Fun fact: in magics lore there is a sort of "one ring' Lim-dul as a simple soldier once found a ring that corrupted him. The ring contained the essence of Mairsil the Pretender and it gave Lim-Dul great power. This would be an awesome Universes Within "Skin" for the One Ring.
True but also lore wise Liliana took Lim-Duls ring and buried it far beneath her families home to the point where her magic couldn't sense it anymore. This was to prevent Lim-Duls (Raven Man)corruption and from Phyrexia obtaining it
True story about unsleeved cards: In my office we would play magic during our lunch break in a conference room. This one guy who play back in the very start of magic, and had full collections of all sets up to something like the Urza block. We all knew he had the power nine (actually 8 because someone in the 90's stole is Mox Pearl), and we asked if he wanted to build a deck to play with us. So after a bit of prodding, he built a 5 color sliver deck using just cards he had, no new cards. So we sit down and he has this deck completely unsleeved, is bridge shuffling it, and starts playing OG duals, and sliver queen, etc. At one point he probably had $10,000 worth of cards on table completely unsleeved and didn't even give it a second thought. I told him that I would leave right now and go buy him sleeves just so he wouldn't ruin these cards. He declined, but it was wild to see and remember when I started playing during revised that we never sleeved our decks.
Had a similar situation at boarding school in the early 2000s - friend had a huge collection of cards going back into the 90s, including some pretty valuable nonsense. We would just put all the cards into a huge pile and dig out whatever to make random decks every play session, no sleeves, no respect, just pure savagery. The first time I saw a sleeved card I thought it was weird. You should be rawdogging your opponents with the unprotected savagery of a dog-eared black lotus that has an ever growing tear with every shuffle
I constantly get that offer as well. I tilted someone by playing an unsleeved Cabal Coffers and Urborg. I do refuse to put my drink on the tables. The issue is I have approximately 200 unique decks, one being a Battle of Wits. That’s 12,190 sleeves. At 100 in a pack, $6 a pack, I’d end up spending ~$750 on just sleeves
I play with people who play unsleeved, but you were right when you said they don’t listen to podcasts about magic. “You just take cards and play them” -Richard
Of all the cards in the set Seth managed to pick out Cleopatra as being difficult to reprint... the actual historical figure that cannot be trademarked.
That's a really good point! The bottom right of her card shows a Ubisoft copyright symbol though, so I guess they're counting her as an original character.
My opinion on pre-scheduled B&R vs. random "whenever they feel it's necessary" B&R is that pre-scheduled is better, but it should be more regular. Not once per year, but some fixed amount of time after each set release. Long enough to have a good idea of the metagame and allow counterplay to develop, but not so long that problems fester for ages like the once yearly updates would cause.
My lore concern is that Lord of the Rings actually feels very traditional magic setting, but Assassin's Creed stretches that a little too much, Marvel even more so. I cannot see myself wanting to play Ezio or Spiderman no matter how good they are. I'd rather have a Universes Within version of the Marvel characters. That said, I know its slightly hypocritical cause I didn't bat an eye for the Transformers cards
My concern is that the cards are almost practically mechanicly tied to the IP too. So what will reprints look like? Its almost as bad as the reserve list.
First no LotR is low fantasy Magic is high fantasy much more like Conan, the Dying Earth series. LotR isn't very magical and it's intentional Second, one of the best most well received sets in recent years was Kamigawa Neon Dynasty a little cyber punk setting. Motorcycle riding mice biker gangs are mtg Lore.
Just a perfect storm of an extremely awkward time to have a B&R window. Standard is rotating soon, Modern, Legacy and Vintage just received an huge influx of powerful cards and Pioneer is in the middle of RCQ season. Hopefully something happens in August, particularly with Pioneer, Amalia combo has warped that format considerably with no repercussions.
@@SilverAlex92 Just speculation but probably because it isn't as readily accessible for monetization like the other formats. WotC has been complacent with it recently because the priority is revitalizing Standard and pushing out as much targeted Commander product as possible. The other aspect is that Pioneer has essentially become curated by 'Standard's greatest hits' and WotC always favors printing threats over answers lately. This, Pioneer is always deprived of efficient, targeted answers for its meta while it is constantly injected with increasingly proactive cards that encourage combo and value pile play patterns.
@@SilverAlex92theory I’ve heard posited for that that I agree with, is that most of the best anti-combo pieces were printed just outside of Pioneer’s time window, and WotC hasn’t printed good enough replacements for them in Standard/Pioneer-legal sets since.
I sleeve EVERY CARD in both magic and board games. I spend a lot of money on sleeves and even have a collection of sleeves of Dragonshields that are no longer in print. I am a self-proclaimed connoisseur of sleeves. I say all of this because I was emotionally devastated seeing that image of a commander game with sleeveless cards.
