More of a mention than actually showing up, but in Brooklyn 99, Jake Peralta who is Andy Samberg's character mentions that he once tried to sneak out to play a Magic tournament as a kid but got stuck in the window.
@@MidgarMerc would have been funnier if Jake kept saying that then Rosa of all people invited him to hang with some of her friends he thinks oh big tough biker gang people and they do look the part only to get into a magic the gathering commander game.
There's an entire currently running manga that uses Magic the Gathering as the backdrop for their coming of age story. It's called "Destroy All Humankind They Can't Be Regenerated" (or in Japanese Subete no jinrui wo hakai suru. Sorera wa saisei dekinai). It's mostly about a nerdy Junior High student learning that the popular student council president girl at his school secretly plays Magic. It takes place in 1998-2000 and is full of references to that era (mostly Japanese pop culture) and has a TON of Magic references. The main character often will react to things by making poses from magic art for example and they reference a lot of the meta stuff that was big at the time. Give it a go it's pretty decent.
Norah from Queens S1E4 “Paperwork” has Norah lamenting how she peaked in 7th grade when she won a Magic tournament and she goes through the actual turn of how she won.
I remember watching the South Park MTG episode before really getting into the actual game itself. I really appreciate how accurate they got the hype when spells just start getting cast in rapid succession.
One of my favorite references is in the show "the blacklist" when Reddington calls in a drone strike on a prison in Kuwait, and when asked how he did that, he responds with "I won a rather high stakes game of Magic: the Gathering recently". I died XD
I watched the Haunted Mansion movie recently and in it, Eddie Murphy’s son has a magic poster in his room. I think it was the 7th Ed. Thorn elemental art.
When I saw the cock magic episode for the first time, shortly after first airing, I gathered with buddies for magic night and put it on. We laughed so hard than played out usual commander. So good
That workaholics one gets me every time. I just remember seeing it randomly on tv and being like 'omg... I can't believe I know every card they just said....'
There is 2 episodes of Home Improvement where in Randy and Brads room there is a MTG binder on the desk with a pile of a cards and then what looks like a hand made poster with MTG staples to the front of it.
There was also an episode of "Home Improvement" which had Magic the Gathering Cards in pretty plain sight at one point in Jonathan Taylor Thomas's room. I remember seeing that when I was really young and was probably the first time I ever saw MTG on Television.
Speaking of MTG finding its way into other places, did you know that the roguelike The Binding of Isaac also features cards such as Giant Growth, Ancestral Recall, and Chaos Orb in it? I always thought that was neat.
The magic the gathering episode of South Park is like the WOW episode, its not a one off gag and in a mocking fashion but it shows they did research and knew it was before hand going into. I can respect and appreciate that they did that and probably played themselves
Yeah, the South Pack episode and Workaholics clip are my favorite because they actually show that someone knows the game (or at least took the time to research it), unlike things like OC or even Family Guys which are mostly just stereotypical "haha, MTG players are virgins" jokes.
In the show Daybreak, about teens in a post-apocalyptic world, one of the characters who lived at the mall has a stash of magic cards in his locker, while he and the protagonist were going to the school, they did an impromptu mental magic game. Loved that scene
I got to help out a translator friend who wrote the Swedish subtitles for that South Park episode. She needed the Swedish terms where they existed as well as some other knowledge about Magic lingo.
In Fresh Off the Boat there is also a Magic reference. The youngest of the three brothers is wondering why every one of his friends is changing their personality after time. A flashback is starting where you can see him and his friends were playing multiplayer Magic, eventually commander. After everyone was getting 2 damage one kid's card is fallen off the table. At the moment a friend grabbed his fallen card, the friend was pretty bright and normal. After he put it back on the table you can see how his whole facial expression has changed. Now he's grim and tells the others that he's tired of the crap and prefers to go to the lake because it's cooler.
This is actually kinda cool, I've seen some of these before, cool to see them in a list! Edit: Until date night let's you cast muldrifter with a panharmonicon on the battlefield...
