Surprised no mention of fishing. This is a backbone of aggro strategy. Fishing = getting opponent to deal with the threats in the order you want them to. This is useful in all styles of play but essential for aggro play. Still all in all a good video.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the Professor's suit

Professor: "Effectively trading 4 creatures for 4 damage" Aggro player: "wow, look at that value, only 16 HP left!"

As an aggro player and on behalf of all the others, thank you!!

I was expecting a 5 second video of the prof slamming his head against a table.

>"They can't counter everything you do" The sweet innocence of 2017.

In the Aggro video he wears Black/Red. In the Control video he wears Blue/White.

My new first step to breaking in any aggro deck will be to find a suit as awesome as the professors. It's classy yet sinister. Awesome video prof!!

Maybe I'm missing something, but I believe you misspoke in the first scenario. In the first scenario (example 1) Attacking in for 2 and then 2 = 4, but then the second example a turn building up is 0 and a turn attacking is 6. The extra 2 comes on the 3rd turn, which while relevant is not the same time frame as 2 turns. Note that I am not disputing that this is the better play.

I just started taking lessons from Emma, and I can absolutely feel her Magic mentality in this video! Very informative, and very helpful!

Please make one on sideboards and how to sideboard!

These tutor vids are great! Keep em coming!

I honestly can't even handle how well spoken you are.

Big shout out to the script writer and the mind behind this segment! Great and effective way to learn!

Look at this quality and intro? You've come so far I'm so happy patreon has helped get you here

Thanks for the help! As a newer player to the game, you are a fantastic resource I recommend to anyone else who is new and wants knowledge

Love the specific examples and the in-depth strategic advice. More videos like this, please! Thanks for all you do, Professor.

As an Aggro Player and it being my birthday this is the best gift you could have given me Professor.

Video starts at 0:00 because aggro

Having tinkered around with the aggro archetype a time or two, these were key points that will assuredly help ones tactics and playstyle. A lot of scenarios are circumstantial, and a bit of luck involved with what you may draw of course. However, again these are key points. I cannot express enough of how over extending your board can potentially set you up for failure. As a control player, if we see you dump your entire hand on the board we know that's a good time to board wipe. Odds are we will be able to out play you at a higher probability if we can take out several potential turns worth of threats from your perspective on a single turn, with a single card, that gives us tempo advantage. As the professor stated, evaluating the board is a key component. Also pay a lot of attention to the first match of three potential rounds if you're playing competitively, this will give you feel for how well your opponent plays, and exactly what cards they're playing, allowing you to make better sideboard decisions. Pay attention to what cards they use that you want to work around, out play, or counter. And assess what cards you did, or didn't play that were dead weight. Great video professor, very informative to new and old players alike. Cheers and happy card slinging, and fun times!

The sweeper example was excellent. Also note that in both scenarios, your opponent is on a 3 turn clock, therefore holding back the creature in your hand is a strong play.

As someone who plays Burn in Historic (and is considering upgrading to Modern Burn once this blasted pandemic is over), I found this really helpful. Thank you Professor!

This was a great video! I'd love to see more like this. The gameplay examples were super cool and very educational!

Love the episode and the whole Tolarian Tutor series, really plays to the channel concept, which in turn is what draws me to the channel. In regards to the priority of abilities it would seem like haste often ranks higher than first strike as early game it allows fast swings before they setup and after sweepers allows for putting a fast clock back up.

Nothing levelled up my aggro mirror game as much as Who's the Beatdown by Mike Flores. Classic article.

“What if your opponent has a wall of creatures?” -laughs in Embercleave

this is by far my favorite series you do professor. I am looking forward to a video like this for control, tempo and midrange because those are the archetypes I enjoy playing the most. in pauper I play mono blue Delver, and I play storm in modern. I love magic and this is my got to KZfaq channel for all my learning

Prof keep these coming! They are the best resource on MTG mechanics and strategy on KZfaq being released.

How to be better aggro player : SMORC AND HIT FACE

Great video! I literally feel like I went to MTG school.

One of the later Tolarian Tutors I'd like to see is the difference between Card Draw and Card Selection and which is better where and why. I feel that's a fun topic to talk about and important enough to enable discussion.

Professor, id really like to thank you for these informative videos, i've been teaching my girlfriend and her brother how to play over the last month or so. While i do my best trying to explain boardstates, when to block or take damage, and make advantageous use of your combat tricks and trades, it sort of gets lost intranslation. After showing them a few of your videos, however, they're finally starting to analyze boardstates and think their moves through rather than just swinging in with the team every turn. You're doing gods work lol. You explain things in such a direct and informative manner, and with visual representation as well, it makes your videos some of the best learning tools imo. Keep pumping out the great content prof, i always recommend you to new and old players alike. Some of the best magic content on youtube, keep up the good work.

