My roommate is an idiot

[@retronymph]

Ohhhh so this is how the set became the best selling set of all time.

[@Just.Westin]

@@retronymph I bet. Many people like my roommate joined in just for the theming. Along with being a good set for regular magic fans of course

[@retronymph]

@@Just.Westin Yeah I mean traditional wisdom was to attribute sales largely to the one of one ring (in addition to just being a good set, but there are lots of good sets so what I mean is why it sold extraordinarily well) but idk cases like your roommate seem like a larger driver of sales than gamblers looking to play the lottery.

[@Just.Westin]

@@retronymph oh yeah. I completely agree with you. I was just saying that if the set was bad the IP could only take it so far. The fact that it's also a really good set allowed the star power to rocket up the "rankings"

[@retronymph]

@@Just.Westin Definitely true.

[@apddt3tsla687]

i felt pain from the ''he sorted by which he liked the most''

[@Just.Westin]

@@apddt3tsla687 me too

[@HansHenker]

What the pros won't tell you: If you play M:tG, you will spend 5% of your time playing, 5% of your time deckbuilding... and about 90% of your time sorting. So... much... sorting...

[@Just.Westin]

@@HansHenker depending on the format 20-75% of the game is shuffling

[@HansHenker]

@@Just.Westin Depending on the player, 100% of the game can be shuffling lol.

[@carldooley9344]

your roommate isn't an idiot. He's buying what he wants... Just imagine what would have happened if someone like him had opened the One Ring... they'd NEVER had any idea what it was worth.

[@Just.Westin]

@@carldooley9344 very true. He has no regrets over buying the cards. But he bought a ton of magic cards without knowing anything about the products, shown in how he mixed the commander decks up. I just wish he asked me questions after he bought them. Then I wouldn't need to have sorted them.

[@Nastyn1nja808]

​@@Just.Westinwhyd you buy this? because i thought it looked cool true

[@Just.Westin]

@@Nastyn1nja808 exactly! My roomate wanted cards so he bought cards!

[@tylermfdurden]

My favorite part of Lord of the Rings is when Frodo attacks and is tempted by the Ring because I gained 3 life this turn, and then I draw a card because the Ring has tempted me twice this game. "Just like in the books!"

[@Just.Westin]

@@tylermfdurden so true. I also loved when Merry spawned in a soldier with lifelink because Samwise made a food at begining of combat!!!

[@Maxolotl11]

​@Just.Westin Also Pippin was there

[@jonothanthrace1530]

I'm so glad the Ring Tempted cards seem to have come and gone.

[@Kryptnyt]

@@jonothanthrace1530 My Dihada deck has a few just to make Crypt Rats legendary...

[@BattleAxeRX]

Does seem dimwitted to spend all that money and not ask for advice. He wouldn't be able to put the decks together again. Poor roommate.

[@Just.Westin]

@@BattleAxeRX he's just happy to finally play it now!

[@hypotoxiclaser389]

thats actually a really cute story! i hope you two enjoy your games!

[@isaacrobertson4374]

This made my stomach hurt oh my gosh 💀

[@BenovskyGM]

Why is MtG cardboard crack? I had a small season of buying tons of packs, food be damned, i wanted to open boosters, smell the fresh card, see what token or art i would get.

[@Just.Westin]

@@BenovskyGM absolutely. It's very fun to crack a pack and see what you get. Only because the game itself is so entertaining

[@Demonskunk]

I'm a freak and I love organizing cards. I love organizing cards more than I like building decks or playing the game.

[@Just.Westin]

@@Demonskunk everyone likes different things. It's why magic is great! I don't mind organizing (clearly). But I don't do it for fun

[@sqrlmonger]

**Laughs in the pain of sorting multiple 6,000 count boxes.**

[@MeGetU]

I'd never seen your channel before, but this video randomly ended up on my feed and is 100% my kind of energy! Liked and subbed!

