I plan on using the extra-thick commanders when I can; they’re really cool. And yes, as someone who lived in Austin for years I appreciate the biodegradable packaging.
@@FelipeASaito - "Damn, you thicc as an Etched Foil precon Commander" ftfy, since the _regular_ etched foil "commanders" from Commander Legends are just regular thickness and not dummy thicc.
Kids: What's a big woop? Grandpa: Back in my day when we had Tempest and Stronghold, we'd say 'big woop' when our friend would play a Gaia's Cradle when they'd play an elf deck while I played....
Your use of the phrase "back in my day" reminds me of my favorite quoted quote. A bunch of us were at the Odyssey prerelease when my best friend came over to my table and said, "You see that guy over there?" ([Intentionally embellished establishing sentence follows:] My friend indicated a wild-eyed middle aged man who was waving his hands in the air and surrounded by excited younger people near the trading tables. [Actual quote continues:]) "Those people are gathered around him because he's telling Magic stories like they're war stories! 'So, there I was! SURROUNDED by Elves! Just me... and my Steam Blast!' That's when he whipped out the named card and brandished it about with a satisfied grin." I never verified if what my friend said was true. Maybe the myth was better than the truth in this case, but I liked that story-about-a-story enough that I will probably never forget it. (In fact, I keep a Steam Blast in my back pocket to this day. Just in case.)
*Has preordered all 5 decks* "Ahh yes, I should listen to The Professor tell me whether I should regret my decision or not." I feel that $40 for the Commander precons is a very acceptable cost compared to the cost of assembling a deck by buying singles. Since 2015 I've bought one from each year, with the exception of 2018 and 2019 as I feel the product was lackluster during those years, lacking in value, and the commanders of the decks from those years just didn't interest me. Now in 2021 with the Strixhaven-themed precons, every one of them has caught my eye as being interesting and potentially fun to play and upgrade, with a very good value in reprints alone (at time of reveal). I'm glad they went with foil-etched instead of the regular foiling process because my 2020 Commander foils are already curling (2017 and earlier are still perfectly straight). I'm very excited to see how the new Strixhaven decks perform and to see what kind of shenanigans I can get up to building around some of the included cards.
The non orzhov-orzhov deck, while flavourful, looks janky as hell. And the non-izzet izzet deck seems all over the place. The other ones are rather good, however.
@Volrath In Canada these decks cost 45 Canadian Dollars each which is around 35 US dollars. Not sure if the exchange rate lines up in other parts of the world though.
@Volrath That's because people selling them as a set typically give a hefty discount. Hell, most online sellers tend to sell them at a discount. $40 is just the (assumed) MSRP, not necessarily what you are going to be paying if you shop around.
I always appreciate your consideration of new players, as despite playing the game with friends for about 3 years now I still tend to feel like that person who doesnt know what's going on. Great video!
The heads up for the preorder on Amazon is great. Good to know you can go and buy these right now without having to worry about price hikes due to availability or any other possible problems.
I don’t even like magic, but the way you articulate everything and explain these decks has me hooked lol. I can’t even fully explain it. Keep up the great work!
I really love Lorehold as a whole. In my playgroup, only two people actually had Boros decks because of how weak it is as a whole. Now though, I would not be surprised to see a few new decks pop up.
I just went with the wife and some last night to walmart and decided to try commander. We had a large selection of these comma der decks to choose from and I got the lorehold without knowing what was in it. Between all three we got, they all played really well. I can't express how much these play well and are totally worth it.
Amazon has minimal packaging versions of these products, and I think that is pretty neat. However, after getting the new decks, I don't see the draw (ha) of that. The new, all cardboard packaging is great and environmentally friendly. I am impressed with Hasbro's ability to eliminate a good deal of plastic from their packaging.
I literally just had in my cart a Lorehold deck + Smothering Tithe and Sword of Feast and Famine to upgrade it, as well as some conditional untapped ETB lands for upgrading other decks. I came to check if you already had this video posted before make a possible regretful purchase and now I'm 145 Euros poorer, yet proportionally happier. I love the idea of having a bunch of pre-constructed decks ready to play with my friends, tks for the little push!
