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PVDDR: "This is analyze the card, not analyze me!" Also PVDDR: Shows Rarran Elite Spellbinder

Honestly, PVDR coaching Rarran through Magic would be a banger series.

"This is like ramp in Magic." Magic facts! The term "ramp" was a shortening of the card Rampant Growth, originally printed in 1996 with Mirage, the first of the three set blocks!

Crazy to hear Rarran immediately start thinking about traumatise target himself to try fuel graveyard stuff, he’ll go far

I have no idea how Paulo kept such a straight face while waiting for Rarran to figure out his face was on that card 🤣

Gotta love how PVDDR puts time warp as a card without realizing there is an actual card called time warp in HS with the same mana cost!

Watching people evaluate brainstorm is so funny, it’s such a simple card you’d never guess just how impactful it is in the game

Would love to see another episode of this, where PVDDR shows you a colour cycle of cards (5 linked cards, one in each colour) and you try to put them in power order best -> worst. Could be really funny to see from an outside perspective :)

I used to play a lot of Magic and I can say with confidence that he actually went pretty easy on you with regards to which cards and mechanics he picked to show you. I was hoping he'd pick the card in the thumbnail.

Honestly, I would have loved to see what Rarran thought of Oko, Thief of Crowns.

His evaluation of Llanowar Elves without knowing what summoning sickness is or the fact that you can only play a land per turn is not bad.

When you said Brainstorm is not Metabreaking you can see that PVDDR really holds off his laugh.

I gotta say, as a former hearthstone player and current MTG player, I have loved watching the evolution of your channel. You continue to surprise me with the amount of crossovers with other creators, and the overall quality of the videos you make are fantastic. Welcoming to those who don't play hearthstone but also fun for those enfranchised in the game. Keep up the great work man!

I think the most interesting thing with valuing magic cards is the fact that MTG is so ludicrously versatile. It’s hard to guess how good a card is in a vacuum due to the multitude of mechanics that you can both add and have on a card. I.e, trample, x-landwalk, unblockable, flying. That’s why I love magic so much, some cards have little value on their own but combined with specific cards they’re broken.

My favorite thing about MTG is even "bad" cards can be good if used with other cards, and there are SO many cards the possibilities are crazy. The most popular format, Commander aka EDH, is one of the best at taking "bad" cards and using them in new ways that make them good

On Traumatize I was like "wait, it's not bad, it's scary to receive one in the face", but after his explanation I remembered I play Commander, not Magic, and everything made sense

Honestly my favourite part about Magic is and will always be the flavor text. *"Wrath is no vice when inflicted upon the deserving."*

This is kinda crazy to see. Just so the Hearhstone players know, PVDDR is a living Magic legend. I love this video because some Hearthstone players need to see just how difficult and crazy MTG can be. Hearthstone wouldn’t exist and lots lots of games wouldn’t exist, especially in their current form without the godfather game Magic. So, it’s really cool to see it get a shout out.

..."From a Hearthstone perspective, Llanowar Elves is basically Ramp Druid." Traumatize is basically a one-sided Void Contract...and Void Contract was terribad.

Watched the previous video with PV because I play HS and Magic and loving this one too. When he does the opposite to you, I knew Elite Spellbinder was coming!! :D

I lost my mind at a local tournament. I got to final round, and drew my opening hand. It was thus: Two Forests Four Llanowar Elves Carnage Tyrant It took everything in me not to fully crack laughing. Turn 1: Forest, and Llanowar, pass T2: "I'm going to tap there green mana, and first, I am going to cast Llanowar Elves. Does it resolve? Great, then I cast Llanowar Elves. Does it resolve? Great, and finally I play Llanowar Elves. Does it resolve?" T3: "I cast Carnage Tyrant" Opp: "I'll counter-" "Carnage Tyrant can't be countered, and it's hexproof once it hits the board" Opp:.... *Scoop*

The cards that were chosen for this really do an amazing job of explaining how something can look amazing but be terrible in context. Loved the card list.

Paulo is such a great magic ambassador. Love him.

Speaking of the london mulligan, it's probably the greatest rules change ever to happen in magic. It went a long long way to making games more interactive. I remember in the bad old days you'd mulligan to 5 and the game was basically already over. Now-a-days you still have a shot at playing the game.

