I love this specific sort of speculation so much that I hereby propose that the act of pairing mtg characters and most promising actors to portray them, should become...umm...a thing, perhaps even the premise of a regular weekly podcast, made both for and by members of the mtg community. It would be known Double Casting (obviously) with the podcast suggested thus being dubbed The Double Cast.
Have you or any of your family, houses, towns, major cities or continents been devoured by Emrakul? No? Then I guess Emrakul must be bound, most likely in the moon.
Another cool addition would be the band, "The Acacia Strain". They're pretty adamant about being fans, have a song called Doomblade, and talk about Wizards actually sending them some cards while on tour once. It's really cool!
A few on the list are speculated. I disliked the speculated people but enjoyed the actual confirmed. Most were easily confirmed if you watch Geek and Sundry.
One of the things Seth Rogen did was look through his pockets for something (I believe it may have been notes for his monologue), when he pulls out a folded piece of paper, grumbles to himself "card ideas for Magic..." (or something like that). It's been 4 years since this vid came out, so it might be online now. Go check Hulu, as one can watch old episodes of SNL on it.
Season 33 episode 2 is the Seth Rogan hosting episode. And it's available for streaming on hulu if you are interested. Little late to post on this video, but you could appease any personal curiosities
I'm not sure WHO played on the show Home Improvement, but in quite a few epsidoes you can see Magic cards glued/taped on Zachery Ty Bryan's desk so obviously someone invloved with the show knew how to play/use to play.
How could you not have Blake from Workaholics on here? They literally had MtG as a plot device in one of their episodes and included references to MtG in their Wizards rap music video.
Saul Rubinek, the actor that plays in Warehouse 13 and the lawyer in Seinfield also plays Magic The Gathering, because I saw him at a Magic Pre Release and he try to trade with me long long ago.
To add to Chris Kluwe playing, a few years ago Vikings posted a video on their site of him teaching Adrian Peterson to play and Adrian seemed genuinely interested on learning. I'm not sure if he still does or not now that Chris isnt with the Vikings anymore.
Fun video, I did a double take when I saw some of these names, Same with D&D FYI I would love to see you make a deck around Rise from the Tides. Made a fun little burn deck with this for kitchen table magic and thinking of adding Aberrant Researcher for goofy fun. Cards a bomb late game ^_^
Dang man, I really appreciate the videos. They definitely shine a light on how cool Magic is. It's super refreshing for old jaded players who need a bit of perspective on the game. Just got some Sorins! Going to build some black white control.
Dev, you are the only celebrity we need! thanks for posting the video but sometimes I think it's kind of a shame that we need to feel like we share our hobbies with "cool" people.
How can you not mention Cassius Marsh, not only is it completely unexpected that an NFL p;ayer to not only be an avid MTG player but a pretty good one at that. He is a huge commander fan and is on the command zone a lot
Ah. I thought you were trying to trigger nerds by implying the movie characters were ripoffs of those planeswalkers, when in reality the Warcraft characters were created earlier. Mb
Dude just subbed ! Gotta say your missing probably one of the coolest celebs .... He was in SLC Punk.... Mr. Matthew Lilliard ! He plays mtg and posts about it on Instagram ! What would be sweet is if you can interview some of these celebs somehow about they're favorite decks or combos etc ... Word !
Basically, the guy who is the embodiment of "look guise, i am very smart and nerdy lol" plays the official "look guise, i am very smart and nerdy lol" game. He even might have invented mtg for all we know.
I was at a tournament once, legacy I think, I forget where, and on the pairings I saw Rebel Wilson listed. I didn't see her, but how many Rebel Wilsons can there be?
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... You should totally try to play these people in magic and make a video of you guys playing... Kinda like spellslingers... Especially against Seth rogen.
You don't have to like Wesley Crusher to like Wil Wheaton. That was one of many roles, and in some you may like him, and in others you may hate him (sometimes even by design, lol)- but that is just the role that he is playing. Anyone who is smart enough to separate the actor from the character knows not to hate the actor because they hated one character. And yeah, when he is not playing a character, he seems like a generally nice dude (although one could argue that we are all always playing a role, or the character of ourselves, but that could extra confusing, as Wil Wheaton has played fictional characters named Wil Wheaton on a couple of shows; so yeah, its extra confusing to consider that the actual, day-to-day, real-life husband and father Wil Wheaton is just playing a character/role of himself).
