Even tho luck is a nice thing i usually dont need it when i play my format. Playing commander with a general that draws you cards is a nice thing. Specially when you play wheel.
hey Nikatchu another top level unluck it's another in best of SCG where a sneak and show player blood moons a Jund player and before he can find the combo the other players draw it's only basic and finish him off it's another great one!
I remember watching how Rudy from Alpha Investments played similar legacy game where nothing really happened for 10 turns against TCC professor who said “i have a modern deck which could win by now”.
BBD actually had the win at 10:08, all he had to do was to cast Braistorm first, let it get countered by REB and than cast Intuition for Griselbrand. It was confirmed by Brad (he did a commentary video on this game with BDM) that he would have countered anything he could with that REB :)
Yeah I saw that too. It was right after Brad Git Probed but the Intuition was on the top of the deck so all Brad knew about was the Brainstorm. Thought that was a misplay.
@@ShinkuDragon making the assumption of no counters is incorrect though. Also since he had the fetch land he very well could have brainstormed into the ponder and 2 lands, put back some dead TTB or SA crack the fetch then ponder and then still have the intuition and enough mana to cheat something out
@@ShinkuDragon But Brad also knew his hand minus the Intuition. Brad, again, confirmed he would have countered the Brainstorm if played first which would have allowed the Intuition through.
@@SkillsByNiels well if you are being serious about the question... no I am not a Yugioh player although I have bare minimal surface knowledge of the game... In terms of Legacy, I kinda just started with a physical deck called Manaless Dredge and it does win as soon as turn 2 with me taking the draw~ and as shown in the video, the guy already is presenting a win on turn 1 but being answered by Force of Will~
@@SkillsByNiels ah... but yea there are still slower, fairer decks in legacy that don't go all in turbo combo and stuff... this is just one of the weird stereotypes of Legacy haha~
being a pro means also finding yourself in these spots and still being to extend your end. you can tell he was pissed like mad by his look, but overall his reaction was very classy.
Paper magic is the only way to play especially tournaments i get if people don't have friends who play or a LGS but paper magic is what i love to watch and play. I want more modern paper magic tournaments.
Why do these pro's suck so much at shuffling? Brian is shuffling in a way that he can see the cards that he is moving to the bottom of his deck each time and he's looking at his cards while he's doing it. Just rotate your cards 30 degrees from vertical people, it's not hard.
That may be true, but Brad has the opportunity to shuffle Brian's deck and cut it as well. So even if Brian did see certain cards go towards the bottom of the deck, Brad could shuffle them away and really mix them up, and then cut as well.
Sure, but you must present your deck to your opponent so if they feel it's not randomized enough then they may shuffle it as much as they want which sort of invalidates that
I actually disagree with this. It's far more comfortable for me to shuffle in the position of Brian and I'm super slow otherwise. Like others mentioned, the opponent can also shuffle and/or cut so it's not a real issue.
he was cheating with suffle omg its obvious, at the end he takes the cards from the middle to act like if it was random cards, but he was just putting the winning cards far away from the top...
I love these kind of reaction/analysis type of videos, I know very little about the pro player scene and the eternal formats, so this is educating me, thx for that.
Ponder post-shuffle can just as easily show you one of the three cards you just rejected. And Brainstorm can Fateseal yourself if you don't have a way to shuffle away the drek you put back. BBD cracked a fetchland to thin his deck that he should have saved for a shuffle. I think Adrian pronounced BBD's name 7 different ways!
Honestly part of why I love Legacy and Vintage is the formats are defined by these big splashy combos and super fast decks but sometimes everything gets countered etc and all that's left is a snapcaster mage swinging in 10 times for lethal
@@JackTR21 I had a match, years ago, that only ended because my opponent lost by default when he ran out of cards to draw. We were well matched, deck wise, to the point we kept countering and board wiping each other, literally, neither of us was able to keep anything in play long enough to do damage, it was just a war of attrition. If He used too many draw effect cards, so he ran out faster than i did.
I once played a game with my mtg veteran Dad. We were playing 7 1, so the game was slow. I played red green but I didn't get a forest for 2/5 of the game, he had ivory tower and ivory cup. He got up to 57 health and at the end I got him to 3. I was at a good amount of health, but I ended up losing because he milled me out. He had NO CREATURES, NO LAND (bc I destroyed them all with flashfires :D) AND I LOST TO ONE TURN... Magic is fun
On my birthday I was at a grand prix standing behind Brad Nelson, I watched his opponent ult liliana, Brad Came back to win that game with 2 lands and a scavenging ooze I think it was. Good times.
I drew 14 lands in a row in a prerelease after getting my opponent to 1 life with the 2 lands and 5 spells from my opener. My deck was well shuffled in sleeves just destined for an L.
I'm new in Magic, so i don't know if it's so rare, but once i was playing whie / black, draw 34 cards and none plains. I ended up with My hand full of white cards and discarding every end turn, until i lost, so i don't know, maybe i could keep drawing swamps
@@sabata414 Yeah if he drew 34 cards thats like 60% of the deck and assuming he had lets say 14 black sources out of only 26 cards left... i cant count how much % is that but i can tell you that its really slim chance :D
I was playing historic on Arena. I had a Faceless Haven land with one of the counters from Book Exalted Deeds on it (the one the gives the same effect as a Platinum Angel) and I also had a Nissa Who Shakes the World token in play that makes all my lands indestructible. I thought there was no chance I could lose. I don't know how much life I was at but I was in a huge negative. My opponent kept swinging in each turn despite not being able to kill me but kept enough back that he could block everything I threw at him. It got to the point that he was about to lose from card draw but then he played a Shadowspear... I think you can guess what happened next.
