(Tl,dr at the bottom) I believe the line was "...among the smartest and most attractive people in the world." you can take that two ways, realistically. 1) drop a diamond ring, a platinum necklace, a rhodium bracelet, a playlist with slayer/ iron maiden/ baby shark remixes, a silver spoon, and a golden ticket into a sewer. the turds in that sewer will be "among the most precious metals in the world", but they would not be precious metal. it would still just be a turd that is among precious metals. 2) if you have 10 billion people in a given set, chances are very high that you can avoid being the absolute least intelligent and/or absolute least attractive person on the planet. so if you take those two people, isolate them in their own separate "least attractive/intelligent" group, you could then label the remaining 99.99999998% of the population as the "most attractive and intelligent" group. that would mean you are (technically) one of the "most attractive and intelligent" people on the planet. unfortunately, while the second option is more appealing to your general sense of dignity, it's actually not realistic. two individuals would be outliers, not a group. if we worked off 1% being the smallest tangible group, then the accurate figure would be 76,74X,YZ0 people. the worldwide MTG community is only about 35,000,000 strong, which is just under 1/2 a percent. for every magic player out there, there are 199 people who don't play. if you asked those people if they thought buying 16 playing cards for $5 (I haven't played since conflux so this may be way off, I honestly don't know the price but it was like $4 a decade ago at Walmart I think. iirc, it used to be about $100 for 1 booster box, 2 fat packs and a playmat) was a sign of intelligence, especially considering you probably won't use at least 2/3 of the pack; you would need 3 people out of your 199 nonsupporters to get you over the 1% threshold. keep in mind that you need to tell them about how many sets come out in a year, how you need a minimum of 12 packs in each set to come close to a smooth playing deck, and probably at least another $50 to $100 of individually re sold cards to give that deck a fighting chance and not just a punching bag on fridays. it's pretty obvious that when someone thinks you are making foolish choices and not spending money well, they aren't going to find you attractive. so that pretty much means you can count on 196 of your 199 counterparts automatically not saying you are attractive. so of the 3 people who thought buying cardboard crack was intelligent, you need to be attractive to 3 of them. chances are the lifestyle preference for at least one of them is going to rule you out as attractive. and let's just say you rolled a nat 20 and got 3 supporters that find men attractive (playing MTG? let's face it there is about a 75% chance you are male. and I'm not going to look it up, but I bet Dev has something like a 90% or higher male viewing percentage, so something like a 2.5% chance you are not male if you watch this vid). now those 3 people all need to agree that spending friday night with children and pizza and the scent of a room full of unwashed male body oder is attractive. and the sight of their chosen male getting upset about being beaten by a 7 year old needs to be attractive. and the sedentary life of playing games during the week and watching videos like this to "hone your craft". Tl,dr: if you were attractive and intelligent, chances are you wouldn't be playing magic and watching this guy -blubber- blabber on about it.
Dev deserves more from us, I think. He stays out of all the bullshit and just keeps giving us mtg content that comes from a place of deep knowledge and love for the game. His numbers should always be better than we give him.
31:30 The reason they felt they had to make this card so powerful is almost certainly because it one of the most powerful creatures in all of D&D. It's brutally powerful, but a Demilich _really_ ought to be.
I think the book has looked best in a deck that uses its first ability with plenty of life gain which isn't a terrible deck anyway and wants to run havens. Then if you can sneak the combo on a turn or even make an emergency platinum angel out of a token it can give your opponent another problem to deal with and might just get you over the line. It should be in a righteous valkyrie deck only imo
I feel it worth noting that Book of Deeds combos with Mutavault as well. The real potential with the combo comes with giving whatever Book targets with hexproof.
I love how 6 or so times a year the MTG community comes together, puts all hatred and vitriol aside to come and listen to the musings of Dev. Something pure about it and that like ratio proves it being consistently around 100:1. Thanks for the content!
