I just marvel at how one seed of 'let me know if you want to hear that story' had sprouted at an endless branched tree. Every story told only open up to even more stories. Well, content for life :D
Phyrexians. I'm willing to be that after Bolas, the story will probably shift to the Phyrexians, a plot point revitalised by Karn's story-line on Dominaria.
PLEASE continue to do these. I am just getting back to magic after 17 years of being away from the game. I missed the entire modern format. These videos really make it exciting to get back in the game. Excellent job friend!
Ever since seiben stopped doing summed up mtg lore videos, this is by far my favorite mtg lore series. Please never stop making these, these are amazing.
I'd really like how the story branches everywhere! i'd really hope for 1 hour stream/video for a story just based on Magic Origins 😍😍😍! thanks Ryan, been supporting you since the first story time
Thanks Ryan! Even though I know what is going on in the current lore, you're a great storyteller and I love listening to how you talk about what's going on :) Looking forward to the next one
Ryan..... The way these videos have been put together and shortened the lore into excellently explained and entertaining stories has got me back into magic lore which I gave up on long ago. Please continue to make all of the stories!
After trying to watch some videos on Magic lore I finally stumble upon Magic Arcanum and the endless confusion is suddenly over! Great job and thank you!
Super comprehensive and well explained without getting into too much detail. I love this segment soooo much. One of the best types of magic content on UA-cam right now. I wanna hear about the eldrazi story next!
this series shold become a regular show, I love the lore of mtg but I don't know if I could ever read every story in the site and keep up, this is a great summary, simply put MORE PLEASE
Ryan, you seriously make the game more enjoyable for me. Knowing the meaning behind the cards and the art instead of just the mechanics. I love these videos...Clicked immediately when I saw this one. Keep it up! :)
Amazing video! I watched all the other ones and started to look at the card's art and flavor text a lot more, so that when you talked about Liliana and Nicol Bolas I knew it was about 'In Bolas Clutches', seems obvious but was a huge 'ah ha!' for me lol Keep up the great work!
Loving these videos. They are really helpful to Dungeon Masters that are researching Ravnica before starting campaigns there. My game is still 6 months away but I'm getting tons of idea for campaign plots from the lore and your help.
Jace reuniting with Gideon in his Ixalan story was so heartwarming -- especially when he talks about having muscles and Gideon wanting to be his workout bro.
I love hearing the lore of magic. For a while, and also being comparatively new to the game, i felt there wasn't much glue that was keeping me interested in magic compared to those around me who could really get into it. This story, and characters and side stories is the glue i needed and i've found a new flame of interest for the game. Thank you for these videos!
I appreciate what you're doing by gathering all the disparate information provided in various sources to form a cohesive summary of the fascinating Magic storyline. I'd like to see several dozen more of these and if some of the same facts recur in multiple videos where they are relevant, I would prefer that. However, it really interrupts the flow and takes up too much time to continually ask, "Tell me if you'd like to hear more about this in the comments," and "Go watch this video," for information integral to what is already being talked about. Keep it up.
Also a unifying search term in the video title would be helpful for these storyline videos. Mtg Breakdown. Magic Storytime. Something we can search to find all the videos.
You are so great, I’m a beginner of the game and understanding the lore helps me understand why cards matter and the point of standard. It’s a card game based around a story. It’s anazing
Love these videos! As someone that's kind of recently started with Magic this really gives a more personal look at the different cards that I've been playing with.
Yes! Please! Eldrazi! Nicki B! Nissa! Liliana's brother and her forming of her contact with the demons if that extended story exists! Everything! I'm loving this series!
It's great when You show particular cards capturing parts of the story. I know that there are more such cards on rachunek set, would be great if You could use more of them. There are also great stories in some much older sets, Hope You cover them at some point as well. Anyway, amazing job, so is the final effect, thank You a lot
Since WotC said they want to turn their focus away from the Gatewatch a while ago (iirc), I picture this epic fight with Nicol Bolas, where he is defeated while taking several Members of the Gatewatch down with him (and probably a few districts of Ravnica), so WotC can tell how the new Weatherlight helps Karn bomb New Phyrexia or something like that. AND YES, in my mind the endcard before focusing on the Weatherlight is Jace and Vraska sitting all lovey-dovey in a Café on Ravnica, discussing it's recovering or just a good book. Ixalan's story really sold me on that couple. Btw, just randomly discovered your story videos and I really like your way of comprising the story. I read most of it and it helps refreshing some bits.
