Payment sent for $9.99. Please let me join MTG Lightning Finance. Im all in. I even bought the pink shirt.

Never stop being honest and calling Wizards out on their BS. The MTG community listens and knows who really represents their best interest. Thank you for all you do.

I'm loving how JumpStart just came out, Double Masters isn't out yet, and WotC is already starting to talk about Zendikar. The product fatigue is much more pronounced in the 'rona age.

0:21 hearing the professor go "Yo, talk to me babe!" is worth a million likes alone

Which of you wrote "I don't know if economics is the meta game I want to chase, honestly"? It's such an awesome line I did a literal spit take.

"We try not to reprint the same card too much in a small time frame" Colossal dreadmaw was certainly an exception to this obviously, every set needs an Ixalan dino.

After watching this I'm scared now. I'm going to be an english teacher in the future, but what if I fail and just end up ranting about fetchlands for the rest of my life? Oh dear..

This is my thoughts for sure. If MTG focuses more and more on expensive COLLECTOR'S crap instead of accessible cards for the GAME, it will kill itself ultimately. No one playing the game = no investment, because, at the end of the day, it's cardboard.

I instead of drafting Double Masters once with a friend we could buy 3 preconstructed Commander decks, give one of them away to the priced out kid and play those for the evening, and instead of getting 6 worthless rares each we would get 60 at least usable ones

that intro was brilliant lol i could feel the alpha investment inspiration haha

Easy ethical solution for WotC: sell singles for a "low"* fixed price. And then you can go nuts with boosters. Put rare art in them with odds like 100:1 per box. *even 5$ per piece would still hard cap the cost for any deck at 75 * 5 = 375$ Do you see how *stupid* the *gambling* situation has become?!

Best thing Vince ever said. "I'd rather puke into my own hands then clap."

I'm fatigued of Wrath of God reprints, when are we getting Damnation???

I'm just waiting for "Rare Masters", every card has 15 rares and the packs cost $150 each.

"The game should come first..." I don't think this could be said any better "THE GAME SHOULD COME FIRST!"

hearing the prof saying "Bruh" decreased my lifespan by a year for each time he said it 😂

Nice Gordon Gekko channeling there, Prof.

Regarding the "fit the theme". Bosh does fit the theme. UMA was Graveyard Masters, 2XM is rushed product that is actually a salvaged Artifact Masters with some "double" cards shoehorned in because the artifacts theme doesn't sound that good for limited. We need to see past the marketing tricks wotc pulls of with set naming....

I'd love love love to see Prof cosplay as Rudy from Alpha Investments. Pink Visor and all, would be hilarious!

Actually my only concern is when the Spark of Colossal Dreadmaw will ignite ?..

I really like your podcast, because its from US and from European perspective! Many american Magic YT channels sadly only discuss american Magic market, which is sometimes surprisingly deviating from the european market.

Oh wow, that's the longest opening skit you've ever done, almost 55 minutes, bravo sir!

I was waiting for the 7~8% yearly return over the 5 year period and the floppy taco incorporated.

Rudy, that you?

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Print fetch lands in every set until they are $2 each. They are game pieces.

Thank you for the Timeline of Controversy. It's really helpful in keeping track of it all.

It's awesome you were able to get a Rudy cameo for the intro to this video.

"Invest 35% percent of your liquid assets, you'll make back 35% of your investment." ......If you put in $35 you'll get $12.25 back.

That's actually scarily true - there are a lot of failed/ex-teachers in Magic. I'm a failed teacher myself, and I love magic along with most of my failed teacher friends. Good news though, I still have my day job as a demonic tutor. ...And my other day job as a regular private tutor.

The fun fact about MTG finance is that the value of MTG cards is something like a snowball system or pyramid scheme. It will only hold its value if millions of people keep putting lots and lots of increasing amounts of money towards MTG. The value can all go away very quickly, e.g. because of a global crisis, like a virus or something. And then there's power creep, reprints, counterfeits, proxies, digital versions like MTGA, ... All of those are things that undermine MTG finance ... and someday they will succeed. At the end of the day it's just cardboard.

In the after-times, I can just imagine these two, sqauring off with their D&T vs. Merfolk decks. Vince, sporting a mohawk and an even more glorious beard, spiked shoulder pads and blacked out eyes. Post-apocalyse Prof. who's wrapped in a vest comprised of salvaged six-pack plastic rings, a sun-bleached milk crate helmet, and a tie made of dried seaweed.

My god. Prof is such a good actor. So much charisma and articulation. Great sketches as always

They need to be more aggressive printing staples without multiplying the amount of existing products.

I don't think we can compare MTG to comics and sports cards. The biggest reason is, price is determined mostly by playability and not just rarity or aesthetics, however the rarity(percieved) and aesthetics are also factors to the price. Say lightning bolt, it's a common/uncommon but it's playable in all formats that it's legal on and reprinted lots of times but still has "value".

