I had a blue deck once called “why are you hitting yourself”. I was full of counter spells, theft cards, and clones. No one would play with me for like a week after that. Good times.
Psychosis Crawler and Arjun, the Shifting Flame has always been my go-to. Or Æthersnatch-ing people's commanders and turning them on their owners. It doesn't even have to be powerful, it's just fun.
You can do solitaire in red as well. I remember a game where my opponent went like this by turn four: "This one deals one damage to each creature that comes into play, this one has each creature deal damage to their controller whenever they take damage, and this one doubles all damage. That means each creature you play takes 2 damage and deals 4 damage to you. You were playing an elf tribal deck, right?" "... yeah. I _was_ playing."
@@9Johnny8 This doesn't even scratch the surface of what red storm decks look like. On turn 2: make mana, draw, make mana, draw, mana, mana, draw, mana, make 300 goblins, sac all the goblins for mana, draw, mana, draw, 320 damage to you. Game 2?
@@madeofmandrake1748 Oh yes, red goes fasta, but the comment was about 'playing solitaire' a.k.a. locking down your opponent. To be fair, it's hard to play when you're dead, though...
@@9Johnny8 I guess my point is taking 20 minute turns only to MAYBE win so nothing is skippable is still 'playing solitaire'. Your opponent can do nothing, then you win. Solitaire
Blue Mana Land cards are how you play Blue spell cards from the game Magic: The Gathering. You tap Lands, turning them sideways, to spend the Mana for playing other cards.
in magic, you need to play lands (usually one per turn) to pay for your cards. Each of the 5 colors (basically classes) is associated with a basic land type. The one of blue, the color of control, drawing cards, mind games and saying "uhm actually no" is Island
'Playing island', in terms of Magic the Gathering, means playing Blue Mana cards, which are needed to play that one spell he showed on screen. Here's all of the Mana types in the game: Islands: Blue Mana Mountains: Red Mana Plains: White Mana Swamps: Black Mana Forests: Green Mana
playing islands and then tapping them is what gives him enough mana to play the Last Word card. imagine you and i are arguing and out of the blue i'm like ''oh yea? how about this then?'' and i just show you a royal flush i had on me in case of an altercation with a stranger.
Back in the days (last century actually), I read about Prison Decks. They were full of spells that doesn't allow the other to do anything, destroy everything they have and keep you cycling through your deck and graveyard. Eventually your opponent would go through their deck and you'd win. Although they were five colour decks, it fits the motto
@@christiaanterveen4633 I played against a person who built BW control and by the end it cost me like 5 extra mana and 2 creatures tapped to play anything.
My favorite flavor text to this day is from The Azorius Senate, the blue-white guild from Ravnica: "Where much work is done to make sure nothing is accomplished."
@@iamthepkmmaster Back in the day before Jeskai existed, we gave them nicknames. Red white and blue was usually called American. Edit: which is perfectly on theme for police brutality.
built a deck like that with 24 counterspells 4 creatures and some return to players hand cards... didnt win often but everyone hated playing against me.
Also known as the "God dammit, now I have to play blue or I might as well not bother, because someone else is playing blue and it's so broken that its only true counterplay is itself" deck. The color that has kept MtG, a game which has the potential to be the best TCG anyone could even imagine, as a whole, mid-at-best since its inception. Blue is the late-stage capitalism of deck-building strats. The "white dude who honestly believes and whines loudly about how affirmative action is the only reason he didn't get a full ride to Harvard." The "if I can't break everything to be dramatically in my favor, I'm taking my ball and going home."
@@linchpincushion I got Francis flashbacks flipping the table. I didn’t know what that meant, but I remember the guy asking him, “are you sure about that?”.
I got into MtG after I was an MMA fan so I broke it down like this: Red - "I don't train for 5 round fights. I train for 2 round fights and win or lose in that time." White - Iron-clad fundamentals. Pop the jab, avoid the takedown, leg-kicks to cripple you with endless cardio. Black - "I WANNA BANG BRO" - Will eat 6 shots to take you out in 2. Green - Cardio for days into relentless pressure. (Aka PED Dagestanis. Send location.) Blue - "Why fight hard when fighting dirty works so much better?" Kicks your knees, fish-hooks you, grabs your gloves, generally plays as dirty as possible to keep you from ever fighting back. God I hated Blue when I played a lot. XD
Blue: it's always my turn. Black: I'm not dead yet! White: Stayin' alive, stayin' alive! Green: I'm a tank I'm a tank I'm a tank, I'm a tank Red: BURN BABY BURN!