I Would like a quick run down on Domri Rade and how she factors into the final fight on Ravnica since she is making a return in Ravnica Allegiance as Domri, Chaos Bringer.
Very cool , its hard to find such quality content about mtg lore , btw , as i remember nicol bolas storyline was started from Shards of Alara block , i still dont know how he used all that energy from conflux
I have been digging through this vids all night long! Awesome content!!! I'd love to see one about Urza. Since we got a big series on Bolas. And both are the two most meaningful characters on MTG history. Another one about power levels on pre-revision Planeswalkers? who's the strongest? Bolas? Urza? or a top 10 at least. So we get to compare Karn, Sorin and the rest.. I'd also love one regarding each plane: Dominaria, Innistrad, Alara, Ravnica, Mirrodin, Phyrexia, etc.
Nissa leaving does leave a convenient forest spot open for Vivien Ried, and we all know her entire purpose is to go after Bolas, so I predict she will be brought into the fold and we will get an Oath of Vivien card. I'd loooooove an oath of vraska, let's hope she gets her memories back. I think we can expect a few planeswalkers that are working for bolas to turn on him. I predict Kaya is going to be the orzhov planeswalker in the next set, working for bolas but then she will turn on him in the third.
I like the Gatewatch too! Nikki B is a great villain and every villain has a fall and I think his will be epic. Oh yeah and that's a yes for more Eldrazi story please!
Huh, I had assumed they were called GATEwatch because they were protecting Ravnica, you know, the city with all the guildgates. TIL. Wonderful series, btw! Do more, and longer if you can.
Wait, Jace is the living guildpact, so everything he says is law, of the magic and utterly unbreakable variety. No matter what Bolas does, all ten guilds are on the side of the Gatewatch because of that.
You are hinting at the story from time to time, so let me say - I would LOVE to hear/watch some sort of summary of the story. I personally got lost after Dominaria, the authors are just not working for me. But I would still love to know what's actually happening.Keep up the good work. Cheers!
Hey, I would love to find out more about the lesser known Planeswalkers. Also could you sometimes show the cards a bit longer, the Art is just to cool and I can't see them fast enough 😄
>.> Please tell EVERY story. There are so many magic lore stories that are basically dead to time because they happened so long ago and the books are pretty hard to find (I have a small library from used book stores). Also, you're really amazing at telling stories and I probably wouldn't've subscribed to the channel w/o Magic Arcanum. So tyvm ^_^
(Ryan) It's true, a lot of the older stories are lost to the sands of time. Hopefully I can preserve some here before they're gone for good. Having fans like you makes it worthwhile. Thanks for the support!
i am wondering, ive heard that nissa was the one not listening to sorin wich is why she let the eldrazi free in the hope they would just go away. but i also heard of someone just saying that nicol bolas had tricked jace, sarkhan and Chandra to go to the Eye of Ugin and that they then accidently let the eldrazi free. Can someone please explain this all to me? im new to magic lore thats why im wondering
We also know from the Shadows over Innistrad that Ajani, Narset and Tamiyo are friends and from the Tarkir story, we know Narset and Sarkhan are friends. So we might see Narset and Sarkhan take the oath?
I love your story videos. I think your approach of picking one interesting theme at a time and skipping a lot of the back story, with a plan to revisit later, is a great way to explore the universe. I did have one problem though. After watching the story videos in the Magic arcanum playlist i wanted to see if you had more story videos. Looking at your channel there are hundreds of playlist for these videos to get lost in and the Magic Arcanum playlist is scattered with different types of content. I could not find more until i tried guessing stuff to search in the youtube search bar. Perhaps just add some links to other story playlists, like the Chronicles of Bolas (are there any others?), in the description. This story looks like it will be very difficult to navigate so some bureaucracy on the videos might be necessary to keep it approachable. Also a video that provides some general context for everything would be fantastic. Such as a brief overview of the story so far and/or an explanation of the mtg universe; such as what a plane actually is, are there infinite planes and what is possible with regards to alternate universes and timelines? And how does magic work? Keep it up, thanks for the great videos!