I dont sleeve a few of my decks, i have an unsleeved selvala explorer returned deck and its one of my favourites. Every time i play the deck it reminds me of playing unsleeved commander in my buddies basement once a week with pizza and beer, the deck will always be unsleeved and i welcome any wear that comes to those cards. Sometimes its freeing and fun
Combo is level 1 of the PT metagame, everyone is going to see it coming. So my prediction is some sort of assertive/aggro plan with disruption elements (discards/counterspells/removal) becomes the level 2 that you want to be playing because it preys on combo. In short, maybe this is finally merfolk's time to shine. Though I personally am quite high on the Izzet wizards lists.
about the "do people really sleeve their cards?" at around 56:00 onwards: I would imagine that those players who truly play kitchen-sink MTG, with those random piles of cards as decks, they would not care for sleeves. the players who actually get together regularly in LGS and such always have sleeved decks. I personally have one unsleeved deck (it costs 25 bucks total and was purposely made to not be sleeved) and I even riffle shuffle the deck, which always has people go crazy when they see it.
The bird that can come in from exile is gonna be sweet. Pitch that dude to solitude to get rid of their blocker then get in with Ragavan or thalia or something and bring the bird back? Gaming
Thank you Crim. Last year I got the game Exploding Kittens and sleeved all the cards for it. At the time my gf judged me for it. Glad to know other mtg players don't think it's that extra.
I always listen on Spotify but I had to switch apps just to come here and defend Crim. I have experience in the behind the scenes at board game stores and more and more people sleeve their favorite game. The board game sleeves come in a ton of sizes, and it never seems possible to keep the popular sizes in stock. Not usually every game in a collection, but for the dedicated gamer this isn’t crazy.
Just wanted to request more OPTCG talks in these! Really though, with all the magic sets releasing all the time the product fatigue is real. I'd love an off topic podcast where you talk about your other hobbies.
I guess the upsite of a lot of data wrt brewing is that you can start to tech against the meta-game much more efficiently which can keep it flowing nicely, and also you can have much more refined "niche" lists, instead of only the top type of decks being optimized, and the 2nd tier decks being left in sub-optimal states, making the matchup that much harder for them.
It's better to view the yearly ban window more as a time for WotC to share their views on formats going into rotation and the after set window is the time to actually ban problems.
The problem is that this is supposedly the only time they'll address something in Standard, so if the meta goes to he11 with rotation and the release of Bloomburrow due to one of the cards that they kinda highlighted today. Then we have to deal with it until they either rotate out or are able to ban it next year.
I feel called out - I do sleeve my board games. I sleeved up my copy of Splendor and when I moved out, my mom bought herself a copy and was shocked that "the cards didn't just come like that." And then she wanted them sleeved and I was like, yeah that'll be $16. She only spent $25 on the game.
Thought I had: IF YOU PRICE IT CORRECTLY (AS IN EQUAL TO OR LESS THAN THE PRICE OF A NORMAL BOOSTER), you could theoretically do a Universes Within Beyond Booster that reprints a ton of Universes Beyond cards.
The most popular version of that Jeskai deck doesn’t run The One Ring. Instead they have Tamiyo and Flame of Anor. Flame of Anor being a great answer to Nadu decks.
I have close the 15 commander decks that I use pretty often. I think two of them are sleeved and I refuse to use a playmat. The amount it tilts people is a advantage.
I think most players will eventually sleeve their decks. But I could see newer players playing a couple games with a precon they bought before they buy sleeves.
I have a group of friends from high school that I go back to play with every once in a while. They all play unsleeved with drinks on the table. It bugs me, but they absolutely refuse to sleeve their cards. To each their own.
Random thought about "The One Ring" but it doesnt have any of the notable text on the ring that makes it look different than any other traditional ring. I think they mayyyyyy be able to squeeze out a loophole to reprint it as just another generic looking ring, but it being "The One" in another form that alligns with the Magic universe instead of the LotR one
32:00 I think this is the correct point. No pre-release for this set, so I'm not going to rip packs just to rip packs. Outlaws was super good, MH3 has lots of cool stuff, lots of value, and we're all looking forward to Bloomborrow in exactly a month. Theres wasnt 2 months between MH3 and Bloomburrow. No time to even take a breath and enjoy all the cool new cards we just got. Barely a enough time to get another paycheck between then either.
It retails for the same price as a Thunder Junction Play Box, but has 33% less packs 66% less cards, a small fraction of the reprints. This set is purely consumer extortion. That increases the cost substantially for all consumers to play magic. Definately pushing the corporate gestapo.
