@@Shin_Akumi WotC = Wizards of the Coast (the makers of Magic the Gathering), MSRP = Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price... WotC is displaying who they really are with this set and forgetting to control their insatiable greed. They are creating "collectibles" while throwing a middle finger at the fans that have supported them since the beginning. Essentially a woke move that will likely alienate many of their long-time fans (such as myself).
@@jchinckley thankyou, im a casual fan of magic, played in high school almost 20 years ago, and bought some games on the xbox 1, but never understood it properly, at least yugioh has an anime to set the scene, magic always felt like, ur older brothers toys u couldn't touch but admire lol, but thanks again buddy 🤙🏽
@@Shin_Akumi wizzards of the coast and manufacturer's suggested retail price, don't worry, i had to google it out bc americans kids use shortcuts just to show off
I can't believe the reach this has. As a magic fan and collector my whole life, it's amazing to see what we've been complaining about for the past 3 years finally being heard.
@@TheHandHistoryVault And for Magic, it's being covered and pointed out while there is still time to fix it and change course. So there is still hope for the community at least.
Instants and interrupts were two different things, interrupts given priority. Then the stack system was tweaked a bit, and interrupts were removed and either made into "mana sources" or instants. But yeah, definitely only something us old-timers remember
Interrupts are basically the higher spell speeds in yu-gi-oh, traps and quick effects are spell speed 2, meaning they can interrupt the activation of normal spells and effects and each other, and counter traps and hand traps are spell speed 3, they can interrupt spell speed 2 cards, and can only be interrupted by other spell speed 3 cards. Honorable mention goes to super poly and other completely uninterrupterable effects, basically spell speed 4.
Post Malone played with The Professor and two other people commander. Post Malone is big on magic, he bought The One Ring OG for like a million dollars and is collecting as well. They had great games as Post Malone is a very fun dude too.
idk he is ok. But he has an ego, he spams woke shit like trans charity lmao, and his mentra "buy singles" is misguided in its core. His opinions on MTG are nothing ground breaking, it is good he has them as he has large platform, just that they are logical if you look at the trajectory of the game.
The look on your face when the price was announced is the perfect encapsulation of the community's feelings about this product: disgust, disappointment, disbelief.
I'm depressed that Asmongold is the only other person I know of who's called these paper NFTs, because that's exactly what they are, and that's the audience that wants this product.
If I was to buy an NFT, I'd at least know how many are floating around. I'd have the information to know the scarcity/rarity of the product. Wizards doesn't make any of that information public. Its worse than NFT's IMO.
Seeing the Prof on Asmongold is so surreal. I've been a fan of him since like the start of Covid. He got me big into Commander after not playing magic since like Gatecrash. Couldn't be more happy with this collab!
The transition from elation that they were making this to abject horror when the price was released was amazing. He looked so dejected when the price was announced.
Well the moment I learned he plays a mill deck I just thought: what a degeneret. But after my 2nd thought, yeah it fits. When if not asmon playing a deck totally denying the enemy of playing the game and having fun. Still love asmon.
He prolly bought that binder off ebay like lastyear. I dont remember asmongold talking about magic cards, infact i did once and he didnt really recall shit about it, now hes claiming to have have 10 grand of cards but shows us a swords and plowshares obviously from revised not unlimited. That cards like, worth nothing lol, even in unlimited its like a 40 doller card. any real head who plays magic, well legacy magic, no new garbage, owns full sets of revised dual lands, i own a set of bayous, tropical islands, badlands, underground seas, i have over a set in each varient, back in 2005, revised dual lands were 10-15 a pop allday, maybe 20 for a absolute perfect one, even in like 2011-2012, dual lands were 50 a pop, now its like 2 grand for a playset, thats nuts.
@@italianspiderman5012 I mean just watch the whole video, you will find out about how many spins you need. And obviously it's not that valuable. But it's not more expensive than beta black lotus either.