Actual opinion here, Me and my friends bought the Simic, izzet and the golgari deck and we tried them during different games. I have to say.. actually that they are not bad, they are even good considering that they are starting ones and you have to upgrade them, i liked them, there were a lot of good synergy between cards and great cards as well. Greetings!
8:41 Thanks to this arrangement with Amazon, the Hasbro corporation is fostering small businesses and protecting consumers of- *smack Oh god! *smack I taste metal! *gasp Am I having a stroke? F i n a n c i a l .
I love watching fascinating videos done by knowledgeable and charismatic people about things I know absolutely nothing about. Never played this game in my life or held one of these cards before, but I am so invested in this video. Lol
Props to you, RandomSloMo! Expanding knowledge base and enjoying things you never knew about is one of the chief joys of You Tube and the internet at large. It's also fun to try to confuse the algorithms!
Watching professor struggling to find reasons to hate these decks is a joy. Thanks to wotc for creating great product and prof for informing us about it!
Great review an usual, Prof! Got Silverquill Statement a few weeks ago as the first ever pre-con I've bought. Had many fun games with my friends, and I don't regret it for a moment! Currently waiting for the "Witherbloom Witchcraft" to arrive, as it has some of my favourite mechanics in it, so hoping to be just as happy about that.
Done! Gone back and watched, liked and commented on the C2016 video review. It’s amazing to see how the videos have evolved as well as the products and your opinions. And this video? Glorious. Thanks.
"Do you kids know what I mean when I say Big Whoop?" Obviously a reference to the legendary treasure from Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Since that's a pirate themed series, I can only say that by Big Whoop you mean "return to Ixalan!" Did I get that right?
Right as always got my pre-release kit booster box and Commander deck from my lgs three days ago and couldn't be happier thinking about buying some more
Thank you for your work and dedication, prof! Just a little correction there: Strixhaven is the name of the school, not the plane. It is located on the plane of Arcavios.
What's hilarious is that I never even considered buying the 20 dollar boxes, because I assumed that they were watered down and for new players. I'm part of the problem...
Yeah it does feel like that doesn't? But actually in a way we are correct about that. In these strixhaven versions the quality IS much greater than the $20 versions. Soooo technically we are right to feel that way.
I bought 2 just because I missed a bunch of commander staples that were included and added up to, i dunno, 15 bucks or so? decent investment and a couple of nights of fun with the precons. Well worth it.
Reap the Tide is a powerhouse without any upgrades. My brother dominated just using that deck for weeks. I got my own deck now and its gone 2/0. I honestly felt bad the first time I won with it because it beat everyone else at the table so bad.
Lorehold is my first pick as well. I think that one thing I really like about those decks is the fact that while still going for mecanics that exists in their color identities, they are trying to do something different from the usual pre-constructed decks of those colors.
The 40 dollar precons are designed to be somewhat balanced around each other and to be played against each other. Now they are supposed to be more of a board game to be bought as 5 and less to be played individually. Thats also why the big precons cost more, because they need significantly more playtesting. The cheaper ones barely do.
@@acollectorslifeforme4201 Are these Strixhaven Commander decks worth keeping sealed as a case? I want to play MTG commander in the future, but currently I do know anyone to play with,.
@@kurtisjames1592 there are a handful of cards of value from that Commander set, nothing too crazy though. Sometimes WOTC doesn’t reprint cards from Commander precons so if they print cards that make any cards in those sets valuable the sealed product will become more valuable. The risk is that WOTC can reprint any non reserve list cards that could lower the value. Either way Commander precons tend to hold atleast their original retail value or more over time, some have become extremely valuable like Edgar Markhov vampires.
Always appreciate the unfiltered opinions from you prof. Haven't bought anything other than prerelease kits for a year or so but these are looking nice.
Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Yes. I bought the Witherbloom deck and had most of the cards to upgrade it. It's got me back into playing and it's probably the most fun I've had building the deck.