Awesome series!! Please do videos on the old sets as well!! there is so much lore and you explain it so well!! do the Urza´s story! Thank you for these videos, they are awesome!
I don't mind the Gatewatch as a concept, but I'm getting kinda tired of the OG 5 being in basically every set from SoI until now. I'd rather have only a couple active for certain sets, and save the big team ups for major events.
I just marvel at how one seed of 'let me know if you want to hear that story' had sprouted at an endless branched tree. Every story told only open up to even more stories. Well, content for life :D
Or at least, as long as Magic keeps coming.
Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, ma'boi.
I want you to tell me every single bit of history that WotC ever managed to pull out.
Like, for real.
Dude actually. I tried to understand the whole lore but its too much. And all of the full timeline videos are so long and boring
(Ryan) Well that should keep me busy for a while.
That aether Hub dude is boring me out , this is alright
@@tcgplayercom Yep we want all stories from mtg. Sub, like, turn on noti and turn off adblock
Gianfrancioschio e la fiaba allegra I second that
Dude, tell us EVERYTHING, plz, we just need to know
75 hours video , magic 1993 to now.
Yes, the Eldrazi story is totally one I want to hear. Can't get enough Eldrazi.
Well I'd like to hear about it. As someone interested in the story, this is a great digest.
So Ajani be all like "I'm here to talk to you about The Gatewatch Initiative", huh?
(Ryan) He even has the one missing eye!
Phyrexians. I'm willing to be that after Bolas, the story will probably shift to the Phyrexians, a plot point revitalised by Karn's story-line on Dominaria.
Yes Please do phyrexians, and while you are at it, maybe the downfall of mirrodin
I come from the future. You’re right. Vorinclex now has the ability to jump to different planes.
@@diamondmetal3062 EVERY PRAETOR IS ON A DIFFERENT PLANE THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Please do all the stories!
PLEASE continue to do these. I am just getting back to magic after 17 years of being away from the game. I missed the entire modern format. These videos really make it exciting to get back in the game. Excellent job friend!
Please do the innistrad and zendikar stories. These videos are awesome. Oh and dominaria too. Heck just do all the planes. That would be epic.
Ever since seiben stopped doing summed up mtg lore videos, this is by far my favorite mtg lore series. Please never stop making these, these are amazing.
I'd really like how the story branches everywhere! i'd really hope for 1 hour stream/video for a story just based on Magic Origins 😍😍😍! thanks Ryan, been supporting you since the first story time
(Ryan) Glad to have your support, Christian. Thanks for being a fan!
Thanks Ryan! Even though I know what is going on in the current lore, you're a great storyteller and I love listening to how you talk about what's going on :) Looking forward to the next one
(Ryan) Thanks for the inspiring words!
I realy like this format. pls more about the Markovs ( Sorin and Edgar)
^
Hell yeah! XD
Ryan..... The way these videos have been put together and shortened the lore into excellently explained and entertaining stories has got me back into magic lore which I gave up on long ago. Please continue to make all of the stories!
After trying to watch some videos on Magic lore I finally stumble upon Magic Arcanum and the endless confusion is suddenly over! Great job and thank you!
(Ryan) Really glad you found us. Thanks for watching!
Super comprehensive and well explained without getting into too much detail. I love this segment soooo much. One of the best types of magic content on UA-cam right now. I wanna hear about the eldrazi story next!
this series shold become a regular show, I love the lore of mtg but I don't know if I could ever read every story in the site and keep up, this is a great summary, simply put MORE PLEASE
More Innistrad, Zendikar, and Dominaria stories please!!! I love these videos! great work!
