LRRMtG - Dollar Store Highlander

Broadcast 2017-11-10
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[@docbp87]

Surely it must be Beejlander.

[@Cameron-eq1pz]

the gods have spoken

[@kenRoberts1984]

Agreed, more of this, please

[@RobertJW]

And so it was.

[@hatchcrazy]

I often stare at my draft picks and declare, "Well, this sure is a pile of Magic cards," but never has that sentiment been more appropriate than for the decks in this video.

[@Ghost26968]

This is one of those times where chat not being displayed for the youtube audience means they miss out. Guys, the chat lost its collective minds when Beej showed up.

[@RobertJW]

I must have watched the Beej intro five or six times in a row, and it kills me every time, it absolutely slays me. “So... Goodbye!” And poor Serge, the look on his face . I’m dead, it’s perfect.

[@Simriel]

It might be the perfect way he slides off, like just effortlessly Is Gone xD

[@pBlackcoat]

Also just it is I...Beej

[@TomBerryBW]

what they should have done is when you beat someone you get their pool to power up your own deck so at the final its a deck with all the best of 2 people pools and then all the best of all 4 and the final boss is they have to fight beej with an actual constructed highlander deck

[@FoggyMemoryProductions]

This was absolutely hilarious to watch. And I do have to give it to Beej for joining in playing a game. Even though he doesn't play magic I imagine he was having fun.

[@Armageddon-yt3so]

surprised to see you here lol

[@StefanWB]

Goblin War Paint on Daggerdrome Imp = (contextually) P O W E R F U L M A G I C

[@KoverKingz]

Honestly not too different than putting a curious obsession on a pteramander. Contextually of course

[@dustinolson4674]

This feels like real mtg. So much fun being had, and so much janky goodness. It's games like this that make Pauper EDH, or PDH, my favorite format. I play it in the CanLander style, 1v1 with 20 life. This was a great. Nice job grandmaster!

[@hiimemily]

*_"HE HAS A RARE"_*

[@laurencebrown3822]

The moment when Beej presents himself as the Final Boss -- EPIC!!!

[@louiesalmon3932]

This was an excellent idea.

[@mikeyjhilli]

yes I was. ought to do it more often. I'm calling it DollarLander

[@PewPew_McPewster]

I mean it turned out to be Peasant Highlander Sealed. It's okay. The power level isn't as abysmal as we thought it'd be.

[@LadyLunarSatine]

Okay, I really like "TrashCanLander"

[@maxwellgriggs8554]

I'm a fan of "Wastelander"

[@ZexionII]

It's short for "Trash Canadian Highlander" isn't it?

[@patrickstonecrusher]

This makes me think of opening my first "tournament pack" back in Ice Age. "Hey kids! Want to learn Magic? Here's a pile of random cards, lands, and a tiny confusing rulebook printed in 4 point font! Have fun!" My first 60 was every black or red card I owned plus some islands to get up to enough lands. Nostalgia! 8D

[@JasperJanssen]

I think my first pack was a 4th edition starter, and that did not make for an awesome starting deck.

[@one2584]

That was way more fun then where I am now: not enough good rares to play competitively, but too many cards to play the old way

[@loganjamesonhatch5050]

Oh god, it had islands to fill the mana base

[@mrmeepmeep2486]

Maybe 'lowlander' should a highlander variant for constructed. Like a pauper or peasant version of highlander? Also I think I like Beejlander for the name of this hot mess of a format.

[@snirky]

Cam sounds so delighted during deck building. It makes me so happy.

[@riverofferhaus9612]

Oh my god, the sight of Serge just casually sideshuffling unsleeved cards is fucking awful. By the way, our actual magic store has a similar product which is 100 random commons for 4 dollars, so my brother and I tried pauper Beejlander and it was so much fun.

[@joe_h_Redwire]

After the 3rd Beejlander, I had to re-watch the first two. Graham's like Virgil at the start, guiding a cheerful Dante-Serge into a confusing hellscape of a new format. Mad props to Beej. He could've made a powerful Grixis deck, but instead played with a blind handicap for the memes.

[@JoshTheHod]

Found Presstine's site and ordered a couple of these lots for me and a friend to play the same format, Presstine is actually a canadian based company, bummed we dont have anything like that down here in the states

[@JoshTheHod]

Update: It was a blast and we had a ton of fun doing this, i recommend this to anyone who has a magic group that needs something fresh to try

[@gamester512]

I haven't played this in a very long time, but I do still remember what the "Ace" creature of my old Black deck used to be: Hypnox (costs 8 Colorless & 3 Black to cast, it's an 8/8 with Flying and when cast from the owner's hand an opponent of their choice removes their entire hand from play for as long as Hypnox is in play).

