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[@TolarianCommunityCollege]

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[@raleldor]

no

[@Funnehguy1]

It was pretty fun concept to have monarch at the start. Really enables you to swing without any scheming besides the thought of being monarch.

[@HauntedCorpseGaming]

Watched it, fun game.... BUT.... The Prof should've brought his teased Sliver deck from awhile back. :D

[@packfresh1]

This is how lame the prof actually is... he hearts his own comments... 😂😢sad

[@averybluemondayful]

Hey Prof!!! Are you going to MagicCon in Vegas?

[@Rixizu]

To be accurate to the Fallout/Bethesda experience, the Commander decks will have plenty of misprints and bugs. Expect 98 card decks and plenty of accidental infinites.

[@johnmartin9846]

Just a feature. Not a bug

[@Lordsnes]

It just works

[@b2e297]

It’s important for passionate players to be able to mod in their favorite tech into those last two slots. Or maybe they’ll be fundamental additions to a basic play experience (last two missing cards are an intended ramp and boardwipe piece)

[@Logan-lz5gu]

​@@Lordsnestell me lies. Tell me sweet little lies

[@ZeusTheGodSoA]

I'm pretty sure a bee is going to be inside the deck box, and it's just gonna float away when you get it.

[@Azeria]

I honestly don’t mind Wilds coming out ‘so soon’ after Commander Masters, because Commander Masters wasn’t ‘for me’ anyway.

[@erentsen]

I only play Commander and Commander Masters wasn't 'for me' either

[@RafitoOoO]

Yeah, commander and regular standard sets are worlds apart.

[@Mushroomhaus0001]

I make a lot of money and bought into some CMM collector packs and realized it still wasn’t for me. Won’t be making that mistake again. Eldraine is so much more exciting and it’s so funny that many of the fancy cards I opened in CMM are also in Eldraine, but with better art. I fully deserve this

[@stoiccrane4259]

@@Mushroomhaus0001 That's why single are alwys recommended here.

[@crashdnc1585]

Can we just go to every other month we get a new set

[@iandegiovani4703]

I hope one day we get a Universes Beyond: Magic the Gathering.

[@last9up]

You're joking but when they have a year of random 3rd party sets and a single MTG related set it won't be so funny 😂

[@brendans1983]

Too soon 😂

[@painandpyro]

Well played sir

[@KingBobXVI]

Completely unreasonable, they'd never get the rights.

[@matador12ify]

I love the MTG universe and lore, would love to get some MTG products set in that universe

[@Phenest76]

The space set I think will represent the blind eternities with Eldrazi being the big threat. The bloomburrow set will finally set up the long awaited Emrakul vs. 15 squirrels!

[@luciusvoldaren]

I don't know how they're going to do Eldrazi... The only one still alive is Enrakul, and she's trapped in the moon on Innastrad.

[@Trashmaus666]

Looks like Magic The Gathering is reaching a state that most of the major entertainment franchises have reached, where the creative route is continued in a meme-ified way that looks at its own original material from the outside, increasingly ignoring what made it great in the first place, in an attempt to appeal to more and more people.

[@Chocolate83Bunny]

Flanderfication

[@kelvinarauz8132]

What made the game great in the first place? people trow out this statement but this could mean anything to many different players

[@Trashmaus666]

True, I mean it more in terms of its Lore, Aesthetics and visual "Identity", so to say. MtG certainly was great even without Universes Beyond, Wild West and Space Opera shenanigans

[@mjjjuly]

MtG is now Hasbro's cashcow, they're doing the same shit they've done with their mass-market board games like Monopoly

[@johndipietro9301]

​@@kelvinarauz8132exactly this. Honestly, the things that made Magic "great" for me were the ways in which different kinds of worlds could interact even just within the MtG planes, and the stories you could generate from them colliding. I started back with Prophecy and Invasion and loved the whole Invasion plot. I lost interest sometime around Shadowmoor, with limited peeks back in after that, but it was the LotR crossover that got me to pay attention again - and then see everything I had missed that WAS based in MtG. Also, the product count for full UB releases has been smaller than the count of new sets based in MtG planes, new or old, and despite LotR being a sales giant, we're not seeing that change next year. Yeah, there's a few more in SL drops and Crossover alt arts, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to new, MtG related cards.

[@PhazonOmega]

Lost Cavern of Ixalan had better have the most powerful green 6/6 tampling creature in Magic!

[@AsuraBoss]

Are you referring to, C O L O S S A L D R E A D M A W?