The first time I Treasure Vaulted into Tiamat and then subsequently Old Gnawbone, Star of Inferno Mounts, and Ebondeath, my friend yelled, "Concede! Broken!!" Just an opinion, but Treasure Vault is one of the best plays in years. Pretty tough to hold enough creature wipes late enough to not get you killed by paper cuts early, but yet on the flipside save you late game from the horde a card like Tiamat can spawn.
Wow, every one of your videos i end up learning so much valuable information. As a very new player of course I don't understand some or it or know certain cards... I remember my first started pack/deck 27 years ago came with a blue ???? (2 words, 2nd word doppelganger, or Maybe it was just doppelganger. & I remember ankh of Mishra, shivan dragon, black lotus, lol. I collected 3rd aka revised edition haha.
WOW. I didn't know this set has Froghemoth in it. I'll buy a box or two just to get that. I still remember the thoughts of terror seeing that creature when we played the module it comes from (S-3) way back thirty some odd years ago. And who can forget the Demilich? ( From S-1, Tomb of Horrors). If you are a D&D fan, these things are timeless.
When you play tiamat as you commander using inferno of the star mount's 20 damage ability is very usable. All you need is to attack once with old gnawbone on the field. You have a good chance of getting at least 7 treasures. You probably have 3 or 4 lands that provide red mana and mana rocks or manadorks that feed mana of any color. IF you had gold span dragon before gnawbone, its done. Its not my goal to do that when I play but I did win more than once by doing 20 direct damage and attacking with more than 30 in dragon power on the board. With Tiamat as a commander, check out kilnmouth dragon also for huge power and damage output.
I just won a match with Mordenkainen and Wizard Class, he had -74 health at the end. Would’ve really benefited from trample that game. Since the -10 ability means you have no max hand size the -2 becomes super powerful. The Wizard class also means you don’t get max hand size and it allows you to put a +1/+1 token every time you draw a card Mordenkainens +2 ability means you can heavily buff creatures.
I love the fact that your top 10s and 20s etc. have a few HM at the start, or will talk about a playset as one rank. Because first, love hearing your passion come out for the game and the positivity, and second, top lists would just be kinda lame if 3 of a top spot were all from the same 'category'. Great job on this hectic spoiler season, really nailed it. Keep up the great work, and rest when you can!
I'm gonna try Asmodeus in the 99 of my K'rrik cEDH deck. The plan is to have him chill in the graveyard so Necrotic Ooze can abuse the BBB (6 life): Draw 7 ability.
nice list besides a few slots but sphere of annihilation is definitely cap. yeah it keeps your opponent from playing for a turn but if they already dumped creatures on the board and you are playing that instead of a board wipe gg
Yes dev content! Also hype for the next stream! Need to see you try a witherbloom lifegain/aristocrats deck. Prosperous innkeeper plus ghast and a couple deadly whatever (village rites 9 and 10) with stuff like Dina and the 3 mana dina (forget its name) and the whole sedgemoor witch plumb combo. Had to cut down to 16 actual lands cause I kept flooding out lol.
Watching this a month later after we got to play with the cards, a lot of these picks seem like they hit the mark, but some were on point. Obviously some were geared towards older formats, and I guess they were decent there...
When you cast wish, does the card you choose outside the game able to be cast for the entire game or just that turn you cast wish? I assume only that turn, right?
People who have played Baldur's Gate all know who Minsc and Boo are. This is the first Magic card I have ever seen where I knew what his voice sounded like the first time I saw it.
I literally got most of these on my pullas didn't read most very well but here I was bitching that I didn't get the 5 headed dragon or the the spider planes walker lady
I wish the values for these cards on MTG Online were more in line with this list. Some of them make sense, but other cards are worth very little for being (possibly) really good cards.
From what I've seen so far, the most oppressive new deck seems to be the Bard Class Gruul aggro deck. It's hitting hard and fast when it pops. Also honourable mention for the Selesnya life-gain deck with the book to smash out angels. Also, that Guardian of Faith just made mono white aggro and Winto decks a lot stronger. I'm not happy about that nonsense. I think this is going to be a very aggro heavy few months. Anyone trying to play Dungeon decks or Rolling decks is going to get run over before they've even got started.
