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Was there only a gray blank screen from 16:57 to 17:26 for anyone else?

I'm a bit surprised Panglacial Wurm didn't get at least an honourable mention. It pretty regularly comes up in discussions about complex cards since it sort of just forces you to say "eh, we're just not gonna worry about how the stack works for now," as you can cast a creature spell in the middle of resolving an action on the stack, which then gets its own "sub-stack" in case a player wants to respond to the wurm's casting. Definitely an oddball.

Big shout out to the channel Judging FTW, who does daily rulings on absurd or complex rules interactions in a very very easy to understand way. His episode on Urza's Saga and Blood Moon finally made me think I understand it.

I've seen a comment on Reddit once: "The difference between yugioh and magic the gathering (as someone who plays neither) is that a yugioh card says like "if you own a Blorbionicus the King of Red Eyes in your pendulum summon zone (but NOT your left pendulum summon zone) you can special summon (NOT ritual or zexal or pendulum summon) sixteen cards named Blorbimini (excluding Maid Blorbimini) to any zone EXCEPT the super double defense zone" and no one can explain this to me but meanwhile a magic the gathering card says "flying. after the end of your turn draw a card" and people are like oh those fools bc the action only goes on the stack after the end of your turn and because of the use of 'your' instead of 'the owner's' and because mercury is in gatorade, technically it only resolves during the opponents third upkeep when explicitly you cant draw cards or else a sniper will shoot you" And I couldn't agree with it more

old fogey's always one of my favourites it's a 7/7 for 2 mana. You can't use it the turn you play it because of summoning sickness. Then, the next turn, it'll phase out. This will make it so you don't have to pay the cumulative upkeep or the echo cost, and a fading counter won't be removed (I think). Then, the third turn you have it, you have to pay {1}{G}{G} to keep it around, and it goes down to 2 fading counters. Then, you can attack with it. Remember, though, it can attack in a band of other dinosaurs. Then, once your opponent (assuming they don't control any snow-covered plains) blocks with some non-flanking, non-homarid creatures, Old Fogey will get +2/+2 for each creature blocking it, and each defending creature will get -1/-1 until end of turn. Then, turn 4 that you have Old Fogey out, it'll be phased out again. Turn 5, you'll be able to attack with it again, but you have to pay {2} to keep it around. Remember, though, this is the last time you can attack with it before it loses its last fading counter and gets sacrificed. edit: upon further review, I believe you never actually have to pay the echo cost. Echo reads "at the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost". The second turn you have old fogey, it will be phased out and the echo will not trigger. Then, on turn 3, since it didn't come under your control since your last upkeep (it was 2 upkeeps ago), echo won't trigger.

I applaud you Brian, for choosing humility as the top pick. Humility plus opalescence, basically the judge tests from a late '90s, lol. I am surprised that word of command didn't make the cut, and possibly iced cauldron or jeweled amulet.

Takklemaggot was actually pretty intuitive. It's basically a bestow creature that has to bestow another creature when the one it enchants dies.

"1/12/2024 If you have fewer than six cards in your library or if Triumph of Saint Katherine isn't in your graveyard as the triggered ability resolves, no cards will be exiled and the ability will do nothing." Official gatherer rulings disagree with your additional notes on Triumph of Saint Katherine.

When one of my friends was proxying a balrog deck for commander to test out her brew for it, most of the proxies had the actual card text on-- except wheel of misfortune, which just said 'look up the oracle text'.

Any creature with "mutate"

3:23 On top of not wanting to beat a dead horse; I'd argue Sharazad is more like Animate Dead. You can easily short hand it to "take your deck as it exists right now, play a game of magic, whoever loses that game loses life in this one, then play resumes."

space beleren's rules text is easy to understand, though. He makes the sectors without assigning anything, so all creatures are unassigned, at which point you start assigning them until no unassigned creatures remain.

+1 for others who mentioned Panglacial Wurm. It breaks the core mechanic of "nothing happens in the middle of an effect", and causes a ton of problems. My favorite is the interaction that comes when you try to pay for Panglacial Wurm with Selvala, Explorer Returned. It's just about as unintuitive as it can get, involving all our favorite problems.

Shout out to "Name Sticker" Goblin, the MTGO version of _____ Goblin, which reads like an old card with confusing templating in order to make it function without stickers.

Thanks for introducing me to takklemaggot. I have a Yurlok deck where everything rotates around the table; Kudzu, Necrotic plague, humble defector, everfull purse, infectious rage. This is going to fit right in!

