The saga of Ryan: He was once a normal man, but one day a moustache attacked him. They fought a glorious battle until Ryan bested the beast and wore it on his face as a prize. The moustache gave him powerful lore and comedy magic. Even Goddess Bargi fears his storytelling skills.
I don’t think I get it? I mean I get the thematic connection & implication of “burn down rich peoples houses” , but I don’t get what the specific ETR rune comes from
Great video, as always. 2:40 I also wanna add: The kings name was Harald Bluetooth. The feature bears its name because of his ability to unite and connect smaller princedoms into a kingdom.
I was enjoying this video as usual, but the cousins REALLY got me🤣🤣 PS: It's so amazing that you actually read your comments. Almost no one does, and it makes me feel special and proud to be a subscriber.
You do know that there is a distinction between personal and private property, right? Or do you seriously believe that “seizing private property” means taking your toothbrush?
The following is like, the textbook example of pretentious, but this is the best way I can say it. Marx called to seize the means of production from the ruling class. If the subtext is class struggle, literally taking property and collectivising it is on brand. Kinda a clumsy read of Marx and maybe the limit of the symbolism, but that's the subtext I'm reading from you and that quote.
ryan, nicole, your videos are just getting better and better! i especially loved the little bit of real world trivia at the start and the jokes this time around. keep em coming!
Loved this video. I really like the flexibility of runes, makes them feel less fragile. Also, loved your example runes near the beginning, some of my favorites ;)
This video was fantastic and I'm getting excited just thinking about the history of trap cards, mana rocks, or even cantrips! I really like how this avenue lets you guys focus on more than just critters.
I built a Rune combo deck on MTGA and got to Platinum 1. As soon as I got there I lost 5 games in a row with it... I'm using white as my main color, then splashing green for Theros constellation support, and 1 mountain for Storm Herald. If I go to Historic, I have access to Season of Growth, which would be better than Setessan Champion because the 3-drop slot is so full already. Ideal draw is turn 1Alseid or tap land (maybe spec more into green for 1-mana dork), turn 2 aura-reducing Griffin, turn 3 Runeforge Champion. By this turn, without removal, you should be able to storm off and draw a ton of cards while buffing your creatures. Attaching an All that Glitters is an easy knockout
I honestly think the coolest use of runes in magic is Disenchant from Ice Age, where the art shows a sword inscribed with actual norse runes that spell the word "magic", this inscription being destroyed by the Disenchantment. I always found it hilarious that the enchanted sword had literally written "magic" on it. Similarly, the Runed Arch you showed in this video also has humorous inscription, if you can read norse runes, as well as a few other cards that use runes in their art. Maybe something to follow up on, as its among the more interesting easter eggs found in artworks.
Way to be ahead of the curve. During spoiler season these seemed to be written off as a draft thing but oops new Boggles seems to be actually powerful with flicker.
vehicles! i've got a vadrok vehicle deck, so giving a fleetwheel cruiser flying and lifelink is going to kick ass, and the runes are even repeatable when you mutate vadrok. also fun note for all you standard brewers, runed crown will get a rune from anywhere and enchant itself, like the rune dwarf but colorless, i put off color runes in my deck without mussing up my land base by dropping the crwn and getting the off color one, then the rune replaces the crown in my hand (and if the rune came from my deck i just went 2 deeper in my deck to account for the consistency)
archon of sun's grace, runeforge champion, and rune crown are great supports for a monowhite aura deck because they offer great synergies and draws/searches that are traditionally lacking in monowhite in standard.
