The Magic Show #78b - StarCityGames $1K Extended Open Finals

[MichaelHall1989]

So um... He got raped. There is no other way to say that.

[TheEthanAndKyleShow]

holyshit... i only play standard, and only started in september, so i have no clue what the storm deck had, but JESUS, that was crazyyyyyy

[billysuperninja]

did the sligh player not test play?

[narutozrasengan]

I'm so glad I never played magic during the "Tarmogoyf" Standard heavy era.. Honestly, "I'm running a mono-red deck, like RDW, but with a Tarmogoyf." It just sounds like it was such a boring format at the time.. I'm actually glad he got wrecked. haha

[narutozrasengan]

@narutozrasengan And I know this is Extended, but still, Tarmogoyf sounds like such a format warping card that the Standard must've been monotonous.

[theaterittaja]

Deck list for the storm guy PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[StanGrunder]

Why didn't adam sac his two mogg fanatics in game 2???

I know it would have only brought the other guy to 1 life, but when he went to plunge for 10 adam could have shot the fanatics to make life hard for brian.

[StanGrunder]

Why didn't adam sac his two mogg fanatics in game 2???

[microfreak540]

Is it me or does the opponent Adam seem to like Molten Rain a lot?

[sfielder001]

He was surprised, but the matches went exactly the way he thought.

[manudosde]

thank god burning wish and saclands are gone.

[ReallyBigFish12]

saclands= not gone

[manudosde]

i was talking about the invasion lands, which are definitely gone.

[canman87]

You're thinking of fetchlands.

[sim288]

Very nice deck, Desire is really fun.

[TappingOut]

Why didn't Brian play the Barbarian Ring, and then imprint something with Chrome Mox to Burning Wish for a Mind's Desire?

[sesarathor]

because he was busy bitchriding a motherfucker

[liveinsummer]

I think Cabal Therapy is better than Thoughtseize/Duress against Desire... After a Duress/Thoughtseize that is.

[or4ngejuice]

the hand disruption dosent matter to much, unless they have way to much of it. 4 of my 14 matches in the vancouver GP had alot of hand control. i only lost 1 match due to duress, duress, thoughtsieze, extripate, extripate.

[stuwydotp]

Desire should have lost to a rock deck, anything with hand disruption just crushes it if it is used correctly. However, a really good player should be able to go off through it.

[supererunnocaos]

i prefer the cards names written in the bottom

[Endero87]

quite amazing...

but I couldn't understand all:(

has anybody the decklist from those two guys?

please send it to me

[MagicPlayor]

It's right about then that Brian decides he's just gonna go ahead and win the game.

LOL!

[youstarleopard]

Calling the opening hands is rough in the time you've got but the editing was great to speed up the turns and suffling. good job! and thanks.

[bendystr4w]

Whew. Mind's Desire is a devastating combo deck. I had an amusing anti-combo deck that I brought in whenever anyone even thought about bringing in broken decks to my casual table. 1st turn geothermal crevice, 2nd turn plains, Rule of law. Have fun going off now, storm combo. ;)

[JBauer6430]

My response (post-board):

1st Turn Crevice

2nd Turn land

Krosan Grip.

Rule of Law is an adorable way to beat storm, I must admit

[WARPIG3989]

Brian deck is a prim exmpl of y a fast contrul/combo deck is allway the best way to go! but that may be just me being a blue mage.

i wish i coud come up with a way to bring this decks mana bass up to stand were the card were easr to get .

[MikulOnIce85]

Brian was way more ready for the match then adam, no wonder Brian won the match.

[wyldestjoker]

When you meant "explode" in the first round, you weren't kidding...what turn was that by the way?

[whee231]

third turn

[MrsRandomMadeMeDoIt]

its nice, but then again my extended zoo kills on turn 3 like 40% of the time

[faial2006]

what ppl do to say how their dec really rules -_-'

[wyldestjoker]

HAHA! :)

P.S. My Extended Dredge Deck...oh yeah! lol j/k

[Omnipotence812]

I think it is funny how everyone is so pumped about dredge and it will probably never win a major event. Most combo decks don't make it because of control LOL.

[LethalLion]

No offence to Brian, but he's a bad player. Back in one of your other videos when he was running Dragonstorm. Some of his plays made me cringe.

