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  • @crispilou7658
    @crispilou7658 8 місяців тому +90

    "I play magic ... you play hearthstone" ... EMOTIONAL DAMAGE !!!

  • @zyxaqc
    @zyxaqc 8 місяців тому +18

    "He hasn't read his card!"
    Me, a Yugioh player: "Now where have I heard that one before?"

  • @ForeverLaxx
    @ForeverLaxx 7 місяців тому +96

    Friend of mine had a moment like this which was, understandably, while he was still relatively new to the game. For him, the card was Mindbreak Trap. He tried to use it to exile my entire board (other than lands, of course) because everything in play "was a spell." I had to explain how they're only spells when they're cast and on the stack, once they're in play, they're permanents and aren't spells anymore. At first he thought that was stupid, but when I told him that a 0 mana "exile everything" card would be absolutely busted he realized his mistake.

    • @stepheng2799
      @stepheng2799 7 місяців тому +5

      Lol yall had this man playing with a mindbreak before he knew the difference between spells and permanents.

    • @ForeverLaxx
      @ForeverLaxx 7 місяців тому +1

      @@stepheng2799 He had been playing for months and never tried to use a standard counterspell that way before. I was totally confused why he thought Mindbreak Trap worked that way.

    • @RayZhaTV
      @RayZhaTV 6 місяців тому +7

      when me and my friends started, we thought "spell" would only refer to instants and sorceries.

    • @ragingblast2737
      @ragingblast2737 Місяць тому

      @@RayZhaTV same

    • @4zir856
      @4zir856 16 днів тому

      imagine you have to learn magic by yourself. RIP rules.

  • @TeaHauss
    @TeaHauss 8 місяців тому +356

    Yep, cards were definitely played. Also, the way LE bends his cards is painful

    • @markusbetts
      @markusbetts 8 місяців тому +17

      bending foils like that hurts my SOUL

    • @ShadamAran
      @ShadamAran 8 місяців тому +6

      For the love of God, I thought I was the only one

    • @philjackson1428
      @philjackson1428 8 місяців тому +3

      Buddy I cringed so damn hard, every time... Ugh 🤢

    • @ave_maria323
      @ave_maria323 8 місяців тому +5

      I hate it

    • @thaschwartz
      @thaschwartz 8 місяців тому +4

      Yes he is bending the cards but they are in protective sleeves so they are totally fine

  • @williamwatch21
    @williamwatch21 8 місяців тому +193

    When the world needed him the most, he returned

  • @jacksonashby7819
    @jacksonashby7819 8 місяців тому +54

    This reminds me of the time someone path to exiled a creature that was still being cast. It was zacama, and they were going to win if it was cast. No one had a counter spell, so the player decided to remove it while it was on the stack so that the etb effect wouldn't happen. We all looked at him and told him that's not how that worked. He called a judge to tell us it was get. When nothing happened besides the judge reinstating that we where correct he left screaming that no one knew how to play magic. It was a casual game of comander we decided to play waiting for the tournament to start

    • @NikachuMTG
      @NikachuMTG  8 місяців тому +26

      There's always one person like this...

    • @jaysonlopez9386
      @jaysonlopez9386 8 місяців тому +1

      Hahaha no etb for you zacama. PTE shoved it 😂😂

    • @davidkahalewai1530
      @davidkahalewai1530 8 місяців тому +1

      This is why Stifle, Trickbind and Disallow are soooo good in Commander. "Zacama resolves?" "Yep no response." "Zacama ETB, resolves?" "I cast Trickbind. Oops you can't respond bc Split Second, so no. ETB doesn't resolve."

  • @josecelsofreitas5075
    @josecelsofreitas5075 8 місяців тому +291

    I totally get why judges didn't interrupt. Assuming both players didn't know Subtle could not target Teferi, and considering Subtle never did get to target Teferi, judges interrupting would mean giving information to players they were not aware of.
    But being aware of that information is part of the player's skill, meaning if they interrupt they could benefit one of the players with outside information.
    That is why I believe judges only interrupt on illegal plays that DID occur, never on illegal plays that COULD occur even if there is intention/tries to make then.
    (as long they believe it is an honest mistake, because if they believe the Subtle player KNOWS about their illegal move attempt, in that case Subtle player is inducing the other player to mistake by quickly targeting Teferi).

    • @ZakanaHachihaCBC
      @ZakanaHachihaCBC 8 місяців тому +39

      This is correct, policy does state that us Judges are to only ever intervene on a game of magic if we intend to give a penalty. If an issue arises but they both agree on how to resolve that issue, it’s also fine.

    • @thomaspybus8468
      @thomaspybus8468 8 місяців тому +9

      @@ZakanaHachihaCBC so what you two are saying if I understand correctly, to hell with playing the game correctly. As long as the mis made, mis managed, or even net deck players are both equally clueless about how to play the game dont interfere. Because......(let me see here) fun? wtf!?

    • @ZakanaHachihaCBC
      @ZakanaHachihaCBC 8 місяців тому +30

      @@thomaspybus8468 That is not what we are saying. We are saying unless we plan to give a penalty we don’t intervene. Sometimes players will figure it out on their own without need of someone stepping in.
      If the opponent cast a spell at instant speed while the player has Tef3, we step in if that spell resolves to give both players the Double GRV, we don’t just let it happen because both players agree.

