Wizards of the Coast is only making money because of profits off the licensing for Baldur's Gate 3. As much as you criticize them (Wizards) for their business practices, you had to know they were failing in some way and that layoffs were long overdue. Hasbro is an awful company, but Wizards of the Coast hasn't been any better for years.
With the absurd pricing and set release pace of the past couple years it’s wild that they would cut costs and fire employees right now. Greed just keeps climbing.
It’s because the other, non-WotC parts of the company are hemorrhaging money. They lost like 110 million dollars last year, despite WotC making something like 280 million profit.
The fact that this is a reprint set going for probably 6-7$ for a draft pack and the biggest hits are currently 35$ and going to drop is criminal. Not to mention the fact that so many of the chosen rares and even mythics are worth less then a dollar.
@@TolarianCommunityCollege if this set is priced the same as a standard set I think this is going to be an amazing set. Unfortunately I don’t see Hasbro being that nice.
I just wish they would slow down reprints to some scale. Master or remaster sets are not going to be possible in the next 5 years if they keep re-printing everything.
Cloudstone Cruio was actually going for about $50 before this set was announced so the price has been depressed quite a bit already. just the set being announced was enough for the price to start dropping as people correctly speculated that this card would be reprinted and when it was finally spoiled it hit the low its at now.
30 seconds in and I already thumbed up the video; my heart goes out to all the hard working employees who go the short end of the stick after putting their heart and soul into their work I recently became unemployed myself as a result of the auto union strike as I was a supplemental worker and it's taking me some time finding a new position to make ends meet.
Appreciate the disclaimer at the start. Those (former) WoTC employees deserved so better, and I can only hope that the backlash and solidarity from the players and content creators will lead to change in the future
I liked the foreword in this video. It’s sad to hear about so many people losing their jobs before the holidays and the rest of the staff must feel demoralized. I’m looking forward to the following video
I hope it brings down shock land prices, but Cyclonic rift had a reprint at rare in commander masters last year, now they reprint it in a more affordable (but still expensive at €5 per draft booster) set at mythic. Won't bump supply that much, it's the one card that really needs it. I also assume the booster prices will drop fast. I'm not preordering anything this time around. Bruvac is already down to €20, the reprint was needed but the price was just scarcity driven (Jumpstart and list only). Hope it's going to be fun to draft, highly doubt it's going to be fun to open.
Boxes are currently going for 175 on TCG. Meaning you gotta work hard to break even. Which is a shame because this should have been a love letter to Ravnica instead of a showcase of problems with modern MTG.
Imagine how the LGSes are faring. I think the general purchase rate was about $235 or so, and some Amazon pre-order prices managed to slip under that. Unless this sparks a fire for drafting, this'll be a mess.
@@Blarisho My LGS owner said he wasn't buying a second wave of CMM iirc because there wasn't any incentive to do so. While it would sell like hotcakes in the first few weeks, he couldn't justify the potential loss on a second wave. I honestly don't fault him, either.
lol @ the first example for Curio being Strix, lol... Anywho, keep up the good work Prof, always appreciate the efforts and quality, even despite the occasional minor gaffe.
Jeez, its heartbreaking to hear about those layoffs. I'm usually a big pack buyer, but if that's how Hasbro is gonna be, I don't intend to buy any packs anytime soon, shocklands or none. I can support my LGS through singles if I need to.
You'll be back in a few months, ploughing money into corporate greed for a tiny dopamine hit in the face of gross ethics, propping up the systems you disavow publicly because a social media influencer told you to. You don't really care they fired people, stop pretending you do. Just like this channel, saying they're against it but they'll keep churning out the content and advertising this trash 🤑
designing these sets for draft and them pricing them at premium prices is wild. stores are never going to fire a draft at $35. Least of all when sets contain nothing desirable at all
I've noticed recently that 90% of small game shops and official retailers are no longer selling sealed boosters but they open them and sell cards as singles.
14:57 nice comedic writing on the cyclonic rift. It’s almost like you anticipated our verbal response while watching the video on our device of convenience.
Thank you so much for taking the time to add the message at the start, to think so many hard working people are taking the hit when big ceos are taking massive pay packets. Such a shame
Many of the TCG stores in my area aren't even buying newer singles anymore. They only want reserve list cards or sets at least ten years old. Told me "the new cards are just so overprinted so even if we take them, we'll likely take a loss with the fluctuation in prices". I don't know think that's entirely true, but I know an omen when I see one.
