Another interesting point I thought worth mentioning: The Kaldheim gods also don't have any kind of protection from removal such as indestructible or reshuffling when they die. I suspect this is partly for game balance reasons, but it's also a flavour win with Norse mythology in particular since those gods often went about the world and interacted with mortals, and they can die in the stories (and did, most obviously during Ragnarok).
Yeah! The gods of Norse Mythology had a great amount of mortality, which is why they were so great. Norse gods weren't like the greek gods, but more like fabled heroes with crazy abilities from their sacrifice. Odin cut out his eye so he could see the future and protect the realms better, Tyr lost his hand when chaining Fenrir, and even Mimir had his head cut off but Odin revived him as a head. It makes perfect sense that the gods in this expansion aren't indestructible, but they do have amazing abilities!
Yes, but I was also thinking how in the world of Kaldheim a lot of tribes, like the elves in the plane, dispise the modern gods and call them the usurpers. Maybe in the future we get to see the elf gods (I forgot their names in the lore) and they may have indestructible as they were the "original" gods and the modern gods couldn't actually kill them but just bind them like "Binding of the old gods".
There is some irony that the true God of Lies that was indisposed before the story even started and still is imprisoned in ice is arguably the currently safest god post-Kaldheim set, the whole "Koma fell into Karfell" thing aside.
@Mullerornis Right, but none of the gods probably do at this point given how doomed Esika was looking when the story ended. So he's basically still the safest compared to all the other gods even by metric save for Egon, who ages backwards anyway, and maybe Cosima, who is technically a Cosmos Monster. EDIT: Actually, now that I think about it, in a fit of greater irony, by that metric Valki might even be safer than I thought given how harmless getting completely covered in ice tends to be in fiction and how flawlessly it preserves people without killing them unlike real life. So if anything, Valki probably still has to worry about aging less than everything except Egon as long as he's stuck in ice.
The next version of Valki should have a clone creature on one side, and a himself with a reanimate style ability you can play from the graveyard. "You thought I was dead? Oh no, you fool. You cannot kill the master of lies..."
I hate to be that guy, but here goes... Jorn is a made up character. Unless the creator of said card comes out and verifies your claim, you can pronounce it however you like as long as everyone else understands what you're talking about. I get it, the whole Norse connection thing... however (raises green cup), this is Kaldheim a plane in Magic: The Gathering. It may be based in Scandinavian lore but that doesn't mean that ot actually _is_ Scandinavian. Besides, I can't seem to find a town named Kaldheim anywhere on a map of Norway (sips drink). Bottom line: call the little guy whatever you want. I'm sure he won't be offended. 😊
@@HTYM I'd say we don't have a town named Kaldheim because it litterally translates to "cold home" and that's the whole country, but I also live in Trondheim, which is just "Trond home", Trond being a relatively common name. So maybe naming things isn't exactly what we're good at
@@HTYM you probably pronounce Egon as Egg On. Just because it's a fictional character doesn't mean there is no correct pronunciation. And when you're professionally talking about that fiction, it's prob okay if someone makes a correction in line with common best practices. I agree that it could be Juh and not Yuh, as per the creators' decision, but the context they provide is ample to support the Idea that it's Yorn. If you think the creator's intent actually matters, maybe take a hint
To be fair, I wished the gods artifacts were separated cards. Since I play commander, sometimes I reaally wish I had both sides of the god on the table and that irks me a bit. That aside, I actually liked Jorn, he seems to be such a chill god to just spend a afternoon talking about nature.
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something i like game mechanic wise is that kolvori and egon can be a 6/6 showing a connection ( or at least in my opinion) but each differently as egon is a 6/6 by himself but fueled by the dead while kolvori is more connected needing other legendary creatures to become a 6/6
You'd need perhaps a lot of exile fetch, or have Varragoth which can boast and let you put target card on top of your library. Good rakdos control deck!
@@kevinmiller5128 Its my salt deck. When MTGA makes me mad, I turn the keys and unlock its power, unleashing its destructive power. I once milled a 140 card deck with 60, and I felt both monstrous and unstoppable. (I then lost to red aggro, because as usual, red decks go brrrrrrr)
I don't know why I wasn't already subscribed to you. I freaking love lore and you have such an entertaining way of telling the lore seamlessly. I love learning about the universes in magic, all your videos I watched so far a rad as hell! Thanks for all your hard work, I can't wait to watch everything else you've made!
