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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
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Matt and Sam sat down for a few turns of the original strategy card game in this episode of #EverythingIsContent, feat. Magic: The Gathering Arena!
This live stream originally aired Thursday, September 27th on / criticalrole
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Matt explaining to Sam: "Blue Magic is all about countering and preventing and, y'know, stopping the opponent from doing things."
Sam: "Matt... I- I know what Blue Magic is all about. I've played for forty five minutes before."
Me: "And he's also Scanlan Shorthalt, master of the Counterspell."
And Blue Poop
I was thinking the exact same; how many people can claim to have counter spelled an (demi?)god?
@@eldrin5793 scry is a very powerful blue effect
That ninth level counter spell.
@@malachischrodinger4675 most blue players.
This needs to be its own show. "Old Man Riegel's McGatherers" Where Sam pretends he knows EVERYTHING about mtg and maybe wears a long white fake beard while making up nonexistent mtg jive-talk and slang...
Amazing
im sold
Yes please
please dont make me beg for this
Deck building would be fun! I got really happy when Matt mentioned building for theme; I was a 'I know I won't win a lot but man is this mechanic/theme cool' type of kid, too. Megrim and Control Magic type stuff. Experienced players deckbuilding with Sam could be pretty fun to watch.
I like to imagine the pumats playing MTG together. The metagame gets very intense.
This.👆
Commander frenzy!
Matt would be insane after the 2nd round lmao
Somehow I found it funny that these guys feel the need to introduce themselves at the beginning of the video.
it's good to do that. Because of how big part video recommendations are on youtube, a lot of people see this as their first CR video. Not to mention, it's an MTG themed video, which siphons a lot more people from that community.
I do wonder if there's one fan out there who just watched Between the Sheets and has no idea about Critical Role.
It's for the noobs. 😉
You never know which video will be someone's first.
That and Sam's "oh no I swore" comment, lmao.
"Concede"
"I don't wanna concede"
"Too bad"
Sam: "Strategy? I'm not good at that"
Me: Is this not the MF who saved a wish spell till the end of a D&D campaign to screw over a god of his choosing, cementing victory over the BBEG after counter-spelling Matt's teleport spell right after countering a double banishment...
Well he actually saved the wish spell to void a certain friend's certain contract with a certain diety, but still what a liar lol
@@shaggy0917 Sam is a strategic genius! He got so much crap for not using the brass flute during the Thordak fight but he knew Raishan would come right after so he saved it.
The best comment on that fight I ever saw was "6 people went in, ready to fight a God. 1 went in willing to fight 2.
The ironic thing is that Sam DOES know what blue magic does. Scanlan's greatest moments in battle were when he used Counterspell, which is the bluest goddamn move there ever was.
Also, Counterspell was an Interrupt card in the early days.
Yes
True words have never been spoken
"and there are interrupts... At least there used to be"
Oh boi, you've been away for a while, haven't you?
Don't let him know mana burn is gone and so is damage on the stack
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I prefer to play with mana burn. There were a lot of cards that were better with mana burn.
Same. I saw one of the new card designs in an ad featuring Flaxen Intruder, looked at the rule box and literally went "WAIT YOU CAN'T DO THAT". Game always goes nuts with mechanics, keeps it fresh but can be overwhelming.
@@ratgirl34 They said it limited design space which I can easily imagine. It does not come up 99% of the time, and when it does it's better this way another 99% of the times. Death shadow deck would be too powerful with mana burn. It's already strong as it is
@@sneakysquirrel1990 I remember my friends played mana burn. Then Sorin Markov came out. I would take their turn, tap all their land and just say "I end my turn"
It's rare to see just Matt and Sam together like this, really enjoyed the dynamic.
Honestly, I would subscribe (on twitch) just to see a thirty minute video of Matt trying to explain card advantage to Sam.
I would die to see the cast of critical role play commander together. Would watch in a heartbeat.
This comment might be a year old but I think it should very much be a thing. I would love to see what Laura Bailey does with Magic the Gathering. (Or Gatherers as Sam calls them now) lol
@@JustPlayTheGame76 or tailison. I feel like he would run tezzeret and i would love to see that go down.
