(DISCLAIMER: Both vids are staged. They are acting and playing characters. They aren't so angry in real life) Subscribe or you'll get paired up against Francis!

Second clip is actually a Training for judges, the guy on the left is a pro judge and it was a video to demonstrate to new judges how to handle situations and the comportment judges should have.

Fun to see this video pop up again. For any curious, my role in the training thing was "Tournament Grinder who is sure the opponent is cheating" or something similar iirc. A lot of fun to act these scenarios out (probably my favorite part of judge conferences), and this one was definitely based (roughly) on some actual interactions I've had at comp REL with players in my years judging.

Honestly, Francis had every right to be angry

My play group and I ritualistically screech "that's 14 out of 17 lands" when we are getting mana flooded

When I was a kid playing mtg, I once gave my opponent a "mercy turn" where you don't kill your opponent so they don't feel bad about losing. This was a horrible mistake as I lost the game, as he taught me never to do that, and I lost a booster box at that tournament because of that. That was the day I learned, show no mercy in mtg!

The Francis interaction is just a skit making fun of people freaking out playing magic.

I know it was scripted af but the “So I win right” got me weak 😂

at our shop, the dude raising hell about pile shuffling and arguing with a judge would've been thrown out as soon as he gave the judge attitude. disagreeing is fine, but disrespecting a judge like that is an ejection.

First clip: Probably one the first skit video of Boogie, way before he gained his fame Second clip: Its a judge training video, both players are actually judge who must fake being players that argue about rules.

To this day the Francis video is still one of my favourites of all time.

As a wannabe judge - I want to say, behaviour of the judge in the second part is awesome. To prevent aggression and kindly and calmly explain and incorporate the ruling - not the easiest things to learn and to do.

I feel for Francis. There was absolutely NO REASON why opponent had to do this.

Wasn't the Francis bit staged and not a real rage?

The second Clip is a old Judge Training Video for handling difficult Situations and present Rulings to Players without creating Anger or confusing.

I know its all staged, but how a random pile of cards suddenly becomes non-random when its put into piles is the most devoid of logic thing ever.

I think the second judge did a good job. But I think he should have started with “you are partly correct” because A) a pile shuffle can’t be your LAST shuffle before presenting and B) presenting always means that you have an opportunity to shuffle your opponent’s deck.

The 2nd clip is absolutely on-point. As a former L1, I empathize TOTALLY with head judge of the event and his professionalism and restraint.

The fake boogie MTG rage was honestly a mood. That feeling of being over taken by your opponent cause you spent your hand and you cant summon anything is just. Ouch.

Everyone needs that calmness and patience from that judge.

When i first picked up magic i laughed at francis. 10 years of magic later and i feel for him

4:55 How does pile shuffling a randomized deck remove the randomness? Unless you know which cards are which by marked sleeves, or you saw the card's front face, etc. the cards are still randomized, and the opponent can still shuffle and/or cut the deck which still makes it randomized.

Never really paid attention to Francis's opponent until this video. He does looked oddly familiar. A splash of fashionable grey on the hair, sharp nose, fair skin... definitely looks like someone who would make funny and witty MTG contents on KZfaq.

In all fairness, the first video with Francis, the opponent is not being very hero like. That's very cringe not letting your opponent scoop and with no cards in their hands and no activated abilities to prevent lethal. Also the fact that the "hero" had an x spell in hand for several turns and not killed their opponents is disrespectful.

thank you for showing the whole story of each rage quit. I look forward to more of these insightful videos.

I knew a guy who never quit a game, but he punched himself for every mistake that he made while playing and he punched himself even harder for any succesfull play his opponents made. And I can assure you, he punched himself really really hard, I cannot recall any judge that dared to confront him for that

"They aren't so angry in real life" I mean Boogie fired a loaded gun into the air in a school zone.... Boogie might be more Francis than people give him credit for.

that second guy is an incredible actor if that isn't real, wow

Gotta love the head judge on the second clip. Love his attitude throughout the encounter

All I'm saying, is staged or not, I'd have probably lost my shit too if another player was just screwing with me like in the first clip. Like, if you have the win-con, hit it so that we can shuffle up again or get to our next match. The sad part is that there really are players who will string a game along just so that they can have the biggest swing possible to end it all rather than just end the game as early as possible.

When a game just makes you angry or sad, maybe its time to take a break and ask you the question, if this game is still worth to be played. I think when a game lets you struggle emotionally in that way, you have to change yourself and your life.

Big respect to this judge how calmy and smoothly he handles the situation, also that plot twist where we get to know one of the players is lvl2 judge. Really nice video, love those.