Thank you Ryan and Nicole. You guys make videos of fine quality always touching on lore and stories close to my heart. Please continue for as long as you are able.
Everytime I decide on my favourite backstory, the next one comes along and tosses the previous one to the underworld. Keep up the great work you two, really nice recap :)
Jorn Snow-Decks are pretty powerful. Haven't played in years, limited myself by only using cards out of Kaldheim in the deck and still made it to Platinum 1 within a day. So not a bad tribal at all.
Great mustached scholar of mtg lore could you please do something like "a history of artifacts in mtg"? You and Nicole do a fantastic job! Thank you for the content.
Pause the video at 12:59 and tell me the Eye for an Eye dude is not a jacked-up version of our Golden Moustacheness himself. Sorry could'nt add anything more constructive. You guys rock. Much love from Argentina.
Damn, I have so many thoughts on this. The first one is obviously you did a great job on this video! I'm really glad we got Bergi as a red god. I feel like too often red is only the violence color, ignoring the passion and artistic side. I have to wonder what the hell is wrong with the other gods that they forget to take the literal grim reaper seriously just because he looks like a teen. Lastly, how did they leave all this awesome information out of the main stories?! This is such cool lore and I never would've known if not for you!
I’ve been playin gods unchained on and off since you talk about in a previous video(believe it was zendikar) Love the game it’s a blast! I’m currently playing the deception and the magic gods.
I think my personal favourite Gods have to be Tergrid and Cosima. I have Cosima in my Omnath, Locus of Creation edh deck and man does she do work. I want to make an edh deck around Tergrid, but I'm afraid of her falling into what I call the "Muldrotha Effect" where everyone tries to kill her as soon as she is out
The secondary permanent on the rear is such a perfect way to support playing 4-ofs of these legendary creatures, especially when cards like Cosima & Esika are complemented so well by their back face, and Alrund even gives you something to do in the time leading up to you having enough mana to play the big guy. Conversely, though, the fact that you have to choose between permanents like Esika and the Prismatic Bridge for your commander board kind of puts a damper on those decks... For my favourite, though, I think I have to say Toralf, just because of the glee I get from imagining the looks on everyone's faces when you resolve Star of Extinction with him out. >:)
I love playing with toralf in my giants deck. Squash quickly can get me 2 or 3 for ones with all of tbr carry over damage. Tbh I don't usually use its other side, having only one, but I should try it more often!
LOL I put Toralf in my Jarad deck. I am surprised how synergistic it is with the slight Double Damage/Voltron/Board sweepers strategy and how Toralf works with Brash Taunter/Stuffy Doll effect creatures in the deck can lead to some explosive plays :P
Funny that you should mention a blue landfall deck. I'm actually planning a mono blue "landfall" commander deck, and I was disappointed that I didn't draw a Cosima
Josh on Game Knights has used Jorn, but I know nothing about Standard if that's what you meant. I'm just glad that I can buy most of these cards if I want, collector boosters have massively driven the price down.
I'm sure it's much easier to make a commander deck around him, since your options for snow permanents is much larger in that format. But yeah I usually just mean standard in these videos.
Josh Lee-Kwai over on Command Zone makes a pretty cool snow commander deck using Jorn on their Kaldheim episode of Game Knights and the most recent Extra Turns.
Kaldheim is my favorite plane other than probably Innistrad. My family originates from Norway & my last name was Norwegian until when my ancestors came to America, they had to change the ö to an O. Anyways, my favorite commander deck that I own is Cosima, God of the Voyage & always wondered if she just liked dolphins lol. I look at them when I cast her vehicle side. The deck is tribal blue vehicles and a few creature cards for crewing and some that animate artifacts & put +1/+1 counters on them. It's a fun deck, I may have to look at landfall payoffs and see if any are worth a slot.
Funny enough, if you went first and had Reidane in play by the time someone casts Tibalt's Trickery, her tax effect bites the head off of whatever spell your opponent tricked out. Unless you're me and they tricked out Koma.
I just don't understand why both arts of Cosima's cards are so strange - you can barely see her in one of them, and, in the other, she looks more frightening than Tergrid, who is the actual god of fright (and the coolest god, in my opinion).
