 Hello everyone, welcome to the third video of our eight rack Journey in modern it's been about a week and a half I think since I did the last the last lot of videos I've made a couple of small changes very small changes. I've added an extra field of ruin over fourth mutavolt and swapped out one inquisition over for a thought season from sideboard and main Apart from that. It's exactly the same configuration that we saw last time So what are we going to do here wrench mind dismember and affliction and not much else Urborg turns on the rest of our stuff. I'm going to keep Err on the side of more lands And I think we'll be happy enough just to just to kill those birds Start us off wrench mind Gets a little bit better as his hand starts to shrink and with that in mind I think actually it's inquisition here. Thank goodness. He has a target so Knight of the reliquary and then four lands Hmm, I feel to me. I think it's just mutavolt for now affliction Scavenging is and a forest. Okay, no problemo Okay, so I don't think it matters much. Which order we do this in? Raven's crime is a really good draw there. I don't think he has any artifacts in this deck Oh, yes, of course you can do that. That's cool. So the crime is gone. We don't have that birds Yeah, okay. Yeah, me just ate the birds to get a bit bigger Eight night at the reliquary to get a bit bigger. That's been a pretty important ability. Okay. What can we do? So I think we race Obviously if I draw a rack effect This gets significantly better for me lilyana smallpox. There's a whole pile of really good cards I can draw dismember And I've got like three or four chances to to do that Yeah, yeah, whatever that's not gonna do anything if he draws a creature though, that's also good for him So you can chump mutavolt with the birds that matters and then his Ooze will get bigger after after that chomping has happened. Okay, so we do need to find something relevant So it's a two-turn clock anyway. So Whether he's a whether he's a 4-4 or a 5-5 probably shouldn't have played that land doesn't matter now You let it through. Okay That's actually probably quite sensible. It's a good way to defend against smallpox The dear idea. I think we're just dead now It's unlucky Wow, how does he do this sacrifices something to get bigger? I Don't really want him to gain the one life actually off the use either So I might be better to dismember the use when the time comes Just do that instead. I could still top deck the rack here actually as well Yep one time I'm not sorry I'm not sorry It's not got some life gain craziness has he does this thing gain life when it happens Oh, I don't tell me he's got some kind of Cathedral No What's that thing that comes into play and tapped and gives you two life? Oh my goodness That was really fun actually Okay, so This deck feels like it wants land cards in the graveyard scavenging use loves things to be in the graveyard So here comes my graveyard hate. I'm not gonna desperately mill to find it but Yeah, I think it's probably good that it's there Bob seems kind of bad. I don't like him when he has no hope of getting through with his two damage Does he have no hope here of getting through with his damage, I don't I'm not sure I'm also looking at obviously world wipe As a thing but the decks not running aether vile. So I feel like smallpox is better than than the world wipe So we'll go we'll go we'll do this Did I get away with one there or did I played my arts? I don't know. Oh Yes Okay, we've got one. Yeah, I'm gonna keep this I think black males Yeah, it's we need some help, but I'm gonna keep this just because I really feel like I Really feel like he's gonna really be unhappy to see this card Him going to five is nothing. We're too upset about either. Yep. There we go. Do your worst Yeah, we're just killing that. Oh No rage quit Well, okay, sorry. I'm trying to try to make this fun for a fun watch But I think the game one was a pretty fun watch I'm surprised that you rage quit there. It's a pretty good hand His username is like it wrecks the flow. It's hard to follow This looks interesting Uh, right, I think this hand plays itself. We're we're thought season. I can't kill that noble hyrox. So Oh, it's humans. Oh my goodness Oh, I'll get ready for fun Oh, this is horrendous. Okay humans no eighth of vile. There is a cavern that doesn't affect us Take the mage. I'm not sure if that's right. I'll find out Sorry, I keep coughing everyone. I tickle in my throat here Okay, there's lieutenant as expected She's just gonna get in so I think that's the best thing we could have hoped for um Yeah wrench yikes So next turn is he's got those are his three cards. So what we could do is Just wrench hope that he doesn't You know if he if he ditches his two lands hope that he doesn't draw a fourth one That's probably