THE Jovenshire?! On a Magic Arcanum video? Preposterous! Who let you leave the Smosh Games and Your Personal Channel to come here? Don't you have some The Brew-ing to do? Don't you have to be Joven Rage-ing at Sohinki hitting you with a plane or something? What is this tomfoolery? P.S. this is intended as a joke, I am unaware of the activities Currently put forth by Smosh Games, but Joven is my favorite of the old cast of personalities from when I was consistently watching the channel. And I enjoy seeing someone who is awesome, watch, acknowledge, and enjoy the content put forth by someone else who is also awesome. (edited to allow for some space between the joke and the "disclaimer?", also to be a bit of a troll)
my theme decks are all Ravnica guilds, I got guild kits from 5 of them and have been tweaking them with (mostly) cards only from Ravnica sets. Sadly, Pioneer cut out a number of those cards, but they're Modern compatible, though probably won't be winning any tournaments, but are fun to play.
I absolutely love Basri's design and backstory. A planeswalker with a positive sparking story and a positive relationship with religion is much needed.
Along the similar lines, Samut's spark ignited when she felt intense joy when Hazoret thanked her(Samut) for saving her(Hazoret) during the fight with the Scorpion God.
I never understood why everyone hated on that point so much, I mean, Samut stated she trusted the gods, just not the god-pharoh, and everyone still got upset with her igniting with an interaction with a god.
It's time for another "random UA-cam commentator minute"! Are you ready? *grabs cup* "Did you know that 'Basri Ket' is an anagram for 'a brisket'? Which is probably exactly how one feels after spending the whole day under Amonkhet's two suns."
I like the flavor games post story telling. I tend to run themed decks in everything I play so the thought of getting a game that can also double as its own story is great. Good stuff, keep it up lore master.
I love the simple and straight forward lore for Bari. It would be interesting to have scene him as a legendary creature. Also what do you suppose would play him in the live action movie. Lol, Keep up the Awesome!!!
I honestly like the idea of joy and devotion to faith igniting a spark. I think it says a lot about who he is as a character, that his devotion and passion was that genuine and strong.
While I love Basri's mechanical identity (for the most part) and his origin story, I don't think his defensive sand-based magic fits really well into it. In terms of his mechanical identity, the +1/+1 counters-theme is awesome and the simple synergies feel rewarding and powerful. The only gripe I have with his planeswalker cards is that both of his second abilities care about attacking with any(!) creatures. It would be more flavorfull to have a little more defensive abilities like Teyo or a go-wide (solidarity and all) clause on those abilities, similar to Windbrisk Heights. But mostly, I never got any feeling of sand magic from his cards (planeswalker or auxiliary spells). +1/+1 counters feel like a general boost or armament distribution, whereas sand, to me, is more about evasiveness or disrupting your opponent. As just a general combat-proficient planeswalker, Basri is super appropriate with his counters and a flavor-win but if wizards would want to elaborate some more on his sand abilities in the future, a revisit of Sand tokens like seen on Dune-Brood nephilim or Hazezon Tamar would be cool too.
Yeah I agree, the cards didn’t felt sandy. Flavorwise the art and mechanics for “Basri’s Solidarity” should’ve been more like the card “Gust Walker”. Lol He could’ve atleast made 1/1 Sand soldier tokens
I would have loved to see a mini-emblem (like the one Sorin, Lord of Innistrad gives as his -2) that essentially gives his creatures flanking. So, something along the lines of "Whenever a creature you control is blocked by one or more creatures, each creature blocking it gets -1/-1 or -1/-0 until end of turn." I think it would have fit well with the sand messing with the opposing creatures
Much as I enjoyed playing Basri (he was in my pre-release kit!), I do feel it would have been better if they used Teyo. He's a defensive White planeswalker, and he had a lot of focus on him in (the lore of) War of the Spark, but we haven't seen much of him or his abilities, so it would have been nice if they'd explored him a bit more.
Thanks for the no shame in not sticking around - I don't do arena, only casual paper with friends. I'm planning on putting Basri at the head of a Brawlmander deck (friends format, Brawl rules but Commander card pool) with a bunch of other Soldiers Matters cards. Excited to see Cathar's Crusade getting a reprint just in time, too!
This video was great. I love the gameplay and I'm excited that you're keeping the lore the focus of the video. I can't wait to see what deck you brew up for Garruk.
