Psychatog Masterclass

all right we are here with inyaki uh talking about psychotog for pre-modern a deck that is i i like to think of it as is one of the premier control decks of the format but not everyone thinks of the of psychotog as a control strategy and i'm sure we'll get into that a little bit as well but uh we're here for for a master class so i figured i'd pick somebody who uh who knew a little bit more what they were talking about than i do because uh i although i play blue and black i only play one psychotog in the deck that i play so if you're really on it you're playing four so inaki tell me about tell me about psychotog what brought you to the deck

Yeah, so fair enough.

First of all, I think it's worth mentioning that I've been playing Premodern since 2018, right? So it's a long time since I started.

And one of my first, let's say, quests in Premodern was to make Psychedog playable, right? I've been evolving Psychedog since 2018.

My first article, you can find it in the flagship.

And actually in the official webpage where I'm talking about like the history of Psychotalk and how I got to the first iterations, which if you go there, you'll see that it's nothing similar to what we're going to present today.

Right.

So I really love the kind of strategy.

I've been always like a blue, black mage, like Zoomers would call it Demir mage, right? I really like the money.

So, but I would say I love the blue, but not because Of the reasons like most people love flu, I'm not really into countermagic.

I'm rather really into the manipulation and the car manipulation and the Xerox principle, right? I don't know if you're familiar with that.

I guess you are because you've been here for a long time ago.

But maybe our viewers are not.

Yeah, please explain

Xerox.

Yeah, yeah.

It's essentially, it comes from Alan Comer that he created like long time ago.

I can't remember exactly the date, but I think it was around 1997, something like that.

And he created this deck, Turbo Xerox, that you can find online.

The reason why it's called Xerox, it has nothing to do with the mechanic, but it's basically because it was so successful, the strategy that I'm going to explain right now, that everyone started copying it, right? So like the Xerox machines.

So that's kind of like the long story short behind the name.

What the Xerox principle says is that you can easily kind of change for every two, one or two mana countries that you add to your deck, you can cut one land, right? So this way you are actually like decreasing the probability of flooding while increasing the whole density of your deck because every country can find you like whatever you need at the given moment in time.

I would say that preferably you need to account for countries that are one mana because those are the ones that will help you find your second line if need be, right? So, because you need to be able to play it in the first turn.

So with that in mind, zero execs tends to be like loaded with, with countries.

One clear example in promoter for zero exec is the one that we're going to check today, but also a stifle, a stifle not, right? Like a stifle not is the clear example of a zero exec.