Well, since there are so many different cards to choose from in commander, it's actually not that difficult to get "duplicates". I got a mill commander deck, where there are about 10 or so cards that do pretty much the same (mill the opponent for a couple of cards and provide a creature to defend against potential attacks from the opponent). Most commander decks I encounter, actually have a lot of cards which are similar or downright the same. It doesn't really matter if you draw "Random Creature" or "Creature of Randomness" if they do pretty much the same.
At least he's having fun with mill decks. I'm getting tired of the lifelink aggro BS that everyone is playing. Anyone can do damage to win in 4 turns. Unless you're just trying to rank up, I don't see the point to playing aggro. It's boring and unfulfilling. Old school magic players are all about those crippling effects. It's not good enough to just defeat your opponent, you must crush their soul so that they defeat themselves. I've been messing with risen reef, omniscience, flood of tears, and agent of treachery. I bounce everything then steal all my opponent's lands. I got to diamond with this deck and had fun while doing it.
@@thomascarrie2312 Yeah since ashiok got added it's okay. Still loses more often than not. And with the way a lot of decks race to remove excess cards from their library, you're usually just helping a person by milling them. Like my agent of treachery/risen reef/mirror image deck. I just need to make sure I get a bunch of land out early or play a nissa or omniscience and the mill deck doesn't get a fifth turn. Plus without ashiok, there's not a lot to deal with gaea's blessing. Oh well, rotation happened so it's not like gaea's blessing is viable anymore but you get my point.
I've built two mill decks, both Commander, one led by Nekusar and the other led by Phenax. The Nekusar deck sucks, and I hate it, by the Phenax deck, which is built around Relentless Rats and Persistent Petitioners, is actually a decent deck. I built in an infinite rat engine that significantly increases the speed of my milling.
@@richardrichard2625 Yes. They can be fairly complicated. Here is a video that discusses a really old school combo from back in the day: th-cam.com/video/5LbBDwDLAv8/w-d-xo.html
The thing is: combo decks are control decks that win by a combo of cards instead of damage by a large creature. By this definition, combo is a subtype of control.
@@milezw another thing at my locals I hate is P.U.N.K Therions. I played someone using it last week and the opened: Psy-Frame Gamma Emergency Teleport Emergency Teleport Emergency Teleport Fateful Adventure.
jokes on you, scientists have proven that cigars can help increase memory. (I just made that up, but i'm hoping you don't read past the first sentence.)
Matpat says ai frends that wont leave you All the people with clinical or normal depression whale they have headaches or crayng why why why did you have to remain me I know I can write but english is my second language and I'm Bulgarian with intayer new alphabed
8:20 "You may look at this list and not recognize any of these cards." Au Contraire, MatPat. I know these cards all too well. Nexus of Fate makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Magic games tend to come down to two factors in my experience: deckbuilding and resourcefulness. Because of the random shuffle, you are always going to be doing the best you can with the resources at your disposal. Deckbuilding just makes sure that you are as likely as possible to have any given resource when you need it.
@@officialteaincorporated243 why i quit right there. decks that play with themselves for a half hour. nah, bruh, keep your storm deck and go wail on that 12 year old at the card shop tourney, im going to play cribbage instead, a balanced game.
4:33 as somebody who's been playing it for a few years. ( Commander) It actually boils down to the most jankiest combos you can come up with. You can also just run infect and have the whole table hate you.
so true! I beat my friends with janky things like creating infinite planeswalkers while they are playing Jund, Grixis Control and Mono-Red pheonix (some of the most expensive, powerful decks in Modern)
I used to play Yugioh with a kid who'd always set the same 5 cards at the top of his deck every duel. Everytime I called him out on it he'd say he was just really lucky. 1 trillion times luckier than me apparently...
With practise, it's easy to stack the deck without technically cheating. It's a fair shuffle, but it's also not because you can keep track of where certain cards are. This is why MTG players cut each other's decks after a shuffle happens.
Probably normal summon a thing, which then searches a thing, then xyz summon a bigger thing that lets you fish for something else. That's basically every YuGiOh deck
@Bowstick That's not what the short system is. The long system gets a new term every million, and uses a variation of the old term for thousands. In french, the scale is as follows : Millions, Milliards, Billions, Billiards, Trillions, Trilliards. The short scale (or short system) gets a new term every thousand. I'll put in parentheses what the term in french is : Million (Million), billion (milliard), trillion (billion), quadrillion (billiard). When Mat says trillion, he really means a thousand billions, or 10^12. Your error is in converting between numeral systems. Indeed, a (short) billion is equal to a (long) milliard, and a (short) trillion is equal to a (long) billion, but a (short) trillion is not equal to a (short) billion. (Boy my idle game knowledge can finally be useful for once)
Matpat: The likelihood of two matching shuffles is less than 1% Me screaming at my screen: THEN HOW DID I SHUFFLE ALL OF MY LANDS TOGETHER MATPAT!!??!? Context: I was playing a game with my father and I couldn’t seem to pick up any mana, then all of the sudden it was all I would draw! I almost flipped the table at the end of that game!!
Matpat- "A 52 card deck has nearly infinite outcomes in the draw! Amazing, right?" Then please explain why I always draw the same brick of a hand in Yo-gi-oh?
Shoutout to my friends and I on the USS Bataan on our 2014 deployment. The picture @11:50 is of a Sailor/Marine tournament during the deployment! Can't believe i saw both myself and that picture in this video 5 years later.
Tip on how to play a card games. Read your opponent and figure out their next movie. Know what your cards do and practice facing against different types of opponent. Make sure deck flows and it consistent Finally believe the heart of card and summon the ancient soul of Pharaoh. I do something different call the soul of the Pharaoh sister that a magician.
Or you just throw in one of every legendary you have which happens to exactly make a deck and hope for the best. Or you include some cards in your deck that will fight your opponent when you play them and leave winning or loosing basically predetermined by your random deck-order, if you survive long enough to actually pull it off...
