How Many Misplays Can You Spot In This Game Of Commander? | Shuffle Up & Play | Magic: The Gathering

This is an episode we thought we could never show because it's got so many, many misplays. But we sat down with our judges and marked every misplay we could, and now it's time for you to watch along and see if you can catch them before we do!
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[@TolarianCommunityCollege]

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[@demotivatedoverlord]

FYI, the decklists are not in the description.

[@aliasisudonomo]

Misplayception!

[@gonzaloperez1427]

can you add the Decklists please?

[@EldritchCutie32]

Decklists please

[@brettfettbeargaming]

Lists where

[@Aerix]

The info-blurbs were a fantastic addition to the episode. I would adore if they came back on the regular or even if it became a reoccuring rarity.

[@TolarianCommunityCollege]

We are having internal discussions about using them (sparingly) as an ongoing part of normal episodes. Certainly better than the green screen method of acknowledging misplays.

[@LadybugDregs]

They have a very “pop-up video” feel. I dig it.

[@rok8204]

@@TolarianCommunityCollege I loved them as well.

[@caseyfurey1348]

@@TolarianCommunityCollege I think sparingly would work really well! The premise of this episode made it a great time to test them out

[@gordonramsey7379]

I liked the ones that didn’t pertain to the game, like the tidbits about Julius Caesar or dramatic irony

[@chummer2060]

I see why the episode was scrapped originally, but it ended up being a really fun watch. Realistically, this is how a lot of commander games go. Jesse is always a pleasure. I love her sense of humor.

[@557deadpool]

The bridge shuffling and using unsleeved cards make this video already difficult to watch

[@blujay1294]

@@557deadpool that was one of my favourite parts lmfao

[@557deadpool]

@@blujay1294 ..........

[@thatJoshieJosh]

*Entire table misses Jesse's perfect Forgotten Ancient joke* Editor - "oh fuck no we ain't letting that slide unappreciated"

[@StephenEmmons-mx5yz]

Totally agree.

[@yehoshuathompson]

This might just be my favorite episode of magic gameplay. The editor struggling to keep Jesse's commander centered, the info bubbles, and general vibe of this episode are top notch.

[@illusionxmuta]

Don't forget the Le Croix

[@TeamToooBananas]

Cap, this episode felt so dead... normally they are a lot more alive and talkative (by making jokes). Maybe its the odd combination of people for the first time that equates to such a dry show or its that "contract" that needed to be signed due to Jesse. I truly believe that you're lying.

[@yehoshuathompson]

@@TeamToooBananas or we can agree to disagree. People can like different things

[@sundalius]

@@TeamToooBananasseems to me that there’s a lot less dead air edited out in this so the “pace” is a bit slower - makes it feel less high energy. Also lots of fiddly decks on top of that.

[@jamescampbell2353]

I loved the “everyone in this shot has been eliminated”

[@jesserobkin]

Wow, a new shuffle up and play episode! I can't wait to see everyone play very well and not make any mistakes :-)

[@atreyu77777]

Can you post your decklist somewhere plz?

[@TheUNgamerz]

@jesserobkin Totally loved how you played with the camera in the early beginning to mess/toy with the Editor :D haha

[@DeWillpower]

five episodes! a gift for your hard work for writing videos for the channel and make some decklists that viewers played and will play in the future♥

[@TolarianCommunityCollege]

OMG! It's that TCC writer who really, really loves Day / Night!

[@ichguckegerneyoutube8837]

i didnt realize that jesse is tiddypills lmao

[@OveSorcop]

Prof ramping in turn 5 by playing two lands for turn was a nice move :D

[@Umbral-Hero]

Tapping your face-down 1-card hand as a land is such a powerful move, surprised it doesn't see more tournament play

[@DamascusDerk]

Probably part of the Disney Lorcana meta

[@ohne_unterstrich]

give the editor a raise! the first episode of shuffle up and misplay was brilliant

[@ClanCrusher]

So Michael was playing a Day-Night deck with about a million different graveyard triggers and Jesse was playing a storm focused deck where every spell played triggers a million different things. I'd be more amazed if things DIDN'T go wrong. I can't really be too critical though. There was a lot going on, especially in those final turns. Jesse in particular was looking like she was getting self conscious about how long her turn was taking which coaxed her to rush, and the best way to misplay an open-ended combo and/or storm deck is to rush.