Hello Professor, I went yesterday to my game store, bought the Lorehold Legacies, the protectors and a few upgrades. Then with the help of the friends there y sleeved, upgraded the deck and played a match. All with the necessary sanitary precautions, of course. A great deck, playable from the box but very easy and inexpensive to upgrade. Thanks a lot for your videos and your help.
I bought the lorehold commander through mailing with my old LGS and its arriving this monday. It was $15 more due to the shipping costs, but so worth it to help a store I loved.
My MTG playing friends got me into Arena over the pandemic. We met up for the first time in ages this weekend, and one of the guys bought this full set to give everyone a deck. I picked Prismari Performance because I liked the idea of the magical conductor/orchestra, and while I definitely found I needed help getting through my turns when all the multiple-repeating-interlocking trigger effects started going off, I must say I thought the deck achieved its theme wonderfully and I had an absolute blast playing my first game of paper magic.
I would be interested to have the Professor show us how much it would cost to buy JUST the new cards printed, for people who pretty much have all of the reprints.
I was lucky, my local shop is in the middle of nowhere, and still had a full stock of the stixhaven commander decks, I ended up picking up the zaffai, thunder conductor deck, and man I'm not disappointed.
I wish, but they don’t make a habit of adding rares/mythics from the set the decks are based off of though. You’ll get commons and uncommons from Strixhaven set, but not stuff higher up. Especially lands, they seem greedy about those. Can’t risk hurting the incentive of opening packs of the main set!
Just played pre-con, no change with Lorehold, Quandrix, Prismari, and Witherbloom, and it was surprisingly balanced and well-matched. Thanks for the recommendation!
Without it no-one is going to make MTG cards in amounts for 100,000+ customer base. Also this is the wrong product to do an anti capitalism speech. The Commander pre-cons are arguably the most generous under priced products WOTC's ever releases. MUCH better than grubby cash grab from standard sets that rotate. Standard rotation is "capitalism bad". Commander not so much.
Wow, this was altogether a very positive review. Even some of things the Professor tends to criticize (Amazon distribution, being set on the same plane, foils, etc.) ended up working really well. I'm not very interested in the School of Mages (the flavor doesn't resonate with me as much) but I'm stoked about how elegantly they handled the mechanics (and I'm super excited for the Mystical Archives!). That said, I feel like wanting (or even expecting) the price to drop from ~$35-$40 to ~$20 because a $20 deck was released is, in a way, getting an inch and taking a mile (not really a mile; more like a couple more inches, but that's the idiom). The price of one product is (IMO) not as directly related to the price of another, and you could make the case that the price difference is a premium for cards that are more complex and/or demanded more resources to design. Even so, $40 is still pretty steep, so I'd still be hesitant to pay the full price for one, and I wouldn't complain at all about a price drop.
I just go into MTG. I bought a Strixhaven Quantum Quandrix deck, just because that's the only "ready to play" deck that my local game shop had. Glad it's a good deck.
My LGS just closed this month and now I have nowhere to go to buy cards. The best place I can go is this massive store about 35 minutes away from me. This has really affected the way I think about products I will buy. I have missed the prerelease and I'm not sure if I will buy a commander deck. I really want to build gyome, master chef and I'm considering just buying the non foil extended art version. What do you guys think? Would it be better for me to buy the whole deck or get the single non foil gyome instead
I think you really have to consider how much of the contents you're actually going to use. I've been feeling more and more like buying the whole deck is usually not worth it because I'm a long established player and I already have most or all of the good reprints. If there's only one or two new cards that I want, I'd rather just buy those separately. But if you think you can make use of a lot of the cards in the deck, it might be worth it for you. Even if 40 is a reasonable value for what you get, it's still 40 dollars.
Revenge Of The Booster Box Game: ua-cam.com/video/Pfmr1LhY25I/v-deo.html
Never have I seen someone hate to love something as much as this
It's mostly because this proves that WOTC knows how to provide a good, public product and chooses to do shit like Secret Lairs instead.
Dude ur a Mayonnaise
@@josephabner9695 No, they're an instrument.
