i am so glad graham is doing better, one of the few celebs where i was rly feel scared for. good to see him and kathleen in this show i love em both :) i have no idea why their channel isnt more famous its one of the very best and absolutly wholesome
By their own admission they (LRR) know its because they're a variety content group and so their subscribers are spread across many channels and not everyone subscribes to all of their channels. I do agree though, they deserve many, many more.
@@spikysmoothness As Kathleen also admits in this episode they don't actively advertise themselves all that much; a lot of their fanbase growth is word-of-mouth and content-sharing from existing fans, or cross-promotion stuff like their doing the Pre-Prereleases / Strip Search for PennyArcade back in the day.
Every time Jimmy Wong introduces himself I just sit there going "You mean you are Jimmy Wong from Video Game High School right? The Myth? The LEGEND????"
I think the thing I loved the most about this was that rather than play out like a commander draft, the decks played out like what commander was like 10 years ago, right down to the pet cards and synergies. Even down to the way it ended was so reminiscent of the games I played back in the battle cruiser days. Very fun episode!
I didn't believe you, so I went digging into my box of spin-downs to check, because I was pretty sure I had a 10th edition one. And I did, and you were right! The X is on the 10. I never noticed before.
I am actually going to order a copy of Guild Fight for my Rakdos, Lord of Riots decks because I have never seen it before and I will almost always get more value out of it than my opponents!
"I am correct" -Editor...based af Also Pineapple is a perfectly legitimate topping and I much prefer it to other popular topping such as Peppers, Mushrooms, Olives, or Pepperoni. Also King Gizzard mention, what a dub!
I will say this at least once. I don't know the proff personally but his passion about magic really inspired me to get into it again. I would love to play once with you and just chat and chill. Thank you for being around
I noticed this Shuffle Up & Play felt a lot like an Elder Dragon Social Club game and I loved it. Probably one of the best videos I've watched in a while!
One of the best SUP eps in a while, i love the cool... format? restriction? draft? whatever it is, very cool. i also really liked the slightly more laid back vibe, no one was whining about having a bad hand or being targeted, just a chill game, love you prof!
Rafiq was, in fact, my first commander deck. He doesn't one-shot nearly as much as he used to now that everyone is wise to his shenanigans, but I still love him!
I saw original theros(When i started magic) and i have never screamed so loud at this show. The moment prof took it i slammed my desk in joy. The single greatest episode so far just for that LOL
Funny story about Worldslayer. Early in my Commander playgroup, I was able to lock out the table by assembling Etched Champion, Darksteel Forge and Worldslayer. Etched Champion had protection from all colors and was indestructible; the realization of the situation slowly sinking into the entire table was priceless. Things were different back then.
I have a similar story involving a Darksteel Forge, a Mycosynth Lattice, and a Nevinyrral's Disk all under an opponent's control. It was one of my finest moments. Because in response to their activation of the Disk, I cast Word of Seizing, to take control of the Darksteel Forge with Split Second, protecting my whole board and ruining their entire plan. As I recall, what I said was "You can have the Darksteel Forge back afterwards... But you're not keeping anything else."
I got a Kalemne deck where Worldslayer is one of the Wincons, but I use Boros Charm with Sunforger and Mistveil Plains. Basically I get to blow up the board every turn while remaining unaffected. Once assembled opponents usually just concede. Especially if I silence them before they can do something about the Worldslayer.
The one where they had TappyToeClaws as a guest and she obliterated him so badly that he (a vegetarian) asked her for some of the pocket bacon she saved from breakfast has become ingrained in my memory for all time.
@@JonReid01 It was the War of the Spark Pre-PreRelease, final game. The start of the match: ruclips.net/video/mfTzBRm2qaU/видео.html The start of the "pocket bacon" game: ruclips.net/video/mfTzBRm2qaU/видео.html Pocket bacon first appears: ruclips.net/video/mfTzBRm2qaU/видео.html Cameron is given the crushing blow: ruclips.net/video/mfTzBRm2qaU/видео.html
If i had a nickel everytime Graham plays a green commander and wins a commander game during a last stand against Jimmy that is playing a commander with Golgari colors, fiddling with the graveyard and making a ton of value while struggling a lot trying to clutch the win, i'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's hella funny it happened twice.
