It's a battle from opposite ends of the spectrum, as Matt Sperling's Boros Burn deck challenges Ivan Floch's White/Blue Sphinx's Revelation Control deck in the Quarterfinals of Pro Tour Magic 2015.
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@QibingZero10 жыл бұрын
Props to Sperling for not only playing it out and letting Floch have some fun, but also keeping a good attitude and joking around about it as it happened.
@lucablankenship92479 жыл бұрын
really appreciate sperling's good sport till the end, made the game much more enjoyable.
@MultiMYLOS9 жыл бұрын
Matt Sperling is just a great guy for putting up with control for an hour and 15 minutes.
@briancavanaugh56519 жыл бұрын
+MultiMYLOS i stopped playing standard for a little while during RTR cuz i couldnt do it...
@Fatlord277 жыл бұрын
I love watching Ivan's deck at work. It's like watching a concerto that climaxes for half an hour
@daisyxcutter10 жыл бұрын
Every match with Ivan's deck is just so disgusting and I love it.
@eyeforaneye878510 жыл бұрын
Ivan floch deck is just amazing... absolutely the most refined version of u/w control I've seen playing in standard. just so classy, so old school... the quicken/planar cleansing/verdict/divination interaction is so underrated, apparently irrelevant, and in fact so brilliant. lol at those who complain about the lack of win cons in this deck is... just learn the basics of card advantage in magic you noobs !
@dimitrisp594110 жыл бұрын
Nice :-)
@thomasdameron3908 жыл бұрын
I built a casual control deck based on this deck, and my only win condition aside from Elixir is 4 Faerie Conclaves (until I can upgrade them to Colonnades). It's amusing to watch the look of horror that slowly appears on people's faces as they realize you only need the Elixir itself as your win condition.
@lucas131107 жыл бұрын
Thomas Dameron I made the deck able to play on Legacy and it works just fine. It can easily beats a Legacy Death n Taxes, Monastery Mentor is a way way better win con though.
@jakehearn4324 жыл бұрын
And now a days nothing like that worked in the mirror cause of teferi and it's sad cause pioneer needs answers other than lock outs
@Hoangapalooza9 жыл бұрын
Good man that Matt Sperling, he is definitely the type of mtg player I would like to aspire to :)
@PlumbknuckleWasTaken9 жыл бұрын
My god that's such a beautiful Blue/White deck.
@KenKotsuNoGarp9 жыл бұрын
That feeling when you have 100% control of a game, and your oponent is playing top deck, and you know that he cant draw anything that can lose you the game... is the reason i play control. Most satisfying feeling in the game for me :P
@dannyloyiii9 жыл бұрын
Ricardo you like blue don't you
@oreos79049 жыл бұрын
I was using my black white midrange against a blue white control. I exiled every single win condition card (about 4) but slowly milled myself. With no cards in my library, I played debt to the deathless, X was 19. The look on his face when he didn't have a counter and he lost when he only needed to survive one turn. One turn loss, his life went from 32 to -6, the biggest fuck you to control decks.
@MrHpotte9 жыл бұрын
IntoTheFlame haha
@Nr47477 жыл бұрын
(Late comment, I know): So true, one of my few Magic regrets is that I didn't play Azorius Control even more often and never got to cast a Revelation for more than 14 in Standard (most were for 12 or less) !
@justinzarzycki82466 жыл бұрын
matt sperling. 'are you having fun' ivan floch "actually yes. me cant stop laughing floch is a troll and i love it
@bipidyboo127410 жыл бұрын
This is why i love control decks. I like playing as long as possible!
@zorac9110 жыл бұрын
Playing versus these type of "good sport" players makes you enjoy the match like no other, either you are winning or losing. Awesome match!
@henrymildenstein8110 жыл бұрын
Wached this Mach a million times
@TeddyBH207 жыл бұрын
Always love watching control as not only do I play it soulfully but I think it is so much more enjoyable to know that lifetotal doesn't determine who is ahead
@josiahlehrke98769 жыл бұрын
Whoever has to keep track of Floch's cards in-hand is not being paid enough...his hand seems like 7 new cards every turn :P
@Timmmmm42y2 жыл бұрын
Its almost a decade later and I still come back to this match for a good time. Also can we stop to appreciate how amazing standard was before wotc broke it? This format was so good that both burn and uw control made it to the quarter finals. Thats what standard should be. Inistastrad, Thero's, Khans and so on before we got 3 dozen bans, splinter twin in standard and Vehicles
@MirrorAshes10 жыл бұрын
Props to Sperling for keeping it light in the face of the loss. Congrats Ivan!