Hahaha that's funny, I just taught my friend Magic, introduced him to it, and he's a huge Firefly nerd. He's gonna freak out when I show him this vid :D
I feel like this list is missing Hunter Pence. There's something cool to me about a World Series winning athlete who recently tweeted a picture of him and his buddies playing MTG for his bachelor party.
I submit to the internet that the speculative act of pairing a character in MtG with the actor most potentially promising in portraying them should be known among the community by a term that (unless someone beat me to it) I've literally come to coin mere moments ago: Double Casting. The floor is now open for discussion and debate. Furthermore, would you (yes, you!) be excited by this concept serving as the premise of a weekly podcast?
We begin with (what else of course?) the ultimate tale of sibling rivalry. One which very much like its own protagonist would come to transcend the very dimensional boundaries of Dominaria itself and pass into not merely myriad planes of the multiverse but indeed the realm of legend and myth, becoming known simply as...The Brothers' War. I shall open with the obvious and inextricable package deal. In the respective roles of the titular Urza and Mishra, I can see no others to cast but Joaquin Phoenix and Oscar Isaac. I will preempt the most likely rebuttal with the counterspell of an argument that is: Everyone would expect as much, which is precisely the reason why I reversed them. Your go, internet.
I don't think Alan Tudyk actually plays. He mentioned on that Spellslingers episode that he had only been playing for a few weeks, so it's likely he was invited on to the show and so he learnt the basics of playing. You actually see this a lot with Spellslingers. A significant amount of their guests mention being new to the game. Spellslingers is less about the game and more about the interaction between the guests and the host, and they will usually pick guests who already have a following and have them learn to play magic.
LOL Chris Kluwe, the man who couldn't bath or wash his hair to debate against a ex STEM field worker turn porn star. Felicia Day, the woman who said if she saw a gamer walking down the street, she would run across the opposite street to avoid them.
My question is: could a celebrity break the market? I mean if a celeb invests 10 million dollars in mtg cards, buying people's collections, hundreds of p9 cards, sealed booster boxes, everything. Could this be a negative thing, if not devastating, or just doesn't matter?
interesting question. Old wine, art, collectibles and yes MtG are considered as alternative investment options. Though if you want to invest into alternative stuff you do it only by 5 - 15% of your total invest budget. Judging by the income of these people, its not investments in millions, only tens or hundred thousands at most. so no, unless one of those people is bill gates i would say, no. they do not break the market. also side note. bill gates no longer seeks more money, as he's pretty much giving away most of it to science and charity stuff.
Was expecting to see normal celebs. Now that you point these out, I could see all of them hanging out with neckbeards at FNM except maybe Nathan Drake. They'd all fit right in.
If Nathan Fillion and Joseph Gordon-Levitt actually play Venser and Jace respectively, it could actually maybe possibly be a good movie lol
agreed.
If there is a magic movie, then I think it's a requirement to have at least 2 years of magic under your belt
If we're gonna get an MTG movie, I vote Felicia Day as Chandra.
I love this specific sort of speculation so much that I hereby propose that the act of pairing mtg characters and most promising actors to portray them, should become...umm...a thing, perhaps even the premise of a regular weekly podcast, made both for and by members of the mtg community. It would be known Double Casting (obviously) with the podcast suggested thus being dubbed The Double Cast.
What about Cassius Marsh?
And friggin machete himself
What about Tom Cruise? He actually believes Emrakul's in the moon, or something pretty close to that.
Have you or any of your family, houses, towns, major cities or continents been devoured by Emrakul? No? Then I guess Emrakul must be bound, most likely in the moon.
In 50 years there will Magic clubs at Libraries where old people meet to play old metas. Like the new chess club.
There already are
We have that . Not in libraries though. Friday night magic
There are no match-ups I enjoy playing except Psychatog mirrors.
I can’t waitttr
One of the rarest items in Isac - Rebirth is called "black lotus" and it gives you 3 hearths
My wife used to play that game religiously, and was very confused as to why I flipped out
Another cool addition would be the band, "The Acacia Strain". They're pretty adamant about being fans, have a song called Doomblade, and talk about Wizards actually sending them some cards while on tour once. It's really cool!