As somebody who introduces A LOT of people to Magic, I can say from my own experience that people are confused when I mention that they may want to sleeve their decks. They think about Magic cards like any other card game (e.g., poker, sushi go, etc.) - that is to say, something that should be played, not something they are investing in. I see people learning to sleeve their decks if they begin building or modifying their decks, and they begin to see the prices of specific singles. However, if people stick with pre-constructed decks or some form of starter decks, sleeving cards usually isn’t considered or prioritized.
I think they should have a ban window between Christmas and New Year since tournaments and qualifiers are done. This window should address standard and pioneer since those are the RPTQ season formats until my next ban window which I would put around July 1st. This should address modern most with that RPTQ season starting and would be after the modern PT. I may have the seasons a bit mixed but two hard locked ban announcement times should be enough and if a big problem arises then you can emergency ban. That is my idea for B&R scheduling.
Totally fair, and to each their own. That said, after the misery of shuffling and destroying unsleeved cards for years in the 2000s, I don’t know that I could ever go back to playing unsleeved, even if the deck costs less than the sleeves.
The people I know who just buy a few precons a year but have never followed competitive Magic definitely play without sleeves. Pretty much like how you see in the picture. But no drinks on the table. Think about how often you might have played a game of Monopoly or something with your family as kids and thats about how much use those cards see.
I dont mind universe beyond sets that "fit" with magic, but even then i would prefer their powerlevel to be on the lower end. Personally i just hope dr who and warhammer 40k style sets will never have relevance in eternal formats.
My prediction is that people will be very ready for Storm at the pro tour. And we'll see a lot of big mana decks playing Chalice on turn 1 and Trinisphere on turn 2. So to beat these big mana strategies we could see land destruction, Blood Moon and Harbinger of the Seas doing damage, but ironically Blood Moon does nothing vs storm lol. So there's that rock paper scissor game going on.
I own likely 25k MtG cards and buy at least 2 booster boxes of every set. But... I rarely sleeve cards when I play. I do sleeve constructed decks and custom commander decks, but I play a lot of sealed, draft, and commander with precons (all unsleeved).
Playing unsleeved makes actually the most sense, because cards will just disapear forever. Imagine the one Ring is not played anymore, because all of them played to death.
17:30 as someone who plays a lot of league of legends that has a very in depth stats scene that tracks winrates of all the champs and items and runes and everything, I found that it makes the game more interesting and not less interesting. There is a LOT of interpretation you can do with stats, especially once you find people copying the stats sites which leads to that build being picked more which leads to more people copying the stats site and so on until you start getting noobs picking that build which deflates the winrate, but by how much? That is a matter of interpretation It also helps stale metas since you can now find cards to break the meta much easier
speaking of phlage, i would really love to see a 12 helix deck, with phlage, lightning helix and smothering helix in a vid. i think it would be pretty funny.
I 100% have started sleeving up boardgame cards. My wife gets annoyed cus I'll delay playing a new gane until I have the sleeves lol 7 Wonders has big ass card sleeves so there is a sleeve for every game.
I do get some small satisfaction from everyone finally catching up to the conversation that many people who do not like UB have been trying to have since it's inception - licenses and reprints. MaRo has said on his blog that they don't believe there to be market demand for a full set of UB reprints that are all in-universe and they've already broken the "mechanically unique" promise by having sets they've indicated they will not be reprinting in MTG-original versions. This is a problem that will only loom larger and larger as people keep pushing back against people voicing their distaste for UB, even as WotC's word on the subject means less and less. "Second reserve list" isn't catastrophizing, it's a distinct possibility depending on how some of these products end up shaking out.
You can’t have sleeves featured as WOTC doesn’t own a sleeve brand which means they would be promoting and showing favouritism to a certain brand. I’m surprised the Fish Crew didn’t know this. It’s because they are not sponsored by Ultimate Guard.
Sleeves aside, I don't think most people play on an unprotected wooden table with drinks there right next to the considerably expensive pieces of cardboard. At the very least get some coasters and a table cloth.
I wonder how the UB reprint policy will work mechanically with cards. "The ring tempts you" and such seem like a weird gray area between gameplay moniker and trademark
I feel like the no unsleeved stuff and no Playmat is mainly because they don’t want to license the product for the photo. Even the “official” stuff is just licensed product by ultrapro, which they’d need permission to use. You can’t exactly pop up your mtggoldfish playmat and MTGRemy sleeves for a promotional photo for the game. They don’t think it’s how the game should be played, but it’s the stuff they have the exclusive rights to.
I sleeve some boardgames. Terraforming Mars, for example, I have fully sleeved in the same sleeves I use for MtG. That said, c'mon guys, it's easier to photograph cards without sleeves, sleeves produce glare.
