The finals pits Autumn Burchett against Yoshihiko Ikawa to see who will win the $50,000 first place prize and an invite to 2019's $1,000,000 Magic World Championship. Who will it be? Full Coverage: magic.wizards....
Legend has it when the fallout happened and technology was destroyed, the most hardcore gamers came up with a way to continue playing MTGArena. They did this by inscribing the cards they remembered on pieces of cardboard to continue the tradition, but they had to shuffle and keep track of the rules themselves.... Oh wait actually the card game came first, duh.
Theyre hosted in crappy American convention centers half the time now instead of foreign destinations and less and less money is being put into paper tournaments
The stage does seem much less impressive, sort of more like a Grand Prix. Maybe it's because so much money has gone into the new esports development, prizing, arena etc. Hopefully it will get better. They are trying a lot of new stuff.
Dreadnaught1985 yeah they got lucky there, although I’d argue that Ikawa probably shouldn’t have milled the guaranteed land with azcanta. But it also comforts me a bit to see pro players make misplays like that, gives me a bit of hope that I can make it too someday hahah. *Edit: nvm what I said about Ikawa’s play: it was the correct decision at the time since it guarantees the Azcanta flip. Derp.
Tori Reaney Truth is not "all about perspective", or it shouldn't be. Don't get me wrong, I agree with trans rights and everything, but the whole "their truth" thing is bullshit. Don't call it your truth, call it the truth, cause it is. Anyways, you're right, and congrats to Autumn for their win.
ure she/he played it very well, this side work(putting off the djinns for ex who the fck would do that lol) and the delay on curious opt etc.. but still the matchup is a 60/40in favor of mono blue. the deck is strong atm in this particular meta
It's probably even a better strategy tbh, the distraction factor might be more important than the sliver of information it might reveal (especially against rigid and anal opponents)
I'm broken on it. I tend to have a theme to my basics depending on the deck. I just built a budget U/G madness for casual using different basics (1 art per block, counting back from Onslaught to Tempest+Portal and Second age) and have decks with all the same art like my Experiment Kraj commander deck (Ravnica City of Guilds basics). I think the one that bugged me was the white boarder. I think it's a 7th ed island? The boarder, being the only one (that I saw) caught the eye.
I can't be the only one to have noticed Yoshihiko's shuffling technique. Anyone know the name of it or a way to describe so I could look it up? I can't seem to find a way to learn that myself and simply emulating it hasn't worked out.
So just after game 1 watched: Ikawa played this game MUCH better. Burchett made multiple misplays, though didnt get punished for it. She also kept a worse starting hand and got rewarded with lucky draws, while Ikawa kept a 3 Lander and struggles to find the 4th Land ON THE PLAY on TURN 4 with a 26 Land Deck.
Cpt Fairgraves I kinda agree, and having seen the semis with Reid, Autumn seemed really lucky. I don't want to take away from their achievement, because they still are extremely talented and the deck is not easy to play, but knowing how lucky their draws were compared to Reid'a (or mine when I play this deck :( ) , it feels kinda bad.
Yea commentators not realising the sesrch wouldnt flip without throwing the top land away. First game was very close after Autumn played that Djinn, good move?
Commentators really need to make more use of the hand viewer, Autumn had Negate in their opening hand game 1 and Paul and Marshall totally lost their minds like "OHHH THE 1-OF NEGATE!!" when Autumn played it on turn 4
@@the7A7dude ya it's like Merfolk in modern, it's a deck full of decisions to make every turn. It seems linear and boring on the surface but there's a ton of Mana management and variance management involved.
It's like "pro" control decks lol. It's so skill intensive to draw/pass every turn and just counter/remove everything your opponent does until they have nothing left. XD
@@aR0ttenBANANA yeah this deck is super strong when you draw well and she drew well and made some mistakes that the opponent wasn't able to punish. Doesn't mean that having counterspells is what makes the deck strong, just read what that guy said about "pro control decks" and tell me it's not completely retarded.
How is it Autumn plays 2 chart a course, yet all lists that have been posted for autumn only shows 1 chart a course in the entire 75? Can Wotc clarify what autumns list actually contained?