Kresh is among the first commander decks I ever made from scratch. I have two versions. One abuses the enchantment "All Will Be One" but the second and most recent as of a few days ago is Kresh group hug 🤗 and it's super fun. You all get loads of creature tokens and I don't kill them at all to make kresh huge plus all other creatures what you talking about.... 👀
@@Tornven2003honestly elves would go crazy; constantly ramping and if they die who cares, yot a big kresh. Also Rancor seems like an auto include. Could also go more so mono black and load up on 1&2 drops and use “into the pit” where you sacrifice nonlands to cast the top card. Ive built over 300 commanders and am addicted to deck building…..its a gift and a curse
Kresh is so open to deck design. I remember a few weeks back my pod wanted to do two-headed giant for C-Night and I was bringing my Ramos Godzilla deck. Less than 5 seconds later he messages he wanted to be on my side as he had the perfect deck for it. He brought a Kresh deck all about goad/buff/fight cards alongside big dinos. The whole idea was purely to start a Kaiju Fight Club (which was what we christaned his deck as). I don't think I have had a more fun game than that in a long time.
Seeing that Shards of Alara box set really sent me back in time. I had just gotten into magic when the set dropped and I remember spending my weekends during 7th grade mowing lawns in the neighborhood for the money to buy the fat packs and my first mythic was Elspeth, making her my favorite planeswalker until Huatli (because I love dinosaurs). What a time it was
This episode was awesome Prof, really loved the idea where everyone drafted their own commander decks! Really cool idea to see in this video. I know its not the cheapest but would love to see more like it in the future!
Funny enough, I work at a community college in California and I am the Tabletop Gaming Club Advisor for the club. The other day, one of the students I help said he got some Magic cards at a garage sale. He didn't know anything about them but he bought them for $10 and he heard me always talking about Magic so he brought them by for me. One of the boxes was a mix of the core 2014 and 2015 sets and the other box of cards was Khans of Tarkir and I was just like woahhhhhh I did not know anything about the set since I am new to Magic but it was so cool looking through all the old cards. Got a noticeable amount of value that will be cool to add to my decks and trade with students in the club. Just wanted to share since Khans of Tarkir was what Jimmy was playing with. That's so cool that I never heard of the set and now both Prof and Jimmy were so excited for it.
As someone who appreciates commander but prefers when other formats are on the show, this is the most excited I’ve been for a commander episode in a while! The box decks was a brilliant idea.
Ah, I loved this! a Bit older school (it's a bit, yeah?) Magic tended to have these old western-style one-eye stares that you really, really had to count what you have on occasion, at least on my experience. Thanks so much for sharing these.
23:40 funny, Urza is like the most evil protagonist, while Ashnod is probably the most "good" villain. Besides all the murder and body horror of course
I've never been so hype for an episode of Shuffle Up and Play before! Loading Ready Run was some of my first exposure to the MtG community beyond my little play group. Love seeing the community on each other's channels!
Very fun idea to shake up commander by integrating some draft/limited like elements to the deckbuilding process. This is also proof to the naysayers stating that fast mana bans were bad for commander -- it absolutely isn't required to have fun decks at a pod, and none of these decks were built and tuned to that kind of degree. Fast mana is just an arms race where you have to run fast mana to maintain relevancy at your pod, when it's banned, yes games do take more turns, but it's not like damage and interaction can't happen just because the mana crypt is gone. A single 2 drop dealt over 15 damage alone throughout the course of the game.