I play commander, so I can’t really do duplicates. That’s where skill in deck building comes in. You need multiple cards that have similar affects and different combos to decrease probability. Also, if you have a few tutors they are basically whatever combo piece you need
Just play Relentless Rats or Persistent Petitioners etc. Problem solved! : ) P.S. Yes, I see this is a 4 month old comment I'm replying to. I'm just fooling around.
@@jilvermazariegos good point. I guess the correct word is tactics? The building and planning of your decks mechanics and flow so that everything functions. None of that is probability or math.
DJuan Blackmon I disagree when building a competitive deck there is a lot of math involved with determine card ratios and especially with magic where you need to consider lands vs cost of cards and ratio of different colours
"Now you may not recognize any of these cards" I recognize a Nexus flash deck when I see one. I know with limited certainty what that ENTIRE deck does.
Isn't there a 6 card combo that allows you to draw and play your entire deck turn 1? I remember seeing something like that Where people used it to make a Turing machine using a MTG deck that is/was completely legal.
@@freyamiles3718 risen reef has rotated but using peer into the abyss + teferi's ageless insight will draw your whole library (peer draws half your library, teferi's ageless insight doubles the amount of cards you draw from any source except your draw step)
@@olivegardensrestroom688 but how do their wives get along? Since i know Steph always works with Mat on GT, And Steph and Mat work together a lot on FT
@@conormurphy4328 For those out of the MTG loop. Rat Colony is a card that can have any number of cards called "rat colony" in a deck, making it very consistent. Battle of Wits is a card that requires you to have around 240 card deck instead of 60, making it hilariously inconsistent. #Explaining the Joke
Here’s a tip. If someone casts a removal spell on the first creature you play, that means they have at least two more in their hand. So play your worst creatures after that if you can until they use all their spells.
When I saw the notification for this video pop up I was like: “Man, those losses at Monstermon must’ve been tough. MatPat legit went and trained to suck less at card games to only become a master and teach us the same in a video.”
Level 1 thinking: How strong is my own hand and game? Level 2 thinking: How strong is my opponent's game and deck? Level 3 thinking: How strong does my opponent think I am? Level 4 thinking: How strong does my opponent think I think how strong he is?
Ascended Level Thinking: How strong does my opponent think I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I am.
13:17 I remember a GP I participated, my oppontent had drawn and immeadiately looked at his graveyard, so I knew he had a Snapcaster Mage and that information won me the game.
I'm ten and I LOVE Magic! My dad has almost all of the cards, especialy the old ones and him me and my brother play ALL THE TIME! Him and my brother also really like using the op deck... I've actually won one or two games before! I've never played arena though and the graphics CAN'T COMPARE to playing it IRL! But we sorta don't have to deal with decks because we always know which deck each of us is going to use XD (love your work been a fan for three years!)
You know, with the whole, “chance of getting the same hand as someone else is less than 1%” thing, it brings me back to Yugioh, and the Rebecca Fight in the anime. The whole point of it is Yugi and Rebecca had the same exact duel as their grandparents did 20 years before. What is the percent of that? Yugi had 60 cards in his Deck at this point, but you could say he has 40. Rebecca definitely has 40 cards. Watch the episode and have fun with THAT math.
What is the percent in a world where we don't have a Shadow Realm or mystical spirits guiding us? Pretty low but Yugioh always has some BS Magic to help it's plot breaking the laws of our reality based world. Fortunately we don't see that happen in RL! ....Oh wait Duel Link literally made it with Destiny Draw. Nevermind.
Same. I respect that milling is a valid and effective strategy but it's sooooo boring to play against and I cannot for the life of me guess how it could be entertaining to play. And I'm pretty sure that it's not even that strong/clever of a strategy, you could probably make a deck that utterly wrecks those milling decks, by building it so that it uses the graveyard as much as possible, cards that plays from the graveyard, or that bring cars back from it, or that give effects that are enhanced by having cards in your graveyard. Or maybe you could just make a 400 cards deck and watch them flounder as they realize that if they try milling they might end up reaching their last card first...
@@swordcrab3181 Is Traumatise relevant? You mill half the deck with it, so bye-bye to ~200 of your cards. But yeah... Pure mill is the most boring type of control. Graveyard decks aren't that much good against it either because they'll counter/exile your spells unless you get them to waste enough ressources to play them. Graveyards are public so they'll know what to counter and what not to counter. Elixir of life is probably the best counter to mill
As someone who likes playing mill and other weird win cons I can say that decks that revolves around sacrifice and graveyard (Basically any deck that runs similar to your standard Meren of clan nel toth deck) that uses the graveyard as a mulch box is horrifying to a mill player.
@@totem95 I'm not a very experienced player, so I don't know the in and out of countering and strategy, nor am I familliar with all the cards. I haven't even built a deck yet (I'm tinkering with it, but it's very much a WIP), and I only do okay at using the premade decks. What I do know is that when I get matched with someone who has a 160 card deck, or if they play the Persistent Petitioners I immediately lose any interest in the game. Because from there I can predict how it'll go from a mile away. From time to time I still try to see if I can aggro them before they have their counters and mill set up, but nowadays I usually just immediately concede the game. I don't mind losing, not even losing hard. I've ended games at -40 hp, sometimes even as I thought my victory to be assured. I have nothing against losing. Hell, I love to see an opponent snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. But being mill is not fun, and if the game is not fun why would I play?
