Savjz, you did amazing. You went against tons of world class players and won. You earned everyone's respect with your outstanding performance. Congrats!
[Edit: Time shortcut -> 19:09 ] Female Announcer: Oo, there's a shock on top of his library, so now he needs to se- Male Announcer: -BUT THAT'S A MORTIFY OFF THE TOP FOR SAVJZ!! HE HAS THE ANSWER FOR EXPERIMENTAL FRENZY! BUT HE STILL NEEDS TO DODGE A BURN SPELL OFF THE TOP OF GLOGOWSKI'S DECK. GLOGOWSKI CAN STILL DRAW ANYTHING THAT DEALS 2 OR MORE DAMAGE TO WIN THIS GAME! Female Announcer: He's got it on top...he's got it on top... >,> Male Announcer: Finger's crossed, WhAt's On ToP HeRe?! FoR GloWgOsKi?!?!? Female Announcer: ...it's a shock.... Male Announcer: ...*GASP* IT'S A SHOCK!!!!
We are proud of you Savjz ... You are a top class and you lost nothing ... in fact you won a lot and mostly our respect! We appreciate your hard work and commitment and you are indeed a champion
That 3rd match was by far the best I witnessed in this whole tournament. You may not have won the Mythic Invitationals but you sure won our hearts with that 3rd place. Keep up the good work!
Tension took the toll. Not keeping absorb was clearly worse option there, but only 'clearly' from non-involved viewer standpoint. Still - great results and give us more Magic here!
Honestly kaya felt like the better pick there even from a viewer standpoint cos with that pick all he had to to was fade a 3 dmg burn and he's in the clear wheras with the absorb pick he has to first let a lavarunner hit him in the face to survive one more turn and even then if he does that piotr can just wait for more burn and savijz is in the same place he was before kaya.Doesn't feel like tension got him at all just a good topdeck.
@@HitanBot imo the best play is to pick Absorb since he is so low HP and Kaya needs at least 3 turns to be more impactful than Absorb. Worst case scenario for Absorb : counter a Firebrand for +4 HP, counter a Shock +5 HP Worst case scenario for Kaya : use the +1 once, heal for 2 HP and die to any 2 + 3 damage combination, after 2 turns Kaya only healed you by 4 HP I love Savjz and this is a very difficult decision to make but Absorb was so good in this situation, on 3 HP with only 1 card for the opponent, I really hoped that he picks it, and the Kaya pick and what followed hurt me a little.
@@HitanBot He don't know the card in Piotr hand. It could be already 3 damage burn. Playing Kaya could have been deadly on the spot. And, like @lokiness13 said, Absorb is minimum +4HP, maximum you counter freaking Frenzy. Kaya is only +2HP now, +2HP next turn if he lives - which he's not. Against monored you should never go for value play, you just staying alive. Also, on a side note - emotions on Savjz face tell the story there :) PS: it was not a good topdeck for monored, it was pretty normal topdeck since he drew SO much in that game and couldn't find finisher for several turns in a row
@@MyHydralisk kaya was also the only stabalisation tool in the deck as his other kaya was in the grave, and it was highly unlikely he would get to it before he died. If you look at the overall situation he has to hit the second absorb after letting lavarunner dome him and countering the 3 dmg burn so he goes to 4 and then goes to 6 from moment of craving the next turn, the problem is that he is then in a situation where he doesn't really have a way to win, kaya is at the bottom of his deck and his opponent is more likely to draw lethal dmg or frenzy with every passing turn. Kaya gave him a chance to decicivly win the game in the next couple of turns if he fades the 3 dmg burn which more than likely piotr doesn't have in his hand judging by how he has played the game so far and besides that savijz has another absorb in his deck which if he gets in a position to protect kaya with he almost certainly wins. i do think it was very close as the kaya line was certainly more risky but with a larger payoff wheras the absorb line saves him from the topdeck but doesn't put him as far ahead saying it was an outright misplay even in hindsight just feels wrong especially since going by your logic for all savijz knows the card in his hand might be a land to try and bait him into playing around extra burn :) PS: the land draw was actually more likely for the monored player than a 3 dmg burn of any sort so it was a pretty good topdeck
So close. You got very far and that last play wasnt necessarily a misplay. You simply played to win rather than continue to work to not lose. Still a correct line.
