Tolarian Tutor: Birds Of Paradise And Mana Dorks - Improve Your Magic: The Gathering Gameplay
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
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Been spending most my life, living with the birds of paradise.
Got it ;-)
Cause' I've been blastin' and draftin' so long that,
even my Mama thinks that my mind is gone!
@@johngleeman8347 Now I've never used Banefire on a man that didn't deserve it.
They've been bolted once or twice, livin' with my birds of Paradise.
Creatures are your Mana.
Mana is the power.
Minute after minute,
Hour after hour
"Hum... yes, 2/2 is indeed bigger than 1/1"
Me, with a Master's degree
Is it though? How could you be so sure?
@@SirNarax *looks at complex mathematical equations on board.... Look at comments...look back to the board...look at some tubes with colored liquids...back to comments...back to board... Takes deep breath*
Yes.
@@felipeguidolin1055 Well shoot.
@@SirNarax alle creatures power and toughness are real numbers, with the expetion of Infinity Elemental. Definde that one creature, an x/y, is "bigger" than an other creature, a n/m, if and only if (x>n and y>m). since 2>1 is a 2/2 bigger than a 1/1. Must be 2>1 since 1+1*1=2, notes 1 is differnet form 0. To see 1+1*1=2, defind the natrule numbbers form 1 and the following function s, and definde + and * recersive . So yes i am sure. "2/2 is indeed bigger than 1/1" . Here is most of the " complex mathematical equations on board"
Me: Nodding off, about to fall asleep -_-
Prof: "we'll go over lightning bolt in the next episode"
me: WHAT 0_0
Q: "How should you play against them?"
A: "Bolt the bird!"
Thought the exact same thing
Somehow pushing a bird works too
Stomp the Snek you say.
@@Hero-er9oj Yeah funny how I never realized that fatal push works on things that fly? Silly!
it's a tradition for a reason
"...for people already playing at FNM"
"Oh yeah, that's me, professor"!"
"...and enjoying the ladder in Arena"
"...umm, do I have to enjoy it?
😂
Hope this didn't give you too much extra work. There are still framedrops at sertain points in the closeups. But generally smoother than the last one. Hopefully not very many will notice.
Otherwise excellent content as allways. Thanks for allways providing great content Prof!
My heart will always belong to Llanowar Elves.
Great insights prof! You're an inspiration to us small content creators!
I'm really happy to see a Tolarian Tutor video again! TT was the reason I originally subscribed and I'm glad they're still happening
Glad to hear it!
@@TolarianCommunityCollege these are great videos. I'm rewatching a lot of them since becoming a subscriber.
Good job professor, no more 10 fps zooms. Now i can get back to watching the last 4 minutes of the episode.
(There’s still a couple close-ups where the framerate drops, but the majority is fixed)
Is that the reason for the reupload? I only listened to it and didn't notice anything :)
@@charanth182
Yea, i think so. Theres still a couple of close-ups that drop in framerate later in the video, but a lot of the others have been fixed.
There might be others reasons for the reupload tho.
Let's not forget, birds are also pretty. 🐦
Framerate drops but still great content. Tolarian Tutor, and accessories/supplies reviews are the reason I subscribe to this channel. Keep up the great work, Prof.
I would be on the "Advanced" side of instruction, but I still watch the Beginner and Intermediate videos just because Prof is that awesome. Even without a personal connection he would still be among my most favorite channels. Thanks for all the years of hard work!
Prof: „the best dork, bop or hierarch“
Me, an elves player: „I‘m lost“
Mix slivers in with elves its... Interesting. Kinda turns into an omni deck if you have mana slivers.
Prof, you're really on fire lately. Keep up the good work, but take care so you don't burn yourself out. Been seeing a lot of friends dive deep into the work to escape these encroached feelings from the pandemic.
Im really diggin this informative series. I felt i should tell you the shots of just you talking with no graphic still has fps issues. I still love the video tho
Love the video and gained alot of insight on dorks!
I would love to see a computer scientist, mathematician, or statistician explain magic from the view of opportunity cost, kill clock, the stack as a FILO stack, and maybe ask if mtga release impacted design to make cards that are easier to program, since garfield was a mathematician.
This is great information , also always bolt the bird, bolt the bird with a passion (or just a regular bolt whatever floats your boat)
Jeez, dude. I've been playing Magic for almost twenty years, but I'm starting to think I don't know how to play at all...