Thomas Pettier you’ve obviously never heard of Ulamog the Ceaseless Hunger and Through the Breach. Through the Breach brings an Eldrazi into play from your deck and gives it haste. It gets exiled at the end of your turn but one turn is usually all you need. Ulamog is the worst Eldrazi to deal with in my opinion because when he attacks he sends the TOP 20 CARDS OF YOUR LIBRARY STRAIGHT TO EXILE. Not the graveyard EXILE you aren’t getting those back at least not most of them. Also this effect doesn’t kick in when he hits you or if he hits a creature just the very action of him attacking does this. I played a couple of vintage cubes a while back and there was a guy I fought both times that got this combo BOTH TIMES
I play the physical version, so I have already realized the full potential of Magic the Gathering: Legacy, turn 1 wins... this is why I play Commander (EDH for the OGs) I should also mention, after watching to the probability point that there are Magic cards that literally do the same thing: Kodama's reach and Cultivate are one example second edit: dragons don't need duplicates, they work by themselves (y'know in casual, cause no dragon can stand up to storm)
Remember what he said about the multiple similar effects. In Commander, you can put in the 100 coolest cards you have or you can ensure that you multiple overlapping things. If you are playing a slower deck that needs to ramp, make sure that you have enough ramp to get there. The exact math of how much of every effect you want will depend on your target power level (casual /cEDH) and a bunch of other stuff. I highly recommend (if you have not watched it before) to watch the "Command Zone" podcast (and or there "Game Knights", they are fun) as they are a dedicated commander podcasts that go over this type of stuff in some detail.
I CAN'T BELIEVE MATPAT ***OF ALL PEOPLE*** IS BEING SPONSORED BY WIZARDS edit: I love MatPat but there are lots of quality TCG youtubers too who would love to talk about Arena
Yeah and for a non Magic Pro someone like MatPat does make sense. Understanding probability and attention to details are good ways to be good at this game. ...The crash and burn in Monstermon was gold as well.
God I really needed this, I’m trying to get into magic but didn’t know how to play. BIG THANK!
th-cam.com/video/ZixWqaGJVQs/w-d-xo.html here you go
MTG Arena is a great starting point, being free to play. (Pay to win, yes. But not necessarily)
It also does a great job of teaching how to play.
You can pick up a planeswalker deck to start you off for about £12. Or if you visit them this weekend you’ll get to start on the new set prerelease.
@@ekdeimos but not really. There are plenty competitive budget decks in both Standard, Modern and Commander. And certainly on MTG:A
“You can fill that deck with duplicates...”
*_cries in commander_*
I feel ya buddy. It's the life we chose.
Just fill your deck with basic lands and you can have consistent (albeit not good) draws :D
Rats deck... ;)
>cries
i mean at least cards in commander don't rotate
Well, since there are so many different cards to choose from in commander, it's actually not that difficult to get "duplicates". I got a mill commander deck, where there are about 10 or so cards that do pretty much the same (mill the opponent for a couple of cards and provide a creature to defend against potential attacks from the opponent). Most commander decks I encounter, actually have a lot of cards which are similar or downright the same. It doesn't really matter if you draw "Random Creature" or "Creature of Randomness" if they do pretty much the same.
the sound of jason off screen laughing at mat not being able to double bridge shuffle is great
I know right XD
Jins Ly I can’t shuffle I related too hard
I can't do it ether
@@lucymurphy3369 umhm
MatPat: I like to mill out my opponent
Me with a deck revolving around the graveyard: this is where the fun begins
Dredge: oh hi thank you!
Same with yugioh.
*laughs in Izzet phoenix*
Laughs in leyline of the void
@@tempest9962 laughs in brainstorm ban
I like how the card for “Math” is basically the actual Magic Card “Look at me, I’m R&D”
Matpat: we're trying to figure out why I'm bad at MTG
also Matpat: my personal favorite deck is mill
I mean, at least if it was self mill, he might have a chance. You know, between reanimator, and lab maniac
At least he's having fun with mill decks. I'm getting tired of the lifelink aggro BS that everyone is playing. Anyone can do damage to win in 4 turns. Unless you're just trying to rank up, I don't see the point to playing aggro. It's boring and unfulfilling. Old school magic players are all about those crippling effects. It's not good enough to just defeat your opponent, you must crush their soul so that they defeat themselves. I've been messing with risen reef, omniscience, flood of tears, and agent of treachery. I bounce everything then steal all my opponent's lands. I got to diamond with this deck and had fun while doing it.
You know mill is super viable
@@thomascarrie2312 Yeah since ashiok got added it's okay. Still loses more often than not. And with the way a lot of decks race to remove excess cards from their library, you're usually just helping a person by milling them. Like my agent of treachery/risen reef/mirror image deck. I just need to make sure I get a bunch of land out early or play a nissa or omniscience and the mill deck doesn't get a fifth turn. Plus without ashiok, there's not a lot to deal with gaea's blessing.
Oh well, rotation happened so it's not like gaea's blessing is viable anymore but you get my point.
I've built two mill decks, both Commander, one led by Nekusar and the other led by Phenax. The Nekusar deck sucks, and I hate it, by the Phenax deck, which is built around Relentless Rats and Persistent Petitioners, is actually a decent deck. I built in an infinite rat engine that significantly increases the speed of my milling.
Matt "You have three deck types: Aggro control and midrange"
Combo: "Am I a joke to you?"
I know your angry, but don't just storm off...
Does combo exist in magic
Blizzard seems to think so lol
@@richardrichard2625 Yes. They can be fairly complicated. Here is a video that discusses a really old school combo from back in the day: th-cam.com/video/5LbBDwDLAv8/w-d-xo.html
The thing is: combo decks are control decks that win by a combo of cards instead of damage by a large creature. By this definition, combo is a subtype of control.
“I lost every game of magic so you don’t have to”
*I A L R E A D Y D I D T H A T*
Same
Relatable, have a nice day.
XD
RIP
Lol same
"the trick is, you can add duplicates of cards in your deck"
.......well, now we know why he lost every game
Cant add duplicates if its Commander or Oath Breaker.
imagine having duplicates in your deck
_this comment brought to you by the commander gang_
Yea... wonder what his mana base looked like before he figured this out
Hence why Tri-Brigades in Yu-Gi-Oh crush casuals.
. . .
Or am I the only sicko playing Tri-Brigades in casuals?