@@JustPlayTheGame76 luara i feel would run dwarves/dragon treasure.
@@JustPlayTheGame76 liam i feel would do demons or giants. big smashy bois.
@@JustPlayTheGame76 travis would be struggling to figure out how elementals work.
Matt: I've got two guys smoking in the corner going; "Aren't you going to do somethin'?" "Nahhh... 's fine."
Dear Matt, please tell MtG we need you to narrate our MtG games, I'm sure WotC has the budget for it.
Man Matt's cards would have been worth so much now if he still had them.
Isaiah Gerber-Kai yeah I bet, makes me wonder why they were “sold by a family member” was it somebody hurting for cash or a parent wanting to get rid of the satanic magic cards. My guess is a parent, I can just see a young Matt being obsessed with the game.
@@draxthewarlocktitan5217 That's usually how it goes. My parents trashed two binders full of pokemon cards when I was 6 due that whole craze of pokemon being considered satanic.
The irony being as a pastor's kid, I ended up both still enjoying pokemon and playing dnd. Lol
@@draxthewarlocktitan5217 nah, his parents were hippies, not one of the Satanic Panic-folks.
Actually his mom also played D&D. Darin dePaul's character, Sprigg from Campaing 1 is the same one that he played in his campaing with Matt's mom.
So I doubt that they just threw his cards out when he was a kid
Very true - I had some of those too. My little brother had a bunch of good ones that he ended up selling while they were still really valuable. I, sadly, on impulse gave away my entire big plastic bin of Magic cards to a girl... I think there had been a lull in interest - maybe around 2000 or 2001, and I had stopped playing regularly and one of my friends that I worked with at a mall music store (yep I'm old :-) ) told me that his girlfriend had just started playing. And for some reason I decided to just donate my entire collection lol. At the time I didn't see myself playing again and I guess I just thought it would be better for someone to have them that was actually gonna use them. I had lots of cards from Forgotten Empires (I think that was the name - when I started playing) on through Ice Age and the other expansions that came out up until maybe 1999 or 2000 - and a few older good cards that I bought at the comic book store from Revised, The Dark and Arabian Nights (and possibly some Alpha or Beta, if cards like the Moxes weren't re-released in the 3rd expansion which I think was called "Revised"). I never went all in like my brother and bought the *really* good cards. He had some of the Mox gems and some of the really good early Blue cards like Mindtwist or something like that (I can't remember the names very well, but they were expensive even then) and Wheel of fortune - though I think that was Red - and Ball Lightning (red also) and a bunch of the original dual lands. I had most of the Ice Age (I'm pretty sure that was the expansion they were in) dual lands, but they weren't nearly as good as the earlier ones. He had a killer Stasis deck with the really good old Blue cards. I played black, blue and white or variations thereof - and I had a Stasis one also, but only with the Ice Age and (was it 4th edition maybe?) versions of cards for that theme - so not nearly as good, but it was still fun. Did had 4 of the Serra Angels though - which is what triggered my memories when Sam played that Serra card that sounded like an updated vers of the Serra Angel.
@@David_Blake91 Whaaaat? Where did you find this information?
“... and there are INTERRUPTS” -
*A single grey hair emerges on Matt’s head. He doesn’t know it yet, but he has officially become the old guy in his friend group. In the years to follow, he will begin to lament the loss of the good old days, become more and more insufferable until he eventually builds a banding tribal deck, and ultimately quits being a nerd forever.*
I would love to see them play more. It is so interesting and learning with Sam and Matt is amazing. It would be cool to see them take on other people. I am just enjoying them play the game and would love to see more.
I thought I posted this at some point cuz of the avatar xD
I just love how Sam is just always more interested in making his friends laugh even if it means his sad defeat
Travis died by a cat 😂
This explains why he hates cats lol
I was wondering why he wasn't talking. If he opened his mouth would he not stop sneezing?
MORE MORE MORE! Please let Matt play more MTG:A for us
Watch his slow decent into being a spike.
