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I love how Vince's explanation for expensive boosters to his Pokemon friends is basically, "Magic players are in an abusive relationship with WotC."

TWO DtR epidodes in a year!? Prof, you're spoiling us.

I don't know if I'm more surprised that Vince has a baby or that Vince has a RU-vid channel.

The Ring Tempts You.... You Take The Initiative... it's just Horsemanship and Kicker.

33:26 "Can you imagine someone who just started playing Magic tuning in and hearing this" ... ✋️

Please Prof & PK - Please keep this series running regularly. It is genuinely the most honest (and fun) commentary on Magic: The Gathering

Congratulations to you both on summoning the tiny humans.

We really need more of these. I honestly wish this could be weekly even if it were just audio and only 30 minutes. But I completely understand the difficulties of something like that along with both of your other responsibilities.

The interaction between these two gentlemen is more entertaining than most other channels

Congratulations on the beautiful new baby and that thing the Prof needed gratz on. New babies mean new magic players!

I can't believe it took me this long to realise the sheer audacity of calling their main set mechanic "The ring tempts you" when the big gimmick is the one serialized ring to fuel gamblers

TLDR "If everything is special, then nothing is." - The Prof

I swear if Professor doesn't throw the lords of the rings booster box into a bad jpg renderer of mount doom for Booster box game. 😂

I just want to say that I appreciate the probable suffering you and Kenobi go through with this stuff in order to try and translate it into English for us.

I love how Vince says that it kind of makes sense that an Eldrazi can appear on a cereal box and then never elaborates lmao

Remember when in conspiracy 2 they made an Alt art Kaya? It’s worth $200. In $4 booster packs. Good times

I skipped lunch my entire high-school time, traded, and worked crappy jobs to collect magic cards. I sold that collection to buy a home seven years ago. The moral of the story is to skip your lunch.

You guys are great together. Love the chemistry. Super fun to watch. Had me smiling the whole time.

Congrats Vince on the baby and Brian on the nine year old!

I definitely saw that the price for Blightsteel Colossus decreased after pulling one on the List for March of the Machine.

When Vince goes on his rant about the warhammer decks being flavor slam dunks all I can think about is the mana rock with the mark of Khorne on it producing blue black. I can just imagine Khorne sitting in his study, examining some ancient and powerful magical text, petting his cat. Definite flavor slam dunk, 10/10.

Congratulations from 9 months ago to 9 years ago, you both!

Collector or bust really sums up how I feel about buying boxes now. As for the dominaria remastered collectors, I don't know if many people bought them. I just remember seeing them and thinking "too rich for my blood"

The talk at 32:24 has been going on since Kamigawa. Go-Shintai commander and Yoshimaru, Ever faithful has the commander Logo and is said to be the commander decks if you google them, but they are actually only ever found in the Set boosters.

Fantastic commentary on the current state of MTG. Great chemistry between you to. A very enjoyable watch

Great video - I think you really capture the sentiment of the average player. I preordered the commander decks months ago assuming great henge would be in the product - only to find out its a 1 in 30 box topper only product. Their practices of making cards only available in select products in the line is predatory

The beginning bit was the biggest gaslight moment I've ever heard lol

I know people love the UB sets and there are some cards coming out that have me legit excited but I feel Brian is more and more encapsulating my feelings about where magic is going.

Hearing Brian get worked up is very funny. You guys play off each other so well.

Always a treat to watch you guys. Both of your wits compliment so well. Ty

The Prof totally understands when he says he was sold on Dr. Who after the Saga announcement, that's what we all want from Magic for our own beloved other franchises.

I'm really excited to see that MaldHound is gonna be a guest in the next Shuffle up and play episode!

My great grandfather was a sailor who, for a stretch of time, was only home a few days a year. Everytime he would come back, he would find he had another kid.

One of my favorite segment of the prof. Videos. Always love when both of you discuss magic related topics..

It's amazing to see Dies to Removal this morning!

I'm that person that started playing MTG on Arena 3 months ago. This podcast felt like learning hieroglyph. The game is fun non the less

Congrats on being a father Professor.

My “favorite” list pull was from Modern Horizons 2, where I got one of the common lesson cards from Strixhaven.

About the Alara all-foil boosters: same experience here. I opened one up when I bought it in a store that had some collecting dust on a shelf. They were all flat and all in pristine condition. I still play some of those cards, just because they look that good. No pringle.

