How mysterious that Crim couldn't make the daylight savings pod....

@TostonDePana

3 ай бұрын

Hahaha amazing observation

I’d rather hear you read the articles so I don’t have to read it and I can listen while I’m working

@michaelcollins4534

3 ай бұрын

Listening to them banter has gotten me through many shifts at work

@dylanbaker3681

3 ай бұрын

I often have videos playing in the background while I do things like podcasts and such, and videos like Richard where talking about can often be more helpful that a few sentences because visuals > descriptions on any task when broken down to its more basic steps.

@JonReid01

3 ай бұрын

Agree

@sirKonradical

3 ай бұрын

Exactly..us casuals have to work real jobs

@Shimatzu95

3 ай бұрын

Good to know I'm not the only one

Seth: "The country is doomed and our inevitable fall into anarchy is upon us.....let's talk about cardboard!"

@Sup4ast4r

3 ай бұрын

It's why I watch their content

Why did written content die? It's a symptom of the death of the internet and particularly search engines, and it's mostly due to google. Search Engine Optimization has ruined not just the search results but also made the actual content of webpages much worse. It's almost all webpages with vague content, lots of ads and auto-playing videos designed to get as much ad revenue as possible. The internet has become a river full of shit you have to sift through to find the gold nugget that is whatever it is you're looking for. And Generative AI is the nail in the coffin.

@lesternomo6578

3 ай бұрын

💯

@smilesthomas44

3 ай бұрын

Well, not 100% true. But it’s still valid to feel this way, I know a lot of people do!

@mattm7798

3 ай бұрын

I agree, but equally if not more, it's the rise of streaming services. It's become way easier to throw up a 10 minute video that'll get way more eyeballs than write an article.

@thek838

3 ай бұрын

This is not correct at all. The reason why is the very simple answer and the same reason why people watch shows/films more than books because it's quicker and easier to consume such content than read. Smh.

@JJFN

3 ай бұрын

Most people would rather see a 10 second video about it in their tik tok feed. Social media kills attention spans so much

Honestly one of the biggest issues I have with written content is half of it is just AI written either that or it's clickbait

About the written content, it seems a lot of it is locked behind patreons and pay walls now.

@TastySnackies

3 ай бұрын

Which is ironic, considering information is better consumed and communicated though Twitter posts and Reddit threads.

@vulcanh254

3 ай бұрын

It's annoying sure but how else are they gonna make money lol. I don't expect someone to write a super in depth article for free.

@MIKAEL212345

3 ай бұрын

@vulcanh254 I come from a competitive league of legends background, so I see plenty of people do super in-depth content for free over there. Yes, they are often content creators who do it to promote their brand so they can indirectly make money, but there are also complete nobodies who release guide with no financial benefit at all. As an example, just recently, someone released a 100+ page guide to a character in the game. As a reminder, there are 150+ characters in the game. Understandably, comparing anything to league is a bit unfair considering how popular league is. League is so popular there are bound to be a few people willing to "waste their time" making an indepth guide.

I agree with the volume of the memes being the problem. Occasional winks at the audience are cool with me when they're clever and/or subtle. But lately i really hate the level of goofiness. In combination with universes beyond i think this risks undermining the MTG universe. If no one takes the MTG lore seriously you risk losing a big chunk of the audience. Not to mention that the written story consistently really sucks.

@iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS

3 ай бұрын

To be fair, they themselves didn't take themselves seriously because the 30 year build up of the phyrexian threat was dealt with way too quickly in the phyrexia all will be one- aftermath sets.

You’re doing a great job Seth, the amount of work you’ve put in recently is insane. Keep it up

"Fallout isn't gonna be on MODO cause we can't get the rights" Whelp time for Daybreak to make their own "Universes Within"

@6ixpool520

3 ай бұрын

God, I hope this is how it ends up. It would be so stupid for Modern to not be "real modern" if WOTC cheaps out and doesn't get the rights for digital for the next modern legal UB set like they talk about.

