The Worst Pro Tour Top 8 of All Time 

Holy smokes, this video did a LOT better than I thought it would esp. since the channel is very much still growing. I'm glad there's an audience for this type of content and I'll certainly be making more in the future (I already have some ideas cooking) but just want to note that as of right now esp for newer subs that it's going to be more the exception than the rule as far as content goes on the channel. That being said the appetite is clearly there so I might have to effort the next one sooner than I thought!

Me: "This eldrazi are crazy! It's gonna be so hard to play against them!" A fuckin bird: 🗿

They will let Nadu live until summer ends like hogaak probably.

I remember convincing my brother that Lin Sivvi could activate her second ability from the yard

To quickly correct you, it wasn't 20% of Nadu decks at the PT, it was 25% as there was a 4 Color Variant Nadu list there too, Bant Nadu covered 20.2% of the field while the remaining 5.3% of the Nadu decks ran the 4 Color Variant.

I was listening to this and thinking "Man this sounds like Pastrytime" and then you mentioned your time in league of legends 😂

We should just ban all 3 mana spells tbh. That seems to be the throughline.

Nadu ticks literally every single box for a ban-worthy card: Extremely heavily played (x), warps the meta around itself (x), strong combo card (x) - in a resilient shell (x), strong card even without the combo (x), repetitive and/or annoying play pattern (double x), causes tournament issues due to monopolizing too much game clock (x). They will ban this card once the Hasbro suits are sure that all boxes of MM3 have been sold and the impact on the secondary market is considered not too heavy anymore.

I find magic tournaments very hard to watch. they don't show you the decks being played and it seems like they just assume everyone is deep into magic and knows everything.

God I adore historical magic content like this. Really appreciate your hard work.

I feel crazy Stockholm syndrome, but I really feel without Nadu this modern format would be real fun. One Ring is the next boogie man for basically giving a freebie turn and crazy card advantage for all the free spells, but I feel after that storm is easy to hate out, tron can also be hated. I feel after Nadu and One Ring the format could be reallllly fun.

Really awesome video! I think what makes Nadu feel different is that it's not just wizards making mistakes like they did with Necro or Skullclamp, but it's like they are just throwing out insane cards and letting the community do the playtesting. We've had the incarnations, Ragavan, Thoracle, Jewled Lotus, The One Ring, Oko, and all of these things could have been fixed before they were released, but once they are in packs being sold, and it's much harder to solve problems because players have already built decks and these are the chase cards. It's not Nadu really, it's that there will always be another Nadu in a set or two.

Love the video! Would love to see more bangers like this ❤😊

I saw this video appear in my feed and immediately recognised your voice. Excellent work and amazing production quality!

I just found your channel, and that intro really pulled me in, got an instant subscribe as that title screen rolled around. Looking forward to seeing more magic coverage from you!

Love these videos. I've watched the Enter the Battlefield documentary style videos multiple times as well as every Inside the Deck vid about MTG Pro Tour history. This stuff never gets old!

Subscribed, Awesome video would love to see more these.

Regarding nadu, its transparently far to good. It was carefully made to be this strong, its to push packs

man when you cut to the LCS footage and i recognized your voice from the intros it threw me for a loop great vid

Great video! If I may offer some feedback.The music was a little loud around 7:15 and it made it hard to hear you. I hope it on sound like a jerk, I’m excited to see more from you in the future.

Excellent video! Good luck with the channel!

The one thing WotC hasn't changed is their incompetence when it comes to play testing cards that are blatantly broken.

Im surprised you didn't mention Eldrazi Winter (PT Oath of the Gatewatch). 6 of the top 8 decks were some flavor of Eldrazi, and it was a standard set that sent things into chaos for that modern PT. Also it was a pretty stacked top 8.

This is such a good video, I wish you got more views for such a good video

I wonder why they had Nadu's ability cap to triggering twice per-turn Per Creature rather than twice-per-turn period? It'd be a little more awkward to format but WAY more sensible.

Great video! I don't watch the pro tour but I heard about the Nadu situation; so seeing a video pop up in my recommendations about a pro tour that's supposedly worse, definitely grabbed my attention and I'm glad I watched it. Keep up the great work, I look forward to more content ~

I really appreciate the effort you put into the video and can tell your passion for the subject. Hope to see more like this

I thought you might have gone for Elves as they had 6/8 in the PT of Berlin. It was a deck that took long turns as Glimpse drew into chains of more elves, and games were decided on if you would accidentally deck out, or just hit your opponent faster than your opponent could set up.

Just subscribed hoping for more pro tour history vids ❤

Great video can’t wait to see more!

I didn’t realize this was pastrytime until you started talking about your league casting career. Good to see more of you!

This is fantastic, more discussion about ban, broken cards, top 8’s and competitive magic please!

Its not a disaster for wotc because it sells packs.