Okay what I like the most about this video is that PVDDR is like, actually a pro. A lot of the time, these sort of videos have some improper power assessment on the Magic side, and so I really appreciate that you've spent the time to ensure you got someone who could properly explain the power levels of the cards.

its good to remember that many magic cards are format dependant to be completly evaluated. Most of the standard jank can be considered pretty good in a format like commander for example.

Not once in all my years of Magic have I thought about milling half my own deck in the late game to lower the chance of unneeded land draws. New players are fun like that

New to the channel I clicked on the video not expecting too much, but your demeanor combined with the genuine analysis of these cards was a great watch. I've played both games and it was neat to see how you both exposed the parallels. Also, death's shadow was an impossible guess. That card's history is so long there is no exclusively true statement you can say about it. Yet your analysis was spot on, it's all about how early you can get into play - And what you can get from using all that life as an early resource.

If someone asked me what the tap symbol meant my explanation would be WAY worse than "it's an ability you can activate in lieu of attacking or blocking". Such a concise explanation and doesn't require anything else about combat or tapping to be explained, perfect for someone unfamiliar. That's insightful.

The second I saw Death's Shadow, I immediately thought "that's not fair..." That card was bad for so long & takes quite a bit of effort to make good, even though I can still remember people trying stuff with it since release. Coupled with the fact that you just taught him vanilla creatures with large stats aren't great, it was like the perfect mix of confusion 😂

This was very entertaining to watch from a Magic player's view. I can tell Rarran is a great card player and very smart. He has good intuition! Good video!

I absolutely LOVE when brotherman PVDDR from my hometown appears in your videos man!! Even never playing MTG I can just feel the pride listening to him. Keep up the good work, cheers!

Another thing about the Time Warp: The very first version of it said: "Target player loses next turn." which could be misinterpreted into: Your opponent has lost.

I really like the card choices, specifically Brainstorm because it shows how important synergy and efficiency is in the game because without shuffles BS is just that.

I'm so impressed - you absolutely nail some of these cards - Realising on first sight that Death's Shadow is only good if you can cheat it into play blew me away

This is my favorite one so far. Watching you attempt to piece together the rules for Magic, which is one of the most in depth modern tcgs was hilarious.

I've never heard of you, but really enjoyed this! Without knowing context, I think you did a pretty good job thinking out the cards.

Rarran, my boy, you have outdone yourself, i ve enjoyed your videos so much, every series brings something fun, informative and entertaining about this world of collectible card games!! as a former HS player and all time tcg game enjoyer i gotta say, congrats and thank u very much for all this amazing videos!!! PD. This series in particular is gotta be my fav... im currently and avid LoR player and have been playing MTG pretty much since im a little razcal so this crossovers are just :****** _chefs kiss_

This was one of the most fascinating Magic videos I've seen in a long, long time! You should really consider making some sort of repeat feature out of this, maybe with new set releases (rotating out the guests as they learn too much about Magic, of course) --- I was enthralled from start to finish :D

Loved the video! Looking forward for "try to guess" with yugioh cards! edit: i do remember that rarran have video with yugioh cards, but he was alone and that's no fun :)

These card guessing videos are so fun to watch

As a commander player, it is interesting to watch the opinion of a standard player. Because of how commander plays I would disagree with most of his conclusions on how good cards are.

Love seeing these types of videos, as a magic and yugioh player myself it really cool seeing people from outside looking in. Even though it would be to hard due to how complicated yugioh is id love to see some looks at those as well :P

Now that I’ve gotten into Legends of Runeterra (thanks to this series) I think I’d like to see more Runeterra videos since the last one was a while ago and a new update recently was released for LoR

These types of video tingle my autism just right. I love seeing people analyze cards based on game fundamentals, seeing how they translate from one game to another, without knowing anything about metas and how current context made a card better or worse. Been binging all the videos you made like these, and I like them both ways (you guessing and a guest guessing). I would be fine even with repeat games, I'd love to see you bring Grapplr back for him to pick LoR cards for you to guess, for instance.

