"Karn can go everywhere, but doesn't really have a home anywhere" is indeed a heartbreaking bit of accidental gameplay-story integration. Great work commemorating a happy moment of recent Magic history.
@@cedricappleby2006: That's as maybe, but I'd rather see Living Legacy across the table any day of the week than have to face the Great Creator even one more time!
@@cedricappleby2006 obviously wotc have made mistakes with planeswalkers being too strong but that one doesnt even have any synergies to make up for how weak it is... tap out on turn 4 to make a tapped powerstone!! sheesh!
I think one of the most important things that made this format good was the fact that it wasn't designed with clear, focused two-color archetypes but rather with mono-color archetypes that then led into combination two-color archetypes.
I attended one of those Vonnegut lectures in the 90’s at UMass. It was very cool but tbh he opened with a bit about how there weren’t 4 seasons but 6 adding the opening and closing of summer. He remarked it would be the only think we would really remember about the lecture. Personally speaking, he was right.
That's an idea I've come across before as well and honestly i have no ability to comment on the ecological plausibility of that view but it does kinda *feel* right
The more exposure to various art mediums I get, the more I realize how special Magic is for it's unique ability to combine fantasy storytelling across an unlimited number of world environments with a deeply nuanced game that is also a card game to be played in real life with friends. It's a social game with things to cater to both story driven, lore seeking individuals, and cold, calculating, performance driven folks. I'm simplifying this somewhat, but my point is that I don't believe there are many other topics out there that suit themselves to the format of a video essay than Magic The Gathering. When I say Sam makes some of my favourite RUclips videos to watch, I really mean it; quality, well made, thought provoking video essays about one of my favourite games.
@@iqcool Seconded. Also, I'd argue Rhystic Studies just makes superb essays, period. But his knack for integrating the many unique aspects Magic has makes you realize and appreciate just how much there is to this game. I'm glad it's getting more mainstream appeal as time goes on, because it it's so much more than a "silly card game for nerds".
@@iqcool Totally agree. That's the reason why i am still invested into this game 23 years after I first picked it up. I'm still not sure how I am feeling about universes beyond, secret lairs and all these products. But at this point, Magic is bigger than the sum of its parts, and not even the questionable decisions by Wizards can't destroy it anymore.
@@benjaminfeiner6851: Then it seems that MaRo has finally, completely failed in his quest to destroy _Magic._ Or mebbe he's just handed that job off to Business Daddy Hasbro.
As someone who started in Invasion block, Dominaria United gave me the warm fuzzies of Nostalgia, in a very good way. If only Papa Yawgmoth was here to see us now 😊
@@Bluecho4: I think mebbe Daddy Yawggy'd be tryin' ta mack on Sheoldred. Or, that could just be my naughty shipper brain acting up again. And yes, I _am_ aware that the argument could be made that Yawgmoth/Sheoldred is father/daughter incest (or even grandfather/ or however many greats-grandfather/granddaughter), but if you know anything about me, you'd know that incest is my fetish, so I'ma ship it like FedEx!
@@Bluecho4 Sheoldred: "Yes papa, thank you papa!" (Aside, to the other Praetors) "See? I _told_ you Papa Yawgmoth would think you're all stinky and dumb."
This might be my favorite thing Sam’s ever put out. The fact that he has a three act structure woven throughout this nominally statistical analysis of a draft format is truly beautiful and poetic given the introduction. Cheers, Sam.
As a EDH-only player, your videos have become a way to learn more about the game even if I'm not playing all the other formats. There are so many elements outside the commander context that we don't get to know about... Great video, thank you Sam!
There's never a bad time to learn limited, I started in the last few years after first learning the game in 2008 and it's been a blast. It really is magic at it's purest.
Dominaria United is second only to Neon Dynasty for me as the best overall MTG Arena format. The set supported everything I like about modern limited design: color splashes with ambitious mana-bases, synergistic and grindy value-oriented gameplay, the necessary presence of strong aggressive options, and powerful commons that reward specific deckbuilding choices (Tolarian Terror, Writhing Necromass, etc.) The only real stain on the format's reputation was of course, the undeniable powerhouse Wingmantle Chaplain, which occupies the coveted mythic uncommon slot.
