Hogaak vs Rakdos Scam | Quarterfinals 4 - Quest for the Best Modern Deck Ever

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  • What was the best Modern deck ever? We made our community vote for one deck to represent each year since 2011, played four rounds of Swiss, and now we bring you each match of the Top 8. Jamin is playing Thoralf and either Hogaak or Grief could be knocked out of the tournament.
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    Find the breakdown of the Swiss matches here: bit.ly/46l6Kyc
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  • @CardmarketMagic
    @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    🧟🤬 Decklists: bit.ly/3LO5ufa
    Find the breakdown of the Swiss matches here: bit.ly/46l6Kyc

  • @nadoghost146
    @nadoghost146 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +731

    Ah yes, Hogaak-less Hogaak vs Scam-less Scam, truly the matchup of the century.

    • @mikemoyer8162
      @mikemoyer8162 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

      I dunno, turn 2 blood moon can be considered kinda scammy.

    • @iclimbeverything2990
      @iclimbeverything2990 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      If scam is so strong that it doesn't even need to get it's main win condition going to shut off the opponent's what can you do

    • @Ozuar
      @Ozuar 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      ​@@iclimbeverything2990the scam isn't the win condition - It's just a brutally efficient midrange deck.

    • @51gunner
      @51gunner 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@Ozuar It's a really strong midgame that every once in a while utterly screws an opponent turn 1. Really brutal deck to play against.

    • @zimoy.701
      @zimoy.701 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's mostly scam having a ton of maindeck hate that lines up well@@iclimbeverything2990

  • @gabrielmarques5382
    @gabrielmarques5382 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +669

    I think that not going for thoughtseize T1 for jamin was really detrimental

    • @ian-kr8kc
      @ian-kr8kc 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      Fr I feel like he would've turned the corner

    • @salamanteri_
      @salamanteri_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +138

      That was a really weird choice against a deck that can Grief and resurrect it on turn one.

    • @XenithShadow
      @XenithShadow 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      If he had only had a single land it might have made more sense if he was trying to hit 2nd land for wayfinder.
      But yeah generally turn 1 thoughtseize is gonna be the strongest play, when on the play in most case particuarly against scam.

    • @1986Om3ga
      @1986Om3ga 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      I was thinking that, but the 2nd VW was coming regardless. Maybe buys 1 turn, but it's likely not making a drastic difference. Scam just had the perfect anti-hogaak draws. Sometimes it happens

    • @TheTrueChaks
      @TheTrueChaks 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      yeah both games I feel like looting on 1 was just the wrong line. but this is really just entertainment content and not actually showcasing decks at their best potential. maybe it's actually more reflective of the average game that most of us would witness in person considering the card market guys are considerably stronger players than the average FNM enjoyer.

  • @mtgteeto5286
    @mtgteeto5286 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    I saw the video length and I thought “oh, that makes sense. Hogaak wins twice in 10 minutes.” Everyone who was playing during the Hogaak days remembers how insanely dominant that deck was in all its iterations. The way Scam just trumped it like it was nothing really shows how insane the power level of modern has become. Crazy stuff.

    • @belorde6966
      @belorde6966 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      jamin played badly in the second game, he should have toughtseized first.

    • @elikorn8777
      @elikorn8777 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      To be fair. Scam works hard to prevent graveyard decks from doing anything. Scam is a hard counter to hoogaaak

  • @GlubtasticYT
    @GlubtasticYT 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +243

    That Blood Moon was brutal, holy crap. What an insanely powerful deck, well piloted Thoralf!

    • @jii-ro7083
      @jii-ro7083 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      A blind squirrel with his ears could have piloted that broken deck to win :D

    • @nolanpearson211
      @nolanpearson211 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jii-ro7083 agreed. I dont think scam is very difficult to pilot haha

    • @eavyeavy2864
      @eavyeavy2864 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@jii-ro7083non basic land user eat your heart out

    • @alejandrorivas4585
      @alejandrorivas4585 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@eavyeavy2864I mean you say that but even monored burn is disfavored in the matchup

    • @ich3730
      @ich3730 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@eavyeavy2864 nobody is talking about the blood moon lul

  • @tyraniccus9745
    @tyraniccus9745 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +201

    This being 13 minutes just proves how strong one of these decks is. Can’t wait to see it!