@@purpleslushie like horseradish??
@@LovedandTheLover just like horseradish.
I'm surprised you didn't talk about the lack of plastic! That genuinely impressed me that the packaging on this product is mostly bio-degradable.
And I personally like the extra thick commander more than the extra wide one.
I plan on using the extra-thick commanders when I can; they’re really cool.
And yes, as someone who lived in Austin for years I appreciate the biodegradable packaging.
And don’t forget the minimal packaging option!
Cringe
Idk why, but the monotone "financial" during the transition made me laugh so hard 😂
Professor Plinkett
glad I'm not the only one that chuckled at that. He has a good sense of humor for sure.
I for one welcome our thick commander card overlords.
"Damn, you thicc as an Etched Foil Commander"
@@FelipeASaito - "Damn, you thicc as an Etched Foil precon Commander"
ftfy, since the _regular_ etched foil "commanders" from Commander Legends are just regular thickness and not dummy thicc.
“The decks are all the same price!”
*checks amazon*
Uh oh
*chuckles
*I'm in danger*
I’m glad I got mine prior to release. I only paid $30. I wouldn’t be buying one now LOL.
I got mine in a drawing at my LGS so for the entrance to the drawing and commander tournament of $8 it is a good value
I remember when a card being "able to stand on it's own" meant something completely different
Hohoho, snap
No joke, I was just sitting here wondering if it is worth it to buy a Strixhaven Commander deck, and this popped up.
Your FBI nanobot agent is on point
@@paulpallo5513 I wasn't even looking at anything on the phone to suggest it it was... serendipitous.
The Prof knows best!
Don't worry, it's Magic.
I bought Quantum to see what cards I can take and put into my Koma Kommander deck
Kids: What's a big woop?
Grandpa: Back in my day when we had Tempest and Stronghold, we'd say 'big woop' when our friend would play a Gaia's Cradle when they'd play an elf deck while I played....
While I played Shivan Dragon! 😂
Your use of the phrase "back in my day" reminds me of my favorite quoted quote.
A bunch of us were at the Odyssey prerelease when my best friend came over to my table and said, "You see that guy over there?" ([Intentionally embellished establishing sentence follows:] My friend indicated a wild-eyed middle aged man who was waving his hands in the air and surrounded by excited younger people near the trading tables. [Actual quote continues:]) "Those people are gathered around him because he's telling Magic stories like they're war stories! 'So, there I was! SURROUNDED by Elves! Just me... and my Steam Blast!' That's when he whipped out the named card and brandished it about with a satisfied grin."
I never verified if what my friend said was true. Maybe the myth was better than the truth in this case, but I liked that story-about-a-story enough that I will probably never forget it.
(In fact, I keep a Steam Blast in my back pocket to this day. Just in case.)
A rathi dragon with borgoden's hammer and Kearvek's torch muahahaha
I remember slapping a black lotus into my bike rim to make some dam dirt bike sounds if I only would of known
@@tylorcousins8212 My condolences.
Been waiting on this video before I even think about purchasing this set. Best source for Magic product judgement around.
Yeah, 100%
*Has preordered all 5 decks* "Ahh yes, I should listen to The Professor tell me whether I should regret my decision or not."
I feel that $40 for the Commander precons is a very acceptable cost compared to the cost of assembling a deck by buying singles. Since 2015 I've bought one from each year, with the exception of 2018 and 2019 as I feel the product was lackluster during those years, lacking in value, and the commanders of the decks from those years just didn't interest me.
Now in 2021 with the Strixhaven-themed precons, every one of them has caught my eye as being interesting and potentially fun to play and upgrade, with a very good value in reprints alone (at time of reveal). I'm glad they went with foil-etched instead of the regular foiling process because my 2020 Commander foils are already curling (2017 and earlier are still perfectly straight).
I'm very excited to see how the new Strixhaven decks perform and to see what kind of shenanigans I can get up to building around some of the included cards.
+1
The non orzhov-orzhov deck, while flavourful, looks janky as hell. And the non-izzet izzet deck seems all over the place. The other ones are rather good, however.
