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40:15 - With regards to budget decks. 10 years ago, paying for a $100 budget deck would require you working 13.8 hours at the US federal minimum wage (not counting things like tipped workers), assuming you got to keep 100% of the wage. Today, paying for a $100 budget deck would require you working 13.8 hours at the US federal minimum wage, assuming you got to keep 100% of the wage. It is still stuck at $7.25, and that is the minimum wage in 23 US states (20 states it's $7.25, in 3 it's $7.25 for small businesses). If a budget deck needs to increase to $150, for it to cost the same amount of work to earn, you'd need a minimum wage of $10.86. 25 states are below that. Inflation does a double whammy when wages do not follow suit, and the federal minimum wage hasn't changed since 2009 - 15 years ago.

ngl every spoiler season I always go “damn this means Seth is gonna spend time on that during streams instead of gameplay” Which is hardly your fault or anything but still

WOTC Streams have the excitement level of staring at the ceiling fan. And it's not even turned on

Is Richard correct on his philosophy on Commander? Yes. BUT the thing is that there are many philosophies that are correct in Commander, because of the social nature of the format.

I really wish that the AC set was released at a better time. Like idk in the middle of winter when there is not much released usually. Also if it was coming to Arena, then people would be WAY more excited to play these cards

54:00 Assassin's Creed games are amazing. The free running makes my dreams all parkour and I love it. The story is awesome and seeing historic cities and lifestyles makes the games super immersive

I think it makes sense to increase the budget magic budget a bit to reflect the times. Probs get you more into a middle ground where you get to use some more whickity whack centerpiece cards

Not bringing universes beyond to arena is entirely a copyright issue. In order to make physical cards they need to do a one-time payment for the copyright. In order to keep digital cards available on arena they need to continually keep paying for the copyright indefinitely.

2:58:49 It has Anthem 2 for knights, and it's half of Brutal Cathar. Not bad.

Is playing phlage better than having lurrus in the companion? Phlage seems good but also hitting it off a 2 energy raptor really hurts, and also lurrus has won me many, MANY games… hmmm

I still stand by that you should swap 1 or 2 Fables for Winota in this deck. Especially with the Harsh Mentors in the sideboard.

I think the highest you could do is 150 to 200 for a budget modern deck cause everything is so expensive now that it makes sense to up the budget limit

I mean, if you wanted to raise the price, might as well go to 1/4 like you originally did. 250 would give some hella viable decks.

Assassin's Creed has sold a lot, but I don't think that makes it popular. It's just there... consistently, and it's decent, so people buy it. I know fans of LotR, I know fans of Dr. Who, I know fans of WH40k, but I don't know anyone who is actually a fan of AC.

14:54 Listen to Saffron Olive ignore everything they have ever said a out format being degenerate. This is how Brainstorm never gets banned from legacy.

Is it me or does Ajani sound like Brian Cox?

Honestly, if Karl Marx became a playable mtg card that would be awesome from how ironic it would be

is the ruby storm video taken down?? it's disappeared

The reprints and so many printings of cards drive the value down

Does anyone know how to search "energy" cards on MTGA?

For budget magic: 25% of the cost of the average deck :)

Hype level 0 for Assassin’s Creed. Don’t care about the franchise, nor does it fit the aesthetic very much. No one I’ve talked to cares either, and I would say I play with ~15 people on at least a semi-regular basis.

The reason for the product saturation has three letters.

55:24 - It'd be nice to see a government crackdown on this type of currency. The ONLY reason that games developers have them is to obfuscate the actual cost, and it's always a one-way thing. Oh, this thing is 300 [currency]? Well, you can't buy 300 - you have to buy something like 299 or 599, so you're always going to overbuy and you can't get a refund on unspent currency. And then you need 5,000 of [currency] to buy 50 of [other currency], and you can get 5 [third currency] when you've spent X hours in game, but to use [third currency] you have to spend Y [other currency].