At the prerelease I lost to Oko in the finals. Small prize pool, but the winner opened 2 more Oko's in his 3 prize packs

This is why I love playing Platinum Angel and just watching my opponents rage in vain and eventually concede, lol!

An incredible analysis on one of my all time favorite cards, from a purely analytical perspective

when the judge saw the demonic attorney, he could’ve rolled the game back to when the violation happened instead of issuing a game loss (restarted the game and removed all banned or marked cards from the deck) then given a loss for multiple violations

Oko was proof that WOTC’s testing team was woefully underskilled for their job.

Oko is literally me

Just pulled the old oko last night during prerelease, he’s so busted lol

Even if the one drop was a vanila, it'd be better than the two currently out.

Is it too much to ask for us as a community to voluntarily destroy the speculative bubble around the cost of cards, and just go back to good ol' collecting?

platinum angle is one of my favorite cards, I once played one v one against a CEDH deck that really wanted to combo off, however I managed to ramp out a platinum angel just in time, and make it targetable. My opponent, unable to remove it since their deck focuses on winning rather than removing the pieces of opponents, lost on the spot.

Oko isn't the most broken card. It's certainly a design mistake but grow up lmfao

How do you not immediately get punched in the center of your face when you rip up my card? Yeah, I play MtG, but I also wrestled for 26 years, 4 at the D1 level and 12 more coaching at my Alma mater. I am a pretty chill, fairly nerdy guy, but un-sleeving one of my cards (particularly something not easily replaceable) and proceeding to rip it in half is getting you a broken nose and a ride way up high followed by an exponentially precipitous return to earth, albeit not on your feet. I realize violence is “never” the answer, but I also realize some people only respond to violence as they believe the “law” insulates them from accountability which redoubles their smarminess. Once in a while having someone kiss concrete is exactly what the situation calls for and from what I’ve heard thus far, this is one of those situations. Anyway, interesting story and even better delivery of said story. New subscriber here.

Even at 2x speed, this feels slow..

This is some Yu-Gi-Oh anime shit

i can play it on timeless new arena format lmao

21:01 Okay, so after this video ended I took a lighter to one of my cards...and I just want to confirm that fire is indeed very bad for mtg!

I think it’s also important to mention that Oko’s +1 when being used as removal is a giant middle finger to self-mill/graveyard decks. Normally when something gets removed by green, the graveyard deck can re-cast it in some way, so it’s not a significant blow. And if something gets removed by blue it’s usually by a counter or bounce, which has the same effect of being able to at least potentially replay it. But Oko keeps the original Card on the battlefield and modifies it. No recasting, no graveyard recursion, no indestructible. Your Etali is a vanilla 3/4, tough shit, deal with it.

I have a 60 card minotaur tribal deck that turn 4 fatal swing with the right starting hand but most turn 6 fatal

Ahh my people. For so long i rocked a red/black minotaur tribal deck here at my local tourneys, i only had one persom cheering me on helping me tune it and make it semi competitve. Everyone else was annoying and kept telling me "minotaurs will never be competive, try building a good tribal deck 🤓☝️" but even without a playset of cavern of souls i would at least get top 5 a lot so i considered that a successful deck dammit. I love minotaurs. Currently looking at making a commander minotaur deck with Sethron as the commander 🙌 i also am a shiny addict lmao so not only are minotaurs metal as fuck but they are also cheap to bedazzle and buy shiny versions of everything 😂

So Jason Bertincheaty just needed a Platinum Angel.

If Standard is a regular 3 count/ submission wrestling match Vintage is an ECW deathmatch. If Standard is playing Basketball with your friends at the park Vintage is playing against the 1993 Chicago Bulls. That's the difference.

Oko still sees a shit ton of play in Vintage. I treat it like Bolt,Lotus, or og Counterspell. Why wouldn't you put it in your deck?

Love the intro, fanatic of mogis is my boy!

Oko being persecuted by the Fae in lore and later persectued in MTG irl is frankly.. Great story writing! XD Just glad he's legal in commander cuz i had a build planned for the guy.

damn... I lost the game

Clever intro

Great card, definitely not the most broken MTG card by far. And nowhere near the most hated card.

Ngl i'd say that mr crackstyle is the true villain, Hans wasn't able to concede but he sure was

Average tournament player

I really liked Strixhaven for some reason. I thought the lessons were fun and enjoyed the archetypes.

sick video dude, you should make more minotaur content on youtube too! Been following your articles when they come out as a fellow Minotaur Enthusiast since Amonkhet

Super well made video man

That Survivor Bias explanatiom was eye opening. We often focus on the cards that get passed R&D but forget how overworked wotc staff are and how diligent every individual employee is. Great stuff

Oko is such an overrated card. It makes some food tokens, so what?

Love those homm sfx, great video

Uh huh. Ok. Hmmm. Makes sense. WW2 history? Interesting. Ah… Ok. Cool.

Nice

Still don't get how not a single person in RD looked at it and went "Hey 3 mana for a high loyalty planeswalker that can instantly ramp for 2 mana, or remove creatures, AND play its ultimate on the turn after either effect is pretty stupid"

That Guild Wars 2 background music +1

actually did this once, my oponent didn't have any "destroy target artifacts" and I had a dispell anyway

Awesome watch!

That survivor bias analogy can be improved

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in a week new capenna will launch, along side with a new 3cost plainswalker that seems boosted, alot of ppl are saying that its the new oko, so i come to this video to know what its oko and why ppl hate them, i hope you make a video about ob nixilis if it turn to be as broken as oko

This was amazing

Wait, I thought this was a made up story, it actually happened at a pro tour? edit: oh, it get silly

Well, I lost the game. Many times over this video.

Hey I recognize that wit flute music from the Kaladin Kickstarter... Nice

I can't wait for the next Oko card...

It's not broken, it just made fair decks good. Also, the elk memes were hilarious