Mardu Pyromancer - Modern | Channel Reid 

Brian Braun Duin is also a really cool guy, the down to earth ones are out there they just are the minority.

Julian Belkin source??

lmao

Dude I totally forgot how much I thought Reid sounded like Christian Bale when I first watched his videos. I'm so used to his voice now that I don't notice anymore.

"I’m whatever Gotham needs me to be." - Batman

He's the hero we deserve to need... to deserve... because its TIME... to deserve... a hero... for gotham

I have a Tron friend who told me the same thing.

It's just so much card advantage in the end, and it breaks the simmetry in mutual discard effects really well. I mean, it's 5 mana put 4 evasive 1/1 tokens into play, and that cost is spread out in 2 portions, AND one of them can be used even if discarded. Might be my favorite card in Modern tbh, just because it's so efficient

usually so few cards with white mana, deck usually only runs 1 sacred foundry. reid does have more than an usual amount of white cards in the board

You don't want too many lands that don't produce red though. Red is the color you want the most for your explosive turns where you're going Reveler into other spells.

Jack Buttery That's an argument to drop LOTV, if anything. With Liliana, you're looking to play longer games and that means you want to cast the front face of Lingering Souls *and* a double black spell and that can be hard if you're always fetching red mana.

I've played the deck quite a bit by now and even without Liliana I often find myself wanting to fetch for Godless Shrine, but only have Sacred Foundry. My only RR card is Reveler and tbh it's easy to find RR by the time you want to cast it, with all the looting. Your primary concern is finding the first red on turn one consistently for Faithless Looting. But finding black for discard spells can be equally important. So it doesn't make sense to play the 17R/16B split in the most common configuration. Reid even forgoes the basic plains for the 18th red source. Plains seems important though if you want to play white sb cards under a Blood Moon. So you are absolutely right imo.

wraith I was gonna say the same thing. I think taking the enabler is better when they're trying to break through the breach, but this is a control deck really, and both halves kinda seem exactly the same

I think both lines are pretty close. If he takes Emrakul, the guy shuffles and natural draws it he loses. If he takes breach, snapcaster can't flash it back til turn 7 so maybe he draws more disruption or closes out the game. Then again, if he just naturals breach after it's been taken, he's in the same boat. + shuffling in Emrakul with the whole graveyard makes the top deck even less likely. Maybe taking Emrakul gives him a few more % chance to win, but again, the lines are pretty close I feel.

Taking TTB buys a few extra turns that can draw into disrupt or close out the game. If he took snaps and the opponent topdecks land to cast TTB, that's game over.

I love how his opponent immediately played a 4-mana Black enchantment after this, too. For a moment it got me...

you can just not play liliana until the opp plays a threat

And yet, it dodges the Big Game Hunter ;) (unless prowess triggers).

I think +1 on lilly + 2 dmg is more important than a pyro in hand

Nope too long to use it and you can't play mutavault

It's fine but lili, kolagans, blood moon, and souls are just all better 3 drops

I believe it's about assessing costs of trade, and it was worth it with the hangerback. Otherwise it would quickly grow and either be a big threat itself or make a lot of flying tokens.

I'm guessing the burn is necessary for a faster clock.

That would be Hardened Scales Affinity, cool deck. Zyrnak is actually a RU-vid content creator and makes great videos for that deck and others.

I think curve issues/.

For in case he runs into a finks or redcap. In current meta, against phoenix

*Watches one of the top ranked MTG pros in the world 5-0 a league - criticizes sb decision making and explains to him how he should play the deck in the comments* Oh RU-vid, never change.

Thats Neato probably same reason more bolt than push. In the matchups path and push are bad, lightning bolt can still go face.

I don't think they could have won, even if they presciently held the cryptic for the thoughtseize. They were at 9 at the start of the turn, taking 4 from the attack puts them at 5. Two Kambal triggers from the Cryptic and the Breach would put the opponent at 1, and put Reid at 16. Emrakul puts Reid down to 1, but he has 7 permanents, can keep the Kambal in play after annihilator and Reid wins on the crackback.

This^ like, what the fuck...there's a faithless in your yard...

because he wanted to tick up lili. if he grabbed young p he woulda just discarded it and if he did it before k command he woulda discarded k command. the real question is getting young p better than having 2 counters on lili.

Yes. it is.

not really. Especially since he top deck goyf. I agreed with the play

With both Fatal Push and Terminate as legal cards there's really no point.

Granted that it's very seldom going to be worse than Terminate, but I don't think it'll ever be substantially better either...

@sstadnicki: Terminate is certainly the better card in this deck, with only 2 non-red mana sources. But I am wondering about a deck like Jund though, where you're playing Treetop Villages and Overgrown Tombs and the red requirement on Terminate is a real liability compared to Cast Down.

Too many random good legendaries in Modern, e.g.: Tasigur, Thalia, Vendilion Clique. Go for the Throat is usually better as mono-black removal, unless you get matched against affinity.

The problem is that right now Hollow One is more played than any of the cards you mentioned, and that's a serious hole because Fatal Push and Bolt both miss it. I actually do think Cast Down might be the best of the 1B options in the current general metagame, but it's not clear that you want any of the 'sometimes dead' choices - Murderous Cut might be better than any of these depending on the shell it's going in.

i know, that scratching sound is sooo annoying, makes the video unwatchable to me.

LOL. Turn it down slightly? People these days are such babies.

You do realize that you can't turn down the scratching sound without making you unable to hear Reid? A new microphone, even a basic one costs about $15. Why wouldn't CFB just get him a new microphone so we can focus on the gameplay. The "I'm so much better than these crybabies" attitude just seems silly when the problem can be fixed so easily.