How am I just now hearing bout this channel? Got a new subscriber with this video. ❤

Randomly finding this video, thinking huh i know that voice and then realising why had me confused. Looking forward to more MTG content from you!

if it's not too disrespectful of your time, I'd love to know how you got in to the professional casting circuit. as someone who has casted a few small events for some games as an amateur I've always looked on at pro casters and thought about being in that position.

Just when I had uninstalled League and reinstalled Arena, who should come along but you! Liked, Subbed, and looking forward to more! Keep up the awesome work, Pastry!

Love videos about the history of competitive magic. Keep up the good work!

Awesome video! I totally forgot about how the Legend Rule affected these mirrors. How dreadful!

What a great history lesson. Absolutely loved the video style!

I was just about to comment that you sounded exactly like pastrytime. Good caster voice translates well over to good youtube voice, good job!

Really great video. Well presented and and edited- I think the music could be a little quieter but other than that this is great.

You know your format is absolutely fucked when a mono-blue prison deck running Gush and Daze is a scrappy underdog, jesus christ.

Nothing will be worst than Atlanta pro tour in 2016 when an Eldrazi block deck dominated Modern format.

More pro tour content! I'm new to Magic and stuff like this is FASCINATING!

"... THE best pro tour finals match of all time..." *Shows finals from Chicago 1999* My man 🤝 That match is mind-bogglingly good. I also love that line that Randy pops off in the lead-in to game five: "Bryan Davis is trying to become the third consecutive rookie to win Pro Tour Chicago, he's also trying to become the first person ever to win the finals five games to zero." Legendarily savage roasting 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I know it's not the pro tour, but the mythic championship that was 69% Oko has made pretty much any other tour watchable for me. At least almost 3/4 of the matches aren't pretty much mirror matches.

Heard the voice at the start and did a double take; when I heard the LCS shouts I couldn't believe that one of my favorite casters was doing a MTG video! Instant sub, hope you keep doing content like this!

It’s crazy too because there’s a At Home Nadu deck on arena too thanks to a silly Alchemy card that reduces equipment cost by 1 and automatically gives you equipment.

How do you have under 2k subs? Your editing, script, and topic are A tier

Bant Nadu would still be as boring if the ild legend rule existed, because it'd still chain into the most boring win turn possible.

Pastrytime talking to me about magic the gathering? This is something I never knew i needed in life and I'm all for it

Love the shout out to the GOAT at the end. Very classy! You've got my sub for that!

How do you have less than 1k subs?? What a well made video fam. Thanks!!

Nothing is worse than Nadu! I cast witness protection on it when my opponent was tapped out with nothing but it, a bristly bill and a llanowar elves on the table... He proceeded to draw 5 lands on my turn, flicker nadu, and proceeded to draw 8 more cards on my turn He literally got 5 fucking lands on my second turn... because for some bullshit reason if you flicker it, it keeps going forever

Hey Pastrytime, I thought I recognized your voice! Great to see you doing new stuff, loved you as a league commentator and this vid was great too. Are you a fan of Orb of Creation? I immediately recognized the iconic song as one of my favorites from that idler. Not sure if you took it from that or if its just copyright-free music that both you and Orb used.

This was my third PT and first constructed PT. This exemplifies how awful the format was: I ran a black-green deck heavily metagamed against white creatures, including four Massacre main. 2BB, Sorcery, all creatures get -2/-2 until EOT, you can freecast if you have a Swamp + they have a Plains. Game ONE in a day 2 match, I drew an opener of Forest, Rishadan Port, 3 Massacre, 2 other spells. On the play. Unknown opponent, closed decklist, no scouting (at least for or by me). I KEPT. I drew another Port on turn 4. I drew my first Swamp on turn 6. Freecast two Massacres to wipe their board. I won the game. I went on to win the match.

14:10 - Man, you can see from the footage how exhausted Eskeland was by the end. He doesn't even look that excited to have won the Pro Tour, he's just like "thank Christ, I don't have to play against any more Rebels."

Quiting modern was one of the best decisions of my life.

I think also a big reason is that there’s so much redundancy, and a lot of times, disrupting the combo still means you’re behind on cards. Nadu doesn’t require you to go all in like many other combo decks do.

There's something hilarious about a Stasis deck being the "good guy" relatively speaking.

When you started showing the old video, I knew it was going to be Lin Sivvi. The legend rule was such a problem.

Holy shit its Pastry Time. Wow I had no idea you had a youtube channel and this was just in my recommended.

I got curoius when you showed the LoL clip in this and did more digging. Pastrytime I adored your Lol casting and am happy to follow you in this endeavor. I played Type 2 back when Rebels were a menace, and it was rough. I do agree that this PT deck archetype was indeed supremely dominate.

I was 16 when I opened a Rishadan Port and remember being disappointed that my rare was a land. And I loved my Rebels deck, I was lucky enough to get a Lin Sivvi too, and was the envy of all my friends ^_^

Nadu isn't an accident. MH3 is explicitly a pushed product intended to rotate a non-rotating format, as were the first two. These crushingly powerful cards aren't a whoopsie from Wizards, they're why you're buying packs.

