Tolarian Tutor: How To Be A Better Combo Player in Magic: The Gathering
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For players who have a bit of a mad scientist bent, Combo can be incredibly appealing, yet also a very challenging archetype to play. You have to know what cards you need, when to put them down, and how they interact in order to get that nearly unstoppable win. But of all the major deck archetypes, Combo relies on timing and sequencing the most in order to get that victory. If you assume that Combo decks are basically just Magic solitaire, then you’ve thought wrong. Today, we’ll be looking at these key skills to see how we can get the upper hand in tricky situations for Combo players. We’ll look at some common mistakes, and how to use the strengths of your deck to get past the other two archetypes, Aggro and Control.
What is your plan?
The first thing that every Combo player needs to understand is - what is your overarching plan? When do you plan on playing your combo pieces, and what needs to happen first in order to make that happen? - Ігри
How can I focus on Magic when all I can watch is that beatifull suit? Jokes apart, this is such a good series of videos, thank you very much.
Heya, long time combo player here. I've played twin and storm in the modern gp, scg, and pt circuits for around 6 years, as well as playing various combo decks in vintage, legacy, standard, pauper, and recently Cedh. The biggest issue newer combo players have, in my experience, is knowing your place in the matchup. I remember playing twin, having every copy of splinter twin surgical extracted, and then winning with pestermite beats, because in a control matchup you NEED to win early or not at all. A creature is a creature and if you don't have enough combo pieces to go off, it is best to make plays assuming you'll never draw it. For example, in UR gifts storm, if I can't combo off but I have a baral or electromancer in play, eventually that will deal 20 combat damage, AND I HAVE GOTTEN THERE AGAINST DECKS LIKE INFECT BECAUSE OF IT. Likewise, if you are playing against an aggro deck, you might as well play a control role. Your lategame just wins on the spot, and therefore is 9 times out of 10 objectively better than an aggro deck. I remember playing mono black Sidisi ANT in cedh, and when my sidisi tutor got stifled, I had just enough removal that eventually I drew into my combo, 10 turns later. Also know every niche and minut interaction of all of your combo cards, because sometimes you have winning lines that wouldn't be possible otherwise.
This has been my intro to combo. Have a wonderful day!
Damn, your suit is boss!
Professor, you should make Tutor videos with going more in-depth with deckbuilding. I could definitely use more advice on how much of a certain type of card you should use in a deck, such as removal, counters, mana acceleration, tutors, etc.
If you're playing EDH, The Command Zone has a few very descriptive videos on this
Playing combo is like building a gun from IKEA.
Geariko oh geez that takes me back
"So your telling me that you like to play magic, because you like to build IKEA furniture."
Well, you're not wrong
Ah, a man of culture.
IKEA gun, Paul, IKEA gun
These series has been fantastic, Prof! Could you consider doing a 15+ minute Tolarian Tutor video about what Chains of Mephistopheles does exactly?
Reading the card explains the card. What part of "Ogni volta che un giocatore pesca una carta, deve prima scartarne una di quelle che ha in mano. Se non ha carte in mano, invece di pescare, deve prendere la prima carta del grimorio e metterla direttamente nel cimitero. Gli effetti di questo incantesimo non si applicano alla prima carta che ogni giocatore pesca durante la propria fase di acquisizione." don't you understand? Uh, that's what my copies say anyway...
Affinity for MTG it's actually very simple. If you would draw a card, and it isn't the FIRST card you drew on your draw step, instead you discard a card. If you're able to discard a card this way, then you can draw a card to replace the one you discarded. If you can't discard a card to chains' effect, you mill a card.
So with a howling mine and a chains on the field, howling mine triggers, you draw a card. This is the first card you drew on your draw step. You keep the card. Then you draw for turn. Chains triggers. You discard a card and draw a card.
Easy peasy.
Clarification, chains doesn't "trigger" . It's a replacement effect.
With a chains out and a wheel of Fortune, everyone discards. Then they try to draw cards. These cards are not the first cards you would draw on your draw step so chains takes effect. Since you cannot discard to chains because your hand is currently empty, you just mill 7 instead of drawing 7.