OK, bit of a correction: "Runes" is not at all a set of logographic scripts such as Hieroglyphs or Kanji (they do not have individual concept meaning outside of the phoneme it represents). The various runic scripts are first and foremost an set of alphabets (each character represents a sound or phoneme). The word "Rune" is used to describe a family of related scripts using the attested name to group them together. There is absolutely no attestations for each "rune" having a logographic meaning/use (save a few cases where "ᛏ" may have been used on some swords to represent Týr, but that is even contested and unclear). This is a pet peeve of mine though I understand why it's such a common misconception. During the 800s-1300s, a set of what we call "Rune Poems" were uncovered from England, Norway, and Iceland (each originating at different times and for two separate systems meaning it was likely systematic). While we don't have the explicit context of these Rune Poems they each follow near the same flow: [Character] - [Name of Rune] [Short Poem using name] While we don't have explicit context for the poems, there are two key evidences that indicate that the names of the runes were not the meaning of the runes. First is that outside of two notable exceptions (ᛏ in my earlier example and ᛉ which was a pretty common replacement for maðr in Christian manuscripts (the few that there were) however those replacements seem confined to those manuscripts and were likely more used as shorthand (A practice very common with monk manuscripts at the time) rather than being a standard logogram, an exemption rather than the rule) runic characters are not used as logograms in nearly all other attestations at all. The other key evidence is the format and spread of these poems. Since these poems were found separately for two different systems and written slightly different (complete with different rune names in some cases) in all three major poems it combined with how the poems primarily used the phoneme that the character creates it is much more likely that these poems served a similar purpose to our ABCs song for the Latin alphabet: That of a mnemonic. Basically "ᚠ" doesn't mean "Wealth/Cattle" any more than "B" represents a "Bee", "C" represents the act of "Seeing", or "Y" represents the question "Y" (but, similar to the medieval monks there are exceptions in the nowadays common "Y" replacing "Why" in chat speak). This is a pet peeve of mine because it's based on a (while understandable) misunderstanding based on the musings of those in the middle ages that didn't look too hard at the source and made assertions and assumptions that ended up just kind of sticking. And the history is so much cooler then that so the antiquated "Runes are magical symbols full of meaning" misconception is quite frustrating when there's a world of linguistic and written script awesomeness to learn and see.
Not sure if we have enough info on Kaldheim’s story, but what about a video on the Gods/big characters, their role in MtG story and their equivalents in Norse mythology?
"Rune(s)" is one of those words that stops sounding like a word the more frequently you say it in a short time, which is further not helped by it being a homophone. This was still rather interesting though, even if I already incidentally found out the weird Bluetooth fact about a month ago. More videos on these non-creature subtypes would be interesting. Perhaps Vehicles next given they're still rather recent and given Kaldheim doubled down on connecting them to Dwarves? Regardless, thanks for the video.
The Kaldheim story is still going. Once it is finished I will do the recap. Phyrexians are also coming but it might be a little while yet. I'd like them to be more involved in current events than just one Praetor.
Love you guys! Always always love seeing you do stuff. Gotta say. That moustache. -chefs kiss- and I know, I have a moustache myself, that must be a lot of maintenance and care and love put into that facial hair and my dear sir, it shows. It's magnificent. Do not ever shave it.
Im going to try using runes on my lands in a yorian deck. Then when i get out the kaldheim version of crawling barrens, or crawling barrens itself, yorian will bounce them all, draw a bunch, and attach to my single land
Those would be fun to see again, but I think the bestow creatures from Theros are already a "fixed" version of that idea so it's unlikely we'll go back to the licid design at this point.
I left her out mostly because her tattoos seem to be a complete language rather than just runes, as they represent and entire (and complex) contract with her demons, but I could see the case for at least mentioning her.
They've been reprinted a few times with very different art each time. They do not seem to be consistently runes, though some of the time they look like they could be.
The saga of Ryan:
He was once a normal man, but one day a moustache attacked him. They fought a glorious battle until Ryan bested the beast and wore it on his face as a prize. The moustache gave him powerful lore and comedy magic. Even Goddess Bargi fears his storytelling skills.
might wanna fix the goddess' name. It's Birgi.
No mustache minute? You owe us two next week!
Can’t wait to load 200 runes on to some 0 equip boots and load that boot on the new white storm crow
Runed crown seems really strong from what I've played, so yeah, that sounds very viable
So... can we get a silver bordered card with Ryan on it called "Father of Runes"?
More like mystery daddy
Don’t forget Nicole!!
I see what you did there with that eat the rich symbol lol
Time stamp?
1:30
I don’t get it
I don’t think I get it? I mean I get the thematic connection & implication of “burn down rich peoples houses” , but I don’t get what the specific ETR rune comes from
@@balrogdahomie it's just a cheeky line thrown into the background. It doesn't actually mean eat the rich.
Great video, as always.
2:40 I also wanna add: The kings name was Harald Bluetooth. The feature bears its name because of his ability to unite and connect smaller princedoms into a kingdom.
I love all the “history of” videos and its great to see you expanding into other card types
Runeaxe is still flavorful, since you can use the new runes to enchant a bonesplitter, giving him a literal runed axe!