@@yohanesparuntu4980throne got done dirty by not having human drafts early on. Even after adding premier draft, human pod drafts for the set are even better
Sierkovitz is an *incredible* follow, in both social media and for Magic Numbers. But also shout out to the Lords of Limited podcast that was featured a few times in this episode. If you're looking to get better at Limited Magic, there are few places to do so as good as Lords of Limited.
Now this is certainly a different way to look at magic. Taking a literary analysis approach to analyzing magic draft data is a unique yet effective way to review and retrospect on sets of the past. I kee forgetting DMU was a set due to set burnout, but there are a lot of good cards for commander and other formats. Same with Brother's War. Great video as always, Sam! This definitely was an interesting perspective.
With Wizards printing cards so often, it feels that these worlds that they have created don’t get enough time to be explored. That’s why I appreciate these closer looks from Sam. It breathes new life and a fresh take on worlds/art in the game we love. It takes what’s old, and possibly forgotten, and makes it feel new and exciting.
CLB was unpopular on release due to many MTG players not enjoying crossover content and a percieved lack of reprints but I have never heard.anything but good things about its limited environment and it still is my favorite commander draft format.
It's incredible how you manage to make a video largely about statistics into something warm and nostalgic that really keeps you along for the ride. I will never stopped being amazed at how good your videos are.
So, so excited to see this. Thanks Sam. (Also, shout-outs to CardKingdom for letting me apply your creator code when my ADHD brain forgets to add it while shopping.)
I've been putting together a full set cube of homebrew cards based on our longstanding D&D campaign over the last few months, and this was the perfect video for the mindset it's put me in! I'm finally at the playtest phase, and there were some great insights in here to consider. Awesome stuff as always.
We are blessed to have Serkowitz and Sam’s level of quality and skill focused on something as niche and complex as mtg draft. Magic is a beautiful game.
used the advice from this video during an LCI draft. I made 4 color caves and did pretty well. Grabbing lands early meant I had my many fixed really well, and then I grabbed some useful threats later on.
Dominic Mayer, the artist, has been killing it in general lately. Easily in my top 3 of active MtG artists atm alongside Magali Villeneuve and Wylie Beckert.
Here we have another well presented retrospective about an interesting subject related to Magic. @RhysticStudies, I love the high quality of your audio and the care that you put in each frame of your videos. The minimalism aspect seems to be a key part of what you do and the pace of the presentations always has seemed correct. Your show is, at the same time, interesting and pleasant to watch. Keep doing this amazing work! Gretings directly from Brazil!
Drafted dmu once in person and the increased game length thing was really noticeable. People went with surprisingly complicated domain decks and I managed to shine with a selesnya token beatdown. The format was really cool.
This format was so deep and fun, thank you for this retrospective! Love Sierkowitz's stuff, and you as always are one of the best storytellers for the game.
The best union of Dominarians wasn't even from this set. It was the *Yargle and Multani* card a few months after. Centerpiece of a beautiful Modern deck that used Cragganwick Cremator to deal 18 damage to the opponent, winning in one glorious explosion.
Thank you so much for your videos. You choose amazing topics, and you consistently make them interesting. You've got a great channel, and I appreciate your work
Usually I want to get something nice to eat while I watch a new Rhystic Studies video. But this time my cats curled up around me which doesn't usually happen. It was a sign that Is should just kick back and start watching.
I knew I loved DMU draft but I couldn't pinpoint exactly why except a feeling of freedom while picking. Thanks for putting words and data on on it. Now I know why ^^
Totally on board with Ben Werne there. DMU was looking like one of the GOATs from the outset and it followed through at every stage of its development. Not to undersell the gameplay, but what really did it for me was the draft portion. In the running for draft formats which reward most the values of staying flexible and reading the draft well. I've long joked about wanting to skip playing games and just draft again after building the deck, and with DMU it wasn't a joke.
I’ve been learning to gather insights from data with mtg data since SNC in hopes of creating content like this. This is immensely inspiring. Thanks for sharing this stories!
A great video covering a great format's uniqueness. I gush about this set's limited environment every time it comes up and I'm glad this video was made. I'll be showing this to people in the years to come.
I'm curious if the kicker effects on these cards could serve as "win more" effects, so in games where you're ahead, they put you further ahead and seal the victory, but in games where you're behind, the kicker cost is usually inaccessible because you're playing catch-up. Could this help explain the huge difference in win rate when kicker costs are paid vs. not paid?
