Is Cosmonaut Marcus' Commander...Michael Bay? | Shuffle Up & Play #26 | Magic The Gathering Gameplay
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- Опубликовано: 7 май 2023
- Cosmonaut Marcus sits down for some Commander vs Spice8Rack, Rhystic Studies, and myself...and we all learn that in Magic: The Gathering rules, "Can't Always Wins!"
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Omg, Prof, just want to say how much I loved this season finale! It was so much fun to see you guys just chill, enjoy a super funny magic game, and crack up at every little thing.
Spice & Sam are truly some of the most fun guys you've had on, and Marcus was really spectacular, too.
Thanks for such a great vid, excited to see more in the following years!
What an ender! Wow.
HUGE props to the editor(s) btw (and everyone else involved behind the scenes!) What a great way to end the season, guys.
In response to the mathematician call,
1/2 of -40 is -20
-40 - (-20) is -20
So yes you would go back up in life.
What a game Prof. This is the best commander gameplay in the internet. Congrats for the season finale!!
Sam, Spice and the Prof sat there for 90 minutes engaged in psychological warfare against each other, while Marcus sat there like “I’m just gonna play some Transformers.” What a way to end the season of one of my favorite shows.
This is the edited version. The unedited would've lasted more than 90 minutes.
Just remember that Kant always wins.
Why "end the season"?
@@mortuc1
because this is the las episode of this season of SU&P, as stated at the begining of the video. Watching the video explains the video!
It was so fun to have the smartest people playing a game that was a philosophical nightmare and transformers. Transformers, the age of nothing, if you will.
Sam 100% took the Prof’s prompt as a genuine assignment and challenge. I expected nothing less from a true scholar, his deck theme was hilarious
A scholar indeed!
And gentleman, don’t forget gentleman.
Thinking autistic af. Lol.
sam's deck kept what would've been an otherwise uneventful early game lively and exciting lol
1:42:01 Yeah. He even eloquently played the F**ck All Y'all disk.
I still remember when the prof announced he no longer had a job and would try to focus on the channel full time. And he was so unsure and anxious. It is such a relief and fantastic to see him thrive and run a successful channel and enjoying it.
Great job professor ❤
It's always nice to see capitalism in action.
@@wickederebus you mean meritocracy. He earned it.
@@Justadeathgod capitalism=meritocracy.
no it doesn’t?? or the world would actually work??
@@wickederebus Not while any idiot can inherit money.
So lemme get this straight. Sam was roleplaying the riddler, Marcus was playing with Toys, Spice was going through an existential crisis and Prof was just trying to get them to play magic
Prof doing his best to wrangle all the kids to play magic 😂
Prof was playing monopoly
Just what I've always wanted:
A recorded EDH match where a player loses not from combat damage, mill, or poison counters, but from a fatal brain aneurysm.
RIP SPICE
Spice brain: TOO MANY SYNTAX ERRORS
Truth be told, nobody lost: the game ended in a draw. :P
I defeated my opponent with alter of dementia one time with a ton of zombie tokens, does that count?
@therealax6 wrong, everyone lost, therefore the game ended in a draw :P
Someone please draw the events of this episode. Prof being a villain creating a void, Spice trapped in it with Sam spouting nonstop riddles, and Marcus in the playpen with his action figures.
Yes this would be awesome
Oo I love that idea
I’m picturing Spice stuck in a Superman-esque crystal prison and Sam’s just orbiting it spewing philosophical gibberish the whole time
except Sam was the Villian truly. He could ended the void that he created. Once he lost he figured everyone else would lose with him.
This would be absolutely amazing! 😅
Sam and Spice are like the two kids who absolutely cannot be in the same class together or sit near eachother.
This felt like watching a pre-mending planeswalker battle. No one comes out on top and the laws of physics and mathematics are pushed to the brink. Also one of them has transformers, for some reason
Hahahaha amen
Who let urza (but good) in here
Marcus just happily playing with his Transformers while everyone else was trying to figure out what was going on and how to stop it was just great.
