I love the eldrazi being colorless because I found an older card called "Spreading Plague" that allows you to select a color, and only allows 1 creature of that color to be on the field, if you wanna summon another (tokens included) then you have to put the last creature in the grave yard.
See, this is why I liked Iona, Shield of Emeria in commander. Especially when paired with Mirror Gallery and a kicked Rite of Replication. Then Iona got banned...
Arcades is a lot of fun, but it's only a slightly power-creeped version of the strat that started with 'Animate Wall'. 'Assault Formation' is a staple, but there are other commanders and even an uncommon planes-walker now. also, *Wall of Blood'* & *'Wall Of Shards'* & *'Tree of Perdition'*
Your local card store probably needs the business, so you can look at it that way. You're supporting local small businesses. Thank you for your sacrifice ;)
Just like with 40k, affordability is all based on what you are interested in playing. Want to just have casual minis to play 40k? Buy the recruit or elite starter box. It's $25 per person on the recruit box and gives the necron player 10 warriors, 3 scarabs and 1 royal warden. then the Space Marine player gets a Lieutenant and 5 assault intercessors. The elite box comes with basically the same thing for $50 per person but the necron replaces the Royal Warden with an Overlord, adds 3 destroyers and a Plasmacyte while the Space Marine player gets 3 outrider bikes and 1 captain instead of a lieutenant. If you want a really nice army for both sides, get two recruit editions and an elite box... boom, instant action army.
Maths Nerd Glasses Activated You always have a 50% chance to win a coin flip. Therefore to win three coin flips its is 50% to the power of three, aka 0.5^3. This results in a 0.125 chance or 12.5%.
It is actually not that bad. If you consider that.. a standard commander deck to be comprised of 40 lands (at most). You have a better chance of winning three coin flips then drawing that one non-land card from the top of your deck.
With Krark’s thumb your chance of winning an ‘individual’ coinflip becomes 0.75 or 3/4 thus the chance of getting all of fiery gambit is 0.75^3 or ~42% (that number looks pretty special) this is a pretty big increase from the previous 12.5% or 1/8 chance.
@@c2h680 To be accurate, that increase is more than 300% more likely (or exactly 337.5%). This means, with Krark's thumb, you are, at least, three times more likely to win three coin flips in a row.
One of my favorite combos when I used to play Classic: Heaven's Gate: (W) (Instant) - Any number of target creatures become white until end of turn. Jovial Evil: (2 B) (Sorcery) - Deal X damage to target opponent, where X is twice the number of white creatures he controls. Both cards are from Legends and they have gotten WAY more expensive than when I played. Heaven's Gate is ~$41 median, while Jovial Evil is now ~$150. Last time I played was roughly the second Ravnica block and the same cards were $5 and $25 respectively.
Maskwood Nexus really changed the game for Tribal because it's an artifact that makes everything you own all creature types, and makes changeling tokens
*shruggs* I just used to collect cards in the early 2000s that I liked the artwork and little italicized quotes on. I've never actually played the game and really don't have any interest in doing so. D&D eats enough of my money as it is....because I am a dice hoarder. If I'm not at risk of dying in an avalanche of dice then I do not have nearly enough. 50/50 split on whether my eventual cause of death will be being buried alive in dice or buried alive in books really.
Hey Airier, yeah the First Sliver is a very good staple in my Sliver deck, been that way for years. Glad to share the horror with another person. Yours truly, a long term Sliver player in commander.
Never mind, I just go it. Just had to Shovel down to get it. Yeah, the main Forgeworld only army for the imperial guard. Still hoping they get a plastic release from GW since they were taken off the Forgeworld webstore.
I had some friends in middle school that loved magic, and even though I would play with them, I couldn't get into it. At the time I was obsessing over yugioh, and I couldn't split my budget. So while they were playing well built decks (or as well built as middle school students could make), I was playing structure decks with no idea what made cards synergize. Nowadays have a more forgiving budget, and Puffin's video actually inspired me to give Magic another chance. It looks like blue control is a pretty good choice for me, I just love the idea of slapping down a card and saying "no".
A friend of mine ran a black artifact deck with the gimmick being he would exile almost every card in the players deck and then play them all at once, combine that with the gray merchant and vampires and he would win with 50 health and everyone else would be dead.