Humility really teaches me humility in understanding just how little I know. You could say it has layers to it!

Also at 26:55 the doppelgänger cannot enter as a copy of Painter Servant. It’s ability is a replacement effect that’s modifying how it enters play and affects what it looks like in Layer 1. The replacement effect looks ahead and sees the Humility removing all abilities, so the clone no longer has its ability to enter as a copy so it enters as a 1/1 with no abilities and not as a copy of anything.

As a computer programmer and coder, I want to say that Magic is definitely very programming-esque. In Magic, you have concepts like the stack, looping and clauses. There's also the concept of zones (which could be looked at as context or scope in a program). So if you like Magic, you might be able to pick up on some programming concepts, or vice-versa! Though if you're watching this, you're likely into Magic already :p

Selvala, Explorer Returned would be my addition. I can't think of any other situation where you frequently start casting a spell, discover you can't, and so you just don't cast it. When that happens, you can undo other mana abilities but not Selvala. Also if you're casting a spell from the top of your library (like via The Reality Chip), then you end up drawing the card beneath the one you're trying to cast, but then if you fail to cast it, it goes back on your library (so somehow you drew the second-from-the-top card of your library???). Plus the famous Panglacial Wurm interaction is another nightmare, and if you have an active Archmage Ascension at the same time, it requires a whole PhD thesis to figure out.

I could've sworn the professor was murdered the other day

You forgot two important steps in the "stars aligning for Urza's Saga" to exist. Those steps are: 1) Future Sight in 2007 had to introduce the concept of the Enchantment card type being combined with other card types; and 2) The original Theros set from 2012 had to normalize and popularize the concept of the Enchantment card type being combined with other card types.

Trinisphere is a weirdly complicated card, especially in the original printing. Excluding the templating though the card has problems. Basically it looks at the total cost out the door, and then adds colorless mana to get to the minimum tax. How and when this interacts with cost reduction / alternative cost mechanics though is complex, and people always seem to get it wrong.

Even before transforming cards existed, I thought Takklemaggot should be one. It's simple enough: Front side would be the "-0/-1 counter, move it to another creature" part, and when there are no more creatures, you transform it to the other side, which would have the "deals 1 damage to you during your upkeep" part.

"Humility is complex but these examples can be reasoned out pretty easily." *humility plus opalescence* "Now THERE'S a head scratcher."

Low-key Questing Beast is a complicated card. Every single thing is simple enough, but for you to keep all five of abilities in mind for as long as its on the battlefield always seems to trip someone up at the table. It doesn't help that many of the abilities only matter sometimes I've literally seen people forget every single ability it has apart from haste and vigilance. I've seen people try to block with creatures power two or less, I've seen people who thought it was unblockable. I've seen people block it with pro-green creatures, only to forget they die anyway. I've seen people blocking other creatures with damage prevention effects only to forget that doesn't work either. I've seen people trying to play fog with questing beast on the opposite side of the battlefield I've seen people forget it has deathtouch, as few creatures with five toughness ever make it into combat with it. I've seen people forget its planeswalker damaging ability and attacking planeswalkers directly, even though no blockers are on the other side of the field. Lastly I've even seen people forget that its legendary, not bouncing it with Karakas or even once trying to kill it with cast down. All in all, there's a lot to forget and that alone makes the card plenty complicated. To hammer in my point, I wrote five at the beginning in this comment, only to now realize after summing them all up that it actually has six.

Ertai’s meddling and volrath’s shapeshifter are pretty out there with what happens when you exile any spell that can be targeted at instant speed only for a copy of the spell to be placed on the stack during a future upkeep. Volrath’s Shapeshifter gains the text of cards in the graveyard.

Prof I gotta give it to you. As someone with an education in communications I've grown extremely allergic to ads, but the way you relate your sponsors to the subject matter of the video or your own personal viewpoints and values is just beautiful. You have my watchtime through those segments every time for that kind of sincerity and effort.

At 11:17 , Guff Rewrites History cannot cause two Space Belerens to enter the battlefield simultaneously. The two players both cast their Space Belerens at the same time, but then they go onto the stack in APNAP order, so the player who comes later in APNAP order's Space Beleren will resolve first, and then state based actions will be checked. At which point the sector designations will have to be decided by all players while the second Space Beleren is still on the stack. So only that first one will control a Space Beleren while the designations are being chosen and gain the advantage of choosing designations last. In order to have two Space Belerens enter the battlefield at the same time, a spell would have to put both of them directly onto the battlefield, not just onto the stack.

