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Im so addicted to mtg that the govt deemed me incompetent to manage my funds. I spend 200 to 500 a day bc I watch a lot of mtg finance videos. So I have a fiduciary 😢😢

Welcome to the Commander Master Race folks. This is the bed you people made, now lay in it. 🤷

Really disagree with just about everything you say in the end, just comes off as apologist copium to me. But you said it well and I respect the content.

As a lore nerd, I respectfully disagree. This is like watching a train wreck happen over the course of years. Ever since we moved away from block structure, the stories have gotten noticeably weaker.

Honestly I have more issue with things like companions way more than UB. I actually like things like the fallout sets and am looking forward to the SpongeBob secret lair, most of these are way more tolerable than the goofy ahh ghalta card alt skin that you basically can’t read.

Can’t wait to get my ass beat by a dumb ass star fish! ⭐️ 🎣

It was never the healthiest patient to begin with.

This perfectly sums up my feelings

ban counterspells

I don't give a damn about Magic, but man that vid was good and interesting, good job buddy!

I feel like it’s dishonest to say that since there will be UB sets, there will NEVER be magic sets and stories. There’s still 3 sets per year set in the magic universe. And there will still be stories told. Idk why people are so so negative. It’s so blatantly clear to see that Magic is thriving, yet so many people are trying to convince themselves of the opposite.

ATTENTION! All the stupid a**holes yelling "Magic is dying" all the time... sit the F down, grow up, get a life. If you have a problem with Universes beyond, make your own format and exclude all the UB sets. What's stopping you? If your friends agree, you play in your own format. If you're a commander player, a very tiny portion of the total players even BUY secret lairs to begin with. Or simply ONLY BUY THE CARDS/SETS THAT YOU ENJOY and skip the rest! Are you a pro player? Then you have been fighting bright contrast of theme, you've had cyber ninjas fighting along dogs and hamsters FFS for eternity even in standard. Standard, mixing tons of sets has never made sense anyways. Look at it now. We had cute otters and bunnies fighting nightmare creatures and dinosaurs FFS!!!! Don't come here telling me magic has made sense from a thematic angle before. It's really as simple as just find the format that you enjoy. There are endless options for you. I buy draft/play boxes because buying a draft/play box = buying a CUBE! So I have many thematic game nights where we just draft from these cubes. one guy want to make a deck from Duskmourn, we give him the pile of cards. Another from bloomburrow, he get that pile. we make 60 card decks and pick a commander and play with 25 health. we like shorter games and 40 health on non-constructed decks is awful anyways.

6:50 i think this is a really reductive point, comparing cyber dragon to the egyptian gods dont make sense because theyre from different series and times of the show, the gods being the OG series and CyDra being GX. Yugioh has plenty of internal consistency within its archetypes, and especially within its lore archetypes such as the Duel Terminal, Dogmatika Branded, and even the Visas lore which recently finished. Yugioh almost never does these crossovers like magic has, and at most theyre just references.

A very enjoyable watch. Good vid

Tbh for me there’s just too many cards coming out to keep up with. It feels like every couple weeks a new set comes out I wasn’t even aware of.

As someone who started at the tail end of August of this year after my friend let me borrow his copy of Caser's Legion commander deck, I am a fan of New Vegas and the box caught my attention, after teaching me the basics. I have since bought myself a copy, have been theory crafting upgrades for it, picked up the grave danger pre-con because it had zombies and was a playstyle I liked from Yugioh. Watching the discourse over the Universe Beyond being standard legal has been interesting.

I can't take this game seriously anymore: - "Ok I attack you with Spongebob." - "I block with Optimus Prime." - "You fools. I flash in Gandalf the White!"

Ahh "Corporate Greed" the Strongest card of all....

Worst case just get into plastic crack, very consistent!