our best bet at this point if we play Bob he's gonna have four creatures Uh with a three three attacking as a four four and you know some other huge guys here. So I think if he draws a land here he wins Um, otherwise we have a chance Oh, hang on. What have I I've got it wrong reflector mage and cavern. Oh, and he's played the planes. Oh, sorry And my wires crossed. So I think the maths are still the same Draw a land to win the game Okay Didn't draw it If he names lily he's In decent shape. I'll keep it simple. Um So he's going to hit a land drop and win the game about 40 of the time I think it's just there's too many awesome cards. He can yeah, I'm just gonna I'm sailing by the breeze here um Okay, he missed land again. So Well, all right Smallpox, okay I won't jump because I'm looking for in desperation for answers All right, bob be kind Yeah, okay, and we'll just thin his deck a little bit here first before we cast a wrench mind I I think I will switch to bond to um And actually, I mean there's an argument as well for um So, which one am I going to cast here smallpox or lily he's got other stuff Sure far out. That's all four of them. We saw this game. That's not going to do it. Okay Yep, so I think we do pivot over to Uh, the very last reckoning that he ever reckoned We go down on smallpox in order to accommodate that Bob was bad there Um not quite what we want We obviously want all of this More so than we want just member. I think we'll go first Now I'll keep it's a beautiful looking hand if only we Yeah, if we were in the dark and we didn't know who our opponent was but uh, Who knows you might draw into some good removal Image champion middle. Oh this guy You see the uh, oh cool Uh, so I think it's just champion here. It's pretty obvious unclaimed nothing unclaimed nothing so I'll do this first slight thing on that like in that he doesn't know that the thought these is coming so you force him to guess A little bit in the dark as to what you're planning to do two buglers and an image And the bugler is value. I'll I'll I'll take a bugler Uh, and we'll see There's almost nothing in his deck that he wouldn't be happy drawing. Okay So I have He sacks it to lily Three cards in it now Maybe I don't make him sack it. Maybe I um If I draw say another swamp just make him discard three cards one Well, we've done our thing We've done what we was what we came here to do So oh that stinks Yeah Okay, take the noble high rock off him and now we're just praying Humans is tough humans is tough. It's not over yet though. We've got bond two in our deck. We've still got some smallpox I don't think you don't even think I'm gonna. Yeah, no, I'm not even gonna play it just in case You know that would all that would continue to be true. I also thin my deck by pulling a swamp out of it Probably should have done that on his upkeep or something. I think technically but yeah, and that's why I should have done on his upkeep Too good. It's gotta be bond two I'm gonna do um much though from one life. I don't think And that's kind of true actually of tribally mid-rangey Sort of decks. So tough one But you gotta take the good with the bad Yeah All right, I think we'll keep this Oh my goodness. I don't know. Field's useful Wrench is bad And I'm just wondering if we don't want to play wrench having a well breaker in the graveyard. No Nothing bad for me. They just has a sack of land to get it back Yep, so Why don't we be interesting to see here if I mean, obviously He might not have tron on turn three and as a result Um We might be able to field of ruin his party Ruined his party is what I was trying to say. I mean very snappy clever way, but didn't really come off that way And it was part of the reason I wanted field of ruin. I wanted to try two even in the main deck I mucked around with three In the main deck. He's not doing it this turn. Okay, that's good. That's useful Um There it is. So he's got two mana To do what what are you gonna do? nothing Nada So what should we do here? Should we empty his hand and risk him top decking a khan? I don't think so No way Not on your life I think we We ruin his day He went to find the mine. So that's the one I'll destroy And then we uh, we do some ravens Crimeing action I need to do it all at sorcery speed because ravens crime is a sorcery While we're ruining his day Oh D'oh I found a you found one I hate tron so bad I hate it I loathe tron that really stay. We don't have a lot to bring in really We just need to hope that our stuff beats his stuff. Just members. No good So we switch into this Not on a good run here. I don't think it's good Smallpox isn't bad because it makes him sacrifice a land Um I don't think I can support two without just dying myself. So I won't I won't draw a second one If you go back if you go down to absolute zero. He has no