@@milezw another thing at my locals I hate is P.U.N.K Therions. I played someone using it last week and the opened:
Psy-Frame Gamma
Emergency Teleport
Emergency Teleport
Emergency Teleport
Fateful Adventure.
MattPat-“You might not recognize these cards”
Me- *Lights cigar to try and forget*
edgy
Spicy Nexus of Fate playing forever on their turn.
jokes on you, scientists have proven that cigars can help increase memory. (I just made that up, but i'm hoping you don't read past the first sentence.)
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I miss the innocent days where Nexus of Fate was the worst thing we had to worry about.
That moment when you tense up because you are trying to suppress the maniacal laughter that just involuntarily happens when you have a good hand
Yeah. I know that feeling too well. I likely have alot of tells so I needed this.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👌👌👌👌👌
Right? And you start like biting the inside of your cheek or something to keep for smiling.
The trick is to laugh maniacally regardless of what hand you get
u might as well replace the sun at that point, beamin so hard XD
Step one: find an ancient Egyptian artifact containing the soul of a pharoah
Step two: get deck from your Grandpa (it has no phathetic cards in it)
Matpat says ai frends that wont leave you
All the people with clinical or normal depression whale they have headaches or crayng why why why did you have to remain me
I know I can write but english is my second language and I'm Bulgarian with intayer new alphabed
Wrong Card Game.
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@@rodrigolivsan that's the joke
Matpat after getting a few things reflected: I hate everything!
Yu-Gi-Oh players: you get used to it
ture
Yu gi oh:complex. Pokemon : im'a end this man's career
True
That’s assuming you’re allowed to attack
Mirror force, destroying friendships ever since the anime aired
8:20 "You may look at this list and not recognize any of these cards."
Au Contraire, MatPat. I know these cards all too well. Nexus of Fate makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
U french?
Nexus of Fate is a damn good card.
Damn fucked card. Damn degenerate, awfully handled and designed card.
I actually died to a 1/1 army because they got into Nexus of Fate loop.
I play too much modern to care
“Jason did you just beat Chris?”
“Yeah!”
“That’s no victory”
"What?"
Unoriginal 156 hello ynniv!
Oof
"computerised friends that will never leave you" geez that got depressing.
Until support ends and servers are turned off.....
Thats our everyday life for us 2000's kids.
Magic games tend to come down to two factors in my experience: deckbuilding and resourcefulness. Because of the random shuffle, you are always going to be doing the best you can with the resources at your disposal. Deckbuilding just makes sure that you are as likely as possible to have any given resource when you need it.
"Magic is an imperfect game. You dont know what your opponent has"
*laughs in lantern control
I love this deck more than any other deck I've ever played... I just wish it was better against the decks that actually matter... lol
Oof
You all crying red
*laughs in playing with yourself
Wait.... that sounds weird
@@officialteaincorporated243 why i quit right there. decks that play with themselves for a half hour. nah, bruh, keep your storm deck and go wail on that 12 year old at the card shop tourney, im going to play cribbage instead, a balanced game.
MTG sponsored video
Makes Yu-Gi-Oh reference
Me: "is that allowed?"
clint william “is that legal?”
“I will make it legal.”
They are both owned by wizards
@@enclavenews4564 Isn't Yu-Gi-Oh tcg just Konami's brand?
They make the cards
Yeah konami made it
"Hopefully, yours was better than mine"
Pretty sure you're above me. Last time I shuffled a deck of cards, I managed to cut myself
Nice
-claps-
Oof.
Nice profile pic!
I don’t play magic I play Pokémon so I shuffle a deck of cards like at least 30 times a day
"Here's looking at you, Burn"
Woah. For a moment I really thought he was talking to me.
Nice name.
1:06 Jason laughing Mat's inability to bridge shuffle hilarious
4:33 as somebody who's been playing it for a few years. ( Commander) It actually boils down to the most jankiest combos you can come up with. You can also just run infect and have the whole table hate you.
so true! I beat my friends with janky things like creating infinite planeswalkers while they are playing Jund, Grixis Control and Mono-Red pheonix (some of the most expensive, powerful decks in Modern)
"Who wants to draw a card? 😁 Awesome! Lose 2 life." -Words of a friend when playing grouphug.
Esper combos exist. The colors involved literally have an answer to everything anyone else plays. So, infect can only go so far.
Tribal hatebears
My favorite deck has card combos that make 5 unblockable infects
Bring the hate, it shall only feed me
"you need to know what's in your opponent's hand"
*laughs in 8 rack*
Laughs in thoughtseize into inquisition. Oh that's a nice hand, would be a shame if you only had lands
No believe in heart of the cards
@@cizz8315 I did as a kid
then I learned how to win
look mom, no hands!
That’s my deck.
"No friends around me to Physically Play with"
2020: Am I a joke to you?
My Lgs closed and I’m sad now
Yeah
@Jamir Pridgen Alexa play despacito at full volume
No...2020 is no joke. It nearly destroyed me before I ever heard of COVID-19.
Oh God no!!!
There are 2020!!! Reasons why 2020 is no joke.
All you need is luck, patience, and a little bit of smarts...
And a *FUCKTON* of money.
*laughs in warhammer*
Mostly money
Laughs in Yugioh as well.
When it comes to magic, that is much true
Laughs in power 9
Matt making this video: "I guide others to a treasure I cannot possess"
True
I used to play Yugioh with a kid who'd always set the same 5 cards at the top of his deck every duel.
Everytime I called him out on it he'd say he was just really lucky.
1 trillion times luckier than me apparently...
That's why you get the option to cut the opponent's deck beforehand.
Better lucky than good.
Heart or the cards man
What you do is stack your deck with counter cards, go first and block everything
With practise, it's easy to stack the deck without technically cheating. It's a fair shuffle, but it's also not because you can keep track of where certain cards are. This is why MTG players cut each other's decks after a shuffle happens.
