I think the most beautiful part is the fact that Reid actually baits him into playing the Jace by playing the badlands after the strix. Recognizing that the strix doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, he doesn't represent the pyroblast before after Brad counters the strix. Brad clearly thought he would have represented it together with the strix if he had it!
They mic'd up Reid because he was in the running for Player of the Year. He was just a few points behind Seth Manfield, and the coverage team thought it would be cool to have his path to the possible chance to overcome Seth monitored very closely. I think it is really cool to see this in Magic and I hope they do it again.
@@robspear03 No tabletop Grand Prix scheduled for 2021 or most of 2020... plus no stores are allowed to have in-store players in NJ and NY. Glad you live somewhere that can.
@@joewb6851 I mean, the pivotal moment of the game was trying to tempo play brad via pyro on the clique over B2B when your line from the beginning was to play around B2B, with pyroblast to answer it later down the road. Granted, he could have easily taken a hit from the clique once and played a longer control game, but the 2nd clique draw was massively lucky tbh.
In what ways to the top players cheat? My friends joke about how if you aren’t cheating you aren’t playing at the top level. It how do they cheat and how do they get away with it?
@@odstp1tv1pr37 usually it's "soft cheating", like tapping fetches for mana, fetching illegal lands, drawing extra cards, playing extra lands. Stuff like that, taking advantage of your opponent not paying attention. Another tactic is some pros will try and talk their opponents into overlooking things, convincing them not to call a judge. Not too many commit "hard cheats" but there have been plenty of that aswell!
i'm a miserable player compared to reid, yet, playing a 3 colors control deck with very limited basic lands in a control mirror that's likely to go very long, I'd be always picking a singleton back to basics with thoughtseize, rather than a redundant card like brainstorm.
I understand but I guess sometime ago I read an article written by reid himself about thoughtseize where he was saying that you should always aim to non redundant cards with it. between ponder and bs, miracles is replenished with that effect, while back to basics is a singleton and a card that grixis has 0 ways to remove permanently from the game (beside pyroblast). I'm not questioning his play, obviously, just noticing it's quite ironic that he ended up losing playing against his own theory.
He deff should have taken the back to basics it ruined him this game because he doesn't play a single basic mountain. I too was like either take basics or snap because theres no reason to take ponder or brainstorm cause they are redundant and he can snap them back anyway.
yah, I really thought hard about that game defining thought seize and trying to understand why the brainstorm, which seemed like a waste to me. I would have opted to play it safe and take the back to basics, since even playing around it, he doesn't have a single mountain in the deck, so it doesn't work out as we see later.
@@supaaznjigga i think one of the reasoning is that Reid wanted the game to be tight and contained. Back to basic was the most thretening card there, but brainstorm +fetch would change the cards in brads hand leaving Reid with less information about what the opponent has. Its easy to say that taking the btb was correct after seeing Brad drawing 2 flash threats.
@@gustavholst9085 if Brad had a response he would get the monk token and the line Reid picked means he gets Snap Caster back in his hand and Mentor is destroyed as opposed back in Brad's hand if bounced by Jace.
If you're referring to g3 I 100% agree. Turn 4 when Brad tapped out for the back to basics after he let Liliana resolve was the perfect opportunity for him to deal with it. My theory is his thought was going for Volcanic/Badlands and crimping it to try and deal with B2b into a force wouldve been game over for sure but if he had the gall to make that play he probably wins this match
Reid Duke saw a Flusterstorm in Brad's hand with Inquisition of Kozilek a turn or two earlier. Kolaghan's Command wouldn't have resolved, and he would have been down one more red source.
In one of the early rounds they said they were trying a different format for broadcasting. Rather than random showmatches they mainly followed Reid and he was mic'd up when on camera.
I don't like this format, I like seeing all the different players with different decks. Maybe if they do 1-2 games per major player that would be great, like Duke, Nass, Vargas, etc
