Dan hides behind 3 BUFF dudes - Magic The Gathering Arena: PART 1 

Ya love to see it

@@RWNetworkEX ya really do tho

Well, to be fair, I didn't see a single non-standard card in Arin's decks, and Dan was playing an iteration of historic mono white life gain, which is one of the best decks in that format.

Dan: "Okay Arin, I'm done wrecking your shit, I'll pick a different deck..." Me: Yes finally, make this a little more balanced Dan: "...and I'll do that, next time on Game Grumps!" Me: * disgruntled noises *

I call it: Sparky's Big Day

*Ferocious menu screen noises*

yeah i had to double check arena but sparky is the arena ai so he had to had clicked on bot match at some point :P

😂 Dude, the showdown of the century: Danny vs The Menu Screen.

But not just one.... THREE

@@AlG12411 THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!! NO ONE HAS EVER MANAGED TO SUMMON ALL THREE!!!!

@@SakuraAvalon Alseid Obliterate!

He has the Fart of the Cards

I don’t know why but that tickled me

I do not play such games... With dan

"I'll pick uhhhh Big Zam"

So delighted to see an Adventure Time reference here. God I miss that show

Damn straight!

This better be a Magic the Gathering channel by the time I get back, so help me.

@@the_booontch This!

I would watch this every day if I could

now if they did that I might end up understanding how this game plays.

Oh it's a thing 😂

I really hope some people don't know big zam, because it makes this comment so much better.

I need a shirt of the Big Zam convo

Hey its Alseid of Life's Bounty!

Ok, stop me if you heard this one.... I'm gonna pick.... Alseid of Life's Bounty... and then I'm gonna pick Big Zam😜

Using this as an insult IRL is still one of my favorite insults

@@literallymatty4083 its not even bad- thats the funny part

I can't remember is sparky the AI thing they put in? Lol

Dan also won the poolparty mtg match as well hahahaha

Sean Harp yes it is,

Spoiler alert

Oh my god! He brought out Lyra Dawnbringer instead of Alseid! How unexpected!

"The Angel of Vitality!" *Angry noises from Arin*

Ashuraman this was exactly my first thought!

Ya like colors, huh? Might I suggest, Yugioh, the superior game?- Jokes aside, I would suggest Yugioh if all you care is colors. Or not, you do you, I can't tell you what to do. :D

Agreed, I just watch for the Grumps, don't play Magic.

Shadow Master 1147 I see you are also a a person of culture 😎

You should try it once magic is actually pretty fun I seen someone do an infinite amount of damage in one turn

@@misfitgaming2935 magic is a rich persons game when you enter standard. Useless starter decks as well.

Weenie decks often use protection to penetrate the opponents defenses, but in this case Danny didnt need it to come out on top. He just kept smashing away until he achieved victory.

Maybe just Alseid--

Look at me :D

This is correct, at any rate!

Yes!! And the little fire cat??? In love.

If you want a cute card should look up Harmless offering

@WeaponXYZ As long as you don’t look really closely at it

Gotta say I'm a big fan of your work

Nice drawings

i wanted to like your comment, but it's at 69 currently... sacrifices must be made.

I prefer a 420 to 69 advantage.

@@NatetheNerdy how many times you gonna make this joke, kiddo?

@@CheetahBigKitty At least 68 more times.

He's the one who shuffles!

@@coldstonedcoder6432 HE'S THE ONE WHO DRAWS!!

As a new MTG player, can you tell me what moment this was? I'm also going to bump you so you rewatch this video thereby making the algorithm suggest this video to more people so as to suggest to the Grumps that they should play more Arena. Thank you ;)

what does that mean?

@@sasir2013 Basically, Arin was using cards from a format that only allows cards that were released in the past two years, while Dan was using cards from a format that allows cards from the past three years. Because there are more cards to work with in historic, Dan's deck was naturally more powerful.

@@Pizzacheese4 I see, thanks

He definitely knows, he mentioned something about it towards the end of the first game. Maybe he just didn't want to derail the video.

I am 10000% behind this idea.

I am so much more than 1000% behind this it isn't even remotely funny

Shit yes! Sign me up! Maybe he'd like to run an all beast race campaign... just a thought :D

Ross would be the rogue that fucks over his own party and derails Dan's entire quest line.

