We Made a Tournament Where You Can Only Play 4 Cards

In this special Magic: The Gathering format you are only allowed to play with 4 modern legal cards! That means unlimited budget but very narrow design space for your decklist. Watch as Carl presents cardmarket's wildest tournament at Magic Con Amsterdam.
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[TheAndOnlyGoldenboy]

The "Oops, All Lands!" strat was pretty smart

[joriskraats]

The kid in the top 4 here, I realized after I passed the turn that cavern doesn’t care about chancellor but for some reason my brain just didn’t comprehend it sooner. Sadly I never got another turn with 2 lands so that was entirely my fault but I did feel pretty bad about it.

Later someone wanted to buy the prizes from me for a play set of full art ragavans I was hesitant at first since I won it but the monkeys were calling to me. After that I traded those and what other cards I didn’t use in for a tundra so at the end of the day I wasn’t too upset about the mistake.

It was fun meeting you guys and thanks for signing my playmat and giving me my first dual ❤️

[shubtakkorathinasapostle]

Shoutout to all the players who guessed that everyone would run Thassa's Oracle and preemptively made a viable deck in 20 minutes with a way to disrupt it, you guys are the real heroes

[matthugenberg]

If you all like this, there is a guy who runs a YouTube channel called "three card blind", which is basically this but with 3 cards. He runs monthly tournaments and its really cool

[zendicarreborn]

If I ever saw carl holding a flag in the air, he could make me do anything id follow him to the end of the earth.
Living embodiment of charisma

[TheBirdOfParadox]

And here we see a demonstration why Ghost Quarter is permabanned in 3 Cards Blind. This was so fun and entertaining, I loved the variaty of strats :D Kudos to the builders and congrats to the winner!

[fionathegayesttiefling]

God, three ghost quarters, 1 inkmoth nexus is such a genius move

[pdb]

Never underestimate the creativity of the cardmarket community. So impressed by Moth girl

[jeohist]

Love the creativity here. Death to Thassa's Oracle.

[blackspaz]

The challenge was amazing. I'm glad i got to be a part of it, i even got to share my hate of Thassa's Oracle at 4:23 !

[koragola]

He actually had the advantage in the end. If he just played the rack on turn 1 and held the ghost quarter in his hand he could have won.

[cicadaplum]

Alt title: Magic players unknowingly rediscover the Yu-Gi-Oh metagame.

[MrWader]

Good to see the whole CM team. Carl, Jamin, Thoralf… it’s the A team of magic.
Andrea Manguchi would be Mr T.

[niathdialf]

I can't believe the people did this in 20 minutes. I would have embarrassed myself with whatever card choices I'd have made.

[Garwinium]

1:55 and this is why thassa’s oracle is banned in three card blind

[violaknapp]

I love the All Lands strategy! It's a genius way of showing how to approach problem solving! First you analyze the main problem (here it's limited ressources due to only having 4 cards) then you decide on an approach (either you make yourself win, by having more/better ressources, e.g. Thassa's Oracle/infect, or the other player lose by decreasing their ressources, e.g. counterspells/ land destruction). In a game of Magic, it doesn't matter how good your spells are if you can't cast them, so land destructions basically makes the other player unable to play the game. After you've chosen your strategy, look at it from the outside ("what could stop me?", counterspells can't deal with lands, so only another piece of land destruction) and adjust accordingly (have more land destruction). Bam. Win the game. Truly genius!

[DrCrazyPhenom]

I once saw an inkmoth nexus almost win a game, hardened scales allbthe counters were on the nexus, lethal next turn.

Then Thoralf topdecked an Ulamog

[Posceceo]

The last Ghost Quarter of the winning deck cant really be used since you cant use the Inkmoth Nexus anymore if you do, rendering you unable to win. Running Dunes of the
Dead (creates a 2/2 when it dies) would be better i think.

[daemnfaust]

This is a stupidly amazing format. What a fun watch, especially with this many players brewing really interesting "decks" (or hands, I guess)

[Theanthill]

Ok this was actually cool; would be cool to see this done with a cube or even sealed packs