@Volrath yes there is. Idiots will buy it.
@Volrath In Canada these decks cost 45 Canadian Dollars each which is around 35 US dollars. Not sure if the exchange rate lines up in other parts of the world though.
@Volrath That's because people selling them as a set typically give a hefty discount. Hell, most online sellers tend to sell them at a discount.
$40 is just the (assumed) MSRP, not necessarily what you are going to be paying if you shop around.
The Prof calling out the good whens good and bad whens bad , a source to trust!
One of the photos you used for a "local game store" is my local game store...
I always appreciate your consideration of new players, as despite playing the game with friends for about 3 years now I still tend to feel like that person who doesnt know what's going on. Great video!
The new Eco-friendly boxes are pretty nifty.
The heads up for the preorder on Amazon is great. Good to know you can go and buy these right now without having to worry about price hikes due to availability or any other possible problems.
I bought the Prismari deck from my LGS last weekend and I absolutely fell in LOVE with it.
I don’t even like magic, but the way you articulate everything and explain these decks has me hooked lol. I can’t even fully explain it. Keep up the great work!
8:56 Mr. Plinkett with the guest transition spot
Typed in "Tolarian Derp" and search result was "Top 8 Must-have Red Cards For Commander"
My Izzet heart tingles, time to get derpy.
I love izzet
Can confirm, the lorehold one is actually pretty legit.
I really love Lorehold as a whole. In my playgroup, only two people actually had Boros decks because of how weak it is as a whole. Now though, I would not be surprised to see a few new decks pop up.
I just went with the wife and some last night to walmart and decided to try commander. We had a large selection of these comma der decks to choose from and I got the lorehold without knowing what was in it. Between all three we got, they all played really well. I can't express how much these play well and are totally worth it.
Amazon has minimal packaging versions of these products, and I think that is pretty neat. However, after getting the new decks, I don't see the draw (ha) of that. The new, all cardboard packaging is great and environmentally friendly. I am impressed with Hasbro's ability to eliminate a good deal of plastic from their packaging.
I literally just had in my cart a Lorehold deck + Smothering Tithe and Sword of Feast and Famine to upgrade it, as well as some conditional untapped ETB lands for upgrading other decks. I came to check if you already had this video posted before make a possible regretful purchase and now I'm 145 Euros poorer, yet proportionally happier. I love the idea of having a bunch of pre-constructed decks ready to play with my friends, tks for the little push!
Wow, very surprised to hear Prof offer positive remarks regarding Wizards’s relationship with Amazon. He always tells it the way he sees it.
Thanks professor, your channel has been a large influence of rekindling my interest in this game.
Actual opinion here, Me and my friends bought the Simic, izzet and the golgari deck and we tried them during different games. I have to say.. actually that they are not bad, they are even good considering that they are starting ones and you have to upgrade them, i liked them, there were a lot of good synergy between cards and great cards as well. Greetings!
Searching "Tolarian Poop" got me a dies to removal podcast.
Is that podcast over? It's what got me into this channel but there hasn't been a new video for it in months.
@@WayoftheFerret Hmm maybe ask Kenobi, he streams pretty often
makes sense
I appreciate the prof making up a far more interesting name for the Quandrix deck
8:41 Thanks to this arrangement with Amazon, the Hasbro corporation is fostering small businesses and protecting consumers of-
*smack Oh god! *smack I taste metal! *gasp Am I having a stroke?
F i n a n c i a l .
OMG MY VID GOT AN AD AS SOON AS HE STARTED SAYING IT AND ITS JUSY THAT MUCH BETTER NOW 🤣
I love watching fascinating videos done by knowledgeable and charismatic people about things I know absolutely nothing about.
Never played this game in my life or held one of these cards before, but I am so invested in this video. Lol
Props to you, RandomSloMo! Expanding knowledge base and enjoying things you never knew about is one of the chief joys of You Tube and the internet at large. It's also fun to try to confuse the algorithms!