I feel like the problem with not supporting the assassin archetype in ACR stems from not having commons. You need commons to flesh out new themes in a set and the lack of those commons mean there’s no meat and potatoes for your theme to take shape.
MTGO league data being open could be the source of so many unwarranted outcries and a slight possibility of some (actual) expert making a good counterargument to WotC reasonings. Doing statistics is hard, but it's astonishingly easy to (accidentally) misrepresent a dataset in such a way to get a pitchfork wielding mob going. You can get a fairly convincing argument out of shoddy stats on a HS/collage graduate level of understanding.
A critique I hear often from you guys (btw love your channel) and other universe beyond enjoyers towards those against it is that immersion is a fallacy because magic is already ridiculous, and that ultimately fallout is as much MTG as say, neon dynasty. But this is not why I don't like universes beyond. I don't like it because having all these different IPs is cheap to me. I do not want to see them, period. It cheapens the game and it's identity. There is literally no 'universe beyond' that makes sense for me, flavour wise. Anyway, that's my perspective.
Once again I'm a little worried that the pro tour is too close from the release of the set, so pros didn't have enough time to brew hard enough. And because of that most people will pick something safe like Storm, Tron or Nadu. But if the pro tour was a few weeks later we could've seen a lot more interesting and unique decks I think.
I think it can go the other way too. If you wait a month or two after the set releases the meta can be solved and then you have the equivalent of Standard Pro Tours when 45% of the field is playing some Rakdos variant.
The fact that unsleeved cards trigger Crim this hard makes me wanna play unsleeved on all my decks now. I wanna wear those cards down to nubs and play them with Pride. 😈
Wow, Seth is such a good host, constantly asking crim and Richard and he is really good at keeping the conversation rolling
Fun fact: in magics lore there is a sort of "one ring' Lim-dul as a simple soldier once found a ring that corrupted him. The ring contained the essence of Mairsil the Pretender and it gave Lim-Dul great power.
This would be an awesome Universes Within "Skin" for the One Ring.
True but also lore wise Liliana took Lim-Duls ring and buried it far beneath her families home to the point where her magic couldn't sense it anymore. This was to prevent Lim-Duls (Raven Man)corruption and from Phyrexia obtaining it
True story about unsleeved cards: In my office we would play magic during our lunch break in a conference room. This one guy who play back in the very start of magic, and had full collections of all sets up to something like the Urza block. We all knew he had the power nine (actually 8 because someone in the 90's stole is Mox Pearl), and we asked if he wanted to build a deck to play with us. So after a bit of prodding, he built a 5 color sliver deck using just cards he had, no new cards. So we sit down and he has this deck completely unsleeved, is bridge shuffling it, and starts playing OG duals, and sliver queen, etc. At one point he probably had $10,000 worth of cards on table completely unsleeved and didn't even give it a second thought. I told him that I would leave right now and go buy him sleeves just so he wouldn't ruin these cards. He declined, but it was wild to see and remember when I started playing during revised that we never sleeved our decks.
Had a similar situation at boarding school in the early 2000s - friend had a huge collection of cards going back into the 90s, including some pretty valuable nonsense. We would just put all the cards into a huge pile and dig out whatever to make random decks every play session, no sleeves, no respect, just pure savagery.
The first time I saw a sleeved card I thought it was weird. You should be rawdogging your opponents with the unprotected savagery of a dog-eared black lotus that has an ever growing tear with every shuffle
I constantly get that offer as well. I tilted someone by playing an unsleeved Cabal Coffers and Urborg. I do refuse to put my drink on the tables.
The issue is I have approximately 200 unique decks, one being a Battle of Wits. That’s 12,190 sleeves. At 100 in a pack, $6 a pack, I’d end up spending ~$750 on just sleeves
Was he aware of how much these cards were worth?
I play with people who play unsleeved, but you were right when you said they don’t listen to podcasts about magic. “You just take cards and play them” -Richard
Of all the cards in the set Seth managed to pick out Cleopatra as being difficult to reprint... the actual historical figure that cannot be trademarked.
That's a really good point! The bottom right of her card shows a Ubisoft copyright symbol though, so I guess they're counting her as an original character.
Disney would absolutely do that shit if they could get away with it.
@@josephwodarczyk977 Just because they print something on the card doesn't mean it's correct/lawful.
@@metatron8578 that's exactly what the copyright symbol means.
Its probably the only one he can pronounce. 🤣
On the unsleeved cards, can confirm that is how one starts to play magic.
