MTG - Advanced Modern Studies: How To Improve Your Magic: The Gathering Gameplay With A Deck Library

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[@gastySK9]

Professor, just gotta say that I not only love the content but the way you deliver the information, the way you talk just feels so professional, maybe one day you could be a part of the MTG tournament media (kind of like Rich Hagon you know what I mean?)

[@benjamincotte775]

Hey professor I just played a tournament with your budget WU deck at my local game store and I won!! first tournament win! thanks for the decklist.

[@PlaneswalkerEredean]

I've always wanted to test out my own rogue Modern decks against the big shots, what a great way to do it! Thank you so much professor!

[@MalchiaTRE]

My goodness, why did I never think of this? A great idea not just for gauntlet testing and format immersion, but also for anybody looking to step a toe into the format without taking out a second mortgage. Thank you for continuing to create fantastic content Professor!

[@mikecmurphy]

This is one of those things that seems really obvious but is something I'd never think of.

[@joshrfranke]

Another great video professor! Your videos helped me get back into magic after a almost two year absence. I stumbled across your videos about 6 months ago and have been hooked ever since. I put together a deck and went to my first Modern FNM. Keep up the great work!

[@suicyde240]

This is actually a brilliant idea!! The insight is very appreciated professor!!

[@kevinjohnson2326]

I love this idea... thanks prof. Also loved that you read my question on q & a... another thank you, please keep up this game improvement series, it helps so much

[@raiderswinninggmail.com3superb]

Thank you for all of the videos you have made professor. They have helped my friends and I in many ways. I'm a big fan of Tolarian community college, keep up the good work professor.

[@rhondah6288]

Thanks for another well-planned and extremely helpful video. There are more Modern players than Standard at my LGS and though we can't play our proxied decks at FNM I've noticed some playing them @ Denny's where we go "after" FNM and playtest decks we are interested in "for practice and fun." Which works out great for me as a noob that lives in area where it is difficult to find other players. Playing against myself helped just not nearly as much as playing against others. These are the kind of videos/links/comments that I find particularly helpful for improving my play!

[@troy242621]

Another option: tappedout.net lets you build virtual versions of the deck from EVERY MTG card ever made, 100% for free, and even has an option to draw a hand and playtest. In fact, you don't even have to make the decks. You can just search the Modern category for the deck type you want and pick a pre-built net deck and click playtest. Then just play your physical deck against the virtual one. (If playing with someone else, there are buttons to hide the hand and the like if playing with another person.)

[@RayTomlin]

I LOVE the addition to your closing credits the phrase "and Viewers like you." It reminds me of PBS and how awesome they are. :D

[@BalrajSingh-gg3qm]

Yes, prof. This video has been of some help. Thank you

[@RockyOwl]

whenever I feel down, I always come back to this video just to hear prof say "How the hell am I supposed to afford that??" ALWAYS cheers me up! =)

[@Autarkis42]

Great video as always, Professor. You keep me excited about Magic in ways no other video producer manages to.

[@meganerd64]

Another great video professor! I just got my TCC playmat, and it looks great. Keep up the great work.

[@PlaneswalkerEredean]

I absolutely love that you're using the new Barrin fanart. I don't think anything could be more appropriate!

[@tr8836]

I've found that playing on Cockatrice is a great way to test your deck against other decks...and you get a wide variety of opponents, including a lot of weird brews. It's a great way to prepare yourself to expect the unexpected and beat everyone.

[@kevinscott8437]

So excited! Advanced modern studies is my favorite series!

[@OrdMandrell1]

This is what I've been hoping for. Real, practical advice on how to improve in Modern. Sure, the technique could be applied to Standard, but the meta changes for fast and sets rotate out so quickly that you could spend every weekend simply updating your library :)

[@TheThanimal]

I have started keeping those useless tip cards to use as the card back of proxies. Also, I find it fascinating that the professor doesn't follow the competitive scene but his advice is extremely helpful to those looking to get into that community. What a guy.

