shadowcatX2000 Awesome match, I agree, my favorite Pro Tour match still is Dickmann vs. Pardee in Pro Tour: Born of the Gods.

Me too

While I'm not going to disagree with you on how Abzan has so many good cards, I will say that some of my Favourite matches to play and watch have been against Abzan.

I think that the judges provide them, so they can be seen easily on camera

Justin had a ghost quarter for the man land. Not sure if everything else would have had it but he couldn't rely on a manland

Yeah, you're right. I didn't see the ghost quarter, my error!

but the man land wasn't necessary to win. Rhino has trample and he has a decay (to do on the token that block tasigur's attack). The other two tokens have to block the 2x midscensors.

Paolo Baroni If he abrupt decays the token before combat, Justin blocks both mindcensors with the remaining two insects, tasigur with the plant, and ghost quarters the man lands. Justin takes 4, surviving and going to 2 where he then swings for game. If he abrupt decays before damage to save his Tasigur, Justin can block both mindcensors with two insects, tasigur with one the man land or insect, and siege rhino with the man or insect, then use ghost quarter on the man land. Either way, he takes 3-4 damage, surviving and then swinging for game (abrupt decay would cause the damage to fog as Tasigur doesn't have trample).

***** Aaaah!!! Didn't realize that play!! Sometimes it's difficult to follow all the things they do, thanks God we have LSV to explain us!! Thanks a lot for the answer BTW

thats correct first strike damage would kill rhino before it can damage justin :)

That is correct, but I don't know how relevant that interaction is because it gets blown out by removal on the bee, which there was plenty of.

The catch was that Jesse should have passed priority in that combat and let Justin activate to give a token double strike, and abrupt decay the token in response. If he goes that route,, his Rhino still tramples for 4, and his mindsensor trades with a token. The way it played out, Jesse did the abrupt decay first, making it so that the token blocking the mindsensor lived instead of trading with it.

well isnt it cause justin knew he had decay so it didnt really matter, if jesse had passed priority justin woulda passed back n they woulda went to damage.

The card Vesuva allows you to copy a land in play.

Drecon84 but he doesn't have a Vesuva at 1:21:50 ... Or I got one land wrong? From the top:Ghost Quater - Sunhome - Boros - Selesnya - Forest - 3x Simic.

Shihong Yan When they started talking about them he was still searching with the Primeval Titan. He put them in play at 1:21:46, just underneath the forest.

Drecon84 Wow! Thought was 2 Slayer's Stronghold and was wondering why this would work. Many Thanks!

jthagler he did look at the top 5. he was casting ancient stirrings, which is look at the top 5, not search.

He did, but the video editors didn't correct it

Según esa teoría, debería de haberlos en mandarín mucho antes que en español y que en inglés. Si no sabes suficiente inglés, apréndelo, que es fundamental.

Respect yourself, learn english.

Gabriel S I am french and I have no commentary in my language for the Pro Tour. I take this as an opportunity to improve my english, which is a language everybody should understand. So instead of writing "Where is the french video?" in french in the comment, I try to learn stuff. I managed to get pretty fluent just by reading books and watching KZfaq videos, and I am always surprised when I see people not trying to do that as well. Also the dude did say spanish was the second language in the world, which is really not true, and even if it was it is not an excuse not to learn english. I get my comment was a bit rough though, so sorry for that.

Not necessarily in this match up, You Koz first as it hits all the enablers of the deck...Amulet, Summer Bloom and Asuza...

so does TS haha inquisition is more conditional. if you koz first and he has a bunch of 4cc and up you wiff. if you TS first, just pick something and leave a koz target in his hand. most likely it doesnt matter cause there will most likely be targets for both, but if you talk about whats more likely, you are more likely to wiff with koz than TS.

David Mauck First of all: Your capslock seems to be jammed, you should look into that. Secondly: Depending on the match-up, you *do* actually Inquisition first quite often, especially if you don't cast both discard spells (Inqui + TS) on the same turn. Inqui can "only" hit "smaller targets", but those spells are the once that tend to come out earlier and need to be prevented earlier. Inqui is also almost guaranteed to hit vs a full hand of cards, so it is a *very* safe first turn play in most match-ups, I would usually cast Inqui turn 1 and TS turn 2 if I had both in my opening hand.

Nr4747 i didn't know we were talking about theories. i thought we were talking about this video. it wasnt turn one...so that point is invalid. the deck he is playing plays hive minds and titans and plenty of things inquisition cannot hit. also the deck is going to win in one turn, so the 2 life from TS does not matter. is he inquisitions first he is praying to hit an amulet. if you are going to play both the same turn or think you are going to then you lead with TS for sure. maybe against like affinity where inquisition will hit every card its fin. but in amulet bloom its not guaranteed. here is my proof: you stated that, "Inqui is also ALMOST guaranteed to hit vs a full hand of cards, so it is a very safe first turn play in most match-ups, I would usually cast Inqui turn 1 and TS turn 2 if I had both in my opening hand." TS is not an ALMOST card. it hits anything but land. so TS first, take anything, then if you need to follow up with inquisition, otherwise you wasted a card.

Nr4747 perfect example! go to 5:43. in justins hand is two titans and 4 lands. had jesse had a TS and inquisition and played by you're theory, you would have whiffed. yes, ALMOST guaranteed to hit with inquisition every time but not 100%. thats my point. you may disagree, but not everyone agrees with the truth.