@@8thPlaceDave the annoying part is some of the three color combos don't line up properly while some do, thankfully my main color combo mardu does line up so I don't get annoyed by my lands
We had a guy who used to play lands up front because "it confused his opponents" so I started playing my lands in an ever growing circle around my creatures and enchantments. But artifacts always go outside the circle.
@@natben6099 there's no rules that say you have to have your permanents set up in a particular way: as long as everything is fairly easy to see and obviously a permanent, i see no reason why it would be illegal
@@natben6099 yes it is legal but very annoying. It was still obvious which items were taped or not tapped and my library, graveyard, and exile were all on the right side obvious which was which. I highly recommend it when someone plays lands up front.
@@natben6099 It actually is illegal in tournaments due to an incident in one with Dryad Arbor in which the opponent didn't notice that the player could block with it since it was camouflaged as a land. But it is legal by the normal game rules themselves.
I believe it's actually legal to tap your lands differently before putting the card on the stack. if you mean saying you cast it then take it back... yeah no let's not
@@SneakySquid1263 yeah nah I play with someone regularly who occasionally plays a card, then wants to play a different card but doesn’t have the right colours to play it, so they tap mana differently to be able to cast it. We all play casually so we allow it but it’s just funny the way they take backsie
@@SneakySquid1263 not only is it legal, in some cases its just straight up better. Say you're casting a Delve spell, but your opponent Mana Tithes the spell. If you've not resolved your mana-spending, you can actually pay the Tithe cost with your Delve mechanic. One of those odd corner cases. In tournaments, always announce the spell prior to any mana tapping.
I like to keep my lands in stacks of one color each for the multicolored decks. Then I'll have my dual lands and utility lands in separate piles from the basic lands.
The backwards tapper hurt me way more than it should, why would anyone do that ???!!! Also I love that on the first segment he actually tapped 8 mana to pay for the 6 cost on his Gearhulk.
I do that actually, when I first started playing my brain registered this as the way to tap and I've been doing it unconsciously since ... My theory is that it had to do with how you set a monster card in Yugioh in defence position, so it probably made sense to rotate cards in the same direction.
@@ProfessorPinchbottom And here i was thinking the same thing but because I'm right handed. I always hold my cards in my right hand and the natural feeling way to manipulate a card with my left thumb is to rotate it counterclockwise.
I’ve been a backwards tapper my whole time playing Magic, and it was only maybe a month or two ago at a 6 player pod that someone asked if I was left-handed because of how I tapped my lands. Bewildered (I am not left-handed), my gaze swept across the table and saw that everyone else tapped their lands to the right. My worldview was shaken that day. I assumed everyone else did the same! In retrospect, just looking at the tap symbol very clearly implies that tapping clockwise is proper, but I think my tapping habits have something to do with how I write by rotating a piece of paper to the left, and so I’ve become used to reading things oriented like that.
@@dapperghastmeowregard That makes sense, it does seem that trying to rotate a hand outwards is more difficult than trying to rotate it inwards, making a backwards tapping right hand and proper tapping left hand a more natural movement
Oftentimes in EDH you have enough lands and mana sources that piles become more of a necessity due to limited board space. When that happens for me, I do my damnedest to separate the "choice targets" out on the side; cards like Cradle, Coffers, triomes and utility lands will be clearly separated, while the obtuse amount of basics and duals pile up.
Personally, I tap my lands by completely covering them in permanent ink each time I tap them, as to make sure there is no doubt which lands are tapped and which are still available for me to permanently deface. Also, lands in front of creatures guy is a maniac.
Outside of major tournaments or really niche situations, I feel like you have to be a major dick to hold that rule against somebody. The order will matter like .01% of the time
Ah, grouping the lands by their colors seems pretty genious. I usually group them by the type I'd like to cast (one pile for creature, one for non-creature spells, and one for abilities).
During Commander games I always start out as Neat Freak, but when you get to the end game and have a ton of mana I can't be bothered to keep organizing my lands that I just evolve into a Pile Maker
I was playing Vorinclex green super friends last night and I Ult’ed Nissa who shakes the world to grab every basic forest. I literally had a neat stack of 33 snow covered forests in play, it was so aesthetically pleasing.