[@CriticoMaldispostoGames]

We need colossal dreadmaw reprint 💙

[@5corponok]

Primeval Titan seems out of flavor for Ixalan though 😁

[@williamwh810]

Honestly the increasing amount of universes beyond product and inclusions was one of my biggest fears after the phyrexians being defeated. Hopefully they avoid power creep and the game doesn't suffer another blow

[@verververververver]

I'm so glad we built an intricate and interesting villain for 30 years to write them off so the Brotherhood of Steel can be in MTG

[@meh.5645]

Murders at Karlov Manor might sound like a goofy Clue tie-in but IIRC Mark Rosewater has actually said he's been trying to do something like this on Ravnica for a long time and I get why. For many people Ravnica = Guilds and going there without them is pointless but having a special set on Ravnica be character-focused or event-focused lets the designers explore new flavor and mechanics without drying up the well of guild ideas. Basically a Ravnica set without the guilds sounds interesting to me *because* it's not just trying to do guild sets for the fourth time, and that means they have to get creative in how they use the setting. I'm excited to see what they do with it

[@adderous]

Assassin's Creed and Fallout? What incredibly popular powerhouses of modern gaming. WOTC sure do know how to strike while the iron is hot.

[@TolarianCommunityCollege]

Let's not forget them grabbing the cultural zeitgeist with Jurassic Park.

[@Calvin_Coolage]

You joke but both of those franchises have fanbases that act like battered housewives and will excuse everything Ubisoft/Bethesda do while buying unhealthy amounts of merch. No wonder WOTC would try making products for them, they're just like Magic players! Plus I know people who make liking Fallout a core part of their identity who would 100 percent buy Magic cards with Brotherhood Paladins and Dogmeat on them. Unless they've gotten sick of dealing with WOTC's bs the past couple years and are considering cashing out/burning their entire collection of cards like me and some my friends.

[@idiotsplay580]

@@TolarianCommunityCollege its the oddest timing known to mankind with the world trilogy wrapped.... last year... but ill happily build a rexy commander deck all the same. i really just hope they reference the books as well as the movies too; my kingdom for a camoflaging carnotaurus card. the world movies did a decent job referencing the unused book material from the first trilogy but the camo carno is 100 percent still my favorite part of either book edit; i just got to the JW park of your video while getting ready for work and the word "scenes" has me ridiculously excited and by that i mean BRING ME "CLEVER GIRL"

[@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai]

I’m more tripped up by the sports shit. I just hope they have a cool fantasy tie-in for that stuff. I will actually quit Magic if they just have mundane, real-world sports themes and athletes. But if they all take place on a plane where sports combine with high fantasy, that’ll actually be dope. Fingers crossed. Edit: Haha guess I should watch the video before engaging in comments. I was wondering why no one was talking about the sports stuff.

[@adderous]

I don't know, I feel like most of the people who really love Fallout decided that they were just kind of done with it after Fallout 4 and 76, and have mostly gone back to playing New Vegas for the 50th time. ...I may be one of these people.

[@thelankyyankee4493]

I think my biggest gripe with some of the Universes Beyond, like Walking Dead, Fallout, Assasins Creed, is that the places depicted in them are "real" to an extent. I feel, personally, there is a bit of a difference between LoTR, Warhammer, Final Fantasy than the previously mentioned. I know its a very arbitrary line in the sand, but I guess I just feel that Sam and Frodo on their trip to Mordor is a different immersion break than Ezio jumping around Italy. Really excited for the Magic IP sets though! The haunted house plane looks totally wicked

[@cj-tv8kc]

To be fair, Arabian nights had plenty of real life places mentioned within, lighthouse of Alexandria and Bazar of bhagdad to name just a few.

[@thelankyyankee4493]

@@cj-tv8kc Very fair point, if I remember right there are even some flavor texts thats reference the bible and Edgar Allan Poe. I guess I am just used to the Status Quo of the past 20 years or so.

[@Hemlocker]

I know I'm in the minority here, but I personally found the LotR set more "immersion breaking" than several other UB products. Something about LotR already being so close to MtG creates this weird uncanny valley type of effect for me. (The set is still awesome though)

[@notapplicable6985]

​@@thelankyyankee4493Those quotes were used when 'the gathering' part of magic the gathering was intended to be the title of the first release set

[@adderous]

And Three Kingdoms had even more of them.

[@treelayn6292]

I hope bloomburrow contains a Raccoon commander, I'd instantly build a deck for it

[@lysanderxx1664]

May his name be Rocket and su-subtype Battery thief

[@kevineldridge9452]

Trash Panda...!

[@marshspy]

Good news pal

[@hwango6036]

Bloomburrow is far and away the most exciting thing in the announcement for me, though I'm also happy we'll eventually get back to Lorwyn. Hooray for sets with no humans! The Bloomburrow art of the mouse facing off against the wolf immediately made me think of Mouse Guard. As for low points...eh, I don't care about any of the Universes Beyond properties mentioned for 2024 and beyond, and am skeptical about many of the real releases too...at least Thunder Junction looks like it will have cacti. Seriously, where the heck are all of the MtG cacti?

[@KingBobXVI]

Bloomburrow is also my #1, Lorwyn a close second, but for me my third has to be Final Fantasy. As far as Universes Beyond concepts go, FF is a really good fit compared to other options, and with a lot of potential. Yoshitaka Amano reprint bonus sheet anyone?

