Why did written content die? It's a symptom of the death of the internet and particularly search engines, and it's mostly due to google. Search Engine Optimization has ruined not just the search results but also made the actual content of webpages much worse. It's almost all webpages with vague content, lots of ads and auto-playing videos designed to get as much ad revenue as possible. The internet has become a river full of shit you have to sift through to find the gold nugget that is whatever it is you're looking for. And Generative AI is the nail in the coffin.
I agree, but equally if not more, it's the rise of streaming services. It's become way easier to throw up a 10 minute video that'll get way more eyeballs than write an article.
This is not correct at all. The reason why is the very simple answer and the same reason why people watch shows/films more than books because it's quicker and easier to consume such content than read. Smh.
@vulcanh254 I come from a competitive league of legends background, so I see plenty of people do super in-depth content for free over there. Yes, they are often content creators who do it to promote their brand so they can indirectly make money, but there are also complete nobodies who release guide with no financial benefit at all. As an example, just recently, someone released a 100+ page guide to a character in the game. As a reminder, there are 150+ characters in the game. Understandably, comparing anything to league is a bit unfair considering how popular league is. League is so popular there are bound to be a few people willing to "waste their time" making an indepth guide.
I do think casual players want to get better. It's not so much about winning but because the better you are at magic the more you understand what's going on and the more actual magic you're playing because you aren't getting flooded, or screwed, or passing the turn with do-nothings that get removed, etc.
I haven't read Reid's article yet but I'm pretty sure I get what he's trying to say. And I suspect the article is trying to get something across to WotC too, not just the casual crowd. Because it's clear WotC wants to focus more on casual edh from now on and Reid (like most pros) probably fears WotC slowly but surely abandoning the competitive scene because it doesn't make as much money as EDH.
They should simply marry the two because it wouldn't surprise anyone anyways and better now than just shelving away regular competitive magic at some random time. The cedh tournament scene is always expanding and the only real thing that can prop up the most popular formats of competitive magic legacy and vintage(in my eyes) is the reserve list making it harder and harder for people to enter the scene.
there's been a card called "Murder" for years, so I don't know what the big deal is. Also, I don't think "committing a crime" is really gonna matter until it actually does game state wise.
Me: *breathes* Opponent: "hah you've activated my trap! my free hand spell is now active!" Targeting (aka, interacting with your opponent) became a mechanic. Reminds me of Sheoldred; getting punished for simply playing the game.
It's literally just a key phrase to reference a set of game actions. It's functionally the same as any card that references triggered abilities, or activated abilities, and hilariously is an inherent part of all triggered abilities.
Google has become so bad I often look for information on youtube and get getter results. Which is insane. Of course I don't talk about the weather, or booking a hotel, but info on programs are often hidden in giant articles.
The discussion about the decline in MtG articles, in interest in/attendance at competitive events and the underlying issues of our lack of connection to other people made me legit depressed--or, rather, reminded me why so many of us tend toward depression. I think you're both spot-on, though, and I appreciate your candor. As for Magic being punny, honestly, it doesn't bother me. I'm an old school table top gamer, and we love our corny jokes and puns. I could do without the cowboy hats and other non-high fantasy stuff, but Holy Cow is hilarious and I'm here for it.
I'm so checked out of modern to the point that I'm more excited about the Ponder unrestriction than the outburst ban. (That being said, timeless and vintage are my two favorite formats right now)
Richard with the straight forward take "who cares MH3 is around the corner". New Emrakul is going to be pretty nutty now that it won't have to police at instant speed EoT cascade. I thought that it would be neat tech to have for Tron for LE/Rhinos when they attempted to do it on EoT and now that Outburst is banned that is less of a threat overall.
36:16 One of the things I say a bunch around my friends alongside "rocks are free" is "crime is good." I think of it like scam, or cheat, or even connive and attack. I think the worst part of this is the millions of corny jokes it's gonna cause. Really I'm happy about this because if crime is keyworded that means we're gonna get "crime matters" cards, which means interaction's just gonna get better.
@@elijahwalker323I think this is the concern that many people immediately had, but based on Mark’s comments, and this being a villains set, it seems that committing crimes is generally a good thing that you get rewarded for.
@@dementievatzJust in general, set mechanics will get a few hate cards, but almost all of them are confined to limited. Like the only disguise hate card I know that sees play is Long Goodbye.
@@elijahwalker323 You can't really call it interaction if there's no counterplay to the interaction. Otherwise, it's just "no, stop playing the game". Anti-interaction, if you will. Anti-crime cards would be a GOOD thing, the same way pro-crime cards would be a good thing.
It’s kinda hard to act like magic’s settings and themes haven’t been watered down ever since Innistrad where they literally told us they’d prefer to make new planes like this: the spooky world, the Indian steampunk world, not-Egypt, not New York, on and on. At the end of the day, it’s a case by case situation. I can tolerate and understand the idea like Crimson vow being vampire wedding shlock. In contrast, I have absolutely 0 tolerance for murder in Karlov Manor’s “shtick” with the entirety of Ravinca being infested with detectives all of a sudden. What’s next? Ravinca but Christmas? Dominaria treat or treating?
See with Amonkhet, the fact that it was Ancient Egyptian was only tangentially related to why it was interesting. A worldsoul that thinks it's doing everyone a favour by bringing them back as zombies, because of all the cataclysmic events that keep occurring them was pretty cool. And places like Kaladesh, these are generally contained to actual places on their planes, whereas a lot of other sets are just hard to put into context. Karlov Manor, I have no idea wtf is going on as someone that likes learning the lore but doesn't read it. Who are these detective people!? The problem is harder to pin down than that, I love Dominaria but besides the 2018 set I haven't been particularly interested in the last few times we've been there.
The biggest way to get people to care about competitive magic is to make it more accessible so 1) advertising it more and 2) make it cheaper for people to get into. The best way to start that is to make manabases cheaper. Now that Play Boosters have only 14 cars in a pack instead of fifteen, that 15th slot should be for manafixing and dual lands. That way players dont have to spend multiple hundreds just on a viable manabase or only play budget decks and mono coloured decks.
@@Kestral287 if you want a more defined ruleset yes. For casual play, commander instead relies on something as undefined as rule zero. If you didn't have such a tight core ruleset, would commander be as popular?
