hey where did the comment thread go about the union-thing with Hello Fresh? so I looked into it a bit: first I was suprised to read that HF is a german firm - did not know that; thought it was from the states. that explains why I as an austrian saw it rising more and more in the last years. on Wikipedia one (sadly) can read that it is true that in the states HF was / is? working AGAINST a union forming ): very disappointing imo. why would a german company do that in the states? oh yes, capitalism. I'll keep an eye on that - actually want(ed) to join HF for a while now.

ah found it; it just droped very far down suddenly.

Thanks for doing these videos! Ive been wanting to rejoin the community after 16 years and your videos have been super helpful

I got a message saying I won something but then the reply was gone, was that a scammer or did I not reply fast enough???

@@dominickdavila1836 Im gonna put money that it was a scam. Same scam thats going on in pretty much every youtube video. They want you to use telegram so they can exploit you and ruin your life one way or another. Most youtubers dont do these kinds of giveaways in the comments, and most youtubers say something in the actual video if they are raffling something off. Be safe

I’m starting a merfolk deck mostly from the Prof’s subliminal messaging about them 😂

People are down on these products but they are a good power level for treating it as a board game to play with people who don’t really play magic. The rules and interactions can be a lot for new players.

No, the problem is that there aren't enough ENTRY products.

@@WardenOfTerra no, there’s just too much new stuff period. 😂

yes

me watching this 8 months later. cause i never once seen or heard anything of it even at my lgs...

lol what? That’s happens with any product. Unless you obsess there’s always something that people discover was a thing. Whether that’s marketing or not. People want to find a reason to blame for blame. I learned there was a video game out there this year that I knew nothing of. Let me just blame too many games coming out. lol see how that sounds.

I don't keep up with standard anymore. I still crack packs but I'm not building a standard deck. I'm building for pioneer and commander.

@@ytsejam58 I started playing 10 years ago (which is weird to say) and that’s been the observed trend I’ve seen with basically everyone. Standard is fine at first, but after the first couple of rotations people generally want out.

@@ERGOPROXY. yeah, that's why I stopped playing standard. The rotation sucks. Build a deck you love, get to play it for a year, then have to dumpster it because it's rotated out and it's too weak to play in pioneer or modern. Felt like a waste of effort to me

@@ERGOPROXY. i started june 10th, 1997. to see the ups, downs and overall evolution of the game has been... a trip.

@@breeze7464 I play my own adaptation just because keeping up with the latest meta gets expensive and tiresome when competing against more practiced players, we use our own Kitchen Table Rules which are broadly based on the vintage/legacy/free form play formats. 40-120 deck size 20 life. No more than 4 of any one card. No limit on sets. No singles, cards only playable if bought from boosters/starter decks. (Hard to police, but its more a honesty thing) Oh and banding and mana burn are also a thing and sorcery cards play like they used to. For me and my mates part of the fun is playing the weird and wonderful combinations you end up coming up with when building decks from only those cards you acquire through boosters/starters rather than min-maxing using singles. We've been playing from around the Ice age era and since before that so it's just fun to play our own thing.

Wassup mtg!

What’s the best beginner friendly product? Looking to get in to this with my son

@@ProdigiousReturnstarter deck packs

@@ProdigiousReturn Even old duel decks are great ways to learn. I still use them to this day.

It has a great breakdown of the rules, and It's actually got really good explanations for a lot of the mechanics and things like trample, flying, and life-leach.

Best Magic rulebook in existence

Any creators who look out for consumers and the community first need to be supported!! The Prof and team are awesome!!

Duel decks rocked

I was thinking about a box like that where you have a pool of cards to build decks from for up to 5 players last night and today I see they made this product. It's at least a step in the right direction for me.

Definitely check online during american black friday, and Christmas time. It might go on sale depending on how the print run is

I'm so glad!

Unstable Unicorns has been secret tech in getting two people back into magic and 1 completely new player 😈🦄

It’s ok, you can shell out even more money now for proxies. I hear the packs are going 4 for 999.00.