[@centillionandone]

I read that theyre going to change it so there is only one planeswalker per set, I'm wondering if were going to get a new squirrel planeswalker or a new version of grist as a proper swarm of bugs. Are there any other non humanoid walkers? OB nix and ashiok don't count.

[@hwango6036]

@@centillionandone Technically, there's Comet from Unfinity, but that would be incredibly jarring theme-wise, so let's hope that doesn't happen. I'm hoping for a brand new non-humanoid planeswalker. Perhaps a coyote? Mole? Owl? Many excellent possibilities await us.

[@matthhoud2359]

With about one product a month, did they hire more people? I'm afraid they chose quantity over quality. And the surge in price is backbreaking. I'm now much more selective in my purchases and veering more and more towards singles. Even though some sets may seem interesting, I'll wait for the price tags to decide if I'm in or not.

[@devinkerr5474]

I stopped buying magic product forever ago, not because it WAS too expensive for me, but I worried about something like this happening and not being able to keep up, soI stopped investing in something I knew I'd get priced out of for the most part.

[@ChilleDINJerseY]

I stopped buying for a few sets, now I have zero urge to buy any. GO COLD TURKEY!

[@PieMan061]

Always buy singles. It is literal gambling otherwise

[@flarefangshadow]

I'd argue the new motto should be "proxy the singles you need". Only buying the singles if you intend to play in a tournament, or at an LGS that doesn't support proxies (though high quality proxies could easily get around this).

[@calenhoover1124]

@@devinkerr5474 " I was worried about not being able to keep up so i stopped keeping up" - yep makes sense to me chief.

[@r4diantshad0w44]

WotC is literally personifying the phrase "If everything is special, nothing is."

[@JamesDeanIsAlive]

I know what you're saying, but if you follow the through line that phrase doesn't make sense, not the least in this context. if everyone was a firefighter, sure firefighters would be less novel, but it wouldn't be less special to be able to have the resources to save someone's life. for instance. just because wotc makes lots of products and lots of frames doesn't necessarily mean nothing is special anymore, card prices are going down and people are able to bling out their decks easier than ever. doesn't make it less special. wizards has several lessons to learn but I don't think this is one of them - they should try and make each set special.

[@Habeev07]

The woke will reap what they sow.

[@bigpablo673]

They must've sown the most profitable year in mtg history 🤷​@@Habeev07

[@raiserofchickens]

18:45 It is worth noting that Final Fantasy has a card game already. A really good card game at that. It plays a lot like MtG, but faster, tighter and less bloated. It's worth checking out if you can find it.

[@Orelusz]

I actually have two starter decks and looking for some ppl to play with and learn. It looks quite fun.

[@cylonsteve2511]

Excellent call! Thanks.

[@SleepTalkRest]

The FF card game is so good!! I can't reccommend it enough to people.

[@benpearson49]

Interesting, is there an equivalent to The Gatherer, or Skryfall?

[@Keyw]

Isn't the art pretty abysmal, though? To the extent that many cards are merely in-game renders? I can't speak to the game design, of course, and I'm sure it's quite fun given the praise I see here.

[@Ellicess]

My very first set was Dragons of Tarkir. Can’t wait to go back! 😁

[@dylannicholas1914]

Same!!

[@chall3ng33v3rything]

Mine too!

[@jreyes9005]

There are dozens of us!!

[@saidin0142]

Same here!!!

[@Seven_Swell]

Very excited for Bloomburrow, I have just been rereading a Redwall book and think it'll be a lot of fun!

[@benjaminloyd6056]

Red Wall series is great. Mossflower is my favorite.

[@simopen]

yeah, that's really the one standout here

[@Hemlocker]

As someone who got into Magic fairly recently, I love the idea of more Remastered sets as a way to revisit older sets and blocks that I wasn't around for

[@wanderoustree]

You can still be around for them in modern.

[@pavma7]

Yeah but you can't really buy any boosters unless you pay a lot of money

[@Hemlocker]

@@pavma7 I almost never buy boosters anyway, I just like Remastered sets as a curated collection of cards rather than having to dig through thousands of cards myself

[@pavma7]

i like the booster cracking@@Hemlocker

[@wanderoustree]

Opening boosters is fun. I haven't played paper magic since 2017. I've been playing since 08. Both paper and Online. Now I have my online account for when I need to get my fix 😂. I feel that though. I went online today and bought 100 bucks of LoTR boosters and did 3 drafts just cause I wanted to open some boosters lol

[@FlummoxedFaker]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that the Wild West one is going to be spell slinger focused. Some mechanics could be bringing back Horsemanship and bringing in something Quickdraw, where it uses the stack like Split Second for kill spells with Storm.

[@SiniBANG]

My true start in the game was during Alara Reborn, a few weeks before Zendikar was released and I wanna see an Alara revisit and hope they complete the borderpost cycle too with enemy colors. But I'm excited for Final Fantasy, I want a Tifa legendary from that set.