I like your style.
I was enjoying this video as usual, but the cousins REALLY got me🤣🤣
PS: It's so amazing that you actually read your comments. Almost no one does, and it makes me feel special and proud to be a subscriber.
Reading comments is half the reason I make videos. I don't understand how anyone with a channel would skip this part!
You’re the MrRhexx of MTG and I appreciate you.
"This rune means 'Eat the ritch'."
"Runes were used to mark property."
Ironic...
Maybe its the property of a wealthy person named Eat?
It's unlikely to be a single rune, but here you go:
ᛖᚨᛏ ᚦᛖ ᚱᛁᚲᚺ
This just in: poor people are ALSO allowed to have property!
You do know that there is a distinction between personal and private property, right? Or do you seriously believe that “seizing private property” means taking your toothbrush?
The following is like, the textbook example of pretentious, but this is the best way I can say it.
Marx called to seize the means of production from the ruling class. If the subtext is class struggle, literally taking property and collectivising it is on brand.
Kinda a clumsy read of Marx and maybe the limit of the symbolism, but that's the subtext I'm reading from you and that quote.
ryan, nicole, your videos are just getting better and better! i especially loved the little bit of real world trivia at the start and the jokes this time around. keep em coming!
I'm a Dane and I found the Bluetooth callout neat. I really enjoyed the video especially as some who has seen plenty of runes irl
I love the idea of looking at the history of objects in magic! It's always fun getting context for old cards
Loved this video. I really like the flexibility of runes, makes them feel less fragile. Also, loved your example runes near the beginning, some of my favorites ;)
I adore this "History of" series. I also enjoy learning more real world knowledge that ties into MTG. Magic is such an old game now!
This video was fantastic and I'm getting excited just thinking about the history of trap cards, mana rocks, or even cantrips! I really like how this avenue lets you guys focus on more than just critters.
You know it is going to be a great evening when a new Magic Arcanum video drop,awesome work!
How have I not found this channel before?! This is rad.
I built a Rune combo deck on MTGA and got to Platinum 1. As soon as I got there I lost 5 games in a row with it...
I'm using white as my main color, then splashing green for Theros constellation support, and 1 mountain for Storm Herald.
If I go to Historic, I have access to Season of Growth, which would be better than Setessan Champion because the 3-drop slot is so full already.
Ideal draw is turn 1Alseid or tap land (maybe spec more into green for 1-mana dork), turn 2 aura-reducing Griffin, turn 3 Runeforge Champion. By this turn, without removal, you should be able to storm off and draw a ton of cards while buffing your creatures. Attaching an All that Glitters is an easy knockout
I love this. I'd love to see a history of certain mechanics too, perhaps like the evolution of Regenerate and Fear
This channel is so cool! Thanks for all you do team!
You just opened my eyes to the posibility of runes! Now i think they are really amazing and fun!
Man, the quality of your videos have improved so much, so quickly!
1:31 Magic Arcanum comin' in hot with those runes! XD
Last time I was this early, black lotus was sold at auction for less than half a million dollars
Last time I was this early, Fetchlands were expensive...
So recently
Still my favorite TH-cam notifications!
I really love the way you make your videos. You have a very calming way of speaking . Absolutely love your channel. Keep it up!
Thank you so much!
Thank you for the ideas on the Rune enchantments. I feel inspired...
According to many word processing programs, "rune" isn't a real word. But of course videos like this are something I'd like to see more of
My productivity was RUiNEd when I saw this video in my feed
If Urza couldn't figure the runes out, what chance do we have? :P
Good job with this channel's playlists.
I love this channel so much. Greatvideo as always
Really enjoyed this one. It would be interesting if WotC errata'd a few of those earlier cards to add the Rune type
This video was better than the rune cards in Kaldheim. I hope they come back, and better than before.
I honestly think the coolest use of runes in magic is Disenchant from Ice Age, where the art shows a sword inscribed with actual norse runes that spell the word "magic", this inscription being destroyed by the Disenchantment.
I always found it hilarious that the enchanted sword had literally written "magic" on it.
Similarly, the Runed Arch you showed in this video also has humorous inscription, if you can read norse runes, as well as a few other cards that use runes in their art. Maybe something to follow up on, as its among the more interesting easter eggs found in artworks.
