A Guide To Dice, Tokens, and other MTG Gaming Accessories for Magic: The Gathering
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Keeping track of your life total, as well as the life total of your opponent, is a critically important task for Magic: The Gathering. So too is tracking power and toughness changes to any creatures under your control, as well as counters that may be placed on those creatures, or tokens put into play by spells you control.
In order to facilitate this, there are many Magic: The Gathering life pads, tokens, counters and dice offered by many different companies. This video will examine some of the accessories from Turn 1 Games, the made for Magic Tarmogoyf Power/Toughness dice from both Chimera Craft and Tiny Tokens, as well as the LifeCalc from Legion.
Which of these are high quality, which are low, which are needed and which aren’t? Let’s take a look!
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I'm not a magic player, or even looking for these products. But I love how high quality his production is. Always well dressed, good editing, and he has such a nice calm personality.
2 years late on a reply, but I've recently stumbled upon this man's content and just _adore_ his diction. Been combing all his TCG accessory reviews over the last while (I play Yu-Gi-Oh! casually) and I've really liked what I've seen. Presentation is next level with these videos!
Play mtg it’s amazing
Honestly dude. This man is a godsend to the community
@@CyberDragon10K me too! A friend showed me this sleeves videos when I was first getting into Yugioh, and has educated me on products I would want to use for my cards.
I would like to start playing MTG but, don’t know where to start haha
"... this is take 3. Had some lighting issues..." - this whole show is so great, entertaining and human. LOVING IT
Got it fixed faster than I expected. This is the FIXED version of this video. What was changed? No, it wasn't my incorrect pronunciation of chimera, something I have been willfully doing since 4th grade.
In the demonstration of the Turn One Gaming tokens, I accidentally used a wet erase marker and not a dry erase marker. I want to stress that this only happened when I filmed the demonstration, and I used dry erase markers all throughout testing these tokens. Nonetheless, this made the video look much more dramatic in terms of how much ink comes off with a paper towel, and just how much gets on your fingers. My apologies for this error.
My comments, evaluation, and grade remain unchanged. You can still see in this video (although not quite as dramatically as the last) that you still don't get a perfect wipe with dry erase, and I still maintain that you should not be using markers, even dry erase markers, anywhere near your magic cards.
Tolarian Community College I had noticed that you had used a wet erase, but still got the point in the previous video. Good job correcting this, but the point still stands, dry erase and wet erase have no place near my foil Liliana.
Tolarian Community College i think the tokens were upside down... not that there's anything wrong with that.
Tolarian Community College Thanks for all that dedication to video quality professor! Couldn't stop laughing when you started smacking the counter on the the table.
Austin Bishop Bingo.
Tolarian Community College You could be the greatest TH-camr of all time. So professional and personable. I don't even play Magic but I love your videos if only from an appreciative perspective. Doing an amendment like this just makes me like you more.
"Its just some fried chicken and hamburgers" - The Professor
Best quote ever.
WHY DID YOU DRAW ON THE CARDS UPSIDE DOWN
3:09 PROFESSOR! Me and my sis LITERALLY found that chest thing for sale in a dollarama store for $1.95 CAD!!!! That thing being sold for $10 US is the biggest ripoff ever!
Life Counter Alternatives - A D20, a pen and paper, a free mobile app.
Counter Alternatives - A D6 or just any small item you have lying around.
Tokens - This one is kind of a bind, but you can just represent the stats of a token with two dice on an empty board. Or just bring the token you need from a booster and put counters on it if needed. Or yeah. Just use paper.
Calvin Sears my lads and I just use pennies as counters, since we have a glass bowl full of paper clips, pens, and pennies. We just pulled out all the pennies and just use those.
For tokens as dice I usally put them on an up side down card (an token card, or a card from an other deck sleeved with different sleeves) so you can tap them
I use tokens that I have already and just flip my tokens over and then put dice on them to indicate power and toughness
For counters I quite like putting the countering card under the card its effecting. This is also handy if the card adds another effect or something like that
Could you make a video on proper shuffling especially for post-game when your mana and creatures are all in clumps?
Just move around the individual cards from clumps. Then continue to shuffle until you feel satisfied.