True. Barely any stone has singles, and the one that I did find (albeit an hour drive away) only really has the big hits from the last few years - like mommy Norn and the other preators.
From what I've heard, WotC itself is actually above the line for profits, but Hasbro as a whole was down. But due to the structuring of the company (I can only guess a very poor structuring), they're "sharing the load" of the layoffs. Not that it would have been excusable to do so right before Christmas even if it only hit the underperforming sectors. It's hardly justifiable to do so at all, especially at this scale. But the whole thing is rotten, bottom up.
As someone who runs a mono blue mill deck with Jace, Vyrn's Prodigy, I don't have trouble winning games without Bruvac. But if I can get my hands on him for cheap, I will.
Looking forward to that video on the WOTC layoffs. These layoffs will hurt a lot of people and are going to hurt the game in the long run. It looks like another instance of the tech financing boom and bust strategy for stock growth. Pushing up into a hype cycle to pull in investors as high as it can go and then use some of the collected capital and do cuts and layoffs on the downward slope. Then repeat growing value for the investors until it can’t grow any higher. Honestly when I compared that tech financing strategy with Hasbro, it made everything they have done in the last few years make a lot more sense. Moon Channel did a good video on the video game industry using this strategy all over a couple weeks ago.
I think this set will tank all the cards printed in it, but it will be good for people to have access to them. I also like that fetch lands have been dropping, but shock lands staid pricy, so now they will cheaper again than fetchs. Funny thing is, I am more excited for Skullcrack and Skewer the Critics finally getting a reprint, about time 😉👍🏻
I am convinced that the Orzhov Syndicate really exists. It ventured through an interplanar breach into our world, bought Hasbro and now squeezes profits out of gamers and employees alike. Special offer: Trade your soul against TWO Collector-Boosters of your choice (shipping not included).
Yo, Bruvac is back! I love using him on Arena, but he was way too pricy for me to get in paper. Dunno how much his price will actually drop, but it may be time to take my deck into the real world.
In the secretive corridors of the Azorius Senate, Bruvac, the Grandiloquent, formed an unlikely alliance with Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind, after a cunning squirrel slipped a loophole past Bruvac in a high-stakes legal dispute over communal tree ownership. The embarrassment fueled a clandestine mission: the expulsion of all squirrels from Ravnica. The covert conglomerate of Azorius and Izzet judges, led by Bruvac and Niv-Mizzet, executed an intricate campaign to expel squirrels from the plane. Their shared obsession unfolded in the shadows, hidden from public scrutiny. The legal battles against the squirrels were as elaborate as they were absurd, with each case becoming a battleground of wit and legal acrobatics. One squirrel argued that ancient trees' roots extended into multiple territories, rendering them communal assets. Bruvac, determined not to be outsmarted again, rallied his covert alliance to counter every legal gambit. As the judges relentlessly pursued their mission, the unintended consequence emerged. With no squirrels left to collect nuts, Ravnica became overwhelmed by an unprecedented abundance of nuts. The citizens soon faced a crisis as the nuts piled up, creating chaos in the streets. Chat gpt is nuts
This will be a set I’m buying. Maybe I not a whole box if the price doesn’t come down. But I will be getting singles and maybe crack a couple packs if I find any out when I’m shopping.
The writing of this episode was great! Props to the whole team for this video, it was a lovely watch c: RIP Dack, the one treasure we'll never sacrifice
Bruvac the Grand Delinquent. I thought that was pretty obvious right? A lot more companies are doubling down on the min max strategy. I won't be surprised if we start getting more reprints in sets and less original cards (or at least cards that are just copying existing cards).
I started playing during the last Ravnica block so in my representation of a Planeswalker as a player Ravnica has been my home and I’m very excited to draft this set. But also I am now iffy on supporting Hasbro.
Bruvac.. he was the brother, interested more in libations than his more responsible, younger brother. That younger bother opened a convenience store and was kind enough to let his older brother pursue dreams of distilling fine beverages in rear, storage area of this store. For convenience purposes clientele referred to the older brother by his gods given name Bruvac whereas his younger brother got stuck w the name Shopvac. It wasn’t an unlikely pairing and the two made a fine team.. but as history often proves, sibling rivalry prevails and after too many “you suck” comments found their way to Shopvacs generous ears the two parted ways and only Bruvacs name would be heard by the annals of time, although any specific details are fuzzy at best.
