The Meme That Broke Magic

[@Snaglbeest]

While it isn't that notable, Tibalt did get a card in War of the Spark that has a nice ability to shut down your opponent's life gain.

[@andreasbuehler1821]

I play that one in my red-black devil tribal deck, works fine.

[@zackpumpkinhead8882]

That's my commander for my Oathbreaker deck!

[@ScornfulEg0tist]

I played that card in my BO1 calvacade deck, it kicked ass tbh

[@Dracinard]

A perfectly decent red planeswalker, best in aggro but playable in midrange. Neither underpowered nor overpowered, which, for Tibalt, is a minor miracle.

[@ketchumall8243]

I was gonna say this as soon as he skipped to Kaldhiem. Bro forgot War of the spark existed

[@TransformersBoss]

If I had a Sheoldred, the Apocalypse for every time the Cascade has been a problem for rules or bannings, I’d have at least a playset

[@D00ML0RD1]

more lime 3 playsets

[@JTheCodMan]

Hey man that's a few hundred bucks tho

[@cox2060]

Which isnt a lot, but its weird that it happened 4 times

[@rykx0r]

And then he died in Phyrexia: AWBO with no fanfare. Rest in piss, Tibalt.

[@natejablonski]

He died? I didn't even know that. Shows how much WotC cares about the lore.

[@livanbard]

​@@natejablonskisounds you is the one who doesn't care since all the deaths in the phyrexian invasion are well kno

[@alchemy3830]

@@natejablonski They actually made a card about him dying; Tyvar's Stand.

[@flameofmage1099]

@@natejablonski Yep, it shows Tyvar Kell killing him in a card art but that's it. As far as I know it wasn't even mentioned in the story, which like sucks for a character literally impersonated the god of trickery. Like that's so cool but I digress.

[@BeaglzRok1]

@@flameofmage1099 I believe in the story Tyvar gives him the chest-stab and tosses him off a cliff, which caused the author of that story to answer on Tumblr that Tibalt is definitely dead as much as an MtG character can be dead, because he explicitly asked corporate if he can kill him off.

[@jackmanning156]

This feels almost like a Rhystic Studies video and I love it

[@jproductions7469]

I believe that’s the point lol. I thought it was when I clicked because of the thumbnail

[@evanjohnson6884]

that clip of the TCG shop sim deodorant got a surprise laugh out of me

[@TMidander]

@@evanjohnson6884 seth admitted to loving the TCG simulator game :D

[@MTGGoldfish]

@@TMidander I do love that game.

[@jeremyphillips3087]

​@@TMidanderi dont believe that

[@MrFForger]

Tibalt - unplayed? Yes - unloved? No

[@Kydrou]

The Magic Aids gameplay 🎉

[@andrewthomas5495]

I wish we could get tibalt, the fiend blooded as a common… pauper needs a single terrible planeswalker.

[@seandun7083]

That would be hilarious.

[@calbert630]

Tibalt trickery could be fixed if they added "opponent spell"

[@MTGGoldfish]

Yeah, that would actually be a pretty sweet card. I'm surprised they haven't done it yet.

[@sen6516]

I love how people assumed Tibalt died because of the duel deck, thinking that the 2 mana joke card tried to 1v1 freaking Sorin and got obliterated Shout out to the Magic Aids cameo, guy's hilarious.

[@thepieguyinthesky2363]

was about to mention the Magic Aids section lol

[@Fr0stbite1801]

Duel Deck: Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby

[@Thoraxe5150_]

See MagicAids in a Goldfish video is WILD! Worlds colliding!

[@ManuelPerez-dt5nv]

I think you mean MacigAyds

[@solcloudchaser4988]

He will always be MagicAids in our hearts. WotC's rediculous name change policy cant change who we are.

[@REON-pw5ze]

@@solcloudchaser4988YES

[@nintandem2119]

It tickled my taint for 2

[@DarthTUK]

The best timeline for daddy.

[@elliotyamamoto38]

Nice to see MtgAids get some love; I am surprised you found commentary and game play that was family friend for Mtggolsfish lol

[@Velgrauder]

1:11 "The unwashed masses of the internet forums". Great visual pun. More, please.

[@gemyniraptor8626]

I was not expecting a clip of my boy MagicAids on a SaffronOlive, my other boy, vid. its like seeing good an evil acknowledge each other; both jank lords, but one being the wholesome good body and the other the absolute trash lord lol

[@connormacleod908]

Magic Aids clip 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@briankuczynski6884]

you left off the coup de grace! In magic's second crossover crisis event of the pioneer era, they killed tibalt off in March of the Machines.

