Game Theory: I Lost EVERY Game of Magic... So You Don't Have To! (Magic The Gathering)

krplus.net/bidio/is2wiaGTeYG6gqQ here you go

MTG Arena is a great starting point, being free to play. (Pay to win, yes. But not necessarily)

It also does a great job of teaching how to play.

You can pick up a planeswalker deck to start you off for about £12. Or if you visit them this weekend you’ll get to start on the new set prerelease.

@@ekdeimos but not really. There are plenty competitive budget decks in both Standard, Modern and Commander. And certainly on MTG:A

I feel ya buddy. It's the life we chose.

Just fill your deck with basic lands and you can have consistent (albeit not good) draws :D

Rats deck... ;)

>cries
i mean at least cards in commander don't rotate

Well, since there are so many different cards to choose from in commander, it's actually not that difficult to get "duplicates". I got a mill commander deck, where there are about 10 or so cards that do pretty much the same (mill the opponent for a couple of cards and provide a creature to defend against potential attacks from the opponent). Most commander decks I encounter, actually have a lot of cards which are similar or downright the same. It doesn't really matter if you draw "Random Creature" or "Creature of Randomness" if they do pretty much the same.

I know right XD

Jins Ly I can’t shuffle I related too hard

I can't do it ether

@@lucymurphy3369 umhm

Dredge: oh hi thank you!

Same with yugioh.

*laughs in Izzet phoenix*

Laughs in leyline of the void

@@tempest9962 laughs in brainstorm ban

I mean, at least if it was self mill, he might have a chance. You know, between reanimator, and lab maniac

At least he's having fun with mill decks. I'm getting tired of the lifelink aggro BS that everyone is playing. Anyone can do damage to win in 4 turns. Unless you're just trying to rank up, I don't see the point to playing aggro. It's boring and unfulfilling. Old school magic players are all about those crippling effects. It's not good enough to just defeat your opponent, you must crush their soul so that they defeat themselves. I've been messing with risen reef, omniscience, flood of tears, and agent of treachery. I bounce everything then steal all my opponent's lands. I got to diamond with this deck and had fun while doing it.

You know mill is super viable

@@thomascarrie2312 Yeah since ashiok got added it's okay. Still loses more often than not. And with the way a lot of decks race to remove excess cards from their library, you're usually just helping a person by milling them. Like my agent of treachery/risen reef/mirror image deck. I just need to make sure I get a bunch of land out early or play a nissa or omniscience and the mill deck doesn't get a fifth turn. Plus without ashiok, there's not a lot to deal with gaea's blessing.
Oh well, rotation happened so it's not like gaea's blessing is viable anymore but you get my point.

I've built two mill decks, both Commander, one led by Nekusar and the other led by Phenax. The Nekusar deck sucks, and I hate it, by the Phenax deck, which is built around Relentless Rats and Persistent Petitioners, is actually a decent deck. I built in an infinite rat engine that significantly increases the speed of my milling.

"What?"

Unoriginal 156 hello ynniv!

Oof

Cant add duplicates if its Commander or Oath Breaker.

imagine having duplicates in your deck
_this comment brought to you by the commander gang_

Yea... wonder what his mana base looked like before he figured this out

Hence why Tri-Brigades in Yu-Gi-Oh crush casuals.
. . .
Or am I the only sicko playing Tri-Brigades in casuals?

@@milezw another thing at my locals I hate is P.U.N.K Therions. I played someone using it last week and the opened:
Psy-Frame Gamma
Emergency Teleport
Emergency Teleport
Emergency Teleport
Fateful Adventure.

ture

Yu gi oh:complex. Pokemon : im'a end this man's career

True

That’s assuming you’re allowed to attack

Mirror force, destroying friendships ever since the anime aired

edgy

Spicy Nexus of Fate playing forever on their turn.

jokes on you, scientists have proven that cigars can help increase memory. (I just made that up, but i'm hoping you don't read past the first sentence.)