No life........ grunts ............. bounty

@Dan Wentz Do you 'have fun' by getting your ass severely beaten back to back?

Looks like a fairly standard lifegain deck to me. The most unique inclusion is Lyra, but even that used to be common in white decks back in the day.

I would cry with joy

The prophecy

We heard about it so long ago

YES

The prophecy of Dan ass blasting Arin 1000 times over in magic

KEVIN!?

Brian won’t be an issue after rotation though... my 2020 white deck is going on the shelf

Basically bolt the bird, but zap the cat

I was screaming at the screen when Arin summoned a creature instead of taking it out.

don't you mean, Syr Dan?

It was a bit of a tossup for me. He could, but he also didn't need to spend that resource with the current board state.

Also, protection is one of the most confusing abilities for casual players because it does so much and it's hard to remember. Easy way I remember, is the word DEBT. A creature with protection cannot be: Damaged Enchanted Blocked Targeted

That's why Arin wanted him to use all his mana. Dan also knew he could do that but didn't know he had to do it before clicking resolve.

I was praying Dan would figure this out, not that it mattered in the end 😗

I've seen pro players completely miss that feature of protection before, so honestly, it's fine.

Gotta keep the new player engaged somehow

You know..... He looks lonely! He needs some friends..... Alsied of Life's Bounty? Alsied of Life's Bounty!

@@user-st7rq3sn7v Look at this wonderful couple, they're so happy together. This calls for... *MORE ALSEIDS OF LIFE'S BOUNTY!*

Lol, Big Zam was the first thing I thought of

absolutely

It's not really beginners luck though is it? The dude used to play for years and years

@@moast6943 did he? I see he picked up on mechanics quickly, but still seems noobish compared to the ShuffleMaster.

Ricky the Mongoose yeah, he said he played mtg when it first came out

i would like this but its at 69, so just know that i am in full support

Ikr I've never played or watched until now just heard about it but I might play now!

Then proceed to get stomped again. Guess it wasn't the deck.

@@Ayoul Well in some senses it was the deck, but not necessarily that Arin's decks were bad, but that IFailed's deck was insanely good

Tbh hydras are so clunky

And life gain is so beginner friendly

It's right up there with "If I'd had one more turn...".

so wait- is Dan a Timmy?

Explain?

@@mikehab7453 lifegain decks are rarely the kind of strong decks spikes play. In particular in the current magic scene, lifegain decks are kind of weak

@@mikehab7453 A Spike is someone who plays to win, likes to ply with only the strongest cards, and is very competitive in the game. Mono white life gain may be fun, but it is absolutely not a very strong deck. Mono White life gain is probably the opposite of a spike, which fits into the Timmy description, someone who plays for fun, mainly with cards they like, regardless of their power level. There's also a third category, a Jimmy, who tends to stick to themed decks, a particular play style, or builds around off meta cards, in an attempt to make new things work.

Isnt ajani pretty good though?

To his defense... Everyone hates Alseid and Pridemates... Even when you play them yourself you hate their pure existence!

I heard them talk about Arin loving magic cards but it just occured to me to see if they had a vid about it cuz i didnt think danny played. Hope they do more, this seems to have gotten a decent like/dislike ratio

My brain interpreted this as the card Black Market just taped to the inside of a stall for some reason.

Nah, I played it when it first came out, and they banned it in every school. We got like 3 good weeks and then it was outlawed everywhere for being satanic. I wish I was kidding, and still had my black lotuses.

Yu gi oh. Yu gi oh gx era. Soo many cards. I made profit too

You kidding I trade 1 week of lunch money to get my first demonic tutor

Nah it was in the library

He deserves it ☺️

Well, Dan isn't new to magic, and probably they had some matches off camera

First of all, they are in separate places so its hard to help him like that. They probably had a couple basic warm up games but even doing that there are things about arena that come with experience and knowing when to use certain counters and playing your field before resolving is difficult to articulate to each other. It also happens when you have a bar getting shorter right in front of you. I played alot of arena and most of that is just not being used to the way the game is presented.

@@sumbody694 Not to mention that Dan was using a deck he didn't build, so on top of new controls were new cards, so a few mistakes make plenty of sense

@@Pancakeli Given how Arin and Dan are, I think playing a deck he didn't build himself is ENTIRELY beneficial.