[@TheOddKids]

Definitely looking forward to the whimsical nature of Bloomburrow, the darker imaging of Duskmourn: House of Horror, and the death race / space sets coming out. I think Wizards is taking a big risk with some of the other sets, but I'm all for it. Let's get creative with it!

[@TheGprinziv]

Duskmourn takes a slight hit from e cause I'm pretty sure it's just Betrayal at House on the Hill, but I want them to do more actual worldbuilding and internal IP stuff, so I still want it to be good.

[@aleksandrulyanov1903]

Man I'm also hype for the animals

[@Aerix]

I do like the ocasional universes beyond, but it shouldn't become their solo buisness model.

[@subatomicnonsense]

Yeah it’s starting to come off like a Fortnite Battlepass where instead of creating unique content they just take IPs so they can make money.

[@chamber8234]

This js exactly what Lego is left to do because all of their own IPs either couldnt last ling enough or flopped completely. Its sad to see Lego…Friends? Lego Seinfeld??

[@Sinistra359]

I say f*ck it. They had 30 yrs, unfortunately Jace can't sell packs anymore, so at this point just give me red dead redemption, dead space, etc

[@demonkingrouga]

@Sinistra359 You know what, as ridiculous as this all is, I'd be down for a Dead Space deck. Some of the designs may be a little to morbid though, like the bloated exploding baby.

[@2Eliishere]

​@demonkingrouga-jp8gp everything would have to be black though right? Where do you fit in the other colors?

[@aldrickespen6863]

Muraganda: Mentioned in cards like "Muraganda Petroglyphs." Vryn: The home plane of Jace Beleren, featured in some card illustrations but never the focus of a set. Moag: Referred to in the flavor text of some cards, but not much is known. Equilor: Referenced in older lore and noted as being ancient. Ir: Mentioned in association with the card "Eladamri, Lord of Leaves." Pyrulea: Mentioned in the context of the "Planechase" product but never the main focus of a set. Shandalar: Although it has had a significant role in supplemental products and Magic lore, it has not been the main setting for a Standard-legal expansion. Segovia: Known for being a miniature plane, mentioned in older cards.

[@Shotgungunshot1]

I’m always excited for more Ravnica, though not from a story perspective. I love dual-colored Commander decks so another round of signets and shocklands are always welcome in my book, and so many cards built around dual colors always means some additions to my decks. Meanwhile, while the Universes Beyond aren’t my jam as much, I’ve directly seen them manage to hook a few friends into learning MTG and having fresh players with open perspectives is a blast.

[@CarmenCards]

A murder mystery on a plane where ghost and zombies exist certainly was a decision

[@Chocolate83Bunny]

All of these magical people around, the entire dmir guild, and nobody invented a speak to dead spell? Ha

[@casey4697]

I used to play magic the gathering in high school back when the eldrazi were new. I doubt I'll ever play magic again to be honest but for some reason I still enjoy these videos. Thanks for keeping me informed professor and GodsSpeed with your reviews of all these products. It sounds like you'll need it.

[@whatdothlife4660]

It's still really enjoyable to see new designs for me. I love mechanics, aesthetics, and the color pie but the game is only barely fun to play here and there for me at this point.

[@gootvansquid]

Arena is free, just sayin ;) (People will say it's not but if you are good enough at the game and well enough manage the ingame currency you receive, you can buy the mastery pass every time solely with gems you've won in quick drafts. And either way, you can expand your collection without any real life currency)

[@love2scoobysnack]

I have played Arena for free for nearly two years. I am in no way competitive, but that is in large part due to a lack of skill as much as a lack of money. I like to jump on with simple decks that don't care what your opponent does because lifelinks gonna lifelink and burns gonna burn. I can also count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I have mulliganed in the last two years. I was at my local game shop last week and was able to play some pioneer with a precon deck I sleeved when I got there. I threw down 9 games in 2 hours with it. It was so much more fun than a single game of commander would have been. Commander is in my opinion the worst thing to ever happen to MTG

[@gunnellagann]

Just proxy a cube and have infinite fun

[@Owesomasaurus]

Looking forward to the Wild Wild West tie-in promotional cards in the cowboy set.

[@baltosstrupelos302]

I'm glad you matched your outfit for the cut after the ad Prof. =) It's the lil things.

[@colthuhn2523]

Lorwyn was my entrance to WTG, very excited. The Cowboy and Space Opera sets sound awesome, and the death race sounds cool for vehicles, which I love as well!

[@endlessorbaggins8223]

WTG? You meant MTG? Or maybe you meant Wizard of The Greed? That would be more accurate.

[@gamerbear84]

The standard set offerings sound very good, a lot of ideas that have me interested, the Remastered line, while not something I plan to engage in, has seemed very solid so far, hopefully they keep up the quality. Universes Beyond, I just could not care less about. I'll keep grabbing what they put out as Universes Within, I guess.

[@weeklyweeks7545]

The more I thought about the racing set had me thinking it could be really cool. Obviously would allow for unique vehicle cards we haven’t seen before but something like a Mad Max theme set in the magic universe would be pretty interesting.