Loving the content. Been on a binge since I found you. Would love to see a compilation of misplays caught on tape (bonus for reaction of players realizing it)
LOL I love Ignite Memories, I built around it when it was in Standard and it was hilarious. With all the suspend stuff and Tormod's Crypt and Fossil Find I could easily cast it for 5 or 6 on turn 4. (Rite of Flame made it possible to cast on turn 1, but only with three of them in my starting hand. It was usually more effective on turn 4 anyway!)
this one time I had my brother down to 1 life by turn 4, was ready to turn 5 him but he was able to hold on with a few counters and well placed defense. I think I then top decked 14 lands, in the end I had almost all of my land on the field and lost. Only 23 land in a 61 card deck, I have yet to see anyone get flooded that bad.
Love these videos of interesting pro games! - one of my favorites is a legacy hypergenesis vs elves game where elves just wins off the hypergenesis cast.
I've been noticing some odd shuffling from BBD - 13:47 he either shuffles the deck so as to leave the top or bottom alone. It's making me angry lol - shuffle the whole deck!
Sneak attack is hilarious because your using it to summon large creatures. On the art you see a dragon, so i can't help but image prankster dragons sneaking up on people or other dragons, doing the looney toons tip toe.
I was in the finals of a mirrodin draft tournament, swung all out thinking I had game on next turn. The sunblast angel drops, my dreams of first dissolve right before my eyes.
I swear the whole time watching BBD vs Brad Nelson right now all I can think about is Todd Anderson vs CVM playing their own match where they're both just absolutely going off but not actually getting ahead 🤣🤣🤣
I once had a similar game where after idk how many blank turns just draw pass, and never finding the sneak attack or show and tell i hard casted the freaking griselbrand from my hand. LOL.
Many times I've lost after being on the top. That's maybe becaus I most of the time play multiplayer games (rising too soon to top means everybody else will gang on you). The worst time I believe was the time I cleaned the board with Ugin 2 times, killed every creature with Deathbringer Regent several turns after that, and still lost the game.
I was playing my strongest commander deck and All I needed was one drawspell or one burn card to win, and after 10 turns (no kidding) of top decking lands and mana rocks I lost. And even after checking the top to see how far I'd need to go to find one I would have had to go another 4 or more cards down to find something. It was quite literally stacked the worst possible way for that game making giving me mana and answers to protect myself, BUT NO WAY TO WIN.
I once lost a game with my Animar because I couldn't find a red source. Checked after and the first one was 36 bloody cards deep. Learned that day to never keep a hand that doesn't guarantee a turn 3 Animar at the latest...
@@nicholasbower17 first thing my friends thought me about magic when they got me into it, "Never keep a hand that doesn't let you summon your commander on turn 4 at least"
@@pokefantrent2065 Oh man speaking of Niv, one game my hand was; 2 hybrid lands, 2 islands a sol ring, a condescend and ponder, I don't know how many turns that was but I lost with 7 ISLANDS, and the two hybrid lads!
I remember back in the day my opponent cast Gamble like 4 games in a row with like 5 or 6 cards in hand, and I managed to pick the card they tutored for every time.
One of my worst losses where I should have won was because of bad draw luck just like this. I had a wizard deck where the win condition was stalling until casting "Day of Dragons" ideally with, I think, "Temporal Manipulation" so I could make all my little wizards 5/5 dragons, skip to my next turn, bounce any blockers and run right through them. Problem was, even though I could look through something like the next 15 cards, I could NOT get one more freaking Island. Finally I had my last land I needed, moved it to the top and just had to wait one more turn. That turn my opponent plays a card that destroys all lands. SHUT DOWN.
This examples why I don't like card games that are entirely dependent on who drew the power creep first and where the entirety of the outcome of the game is based on top deck RNG. Like MTG.
yes the entirety of the game is rng that's why there are random people in the top 8's of pro tours every time just random people who show up and win by flipping the top card of their deck over
Hey ho, I am really loving these vids which give some insight into the pro scene. Are you perchance planning vids like "Most incredible top decks caught on camera", "Luckiest player caught on camera" or even "The most 200 IQ moves caught on camera"? I think those would be interesting too. But keep up the infos about cheats too. It's kinda fascinating to see what people are able to come up with, and can also serve us honest players to learn for what we need to keep an eye out.
So there was this one time a few months back, I was playing with my Purphoros, God of the Forge commander deck. I chosen to keep a deck that wasn't very good, but it looked nice. Right off the bat, I found myself in a tough position. Long story short, by turn 6 all I had was my commander and five mountains on the battlefield, and my hand was out of lands. I did have Fiery Emancipation and Skittering Invasion in my hand, though. I untap, draw, and it's a land. I play it, and lacking any better move, played Fiery Emancipation. My next turn comes up, and somehow, both my commander and enchantment are still on the battlefield. I draw. It's a land. I cast Skittering Invasion, which because of Purphoros and F.E., means each opponent took 30 damage. Needless to say, I won.
This reminds me of the guy who somehow magically drew every copy of scapeshift in his deck, and drawing literally any other card would have won him the game.
The Music reminds me of Final Fantasy 8. Jesus.. all that memories came back. Memories from a time, where my biggest worry was: "do i have enough pocket money to buy magic cards?" Farewell, good old days..