I do the backwards tap. Just seems natural to me if you're using your left hand to hold your cards and your right to move stuff around. I also like to sort my lands into groups, so lands that tap for the same colour will get their own little pile, although sometimes utility lands get split off so I remember they actually exist, sometimes with whatever I need to activate it on top if I plan to use it most turns. When I'm casting spells I often count out the mana i need into it own pile, so my nicely ordered setup goes out the window before long and I have to stop and reorganize my stuff pretty regularly. It's a constant battle of order vs chaos.
Im like halfway between the neatfreak one and the tapp the wrong way one. I like having distinct piles for each color of mana, maybe dividing them into piles of 4, and them being in line with eachother is also pleasing. I also try to order them so that if i have dual lands, the lands to the sides of it matches the split in the card. But then when i tap my lands it doesnt matter which way i tap them, i have caught myself tapping half one way, and half the other way 😅
When a land taps and doesnt untap next turn, I super-tap it. I turn it upside down. Then on my untap phase any supertapped cards get shifted to tap position.
Little fun fact, there is a reason for that: Most people dont technically cast spells "correctly", you are supposed to announce the spell you are attempting to cast, THEN tap the mana for it. What most people are doing these days is just floating the mana for it, then declaring the casting of the spell. Either way works in terms of the rules, and only in niche situations does the ordering of it actually matter. Just something fun to note though.
In a multi-color deck, I tend to put lands that can tap for multiple colors on the left, followed by single-color utilities, followed by basics. I keep colorless utility lands in their own little safe haven.
Obviously the answer to that problem is just to have all of your auras and equipment of to the side, and just remember what they're attached to. Then you'll never tap an aura again
I mean you should not tap the aura because there are cards that care about whether permanents are tapped or not, or cards that trigger on permanents tapping/untapping. It's a similar thing to graveyard order in that most players don't care about it because it only matters in a few situations.
I always tap them together, it's just how I learned playing back in the day. It feels natural now. And before equipment was a thing, it never was an issue because it never mattered whether enchantments were tapped. That's probably the reason why WOTC never printed an Equipment with a tap ability, it would just get too confusing due to everyone tapping the equipment along with the creature. I think that was also the idea behind the Future Sight card Second Wind, as an example of an effect WOTC would normally never allow.
I played against a "Forgetful" tapper. At a point it felt annoying to remind them of the 2 damage they were meant to be taking each time. They got away with probably about 10 damage not taken as I just gave up.
The real way is to play the panorama basic lands in neat piles so that they show the full image correctly. Then to tap them you swing it wide like a single meld card.
In my defense for backwards tapping, that’s just the way that I was taught and I didn’t really notice / pay attention to the direction of the arrow for 2 years. The first time I saw someone tap regularly in a video I though it looked super weird.
i just place them all in a row then when there is no room i stack multiple basic lands of the same color and tend to have colorless mana producing things like sol ring to the left
That's an annoying thing to say. I hate to say it, but it really is. Unless you're playing in a tournament, learn to let it slide. Its an easier motion than pulling the two cards apart each time, and in the very, very slim chance it matters, its incredibly easy to rectify.
@@demonicgrub1025 I don't do it to harass. I do it to teach. It's the same deal as making sure you're not rearranging your graveyard, the same as untap, upkeep, draw. 99 out of 100 times, it doesn't matter but I don't want people to be confused when it does
@@ScreamingSecrets you are absolutely harassing people if you're getting in their face for turning something attached to their creature sideways along with it.
I have attacks of lands based on the colors produced. Like, green mana, black mana, colorless, and multi colors all in separate stacks. I do tap one at a time to make sure my opponent knows I'm using the proper amount of mana, but the stacks must be perfectly aligned.
I line up all the lands that tap for identical values of more than one color with each other (Selesnya Guildgate with Temple Garden and Wooded Bastion, Horizon Canopy with Brushland, and Sungrass Prairie with Selesnya Sanctuary), then mono color, then colorless (if I'm tapping Brushland for colorless this turn, I'll move it here), then utility (these may or may not tap for mana, but I'm using them for some other effect, ie: Rogue's Passage). If the game goes long, and I end up doing basically the same things every turn, I'll organize my lands so that my unaccounted mana is organized and my accounted mana is next to its usual use case. For example, I'll leave four lands (or rocks) next to Rogue's Passage for simplicity, and only move them if I'm doing something else with that mana that turn. I used to tap my enchantments and artifacts... Then I built Meria.