That's an extraordinary narrow request.
If it isn't your first draw of the turn, discard a card before drawing. If you can't, mill 1 *instead* of drawing a card.
That's really all Chains does. It turns your extra draws into either cycling (if you can discard before drawing) or self-mill (If you can't).
These videos are so fun to watch! Keep up the great work, you really are doing a great job with these tutor videos. Got me back into playing again after not playing for maybe 10 years!
Please, I have to know where you get your suits. I am big into suit wearing and I have been trying to find an establishment that sells clothes like that
Breathe in deeply, and cross fingers hope the combo pieces come
Edit: Also cross fingers that I survive 5-6 turns
😂 New Perspective player here
Ong Sen ik the feeling bro, I am aswell a new perspective player xD
Do you still play
Thanks professor, I will be referring to this when I get back to work with my EDH deck
Hey Prof, I love your mtg content, and it's one of the things that has gotten me more involved in the game! Recently, I've been trying my hand at the Pokemon TCG and was wondering if you could briefly go into the nuances of the elements of that game too! What makes a card good, some competitive pokemon/supporter/energy ratios, resources online, that kind of stuff. Being a noob is part of starting a game, but I think some videos like these could really help me get into the game more like how your videos got me into magic!
Timely video. Still learning the Marionette Master / GPG combo. Main issue right now is combo disruption.
7:44 made my day. Thank you professor.
Awesome vid. Combo control is def my fav deck type
Thanks for this! I've been running Vito/Revenge but sometimes 6 turns is too long versus a lot of the current meta decks.
Thankyou for being so committed for so long. It's my birthday weekend btw
Excellent video Professer! Keep doing what your doing. ^w^
I love his vest.
You should do a "How to be a better mill player" video.
Step one: put away the mill deck and play combo.
Edit: upon rereading realized that sarcasm was not made clear, so adding this edit to make it more clear
Step 1 : get wizards to print good mill cards
The way you become a better mill player, if you can't realize that mill is not a winning strategy, is that you have to be infinite mill if you want to win consistently.
I like mill. Mill sucks.
yes indeed
I love that you tried a football analogy.... got it totally wrong, but good for you for giving it a go. Luv ya prof.
As an avid fan of football i loved the football analogy! It might not have been completely correct but still....it work.....and most of entertaining and informative.
Excellent video. I loved the magic effects and the outfit.
I love the messing with "-arch" and "-arc" in the pronunciations. My wife majored in English, sending to her for torment.
"Like an offensive line defending a wide receiver on the way to touchdown in football..."
Hmm, didn't know prof was a sports fan.
..."whatever that means."
Baited.
I think this is my favorite series on UA-cam. Cant wait for the commander focussed video's :P
This is great advice, thank you 🙏
I would love a commander version of this and all the videos that would apply.
I really enjoy my Bant Mechanized clues deck; it covers all your points in making a decent combo deck:P
Love the outtakes too!
Where does one find a suit this beautiful? Like... WANT! Thanks for the vid! Helps an up and coming storm player like me!
4:57 "Assuming you're not going to go all in right away". Did you assume that I play some slow combo deck!?! Spanish Inquisition says otherwise! xD
Great video for beginners that need to understand the basic concepts of how combo decks work and explaining that combo is interactive enough in MtG. Thanks professor~
Great show, thank you.
this video is super helpful! Ever thought of doing a vid on building a deck?
Its good you made this video, when Kaladesh was new i took upon myself the challenge of trying to win gameday with a Pummeler deck and boy do you really need to know when is it safe or not to combo off. I did win both Kaladesh gameday and even an amonkhet gameday with the deck though (aether revot out catted me)
I really love that football reference. Now what I really want to see is an NFL analyst drop an MTG reference.
"Like a Magic player tapping all their cards to sorcery another player's wizard.... Whatever that means"
Nice video, and very daper suit! I like the visuals too, of you planswalking in and out. Great job!
Hey Professor! Love the video ! Quick question, where does titan shift belong within combo? Is it more midrange in a sense ?
