Modern Ruby Storm Turn 2 Kill Explained

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[@neminem233]

There are three certainties in life Death Taxes One card turning storm into a tier 1 deck

[@Enja_Near]

This comment aged like milk

[@jamesadamson3424]

Yeah the decks a flop

[@actualjessielive783]

@@jamesadamson3424what is? Surely you aren’t talking about ruby storm, it seems to be in a great position

[@Babyboots1]

When you stack your deck, it looks great....but yea, it's a bit of a flop. It's weak to everything gifts storm is, and it's much easier to fizzle unlike gifts storm which tends to EOT "win" or untap and win. You're also keeping track of a lot more than mana and storm as you can see it's quite annoying.

[@Enja_Near]

@@Babyboots1 Little late to the party on ruby storm, though we might see it pop back up now that grief and Nadu are banned. It's really good when people don't expect it, but if your opponent is prepared it's super easy to disrupt the combo, as you hinge on chaining Rals to storm off.

[@pandaborg2466]

Imagine your a young kid who just decided to play modern and made your jank deck with a weird but funny combo with your heart full of hope and then in your first game this is what happens

[@TehSeksyManz]

I mean, when I started modern, I got spanked by a storm deck and thought that it was cool. Getting double griefed on T1 would be way more disheartening, even if I didn't lose the game right away.

[@enzocasal6854]

That was pretty much me last month. I quit MTG in 2007 and only got back into it two months ago. When I quit, Ravnica just came out and I had a half built little Golgari deck. I rebuilt it and took it to my LGS for a Modern night not expecting anything and was just hoping for some fun games to dredge some creatures. First match, Amulet Titan deck. While I'm not a kid anymore, my inner child absolutely got crushed. On the bright side, I discovered commander and am still playing magic and having fun in that format :)

[@henriquo5227]

I was smashed on my first tournament, so on the next day i was so sad then i decided to build the same deck i lost

[@flauschicard]

But if you play modern you want play competetive. I mean cmon go play my little pony or something. I played to kids on grand prix what should i do? Let them win 🤣🤣.

[@FootOfDOOM]

Bro this is every modern deck. If you bring jank you are cooked no matter the deck. Ruby storm is very fast, losing to a real competitive deck when you have jank is universal.

[@bobbycortez9027]

It was actually grapeshot for 21, you accidently counted your mana pile not your storm count. But it's good to see how you could increase the storm count with reprieve. Excellent video. Looking forward to protour this weekend to see the powerhouses collide

[@El_ultimo_Guille]

"Past in Flames affects only cards in your graveyard at the time it resolves. Instant and sorcery cards put into your graveyard later in the turn won't gain flashback.(2021-03-19)"

[@TheColebot]

that is true but he didn't flashback anything that was cast after past in flames resolved.

[@tkalle1299]

Yes, but Past in Flames also has flashback, so he flashes it back to hit grapeshot

[@DecksmithMTG]

I hate that you need 2 storm counts due to ral's ability

[@stricks8382]

And two exiles and two graveyards!

[@zyibesixdouze4863]

Balmor is similar, and so is prowess. Just one of the things you check for

[@vitrioleco4849]

Well, I guess Drannith is going back in the sideboard.

[@brunoramlow5597]

Looks like a Yu-Gi-Oh gameplay to me

[@byBbibo]

Yeah, the nostalgia of looking the combo video yu-gi-oh players made back in the day!!

[@wickederebus]

As a yugioh player, most of our modern creature/monster decks can push for lethal on the first turn they can attack if their entire gameplay goes uninterrupted. Which is why we have dozens of different interaction cards.

[@luisalejandrogordillomorga3501]

Thanks for the video, its nice to learn how these decks work

[@MTGDeckmasters]

Glad you like them!

[@DrakeSteel23]

Its very interesting seeing how an archetype like storm has evolved over the years. Back when i played modern Storm was an izzet deck with goblin electromancer, pyromancer's ascension and a bunch of 1 and 0 mana cantrips like serum visions and gitaxian probe. The end goal was still to just kill someone with grapeshot in one turn but it was a bit more inconsistent than this version. Its cool to see this new version and how its changed since then.

[@tcsmagicbox]

Thank you for playing it out to show people how it's done.

[@magusofthebargain]

3:41 There is an advantage to playing Past in Flames BEFORE you play Ral here, because of the Ral Flip stack trick: With Past in Flames, you have access to all those instants in your graveyard. Respond to Ral's trigger by casting as many instants as you can. Put all those Ral triggers on the stack and flip that many coins in a row. Sure, you still take damage for each flip you lose, but as soon as you win a flip, you can flip Ral and the other coinflips can't hurt you once he's a planeswalker. This works especially well when you cast Ral before your 5th and 6th instant or sorcery, if you cast your 6th spell as an instant in response to Ral triggering off your 5th spell, you have a 75% chance to flip Ral instead of a 50% chance.

