What does your (real or hypothetical) custom-made MTG card do in a game? What's the flavor text?

*has played mtg for the past 11 years* *watches tutorial video anyway*

2:15 The single most common typer of card you'll see in magic. Land. *magic players laughing in the backgrownd followed by some sobs*

To clarify, when there is a gray cost on a card, ANY mana type will work, including ones that the card requires.

Real Zoey does not seem nearly as devious as her cartoon equivalent suggests. But perhaps that's the ruse...

But what does Pot of Greed do?

3:10 "James drops *a mountain* to the table" Man he's gotta be ripped if you can casually do that.

I've been playing this game for 14 years now. I still like watching good tutorials like this.

The worst thing to happen to you in Magic, is when you draw all lands and no permanents, and have to mulligan and only get permanents

This video gets a like for the wizard duel picture alone. That's my favorite scene from The Sword in the Stone!

The "James, you have an Extra Credits episode due in an hour" card is completely broken and unbalanced, game literally unplayable.

>"And you'll use mana to do everything in the game!" M A N A L E S S D R E D G E

Video about Magic TG Advertisement about Hearthstone. I LOVE KZfaq

"All work time is crunch time when you have a war hammer." -- Goblin Motivator

"you can do some tricky things the instants" *FLASHBACKS OF MONO BLUE*

My cat dori plays too. She loves field wipes lol

"We'll use mana to do everything in this game" *laughs in manaless dredge* JK, I play burn

The explanation of the generic mana cost you've given is incorrect. You can pay it with one mana of any type (any type being one mana of any color or collorless mana). So not just with other colors. You don't need one white and three mana of any color but white to cast The Stag. But one white and three mana of any type. Including white and collorless mana. Generic mana tends to be confusing for new players. Thus explaining it right from the beginning is important imo.

one note about explanation of mana cost at around 2:55. the 3 mana in the costing isn't "any other" color mana, it's just "any" color mana. those 3 mana, for instance, can be paid in white as well as any of the other colors in the game.

A Goblin Motivator anime would be something else.

Can I just say how much I love episodes which incorporate Zoie? These are just the best

My Dad is really good at magic, he did the disappear trick and he won’t show up.

Recently got into MTG, and I'm working on building my first deck, Blue/White. Of course I still suck, but I live and learn

need to correct you on something-- there are five phases in a turn: Beginning; Main; Combat; Main; Ending the Beginning Phase is composed of your untap, upkeep, and draw steps. the Combat Phase is composed of the beginning of combat step, declare attackers step, declare blockers step, combat damage step, and end of combat step. If a creature with first strike or double strike is attacking or blocking, an additional combat damage step is injected between the declare blockers and normal combat damage steps. the Ending Phase is composed of the end step and the cleanup step. The end step is the final point during which players are generally able to do anything in a turn. Meanwhile the cleanup step is when damage wears off, "until end of turn" effects end, and so on. Sorry to be so pedantic about it-- I'm a Magic Judge and tend to get a bit... precise. Often too much so for my own good.

Thank you for the Disney Sword in the Stone reference :)

"Drops a mountain on the table" Best out-of context quote ever

Just waiting for a couple episodes later when you try to describe the stack and priority without confusing everyone.

I've been playing for 17 years, but I'll still watch the whole tutorial serie. I so much wish I could have had such a good tuto when starting.

OUCH! Seriously at 2:55 VERY bad wording. 3 of any mana, not 3 of any OTHER mana. I can cast it with WWWW thank you.

We finally get to see the illustrious Zoey!

1:07 Or literally, if you're in an anime

I love your humor! I have such laughs when watching your episodes.

the skip add comment made me spit all over my keyboard. luckily, i got a washable one but still, not nice! :D

Im so happy you guys are covering this! I hope you guys -after covering the basics- cover other formats so people know the other options if they get into paper magic!

I literally just started playing this game last month. So, happy these started showing up.

I like it, looking forward to the rest of the series!

I always found the Magic cards beautiful and interesting. But I could never wrap my head around the game. About as complex as I could get was Yu-Gi-Oh. But you're doing great! I understand more about the game now with your videos than I ever did when friends would explain. Thanks Extra!

Uncanny. Just got back into Magic after two years break. Today, first time teaching my mate the basics, then out of nowhere Extra Credits does a Magic video. Been watching Extra Credits for many years, you're probably my favourite KZfaq channel. The timing of this all is a bit of a WTF moment. Keep rocking it guys. Much love to your entire crew. Ethan from New Zealand. :D

I've been playing from 2001 onward and I love that you folks at extra credits made videos about this great game. I would say it's easy to learn how to play and takes years to become great at it in a similar light, compareable to chess

Suggested MtG topics: 1. What key game elements enabled MtG to survive for more than two decades unlike other collectible card games? 2. Why are the prices of Alpha, Beta, etc. cards keep going up these past two decades despite being rotated out of tournament play for a looong time?

