Yesterday, I sat down with one of Magic: The Gathering's greatest professional players: Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa! PVDDR and I talk about the future of organized play and what it means to pro players such as himself. Check it out here: ruclips.net/video/fRWTkbU6C80/видео.html
I remember making those 3d impressions of the bundlebox. My brother spread it over the internet and now months later, the famour professor is using them in his video. Hope this helps ppl with playing more paper magic with friends.
My favorite part of the video is the showcase of different DIY webcam stands. MtG player today, McGyver tomorrow. And the build-in card scanner is just insane. Hats off to the developers of spelltable - this is really impressive.
Watching this a lot later then it debuted but just wanted to say how much I appreciate people and companies like this channel for giving us that kind of support when humanity as a whole needed it.
As someone who's been playing a lot of commander over Discord, brawl on Arena, and recently was dragged kicking and screaming into the microtransaction hell that is MTGO, this is exactly the sort of thing I wanted to see more of. I tested the card scanner feature for myself just now too, and was surprised at how effective it seems to be. Wizards acquiring it admittedly gives me mixed feelings, seeing as how it's currently free... but I'd also like to see the app expanded a bit in useful ways. For instance, at the moment it tracks commander damage but not commander tax. Great video choice either way, made me click to see it very quickly indeed! (I particularly like that you take the time to get into security concerns too) You rock, Prof!
I've been playing magic commander and pauper using Cockatrice open source software. Is really amazing, it has all cards of magic available, 100% free, you can hover your mouse during the game over a card to see it on your screen. It takes a few hours to get used to the software but to be honest once you get used to it is the perfect place to play casual and competitive level games and is also the place I use to test new deck ideas and upgrades to my current paper decks, there is a chat box as well. I usually go on a audio call with a group or with friends to play it and the game is just amazing.
@@celularphone It's not illegal. The creators doesn't distribute copyrighted material or host WC IP in their servers. They also do not make any money directly from the software using any IP. To be honest is the best piece of software I ever found to play a nice game of magic with friends (any format) and test cards before I make my mind on purchasing singles.
@@dokidokiDoro i could see that happening, they buy it, try "new and intuitive" angle and purposefully let it flop. Either way it makes them look bad so as much as they are capable, i don't think they will.
Hey Brian, just wanted to say thank you for bringing this programme to my attention. I’ve just had my first commander game with my friends since before the start of the pandemic. Genuinely surprised with how easy to set up and use Spell Table is. Hope you and your family are keeping well and keep up the good work.
I've been playing with Zoom since the start of lockdown in March. Soooo sick of it! THIS LOOKS SO GOOD. Already can see how good the features are. And so happy that paper magic still matters to wizards :) P.S. @Professor you didn't link your setup. The expensive one. It looks sick. Please link :)
We’ve been playing twice a week since April on zoom. Played about 4 or 5 games on spelltable. Spelltable does not work well a lot of the time and ends up being very frustrating. Zoom is much more consistent. If the card recognition and audio worked better I’d be all in with spelltable
Finally tried Spelltable with 2 friends and it was a blast! Thanks to your video we managed to assemble our gaming areas and played without any issues.
I've played on PlayEDH when you posted about it in like April. It's also helped me get social interaction while I was locked in with Furlough. I have had many fun games of Commander with Spelltable. 4 player Slivers, I got killed by a life gain land, and other silly tales. All in Mid Tier. Thanks Prof for introducing this to me. I use the Reading the Card Explains the Card playmat.
a few more tips/ workarounds I have found, and want to share. Sometimes Spelltable has issues with all 4 players getting each other's cams, resulting in a lot of reloading. another option is, if at least one person has all 4 cams, and you have access to a discord, have that person go live, and everyone who doesn't have a cam of the stream can watch that one, only switching back to adjust life totals and such. it also gives the chance for other people to watch your games. As prof said, lots of content creators have there own place for playing web games. I'm a member of the Spike Feeders discord and am always down to jam a game of any power level. (contrary to popular belief, its not all CEDH there)
Tip for lighting: avoid overhead lights. I have ceiling lights and mounted my phone with a bendy phone arm thing (pretty cheap, also recommended), but the bright lighting above both blows out the sleeves with glare _and_ makes a big shadow. Instead, find other lights and angle them so they shine from a different direction than the camera. I have a desk lamp set up at a 45 degree angle or so, and flicking that on and turning _off_ the ceiling lights provides a near perfect lighting conditions for the camera.