It's the right play. His list has two Kaya, and the second one was already binned by Azcanta. It's repeatable lifegain, so if he manages to fade a burn spell for just one turn, he can stabilize and win the game. Taking Absorb would have meant he's not dead to the next two burn spells, but he'd need to find another one in the next 2-3 turns to stay in the game (and then again after that, etc). EDIT: actually, Kaya only loses to *two* burn spells or creature plus burn spell, since you don't know what the one card he kept was. It's unlikely to be a 3 damage burn spell (which kaya also loses to) since opponent would likely have cast it in response to the Azcanta activation.
@@petzkuh on the other hand you could argue that you've seen mono red whiff on drawing burn several turns in a row and Is due to draw some any turn now. With that information in mind I would've gone absorb for safety.
@@GSol17 Absorb wasn't the safe choice at all. The only way to survive in this scenario is to take absorb, let the lavarunner resolve, dont play cravings on its attack and let him hit you to 1 life. If you play cravings or counter with absorb he will kill you in response. If you take the absorb and at any time he gets 2 burn spells you cannot win either. He just plays 1 at your face and when you absorb kill you in response. Kaya was definitely the right play.
Pretty sure absorb was better specifically becuae he had moment of craving in his hand and sunkenruin, if he was judt top decking instead of gaining advantage every turn he lived then sure kaya is better, but absorb garuntees survival to more than kaya does, having 2 direct damage sources as red deck is not hard to beleive at all, especially since he could have been holding back anything waiting for a counter or for you to tap out. He also showed he was willing to play his lands instead of bluff which led you to beleive he had shit that wasnt useless.
Magic is such a great game of bluffs, reads, and counterbluffs. A friend of mine once put it this way: 'I know what the SMART play is, everyone does, so it's obvious what I SHOULD be doing, but I know that he knows that and is likely holding onto a counter to the most optimal play, but knowing that his counter will also counter my next best play I'm going to do the dumb thing and it will win me the game.'
I am a little late to the party but GREAT job Savjz. I really miss your Hearthstone content (Magic is a bit difficult to follow if you don't play it) but I am really glad to see you are doing so well in your new adventure. Keep up the good work.
Yeah... He was going for long game with Kaya right after, instead of Absorb to guarantee survival.... In hindsight I still think he made the right call there tbh. Or... He made the sensible call vs. the total gamble for 1 more turn to topdeck more stabilizers. I can absolutely see why he went for Kaya over Absorb, eventhough it cost him the game the turn after.
I don't think this format can produce anything nearly "best of all time", no offense. MTG has a huge competitive matches' history, it takes A LOT to be up there. Topdecking Kaya's into Vraska's and then keeping a Syncopate on top to lock yourself out of Azcanta is also pretty questionable.
If you had watched the video you'd see how much the aggro player had to think, way more than savjz did. Holding back attacks because you could sac the firebrand in response to moment of craving is way more thinking ahead than just draw go control. Not saying savjz wasn't thinking, if he hadn't shocked himself in game 2 he might've stabilized, same goes for him oocking the planeswalker over absorb. He wanted to put a threat on the board when in reality staying alive was his way of winning
@@coycen Nope, taking the Kaya was ultimately the only way Savijz could stabilize long term...if he had taken the absorb, sure, he would have survived one more turn but what then? No Kaya left in deck means there is no good way remaining to gain life and he would have died a turn or two later. Kaya was the best choice from a neutral standpoint and it was sad that he died to a top deck. Also, the other player knew that Savjz had a moment of craving in hand as that caster said. Holding onto cards until he had uncontested lethal was the logical play, doesn't take a World Champion to know that (any brainless mono red player would know). Game 2 was unfortunate due to the shock lands. Ultimately, there was so much early burn in hand for the mono red player (3 shocks + 1 later wtf) that Savjz could never have stopped the burn. Savjz played beautifully in game 1, going around that negate in hand and not being greedy with benalia early. Also, in game 3, the choice not to activate ascanta and to put the first Kaya in the graveyard for the Vraska's Contempt was godlike. Huge congratulations to Savjz who isn't even a pro MTG player. I state again that losing to a mono red player with a mono blue second deck is something he shouldn't be ashamed of as we have all been there. As a main Esper control player, I know the pain. Sultai midrange would have rekt though!
