 Hello everyone Paul from Paul goes welcome to this video. We're going to be taking another look at eight rack in modern So that's the deck I've rejoined at a really awkward time, which is that the modern league that I would normally join is going to end in Like a few days from now and there's a chance. I won't get to finish all five games in that time So I'm just going to be playing a couple of these One-shot sort of cues pretty good looking hand Our deck on turn one and grand. What have you got? Oh? Blackburn, okay Hmm Smallpox does work here. We've got a dismember up our sleeve as well So yeah, I think I'm gonna be a bit cheeky here and Take the extra point of damage Hey everyone We're back the last guy timed out he just disappeared on me the blackburn fella Ooh Yes indeed Okay, we have enough lands to support smallpox like if he goes turn one Inquisition He mulliganed I guess I'll keep going second here, so I'm on the draw Trying to think what this deck is with sea chrome coaster. I don't know if it's normal sort of just guy control Because obviously it's not doing anything yet. He is tapping out. Okay. Okay, that's good not spreading seas No, I actually wouldn't matter if was bring these are ad nauseam as if it is ad nauseam We are sweet. We are golden and as you can see I've made a massive mistake playing me default turn one I was supposed to play the swamp turn one Never mind never mind doesn't matter Do we smallpox here? I don't even think we do. I think we just crime I Just feel so mean and I'm surprised he discarded that actually because that would have been really handy for him What is going on here? Do people just not want to play me same thing? Sideboard wise we obviously are expecting lay line in all of its glory To be coming in so now I'm pretty convinced I do want to Does it even run removal I don't get cracking here And this really will pin him. I mean they're going truth Echoing truth Why do they play that main deck? I didn't know they played that main deck Okay, so the rack will work all the way down to zero uh and beyond zero I then need to get to a point where my creatures have infect And Uh, I then need to finish him off with infect creatures I don't know what happens here. Does mutavolt get infect? As long as all damage is as as though. Okay, right. So mutavolt will will have infect when it becomes a creature Both horrendous cards neither of which I want to cast Return Oh, he's got latest bloom coming. Okay, that's interesting So I think our logic was good here um Oh, that worked. Okay. That was the right order. So we raven and bash here Oh So lotus bloom is real Does he have two of them? Although that's what he doesn't have So Get in You get some poison counters I suppose could he draw solemnity and then it becomes a A milling race or something. Okay So do they run solemnity in the main deck? What'd you get? How nausea might do? Oh, he's found it. I can't believe it I can't believe it Oh, that stinks. That stinks so bad one off the top Yep, okay Oh, maybe I'm wasting time. Oh, there we go. Okay Begin sideboarding so Yeah, it's pretty much just this And then that Obviously thoughts is huge here And the last thing is this like that's it just doesn't it just writes itself doesn't it? I mean this Does this change against ad nauseam? I don't know Yeah It's deceptive ravens crime and a bunch of lands because at first glance it looks like you've got a one drop and a three drop You've actually got You've got one two and three Whoa, what? What on earth? What is going on? He must have just oh, sorry. He must have just drawn it. Did he draw? He must have drawn it for the turn. Okay I thought the world had gone mad there for a moment. Um, I'm going to back myself. I'm going to say I can get rid of that lay line Before uh, it matters or I can see what's going on here loses the spirit guide Okay, it's a decent draw Down to two cards Uh, is it lily or is it Double ravens crime pitch these two play mutavolt Can I give this both ways? He really could uh, he suspended another one Okay, that's why he discarded the right Any choice? He had two copies of the same card. All right So we have a very slow clock um But he can never have more than one card in his hand now Um, he can top deck Uh for xinun life That's something he can do We will be looking to ultimate as soon as it's safe It's not a bad draw for him Bottom bottom Okay, that's all the white man. I thought no hey Hey, hey So plus one Uh, is what I want to do I mean it is temp. I could be ruthless here and Divide his mana sources up. But even if I did that He actually has eight nine ten eleven mana He's got this thing coming in next turn. I actually feel like it's With lilyana sitting there. I think he needs to draw A certain sequence