lands. You have no lands Uh, he usually recovers faster because of all the ridiculous This stuff Into ancient stirrings into whatever Um Smallpox is pretty mean smallpox is pretty mean here Discard ravens crime lose the smallpox lose that I've still got these two cards in hand Yeah I think we're gonna just fire it off ravens crime Was a bad draw but No worse than say swamp and then we just hope that bob has what it takes spatial contortion. I wonder why that was in the deck Because he didn't see bob Why didn't you board those out man? and there's one It makes green ancient stupid stirrings Oh, okay always yield Decent Very decent. It's tempting to force him to discard two cards Um Tempting to force him to discard two cards here, isn't it? Yeah, I think I play her. I just I'm not sure of So if I don't plus her um I have to discard this card to make him discard a card anyway So if I you if I do it by casting ravens crime I haven't worked this out, but it might be that it's just not ever true that you should Leave her on three there No, I think no I was no hang on. Yeah, you could have I could have left her on three And then made him discard an extra card by waiting for a whole extra turn Which maybe was the right thing to do Um, but the card, you know, he's got five in hand. So the stuff he's discarding isn't going to be that Meaningful we're hoping to kill him, but he'll probably still have a fistful of cards in his hand at the time we kill him So She's a long way from being oblivion ringed oblivion stoned Still searching for land. He found it Oh Can you believe that can you believe in the position we're in with Like we're still probably going to lose this game I'm speak. I'm just I'm so mad I hate tron Oh wait, have we got wait a second. So if he throws away is Yeah, has she activated yet? She hasn't Oh, hang on. There's hope. Sorry. There's hope. There's hope. Sorry. I was despairing I had an extra discard up my sleeve, right? So he's got tron And he's hoping to just draw another carn liberator. Well, it's still pretty bad, isn't it? I mean He just plays tron kills lily Plays carn. I mean I don't know. That was the card we knew about. All right. Okay. Okay. Hang on I'm getting ahead of myself here right Now the question is Do we wait it? Do we blow up tron with lily now? or do we Wait an extra turn. So if he top decks it has to be I think exactly carn liberated And there's only one more of them in his deck. He's got three in his graveyard He could top deck worm coil engine if that happened We would be very unhappy There's one of them in his graveyard as well though Um, let's find out what's in his hand. Let's get that into the graveyard juicy um Whatever I do is going to be the wrong thing. So if I if I blow up tron and he keeps mine and power plant let's say He can top deck only You know little piffly things like chromatic stars and O stones and everything else. So I think it's correct to disrupt I think it's correct to to do this um Mine Is in the yard mine it might be uh Like that because we've already put a mine in the yard So his chances of drawing Might be the right thing to do and then like Yeah, I I don't know He could kill bob if he draws a spatial contortion He can just find tron again With expedition map Yep, so In hindsight if we'd plus oneed Well her plus one ability isn't even that great after the ultimate So I don't feel that bad And he might not even have time because I know he does yeah, so he goes finds mine if he top decks khan or ugon here um You know, then he's golden. He's just golden And that's just the way it goes and that'll help against the rack as well Yeah, it only takes two so He has to win this turn basically. What was that card you drew? That won't do it. Okay Game three. I'll be right back everyone just pause the video here. All right, we are back Um Yeah I still I mean I'm still not um Very happy going into game three in terms of confidence This isn't bad another bob. That's useful It will keep um and really he he won us that game. He won us game two without him there would have been no hope He dealt about eight damage assembly worker. What there? Oh, what does that mean? I can't I can't I can't raven's crime anymore Party is over. I can do it once But then that's it Please have something Sylvan or expedition map. It's got to be See if they banned expedition map, you don't have to ban tron just ban that card expedition map It's the one thing that just makes them so Consistent, you know Did he top deck that forest or did he have it? He went and found a power plant for his trouble. Okay So thought not to your encounter in his hand um So if I do two discard spells here, he loses his two big things um I don't think he plays old drowsy temple. What does this even do? Uh urza's factory Is that even modern? I didn't even know that was in