Frankly, I don't care about MTG being popular, especially not if it comes at the expense of MTG remaining MTG, and I don't agree that MTG is becoming better or more fun (which as far as I'm concerned mean the same thing) - the fun for me peaked around Return to Ravnica and Theros and has never reached that level since, not even during Ravnica 3. As for asking "does MTG even need its own IP?", I think we should take a closer look at Yugioh and Weiss Schwarz, the other two functionally UB games, and see how it really works for them: Yugioh is sort of "everything is Thunder Junction" - it's all internal IP, but it's very disjointed and often relies too much on self-reference. However, it also has a significant advantage over MTG, which is that each individual deck is for the most part aesthetically coherent. In MTG, it's difficult to make a pure deck. Everything you build is going to pull from a variety of planes and factions, especially if you want something competitive. This is why it's important that MTG has something of a narrative throughline helping you bring the various elements of your deck together. Yugioh doesn't need much in the way of a narrative or a setting because each deck comes with its own inbuilt micro-story. This isn't something that will really work for MTG unless we're going to expect UB players to build decks that for the most part only include cards from their favourite IP - and at that point you're not getting them crossing into MTG IP. Weiss Schwarz, the more comparable game to UB, is successful, but takes the limitations of Yugioh's "archetypes are self-contained" model to an extreme that results in a pretty bad ecosystem - there's no such thing as partially buying into a set. Each set is, for each player, either interesting enough to buy a full playset with the intention of building decks, or entirely uninteresting, because in the main format decks can only be one IP. I don't like "Nikke", so I won't buy any of the Nikke set. In fact, there's no upcoming product so far announced that I am interested in, and it's not likely that any of the decks I currently have will ever receive future support. With the way licensing works, this is probably the direction MTG is going to end up going in, rather than Yugioh's "self-contained decks with semi-regular new cards", and it's going to be a huge problem because MTG's IP crossovers are pulling from a much broader cultural arc than Weiss Schwarz, reducing the likelihood that a player who likes one UB product will also like the next. A player who got into MTG because they like Fallout, but who doesn't convert to liking MTG IP, will almost certainly never buy product again, because there'll never be another Fallout set. The only chance of them buying again is if a UB happens for another IP they like to a strong enough degree that they want to build a deck for it. In the absence of that, they gradually lose interest, most likely without ever even attending one LGS event. MTG's IP has value even in a UB world because it acts as the cement holding players together. A strong self IP creates a crossover between the crossover products. If you get into MTG via Spiderman, a product I have zero interest in, and I get into MTG through Final Fantasy, a product you have zero interest in, the only experience we share is MTG's own IP, that's the neutral interest ground. Whether we personally like or dislike it, it's something we both know about and can comment on. And frankly, MTG is just capable of having a great IP and it's a shame they're ignoring it. I recently read up on the whole Yawgmoth saga, something I had previously never looked into, and I was enthralled just by wiki articles. The Phyrexians are so much more interesting when there's a story behind them beyond just "they're baddies with corruption oil". MTG used to have lore good enough to make me want to run TTRPG games based on it. That was true in the early 2010s golden age, and I've just discovered it was true in the olden days too. It's not true anymore, and I don't think it's a coincidence that my LGS has far fewer grey-haired people showing up for MTG now.

1)Will the card be reprintable is 1 issue? It is either going price people out because of Specific printing or printing as universal within that turn people of the IP off 2) How Strong is the card going to be as there is a IP there? Is it going to commander power in every sets like i.e Modern Horizon 3.

I am fine with some UB, one set a year, and thematically appropriate. I look at UB like I look at guest characters in a fighting game. Take Mortal Kombat, a whole roster of original characters with their own story, throw in a guest character, for example Kratos, fits well, doesn't fully break immersion, wins all round. When the guest characters suddenly become 50% of the playable roster, and the owner of the guest IP's have certain conditions for the inclusion, you end up with Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. Same engine, some of the same characters, but it doesn't *feel* like a Mortal Kombat game anymore. The Metacritic review for MK VS DC says "If you aren't looking for Mortal Kombat, then this is a great game" That is how UB feels to me, if I'm not looking for Magic then it's great, But I AM looking for Magic, and I am struggling to find it anymore.

The main issue in the long run will be release fatigue. It is the main culprit of your complain, from storytelling to connecting to the cards in a release. You don't have time to appreciate a release setting, they just keep drilling for new content to boost sales. I bet it is not that uncommon to put a new card in your commander deck and never draw it before a better newer card comes out to replace it. (Used the commander example because drawing 1 in 100 is much harder)

honestly magic is fine. it only is a problem if you are competitive, or play tournaments. if u are playing a game for fun, then just chillax and enjoy the silly cardboard game. Life is hard, no need to worry about the little things like rule changes and bans. Sure it sucks if u want to sell stuff, but aside from that, just have fun! (But also i completely get your point and u can disregard this entire comment

Just a minor nitpick but I want to point out that the baldurs gate cards are not an external IP, WOTC owns D&D and baldurs gate, so it’s still an internal IP even if it is a different IP

I was nodding along with you and wasn’t expecting that opposite conclusion but I think you have changed my mind a bit on the subject. Great video, consider me a new subscriber!