The one game I was in I drew nothing but Nightmare and Swamps(I was playing Mono-Black, I now play Spiders using Thantis as my Commander) my Commander's cost was more Penalty(I forget what it's actually called) than cost(cost was I think 4[3 generic, 1 Black if memory serves]), the second game I ever played was also Chaos so that was fun.
I used to run and Oloro deck (B/W/U) that has Erebos, Whip of Erebos, Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood. It had multiple life gain strats for if I got Sanguine Bond in hand but also shut down opponents using the same strategy. I then also got my hands on Lilly of the Veil and it just became a lot of fun but for some reason everyone went after me first
i just started playing after about 7 years. and i remember having an eldrazi sneak attack deck...... it was beyond brutal!. i know its not from that set but i also had a serra avatar in it, so if i got the right pull, you died on my first turn. so i'm rebuilding it and i have ilharg in it now. with of course the eldrazi again.
My favorite Commander is Krond, the Dawn-Clad, which is a Green White Commander that is a 6/6 with Flying and Vigilance, and if it is enchanted and attacks, he exiles any permanent. Also, I am AuraDrak in your Discord server, and yes I am working on that Commander and D&D style. If you want to try it out, come to the server, and I will help you make a sheet.
Wow, there has been that much power creep in MtG? I stop playing roughly 15 years ago, having played from roughly Prophecy to the end of Ravnica/start of Time Spiral. Still have most of my old cards in a closet somewhere, probably need to go through to see if any still have any value.
It's very difficult to prevent any game with continuous expansions from having power creep problems. Magic is a more egregious example because it has, what, 25,000 cards now? But this problem can happen in much smaller games too.
I play izzet,saviors of kamigawa, and or Red,blue,black,and green decks because most of the are cheap and easy to set a good board the return them to my hand. ALL BOW TO THE CAT OVERLORDS!!
Hi ya, may have mentioned this in a previous video comment, but you did miss two videos by this guy Tabletop Story: Journey Into The Weird West for The Devil's Gold and D&D Story: “Whoops! Guess EVERYONE has to die now.” There pretty fun, very chaotic mess in both of them
I got a first sliver, I'm got to build that deck and you can play against it sometime : ) and if it's a good day, maybe l'll play control magic too lol
@@Airier could just be as simple as either finding other mtg videos to react to or try some deck techs with some of the decks you currently own. Or even just doing some gameplay on mtg arena or commander gameplay with the right equipment
I'll just suggest one thing. Untap. Try out all the cards for free, before you're unable to buy and play paper. It's the online equivalent or printing out paper proxies.
I just recently started magic the gathering and I got two legendaries necromancer elf lich that gain more life and damage point per land card in the field that being grass and undead lands it start with 6 and 6 point total very powerful I think it plus one per land before playing it
Stopped playing regularly after DarkSteel/ Miridin. You CHILDREN. I've tried to get back into it and it is genuinely fun(ish) but yeah I would prefer to have a version that rejects the power-creep
Every few years I volunteer to drive friends to a competition so I get some new cards/decks and look at all the (mostly cool!!) New stuff. But the last big purchase I made was a BoosterBox of UNHINGED in 2005
@@Airier Also watching that video made my mtg crafting brain going; Door to Nothingness + Lithoform Engine = 2 people are dead now... "Haha Airier, it's too late for you" Also, now I want to play against you in Discord... (I mostly use MTGO nowadays, or play against the same friend over and over with physical cards)
I have given up on mtg, i have played several times for several years, that i have only won 1 game, where that first game that i won was one that the persons first time playing always wins.
@@Airier See, I tend to be wary when people say that their playgroup is "not that competitive" or "super casual". That tends to be slang for "you will at least get your draw step before I combo off and win".
I’ve given MTG a fair shot twice now. Both times, I ended up leaving the games unimpressed and bored. It’s not like I don’t understand the game, I just HATE dealing with all the metagaming nonsense like milling, card synergies, deck balancing nonsense my friends won’t shut up about. Played commander for the first time last Saturday: got bored halfway through and started attacking the high level players at random just so they would KO me and I could leave.
I play Weiss Schwarz and I have never seen a card that cost thousands of dollars. I know there are ones that costs hundreds because signed cards but I would still say mtg costs more if you are looking at the right cards.