[@Boosterisanicecat]

This is a fantastic idea! I was unfamiliar with proxies before and I think this is also excellent for trying out decks you intend to build. This enables me whether a purchase of one of dem crazy mythics will be worth 10 bucks!

[@Waymanrules]

I quite like your method of advertising your patreon instead of "hey give me money" you thank the users who already have very nice.

[@juliomirelez1608]

My friend had a really clever way to save money on printer ink in his deck library. He used MS word tables and put the name and effect of three different cards from three different decks in one sleeve. Then we would Indicate which deck we were practicing with with a counter on the deck box. So a proxy would be formatted like this: Noble Hierarch G. (1) Tap for G,W, or U Exalted 0/1. ------------------- Memnite 0 (2) 1/1 ------------------- Grapeshot 1R (3) Deal 1 to a thing Storm No art could be printed out unfortunately and it was a bit hard to update. But we saved a ton over all on ink and sleeves.

[@shanelaporte]

Great video, and very helpful. I'm new to Magic and it never occurred to me to do this!

[@optimusWII]

I was actually planning on doing something similar but for a much different reason. I'm planning on playing modern but I haven't decided which deck I want to play yet, so I'm going to print out all the decks I like, play them, and then decide which one to buy.

[@decameter]

This is actually why I really like MTGO, everything is much cheaper than paper, and if you play a lot of constructed then you get a wide swath of pretty much every deck it's crazy the variety that I have constructed and seen. Since it's so easy to acquire cards.

[@sanokun007]

Great advice and video. One of the most valuable ones I've seen.

[@DuzMachines]

GREAT VIDEO. This was on my mind for the longest time!

[@thatotherkyle]

A) Matt Sperling had an article about a "battle box". It's like a 2 player cube that is made for improving your limited game. B) Metadeck.me is the best way to make proxies. It's a little strange at first, but you are able to make 12 decks with 1 set of sleeves. So 2 copies of the best decks in the format (so you can also play mirrors) plus 12 fringe decks is only 3 sets of sleeves with far less time than proxying 36 different decks.

[@Nunubotz2]

its so cool that the profesor is our slave now

[@Nunubotz2]

yeah :D

[@Hiddenkeymaster3]

I made something like this last year, but different. I have decks with different power levels in modern, from just beginning to actual FNM winning decks. I see this "library" as not one to prepare for modern, but to help people get into Magic the Gathering as almost of a Duels of the Planeswalkers feel in real life.

[@OliverGT19]

Great Videos Professor! Saludos desde Guatemala!

[@brettjohnson4383]

Great Video as always Professor!!!!

[@theholysquirrel8884]

keep on the good work professor

[@TheOnePiece1021]

Excellent video, as always!

[@Leppy]

You should do a video on how and why standard is the most expensive long term format

[@ProtagonistOfficial]

For those who don't want to go through the hassle of printing and cutting proxies. I recommend using a free program called Lackey CCG. Think of it as MTGO except every card is free.

[@MasterQuestMaster]

There's also Cockatrice, which I personally like more.

[@ZandartheLegend]

MasterQuestMaster And there is also XMage... =D

[@TheSupermegadragon]

I use untap but that's just me.

[@a.s3728]

Zandar the Legend There's also OCTGN :). You can even play sealed on it.

[@sjdhrjrjejdhdhsh]

Protagonist Or write on the back of lands if you know the cards well enough lol

[@jabbernaut52733]

I collect the tip cards leftover from packs and use those as the backs for proxies.

[@noisepollution4473]

Thanks, Prof!

[@Sdesser]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@phillolson7944]

I love your videos but this was 1 of the best videos you have done. Thank you.

[@mysticalpotato447]

Really nice job Professor :)

[@PaullyDM]

Perfect. Thanks for the video Professor! Helps me out alot. :)

[@YeahShowtime]

This is an insanely good idea.

[@poeticserenade]

Driving me nuts the whole video! What are the decks in those deckboxes!? What's in your deck library Professor?

[@matthewgarnier6460]

The professor is the best

[@DDFreddi]

Prof, you got a typo: "How To Netbdeck And Why:"

[@DDFreddi]

DDFreddi HE FIXED THE TYPO.