[proffessors]

now, you really should give the guy some credit, that video was like a year ago, you can learn a lot in that time. And I have to say as one of the people who has problems playing type 2, or any other constructed format I was happy to see someone who had to say "Because it was the first deck I had the cards for" winning

[bowlosoup]

some mistakes under pressure doesn't make you bad. Not making those mistakes makes you great. He won after all

[zemikia]

How did he play Mind's Desire in the second game he only had 4 mana? Then gets 7 storm he only played 5 spells Channel the Suns, Rite of Flame, Burning Wish, Chromatic Star, Chrome Mox

[UrsusAtl]

Adam's playing a Mono-Red deck like RDW but with Tarmogoyf in it. Umm, Tarmogoyf is a GREEN card so you're not playing Mono-Red.

[Lollol3r]

Splash? :p

[sesarathor]

Yeah true but people still call it that

[cjbaloo]

Great coverage, been missing this. I do prefer the card labels on the video with the actual sound, but thats probably WAYYYY more labor intensive, and with 3 videos this week, I have no grounds for complaint.

This has just about convinced me not to play straight Aggro for this PTQ season, and I am considering giving TEPS a try.

Thanks for your hard work as always.

[illhavethesoup]

great job with the match, nice and fast

[hardrocktributez]

these two guys are obliviously noobs... and they look weird...

[greatermane]

I really liked this video. More matches should be shown like that. What I especially like about this, is that you can pause it, look up a card on the Gatherer, and then actually know what just happend.

Good job

[ijrijrijr]

haha "got luckY" excuses

[Ravenkbs]

Well, Teps usually goes of somewhere between turn 3-5. So, he really did some great hands..

[ijrijrijr]

That's true man,but I dont think calling it "luckY' is a good way to put it. Pretty much is all ratio. And I guess he had a good one. Thats why he could beat him on turn 2

[Shuray]

Well in the first place the video is great, good job Evan.

Now I would like to add a comment...I felt a little difficulty to follow the cards as you were speaking, since I hadn't much contact with english (few times outside my english classes)...i had to pause and comeback some few times for complete understanding.

But I believe that in the next covereages you can fix this lil' thing for us (at least the ones who doesn't speak english as well as english speakers country).

Thanks :)

[proffessors]

the second dude is from an earlier video, right?!

[Ravenkbs]

Oh hell yeah. Good stuff. Seeing some matches getting played again is really awesome.

Thanks Evan, this is great

[lolodini]

Great Video. Love seeing other people play. Like the voiceover btw.

[mestiarcanus]

I like the voice-overs better (they're easier to follow), but I would still prefer to have the list of cards in the opener (as hearing 14 cards is too much that fast, so being able to pause and look for a bit would help). Same goes for any situation where a many cards are listed in sequence (such as Desire). Still a very nice style of video, and one I hope to see in the future (unless of course it takes a ton more work, because you already put so much into the videos, and we love you for it).

[Alicabob]

I think both styles of your match videos are good but I like this style the best. It is easier to keep up with what is being played with the text videos but Hearing you speak is much more entertaining then reading text. I hope to see more videos like this one in the future.

[MichaelSomething]

This is very good. Too bad it take like 5 hours to make that.

[themiz2003k]

so...was this just a random game or was this top 8 or what?

[LunaticOtaku]

that was the finals

[Kincaid28]

This is the way Magic coverage should be done. An easy to follow yet concise way to go through the match. Fantasic editing Evan.

[czeluff]

excellent coverage. Too bad neither of the players have a lick of personality.

[JBauer6430]

Brian seems to really like Storm decks. I think the last time he was on the show, he was playing a D-Storm "homebrew".

Whatever works, I guess. Those games were fast!

[tibbons]

good to see game coverage! much prefer subtitles of hands, draws and plays rather than commentary

[suprafan386]

great video evan(glad you went back to having some game footage)

can't wait for the next magic show

[walkertrull]

Yes, These videos are infinitely more interesting than the other sort.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you

[sundaeschool]

On-screen text as well as narration would better for opening hands. Not the most interesting matchup to watch but good job editing. Keep it up.

[discover92]

very nice job evan, you rule man, rock on!

[sithapprentic03]

great work

[maudin8]

Videos like this one got me hooked on your show!

[CFDragon]

I like the new style, although for longer games I prefer the on-screen text as it is a bit easier to follow along and since I can pause and read the card titles on screen instead of having to listen for them and things like that; however, for shorter games such as these the narration allows for more brevity.

[Ravenkbs]

I agree. I really like the new style, but combined with some on-screen text it would be even better.

Either way, thanks for all your hard work.

[gtisawesome]

That TEPs build is awful. Schneider seems like a barn :\.

[JBauer6430]

YAY!!!! Gameplay's back!

Thx for listening, Evan. Nice work!