It's been happening for last 2 decades. Wasn't so crass before. Because it was on cutting quality & costs end, ie. getting rid of talent and replacing it with cheap, indolent activists. Lets see now, that economic crisis is at the door and the price ramp up end is being worked, if shutting up people protesting via calling them racist and sexist will still work. 😹
It really is emblematic of the rampant corporate fascism on display in modern globalist society. These companies wanna bend us over backwards, and when we say "no, we do not consent", they try to gaslight us and tell us we're the ones to blame for not wanting their product.
@@NachozMan Hope you enjoy the game. Been loving FaB, though I just play with my friends mostly. Highly recommend the blitz decks. Do you know which ones you're gonna get?
I'm gonna say it who wouldn't want to see Ashlyn Gould's professor and the guys from the command zone Podcast have a commander game that would be amazing and we all know it.
I gotta comment before even getting to the reaction, just seeing Asmon go through his cards and talk about playing for years really made me smile. Both because it's always nice to discover another player in the wild, but also because I'm genuinely amazed he found time for all the different stuff he did as a kid. I could *not* have managed MTG, WOW, and all that other stuff and still passed my classes XD
You mean like old sports cards? I sold 3 binders a few years ago with cards from the 80s to 90s with some very rare and valuable rookie cards and tops holograms and got almost 4k for them.
Asmon, your *immediate* reaction to the price - that the 30th Anniversary packs are, essentially, NFTs - is 100% on point... and darkly funny, because that's exactly who, as it turns out, was buying them, or at least the only ones willing to put themselves out there and say that they're buying them, given the... shall we say, "less than pleased" response the product elicited from the Magic community: this product turned out to be for the crypto-bros on Twitter, and nobody else.
Extremely heartbreaking to see the one game I love more than anything else I've ever enjoyed become the most tragic thing I've ever seen. I came back into it a couple years ago and I'm glad I got to finish up some loose ends I never got around to doing when I was younger, and for the most part I'm pretty glad I finally did. I hope so many others do soon if they haven't, but this... wow... just wow. And Asmon hit it right on the head; gaming in general just sucks. EVERYTHING sucks, and this is such a painful highlight to it all, and why.
I have never been more shocked watching Asmongold than when he shows his binder that's organized by color when his room and in game inventory are a complete cluster. 😂
Hearing him name a sliver deck, made me casually look over at mine, sitting in a case on a shelf. And realizing there's 20 years of collecting in that deck. Aethervials, Lotus Petals, Cavern of Souls, Gemstone Mines, the old Color Protection deck...man, I wish my town still had the few stores that went under where we'd all gather on the weekend and hang out drinking beer in the back of the comic shop.
The 50 dollar one would be worth it . Because you get the whole set. The fact they charged 1000 bucks for 60 cards not even close to the whole set at random .
My collection was eaten by termites. They passed on eating my cabinet and went STRAIGHT to my MTG collection. Typhoon Haiyan cut off all electricity to my city, so I looked to play MTG with my cousins. No card was spared.
@@gamersrevenge6528 I appreciate the thought. But I know how it plays out. I have a couple of friends who still play - though they tend to play with legacy packs and gave up buying into the new stuff about the time I quit. I still have my collection - love some of the artwork and memories, but moved on now. When they said I wasn't welcome, I took the hint and left. I don't want to be somewhere I'm not welcome.
As someone who is a big Blizzard/Magic fan, this was a great video to watch the collision of my 2 fandoms. For those Blizzard fans unfamiliar with all the history here, Magic's parent company got a new CEO about 4 years ago and is basically emulating Bobby Kotick's "strip mine the IP into the ground" playbook. This event is like a time machine of Activision circa 2012 when they had started to get their hooks in and really start ruining their franchises.
I mean its the same thing as buying Nikes or Supreme Brand. Youre gonna pay alot more for something with no extra practicality. youre basically paying for the brand.