My opinion on pre-scheduled B&R vs. random "whenever they feel it's necessary" B&R is that pre-scheduled is better, but it should be more regular. Not once per year, but some fixed amount of time after each set release. Long enough to have a good idea of the metagame and allow counterplay to develop, but not so long that problems fester for ages like the once yearly updates would cause.
they do have small B&R windows after sets
Wizzards want you to play unsleeved and with drinks so you need to buy new cards all the time, big brain move!
My lore concern is that Lord of the Rings actually feels very traditional magic setting, but Assassin's Creed stretches that a little too much, Marvel even more so. I cannot see myself wanting to play Ezio or Spiderman no matter how good they are. I'd rather have a Universes Within version of the Marvel characters. That said, I know its slightly hypocritical cause I didn't bat an eye for the Transformers cards
My concern is that the cards are almost practically mechanicly tied to the IP too. So what will reprints look like?
Its almost as bad as the reserve list.
First no
LotR is low fantasy Magic is high fantasy much more like Conan, the Dying Earth series.
LotR isn't very magical and it's intentional
Second, one of the best most well received sets in recent years was Kamigawa Neon Dynasty a little cyber punk setting. Motorcycle riding mice biker gangs are mtg Lore.
Yeah, this is such a fraught thing. It's funny how Fallout and Warhammer fit the Magic aesthetic more than Thunder Junction did.
@anxez
WarHammer is nothing like Mtg aesthetics, it's all the spaces ships and stuff. It's like saying Star Wars or Dune fit the Magic aesthetic.
I think playing other games that are just ip soup has really helped me not be bothered by these sets. Japan is full of games like that too.
Just a perfect storm of an extremely awkward time to have a B&R window. Standard is rotating soon, Modern, Legacy and Vintage just received an huge influx of powerful cards and Pioneer is in the middle of RCQ season. Hopefully something happens in August, particularly with Pioneer, Amalia combo has warped that format considerably with no repercussions.
Why is it always pioneer the one that gets reck by a combo deck that goes too long unadressed? xD
@@SilverAlex92 Just speculation but probably because it isn't as readily accessible for monetization like the other formats. WotC has been complacent with it recently because the priority is revitalizing Standard and pushing out as much targeted Commander product as possible.
The other aspect is that Pioneer has essentially become curated by 'Standard's greatest hits' and WotC always favors printing threats over answers lately. This, Pioneer is always deprived of efficient, targeted answers for its meta while it is constantly injected with increasingly proactive cards that encourage combo and value pile play patterns.
@@SilverAlex92theory I’ve heard posited for that that I agree with, is that most of the best anti-combo pieces were printed just outside of Pioneer’s time window, and WotC hasn’t printed good enough replacements for them in Standard/Pioneer-legal sets since.
I sleeve EVERY CARD in both magic and board games. I spend a lot of money on sleeves and even have a collection of sleeves of Dragonshields that are no longer in print. I am a self-proclaimed connoisseur of sleeves. I say all of this because I was emotionally devastated seeing that image of a commander game with sleeveless cards.
Playing against folks at FNM who are rocking beautiful, blinged out decks in grimy, worn-out sleeves drives me insane.
I dont sleeve a few of my decks, i have an unsleeved selvala explorer returned deck and its one of my favourites. Every time i play the deck it reminds me of playing unsleeved commander in my buddies basement once a week with pizza and beer, the deck will always be unsleeved and i welcome any wear that comes to those cards. Sometimes its freeing and fun
Lore aside, I actually like some of the cards in the set, the play from exile bird is gonna be part of my "path to exile as ramp" package
You guys are always a joy. Thanks for producing informative and entertaining content time and time again.
Combo is level 1 of the PT metagame, everyone is going to see it coming. So my prediction is some sort of assertive/aggro plan with disruption elements (discards/counterspells/removal) becomes the level 2 that you want to be playing because it preys on combo. In short, maybe this is finally merfolk's time to shine. Though I personally am quite high on the Izzet wizards lists.
Unsleeved is the way to go! However my main format is pauper edh so I’m not playing with particularly expensive cards. Thanks for the podcast folks!
24:32
Seth learns that Magic players are far more interested in complaining about anything than they are being consistent.
about the "do people really sleeve their cards?" at around 56:00 onwards: I would imagine that those players who truly play kitchen-sink MTG, with those random piles of cards as decks, they would not care for sleeves.
the players who actually get together regularly in LGS and such always have sleeved decks. I personally have one unsleeved deck (it costs 25 bucks total and was purposely made to not be sleeved) and I even riffle shuffle the deck, which always has people go crazy when they see it.
You rock sir.