I know there was a MTG reference in the show The Blacklist. One of the main characters says “I recently won a pretty important game of Magic the Gathering” after he (if I remember correctly) blows up a terrorist base with a military air strike drown that’s flown by a guy a local game store type place
In "The Big Bang Theory" there is a poster for MTG in the background in the comic book store during one of the first seasons. It's the poster w/ a bunch of the gatewatch on it before they were the gatewatch.
There are also cameos of MTG in the movie Sorcerer's apprentice and in the Netflix show Daybreak (first in 1st episode we see a binder, and in the 8th we have it mentioned (I'm not gonna spoil how))
There's a scene in Orphan Black where one character makes the bold claim "Rare cards are all well and good, but really you should be running dark confidant and time walk in all your decks". Yeah, I have a spare 5k for all my decks.
Yooo the South Park one really takes me back. Who could forget the absolute unit that was Gadnuk, Breaker of Worlds, a rooster so good at the game that he'd never lost a match, or even one health. So I guess not only was he playing against a lot of mill decks, but he's also never cracked a fetch land in his life. Impressive! O:
Fun stuff! One small correction. In the Chuck reference, Chuck doesn't fake his own death, nor is he challenged to a game of Magic. Casey, one of his government handlers, played by Adam Baldwin, does/is. Chuck is played by Zachary Levi, the same actor who later played Shazam. One of my favorite book references to Magic is in the Lightbringer fantasy series. The main character plays a card game that is clearly modeled after MtG with his grandfather, a powerful politician who uses the game to teach the mc strategy/tactics, and to assert dominance over him, since the grandfather always wins!
Here are the others I know of: It's mentioned by name in two episodes of MST3K, Devil Doll and Terror from the Year 5000 (like the ones on this list, neither time was very flattering); there are thinly veiled version in Hey Arnold! (Where it's portrayed as an addictive threat to childhood innocence) and Craig of the Creek (which is actually not a bad portrayal). And the most self-referential mention I know: It appears in the first Magic novel Arena, where it's how non-magic users pass the time between watching magic users do it for real.
In one of the episodes of Goosebumps, a kid is reading a magazine and you can see the advertisement of Mtg in it. The Cartoon Network show “Clarence” has the kids playing a card game thats similar to MTG. The show Storage Wars, a father and son find a storage that has a binder in it and they sell an unlimited mox or lotus at a convention.
I would love to see a second video, because as the comments suggest, there are a lot more references to Magic. For example, in Cobra Kai, there are multiple instances of Magic references, such as a kid wearing a shirt that says “I’ll tap that” with the mana symbols
Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley is a huge Magic enthusiast, donning a Magic beer coozie, a plastic Ultra Pro deck box and a Rivals of Ixalan fatpack box ALL in one shot, lol (Season 5, Episode 6). Home Improvement, season 5 episode 22 at 19:13 Tim is talking to Brad and on the side of his desk you see a crap-tonne of white border Magic cards taped to his desk, along with a set poster.
In the movie "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" from 2010, one of the badguy's was a famous magic player who even had a (planeswalker) card made after him in the movie
The South Park was actually got me back into the game. I switched from Yugioh because of the long wait for the English dub of Arc-V and one of my favorite archetypes (Battlin’ Boxers if anyone is interested) taking a big hit from Master Rules 4 and the introduction of Link Monsters. Seven years later I play both (I decided to get back into Yugioh after discovering the Gouki archetype and me being a huge wrestling fan) but Magic is my primary TCG.
There's also an episode of FX's Atlanta where Donald Glover's character is running around town with Darius trying to earn money and at one point ends up in a warehouse where there's a crew of guys huddled around a table playing Magic
The reboot of Fright Night has a Garruk poster in one of the bedrooms, Chicago Med has a sick kid that tries to teach MTG to some adults and even mentioned Jace's ultimate and Amulet of Kroog, and in 9-1-1 Lone Star some dude's son mentions that he likes Magic and his father thinks he's talking about magic tricks.