So basically Black/White/Green: Why won't you die Red: Please stop killing me Blue: I thought I was spending my evening playing a game, but I suppose not
When I still played some years ago, I managed to make somebody ragequit so hard with an Esper deck he throw his deck across the room. Punish Ignorance did its job
@@mrsensetive2u The quote is "Amateurish. Nearsighted. A waste of my time and everyone else's." -Indra, nullmage of Vectis And yeah, I know the feel of "I am going to quote the flavor text to you when I counterspell you, specifically for an excuse to Condescend.
The number of blue decks i made with the sole purpose of annoying my opponent into conceding, with absolutely no win condition aside from that, is absurd. They're also surprisingly effective.
I made a 99 card blue deck that had the sole purpose of making players draw exactly enough cards to kill them all in one turn with 'each player draws X' effects.
These kinds of strategies only work if you have either an official MTG Judge or a computer screen between you and your opponent. Lacking these two essencials leads to a counterplay called 'punching you in the face for playing such degeneracy in my house'. Not that I would, mind you, since I play blue/green myself, I'm quite happy to go to Cold War and dump a 20/20 stompy trampler first chance I get.
@OriginalUnjustifier i love simic colors! My favorite card is experiment kraj. Not very good, but i loved the possible rule shenanigans you can get away with.
My brother had a few decks like that and he decided he wanted to teach me how to play Magic The Gathering. While teaching me how to play he exclusively played blue against me (and he didn't go easy) and for a while I thought that MTG was just a really awful game.
I haven't played magic in a long-ass time (I'm about Thor's age), but in jr high, I had a blue/black deck that absolutely controlled the game and hardly let anyone else do anything. I miss that deck. I left it in the school cafeteria one day by accident and never saw it again.
Blue white and black decks were always hilarious to me even if i never had the money to build decks. Just the casual, "no you don't" and "ok but it's gone" decks always just sat well with me.
I can give you an insane blue/white deck list that takes about $50 to build and is good in 1v1, 2v2, FFA, and near unbeatable in two headed giant. It is full of under appreciated cards that have big drawbacks, except in this deck the drawback is leveraged as another positive, so cards that normally would be "meh" are broken asf.
@EcnalKcin sounds awesome. I got stuck with the friends that were rushers and kept talking about 300$+ decks like they were the standard and you could never go cheaper. I tried online and it was still a micro transaction hell if you wanted anything. Never figured out how to get free cards without 600 games.
"My job is to make sure you don't get to play" Ironic statement from a guy who makes games :P Haven't played MtG since about the time 5th Edition came out. Miss the game, but not the drain on my wallet lol
@@kelmirosue3251 MTGA, while it's far from devoid from wallet draining does allow you to not be locked out of decks because of drop rates and card value. I only play MTGA now, I will not play card or MTGO.
I quit when 7th dropped, and miss playing but not miss buying new cards. Friend of mine came to the group with multiple high dollar 7th E decks, and every deck he had was a 3-5 turn win deck, and that level of metagaming is just obnoxious.. I still have all my old 4E cards though
I used to have a friend who played Blue/Green and it was like every time you tried to play anything, he would be like that Star Trek Picard meme where Captain Shaw goes“No.”
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I love playing a blue deck just for when you're playing someone that spends thirty minutes explaining all the things he's doing that turn just for you to pull out the perfect counter.
I watched the funniest backhand/pimp slap I have ever witnessed (or could imagine witnessing) get caused by one of those decks. Kid running that it got his tourney prize packs for winning with it, which was cool I guess, but he also got rocked so hard he did a full 360 before plopping to the ground like a damn cartoon, while the other kid called him various versions of "little bitch." I cannot confirm or deny if he actually pissed himself, but... That's what people say. Lol He still gets hilarious, unrelenting shit for one of those things consistently to this day. 🤣
Blue always had nasty synergy with both White and Black. I know White could increase the lockdown capability. There was a white creature card that prevented anyone from doing anything during your turn. Eqipose let you temporarily fizzle opponents's permanents based on the number of permanents you had. (If you had 3 lands and your opponents had 5, you would remove two of those lands from the game until their owner's next turn). And Blue/Black would just whittle your entire deck/hand down. Rat creatures that reduced max hand sizes. Enchantments that made you discard the top card of your deck to attack. And creatures that grew stronger based on how many cards were in each graveyard.