@dementievatz

3 ай бұрын

To that point, when Ryan Spain was on LR last year talking about Vintage Cube, he floated the idea of completing the Horizon Canopy cycle on MTGO (specifically for Vintage Cube). So it sounds like it’s possible for them to create cards that don’t exist yet in Magic. I’m not sure whether the legal situation would be the same for them to create a UW card for a UB card that does already exist.

@RyuPlaneswalker

3 ай бұрын

@@dementievatz quite frankly I don't even care if they are Universes within..make them in the format of those dumb test cards that came in mystery boosters.

36:55 this is why I always overload cyclonic rift… I don’t want to commit a crime!!!

I think the shift in making Magic seem more comedic is definitely influenced by Hearthstone. MKM and Thunder Junction would both feel right at home in terms of flavor and comedy in Hearthstone, and in fact, HS has received both a murder mystery and Wild West set in the last 2 years.

@draftmagicagain1000

3 ай бұрын

So?

I do think casual players want to get better. It's not so much about winning but because the better you are at magic the more you understand what's going on and the more actual magic you're playing because you aren't getting flooded, or screwed, or passing the turn with do-nothings that get removed, etc.

@dontmisunderstand6041

3 ай бұрын

The assertion that casual players aren't as good at the game as competitive players is nonsensical.

there's been a card called "Murder" for years, so I don't know what the big deal is. Also, I don't think "committing a crime" is really gonna matter until it actually does game state wise.

@fitnesshunter6302

3 ай бұрын

It matters if the cards that reference it matter

@aceviru

3 ай бұрын

Me: *breathes* Opponent: "hah you've activated my trap! my free hand spell is now active!" Targeting (aka, interacting with your opponent) became a mechanic. Reminds me of Sheoldred; getting punished for simply playing the game.

@dontmisunderstand6041

3 ай бұрын

It's literally just a key phrase to reference a set of game actions. It's functionally the same as any card that references triggered abilities, or activated abilities, and hilariously is an inherent part of all triggered abilities.

@dontmisunderstand6041

3 ай бұрын

@@aceviru Oh boy, do I have news for you. Triggered abilities have existed since Alpha.

Google has become so bad I often look for information on youtube and get getter results. Which is insane. Of course I don't talk about the weather, or booking a hotel, but info on programs are often hidden in giant articles.

@user-nd1ef8xj6d

3 ай бұрын

Yes, and often the articles you find on the first pages are way outdated.

As an old school MTG player who misses the pro-tours and what not, I think I'd rather have both... like I appreciate pros who create in-depth articles on how to play efficiently or an in-depth Sideboard tech, and I also appreciate content creators who make fun, wacky videos like CardMarket and MTGGoldfish.

@dementievatz

3 ай бұрын

This. The articles are great for long term content that you can go back to years later and still learn from. Videos are fine for reacting to the latest news.

The discussion about the decline in MtG articles, in interest in/attendance at competitive events and the underlying issues of our lack of connection to other people made me legit depressed--or, rather, reminded me why so many of us tend toward depression. I think you're both spot-on, though, and I appreciate your candor. As for Magic being punny, honestly, it doesn't bother me. I'm an old school table top gamer, and we love our corny jokes and puns. I could do without the cowboy hats and other non-high fantasy stuff, but Holy Cow is hilarious and I'm here for it.

I'm so checked out of modern to the point that I'm more excited about the Ponder unrestriction than the outburst ban. (That being said, timeless and vintage are my two favorite formats right now)

Finally Seth also agrees the one ring should go, that card is so incredibly unenjoyable.

I haven't read Reid's article yet but I'm pretty sure I get what he's trying to say. And I suspect the article is trying to get something across to WotC too, not just the casual crowd. Because it's clear WotC wants to focus more on casual edh from now on and Reid (like most pros) probably fears WotC slowly but surely abandoning the competitive scene because it doesn't make as much money as EDH.

@iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS

3 ай бұрын

They should simply marry the two because it wouldn't surprise anyone anyways and better now than just shelving away regular competitive magic at some random time. The cedh tournament scene is always expanding and the only real thing that can prop up the most popular formats of competitive magic legacy and vintage(in my eyes) is the reserve list making it harder and harder for people to enter the scene.

@draftmagicagain1000

3 ай бұрын

Lol 😂. You comment on Reid’s written article by first saying “I haven’t read the article”, but I’ll comment on what I think it could be about 😂🎉🥳🎁🍾

The biggest way to get people to care about competitive magic is to make it more accessible so 1) advertising it more and 2) make it cheaper for people to get into. The best way to start that is to make manabases cheaper. Now that Play Boosters have only 14 cars in a pack instead of fifteen, that 15th slot should be for manafixing and dual lands. That way players dont have to spend multiple hundreds just on a viable manabase or only play budget decks and mono coloured decks.

Richard with the straight forward take "who cares MH3 is around the corner". New Emrakul is going to be pretty nutty now that it won't have to police at instant speed EoT cascade. I thought that it would be neat tech to have for Tron for LE/Rhinos when they attempted to do it on EoT and now that Outburst is banned that is less of a threat overall.

When it comes to the video/article topic, honestly most people are just really busy and don't have the time to sit down to read and fully ingests an in depth article. I'm busy working and doing chores, but I can listen to something while doing that. When I actually have time to sit down, I would rather play the game itself cause I only have limited time to play. I would LOVE to listen to more theory and how to get better, but I need to be able to LISTEN to it while I do other mindless things that I need to do. That way I can ingest that in-depth article content, and apply it to when I play. The best example I have of this is listening to Jim Davis' Bronze to Mythic series qhere he plays draft. I was mever a good limited player, but I started listening to his videos in the background and his explinantions, analysis, and advice was able to help me get a 7 win record in arena drafts. I think the best way to move forward is to just turn those written articles into video essays.

Seth runs this sh5t, what an incredible workaholic props to you dawg❤❤❤❤

FallOut not coming to Magic Online is a business decision. It costs money in licensing and Dev time to bring it to MTGO. They know how much they think it would do in sales. And that number is Less than their costs. So not reasonable for them to do so. Basically, from here on out Magic Online is shrinking, not growing. Doesn’t mean they will pull the plug. But the patient is flatlining… 😅

I can only recommend Daybreak to invent in universe versions of the few cards that will make splash in their respective formats

49:33 we’re actually going back to the roots. Old magic had so many goofy cards and flavor texts

@Shotgungunshot1

3 ай бұрын

“Sorry we burned down your village. Here’s some gold”

@CreateWorlds

3 ай бұрын

@@Shotgungunshot1 classic

I think the issue with MTGO is way bigger than people expect. But I think the cards will be put on MTGO they just won't have art!

36:16 One of the things I say a bunch around my friends alongside "rocks are free" is "crime is good." I think of it like scam, or cheat, or even connive and attack. I think the worst part of this is the millions of corny jokes it's gonna cause. Really I'm happy about this because if crime is keyworded that means we're gonna get "crime matters" cards, which means interaction's just gonna get better.

@elijahwalker323

3 ай бұрын

Or worse, there could be anti crime cards like a free teferi protection if someone committed a crime against you.

@dementievatz

3 ай бұрын

@@elijahwalker323I think this is the concern that many people immediately had, but based on Mark’s comments, and this being a villains set, it seems that committing crimes is generally a good thing that you get rewarded for.

@MakeVarahHappen

3 ай бұрын

@@dementievatzJust in general, set mechanics will get a few hate cards, but almost all of them are confined to limited. Like the only disguise hate card I know that sees play is Long Goodbye.

@dontmisunderstand6041

3 ай бұрын

Extort is literally already a mechanic. And, hilariously, in Magic The Gathering you don't commit a crime when you extort.