There was one cinema movie a few years back where MtG has made an appearance even there was a screen with Atog from Revised. The movie is "Hillbilly Elegy" from 2020.
Another good mention is in the blacklist the character is Raymond Redding and he mentions how he won a predator drone off of someone in a high stakes magic the gathering game then it scene changes to a lgs in dc with them in it. Really an out of nowhere thing but it was a central part of the mission kinda made me chuckle
Don't forget the Netflix series Daybreak not only name dropped alot of cards but also the character Eli has a collection of cards and trys to recover his collection of cards
One thing I dislike about MTG references in media (and nerd references in general) is that it's almost always punching down. Only a handful of these actually had magic treated like a regular game and not as something to be ridiculed and looked down on. It's pretty sad cause I can see someone watching something like The OC or Chuck and deciding that Magic is something to be avoided.
@@stoiccrane4259 Because Western media tells us to mock and ridicule those who are passionate about things other than sports, fashion and guns. Nerds have always been ok to laugh at cause it's easy.
@@MidgarMerc It's like that Daft Punk song over a decade ago says, "Television rules the nation." It's unfortunate because little do people know that most media "programming" is designed to indoctrinate and instill artificial values in it's viewers. Manipulating their social perceptions and consumeristic tendencies in the interests of advertisers.I mean people literally watch "The Stupor Bowl" specifically to see advertisements! If that isn't telling I don't know what is.
A more recent reference was in Craig of the Creek S1 EP12. Craig and other kids from the creek are playing "Magic the Gathering" and Craig ask to borrow his older cards. His brother tells them how expensive they and are supposed to pay his college tuition.
In "The New Adventures of Old Christine", her brother, Matthew, has Magic stuff plastered all over his walls at their mom's house. It shows up in a couple episodes.
In the new apocalyptic tx series of netflix where only children lives (don't remember the name), one guy before dying to other people ask to save and store his magic collection
Not exactly pop culture but I've heard a few MTG references in battle Rap: "The cage show him what a mill' do: I'll fucking deck him for that! What I land'll (island) plain swamp him, jaws running may get tapped Your style's amounting (a mountain) to forced punches just so something basic lands" "His writing’s the same on every card, a standard run-of-the-mill Damn, these rats relentless"
In a recent episode (2021) of one of those US hospital programmes a young boy in the hospital needed entertaining so they gave him some magic cards to play with one of the nurses. If I remember correctly, it even showed them playing part of a game in the background of a scene and when his mum came to see him he wanted to tell her all about the magic cards he'd been playing with (the scene swiftly ended so we didn't get to hear what he said, unfortunately). If you're wondering about my vagueness, it was my girlfriend watching it... I only paid attention because I heard MTG get mentioned haha.
Also, the deleted opening scenes of Chasing Amy that took place in a comic book store clearly had the characters moving magic cards around but was speaking legally-distinct language and mechanics
The 1st Fright Night remake with Anton Yelchin used it. Opening scene on the floor as the camera pans back and later a stand up of Lilliana is in Ed's bedroom.
There was this cartoon in the mid 2000s where they play a game clearly based off of mtg, card backs look like magic cards and everything, I think the show was called "Yu-Gi-Oh" or something
I would see myself as a delver of secrets mixed with a rummaging goblin. Always looking for new brews to play, and constantly sifting through my ever growing collection to find the parts to a new deck.
The Blacklist S07E04, around the 30 minute mark. Raymond Reddington (James Spader), as a bomb drone flies overhead shooting a missile at an enemy compound in Kuwait, says: “I won a rather high-stakes game of Magic: The Gathering recently, and I’ve called in my chits”. Cracked me up, and definitely should be on this list imho.
in an episode of the magicians a character mentions bribing someone with a mint condition alpha black lotus, another character asks her if magic cards have actual magic and she replies that not, they're just expensive.
Wasn't a direct shout out but in Home Improvement later seasons the youngest son's front of the deck had a bunch of cards glued to the front. Craw Wurm was my favorite at the time. I remember seeing it and was like 0.0
Check out the episode "Bring Out Your Beasts" from Craig of the Creek. While the name Magic the Gathering isn't used, the episode to is clearly a reference to early days to Magic the Gathering, including Ante as a plot device. And the cards used have a same frame style as the original card layout. It's really worth checking out.