Meanwhile me a yugioh player being asked how my deck works: I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MY DECK WORKS
I was thinking the same thing lol
Probably normal summon a thing, which then searches a thing, then xyz summon a bigger thing that lets you fish for something else.
That's basically every YuGiOh deck
Same
Yu gi oh 4 life
But sirisly tho how do you have a deck you understand
"How to not suck at card games"
Me: *cries in Monstermon*
Yes
“Wizards of the Coast” I thought they were just called Surfers
Junior Studios maybe even Timmy’s.
I thought they were called bloods and crips....
I’m on the floor that was the funniest thing to ever exist
Does that make life guards "Knights of the Coast?"
Love that joke dude
2:51 "And then multiply that by another trillion"
> Screen shows 1 billion.
@Bowstick That's not what the short system is. The long system gets a new term every million, and uses a variation of the old term for thousands. In french, the scale is as follows : Millions, Milliards, Billions, Billiards, Trillions, Trilliards. The short scale (or short system) gets a new term every thousand. I'll put in parentheses what the term in french is : Million (Million), billion (milliard), trillion (billion), quadrillion (billiard). When Mat says trillion, he really means a thousand billions, or 10^12.
Your error is in converting between numeral systems. Indeed, a (short) billion is equal to a (long) milliard, and a (short) trillion is equal to a (long) billion, but a (short) trillion is not equal to a (short) billion.
(Boy my idle game knowledge can finally be useful for once)
Matpat: The likelihood of two matching shuffles is less than 1%
Me screaming at my screen: THEN HOW DID I SHUFFLE ALL OF MY LANDS TOGETHER MATPAT!!??!?
Context: I was playing a game with my father and I couldn’t seem to pick up any mana, then all of the sudden it was all I would draw! I almost flipped the table at the end of that game!!
Ouch, I've felt that. I had some really good cards but waa super low on mana. It sucked.
I had a fire plains walker( I play water + fire) a my first card and got literally no Mana.... Btw I lost. Shocker.
off
Getting flooded is one of the worst feelings a human can ever feel.
that's not the same thing at all
When Matpat wears a Chaos Theory shirt everybody pays attention to everything but him.
I dont do the gates but I feel like there is definitely a code in the part where he smooshed down the deck hand chance
I think it might have to do with the number of the cards in the first sequence
Matpat- "A 52 card deck has nearly infinite outcomes in the draw! Amazing, right?"
Then please explain why I always draw the same brick of a hand in Yo-gi-oh?
Poorly optimized deck
@@hairlessopossum4042 and a bad joke combos into the Roid architype.
Expectations: this video
Reality: loses to 3/3 Elks
Ah Oko
Studio Gallifrey The feels bad
BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU
First game I every played, I lost to a 1/1 Token Creature.
I have forsaken my humanity. I have an oko oathbreaker.
"I can finally summon my strongest creature"
Blue Player:
"Are you Sure about that?"
Laughs in Aetherize
LMAO FR
Ha Ha exile goes *brrrrrrrr*
@@game_mations3807 laughs in mindbreak trap
@@ianhoneycutt3858 laughs in counterspell
Shoutout to my friends and I on the USS Bataan on our 2014 deployment. The picture @11:50 is of a Sailor/Marine tournament during the deployment! Can't believe i saw both myself and that picture in this video 5 years later.
Tip on how to play a card games.
Read your opponent and figure out their next movie.
Know what your cards do and practice facing against different types of opponent.
Make sure deck flows and it consistent
Finally believe the heart of card and summon the ancient soul of Pharaoh. I do something different call the soul of the Pharaoh sister that a magician.
Or you just throw in one of every legendary you have which happens to exactly make a deck and hope for the best. Or you include some cards in your deck that will fight your opponent when you play them and leave winning or loosing basically predetermined by your random deck-order, if you survive long enough to actually pull it off...
Learn from the main protagonist In the yu hi oh anime.
Have a lot of money and buy a deck someone else made.
Step 1: spawn Exodia
Step 2: win
@@-._._._-_._._.- Draw* Exodia
I play commander, so I can’t really do duplicates. That’s where skill in deck building comes in. You need multiple cards that have similar affects and different combos to decrease probability. Also, if you have a few tutors they are basically whatever combo piece you need
Just play Relentless Rats or Persistent Petitioners etc.
Problem solved! : )
P.S. Yes, I see this is a 4 month old comment I'm replying to. I'm just fooling around.
MatPat: "It all boils down to math and statistics"
Me: "Uh MatPat you forgot strategy man..."
Strategy involves statistics and probability. So he isn't wrong
@@jilvermazariegos good point. I guess the correct word is tactics? The building and planning of your decks mechanics and flow so that everything functions. None of that is probability or math.
Strategy is about statistics
And money
And luck
DJuan Blackmon I disagree when building a competitive deck there is a lot of math involved with determine card ratios and especially with magic where you need to consider lands vs cost of cards and ratio of different colours
"Now you may not recognize any of these cards"
I recognize a Nexus flash deck when I see one. I know with limited certainty what that ENTIRE deck does.
Yeah, it's expensive Solitaire
Simic Nexus is sadboi times, god I'm glad that deck rotated
Me too, the Nexus deck was a dark period in Standard history.
Lol
Certainty
MatPat: "Luck has to be on my side sometimes!"
Stephanie: "Sora, I challenge you to a game of cards!"
I JUST GOT THAT
Those are always good spent 4 hours
I see your a man of culture as well
Who is Sora I heard that name before.
@@thatrandomeliteultra1158 kingdom hearts protanganist
"in magic, you can stack the deck in your favor...literally"
bruh I got banned from a GP for following your advice :(
Ahhahahaha
HAHAHA 😂
"an Optimal strategy"
It's Blue/White Control, isn't it?
CartmanTuttle What can’t I counter?
Close, but the real answer is Esper Control. Just make it so you're the only one allowed to play at all, and then you win! Boring but Effective!
