Urza and Mishra Go to Family Therapy | MTG Standard Against the Odds 

I mean it would need to be significantly better than all three of those combined which would be what? Indestructible, hexproof, you may activate this planeswalker's abilities any time you could cast an instant, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities during your turn, +1 you win the game, if you don't all of your opponents lose the game, if not all of them do exile all permanents your opponents control. 😝

This secret super-meld card also locks your opponent out of conceding.

@@thechestrockfieldthere is a reason it’s a secret card. I heard if you mega-meld you qualify for the next Arena Championship with a bye 😂

@@Graatand Only concede at sorcery speed is the best Rule 0 ever.

Now imagine doing that in modern with Bruna and Gisela too

"The last powerstone is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace."

No joke: prior to recording the video, he earned a degree in psychology. THAT's commitment.

There's not the green one though.

@@animationtime7265 he did say he would settle for just Mishra and Urza.

@@Temperans I genuinely don't know how I didn't notice that.

@@animationtime7265 Two out of three ain’t bad.

@@josephiroth89 what would have been better would be if they had EVERY meld creature at once.

Thanks!

Yeah, really like how he tells a story with his decks.

Seemed like that card showed up A LOT in these matches. Must be significantly better than people initially thought. Worked pretty good against us these games...

Evolving Wilds doesn't show up much current, in part because we have a lot of good dual lands and in part because most decks that want Evolving Wilds use the common Streets of New Capenna sac lands instead since they gain a life and basically do the same thing in three or less color decks.

Silver Seraph🤣🤣🤣

The problem is then you’d have a bunch of opponents who are incentivized to make you play out a combo loop over and over or otherwise take steps to close out a game that’s already decided. Unless it’s your first time getting some wild strategy to work I think it would just make arena a lot more tedious. It wouldn’t really be fun to feel like you have to play out games from the lost position either

Ah, a fellow NPN fan

It's not that Out Of Character. The war among the two brothers was built upon Gix's influence over the already conflicting political landscape of Yotia vs. the Fallaji to start, and Urza detonating the Sylex Blast in an attempt to erase the Phyrexians he discovered taking over his brother and now using him to try to take the rest of the world. He went on after that on a 4 thousand year struggle to stop Phyrexia because he saw the destructive potential they had, preparing multiple elaborate plans that accounted even for his own demise or compleation. Still his sparks lives on in Karn.

Easily one of the best misnamings by Seth. Silver isn’t anywhere on the card lol

You're right, it nearly destroyed Terisiare (a continent of Dominaria), and plunged the plane into an Ice Age and locked it and 11 others in the Shard of the Twelve Worlds... Urza became a planeswalker just after the Sylex Blast, and went on in a 4 thousand year struggle to stop Phyrexia because he saw the destructive potential they had, preparing multiple elaborate plans that accounted even for his own demise or compleation. Still his sparks lives on in Karn.

They are actually from the Metal Gear Solid artist.

My view of Standard mostly depends on how many black decks I've played in a row while recording :)

@@MTGGoldfish The 60% Sheoldred share would get old.

to be fair, the biker rats and space dogs are new...

@@derrickthewhite1 Still, there's no appreciable reason to [still] be mad about Universes Beyond if "regular" Magic has these things though...

@@thechestrockfield If you've got an objection to high tech in your MTG, you still have it. You just can't say "regular magic doesn't have motorcycles". You can still say "Regular magic went for almost 30 years without guns and motorcycles ". Honestly, I think that the underlying objection to universes beyond is that it hurts suspension of disbelief. My biggest specific objections to universes beyond (not done the godzilla way, that's the best way) are first, that putting the magic color system to them is a kludge, and second, too many of them are earth-centric, and third, some of them don't have magic in them at all. Universes beyond is fun, but I think they've been inadequate about assuring people that the quality of lore for the main mtg sets won't suffer as a result. (as evidenced by this conversation).

@Derrick White You can't really say that though. There have been many cannons, guns, grenades, explosives, and rocket launchers throughout almost the entirety of Magic, some as early as Alpha. In 1998, you had Alaborn Zealot holding a shotgun and Alaborn Musketeer holding, I presume, a musket. Another interesting point: guns were invented probably over a thousand years before sunglasses. There were sunglasses in Alpha. So they were able to invent cannons, rocket launchers, grenades, and sunglasses, but the sticking point for people is regular old guns? I just don't get why people have their panties in a twist over only that specific weaponry. As for vehicles, maybe not motorcycles, specifically, but we've have the actual vehicle type for over 6 years now. More importantly, lore-wise, the possibility of engine-based locomotion has been in the Magic universe at least since Antiquities with Dragon Engine, a card with engine in the name and what looks to be a steam-powered-engine driven machine in the artwork, same for Triskelion. (And that's assuming the Alpha Juggernaut ISN'T powered by some kind of engine, but it seems like it would need to be to get the momentum to smash a hole in a mountainside...) And not for nothing, but Alpha also had hot air balloons and pirate ships that no one has ever complained about. What I'm saying is I see no consistency to what the problem people have is. It's not a timeline thing because there's plenty of stuff that was invented both before and after the things people are complaining about, and there are plenty of elements of those things that show up in other forms no one ever complained about. Honestly, it seems like people just trying to justify their dislike of something they dislike for non-MtG-lore-related reasons (like financial reasons).

@@thechestrockfield You have your counterexample here. I'm a Free to Play arena player who likes watching content creators and reading up on the lore for fun. I dislike extended universes for what are at least lore-adjacent reasons. First off, I just dislike some of the extended universe base material. Second, I worry about what including extended universes says about the future production of lore. See forgotten realms; I actually like and play D&D, but it'd be nice to have new original settings. Third, I've made lore-specific comments above, about including earth and color-coordination I do think some people just dislike the base material and are unwilling or unable to articulate their objections, and so go after it in more general terms. About Guns... you should actually go look it up. Its fascinating. The Alaborn cards are famous because they are exceptions. Other fire-arms are all on goblin cards drawn rather comically, and tend towards artillery and away from hand held guns. Or are on Pirates from Ixalan. But I did misspeak: guns have not been normalized, new Cappenna does not have them. Fun fact.

It should "feel" rigged. Fair random chance feels unfair. Most adults who play card games will have heard about human perception of randomness. We seek patterns obsessively, that's what we are good at. This makes us trash at detecting randomness, the absence of patterns. Your brain finds prophecies in tea leaves and animals in clouds. You tell yourself this "obvious pattern" of exceptionally unlucky opening hands must have an explanation, random events couldn't have an obvious pattern! But nope, it was fair random. To "feel" fair the shuffler would need to be cheating for you.