Hey, so I just wanted to say: You know that bit you said at the end, about us being more than just a sum of achievements + mistakes? Turns out I really needed to hear that. Didn’t expect if from one of my MTG subscriptions. So I just wanted to say Thank You for that. Came out of nowhere and helped me get some perspective on some things.
@@alecazam6755 I'm so glad that, when they disabled further comments on the Gatherer, they didn't delete the ones already there. Some good hilarity / combos / proto-memes are forever immortalized within those pages.
I once could tutor for something that would devastate the board but i went to get a door to nothingness just so i could have someone who was picking on me lose the game. EDH baby, well worth it haha
0:40 So thats where they got the name from, I literally never realized this and I've been playing magic for seven years, then again I barely know much about magic back in the days besides the stuff used in legacy.
Ive been playing for more than 18yrs, and never once thought it was that "clever" of a name to decypher its origins. You'll go down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why Magic players give different names to things in this game..
It really fits Channel Fireball that they're named after a broken combo. Channel Fireball is the natural habitat of the Johnny, and as a Vorthos this scares me.
Hahaha, I was using Riptide Replicator in casual games with friends years ago. I had the bright idea to use it to make Locus creatures to boost up my Locus lands until someone pointed out you can't legally do that. Aww. So I'd use it for other nonsense that had no affect on gameplay. In one case a friend was hungry and wanted a sandwich. So I cast a Replicator to make Sandwich creatures to send him. "It's a 36/36 red sandwich..." "Oh that sounds good. Wait, isn't it a colorless artifact 'cause of Lattice?" "Technically it's a metal sandwich, yeah... Might want to chew it carefully." "Uh yeah um, *tapping* I'm gonna have you put that sandwich on the top of your library" "And it poofs. But that's okay. I've still got a sandwich factory!"
My theory is that he was meant to say "Any time you lose life, you may pay B to prevent 2 damage." and then some guy in development mixed it up. Then MaRo saw it and decided...what the fuck.
Phyrexian Mana is absolutely broken. If it weren't for that (major) issue, it would be an absolutely incredible mechanic. It is simple to understand, flavorful, thematically appropriate, worked amazingly well in the context of the poison counters, and remains the only instance where colored artifacts did not appear contrived.
@@maxwedewferg The main problem isn't that you cast your spell cheaper. It's that you can cast your spell for 0 and that it allow you to disregard color restrictions. Phyrexians spell that can be only cast if you control the corresponding basic land would be a nice solution I think. Making it cost 3 life would restrict the design too much and would not be played by the majority of people (making it a bad design for a worded mechanic).
I love the phyrexian mana as well but it is indeed pretty OP. I have a casual deck in abzan colors that uses spore counters on fungus and the best card draw spell I could find for that is tezzeret's gambit - a blue spell with a phyrexian mana. It doesn't require me to have black or green mana (usually the other 2 colors in abzan that can draw cards), it costs 2 life but most black card draw costs 1 life per card anyways and it even proliferates which gives a ton of value.
The dumbest thing that I've don't in mtg is casting risk factor with that's and year storm with a storm count of 12. My opponent made me draw 48 cards and instantly lost. That's when I stopped playing storm and realized that I was a bad person
To find out what white does. One must play death and taxes in any format. That is how they become to understand that white is about small creatures that act in unity to defile their opponents. :-)
@@rantempo2528 - more or less. They struggled to have an identity for years, but now they're kind of settling into the archetypes of 1: small utility creatures, and 2: proactive defense (things like taxes or "choose a card, that card can't be played" effects - as opposed to reactive defense, such as counterspells).
I never had a lot of money growing up, and stopped buying MTG boosters sometime between the Mirrodin and Kamigawa, based on the cards in my collection. I started up again during the summer of 2011, and loved all the game-breaking mechanics. It was a refreshing change from the game a poor boy like myself would always lose to my more affluent friends.
Way back when Tempest/Urza Type 2 was a thing, I was playing in a small Type 1.5 tournament in my LGS. I had thrashed my Mono G Stompy opponent pretty soundly and I was feeling confident. I sit down across from my next opponent and find out he's also playing a Permission deck, which makes my day. I love nothing more than the Control mirror. We both do the usual Permission mirror thing where we're feinting, playing lands, and drawing extra cards to build up our hand and eventually he finds the hill he wants to die on and jams his finisher. I had a fist full of counters and I knew he did as well, so at that point the counter war was on. There's this huge chain of counters, he taps out to cast his last one, and I answer with a Mana Drain. I thought I had him... except that I forgot all about Force of Will being a thing, he had two cards in hand, and I had no counters left. You can imagine who won that exchange. Funny thing, I wasn't even really mad and it's been over 20 years, but that's stuck with me all this time.
