@@magiclawninja thank you and I’m glad you find it helpful

@@energetek661 I could if I get the data. But I have a feeling that it’s not going to change that often or that much in locked formats like old school that don’t get new cards.

@@cartweel aha yeah they’re not exactly new anymore, but still mostly under the radar. Especially in this format where a lot of players are very unfamiliar with the cards even cards from top decks

@@Wayfarer_CZ glad you enjoyed the video. Honestly ward sliver is really bad because crystalline already gives shroud for 2 mana and ward costs 5. Plus the combat damage part isn’t as relevant because you have lots of guys that pump your slivers. In my opinion worship plus crystalline is the best way to beat mono red decks

​@@IPlayMagic Oh god, I forgot how expensive that card is, never mind then.

@@shylatapia9115 because it’s a card that’s super powerful in certain matchups and the deck plays a bunch of tutors so you can find it easily. But you wouldn’t want more than one because it’s bad in some matchups so you wouldn’t want to draw it there

@@IPlayMagic thanks for the prompt response.. I've just recently gotten into premodern and i've been binging on your videos..

@@IPlayMagic I'm on pit/rack(pox), also mono black that shares many similar cards and i wondered why our lists don't run it in the main, now i know.. hehe..

@@shylatapia9115 yeah pit rack is a different style of deck and it doesn’t have tutors. Most decks with tutors and black will run a 1 of plague in the main. Thanks I’m glad you find the channel useful

@@kovala aha yes I just rewatched it myself and it’s crazy to hear and remember some of the prices that I mention in the video. They’re up massively already and it’s only been 2 years. I did miss a bit by not putting those as number 1. I didn’t think premodern would grow as fast as it has. Plus I didn’t expect mtg 30 reprinting beta (no one did) and that really hurt a lot of people’s confidence in the game and old school era stuff

@@IPlayMagic It is crazy how much WotC is destroying confidence in the game. I think that's a huge reason why people are migrating to premodern: it harkens back to an era where WotC design was principled and concerned with the overall state of the game, rather than milking it for all it was worth. Even legacy has lost its appeal to me. It was once a format that only undergoes slow change, but now it rotates just as frequently as every other format. Who has the time/money to keep up with it outside of deeply-entrenched players? Better to play a fun, balanced format that WotC can't touch. Even with the limited card pool, there's so much depth to premodern. I would argue its inherent balance even gives it more depths than other formats with deeper card pools!

@@kovala yeah totally, I don’t think they can wind it down easily either because all of the new players will complain about the cards being unplayable. Modern era magic feels less like a strategy game and more like a game of overpowered bombs I’m sure I’d like it if nothing else was available but yeah legacy has changed so much over the past 5 years

@@alexsmith497 4 mana for a card that usually isn’t that big is a really bad rate. Especially when you factor in that a lot of decks don’t have creatures at all and only your graveyard will buff it. Call of the herd, blastoderm or ravenous baloth are all a lot better. This deck is really low on lands too so it doesn’t usual play many 4 mana cost cards. If you mean tarmogoyf then it’s not legal in premodern

@@Black_Solstice thank you !

@@IPlayMagic i can't wait for new premodern deck techs (especially Horror Stompy MB)

@@foldemort8335 check out my video about where to play 👍 the uk does have some in London I believe but most places in the world don’t. Most players play online over webcam (check out my video about where to play)

@@TheDeadGuyAle this video is only a month old so the current list is very up to date and I would only change the sideboard. I haven’t had time to test anything but I would definitely try a lot of land destruction in there like 4 avalanche riders and 4 blood moon or something like that.

@@IPlayMagic thanks a lot, i would try that route as well.

@@chaucansk8 I have definitely seen people play wizards, but there aren’t really any super obvious payoffs for playing wizards. The ones that I can think of are quite slow and fragile. But there might be a playable wizards deck

@@michallurie511 voracious hunger is good, there’s probably something else that I’m not thinking of too

@@oskaretc I think it’s ok against dreadnought if you have loads of discard and innocent blood, it just depends on which parts of the deck you draw and when you draw them. But double engineered plague from any sideboard are very difficult to deal with as they shut down spirit or zombie infestation. Or are you playing the corrupt deck ?

@@IPlayMagic the corrupt deck, yeah! the creatures i have in the main are 2 twisted abomination, 2 plague spitter and 1 masticore. was thinking of adding a few snuff outs to the SB for the matchup

@@christophsindorf7003 yeah, it’s fun and powerful. It doesn’t have the 1 mana kill everything card but at least the burn can go towards the opponent too

@@timellins check out my video about where to play premodern, most people don’t have a local scene and play online over webcam. Those are some interesting choices. Personally I’d never cut the therapies and I never really found that I needed card draw as the deck is so grindy. I can see a stronghold being good but I was very worried about the mana base and not having enough black mana.

Personally I would go with this but with a heavy land destruction sideboard and the red counterspell that I mentioned. I do think you really need to know how to play the combo and control matchups to beat those though and a bit of luck to try and avoid them as much as possible

It is weak to those, the sideboard needs to be updated with some of the stuff I recommend in the video. Otherwise you can fight their combo with powder keg on 4 and disk, I recently had to play the matchup in the top 4 of a monthly (100 ish player event) and we were both surprised at how long the red deck was able to survive and that the matchup wasnt a total thrashing even if it isnt a good matchup. Having said that I do think this is the classic thing of premodern being a small format and replenish being the current flavour of the month. Replenish is a great deck but people will stop playing it so much in a few months just like they did with oath ponza.

@@IPlayMagic thanks a lot! im currently testing a version more ponza oriented, very nice deck, gonna mess with it plenty! <3

@@punijaps thank you glad you enjoyed it

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