Who is the Sweatiest Goldfish? | MTGGoldfish Podcast

[@quitethehotdog]

Crim's band on Conan: kzbin.info/www/bejne/roTJfGuXa9uqrZI Sounds great! Can see him best when lights come on at the end. Confirmation it's him in the members section: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finish_Ticket

[@sethburkhead6720]

Real MVP

[@davidwipperfurth8465]

Is Crim, Toki Wartooth?

[@TheAsianAvenger69]

Conan is also absurdly tall. He still bent down to give me a handshake and I was in a platform 🤣

[@that-one-genz7835]

thank you!!

[@RIHTZ]

Crim I think I saw you on tour!! saw Finish Ticket open for twenty one pilots in 2015 in Tulsa, OK, I remember enjoying it quite a lot! had no idea haha

[@TheAsianAvenger69]

Oh shoot! Yeah!!! That would’ve been one of the tours. Super fun show and tour

[@stevenjones9310]

Best content you guys have made hands down. Also the section on richard talking about starting mtg goldfish like a boss is really wholesome. 😊

[@TheSpunYarn]

My idea for a return to Ikoria was that the landscape itself mutates, changing to Alara Shards instead of Tarkir Wedges. Revisit the Plane with an entirely color shifted perspective on it's original theme

[@holstenmason]

This is such a cool idea, so interesting in fact I am positive WOTC would never do it haha

[@Shimatzu95]

I think wizards has the philosophy to fixate colorparings with planes. Unless i forget something this would be a first for them. That said with the phyrexian invasion recently and now the omenpaths ingluencr i can see it making sense from a story perspective.

[@Breadcutter]

For that I think New Capenna would have to shift too as they are currently the plane for the Shards

[@TheChibidono]

Yea, WotC is a bit fixated on planes being static in their mana/colour afiiliation. However, when they did Lorwyn the whole plane shifted in appearance in Shadowmoor.

[@pauldyson8098]

Real talk, Seth: as an academic (the OTHER MtG-playing English professor, in fact), I think you'd do really well in a PsyD program. You have the brains and the personality to be a clinician. Also, Crim: have you checked out Creeper yet? Serious Misfits/MCR vibes.

[@CraigM-xe6ok]

There are more than us than you might think! We had a whole prerelease crew in my grad program.

[@pauldyson8098]

This is very good to know!@@CraigM-xe6ok

[@TheChibidono]

@@CraigM-xe6ok I agree. I'm a psychologist that plays magic and although I have a bit of bias on that most of the people I know and hang out with are also psychologists there is a definitive interest in games and board games in general and magic in specific. Just by meeting some psychologist at random at a work thing we often start talking about magic.

[@brando7637]

I'd love therapist Seth

[@pauldyson8098]

Right?!@@brando7637

[@captainobvious9566]

Love the Postcast! Finally some fish mail answered! 🎉

[@stormycat0905]

You know Richard and Crim are from California when they think there's a Doordash for farm animals.

[@RJPiper]

😂

[@TheAsianAvenger69]

Lololol the California bubble is so real

[@WikiED]

Sweatiest is def Tomer, while he tries to roughly follow his themes he still often breaks them to "have a win con" while others tend to run even dysfunctional decks just for the theme.

[@Kryptnyt]

I feel as though every time Niuttuc has shown up to a game, he's absolutely wrecked everyone

[@Shimatzu95]

@@Kryptnyt niuttuk is definitively the sweatiest regular guestplayer but when it comes to the main cast its probably tomer or richard.

[@pvolt7]

Richard, at the risk of being pedantic, it's because there's more knowledge over time than there was in ancient (scholars') times. Science used to encompass nearly everything, but we as humanity learned more and more so it's impossible for any one person to master all. Academia had to specialize. I'm with you 100% by the way, just learn forever. I work with a lot of researchers and unfortunately, it's "publish or die" as they say. Great ep! good to learn a bit about my fave commander crew! take care you guys!

[@STS-qi1qy]

Crim *acts* the sweatiest but it's largely part of the trolling. Tomer seems to get the most actually upset at things and poor plays. Not sure I'd actually go all the way to 'sweaty' but compared to the rest.

[@beelor5777]

Seth, your biggest flaw is you actively look for ways to lose while winning. You will have the game locked for example, with solidarity, unlife, and everything has shroud. But then you sacrifice the shroud enchantment and lose.