Truth be told, it is a little upsetting to hear names being pronounced 'incorrectly', as a norse pagan. We really appreciate when people take their time to research how to pronounce things, especially since many people who call themselves pagans will use our beliefs to justify bigotry. But I got thrashed in the comments section once cause I casually commented on the pronunciation of Yggdrasil, and people took it as a major affront. So, c'est la vie, pronounce it however you want, and sometimes it is hilarious to say "Jorn"!
@@colintaylormays6714 I grew up with a ridiculously foreign name and no one could pronounce it so I kind of understand. But at the end of the day, it's just a difference in culture and it's really not that big of a deal if you ask me. Correct me if I'm wrong.
@@FantomMind I feel the same. I’ll generally call people out but I’m not going to call them stupid or hate on them and act like I’m on a higher horse than them. And if they get angry that I called them out, I’ll just leave it.
I think the only god I have found a use for is Halvar, putting him in a dwarf tribal equipment deck, since I can search him with Forging the Tyrite Sword. The others I am yet to make something up.
Jorn is value town for sure, Jorn is also a three toughness creature, so it's hard to build a deck around such a fellow, he's just too gosh darn easy to kill.
I've been thinking about making a gameplay video to show it off myself, but in the meantime you can watch this introduction by Merchant: th-cam.com/video/JUIkhLjgjlg/w-d-xo.html
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So Jorn is brother of Alrund, who with Cosima fathered Toralf, Birgi and Kolvori, as well as adopted Halvar. Alrund also ended up "creating" or perhaps "calling forth" Esika and Tergrid from the World Tree. But what about the rest? How are Egon, Reidane and Valki related to them?
Unfortunately you can only have one copy of the card anywhere in your deck of 100. If she's your Commander, you cannot have her again within the 99, even if you just wanted to play her artifact side.
My favorite would probably be Jorn, if he were legal in either a Narfi deck. Alas, he's not, so I'm left out in the cold without the best snow creature in Brawl.
So Esika prepares the Cosmos Elixir for the gods of Kaldheim, and that allows them to be immortal? But Esika wasn't always around, since she came into being when Alrund communed with the world tree... So how did they get the cosmos elixir before that? I'm confused
We have to assume that before Esika's creation, the gods were not immortal. Alrund probably tried to commune with the World Tree early on, and has been enjoying the benefits of the elixir since.
@@MagicArcanum that's really interesting, thanks for the reply! Aren't there also hints that the Elves were gods of kaldheim and the humans usurped that role? I wonder how that plays into it.
I already covered slivers on the TCGplayer channel so it might be a while before I get the chance to do them again here: th-cam.com/video/j9Gm7qZSZTg/w-d-xo.html
so u have not faced a deck using ruin crab & some ver that are mono blue focused on Land fall to mil u with crab & yes I know this was a thing B4 kaldheim but it is a popular blue Land fall deck type that could also run cosima
"I haven't seen anyone experiment with a blue landfall deck in Standard just yet." I guess you haven't run into any Ruin Crabs on the ladder in Arena yet? You sweet summer child...
It is him, Ryan, God of Story Time
The back side of the card needs to be the Mustache of Charisma
Great, now I'm just picturing Birgi with a massive mustache.
Birgi cosplay when ????
@@TurboDimitri PLEASE, RYAN. PLEASE. I would pay you in TH-cam subs
Don't forget about Nicole, Goddess of Behind the Scenes
Another interesting point I thought worth mentioning: The Kaldheim gods also don't have any kind of protection from removal such as indestructible or reshuffling when they die. I suspect this is partly for game balance reasons, but it's also a flavour win with Norse mythology in particular since those gods often went about the world and interacted with mortals, and they can die in the stories (and did, most obviously during Ragnarok).
Very true! They can become indestructible IF they get access to the Tyrite Sanctum, but otherwise they're just as vulnerable as anyone else.
Yeah! The gods of Norse Mythology had a great amount of mortality, which is why they were so great. Norse gods weren't like the greek gods, but more like fabled heroes with crazy abilities from their sacrifice. Odin cut out his eye so he could see the future and protect the realms better, Tyr lost his hand when chaining Fenrir, and even Mimir had his head cut off but Odin revived him as a head. It makes perfect sense that the gods in this expansion aren't indestructible, but they do have amazing abilities!
Kaldheim gods die when killed.
