I was actually about to ask the naming question on stax myself, but I still want to leave a comment and boost the video so I'll ask another question instead: I see a lot of hate get directed at stax, likely because it makes the game more...annoying to play, but as someone with little experience outside of playing with friends, I was wondering if stax actually deserves the reputation it gets, and what your thoughts on the matter were. From the quick overview given here, it sounds like stax is so heavily dependent on meta that it isn't a big issue. Obviously it'll be a bigger problem in eternal formats where you always have those powerful stax cards, but it also seems like in eternal formats you'll have equally powerful tools to deal with most of these threats. Are people just making a big deal over a little problem because the decks are less fun to play against than other types of decks, or is stax actually something that pops up enough in modern metas that the hatred is deserved?
I feel like it's a meme more than anything. Yeah, the decks aren't fun to play against, but neither are long to complete combo decks like storm or control decks. Sometimes, your opponent winning means you won't have that much fun, and while you have to accept that, it doesn't mean that some lighthearted ribbing is out of the question. I don't think most people want cards like Blood Moon or Chalice of the Void banned, they just like to joke about them because they're annoying
Floodgate stuff is not fun to play against, but usually Floodgates are often gimmicky therefore them resolving a win is satisfying to the said person using them. And if not gimmicky they probably need a nerf, ban or something because when they become consistent and easy welp like any deck it will become a high success rate but everyone loath a high success rate Floodgate deck. Because they will make the most toxic wins along with it just stops you from playing the game cause their whole point is just to shut down anything your trying to put on the board. Which of course you want to interact and stop cards in most decks to not let your opponent just get there win con but you don't want to a play a game were everything can be stopped by some cheesy cards. Leaving it practically no interaction from yourself.
I think it's more of a psychological issue. Playing your card and having it answered feels different than being unable to play your card in the first place.
I knew this stuff already but watched anyway, well I didn't know about the naming of Prison or Stax? Yeah I will for sure say I prefer the yugioh naming of that which is just a Floodgate deck. With Floodgate cards been the stuff that stops your opponent in such equivalents. These Floodgate decks are for sure control decks. Personal preference on naming though it's the same thing. It's the same way I prefer searching as just a word over tutoring. And of course these bias's will form from which ever one we gravitate to more. Anyway that's my little preference talk here that don't mean much just my likings lol. Also it's interesting cause I feel sometimes people get confused quite a bit what a deck falls into, but then also it's to be expected cause sometimes the definitions can be hard to define 1 to 1 so I think you did a great job here.
late and also maybe not the most accurate, but as someone who plays yugioh and is getting into magic, magic themes and deck archetypes are more like playstyles: just general groupings of certain cards that acheive a certain goal, using cards that you have access to that arent specifically printed to be played into one single deck yugioh archetypes are more like characters in a fighting game with different moves and ways to interact; you can build a red black agro deck many different ways, but a swordsoul deck has specific cards that are specifically played in swordsoul, archetypes in yugioh are cards specifically built to play with eachother
Fax, but you make good informative content, easy to digest and very complete. If you had good audio I’d love to check out some long form guides on mtg. Seems to be quite a lack of them on yt
Really good stuff mate, here’s one for the algorithm
Thank you!
I was actually about to ask the naming question on stax myself, but I still want to leave a comment and boost the video so I'll ask another question instead: I see a lot of hate get directed at stax, likely because it makes the game more...annoying to play, but as someone with little experience outside of playing with friends, I was wondering if stax actually deserves the reputation it gets, and what your thoughts on the matter were. From the quick overview given here, it sounds like stax is so heavily dependent on meta that it isn't a big issue. Obviously it'll be a bigger problem in eternal formats where you always have those powerful stax cards, but it also seems like in eternal formats you'll have equally powerful tools to deal with most of these threats. Are people just making a big deal over a little problem because the decks are less fun to play against than other types of decks, or is stax actually something that pops up enough in modern metas that the hatred is deserved?
I feel like it's a meme more than anything. Yeah, the decks aren't fun to play against, but neither are long to complete combo decks like storm or control decks. Sometimes, your opponent winning means you won't have that much fun, and while you have to accept that, it doesn't mean that some lighthearted ribbing is out of the question. I don't think most people want cards like Blood Moon or Chalice of the Void banned, they just like to joke about them because they're annoying
Floodgate stuff is not fun to play against, but usually Floodgates are often gimmicky therefore them resolving a win is satisfying to the said person using them. And if not gimmicky they probably need a nerf, ban or something because when they become consistent and easy welp like any deck it will become a high success rate but everyone loath a high success rate Floodgate deck. Because they will make the most toxic wins along with it just stops you from playing the game cause their whole point is just to shut down anything your trying to put on the board.
Which of course you want to interact and stop cards in most decks to not let your opponent just get there win con but you don't want to a play a game were everything can be stopped by some cheesy cards. Leaving it practically no interaction from yourself.
I think it's more of a psychological issue. Playing your card and having it answered feels different than being unable to play your card in the first place.
I knew this stuff already but watched anyway, well I didn't know about the naming of Prison or Stax? Yeah I will for sure say I prefer the yugioh naming of that which is just a Floodgate deck. With Floodgate cards been the stuff that stops your opponent in such equivalents. These Floodgate decks are for sure control decks. Personal preference on naming though it's the same thing. It's the same way I prefer searching as just a word over tutoring. And of course these bias's will form from which ever one we gravitate to more.
Anyway that's my little preference talk here that don't mean much just my likings lol.
Also it's interesting cause I feel sometimes people get confused quite a bit what a deck falls into, but then also it's to be expected cause sometimes the definitions can be hard to define 1 to 1 so I think you did a great job here.
Fyi, stax is a reference to a card called Smokestacks, which was very good at making it hard for your opponent to play the game.
@@pumkinswift8263 I see knew it would of had to be based on a Card like tutor didn't know which one though, Thanks.
Are themes like Yu-Gi-Oh archetypes?
They're the most similar, I'd say.
late and also maybe not the most accurate, but as someone who plays yugioh and is getting into magic, magic themes and deck archetypes are more like playstyles: just general groupings of certain cards that acheive a certain goal, using cards that you have access to that arent specifically printed to be played into one single deck
yugioh archetypes are more like characters in a fighting game with different moves and ways to interact; you can build a red black agro deck many different ways, but a swordsoul deck has specific cards that are specifically played in swordsoul, archetypes in yugioh are cards specifically built to play with eachother
holy cow man, you gotta figure out your audio because this is rough to listen to. Great video otherwise though
Fax, but you make good informative content, easy to digest and very complete. If you had good audio I’d love to check out some long form guides on mtg. Seems to be quite a lack of them on yt