My opinion is that due to Standard 2022 the AFR set is a good release. If we were stuck with Standard 2021 Eldraine would dominate most of the memes that come out of this set.
Obligatory algorithm bump for Dev
yessir
Because he deserves it
"In case you were Wandering" actually caused a spit take. I love you Dev.
“It’s time for a piffy little list, that we can all quibble about” lol ily dev💯❤️
Pithy?
Piff is modern English slang for "good", so I guess it still works lol
I did not realize until now that I’m one of the smartest and most attractive people in the world! Thank you for making me realize Dev!
(Tl,dr at the bottom)
I believe the line was "...among the smartest and most attractive people in the world." you can take that two ways, realistically.
1) drop a diamond ring, a platinum necklace, a rhodium bracelet, a playlist with slayer/ iron maiden/ baby shark remixes, a silver spoon, and a golden ticket into a sewer. the turds in that sewer will be "among the most precious metals in the world", but they would not be precious metal. it would still just be a turd that is among precious metals.
2) if you have 10 billion people in a given set, chances are very high that you can avoid being the absolute least intelligent and/or absolute least attractive person on the planet. so if you take those two people, isolate them in their own separate "least attractive/intelligent" group, you could then label the remaining 99.99999998% of the population as the "most attractive and intelligent" group. that would mean you are (technically) one of the "most attractive and intelligent" people on the planet.
unfortunately, while the second option is more appealing to your general sense of dignity, it's actually not realistic. two individuals would be outliers, not a group. if we worked off 1% being the smallest tangible group, then the accurate figure would be 76,74X,YZ0 people. the worldwide MTG community is only about 35,000,000 strong, which is just under 1/2 a percent. for every magic player out there, there are 199 people who don't play. if you asked those people if they thought buying 16 playing cards for $5 (I haven't played since conflux so this may be way off, I honestly don't know the price but it was like $4 a decade ago at Walmart I think. iirc, it used to be about $100 for 1 booster box, 2 fat packs and a playmat) was a sign of intelligence, especially considering you probably won't use at least 2/3 of the pack; you would need 3 people out of your 199 nonsupporters to get you over the 1% threshold. keep in mind that you need to tell them about how many sets come out in a year, how you need a minimum of 12 packs in each set to come close to a smooth playing deck, and probably at least another $50 to $100 of individually re sold cards to give that deck a fighting chance and not just a punching bag on fridays.
it's pretty obvious that when someone thinks you are making foolish choices and not spending money well, they aren't going to find you attractive. so that pretty much means you can count on 196 of your 199 counterparts automatically not saying you are attractive. so of the 3 people who thought buying cardboard crack was intelligent, you need to be attractive to 3 of them. chances are the lifestyle preference for at least one of them is going to rule you out as attractive. and let's just say you rolled a nat 20 and got 3 supporters that find men attractive (playing MTG? let's face it there is about a 75% chance you are male. and I'm not going to look it up, but I bet Dev has something like a 90% or higher male viewing percentage, so something like a 2.5% chance you are not male if you watch this vid). now those 3 people all need to agree that spending friday night with children and pizza and the scent of a room full of unwashed male body oder is attractive. and the sight of their chosen male getting upset about being beaten by a 7 year old needs to be attractive. and the sedentary life of playing games during the week and watching videos like this to "hone your craft".
Tl,dr: if you were attractive and intelligent, chances are you wouldn't be playing magic and watching this guy -blubber- blabber on about it.
@@Mitchell_is_smart._You2bs_dumb bro what is the need for all of this. Go touch grass
@@Mitchell_is_smart._You2bs_dumb I cant believe this is a serious comment. You need a hug?
People who are intelligent dont say smartest genius
@@4JET I included baby shark remixes in my list of precious metals. I hope you don't take it too seriously either.
