Reid on modern? You better believe I SMASHED that like button.

"GOTTA THOUGHTSEIZE THAT ULAMOG AT ALL COSTS" the thought running through every single non-tron player

*sees video series of Reid playing mid-range in modern* *smashes that mfin like button*

There is a theory that the deck(s) you choose to play can reveal parts of your personality. My impression of Reid is that he brings excellent gameplay, a professional demeanor, and a great deal of information about his internal thought process while not necessarily bringing a lot of humor, promotions, or gimmicks. Look over to his decks, being Jund and Mardu. Both decks have very low fail rates with ruthlessly efficient spells from top to bottom, but don't provide huge wombo combos that get you on a highlight reel. Pretty similar to Reid himself. Overall impression: When the cake itself is excellent, you don't need very much icing at all.

RIP this deck and many other fair decks that relied on Looting for value rather than unfair plays.

Yesss, finally. Been waiting to see Reid play this deck for ages.

That game 1 versus tron has literally been every game I’ve ever played against a tron player. Carefully navigate every option and unga bunga draw natty tron anyway. Props for not tilting out in that situation.

Speaking for myself personally when I played a few years back I played against a lot of different pros at GPs and Events and I have to say that Reid was the only down to earth guy who didn't have an inflated ego. Best pro on the circuit.

@monopoman

6 жыл бұрын

Brian Braun Duin is also a really cool guy, the down to earth ones are out there they just are the minority.

It's so cool Christian Bale plays magic. I just can't believe it.

@Linkieprotein18

6 жыл бұрын

Julian Belkin source??

@emmanuelkrausz4843

6 жыл бұрын

lmao

@SkidMcmarxx

6 жыл бұрын

Dude I totally forgot how much I thought Reid sounded like Christian Bale when I first watched his videos. I'm so used to his voice now that I don't notice anymore.

@ErroneousClique

6 жыл бұрын

"I’m whatever Gotham needs me to be." - Batman

@Stereotype23

6 жыл бұрын

He's the hero we deserve to need... to deserve... because its TIME... to deserve... a hero... for gotham

Reid played that last match super well. Love watching pros do their thing.

Wow. Early in the first game there were a couple interesting decisions that really rewarded Reid's mastery. This is the new Jund I guess. Scratch out some advantage in the early game with disruption and crush with a Bedlam Reveler.

Reid your videos are always dope. Thanks for the content!

Great job ! The deck is good and you played it very well, thanks for the videos

This is definitely my favourite competetive modern deck

I'm a simple man. I see Reid Duke, I hit like, I watch the video.

Thanks Reid. I play the same deck so helpful all around

This was a great video. Seems like a very viable option.

Great content! Reid Duke is great.

58:35 - I always go for the non towers. The reason is, if my tron opponent has 2 out of 3 tron pieces in play, digs / search for the last piece, I don't want it to be a tower, entering and giving 3 mana; I want it to be a non tower, tapping for 2. If my opponent searched up the tower, and I dont know what its her hand, then sure, I'll go for the tower.

@alanyuan8565

5 жыл бұрын

I have a Tron friend who told me the same thing.

When its Reid I hit like before the video even loads.

lingering souls is such a beating against most decks

@Aquificae

6 жыл бұрын

It's just so much card advantage in the end, and it breaks the simmetry in mutual discard effects really well. I mean, it's 5 mana put 4 evasive 1/1 tokens into play, and that cost is spread out in 2 portions, AND one of them can be used even if discarded. Might be my favorite card in Modern tbh, just because it's so efficient

Reid what are your thoughts on alpine moon?

huge fan reid!!

Woah woah Reid, if they won't stay to learn from the Duke then they are tripping.

At around 5:20 Thoughtsieze was a good choice. If he slams goyf, you lily it, if he plays any threat really you lily it. Otherwise you have full control with your kommands and souls in the grave

Would u change something of this list after playing? Is 2 Lilianas necessary or is one enough! Also do u think Rachet Bomb can replace EE?