Just goes to show that having too many shuffle effects can actually hinder your ability to find the cards that you are looking for... cause it seemed for every 2 cards bbd drew he was doing a shuffle through either a ponder or a fetchland... so if I had to take a guess that is why he was never able to find a threat cause he kept shuffling his breach effects back in and just kept drawing them instead of finding a way to get rid of them all
Also the saddest part is that bbd with that breach effect in play was at a 70/30 favor margin and only needed a threat cause I believe the deck lists only played 3 of the lotus petals in their 75 and so Brad without a breach effect those griselbrands in his hand were uncastable cause he already used on of his petals for the t1 attempt
I have a theory that the way you shuffle determines the outcome of your games. I've found that the best way to shuffle is by taking the bottom 3rd of the deck and shuffling it into the top 3rd of the deck. Then take the middle 3rd and shuffle that back into the top 3rd. Then repeat this process a few times. Then offer your opponents a cut. This should efficiently shuffle your deck to truly make sure the cards are being randomized properly. That's why he kept pulling the same 2 Through the Breach. He wasn't properly randomizing the cards.
I had a game during Zendikar/Scars Standard where I drew 13 lands in a row in a game to lose. I was playing UW Sun Titan control, and my opponent was on Boros Landfall. It was game 3 and I was on the play. Pretty sure my hand was something like Seachrom Coast, Glacial Fortress, 2 basics, Condemn, Ratchet Bomb, and a Sun Titan. I lead with the Coast. Opponent leads with Mountain and Goblin Guide, I reveal a land, and Condemn the Guide. I play a land and Ratchet Bomb. He plays a land and a Played Geopede, then I tick up the Bomb. I play a land and pass. He plays a second Goblin Guide and connects with both guys, Guide revealed another land, and I tick up the Ratchet Bomb. I draw yet another land, play one and pass. He connects again, then plays 2(!!!) 2 drops. I say “Thanks, that makes this a lot better.” and I crack the Ratchet Bomb. Board states are 4 lands on my side, to his 4 lands and Guide. I have Sun Titan and a whole lotta land in hand. He connects a couple times with the Guide, revealing more lands for me. I keep making my land drops and drawing more land. The game ends on turn 6 or 7. I cast my Titan and he cracks a fetch and Searing Blazes me out. I started the game with 3 spells and 4 lands in hand and drew nothing but land or revealed land off of Goblin Guide the rest of the way.
Okay, I got a story for ya, I'm playing instant speed reanimator on the draw in modern while looting and the ape are still in, I turn one attack my merfolk opponent with the combo (Emrakal Goryo's Vengeance) and he sacs his Aether vile and island and goes to 5, he says (it's a friend, I was too nice) "I concede" My dumb ass goes, "you could still win............." and I never find anything I can cast until I die, Let them concede is my new MTG moto, Thanks for reading..
In poker, there are things called "bad beat jackpots," where if you get _that_ unlucky, you win tens of thousands of dollars. A lot of poker rooms, the bad beat jackpot is progressive, meaning that it increases with every hand that the poker room plays and nobody wins it.
Was playing black devotion the past fnm and I had 4 land with 2 Grey merchants on hand topdeck junk had 7 life vs oppent with 1 card n they top deck a second burn spell to kill me for seven the next draw was the land I needed to turn it all around sad...
The setting: 2016. Modern event at a local LGS. I'm playing Blue/Black Mill. 23 lands. Opponent wins the dice roll and wants to be on the draw. So I'm thinking, "This must be an 8-Rack deck." My opening hand: 1x Inquisition of Kozilek; 2x Surgical Extractions; some cheap mill cards. PERFECT! Only problem was I only had one land... a swamp.. My Turn 1: I Inquisition'd & saw they had The Rack & 2x Shrieking Afflictions in hand. Chose the Affliction then Surgical'd all the copies. Opponent's Turn 1: They Thoughtseize me and take my Mesmeric Orb. (I was surprised they didn't take my other Surgical.) My Turn 2: I top-deck an Inquisition! OH BOYS...! So I Inquisition + Surgical The Rack my opponent's Racks. Now I'm playing against ZERO-Rack! I normally lose to this type of deck, but this was finally my time! I just need to draw some lands and top-deck some mill. EZ For some reason, my opponent did not concede and just kept playing as if nothing happened. and they keep making me discard. Next turn I draw a non-land. The turn after... non-land. Now opp plays Lilliana of the Veil. while I have 1 card left. +1... I draw a spell I can't cast... Lilli +1... I draw a spell I can't cast... Lilli +1... I draw a spell I can't cast... Lilli +1... I draw a spell I can't cast... Lilli +1... I draw a spell I can't cast... Lilli +1... I WENT THROUGH 23 SPELLS until I finally found a second land... ALRIGHT, oh wait, I have no cards in hand... pass... Now it's turn ~17 and plays a Mutivault. I draw a land... Opp attacks for 2... I draw a land... Opp attacks for 2... I draw a land... Opp attacks for 2... I draw a land... Opp attacks for 2... I draw a land... Opp attacks for 2... Repeat that another 5 turns in a row and I die on turn ~28 via a Mutivault... Could not believe it. Such a roller coaster of emotions. Not even MtG Arena could have devised a fate more rigged to lose.
Oh you sweet summer child. I just finished tracking 200 games of Magic on Arena, 154 of which I was on the draw. Brian Braun-Duin merely adopted the bad luck. I was born in it.
Brian didn't lose this to bad luck, he lost this because he sucked at making decisions. He had it won by landing a sneak attack and still having counterspells in hand. Brad is forced to counter cantrips because he won't be able to stop Sneak from resolving. All Brian has to do is counterspell through the breach, sneak attack, or show and tell, and he stays the favored to win. What does he do? Counters a counterspell to resolve a cantrips and hope that he hits the ~20% to win the game off of it.
