1:16 "Piccolo, what do call a group of Namekians?" -Gohan "A cornucopia. What the hell kind of question is that? What do you call a group of humans?" -Piccolo "An infestation." -Mr. Popo
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the creature type errata that happened in Magic, which is what lead to the huge amount of human creatures. A bit of back history in the case people are interested, the game at one point had a bunch of lesser creature types and cards that just said “summon creature” so WoTC would retroactively errata them to fit into specific creature types. In total something like 1200 cards were changed
I read somthing about them changing a punch of creatures that just said soldier or warrior ro human warrior and human soldier. What your talking about is super interesting! Like I say the comment section is where my videos shine! Thanks
@@NicksLotus I make it seem really simple, but it was actually a big deal at one point. If you’re really interested then Harrison the Manadork has a video going over the history of it. On a side note I think you two would actually work pretty well together on a collab
The points you made throughout the video naturally led me to thinking what a set without humans would look like. Then of course I remembered that Bloomburrow is comimg and it's been presented to the public as a set where there will be no humans whatsoever. However, I thought about how all the animals in it are going to be anthropomorphic and I remembered what I commented on another video of yours recently. About how in fiction where fantasy beings are presented in a slice of life setting those creatures are basically reskinned humans. And I think this is exactly what Bloomburrow is going to feel like. We'll get a bunch of Fox Warriors or Mouse Soldiers or Frog Wizards and Rabbit Clerics etc. typically human archetypes...
Exceptional video. I also have been quite tired of wading through the muck of humans, just to find an inspired race or species in Magic, especially as of the last five or so years.
as a consolation Bloomburrow has been confirmed to be a setting with no human. though that makes me worry the story might end up being "WHERE ARE THE HUMANS?!"
Why have I not seen your channel before? I really like this kind of closer look at mtg design and flavour, already subscribed to a handful of other creators, but always room for more. There are a couple of planes where humans are on the "losing end", even if wizards are not good at showing it. Outside of the planes that was mentioned in the video, Amonkhet and Tarkir are standouts.
I heard this about zombies, "they are like the blue collar monster," and i think humans are like in mtg, they do the grunt work and get things done, but arent supposed to be interesting.
Great video! I agree with how lackluster humans have been recently, and that they need a change. I think Bloomburrow is a step in the right direction. I want like a cactus plant human in Thunder Junction. THAT could be super sweet!
Humans were the main enemy in Ikoria. Also the first human pre con comander deck was introduced. I have a lot of Human theme decks. In fantasy humans are always known to be extremely adaptable and jack of all trades. I always liked the innistrad humans the most.
10:30 or so Human could tinker with KNOWLEDGE Let me explain Dimir-like could see random cards among opponet hand and/or decks, them discard them / exile / steal / lock. ("Lock" == Azorius) Izzet-like could timker woth artifacts creating a single artifact token BUT with BOTH all text-boxes combined AND some additional keyword / abilities. Simic and / or Selesnya: they could grow better non-artifact creatures, by eithrr combining them like Izzet or simply raising them with improved / new abilities... Like a biologist, like a DNA tinkerer Orzhov - like: they could "exile target creature in your graveyard and create a 1/1 white Spirit token with flying., except it has the same text box and as the exiled card as long as the latter stays exiled. If the exiled card is no longer exiled, sacrifice this token." Golgari: a mix between Simic, Izzet and Orzhov: reanimate a creature by merging it with another one already on the battlefield, woth both downsides and upsides. Im getting repetitive, yeah, but ehat could you do with "tinkering with the Death and the knowledge of how things live and gets recycled"? WAIT ..... animate lands ... with corpses kn graveyard... MUH-AH-AH-AH ! Boros-like: ... Banding? But "band and all creatures in a band has the following abilities: A, B, C, ..." ? That's a hellish idea ... My soul is damned Im missing gruul, rakdos (sadism will never be as fun [and +1/+1 or -1/-1 proliferating] as ever),
Human Devil would be Tiefling? But a huge problem I have with humans is that they make the worlds generic. Human politics, human structures, human stories... any world were humans dominate which is 99% of Magic it takes away from the wonder and exploration, cause humans are already there. Lorwyn is amazing because there are no humans! My favorite world Alara is great because: 1. On Esper humans are essentially puppets. 2. On Jund, Grixis, and Naya humans struggle to even exist. 3. On Bant, the most favorable shard for humans they're hardly even middle-class and they fall in rank. Humans don't control these worlds in the slightest. We get cool concepts like Ikoria a world of monsters... and sadly the whole narrative is just humans. Ixalan... and its dominated by humans, dinosaurs are their pets... :^) ugggh. The "Planeswalker MCU" is also a huge issue with this, I really don't care about planeswalker/super-human dominated stories, its bad enough humans dominate the worlds I don't need them to also be Gary Stus and Mary Sues. :^)
Love the video, please turn the music down a notch next time. I love humans so I would love some more expensive ones, that do pack a serious punch, but I also love the fantasy of low power creatures teaming up to take their opponents down. I think warhammer made humans extremely cool nad if they were to go against that fantasy or embrace it would be pretty cool.