"Nevinyrral’s final act of spite was to make sure all of his magic was destroyed along with him"
A perfect quote for a perfect spite-based-action.
Nothing says peak mtg like rhystic studies dropping flavor text as a 1 liner before he boardwipes
It gave me goosebumps how well it fit.
@@badbadgr5498 I feel like board wipe is a little undersell. Everything is wiped.
This episode was truly a masterpiece
Me too
So flippin good 🎉
spike's comment about being "trapped in an escher painting" was perfect for how this game felt
We need another season immediately
It was and it wasn't
I just want to point out that Raoul Vitale had absolutely nothing to do with Sam's commander and I love that. That was probably my favorite mtg video of all time.
I was sitting here wondering what the hell that had to do with anything for the longest time
It's vaguely related, because it's a Theros land and Theros is based on Ancient Greece, and Sphinges were part of their myth.
It's really a stretch lmao 😂
Shouldn't he be using Amonkhet Islands since it's based on Ancient Egypt?
Riddles, existential dread, David Lynch impressions, Michael Bay jokes, Mighty Boosh references and evil plots… this is the best game of commander I’ve ever seen 😂
SAMEE
Not only that, but it ended in a four way draw, which to me is just poetic justice
Spice's comedic timing with "Neat!" followed by the disposable camera was immaculate.
100% I love spice they're amazing
it’s truly a master of comedic timing tbh
What a fantastic ending hahaha
1:13:15 for anyone curious
@@Cpt.Croissantyou da real MVP
That Nevinyrral’s Disk activation was probably the greatest flavor win of all time. Even the flavor text was perfect.
who won though?
@@residentgrey we did
@@residentgrey all players lose it’s a draw.
Had the [[all is dust]] gone off then Spice and Sam would have lost and Marcus and Prof would have tied since Spice couldn't sac the demon
@@KRSorba Only Spice would've lost. Sam sacs his demon allowing spice to lose. Spice loses and therefore it's demon goes away, for the other 3 it's a draw as the only thing keeping any of them alive is Spice's demon
I've watched this episode so many times and I'm still convinced there are more layers to Sam's deck that I have yet to comprehend
It truly is a thing of beauty. I don't know if you're aware, but the decklist link is in the video description.
Pretty sure the deck tech on it would just be him reading all of house of leaves in one sitting.
@@bradsimpson8724buying myself the deck for Christmas my new journey is to figure out how to use it! So in love with the theme and play style especially as someone who already likes mono blue
I gotta say, the fact that the chair was empty during the credits is an impressive level of commitment to the bit. Well played.
Today, we experience Spice8Rack being subjected to both Mill and Discard in the philosophical manner
It's truly poetic.
Lol
Riddles!
Sam's dry humor is amazing 🤩
"We just take it and throw it into the Aether. Like our children."
When was that?
@@tommyg121 17:50
I like how Spice8Rack nods casually.
@@Kokuswolf Spice understands
13:26 congrats to Spice for winning "The Most Harrowing Thing I've Ever Heard Someone Say" with "That's what Big Skin wants you to think"
I think this is my favorite commander video I've ever seen
Ah shoot The Professor is watching, I better get back to my studies
@@SquatchHammer perhaps your... RHYSTIC STUDIES?!
Rewatching for the 2nd time
Prof, Marcus, and Spice are playing checkers while Sam is playing 4D chess with the ghost of Socrates in the Upside Down
Honestly, Spice and Prof are playing checkers, Marcus is just playing with his action figures xD
Spice having a crisis live on film while Marcus plays with his toys is a thing of glory
It's like different phases of insanity, one is struggling to comprehend what's going on while another is in denial reverting to a childlike state playing with his toys. 😂
Which is a good exposition of their respective channels also
This is how Commander is meant to be played.
With complete shenanigans and nobody gets to win.