[@barbusbogdan7]

I was working while listening to the professor and at the racing part didn't pay attention. So i just thought that he was making fun of those absurd sets. But lol racing in magic? Are we going to crash into armies of goblins? I do get it if its a transformers expansion.

[@MichaelQ1492]

With how lorwyn is now if i remember the story, they could easily implement the day/night cycle with more contrasting and varried differences. Imagine Daybound Sygg being about making merfolk cheaper and gives protection, and then Nightbound sygg being about making merfolk unblockable and you draw for each opponent your merfolk attacks.

[@mikebott6940]

People don't like the complexity of that mechanic.

[@Oopsall]

That’s exactly what I was thinking. The whole world changes between night and day.

[@VijoPlays]

A video on why Tarkir was the last great block? Yes please

[@arnoldjohannfrancisco5641]

17:30 can’t wait for cards games on motorcycles!!!!

[@oliverdown6287]

Of these announcements, the ones I am sincerely and truly excited for are Bloomburrow and Duskmourn (because, as Prof put really well, they seem more sincere and self-serious than the rest of the releases teased in this presentation.) Shame they’re so far in the future, but honestly I’m just happy to have something to look forward to. The good things about such a long stretch of time being revealed all at once like this is it let’s people know what to hold out for. (I’m also excited for the returns to both Tarkir and Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, but as Tarkir was my intro to magic and has a lot of personal significance, I’m sceptical how well WOTC will handle capturing the world of both those planes in a faithful way.)

[@AzyxA]

I really liked Strixhaven. Interested to see what a follow-up set looks like.

[@mikebott6940]

My hope is rival colleges from somewhere else in Arcavios that focus on allied colors and their rivalry w/ Strixhaven. One can hope....

[@mikebott6940]

@@zebra8961 I like it.

[@gamerbear84]

@@mikebott6940 Meh, I'd rather see what else is going on in the setting other than school. Just retreading the exact same thing with a different set of colors feels kinda lazy, even if the reimagining of the color combos' identity was an interesting idea one time. If they were going to do that, I'd rather they work it around a different setting to keep it fresh.

[@carbide4458]

I love ya Prof, and back into 2017 going through your videos got me into MtG in the first place. I think I'm done with this game. Wizards has systematically crushed all the love I had for it, and I'm not one for abusive relationships.

[@cstaie85]

It's a shame but I have been playing since 1995 and I am almost there with you. I will not be buying new cards much anymore. And now I am instead mostly just hunting for very old packs to open... is it sad I'd rather open homelands than this new stuff?

[@simopen]

Same, buddy. Same. 🙁

[@lordxmugen]

Having the next Ixalan set not even BE an Ixalan set (or started out as one) is just a big punch in the gut for me. I wanted more pirates (that were reworked to actually WORK as a deck theme) and conquistador vamps and they just absolutely RUINED it.

[@untrustworthyshelfing9953]

Prof! As somebody who cannot keep up with the stream of info and can't tell a meme from news, THANK YOU for compiling this.

[@bkseventy]

That final fantasy set is going to be amazing; I can really see myself trying to collect the cards physically for the first time in my 20 years playing magic. With that said, I do hope the quality stays where it's at now and there isn't too much power creep. Every card having paragraphs of text on it can be tiring. PS: I really really hope they make an Elder Scrolls set!! That would be insanely successful but I guess I will take Fallout for now.

[@ZeusTheGodSoA]

Im interested some of these, but not all, well see how they all turn out, but im kinda feeling product fatigue. Gotta pick and choose what you wanna buy... Bloomburrow and that horror set definitely looks like the product for me. Maybe ill get the fallout decks? Idk.. this year for me is pretty much over buying sealed products. Professor are you going to make a video about the secret lair angel deck?

[@thomasjackson5381]

I’m looking forward to the sets that don’t have outside IP tie ins. WoE looks good so far and the redwall looking set looks like it could be cool

[@matteobagni1235]

I love these videos, they completely shut down my craving for cards.

[@binch6291]

I find Universes Beyond to be a little irksome for how strong of a place in the game some of its cards now hold, but WOTC seems to have an interesting enough plan of original settings for 2024 that I'll at least hear them out before going full doomer.

[@yklys10s]

My wife was listening while I was watching. She doesn't play Magic, but only from listening she was like "So.. Magic is not Magic anymore. It's everything else." Yeah. Magic has lost its soul.

[@stoiccrane4259]

Think that Corporate is trying to find ways to branch out and appeal to different audiences through UB. It's failing to grow at a decent rate in terms of newcomers.

[@fredericvandereycken787]

I agree, magic doesn't have an identity anymore.

[@eastsidemuu]

ThANK YOu!!! Somebody said it

[@swiftflight7927]

Bloomburrow does look exciting. Depends on the mechanics for me though.