@@literalgod4347 First passage of this comment is absolute bs. When you have a flipped Azcanta and a regular one on board, you can stall as long as you want. He still had some counters and life gain cards left in his deck that could have brought him to Kaya again. I agree that Kaya was his win condition, however, he went for it too early. Probably the stress from performing on stage.
The end was such a feelsbadman because if he went with absorb rather than kaya he would have in a way gained 6 health and been far out of lethal range giving enough time for maybe a teferi or some other win condition. Or maybe Kaya was the right play had he not drawn the 3 mana burn spell since it would have been consistent life gain. Either way, this man is top class and I'm exited to see him compete more
I know I'm late to the party here but I do think Savj's line was probably correct. He doesn't know Piotr is holding 2 damage for one, and if he takes the "safe" line with taking absorb, there are still ways he loses (if opponent has two 3 damage burn spells, for instance, and casts the 2nd in response to absorb). Whereas if he takes the Kaya line, he's pretty much guaranteed to win as he'll have a recurrent source of life gain if he survives one draw step. So while taking absorb gives you a much higher chance of surviving the next draw step, taking Kaya might give you a higher chance of eventually winning the game. That said, it is pretty darn close and I wouldn't be surprised if someone did the math and absorb did turn out to be correct. Just keep in mind the math is much more complicated than "one heals for 6, one heals for 2" since Kaya potentially heals for more than 6, and it heals immediately so it isn't vulnerable to the opponent saving up multiple burn spells to win in response to absorb.
Totally wrong! Before blaming other you should think first..... Absorb wasn't the safe choice at all. The only way to survive in this scenario is to take absorb, let the lavarunner resolve, dont play cravings on its attack and let him hit you to 1 life. If you play cravings or counter with absorb he will kill you in response. If you take the absorb and at any time he gets 2 burn spells you cannot win either. He just plays 1 at your face and when you absorb kill you in response. Kaya was definitely the right play.
absorb way better again red deck with that many burns,plus it works with creatures too,he could have craving the lava runner and absorb the lightning...
Competative RNG, with boring standard meta decks... They should just embrace the random and use the draft format for these tournaments. Much more fun and takes deckbuilding skills into account.
Agreed, it is easy in retrospective to say "Just pick absorb you idiot" but again if he did not top deck the burn the Esper deck would have won since he would be gaining 2 life a turn and still had the feast in hand.
I stopped playing magic because of mono red aggro/burn. Maybe it isn't always meta, but every time I start playing again it seems like the most common decks I go up against. It's just not fun, it's effective, but the slow control player in me just feels bad about it. Edit: Honestly I feel like for these reasons tournaments should be win/switch. That way you can't just win with mono red 2 and out on a lucky draw.
Funny how the commentators try so hard to make it seem like the monored player is making all these difficult choices. The guy definitely played well, but "point burn at face, play around counters" isn't exactly rocket science.
Honestly, beating a mono red deck isn't tough. But in a tournament format, you can't make 3 decks to deal with it, so it's almost always gonna get 1 of your decks unless you draw great or they draw terribly. You notice he didn't start with mono red because if you start with mono red there's a chance you run into a deck that can handle it right from the start.