One time with my Simic bullshit commander deck, I had so much land it was easier to keep track of them with the custom token cards and markers. Counted my land when it wasn’t my turn, wrote it down, and subtracted mana as I cast my spells
In my quad-color deck I make piles of fours land each, ignoring color In my bi-color decks I make a row for each color, and special lands are alone I also tap upside-down instead of sideways
my brother has never remembered to untap his lands before he drew, literally everytime i play with him. At this point i’m considering saying “nope you skipped ur untap step, sorry” or just casting a spell during his upkeep and not letting him respond cause apparently u untap ur lands after you draw.
I'm the land shuffler... Then I put them in neat diagonal piles, but every time I tap them, I reshuffle. It's harder to live with this condition than you think.
I am one of those who forgets to untap land. I also put all the colors of the same type near each other, or on top of each other if I'm playing like a lot of the same color.
I play lands in front. I have always played (yes, since 1994) and won't change it at this point. All my friends play like this as well.... because they also started at 1994.
I personally place my lands in little groups, so that all the same ones are together. Like, a small group of islands, mountains, and the dual lands. I tap them that way too, like if I pay one island and one mountain I'll tap the island in the island group and the mountain in the mountain group. It helps me personally keep track of how much of each mana color I have, and doesn't trigger my slight amount of OCD lol.
I play with my lands in the front, and that’s because it’s how my dad taught me to play when I first started. First time I saw someone put lands behind their creatures I was fucking baffled.
I'm number 9, (and 8 if I get manaflooded) it was just how my first playgroup was, when my town first got an lgs in, it was weirdly the most jarring thing to see everyone putting their lands behind their creatures
I’m a neat freak, and I also enchant my lands. I also tend to play mana-centered decks, so I always have sixty three forests on the battlefield, all enchanted, so I spend a lot of time organizing my lands. My brother gets so annoyed with me when we play.
I played magic a ton back in the 90s and early 2000s, then I got married and started having kids and had to take a break for about a decade and then got back into it about a year or two ago and it took me forever to get used to putting the lands behind and not in front, LOL
Tapped mana to the left, untap to the right. Great video, lots of flashbacks. I don't know if you are taking ideas, or working on this already. Type of Caster's/player. The oops caster, I cast this and, oops I meant to tap these lands, actually i meant to cast this first, actually let me start over. The silent machine gun, cast 3 things, activates 6 things, doesn't announce or doesn't allow priority to pass. "oh it's your fault for not paying attention" There's more but I don't think I need to tell you.
i am the neat freak! my friends dont play with me because i take care of their tapped lands so they are symmetrical...i also do this for their creatures....artifacts...enchantments............
I use to play lands in the front because that's how my Grandpa taught me to play then I got into a tournament at my local game store and everyone kept correcting me, and as I was playing magic for a fee years I was quite confused onto what was wrong.
I've been a backwards tapper since i started playing, almost 10 years later, and it's still a habit, normal direction tapping just looks strange to me now
Personally I place my basics on either side of my dual lands so that the colors match up
I also do this, I feel that's just what you're meant to do
That's actually... a pretty cool idea
I do this too
You've got to have the color gradient going.
@@8thPlaceDave the annoying part is some of the three color combos don't line up properly while some do, thankfully my main color combo mardu does line up so I don't get annoyed by my lands
We had a guy who used to play lands up front because "it confused his opponents" so I started playing my lands in an ever growing circle around my creatures and enchantments. But artifacts always go outside the circle.
is that even legal?
@@natben6099 there's no rules that say you have to have your permanents set up in a particular way: as long as everything is fairly easy to see and obviously a permanent, i see no reason why it would be illegal
@@natben6099 yes it is legal but very annoying. It was still obvious which items were taped or not tapped and my library, graveyard, and exile were all on the right side obvious which was which. I highly recommend it when someone plays lands up front.
@@natben6099 It actually is illegal in tournaments due to an incident in one with Dryad Arbor in which the opponent didn't notice that the player could block with it since it was camouflaged as a land. But it is legal by the normal game rules themselves.
@@CrabOnABeach it is illegal, the comp rules specify lands in back, nonland permanants in front
It's not my fault that im supposed to untap my lands before i draw. I wanna draw now, not later.
Just give me the card now, deck!
If that ain't the realest shit I've ever read
This guy needs more blue mana.
@@Magikarp_king
I feel the original post as about every tenth game I die by drawing too much.
Discipline... Need more discipline...