[@yoda9240]

Prof saving Jesse's board and then immediately dying to it is quite sad. Though it would be sadder if he hadn't talked about how he was going to betray her before and after his defeat.

[@ColorwaveCraftsCo]

“Curse your sudden and inevitable betrayal!” Lol

[@uglyboi4841]

“No need to sleeve 50$ decks, proceeds to shuffle a 15$ Kodama”

[@user-ty4sk8dq7s]

IDK how's a Kodama is in a $50 deck

[@christianhanel2129]

​@user-ty4sk8dq7s you see, 50-15= 35

[@erebos42]

@@user-ty4sk8dq7s at the beginning, there is a pop-up bubble that says the video was filmed in June 2022. At that time, West Kodama had a market price of about $5. One $5 card in a $50 deck isn't unreasonable. So it was likely Prof's big spend card in an otherwise super budget deck

[@Dark-Pikachu1]

@@erebos42wait that’s how much I bought the card so I could sell him for $15 🤔

[@Dark-Pikachu1]

@@erebos42I got him for $5 so wait he was $15 now

[@TheMorbidHobo]

Michael using his one-card hand as a land was such a beautiful cherry on top.

[@Ruminations09]

It really was! Just when you think "okay, the game's over, surely there can't be any more mistakes," the most hilarious possible mistake happens.

[@JaySay]

After this one goes up, you're gonna have to give us that misplay game with One More Mana! Hopefully you still have the footage of it, because even if a game goes awry (or so out of whack that no one can keep up!) those guys really know how to have fun!

[@TolarianCommunityCollege]

Oh, yes! We promised TWO Shuffle Up & Misplay episodes for our Kickstarter. This is one of them and THAT ONE? That's likely the other.

[@JaySay]

@@TolarianCommunityCollege Ahhh, I had a hunch that this was one and the other was that one. You spoil us like expired milk on a hot summer day, Prof! Thanks for an early Christmas present (of sorts!...)🤙❤

[@matthewtompkins4338]

Love that everyone IMMEDIATELY forgot about Day/Night after the first cycle lmao

[@ASoulphoenix]

The graveyard played by itself while Celestus, Forgotten ancient and the day/night cycle were forgotten. Plus, storm player missed lethal twice. GGs indeed

[@D1versityArt]

This commander game felt the closest to every game I ever player. Threat assessment, misplays, everyone just focused on its own board. forgetting it's own triggers and so on and on :D

[@CatSculptor]

Love how this game was so wildly misplayed that there were essentially 2 separate games of Magic happening at the same time

[@kendallmcnelly]

The upside down mana tap was top tier 😂

[@crawdaddy2004]

To be fair about the Prof playing the extra land, he didn’t get a land from Kodama’s trigger the previous turn. 😂

[@TimmytheSorcerer]

35:43 Cool use of Chaos Warp, really liking these situations where cards have a unexpected benefit.

[@STS-qi1qy]

I am so glad you decided to release this episode. The pop-ups were amazing.

[@doomofthedestiny8065]

"You can tell its a commander legends card because it's not foil, and it's still curled." So bleeping true...

[@GoldenNovaYugioh]

Truly a gem of an episode. Thank you editors for your work, we are forever in your debt.

[@paulfarr7]

Prof: "We're not sleeving these." My anxiety: - ---------------⚪- +

[@_underscore_9271]

Man, I went to fnm at my lgs earlier this year to play some modern, and the guy I was playing against took out an unsleeved deck and proceeded to riffle shuffle it. I figured, okay, he's probably just playing a cheap deck like I am. And hoo boy was I wrong, in the five turns that game took he managed to play at least $200 worth of cards

[@keegs5632]

I was wondering how there could be so many misplays when this was teased, and I just saw the Celestus drop and know why

[@topinambour]

18 minutes in and 2 Celestus triggers have been missed (2 life and possibly 2 loot), misplays not even acknowledged by the editor Edit: my bad they just noticed 😂

[@kelseyo402]

Editor was having too much fun. The Caesar blurb and the roast blurb killed me.