    • @BoltTheEmolga
      @BoltTheEmolga 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Was it the deck you expected it to be

    • @JonaxII
      @JonaxII 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@BoltTheEmolgayes. MH1 had some dumb cards, but MH2 supercharged the whole format

    • @travisbrown9936
      @travisbrown9936 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@JonaxIIhogaak beat scam in Swiss, Jamin had really bad draws

    • @ZakanaHachihaCBC
      @ZakanaHachihaCBC 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@JonaxIIThis is a case of better lucky then good. Scam saw both Moon and Voidwalker while Gaak just, wiffed.

    • @blueplayer6197
      @blueplayer6197 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jamin just misplayed pretty hard, you can't let ragavan just attack, he needed to play feeder and then brutality on 2 modes turn 2 discarding faithless, this makes blood moon go away, he also needed to fetch for at least a basic swamp because he knows blood moon exists, you can't just not get basics, ignoring ragavan like it's some vanilla 2/1 snowballed quickly, game 2 as well faithless looting was just a mistake, thoughtsneeze makes the game completely different, it's just not correct to randomly fire looting when your hand has what you need anyway

  • @EChub
    @EChub 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +126

    Hey, gotta say, ya'll have the best editors in terms of keeping the game state clear and readable. Magic can get complicated, but I can always easily follow these games. Well done!

    • @TaisxD
      @TaisxD 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Might as well rename it Carlmarket at this point 😏

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      Thank you! This series is my baby so I put a particular extra effort into these :) I'm happy it pays off and that people like you enjoy it :D

    • @jamiebruner8463
      @jamiebruner8463 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Seconded. Love it. ESPN level

  • @jonathanmillis2015
    @jonathanmillis2015 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +493

    Game one against scam feels like a post board matchup.

    • @su0tin731
      @su0tin731 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

      I was thinking the same, and Hogaak list didn't look like the Hogaak list that crushed in its time. A little bit anticlimatic, but, that's magic sometimes.

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +175

      We even thought of reshooting, but that felt unfair. We player the list Jamin top 4'd a GP with, right before it was banned. This list crushed the Swiss, but it just got really unlucky this game 😐

    • @su0tin731
      @su0tin731 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      @@CardmarketMagic Magic is like that sometimes, wouldn't have been fair to reshoot it, since lucky/unlucky draws always plays a factor.

    • @MarsBarszs
      @MarsBarszs 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      @@CardmarketMagicgaak took the L here but I think it would be neat to see an exhibition match so we can see gaak do gaak things and scam do some scam things

    • @anthonykuhn3792
      @anthonykuhn3792 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@@CardmarketMagicI think you made the right choice, but I would love to see a rematch after the tournament

  • @SomeOfTheJuice
    @SomeOfTheJuice 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +292

    Man, that's incredible how one sided this was! I was not expecting Hogaak to fall that quick!

    • @MrLogistician
      @MrLogistician 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

      I thought the same thing, since it looked like hogaak just didn't get the right pieces. Turns out, Hogaak went 2-1 against rakdos scam in the Swiss rounds.

    • @akorthouwer
      @akorthouwer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      yeah guess that happens when one side draws the nuts and the other side draws nothing.

    • @OsvaldoChannel1
      @OsvaldoChannel1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      ​@@akorthouweri dont know, Hogaak had pretty decent hands, Scam just ruins good hands and maindeck Voidwalker Is a beating. It's probably a bad matchup in general, Bowmaster even makes Lootings hurt a lot and snipes almost every creature in the deck.

    • @jsweatisdead
      @jsweatisdead 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Spoilers!!!:😂

    • @bennettpalmer1741
      @bennettpalmer1741 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@OsvaldoChannel1 what does a "pretty decent hand" for Hogaak look for you? because both of Jamin's hands were mulls to 6 that had no real action aside from hoping to rip something off the top with a looting, which failed to find anything interesting both games. I struggle to imagine worse Hogaak hands beyond obvious mana screw/flood.
      A strong argument could be made that both hands were pretty obvious mulligans, though going to 5 is obviously dicey, and the lootings were pretty unlucky.

  • @TaisxD
    @TaisxD 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    I gotta say, as someone who basicly didn't play during the Hogaak era, I was kinda looking forward to seeing the deck in action. Instead we got a showcase of the kind of scam non-games that I see every friday at FNM :-(
    Obviously not your fault though! I think the series is still amazing and toffel vs jamin is always a good time. I'm just really hoping scam loses next match. Also, please do something with Hogaak for the channel at some point to show off the deck to scrubs like me 😅

    • @DuncanHarbison
      @DuncanHarbison 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      There are loads of videos from the hogaak tournaments online, the deck consistently does way more than scam ever could. It just got punished really really hard here by prison cards (turn 2 blood moon on the play???) and this build was a really slow one.