Ryan, you seriously make the game more enjoyable for me. Knowing the meaning behind the cards and the art instead of just the mechanics. I love these videos...Clicked immediately when I saw this one. Keep it up! :)
I would love to hear more about Innistrad and Eldrazi, please. Excellent work thus far.
Amazing video! I watched all the other ones and started to look at the card's art and flavor text a lot more, so that when you talked about Liliana and Nicol Bolas I knew it was about 'In Bolas Clutches', seems obvious but was a huge 'ah ha!' for me lol
Keep up the great work!
Loving these videos. They are really helpful to Dungeon Masters that are researching Ravnica before starting campaigns there. My game is still 6 months away but I'm getting tons of idea for campaign plots from the lore and your help.
Keep them stories coming, really want to here about the eldrazi and maybe even the phyrexians
taylor webster yes!!!!
Jace reuniting with Gideon in his Ixalan story was so heartwarming -- especially when he talks about having muscles and Gideon wanting to be his workout bro.
I really like this series because it saves me HOURS of reading. Thank you.
I was worried that this series was abandoned, good to see Ryan back :D
Those videos won't continue ? Don't tell me that i've just discovered this channel with it...
@@tristantrouillard1588 No, it was just on a two week hiatus back then and it's on a christmas break now.
@@Rukalin Oh ook ^^ i can breath now :p
Keep making these videos, I love the lore it makes the game much more interesting
I've always loved the story lines of magic. Thank you so much for making it easy to understand what's going on. Great job with the eldrazi!
Want to hear a story about the release of eldrazi = an amazing story like these all are
I love hearing the lore of magic. For a while, and also being comparatively new to the game, i felt there wasn't much glue that was keeping me interested in magic compared to those around me who could really get into it. This story, and characters and side stories is the glue i needed and i've found a new flame of interest for the game. Thank you for these videos!
Me and my gf are new to magic so your videos have been a perfect way to get our feet wet in the lore. We love it! Thank you so much!
I appreciate what you're doing by gathering all the disparate information provided in various sources to form a cohesive summary of the fascinating Magic storyline. I'd like to see several dozen more of these and if some of the same facts recur in multiple videos where they are relevant, I would prefer that.
However, it really interrupts the flow and takes up too much time to continually ask, "Tell me if you'd like to hear more about this in the comments," and "Go watch this video," for information integral to what is already being talked about.
Keep it up.
Also a unifying search term in the video title would be helpful for these storyline videos. Mtg Breakdown. Magic Storytime. Something we can search to find all the videos.
You are so great, I’m a beginner of the game and understanding the lore helps me understand why cards matter and the point of standard. It’s a card game based around a story. It’s anazing
RyGo: "Do you want to hear that story?"
Me: "Yes."
RyGo: "Which one?"
Me: "Yes."
(RyGo) You're the second person I've ever heard call me "RyGo" lol
I have a question, who will dislike such a masterpiece of artwork?
Commenting on the video to hear more cause MTG lore is awesome
Love these videos! As someone that's kind of recently started with Magic this really gives a more personal look at the different cards that I've been playing with.
I love this series. Mtg lore is so rich and the flavor text on the cards make it fun to play.
Man, you are an awesome storyteller, please make more lore videos covering anything! Keep up the good work!
Yes! Please! Eldrazi! Nicki B! Nissa! Liliana's brother and her forming of her contact with the demons if that extended story exists! Everything! I'm loving this series!
I had no idea some of my favorite cards were involved in the storyline like Broken Bond and In Bolas’s Clutches
It's great when You show particular cards capturing parts of the story. I know that there are more such cards on rachunek set, would be great if You could use more of them. There are also great stories in some much older sets, Hope You cover them at some point as well. Anyway, amazing job, so is the final effect, thank You a lot
Since WotC said they want to turn their focus away from the Gatewatch a while ago (iirc), I picture this epic fight with Nicol Bolas, where he is defeated while taking several Members of the Gatewatch down with him (and probably a few districts of Ravnica), so WotC can tell how the new Weatherlight helps Karn bomb New Phyrexia or something like that.