[@naemsterino]

I really liked Jesse's little smile at her own Forgotten Ancient joke :3

[@Eramiserasmus]

The absolute chaos, the casual misplays, and the editor bringing us all the info-blurbs has me reminded of first learning Commander. The days of everyone learning together what cards do and coming up with fun synergies.

[@cireegdoh]

I hope many are saying this, but I LOVED THE POP-UPS! I liked the factoids as well as the acknowledgement of misplays using them. It honestly felt like the most TCC gameplay video ever because you were learning whilst enjoying!

[@scarfhat1]

As soon as day/night got introduced i knew there would be loads of missed triggers lol

[@NunnanAgda]

That loooong finale felt like she didnt have a red deck... it felt like a blue deck 🤣

[@Haaskeer]

I love this running gag with Halana and Alena :D Was one of the reasons i build this deck, so I can say that more often :D Also my heart hurt when I see how you shuffle those deck. Please give a little love to budget decks. Tomer is crying in a corner right now.

[@SomeOfTheJuice]

Jesse is easily in my top 3 favorite guests, along with Rhystic and Spice, especially with how much they terrorize the Prof.

[@tnelsontffd]

Always need more spice

[@ginjaninja7355]

This episode is the epitome of a Junior editor project that they took a very long time on but turned out great.

[@lasse3405]

More Jesse please. Her dry humour is so fucking funny

[@Getu-]

Michael: "I'm at 14" Editor: *ANGRILY ZOOMS IN AT THE 9 LIFE COUNTER* put me in tears

[@nightmarepenguin2370]

As someone who mainly plays (weird) Selesnya tribal combo decks, and Dimir investigate/general token spam nonsense, I will now always imagine these bubbles of shame popping up while I play commander, as to avoid future instances of missed triggers or fudged numbers. Thankyou Professor, and the associated faculty of Tolarian Community College!

[@athko]

we need more episodes with jesse :3

[@serafimb2319]

Honestly, thank you for uploading this. It's important for players to not only see perfect flawless gameplay online. Everyone makes mistakes and it's great to see a content creator owning it

[@Ruminations09]

I always love episodes with Jesse! Really enjoyed seeing her play this format. Serious props to the editor of this video, as well! Keeping track of all the misplays, actual life totals, ongoing Storm count, and floating mana would be hard enough in a normal video, but with the amount of accidental errors in this game, it's even more impressive. It really went a long way to making what was frankly an extremely overwhelming endgame somewhat comprehensible. The other info blurbs were also great and appreciated as well! I completely understand if they are too time consuming to add regularly to every episode, but it would be really cool they started becoming more commonplace.

[@ThorgisArcade]

Those pop ups had me laughing all throughout. Great work to the whole editing team.

[@WarrenRhem]

“You don’t need to sleeve $50 decks” Well damn Prof that’s all I have in sleeves 😂

[@maxminer9157]

Your editor(s) did an AWESOME job with this video, the little blurbs were super fun

[@TolarianCommunityCollege]

Yay, thank you!

[@matthewwelch2731]

Love seeing the "pros" make misplays like I do... Makes me feel a little better that I'm not the only one. Also love the old-school VH1/MTV popups randomly throughout

[@hugmonger]

They just finished shuffling and I have got to say I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the editor or whoever having a voice here with the pop ups.

