Grand Prix Lyon 2018 Round 9 - Magic the Gathering

Modern
173 Rouar, Julien FR 18 Schulte, Andreas DE 18
13 Tobiasch, Marc DE 21 Commercon, Simon DE 21
17 Fassler, Dario CH 21 Van Luttervelt, Dave NL 21
90 Juza, Martin CZ 18 Hofmann, Mike DE 18
Van Luttervelt, Dave (-) - playing W/U Hatebears.
Schulte on Soulflayer Surprise and Fässler on Mill is the main attraction this round, of course. -- Watch live at / magic

[@chartreux1532]

As a german it's nice to see a creative deck being played by another fellow german. Was absolutely one of the most fun matches to watch at GP Lyon!

[@MassiveFoot29]

What an absolutely silly deck but I love it

[@jamesfowler206]

These guys are the best commentary team ever

[@andrewbmaher9443]

My absolute favorite instance of broadcasted magic ever.

[@chailking3931]

Reach doesn't really matter when it has flying.... hehehe

[@bumpasaurus487]

Same with first strike. They are both almost totally redundant when you have flying and double strike. So the only ability that actually may matter that this deck can’t produce is deathtouch

[@jackpabich763]

I love how almost half an hour is dedicated to Soulflayer and then infect comes around, does it's thing, and is done with 2 games in roughly 6 minutes. Speaking of Infect, is there a place we can find that sweet deck? And ooh, mill! A jank and effective deck, infect, and mill! My 3 favorite types of decks! Love this. Thoughts on having Fraying Sanity in the mill deck?

[@4shotsofvodka738]

Finally a cool deck

[@mikekenny1698]

Do you think you could put dryad arbor into the soulflayer deck? You could fetch it in response to a Lili and then sac that if need be seeing as Lili can be very deadly to soulflayer, you also don't care about the summoning sickness as your deck doesn't need to be fast

[@bumpasaurus487]

26:40 he only drew one card off his reaper!?!? Does he really not know it draws for each chunk of damage/life gain? Come on now..🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@darktavar9674]

Yeah, but the reaver has double strike, so it procs twice

[@bumpasaurus487]

@@Solmnfray61 you gain life each time damage is dealt, you are right, but you are missing that it has double strike so it deals damage two times per combat, and you draw a card each time.

[@bumpasaurus487]

@@darktavar9674 exactly, he missed what I was saying

[@Gmanu29]

Damn I miss 😭 paper magic and watching and playing at Grand Prix events. F*ck this pandemic😡

[@Valkyrie.99]

I played Soulflayer in Standard years ago

[@mattcampbell4150]

i wonder why not hellspark elemental instead of spark elemental.

[@gusstotts6079]

Spark Elemental is only 1 mana which contributes to the cheap small creatures to get in damage. This also allows them to cast more spells after a grisly salvage or a commune with the gods. Additionally, the unearth ability is a non-bo with delve. That would be my reasoning.

[@bumpasaurus487]

One cheaper and u can’t unearth if u delve it anyway. So pretty rare that I want the hellspark over it.

[@mattcampbell4150]

@@bumpasaurus487 3 years later! FINALLY ive been waiting for this answer!

[@bumpasaurus487]

@@mattcampbell4150 hey man, you’re the one who wrote the dumb comment, not me

[@Jedicake]

Weird decks are the best decks.

[@Buster_Scruggs]

This deck looks so fun, but i would be completely devastated to see my soulflayer get countered after i delved the creatures... is there anything he can do against a UR or a UB player that just holds up 2 mana every turn?

[@rauberhotzenplotz3351]

Maybe cavern of Souls on demon and more discard?

[@Gmanu29]

Mike S yes,cavern naming demon. I'm playing one in my mainboard. And its easy to find with grisly salvage. Post sideboard-savage summoning

[@saiconjr]

Also there’s the green leyline

[@HugsmadeDrugs]

Cavern of souls, a one of. play the traverse soulflayer version of the deck, also has Grisly salvage, which can make very easy to get your only cavern on your hand.

[@dannyrogers777]

Savage Summoning is a good sideboard for this imo

[@tiltilfing]

Surprise!!!

[@kaydenfochuk7792]

I have my own soulflayer deck on mtgo and in cards and its really fun

[@StarskySTARS]

I play a version with chromanticore, samue and hazoret. Definitively a lot better in grindy matches as you can often hardcast samut and hazoret. And chromanticore if you have carrots out.

[@stupidrock0153]

He talks about how important faithless looting is... my question to him would be why not run a couple of Cathartic Reunion. It seems like it could help you keep more lands

[@gonyoda]

there are more keywords on Cairn Wanderer

[@kikimdo]

He only drew one card off the Reaver ability.

[@ladiesman2048]

looks like jund player forgot to draw a card after resolving Dark Confidant

[@peterkirk8510]

No, he ghost quartered himself before his draw

[@lenpar]

How to get this avesome Soulflare Surprise decklist? =)

[@dearberlin]

It's in the video. Andreas plays in my LGS, I had a different approach of the deck, you can see it here:tappedout.net/mtg-decks/4c-soulflayer-lock/

[@rebelresource]

Wow that soulflayer deck just smashed him... soooo cool

[@kippiauto]

I once saw how Jund also smashed Tron! Tron mulled to five and missed 7 times second land drop and Jund pilot was able to pull the victory before Tron could stabilize!

[@julien4414]

28:15 in the background

[@matthieuhabersetzer9430]

dommage le pingouin !!!

[@cristianoaugustobecker5630]

Os jundistas piram

[@mychglou7245]

He lied, Mtggolfish played this decklist some days before the GP. And it's the EXACT same decklist. Coming from him? uh..

[@FabianBrr]

The fetch for Relicary game 1 is really really really bad play. Deserve lose..

[@Ahyescoolcool]

idk what it is, but i automatically dislike julien