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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...

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."

Sam is putting off so many “grandpa doesn’t know the computer” vibes and it’s got me shook.

Somehow I found it funny that these guys feel the need to introduce themselves at the beginning of the video.

"Concede" "I don't wanna concede" "Too bad"

I like to imagine the pumats playing MTG together. The metagame gets very intense.

Honestly, I would subscribe (on twitch) just to see a thirty minute video of Matt trying to explain card advantage to Sam.

Land... Land... Cat... Land... Also love matts reaction to new creatures being so over powered since he played in the 90s

7 minutes in and I love how respectful Matt is to not screenwatch. A true hero.

This is a great usability demo with Sam learning as he goes. This is a great study for designers.

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...

"and there are interrupts... At least there used to be" Oh boi, you've been away for a while, haven't you?

As an avid MTG player this is both adorable and painful, give me a week with Sam and he'd be a lean mean planeswalking machine. Edit: just made a white cat deck called Riegels Pussys

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.

It's rare to see just Matt and Sam together like this, really enjoyed the dynamic.

36:34 Let it be known that Matt laughs while murdering angels In all seriousness this was a really fun video. I need to get back into Magic!

Matt sounds like he would build a super fun commander deck and now I want them to play Commander for a show.

I would die to see the cast of critical role play commander together. Would watch in a heartbeat.

"I have the most stoned vampire opportunist right now"

I could hear Matt explaining Lore literally for days...Man i would love to discuss my homebrew Campaign with him.

Only thing I know about Magic is that the cards are pretty and there's land

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.

Fitting that when Sam's commander dies, the stats are 6/9

Took 4 minutes for me to realize that their names are pumat 1 and 2

“... 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.*

24:56 Love Sam's body English when he said, "What's your style."

36:36 and it was at this moment that Matthew Mercer came face to face with the Murder card. True beauty

Travis died by a cat 😂

MORE MORE MORE! Please let Matt play more MTG:A for us

"That was a tactical boo-boo"

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.

"Is there a Solitaire Magic?" Careful Sam, your age is showing.

I was born in '94. Matt has been playing Magic since I was born.

More of these please. CritRole tournament ftw

I just love how Sam is just always more interested in making his friends laugh even if it means his sad defeat

I'd love to see a Ravnica One Shot

Sam figuring out magic is the best part about this

Matt should absolutely be a guest on Game Knights... the way he talks about deckbuilding around themes is so EDH.

Matt talking about how he had playsets of duals makes me hurt

Is it just me or has Sam saying the phrase "I'm pretty much an expert now." become the audible equivalent of comfort food?

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.

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.

Am I the only one that was yelling at sam to play the other charmed cat?

Sam: "super tactical. It's me" Also Sam: "is it my turn or is it your turn?"

I'm a simple man: Matt likes Jank, I like Jank. I like Matt.

Thanks guys now I feel a bit more confident to try MTG out for the first time ever. Wish me luck! *downloads*

Anyone else going to acknowledge the fact that Matt Mercer was wearing a Hamilton shirt!?

FINALLY! I've been waiting and hoping to get to see Matt play magic!

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.

Damn it, that Riegel smile is contagious. I couldn't stop smiling for the whole hour and now my face hurts.

this is great but man does it hurt haha, id love to see them do this again in either paper, or see if there are any other cast members who are familiar with magic and have them all play in either a bracket, 2 headed giant or another repeat of this episode, get Sam to play a few more games to understand a little more or an advanced player to watch some epic fights with the cast!

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

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.

Watching Matt and Sam discover/rediscover MTG is amazing. I hope they keep playing!

When I was younger I collected some cards but had no idea how to play lol...

Sam's nail polish game is on point.

we need more content like this, please. I wanna watch these two grow as players

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

Watching all of you is like playing all my favorite games with my friends. Thank you for this fun video. I wish you all would do more experiences with MTGA. I truly enjoyed this.

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.

I want more of this in my life! Love yous guys

We need more of these!

Sam and Matt are amazing voice actors (you guys were great in spirit of justice)

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

I legit had a really fun time watching this! I would love the occasional MtG:A matches on Critical Role!

Man, Atogs, Slivers, Urza, Ravnica, these are some of my favorite things. I used to go hard and buy cards, even won a small store tournament at the age of 10. I often got money from my parents, and eventually traded cards in for store credit to buy even more cards. Most of all though...the greatest thing about Magic, for me, is the artwork. I used to seek cards out just for the artwork alone. I didn't care what it did, what mechanics were applied, it was always about the lore quotes and that sexy, colorful artwork.

I’m so excited my two favorite fandoms crashing together!

Oh please make more of this it’s amazing

I second the request for more Magic on this channel, let Sam Riegel learn how to play all of the magical cards !

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 :)

Matt is killing it in that Hamilton shirt. I love when the cast reps musicals.

I'm so glad you guys did an episode on Magic! My buddies got me into the game this year when they had a draft night. Now I have my first standard deck and just purchased my first commander deck which I can't wait to customize!

I have a black/blue deck around somewhere composed entirely of rats, walls, murder/death/kill nukes, and interrupts. I love it so. It's probably not the most effective deck, but it built up a lot of rats and rat tokens super fast.

I want more of this, please and thank you.

Great choice having Sam in here it is good to show people how easy it is to get into the game.

I really genuinely wanna see Matt and Sam play more magic.

Considering that this is Sam's first time playing, he's actually pretty good with expanding the small amount of knowledge he has.

the 2 things i love the most together xD

Love magic, love D&D, love you guys!

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.

8:30 the most adorable thing

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.)

Nice camera set up for this!

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 :).

Please have a recurring show that is Sam Plays with Magic! I love this!

proliferate means if there is already a counter on a permanent then you get to add 1 more counter to that permanent. IT works on +1/+1 counters, -1/-1 counters, and other counters on permanents like charge counters or loyalty counters.

“I find it funny envisioning how these things would actually work out.” Me too. My favourite it the Meteorite artifact; It does 2 damage as it “enters the battlefield.”

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"?

I spent years traveling for work. Once in a while, I’d buy a booster pack box. I would super organize them into binders and build decks to play with my crew mates at lunch sometimes. Then, after I stopped traveling for work and was back home, I had a friend who was moving to Europe. He was the one who introduced me to the game and it was going to be the last time we saw each other for a very long time. He was also the last of my friends who still played. So as a parting gift I gave him all my cards. We still play now but all online.

MOAR MAGIC THE GATHERING WITH YALL

I need more of Sam learning M:TG, and Matt re-learning it, in my life!

I’ve always wanted to know how to play magic. This was so much fun to watch!

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!

Definitely fun watching.. it makes me wanna play again and I haven't played in over 20 years.

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....

Matt and Sam you guys are awesome 😖 please keep doing what you do for many years to come 😊 I've discovered crit roll kinda recently and its so weird seeing you all so young in the first campaign but I'm loving it, i love you all 😖 also please play this game again, was awesone

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

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.

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 ;-) )