What a great video! This is my favorite format I have played, both due to the gameplay and the point where I was in my life. Just like having a hand with both Flip the Switch and Easic awakener activation up, seeing a hand with both negate, essence scatter, and an intuition just gives me the warm fuzzies.
Awesome video! Drafting is my favorite way to play, and I love the exploration of one of my all time favorite formats. Shout outs to my favorite drafters to watch, Day9 and Numot are also great to see. For me, i love just how much it felt like th format was always daring you to play one more color.
I know people lament tapped lands especially in edh and precons, but when used smartly like in DMU they add so much to the limited experience. Slowing down the turn pacing slightly, but a trade off of wider options and flexibility, balances out the gameplay experience in a hugely meaningful ways including pushing the importance of decision making while not pushing the format into a deterministic quagmire.
I had my own little epiphany with kicker. And how artifacts like prophetic prism could allow for mono color with a wubrg splash. This occurred while building a pauper cube only to tragically find out prophetic prism is banned in the format.
Tron is mono-colored is most formats, but it’s 5-color in Pauper. Prophetic Prism and cards like it are the reason why. Energy Refractor from BRO has taken up that slot now
DMU is what inspired me to make an Invasion-Block cube. Drafting this slightly shaggy and decision heavy format where your opponent could surprise you (or you them) with an odd splash felt like such a unique and refreshing experience compared to the lean, fast two color formats of modern magic. And seeing as Invasion block was the biggest inspiration, I just had to go back to it and see how classic magic managed something similar.
I love when the big MtG content channels cover limited. Probably a dozen times I've sat down across from someone new at my local game store after a draft and they tell me they watched The Professor's video on how to draft in order to prepare. Looking forward to seeing some new faces after this one. I think this video in particular is going to be great for people picking up limited play. "Nowhere on 17lands do I see a column for fun" is the best thesis I've heard for using the data, but only so much.
The assumption is that winning is fun and losing is not fun. Thus, 17Lands still shows the data for "fun." Even further it shows the cards people die without casting most often, which are probably "fun" cards that don't really work, but are drafted regardless.
19:10 Dominaria was the first set I drafted with my friends. I did not research and went for Azorius when I noticed nobody was grabbing. Figured that'd give me the best selection at least. Nobody, including myself, knew that Wingmantle Chaplain and Shield-Wall sentinel would go that fucking hard lol
Absolutely loved the video and glad to see sierko on your channel. So cool! Bummed that people are gonna start buying up loose DMU boxes. I've enjoyed drafting it for $85 these last many months.
I gave up on playing Magic recently simply due to choices of the company itself over the last few years, but I will always come back for videos like this
I'm not big into drafting generally, but I quick-drafted a lot of DMU. Something really notable about this set is how ubiquitous its cards were in the Jump-In sealed format, which speaks volumes on how flexible the set is.
I end up going 2 color in most drafts except SNC and my third draft play of LTR-I was passed a Tom Bombadil and went five color lol. I haven't played DMU even though it was the main set when I first started playing Magic but this made me really want to dig into it and play with my friends.
Lol, I opend a Jodah at release. . .knew immediately he was NOT getting played that afternoon and set him aside for janky commander fun later. I find the intricacies of drafting to just be overwhelming, however I love learning the stats behind things. I think part of what made DMU so fun was that there were multiple viable options when it came to playing. . .and for those of us not super informed for the nuances of a draft (or even release) it was easier to pick up and build something that might actually work while still being able to splash into third even fourth colors for cards that looked fun to use and would not normally be viable.
"Karn can go everywhere, but doesn't really have a home anywhere" is indeed a heartbreaking bit of accidental gameplay-story integration. Great work commemorating a happy moment of recent Magic history.
Bold of you to assume it's accidental 😂
Of course, the DMU Karn was also just kind of a trash card.
@@cedricappleby2006: That's as maybe, but I'd rather see Living Legacy across the table any day of the week than have to face the Great Creator even one more time!
Does that mean Karn is a Roma?
@@cedricappleby2006 obviously wotc have made mistakes with planeswalkers being too strong but that one doesnt even have any synergies to make up for how weak it is... tap out on turn 4 to make a tapped powerstone!! sheesh!