    • @TheLandau1894
      @TheLandau1894 8 місяців тому +11

      I really hate comp scenes where that type of judging is the norm. One of the things I actually like about the Warhammer comp scene is that judges will actually actively intervene and inform players if they're not playing a rule correctly.

    • @ZakanaHachihaCBC
      @ZakanaHachihaCBC 8 місяців тому +12

      @@TheLandau1894 that’s for Competitive REL so things like the RCQ and anything requièrent a decklist.
      Regular REL is more lax and about making a welcoming and learning environment for players. This is like your FNM kinda stuff.

  • @jaryRim
    @jaryRim 8 місяців тому +22

    They probably just missed the "spell" part of the text.

  • @LucianDevine
    @LucianDevine 8 місяців тому +24

    What happened here, is that the Living End player played Subtlety and then proposes a shortcut of sorts, playing it and doing what they think is a legal play of targeting the Teferi in effectively the same moment. The control player of course has a chance to respond to the cast, declines the shortcut that would be an illegal play, and counters the Subtlety, which is a legal play.
    Magic, and especially pro magic is full of shortcuts similar to this. A similar example would be if there were more than one artifact or enchantment on the field when Foundation Breaker was played. They could cast it and point at one of the legal targets, proposing a shortcut that implies what he'll do if it resolves. If the control player doesn't counter it, the Living End player would not be able to change their target after it resolved.

    • @canrex7540
      @canrex7540 8 місяців тому +1

      If the player were to sacrifice the shortcut-targeted permanent in response, then foundation breaker ETBs, would breaker's controller be allowed to target the other legal target?
      Gut tells me that's allowed by the rules, but may be against the social contract.

    • @LucianDevine
      @LucianDevine 8 місяців тому +2

      @@canrex7540 So the shortcut proposes that Foundation Breaker resolves. If you then sacrifice in response to targeting, Foundation Breaker's ability would fizzle because the target disappeared. You would lose the ability to counter Foundation Breaker. If however, you sacrifice the shortcut targeted permanent in response to the cast of Foundation Breaker, before the targeting could legally happen without a shortcut, then Foundation Breaker could come into play and target something else.

    • @Mordaris
      @Mordaris 8 місяців тому +2

      ...except that the counters were not legal, unless I am mistaken. With Teferi in play, the player was unable to play spells outside their turn, correct?

    • @LucianDevine
      @LucianDevine 8 місяців тому

      @@Mordaris Teferi's ability says "Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn." So you can still cast instants at instant speed, and possibly sorceries as though they had flash if you used the + ability.

    • @antonjakovcic4144
      @antonjakovcic4144 Місяць тому

      @@LucianDevine Nah, last turn he used Teferi's second ability.

  • @kurtreznor
    @kurtreznor 8 місяців тому +88

    Yup, that's the correct non-call. Combo player TRIED to shortcut subtlety resolving by declaring his intention to target teferi. If control player allowed subtlety to resolve, combo would normally be held to that choice (although, in this case, would be a warning for illegal target). But since control player didn't allow the spell to resolve, there was no illegal target.
    All that said, I could see some judges stepping in as soon as the combo player announced his intention to target teferi, since he was proposing an illegal shortcut.

    • @josecelsofreitas5075
      @josecelsofreitas5075 8 місяців тому +2

      yeah, felt he was targeting Teferi way to fast.

    • @LucianDevine
      @LucianDevine 8 місяців тому +9

      @@josecelsofreitas5075 They are the last match in the round. So it's natural that nerves are a thing and that they are, hopefully, trying to play quickly so the match doesn't go to time. The shortcuts can help speed things along, assuming all the targets are legal, lol.

    • @chaosky9
      @chaosky9 8 місяців тому +1

      It depends what the opponent said, I’m not sure you can say that. Anyway shit show was a mess

    • @marchodges5310
      @marchodges5310 8 місяців тому +2

      That’s just bad Magic if there’s literally any other option. Wait for the etb before declaring.

    • @LucianDevine
      @LucianDevine 8 місяців тому +4

      @@marchodges5310 True, but the target here is also about as obvious as it gets. He's targeting the thing preventing him from cascading into Living End. When the target is obvious, shortcuts can be acceptable.

  • @bigbojangles4585
    @bigbojangles4585 8 місяців тому +62

    The hardest part for me to watch was the living end player bending the shit out of all his cards.

    • @markusbetts
      @markusbetts 8 місяців тому +6

      Foil Protective Services needs to step in

    • @TehSeksyManz
      @TehSeksyManz 8 місяців тому

      I cringed throughout the video because of those curly ass cards.

    • @AwkwardDreamer
      @AwkwardDreamer 8 місяців тому +1

      Pain

    • @stoke90s
      @stoke90s 8 місяців тому

      @@markusbetts😂 this needs to be a real thing, we all use the same cards lol we trade and stuff

    • @kingginger3335
      @kingginger3335 Місяць тому +1

      Yeah. People who bend card and shuffle them like a poker dealer make me cringe.

  • @KingBobXVI
    @KingBobXVI 8 місяців тому +81

    Combo player also missed the other commonly ignored feature of the elementals - you can, in fact, cast them for their mana cost, lol. Imo, he should have just played Subtlety as a creature and started hitting Teferi...

    • @NikachuMTG
      @NikachuMTG  8 місяців тому +23

      I guess his intention was to bounce Teferi and have enough mana to cascade into Living End on that very turn.

    • @Illiadofmalorne
      @Illiadofmalorne 7 місяців тому +5

      @@NikachuMTG "Plan?" These guys aren't even literate!

    • @antearesgamer
      @antearesgamer 7 місяців тому +1

      if these guys were in the finals they were no doubt cheating to get there...what terrible play

    • @icantpronounce
      @icantpronounce 7 місяців тому +8

      it wasn't finals they were the slowest table out of 750 tables@@antearesgamer

  • @huddleaw
    @huddleaw 8 місяців тому +4

    Dude, I think you'd be one of the top MTG youtubers if you only used 1 channel. You fall out of my algorithm all the time because there are so many channels you post on.

  • @Varg84
    @Varg84 8 місяців тому +5

    Love this kinda content. Don't play Magic but going over stuff like this is entertaining.

  • @malcolmdarke5299
    @malcolmdarke5299 8 місяців тому +16

    So, there's a very important point to be made: You can choose to give away information if you want, such as what targets you're going to choose for an ETB trigger on a permanent spell you're casting. A lot of players would do something like "Subtlety targetting Teferi" as a shorthand, assuming that the Subtlety will resolve, but technically, they're giving away information they don't need to give away.
    What I'm saying: Always, *always* cast your permanent spells with ETB triggers without declaring your choice of targets. It can and has won games.

  • @austinwilburn1772
    @austinwilburn1772 8 місяців тому +15

    I can feel the nightmare panic in their play. Imagine having multiple high level judges staring you down, in addition to know over 1000 people are waiting for You to get done.
    Edit: also as a control player in the past, you really gotta move faster. You don’t need time to honestly think. It’s like chess, you make your move, hit the timer clock and go-go-go.

    • @pejman3
      @pejman3 6 місяців тому

      I lost my chance to qualify to a day2 grand prix because i had an opponent slow play the last game. At one point he gave up trying to win and was trying to draw (won would almost qualify for sure draw would qualify only if enough other players had draws). He dragged me into the 5 turns timers, at the 5th turn he had lost on the board (no library left) but technically I didn't have anything to force him to draw so we drew (ironic) and neither got to day2.
      SaD

  • @chandir7752
    @chandir7752 8 місяців тому +4

    I'm not making this up. Khans of Tarkir prerelease, I played against a guy who had Ashcloud Phoenix in his deck (it has morph [4RR] and "when it dies return it to the battlefield face down"). So when his morphed Ashcloud Phoenix died, he said "when a morph dies, one has to turn it face up and reveal it. So the phoenix triggers and returns to the battlefield face down".
    He literally thought the card returns to the battlefield and deals 2dmg when it dies no matter what. Worst of all, the guy was a judge himself at other prereleases and fnms.

  • @andreww479
    @andreww479 8 місяців тому +4

    "what turn is it?"
    "2 subtleties"

  • @LordMajicus
    @LordMajicus 8 місяців тому +30

    Those Living End foils are curled af. The judges should have probably said something about that.

  • @BCfightan
    @BCfightan 8 місяців тому +14

    I had a wild streak of this sorta stuff in my first modern rcq I went to last year. I’ll try to condense them. I was playing jund goblins…
    In no particular order, first offense was against UW control game 2. At some point in the game he played dress down, and with dress down out he evokes Solitude. This was my first RCQ and I’m way better with rules now but I wasn’t sure how evoke worked with dress down. I thought it was a delayed trigger like Ragavan Dash (which loses haste/abilities but still gets returned to hand), so I called the judge. The HEAD judge comes up and literally looks up a Reddit post that says evoke is a delayed trigger, and Tl;dr it gets sac’d. Player was extremely pissed off because he disagreed with the judge and basically 3 for 0’d himself and he just scooped on the spot. Later find out that evoke is a keyword that actually checks on ETB, so the player wouldn’t have had to sac, but could still cast with evoke cost.
    Next game was my friend on Creativity vs UW Control. Game 2 as well but it was almost time cause lol control, so players are playing fast. There comes a point where my friend plays a teferi, which gets countered, and friend responds with a mystical dispute, which resolves and Teferi comes out. Except he only had one blue source and couldn’t actually pay for dispute. Asked if he had a treasure and pointed it out, judge was called, and he ended up losing that game. Later apologized but he said it was fine since he fetched wrong cause he was in a rush.
    I made top 8 and my friend made 9th (sorry!) and I was against murktide. Fast forward it’s game 3 and I have a bunch of goblin tokens plus kiki jiki and mogg war Marshall out. I actually ran out of goblin tokens so I just used a spare “copy” token to represent one of the regular goblin tokens. Our match was the last one to finish so everyone is watching, including the judge, and they mistake the copy token for an actual kiki copy that needed to be sac’d when I passed the turn. Keep in mind this was like 10 hours into the day so I didn’t want to argue and we’d already split the top 8 money, so I just sac‘d it and moved on. Next turn I was short 1 for lethal and died to murktide. He later won the RCQ haha but I wasn’t salty at all, the pro tour was for STANDARD and there’s zero percent chance I’m traveling to play standard. Had a great time and great games but it inspired me to be the rules lawyer that I’ve now become so I’ll take it
    If anyone is still reading I hope you enjoyed!!

    • @therealax6
      @therealax6 7 місяців тому

      I've never played competitively, but I'm really disappointed that a Head Judge, of all people, was looking up rules (or rulings) on Reddit. Reddit! The actual rules text for evoke takes _seconds_ to find on the rulebook.
      "702.74a [...] “Evoke [cost]” means “You may cast this card by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost” and “When this permanent enters the battlefield, if its evoke cost was paid, its controller sacrifices it.” [...]"
      I timed myself: nine seconds to find it (Ctrl+F for "evoke" on the rules page). Very disappointing.

  • @ThatCoolCanadian
    @ThatCoolCanadian 7 місяців тому +4

    When I started playing living end back in 2013 (the deck was very different at the time), my biggest misunderstanding was that I could cast Demonic Dread without needing a target creature because it didn't matter for the cascade. I was doing that in nearly every round of my first PTQ with the deck until I was finally stopped by my fifth round opponent who (with the help of a judge) explained to me I still needed a creature to target to legally cast DD and get the cascade trigger. I've misunderstood a lot of cards in my mtg career but this moment stuck with me the longest.

  • @penelopetiberti2637
    @penelopetiberti2637 8 місяців тому +4

    10:49 that's a pretty mess. what's tapped? what isn't? what are the judges doing?

  • @Phoenix512100
    @Phoenix512100 8 місяців тому +8

    That Living End player probably thought it was a cast trigger not an ETB trigger along with him not realizing he couldn't target the already resolved T3feri on the field. Or maybe he just jump the gun in saying his target before he needed to. Also that control player just wasting counterspells on stuff he didn't need to was just bad.

    • @lamjeri
      @lamjeri 8 місяців тому +1

      If the LE player thought that, why did he agree to the trigger getting countered? It's really easy for us to judge their plays, sitting calmly at home when somebody else explained what is wrong. Tournaments can be stressful though.

  • @PawzBrownMTG
    @PawzBrownMTG 8 місяців тому

    This was great thanks for finding this. KEEP STAYING PAWZITIVE NIKACHU along with 3 judges lol

  • @BaldurtheImpious
    @BaldurtheImpious 8 місяців тому +2

    I waited 5 months for this, loved every minute!!! ❤❤

  • @CoheedLeonard
    @CoheedLeonard 8 місяців тому +5

    I would like to say, I never actually realized that’s how Subtlety worked. I thought it was like Venser Shaper Savant and could bounce the spells being cast or permanents. That explains why it’s the worst of the cycle.

    • @roviverdandelarosa2181
      @roviverdandelarosa2181 8 місяців тому

      Worse than Endurance? You don't realize Subtlety works on uncounterable creature or planeswalker spells.

    • @JeremyHoffman
      @JeremyHoffman 7 місяців тому

      The line break on Subtlety isn't helping.
      "target creature spell or Planeswalker"
      ...
      "spell"

  • @StaleBranflakes
    @StaleBranflakes 8 місяців тому +2

    The living end player playing with a can of pringles lmao

  • @ManaPull
    @ManaPull 8 місяців тому +1

    Hope all is well! Glad to see a new video of yours!

  • @nephilimninjaofnibiru2907
    @nephilimninjaofnibiru2907 8 місяців тому +6

    It takes a real Subtle player to counter unnecessarily.

  • @SSJ4Brohan
    @SSJ4Brohan 8 місяців тому

    Dam every new video you put out is a treat. Thanks Nikachu!

  • @morkowko
    @morkowko 8 місяців тому +3

    We lack audio in the tournament video.
    The key thing is communication - if both players verbally say how the stack resolves - this is good.
    If both of them say nothing and just play cards pointing - everything is still on the stack unless shown otherwise.
    Example: both players play silently pointing on cards when needed. Player A casts Demigod of Revenge and player B plays counter. Player A puts Demigod into graveyard and then immediately returns it into play.
    (That's legal)

    • @user-qx7yw2cv7k
      @user-qx7yw2cv7k 8 місяців тому

      Let me go find my runed halo, demigod just got that much stronger

  • @irishsakura1
    @irishsakura1 8 місяців тому +2

    Holy cow this was an eye opener. If this was played online would the system know that this would be an illegal play? Great video!

    • @NikachuMTG
      @NikachuMTG  8 місяців тому +5

      Online if there's nothing to target on the stack then the card would just do nothing. The "target spell" trigger part still happens but there's nothing to target and it will resolve doing nothing.

    • @taemyr
      @taemyr 8 місяців тому +3

      Online does not support shortcuts so the Teferi would not be designated as a target while subtelty was on the stack. If the spell was allowed to respond the system would prevent you from targeting Teferi.

    • @irishsakura1
      @irishsakura1 8 місяців тому +1

      @@taemyr this is one of the reasons why playing online is the best way to go.

    • @fernandobanda5734
      @fernandobanda5734 8 місяців тому +3

      It would've played out the same. Subtlety would be on the stack, both players having misread it, and it would've been countered before any of them noticed that its ability would've targeted nothing if uncountered.

  • @benjaminkaye5119
    @benjaminkaye5119 8 місяців тому +1

    Another great video ! Was a mess all throughout.

  • @HauntedScourge
    @HauntedScourge 8 місяців тому +2

    The living end player in a short time frame
    - tried to cast subtelty when he couldnt and was reminded he couldn't so he didnt do it.
    -cast grief for its evoke cost and had to be reminded he was supposed to sac it.
    -tried to subtlety his opponents teferi twice.
    Its hard to not look at these "mistakes" and assume it wasnt him trying to get away with something.

  • @THR0WTHEKNIFE
    @THR0WTHEKNIFE 8 місяців тому +7

    Return of the king

  • @odstp1tv1pr37
    @odstp1tv1pr37 8 місяців тому +3

    Huh wasn’t expecting a nikochu video

  • @Kolossikal
    @Kolossikal 6 місяців тому

    Loving the subtle Mario music in the background... Works perfectly lol

  • @charlesmaillho367
    @charlesmaillho367 8 місяців тому +1

    This game was unhinged. How those guys got matched up can only be a gift from the magic gods to us.

  • @PaulDupreonegod007
    @PaulDupreonegod007 6 місяців тому

    "It's fine..." while the room is on fire haha

  • @TravisHi_YT
    @TravisHi_YT 6 місяців тому +1

    Reading what the card actually says has saved me a few times.
    People that play often often skip over what's happening (fetch lands are a good example), I always slow them down to tell me what they're doing.

  • @DarkVampireL
    @DarkVampireL 8 місяців тому

    Yay! Glad you’re back!

  • @NovaCyn
    @NovaCyn 8 місяців тому +3

    I think the 2nd attempt at casting subtlety (with evoke) was just the living end player saying something like "evoke subtlety targeting your teferi" which is a reasonable shortcut (assuming it was a valid target for the triggered ability). You don't _have_ to announce the target before it has entered the battlefield but it's not illegal to talk ahead like that, and with this much pressure on them I can't really fault him for trying to speed things up as much as possible.
    What I'm saying is I think it's not that weird that a finger was pointed and then the spell countered

  • @SubjectDelta20
    @SubjectDelta20 2 місяці тому

    The Donkey Kong/Mario background music was a nice touch 😄👍

  • @TechnicolorMammoth
    @TechnicolorMammoth 8 місяців тому +27

    I’ve had to step away from Magic to be financially sane and catch up on real life that just poured on unforeseen financial debt earlier this year, so seeing this upload helped me to shake some of the rules dust off. Thank you for making my day as you do, reminding me that one day soon I’ll be back at this game and that I really hadn’t forgotten as much as I thought I had thankfully. You’re the best!

    • @miaouew
      @miaouew 8 місяців тому +2

      Dunno when you quit but MTG went into the shitter long ago, sorry if you decide to come back, I did and was more than just a little disappointed in the competitive scene.

  • @thegolddragon8811
    @thegolddragon8811 8 місяців тому +1

    please do more videos like these i love them i love magic and i love seeing dumb tournament plays like these

  • @7Alberto7
    @7Alberto7 8 місяців тому +1

    Well,welcome back Legend!

  • @stormycat0905
    @stormycat0905 8 місяців тому +2

    Doesn't UW control play Subtlety too?
    Modern is in such a good place right now he said sarcastically.

  • @kingbushybeard6543
    @kingbushybeard6543 8 місяців тому +3

    Technically it isn't illegal unless they proceed to resolve the card. If the judges intervened and told a player that the resolution of their card was an illegal target prior to it attempting to resolve, that would technically be coaching and it's a big no no for judges to do that.

    • @Fopenplop
      @Fopenplop 8 місяців тому +1

      It's not illegal at any point. If the other player knew what the card did, they could have just let it resolve and told their opponent that nothing happens.

  • @bobfranklin2572
    @bobfranklin2572 8 місяців тому +2

    In in fairness these guys where probably absolutely exhausted

  • @vladventura1928
    @vladventura1928 7 місяців тому

    Oh my god, the Great Teacher Onizuka clip, love it

  • @DiverseCurse
    @DiverseCurse 8 місяців тому +1

    I actually had an opponent RECENTLY make that same Subtlety fumble with his U/B Control deck. Granted, he did hard cast it so he still got his nice 3/3 flyer but still.

  • @dapperghastmeowregard
    @dapperghastmeowregard 8 місяців тому +2

    I remember at my school's Magic Club, at one point I think somebody tried to play a Terror on their opponent's Plated Slagwurm, Slagwurm player tries to Reroute the Terror and I'm like "Hold the fuck up, we need to rewind cause like 7 illegal things just happened."

  • @ImaginationToForm
    @ImaginationToForm 6 місяців тому

    This video reminds me of Rimmer when he is explaining a game of Risk played like 20 years ago to Lister. Lister starts rolling his eyes and tries to fall asleep.

  • @jerkan7
    @jerkan7 8 місяців тому +1

    Back in my day (when I just started playing), I guy tried to Disenchant a Disenchant (we only had instructions in english and we weren't good at it)

  • @philjackson1428
    @philjackson1428 8 місяців тому +1

    Definitely a dominance flex. He was using counters just cuz he had them. It's just coincidence that nothing illegal happened

  • @ChaosWheel0407
    @ChaosWheel0407 8 місяців тому +1

    Ngl i did not know Subtlety could only target a spell being cast, but now i do haha

  • @BlackDumble
    @BlackDumble 8 місяців тому +1

    I didn't watch it from the sideline. When I was about 13 or 14 I played against another boy from the town. It was the time when old Kamigawa released and I played the rat ninjutsu deck. He tried so hard to convince me he could block a creature I played with ninjutsu I was doubting myself. Luckily a friend walked in who told us I was right and declaration of blockers was over.

  • @andsig1011
    @andsig1011 8 місяців тому

    Your super Nintendo background music is such a nice touch. 👍

  • @mtt9589
    @mtt9589 8 місяців тому

    Your videos are very fun, Nikachu! Cool!

  • @Forzza92
    @Forzza92 8 місяців тому +5

    Want a current modern update!!!!!

  • @elmafico7605
    @elmafico7605 8 місяців тому

    They needed to counterspell the judges 😂😂

  • @aemc
    @aemc 8 місяців тому

    Yeeeeessss you are back :) i love these videos

  • @nicolicarpathia318
    @nicolicarpathia318 6 місяців тому +1

    I once saw Kenny beat Slaughter House. It was total mayhem.

  • @Real_Beaky
    @Real_Beaky 8 місяців тому +13

    You are allowed to have 2 of the same planeswalker in play at the same time now? When did that change?

    • @MrXennhorn
      @MrXennhorn 8 місяців тому +10

      they were 2 different Teferi's

    • @ich3730
      @ich3730 8 місяців тому +6

      Never, you are not allowed to have the same walker twice, because of the legend rule :D You are allowed to have 2 different planeswalkers with the same type tho. Sorry for the pedantic answer, had to do it xD

    • @Real_Beaky
      @Real_Beaky 8 місяців тому +5

      @@MrXennhorn that's what I mean. 2 Teferi's or 2 Garruk's or 2 Liliana's used to be a no-go. When did that change?

    • @elhoim_3
      @elhoim_3 8 місяців тому +11

      From ixalan (2017)

    • @Real_Beaky
      @Real_Beaky 8 місяців тому +4

      @@ich3730 that's what I'm saying. When did that change? I get that they are 2 different Teferi's, but that used to be prohibited. When did it become legal?

  • @user-zb9iq5ly5r
    @user-zb9iq5ly5r 8 місяців тому

    Nice to see you posting again.

  • @incredibleflameboy
    @incredibleflameboy 8 місяців тому +1

    Another important rule in a tournament is to not day drink! I did that at the last RCQ I went to although things did get better after so maybe DO day drink?

  • @wintersmonologue
    @wintersmonologue 8 місяців тому +6

    That Living End player has a blinged out holographic deck and handles it like he's playing Alpha without sleeves but still has them in sleeves. The pringles. The bending. It hurts!!!!

    • @johnf9710
      @johnf9710 8 місяців тому +2

      Yeah, he seems to have a bad habit of pinching the top corner almost like he's dog earing the cards when placing them on the board. Imagine if this was a borrowed deck.

    • @CrashKaiju
      @CrashKaiju 8 місяців тому

      I do think the current foils look like shit though

    • @wintersmonologue
      @wintersmonologue 8 місяців тому

      @CrashKaiju I would blame the pringle on the foil if I didn't see him abuse those cards like they were bringing dishonor on his family.

    • @CrashKaiju
      @CrashKaiju 8 місяців тому

      @@wintersmonologue oh yeah the card abuse is real, I just think foils look bad

  • @THERISE3
    @THERISE3 8 місяців тому

    It’s just the way he plays his cards, the card bending, no! XD

  • @atlys258
    @atlys258 7 місяців тому +1

    I can totally understand mistaking that _Subtlety_ can hit permanents because when they already have the gist of the card people typically only really look for types of targets in the card text and gloss over the rest, so that seems plausible, but Charm's first ability is so short and concise Idk how anyone would mistake it 🤷🏽

  • @MichaelSuperbacker
    @MichaelSuperbacker 7 місяців тому +1

    9:24 I am new to Magic. What are these players writing down? They are allowed to take notes or something? 🧐

    • @NikachuMTG
      @NikachuMTG  7 місяців тому +1

      If someone reveals their hand you are allowed to write down everything you see to keep track of what they have left in hand as they play cards.

  • @kylejoly577
    @kylejoly577 8 місяців тому

    Recently, I accidentally drew a revealed nonland card from a goblin guide trigger. Attack, flip the card over. Its an orcish bowmasters. As he says pass, draw it, draw for turn. Another orcish bowmasters. At this point, both myself and a spectator go 'uhhh' and realize the error. Judge is called and it was a relatively easy fix with a warning. Pretty dumb mistake though!

  • @THEFRISKIESTDINGO
    @THEFRISKIESTDINGO Місяць тому

    That Donkey Kong Country music fits so perfectly it's uncanny

  • @dillonday6123
    @dillonday6123 8 місяців тому

    The donkey Kong music in the background is perfect

  • @ChuggaChoo
    @ChuggaChoo 8 місяців тому

    Great video, more like this!

  • @AXPDougie
    @AXPDougie 8 місяців тому

    I think I’ve commented this before on one of your other videos. I have never understood magic. Still can’t understand magic but I find you very entertaining and your love of the game makes some things about this complex game make sense to me.

  • @tciddados
    @tciddados 8 місяців тому +2

    Huh, I don't play Magic much anymore, but I thought that same-typed planeswalkers (2x Teferis) were subject to the legend-ish uniqueness rule, so the control player would've destroyed themselves by blowing up their first Teferi. But looking it up, I guess this changed and they're just subject to the same rule as other legendary cards. Seems a bit goofy lorewise, but interesting.

    • @Gullington
      @Gullington 8 місяців тому +1

      If there is one planeswalkers it makes sense with it would be Teferi since he is time travelling all over the place. So it could be two Teferis from different times

    • @ApolloXtatik
      @ApolloXtatik 8 місяців тому +2

      You can play any Planeswalkers with different names. Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset, Temporal Archmage, Temp Pilgrim, Hero of Dominaria, etc. They aren't all just considered Teferi, the subtitle counts as a new name

    • @psych0806
      @psych0806 8 місяців тому +2

      This was changed when Ixalan came out. You can now have two planeswalkers of the same character as long as they have different full names

    • @therealax6
      @therealax6 7 місяців тому

      Yeah, now planeswalkers are legendary and subject to the same legendary rule as any other permanent (if you have multiple legendary permanents with the same name, you must sacrifice all but one of them as a state-based action).

  • @jdowd28
    @jdowd28 7 місяців тому +2

    Can we not talk about him using teferi’s -3 to get rid of the grief not reacting to him evoking? He even removes the loyalty

    • @NikachuMTG
      @NikachuMTG  7 місяців тому +1

      He's not targeting grief with Teferi. Control player just points out that Grief should be sacrificed.

    • @jdowd28
      @jdowd28 7 місяців тому +1

      @@NikachuMTG so he removes the 3 loyalty for no reason?

  • @MichaelSuperbacker
    @MichaelSuperbacker 7 місяців тому

    So are these two decks really good then? Should I use them?

    • @NikachuMTG
      @NikachuMTG  7 місяців тому

      UW Control is basically transformed into 4c Omnath these days. But Living End is still pretty good as it is.

  • @setharagon9290
    @setharagon9290 8 місяців тому +7

    My favorite judge interaction was at a tournament I was working as an L1. Player A and player B for a reason neither could understand or explain in the middle of the game shuffled their hands and graveyard into their libraries effectively restarting the game. After a 52 minute time extension no penalties were issued as nobody could explain what caused it or who was at fault.

    • @therealax6
      @therealax6 7 місяців тому +1

      They just shuffled it all up and they didn't know why? That's just... so silly it's hilarious.

    • @CristianNazare
      @CristianNazare 6 місяців тому

      i bet one of them was losing and used jedi mind tricks on the other to both shuffle up & play

  • @cfenim01
    @cfenim01 7 місяців тому

    Nice to see you man. It's been way too long!

  • @renjitsu26
    @renjitsu26 8 місяців тому

    Players made 3 lefts, judges not obligated to say just go right 😂😂

  • @justafriend13
    @justafriend13 8 місяців тому +27

    One of the problems with Magic as a game is that the confusion about spell vs permanent is something even experienced players can forget. And once you've cast the spell, you can't really take it back. We can act like the players are stupid, that Modern players should know better, but these mistakes are understandable. I'm guessing these players don't play online much.

    • @crushedscouter9522
      @crushedscouter9522 8 місяців тому +1

      Lol that is not a problem at all. EVERYBODY understands the difference between a spell and a permanent. This is one of the worst comments I've ever read.

    • @RFlairMusic
      @RFlairMusic 8 місяців тому

      No you’re just dense. Commander players don’t understand the rules everyone else does

    • @Wallyworld30
      @Wallyworld30 7 місяців тому +1

      Playing Magic Online back in the day makes you very autistic about the rules. When the guy tried casting a spell on opponents turn with Telferi in play not only does your spell not get played but now eat the mana burn you couldn't use that you added to your mana pool trying to cast it.

    • @ForeverLaxx
      @ForeverLaxx 7 місяців тому +2

      Alternatively, you can tell who plays online entirely too much by how often they forget to keep track of their triggers when playing in paper.

  • @zerronprime9683
    @zerronprime9683 8 місяців тому

    To clarify rhe confusion if there is any, spell must resolve for it to be an illigal play, since it was countered, it could never become illigal

  • @Playingwithproxies
    @Playingwithproxies 8 місяців тому

    It was a subtle difference between the abilities on the cards 😂

  • @lordroyalnightmare
    @lordroyalnightmare 7 місяців тому

    Looking at this version of Subtlety they used, the line "creature spell or planeswalker spell" cuts to another line right after "planeswalker". It's easy to understand how you could miss the "spell" part at a glance

  • @cptmcquacken4887
    @cptmcquacken4887 7 місяців тому +1

    I know what happened (aside from them not knowing how Subtlety works) Its simple, control player knows he has Archmages charm in his hand, so he's already poised to bounce....he may not understand that Subtlety wont do anything, but being prepared to counterspell was how his mind was working probably.

  • @AlexOvTheAbyss
    @AlexOvTheAbyss 7 місяців тому

    Part of this reminds me of a game of commander I played. I cast Gray Merchant and in response, an opponent cast Path to Exile on it. I kinda just went with them meaning to cast it in response to his trigger, which would still go in the stack, and just take him out. When I was trying to explain how this worked, some other person jumped in to started lecturing me about the stack and started claiming that Path to Exile *could* target a creature spell on the stack, and how it was, effectively, a counter spell. 🤦

  • @patpatsbacks9117
    @patpatsbacks9117 8 місяців тому

    Where have you been??? I missed these videos! Great.

  • @user-qx7yw2cv7k
    @user-qx7yw2cv7k 8 місяців тому +3

    This is the best video I've seen from you. This is what playing magic really feels like

  • @skylar5257
    @skylar5257 8 місяців тому

    It’s like I just played venser, shaper savant or reprieve for the first time lol. Essentially if the card says “creature or planeswalker” then it’s one in play, if it says “spell” it means on the cast stack.

  • @bobisacoolguy3631
    @bobisacoolguy3631 8 місяців тому

    I love how the azorious player is countering spells that have already been resolved

    • @samphilliber1259
      @samphilliber1259 8 місяців тому +1

      Not necessarily. We don’t have the tournament audio, but players all the time try to jump the gun and say “I’m going to cast this spell and target that with its ETB trigger”.
      The control player may have not been given time to respond to the spell itself.

  • @dajuggernaut2099
    @dajuggernaut2099 8 місяців тому

    This was HILARIOUS 😂

  • @MichaelSuperbacker
    @MichaelSuperbacker 7 місяців тому +1

    7:49 -8:19 I just realized who your voice reminds me of 🤔 You sound like John Mulaney 😮

  • @killakev9589
    @killakev9589 8 місяців тому

    Thats why i play my deck on arena to see what works and what doesnt

  • @caberwikijack
    @caberwikijack Місяць тому

    "But judge, I have a Platinum Angel."

  • @darktigre2686
    @darktigre2686 8 місяців тому +1

    I almost had a stroke watching this game

  • @dathore
    @dathore 8 місяців тому +1

    Oddly enough, that is sort of how most judging has to be done, unless something blatantly illegal happens, a judge can't step in, unless a player calls for one, since judges are technically there to solve issues, not police games, granted, had the subtlety resolved wrongly, a judge would have jumped in to prevent the illegal move, it's a dumb distinction but sort of important, since judges can't be seen favoring one player over the other.

    • @therealax6
      @therealax6 7 місяців тому +1

      I think the intention here is that you can't tell apart odd decisions made for strategic reasons (for instance, I want to pretend that I can do something as a bluff, when I'm just throwing cards away) from odd decisions made due to lack of knowledge (for instance, evoking the Subtlety as shown here). So the call is to just let all valid actions happen - if players want to know about a rule, they can ask before taking actions.

  • @ttrobertoproductions
    @ttrobertoproductions 8 місяців тому

    Welcome back Sir!!!

  • @fireburn264
    @fireburn264 8 місяців тому +9

    I disagree that there was no attempted cheating in this match. The combo player definitely knowingly tried to sneak past the rules. When all of their "misplays" benefit them to win then I immediately become skeptical of their intentions.

    • @NikachuMTG
      @NikachuMTG  8 місяців тому +10

      It would have been a much better play to just hard cast Subtlety for 4 mana to attack Teferi. By playing it for free they were throwing it away (and another card!) so I wouldn’t say their misplays are benefiting them. It just so happens they didn’t get punished for it because countering the subtlety is a legal play.

    • @chunnil4898
      @chunnil4898 8 місяців тому +3

      BIG agree. Its WILDLY naive to assume this guy bought an expensive, high-tier deck, brought it to a big tourney, and repeatedly "misplayed" something so elementary to his benefit... "Oops!"

    • @Zeequals
      @Zeequals 8 місяців тому +6

      @@chunnil4898i absolutely forgot exactly what subtlety did and had to reread it to remind myself it wasn’t a bounce spell, and the cards been out quite a while at this point, was much newer then

    • @TheLoon4ever
      @TheLoon4ever 8 місяців тому +6

      ​@@chunnil4898Honest Question, is this sarcasm?
      If he BOUGHT the Deck and didn't build it himself, and thought that's how the card worked, multiple missplays that benefit him would be exactly what I would expect from him not know his deck.
      Like Nikachu said in the end of video, technically he never did anything wrong for someone to tell him he's doing it wrong.

  • @bouthat1
    @bouthat1 8 місяців тому +1

    "Hey buddy ever play MTG?"
    "No"
    "Me either! Lets play U/w control and a combo deck in modern at the local tournament, how hard can it be?"
    - Those guys, probably.