AND YES, in my mind the endcard before focusing on the Weatherlight is Jace and Vraska sitting all lovey-dovey in a Café on Ravnica, discussing it's recovering or just a good book. Ixalan's story really sold me on that couple.
Btw, just randomly discovered your story videos and I really like your way of comprising the story. I read most of it and it helps refreshing some bits.
Do I want to know how Eldrazi happened to be on Zendikar? No. I want to hear all the stories! Keep it up with great videos
I Would like a quick run down on Domri Rade and how she factors into the final fight on Ravnica since she is making a return in Ravnica Allegiance as Domri, Chaos Bringer.
(Ryan) Domri is on the list to talk about, don't you worry!
Very cool , its hard to find such quality content about mtg lore , btw , as i remember nicol bolas storyline was started from Shards of Alara block , i still dont know how he used all that energy from conflux
I'm happy with any and all magic story time- I think this is the best way to learn what's going on.
As a devoted Vorthos, I need all the more of this. ALL the MORE of THIS.
I would love to hear ALL the stories, especially from you
Nice to see a another fan of the Gatewatch.
(Ryan) There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Hello Great video!
Any chance you can make a video on Bolas servants and how they came to be under he's control like, Tezzert , Vraska, Ral , etc
(Ryan) I will add that to my list!
Every time you said "it's subject for another story" or something like then, we wanna hear the stories :) Go Arcanum go go
can we just have all the stories ahaha . its so much more easier to listen versus trying to read through everything thats available. best podcast
I have been digging through this vids all night long! Awesome content!!!
I'd love to see one about Urza. Since we got a big series on Bolas. And both are the two most meaningful characters on MTG history.
Another one about power levels on pre-revision Planeswalkers? who's the strongest? Bolas? Urza? or a top 10 at least. So we get to compare Karn, Sorin and the rest..
I'd also love one regarding each plane: Dominaria, Innistrad, Alara, Ravnica, Mirrodin, Phyrexia, etc.
I love this channel so much
Nissa leaving does leave a convenient forest spot open for Vivien Ried, and we all know her entire purpose is to go after Bolas, so I predict she will be brought into the fold and we will get an Oath of Vivien card.
I'd loooooove an oath of vraska, let's hope she gets her memories back.
I think we can expect a few planeswalkers that are working for bolas to turn on him. I predict Kaya is going to be the orzhov planeswalker in the next set, working for bolas but then she will turn on him in the third.
I like the Gatewatch too! Nikki B is a great villain and every villain has a fall and I think his will be epic. Oh yeah and that's a yes for more Eldrazi story please!
Nice Video, Happy to see another from you
Huh, I had assumed they were called GATEwatch because they were protecting Ravnica, you know, the city with all the guildgates. TIL.
Wonderful series, btw! Do more, and longer if you can.
Wait, Jace is the living guildpact, so everything he says is law, of the magic and utterly unbreakable variety. No matter what Bolas does, all ten guilds are on the side of the Gatewatch because of that.
That's why first thing Bolas did during invasion was breaking of Guildpact magic.
What happened on Dominaria? Where would you start? 6 hour video
i NEED the story on Tamiyo... my fav planeswalker period
and she has the best colour identity to boot
so basically your waifu
@@OPiONShouter if i had an MTG waifu, yes
I would love to know how the eldrazi got on Zendikar. Thanks for the great video!
Having joined the MtG community during Dominaria, I really want to learn more about the Eldrazi
(Ryan) Welcome to the game!
Could you like do a full compilation thing about the phyrexians?
Tell us more of these big multi set stories
MOOOOORE, give us more pls! You're soo good at it!
Thank you again for a grand series.
Would love to see the story of Zendikar/Eldrazi from your narrative. Love your storytelling.
Oh my gosh, this lore videos of yours are SO GOOD! Even if I would have started with the Origins lore, I love this! XD
Could you please make a video about Elspeth?
I love arcanum, addicted to the story. I hope nicol bolas wins, that would be a cool twist. Also do the eldrazi story please
You are hinting at the story from time to time, so let me say - I would LOVE to hear/watch some sort of summary of the story.