Surprised Ice Cauldron isn't an honorable mention. Its not the most rules heavy cards, but the OG text is cryptic as hell and the oracle text asks you to "note" the amount and type of mana you made, which is super uncommon.

Love the video. please make this a series!!!! There are tons of cards that initially seem easy to understand but for one reason or another aren't. Cards like Urborg and Blood Moon. What happens when both are on the battlefield lol( IIRC it has something to do with layers or which one was there first) A great one also to mention is Tarmogoyf and Lightning Bolt with only 2 non instant card types in all graveyards. This one has gotten so many players, including myself.

This is the only channel on RU-vid where I genuinely get a little bit bummed out as the video ends. The videos are really comforting, entertaining and it makes me feel as if I'm sitting at a table down at my LGS, in-between games, talking to another player about magic the gathering. The good and the bad. I just wanted you to know, Prof! I appreciate you! Peace and love from Sweden!

Scion of the Ur-Dragon is a card that seems complex at first, but then seems relatively easy to grasp, and then is incredibly complex again. To expand on that: The wall of text for the ability just means you search your deck for a dragon, pitch it to the grave, and Scion becomes a copy of that card until end of turn. Pretty easy to understand right? Well, you can put multiple copies of that ability onto the stack at the same time before Scion becomes a copy and loses the ability and it becomes way more complex. Here's an example. Attack your opponent with Scion, and if no blockers are declared then put 2 copies of his ability onto the stack. With the first target, target Skythirix the Blight Dragon, and with the second ability target Moltensteel Dragon. The stack resolves effects in a first in last out methodology, so the first ability to resolve will be Moltensteel dragon, and when that resolves Scion will be a copy of Moltensteel for all intents and purposes. Now the next instance of the ability triggers and you respond to it by activating Moltensteel dragon's ability to increase it's power by paying 2 life or one R. Activate it 6 times to give it +6/+0. Once that is resolved, you can move to the ability transforming Scion into Skythirix and your opponent takes 10 points of infect damage. I made a really popular deck on TappedOut that showcased this exact strategy a decade ago. It's the only EDH deck I held onto

A couple more that I've used in the same deck. Delusions of Mediocrity seems pretty straightforward, but it gets ridiculous in a Donation deck. It comes into play, you gain 10 life. You give it to your opponent, then bounce it back to your hand, they lose 10 life. Not too too complex. But, a Donation deck with Colfenor's Plans is pretty complicated. I had another Deck with Possessed Portal and Tomorrow, Azumi's Familiar. They both have a draw replacement effect, so it comes down to priority. My opponents had a hard time believing that they weren't allowed to draw cards, but I could 'place' cards into my hand every turn.

Hello prof! Will you ever cover Sorcery Contested Realm? I've recently thought about getting into it and your videos on how to play are always the most in-depth and easy to understand.

Oh, I had this actually come up in a game years ago. I was playing a deck with Humility in it (it capitalized on a lot of weenie creatures and Bubble Matrix). My buddy was playing a deck that had Living Plane in it. When they both came out, we worked out that lands were now 1/1 creatures that could not tap for mana. Neither of us had much non-land mana capability, so both of us could no longer cast anything! The game really slowed down to a crawl at that point until one of us finally drew enough land to overwhelm the other.

25:17 Layer 1 has sublayers. Layer 1a is where we find Mutate, with 1b being where we find the facedowness of Morph.

I feel so confident about my knowledge and understanding of magic rules until layers conflict.

I love that Animate Dead Example cause I just recently was in a convo about Necromancy and its long reprint text and basically said it as you said, it needs to say all those things for it to work as intended. Also thanks for the Urza's saga bit especially the ETB trigger...am sure am going to use that to my benefit sooner or later ;)

I think Library of Leng is worthy inclusion on this list. It forces players to understand what are "effects" which gets very complicated quickly. The gatherer rulings are quite old and aren't specific enough because sometimes a part of an effect is discarding a card, which is a cost; but since it's part of an effect it's both, so library says its taking it. Also the layers chart is a bit off because Layer 7C and 7D were smushed together a few updates ago. It pratically pure pedantry. There are very, very narrow cases where that it matters, so don't worry about it.

thank you for making this video professor and jesse, as someone who tries to make custom cards i appreciate it from the bottom of my pedantic heart

Happy Valentines Day ❤

I have an entire series of videos dedicated to explaining how cards interact with each other and how they work within the rules of Magic. I've been tempted to start a new series that just explains how individually confusing cards work.