[@jancukasu]

8:36 Knowing my favorite content creator, daddy MagicAids, mentioned by Seth makes me pond and happy

[@oldpoetmen]

0:15 to be fair, I’d argue that OG Tibalt is also an iconic card, just not iconic for being *good* like the other cards you named.

[@BehemotHnLeviathaN]

liked for MagicAids. stayed for Seth.

[@LordCocoNuts]

Those kind of history of MTG video are my favorites, keep up the good work!

[@JackPowerX]

10:20 This from the same people who ended up printing the Modern Horizons sets. Aged like milk.

[@JackPowerX]

Wizards: Tibalt's Trickery makes Modern less fun to play! Also Wizards: Hold my beer.

[@RedPandaStan]

​@@JackPowerX bro forgot to change accounts

[@JackPowerX]

@@RedPandaStan Nah. Just thought of that follow-up after submitting the original.

[@Burberry94]

10:43 cranial ram was banned from pauper before it was even released!

[@goomshill]

Something to note: While Tibalts Trickery was never formally banned in standard, it **was** put into a special hell queue for BO1 arena, hard coded to punish Tibalts Trickery decks. You exclusively played against low curve aggro meta decks, particularly those with Thalia who autowon the matchup. It was an actual thing, not paranoia- to test it, I played 100 games in a row of BO1 with a Tibalts Trickery deck and faced 99 matches of mono white aggro and mono green aggro, the meta decks of the time, and 1 mirror match against trickery. Not a single game against midrange, control, tribal, memes, etc, when Goldspan Dragon was one of the most played cards of the format. Arena devs never said this part out loud but dayum did it make the deck impossible to play in standard

[@anthonymvieira]

I just loved Magic Aids gameplay citation.

[@TheBroncosguy]

Love the "Magic Aids"... Oops, I mean "Magic Rainbows" clip.

[@Goblinking315]

SethronOlive, really love when you do story times like this. I love your gameplay content and articles, but this gives me such Rhystic Studies (KZbin channel) vibes in the best possible way. It’s a nice shakeup from your normal videos. I hope you enjoy making these, and doing the research involved. Perfect digestible video run length too!

[@BlindTheRhino]

I'm policing the use of 'but' here

[@Goblinking315]

@ why? Seth’s normal content is typically gameplay videos. This is not his typical content type. It is, however, RhysticStudies content type. Two contrasting styles of videos, and Seth does a good job of stepping in a different direction when he decides to. I take more issue with you blinding rhinos, if I’m being quite frank.

[@MTGGoldfish]

I love Magic history so these are some of my favorite videos to make. They are just more time consuming so I can't really pump them our every other day like gameplay :)

[@AtrociousNightmare]

Yeeesss came here to check whether Day9 was gonna be in the clip, and he is! Legend

[@daviddent5662]

As somebody who began their modern MTG journey using Simic and Mono Blue Fish I can say this came up very little. I think I saw it fizzle once in paper and counterspelled it/exhancged control of their Eldrazi with one of my fish more times than I ever lost to it. It was neat to see how the surface dwellers handled that!

[@ArtFord]

You forgot to mention that story literally killed Tibalt in the story at this time too, since story is written in advance of release by about the same time as it took for All will Be One to come out. Story killed him so this would never happen again.

[@82Lead82]

The magic aids feature is underrated lol

[@RiKSh4w]

It's funny because when this lottery deck came out, everyone was talking about it, complaining about it, and it got answered. And then the same thing happened to Geist of St Leyline. Another linear turn 1-2 win lottery deck. But Minion of the Mighty has been around since it's printing without a since mention in any B&R or discussion. It's the exact same playpattern. Every reason to ban Trickery and Geist applies to MotM but nothing has been done so it's a sizable chunk of the Historic Bo1 meta.

[@johndoe9343]

Makes me wonder how many players would stop grinding dailies or stop grinding dailies past 3-4 wins (I forget which) if it got nerfed enough. I'm only assuming it's not banned yet because it's just interruptible enough compared to Trickery and Geist Leyline.

[@fo-ef8qo]

DADDY MAGIC AIDS MADE IT TO THE BIG TIME

[@HendrikMorkel]

There I was thinking I clicked a Rhystic Study Video...

[@TSebster9]

As punishment for breaking the game, Wizards killed him in All Will be One without even giving him a card in the set

[@oafkad]

Good ole Avacyn Stored, my favorite set.

[@Death_by_Tech]

8:38 genuinely impressed you found a modern MagicAids video clean enough to cut into your video 😂

[@MrMacdaddymcfly]

Magic Aids flash bang

[@oddsketch9969]

I unironically like the 2 mana tibalt. I have it in my mono red burn deck as a 2 mana delayed 4-7 damage spell.