"you gotta remember your damm triggers"
"I know I'm sorry i get confused by EVERYTHING"
i relate so heavily
Drinking game: take a sip every time either Prof or Spiceman say the name of a legendary creature that isn’t in play
my liver is already weeping😰
Ok, Spice is now Spiceman
Drinking game- drink every time PROf makes it political
Ok, so that was BY FAR the best commander gameplay video I have EVER seen😂
😂 I was laughing the ENTIRE episode! My cheeks hurt..
Agreed. As soon as I saw the second Abyssal Persecutor hit the board, I checked the runtime and immediately knew what was going to happen.
@@TolarianCommunityCollege ❤
Absolutely
The Professor: some form of political malarkey
Spice: having an existential crisis
Rhystic Study: R A O U L V I T A L E
Marcus: dumping out his toy box and slamming them together.
As much as a loved the ending, Spice taking out a camera to snap a picture of the 40k card with a “neat” was the best thing I’ve ever seen
lmfao
Looking at Spice and The Prof together is like looking at the same person when they start and finish their PhD
That Disk saved you all from the gruesome Judgecall of "All is Dust, but these things can't be sacrificed"
while true. the game would still end because Spice would have lost the game when Sam sacd the copy.
@@ryuj7693 the copy would inherit the base rules text wouldn't it? similar to mutate?
@@nicolbolas5934 Yes, but the can't be sacrificed is added on by another effect. And i don't believe copying would include that part?
@@nicolbolas5934the copy does not inherit the can't be sacrificed clause, the same way copies don't inherit +1 counters
it would have meant spice lost and then all other players lose simultaneously and therefore the game is drawn between the three of them
Not gonna lie, this was actually the first episode I watched because I'm a fan of Marcus and was willing to give it a shot based on his presence. Since I loved this episode so much I've gone back and watched all the others, and really liked them all, but this one remains my fave. The ending is just *chef's kiss* perfect.
1:41:23 Hilariously casting the All is Dust is suicide, since it can't make Spice8Rack's Abyssal Persecutor be sacrificed because of Jon Irenicus' effect, but Sam's Vesuvian Doppleganger can. So the Vesuvian Doppleganger will get sacrificed and Spice8Rack will lose the game, causing the Abyssal Persecutor to move back to the Professor's control, making him lose the game as well. Meaning only Marcus and Sam would tie/lose last. So Sam activating the Disk was him also commiting suicide.
It wouldn't change control it would just get exiled
@@winstonbicklebert1989 The Abyssal Persecutor was given via Jon Irenicus' ability, thus by rule 102.6a when Spice8Rack loses the Professor's change-of-control effect will end returning control of it back to the Professor.
102.6a When a player leaves the game, all objects owned by that player leave the game and any change-of-control effects which give that player control of any objects end.
And when the professor gains control of the persecutor, he loses, and then everyone else also loses.
The disc would not be suicide but end the whole thing in a draw, no? Since both Abyssal Persecutors would die since they aren't indestructible or anything
@@ThatGuy-jc2tw The disc wasn't but the All is Dust is. The All is Dust would cause Sam to Sacrifice his Doppelganger, which would kill Spice. Spice can't sacrifice the Abyssal Persecutor thanks to Jon Irenicus' ability. Spice's death would send the Abyssal Persecutor back to the Professor. The Professor would lose the ability to not lose the game and would then lose the game. Then when the Professor loses the game, Abyssal Persecutor dies, and Sam and Marcus then lose. This means that technically only Marcus and Sam Draws.
Thankfully, Sam used the disc, making everyone lose at the same time.
i really wanna know what was going through rhystic's mind when he saw spice8rack get inflicted with the demon that prevented it from winning the game. like he saw that thing hit the board and immediately realized that he could turn this from a kinda funny game of magic the gathering into the funniest possible game in the world.