Downvote due to the format. I tried, i REALLY treid but .. this is jsut wrong and it is 100% NOT "One of the Best Magic Matches of All Time" because it's a BO1 (!) format in MTG (!!). This is not MTG this is just WRONG.
What? The burn games where so much more interesting than the first game was by far... I don't get the mono red hate. I'm a control player myself but I'd rather play aggro decks than control mirrors
Super happy to see a deck that you can pilot with three brain cells destroy everything in this meta. Really fun watching a red player sit there and take 8 days to figure out what they want to do with a hand of one. I hope WotS has some good answers to RDW
Honestly the way that Glowgowski played RDW was honestly mind blowing. Any casual Ranked RDW would just always go face and cast their entire hand but he thought more about the Esper deck than I think Savjz did, held back a lot of cards, keeping the firebrand untapped and not just smacking face. Yes RDW can be piloted with 3 brain cells but this was on another level.
NO Skill in RDW, I do not care about what people have to say. RDW is the easy way out. No real thinking involved. "Do i cast this burn, or that burn, or this burn?" YAWWWN
Savjz, you did amazing. You went against tons of world class players and won. You earned everyone's respect with your outstanding performance. Congrats!
[Edit: Time shortcut -> 19:09 ]
Female Announcer: Oo, there's a shock on top of his library, so now he needs to se-
Male Announcer: -BUT THAT'S A MORTIFY OFF THE TOP FOR SAVJZ!! HE HAS THE ANSWER FOR EXPERIMENTAL FRENZY! BUT HE STILL NEEDS TO DODGE A BURN SPELL OFF THE TOP OF GLOGOWSKI'S DECK. GLOGOWSKI CAN STILL DRAW ANYTHING THAT DEALS 2 OR MORE DAMAGE TO WIN THIS GAME!
Female Announcer: He's got it on top...he's got it on top... >,>
Male Announcer: Finger's crossed, WhAt's On ToP HeRe?! FoR GloWgOsKi?!?!?
Female Announcer: ...it's a shock....
Male Announcer: ...*GASP* IT'S A SHOCK!!!!
That was pretty hilarious.
so cringey
lmao
Bad Cheons
Lady announcer master race
We are proud of you Savjz ... You are a top class and you lost nothing ... in fact you won a lot and mostly our respect! We appreciate your hard work and commitment and you are indeed a champion
Hahaha. Dota Auto chess vids pls.
your reaction when he didn't attack with the firebrand on game 3 LOL
:( you made excellent reads throughout the whole tournament. Tou did an outstanding job. Proud of you
Wow, amazingly done. Congrats on doing so well, man. I was on the edge of my seat.
Congratulations on how far you made it. Definitely something to be proud of. 👍👍
One of the best HS streamers to watch doing fantastic in my favorite game. God speed my dude.
That 3rd match was by far the best I witnessed in this whole tournament. You may not have won the Mythic Invitationals but you sure won our hearts with that 3rd place. Keep up the good work!
Oh my, top 3. You're great at this.
oh man that last game was so nerve wracking and I did only watch it. imagine playing that on the big stage, I'd need a good vacation after that 😱
Was so immersed in this match, the play to not Search for Azcanta was insane. Congrats for getting this far Savjz, had a blast watching you play ^^
See it from the positive side, now you got more time to stream!
Good job man!
Not when the difference between second and third place is $55000!
Tension took the toll. Not keeping absorb was clearly worse option there, but only 'clearly' from non-involved viewer standpoint. Still - great results and give us more Magic here!
Honestly kaya felt like the better pick there even from a viewer standpoint cos with that pick all he had to to was fade a 3 dmg burn and he's in the clear wheras with the absorb pick he has to first let a lavarunner hit him in the face to survive one more turn and even then if he does that piotr can just wait for more burn and savijz is in the same place he was before kaya.Doesn't feel like tension got him at all just a good topdeck.