@@Kestral287 yet mtg has the biggest audience and people keep coming back to it. A good ruleset allows you to play both competitive and casual. A less nuanced ruleset restricts you to casual
Sure; Magic survives on Commander and inertia. Yugioh also survives but I've yet to actually meet a Yugioh player who thinks their game's ruleset is well designed, let alone that their game is balanced. These are not the same thing and should not be conflated. But your latest argument is a complete reversal of the original point and also defeats the actual purpose of the competitive scene. At first it was Competition -> Better Rules -> Better Casual. Now we're already at "casual exists without better rules, competition doesn't". And while that's probably true, it's a very poor defense of why anyone should care about competitive Magic.
My "top-down design" pun card idea for Outlaws of Thunder Junction commander: There's a Snake in my Boots! 1 Green, Instant. Target Swiftfoot Boots' controller sacrifices the creature it is attached to. Its owner creates a 1/1 Green and Black Snake token with deathtouch.
FallOut not coming to Magic Online is a business decision. It costs money in licensing and Dev time to bring it to MTGO. They know how much they think it would do in sales. And that number is Less than their costs. So not reasonable for them to do so. Basically, from here on out Magic Online is shrinking, not growing. Doesn’t mean they will pull the plug. But the patient is flatlining… 😅
I’m so sick of some of my friends running no interaction and then getting upset when I don’t just let them steamroll the table (I say that but I’ve started letting them steamroll because it’s not fun when people get pissy that you didn’t let them win unopposed on turn 5)
@@Jlizard27 You could just also build big flashy decks instead of low to the ground weasel shit. Interaction comes in many forms. Sometimes in the form of actually engaging in combat. Sometimes the best form of removal is "I have a big fuckin creature and you will die if you don't chump block". Adjust your deckbuilding to your playgroup. Everyone will have more fun that way.
The problem I have with written article content, for entertainment, is that I can consume a video or podcast as I do something else. I think your blaming of this on generational changes is a bit snobby.
Content that I'm using to learn something - a new skill, some simple how-to thing like Richard repeatedly mentions? That can command my full attention. But I don't have enough free time to dedicate a chunk of it to reading metagame-analysis articles and deck-heuristics articles. Being good enough at Magic to win Commander games is important to me. Being good enough to grind tournaments is not, I don't have the time for it.
So I watch or listen to gameplay videos and podcasts, and I watch or listen to game theory videos and podcasts - multiple times if necessary to get something to sink in through my divided attention. But reading articles is not a good use of my time.
@@jeremyphillips3087 I'm not talking any not being able to give something my attention, I'm taking about not having the time in the day to give that level of attention to certain things - specifically in this case MtG articles. I can spend six hours in a day preparing meals for the rest of the week without issue, it's not a lack of attention span. It's a lack of the time to devote that attention to consuming certain content.
I was really hoping to see Lotus Field banned in Pioneer. Its not a huge metagame percentage or anything but the fact that you can't really interact with their mana is a huge problem imo. For example, the only way to stop Strict Proctor into Lotus Field is a counterspell. Yes, Krenko's Buzzcrusher now exists, if you're not on the play they've already gotten the value and can probably just counter it.
49:30 I agree that the puns and jokes might be present to a greater degree in card names and references, but back in the day the art (Uktabi Orangutan) and flavor text (Gorilla Titan) had a lot more humor than today. Now with more cohesive and serious art direction and massive amounts of rule text on every card, the old way humor was printed on cards disappeared.
It seems a 5 mana Planar Cleansing would be the ideal cost as it would be the follow up to a One Ring which is already at 4. One Ring also helping reach the 5th land.
I think streaming has a major part in all of this. Building magic pros as stars takes a lot of work, whereas streamers are already trying to be stars. Reading articles to try and improve is nice, but watching people play will give you a lot of information just by observing. Practice us better than theory, and watching someone practice is probably between there.
If practice is better than theory, you simply didn't understand the theory. That's why practice is useful, after all... even idiots tend to understand after having personally experienced something.
''The Ring Tempts You'' had zero negative effect and that was weird to me. So yeah committing a crime being a good thing is not great flavour wise to me.
I could read an article with one persons opinion, or if I wanted limited advice I could listen to multiple podcasts about it like Limited Resources or Lords of Limited and then discuss things with hundreds to thousands of other like minded people on their respective Discord servers. The same is true for almost every format. It’s the internet gentlemen, articles are a holdover from glossy magazines and newspapers of the boomer days.
I for myself left MtG because I was playing Commander and just realized that I need to care and look after every Set for the Commanders I had built. Unlike if you just play Standard or Modern, there are Sets and products not for you, true, but now that everything is Commander, I was kinda softly forced into looking into every Set, every Precon, everything which had new cards that I could put in my Deck. And it burned me hard. Now I play Flesh and Blood and the Class system says that I do not need to care about every Set so hard, so I can just skip one to purchase.
With Fallout not coming to MTGO or Arena it's probably because of the usage overlap for the copyright. A license to use a video game IP in a physical card game is very different to the license to use a video game IP in another video game. Particularly Bethesda probably has the rights to license out Fallout New Vegas as part of the Fallout IP to third parties provided it isn't as a video game as only Obsidian has those rights.
24:40 I don't care about the video, I just want the audio. I usually consume magic content by putting audio on at work or on the commute, while doing something else. I'm sorry but I'm not gonna READ a magic article, that's so sweaty
I dont mind whatever with hats, but I do think it's night and day like looking at the art of old cards and having like references to the hedron network and story, and now like imagine explaining why Fblthp has a cowboy hat in a year when we arent "in TJ" anymore and it's just a random old card.
I feel like WRT the mtgo talks that any set that comes to mtga they’re going to have the digital rights for, and daybreak is a hired developer and don’t own mtgo so it’s going to be the exact same talk and normally terms, since they’d normally be rights to sell on digital storefronts, a collaboration would basically have to argue against being on mtgo but be okay on mtga for it to ever happen.
The way you said one piece does deck techs/deck overviews is also how yugioh does them and creators have said it is to get more watch times. That likely not only worked its way down to random people due to culture, but also into other cars games where yugioh players migrated.
Richard, the set is called Outlaws of Thunder Junction, to be an outlaw you must have committed or be suspected of committing a crime, why not complain about the name of the set in that case. 😂
I think that almost certainly, casual commander players on average care more about Reid Duke's gameplay than he cares about theirs! Oh man that dungeon was real? I saw that on the hee hee ha ha magic subreddit and took it as a joke Thought for certain Fallout would come to MTGO after they released the Warhammer stuff, it almost seemed like they'd forgotten about Warhammer and then remembered to do it because they were working on the Fallout stuff We already have a four mana Planar Cleansing, Devastating Mastery!
y'all got extremely boomer-snobby on the bit about articles imo. The problem isn't people being dumber, it's people being busier. Videos are easy to consume content while you do other things. I watch y'all's commander games while i'm working. I've listened to these podcasts before while at work as well. I've had other people's commander games or opinion videos on while doing cleaning at home or even when i'm in the shower. And when i do have the time to myself to relax, i don't wanna spend it all reading a 20 page article about something that means little to me like sideboarding or some pro tour stuff
He called violent outburst being banned a pretty big change. I guess it's not too big of an understatement. I would say he should have said it's a huge change. Ok. My comment is not as good as I thought it would be. Carry on, carry on.