More of a mention than actually showing up, but in Brooklyn 99, Jake Peralta who is Andy Samberg's character mentions that he once tried to sneak out to play a Magic tournament as a kid but got stuck in the window.
Jake actually mentions mtg several times iirc. Unfortunately it's always played for laughs cause "haha what a loser he used to play magic"
@@MidgarMerc would have been funnier if Jake kept saying that then Rosa of all people invited him to hang with some of her friends he thinks oh big tough biker gang people and they do look the part only to get into a magic the gathering commander game.
@@MidgarMerc and listen to ska
Im womdering how much they paid...
The irony of being told about pop culture by Seth is not something I can easily get over...
He hasn’t actually seen any of these, obvs
Idgi
Why?
There's an entire currently running manga that uses Magic the Gathering as the backdrop for their coming of age story. It's called "Destroy All Humankind They Can't Be Regenerated" (or in Japanese Subete no jinrui wo hakai suru. Sorera wa saisei dekinai). It's mostly about a nerdy Junior High student learning that the popular student council president girl at his school secretly plays Magic. It takes place in 1998-2000 and is full of references to that era (mostly Japanese pop culture) and has a TON of Magic references. The main character often will react to things by making poses from magic art for example and they reference a lot of the meta stuff that was big at the time. Give it a go it's pretty decent.
I laughed at: "what damage doesn't use the stack anymore?"
I've been reading it! It's really cool and getting to "relive" old moments and decks is awesome!
This sounds great and right up my alley, thanks for the rec!
This is great. I will be looking into this manga
Thank you for the recommendation but now I'm caught up and sad that I have to wait for chapters now.
Norah from Queens S1E4 “Paperwork” has Norah lamenting how she peaked in 7th grade when she won a Magic tournament and she goes through the actual turn of how she won.
Came down specifically to look for this comment
My wife rewound the show and called me in the room for this scene lol
Yes that's right!!! 😂😂
This would’ve been one of the best ones, they put work into the details to paint the picture of her and her opponents deck in a Kamigawa draft
I remember watching the South Park MTG episode before really getting into the actual game itself. I really appreciate how accurate they got the hype when spells just start getting cast in rapid succession.
Actually iconic
Trey Parker is a big gamer himself. I can recommend his episode with the Dice Tower (boardgames).
When I first saw that episode I was howling with laughter. You could tell they had definitely watched live Pro Tour play before.
One of my favorite references is in the show "the blacklist" when Reddington calls in a drone strike on a prison in Kuwait, and when asked how he did that, he responds with "I won a rather high stakes game of Magic: the Gathering recently". I died XD
Yep. Saw this and loved it!
I watched the Haunted Mansion movie recently and in it, Eddie Murphy’s son has a magic poster in his room. I think it was the 7th Ed. Thorn elemental art.
When I saw the cock magic episode for the first time, shortly after first airing, I gathered with buddies for magic night and put it on. We laughed so hard than played out usual commander. So good
That workaholics one gets me every time. I just remember seeing it randomly on tv and being like 'omg... I can't believe I know every card they just said....'
That one is my favorite too.
You missed Silicon Valley. Gilfoyle is a big MTG player and has card and boxes of Magic on this desk through most seasons of the show
Also, the actors played it in their breaks, which I find kinda cool..
It's a top 10 list. He didn't miss shit
Was also about to comment
@@DABOOMBOXED but over Seinfeld, that is almost a Easter egg
Yes exactly!
There is 2 episodes of Home Improvement where in Randy and Brads room there is a MTG binder on the desk with a pile of a cards and then what looks like a hand made poster with MTG staples to the front of it.
There was also an episode of "Home Improvement" which had Magic the Gathering Cards in pretty plain sight at one point in Jonathan Taylor Thomas's room. I remember seeing that when I was really young and was probably the first time I ever saw MTG on Television.