What made this so fun to watch was the combination of very little removal and low power creatures that do not generate repeated value frequently. It really reminds me of playing Magic as a teen
This was such a fantastic treat of an episode! Great guests building cool decks from great sets and it was such a good time to watch. Props to everyone
The magic "Spindowns" for both D&D sets were not spindowns, but balanced D20s where the opposite sides equal 21. For practical purposes, any dice that don't have sharp edges are imbalanced to the point that it doesnt actually matter, but many D&D players are very particular about how spindowns are "unfair" (for no particular reason)
With perfectly fair dice, there should not be a problem with spindowns. Each side has a 5% chance of being rolled, and it doesn't really matter what order those sides are in. The problem is when your die *isn't* perfectly fair. On a normal d20, the numbers that are physically near one another tend to cancel one another out. The 20 is surrounded by a 2, an 8, and a 14 (on the most common design), averaging to 11 (a little high but not excessively so). But on a spindown, the numbers next to the 20 are 19, 16, and 13, averaging out to 17. So if the spindown is crooked, that imbalance will have a much stronger effect than on a regular d20. Now, with most dice this won't be a big problem - decent dice tend not to have huge manufacturing defects that would matter. But it might if you're buying cheap dice, like Chessex's Bag O'Dice (which consists of factory seconds). On a related note, stay away from Koplow's Countdown d20s. They're sort of like spindowns, except they make sure opposite sides sum to 21... which means that 10 and 11 are on opposite sides. Complete BS.
@@kilerik I mean yes, they probably aren't *perfectly* balanced. But they are probably balanced *enough*. We're talking RPGs and kitchen table Magic here, not high-roller casinos. I looked at a few videos where people had gone to the effort of comparing about a hundred rolls each of a regular d20 with a spindown and they didn't note any major difference. OFC, a hundred rolls aren't *that* many in context, but to me it seemed good enough.
One of my favorite wins ever was through Worldslayer. I have a Rayami, first of the fallen deck, and though it took a very long time, getting indestructible on my commander and equipping the worldslayer creates a win if you can connect even once. It was an Olympic gymnast routine to actually get through all the hoops, but its a game I'll value the memory of forever.
This is one of my favorite commander videos I've seen. I was 15 when tarkir came out, and my whole friend group had been playing since around innistrad. Commander was just starting to get popular, and none of us could afford singles so the decks were all like this, basically just a pile of the best in-color limited bombs you have collected over the last few years, and whatever space you had left in your deck was ramp and removal. I honestly think I played a game that had 3 of the 4 commanders in this game. I loved the fact that there was no real combo finishers, and no removal, so wins came from accrued value from synergies or individual bombs. Sometimes you would get to turn 30 and each player would have half their deck on the table but no one would attack because they would lose on the crackback. Good times
I cannot describe how happy this made me. Thank you prof and team. I’m young and these sets were the first cards I owned after my dad taught me to play. Innistrad, Core 2012, Theros, Return to Ravnica. I’ve been having a really hard time lately and am struggling to find a job but this made my day so much better
I think this might be my favorite shuffle up and play yet because it does my favorite thing in magic, building with the cards you have, it makes you actually look through your cards and think about cards you might not normally play because "oh I can just by any card I want for my deck". It's why I love sealed and draft so much.
I once saw Guilt Feud in a Mayael deck tech, found that so cool, acquired one to my Gahiji deck Everytime I played it, I died before it triggering, so I don't know if its good 😂😂😂
Loved seeing different cards in a commander game. Please play more games that utilise more unique cards, yes, some of them bad cards haha, but fun to watch, especially as a relatively new player.
I love the set-up. One of the best-received parts of my commander cube is I have a set of mana fixing lands that all players start with in their pools--helps reduce non-games. Keep it up!
I absolutely love this format! I'm only 30 minutes in but I'm loving this episode. Please have LRR and Jimmy on more often! And more box commander drafts please!
What a great episode and format! Thanks for this. The LRR Crew really shines and all in all the whole thing was hilarious. Would have liked even more highlights of the opening. Hopefully this gets lots of views and you can do this kind of format again.
Did you miss the newest Commander Shuffle Up & Play? Watch Pleasant Kenobi vs. One More Mana here: ruclips.net/video/3zaGMuRqyWc/видео.html
I loved that Prof didn't have to hear a single word he didn't recognize for an hour and a half. 😃
Great episode guys.
Graham was extremely wrong about Dig Through Time.
This may be a dumb question, but do you sell any card sleeves with the Colleges logo on it???
No from the hit live action Video Game Highschool
Wow, what an amazing idea for an episode. Props to the Professor and their team for this.
Right! I would love to do this with my friends:(
It is a good idea. Did you know it's also a decently old idea?
Awesome show. Love it.
I would even say profs to the Probessor and their team for this.
I have never been more jealous of the Professors wardrobe than I am right now ..