I think one of the most important things that made this format good was the fact that it wasn't designed with clear, focused two-color archetypes but rather with mono-color archetypes that then led into combination two-color archetypes.
I attended one of those Vonnegut lectures in the 90’s at UMass. It was very cool but tbh he opened with a bit about how there weren’t 4 seasons but 6 adding the opening and closing of summer. He remarked it would be the only think we would really remember about the lecture. Personally speaking, he was right.
That's an idea I've come across before as well and honestly i have no ability to comment on the ecological plausibility of that view but it does kinda *feel* right
I genuinely love this style of videos. MTG video essays are amazing
The more exposure to various art mediums I get, the more I realize how special Magic is for it's unique ability to combine fantasy storytelling across an unlimited number of world environments with a deeply nuanced game that is also a card game to be played in real life with friends. It's a social game with things to cater to both story driven, lore seeking individuals, and cold, calculating, performance driven folks. I'm simplifying this somewhat, but my point is that I don't believe there are many other topics out there that suit themselves to the format of a video essay than Magic The Gathering. When I say Sam makes some of my favourite RUclips videos to watch, I really mean it; quality, well made, thought provoking video essays about one of my favourite games.
@@iqcool Seconded.
Also, I'd argue Rhystic Studies just makes superb essays, period.
But his knack for integrating the many unique aspects Magic has makes you realize and appreciate just how much there is to this game.
I'm glad it's getting more mainstream appeal as time goes on, because it it's so much more than a "silly card game for nerds".
@@iqcool Totally agree. That's the reason why i am still invested into this game 23 years after I first picked it up. I'm still not sure how I am feeling about universes beyond, secret lairs and all these products. But at this point, Magic is bigger than the sum of its parts, and not even the questionable decisions by Wizards can't destroy it anymore.
@@benjaminfeiner6851: Then it seems that MaRo has finally, completely failed in his quest to destroy _Magic._
Or mebbe he's just handed that job off to Business Daddy Hasbro.
@@sdfkjgh Hm, I think I don't quite get your comment - why would they want to destroy their golden cow though? And what does MaRo have to do with it?
As someone who started in Invasion block, Dominaria United gave me the warm fuzzies of Nostalgia, in a very good way. If only Papa Yawgmoth was here to see us now 😊
He’d probably be very disappointed in his children
@@Arkouchie Yawgmoth: "The hell is with all this 'using colors other than Black'? You disgust me. (Except you, Sheoldred. You're cool.)."
@@Bluecho4: I think mebbe Daddy Yawggy'd be tryin' ta mack on Sheoldred.
Or, that could just be my naughty shipper brain acting up again.
And yes, I _am_ aware that the argument could be made that Yawgmoth/Sheoldred is father/daughter incest (or even grandfather/ or however many greats-grandfather/granddaughter), but if you know anything about me, you'd know that incest is my fetish, so I'ma ship it like FedEx!
@@Bluecho4
Sheoldred: "Yes papa, thank you papa!"
(Aside, to the other Praetors) "See? I _told_ you Papa Yawgmoth would think you're all stinky and dumb."
If only it had any setup to a massive invasion whatsoever.
This might be my favorite thing Sam’s ever put out. The fact that he has a three act structure woven throughout this nominally statistical analysis of a draft format is truly beautiful and poetic given the introduction. Cheers, Sam.
As a EDH-only player, your videos have become a way to learn more about the game even if I'm not playing all the other formats. There are so many elements outside the commander context that we don't get to know about... Great video, thank you Sam!
There's never a bad time to learn limited, I started in the last few years after first learning the game in 2008 and it's been a blast. It really is magic at it's purest.
Dominaria United is second only to Neon Dynasty for me as the best overall MTG Arena format. The set supported everything I like about modern limited design: color splashes with ambitious mana-bases, synergistic and grindy value-oriented gameplay, the necessary presence of strong aggressive options, and powerful commons that reward specific deckbuilding choices (Tolarian Terror, Writhing Necromass, etc.) The only real stain on the format's reputation was of course, the undeniable powerhouse Wingmantle Chaplain, which occupies the coveted mythic uncommon slot.