The Defiler cycle also disagrees. Though to be fair, it does seem much more balanced by having a creature have the ability to substitute health for one mana for other cards instead of just being able to mix and match every color because color doesn't matter anymore.
"Have you ever done something dumb in a game of magic?" Um let's see at WAR pre-release, I had Davriel on board, Opponent had 0 cards in hand and at 4 life. I play Shriek diver and look at their board, see that I'm SUPER dead if I don't leave a blocker. I don't give the diver haste, and realize as i'm passing the turn that he would've been dead if i had attacked
I started playing Magic in Arena and have some pretty bad mistakes. Some memorable examples include: - Forgetting to play my one Land per turn - Forgetting to check my creatures' toughness and consequently sending them into combat to die - Forgetting to check opponent's creatures' toughness and consequently tapping my creatures for no valid reason - Not wanting to risk attacking with my flying creatures even if my opponent has no flyers - Summoning a creature then remembering that I can't attack with on the same turn But my favourite, if that's the right word, was when I passed the turn without playing the 8/8 Mammoth that was in my hand. The face-palm was strong with that one.
I dis something really dumb on war of the spark pre release, i was at one life, my opponent had a devil token that dealt one damage when it dies, i cast liliana’s triumph. And then proceed to realize i had letal on him, because he was at 3 life and i had a ashiok skulker and mana to activate it. So... yeah, it cost me the match.
Yeah, there are honestly worse things to do for one Mana in modern. It's not great by any means, but it's comparable to the other blue cantrips in the format that aren't opt.
A big mistake I remember making was casting Dovescape in my silly little birds deck just to "be funny" while I royally trounced everyone else while they were still confused. The deck was built to have ways of getting more birds than my opponents and getting more benefit out of it. But these guys fought back strongly. Turns out my opponents had been holding big-cost cards and started dropping them to challenge my creature count. Worse, they had been holding on to X-cost cards and got a ruling that the X can be used to make all the birds they want. There were lots of birds that day. Most of them were not mine. It was a sad day.
I really wish there where more of these videos. This dude has a talent with relating to the viewer on such a real level. Full of information,humor,and deep thoughts. Much love.
Dumbest thing I did was when I first started playing edh. I went infinite with locusts god drawing my whole deck without lab maniac out. I went from super high to super low after realizing lol
So the Pretty Dece series has been one I've really enjoyed since I stumbled upon it. Always great topics and you narrate them in a really enjoyable way. This was a particularly exceptional episode, especially with that "final thoughts" message. Thank you for continuing to make these!
"Ever do something dumb" I had Glacial Chasm on the field, and got an Azor's Elecutors to 4 Counters before I had to sacrifice my land! Opponent had more than lethal on board, so I sacc'd the Chasm, and passed turn. He... forgot to attack me! He straight-up forgot to delcare any attackers, and I won through Filibuster Counters!
I remember coming back to mtg after a break and the current standard was scars of mirrodin and innistrad blocks. That was a fun time. I made a human deck that would end up as one of my favorite archetypes, with my favorite card in the game "Champion of the Parish". I never played in tournaments much, but the best I ever did was during this time where I got 3rd iirc using a UG turbo infect deck. Taking full advantage of that crazy phyrexian mana with mutagenic growth and apostle's blessing. That was some crazy shenanigans that nobody expected. I even had a hilarious incident in that tourney where I faced a guy with some UW superfriends or control of some sort, and he tried to bait me into an incorrect ruling. He tried to use a Gideon ability to destroy one of my creatures, which I responded to by using an Apostle's Blessing to give it protection from white. He paused and had a confused look on his face, as if he wasn't sure that pro white would stop Gideon's effect (he's an experienced player, ofc he knew it worked but he was faking) in an attempt to get me to second guess myself and believe that it didn't (he thought I was new to the game when really I was just new at that lgs). I didn't buy it and someone nearby even agreed with me and he let it go. He lost and I later found out he was super salty about losing to some new guy with a dark horse deck that he wasn't prepared for at all with his UW hyper meta control deck. That was probably the most satisfying game of magic I've ever played.
Dumb thing. Played mono red in standart (recently). Final round comes. I'm 3-0 and I'm playing against Jeskai control. Pass the turn when I have lethal. Lose the game
Would like to say that the way you put the whole argument into perspective at the end of each video is inspiring and a reminder to us all about self reflection. Thank you guys for the amazing content, especially you Jon.