The bird that can come in from exile is gonna be sweet. Pitch that dude to solitude to get rid of their blocker then get in with Ragavan or thalia or something and bring the bird back? Gaming
Well done getting that winner kid Richard!! It was cool meeting you
I love the one piece updates for Richard. Conversely I would watch a one piece stream from Richard lol
I think wizards learned from Commander rules committee how to make a format “fair and balanced”: if everything is broken, nothing is. 50:25
Nothing like waking up to a goldfish podcast
You really woke up at 5pm? Lol
Eveyone lives in the same time zone 😮 @@r4v4g3r
I only got a play mat 2 weeks ago, and my play area looked exactly like that. Though entirely sleeved. I started playing magic in 98.
Thank you Crim. Last year I got the game Exploding Kittens and sleeved all the cards for it. At the time my gf judged me for it. Glad to know other mtg players don't think it's that extra.
I always listen on Spotify but I had to switch apps just to come here and defend Crim. I have experience in the behind the scenes at board game stores and more and more people sleeve their favorite game. The board game sleeves come in a ton of sizes, and it never seems possible to keep the popular sizes in stock. Not usually every game in a collection, but for the dedicated gamer this isn’t crazy.
Richard, Mardu with Nethergoif & Ajani is the new Jund you're looking for
Just wanted to request more OPTCG talks in these! Really though, with all the magic sets releasing all the time the product fatigue is real. I'd love an off topic podcast where you talk about your other hobbies.
I guess the upsite of a lot of data wrt brewing is that you can start to tech against the meta-game much more efficiently which can keep it flowing nicely, and also you can have much more refined "niche" lists, instead of only the top type of decks being optimized, and the 2nd tier decks being left in sub-optimal states, making the matchup that much harder for them.
It's better to view the yearly ban window more as a time for WotC to share their views on formats going into rotation and the after set window is the time to actually ban problems.
The problem is that this is supposedly the only time they'll address something in Standard, so if the meta goes to he11 with rotation and the release of Bloomburrow due to one of the cards that they kinda highlighted today. Then we have to deal with it until they either rotate out or are able to ban it next year.
Don’t worry Crimmm I have a sleeved copy of Exploding Kittens too, I still need to make a box that fits them sleeved tho
I feel called out - I do sleeve my board games. I sleeved up my copy of Splendor and when I moved out, my mom bought herself a copy and was shocked that "the cards didn't just come like that." And then she wanted them sleeved and I was like, yeah that'll be $16. She only spent $25 on the game.
Thought I had: IF YOU PRICE IT CORRECTLY (AS IN EQUAL TO OR LESS THAN THE PRICE OF A NORMAL BOOSTER), you could theoretically do a Universes Within Beyond Booster that reprints a ton of Universes Beyond cards.
Sleeving cards is so therapeutic
The most popular version of that Jeskai deck doesn’t run The One Ring. Instead they have Tamiyo and Flame of Anor. Flame of Anor being a great answer to Nadu decks.
To Crim's defense, I have wanted to sleeve the family Uno deck 😆
The issue with a in magic version of the one ring is it won't affect the price due to you will run both in Commander.
I have close the 15 commander decks that I use pretty often. I think two of them are sleeved and I refuse to use a playmat.
The amount it tilts people is a advantage.
This is the way!
People sleeve board games at the shop I play at helps preserve the game longer in general
No mention of the one ring really surprised me.
I expected it to atleast come up in passing or something
Watch players in Japan. So clean
My brother has all his Dominion & Wingspan cards sleeved!
I think most players will eventually sleeve their decks. But I could see newer players playing a couple games with a precon they bought before they buy sleeves.
I have a group of friends from high school that I go back to play with every once in a while. They all play unsleeved with drinks on the table. It bugs me, but they absolutely refuse to sleeve their cards. To each their own.
Random thought about "The One Ring" but it doesnt have any of the notable text on the ring that makes it look different than any other traditional ring. I think they mayyyyyy be able to squeeze out a loophole to reprint it as just another generic looking ring, but it being "The One" in another form that alligns with the Magic universe instead of the LotR one
32:00 I think this is the correct point. No pre-release for this set, so I'm not going to rip packs just to rip packs. Outlaws was super good, MH3 has lots of cool stuff, lots of value, and we're all looking forward to Bloomborrow in exactly a month. Theres wasnt 2 months between MH3 and Bloomburrow. No time to even take a breath and enjoy all the cool new cards we just got. Barely a enough time to get another paycheck between then either.
...why is the standard ban window literally right before rotation??? Shouldn't it be partway through the year?
It retails for the same price as a Thunder Junction Play Box, but has 33% less packs 66% less cards, a small fraction of the reprints. This set is purely consumer extortion. That increases the cost substantially for all consumers to play magic. Definately pushing the corporate gestapo.
I align my lands like that every time... Keep your play space neat guys. Bottom Left of the stock photo is what my board looks like.
Sleeves and mats for days though.
On the photo. In the 90s your lands were above your permanents.