I had some insane luck a few months ago where I had 3 crystalize giants on turn 5. By combat on that turn all three had hexproof, the first two both had vigilance, and the first one also got lifelink. That's like a 1 in 22,000 chance or something.
@@jakefriedland6516 my favorite chances for that card are hexproof, vigilance, lifelink, and trample in that order, but what matters here are drawing 3 of the same card by turn 5 while a 1/11 chance hits 3 times, and a 1/10 chance hits twice. To put this into perspective, if this same level of luck happened but I was scratching a few 30$ lottery tickets (god forbid) in my US state I would be walking home with 30-40 thousand dollars based on their odds. Yes every chance on those cards is 1/11 then 1/10 and so on, but the chance of even having all of them out by turn five is a liberal 2%, 1/50 games on its own. Edit* it's been awhile and I can't find my discord post on it, so I just did a quick calculation on the chance of just the counters and it's 8.1e-5 or a 1 in 12,500 chance. I probably would have won more in my lottery example :P
if morbidly curious deck got force of nature with upkeep by drop a forest, tap and discard a elvish spirit guide for 2 green mana total, play gaia's touch, which is from dark 2 green mana that allows me to play a second land each turn as long as it's a forest, play a land, then tap land for lanawar elf, so I have 2 forests, and a lanawar elf in play, next turn play a land, sacrifice touch for 2 green mana, tap the three lands and the elf and BAM force of nature, along with 3 forests and a elf to pay upkeep :>
The beauty of blue magic. Player 1: Ponder. Player 2: FoW Player 1: FoW your FoW. Player 1: Ponder finds Brainstorm. Player 1: Brainstorm finds nothing. Ugh. LOL
oh look, that's my usual game of hearthstone when i used to play combos... the combo was always in the last 3 cards of the deck... and i punctually managed to last up to one turn before drawing it and then they killed me
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Even tho luck is a nice thing i usually dont need it when i play my format. Playing commander with a general that draws you cards is a nice thing. Specially when you play wheel.
Count was actually off. Only ticked up 2 for a brainstorm
Some cards on top of the library were already known from prior ponders and brainstorms. I don’t want to count the same known card twice.
hey Nikatchu another top level unluck it's another in best of SCG where a sneak and show player blood moons a Jund player and before he can find the combo the other players draw it's only basic and finish him off
it's another great one!
@@reslime that sounds great, I'll look for it
When the guy who tosses his deck away, leaving it behind as he walks off, is the winner you know that was one brutal match
I think if anyone of them had a grizzly bear in play, they would've won
Proof or bear supremacy
I now know how DnT wins
Storm Crow
Drudge Skeletons
Storm crow wins games. It blocks flyers
I remember watching how Rudy from Alpha Investments played similar legacy game where nothing really happened for 10 turns against TCC professor who said “i have a modern deck which could win by now”.
link?
@@sebastianraducu7850 ruclips.net/video/cEUBkHc36hE/видео.html
@@sebastianraducu7850 oh it was vintage
A tribal horse deck could win in that time.
@@Os_390 Ehhh not really, it was more like old school magic, actual vintage doesn't play cards like Jayemdae Tome.
BBD actually had the win at 10:08, all he had to do was to cast Braistorm first, let it get countered by REB and than cast Intuition for Griselbrand. It was confirmed by Brad (he did a commentary video on this game with BDM) that he would have countered anything he could with that REB :)
He also cracked a delta earlier when he should have just used the lotus petal. I don’t know what he was doing.
Yeah I saw that too. It was right after Brad Git Probed but the Intuition was on the top of the deck so all Brad knew about was the Brainstorm. Thought that was a misplay.
@@3sts246 it's only a misplay because we know their hands though, the way it was played is the most optimal way to see more cards assuming no counters
@@ShinkuDragon making the assumption of no counters is incorrect though. Also since he had the fetch land he very well could have brainstormed into the ponder and 2 lands, put back some dead TTB or SA crack the fetch then ponder and then still have the intuition and enough mana to cheat something out
@@ShinkuDragon But Brad also knew his hand minus the Intuition. Brad, again, confirmed he would have countered the Brainstorm if played first which would have allowed the Intuition through.
the winner walked away in confusion himself. a bitter sweet victory.
Blue gets so many draw effects and cantrips that anomalies like these don’t make me feel bad.
Legacy is all about turbo combos that end in 2 turns
The combo mirrors :
Are you playing Yugioh or what? Winning on turn 2?
@@SkillsByNiels well if you are being serious about the question...
no I am not a Yugioh player although I have bare minimal surface knowledge of the game...
In terms of Legacy, I kinda just started with a physical deck called Manaless Dredge and it does win as soon as turn 2 with me taking the draw~
and as shown in the video, the guy already is presenting a win on turn 1 but being answered by Force of Will~
@@wbw911 you just said why it is not a format that ends on turn 2, so I don't know what you mean.
@@SkillsByNiels ah... but yea there are still slower, fairer decks in legacy that don't go all in turbo combo and stuff... this is just one of the weird stereotypes of Legacy haha~
Is this guy taking serious a meme?
being a pro means also finding yourself in these spots and still being to extend your end. you can tell he was pissed like mad by his look, but overall his reaction was very classy.
reliving these classic paper moments really makes me miss paper magic with this kind of coverage :_)
im just glad i can play paper magic again now im just taking it in and hoping that it doesnt get shut down again
I just want to be able to go into an LGS again and make people salty by playing infect in modern.
Shut up adam
I loved SCG streams, it was awesome.
