Premodern Sligh vs MUD - Misty Mountain Tournament Round 5

Premodern returns at Misty Mountain Games in Madison, WI where on June 25th 2022 35 players battled for Premodern glory! (And a Mox Diamond)
Watch the replay of the streamed coverage from the tournament. You can catch live Premodern streamed at twitch.tv/cloudgoatranger
Round 5 features Ben Rasmussen on Sligh vs Jeff Green on MUD
Commentary by Michael Heup and TeamJbro
You can find Jbro streaming (typically Cube) at / teamjbro
For more details about the Premodern format visit:
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Ben Rasmussen - Sligh
4 Seal of Fire
4 Jackal Pup
4 Grim Lavamancer
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Cursed Scroll
4 Incinerate
1 Sulfuric Vortex
4 Ball Lightning
4 Fireblast
2 Barbarian Ring
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Wasteland
9 Mountain
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Overload
3 Lava Dart
3 Pyroblast
1 Flaring Pain
2 Pillage
2 Sulfuric Vortex
1 Pyrokinesis
Jeff Green - MUD
4 Black Vise
4 Mind Stone
4 Winter Orb
4 Powder Keg
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
4 Metalworker
2 Smokestack
3 Masticore
4 Thran Dynamo
1 Karn, Silver Golem
2 Mishra's Helix
4 Mishra's Factory
4 City of Traitors
4 Wasteland
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Rishadan Port
2 Tormod's Crypt
4 Defense Grid
4 Caltrops
1 Masticore
4 Null Brooch
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[@outsetalec]

That thumb commentary at 35:25 into the card that shows up on the screen is easily a top 3 all-time commentary moment. What an INCREDIBLE match and commentary job: I was laughing the whole way through! You and TeamJBro are *awesome* together! Thank you so so much for your wonderful content - and cheers from Madison :) Hope to be at one of these Misty Mountain tournaments soon!

[@Polmax2312]

One of the best games on the channel. I am a dedicated mono-brown player for years, and slight/goblins is such an oppressive matchup for MUD, that I eventually dropped out Metalworkers from the deck altogether. Caltrops plus Nullbrooch is my go to sideboard vs sligh. Also I tried sideboarding wastelands with Quicksand against turn 1 lackey/pup, considering maindecking them instead of wastelands.

[@CloudgoatRanger]

MUD can lead to some very interesting board states/games. I had never seen Caltrops and the full four Null Brooch before, but it was pretty impressive here!

[@nickfanzo]

I gotta pack full null rod when you come to town 😂

[@85mcarnold]

17:41 is where Jeff adjusts his life total from 9 to 6. I believe this was a mistake and he probably meant to adjust the die on 4 to 2 and instead adjusted the one on 5.

[@Jaboyy]

At least Ben drew Fireblast to make it not matter in the end, but yes I believe you found where the extra damage came from.

[@nickfanzo]

Smokestack was awesome in. Vintage back when I used to play 5c stax

[@erickcarjes2738]

That's a very interesting match

[@brunoromagnoli3463]

Why is it called "Sligh" ???

[@CloudgoatRanger]

Paul Sligh was an old MTG player that played an aggressive red deck and the name became popular for the strategy. Red Deck Wins, Sligh and Burn often refer to very similar strategies in Premodern, for the most part the community uses Sligh for this archetype.

[@LaViejaConsolada]

@@CloudgoatRanger they are different strategies. Sligh is based in a perfect mana curve, and may or may not be centered about direct damage. Burn would define a deck centered in killing the opponent with only or almost only direct damage, slightly disregarding a perfect mana curve. Red deck wins was an historical structure from the old extended. It was somewhat a midrange deck, with wastelands and rishadans: sometimes it went towards the ponza route, but more commonly leaned heavily towards high efficiency damage spells, such as ball lightning and blistering firecat. RDW is one of my favourite strategies.

[@Melvinvanharn]

You know, I typically advocate for Seal of Fire over Shock, but having more instants to play around around Null Brooch probably would have won the game.

[@CloudgoatRanger]

Agree it hurt Sligh to have Seal instead of Shock here, but 1) MUD isn't that popular, 2) MUD doesn't always have Null Brooch (and certainly not 4 most often) I also cut the Price of Progress from the list before lending it to Ben. That one would have been pretty good 😁

[@Melvinvanharn]

@@CloudgoatRanger I'm not saying that Seal is worse or anything, its just interesting to me. Also probably the first time I've seen a Null Brooch activated in about 20 years. This is a format, perhaps more than most, where EVERYTHING matters. That first game here was crazy. The MUD player lost because he used a Wasteland and gave the red player another card for Lavamancer. You don't usually get punished for Wastelanding your opponent. Anyways, great content, appreciate the videos.

[@Ikowdi]

There was a turn at around 48minutes where Ben had 4 mana - 2 seal of fire and did not cast a single one. Jeff could have used brooch with tomb once. Which results Jeff being on 2 Life. Then next turn Ben could have used the barbarian ring an won. I think, even the turn next to this one, he could have won, but only played 1 seal of fire instead of both.

[@kristophergreen1903]

MAAD respect to Jeff Green with the Null Brooch! LoL

[@michaelbiron2242]

Does anyone else find the constant shuffling of hands obnoxious?

[@SandOfToru]

I hate it as well 😂

[@christopherlapp4553]

It’s something bad players do