modern for seven money. You can make a A token. Wow Maybe that's why you never see it because it just seems kind of useless. Um I'm dissing my opponent here. I'm sorry bro into I know it's a well celebrated and loved deck, you know around the world green tron I just love it. I hate it so much So what I'm contemplating here everyone is dark confident instead of making him discard those two threats My rationale being that I'll then have three mana He he'll only have three mana on his turn And I'll have three mana and I'll have three discard spells. I'll have bang bang bang We can assume Inquisition is no good So let's give that a try normally the doctrine should be empty his hand and then play bob, but I feel in this particular combination of circumstances. We know exactly what these three cards are We think we're safe from thought not seer The old drowsy temple here it comes. No, okay And there you go. Okay, so we're we're we get paid we get an extra card for our trouble And what a card it is Yeah, no, this is good. This is very very good. All right, so This is going about as well as Anyone could reasonably hope So he's he pitches Khan Um, maybe I did that the wrong way around in case that's a land in his hand No, okay. They're both just gone Gone gone gone So he's got work to do And we have a dark confidant on the table. Let's start Good job Can't play raven's crime anyway, so There's no sense holding back on lands Look at this. He's drawing us an extra card each turn and putting him on a on a clock. Okay. It's a 10 turn clock, but but that's He's so good. Look at him He's giving us a chance to win the game and Nice get in you beauty. We beat Tron. We actually beat them Fantastic, I'm really happy with that everyone um And what a wicked cool. What a wicked cool like a very very good vindication of dark confidant You know At least in the sideboard like have have him have him there like and you can see in this scenario here We never could have done that with asylum visitor that little move we did where we saw the three cards He had in his hand We knew that we had the package we needed to destroy his hand the following turn We floated a little bit probably the biggest card the biggest problem Would have been mattery shaper I guess off the top and in the end he drew a land We got rewarded and he just I mean I I would back us to win most of the time here a field of ruin Disrupts tron. I mean we we destroy ursa's mine proactively while she ticks up to six or seven So he's not getting to tron anytime soon except by doing it honestly One thing you can do is get to an honest oblivion stone just cast the oblivion stone and then the following turn blow it up But I would say we would win this sort of 75 80 percent of the time from this board state Um So, yeah, that's awesome. I'm really really happy with that. Um, let's go one more Okay, he kept Let's start off with the thoughtsies And we have a little tension here the classic tension between bob and smallpox Oh careful what you wish for Wow Yeah, um Very very juicy but Okay, we take the serum visions and we'll just need to be very aware that he he does still have the grape shot in his hand So I have lost to this before. I mean storm is it should be in general a favorable matchup, but I don't want to be too Bullish He's just going to cast his other one What did he do? He put two cards on top So he might have found land land on top, which means we can assume he's going to Uh have mana for grape shot next turn. How sad are we if he grape shots bob? I think pretty sad because then he's just a one for one Um, I could also smallpox here, which just feels Mean although he's probably found a land. He plays that land passes the turn We lose quite a lot of momentum by doing that. I'd rather see a barral Or an electro amounts of first So I'm just going to play a straight bat with this one Desperate Okay There it is. Okay, cool. So that opens the path for bob I don't think this thing runs lightning bolt He's in two mines as well Given that I've drawn the dismember. I think it's just bob and don't play the land Uh, well, maybe more so if I play the land I can dismember on during his turn He can also remand Yep, he's got remand. Okay. Must be what he drew off the serum visions He liked what he saw So given that he liked what he saw, I think we play the land we can dismember barral I don't really want a smallpox anymore. Obviously There's electro amounts, huh? Sure Do you want to try and go off because now's the time He does Go for it man Good man. Good man So I think the way to to play against storm is to kill them right now Uh, while the first piece of the combo is on the stack I think I read that somewhere Now he just needs to just desperately hope that he can make enough momentum, but I think it's it's almost impossible Yeah, no, it's