    • @Audentior_Ito
      @Audentior_Ito 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They actually have covered Hogaak summer vs Eldrazi winter! th-cam.com/video/5PzhKpaxWQc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tWs2lZW2YeCY5QzV

  • @KisoX
    @KisoX 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    I like Thoralfs hat. And I like Jamins glasses. For the match...I was really worried about blood moon in this one. Sometimes magic players have to get reminded that blood moon exists :D

  • @viviblue7277
    @viviblue7277 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I think this brilliantly showed off how scammy scam can be even without pulling off the combo.

  • @cl0k3
    @cl0k3 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    Shout out to Rhystic Study for irreversably making me assosciate Hogaak with Elton John's Bennie and the Jets.

  • @JosephParker_Nottheboxer
    @JosephParker_Nottheboxer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I just love you guys and Carl, play good magic, always happy and feel good. We need more positive content around the world, and their are a lot of salty magic players, so seeing people playing magic for fun is awesome.

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm happy you enjoy our videos :) we put a lot of love and effort into our content! Thank you for the kind comment

  • @hernalius7630
    @hernalius7630 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

    Very surprised to see hogaak not being the version running bridge or altar of dementia

    • @hernalius7630
      @hernalius7630 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      No asassins trophy or fatal push too is very surprising, both Michael graham and Simon Nielsons gp winning decks ran at least 1 maindeck. I'm not a pro by any stretch of the imagination but is there a reason why the hokaak list in the video differs from the gp winning variations?

    • @anthonyi8484
      @anthonyi8484 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@hernalius7630they might have used the hogaak deck they personally owned

    • @bedwarssweat6205
      @bedwarssweat6205 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Yeah, glowspore shaman just seems very underpowered by comparison

    • @Quiggles-bf2oh
      @Quiggles-bf2oh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      Bridge/altar was the combo version of the hogaak deck and despite being insanely powerful it was also inconsistent, the aggro version (post bridge ban) is considered by most to be the more powerful version of the deck for consistency reasons. I am surprised to not see assassin's trophy in the deck though.

    • @malte54
      @malte54 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      @@Quiggles-bf2oh
      Na man. Bridge Hogaak was consistent af. They only reason it felt less consistent was ppl playing 4 leylines in their main deck.

  • @cryptorcd9352
    @cryptorcd9352 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Wow this is insane! I didn't expect for hogaak to do nothing :o

  • @squiiddpope7679
    @squiiddpope7679 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This felt like one of those "This is why the game is actually played" matches where gaak seemed way better on paper but Jamin got really unlucky/misequenced in his early turns. I think we are going to see Eldrazi and 12 Post in the finals though with Eldrazi probably winning the whole bracket at this stage

    • @blueplayer6197
      @blueplayer6197 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Eldrazi is literally a worse 12 post, it has no outs other than 'oops all mimics + smasher' hand which is very rare.
      They both 'cheat' on mana in their own ways but one deck has the far better threats, you can play 12 post vs eldrazi 100 times and Eldrazi will take like 3, that's just how it goes when both decks do the same thing and one just does it better, sadly this version of 12 post isn't the one that runs 0/5 walls but it can chump sac with steve and it can gain unreal amounts of life with glimmerpost, it's not a fair fight.
      However... and this is where it gets sketchy, 12 post may lose to scam, because scam shreds the hand and 12 post doesn't have the tools to recover from a shredded hand or from a blood moon early
      it's sad but I think it's going to be Eldrazi vs scam and Eldrazi is much better equipped to handle hand disruption than 12 post is but it's not easy to predict it because it's not a bad matchup for scam since Eldrazi is about being explosive rather than being resilient, T1 greed and blink or turn 2 blood moon and this just goes Scam's way and Eldrazi (much like 12 post) can get chalice on 1 but the scamlementals aren't 1 drops so it's not as effective as vs death shadow for example

  • @bryankopkin6869
    @bryankopkin6869 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Welp. As one of the ppl that thought Gaak would win I was surprised. I also was thinking they would be running the list with Bridge From Below though 👀

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The list with bridge is generally considered to be the worse version of the deck. This list is the one that lead Hogaak to being undefeated in the Swiss rounds for this, even beating scam. It just got unlucky here and thoralf drew perfectly

    • @JudgeAnnibal
      @JudgeAnnibal 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CardmarketMagic And even if he went thoughtseize t1 in game 2 (if grief discards looting you just flashback it) it wouldn't have mattered because the 2nd one was coming

  • @kyledawson8336
    @kyledawson8336 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thoralf looks very dapper in his top hat! loving all the content guys, the quality of content is outstanding, keep up all the hard work.