I stopped playing many many years ago but kept two nostalgia decks for fun. Both decks were constructed with two limitations: No cards printed after Tenth Edition, and no rare cards. One is a gimmick deck: goblin sappers, stone rains, and direct damage. It's not very good. The other defeated several decks with rares handily. It's a blue and white deck that depends entirely on Protection From Red - and has a dozen ways to make things red, including 4 Shifting Sky. "No, you cannot hurt me or my creatures. You cannot block them. Play all the cards you like, you can do nothing. Your rare cards are useless."
Another fun thing. I played a deck centered aroud a green card that can't be block by permanents with less than 4 str and has hexproof. combine that with an enchantment that allow you to not be blocked by permanents with more than 4 str,almost no one can block you. This creature also has poison 2 or 3 and can be affected by some good scaling effects. Goodbye...
I have a Grixis group hug deck that wins via bullshit. Two games have been won via Insurrection, one with a lockdown from Kaerveck that led to my opponent decking himself, one that actually hugged everyone to death (pinging people for drawing and discarding, then making then draw and discard a lot), and one via Cruel Entertainment to trigger an infinite loop.
@shadowmancy9183 my favorite cEDH deck is Grixis (RogSi) and my second favorite casual deck is also grixis (Either Nekusar or RogSi for commander depending on if im trolling a little bit) as a grixis wheels deck that can win out of nowhere. If any Opponent has 11 cards in hand and I have Nekusar out, I can Windfall and cast a Flare of Duplication, pinging everyone for 22 commander damage. Most I've done in a single turn was something like 90 damage to each Opponent by casting Wheel of Fortune 5 times with sheoldred out using underworld breach and Jeskas will
I am the other blue player, I watch your combos hit the graveyard directly from the library. Empowering the next mill, from my consuming aberration + phenax combo, knowing any counters I play will ruin the fun even more. I am the fun king and I decree no fun allowed.
Just no. Blue is almost always control, literally the opposite of your statement. Learn the game before you make a dumb comment you have absolutely no clue about.
My favorite MtG archetype to play back in the day was Legacy MUD. Turn 1: 2 Mana land -> Chalice of the Void on 1 OR Grim Monolith -> Trinisphere. In a format where the most powerful cards cost between 1-3 mana, both those options generally deny your opponent the ability to play the game before you combo kill them on turn 3. Peak gaming
Misdirection, Deflecting Swat, Mindbreak Trap, anything that can exile spells off the stack. Or you can counter the original target of Last Word if it is further back on the stack not targeting the spell you want to resolve. As it will fail to see it's target and then fizzle.
@@psych0CS2 Summary Dismissal is my favorite. My point was you don't need lands in play for Misdirection though :P Also stuff like Teferi to bounce the spell back to the hand. That's the best part of Magic for me. Even when something is uncounterable or indestructible or even has split second, it's never truly safe :)
@@AwkwardDreamer my favorite thing to do if I want to be an absolute shitter is to cast either discontinuity or time stop. Paying an extra mana to end the turn at instant speed instead of casting an extra turn spell is so salt inducing. Ive done it to people when they cast haymakers like Emrakul before.
@@AwkwardDreamer i have an idea for an absolute shitter combo: Time stop and Soulfire Grand Master. If you have 10 mana open, you can just perpetually end your opponents turn whenever you feel like it. Normally it's a combo used for infinite extra turns but getting the same effect by ending your opponents turn whenever they cast a spell is 10x as fucked up
"See, what you didn't know, is I've been a Magic The Gathering player for a long time" Didn't know, but could have guessed. The fact that he plays blue isn't even remotely surprising. He knows the motto and everything.
My best bud back in NY loved Blue and told me, "blue decks are the embodiment of 'you didn't say please' which is why everyone hates them."
There even literally is a blue counterspell called Didn't Say Please.
Fun fact: “Didn’t Say Please” is an actual blue card name. Yes, it’s a counterspell
@@Zathren I learned my lesson at least, now I excuse myself for every card I cast
It's my favorite bloo card @@chrayez
Mono blue permission deck
I had a blue deck once called “why are you hitting yourself”. I was full of counter spells, theft cards, and clones. No one would play with me for like a week after that. Good times.
Sounds like the Tawnos, Solemn Survivor/Mechanized Production I'm working on. Good to know.
I Love those Decks!
I play blue because I hate playing magic with my addicted friends.
Psychosis Crawler and Arjun, the Shifting Flame has always been my go-to.
Or Æthersnatch-ing people's commanders and turning them on their owners. It doesn't even have to be powerful, it's just fun.