The study table has taped on cards all over the sides.
Yup. Basic lands if I remember correctly.
You guys best me to it lol.
I remember seeing that too, I definitely remember a Mountain and I think there may have been a Sol Ring.
Must've been one of the layer episodes of the show, the card game didn't come put til 93
The same gift box on Seinfeld’s set was in the JTT bedroom set most Home Improvement episodes that used it
"I won it in a particularly high stakes game of Magic: the Gathering."
- Blacklist
Apparently Raymond Reddington plays for ante.
Right! I think he was referring to that missile system
@@georgiopapakonstantinou1580 He was, but I also like to imagine that they have a deck of assets that they flip over for ante every game.
The best.
I definitely want in on some high stakes MTG games...
Speaking of MTG finding its way into other places, did you know that the roguelike The Binding of Isaac also features cards such as Giant Growth, Ancestral Recall, and Chaos Orb in it? I always thought that was neat.
Edmund even got to design a Magic card. Cruel Sadist from M15
In the movie "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" the actor Toby Kebbell (Drake Stone in the film) is a Magic Player
They even designed some fake Magic Cards around the character.
There's some Magic posters in the background of that movie too
Isn't there a huge Jace cardboard stand up in the background somewhere?
The magic the gathering episode of South Park is like the WOW episode, its not a one off gag and in a mocking fashion but it shows they did research and knew it was before hand going into. I can respect and appreciate that they did that and probably played themselves
Yeah, the South Pack episode and Workaholics clip are my favorite because they actually show that someone knows the game (or at least took the time to research it), unlike things like OC or even Family Guys which are mostly just stereotypical "haha, MTG players are virgins" jokes.
In the show Daybreak, about teens in a post-apocalyptic world, one of the characters who lived at the mall has a stash of magic cards in his locker, while he and the protagonist were going to the school, they did an impromptu mental magic game. Loved that scene
There is a manga called
"Destroy All Of Humanity. It Can't Be Regenerated"
guy on the right in zombieland seems to be playing chillbringer, verity circle, and senate courier, back has sylvan brushstrider
I got to help out a translator friend who wrote the Swedish subtitles for that South Park episode. She needed the Swedish terms where they existed as well as some other knowledge about Magic lingo.
Loving the new content! Keep up the great work :)
Glad you enjoy it!
Nice! Next do the Top 10 Pop Culture references in Magic cards!
Ohh, that's a really good idea!
Idk why but Seth popping up at the beginning is hilarious to me. Love the editing and video as always!
In Fresh Off the Boat there is also a Magic reference. The youngest of the three brothers is wondering why every one of his friends is changing their personality after time. A flashback is starting where you can see him and his friends were playing multiplayer Magic, eventually commander. After everyone was getting 2 damage one kid's card is fallen off the table. At the moment a friend grabbed his fallen card, the friend was pretty bright and normal. After he put it back on the table you can see how his whole facial expression has changed. Now he's grim and tells the others that he's tired of the crap and prefers to go to the lake because it's cooler.
On Daybreak, a Netflix show, they mention MTG several times and you can see a kid who values his binder more than anything.
Whew, I was afraid no one gonna mention Daybreak!
I read a book once where two characters were gonna play mtg, except one had a nicol bolas deck and the other had mogg tribel, perfectly balanced
"I floop the pig" - Adventure Time
^this
The cock magic episode is unironically one of the best modern South Park episodes
This is actually kinda cool, I've seen some of these before, cool to see them in a list!
Edit: Until date night let's you cast muldrifter with a panharmonicon on the battlefield...
With ephemerate in hand.
I know there was a MTG reference in the show The Blacklist. One of the main characters says “I recently won a pretty important game of Magic the Gathering” after he (if I remember correctly) blows up a terrorist base with a military air strike drown that’s flown by a guy a local game store type place
In "The Big Bang Theory" there is a poster for MTG in the background in the comic book store during one of the first seasons. It's the poster w/ a bunch of the gatewatch on it before they were the gatewatch.