This was wonderfully edited! I really cut my teeth in "competitive Magic" at my local FNMs during Scars Block, and while I look back on it fondly as a former Birthing Pod and Infect player, I also look back and think "Damn that Standard format was busted."
As somebody who was introduced to magic during mirrodin revisited, I'm really sad that the block turned into such a nightmare. I still hope wizards returns to the plane someday...but I acknowledge that the things I found "cool" about it were all pretty broken.
@@tcgplayercom I just love Jon's videos! His content is very interesting and fun. I wish he could upload more often. Thank you for your content and listening to your fans. TCGPlayer and Jon!
Just saw the Commander 2019 spoiler and had to come here and comment... At Wizard's HQ: "What would be more broken than Phyrexian mana?" "An Urza that makes artifacts into moxes!" "Let's do it!" "Ok, what's after Urza...?" "The son of Yawgmoth that makes all your black mana in Phyrexian mana! ... how can it go wrong?"
And now Phyrexian Mana has made it's glorious return by RND restricting it to only be on activated abilities (and compleated planeswalkers but they won't show up for a while). Has this been the right move? Current predictions say yes.
I live being nit-picky sooo... At around 13:45 you implied eye of ugin is on the ban list because it’s primary focus is tutoring stuff up. That is not why eye is on the banlist. It was used to great effect on tron decks as a tutor target to get creatures, but got banned because of Eldrazi winter in the end.
My Dumb MTG play: Cast Rite of Replication Kick it Target Lorthos, The Tidemaker My opponent explains the Legend rule to me I lose the game. Magic is fun
My errata: W/P can be paid with 2 life if you control a Plains. U/P can be paid with 2 life if you control an Island. etc. Probe is probeably still a probelem, but maybe pod is podssible to unban.
im currently playing a troll Bolas's Citadel and a really good Command the dreadhorde deck in standard, kind of funny that if you can make it to 6 you get 1 life for 1 mana again with command.
@@tcgplayercom I have green black idk guess the kids are calling it tron, but yeah explore heal with a little bit of reanimation. I also have esper artifact citadel that uses the cute combo of the split azorius card that heals and kayas wrath with saheeli and lilianna. I love wand of vertibre with citadel and gaes blessing in both.
@@tcgplayercom Well I'm starting my first shift at a new job today so mistakes will most likely be made lol. I do however always try to learn from the mistakes I do make.
For some reason I want to design: The Phyrexian Sliver $W$U$B$R$G "All Slivers are Artifacts in addition to their other Types. If a Sliver you would Cast costs colored mana, you may instead pay 2 Life for each mana instead." Let's take Phyrexian mana all the way :)
Dumb Magic things I've done... god, there's too many to count -Accidentally killed myself with Insidious Dreams by discarding four cards to pay the cost, while on 8 life, with an opposing Megrim in play -Scarab Godded a Phage the Untouchable (managed to dig for a Disallow but it was VERY close) -Left an extra turn spell on top of my library with JTMS. Opponent casts his commander, Etali, swings with haste, gets a free Temporal Mastery. Feelsbadman -Built an entire Commander deck with exclusively odd numbered CMCs.
the best part about this video is when it shows g probe being banned in modern under it shows ggt, then later when it talks about pod (which was banned ~2? years earlier) it talks about how they think ggt is good to unban
Pretty Deece and Pretty Good. Jon Corpora and Jon Bois. Both shows feature stories about whatever's interesting, with slick presentation and a charismatic host, and I can't stop watching them. i can't be the only one to see the parallel here, lol
Once, while playing a game of EDH, my friend had his commander, Admiral Beckett Brass out. Somebody played a board wipe, and in response he cast Siren's Ruse, not realizing that the spell would just flicker his commander immediately, causing it to still die to the board wipe. He died a little inside as he realized what he did, and we just sort of looked at him already knowing that it wouldn't have saved his creature.
TCGplayer Haha holy shit that’s right. I actually joined the service at that point. I stopped paying attention and only collected here an there. Now I’m a family man who just collects and plays kitchen. I don’t play at all to what I did in high school.
Hey, so I just wanted to say: You know that bit you said at the end, about us being more than just a sum of achievements + mistakes? Turns out I really needed to hear that. Didn’t expect if from one of my MTG subscriptions. So I just wanted to say Thank You for that. Came out of nowhere and helped me get some perspective on some things.
Same…
I've watched this video like 7 times because of how it ties a stupid card game to the human condition. so many of these videos are beautiful
Chimney imp casting,
Everyone laughing.