[@joshvon8495]

Lol moderns now a turn two or three format but people are still mad grief wasn’t banned 😂. That deck does look fun though

[@franslair2199]

Grief makes a number of decks irrelevant. This one is resilient to grief because a lot of cards are interchangeable

[@rappereiralasombra]

​@@franslair2199yes. You play the cards by function: mana ritual, impulse draw, cost reducer, storm burn, flashback/recursion etc. You can't just take the whole play down by thoughtseizing it. Even pact of negation can't shut it down. But you really on drawing to keep the engine running

[@JustRightPinedo]

I lost to this theoretical T2 win on Wednesday. I was playing hollowvine, OTP and I put 10 power on board, thinking it was a pretty decent start then I immediately lost to them storming off. Notably didn't see my hate pieces but didn't want to mull too aggressively. I'm officially committing a couple slots to ROL effects now in each of my decks.

[@MakeVarahHappen]

You have to separate your graveyard into two piles once you cast past in flames because anything you cast afterwards doesn't have flashback.

[@Franciscomeirajr]

That's why he said the card was in the graveyard "after past in flames"

[@mcgroom8515]

Hmmm I wonder if he mentioned that he placed cards after past in flames for that very purpose.

[@spilledsocks]

still waiting for the rest of the cards in the mail but ive been gofishing aspiringspike's list with drc and green/white splashes for static prison and pick your poison/veil of summer. fun deck, would love to see more content from you on it.

[@mcgroom8515]

Waiting for Caleb Scherer to bust back into the scene

[@Zosh_]

T'es pas canadien, t'es québecois.

[@lashermytube]

Can we have your decklist please?

[@momopuentes]

I love when a player says: “I’m already win” and I don’t get why… this happens for me with this video… I think I have to view it tons of times to get it

[@DiabolicScars]

Great job explaining!

[@dschlie6669]

I love playing storm! Great video btw, thanks

[@ttvTheSquizz]

You could have won much sooner (before casting ral) by wishing for grapeshot and casting it then past in flames the grapeshot

[@ducklingduck6027]

Stupid decks like this is the reason I run monoblack discard-aggro.... 1st Turn Inquisition/ Thoughtseize along with grief. 2nd Turn Persist to Grief and they are already 3 cards down... It wins games :)

[@wavpainter]

Solitaire as Garfield intended.

[@IETass]

This is your sign to quit modern

[@aidanbagshaw3411]

Or to start

[@Matteo.C]

I only play commander but this video actually makes me wanna play modern cuz I love storm decks and this looks super fun to play

[@Gaming_sometimes]

Ah, fellow maple syrup enthusiast

[@scottmacwatters]

I know it’s your deck so you probably don’t want the info too out there, but I would love a video about how to stop a storm deck or what hate pieces shut things off. I see some options but I would love your perspective

[@astarte768]

As someone who plays it. The cards I have hardest time with are endurance, souless jailer, damping sphere, and some others like deafening silence. But this deck runs static prison in sb so you just hold your combo and use your life total as a resource and the turn you want to go off you static prison the hate price then proceed.

[@VoidManufacturing]

Chalice of the void/ Leyline of the void.

[@DecksmithMTG]

he has previous vids from his gifts storm days on how to beat X card from the storm pov

[@astarte768]

@@VoidManufacturing chalice is too slow unless you can power out a chalice on 2 by turn 2 deck don’t play one drops

[@VoidManufacturing]

@@astarte768 new tron can do it easily

[@bencomer2339]

What a fun game of Yugioh

[@Prischepka]

I love this game - Solitaire!

[@DarkWr4ith]

There are versions of the deck using Unstable Amulet too. They act as both card draw and your wincon.

[@ClickingTubb]

Why is the deck have jegantha?

[@sebastianbustos-smith5338]

If running a companion doesnt hurt a deck, having one to just have incase you brick and need to do anything is worth it

[@coryheistad4935]

So would artist talent be good in this deck i know its expensive but i thibk it can do good like rummaging expecially if u have too many lands let me know

[@badmangames5735]

This is why I'm glad I got out of this game. It was fun until about 2014. Then things started going insane.

[@LiteDrift]

Dawg, it's stuff like this why I sideboard Blossoming Calm, oh my goodness 😅

[@alexiscortes9570]

This deck is the prime example of why I love limited drafting..’