@@HitanBot imo the best play is to pick Absorb since he is so low HP and Kaya needs at least 3 turns to be more impactful than Absorb.
Worst case scenario for Absorb : counter a Firebrand for +4 HP, counter a Shock +5 HP
Worst case scenario for Kaya : use the +1 once, heal for 2 HP and die to any 2 + 3 damage combination, after 2 turns Kaya only healed you by 4 HP
I love Savjz and this is a very difficult decision to make but Absorb was so good in this situation, on 3 HP with only 1 card for the opponent, I really hoped that he picks it, and the Kaya pick and what followed hurt me a little.
Picking Absorb was definitely the better call with Kaya's Wrath in hand, yes he would've gone down two, but he also would've faded out a burn.
@@HitanBot He don't know the card in Piotr hand. It could be already 3 damage burn. Playing Kaya could have been deadly on the spot. And, like @lokiness13 said, Absorb is minimum +4HP, maximum you counter freaking Frenzy. Kaya is only +2HP now, +2HP next turn if he lives - which he's not. Against monored you should never go for value play, you just staying alive. Also, on a side note - emotions on Savjz face tell the story there :) PS: it was not a good topdeck for monored, it was pretty normal topdeck since he drew SO much in that game and couldn't find finisher for several turns in a row
@@MyHydralisk kaya was also the only stabalisation tool in the deck as his other kaya was in the grave, and it was highly unlikely he would get to it before he died. If you look at the overall situation he has to hit the second absorb after letting lavarunner dome him and countering the 3 dmg burn so he goes to 4 and then goes to 6 from moment of craving the next turn, the problem is that he is then in a situation where he doesn't really have a way to win, kaya is at the bottom of his deck and his opponent is more likely to draw lethal dmg or frenzy with every passing turn. Kaya gave him a chance to decicivly win the game in the next couple of turns if he fades the 3 dmg burn which more than likely piotr doesn't have in his hand judging by how he has played the game so far and besides that savijz has another absorb in his deck which if he gets in a position to protect kaya with he almost certainly wins. i do think it was very close as the kaya line was certainly more risky but with a larger payoff wheras the absorb line saves him from the topdeck but doesn't put him as far ahead saying it was an outright misplay even in hindsight just feels wrong especially since going by your logic for all savijz knows the card in his hand might be a land to try and bait him into playing around extra burn :) PS: the land draw was actually more likely for the monored player than a 3 dmg burn of any sort so it was a pretty good topdeck
So proud of you Janne!
So close. You got very far and that last play wasnt necessarily a misplay. You simply played to win rather than continue to work to not lose. Still a correct line.
its debatable but yes his line of play was valid.
It's the right play. His list has two Kaya, and the second one was already binned by Azcanta. It's repeatable lifegain, so if he manages to fade a burn spell for just one turn, he can stabilize and win the game. Taking Absorb would have meant he's not dead to the next two burn spells, but he'd need to find another one in the next 2-3 turns to stay in the game (and then again after that, etc). EDIT: actually, Kaya only loses to *two* burn spells or creature plus burn spell, since you don't know what the one card he kept was. It's unlikely to be a 3 damage burn spell (which kaya also loses to) since opponent would likely have cast it in response to the Azcanta activation.
@@petzkuh on the other hand you could argue that you've seen mono red whiff on drawing burn several turns in a row and Is due to draw some any turn now. With that information in mind I would've gone absorb for safety.
@@GSol17 Absorb wasn't the safe choice at all. The only way to survive in this scenario is to take absorb, let the lavarunner resolve, dont play cravings on its attack and let him hit you to 1 life. If you play cravings or counter with absorb he will kill you in response. If you take the absorb and at any time he gets 2 burn spells you cannot win either. He just plays 1 at your face and when you absorb kill you in response.
Kaya was definitely the right play.