Assassin's Creed is going to bomb. Just wait for the packs to be heavily discounted
Remember when Modern’s price issue was the land base? Those were the days..
As somebody who introduces A LOT of people to Magic, I can say from my own experience that people are confused when I mention that they may want to sleeve their decks. They think about Magic cards like any other card game (e.g., poker, sushi go, etc.) - that is to say, something that should be played, not something they are investing in. I see people learning to sleeve their decks if they begin building or modifying their decks, and they begin to see the prices of specific singles. However, if people stick with pre-constructed decks or some form of starter decks, sleeving cards usually isn’t considered or prioritized.
I think they should have a ban window between Christmas and New Year since tournaments and qualifiers are done. This window should address standard and pioneer since those are the RPTQ season formats until my next ban window which I would put around July 1st. This should address modern most with that RPTQ season starting and would be after the modern PT. I may have the seasons a bit mixed but two hard locked ban announcement times should be enough and if a big problem arises then you can emergency ban. That is my idea for B&R scheduling.
I play both sleeved and unsleeved, where the budget deck is unsleeved and the other isn't. Sleeves are pricey, man
Totally fair, and to each their own. That said, after the misery of shuffling and destroying unsleeved cards for years in the 2000s, I don’t know that I could ever go back to playing unsleeved, even if the deck costs less than the sleeves.
The people I know who just buy a few precons a year but have never followed competitive Magic definitely play without sleeves. Pretty much like how you see in the picture. But no drinks on the table. Think about how often you might have played a game of Monopoly or something with your family as kids and thats about how much use those cards see.
The ABSOLUTE Nightmare Secnario for the Pro Tour this weekend is if _Amulet Titan_ shows up & just ROLLS the field 🤯
I rarely see unsleeved cards at my lgs outside of limited, but the kitchen table crowd probably plays unsleeved.
Most of the Magic I play in person these days is 4 person drafts, and we don't bother to sleeve the decks.
Yesss. Just refreshed!
Basim Ibn Ishaq seems pretty playable
I was sleeving as I watched this my latest EDH deck
I dont mind universe beyond sets that "fit" with magic, but even then i would prefer their powerlevel to be on the lower end. Personally i just hope dr who and warhammer 40k style sets will never have relevance in eternal formats.
My prediction is that people will be very ready for Storm at the pro tour. And we'll see a lot of big mana decks playing Chalice on turn 1 and Trinisphere on turn 2. So to beat these big mana strategies we could see land destruction, Blood Moon and Harbinger of the Seas doing damage, but ironically Blood Moon does nothing vs storm lol. So there's that rock paper scissor game going on.
I own likely 25k MtG cards and buy at least 2 booster boxes of every set. But... I rarely sleeve cards when I play. I do sleeve constructed decks and custom commander decks, but I play a lot of sealed, draft, and commander with precons (all unsleeved).
Playing unsleeved makes actually the most sense, because cards will just disapear forever. Imagine the one Ring is not played anymore, because all of them played to death.
I’ve never sleeved a magic card (but I haven’t played a game with paper cards for 20 years.)
TFT and mortdog mentioned let's goooooooooooo
17:30 as someone who plays a lot of league of legends that has a very in depth stats scene that tracks winrates of all the champs and items and runes and everything, I found that it makes the game more interesting and not less interesting. There is a LOT of interpretation you can do with stats, especially once you find people copying the stats sites which leads to that build being picked more which leads to more people copying the stats site and so on until you start getting noobs picking that build which deflates the winrate, but by how much? That is a matter of interpretation
It also helps stale metas since you can now find cards to break the meta much easier
speaking of phlage, i would really love to see a 12 helix deck, with phlage, lightning helix and smothering helix in a vid. i think it would be pretty funny.
I sleeve my Dominion set, 3 expansions including
Singles will be the only thing i would want from this set 1 blade and 1 Edward Kenway and 1 of each actual assassin pirate
Always wear protection! I sleeve everything. Exploding kittens, terraforming Mars, DC comics
I started sleeving in 1995 still have my original sleeves...lol
Yogscast played a game of commander a few months ago and their cards were unsleeved. Some of them are even into Magic.
I 100% have started sleeving up boardgame cards. My wife gets annoyed cus I'll delay playing a new gane until I have the sleeves lol 7 Wonders has big ass card sleeves so there is a sleeve for every game.
So I buy all the precons and use them to play just precon vs precon with friends and I don't sleave them. But my constuctive decks are all sleeved.
Richard out here sounding like a Hasbro executive with all this "put broken cards in the set so it will sell" talk.