Paper magic is the only way to play especially tournaments i get if people don't have friends who play or a LGS but paper magic is what i love to watch and play. I want more modern paper magic tournaments.
Why do these pro's suck so much at shuffling?
Brian is shuffling in a way that he can see the cards that he is moving to the bottom of his deck each time and he's looking at his cards while he's doing it.
Just rotate your cards 30 degrees from vertical people, it's not hard.
They should just make it a rule that players have to shuffle faces-down in pro play, and cuts have to be from the middle
That may be true, but Brad has the opportunity to shuffle Brian's deck and cut it as well. So even if Brian did see certain cards go towards the bottom of the deck, Brad could shuffle them away and really mix them up, and then cut as well.
Sure, but you must present your deck to your opponent so if they feel it's not randomized enough then they may shuffle it as much as they want which sort of invalidates that
I actually disagree with this. It's far more comfortable for me to shuffle in the position of Brian and I'm super slow otherwise. Like others mentioned, the opponent can also shuffle and/or cut so it's not a real issue.
he was cheating with suffle omg its obvious, at the end he takes the cards from the middle to act like if it was random cards, but he was just putting the winning cards far away from the top...
I love the clear shock that Brian experiences with the turn 1 sneak attack, he's just there, staring at the card, before casting FoW
Shout out to Brian and Brad tho. Two class acts who been in the game since forever. Very skilled MTG players
I played a good bit of Table Tops with Brad and a few other MTG players. Brad is definitely among the most fun and friendly people I've ever met.
I love these kind of reaction/analysis type of videos, I know very little about the pro player scene and the eternal formats, so this is educating me, thx for that.
You’re welcome!
Ponder post-shuffle can just as easily show you one of the three cards you just rejected. And Brainstorm can Fateseal yourself if you don't have a way to shuffle away the drek you put back. BBD cracked a fetchland to thin his deck that he should have saved for a shuffle.
I think Adrian pronounced BBD's name 7 different ways!
He looked so defeated, I could feel the pain
The casual 4-for-2 on turn one is why I will always love legacy lol
Holy crow, that was intense! I can't believe how crazy that was and nothing happened.
Holy Crow, I'm never saying Holy Cow ever again, only Holy Crow from this point forward.
Rick's holy crows adventure
It`s insane that even a 1/1 Saproling could have won this game faster. xD
Honestly part of why I love Legacy and Vintage is the formats are defined by these big splashy combos and super fast decks but sometimes everything gets countered etc and all that's left is a snapcaster mage swinging in 10 times for lethal
@@JackTR21 I had a match, years ago, that only ended because my opponent lost by default when he ran out of cards to draw. We were well matched, deck wise, to the point we kept countering and board wiping each other, literally, neither of us was able to keep anything in play long enough to do damage, it was just a war of attrition.
If He used too many draw effect cards, so he ran out faster than i did.
That face when you realize you'd have won by now if you had just put swamps in the deck lmao
I once played a game with my mtg veteran Dad. We were playing 7 1, so the game was slow. I played red green but I didn't get a forest for 2/5 of the game, he had ivory tower and ivory cup. He got up to 57 health and at the end I got him to 3. I was at a good amount of health, but I ended up losing because he milled me out. He had NO CREATURES, NO LAND (bc I destroyed them all with flashfires :D) AND I LOST TO ONE TURN... Magic is fun
I remember when I had two copies of force of will. Got them from another guy who gave me 500 random cards for $50. That card won me many games
On my birthday I was at a grand prix standing behind Brad Nelson, I watched his opponent ult liliana, Brad Came back to win that game with 2 lands and a scavenging ooze I think it was. Good times.
I drew 14 lands in a row in a prerelease after getting my opponent to 1 life with the 2 lands and 5 spells from my opener. My deck was well shuffled in sleeves just destined for an L.
I'm new in Magic, so i don't know if it's so rare, but once i was playing whie / black, draw 34 cards and none plains. I ended up with My hand full of white cards and discarding every end turn, until i lost, so i don't know, maybe i could keep drawing swamps
No mulligan? :)
@James Black I had
@@javinot1 So you're unlucky...
Its called mana screwing, and its not as rare as you'd think
@@sabata414 Yeah if he drew 34 cards thats like 60% of the deck and assuming he had lets say 14 black sources out of only 26 cards left... i cant count how much % is that but i can tell you that its really slim chance :D
I was playing historic on Arena. I had a Faceless Haven land with one of the counters from Book Exalted Deeds on it (the one the gives the same effect as a Platinum Angel) and I also had a Nissa Who Shakes the World token in play that makes all my lands indestructible. I thought there was no chance I could lose. I don't know how much life I was at but I was in a huge negative. My opponent kept swinging in each turn despite not being able to kill me but kept enough back that he could block everything I threw at him. It got to the point that he was about to lose from card draw but then he played a Shadowspear...
I think you can guess what happened next.
Ouch. I feel bad
Why ever animate the land again?
@@LegendLeaguer I didn't. My opponent had land destruction spells.
Loving the content. Been on a binge since I found you. Would love to see a compilation of misplays caught on tape (bonus for reaction of players realizing it)
Would love a video on the Gab Nassif Ignite Memories moment too. That also has to be pretty damn unlikely, not 0,2 percent but still!
LOL I love Ignite Memories, I built around it when it was in Standard and it was hilarious. With all the suspend stuff and Tormod's Crypt and Fossil Find I could easily cast it for 5 or 6 on turn 4. (Rite of Flame made it possible to cast on turn 1, but only with three of them in my starting hand. It was usually more effective on turn 4 anyway!)
this one time I had my brother down to 1 life by turn 4, was ready to turn 5 him but he was able to hold on with a few counters and well placed defense. I think I then top decked 14 lands, in the end I had almost all of my land on the field and lost. Only 23 land in a 61 card deck, I have yet to see anyone get flooded that bad.
