programming language and these resources, write blocks of code such that player A can put player B in a 0 life state by the end of this turn that is already in the precombat main phase on player B's turn.")