I like how the pile maker actually tapped 8 mana for their 6 mana spell. Even they don't know what they tapped lol
How could you forget the “I tap these lands [30 seconds later] actually I want to play this card so I’ll tap my lands differently”
I believe it's actually legal to tap your lands differently before putting the card on the stack. if you mean saying you cast it then take it back... yeah no let's not
@@SneakySquid1263 yeah nah I play with someone regularly who occasionally plays a card, then wants to play a different card but doesn’t have the right colours to play it, so they tap mana differently to be able to cast it. We all play casually so we allow it but it’s just funny the way they take backsie
@@michaelanastassiou1098 ew...
I feel like this happens a lot haha
@@SneakySquid1263 not only is it legal, in some cases its just straight up better. Say you're casting a Delve spell, but your opponent Mana Tithes the spell. If you've not resolved your mana-spending, you can actually pay the Tithe cost with your Delve mechanic. One of those odd corner cases.
In tournaments, always announce the spell prior to any mana tapping.
I like to keep my lands in stacks of one color each for the multicolored decks. Then I'll have my dual lands and utility lands in separate piles from the basic lands.
I do that mostly if i hafe to much lands. Better this way as absoulute Chaos
The backwards tapper hurt me way more than it should, why would anyone do that ???!!! Also I love that on the first segment he actually tapped 8 mana to pay for the 6 cost on his Gearhulk.
I always do that, Idk but doing it that way feels more natural to me ahah
I'm a backwards tapper and I think it's just because I am left handed.
I do that actually, when I first started playing my brain registered this as the way to tap and I've been doing it unconsciously since ... My theory is that it had to do with how you set a monster card in Yugioh in defence position, so it probably made sense to rotate cards in the same direction.
@@uwutioussterling3576 I was gonna say the same thing, I started in yugioh and then later on played magic.
@@ProfessorPinchbottom And here i was thinking the same thing but because I'm right handed. I always hold my cards in my right hand and the natural feeling way to manipulate a card with my left thumb is to rotate it counterclockwise.
I’ve been a backwards tapper my whole time playing Magic, and it was only maybe a month or two ago at a 6 player pod that someone asked if I was left-handed because of how I tapped my lands. Bewildered (I am not left-handed), my gaze swept across the table and saw that everyone else tapped their lands to the right. My worldview was shaken that day. I assumed everyone else did the same!
In retrospect, just looking at the tap symbol very clearly implies that tapping clockwise is proper, but I think my tapping habits have something to do with how I write by rotating a piece of paper to the left, and so I’ve become used to reading things oriented like that.
It entirely depends on which hand I use, and goes the opposite direction (so right hand taps to the left).
@@dapperghastmeowregard That makes sense, it does seem that trying to rotate a hand outwards is more difficult than trying to rotate it inwards, making a backwards tapping right hand and proper tapping left hand a more natural movement
You know I feel stupid for laughing at the ending, AGAIN. But I also don't care cause I enjoyed myself. Great video!
Don't feel stupid!
Funny the first time, so run it back again for a second time!
Oftentimes in EDH you have enough lands and mana sources that piles become more of a necessity due to limited board space. When that happens for me, I do my damnedest to separate the "choice targets" out on the side; cards like Cradle, Coffers, triomes and utility lands will be clearly separated, while the obtuse amount of basics and duals pile up.
Personally, I tap my lands by completely covering them in permanent ink each time I tap them, as to make sure there is no doubt which lands are tapped and which are still available for me to permanently deface. Also, lands in front of creatures guy is a maniac.
“Your lands untap”
This one is me far too often
Yeah i used to always forget until i learned to say the mantra before every turn, "untap, upkeep, draw."
Outside of major tournaments or really niche situations, I feel like you have to be a major dick to hold that rule against somebody. The order will matter like .01% of the time
Ah, grouping the lands by their colors seems pretty genious. I usually group them by the type I'd like to cast (one pile for creature, one for non-creature spells, and one for abilities).
I’m the forgetful one, so now I always say to myself “untap, upkeep, draw…”
Same
I say this to myself while simultaneously drawing, untapping, summoning, and completely forgetting upkeep.
During Commander games I always start out as Neat Freak, but when you get to the end game and have a ton of mana I can't be bothered to keep organizing my lands that I just evolve into a Pile Maker
I was playing Vorinclex green super friends last night and I Ult’ed Nissa who shakes the world to grab every basic forest. I literally had a neat stack of 33 snow covered forests in play, it was so aesthetically pleasing.