Wasnt during this game, it was vs reid duke, who even talks about autumns list not having entrancing melody, but every list that is listed for Autumn shows entrancing melody. I am just wanting to clarify what the winning list actually was.
the lyra at 53:35 is so genius because if autumn uses essence capture, which might well be the mathematically correct play, they just lose unless they draw another counterspell
i never can never tell or understand how or when a game ends.. in 40:03 what happens there? edit: nevermind they misplaced the win marker to the wrong player
Counter spell Counter spell Counter spell Counter spell. We see a very Seriouse amount of skill here. Very thrilling match actually getting SOMETHING onto the field. I love magic dont get me wrong lol.
You are so woke! Give yourself a real pat on the back there, you deserve it. I just hope "they" got enough attention today. It's a constant cycle of attention seeking meets virtue signaling. It is amusing to watch.
@@mtealey34Is something wrong? A good person won a tournament... And I think they played well... The fact that person stands up for a minority is also great. It's not attention seeking in the slightest.
40:02 Ikawa won the game but the indicator gave Burchett the win with a second dot appearing, but they did fix it before the next game I just like pointing things out like that
Well if anyone was wondering what the top deck in standard right now is than this should tell you. Four of the top 8 played monoblue, and monoblue literally never lost except to another monoblue player. When monoblue gets its top draw, or even something close to that, its almost unbeatable right now.
@@riku-petterikyllonen2774 Maybe white aggro can to some degree, but not easily. Mono-blue can have a counter up on turn 3 even when going second with essence capture, spell pierce, and a wizard boosted retort, and turn 3 is when mono-white wants to play their big cards like Benalish Marshal and History of Benalia.
@matt condo The correct line in that scenario is to widen your board with low mana creatures and force the mono blue player to tap out for board presence and play marshals and benalias later.
@@riku-petterikyllonen2774 You're absolutely correct, top draw for top draw mono-white is one of the few, perhaps the only, deck that has the advantage over mono-blue. They have to have a lot of one drops to pressure though because mono-blue will quickly overwhelm them with card advantage and cheap counter spells otherwise. Merfolk tricksters can also heavily slow down mono-white's tempo. So the matchup isn't a gimme for mono-white, though it is favored.
CapsulatePluto true. However, it’s generally unwise to have more than 60. Regardless, a look at the meta reveals that these are generally 60 card decks so it’s fair to assume that theirs are as well.
Probably double sleeved, some KMCs have thicker padding for easier shuffling. You can see their decklists online from this tournament, definitely 60 cards.
I'm not a big fan of Arena. Call me old fashioned, but I enjoy having a few cold ones at my local comic shop with my friends and playing with good old paper cards. My favorite format to play is Vintage, but I also am pretty good in Pauper. There's something about sitting there and seeing the person's face when you combo off a t1 Black Lotus that can't be translated into 1's and 0's. Especially post covid being in person means so much more.
they should forbid card sleeves for the tournaments and print "tournament cards" that are bigger, so the viewers can enjoy it better. Before the Players come to the table, they should go to some person waiting for them, then they give their deck and the person prints the cards the deck has in bigger size for the cameras and the players get their original deck back.
This has been annoying me too, so I developed a Chrome extension that identifies the cards and shows a high-def popup of the cards when hovering with the mouse. It's called "Magic Card Zoom". Check it out and let me know what you think!
8:25 what are they talking about? revealing the hand resulted in wizards retort being discarded. countering it does the same thing but does not reveal the hand. Yeah, if he had taken the djinn or the snare, she'd be holding onto the retorts for later, but he didn't
btssam Opponent is unlikely to take counterspell as they can play around it, thus, countering the discard spell would leave your defense down in the coming turns.
@@kylesanderfer856 I wouldn't really say opponent is unlikely to take counter, and that's sort of my whole point, especially considering opponent did take the counter
They said it was good there because Ikawa still had 1B open. Burchett knew if she tapped out to counter the Thought Erasure she would have been vulnerable to a possible Cast Down from Ikawa to blow up her Pteramander and get rid of her card advantage
My first thoughts watching this (I only watched the finals, because I'm lazy) "I think I played against these decks on Arena..." I've seen both Esper control and BlueTempo popping up a lot. I'm not even in any significant rank, I'm sitting in Silver right now, running Golgari Aristocrats.