  • @Easyaeros
    @Easyaeros 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Seeing hogaak crumble before scam made me physically recoil. Damn, we are reaching levels of power creep i never thought were possible.

    • @Technomagus
      @Technomagus 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      To be fair, Thoralf had the absolute nuts draw in both games that completely shut out Hogaak while Jamin kept hands that were meh at best. He also had exactly zero outs to Blood Moon in Game 1, since Caterpillar requires Green to cast and activate, and he had no sources of Green outside of nonbasic lands.

    • @ZakanaHachihaCBC
      @ZakanaHachihaCBC 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Scam also saw both Moon and Voidwalker while Gaak saw nothing.

  • @borospandrake
    @borospandrake 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If Jamin asks me to comment, I guess I must. I've been watching this channel for a few months now and adore the content! I discovered this channel through a youtube short of Carl's "I'm a Spike" (masterful). You all are hilarious and great at making the game digestible for any level of player. Jamin is insightful and curious, Carl is creative and good at improvising, plus Thoralf never fails to make me smile and think more critically about my gameplay/deck construction.
    If you guys collaborated with Tolarian Community College one day, that'd be even sicker than a 1/2 Flyer for [C][U] that pitches to Force!

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What an absolutely kind comment :D Jamin asked you to comment, not bring a tear to our eyes :P I'm happy you enjoy our content, we put a lot of effort and love into it! We did almost collaborate with the Prof, but in the end, traveling so far to make content ended up being complicated. But it's hopefully still in the cards for the future :)

  • @Mego962
    @Mego962 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This has quickly become my favorite magic channel

  • @anihopkins6788
    @anihopkins6788 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love these videos, y’all are absolutely my favorite MtG YTers by a mile! Shocked to see how hard Hogaak went down, but not *that* shocked. Scam is a terrifying deck!

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm happy you enjoy our videos :) we put a lot of effort and love into them!

  • @leeroyjenkins552
    @leeroyjenkins552 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The last turn of second game Scam technically cheated, it doesn’t matter to the outcome, but they dashed Ragavan the turn before and didn’t return monkey to hand and swung with it the turn after dashing.
    Another nitpick, why didn’t Hogaak ever flashback faithless looting game one? It was an option for three turns that could’ve drawn a basic or binned something silly

  • @tamplebackdell3908
    @tamplebackdell3908 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I think this match showcases just how much modern needs an update to its banlist 😂

  • @mercadepalmer6967
    @mercadepalmer6967 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love this channel so much, you guys are doing amazing-I'm excited for the rest of the top 8 matches!

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm happy you enjoy them :) this is my favourite series to make! I'm happy to have you watching it

  • @ComradeCarbon
    @ComradeCarbon 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    YES! Rakdos scam is probably one of my all-time favorite decks so glad to see it moving on!

  • @gamptrak
    @gamptrak 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Was not expecting Hogaak to topple so quickly! Well done Toffel, bring on the semifinals!

  • @TheMindSpaz
    @TheMindSpaz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is my favorite series of yours please do more stuff like this - Love seeing older decks compete against the newer stuff. I thought for sure hogaak would put up more of a fight

  • @Darium856
    @Darium856 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    THAT was so unexpected!! Amazing, soul crushing games.

  • @claire7612
    @claire7612 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Scam has truly earned its name!! Love these series, would be really fun to see something similar with Legacy, albeit it is a bit of a different format compared to Modern and Type 2.

  • @jeromedarnell6270
    @jeromedarnell6270 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Haven't played magic in 20 years and I watch these videos because they are hilarious.

  • @Kr0pn1tz
    @Kr0pn1tz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    Shoutout to everyone in the community post that said Hogaak will take this one easy 🎉🎉

    • @joeldykman7591
      @joeldykman7591 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Game 1 at least would have looked much different if Jamin was on the play. While I'm not sure what the actual match-up% would be I am saying Toralf had exceptionally powerful draws against the match-up both games while Jamin had rather medium opening hands. But, that's just how it goes sometimes.