While it was funny, it also not a bad play. It is a big flample unit and it protects 8rack and while he and his demon on the field he is protected. Meanwhile he can flip his demon facedown just whenever causing him to lose and then anyone with negative life to lose. He was just playing a meme deck.
He took the content route
Rhystic Studies and Spice8rack is instant classic
Edit: That was the best game of commander I have ever watched
The most perfect game of magic to have ever happened, this one's going in the Rhystory books
What a weird, wild, and fantastic ride
"I'm allergic to jokes"
the fact he didn't have a reaction after saying that means he wasn't joking
This was easily the most horrifying game of magic the gathering I've ever seen and I can't thank you guys enough for that
This finale is just like a jrpg final boss. The journey started with hijinks and pauper, finishing with a cosmic horror reality ending spiral no one could have prepared for
Earthbound.
Probably the craziest commander game ive seen
That was a phenomenal season finale. Entering the void together, the empty chair during the credits *chef's kiss* Top-notch banter, this was such a perfect episode, thank you.
This really feels like a bunch of old real friends playing here. The gentle ribbing, the slightly mocked slightly genuine echoing of other players jokes, the subtle tension of "I'm here to mildly torture you but also wtf is in that deck YOU built". It's perfect. Glad we get to watch it :)
This whole game felt like a fever dream, but when Spice took out the camera and snapped at the warhammer card I collapsed into a teseract and fell into the void laughing
Ah, so you joined spice and Sam then?
@@ArcheoLumiere
We all did!
Into the beyond!!
Spice is a whole vibe. Cheeky fucker
@@sashalittledemon6766
And at the same time, we didn't!
Can't always wins. :)
I loved spices character arc through this video. We saw him progress into madness when he entered the void and by the end he had accepted that the void is now his home. Just beautiful.
NOOOOO I DON'T WANNA BE SENT TO THE VOID
Being sent to the void is fine actually. I don't care anymore
This is my confort episode of sup. The best guests and the funniest game of all time
Always makes me happy to rewatch it
The way Sam/Rhystic used his egg to copy that evil no win care, you made me a fan for life 😂
Easily the best episode of the season. That isn't a knock on the rest of the season, this episode was just amazing in so many ways. Marcus playing with his Transformers, Sam and his riddles and spite, Spice going insane, and Professor egging it all on.
The prof always eggs people on. Lol
@@MTGThrownDown egg riddle inbound
@@liamm6586 Something about "shells" in Magic decks.
egg
29:36 Sam changes the fate of the game with one Vesuvan Shapeshifter. This is the type of chaotic energy I enjoy from Shuffle Up & Play!
From some random 4 mana egg!
“Philosophical spaghettification” has got to be a never before said phrase. Love how the ethical implications of profs weird cards has created this wonderful phrase.
the sound effects that marcus uses whenever he transforms his cards just keeps reminding me of thst "optimum pride" meme
I love when Prof is like "why am I getting attacked?! I'm just a lowly international arms dealer!"
It's classic "Woe is me, I am the biggest shitbag at this table and you guys are all bullying meeee"
Don't forget those weapons are also radioactive and actively giving their user cancer.
This cast is STACKED!
and we are EUPHORHYSTIC
I NEED to see more episodes with these guys
And there is Cosmonaut Variety Hour too
And Spice8Racked
Welcome to Shuffle Up and Play where Prof holds the cast hostage for almost 2 hours since nobody can lose.
A fitting end to Shuffle Up and Play, I will miss this series.
This was the greatest MtG game I have ever watched.
Professor + Marcus + Rhystic Studies + Spice is literally the perfect setup.
almost a year later, this is still my favorite commander game, I've ever seen recorded. Everyone in it just, has a role they have decided to play, and do it so well, i keep coming back.
"And in the end, the caretaker spirit, an earless elf, a bunch of transformers, and a flock of sphinxes all walked hand in hand into the endless void. Larry Nevin got his revenge, and they all perished happily ever after."