I'm pretty new to Magic but I have 40+ years in comics and Prof is right to see parallels. What really made me think of the crash was the M21 showcase. The multiple art styles for each card. That's where the comic industry overreached. With multiple (foil!) covers for each issue at collector booster prices.

I feel 100% with prof & respect his perspective that is contrary to those who's financial interests are tied to MtG products being lucrative. I feel that the finance aspect of MtG is corrupting or overriding the game itself by sharks.

I'd be incredibly impressed if there was someone out there who opened sealed product that had a booster pack with nothing but rocks in it.

“My Jump-Start booster was filled with fine gravel.” That intro skit 😂🤣😂

I would 100% be down for a podcast where Vince just force feeds Prof all of the comic book lore from the last 30 years.

Great videos boys! I appreciate all your "being difficult " and the straight truth that is available here.

I watched the Professor when I was a wee lad learning paper Magic. I am now 40, playing MTG Arena and watching him again and he hasn't aged a day. I have gone full circle :D

Got an Australia here, looking for a Canadian to start our podcast about MTG haha

It's kinda funny looking back at this now 10 months later. That call on VIP boosters was a huge windfall. Those things skyrocketed in value. Thanks for the great investing advice prof.

Holy cow this into is golden! And there were some real nuggets in the last couple of video's as well!

They made a silly high price with double master and later you say "remember when booster only cost 10$ each..." its a good trick to establish a higher price. For me even 10 bucks for a booster is too much, standard booster 3-4$ a pack and premium 6-8€ would be fair imo.

Is there a compilation of the prof doing the fresh young swag talk? Really would take a look at thaz for 9.99 brah

I love at the end of these we suddenly go from Brian's 'Professional' family friendly channel to Vince's "Beat around something" channel. Love you guys

never thought I'd hear the professor say "hella". Great start to my day.

From a lot a of the products that came out recently, my guts feeling is that the R&D at wizard have absolutly no leverage on price. they devellop the set with certain Ideas in mind ( draft environement, focus on a specific format, etc) with having the sligtest idea of what it will be charged at. and the marketing comes in, once the set is done and put a price tag on it/ decide to do a collector booster on the side. hence why you end up with article like the one of MaRo, who probably design the set with a geniune enjoyable draft experience in mind. all of it to be destroyed by a price tag he have absolutly no control upon.

Don't take a shot everytime Prof says "bruh"...

Man, the Professor got those RayCons and look at his attitude change! He is WITH IT now!

Absolutely love these guys exchanges in humour. Both love MTG, both hate MTG. They are just two die hard fans with the ability to take the piss out of each other and the game they'll never stop playing. Please never stop making videos. :)

Interview Rudy!

Sorry to bring it to you prof, but "playing the game of Magic: the Gathering" today means: sitting on sealed boxes for 10 years, quickly selling collector cards before the price on them drop or short term speculating on singles. You can also play some related card games, they are called MTGA and MTGO.

I'm starting to agree with some that these kind of sets are about restocking the global market with singles. People will buy boxes, but it's the number of boxes opened by large stores and local stores that will make the price difference.

I love how you can see the opening skit taking form in the professor's head as he does the MTGfinance bit in the podcast.

I too am a failed teacher. Music specifically. Guess I need to start making content.

I Seto Kaiba will not stand for injustice! As I buy out every VIP booster pack for rare cards! And to finally end my rival Yugi Muto!!

You joked about it, but this is actually my favorite MTG podcast. You guys are great.

I love the Simpson angle the is literally the best thing I have seen in days. Your on fire 🔥 Professor!!!!!!!!!!!

When is Reserve Masters VIP coming out with the Alpha Black Lotus inserted into $500 packs at 1:100,000 odds?

Im glad the professor finally did a Rudy cosplay video after losing to him

The set boosters from Zendikar Rising look good on paper.

Thanks for talking about those issue, guys. You are the voice of a lot of players.

The theme of this set could be more accurately described by that Rosewater quote "this might just not be the product for you." Feels bad man I can't draft my favorite game with good cards because as Rosewater himself declared "we’re making more supplemental sets and those are aimed at smaller audiences." Congrats whales, have fun drafting with the cool new set alone.... *Edit to cite my sources: these quotes are from Feb 1 on Rosewater's Twitter when discussing artificially inflated prices of supplemental products.

The fact that "MTG Investment Portfolio" is in the title illustrates everything wrong with the current state of MTG

I had to pause the video because I burst out laughing at the reveal of the Controversy Timeline. Excellent work, you two.

You had the watch the full video to get to 'beat around the dead horse's bush', but it was worth it.

I really like comparing MTG cards to gravel, because at least you can make roads with one.

