😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

asmr ear cleaning

Screw them kids i don't owe them nothing 😆

The guy on the left chuckles a bit

@Derek Malik thats a dick move

They were also filming a documentary at the same time. Double the pressure.

Eh abzan players get no sympathy

This is one of the most painful things I've ever watched play out in real time. Chapin's redemption story was incredible to watch, and over the course of that hour it totally derailed and blew up right before the finish line.

Chapin is an big icon. never the less he never won the BIG ONE. he is the big one. a real deck builder. builder which have dreams inovations and skills. i've seen so many "pro tours over years" but hes the one which have the best decks build buy his own! thats why he became the worlds greatds for me

His hands shake because he's on amphetamines. Notice the jaw movement? He is 100% on amphetamines here. Probably helps him stay alert through a long tournament and I doubt MTG has any formal rules about that stuff. Given Patrick's history with drugs I'm sure he has no problem finding amphetamines.

+Stephen Lin your womans.

That was such a sexually loaded introduction to the series...

He's staring into my soul.

yeah I was like.... hmm this is kind of awkward haha

Creepy

Camera man turned that thoughtseize gaze off immediately.

soon

Girthicus Maximus lol

+Kyppen I recommend trying it

+Kyppen Good to know im not the only bored idiot around here

+Mtg Allday I would love to play it, but i dont know anyone who plays it :( And i heard it can get very expensive

Didn't he get busted for selling drugs or something?

@@droidean what does that have to do with anything?

@@goatsemarathon6642 it has to do with patrick chapin. Duh

@@droidean lol that was pretty good

Oh that's his signature phrase. I think he said it at the end of the M15 Pro Tour too ;)

For me actually looks the opposite

Is that how luck works? Don't use it up yet. Save it for later!

Haannibal777 Not Luck, but law of large numbers may apply.

He got beat in 2015.

Because Dega is the new Junk.

Agreed

***** He meant hearing what they players say during the game. Sounds stupid, but compared to these commentators, it's preferable

***** He meant hearing what they players say during the game. Sounds stupid, but compared to these commentators, it's preferable

Dont ask me, I'm in the same situation 5 months later

Because we want to remember when magic tournament broadcasts and standard were good.

Hes adds so much nothing.

I really wish they'd replace him. He really comes off as a cynical douchebag when he's talking to Shehar..

All of the. Otha g in this commentary is brought to you by Rich Hagan.

lol

Good thing he isn't Bobby Fischer he'd probably never agree to play against Shenhar

Now that you mention it.

Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing.

+Breathe1234 I was looking for this comment

Try watching Brian Kibler. His constant loonatic style shuffling drives me mental.

Kibler is a genuinely good dude, and very clever, but the reason I learned of him was because of his ADHD/Meth head twitching while playing a Hearthstone invitational on Twitch.tv

the way he stares at the camera non-stop creeps me out ahaha

Kinda reminds me of how ari lax won

No, Chapin's deck performed fine. He didn't sideboard well and played poorly, but that aside, his deck doesn't matchup well against Shenhar's deck which just goes over the top with Hornet Queen, Whip, and Soul of Innistrad.

Round Arthur glad I'm not the only one who caught that

WotC inpetitude my friend.

+Scare Yourself Do you know anyone that does?

Rex GameZ No. But it seems like a no brainer doesn't it? Maybe they will implement someday.

Because you can't see shit from the distance the camera sits at. Older returning players like myself, or newer players, don't know which cards are which and what cards do what. If it wasn't for the commentators and for Google I'd have no way to understand what is going on here. Displaying both player's hands on screen just like Hearthstone tournaments do would make it a much more viewer friendly experience and generate a larger audience size

Pharya w

I know eh. I run 3 mainboard in my Jeskai Wins deck. The card is filthy against so many other powerful cards in standard. At worst, it is a pseudo-haste flier that pokes at them for 2 each turn.

Finally! Someone else gets it!