Sphinges* (thanks Sam)
STARSCREEEAAAM
'i feel like trapped in an Escher Painting' was the best comment possible at that point of the game, haha!
I'd expected someone at the table to correct Spice, but Escher's works were drawings, not paintings.
@@baalservant4293 and you, Sir, must be fun at partys!
Remember that time some wizards got into a magic war and accidentally war crimed themselves out of existence? Feels like it keeps happening.
"Untap, upkeep, draw, question everything" got me real good.
My favorite game of commander on the internet, you people have the best attunement I've ever seen.
Spice's health icon reflecting his mental state is my favorite part of this entire masterpiece of a season finale
We liked adding that detail
Love how the professor literally just makes everyone fights against each other while he's just casually out of creatures.
My favorite part of this episode was that Spice's intro was "I'm being held captive here."... He had no idea how true that was....
Edit: don't know if anyone said this yet but, multiplying a negative number by 1/2 is an increase in the number
Super late reply so my apologies, but there is a ruling on Ebonblade Reaper that "if you attempt to halve a negative life total, you halve 0." It's not mathematically what happens, but I think it works best for gameplay for it not to turn into a positive.
@@taylorsherry4784 The reasoning for this I believe is this rule here:
107.1b Most of the time, the Magic game uses only positive numbers and zero. You can’t choose a negative number, deal negative damage, gain negative life, and so on. However, it’s possible for a game value, such as a creature’s power, to be less than zero. If a calculation or comparison needs to use a negative value, it does so. If a calculation that would determine the result of an effect yields a negative number, zero is used instead, unless that effect doubles or sets to a specific value a player’s life total or a creature’s power and/or toughness.
note that we're halving not doubling, so that doesn't apply.
If you were to double, you would get double negative life.
@@blinky101 So it *was* a judge call and not a mathematician call after all!
Fascinating how there's rules that get in the way of the otherwise normal maths thing of subtracting with a negative.
Came for the magic gameplay, stayed for the social commentary
Comrade Logan
Came for the Magic Gameplay, Stayed because there is no exit to the void.
😂 "That's not a judge call, that's a mathematician call" 😂
The perfect end to a perfect season.
Thanks for the content everyone! ❤
A curious situation, since the game was created by... mathematicians!
Amusingly, there is an actual ruling on that situation.
There is no change in life total.
"If you attempt to halve a negative life total, you halve 0. This means that the life total stays the same. A life total of -10 would remain -10."
"I do not believe in this deck at all... but I think it's funny." -Marcus
Ironically, this is also a quote from me every time I play commander.
I stand by this as a secondary criteria for my deckbuilding. Commander is supposed to be fun!
Is that ironic?
This has to be the funniest episode I've ever seen, please have these gems back on again 😂
1:00:16 "But then it's not It anymore."
1:01:36 "We're getting so close to the Event Horizon"
What has been will Be. Embrace the Worm ;)
Awesome match, love the interplay.
Get off of Stellaris
I love that you can tell that Marcus is miserable but also having the time of his life while Spice is JUST miserable
The way my jaw dropped when I realized what Sam had done after the Egg was flipped, the entire sequence there. Sam is just a brilliant man.
Sam egging on Spice’s existential crisis with his riddles and descent into the void is hilarious.
Cloning an Abbysal Prosecutor is such a power move.
This episode was fantastic. Cheers to the first year of Shuffle Up & Play and to another year. Thanks for having me on for year 1
Spice's life counter portrait changing to reflect him going insane due to the game being so confusing was such a good idea
To this day, perhaps the most unhinged game of Commander I have ever seen. Perhaps my favorite game of commander I have ever seen. Perfection.
This episode(and honestly every episode of this show) is easily some the most re-watchable Magic content on the web. You and your team deserve all the glory and support from the community you’ve received over the years and especially in the past few days.
I have never been so simultaneously entertained and infuriated by a game of Magic. What a completely bonkers pod, which then becomes one of the most unsettling endings of the series so far. Can't wait for Season 2!