Modern Horizon ruined Modern before Universes Beyond did, at least.

at this point we might as well have blank cards with only the rules, since the gameplay is all that matters apparently

Magic is the same as it's always been. 1. It's a fun and engaging game that attracts tons of new players and has tons of dedicated veteran players that still play it every day. Same as always. 2. It also has tons of petulant whiny little bitches who play the game and complain about every little fucking goddamned thing and like to say the game is dying and so much worse than it was before and they're going to quit and it will be dead in a few years, how the quality controls suck, how the in-house playtesting sucks, how the new card that just came out in some set is too strong and going to break/ruin the game.. blah blah blah blah fucking blah... trust me.. I've been playing since 1994. This has ALWAYS been going on. These whiny bitches never go away, even though they are always wrong. Same as always. 3. It also is a game about a multiverse with TONS of pop culture and other-worlds references... look it up.. first Magic set ever... blatant ripoff of D&D which blatantly ripped off Lord of the Rings. First expansion set ever... Arabian Nights.. has actual cards named Sinbad and Aladdin in it. Later on.. they got The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.. Frankenstein's f'ing Monster.. Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror.. etc etc etc etc. FFWD to today... and.. they have references to Scooby Doo.. the Ghostbusters.. Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park... Same as always. So... anyone who thinks the game is somehow different now.... you don't have a single fucking clue what you are even talking about... but, this, too, is same as always.

Practically nobody plays Weiss Schwartz, its just bought by collectors with an extremely small playerbase. This is what happens when you sell game pieces of other people's ip, fortnite sells cosmetics if you don't like it you can ignore it and push on. Fortnite also has its own story and lore that it leans into in addition to the crossover stuff, I don't play so I can't speak to the quality. If mtg continues to strangle its own lore in favour of dress-up worlds and universes beyond its going to end up a game sold only to people with passing interest or people too dedicated to let go, if people are only playing because they added a Sephiroth card they don't tend to stick around for so long because they won't be getting more of it. The more you neglect magic the gathering the more you push away people who played for magic the gathering. UB and the ever scaling release cycle is milking money for the game but a cow can only be milked so much and if you don't take care of the cow where the hell is the milk gonna come from? Two years ago The Bank of America told Hasbro it was killing its golden goose, in the time since then Hasbro has only doubled down again and again. When you say that Magic the Gathering never had a brand as strong as Warhammer you were right, but that's not a good reason to take it behind the shed and send it to a farm upstate.

This video perfectly explains how i'm feeling for the future of mtg

Hey, the look it's dying crowd is here from WoW. Hi, guys I don't believe it is dying, but I do believe you'll go on about for about another 5 years before an authority on the subject has one final endall saying announcing to the world that it isn't dying. Then the dust will settle again.

nice way of kings collection

DnD crossover gets a pass. They go together too well and maintains a certain psudo-consistancy. That's the ONLY pass I'm giving.

Wotc must be pitching meatballs cause you clobbered this one outta the park

Should have played mono green

Round 3 opponent here, thanks for the great laughs! You had your revenge in limited against me though!

Crackling Drake is a bird because it flies. Phoenix is a bird because it flies. Angels fly. Therefore angels are birds. Izzet Phoenix plays instants. Collected Company is an instant. Therefore Angels is just a different build of Phoenix. Timmy is playing the top deck of the format as proven above.

"so it's standard but with more sets" "yes, but no" "so it's modern with less sets" "yes, but no" "it's a format designed to make use of the fun t1 standard decks that rotated out without autolosing to degenerate strategies like Delver, Dredge or Storm" "... yes."

Too bad they ruined Modern with horizons.

Great video haha !!

Where's the Shrek script blanket?

This is hype not many people show pioneer love even tho I think it’s the best format you can play, so many cool cards that you can’t use in others or just can’t quite get there get to shine. You make great videos man keep it up

Rakdos vamps ftw

I’m immensely disappointed this isn’t a 3 hour greasefang vid

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One of the other hits from the ARC was that one of their mascot’s cardboard standees had a first aid kit with a Red Cross on it.

Amazing video, can't wait for more :>