yee i got a few matches with that miller deck, 2 diffrent, 1- it mills you to death, or you can mill your self to near death jsut having as the next to last card beeing heroes going back and fourth ,tez taking all your perms and another steeling perms from your grave yard to use as his own, it was canser hehe
Just play a mono red aggro deck and this will get you to gold 1 very quick. Its perfect for new players. Not too much stuff to fuck up and its either a quick win or loss(in silver rather win), so you dont spend too much time in a game, which makes it less stressful. Later on when you're in gold you'll maybe try out stuff like white red or white (watch pewdiepie's 2 magic videos on youtube, his cards are expensive but you might can get something with the idea of his deck, thats cheaper and will still get you to plat) once you're plat, you stop playing ranked for now and experiment on play with a few meta decks, learn to play them check out the website mtg-goldfish for it, maybe customize the decks to your liking until youre happy and confident in pushing further to diamond. And after that I dont know. Im only diamond myself and cant get further lol
@@3colors93 ah yes, the choice of Arena. Playing a braindead momo red or a braindead mono blue. Might as well force every player to run those two since it's the only thing you'll meet from silver and up.
In their own words (and my experience) it's because they're normally very emotive, and for a large part of their Magic life (up until around 2015, I want to say) that gave away a lot of information about how Autumn felt about a particular draw or board state. Autumn puts on the game face to hide that information.
how can they play with that plastic sheet on each card.. why do they stress on the quality of the cards.... after 5yr 1-1 has some scratch.. u can buy more or just ignore..
yeah woo all magic is now days is decks with a million counter spells so much fun. Control decks just are not fun, might be great for tournament, but i know zero play groups that will put up with constant control decks.
Yeah we onky want aggro right. Just aggro. Nothing else. Play another game then :p or you have a shitty playgrouo that doesn't knoe hoe to play against controk
I'm not saying dont have counters and removal. By all means do have answers but having a deck made to just counter the other player out of the games is no fun (my opinion).
Geez. 2019 and people are still whining about counters. I was tired of that shit in 1997. Find a way to win. Be better. If you didn’t notice, mono blue lost throughout the tournament too- even in the hands of the Duke.
Someone needs to add a screen somewhere with animation/action following a card drop. I can't believe no one has thought about this ...with sound effects. Oh well seems interesting. Came here from the Magic documentary.
In game 5, if Ikawa had played cast down first to draw the counter instead of thief he could have put Kaya down after. Of course we have knowledge of the hands but it could have turned the game.
Great match! Funny thing, so I only play commander, but back before Dominaria I built a deck very similar where it basically had unblockable merfolk, curious obsession, and counter magic. I only played a few games, but I did win 1/3 games against a 'glory bringer' deck. My whole deck was like $15.
Rather odd thing I noticed... often times, Autumn doesn't look at the card that they're drawing before entering combat. Seems like if they drew a Curious Obsession they'd rather play that pre-combat mainphase? Why not look at the card?
Richard Irving I think they did see the card, but Autumn knows not to get greedy and play spells because the control deck will punish them for it. At least that's my assumption.
This was the first championship of that level that was named this way. They were called Pro Tour before. So, although this is the 1st Mythic Championship, they're count Pro Tour presences as Mythic Championship appearances (wich is a dumb move from Wizards and will confuse everyone that started playing on Arena)
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You'd think they'd invest in a 4k camera so people could read the text on the cards
They have a card reader when the cards are played, you could watch the playback in a higher resolution.
@@BoZoiD57 is there a link for the play back.
Personally, I'm glad there's no 4k so I don't have to look at that being
Edit: Poor Japanese guy :(
you still nedd 4k monitor or tv
Also, they used to not have the image on the side, so it’s not great but much better than the older championships
I miss paper magic so much for some reason I can never get into watching The Arena championship but paper magic I can always get into
Likewise
I think it’s because the paper cards look heavier, and the art looks less plasticky as compared to Arena cards.
Paper magic isn't rigged 😅
GAME 1 : 1:23
GAME 2: 14:20
GAME 3: 31:10
GAME 4: 45:50
GAME 5: 1:04:09
Thanks man
Are finals allways Bo5..? I've never really followed the pro scene
@@LedPESRule yeah, for pro tours... Oops i mean mythic champs
U da best
@@YouAreOneOfUs autumn burhette won
Look, finally some coverage of any paper magic game
Digital is the future
@@owllord3346 yeah, but I prefer to watch paper Magic over digital
Seriously right
LMAO they made MTGArena into a real thing!