[@Autarkis42]

DDFreddi Of course he did... that is why he is the Professor...

[@virulents.3056]

>when the english major makes a typo

[@Nedla]

For proxy cards I use the advertisements in that replace tokens in the back of packs.

[@King.Andrew]

Awesome song choice I love it from +dark5 videos

[@ForestOfSleep]

I suggest have one of the decks in the gauntlet be splinter twin at all times. It's pretty much the litmus test for the format to see if a deck is viable.

[@kevinscott8437]

Yes splinter twin, bloom titan, tron, burn and a few others are the main ones to do this against

[@zigzack54]

How awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@charlief8620]

Dude this is amazing

The binder opened in your hand, bro. Nice touch

[@kevinscott8437]

A question professor! How would you go about printing these paper proxies? Do you just find an image on Google and paste into a document and print the page out?

[@kevinscott8437]

MuzikBangin thank you!

[@Vogti12]

Dear Professor, that Video was a great help to me, thanks a lot :) (Btw. there is a spelling Mistake in the Description :p )

[@sennanieto6952]

You could also use tappedout, its a deckbuiding website where you can also playtest decks.

[@Deris76]

Senna Nieto But it's harder to playtest with tappedout than real cards, since the playtest can't be one deck vs another. Also, personally, it is not as natural as the real cards, and most of the cards effect won't work.

[@DarlingAFK]

Hey professor! I have an interesting request for a video, Could you do like a real talk video where you tell us a story about your encounter with fake mtg cards, or maybe a time where youve been tricked into buying a fake? Thank you so much for all the content

[@aristotlekaiser8580]

"sometimes called a gauntlet" that makes so much damn sense now, the local magic shop is called gauntlet and i've been a bit curious as to why they named it that. It only opened up recently but they have lots of tournaments and many cards to choose from though the owner's son and i don't get along well

[@forrestmeader4412]

anybody else get a kick of PBS Kids nostalgia at the end when he was like "From viewers like you!"

[@neoshaolin1]

Brilliant.

[@mitramdhir]

Realy cool prof.

[@matrix_624]

1:54 Whoa.. you said hell... how manly of you!

[@WarsPC]

that legion lunch box thou

[@brianwise5850]

This is a great idea, but it brings me to the harder problem. Playtesting a 4 pod commander game. Especially since finding a good deck list for these is hard.

[@iloverocks10]

I dont Have anyone to play with where i live but there are some great modern players at my LGS im building my first deck atm and i have someone helping me test it with the proxies i printed out

[@thecollectiblecollectabill2298]

What about sideboards tho? And do I have to play against myself since I don't know anybody who plays?

[@xXMrPopp3rsXx]

Hey prof, currently I have a U/W gifts tron deck and for my next deck I was wondering whether I should upgrade to red green tron or make a blue moon deck just because I love control and blue moon would give me some of the necessary cards to later play decks like twin or storm but then again a turn 3 karn would be so much fun...idk what do u think I should do?

[@jackk3801]

I never thought of that.

[@stalydan]

Hey Professor, I love the idea of making a deck library but I think the biggest problem I would have other than finding someone to frequently play with is learning to understand certain decks in the meta that have unclear strategies like non-tribal decks that play Cavern of Souls or ones with a combo that has to be played in a certain way to work. Do you have tips for getting to know them?

[@FusterIsBased]

Look up the deck on KZbin. There's probably pro players or other streamers who can show the deck in action.

[@TheOriginalBoman]

Not related to the video but, seeing as you are the man who knows his sleeves, how often should you replace your deck sleeves? How long should a decent set of sleeves last?

[@lushenguy6756]

Professor, would you be willing to do another mono blue tron deck tech for 2017? I've looked at a bunch of different lists, and all of them have some pretty crazy difference from one another.

[@suhleap]

great video!!

[@Straix]

That "how the hell" caught me off guard, lol

[@Volvary]

What deck would you recommend building for the library? I'm guessing Burn, at least 1 tribal aggro, maybe an infect, a combo deck and a control but pass that, I don't know.