[@PolluxTheBat]

Honestly this is such a good video, I kind of hope that your roommate sorts them again after he's done playing and then asks you to fix his decks when seems interested in the game again

[@Just.Westin]

@@PolluxTheBatNOOOOO. this is a terrible idea

[@PolluxTheBat]

@@Just.Westin well, he did mention that he had the Doctor Who precons... right? :)

[@Just.Westin]

@@PolluxTheBat sorry for confusion. I have one Doctor Who precon. My roomate saw my deckbox and said he had a Deck box. (Referring to his LotR precons)

[@MrMADMADHATTER1]

Lol😂 this was good. Youre a good friend. Thanks for the laugh

[@Just.Westin]

glad you liked the video. It was very fun overall!

[@Wilhuf1]

Stand up nice of you to sort the cards out. I hope you both got to play lord of the rings commander together.

[@Just.Westin]

@@Wilhuf1 we did. Me organizing them was a early Christmas present for him. We will be playing many more games!

[@jaylenrick5822]

“Hmm… You could dance” - that was such a brilliant suggestion! Thank you, roommate 👍🏼

[@FrozenTheFlux]

Im not sure that a roommate that is an idiot could come up with such a brilliant suggestion, just my 2 cents! 🥞

[@Just.Westin]

Indeed

[@ChronoMoogle]

I feel invested in this situation. Please make a follow up video in which you upgrade the precons with LotR-only cards! 😂

[@Just.Westin]

@@ChronoMoogle I was planning on updating them. Didn't think to make it a video. I probably could. Don't know when though

[@andrewspears8891]

Never mind that Aragorn is described as pale. But someone decided to take up an artistic license to draw him as having dark skin instead of pale skin.

[@daemonxblaze]

Enough time on the plains to Mordor will give anyone a farmers tan

[@Zorous]

Personally I would have put the card sorting to the King of the Hill theme, but great vid haha

[@Just.Westin]

@@Zorous thats a good idea!

[@sheanstanks]

Imagine the one of one ring was just sitting in that collectors box 😭🤣

[@Just.Westin]

@@sheanstanks not that lucky. But he did get a The One Ring. Foil, normal art, not serialized of course.

[@NekoValtz]

@@Just.Westin Still a god damn good get.

[@Just.Westin]

@@NekoValtz absolutely! Agreed 100%

[@alexanderolson4990]

the green lamp in the background during the greenscreen

[@Just.Westin]

@@alexanderolson4990 when I was editing that made me laugh 😂

[@HonkLord]

I'll be honest, that sounds like an absolutely awesome time to me, but I'm weird and I just love sorting cards. I've got my 8,000 card collection sorted by colour > CMC > alphabetical and all cards added to my Moxfield collection, which I can then use to know what cards I have and don't have when building a new deck. I enjoy it so much that I even sorted my friend's 3k card collection in the same way, but again, I'm a weird guy.

[@Just.Westin]

@@HonkLord I know a few people who love sorting cards. Perfectly fine. I'm not super into it, but to build these decks it was worth it.

[@petrseghman4283]

The outro?

[@miro5052]

Had to rewatch the intro twice. Still have no idea if this is satire when Aragorn was mentioned looking "just like in the books".

[@Just.Westin]

@@miro5052 unclear to me as well. I'm not a massive fan of LotR's. I said that on the spot for no reason

[@Sean-gh3rn]

you are a good friend

[@lotrloreman]

Wish I could have helped you. I would have been able to help sort out the decks quicker as I've also bought all of them (as that's how I got back into magic) and because I'm obsessed with UB I know what goes in what deck off the top of my head x.x Side note: I watched this as I'm working on updating my UB only deck

[@Just.Westin]

@@lotrloreman help wouldve been nice

[@Seymour__Gamecats]

Godspeed buddy, he's lucky to have you.

[@Just.Westin]

@@Seymour__Gamecats now I have access to 4 more commander decks. And it didn't cost me hundreds of dollars

[@Seymour__Gamecats]

The best kinda end result!

[@AutumnReel4444]

Amazing.