Yes, but I was also thinking how in the world of Kaldheim a lot of tribes, like the elves in the plane, dispise the modern gods and call them the usurpers. Maybe in the future we get to see the elf gods (I forgot their names in the lore) and they may have indestructible as they were the "original" gods and the modern gods couldn't actually kill them but just bind them like "Binding of the old gods".
That's actually my favorite part about them. Makes them more relatable I guess
You know Wizards is a bit rushed for the story when a 15 minute video does a better job explaining the gods than the official story.
There is some irony that the true God of Lies that was indisposed before the story even started and still is imprisoned in ice is arguably the currently safest god post-Kaldheim set, the whole "Koma fell into Karfell" thing aside.
@Mullerornis Right, but none of the gods probably do at this point given how doomed Esika was looking when the story ended. So he's basically still the safest compared to all the other gods even by metric save for Egon, who ages backwards anyway, and maybe Cosima, who is technically a Cosmos Monster.
EDIT: Actually, now that I think about it, in a fit of greater irony, by that metric Valki might even be safer than I thought given how harmless getting completely covered in ice tends to be in fiction and how flawlessly it preserves people without killing them unlike real life. So if anything, Valki probably still has to worry about aging less than everything except Egon as long as he's stuck in ice.
Ryan: I don't even have a joke to make
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The next version of Valki should have a clone creature on one side, and a himself with a reanimate style ability you can play from the graveyard. "You thought I was dead? Oh no, you fool. You cannot kill the master of lies..."
Looking forward to "Esika, God of the Phyrexian" on the next expansion 😎
Nooooooooo
@@MagicArcanum And the world tree will become New New Phyrexia 🤣
@@MagicArcanum Or maybe the World Tree's sap can be an anti-Phyrexian cure?
@@TechDragon1 boo continue the spread!
@@raydelmartinez2905 it would be cool if the world tree becomes the portal between phyrexia and other realms
Not gonna lie, pretty glad you got a sponsorship, the more support the better. Keep it up
Hey Ryan, the “J” in “Jorn” is pronounced as a “Y” like “Yorn”
I hate to be that guy, but here goes...
Jorn is a made up character. Unless the creator of said card comes out and verifies your claim, you can pronounce it however you like as long as everyone else understands what you're talking about.
I get it, the whole Norse connection thing... however (raises green cup), this is Kaldheim a plane in Magic: The Gathering. It may be based in Scandinavian lore but that doesn't mean that ot actually _is_ Scandinavian.
Besides, I can't seem to find a town named Kaldheim anywhere on a map of Norway (sips drink).
Bottom line: call the little guy whatever you want. I'm sure he won't be offended. 😊
He's paying homage to Josh Lee Kwai's constant mispronunciation on a recent episode of Game Knights, get with it man, jeez.
@@HTYM I'd say we don't have a town named Kaldheim because it litterally translates to "cold home" and that's the whole country, but I also live in Trondheim, which is just "Trond home", Trond being a relatively common name. So maybe naming things isn't exactly what we're good at
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@@HTYM you probably pronounce Egon as Egg On.
Just because it's a fictional character doesn't mean there is no correct pronunciation. And when you're professionally talking about that fiction, it's prob okay if someone makes a correction in line with common best practices.
I agree that it could be Juh and not Yuh, as per the creators' decision, but the context they provide is ample to support the Idea that it's Yorn. If you think the creator's intent actually matters, maybe take a hint
To be fair, I wished the gods artifacts were separated cards. Since I play commander, sometimes I reaally wish I had both sides of the god on the table and that irks me a bit.
That aside, I actually liked Jorn, he seems to be such a chill god to just spend a afternoon talking about nature.
Heh, chill
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something i like game mechanic wise is that kolvori and egon can be a 6/6 showing a connection ( or at least in my opinion) but each differently as egon is a 6/6 by himself but fueled by the dead while kolvori is more connected needing other legendary creatures to become a 6/6
That is a really interesting symmetry I hadn't notice. Thanks for sharing!
@@MagicArcanum yeah just something i thought was intriguing
Valki, God of Lies is the God I want to build around, because Tibalt is my second favorite planeswalker.
You'd need perhaps a lot of exile fetch, or have Varragoth which can boast and let you put target card on top of your library. Good rakdos control deck!
Last time I was this early we only had Theros gods
"No Blue landfall deck in standard..." obviously not had the RUIN CRAB ruin his day on Arena yet...
