Kentarou Yamamoto runs his Temur Delver deck straight into Owen Turtenwald and his Blue-Red Storm list at the 2014 Magic: the Gathering World Championship.
Patrick Chapin doesn't play for a living does he? Do any of these guys? I mean it's cool when your a teen and you make 131,000 dollars in career earnings but I don't know about being in your upper 30's. Hopefully he can get a job or has a job with magic themselves. I hope so man and wish him the best because otherwise....what a massive, massive, waste of time. Good luck though!
OMG! Wizards, this is the Worlds! Cmon! You got a lot of able personnels there who knows how to "intelligently" call the games other than rashad. Please, stop with your nostalgic reasons and just put rashad on the floor, not on the commentary booth.
wizards needs to fire rashad miller, worst commentator in magic history. painful to listen to someone with so little magic knowledge commentating the world championships.
Pretty sure Owen punted that first game. I would have jammed the Electromancer or Ascension after missing my third land drop for the second time. You know he has the Spell Snare and that he's going to sit on it all game until you move in on something good, so why let him get to a point where he also has a clock going? Play your spell, get it countered, and move on. If Yamamoto doesn't have another interaction spell then he's probably cold in 1-3 turns.
Yes, Rashad is my main complaint in life. Cancer, war, world hunger... NOPE: Rashad, the Magic the Gathering commentator. Oh wait, maybe I should go over to the Ari Lax videos and make sure to flub how hoorribble of a person he is, even though he did nothing wrong and won a pro tour. You know what? You guys don't like Rashad for his hat do you? I love the people complaining about magic players/commentators... You might as well complain about a burnt hot pocket. But hey, I just took a paragraph to complain about your complaints.
I'm totally unbiased but as far as people rooting for or against Rashad as a commentator. As a commentator, he is horrible. "Also...ugh...Also...ok so also...little uhh...a a a...little uhh unorthodox..."
God damn Rashad is so bad at commenting on these videos.. he's better on camera when he's not speaking and LSV or anyone else that commentates is in the booth.
I can understand why they banned treasure cruise its just so easy to cast and provides the player a huge advantage dig through time would have been cool in modern
+Ryan Krug The main problem is that it just gives too much value to the point where nearly every deck but one in the top 8 uses it. When that happens, Wizards usually just bans the crap outta the card for a while lol.
Just a little bit of constructive criticism; I think it would be a bright idea to commentate like your speaking to an audience that has absolutely no clue what is going on whatsoever. I say this because most people truly DON'T have a clue what is going on in MTG. Therefor I believe the game would grow if people felt like they could follow along a little more.
Ian Starkey I agree - also because as third hand spectators (the people playing the game see the cards directly. The commentators see the cards on a screen where they can read them/look up info. We see the extra info the commentators may or may not show on a screen of a screen of two guys looking at cards), it's overly difficult to look at the table and see what the hell is going on, much less just listen to the coverage and know what's happening. You dont have World Cup commentators talking about a game of cricket they played in their neighbor's yard in 1993, making sad puns in the heat of the match, and hand-waving the rule guidelines in their commentary. Little bit of a vent, but I hate seeing the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP be half-assed.
Why did Owen go probe then serum visions? doesn't make sense when you can see if you can scry something to the top you want or save the probe for later if there isn't anything on the top of your deck that you'd want.
I personally hate the way Chapin plays. He has to waste time to straighten up his shit EVERY time. If it was like once or twice every other turn, thats fine. But he does it every time he plays a spell, or looks at his hand, or does anything. It seriously wastes time.
+Richard Davis he had 1 pyro + 2 tokens and 1 swiftspear in the start of the turn. He cast Visions -> Visions -> Swiftspear -> Izzet Charm -> Cruise -> Thought Scour. The second swiftspear was a 4/5 since it only saw 3 spells.
tuber856 You shouldn't focus on a commentator's ability to commentate? Really? Because if someone can't commentate well they shouldn't be commentating.
