Magic: The Gathering, But It's Hearthstone 

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I actually want to see some decks especially made for this "game mode". Playing some underrated cards with defender as in taunt and what not would be really cool

that Rakdos luck is the most hearthstone thing that could've happened

Vigilance is like taunt in spirit, since the purpose is to keep the creature available for defense on the enemy turn.

Instants should be able to be played face down as “secrets” for their mv, and trigger when a target is found or action is met :]

I feel like this game shows off why most other games that have "First strike" only have it on your own turn, NOT your opponent's XD

Rakdos is a card I could totally see in Hearthstone with very little changes

Amazing Idea, great execution. Well played!

You guys always come up with such spice. Much needed in the mtg sphere.

For info, there is a graveyard, as some hearthstone card can for example resurect a random creature from the pool of undead who died (can be selected several time), or from the pool any less than 3 mana creatures.

"There's no graveyard right?" I mean technically there is. Hearthstone will keep track of which creatures died and whos control they were under when they died, and there are reanimation effects, although they choose a target at random.

I'd think Sagas should be treated more like Quests, positioned in the same places as Secrets (above the Hero portrait) instead of taking up board space. There are static abilities in HS. For Luminarch Aspirant, it probably could have been "The first time a creature attacks this turn, give it a +1/+1 counter". I'd say Taunt would probably be the most analogous for Vigilance, since both greatly affect combat potential and positioning of creatures. Finding something similar for Flying is kind of tough, I guess Stealth would probably come closest since both affect their combat interactions (although I'd like to say it's Windfury... that's clearly Double Strike, and I know Stealth is closer to Hexproof, but there's also HS cards that are both Elusive and Semi-Elusive which fit Shroud and Hexproof better anyway. So, Stealth it is.) HS has Lifesteal. It's the same mechanic as Lifelink. First Strike is kind of tough too, part of me wants to say it should be treated like Rush (Haste but can only attack creatures the turn it ETBs) but then I think Divine Shield would work too since it deals damage first and possibly wouldn't take damage at all in combat. Some HS cards have both, so... maybe combining the two? HS does have discard mechanics but they operate VERY differently... I'm sure plenty of players would love to hand-rip opponents instead of randomly discarding their own cards and hope they generate value. Poisonous is the HS equivalent for Deathtouch. The Extraction Specialist, at least with Jamin's logic, would make a creature Dormant, which is useless if permanent since it just clogs your board. Overkill is the HS version of Trample. In HS, there are typically other effects that happen instead of directly dealing excess combat damage, but it's the only HS mechanic that specifically mentions "excessive damage". I'd love to see this again but with some adjusting so it isn't just whoever goes aggro first wins. Loved the special playmat.

I remember playing MTG cards as if they were Yu-Gi-Oh cards back in middle school. This is a really fun idea, I’d love to see some other variations on it!

If you ever play this again, why not make Vigilance into Taunt? It fits the general usage.

Honest really fun video and concept. As a HS player this felt like a new expansion just came out or coming back from a long br8. I kept having to pause to read the cards popping up and evaluate them for a HS game. Thx for all the edits and laughs from the video, would love to see more of this format. Hopefully the vid wasn't to demanding.

Pretty cool idea haha, I like it! If you ever wanna do it again, maybe try to find cards that could be used differently, like “Defender” is possibly “Taunt” in a way, but not really. I’d be interested to see a deck where of 30 cards, 10 are actual Hearthstone cards just warped and 20 are Magic, just as a weird experiment

Fascinating. Worked surprisingly well. I guess defender would be like the taunt which forces you to attack that creature first...

I thought we already had this but it was just called alchemy

this was a lot of fun! one thing to note is that in hearthstone, an effect like Extraction Specialist would pull a random card that fits the requirement - you wouldn't get to choose! Not only that, but tokens count as part of your revival pool just like any other card. So when Specialist was played turn 4, it would be 50% chance to revive the 1/1 and 50% to bring back Aspirant. He could have played it before attacking in this case, still guaranteeing the revive he wanted, but just an interesting difference to note. This channel has the best silly mtg content out there. Thanks!