There aren't a whole lot of more "intense" cards than Elite Spellbinder for an outsider looking in. There's a lot to misunderstand. For example, one might assume that the exiled card returns to target opponent's hand when Elite Spellbinder leaves play - not the case. Likewise, you might assume that your opponent can no longer cast the exiled card when Elite Spellbinder leaves play - also not the case. They remain exiled and playable regardless of what happens to Elite spellbinder. If Elite Spellbinder's effect is "enters the battlefield" rather than "when you play", meaning it triggers again whenever the card bounces in and out of play. However, you can't target the same cards again because despite the fact that your opponent can still play them, because those cards are exiled rather than in-hand. When evaluating its playability, most people overlook the "nonland" clause, which can often cause the ability to whiff entirely when your opponent has a hand full of lands or instant-speed spells they can get rid of before revealing their hand. The card has a LOT of interactions to unpack

Elite Spellbinder was a real heads up pick by PV. I love it.

I haven't played MTG at all but had a lot of fun with this video. New editing is looking Pog AF

PVDDR: explains the basics of lands (pun intended) This guy: “oh god” Me: you haven’t the slightest idea

I like this. Without any Magic knowledge, I would say you did really well in guessing the core ideas of the game. Magic is a big world. You might find fun in digging deeper in this kind of fun formats.

Incredible content my friend! I am a long time magic player who knows only the basics about hearthstone, so watching you try to guess the power level of a magic card is so much more interesting than the opposite scenario, but I watched both of your videos with PVDDR (an absolute legend by the way). They were so so fun! Definitely earned a sub, a like and a long comment, and I’m really hoping for more videos like this in the future!

Rarran just miss ONCE BRO As a player of both MTG and Hearthstone, this is the content that hits both sweet spots Keep up the fantastic work!

This was a fun as hell video and super entertaining and informative, I would love a series like this.

Great video. When I saw the *no spoilers* last card it instantly made me smile. PVDDR did a great job picking a variety of cards, and part of the fun when a new set comes out is analyzing cards and trying to find the best ones. Great video. Never played Hearthstone but if I ever do, I’ll come back to the channel. It’s clear the Hearthstone player knew what was going on.

This was intensely entertaining as a player of both games. Please do more like this!

19:00 "play it on 5 or earlier depending on how many lands you draw" It seems like you forgot to mention you can only play one land a turn (unless you ramp with other cards)

Love how Rarran missed that when contemplating a 5-mana spell called Time Warp that allows you to take an extra turn that he compares it to a card in Hearthstone that is a 5-cost spell that allows you to take an extra turn after this one called ....Time Warp :) As someone who plays both I understand quest mage is different as you have to complete the quest first but I always thought it was funny that the actual quest reward is essentially exactly the same as the Magic version.

Stumbled on this video and absolutely love it. Played hearthstone on and off for years but I’ve been a dedicated magic player for about 13 years. Would love to see more like this!!!

I had a blue/white "immortal" merfolk deck. It was based on a lorwyn merfolk tribal structure deck that I modified for my own purposes. The whole thing was based on tapping and untapping merfolk tribal, while benefiting from from tapping and untapping effects and triggers. Things the deck did: Iife gain, draw cards, tap or untap permanents, mill, protection, islandwalk/island land conversion, counter spell, attack trigger weaken/damage, power/toughness boost, token creation, "pesky" permanent removal, etc. Most, if not all of these effects were related to the number of merfolks I controlled and/or based on tapping or untapping them. Despite everything, the deck itself was extremely easy to use... probably too easy. Much of the mechanics were either automatic or isolated enough that complex strategies using it just flowed naturally from card to card. I even used this as a teaching deck for newbies to used because of how user friendly it was. I called it the "immortal" merfolk deck because if it was allowed to flow, it snowballed into a lifegaining, manipulating machine. Single removal was almost useless against it and area removal was easy to stop. Any attack could be stopped or allowed as the situation dictated due to life gain and battlefield control. Even if the battlefield was locked down, making it impossible to swarm the opponent, the deck's secondary win condition allowed me to mill my opponent to death within a few turns. One iffy part was whether I wanted to feature infinite turns as well, but the way to do it was a little clunky so I opted to not include it till I could find a better way of initiating it.... Man I miss playing that deck...

dude, you should definitely make a video rating gwent cards with misterhabbla1 that would be so sick to watch, that guy is literally a hidden gem of a player

I would watch 2 hours of you guessing magic cards

that Cho-Manno "you're right, it was bait" with Rarran's delayed reactions was hilarious

Half way in and I've gotta say I love every single card PVDDR decided to showcase. I would love to see more 'tricksy' cards. Hope to see Episode 2 of this.