Now I might argue that a Dragon in human form is a kind of reversable true polymorph, and for all physiological purposes Goddric is a human when he's in human form, and it's not some kind of illusion or glamer at work. Question. Given that humans are apes, are elves also apes?
There are wayyyy too many different elves :^( Imo we could eliminate all the elves except the Giltleaf/Safehold elves of Lorwyn and the game would be a 100x better. xD
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6:05 We do have the Human devil, it's just that he's a Planeswalker & also dead
1:16
"Piccolo, what do call a group of Namekians?" -Gohan
"A cornucopia. What the hell kind of question is that? What do you call a group of humans?" -Piccolo
"An infestation." -Mr. Popo
Dangggg!
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the creature type errata that happened in Magic, which is what lead to the huge amount of human creatures. A bit of back history in the case people are interested, the game at one point had a bunch of lesser creature types and cards that just said “summon creature” so WoTC would retroactively errata them to fit into specific creature types. In total something like 1200 cards were changed
I read somthing about them changing a punch of creatures that just said soldier or warrior ro human warrior and human soldier. What your talking about is super interesting! Like I say the comment section is where my videos shine! Thanks
@@NicksLotus I make it seem really simple, but it was actually a big deal at one point. If you’re really interested then Harrison the Manadork has a video going over the history of it. On a side note I think you two would actually work pretty well together on a collab
Werebear was originally printed decades ago and it's hard to change old stuff without affecting new stuff a lot.
The points you made throughout the video naturally led me to thinking what a set without humans would look like.
Then of course I remembered that Bloomburrow is comimg and it's been presented to the public as a set where there will be no humans whatsoever.
However, I thought about how all the animals in it are going to be anthropomorphic and I remembered what I commented on another video of yours recently. About how in fiction where fantasy beings are presented in a slice of life setting those creatures are basically reskinned humans.
And I think this is exactly what Bloomburrow is going to feel like. We'll get a bunch of Fox Warriors or Mouse Soldiers or Frog Wizards and Rabbit Clerics etc. typically human archetypes...
Lorowyn/shadowmoor also had no humans
I built a human/voltron deck around Kellan the Fae-blooded, and its been one of my favorite decks ive built so far.
Exceptional video. I also have been quite tired of wading through the muck of humans, just to find an inspired race or species in Magic, especially as of the last five or so years.
as a consolation Bloomburrow has been confirmed to be a setting with no human. though that makes me worry the story might end up being "WHERE ARE THE HUMANS?!"
"Humans" are on Bloomburrow, we've already seen Jace the Fox...
At least we have lorowyn
I feel bad for the spider and insect types.
This vid is great but can you please turn down the background music 😭
Music is a bit too loud. Just feedback
I agree , its been bugging me. Next time music will be quieter
Why have I not seen your channel before? I really like this kind of closer look at mtg design and flavour, already subscribed to a handful of other creators, but always room for more.
There are a couple of planes where humans are on the "losing end", even if wizards are not good at showing it. Outside of the planes that was mentioned in the video, Amonkhet and Tarkir are standouts.
I heard this about zombies, "they are like the blue collar monster," and i think humans are like in mtg, they do the grunt work and get things done, but arent supposed to be interesting.
I do think there should be werewolves, they should just human and wolf. Just agreeing that does make it more interesting
Great video! I agree with how lackluster humans have been recently, and that they need a change. I think Bloomburrow is a step in the right direction. I want like a cactus plant human in Thunder Junction. THAT could be super sweet!
i think goddric, cloaked reveler is a human noble in the same way the morph and disguise mechanic make their cards typeless
Even that would have been cooler to me! No creature type! Why? Oh he must be in 🥸
Humans were the main enemy in Ikoria. Also the first human pre con comander deck was introduced. I have a lot of Human theme decks. In fantasy humans are always known to be extremely adaptable and jack of all trades. I always liked the innistrad humans the most.
lorwyn had good worldbuilding without humans
You should lower the volume of the music, it's unnecessarly hard to understand what you're saying
EVERY SINGLE SONG DUDE
I think hellrider should be errata'd to devil pilot, but that's me.