Who knows, maybe this will be your gateway into the game itself
@@hankwinkenwerder3662 haha. My algorithm is definitely confused by now. Thanks :)
@@lemonygem4274 maybe! Are there groups that get together right now for it, or how does the community work for it?
@@randomslomo1875 depends on your area. Check to see if there is a card shop near you
I was hoping you would talk about, or at least mention, the new reduced waste packaging, especially the stripped down online retail version.
Watching professor struggling to find reasons to hate these decks is a joy. Thanks to wotc for creating great product and prof for informing us about it!
Just to gouge out Amazon of moneys, my LGS was offering an entire set of all 5 commander decks at 160$. Basically got one deck for free.
Great review an usual, Prof!
Got Silverquill Statement a few weeks ago as the first ever pre-con I've bought. Had many fun games with my friends, and I don't regret it for a moment!
Currently waiting for the "Witherbloom Witchcraft" to arrive, as it has some of my favourite mechanics in it, so hoping to be just as happy about that.
I bought witherbloom this weekend and am loving it! I really like using my life as a more actively used resource!
I purchased lorehold and witherbloom but I am way more excited to build up and play the witherbloom deck
Done! Gone back and watched, liked and commented on the C2016 video review. It’s amazing to see how the videos have evolved as well as the products and your opinions. And this video? Glorious. Thanks.
cheers!
Love how the professor understands the meme around the way he used to read his headers lol.
This video alone made me want to learn to play the game. Love your videos and been binge watching them since I found you.
I love that they are offering a minimal packaging option on Amazon this time around.
I am excited about the WitherBloom commander Pre con.
"Do you kids know what I mean when I say Big Whoop?"
Obviously a reference to the legendary treasure from Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Since that's a pirate themed series, I can only say that by Big Whoop you mean "return to Ixalan!" Did I get that right?
Right as always got my pre-release kit booster box and Commander deck from my lgs three days ago and couldn't be happier thinking about buying some more
Thank you for your work and dedication, prof! Just a little correction there: Strixhaven is the name of the school, not the plane. It is located on the plane of Arcavios.
"These decks are available now at your local game store!"
*cries in Australian*
U guyz don't have them over there?
My LGS wouldn't even sell them until official release.
Cries in Thailand
Everytime y'all say $40 I flinch cause hah they're *70* in Canada y'all.
Same, 60 in Australia here aaahhhhh
Where in Canada, besides Wal-Mart, is charging $70 for these? My 3 LGS's are $50 to $55 each.
@@williamstewart6728 the great northwest lol
you are going to hate me for this but i preordered them at my local store and it was 30€ a deck ! hope you dont pull a muscle from that flinch
what is y'all?
Just have to say that this video was instrumental in my decision to pick up all five of these to try commander and I have not been disappointed.
What's hilarious is that I never even considered buying the 20 dollar boxes, because I assumed that they were watered down and for new players. I'm part of the problem...
Yeah it does feel like that doesn't? But actually in a way we are correct about that. In these strixhaven versions the quality IS much greater than the $20 versions. Soooo technically we are right to feel that way.
I bought 2 just because I missed a bunch of commander staples that were included and added up to, i dunno, 15 bucks or so? decent investment and a couple of nights of fun with the precons. Well worth it.
I bought them for the new cards. I always pre order edh decks. Lots of singles for cheaper prices.
Lathril, Blade of the Elves is very very powerful.
And Anowon can be devastating with some improvements.
Reap the Tide is a powerhouse without any upgrades. My brother dominated just using that deck for weeks. I got my own deck now and its gone 2/0. I honestly felt bad the first time I won with it because it beat everyone else at the table so bad.
Lorehold is my first pick as well. I think that one thing I really like about those decks is the fact that while still going for mecanics that exists in their color identities, they are trying to do something different from the usual pre-constructed decks of those colors.
The majority of cards in these decks are cards that I thought “man, I needed an extra copy or two of these for my collection”. These decks are great!
Okay I'm just going to come out and say it this is definitely the best channel on UA-cam for magic the gathering hands down.