[@simoncss1]

I’m not even convinced that Murders is really guild-less Ravnica. Didn’ feel Lost Caverns felt that differen from surface Ixalan. So much of the surfac stuffs were brought into the Caverns too

[@josephpayton7522]

As it should

[@jackpabich763]

I felt Caverns was very different. Mechanics were GY focused instead of more tribal mechanics

[@simoncss1]

@@jackpabich763 Fair enuf, we haf new mechanics. But, I still don’t think it feels v differen. The Commander pre-con decks whic could’ve been a great place to showcase these new mechanics, only featured 1 Descend card, 4 Discover & 4 Explore. So wat were they? 4 out of 4 Tribal decks, of the same types s Ixalan 1.0!

[@marlowelain205]

The new ixalan was exploring and developing the plane more thoroughly, it wasnt a niche story backdrop like this new ravnica seems to be. Theres clearly still some guild flavour but its way more of a departure from what ravnica traditionally has been than caverns from og ixalan. I agree with Rich in that the set seems to be a bait and switch, you hear ravnica and get excited and then find out its really clue with ravnica flavouring

[@cheezuschrist588]

Intentionally playing bad decks is still Spike behavior. It's just that it's trying to prove skill by being able to win with subpar decks rather than just winning as much as possible

[@SmoesKnows]

I love y'all! This was one of my favorite episodes to learn more about all of you.

[@alexscott8799]

I think the best set we could have right now to take advantage of the planar bridge is a strixhaven vs Tolarian academy with academy having the other 5 schools that weren't at strixhaven

[@lesternomo6578]

fire idea honestly

[@xaxscratchxax926]

Definitely like this idea

[@TheChibidono]

International wizarding school competition... I think I've heard of this somewhere.

[@smileyksh]

This is a baller idea man.

[@OGNoNameNobody]

🥳 1st Fishmail readout!! Whoot! Also thanks so much for the most positive response I could have hoped for. 🎉

[@OGNoNameNobody]

[SIDE NOTE]: Yeah those numbers you sometimes see in comments is something(dumb) KZbin did about a year ago. YT basicly said "Y'all are gettin' crowded in here. So, EVERYONE re-submit for your screenname. _If you do not sumbit, a new screenname will be randomly assigned to you._ So I was a little lazy....😅

[@brandonbagley795]

Great video. Loved hearing about everyone's backgrounds before goldfish.

[@Kopekemaster]

I gotta see this video of Crim on Conan! Anyone know where I can find it?

[@josephwodarczyk977]

27:30 I 100% agree with his take on pizza delivery. You get to see so much of your town, there's no risk of going stir crazy from always being in the same place, and you always get to watch the sunset. That said, there needs to be a creepy tax because it's terrifying at night. Even in a safe area, it just feels scary.

[@brendans1983]

Richard is a metalhead for sure. If the thing he loves becomes popular, he doesn't like it anymore 🤘🍻

[@collinbeal]

Okay, but could you picture him listening to Krallice or Gorguts 😂

[@MIKAEL212345]

anyone got a link to see crim on conan?

[@lukevorwald7727]

i got you fam kzbin.info/www/bejne/roTJfGuXa9uqrZI

[@lukevorwald7727]

honestly the song slaps

[@geeknseek]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/roTJfGuXa9uqrZI

[@epicblue26]

Also looking for a link

[@Zosh_]

You're not dropping the link to Crim playing the guitar?

[@RPGFanboy14]

You know its funny you mention the numbers attached to names. For a long time my Username was just RPGFanboy. I have no idea when the 14 got attached to it. It had to be a youtube thing that changed. The first time I noticed it was when I got featured in the "Meanest comments" EDHPodcast when Seth read out my name lol

[@Zarbon000]

11:08 Seth doesn’t realize we just returned to Eldraine 🎉

[@scotthuston2850]

Punk rock is all about producing a feeling of urgency. The more anxious you feel, the more the punk is working

[@ZackeroniAndCheese]

Loved this episode. Please do these every few months

[@light-chemistry]

Tomer is definitely the sweaty player hes always playing either artifact decks, combo decks, extra turns decks, or tribal decks that have like, 3 creatures from that tribe because he had to fit in all his broken stuff to support the archetype

[@Emperor0919]

Fish mail question for Richard: How did you meet the current cast Crim/Seth/Tomer/ Phil and why did you decide to bring them onboard? Thank you, loving the content!

[@lottasha]

My husband and I have a commander cube where two and one colour commanders have partner up to 3 colours and it’s SO much fun!! But no i would like that to not be the case always 😄

[@mattm7798]

I remember what put MTGGoldfish on the map for me was when WotC either asked you to stop or cut off the info you guys were using to do matchup analysis(based mostly on MTGO IIRC). They claimed it helped the meta to be solved too quickly. The first article I remember reading was SO's on Standard being too expensive in the fall of 2015....been a fan ever since!