To avoid clumping after a game i take all the mana i used and lay it out, then evenly put all the non mana i used on top of each land, then put those little sets on tip of the deck and shuffle... That usually keeps it from clumping.
I mean you could just shuffle by picking up all your cards and going card by card putting each in 10 different piles then shuffle the piles together. That would be very thorough
@@johndavis8746 i do 8 piles, making sure to lay them out in a circular motion rather than left-to-right, then shuffle piles 1 and 5, 4 and 8, 2 and 6, and 3 and 7 together, pile those up in a random order, cut into thirds putting the top in the middle and the middle on top, then shuffle that once.
it sounds complicated written down but i have it down to where it takes maybe 30 seconds and reliably gets even a fully sorted deck properly shuffled.
Picked up my Lifecalc from Legion at GP Vegas and have been using it for every casual 1v1 game since, I love it.
after using Darien, king of kjord as my commander for a while, just keeping one token card with some dice to represent the amount of them is VERY, VERY useful.
Honestly with the dry erase tokens, just use the wet erase markers, same ones you use on a D&D battle mat. They wash of clean and easy. I think those tokens are a great idea!
Professor, you're left handed? Good to see another lefty like myself.
Zeetro Go lefty's
GrumpyJedi yeah leftys
Lefty's assemble!!
DaBoss just a righty comment passing through
Same
Home made dry erase solution:
Get a blank card of some kind, sleeve it, draw on it with a good quality dry erase marker, and it wipes off effortlessly with no residue.
That product leaves so much residue because either the card surface is porous, and/or the marker is poor quality.
A good dry erase marker has alcohol ink that evaporates on the surface and leaves behind dry powder pigment.
My problem with the Life Calc is the same as with a lot of other options (including dice). Inevitably someone will miss a life loss/life gain and you will have to figure out whether it was you or your opponent who messed up. A simple pen and paper solves this problem. "Oh, I missed when you played that fetchland at 19, you should be at 18 now."
I make my own custom foil tokens. They're fun to play with. As for counters, I typically just use dice. I am interested in the electronic life counter though. It would fit nicely in my MtG toolbox (literally a toolbox I keep my stuff in).
watching this 8 years later, and the prof talking about a phone being $300, what a time
Those dry erase tokens would actually be very useful for clone shenanigans :3 Riku appreciates that
I think it'd be fun to be in your class. You have a way of being extremely entertaining to watch, even when doing something that seems mundane like reviewing boxes :)
You, sir, are amazing. I just started playing magic and you're making so many good points, I can't even count them. I know that this is an older video, but I haven't found one yet that I didn't like! Keep up the good work!!!
I really like the Lifecalc. My local store got them in a couple months ago and were selling them for $10 a piece. I use it constantly, and it was worth every penny.
Funny coming back to this seeing how much you praise infinitokens
Interesting review, I didn't know there are dice specifically designed for Tarmogoyf, let alone multiple different ones.
I always assumed players would just figure out its current P/T themselves, as it is self-evident as opposed to creatures that grow through actual counters like Arcbound Ravanger.
Using them also means constantly having to change it (searching for the right side) - and possibly even mislead your opponent (or yourself) by forgetting to adapt the dice.
In my humble opinion, that makes both of those products act in the exact opposite of what it's supposed to do, i.e. act as a convenience.
even though I don't play mtg I find your videos very entertaining, I feel if u extended your channel to other popular games u will grow very fast
The dry erase token would be a fun idea. But I think they would work better as a prescription pad style where you could just tear 1 off and use a pencil to draw on them.
At 7:45 The dry erase card demonstration. Just wanted to say if someone doesn't know, hand-sani, medical-grade alcohol or isopropanol works really well with getting dry erase off. However, even though the pens say dry erase some of that chemical color content has the potential to penetrate or leech into material of it is porous.
Visiting this video from 2021 and noting the “sometimes $300” smartphone reference at 10:06 😂
The one big problem I would find with the lifecalc would be that I rarely just do one v ones and am usually playing with a larger group. But otherwise looks like a great product.
I got a Legion Lifecalc from my LCS today for $10, so I think I came out pretty well. I play almost exclusively Commander, so life totals tend to go all over the place, and I was just about to buy ten bucks worth of D10s when I realized that I could just buy one of these and save a lot of space in my deck box. One of these plus a couple of spindowns for Commander damage are enough to get me through most games.