of cards so he could draw leiland of sanctity for example now Go on to draw for xinun life and eventually You know find his way to um Now what are the piles? Oh my goodness If they if they choose really quickly, you know, you've messed up as a win condition. What was it swamp? Okay, he does get one more turn To find an unlife Swan song that's interesting But if he does that it gives me a two two bird to bash him with I don't think swansong is a good card for him He's going first Okay, all right Actually the wrench is pretty bad here Top, okay Yeah, okay. All right Um, okay Yeah Well, we'll just have to see if we can If we can find it now Opening seven had leiland so the chances of that if he had four Is like 36% something like that Could be all over Okay Well, I am being punished for my cockiness earlier about how great we are against Combo and and ad nauseam in general Do I mean lily smallpox really does help a lot here in these in this sort of situation? But uh We just don't have Those cards in our opening hand Unlife is is a disaster for us Who finds that? And he's still just waiting. Okay. Well lily's a start No, no vendillian click. Okay I f6 Bloody thing. Okay, never mind Silly mistake. Sorry for that I'm not sure how much it's gonna matter actually. Yeah, I'm just toast here until I find smallpox Yeah, okay, maybe he's going off here. So should we have mulliganed Knowing full well that there were four lay lines on the other side That will become the um The question So he'll win whenever he's able to win. I think all right. Come on. Put me out of my misery, man Yeah, yeah. Oh, well, what the hell is that there? So should I be for an instant card or a card with flash reveal it and put it in your head? May have been right, but I don't think it was if it was right. I don't think we were badly wrong Um, I mean he's not in great shape at starting the three cards in his hand though either so Uh, he mulliganed. I am going to keep decent looking hand This is just Yeah, when they go to fuck Bernie Bernie. Yep. Yep. Yep. Okay. All right. I don't need to see Well, actually I do because I'm gonna It's getting hard in here. Sorry. I'll keep the singing to a minimum from now on. I promise Uh, is lava spike the one it doesn't make you sack of land doesn't no no. Okay. Yeah, so lava spike goes Bolt to me. So this is a 50 50 against burn. It really is like You know, we have A chance. Okay, there's the other one Uh, how do I make him pitch that card? Do I want to I don't know what that card is so thoughts ease is really risky Here you can it's probably it's almost certainly a two drop. It could be lightning bolt Well, I'll be conservative. I'll be conservative here Uh, there's no point thinking that wrench mine's ever gonna make him just card two. It's just never gonna happen Yeah, he's discarding the card. Okay, that's cool And it was a land. All right So we dropped a 14 here Yeah Field is interesting. Um I think bob is gonna just be too good here. If he if he attracts a lightning bolt, that's totally fine He's good. He's he's decent in this matchup There's actually the weird thing with burn is they don't actually run a lot of lightning bolt Cards that actually do the same thing as lightning bolt does um You know boris charm skull crack they all target me so Yeah, boris charm lightning helix me. Okay Hey Yeah, that's all right. That's a bit of a concern Okay Be punished here, but we're not we're not punished at all Let's go get in and I think we want to destroy the sacred foundry here Uh, yep, not thoughts easing. So Ah Okay played too quickly there. Sorry everyone I clicked on the space where the the mutavolt what I thought was gonna land In order to cast the rack so Uh, that really stinks. That's good news So get away with one here So bob happens Hurts me a bit, but that's okay Yep, I don't think I want to do that I think that really would have helped to kill that sacred foundry would have been really good there Field of ruin welcome to the team. I'm really liking the fact that this is in my deck now Imagine doing that to tron At the right time Really cool Okay, so he does nothing I'm taking that foundry if you tap if you tap it. I'm taking it Oh Well, so if I do it now he responds and that's magnificent for us if he responds so Because these triggers go off with him on one instead of two cards Yep, he's responding So he needs a miracle Off the top. Well two bolts would do it. I think that card's a land I really do You know revelry or helix or whatever It's got to be exactly two lightning bolts. I don't think he has any other Sorry, it wasn't too. Yeah, okay. It was Yeah, oh, I'm dead. I'm alive I didn't even see that Oh, I didn't even see that with bob. Oh, that's tremendous Um, oh that was shocking to win despite your own idiocy that that's uh in the simpsons somewhere, I think Ah, oh my goodness I don't keep this. I think I can afford to take this gamble That's okay. Well, if it is a swamp, I'll be very happy Yep, perfect All right, so I could inquisition here um I'm not gonna just push him now. I could just push him now Don't know. I don't know. I don't know Hydralon is bad. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Ah, that's sweet That is sweet double inquisition Better than wrench mind Better than wrench mind. Yeah, okay He's down to four cards. I have an affliction in hand You show me your hand, baby. Oh, yeah Yep, so generally speaking when you're inquisitioning burn Take the cheaper card like these two things do practically the same thing The three life isn't as important as the efficiency he gets out of lightning bolt So that is the one we take And then same again Inquisition is just a joy No, well, this one will be lightning helix. Okay, that's fine I was going to say he'd cast the bolt in response there, but um, yeah No, that's fine Very happy with that I think that's his hand there Yes, that happens 2115 Arid Mesa No creatures Good. Good. Good. Good. Okay. Oh, that's Larva Spike. Okay. Well, he's got game here He does have game He does have game And plus her Hang on nine once you're under 10. You're probably dead. I know he's hell bent, but He only needs to draw three non land cards and we're dead There's one Yep Okay, there's a brick So is there an argument here for playing bob? I'm definitely playing land. Um Let's think about this if I play bob and he draws a Boris charm Or any lightning bolt effect. I'm really putting myself in massive trouble I shortened the clock though Down to two turns instead of what it is now. It's just currently three If he bricks Yeah, but then I've bob actually has two chances to kill me or to help kill me So I think it's definitely wrong to play him Wrench does nothing here. So we are yeah passing the turn Okay. Well burn, man. It's a gamble. It really is a gamble. You've got Oh, yeah. No, no, so it's the same maths. Yeah, I've forgotten about the three damage from shrieking I actually think if I played this deck in paper, I would be horrendous at it I would be missing triggers left right center. Yes Well, how does that change things? It it it brings the clock forward by one Um To find one off the top so that really doesn't matter now Yeah, it all comes down to the top of his deck what that is What you got goblin guide come on Oh, did I call it down to one life? Man burn. It's always like It's always juicy Always a juicy matchup. It really really is. Um, so I did I make any mistakes? Uh, at the end of game one like when I totally forgot that bob was a relevant his trigger was relevant I mean I was on six life. I thought one of his lands was one of his hands. One of his cards in hand was a land Um, turned out to be a lightning bolt Uh, yeah, yeah Okay, uh, Bjorn Good to meet you, man Hmm, I don't love this hand. I really I'm not a huge fan. I mean I'm going on the draw here So I'm gonna keep Um, maybe it's actually better than my first reaction. It's a little bit thin, but uh We will keep Double bob is not really what I want in in in eight rack he's more with bob you I really the reason he's in this build of eight rack for me is He's a finisher, you know, he's not actually what I want to do on turn two. He's kind of what I want to do on turn five Yeah, so not very scary. Uh, it's definitely search here Uh, I think that's what we're gonna do Small upside of playing a single black male just gives you that little bit of variety I didn't invent this. Uh, yeah, I I I came across this online someone's, uh, list Uh, who'd gone five and oh with eight rack It's become a pretty popular thing to put one black male in and it just gives you the opportunity sometimes to do this Which is just mean There's chance of breaking on land here Um, we'll be very very happy he's drawn Yeah, I'm just gonna go for it. I mean, that's what this deck is here to do is to play horrendous cards like smallpox like it just You know nothing else in modern is remotely like this. It's just like hey, let's just both destroy all of our resources Okay All right, so we're playing on our terms good draw Very good draw lightning bolts annoying here. Yep All right. Well, he found one. That's fair enough Discard effect. Nice. Nice. Nice. That was okay. It worked out. All right. I mean bob did his secondary role of Soaking up a removal spell and acting as a a one for one Not really what he's in the deck to do but um, I think this kills him unless he can draw a card Is that once your opponent starts hoarding? Cards to protect themselves against the rack and tricking fiction You