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I miss the innocent days where Nexus of Fate was the worst thing we had to worry about.

I know your angry, but don't just storm off...

Does combo exist in magic

Blizzard seems to think so lol

@@richardrichard2625 Yes. They can be fairly complicated. Here is a video that discusses a really old school combo from back in the day: krplus.net/bidio/ZbCadHSpdoOlp2k

The thing is: combo decks are control decks that win by a combo of cards instead of damage by a large creature. By this definition, combo is a subtype of control.

Nice name.

My Lgs closed and I’m sad now

Yeah

@Jamir Pridgen Alexa play despacito at full volume

No...2020 is no joke. It nearly destroyed me before I ever heard of COVID-19.

Oh God no!!!
There are 2020!!! Reasons why 2020 is no joke.

Nice

-claps-

Oof.

Nice profile pic!

I don’t play magic I play Pokémon so I shuffle a deck of cards like at least 30 times a day

U french?

Nexus of Fate is a damn good card.

Damn fucked card. Damn degenerate, awfully handled and designed card.

I actually died to a 1/1 army because they got into Nexus of Fate loop.

I play too much modern to care

I was thinking the same thing lol

Probably normal summon a thing, which then searches a thing, then xyz summon a bigger thing that lets you fish for something else.
That's basically every YuGiOh deck

Same

Yu gi oh 4 life

But sirisly tho how do you have a deck you understand

Same

Relatable, have a nice day.

XD

RIP

Lol same

Yeah. I know that feeling too well. I likely have alot of tells so I needed this.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👌👌👌👌👌

Right? And you start like biting the inside of your cheek or something to keep for smiling.

The trick is to laugh maniacally regardless of what hand you get

u might as well replace the sun at that point, beamin so hard XD

Ahhahahaha

HAHAHA 😂

Persistent Petitioners, Seven Dwarves and Shadowborn Apostles: And I took that personally

@@swagboss9720 relentless rats: why you forget me bby? :c

You can always play Rats

We play commander BECAUSE duplicates aren't fun, where it's much more random and you can't rely on the same strategy.

Until support ends and servers are turned off.....

Thats our everyday life for us 2000's kids.

clint william “is that legal?”
“I will make it legal.”

They are both owned by wizards

@@enclavenews4564 Isn't Yu-Gi-Oh tcg just Konami's brand?

They make the cards

Yeah konami made it

Just play Relentless Rats or Persistent Petitioners etc.
Problem solved! : )
P.S. Yes, I see this is a 4 month old comment I'm replying to. I'm just fooling around.

@Bowstick That's not what the short system is. The long system gets a new term every million, and uses a variation of the old term for thousands. In french, the scale is as follows : Millions, Milliards, Billions, Billiards, Trillions, Trilliards. The short scale (or short system) gets a new term every thousand. I'll put in parentheses what the term in french is : Million (Million), billion (milliard), trillion (billion), quadrillion (billiard). When Mat says trillion, he really means a thousand billions, or 10^12.
Your error is in converting between numeral systems. Indeed, a (short) billion is equal to a (long) milliard, and a (short) trillion is equal to a (long) billion, but a (short) trillion is not equal to a (short) billion.
(Boy my idle game knowledge can finally be useful for once)

Laughs in thoughtseize into inquisition. Oh that's a nice hand, would be a shame if you only had lands

No believe in heart of the cards

@@cizz8315 I did as a kid
then I learned how to win

look mom, no hands!

That’s my deck.

Ouch, I've felt that. I had some really good cards but waa super low on mana. It sucked.

I had a fire plains walker( I play water + fire) a my first card and got literally no Mana.... Btw I lost. Shocker.

off

Getting flooded is one of the worst feelings a human can ever feel.

that's not the same thing at all

Laughs in Aetherize

LMAO FR

Ha Ha exile goes *brrrrrrrr*

@@game_mations3807 laughs in mindbreak trap

@@ianhoneycutt3858 laughs in counterspell

I love this deck more than any other deck I've ever played... I just wish it was better against the decks that actually matter... lol

Oof

You all crying red

*laughs in playing with yourself
Wait.... that sounds weird

@@officialteaincorporated243 why i quit right there. decks that play with themselves for a half hour. nah, bruh, keep your storm deck and go wail on that 12 year old at the card shop tourney, im going to play cribbage instead, a balanced game.