10:30 or so
Human could tinker with KNOWLEDGE
Let me explain
Dimir-like could see random cards among opponet hand and/or decks, them discard them / exile / steal / lock. ("Lock" == Azorius)
Izzet-like could timker woth artifacts creating a single artifact token BUT with BOTH all text-boxes combined AND some additional keyword / abilities.
Simic and / or Selesnya: they could grow better non-artifact creatures, by eithrr combining them like Izzet or simply raising them with improved / new abilities... Like a biologist, like a DNA tinkerer
Orzhov - like: they could "exile target creature in your graveyard and create a 1/1 white Spirit token with flying., except it has the same text box and as the exiled card as long as the latter stays exiled. If the exiled card is no longer exiled, sacrifice this token."
Golgari: a mix between Simic, Izzet and Orzhov: reanimate a creature by merging it with another one already on the battlefield, woth both downsides and upsides.
Im getting repetitive, yeah, but ehat could you do with "tinkering with the Death and the knowledge of how things live and gets recycled"?
WAIT
..... animate lands ... with corpses kn graveyard... MUH-AH-AH-AH !
Boros-like: ... Banding? But "band and all creatures in a band has the following abilities: A, B, C, ..." ?
That's a hellish idea ... My soul is damned
Im missing gruul, rakdos (sadism will never be as fun [and +1/+1 or -1/-1 proliferating] as ever),
Watched this thinking it had waaay more views than it did! Good work!
I really appreciate that , its my first go at some longer form stuff. Thanks
Goddric already costs 3 and letting it work with the Dragon tribal support is busted.
Well, humans are also an extremely powerful creature type, and they don't even care about Goddrick
Like how theres goblin zombies but not human zombies. I think humans would be too powerfull unless they did the werewolf thing with it
Human Devil would be Tiefling? But a huge problem I have with humans is that they make the worlds generic. Human politics, human structures, human stories... any world were humans dominate which is 99% of Magic it takes away from the wonder and exploration, cause humans are already there. Lorwyn is amazing because there are no humans! My favorite world Alara is great because: 1. On Esper humans are essentially puppets. 2. On Jund, Grixis, and Naya humans struggle to even exist. 3. On Bant, the most favorable shard for humans they're hardly even middle-class and they fall in rank. Humans don't control these worlds in the slightest.
We get cool concepts like Ikoria a world of monsters... and sadly the whole narrative is just humans. Ixalan... and its dominated by humans, dinosaurs are their pets... :^) ugggh.
The "Planeswalker MCU" is also a huge issue with this, I really don't care about planeswalker/super-human dominated stories, its bad enough humans dominate the worlds I don't need them to also be Gary Stus and Mary Sues. :^)
VERY
well said! My word soup was attempting to get a similar point across. Lorwyn is hands down fav set
This
It's 30 years old. Classes are legally types but it's different.
im kinda pumped for bloomburrow. i hope they dont fudge it
Love your lore idea
Love the video, please turn the music down a notch next time.
I love humans so I would love some more expensive ones, that do pack a serious punch, but I also love the fantasy of low power creatures teaming up to take their opponents down. I think warhammer made humans extremely cool nad if they were to go against that fantasy or embrace it would be pretty cool.
100% can do. My mixing needs work XD , thank you for responding!
Now I might argue that a Dragon in human form is a kind of reversable true polymorph, and for all physiological purposes Goddric is a human when he's in human form, and it's not some kind of illusion or glamer at work.
Question. Given that humans are apes, are elves also apes?
These are the questions we need to be asking!
Depends on the world
Hey cool video but incredibly hard to listen to bc of the loud background music
Common complaint , consider the next one 100% improved, thank you for the feedback my man 💪
I hope the sci fi set has little to no humans in it.
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Ikoria would be a good set to develop a human minority. My human deck is Trynn and Silvar so I can't exactly say I'm upset with all the options.
I'll say that theyre atleast a little more varied than elves.
That is fair enough actually
There are wayyyy too many different elves :^( Imo we could eliminate all the elves except the Giltleaf/Safehold elves of Lorwyn and the game would be a 100x better. xD
@@DigitalinDaniel I don't tend to support genocide, even for fantasy races
You're thinking about it like DnD. MTG is not DnD. It can't be.
It was literally invented as stripped down DND.
You want to play DND. Do so and enjoy it.
bro, please tune down your background music.
It's apart of the export on this unfortunatly its all my music, but consider it turned down on the next upload! Thank you for the feedback my guy
Wizards puts no thought or passion into the story anymore. If you’ve read any of the “stories”, they’re written like a fanfiction off wattpad.
Human > Other stuff