are in very good shape unless they have You know frexian arena or you know some other kind of gross thing or they've got maybe Bob of their own that you can't interact with it's going to draw them two cards per turn that it does work But generally once they're in that situation they're they're in very very big trouble Um, I'm going to assume that we are looking at go mag angler and tassaga. I don't See how else that deck can win He's not doing death shadow that much is clear Um, I gotta drop a card here with a minute to go What have I done I've taken out a wrench in an inquisition So I'm taking out discard effects and I think that feels okay. It's a longer game Black male still good I think maybe bob actually is not as great here Yeah makes way for lay lines seems okay. We'll do it this way I'm going to be on the draw as well. So He's going first. Yeah. All right, so we have a lay line um We don't have a lot of other stuff going on. Um, there's no need to give him free access to Black mana just yet um Because dredge doesn't show up often enough See that's just fantastic. Look at that thought scour go ahead and enter the exile zone So lay line is is far from a guarantee of success against this guy He can just easily play an honest six lands and cast tassaga that that'll obviously happen from time to time Don't mind getting counter squalled here It's a backup. I mean he can't Okay, sure. Okay He's thought scouring me Oh Okay Oh, no Okay. Yeah, and now with the new rules the rat can't hurt him and We we are in big trouble Uh, maybe I should take that chance So that's why I'll do it this way you get rid of the beta And then I'm allowed to Resolve a lily What would those snappies have got they would have got back more thought scours Counter squall Has it four turns? Yeah Can he counter squall? He can Very well played That is beautiful Very well played. That's just gorgeous Excellent move beyond really really well done So he knew that the smallpox would resolve and crush my hand my land base That that was that was really really good So a weaker player or a less experienced player would have countered the spell This guy knew exactly what he was doing Oh, I suppose he could be with chase. He was always going to have them Yeah, good game. I mean sucks to lose but um Really really good game against this guy and game three is going to be interesting because I I'm torn on layline I really am torn um, I'll play this And pass the turn You know apart from dredge and hollow one like hollow one is yeah, sure obviously bring it in There's enough there that we hate um Well, this might tell us if we can just concede or not. He's going to build his way up to ultimate There's no graveyard for coal again. It can kill a rack So these aren't even playable um Try and remember what those cards were Um, my argument for going first is definitely a lot weaker though. I think here I just can't see how I can possibly win from here. I've got to take something Crick's control I don't rate our chances of winning very highly against ancestral vision and search france counter and he's got One copy. I'd just one copy maybe in of search I think that's all they normally run. They normally run one if they're running any at all minus 12 is coming This becomes my library He's still got plenty of time 12 minutes. It's not worth playing to time here. Um Oh So we'll go first Likes what he saw So we can protect bob. Oh my god well All right, so I have no discard pressure um I lose the game if I play If I take the bolt if I take the vision and play bob and turn two he gets bolted Um The guy then untapped plays a second land passes maybe does nothing But I have literally nothing. This was maybe a bad keep by me I think uh because I've pinned all my hopes on bob and I feel compelled to take the bolt So if he doesn't draw an answer to bob, I get two turns of him It's hard, but it's possible This is where we really need him to do his thing Yeah, okay No problem Well, we're forcing him to throw away the um The best Yes, that's probably the junk right. He didn't he didn't brainstorm for that. So I'm very interested to see now What do we get by doing this? Oh crap, I better keep this one really I wonder if he's gonna be watching sweden versus switzerland What you got Draw four cards make it five with jace. Does that sound make my job a complete nightmare? Yeah So so hard. Yeah Maybe I should just become more of a pessimist How do I win from here? I should just concede actually that's just uh horrendous Yeah Because I can actually Oh, no, I am dead because he has another bolt in hand I can't see how I can possibly win from here And you don't want to hear me You know being like all depressed and stuff for another 20 minutes while I slowly die Oh, I