@dontmisunderstand6041

3 ай бұрын

@@elijahwalker323 You can't really call it interaction if there's no counterplay to the interaction. Otherwise, it's just "no, stop playing the game". Anti-interaction, if you will. Anti-crime cards would be a GOOD thing, the same way pro-crime cards would be a good thing.

people think of mtg in terms of paper cards because card prices matters the most

It’s kinda hard to act like magic’s settings and themes haven’t been watered down ever since Innistrad where they literally told us they’d prefer to make new planes like this: the spooky world, the Indian steampunk world, not-Egypt, not New York, on and on. At the end of the day, it’s a case by case situation. I can tolerate and understand the idea like Crimson vow being vampire wedding shlock. In contrast, I have absolutely 0 tolerance for murder in Karlov Manor’s “shtick” with the entirety of Ravinca being infested with detectives all of a sudden. What’s next? Ravinca but Christmas? Dominaria treat or treating?

@Spaced92

3 ай бұрын

See with Amonkhet, the fact that it was Ancient Egyptian was only tangentially related to why it was interesting. A worldsoul that thinks it's doing everyone a favour by bringing them back as zombies, because of all the cataclysmic events that keep occurring them was pretty cool. And places like Kaladesh, these are generally contained to actual places on their planes, whereas a lot of other sets are just hard to put into context. Karlov Manor, I have no idea wtf is going on as someone that likes learning the lore but doesn't read it. Who are these detective people!? The problem is harder to pin down than that, I love Dominaria but besides the 2018 set I haven't been particularly interested in the last few times we've been there.

Without a competive scene, cards and rulesets aren't as finely tuned, balance is less of a thing. Casual with an unbalanced casual ruleset sucks

@Kestral287

3 ай бұрын

Our predominant casual format is already horrendously unbalanced so does that actually matter?

@hydra66

3 ай бұрын

@@Kestral287 if you want a more defined ruleset yes. For casual play, commander instead relies on something as undefined as rule zero. If you didn't have such a tight core ruleset, would commander be as popular?

@Kestral287

3 ай бұрын

The honest answer? Almost certainly yes. Magic's rules are an archaic and outdated mess compared to modern games.

@hydra66

3 ай бұрын

@@Kestral287 yet mtg has the biggest audience and people keep coming back to it. A good ruleset allows you to play both competitive and casual. A less nuanced ruleset restricts you to casual

@Kestral287

3 ай бұрын

Sure; Magic survives on Commander and inertia. Yugioh also survives but I've yet to actually meet a Yugioh player who thinks their game's ruleset is well designed, let alone that their game is balanced. These are not the same thing and should not be conflated. But your latest argument is a complete reversal of the original point and also defeats the actual purpose of the competitive scene. At first it was Competition -> Better Rules -> Better Casual. Now we're already at "casual exists without better rules, competition doesn't". And while that's probably true, it's a very poor defense of why anyone should care about competitive Magic.

Personally, As a casual player who works graveyard and has 2 kids. I don't have time to read articles. And I think that's the case for lots of us. We have to work real jobs sometimes. In fact, I am listening to this podcast at work right now.

@6ixpool520

3 ай бұрын

I learned magic theory in my teens deep diving channel fireball and TCG player articles. It's nostalgic sure, and a more efficient way to learn, but it's all pretty much still available in video form from various magic content creators, particularly for draft and the competitive 60card formats.

My "top-down design" pun card idea for Outlaws of Thunder Junction commander: There's a Snake in my Boots! 1 Green, Instant. Target Swiftfoot Boots' controller sacrifices the creature it is attached to. Its owner creates a 1/1 Green and Black Snake token with deathtouch.

@michaelpsmith3861

3 ай бұрын

to make it actually playable outside of commander, switching boots to any equipment would be a fun sideboard card

@pippochiri4547

3 ай бұрын

In a leak there is a card with a flavor text that references that, the card itself is something like "ambusher snake" or something along those lines

Around 30:15, does anyone know where to find this type of in-depth (and current) information?

I think tournament play would be more interesting if the team affiliations were more prevalent. Common jerseys, sponsorships, etc. For example, F1 is essentially 1 player versus many, but you want your teammates to do well. Drama makes for good sports.

