I got into Magic later in life, so I'm glad I still have my childhood Yu-Gi-Oh collection. Haha I remember one time I was so attached to them, I accidentally took them swimming with me into the lake at my family friend's cottage one summer. Still have those guys, even the soldiers caught in the water damage before I realized lol. Wish all my Pokémon weren't stolen at school one day, they were WELL loved in rubber bands and much missed. Wonderful video man.

My goodness. I was finally returning to the Hurloon Minotaur episode I’ve been meaning to watch for some time and checked your feed on a whim, immediately changing plans to watch this and WOW. Not only did you completely revolutionize my outlook on a set I was prepared to mostly ignore, but that last section? “We all haunt the houses we live and leave.” I’ve always loved your videos but I don’t think I’ve ever heard a line so impactful as that. Well friggin done.

So here's the issue, sneakers of the 80's aren't that different from today. TV of then isn't fundamentally that different. So injecting them into magic might as well be like injecting today. They pollute and destroy the suspension of disbelief in enjoying the setting. They've taken an otherwise amazing plane in concept and smeared moldy nacho cheese over it in favor of rampant consumeristic nostalgia.

Your videos are almost therapeutic. I hope you never stop making them!

It pleases the goyf when WOTC creates an entire new card type

I like the art for Faithless Looting

Great video It change my perspective about "a moment" By the way is this proko sound?

Between the phyrexians horrific march towards a perfect form, and the Faceless eldrich horror of nature that is the Eldrazi. I feel as though that's where MTGs strengths are.

I'm so glad you shouted out the Brad Nelson/Ross Merriam mirror match. One of my favourite matches to watch ever

with that explanation, i suppose the idea is that: we developed television to receive signals carrying images long distances away where as their "TVs" exist to try to pick up the signals that already exist. there are unseen signals all around us now between cell towers, wifi, radio, microwave, as well as many others flying around and making "noise" that these instruments could probably just be meant to receive the signals of the unseen that exist in the plane. in this case, the spirits that live there. maybe there never was a TV station in this world and the purpose of these devices was purely to discover the dead instead

Well done as always. But I think it is misleading to say, that the 1980s are nowadays some kind of mythical or as you put it „unfamiliar and strange“ decade. I strongly disagree. The 1980s are perpetuated right now (2024) in pop culture and in everyday life. Just take a look at the clothes, the style, the music… The 1980s are very present and familiar today, even to humans who wheren‘t even born then. It may be just the „style“ of the 80s… but I think the reason why WotC is promoting 80s style is not because of it‘s „unfamiliar“ aura, au contraire. It‘s just hip!

Ever noted that the symbol of Phyrexia Φ is the phi greek letters, pron. fi, that is just the first consonant of the word Phyrexia?

@24:07 SPICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3

I ADORE your analyses before sets come out. You're an amazing creator and wotc should do this EVERY set, it's just a treasure

With today's banning, DJ can retire his Mana Crypt, its win-loss record fixed forever where it fell September 23rd, 2024.

"We all haunt the houses we have lived and leave" has got to be my favorite line in A LONG time.

w TAZ mention

This video hit me hard. I started playing magic in 2015. I remember GP vegas, Modern Masters 1, Eldrazi winter. I feel the death of professional magic and the death of modern hard. I used to love how modern rewarded having a deck you loved and piloting it with experience, sometimes even more than what the actual deck was. Makes me weep internally now

Wonderful vid!

I fucking love this plane so much it's so fucking cool

This channel is This American Life meets M:tG history and it is beautiful.

You're the best advertising MTG has ever had because your microscope imbues meaning to the cards that I otherwise would rarely find in general draft. You inscribe arcane withdraws from my wallet, and I thus cry, in endless dilemma between desire and financial reality.

seeing so many of these cynical takes on this set in the comment section is WILD as someone who enjoys the theming of it. people didn’t complain about Eldraine’s “references” but as soon as it’s even slightly modern they panic and say it’s tonally right for magic???? it’s not a symptom of magic and WOTC it’s a symptom of the times old man, grown up and accept change or magic will move on without you. As if all planes are historical fantasy. Fear and the Magical can exist in the modern.

Moving as always, this is why we need poets, to put words to that which we all feel. Thank you.

I started in summer of 95' in high school and played many times a week at a comic store that had a Lotus sitting in the glass case for $300. I kept saying I was going to buy it but got into playing guitar and when I got my first paycheck check i spent 300 on a marshall cabinet lol

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah. -Toaster bro

This vid is bullshit most expensive magic card is the one ring

Hoping to get a Bloomburrow video😢.