Considering how many cards he saw it is surprising that it was still a fairly high probability. 1 in 500 is not that unlikely.
Love these videos of interesting pro games! - one of my favorites is a legacy hypergenesis vs elves game where elves just wins off the hypergenesis cast.
I've been noticing some odd shuffling from BBD - 13:47 he either shuffles the deck so as to leave the top or bottom alone. It's making me angry lol - shuffle the whole deck!
Well dont be angry, his oponent is allowed to shuffle it aswell if he'd wished to do so
Sneak attack is hilarious because your using it to summon large creatures. On the art you see a dragon, so i can't help but image prankster dragons sneaking up on people or other dragons, doing the looney toons tip toe.
I was in the finals of a mirrodin draft tournament, swung all out thinking I had game on next turn. The sunblast angel drops, my dreams of first dissolve right before my eyes.
I swear the whole time watching BBD vs Brad Nelson right now all I can think about is Todd Anderson vs CVM playing their own match where they're both just absolutely going off but not actually getting ahead 🤣🤣🤣
I once had a similar game where after idk how many blank turns just draw pass, and never finding the sneak attack or show and tell i hard casted the freaking griselbrand from my hand. LOL.
Many times I've lost after being on the top. That's maybe becaus I most of the time play multiplayer games (rising too soon to top means everybody else will gang on you). The worst time I believe was the time I cleaned the board with Ugin 2 times, killed every creature with Deathbringer Regent several turns after that, and still lost the game.
"the most INTENSE GAME of MAGIC ....... where nothing happens" is 100% accurate.
Magic Arena player: "Nah! That's pretty normal."
The commentary on this is gold.
Dude had over half his deck looked at and couldn’t seal it lol man that’s the feel-beds
8:50 "Brian Braun-Duin doesn't even blink"
(Blinks 100x for 25 seconds)
I was playing my strongest commander deck and All I needed was one drawspell or one burn card to win, and after 10 turns (no kidding) of top decking lands and mana rocks I lost. And even after checking the top to see how far I'd need to go to find one I would have had to go another 4 or more cards down to find something.
It was quite literally stacked the worst possible way for that game making giving me mana and answers to protect myself, BUT NO WAY TO WIN.
I once lost a game with my Animar because I couldn't find a red source. Checked after and the first one was 36 bloody cards deep. Learned that day to never keep a hand that doesn't guarantee a turn 3 Animar at the latest...
@@nicholasbower17 first thing my friends thought me about magic when they got me into it, "Never keep a hand that doesn't let you summon your commander on turn 4 at least"
Sounds like a niv deck and it can happen
@@pokefantrent2065 Oh man speaking of Niv, one game my hand was; 2 hybrid lands, 2 islands a sol ring, a condescend and ponder, I don't know how many turns that was but I lost with 7 ISLANDS, and the two hybrid lads!
I remember back in the day my opponent cast Gamble like 4 games in a row with like 5 or 6 cards in hand, and I managed to pick the card they tutored for every time.
Ah yes, sorcery speed red entomb
One of my worst losses where I should have won was because of bad draw luck just like this. I had a wizard deck where the win condition was stalling until casting "Day of Dragons" ideally with, I think, "Temporal Manipulation" so I could make all my little wizards 5/5 dragons, skip to my next turn, bounce any blockers and run right through them. Problem was, even though I could look through something like the next 15 cards, I could NOT get one more freaking Island. Finally I had my last land I needed, moved it to the top and just had to wait one more turn. That turn my opponent plays a card that destroys all lands. SHUT DOWN.
This examples why I don't like card games that are entirely dependent on who drew the power creep first and where the entirety of the outcome of the game is based on top deck RNG. Like MTG.
yes the entirety of the game is rng that's why there are random people in the top 8's of pro tours every time just random people who show up and win by flipping the top card of their deck over
Hey ho, I am really loving these vids which give some insight into the pro scene. Are you perchance planning vids like "Most incredible top decks caught on camera", "Luckiest player caught on camera" or even "The most 200 IQ moves caught on camera"? I think those would be interesting too. But keep up the infos about cheats too. It's kinda fascinating to see what people are able to come up with, and can also serve us honest players to learn for what we need to keep an eye out.
I intend on doing things like that so long as it’s easy to explain to the audience. Very likely we’ll see luckiest moments on camera and the like.
@@NikachuMTG Am looking forward to it. 😁
Was expecting to see the gabriel nacif ignite memories moment
But i'm not disappointed. This was really good too!
Playing Goblins in MTGA, I play Muxus into 6 lands every second time...
That was intense. I've never played this and I have no idea what I am watching, but there was something going on there.
The real tragedy in this video is riffle shuffling dual lands.
Riffle shuffling YOUR OPPONENTS dual lands, even!
@@TheMattmatic oh no no no not like this...
Lol if I ever get to meet Brian in real life I'll say one thing
"Brian, how you Braun-Duin man?!"
The judge besides Brandon is the realest person on that arena.
So there was this one time a few months back, I was playing with my Purphoros, God of the Forge commander deck. I chosen to keep a deck that wasn't very good, but it looked nice. Right off the bat, I found myself in a tough position. Long story short, by turn 6 all I had was my commander and five mountains on the battlefield, and my hand was out of lands. I did have Fiery Emancipation and Skittering Invasion in my hand, though. I untap, draw, and it's a land. I play it, and lacking any better move, played Fiery Emancipation. My next turn comes up, and somehow, both my commander and enchantment are still on the battlefield. I draw. It's a land. I cast Skittering Invasion, which because of Purphoros and F.E., means each opponent took 30 damage. Needless to say, I won.