@Timmmmm42y Жыл бұрын
I watch this match quite frequently but something I just noticed. Floch didn't take the 2 off of the Jace ult. He's casting a spell.
@movieswithsauce43018 жыл бұрын
I love how zack phrases things. He makes the whole match sound like a novel while giving good strategical points. I'm sad he isn't doing commentary anymore 😪
@sunburn89564 жыл бұрын
I took floch’s deck and modern-ified it and definitely one of my favorite decks I’ve ever played.
@Joelthelobo3 жыл бұрын
Ivan Floch has the be there most enjoyable control player to watch. He makes it look soo enjoyable
@lordofcinder06934 жыл бұрын
20:16 Dude just attacks with a creature he just played. It did not have haste.
@ChewyMorales133 жыл бұрын
Ngl I'm high af rn homie and I was like what??? It didn't have haste ??
@lordofcinder06933 жыл бұрын
@@ChewyMorales13 it’s true. The dude just put his dude out and swung with that shit🤣
@austinolet82368 жыл бұрын
Who else wishes Zach still did commentary
@danmcgoogleaccount695410 жыл бұрын
flufffleece fluff was the obvious mvp of the pro tour.
@hagorrangaming816010 жыл бұрын
Idiots saying Burn has no thoguht process, that control has no thought process there both better then most of us at theese decks shut up and watch and learn.
@MartinKincl199310 жыл бұрын
They should have made Sphinx's Revelation a sorcery. This way it is too powerful basically resetting the game with you having often more than seven cards in hand and a bunch of lands in play. They made Rakdos's Return a sorcery, because as an instant, it would be just as powerful if not slightly more.
@MartinKincl19939 жыл бұрын
Torvak Mendelek True, but still...
@jessiesandoval126910 ай бұрын
Playing modern in standard, i love it
@bud.e88906 жыл бұрын
Okay but if somehow his elixir of immortality gets countered or destroyed is that game for floch? Can he keep it up without losing/running out of cards?
@arsenalfanrichi Жыл бұрын
Seen one Azorius control deck and you've seen them all. Stall stall counter anything you see and wipe on 4, repeat and eventually draw a couple of cards
@Stefanish10 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for Sphinx's Revelation to fall out of rotation
@RhysticStudies10 жыл бұрын
how the fuck does Floch win, apart from forcing concession?
@charliekellie408610 жыл бұрын
Main Deck - Jace ultimate, damage via Mutavault and Elspeth. Sideboard - Archangel of Thune and Jace Memory Adept The opponents concede because they realize Floch has complete control over the game and regardless of what they do, Floch will have an answer, card advantage and life to nullify anything they do. We call this "inevitability". When a deck reaches that point, players just concede and move on and not waste anymore energy.
@SpartanDeluxe10 жыл бұрын
Jin Zhao Elspeth was not in his main deck.
@charliekellie408610 жыл бұрын
Did not realize that. It is still a win condition, however.
@austinbach373110 жыл бұрын
With Elixir of Immortality, he can also win by decking the opponent very slowly because he can never run out of cards in library.
@INinjaCash559 жыл бұрын
Elspeth and jace both have win con.
@allidoiznguyen10 жыл бұрын
Yea control!!!! Burn deck had no chance there..
@MSUHitman10 жыл бұрын
David Nguyen Get your Skullcracks, Mutavaults, and Phoenix's and you can burn them up fairly quickly.
@LosKrachosHD6 жыл бұрын
This ivan is a amazing player, love his matches !
@John7Uzumaki9 жыл бұрын
1:03:23 Hahaha Marsall's description of the situation was epic xD
@Overweightrabbit9 жыл бұрын
19:50 Eidolon has haste??
@skyaro27667 жыл бұрын
Overweightrabbit i am just watching this and just saw this that should have been caught by a commentator or player or judge at this level
@salsaespacial4 жыл бұрын
@@skyaro2766 21:50
@Deeke7778 жыл бұрын
If only Sperling didn't tap RRR to cast Chandra's Phoenix. He could have Searing Blooded his own Phoenix and put it into the graveyard instead. I've done some nifty ass things with Searing Blood...one of my favorite cards ever printed. I love going Ash Zealot, move to first strike damage, and using Searing Blood. Suddenly a Stormbreath Dragon just vanishes.
@ievgeni.fesenko56362 жыл бұрын
Well done!