Logic the rapper post on Snapchat about playing MTG and DnD
Love the vid especially BC you used my absolute favorite card art from "Enlarge" in the beginning. Every time I see that cat I laugh.
holy shit I knew I'd seen you somewhere before this channel, nice job in the Interview man that movie was hilarious
this was the video that made me discover your channel :D big fan since then :)
@ 7:08 onlly thing that came to my mind was a convo they were probably having jerry being a red player and jason being a blue player XD
I heard Britney Spears invented MTG
and then she invented force of will because ops she did it again
+Domenico Monardo I heard Fetus Justin Beiber invented Phyrexian mana
She did love that Noah Bradley art. She's deep in Wizards RnD.
her response to an upcoming attack with a horde of zombies was...'hit me baby one more time'....hence the rumour goes
Richard Garfield made magic.
good stuff! you've been putting out some great variety of content! keep it up!
i like to imagine seth rogan watches your videos
..and chuckles
Update from 2019:
Pewdiepie secret fan of magic the gathering.
SF Giants outfeilder, Hunter Pence regularly plays MTG
Lol Edmund McMillen wearing Melvins and Sunn O)) Shirts here, nice
I love spellslingers! Really wish they would do more shows.
"you may have, in some way, made me more relevant" - that's so classic. You are cool Dev...in your own right, rock on.
So most of these people either aren't confirmed or use to play magic but don't anymore. Great. Great video.
A few on the list are speculated. I disliked the speculated people but enjoyed the actual confirmed. Most were easily confirmed if you watch Geek and Sundry.
Haaa I love that this popped up in my lists as I was scrolling og dev vid !
As a lifelong Vikings fan, MTG player since '93 and equal rights advocate, Chris Kluwe is the coolest dude.
One of the things Seth Rogen did was look through his pockets for something (I believe it may have been notes for his monologue), when he pulls out a folded piece of paper, grumbles to himself "card ideas for Magic..." (or something like that). It's been 4 years since this vid came out, so it might be online now. Go check Hulu, as one can watch old episodes of SNL on it.
Season 33 episode 2 is the Seth Rogan hosting episode. And it's available for streaming on hulu if you are interested. Little late to post on this video, but you could appease any personal curiosities
I'm not sure WHO played on the show Home Improvement, but in quite a few epsidoes you can see Magic cards glued/taped on Zachery Ty Bryan's desk so obviously someone invloved with the show knew how to play/use to play.
your the man I love your videos keep up the good work 👍👍
How could you not have Blake from Workaholics on here? They literally had MtG as a plot device in one of their episodes and included references to MtG in their Wizards rap music video.
I work at eqc, and a gd portion of our co-workers either played or used to play mtg
love that backround (Enlarge) When GAINT Kitties attack.
Never heard of Gaint Kitties...
omg typo on my tablet call the police.
Just joking around :)
Saul Rubinek, the actor that plays in Warehouse 13 and the lawyer in Seinfield also plays Magic The Gathering, because I saw him at a Magic Pre Release and he try to trade with me long long ago.
Why? Surely he's got enough disposable income to just buy anything he needs.
then it would probably just be for the thrill and the sake of it
To add to Chris Kluwe playing, a few years ago Vikings posted a video on their site of him teaching Adrian Peterson to play and Adrian seemed genuinely interested on learning. I'm not sure if he still does or not now that Chris isnt with the Vikings anymore.
Is that why Jery get Ipad? xD
But seriously, that's super awesome that Patton Oswalt and George Castanza play mtg. Thanks for the knowledge!
So Hank Green's B2.0 vid from Pi Day '07 was the intro of the Nerdfighter song...
Dev I knew you would pick Seth as your #1.
Top 10 celebrities who I like and were at least alleged to play MTG.Good video, liked.
Gordon would be a great Jace and Nathan would be a great.... ANYTHING!
Fun video, I did a double take when I saw some of these names, Same with D&D
FYI I would love to see you make a deck around Rise from the Tides. Made a fun little burn deck with this for kitchen table magic and thinking of adding Aberrant Researcher for goofy fun. Cards a bomb late game ^_^
I love how most of these on the list have been on the magic the gathering content on the Geek and Sundry channel.
Dev put Seth Rogan at number 1. I wonder why? Hmmm. Lol
Dang man, I really appreciate the videos. They definitely shine a light on how cool Magic is. It's super refreshing for old jaded players who need a bit of perspective on the game. Just got some Sorins! Going to build some black white control.
Dev, you are the only celebrity we need! thanks for posting the video but sometimes I think it's kind of a shame that we need to feel like we share our hobbies with "cool" people.
Would have been cool to see Jerry and George play a game of Magic on an episode of Seinfeld.
This is cool. You should make more of these. We'll... Not at the expense of deck techs, I guess. LOL
Pewdiepie used to play Magic when he was younger. He talks about it in one of his podcasts with cinnamontoastken who also probably played
Rick Grimes from the walking dead plays, I was at a 5k and my buddy got paired with him, it was nuts.