All of these explanations were clear and concise, thanks prof!

Recently picked up a Season of the Witch for a pillow fort EDH build, and hoo boy, the hypotheticals that card creates are intense.

Just a quick correction for the rules example at timestamp 26:23. Because of rule 614.12 (posting the full rule below), Humility will modify how Vesuvan Doppelganger enters the battlefield, causing it to actually not ETB as a copy of the Painter's Servant. The reason for this is because the Doppelganger's ETB ability is a replacement effect, replacing how it enters the battlefield, but because of rule 614.12, you first check to see if the creature would even have that ability in the first place once its on the battlefield. Because Humility deletes its ability, Vesuvan Doppelganger never becomes a copy of something, and simply is a 1/1. Painter's Servant making everything red applies as you suggested, but only because it was already on the battlefield before Humility. If it had entered after, you would never have gotten to choose a color with it, because that's also an ETB replacement effect. 614.12 Some replacement effects modify how a permanent enters the battlefield. (See rules 614.1c-d.) Such effects may come from the permanent itself if they affect only that permanent (as opposed to a general subset of permanents that includes it). They may also come from other sources. To determine which replacement effects apply and how they apply, check the characteristics of the permanent as it would exist on the battlefield, taking into account replacement effects that have already modified how it enters the battlefield (see rule 616.1), continuous effects from the permanent’s own static abilities that would apply to it once it’s on the battlefield, and continuous effects that already exist and would apply to the permanent.

Space Beleran is the closest we've been to playing and understanding YuGiOh

enjoyable :) I was rooting for Humility at the top, and was not disappointed :)

Great list! Thanks for the infos! 🍷 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle has always been a PITA to remember how all that wonderful stack BS works out (or whatever).

I'm a little surprised that "the keyword Mutate" didn't even get a shout out

Well you kinda got your Humility example wrong (who would've expected that, with it being your #1 and all): Sure, if your painters servant and Vesuvan Doppelganger are on the battlefield already when humility hits, everything works as you explained. But if you play a painter's servant after humility, you do not get to choose a color, since it doesn't have that ability. Same for the doppelganger, you do not get to choose a creature to copy.

I think my biggest complexity problems can occur just from playing with other people and the 4 of us trying to figure out stacks when we get insane combos from each others cards.. but I didn't know about the layers so this video was very educational for that part and will help a ton!! ❤

I haven't played a game of Magic since well before Covid but I still love it when the Professor posts a video lol

Called humility so easily hahaha i was worried as he got further in without mentioning it

I'm sorry, I believe Wheel of Misfortune is actually very easy to understand: There are three options: (1) Do you not want to wheel? Choose 0. (2) Do you want to wheel? Choose 1 or 2. (3) Do you NEED to wheel? Choose 3 or higher. It's really that easy.

A++ for opening by drawing a clear distinction between complexity and just having a lot of words

Fun fact if you play an Urza's saga and in response to its saga 1 ability an opponent plays blood moon you can save your saga without a counter spell. Tap your mana for your removal card, let blood moon resolve and then remove the blood moon. Due to the saga ability still on the stack the saga cannot sacrifice itself due to exceeding it's lore counter max.

Meanwhile Panglacial Wurm has an effect that LOOKS sensible enough to someone who doesn't know the rules, but if you DO know the rules you immediately recoil in horror from how much nonsense that card actually is.

the moment i heard Humilty as the #1 i groaned out loud the card reads so simplistic, yet, by how the game works it affects the gameplay into the deep and complicated layer system as for the solutions if someone wants the answers for the ruling puzzles 1: Ragavan can attack with either of the Dash ability or Maximize Velocity Dash ability says it gains Haste which would happen in a later timestamp than when Humility started applying its effect Same goes for Maximize Velocity Ragavan would return to the hand because that's a delayed trigger that activated from casting it for the Dash cost 2: Magus of the Moon does turns non-basic lands into Mountains even under Humility because the type changing effects happen on a higher layer than ability removing effects then if you drop Dryad of the Illysian Grove later, it's effect will have a later timestamp than the Magus', giving all your lands all basic land types 4: when Opalescence drops, Humilty turns into a 4/4 with no abilities, because there's another catch on layers, if an effect affects multiple layers, once one of the effects it's applied, all the others must be applied even if the origin object lost the ability somewhere down the road so in this case while Humility sets the P/T to 1/1 (even if it has already lost its ability it still applies since we applied the other part of the effect), Opalescence has a most recent timestamp and sets the P/T of Humility to 4/4 THEN if you drop Mirage Mirror and copy Opalescence, we have a new Opalescence timestamp and both will turn each other into a 4/4 with no abilities until end of turn when the copy effect of the mirror wears off its a lot more messy if Humility is thrown in the middle, because now you will have 2 creature Opalescence, one being a 1/1, and the other a 4/4 just because of how the timestamps work phew!