Pretty sure absorb was better specifically becuae he had moment of craving in his hand and sunkenruin, if he was judt top decking instead of gaining advantage every turn he lived then sure kaya is better, but absorb garuntees survival to more than kaya does, having 2 direct damage sources as red deck is not hard to beleive at all, especially since he could have been holding back anything waiting for a counter or for you to tap out. He also showed he was willing to play his lands instead of bluff which led you to beleive he had shit that wasnt useless.
Great job Savjz! Wonderful to see you doing so well. Too bad about the top deck, you could have stabilized.
Magic is such a great game of bluffs, reads, and counterbluffs. A friend of mine once put it this way: 'I know what the SMART play is, everyone does, so it's obvious what I SHOULD be doing, but I know that he knows that and is likely holding onto a counter to the most optimal play, but knowing that his counter will also counter my next best play I'm going to do the dumb thing and it will win me the game.'
Wow! I aspire to have the game sense that you do man, I'm stoked for you making it this far
some excellent play from both players and great lessons to be learned about some play decisions! Wow amazing stuff.
I am a little late to the party but GREAT job Savjz. I really miss your Hearthstone content (Magic is a bit difficult to follow if you don't play it) but I am really glad to see you are doing so well in your new adventure. Keep up the good work.
my heart nearly stopped a few times this match. rlly wanted savjz to win but he got top 3 on his first MTG tournament hell only get better.
Love it, love you, WE ARE PROUD
Those were good games, I really like the way you play magic.
Great job Savjz! Keep it up man, it was an amazing performance
Was amazing for you to get that far. Very good playing all around on your end.
That read with the syncopate though.... well played Savjz...
Yeah... He was going for long game with Kaya right after, instead of Absorb to guarantee survival.... In hindsight I still think he made the right call there tbh. Or... He made the sensible call vs. the total gamble for 1 more turn to topdeck more stabilizers. I can absolutely see why he went for Kaya over Absorb, eventhough it cost him the game the turn after.
Great match! Impressive decision making under such a big pressure!
Mono white against mono blue
One of the best matches.
Well im off now
Älyttömän hieno veto koko turnauksen osalta! 100/10! You rock!
man that third game of yours really got me sweaty!!!! pure magnificence!!! excellent game!!!!
That was an INSANE game extremely high levels of play
So, so close. Good job though Savjz. You did really well.
Damn that play 30:00, i am really impressed. that is some next level shit
Not quite 1st place, but a great feat none the less. Hope you'll play more MtG in the future. Would love to see you on paper magic tournaments.
I don't think this format can produce anything nearly "best of all time", no offense. MTG has a huge competitive matches' history, it takes A LOT to be up there. Topdecking Kaya's into Vraska's and then keeping a Syncopate on top to lock yourself out of Azcanta is also pretty questionable.
Sometimes youtube be like that tho
That top deck hurt.
So humble talking about your own match....
It really sucks being beaten by the most braindead competitive deck available (mono red)! Good luck Savjz, hope you carry on with MTG Arena!
If you had watched the video you'd see how much the aggro player had to think, way more than savjz did.
Holding back attacks because you could sac the firebrand in response to moment of craving is way more thinking ahead than just draw go control. Not saying savjz wasn't thinking, if he hadn't shocked himself in game 2 he might've stabilized, same goes for him oocking the planeswalker over absorb. He wanted to put a threat on the board when in reality staying alive was his way of winning
@@coycen Nope, taking the Kaya was ultimately the only way Savijz could stabilize long term...if he had taken the absorb, sure, he would have survived one more turn but what then? No Kaya left in deck means there is no good way remaining to gain life and he would have died a turn or two later. Kaya was the best choice from a neutral standpoint and it was sad that he died to a top deck. Also, the other player knew that Savjz had a moment of craving in hand as that caster said. Holding onto cards until he had uncontested lethal was the logical play, doesn't take a World Champion to know that (any brainless mono red player would know).
Game 2 was unfortunate due to the shock lands. Ultimately, there was so much early burn in hand for the mono red player (3 shocks + 1 later wtf) that Savjz could never have stopped the burn.