Step two: get deck from your Grandpa (it has no phathetic cards in it)

Matpat says ai frends that wont leave you
All the people with clinical or normal depression whale they have headaches or crayng why why why did you have to remain me
I know I can write but english is my second language and I'm Bulgarian with intayer new alphabed

Wrong Card Game.

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@@rodrigolivsan that's the joke

True but its muddled to F%ck.

I agree

Yess

MTG is just dnd in card format

@@gabefyb you clearly have no idea what your talking about

True

I dont do the gates but I feel like there is definitely a code in the part where he smooshed down the deck hand chance

I think it might have to do with the number of the cards in the first sequence

Yes

CartmanTuttle What can’t I counter?

Close, but the real answer is Esper Control. Just make it so you're the only one allowed to play at all, and then you win! Boring but Effective!

@@archer9480 that would be simic flash in standard and some version of stoneforge mystic mindsculptor shennanigins

I heard simic control

There is no "best deck." If there was, everyone would be using it at tournaments.

That's why you get the option to cut the opponent's deck beforehand.

Better lucky than good.

Heart or the cards man

What you do is stack your deck with counter cards, go first and block everything

With practise, it's easy to stack the deck without technically cheating. It's a fair shuffle, but it's also not because you can keep track of where certain cards are. This is why MTG players cut each other's decks after a shuffle happens.

*laughs in warhammer*

Mostly money

Laughs in Yugioh as well.

When it comes to magic, that is much true

Laughs in power 9

Junior Studios maybe even Timmy’s.

I thought they were called bloods and crips....

I’m on the floor that was the funniest thing to ever exist

Does that make life guards "Knights of the Coast?"

Love that joke dude

Poorly optimized deck

@@hairlessopossum4042 and a bad joke combos into the Roid architype.

so true! I beat my friends with janky things like creating infinite planeswalkers while they are playing Jund, Grixis Control and Mono-Red pheonix (some of the most expensive, powerful decks in Modern)

"Who wants to draw a card? 😁 Awesome! Lose 2 life." -Words of a friend when playing grouphug.

Esper combos exist. The colors involved literally have an answer to everything anyone else plays. So, infect can only go so far.

Tribal hatebears

My favorite deck has card combos that make 5 unblockable infects
Bring the hate, it shall only feed me

Yeah, it's expensive Solitaire

Simic Nexus is sadboi times, god I'm glad that deck rotated

Me too, the Nexus deck was a dark period in Standard history.

Lol

Certainty

Ah Oko

Studio Gallifrey The feels bad

BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU

First game I every played, I lost to a 1/1 Token Creature.

I have forsaken my humanity. I have an oko oathbreaker.

Cries in Battle of Wits

I don’t know what you guys are talking about but I know it’s funny

@@conormurphy4328 For those out of the MTG loop. Rat Colony is a card that can have any number of cards called "rat colony" in a deck, making it very consistent. Battle of Wits is a card that requires you to have around 240 card deck instead of 60, making it hilariously inconsistent. #Explaining the Joke

I have a rat-mander deck that has 50 rat colonies

Something something Shadowborn Apostle.

So much .. this is the first time I've seen this video and I sometimes watch vids by earliest date added lol

Isn't there a 6 card combo that allows you to draw and play your entire deck turn 1?
I remember seeing something like that
Where people used it to make a Turing machine using a MTG deck that is/was completely legal.

