Magic Duels - Madness Brains

[@EdgePitSwing]

What a SMART PLAY casting Avacyn at the end step after seeing you spend your mana. Really great stuff.

[@cuttlefish6839]

next level plays

[@thalisthes]

I really like these kind of videos. I think they've helped me get a deeper understanding of the game's rules, whilst also helping me analyzing my meta. They are also very enjoyabole and kind of intriguing, keep it up!

[@LegenVD]

Thanks! WIll do :)

[@LegenVD]

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[@Marc79999]

You should have ignored one zombie from the start if you wanted to play the game 100% fairly (in your last match).

[@Kelahnus]

+Marc Antoni Fiol Vich completely uneccersay since he won by more then 2 damage or 4 I guess since it was two attacks.

[@ShadowmanZ92]

That 10 zombie win made me so happy, like a shotgun blast for the kill.

[@xnick_uy]

I liked the video and also giggled each time you said "put a counter on our brain".

[@Kelahnus]

I love this deck I will just add more counterspells to protect against sweepers and my brain in the jar. Also I just love blue and counterspell. As always this was a great video and I always learn something. keep up the good work.

[@rafaelsousa2633]

I made one of my biggest comebacks in my entire life with a deck like this. So, I had a Brain in the Jar in play, with 3 counters. My opponent had Gideon and Steaming Vents. I was at 2 life. He transforms Gideon and the Vent into creatures and attacks with both. With Brain in the Jar, I cast a Languish at instant speed, killing the Vent, and reducing Gideon to a 1/1. He swings with Gideon again. Luckily, I had a Rise from the Grave in hand. I cast it with Brain in the Jar and ressurect his Fleshbag Marauder. He is forced to sacrifice Gideon and I survive with 1 life. The rest of the game was me countering every spell he had until he quit. Luckiest day ever

[@LegenVD]

Those are the best kinds of games :)

[@tonajki]

Brain+rise is an awesome combination. I play this deck in monoblue and I'm having a ton of fun.

[@Perspektive77]

Best deck you played so far since the expansion, very tricky to play. Dimir for the win.

[@cornxtripod5764]

I really love playing magic but I'm only beginning and anything I see of magic I always learn and it's from the best

[@ProtoIndoEuropean88]

man I love your channel, you got some cool ideas for decks

[@TravisWizard]

surprised Magic Duels is so popular. I play MTGO but I might try this

[@arum12]

Hello LegenVD and great video as always! I just wanted to say, only my opinion, that i don't find this deck particularly consistent, only to make an example, in the second game you had plenty of time to set up cause the opponent had too many lands and no great play, same with third game. This is only my thought, i don't want to point out luck, that's just how it went and what i appreciate are your moves and thoughts. What are your considerations? What of a blue/black control deck with cards like From Under the Floorboards and Elusive Tormentor? Even not in the same deck.

[@LegenVD]

There's a lot of card selection and draw between Nagging Thoughts, Pour over the Pages and Catalog that you should be getting pretty consistent draws. Tormentor is not a bad finisher for a control deck, maybe with Sanitarium Skeleton recursion. Under the Floorboards I could see in combination with something like Call the Bloodline.

[@arum12]

Thanks for the advises and keep going with the good work! :)

[@sladjanavukas5420]

I play with Call the bloodline and work great.1/1 lifelink vamp,nice to block powerful and kill small creatures...

[@povisykt]

"We lose our brain" xD

[@photohunted]

Hi! Why are you using Evolving Wilds in a 2 color deck, without any landfall cards, instead of using tapped 2 color lands ?

[@LegenVD]

Flip Jace faster.

[@mieblock4856]

Hey LVD in that second game why did you discard your second copy of rise from the tides? I would say it is too much of a stretch to be able to cast two six mana spells in one game.

[@vDROv630]

I've been having some outrageous winning games with this deck. Didnt really use jar couldnt find the extra mana.

[@1973BILLO]

Hi Legen, nice deck and fun gm play as usual. I have most of the cards but still missing some like catalog, I have just two. So I stuck in two extra artificier's epiphany to replace the other two catalogs. I'm just curious why you decided to use 25 lands with four evolving wilds? Was it just to have something else to discard if you were not able to discard a madness card or you didn't want to discard one of your other cards on each turn?

[@LegenVD]

We really want to hit our landdrops every turn until turn 6, then we can discard extra lands to some of our discard spells if we don't need more.

[@tewankim3489]

I made a deck like this with Izzet, comboing Geistblast to duplicate Rise from the Tides and Part the Waterveil :D

[@LegenVD]

That's pretty sweet

[@ChrisRS7]

You might lose your brain, never lose your head though!

[@fuckfacemcboogerballs7876]

Big fan of the channel. Is there a chance of you updating older decks with the newer cards? I'm personally interested in fast red decks to farm packs with.

[@LegenVD]

If some decks get a lot of new cards I'll add them to the weekly poll, but I'm not really updating old lists as that would take up too much time. RDW has only really gotten worse with Foundry Street getting removed from the game.

[@XblacklightZ]

reminds me of secure the wastes end step into gideon for the win in paper....I'll see if I can do this.

[@tonajki]

On a different note: is there any way to not lose a rank when you win against a sore loser and they lock the game out?

[@ChrisRS7]

You can't lock the game on purpose, can you? If it happens you really only have two choices anyway, sit it out or concede and move on (you'll climb up the ranks eventually) Edit: What was your situation until the game got stuck?

[@tonajki]

+VR462002 you can pause and quit, then it will stay locked out with a simple message that you have been replaced by a.i. and that's it. I was countering my tapped out opponent's kozilek's return while attacking for lethal with 10 black zombies. Ragequit :)

[@leandrogaymer2999]

i like Liliana, The last hope. to get the thing in the ice from the graveyard.

[@MrKjulius]

the description has an error, it says that there are two extra Nagging Thoughts.

[@LegenVD]

Thanks, fixed now. Supposed to be Just the Wind.

[@IvanIvanov-wi8sr]

When do you stream on twitch?

[@LegenVD]

Once every blue moon. Will try to stream during the summer.

[@TheThekal]

As much as I want to like this deck (I really do), it's way to prone to fail. Besides Rise from the Tides you rely too much on an early Brain draw. Even if you can pull the combo off, most decks run some sort of sweeper and by the time you play Rise from the Tides they almost certainly have one in their hand. Maybe it's just not unfair enough although you played it quite well!

[@Kelahnus]

just run more counters for the sweepers.

[@Mickhealthy]

This is a very crafty but very tedious deck. Probably fun and technical to play but kinda boring to watch for a full episode. Nice work making the deck!

[@ppsilver7825]

Das Deck ist scheiße 🤣 viel zu langsam