Chimney imp dying,
Everyone crying.
Jin-Gitaxias bless this post.
this is art
I remember seeing this somewhere else
@@Spootprime Fucking gold mine of good quotes there.
Also people getting weirdly pissed at someone called "MasterofEtherium" Who Typed Like This.
@@alecazam6755 I'm so glad that, when they disabled further comments on the Gatherer, they didn't delete the ones already there. Some good hilarity / combos / proto-memes are forever immortalized within those pages.
"Have you ever done something dumb in a game of magic?"
Oh boy, how much time do you have?
who knows the character limit on youtube comments?
I once could tutor for something that would devastate the board but i went to get a door to nothingness just so i could have someone who was picking on me lose the game. EDH baby, well worth it haha
I had the chance to stop someone from winning but didn't. Devious cover up a key piece or not
I have this edh deck, that sometime kills me, instead of my opponents. I love it tho. x)
I once handed my tuned krenko edh deck to my nine year old neice to play her first game. She proceeded to beat me like it was her job.
Dumb MTG moment.
I made a Tibalt deck and took it to a Standard tournament. I had a mirror match for last place.
friggin tibalt
Did you win?
@@FrowningTable nope
lol I'd love to see that game
"Okay, I cast Tybalt"
"Yep, that does it, how am i supposed to come back from that?"
@@FrowningTable I died to a tibalt ultimate
These are incredibly well done. I love the narration, the style, EVERYTHING!
MTG Muddstah ditto to your vids
Did somebody hear a generic goblin noise?
thanks!
For real mtg muddstah i love your videos so much.
Would you say it is pretty deece
0:40 So thats where they got the name from, I literally never realized this and I've been playing magic for seven years, then again I barely know much about magic back in the days besides the stuff used in legacy.
Ive been playing for more than 18yrs, and never once thought it was that "clever" of a name to decypher its origins. You'll go down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why Magic players give different names to things in this game..
As a relatively new player, I always wondered where the name for team channel fireball came from. Guess I now know why 0:53
the more you know :)
It really fits Channel Fireball that they're named after a broken combo. Channel Fireball is the natural habitat of the Johnny, and as a Vorthos this scares me.
“Put a ham sandwich on top of my library, I don’t care!”
Had to stop myself from spitting up my drink. Most excellent.
the ol "ham sandwich on the deck" trick. gets em every time.
Hahaha, I was using Riptide Replicator in casual games with friends years ago. I had the bright idea to use it to make Locus creatures to boost up my Locus lands until someone pointed out you can't legally do that. Aww. So I'd use it for other nonsense that had no affect on gameplay.
In one case a friend was hungry and wanted a sandwich. So I cast a Replicator to make Sandwich creatures to send him. "It's a 36/36 red sandwich..." "Oh that sounds good. Wait, isn't it a colorless artifact 'cause of Lattice?" "Technically it's a metal sandwich, yeah... Might want to chew it carefully." "Uh yeah um, *tapping* I'm gonna have you put that sandwich on the top of your library" "And it poofs. But that's okay. I've still got a sandwich factory!"
Wotc: No more Phyrexian mana!
K'rrik: *clears throat* soo...
My theory is that he was meant to say "Any time you lose life, you may pay B to prevent 2 damage." and then some guy in development mixed it up.
Then MaRo saw it and decided...what the fuck.
Never Standard-legal; doesn't count.
@@EnderLord99 He's legal in legacy
Alex Chen Could be.
Can confirm : k'rrik is bonkers. Try mono black storm in commander today!
Returning to Mirrodin: I wanted it, I asked for it, I regret nothing.
*laughs in Phyrexian*
same
Me three!
I kinda love that they returned to one of the most hated blocks in history purely so the plane it takes place on could be destroyed horrifically.
@@drpibisback7680 they gave the choice to save it tho we choose to destroy it.
Phyrexia is life, and much more.
Phyrexian Mana is absolutely broken. If it weren't for that (major) issue, it would be an absolutely incredible mechanic.
It is simple to understand, flavorful, thematically appropriate, worked amazingly well in the context of the poison counters, and remains the only instance where colored artifacts did not appear contrived.
totally agree! good post, rob
I also got a kick out of how the Phyrexian mana symbol was the letter “phi”.
what if it was 3 life you lose rather than two?
@@maxwedewferg The main problem isn't that you cast your spell cheaper. It's that you can cast your spell for 0 and that it allow you to disregard color restrictions.
Phyrexians spell that can be only cast if you control the corresponding basic land would be a nice solution I think.
Making it cost 3 life would restrict the design too much and would not be played by the majority of people (making it a bad design for a worded mechanic).