I have never heard of this but now knowing about it I'm over the moon excited. I don't have anyone to play commander with anymore even before all the chaos. Definitely going to be doing this as soon as I can
@@charanth182 I don't think the secondary market is really profitable for WOTC. I'm definitely not a market expert or anything, but packs full of garbage commons and nearly unplayable uncommons seem like it'd be way more profitable than selling people the cards they actually want. Lootboxes exist for a reason.
So we tried this yesterday with a friend and it was great. Now we are telling the rest of our playgroup about it. Thank you very much for the video and tips.
Now that I've got some vacation coming up, I finally decided to watch this video. My friend gave me a webcam months ago in hopes that I would play some EDH online, but I've been so busy. This weekend I'm gonna start working on figuring out how to set up and light my space properly so I can get started!
I've playing online tabletop for months and didn't knew it! Proff thanks as always, your are amazing man! All the other "ways" to handle the camera was a nice catch to!
@TolarianCommunityCollege I just got into commander again, and my childhood friends live all across the globe. Prof, because of you and this video we get to have fun like we are 20 again! You are best! Never change!
Wow, this such a great video! My Friends and i planned weeks ahead because we wanted to meet up this weekend to play some edh. Sadly Germany is in lockdown again so this helps us out tremendously! Thank you tcc!
PROF, you're a Tolarian Scholar (with MORE upside than a 2/3). I've been looking for ways to play with friends with my EDH decks and I'm SOOO pumped you posted this!!
I'm really enjoying Spelltable, fantastic application. A couple notes from my experience so far (take them or leave them): 1. Cell phone video quality is generally very poor, I tried with an iPhone X, maybe newer ones are better 2. The card reading feature of Spelltable has a much much easier time reading the cards if the camera is directly overhead, it can't reliably read cards at an angle
Wow, this is great! I'm so glad you posted a review or I probably wouldn't have found it until way later. I just ran a bunch of games last night with this. Awesome find.
you can use de-foiled cards as reusable tokens with dry-erase marker. foil can be peeled off from card or solvent can be used to remove the print leaving shiny background (acetone works on contemporary foils but be careful as it is toxic and flammable). you can even just put piece of paper in a sleeve and draw/write on the sleeve, that works too. remember to have a piece of cloth to clean up the tokens afterwards and glhf :)
I just commented that before i looked at other comments xp yeah I'm making my account today before it becomes a paywall of some kind. My only hope is that they actually just leave the developers to do their thing and the only monetization is esthetics only.
Ha, it's terrible I felt the same way. I can only imagine they want to choke the life out of a "free" way to play Magic that isn't through one of their services. I just can't see WotC doing something for the benefit of others without monetizing it.
Thanks for exposing this to us proff! I'm moving back home from college and leaving alot of friends behind that I play commander with but this helps me stay in contact and be able to play with them!
It's taken me this long to get into webcam magic and I think it is going to be my main go-to for a while. Between work, living in the boonies and the price of gas, it's so much more convenient for me to get a came together online than drive 45mins+ to play in person. My rig is jank as hell but it works. 😸
I use my Android phone and I didn't need any additional apps. I just scanned the QR code on spelltable and it automatically linked to my phone's camera.
My friend and i have been wanting to get into commander but have been hesitant since we dont know when we will be able to play safely again, and we didnt want to do it on mtgo. This is so perfect! I think i want to make a gitrog deck or something else with a cool engine.
Nice, I was wondering if there was some sort of scanner-feature included. That makes it really interesting imo. Imagine, as technology improves, it might be possible to play with an overlay, that replaces everything with hq graphics and adds some animations or something. I'm curious what future will bring here. Because I feel like a paper magic online multiplayer is what might bring many people together, that are now only playing locally or that are having trouble to find other players. It could maybe revive paper magic.