To echo many others, always love to see a new Dies to Removal! I appreciate the intense amount of effort you guys put forth to bring us this show. And congrats to both of y'all!

"Killing off the golden goose before you've milked it enough" amazing.

Missed this show! Excited to watch this episode

Man the part about people talking about the bad but not even mentioning the good is spot on with just about everything in the world.

I opened a masterpiece Wurmcoil Engine in my prerelease packs that I sold to buy a Nintendo Switch. Now I have to spend $40 on a single pack to even have a chance of something like that.

Glad to have Vince back. Dies to removal is my favorite one on the channel.

I agree with donating cards. I kept maybe 3 commander decks, and a few of my fav cards and just donated my stuff to a friend. He's gonna give the stuff to new players at the LGS.

There’s a lot to take away here already and only at the halfway point….my favorite being we’re getting a Shuffle Up and Play with Pleasant Kenobi ❤️‍🔥🙏

As someone who has 1 tutorial commander game under their belt and is interested getting into MTG with the LoTR set, it's really confusing to know what I get for buying things (yeah I also recently got hooked on your channel too! Shuffle up and play and Dies to removal are soo fun)

I think the unknown part is an issue, but it's why I love watching your booster box game videos. Something in my brain turns hearing about odds into white noise. I would rather than just see what they are when someone opens them. Obviously my box will be different, but watching your videos gives me the "feel" of the set.

If you stare at Prof's tie long enough it looks like Nicol Bolas

I miss this banter! What a joy to open RU-vid up to this today!

I can already see how the random guy at an lgs who got the one ring getting choked by his friend and then he, his friend, running with it while slowly turning into a foul creature.

Congratulations to both of you! Off to cry about torn commons now.

Vince is absolutely right on the "Special Edition" Collectors. There are several countries that requires you to publish the odds of acquiring any particular thing in a randomized game system. They can't change those odds later by printing more, so they print ones without the various serialized cards so they aren't getting into legal trouble with the odds of pulling The One Ring. Edit: And yes, the naming is silly.

Whoever edited this was great! Had comedic timing, was non intrusive and added pertinent information

The visual editing in this video is subtle, but fantastic.

Congratulations on your child Prof!! 🎉 I'm so happy for you 💞

Congratulations Vince! Belated congratulations Prof! (Only 9 years late)

Omg prof your feelings are such catharsis. Thank you man.

Belated congratulations Professor!

Seeing you two boys having an enjoyable play date after all this time has been genuinely heartwarming. Thanks, kids. ^__^

18:00 that is actually a neat idea.

vince reading all of the different lord of the rings products was absolutely hilarious

Any day with a DtR episode is a good day!

It's actually pretty funny, the Prof's comment on the video he made 9 YEARS AGO opening that premium Shards of Alara booster was how opening boosters isn't worth it because of the increased prices.

Congratulations and well done to both of these dads

Congratulations on your children! to both Vincent and Brian!

Wizards did have a magazine with set list and current pricing, at that time in the early 90s. Oh yeah we knew what we could possibly get and completely agree with professor on this. Also in the same boat, I did get rid of my cards. I just got back into mtg 10 months and what a multiverse it has become.

such joy and whimsy, how i do enjoy this content so. love you all

At the beginning, with Eldraine it was fun... It was exciting and new and fun to be a part of the game while that change was happening... Now the amount of product dilutes any fun we could have while opening packs.

Been forever! So happy this is back

This is my favourite MTG podcast, followed by LR and LoL. Thanks for the upload, love hearing both of your perspectives and humor styles

For the spellbooks and commander collections, I am 100% convinced Commander Collection Black is just Signature Spellbook Liliana and Commander Collection Green is Signature Spellbook Freyalise. They just changed the branding so they could charge twice as much for the same thing.

Hey man I just came back t magic after years of not playing and I’ve fallen back in love with the game and your channel and I just want to say thank you for all the content over the years.

The opening bit was going on for so long I thought that was gonna be the entire show. I was making my peace with it about when you guys actually started the podcast

Initially, collector boosters were fun. I opened a D&D collector pack the other day that had 5 mythics in a row! After the seeing the first three, I was losing my mind - I had hit the rarest lottery of a pack possible! The experience of pulling two more mythics after that was wild. Yet, each of those mythics were less than $3 per card. That experience went from sweet to sour, instantly. And that seems to be the problem, to me, with collector boosters. Even when you win, you still end up feeling like you lost.