    • @mahbluebird
      @mahbluebird 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@joeldykman7591yup. Also in the swiss Hogaak beat Scam 2-1 in r4

    • @d.barrett578
      @d.barrett578 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Maybe that's called mulligans into still bad hands for Hogaak, and the nuts draws for Rakdos the entire time. Matches like this make me feel like these should be best of 5.

    • @kylegonewild
      @kylegonewild 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@d.barrett578 "Nuts" draw is a bit of a stretch. Never saw a single ele scam. Thoralf had sufficient main board hate and drew better. These two decks will swing wildly in either direction on the thinnest of advantages.

    • @YourPalJamieEllis
      @YourPalJamieEllis 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      This feels pretty far from a representative showing by Gaak, but hey, any given Sunday right?

  • @mychglou7245
    @mychglou7245 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I really like Thoralf, everytime he's in a video I know I will have a good time!
    Thanks for the video!

  • @therobbyfitz
    @therobbyfitz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Although it was a terrible match, it accurately shows the format.
    You have an amazing explosive deck, you mulligan, you keep a tolerable hand and get got

  • @behemoth9543
    @behemoth9543 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I always thought it was called Scam because not paying mana for your spells is cheating.

    • @Enchurito
      @Enchurito 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's correct

    • @kylegonewild
      @kylegonewild 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This is normally a poor assumption when it comes to deck names (something logical) but in this case it is accurate.

  • @supertrouperJC02
    @supertrouperJC02 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love this series. I don't follow competitive modern much but I know if the decks, so it's cool to see how they actually work.

  • @Lavorre
    @Lavorre 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    1:22 Look at the bottom left cardmarket logo

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Ahhh I seem to have accidentally copied some keyframes 😅

  • @T1zzle
    @T1zzle 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Sad to see Hogaak didn't really get a chance to do it's thing but Scam has such a good matchup against it, that blood moon hurt me

  • @stormycat0905
    @stormycat0905 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Everyone is going to get scammed in this matchup. No one wins here.

  • @gingerbrick2263
    @gingerbrick2263 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    why wasn't the hogaak deck running altar or bridge?

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When bridge got banned, people generally agreed that it allowed them to realize the optimal build of hogaak. The aggro build was a beast. It simply plowed through the Swiss rounds. It simply got unlucky here and thoralf drew perfectly

  • @josephmcgurty3822
    @josephmcgurty3822 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    What version of gaak was this, no altar of dementia no bridge from below??? And those keeps were so wild, did the deck ever play glowspore shaman

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      After the bridge ban, it's generally considered that people found that it helped them find the optimal build of Hogaak. Don't forget that this exact list had the only perfect run in the Swiss. It just got unlucky here and thoralf drew perfectly

  • @Rob-qe3cg
    @Rob-qe3cg 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Man. When the games are that fast, you should do a gentleman's bonus game at the end, give poor Jamin a chance to play the card his deck is named for.

  • @opensocietyenjoyer
    @opensocietyenjoyer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i saw this coming from a mile away. people were saying things like "a deck that makes you discard two cards vs a deck that wants cards in their graveyard is not a fair matchup".

  • @alexparsons3295
    @alexparsons3295 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love watching the cards that priced me out of keeping my own cube current, win.

  • @logancalapp2426
    @logancalapp2426 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Unfortunatly I think Jamin was screwed this time. 13 minutes. Just brutal

    • @shadowseek27
      @shadowseek27 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      we hate to see it

    • @mememaster5748
      @mememaster5748 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Here I am cheering for Hogaak of all decks

    • @shadowseek27
      @shadowseek27 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mememaster5748 same here, I though it was invincible tbh,

    • @DiscardatRandom
      @DiscardatRandom 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      No bridge or altar so it wasn’t the most powerful version

    • @ZakanaHachihaCBC
      @ZakanaHachihaCBC 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@DiscardatRandomthis is the strongest version. Everyone was making the joke after the banning that removing Bridge just made it better.

