The Sliver Kids: How Two Nobodies Broke the Pro Tour

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  @JacobVanlunen · 2 years ago · pinned

  Hey! That was me and my buddy Chris! Let me know if you wanna talk about it. Great piece.

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• JA

  @JacobVanlunen · 1 year ago

  Also, a really beautiful thing, my father died last Spring. When my mom went in the safe in his office it only had two things in it. A watch from his father and a signed virulent sliver from my top 4 deck.

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• CR

  @CronoDAS · 2 years ago

  Q) How many Magic players does it take to change a lightbulb?<br>A) I don&apos;t know. They&apos;re all still arguing about whether or not it&apos;s broken.

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• ST

  @Starfire_Dragon · 1 year ago

  &gt;Enter the pro tour without any prior experience <br>&gt;Draft Slivers<br>&gt;Set a record for fastest Pro Tour victory<br>&gt;Refuse to elaborate further <br>&gt;Leaves

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• DO

  @donalddavis7423 · 2 years ago

  If your opponent has forced you into seriously thinking about counter picking virulent sliver, they already beat you.

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• PJ

  @pjsines4705 · 2 years ago

  First tournament i ever played i ran a 4 or 5 color sliver deck from Rath cycle with zero mana fixers because i had no idea what i was doing. Almost beat the local legend running a Stasis deck. He and his group gave me their phone numbers and invited me into their group. We played regularly for years. Good memories.

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• DA

  @Daniel16180 · 2 years ago

  You hyped up how the odds were against them in the final draft and match but didn&apos;t really show it. A recap of how the draft went for them as a whole and the 9 turn final would have made this video 1000x better. Felt like the video ended out of nowhere

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• VA

  @valdemarjrgensen8072 · 2 years ago (edited)

  My older brother got me into magic. Shortly after teaching me the gamr he brought me to an event (not an official licensed tournament, some youth clubs own tournament weekend, with a bit of drafting and modern). <br>On the first night they set up two headed giant star game. So 10 players. <br><br>A fair bit into the game one player combo&apos;ed off and gained infinite life. No other team at the table had an alternative win con. Except the annoying younger brother of one of the players. <br><br>So my turn comes. Already had a double strike sliver, dropped a Virulent sliver, swung in for 10poison, gg. <br><br>My team didn&apos;t win, but mister infinite life sure didnt either.

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• KE

  @kevinsongxin2551 · 2 years ago

  Two headed giant draft pro tour sounds absolutely insane

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• DE

  @defaultusername2 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I remember way back in the day Jacob van Lunen ran the weekly &apos;building on a budget&apos; articles for daily MTG for years, the deck lists were awesome showed heaps of creativity.

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• JA

  @jackveith2416 · 2 years ago

  &quot;once the sliver is out of the proverbial booster pack-&quot; good one.

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• AL

  @Alexexclamationpoint · 2 years ago

  magic desperately needs more of this kind of video, hope you keep doing these

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