5hank you for the new format of video. I love it. Also, thank you for some of the descriptions! Being almost blind, I really appreciate it so that I can visualize the cards.
I love the idea for this series, and I'm really enjoying how you talk through the gameplay both from a normal MTG strategic perspective AND discussing the flavour aspects of the deck at the same time!
Love the new series and thanks for summing up the story of Basri. It's a nice breath of fresh air to see a walker get their spark from something positive.
I LOVE the idea of this new series, it's so simple and straightforward. It's like, "Why didn't I think of that?!" I can't wait to see more and what else you choose to cover :)
This is great, I didn’t know much about Basri and he has a cool story. We need an instant depicting him called “Pocket Sand” that taps down a creature or two. Theme decks for the win!
Real talk. I don't know how I feel about the gameplay section of this Flavor Win series but I ended up watching it to the end and enjoying it quite a bit. I think the real lesson learned is just how much I enjoy watching/listening to Ryan Gomez.10/10 keep doing what you do, kind sir.
Two thoughts: I love thematic decks but I'm just an awful deck builder so I'm glad you're out there doing it right for both of us with this cool new series. Also, I like that they continue to have cool, new ideas for planeswalkers like Basri and The Wanderer.
When you showed basri's acolyte, and i paid more attention to the background of the card, the first plane that came to mind for me was Innistraad, as the swords looked like gravestones, and the black mist just reminded me of some of the artwork. Another possibility is some unexplored part of the mephidross on Mirrodin, and Basri went there after the scars storyline.
I'm excited to see Basri, Amonkhet is my favorite plain so far and it's cool to see it referenced again. I'm glad to see it wasn't totally destroyed after hour of devastation
I like this kind of video. I’m just getting back into magic( for like the 5th time) and magic arena is really my go to for now. I’ve always been a fan of flavor decks, mostly tribal though. Currently I’d doing lagers cat tribal. Can’t wait to see his lore grow.
I think it’s a really great idea to mix lore and gameplay for many reasons : it’s less time consuming than pure research, it’s fascinating to see lore in action and finally, it is different than standard top deck gameplay. So win-win-win !
I love this idea!!! As a Jonny and a Vorthos, it's great to see my two passions in the game coming together. As for the plane Basri planeswalked to, even if Dominaria wasn't the first, most likely he did end up there, specially in the Zhalfirian Void, since this set is Teferi themed and that's were he was at the time, having lost his spark.
Super glad to see another planeswalker from Amonkhet, it's one of my favorite planes for being Ancient Egyptian-themed. The actual card itself could maybe have been an Elspeth planeswalker given its design, but it's still pretty cool and honestly it's not even bad at all
Themed decks are always fun to play with and are easily inspired. Though it makes the video a bit longer, I do enjoy the battle aspect of showing off the new cards.
I really liked your video and made me like Basri even more. Gideon was one of my favorite planeswalkers but I believe Basri could fill out his shoes and his story does sound inspiring. Also, I like your theory believe it holds truth that Basri visited Dominaria
I really enjoy the games afterward, I play Magic for the flavor (My Trostani commander is built solely out of Ravnica block/War of the Spark). Great idea.
Love this series. I find myself making themed decks more often than not. So this series gives me everything I like about MTG
THE Jovenshire?! On a Magic Arcanum video? Preposterous! Who let you leave the Smosh Games and Your Personal Channel to come here? Don't you have some The Brew-ing to do? Don't you have to be Joven Rage-ing at Sohinki hitting you with a plane or something? What is this tomfoolery?
P.S. this is intended as a joke, I am unaware of the activities Currently put forth by Smosh Games, but Joven is my favorite of the old cast of personalities from when I was consistently watching the channel. And I enjoy seeing someone who is awesome, watch, acknowledge, and enjoy the content put forth by someone else who is also awesome.
(edited to allow for some space between the joke and the "disclaimer?", also to be a bit of a troll)
Joven!
Yes, I happen to love theme decks as well! Not necessarily flavor, sometimes it's mechanics, sometimes it's both, but I love themes!
my theme decks are all Ravnica guilds, I got guild kits from 5 of them and have been tweaking them with (mostly) cards only from Ravnica sets. Sadly, Pioneer cut out a number of those cards, but they're Modern compatible, though probably won't be winning any tournaments, but are fun to play.