More of these please. CritRole tournament ftw
That's probably a bad idea since anyone who loses to Taliesin will get sent to the Shadow Realm.
insert 'Dark Banishing' card here
Matt should absolutely be a guest on Game Knights... the way he talks about deckbuilding around themes is so EDH.
I'd love to see a Ravnica One Shot
I've always been interested in playing magic but was scared to try because I'm a very slow learner, and didn't want to annoy anyone but seeing this I want to try to learn again and play.
Jill 419 there's some single player games on steam that will help you learn the rules, then you could transition to in person or games like this.
Even the MtG Arena has some pretty good tutorials for single playing, and has a lot of options to ease into the game with time.
And the matchmaking is pretty decent, you mostly play with people on your level.
Give it a shot!
I completely relate to you! I feel like this gaming community can seem quite intimidating, but this made it a lot more approachable and make me feel less like an idiot :)
@@ClaireEliseLumiere Absolutely give Arena a shot then. It's a Great place to start, and there are many people in the community that will be very glad to see newcomers!
Same!
My friend made a deck based entirely on the pacifism card. Imagine having the most optimized out for blood deck made entirely useless by your opponent and that is what my friend did. I watched as he tormented and countered one guy for like......20 minutes before the dude conceded out of frustration. Had one friend summon 150 token card goblins in 3 turns......needless to say meme decks are by far the best.
I made something similar in honour of the recent Ontario lockdown. Pacifism, Bubble Snare, Banishing Light, etc.
But I keep win a few win conditions in, because I'm not an a%$hole.
"That was a tactical boo-boo"
Thanks guys now I feel a bit more confident to try MTG out for the first time ever. Wish me luck! *downloads*
I'm just now downloading it myself!
Matt & Sam are such a good combo of hangout video/streams!!! hell all the CR cast is awesome but I don't know much about MTG but this is entertaining.
Is it just me or has Sam saying the phrase "I'm pretty much an expert now." become the audible equivalent of comfort food?
Sam: "super tactical. It's me"
Also Sam: "is it my turn or is it your turn?"
Came here to say this
Am I the only one that was yelling at sam to play the other charmed cat?
Sam made my eyes bleed.
The ENTIRE fucking time lmao.
Yep, a lot of times through lol
yeah after that i stopped watching.. almost as bad as day9 when he playing ^^
Damn it, that Riegel smile is contagious. I couldn't stop smiling for the whole hour and now my face hurts.
2:15 I have an all goblin deck! It's centered around winning within 4-5 turns, you sacrifice goblins to catapaults, sacrifice them to burn spells, and/or can build a goblin horde really quickly if you have yet to finish off your opponent by burning them to smithereens.
Been playing for many years. My brother and I collected them since we were 13 years old. Now we are 30 and 31. The vast amount of cards and decks is enormous. It is an expensive game. We were all about legacy decks. Currently we play EDH with our group. It’s a great format for the game.
The first person who tried to get me into Magic tried teaching me the rules, and just played a regular game with me, and I didn't like it. I didn't understand it, I kept trying to attack individual creatures before being told I can't, etc. The second person handed me a Riku of Two Reflections Commander deck and said, "We're playing. I'll teach you as we go. Feel free to ask questions." And I ended up *loving* it and have ever since. I firmly believe the best way to get someone interested in Magic is to just throw them into a game with a deck full of combinations, so they can discover the parts they like the best. (I'm a black-mage Johnny, by the way.)
When I was younger I collected some cards but had no idea how to play lol...