I am not sure if he exaggerates for click baits or what? But the power level (what gaming refers to as power creep), is no where near the power level of emrakul. That card is ban in many formats for a reason. And the 100k deck are only play in Legacy format with like 1000 players in the entire world. Most people play Commander and Standard. You don’t even have to optimize your deck to have fun. What he is saying is purposely misinformed people for clicks.
@@Airier the trick is I'm the only one in my playgroup and I'm a Johnny player Luckily, I am kinda broke so they kinda balance each other out because I can't afford to optimize them all And the commanders I don't have enough cards or passion for get put in my jodah legend tribal deck
On the one hand. Yeah, on the other hand, MTG did start with black lotus. I think it's less the game is more powerful now, and more that cards are just generally better overall.
I remember one quote from highschool,
Me: Magic's too complicated for me.
My friend: You play Dungeons and Dragons!
Me: Touché.
Magic the Gathering player complains about power creep
Yu-Gi-Oh! Player: First time?
Magic the Gathering: nah that was a decade ago.
Fun fact: Two of the people in this video also played Curse of Strahd with him:
31:25 Allan played Boshak
40:30 Courtney played Gouda
Extra nerd points for everyone!
I know it's kind of off topic but does anyone know of a good site to watch new series online ?
@Thiago Francisco Flixportal =)
@Trevor Trent thank you, I signed up and it seems like a nice service :) I really appreciate it !!
@Thiago Francisco Glad I could help :D
Ah yes the eternal struggle of a magic fan, I hate that card vs I want that card.
I think I'm beginning to understand kaiba tearing blue eyes
I love the eldrazi being colorless because I found an older card called "Spreading Plague" that allows you to select a color, and only allows 1 creature of that color to be on the field, if you wanna summon another (tokens included) then you have to put the last creature in the grave yard.
See, this is why I liked Iona, Shield of Emeria in commander. Especially when paired with Mirror Gallery and a kicked Rite of Replication. Then Iona got banned...
Arcades is a lot of fun, but it's only a slightly power-creeped version of the strat that started with 'Animate Wall'.
'Assault Formation' is a staple, but there are other commanders and even an uncommon planes-walker now.
also, *Wall of Blood'* & *'Wall Of Shards'* & *'Tree of Perdition'*
Your local card store probably needs the business, so you can look at it that way. You're supporting local small businesses. Thank you for your sacrifice ;)
Wizards of the Coast isn't a small, local business.
Wizards isn't, but the game stores that sell MTG usually are (places like walmart excluded, if course).
Just like with 40k, affordability is all based on what you are interested in playing. Want to just have casual minis to play 40k? Buy the recruit or elite starter box. It's $25 per person on the recruit box and gives the necron player 10 warriors, 3 scarabs and 1 royal warden. then the Space Marine player gets a Lieutenant and 5 assault intercessors. The elite box comes with basically the same thing for $50 per person but the necron replaces the Royal Warden with an Overlord, adds 3 destroyers and a Plasmacyte while the Space Marine player gets 3 outrider bikes and 1 captain instead of a lieutenant.
If you want a really nice army for both sides, get two recruit editions and an elite box... boom, instant action army.
Hey Airier, Pauper is pure commons
Maths Nerd Glasses Activated
You always have a 50% chance to win a coin flip.
Therefore to win three coin flips its is 50% to the power of three, aka 0.5^3.
This results in a 0.125 chance or 12.5%.
It is actually not that bad. If you consider that..
a standard commander deck to be comprised of 40 lands (at most). You have a better chance of winning three coin flips then drawing that one non-land card from the top of your deck.
With Krark’s thumb your chance of winning an ‘individual’ coinflip becomes 0.75 or 3/4 thus the chance of getting all of fiery gambit is 0.75^3 or ~42% (that number looks pretty special) this is a pretty big increase from the previous 12.5% or 1/8 chance.
@@c2h680 To be accurate, that increase is more than 300% more likely (or exactly 337.5%).
This means, with Krark's thumb, you are, at least, three times more likely to win three coin flips in a row.
One of my favorite combos when I used to play Classic:
Heaven's Gate: (W) (Instant) - Any number of target creatures become white until end of turn.