This reminds me of the guy who somehow magically drew every copy of scapeshift in his deck, and drawing literally any other card would have won him the game.
The Music reminds me of Final Fantasy 8. Jesus.. all that memories came back. Memories from a time, where my biggest worry was: "do i have enough pocket money to buy magic cards?" Farewell, good old days..
I used to love sneak attack or Elvish Piper, use the Piper for Haste creatures. Force of will is filthy.
Damn, that was rough. I would be so frustrated!
Just goes to show that having too many shuffle effects can actually hinder your ability to find the cards that you are looking for... cause it seemed for every 2 cards bbd drew he was doing a shuffle through either a ponder or a fetchland... so if I had to take a guess that is why he was never able to find a threat cause he kept shuffling his breach effects back in and just kept drawing them instead of finding a way to get rid of them all
Also the saddest part is that bbd with that breach effect in play was at a 70/30 favor margin and only needed a threat cause I believe the deck lists only played 3 of the lotus petals in their 75 and so Brad without a breach effect those griselbrands in his hand were uncastable cause he already used on of his petals for the t1 attempt
This game just looks like a classic round of MTG arena
So.. unplayable cancer..?
@@bradcallahan3546 exactly
Dude that anxiety in that room was probably thicker then shiz
WOW!!! O my goodness I’d be shiny bald too after all that! .2% odds good lord xD
These players and there twitches is more entertaining than the actual game. And I love MTG.
Sneak and Show, and Bant Food Chain are my favorite legacy decks. I love Brad Nelson, and his Leeroy Jankins style of play.
final of a local tournament, mill, 18 land drop in 18 turns XD. finally i lost ahahah
audibly laughing out loud @7:50 seeing a FoW being hardcast by Brad. legacy rocks!
Good job Bard Narset!
I don't know why but the sigh of relief from both players and the judges at the end of the match cracked me up.
I have a theory that the way you shuffle determines the outcome of your games. I've found that the best way to shuffle is by taking the bottom 3rd of the deck and shuffling it into the top 3rd of the deck. Then take the middle 3rd and shuffle that back into the top 3rd. Then repeat this process a few times. Then offer your opponents a cut. This should efficiently shuffle your deck to truly make sure the cards are being randomized properly. That's why he kept pulling the same 2 Through the Breach. He wasn't properly randomizing the cards.
I had a game during Zendikar/Scars Standard where I drew 13 lands in a row in a game to lose. I was playing UW Sun Titan control, and my opponent was on Boros Landfall. It was game 3 and I was on the play. Pretty sure my hand was something like Seachrom Coast, Glacial Fortress, 2 basics, Condemn, Ratchet Bomb, and a Sun Titan. I lead with the Coast. Opponent leads with Mountain and Goblin Guide, I reveal a land, and Condemn the Guide. I play a land and Ratchet Bomb. He plays a land and a Played Geopede, then I tick up the Bomb. I play a land and pass. He plays a second Goblin Guide and connects with both guys, Guide revealed another land, and I tick up the Ratchet Bomb. I draw yet another land, play one and pass. He connects again, then plays 2(!!!) 2 drops. I say “Thanks, that makes this a lot better.” and I crack the Ratchet Bomb. Board states are 4 lands on my side, to his 4 lands and Guide. I have Sun Titan and a whole lotta land in hand. He connects a couple times with the Guide, revealing more lands for me. I keep making my land drops and drawing more land. The game ends on turn 6 or 7. I cast my Titan and he cracks a fetch and Searing Blazes me out. I started the game with 3 spells and 4 lands in hand and drew nothing but land or revealed land off of Goblin Guide the rest of the way.
I love these videos recapping pro play!
feels like the arena shuffler lol
I'm glad that even the pros sometimes get screwed over by the top deck. Sometimes it feels like it only happens to me.
Okay video. Thanks for uploading!
Sneak Attack has been my favorite card ever since it was released.
Okay, I got a story for ya, I'm playing instant speed reanimator on the draw in modern while looting and the ape are still in, I turn one attack my merfolk opponent with the combo (Emrakal Goryo's Vengeance) and he sacs his Aether vile and island and goes to 5, he says (it's a friend, I was too nice) "I concede" My dumb ass goes, "you could still win............." and I never find anything I can cast until I die, Let them concede is my new MTG moto, Thanks for reading..
It's like watching a man getting struck by lightning 3 times on the same day...Lol
I remember gluing a Lotus Petal to one of my card boxes as a kid.
In poker, there are things called "bad beat jackpots," where if you get _that_ unlucky, you win tens of thousands of dollars. A lot of poker rooms, the bad beat jackpot is progressive, meaning that it increases with every hand that the poker room plays and nobody wins it.
"at least I've chicken" 😂😂 you didn't let me down, Nikachu
Was playing black devotion the past fnm and I had 4 land with 2 Grey merchants on hand topdeck junk had 7 life vs oppent with 1 card n they top deck a second burn spell to kill me for seven the next draw was the land I needed to turn it all around sad...
Look at the brain shuffling he isn't changing the bottom card!
LEROY JENKINS!!!!!!! Damn it leroy
The setting: 2016. Modern event at a local LGS.
I'm playing Blue/Black Mill. 23 lands.