I love the phyrexian mana as well but it is indeed pretty OP. I have a casual deck in abzan colors that uses spore counters on fungus and the best card draw spell I could find for that is tezzeret's gambit - a blue spell with a phyrexian mana. It doesn't require me to have black or green mana (usually the other 2 colors in abzan that can draw cards), it costs 2 life but most black card draw costs 1 life per card anyways and it even proliferates which gives a ton of value.
This and magic arcanum are my favorite magic content by far.
thank you so much. isn't arcanum great?
@@tcgplayercom it is and we need more!
The dumbest thing that I've don't in mtg is casting risk factor with that's and year storm with a storm count of 12. My opponent made me draw 48 cards and instantly lost. That's when I stopped playing storm and realized that I was a bad person
life comes at you fast
You live and you learn
The years start coming and they dont stop coming
I for one, embrace our Phyrexian overlords. All will be one, all will be compleate
All will be one!
Glory, to the Great Work!!!
Jay Even Urabrask?
@@draftemmtg7733 I mean, sure, as long as he doesn't thing we're all buddy buddy.
"Whatever it is white's supposed to do." Ouch =(
An R Key5993 that’s bc white sucks
still trying to figure out what white cards are supposed to do
To find out what white does. One must play death and taxes in any format. That is how they become to understand that white is about small creatures that act in unity to defile their opponents. :-)
Isn’t white supposed to be defensive?
@@rantempo2528 - more or less. They struggled to have an identity for years, but now they're kind of settling into the archetypes of 1: small utility creatures, and 2: proactive defense (things like taxes or "choose a card, that card can't be played" effects - as opposed to reactive defense, such as counterspells).
God I love pretty deece and magic arcanum, some of my favorite magic content, keep it up guys, this content is worth the wait everytime
Derelict Dragon seriously, it‘s just such high quality everytime. Both writing and editing are top notch, they really seem to put in a lot of work.
pretty deece is by far my favourite magic content.
appreciate the kind words
I've waited too long!
Love this kind of videos!
Omg this guy is amazing
New Phyrexia was the set I got in on and loved it lol
Same it was so fucking fun, I was so bad
I never had a lot of money growing up, and stopped buying MTG boosters sometime between the Mirrodin and Kamigawa, based on the cards in my collection. I started up again during the summer of 2011, and loved all the game-breaking mechanics. It was a refreshing change from the game a poor boy like myself would always lose to my more affluent friends.
@cak01vej So, how do you like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician in Modern Horizons?
Way back when Tempest/Urza Type 2 was a thing, I was playing in a small Type 1.5 tournament in my LGS. I had thrashed my Mono G Stompy opponent pretty soundly and I was feeling confident. I sit down across from my next opponent and find out he's also playing a Permission deck, which makes my day. I love nothing more than the Control mirror. We both do the usual Permission mirror thing where we're feinting, playing lands, and drawing extra cards to build up our hand and eventually he finds the hill he wants to die on and jams his finisher. I had a fist full of counters and I knew he did as well, so at that point the counter war was on. There's this huge chain of counters, he taps out to cast his last one, and I answer with a Mana Drain. I thought I had him... except that I forgot all about Force of Will being a thing, he had two cards in hand, and I had no counters left. You can imagine who won that exchange.
Funny thing, I wasn't even really mad and it's been over 20 years, but that's stuck with me all this time.
wild the stuff that sticks
one time i played a game of magic.
i see what you did there
I don't see what you did there
Saying eye of ugin is banned for being a tutor is like saying Skullclamp is banned for giving +1/-1 lol
Good stuff as usual, big ups
Do you think it could in any way have to do with the fact it's a land-based sol ring for eldrazi spells?
... that also tutors.
Its funny as a commander player i forget all other formats minus brawl and oath breaker dont require following a colour identity
With stuff like phyrexian mana, it honestly should
"There's nothing worth salvaging about Phyrexian mana"
Someone didn't tell R&D that, K'rrik seems to disagree
It being isolated to black mana is really on color tho. Paying life for black spells just makes sense
The Defiler cycle also disagrees. Though to be fair, it does seem much more balanced by having a creature have the ability to substitute health for one mana for other cards instead of just being able to mix and match every color because color doesn't matter anymore.
Please Make a new video about KTK and treasure cruise
we'll call it "delve is good"
What’s KTK
@@undyne3366 Khans of Tarkir, a set
@@tcgplayercom its bannd in duel commander!!
buuuuut so is zurgo
This is far-and-away my favorite series by TCGPlayer, I sincerely hope that it continues to be made. Rock on, y'all!