I do get some small satisfaction from everyone finally catching up to the conversation that many people who do not like UB have been trying to have since it's inception - licenses and reprints. MaRo has said on his blog that they don't believe there to be market demand for a full set of UB reprints that are all in-universe and they've already broken the "mechanically unique" promise by having sets they've indicated they will not be reprinting in MTG-original versions.
This is a problem that will only loom larger and larger as people keep pushing back against people voicing their distaste for UB, even as WotC's word on the subject means less and less.
"Second reserve list" isn't catastrophizing, it's a distinct possibility depending on how some of these products end up shaking out.
Yep, so far squad is a Warhammer exclusive mechanic. Released Oct 7 2022, almost 2 years and still mechanically unique to those decks.
You can’t have sleeves featured as WOTC doesn’t own a sleeve brand which means they would be promoting and showing favouritism to a certain brand. I’m surprised the Fish Crew didn’t know this. It’s because they are not sponsored by Ultimate Guard.
So what you're saying, Richard, is Assassin's creed is the new Balders gate
Sleeves aside, I don't think most people play on an unprotected wooden table with drinks there right next to the considerably expensive pieces of cardboard. At the very least get some coasters and a table cloth.
I wonder how the UB reprint policy will work mechanically with cards. "The ring tempts you" and such seem like a weird gray area between gameplay moniker and trademark
"Urza tempts you"
They already said that UB reprints will get reworded keywords before.
@@TheEvolver311 Good to know. As if these mechanics weren't confusing enough already...
I didn't play with sleeves until I started proxying. My cards were worth nothing and I didn't have the money to spend on sleeves.
Maybe you guys should probably make a fishmail short series every week because it's been a while that you actually do it mora than one week in a row.
I feel like the no unsleeved stuff and no Playmat is mainly because they don’t want to license the product for the photo. Even the “official” stuff is just licensed product by ultrapro, which they’d need permission to use. You can’t exactly pop up your mtggoldfish playmat and MTGRemy sleeves for a promotional photo for the game. They don’t think it’s how the game should be played, but it’s the stuff they have the exclusive rights to.
I sleeve some boardgames. Terraforming Mars, for example, I have fully sleeved in the same sleeves I use for MtG. That said, c'mon guys, it's easier to photograph cards without sleeves, sleeves produce glare.
I feel like the problem with not supporting the assassin archetype in ACR stems from not having commons. You need commons to flesh out new themes in a set and the lack of those commons mean there’s no meat and potatoes for your theme to take shape.
Yeah I'm glad I got my like 15 copies of open the way at like 50 cents
2000 sleeves from BCW is like 20$. If someone comes to my house to play, and they don't have sleeves, I just give them a set.
I sleeve my planechase cards, even tho there's an app for it lol 😂😂😂👀👀
MTGO league data being open could be the source of so many unwarranted outcries and a slight possibility of some (actual) expert making a good counterargument to WotC reasonings.
Doing statistics is hard, but it's astonishingly easy to (accidentally) misrepresent a dataset in such a way to get a pitchfork wielding mob going. You can get a fairly convincing argument out of shoddy stats on a HS/collage graduate level of understanding.
Eh, Wizards misrepresents data to serve their purposes (imo), it's only fair that the community gets the chance too.
Every time Crims faith in modern is restored... the drinking game.
A critique I hear often from you guys (btw love your channel) and other universe beyond enjoyers towards those against it is that immersion is a fallacy because magic is already ridiculous, and that ultimately fallout is as much MTG as say, neon dynasty.
But this is not why I don't like universes beyond. I don't like it because having all these different IPs is cheap to me. I do not want to see them, period. It cheapens the game and it's identity. There is literally no 'universe beyond' that makes sense for me, flavour wise.
Anyway, that's my perspective.
By the way basic playing cards come sleeved already (they're laminated) would actually be cool if they made trading cards that way.
I have 3 decks that I run un-sleaved and riffle shuffle just to generate rage at the table
I sleave my proxies for stability but rarely my actual magic cards.
Once again I'm a little worried that the pro tour is too close from the release of the set, so pros didn't have enough time to brew hard enough. And because of that most people will pick something safe like Storm, Tron or Nadu. But if the pro tour was a few weeks later we could've seen a lot more interesting and unique decks I think.
I think it can go the other way too. If you wait a month or two after the set releases the meta can be solved and then you have the equivalent of Standard Pro Tours when 45% of the field is playing some Rakdos variant.
I have different decks sleeved/unsleeved for different levels of casulity
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This conversation and attitude is exactly why Modern Players whinned and moaned at WotC to print a direct into Modern set.
The fact that unsleeved cards trigger Crim this hard makes me wanna play unsleeved on all my decks now. I wanna wear those cards down to nubs and play them with Pride. 😈
So rare to find something that sets Crim off.