 Hi everyone Paul from Paul goes Welcome to this introductory video Into 8rack in modern I'm looking to play this deck over the next few weeks in some competitive leagues I It's a deck that I'm very fond of I've played many times in the past Had a brief obsession with it in I think it was 2016 and I've been away for a while and I'm particularly keen to see how well the deck plays now in the new environment post-bannings, it's April of 2018 and we're a couple of months in to the new format which is being well at least which includes now Jace the Minesculptor and Bloodbrade Elf and Before I jump straight into the games. I suppose it's worth having a quick look at the deck in my particular Build that I've I've landed on In wanting to get back into the deck It's fairly Safe to say it's the same list you'll see in a lot of other Or a widely celebrated general generally accepted list it's played at the moment for 8rack Probably the most interesting aspect of my build is the addition of two dark confidant in the main deck and I also have a Third one as well as a visitor in the sideboard I find that The deck can sometimes be a little bit clunky when it comes to having four ofs and This is a well accepted thing as well having three Ravens crime three thought sees a single blackmail just to mix mix up the the type of discard pressure that you have available, but I also find that Bob Provides you with a fantastic Kind of third dimension to the deck It's not something you want to do on turn two It's it's he almost is a kind of like a four drop or somewhat something you do on turn four or five Sometimes you get you know, you get a typical sort of John's line where you go thought sees Coasters clear Bob turn two because it's safe and you go ahead and Take take the rent that he can offer you The card advantage they can that he can offer you in the early game But I'm keen to see how well that plays out a new in the new format If that's still the case that he can he can provide that kind of support to the deck my sideboard is Really built up from just my own experience of what tends to really matter And this is a this is a really Debatable kind of question as to how you build your sideboard There's an obvious weakness that date rack has to very very fast aggressive creature based decks Burn and zoo and affinity and stuff like that are not great for us on game one and So we have a standard sort of removal suite here of fatal push a Single funeral charm as well. I'll explain maybe another time why I don't like funeral charm very much I Also think the deck if we're on the draw is often going to be quite weak against aether vial and humans in particular In my early testing and so I have a theory that against aether vial You take out smallpox and replace it with bantu's last reckoning And this card I think has done some pretty good work in a innate rack since it was Since it came into the format six or nine months ago So that's what's happening there. The only other thing to mention maybe before we get started is That I have played the deck a lot. I've done a lot of my own homework On the question of whether or not it's correct to go second or first in the dark And it is widely accepted that this is the one famous deck that wants to go second in the dark And I am actually having gone second with it for many many well not many years as I say since 2016 I actually think in the current modern format. It is correct to actually go first in the dark and I'll explain a little bit about why that is as we go in the videos. I'll show some examples Maybe as they come up But for me, there are so many Opponents now the statistically that you will see On turn one, you know, if he you know plays a monastery swift spear or he You know plays an aether vial or a noble hierarch where it turns out that You actually would have been better off going first the games play very differently when you go first Smallpox smallpox in particular plays very differently But there's just that many, you know, Arbor Elf birds of paradise type openings out there where going first actually can give you a massive Advantage that that overcomes the extra card that if you like that we that we lose which of course that is our ultimate game plan But robbing our opponent of the ability to to get that momentum on the first turn It's just a theory. I'm working on I think it probably is still correct that if you knew your opponent was on Serum visions and controlling blue white or whatever that yes, it did make sense to go second, but You know, we have such great matchups against control already That what you lose by going first against them is is maybe nothing again the game is play out very differently But yeah, some of you guys may be screaming at me, you know, you're crazy man, of course you want to go second But I'm just I just wonder if that narrative is based a lot on the fact that there isn't a general deck in modern That that ever wants to go second and the dice roll becomes You know, it's a nice narrative to have that. Oh, yeah, there's there's this diversity in the format And there's there's a deck out there that wants to go second, but I'm just not convinced Based on what I've seen in my early testing of the deck in the new world and then the way that modern has has changed and move now with People wanting to do stone rain me on on their second turn and I've all I've done is play a swamp and a Raven's crime and the game's over Before I untapped for my second turn anyway enough ranting by me about the first turn thing We'll see how how that pans out in the games keen to get into it And as I'm going I'll be leaving room for comments and all the rest of it, so Hopefully I do a good job as well and don't make a don't make too many boneheaded decisions It's been a while since I've really played the deck competitively, but I'll see how we go Okay, thanks for listening and watching guys and we will see you in the first video You