^ ?
Legend has it when the fallout happened and technology was destroyed, the most hardcore gamers came up with a way to continue playing MTGArena. They did this by inscribing the cards they remembered on pieces of cardboard to continue the tradition, but they had to shuffle and keep track of the rules themselves....
Oh wait actually the card game came first, duh.
Great bait mate 👍
hahaha i guess you own a mono red troll deck dude :) haha
Michael Huebner Woooosh
Must be fun getting all your spells countered for 2 mana...
Yeah the esper dude with his negates looks so annoying
play vintage , only 0 and 1 mana counter ...
@@neil2451 IT'S MA'AM (I think)
@@oliverhand9408 CALL ME SIR ONE MORE TIME
Sir I have to ask you to leave
There were so many moments where Ikawa seemed like he had it. Sad. I was cheering for both of them.
57:00 This is what we in the biz call a power move.
Tapping that 4 lands, poor Autumn lol
Why does the pro tour look like it's gotten way lower in quality?
Theyre hosted in crappy American convention centers half the time now instead of foreign destinations and less and less money is being put into paper tournaments
Same bad quality
The stage does seem much less impressive, sort of more like a Grand Prix. Maybe it's because so much money has gone into the new esports development, prizing, arena etc. Hopefully it will get better. They are trying a lot of new stuff.
Crysis
Because they fired the majority of their streaming staff.
Super impressed with the pretty much flawless play from Autumn, the sequencing they went with has given me thoughts about my own gameplay.
they?!
@@revoktorment440 ?!?
@@Grannit666 They can't tell what 'it' is so they are saying "they".
Its just one moster, not "" they""
Ahhhh that hug at the end!!! What an incredible final match!!
Burchett played almost flawlessly throughout. Definitely one of the tensest finals I’ve seen yet.
@@Sosroseno There was that misplay in game 1, but luckily, not punished. Ifr the opponent had a land drop on the azcanta flip it was over.
Dreadnaught1985 yeah they got lucky there, although I’d argue that Ikawa probably shouldn’t have milled the guaranteed land with azcanta. But it also comforts me a bit to see pro players make misplays like that, gives me a bit of hope that I can make it too someday hahah.
*Edit: nvm what I said about Ikawa’s play: it was the correct decision at the time since it guarantees the Azcanta flip. Derp.
@@cptfairgraves9120 why are you concerned with their gender? It has literally nothing to do with the way they play magic. SMDH
Tori Reaney Truth is not "all about perspective", or it shouldn't be. Don't get me wrong, I agree with trans rights and everything, but the whole "their truth" thing is bullshit. Don't call it your truth, call it the truth, cause it is. Anyways, you're right, and congrats to Autumn for their win.
That Game 3 was awesome. I'm definitely adding Kaya to my esper deck's sideboard
$72 beat $542 lol
Melvin Fonseca Zúñiga isn't it amazing that we actually ended up with such a budget top tier deck?
@josh gill humanitarian/comedian it's a counter deck no skill he just used 1 creature
@@brandenspor1650 sure dude play it, deck isn't easy to play well. Autumn played really well
ure she/he played it very well, this side work(putting off the djinns for ex who the fck would do that lol) and the delay on curious opt etc.. but still the matchup is a 60/40in favor of mono blue. the deck is strong atm in this particular meta
@@elbe0072 mono-blue tempo is the opposite of "cancer" in any format.
I have watched this finals 27 times(I've been counting) no clue why, uts just one of those vids you never get board of
I'm on my 3rd re-watch right now, and same, there is just so much to learn from this match
Those mismatched islands
I guess it's supposed to be all different art...?
Esper Islands or death when it comes to playing mono blue
It's probably even a better strategy tbh, the distraction factor might be more important than the sliver of information it might reveal (especially against rigid and anal opponents)
Whatever the art, every Island is perfect
I'm broken on it. I tend to have a theme to my basics depending on the deck. I just built a budget U/G madness for casual using different basics (1 art per block, counting back from Onslaught to Tempest+Portal and Second age) and have decks with all the same art like my Experiment Kraj commander deck (Ravnica City of Guilds basics). I think the one that bugged me was the white boarder. I think it's a 7th ed island? The boarder, being the only one (that I saw) caught the eye.