How can you not mention Cassius Marsh, not only is it completely unexpected that an NFL p;ayer to not only be an avid MTG player but a pretty good one at that. He is a huge commander fan and is on the command zone a lot
Question. You can have multiple copies of a legendary creature in your deck but only one in play correct?
really strange place for this question, but yeah. You can have 4 of them in your deck, but only one on the battlefield under your control.
Thx ya I know weird place but I was in a debate with a couple guys I play magic with
actually ben rothwell, the ufc fighter, went to the eternal masters midnight draft a few weeks ago and drafted AND dropped off 3000 standard cards
Wasn't there a magic movie out? They changed the names of Gideon, Jace, Garruk and Nissa. I think it was called Warcraft.
Good bait, sir.
Luke Christensen It's not bait, I'm trying to be a bit comedic. I don't play WoW so I just changed the names in my head to enjoy the movie even more.
Ah. I thought you were trying to trigger nerds by implying the movie characters were ripoffs of those planeswalkers, when in reality the Warcraft characters were created earlier. Mb
Earvin Johnson used to play. He used green wurms a lot.
Brandon Sanderson plays magic
Yes he does
I've played with him
+Rubik Builder LLC what did he play?
It was a Khans block draft, his deck i think had blue in it if I remember correctly
Yeah, he mentioned on one of the writing excuses podcast episodes that he spent several thousand dollars of profit from mistborn on a set of power 9.
My guess is that whoever did the set decoration for Seinfeld was the Magic the Gathering player rather than the TV stars.
Dude just subbed ! Gotta say your missing probably one of the coolest celebs .... He was in SLC Punk.... Mr. Matthew Lilliard ! He plays mtg and posts about it on Instagram ! What would be sweet is if you can interview some of these celebs somehow about they're favorite decks or combos etc ... Word !
could you do a new video with an updated list for the celebrities' that play ,magic the gathering. that would be awesome, thank you
im in the bottom 5 of non-celebrities that plays magic
Cool story. If it's a problem fix it. Go become famous.
quick off topic question.. what is the virbank city of MTG?
JGL as Jace......damnit Dev, now i can't unsee that!!! lol
Basically, the guy who is the embodiment of "look guise, i am very smart and nerdy lol" plays the official "look guise, i am very smart and nerdy lol" game.
He even might have invented mtg for all we know.
I was at a tournament once, legacy I think, I forget where, and on the pairings I saw Rebel Wilson listed. I didn't see her, but how many Rebel Wilsons can there be?
You do look like you and Seth Rogen could have been separated at birth though. I think a big part of it is the laugh.
Like Genghis Khan? I wonder who the Genghis Khan of Magic is... Hmm...
Right now it's Fabrizio Anteri with at that land pillaging he was doing.
Did Brandon routh play in Chuck as well which was a great show
How cool would it be if one of those celebrities was a fan of your channel and commented on your video
Nathan Fillion should have been #1. He is an awesome person.
Josh Barnett was my fav guest on spellslinger
is spellslingers still going?
In the annuals of TH-cam history lies this video in wait for future generations to learn how big of dorks some of the coolest celebrities of the early 21st century were.
4:25 Ratatouille is not the name of a character in the movie Ratatouille.
hey Dev do u have a Facebook or Twitter account ppl can ask questions on or post deck ideas???? I know kinda random but I just thought I'd ask?
I also think that if you don't know Edmund you should know about him... If you don't know Fish yeah, you're lucky
... You should totally try to play these people in magic and make a video of you guys playing... Kinda like spellslingers... Especially against Seth rogen.
You missed The Black Lotus item in The Binding of Isaac that Edmund threw in the game!
You don't have to like Wesley Crusher to like Wil Wheaton. That was one of many roles, and in some you may like him, and in others you may hate him (sometimes even by design, lol)- but that is just the role that he is playing. Anyone who is smart enough to separate the actor from the character knows not to hate the actor because they hated one character. And yeah, when he is not playing a character, he seems like a generally nice dude (although one could argue that we are all always playing a role, or the character of ourselves, but that could extra confusing, as Wil Wheaton has played fictional characters named Wil Wheaton on a couple of shows; so yeah, its extra confusing to consider that the actual, day-to-day, real-life husband and father Wil Wheaton is just playing a character/role of himself).
like just for the sarcastic "you look like seth rogan" voice 👏
Love your videos. That said, if you say the phrase "most of you won't know who this is..." then that person isn't a celebrity.