Ehhhhhhh is that a landfall deck, or a rogues deck, or a mill deck? 🧐
@@MagicArcanum Its a landfall/Teferi/Cosmia when I run it with a mill focus. I am a terrible person...
@@Merc1987 you monster
@@Merc1987 dont mill me bro!
@@kevinmiller5128 Its my salt deck. When MTGA makes me mad, I turn the keys and unlock its power, unleashing its destructive power. I once milled a 140 card deck with 60, and I felt both monstrous and unstoppable. (I then lost to red aggro, because as usual, red decks go brrrrrrr)
Yay, I’m early to see the best mustache in Magic.
Sometime you should do Urza’s story for 2 reasons it’s debatably one of the biggest stories in magic and the new players would only know by whispers
I don't know why I wasn't already subscribed to you. I freaking love lore and you have such an entertaining way of telling the lore seamlessly. I love learning about the universes in magic, all your videos I watched so far a rad as hell! Thanks for all your hard work, I can't wait to watch everything else you've made!
Welcome aboard!
Thank you Ryan and Nicole. You guys make videos of fine quality always touching on lore and stories close to my heart. Please continue for as long as you are able.
As always thanks Nicole and Ryan!
I fell in love and built a deck around Kolvori. I mean, I literally dish out Legendary Beats with the deck! ^^
Everytime I decide on my favourite backstory, the next one comes along and tosses the previous one to the underworld. Keep up the great work you two, really nice recap :)
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I dungeon master a lot of mtg settings and your videos help so much, thanks for the amazing content!
Glad to help!
Jorn Snow-Decks are pretty powerful. Haven't played in years, limited myself by only using cards out of Kaldheim in the deck and still made it to Platinum 1 within a day. So not a bad tribal at all.
I love the stories of the legendary item, Lore Mustache !
I love how thorough these videos are; keep it up!
Great mustached scholar of mtg lore could you please do something like "a history of artifacts in mtg"?
You and Nicole do a fantastic job! Thank you for the content.
Pause the video at 12:59 and tell me the Eye for an Eye dude is not a jacked-up version of our Golden Moustacheness himself.
Sorry could'nt add anything more constructive.
You guys rock. Much love from Argentina.
Take a shot every time he says "the next time we visit Kaldheim"
Damn, I have so many thoughts on this. The first one is obviously you did a great job on this video!
I'm really glad we got Bergi as a red god. I feel like too often red is only the violence color, ignoring the passion and artistic side.
I have to wonder what the hell is wrong with the other gods that they forget to take the literal grim reaper seriously just because he looks like a teen.
Lastly, how did they leave all this awesome information out of the main stories?! This is such cool lore and I never would've known if not for you!
Great video! I'd love to see an episode about the old elven gods that got sealed away, and how we got to our current gods
I’ve been playin gods unchained on and off since you talk about in a previous video(believe it was zendikar)
Love the game it’s a blast! I’m currently playing the deception and the magic gods.
Glad I get to see the greatest mustache in Magic this Friday
Great to see you back!
I think my personal favourite Gods have to be Tergrid and Cosima. I have Cosima in my Omnath, Locus of Creation edh deck and man does she do work. I want to make an edh deck around Tergrid, but I'm afraid of her falling into what I call the "Muldrotha Effect" where everyone tries to kill her as soon as she is out
I usually fast-forward through sponsorship plugs.... but for you Ryan (and your moustache), I'll watch.
The secondary permanent on the rear is such a perfect way to support playing 4-ofs of these legendary creatures, especially when cards like Cosima & Esika are complemented so well by their back face, and Alrund even gives you something to do in the time leading up to you having enough mana to play the big guy.
Conversely, though, the fact that you have to choose between permanents like Esika and the Prismatic Bridge for your commander board kind of puts a damper on those decks...
For my favourite, though, I think I have to say Toralf, just because of the glee I get from imagining the looks on everyone's faces when you resolve Star of Extinction with him out. >:)
I love playing with toralf in my giants deck. Squash quickly can get me 2 or 3 for ones with all of tbr carry over damage. Tbh I don't usually use its other side, having only one, but I should try it more often!
Do you play and Izzet giants deck?
LOL I put Toralf in my Jarad deck. I am surprised how synergistic it is with the slight Double Damage/Voltron/Board sweepers strategy and how Toralf works with Brash Taunter/Stuffy Doll effect creatures in the deck can lead to some explosive plays :P
I'm a land guy, so sultai snow value makes me happy, and blue landfall intrigues me
Great show guys!