@@archer9480 that would be simic flash in standard and some version of stoneforge mystic mindsculptor shennanigins
I heard simic control
There is no "best deck." If there was, everyone would be using it at tournaments.
Basic introduction: You need lands to-
MatPat: USE THEIR BODY LANGUAGE AGAINST THEM!
"I wanna outsmart the game of magic"
Me: Do you mean manaweave
Isn't there a 6 card combo that allows you to draw and play your entire deck turn 1?
I remember seeing something like that
Where people used it to make a Turing machine using a MTG deck that is/was completely legal.
Manaweaveing does help alot
@@BramLastname elements (risen reaf) can pretty much do that
@@freyamiles3718 risen reef has rotated
but using peer into the abyss + teferi's ageless insight will draw your whole library
(peer draws half your library, teferi's ageless insight doubles the amount of cards you draw from any source except your draw step)
@@freyamiles3718 remember the two days wegen risen reef was the lost Brocken card in M20?
Good Times
"You can fill that deck with duplicates."
**Sad commander noises**
Persistent Petitioners, Seven Dwarves and Shadowborn Apostles: And I took that personally
@@swagboss9720 relentless rats: why you forget me bby? :c
You can always play Rats
We play commander BECAUSE duplicates aren't fun, where it's much more random and you can't rely on the same strategy.
It's okay op you're a Commander player so you don't count.
"Pause this video right now, run out and grab them"
Me: *wrapped in a towel* But the sun hasn't come up yet...
Matpat: I suck at shuffling cards
Me: *high fives screen*
Yep, Mat Pat is definitely a Blue Deck Player.
Blues are always on the chase for more information.
I tend to play swamp or forest. My brither hates it when I play swamps as I play an undead deck
Maybe black, he seems like the type of person who would play hand look/discard shenanigans.
And here's me who never played any card strategy games :
*wHaT's A dEcK?*
@@lu_emery Yeah, Blue and Black seems like a combo that he would like, a slow, destructive control deck.
Ya he is my least favorite color combo.
that yugioh reference was literally just the whole anime in one statement
"How to beat the Joker with a Joker"
-A Film theory and Game theory collab
Oh my god, they should collab sometime they seem like they'd like each other
@@eagletsnupper7876 Yea Mat would be best friends with Mat if they really sat down and talked to each other😂
@@olivegardensrestroom688 but how do their wives get along? Since i know Steph always works with Mat on GT, And Steph and Mat work together a lot on FT
Have you ever seen game theory and film theory in the same room? My theory is that they're the same person O:
Game Theory: Makes a video on card games
Theorists: okay this is epic
agreed
People ruined the 69 :(
Now if he could make a theory on Card games on Motorcycles.
@@chrishansen1842 that's true 😂
@@oofers17 but now we're going for the 399!
"Some decks take this to the next level, burn" *Laughs in Rat Colony*
Cries in Battle of Wits
I don’t know what you guys are talking about but I know it’s funny
@@conormurphy4328 For those out of the MTG loop. Rat Colony is a card that can have any number of cards called "rat colony" in a deck, making it very consistent. Battle of Wits is a card that requires you to have around 240 card deck instead of 60, making it hilariously inconsistent. #Explaining the Joke
I have a rat-mander deck that has 50 rat colonies
Something something Shadowborn Apostle.
Here’s a tip. If someone casts a removal spell on the first creature you play, that means they have at least two more in their hand. So play your worst creatures after that if you can until they use all their spells.
When I saw the notification for this video pop up I was like: “Man, those losses at Monstermon must’ve been tough. MatPat legit went and trained to suck less at card games to only become a master and teach us the same in a video.”
8bitryan plays better he's a pro
‘Somebody beat Jason!
-Matpat 2019
Why is there only 23 likes
"You have blue control decks and red aggro decks"
Izzet: i'm about to end this mans whole career
**Simic has entered the chat.**
Tell that to my tri color deck
*Jeskai wants to know your location*
Grixis: Am I a joke to you?
*cackles in Grixis*
There is a lot of lore in magic the gathering I think you should make a theory about it
True but its muddled to F%ck.
I agree
Yess
MTG is just dnd in card format
@@Gabe_Otwtfyb you clearly have no idea what your talking about
"you can add duplicates to make the cards you want more probable"
yes matthew
you can do that
or you can LAUGH IN GREEN
ONLY HIGH COST LEGENDARIES
That is one of the most fun ways to play
@@Quakstron ivy elemental
Haha blue green value engine go brrr
Or there’s always RED GOBLIN SWARM GO
haha green sun'z zenith goes brrrrrrr
this man just referenced yugioh in a video SPONSORED by magic.
That's because Yugioh is better than Magic. There, I said it.
Eddie and Pokémon is better then both of those !
I thoroughly agree
Tell me how to be better a yugioh
We need a yugioh theroy
Game Theory on Magic: The Gathering
*TheOdd1sOut wants to know your location*
I know right
Oh he knows your location... James knows everything...
He already does.
So does DesolatorMagic
Des starts swearing
MatPat: *How to suck less at card games (magic the gathering)
Me: *shooketh*
His advice works in the general sense with all card games.
His advice works in the general sense with all card games.
Level 1 thinking: How strong is my own hand and game?
Level 2 thinking: How strong is my opponent's game and deck?
Level 3 thinking: How strong does my opponent think I am?
Level 4 thinking: How strong does my opponent think I think how strong he is?
How strong my opponent thinks how strong i think how strong he thinks how strong I am.
Ascended Level Thinking: How strong does my opponent think I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I think he thinks I am.
Goodness, I'll just go watch Death Note for this kind of recursive knowledge.
😐
How strong does my opponent think my deck, game, and hand's ability counter to my opponent's hand, game, and deck is?
“Today’s Episode is sponsored by wizard’s of the coast”
My goblin brain, immediately associating it with D&D: *GASP*
Same my sorcerer brother
i still need to find a way to play this
Saaaaaaaame
Always wanted to play d&d but never got the chance
Don't you dare GOBLINATE anything!!