Hahaha that's funny, I just taught my friend Magic, introduced him to it, and he's a huge Firefly nerd. He's gonna freak out when I show him this vid :D
Corey Perry of Anaheim Ducks plays MTG and Hearthstone
I'm late AS HELL to the party, but had to show my love. Also, I've been getting Seth Rogen comments since roughly 2003, so I feel the pain Dev.
I feel like this list is missing Hunter Pence. There's something cool to me about a World Series winning athlete who recently tweeted a picture of him and his buddies playing MTG for his bachelor party.
We need a campaign to get a Seth Rogan appearance on the channel to team up for a set review or something with ya.
lmao no wonder Aggressive Mining was such a shitty rare
The creator of fucking minecraft made it XD
Tarmogoyff it was a flavor win
Patton Oswalt even mentioned MTG on King of Queens.
you forgot LSV!
I think he was talking about celebrities from outside the magic community
it was a joke :)
How was I not included on this list?!?!? Utterly ridiculous! LOL
I submit to the internet that the speculative act of pairing a character in MtG with the actor most potentially promising in portraying them should be known among the community by a term that (unless someone beat me to it) I've literally come to coin mere moments ago: Double Casting. The floor is now open for discussion and debate.
Furthermore, would you (yes, you!) be excited by this concept serving as the premise of a weekly podcast?
We begin with (what else of course?) the ultimate tale of sibling rivalry. One which very much like its own protagonist would come to transcend the very dimensional boundaries of Dominaria itself and pass into not merely myriad planes of the multiverse but indeed the realm of legend and myth, becoming known simply as...The Brothers' War.
I shall open with the obvious and inextricable package deal. In the respective roles of the titular Urza and Mishra, I can see no others to cast but Joaquin Phoenix and Oscar Isaac. I will preempt the most likely rebuttal with the counterspell of an argument that is: Everyone would expect as much, which is precisely the reason why I reversed them.
Your go, internet.
I think it's awesome if Adam Tudyk plays. Will Wheaton I'm not surprised, because he's cool like that.
I don't think Alan Tudyk actually plays. He mentioned on that Spellslingers episode that he had only been playing for a few weeks, so it's likely he was invited on to the show and so he learnt the basics of playing.
You actually see this a lot with Spellslingers. A significant amount of their guests mention being new to the game. Spellslingers is less about the game and more about the interaction between the guests and the host, and they will usually pick guests who already have a following and have them learn to play magic.
My favourite rapper Rav isn't really a celeb' but also plays Magic.
I've played vs Ryder and Shilo Strong in magic before 😁
Jerry never made fun of Magic in his comedy acts, so It might be true. However, I'd pay a million dollars to see Jim Carrey play magic
Hmmm no mention of pro poker players Dave Williams(Well known poker pro and MTG player) nor Evelynn Ing(Not sure if that's spelled correctly).
companies actually used to pay to have their products on the Seinfeld show, so the jerry Seinfeld playing magic possibility goes down a bit
Josh Barnett should be way higher, he's one of the most decorated heavyweight fighters in the history of combat sports.
If that's the reason then no he shouldn't.
Whatever hate will wheaton has earned for star trek tng. He's earned forgives ten times over for tabletop. One of the best shows on TH-cam
Hunter Pence seems like a really big name to miss on this list.
LOL Chris Kluwe, the man who couldn't bath or wash his hair to debate against a ex STEM field worker turn porn star. Felicia Day, the woman who said if she saw a gamer walking down the street, she would run across the opposite street to avoid them.
Chad and Jordan from New Found Glory play as well!!
McMillen the god also made an item called black lotus
Shayna bazler ( wwe star ) I’m pretty sure I butchered the spelling of the name
My question is: could a celebrity break the market? I mean if a celeb invests 10 million dollars in mtg cards, buying people's collections, hundreds of p9 cards, sealed booster boxes, everything. Could this be a negative thing, if not devastating, or just doesn't matter?
interesting question. Old wine, art, collectibles and yes MtG are considered as alternative investment options. Though if you want to invest into alternative stuff you do it only by 5 - 15% of your total invest budget. Judging by the income of these people, its not investments in millions, only tens or hundred thousands at most. so no, unless one of those people is bill gates i would say, no. they do not break the market. also side note. bill gates no longer seeks more money, as he's pretty much giving away most of it to science and charity stuff.
You play magic and are a celebrity....
One more note: Felicia Day was on supernatural too.. Pretty relevant show!
Was expecting to see normal celebs. Now that you point these out, I could see all of them hanging out with neckbeards at FNM except maybe Nathan Drake. They'd all fit right in.