Oh hey, congratulations in your nine-year-old Professor! Also cool about that other guy's baby.

Congrats to both of you!

The engagement bait caught me hook line and sinker. Congratulations on the baby, and belated congratulations to prof on the child.

I don't understand how Magic hasn't just adopted Pokemon's way of doing boosters. For those who don't know how Pokemon Boosters work, there is a cheap affordable version of almost every card and then you have a chance at getting alternate art versions of that card as well. For example, there's a Trainer card called Iono that's really popular. Regular trainer is about $4. The alternate art card has sold for over $1000. This is what makes boosters fun. You have game pieces that are affordable but there's a chance at a big reward if you open boosters. Magic used to do something like this with Masterpieces but they stopped and now they've cranked everything up to 11. Regular boosters aren't fun to open anymore. Collector boosters are kinda fun but they're so expensive.

Omg dude, my collection was stolen in 2002 at the end of high school. I’m 40, i must of had 12 duel lands, wheel of fortune, a bunch more wicked expensive cards. Got back into magic around the time of arena came out, or before that when magic duels came out, then crashed or whatever happened to it. Anyway, I found a store and play tournaments and commander (actually played a new commander tournament), love your channel Prof. Wish me luck on the LOR draft June 16 baby!!!!!!!!!

Great episode. I had no idea that the SPECIAL part of the packs coming out later in the year actually don't have anything special about them.

“Dies to Removal” is the best thing on RU-vid

21:47 In reference to the flatness of DMR foils, I didn't praise Wizards because my foils weren't flat. They curled just like usual. I think the Prof just got lucky with his boosters coming from a better printer. I'm pretty sure the same thing happened to me with MOM. The foils I got in my Pre-Release Pack are as stiff as a board, no curling even after being left unsleeved. I think Wizards is using one or two better quality printers, but it's entirely random whether or not the pack you're opening came from one of them. I hope that Wizards transitions mostly or entirely to those printers at some point, but that would likely take effort and they don't typically like to do that

Congratulations Vince! And 9-year belated congratulations Prof!

According to the article and Amazon stores the Special Collector Boosters do not get a Box Topper if you buy them as a box/display.

Vince's child is three months old, the Prof's in nine years old. Convert the units and we get 3 months to 108 months. Simplify the fraction, it's a 1:36 ratio! So, so to properly congratulate everyone involved: congratulations to Vince and congratulations x36 to Brian! This is proof that Magic: the Gathering and Tolarian Community College teach math skills.

The fallen empires approach didnt sell packs, but it was my favorite kind of art treatment

Listening to this has been hilarious. I don’t play MTG, but I like following some of it, and it makes me think I’ll need to take 2 years of college courses to know all about how MTG works.

"Fun" fact about the Collector boosters for LTR - the description of what can be found in the booster that was posted on the official website had over 1000 words, 5000 characters without spaces. Yup, just for Collector boosters, not the whole set.

I don't know nothing about magic:the gathering, but i do love the artwork and your channel. It's very entertaining to watch even if you don't know the game. Keep up the amazing work and much love and happiness to you and your family ❤

Prof's observation about Vince getting excited at the mention of Star Wars is really on point. I don't particularly are about Warhammer or Doctor Who, but the LoTR nerd in me loves the idea of playing Samwise with a reskinned Horizon Canopy. Another really solid point, one by Vince, is that, while MTG IP Isn't as popular (outside Magic) as Warhammer, etc., the rules of Magic are awesome, so it makes sense that Hasbro would latch on to this idea of using other IPs to sell MtG cards. There's still way too much fucking prodcut, though.

"If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it" is truly one of the songs of all times

Prof, your vids and manurisms are a pleasure to watch. Good script and commentary too.

Loved this conversation guys.

Congratulations on the new 9-year old Prof!

The opening bit about the random products that wizards has D/C’d over the years made me realize how old I am.

Ow ❤❤❤❤ congrats u two! For the kids. Hope they grow (even more) happy and healthy 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 long live the kids 😻

The chemistry between you guys is fucking awesome, such a joy to watch