*raises hand*: I caught the Greenspan reference.
Me too! Such an economical joke Dev :D
@@craigwarren4202 I think you'll find there's plenty of demand for your supply of these jokes.
Dev deserves more from us, I think. He stays out of all the bullshit and just keeps giving us mtg content that comes from a place of deep knowledge and love for the game. His numbers should always be better than we give him.
Always look forward to your videos Dev, thanks mate
Can't wait to see some black deck techs
"Assembled... a face-book" 😂
31:30 The reason they felt they had to make this card so powerful is almost certainly because it one of the most powerful creatures in all of D&D. It's brutally powerful, but a Demilich _really_ ought to be.
Waiting for some Skeletal Swarming Dank Jank!
I’m working on a skeletal swarming deck for standard 2022 and it’s cranking through diamond like crazy. Definitely not jank haha
@Rancid Hummus I’ll be uploading it to my channel at some point in the next few days!
Oswald fiddlepod is a sweet new brew from jim Davis aswell
Oswald Fiddlebender goes very well with illusionist’s bracers since you can get 2 artifacts with 1 activation. You also get to tutor for the bracers.
Algorithm bump. You've got the best takes on new cards.
"Face + Book" was my favorite pun!
Wish can be used in commander! Exiled cards you didn’t get to cast can be played! So if your combo got exiled while digging. Well there you go.
Seriously I need a full version of that rap opening. It's fire.
"The leader of the pack" "VROOM VROOM, VROOM VROOM" Hell yeah I remember that song.
"The -2 that makes a 7/7 sometimes" when it can never be an odd number :)
Yeah dev. I love your content. Listening to you discuss cards is awesome. Have it always playing while I mess around with my decks
"I'm not going to appologize! I'm sorry" LOL
On an off magic player here... Just want to let you know. You always got the exact info I need for a new set. Da Best.
I think the book has looked best in a deck that uses its first ability with plenty of life gain which isn't a terrible deck anyway and wants to run havens. Then if you can sneak the combo on a turn or even make an emergency platinum angel out of a token it can give your opponent another problem to deal with and might just get you over the line. It should be in a righteous valkyrie deck only imo
I have been winning games with Book, Righteous Valkyrie, and Cleric Class. No combo necessary.
Really enjoy your energy man. appreciate yr analysis of the set.
I think you may be sleeping on Bard Class. Naya Minsc/Drizzt Legendaries is a deck, especially in Arena 2022. Great vid.
Yes I remember, I can hear the motorcycles revving now 🤣
I feel it worth noting that Book of Deeds combos with Mutavault as well. The real potential with the combo comes with giving whatever Book targets with hexproof.
I love how 6 or so times a year the MTG community comes together, puts all hatred and vitriol aside to come and listen to the musings of Dev. Something pure about it and that like ratio proves it being consistently around 100:1.
Thanks for the content!
The first time I Treasure Vaulted into Tiamat and then subsequently Old Gnawbone, Star of Inferno Mounts, and Ebondeath, my friend yelled, "Concede! Broken!!" Just an opinion, but Treasure Vault is one of the best plays in years. Pretty tough to hold enough creature wipes late enough to not get you killed by paper cuts early, but yet on the flipside save you late game from the horde a card like Tiamat can spawn.
Alan Greenspan was chair of the Fed in the 90s. Love your vids Dev!
Wow, every one of your videos i end up learning so much valuable information. As a very new player of course I don't understand some or it or know certain cards... I remember my first started pack/deck 27 years ago came with a blue ???? (2 words, 2nd word doppelganger, or Maybe it was just doppelganger. & I remember ankh of Mishra, shivan dragon, black lotus, lol. I collected 3rd aka revised edition haha.
Love Kalain, i've been getting turn 3 6/6 goldspans out with her pretty consistently.
WOW. I didn't know this set has Froghemoth in it. I'll buy a box or two just to get that. I still remember the thoughts of terror seeing that creature when we played the module it comes from (S-3) way back thirty some odd years ago. And who can forget the Demilich? ( From S-1, Tomb of Horrors). If you are a D&D fan, these things are timeless.