Yeah... the ending was genuinely like... uncomfortable to watch and I loved it. Practically cinematic.
"There's air everywhere...that's what big skin wants you to think" - Spice
That got me doubled over laughing. What a great finale, hope to see even more great content with great creators like this in the future.
Actually, when you consider what was happening, while everyone would've died, because spice couldn't sacrifice their demon, Marcus popping the ring technically prevented him from dying first, and was the path to the true draw.
This is still the single best game of commander I've ever seen. I still find myself coming back to rewatch it
This is a winning theme. You could spin a whole show out of this "hidden commander" EDH. Really cool.
This was hands down the most surreal game of Magic of I ever witnessed.
This is the best game of Schrödinger’s commander I’ve ever seen
I've lost count of how many times I've watched this episode. has to be the greatest mtg game ever played.
I love when i find out someone like Marcus or Smallant plays magic
I myself didn't know the professor played Magic!
I thought they only played merfolk or something
Raoul Vitale happens to be my step uncle, and it was really cool to see Sam go from randomly mentioning his name in a previous episode of this from a miscellaneous Island in his deck to making my step uncle a pivitol part of his mind games. By the way, he pronounces his name like "rally" without the "y", so just rall. I don't understand why that is the case, but I figured it best to not worry about it too much. Keep up the awesome videos, and I can't wait for more shenanigans in the future!
It's all mind games
The sexiest part of this video is the fact that there are the lists of the decks on the description! Great!
I must say, I watch tons of commander channels featuring various shows with Game Knights being my go to....but this... this is my favorite game of commander... ever. That will be all.
prof I am so sorry
Raoul Vitale Island has just entered the chat.
You were a real riddleForm Macdonald up there.
THIS IS WHY I LOVE ABYSSAL PERSECUTOR! Whenever people ask me what my favorite card is, they are confused when I say this demon, but that is because it makes for mind breaking games. I too have ended a game with everyone dying all at the same time, and it was beautiful
It's only been 4 weeks, and this is the third time I re-watch this episode, because it's just fantastic!
What an amazing game. Prof seems like such a friendly approachable guy most of the time, then when he dons that immaculate drip and gets really comfortable in a game he just lets loose and becomes a villain. Trapping his opponents in existential predicaments with weird eyes. The ending was so good, almost like a retelling of the Brothers War, or some complex delve into the psychology of death.
Where is Raoul Vitale? I just want to talk.
Raoul both is and is not a part of this episode.
I was wondering why would this be the season finale, but after witnessing what was done to the guests this time around, I think I get it now.
I was NOT prepared for the ending animation. Holy hell that got me good
This has got to be one of the best games ive ever see, riddles, economics, transformers, existential crisis and that ending...*chef kiss
this is great one person is actually playing commander , one person is just here to ask riddles, one person is just giving away things which people are very ungrateful for and one person is having an existential crisis
What a way to end the season. I believe we managed to see the 5 stages of grief from spice in this. Truly exceptional.
The comedic timing of that "LimDul" was perfect. Chef's kiss
Generally, the bleeps are just amusing, but that Lim-dûl got me
31:27 I personally have no issue with this misplay. Drinker of sorrow's effect was simply sucked into the void caused by the egg hatching, which feels very fitting for this episode
Prof's amazingly smug supervillain smirk and tone of voice this entire game was just chef's kiss. I've never seen someone having so much fun causing his friends to have less fun in my life, and the fact that Sam and Marcus just no-selled it, just reflected all that torment to the exact center of Spice's brain was beautiful.
The whole thing was a production in affirming how much I can't stand the dude.
1:06:28 was maybe the funniest thing i've seen in weeks. also Sam and Spice are such chaotic little bastard men, i love them so much together
I was so sure Sam's commander was Yennet, Cryptic Soveign and that it would never be cast. The flavor text is perfect.