Reid Duke Plays Legacy Elves

[@nesronesro]

Reid Duke Plays Legacy Elves And I Watch It As Soon As Possible

[@combinemetro]

Reid Duke is one of the most motivated players of all time. Good to see him still thriving.

[@martingates1984]

Modern Jund and Legacy Elves with Reid in a week? What did I do to deserve this?!

[@chanm01]

"You probably didn't tune into a Magic video for a math lesson." That is where you are wrong, good sir. 😅

[@Lv80Mudkip]

The mans out here watching pro tour dark ascension videos. Epic.

[@davidsturm3546]

This man is the reason iam still interested in Magic!

[@TheObliviJohn]

"Hooray I beat turn 2 Emrakul..." is the most mellow celebration of beating turn 2 Emrakul I could imagine. 1:09:47

[@Smorehead13]

I beat turn 2 emrakul with elves to day 2 a GP, was about the same, absolute confidence in the greatest legacy deck haha.

[@karkius]

It's amazing how he always finds all the lines with greatest chance of success. And explains the thought process, too. Great stuff.

[@Sturmknecht]

Man, it's simply amazing how Reid does the math for the super intricate elves turns just like that... True skill.

[@Skankhunt-sj7bk]

Beating turn 2 emrakul was one of the most satisfying mtg things I’ve seen in a while

[@bumpasaurus487]

3:29 can someone give me a best case scenario if he drew the cradle off the visionary that would result in him winning that turn? I couldn’t figure it out. Seems like best case he would tap the cradle for 2 mana which he could use to play 2 elves in hand and tap those for 3 mana to do a bit more, but I don’t see how he could even get up to 4 mana to cast his natural order, let alone win that turn. Anyone?

[@kilpta4746]

Always love to see my favorite tribe get some action, especially when piloted by Reid!

[@derpj7105]

Best video, Reid. Thanks for played my favorite format and decks!

[@bryanbousquet8547]

Great video, very educational, takes a lot of skill to use Elves and Reid Duke makes it look easy

[@nickraupp6104]

Reid Duke video. You love to see it. Man. I love to see it. Been missing his stream

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche4303]

Reid: plays elves Plague engineer: I'm about to end this mans whole career.

[@michaelgoetze8531]

Hey Reid, thanks for another awesome video! Would love to see you play modern Elves with Realmwalker also!

[@malcolmweissman5602]

I want Reid Duke to teach me how to do math. Please channelfireball, have Reid teach us math!!!

[@gerpmagic396]

Thanks Reid!

[@nanatole]

52:17 Actually, once Karn is down, if you ever take control of the board, Ouphe was a full lock so it was really worth playing I guess

[@Readceras]

Good point, I would continue playing too, although the construct does grow for every permanent put onto the board, which makes out-racing the opponent tricky.

[@MonsterCC]

Shout out to my former LGS Elves player Brian who was the bane of my Merfolk deck at the legacy weekly. Hope you are well.

[@timw9745]

Reid is a gift that just keeps on giving

[@TalesOfDylan]

Don't care to much for legacy but I'm here for every Reid video you'll give me

[@TashaRhyming]

god I have so much respect for reid duke

[@pateshghy8542]

Am i missing something at @50:45? Cant you simply attack Karn with both elves and deal the last point of loyalty?

[@barnabybye1]

Same dude over here

[@kubatambor6096]

Will you be playing GRIXIS in Legacy anytime soon? Please!!

[@andyb1236]

Top quality content we have here

[@mrknarf4438]

20:04 was that one of Age of Empires' sounds as a ringtone? :D

[@TheGranata10]

"Since this is Magic Online and not Arena, let me calculate the odds to hitting a land with Once Upon a Time" Yeah Duke..the feels of Arena..you hit hard that button 🤣

[@timw9745]

I’m watching this, instead of sleeping when I have to get up in a few hours for a flight to Curaçao..

[@ChannelFireball]

Hope you made your flight!

[@Xarviz]

Hi Reid, can you please check the Quality of the video? It looks less sharp and more blurry than of the others. I tend to watch the videos on my TV so it is even more visible. Great to see Legacy Elves again btw!

[@stonebeard2194]

Did second op ask for a deal or split? Seemed odd...

[@Chrisuan]

30:55 Maybe it wasn't a Read, but it was definitely a Reid.

[@Smorehead13]

A specific "Reid" that you had

[@thekid5220]

31:56 It's always a read when you're Reid

[@nikoaz]

I don't know how you played through a league without facing a plague engineer, but the turn 2 kill goodness was something special. Hypothetical question, if Deathrite was unbanned, what would you cut to squeeze it in?