Opponent wins the dice roll and wants to be on the draw. So I'm thinking, "This must be an 8-Rack deck."
My opening hand: 1x Inquisition of Kozilek; 2x Surgical Extractions; some cheap mill cards. PERFECT! Only problem was I only had one land... a swamp..
My Turn 1: I Inquisition'd & saw they had The Rack & 2x Shrieking Afflictions in hand. Chose the Affliction then Surgical'd all the copies.
Opponent's Turn 1: They Thoughtseize me and take my Mesmeric Orb. (I was surprised they didn't take my other Surgical.)
My Turn 2: I top-deck an Inquisition! OH BOYS...! So I Inquisition + Surgical The Rack my opponent's Racks. Now I'm playing against ZERO-Rack! I normally lose to this type of deck, but this was finally my time! I just need to draw some lands and top-deck some mill. EZ
For some reason, my opponent did not concede and just kept playing as if nothing happened. and they keep making me discard.
Next turn I draw a non-land. The turn after... non-land.
Now opp plays Lilliana of the Veil. while I have 1 card left. +1...
I draw a spell I can't cast... Lilli +1...
I draw a spell I can't cast... Lilli +1...
I draw a spell I can't cast... Lilli +1...
I draw a spell I can't cast... Lilli +1...
I draw a spell I can't cast... Lilli +1...
I WENT THROUGH 23 SPELLS until I finally found a second land... ALRIGHT, oh wait, I have no cards in hand... pass...
Now it's turn ~17 and plays a Mutivault.
I draw a land... Opp attacks for 2...
I draw a land... Opp attacks for 2...
I draw a land... Opp attacks for 2...
I draw a land... Opp attacks for 2...
I draw a land... Opp attacks for 2...
Repeat that another 5 turns in a row and I die on turn ~28 via a Mutivault...
Could not believe it. Such a roller coaster of emotions. Not even MtG Arena could have devised a fate more rigged to lose.
Amazing story
what a plot armor! wouldn't believed it if it wasn't recorded.
Oh you sweet summer child. I just finished tracking 200 games of Magic on Arena, 154 of which I was on the draw.
Brian Braun-Duin merely adopted the bad luck. I was born in it.
Bonus points for all the Leeroy Jenkins.
its crazy how both of these decks are super designed and yet both of them fail exceptionally hard :D
notice that both decks succeed in delaying their opponent. There were plenty of REBs and FoWs that made that game go longer.
Its absolutely hilarious but thats the nature of their decks so its not completely crazy that a match like this would happen eventually.
If only they had a 1/1 creature they could have finished their opponent off first before getting their combo. 🤣😂
for a more casual mtg-player like myself it is so absurd to see those pros slamming volcanic islands on the table like its nothing…
They weren't all that expensive back then. This match is near 10 years old
@@a_fuckin_spacemarine7514 They were around 40-60 from revised.
@@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters I know, that's pretty cheap
Brian didn't lose this to bad luck, he lost this because he sucked at making decisions. He had it won by landing a sneak attack and still having counterspells in hand. Brad is forced to counter cantrips because he won't be able to stop Sneak from resolving. All Brian has to do is counterspell through the breach, sneak attack, or show and tell, and he stays the favored to win. What does he do? Counters a counterspell to resolve a cantrips and hope that he hits the ~20% to win the game off of it.
I had some insane luck a few months ago where I had 3 crystalize giants on turn 5. By combat on that turn all three had hexproof, the first two both had vigilance, and the first one also got lifelink. That's like a 1 in 22,000 chance or something.
*crystalline giants
I'd edit the comment but if you edit a comment that's been hearted it gets rid of the heart ❤️
ok but any given combination of counters would yield the same probability would it not
@@jakefriedland6516 my favorite chances for that card are hexproof, vigilance, lifelink, and trample in that order, but what matters here are drawing 3 of the same card by turn 5 while a 1/11 chance hits 3 times, and a 1/10 chance hits twice.
To put this into perspective, if this same level of luck happened but I was scratching a few 30$ lottery tickets (god forbid) in my US state I would be walking home with 30-40 thousand dollars based on their odds.
Yes every chance on those cards is 1/11 then 1/10 and so on, but the chance of even having all of them out by turn five is a liberal 2%, 1/50 games on its own.
Edit* it's been awhile and I can't find my discord post on it, so I just did a quick calculation on the chance of just the counters and it's 8.1e-5 or a 1 in 12,500 chance. I probably would have won more in my lottery example :P
Uhhh no you didn't dude get a grip
@@irbster a grip on deez nuts
My God!
Absolutely suspenseful.
if morbidly curious deck got force of nature with upkeep by drop a forest, tap and discard a elvish spirit guide for 2 green mana total, play gaia's touch, which is from dark 2 green mana that allows me to play a second land each turn as long as it's a forest, play a land, then tap land for lanawar elf, so I have 2 forests, and a lanawar elf in play, next turn play a land, sacrifice touch for 2 green mana, tap the three lands and the elf and BAM force of nature, along with 3 forests and a elf to pay upkeep :>
The beauty of blue magic. Player 1: Ponder. Player 2: FoW Player 1: FoW your FoW. Player 1: Ponder finds Brainstorm. Player 1: Brainstorm finds nothing. Ugh. LOL
Sneak and show definitely became a lot better with nazahal. Fatty, blue for force, draws cards.
Sneak show is always my favorite deck
As a yugioh player I was both confused, excited, impressed, and not impressed at the same time
oh look, that's my usual game of hearthstone when i used to play combos... the combo was always in the last 3 cards of the deck... and i punctually managed to last up to one turn before drawing it and then they killed me