[@CanBamBoo]

+Volvary Me and my friend started out with 6 "standard" modern decks, tron, twin, infect, burn, etc. and just went from there

[@CurrySoSpicy]

+Griff Dean thanks for info, im trying to start a library for my playing partner and myself.

[@KraggGrimm]

Great video. iformative

[@WilhelmScreamer]

I like that lunch box

[@thexandman88]

I use label paper (no paper falling out while shuffling plus ease of glueing) + useless tip cards for my deck library.

[@lucasdeangelis5148]

Professor!!!!!!!!!!! YOU SAID ELVES WOULDN'T WIN ANY TOURNAMENTS BUT IT DID IT DID!!!!!!!!!

[@KeeganMcKinney]

I am attempting to build my first Modern deck which is Teferi themed using Core Set 2021; and maybe some other cards. My only problem is that I can't decide if I should make it Mono - blue or Azorius. I am open for suggestions.

[@MetsanAsukas]

Thats all fine and dandy but where does one find proper images that are ready to print and are proper size? There must be a website?

[@johnsyvertsen6944]

Should I do this with my old draft decks?

[@dakotastedman2211]

Will the khans pain lands go up or down in price? Should I wait to sell mine?

[@TwinToWin101]

If u don't want to proxy decks by printing off the cards me and my friends get playing cards adding the jokers and some extras form a deck with the same back the have a key to what cards r what it's a tad bet cheeper that way

[@gunplagoat2678]

If you had to pick 6 legacy decks to use for a "library ", what would they be ?

[@thegreatsaltine5872]

Thoughts on anything non-casual in MtG. 1:55

[@AnotherZoruaAmongUs]

I saw that you have a book titled "Modern Japanese". Why do you have the book? I'm a Japanese student myself and I'm curious.

[@BrightEyeSecurity]

Where can I get that large deck box shown in the video?

[@DonOblivious]

The Survival Guy Legion Supplies makes it. They're fairly new but game shops should be able to get them from distributors or you can buy them directly from Legions.

[@idea5167]

Thanks for this! Now I have something to do with my free time :D

[@CrimsonFox36]

i had the idea of doing this for a while.

[@hilarious_rider1239]

Professor where did you ge that legion iconic case

[@DonOblivious]

Paul Nguyen Legion Supplies sells them direct. They should be available through the normal distribution channels that local shops get their supplies from if you want to support your local shop.

[@rhondah6288]

Paul Nguyen If there isn't an LGS nearby, I've seen them for sale reasonably priced on Amazon.

[@ihdhdbehdbdhdbhdhdheben9843]

What is pauper format?

[@kamelontti3926]

Hey professor! Could you next do a Bogles Deck tech? :)

[@noahjones3945]

How make i my deck is i have a app on my phoe and i can do a draft for a deck then norw it down and then i buy the one i built or build it myself

[@BlackCoatedMan]

Oddly enough, the people at my LGS prefer those who put in effort in making proxies. Having the proper size, cut straight, with color, etc. There was a goblin storm deck that just had slips of paper with card names on them as the proxy. That guy was not liked.

[@jonathanwiner2415]

"how the hell am I supposed to afford that?" exactly what i was thinking haha

[@LouisvilleHawk]

Professor!!!! *Raises hand politely* In one of your videos, you had a lunchbox looking case that held 4 of your sealed constructed decks. Did you make that yourself or is that item available on the retail market? Thanks so much for the videos, I really enjoy them! They have helped me make many decisions. I'm definitely going to attend some Origins pre-release events! One video that I don't see that I would like to see is whether pre-ordering/buying a playset of commons and/or uncommons is worth it. I see these sets available on sites like coolstuffinc.com.

[@TheMonyarm]

What deckboxes is he using ?

[@heefmvc]

Legion flip boxes. All of their products are great to be honest.

[@chessmaster1569]

I use tappedout to test against and test opposing decks and see how they work

[@TheVikingRaid]

Yeah I do this with my friends as well to see how a deck we might buy goes against our current decks and others

[@sirrandy3306]

Have you played Vanguard? It's a pretty good card game.