When you play tiamat as you commander using inferno of the star mount's 20 damage ability is very usable. All you need is to attack once with old gnawbone on the field. You have a good chance of getting at least 7 treasures. You probably have 3 or 4 lands that provide red mana and mana rocks or manadorks that feed mana of any color. IF you had gold span dragon before gnawbone, its done. Its not my goal to do that when I play but I did win more than once by doing 20 direct damage and attacking with more than 30 in dragon power on the board. With Tiamat as a commander, check out kilnmouth dragon also for huge power and damage output.
I listened to Leader of the Pack just a couple weeks ago. Dope tune.
I live that the cube eats the planeswalker after 7 counters. Hehehe
Minsc was a fighter in the old Baldur's Gate PC game. I deff think that's the same dude.
I just won a match with Mordenkainen and Wizard Class, he had -74 health at the end. Would’ve really benefited from trample that game. Since the -10 ability means you have no max hand size the -2 becomes super powerful. The Wizard class also means you don’t get max hand size and it allows you to put a +1/+1 token every time you draw a card Mordenkainens +2 ability means you can heavily buff creatures.
"No comments section I'm not saying kalain has haste." Dev not playing with the haters 😂
*dev calls Trample an type of evasion*
Love your videos man!
Cool Chrono Trigger Intro Dev!
Great list as always
Love your channel bro!
Been play testing both Hive of the Eye Tyrant and Lair of the Hydra in modern Abzan since they were previewed have liked both lots so far
I cackled at the ribbit joke. Take my like, you already have my sub.
bruh, dont feel bad Dev, i too am old enough to make references that the ppl around me question lol. i love leader of the pack!
“Leader of the pack ” I get you, Dev!
I find myself underwhelmed by both the dungeons and dragons contained in the “dungeons & dragons” set
I feel the same way, even though this was the set that got me back into playing Magic again lol
Yeah I do wish the dungeons were crazier, or even if there were a mechanic to create our own
Yo I noticed your sol ring in the back ground. So I looked up the value of mine from 93. Hahaha.
The book of exalted deeds gives an angel creature an ability that counters abyssal persecutor’s ability
Lovin the flattery dev
Great insight, thanks!
I love the fact that your top 10s and 20s etc. have a few HM at the start, or will talk about a playset as one rank. Because first, love hearing your passion come out for the game and the positivity, and second, top lists would just be kinda lame if 3 of a top spot were all from the same 'category'. Great job on this hectic spoiler season, really nailed it. Keep up the great work, and rest when you can!
That Facebook combo is freaking sick!!!
I'm gonna try Asmodeus in the 99 of my K'rrik cEDH deck. The plan is to have him chill in the graveyard so Necrotic Ooze can abuse the BBB (6 life): Draw 7 ability.
nice list besides a few slots but sphere of annihilation is definitely cap. yeah it keeps your opponent from playing for a turn but if they already dumped creatures on the board and you are playing that instead of a board wipe gg
Yes dev content!
Also hype for the next stream! Need to see you try a witherbloom lifegain/aristocrats deck.
Prosperous innkeeper plus ghast and a couple deadly whatever (village rites 9 and 10) with stuff like Dina and the 3 mana dina (forget its name) and the whole sedgemoor witch plumb combo. Had to cut down to 16 actual lands cause I kept flooding out lol.
Did not expect an Alan Greenspan reference 😂
Great work Dev, loved it!
Watching this a month later after we got to play with the cards, a lot of these picks seem like they hit the mark, but some were on point. Obviously some were geared towards older formats, and I guess they were decent there...
Treasure vault to pump the 6/6 red dragon gets you that 20 win condition
You da best Dev! Much love.
The den and the lair are really really good
good cut on the intro
Dev, your references are still on point
I am big brain thank you for noticing
Nobody does Magic puns like our man Dev
This is the earliest I’ll probably ever manage to get here.