Savjz played beautifully in game 1, going around that negate in hand and not being greedy with benalia early. Also, in game 3, the choice not to activate ascanta and to put the first Kaya in the graveyard for the Vraska's Contempt was godlike. Huge congratulations to Savjz who isn't even a pro MTG player. I state again that losing to a mono red player with a mono blue second deck is something he shouldn't be ashamed of as we have all been there. As a main Esper control player, I know the pain. Sultai midrange would have rekt though!
@@literalgod4347 First passage of this comment is absolute bs. When you have a flipped Azcanta and a regular one on board, you can stall as long as you want. He still had some counters and life gain cards left in his deck that could have brought him to Kaya again. I agree that Kaya was his win condition, however, he went for it too early. Probably the stress from performing on stage.
@@literalgod4347 hello, absorb = -spell +3hp, kaya = loose
dat Kreygasm thumbnail LUL
Great job Savjz!
That last round was so intense
Does savjz channel have savjzgasm emote?
Good job man, it was a good run.
wow that was very good final game! nice!
Great games. Congrats to players
Great job 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 icecube
absorb... that is like a 5 life swing! (+3 life, and prevents at least 2 damage...)
Does it seem weird that they’re not playing paper but are in the same location?
Honestly I find arena a lot easier to watch than paper magic.
Would have been much better if this format wasnt so horrible
The end was such a feelsbadman because if he went with absorb rather than kaya he would have in a way gained 6 health and been far out of lethal range giving enough time for maybe a teferi or some other win condition. Or maybe Kaya was the right play had he not drawn the 3 mana burn spell since it would have been consistent life gain. Either way, this man is top class and I'm exited to see him compete more
I know I'm late to the party here but I do think Savj's line was probably correct. He doesn't know Piotr is holding 2 damage for one, and if he takes the "safe" line with taking absorb, there are still ways he loses (if opponent has two 3 damage burn spells, for instance, and casts the 2nd in response to absorb). Whereas if he takes the Kaya line, he's pretty much guaranteed to win as he'll have a recurrent source of life gain if he survives one draw step. So while taking absorb gives you a much higher chance of surviving the next draw step, taking Kaya might give you a higher chance of eventually winning the game.
That said, it is pretty darn close and I wouldn't be surprised if someone did the math and absorb did turn out to be correct. Just keep in mind the math is much more complicated than "one heals for 6, one heals for 2" since Kaya potentially heals for more than 6, and it heals immediately so it isn't vulnerable to the opponent saving up multiple burn spells to win in response to absorb.
Man that was a nailbiter
honestly in terms of tempo / lifegain and options absorb was the only choice giving him 6 hp off a burn spell
Wow. I stopped watching his steam when I saw lots of chess and no MTG Arena. I had no idea this big invite was happening. Congrats man!
I wonder what happend at 0:36 ahahah
Wow $70k! You just found your new career.
why he choosed kayas insead absorb ; o
match of the tournie.
Good job dear sir ( :
Savjz Your the boss, you show your not a no name
I was screaming at my computer for him to grab absorb...smh. It's ok still respect.
Absorb is the better play in any circumstance except when the card is revealed. Savjz made the right decision, although it made me sad at first, too.
You should stream more mtga videos though
That kaya was a blunder, against burn 2 cards are almost always 5 damage
Totally wrong! Before blaming other you should think first.....
Absorb wasn't the safe choice at all. The only way to survive in this scenario is to take absorb, let the lavarunner resolve, dont play cravings on its attack and let him hit you to 1 life. If you play cravings or counter with absorb he will kill you in response. If you take the absorb and at any time he gets 2 burn spells you cannot win either. He just plays 1 at your face and when you absorb kill you in response.
Kaya was definitely the right play.
Why is there elevator music playing after a huge win. lmao...
What a game forehead!!!
that. was. hot.
Should have picked Absorb, what a punt
Mono red, ladies and gents!