[@anythinggoeseh]

One of the mechanics they could use in "Tennis" could be called 'Hotrod' essentailly making a mutate mechanic for artifacts. The Secret Lair for that set could also be done in Ed Roth's Ratfink style.

[@shryke1013]

Universes beyond deflates every announcement. I like salmon. I like ice cream. Doesn't mean I want those mixed.

[@tomvisser2807]

I'm actually excited for the "wild west meets sword and sorcery"

[@johndipietro9301]

Seriously! Then again, "The Gunslinger" and all that followed were very influential books for me, so maybe I'm just biased.

[@billdoetsch]

I'm excited for outlaw gunslinger set too!

[@Be_Harris]

Read Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower' Series. 😀

[@nerdlife206]

Stoked for the Final Fantasy and Space Opera sets. Will definitely draft them at my LGS.

[@devinkerr5474]

Very surprised Professor doesn't comment on the Eldrazi Titans being the face of MH3 with his recent prediction on the Commander Masters Decks. An Eldrazi-less Eldrazi deck launched and it was mused that VERY soon we would start to see cards that all the new owners of this deck would want to see and LO! We have our answer!

[@John_Doe974]

With how things are going I can't tell if "Wrestling" is a set codename or if there are going to be Magic cards of the Undertaker and Rey Mysterio. Which sounds cool, wrestling is a fantasy world with undead wizards and swamp cults and guys dying in carbombs and ignoring it.

[@janmelantu7490]

Sidewalk Slam would merge with Tap Tap Concede

[@LizzyLearnsViolin]

With your comment about memification, I'm surprised you didn't suggest Tron as a possible UB candidate for codename: tennis. Seems like a perfect fit given that trike they showed in the concept art and how the movies suggest it's a pseudo death race type game in universe. That being said, I love the idea of a death race set, and I think the main sets all look really fun from a flavor point of view (UB inserts aside cuz I just dont care about those). I'm excited!

[@EsperVeltmanMusic]

Super hype for BloomBurrow. hoping it'll be one of the best draft experiences, but thats all up to the the card design. 🤞

[@RockNRollSpock]

Looking forward to Thunder Junction, but definitely planning to go as all in as possible on "Tennis"

[@danulas]

Most excited for Bloomburrow, although I wish they'd return to settings with more of a broad scope like Ancient Egypt, for example, rather than a narrow one like "Redwall, but make it MtG". Least excited for Assassin's Creed and Fallout. I don't much care for IP tie-ins that I can't draft. Enjoyed Lord of the Rings quite a bit and I'm looking forward to drafting Final Fantasy.

[@Chocolate83Bunny]

Since blocks have been taken out I think the story has been lacking in modern single sets, but with a narrower scope might be a way to keep things fresh and leave room for revisits while still having a better detailed look at the planes we are hopping around so fast

[@sharktenko267]

I loved strixhaven Also I love that kamigawa got the love it should have gotten originally had it not been trapped between two popular sets

[@woodpeckerfm5033]

Quite the breakdown. Thanks for that!

[@roflsnpwncakes]

very excited for some of the magic sets. could not possibly care less about the magic set-shaped advertisements in between

[@RainbowMarc]

For the deathrace, do y'all think Kaladesh, Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty and New Capenna might be the most likely candidates for the dethrace due to technology and/ or vehicles? I'm most excited for the remastered sets, the Eldraine set, Ixalan set, Bloomsbury set, Khan set and the return to Lorwyn. Plus the Modern Horizon 3 set. I'm excited. Not as much for the Universes Beyond stuff, but it's awesome how many new players have started playing Magic due to LotR. Oh, also looking for the Strixhaven plane visit and I am looking forward to the Kellan/ Oko interaction on cowboy plane and where Ashiok will pop up.

[@koolaiddude7685894]

In one hand. I get it....these are massive IPs that could in theory have their own card games...but realistically....why would they? It makes a ton of sense to just have these IPs in the MTG format. On the other hand, even as someone who loves some of the IPs like Fallout, these sets completelyyyyy break my immersion in the actual world of MTG and the themes they created. Just slowly feels like the game is becoming an engine for Hasbro to ship out "new" products using already pre made stories/characters and not something unique. Very Disney remake-esque imo. But i also proxy everything so why do i even really care tbf 😂

[@kiidcathedrale8122]

This is incredible. Can't wait for all this !!!!

[@nosrin1988]

AY! FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE MENTIONING REDWALL WHEN TALKING ABOUT BLOOMBURROW!!!!! Redwall was a fun book!

[@WarofRuin04]

So my personal favorite set is Ravnica more importantly the Simic guild. So I will be happy to see the remaster set. Stixhaven is my second favorite set and the new set will be another thing I look forward to. The the house of horrors and return to lorwyn set are my next sets that caught my interest

[@raiseer]

Remember when Magic was a fantasy game? Based in unique fantasy worlds?

[@KingBobXVI]

It's why of all the secret lair/universes beyond things coming out... Final Fantasy is the one I'm actually interested in, lol.