Props to Kathleen for building Rakdos Group-Hug. You don't see that every day
I play Jund grouphug. No one ever expects it
Is that Jimmy Wong?? From the hit live action movie Mulan!! That’s so awesome!!💜💜
There’s no way
No, that's Ted from Video Game High School. Common mistake.
@@TolarianCommunityCollegea man of culture I see ✊️
Jimmy Wong was in live action Milan I believe. Also, a co host of The Command Zone (another almost as good Commander Stream)…
@@TolarianCommunityCollege was just about to drop the same VGHS joke :)))
"they are a cult and they maintain their own private army" proceeds to play Rakdos, i love Kathleen
Rakdos is freedom!
the difference is that Rakdos doesn’t pretend to be benevolent
@@Helios810 a cult is a cult is a cult, even if Judith gave you a VIP pass to Ragefest.
@@Phished123yeah but the Cult of Rakdos isn’t a bunch of a-hole evangelists
Thought she was talking about WotC and the Pinkertons for a minute there…
"Graham with Blood Seeker" is giving off strong "Wheeler with Copper Tablet" vibes. And I couldn't be happier.
This is probably one of the best episode you had in years. I’m not even 20 minutes into it and I’m in love with it.
i am so glad graham is doing better, one of the few celebs where i was rly feel scared for. good to see him and kathleen in this show i love em both :) i have no idea why their channel isnt more famous its one of the very best and absolutly wholesome
By their own admission they (LRR) know its because they're a variety content group and so their subscribers are spread across many channels and not everyone subscribes to all of their channels. I do agree though, they deserve many, many more.
Thank you!
@@spikysmoothness As Kathleen also admits in this episode they don't actively advertise themselves all that much; a lot of their fanbase growth is word-of-mouth and content-sharing from existing fans, or cross-promotion stuff like their doing the Pre-Prereleases / Strip Search for PennyArcade back in the day.
Every time Jimmy Wong introduces himself I just sit there going "You mean you are Jimmy Wong from Video Game High School right? The Myth? The LEGEND????"
the one scene with Jimmy in vghs legitimately made me cry. if you've seen vghs you know the scene. unforgettable
Loved that show
What a cult classic series, man!
this just unlocked a ton of lost memories omg.
"jimmy Wong? From dungeons and daddies?"
I think the thing I loved the most about this was that rather than play out like a commander draft, the decks played out like what commander was like 10 years ago, right down to the pet cards and synergies. Even down to the way it ended was so reminiscent of the games I played back in the battle cruiser days. Very fun episode!
Fun fact: 10th edition spin downs have the X set symbol on the 10 rather than the 20. So M19 has no excuse.
I didn't believe you, so I went digging into my box of spin-downs to check, because I was pretty sure I had a 10th edition one. And I did, and you were right! The X is on the 10. I never noticed before.
Wizards is gonna have to start making d30s.
Kathleen sneaked in a swear at 51:06 in the same way the actor did in the story Prof just told !
French Canadians smiling at that Tabarnac ;)
Jimmy snuck one in after the Frost Titan pull...ruclips.net/video/VsPOZGkcFG4/видео.htmlsi=H7B-SnOX0jSm_qC0&t=915
Oops sorry 🇨🇦
Tabarnak !!!! 🤩
I think they also missed Jimmy's at 15:19 in all the Frost Titan commotion, lol
Seriously shout out to your editor/s for all the quality humourous inserts
24:27 Jimmy moving the card and the camera work had me rolling
Video evidence of what we all assume no one sees when we do it lol
The editor's reaction to having to count the bloodseeker triggers was gold.
I am actually going to order a copy of Guild Fight for my Rakdos, Lord of Riots decks because I have never seen it before and I will almost always get more value out of it than my opponents!
I think the real tech with it is to have ways so all your creatures have deathtouch.
It's phenomenal with eldrazi
"I am correct" -Editor...based af
Also Pineapple is a perfectly legitimate topping and I much prefer it to other popular topping such as Peppers, Mushrooms, Olives, or Pepperoni.
Also King Gizzard mention, what a dub!
I have limited pizza topping preferences, but pineapple is definitely among them.
I will say this at least once. I don't know the proff personally but his passion about magic really inspired me to get into it again. I would love to play once with you and just chat and chill. Thank you for being around
He goes to lots of GP's I guess my cousin played with him at one
THE Jimmy Wong from Video Game High School?!