[@FrozenTheFlux]

Wow that greenscreen clip is definitely my favorite stop motion lego remake of a declaration of Independence themed remake of Apologize by Timbaland ft. One Republic!

[@Just.Westin]

I sure hope it is?

[@PetitePhillyLife]

My brother cousin and brother in law have been playing magic for years… the lotr was my gateway drug now I have like 8 commander decks including 5 I built from scratch.

[@Just.Westin]

@@PetitePhillyLife I feel like my roommate might be like that. But he's said he only wants LotR cards. It certainly is a gateway though. Glad you liked it!

[@Shoup1155]

whoop Whoop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@philmc4033]

I’m not gonna lie I did the same thing when I got back into it. I stopped playing before Commander and had no fucking idea what I was doing to my buddy asked me to play. I felt so stupid lol

[@Just.Westin]

@@philmc4033 different rules can be jarring and a big break does that. Hope you like it now!

[@ThePencilWizard]

Oh, so he’s never read the books-

[@Just.Westin]

@@ThePencilWizard that comment was addlibbed while recording. He never said that. I'm sorry for spreading false narratives.

[@alexterzaghi7256]

There are like... 5 good LotR boardgames. There's even a LCG

[@Just.Westin]

@@alexterzaghi7256 he has the LotR card game. It was pretty good

[@TCG33k]

Just an idear, if your friend ever gets tired of only playing precons - and want to see the other Cards in his Lord of the rings Collection being put to use. Help him make a Cube of the non-precon Cards

[@Just.Westin]

@@TCG33k interesting. I will have to learn exactly how a cube works. I've only heard of it. Good idea!

[@ratdoto2148]

Lmao, best of luck.

[@AlexRedStar]

I love my friends but not enough to build everything for them. I would build them 1 deck so they can practice with it so they can learn to build the rest on their own. If they feel lost in the next decks they build? I would just give them a deck list so they can do it them selves. If you are gonna play? At least show some intrest in building the rest.

[@Just.Westin]

@@AlexRedStar that is a absolutely fair cutoff point. Let me explain a couple personal reasons for why I built ALL of them for him. Which I didn't mention in the video. 1. Me buying the sleeves and assembling the decks is his (early) Christmas present. 2. I have more experience in MTG so I'd be able to do it faster. And because he is very busy, he would never get it done. 3. He said I can use the decks and let my friends use them when I play commander with my play group. So while this is disguised as a generous gift I'm giving him, I gain personal benefits from it too. But again, your cutoff point is very reasonable.

[@AlexRedStar]

@@Just.Westin i guess thats not a bad offer. And yes i dont belive what you are doing is wrong in any sort of way i comend you for it. Personally? I dont have the stenght to do so haha. But i would help my friends build their own decks in person or just lend them mine untill they get well integrated into the game. So i can teach them sinergy,mulligans and draw test so they can learn the best possible outcome even with the worst of odds. At the end of the day? I even let them proxy or use banned cards to not force them to overspend specially if they end up not needing the proxied cards at the end so they lose $0 money.

[@Nastyn1nja808]

lol This was a funny funny story

[@Just.Westin]

@@Nastyn1nja808 glad you enjoyed. I thought the same thing

[@ericloscheider7433]

How did you film this in ‘89?

[@Just.Westin]

@@ericloscheider7433 bad camera

[@khathecleric]

Why are you reconstructing the decks, just mash them together and build one anew. Stick the Unifier on it if you have to.

[@Just.Westin]

@@khathecleric brilliant

[@tuxxle8830]

This is exactly why wotc made this set. Not so it can be a game to be played. So collectors with no respect for the game can give them money.

[@Just.Westin]

@@tuxxle8830 one thing I disagree with that statement is it is a game to be played. Now that the decks are complete my roommate has finally played and he loved it. (He probably won't buy more cards, he only like LotR.) But, the cards they made for this set is an extremely well made set that's very fun to play. In my opinion of course

[@steamh4mmer264]

Aragorn is black just like in the books!

[@Just.Westin]

@@steamh4mmer264 lol. I was a doofus with that comment. My roomate let me know that he never said that.