Jovial Evil: (2 B) (Sorcery) - Deal X damage to target opponent, where X is twice the number of white creatures he controls.
Both cards are from Legends and they have gotten WAY more expensive than when I played. Heaven's Gate is ~$41 median, while Jovial Evil is now ~$150. Last time I played was roughly the second Ravnica block and the same cards were $5 and $25 respectively.
Maskwood Nexus really changed the game for Tribal because it's an artifact that makes everything you own all creature types, and makes changeling tokens
*shruggs* I just used to collect cards in the early 2000s that I liked the artwork and little italicized quotes on. I've never actually played the game and really don't have any interest in doing so. D&D eats enough of my money as it is....because I am a dice hoarder. If I'm not at risk of dying in an avalanche of dice then I do not have nearly enough. 50/50 split on whether my eventual cause of death will be being buried alive in dice or buried alive in books really.
Now, I'm not one to play many counterspells, but I do have to say that casting Sublime Epiphany and getting to use all 5 modes feels REAL good.
16:10 Yeah. Modern Horizons 1 was a hell of a drug.
Hey Airier, yeah the First Sliver is a very good staple in my Sliver deck, been that way for years. Glad to share the horror with another person. Yours truly, a long term Sliver player in commander.
Commander is the best format. I like being able to build the decks that would never work anywhere else. Like my "board wipe tribal" deck.
Affordable is a relative statement.
*stares at 2000pt DKoK army and laugh nervously*
DkoK?
Thought that was Daughters of Khaine, but that's short a K.
Which one is that? (I'm aware this is probably going to be obvious in hindsight).
😁
Never mind, I just go it. Just had to Shovel down to get it.
Yeah, the main Forgeworld only army for the imperial guard. Still hoping they get a plastic release from GW since they were taken off the Forgeworld webstore.
I love the "World's okayest brother" mug :)
I had some friends in middle school that loved magic, and even though I would play with them, I couldn't get into it. At the time I was obsessing over yugioh, and I couldn't split my budget. So while they were playing well built decks (or as well built as middle school students could make), I was playing structure decks with no idea what made cards synergize.
Nowadays have a more forgiving budget, and Puffin's video actually inspired me to give Magic another chance. It looks like blue control is a pretty good choice for me, I just love the idea of slapping down a card and saying "no".
Loved the response to "The First Sliver"
Hey airier, terminal montage made a mega pokemon battle Royale.
Ah, Pokémon. A money well that I dropped out of at the second wave of Sun and Moon cards.
A friend of mine ran a black artifact deck with the gimmick being he would exile almost every card in the players deck and then play them all at once, combine that with the gray merchant and vampires and he would win with 50 health and everyone else would be dead.
The one game I was in I drew nothing but Nightmare and Swamps(I was playing Mono-Black, I now play Spiders using Thantis as my Commander) my Commander's cost was more Penalty(I forget what it's actually called) than cost(cost was I think 4[3 generic, 1 Black if memory serves]), the second game I ever played was also Chaos so that was fun.
I used to run and Oloro deck (B/W/U) that has Erebos, Whip of Erebos, Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood. It had multiple life gain strats for if I got Sanguine Bond in hand but also shut down opponents using the same strategy. I then also got my hands on Lilly of the Veil and it just became a lot of fun but for some reason everyone went after me first
I know nothing of MtG, so I just hear funny words
i just started playing after about 7 years. and i remember having an eldrazi sneak attack deck...... it was beyond brutal!. i know its not from that set but i also had a serra avatar in it, so if i got the right pull, you died on my first turn. so i'm rebuilding it and i have ilharg in it now. with of course the eldrazi again.
*cackles maniacally* ah yes I remember that. In fact I've got my emrakul the aeons torn edh deck right here.
23:58 Rewind. Counter Target Spell, untap up to 4 lands, costs 4 mana to cast.
love that you made the warhammer joke becose when i got in to warhammer after x years i was its not THAT expensive...
My favorite Commander is Krond, the Dawn-Clad, which is a Green White Commander that is a 6/6 with Flying and Vigilance, and if it is enchanted and attacks, he exiles any permanent. Also, I am AuraDrak in your Discord server, and yes I am working on that Commander and D&D style. If you want to try it out, come to the server, and I will help you make a sheet.
