Well sorry Thousand-Year Storm, but...yeah. 1) You only copy spells for each instant and sorcery cast before it, not each enchantment/creature/artifact/planeswalker and more importantly 2) even the person who stuck up for you missed out the hyphen, showing even your biggest advocate isn't paying you any real attention.
@@sidasdf Heh, I was just messing around - wish I could have more passive-aggressive conversations with cards...the things I'd say to Deathrite Shaman...
Ive seen this Nassif/Chapin video a dozen times or more but having you explain it, going over the history of pro tours, percentage of hitting a specific card for the win is just so interesting to watch. Definitely one of the best mtg channels.
Thank you so much for reminding me of this moment. Every time I get reminded of some of the most epic moments in Magic history, I get this crazy feeling in my chest and I get so pumped up. Man, I love magic.
What I really love about this series is hearing about different standard metas in magics history and how they were shaped and/or broken by certain new meta decks or even rogue decks appearing out of nowhere. Its something I never got to live through as I havent been playing magic that long and its a joy to watch. Especially with a narrator as good as this one, cheers mate :)
Hey, now THAT'S an amazing video! I really don't follow Magic all that much and I had to look up the effects of Ignite Memories, but I love these "iconic moment breakdowns" from any game and I'm glad there's someone doing them for Magic. Plus, the video looks breathtakingly amazing; especially with the hardsubs for all the terminology and cards and stuff. Really hope to see more stuff soon! Also, guys... PLEASE credit the artists and songs used in the video. I swear it's not just because I'm searching for the ending song like crazy.
Ah, good times. That was the time when I was slowly transitioning from kitchen table player mindset to "I wanna be the very best", and that was one of the first competitive tourneys I've watched. Up to this day, my favorite game of Magic ever witnessed. Moment when Randy calls "Unbelievable", followed by "Unbelievable" by Nassif a couple of seconds later as well as "Let's hear it from the crowd" gesture from Nassif are still bringing a GIANT smile to my mouth every single time.
After watching this videos tens of times, I've just noticed the foreshadowing in the beginning. The shot from Steph was a 10.7% chance. Nassif's odds of survival said at 10:40 are also 10.7%. I like it.
I've maybe watched this video...anywhere from 15 to 20 times already since I found it over a year ago. And the excitement of Jon retelling the story of this game, breaking down the insane odds that went into it....It really never gets old. Even in other videos if he's dunking on old blocks, breaking down the odds of discarding at random, or detailing R&D's successes and failures. It never gets old. I love coming back to these. TCGPlayer, please never stop Jon. He's a man with stories to tell, and a hindsight on a game we all love like no other. Here's to many more Jon, I really hope they let you keep going. P.S. Your Eldraine vid has probably become my second favorite to date right behind this one. Thanks for breaking the rules and making it anyway.
lol this video strayed so far off-course from the subject of luck, but at least you had the humor to acknowledge it by focusing so intently on a single play that there's even an epilogue credits section dedicated to Chapin and Nassif. For it to be the anatomy of luck, I was hoping for a complete in-depth study on how we can better manage luck to win games, like optimal land counts, the impact mulligans has on win percentages, and things like that. This was more of just a historical look at Chapin and Nassif's single marque play.
Really enjoyed this video. I find competitive magic really difficult to watch because it's difficult to see all the cards even if you know what they all do, especially with that sideways camera view, so having you explain all the context let me appreciate the featured game when I otherwise might have not been able to.
This is actually one of the best Magic: The Gathering centered RU-vid videos out there. I adore this video and break down. It also made me play storm in modern, so that's nice.
The sheer quality of this video is insane. Pretty Deece was a fun series before, but now it's something special. I know production value like this takes time, but I really hope we get more like this soon! Jon Corpora, you've stepped up your game my guy!
This is by far my favorite Pro Tour moment. As someone who cheekily sideboards two copies of Ignite Memories in my Modern Storm deck, I get to tell this story quite often. I snapped off an Ignite for 5 against an Eldrazi Tron opponent once and said "Just like you, Pat." He looked at me quizzically and I started telling him the story mid round while resolving five copies of Ignite Memories. One day... One day I will get both Gabriel Nassif and Patrick Chapin to sign my foil playset of Ignite Memories.
I went to comment 4 times before now, but each time backed out to make sure the date showed this to be a new video and not one that I had somehow missed. Thank you, thank you, thank you for returning as a content creator. I consume tons of content on MTG, and you are my favorite of them all. I had given up hope, but thanks to RU-vid autoplay, my dream has come true. I'll be linking your video to several MTG groups, putting in the reach of roughly a hundred or so players. I know this isn't much in the grand scheme, but just wanted you to know there are those in the community at large that enjoy your content and I imagine I won't be the only one doing this.
Also, is there any way possible that I can somehow take a TCG player purchase yesterday and indicate that the real reason I use TCG player so much is because of your videos from before? Is there someone I can message from that purchase tag? I HATE that I bought the cards 24 hours before I saw this video and could use such a purchase to show TCG that you are what got me there so often to begin with.
Gabriel Nassif was a common name in coverage when I was getting in to magic, and that contributes to him being my favorite magic player to this day (along with Ben Stark)
Randomly I remembered your video on Kamagawa block and how much I enjoyed that content so I searched around till I found another video of Pretty Deece and I'm glad I did! Quality video essay content.
Its the most Magic thing in the world for you to make a whole video about an insane amount of luck and risk by a player and how it was of little consequence and it didn't matter at all.
God, I love your deep dives on topics. I'd love to hear your take on why Faeries and Jund were so good in 2008-2010, as context. Magic History from that time can be so hard to come by, even Theros might as well be ancient history!
For a long time Jazon and I were the only ones who wanted us to make another one. All these nice comments are making me kind of emotional, not gonna lie
I’m not a die hard magic player. I didn’t know anyone mentioned during this video, but you guys did a great job and conveying the info you wanted to and making it interesting. Keep it up. Great video.
Jon I really don't know what kind of a man you are but it seems like you are a good fella. Thanks for your videos. I watched them so many times but still each time is a very good and pleasant experience!
Everything was totally fine. Jazon and I took on a lot more responsibilities at work between the last episode and this one, plus this one was WAY more work than a typical episode. Appreciate the concern though, and I'm glad you liked it.
the really weird paradox to this series is that even though it's clearly got a deep Jon Bois/SBNation vibe, it should be sating my need to see Jon Bois do a Pretty Good episode on Magic(since he's done odd episodes on things like Poker to the guy who tied a bunch of weather balloons to his chair), but it's not. These episodes by and large are so good that instead I wonder if Jon would do a better or worse job of it.
It seems pretty odd you went on a long tangent about how complicated (?) Storm is and then never actually mention what Ignite Memories does when it's the basis for almost half of the video