Funny that you should mention a blue landfall deck. I'm actually planning a mono blue "landfall" commander deck, and I was disappointed that I didn't draw a Cosima
Josh on Game Knights has used Jorn, but I know nothing about Standard if that's what you meant. I'm just glad that I can buy most of these cards if I want, collector boosters have massively driven the price down.
I'm sure it's much easier to make a commander deck around him, since your options for snow permanents is much larger in that format. But yeah I usually just mean standard in these videos.
Josh Lee-Kwai over on Command Zone makes a pretty cool snow commander deck using Jorn on their Kaldheim episode of Game Knights and the most recent Extra Turns.
Kaldheim is my favorite plane other than probably Innistrad. My family originates from Norway & my last name was Norwegian until when my ancestors came to America, they had to change the ö to an O. Anyways, my favorite commander deck that I own is Cosima, God of the Voyage & always wondered if she just liked dolphins lol. I look at them when I cast her vehicle side. The deck is tribal blue vehicles and a few creature cards for crewing and some that animate artifacts & put +1/+1 counters on them. It's a fun deck, I may have to look at landfall payoffs and see if any are worth a slot.
Funny enough, if you went first and had Reidane in play by the time someone casts Tibalt's Trickery, her tax effect bites the head off of whatever spell your opponent tricked out.
Unless you're me and they tricked out Koma.
Perfect for a Friday
Simply the best way to start my Friday ^^
I just don't understand why both arts of Cosima's cards are so strange - you can barely see her in one of them, and, in the other, she looks more frightening than Tergrid, who is the actual god of fright (and the coolest god, in my opinion).
Her art is very strange, I agree.
Jorm is my favorite just because of how mad people get when his name gets pronounced wrong. :'D
Truth be told, it is a little upsetting to hear names being pronounced 'incorrectly', as a norse pagan. We really appreciate when people take their time to research how to pronounce things, especially since many people who call themselves pagans will use our beliefs to justify bigotry. But I got thrashed in the comments section once cause I casually commented on the pronunciation of Yggdrasil, and people took it as a major affront. So, c'est la vie, pronounce it however you want, and sometimes it is hilarious to say "Jorn"!
@@colintaylormays6714 I grew up with a ridiculously foreign name and no one could pronounce it so I kind of understand.
But at the end of the day, it's just a difference in culture and it's really not that big of a deal if you ask me. Correct me if I'm wrong.
@@FantomMind I feel the same. I’ll generally call people out but I’m not going to call them stupid or hate on them and act like I’m on a higher horse than them. And if they get angry that I called them out, I’ll just leave it.
bruh i wanna see valki n tibalt just fkin around and see what chaos they can bring
I think the only god I have found a use for is Halvar, putting him in a dwarf tribal equipment deck, since I can search him with Forging the Tyrite Sword. The others I am yet to make something up.
i made a commander deck where Valkmira, Protector’s Shield is the commander. sure, i can use reidane, but i usually won’t
Jorn is value town for sure, Jorn is also a three toughness creature, so it's hard to build a deck around such a fellow, he's just too gosh darn easy to kill.
What's the best three-damage spell in Standard? 🤔
Egon might be my favorite god just based on how much I enjoyed his side story.
new intro hype
Can I have more details on gods unchained like a trailer? I’m actually interested
I've been thinking about making a gameplay video to show it off myself, but in the meantime you can watch this introduction by Merchant: th-cam.com/video/JUIkhLjgjlg/w-d-xo.html
Would like to see a video on Karona, the false god, that'd be cool
Hey you should do a video on Kylem
I'm very confused already like there are mutiple gobins from different planes?
Ryan's mustache is poppin ad always
The Red gods are my favorite
Hey @Magic Arcanum, Ray it's God Time
I like your video, it's very cool, good job
And I like the north mythology 😎👍🏾 because you make a good job. I hope you doing good my friend? 😊👍🏾
3:40 Nah, it's a reference to Sans Undertale
WAIT WAIT!! Which actors play each god in the MtG Kaldheim movie/live-action show?!?!?
Chris Hemsworth, for everyone. (think "Nutty Professor")
I really like Cosima alot. I throw her in a lot of decks for the fun of it.