Hey Prof! do you think you will do a video of a how to play for the reboot/new Neopets TCG, Battledome, that comes out next year? I liked your how to play for the Digimon tcg and was curious :)
Thank you, the professor, for schooling the Hasbro executives on the street basketball courts and breaking the ankles of Chris Kooks, then dunking on out of control greedheads.
This set is so bizarre, I'm wondering how well it even sells, or just how much it'll actually bring Shock Lands down. WotC actively avoided putting value into this set, and actively chose to put garbage into it, under the continued weak excuse of "but, the draft environment..." There is no reason, at all, ZERO REASON, like I can't stress enough how little reason there is for 'Doubling Season' to not be in the set. That alone would at least be SOMETHING to chase. It was from the FIRST Ravnica set, this is the "let's celebrate Ravnica" set, so...where is it??? This set feels like WotC actively trying to see how little they can offer players and how accepting players will be of less and less.
I'm also a fan of Bruvac... the Grand delinquent. 18:06 This, I will forever now call him. WP Prof. (and no, Im not making fun of your English mayor, this is pronunciation, and I think, probably on purpose?)
I get that Bruvac is Azorius guild based; but he was a original jumpstart card; This remastered set should have all been focused on cards from OG Ravnica block, RTR, and the 2 sets prior to WAR. They should have made a subset for cards like Bruvac.
Always love that I dont realise that I had cards from certain sets until theres a remastered/reprints and its like "... wait dont i have one of those-"
Rules question: If you use farseek, or other land search method, and it says put the land into play tapped, can you still pay the life for it to be untapped, or does the search tapped override the land's tap/untap method?
You can pay the two life but the land will still enter tapped. Afaik the only that can make them enter untapped is Spelunking. If you have arena you can test it with Arboreal Grazer and shocklands.
At the time of the set being spoiled, there was actually one more card worth more than Lord of the Void - the stupid $15 Voja token that Tolsimir creates. My son has wanted a copy for a while, and I expect it to crash to below $1 after this reprint.
What's Bruvak's backstory (or pronunciation in this case)? What's Massacre Girl's? Or what's Savra's, considering the WotC employee in your last video couldn't nail that down either?
During the last 5 years the professor's undertone towards some mtg products or card versions has gone from warm and wholesome to somewhat disdainful or spiteful. I can understand how you feel about the change of the game and the products etc. but as a viewer I don't particularly enjoy hearing that come through from the way you act and speak even though the information is always great. Not every product is for everyone and no one is forcing people to buy these cards and most of the expensive ones are only variants of already existing cheap cards. Proxying is always a thing and as one of your legendary lines goes: Buy singles! I'm not very happy about the magic NOW compared to how it was but I don't hate it either. I do love the many different options they have for cards available for one thing. I could go on and on about this and that but I'll just drop a like and wish you a happy weekend!
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How can this UA-cam channel still support Hasbro after all they have done to their franchises and employees. I wonder.
All they need are employees that come out with new cards no reprints
You don't need new employees if all you're going to do is reprint the same cards
Wizards of the Coast is only making money because of profits off the licensing for Baldur's Gate 3. As much as you criticize them (Wizards) for their business practices, you had to know they were failing in some way and that layoffs were long overdue. Hasbro is an awful company, but Wizards of the Coast hasn't been any better for years.
With the absurd pricing and set release pace of the past couple years it’s wild that they would cut costs and fire employees right now. Greed just keeps climbing.
It’s because the other, non-WotC parts of the company are hemorrhaging money. They lost like 110 million dollars last year, despite WotC making something like 280 million profit.
They don't call him Chris Cock for nothing.
That's late-stage capitalism for you. Line must not only continue to go up, but get steeper and steeper, at all costs.
People have pointed out that the positions cut would make it much easier and attractive to sell
You assume they do it to just cut costs and not to cut people who are holding them back or people who have made major mistakes
Hasbro stocks tanking??? Got fire the 1000 everyday employees instead the CEO taking a pay cut. Classic American Corporation mindset.
If only it was just American. This shit happens all over the place.
You think a CEO taking a wage cut will save as much money as 1000 full time employees?