[@PewPew_McPewster]

That opening with Serge slowly parsing the idea of what he has to do in this format is truly a mood.

[@MrMielke]

With the costume and setting, Beej somehow reminds me of Imakuni? from the Pokemon Card Gameboy Game. :D (I'm also a bit impressed how much he has learned from pure diffusion just by being at the Moonbase.)

[@elizzler]

My friends: what’s your favorite format? Me: .... it’s complicated

[@jallen3775]

Beejlander is best format, if I ever see those repacks I'm going to buy them up, I will get some some friends to try this

[@MrROTD]

My brother bought me some of these packs, I actually enjoyed seeing all the different old sets and cards I have never seen although the actual value of these is really low you can still have fun with them

[@liamisafireplace]

I’m gonna need to copy this with my lgs’s “10 pounds of cards for $10”

[@PewPew_McPewster]

This feels like an episode of Friday Nights. What have you done to Magic.

[@popsicleman8816]

This reminds me of strictly worse. They should make that cube for real and draft it on stream.

[@PewPew_McPewster]

Somehow I feel like everyone would be a just little happier if they had two of those 100 card packs. Two Color decks might be just that might more doable with 200 random draft chaff. Trashcanlander is fine, as is Wastelander.

[@MatteBlacke]

Indeed. I fully agree with PewPew_McPewster

[@Dream146]

Happiness has nothing to do with this format.

[@falconJB]

Or if they drafted?

[@Pistonrager]

So here is the Format idea. Namelander. Whomever is the Grand Master creates a deck construction format. The winner fights single game vs th current Grand Master(who uses a slightly more ridiculous deck build based on the current) for the title. Beejlander was Dollar store Highlander. But Now Cameron makes a Format.... Say... Five Color Crack-a-Draft chaff. Format: Limited decks, built from packs from the crack a pack box. Construction: Packs are randomly selected from the crack a pack box. In draft order the packs are drafted. Then the draft begins. After the first round of draft picks all remaining cards are tossed into a communal pile. This repeats for the remaining packs. Finally the remaining cards are sorted by color, each color is shuffled, and finally distributed as evenly as possible(toss any leftovers?). Mana restrictions, must have X (probably 2) basic lands of each color. Then the next winner makes Jameslander, Normal modern draft... But the top card of your deck can be played as a Morph creature. Then suddenly Beejlander 2, Back drafting using the cards from Beejlander 1.

[@TheRealPentigan]

Mirrorlands: Set Draft. Every enter the battlefield effect triggers for both players. Planlander: Chaos Draft. Players may order the top five cards of their deck after mulligan. Landlander: Modern Constructed. Basic lands can be played as Morph creatures with the flip condition being taking damage. Formationlander: Chaos Draft. Creatures can be played to two separate rows. Creatures in the back row cannot attack or block (but may activate abilities) unless there's no creatures in the front row. Nolander: Constructed. No basic lands allowed.

[@DarkYuan]

31:59 - He really thought he was gonna be able to play one color!? Maybe if you were making a 40 card deck

[@paradoxthc3301]

How can we it be possible to watch all these streams my god putting in work. Yall got me into magic about a year ago. Appreciate the content can tell youre invested keep it up 🐼

[@Vegiroth191]

Which Dollar Store? Going to make me browse Dollar Stores now.

[@Finkeldinken]

Serge's Elmo-ish laughing fits of delight gives me life. This was just generally wonderful.

[@Lukegamer]

Magic just as Garfield intended TM.

[@Simriel]

Lies. No one played Mox Mox land black lotus, Sylvan Dragon

[@gundathroneps448]

Next time give them another hundred cards and they use them to improve there first pool!!!

[@flaetsbnort]

I'd like that! How many cards until they have something halfway playable?

[@gundathroneps448]

Well there are ALOT of good common and uncommons they could get. Plus cheap rares like beej got.

[@TehAmelie]

At the end you guys were talking about doing something like, but not "exactly" this again, with a "semi-random" card pool. I've got an idea: This exact thing again, but you're allowed to round your deck out with one (1) card from the Moonbase collection.

[@Drecon84]

I love formats like this so much. Thank you for making this, it was awesome.

[@firestick123]

So bugged that Ben won game 1, Surge never declared going to attack before he tapped down the creature. It was his win and it kind of bugs me.

[@IkeofCrimea]

When Nelson pulled an island and a swamp my first though was "there's your win con, you can use those to cast Storm Crow"

[@Big_Dai]

Ben and Serge Yager (great name) are simply the best. Subscribed! But do more of this and Commander.

[@austinknighton5319]

Dai 大 you should also subscribe to their main channel, thus one is just streams, the main channel is just loadingreadyrun.