I remember seeing Chandra on it
There are also cameos of MTG in the movie Sorcerer's apprentice and in the Netflix show Daybreak (first in 1st episode we see a binder, and in the 8th we have it mentioned (I'm not gonna spoil how))
I'd like to hear "Tooth and Nail, entwined, for Bottle Gnomes" worked into a show. :D
There's a scene in Orphan Black where one character makes the bold claim "Rare cards are all well and good, but really you should be running dark confidant and time walk in all your decks". Yeah, I have a spare 5k for all my decks.
Seth's mom is going to give him grief for that naughty South Park talk...Lol
*Thanks for the Content* !
Yooo the South Park one really takes me back. Who could forget the absolute unit that was Gadnuk, Breaker of Worlds, a rooster so good at the game that he'd never lost a match, or even one health. So I guess not only was he playing against a lot of mill decks, but he's also never cracked a fetch land in his life. Impressive! O:
In an episode of Awkwafina is nora from queens, she describes playing in a Kamigawa tournament! Naming several cards from Champions of Kamigawa!
There's no way saffron olive seen these shows, he's got a ghost writer
If there's one non-Magic thing I know it's animated TV shows (and also obscure indie music).
It was the O.C. that made me suspicious lol i can believe the rest for sure
What a fun video. Seinfeld and Spiderman had MTG references! Who knew?
Love this video! I believe in an episode of the show “The magicians” they talked about black lotus which was pretty neat!
I am a film maker and in both of my films I have people playing MTG :)
I mean it's just like poker (in the case of using cards, to play a game, with specific rules and/or house rules) but alot more brain power required.
Fun stuff! One small correction. In the Chuck reference, Chuck doesn't fake his own death, nor is he challenged to a game of Magic. Casey, one of his government handlers, played by Adam Baldwin, does/is. Chuck is played by Zachary Levi, the same actor who later played Shazam.
One of my favorite book references to Magic is in the Lightbringer fantasy series. The main character plays a card game that is clearly modeled after MtG with his grandfather, a powerful politician who uses the game to teach the mc strategy/tactics, and to assert dominance over him, since the grandfather always wins!
Adventure Time had a pretty thinly veiled mtg reference, 'I floop the pig.'
Here are the others I know of: It's mentioned by name in two episodes of MST3K, Devil Doll and Terror from the Year 5000 (like the ones on this list, neither time was very flattering); there are thinly veiled version in Hey Arnold! (Where it's portrayed as an addictive threat to childhood innocence) and Craig of the Creek (which is actually not a bad portrayal). And the most self-referential mention I know: It appears in the first Magic novel Arena, where it's how non-magic users pass the time between watching magic users do it for real.
In one of the episodes of Goosebumps, a kid is reading a magazine and you can see the advertisement of Mtg in it. The Cartoon Network show “Clarence” has the kids playing a card game thats similar to MTG. The show Storage Wars, a father and son find a storage that has a binder in it and they sell an unlimited mox or lotus at a convention.
I would love to see a second video, because as the comments suggest, there are a lot more references to Magic. For example, in Cobra Kai, there are multiple instances of Magic references, such as a kid wearing a shirt that says “I’ll tap that” with the mana symbols
There's an episode of Silicone Valley that has a lot of Ixalan merch and product just randomly scattered around.
This. Gilfoyle has a bundle box on his Desk in one episode.
The cock magic episode of SP is legendary! Cracked up the first time I saw it so many times!
I bring back that sound,
the kind that makes you go 0:46
;)
the south park episode was so good !
In addition to having a whole episode based on the game back in the 90s there were commercials with the south park kids promoting the game, too
Silicon Valley has a scene where Gilfoyle (one of the show's characters) has a box of magic cards on his desk.
Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley is a huge Magic enthusiast, donning a Magic beer coozie, a plastic Ultra Pro deck box and a Rivals of Ixalan fatpack box ALL in one shot, lol (Season 5, Episode 6).