This really helped a lot! I’ve been trying to build an aggro deck of my own but I have a hard time judging if a card is good for a deck. Whenever I build decks, I just throw in cool cards without thinking much but this really helped me evaluate my cards more.

Great video, new player here, and a french one! It's really easy to understand, loud and clear speaking, taking your time, best magic prof ever :>

Mono green aggro, and red burn my 2 favs. Been playing since Urzas Saga

I know i´m a little bit late, but pls continue this series. It helps a lot, new players or returning ones, like myself. And hopefully, i help you by watching your complete library, leaving a like and some comments here and there.

I was on the right track and now I have even more knowledge. Thx Tolarian Tutor!

Taunt is chea- Wait, wrong game.

For years I usually play aggro monoblacks and from my experience they play pretty mych the same no matter the era,so here's a general guide. 1- Black has low cost powerful creatures that have as much as power as green creatures but with huge downsides,so learning to reap benefits from downsides is a must. 2-Even if you can't reap benefits from downsides if the damage is high enough it's worth it. 3-Try having creatures with thoughness 3 or more so you can take advantage of mini board wipes like infest or Ichor slick in case the opponent has lots of 1/1 and 2/2 lots of good decks runs creatures with thoughness 2 or lower. 4-have in your main deck or sideboard spells that forces sacrifice instead of direct targeting so you can get around hexproof and indestructable. 5-Have powerful discard stuff in your sideboard,even decks that likes to throw stuff on the graveyard don't like to have nothing at all on their hands,Hymn to tourach,mind cracking or mind twist are good stuff. 6-Don't be afraid of paying life to swing for lethal,if you're playing against red you can still disrupt them a lot by running alternate stuff like smallpox or sinkhole. 7-Don't forget black can have powerful draw stuff,drain skull,altar's reap,night whisper or sign in blood are all great draw spells. 8-Above all remember the essence of the black color,the ends justify the means,it doesn't really matter how much you kill yourself as long as you kill the opponent more. Have fun

How'd i wish ive learned your vids when i was playing magic. Ive stopped for a while, focused on board games and your vids are pulling me back to building a new deck.

I appreciate this, when I started playing magic the first decks I managed to wrap my head around were heavily aggro based. I feel like aggro is very simple but reading the board state is a huge part of it.

Yep. When your blitzing. Keep a tactical reserve (The board) Or a strategic reserve (Your hand) Don't let blood lust cloud your thinking. Make sure you know when it's time to go all in.

This information is good even when not playing an aggro deck. As a new player this is very helpful in reminding me to slow down and take my time in deciding what my best options are.

These used to help me so much Coming back a year later I am happy I saw this

This is a great article! Thanks for giving these pointers! This is a great addition to the channel!!!

I love your videos. I get great satisfaction from watching them having felt more enlightened after each one.

Awesome series Prof! Well done as always!

Good video for entry level players. Please do more. That way noobs have a pick to begin their big journey. Being new is daunting and overwhelming. Helping them out is a great way to retain new players.

As someone who enjoys playing aggro, thanks for the video. Quite informative. Looking forward to seeing the other archetypes.

This is so usefull, not only to be better at aggro, but also to play better against aggro. Please make a video about control soon :D

This is one of your best videos EVER! Always improving!! Great Job Prof!!!

the hardest matchup for most aggro decks to play is by far the aggro mirror, while the combo and control matchup is relatively straight forward the race is what separates the good aggro players from the rest. This is also why allot of control players think agro is easy.

Love the video, would like to see how to be a better control player next if possible i tend to struggle there most sense im now getting into control type decks

I'm topically a control or mid-range player. I've been playing an aggro build in modern recently. G/R Vengevine. I've been making the mistake of trying to go more mid-range and then wondering why I don't have the explosiveness of the decks power. This video helped me figure it out.

Your channel is awesome! I hope you get lots of new viewers from the MTGA players, these lessons come very handy to us.

The rest of my cards for my legacy burn deck are coming in two days so this was super helpful!

I should recommend this video to a buddy of mine haha! I have had many debates on the best plays and what not with aggro. This just further echoes my thoughts. GREAT VIDEO!!

Keep up the good work

Just got some things I missed when playing aggro. Thank you so much, prof! :D

Love seeing Death Gate Cycle on that bookcase!

I use aggressive gas fumigate and works well. Before the big match I eat beans and onions in mass. I find it’s hard for an opponent to see the board if their eyes are blurring and gagging. Only way to leave the game is to forfeit. I usually win 2/3 of these games being the fact of misfiring every now and then. Like if you will try this next game!!!

