God, the effort is just mind-blowing.

how much does mexican lotus go for?

Instant, Sorcery, Land, Creature, Artifact, Enchantment, Planeswalker, -Tribal- Kindred... Battle.

I think the player intent is kinda bs. I run every Borborygmos and Fblthp in the same deck. I'll get your ass

About Splinter Twin being unbanned…

MARS VOLTA MENTION

Ooo Theros full artwork islands?! Good choice!

Ending brought me to tears. I cannot think of a better way to summarize how Magic captured me as a kid too.

As someone who got into magic, playing hardcore aggro can lead to a thrill you could never imagine in magic, although I never played basic red I did play its blue counterpart in merfolk. Even in something more casual in EDH the feeling of supplanting all fancy strategies and gameplans based around combos and high synergy for simply taking a life total and reducing it to zero is unmatched.

thank god for proxies...i see no need to ever buy a card over $3 when i can print it on a standard printer with paper easily ordered on amazon. I can also do 300GSM card stock and it feels indiscernible to many people

"My teeth are always trying to bite me, and I hate that." -Plato

9:06 its really sad that there are people who think the fact they could do something prevents it from being art. Anyone can make art

Dude, you are seriously talented. I’m so glad I’ve stumbled across your channel. So interesting, amazing work!!

Wow, this was incredibly well read, researched, and presented. I came just for Phyrexian Lore and got a complex analysis that went into everything from the Arts, to Language, to Philosophy. Even the haunting music was engrossing. Amazing work!

Love the idea, hate the price.

Possibly the greatest most beautiful deck ever built. Damn the entire thing is a labor of love across the board. And the fact the deck is actually seeing play is the biggest flex of all. Takes balls to shuffle up those beauties.

all the other illustrations of this card look so oldfashion... with those embarassing and tedious poses...

this art was made by a talented artist, magic is mostly played by nerd virgens, it doesn't match. that's the problem.

Hello mr studies, will you ever do a video on akira the manga. Very interesting panel on page 184 of vol. 4 of the espers and doctors

I really loved the dragons and couldn't care less about the clans. It's interesting to see that the mainstream prefers the Khans. I still remember most of the Dragonlord names. Clans are... Abzan, Jeskai... is Bant a clan? No that's Alara... yeah no clue. Also who were the Khans lol?

I miss when magic was about kights and elves instead of the interdimensional space futurists, a God-like robot, and a time traveler flying around with his friends in a mechanical airship. Just doesn't feel like magic anymore.

I like how they revisited this card in Neon Dynasty, updated with powercreep in mind. Fantastic video.

Moonveil dragon is my absolute favorite MTG art of all time

I *just* realized the 7e Paladins and the Witches from Oz share the same orientations.

"The earth cannot hold that which magic commands."

Outdated now, the 1/1 o the one ring has surpassed it

These more personal videos are really the best! Thank you for sharing your memories with us🎉

I disagree with cosmic not melding into gothic. Look at bloodborne

“Dr. mueller” are you from Hilliard Ohio by any chance?

57:17 jackie chan

The only reason MTG regrets their forbidden reprint promise is because now they can’t toss those cards into booster packs every five years as a mega rare pull in order to boost pack sales 😂 they then went on to make the one ring card which is basically just a modern day forbidden reprint except with everything about the card overdramatized and pushed to the max by being a literal single print lmao. However I do have to say whoever had the idea for doing the one ring card and whoever was behind pulling it off with all the media and everything behind it, they’re geniuses and yes I’m absolutely jealous 😂

Listening to this again with hype for Innistrad Remastered

Oh man donato's disenchant is so iconic

Idk why but I just teared up watching this and it's like the 3rd time I've watched it. You have such a way with words and storytelling, weaving history and beautiful analogies. The jaws and pup comparisons just get me man. Can't express enough the love and respect I have for your work. Fucking perfect. Absolutely perfect.

That mana crypt ban really hit this deck much harder than the rest of us. I wonder what his final total is for the flips.

Anyone ever see that picture of someone using cards to paint their rims and not get it on the tire and there is clearly a black lotus with spray paint all over it?

Magic has been broken

this channel is so good. i love the nostalgia alongside technical breakdown. great vibes

this video brought up a lot of memories. Besides the fact that I used to know a lot of the people mentioned in this video, I was around when Goyf came out. At the time, I bought a set of them for...$4 each. Well one of them was $5 because it was foil. Literally only got them because I thought they'd be good in my casual Green deck. I actually lost the semi-finals for a Valencia PTQ playing the GWR Goyf deck in Time Spiral block constructed, and I had a very similar build of Remi's deck ready to go had I qualified (had two near misses for that one, the other was missing on tiebreaks at a GP). Also I remember PT Philly, the first Modern tournament very well. It was my last PT before I quit Magic to go back to school. That was... not a fun tournament. Turn 1/2 kills were everywhere. I remember going turn one "Island, Ponder, Go. Am I dead?" and my opponent saying yes and killing me. It was also my friend's first Pro Tour and he made day two with a Tarmogoyf deck. Anyways, my Tarmogoyfs were very well played and I hope whoever bought them from me gave them a loving home.

37:21-37:22 My childhood home in California. I had to immediately pull up google to double check. Was kind of eerie seeing it here. I know who shared it. This was such an in depth and deep dive into the plane and the set. I didn't really pay attention to the set upon release, but definitely appreciate the call backs and gestures to the real world, pop culture, and the darkest of fears we all strive to hide. Fantastic work as always, Sam.

Hey, I know it has been passed 5 years since your last "the Magic art" videos, but can you revive this serie? It was and still is amazing

Phenomanal video, once again. Thanks for making these. It's wild that there are so few videos on the history of magic.

The Borborygmos situation is one of my favorite moments in all ot MTG. I think it was a needed rules change, and anybody upset at Bob is just wrong IMO.

ah.... planar cleansing.... my favourite card. every once a while i return to my planar cleansing deck with archway angel and clear the mind to play the infinite game :)))

Brilliant, and so well-researched. OG Theros was one of my favorite sets.

Fatal push really beign the Goyf most powerfull enemy

ケブ　ウォーカー

I think what makes this version so jarring really is the fact that the robe really does look like it was photoshopped on. It's flat and untextured and comes off as just plastered on. And since the robe, and by extension the person wearing it, is the center point it just makes it that much more jarring. Especially with the wine being the same texture/layer/style as the robe, but not evoking the same feeling. I feel like it was just a failure on the artist's part of not recognizing that. All the art needs is for the robe to blend into either the background or the person and it would come together in a much more pleasing way

As you said when talking about Patagia Golem, everyone has that one card, that one piece of art that locked them in for life, and you showed off mine in this video: Mark Romanoski's Counterspell. I have, for years, tried to find out if a playmat featuring that art has ever been printed, but to the best of my knowledge, it never has. It's also my Grail foil from the set (naturally, the most expensive common foil, and one of the 25 most expensive foils from the set.) The card is an absolute masterpiece, and I keep wishing they'll bring back that art, even for a one-off, despite so long having passed without them going back to that printing.