Every time I think about getting back into magic, something like this comes and I think yeah even as an adult making a lot of money. This is still more than I want to spend on a hobby.
there is rlly no need for paying that much for the hobby. i always use those prerelease events. u get over 91 cards for about 30€. Since they only happen every 2-3 months i think its a great way to start a collection without paying skyrocket prices :)
I think it’s worth mentioning at least for Age of Sigmar (Warhammer).. you can spend like $170 on a holiday box and have a fully playable army. Some top meta decks for MTG were 500-700 earlier this year. It’s actually a less expensive to play Warhammer.. even if you add in paints, glue and terrain.
It has always baffled me that TCGs don't all have a 'worthless' tournament edition print that is legal in competition but can be ordered on demand from the website for like 2 dollars each.
If tournaments and championships were actually 100% about the skill of the player, they would either allow 100% proxy decks or supply the contestants with any and all cards they need to build whatever deck they want before the competition. Just like many other competitive games, you play with the equipment provided and they're only testing your skill. Again, if they were ONLY judging "skill of deckbuilding" and "skill of deck piloting". But, they don't. Winning a tournament is not just about how skilled you are as a player, but IF you can AFFORD to play the game with the best (and most expensive) cards. However, this is unfortunately a necessary evil. Because if the game pieces to play were provided at tournaments, you would have very little reason to actually buy MTG products. And in order for the game to survive, they need to keep making money as a business. The trick is to find a healthy balance between keeping both the company alive, and keeping the game affordable. Unfortunately right now we are leaning wayyyyyyyyyyy off the edge of the scale with "keeping the company filthy, filthy f*cking rich".
NOT TO MENTION when you go into the store to buy a booster pack, YOU choose which pack you buy. when you order online from wokes of the coast, you BETTER BELIEVE they are choosing what rares you get based on your "social credit score"
The NFT comparison was really good. MTG cards were a stable investment for decades and with one printing Hasbro completely fucked the entire foundation of their product, now it's as trustworthy as FTX
@@1tolightradius I own cards to play with them. I made an observation about the secondary market crashing because people don't trust WotC not to reprint everything. What are you even talking about?
@@1tolightradius It's not the only issue but its a big issue. Everyone who plays whether they collect/invest/flip or not, knows about the reserve list, and has lost some degree of trust with wizards over this. Not like Im financially effected or really looking foward to the product but its just souless on so many levels, against the spirit of the reserve list, pricing out 99% of player, and clearly motivated by short term desire to appease stock holders. It's a crescendo for a recent line of overpriced unaware products and easily one of the worst anniversary product of any sort Ive ever encountered.
You spent $280719 opening 1124 packs to acquire all rares. Money spent on product: $280719 Total packs opened: 1124 Total duals opened: 225 Total power opened: 115 Dollars spent per dual: $1247.64 Dollars spent per power: $2441.03
It gets worse. WOTC knew how the community felt about the product, and knew that they'd get little to no support from MTG content creators, so they reached out to other prominent tcg creators for games like yugioh and pokemon to promote it instead, without informing them of the controversy. And their videos were flooded with comments and downvotes over it and some of them even issued apology videos and won't work with Hasbro at all anymore because their product are effectively toxic.
So i have notoriously bad luck when it comes to opening packs, tried that simulator, it took me until 217k before i got one, also doing a draft with friends sounds like itd be a lot of fun to do and to watch!
I sold all of my card years ago m bought a car and put a down payment on a small house. I wanted these to make a lovely shadowbox framed set of cards to hang on my wall... Thank you WOTC for reminding me why I haven't touched the game in 20 years ..
Remember folks, MTG is the very same company that BANNED an old card because it read "destroy all black creatures" ... black is one of the five main colors of cards in the game .. they went woke, now they're going broke 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I knew you had some magic decks but didn't know you actually used to play a lot. As a big fan of MTG aswel i would love to see more MTG content, that would be super cool! Very glad you are covering this magic 30 drama, it's huge in the MTG community!