/watch?v=MXQXoDWC7EA

Umm, it's pretty standard for commentary teams to be a "color guy" (Rich Hagan) and an analyst. If you have two analysts, the coverage tends to be very dry and uninteresting. Sometimes you need someone to crack a joke, or get excited about a play,or to tease out a storyline instead of just focusing on the gameplay.

Matt F SCG coverage does it no problem, but their humor and excitement isnt cheesy or clueless. They manage to crack jokes while also giving a clear understanding of the match. Ive been watching coverage for a couple years and i definitely prefer commentors who talk about the in depth plays instead of exaggerating or getting excited every time someone draws a spell. Im not against adding lightness to the commentary it just can be done so much better. Watch some scg open series matches and you'll see what im talking about. I like to think people watching these matches dont need to be "teased" any storyline. Just my opinion of course, but magic players tend to be smarter than the average person and Id like the coverage to reflect that. Maybe im being harsh but some of the things these guys say makes it look like they just started playing

Jacob Alarcon But if they talk about complicated lines of play the whole time, you risk alienating new players watching their first event. Trust me, I've watched SCG coverage too. I think they're both fine.

+Matt F i dont think its too hard to explain certain interactions in terms beginning players would understand. Thats part of being a good commentator. I used to be confused watching this stuff but it was from the SCG guys and pros that really taught me how the best players play. I learned more from commetators like lSV or Patrick Sullivan than I ever could from Rich Hagan. Youre right you have to appeal to new players but theres a better way of doing it. I know Im not the only who feels this way about the coverage. I mean for a while it seemed like the coverage was getting better but they dropped the ball on this year. I wish we could just see how it would be with the SCG guys. Thanks for your insight though i think youre right its important to appeal to new players, magic gets complicated quick

This is what happens when the Commander cards find their way into Standard. I look forward to getting True-Name Nemesis in M16.

"best flier in the game" Standard doesn't really represent magic as a whole, blue still has the best 2 fliers in the game right now (Vendillion clique and insectile aberration), just sayin is all

Four points of contention. 1.) Modern and Legacy are substantially worse representations of Magic given the formats are dictated entirely by what gets played on turns 1 and 2 and are 90% tempo oriented. 2.) Standard is the set of cards new players will see when buying packs and being introduced to the game. If the standard is set by powerful cards that are as powerful as they are due to breaks in the color pie, it causes a misunderstanding of what it means to be green, blue, et al.. Hornet Queen sets a standard that says "Green gets powerful fliers iconically," which is an absolute misrepresentation of its slice of the color pie and of gameplay. Hornet Sting, Prodigal Sorcerer, and Frozen Solid haven't seen reprinting in standard for quite a while, and it isn't hard to gather why given how much they misrepresent the color pie. It certainly SHOULD act as a representation of Magic as a whole, because it is the format that gets the most publicity, is the only format outside of limited that sets are designed around, and is the format that is most readily available to the public. 3.) Blue has efficient fliers. They are not the best flying creatures in Magic on the whole, in any format, but they are efficient in the tempo-driven formats in which they dominate. I know I'd much rather Exhume a Hornet Queen than a Delver or a Clique myself, but hey, what do I know about the difference between 6-power of aerial deathtouch spread over five bodies compared to a 3/2 french vanilla. I'm being facetious, but it doesn't need much more saying that blue's fliers are not the best strictly speaking. 4.) Delver of Secrets is an unplayable vanilla 1/1 if the deck isn't built to cater to it, and Vendilion Clique is an admittedly other example of a color pie violation that should have been printed in UB but also made at a time amidst other violators that themselves have not seen reprinting. This isn't something that should be dismissed by two-line comments about xyz formats.