I like that the way this format plays out, it's essentially like a really REALLY expensive cube that's different every time you play it.
“You should listen to me more”
“I’m listening to King Gizzard”
That’s such a Kathleen moment 😂
Timestamp?
@@Trisaaru 1:04:30
@NezumiLT Nice
So stoked to hear a King Gizzard shout out 😭
Guild Feud; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
I noticed this Shuffle Up & Play felt a lot like an Elder Dragon Social Club game and I loved it. Probably one of the best videos I've watched in a while!
One of the best SUP eps in a while, i love the cool... format? restriction? draft? whatever it is, very cool. i also really liked the slightly more laid back vibe, no one was whining about having a bad hand or being targeted, just a chill game, love you prof!
There are dozens of us still using Rafiq as a commander. Dozens! And we were mentioned!
Exactly one dozen of us. Lol
Enchantress Voltron never dies!
One more. I got the fancy Capenna one and building him now!
Rafiq was, in fact, my first commander deck. He doesn't one-shot nearly as much as he used to now that everyone is wise to his shenanigans, but I still love him!
I've wanted the Jund em out sleeves for the longest time but theyre never in stock!!! Loved this episode, very fun and entertaining!
I saw original theros(When i started magic) and i have never screamed so loud at this show. The moment prof took it i slammed my desk in joy. The single greatest episode so far just for that LOL
I started in Alara, so I had the same reaction
I never get to see Graham and Kathleen in videos outside of LoadingReadyRun. I'm so happy to see them getting some screentime on other channels.
LRR does a lot of stuff on the Card market channel, which I highly recommend
If you haven't seen it, look up the commander game they played on The Command Zone where Graham plays his bear tribal deck. It's glorious.
@@deadeadedBear Force Two was fun, but that original deck was the best.
Whoah is that Jimmy Wong from the newest episode of Three Floating??
Yeah, people don't realize he plays Magic too!
No that’s Jimmy Wong, younger brother of Freddiew duh
What is three floating? Where to find this
@@commandcastYou mean Jimmy Wong of the first campaign of DUNGEONS & DADDIES????
@patches.742 it's literally the name of the channel, three floating.
Funny story about Worldslayer. Early in my Commander playgroup, I was able to lock out the table by assembling Etched Champion, Darksteel Forge and Worldslayer. Etched Champion had protection from all colors and was indestructible; the realization of the situation slowly sinking into the entire table was priceless. Things were different back then.
I have a similar story involving a Darksteel Forge, a Mycosynth Lattice, and a Nevinyrral's Disk all under an opponent's control.
It was one of my finest moments.
Because in response to their activation of the Disk, I cast Word of Seizing, to take control of the Darksteel Forge with Split Second, protecting my whole board and ruining their entire plan.
As I recall, what I said was "You can have the Darksteel Forge back afterwards... But you're not keeping anything else."
I got a Kalemne deck where Worldslayer is one of the Wincons, but I use Boros Charm with Sunforger and Mistveil Plains.
Basically I get to blow up the board every turn while remaining unaffected.
Once assembled opponents usually just concede. Especially if I silence them before they can do something about the Worldslayer.
Kathleen & Graham are RUclips Commander Mercs. They guest everywhere and anywhere they hear the call of the cards.
Kathleen: *hates Selesnya, plays Rakdos*
Me: "Ah, a kindred spirit!"
A cult with a standing army? Nono, I prefer my cult with a side of murder circus.
@@Durtaz THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING!!
I already love the slight notch to LRR Videos with the 10 Minutes of opening boosters, already brings back good memories of PrePrerealeses
The one where they had TappyToeClaws as a guest and she obliterated him so badly that he (a vegetarian) asked her for some of the pocket bacon she saved from breakfast has become ingrained in my memory for all time.
@@mlernout what keywords could I search to find this episode? Thanks !
@@JonReid01 I believe it was the final match of the War of the Spark PPR.
@@JonReid01 It was the War of the Spark Pre-PreRelease, final game.