Manaweaveing does help alot

@@BramLastname elements (risen reaf) can pretty much do that

@@freyamiles3718 risen reef has rotated
but using peer into the abyss + teferi's ageless insight will draw your whole library
(peer draws half your library, teferi's ageless insight doubles the amount of cards you draw from any source except your draw step)

@@freyamiles3718 remember the two days wegen risen reef was the lost Brocken card in M20?
Good Times

Or you just throw in one of every legendary you have which happens to exactly make a deck and hope for the best. Or you include some cards in your deck that will fight your opponent when you play them and leave winning or loosing basically predetermined by your random deck-order, if you survive long enough to actually pull it off...

Learn from the main protagonist In the yu hi oh anime.

Have a lot of money and buy a deck someone else made.

Step 1: spawn Exodia
Step 2: win

@@-._._._-_._._.- Draw* Exodia

Why is there only 23 likes

2,222 card decks. Sounds like a dream

Pucci ???

no, no it wasn't. I had a friend who used EVERY SINGLE CARD SHE HAD, where shuffling alone took 15 minutes because of how tall her deck was.

I used to play back in middle school (I'm 28). And I was the only kid who had a deck with the minimum amount of cards. Kids laughed at my measly tiny fiend deck. Until I (go figure) got the cards I needed and kicked their asses.

Oh my god, they should collab sometime they seem like they'd like each other

@@eagletsnupper7876 Yea Mat would be best friends with Mat if they really sat down and talked to each other😂

@@olivegardensrestroom688 but how do their wives get along? Since i know Steph always works with Mat on GT, And Steph and Mat work together a lot on FT

Have you ever seen game theory and film theory in the same room? My theory is that they're the same person O:

FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!!

I tend to play swamp or forest. My brither hates it when I play swamps as I play an undead deck

Maybe black, he seems like the type of person who would play hand look/discard shenanigans.

And here's me who never played any card strategy games :
*wHaT's A dEcK?*

@@lu_emery Yeah, Blue and Black seems like a combo that he would like, a slow, destructive control deck.

Ya he is my least favorite color combo.

I JUST GOT THAT

Those are always good spent 4 hours

I see your a man of culture as well

Who is Sora I heard that name before.

@@thatrandomeliteultra1158 kingdom hearts protanganist

Strategy involves statistics and probability. So he isn't wrong

@@jilvermazariegos good point. I guess the correct word is tactics? The building and planning of your decks mechanics and flow so that everything functions. None of that is probability or math.

Strategy is about statistics

And money
And luck

DJuan Blackmon I disagree when building a competitive deck there is a lot of math involved with determine card ratios and especially with magic where you need to consider lands vs cost of cards and ratio of different colours

His advice works in the general sense with all card games.

His advice works in the general sense with all card games.

I guess commander users are idiots then lol

Versus me: *running around the house for 5 minutes asking anyone if they have a deck of cards before finally finding one*

I leave one in my pocket too...

Fair enough

What if they all have different art?

@@dangehret1349 I must be careful to only run 60 copies of the same return to zendicar forests

59 forrests and an oviya

I should bring a deck of 60 forests to a friday night magic game. Just to see who notices.

8bitryan plays better he's a pro

Same my sorcerer brother

i still need to find a way to play this

Saaaaaaaame

Always wanted to play d&d but never got the chance

Don't you dare GOBLINATE anything!!

That's because Yugioh is better than Magic. There, I said it.

Eddie and Pokémon is better then both of those !

I thoroughly agree

Tell me how to be better a yugioh

We need a yugioh theroy

MMMM YES MY FELLOW NERD

Btw I have a discord wanna join fellow nerds and nerd out about mtg? Here
discord.gg/uWAAJF5

we all are nerds here

@@fracturedframe1462 the discord link expired

@@duelknight here ya go fellow nerd if it expires dm me on discord
discord.gg/9YyYTg2
Pingu#9191

defenitely not illegal in any possible way whatsoever

hate to break it to you but you can only have four of the same card in a deck.

Izzy-So 1604 r/woooooshh

@@aaron.lightfoot9226 r/doooooooooouchhh

SaffronOlive is a genius.