[@TMidander]

I remember :) so many games youd win or lose without playing a single spell

[@SwapGoTron]

2:49 the worst part of white bordered Tibalt was that it wasn't even supposed to be there, it was an emergency replacement for a version of Squire made by Noah Bradley that had to be removed from the product as controversies surrounding the artist surged and WotC cut ties with him.

[@michaelsander2878]

Seeing magic aids in a goldfish video makes me very very happy!!! Me gusta. Mucho gusto

[@johncameron1935]

Tibalt Shows up Breaks Modern Refuses to Elaborate Leaves

[@robynuwu1631]

Fantastic video, very fun seeing the old videos/comments from back in the day and the progression of trash (bad) to trash (unfun and busted) of young Tibs

[@elspencicus7123]

I always wondered why my older brother was so polarized by this card. I had no idea people min-maxed this so hard XD

[@ryanvdb2853]

You got his polarized reactions but never got a reason?

[@quirkyc]

I thought this was going to be about the "Tibalt is the Main Villain" meme

[@oscher88]

Leaving a comment for our MVP MagicAids

[@tcsmagicbox]

Don't forget that meme 97-land commander deck where you have The First Sliver as your commander, which cascades into Tibalt's Trickery, which casts Reshape the Earth for free, which grabs you 9 gates plus Maze's End!

[@MarioJPC]

Tyvalt's Trickery was suspended on Explorer for the time being, I don't know if it would be reintroduced again when PIoneer Masters releases.

[@FluxChanneler]

I wasn't an active player during the period that Tibalt's Trickery decks were a thing in Modern, so this is the first I'm hearing of it but the effect it had on the game sounds a whole lot like what happened to me when I tried to get into Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel. When I started, I was a fairly new player to YGO, and I would rock up to low-level ranked games with a dogshit Blue Eyes deck and get absolutely bodied turn 0 by all manner of non-interactive combos. It happened enough times that I straight-up quit over it. I understood, on some level, that the deck I was playing wasn't competitive, so it wasn't just that I was losing--that's not the thing that bothered me. It's that I would lose before I got a chance to play my first card. Aggressively unfun gameplay patterns.

[@AC3handle]

swear to gods, Arena should come up with a wheel of fortune style spinner for effects like these where you 'spin it to win it'. Optional of course, but anyone who uses cascade or other card deck spin effects, would likely use this EVERY time, just to be annoying.

[@JT-91]

Led to so many non games? Sounds like the one ring and grief and yet one of them is still legal

[@happymaster19]

MagicAids is the realest one.

[@vividsyntax5301]

Yay! I love the historical videos

[@hugmonger]

lol I remember when Tibalt first came out I was obsessed with him. I was convinced that a 2 mana planeswalker couldn't not be broken.... It wasnt.... It was always bad.

[@30LayersOfKevlar]

Just remembered Trickery is banned in Explorer but not banned in Pioneer.

[@BECKFlST]

I’m convinced that there’s a tibalt + heart of kiran modern deck to be made

[@prufrock1977]

Tibalt has always been one of my favorites. Best! Planeswalker! Ever! I played him in my Feldon of the Third Path deck. Because Feldon plays from the graveyard, the drawback of a random discard is negligible.

[@marcusrobertson5627]

7:23 why doesn't the second Tibalt's Trickery fully resolve and spin into another spell? It can't counter the first one unless it resolves, and if it resolves then the whole card happens. What am i missing? Like i get that it's resolving in the middle of the first one's effect, and there's a period after "counter target spell." But if countering the first one makes the second one impossible to have been cast in the first place... too bad, it's already been cast... right? Otherwise how could it resolve? Ruling the other way seems like introducing weird and unnecessary time reversal/paradox

[@MagicSvenMTG]

The Jacob Wilson/Alexander Hayne troll video is an all timer. Highly recommend for anyone who hasn't seen it. Also I spot a link to one of my videos at 9:48 😃

[@e4jasperi]

I thought this was going to be about the guy praying behind cracks.

[@yarrrthekraken]

WAR Tibalt was actually solid too!

[@herme5m00N]

I’d love to see more content like this from you all! ♥️

[@sheldonadams2847]

If Tibalts ability was discard, then draw, it would have been playable back

[@Patashu]

And all of this could be avoided if Tibalt's Trickery only targeted your opponent lmao

[@carlpalacios]

At the end, it was Tibalt who tricked us all XD

[@jaggedpeak]

valki is such an underrated card in general too i played it a couple times in cEDH and stole a thoracle or a drannith magistrate regularly

[@cheftony2383]

I had ptsd whatching this video

[@neminem233]

I was there for this This was fucking HILARIOUS Tibalt fans were so Vindicated

[@ZSAITOSEI]

Tibalt has found a home in my treason deck for the mass insurrection ability and its ability to exist as a meme gives it the superpower of nobody really feeling the need to attack it 😂

[@Boy_Sleeping]

I casted once a turn 2 Emrakul The Aeons Torn. My opponent scooped ofc

[@hiSoraaa]

Banger thumbnail 👍

[@leucamaclean8900]

The meme that broke magic? Universes Beyond

[@muneerkhan6526]

8:36 MAGIC AIDS MENTIONED!!!