I can't be the only one to have noticed Yoshihiko's shuffling technique. Anyone know the name of it or a way to describe so I could look it up? I can't seem to find a way to learn that myself and simply emulating it hasn't worked out.
Would have been good to see one of Ikawa's friends run up to him in the end too.. but then slow down to give him a pat on the back..
So just after game 1 watched: Ikawa played this game MUCH better. Burchett made multiple misplays, though didnt get punished for it. She also kept a worse starting hand and got rewarded with lucky draws, while Ikawa kept a 3 Lander and struggles to find the 4th Land ON THE PLAY on TURN 4 with a 26 Land Deck.
Cpt Fairgraves I kinda agree, and having seen the semis with Reid, Autumn seemed really lucky. I don't want to take away from their achievement, because they still are extremely talented and the deck is not easy to play, but knowing how lucky their draws were compared to Reid'a (or mine when I play this deck :( ) , it feels kinda bad.
Yea commentators not realising the sesrch wouldnt flip without throwing the top land away. First game was very close after Autumn played that Djinn, good move?
Taking out the counters for bringing Thief of Sanity in wasn't a smart move. Anyway I won't feel bad next time I lost to Monoblue tempo.
I like both Autumm and Yoshihiko-san. They seem really nice people. Either way I would be happy.
Yeah, those guys are really great.
Aggreed
Autumn’s play was masterful. Blew me away. So pumped they won. Cried at the end.
Autumn Burchett navigated that match like a MASTER. I'm in awe.
Commentators really need to make more use of the hand viewer, Autumn had Negate in their opening hand game 1 and Paul and Marshall totally lost their minds like "OHHH THE 1-OF NEGATE!!" when Autumn played it on turn 4
wouldn't have been such an exciting moment then
@@busTedOaS We already knew about the Negate so it wasn't exciting anyway
I want GP coverage back.
56:54 awesome move!
God I HATE THIS MONOBLUE DECK lmao
@@the7A7dude ya it's like Merfolk in modern, it's a deck full of decisions to make every turn. It seems linear and boring on the surface but there's a ton of Mana management and variance management involved.
yeah its really hard to make sure you leave 1 or 2 blue up each turn...really takes a pro level of play to do...
It's like "pro" control decks lol. It's so skill intensive to draw/pass every turn and just counter/remove everything your opponent does until they have nothing left. XD
@@neil2451 lol if this series isn't proof that you can do mistake after mistake with mono blue and still come out on top then idk what to tell you.
@@aR0ttenBANANA yeah this deck is super strong when you draw well and she drew well and made some mistakes that the opponent wasn't able to punish. Doesn't mean that having counterspells is what makes the deck strong, just read what that guy said about "pro control decks" and tell me it's not completely retarded.
I kind of dig the mismatched lands over on Burchett's side. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who does that.
How is it Autumn plays 2 chart a course, yet all lists that have been posted for autumn only shows 1 chart a course in the entire 75? Can Wotc clarify what autumns list actually contained?
Shhhh, don't question us planeswalkers, we don't have to justify our spells
Probably cheating like 68% of pros
@@Fleabio yes because everyone that wins and gains fame obviously cheated
And the list actually shows two
Carvalho or however it's spelled cheated again at this very tournament...cheating is rampant in MTG don't pretend it isn't
Why am I watching this I don’t even play magic
To defeat the enemy you must study their art, Grand Admiral
One of us! One of us! One of us!
Its really amazing to watch people accomplish their dreams, like Paul and Marshall.
Big props to the commentators
So wheres the pro tour
Wasnt during this game, it was vs reid duke, who even talks about autumns list not having entrancing melody, but every list that is listed for Autumn shows entrancing melody. I am just wanting to clarify what the winning list actually was.
This match was unique. Good matchup.
Kobalt Gaming this is sarcasm right? It has to be
the lyra at 53:35 is so genius because if autumn uses essence capture, which might well be the mathematically correct play, they just lose unless they draw another counterspell
i never can never tell or understand how or when a game ends..
in 40:03 what happens there? edit: nevermind they misplaced the win marker to the wrong player
Counter spell Counter spell Counter spell Counter spell. We see a very Seriouse amount of skill here. Very thrilling match actually getting SOMETHING onto the field.