@@Gwedyr77 when that ceo just gave himself a multi million dollar bonus? Yes.
@@Gwedyr77 average ceo makes 400x average employee and you think a pay cut for them wouldn’t make an impact, you funny
The CEO makes almost 10 million yearly. Imagine what half of that could go to
The fact that this is a reprint set going for probably 6-7$ for a draft pack and the biggest hits are currently 35$ and going to drop is criminal. Not to mention the fact that so many of the chosen rares and even mythics are worth less then a dollar.
6-7 bucks per pack would be really bad for this set. It's a draft set, needs draft pricing.
I present you; time spiral remastered.
@@TolarianCommunityCollege if this set is priced the same as a standard set I think this is going to be an amazing set. Unfortunately I don’t see Hasbro being that nice.
I just wish they would slow down reprints to some scale. Master or remaster sets are not going to be possible in the next 5 years if they keep re-printing everything.
@@waffleironpro7065 I mean... 4 years to reprint is not a bad gap.
This was my first ever draft last night! Was fun, definitely passed some good cards to people since they didn't fit what I was doing.
Bruvac backstory is that he was an advisor that doubled the layoffs at some wizardry academy
Cloudstone Cruio was actually going for about $50 before this set was announced so the price has been depressed quite a bit already. just the set being announced was enough for the price to start dropping as people correctly speculated that this card would be reprinted and when it was finally spoiled it hit the low its at now.
30 seconds in and I already thumbed up the video; my heart goes out to all the hard working employees who go the short end of the stick after putting their heart and soul into their work
I recently became unemployed myself as a result of the auto union strike as I was a supplemental worker and it's taking me some time finding a new position to make ends meet.
Appreciate the disclaimer at the start. Those (former) WoTC employees deserved so better, and I can only hope that the backlash and solidarity from the players and content creators will lead to change in the future
Changes need to be mad but it's also just plain Greed that I hate to see
I liked the foreword in this video. It’s sad to hear about so many people losing their jobs before the holidays and the rest of the staff must feel demoralized. I’m looking forward to the following video
Not just sad: it should be infuriating. It's plain old cost-cutting greed.
uhhhh please no. it is impossible to think that there's ZERO fat to cut at WotC.
@@bonafaceso why did the CEO give himself millions in bonuses for the holidays but decided to lay off everyone essentially making him money?
^^^ LOL this kid just learned what capitalism was@@DefaultMii
Yeah, the fat to cut was the CEO's bonuses. @@bonaface
The Shock Lands and Cyc rift getting reprinted are really my biggest excitement for this set. Finally making commander staples more accessible!
if only they reprinted other bombs like the 3 prof mentioned before the #1 or more planeswalker like karn the great creator or t3feri
I hope it brings down shock land prices, but Cyclonic rift had a reprint at rare in commander masters last year, now they reprint it in a more affordable (but still expensive at €5 per draft booster) set at mythic. Won't bump supply that much, it's the one card that really needs it. I also assume the booster prices will drop fast. I'm not preordering anything this time around. Bruvac is already down to €20, the reprint was needed but the price was just scarcity driven (Jumpstart and list only). Hope it's going to be fun to draft, highly doubt it's going to be fun to open.
Boxes are currently going for 175 on TCG. Meaning you gotta work hard to break even. Which is a shame because this should have been a love letter to Ravnica instead of a showcase of problems with modern MTG.
Do not pay those prices. I bet they drop and drop hard upon release.
Imagine how the LGSes are faring. I think the general purchase rate was about $235 or so, and some Amazon pre-order prices managed to slip under that. Unless this sparks a fire for drafting, this'll be a mess.
Depending on their print run of it, you could see another dominaria remastered case. Boxes of that set started at 170+ and tanked now to 100.
@@Blarisho My LGS owner said he wasn't buying a second wave of CMM iirc because there wasn't any incentive to do so. While it would sell like hotcakes in the first few weeks, he couldn't justify the potential loss on a second wave. I honestly don't fault him, either.
@@TolarianCommunityCollegeWhich means LGSs completely take a bath on the product??
lol @ the first example for Curio being Strix, lol... Anywho, keep up the good work Prof, always appreciate the efforts and quality, even despite the occasional minor gaffe.