I do love the life Calc. what I love most is when my opponent on FNM puts away their dice and asks if they could use it as well during our match.
Chimera is pronounced with a K sound like in School rather than an SH sound. And thanks for going over these options. I particularly like the tokens that you can write on. The dice were meh as were the food tokens.
That treasure box can be bought (unpainted) at Hobby Lobby for ~$4.
Professor! You're using the dry erase tokens upside down! The little box that you're showing at the top is for power/toughness.
An updated version of this would get SOOO many views.
Another really good way to keep track of things like life count, opponents hands after a thought seize or any info is a Boogie Board. It is basically a dry erase board but without need for a special marker or cleaner as well as it cannot be smudged like dry erase. It uses a stylus to write so if u lose the one that comes with it u can anything to write. It's s lil expensive but it has paid its 10$ off for me many fold
I use those dry erase tokens. one of the best purchases I've ever made, i have none of the issues mentioned in the video
Good timing in finding your videos! I am getting back into magic since stopping back in Planar Chaos and just wanted information on cards and even accessories and on all counts you are incredibly informative. Thank you! I couldn't subscribe harder if I wanted to haha.
I started playing Magic a month ago and your videos are awesome!
I love the idea of those dry erase tokens, im getting a set as soon as I have some spare cash.
why?
TRUMPED BITCH it’s his choice. Don’t insult his intelligence just because he has a different opinion
Simon Meadows because he likes them
I only played MTG briefly, and not anymore, but I love all the accessories and accoutrements
For counters, I tend to use cones from Talisman board game. You can stack them and they don't take much space on the card.
The only problem is, I have a limited amount of them :P
your english is so easy to understand, even for a non native speaker likem me. I like!
Professor, I was surprised to hear a recommendation of a life point counter from you. I fully expected to hear an endorsement of a pad of paper and a pen over it. Is there any reason you didn't mention it? Do you feel that the calculator is actually easier?
Forgive me if they have changed this, but in a life total dispute a judge is supposed to go with a written history if one is available. A judge gave me this info when he saw me using the (no longer available and generally terrible) official MTG app to track life totals. He recommended always using a piece of scratch paper or a notepad to track life totals for this reason.
Regardless of what's wet or dry, my chicken tokens better taste like chicken for 25 bucks! :)
Pro of the dry erase marker tokens:
If a new set comes out, you can draw a couple of these in advance and use em right away. You don't need to fumble around while playing. The upside is the reusability.
Con to the lifecounter:
You said it in another video of yours. You can't backtrack like you can with Pen&Paper.
Professor fyi adhesive remover works really well for cleaning off dry erase marker. We use it at my work to clean the boards after they get too dirty. I know it's not a name brand. It just says "Adhesive Remover" on it.
Professor your integrity never ceases to amaze me:)
Love the quality of these videos
I come from wargamming (Warhammer and Kings of War mostly) and role-playing, so I have several sets of dice (including sets of D6 in every color you could think of, and a few more), so my need for counters are covered. I also have some sets of translucent diamond-like counters in several colors... so far I've used the yellow ones as Energy counters and the transparent / white ones as trigger reminders (on some decks I've tried, several abilities can trigger at once, and resolving some of them can trigger additional abilities, and so on, so any help at keeping track of them is welcome).
When it comes to tokens, for anything I can think of in advance, all I need is Magic Set Editor and my trusty printer. I even have some pseudo-tokens with "triggered ability" or "temporal effect" in their type lines that help a lot in keeping track of "until end of turn" effects. If I play a deck using "variable" tokens (I built a Hydra Broodmaster deck when Theros was in Standard), I can print some "blank" token templates in thicker paper and use a pencil and eraser for them.
IMO, as far as dice are concerned (which can also work as counters), loot at RPG stores. When it comes to dice, nobody takes that more seriously that RPG players and game masters. And, for tokens, either a desktop printer or good old pen & paper get the job done.
Last, but not least, for tracking life totals, nothing beats pen & paper. With that, you not only keep track of current totals, but also any changes that has happened throughout the game. If something ever gets missed, it's easier to go back, spot the exact point of the mistake, and redo the numbers from there.