I don't get to play as much as I would like, but it has made finding games so easy going into discord and finding a match on PlayEDH and using Spelltable. The fact that they deck check means I have had so many more evenly matched games than just randos at the LGS.
tried spell table for the first time today had a great time will definitely be using it again, just make sure your rig and headset are working correctly before hand i had some severe troubles turns out the last Microsoft update messed with my settings and i had to go in and manually allow apps to use my microphone and new camera
My local shop has 'mander night once a week, and if I'm working, I miss out. So spelltable is pretty nice even after face-to-face play has become a thing. Also useful if you're like me if you spend a lot of time on a deck and you want other people to see it, regardless of whether or not you win 😌
prof you're too cool. thank you for the input and informative video/walkthrough on ST. I'll probably look into buying a set up down the road once I stop buying singles..
I play commander every Sunday using google hangouts. Its cool to see so many options in technology for everyone to be able to play and talk to each other.
I finally gave this a whirl last night. I think it is *almost* as easy as most of the videos I've seen make it out to be, but I do suggest playing with it yourself first (trying different spaces and camera angles and lighting) and, if necessary, buy whatever tech you think you need to make it optimal. I had a webcam on top of a monitor on top of 5 roleplaying books and could still only see ~70% of my playmat, which was fine for that one session, but I'd like it to display my full play area moving forward. (Also, my webcam and/or lighting sucked, because none of my cards were searchable by their on-screen image. But my friend's were, and that is a pretty kick-ass feature.) All-in-all, yeah, this is a very cool and very easy way to play, but I think it does need a little pre-work to ensure the best play experience.
I played with some of my buddies and just used two wires hanging from our dining room light fixture. I just sat my phone down on the wires and it worked great. Told my wife I was just guna leave them hanging there cause I'll need it again. it was simple and if I needed to, its an easy takedown and set up.
My first attempt at playing webcam magic was with a playmat set on the inside of a cardboard box that was laid on its side with a small hole cut in it for my phone camera to see through which was set on top of the box. It actually worked fairly well.
My worry is that if WotC bought it, they will want to find a way to monetize it. So a free browser based tool might become bogged down with some type of cosmetic or worse, just plain selling of data to make money out of it.
I think it’s catch to kill. Buy it and then stop development of it to let it die overtime. Do this to keep LGS happy as well as boost Arena. SpellTable was a big threat to Arena
I just found out about SpellTable yesterday. Honestly its amazing and need more attention. I don't like arena and cant make it out to my LGS to play given my work schedule so this is great when my playgroup cant play.
Just the other day I found myself thinking how great it would be if The Prof would put out a guide to Spelltable so I could finally set it up. Perfect timing! Or The Prof is in my head. Either way, it works for me!
"It doesn't look like we will be returning to normality any time soon or worse, it looks like this may be the new normal". Words cannot describe how painful yet true that statement was.
Great content like always! Thank you! Have been looking for something like this since the start of lockdown, haven't founding anything good until now 👍
I use Spelltable on Firefox without any problems. Also, I use an Android phone as my camera (and I bought an arm to hold it online for 10€). The app I'm using is Iruin Webcam - it's better than DroidCam in its free version. Another thing I noticed is that phones seem to be better than actual webcams most of the time. Phones have very good video quality and a very reliable auto focus, and brightness gets auto-adjusted so well that the lighting doesn't matter much except for the glare. Especially the auto-focus is something users of regular webcams complain about a lot, so using a phone might help them. Then there's also the cost: most of us already own a phone with a very decent camera, while new webcams are pretty expensive now that everyone needs them.
Great video! But I just can’t wait to hear Prof’s take on the Zendikar Rising Fetchlands “reprints” at this point. I wish I could see his reactions in real time.
My friends and I have been using MTG Remote (chrome/edge extension) but this almost looks better. Going to try and give it a shot and see how it performs
It's been great to be able to play throughout lock down. Sometimes it's frustrating when someone has potato quality video or sound. I play in mid and find it funny that mana crypt is more or less banned, but people play it anyways. Nothing beats blowing someone out with settle the wreckage.
Excellent! Now we don’t have to mail that VHS tape back and forth. We’re still on turn 5, and I think my friend is about to go off :’( In all seriousness, though, this is an great resource. Up till now, we’ve only played using Google Rooms to acceptable if janky success. I only heard about Spelltable in passing a few days ago, so thanks to Prof for posting a video to elucidate us on this resource.