It feels like this deck needs at least 1 godless shrine. Seems like there were a few points where it would've been useful

@garyhickman1088

6 жыл бұрын

usually so few cards with white mana, deck usually only runs 1 sacred foundry. reid does have more than an usual amount of white cards in the board

@utterlyj1277

6 жыл бұрын

You don't want too many lands that don't produce red though. Red is the color you want the most for your explosive turns where you're going Reveler into other spells.

@OMGclueless

6 жыл бұрын

Jack Buttery That's an argument to drop LOTV, if anything. With Liliana, you're looking to play longer games and that means you want to cast the front face of Lingering Souls *and* a double black spell and that can be hard if you're always fetching red mana.

@Urbanned101

6 жыл бұрын

I've played the deck quite a bit by now and even without Liliana I often find myself wanting to fetch for Godless Shrine, but only have Sacred Foundry. My only RR card is Reveler and tbh it's easy to find RR by the time you want to cast it, with all the looting. Your primary concern is finding the first red on turn one consistently for Faithless Looting. But finding black for discard spells can be equally important. So it doesn't make sense to play the 17R/16B split in the most common configuration. Reid even forgoes the basic plains for the 18th red source. Plains seems important though if you want to play white sb cards under a Blood Moon. So you are absolutely right imo.

Have you have tried 1 or 2 Slaughtergames in the sideboard? It can really change certain matchups even with its 4 cmc

This feels more like jund than jund does.

Unlucky for Zyrnak (Hardened Scales Deck). That dude is a good Affinity player.

"I hope there's not a Night of Souls' Betrayal in my future" hahaha

@sstadnicki

6 жыл бұрын

I love how his opponent immediately played a 4-mana Black enchantment after this, too. For a moment it got me...

Bedlam reveler seems like such a big game.

@pytawidmo

6 жыл бұрын

And yet, it dodges the Big Game Hunter ;) (unless prowess triggers).

Although I love Seasoned Pyromancer, I miss the pre modern horizons era

Went from jund to this, no regrets. Just don't know if explosives or e-bridge is better for sb... Also more 1 godless shrine, and fetches seems better than cliffs so far.

How did Reid know his opponent would play a tarmogoyf? This is mastery, Liliana’s Mastery!

Hey Reid, do you think that discarding pyromancer and then waiting for your opponent to crack map to k command in response with modes discard and raise dead would have been a better play at 1:00:45, since they won't have Tron next turn?

1:18:04 Isn't taking Emrakul just better? I know she gets shuffled so the opponent is more likely to draw her, but they have a Snapcaster, so they can eventually snap back Breach or just a Cryptic or Izzet Charm or whatever they want. I'd rather turn off their Snapcaster.

@nickthejack

6 жыл бұрын

wraith I was gonna say the same thing. I think taking the enabler is better when they're trying to break through the breach, but this is a control deck really, and both halves kinda seem exactly the same

@ktrizzle6098

6 жыл бұрын

I think both lines are pretty close. If he takes Emrakul, the guy shuffles and natural draws it he loses. If he takes breach, snapcaster can't flash it back til turn 7 so maybe he draws more disruption or closes out the game. Then again, if he just naturals breach after it's been taken, he's in the same boat. + shuffling in Emrakul with the whole graveyard makes the top deck even less likely. Maybe taking Emrakul gives him a few more % chance to win, but again, the lines are pretty close I feel.

@johnrobertcruz583

5 жыл бұрын

Taking TTB buys a few extra turns that can draw into disrupt or close out the game. If he took snaps and the opponent topdecks land to cast TTB, that's game over.

Around 1:18:00 why take through the breach over emrakul? emrakul shuffle turns off snapcaster for cantrips or remand and if you hadn't won they could have snap - through the breached when they found the lands. Just curious if theres something I'm overlooking or if you just knew you were going to win before either were relevant

I’m sorry for being an idiot but I chuckle like a schoolboy every time he says “cumball”.

25:00 DOES this Deck operate on a single Mana??

Opponent didn't know difference between activated and triggered ability lmao

is pack rat any good in a deck like this?

@pandagalactique7935

6 жыл бұрын

Nope too long to use it and you can't play mutavault

@ripbeni6198

6 жыл бұрын

It's fine but lili, kolagans, blood moon, and souls are just all better 3 drops

I think you discard mountain and lingering souls, because we want to flash it back next turn anyway and that gives us two turns to draw a land and then we have three three-drops with K-Com, Liliana, and faithless looting.