Jeez, its heartbreaking to hear about those layoffs. I'm usually a big pack buyer, but if that's how Hasbro is gonna be, I don't intend to buy any packs anytime soon, shocklands or none. I can support my LGS through singles if I need to.
You'll be back in a few months, ploughing money into corporate greed for a tiny dopamine hit in the face of gross ethics, propping up the systems you disavow publicly because a social media influencer told you to. You don't really care they fired people, stop pretending you do.
Just like this channel, saying they're against it but they'll keep churning out the content and advertising this trash 🤑
Yup cancelled my pre-order. Might do a draft but that's it.
One year later and Dominaria Remastered is $100 a box. Down from $200+ these reprint sets really aren’t worth cracking unless you’re going to draft.
Draft them to hell
That is not a Bad concept but they sell it like every card was the most expensive card ever :(
Thanks for the words at the beginning. Very important! Greetings from Germany!
designing these sets for draft and them pricing them at premium prices is wild. stores are never going to fire a draft at $35. Least of all when sets contain nothing desirable at all
One of the all-time great flavor texts there on Bruvac. I get a good giggle every time it comes up.
In a British accent right?
Holy heck, that tie colour pops!!!
Right? I just love it.
Agreed @@TolarianCommunityCollege
I've noticed recently that 90% of small game shops and official retailers are no longer selling sealed boosters but they open them and sell cards as singles.
14:57 nice comedic writing on the cyclonic rift. It’s almost like you anticipated our verbal response while watching the video on our device of convenience.
I'm excited about Bruvac being included. I really like that card and it's the one card I actually really want from the set.
Does this mean it’s modern legal now?
Thank you so much for taking the time to add the message at the start, to think so many hard working people are taking the hit when big ceos are taking massive pay packets. Such a shame
Many of the TCG stores in my area aren't even buying newer singles anymore. They only want reserve list cards or sets at least ten years old.
Told me "the new cards are just so overprinted so even if we take them, we'll likely take a loss with the fluctuation in prices".
I don't know think that's entirely true, but I know an omen when I see one.
True. Barely any stone has singles, and the one that I did find (albeit an hour drive away) only really has the big hits from the last few years - like mommy Norn and the other preators.
This set looks awesome. I'll buy a box in 8 months when the prices drop.
From what I've heard, WotC itself is actually above the line for profits, but Hasbro as a whole was down. But due to the structuring of the company (I can only guess a very poor structuring), they're "sharing the load" of the layoffs.
Not that it would have been excusable to do so right before Christmas even if it only hit the underperforming sectors. It's hardly justifiable to do so at all, especially at this scale. But the whole thing is rotten, bottom up.
It really is rotten I hate to hear about it
As someone who runs a mono blue mill deck with Jace, Vyrn's Prodigy, I don't have trouble winning games without Bruvac. But if I can get my hands on him for cheap, I will.
I have so much respect for Brian’s work
The love and promotion of LGC's made me subscribe to this channel. I love it.
You’re a real one Prof. Don’t ever let anyone tell you differently.
Our group will wait to buy the singles we want. Thank you for the video Professor.
Looking forward to that video on the WOTC layoffs. These layoffs will hurt a lot of people and are going to hurt the game in the long run.
It looks like another instance of the tech financing boom and bust strategy for stock growth. Pushing up into a hype cycle to pull in investors as high as it can go and then use some of the collected capital and do cuts and layoffs on the downward slope. Then repeat growing value for the investors until it can’t grow any higher. Honestly when I compared that tech financing strategy with Hasbro, it made everything they have done in the last few years make a lot more sense.
Moon Channel did a good video on the video game industry using this strategy all over a couple weeks ago.
That Moon Channel video was great.
I think this set will tank all the cards printed in it, but it will be good for people to have access to them. I also like that fetch lands have been dropping, but shock lands staid pricy, so now they will cheaper again than fetchs. Funny thing is, I am more excited for Skullcrack and Skewer the Critics finally getting a reprint, about time
😉👍🏻
Thank you for changing how you ad-read for Keeps. I don't feel as harassed and feel comfortable watching through it now.
thank you for the message at the start
I am convinced that the Orzhov Syndicate really exists. It ventured through an interplanar breach into our world, bought Hasbro and now squeezes profits out of gamers and employees alike. Special offer: Trade your soul against TWO Collector-Boosters of your choice (shipping not included).