Same, did just for the fantasy artwork
Stephen Carmickle it’s actually a really simple game with the basics. It’s just colors, phases and numbers. It’s all the additional rulings that have come after that make it more complicated
i wanna see a crit role cast mtg tabletop game/tourney, could do a draft or two headed giant or commander or just some standard, i think thatd be a dope stream
8:30 the most adorable thing
So was that Serra card is like the old Serra Angel then, I think it was 5/5 also and flying - can't remember if it tapped to attack though. I started playing Magic in 9th grade in 1995. It was around when Forgotten Empires came out - I think Ice Age was released a little after I started playing. So I didn't early enough to be there to get the really good stuff from Alpha, Beta and I think Revised (maybe?). I got my little brother (I think he was born in '84) playing also and he got really really into it and eventually went and bought some of the really cool cards - like one of the Mox gems and some of the other good early ones. But anyrate - what I was gonna say is I remember this b/c my first memories of playing was during gym class when we had either a semester or at least a chunk of a semester that was devoted to swimming. And there was *no way* in hell I was gonna get in a bathing suit - not to mention I always wore a t-shirt when I was forced to go to the city pool or on trips to the beach, and so I just managed to "forget" to bring my bathing suit to school - every single day of the swimming segment of class.. lol And one or two of my friends did the same and so we sat there on the tiled floor in the room where the pool was and played Magic while everyone else swam. But yeah, I have very fond memories of playing Magic with my friends and my brother. Sadly, at some point I think after I graduated from high school and I guess there was a lull in interest in Magic (around 2000 or so) I, rather impulsively I think, gave my entire big plastic bin full of Magic cards to some girl who had just started playing with her boyfriend, who worked with me at my first job at the mall music store in my town. :-( My brother however kept his collection and ended up selling a bunch of his really good cards before the prices started dropping and made a ton of money. But he still keeps up with the new expansions and plays with his wife (and 10yr old son now I think also) and his friends today. He brought his cards over to my house a year or two ago, so that we could play again and I found out that Magic has gotten a shit ton more complicated than it used to be back when I was playing regularly. There are so many different new types of abilities that it can be kinda daunting to be able to keep up with everything if you are playing with cards from a bunch of different more recent expansions. I think back then there was "trample" and... I'm drawing a blank but I know there were maybe a half dozen more common abilities - not too much to keep track of. But for someone like me with ADD, Magic today was a little tough to get the hang of. No more "Stasis" decks (at least I don't think so - I used to play black, white and blue decks, or some combination thereof) or some of the others I used and can't recall at the moment. Cool beans to see this video - awesome stuff. :-) (sorry for the long response - my bi-polar disorder is acting up some and making me ramble more and I still haven't gotten the hang of online comment stuff where you are apparently supposed to not be long-winded - one of my weaknesses ;-) )
This was great to watch and I’ll definitely be checking out The Arena. The back and forth with Lands made me laugh till my sides were hurting
hearing about matts first major black-blue-red deck just makes him a man after my own heart lol thats my favorite color triangle and inevitably what most of my favorite decks are comprised of
Great choice having Sam in here it is good to show people how easy it is to get into the game.
I second the request for more Magic on this channel, let Sam Riegel learn how to play all of the magical cards !
Please have a recurring show that is Sam Plays with Magic! I love this!
FINALLY! I've been waiting and hoping to get to see Matt play magic!
Am glad to see Sam enjoying and learning how to play. I too am a bit of a novice and only have taken up the game in the last year with a standard deck that I play socially with friends over my lunch break...that being said, match #2 did hurt my soul a little at all those faux pas mistakes, but they were having fun, which is the best way to play :).
Proliferate adds an extra counter to ANYTHING with a counter on it whether it's a +1 counter or a loyalty counter on a Planeswalker. I love Proliferate and use it in my Werewolf Commanders
I've been a long term MtG player and Crit Roll watcher. I found out about your amazing D&D campaign (and channel) back with episode 9 of Campaign 1 of Crit Roll and you are all fantastic people. Yet somehow I loved this video almost even more than the main D&D content. Watching you both and your precious reactions to my favourite hobby, made me wish this was a series that I could watch more of.
Please make more of this, possible title: "Matt and Sam Gather the Planeswalkers" or "Matt and Sam: Magic for Gatherers"?
Watching Matt and Sam discover/rediscover MTG is amazing. I hope they keep playing!
*notices account user name*
If only Pumat Sol was a playable character or narrator of actions for the game. Imagine if he commented on player actions during game sessions.
I really genuinely wanna see Matt and Sam play more magic.
Sam and Matt are amazing voice actors (you guys were great in spirit of justice)
A dragon never yields!