The start of the match: ruclips.net/video/mfTzBRm2qaU/видео.html
The start of the "pocket bacon" game: ruclips.net/video/mfTzBRm2qaU/видео.html
Pocket bacon first appears: ruclips.net/video/mfTzBRm2qaU/видео.html
Cameron is given the crushing blow: ruclips.net/video/mfTzBRm2qaU/видео.html
@@mlernout you rock so much thank you! "Sydney Stalf" lol
If i had a nickel everytime Graham plays a green commander and wins a commander game during a last stand against Jimmy that is playing a commander with Golgari colors, fiddling with the graveyard and making a ton of value while struggling a lot trying to clutch the win, i'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's hella funny it happened twice.
Underrated comment 😂😂
The ABSOLUTE best Magic: The Gathering content creators together is always welcome! THANK YOU PROF!
Kresh is among the first commander decks I ever made from scratch. I have two versions. One abuses the enchantment "All Will Be One" but the second and most recent as of a few days ago is Kresh group hug 🤗 and it's super fun. You all get loads of creature tokens and I don't kill them at all to make kresh huge plus all other creatures what you talking about.... 👀
my BF had a Kreshh deck but it was all about goblins (he was going for an Overlord theme with Kressh as the Overlord).
My Kresh deck is werewolf tribal
This is so cool that there's so many totally different Kresh decks haha. I wonder what the other themes are? 😀
@@Tornven2003honestly elves would go crazy; constantly ramping and if they die who cares, yot a big kresh. Also Rancor seems like an auto include. Could also go more so mono black and load up on 1&2 drops and use “into the pit” where you sacrifice nonlands to cast the top card. Ive built over 300 commanders and am addicted to deck building…..its a gift and a curse
Kresh is so open to deck design. I remember a few weeks back my pod wanted to do two-headed giant for C-Night and I was bringing my Ramos Godzilla deck. Less than 5 seconds later he messages he wanted to be on my side as he had the perfect deck for it. He brought a Kresh deck all about goad/buff/fight cards alongside big dinos. The whole idea was purely to start a Kaiju Fight Club (which was what we christaned his deck as).
I don't think I have had a more fun game than that in a long time.
Kathleen convinced me; subscribed! 😊
I really do like Ham and Pineapple, though I also like adding jalapeños or banana peppers for some sour and heat.
Pineapple is a good topping, but only when the other toppings are savory or salty.
@@maurtendopepperoni pineapple is the way to go with the occasional mushroom
I can't stomach the texture of pineapple, so that's a "no" from me. I am partial to spicy pepperoni, however
Ham, pineapple, and jalapeños is a good shout. Never thought of that.
Yeppers pepperoni pineapple jalapeño is the bees knees
Seeing that Shards of Alara box set really sent me back in time. I had just gotten into magic when the set dropped and I remember spending my weekends during 7th grade mowing lawns in the neighborhood for the money to buy the fat packs and my first mythic was Elspeth, making her my favorite planeswalker until Huatli (because I love dinosaurs). What a time it was
1:17:25 I thought it was funny, Prof, even though no one else at the table laughed.
Woah hahaha 51:07 she just drops an uncensored cuss that would have gotten me in some serious trouble while I was in school!
This episode was awesome Prof,
really loved the idea where everyone drafted their own commander decks! Really cool idea to see in this video. I know its not the cheapest but would love to see more like it in the future!
As someone who only got into magic relatively recently this is devoid of all nostalgia but still crazy fascinating to me!
Funny enough, I work at a community college in California and I am the Tabletop Gaming Club Advisor for the club. The other day, one of the students I help said he got some Magic cards at a garage sale. He didn't know anything about them but he bought them for $10 and he heard me always talking about Magic so he brought them by for me. One of the boxes was a mix of the core 2014 and 2015 sets and the other box of cards was Khans of Tarkir and I was just like woahhhhhh I did not know anything about the set since I am new to Magic but it was so cool looking through all the old cards. Got a noticeable amount of value that will be cool to add to my decks and trade with students in the club.
Just wanted to share since Khans of Tarkir was what Jimmy was playing with. That's so cool that I never heard of the set and now both Prof and Jimmy were so excited for it.
As someone who appreciates commander but prefers when other formats are on the show, this is the most excited I’ve been for a commander episode in a while! The box decks was a brilliant idea.