The 40 dollar precons are designed to be somewhat balanced around each other and to be played against each other. Now they are supposed to be more of a board game to be bought as 5 and less to be played individually. Thats also why the big precons cost more, because they need significantly more playtesting. The cheaper ones barely do.
I just built Breena, the Demagogue and I absolutely cannot wait to Make Magic Great Again this weekend at Commander Night
I'm probably just going to wait until amazon put the whole set on sale for about $100 for all of them. Same as they did for Commander 2019 and 2020.
That’s when I buy the second set and leave it sealed like I did with C19 and C20.
@@acollectorslifeforme4201 Are these Strixhaven Commander decks worth keeping sealed as a case? I want to play MTG commander in the future, but currently I do know anyone to play with,.
@@kurtisjames1592 there are a handful of cards of value from that Commander set, nothing too crazy though. Sometimes WOTC doesn’t reprint cards from Commander precons so if they print cards that make any cards in those sets valuable the sealed product will become more valuable.
The risk is that WOTC can reprint any non reserve list cards that could lower the value. Either way Commander precons tend to hold atleast their original retail value or more over time, some have become extremely valuable like Edgar Markhov vampires.
Always appreciate the unfiltered opinions from you prof. Haven't bought anything other than prerelease kits for a year or so but these are looking nice.
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Yes.
I bought the Witherbloom deck and had most of the cards to upgrade it. It's got me back into playing and it's probably the most fun I've had building the deck.
I winced pretty hard when you were able to stand up that commander from last year. That's a real curve lol.
Thank you professor! Captured my ambivalence well and made me feel much better with your thoughtfulness
Bonus points to Professor Brian for using the word, "whinging".
Usage of that word has increased dramatically ever since the Hound said it a few times.
I love that you showed my two favorite colors in this video
Makes me want the orzhov and sonic deck for me and my bros
hahaha "I taste metal" I laughed aloud, ty prof
thanks for making these kinds of videos prof. been a while and was planning on buying these. Great review as always! :)
“held hostage by my hobby” really hit me a little too hard 🪦
Thank you prof 🧑🏫. I preordered all of these a while ago and was scared that I made a bad move. I am glad that I made a good choice.
I'm taking AP Language and Composition right now, so when he said the words "rhetoric" and "ethos", I got the chills
Hello Professor, I went yesterday to my game store, bought the Lorehold Legacies, the protectors and a few upgrades. Then with the help of the friends there y sleeved, upgraded the deck and played a match. All with the necessary sanitary precautions, of course. A great deck, playable from the box but very easy and inexpensive to upgrade. Thanks a lot for your videos and your help.
Professor: Type 'Tolarian' and any other word in the search bar
My hands: Tolarian goose
I am just excited to see and play with this new realm. As always another wonderful lesson.
I mean the ones at my LGS were going for $32 the night of prerelease.
These reviews for strixhaven have been awesome!! I finally got into modern and gonna buy all the precons now, thanks professor!!
Big Whoop is when someone manages to not have mana problems
I bought the lorehold commander through mailing with my old LGS and its arriving this monday. It was $15 more due to the shipping costs, but so worth it to help a store I loved.
So, you're saying Gamegenic needs to update their XL deck boxes... again for these even thicker cards? Great job prof, love the videos!
My MTG playing friends got me into Arena over the pandemic. We met up for the first time in ages this weekend, and one of the guys bought this full set to give everyone a deck. I picked Prismari Performance because I liked the idea of the magical conductor/orchestra, and while I definitely found I needed help getting through my turns when all the multiple-repeating-interlocking trigger effects started going off, I must say I thought the deck achieved its theme wonderfully and I had an absolute blast playing my first game of paper magic.
I would be interested to have the Professor show us how much it would cost to buy JUST the new cards printed, for people who pretty much have all of the reprints.
I was lucky, my local shop is in the middle of nowhere, and still had a full stock of the stixhaven commander decks, I ended up picking up the zaffai, thunder conductor deck, and man I'm not disappointed.
I thought they should have included the Snarls in the manabase. Made sense since Commander 2021 is tied to the Strixhaven set they are in.