Knowing all this stuff before upload, makes me more than an intermediate player!
Professor, this is the single best content on internet to improve magic skills.
The clarity and structure of your videos are amazing. Keep it up!
Shitty to hear this vid got taken down before. Giving a rewatch because this is EXATCLY the kind of content I like. Keep up the good work professor.
Gladly re-watching! 😊
I really like this series. This is what I feel like Tolarian Community College "should" be about. But I understand there might not be as much interest in getting better at magic.
I am having a strange sense of deja vu. Wasn't this uploaded earlier today?
Prof said on Twitter there was a small issue that required a re-upload.
The frames when he talked were weird.
@@_daze Still weird for me
@@_daze The frames are still weird
This is the quality content that got me back into MTG when I started watching your channel a couple years back.
glad that these tutor classes weren´t around when i played magic with my friends. no one would have thought about bolting my birds and elves. everyone like: "oh, but 3 damage on a 0/1 is waste"
and they full and well knew that i played a tooth and nails deck. they always ended up suprised when i reached 9 mana and smaked them with naughty combos. one of my personal favorites: emrakul and hypnox.
im a simple man,
i see Tolarian tutor.
i click.
love the improve your magic videos, i have been playing casually for for almost 25 years now and you with out a doubt are the only MTG voice i listen too
Another fantastic episode! I'm so grateful for this series, great job Prof and team!!! :)
I'm so glad this series is back
I really like the format of this series, and i think it does a great job of actually educating.
I really like these as actual Tolarian Community College Classes. I'd like to know what else is on the syllabus.
I’m honestly so happy that tolarian tutor is back. It was an important part of helping me learn magic and I’m sure it will be now.
This new series of yours is really good and I am excited for the next video.
That's a quick fix, prof. I'm sure you're feeling self-conscious based on stuff you've said in the past, but only those who saw it know it and we have short memories :)
What happened? I watched/ listened to the video earlier and I didn’t notice anything.
frame rate issues
Thank you for all your hard work to bring such quality content to us. Sorry UA-cam algorithm screwed over this video. You have a view and like from a faithful patron here.
nice to see the series return! always loved it
Glad you enjoy it!
Thanks for this video! I stayed playing last year so these easy to understand explainations of the game have really been helping me improve my deck building!
Really enjoyed this new type of video. More Tolatian Tutors please 😁😁😁
Gosh, I just realized I've been evaluating dorks all wrong. Thanks Prof & Team, really useful content.
deathrite shaman is a card i've never been able to believe was printed post 2010. it's practically a 1 mana planeswalker. power level on par with cards like brainstorm and vampiric tutor. absolutely insane card
Thanks Prod for bringing back Tolarian Tutor!! Love this series
Little late to the show but I'm just starting to play magic and so far mana dork elves are my favorite so thanks for making this video!
Finally a guide for the player who has been on and off mtg for 15 years but never got to get good
Just interacting to the video to help the algorithm! Keep up the amazing work!
as someone who went to school for art and gallery management and worked in an art gallery your art hanging drives me up the dang wall...
you asked me to watch and I have watched it was a good video and very informative on the mana curves and how all the interactions between you playing a manadork and how your opponents reactions affect the game and the use of them
After watching some cEDH recently I wondered why tf I'm not running more mana dorks in my decks (often I didn't include any).
I have since changed it and honestly them getting killed hasn't really been much of an issue but the upside is fucking huge, definitely can recommend it in a variety of decks!
More tutors please! Great informative video
I need more of these! They're awesome!
Love these new Intermediate segments, prof!
Commenting to help boost the 'Tubes stats. Great vid Prof!
Hey, Prof!
As always, great video!
I would like to suggest a Tolarian Tutor about Reach Decks. Not decks with creatures that can block as tough they had flying but the old meaning of reach in Magic, before the Keyword was created: the ability of a deck to beat you outside of conventional creature combat. I really like that strategy but we rarely see people talk about it aside Burn decks and it can be so much more interesting when applied to midrange or control.
Great suggestion!
Great series make a comeback? Yes, please! :)
Will we get another "How to protect your commander" series? I'd love to see your ideas for The Ur Dragon!
I always have trouble with my mullingan in a mana dork dependant deck.. great to hear your advice to improve.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've played since Alara and this actually taught me stuff I didn't know.
Man I suck
Nobody ever srops learning!
You really do make the best MtG content Prof.
Wow, thanks!