The audacity of the guy. Excellent composure from the head judge! And yeah dude was slow rolling and trolling the poor guy just wanting to scoop. Guy just trying to avoid a heart attack! lol

After years of my best friend trying to get me to play Magic I finally learned after watching the Francis video in 2012. The video was so hilarious and I had to know wtf was going on in that game.

You literally found a gem of a video with Francis 🤣 thanks for the memories lolz

Francis is a youtubers skit character his name is boogie2988

Was really relieved to see the second clip was staged. I feel like those types of players becoming the majority of who I meet at FNMs got me to stop playing.

The Francis game brings back memories about the "good old drunken holiday FNM-s"

The guy on the left of the second clip “Well technically I’m a level 3 judge and I say that what you two judges say is wrong.”

Most out standing Judge I’ve ever seen handle a cocky player with attitude. If a judge acts like that don’t mess with them.

PLEASE do another one of these! This was one of the most entertaining MTG videos I've seen in my 8 years of playing!

*shows him the rulebook* - "that's a fake rulebook" - pretend rules lawyer xD

If a judge touched my arm that many times, he wouldn't be a judge anymore

I had a friend that used to try to make me finish unwinnable games... I know how realistically frustrating this can be... but its hilarious to watch.

Can you count Francis? aren't they all staged

Francis skit is kind of like when you are getting roped by some salty person in Arena, even though they can resign at anytime.

Isn’t that the same guy who says, “did you drink my Mountain Dew?” “Let me smell your breath?” 🤣🤣🤣

I had a match, final round at FNM. The other guy came in early and had a massive card collection he was trading. Everyone was impressed. His deck was a net deck from the latest GP. I was trying to be friendly and talked to him, it was just FNM it's for fun not competition. Towards the end of the game he tells me I'm not allowed to talk, it was rude and I figured he'd be hurt if I focused on the game, I lost game 1. He comes into game 2 and, despite the fact that he told me "You're not allowed to talk" he was bad mouthing me and my deck. He overextends round 2, I wipe and kill him. Game 3, he's going on about how much better his deck is than mine and there's no way I will win this match, I stayed quiet. He's holding back seeing I have the mana for the board wip but I'm dropping just enough where I'll kill him unless he drops. So he drops and starts screaming at me, you have it, don't you. You were lucky and blah blah. I let him rant and show him the wipe then drop my hand, he was in top deck mode. He scoops the cards into a box and runs out, I get him to tell him he needed to pick up his prize. The whole time he's talking anout how there was no way I should have won that game, I pointed out when you net deck a recent winning deck of course people will have solutions.

The aggression in the second one is so well acted.

Props to the first video. I want to flip my desk at work so many times and this kid gives me motivation.

That rage table flip is the most exercise that guy has done in decades

In the second clip you can see the fine man at judgingftw just smiling like this will be fun.

I just loved how both videos are "fake" and you didn't point that out

That's exactly why you only go to events to get to know people and usually play kitchen table magic with the cool people.

The bouncing is killing me 😂. Almost looks fun till you realize he’s squeezing his heart every time.

Someone tell me that Francis wasn't playing against Nikachu himself haha

Epic. Staged or not, these are hilarious!

If I was Francis my response would be "what are you going to do, stop me from scooping?"

1st clip was a skit, Francis is a comedian and makes funny content. Doesn't make it less hilarious the iconic table flip lol

Last FNM game 2, I was playing Merfolk vs. Tron. In both games, I was able to Tide Shaper/Spreading Seas one of their Tron lands on curve and aggro them out to victory. I said "Good Game" after the second game, to which the Tron player responded with "NO!" and then angrily slammed down their hand, revealing an Ugin, the Spirit Dragon. Like, I'm sorry your deck doesn't have any interaction aside from big mana spells. As a Tron player, you should expect hate in games 2 and 3 and play around it, especially vs. Merfolk/any other deck that wants Spreading Seas. Don't get mad at me for playing the game, and don't be a sore loser at FNM perpetuating the man-child MTG player stereotype.

I watched the first one like 10 time 😂 Seriously Nikachu, be honest, how were you able to watch that without breaking down into laughter every time 😂 holy SHIT

I love how the judges were all having a great time with the training. You can see how they are all laughing throughout.

When you are so cautious you don't attack your hempty handed opp...

Lose more than 3 times in arena make me ragequit everytime, thanks mtg🙂.

The first video was staged as it was a character, and the second video is form a judge training video right?

Excellent analysis, I was kinda lost when I saw Francis flip the table the first time.

Both of these are training videos. I’ve seen them both at conferences. First is to demonstrate USC, the second is to demonstrate stalling (when the pile shuffling rules changed) and also USC. And that judge in the second video is my friend Lyle. All the people in the second video are judges.

