I think the most beautiful part is the fact that Reid actually baits him into playing the Jace by playing the badlands after the strix. Recognizing that the strix doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, he doesn't represent the pyroblast before after Brad counters the strix. Brad clearly thought he would have represented it together with the strix if he had it!

Still missing GP live coverage

@@LumaBopShop same

Same. 3 RCs a year is not enough, what the hell wizards.

@@treyburro5525 you also know what's not enough? Commander products and collector boosters. We need more. /s

I WAS ABOUT TO SAY, Reid is such a gentleman

Dude just keeps playing foils, I was losing my shit

This game was really about 2 gentlemen figthing.

@@AIMLESS-NAMELESS right?? Even his basics were some of the most expensive foils u can get. This dude took "bling" to a whole new level

Pro tour snapcaster too? Lmao this guys deck could be a car

Little did we know that pro magic would mostly ene up being about randomass twitch streamers..... oh well.

if only we knew

😂

Holy shit, I've watched this a bunch of times and I never caught that. LMFAOOOO.

Lmao!

Every once in a while it's nice but I could only imagine a new player watching and saying what the fuck is going on.

You still can...

@@robspear03 No tabletop Grand Prix scheduled for 2021 or most of 2020... plus no stores are allowed to have in-store players in NJ and NY. Glad you live somewhere that can.

Love your videos !!

shout out to pyroblast

Hey thanks man

Well Brad also did draw nothing but gas after gas

I think the better play would have been sniping the b2b instead of countering the clique with pyroblast.

But that being said, Brad's draw of the second clique was clutch.

@@joewb6851 I mean, the pivotal moment of the game was trying to tempo play brad via pyro on the clique over B2B when your line from the beginning was to play around B2B, with pyroblast to answer it later down the road. Granted, he could have easily taken a hit from the clique once and played a longer control game, but the 2nd clique draw was massively lucky tbh.

@@sauceman3462 exactly what I thought in terms of a long game plan also no basic mountain to fetch in legacy is a strange decision imo

I understand but I guess sometime ago I read an article written by reid himself about thoughtseize where he was saying that you should always aim to non redundant cards with it. between ponder and bs, miracles is replenished with that effect, while back to basics is a singleton and a card that grixis has 0 ways to remove permanently from the game (beside pyroblast). I'm not questioning his play, obviously, just noticing it's quite ironic that he ended up losing playing against his own theory.

He deff should have taken the back to basics it ruined him this game because he doesn't play a single basic mountain. I too was like either take basics or snap because theres no reason to take ponder or brainstorm cause they are redundant and he can snap them back anyway.

yah, I really thought hard about that game defining thought seize and trying to understand why the brainstorm, which seemed like a waste to me. I would have opted to play it safe and take the back to basics, since even playing around it, he doesn't have a single mountain in the deck, so it doesn't work out as we see later.

@@supaaznjigga i think one of the reasoning is that Reid wanted the game to be tight and contained. Back to basic was the most thretening card there, but brainstorm +fetch would change the cards in brads hand leaving Reid with less information about what the opponent has. Its easy to say that taking the btb was correct after seeing Brad drawing 2 flash threats.

give this man a mic

In what ways to the top players cheat? My friends joke about how if you aren’t cheating you aren’t playing at the top level. It how do they cheat and how do they get away with it?

@@odstp1tv1pr37 usually it's "soft cheating", like tapping fetches for mana, fetching illegal lands, drawing extra cards, playing extra lands. Stuff like that, taking advantage of your opponent not paying attention. Another tactic is some pros will try and talk their opponents into overlooking things, convincing them not to call a judge. Not too many commit "hard cheats" but there have been plenty of that aswell!

@@a_fuckin_spacemarine7514 isee

100% agree

I can't figure out why he didnt just use Jace to bounce the Mentor though?

@@gustavholst9085 if Brad had a response he would get the monk token and the line Reid picked means he gets Snap Caster back in his hand and Mentor is destroyed as opposed back in Brad's hand if bounced by Jace.

They appear to be Ultimate Guard.

@@RoboCobeh are you sure my friend? they appear awesome

Opponent had a flusterstorm in hand that Reid saw with the inquisition.

+paulblndin ty :)

If you're referring to g3 I 100% agree. Turn 4 when Brad tapped out for the back to basics after he let Liliana resolve was the perfect opportunity for him to deal with it. My theory is his thought was going for Volcanic/Badlands and crimping it to try and deal with B2b into a force wouldve been game over for sure but if he had the gall to make that play he probably wins this match

Brad had a flusterstorm in hand, I’m pretty sure Reid knew about it at that point

Reid Duke saw a Flusterstorm in Brad's hand with Inquisition of Kozilek a turn or two earlier. Kolaghan's Command wouldn't have resolved, and he would have been down one more red source.

@@outsetalecah ok

I can't use reiley reid because she has the same nose as my brother

Did you just call Miracles a "Humility" deck (lol)?

How is back to basics cancer. It helps keep the format honest. Without it and blood moon the format would just be 3-5 color control deck

Everything is cancer in interwebs.

no

only reid duke

In one of the early rounds they said they were trying a different format for broadcasting. Rather than random showmatches they mainly followed Reid and he was mic'd up when on camera.

I don't like this format, I like seeing all the different players with different decks. Maybe if they do 1-2 games per major player that would be great, like Duke, Nass, Vargas, etc

I don't disagree, merely the messenger.