You can't bounce the baleful strix with cloudstone curio, strix is an artifact!
Yo, Bruvac is back! I love using him on Arena, but he was way too pricy for me to get in paper. Dunno how much his price will actually drop, but it may be time to take my deck into the real world.
In the secretive corridors of the Azorius Senate, Bruvac, the Grandiloquent, formed an unlikely alliance with Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind, after a cunning squirrel slipped a loophole past Bruvac in a high-stakes legal dispute over communal tree ownership. The embarrassment fueled a clandestine mission: the expulsion of all squirrels from Ravnica.
The covert conglomerate of Azorius and Izzet judges, led by Bruvac and Niv-Mizzet, executed an intricate campaign to expel squirrels from the plane. Their shared obsession unfolded in the shadows, hidden from public scrutiny.
The legal battles against the squirrels were as elaborate as they were absurd, with each case becoming a battleground of wit and legal acrobatics. One squirrel argued that ancient trees' roots extended into multiple territories, rendering them communal assets. Bruvac, determined not to be outsmarted again, rallied his covert alliance to counter every legal gambit.
As the judges relentlessly pursued their mission, the unintended consequence emerged. With no squirrels left to collect nuts, Ravnica became overwhelmed by an unprecedented abundance of nuts. The citizens soon faced a crisis as the nuts piled up, creating chaos in the streets.
Chat gpt is nuts
“This card goes infinite with a ham sandwich”. I had to pause and go back to make sure I heard this right. Love it!
I'm not going to lie; the damascus butterfly knife in the Keeps bump at the end was a special touch of class.
That tie is everything
This will be a set I’m buying. Maybe I not a whole box if the price doesn’t come down. But I will be getting singles and maybe crack a couple packs if I find any out when I’m shopping.
I'm mostly excited for the old border Arboreal Grazer, Amulet Titan keeps getting upgrades
"...and you got a stew going..." is such an underrated reference oh my god
The Henzie comment on Lord of the Void makes me feel super called out lol
thank you for making continuously amazing videos prof!
Bruvac is probably either the guy that writes the notes during a trial or the one that checks said notes afterwards.
Very excited for the old border shocks, will be my default shocks for sure
Thanks for the content, I always love your videos!
After having you explain Overload, I had to go watch "Everything Is Just Kicker" video XD
Excited for the Lord of the void. I want it in my demon deck
Super sexy bird art lol…that was a fun game!
the opening of this video is a reminder that no matter how good wizards does it doesnt change the fact the hasbro is an evil corporation
The "you got a stew goin'" got me 😂😂😂 Now I have to rewatch AD
The writing of this episode was great! Props to the whole team for this video, it was a lovely watch c:
RIP Dack, the one treasure we'll never sacrifice
Bruvac head canon: He’s like a Mitch McConnell. He grinds the system to a halt or manipulates it in ways that don’t help the populace.
Big brain play to lay off your bread winners right before Christmas.
CEO deserves a raise, obviously.
Bruvac the Grand Delinquent. I thought that was pretty obvious right?
A lot more companies are doubling down on the min max strategy. I won't be surprised if we start getting more reprints in sets and less original cards (or at least cards that are just copying existing cards).
And folks, this guy taught English. He didn't even mention the real reason that reprint is gas.
That Dragon's Maze joke is good.
I forgot to look at this set's card list. I need to look at the izzet and rakdos reprints
Loved the inicial statement ❤só important
I started playing during the last Ravnica block so in my representation of a Planeswalker as a player Ravnica has been my home and I’m very excited to draft this set. But also I am now iffy on supporting Hasbro.
Bruvac.. he was the brother, interested more in libations than his more responsible, younger brother. That younger bother opened a convenience store and was kind enough to let his older brother pursue dreams of distilling fine beverages in rear, storage area of this store. For convenience purposes clientele referred to the older brother by his gods given name Bruvac whereas his younger brother got stuck w the name Shopvac. It wasn’t an unlikely pairing and the two made a fine team.. but as history often proves, sibling rivalry prevails and after too many “you suck” comments found their way to Shopvacs generous ears the two parted ways and only Bruvacs name would be heard by the annals of time, although any specific details are fuzzy at best.
Love the new tie prof!