Arena is the third Magic video game. Magic Online was the second. The first one was a game where you walked around a map and encountered monsters, who had decks, and you'd play games against them. The map was called "Shandalar", which is a name people use to describe that game, but I think it was just called "Magic: the Gathering"
Sam actually figured out how proliferate works where Matt was confused. Score one for not overthinking it. Sam shows some promise at this game. (Also, I assume the counters on players thing refers to poison counters, mostly.)
Ahhh Magic: The Gathering. I recently sold most of my hard copy cards, except for some of my favorites. Was such a big thing when growing up in San Diego. Going to the Wizards of the Coast store in Mission Valley and playing. My first deck for a type 1, was built like type 2. I sat down to play and got told what was up. Came back the next week and did rather well with a type 1 deck. I think I was like 250th or something in area rankings. Nothing ever great to get to a tourney, but damn that was good times. Wanted to lessen the things I had when I moved to Arizona. This was around the time 6th ed was wrapping up and 7th ed was coming out. Man the game has changed a bit since then....
Is this how sport fans feel? Seeing Sam not play a double strike card, or putting a end of turn card on a tapped creature...
Screaming inside
Yay, I started in '93. At one point I had the Power 9 plus 3 extra Black Lotus. Sold all my cards in 2005 for a small fortune; the cards are worth way more now.
green is SUPER dangerous, especially with the abilities to strengthen each other, but slivers take the weaknesses and mix them up and it throws people off a LOT
I didn’t know I needed Matt Mercer describing a meteor golem coming into play and then a little cat killing the plainswalker.
4:04 i really went from "idk what youre talking about im sooo bad at recognising voices lol" to "hey that's travis" in half a second
4:47 tary in c3
12:06 "oOHW d- gREat."
18:17 **school flashbacks**
1:03:03 y are they like this
Look how fair Matt is when looking at Sam's screen to help him out. He actually places his hand in his line of sight so he won't peek at Sam's cards.
I wonder why this is not in the playlist 🤔, if it wasn't for Sam mentioning it in the Villianous vid, I wouldn't have known about its existence
More of this PLEASE!! If it becomes a regular thing, I'll watch every one. Also, you should play with some Throne of Eldraine cards. Would love to see you guys try out some more advanced flavor/tribal brews :)
Sam: *randomly clicks on cards*
Matt: is that paci- AHH FUCK
"How many cards are there? Hundreds? Thousands?" As of last month (which, yes, I realize is 2 years after this video posted), there were 22,630 unique Magic cards. And many more are added every year.
"member of my family sold them off" - fuck man that hits too close to home.
Just Wait until Matt Mercer discovers Infect, Cascade, and Phyrexian Mana
55:23 I instantly thought "Had it as a kid? That cards not that old. Oh wait he means.. ooohh.."
Breaking the mechanical system can be fun but not if I’m just taking an hour turn, my favorite thing to do is playing Wheels and using a puzzle box with a deck full of group hug. It’s great fun
22:37 All together now: Vampire of the Dire Moon.
I once defeated my opponent with 92 107/107 Squirrels
Sounds boring as fuck waiting for that to bullshit to be on the board. Glad MTGA has a lose feature based on not doing anything. I would of just waited out the game to end if you did that boogey bullshit and then played someone else that id have more fun with
@@joshshin6819 it doesn't need to be that complicated, in real life you can just use a calculator and play with numbers. what is actually one of my problems with Arena, it doesn't recognize infinite combos and stuff, normally you would just need to prove you can go infinite and declare you won. in arena you actually need to play it out until you win... or the enemy concedes
How the F tho?
@@colderonmusic5244 Derranged Hermits, Exhumuse, Victimize, Saporling Symbiosis, Coat of Arms, Overrun. It was a long time ago I do not remember it all, Once I Had 20 tokens or so, I got cocky and wanted to see just how many I could get.
This was not a Deck, it was just a shits and giggles deck.
Sam vs Sean Plott episode now please!
Man... Sam would get confused if Eldrazi was in this with Devoid and Colorless Mana and Scions. Sam would just be "That's another big creature."
Critical Role, what have you done!? Now we need more MTG with the cast! >:O
Matt adjusting to creature power creep is hilarious
Mtg edh (or commander) is some of the most fun you can have with a group of people. I play with 3 others once a week and it's just as fun as D&D in my opinion.