Before it was acquired by WoTC the displayed cards also had a link to tcgplayer to buy the cards. . . immediately after it was acquired, that feature was removed. It may be free now but now that its in the clutches of WotC i excpect to see in screen ads very soon.
Yesterday, I sat down with one of Magic: The Gathering's greatest professional players: Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa! PVDDR and I talk about the future of organized play and what it means to pro players such as himself. Check it out here: ruclips.net/video/fRWTkbU6C80/видео.html
We won, The fetches have been reprinted
@@aidant9993 That's sarcasm right? reprinted as masterpieces will do nothing for the price tag.
@@EDHCoffee yes it was sarcasm
Tolarian Community College LFG Prof! Let’s play some paper Pauper!
Professor, I wanna get your camera mount. You promised a link my guy!
Thank you so much for the mention, Prof! We love seeing the cards on streams. They are also really helpful for stealing cards!
I used spelltable for the first time during commandfest. It was a lot easier than I expected - I need to try to make a point to play more.
The first time I used spelltable, my friend's cat interrupted the combo of his owner 😎👌
Nice unexpected counter 😂
Cat stompy is the new meta.
I'm guessing it had flash
A surprise for sure but a welcome one
He just had the Artificial Reality version of Colossification.
I remember making those 3d impressions of the bundlebox. My brother spread it over the internet and now months later, the famour professor is using them in his video. Hope this helps ppl with playing more paper magic with friends.
My favorite part of the video is the showcase of different DIY webcam stands.
MtG player today, McGyver tomorrow.
And the build-in card scanner is just insane. Hats off to the developers of spelltable - this is really impressive.
Seriously though, mad props to them!
One guy in my playgroup has a camera stand made out of lego. :p
I think it's so heartwarming how players are coming together to still play, regardless of what woes the world brings.
Watching this a lot later then it debuted but just wanted to say how much I appreciate people and companies like this channel for giving us that kind of support when humanity as a whole needed it.
Never clicked a link so fast
yay!
No kidding right. I was thinking about this yesterday to do for my friends and I and of course the next day prof delivers!!!
Until the full realization of the phrase "Aquired by Wizards of the Coast" dawns on you... :(
As someone who's been playing a lot of commander over Discord, brawl on Arena, and recently was dragged kicking and screaming into the microtransaction hell that is MTGO, this is exactly the sort of thing I wanted to see more of.
I tested the card scanner feature for myself just now too, and was surprised at how effective it seems to be.
Wizards acquiring it admittedly gives me mixed feelings, seeing as how it's currently free... but I'd also like to see the app expanded a bit in useful ways. For instance, at the moment it tracks commander damage but not commander tax.
Great video choice either way, made me click to see it very quickly indeed!
(I particularly like that you take the time to get into security concerns too)
You rock, Prof!
I've been playing magic commander and pauper using Cockatrice open source software. Is really amazing, it has all cards of magic available, 100% free, you can hover your mouse during the game over a card to see it on your screen. It takes a few hours to get used to the software but to be honest once you get used to it is the perfect place to play casual and competitive level games and is also the place I use to test new deck ideas and upgrades to my current paper decks, there is a chat box as well. I usually go on a audio call with a group or with friends to play it and the game is just amazing.
Illegal
Thanks, I'll check that out.
@@celularphone It's not illegal. The creators doesn't distribute copyrighted material or host WC IP in their servers. They also do not make any money directly from the software using any IP.
To be honest is the best piece of software I ever found to play a nice game of magic with friends (any format) and test cards before I make my mind on purchasing singles.
I use cockatrice for deckbuilding
Whenever i am brewing a edh deck i use the software as a decklist and to test the deck, it is really useful
oh wow! that sounds amazing. I'm checking it out for sure
"WotC is picking up SpellTable"
Oh, i better make an account while it's still free.
#virtualsleevesincoming
@Norman Bergmaier I mean, coming to Spelltable, well aware of Arena ones... Perhaps they can also bring pets later on and charge us for it...