[@enoesiw]

Late to the party, but Jesse did in fact have enough to pay 3 mana for the Commander Sphere. She starts off paying 1R for Reckless Impulse, which generates a R and exiles Grinning Ingus and Kyurk. At this point, she has 8 mountains untapped. She then pays 3 red from lands to play Grinning Ingus, leaving RR in the pool. After this point, there seems to be a cut where the lands have been rearranged, but she has an additional 5 tapped lands and 3 open lands when she plays Kyurk, which fits paying the 2 from lands. At this point she would have RRR in her pool. I think at this point in the video, she intends to untap one of the tapped lands to use mana in the pool but it ends up being tapped. Either way, she would have a total of 6 mana available - 3 from lands and 3 floating R - which is enough to activate her artifact and cast Commander Sphere with 1 open land and R in the pool when all is said and done. That means she has enough to follow through with the rest. And even in the situation that was brought up in the video when she tries to cast Seething Song, she can use one of the floating RR mana to return Grinning Ignus to get the mana to cast it. So, it's a little messy and the mana wasn't technically accounted for correctly, but she does have enough to do what she needed to do. That was such a chore to keep track of though xD Good job!

[@igolark]

1:23:59 "everyone in this shot has been eliminated from the current game" I laughed so hard ahahahahah

[@chd1401]

I already love this! After a year of playing magic I am still confused a lot of the weird rules and sequencing.. To see much more experienced players also struggle with that just shows how complicated the game can be and frankly is sort of a reassurance.. And even though there is the occasional misplay, it does not take away one bit from the fun! Keep it going like this!

[@jackhemsworth7515]

Yeah i've been playing for 10 years, even i struggle to keep up with triggers sometimes. i decked myself yesterday through not noticing a mandatory draw trigger.

[@TeamToooBananas]

Its "complicated" due to poor rule design, its probably not you.

[@HurricaneGregor]

Dear editor, You made this the most entertaining game of Shuffle Up & Play, no small feat. Amazing work :)

[@TLG1255]

Dang, huge shout out to the editors and judges for reviewing this one! Glad we got to see this lost episode!

[@kingweb11]

I still want to see these decklists but what a funny episode and kudos to the editing effort here haha.

[@ray_the_red8047]

The most shuffling ive seen in an episode yet, helped to increase the anticipation for the misplays 😂

[@cliffwalker1389]

Loved to see this. I honestly wouldn't mind seeing the mistakes put in the episodes more often as it shows how easy it is to misunderstand cards sometimes even for the most experienced players. The pop-ups were also a fantastic addition 😁

[@joaopereira7111]

I love all the pop ups. Video editing is top notch for this game! Love it

[@Flip4Crypt]

I absolutely love the sass from the editors in this video, incredible The amount of work put into the Info-Bubbles was amazing, the research put into the facts and the comedic timing of the humor is awesome. I'd love to see the bubbles come back for other misplays and minor quips- can't imagine how much work this many bubbles would regularly add to a video

[@xnevyn5578]

I really enjoyed this "Pop Up Video" style of episode. Keep up the excellent editing work, editing team!

[@samhorrell96]

I hope there are more episodes like this for every season of SUP. The pop ups were a great addition.

[@samuelgreen2443]

Really appreciate this episode! It’s nice to see even the experts making mistakes, and that Storm is a pain in the ass for everyone involved xD

[@dakotawiegand1462]

I love the pop up video style you have going on here! Not for every episode, but it’s fun when every now and then!!

[@Brognold]

Wow, I'm Impressed by how funny this game was. Great guests and the blurbs were perfect.

[@Pointandlaughh]

I like this gimmick. Reminds me of that old VH1 show that would have info popups during the music videos.

[@ozzwich]

I love the pop-ups explaining the rules fails and fun-facts. This is perfect!

[@Yontanian]

I almost didn't watch this because why would I want to watch good players misplay for 90 minutes, but misunderstood the premise and I'm glad I watched it.

[@jaegergaming02]

Those little pop-up bubbles were a really nice addition! It was fun getting to see the little bits throughout the episode!

[@charlieb4993]

This was so so funny. Really enjoyable to watch, fantastic comedic timing with the editing.

[@jasonlarue5694]

I watched this episode last night and going to rewatch. It really was a fun episode. Keep up the amazing work.

[@sampsahult1514]

I love the info pop-ups! Would love to see them in the future too, ie. random facts of the cards that are being played.

[@KomradeKrisis1701]

Having played a number of games where we all played a precon for the first time without familiarising ourselves with the cards in them, I think that might be the main culprit for all of the various missed triggers, etc that occurred

[@00punkroker]

This was like watching "Pop Up Video" from VH1 when I was a kid, and this makes me very happy :) Well done to the editors!

