Pro Tour Shadows over Innistrad Quarterfinals: Finkel vs. Mengucci & Scott-Vargas vs. Yasooka
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- A trio of Hall of Famers plus a multiple Pro Tour Top 8 competitor highlight a stocked quarterfinals at Pro Tour Shadows over Innistrad.
Jon Finkel (Seasons Past Control) vs. Andrea Mengucci (Bant Company) on one table while Luis Scott-Vargas (Black-Green Aristocrats) vs. Shota Yasooka (Esper Dragons) takes place nearby. It isn't possible to have much more star power on one stage at a time.
Watching this 4 years later, this was one of the best of all time pt top 8s. The players he mentioned are now the best in the world.
The only player who didn't accomplish much won it.
it is standard right?
Not to be a chav, but Finkel and LSV are some of the lifetime WPN point leaders, and Shota is one of the best control players of all time. They were best in the world a decade before this Top 8 lol. Mengucci did ascend here though.
i know Im randomly asking but does anybody know a trick to get back into an instagram account??
I stupidly forgot my login password. I would appreciate any help you can give me.
@Max Tobias instablaster =)
This is really a dream PT Top 8. So much star power, 8 different decks, format that's anything but stale and not wracked by bannings...we didn't know how good we had it.
Imagine a standard where the top 8 were 8 different decks. Wow
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Pro tour gatecrash
drives me crazy that Andrea's shirt tag is sticking up!
someone tuck it in!
I was really hoping to see more of Finkels deck. That Season's Past from a Dark Petition is so juicy!
It broke my heart to see Finkel lose to Bant Company. :(
Yeah, agreed. But like even Finkel mentioned, Bant was the worst matchup for his deck, just all the permission completely shuts it down. But all the fans were praying fir that deck to win cause it’s fucking sweet.
So I went back to watch this after Marshall Sutcliffe mentioned the speed of these players, but I didn't expect turn 3 to be over in the time it takes me to Scry
47:57 "So he slogged his way through a Silumgar's Scorn, and all it cost him was a Hissing Quagmire". I just want to use that sentence in a conversation.
I'm here because LSV said coverage asked him and Yasooka to slow down their play
Great to have Gaby Spartz on commentary! It's good to hear from someone new once in a while. However, I do miss LSV's commentary. On the other hand, it's great to see him on the pro-tour. I'm confused. Why you do this Wizards? LOL!
He commentates right after he gets eliminated! If you look at the semi finals games for this pro tour, hes in the commentating booth for the rest of the tournament. Such an awesome guy!
Innistrad is the sweetest plane in Magic
its so weird to say this...... standard is the best format right now hands down
How did standard go from being this healthy to broken cards like *Oko* and other simic degeneracy we see now? smh
Cletus Spuckler Lack of serious thought in card design, while simultaneously forgetting every past card ever made.
@@Euclides287 too many products being made each year, added focus on commander and direct-to-modern sets, etc. WOTC explicitly stated that their Play Design team at R&D had to adjust. WOTC also prioritized profits over the health of the game, as cliche as it is to say. in order to make sure new sets are selling, they have to reach a wide audience, so new cards being printed for standard are pushed harder and harder so that players who mostly play modern, legacy, vintage, commander, historic, pioneer, and other formats will buy cards from the new standard sets. tl;dr some of the game's deterioration is deliberate, some of it is an unfortunate side effect due to changes being passed down from leadership.
@@Euclides287 this aged better than expected
Wow, that mana flood in Game 4 was one of worst I've ever seen. Rough!
god I am loving that b/g aristocrats
me too, I have a build that's similar thinking I might just go with this though.
Match 1 starts at 12:00
+dockdock 3000 thx fam, they just keep talking about the same freaking stuff over and over again its annoying 0_0
13:01 first land drop
Why list the Finkel match first in the title yet show the LSV match first? Kinda bullshit if you ask me.
LSV has a bigger following
+Jerome OfMarmite LSV is more active in the MTG scene nowadays, but Finkel is without a doubt more famous. There are people who don't even follow MTG at all who know who Johnny Magic is.
+SEKYHM I think it's also because they expected Finkel/Mengucci to go longer than LSV/Yasooka, because of how the decks play.
Gaby seemed nervous at the start. Dunno why, she's better than a lot of the newer casters so far.
+vonBelfry Yeah, she was impressive. Very good knowledge of the format and the game in general. She never said anything stupid but she never left dead air, which can't be said for all the commentators!