It hurts, deep down, that you're probably right.
won't be surprised if they bought it to shut it down because it hurts everything they've been trying to set up online in... forever.
@@dokidokiDoro i could see that happening, they buy it, try "new and intuitive" angle and purposefully let it flop. Either way it makes them look bad so as much as they are capable, i don't think they will.
Hey Brian, just wanted to say thank you for bringing this programme to my attention. I’ve just had my first commander game with my friends since before the start of the pandemic. Genuinely surprised with how easy to set up and use Spell Table is. Hope you and your family are keeping well and keep up the good work.
Glad I could help!
"spelltable was acquired by wizards of the coast!" not so sure that's a positive, and kind of undermines the privacy promises made :/
Also removed the price feature. Feeling like Spelltable is going to lose a lot of its value the second I get into it
I've been playing with Zoom since the start of lockdown in March. Soooo sick of it! THIS LOOKS SO GOOD. Already can see how good the features are. And so happy that paper magic still matters to wizards :)
P.S. @Professor you didn't link your setup. The expensive one. It looks sick. Please link :)
We’ve been playing twice a week since April on zoom. Played about 4 or 5 games on spelltable. Spelltable does not work well a lot of the time and ends up being very frustrating. Zoom is much more consistent. If the card recognition and audio worked better I’d be all in with spelltable
I was my carnival Rita my mom is so best and I was so much was great🙂 🦗🐞🐞🕷
Finally tried Spelltable with 2 friends and it was a blast! Thanks to your video we managed to assemble our gaming areas and played without any issues.
My first game: Taping my phone at a 60 degree angle with the wall. 🤣🤣
Lol
I taped a box under my table and set another box under and sit on the floor for now : D
You have passed Planeswalker 101. Congratulations.
The prof's ending thoughts on the video brought some sorrow I did not expect =(
Great vid, will try to make it work with some friends
As an IT professional, I VERY much appreciate the fact that you covered encryption and data privacy. 🙏
I've played on PlayEDH when you posted about it in like April. It's also helped me get social interaction while I was locked in with Furlough.
I have had many fun games of Commander with Spelltable. 4 player Slivers, I got killed by a life gain land, and other silly tales. All in Mid Tier.
Thanks Prof for introducing this to me. I use the Reading the Card Explains the Card playmat.
Damn, I really felt that last comment. Thanks for the info, professor, good luck and take care
a few more tips/ workarounds I have found, and want to share. Sometimes Spelltable has issues with all 4 players getting each other's cams, resulting in a lot of reloading. another option is, if at least one person has all 4 cams, and you have access to a discord, have that person go live, and everyone who doesn't have a cam of the stream can watch that one, only switching back to adjust life totals and such. it also gives the chance for other people to watch your games.
As prof said, lots of content creators have there own place for playing web games. I'm a member of the Spike Feeders discord and am always down to jam a game of any power level. (contrary to popular belief, its not all CEDH there)
Tip for lighting: avoid overhead lights. I have ceiling lights and mounted my phone with a bendy phone arm thing (pretty cheap, also recommended), but the bright lighting above both blows out the sleeves with glare _and_ makes a big shadow. Instead, find other lights and angle them so they shine from a different direction than the camera. I have a desk lamp set up at a 45 degree angle or so, and flicking that on and turning _off_ the ceiling lights provides a near perfect lighting conditions for the camera.
Kindly share the link to that bendy arm thing that you mentioned in your post. I am super interested and would love to get my hands on one.
I have never heard of this but now knowing about it I'm over the moon excited. I don't have anyone to play commander with anymore even before all the chaos. Definitely going to be doing this as soon as I can
Perfect timing! My playgroup JUST discussed Spelltable last night
Before WOTC, you could see the prices of cards and where to buy them. After WOTC, you can't do that any more :(
That's silly doesn't WOTC want to sell cards?
Edit: forgot the secondary market doesn't exist.
@@charanth182 secondary market? That's just a myth
You also can't view the card on scryfall through spell table anymore either.
@@charanth182 I don't think the secondary market is really profitable for WOTC. I'm definitely not a market expert or anything, but packs full of garbage commons and nearly unplayable uncommons seem like it'd be way more profitable than selling people the cards they actually want. Lootboxes exist for a reason.