I play mono blue high tide in competitive commander. It is quite different from many other combo decks, for once you resolve high tide with 4 lands in play, you are almost unstoppable and can win through card advantage alone.
I’ve never been as called out from a UA-cam video as being called a mad scientist in Magic.
Very nice video man
Thank you for the perspective. Only editing foible I noticed was with displaying Rogue Refiner and Whirler Virtuoso. Refiner was obscured and Whirler wasn't shown. Other than that small thing, good video.
Great vids! True gems 🙂 thank you!
wow nice suit! Also great video series!
im a pretty slow and subpar control pilot. but combo decks are almost by bread and butter. I don't understand or know the important combo pieces to be able to make the decks myself, and my first time piloting a specific deck is usually clunky and slow, but once you know what you need and what you can live without, combo is the most fun imo
Yes! I was hoping he'd provide some tips on how to better play Pascal Maynard's Mweh Neh Neh.
Ark - e- type - great suit though professor!
Late game commander my fav mana sink for combo is planar portal it costs alot but again it's a mana sink to find your combos
:) Maybe an Idea: Tutor Series about specific (Modern) Decks, with good tricks and tipps about Matchup Sideboarding and how to use the whole potential of Deck XYZ and common mistakes players do et cetera.
My persist deck doesn't relly on an infinite combo, but powerful threats like Desecration elemental. When it's on the board, disrupting the combo turns into a lesser priority now that an 8/8 with Fear is dominating the battlefield.
The offensive line protects the quarterback not the wide receiver.
Mrtfarrugia that’s the joke 🙄
r/Whooosh
Out! Out with you and your sportsball knowledge!
I've always though combo plays were more like Magic Minesweeper. Is this any better?
if my deck is about spellweaving using cards such as pyromancers assault is it controll or combo?
Is someone else reminded of the little intro videos of the doctors in "Maniac" by this video?
Hey I guessed right in the twitter sneak peak! Tubular!
Finally built two budget decks that I think might be competitive for $50 or less green infinite tokens combo where u use some to convoke into chord or calling to give them haste or blue black ninjas I’m building both but it’s gonna be a few months before I can save up for ninjas cause Imma buy a pioneer and standard deck too I think
I was drinking a soda as a peaceful person at my favorite time of day; the moment to see the teacher in one of his many videos, when suddenly he makes a spectacular entrance out of the ordinary and I spit all the soda on my cell phone. It was when I realized why I love these videos. Our teacher is always improving the quality in all its aspects. Thanks for make me buy a new cellphone. The last one was a mess. Love your vídeos teacher ✌✌✌ PD: i buy a new cellphone whit the money you make me save all these years😅
Really loving the Ravenclaw suit, prof!
Michael Stokes needs more huffle
I truly can't tell if it's like an actual branded suit (Probably not, I'm just being stupid) but if so, where can I get me one for prom? CAW CAW!
I love your suit! Lookin' daper!
Any tips on g/w vizier elves?
Proffesor would you please make a review about the DEX Protection Supreme Gaming Chest? i just got an email from massdrop, it looks k, but looks can b extremely deceiving, anyways, thank you so much for all your hard work, you always make ur videos so fun to watch and rewatch :)
Will you be doing "how to become a better midrange player" next?
I hope so.
Any good mono white card draw for my modern life gain deck?
Great show prof. Like your jacket.
Can what for the next show.
Can you make a video on token decks too?
Damn, you always look so dapper.
the green screen in this is so smooth and sparingly used, its a true joy to watch
Your suits are epic!
I cant tell if my ninja deck is a sequence Combo or just Aggro
It tries to curve out turns 1-3 with cards that have building interactions to continue dealing damage each turn
Prefering to close game with March of Swirling Mist or a 5/5 Menace Flyer by turn 5
Dude I love that jacket it's suave as all heck
Dude his suit reminds me
Of the new "etched foil cards" from legends
I love these courses, very engaging.
My favorite combo is Mikaeus, Matter Reshaper, Solemnity, + an aristocrat.
