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I love how Vince's explanation for expensive boosters to his Pokemon friends is basically, "Magic players are in an abusive relationship with WotC."

I don't know if I'm more surprised that Vince has a baby or that Vince has a KZfaq channel.

TWO DtR epidodes in a year!? Prof, you're spoiling us.

The Ring Tempts You.... You Take The Initiative... it's just Horsemanship and Kicker.

Congratulations to you both on summoning the tiny humans.

Please Prof & PK - Please keep this series running regularly. It is genuinely the most honest (and fun) commentary on Magic: The Gathering

We really need more of these. I honestly wish this could be weekly even if it were just audio and only 30 minutes. But I completely understand the difficulties of something like that along with both of your other responsibilities.

33:26 "Can you imagine someone who just started playing Magic tuning in and hearing this" ... ✋️

I skipped lunch my entire high-school time, traded, and worked crappy jobs to collect magic cards. I sold that collection to buy a home seven years ago. The moral of the story is to skip your lunch.

I can't believe it took me this long to realise the sheer audacity of calling their main set mechanic "The ring tempts you" when the big gimmick is the one serialized ring to fuel gamblers

I swear if Professor doesn't throw the lords of the rings booster box into a bad jpg renderer of mount doom for Booster box game. 😂

The interaction between these two gentlemen is more entertaining than most other channels

Congratulations on the beautiful new baby and that thing the Prof needed gratz on. New babies mean new magic players!

I opened a masterpiece Wurmcoil Engine in my prerelease packs that I sold to buy a Nintendo Switch. Now I have to spend $40 on a single pack to even have a chance of something like that.

Remember when in conspiracy 2 they made an Alt art Kaya? It’s worth $200. In $4 booster packs. Good times

I just want to say that I appreciate the probable suffering you and Kenobi go through with this stuff in order to try and translate it into English for us.

I definitely saw that the price for Blightsteel Colossus decreased after pulling one on the List for March of the Machine.

You guys are great together. Love the chemistry. Super fun to watch. Had me smiling the whole time.

TLDR "If everything is special, then nothing is." - The Prof

I love how Vince says that it kind of makes sense that an Eldrazi can appear on a cereal box and then never elaborates lmao

Collector or bust really sums up how I feel about buying boxes now. As for the dominaria remastered collectors, I don't know if many people bought them. I just remember seeing them and thinking "too rich for my blood"

The talk at 32:24 has been going on since Kamigawa. Go-Shintai commander and Yoshimaru, Ever faithful has the commander Logo and is said to be the commander decks if you google them, but they are actually only ever found in the Set boosters.

Congrats Vince on the baby and Brian on the nine year old!

When Vince goes on his rant about the warhammer decks being flavor slam dunks all I can think about is the mana rock with the mark of Khorne on it producing blue black. I can just imagine Khorne sitting in his study, examining some ancient and powerful magical text, petting his cat. Definite flavor slam dunk, 10/10.

Congratulations from 9 months ago to 9 years ago, you both!

Great video - I think you really capture the sentiment of the average player. I preordered the commander decks months ago assuming great henge would be in the product - only to find out its a 1 in 30 box topper only product. Their practices of making cards only available in select products in the line is predatory

Fantastic commentary on the current state of MTG. Great chemistry between you to. A very enjoyable watch

I know people love the UB sets and there are some cards coming out that have me legit excited but I feel Brian is more and more encapsulating my feelings about where magic is going.

Always a treat to watch you guys. Both of your wits compliment so well. Ty

The beginning bit was the biggest gaslight moment I've ever heard lol

One of my favorite segment of the prof. Videos. Always love when both of you discuss magic related topics..

It's amazing to see Dies to Removal this morning!

I don't understand how Magic hasn't just adopted Pokemon's way of doing boosters. For those who don't know how Pokemon Boosters work, there is a cheap affordable version of almost every card and then you have a chance at getting alternate art versions of that card as well. For example, there's a Trainer card called Iono that's really popular. Regular trainer is about $4. The alternate art card has sold for over $1000. This is what makes boosters fun. You have game pieces that are affordable but there's a chance at a big reward if you open boosters. Magic used to do something like this with Masterpieces but they stopped and now they've cranked everything up to 11. Regular boosters aren't fun to open anymore. Collector boosters are kinda fun but they're so expensive.