The prices were waay off though. It was a neat option but it usually wasn’t very accurate
So we tried this yesterday with a friend and it was great. Now we are telling the rest of our playgroup about it.
Thank you very much for the video and tips.
Now that I've got some vacation coming up, I finally decided to watch this video. My friend gave me a webcam months ago in hopes that I would play some EDH online, but I've been so busy. This weekend I'm gonna start working on figuring out how to set up and light my space properly so I can get started!
shoutout to the folks at infinitokens. they're pretty sweet.
Why thank you! :D
I've playing online tabletop for months and didn't knew it! Proff thanks as always, your are amazing man! All the other "ways" to handle the camera was a nice catch to!
Happy to help!
@TolarianCommunityCollege I just got into commander again, and my childhood friends live all across the globe. Prof, because of you and this video we get to have fun like we are 20 again!
You are best! Never change!
Dude, I love your videos. Just want to say that. I'm a new-ish player this year, and you've been a great help getting me back into it.
Wow, this such a great video! My Friends and i planned weeks ahead because we wanted to meet up this weekend to play some edh. Sadly Germany is in lockdown again so this helps us out tremendously!
Thank you tcc!
Been using this for a couple of weeks now. It is really great and the playEDH community is fantastic.
PROF, you're a Tolarian Scholar (with MORE upside than a 2/3). I've been looking for ways to play with friends with my EDH decks and I'm SOOO pumped you posted this!!
I'm really enjoying Spelltable, fantastic application. A couple notes from my experience so far (take them or leave them):
1. Cell phone video quality is generally very poor, I tried with an iPhone X, maybe newer ones are better
2. The card reading feature of Spelltable has a much much easier time reading the cards if the camera is directly overhead, it can't reliably read cards at an angle
Wow, this is great! I'm so glad you posted a review or I probably wouldn't have found it until way later. I just ran a bunch of games last night with this. Awesome find.
you can use de-foiled cards as reusable tokens with dry-erase marker. foil can be peeled off from card or solvent can be used to remove the print leaving shiny background (acetone works on contemporary foils but be careful as it is toxic and flammable). you can even just put piece of paper in a sleeve and draw/write on the sleeve, that works too.
remember to have a piece of cloth to clean up the tokens afterwards and glhf :)
Oh no, WotC acquired them? Oh well. I was quite excited about this until that info was revealed.
Yeah, so "excited" to see how wotc monetizes this *smiling mask over crying face meme*
I just commented that before i looked at other comments xp yeah I'm making my account today before it becomes a paywall of some kind. My only hope is that they actually just leave the developers to do their thing and the only monetization is esthetics only.
Part of me was going "cool how can we adapt this to other games?" Any development for not WOTC games has obviously been killed.
Ha, it's terrible I felt the same way. I can only imagine they want to choke the life out of a "free" way to play Magic that isn't through one of their services. I just can't see WotC doing something for the benefit of others without monetizing it.
@@starnik You already paid for your paper Magic cards? Hah hah! You can pay *more* to play with them online too!
Thanks for exposing this to us proff! I'm moving back home from college and leaving alot of friends behind that I play commander with but this helps me stay in contact and be able to play with them!
It's taken me this long to get into webcam magic and I think it is going to be my main go-to for a while. Between work, living in the boonies and the price of gas, it's so much more convenient for me to get a came together online than drive 45mins+ to play in person. My rig is jank as hell but it works. 😸
I wish i could play commander with the prof, i loved his Kassssseto gameplay at gameknights haha
I use my Android phone and I didn't need any additional apps. I just scanned the QR code on spelltable and it automatically linked to my phone's camera.
Where is the QR code on the website?
@@m.dinelle947 when you join a room, in the camera settings, you can choose to use your phone, when you do - it generates a qr code
My friend and i have been wanting to get into commander but have been hesitant since we dont know when we will be able to play safely again, and we didnt want to do it on mtgo. This is so perfect! I think i want to make a gitrog deck or something else with a cool engine.
Nice, I was wondering if there was some sort of scanner-feature included. That makes it really interesting imo.