''The Ring Tempts You'' had zero negative effect and that was weird to me. So yeah committing a crime being a good thing is not great flavour wise to me.

@dontmisunderstand6041

3 ай бұрын

Technically it made the tempted creature legendary, which is an inherent negative. Albeit a tiny and insignificant one.

It seems a 5 mana Planar Cleansing would be the ideal cost as it would be the follow up to a One Ring which is already at 4. One Ring also helping reach the 5th land.

49:30 I agree that the puns and jokes might be present to a greater degree in card names and references, but back in the day the art (Uktabi Orangutan) and flavor text (Gorilla Titan) had a lot more humor than today. Now with more cohesive and serious art direction and massive amounts of rule text on every card, the old way humor was printed on cards disappeared.

@MTGGoldfishPodcast

3 ай бұрын

It feels like the humor on cards has become much more blunt when in the past it was more stealthy.

Funny about the commit crime mechanic, my angel deck only had 3 cards that would most likely make me commit a crime. Also Richard's play style is less crime committing because board wipes don't count.

I think streaming has a major part in all of this. Building magic pros as stars takes a lot of work, whereas streamers are already trying to be stars. Reading articles to try and improve is nice, but watching people play will give you a lot of information just by observing. Practice us better than theory, and watching someone practice is probably between there.

@dontmisunderstand6041

3 ай бұрын

If practice is better than theory, you simply didn't understand the theory. That's why practice is useful, after all... even idiots tend to understand after having personally experienced something.

Competitive and casual scenes benefit from each other. This is true of all competitive activities. The competitive scene creates spectacle and narrative, which increases engagement within and draws people in from without. It also codifies the 'meta'; that is, the strategies, tactics, and theories about the game that are not explicitly codified within the rules. Competitive players push boundaries of what is 'healthy' for their activity, and prompt changes to rules or designs by the ruling body of the activity; it is harder and/or slower for casual play to have such an effect. The casual scene is the entry point. It forms the large base of participants that legitimizes the activity as something that 'people do', and provides a huge potential source of revenue and funding in various ways, which stabilizes the activity (hopefully) at all levels. The casual scene is also not bound by the 'meta' of the competitive scene, which provides space for players who do not (or who elect not to) fit in the competitive scene, as well as allowing for greater creativity in terms of play actions and connections between ideas - usually to do 'silly' or otherwise non-competitive things, but every now and then finding things that shake up the competitive meta, that the competitive scene would not previously consider. I feel part of the pushback to Reids article - despite it being accurate for the most part - was that he did very little to recognize the symbiotic nature of competitive and casual play. I also very much agree that Wizards could do more to promote the competitive scene - but then so could various sponsors, and even community groups like yourselves if you decided there was benefit in it. The trick is to promote it in a way that appeals to the casual scene; more "hey this is cool, come watch" than "here's this thing that you should do because they do it and they're 'better'".

I was really hoping to see Lotus Field banned in Pioneer. Its not a huge metagame percentage or anything but the fact that you can't really interact with their mana is a huge problem imo. For example, the only way to stop Strict Proctor into Lotus Field is a counterspell. Yes, Krenko's Buzzcrusher now exists, if you're not on the play they've already gotten the value and can probably just counter it.

WotC didn't say they wouldn't print UW cards, they said they wouldn't make a UW product. We could still see UW cards in the list and such.

re Negative connotations: the Orzhov guild is still strongly connected to EXTORT for me (and Haunt, Afterlife...). Is that bad? Idk, I really like the Orzhova, in part because their theming is kind of vile.

@dontmisunderstand6041

3 ай бұрын

The theming is too good. The only things certain in life are death and taxes... so we have the undead immortal taxmen guild, to handle all of Ravnica's certainties.

I have no real insight on it, but I wonder if one of the challenges in getting IPs into MTGO and Arena is about managing the rights over time. It’s fine if Wizards can only sell the Dogmeat pet for a few months, but what if you could only buy Fallout boosters for a limited time? What if anyone coming to the game in 2027 can’t add any of these cards to their collection and somehow Ezio is the core of a top-tier Explorer deck or something?