I play a pile system, 1 for each basic, one for duals, and 1 for colorless lands.
I do the backwards tap. Just seems natural to me if you're using your left hand to hold your cards and your right to move stuff around. I also like to sort my lands into groups, so lands that tap for the same colour will get their own little pile, although sometimes utility lands get split off so I remember they actually exist, sometimes with whatever I need to activate it on top if I plan to use it most turns. When I'm casting spells I often count out the mana i need into it own pile, so my nicely ordered setup goes out the window before long and I have to stop and reorganize my stuff pretty regularly. It's a constant battle of order vs chaos.
When I got back into Magic I was mocked and ridiculed for my old man ways of land in the front. :(
I'm with you, it's a hard habit to break.
THANK YOU, I knew I wasn’t alone!
Same.
Yup, I did eventually switch, but it took playing at FNM, away from my normal group
My normal group was mostly lands in the back because they hadn't taken a break from magic like I did, but they didn't really force me to switch
Im like halfway between the neatfreak one and the tapp the wrong way one. I like having distinct piles for each color of mana, maybe dividing them into piles of 4, and them being in line with eachother is also pleasing. I also try to order them so that if i have dual lands, the lands to the sides of it matches the split in the card.
But then when i tap my lands it doesnt matter which way i tap them, i have caught myself tapping half one way, and half the other way 😅
When a land taps and doesnt untap next turn, I super-tap it. I turn it upside down. Then on my untap phase any supertapped cards get shifted to tap position.
Instead of stun counters, I just keep taping it repeatedly. Often they make full rotations and I can tap it normally again.
Missing is the spike variant that puts the spell down and pays the cost after (usually after the spell has resolved, for some reason...)
Little fun fact, there is a reason for that: Most people dont technically cast spells "correctly", you are supposed to announce the spell you are attempting to cast, THEN tap the mana for it. What most people are doing these days is just floating the mana for it, then declaring the casting of the spell.
Either way works in terms of the rules, and only in niche situations does the ordering of it actually matter. Just something fun to note though.
@@ACertainGuy0 I can think of the Assist mechanic from Battlebond(other players can pay mana for your spell) as an example, where this matters.
In a multi-color deck, I tend to put lands that can tap for multiple colors on the left, followed by single-color utilities, followed by basics. I keep colorless utility lands in their own little safe haven.
To be fair, it's pretty annoying to hold your Aura in place and only tap your land (or whatever other permanent).
I'm the opposite. It feels completely wrong to me to tap an enchantment or equipment.
Obviously the answer to that problem is just to have all of your auras and equipment of to the side, and just remember what they're attached to. Then you'll never tap an aura again
@@madsandersen2740 ugh. That' is soo annoying to see! What am I targeting again? Didn't you have that attached to the other thing last turn?!?
I mean you should not tap the aura because there are cards that care about whether permanents are tapped or not, or cards that trigger on permanents tapping/untapping. It's a similar thing to graveyard order in that most players don't care about it because it only matters in a few situations.
I always tap them together, it's just how I learned playing back in the day. It feels natural now. And before equipment was a thing, it never was an issue because it never mattered whether enchantments were tapped.
That's probably the reason why WOTC never printed an Equipment with a tap ability, it would just get too confusing due to everyone tapping the equipment along with the creature. I think that was also the idea behind the Future Sight card Second Wind, as an example of an effect WOTC would normally never allow.
I played against a "Forgetful" tapper. At a point it felt annoying to remind them of the 2 damage they were meant to be taking each time. They got away with probably about 10 damage not taken as I just gave up.
The real way is to play the panorama basic lands in neat piles so that they show the full image correctly.
Then to tap them you swing it wide like a single meld card.
I am still missing: the premature untapper. Untapping before the enemy finished their turn.
In my defense for backwards tapping, that’s just the way that I was taught and I didn’t really notice / pay attention to the direction of the arrow for 2 years. The first time I saw someone tap regularly in a video I though it looked super weird.
plus it feels more natural, (if you are right handed)
My favorite is when someone taps a giant column of lands stacked on each other with their whole arm to cast an Eldrazi.
The last one is the funniest especially when you start shuffling your hand lmfaooo
I'm not sure that's shuffling. Reminds me of something else.
Im a backwards tapper and a neat freak.
When I have a lot of lands I make small stacks of 4 identical ones for easy counting.
I had a friend who played with his lands in front and I always hated it.