Way to be ahead of the curve. During spoiler season these seemed to be written off as a draft thing but oops new Boggles seems to be actually powerful with flicker.
vehicles! i've got a vadrok vehicle deck, so giving a fleetwheel cruiser flying and lifelink is going to kick ass, and the runes are even repeatable when you mutate vadrok. also fun note for all you standard brewers, runed crown will get a rune from anywhere and enchant itself, like the rune dwarf but colorless, i put off color runes in my deck without mussing up my land base by dropping the crwn and getting the off color one, then the rune replaces the crown in my hand (and if the rune came from my deck i just went 2 deeper in my deck to account for the consistency)
a history of non-equipment equipments, non-vehicle vehicles, and/or non-shrine shrines
I would love to see an episode about the extensions symbols and their meaning ! Some are obvious but not all..
I like this idea!
Your videos really improve my day
Great advice for life. Carve markings into everything............ AND EVERYONE!
Awesome to see such a creative history video!
archon of sun's grace, runeforge champion, and rune crown are great supports for a monowhite aura deck because they offer great synergies and draws/searches that are traditionally lacking in monowhite in standard.
Love these videos, always happy to see more
You can still get the effects of the new runes on that one guy that hexproof from auras by putting them on an equipment then equipping it to him.
Gray as always Ryan, you could also make an update to the sagas video (or a part 2?) since we got a bunch of them this time
Yay, a new video ! Hi from France 🖐️
OK, bit of a correction:
"Runes" is not at all a set of logographic scripts such as Hieroglyphs or Kanji (they do not have individual concept meaning outside of the phoneme it represents). The various runic scripts are first and foremost an set of alphabets (each character represents a sound or phoneme). The word "Rune" is used to describe a family of related scripts using the attested name to group them together. There is absolutely no attestations for each "rune" having a logographic meaning/use (save a few cases where "ᛏ" may have been used on some swords to represent Týr, but that is even contested and unclear).
This is a pet peeve of mine though I understand why it's such a common misconception. During the 800s-1300s, a set of what we call "Rune Poems" were uncovered from England, Norway, and Iceland (each originating at different times and for two separate systems meaning it was likely systematic). While we don't have the explicit context of these Rune Poems they each follow near the same flow:
[Character] - [Name of Rune] [Short Poem using name]
While we don't have explicit context for the poems, there are two key evidences that indicate that the names of the runes were not the meaning of the runes. First is that outside of two notable exceptions (ᛏ in my earlier example and ᛉ which was a pretty common replacement for maðr in Christian manuscripts (the few that there were) however those replacements seem confined to those manuscripts and were likely more used as shorthand (A practice very common with monk manuscripts at the time) rather than being a standard logogram, an exemption rather than the rule) runic characters are not used as logograms in nearly all other attestations at all. The other key evidence is the format and spread of these poems. Since these poems were found separately for two different systems and written slightly different (complete with different rune names in some cases) in all three major poems it combined with how the poems primarily used the phoneme that the character creates it is much more likely that these poems served a similar purpose to our ABCs song for the Latin alphabet: That of a mnemonic.
Basically "ᚠ" doesn't mean "Wealth/Cattle" any more than "B" represents a "Bee", "C" represents the act of "Seeing", or "Y" represents the question "Y" (but, similar to the medieval monks there are exceptions in the nowadays common "Y" replacing "Why" in chat speak).
This is a pet peeve of mine because it's based on a (while understandable) misunderstanding based on the musings of those in the middle ages that didn't look too hard at the source and made assertions and assumptions that ended up just kind of sticking. And the history is so much cooler then that so the antiquated "Runes are magical symbols full of meaning" misconception is quite frustrating when there's a world of linguistic and written script awesomeness to learn and see.
Read the Runes is my favorite draw spell in my Child of Alara EDH deck. Draw cards and blow the board.
Cool topic, next could be shrines.
In fact, it was Ertai the "casualty" depicted in "ancient runes"... Meanwhile, Orim laughted.
2:30 mind blown
Not sure if we have enough info on Kaldheim’s story, but what about a video on the Gods/big characters, their role in MtG story and their equivalents in Norse mythology?
I had some food for thought last night, but it was spoilt, it gave me the runes.
"Rune(s)" is one of those words that stops sounding like a word the more frequently you say it in a short time, which is further not helped by it being a homophone. This was still rather interesting though, even if I already incidentally found out the weird Bluetooth fact about a month ago.
