00:00Good evening, good afternoon, and good morning, depending on where you are in the world.
00:03We'd like to introduce you to a continued series for the new content from Strixhaven, etc.
00:13And also going to be playing two matches of best out of three.
00:18First thing we want to do is check to see what's in the news in terms of inbox.
00:26May 4th, arena downtime.
00:30And then announcements.
00:32On top of that, we want to check Sword to see if there's anything available that we're entitled to.
00:43See, Seekers of Strixhaven.
00:46I don't have enough for some.
00:49What I'm going to do is I'm going to play best out of three for two matches.
00:57What I'm going to do is I'm going to play Standard Ranked.
01:01So Ranked, best out of three, Standard Ranked.
01:05I'm going to select Arcane Area List.
01:07And I click Play.
01:22I'm going to click Play first.
01:28And we'll just go with and keep that.
01:31The idea here is we're going to play white, then blue, and then play Charter Course.
01:38What we need at this point is mana.
01:48Yeah.
01:51Let's do this.
01:54This one is two.
01:59Now, you've got to pay attention to what the card your opponent's play.
02:03So this is for one green and one one that has Death Touch.
02:09And I get one of those cooped up.
02:18Let's get rid of that.
02:22Can't attack her block.
02:30Oh, so.
02:33Still does that.
02:34That's true.
02:36Well.
02:37Oh, well.
02:38We do not have enough mana.
02:40So we might.
02:44Maybe I should have got rid of that.
02:46But also, also, that's true as well.
02:59There's blue.
03:05Well, that's no good.
03:06I can't play this because it's.
03:09I have two blue instead of two white.
03:11What we'll do is we'll block.
03:27We'll just block that.
03:35Yep.
03:37Yep.
03:38Yep.
03:38So that's game.
03:40We can put pacifism on the five five.
03:56Now, here is where we're going to be using this opportunity to change out some cards, called the sideboard.
04:08And part of the problem is I didn't get enough mana to come out.
04:20Let's play first.
04:23One mana is not going to be good enough, so we'll have to mulligan that down.
04:28We're going to mulligan that down because one is not enough.
04:32What we're going to do is we're going to get rid of one of those.
04:40Probably the higher casting one.
04:45Play that tab.
04:56Let's get this out to chart the course.
05:04Yeah, that's tough.
05:14Okay.
05:15The idea of death touch when it does damage to a creature, it kills the creature.
05:28We have to get rid of that somehow.
05:34There's blue.
05:35There's two whites.
05:40So we have to block with both.
05:46So this will block this.
05:48This will block this.
05:51The other has hit.
05:53Nice.
05:57One to one one.
06:10Let's get rid of one of these.
06:19My tax.
06:21What we need to do is get rid of that card.
06:31Nice.
06:39That has death touch.
06:42That's very difficult.
06:48Well, we don't have any choice because otherwise next turn.
06:57It's kind of difficult.
07:13It's kind of difficult.
07:20We don't have any choice.
07:20Let's just get that out.
07:23Again.
07:35One of the most annoying combos in the game is this.
07:38Poison counters.