I personally got lost after Dominaria, the authors are just not working for me. But I would still love to know what's actually happening.Keep up the good work. Cheers!
Hey, remember Ugin? Where's Ugin?
Hey, I would love to find out more about the lesser known Planeswalkers.
Also could you sometimes show the cards a bit longer, the Art is just to cool and I can't see them fast enough 😄
Just dropping by to say i wanna hear all of the stories plz. Keep up the good work!
i want all the stories! great format enjoy watching. thanks for your work.
One big video series covering old stories! Please? Kamigawa? Dominaria?? Mirrodin???
returning mtg player here. where is Garruk? Bushwanking with his giant axe?
>.> Please tell EVERY story. There are so many magic lore stories that are basically dead to time because they happened so long ago and the books are pretty hard to find (I have a small library from used book stores). Also, you're really amazing at telling stories and I probably wouldn't've subscribed to the channel w/o Magic Arcanum. So tyvm ^_^
(Ryan) It's true, a lot of the older stories are lost to the sands of time. Hopefully I can preserve some here before they're gone for good. Having fans like you makes it worthwhile. Thanks for the support!
Please do tell the story of the Eldrazi, theyre so interesting to look at, but i wanna know more!
We need more MTG Lore in our lives
i am wondering, ive heard that nissa was the one not listening to sorin wich is why she let the eldrazi free in the hope they would just go away. but i also heard of someone just saying that nicol bolas had tricked jace, sarkhan and Chandra to go to the Eye of Ugin and that they then accidently let the eldrazi free. Can someone please explain this all to me? im new to magic lore thats why im wondering
Oh man thank god i found this chanel! Ryan, you are awesome, great storytelling!!
(Ryan) Hey thanks!
I have been away from magic for a while and this video helped a lot!
(Ryan) Glad to hear it. Welcome back to the game!
Damn, I just recently came across playing MTG and I must say, the lore is intense
Ohhh never thought about it till now, but Ajani knows Koth
So glad your back!!!!!
This is the best Channel for Mtg lore love it
3:25 can i get a f in the chat for Vivien Ried
For the record... Nissa is 40 years old (if not older) and Liliana is at least 100-200 years old.
We also know from the Shadows over Innistrad that Ajani, Narset and Tamiyo are friends and from the Tarkir story, we know Narset and Sarkhan are friends. So we might see Narset and Sarkhan take the oath?
I love your story videos. I think your approach of picking one interesting theme at a time and skipping a lot of the back story, with a plan to revisit later, is a great way to explore the universe.
I did have one problem though. After watching the story videos in the Magic arcanum playlist i wanted to see if you had more story videos. Looking at your channel there are hundreds of playlist for these videos to get lost in and the Magic Arcanum playlist is scattered with different types of content. I could not find more until i tried guessing stuff to search in the youtube search bar. Perhaps just add some links to other story playlists, like the Chronicles of Bolas (are there any others?), in the description. This story looks like it will be very difficult to navigate so some bureaucracy on the videos might be necessary to keep it approachable.
Also a video that provides some general context for everything would be fantastic. Such as a brief overview of the story so far and/or an explanation of the mtg universe; such as what a plane actually is, are there infinite planes and what is possible with regards to alternate universes and timelines? And how does magic work?
Keep it up, thanks for the great videos!
Awesome series!! Please do videos on the old sets as well!! there is so much lore and you explain it so well!! do the Urza´s story! Thank you for these videos, they are awesome!
Sorin did come back... but he never stayed. He attempted to help Nissa early on but after Nissa released the Eldrazi, he got fed up and bailed.
These Vids are such good Quality, you deserve more subs!
I don't mind the Gatewatch as a concept, but I'm getting kinda tired of the OG 5 being in basically every set from SoI until now. I'd rather have only a couple active for certain sets, and save the big team ups for major events.
Like.... Ixalan? And Dominara? The last two sets?
@@kevinz8554 Correct. I hope they keep doing it.
I want to hear all of the stories mentioned!
When Chandra stepped in and made a big fireball, you could say she channeled a fireball (channel fireball combo)
Definitely want to see that eldrazi video!