I have the dry erase token cards and can honestly say that I have had no issues with them. Everything comes off at the end of a game and the markers I use work well for the surface. The professor may have just had a marker that was poorly made since some dry erase markers will always leave behind residue.
I wish there was a guy like you for yugioh tcg
Dear Prof,
I was wondering what it would take for the Legion LifeCalc to get the solid A rating from you.
Thank you
PS, love your videos! So many good things I've learned and products I've bought after you demonstrated the quality (like KMC sleeves)
Probably commander damage, infect, an option for a higher amount of players, or even a lower price.
Cameron Hendricks All of those.
ajsflittte
Tolarian Community College can you do a review on booster packs? Not the booster boxes, but the packs
I wish someone would review the old Duelist abacus life counters. I have
one of the originals form way back in the day and nobody seems to
remember them.
10:22 Savage, Prof!
Damn, those food counters aged pretty damn well
Unfortunately the Lifecalc doesn't keep track of changes so it's not really useable in competitive play. Still great for casual though.
The age of this video really only shows when he mentions a $300 phone
You beat that Lifecalc, Prof!
1. How do you accidentally swipe your phone of the table?
2. Why would it break, you should have a case on your phone if it's "$300"
3. It really doesn't drain the battery that much to just have a still screen open. (and if you buy "lifecalc" the. Your gonna have to go buy those special circle batteries eventually so just charge your phone most of those apps are free and easy to use)
Wish tokens had easier support for the more esoteric ones. I guess the best we can do still is print out our own and sleeve them as proxies if we really want a cheap and clean look.
I have made a 12k Mycoloth making 12k tokens every turn. How would keep track of those? Here is my deck. Also advice is appreciated on how the deck is made.
Deck List:
Creatures
4 Mycoloth
4 Overgrown Battlement
4 Tukatongue Thallid
2 Sporecrown Thallid
2 Psychotrope Thallid
2 Tendershoot Dryad
Artifacts
4 Altar of the Brood
2 Helm of the Host
Sorcery
4 Fertile Imagination
2 Nature's Spiral
2 Nissa's Pilgrimage
Instant
2 Druid's Deliverance
2 Sprout Swarm
Enchantment
4 Parallel Lives
Land
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
4 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
15 Forest
I'm new at the game and this is going to help me a Lot! Thank you !
1:10 My creatures really could have used these when my opponent played an infinite turn deck at my last FNM. They're HUNGRY! They're THIRSTY!! But as you mentioned, these things are expensive. I wish you could choose how many you want of each.
One tip for counters is just go to your bank and withdraw 1 or 2 dollars in pennies. Some might be corroded, if thats the case, just soak them in vinegar for a few hours
I use pages from a tiny notepad as custom tokens. Works just as well (actually better) than those dry erase tokens, and you get a notepad full of tokens for almost nothing.
You should make a Arena of the Planeswalkers review or tutorial because the rules are complex.
For tracking my monsters stats i use 2 regular dice (switch to d20 if the stat exceeds 6) and a d20 for counters.
Another wonderful video Prof! I am debating to get the life calculator as it seems to be the only useful item you reviewed!
Only a 300$ sometimes device, what a world we lived in, now you're lucky to find a device under 900$ if not 1400$.... Soon they'll be going for 800k like some black Lotus cards....
nice video, this information isnt really available anywhere else! I do like to play sleevless tho.
Ahhh, the days when a super high end phone was only $300. Fast forward 3 years and we get the 1300 iPhone XS Max or whatever it’s called
No high end smartphone has ever been $300. The original iPhone started at 600 with subscription, so about 1000 bucks, and was then lowered in price quickly to 200 with subscription, or about 600 bucks. The flagships have always been (starting at) 600+ since, both from Apple and Samsung, slowly creeping up in price toward 800 until the past year or two where the top end is now at 1000-1500 ish.
There was of course the Oneplus One, which was very good and reasonably high end for $300, but it didn’t match the 600 buck flagships of the time entirely.
Legion Life Calc is pretty cool. It just needs to be solar powered and add a poison counter.
0:25 Art Gallery Level Work :)
Very nice video professor.
Totally love the lifecalc!
Oh my god I laughed like an idiot at the re-filmed segment with the dry erase marker
I think it's kinda amusing how he spoke down on the dry erase tokens, but they've become a great boon for webcam play.
shipping charges by weight, not size. it doesn't matter how big the box is, as long as it only contains bubble wrap and one die it should be cheap.