[@destinyhero]

You mean ABU, because the first expansion was called Arabian Nights....?

[@raiseer]

@@destinyhero Damn, ok, you got me there. I first played MTG with 4th edition and in my mind, MTG always was Fantasy-themed.

[@chromiumbook-marx4417]

​@@destinyheroat least arabian nights wasn't a shitty IP tie-in

[@eileenhittnerbean5755]

I'm exited for Lorwyn! Cant wait!

[@pedroguridi7358]

this is why my favourite format is cube drating!

[@raferu]

Baldur’s Gate 3 coop would fit...

[@DevStarkiller]

Actually interested to see how the 'Old West' is viewed through the lens of MTG. The preview art for Bloomburrow looks interesting, that'll probably be a good set. Cannot say I care about much else, each Universes Beyond pushes me a bit further away from this game sad to say.

[@atraxian5881]

Sanitized old west where natives didn't butcher their victims and Yankees didn't have almost enslaved Chinese, Irish and Italian immigrants? Oh, and no kkk, obviously. No alcohol and no guns (unless they are fantasy nerf guns) because this is officially a children's game... When actually no child can afford to buy half the cards for a deck, let alone play in any official capacity. It will just be a coat of paint with some trite tropes, like space India (Kaladesh) or space Japan (Kamigawa).

[@Thoughtmage100]

Im very interested in Outlaws of Thunder Junction, Lost Caverns of Ixalan, and most importantly to me the return to Lorwyn. I don't have much in common with Spice8Rack, but what I do share is his love of Lorwyn. Can't wait for that!

[@christopherporter5472]

As soon as they said they were returning to Lorwyn, I knew Prof would be happy! I hope you get a new Merfolk commander Prof!

[@breakfield1944]

After being a bit let down by the story direction from the big, epic sets like War of the Spark and March of the Machine it sounds pretty good that they seem to be focusing more on the planes and their inhabitants rather than what just a few of them are doing

[@gamerbear84]

I also like the opposite of narrowing focus in on a smaller scale event like with the Ravnica murder mystery. We've explored the plane for NINE sets, I think we're good to like zoom in and just focus on a narratively driven goings on happening there.

[@Walmbat]

Honestly, I'm rather… unenthused for a lot of the tie-in sets like Clue, the new Ravnica set, and the Assassin's Creed thing. However, I do like the Caverns of Italian set as it speaks to the old stories of Dinotopia that I loved when I was younger, I think both Duskmourne and Bloomburrow could be great sets from what we've seen. I'm really hoping that the multi-planar race set ends up harkening to the classic anime movie Redline. And finally, I think that Final Fantasy has a huge amount of potential, given how expansive the series is, and how it can intersect with Magic's more playful side and its more serious side. I think that Wilds of Eldraine will be a great set, and from what I've seen absolutely *blows* CMM out of the water, so I'm looking forward to it. As for the Cowboy set… I just wish that it ends with Jace and Vraska moving to Bryn and settling down or something.

[@ryansprenkle6356]

I am so excited for every standard set for the next year.

[@CToast]

I don't play, but I've quietly acquired a small collection of "hey, that looks cool" from my local comic shop. I want that Sauron 😂

[@Ickbard]

I’m honestly excited for Thunder junction. I love the western genre and having spellslingers instead of gunslingers sounds great to me

[@soarel325]

It doesn't make any sense. How is the racing set or space opera okay but not guns in the cowboy set?

[@Ickbard]

@@soarel325 my assumption is the politics that they want to avoid by having guns in their respective IP

[@jamescruz8678]

If Serah Farron ends up on a card my wallet is heading to the hospital.

[@NarutoUzumaki-mx1mo]

Me too

[@Hemlocker]

My wallet is already quivering at the mere thought of the Final Fantasy set. I'll consider it a success if I make any less than 5 new commander decks.

[@charcharmunr]

Look I just want Jack Garland.

[@snorlax42]

I am so excited for Bloomburrow, i already know that I'm going to collect a whole set! 🥰

[@bonenyamom4977]

Super stoked for Bloomburrow and Duskmourn

[@tapedeccard]

I feel like the Prof had a flashback to himself screaming “NEW SECRET LAIR ALERT!!!” when he mentioned all the unrevealed Secret Lairs lmao

[@laffyman8218]

I like how weird they’re getting with the original IP settings, don’t really care if something “feels like magic”. The game has been around for 30 years and has to find ways to reinvent itself now. All of the new planes sound very fun in concept and I’m excited to see them. I don’t really give too much of a shit about UB, though I am unreasonably excited for the FF set as a pretty big FF fan.

[@IIBloodXLustII]

I was just thinking today that it's been about as long since the reprint of the Ravnica shock lands as it has been since their original print. Nice.

[@BenjiByt3]

Ive been in and out on Magic recently but a lot of these upcoming sets sound really cool

[@creativehans]

WotC will find a way to ruin it somehow. Triple or quadruple the price of booster packs, super special surge graphic holo clownstamp foils, Fomo marketing (only available for a limited time), refuse to print good cards and put them in secret lairs. Whatever it is, if it makes them more money they will do it.

