How to Win with Young Pyromancer

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Andy and Anthony talk about one of Andy’s all time favorite cards Young Pyromancer. After a recent draft of a peasant cube (cubecobra.com/cube/about/lob?view=primer) at their weekly cube night, Anthony realized that despite it’s iconic status, it’s not a card he feels like he know’s how to optimize. Andy shares his experience with the card, what he thinks it takes to support it, and a handful of his cube draft decks it headlined.
View the full decklists of Andy’s referenced drafts on the cards page (luckypaper.co/podcast/299-how-to-win-with-youn…).
Discussed in this episode:
• Library of Babel (cubecobra.com/cube/about/lob?view=primer), Local Peasant Cube
• Deck Pics! (luckypaper.co/podcast/299-how-to-win-with-youn…)
• Alternate Timeline (cubecobra.com/cube/about/alternatetimeline?vie…) cube by Joe Donkey
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• Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube (cubecobra.com/cube/overview/andymangold)
• Anthony’s “Regular” Cube (cubecobra.com/cube/overview/regular)
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Musical production by DJ James Nasty (facebook.com/jamesnasty).
Timestamps
• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:03 - Sorting Cards
• 9:07 - Helping Anthony with Young Pyromancer
• 18:40 - Card Quality
• 24:06 - How to Draft the Young Pyromancer Deck
• 29:33 - Why Blue-Red Pyromancer
• 34:51 - Modal Double Faced Cards
• 36:20 - How Many Counterspells
• 37:34 - Mulligans
• 44:30 - Off-Strategy Splashes
• 49:42 - Wrap Up
• 55:17 - Andy is Bad at Big Games