@4:57 I would’ve discarded Liliana instead of thoughtseize, because we know the opp has abrupt decay, but you didn’t get punished the way that game played out. The way you really get punished is if your opponent doesn’t play a threat for you to minus on, so you plus, they decay in response, and you have to decide between discarding land 3 or k command.

@luisavarez506

6 жыл бұрын

you can just not play liliana until the opp plays a threat

4:53 I would've discarded the thoughtseize too. Unless opp drew something relevant that turn you're paying 2 life to trade 1 for 1 with a redundant decay, which doesn't sound appealing in a grindy matchup.

6:17 Abrupt Decay Lingering Souls art

Last time I was this early Twin was still legal

what was your reason for sending in young pyromancer to attack into the hangarback walker match 2 game 1? and then again the next game? it seemed like you could still get some more value out of him.

@pytawidmo

6 жыл бұрын

I believe it's about assessing costs of trade, and it was worth it with the hangerback. Otherwise it would quickly grow and either be a big threat itself or make a lot of flying tokens.

I think at 7:03 you should have chosen discard and return Young Pyro to your hand. It would have set up your next few turns a lot nicer. (Just saw people were saying this also)

@jokubascepenas7338

6 жыл бұрын

I think +1 on lilly + 2 dmg is more important than a pyro in hand

at 6mins why not k command and return young p instead of 2 to face

Hello! What is the deck played by the opponent "Zyrnak" on round 3?

@TeddyKeezer

5 жыл бұрын

That would be Hardened Scales Affinity, cool deck. Zyrnak is actually a KZread content creator and makes great videos for that deck and others.

Hey folks! Check out my Kamigawa unboxing video! kzread.info/dash/bejne/q4xtrcaxprOrqc4.html

Sorry for being so drunk is Vegas Reid

at 19:00, why not discard one molten rain and the reveler? The molten rains seemed to have a higher impact at that point with your opponent on such a low life total.

i see it zelous

What's the reason for unmaking in sideboard?

@johnrobertcruz583

5 жыл бұрын

For in case he runs into a finks or redcap. In current meta, against phoenix

I really like this deck, though as an infect player I really hate seeing it across from me.

Hey Reid, why not try something crazy and mash the two decks together? Jund pyromancer could be pretty fun

What do you think about the SB plan of goblin rabblemaster + hazoret to kill quickly in the non interactive matchups?

As reid he kicks humans asses As batman he saves them...

and bedlam reloads the hand.

Why bring in Kambal against tron? I'm not seeing how it's good.

@alanyuan8565

5 жыл бұрын

I think curve issues/.

Why Molten Rain, and not Fulminator Mage? Fulminator Mage can be returned with Liliana and can also be a threat in a pinch.

@alanyuan8565

5 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing the burn is necessary for a faster clock.

Using a pencil and paper to write down opponents hand when playing on a computer.

Dude....Reid...you need a new PC. I listen to the videos in over ear headphones and can hear your machine screaming when you make plays. Just an FYI before it starts smoking. Great job in the league!

1:17:30 opp making the mistake of his life haha. could have won by keeping ccommand and countering thoughtseize

@MrLacker

6 жыл бұрын

I don't think they could have won, even if they presciently held the cryptic for the thoughtseize. They were at 9 at the start of the turn, taking 4 from the attack puts them at 5. Two Kambal triggers from the Cryptic and the Breach would put the opponent at 1, and put Reid at 16. Emrakul puts Reid down to 1, but he has 7 permanents, can keep the Kambal in play after annihilator and Reid wins on the crackback.

Bloodbraid gets unbanned. Jund still not great. Sadness goes onto the stack.

TRAITOR!! Just kidding haha.

What was your finish in The most recent gp

in game 1 of the first match, why did you shock the opponent instead of getting back young pyromancer?

@xeanthomas5231

6 жыл бұрын

This^ like, what the fuck...there's a faithless in your yard...

