that's just MTG in a nutshell

but that is certainly not the theme of this PT. The theme of PT Fate Reforged is "can I combo off before this aggro deck kills me?" or "can I combo off before my opponent combos off?"

Amulet bloom best deck ever

Lol Wild Defiance in Infect is extremely unlikely your idea... that card has been around Infect decks for quite some time now, since its release

MrGarruk123 No, I had it when the Innistrad block was around. That is what I am saying. I've been using it since Wild Defiance was released. What I really mean to say is that I'm happy it's getting the spotlight it deserves. Wild Defiance, IMO, went largely overlooked in all of the circles of Modern that I am connected to.

Alan Bean It was heavily played in my extended group when it released. It's not much of a new thing.

Thomas Shanahan I know it isn't new. I never said anything about it being new. Also, in my region, it was overlooked for most infect decks. Read previous posts, please.

But it's so metal

What do you complain about?

+The Comedy Bros. He also could have pathed his own wall to Snapcaster Mage + Mana Leak the thoughtseize.

kentaro isn't playing Liliana though

What I'm saying is, I find some of shuhei' plays questionable. The way Jeskai can win against abzan is to use cryptic to counter draw, restoration angel, get it pathed because you care about lands and get a 2 for 1. I mean, letting his opponent repeatedly thoughtseizes him is a bad play in my opinion, unless he is trying his best to play around a possible liliana (which almost every abzan list runs) Since Shuhei does not know about this and his opponent plays voice of resurgence, it makes this matchup just awful for the Jeskai control player. I'm willing to believe if he knows about the Lilliana, this game would be a bit better(but not by much)

Abzan already trumps control by offering the same idea of two for ones but early in the game due to mana acceleration as well as ways to slow the opponent. Rng also played a big part of this game but i personally believe that control just has a bad matchup against abzan seeing as control uses card advantage to win and abzan plays a decent amount of hand attack with or without Liliana.

If I'm not mistaken, shuhei does have 2 copies of eslpeth in his sideboard. That would be huge

Elspeth is a one of in his sideboard. Since he has trouble controlling the game to begin with getting the single copy out of his deck is hard enough. She also has a cmc of 6 which is really slow for a match against abzan.

bc it would have the exact same effect as it just being taken and would prevent the dmg taken from thoughtseize, if he counter bounced Kentaro would just activate stirring wildwoods and attack with it

@@HopefulAgnostic ah ok i see the line there thanks

voice of resurgence's token

yo kanho there is no voice of resurgence in board ...

You do realize people get mana screwed right?

+redeyed akame Shuhei is playing it terrribly. That first thoughtseize just has to be a leak.

+Borzi That was actually a good judgement call since there was no possible way him to sweep Kentaro's creature without that fourth land. Not to mention that Kentaro could have paid the three mana anyway.

No he couldn't... he only had 2 mana up. Should've leaked the thoughtseize.

TheGosu Why Mana Leak a Thoughtseize if you know that Tarmagoryf will come down next turn? Remember, you have to diversify your counterspells accordingly.

I think Randy was talking about more traditional BG decks such as Jund and Abzan midrange

Pod is Pod, and BGx is a deck with hand disruption.

+Ethan Jimenez Whats wrong? its awesome