Missed this show! Excited to watch this episode

To echo many others, always love to see a new Dies to Removal! I appreciate the intense amount of effort you guys put forth to bring us this show. And congrats to both of y'all!

The Prof totally understands when he says he was sold on Dr. Who after the Saga announcement, that's what we all want from Magic for our own beloved other franchises.

I can already see how the random guy at an lgs who got the one ring getting choked by his friend and then he, his friend, running with it while slowly turning into a foul creature.

Congratulations to both of you! Off to cry about torn commons now.

I'm that person that started playing MTG on Arena 3 months ago. This podcast felt like learning hieroglyph. The game is fun non the less

As someone who has 1 tutorial commander game under their belt and is interested getting into MTG with the LoTR set, it's really confusing to know what I get for buying things (yeah I also recently got hooked on your channel too! Shuffle up and play and Dies to removal are soo fun)

There’s a lot to take away here already and only at the halfway point….my favorite being we’re getting a Shuffle Up and Play with Pleasant Kenobi ❤️‍🔥🙏

I'm really excited to see that MaldHound is gonna be a guest in the next Shuffle up and play episode!

I miss this banter! What a joy to open KZfaq up to this today!

Hearing Brian get worked up is very funny. You guys play off each other so well.

I agree with donating cards. I kept maybe 3 commander decks, and a few of my fav cards and just donated my stuff to a friend. He's gonna give the stuff to new players at the LGS.

The visual editing in this video is subtle, but fantastic.

I think the unknown part is an issue, but it's why I love watching your booster box game videos. Something in my brain turns hearing about odds into white noise. I would rather than just see what they are when someone opens them. Obviously my box will be different, but watching your videos gives me the "feel" of the set.

My great grandfather was a sailor who, for a stretch of time, was only home a few days a year. Everytime he would come back, he would find he had another kid.

Wizards did have a magazine with set list and current pricing, at that time in the early 90s. Oh yeah we knew what we could possibly get and completely agree with professor on this. Also in the same boat, I did get rid of my cards. I just got back into mtg 10 months and what a multiverse it has become.

It's actually pretty funny, the Prof's comment on the video he made 9 YEARS AGO opening that premium Shards of Alara booster was how opening boosters isn't worth it because of the increased prices.

Any day with a DtR episode is a good day!

such joy and whimsy, how i do enjoy this content so. love you all

About the Alara all-foil boosters: same experience here. I opened one up when I bought it in a store that had some collecting dust on a shelf. They were all flat and all in pristine condition. I still play some of those cards, just because they look that good. No pringle.

"Killing off the golden goose before you've milked it enough" amazing.

My “favorite” list pull was from Modern Horizons 2, where I got one of the common lesson cards from Strixhaven.

Been forever! So happy this is back

Congratulations on your child Prof!! 🎉 I'm so happy for you 💞

If you stare at Prof's tie long enough it looks like Nicol Bolas

Seeing you two boys having an enjoyable play date after all this time has been genuinely heartwarming. Thanks, kids. ^__^

Congratulations and well done to both of these dads

"Fun" fact about the Collector boosters for LTR - the description of what can be found in the booster that was posted on the official website had over 1000 words, 5000 characters without spaces. Yup, just for Collector boosters, not the whole set.

According to the article and Amazon stores the Special Collector Boosters do not get a Box Topper if you buy them as a box/display.

Omg prof your feelings are such catharsis. Thank you man.

I personally saw him tear a commoner in half… it was outside Marks and Spencer at Waterloo station

Man the part about people talking about the bad but not even mentioning the good is spot on with just about everything in the world.

This is my favourite MTG podcast, followed by LR and LoL. Thanks for the upload, love hearing both of your perspectives and humor styles

Congrats to both of you!

RE: the discussion starting around 27:36 - There is a total of 39 cards in Phyrexian, not counting alternate versions of the same card (foil) or reprints (Judge Gift Elesh Norn, reprinted in Secret Lair), but counting alternate treatments (the oil-Slick Basics in ONE as well as the full-art Basics): Dominaria United (2): Ajani, Sheoldred Secret Lair (10): Batterskull, Blighted Agent, Elesh Norn, Glistener Elf, Inkmoth Nexus, Jin-Gitaxias, K'rrik, Sheoldred, Urabrask, Vorinclex Promo (5): Beast Within, Dismember, Mental Misstep, Norn's Annex, Psychosis Crawler Phyrexia: All Will Be One (17): Elesh Norn, Forest, Forest (Oil Slick), Island, Island (Oil Slick), Jace, Lukka, Mountain, Mountain (Oil Slick), Nahiri, Nissa, Phyrexian Arena, Plains, Plains (Oil Slick), Swamp, Swamp (Oil Slick), Vraska Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (2): Jin-Gitaxias, Tamiyo Streets of New Capenna (1): Urabrask Kaldheim (1): Vorinclex Jumpstart (1): Swamp

Hey man I just came back t magic after years of not playing and I’ve fallen back in love with the game and your channel and I just want to say thank you for all the content over the years.