it's not possible. Oh brutal Bob again. Look at this doubling down Just like he did for us against tron Gifts un-given They're going to stay un-given Those gifts ain't going anywhere They can stay on the bear the blue lady and keep them to yourself. All right, whatever's in those four little thingies We have no idea what that last card is I still don't have rack or shriek But I got twice as many chances of finding him Like he's literally doing all the work for us Field does practically nothing So I'll save it just on the off chance that he tries to hoard Okay, we're gonna see if we can back this up. So what does he bring in out of the board? What do we want to do? I think we want to layline of the void Um to stop passing flames I think Yep, he's a goner. Hopefully you'll concede here Just give it away man. That's it Yeah, so layline of the void definitely makes sense Um Past and flames is his main route to victory and to happiness Fatal push is obviously better than dismember How many removal spells do we want? Bob He's so good Wasn't he good there? Just so good so good So so good. Yeah, one of the reasons why you play a kind of a tier two deck like this Is for the joy of taking down Something like Tron something like human something like storm That's exactly where we want to be So we're faced with a similar problem to what we had against the Tron guy We can play bob or we can keep up the discard pressure now My default is to actually continue the pressure so Looking at this though That is a bit problematic because We would lose Two lands and put lily out of reach But I think I'm still okay with that We can bob the following turn I think you want to be conservative. This is more of like this is the classic eight rack line You would take you so like don't get fancy. Don't be a hero Make sure as painful as what you're doing feels to yourself make sure You do it anyway because as as painful as it is It's it's it's the whole mission of the deck is to degenerate And we're not afraid of hurting ourselves And our own game plan in order to disrupt theirs And there we go. We haven't yet. We've get we've put we've Okay non land permanent with converted mana x to its owner's hand So for two mana he can yeah, and then he draws a card off that I think Yeah, he can bounce the rack and draw a card off his repeal But I just don't think three mana and three cards is enough to go off And this is all totally fine Not a problem. Okay. Well, we are just going to play him now He still needs to find stuff I'm going to do gifts here. Maybe Okay, there he is Two cards isn't enough is it? It is all right. Okay Yeah, if you can do it, that's fine man So you basically put him in a position where he feels he has to go for it And maybe you can I mean it's it's an incredible deck storm the way it can just It can literally just Come from absolutely nowhere and ruin your day Okay, so I think we'll just play it. We'll play it on face value. I think We kill him while he's there to be killed um we Should have done this first. Sorry Make you discard a card Should have done that first. That was a bad mistake Get in and we begin A much faster clock So weird little bug there We're bog doing overtime with these field of ruins like this is just Actually, it's weird now because I feel like we're actually a little bit vulnerable to blood moon. Whereas normally I Wouldn't be very scared of blood moon Um spreading seeds those a nightmare Um draw a card and wreck my mana base, but blood moon being a three drop normally. I'm not too worried about it, but Um Okay, well I don't want to cast it. Yeah, I don't really want you to have two cards So I'm going to do this and the card I will pitch is Oh going for it Yeah And it's my oh and mana morpheus. Okay put two into the graveyard. So passing flames costs Five from the yard He's got one two if I put if I was to put that in the yard Along with mana morpheus. He gets one two three four five six mana casts it then has one mana left over to Do what? Nothing. He fizzles So have the rituals into your yard. How's that sound and then discard one of the cards in your hand See what he picks Oh So now it's even harder for him because he has to He has to feel like he's still got at least another turn though. I can't deal 11 to him Okay, sure I don't think you can do it yet though I'm just gonna try I'm just gonna f6 here see what he can do It's not easy He's not actually adding any mana by doing this he needs to find rich. Oh he is Should have made it maybe waited there Yeah, he needs to get up to He needs like six mana to be able to cast past and flames Yeah, no, okay Well, we live to fight another turn Because the smallpox makes him pitch that card Lily goes to five Smallpox is brutal smallpox is brutal because it hits his land base as well So Let's fight first. No