In a format I play, this is a legitimate tier 3 deck that people call Seinfeld because it's a deck about nothing
Thor being a Blue player makes so much sense
Too much sense tbh.
I feel like he’s more of an Izzet player. He has to have red to play his goblins
@@jacobrekow2095 Very astute
It make too much sense.
Yeah, I am disappointed but unsurprised.
this cracked me up because as soon as Thor said “You talking shit? Okay, here.” MY PHONE TURNED OFF
He's too powerful!
He countered your phone and ended your turn for you 🤣
This deserves top comment
LOL
Damn. He rizzed your machine spirit from a distance
It's funny how he just had all those ready to open
hes done this exact thing before, i think it was a short too
In response, I cast Summary Dismissal.
I mean. He IS a blue
And they aren't even named
@@dwlaker3alright, but you just exiled your own spell that he was countering
The fact that he pulled out 4 separate island photos is that little bit of extra detail ...and that's why I love you pirate
My MTG playing brother taught me this: as a blue player, you either play UNO reverses, or you play solitaire.
Me: I'ma play this one card, pass the turn
Everyone else: Takes one damage for each cars they draw
You can do solitaire in red as well. I remember a game where my opponent went like this by turn four:
"This one deals one damage to each creature that comes into play, this one has each creature deal damage to their controller whenever they take damage, and this one doubles all damage.
That means each creature you play takes 2 damage and deals 4 damage to you. You were playing an elf tribal deck, right?"
"... yeah. I _was_ playing."
@@9Johnny8 This doesn't even scratch the surface of what red storm decks look like. On turn 2: make mana, draw, make mana, draw, mana, mana, draw, mana, make 300 goblins, sac all the goblins for mana, draw, mana, draw, 320 damage to you. Game 2?
@@madeofmandrake1748 Oh yes, red goes fasta, but the comment was about 'playing solitaire' a.k.a. locking down your opponent.
To be fair, it's hard to play when you're dead, though...
@@9Johnny8 I guess my point is taking 20 minute turns only to MAYBE win so nothing is skippable is still 'playing solitaire'. Your opponent can do nothing, then you win. Solitaire
“My job is to make sure you don’t get to play”
Nothing so true has ever been said until this day 😂
I have no idea what "playing islands" means in this context, but Thor delivers it with such conviction and malevolence that I can't help but be awed.
Blue Mana Land cards are how you play Blue spell cards from the game Magic: The Gathering. You tap Lands, turning them sideways, to spend the Mana for playing other cards.
Islands= the cards needed to produce mana to play blue cards
in magic, you need to play lands (usually one per turn) to pay for your cards. Each of the 5 colors (basically classes) is associated with a basic land type. The one of blue, the color of control, drawing cards, mind games and saying "uhm actually no" is Island
'Playing island', in terms of Magic the Gathering, means playing Blue Mana cards, which are needed to play that one spell he showed on screen.
Here's all of the Mana types in the game:
Islands: Blue Mana
Mountains: Red Mana
Plains: White Mana
Swamps: Black Mana
Forests: Green Mana
playing islands and then tapping them is what gives him enough mana to play the Last Word card. imagine you and i are arguing and out of the blue i'm like ''oh yea? how about this then?'' and i just show you a royal flush i had on me in case of an altercation with a stranger.
Blue mage countering those goblins. A true meme blue player doesn't actually have a win condition, only every counterspell in the history of magic.
I love that they're sideways too like he actually tapped them
😂 I almost missed that detail, it's been years since I've played
Blue player motto "In every game there is a finite amount of fun to be had, and I aim to make sure I have all of it."
Back in the days (last century actually), I read about Prison Decks. They were full of spells that doesn't allow the other to do anything, destroy everything they have and keep you cycling through your deck and graveyard. Eventually your opponent would go through their deck and you'd win.
Although they were five colour decks, it fits the motto
@@christiaanterveen4633 I played against a person who built BW control and by the end it cost me like 5 extra mana and 2 creatures tapped to play anything.
My favorite flavor text to this day is from The Azorius Senate, the blue-white guild from Ravnica:
"Where much work is done to make sure nothing is accomplished."
I actually used to run an azorius boros deck. Red white and blue based around detain and battalion. I called it police brutality.
@@FondlesHandles Three color guilds have their own name. Jeskai.
@@FondlesHandlesthat is horrible, have a like.
" The Knowledge Pool has many answers, mostly no."
@@iamthepkmmaster Back in the day before Jeskai existed, we gave them nicknames. Red white and blue was usually called American.
Edit: which is perfectly on theme for police brutality.
My favorite blue archetype is “I’m making you play your whole goddamn deck, whether you like it or not.”
Ah, the classic blue "nope" deck,
Also known as the "no the heck you wont" and "are you sure about that"
built a deck like that with 24 counterspells 4 creatures and some return to players hand cards... didnt win often but everyone hated playing against me.
Reading "are you sure about that," gave me Vietnam flashbacks.
Also known as the "God dammit, now I have to play blue or I might as well not bother, because someone else is playing blue and it's so broken that its only true counterplay is itself" deck. The color that has kept MtG, a game which has the potential to be the best TCG anyone could even imagine, as a whole, mid-at-best since its inception.
Blue is the late-stage capitalism of deck-building strats.
The "white dude who honestly believes and whines loudly about how affirmative action is the only reason he didn't get a full ride to Harvard."
The "if I can't break everything to be dramatically in my favor, I'm taking my ball and going home."
100% I have a blue/black that I say "are you sure about that?" And "nah, I don't like it, its mine now" CONSTANTLY lol
@@linchpincushion I got Francis flashbacks flipping the table. I didn’t know what that meant, but I remember the guy asking him, “are you sure about that?”.
Bro, you really just had that ready in the background.
You have got to be the best streamer on the planet!
The fact he just has random shit like this ready for a joke will never stop being funny 😂
Dude your humour is on another level and I’m here for every second of it❤😂
I got into MtG after I was an MMA fan so I broke it down like this:
Red - "I don't train for 5 round fights. I train for 2 round fights and win or lose in that time."
White - Iron-clad fundamentals. Pop the jab, avoid the takedown, leg-kicks to cripple you with endless cardio.
Black - "I WANNA BANG BRO" - Will eat 6 shots to take you out in 2.
Green - Cardio for days into relentless pressure. (Aka PED Dagestanis. Send location.)
Blue - "Why fight hard when fighting dirty works so much better?" Kicks your knees, fish-hooks you, grabs your gloves, generally plays as dirty as possible to keep you from ever fighting back.
God I hated Blue when I played a lot. XD
So good that he won so fast you didn’t even realized you were playing
"What's your win condition?"
"Preventing yours."
reducing my chance to lose to 0% is identical in outcome to increasing my chance to win to 100%
A 1/1 fairy with flash that i can either sacrifice to counter a spell if my counters run out...
Orrr slowly kill you over 20 attacks
Making you not win. and some time later, you run out of cards.
waiting untill u scoop
I recently played blue for the first time, and I can confirm nobody else was able to play.
When Thor tapped his Islands, I knew it was over.
He got the Last Word in.😢
Today I learned Thor plays blue...we can't be friends now.
"I've been playing islands, and you haven't been doing anything with your turns"
Yes Thor. That's cause everything I played got countered.
Music intensifies in a battle ready manner;
"See, what you didnt know..."
This is the showmanship.
Blue: it's always my turn.
Black: I'm not dead yet!
White: Stayin' alive, stayin' alive!
Green: I'm a tank I'm a tank I'm a tank, I'm a tank
Red: BURN BABY BURN!
Yup mtg in a nutshell 😅
So basically
Black/White/Green: Why won't you die
Red: Please stop killing me
Blue: I thought I was spending my evening playing a game, but I suppose not
No Eldrazi? I prefer Eldrazi and dragon decks. Incredibly hard to synthesize but SOOO much fun to play.
I play blue and white for that very reason being annoying why staying in the game as long as possible
I appreciate the 40k reference lol
The fact that he did not have to go serch for these is amazing. Like he had memorized where it was and had it on standby
It's a simple spell, but quite unbreakable
That's a quote from a Jace counterspell card, isnt it? :p
@@MatijaReby it doesn’t appear on any flavor texts
@@MatijaReby if I remember correctly its Dr Strange from Marvel?
@@MatijaReby It's from Avengers: Infinity War
Ahhhh okay, yeah that makes sense
Blue is the ultimate equaliser, it doesn’t matter how good your card is if it is countered
When I still played some years ago, I managed to make somebody ragequit so hard with an Esper deck he throw his deck across the room. Punish Ignorance did its job
Most savage counterspell flavor text!
as a dimir guy, i hate that i can relate to both sides.
@@mrsensetive2u The quote is
"Amateurish. Nearsighted. A waste of my time and everyone else's."
-Indra, nullmage of Vectis
And yeah, I know the feel of "I am going to quote the flavor text to you when I counterspell you, specifically for an excuse to Condescend.
@@Sorain1 Yep! I don't think I'd say it with any conviction, but if the table is friendly enough, it's a a great way to say "gotcha!"
I did not expect watching this when I woke up today AND I LOVE IT 😂
My friend used to say the objective of a blue player is to have all the fun. If someone is having some fun you arent winning as a blue player yet.
@@Sunspear25 you all have fun, just not at the same time
Me out here with mono white: I CAST REPRIEVE!
The number of blue decks i made with the sole purpose of annoying my opponent into conceding, with absolutely no win condition aside from that, is absurd.
They're also surprisingly effective.
Huh. The first time i ever played this was my strategy and it was a blue deck😂😂 my friend yelled but i guess i was playing correctly after all
I made a 99 card blue deck that had the sole purpose of making players draw exactly enough cards to kill them all in one turn with 'each player draws X' effects.
These kinds of strategies only work if you have either an official MTG Judge or a computer screen between you and your opponent.
Lacking these two essencials leads to a counterplay called 'punching you in the face for playing such degeneracy in my house'.
Not that I would, mind you, since I play blue/green myself, I'm quite happy to go to Cold War and dump a 20/20 stompy trampler first chance I get.
@OriginalUnjustifier i love simic colors! My favorite card is experiment kraj. Not very good, but i loved the possible rule shenanigans you can get away with.
My brother had a few decks like that and he decided he wanted to teach me how to play Magic The Gathering. While teaching me how to play he exclusively played blue against me (and he didn't go easy) and for a while I thought that MTG was just a really awful game.
hahah as a long time player as well this video was one of your best yet hahaha had me cracking up!
That "nothing else matters" sounded pure Evil lmao 😂
One time, my opponent started asking me permission to play their cards. Blue for life.
I haven't played magic in a long-ass time (I'm about Thor's age), but in jr high, I had a blue/black deck that absolutely controlled the game and hardly let anyone else do anything. I miss that deck. I left it in the school cafeteria one day by accident and never saw it again.
It was destroyed the only way it could be; cast into the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged
Someone probably stole it *specifically* because of how obnoxious it was, lol
@ASF77 😅😅
cursed technique: Lapse Blue
My favorite thing about blue is that my job is not to win, but rather to make everyone else lose for as long as possible.
My dad was a blue player. He didn’t care how much I sucked he would always counter my best cards with the biggest smile on his face. Good times
Blue white and black decks were always hilarious to me even if i never had the money to build decks. Just the casual, "no you don't" and "ok but it's gone" decks always just sat well with me.
I can give you an insane blue/white deck list that takes about $50 to build and is good in 1v1, 2v2, FFA, and near unbeatable in two headed giant. It is full of under appreciated cards that have big drawbacks, except in this deck the drawback is leveraged as another positive, so cards that normally would be "meh" are broken asf.
@EcnalKcin sounds awesome. I got stuck with the friends that were rushers and kept talking about 300$+ decks like they were the standard and you could never go cheaper. I tried online and it was still a micro transaction hell if you wanted anything. Never figured out how to get free cards without 600 games.
I used to love playing Multiplayer Solitaire (read cEDH as a blue teferi deck) in college with my friends. Was a blast
"My job is to make sure you don't get to play"
Ironic statement from a guy who makes games :P
Haven't played MtG since about the time 5th Edition came out. Miss the game, but not the drain on my wallet lol
Drain on your wallet is still a thing, faster game I believe then what it once was. But still incredibly fun with various decks out there
@@kelmirosue3251 MTGA, while it's far from devoid from wallet draining does allow you to not be locked out of decks because of drop rates and card value.
I only play MTGA now, I will not play card or MTGO.
@@user-qv5ff1lj2c I play on Untap, gives me everything I want for free and gives me commander format that MTGA doesn't give
@@jameshollingshead1845 a whole bunch of us are very proxy friendly. :3
I quit when 7th dropped, and miss playing but not miss buying new cards.
Friend of mine came to the group with multiple high dollar 7th E decks, and every deck he had was a 3-5 turn win deck, and that level of metagaming is just obnoxious..
I still have all my old 4E cards though
While you were making this short I played a mind break trap
I used to have a friend who played Blue/Green and it was like every time you tried to play anything, he would be like that Star Trek Picard meme where Captain Shaw goes“No.”
I think I understand about 1% of every video you make. Still enjoy them lol
Thor being a Blue player makes a lot of sense!