  • @hitryy
    @hitryy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It was the hat! The hat that distracted Jamin😆

  • @Scub
    @Scub 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Seeing the length of the video already tickles me before even watching. ❤

  • @sango323
    @sango323 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Huh this is a very different hogaak list than i was expecting , trust you guys on the list more than my knowledge obviously

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Most people agree that hogaak got better after the bridge from below ban. We are playing the list Jamin won a Grand Prix with, which left Hogaak undefeated in the Swiss. It just had a poor showing in this game :)

    • @speictreach2249
      @speictreach2249 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@CardmarketMagic ☝️🤓 he didn't win, you said in the video he top 4'd

  • @paulonavarro7095
    @paulonavarro7095 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow I was expecting Hogaak to win but it got crushed! Truly shows the power of newer cards.
    Can’t wait to see the next one!

  • @prysthaea7735
    @prysthaea7735 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Damn, there goes my prediction 😂
    Really shows the power of scam. Hyper disruption gives you game against almost anything, and when it has it all it just has it all. Can't wait to see how the restb of the matches go!

  • @canadianbakn
    @canadianbakn 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think it's fitting that the thoughtseize (sometimes two on t1!), blood moon, maindeck gy hate deck can be flexible and powerful into a field of people up to nonsense haha. That really showed this time.

  • @miyomiyo1050
    @miyomiyo1050 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sad that we don't get to see the Hogaak deck doing its thing! I've heard so much about this deck but never seen it in action

  • @Jewsphf
    @Jewsphf 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is my favorite mtg channel on youtube

  • @brettbag.greenwood
    @brettbag.greenwood 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This series is the best mtg content on the internet 🙏 gotta hit every format with this beast of an idea

  • @johnmiltenberger3035
    @johnmiltenberger3035 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was so satisfying to see after my prediction the other day lol. And Toffel, your hat is extremely classy; I love it! Keep it up guys. Can't wait to see the next round!

  • @mrcampi9797
    @mrcampi9797 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As Always a pleasure to watch, clear info in the overlay, great concept, and decks piloted by people both good at entertaining and at playing Magic. Even if i do not play as much now, it's always a pleasure to watch your videos 😊

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm happy you enjoy them :) We put a lot of love and effort into them

  • @petermoglia
    @petermoglia 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The presence of Toffel's hat was really instrumental to my enjoyment of this video.

  • @GeorgeAlone2277
    @GeorgeAlone2277 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    as an mtg boomer who doesnt really play anymore these reminiscent top 8's are just an absolute treat to watch

  • @lukaro7074
    @lukaro7074 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Really surprised and somewhat disappointed that the hogaak version here wasn't the bridge from below/ altar of dementia version.

    • @ZakanaHachihaCBC
      @ZakanaHachihaCBC 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That’s not the strongest version of the deck though.

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Altar version is generally considered to be the less reliable and powerful version of the deck. We went with what was widely considered to be the optimal build by Hogaak players at the time :)

  • @douglasarnett-arnold1516
    @douglasarnett-arnold1516 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The hat is cool. Called it scam just too good. Also nice blood moon play.

  • @AricHaldan0782
    @AricHaldan0782 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    This was a very surprising outcome and exactly why this series is so interesting. I had no idea Hogaak used to be this slow 😱
    I am kinda sad this isn't a best of five format though since it seems like variance fucked up the Hogaak deck here. There weren't any explosive Hogaak starts at all and the ragavan into blood moon game 1 is just a devastatingly good opening for Rakdos Scam.

    • @malte54
      @malte54 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      That version of hogaak wasn't fast, because they took the post bridge from below ban version. It's not the strongest / fastest version of hogaak
      I'm a little bit disappointed tbh.

    • @Zakading
      @Zakading 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@malte54 Yeah, non-Bridge Hogaak is such a baffling choice.

    • @malte54
      @malte54 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Zakading
      I mean, maybe they got 2 versions of hogaak and the faster one just didn't make it in the pre matches. That'd be okay then.

    • @DuncanHarbison
      @DuncanHarbison 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Hogaak wasn't slow, this build was just bad + he kept bad hands + he was against turn 2 blood moon going second.

    • @ZakanaHachihaCBC
      @ZakanaHachihaCBC 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@malte54This is the strongest build of Gaak.

  • @andrewvitale7295
    @andrewvitale7295 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I seriously doubt anyone had this decklist in mind when they voted for Hogaak

    • @DiscardatRandom
      @DiscardatRandom 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah no way

    • @travisbrown9936
      @travisbrown9936 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The deck seems much worse than the Hogaak decks from when Hogaak was around lol

    • @ZakanaHachihaCBC
      @ZakanaHachihaCBC 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I had the post-ban list in mind. Everyone considered that to be the better version of the deck anyway.