I really like that you guys did this crossover. I found you guys recently and I enjoy all your creative magic duels. I would watch every video if you guys made this a series. Thoralf should've drawn a card at the start. Each player always draws, but the starting hand size was right. I like the use of a treasure card as a coin. As for balance some were saying vigilance should be taunt. I think having first strike as rush which is creature attack only haste would be much more fair. Flying could be stealth which is single turn hexproof essentially unless it doesn't attack then it stays on it. It could be broken if the flying creature has a passive ability though, so maybe just give it single turn hexproof. Enchantments are like locations which are single turn use based on the number of uses so a saga is pretty close to being spot on. Overall excellent execution of implementing magic into hearthstone. Keep up the good work!

i would actually really love to see a series exploring some homebrew rules/formats for magic, to see how certain changes can really impact the game. like my friends and i have been playing a "no manascrew" format where you can discard a card to play a basic land of your choice as your land drop for the turn, so you don't need to run any basic lands (although you still might for certain effects that add basics from deck to hand or the like). there was also the recent shuffle up and play where they chose their opening hand, as another example!

I'd say Vigilance is taunt, since the goal is to allow you to block with the attacking creature :)

Do this video again as a deck building challenge where lands are kept in a separate deck that you charge from each turn. Otherwise play Magic normally. Would be interesting to see what kind of strategies would work when players do not have to factor in whether or not they hit their land drops each turn.

That was amazing, I would definitely love to see this again :D A couple additional ideas: Vigilance should be Taunt, First strike should be rebalanced to also be the first to attack each turn, Reach could act as Taunt specifically against Flying creatures, "at the beginning of combat" should be at the start of the turn and maybe Menace can only be attacked by 2 or more creatures at once.

That was way too entertaining xD thank you (Also, each player draws on their first turn but the 2nd player gets an extra card, so you should have 4 and 6 counting coin respectively)

That was well executed! One variation I’ve always wanted to try is having a main deck and land deck separate, then draw one of each every turn. Prevents mana screwed/flooding while still keeping the rest of the mtg ruleset.

I like this exercise, mainly because it shows where Hearthstone has solved a few "problems" in MTG (at least where it might be problematic in it's own environment)

Enjoyed this a lot because I came to MtG from Hearthstone. And I like playing Boros since it has the closest gameplay to my favorite HS class, the Paladin - create dudes, buff them up and hit FACE!

Really love the content you guys have been coming up with for the past few weeks! That concept was so fun ahahah

I was waiting for that crossover for ever!!! So happy you did that video, thanks! Ps I wrote that even before the video starts, and when I saw the concept, it's even better than I thought!

I've been tinkering with this concept for a while, though I've tried an approach that changes MtG's rules to emulate HS combat and tempo mechanics. My complete set of rules for an heartstone approach to MtG is as follows: "The Heartstone" Gamerule Emblem (If this is in both players decks, each player starts the game with it in the command zone) Players start the game with 4 cards. Players may mulligan once by shuffling any number of cards back in their deck and drawing that much cards. After mulligan, each player creates a treasure token. In a 2 player game, the starting player draws 3 cards and does not create a treasure. Players also start with 30 life. Before the start of the game, each player may put a hero power card in his or her command zone. At the beginning of each players first precombat mainphase each turn, if that player controls fewer than 10 lands, they create a mana crystal token (Its a land with "T: add [C] or one mana of any one color). Whenever a players play a land card from hand, they instead instead exile it, then they may sacrifice a land. If they do, they put the exiled land card onto the battlefield. The attacking player chooses wich creature blocks each combat and how those creatures block. Tapped creatures my block as though they were untapped. A creature may block any number of creatuers. A creature my be block by no more than one creature. The attacking player decides damage order for the defending player. Damage is not removed from creatures at the end of turn. If an effect would prevent damage to a creature, for each point of prevented damage, that effects controller may choose to remove one point of marked damage from that creautre instead. If a player would gain life, for each point of life gained, they may remove one point of marked damage from a creature they control instead. Players dont loose the game for having 0 or less life. Instead, whenever a player tries to draw a card from an empty library, that player gains an fatigue emblem with "when you get this emblem, you loose 1 life for each fatigue emblem you own". Only creatures controlled by the defending player can deal combat damage during each first strike combat damage step If a player controls a creature with an ability that restricts how creatures could block that creature, instead that ability restricts how creatures can be blocked by that creature. - menace: can't block unless it blocks 2 or more creatures - flying: can't be attacked by creatures without flying - skulk: can't be attacked by creatures with lesser power - protection from "X": can't be attacked by creatures of "X" - unblockable: can't be attacked - Intimidate: ...

I think this was a really cool idea and ngl have had a crush on thoralf and this just solidified it. He is always so fun to watch play magic as he always has a smile on his face.

Would love to see more of this format, with decks specifically built for it.