I love magic dont get me wrong lol.
All the people here saying mono blue is a low skill/brainless deck have no idea what theyre babbling about.
Match 4 was crazy, if Ikawa played that eldest reborn before the thief of sanity he would have won
Yea, i still think esper control is better than mono blue
No, autumn had a negate as well as a pierce, so it didn’t really matter.
Fantastic match! Autumn played that so well. Beautifully calm and controlled in their play. A fine example for all magic players to follow!!
No, cheating is not a good ideal
@@midnalight6419 cheating? Where? who? Please explain.
Uhh no? Some of the worst play in a finals I've seen since SOI
You are so woke! Give yourself a real pat on the back there, you deserve it. I just hope "they" got enough attention today. It's a constant cycle of attention seeking meets virtue signaling. It is amusing to watch.
@@mtealey34Is something wrong? A good person won a tournament... And I think they played well... The fact that person stands up for a minority is also great. It's not attention seeking in the slightest.
40:02 Ikawa won the game but the indicator gave Burchett the win with a second dot appearing, but they did fix it before the next game I just like pointing things out like that
1000000 Dollar
Still not enough for playing Vintage
Supreme Court Vintage, in MTGO, is actually one of, if not, the cheapest format in the game. Of course, physically is a whole different story!
Awwww man that hug at the end is the best
Bring back the Pro Tour, Wizards. Stop to destroy a 25 years legacy.
That Lucky Hat Though!
Well if anyone was wondering what the top deck in standard right now is than this should tell you. Four of the top 8 played monoblue, and monoblue literally never lost except to another monoblue player. When monoblue gets its top draw, or even something close to that, its almost unbeatable right now.
The Top 8 actually had 3 monoblue lists, not 4, alongside 1 esper control, 1 gruul burn, 1 azorius aggro, 1 izzet phoenix, and 1 simic Nexus. Still really impressive, though!
The agro decks can easily go beneath the "nut draw" of mono-Blue
@@riku-petterikyllonen2774 Maybe white aggro can to some degree, but not easily. Mono-blue can have a counter up on turn 3 even when going second with essence capture, spell pierce, and a wizard boosted retort, and turn 3 is when mono-white wants to play their big cards like Benalish Marshal and History of Benalia.
@matt condo The correct line in that scenario is to widen your board with low mana creatures and force the mono blue player to tap out for board presence and play marshals and benalias later.
@@riku-petterikyllonen2774 You're absolutely correct, top draw for top draw mono-white is one of the few, perhaps the only, deck that has the advantage over mono-blue. They have to have a lot of one drops to pressure though because mono-blue will quickly overwhelm them with card advantage and cheap counter spells otherwise. Merfolk tricksters can also heavily slow down mono-white's tempo. So the matchup isn't a gimme for mono-white, though it is favored.
wtf does mythic mean?
Oh no, I don’t think McNuggets wants to play
Those decks are more than 60 cards, what format are they playing? They use multiple of the same cards so it can’t be commander, anyone know?
Standard
There is no max deck size in standard as long as you can effectively shuffle your deck.
CapsulatePluto true. However, it’s generally unwise to have more than 60. Regardless, a look at the meta reveals that these are generally 60 card decks so it’s fair to assume that theirs are as well.
@@zoeysutherland7470 get some massive hand
Probably double sleeved, some KMCs have thicker padding for easier shuffling. You can see their decklists online from this tournament, definitely 60 cards.
I'm not a big fan of Arena. Call me old fashioned, but I enjoy having a few cold ones at my local comic shop with my friends and playing with good old paper cards. My favorite format to play is Vintage, but I also am pretty good in Pauper. There's something about sitting there and seeing the person's face when you combo off a t1 Black Lotus that can't be translated into 1's and 0's. Especially post covid being in person means so much more.
So you play formats that don’t matter. We got ya.
I came here expecting the winner to get a golden card trophy or something unique and fancy. :c
Stacked hand from Autumn. Yoshi down to 2 life knows about all the counters. He never should have attacked with that Thief of Sanity.
Christian Victor Atienza Thief makes players greedy lol. To be fair it feels absolutely incredible to hit your opponent with one.
He was desperate. I don't think it mattered if he attacked or not. He knew he was on the ropes.
wait, ikawa´s card are in japanese?
yes
thats why blue is the best colour , counterspell ....