52:00 why does shota get zombies? If lsv sacs his catacomb sifters in response to languish, the zombie tokens appear before languish resolves and then just get swept away by languish.
+evoluti0n09 if lsv sac'd in response to languish and shota got the zombies, then shota can sac a zombie to grow kalitas so that it survives languish which would be much worse than shota having two zombie tokens.
+devilboy561 that could have happened but then he would not have been able to kill the nantucko husk with the ultimate price. Gotta love having 6+ people watching plus the two players and not see the major play mistake that cost LSV that game.
Correction: If you rewatch the play a few times, you will notice that LSV does notice that Kalitas would survive. He knew he could deal with the zombies better then the 5/6 kalitas
ZaMazukiShimigami im not sure i quite get what ur saying. But yea thats true, if he grew his kalitas, he cant ultimate price, but then you have a 5/6 kalitas vs a nantuko husk with nothing else on the board. Im quite confident that's a very bad situation to be in, considering kalitas is a lifelinker that blanks zuloport cutthroat's death triggers as well. Again, the line lsv chose is right since kalitas is a problem for his deck and what hes trying to do.
+evoluti0n09 LSV shoulda won that game because We wouldn't have taken the 4 dmg from the zombies or had to chump it and would have had 5 creatures even win silumgar.
SinisterXPikachu but then shota would have just ultimate price after he untaps? also kalitas has lifelink and would have hit for 5?, so shota would be gainin life putting him farther away from losing. Again, the whole point of that languish is to keep the creature count low on board so shota is well aware of westvale abbey n his gameplan was to make sure lsv cant transform it.
Yasooka is so good that the fact he isn't in the HOF is insane.
+Wobbles 808 Wasn't he inducted last year?
yup Shota played so well with a diluted esper dragon deck.
+PoeHero yes he was they mentioned it during the opening.
+PoeHero oops yeah my bad :)
Did anyone else see Mengucci fake shuffle @1:23:20?
Seems like he put all the lands from collect company on top and just hoped that finkel would just cut putting the lands in the middle, so that he wouldn't draw them
BG Aristocrats, Bant Company and Esper Dragons... yeah, I can't see this anymore. :/ I go back and play casual again. xD
Game 4, Shota probably should have attacked with one of the vents. Either Luis blocks and loses a creature, or he doesn't, going down to one life and disabling him from making more tokens with Westvale Abbey. In Aristocrats, if you have creatures to play and they might save you, you play them, so Shota could have read the signals and seen Luis had no extra creatures in hand to use for Westvale Abbey. Just some thoughts, obviously I'm not as good as these people, and it's easy to notice mistakes after they've already happened.
A diverse top 8. Mtg needs to step is up in 2024. What happened?!
At the end of the second game, Shota played a Silumgar. Shouldn't LSV have responded to that with his Collected Company? Getting a Husk and sacrificing the targeted creature seems better than losing it to the dragon.
LSV couldn't do that as Silumgar would be on the stack and Shota could've changed the target
in game three shouldn't Shota Yasooka not get the zombies since they would have come in off of LSV sacing the sifters to husk and thus be there before the languish resolves? or did I LSV not sac the sifters?
+Greg Bartlett nevermind, LSV did not sac the sifters so that Shota couldn't grow Kalitas. my bad.
I'm an 0/2, I've got a job to do
shouldn't Shoota not have had any zombies during Game 3 after the languish? LSV could've sac'd the two sifters to the husk, then languish resolves killing the zombies
+Shawn Thornton If he did LSV would be blown out by counter spell on the languish from Shoota. I think that is why he did not.
I don't get why they can't just show the double video so we can watch both.
+Eddie Davenport would be too small for the average computer screen and would be extremely difficult to call 2 matches at a time.
Can you have the two dragonlords out? What about the legend rule?
Finkle is Einhorn! Einhorn is Finkle!
When finkel infinite obliterations it seems bad to name reflector mage, especially with languish, the optimal card to name would likely be sylvan advocate or nissa seeing as they are more difficult for your deck to deal with and the bounce on mage isnt super relevant.
why does Andrea have the Spanish flag in his CFB t-shirt?
+KadizKovers because the PT was in Spain
I miss pro play. Sucks to not see coverage but I guess standard would be boring as hell to watch anyways.
anyone else find it weird how Ian Duke has the EXACT same voice as his brother Reid DukE!?? freaks me out!