"if you don't have the wildcards for it"
Looks at his wildcard icon and sees it's silver, meaning he has 0 rares and mythics left
Rip
Yep. Put everything I had left into this deck!
@@MagicArcanum well it payed off. Loved the deck just as much as I love the channel
This is quality idea here. I love those moments in games when there are cool moments that happen that has good flavor.
😑
Man I want a Naga planeswalker, there's too many human planeswalkers. Love the vid, nice work.
Yes and centaur ones too
Cephalid
Wizards said they are racist and only like human planes walkers.
Totally agree. We need more non-Human planeswalkers and Nagas are super cool.
what is Kyora anyways? a merflok?
"I hate sand...
It's rough, coarse and it gets everywhere"
😂 Man Anikin would not like Basri
I actually managed to pull two basri ket(one foil promo, one regular) from my single prerelease kit. And a fullart Liliana.
Wow
@@SilverWolf340 And then I came in second...to last, because my kit came with next to no support for them. RIP
So did I tf? Except I didn’t get a cool lily
I would also be overwhelmed by the feeling of pride and accomplishment after having defeated the trials.
Good loot box refefence
I'm curious u got a link for this reference?
I absolutely love Basri's design and backstory. A planeswalker with a positive sparking story and a positive relationship with religion is much needed.
True, if gods would walk among us it would be much easier to have positive attitude towards them and worship them.
Joey Joe Joe But also gods are just like, super magical humans in mtg
I'm really happy to know that I'm not the only one crushing hard on Oketra tho. I feel represented.
The single field of ruin that symbolises his destroyed home XD so cruel, I love it.
This answers the questions I’ve had since I saw Basri. He was the first rare/mythic I got in an M21 pack, and I’ve been curious about him since then
Along the similar lines, Samut's spark ignited when she felt intense joy when Hazoret thanked her(Samut) for saving her(Hazoret) during the fight with the Scorpion God.
True!
I never understood why everyone hated on that point so much, I mean, Samut stated she trusted the gods, just not the god-pharoh, and everyone still got upset with her igniting with an interaction with a god.
It's time for another "random UA-cam commentator minute"! Are you ready?
*grabs cup*
"Did you know that 'Basri Ket' is an anagram for 'a brisket'? Which is probably exactly how one feels after spending the whole day under Amonkhet's two suns."
"Enter Sandman"
I'm digging the Flavour Win idea. Keep it coming!
I like the flavor games post story telling. I tend to run themed decks in everything I play so the thought of getting a game that can also double as its own story is great. Good stuff, keep it up lore master.
I loved the history and the character of Basri, but i really wanted Teyo to be the new main white planeswalker, someone who stills needs to learn
same
I love the simple and straight forward lore for Bari. It would be interesting to have scene him as a legendary creature. Also what do you suppose would play him in the live action movie. Lol,
Keep up the Awesome!!!
How do you feel about Manish Dayal? Idk could be cool
@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 abso-flippin-lutely
I honestly like the idea of joy and devotion to faith igniting a spark. I think it says a lot about who he is as a character, that his devotion and passion was that genuine and strong.
While I love Basri's mechanical identity (for the most part) and his origin story, I don't think his defensive sand-based magic fits really well into it. In terms of his mechanical identity, the +1/+1 counters-theme is awesome and the simple synergies feel rewarding and powerful. The only gripe I have with his planeswalker cards is that both of his second abilities care about attacking with any(!) creatures. It would be more flavorfull to have a little more defensive abilities like Teyo or a go-wide (solidarity and all) clause on those abilities, similar to Windbrisk Heights.
But mostly, I never got any feeling of sand magic from his cards (planeswalker or auxiliary spells). +1/+1 counters feel like a general boost or armament distribution, whereas sand, to me, is more about evasiveness or disrupting your opponent. As just a general combat-proficient planeswalker, Basri is super appropriate with his counters and a flavor-win but if wizards would want to elaborate some more on his sand abilities in the future, a revisit of Sand tokens like seen on Dune-Brood nephilim or Hazezon Tamar would be cool too.