Other colors also have counter spells 2 not just blue . blue is just the most common ...
Do you mean Red and White ? 😂😂😂 thats 1 card , blue has 1000 counter
No one expects mana tithe...
Can we get some 4k at least 1080 can even read the cards just blurry
you can watch in 1080
Which is why they have announcers
they should forbid card sleeves for the tournaments and print "tournament cards" that are bigger, so the viewers can enjoy it better. Before the Players come to the table, they should go to some person waiting for them, then they give their deck and the person prints the cards the deck has in bigger size for the cameras and the players get their original deck back.
This has been annoying me too, so I developed a Chrome extension that identifies the cards and shows a high-def popup of the cards when hovering with the mouse. It's called "Magic Card Zoom". Check it out and let me know what you think!
8:25 what are they talking about? revealing the hand resulted in wizards retort being discarded. countering it does the same thing but does not reveal the hand. Yeah, if he had taken the djinn or the snare, she'd be holding onto the retorts for later, but he didn't
btssam Opponent is unlikely to take counterspell as they can play around it, thus, countering the discard spell would leave your defense down in the coming turns.
@@kylesanderfer856 I wouldn't really say opponent is unlikely to take counter, and that's sort of my whole point, especially considering opponent did take the counter
They said it was good there because Ikawa still had 1B open.
Burchett knew if she tapped out to counter the Thought Erasure she would have been vulnerable to a possible Cast Down from Ikawa to blow up her Pteramander and get rid of her card advantage
wouldn't have had mana to defend against possible removal ikawa may have followed up with though
My first thoughts watching this (I only watched the finals, because I'm lazy)
"I think I played against these decks on Arena..." I've seen both Esper control and BlueTempo popping up a lot. I'm not even in any significant rank, I'm sitting in Silver right now, running Golgari Aristocrats.
yee i got a few matches with that miller deck, 2 diffrent, 1- it mills you to death, or you can mill your self to near death jsut having as the next to last card beeing heroes going back and fourth ,tez taking all your perms and another steeling perms from your grave yard to use as his own, it was canser hehe
Just play a mono red aggro deck and this will get you to gold 1 very quick. Its perfect for new players. Not too much stuff to fuck up and its either a quick win or loss(in silver rather win), so you dont spend too much time in a game, which makes it less stressful. Later on when you're in gold you'll maybe try out stuff like white red or white (watch pewdiepie's 2 magic videos on youtube, his cards are expensive but you might can get something with the idea of his deck, thats cheaper and will still get you to plat) once you're plat, you stop playing ranked for now and experiment on play with a few meta decks, learn to play them check out the website mtg-goldfish for it, maybe customize the decks to your liking until youre happy and confident in pushing further to diamond. And after that I dont know. Im only diamond myself and cant get further lol
@@3colors93 ah yes, the choice of Arena. Playing a braindead momo red or a braindead mono blue. Might as well force every player to run those two since it's the only thing you'll meet from silver and up.
at 1:09:29 I think it's much better to play teferi because that basically forces negate then you can resolve kaya
Good job Autumn! Great to see someone from the London scene to win! You have always been a premier player!
Thanks for spoiler
She actually played really bad her game 1
Βασιλείου Σπύροσ It’s usually the player that wins the game, not the deck. Spelling can be confusing, I know! 😘
Sinetic8 😂
@@Ph34121307 Mind clarifing what you thought was poorly played in G1?
Would love to hear your analysis.
They both played well, I think autumn drew better.
i hate both these decks
it's like you have to be mental to use them.
I love the Esper control deck
It triggers me how Autumn uses different islands from different sets
shes my favorite player!
Autumn Burchett really delivering a masterclass on mono-blue tempo here.
Jesus the way Autumn stares at their opponent when they're thinking seems really BM to me.
In their own words (and my experience) it's because they're normally very emotive, and for a large part of their Magic life (up until around 2015, I want to say) that gave away a lot of information about how Autumn felt about a particular draw or board state.
Autumn puts on the game face to hide that information.
BM?
Pena que não teve um BR no top 8...mas foi jogão! Quem é queria um BR no top 8 da um like!
who are they?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
Love all the Islands!
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I love Island!!