Zendikar Rising has to take my top spot. The last standard draft format I truely enjoyed.
i really liked thrones of eldraine...still my favorite
@@yohanesparuntu4980throne got done dirty by not having human drafts early on. Even after adding premier draft, human pod drafts for the set are even better
Sierkovitz is an *incredible* follow, in both social media and for Magic Numbers. But also shout out to the Lords of Limited podcast that was featured a few times in this episode. If you're looking to get better at Limited Magic, there are few places to do so as good as Lords of Limited.
Agreed. Lords of Limited and Limited Resources are suuuch good podcasts to check out for knowledge of the limited format
Now this is certainly a different way to look at magic. Taking a literary analysis approach to analyzing magic draft data is a unique yet effective way to review and retrospect on sets of the past. I kee forgetting DMU was a set due to set burnout, but there are a lot of good cards for commander and other formats. Same with Brother's War. Great video as always, Sam! This definitely was an interesting perspective.
With Wizards printing cards so often, it feels that these worlds that they have created don’t get enough time to be explored. That’s why I appreciate these closer looks from Sam. It breathes new life and a fresh take on worlds/art in the game we love. It takes what’s old, and possibly forgotten, and makes it feel new and exciting.
CLB was unpopular on release due to many MTG players not enjoying crossover content and a percieved lack of reprints but I have never heard.anything but good things about its limited environment and it still is my favorite commander draft format.
Same. I have a set cube of it so I can draft it forever
It's incredible how you manage to make a video largely about statistics into something warm and nostalgic that really keeps you along for the ride. I will never stopped being amazed at how good your videos are.
So, so excited to see this. Thanks Sam.
(Also, shout-outs to CardKingdom for letting me apply your creator code when my ADHD brain forgets to add it while shopping.)
correspondence! nice to see a fellow scholar in the wild
These data driven videos are something that I'd love to see more of, thanks for putting the effort on all of your stuff, it comes through in spades.
Sierkovitz! Love that you brought him in for this.
That makes two of us ;)
Of all the people who could appear on a Rhystic Studies video, I never expected Sierkovitz! Love to see it.
I've been putting together a full set cube of homebrew cards based on our longstanding D&D campaign over the last few months, and this was the perfect video for the mindset it's put me in!
I'm finally at the playtest phase, and there were some great insights in here to consider. Awesome stuff as always.
We are blessed to have Serkowitz and Sam’s level of quality and skill focused on something as niche and complex as mtg draft. Magic is a beautiful game.
HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT! Hypest intro In a minute. Love the Vonnegut lecture, excited to see the concept applied to magic
used the advice from this video during an LCI draft. I made 4 color caves and did pretty well. Grabbing lands early meant I had my many fixed really well, and then I grabbed some useful threats later on.
Oh man cut down is one of my favorite card arts period. I love stark lighting.
Dominic Mayer, the artist, has been killing it in general lately. Easily in my top 3 of active MtG artists atm alongside Magali Villeneuve and Wylie Beckert.
Here we have another well presented retrospective about an interesting subject related to Magic. @RhysticStudies, I love the high quality of your audio and the care that you put in each frame of your videos. The minimalism aspect seems to be a key part of what you do and the pace of the presentations always has seemed correct. Your show is, at the same time, interesting and pleasant to watch. Keep doing this amazing work! Gretings directly from Brazil!
Drafted dmu once in person and the increased game length thing was really noticeable. People went with surprisingly complicated domain decks and I managed to shine with a selesnya token beatdown. The format was really cool.
This video made me so happy. You're my favorite MTG creator and DMU draft is my all time favorite way to play this game.
This format was so deep and fun, thank you for this retrospective! Love Sierkowitz's stuff, and you as always are one of the best storytellers for the game.
My first ever game of Magic was at a DMU prerelease. I will always remember this format and this set fondly.
Your videos are just so incredibly put together, even from your choice of music in the very first second. Consistently beautiful.
This is my favorite mtg content I’ve ever seen. Really hope you continue doing content on limited mtg, this is a match made in heaven
What an incredible tag team of thoughtful Magic videos and research! Real dream team material here!
A smooth and robust work throughout. Everything is presented in such an academically clean format, excellent job yet again.
Didn't expect to see Reynor or Serral on this channel. Dope!
The best union of Dominarians wasn't even from this set. It was the *Yargle and Multani* card a few months after. Centerpiece of a beautiful Modern deck that used Cragganwick Cremator to deal 18 damage to the opponent, winning in one glorious explosion.