Vince is absolutely right on the "Special Edition" Collectors. There are several countries that requires you to publish the odds of acquiring any particular thing in a randomized game system. They can't change those odds later by printing more, so they print ones without the various serialized cards so they aren't getting into legal trouble with the odds of pulling The One Ring. Edit: And yes, the naming is silly.

Loved this conversation guys.

At the beginning, with Eldraine it was fun... It was exciting and new and fun to be a part of the game while that change was happening... Now the amount of product dilutes any fun we could have while opening packs.

Congrats on being a father Professor.

The chemistry between you guys is fucking awesome, such a joy to watch

For the spellbooks and commander collections, I am 100% convinced Commander Collection Black is just Signature Spellbook Liliana and Commander Collection Green is Signature Spellbook Freyalise. They just changed the branding so they could charge twice as much for the same thing.

Congratulations Vince! And 9-year belated congratulations Prof!

Great episode. I had no idea that the SPECIAL part of the packs coming out later in the year actually don't have anything special about them.

The opening bit was going on for so long I thought that was gonna be the entire show. I was making my peace with it about when you guys actually started the podcast

Ow ❤❤❤❤ congrats u two! For the kids. Hope they grow (even more) happy and healthy 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 long live the kids 😻

Congratulations on the baby, and good luck!

Vince's child is three months old, the Prof's in nine years old. Convert the units and we get 3 months to 108 months. Simplify the fraction, it's a 1:36 ratio! So, so to properly congratulate everyone involved: congratulations to Vince and congratulations x36 to Brian! This is proof that Magic: the Gathering and Tolarian Community College teach math skills.

One other thing to consider is the possibility that "misses" don't cost WOTC that much relatively speaking. Like swinging and whiffing on Aftermath is a shoulder shrug. But swinging and hitting it out of the park with LOTR or Commander Masters is a massive, massive win. Like the cost to physically print MTG cards is near zero. Yes, there are licensing costs, and artist commission costs, but those costs are drops in the bucket relative to the sales of the products themselves.

Congratulations to both of you

Prof, your vids and manurisms are a pleasure to watch. Good script and commentary too.

This is hilarious 😆. Great dynamic and great points

vince reading all of the different lord of the rings products was absolutely hilarious

Listening to this has been hilarious. I don’t play MTG, but I like following some of it, and it makes me think I’ll need to take 2 years of college courses to know all about how MTG works.

Hey Prof, there are only about 3000 cards in Pioneer that aren’t on Arena yet, compared to the 7000 that are currently on there!

The Special Editions actually are special for LOTR fans, because it features art from the Brothers Hildebrandt, who did a ton of art for LOTR in the 70s and is featured on the packs and boxes. If it cost premium that's crazy and I'm not trying to defend a surcharge for that I agree the costs are already just ridiculous, just wanting to point out why they exist.

Great Duo and Great vid. Thanks ☺

Fantastic dialogue! These topics hit all the highlights the game is going through currently. LOTR set is a messy release and it’s impossible to breakdown

When you were doing the bit w/ seacrossing, I thought you'd make the Old World joke about how Warhammer Fantasy was dead.

Oh hey, congratulations in your nine-year-old Professor! Also cool about that other guy's baby.

Honestly prof ever since buying singles I’ve never looked back lol. I buy the occasional booster if I’m at the store and feel like getting one but I don’t crack boxes anymore

Dack Fayden vs Domri Rade: In Memorium sounds SO amazing & up my alley!

Congrats on the baby, Kenobi. Also, cool shirt.

41:15 even full time Magic content creators are very confused about what is going on 😂. Love the Starter Kit card discussion confusion 😅

Vince is so right about Pokemon boosters, I just struggle to care about magic because the boosters are so deliberately confusing. Just give me a draft booster that sometimes contains chase cards any day.

Congratz guys !