07:42not a whole lot it can do about that except for more counters let's play again
07:49make sure it's standard ranked now in standard format you're going to have better players is
07:55what you want because you want to see what works compared to what doesn't
08:02all right don't think of your purpose to win but think of your purpose is to play well and to
08:18learn
08:19because unless you're a pro player you're not focusing just on winning you're focusing on
08:25learning and improving and then in the process of learning and improving you will play better you
08:31will win more games but you do have to be adaptable you do have to learn the cards
08:37and some of it is um i don't know if i want to use the word luck but it is
08:42probability
08:52so keep that in mind
09:13let's go ahead and play first i might have played him before
09:19you don't have any white but yeah that's that's not good let's malkin that down
09:26this one these are too good let's take away one of the whites
09:34and we'll play this one surprise me
09:38wow do i already have one kind of no skip that
09:48so the the idea is i can see what's going to be the next card so i can decide whether
09:53it's good or
09:53not good let's play that
10:05see the thing about it is i need more mana
10:10let's attack for two
10:19there we go you got something
10:23yes we need more of that
10:34let's attack for one might as well
10:41so next card we're going to be playing
10:47trample reach
10:524-4 trample reach
11:02okay that has to reach for 4-4
11:06so no attacks
11:17next turn what we want to do is play the island and then cloud blazer
11:25oh nice another reach
11:28nice one
11:33okay this has reach
11:35so does that and so does that
11:37plus it has trample
11:40well
11:42might as well block it
11:47let me guess you can pump it right
11:50for two mana can you pump it
12:01wow
12:03pretty amazing
12:11well there's a 4-3 so we're not going to do that
12:16after that i think what i'm going to do is to put
12:17uh play more planes
12:19then bring out the dawn bringer
12:22or
12:23what do i have
12:25yeah i'm bringing out more planes
12:27we objectively need more of those
12:35just get white blue white blue
12:41yeah nice
12:51let's play pacifism on
12:54this guy
12:57i'm going to play this one as well
13:07now we need creatures
13:17ouch
13:188-4
13:21that's awfully bad
13:24nice
13:29yeah that's pretty brutal
13:358-4
13:37i'm going to pull up for one one hit
13:38what
13:41otherwise what
13:48we need another card
13:49to come out
14:01can i bring on another land
14:04yeah this is pretty brutal
14:074-4-4-4
14:09so we can block those
14:12can get all these blocked
14:14question is what am i going to take for trample damage
14:27it's like
14:29yeah you wish
14:34so these will block
14:37these will block these two
14:42the question is
14:43what is he
14:43what is he
14:45what's it need for
14:48but i just need to do four damages
14:50to point
14:52so i do
14:53three two
14:55that's three
15:00yeah
15:05oh nice one
15:15a4
15:30really the only viable way is to do it that way
15:33he's the only one blocking
15:36so what am i going to take for trample damage
15:39five and seven
15:42or five
15:46or seven
15:50see that's the annoying thing about tramples
15:53oh he gets the two so he does the damage to first
15:55yeah
15:57that's brutal
16:03yeah that's nice
16:05we remove that
16:10we're gonna need more
16:19um
16:24i don't know
16:28is that the healing home account
16:36i really like to play imperium eagle but
16:41yeah
16:46nice
16:48that was for three you draw two cards
16:52oh
17:14first game goes to him
17:17see the thing is the idea is you bring up the creatures and then
17:21give things people trample
17:27it's difficult
17:28you have to counter
17:29stop it from coming out or kill again
17:33oh i got a lot of those
17:37let's keep that
17:39probably first thing i want to do is bring out points
17:43so you have something active
17:49if i don't have anything i'll just bring this out
17:57thing is
18:01then we'll start pulling blue
18:08so one three for one three
18:11except you can't block it and i gain life
18:16let's see
18:17one two three
18:19we need two blue so i'll bring another blue possibly
18:23oh yeah then
18:25the thing is
18:26the thing is
18:37bring him out
18:41the problem here is he does three damage
18:45you don't really have any choice you're just gonna have to
18:48guess what he attacks with both anyway
18:50what are you gonna do
18:53so you're gonna have to play planes next
18:57and then keep taking the three
19:02oh it's a flyer
19:08nice
19:14is that until end of turn
19:29rate of replication
19:49but the problem is it's a five five instead of a three three
19:51i mean it's a three three instead of a five five
19:57so what we could do is kill this guy off
20:02nice
20:08yep
20:13get this out
20:28oh i have another one of those
20:32wow
20:33wow
20:48yeah i'm gonna block that one probably
20:51five
20:53nine
20:55ouch
20:57let's block that
20:59that's just stupid
21:00i'm not taking nine damage
21:09wait unless i can can i copy the nine
21:18question is
21:18what do i copy
21:21probably the nine
21:22that's the only option really
21:25i copy the nine
21:26we angry
21:30oh
21:35no
21:46no
21:55nobody
21:56vagy
21:57oh that was a waste wasn't it i know why i did that i could have copied something else
22:05damn that's crap
22:09yeah i could have i could have played um
22:19yeah i made a big mistake on that
22:25green is really good right now
22:47okay so what did we learn from these two matches
22:51well learner we need counters we learned that mono green mono green or green blue is very good
23:00we learned that we could splash in some stuff or we could play other decks maybe that would
23:07challenge that
23:10probably with playing mono green i've got to have more counters probably but anyway
23:20that will do it for this two match series i know that was shorter but
23:25shows some great play which is the important thing it's the quality not the quantity that's the
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