I'm loving feeling special as a UA-cam main who occasionally pops into Twitch when our timezones align - but man, I hope your ISP is reimbursing you hard. Incidentally I actually miss hearing you interacting with chat.
1:03:41 If Cat/Oven is a big part of the Pioneer meta, I think a deck like this would want at least one Hidetsugu Consumes All and one Abrade in the board.
Great vid!! In game 3 of match one, after you misclicked you could have stomped their 1/1 Lieutenant to draw out the Brave, then Volley the 3/3 one! But I understand you were stun-locked from the disappointment of misclicking, alas
It depends on the opponent; I think in that situation the opponent *should* value larger one enough to save their brave for it and let the other lieutenant go
No kroxa in this list seems like a big mistake. Love this deck though, midrange in pioneer is so satisfying. Also sacrifice has been on the come up because it has a good matchup vs creature based aggro and rakdos mid. You can play hidetsugu saga in the side as a response to help in the matchup. I've been running 1-2 copies to make the matchup tolerable.
"i had once upin a pime" lol classic english major butchering the english language XD. love the vids! would definitely like to see some more pioneer. starting to see a resurgence of pioneer at locals. was thinking of buying a cheap jund landfall deck and just having fun playing a janky home brew.
You don't really play the adversary as a 2/2, way better to copy dark dwellers with kiki (no need to pay extra mana for a spell). In that situation the haste also doesn't matter.
Just me or is Cut / Ribbons just bad? I guess it's a flex slot, but you can't flash it back with goblin dark dwellers. It doesn't hit planeswalkers. Rakdos midrange, to me, is notorious for getting 25 cards deep in their deck and still having only 4 or 5 lands in play because they have fable and blood tokens to discard excess. When will ribbons ever be relevant? It just seems like a pet card but I see it in most rakdos midrange lists at this point. I honestly think Thundering Rebuke is a better card. I'd also rank lava coil above it, personally. Or the 4th dreadbore even, but I play only Explorer so we have no dreadbore. Not like you chose the card though. You just grabbed the list. I wonder what you and others think of the card. I'm just surprised how often I see it. Maybe I underestimate the nuke out of the graveyard, even if it's just 3 or 4 damage.
I've really been enjoying these youtube-only videos, feels so much nicer than when there's a twitch chat.
I'm loving feeling special as a UA-cam main who occasionally pops into Twitch when our timezones align - but man, I hope your ISP is reimbursing you hard. Incidentally I actually miss hearing you interacting with chat.
1:03:41 If Cat/Oven is a big part of the Pioneer meta, I think a deck like this would want at least one Hidetsugu Consumes All and one Abrade in the board.
Great vid!! In game 3 of match one, after you misclicked you could have stomped their 1/1 Lieutenant to draw out the Brave, then Volley the 3/3 one! But I understand you were stun-locked from the disappointment of misclicking, alas
I wanted to say this exactly. Blinded by the misclick.
Also Stomp says damage can’t be prevented so if you target the creature and they give it protection the damage still goes through i’m pretty sure
@@nebDDa i believe it prevents the targeting not the damage
It depends on the opponent; I think in that situation the opponent *should* value larger one enough to save their brave for it and let the other lieutenant go
No kroxa in this list seems like a big mistake. Love this deck though, midrange in pioneer is so satisfying.
Also sacrifice has been on the come up because it has a good matchup vs creature based aggro and rakdos mid. You can play hidetsugu saga in the side as a response to help in the matchup. I've been running 1-2 copies to make the matchup tolerable.
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Jim, the Mono Green Tef4ri deck is all the rage recently. Do you want to do a video on it? It's a very busted deck
11:50 I could see an argument for a 50/50 Thoughtseize/Lifebane split.
12:02... Yay! Great minds...
"i had once upin a pime" lol classic english major butchering the english language XD.
love the vids! would definitely like to see some more pioneer. starting to see a resurgence of pioneer at locals. was thinking of buying a cheap jund landfall deck and just having fun playing a janky home brew.
why gdd over bloodthirsty adversary? i would have thought the haste and utility would have been more useful than menace
You don't really play the adversary as a 2/2, way better to copy dark dwellers with kiki (no need to pay extra mana for a spell). In that situation the haste also doesn't matter.
The sizing is also much better as a 4/4 is miles better than a 3/3
@@JimDavisMTG fair enough - i am definitely a fan of gdd, but was thinking there would be a few times where haste+removal would be more valuable
I haven't run into a Cat-Oven player who isn't a slow Cat-Oven player.
I managed to top 8 my first ever RCQ this last weekend with a version of this list! It was very exciting, and I had lots of fun!
Just me or is Cut / Ribbons just bad? I guess it's a flex slot, but you can't flash it back with goblin dark dwellers. It doesn't hit planeswalkers. Rakdos midrange, to me, is notorious for getting 25 cards deep in their deck and still having only 4 or 5 lands in play because they have fable and blood tokens to discard excess. When will ribbons ever be relevant? It just seems like a pet card but I see it in most rakdos midrange lists at this point. I honestly think Thundering Rebuke is a better card. I'd also rank lava coil above it, personally. Or the 4th dreadbore even, but I play only Explorer so we have no dreadbore.
Not like you chose the card though. You just grabbed the list. I wonder what you and others think of the card. I'm just surprised how often I see it. Maybe I underestimate the nuke out of the graveyard, even if it's just 3 or 4 damage.
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Can't wait for this deck to get LOTV.
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@@loqztv Liliana of the Veil
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Jim I love your content. But man I have a hard time watching any of your MTGO stuff the client is just too crusty for me.
can't even finish an entire league... Get back to work!
In game 2 mabey it wloud have been better just cast bone crusjer giante and Block adeleen