Ah, I loved this! a Bit older school (it's a bit, yeah?) Magic tended to have these old western-style one-eye stares that you really, really had to count what you have on occasion, at least on my experience. Thanks so much for sharing these.
56:24 Technically, Xenagos isn't a God at this time. Not a creature, and therefor no creature type 😈💜
Nah this lineup is about to be like the back of the class and I’m all here for it! 😂
51:06 Kathleen saying Tabarnak made my Quebecois heart happy!
23:40 funny, Urza is like the most evil protagonist, while Ashnod is probably the most "good" villain. Besides all the murder and body horror of course
How on EARTH did you get Jimmy Wong from the hit Internet Series Video Game High School??!
A boxing league is such a cool idea this video was amazing
I've never been so hype for an episode of Shuffle Up and Play before! Loading Ready Run was some of my first exposure to the MtG community beyond my little play group. Love seeing the community on each other's channels!
Very fun idea to shake up commander by integrating some draft/limited like elements to the deckbuilding process.
This is also proof to the naysayers stating that fast mana bans were bad for commander -- it absolutely isn't required to have fun decks at a pod, and none of these decks were built and tuned to that kind of degree. Fast mana is just an arms race where you have to run fast mana to maintain relevancy at your pod, when it's banned, yes games do take more turns, but it's not like damage and interaction can't happen just because the mana crypt is gone. A single 2 drop dealt over 15 damage alone throughout the course of the game.
What made this so fun to watch was the combination of very little removal and low power creatures that do not generate repeated value frequently. It really reminds me of playing Magic as a teen
Graham and Kathyn are such good guests and so wholesome
Anytime they’re on it’s always a blast
1:03:22 editor he didn't miss a trigger, he simply decided not to deal the damage :)
Love seeing Jimmy with no script! He’s so chill in organic, casual environments like this!
This was such a fantastic treat of an episode! Great guests building cool decks from great sets and it was such a good time to watch. Props to everyone
This is gonna be great. Now all I’m waiting for is the episode with a member from Dropout, Smosh, and LRR together!
This is without a doubt one of my most favorite episodes! I love the idea. Definitely will try this one day with my group.
Excellent idea, great guests, fun to watch! ❤
super fun to watch! props to anyone involved in the making of this episode! I had a blast :)
The magic "Spindowns" for both D&D sets were not spindowns, but balanced D20s where the opposite sides equal 21.
For practical purposes, any dice that don't have sharp edges are imbalanced to the point that it doesnt actually matter, but many D&D players are very particular about how spindowns are "unfair" (for no particular reason)
With perfectly fair dice, there should not be a problem with spindowns. Each side has a 5% chance of being rolled, and it doesn't really matter what order those sides are in. The problem is when your die *isn't* perfectly fair. On a normal d20, the numbers that are physically near one another tend to cancel one another out. The 20 is surrounded by a 2, an 8, and a 14 (on the most common design), averaging to 11 (a little high but not excessively so). But on a spindown, the numbers next to the 20 are 19, 16, and 13, averaging out to 17. So if the spindown is crooked, that imbalance will have a much stronger effect than on a regular d20.
Now, with most dice this won't be a big problem - decent dice tend not to have huge manufacturing defects that would matter. But it might if you're buying cheap dice, like Chessex's Bag O'Dice (which consists of factory seconds).
On a related note, stay away from Koplow's Countdown d20s. They're sort of like spindowns, except they make sure opposite sides sum to 21... which means that 10 and 11 are on opposite sides. Complete BS.
Almost all d20s are not balanced, the numbers ona a certain axis tend to roll more.
@@kilerik I mean yes, they probably aren't *perfectly* balanced. But they are probably balanced *enough*. We're talking RPGs and kitchen table Magic here, not high-roller casinos. I looked at a few videos where people had gone to the effort of comparing about a hundred rolls each of a regular d20 with a spindown and they didn't note any major difference. OFC, a hundred rolls aren't *that* many in context, but to me it seemed good enough.
This was phenomenal!! Love the guests, the energy, and the format
🔥😁 THIS WAS SUCH A GREAT IDEA! I Loved this episode 😁🔥
One of my favorite wins ever was through Worldslayer. I have a Rayami, first of the fallen deck, and though it took a very long time, getting indestructible on my commander and equipping the worldslayer creates a win if you can connect even once. It was an Olympic gymnast routine to actually get through all the hoops, but its a game I'll value the memory of forever.
whoa. a heavy hitting episode. bookmarked for later!