After going back and watching this... The food counters would be PERFECT for Food tokens come Throne of Eldrane!!
Ha! 'Viewers like you.' PBS FTW! Who knew the public broadcasting model would pay for a guy to make MTG videos. THE FUTURE!
Keep up the good work. Great videos.
In what concerns to tokens, I simply googled the tokens I usually need in my decks and I printed several copies of them. This way, immersion in my games are not ruined.
Yeah im thinking to do this and just get them laminated
If you live in Japan, nearby Pokemon Center sells acryllic damage counter for less than $10.
Does the dice come with a Tarmogoyf at least?
SmugLookingBarrel
that would be an extremely good deal. it would be worth $115 for $13. no, it doesn't.
Dwyanes World in kingsport tn sells blank dice for pocket change that you can mod!
By the way, Professor, the dry-erase tokens you were writing on were upside-down. :) The little bow is where you write power levels and such :)
Just wanted to tell you!
Those beer counters would work well for playing a UN set.
My LGS sells the life calculator for 6-10 dollars. I believe that's a major win.
Hello professor! Could you do a review on the new SCG Insiders? They really caught my eye because they were cheap, and SCG branded. I don't know what that means in quality though, and would like to save the little bits of money I do have.
Loving your videos! You have saved me quite a large chunk of money from things I would've bought, keep it up!
On the token cards, why don't u juste write the 1/1 on the square that is made for this ? Cool video !
The treasure chest boxes can be found in dollar stores usually.
You can get a MUCH bigger treasure chest from Michaels for $2.99! Plus its unstained so you can go crazy personalizing it.
Such a helpful video, professor!
When you were hitting the calc: Ow, ow, ow, ow, ouch!!!
Hot hippos, I'm going to need one of those Legion LifeCalcs! Thanks big time, professor!
I have a tip is at target the have in the game section a giant tube of dice for ten bucks and you really never have to get dice agian
My issue with the lifecalc is commander. While you can quite easily get to 40, commander is almost always multi-player, meaning you'll have more than 2 players.
Astrid Whiteside each player could have one of these and use 1 side for life and the ither for commander damage
Nice, food token for my Witch's Oven
With the smashing on the table I was more worried about your table
What's the highest Tarmogopf can get? Isn't it 7/8 from land, creature, artifact, enchantment, instant, sorcery, and planeswalker? If so, then Chimera Craft's Tarmogopf's D6 die seems a bit lacking.
Legions Lifecalc seems decent as an cost/risk effective proxy to the smart phone & MtG app, but it doesn't overcome the pen & paper's ultimate advantage that is pseudo-memory of life total changes. That's the next step that is needed to take such devices to the next level.
Am I right?
naejin 8/9 Land, Creature, Artifact, Enchantment, Instant, Sorcery, Planeswalker, Tribal. But that said in most games of Modern and Legacy it only really goes up to a 5/6. If you watch a star city stream they use a d6 for there Tarmo-Dice. I really think the dice is the best product out of all of them.
I think the life counter is cool but since moving to more competitive magic I find just pen and paper is better.... and it is cheap.
No. 8/9. Because tribal IS A subtype too. Otherwise else is fine. 😀
naejin And if somehow you get a Conspiracy into the graveyard, it can become a 9/10 but that is impossible
22freedom33 Would an emblem count as well if it was possible to put into the graveyard?
Dunhilina good question,but the short answer is No.
The long answer is that am `Emble` is not a card or card type, it can be found in card form shure, but like a token, you could use anything to remind players of its existence, like a token once again.
A `conspiracy` is a card type, it is printed as a conspiracy and can only be played if you have the physical copy or proxy of it.
There is a whole page of information dealing with this in the Wizards site back when Conspiracy was revealed and they do a better job ecxplaining it than me.
I think that the grade given to the Tarmogoyl dice is really more of a refoection of expensive shapeways is. If you were to get someone local to print one for you, I can't see it costing much more than a dollar or two :/ Heck, the material cost shouldn't be more than 10 cents in filament cost.
The legion lifecalc is for sale on amazon for $9.62+$3.99 shipping yeah price drops!