I figured that making the creature invincible was a reflection of the sand disrupting the opponent and shielding the friendly, but I do see your point
Yeah I agree, the cards didn’t felt sandy. Flavorwise the art and mechanics for “Basri’s Solidarity” should’ve been more like the card “Gust Walker”. Lol He could’ve atleast made 1/1 Sand soldier tokens
I would have loved to see a mini-emblem (like the one Sorin, Lord of Innistrad gives as his -2) that essentially gives his creatures flanking. So, something along the lines of "Whenever a creature you control is blocked by one or more creatures, each creature blocking it gets -1/-1 or -1/-0 until end of turn." I think it would have fit well with the sand messing with the opposing creatures
Much as I enjoyed playing Basri (he was in my pre-release kit!), I do feel it would have been better if they used Teyo. He's a defensive White planeswalker, and he had a lot of focus on him in (the lore of) War of the Spark, but we haven't seen much of him or his abilities, so it would have been nice if they'd explored him a bit more.
Plus, he is just a neat character, or at least I think he is. Would have loved to see him get a full power-up after War.
Thanks for the no shame in not sticking around - I don't do arena, only casual paper with friends.
I'm planning on putting Basri at the head of a Brawlmander deck (friends format, Brawl rules but Commander card pool) with a bunch of other Soldiers Matters cards. Excited to see Cathar's Crusade getting a reprint just in time, too!
That was amazing! Thanks for making this for us!
Looking forward to this series! Love your energy man!
Awesome vid, as usual, and awesome new series! Can’t wait for more
Loved watching you play, was super happy to see that!
This idea is awesome! I love that I get the story of a character I never knew abt and got to see him in action, would love to see more of this!
This video was great. I love the gameplay and I'm excited that you're keeping the lore the focus of the video. I can't wait to see what deck you brew up for Garruk.
5hank you for the new format of video. I love it. Also, thank you for some of the descriptions! Being almost blind, I really appreciate it so that I can visualize the cards.
Absolutely loved the idea! Can’t wait for the next ones!
I really enjoy watching you play. Super chill and concise
Excellent idea for videos. Will definitely watch every single one!
Brilliant idea Ryan! Always loved your videos!!
This is one of my favorite videos from your channel so far! Keep it up, I really like Flavor Wins!
Definitely a great idea. I really enjoy listening to the stories, now seeing gameplay after. Amazing.
I like this video format, where you frontload all the good stuff and then mess around with flavor decks and arena.
Good work.
I love the idea for this series, and I'm really enjoying how you talk through the gameplay both from a normal MTG strategic perspective AND discussing the flavour aspects of the deck at the same time!
This is a sweet series idea. I'm a huge flavor nerd, so seeing flavor decks being made and played is awesome.
17:43 Heart of the cards 🤣. Great video, hope to see more from Basri in the future.
I honestly love flavourful decks! too many top tier decks videos about x keep it up
Great commentary, I love your themed decks!
Having lunch at the story time and some MTG gameplay, perfect!
Once again, congratulations on the content. The history of Magic with quality.
Love the new series and thanks for summing up the story of Basri. It's a nice breath of fresh air to see a walker get their spark from something positive.
Just started to watch Flavor Win! series here on Magic Arcanum and I can say: You have convinced me to start with Magic Arena.. Thank you for that :)
I love the idea of this series. Strong Vorthos vibes all around. Thanks!
Cool series! Especially liked the flavor reasoning for the deck building 👍
I just can’t wait to see more magic lore. But I really like this series and can’t wait to see more of it and anything else you got
I love the idea of flavor wins. Thank you for the awesome content.
Really cool video man. I like the mix of story and gameplay
This, I like the idea to you talking about flavor and then playing a deck about it, wish you luck in the future, my friend.
I LOVE the idea of this new series, it's so simple and straightforward. It's like, "Why didn't I think of that?!"
I can't wait to see more and what else you choose to cover :)
Great deck and gameplay! Keep them coming!
Chandra: Flames Vivien: The Dead Nissa: Nature Basri: POCKET SAND
This is great, I didn’t know much about Basri and he has a cool story. We need an instant depicting him called “Pocket Sand” that taps down a creature or two. Theme decks for the win!
Dude, I LOVE making flavor decks. Awesome video
Oh! And I love the idea of Flavor Wins! I think it is a very good addition to Magic Arcanum!!😊
Liking this new format, keep it up !
Looking forward to watching more of these
Basri having his spark ignite from something positive is actually really neat and was a design idea I never knew would be neat to explore.