Wow, there has been that much power creep in MtG? I stop playing roughly 15 years ago, having played from roughly Prophecy to the end of Ravnica/start of Time Spiral. Still have most of my old cards in a closet somewhere, probably need to go through to see if any still have any value.
Those are some pretty good ages to get cards from. You might have a couple good ones in there.
It's very difficult to prevent any game with continuous expansions from having power creep problems. Magic is a more egregious example because it has, what, 25,000 cards now? But this problem can happen in much smaller games too.
In response to Exquisite Blood: I weld in Platinum Emperion (I love Goblin Welder).
I play izzet,saviors of kamigawa, and or Red,blue,black,and green decks because most of the are cheap and easy to set a good board the return them to my hand. ALL BOW TO THE CAT OVERLORDS!!
Have you seen Jelloapocalypse' How to Absolutely NOT Play Magic the Gathering? If not, I'd love to watch your reaction
Hi ya, may have mentioned this in a previous video comment, but you did miss two videos by this guy
Tabletop Story: Journey Into The Weird West for The Devil's Gold
and
D&D Story: “Whoops! Guess EVERYONE has to die now.”
There pretty fun, very chaotic mess in both of them
Beast the guy forgot was Ravenous Baloth
28:32 hello welcome to magic the gathering please leave your money at the door
I got a first sliver, I'm got to build that deck and you can play against it sometime : ) and if it's a good day, maybe l'll play control magic too lol
😨
@@Airier can we rule zero, so that I can play my Chaos Orb too!
To win 3 flips is 1/8 chances, 12.5% to get
So Ugin the Spirit Dragon is basically the mirror of Nicol Bolas? Interesting...
Can we get some airier plays mtg videos?
I'd love to, just got to figure out how other people did their recording setups.
@@Airier could just be as simple as either finding other mtg videos to react to or try some deck techs with some of the decks you currently own. Or even just doing some gameplay on mtg arena or commander gameplay with the right equipment
Btw you can cast Ugin for free off a particular America (Jeski) comander, I did this in standard and it was great
Airier my commander deck is niv-mizzet parun and curiosity combo.
THAT combo. It works great, but it is deadly (still better that infinite turns.).
I'll just suggest one thing.
Untap.
Try out all the cards for free, before you're unable to buy and play paper.
It's the online equivalent or printing out paper proxies.
They made a Karaock the Thumbless that you can use as a commander.
I just recently started magic the gathering and I got two legendaries necromancer elf lich that gain more life and damage point per land card in the field that being grass and undead lands it start with 6 and 6 point total very powerful I think it plus one per land before playing it
It was always too late.
(And so was that topdeck.)
Stopped playing regularly after DarkSteel/ Miridin.
You CHILDREN.
I've tried to get back into it and it is genuinely fun(ish) but yeah I would prefer to have a version that rejects the power-creep
Every few years I volunteer to drive friends to a competition so I get some new cards/decks and look at all the (mostly cool!!) New stuff.
But the last big purchase I made was a BoosterBox of UNHINGED in 2005
Combo I love is ajani's pridemate enchanted with ordeal of heliod with rox faithmender and sanguine bond.
Before anyone says it that's a really hard combo to pull off That was just a random combo and a deck that was focused around grizzle brand
Last time I played MTG Kamigawa was spanking brand new
If you have a divining top from that set, hold on to it.
Worth a bit of money now.
@@Airier No such luck, pure red deck with goblins and Lava axes
Nothing like the of decks that can make opponents empty their whole deck in the very first turn , yes it can be made most card for it are mega banned
Mmm yes these are words
yea the eldrazi winter lol
18:54 - the odds are 1/8.
1/2 for each coins toss. so (1/2)*(1/2)*(1/2)=1/8
The odds of winning three coin flips would be 12.5% chance. I think.
I started around Zendikar!!
Good time to get in. 👍😁
@@Airier Also watching that video made my mtg crafting brain going; Door to Nothingness + Lithoform Engine = 2 people are dead now...