I think First Strike should be treated as "Divine Shield" - the first damage is ignored and that's it, just to balance first strike. Defender is taunt Double Strike is Windfury and maybe make something useless like vigilance to Rush.

Oh please, you know EXACTLY what you need to do next. Here's a draft if you want an idea of how to make it work: -Mana costs are just treated as levels, 4 and under require no tribute, 5-6 one tribute, 8+ is two tributes, one normal summon per turn. -Sorcery cards are activated only during your main phase, artifacts are continuous spells, instants must be set for at least one turn before being used, and counters are spell speed 3. Any of these that are generic or only cost a low mana amount can be activated for free, but if they get around 4 or more then you either need to control a creature with the same color, or pay 1000 lp, or whatever you decide is a fair condition to fit the card. -Legendary creatures go in the extra deck. Since Fusion, Link, and Synchro would have no way of working, every legendary creature is an XYZ monster, and you need to stack two creatures with the same amount of mana cost on top of each other. Using a cost-based ability of a legendary creature means you need to use an overlay unit. To compensate for it being a bit more ridged, the policy will be you can use two or more creatures with the same level in case you want to invest more in a particular boss card. -Plainswalkers go in the Pendulum Zones if you use them. You can decide on what parameter is used as their pendulum scale, maybe their mana cost, or go by highest and lowest life cost, then just use their abilities as normal (now counted as spell effects), and the parameter you agree on for pendulum summons. -Monster and spell zones work as expected, monsters can either be in attack or set in face down defense. Damage calculation works the same way, but 1 point equals 400 points of damage when factoring in life points. No summoning sickness, and Trample equals Piercing damage. Figure out things like Flying, Haste, and First Strike on your own. -Non-Basic Lands go in the Field Spell zone, and have their abilities applied accordingly.

Very cool idea and props for all the work that went into making this as hearthston-y as possible

This is one of the coolest videos ive seen in a long time, great idea whoever came up with this i love it!!

Thoralf looks like he’s having so much fun :,)

Smiling so much for this - loved how you guys just went right in. A long intro explaining the concept would’ve killed the pacing; them making sound effects and explaining the game interview style as it went was perfect for the humor.

The sound effects Thoralf made are just the best

This time around I didn't get the idea you guys were having when recording this clip^^ I love Hearthstone as a gimmick and still play my pet deck in their eternal format, but from an objective point of view Magic just reigns supreme as the better game with more depth and is (if you look at Hearthstone player numbers) very underappreciated for these facts.

Would love to see a similar video for playing mtg in the force of will style (40-60 card decks, separate 10-20 card deck for your lands, and a commander)

You guys HAVE to make more of this content. Bloody brilliant

That is really interesting, probably would need some "Taunt" in your decks for future play, which i would really like to see! :)

this was awesome! amazing idea! reminds me of when I used to play hearthstone, also the sound effects jamin and toffel were making were hilarious

I’ll keep saying it: y’all make the best and most varied MTG content out there! Bravo to the entire team (and let’s go Thoralf! I wanna see that big smile on a magic card after he wins worlds!)

I really like the idea of mana crystals in place of lands, only instead of all generic mana crystals, you get 1 colored mana crystal of choice. Any cards that would get you more lands, instead gets you more crystals. Also correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't Aspirant have died when it battled the Goblin Token?

Would love to see more of this! This was awesome

I love this video. You guys should do this more often and build decks around it.

Okay now I need to see a game of one magic deck vs one hearthstone deck, each utilizing their own mechanics

This was a great video! As an on/off-again MtG casual that mostly plays HS, I loved it. Seeing a game between not-Warrior & not-Paladin also felt very refreshing given recent metas, and lastly... Even in this format, the Warrior analogue can't catch a break. 😁

That was alot of fun to watch. Please make more like this! :D (and yeah, first strike is broken, let it change to "only in your turn, this creature has first strike") ^^'

Honestly a pretty cool video. Would love to see more of this.

I loved this game mode! I would love to play it and see more content about it. Also it would be great to build decks dedicated to it! LOVE IT!

That's so silly; I love it! A 2nd video of this would be fun. Also finding ways to apply Magic to other game rules like Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh, Chess(?), etc.

Whenever I think Toffel can't surpass his previous Thumbnail face he goes and does it anyway XD

cardmarket brings so good content nowadays, i really love what u guys are doing please keep it up

Awesome video guys, Great idea whoever came up with this

Man, i *love* experemental videos on this channel!