Bruh who let the intern design a legendary card ?

I would put any caw blade era pro tour up against pro tour rebels, but I'm so happy to have a video about lin sivvi's effect on magic.

In my opinion, the only thing worse than being broken, is being broken and boring. That is why I don’t like Nadu decks.

did not even realize this was Pastrytime when i clicked on the video!

holy shit the LAST thing I expected after clicking on this video was to hear pastrytime

I knew I knew that voice - hey pastry.

love how everyone who is in the league ecosystem that came from mtg are my favorite people in the scene

I give plenty of grace for missing cards in such large formats. However, it’s clunky design. Creatures EACH gain the ability, and it triggers twice each turn? That’s such an unnecessary headache. I blame the abomination that is commander.

You clearly didn't live through the Tolarian Winter

" wowww a nadu + shuko deck. daring arent we ?? "

I disagree. Nadu was the worst from the simple fact they had 20 years of knowledge before printing that shit card

Worst of all time is an exaggeration. Bad is more accurate.

Nadu, ring, necro, bye bye

The 1999 pro tour season does contain my favorite final match of Magic. The legendary Brian Davis/Bob Maher match wherein Davis is the only player ever to go 5-0 and lose.

Oh shit, a professional MTG commentator has a YT channel? With news and old school documentaries? Informed and well-edited too!?!? Dang, gotta sub early.

As a Rebels player i think it was at least fun to play and didn’t take 20 minutes to win

As someone who resides in New Zealand, its difficult to find someone who doesnt know a person who has been to antarctica. Currently they have 28 jobs going mostly in contruction and labourers. People go there all the time

I'm sorry for being ignorant. So, which format is Nadu more balanced on? Commander or Modern? I feel like the former is alright for the Simic birb

Heh, it is a small thing but at 8:30 you have the set symbols mixed up, nemesis was the axe and prophecy was the crystal

its cool how in this one and like take affinity as an example, the winning decks were decks built to beat the clear best deck.

Well, now I want to play Orb of Creation again...

For me, 2016's Pro Tour Oath of the Gatewatch was the worst. 6 copies of Eldrazi in the top 8 (other 2 were affinity).

Small correction, the 2nd set in masques block (Nemesis) had the Weapon logo, not the Gemstones logo, You got them in the wrong order at 8:30

The fact that it doesn’t die to lightning bolt kinda already seemed broken to me tbh

I dont think Nadu is the problem. Its the free enablers that are the problem in my opinion. Everyone disagrees but Shuko is stupid and should absolutely be banned first, nothing else plays it and they only use the equip effect and nothing else. If Nadu took another turn or two itd be dealable

the moment you said "another three drop" I knew this was going to be about Lin Sivvi

Nadu is the crossroads of KCI and Hogaak and the WORST part is WotC DESIGNED it this way

Yugi players: “first time?”

I already knew which top 8 you were talking about before watching the video hah

I wonder if the results would be different if there werent so many hate cards for ruby storm clogging up decks and sideboards

I think PT Berlin gets a pass, because while there were 6 elf decks in the top 8, they at least had some variance in their win cons and their sideboard tech. There were 4 Predator Dragon variants, 1 Mirror Entity variant, and 1 storm variant if I remember correctly. We also saw a variety of endings to the game. Game 1 was naturally a race, because sideboard tech wasn't in the deck yet, but even some of the game 1's were interesting. One semi-final game 1 ended with a 118/118 Predator Dragon hanging back to block a 116/116 Predator Dragon so that they could deck their opponent. 1 Game had a guy going infinite, only to be hit with a Brain Freeze, which led to a funny moment where they had to try and think of what the storm count was. A couple of games ended with a player building a board and icing their advantage with Ethersworn Canonist. Then you had LSV winning some games on the back of good ol' Thoughtsieze and a couple of attacks. Another thing that I like about PT Berlin was the featured QF match of choice, LSV's storm elves versus the artifact prison deck designed to slow down the elf decks. Kenny Öberg was the initial "hero" of the top 8, as I saw it anyway. His final 6 matches to get to the top 8 were 5 elf decks and a fairy deck. When he lost to LSV though, LSV became the hero, being the only elf deck in the top 4 that didn't use Predator Dragon. He was also faced the most top 8 elimination games of anybody, at that time, to win that tournament, going down 0-2 in the QF and SF before rallying back to win each match 3-2. So 6 elimination games in 2 matches before winning the finals 3-0, PLUS he made the top 8 on tie-breaks, sort of making him the underdog, and who doesn't love an underdog story?

I'm 40 years old. Mercadian masques was my introduction to mtg. There were no spoilers back on those days and black was and still is my favorite color, so when the moment came i chose to build a black mercenary deck over a rebel one. Yeah :/

Eldrazi Winter entered the conversation.

Glad I clicked on this video, lesson is Wizards will always print more busted cards (or change the rules to fit it) 😂