Gotta say James, two mountains and only one creature on the field? That's not a very well-balanced Goblin deck. /s

MTG Community: Black Lotus is the most powerful card to ever be created. Zoey: Meow* *Hold my cream!

for years I have heard people talk about "tapping" things, and now I finally know what it means. thank you extra credits ;)

"That whole combo undone by a single car-... I can't talk, I play red/blue" ~Magnus the Red, to Tzeentch, during a game of Paradox-Billiards-Vostroyan-Roulette-Fourth-Dimensional-Hypercube-Chess-Strip-Poker... Also known as "a children's card game" or more simply "Yugioh"

I watched this episode when it first came out, before hand i didnt care about magic the gathering. Thanks to these episodes that have introduced me to the game i now regularly play on mtg arena and have made friends because of it and i have a couple planeswalker decks irl and go to tournaments! Thanks for the introduction extra credits!

It's awesome to see Magic making a come back lately! I played MANY years ago back in high school (more years then I care to admit) and while I don't think I can get back in to the card collecting part, I really want to pick up a video game version of it now.

Loved it and keep this series going also my favorite card is Kraul harpooner

thanks for the series guys i have been playing Yu-Gi-Oh & Pokémon for years & always want to get into Magic, but was never able to, because it sounded so confusing

I just love how they explain things.I hope they make a programming tutorial in the future.

I love this channel it’s helped me learn so much

20+ years playing Magic and EC finally makes Summoning Sickness make sense to me, with a giant magic hand tossing the creature around

Holy heck but cartoon Zoey does *not* do justice to how cute the real deal is. Such an affectionate beast.

9:50 zoey is so adorable

The correct answer to what color is blue. And then maybe something else.

Thank you. My son has been wondering how to play and we looked at the video and learned

Hoe to learn magic: 1.Save all your skill points and use 10 just for level 2 one-handed. 2.Join the Old Camp and the magicians. 3.Learn the 3 circles of fire avalible, buy all of the mana potions and steal all of Gomez's shit for money. 4.Buy fire storm and upgraded mana until 100(don't use permanent mana potions) 5.Kill the Sleeper.

Thank you so much for teaching me this amazing game and having me become a more social person

Interesting to learn even if I'll probably never play, but I can appreciate all the good jokes.

Never been so bored in an extra credit video

For anyone wondering about the upkeep step, you usually do not need to do anything unless a card says to do so, usually with the phrase "at the begining [PERSON'S] upkeep......"

If I may nitpick, the listed phases aren't quite right (although, it doesn't really matter, especially for a beginner). Actually, those are a mix of steps and phases (the turn is structured in phases which may then be subdivided in multiple steps). There are actually 5 phases (and 3 of those only serve to be group some of the 10 steps): beginning phase . untap step . upkeep step . draw step (precombat or first) main phase combat phase . beginning of combat step . declare attackers step . declare blockers step . combat damage step . end of combat step (postcombat or second) main phase ending phase . end step . cleanup step Some of those steps (upkeep, beginning of combat, end of combat, end step) are mostly there as milestones if you will (for instance, if a card wants to do something just before combat, it'll typically do it in the beginning of combat step: that step is mostly there to provide a convenient moment for those cards to trigger). The untap, draw, combat damage and cleanup steps are steps where the game automatically does something (respectively, you untap, you draw, you assign damage to creatures, and you discard to 7 cards plus end all "until end of turn" effects). Technically, the game also "automatically does something" during the declare attackers and declare blockers step (i.e. ask you whether you want to attack or block). The main phase is just there for you to play your cards (usually your lands and creatures with the occasional enchantment/artifact/planeswalker). It's also worth mentioning that in all those steps and main phases (except untap, and usually cleanup) you'll be able to play instants and activate abilities but we're not there yet... but hopefully soon as it's a big part of MtG's wealth (it's tied to a mechanic called priority that is usually glossed over as the details aren't important to play, the bottom line is that each player will successively acquire priority in both main phases and each of those steps set aside untap and cleanup and you need to have priority to take action: those are like mini-turns inside the turn). And that's it. That's all there is to it to the turn structure. In fact, I talked about quite a lot of details you probably wouldn't need to play.

I have no plans to play magic, but this was recommended to me and sometimes you just don't question the KZfaq gods.

That was cute, and fun to watch! I'll be keen to watch the rest soon. Zoe is an adorable little planeswalker!

This vid is so wholesome it hurts

When I was big into magic in middle school, I had a flying/burn deck. It was awesome! It never played the same way twice. Sometimes I would fly over my enemy. Sometimes I would burn so much damage to my opponent that would win the duke for me.

This series was one the reasons I started playing MTG Arena.

very nice I might show this to a few friends to get them interested and dust off a few decks in the process man I miss playing magic!

Pretty good video. But one thing... when talking about mana costs, you said a white and three of any OTHER color. That isn’t true and you know this, I’m sure. This could confuse newer players. The generic mana costs can be of any color, not just any other color.

I never played nor heard of this game. But ohhhhh boy ! You got me hooked by simply explaining the rules.

Haven't played MtG since last century, I must have my cards somewhere, might look for them after this episode :) Was the second main phase always there or was it added at some later point?

"the single most common card type you'll see in magic....." Me: COUNTERSPELL!

