I miss the Innistrad RTR standard from before m14 soooo much. We had perfect mana, unlimited room to brew, and a power level that makes current standard look like a bunch draft decks. Wizards please try and make a format like that this upcoming year.
What about Innistrad/RTR WITH M14 ? Young Pyromancer gave birth to one of the craziest (Standard) decks of recent memory, the Burn at the Stake combo deck - and actually made it work !
Man I love watching this Pro Tour, I remembered when Aristocrats was a funky idea many people had thought of and then Sam Black has the epiphany of the year. The deck made me win many games of magic, and inspired my modern BR sacrifice deck that has dominated every one of my friends. Keep up the good work WotC, creating the ability to have decks like this will make many people frustrated and filled with glee for years to come.
I can't rewatch this without feeling a shiver on my spine, Return to Ravnica Era brings such a heavy nostalgia; this Standard was so good its difficult to explain.
too bad, joel's deck is genius and original, one of the prettiest decks out there in my opinion, not that tom's is not good, lol, its awesome, just liked joel's better
harvest pyre?? welll it sucks if you get it in your first draws, so its situational so i was wondering how many this guy was talking about running one!?... fuuuck that lol id run a couple tragic slips and like 2 reckoners maybe,
That's a different kind though isn't it. I'm not calling Tom a douche, he's alright, it's just the scarf (I know it's his lucky one) that looks kind of weird.
What dmbb1239 said, plus the fact that they probably don't want to have the televised coverage of the finals marred by the visual distraction of personal favorite playmats. It's not being televised for funsies -- they want to make sure the table is clean/clear for the viewers. Solid orange/yellow help the cards pop. I'd hazard a guess that as cool as a lot of playmats look, about 95% of them would make it a little tough to see the board clearly from the overhead camera.
it's any card game man. the closest thing to an answer i got is that their opponent might see or memorize the position of their cards, which doesn't make a lot of sense. i know in most card games there are abilities to let you see and sometimes choose from your opponents hands, but that doesnt mean you'd need to constantly fuck around with your cards.
Yes only if he did it before the aristocrat had hit the board. Otherwise in response he would simply just sac it to the aristocrat. And in all honesty not knowing what Tom had in hand that could have seriously been a misplay. If he managed to deal any singular point of damage, then he would be in burn range.
That first game, there was a point where Larsson just got Martell to 7 and had a snap caster, Searing Spear, and Boros Charm with 6 mana open, all the right colours, and Martell was tapped out. Why didn't he end it there? I was yelling at him like "doesnt matter what's in his hand, he cant play it!"
Not really. If you think about it... He had 3 aristocrats. Joel was drawing blanks, He simply had just a faster way to deal damage. Especially since Tom ended up drawing a cavern. So even getting a dissipate off that augur would have been no help. Just my opinion IMO.
Boros rules. Especially reckoner. Pulled 3 so far. Worth 20 something a piece. But I run an awesome Boros deck. Also pulled Aurelia the war leader and 4 spark troopers. Yea! Tom deserved that win. And scarfs are cool. I don't care who you are.
If you would have watched the end he said that Jon FInkel put it on him before he left. If you don't know who Jon Finkel is then google it. I wouldn't say John Finkel is an asshole. I don't think he is gay, but if he is then thats his buisness.
Commentators see this live. It would be a much more annoying experience if both the commentators and players spoke at the same time and then the commentators would just cut off. It would happen so many times over the hour.
This would be better with letting us hear the players, and pop up cameras in the corner showing us their hand. Commentators are often pretty annoying, mostly when they talk over the actual players conversations
he attacked because he had a pillar of flame in hand. if martell didnt chump, joel wins. there's also no point in leaving the 1/3 back to chump because martell can just sac pump anything it chumps to the aristocrat.
what's with the OCD with the constant card shuffling and flicking.. especially the dude with the scarf, it's like he's thinking if he looks at his cards hard enough they'll change into something else lol.
Joel actually could have won game 3 if he used pillar to exile the doomed traveler before combat. it wouldn't be able to make a flying token since it would have been exiled instead of dying.
guys, the foundry wasnt what dealt him damage, it was the champion of the parish. the silverblade swung with the champion, Joel killed the silverblade, he took the 2 from the parish
can Wizards stop putting the names of who's in the finals in the name of the Video? it kinda kills the suspense of watching the others if i just look at the related videos.........
Why were there no Junk Rite decks in the Top 8? Just curious. Is it because the sideboards all contain cards like Rest in Peace? Is it because of Blue counter spells?
What a year for Martell....he gets to kiss Bar Rafelli in the Super bowl Go Daddy commercial...then he wins the Pro Tour.....I'm about to buy a lucky gay scarf (not really)
im confused, at 39:51, martell only had 1 blocker. so he wouldve gone down to 2, and then he wouldve been pillared. wouldnt that mean larsson wins? am i missing something?
I know that you're trying to help, but seeing this ruined the series for me. I know by looking at this, that the person to get to 2 wins first wins the match.
true in almost all situations unless the attacking creature had trample. then the trample damage still goes through. found that one out the hard way :/
I swear throughout the pro tour Tom Martell wasn't too favored in his matchups but when the cameras left and came back he was ALWAYS in a 2-1 lead!!!!! xD
Rules question, please. At 38:40, how does Tom put another +1/+1 on Aristocrat by sacrificing Champion of the Parish? Can you sacrifice a creature after you've declared it as a blocker? I thought combat damage would happen before you could sacrifice any of your cards.
They are using dual lands. These players use heavy multicolored decks heavy on utility, so they need as little land as possible. Each land card they have on the field represents two different types of mana, and can be tapped for either type the land represents.
It's specifically to use on his own Boros Reckoners, as he's a control deck, he'll go through his deck relatively quickly, and many cards end up in the graveyard, it's not uncommon for there to be up to 15/20 spells there, in a drawn out game, the Reckoner will become a gigantic lifeswing that way, quite a bit of good tech.
The thing was I think that he was hoping to use the Pillar on the Aristocrat which was putting in work. But sadly if anything Tom could just sac a human to make it indestructible. GOD I LOVE HIS DECK!!!
I have recently started to play Magic the Gathering and I'm just curious about why I don't see any land cards being played on the table and the players are playing cards that require mana. Please answer if you can
As you saw right after, Larsson flashed in Restoration Angel. Were he to have attacked with only one token, he'd have lost that with no damage to Larsson. With two attackers he loses the token and still gets 1 damage in.
thank you very much. ahaha I just purchased a booster pack that had one of those and was like wtf that's what they were playing, also managed to pull a nicol bolas planeswalker somehow that was a lucky booster pack.
51:00 You can see the look on his face after he stops talking that says 'oh crap, I just said 2003 didn't I?' I think that's the second time he's done that now.
Just before the Obzedat came in there was an attack with both the Champion and the Traveler, and the Champion was speared and he took the damage from the traveler.
yeah im pretty sure that the defending player gets priority somewhere between blockers being declared and combat damage happening. they both do actually.
By the Nine Divines, why these players do THE THING to the cards when playing! FLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAP*fingers on the corner of the cards*FLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAP