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Lmao I can't see him playing anything else 😂
I love playing a blue deck just for when you're playing someone that spends thirty minutes explaining all the things he's doing that turn just for you to pull out the perfect counter.
Ah yes Control, the incredibly fun and exciting play style of "No, no you may not"
Hey look its the Times Square, Taco Bell, Banana man
Thor being a blue player is the most unsurprising thing I've learned recently, and yet I'm still happy to learn it
“… Haven’t even taken your turn”
“My job is to make sure you don’t get to play”
Lmfao. Thor is playing on a hire level I’ll buy himself ❤❤❤
I like red decks. “Reeeeeee, goblins!” Is a very fun playstyle
Try red/blue some time. 'Reeeeee, goblins' backed up with 'nope' is hilarious
Every time this music plays in a PS short, you know you are going to laugh out loud
Maybe I don't get to play but at least I get to watch a funny UA-cam short from the silly wizard goblin lord :,)
“What you didn’t know is that I’ve been a Magic the Gathering player for a very long time” says the man in a wizard hat
Ah, gotta love blue and black magic decks...
The perfect no you don't/my hp is but a currency to make you suffer.... Love it
I watched the funniest backhand/pimp slap I have ever witnessed (or could imagine witnessing) get caused by one of those decks. Kid running that it got his tourney prize packs for winning with it, which was cool I guess, but he also got rocked so hard he did a full 360 before plopping to the ground like a damn cartoon, while the other kid called him various versions of "little bitch." I cannot confirm or deny if he actually pissed himself, but... That's what people say. Lol
He still gets hilarious, unrelenting shit for one of those things consistently to this day. 🤣
Well i'm outside the MTG loop and all but this short had some energy to it.
And the music omg! and had those pics ready!? *OH OH* that's dedication!
Blue always had nasty synergy with both White and Black. I know White could increase the lockdown capability. There was a white creature card that prevented anyone from doing anything during your turn. Eqipose let you temporarily fizzle opponents's permanents based on the number of permanents you had. (If you had 3 lands and your opponents had 5, you would remove two of those lands from the game until their owner's next turn). And Blue/Black would just whittle your entire deck/hand down. Rat creatures that reduced max hand sizes. Enchantments that made you discard the top card of your deck to attack. And creatures that grew stronger based on how many cards were in each graveyard.
I stopped playing many many years ago but kept two nostalgia decks for fun. Both decks were constructed with two limitations: No cards printed after Tenth Edition, and no rare cards.
One is a gimmick deck: goblin sappers, stone rains, and direct damage. It's not very good.
The other defeated several decks with rares handily. It's a blue and white deck that depends entirely on Protection From Red - and has a dozen ways to make things red, including 4 Shifting Sky.
"No, you cannot hurt me or my creatures. You cannot block them. Play all the cards you like, you can do nothing. Your rare cards are useless."
Another fun thing. I played a deck centered aroud a green card that can't be block by permanents with less than 4 str and has hexproof. combine that with an enchantment that allow you to not be blocked by permanents with more than 4 str,almost no one can block you. This creature also has poison 2 or 3 and can be affected by some good scaling effects.
Goodbye...
I have a Grixis group hug deck that wins via bullshit. Two games have been won via Insurrection, one with a lockdown from Kaerveck that led to my opponent decking himself, one that actually hugged everyone to death (pinging people for drawing and discarding, then making then draw and discard a lot), and one via Cruel Entertainment to trigger an infinite loop.
@shadowmancy9183 my favorite cEDH deck is Grixis (RogSi) and my second favorite casual deck is also grixis (Either Nekusar or RogSi for commander depending on if im trolling a little bit) as a grixis wheels deck that can win out of nowhere.
If any Opponent has 11 cards in hand and I have Nekusar out, I can Windfall and cast a Flare of Duplication, pinging everyone for 22 commander damage.
Most I've done in a single turn was something like 90 damage to each Opponent by casting Wheel of Fortune 5 times with sheoldred out using underworld breach and Jeskas will
Loved my blue and blue/black deck, the look on their face when they finally play their best card lol
I played blue white. I have all the life. You can't play anything. Now we wait and see who gets bored first.
I am the other blue player, I watch your combos hit the graveyard directly from the library. Empowering the next mill, from my consuming aberration + phenax combo, knowing any counters I play will ruin the fun even more. I am the fun king and I decree no fun allowed.
Untapped lands are why i have trust issues... love it.
I felt something visceral in me when he started tapping the islands, and I play blue.
Been rocking Blue/Black for over 15 years now. Its liberating...
