MTG Pro Player Pulls Off Amazing Hollow One Play

Last month, we saw Magic: The Gathering Japanese pro player Ken Yukuhiro make the Top 8 at the Pro Tour Rivals of Ixalan with his Red/Black Hollow One deck, and although he lost in the semifinals against Luis Salvatto's Lantern Control, he helped make the innovative strategy more popular in the Modern format.

The deck's main strategy is to discard cards early in the game so you can play Hollow One, and the more copies you play, the more difficult it is for your opponent to stop you from attacking with 4/4 bodies. We've seen Yukuhiro play two copies of Hollow One against Reid Duke in the quarterfinals of the Pro Tour but that doesn't always happen. There's luck involved. Cards like Goblin Lore and Burning Inquiry discard cards at random but the chances of bringing out Hollow One and its accompanying creatures within a few turns are high.

Though the probability of being able to play four copies of Hollow One by turn two is slim, it's could happen, and pro player Matthew Nass was able to pull it off on Magic Online. Luis Scott-Vargas (LSV) shared the clip of Matt's stream. In the clip, we see Matt play Cathartic Reunion on Turn 2, letting him draw three cards at the cost of discarding two cards. He was able to draw three copies of Hollow One but after he Cycled Street Wraith, he was able to draw the fourth Hollow One then play all four copies for no mana cost since he already discarded three cards that turn. Watch the clip below:

This is why you believe in the Heart of the Cards!

Read more:Magic: The Gathering Masters 25: Nicol Bolas and Filter Lands Are Getting Reprinted