Me too
I line up my lands in order, dual lands between the appropriate colors, basics in stacks of 3
i just place them all in a row then when there is no room i stack multiple basic lands of the same color and tend to have colorless mana producing things like sol ring to the left
Always been a lands in front type, this was how it originally appeared in the guide books. I forget when everyone changed it....
It changed when the dryad (That is a land and creature was created and they needed to enforce separation)
I'm currently building a Galazeth Prismari EDH deck. I definitely need to learn to stop tapping my equipments on attack before I start playing it!!!
If I had a dollar for every time I had to tell someone that their lightning greaves didn't tap, id buy a black lotus
That's an annoying thing to say. I hate to say it, but it really is. Unless you're playing in a tournament, learn to let it slide. Its an easier motion than pulling the two cards apart each time, and in the very, very slim chance it matters, its incredibly easy to rectify.
@@demonicgrub1025 I don't do it to harass. I do it to teach. It's the same deal as making sure you're not rearranging your graveyard, the same as untap, upkeep, draw. 99 out of 100 times, it doesn't matter but I don't want people to be confused when it does
@@ScreamingSecrets you are absolutely harassing people if you're getting in their face for turning something attached to their creature sideways along with it.
Never said I got in their face. I'm not rude about it. You can remind someone of a rule and not be a jerk about it
I have attacks of lands based on the colors produced. Like, green mana, black mana, colorless, and multi colors all in separate stacks. I do tap one at a time to make sure my opponent knows I'm using the proper amount of mana, but the stacks must be perfectly aligned.
Sometimes, my brother will have tapped lands facing different ways. *shudder*
I'm sorry that your brother is a godless heathen
I line up all the lands that tap for identical values of more than one color with each other (Selesnya Guildgate with Temple Garden and Wooded Bastion, Horizon Canopy with Brushland, and Sungrass Prairie with Selesnya Sanctuary), then mono color, then colorless (if I'm tapping Brushland for colorless this turn, I'll move it here), then utility (these may or may not tap for mana, but I'm using them for some other effect, ie: Rogue's Passage).
If the game goes long, and I end up doing basically the same things every turn, I'll organize my lands so that my unaccounted mana is organized and my accounted mana is next to its usual use case. For example, I'll leave four lands (or rocks) next to Rogue's Passage for simplicity, and only move them if I'm doing something else with that mana that turn.
I used to tap my enchantments and artifacts... Then I built Meria.
One time with my Simic bullshit commander deck, I had so much land it was easier to keep track of them with the custom token cards and markers.
Counted my land when it wasn’t my turn, wrote it down, and subtracted mana as I cast my spells
In my quad-color deck I make piles of fours land each, ignoring color
In my bi-color decks I make a row for each color, and special lands are alone
I also tap upside-down instead of sideways
my brother has never remembered to untap his lands before he drew, literally everytime i play with him. At this point i’m considering saying “nope you skipped ur untap step, sorry” or just casting a spell during his upkeep and not letting him respond cause apparently u untap ur lands after you draw.
I'm the land shuffler...
Then I put them in neat diagonal piles, but every time I tap them, I reshuffle.
It's harder to live with this condition than you think.
You forgot #10, the player with so much mana that they just tap all their lands and drop their hand onto the table.
ah yes the simic players
I swear we had a guy who played lands Infront and said the same thing "Back in my day we used to...." 🤣
because that was the official (as in the rulebook illustration) form in the early 90's
You ever tap your lands clockwise then tap artifacts, enchantments, and creatures counter-clockwise
1:25 "This one, officer, that's the guy I called you about"
As a neat freak. I feel the need to point out your lack of a protractor.
I said ‘yuk’ out loud involuntarily when I saw the backward tap
I enjoy your content man, I see your channel growing rapidly, keep it up!
Thanks! Glad you enjoy it :)
I recently got into magic and im definitely number 4 😂 i found myself organizing everything making sure the lands are organized and looks neat
I like to tap my lands diagonally just to annoy the ‘neat freaks’
I personally am the backward tapper. It's how I started playing, and I never will do it the other way. A left turn feels way better than a right turn
So many ways! That measuring tape🤣
I am one of those who forgets to untap land. I also put all the colors of the same type near each other, or on top of each other if I'm playing like a lot of the same color.
I play lands in front. I have always played (yes, since 1994) and won't change it at this point.
All my friends play like this as well.... because they also started at 1994.