The flavor win idea is a 10/10 idea, great job!!
I like it so far, look forward to seeing more
I really like this flavor win Ryan keep making more please!
The premature popoff killed me 😂 Awesome video!
Hey man, first time commenting on your videos I always watch them, but I just hadda say I love the themed deck portion, really cool stuff
I love Basri's design, my favorite PW of the 6 in the set, excited to see more of him and Oketra's teaching on other planes
Keep it going man, this is great!
love the new content can't wait to see more
Real talk. I don't know how I feel about the gameplay section of this Flavor Win series but I ended up watching it to the end and enjoying it quite a bit. I think the real lesson learned is just how much I enjoy watching/listening to Ryan Gomez.10/10 keep doing what you do, kind sir.
This series is genius. thank you so much.
Video and audio and content quality has now met or exceeded when you guys were at TCGPlayer. I love it and you two so much.
I love your commentary as you play. It's so accurate and shows how much more I need to be paying attention lmao. >:)
I love the idea of flavor and then a deck around it
Two thoughts: I love thematic decks but I'm just an awful deck builder so I'm glad you're out there doing it right for both of us with this cool new series.
Also, I like that they continue to have cool, new ideas for planeswalkers like Basri and The Wanderer.
I love flavor wins. This is going to be a great series. I can not wait.
A little bit of story time, a little bit of fighty time. Great concept for a series, please keep it up!
love the new flavor win series. keep it up
LOVE the flavor win setup. Story+gameplay is
I hate there is so many planeswalkers and I can't remember them all, so I love your work here.
Absolute like on this video.
When you showed basri's acolyte, and i paid more attention to the background of the card, the first plane that came to mind for me was Innistraad, as the swords looked like gravestones, and the black mist just reminded me of some of the artwork. Another possibility is some unexplored part of the mephidross on Mirrodin, and Basri went there after the scars storyline.
Nice video and good idea with the flavor decks. Kinda want to build this deck in paper now lol
Huge fan of the "flavor win" section. Theme decks are a ton of fun to watch.
He fits really well with the Boros Legion type decks. Can't wait to see more of him.
Basri is personally my new favorite Planeswalker! I'm a sucker for any manner of Paladin in my fantasy, so Basri scratches that itch perfectly.
This is a flavorful idea. Enjoyed both sides a lot. Looking forward to Liliana's flavor win.
Loving the flavor deck!
I'm excited to see Basri, Amonkhet is my favorite plain so far and it's cool to see it referenced again. I'm glad to see it wasn't totally destroyed after hour of devastation
I like this kind of video. I’m just getting back into magic( for like the 5th time) and magic arena is really my go to for now. I’ve always been a fan of flavor decks, mostly tribal though. Currently I’d doing lagers cat tribal. Can’t wait to see his lore grow.
Keep up the content. Love you guys
I think it’s a really great idea to mix lore and gameplay for many reasons : it’s less time consuming than pure research, it’s fascinating to see lore in action and finally, it is different than standard top deck gameplay. So win-win-win !
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, its great foy new players like me!
I love this idea!!! As a Jonny and a Vorthos, it's great to see my two passions in the game coming together.
As for the plane Basri planeswalked to, even if Dominaria wasn't the first, most likely he did end up there, specially in the Zhalfirian Void, since this set is Teferi themed and that's were he was at the time, having lost his spark.
Super glad to see another planeswalker from Amonkhet, it's one of my favorite planes for being Ancient Egyptian-themed. The actual card itself could maybe have been an Elspeth planeswalker given its design, but it's still pretty cool and honestly it's not even bad at all
Themed decks are always fun to play with and are easily inspired. Though it makes the video a bit longer, I do enjoy the battle aspect of showing off the new cards.
I really liked your video and made me like Basri even more. Gideon was one of my favorite planeswalkers but I believe Basri could fill out his shoes and his story does sound inspiring. Also, I like your theory believe it holds truth that Basri visited Dominaria
I really enjoy the games afterward, I play Magic for the flavor (My Trostani commander is built solely out of Ravnica block/War of the Spark). Great idea.
I like this walker and the series will definitely become a favorite.
This channel is a flavor win!
I'm about flavor wins. Great idea, love the content
Thank was great! I actually like the deck!
I can't wait to see more Basri
This is the only card I wanted from the set. His lore sounds amazing