Hearing about stuff like this is why I've never attempted to get into Magic, and I'm glad i didn't. Everyone talks about how much better it is than other card games, but no game is worth being treated so poorly. Hasbro/Wotc has been screwing over MTG for years and they've been doing the same to D&D, and as a huge dnd fan it sucks. I will stick to Pokemon tcg. Pokemon Company occasionally has issues keeping up with the supply and demand for big releases, but at least they don't outright insult their fan base like this. Sets are always priced consistently. Even when they do reprints of the iconic base set cards, they aren't priced any different from normal. AND they even update them so they're legal for standard play, so they are made for the collectors and the players.
I just got into MTG casually and of all the years I've watched Asmon, he has never shown or talked about MTG (at least not that I am aware of) and today, of all times he does it. This is one of those coincidences that make me believe in the simulation theory.
LOL what a scam. My interest was peaked but I read some comments and thought it would be something ridiculous like $50 a pack. Wow, $1k for 4 packs?? Hell nah. The value in the old cards is that they are a part of history. This is greed personified.
Hus reaction to the price being $999 takes me back to the day someone so completely destroyed me with an Eldrazi deck that I stopped playing the MTG lol. Come at me on Master Duels 😂.
So WoTC gonne full woke, destroying everything players loved, plus all the other controversy and he wants to basically promote their product for free by doing an OTK event. All right...
Since its inception I haven't met a single person that actually plays that game IRL, you only saw investor types buying up boxes en masse to resell them if anything
I'd gladly lay like 150-200$ for a complet3 wotc proxy alpha set . No usable . Essentially worthless. But I'd do that . This actually made me really mad ... 1000$ for packs ... wtf. And asmon is correct , many players purchase well outside their means . I have a full life , I retired and do pretty well in life Most of my mtg friends however... they donate plasma and stuff to afford keeping up with the meta . It's unreal.
I remember in year 7 playing yugioh on my lunch break back in 2000's. Fuck i feel old lol Anywho, i also remember magic the gathering and duel masters, but yugioh def was most popular, magic was more for the nerds, the geeks prefered the animes. I was a jock, so i inherited decks from my friends who had cards they didnt want, so i felt like yugi moto using hand-me-down cards lol using the heart of the cards😋
First it was mythic rares. Then it was comic con exclusives. Then it was Master sets. Then it was secret lair. Then it was bending the knee to armchair activists who can't separate fantasy from reality. And now it's selling proxies at 16 $ apiece. WotC has been on a downward trajectory for over a decade. Thank the lord I stopped playing. The only thing offensive about the company is how it disrespects its customers. I would sooner sharpie a plains or a piece of white cardboard than reward WotC for this bs, and I hope everyone reading this is smart enough to do the same.
i started magic when 4th edition came out, i would take my paycheck every 2 weeks and buy a box of booster packs for different editions. i mustve spent thousands on them. favorite card i owned. an autographed shivan dragon by the artist melissa benson.
I wanted a to pull a shivan so bad back in the day and it just never happened. The small card shop stall at the flea market had 6 or 7 copies in the counter. Come to find out a couple years later the owner would open the packs swap cards out of the pack and reseal them.
Wait a minute, im 34, when did mtg actually originate? Is it really 30 years old? Im from australia, maybe it took time to arrive here as we dont have comic book stores or anything geeky n cool, at least not in 2000's. Maybe now, havent seen any thou. No way mtg is 30 years old!?!?!?
Can't wait to see you guys teach emiru then throw her into a live draft. I mean, at least give her some cards and practice drafts :) Huge LVD fan but otherwise I burn out on mtg and go back every few years
Couple years back Hasbro looked to be trying to sell Wizards of the Coast, so that's probably why they were trying to increase revenue/pad their numbers to sell it.. but I think they changed their mind, and are now just trying to milk as much as they can from their shee-I mean, players.
i love how talarian is getting so much press because of this mtg situation. i saw him on actually youtube new because of hasbro and stock falls. so great
I don’t play Magic, and I cannot believe the boneheaded, out of touch, weak handed business move this is! The had a “shut up and take my” moment and they blew it…