I personally feel that the idea of the best way to keep magic players is to make them play in the sunk cost fallacy is a real bad idea. Also considering the amount of commander decks casual players makes i think that the amount of money wizards make is not a problem. Moving to the topic of video vs written, as all things, it is a combination of multiple causes. Videos are more easily followed and can be used as podcast, so you can take in the info while driving or working. It is a passive way of acquiring information compared to an active way like reading an article. People have less time, so taking taking the time to read a 40 page article on how to play brainstorm is not that easy. Another element to consider is the casual vs competitive aspect. I never much cared for competitive magic, and i thought it was because i was a casual player. Recently a pauper league started near me, so i started play come competitive magic, and that made me actually start looking for articles and info on how to improve my plays. If there is no competitive scene because of wotc, why should people look for competitve articles?
There's probably a big reason why high level spokesmen for the brand have routinely hammered home time and again that BY FAR the most popular format is "kitchen table magic", and that all other formats and modes of play COMBINED are lesser by orders of magnitude. Probably because it's literally true.
My guess: They're seeing if it's okay to unban Ponder for modern. Preordain seems to be fine, and Ponder would be the next logical step if they're on the train to unban things.
wait.. WotC said they don't do "guns" in Thunder Junction, because they don't want "guns" in MTG? how does that make any sense when there's already pirates that have guns (idk remember the specific creature but there are a couple) & on top we have the WH40k set...
Shucks, I guess we need to stop killing creatures and players, stop being toxic, stop spreading infections, extorting, dealing damage, exiling things, taking control of other people's things, losing life, paying life, sacrificing, and trampling. There are more things ALREADY IN THE GAME with WORSE connotations than "committing a crime" than there are that don't have worse connotations.
Audio as much as video. I put headphones in and listen to TH-cam videos, podcasts, and game play videos while I'm working (in a warehouse). I can't read articles while I work.
In regards to Richard saying tournament magic is the biggest comp scene: pokemon is regularly instantly capping tournaments 3 times the size of MTGs last open
So the thing about other tcgs there just isn’t any good resources for deck list posting. For magic you have 4-8 good sites for these resources other tcgs just don’t have that yugioh has maybe 1
I personally think the UB brands attached to the licenses saw the writing on the wall with MTGO and just thinks they’re brand shouldn’t be attached to MTGO. An perhaps wizards wants this lol this is wizards way “sacrificing” Modo for the sake of keeping UB.
Committing a crime essentially means interacting with your opponents game is a crime. I.e. interaction is bad just play solitaire. Plus it wierd you tap an opponents creature and it's a crime but if you mass murder the battle field that's fine
competitive magic is weird, I play since 2003 and don't really know how mocs, pro tours, grand prixs etc. compare. They should just make longer seasons and let the winners of the season get a card. One for standard and one for limited. 4 times a year. Arena players will love it and will try to be number 1. Therefore, competitive magic will get more interest.
In every game casuals have no need to care for competitive scene. Competitive elements keep the game balanced so casuals have more fun but casuals have no need to know why or how their casual games are kept in check. MOBAs might be the only exception where % of casuals that are interested in competitive is higher but it's prob normal % if you'd have all the actual numbers
48:00 I wish they would make more serious sets again. The goof is totaly fine as a one off or even a few cards in a set but it feels like wotc has been on a weird pop culture "fun" trip since they made planeswalkers their avengers during the return to zendikar era. I do not enjoy the M*urders at karlov manor flavour with fun hats and I do not enjoy the upcomming western meme stereo types. Having those returning characters now in every set with a different outfit just looks like those online games with the over the top skins that kinda ruin the "fantasy feel" of a real world. Funny enough, I am looking forward Bloomburrow so maybe I am just a hypocrite ¯\(°_o)/¯
1.) ppl are lazy and also busy; both categories rather watch something or listen to it rather than read. 2.) meme cards are meh imo; its fine to have silly things or different artwork, but i dont want mtg to look like a high schoolers tiktok page. 3.) paper mtg is real mtg; online isnt for all and you are literally paying for nothing. At least paper cards are worth a few cents. Also online doesn’t account for access and budget that real life puts restrictions on. 4.) casual players dont need to care about competitive mtg at all; they aren’t sweaty players to begin with and buy precons and some singles…..reid is so far removed from casual he has no place to say they are similar.
I always thought the games needed competitive magic because if no one plays 60 card games (particularly standard and pioneer) then new sets have no real reason to be printed and LGSs have no reason to stock them and the game dies. Commander decks require very little new purchases and even when they do its a single copy of a few cards. And if most cards aren't needed in multiple then why print anything at all? Just commander decks feels like a massive drop in product and profit
The people who engage with competitive magic are a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the playerbase. If every single person who ever sought out any information whatsoever about competitive magic left the game and never came back, WotC would lose effectively zero money. Almost all of their customers would remain. That's how irrelevant it is to the bottom line.
I completely disagree with Richard that Fury banning did nothing. Fury didn't just kill x1s it killed two 2 toughness creatures without mana. Or one 2 toughness creature and two x1s. Bowmasters kills one x1. Fury banning allows creature decks fo exist again.
Yeah it's such a weird argument to claim banning Fury did nothing, just because tokens isn't tier 1. At least convoke, affinity and elves are 500% more viable than they used to be. There's even some weird people saying the format is worse without Fury lol.
@vulcanh254 it's so dumb those people just want to play Fury. People act like Fury Policed cascade........it did not. I have tokens decks that are viable but my Humans is a million times more playable now. As are the decks you mentioned. Fury was a necessary ban. Is modern still broken? Of course but at least things are more playable.
In my opinion the coverage of pro play is just horrible. As someone in his 30s who watched a lot of esports, especially LoL, WotC is just not investing in this enough. One thing I really hate when watching MtG games is, you don't get to see the hole game. They cut a lot, most notably the end. Often they just cut off and the casters tell you "well, that one guy won.". There is no room for emotions. We don't get to see the player's emotions and we can't have any emotions ourself with all the cuts.
Jesus, as if I needed another reason to hate Universes Beyond, now I have to hate how it's going to ruin the primary way I get to engage with the game!? F'ing A!