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We picked the deck that was generally considered to be the strongest version of hogaak. The bridge list was inconsistent and not as explosive. Don't forget that this exact deck is the only one that went undefeated in the Swiss rounds for this :) it just got unlucky here

  • @Flip4Crypt
    @Flip4Crypt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Neve been happier to vote for Scam before the video dropped
    Great video, saw the length and knew one of the decks was about to work very well

  • @cesarpiedra9165
    @cesarpiedra9165 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the hat. Thoralf has to wear a matching tuxedo for the finals though!

  • @LiquidSoulfly
    @LiquidSoulfly 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yeah, Scam really does take after it's father deck Machine head. Quick and brutal mid control / aggro. You either wipe the floor with them or run out of gas FAST. lol

  • @matthewharvey127
    @matthewharvey127 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Why is the hogaak list the “fair”one rather than the actual busted list, I feel that seems a little weird as hogaak relied on alter and bridge

    • @ZakanaHachihaCBC
      @ZakanaHachihaCBC 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because the bridge version wasn’t the strongest take on Gaak.

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Because the version developed after the bridge ban was generally considered to be the much stronger and consistent version. Don't forget that this is the only deck that went undefeated in the Swiss. It just had a bad showing here

  • @arthurfugolim682
    @arthurfugolim682 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just discovered you guys and I gotta say, probably the best magic gameplay related content out there! Very nice

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm happy you enjoy our content :) we put a lot of love and effort into it! Thank you for the comment

  • @thetoastygoat_
    @thetoastygoat_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Can we get a rematch please with the proper Hogaak list containing Bridge and Altar? This was a game with one deck completely knee-capped

    • @ZakanaHachihaCBC
      @ZakanaHachihaCBC 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why? This is the stronger build of Gaak. Banning Bridge just made Gaak an even stronger deck.

    • @thetoastygoat_
      @thetoastygoat_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ZakanaHachihaCBC nah the bridge deck was a consistent T2/3 Gaak combo kill

    • @ZakanaHachihaCBC
      @ZakanaHachihaCBC 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thetoastygoat_ And yet collectively everyone agrees that post Bridge being banned was when Gaak was the strongest deck around.

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      After the bridge ban, it's generally considered that people found that it helped them find the optimal build of Hogaak. Don't forget that this exact list had the only perfect run in the Swiss. It just got unlucky here and thoralf drew perfectly

  • @szipszi9625
    @szipszi9625 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Thoralf is good at stopping Hogaak from winning tournaments 😄
    Let's see if he can do it again

  • @Unyubaby
    @Unyubaby 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Scam vs Post is going to be interesting, the oldest deck on the list versus the youngest.

  • @NeoHellPoet
    @NeoHellPoet 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is MH2 vs MH1
    It's night and day. Everything that got banned prior to the 2020's should probably be strongly reevaluated, maybe even mass unbanned because that's basically what we need to maybe get one viable new deck into the meta.

  • @novaticterra838
    @novaticterra838 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think we need more hats in these videos! (Love the content as always

  • @bonkstephenson4803
    @bonkstephenson4803 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I think this match shows an interesting detail of what kind of metas these deck lists were going into. Hogaak was dominant during a bit of a combo-y nightmare in modern, and it's low amount of counterplay towards the scam strategy seems to prove that it was more dominant in a less interactive meta

  • @davidhansen5067
    @davidhansen5067 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Not the outcome I was expecting! In hindsight, though, it makes a lot of sense. Modern is a brave new world, for better or for worse.

    • @davidhansen5067
      @davidhansen5067 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Personally, I miss the day then I learned that Counterspell was being added to Modern. I rejoiced, dreaming of a mono-Blue control deck.

  • @Razomka
    @Razomka 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Literally stunned into silence with that one!
    Great video, unreal content but holy moly!

  • @brunni11
    @brunni11 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The whole thing I don't get about the tournament system you chose is why the best decks from swiss rounds are matched against each other round one of the tournament bracket. Shouldn't it be best vs worst, second best vs. second worst etc.? Otherwise again a great series, keep going with the cool content. :)

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      We all picked decks we were most comfortable piloting, and then the matchups wetr simply due to logistics. We only had Andrea over for one weekend and Jamin & Thoralf were not available on one of those days. So we had them play their semis the day before Andrea arrived. Then Andrea and I played all our games once he arrived :)

    • @brunni11
      @brunni11 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CardmarketMagic Ah that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. :D

  • @dryearlylth
    @dryearlylth 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thoralf does have a very nice hat in this video! I like it!