@Clackerr10 жыл бұрын
Tighter plays might have pulled Sperling through in game one. Game 2 wasn't happening. You can't constantly rep the skullcrack, sometimes you have to make tempo plays to keep the pressure on and if they rev for 2-4, you have all of next turn to free cast anything you can at them.
@Clackerr10 жыл бұрын
plus keeping in all of your 4 mana cost spells against control is wrong.
@gregheffley728510 жыл бұрын
1:58 why does it have to be perfectly in the graveyard? this isn't Magic: The Cleaning
@YeOldeStalin10 жыл бұрын
Holy balls I am so sick of UW Rev decks. Khans cannot get here soon enough.
@arran22647 жыл бұрын
YeOldeStalin I know I'm two years too late but just stop, you probably then said I hate abzan shadows over innistarad cant come soon enough, then wanted to get rid of bant coco, then aetherworks marvel. Stop hating and just play the game, hate it so much build a deck that will lose against everything but the deck you design it to beat
@YeOldeStalin7 жыл бұрын
You're not just late, you're wrong.
@johnhaahr925510 жыл бұрын
why does spedling not have pyromancer's gauntlet in his deck? It makes all burns spells so much stronger.
@NobleMason1179 жыл бұрын
Because it's 5 mana and bad
@Blu3_Mage9 жыл бұрын
It's realllllll bad
@afk51124 жыл бұрын
Love Ivan's deck!
@Its_McKennon3 жыл бұрын
Uuuuh, I think Ivan Flock cheated... at 1:03:25 He casts 2 quickens on Matt's endstep. He draw 2 Revelations. Both of them are upside down. Those aren't random cards. Usually, if you have cards flipped, and there is not pattern (like 1 island, 1 syncopate, and 1 Jace), it's a warning, but it would be pretty hard to argue that having the most powerful spells in your deck oriented differently as an accident.
@liamsmith175510 жыл бұрын
So awesome
@weirdguy6010 жыл бұрын
Sphinx's revelation is so beyond broken, it's ridiculous
@fluffy54438 жыл бұрын
+Nathan Stalter It's definitely not broken
@MrChowstardust10 жыл бұрын
Lol shame Ivan didn't BM harder with a planar cleansing to a dissolve, then a dispel for the dissolve, to a dissolve for the planar cleansing for more tokens and would still have enough mana for mutavault. xD Ps. If you notice, one of his Hallowed fountains didn't untap for two turns... O-O
@alinahanke9849 жыл бұрын
they forgot the eidolon trigger for casting young peezy of of jace ultimate :D
@LeafhopperV10 жыл бұрын
When it went dark, that looked kinda cool.
@brittdaniels77789 жыл бұрын
Iven flock is my fair magic player, I,m growing to meet he Sam day.
@Ethryas10 жыл бұрын
Floch should have taken two from the free cast of pyromancer off Jace ultimate. Probably would have changed the outcome of that game.
@ralex36978 жыл бұрын
Burn decks run out of cards too fast ! They have to hit hard quickly, but Floch's deck answers to lots of stuff Great match !
@rafaeljesusbenedicto37478 жыл бұрын
As a control player i approve
@tristantaylor386810 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@lymn20028 жыл бұрын
Edidion the red card was quickened and supreme verdicted. How come floch didn't lose life for the quicken?
@__Philip__3118 жыл бұрын
I believe Quicken was cast while EGR was still on the stack.
@JoseAquinoHidroquino8 жыл бұрын
exactly that happens Jackal Plow
@isambo4008 жыл бұрын
why did ivan's mutavault die game 1?
@TopdeckNuII8 жыл бұрын
searing blood. 2 damage to a creature and 3 to that creatures controller
@jjmangelsweet10 жыл бұрын
Sperling lost because he did not play aggressive enough..
@kobisjeruk10 жыл бұрын
Man I love Donais5C but all these new re-imagining pisses me off.
@TheKaneECO7 жыл бұрын
So wait.... how does Ivan plan to WIN games? he never does damage? Is the plan to just get lots of mana and hp to a point where his opponent will just run out of cards?
@estark32197 жыл бұрын
If the opponent doesn't concede, yes it will go to that. Floch will just keep countering his cards, gaining life and drawing cards from revelation. Elixir of Immortality will keep Floch from decking out
@TheKaneECO7 жыл бұрын
Wow!
@chrischeng29227 жыл бұрын
His end game is "inevitability," in which the opponent literally cannot play magic. He also has the Jace Ultimate which takes the win condition from his opponent's deck.