[@corsel6911]

Tibalt fanboy here. Anything with flavor text included

[@syrtallerin4936]

Still know the times where I conceded on turn 2 every second day

[@adust5139]

I played Tibalt in modern dredge, looking for fun things to play after the Looting ban. He actually wasn’t bad. I even won a game with his ult. People didn’t respect him lol

[@Andersonzabuza]

The lack of respect is real. I made a Legion of Doom style deck back when he first came out (Superfriends, but Grixis colored and control heavy) and my most memorable win for him was definitely when a mono white token deck combo'd out hard while I had Tibalt ready to ult. The player, who was overall a very good and competent player, wiped out all the other players in the big multi-man game because he had to leave one person alive. So he killed my Liliana of the Veil but left me alive cause 'all you have is Tibalt man, you're already suffering enough' cause he thought so little of Tibalt he didn't even bother learning what his ult was. Come my turn, I ult'd Tibalt, took his many many MANY big tokens and wiped him out with his own board. I laughed so hard at that and he did too. Every game he ever played against two mana Tibalt after that though, he KoS the devilish bastard, lmao. He learnt that respect.

[@amtracktrack4963]

I was surprised this wasn't about crackstyle or whatever it was called.

[@MegaSalami]

I remember Tibalt was rhe first planesalker i pulled during a prerelease and I i thought it was the best card id wver pulled and ran it in RW Humans with the soulbounders with double strike and haste using Tibalt to discard humans to Angel of Glorys Rise to recur everything. Then realizing in the third round that it said "at random" and I immediately took him out.

[@joshbaker9111]

The Day 9 cameo!

[@Zarkonem]

Yeah, i got to make a Tibalt deck in arena before it got banned. It was gross. It wasn't uncommon for me to mulligan down to two cards just to get it in my opening hand, but as long as it did, i won. That's it. I would do the thing and my opponent would scoop and i would roflcopter then go for another. It's no wonder this thing got banned and honestly, as much fun as i did have with it, i'm glad that it did because it was unhealthy for the game.

[@rayhernandez2953]

Love story time Seth!

[@Nr4747]

The deck wasn't even good, the biggest problem was how quickly it won in bo1s on Arena - and how incredibly unfun it was to "play" against in Arena Standard. An actual game of Magic never took place, the opponent either mulliganed until they conceded or mulliganed into a TT + 0 mana creature, played both on turn 2 and then either essentially won on turn 2 or conceded.

[@Datuna-vw3un]

Cranial ram was banned faster than that.

[@robertmendez8383]

Tibalt's villain arc is better than Gideon's hero arc ever was. R.I.P. Gideon.

[@mightyone3737]

I find it amazing that nobody feels the need to point out that the original interpretation, where you can Cascade into either side of an MDFC as long as you could pay for the 'front' side was a non-sense ruling designed to create this problem. Dumb shit is fun for dumb people, WotC knew what they were doing when they made a ruling that eye wateringly stupid.

[@alex_lian]

Did not expect to see @MagicAids poog

[@5371W]

Tibalt's Trickery in historic got me to Diamond once. But over all it had a sub 50% win rate for me. In normal queue the match making would always put me against other Trickery decks but oh well fast games to my 4 wins. Now that it's banned I'm stuck with a bunch of over costed junk mythics :c Goodbye wild cards.

[@SubTerror-Gaming]

I like Tibalt and can't wait to see if he returns again

[@Knightfall8]

so it wasnt the meme that broke magic, it was wotc's over-correction that broke it.

[@jocas94]

Magic_rainbows 😏

[@Midnightv]

Oh it was funny at first.... then tibialt stopped laughing

[@ryanhebertson7457]

Tibalts trickery will always be my favorite deck. Got me back into magic. Where are my haters at???

[@TimothyWeber-q6v]

This guy definitely sounds like he plays Magic lmao

[@pepperonin1914]

Sorry

[@jameshayes-barber9340]

Tibalt also got banned in Historic

[@bernabes8424]

One of my favorite spells. Good times

[@verververververver]

Love these histories of cards

[@ZakDraper]

Cranial Ram in pauper was banned faster as well!

[@aaronavey3904]

I mean it saw fringe play in the original hollow one deck...thats something...I guess...

[@pinkvishnu]

I was hoping Day9 would show up in this.