Is this the Pro Tour? As I recall it was supposed to take place in London.. Back during the PPTQ at least.
PT London is in April, and is the one which neatly coincides with pre-release weekend for War of the Spark.
Werent they changing the mulligan rules?
ZealousZebra That's for the next pro tour...i mean mythic championship in london
how can they play with that plastic sheet on each card.. why do they stress on the quality of the cards.... after 5yr 1-1 has some scratch.. u can buy more or just ignore..
Awesome performance. That 5th game hat was pretty tilting.
Man I wish they'd bring back the "PRO TOUR" those were the days
Bet you're happy now
yeah woo all magic is now days is decks with a million counter spells so much fun. Control decks just are not fun, might be great for tournament, but i know zero play groups that will put up with constant control decks.
Yeah we onky want aggro right. Just aggro. Nothing else.
Play another game then :p or you have a shitty playgrouo that doesn't knoe hoe to play against controk
don't be such a casual
I'm not saying dont have counters and removal. By all means do have answers but having a deck made to just counter the other player out of the games is no fun (my opinion).
I’m a control player :(
Geez. 2019 and people are still whining about counters. I was tired of that shit in 1997. Find a way to win. Be better. If you didn’t notice, mono blue lost throughout the tournament too- even in the hands of the Duke.
The world will know...no thanks. Poor guy.
South Park brought me here... McNuggets would have dominated.
Vai Pathak FREEEEEEEZZZZEEEE!!!!! I got you now, wheres the cock magic?
Five dorrah!?
Aww ten dorrah!?
ExhibitedDrip 62 dorrah
@@Doors067 awwww 62 dorrah!?
Autumn Burchett, or like I would say "That Which Was Taken"
Paul Scheer's character sure knows a lot about card games.
That spell pierce my
how did i get here
Great video channel
jeez i don't wanna live in a siatuation where i shuffle all my sideboard into my dedck to not give away the info about how many of those i keep
what a rook
Idk if im just dumb but im pretty sure someone summoned an instant without having enough mana
A time stamp would have helped
timestamp?
I've watched this video 27 times and counting, have never seen mana weaving
Someone needs to add a screen somewhere with animation/action following a card drop. I can't believe no one has thought about this ...with sound effects. Oh well seems interesting. Came here from the Magic documentary.
In game 5, if Ikawa had played cast down first to draw the counter instead of thief he could have put Kaya down after. Of course we have knowledge of the hands but it could have turned the game.
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH A 600$ DECK THAT TAKES A GOOD AMOUNT OF SKILL LOSING TO A 60$ MONO BLUE THAT CAN DO MISTAKE AFTER MISTAKE AND STILL WIN.
Modern Splinter Twin: "Did someone say my name?"
Great match!
Funny thing, so I only play commander, but back before Dominaria I built a deck very similar where it basically had unblockable merfolk, curious obsession, and counter magic. I only played a few games, but I did win 1/3 games against a 'glory bringer' deck. My whole deck was like $15.
That was ..... weird
That is frustrating to watch, let alone playing against a deck that counter everything you do.
Not very mythical....
great matches, got a game 5, what more do you want?
I know nothing about Magic the Gathering, why am I even here?
Rather odd thing I noticed... often times, Autumn doesn't look at the card that they're drawing before entering combat. Seems like if they drew a Curious Obsession they'd rather play that pre-combat mainphase? Why not look at the card?
Richard Irving I think they did see the card, but Autumn knows not to get greedy and play spells because the control deck will punish them for it. At least that's my assumption.
TheZacDaniel but you never want to cast curious obsession mp2
Richard Irving did Autumn do that? I must have missed it >.> hmm
autumn is such an icon, i love me trans rep as well as really interesting blue playing!!!
God I miss oko
Im here for South Park
That final round - such patience shown by Autumn - great work :)
I've wondered this forever, what do peo players write down all the time? Its like they all do it
Life totals. Both players keeping track of all life changes is standard for sanctioned play.
This game is mental.
1:11:09 rip Ikawa
How do players have more then 1 mythic championship appearance, when this is mythic championship 1
This was the first championship of that level that was named this way. They were called Pro Tour before. So, although this is the 1st Mythic Championship, they're count Pro Tour presences as Mythic Championship appearances (wich is a dumb move from Wizards and will confuse everyone that started playing on Arena)