I found this video informative, but that last part about picking yourself up actually inspirational. Thanks lol
you're welcome
"Have you ever done something dumb in a game of magic?"
Um let's see at WAR pre-release, I had Davriel on board, Opponent had 0 cards in hand and at 4 life. I play Shriek diver and look at their board, see that I'm SUPER dead if I don't leave a blocker. I don't give the diver haste, and realize as i'm passing the turn that he would've been dead if i had attacked
That was a nice little outro John. Good to remember that RnD have an insanely difficult job, and in general they do pretty amazing work.
thanks. they get a bad rap but they are extremely talented
Dumb play: Path to exile targeting a Birds of Paradise.
Yeahhhhhhh =/
the ol' 0-for-1
YOU BOLT THE BIRD DAMMIT! XD
I can’t express how much I love Pretty Deece, literally the only reason I’m subscribed to this channel
I started playing Magic in Arena and have some pretty bad mistakes. Some memorable examples include:
- Forgetting to play my one Land per turn
- Forgetting to check my creatures' toughness and consequently sending them into combat to die
- Forgetting to check opponent's creatures' toughness and consequently tapping my creatures for no valid reason
- Not wanting to risk attacking with my flying creatures even if my opponent has no flyers
- Summoning a creature then remembering that I can't attack with on the same turn
But my favourite, if that's the right word, was when I passed the turn without playing the 8/8 Mammoth that was in my hand. The face-palm was strong with that one.
Fantastically well researched and written, these videos are some of the best magic content available period
thanks so much
I dis something really dumb on war of the spark pre release, i was at one life, my opponent had a devil token that dealt one damage when it dies, i cast liliana’s triumph. And then proceed to realize i had letal on him, because he was at 3 life and i had a ashiok skulker and mana to activate it. So... yeah, it cost me the match.
i too also forget my opponents have a life total sometimes
"Colorless Decks don't have access to burn"
Sad Walking Ballista Noises
Nah, I’ll still fight ya over Peek. I love it as a one-of in tempo.
That being said, loved the vid!
Yeah, there are honestly worse things to do for one Mana in modern. It's not great by any means, but it's comparable to the other blue cantrips in the format that aren't opt.
A big mistake I remember making was casting Dovescape in my silly little birds deck just to "be funny" while I royally trounced everyone else while they were still confused.
The deck was built to have ways of getting more birds than my opponents and getting more benefit out of it.
But these guys fought back strongly. Turns out my opponents had been holding big-cost cards and started dropping them to challenge my creature count.
Worse, they had been holding on to X-cost cards and got a ruling that the X can be used to make all the birds they want.
There were lots of birds that day. Most of them were not mine. It was a sad day.
Great stuff. The break down you do in these videos are greatly informative for a Timmy like my self.
thanks!
This is one of my favorite discussions that Jon Corpora has presented. I would love to see more of these! It has been so long!
"Eh, I didn't do the Math. Math is for blockers."
Poor Jimmy.
#BearForceOne
I really wish there where more of these videos. This dude has a talent with relating to the viewer on such a real level. Full of information,humor,and deep thoughts. Much love.
Thank you for making these, they're awesome!
you're welcome!
Flash forward to 2021, where green has the best card draw and white the best removal.
Thanks Wizards.
Dumbest thing I did was when I first started playing edh. I went infinite with locusts god drawing my whole deck without lab maniac out. I went from super high to super low after realizing lol
the swings are real
Are you Seth? That sounds like a very Seth thing to do...
So the Pretty Dece series has been one I've really enjoyed since I stumbled upon it. Always great topics and you narrate them in a really enjoyable way. This was a particularly exceptional episode, especially with that "final thoughts" message. Thank you for continuing to make these!
you're welcome
"Ever do something dumb"
I had Glacial Chasm on the field, and got an Azor's Elecutors to 4 Counters before I had to sacrifice my land! Opponent had more than lethal on board, so I sacc'd the Chasm, and passed turn.
He... forgot to attack me! He straight-up forgot to delcare any attackers, and I won through Filibuster Counters!
I remember coming back to mtg after a break and the current standard was scars of mirrodin and innistrad blocks. That was a fun time.
I made a human deck that would end up as one of my favorite archetypes, with my favorite card in the game "Champion of the Parish".
I never played in tournaments much, but the best I ever did was during this time where I got 3rd iirc using a UG turbo infect deck. Taking full advantage of that crazy phyrexian mana with mutagenic growth and apostle's blessing. That was some crazy shenanigans that nobody expected.