  • @DylanHunter64
    @DylanHunter64 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just when I thought I couldn't hate Scam anymore, it goes and crushes the deck that I think most would consider the most degenerate in the format's history. What a killer.

  • @SuperPuffXD
    @SuperPuffXD 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ALWAYS love the silly outfits and accompanying jokes. Brings me so much joy

  • @int3r4ct
    @int3r4ct 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yeah that’s about the length of a video of Scam against the ‘Gaak.

  • @dannyboy1200
    @dannyboy1200 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Scam is gonna take this. Just a Ragavan into early Blood Moon completely destroys the other decks which all relies on fancy lands.

  • @thizzabeat8327
    @thizzabeat8327 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i like Thoralf's hat and also Jamin's not so existing hat :D

  • @lloydlineske2642
    @lloydlineske2642 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well... That's pretty funny that I've guessed wrong at every one of these. 😂

  • @spidery7618
    @spidery7618 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    WOW, what a massacre. Good thing I didn’t look at the time beforehand, oh my god 😂

  • @phlsphr42
    @phlsphr42 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ya'll forgot the Ragavan dash eot trigger. Also, the proper T1 play for Hogaak game 2 was Thoughtseize. The best play is almost always the one that reduces the opponent's options, *before* maximizing one's own options (which is why T2 Moon in game 1 is better than T2 Fable, for example).

  • @gakk8658
    @gakk8658 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I didn't know Jamin had major competitive success, that's awesome.

  • @janmelantu7490
    @janmelantu7490 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Modern Horizons duel! We’ll have to pit these against next year’s MH3 deck

  • @semperignotus
    @semperignotus 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yeah, objectively knowing the amount of grave hate and disruption scam has, Jamin really should have TS’ed turn 1. Ripping the Dauthi would have allowed him to do something before that second one came down.

  • @clovergannon
    @clovergannon 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I like when Jamin doesn't wear hats. That's definitely my favorite part.

  • @kirika119
    @kirika119 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love these type of videos. They are a lot of fun and that guy with the hat has such a contagious smile ^_^

  • @Roll-Penut
    @Roll-Penut 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow, another underdog victory that I called on the voting. Just like with 12 post

  • @bryantwalker5761
    @bryantwalker5761 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dash ragavan has to go back to hand. Doesn’t matter in this case, but still. It might be relevant to remember that in future videos !

  • @michaelsparks1571
    @michaelsparks1571 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    This round needs to be redone with the "real", combo version of the Hogaak deck, with Bridges/Atlars/Etc.
    Scam has plenty of tools like Blood Moon and Dauthi that will still pose a problem and Hogaak could definitely still lose.
    But this list has zero explosivity to it and is in no way representative of why Hogaak was a problem.
    Pitting a full-power Scam deck against a mid-tier fair deck that just happens to have Hogaak in it isn't really the matchup advertised.

    • @Zion661
      @Zion661 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      exactly

    • @CardmarketMagic
      @CardmarketMagic  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This was actually what is widely considered to he the optimal version of hogaak. It was often said that banning bridge taught players to make a better hogaak deck, and that is just made the deck stronger. Don't forget that this exact build is the only deck that went undefeated in the Swiss rounds for this. Even beating scam. Thoralf simply drew the nuts this game ;)

  • @soupcansam75
    @soupcansam75 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Haven't watched the video, haven't read the comments but seeing the title "Scam vs Hogaak" and the video being only 13 minutes long makes a lot of sense.

  • @pitmaster226
    @pitmaster226 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Knew it was gonna be scam. Hogak is a dredge deck at its heart, it’s never been as powerful as The Gaak makes it seem.

  • @Bigd2k
    @Bigd2k 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It’s matchups like this that always made me like sports. When it comes to tournament play. Matchups is more important then overall strength.

  • @AlexAlddn
    @AlexAlddn 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Next big tournament I'll wear a hat as the one Toralf is wearing, it's too cool.

  • @jackcherry474
    @jackcherry474 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    We need a round two of this series with Nadu

  • @hotcoldman9793
    @hotcoldman9793 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The best accidental counter of all time that no one saw coming!