This video has helped me with my decks since I am an aggro player

This video was great. The combat trick comparison was so helpful. Along with the other great information you had. Keep it up :)

I love the top on the bookshelf. Also... OH MY GOD, those years of playing Yu-Gi-Oh with defensive decks really fucked my aggressive game up.

I wish there was a mode in magic where you just grab a random stack of cards and try to battle, adding lands and shuffling after you find out what cards you have. Draft is the closest but the cards aren't really random. Used to love grabbing random deck sized chunks of cards from my buddy's giant collection and trying to win with them

Love this series, my only advice would be to cover Midrange matchups. Midrange is definitely prominent enough to warrant tips against playing as well as its own video.

Thank you, Professor :-) Now I'll start tweaking that Black/Red Pirate shanker.

Is there one of these for Tempo? ☺

I love playing agro and this video has given me some new insights on it

the section on tutu's was really helpful

I love playing Aggro based decks with a bit of control or combo to back it up.

I really like the new tutor videos. Keep it up prof this is some of your best work

A tú-tú with a tú-tú and two tú-tú hahhhaha! Great vid Prof!!

A wonderful video. Thank you for taking the time to do this!

Great content. Shared with my sister who just started

Awsome Video! I like this whole Series, because it helps me to improve.

Ere’s wot we’s gonna do, right? First I’se gonna yell Waaagh! an’ ‘den I’se gonna run up to ‘em an’ krump ‘em. ‘Den, while I’se runnin’ and hollerin’ an’ before I get to ‘da krumpin’ part, you lot yells Waaagh! an’ makes a run at ‘em too, see? ‘Den we’ll all krump togevva! ‘S a great plan, innit? ‘Dem ‘umies’ll nevva expect it

I have a black aggro deck and a blue/white control deck, so this helps.

I know that the examples are mainly for understanding how to think about turn sequences BUT I think it is important to play assuming or at least considering whether they have something in hand, or that they will develop their board or strategy the following turn. That gets complex in terms of explaining the differences between different answers in different colors and formats (i.e. they might have the common white trick OR the mythic rare sweeper in limited).

thank you professor!! im a aggro player and this help me a lot

I only just started watching your videos in the last couple months.. and they've all been recent ones. Holy baby face... I mean comparatively. Lol

Are you an actual college professor? Cause I ACTUALLY learn from these

I like your new camera quality, Prof!

Thanks for the excellent video. I am just learning the game and this was very helpful as simply explained. Good job bro.

Great Video, I’m making a Ramunap Red deck and this will help a lot!

I have a Naya (RGW) aggro deck based on Exert and extra combat phases. Combat Celebrant is amazing.

For new players, I tell them to swing first and think later. Obviously its best to contemplate your attack before you go, but they don't have the knowledge to really do so, so they sit there for a long time, and end up not attacking because they feel its safer, it doesn't leave them open. But for an aggro deck, which many new players start with, thats exactly the way you lose. You may be making a mistake by swinging all out, but its a mistake that gives you a lot of information and experience. The mistake of holding your creatures back just feels bad and you don't get better by doing it. If you aren't sure what to do, swing every turn. Because the control player will do everything they can to make you think you shouldn't be swinging. And of course know when to trade, when to recognize creatures that aren't really going to engage in combat. Swing a 3/2 into my guttersnipe, basically every time

I like the subtle differences between Honed Kopesh and Short Sword. Only a true master of the game can determine when to use one over the other, just like with Kodama's Reach and Cultivate.

Excellent video & very informative. Much thanks #TolarianCommunityCollege This is the BEST channel by far!!!

Nice videos. The other way to learn this stuff is to have your friends who play magic with you all weekend ridicule you or beat you with your own aggro deck : )

Your first combat example isn't "the same two turns" but the better option takes place over 3 turns. I'm sure others have mentioned this already, so sorry if it's duplicate.

prof, thanks for this series of Tolarian Tutor. keep it going

Hey Professor. Thanks for the tips. I play a White Red Weenie deck in Pauper, which as you know is an Aggro Deck. I'll be sure to keep your advice in mind next time I play a tournament, especially if there's a mono black land destruction deck about.

now that is a HIGH QUALITY camera

Very good video in particular for the matchups!. Please make some video for how to and when sideboard

Hey prof. Love this type of content. Keep em coming. Great content as always.

The only thing is that the initial scenario was wrong. You take 3 turns to get in 8 damage, as opposed to 4 damage over 2 turns. That said, it is still more efficient, because you have 6 damage by waiting at opposed to 4 by not.

15:30 Got it. if they play control "Hit them in the face."

Anyone else confused by the combat setup? The cards should be aligned portrait if the two players are face to face (with respect to the players' POV)?

Nice analysis of Aggro strategies!