[@1ridethemathematician809]

Reid duke plays ..... SHUT UP AND TAKE MY WIEW

[@emmanuelarsenault-beaulieu1039]

Hello Reid, what do you think about Skemfar Avenger for Pioneer? Card seems fairly strong in a lower power format. Nice video btw!

[@SindarinElealar]

46.40 what made you decide on Visionary? That seems needlessly risky when you have an "I win" card in hand in Ouphe: all you need is to kill Urza with Trophy in upkeep, and hope they don't do anything ridiculous and it's game over next turn (they literally have no non-artifact mana sources though they do of course get the Tomb...but Tomb alone isn't enough if they can't use their fax, and their only ways to get rid of Ouphe are activated abilities). Hell, just dropping Ouphe itself isn't a bad call; they still have one turn of mana but they can't kill Ouphe without Ballista/similars and they can't do much to outright end you. Then there's the already mentioned "Just kill Karn" on the turn where you scoop. You're still in the game; they're short on cards (though with plenty of mana) and probably running fairly dry. It's fully possible they simply have nothing left after you take down Karn and have to spin Urza, which you'll kill next turn if you draw a land.

[@zachparker3000]

Why is the vid so blurry despite being uploaded in 1080P? Hard to read some of these cards as someone who is not super familiar with this deck

[@TalesOfDylan]

Nothing is blurry for me maybe you are watching in lower quality

[@zachparker3000]

I think it was some weird bug on KZbin part, tap double checking to make sure I was on the right quality. Video looks fine now though

[@nevsterk2463]

Grixis control next please.

[@Jchmcom]

Oh that Theros copy of Thoughtseize irks me more than it should.

[@steamboatsullivan4038]

51:15 you could have attacked with both elves, killed the karn, he has a useless mycozynth lattice, and you keep going.

[@Eric-mw1gr]

I love watching Reid play. But geesh, WotC... "can't be countered" clauses on cards were a huge design mistake.

[@anthonyhansel9175]

You sound like a free counter player. Which, by the way, are a huge design mistake.

[@Eric-mw1gr]

@@anthonyhansel9175 Couldn't disagree more; the presence of Force allows degenerate combo decks to exist without wrongfully dominating the format, which leads to more diversity. Force is a fundamentally fair card. If you're talking about misstep, though, I'd totally agree. One for one free spells are a mistake; one for twos are healthy, for legacy.

[@SindarinElealar]

I dunno. I think it mostly introduces some more rock-paper-scissors dynamic to the game. Note, Elves (or any creature deck, where "can't be countered" predominantly occurs) isn't winning superfast without spells (such as Natural Order or Glimpse) and Allosaurus Rider is still a 1-mana 1/1. This just gives creature decks a leg up against countermagic (and Chalice)-based decks meaning those decks prey more on spell decks and spell decks prey on creature decks and creature decks prey on those decks. I think it's a pretty successful way of diversifying the metagame overall, and it's not like those effects don't have counterplay. It just means you don't have one-size-fits-all counter, you might have to use removal instead.

[@fallintoadream]

It helps make the format not all delver mirrors

[@silverdeathgamer2907]

@@SindarinElealar Allosaurus shepherd affects all green spells though and is itself uncounterable I think just affecting green creature spells would have been better even as a 1/1, which can also be a finisher for elves or not itself being uncounterable.

[@timw9745]

You’re very unlucky in hitting your Cradle these games Mr. Duke.

[@bigwig8657]

How does Reid one of the most accomplished from mtgo grinders of all time not have a fancy icon border?

[@Raphael_246]

There's no excuse to have blurry videos in 2021.

[@stonebeard2194]

What are you talking about it’s in 1080p? Sometimes if the video hasn’t fully uploaded it can go up as a 480p version but this video looks great.

[@OlimarandLouie]

@@stonebeard2194 though the video may be uploaded in "1080p", the quality of the video appears much closer to 720p. I suspect that the reason for this is that Reid is recording a zoomed-in portion of a 1080p monitor.

[@anibal11ap]

It's MTGO, you can watch it between 120p and 4k. You will see the same

[@Raphael_246]

@@stonebeard2194 I'm a huge fan of Reid but all of his videos have had blurry text for a long time now, and it just hurts my eyes too much to look at.

[@Jchmcom]

Oh that Theros copy of Thoughtseize irks me more than it should.