The Proffessors: Episode 76: Q'ing for Austin: Part 2: Metagaming

[StoneThrowingDevil]

why didn't he just do this...

1) Play Garruk

2) Untap Fertile Ground land + other land

3) Evoke thresher at instant speed

His Garruk would still be alive (with 2 counters) and would be able to make blockers for the next turn. Sure you get the naturalize, but who cares? It becomes a growing army of 3/3 beasts versus some tidehollows...

And he had another thresher on the way. Who knows how that game "should have" played out...

[ParentheticalMagic]

well, i could beat the double tarmagoyf, i got a double dragon broodmother of of alara reborn. but, thats not the same as future sight. the rest of the booster box gave 2 sen triplets, a jenara, a karrthus and sphinx of steel wind.

[electricturf]

Did he play Maelsrtom Pulse in instant speed, as a response to your sculler? It's a sorcery.

[xBoSMaN22]

BW Tokens is 10x better against Faeries than GW tokens.

[agdstardust]

you cant play spells on your untap stup bud

[proffessors]

also worded wrong, in response to the ability is what I said and did in real life, but I wrote it and said it wrong on tape.

[blazeboy36]

Did the jund player have any broodmate dragons or only sued broodmother? broodmate seems to be the safest option for jund no matter what. better to get a extra creature the turn it comes into play rather than during ur upkeep. Hope he had them

[proffessors]

Yeah, he was running for of each, and, just a note, broodmother is every upkeep, not just urs.

[shadowhunter483]

Swans became an effective deck because most control decks can't deal with it. Fairies has the most effective counter magic which it allows it to disrupt swans effectively. The prevalence of swans caused all the tokens decks to switch to either swans or fairies. Now that a dedicated control deck is in the meta, you will see more fairies. Also why did you cut purge against jund? The knight doesn't do much. Most of his creatures are black or read i.e Dragon broodmother, broodmate dragon.

[proffessors]

my apologies I said that backwards. I switched out the knights for the purges, not the purges for the knights.

[Wedgehead123]

jund ramp blows, and you souldn't be playng knight of the white orchid. it's worse than knight of meadowgrain because its ability is too conditional

[Wedgehead123]

FOG IS SHIT! yaaaaaaay. at regionals i raped every fog deck i played, and my friend who played fog went 1-6-2, and his only win was because his opponent forgot to drop on time

[LordSageMirentus]

Sometimes bad players play Turbo Fog.

[Amanisawesome]

no sometimes bad players think bad decks are good and do even worse then if they played a decent deck.

Fog is a terrible deck

[LordSageMirentus]

I wouldn't say terrible. I'll be honest, it's an incredibly viable strategy when the field is +70% Aggro.

Just bad players think that because you have 12 fog effects and a bunch of card draw means you automatically win. They use their fogs at every little opportunity and then cry if they lose what was supposed to be a 80/20 MU.

Fog is a decent deck, always has been, and it has been traditionally awful against true control strategies and without gain life, against burn as well.

[LordSageMirentus]

Furthermore, Faeries is horrible against a lot of decks right now, does that make it a terrible deck? Sometimes the metagame doesn't have a place for said deck, it happens, especially these days where we have so many potential decks.

5cc is another deck that is not horrible, it has been good since Shadowmoor/Eventide and continues to be another viable strategy/deck to play in any given tournament.

Again, deck archetypes are heavily dependant on the metagame.

[PS]Fog is a Prison deck.

[Rickits24]

This is the first time I've every watched a video with 0 views. Kind of neat. Video was better than some past ones as well.