@Daero110 жыл бұрын
Is this modern or standard?
@poyos523710 жыл бұрын
This match was so painful that I couldn't even finish watching game 2. Talk about a horrible matchup for RW Burn.
@Moonmerism8 жыл бұрын
Shock the floch
@jarkonewtonstrauss76518 жыл бұрын
i love ivan deck
@movieswithsauce430110 жыл бұрын
Floch should totally run the Ajani, caller of the pride. Make 100s of cat tokens. XD
@nicholassmith8899 жыл бұрын
Whom would he give the counter
@a7sinatra3859 жыл бұрын
Nicholas Smith doesn't the version of Ajani(which was used against Flock and got the ultimate off before he Supreme Verdicted the field) say up to? That means he can use it without having to target something, right? I'm not trying to bash you or make anyone feel stupid. I'm just trying to point out that Ajani can do all that, but it's almost bad synergy for Flocks deck at that time. No doubt he thought about Ajani lol
@movieswithsauce43019 жыл бұрын
yes, it says up to one
@Swisheals8 жыл бұрын
how much would these guys decks be worth ?
@fluffy54438 жыл бұрын
+Sandels The Demo Warlock I know that Ivan's deck is around $230
@Swisheals8 жыл бұрын
arhh cool thanks
@Level99Chickens7 жыл бұрын
you can make a budget version without the mutavaults and shocklands, which usually you don't even need since the deck is so slow. I built one for ~$35 a little while ago and most of that was just Sphnx's Revelations.
@krosnest07137 жыл бұрын
Arjahn ! How did u do that? Not put in supreme verdict as well? Playset of supreme verdict and sphinxs revelation cost a couple bucks under $40 just for a playset of each.
@krosnest07137 жыл бұрын
Arjahn ! Not trying to be a dick about. I actually built this deck and then switched it to be my own and also make it a lot quicker with newer cards. But would like to build one that's closer to this without having to spend the money again. Thanx!
@luc42428 жыл бұрын
even today this deck is okay in modern. just change the sideboard. I even beat urza tron at fnm in legacy with this deck
@frankl55068 жыл бұрын
Who is playing tron in legacy?
@modernminded54667 жыл бұрын
Which of them? Because the better of the 2 (UW control) is a terrible Tron matchup.
@peewee1309467 жыл бұрын
Luc Medio same this is my modern deck my main and sideboard have 0 creatures I just elspeth and psychic spiral my opponent to death
@jonathanmontgomery51787 ай бұрын
1:01:05 😂
@MaikTM687 жыл бұрын
I prefer Condescend instead syncopate
@estark32197 жыл бұрын
Right, i'd prefer that too if i weren't playing against some cards that have Flashback
@Level99Chickens7 жыл бұрын
Yeah there was a lot of graveyard shenanigans in this block, Syncopate hits Phoenixes and, without them, the matchup vs. burn would've been a lot more rough.
@Optamisim_is_Sustainable10 жыл бұрын
I love to troll on my u/w
@brandonwebb942810 жыл бұрын
Hitler would have played U/W control So god damn boring
@austinbach373110 жыл бұрын
That's very offensive to me My great-grandfather was a burn player
@UnavailableUser969 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure hitler would have played RDW with the quick, blitzkrieg-like, attacks and the... well burning...
@-bdl26969 жыл бұрын
ROFL 59:37
@chrischeng29228 жыл бұрын
I also like how Floch instinctively reacts by flicking his cards a little, ready to counter and crush any hope he might have lol
@Blu3_Mage7 жыл бұрын
Lol 57:45
@anthonycancellara83929 жыл бұрын
Floch`s deck is so boring :(
@fluffy54438 жыл бұрын
+Cancellara Anthony Floch's deck is amazing
@Zane91710 жыл бұрын
I fell asleep watching all the matches with ivan.. the U/W control deck is just so boring with no interaction or thought process.
@str8xdevast8439 жыл бұрын
ozfan6 not sphinx controll, otherwise you're correct.
@victoraguirre74866 жыл бұрын
No interaction? With verdicts, counterspells, charms, removal from last breath, decision making with Jace's +/-, then trying to survive to cast the revelation, with enough mana to counter a possible skullcrack? Come on man, this has been one of the best control decks after caw blade.
@cashincheks92319 жыл бұрын
UW Sphinx's Revelation was the gayest deck in MTG history. It is like playing Magic with yourself, so boring.
@Cafuba129 жыл бұрын
There are MANY decks that were worse to play against.