Dies to Removal

please let me know if the video is not starting at the beginning for you, i've been experiencing some weirdness with youtube

please let me know if the video is not starting at the beginning for you, i've been experiencing some weirdness with youtube

Please make a video of it happening so that we can better pinpoint the problem.

I'm a page in your dossier, but you're just a line in a forum post

You need to take some ownership of asking without thinking.

I did think. My thought process was, good decks in modern often come from mashing together two existing strategies (kiki control and tarmo twin are two that come to me off the top of my head). Your colours support it and your spell count is very high.

Something like this is what I had in mind.

[deck]Creatures (14)
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Delver of Secrets
4
Young Pyromancer
2 Vendilion Clique

Enchantments (3)
3 Blood Moon

Spells (18)
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Serum Visions
3 Spell Snare
3 Mana Leak
3 Remand
3 Electrolyze
2 Cryptic Command

Lands (23)
1 Desolate Lighthouse
8 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Steam Vents
2 Sulfur Falls[/deck]

Now you can feel free to call that decklist terrible, but I think it's worth at least thinking about possibilities, rather than just immediately discarding them. Either way, The deck list you proposed (to me) is missing something, and that's what I was trying to point out. If you don't like the suggestion of Delver / YP$, what about adding Splinter Twin, Deceiver Exarch, Kiki or Pestermite? You deck basically seems like this deck without the combo: http://www.mtgo-stats.com/archetypes/Modern/RU5

The issues are:

- asking about including cards without explaining
why they compliment the strategy or what they would replace isn't helpful.
- blue moon is an established archetype so you're going to need to expand on what it's missing
- adding cards that are valueless without another piece just makes your deck way more inconsistent; if you want to play twin then play twin properly
- Kiki control is not a very good deck; it's just ok and has already fallen out of favour. it's worse than UWR which is only tier 2. Of course, tiers aren't than meaningful in modern, but the idea that mashing two decks together will make a good deck isn't something that always happens; it's something that's happened once.

The first point is the most annoying; don't be like the bads that post in TCG articles.

I watched Madding's video and he definitely clicked on his only creature when casting a strive card and it didn't work.

The only thing I can think of is perhaps there is no visual indicator of targeting with a Strive card, so you both clicked again thinking the first didn't register, which only actually untargeted it.

You guys should set up a casual game to test what's actually happening.

This is the kind of thing that people mean when they say they "misclicked."