2nd match of mythic invitational decided because they ran out of time in game 3 (gruul v RDW) due to an esper game 1 going to teferi ult. The gruul player was ahead and forced to concede about 3 turns away from an easy victory against RDW. Match decided by who had the highest life total.
Yeah, this is not going well. 1st game involving HS pro keeping a 1 lander and 2nd game decided by arbitrary tournament rules. The potential is there though. Hoping it gets better.
Thijs is very likely the least experienced person at the tournament. He was getting coaching on basic rules interactions on stream only like a week ago.
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The one lander was keepable - not sacrificing Bodyguards that were targeted by Moments of Craving was less of a choice.
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I hate the random deck rule for this thing.
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Autumn just got eliminated 0-2 by mtgnerdgirl. The second match was esper vs simic (green beatdown running some negates + krasis). Esper can't deal with hexproof creatures on the board well, only so many wraths. I maintain that 2 carnage tyrants and a couple of memorial to follys in sultai + krasis is heavily favored vs esper in Bo1.
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Infinite mirari loop is so dirty.
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Oh hey, mono red duel.
At least this will be quick.
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Jund: 1
WW: 4
RDW: 7
Simic Stompy: 1
Acuity: 3
Temur Reclamation: 4
Gruul: 2
Esper: 7
Rakdos Mid: 1
Naya Angels: 1
Green Stompy (w collision): 1
Really surprised to see the acuity and temur reclamation decks. Those decks are both really strong against what they target (aggro/control) and then very vulnerable to control/aggro respectively.
MTGnerdgirl just advanced on the back of simic stompy. Most of those esper lists are running only 2 wraths. There is a lot of midrange in these lists too. This is going to be good. I wanna see these hyper focused esper lists get hard punished.
The one lander was keepable - not sacrificing Bodyguards that were targeted by Moments of Craving was less of a choice.
If I remember he was on the play right?
He had over 60% chance to miss the next land drop and about a 40% chance to be stuck on 1 land for 3 turns. He had 3 1 drops and needed to flip azcanta to play the rest of his hand. That wasn't happening against his opponents decks unless he drew a land the next turn.
I dunno what his odds would be on a muligan, but I think they'd have to be better than keeping that hand.
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Shahar just kept a one land hand as mono white on the play. He drew a second land on his next turn and then never again for the rest of the match.
He won the game and Jesus Christ mono white.
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Shahar just kept a one land hand as mono white on the play. He drew a second land on his next turn and then never again for the rest of the match.
He won the game and Jesus Christ mono white.
I only caught the tail end of that match, but I saw he was on 2 lands + fort and his opponent had 8 lands + 1 in hand.
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Oh look.
An esper control mirror zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Take all teferi themed decks and throw them into the sun
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This tournament thus far really has not sold me on BO1 for competitive matches.
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I don’t get why this guy didn’t get unmoored ego, bury the teferi, then remove all his opponents teferis from the game
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I am giggling that teferi got his ult off and the dude still died to 17 land RDW
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Hah. I just beat someone down to -33 displayed life with my simic deck and lost, because the triggers from creatures (lifelink + vindictive vampire + poison tip archer) killed me.
Hah. I just beat someone down to -33 displayed life with my simic deck and lost, because the triggers from creatures (lifelink + vindictive vampire + poison tip archer) killed me.
Is that a bug? Lifelink should happen, but if you are at 0 or below by the time Vampire and Archer get stacked they've lost.
Holy wow, that experimental frenzy in game 3 vs Shahar. Double chainwhirler top deck against WW.
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Never give up, never surrender.
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1. I'd watch all of these on twitch. This is great. I love that it's Bo1. The whole idea of this is fun.
2. Day9 and Kibler are the best.
3. The set is great.
4. Seeing the streamers is great.
5. The timer rule is asinine and will be gamed at some point and ruin a tournament.
6. The audio and video team need to be run out with pitch forks and torches. The camera angles, the transitions, the mic feed backs, the long pauses, and worst of all the shaky cam do the rest of the production a disservice. Fire whoever is in charge and have someone in the audience film the thing on their cell phone.
Compared to watching paper magic on twitch...
The other thing I've noticed is that the pros all seem to be picking safe picks in esper and WW. But the challengers are experimenting and doing quite well. I think that Bo1 meta is really far from being solved.
I went to grab a bite figuring it was over after the Formation, came back to Skybilz celebrating. Just finished the VOD, wow what a finish.
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Nothing is more hilarious than a RDW deck playing against esper control and getting out experiment and just top decking to victory
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Oh man, Skybilz just punted hard. She shot a bolt and shock to the face on her turn while her opponent had 4 mana, an absorb, and chem insight in hand... Just an awful misplay.