This episode had much cat cuteness involved. You have exceeded your cute quota by 500%. Congratulations. -_I'll Be Lurking, Friend._

I appreciate this series.

I kid you not, I ACTIVELY SNORTED with laughter when I saw the Sword in the Stone reference.

One of the weird things about MTG that new players often fail to understand is why you wait until Main phase 2 to summon or drop other none-land permanents that don't effect the outcome of the turn's combat phase. I'm glad this video gives at least a nod towards the psychological aspect of the game, which a good player can take full advantage of. I recently played a pick-up game of EDH at the new location of my local store and by intentionally playing badly for the first three rounds I convinced the other players at the table I wasn't much of a threat, well I waited for one of them to pull off a big play. Which happened to be a Narset + Puzzle-box combo lockdown. And well everyone went insane trying to deal with that player I set up my own combo and took the game in one turn using a Yukiro + Draw engine combo into Karn's Temporal Sundering to deal 43 damage to the table and win the match in a single play. I did this not to be a jerk, but because I knew that my deck would become an obvious threat if I played it at its best from turn one. Thus making me the target of three experienced players, so instead I just let the format do what it does best and let them ignore me until the right moment. Stuff like this is how Arena cannot really give you the full experience that is MTG.

But... I've never seen a Land before... *This post made by the Dredge gang*

Zoe should have her own Magic card... here’s some ideas for her ability “instant death to opponent because of cuteness overload” or “revive one ally by purring at them” or “instantly stop all attacking characters in their tracks because they cannot attack you with cuteness overload engaged”

Magic explained by a cat? 10/10 best video of the year

I've never played or watch someone play Magic before and ngl I'm partially a bit lost. While the video managed to explain the basic concepts well, the video went technically really fast and I sort of lost track. For example I still don't get why Zoe didn't play Pegasus on 6:16? How does playing later affect Mana?

Oh! Btw! If by chance you're not familiar with MtG and are interested in playing, there a couple ways to do so (assuming you don't already have friends who play): - Magic the Gathering Arena: F2P, user-friendly, but little to no player interaction (which can be good or bad depending of what you're looking for) and only the most recent cards - Cockatrice(/Xmage/...): those are unofficial online simulators, they're free although not super convenient as they don't handle the rules for you, but arguably the best way to play unusual formats and/or try cards you don't have (or the best format, i.e. EDH) ...set aside good old paper magic of course. You'll need to talk to other players (to find games and play them). - Magic the Gathering Online: basically, the hardcore version of MtGA (not F2P, but with all the cards and more ways to play basically) - Prereleases: those are events that occur whenever a new set comes out, they are very new player friendly and quite convivial (they do cost about 20~25$/€ though, as you'll buy cards to play for the event), unfortunately the next one is in 2 months (throne of eldraine, september 28-29)

I never learned how to play to Magic the Gathering as kid and I have always thought that I was too old to learn how to play. Maybe these videos might make me go out a finally pick up a pack of cards and see what I'm missing. Over the past few years I've played some virtual collector card games on and off to dip my toes into that world. (The one I played the most was Decromancer and I only got into because it was on one of the "James Recommends" videos.)

Rule 500.1. A turn consists of five phases, in this order: beginning, precombat main, combat, postcombat main, and ending. Each of these phases takes place every turn, even if nothing happens during the phase. The beginning, combat, and ending phases are further broken down into steps, which proceed in order.

Lol, a friend of mine JUST taught me how to play. Perfect timing

I just love how I went from reviewing the Cuban missile crisis to learning how to play magic without changing the channel

thank you for the awesome content

Two game-related videos in one week? Nice!

I enjoyed this explanation, This will probably be the video I use to assist in my explanations on how to play this game! I personally don't think people should consider themselves a specific color/s player just because playing the color wheel let's you learn more about the game and teaches you that every color is weak to something.

I decided to have a comeback to Magic after 10 long year of hiatus after seeing this.

My brain kept adding asterisks to EVERY SENTENCE. I swear, no rules are safe. Creature damage? Fog bank! Sorcery speed? Quicken! The phases? Fatespinner! Blinding Angel!! Paradox Haze!!! Anywho, that's why I'm glad you're explaining this so I dont have to.

This brings me back. Too bad my favorite deck isn't legal anymore.

The James has an episode due in an hour card reminds me of a card I use to have, Wrath of Mom (Whoever plays this card instantly has their health go to 0 and must pack up and leave the game store.)

This is actually a really great guide.

Hey Guys, is the Planeswalker at 1:39 a hidden Spoiler forthe next Commander Set?

What would it take to get a gif of 0:47 to become my new desktop?

_Instructions unclear_ ended up playing the pokemon tcg instead

.... if a 2/2 attacks and i block with a 1/1 ... Do i take the excess 1 damage? (YGO player here)

I wish you talked about this 3 years ago! Once you get the super basics down you should make a video about determining the Beat Down. It's a super relevant concept in nearly every competitive game.

An Island! :D Oh Zoey and NotDan, you get me everytime. :D

Currently rocking mono red myself although I do have thematic inclinations for black

Used to play it with my big brother. Always beat me with his freaking green deck.