WotC/Hasbro’s management of Magic the past five years is the definition of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” They had a formula that generated a rabid core fanbase that maintained the game profitably for 30 years. Why the hell would they change that formula-and change it so drastically??

I think getting rid of GPs did by far the most damage to the pro scene, Seth is absolutely right that. Me and all my friends used to treat pro Magic like football where we'd all gather on the weekends and throw on whatever GP was happening that week.

I could read an article with one persons opinion, or if I wanted limited advice I could listen to multiple podcasts about it like Limited Resources or Lords of Limited and then discuss things with hundreds to thousands of other like minded people on their respective Discord servers. The same is true for almost every format. It’s the internet gentlemen, articles are a holdover from glossy magazines and newspapers of the boomer days.

56:35 A 4 mana destroy all nonlands in modern would probably be fine if you had to meet a condition to do it. Maybe a big drawback like exiling your own graveyard as it resolves so the control decks can't do flashback stuff as easily?

after only playing one piece for a bit i do have to say for what faults bandai does with some events its miles ahead of wotc. After 20+ yrs of playing magic the last few yrs have been so taxing as a fan that i had to step away. also all lgs events died down so much around me. use to have 60 or more for fnms and now its like may 8 or less people

With Fallout not coming to MTGO or Arena it's probably because of the usage overlap for the copyright. A license to use a video game IP in a physical card game is very different to the license to use a video game IP in another video game. Particularly Bethesda probably has the rights to license out Fallout New Vegas as part of the Fallout IP to third parties provided it isn't as a video game as only Obsidian has those rights.

That dungeon would be the only one ever used it's so strong compared to the other ones that they wouldn't be looked at.

Love the podcasts definitely help me focus and relax while cleaning/Watching My babies

Not hitting Bowmasters is definitely an intentional oversight. Losing Fury meant nothing in total without taking out Bowmasters as well. Fury was icing on Bowmasters' cake. Sure, losing Fury powered down Scam. But it didnt power down Bowmasters...

I for myself left MtG because I was playing Commander and just realized that I need to care and look after every Set for the Commanders I had built. Unlike if you just play Standard or Modern, there are Sets and products not for you, true, but now that everything is Commander, I was kinda softly forced into looking into every Set, every Precon, everything which had new cards that I could put in my Deck. And it burned me hard. Now I play Flesh and Blood and the Class system says that I do not need to care about every Set so hard, so I can just skip one to purchase.

Y'all missed an opportunity to wear detective hats for Karlov Manor...BUT it's not too late to rock Cowboy hats for Outlaws of Thunder Junction!

52:00 I hope the next set is full of spaghetti western references. I want a XRR instant called "Get 3 coffins ready" Deal X damage divided up to 4 creatures. And the flavour text:" My mistake, 4 coffins"

I feel like WRT the mtgo talks that any set that comes to mtga they’re going to have the digital rights for, and daybreak is a hired developer and don’t own mtgo so it’s going to be the exact same talk and normally terms, since they’d normally be rights to sell on digital storefronts, a collaboration would basically have to argue against being on mtgo but be okay on mtga for it to ever happen.

Oh great, now commander players can say interaction is criminal and not be incorrect

@Jlizard27

3 ай бұрын

I’m so sick of some of my friends running no interaction and then getting upset when I don’t just let them steamroll the table (I say that but I’ve started letting them steamroll because it’s not fun when people get pissy that you didn’t let them win unopposed on turn 5)

@dontmisunderstand6041

3 ай бұрын

@@Jlizard27 You could just also build big flashy decks instead of low to the ground weasel shit. Interaction comes in many forms. Sometimes in the form of actually engaging in combat. Sometimes the best form of removal is "I have a big fuckin creature and you will die if you don't chump block". Adjust your deckbuilding to your playgroup. Everyone will have more fun that way.