PopcornBunni 1) I should point out that I was not referring to the power level of the cards in specific formats, but rather the power level of them in terms of if you built decks using every card in the game (ie. vintage) Moreover, I doubt hornet queen would outperform V-Clique in more variations of standard. As I don't really play enough of it, I can't really make any hard and fast statements in regards to the current one, but... 2) Particularly in it's original printing, the flying on hornet queen was more like reach than anything, just a more flavorfully fitting version. Anyway, if we're going to talk about power level causing breaks in the colour pie, I don't think that hornet queen is the biggest issue. Young Pyromancer is considered to be the best creature in the game by many, and yet it's in red, similarly, snapcaster mage and delver are both "breaking the colour pie" These cards certainly aren't old, and I think that it merely represents the fact that just because a card has a particularly playable card in an area it should be weak in, does NOT mean that it's violating the colour pie. 3) I believe that Hilbert's comment basically outlines my feelings on the matter. Efficiency and tempo are essential to a cards power level. If you're not considering cost, then it doesn't come close to emrakul, grisselbrand or iona, amusingly all very real exhume targets in competitive play. 4) Just because you need to have support does not mean that it's any worse. Hornet queen is unplayable without forests, hell, I doubt it's good without any form of ramp, stall or whip (though, don't quote me on that, I don't know how fast standard is right now). I also disagree that Clique should be in UB, the effect is different to discard as it replaces itself, and doesn't even put it in the graveyard. Granted, it is stretching the ideas of information, control and mind manipulation, but it is in no way completely out of the blue end of the colour pie.

rowcla and also in blue, consecrated sphinx

Not sure it's redbull, 3 bottles of only water under the desk on Chapin's side near right ankle

Nah, there's 2 cans of Red Bull in the same area. He even takes a sip out of one of the Red Bull cans on camera at 0:44 seconds in.

@@Jsmuuve he takes speed tho

Might be adrenaline

some people just have shaky hands, my left hand is naturally shaky after having wrist surgery,

there is an urborg

He had Uborg, all his lands was swamps.

You can use any version of a card that is legal in the format, most definitely including lands. Occasionally you'll see guys playing with Russian or Japanese versions of cards, or old versions of cards like a 10th edition Cancel. As long as the card is legal in the format it doesn't matter which expansion it comes from. Most places won't let you do something like play a full deck of Japanese cards, though, because they'll have no way to verify your cards are legal unless there is a Japanese literate judge. There is a clause in the rules about putting undo stress on the tourney organizers or some such, so they can pretty much ban things like foreign cards if they don't have the resources to deal with them. So be careful with that. Otherwise go nuts :).

haha thanks man :P

Zphyre EU No, they need more mana.

Much much MUCH more i swear

I played against him once for fun I got my ass handed to me...

magic is a resource game. you have a health pool of 20 points. if you lose all your points, you lose. creature cards can remove points by successfully dealing damage to the player. you use land cards to produce mana necessary to spend on said creature cards

There is no way you can explain magic in one paragraph lol

lol

lol right, I laughed as I red that paragraph as it explains almost nothing especially at least level of play. BUT I guess as far as a quick intro it's not a bad explanation for the most basic explanation possible.

oh and there's this thing called the stack... yeah we don't talk about that.

sorry for replying to such an old comment but I GET THAT ONE I GET THAT ONE

Guess what kid, 0 fucks has been giving.

Cough cough I call bullshit :)

Thats awesome xD

Oh man look at these extremely successful people replying to you Josh, Bet they are some fun at parties!

Josh Howard bullshit

Nvm actually he was nervous as frick

And he talked forever

Elspeth was countered by Disdainful Stroke. It never resolved.

Oh, I thought the announcer said it was Hero's Downfall-ed

Not bad luck, deck mismatch and poor sideboard/playing from Chapin.

Shenhar countered it with Disdainful stroke

They are writing down life totals.

Do they only record their own life or both theirs and their opponent's for fairness' sake?

Both. They also write down cards they see off courser/thoughtseize.

Chapin was on it too, look his jaw. Jaw moving side to side like that is a tell tale sign of amphetamines.