You know the Francis clip is clearly staged right? He's playing a character

I can sometimes not understand why or how a combination works and I was a judge at one point in time. Everyone can be make mistakes but if you make a mistake in a tournament as a judge you can also allow someone to win who wouldn't have before. That said there are many times when you should not trust your own judgment in a tournament and that is typically when you are a player and especially when you are making a decision about something that is in your favor or when you are making a decision that can change a potential loss into a win. For example if you had a card that allows you to look at your opponents hand and make them discard a card that you choose and its not in English or the correct language for where you are playing you must have a good and accurate translation of the card. Especially if you're in a paid tournament. The event I'm talking about happened when I was in high school and there was not a easy way to validate the translation of any card or anything else like that. At this point in time discard decks were huge and especially when they allow you to target any or most of the cards that were in the opponents hand. Well I was facing an opponent who had a decent discard deck and I was playing my only deck that I thought had a chance in the tournament and I won all three games against that person. But they were using lots of cards that were not in English and most of them the player said did one of two things either your opponent would discard a card that you choose or discard a large number of cards something like three or more and all of this for a single black mana.I knew that something was wrong with this and I was right about that the shop owner was in the habit of fleecing young card players who didn't know any better. He would have the same one person always show up with cards that were never in English and they were not used combination to win and him and the shop owner would split up the money. My friends and I were very pissed about this because we had spent a large amount of money with the store However that weekend he only had us and the non--English card user who was simply there to help him basically steal money from kids. The cards that the person was using that don't exist all cost one mana to play and they allow you to make your opponent discard anywhere from one to four cards at instant speed and then with the cards that discard one and two cards you can choose which cards are discarded and there are no cards that allow you to do That.

Why did I stop playing MTG: Expensive (cards are cheap material too, endless useless filler cards) The players

“I really don’t know what your deck is capable of” Omg I use that line SO much.

This seems so fake.

These are staged videos to teach judges my guy. Not real tilters

"so I win, right?" 💀 💀

Your outro just cracked me up: "Remember kids, you might either be wrong or kicked out and be wrong at the same time"

"I can sense some hostility" sir.... I can taste the hostility and its a very bitter taste.

"Fuck this game, fuck you!" "So i win right?" Winner was oblivious

I didn't realise it was staged until the end and didn't even question the authenticity! That's actually some pretty good acting skills

We need more of these! I'm addicted after two examples

Favourite part of the table flip is the "so I will right?" afterwards.

More math! The guy on the left is confusing two issues: whether pile shuffling can randomize cards that started out with a nonuniform probability distribution (it can't, or at least not efficiently) vs. whether pile shuffling can somehow "unrandomize" cards that started out with a uniform probability distribution (it can't!). If a deck is randomized, and then pile shuffled (without looking at the cards of course), it will still be random.

"And i topdeck a fuking land" Basically the reason why i dont play games where you need to draw your mana

"Maybe he's holding in a big dump" me almost every match

My friends and I still always shout jokingly “great, another fucking land” all the time 😂

Just to think mike goes from flipping tables In hilarious Francis skits to pulling a gun on someone at his house.

I wish officers had the level of patience that the second video head judge had.

I almost flipped a table during a group game once, i had an army of creatures and tried to one shot all 3 of my opponents, but then a moment's peace was played and i knew it was the end for me.

7:20 I'm also a judge here - the two issues in that second video are covered in sections 3.3 (slow play from the excessive shuffling, shouldn't still be shuffling 8 minutes in) and 3.9 (insufficient shuffling, which specifically mentions allowing one pile shuffle for counting purposes) of the IPG even then both are only warnings. The third issue is in section 4.5 (UC - Aggressive Behaviour) and that one's a DQ

I really wanted to see that second guys face when the rule is read out to him. But, I do have a feeling that it would be like "everyone makes mistakes" right after he went "I will rub it in your nose", because only his mistakes can be forgiven. I can imagine how much of a pain he would be in a tabletop roleplaying game. The one thing worse than I rules lawyer is a rules lawyer who's incorrect.

"Maybe he is holding in a big dump" LOL.

Someone flips the table with my expensive cards on it and I'm flipping them.

'what are you going to do, bounce my human?!' - always cracks me up.

4:30 Dude I love how calm and friendly the judge is.

The guy sitting in the background is an amazing judge. Always really kind and poignant.

It took me a second to realize the 'Francis' is Boogie doing his 'Francis' charactar.

I can’t believe you explained the Francis video without cracking up.

I remember the first clip and was surprised by it, and watching the second one made me thought "Your not meant to shuffle? How long had this guy been playing?"

Flipping that table was the most exercise anyvof you have gotten in years.

There is such a thing as a bad winner, sticking around a couple of turns without killing your opponent when you can kill him is just like a cat playing with its food.

The second clip is actually from my local game store! So cool to see them here, I had no idea this existed