That's a funny way to spell "game-breaking."
🤣🤣🤣🤣
What happens when blue faces blue?
There's a limited amount of fun to be had in a single game of magic, and sometimes the blue player gets it all 😂
NOOOOO! *I scream as i crumble to my knees clutching my heart*
“Win con? My win con is to hope you quit out of frustration.” - A Blue player probably
You see I got a lot of cards from family, I now make people with green decks cry.
I swear to God playing blue makes people act like they are the Fun Police😂
Damn blues
With no context or understanding of this, it's funny as hell. Lmao
At least blue lets you try. White tells you you aren’t allowed to think about it.
Just no. Blue is almost always control, literally the opposite of your statement. Learn the game before you make a dumb comment you have absolutely no clue about.
as someone who doesnt play magic, this was an absolutely diabolical play
Thor being a blue player makes SOOOOOOO much sense.
I dont play MtG but seeing all the colors fight and hate each other is hilarious 😂
My favorite MtG archetype to play back in the day was Legacy MUD. Turn 1: 2 Mana land -> Chalice of the Void on 1 OR Grim Monolith -> Trinisphere.
In a format where the most powerful cards cost between 1-3 mana, both those options generally deny your opponent the ability to play the game before you combo kill them on turn 3.
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Thor is in teletubby mode…. As a blue player he even plays on his shirt trolling you while you can’t play
That's your first mistake. I don't need to play lands to counter your 'uncounterable' spell.
Let me introduce you to my friend 'Misdirection'
Misdirection, Deflecting Swat, Mindbreak Trap, anything that can exile spells off the stack.
Or you can counter the original target of Last Word if it is further back on the stack not targeting the spell you want to resolve. As it will fail to see it's target and then fizzle.
@@psych0CS2 Summary Dismissal is my favorite. My point was you don't need lands in play for Misdirection though :P
Also stuff like Teferi to bounce the spell back to the hand.
That's the best part of Magic for me. Even when something is uncounterable or indestructible or even has split second, it's never truly safe :)
@@AwkwardDreamer my favorite thing to do if I want to be an absolute shitter is to cast either discontinuity or time stop. Paying an extra mana to end the turn at instant speed instead of casting an extra turn spell is so salt inducing. Ive done it to people when they cast haymakers like Emrakul before.
@@psych0CS2 Time Stop and Discontinuity are both so much fun. Shout out to Commandeer or Æthersnatch
@@AwkwardDreamer i have an idea for an absolute shitter combo: Time stop and Soulfire Grand Master. If you have 10 mana open, you can just perpetually end your opponents turn whenever you feel like it. Normally it's a combo used for infinite extra turns but getting the same effect by ending your opponents turn whenever they cast a spell is 10x as fucked up
Thor being a long time magic the gathering player is actually something I’ve always known
Allosaurus Shepherd:
"This spell can't be countered.
Green spells you control can't be countered" - 1 mana cost
I visibly recoiled when he started pulling islands. Dude triggered some deep seeded ptsd with that shit
Yeah, Thor being a blue player just made me go "yeah that makes sense".
"Nobody has fun until the blue player is tapped out, and sometimes not even then"- John Magic, CEO of Magic
i was a blue too, my deck was focused on using your deck, taking your creatures, your lands, your magics, everything
As soon as I saw the first island I was like "NOT THE BLUE DECK PLEASE, I FORFEIT, I JUST WANNA PLAY RED/BLACK IN PEACE"
This has to be one of the best bits I’ve ever seen Thor pull off
And he got the Last Word, too. 😂
_slow claps_ Well played, Goblin Lord. Well played. 😂
Magic is a hollowed out husk. At best, a mere reflection of its former self.
I love the ah ah ah moment as someone asks if there is a reaponse... 😂
Now that you’re tapped out I cast armageddon, now none of us are having fun 😂😂
10 bucks say he's Dimir, no way it's just Blue without even a splash of Black 😂
"See, what you didn't know, is I've been a Magic The Gathering player for a long time"
Didn't know, but could have guessed. The fact that he plays blue isn't even remotely surprising. He knows the motto and everything.
I've been watching your shorts for so long and I don't think I've left a single comment. This clip felt so good that I just had to comment.
It's amazing how many Thor shorts boil down to "Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch, I was there when it was written!"
By the look and sound of you, we all knew you’ve been playing magic the gathering😂😂😂
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I’m just getting into MtG. My first deck is a blue white deck, with lots of flying.
Playing blue is fun 😊