Great video! Cooked supper while learning!

Hello, thank you for making this video. I do however really miss your product review videos, especially concerning card sleeves and card storage. They were great ways to find out about new products and which ones were actually worth spending money on. I do hope that you will make more of those videos in the future in addition to making videos that you love to create.

Gotta be Panglacial worm?

Two of my favorite decks - one kitchen table, and a later version for Commander once Commander Legends was created - involve manipulating time. But not with extra turns (well, not directly); but with truncated turns. When Sundial of the Infinite got printed, I absolutely fell in love with it. I had to make a deck that fully utilizes it and its ability to end the current turn ahead of time. The most important thing that I've had to teach my playgroup using it is that permanents that want to sacrifice at the beginning of the end step do so EVERY turn, even if you skip the one that's about to happen, whereas spells and effects that create a token that only wants to sacrifice at the beginning of the NEXT end step will stay around forever if that end step gets ended - but only after those triggered one time abilities go on the stack! I had to learn things like Ball Lightning + Sundial = no, but Kiki-Jiki + Sundial = VERY YES! I get to enjoy this mechanic even more now with my Obeka commander deck. So fun!

My favorite combo from back in the day involved a rather convoluted setup to break the stack and counter a resolved creature (specifically creature), using Meddle. That was really the only time it got particularly complicated, but it was still fun to boggle the minds of my friends I used it on.

Guessing Chain of mephistopheles is the top card?? Edit: Nevermind

Is this the banding video at last?

Good Lord, that Urza’s Saga interaction with land-hate effects. If Prof. hadn’t discuss, I’d prob liketa mention here. Thanx fer the xplanation!

Some Serious Beard growth @3:32

MtG isn’t complicated! After all, reading the card *explains* the card 😉

Layers and Time Stamps make for some really interesting interactions at time. Fortunately, my Commander groups don't play a lot of cards that deal with those layers. Except for things like Kenrith's Transformation or Darksteel Mutation.

It would be really cool to do something like this but about the most difficult rules interactions to understand. Or the ones that are most counterintuitive.

Just to make sure my missinfo gets corrected: Space sculptor now reads: 702.158b A sector designation is a designation a permanent can have. The sector designations are alpha sector, beta sector, and gamma sector. Only permanents can have a sector designation. Once a permanent gets a sector designation, it keeps it until no player controls a permanent with space sculptor *or an ability whose source has space sculptor.* A sector designation is not part of the permanent’s copiable values.

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode and am motivated to create an EDH deck that incorporates all these weird cards/interactions

We had a layers issue during a 2HG game during LCI, layer 7 seems to be the most common layer where issues occur

I feel like space jace's reminder text is pretty clear and makes it easy to understand (if you understand how AP/NAP works). I would be more liklely to agree with its inclusion here if it also affected how spells or abilities affect permanents based on sectors.

I left a thumbs up because this is the type of content I really enjoy from you.

Space Beleren has an interesting interaction with vehicles. I have a big robot deck using a lot of kamigawa cards. since vehicles are not creatures until crewed you assign them at that time. assign them to empty sectors and +1 space beleren. you are free to attack with no blocks. they become unassigned from the sector at the end of turn when they return to being not a creature.

Panglacial Worm is my pick for most complicated card, just because it allows you to cast a card while resolving another card/effect

At the end of the section for Urza's Saga I just saw a screen of grey, exporting error? Good video though, love looking at weird Magic cards and how they behave

I have a Takklemaggot, fun card and cool classic art. Oh also have the Classic Animate Dead, I love the art and it inspired me to reference it for an illustration. Anyways great video!