"Haha Airier, it's too late for you"
Also, now I want to play against you in Discord... (I mostly use MTGO nowadays, or play against the same friend over and over with physical cards)
I don't think you watched Puffins D&D Story: “Whoops! Guess EVERYONE has to die now.” I highly recommend it
You should watch jelloapocalypse' magic video
6:20 crys in wayfarer's bauble. you must not watch commanders quarters my friend
Must feel nice having price support
*cries in yugioh*
I have given up on mtg, i have played several times for several years, that i have only won 1 game, where that first game that i won was one that the persons first time playing always wins.
Yeah, that gets frustrating.
Usually I play a multiplayer format called EDH. And my play group isn't "too" competitive, so games are usually fluffier.
@@Airier See, I tend to be wary when people say that their playgroup is "not that competitive" or "super casual". That tends to be slang for "you will at least get your draw step before I combo off and win".
Ah yes. The deck you’re thinking of is zedruu.
I’ve given MTG a fair shot twice now. Both times, I ended up leaving the games unimpressed and bored. It’s not like I don’t understand the game, I just HATE dealing with all the metagaming nonsense like milling, card synergies, deck balancing nonsense my friends won’t shut up about. Played commander for the first time last Saturday: got bored halfway through and started attacking the high level players at random just so they would KO me and I could leave.
hey, can someone help me out? I'm trying to find the video where airier reacts to the weird west story, but i cant find it.
I am new player building a goblin elemental agro comander deck. i need advice. HELP PLEASE.
I wish WotC would print more crab cards
Found the charix player!
@@douglaszelazny1094 ye
Broken, flavourful.. Nicol Bolas Dragon god! In a plains walker deck.. or against one..
MTG ARENA is free...ish...if you want it to be.
Cheap and affordable? Huh. And here's me having literally just spent over $300 on a new commander deck.
he meant that magic used to be cheap,and yeah magic was affordable back in the day
You should react to his video: Whoops, Guess Everyone Has To Die Now. It's worth it. I promise
MTG is second most expensive Card game
yugioh is the 3rd
Weiss Schwars is the most
I play Weiss Schwarz and I have never seen a card that cost thousands of dollars. I know there are ones that costs hundreds because signed cards but I would still say mtg costs more if you are looking at the right cards.
I guess i should say "weiss has the highist floor" as it's not easy to just build a viable deck for 50~100 in weiss
@@MrBunny9612
I think we’re judging it based on the average player, and no average player is running thousand dollar cards
i would watch more reactions too MTG cards. like Golos
"Magic's the most complicated game in the world" clearly you've never played yugioh before
Yes and no. Magic is more complex due to the sheer number of rules, format regulations, rulings on specific cards, etc.
Lol imagine having baby hands lol
I am not sure if he exaggerates for click baits or what? But the power level (what gaming refers to as power creep), is no where near the power level of emrakul. That card is ban in many formats for a reason. And the 100k deck are only play in Legacy format with like 1000 players in the entire world. Most people play Commander and Standard. You don’t even have to optimize your deck to have fun. What he is saying is purposely misinformed people for clicks.
You can make a computer with magic the gathering
So is magic the gathering “easy to learn, but hard to master”?
I currently have 60 edh decks
At one time?
Woah. 😮
I've definitely made that many, but I keep canalizing them to make new ones.
@@Airier the trick is I'm the only one in my playgroup and I'm a Johnny player
Luckily, I am kinda broke so they kinda balance each other out because I can't afford to optimize them all
And the commanders I don't have enough cards or passion for get put in my jodah legend tribal deck
Wombo Combo
GO WATCH JOCATS NOW DANGIT AIRIER!!!
Got a few more down to record in the next day or so. 😁
@@Airier (Vague sceeaming noises) Ok!
@@Airier Airier, just play MTG Arena you don't "need" to pay money for stuff :L
It's the parenthesis that worry me. 😅
@@Airier it's optional
Hey can you react to weird west by puffin forest?
Lord Almighty. I don't understand Magic the Gathering.
Yeah, it's pretty out there by now (and that's coming from a fans perspective. 😅).
So mtg go the same route than yugioh
Actually, I think MTG was around longer, so I think Yu-Gi-Oh is more going the way if Magic. 😅
@@AirierMaybe but yugioh was on a powercreep spiral without any control from day one, MTG manged to keep it under control for far longer
On the one hand. Yeah, on the other hand, MTG did start with black lotus.
I think it's less the game is more powerful now, and more that cards are just generally better overall.
No! You skipped the clip!