@@russellharrell2747 They don't have the square text box even in retro frame which I find hilarious

Just wait for the eventual price drop

Same reason I passed on it, it's another odd product from wotc.

honestly just buy 1, sell the cards and buy another, you still profit roughly 50 dollars doing it that way. Granted the cards might have value but since they are in a "guaranteed" obtain box. Their value will likely plummet

Yeah only $33 now on Amazon..... Good buy now!!!

@@LetsTubetalk not worth it. Maybe at a dub.

Unfortunately the word is that a return to plane chase in unlikely. I’m in the minority that would prefer “board game versions” of MTG to just have different backs so that they could go crazy with the cards without effecting the resale price or real formats. If they want to put in 5 “real” cards to incentivize that’s fine, that’s all the cards people were going to take out anyways

oh God, I can't imagine playing EDH as your first game of Magic ever. What about those free welcome packs with two 30-card decks and no really weird mechanics, would that be better for teaching people the extreme basics?

@@savedr oh in all honesty I didn't know those were a thing! Edh was my first experience with Magic too, so naively I thought it would be good to introduce others that way hahaha. My first experience was very good for the sole reason I was the only inexperienced player and I feel like the way Magic works and the way I understand games meshed very well.

@@savedr didn't they discontinue the free intro decks?

@@Frostgiantbutsmall oh, freaking probably. I've got at least one from a few years ago, I haven't tried to get one this year. They should absolutely bring them back, there's no valuable cards in them anyway and they're great for onboarding I would think.

Connect the lines man, _there's something there, _*_I just know it!_*

Even worse

The kind of people who would be mad wouldn't know the difference.

Lessons from Rodney

Dominion was the first game, where you construct your Deck as you play and it does it really well. I played a ton of rounds of this game. You may be tempted to get any of the many many expansions but maybe check out a couple other games, that use deck building as a mechanic, but also have more things going on. Aeon's End is a cooperative deck builder, which some people might enjoy. You're trying to take down enemies together. This one's pretty popular and has a bunch of expansions as well. Clank! and Clank! in Space! (amongst others) is another very fun and not too difficult deckbuilder, where you're trying to get to some treasure and the deck you're building helps you with sneaking around the dragon cave or space base. Because the "built your deck as you go"-mechanic has proven so popular, there are a ton of games by now that include it as ONE of their mechanics and there are already a lot of games, that would be considered "modern classics". E.g. Great Western Trail, Dune, Ruins of Arnak but here I must warn you that the snappy feeling of Dominion is lost in exchange for very thoughtful strategizing. And in some games the mechanic gets a bit lost in the shuffle, so to speak. Great Western Trail is one of the best games ever designed but despite having a deckbuilder mechanic it's really about buying a cow-card every now and then and getting rid of low value cows It's all just cows with numbers and colors on them. Then you have games like Ruins of Arnak or Dune where the cards you can get are very distinct with differing costs and occasionally splashy effects but over the course of a single game you shuffle your deck only a couple times (even as little as only twice) and some cards you buy towards the end you might only see once. So IF you really love deckbuilders and want to explore more of them, be sure to find out, which games are leaning more towards "pure deckbuilding" and which games are merely leaning on it as one of it's mechanics so you can manage your expectations. If you want try something very similar to Dominion but with more fantasy or scifi, absolutely give Star Realms (sci-fi) and Ascension (fantasy) a try. Both of these games are available as apps for cheap.

@@paulszki Wasn't Dune an evil 6-players game of fuckery?

@@malakimphoros2164 Ah, yes. Many different games in the Dune Universe now. I meant to say "Dune: Imperium" the one you're thinking of is the game from 1979 (got a "remaster" in 2019) and it's apparently still a pretty good game but that one is also very long game with a lot of rules and you meed minimum 5 players it seems. Dune: Imperium is not exactly an easy game but rules aren't all THAT difficult (especially if you come from magic), it's not as long, plays best with 3 or 4 players and it's a more modern design and it's one of the best reviewed board games of the last couple years.

Dominion (just the base game, by itself) is a pretty introductory product. A lot of the older cards would be considered fillers/skill testers now. With expansions, especially the newer ones starting with Adventures and Empires, it becomes more mechanically rich, has more interactions and a bigger decision space. In this regard it's very similar to a certain CCG we know.

I'm just getting into this as well, with no ccg experience, I think I'm gonna get this and build commanders out of it and some singles from tcgplayer