I even had a hilarious incident in that tourney where I faced a guy with some UW superfriends or control of some sort, and he tried to bait me into an incorrect ruling. He tried to use a Gideon ability to destroy one of my creatures, which I responded to by using an Apostle's Blessing to give it protection from white. He paused and had a confused look on his face, as if he wasn't sure that pro white would stop Gideon's effect (he's an experienced player, ofc he knew it worked but he was faking) in an attempt to get me to second guess myself and believe that it didn't (he thought I was new to the game when really I was just new at that lgs). I didn't buy it and someone nearby even agreed with me and he let it go.
He lost and I later found out he was super salty about losing to some new guy with a dark horse deck that he wasn't prepared for at all with his UW hyper meta control deck. That was probably the most satisfying game of magic I've ever played.
Omega8Trigun nice profile pic. Good story too
Thanks XD
What happened to these videos. They’re so good. :-(
I'm inspired by your "something dumb" speech. Thank you very much!
I brought a commander deck to a modern tournament that I had prepaid for
Best magic channel. Such a lively and well spoken host. Cheers mate
Dumb thing.
Played mono red in standart (recently). Final round comes. I'm 3-0 and I'm playing against Jeskai control. Pass the turn when I have lethal. Lose the game
Would like to say that the way you put the whole argument into perspective at the end of each video is inspiring and a reminder to us all about self reflection. Thank you guys for the amazing content, especially you Jon.
❤️appreciate it
I never knew why Channel Fireball was called that until today.
This was wonderfully edited!
I really cut my teeth in "competitive Magic" at my local FNMs during Scars Block, and while I look back on it fondly as a former Birthing Pod and Infect player, I also look back and think "Damn that Standard format was busted."
So thats why ChannelFireball is called that....
I just wanted to say that 6:36 was the inspiration for my Progenitus Pure Spellslinger EDH deck. No nonland permanents in the 99.
I lost a match because I forgot that I had a 36/36 scute mob
As somebody who was introduced to magic during mirrodin revisited, I'm really sad that the block turned into such a nightmare. I still hope wizards returns to the plane someday...but I acknowledge that the things I found "cool" about it were all pretty broken.
Just today I was about to comment in one of your other Pretty Deece videos to ask you for your next video. Thank you!
you're welcome
@@tcgplayercom I just love Jon's videos! His content is very interesting and fun. I wish he could upload more often. Thank you for your content and listening to your fans. TCGPlayer and Jon!
Just saw the Commander 2019 spoiler and had to come here and comment... At Wizard's HQ: "What would be more broken than Phyrexian mana?" "An Urza that makes artifacts into moxes!" "Let's do it!" "Ok, what's after Urza...?" "The son of Yawgmoth that makes all your black mana in Phyrexian mana! ... how can it go wrong?"
Dumb MTG moment
Walked right into killing myself with my own Triskaidekaphobia XD
"poked myself in the eye and i never saw it coming"
The best Magic content on UA-cam, bar none. Always an insta-watch when a Pretty Deece shows up in the sub box.
❤️
This one time I put my commander in a Helvault because I Was expecting a board wipe which didnt come until the end of the game.
Wasn't ready for the feels at the end. What a fantastic video. Thanks a lot.
don't mention it. glad you enjoyed
And now Phyrexian Mana has made it's glorious return by RND restricting it to only be on activated abilities (and compleated planeswalkers but they won't show up for a while). Has this been the right move? Current predictions say yes.
Yeah they've been pretty rad!
You’re back! Fav series on this channel
good stuff
As for future videos, seeing my old pal Siege Rhino makes me want to hear someone talk about it in depth. Love that stupid, stupid card.
my first-ever GP cash was with 4 siege rhinos in my deck!
I live being nit-picky sooo...
At around 13:45 you implied eye of ugin is on the ban list because it’s primary focus is tutoring stuff up.
That is not why eye is on the banlist. It was used to great effect on tron decks as a tutor target to get creatures, but got banned because of Eldrazi winter in the end.
My Dumb MTG play:
Cast Rite of Replication
Kick it
Target Lorthos, The Tidemaker
My opponent explains the Legend rule to me
I lose the game.
Magic is fun
My errata:
W/P can be paid with 2 life if you control a Plains.
U/P can be paid with 2 life if you control an Island.
etc.
Probe is probeably still a probelem, but maybe pod is podssible to unban.