My store's FNM is entirely Modern. We get 20+ entrants every week.

Warhammer came to magic online very recently

Richard, the set is called Outlaws of Thunder Junction, to be an outlaw you must have committed or be suspected of committing a crime, why not complain about the name of the set in that case. 😂

The way you said one piece does deck techs/deck overviews is also how yugioh does them and creators have said it is to get more watch times. That likely not only worked its way down to random people due to culture, but also into other cars games where yugioh players migrated.

My guys, you are trying to KILL your opponents! Crimes are part and parcel to the game!

The EU was planning to get rid of daylight savings but then covid postponed it.

I dont mind whatever with hats, but I do think it's night and day like looking at the art of old cards and having like references to the hedron network and story, and now like imagine explaining why Fblthp has a cowboy hat in a year when we arent "in TJ" anymore and it's just a random old card.

We love you guys.

Videos can be monetized more easily than articles. If the information is in text, it will end up in a search engine result or an AI chatbot output. This doesn't happen with videos (yet). It also makes the information presented more difficult to find. As Richard said, "watch this 45 minute video to get the four second answer to your question" is annoying as hell, but in a world where money is bar far the more important factor and everyone wants to hoard it, why would you put anything into easily copied text?

our lgs does at least one modern event a week, this week we have 2!

What is the chance of playing 3eferi, ticking up and the black red cascade spell together?

My issue with the concept of "commit a crime" is that cards like Innocent Blood and Armageddon are not crimes, where Healing Salve and Guard Duty are crimes. Could have been something along the lines of "if a permanent died or was put into exile this turn" or something, and it wasnt commit but witness, then not only would it be much fairer and more understandable but itd also work so synergistically with investigate! Create a clue token, sac a clue token, Hey! You just witnessed a crime! Get the ability you little scamp.

He called violent outburst being banned a pretty big change. I guess it's not too big of an understatement. I would say he should have said it's a huge change. Ok. My comment is not as good as I thought it would be. Carry on, carry on.

This comment should have been an article!

I think its more likely that the white free spell in mh3 is a board wipe. If they all require you to sacrifice a nontoken creature of the same color, then it's probably pretty fair. A free white wrath already exists and isn't played though.

Audio as much as video. I put headphones in and listen to KZread videos, podcasts, and game play videos while I'm working (in a warehouse). I can't read articles while I work.

Okay, I have to agree with Richard, why associate a normal game action with something that has a bad connotation?!

@dontmisunderstand6041

3 ай бұрын

Shucks, I guess we need to stop killing creatures and players, stop being toxic, stop spreading infections, extorting, dealing damage, exiling things, taking control of other people's things, losing life, paying life, sacrificing, and trampling. There are more things ALREADY IN THE GAME with WORSE connotations than "committing a crime" than there are that don't have worse connotations.

45:48 lord of the rings is on arena so maybe the licensing was just digital in general. My assumption at this point is that if it’s on arena it will be on mtgo

I personally feel that the idea of the best way to keep magic players is to make them play in the sunk cost fallacy is a real bad idea. Also considering the amount of commander decks casual players makes i think that the amount of money wizards make is not a problem. Moving to the topic of video vs written, as all things, it is a combination of multiple causes. Videos are more easily followed and can be used as podcast, so you can take in the info while driving or working. It is a passive way of acquiring information compared to an active way like reading an article. People have less time, so taking taking the time to read a 40 page article on how to play brainstorm is not that easy. Another element to consider is the casual vs competitive aspect. I never much cared for competitive magic, and i thought it was because i was a casual player. Recently a pauper league started near me, so i started play come competitive magic, and that made me actually start looking for articles and info on how to improve my plays. If there is no competitive scene because of wotc, why should people look for competitve articles?

@dontmisunderstand6041

3 ай бұрын

There's probably a big reason why high level spokesmen for the brand have routinely hammered home time and again that BY FAR the most popular format is "kitchen table magic", and that all other formats and modes of play COMBINED are lesser by orders of magnitude. Probably because it's literally true.