[@richiraionhato]

Fun fact, I came back to mtg due to lotr set 😂

[@Just.Westin]

@@richiraionhato sweet! It's very fun.

[@Big_Dai]

Eww, no.

[@ScarletAxetia]

Hilarious lmfao💀😭

[@Just.Westin]

@@ScarletAxetia I'm glad you could enjoy what gave me misery.

[@ScarletAxetia]

@Just.Westin 400 cards is crazy 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 did you play commander with your roomate yet

[@Just.Westin]

@@ScarletAxetia yes. And I played with two other friends who have never played magic. They all loved it. Compared to normal magic, they were able to be immersed more easily.

[@hanitschi]

why... are you sorting the cards?

[@Just.Westin]

@@hanitschi in the video I explained that my roommate bought 4 commander precons and mixed them in with hundreds of other cards. So I had to recreate the 4 precons so that we could play commander.

[@hanitschi]

@@Just.Westin yeah, i got that part, but why is he making you do the busy work? i'm sure he's capable of reading the cardnames from a list and sorting accordingly without any prior mtg knowledge

[@Just.Westin]

He would be slow at it. I would be faster. He didn't ask me to do it. I choose to do it because he is my friend and I'm being nice. Now we can all play commander. So it's all good!

[@33elk]

LMAO

[@therealandnotfakepaulsayler]

Dang, your roommate likes lotr? Me too!

[@Just.Westin]

@@therealandnotfakepaulsayler it's fairly popular

[@SkyFallenNerolin]

there was a much better and easier way for this. first of all, the most Commander cards have a different symbol. so you can finde over 50% by this. second, if you use something like Moxfield or so on you tablet, pc or smartphoen you can let you show the cards as Art and not only the name so you have with this a better way tu search as just to read the name and search the card by the name. so for the next time, think about the commander edition logo and a decklist there you can see the cards and not need to read the names. much much better.

[@Just.Westin]

@@SkyFallenNerolin yep. I used the commander shield icon to find many of the cards. But some of them were printed in the main set and therefore had the regular logo. As for the computer moxfield thing, switching tabs on my computer screen or hovering over card art was a bit too annoying for me. Great suggestions!

[@SkyFallenNerolin]

@@Just.Westin you can Change on moxfield the View Options. Visual grid Change IT so that you See the full Card without Hover the Mouse over the Card Name. Yes the switching could BE annoying, but for this Just do one Deck and then the next. For each Deck IT goes faster because you have less cards and know the cards better there they are. This is how IT would Work for me 🤔

[@Just.Westin]

@@SkyFallenNerolin I appreciate your advice, but I liked the way I did. I claimed it was annoying in the video, but it was the way that worked best for me. If I

[@SkyFallenNerolin]

@@Just.Westin all good Everybody have ther own method. Thats Just how i would think IS easy 😁

[@nickalasmontano1496]

Hell yeah

[@Just.Westin]

@@nickalasmontano1496 YEAH!

[@Olematonnimi]

0:38 Exactly what he looks like in the books? This seems like a joke.

[@Just.Westin]

@@Olematonnimi you've caught on. Well done

[@Olematonnimi]

@@Just.Westin The delivery was just so deadpan I was suspicious.

[@ScarletAxetia]

was a good joke ya

[@borisbadaxe9678]

His friend obviously needs a new pair of glasses! 🤣

[@derekboman2010]

Why didn't you just sort all of the cards in high-speed montage style? It would have been waaaaay faster! What a rookie

[@Just.Westin]

Silly mistake

[@NoMercyFtw]

lol

[@realmentenadie9928]

XD

[@GIRTHQUAK3]

Cmon bro we know Aragorn aint black dude

[@Just.Westin]

@@GIRTHQUAK3 gotem?

[@onlyhuman3281]

What did he say when he saw the Aragorn Card? "Oh just like the books" NOT!

[@Just.Westin]

@@onlyhuman3281 that was a joke. I know they were artistic interpretations