Great guess on Cruel Ultimatum, Rarran -- that was pretty much perfectly reasoned. I thought you'd try comparing it to Ultimate Infestation and overrate it!

10:31 Raffan, my brother, it's a 1 mana draw 3

This channel has improved so much from vods with an intro to fully fleshed, proper videos. Impressive, and keep up the good work

Absolutely loving this series with PVDDR! I desperately hope this can be an ongoing thing!

7:47 have you ever heard of a lovely strategy called "mill" 10:34 brother, card advantage is one of the most important aspects in mtg. Cards like brainstorm, ponder, opt and recently consider and memory deluge are strong because they let us choose more options and answers to deal with our opponents. Ponder afaik is banned in some formats as well as brainstorm. I wonder what he would think of dream trawler or Koma, cosmos serpent.

The chad move is to hit him with the one with nothing bait Edit: lmao it worked

Love this video and the editing! Definitely need more guessing magic cards!

Its so cool you're getting PVDDR on your channel! Also like that you have managed to pull your channel back since the downfall of mercs :)

1:08 "So in Magic, if a card costs 11, you usually won't play it until turn 18 or 20." Hearthstone players: Wait, the game can last more than ten turns?

Rarran didn't do half bad for not having ever played the game.

This was super fun! We need a part 2

Totally didn't know elite spellbinder art was featured an actual person! That is amazing! I love these sort of videos. As a magic player and an old time Yu-Gi-Oh player I love seeing other people who play other card games rate MTG cards. Great job!

These types of videos are really fun, i've watched every one you've made and it doesn't get old. Good editing too! Hope you keep making these Rarran, have a great day!

8:01 “Oh wow, this is a really cool mechanic!” That’s what we all thought about milling. Then milling decks became a thing…

I loved the card picks by pv. Always interesting and fair. You also did a great job evaluating them

As an avid Magic fan, I love videos like this that expose different people to the game. Would love to see more of this.

I know they’re talking about competitive side of magic, but as a commander player there is a lot more places for these “weaker” cards

I've seen a few of these types of questions and it's always awesome. I'd love to see people try to figure out companions though. (In particular, Lutri, Lurrus, Yorion and Obosh.)

I want to see more of these with more nuanced card text! It’s interesting seeing someone walk through the game design and work out some of the general concepts that keep magic interesting!

Oh man, I'd love to see another episode of this! Also, it's funny, cause as a casual player who plays EDH, Traumatize looks REALLY good to me! It's so wild to hear that it isn't!

Man, poor Rarran. This card selection was brutal. Def hard to analyze for a non-magic player.

Yugioh would be impossible.

I really enjoyed this! Would be really down to see more of these

Loved this, hope you gave Magic a try. PVDR is pretty much a god, amazing to get an intro from someone like that!

Lol, milling isn't always a viable strategy in standard but getting rid of half someone's library is always super strong. Bad take on that card

I do have to say that the “usefulness” of a magic card is very different from format to format. I don’t play normals, and only play commander. Traumatise would be insane in commander

This was great, I could have watched this go on for hours!

Your enthusiasm when guessing right is infectious :) Would love to see you do Flesh and Blood at some point too as it is currently my favourite TCG

How is it possible for card game content creator to have never played mtg

Very interesting video, I’d love to see more of this. I’m going to sub, even if I don’t play HS, just in case you make another one of these :D

I was probably in the elementary school when my friend brought Magic cards to the school and gave a demonstration to the whole class. Probably Ice Age or Mirage. Years later played a couple of matches with him with Onslaught era cards I had bought, and even later collected some of the earlier era cards I had so loved as a kid: Teremko Griffin, Nether Shadow, Kjeldoran Dead, etc. and my all-time favorite: Craw Wurm.

This was the most fun of the series, since I actually got to guess too. I've never played magic before.

Sweet PV that was hilarious as always!!! Please do more! These are always interesting.

To put big stats in magic into perspective. I had once a 282/282 creature on field and it only allowed me to keep me and my opponent in a top deck Mexican stand-off until I draw something useful

enjoyed the longer video, also learned some from magic. Some friends of mine play and when i got into hearthstone i talked to them about it and they laughed that it was too easy, i can see their point now lmao

I was waiting for some wild vintage combo cards to totally throw him off haha. Brainstorm was a great addition, I feel like understanding why it's so powerful and learning to use it is a huge part of getting good at MTG.