I appreciate the intro to this video
Hey Prof! do you think you will do a video of a how to play for the reboot/new Neopets TCG, Battledome, that comes out next year? I liked your how to play for the Digimon tcg and was curious :)
I was fortunate enough to pull a Cyclonic Rift a while back. Good times
Cyclonic rift, together with farewell, also works around indestructible, hexproof and protection. Which hurts, kinda.
Bruvac is actually Lazav shapeshifting to mess with the Azorius
I've heard of avoiding the Noid. But not avoiding the Void! haha i'm old....
Thank you, the professor, for schooling the Hasbro executives on the street basketball courts and breaking the ankles of Chris Kooks, then dunking on out of control greedheads.
0:16 one reason why the investment firm which owns a large portion of Hasbro stock want them to make WOTC an independent company.
This set is so bizarre, I'm wondering how well it even sells, or just how much it'll actually bring Shock Lands down. WotC actively avoided putting value into this set, and actively chose to put garbage into it, under the continued weak excuse of "but, the draft environment..." There is no reason, at all, ZERO REASON, like I can't stress enough how little reason there is for 'Doubling Season' to not be in the set. That alone would at least be SOMETHING to chase. It was from the FIRST Ravnica set, this is the "let's celebrate Ravnica" set, so...where is it??? This set feels like WotC actively trying to see how little they can offer players and how accepting players will be of less and less.
Nice suit Professor!
Bruvac looks like he's into some weird stuff. He probably pays people to step on butter. That's what his backstory is to me.
Not the supesexy Birds of Paradise 💀
Looking forward to the next video
I'm also a fan of Bruvac... the Grand delinquent. 18:06
This, I will forever now call him. WP Prof. (and no, Im not making fun of your English mayor, this is pronunciation, and I think, probably on purpose?)
Just here to say you're a good egg for the intro. Also, I love that tie. Keep doing cool shit.
Thanx Professy!!
Nice Duke Nukem reference Prof. :)
Should I hold off on buying the lands as singles til release or pull the trigger now?
Despite everything and Bruvac not being a Ravinca card, I am a little happy to see him reprinted as a mill player
I get that Bruvac is Azorius guild based; but he was a original jumpstart card; This remastered set should have all been focused on cards from OG Ravnica block, RTR, and the 2 sets prior to WAR. They should have made a subset for cards like Bruvac.
Hasbro has hurt itself again in incompetence and confusion.
Hasbro: If your not going to buy my product I will fire more workers!
Always love that I dont realise that I had cards from certain sets until theres a remastered/reprints and its like "... wait dont i have one of those-"
Rules question: If you use farseek, or other land search method, and it says put the land into play tapped,
can you still pay the life for it to be untapped, or does the search tapped override the land's tap/untap method?
You can pay the two life but the land will still enter tapped. Afaik the only that can make them enter untapped is Spelunking. If you have arena you can test it with Arboreal Grazer and shocklands.
Thanks Prof.
I have most of the shock lands. I have a question: Can wizzards survive without hasbro? Prof, what do you think.
What is a draft opening night? How does it work?
At the time of the set being spoiled, there was actually one more card worth more than Lord of the Void - the stupid $15 Voja token that Tolsimir creates. My son has wanted a copy for a while, and I expect it to crash to below $1 after this reprint.
I use cloudstone curio and eternal witness with early harvest in my mono green ramp deck. Funny way to get infinite mana
What's Bruvak's backstory (or pronunciation in this case)? What's Massacre Girl's? Or what's Savra's, considering the WotC employee in your last video couldn't nail that down either?
I didn't see that number 1 coming.
The game sure has come a long way since millstone in antiquities,.
During the last 5 years the professor's undertone towards some mtg products or card versions has gone from warm and wholesome to somewhat disdainful or spiteful. I can understand how you feel about the change of the game and the products etc. but as a viewer I don't particularly enjoy hearing that come through from the way you act and speak even though the information is always great. Not every product is for everyone and no one is forcing people to buy these cards and most of the expensive ones are only variants of already existing cheap cards. Proxying is always a thing and as one of your legendary lines goes: Buy singles! I'm not very happy about the magic NOW compared to how it was but I don't hate it either. I do love the many different options they have for cards available for one thing. I could go on and on about this and that but I'll just drop a like and wish you a happy weekend!
really appreciate that intro. Hats off to those who lost their jobs
Thanks for supporting the local stores.
That's a great tie.