Ive been looking for the right set to build my cube around, this is a pretty compelling argument for DMU. Thanks for the video
Thank you so much for your videos. You choose amazing topics, and you consistently make them interesting. You've got a great channel, and I appreciate your work
Usually I want to get something nice to eat while I watch a new Rhystic Studies video. But this time my cats curled up around me which doesn't usually happen. It was a sign that Is should just kick back and start watching.
I've been saving this one all weekend for today - sit back relax and DELVE!
I knew I loved DMU draft but I couldn't pinpoint exactly why except a feeling of freedom while picking. Thanks for putting words and data on on it. Now I know why ^^
Ay. Gotta shout out. Probably would have never played magic if not for your videos
Also opening up with vonnegut Hits me like a truck. Love vonnegut
Totally on board with Ben Werne there. DMU was looking like one of the GOATs from the outset and it followed through at every stage of its development.
Not to undersell the gameplay, but what really did it for me was the draft portion. In the running for draft formats which reward most the values of staying flexible and reading the draft well. I've long joked about wanting to skip playing games and just draft again after building the deck, and with DMU it wasn't a joke.
I’ve been learning to gather insights from data with mtg data since SNC in hopes of creating content like this. This is immensely inspiring. Thanks for sharing this stories!
SC2 and Day[9] cameos :D
I loved DMU's limited- I decided to use it as the basis for a set cube I'm making!
A great video covering a great format's uniqueness. I gush about this set's limited environment every time it comes up and I'm glad this video was made. I'll be showing this to people in the years to come.
Yessss, MTG and data analysis? This is fucking Christmas to me!
LMAO thats my iceburg! The video was great Sam! Loved the format and you did a great job covering what made it tick! Also ❤ sierko
I love your videos. The fact that I get Magic AND Science tickles my brain like no other. Keep up the great work and looking forward to the next one.
I'm curious if the kicker effects on these cards could serve as "win more" effects, so in games where you're ahead, they put you further ahead and seal the victory, but in games where you're behind, the kicker cost is usually inaccessible because you're playing catch-up. Could this help explain the huge difference in win rate when kicker costs are paid vs. not paid?
What a great video! This is my favorite format I have played, both due to the gameplay and the point where I was in my life. Just like having a hand with both Flip the Switch and Easic awakener activation up, seeing a hand with both negate, essence scatter, and an intuition just gives me the warm fuzzies.
What an elegant question to ask about a format that has been pretty great in recent memory. Cheers!
Love the scribble of Vonnegut at the end, particularily the hair :)
Love the focus on limited this time!
WAKE UP!
New Rhystic Studies!
Awesome video! Drafting is my favorite way to play, and I love the exploration of one of my all time favorite formats. Shout outs to my favorite drafters to watch, Day9 and Numot are also great to see.
For me, i love just how much it felt like th format was always daring you to play one more color.
Super interesting. I am glad that it was mentioned that stats can’t tell you everything, important to keep in mind
My motto for content creation is "data should be the servant, not the master"
Starting with a Vonnegut reference? 10/10
This is awesome! Do more of these format evaluations!
I know people lament tapped lands especially in edh and precons, but when used smartly like in DMU they add so much to the limited experience. Slowing down the turn pacing slightly, but a trade off of wider options and flexibility, balances out the gameplay experience in a hugely meaningful ways including pushing the importance of decision making while not pushing the format into a deterministic quagmire.
Building a 5-color domain deck in DMU was some of the most fun I've had drafting
I had my own little epiphany with kicker. And how artifacts like prophetic prism could allow for mono color with a wubrg splash. This occurred while building a pauper cube only to tragically find out prophetic prism is banned in the format.
Tron is mono-colored is most formats, but it’s 5-color in Pauper. Prophetic Prism and cards like it are the reason why. Energy Refractor from BRO has taken up that slot now
Luckily we still have Chromatic Star, Chromatic Sphere, Wizard’s Rockets, Energy Refractor, and Crystal Grotto lol
Guy releases video in order to get WotC to bring back his favorite draft format to Arena
fucking legend
DMU is what inspired me to make an Invasion-Block cube. Drafting this slightly shaggy and decision heavy format where your opponent could surprise you (or you them) with an odd splash felt like such a unique and refreshing experience compared to the lean, fast two color formats of modern magic. And seeing as Invasion block was the biggest inspiration, I just had to go back to it and see how classic magic managed something similar.