Have you tried searching any written content outside of Reddit these days? It's all AI generated filler, interpolated by ads, other headlines and videos and with no comments/likes to check it's validity
I've watched pro magic a few times over the years, and always kinda been; meh I absolutely could not care less about Competitive MTG. It brings nothing to the table that I care about. For me it's the same kind of thing as Sports in general, it's sh!7 boring to watch, but I love playing it myself. To each their own tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I came to magic because of the settings and characters ... now ... it's strayed off too far .. feels like that app battle game with historical figures fighting ..abraham lincon vs mike tyson ...
Written formats died as making videos is so much easier. YT or any other video platform handles all the hassle elements. For written explanations pictures are often needed anyway so why not make video instead. Who has their own website these days? Maintaining a website for maybe 20 views a year for some obscure help compared to just throwing a video on YT you can forget about is an unimaginable difference.
The death of competitive magic is disheartening. Probably the game will still thrive because Commander will always be its own thing... We have to accept our dear and beloved hobby went away. The good news is there's a plethora of TCGs being released that care about us. Flesh and Blood, One Piece and Pokemon are great games that I suggest MTG players give it a try.
I think you're missing where the most enfranchised players of other games are going, and it's live streams. I play yugioh, and I can go watch one of the world champions play a meta match up with sideboard while asking question in his chat in real time. You can as nuanced as possible, and you avoid the problem of content getting dated. Frank Karsten's magic articles are some of the greatest card game content of all time and it is truly timeless, but a lot of other content is fundamentally ephemeral. If your side boarding plan changes because violent outburst got banned that article will only matter for 3 months when mh3 changes your side board again. The best magic players don't stream serious matches because it's a competitive disadvantage so mtg will fail to offer anything to the mediocre to good, but not great competitive players.
Lets talk about "smart" real quick. Do you actually know the difference in probabilities between a 60 card deck and a 250 card deck with the same proportional manabase, in regard to mana flood/mana screw? I'll assume you know that the smaller deck has a better chance of not getting too many or too few lands. But do you know the actual difference between this absolutely massive difference in deck size is, statistically? It's 6 in 10000 games. Mathematically, that's the difference. How many pro players do you think actually understand that difference? Or is it more likely that they simply "know" that the lower number of cards is mathematically more consistent in general, and don't bother to get in-depth understanding of the game as a result? There's a difference between playing to win and "trying to be competitive". One is how everyone plays non-troll decks even at casual tables, and the other is how morons approach a game they're too stupid to actually understand to begin with.
58:51 The only people I know who ever call it X is boomers making "X, formerly known as twitter" asides. All the zoomers just call it twitter with no pause or confusion.
I didn't know it changed its name at all. That is a very boomer thing to do. They kept referring to Prince as "The artist formerly known as Prince" when he had his legal name changed. It's a joke they enjoy, because dehumanizing anything that they disagree with is more natural to them than breathing.
I love Mtggoldfish and Seth but to be honest Richard kind of toxic in this video hating on Reid and pro magic without reading article and all the drama for comiting a crime mechanic, when things like morbid, kill, and many other mechanic are kind the same....I really dont know if Richard still likes the game
"You should care about competitive magic because IT MAKES THE GAME WORSE BY EXISTING" is a hilarious lack of self-awareness, and understanding of the game itself.
Ok, but also have you ever tried looking something up and parsing the garbage SEO results? It’s just straight up nonsense. I can at least gauge the useful quality of a video, deem it unhelpful, and find another one while still being on the same platform. As long as we’re not talking about TikTok which is even more nonsense, in which case yeah give me 3 sentences any day.
Almost 1% of the human beings on the planet are mtg players. A truly staggering number. Yugioh was a fad when the current generation of up and coming adults were kids. It never got anywhere close to as popular as MtG. It has a respectable fanbase now, but is only 3rd place on the tcg market.
How mysterious that Crim couldn't make the daylight savings pod....
Hahaha amazing observation
Why did written content die? It's a symptom of the death of the internet and particularly search engines, and it's mostly due to google. Search Engine Optimization has ruined not just the search results but also made the actual content of webpages much worse. It's almost all webpages with vague content, lots of ads and auto-playing videos designed to get as much ad revenue as possible. The internet has become a river full of shit you have to sift through to find the gold nugget that is whatever it is you're looking for.
And Generative AI is the nail in the coffin.
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Well, not 100% true. But it’s still valid to feel this way, I know a lot of people do!
I agree, but equally if not more, it's the rise of streaming services. It's become way easier to throw up a 10 minute video that'll get way more eyeballs than write an article.
This is not correct at all. The reason why is the very simple answer and the same reason why people watch shows/films more than books because it's quicker and easier to consume such content than read. Smh.
Most people would rather see a 10 second video about it in their tik tok feed. Social media kills attention spans so much
About the written content, it seems a lot of it is locked behind patreons and pay walls now.
Which is ironic, considering information is better consumed and communicated though Twitter posts and Reddit threads.
It's annoying sure but how else are they gonna make money lol. I don't expect someone to write a super in depth article for free.
@vulcanh254 I come from a competitive league of legends background, so I see plenty of people do super in-depth content for free over there. Yes, they are often content creators who do it to promote their brand so they can indirectly make money, but there are also complete nobodies who release guide with no financial benefit at all.
As an example, just recently, someone released a 100+ page guide to a character in the game. As a reminder, there are 150+ characters in the game. Understandably, comparing anything to league is a bit unfair considering how popular league is. League is so popular there are bound to be a few people willing to "waste their time" making an indepth guide.
36:55 this is why I always overload cyclonic rift… I don’t want to commit a crime!!!
I do think casual players want to get better. It's not so much about winning but because the better you are at magic the more you understand what's going on and the more actual magic you're playing because you aren't getting flooded, or screwed, or passing the turn with do-nothings that get removed, etc.
The assertion that casual players aren't as good at the game as competitive players is nonsensical.
I haven't read Reid's article yet but I'm pretty sure I get what he's trying to say. And I suspect the article is trying to get something across to WotC too, not just the casual crowd. Because it's clear WotC wants to focus more on casual edh from now on and Reid (like most pros) probably fears WotC slowly but surely abandoning the competitive scene because it doesn't make as much money as EDH.
They should simply marry the two because it wouldn't surprise anyone anyways and better now than just shelving away regular competitive magic at some random time. The cedh tournament scene is always expanding and the only real thing that can prop up the most popular formats of competitive magic legacy and vintage(in my eyes) is the reserve list making it harder and harder for people to enter the scene.