[@maximemaltais6090]

Maxime Maltais 😅! It kind of feels like an honor to have my name butchered by Seth at this point!

[@ElderGoose1]

LOL I loved this episode getting some lore from the cast!

[@jewpcabra666]

the more Richard talks about his life/past the more I realize his life is very similar 😆His commentary on software engineers so real. Is the whole fish crew going to be a magic-con chicago?

[@DevoidGoat]

Finally something me and Richard have in common. Barely any music tastes and silence but listened to kpop back in time. 😅

[@JpDubbed]

@37:45 no crim! You fly that freak flag high! 👊

[@ZackeroniAndCheese]

54:10 completely agree with Richard here. All colors losing their identities has made Magic a shell of its former self.

[@josephpayton7522]

That's not what he said. The color pie not mattering doesn't have anything to do with how Magic feels.

[@ZackeroniAndCheese]

@@josephpayton7522 to me it does

[@OGNoNameNobody]

The first and last ones are the keys to enlightenment

[@SilverAlex92]

"I dont wanna wake up early for playing magic, I dont wanna wake up early for anything". Crim, my dude, trust me we all understand

[@PMcDFPV]

Talking about the autopilot decks, as a player who was out of the game for over 20 years and just recently got back into it, those have made it very easy for me to still have an enjoyable experience in the higher range pods that they have at my local shop. I want to get better to so I don't have to lean on that style as much. But the complexity of the cards is just so high. I feel like it's going to take me years to be at the level of some of the other players.

[@ericfletcher7046]

A random idea I have for a different color identity rule is you can run off color cards that include some part of your color identity. I have no idea how it would actually work but it seems interesting.

[@henrye3935]

I think Crim is the most competitive, but he's also the best looser too. He's always happy to loose to some nonsense.

[@mattm7798]

Also, if you look at the standard metagame page on MTGGoldfish, of the top 5 decks, only 1 is an automatic deck(the poison deck). The rest are either ramp or mid range, neither of which are auto decks at all. What he might mean are decks that have a ton of cards that if unanswered, run away with the game within 1-2 turns. That I agree should not be the case.

[@charlespfaff4395]

As someone from DC Crim saying Rites of Spring is from NYC hurt me to my bones

[@TheAsianAvenger69]

LOL oops.

[@Welverin]

Goldfish don’t sweat!

[@NaldoNidoking]

My flaw is the same as Richard's. I hate playing like, tier 1 strategies, and always play something awful instead praying it'll turn out good.

[@Shimatzu95]

Back in our days we had to work to make our decks function!

[@friendo6257]

Richard piloting inti, not a testament to how good it is

[@Vina.Acecook]

that was a weird reading of "no name no body" 😂

[@LightPink]

As someone who only recently started listening to the podcast, ace there any great episodes that I should go back and listen to?

[@Hurtishappy]

Probably the commander videos to start, a lot of these episodes are about time sensitive stuff but commander videos are more about game theory

[@beelor5777]

They've done it before with certain sets. Zendikar with allies? That's just zendikar rising, and we all loved that set, right? Strixhaven was also a beloved, right? It was a separate event about school for wizards and witches. Return to ravnica block was a tournament to see who could reach the end first. Its been done. Good? Not really. Lol

[@mees8711]

The numbers in the names are part of an auto-generated tag by youtube to distinguish between people with the same name (or something like this). I did not add the numbers but every time I comment somewhere there is this string of numbers, as there probably is after I hit post on this comment.

[@thesamuraiman]

To answer Crim's question: the Domino's franchise in northeast North Carolina starts at $7.25/hr (which is minimum wage) while in the store, but drops to, like, $6.50-ish while taking deliveries. And they get about $0.60/mile to cover gas. So nah, ain't really changed in 2024. 😂

[@a.t._hall827]

Ok, Im going to have to look into Crim's music career now.

[@kyleb4772]

Software engineer gang can’t agree more with Richard that it’s a lot of fucking around “oh this would be a fun button to make purple”

[@Eternalhachiiiiii]

commander clash week, "No color restrictions." book it, codfather!

[@coool20]

Richard is such a legend. Quitting his job just to play Diablo is absolutely crazy.

[@thesamuraiman]

We are going back to Tarkir next year, I believe 👀👀

[@camdenharper7244]

Punk is literally the antithesis of Jazz

[@BobardeZanzibar]

How?