I dont know if you look at these, but I call it Laughing Life Away.
Deck
4 Tasha's Hideous Laughter (AFR) 78
12 Mountain (AFR) 277
11 Island (AFR) 269
4 Teach by Example (STX) 241
2 Magda, Brazen Outlaw (KHM) 142
3 Galazeth Prismari (STX) 189
3 Goldspan Dragon (KHM) 139
3 Seize the Spoils (KHM) 149
3 Solve the Equation (STX) 54
3 Depart the Realm (KHM) 53
2 Plundering Barbarian (AFR) 158
3 Curate (STX) 40
3 Deliberate (ZNR) 56
2 Valakut Awakening (ZNR) 174
2 Silundi Vision (ZNR) 80
been committing some utter war crimes with Nyxbloom ancient, Chromatic Orrery, Crackle with power and Inferno of the star mounts.
Is your opening theme from 90's classic The Chronic Trigger?
Being able to cast mindflayer's as a creature is the move for me
I know who Alan Greenspan is. Old guys unite!
Me too! Love it!
End the Fed!
Just glad I wasn't the only one.
he pronounced it as ellen so i thought about it for a sec and imagined maybe it was alan's wife
This man just worked in a former chair of the federal reserve into a magic card lol absolute legend you are Dev!!
Favorite mtg creator. Keep it up
"They never saw it comin' like it's Persona 5" After that, i smashed that like (and subscribe) button mister!
i just got the sefris commander deck, i have the booster box on the way
This is a great set. So many fun cards.
Ebondeath is my number one.
I'm coming back at playing magic after a decade hiatus
When you cast wish, does the card you choose outside the game able to be cast for the entire game or just that turn you cast wish? I assume only that turn, right?
Only that turn.
I’m going to bet more people that follow your flow than you would think know themselves some Alan Greenspan Dev
People who have played Baldur's Gate all know who Minsc and Boo are. This is the first Magic card I have ever seen where I knew what his voice sounded like the first time I saw it.
His voice is responsible for my sense 😹 f humor
Who wants some!?!
You point, I punch!
Go for the eyes Boo
This is gonna be my first pre release in almost 2 years, I'm very excited.
I literally got most of these on my pullas didn't read most very well but here I was bitching that I didn't get the 5 headed dragon or the the spider planes walker lady
Nice review
I have the Mordenkainen Planeswalker in my mono blue control deck he's pretty sweet though I do like the spider Queen better 😏
Deeev!, Tinker with Dragon's Approach!
I wish the values for these cards on MTG Online were more in line with this list. Some of them make sense, but other cards are worth very little for being (possibly) really good cards.
Treasure vault won me a fiew games with Magda by geting that one or two treasures i was missing for another activation.
"Go for the eyes, Boo! Go for the eyes! Yaaaahhh!"
I knew you were going to say Alan Greenspan as soon as you said Alan and Goldspan Dragon.
From what I've seen so far, the most oppressive new deck seems to be the Bard Class Gruul aggro deck. It's hitting hard and fast when it pops. Also honourable mention for the Selesnya life-gain deck with the book to smash out angels.
Also, that Guardian of Faith just made mono white aggro and Winto decks a lot stronger. I'm not happy about that nonsense. I think this is going to be a very aggro heavy few months. Anyone trying to play Dungeon decks or Rolling decks is going to get run over before they've even got started.
Thank you for calling out fools that say “not sorry”. I agree that’s embarrassing to hear.
Grim wanderer with demonic embrace. Turn three win?
Sorry I'm late. 70 hour work week. What I miss during spoiler season?
You're faceless Haven is also a god...so you can put the indestructible counter on it too
Witherbloom Deathtouch would be pretty cool once this set releases!
My opinion is that due to Standard 2022 the AFR set is a good release.
If we were stuck with Standard 2021 Eldraine would dominate most of the memes that come out of this set.
Mono-White Face Book. S-tier name dev!
i love leader of the pack the song