Lol 😂. You comment on Reid’s written article by first saying “I haven’t read the article”, but I’ll comment on what I think it could be about 😂🎉🥳🎁🍾
there's been a card called "Murder" for years, so I don't know what the big deal is. Also, I don't think "committing a crime" is really gonna matter until it actually does game state wise.
It matters if the cards that reference it matter
Me: *breathes*
Opponent: "hah you've activated my trap! my free hand spell is now active!"
Targeting (aka, interacting with your opponent) became a mechanic. Reminds me of Sheoldred; getting punished for simply playing the game.
It's literally just a key phrase to reference a set of game actions. It's functionally the same as any card that references triggered abilities, or activated abilities, and hilariously is an inherent part of all triggered abilities.
@@aceviru Oh boy, do I have news for you. Triggered abilities have existed since Alpha.
Google has become so bad I often look for information on youtube and get getter results. Which is insane. Of course I don't talk about the weather, or booking a hotel, but info on programs are often hidden in giant articles.
Yes, and often the articles you find on the first pages are way outdated.
The discussion about the decline in MtG articles, in interest in/attendance at competitive events and the underlying issues of our lack of connection to other people made me legit depressed--or, rather, reminded me why so many of us tend toward depression.
I think you're both spot-on, though, and I appreciate your candor.
As for Magic being punny, honestly, it doesn't bother me. I'm an old school table top gamer, and we love our corny jokes and puns.
I could do without the cowboy hats and other non-high fantasy stuff, but Holy Cow is hilarious and I'm here for it.
I'm so checked out of modern to the point that I'm more excited about the Ponder unrestriction than the outburst ban. (That being said, timeless and vintage are my two favorite formats right now)
Finally Seth also agrees the one ring should go, that card is so incredibly unenjoyable.
Richard with the straight forward take "who cares MH3 is around the corner". New Emrakul is going to be pretty nutty now that it won't have to police at instant speed EoT cascade. I thought that it would be neat tech to have for Tron for LE/Rhinos when they attempted to do it on EoT and now that Outburst is banned that is less of a threat overall.
Seth runs this sh5t, what an incredible workaholic props to you dawg❤❤❤❤
36:16 One of the things I say a bunch around my friends alongside "rocks are free" is "crime is good." I think of it like scam, or cheat, or even connive and attack. I think the worst part of this is the millions of corny jokes it's gonna cause. Really I'm happy about this because if crime is keyworded that means we're gonna get "crime matters" cards, which means interaction's just gonna get better.
Or worse, there could be anti crime cards like a free teferi protection if someone committed a crime against you.
@@elijahwalker323I think this is the concern that many people immediately had, but based on Mark’s comments, and this being a villains set, it seems that committing crimes is generally a good thing that you get rewarded for.
@@dementievatzJust in general, set mechanics will get a few hate cards, but almost all of them are confined to limited. Like the only disguise hate card I know that sees play is Long Goodbye.
Extort is literally already a mechanic. And, hilariously, in Magic The Gathering you don't commit a crime when you extort.
@@elijahwalker323 You can't really call it interaction if there's no counterplay to the interaction. Otherwise, it's just "no, stop playing the game". Anti-interaction, if you will. Anti-crime cards would be a GOOD thing, the same way pro-crime cards would be a good thing.
It’s kinda hard to act like magic’s settings and themes haven’t been watered down ever since Innistrad where they literally told us they’d prefer to make new planes like this: the spooky world, the Indian steampunk world, not-Egypt, not New York, on and on.
At the end of the day, it’s a case by case situation. I can tolerate and understand the idea like Crimson vow being vampire wedding shlock. In contrast, I have absolutely 0 tolerance for murder in Karlov Manor’s “shtick” with the entirety of Ravinca being infested with detectives all of a sudden. What’s next? Ravinca but Christmas? Dominaria treat or treating?
See with Amonkhet, the fact that it was Ancient Egyptian was only tangentially related to why it was interesting. A worldsoul that thinks it's doing everyone a favour by bringing them back as zombies, because of all the cataclysmic events that keep occurring them was pretty cool. And places like Kaladesh, these are generally contained to actual places on their planes, whereas a lot of other sets are just hard to put into context. Karlov Manor, I have no idea wtf is going on as someone that likes learning the lore but doesn't read it. Who are these detective people!?
The problem is harder to pin down than that, I love Dominaria but besides the 2018 set I haven't been particularly interested in the last few times we've been there.
The biggest way to get people to care about competitive magic is to make it more accessible so 1) advertising it more and 2) make it cheaper for people to get into.
The best way to start that is to make manabases cheaper. Now that Play Boosters have only 14 cars in a pack instead of fifteen, that 15th slot should be for manafixing and dual lands. That way players dont have to spend multiple hundreds just on a viable manabase or only play budget decks and mono coloured decks.
people think of mtg in terms of paper cards because card prices matters the most
Without a competive scene, cards and rulesets aren't as finely tuned, balance is less of a thing. Casual with an unbalanced casual ruleset sucks
Our predominant casual format is already horrendously unbalanced so does that actually matter?
@@Kestral287 if you want a more defined ruleset yes. For casual play, commander instead relies on something as undefined as rule zero. If you didn't have such a tight core ruleset, would commander be as popular?
The honest answer? Almost certainly yes. Magic's rules are an archaic and outdated mess compared to modern games.
@@Kestral287 yet mtg has the biggest audience and people keep coming back to it. A good ruleset allows you to play both competitive and casual. A less nuanced ruleset restricts you to casual
Sure; Magic survives on Commander and inertia. Yugioh also survives but I've yet to actually meet a Yugioh player who thinks their game's ruleset is well designed, let alone that their game is balanced. These are not the same thing and should not be conflated.
But your latest argument is a complete reversal of the original point and also defeats the actual purpose of the competitive scene. At first it was Competition -> Better Rules -> Better Casual. Now we're already at "casual exists without better rules, competition doesn't". And while that's probably true, it's a very poor defense of why anyone should care about competitive Magic.
My "top-down design" pun card idea for Outlaws of Thunder Junction commander: There's a Snake in my Boots! 1 Green, Instant. Target Swiftfoot Boots' controller sacrifices the creature it is attached to. Its owner creates a 1/1 Green and Black Snake token with deathtouch.
to make it actually playable outside of commander, switching boots to any equipment would be a fun sideboard card
In a leak there is a card with a flavor text that references that, the card itself is something like "ambusher snake" or something along those lines
49:33 we’re actually going back to the roots. Old magic had so many goofy cards and flavor texts
“Sorry we burned down your village. Here’s some gold”
@@Shotgungunshot1 classic
I can only recommend Daybreak to invent in universe versions of the few cards that will make splash in their respective formats
I think the issue with MTGO is way bigger than people expect.