The office looks great!
When I first learned about Elvish Mystic in high school my friends and I called it Elvish Mistake because obviously a 1 mana 1/1 was just a mistake to put in your deck XD
we've all been there. i remember when i first saw 'necropotence', i thought is was such a dumb card, why would skipping your draw step be a good idea?!
Great video prof! Still some framerate issues though. Keep up the cool introductory but informative basic and advanced concepts of magic!
Dropping my comment to appease the algo-gods! But also, Prof's videos are some of the best for learning how to play and how to grow.
Really enjoying these intermediate videos. I miss FNM and if we ever get back to the modern table, I want to be able to play smarter.
Thanks for so much in-depth info for running mana dorks! As a strictly Commander player, I have avoided building and playing Green so far, so not very knowledgeable on mana dorks. Also replying to help you against your video being bombed by youtube.
Never before have I heard such a lecture on cetacean genetalia.
you're a great teacher. i love this series.
The professor asked me to watch this video so here I am!!!
3rd times a charm, UA-cam can be more of a pain then someone running rhystic studies and smothering tides.
You taught me so much, prof! 🤗
Great class Prof!!!! Thank you very much!!
I love Tolarian Tutor!
thanks this was very helpful! - happy patron.
I came from the secret lair extra life video. I wanted to comment here how humorous and entertaining your annoyance with the secret lair walking dead is
I love randomly logging in and seeing something like "uploaded 10 seconds ago". Just good timing and a nice treat to watch. I already know this stuff but I'll still watch haha
Thank you Professor, I needed this
Your lessons are a masterpiece!
Excellent video! Really informative!
Great episode Prof! I love this series!
Love the episode, I found it very useful!
Glad it was helpful!
while this is a great and insightful episode for eternal format like Modern and such, I think having a small section for rotating/newer format such as Standard/Historic would help a lot, especially with how huge MTG Arena is at current year and the different scale of power level on the mana dorks such as Gilded Goose or Lotus Cobra compared to Bird of Paradise or Llanowar Elf
Nice tie, prof.
Interesting that 2:12 and 3:03 (maybe more) still have temporary low frame count sections while their surrounding video is fixed.
Thankyou for sharing highly apreciate this is fun
The professor's trousers are colored very similarly to the floor! At one point I thought his torso was floating!
The only mana dork I run in my commander deck is the I forget the name but its the one thats 1 black 1 green from ikoria because it can also tap to put cards in your gy. I use him in my Meren Graveyard deck.
On a side note I finally got the last pieces to "finish" pimping out the deck as well. Every single card is either a foil or alt art version I really liked that can be the only cards that aren't are my command tower and constant mists because mists has only been printed once anyway lol. I'm waiting for the comander collection green to get that sol ring and command tower tho because the art just goes soooo well with the theme of the deck.
I have a casual elf ramp deck in legacy, where I run 9 llanowar elves (in various forms), 4 Priest of Titania, and 4 Elvish Ardruid. I do some crazy mana stuff, let me tell you! I don't find I miss the Cradle, but it's one of my less effective decks, despite never having lost to my generally quite a bit better artifact aggro deck. AFAIK, it's the fact that the Artifact deck literally ran no removal, and just tried to get them down to 0, relying usually on Cranial Plating. It's a fast deck actually, but not interfering with what my elves are doing results in consistently losing to the elves. Quite hilarious, because the elves struggle worse vs almost every other casual deck I've made. The deck that my Artifacts struggle 2nd most against is my best deck overall, my Burn deck, which pretty much blanks my elves, so yeah, metagames are weird, and always run some removal to deal with dorks!
For the record, I put 4 Dismember to address the issue. So far it's not really enough, but it needs more testing.
Awesome video. For the ‘rithm!
I love this series
Thanks for the educational content.
Thanks Prof!
This video was a reminder of the massive mistake I made selling my Nobel Hierarchs.
Professor, now with more frames
ALL THE FRAMES
@@TolarianCommunityCollege the Prof can have a couple of frames, as a treat.
Thanks professor
Cheers Prof!
Love the video, Prof
Love these videos!
I play more dorks in Aristocrats decks in EDH like Sek'kuar Deathkeeper, Nethroi, and so on, because they function as acceleration and also as easy death triggers when I need them.
Watching at your request
A Death & Taxes episode with PleasentKenobi would be amazing!
I'm still upset about not being able to use Deathrite Shaman