Imagine, as technology improves, it might be possible to play with an overlay, that replaces everything with hq graphics and adds some animations or something. I'm curious what future will bring here. Because I feel like a paper magic online multiplayer is what might bring many people together, that are now only playing locally or that are having trouble to find other players. It could maybe revive paper magic.
I just noticed his copy of “What We Owe to Each Other” by Tim Scanlon on his bookshelf. That book is epic!
I don't get to play as much as I would like, but it has made finding games so easy going into discord and finding a match on PlayEDH and using Spelltable. The fact that they deck check means I have had so many more evenly matched games than just randos at the LGS.
tried spell table for the first time today had a great time will definitely be using it again, just make sure your rig and headset are working correctly before hand i had some severe troubles turns out the last Microsoft update messed with my settings and i had to go in and manually allow apps to use my microphone and new camera
6:40 I loved how the playmat on top right looks on spelltable
just starting using the table and been loving it with my play group.
Thank you! I was just starting a bunch of research on this very topic!
thank you for making this video - I'd been curious about Spelltable for a while!
My local shop has 'mander night once a week, and if I'm working, I miss out. So spelltable is pretty nice even after face-to-face play has become a thing.
Also useful if you're like me if you spend a lot of time on a deck and you want other people to see it, regardless of whether or not you win 😌
prof you're too cool. thank you for the input and informative video/walkthrough on ST.
I'll probably look into buying a set up down the road once I stop buying singles..
Love Spelltable. It’s been my beacon of light in the dark landscape of paper Magic.
I play commander every Sunday using google hangouts. Its cool to see so many options in technology for everyone to be able to play and talk to each other.
Thanks, prof! Was always curious how ppl played online paper magic. Appreciate the primer.
I finally gave this a whirl last night. I think it is *almost* as easy as most of the videos I've seen make it out to be, but I do suggest playing with it yourself first (trying different spaces and camera angles and lighting) and, if necessary, buy whatever tech you think you need to make it optimal. I had a webcam on top of a monitor on top of 5 roleplaying books and could still only see ~70% of my playmat, which was fine for that one session, but I'd like it to display my full play area moving forward. (Also, my webcam and/or lighting sucked, because none of my cards were searchable by their on-screen image. But my friend's were, and that is a pretty kick-ass feature.) All-in-all, yeah, this is a very cool and very easy way to play, but I think it does need a little pre-work to ensure the best play experience.
This is so helpful and love seeing What We Owe To Each Other in a MTG video.
I played with some of my buddies and just used two wires hanging from our dining room light fixture. I just sat my phone down on the wires and it worked great. Told my wife I was just guna leave them hanging there cause I'll need it again. it was simple and if I needed to, its an easy takedown and set up.
My first attempt at playing webcam magic was with a playmat set on the inside of a cardboard box that was laid on its side with a small hole cut in it for my phone camera to see through which was set on top of the box. It actually worked fairly well.
I've been dying to play some paper games again. Will definitely be sharing this with friends. Thanks again prof, be well!
I have been doing this since March when it was out of a dorm room and still virtualedh, it is so fun
When I hear that wizards acquired spell table, I immediately became concerned. Here's hoping they don't shoot it for the sake of boosting arena.
My worry is that if WotC bought it, they will want to find a way to monetize it. So a free browser based tool might become bogged down with some type of cosmetic or worse, just plain selling of data to make money out of it.
I think it’s catch to kill. Buy it and then stop development of it to let it die overtime. Do this to keep LGS happy as well as boost Arena. SpellTable was a big threat to Arena
Spelltable is fantastic. It felt really good playing paper EDH again. Used a bundle box as a camera stand as well.
Thanks, prof! This is one of my favorite TCC videos.
Glad you liked it!
I just found out about SpellTable yesterday. Honestly its amazing and need more attention. I don't like arena and cant make it out to my LGS to play given my work schedule so this is great when my playgroup cant play.
big tru
This sounds totally ideal.
Shared it with my mtg friends. I hope we can get something going
Great work Prof!
Can't wait to start playing digital commander!
I really love your tie in this episode Prof! Very nice!
Thank you! Cheers!
Fantastic video as always Prof but many magic the gathering players ask the question, Where did the professor get that sweet tie?