But I think the cards will be put on MTGO they just won't have art!
FallOut not coming to Magic Online is a business decision. It costs money in licensing and Dev time to bring it to MTGO. They know how much they think it would do in sales. And that number is Less than their costs. So not reasonable for them to do so. Basically, from here on out Magic Online is shrinking, not growing. Doesn’t mean they will pull the plug. But the patient is flatlining… 😅
Oh great, now commander players can say interaction is criminal and not be incorrect
I’m so sick of some of my friends running no interaction and then getting upset when I don’t just let them steamroll the table (I say that but I’ve started letting them steamroll because it’s not fun when people get pissy that you didn’t let them win unopposed on turn 5)
@@Jlizard27 You could just also build big flashy decks instead of low to the ground weasel shit. Interaction comes in many forms. Sometimes in the form of actually engaging in combat. Sometimes the best form of removal is "I have a big fuckin creature and you will die if you don't chump block". Adjust your deckbuilding to your playgroup. Everyone will have more fun that way.
The problem I have with written article content, for entertainment, is that I can consume a video or podcast as I do something else. I think your blaming of this on generational changes is a bit snobby.
Content that I'm using to learn something - a new skill, some simple how-to thing like Richard repeatedly mentions? That can command my full attention. But I don't have enough free time to dedicate a chunk of it to reading metagame-analysis articles and deck-heuristics articles. Being good enough at Magic to win Commander games is important to me. Being good enough to grind tournaments is not, I don't have the time for it.
So I watch or listen to gameplay videos and podcasts, and I watch or listen to game theory videos and podcasts - multiple times if necessary to get something to sink in through my divided attention. But reading articles is not a good use of my time.
Agreed curently listening to this wile cooking food
I mean, youre basically admitting to not giving something your attention, which shortened attention span is a common criticism of modern people.
@@jeremyphillips3087 I'm not talking any not being able to give something my attention, I'm taking about not having the time in the day to give that level of attention to certain things - specifically in this case MtG articles. I can spend six hours in a day preparing meals for the rest of the week without issue, it's not a lack of attention span. It's a lack of the time to devote that attention to consuming certain content.
I was really hoping to see Lotus Field banned in Pioneer. Its not a huge metagame percentage or anything but the fact that you can't really interact with their mana is a huge problem imo. For example, the only way to stop Strict Proctor into Lotus Field is a counterspell. Yes, Krenko's Buzzcrusher now exists, if you're not on the play they've already gotten the value and can probably just counter it.
49:30 I agree that the puns and jokes might be present to a greater degree in card names and references, but back in the day the art (Uktabi Orangutan) and flavor text (Gorilla Titan) had a lot more humor than today. Now with more cohesive and serious art direction and massive amounts of rule text on every card, the old way humor was printed on cards disappeared.
It feels like the humor on cards has become much more blunt when in the past it was more stealthy.
It seems a 5 mana Planar Cleansing would be the ideal cost as it would be the follow up to a One Ring which is already at 4. One Ring also helping reach the 5th land.
WotC didn't say they wouldn't print UW cards, they said they wouldn't make a UW product. We could still see UW cards in the list and such.
Around 30:15, does anyone know where to find this type of in-depth (and current) information?
I think streaming has a major part in all of this. Building magic pros as stars takes a lot of work, whereas streamers are already trying to be stars. Reading articles to try and improve is nice, but watching people play will give you a lot of information just by observing. Practice us better than theory, and watching someone practice is probably between there.
If practice is better than theory, you simply didn't understand the theory. That's why practice is useful, after all... even idiots tend to understand after having personally experienced something.
''The Ring Tempts You'' had zero negative effect and that was weird to me. So yeah committing a crime being a good thing is not great flavour wise to me.
Technically it made the tempted creature legendary, which is an inherent negative. Albeit a tiny and insignificant one.
I could read an article with one persons opinion, or if I wanted limited advice I could listen to multiple podcasts about it like Limited Resources or Lords of Limited and then discuss things with hundreds to thousands of other like minded people on their respective Discord servers. The same is true for almost every format. It’s the internet gentlemen, articles are a holdover from glossy magazines and newspapers of the boomer days.
Y'all missed an opportunity to wear detective hats for Karlov Manor...BUT it's not too late to rock Cowboy hats for Outlaws of Thunder Junction!
I for myself left MtG because I was playing Commander and just realized that I need to care and look after every Set for the Commanders I had built. Unlike if you just play Standard or Modern, there are Sets and products not for you, true, but now that everything is Commander, I was kinda softly forced into looking into every Set, every Precon, everything which had new cards that I could put in my Deck. And it burned me hard.
Now I play Flesh and Blood and the Class system says that I do not need to care about every Set so hard, so I can just skip one to purchase.
With Fallout not coming to MTGO or Arena it's probably because of the usage overlap for the copyright.
A license to use a video game IP in a physical card game is very different to the license to use a video game IP in another video game.
Particularly Bethesda probably has the rights to license out Fallout New Vegas as part of the Fallout IP to third parties provided it isn't as a video game as only Obsidian has those rights.
24:40 I don't care about the video, I just want the audio. I usually consume magic content by putting audio on at work or on the commute, while doing something else. I'm sorry but I'm not gonna READ a magic article, that's so sweaty
Kinda joking but not really, actually richards right tho, the only place I read about magic is reddit
Love the podcasts definitely help me focus and relax while cleaning/Watching My babies
I dont mind whatever with hats, but I do think it's night and day like looking at the art of old cards and having like references to the hedron network and story, and now like imagine explaining why Fblthp has a cowboy hat in a year when we arent "in TJ" anymore and it's just a random old card.
I feel like WRT the mtgo talks that any set that comes to mtga they’re going to have the digital rights for, and daybreak is a hired developer and don’t own mtgo so it’s going to be the exact same talk and normally terms, since they’d normally be rights to sell on digital storefronts, a collaboration would basically have to argue against being on mtgo but be okay on mtga for it to ever happen.
The way you said one piece does deck techs/deck overviews is also how yugioh does them and creators have said it is to get more watch times. That likely not only worked its way down to random people due to culture, but also into other cars games where yugioh players migrated.
My store's FNM is entirely Modern. We get 20+ entrants every week.
Warhammer came to magic online very recently
Richard, the set is called Outlaws of Thunder Junction, to be an outlaw you must have committed or be suspected of committing a crime, why not complain about the name of the set in that case. 😂
I think that almost certainly, casual commander players on average care more about Reid Duke's gameplay than he cares about theirs!
