I know you said this probably won’t happen unless there’s more RC practice required, but really love seeing this perspective of learning the format and it’s helped a lot in a very short time to hear your commentary on the format. I qualified for Dallas but am unable to attend, BeYourGaard wishing you the luckiest top decks imaginables for the tourney!
Bosh Legacy - Look at a landrop and an avatar: "OK, this player is on Doomsday with exactly two copies of Thassa's Oracle." Bosh Standard - Turn 7 game 3: "I have never seen any of these cards in my life and they all have a wall of text."
As a fluent Standard player. Let me tell you that deck is such a pain to go against. It's sooo good. And it takes so much time especially if you play on arena because when they bring back the sac lands 1 by 1 takes FOREVER to get through the triggers. My average game time with that deck is 34 minutes!😂 It's cool deck, but good lord do I hate it lol
What was funny throughout this league was how most of the cards Brian was most familiar with I hadn't seen before, while most of the ones he didn't recognize were older cards I knew from back when I was paying attention to standard sets. Surprised I still knew any tbh, the 3 year rotation means stuff I expected to already be gone is still here.
@@BoshNRoll Bosh: "...a card I've NEVER seen in life..." me: Oh, I actually know this card, from playing tons of Brothers' War sealed! And then weirdly it happened a second time. (33:10 and 34:52)
A tournament report video from the RC would be cool. 17:05 Not sure if you spot this later in the video, but Sunken Citadel on white can also cleave Path of Peril in this list.
So many text on all these cards, I gotta say all the card draw and value in the modern card design version of standard is boring as hell. Allowing different archetypes to run out of gas, and also making decks have to work hard for value is something that magic would benefit from imo
When you said "Literally hundreds of mana" my brain heard "effectively unlimited mana, but no way it's literally hundreds" and then you queued into that deck and they tapped a single Swamp and a single Island and had 200+ mana in the pool with dozens of untapped lands. So I guess now I know.
Love seeing you playing a new format. Gives me hope that some pioneer games might sneak their way onto your channel eventually, even if only temporarily like I assume this Standard phase will be.
It's been a while since I played standard on MTGO but I'd be happy to see that the leagues are cleaned up. Last I remember the standard leagues were rife with sandbaggers trying to use multiple accounts to farm chests. If the standard leagues are legit now that's a great improvement.
As much as I love your legacy stuff, it’s nice to see/hear that standard is in a better place. I’ve been watching Gabriel nassif play azorious control on arena/Mtgo and it’s really got me thinking I might be a control player instead of the midrange player I always thought I was. 🤷🏼♂️
Edgar is a fantastic player, he used to do a lot of innovation in Legacy during the 2014-2016 era. He was one of the first players I saw playing an effective sideboard creature juke in Legacy Combo decks.
Match 2 was against simic cookies, I believe the player who’s put the most time into the deck is ashlizzle. It’s been kicking around since eldraine but has never really taken off. It is really cool though.
1:09:50 Opponent taps an island for 139 blue mana. There are 7 Virtue of Strength. Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't it be 2187 mana? 1x3^7 mana per basic land
@@anergyboy2192 That's interesting that it limits production to 139 of a certain type, but that's also where I'm even more confused. If just a simple 8 bit signed or unsigned integer, the limits would be -128 to 127 or 0 to 255. If we move up to a 16 bit integer, those limits go up to -32768 to 32767 or 0 to 65535. Thanks for the information that it's a limited value, though. I guess it's kinda like how they limit tokens to 200 or something.
Hey Bosh! Just to ket you know, for your standard appreciation, the simic deck you went up against is called simic cookies. The youtuber Ashlizzle is its main champion. If you wanna learn more about the dexk i reccomend you start there. Im a dimir control player myself and that is a tough but winnable match up. But you have to know how to play against it. Awesome video btw. I love tour content! Huge EG podcast fan too! Thanks!
MTGO actually overflowed with those Virtues! Each land should tap for 3^7=2187 mana, but it shows 138. The max value seems to be 2048, so anything beyond that just goes back to being small.
1:10:16 yeah thats my main gripe with standard control the selection is pretty bad so you kinda have to rely on your deck being in the right order more
I was prepared to have to skip this one, but was pleasantly surprised to see that it was still MTGO and not Arena! I can't begrudge video creators for playing what they want (or feel they have to), but I do unfortunately find Arena completely unwatchable. (E.g. unfortunately-for-me, this is what happened with SaffronOlive's otherwise-lots-of-fun content.) Normally I would also say that I don't care much about Standard, but this video was really interesting, as were the decks on display. If you enjoyed it and do make more Standard MTGO videos, I for one would definitely watch them just like the Eternal videos!
I wish standard was better on arena but the abuse of the non randomized starting hands is so savage i got really tired of it with the win grinding decks. I'd really wish for MTGA they would require you to play best of 3 for the hard grind by making it better overall so i can test my durdly cards, i used to have a really cool white/blue deck with dorothea around cheating them in as "attacking" to get around the sacrifice trigger but with the standard format mostly only losing cards on bans my deck got disproportionaly hit and i didnt feel like grinding out more cards. no money for magic, gotta be fed before that! The decks that you played all are so creative feels very nice
i support you for playing standard to prep, id like to get back to friday night magic but i simply dont know how to get back into standard, let alone if it will be worth it
As someone who got into mtg around original inistrad, ive always been a huge fan of hard control in standard. Even if i havent played standard since theros, its cool to see some standard content from time to time.
My main complaint in Standard right now is that Midrange decks are squeezed. You either have Slickshot aggro, Boros Convoke aggro, various ramp strategies (5C Atraxa or Nissa Lands) and control. What about Raffine? What about the 5C Legends? These are just control and ramp in disguise. Raffine runs lots of removal and creature interaction (Bat, Loran, Aven, Ertai, graveyard hate on the wolf or rat, etc.). And 5C Legends generally hits 7+ mana before the game is over between Slogurk and the Relic.
I don't care about standard, but if it's for testing purposes for a big tournanent, i guess i can watch you play a competitive league. There are so many releases that i find it really hard to keep up with the meta.
I dont think standard is bad per se, the main problem with standard is investing in relatively expensive cards that wont see play in any other format, but sometimes you can get away with that. As content, its super fine
Played golgari during standard here: Shelly is pretty good to board, especially since it’s kinda tough to keep removal post board on the golgari side, but for the most part you navigated it perfectly
Standard is a format I play way more than I watch but your commentary really elevates the content, I would not be against seeing Standard on the channel again in the future even if it isn't regularly.
Arena is excellent. The rigged shuffler is only for bo1 matches to smooth out the hands. The card weighting is only for brawl and makes perfect sense, because it's not very fun to have a newer player with a significantly underpowered deck playing against top tier combo and control brawl decks constantly. You seem to have misunderstood or are misrepresenting every feature you're complaining about @@GaryAsphodel