@TheDray008

6 жыл бұрын

because he wanted to tick up lili. if he grabbed young p he woulda just discarded it and if he did it before k command he woulda discarded k command. the real question is getting young p better than having 2 counters on lili.

@xeanthomas5231

6 жыл бұрын

Yes. it is.

@bladeflesh

6 жыл бұрын

not really. Especially since he top deck goyf. I agreed with the play

I really love your videos Reid, but you really need a new microphone. I suffer from tinnitus and cuz of the sound issue I can't watch for extended periods of time. All the Best!

Would you ever consider playing Cast Down in Modern?

@anonofyesterday4650

6 жыл бұрын

With both Fatal Push and Terminate as legal cards there's really no point.

@sstadnicki

6 жыл бұрын

Granted that it's very seldom going to be worse than Terminate, but I don't think it'll ever be substantially better either...

@jonnynice8366

6 жыл бұрын

@sstadnicki: Terminate is certainly the better card in this deck, with only 2 non-red mana sources. But I am wondering about a deck like Jund though, where you're playing Treetop Villages and Overgrown Tombs and the red requirement on Terminate is a real liability compared to Cast Down.

@pytawidmo

6 жыл бұрын

Too many random good legendaries in Modern, e.g.: Tasigur, Thalia, Vendilion Clique. Go for the Throat is usually better as mono-black removal, unless you get matched against affinity.

@sstadnicki

6 жыл бұрын

The problem is that right now Hollow One is more played than any of the cards you mentioned, and that's a serious hole because Fatal Push and Bolt both miss it. I actually do think Cast Down might be the best of the 1B options in the current general metagame, but it's not clear that you want any of the 'sometimes dead' choices - Murderous Cut might be better than any of these depending on the shell it's going in.

Running mardu colors and no Path to Exiles? Wtf???

@mattwilliamsonguitar

6 жыл бұрын

Thats Neato probably same reason more bolt than push. In the matchups path and push are bad, lightning bolt can still go face.

G1, I would have pitched the 2nd kommand to the looting over the seize. The entire objective with mardu is trade aggressively then slam reveler to get ahead. 1 mana discard in the early turns is the best way to do that. Velocity should be valued highly. Kommand doesnt shine until the late game when it can buyback a peezy or reveler and do another thing. Early game it's slow, takes your entire t3, doesnt affect the board a good % of the time, and majority of the time you cant even convert it to 2 cards. Making your opponent discard their worst card and shocking a thing for 3 mana is not exciting.

You don't cut discard after sideboard with this deck. You need to be proactive. Opportunity cost of drawing a discard spell in the late game is usually small. And you don't wanna sit there with all the reactive sideboard cards and 2 revelers not doing anything. You are not a control deck. That is a recipe for losing with this deck.

@ryancarter4960

5 жыл бұрын

*Watches one of the top ranked MTG pros in the world 5-0 a league - criticizes sb decision making and explains to him how he should play the deck in the comments* Oh KZread, never change.

Blood Moon is great against Infect.

so when ur dead on gas and get a standard chainwhirler effect. Whats the recover plan?

Not to be rude but these great videos could be made even better if that buzzing or scratching sound in the background is taken care of.

Rip looting

duke or manfield .........put abzan back on the map.

Please consider investing in a better microphone, the cackling from your microphone was very distracting. Spend more than 50 dollars on one, and buy a stand that keeps it as close to your voice as possible so we don't pick up one everything else in the room. I recommend a cheap audio interface paired with a Berhinger B-1. It'll be around $100 if you shop around, but the audio quality is very well worth it.

Please buy a microphone

@jseylar16

6 жыл бұрын

i know, that scratching sound is sooo annoying, makes the video unwatchable to me.

@ktrizzle6098

6 жыл бұрын

LOL. Turn it down slightly? People these days are such babies.

@Jinno-gm3xv

6 жыл бұрын

You do realize that you can't turn down the scratching sound without making you unable to hear Reid? A new microphone, even a basic one costs about $15. Why wouldn't CFB just get him a new microphone so we can focus on the gameplay. The "I'm so much better than these crybabies" attitude just seems silly when the problem can be fixed so easily.