Oh man that dungeon was real? I saw that on the hee hee ha ha magic subreddit and took it as a joke
Thought for certain Fallout would come to MTGO after they released the Warhammer stuff, it almost seemed like they'd forgotten about Warhammer and then remembered to do it because they were working on the Fallout stuff
We already have a four mana Planar Cleansing, Devastating Mastery!
My guys, you are trying to KILL your opponents! Crimes are part and parcel to the game!
y'all got extremely boomer-snobby on the bit about articles imo. The problem isn't people being dumber, it's people being busier. Videos are easy to consume content while you do other things. I watch y'all's commander games while i'm working. I've listened to these podcasts before while at work as well. I've had other people's commander games or opinion videos on while doing cleaning at home or even when i'm in the shower. And when i do have the time to myself to relax, i don't wanna spend it all reading a 20 page article about something that means little to me like sideboarding or some pro tour stuff
our lgs does at least one modern event a week, this week we have 2!
He called violent outburst being banned a pretty big change. I guess it's not too big of an understatement. I would say he should have said it's a huge change. Ok. My comment is not as good as I thought it would be. Carry on, carry on.
I personally feel that the idea of the best way to keep magic players is to make them play in the sunk cost fallacy is a real bad idea.
Also considering the amount of commander decks casual players makes i think that the amount of money wizards make is not a problem.
Moving to the topic of video vs written, as all things, it is a combination of multiple causes. Videos are more easily followed and can be used as podcast, so you can take in the info while driving or working. It is a passive way of acquiring information compared to an active way like reading an article. People have less time, so taking taking the time to read a 40 page article on how to play brainstorm is not that easy.
Another element to consider is the casual vs competitive aspect. I never much cared for competitive magic, and i thought it was because i was a casual player. Recently a pauper league started near me, so i started play come competitive magic, and that made me actually start looking for articles and info on how to improve my plays. If there is no competitive scene because of wotc, why should people look for competitve articles?
There's probably a big reason why high level spokesmen for the brand have routinely hammered home time and again that BY FAR the most popular format is "kitchen table magic", and that all other formats and modes of play COMBINED are lesser by orders of magnitude. Probably because it's literally true.
This comment should have been an article!
The EU was planning to get rid of daylight savings but then covid postponed it.
My guess: They're seeing if it's okay to unban Ponder for modern. Preordain seems to be fine, and Ponder would be the next logical step if they're on the train to unban things.
wait.. WotC said they don't do "guns" in Thunder Junction, because they don't want "guns" in MTG?
how does that make any sense when there's already pirates that have guns (idk remember the specific creature but there are a couple) & on top we have the WH40k set...
😂 Richard "Cracks a fetch land, am I dead?"
Okay, I have to agree with Richard, why associate a normal game action with something that has a bad connotation?!
Shucks, I guess we need to stop killing creatures and players, stop being toxic, stop spreading infections, extorting, dealing damage, exiling things, taking control of other people's things, losing life, paying life, sacrificing, and trampling.
There are more things ALREADY IN THE GAME with WORSE connotations than "committing a crime" than there are that don't have worse connotations.
i read who is the beat down a weak ago again for the milion time and now am gona do it again what a great post lmao
Audio as much as video. I put headphones in and listen to TH-cam videos, podcasts, and game play videos while I'm working (in a warehouse). I can't read articles while I work.
In regards to Richard saying tournament magic is the biggest comp scene: pokemon is regularly instantly capping tournaments 3 times the size of MTGs last open
Personally, I was fine with hats in OTJ until Fblthp showed up. His card is the definition of slapping a cowboy hat on something and calling it a day
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Is An Offer You Can't Refuse a reference to something?
It's a reference to a famous line from the film "The Godfather."
richard's immediate "no" to sets going on modo really cracked me up. I feel the same and saw it coming, but it's still funny.
So the thing about other tcgs there just isn’t any good resources for deck list posting. For magic you have 4-8 good sites for these resources other tcgs just don’t have that yugioh has maybe 1
I personally think the UB brands attached to the licenses saw the writing on the wall with MTGO and just thinks they’re brand shouldn’t be attached to MTGO. An perhaps wizards wants this lol this is wizards way “sacrificing” Modo for the sake of keeping UB.
Committing a crime essentially means interacting with your opponents game is a crime. I.e. interaction is bad just play solitaire.
Plus it wierd you tap an opponents creature and it's a crime but if you mass murder the battle field that's fine
I came over from Spotify, found your podcast channel all so I can say “ok boomer”.
competitive magic is weird, I play since 2003 and don't really know how mocs, pro tours, grand prixs etc. compare. They should just make longer seasons and let the winners of the season get a card. One for standard and one for limited. 4 times a year. Arena players will love it and will try to be number 1. Therefore, competitive magic will get more interest.
"People aren't taking my fantasy children's card game seriously enough" is the most out of touch with reality sentiment I've heard in a while.
“Is magic too punny”
The Goblin code of chivalry requires that I answer “no”.
In every game casuals have no need to care for competitive scene. Competitive elements keep the game balanced so casuals have more fun but casuals have no need to know why or how their casual games are kept in check. MOBAs might be the only exception where % of casuals that are interested in competitive is higher but it's prob normal % if you'd have all the actual numbers
48:00 I wish they would make more serious sets again. The goof is totaly fine as a one off or even a few cards in a set but it feels like wotc has been on a weird pop culture "fun" trip since they made planeswalkers their avengers during the return to zendikar era. I do not enjoy the M*urders at karlov manor flavour with fun hats and I do not enjoy the upcomming western meme stereo types. Having those returning characters now in every set with a different outfit just looks like those online games with the over the top skins that kinda ruin the "fantasy feel" of a real world. Funny enough, I am looking forward Bloomburrow so maybe I am just a hypocrite ¯\(°_o)/¯
1.) ppl are lazy and also busy; both categories rather watch something or listen to it rather than read.
2.) meme cards are meh imo; its fine to have silly things or different artwork, but i dont want mtg to look like a high schoolers tiktok page.
3.) paper mtg is real mtg; online isnt for all and you are literally paying for nothing. At least paper cards are worth a few cents. Also online doesn’t account for access and budget that real life puts restrictions on.
4.) casual players dont need to care about competitive mtg at all; they aren’t sweaty players to begin with and buy precons and some singles…..reid is so far removed from casual he has no place to say they are similar.
You call it ex-twitter. Because X is ridiculous, it used to be Twitter, and ex-twitter says both with multiple meanings baked in.
