I was all set to give him a hard time, too :D

I immediately read it in Matts voice haha

Funny enough if you consider Canadian French and French French two different languages (because I believe they are different dialects) then non Canadian French is a foreign language

@@jacobslutsky9502 Just like Brazillian Portuguese / European Portuguese or Latam Spanish / European Spanish. I think it count as foreign even tho it's similar.

@@jacobslutsky9502 Would you consider British English and American English two different languages? Because that's basically the equivalent of Canadian vs European French. Different accent, different idiom, but someone from Montreal and someone from Paris can understand each other as well as someone from NYC can understand someone from London.

In serbian it's blind mouse

In german it's "flutter mouse"

in estonian it's leather mouse

In English its bat

I like the word(s) for raccoon. Raton laveur which literallly translates to "a little rat who washes".

Those words are very similar

Oui.

I was literally today years old when I learned that double strike in French is "Double initiative", which looks silly to my non-bilingual eyes.

@@brendaneichler5244 it looks silly to my bilingual eyes. First Strike is Initiative because the creature attacks first and thus takes the initiative, but it's still weird to see "Double initiative".

@@brendaneichler5244 double initiative doesn't really work in French either, don't worry. Initiative is more of a act first thing, hence first strike having been translated that way. But you can't double an initiative and there's no mention of a strike, so it's weird.

The chauve part comes from an old word for owl.

Not really though, because they only put it on a few completely garbage creatures. I loved the idea of it back then, but it was always kitchen table jank until Scars of Mirrodin (excepting maybe Virulent Sliver which appeared as the kill in the short-lived Vintage Flash decks and played a big part in winning the 2HG Pro Tour during Time Spiral block).

It was kind of the tipping point.

White border was weird, I think this was the point where they realized that

@@Arrowatch I don't see how this product from 1995 could possibly be considered any kind of "tipping point" since they continued printing Core sets in white border until 2009. That's some extremely gradual tipping.

​@Arrowatch probably not the border itself but the policy of not printing anything in white border without it being in black border first

Easier to cheat with too, I'm sure. Sylvan Library is very precise on how you should resolve it.

Wow you run a whole library by yourself? That sounds like a lot of work! But seriously that's awesome- bet that was a nice find/buy!

@@LtSMASH324 just look er up on gatherer. reading a card from 1995 isnt always going to be clear on the resolution either

It was really funny, but I felt a little bad for him

@@andrewdestefano4143 Same, but I still laughed.

That's an interesting way of spelling Graham and I'm all for it. All hail the new Graeme

@@jamesmccaffrey9042 ty for correction

Such Vasculosity

This! I was wondering if it'd come up that Italian was the first foreign language the game expanded into or not!

how about reminderful flavor text instead? like on Duh?

Almost anything with Convoke or Improvise has flavorful reminder text. Most of them (outside of the original Ravnica) start off with saying, "Your creatures/artifacts can help you cast spells." That's not actually needed at all. Like, this Platinum Angel is giving me the leg up I need to cast, Spirit Bomb style, I guess?

@@artemi7 Correction: I wish they kept going with _good_ flavorful reminder text.

@@FanOfMostEverything i dunno, I think it's pretty cute to tell you that your cards are helping you out like that. It's very fourth wall breaking.

The culturally-appropriate flavor text switch was not expected but is pretty cool!

I mean he is Canadian

@@NStripleseven I'm Canadian and my experience is that everybody here speaks French really well or not at all

@@undergroundmonorail yeah I'm Canadian too, and very few people I know can speak French even a little bit. Hazards of living in the prairies I guess lol

We have to learn French in school I’m just terribly out of practice.

He said Sœurs de la flamme.

Or fiancé vs fiancée

Mostly it's just accent. The biggest difference is Canadians use other English loan words than the French. Their swears are also more religion oriented.

It's like Brazilian and Portugal Portugese. Or British and American English. Different accent, different idioms, different cultural touchstone, but same language.

@@ankhi3585 Actually, European French uses ton of English loan words. They just don't use the same one. European French use "shopping", "email" and "week-end", for example, which are not used in Canada. In Canada, by contrast, terms like "plug," "chum" "parking" and "toasts" are common, but unheard of in Europe.

@@alexandredesbiens-brassard9109 Isn't that what I said?

Towards the beginning of the video it was mentioned that the pack could be "6-8 commons and 2 uncommons" - I assume this means the packs are either 8 commons /or/ 2 uncommons + 6 commons and not a case of packs being between 8 and 10 cards randomly. :p

I don't think so, but it kinda gets weirder. Note: I have not confirmed this, this is working from memory of things I've heard, mixed with me sort of making best guess. Proper magic historians, please feel free to correct my absolute guess. Iirc, legends itself WAS printed in Italian. That would be where your pendelhaven likely was from. However, they mentioned the Italian ones were half the set size, at only about 60. Which makes me think because they got legends cards printed already, they didn't need legends reprints like Germany or France. Anyone can hop in to correct me like I said. I would look into it, but I'm typing this on my lunch break, so don't have much time.

@@krvys7226 That's exactly what happened. Italian Legends was the first non-English expansion ever produced, which is why the Italian Renaissance only needed the cards from Arabian Nights and The Dark. Consequently, you were much more likely to pull, for example, City of Brass from an Italian Renaissance booster than from a French or German one, which is why that is less expensive now. As for why the Italian Tabernacle, etc., are cheaper, that's simply because M:tG wasn't nearly as popular in Europe in the early years as it was in the US, and so those cards sat on shelves longer. It was overproduced for its market.

@@krvys7226 90s MTG was wild af. I'm glad nowadays releases are all consistent and clearly communicated with the community

@@littlemisspipebomb4723 90s magic was a lawless wasteland xD

@@TheGosgosh Lawless Wasteland: Cumulative upkeep: (1) T: Add (3) to your mana pool. When Lawless Wasteland is put into the graveyard from play, it deals 3 damage to you.

Right there with you, fellow Canadian francophone. The French translation of Magic cards are not very good. Hence why even in high school, when none of us really spoke English that much, we played with English cards. Sure we misplayed things a bit, but so what.