Now I'm looking forward to videos from you about Cube Draft. This felt like a fantastic intro into that :D
Babe wake up new spy family dropped yesterday and now Rhystic Studies
I love when the big MtG content channels cover limited. Probably a dozen times I've sat down across from someone new at my local game store after a draft and they tell me they watched The Professor's video on how to draft in order to prepare. Looking forward to seeing some new faces after this one.
I think this video in particular is going to be great for people picking up limited play. "Nowhere on 17lands do I see a column for fun" is the best thesis I've heard for using the data, but only so much.
The assumption is that winning is fun and losing is not fun. Thus, 17Lands still shows the data for "fun." Even further it shows the cards people die without casting most often, which are probably "fun" cards that don't really work, but are drafted regardless.
I love your Videos on art and the realms of MTG most, but this was, as always, very well done. Keep it up!
Thanks for a great video! And thanks to Siergovich!
This is so cool, my favorite set to draft and an awesome use of data.
Awesome timing I needed something to listen to and watch while working on new pauper content! Absolutely love love love this channel!!!
19:10 Dominaria was the first set I drafted with my friends. I did not research and went for Azorius when I noticed nobody was grabbing. Figured that'd give me the best selection at least. Nobody, including myself, knew that Wingmantle Chaplain and Shield-Wall sentinel would go that fucking hard lol
So happy to see Sierkovitz on here!!
I haven't even started the video yet but I can tell this is a banger. Love the sponsors btw.
The 5/5 discounting cycle were such standouts for the set. They felt *so* good to play, and they had decent cohesion when put together sans Terror.
Absolutely loved the video and glad to see sierko on your channel. So cool!
Bummed that people are gonna start buying up loose DMU boxes. I've enjoyed drafting it for $85 these last many months.
Leave it to Rhystic Studies to have a video be completely out of left field, yet still be quite compelling.
I was just thinking about when a new episode was coming out!!
After seeing all the tweets with DMU draft decks I should have seen this video coming, but it’s a welcome surprise! May need to pick up a box
Borbor/Fbl seems like a super cool idea!
what an insanely good video. thanks a bunch.
I gave up on playing Magic recently simply due to choices of the company itself over the last few years, but I will always come back for videos like this
This was so fun to watch! Ur videos are very enjoyable and informative.
So funny to see a video talking about this format, I had so much fun with DNU. Cool to see the math behind why
I love this! More of this please!!
I'm not big into drafting generally, but I quick-drafted a lot of DMU. Something really notable about this set is how ubiquitous its cards were in the Jump-In sealed format, which speaks volumes on how flexible the set is.
hey, sam talking about limited drafting, i like that format :D
Half hour rhystic studies video essay on dominaria? It's going to be a good Sunday 😎
Love all your videos! Interesting number crunch
Sam, you can't have art AND math. That'd make you too powerful!
Love the story shape with drafting tips. Love your work.
9:54-10:37 man you hit it out the park there.
I end up going 2 color in most drafts except SNC and my third draft play of LTR-I was passed a Tom Bombadil and went five color lol. I haven't played DMU even though it was the main set when I first started playing Magic but this made me really want to dig into it and play with my friends.
Hell yeah! So happy to see this video drop!
This was my first draft format, so I enjoyed this quite a lot.
Thanks for referencing Kurt Vonnegut's legendary lecture. It is such a great listen every couple of years. King Lear, right?
Lol, I opend a Jodah at release. . .knew immediately he was NOT getting played that afternoon and set him aside for janky commander fun later.
I find the intricacies of drafting to just be overwhelming, however I love learning the stats behind things. I think part of what made DMU so fun was that there were multiple viable options when it came to playing. . .and for those of us not super informed for the nuances of a draft (or even release) it was easier to pick up and build something that might actually work while still being able to splash into third even fourth colors for cards that looked fun to use and would not normally be viable.
Rhystic Studies draft video? Incredible!
Glad to see another Rhystic Study video!
Definitely my favourite set in a long time
Fantastic video and excellent Vonnegut references!
Great job Pawel, this is an awesome Collab!
Great retrospective capturing the zeitgeist, thank you!