Tip during the game regardless of trading card game:
Using effects to discard or search for specific cards allow you to lower chance mid-game
7:07 I could know the exact composition of my deck if I am running 60 forests...
Fair enough
What if they all have different art?
@@dangehret1349 I must be careful to only run 60 copies of the same return to zendicar forests
59 forrests and an oviya
I should bring a deck of 60 forests to a friday night magic game. Just to see who notices.
As soon as he pulled the deck of cards, I went, "Yuuup, 52-Factorial"
This is the biggest nerd-gasm ever I love mtg so much
MMMM YES MY FELLOW NERD
Btw I have a discord wanna join fellow nerds and nerd out about mtg? Here
discord.gg/uWAAJF5
we all are nerds here
@@OrbInDaFrame the discord link expired
@@duelknight here ya go fellow nerd if it expires dm me on discord
discord.gg/9YyYTg2
Pingu#9191
This video was great! Funny thing is that this video is perfect to describe standard and modern. Commander though has a very different style of play.
Magic: The Gathering ruined my bank account and my life. Ahh... that sweet sweet cardboard crack.
The best kind of crack
*cardstock crack
Don't forget to sniff that good old cardboard out the box/pack.
So true
same for me but with yugioh.
13:17
I remember a GP I participated, my oppontent had drawn and immeadiately looked at his graveyard, so I knew he had a Snapcaster Mage and that information won me the game.
MatPat didn’t have the heart of the cards. Thats why he was losing on GTLive
HEART OF THE CARDS!
BARBARA! NOOOOO!
Good move. Not for me though.
Edit:Did not realize this wasn't a markiplier uno reference.
Aidan G do you know where the heart of the cards came from
@@animecentral6280 That's the joke.
Mrtfarrugia ik that I wouldn’t use a joke if I didn’t know where part of the joke came from
I'm ten and I LOVE Magic! My dad has almost all of the cards, especialy the old ones and him me and my brother play ALL THE TIME! Him and my brother also really like using the op deck... I've actually won one or two games before! I've never played arena though and the graphics CAN'T COMPARE to playing it IRL! But we sorta don't have to deal with decks because we always know which deck each of us is going to use XD (love your work been a fan for three years!)
I find it funny that a video about Magic: The Gathering had an ad (for me, anyway) about Deodorant. Any tournament goers know why this is funny.
listening to advice on how to play magic, from someone who can't play magic.
oh yea big brain time
To be fair,
He got the basics of card advantage down,
However I'm kinda disappointed he didn't get into searchers, disruption and stuff like that.
It's sort of like listening to advice on how to get a girlfriend from people that can't get a girlfriend
Instructions unclear
Summoned Dark Magician
Declared a direct attack
bruh
Instructions unclear
Activated 'There can be only one'
While playing Salamangreat
instructions unclear I sent ash to the shadow realm
Told you he's the master
Well I active mirror force destroying all attack position monsters on your field
15:31 me checkin my opponents blood pressure mid-game: *i know everything*
Mat: Run out and get a deck of cards!
Me: I... I literally have a deck in my pocket...
Mat: You didn't even pause the video...
Me: 😳
Versus me: *running around the house for 5 minutes asking anyone if they have a deck of cards before finally finding one*
I leave one in my pocket too...
You know, with the whole, “chance of getting the same hand as someone else is less than 1%” thing, it brings me back to Yugioh, and the Rebecca Fight in the anime. The whole point of it is Yugi and Rebecca had the same exact duel as their grandparents did 20 years before. What is the percent of that?
Yugi had 60 cards in his Deck at this point, but you could say he has 40.
Rebecca definitely has 40 cards.
Watch the episode and have fun with THAT math.
Believe it or not it's not that hard in the yugioh metagame for that to happen
What is the percent in a world where we don't have a Shadow Realm or mystical spirits guiding us? Pretty low but Yugioh always has some BS Magic to help it's plot breaking the laws of our reality based world. Fortunately we don't see that happen in RL!
....Oh wait Duel Link literally made it with Destiny Draw. Nevermind.
I don’t know why that bothering you when every bad guy in ygo always duel the protagonist fairly
@@daviddent5662 I meant in the actual ygo tcg
Decks are so consistent that duels can de practically the same
Every YGO bad guy duels fairly... yeah, just gonna leave that with Bandit Keith...
Other people have already asked for this, but could we have a D&D theory please?
I’m telling you, druids are the Lorax in disguise
Well, what theory would you want? Something about elemental plains? The concept of the Modram? The chances of survival against Mindflayers?
@@fredsmith8265 oh dear God thats a great thought
Me when I get the exact same pack of pokemon cards twice in a row: matpat help
MatPat: _“I wanted to make a sponsored episode to make me better at the game”_
*EA has entered the chat*
"Or by my favorite method, *milling* them out"
No... Plz...
Same. I respect that milling is a valid and effective strategy but it's sooooo boring to play against and I cannot for the life of me guess how it could be entertaining to play. And I'm pretty sure that it's not even that strong/clever of a strategy, you could probably make a deck that utterly wrecks those milling decks, by building it so that it uses the graveyard as much as possible, cards that plays from the graveyard, or that bring cars back from it, or that give effects that are enhanced by having cards in your graveyard.
Or maybe you could just make a 400 cards deck and watch them flounder as they realize that if they try milling they might end up reaching their last card first...
@@swordcrab3181 Is Traumatise relevant? You mill half the deck with it, so bye-bye to ~200 of your cards.
But yeah... Pure mill is the most boring type of control. Graveyard decks aren't that much good against it either because they'll counter/exile your spells unless you get them to waste enough ressources to play them. Graveyards are public so they'll know what to counter and what not to counter. Elixir of life is probably the best counter to mill
As someone who likes playing mill and other weird win cons I can say that decks that revolves around sacrifice and graveyard (Basically any deck that runs similar to your standard Meren of clan nel toth deck) that uses the graveyard as a mulch box is horrifying to a mill player.