Have that, plus a mana dork, a Lightning Greaves, a Spawnsire of Ulamog, and a Laboratory Maniac in deck.
Have a bunch of Eldrazi in your sideboard.
Sac the Reshaper infintely, puking out your entire deck.
Then use a Greaves'd hasty dork to add mana, sac it, and repeat for infinite mana. Cast Spawnsire of Ulamog, then cast all the Eldrazi from your sideboard, including Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Then, when you have no cards in library at the beginning of your extra turn, you win with your Laboratory Maniac.
I have, in fact, won a game of Modern with this.
Not a competitive game, just a casual one.
In this case wouldn't combo be a control subtype? Since you can play a control game until you can bring out a large threat(in this case, an unstoppable combo)
The Professor. English major. Still spells it Flexability.
Come on, prof... lol, it's flexibility.
Mfw when professor is on a hover board.😁
I liked how you start the video with "combo isn't solitaire" then proceed to explain that 2 out of 3 matches are basically solitaire. Otherwise, despite a few spelling errors, not a bad video.
More tutor plz
I have an white black aristocrats thing that with a mix of solemnity butcher ghoul a sacrifice creature and one of 20 death trigger effects just combos off to either kill my opponent, kill their creatures, draw my library, infinite mana, or gain me infinite life
I too, enjoy having no friends to play with.
Hey Professor, very good locking Outfit ;-)
Does he have the key though?
I thought it was a bit ostentatious lol
I… can’t tell now if my Mardu sacrifice “engine” deck is a combo deck or just a really synergistic lower midrange one. Possible combos exist within it, but none of them really try to go infinite or anything like that, and I have multiple paths to victory. Not sure if I’m playing it wrong or it just never fell in that category to begin with.
Let me tell you a joke...
...speed vs cunning
kana lintu funny joke
It was the first magic the gathering product I ever bought. :(
Kiwi The one same my man
0:09 Arshtype
5:20 Giftssfffffstorm
5:52 HUMMflexability
8:13 gnnnh
8:15 Feeeew
8:49 TIMIN'
10:58 huhuhuhu
I have a storm EDH deck but I never know what I'm gonna draw. If I end up drawing like 4 lands in a row, then I combo'd out for nothing.
Thanks for this video ! I'm starting to play in modern with a budget storm deck and it's hard sometimes but it is indeed very fun! I'm looking forward to play more combo decks :D
Strength or Resilience?
Great video one thing as a Legacy Storm player, I think strength is a different aspect. Resiliency might be a better term in your example.
What is my plan? CRASHING THIS PLANE, WITH NO SURVIVORS
nice jacket professor!
That smooth suit!
You had me at “Eidoloff”.
that jacket though
My favorite deck right now is my blue/red grand pili pila infinite bonfire of the damned (basically a fireball that can destroy hexproof creatures in a pinch) my deck include irencrag pryromancer goblen electromancer and alot of card draw to get to my combo as fast as possible while dealing out consistent damage either with card draw or cheap burn spells, with the goblin electromancer cutting my mana costs so I can negate any attempts to disrupt my combo pieces. I have no life gain whatsoever. It's a high risk high reward deck. I've lost more games than I've won with it but nothing beats the feeling of a turn 4 win. Usually that win goes turn two goblin electromancer, three pili pila, negate on my enemies turn if necessary, turn four grand architect, tap a blue mana, infinite fireball. Next game.
Arc or arch?
But eggs was pretty much solitaire. Probably one of the least fun combo decks of all time.
back in the day, T.P.S. and T.E.P.S. WERE playing solitaire, in essence, so long as you had protection (usually force of will, foil, pact of negation).
Wow, Nice blazer
Here is a suggestion. Ask the subscribers to summit a list of cards that are on their decks and make suggestions on how to improve them. You can always select them at random.
the defensive line doesn't cover the wide receivers...thats like blocking an instant with a wall.
Loved the disappearing act SFX and the outtake at the end ^_^
Nice jacket! Haha great informative vid if you could do one to help explain stompy decks and getting the balance between ramp and creatures would be helpful to me, making a dino edh deck can't seem to get the balance right