Something that comes up in my modern games occasionally, if you are desperate for colored mana you can target your Urza’s saga with ghost quarter after putting the final ability on the stack to go get a basic.

Great video! Tacklemaggot is an absolute nightmare lol. Gonna push back against Wheel of Misfortune though: nothing happens to lowest number, everyone else wheels, highest number takes damage. Easy!

One of my friends religiously plays wheel of misfortune and I've gotta say it's a blast to see in the pod often. Once everyone just understands what it does automatically it makes for fun decision making. I love cards that let me make fun decisions even when my opponents are playing them, and making the whole table make a decision at once is even better

IDK what that says about me, but I was able to follow Takklemaggot's text pretty easily. Sure the text was clunky but understood it pretty well. "If you can't, return Takklemaggot to the battlefield as an enchantment with "At the beginning of your upkeep, Takklemaggot deals 1 damage to you." under its Controller's Control."

Love the videos Prof! Was wondering if you could give us newer magic the gathering players a history lesson on the different color combinations? The two color guilds the three colored and the four colors.. The various names on them and where they came from

I recently started playing a spell slinging deck, and it took me about 5 matches before I learned that "Eye of the Storm" had it's text changed from "play" to "cast" in its Oracle text. Oh wow has that one change led to some insane rules interactions in my pod. Unfortunately there's no reprint with the updated text still, so I proxied an Oracle version, and I keep it with that deck for substitution when I cast the original.

23:23 The Ragavan would not have haste, but it WOULD be returned at the next end step. Maximize Velocity would make it a 2/2 without haste. 23:40 Your non-basics would all be mountains, but would become all basic land types after playing Dryad. Notably, if you played the Dryad first and the Magus second, they would become mountains, because two of the same sublayer of effect will apply in timestamp order. 24:14 Opalescence and Humility would both be 1/1 Enchantment Creatures, and you COULD target Opalescence with Mirage Mirror, at which point it would become a copy of Opalescence until end of turn.

I love the SW inspirated Space Baleren Ruling. I want to play it in my Azorious Spirit deck now hehe.

Endless Whispers, with Jinxed Idol and Sleeper Agent. Thanks for this.

Re: Triumph of Saint Katherine, I will once again tell the funny story of my one trip to the Pro Tour: Team Ravnica Block Constructed! Bottled Cloister, as printed, says "At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, remove your hand from the game face down. At the beginning of your upkeep, return all cards removed from the game with Bottled Cloister to your hand, then draw a card." I cast Dream Leash on my opponent's Bottled Cloister (I tapped it somehow), and then we called a judge. The judge reviewed the wording and ruled that I got my opponent's cards! We were both playing RW, so I killed my opponent with his own Lightning Helix! My opponent should have listened to my teammate who said "That can't be right" and appealed.

i was playing triumph last night. i'll keep those notes in mind.

A category of complicated cards are those that gain other cards' abilities. Specifically when those abilities are Linked Abilities that reference other abilities the card did NOT gain (such as "cards exiled by [original card]"). In this example, just because Ability-gained-from-card-A "exiles cards" does not mean Ability-gained-from-card-B can find that card in exile.

Power Sink is a bit more obscure, but at least deserves an honorable mention. It doesn't help that the amended text of the card and its original text are both confusing.

Funny that Raging River almost got to the list, since I consider it similar to Animate Dead in that it's one of those cards that are overtly wordy but the effect itself is actually simple and intuitive once explained: There's a river in the middle of the board. All creatures are either on the left side or right side of the river. Creatures can only be blocked by creatures on the same side, unless they can fly (in which case they can just fly over the river and block an attacking creature on the other side). It makes sense when you consider what the cards are supposed to represent instead of thinking it in purely mechanical terms. Still doesn't make it not be a pain in the ass to track which creatures are supposed to be on which side, though.

Irrelevant comment but i kinda wish you would bring back the older music from your videos from a few years ago. It gave your channel a vibe that I love. Great video as always prof!

Scrambleverse is a lot to keep track of when there’s a lot of stuff on the board. Every single non land permanent gets assigned a new random controller that you have to keep track of before the effect fully resolves

Kinda surprised to not see a 'perplexing chimera' or 'hive mind'. Great vid none the less

Upvoted for takklemaggot, one of my favorite cards- although not a great one. And I never thought it was all that confusing.

19:11 That bgm….it makes me feel like………transforming

I say it as often as I can: I love these old-style stale videos with pure content. I will always come back for these.