23:57 thats how i feel about digimon tcg, no decklists written out.

im actually worried about online mtg, if cards are excluded

Videos showing you what to do can explain way better than what an article can put in words. While written content will always have its place and be appreciated, its just harder to accurately explain or pick out innacuracies quickly vs watching someone do the thing for you. Plus, people still read, they just sift through the comments and find people asking the same questions as them. Anyway, calling people dumber just because they learn things differently *is* the stereotypical "kids these days" complaint. Reading and writing is not going away. Videos are not going away. Until there's a new way to consume content, it'll persist cause people who want to learn will find their way to learn.

The best Magic client is Tabletop Simulator but let’s keep it on the down low

I think that almost certainly, casual commander players on average care more about Reid Duke's gameplay than he cares about theirs! Oh man that dungeon was real? I saw that on the hee hee ha ha magic subreddit and took it as a joke Thought for certain Fallout would come to MTGO after they released the Warhammer stuff, it almost seemed like they'd forgotten about Warhammer and then remembered to do it because they were working on the Fallout stuff We already have a four mana Planar Cleansing, Devastating Mastery!

Btw: Secret Rendezvous is now committing a crime! Shakespeare was right with Romeo and Juliet! 🤯

I personally think the UB brands attached to the licenses saw the writing on the wall with MTGO and just thinks they’re brand shouldn’t be attached to MTGO. An perhaps wizards wants this lol this is wizards way “sacrificing” Modo for the sake of keeping UB.

At my LGS FNM is for Friday Night Modern 42:40

I'm excited for ponder unrestriction! I can't wait to play Doomsday on mtgo

😂 Richard "Cracks a fetch land, am I dead?"

My guess: They're seeing if it's okay to unban Ponder for modern. Preordain seems to be fine, and Ponder would be the next logical step if they're on the train to unban things.

Steamcore Scholar. For richard it was cowboy oko, but for me it was Steamcore Scholar. Its a creature of pure energy or lightning or something, but it has a detective hat on! Its silly as all hell

wait.. WotC said they don't do "guns" in Thunder Junction, because they don't want "guns" in MTG? how does that make any sense when there's already pirates that have guns (idk remember the specific creature but there are a couple) & on top we have the WH40k set...

I live in AZ we don't have daylight savings here.

@Jlizard27

3 ай бұрын

Fair, yall got enough problems over there without DST

MODO will probably outlive WOTC at the pace WOTC self-destructs.

@reyny2118

3 ай бұрын

Wotc is insanely successfull

Personally, I was fine with hats in OTJ until Fblthp showed up. His card is the definition of slapping a cowboy hat on something and calling it a day

i think a massive fail for comp is no yt. how is it posible that it takes days to get the vod up??? how was it spoild for me by players days after

@lesternomo6578

3 ай бұрын

100%, I'm used to the competitive smash scene where vods of individual matches are uploaded at the latest a day after the event (and that's by grassroots production!)

I feel like every take the things away from this. Why would I want to read 100 page side boarding guide when I can watch it? Why do I want to read a draft guide guide when I can watch it? Most articles have static images that can now be replaced with live examples. Take LR podcast, One thing they do is the "mock draft" Take can teach you LSV/Marshall's thought processes way better than any written content. It isn't that the downfall of written content mean people still don't want the depth, it's how we consume the "deep" content has changed.

I have a commander deck I call Speedrunning. Never give me this dungeon, my friends already hate that deck XD TBH I doubt it's broken, but it's just so much stuff for just doing what the deck wants anyway.

Is An Offer You Can't Refuse a reference to something?

@davidhansen5067

3 ай бұрын

It's a reference to a famous line from the film "The Godfather."

richard's immediate "no" to sets going on modo really cracked me up. I feel the same and saw it coming, but it's still funny.

I have the same complaints with the latest Outlaws and Fallout preview streaming. A 200 words article with 30 images has been turned into 1 hour stream with 3 scripted-to-be-boring hosts.