Cardmarket always with the most creative MTG content! Also top notch editing 👌

I never played it but I think you guys playing Planechase would be cool to see! Also would love to see you guys play against the challenge decks from Theros or play some horde magic!

That was awesome. I really want to test out this new "Hearthstone" format. But first strike should only work on your own turn imo. I hope you will do this kind of duel again!

This game mode looks really fun. Please do more ❤

I think "can't block" should just make it unable to deal damage, when attacked rather than intangible.

this video was so funky and it was so much fun seeing you guys have fun with it lol

As someone who started playing maguc because I got burnt out of hearthstone this was an entertaining video

This was a lot of fun, would love to see some more spins on this. Would be cool with other games too!

I'd love to see more of this.

This was great stuff! It would be cool to see cards in hearthstone that would he busted in magic or vice versa

Damn i love this format, cardmarket always surprises!

This was perfect, please do some other game with more polished rules and other decks ❤

I would definitely love to see more variations of this

Goblin Garbelcher is an artifact that costs 4 to play and, for 3 and tap, inflicts X damage to any target where X is the amount of cards you can reveal from your library before hitting a land. In Heartstone-mode MTG, I guess that's as many damages as there are cards in the library.

Awesome idea, would love to see it again maybe with some more refined rules and decks. As some ideas: Creatures with defender have basically Taunt Creatures with reach have taunt towards creatures with flying Creatures with flying can only be attacked by other creatures with flying Creatures with firststrike could have a slight balancing factor of if it is the first creature you attacked with this turn it deals it's damage before the defender but it doesn't trigger on blocks Stuff like that Also would love for you guys to play pioneer again sometime as i have a pretty cool Dime control deck for you to play based around the Scarab God as it's win con instead of a Planeswalker. Love your content and keep it up

This was great, please do it again. I want to see a best of three.

You could start a whole series like this like do a magic as yugioh or PvZ heroes or something like that

Your MTG content is off the charts

This was really fun. Adding hero powers to a format could be very cool too!

Tried doing this back when Theros first came out with standard only cards. Pick one of the gods for your deck color and get a its activated ability as your hero power(Erebos/Warlock, Purphoros/Hunter, small changes to the other 3). Used a Gold token for the coin! Instants were weird, deciding if they all had to be secrets/immediately played. Probably needed like a 50 card ban list; wished I had playtested it more.

this is fun. mtg but hearthstone. very nice! playing one tcg using another tcg's cards is something i used to do.

I just saw the MtG vs Yugioh crossover video and looked at the channel for more crossover games. PLEASE KEEP DOING MORE OF THESE, THEY'RE AWESOME!!!!!!! 😃🔥🔥🔥🔥

This actually seems like a blast! I’d love for Wizards to make something like this into a similar format for MTG. I’m definitely trying this sometime!

Vigilance should be taunt

That was really fun guys, amazing video

This idea was kinda rad. Really liked this video.

really hope this is done with other tcgs, like maybe yugioh played as mtg or vice versa, or yugioh played as hearthstone on the cardmarket yugioh channel. that would be really fun too.

I used to play heaps of Hearthstone before finally making the move to Magic. Brings back memories

I'd like to see an adventure like, where two players combine forces to fight against a boss

Incredible content, as always

I would honestly love to see more of this. Maybe mono color only?

Great video. This game kind of already exists. It's the World of Warcraft TCG. Played almost identically to magic except a couple of differences. 1. You could put any card in your hand facedown once per turn as a "mana". 2. You had a "hero" card that represented you, your max HP, and a once per game ability. 3. Damage remained between turns much like Hearthstone. Combat was done individually with one creature at a time, and you could have as many main phases between combats as you wanted. It was pretty fun, but so close to magic that nobody would care to play it over magic, and so people only ever bought cards to get free stuff in the MMO.

I love this so much Edit: I was having a really terrible day but this actually lifted my spirits ...

I love the sound effects.

this actually was stupidly entertaining, you guys should try the reverse maybe? hearthstone cards magic rules? this was so fun

One of the smoothest coinflips I've ever seen, chef's kiss

A party we ran at BlizzCon I ran Heartstone IRL this now THIS is an interesting take!

id love more of this as a mtg nerd and hearthstone addict i love it

Haven’t finished the video but some initial thoughts: This “format” probably rewards a perfect mana curve and cards that let you continue to draw into that perfect mana curve. Seems fun 😂 another banger idea guys as usual.

Pretty sure crashing footfalls would be the defacto best deck in this format. Especially with the coin thing

Drafting random cards from bulk boxes and using hearthstone mana rules is a lot of fun.