The fact that I just put down House of Leaves to take a break from it and then saw a quote from the book... What the hell

Excellent video, to put it plainly this is the first set in such a long time that I was absolutely excited for. The limited experience is incredible, and the flavor of the set is so sweet and serine. It's utterly wonderful.

The fact that Meathook Massacre II just isn’t as good as the original is delicious icing on the cake

Friday night was my first ever Pre-Release ! I got a 3rd place finish for the DUSKMOURN pre-release! I had played magic since end of january 2024. But i had played 2004-2023 Marvel Versus System, got my first 3 over the board wins at MTG friday, had only win at Arena before !this year !!! My pods and competitors at the LCS are strong irl and i cannot go there often. Had lost like 25 games this year irl at one store in commander 4 player casual and in duel commander competitive. And lost 7 at another store in pioneer format. Won 5 in Arena. Lost about 3 online. Yeah i managed a 3rd position win on a not bad ratio of time.

we all haunt ALL the houses we lived in. I still dream weekly of the house i lived my tens in. I often see many homes of my parent, relatives and schools, towns when i dream... we haunt all these locations, as we spend time there that is nostalgic, thus emotionallyt linked to the electrical parallel world of the untangible our spirits are connected to. Yup, science, this atheist sees the spirit/timespace connection that explains our dreams, fears, .....studying reality and time! #duskmourn is life

The duskmourn house is a TARDIS imbued with dark energy becoming horror... this is why it's bigger on the inside and ever changing. "Amy's choice" is an episode of MAtt Smith's 11th Doctor where a polypollen makes the tardis make the dreams real and impossible to know reality from dream, shows the dark side of our fears... #hypothesis

moths are sleeping in closets all day... like the CANADIAN HOUSE HIPPO !!!!

I feel like this channel is kinda like Summoning Salt for MTG and I love it

You, sir, are an incredible storyteller

I have always been wondering why I felt so...curious and, dare I say, connected to this set. I am not a fan of horror. I loathe being scared and yet...I want more of this. This video essay helped answer a ton of unasked questions. I am looking forward to collecting this set.

Another amazing video from Rhystic Study in time for the spooky season to come around. Love this look back through the concepts of the generations of horror, fear, and the cultural references.

'It fires on all cylinders when it's basic mountains enter the battlefield tapped' 😮

It's been 10 years at this point and I still HATE the holo sticker. It looks so bad. Thankfully, we have been getting cool retro-printings of some staple cards (like Aetherflux Reservoir in the OG cardframe), which means I can avoid at least some of the stickers.

This is an incredible video. Thank you for all your work and detailed explanation. I appreciate all the artwork as well

Sam, the ending of this video...about houses left behind. You seem to know exactly what im going through every time you release something. Recently, after 10ish years in my apartment, i was given notice that i would need to leave. landlord selling the place, you get the idea. See...I had everything planned out. My future was set. I planned on dying in that house, with my cat on my lap. not anytime soon, by any means...but...my future was planned. I was ok with that. happy with that. Now, im being displaced, with my future ripped away, and only the unknown to comfort me. my ghost will haunt that house...because once you spent 10+ years anywhere...part of your soul stays. was gonna quit my job, leave the town that i love...because i had no other options. i made an option...bought a camper today. winter is gonna be cold, and i dont know where i'll set it up and stay, but at least my future isnt so...unknown. thank you, as usual, for your work and obvious love of art, and magic. you helped me cope with losing my apartment. thank you, sam. alot. i eagerly await your next video, as per usual.

Its hard to not feel like wizards is killing magic. It's hard to keep up with the wall of products and styles, and has pushed me away more than once

I've been running a short 5e campaign set in Duskmourn, and you just nailed down the tone for me.

I wish I found moths as cute as many of my friends. The prologue was surprisingly hard to watch for me.

god tier channel, thank you for another banger

The best part of getting a new set is the chance at another one of your videos. You consistently give me more and more reasons to love this game that brought me into a community i'm incredibly happy to be a part of.

Think im about to sell my 240sx and buy a lotus before it get outta hand for an unlimited…

This video increases my interest in Duskmorun a lot. I was initially very turned off by the nostalgia-driven 80s and 90s imagery. I do love the other lore aspects of it and the concept art aesthetics