Legacy Elves with Reid Duke

[@diogopadrao4118]

I see Reid and Elves, I click

[@Nitelion94]

I left Reid and Jund when I saw Reid and Elves. What a day to be alive.

[@mattm7798]

That Hull Breacher match was brutal. A fine example why Force of Will is not only still legal but needed in Legacy.

[@scottmacpherson7975]

We all still had a fun elves experience Reid. Thank you.

[@nickragazzo1588]

Hey Reid! Love the elf content! Also just as a note with glimpse chains, if mana is not your constraint, you want to play your visionaries (and symbiotes to bounce and replay your visionaries) before your other elves. This is because they dig you a card deeper than your other elves. So if you find a glimpse on that card deeper, your remaining elves draw for two instead of one. This makes you less likely to fizzle.

[@seannissen2509]

I like progentitus in the board mostly because I still remember the time you won with it... by finding a way to hard cast it

[@caseheroes9835]

That last match was brutal

[@bm-jg5ig]

Feels like this deck should be playing a yavimaya cradle of growth. You can make plays w quirion ranger protecting gaea's cradle from wasteland and bouncing it or generating a ton of mana in 1 turn. I always ran a crop rotation in the 75 for 1 of silver bullet lands. kinda spicy

[@timw9745]

Yeah I run a Yavimaya in my Elves build

[@kilpta4746]

It's been in and out of elves builds for a while. It's hard to say. Personally I've found it underwhelming compared to having an additional basic forest, but it's very close.

[@dacali1636]

That was great fun to watch! Too bad about the combo players, but that just means you gotta make another Elves video!

[@JamesELLYale]

I loved your Match 4 opponent's one man stage show in game 1 while you goldfished him. Not even in a vindictive way. I would have felt the same way.

[@sethglickman7642]

Always happy to see more Reid content! Have you ever considered making videos about the Pauper format?

[@contentus78]

There is a strong Pauper Elves deck! :-)

[@wunglu176]

Yo who plays pauper??!! Poor ppl that’s who

[@M3J6]

I audibly groaned seeing this video up. Hell yes

[@einoseikkula1847]

The only real misplay was saying Good luck. In the last round it really backfired

[@rossmcbeath4997]

I wonder how it would feel to sideboard Karthus, Tyrant of Jund for the Murktide.

[@MindstabThrull]

Would it have been crazy to sideboard in Leyline of the Void against the last deck (Eons/Hullbreacher) so you'd have a chance against them comboing off early, giving you a chance to set up? Along the lines of Blood Moon vs Tron in Modern - it won't win the game but it gives you time.

[@TheGyldenlove]

Reid Duke with elves, always a great time

[@thirdfavouritechild9082]

The hair is looking GLORIOUS Reid :)

[@-homerow-]

34:56 I think Reid would be a good singer in a rock band ngl

[@lotusfrucht111]

I never play elves, so I'm surprised at what I'm missing at 1:01:00..... I personally would have just played dryad arbor, activate cradle for 7, played alosaurus for 3, have 4 left + dryad and boseiju = 6.... looks super simple and does more damage, what am I missing? lol

[@DelusionalKraut]

Dryad has summoning sickness, so : 4 left + boseiju = 5

[@lotusfrucht111]

@@DelusionalKraut ooooh haha thanks! For some reason I thought, since it's a forest it can just instantly tap for mana

[@julien4414]

It's impossible for me to get bored by Reid Elves

[@blackwaltz571]

Run afoul in sideboard vs Emrakrul and dark depth Merith

[@blackwaltz571]

And grislebrand 🤣🤣🤣

[@timw9745]

Love the content Reid!

[@mattm7798]

Reid, do you ever player Modern, Pioneer or Pauper Elves? I love elf deck but this one feels more like a combo decks vs a creature deck.

[@timw9745]

Legacy Elves have mostly been a combo deck. It’s has been called ‘Combo Elves’ for a reason.

[@KyleWalters126]

I think Reid has been playing this variation of Elves for a very long time. I don't think he's an "Elves player" outside of Legacy, though I don't know that for sure.

[@smacksstacks4258]

Walked into the lgs 3 years ago and asked if they held type 1 and 2 tournaments. "WTF?" is all his face said!

[@giacomofurlan5777]

You are an amazing player but…That’s your bread and butter!

[@Paax2]

Elves, let's fucking gooooooooo!

[@motmontheinternet]

This league was like watching Yugioh.

[@jdd5672]

As formats get older they do tend towards yugioh style, play my entire deck on turn 1, degeneracy

[@Sunrunner663]

@@jdd5672 That's not really true. All of those decks simply spammed their turn 1 win attempt because they knew they were up against Elves which have no ability to counter. If Reid played for example Jeskai Control they simply would not have been able to do this. The longest matches I played were always Legacy matches (besides Commander of course).

[@jdd5672]

@@Sunrunner663 sure stasis, back to basics, and wasteland all exist in legacy which can make it an extremly slow format (if you have the instant speed 0 mana disruption) but for a format as a whole i dont think you can say those games play slower than control mirrors in standard, or a limited game where the board has completly stalled into an unattackable mess and each play is just draw passing to the point of decking

[@jdd5672]

my point is, you are pointing to the outliers of the format not the rule. And while it is true not every legacy game ends before turn 3 - that does make up a startling large proportion of the play patterns. Ofcourse i didnt even take legacy to be the end of that degeneracy, think aboutthe sequeunces of play that exist in vintage! either you keep a turn 1 win or you keep someway to deny a turn 1 win, which to me is the closest magic feels to yugioh

[@Sunrunner663]

I'm sorry but that's simply not representing Legacy at all. And I feel the urge to disagree because statements like this are keeping people out of the format in my opinion. Many new players that come to our rounds are surprised about how long and complex the games get, as they often hear things like that. Most games last much longer than just 3 turns. Of course, they are not all grind fests, but the turn 1 and 2 kills are far rarer than this video implies. If you choos not to play one of the turn 1 wombo-combo decks you alone will make the difference for most of the matches as those decks are not even meta. Look at the most played decks in Legacy right now, the top 5 has elves as the only combo deck within. And elves get's heavily disrupted by the rest of the decks there.

[@willlozinak5182]

i feel as if these videos would benefit from a chat replay.

[@MatchaDough]

Please tell me that you are gonna be my coach against Post Malone, and that we are gonna play legacy elves!

[@BigHit9922]

Hype 😊

[@Grottsa]

Reid to this day having mismatched Natrual Orders is as much intresting as it is irritating (;

[@deadeyeridge]

lol Legacy's a lot of fun, but then you play against Sneak and Show, or echo of eons

[@deadeyeridge]

Bro can win a pro Tour but can't figure out a hair cut

[@levikessler3466]

Having the other person talk in the background is quiet irritating at times. Might want to look at your setup if possible.

[@mickeypigknuckles]

Nah. Humans exist. Let them talk.

[@derpj7105]

You watch Reid you get to listen to his girlfriend/wife(?) too. What's not to like?