[@snowy-g9p]

the very start of this "victim" was the correct word

[@RunielNalovir597]

Why do I think this would go better with 60 card decks (Isn't that called Auslander)?

[@DamienE11]

Yes, Australian highlander is 60 card singleton with a 15 card singleton sideboard

[@joseph-yt2qk]

Forest bear studios are a couple guys that do a lot of paper magic. And they did basically this but 60 cards. Look up Forest bear studios dollar store sealed.

[@matthewgagnon9426]

Commencement of Festivities is not strictly better than Chameleon Blur. Chameleon Blur can prevent non-combat damage that creatures deal. That's not to say Chameleon Blur is good, but it does do something Commencement can't do at all.

[@gandalfii644]

Aurochs are legitimately my favourite tribe, and I love that Serge is forced to play it.

[@RtxtDriver]

I just saw this now and OMG it's priceless I want MOOOREEEE!!! XD

[@Eternal420ninja]

Oh gosh haha, I remember watching LRR on the Escapist in like 2008 or so, and I remember the episode where Alex is doing real magic when playing everybody.. one of the first times I've was shown magic at all. And now I find on my suggested videos so many years later you guys going specific LRRMTG! This is sweet guys! Keep it up

[@hatchcrazy]

That video is called "It's Magic" and it's up on KZbin now! kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5-5Y5itdr2arNU After LRR made that video, Wizards of the Coast contacted them and started the Friday Nights series, and the rest is LRRMtG history.

[@garethm9523]

If I donate to LRR can I stipulate that it goes exclusively to this format?

[@CaptainCheezmo]

52:12 JUDGE! Cam played 2 lands!

[@DirkLasermaster]

CHET

[@Qolk4jx]

I saw that

[@Dream146]

Oh no, well that's a DQ and ban from all future sanctioned trashcanlander evenrs.

[@Matazuma]

and to me it seems that he wanted to discard that swamp with that rummage mountain

[@mattram8695]

I was screening inside. It doesn't seem like a Cam thing to do.

[@pidgeotroll]

At 2:13:40 when Serge casts Air Servant and evolves, if Ben uses the Trigon to put a -1/-1 counter on the Air Servant while the evolve trigger on the stack, evolve won't put a +1/+1 counter on the creature. This is because the triggered ability evolve checks the power/toughness twice: once when it is put on the stack, and once again when it resolves. This would have been the correct play by Ben, but I don't blame him for missing such a subtle play. Hopefully this comment teaches somebody, somewhere!

[@Jay-rb5pg]

Serge shouldn't have lost game 1 in round 3. he had not declared attacks prior to activating air servant and was still in mp1. Ben won on a miscommunication and serge being a nice guy willing to accept that he made a "mistake".

[@nicknakpaddyman]

This was amazing to watch. Here is to future Camlander events.

[@Snowy123]

Spoilers to the final boss in the chat, don't read it.

[@commissarmartin]

Am I the only one who thinks that it would be fun to do a simmilar thing to this but using a deck builder's toolkit as the pool?

[@qster4]

It wouldn't be nearly as surprising since Deck Builder's Toolkits are mostly fixed cards.

[@TheTexasDice]

Nice work Beej, you came up with a great format.

[@stevenheydorf6686]

Oxidized Esper. Oasis Abzan. Sunny Sultai. Bant in Black, or... Elspeth's Funeral.

[@Nathar45]

About 1 hour and 40 minutes in: Pure comedy gold!

[@FnrrfYgmSchnish]

What dollar store sells 100-packs of oddball mystery Magic cards!? The closest thing the ones where I live have is these odd little Pokémon card mini-boosters that only have something like 3 or 4 cards in them. XD

[@BRoyce69]

Dollarama in Canada, Ontario specifically, maybe elsewhere

[@TARDIS915]

1:12:52 I actually have that in my very first Magic deck I ever built. I had no idea what "value" meant, but it said damage so I figured why not.

[@FreyrFox]

This video had the opposite effect than likely intended, I really really wanna play this

[@Yakmage]

i know nothing about magic, so, goodbye.

[@Arkouchie]

Yakov Weinberger why did you click on the video in the first place Edit: oh you were referencing beej

[@willemboele2079]

XD

[@a3s1r1986]

Pretty much the same way my ex used to do it when I made preorders at my lgs o..o

[@hornylink]

at least that wasn't your LGS manager's reaction

[@ktlynn177]

Please, please, please do more of these.

[@emmettochrach-konradi2785]

Illusionary Informant is strictly better than storm crow here, this is madness.

[@bucketspree4952]

I am definitely doing this with the next 1000 count $10 common/uncommon box I buy

[@DimT670]

I watch this at least once every 6 months

[@maxpower2480]

Ajani's presence is... there... -.- I'm watching you, Ben!