I am from Denmark, and In my country they have handled the pandemic very well, so my local game store can Hold prerealse event, and drafts. But it costs 300 Danish Crowns (around 40-50 dollars), and Thats CHEAP for magic products in Denmark. It get more expensive ever year, and in starting to worry that normal people/new players cant follow up...

Giant growth is like the bottom-tier combat trick in pauper infect. Almost no one runs it over one of several better spells such as: Groundswell, Vines of Vastwood, Mutagenic Growth, prey's vengeance

Love both of your guys content but when you guys are together it's on another level of 🔥

"Double masters? More like Double disaters" would have been a better tagline.

If this continues then I'll have to give up Magic and start playing Pokemon. At least they have reprints.

"Twice the pride, double fall" Already preordered for drafitng with friends, as it should be!

You can currently preorder 3-booster draft packs for $35, which is actually the cheapest way to get Double Masters. Instead of a box, I just preordered a bunch of those from Amazon.

"Let's talk about what we like about Double Masters... Um..."

Wow Wizards claiming that they are printing mostly bulk in there "premium" sets because of draft integrity is next level hilarity.

Definitely the best skit I have seen on this channel so far.

"As long as you're beating around something..." Loved it! WotC knows the feeling.

Buy singles. Simple. I need a new Jhoira anyway

“But isn’t magic still a game?” Hahahahaha. No.

Master sets sell because of the value in reprints. Also I love that they're worried about reprint fatigue but don't appear to have been the least worried about new product fatigue this year.

I love the content, keep it up! I have a feeling this video might become dated very quickly. With the recent reveals, it looks like this set is going to drive down the price of fantastic singles! Cracking packs is gambling...

Even knowing that it was satire, that intro made me feel ill.

This video lacks alpha investments xDD Edit: It's kinda done 😅

Love these videos. Y’all are funny. And I can listen to magic things like this all day

The other reason for doubling up is a combo of the past master sets. Im seeing a few cards already printed in those sets. Its like pokemon or yugioh, there going to have primo runs of a set........eventually they'll package all those cards in a new set like "BASE SET 2 (basically 4-8sets in one new reprint set = double masters), then when they have another round of all different sets and do another reprint set, they'll combine those two reprint sets a lot like the mystery boosters we saw. EVENTUALLY JUST TANKING THE VALUE OF EVERY CARD outside of the 1/20 showcase cards their doing in these new reprint sets > gaining control of the value of the secondary market. They'll keep doing this until the company has milked and killed the game (possibly industry), they'll then sell off the paper division at its peak and then focus on digital.

magic does not reprint enough yugioh doesn't even have reprint fatigue and we have like 300 reprints of Blue-eyes white dragon. WOTC get your act together. reprint and drop the price. if in yugioh its acceptable for around 12 months of non reprint play magic can at least do it in 2. yugioh prices are still going up despite reprints. reprint at different rarities that keeps the originals at higher prices

4:20 "Those who can't do, teach." But what about those who can't teach? Make Magic: the Gathering content for KZfaq apparently 😂😂😂

Man, I wish I was a kid who had 100$ to spend on a random VIP booster, I barely get that much to spend on my hobbies nowadays.

Personally, I remember art from 3 sets back. LOVE the consistency and sincerity of the newer art of Magic.

I am so tired of hearing how these packs will have “value”. Even people I usually enjoy following, like SaffronOlive, keep going on about this. I don’t care about the value, because it’s not an investment, and I’m not into reselling cards. I care about the gameplay, and this costs a lot to play. It’s so basic, at this stage it feels as if Magic is as divided as America, with two sides who just don’t speak the same language anymore.

By far the greatest opening skit you've ever done

There are actually two disconnects between groups here Prof. The first is the one you describe between the highly invested player who cares about reprinting all the cards raised to high prices by the demand from invested players and Wotc. However, there exists another between you and other invested players and the vast majority of the magic player base which itself is split roughly in three parts of ascending proportion of investor whales, invested players, and casuals who don't worry about reprints above all else. Wotc is splitting their focus to appease the first and third groups by providing premium products that drive investment in desired cards that support the margins of stores and investors while providing an experience to those who do care about theme. From what you've expressed, you belong to the second group that desires almost all collectors products without either the means or the added enjoyment of recognizing the price is made from the entertainment experience as well. To drive home my point not everybody enjoys cube. Having powerful cards everywhere doesn't provide the same enjoyment to those like me that it does to you. Wotc abandoned pre-modern eternal formats because the percentage of playerbase that enjoys that level of power and degeneracy is too small.

In Europe, Jumpstart is now officially released only on 28th of August! WotC says its because of Corona, which I dont get, because Corona is a much bigger issue in the US ...

Yo the opening/closing skits were pure gold 🤣👌

Canadian stores are able to host events with mandatory facemarks and strict hand sanitization rules.I've done 2 jumpstart events since re-open and its really great in store.

Prof can you recommend anything to watch/read on the collapse of the baseball card and comic book markets? Great video as always.