I always thought the games needed competitive magic because if no one plays 60 card games (particularly standard and pioneer) then new sets have no real reason to be printed and LGSs have no reason to stock them and the game dies. Commander decks require very little new purchases and even when they do its a single copy of a few cards. And if most cards aren't needed in multiple then why print anything at all? Just commander decks feels like a massive drop in product and profit
The people who engage with competitive magic are a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the playerbase. If every single person who ever sought out any information whatsoever about competitive magic left the game and never came back, WotC would lose effectively zero money. Almost all of their customers would remain. That's how irrelevant it is to the bottom line.
I completely disagree with Richard that Fury banning did nothing. Fury didn't just kill x1s it killed two 2 toughness creatures without mana. Or one 2 toughness creature and two x1s. Bowmasters kills one x1. Fury banning allows creature decks fo exist again.
Yeah it's such a weird argument to claim banning Fury did nothing, just because tokens isn't tier 1. At least convoke, affinity and elves are 500% more viable than they used to be.
There's even some weird people saying the format is worse without Fury lol.
@vulcanh254 it's so dumb those people just want to play Fury. People act like Fury Policed cascade........it did not. I have tokens decks that are viable but my Humans is a million times more playable now. As are the decks you mentioned. Fury was a necessary ban. Is modern still broken? Of course but at least things are more playable.
Idk man im SO excited for cowboys
In my opinion the coverage of pro play is just horrible. As someone in his 30s who watched a lot of esports, especially LoL, WotC is just not investing in this enough. One thing I really hate when watching MtG games is, you don't get to see the hole game. They cut a lot, most notably the end. Often they just cut off and the casters tell you "well, that one guy won.". There is no room for emotions. We don't get to see the player's emotions and we can't have any emotions ourself with all the cuts.
I live in AZ we don't have daylight savings here.
Fair, yall got enough problems over there without DST
Jesus, as if I needed another reason to hate Universes Beyond, now I have to hate how it's going to ruin the primary way I get to engage with the game!? F'ing A!
I was one of those people that left. But I left to play World of Warcraft tcg. But they went and killed it.
It shut down these decks to different tier 2. Yet Titan can kill you in 2 turns. You watch cascade is dead now.
Have you tried searching any written content outside of Reddit these days? It's all AI generated filler, interpolated by ads, other headlines and videos and with no comments/likes to check it's validity
I've watched pro magic a few times over the years, and always kinda been; meh I absolutely could not care less about Competitive MTG. It brings nothing to the table that I care about.
For me it's the same kind of thing as Sports in general, it's sh!7 boring to watch, but I love playing it myself.
To each their own tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I came to magic because of the settings and characters ... now ... it's strayed off too far .. feels like that app battle game with historical figures fighting ..abraham lincon vs mike tyson ...
Written formats died as making videos is so much easier. YT or any other video platform handles all the hassle elements. For written explanations pictures are often needed anyway so why not make video instead. Who has their own website these days? Maintaining a website for maybe 20 views a year for some obscure help compared to just throwing a video on YT you can forget about is an unimaginable difference.
Selling my collection if there’s a card named snake in my boot in thunder junction
Hmu when you do, I’d love to get some cards on the cheap.
TIL his name is "Kai Booty". I've been mispronouncing it for over a decade.
The death of competitive magic is disheartening. Probably the game will still thrive because Commander will always be its own thing...
We have to accept our dear and beloved hobby went away.
The good news is there's a plethora of TCGs being released that care about us. Flesh and Blood, One Piece and Pokemon are great games that I suggest MTG players give it a try.
I think you're missing where the most enfranchised players of other games are going, and it's live streams. I play yugioh, and I can go watch one of the world champions play a meta match up with sideboard while asking question in his chat in real time. You can as nuanced as possible, and you avoid the problem of content getting dated. Frank Karsten's magic articles are some of the greatest card game content of all time and it is truly timeless, but a lot of other content is fundamentally ephemeral. If your side boarding plan changes because violent outburst got banned that article will only matter for 3 months when mh3 changes your side board again. The best magic players don't stream serious matches because it's a competitive disadvantage so mtg will fail to offer anything to the mediocre to good, but not great competitive players.
Caring about the pro tour? Oh god no, 3 decks and some people only 40+++ year olds that never quit MTG know of is just....
Honestly, was really happy you used "X". Stop being boomers
Magic is absolutely too punny at this point. It’s so contrived.
When people don't care about being competitive, I agree that people tend to become less smart. The players have less depth nowadays and it's a bummer.
Lets talk about "smart" real quick.
Do you actually know the difference in probabilities between a 60 card deck and a 250 card deck with the same proportional manabase, in regard to mana flood/mana screw? I'll assume you know that the smaller deck has a better chance of not getting too many or too few lands. But do you know the actual difference between this absolutely massive difference in deck size is, statistically? It's 6 in 10000 games. Mathematically, that's the difference.
How many pro players do you think actually understand that difference? Or is it more likely that they simply "know" that the lower number of cards is mathematically more consistent in general, and don't bother to get in-depth understanding of the game as a result? There's a difference between playing to win and "trying to be competitive". One is how everyone plays non-troll decks even at casual tables, and the other is how morons approach a game they're too stupid to actually understand to begin with.
58:51 The only people I know who ever call it X is boomers making "X, formerly known as twitter" asides. All the zoomers just call it twitter with no pause or confusion.
I didn't know it changed its name at all.
That is a very boomer thing to do. They kept referring to Prince as "The artist formerly known as Prince" when he had his legal name changed. It's a joke they enjoy, because dehumanizing anything that they disagree with is more natural to them than breathing.
I love Mtggoldfish and Seth but to be honest Richard kind of toxic in this video hating on Reid and pro magic without reading article and all the drama for comiting a crime mechanic, when things like morbid, kill, and many other mechanic are kind the same....I really dont know if Richard still likes the game
"You should care about competitive magic because IT MAKES THE GAME WORSE BY EXISTING" is a hilarious lack of self-awareness, and understanding of the game itself.
Ok, but also have you ever tried looking something up and parsing the garbage SEO results? It’s just straight up nonsense. I can at least gauge the useful quality of a video, deem it unhelpful, and find another one while still being on the same platform.
As long as we’re not talking about TikTok which is even more nonsense, in which case yeah give me 3 sentences any day.
Grief?
No it isn't yugioh had a 9000 people tournament in Europe
Almost 1% of the human beings on the planet are mtg players. A truly staggering number. Yugioh was a fad when the current generation of up and coming adults were kids. It never got anywhere close to as popular as MtG. It has a respectable fanbase now, but is only 3rd place on the tcg market.