I am going to cast my merfolk trickster
Monored
If U can´t play Magic....play MONO RED!
Where are the ladies, gentlemen? 😆😆😆😆
absorb way better again red deck with that many burns,plus it works with creatures too,he could have craving the lava runner and absorb the lightning...
Oh look. Someone playing the two decks that require no skill and only top decking.
BabyRage
so much skill was in these MONO matches -.-
Terrible right? Everything is laid out so easily. It just seems like such a cop out
Competative RNG, with boring standard meta decks...
They should just embrace the random and use the draft format for these tournaments.
Much more fun and takes deckbuilding skills into account.
Pog
Picking absorb was a temporary solution, he would still be far of winning the game. Kaya = winning the game if he just get 1 more turn.
Agreed, it is easy in retrospective to say "Just pick absorb you idiot" but again if he did not top deck the burn the Esper deck would have won since he would be gaining 2 life a turn and still had the feast in hand.
OMG the 2 mono red matches..shock top deck and lightning strike top deck.. Freakin amazing...what a play...my 6 years old cousin couldnt do better
This new auto chess patch seems weird.
No justice
I stopped playing magic because of mono red aggro/burn. Maybe it isn't always meta, but every time I start playing again it seems like the most common decks I go up against.
It's just not fun, it's effective, but the slow control player in me just feels bad about it.
Edit: Honestly I feel like for these reasons tournaments should be win/switch. That way you can't just win with mono red 2 and out on a lucky draw.
Funny how the commentators try so hard to make it seem like the monored player is making all these difficult choices. The guy definitely played well, but "point burn at face, play around counters" isn't exactly rocket science.
Honestly, beating a mono red deck isn't tough. But in a tournament format, you can't make 3 decks to deal with it, so it's almost always gonna get 1 of your decks unless you draw great or they draw terribly.
You notice he didn't start with mono red because if you start with mono red there's a chance you run into a deck that can handle it right from the start.
Golgovski butchered that Mono B game play.
MTGA VIDEOS PLS
That was one weird game of Hearthstone.
Fun always ruined by mono red :(
No real control player would've played that Chemister's Insight that way.
Great game with the worst match style ever conceived.
He threw both games ;/
Well that's a lie.
Downvote due to the format. I tried, i REALLY treid but .. this is jsut wrong and it is 100% NOT "One of the Best Magic Matches of All Time" because it's a BO1 (!) format in MTG (!!). This is not MTG this is just WRONG.
Monored burn spells is a very uninteresting deck to watch and play. Shame you lost to that.
What? The burn games where so much more interesting than the first game was by far...
I don't get the mono red hate. I'm a control player myself but I'd rather play aggro decks than control mirrors
:(
Sad that no skill mono red won
This is painfully slow play
nvm I just remembered it was for $250k lol I'd play slow too
Wow... team liquid not using liquid for it's deck choice... should be kicked from team.
Super happy to see a deck that you can pilot with three brain cells destroy everything in this meta. Really fun watching a red player sit there and take 8 days to figure out what they want to do with a hand of one.
I hope WotS has some good answers to RDW
Honestly the way that Glowgowski played RDW was honestly mind blowing. Any casual Ranked RDW would just always go face and cast their entire hand but he thought more about the Esper deck than I think Savjz did, held back a lot of cards, keeping the firebrand untapped and not just smacking face. Yes RDW can be piloted with 3 brain cells but this was on another level.
tilted hard when savjz activated azcanta mainphase instead of in response to threats and lost it all bc of giving opp free info on craving. MPL tho.
NO Skill in RDW, I do not care about what people have to say. RDW is the easy way out. No real thinking involved. "Do i cast this burn, or that burn, or this burn?" YAWWWN
Why would you comment, cause clearly if you don't care I don't see why we would...
Definitely not one of the greatest matches. The last 2 were basically Savjz just hanging onto dear life. It was fun for sure though.