[@SOLARN01SE]

I am looking forward to some of these sets (Cowboys, horror and fairies!) but there is just so much. 💫 I feel like these days I can only justify grabbing a handful of cards from each set.

[@DR_Surreal]

At this point I'm half convinced that wotc's trying to catch magic up with Yu-Gi-Oh in terms of schizophrenic card design flavor

[@unfilteredresolve-devingui4190]

I love the professor ❤! You make magic fun to listen to and learn. Keep up the great work!!!!!

[@sheepgrass500]

I'm really excited for the space one!!

[@nerdysister]

this feels less like late-stage magic and more like end-stage magic. the ultimate goal of any business is to either sell out or franchise, and I think it's clear they chose the latter. The game should be known as Magic, The Platform.

[@Thescorpion1255]

I’m bummed the horror set is gonna be a year away but I am looking forward to it I wish magic would make horror themes more often always seems like it’s a once a year thing even though I feel like there’s plenty of horror elements in magic to make more sets.

[@Yammenkow]

They have since stated that the gencon announcements are not necessarily comprehensive of everything that's coming. There may be other sets along the way that were not part of this announcement.

[@PaDDy7389]

I wasn't aware that the upcoming Ixalan set was a rebrand, and that took away my hope that existing factions will get more support, which would have benefited the River Heralds and Legion of Dusk in particular. Other than that, I'm only looking forward to Ravnica Remastered and Modern Horizons III.

[@Mustakrakish16]

I really, really despise that Magic is just turning into tabletop Fortnite. It's now just a system to rent out to other IP's and make a complete joke of all the pre-established original worlds, characters, and stories not that Wizard's terrible writing hasn't already done that.

[@cstaie85]

I am super excited for the Final Fantasy set. I am for sure just going to buy a full set of it. And probably try to get very specific singles in special treatment. I am also going to buy the commander decks. But other than that, i probably wont be buying too much product anymore... its sad as i really have loved magic but it feels like it has lost its focus and has become a theme park game. Which is ok. But i am no longer buying every set and havent been any more for the last few years now. It has become too much.

[@justin2039]

I know, that set for me is the most interesting... Terra who can transform back and forth, possibly with the two sides offering different good stuff where you'd want to flop back and forth? Gau who could idk utilize creature cards from your opponents' graveyard for an effect? An overrated Cloud card? Cactuar that can deal damage based on him much you pay into them, or that fling 1/1 counters as damage? The sky's the limit!

[@NSG0079]

There should be a card called "Suplex" that instantly destroys a vehicle/artifact creature 🤣

[@NinjaMinkzx]

@@NSG0079 X damage, if you control a creature named “Sabin Figaro”, destroy target creature or target artifact named “Phantom Train”

[@JrtrJusty]

I need a card named A Realm Reborn that just destroys everything and starts the game over 😂

[@EmperorPylades]

Just give me some 14 representation other than Y'Shtola and I'll be happy. Given his popularity, I wouldn't be unsurprised if Emet-Selch is featured too.

[@Louis_Varga]

What background music did you use during the Icogni sponsor section? It sounds cool.

[@carlosalonsolarahidalgo4925]

That second breakfast reference 👌 Immediately hit like

[@Hemlocker]

The Final Fantasy UB set is the one I'm most excited for out of everything. The standard MTG sets all look pretty great. Not particularly interested in any of the other UB stuff.

[@justin2039]

There is so much they can do with Final Fantasy, and the volume of legendary creatures should be fun too. Boros Palom and Parom? Kefka that turns into a God? Dragoons who leave play until your next turn and re-enter doing damage? Who knows!

[@Hemlocker]

@@justin2039 Yeah! It's such a vast fantasy franchise with a staggering array of characters, creatures, locations, etc to create cool cards out of. Shadow with his dog as partner commanders? Amarant with a "fling equipments" effect? Cait Sith with a dice roll theme? Moogle tribal? The possibilities are endless!

[@arieafeather1486]

You could also just play the actual final fantasy tcg. It’s way cheaper to get into and a lot of fun.

[@elaynebeaumont1272]

Lovely video as always. One small issue though was I found the music choice starting at 20:30 distracting from the commentary. I’m not sure if it’s the volume or just the beat. Thought I’d mention it.

[@michaelkruppenbach9387]

I’m very excited. I’ll get sucked into half of those. I’ll be buying all of 2023 already lol. Appreciate the insight

[@dbslayer7]

"Like this GRROOOOVY SAURON, oh my gawd." Perfect reaction.

[@ThePhoenixSlayer]

I actually like the idea of revealing a couple sets (though 3 years might be a tad much). As someone still in school and without a job, it's kind of cool to be able to know which specific sets to save up for, instead of saying, "Maybe I should sit this one out. What if the next-next set is better than this one?" But I agree 3 years is a bit much.