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Yeah you hate to see that happen.
She had the game won with patience.
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Hah. I just beat someone down to -33 displayed life with my simic deck and lost, because the triggers from creatures (lifelink + vindictive vampire + poison tip archer) killed me.
Is that a bug? Lifelink should happen, but if you are at 0 or below by the time Vampire and Archer get stacked they've lost.
I went back and looked- lifelink took them back to 3.
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I doubt Salvato taps out for Chemister's anyways. You keep that Absorb live for as long as you can.
It is rad to see women doing well and making top 16. Almost like the thing keeping them out of competitive Magic was how aggressively unpleasant LGSs can be for them.
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I definitely don't like the lack of sideboarding. Best of 1 is not nearly as interesting and it sounds like it made the esper mirrors even more horrifically boring than they normally are. The timer rule also sounds terrible.
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"You gotta believe in your deck."
So Day9
Would you say
You gotta
Believe
in the heart of the cards?
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Thijs is very likely the least experienced person at the tournament. He was getting coaching on basic rules interactions on stream only like a week ago.
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Autumn just got eliminated 0-2 by mtgnerdgirl. The second match was esper vs simic (green beatdown running some negates + krasis). Esper can't deal with hexproof creatures on the board well, only so many wraths. I maintain that 2 carnage tyrants and a couple of memorial to follys in sultai + krasis is heavily favored vs esper in Bo1.
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At least this will be quick.
Break Down is...
Jund: 1
WW: 4
RDW: 7
Simic Stompy: 1
Acuity: 3
Temur Reclamation: 4
Gruul: 2
Esper: 7
Rakdos Mid: 1
Naya Angels: 1
Green Stompy (w collision): 1
Really surprised to see the acuity and temur reclamation decks. Those decks are both really strong against what they target (aggro/control) and then very vulnerable to control/aggro respectively.
Autumn Burchett goes by they/them just so ya know.
I'm annoyed I can't watch right now, gonna have to catch up after work!
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Group B lists up: https://magic.wizards.com/en/events/mythicinvitational/groupbdecks
Selesnya: 3
WW: 8
Golgari Mid: 3
Esper: 7
Gruul: 4
RDW: 2 +2 (spash black)
Green Stompy (with collision/colossus): 2
Acuity: 1
So far no mono-u
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If I remember he was on the play right?
He had over 60% chance to miss the next land drop and about a 40% chance to be stuck on 1 land for 3 turns. He had 3 1 drops and needed to flip azcanta to play the rest of his hand. That wasn't happening against his opponents decks unless he drew a land the next turn.
I dunno what his odds would be on a muligan, but I think they'd have to be better than keeping that hand.
He won the game and Jesus Christ mono white.
I only caught the tail end of that match, but I saw he was on 2 lands + fort and his opponent had 8 lands + 1 in hand.
An esper control mirror zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Oh, the end of that matched involved one player drawing like 6 lands in a row. Fun.
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And one dude was about to deck himself from his own bullshit but whoops Teferi
7-1 with this?? Which didn't seem that promising at all but considering I usually manage 3 wins tops I'll take it.
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Is that a bug? Lifelink should happen, but if you are at 0 or below by the time Vampire and Archer get stacked they've lost.
1. I'd watch all of these on twitch. This is great. I love that it's Bo1. The whole idea of this is fun.
2. Day9 and Kibler are the best.
3. The set is great.
4. Seeing the streamers is great.
5. The timer rule is asinine and will be gamed at some point and ruin a tournament.
6. The audio and video team need to be run out with pitch forks and torches. The camera angles, the transitions, the mic feed backs, the long pauses, and worst of all the shaky cam do the rest of the production a disservice. Fire whoever is in charge and have someone in the audience film the thing on their cell phone.
Compared to watching paper magic on twitch...
The other thing I've noticed is that the pros all seem to be picking safe picks in esper and WW. But the challengers are experimenting and doing quite well. I think that Bo1 meta is really far from being solved.
I went to grab a bite figuring it was over after the Formation, came back to Skybilz celebrating. Just finished the VOD, wow what a finish.
She had the game won with patience.
I went back and looked- lifelink took them back to 3.
It is rad to see women doing well and making top 16. Almost like the thing keeping them out of competitive Magic was how aggressively unpleasant LGSs can be for them.
Spite? Misclick? I honestly don't know.
I wish they'd switch to something interesting.
So Day9
Would you say
You gotta
Believe
in the heart of the cards?