36:34 Opponent is at 17 life. If fatal push specialist, 15. Trade vamp token for inkeeper, 13, 11. Eat walker, 9. Opponent cannot eat the food any more. Sorin is alive! You have three attackers. You attack, opponent must chump vein ripper. 7. If no blocks, 2/2 and 2/4 go through, 3 life, sorin sacrifice lethal. Opponent must block token to not trigger vein ripper, allow preacher through, go to 5 life. Sorin sacrifice preacher....deal 3 damage, vein ripper trigger for last two! If they block preacher, the same two damage is dealt after death, and then same ending. Very complex and fun puzzle to solve!
Yeah I was wondering why he didn't protect Sorin, at the very least I would have double blocked (trade token for innkeeper) and fatal push the walker. Then just attack in next turn to see what I would draw and worst case scenario you can sac mutavault to take out the second walker before end step and the combo is rendered dead with no top deck answers .
I love that decks like this are winning tournaments. Pioneer looked to be in a bad spot recently with geological appraiser and Amalia but this proves that the format is still incredibly open to innovation
I've been having a blast with vein ripper, I use bloodletter for extra cheese. It's quite nice to see sorin getting some more pets. :) Thanks for the contentz.
Opened RU-vid this morning to find every influence showing off the piloting of this deck. I went to watch the Pro Tour videos and this pile DOMINATED established decks, seemingly with no answer from the meta.
Glad to see you back. In the Amalia match up when you need to decide which one to remove between walker or Amalia I tend to favor walker since they can't protect it with a spell that gives indestructible unless they want the game to end in a draw.
it's everywhere, i've been palying against it 8/10 games since the protour lmao. I wish you explained more of how to counter this dekc since it's the deat to beat now also damping spheres work for phoenix decks
Sorin has always been on the verge of being broken in Pioneer. He checks too many boxes: 3 mana, is able to "ultimate" the turn he comes down, still lingers on the board, "without paying its mana cost". Was only a matter of time before Wotc printed a vampire worth cheating out. And the deck "restriction" of playing vampires hardly matters... like oh no, I have to play Harvester, woe is me!
Seth Manfield who won the PT played 1 Sheoldred main deck specialy to counter Izzet Phoenix matches pré sidebording I feel his take of the deck is quite intelligent and matches well in explorer too
You won anyway, but you had lethal at 36:35 : block the innkeeper with your 1/1 , walker with your ripper, and fatal push the specialist. 4 creatures die, they go down to 9 . On your turn, Sorin +1 to sacrifice goblin shaman to kill the goose, 2 creatures die, they get to 5 Attack with ripper and preacher and kill them. ( they get to -3 life) Good deck and good video anyway.
Good to see you back man! Been missing your content a lot. I had to resort to watching cvb and your stuff from 3 years ago lol. Glad you're feeling better.
Played this on arena ladder. 5 straight games vs mono black. 5 straight losses I wish I knew where these diverse ladder experiances are. Maybe I should stream and that will get me different decks for opponents
not sure what he did in that amalia game. in the turn the opponent attacked sorin, he could have just taken out extraction specialist with fatal push, blocked the other two (so that both attackers and his own vampire die), thats 8 damage to the opponent, putting them to 9. then in his own turn, sac preacher to sorin to take out the goose (another 4 damage) and attack with vein ripper for the win. i guess it didnt matter in the end, because he always had fatal push to take care of amalia, but still made the game drag on for no reason.
I always have problem to make this decks as I dont know the diferent filters deck typer wont let me search for all cards on deck creation (standar, alchemy, explorer, historic, etc)
Make sure you check "not collected" in the filters. You can also import the deck directly from the link in the video description and make changes or craft the deck from there.
I wonder if you fit a 1 or 2 of the 'recursive' vampires one of the guys that comes back from GY if you gain life, just so you have infinite Lightning Helix with Sorin and/or is value from discarding
Hello, I love your work. I am a subscriber. I would like it very much. If you would update the Ripper build with the way the Meta is now. and the upcoming changes with OTJ.
Interested to see this piloted... i happened to build it a week back or so, and found it lacking (like 50/50). Hasn't bad, but wasn't eqrth shattering. Must have been how I have been running it?