[@augustoaag]

Big missplay. You played desperate ritual early. It has splice ont arcane.

[@richardslade9307]

No wonder every person I know who still plays magic only plays commander.

[@ImperialVersian]

Yup. And power creep is only accelerating

[@wickederebus]

Just wait for Pioneer to take off. Or for Post Pioneer to become a thing, and Pioneer Horizons/Masters sets come out.

[@lasmonedasdemario8627]

instead of play past in flames, you wish for a grapeshot, then past, then grapeshot and win

[@incogneeto9122]

This is so boring.

[@1uplink169]

Ya That's cool and probably fun to do... but feels cheap and uncreative once you have the blueprint. Might as well go play with yourself.

[@Tlfcringe]

Man, i might get this, waiting until after the pt to buy

[@benjaminloyd6056]

I Counterspell your Wish.

[@raphblain3842]

love the QC accent XD

[@TheWowdrew]

You're Canadian?! Eww

[@Zeldarkss]

Combo deck are so boring 😅

[@pataponfighter]

Please show more lines

[@kartoffelnpommesgut]

Incoming ban for Natu and Ral.

[@MTGDeckmasters]

I think Ral is safe for now

[@RavnessL]

My man playing solitaire on turn 2

[@hapless2616]

Anyonr have a decklist to try?

[@maximilianobarros6196]

what a salty deck!

[@Wheeliecoolers]

Is mindbreak trap not modern legal?

[@damianosollazzo5747]

Yes, it is legal. Could be a clever way to counter Grapeshot

[@Wheeliecoolers]

@@damianosollazzo5747 I mean if the deck is runnin the format seems like a good answer or at least sideboard

[@damianosollazzo5747]

@@Wheeliecoolers from this point of view, yeah, it's plausible it becomes a popular sideboard option

[@marine5546]

Only counters the spells that happen to be on the stack and doesn't negate cast triggers for Ral

[@Wheeliecoolers]

@@marine5546 yeah it can exile all the grapeshots on the stack lol

[@rodrigomonteiro4567]

play vs a wall = win

[@Landonw666]

So anyway mindbreak trap is a card that just shits on the payoff of this deck.

[@jewski6852]

If you need to stack your deck, its probably not a good deck for you to play

[@Aaron.Seabolt]

Thank you for the video! I’ve been interested in this deck and I plan to pick it up. Please post more videos.

[@MTGDeckmasters]

Thanks. More to come!

[@ShamanjotSinghSarai-hz5nj]

Let's Go Canada 👍👍😂

[@victorchico4980]

I love it💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

[@aR0ttenBANANA]

If it’s not Modern Cat Tribal I don’t want it 😡 jk btw

[@bausskilers]

French Canadian

[@Snowfox11]

I wonder if rotpriest storm is still a contender after this 😅

[@bausskilers]

Great video, thank you

[@MTGDeckmasters]

Glad you liked it!

[@Ginronmaster1994]

Yu-gi-oh moment

[@tylercraig5633]

How expensive is this to build?

[@elclipsa7490]

nice lets play solitaire so fun

[@kenmacad]

when to cast mindbreak trap?

[@TheMCGamer2012]

You really gotta work on your coin flipping technique- I wouldn't count any of those

[@ohcrapnotyou7323]

counter spell?

[@rappereiralasombra]

Even if you countered grapeshot, what could you do against the lots of storm copies of it?

[@rahzaelfoe3288]

​​@@rappereiralasombraYeah, in this very specific situation with hindsight being 20/20 you would have needed to have counter spelled the ruby medallion. They would still have had enough gas in hand to try again next turn, but at 1 mana and no reducer they would have at least stalled out this turn.

[@Raccoonpolice99]

Very fun :D

[@Quimusik]

This deck dies to fatal push :v

[@darkanayer5867]

Not really, most of the stuff it does it can do somewhat fine without Ral out. He definitely speed things up with the discount, and with the card advantage of the -8 it's a prime way to secure your victory. But otherwise it is still just as playable even if Ral gets pushed

[@deanboman]

The ten minute round must be so much fun for the other player...

[@yayforjoe]

That's cool

[@JustPhoenyx]

I played against strom i won cause of one card...defening slience

[@badmangames5735]

I sincerely don't understand why it's fun to win turn 2. If I wanted to play solitaire, I'd play yugioh

[@hodgkins87]

trash video if you need to stack your hand to show a point sad just show the point with out the deck smh

[@pistolpete7422]

You clicked on a video about a theoretical T2 win, and got mad when he presented the hand that allows you a T2 win… in a fictional setting with no opponent interaction… wild 😂