[@camdenharper7244]

@@BobardeZanzibar one has a great focus on complexity and virtuosity. The other was a direct rejection of both of those things

[@Jlizard27]

⁠@@camdenharper7244jazz is such a broad genre though that I feeling defining jazz as the antithesis of punk is maybe not correct either.

[@bardhoag]

Ikoria subset monster hunter world. Can focus on explore, mutations, equipment, cats and dogs

[@joshuajordan6632]

Im the same way as Richard. I can't play the top decks. In Ravnica I played Aristocrats. In Theros it was Red Devotion (I even beat Todd Anderson on Mono black dev on camera with it).

[@mikeconnors9287]

Part of the beauty of magic is self expression and creation. For a lot of people (myself included), playing popular decks takes away from the experience. I would rather chase something fringe and make it work.

[@josephpayton7522]

Link?

[@joshuajordan6632]

if you're asking me for a link, it was like 20 years ago :D whenever theros standard was around. There was a starcity article about my deck that Michael Martin wrote, and you can find my decklists in the tournament results on the starcity site. But I do remember how it went down. Game 3, I was playing red dev splash white. I sided in Assemble the Legion and got it after he got a rat and demon down. Thanks to those soldier tokens I was finally able to stabilize and turn the corner for the win. The guys taking the results at the table actually let me keep the slip with Todd's signature. Definitely the highlight of my career. I was shaking so bad, Todd was 4th in the world at the time. @@josephpayton7522

[@ajaxender12]

Ikoria is easy. Pokemon. In the aftermath of phyrexia stuff, bonders become stronger or certain strong bonders arise or even travellers from other planes, maybe not even human. They travel around fighting, or take over areas and it's warfare between the strongest bonders and all their monsters and human allies/minions, etc etc. Mechanics around buffing certain monster types and forming teams, I dunno.

[@joekendall8401]

The off-kilter approach to a known plane is another example of how 3 set blocks make for a better experience overall. The concept of slivers overrunning Ikoria seems really cool but it sucks as 1 set. In a 3 set block you can see the progression from "Ikoria big monsters" to "Ikoria something isn't quite right, what are these pointy snakes?" To "Ikoria, holy fuck slivers everywhere" and it would be compelling

[@Shimatzu95]

In regards to the color question I would go the opposite from richard, to this day i think fetchlands should have color identity, landfall is annoying enough as it is even without off color fetches. Edit: what would you even do with all the free spells?

[@denniscoble907]

Is there a link to Crim playing on Conan?

[@jrightly]

I think its best to talk about Emo in terms of "waves" with each successive generation having its own style/culture associated with it and almost exclusively disregarding the others.

[@1ryb360]

43:53 I love how the comment first complains about the lack of interactions in Amalia and discover, then goes on to complain about not being able to run decks without interactions lol.

[@garettallen4963]

Finally crim and I can agree on something, music.

[@mellowcorpsep6665]

crim whipping out the entire "real emo" copypasta. my kind of people

[@rockandrolljew89]

"too patient" sounds like a sanitized version of "I durdle so I can get all the value"

[@kyonizuka]

nah if you ever watch seth play he literally waits every turn for the control/midrange player to tap out because they MIGHT have the counter or the removal for his play. (they never tap out letting them play a new land every turn play their cantrips and draw more cards until they have enough mana to drop their bombs/win cons while holding up mana for the answer they now definitely have drawing all those cards)

[@JonReid01]

​@@kyonizukaI don't watch enough gameplay, does he play like that even when he plays agro decks? Or just he just never really play agro stuff

[@kyonizuka]

@@JonReid01 depends on the aggro deck. but typically he doesnt play a lot of aggro. he wants to play the new flashy combos or the big bombs that do really cool things. when he does play aggro obviously he will avoid over committing to the board in front of a sweeper but especially vs decks that have like wanderer he has left points of damage on the table afraid they'll flash in wanderer which has allowed opponents time to stabilize. but the more against the odds a deck is the more he'll say F it or depending what the league record is. if he's already 0-2 0-3 theres more f it we're trying to do a cool thing no risk no reward

[@JonReid01]

@@kyonizuka cool thanks I appreciate it

[@kk_33]

"Nona menobody" Wow, richard, that was a Seth level pronunciation 😅

[@kaijukraken]

So, Crim is a dirty sakazuki player? Also, how about a MTGOnePiece?

[@TheAsianAvenger69]

It’s true. Sakadookie has been so much fun to play.