[@bludlar]

The deck with the fidget spinner also ended up doing vape tricks in the end... smh

[@draconetrix3820]

I can't state enough how much I love how the pause button lines up with the card scanner.

[@Quiltfish]

1:01:45 Come on, it's Witch-Maw, the Nephilim were legit!

[@YourCrazyOverlord]

Lowlander/Beejlander must become an eternal format (even if only for you guys)

[@SuperOverLord]

Wait, BEEJ actually knows how to play?!?

[@PrincePossum]

Nah he’s just learned some due to constantly being around players of it

[@wallbant928]

51:55 2 lands that turn?

[@jeremiahbachmann3901]

I am so jealous that you guys are doing this. I would pay a little bit of money to play this crazy casual format.

[@Tom182de]

I wish there were Euro stores in Germany that sell Magic cards!

[@michalljubljanac312]

35 lands seems way too low for this format. Normal limited decks run at least 40% lands, and here you are incentivized to play even more due to how spread out your colors are. I would play up to 45 lands, to be honest.

[@m3ntal_floss937]

Penny Dreadful Sealed

[@snoopyxcore]

Awesome idea/video. Thank you! Would recommend adding timestamps to description.

[@throsetube]

1:21:50 - So Serge draws his card, gets excited and misses his triggers. Then comments that he missed his triggers and proceeds to resolve them, only he keeps the card that should have been milled in his hand and mills two lands, the first being an island. In reality, both islands should have been milled and he should have been gotten. In the end he loses anyways, proving once more that playing poorly and missing triggers (in a game that is only being played for fun) is fun and entertaining.

[@AggroCrow616]

I like that lurking informant straight up surveils

[@one2584]

“I said next time guys “

[@Vickibrownies]

Unshaved Cam is my fave type of Cam.

[@drewwilson9086]

We need more Beejlander on the channel

[@loadingreadylive]

We put our magic vod stuff over here now: kzbin.info so it would still end up on that channel at this point. But if you like this game I'd recommend checking out the BeejChase game over here if you haven't already: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYXNiKOJirOff68

[@jonathanmoore7472]

I really want one of these packs to make a pauper deck

[@torenatkinson1986]

Please stop flicking your cards Nelson

[@elusiveillithid2633]

Dollarama actually still has these 100 packs, though intermittently.

[@Sakura_Sabre]

i have these packs on email notfication when they come back in stock on the website of the company that makes them

[@CountZeroOr]

I have never encountered a Dollar store in the US that has big packs like this, so apparently British Columbia is Magic Land where Uncommons grow on trees? 1:22:50 - So, I was just reading "Paperbacks from Hell" and one of the 80s horror paperback covers has a crab holding a dagger over a woman on an altar. I believe the title was "Crabs: The Sacrifice"

[@paulsequin4198]

Serge is so doodling cute

[@Quiltfish]

49:30 Hobo wizard fight!

[@Senorm0n0]

On the turn that cam plays novijen sages he plays two lands an island and a swamp

[@marquisealexander1371]

Janklander!

[@zeldamaster666]

You guys should bring this back

[@NicksMagicstorytime]

Well that was fun. Reminded me of old school limited where it was about clever plays and using cards to get incremental advantages often in ways that were not really intended.

[@berkanna8066]

This is great! I wish my dollar store here sold those!

[@appeardead]

when serge played qumulox for 8 mana i lost it

[@warlordmacilvernock1979]

Back at the beginning, we used to play forty card Highlander, which pre-dated EDH. Essentially, a forty card singleton deck, usually mono-colored, that would allow us to play a three game match in a very short period. We were college students, and we often played on our breaks during work in the evenings. We also used the ante cards sometimes back then, either for real ante, or ghost-ante. Ghost-ante is basically you each flip a card off of your deck, but all cards in the ante return to their owners at the end of the game.

[@thepaganpersuasion2890]

I loved this, but I wish they'd given Beej special powers to balance it out. Like, he draws 2 cards per turn and has no max hand size, or all his lands are utopia lands, or something :D

[@ecg3803]

i would be more than happy to spend even 12 bucks to get 3 of those 100 packs, i just love having weird and a bit old carts (for this my dream is have a mystery box)

[@BRoyce69]

Man I actually got one of those(out of curiosity), mostly old commons but at least they include a decent amount of rares for 4$ CDN (2/3rd the cost of a single MTG sealed pack). Overall it's great value but questionable overall quality. Not much more to expect from 4$ (3 USD)

[@insane0042]

@ 23:55 Commencement of Festivities is only combat damage, where Chameleon Blur is all damage from creatures, such as a Tim (Prodigal Sorcerer) or Lightning Crafter

[@one2584]

Death bomb has to be the shittiest reiteration of bone splinters