Do you not have siblings? I find most siblings of the same sex to have same voice
Don't worry LSV, me and many others will continue the legacy and pure awesomeness of b/g sacrifice in many fnms (and game days) to come!
+Jamie Popay ...oh yay .. net deckers unite....
@@kaylalosch7272 party pooper
Brood monitor would be a great finisher in LSV's deck
+Elvish Mystic Naaah, would it really? I mean, sure, It gives you a lot of fuel for Husk and Cutthroat, but it's very expensive, which is very clunky in his deck where he almost always has mana to sink into other things. And imagine finding it with Collected Company. You could put something that would actually enter the battlefield in that spot instead.
+blue cheese cult ok but the ramp in this deck is insane as well
Elvish Mystic Sure, but what would it do that other cards doesn't do better?
why was silumgar's scorn able to counter the zulaport cutthroat couldn't luis just payed the 1 mana. Shota didn't reveal a dragon.
i believe he controlled a dragon at that time
+Riley Burns it straight out counters if you either reveal, or have a dragon in play. for the moment you are confused by, he had a dragon in play.
+Riley Burns "...or control a dragon as you cast silumgar's scorn." I'm paraphrasing because I am too lazy to go back...but yeah.
gogogo Esper Dragon !!!
+Tô na Jungle br yup
Unfortunate that both b/g decks are paired with their worst match up. Both Esper and Company decks are the worst in the pro tour compared to b/g which LSV and Finkel just crushes everyone in swiss, yet they couldn't make it past quarterfinals.
Go John!
because the scry happens when a creature dies. but kalitas exiles creatures that WOULD die
"Dead WEIGHT will WEIGHT it down" lololol
NOSTALGIA
There's a guy in the comments using sock puppet accounts to make sexist comments. He has two accounts, Tony Quigley and Anthony Quigley. Both have multiple sexist comments about Gabby Spartz. Really weird.
luis should not have scryed when shota had kalitas out and when shota languished.
+Brandon Hunnewell Read the card. Kalitas exiles nontoken creatures only.
+Adolfo Berríos i reread it. i misread it at first. my bad on my end
Why do they run concurrent matches in a single video? Seperate it out, I'm trying to do research and as much as I love John Finkel I'm trying to watch aristocrats vs. esper dragons, and you're wasting my time.
didn't LSV steal cards?
Gaby is to magic is what princess leia is to star wars, the only girl in the galaxy.
I don't like this as a gathering online player. I mean, why the beep are there no lands? Decks get too big, or is that not the authentic game? I would love to play out the door with real-life decks, but with lands it would be alot more interesting...
...... oke. Point out ot me where you see a land on the table. Because I checked the whole video again, and I couldn't find 1.
This Video was recommended to me. This was way before I began playing mtg. I find these decks bad.... So weird.. Everything is weak to clarion
I'm not entirely sure if clarion would work as well as all that, most of the go wide decks seems to build back pretty quickly (or in the case of aristocrats, sacs their board for value anyway).
Beta vs Guru basics [kreygasm]
2nd
Really hope the company doesn't win; I don't like that deck
Hm, i wonder why Gaby Spartz is one of the on camera hosts? Hm... Maybe it's her unrivaled knowledge of the game? Fickle. Not finkle... pun. Like she says it herself "This is Gaby Sprarts (no accolades) with Pro tour Hall of Famer Name.
EDIT* I take it back, she actually knows more than the Hall of fame guy... wow
LSV worst player ever in this top 8
+James Voakes how about, no?!
Anyone else think the only reason Gaby is sitting there and has her job as Tournament director or monitor is because of she knows a bit about MTG but mainly her looks? its pretty obvious. there's 99% male player basin MTG (it actually is 99/1 in favor of men) yet you want me to believe they chose her because she was more talented and knew more about magic than 1000's of other guys who wanted the job? bs lol
Did he just say "Co Co" for collected company? Thats it, i'm done with this game.
That's been slang for a while...
JaceMTG
Man i can't play this game anymore. Pussy is scarce enough in the world as it is with all this womens rights shit going on, adding shit like this onto an already CRAZILY geeky and expensive hobby can do nothing other than push the vagina more and more back into to it's holy grail / cave. I don't have tha much faith!
Believe it or not, the vast majority of people I play MTG with regularly are married.
Jamaree Medford
exactly? bored off their tits, it's either this, or in the river with a pair of concrete shoes on
Antony Quigley ...What?