I love these videos, please sir can we have some more? 🤣
no
What you said at the end really helped with my life. Not magic, just what I'm going through in life in general. Thanks for that
anytime. to be perfectly honest i was talking to myself there too
"by the way this card is banned in everything" ~laughs in EDH~
I love this series, I love your voice, and I love your video editor's work. Always looking forward to another Pretty Deece!
🙂thank you!
2:18 Beast Within and Song of the Dryads would beg to differ :D (but on the whole yes you are correct).
Wizards has stated that Beast Within was a mistake. And what would you know, but this is another card that debuted in New Phyrexia
You should totally do an episode all about Wizard's long proud history of breaking the game with EVERY artifact block, they just can't help themselves
And also... "Till New Phyrexia?" yawgmoths bargain anyone?
Forever my favorite episode of this series
im currently playing a troll Bolas's Citadel and a really good Command the dreadhorde deck in standard, kind of funny that if you can make it to 6 you get 1 life for 1 mana again with command.
bolas's citadel with path of discovery and wildgrowth walker is NICE
@@tcgplayercom I have green black idk guess the kids are calling it tron, but yeah explore heal with a little bit of reanimation. I also have esper artifact citadel that uses the cute combo of the split azorius card that heals and kayas wrath with saheeli and lilianna. I love wand of vertibre with citadel and gaes blessing in both.
This was quite the year for printing dumb cards.
Hope we get Phyrexia back, imagen... multicolored praetors
that was an amazing ending. inspiring and optimistic. thank you
I see no problem here. Lol
Probably just a bunch of salty blue players whining cuz they're not the only ones who can make douchey/unfair moves. Lol
One of the best videos about MTG. Love this
was not expecting the little bit at the end of "It's okay to do something dumb and make mistakes" I think I needed to hear that today
i mean, don't make a habit out of it, but yeah. mistakes are areas of opportunity
@@tcgplayercom Well I'm starting my first shift at a new job today so mistakes will most likely be made lol. I do however always try to learn from the mistakes I do make.
For some reason I want to design:
The Phyrexian Sliver
$W$U$B$R$G
"All Slivers are Artifacts in addition to their other Types. If a Sliver you would Cast costs colored mana, you may instead pay 2 Life for each mana instead."
Let's take Phyrexian mana all the way :)
My favorite tcg series is back. Please do a lot more of these.
also can u explain all the mirrorden references that you said would be explained later.
Who else has watched this video 30 times or more? Cause I just can't get enough of it!
Dumb Magic things I've done... god, there's too many to count
-Accidentally killed myself with Insidious Dreams by discarding four cards to pay the cost, while on 8 life, with an opposing Megrim in play
-Scarab Godded a Phage the Untouchable (managed to dig for a Disallow but it was VERY close)
-Left an extra turn spell on top of my library with JTMS. Opponent casts his commander, Etali, swings with haste, gets a free Temporal Mastery. Feelsbadman
-Built an entire Commander deck with exclusively odd numbered CMCs.
A yennett player i see
3:22 Gitaxian Probe is not banned in commander
Only Blue Commanders let you use it though, that's the deal, also a single copy thins out your deck a lot less.
@@faerie7dragon I'm aware
the best part about this video is when it shows g probe being banned in modern under it shows ggt, then later when it talks about pod (which was banned ~2? years earlier) it talks about how they think ggt is good to unban
Literally watch these because you do an amazing job story telling! Always watch the ones you commentate!
thanks so much!
“Each color gets to do certain things and can’t do other things”
*laughs in simic*
"black doesn't get to remove artifacts or enchantments"
yeah...
the channel illustration is so gorgeous
Pretty Deece and Pretty Good.
Jon Corpora and Jon Bois.
Both shows feature stories about whatever's interesting, with slick presentation and a charismatic host, and I can't stop watching them.
i can't be the only one to see the parallel here, lol
Once, while playing a game of EDH, my friend had his commander, Admiral Beckett Brass out. Somebody played a board wipe, and in response he cast Siren's Ruse, not realizing that the spell would just flicker his commander immediately, causing it to still die to the board wipe. He died a little inside as he realized what he did, and we just sort of looked at him already knowing that it wouldn't have saved his creature.
Easily my favorite video playlist on youtube. And haven't played magic constantly since the Onslaught block.
can't say i blame you. old card face = best card face
TCGplayer Haha holy shit that’s right. I actually joined the service at that point. I stopped paying attention and only collected here an there. Now I’m a family man who just collects and plays kitchen. I don’t play at all to what I did in high school.
Thank you for showing off my favourite (and the best) magic card in history: Chimney Imp. One day the Imp will have his due.
chimney imp was my nickname in college
WOT: Laughs nervously as they hold their K'rrik