reason not to Yeah, smallpox is sweet here Horbitran That's one of the things that I slay line of the void. I'm still What an awful dead draw that was I mean way ahead and everything but You know what I mean like it's so sweet I suppose at least I can discard it to uh Smallpox here that one damage will matter to potentially All right. He's got one turn left good games He didn't it wasn't a complete pushover either. He'd be we had we had a bit of a Bit of a scary moment there. Yeah, the game has ended All right, sweet go first I think we can keep um We can keep I don't love There's a little bit of a risk Of thought sees coming back to bite us if he has thought sees But we'll keep And and take that risk Wow again Two storms. It's just got to be certain visions. It just feels right. I hope he hasn't found a remand here I doubt very strongly he has a lightning mold or anything like that in his main deck. He could grape shot Our lily although He'd be using a lot of resources to do that That's a nice draw. I wonder if I want to activate first here. I think I'll thought sees first I think I'm going to take the ritual here Not saying a lot here everyone because uh, there's not really a lot to say it's uh It's all pretty much just playing out Playing itself out So we'll do that Get his land based down to two Okay, so you can have The electromagnets, uh And if you keep the electromagnets where I'm going to play lily honor and make you sack it I think that's I think these are the piles Just need to draw a rack effect obviously Wow How about that? Okay I actually didn't expect that that's array So if this is remand, I don't care Cool. Okay. Well, that's all right That's fine. So what did we do last time against storm? I think we definitely brought in our graveyard hate Well, I don't nine seconds left Okay, so he's going first Pretty thin looking hand. Um, not much discard pressure Fatal push is useful, but we do need some help Um I don't I really don't like this hand very much at all. I think it's just a keep We're on the draw. So he's also mulliganed I think it's just barely a keep One card on the bottom. Okay Pieces of the puzzle is quite bad for us those pieces That's a pretty powerful hand actually if he can get up to formana Uh without us interrupting him, which as you can see from our choice to keep he can Uh, it may have been a mulligan. It may have been the right thing to do. Oh, thank goodness. All right It's an awesome draw for us. It's just spectacular. Probably the best card we could have possibly draw I think I like erborg Go again So empty the warrens is no joke. It's he could cast it for You know with the storm count of two or three very easily and then we're facing down six power and toughness um Yep monomorphos Oh ritual What if I what's he knows discarded the thingy? Okay. Yep. Here we go. Okay, so there's four of them um right Okay, so what am I going to do here should I fatal push? I don't think I do fatal push We're obviously going to win the race So I think we just let the race happen so If people aren't used to playing against eight rack, sometimes what they'll do is hoard cards Uh to defend themselves against the rack effects And that generally is Is is is a bad thing um For them to do so we have an interesting question here we can Ravens crime and hold up fatal push We can lily and while it might be tempting to swamp play lily. I think I'd like to play around remand um specifically Uh, she also isn't doing anything more than the Ravens crime is doing So as sexy as she is I think Uh, I think the crime is actually the right play here Yeah We really needed eight goblins to make it uh Make it a thing this could be pieces of the puzzle sure Top five put two into your hand and the rest of your graveyard. Okay, so what did he take? He took serum and sleight of hand So we could fatal push here to take the clock down. I'm not going to be able to get rid of both of those cards Um Or am I if I draw a swamp I can make him pitch both of them How worried am I about the clock So I think if he finds barral and plays it he's just going to die to the to the rack effects. So I think I'm okay with Just changing the clock This is all right Our land is fine here. Oh inquisitions. Just it's fine. That's just absolutely fine Very um very one side of these games have been Um Okay, good games man good games. So not bad overall pretty happy with that for one um Yeah Storm is a is a matchup. We were happy to see so Um, we got a little bit lucky uh coming up against them twice As I said, I think in a previous video I have lost a storm before um You know in a competitive environment it is possible of them to come back but Uh, yeah, I think pretty happy with the new build that the tweaks we made and Yeah, so look, I hope you guys enjoyed the video and I'll see you next time. Cheers