Jorn is definitely my favorite god from the set because Sultai Snow always wins me games in draft
I love/hate/fear Tergrid... today I brawled a lot with my Khorvod deck, and I every sacrifice is a problem with that God. But I have one on there too.
So Jorn is brother of Alrund, who with Cosima fathered Toralf, Birgi and Kolvori, as well as adopted Halvar.
Alrund also ended up "creating" or perhaps "calling forth" Esika and Tergrid from the World Tree.
But what about the rest? How are Egon, Reidane and Valki related to them?
They haven't told us yet. We might have to wait for our next visit to the plane to learn more.
@@MagicArcanum Kaldheim really deserved at least a second set!
can you have reidane and her artifact form in a commander deck as long as they are flipped
Unfortunately you can only have one copy of the card anywhere in your deck of 100. If she's your Commander, you cannot have her again within the 99, even if you just wanted to play her artifact side.
So far, I'm building Jorn, would love to find a good use for the god of fright and Egon. I have Thor, but don't have an interest for it.
Can you explain what happens in the Niko story? The writing style was unreadable for me and Nico seems like a really cool character.
Yes, I plan to cover Niko in a future video.
Hope esika is okay, she seems like a good god
My favorite would probably be Jorn, if he were legal in either a Narfi deck. Alas, he's not, so I'm left out in the cold without the best snow creature in Brawl.
Why can't you use Jorn as the Commander and put Narfi in the deck? Jorn counts as all three colors.
Valkmira, the Ass Saver. That should be the official name. I love using it, saves my ass all the time.
So Esika prepares the Cosmos Elixir for the gods of Kaldheim, and that allows them to be immortal? But Esika wasn't always around, since she came into being when Alrund communed with the world tree... So how did they get the cosmos elixir before that? I'm confused
We have to assume that before Esika's creation, the gods were not immortal. Alrund probably tried to commune with the World Tree early on, and has been enjoying the benefits of the elixir since.
@@MagicArcanum that's really interesting, thanks for the reply!
Aren't there also hints that the Elves were gods of kaldheim and the humans usurped that role? I wonder how that plays into it.
So what exactly is in the cup?
I answer that in the AMA video :-)
2:46 Oh snap!
I need Tergrid gid if fright for sure the new commander I seek.
I love story heim.
I finally have not-crappy-motel internet, it's story time!!
I really love my tergrid sacdos deck
I'll tap 2 to equip 'Golden Mustache'
Any referral codes for gods unchained? I already clicked on the link though
You can try using OArKZZrFgU (if it's not too late.)
So toralf’s red flavor comes from being mad at his dad
Notice that both parents were blue but none of the kids were!
Hey, I don't have anything funny of clever to say. I just wanted to say that I love your videos a lot. Thanks for making such great stuff.
Wow, thanks!
Sooooo... if I understand correctly, a god and a dolphin get three children, all of them being suspiciously human-like
Yep. And none of them are blue like their parents.
I have to say I like Egon, he's very cool.
Pls make a video on all Phyrexian Praetors. :D
They're on my list, don't worry.
Lol I love tybalts trickery haha
I'm working on the jorn deck I have high expectations
Let me know how it turns out!
Can we get the story of Slivers in honor of them being reprinted into Time Spiral Remastered?
I already covered slivers on the TCGplayer channel so it might be a while before I get the chance to do them again here: th-cam.com/video/j9Gm7qZSZTg/w-d-xo.html
but Ryan... what IS in that cup!
so u have not faced a deck using ruin crab & some ver that are mono blue focused on Land fall to mil u with crab & yes I know this was a thing B4 kaldheim but it is a popular blue Land fall deck type that could also run cosima
oh how I wish Egon was a playable commander
The cup had water in it.
Do you know how valuable that is in Texas right now?
@@MagicArcanum For some it can be up to $10,000. I do hope things are getting better and you and your wife are safe and sound. Texas needs a break.
Jorn is dope, but power creep is so real.
Ryan should cosplay Alrund
mustache of the cosmos
Since Esika is dead the other gods will likely die since she was the one who made the god elixir.
"I haven't seen anyone experiment with a blue landfall deck in Standard just yet."
I guess you haven't run into any Ruin Crabs on the ladder in Arena yet? You sweet summer child...
I have encountered it, I just don't consider that to be a landfall deck, really.