Home Improvement, season 5 episode 22 at 19:13 Tim is talking to Brad and on the side of his desk you see a crap-tonne of white border Magic cards taped to his desk, along with a set poster.
In the movie "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" from 2010, one of the badguy's was a famous magic player who even had a (planeswalker) card made after him in the movie
They mention a MTG tournament on a recent SNL skit with Billie Eillish.
There was a scene in "Hawaii Five-0" where the actor Masi Oka talked about, that he was on a Magic the Gathering tournament.
The sitcom Still Standing had an entire episode dedicated to a Magic the Gathering tournament.
The South Park was actually got me back into the game. I switched from Yugioh because of the long wait for the English dub of Arc-V and one of my favorite archetypes (Battlin’ Boxers if anyone is interested) taking a big hit from Master Rules 4 and the introduction of Link Monsters. Seven years later I play both (I decided to get back into Yugioh after discovering the Gouki archetype and me being a huge wrestling fan) but Magic is my primary TCG.
There's also an episode of FX's Atlanta where Donald Glover's character is running around town with Darius trying to earn money and at one point ends up in a warehouse where there's a crew of guys huddled around a table playing Magic
That last South Park scene almost made me spit my noodles.
This is just Seth's clapback for the commander crew making fun of him for not knowing pop culture.
The reboot of Fright Night has a Garruk poster in one of the bedrooms, Chicago Med has a sick kid that tries to teach MTG to some adults and even mentioned Jace's ultimate and Amulet of Kroog, and in 9-1-1 Lone Star some dude's son mentions that he likes Magic and his father thinks he's talking about magic tricks.
Like the new content idea! Next we need Seth's top ten anime, whatever he thinks anime is.
There was one cinema movie a few years back where MtG has made an appearance even there was a screen with Atog from Revised. The movie is "Hillbilly Elegy" from 2020.
In Home Improvement, Brad had a few oversized cards all over his room, including an oversized Shatter
Another good mention is in the blacklist the character is Raymond Redding and he mentions how he won a predator drone off of someone in a high stakes magic the gathering game then it scene changes to a lgs in dc with them in it. Really an out of nowhere thing but it was a central part of the mission kinda made me chuckle
Don't forget the Netflix series Daybreak not only name dropped alot of cards but also the character Eli has a collection of cards and trys to recover his collection of cards
What makes the Workaholics segment even better is that Blake Anderson is huge Magic fan in real life.
One thing I dislike about MTG references in media (and nerd references in general) is that it's almost always punching down. Only a handful of these actually had magic treated like a regular game and not as something to be ridiculed and looked down on. It's pretty sad cause I can see someone watching something like The OC or Chuck and deciding that Magic is something to be avoided.
Agreed. It's basically card chess but waaay more expensive. Don't know why there's such a negative social stigma around it.
@@stoiccrane4259 Because Western media tells us to mock and ridicule those who are passionate about things other than sports, fashion and guns. Nerds have always been ok to laugh at cause it's easy.
@@MidgarMerc It's like that Daft Punk song over a decade ago says, "Television rules the nation." It's unfortunate because little do people know that most media "programming" is designed to indoctrinate and instill artificial values in it's viewers.
Manipulating their social perceptions and consumeristic tendencies in the interests of advertisers.I mean people literally watch "The Stupor Bowl" specifically to see advertisements! If that isn't telling I don't know what is.
There was a pretty large cameo in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, one of the villains had a pretty sizable collection lol
I loved how South Park talked about what type of mages their are like control
A more recent reference was in Craig of the Creek S1 EP12. Craig and other kids from the creek are playing "Magic the Gathering" and Craig ask to borrow his older cards. His brother tells them how expensive they and are supposed to pay his college tuition.
In "The New Adventures of Old Christine", her brother, Matthew, has Magic stuff plastered all over his walls at their mom's house. It shows up in a couple episodes.
In the new apocalyptic tx series of netflix where only children lives (don't remember the name), one guy before dying to other people ask to save and store his magic collection
Not exactly pop culture but I've heard a few MTG references in battle Rap:
"The cage show him what a mill' do: I'll fucking deck him for that!