For those who don't know, you have a hundred card deck with a commander who is very powerful that sits in a seperate spot outside your other cards. You can play him multiple times since if he's taken out he goes back to the command zone. You build your deck around this powerful commander but can only have one of each card in your deck so it's a lot more wide open than standard MTG.
The cool thing about commander is politics. Not only is it OK but it's expected to make deals with other players, especially if someone at the table is in a position of a lot of power. The communication is what makes it similar to D&D.
Magic is easy to learn but gets very complicated depending on your deck type and combos. MTG arena is amazing because it brought MTG (though not EDH sadly) to a colorful, digital medium.
Please make this into a series !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watching Matt talk about selling all his magic cards 3 years after he got them, then later mentioning having all the dual lands in his tri-color deck...
He even mentioned Badlands by name. His pause after mentioning that card... I could hear his soul screaming from here
No point in having too many regrets, though, that happened to a lot of magic players. It was wonderful to hear about how Matt and Marisha play Magic; to this day, even though I draft and play Commander with really good players (casual, but very competent deck builders), my favorite way to do it is to just make draft chaff decks to play on a kitchen table.
No talking animals? No prophecy? NO LORE? Maaaaaan.
RanwulfMaxwell well, mtg have all of this stuff
Wrong show, this is #everythingiscontent, not game ranch
Its not Game Ranch
I've been wanting some form of MtG content with the cast for a while now. Can't wait to see how they'll do.
My favourite MTG visual will always be an army of squirrels killing all in their path
I'm with Matt on that one, I like to play to build themed decks. But I stopped because even in non ranked games 97% of the players play the most competitive decks they can find online.
It would be really cool if they were able to stream or record a cast/crew tournament of magic cause this is an actually cool game & very fun to watch
Sam saying he has "no tactics" when we've seen him consistently dominate being a spellcaster in dnd
Oh my god. Double Pacifism followed by moment of heroism on his creature with summoning sickness. So hard to watch! Lol
I use to love my "Dragons Eat Goblins and Get Stronk" deck
Definitely should add some arena gameplay to the channel and Mat if you like to build flavorful/themed decks you should look into playing the commander format
Inspiring commander gets to 6/9 right before death
Sam: I wasted a card
Me: nice
So if anyone in my play group forget something like untapping or a trigger and someone else points it out we usually just say..."I KnOW HoW To PlAy MaGiC ThE GaThRiNg"....in our most sarcastic voice.
I loved pretty much everything about this. Being a magic player myself it was a little hard watching Sam make those mistakes, bet hey, he's a rookie. But this 100% needs to be a weekly thing. Also now knowing that Travis voices Gideon just makes him that much more my favorite
12:08, That reaction is why I love Pacifism XD
....Matt got into this game the year I was born. I feel like a BABY
My brother once made a deck full of artifact creatures that transfered their power to another if they died, so as long as he could have monsters on the board he could buff one to insane heights.
So I built a deck that was immune to artifacts.
I love Critical Role and watching you guys play Dungeons and Dragons , and i have been playing Magic the Gathering for 25 years , but this was just too funny , but i did see the sparks in your eyes and questions that make a casual player for Magic, Im 52 years old and i always say to my friends and family , I WILL PLAY MAGIC AND WATCH CRITICAL ROLE TILL I DIE
Could this be a series? Different cast members playing against each other?
Nice camera set up for this!
Seeing Sam and the crew do commander would be fantastic
36:20 Flip This House RAVNICA on DIY Thursdays @ 8pm, or House Hunters Interplanar.
This was so fun to watch. White is my favourite colour in magic, I'm so happy Sam won in the second game (despite the fact he made like 3 miss plays!) I'd love to see more Magic!
LMAO Matt saying Cavalier of Flame and being sad about opening Shifting Ceratops xD
Man, I had a theorycraft goblins deck that rotated out some pieces but I wish I could have played it at fnm. It was a Boros Krenko deck that used Skirk Prospector and Siege-gang Commander to blow up Krenko's tokens and kill a million things
2:25 so Matt digs Slivers, got it.