I personally place my lands in little groups, so that all the same ones are together. Like, a small group of islands, mountains, and the dual lands. I tap them that way too, like if I pay one island and one mountain I'll tap the island in the island group and the mountain in the mountain group. It helps me personally keep track of how much of each mana color I have, and doesn't trigger my slight amount of OCD lol.
I play with my lands in the front, and that’s because it’s how my dad taught me to play when I first started. First time I saw someone put lands behind their creatures I was fucking baffled.
lands on top is a big mood, I sometimes do that when I’m fucking flooded or bluffing/sandbagging hard.
I do similar to the pile but I spread the lands down so that the name of each land is still visible
I'm number 9, (and 8 if I get manaflooded) it was just how my first playgroup was, when my town first got an lgs in, it was weirdly the most jarring thing to see everyone putting their lands behind their creatures
I’m a neat freak, and I also enchant my lands. I also tend to play mana-centered decks, so I always have sixty three forests on the battlefield, all enchanted, so I spend a lot of time organizing my lands. My brother gets so annoyed with me when we play.
You make my day with these videos. They are too good man
Thanks :)
Haven't played since pre-covid but this cracks me the hell up
Literally screaming and crying at the backwards tapper
I'm the neat freak... Best to be organised and see where everything is
I go back to playing Lands on top to weird people out sometimes. Especially on Spelltable!
My friend is the "don't care." Drives me nuts!
When I started playing Magic I was a backwards tapper.
I think I did it because I am left handed and still like to hold my cards in my right hand.
I was deeply insulted pile maker wasn't in the first video
But it was worth the wait this was great
I will admit I'm a backwards tapper. I just always have been. Plus it feels more natural for the wrist to go left than right (right handed)
I feel personally attacked that you'd show my tapping style in #4
the backwards tapper triggered me soo much, i didn't expect that would that much
I played magic a ton back in the 90s and early 2000s, then I got married and started having kids and had to take a break for about a decade and then got back into it about a year or two ago and it took me forever to get used to putting the lands behind and not in front, LOL
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I play my cards upside down so my opponent can read them. - Your Arena Opponent
I still put my lands in front, to the despair of my opponents.
I used to play lands in front, cause that’s how people played when I started playing in 2002.
I’ve never seen someone tap stuff to the left hhaha
Tapped mana to the left, untap to the right. Great video, lots of flashbacks.
I don't know if you are taking ideas, or working on this already. Type of Caster's/player. The oops caster, I cast this and, oops I meant to tap these lands, actually i meant to cast this first, actually let me start over.
The silent machine gun, cast 3 things, activates 6 things, doesn't announce or doesn't allow priority to pass. "oh it's your fault for not paying attention"
There's more but I don't think I need to tell you.
I think I do something sinful but I like it. I play with lands on my left in a column with each pile a color or ability.
Lands in front since '96. Will never change.
0:45 Achivement got: Cancer aquired.
Even in 1994, it was bad form to put your lands in front.
i am the neat freak! my friends dont play with me because i take care of their tapped lands so they are symmetrical...i also do this for their creatures....artifacts...enchantments............
I divide my lands by color, then when i pay cost i group them toghether and separate them again at the start of the turn
I play lands up front and feel personally attacked
Technically there is no "zone" for mana so I just keep them to the left side of the field and people get angry at me all the time for doing that lol.
I am an absolute neat freak with lands. Every has to be categorized or else the world ends right then and there lol
My friend doesn't stack any of his land. Late game his board looks 10x more complicated because most of it is a sea of lands taking up the whole area.
I am the backwards tapper. Only for my lands though and I always have done it.
I use to play lands in the front because that's how my Grandpa taught me to play then I got into a tournament at my local game store and everyone kept correcting me, and as I was playing magic for a fee years I was quite confused onto what was wrong.
The reason lands obviously belong in front is the tap to attack mechanic. Creatures making it through lands get tired! Lol
Ah, I tap my ramp enchantments... It's kind of like an extra land but not really, y'know?
land in da front, let your feet stomp
I did the neat lands upfront and backwards XD. My poor opponents
I'm a combination of neat and pilemaker lol. I use dice to help me keep track of my mana.
I play my magic anywhere except for on a boat so I’m on land tapping my lands.
I play lands in front... now started with Spelltable *before I knew you could flip your screen* Now it just feels natural... it's cleaner imo.
I've been a backwards tapper since i started playing, almost 10 years later, and it's still a habit, normal direction tapping just looks strange to me now