think we'll keep oh Jesus. Oh Hello, right Um, okay So the mirror You never expect to see the mirror match, man Um, the mirror match all comes down to who gets the most racks Uh, so if I play Uh, he's gonna win this game. I think ravens crime is fantastic Um Yeah, no, I don't think I can win this game Um, these mirrors actually usually aren't very Interesting. I've played a handful of them, but um, yeah He takes my one so he has one and I have none I mean, he's worried about his land base. I guess he's thin on lands But, uh, if Yikes, no, he didn't find it So smallpox is gonna be good here Although it's just it's just it's just symmetry. I mean Yeah crunch time Um, he's dealing five to me a turn. I'm dealing six to him I'm winning the race. I think it's probably fair to say. Oh my goodness Uh tough spot. Yeah. Yeah, if he'd hoarded there though I go to six. He takes one. He could have hoarded. I actually think that was a bad concede Bob is awesome Um layline against his raven is not worth The paper it's printed on All of our discard spells are bad Um fatal push on his Mutavolt Could be a thing Certainly better than dismember as a starting point You're like flying the ointment. They don't have anything that costs more than three So I'll run three fatal pushes if I have all three of them in my opening and I'll Scream and ball, but uh, okay. I have a bob I have a bob, but I don't have anything else. He's kept seven We don't I'm gonna keep I don't it's with borderline I'm on the draw here. So Okay, that's a good start. Okay Yeah, nice one. So I can protect bob now From smallpox or the like Uh, okay, I'll be in very very big trouble if he plays that smallpox I can't take that risk. I have to I have to take the smallpox Um, yeah, it's just no black mana Oh Wow You don't see him very often Um target opponent's cards a card and then if I have none in hand he flips Uh, yeah, okay. Well, you can't kill bob and he is a nightmare for the rack for eight rack to play against Um, basically he's second only to you know, frexian arena and ancestral visions in the sense that He's second because you can kill him. I can you know, obviously lily can kill him smallpox can kill him He can be dismembered, but if you don't have an answer To ye old bob Your life is very difficult. The cool thing about this guy is that he's repeatable. Very very cool Um, am I ever gonna wrench mind? Uh, maybe that was wrong two lilies. I'm probably gonna have to discard another card before the game's over anyway I've been losing track. I think I don't know what any of these are now, but this is just Oh brutal when he earns it back for you. It's just like boom This doesn't take a genius Confident sweet as a plum So smallpox would be quite bad here for us smallpox is a good answer if you can find it or draw it or lily He's got something Just raven Yep, sure This guy's repeatable effect. He's actually pretty cool If he has then he flips by the way, I key came very close to flipping there What happens when he flips at the beginning that player loses one life for each card for you. Oh, he becomes a walking rack. Okay, that's right So the mutavolt cannot activate Um So I think it's lilyana minus one here Yes, the mutavolt can't activate. I'm wrong. It can activate itself. It just can't block um Yeah, I just don't see why Oh, well, no, I will play this one actually So, yeah, it's been it's been emotional Um, we aren't out of the woods yet by the way, uh, what could he do? He could top deck smallpox would be great lily His own lily would be good um His own lily would be quite good make me sack the bob would be on even terms then To get rid of that bob would be a thing. Okay so Just gonna hope to ride the card advantage to victory here Um, but if he draws, I mean he can knock me to maybe I can't afford to do that if he attacks with both mutavolts I probably can't afford to do that Down oh Okay, can do yep respect respect respect Okay, well Wait, wait, wait He didn't attack Oh my goodness Um, so his afflictions aren't working. I think again, it's not right to attack here. Is it? Or he needs to go all in if he plays a fourth land swings with everything I Probably block with everything. Yes yield. I yield So depending on how far down I drop I might be in a situation where I really have to win Or I'm Motivated to try and win this turn, but swing with both. I can only animate one take two damage the rack does the rest Oh, is that an instant heroes don't fall? I thought it was a sorcery Um, okay. Well, yes, you really are dead now Oh, okay, that all just happened. Okay. Well Good games. I wonder if he's trying to say good game to me. I'll just check Crog Anyway, thanks again, and uh, I hope you enjoy playing eight rack and I'll see you soon. Cheers