More videos on these non-creature subtypes would be interesting. Perhaps Vehicles next given they're still rather recent and given Kaldheim doubled down on connecting them to Dwarves? Regardless, thanks for the video.
Love this channel, really high quality videos! Would love to see a video on dwarves and the possibility of them becoming whites go to creature type.
Ryan........
When. Is. The. Legendary. Beast. Video. RYAAAAAN!!!?!???
@Magic Arcanum, again a very cool video my friend 😁👌🏾I will build a Deck about Runes, because of your video. I hope you doing good Ryan? 😊. Great job.
Doing great Marcel :-)
That's make me happy 😁👌🏾
I was hoping for "Who are the Phyrexians" or "What's Happening on Kaldheim," but this is cool, too.
The Kaldheim story is still going. Once it is finished I will do the recap. Phyrexians are also coming but it might be a little while yet. I'd like them to be more involved in current events than just one Praetor.
Love you guys! Always always love seeing you do stuff. Gotta say. That moustache. -chefs kiss- and I know, I have a moustache myself, that must be a lot of maintenance and care and love put into that facial hair and my dear sir, it shows. It's magnificent. Do not ever shave it.
I can’t wait for a history lesson on Vorinclex or any of the praetors. I wonder why he is on Keldheim
I'm curious about that too but the story hasn't told us yet. Once we have the full narrative for Kaldheim I'll do my usual recap though!
Rune of Sustenance on Aetherflux Reservoir, turn your artifacts into creatures, pay 50 life to do 50 damage, gain 50 life. Unnecessary, but something.
loved it! can we get a history of crabs?
...maybe!
Im going to try using runes on my lands in a yorian deck. Then when i get out the kaldheim version of crawling barrens, or crawling barrens itself, yorian will bounce them all, draw a bunch, and attach to my single land
Yorion seems perfect for it. I was scared to mention him in the video because I don't want to face that one on the battlefield lol
This was a cool one!
Thanks, glad you liked it!
I mostly use my rues in cooking, they can make awesome things :D
History of enchantresses
Make it happen moustache man
Would a Glyph be a rune? I remember using those back in the day.
In the immortal words of The Scotsman:
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So....I'm gonna buy kenrith the "runed" king and make a commander deck around these.
I was waiting for this
Giving sven the birds and the bees talk there?
Spined megaladon plus rune of flight is pretty funny
Can you do a history of unglued and unsets? I think it is a part of magic that is not talked about much
I wonder if they will bring back the licid cycle from Tempest in the near future?
Those would be fun to see again, but I think the bestow creatures from Theros are already a "fixed" version of that idea so it's unlikely we'll go back to the licid design at this point.
Is it sad to say Im going to use the runes like a pleb and not do as much wacky stuff like you said?
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. :)
Hello there!
Did he skip Runic Armosaur? Or did I just miss it
I really want to learn more about Ancient Frisian Runes because my ancestors were Frisian
Next they should do dwarfs
In light of kaldheim you should do a history of angels
Did I miss mention of Liliana being one of the few rune engraved planeswalkers?
I left her out mostly because her tattoos seem to be a complete language rather than just runes, as they represent and entire (and complex) contract with her demons, but I could see the case for at least mentioning her.
@@MagicArcanum I figured the demonic language is runic ;P
More histories of non-creature types, please. I hardly ever cast creatures anyway
was trying to come up with some pun using rune instead of ruin, but i got nothing...
you forgot Runic Armasaur of m19! owo" i knew it!
11:49 Oh, so no Assassin's Trophy!? 😂
"Eat the rich" - ah yes, ancient wisdom indeed.
What about Runic Armasaur?
oh ya carve that rune
Can you do tribal instant and soresy and arcane spells
Runeforge Champion +
Transcendent Envoy from Theroa beyond death makes all your runes cost zero mana
Sad that glyphs and sigils were left out.
Are circles of protection runes too?
They've been reprinted a few times with very different art each time. They do not seem to be consistently runes, though some of the time they look like they could be.
Blasted in the ass by a rune. Well my life total just went to 0 because that killed me. 🤣
What's the equip cost of your mustache?
History of equipments or vehicles
Wait, where is the mustache minute? :(
I might have got a B+ in history but in magic history I would create the new highest grade