You should learn honestly one of my all time favorite card games, Pokémon don’t got shit on MTG😂

Basically me too lol

Mtg is a really fun card game it's way more strategic then Pokemon and yu-gi-oh in my opinion

The art alone makes it one of the best in my opinion

Jacob Haley I might! It looks fun

or not killing the first angel of vitality with gargos..

It wasn’t him being nice. Dan could just sacrifice one of his Alseids to give the Pridemate protection from red

@@thejarjarexp2147 Dan was clearly very lost the entire match. I'd be surprised if he even saw that interaction.

@@Firemac Well, he tried to do the interaction later on, but didn’t understand what resolve meant. He very clearly knew how to use Alseid correctly, even if he couldn’t figure out how to do it correctly on Arena. That means Arin might have gotten away with it, but Arin didn’t think he was going to, hence why he kept saying how much he hated Alseid

"Mirrormade comes in as a copy of any enchantment on the battlefield... hey, you know what's an Enchantment? Alseid of Life's Bounty."

Ryan Barham Yes! Also a new Rogue in zendikar copies creatures on etb!

Better yet: Dan in What the Deck with Alseid-based decks.

They've used the wrong intro multiple times in previous Game Grumps versus. Although they might plan on doing other stuff with this series than just versus, so maybe that's why.

why? I don't get it .-.

@@thestrivinghero9536 Because he kept playing Alseids and just dropped a legendary angel lord mythic rare.

@@thestrivinghero9536 It's hilarious because of how pompous the name sounds. And also because the card is super backbreaking against both decks Arin played. Dan having almost the same cards both matches was also hilarious.

@@sadino123 SHE BRINGS THE DAWN, ARIN

Me: And you have resources that you can use to cast creatures. You have unlimited amount of spaces, the best cards are not expensive, but what you know how to use, and you just need to know your deck. Yu-Gi-Oh players: I....uh....don't have that. I'll switch to MTG now.

@@fireblade295 sounds like someone had a terrible yugioh experience 😂😂

@@fireblade295 Sounds like someone didn't trust their fate to the Heart of the Cards.

@@fireblade295 Regarding the whole "knowing what you have and how to use it" thing instead of just playing huge stuff: that definitely *is* a thing in Yu-Gi-Oh as well, it's just a bit overlooked. I got into both around the same time, then dropped Yu-Gi-Oh to focus on Magic, learning different MTG strategies and generally how to recognize the utility of cards. Then I picked up Yu-Gi-Oh again a few years later and went "Hey, I can actually make a pretty good control deck with some of these cards! Oh, and a dredge deck, too!" and so on... I still prefer Magic (and Hearthstone takes my second place), but Yu-Gi-Oh definitely *does* have that kind of strategic element (Pokemon too, for that matter)...

@@fireblade295 "The best cards are not expensive" [Laughs in fetchlands/snapcaster/Htarmogoyf/Like 30% of the Reserved list]

When?

@@andrewdiaz3529 they did a episode of the grumps where they played magic in a pool and arin just had learnt do play it

Needs more colons. you are writing a script, not a youtube comment!

Yeah it was painful

HE'S THE TUTORIAL FIGHT

Ikoria is a whole set designed with Toho, the rights holder for Godzilla, so there are a lot of Godzilla cards for magic. Check it out!

Yes, as you may have seen. Wizards did a special cross promo with the godzilla series so they made cards with a lot of the famous monsters.

@@NeoEvincar So they didn't design Ikoria with Toho. They had the idea for a kaiju themed set, and were already working on it when Hasbro, Wizards of the Cost parent company got the rights to do a Godzilla Monopoly. Wizards then asked Toho if they could use the Godzilla monsters for Magic and the rest is history.

Yes. It was a promotional thing from a few sets ago where they did alternate Godzilla art/names for other cards. Dorat is an alternate art of the card Sprite Dragon.

@SuperStoryMode Look forward to the real-ass goddamn Dungeons and Dragons set next year. I'm not talking more Zendikar, I mean they're just straight-up putting the Forgotten Realms into MTG for an entire set.

The Ancient Gear Soldiers were awesome! I used to run a deck of them too.