24:25 they all had the life way wrong, sol should have been at 3 and dead, not 5 going to 1. Up till that point, here are all the life swings: -sol goes from 20 to 18 from his first shock land. -Sol goes from 18 to 16 from his thoughtseize. -sol goes from 16 to 14 from his free surgical extraction. -Sol goes from 14 to 10 after Martin finally casts his tasugur, bringing back two hasty pheonixes and attacking with them. -sol then gains 1 life going from 10 to 11 from his ooze in response to it being bolted precombat. -Sol then takes 8 damage from tasigur and the two phoenixes going from 11 to 3 -then sol has only a tracker to chump the tasigur and takes 4 damage from the 2 pheonix which should bring his life total to -1 killing him. I don’t understand how both players and everyone watching could get that so wrong, there was nothing tricky or confusing going on.
4 years go by and still can not stand the anxious, fidgeting super shuffle, flick cards thing. It drives me crazy. I just want to grab their hands and yell STOP IT, you know what the damn cards you have in your hand are! There is no need for that madness...
Ya they caught it and made sure he shuffled randomly and presented. It is legal though as long as he presents the deck to the opposing player. He could have been counting cards, but indeed was weird
So the turn Malka played Tarmogoyf, it looked like he had a Nihil Spellbomb in his hand he could have cast to clean up Juza's graveyard, making delve threats impossible to cast and exiling those phoenixes. The fact that he decided to cast the tarmogoyf first in hopes to get pressure on the board just seemed wrong, if he spellbombed that turn instead he'd have definitely won game 2.
@@mikekenny1698 but then he never woulda gotten his second land for the entire game, and things would have played out very differently, as he wouldnt have played the two inquisitions, and one of the pheonix would be in hand and likely cast on third or forty turn, plus the tasigur would have come down a turn earlier with no fear of assassins trophy. Plus Martin would have had goblins lore in hand still. So it’s not as simple as the game playing out exactly as it did but with Sol having a nihil spell bomb, the entire game would have played out very differently and likely much more in martins favor, as Sol would have only one land and a spellbomb, extraction, and thoughtseize to work with.
@@targetplayer hey sol, big fan of u and the rock. I did well back in old school extended despite everyone playing the rock vs my red deck wins. Classic old day of magic. I just wanted to see if u realized the life totals for this game were off and why both u and Martin didn’t notice, unless I’m missing something. You should have been at 3 and dead on the final attack, yet u guys played as tho u were at 1. You had lost 2 life from ur first shock, then 2 from thoughtseize, then 2 more from surgical, putting you at 14. Then, Martin finally plays tasigur which brings back 2 pheonix which attack you down to 10. Then the next turn you play ooze, it gains u one life up to 11 before it dies to bolt precombat. Then you take 8 going down to 3, then final turn you chump with tracker on tasigur taking 4 which should have put you at negative one. Am I missing something?
mulligan to 1, respect.
Sol Malka reminds me of Petyr Baelish from AGoT
Just like to say I strongly approve of hall of famers doing commentary. They all seem to be quite good at it. Go figure.
He runs tasigur for the ability
4 mana to get back a spell in a top deck war is pretty good and most times he casts for 1 mana
Jacob exiling his own graveyard ROFL. Yikes dude. Those two emeria online were ezpz win recurring serra ascendant
24:25 they all had the life way wrong, sol should have been at 3 and dead, not 5 going to 1.
Up till that point, here are all the life swings:
-sol goes from 20 to 18 from his first shock land.
-Sol goes from 18 to 16 from his thoughtseize.
-sol goes from 16 to 14 from his free surgical extraction.
-Sol goes from 14 to 10 after Martin finally casts his tasugur, bringing back two hasty pheonixes and attacking with them.
-sol then gains 1 life going from 10 to 11 from his ooze in response to it being bolted precombat.
-Sol then takes 8 damage from tasigur and the two phoenixes going from 11 to 3
-then sol has only a tracker to chump the tasigur and takes 4 damage from the 2 pheonix which should bring his life total to -1 killing him.
I don’t understand how both players and everyone watching could get that so wrong, there was nothing tricky or confusing going on.
4 years go by and still can not stand the anxious, fidgeting super shuffle, flick cards thing. It drives me crazy. I just want to grab their hands and yell STOP IT, you know what the damn cards you have in your hand are! There is no need for that madness...
de rosa is an awesome commentator xD
Yidong Wang is stacking his deck at 38:40, putting the Nature's Claims in different spots in the deck, is that allowed during a match?
I will admit that looked pretty weird
yes, it is legal to do that, provided you present the deck to be randomized after. sometimes people do it to un-clump cards.
Ya they caught it and made sure he shuffled randomly and presented. It is legal though as long as he presents the deck to the opposing player. He could have been counting cards, but indeed was weird
yeah you can put your cards however you want in your deck as long as you mash shuffle before handing it to your opponent to cut.
So the turn Malka played Tarmogoyf, it looked like he had a Nihil Spellbomb in his hand he could have cast to clean up Juza's graveyard, making delve threats impossible to cast and exiling those phoenixes. The fact that he decided to cast the tarmogoyf first in hopes to get pressure on the board just seemed wrong, if he spellbombed that turn instead he'd have definitely won game 2.
Are you sure he had it in hand? I only saw 1 copy in his graveyard. I think up to that point he navigated the game pretty well!
Nope, definitely didn't have a Spellbomb. The one in my opening hand got nailed by the Burning Inquiry and I didn't draw the second.
@@targetplayer Yes but you took goblin lore and let him keep burning inquiry, if you had taken the burning inquiry you'd still have it
@@mikekenny1698 but then he never woulda gotten his second land for the entire game, and things would have played out very differently, as he wouldnt have played the two inquisitions, and one of the pheonix would be in hand and likely cast on third or forty turn, plus the tasigur would have come down a turn earlier with no fear of assassins trophy. Plus Martin would have had goblins lore in hand still. So it’s not as simple as the game playing out exactly as it did but with Sol having a nihil spell bomb, the entire game would have played out very differently and likely much more in martins favor, as Sol would have only one land and a spellbomb, extraction, and thoughtseize to work with.
@@targetplayer hey sol, big fan of u and the rock. I did well back in old school extended despite everyone playing the rock vs my red deck wins. Classic old day of magic. I just wanted to see if u realized the life totals for this game were off and why both u and Martin didn’t notice, unless I’m missing something. You should have been at 3 and dead on the final attack, yet u guys played as tho u were at 1.
You had lost 2 life from ur first shock, then 2 from thoughtseize, then 2 more from surgical, putting you at 14. Then, Martin finally plays tasigur which brings back 2 pheonix which attack you down to 10. Then the next turn you play ooze, it gains u one life up to 11 before it dies to bolt precombat. Then you take 8 going down to 3, then final turn you chump with tracker on tasigur taking 4 which should have put you at negative one. Am I missing something?
Why did Martin draw a card after the fetch on T2 Game 1???
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I'd definitely scoop playing against Sol Malka, he's the Law Abiding Citizen. Last thing I wanna do is wrong that guy 😅😅😅
how is the rock an invention? its just a golgari deck... so who invented uw control or mono red aggro? -.-
It’s called the rock because of how Grindy it gets also
Between a rock and a hard place
Brian Weissman and Jay Schneider respectively.