What I land'll (island) plain swamp him, jaws running may get tapped
Your style's amounting (a mountain) to forced punches just so something basic lands"
"His writing’s the same on every card, a standard run-of-the-mill
Damn, these rats relentless"
Degrassi: Next Class had a bunch of episodes showing people play Magic: the Gathering.
One kid's birthday party was a Magic Tournament.
In a recent episode (2021) of one of those US hospital programmes a young boy in the hospital needed entertaining so they gave him some magic cards to play with one of the nurses. If I remember correctly, it even showed them playing part of a game in the background of a scene and when his mum came to see him he wanted to tell her all about the magic cards he'd been playing with (the scene swiftly ended so we didn't get to hear what he said, unfortunately). If you're wondering about my vagueness, it was my girlfriend watching it... I only paid attention because I heard MTG get mentioned haha.
Also, the deleted opening scenes of Chasing Amy that took place in a comic book store clearly had the characters moving magic cards around but was speaking legally-distinct language and mechanics
Southpark also had a small advertisement for MTG where its just a regular "this is brought to you by" and kenny says "that shit's f***g gay"
That was really fun to watch!
Epic! What a fun video thx!
In Supernatural, Kevin Tran briefly mentions Magic whilst giving Dean ideas on how to motivate him.
The 1st Fright Night remake with Anton Yelchin used it. Opening scene on the floor as the camera pans back and later a stand up of Lilliana is in Ed's bedroom.
There was this cartoon in the mid 2000s where they play a game clearly based off of mtg, card backs look like magic cards and everything, I think the show was called "Yu-Gi-Oh" or something
The movie Hillbilly Elegy show Lord of the Pit and Atog, with Atog actually mentioned by name by one of the characters.
I would see myself as a delver of secrets mixed with a rummaging goblin. Always looking for new brews to play, and constantly sifting through my ever growing collection to find the parts to a new deck.
The Blacklist S07E04, around the 30 minute mark. Raymond Reddington (James Spader), as a bomb drone flies overhead shooting a missile at an enemy compound in Kuwait, says: “I won a rather high-stakes game of Magic: The Gathering recently, and I’ve called in my chits”.
Cracked me up, and definitely should be on this list imho.
I watched an old episode of Home Improvement not that long ago, the kids had MTG cards on the desk in their room.
Home Improvement had a few shots in Brad's room where they showed cards taped to the front of his desk
There a quite a few episodes of Home Improvement that had episodes with the sons’ rooms where you can see magic cards taped to desks and walls.
I wan in high school when Spider Man came out and all us nerds were geeking out over that Invasion poster. Man Invasion was a fun block.
in an episode of the magicians a character mentions bribing someone with a mint condition alpha black lotus, another character asks her if magic cards have actual magic and she replies that not, they're just expensive.
Cool stuff, thanks!
Clicked on the video hoping to see the workaholics scene. Was not disappointed.
Wasn't a direct shout out but in Home Improvement later seasons the youngest son's front of the deck had a bunch of cards glued to the front. Craw Wurm was my favorite at the time. I remember seeing it and was like 0.0
I can't believe South park did a whole epispde based around it, that is easily one of my all time favorite episodes of the show
There is a more recent one in Nora from Queens, I can't remember the episode but she literally explains how she won a game citing card names 😂
I’m more of a Saddleback Legac. I carry on my back the burden of anxieties of people around me.
Blacklist Red Redington has a whole story about playing a highstakes game of magic the gathering
Check out the episode "Bring Out Your Beasts" from Craig of the Creek. While the name Magic the Gathering isn't used, the episode to is clearly a reference to early days to Magic the Gathering, including Ante as a plot device. And the cards used have a same frame style as the original card layout. It's really worth checking out.
There’s also the classic floop the pig episode from adventure time
I was here to mention this exact thing. Both great references to Magic.
Came here looking for this one ! Great show. Jeff Rosenstock does the music.
Shortly after the South Park episode released, Kenny got a special invitation to Pro Tour Fate Reforgrd