@@totem95 I'm not a very experienced player, so I don't know the in and out of countering and strategy, nor am I familliar with all the cards. I haven't even built a deck yet (I'm tinkering with it, but it's very much a WIP), and I only do okay at using the premade decks.
What I do know is that when I get matched with someone who has a 160 card deck, or if they play the Persistent Petitioners I immediately lose any interest in the game. Because from there I can predict how it'll go from a mile away. From time to time I still try to see if I can aggro them before they have their counters and mill set up, but nowadays I usually just immediately concede the game.
I don't mind losing, not even losing hard. I've ended games at -40 hp, sometimes even as I thought my victory to be assured. I have nothing against losing. Hell, I love to see an opponent snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. But being mill is not fun, and if the game is not fun why would I play?
Thomas Pettier you’ve obviously never heard of Ulamog the Ceaseless Hunger and Through the Breach. Through the Breach brings an Eldrazi into play from your deck and gives it haste. It gets exiled at the end of your turn but one turn is usually all you need. Ulamog is the worst Eldrazi to deal with in my opinion because when he attacks he sends the TOP 20 CARDS OF YOUR LIBRARY STRAIGHT TO EXILE. Not the graveyard EXILE you aren’t getting those back at least not most of them. Also this effect doesn’t kick in when he hits you or if he hits a creature just the very action of him attacking does this. I played a couple of vintage cubes a while back and there was a guy I fought both times that got this combo BOTH TIMES
Well, SOMEONE doesn’t believe in the heart of the cards, do they?
Yes yes.
now now this isn't HEARThstones now
@@thelastcube. no o it isn't but it is DUEL MONSTERS!!!!!!!!!!!
DUDUDUDUDUDUDU DUUUUUUUUEL.
Yugi is a big cheater.
As someone who's been playing Magic for years, I really needed this. Thanks.
Little do they know my deck has 52 Siege Rhinos.
defenitely not illegal in any possible way whatsoever
hate to break it to you but you can only have four of the same card in a deck.
Izzy-So 1604 r/woooooshh
@@aaron.lightfoot9226 r/doooooooooouchhh
SaffronOlive is a genius.
How to get gud in a card game
MatPat : math and psychology
Me : just do instinct
I see you play red
I play red because i love math...
Idk its pretty easy to count by 3.
Just play blue.
I play the physical version, so I have already realized the full potential of Magic the Gathering:
Legacy, turn 1 wins...
this is why I play Commander (EDH for the OGs)
I should also mention, after watching to the probability point that there are Magic cards that literally do the same thing: Kodama's reach and Cultivate are one example
second edit: dragons don't need duplicates, they work by themselves (y'know in casual, cause no dragon can stand up to storm)
Legacy has very few turn 1 wins. Only people who don't play legacy believe that it does.
Legacy is one of the most interactive formats, Modern is slowly getting to be more interactive, especially with the Hogaak ban(long may he be banner).
@@WigglyWoobah force of will is a card that exists
@@frytheguy8078 Don't forget the Looting ban too. Phoenix being... less viable has made really slowed the format.
Oooooo! do you play red? Because that was one sick BURN
this has gotta be my favourite video on all the channels
Game Theory: card probability is more than the atoms in the universe!!
Me: I have to trust in the heart of the cards!!!
Me: Scry!
No wonder Exodia was so hard to summon. 😂
Or you could be bandit Kieth! Just don't be manga Kieth he dies
So that's why I can never draw my Fallen Paradise
@@silvertipstudio9622 he dies, in America
Me: I wonder if Game Theory just released a new episode.
Game Theory: Magic The Gathering episode
Me:Pees pants
7:16 "Your chance to win in Magic really depends on: Wallet Size, willingness to spend."
Not if you inherited a deck from your eldrazi loving father.
~ 15:00 Mat described me all of the time all but for the relaxed smile… That’s more occasional. It is possible to do all those things at once
Matt: struggles shuffling at all
Me: shuffles cards upside-down
i was totally expecting that Yugi and Marik sequence from yugioh abridged where he shuffles the cards and doesn't notice they're flying everywhere
You just made your deck that much more unique.
Me: Oh cool I cant wait to get better at magic!
MatPat: let's get multiples of cards.
Me: *stares at strictly commander decks* ...cool.
Remember what he said about the multiple similar effects. In Commander, you can put in the 100 coolest cards you have or you can ensure that you multiple overlapping things. If you are playing a slower deck that needs to ramp, make sure that you have enough ramp to get there. The exact math of how much of every effect you want will depend on your target power level (casual /cEDH) and a bunch of other stuff.
I highly recommend (if you have not watched it before) to watch the "Command Zone" podcast (and or there "Game Knights", they are fun) as they are a dedicated commander podcasts that go over this type of stuff in some detail.
Shadow born apostle or that blue card from ravnica alligence
@@thenintendoguy643 persistent petitioners
*Commander is the best format*
-----------Change my mind------------
Hijjak97 I wouldn’t even try, it’s the way the game should be played.
Matpat : *gets sponsered By Magic: The Gathering Arena*
My Ads : Hey Have You Played Magic: The Gathering Arena?
Wizard of the coast sponsoring matpat expecting him to talk about the vast lore, nope, just math
I CAN'T BELIEVE MATPAT ***OF ALL PEOPLE*** IS BEING SPONSORED BY WIZARDS
edit: I love MatPat but there are lots of quality TCG youtubers too who would love to talk about Arena
Right? I want to see him play with The Command Zone channel.
They are sponsoring a lot of non magic youtubers to get more players on arena
Yeah and for a non Magic Pro someone like MatPat does make sense. Understanding probability and attention to details are good ways to be good at this game.
...The crash and burn in Monstermon was gold as well.
@@Ong.s_Jukebox This is quite the good idea
Ah, what's next, sorcerers or warlocks?