I wish, but they don’t make a habit of adding rares/mythics from the set the decks are based off of though. You’ll get commons and uncommons from Strixhaven set, but not stuff higher up. Especially lands, they seem greedy about those. Can’t risk hurting the incentive of opening packs of the main set!
what's a snarl?
good to see the prof happy. this is in the right direction for mtg products fs.
5:29 Same Prof, same 😂
That's my LGS at 7:57! Emerald Knights in Burbank, California. Good people.
The professor is always fun to watch.
Just played pre-con, no change with Lorehold, Quandrix, Prismari, and Witherbloom, and it was surprisingly balanced and well-matched. Thanks for the recommendation!
Last time I was this early, it was still called Golgari.
Last time it was still called Boros
Looking forward to this video. The PO came earlier tho. Happy that prof approves this product. Makes me feel very excited waiting and a winner!
I saw, I clicked, I watched.
Veni, tetigit, aspiciebam
Veni, Veci, Viewi
I saw, I clicked, I read, I liked, I watched, I liked
I've been waiting for this review! Thanks for the great feedback as always
Last time I was this early there was no Reserved list
I just got here and there's only one dislike lmao
This is some reeeeally encouraging news, AND from what I've seen online / with my own foils from pre-release, the quality SEEMS to be improved!
Despite capitalism, I'm just going to start all my sentences with "Despite capitalism" from now on
Without it no-one is going to make MTG cards in amounts for 100,000+ customer base. Also this is the wrong product to do an anti capitalism speech. The Commander pre-cons are arguably the most generous under priced products WOTC's ever releases. MUCH better than grubby cash grab from standard sets that rotate. Standard rotation is "capitalism bad". Commander not so much.
Subscribed immediately! Thanks for the super review! The Lorehold Commander Deck becomes my first commander deck ever. I am so excited. 🤩
Professor: type tolarian into youtube search thing
Crazy Eyes: i thought we were watching scoobydoo
Wow, this was altogether a very positive review. Even some of things the Professor tends to criticize (Amazon distribution, being set on the same plane, foils, etc.) ended up working really well. I'm not very interested in the School of Mages (the flavor doesn't resonate with me as much) but I'm stoked about how elegantly they handled the mechanics (and I'm super excited for the Mystical Archives!).
That said, I feel like wanting (or even expecting) the price to drop from ~$35-$40 to ~$20 because a $20 deck was released is, in a way, getting an inch and taking a mile (not really a mile; more like a couple more inches, but that's the idiom). The price of one product is (IMO) not as directly related to the price of another, and you could make the case that the price difference is a premium for cards that are more complex and/or demanded more resources to design. Even so, $40 is still pretty steep, so I'd still be hesitant to pay the full price for one, and I wouldn't complain at all about a price drop.
Proxy all singles you need.
I just go into MTG. I bought a Strixhaven Quantum Quandrix deck, just because that's the only "ready to play" deck that my local game shop had. Glad it's a good deck.
“Capitalism, Grrr!” Made me laugh way too hard
Finally my man! I waited on this video before i pre-order some commander decks!
Thanks as always.
Profs on academic probation that’s why he didn’t get any spoilers
Really hope these drop like ikoria did. Really want these for another battle box
My LGS just closed this month and now I have nowhere to go to buy cards. The best place I can go is this massive store about 35 minutes away from me. This has really affected the way I think about products I will buy. I have missed the prerelease and I'm not sure if I will buy a commander deck. I really want to build gyome, master chef and I'm considering just buying the non foil extended art version. What do you guys think? Would it be better for me to buy the whole deck or get the single non foil gyome instead
I think you really have to consider how much of the contents you're actually going to use. I've been feeling more and more like buying the whole deck is usually not worth it because I'm a long established player and I already have most or all of the good reprints. If there's only one or two new cards that I want, I'd rather just buy those separately.
But if you think you can make use of a lot of the cards in the deck, it might be worth it for you. Even if 40 is a reasonable value for what you get, it's still 40 dollars.