Love the TCC editors! Keep up the great work the community loves you!
Kathleen learning not only why Guild Feud isn't good, but just how bad it _could_ be lol
"Why have I never seen this before?"
*accidentally gifts 2 different opponents 7 mana creatures*
"Ah, now I see why."
This is one of my favorite commander videos I've seen. I was 15 when tarkir came out, and my whole friend group had been playing since around innistrad. Commander was just starting to get popular, and none of us could afford singles so the decks were all like this, basically just a pile of the best in-color limited bombs you have collected over the last few years, and whatever space you had left in your deck was ramp and removal. I honestly think I played a game that had 3 of the 4 commanders in this game. I loved the fact that there was no real combo finishers, and no removal, so wins came from accrued value from synergies or individual bombs. Sometimes you would get to turn 30 and each player would have half their deck on the table but no one would attack because they would lose on the crackback. Good times
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This is one of the most fun Magic games I have ever seen - also shoutout to the editor!
I love that a Pentavite token is like... $20 or something lol
The editing on this show is one of my favorite things in this world. Keep it up.
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i want more old school commader draft episodes because this was absolutely and utterly a joyous video to behold
I’m all here for his lineup
I cannot describe how happy this made me. Thank you prof and team. I’m young and these sets were the first cards I owned after my dad taught me to play. Innistrad, Core 2012, Theros, Return to Ravnica. I’ve been having a really hard time lately and am struggling to find a job but this made my day so much better
Graham's ability to win commander games with a meme is amazing .
It's like a super power!
I think this might be my favorite shuffle up and play yet because it does my favorite thing in magic, building with the cards you have, it makes you actually look through your cards and think about cards you might not normally play because "oh I can just by any card I want for my deck". It's why I love sealed and draft so much.
RUclips hid this video from me for 2 minutes and I am incredibly disappointed
I once saw Guilt Feud in a Mayael deck tech, found that so cool, acquired one to my Gahiji deck
Everytime I played it, I died before it triggering, so I don't know if its good 😂😂😂
I love seeing Kathleen and Graham! I used to watch them so much when I was just getting into MTG way back when! Headin over to resubscribe!
Thanks Kathleen for including guild feud I actually think it has a home in bello bard of the brambles
Love seeing LRR, Command zone and TCC all coming together for an awesomely fun game.
Loved seeing different cards in a commander game. Please play more games that utilise more unique cards, yes, some of them bad cards haha, but fun to watch, especially as a relatively new player.
This is such a cool concept I love it! Big fan of the episodes that do something more than people just bringing their commander decks. Great episode!!
I love the set-up. One of the best-received parts of my commander cube is I have a set of mana fixing lands that all players start with in their pools--helps reduce non-games. Keep it up!
I absolutely love this format! I'm only 30 minutes in but I'm loving this episode. Please have LRR and Jimmy on more often! And more box commander drafts please!
32:19 "it's a spindown prof" the disrespect, I LOVE it!
What a great episode and format! Thanks for this. The LRR Crew really shines and all in all the whole thing was hilarious. Would have liked even more highlights of the opening.
Hopefully this gets lots of views and you can do this kind of format again.
1:03:35 this whole bit was amazing, including the score sheet. Props to the editor there.
Kind of jealous how much fun the editor's have with these episodes haha
I absolutely love this idea for commander! I'd love to see this again in the future
Really enjoyed this Commander Box build. Would love to see more of those !
I’ve watched a few of these videos and I love the absolute joy that all of people on Prof’s show bring to the table
Also Jimmy and I have the same excitement for KTK
As the whole Jace and Vraska thing got mentioned, let us not forget that canonically, Jace hit that raw
This was such a fun episode. Props to Prof for putting this on. The editors also really make it special.
The Prof calling Jimmy "James" at 51:37 is not wrong but just sounds so weird to my brain. XD
This was great. What a hell of a good time. Thanks Prof, Jimmy, Kathleen and Graham. Have you all a "Good"raham 😂❤