Just the other day I found myself thinking how great it would be if The Prof would put out a guide to Spelltable so I could finally set it up. Perfect timing! Or The Prof is in my head. Either way, it works for me!
My first set of games was me setting up a pillow fort tent so I could manipulate the lighting, and playing on the floor. As Richard Garfield intended.
This video was just what I needed to get started for this.
Thanks a lot for making this video. This was much needed!
Really cool video :)
"It doesn't look like we will be returning to normality any time soon or worse, it looks like this may be the new normal". Words cannot describe how painful yet true that statement was.
This was an awesome video Prof! I’ll have to give spelltable a try.
Our group just discovered spelltable and it's wonderful. Wish it would support more than 4 players but it's still fantastic for online play
Great content like always! Thank you! Have been looking for something like this since the start of lockdown, haven't founding anything good until now 👍
I'm literally crying laughing at "I have never received such flavor points"
I use Spelltable on Firefox without any problems. Also, I use an Android phone as my camera (and I bought an arm to hold it online for 10€). The app I'm using is Iruin Webcam - it's better than DroidCam in its free version.
Another thing I noticed is that phones seem to be better than actual webcams most of the time. Phones have very good video quality and a very reliable auto focus, and brightness gets auto-adjusted so well that the lighting doesn't matter much except for the glare. Especially the auto-focus is something users of regular webcams complain about a lot, so using a phone might help them. Then there's also the cost: most of us already own a phone with a very decent camera, while new webcams are pretty expensive now that everyone needs them.
"Picked up by Wizards of the Coast". So... its not going to be free. Great.
cockatrice is free, not playing with paper cards, but you can access to all of them for free so...
Think about the money: people playing paper still make WotC money.
@@xChikyx I looked up cockatrice and its real awesome! Thanks so much!
@@Mwarrior1991 i've been using it for over 3 years, it's just amazing
@@it_is_ni my worst case scenario is they decide it is taking away too much from other platforms and shut it down
I’ll finally be able to put my old selfie stick to good use through this. Thanks for sharing!
Great video! But I just can’t wait to hear Prof’s take on the Zendikar Rising Fetchlands “reprints” at this point. I wish I could see his reactions in real time.
The webcam mount you're using looks pretty nice. I've been looking to put together a setup but I'm waiting on webcams to come back in stock.
My friends and I have been using MTG Remote (chrome/edge extension) but this almost looks better. Going to try and give it a shot and see how it performs
Thank your for this video, really. It's a gamechanger for our playgroup on Discord !
Been following the development of spelltable since before it was called spelltable, it's been great watching it grow
Great video! I was hoping for something like this
I didn't know Wizards acquired Spelltable! That's great news (I think/hope), good for the guys that started it!
I love Spelltable. My friends and I start to use it and it's amazing. It's great to play paper magic again :)
You can also build a pretty good rig out of PVC pipe, if you want something a little more permanent or have a bit if a DIY streak
It's been great to be able to play throughout lock down. Sometimes it's frustrating when someone has potato quality video or sound. I play in mid and find it funny that mana crypt is more or less banned, but people play it anyways. Nothing beats blowing someone out with settle the wreckage.
Excellent! Now we don’t have to mail that VHS tape back and forth. We’re still on turn 5, and I think my friend is about to go off :’(
In all seriousness, though, this is an great resource. Up till now, we’ve only played using Google Rooms to acceptable if janky success. I only heard about Spelltable in passing a few days ago, so thanks to Prof for posting a video to elucidate us on this resource.
Which camera table mount are you using (or type of mount)? Seems very stable and easily adjustable to set aside or turn away when not playing. Thanks!
I just tested this app and it was amazing, had fun casual commander sessions it was fun
Before it was acquired by WoTC the displayed cards also had a link to tcgplayer to buy the cards. . . immediately after it was acquired, that feature was removed. It may be free now but now that its in the clutches of WotC i excpect to see in screen ads very soon.
thanks Prof ur the best! I tried it today after watching this video
Thank you so much Prof for the video and the information!
Thanks as always professor, I'm gonna check it out asap
You can also use toploaders with something solid under it with a dry erase marker.