[@maxleveladventures]

I'm really enjoying these pop-ups. They are genuinely quite funny, some exceptionally so!

[@Spotifist]

That was a trip, wow. Great guests, thanks for the video!

[@likeloureed]

Amazing episode love, love, loved it! Thank you TTC🙏

[@jonathanrobinson8926]

I'm SO happy the Prof listened to the comments begging for this episode to be released.

[@Karste1n]

Love the onscreen captions, so many chuckles

[@ericap1098]

I love the "pop up video" feeling of the episode. I enjoy the guests, especially Jesse. The dry humour speaks to me.

[@reignbopanda3444]

I love the little post-edit stuff that pops up, the little factoids. I would love more of these!

[@spencervalentine5686]

With all the edits, this was seriously the most hilarious game I’ve ever watched! 😂😂

[@sle7189]

Great video, amazing guests as always ❤

[@trentonsimpson2621]

The editor deserves a bonus for this episode.

[@Mognet_t]

Finally, an episode of shuffle up and play that mirrors my own (in)ability to remember triggers and sequence properly! Fantastic episode, i love Jesse and Skyler to death.

[@cameronbulgin9986]

The little info bubble pop ups were truly a treat, would love to see these again.

[@ericczerniak]

Love it, really enjoy all the little added comments by editors lol

[@VisibleNinja5674]

First half of the video: hey this doesn't seem so bad. Second half: oh Lol though I actually really enjoyed seeing the mess. Always good to see something like this since we're not perfect. Magic is complicated

[@Flyboy245]

So happy that someone actually calculated all the misplays. I was going to try myself (and most likely fail 😅), before I realized it was being done. I absolutely loved the info blurbs. They were so fun. Misplays or not. Hope that’s a recurring thing

[@seizan88]

I'm 7min in and good god... I love these little pop ups 😂 great addition

[@middleofnowhereradio]

@jessrobkin You play mono red like I take SAT tests LOL! Fun game, thanks to the crew for the entertainment!

[@crimsonshadow1583]

I love this episode, such perfect bliss

[@forlineumtosino]

This has been the most chaotic game I have ever seen on a show, feels like my regular games. I love it.

[@origaminosferatu3357]

Wow this makes me feel better about my games. I'm the ambitious Timmy who ends up building crazy synergies that quickly outstrip my mathematical prowess. The sarcasm dripping off those info bubbles made this episode sing. Great job, team!

[@jaxsonbaerg8178]

The editing additions on this video had me laughing out loud

[@mandielyn0416]

Every time Prof puts a counter on any creature other than Halana and Alena (other than their triggered ability) it is a misplay.

[@PedroAbilleira]

PLEASE, release more of those if they ever happen! I reckon it's probably very taxing for the editors and judges to review all the footage, so probably not regularly releases, but still! The episode with Spice8 where you traded decks and this one are the BEST ones so far

[@kazko2563]

I really like the little tip bubbles that pop up! Props to the editor!

[@Dylfunkle]

I love the "pop up video" style notes, A+ for nostalgia.

[@Antwonay]

This has absolutely been my favourite episode of Shuffle Up and Play. The little info tid bits were so funny and some of them like the dramatic irony one were so clever and tongue in cheek. I properly belly laughed at the post game interviews when the Professor just had his head in his hand while Jesse talks real nonchalantly about how the partnership was temporary. Please do more misplay episodes, it would be such a shame for your hard work to go to waste and I think a lot of us enjoy this show for the real time, authentic banter too. Not saying the production value isn't good, but the "At home' vibe is just so chill to watch

[@kvnleahy]

not even all the way done. thank you editors for all the notes, it's a great gag

[@TheNazgulArcher]

I love the Pop-Up Video style that was used for this video!

[@mathgeek3_14]

I like the facts that keep popping up please keep those coming

[@LopestEmarq]

My god I laughed so hard on this episode. I wish I could like it 100 times. Thank you everyone evolved on producing that