[@johnevans6629]

How come there is no data under timeless on goldfish?

[@olivergalitch5584]

Great idea let's make a Ragavan+Urza deck! /quit

[@appalach7148]

Seth would be a great game show host

[@chaosgaming2447]

Just tried to redeem the Mtgo code and found out the promotion ended at 6 🤦‍♂️😭

[@joshuajordan6632]

"If you dont get tips, you lose so much money" Tell me you like in America without telling me you live in America

[@ddublu]

now I really wanna send my carrier goldfish with some letters.

[@Wolfntee]

Crim be like: "Real Emo" only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Emo" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real emo influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Romance are not real emo, while saying that Sunny Day Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake emo as My Chemical Romance (plus the pretentiousness). Real emo sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake emo is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music. Some examples of REAL EMO are Pg 99, Rites of Spring, Cap n Jazz (the only real emo band from the midwest scene) and Loma Prieta. Some examples of FAKE EMO are American Football, My Chemical Romance and Mineral. EMO BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE

[@jonwee6632]

Ikoria universes beyond pokemon

[@jonwee6632]

PLUS COMPANION

[@TheMistforman]

Ironically enough I wrote a college paper on why I thought Iron Man was the best superhero.

[@karlolson1871]

We want a link to see Crim on Conan!

[@yungtiger419]

listen bros!! Lets explore ZAHLFIR !!!

[@Naturessightsandsounds7040]

Crim would be so much happier if he was doing music lol its super obvious

[@crayyonnyadrav4055]

Question to Seth: where the heck do you live? Are you really in that kind of village hidden between mountains that no one finds without actively searching for it?

[@MTGGoldfishPodcast]

Pretty close, rural upstate new york.

[@WormOTB]

In response to the mech bot fights on kaladesh, I would love to see that specific idea but centered more around underground illegal bot fights, big hero 6, or real steel style.

[@midnalight6419]

I am HAPPILY playing on mtgo. On my first modern league ever I went 2-3 with rhinos and then went 3-2. MTGO plays infinitely better than arena and I think I'm hooked.

[@keithoma7265]

We need more hot takes from Richard.

[@tristonshelley96]

said it once ill say it again i want a mecha godzilla omnath so we have a colorless omnath and do a monster universe tie in with the banger zilla movies weve been getting

[@edwardgribbins7175]

Theros: The Iroan Games

[@darthsnarf]

Goldfish don't sweat they are in water

[@matthugenberg8869]

The number thing is because KZbin ate a bunch of user names and turned them into your name with numbers. My name is one of those, and I hate it and have no idea how to change it.

[@brandonbagley795]

Seth's biggest flaw as a magic player is insanely obvious to anyone who has watched a fair number of videos. Scoops way too soon.

[@marktanner9949]

I wanna see return to tarkiar

[@Sinistra359]

I want a return to zendikar farming simulator.

[@lucasbreton4143]

Poor Maxime Maltais got his name butchered by everybody

[@Minervastouch]

Works on my pc

[@Scriibble4]

literally "hardcore" the genre

[@Scriibble4]

PS id love a music podcast from yall

[@DerpyLaron]

I want Crims Spotify playlist now to reconnect to my teen punk self. Crim gimme!

[@cluelesscardgamer]

i don't think the most competitive person necessarily has to go to a lot of tournaments or compete a bunch. i think it's just naturally being averse to losing and going farther than the others to win more

[@dinos5923]

Being averse to losing by default makes the person in the example non-competitive. Losing is part of competition so one needs to accept it to be competitive. Maybe you meant the mentality of playing to win vs playing not to lose but that was not clear in your comment.

[@r4v4g3r]

Y’all really gotta tell Crim to stop just scrolling the internet while you record the podcast lol

[@Xoulrath_]

Why? It's not like he adds anything when he pays attention.

[@eulefranz944]

Yeah it's ok when it happens from time to time but it is seriously noticable that it takes a few seconds to get his attention and listen properly. Happens a lot and for some time..

[@jetvoidweller]

I can't speak for him but he has a lot of traits I have as someone with adhd. And as you might expect it can be hard to docus

[@josephpayton7522]

It's tough to be upset with him because he does add a lot to the conversation. A lot of trolling too though. I just feel bad saying anything about attention spans.

[@Xoulrath_]

@@josephpayton7522 this isn't just random dudes doing a podcast. This is part of his job.

[@nosyamthegreat8768]

I dont understand why haveing decks that put themselves together is a bad thing? Like its called haveing a theme.