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#mtg #magicthegathering #eldrazi - Hry
Once I read an anecdote from a person who worked in healthcare, and they were talking about misconceptions people had when they lacked senses. An example was a person who was born deaf but was given the ability to hear- the person remarked at their surprise that the sun in the sky was silent. They'd assumed it must have been roaring in the distance.
The sun would, if there were air in space, in fact make a tremendously loud sound. It's just so far away I think we wouldn't be able to hear it.
@@nicholascarter9158 Oh contrair, it would be as loud as my mom when she gets mad, or in better words: ~100db.
Wow that's amazing
@@nicholascarter9158 if we were close enough to hear it, we would die from the heat and/or radiation exposure. Zero sum game.
@@MerlinTheCommenter Pretty sure that that's only because of the lack of air, though.
I like the metaphor "To imagine the Blind Eternities, try to imagine a color that you never saw before", since it parallels really well with colorless mana. It's mechanically a color, some spells require it, but it's not a _color_ . Abilities that "add one mana of any color" cannot add colorless mana. It's something grounded in rules we know and experience, and yet is alien and inaccessible unless you specifically try and get it
Its not special to me,Since its a color I already imagined before the eldrazi were created by MTG
It also references Lovecrafts Color out of Space
@@Dehalove Also Annihilation
Emrakul is an Eldrazi, a big scary abomination from The Blind Eternities, the space between the planes. They are filled with chaotic energy. I’ve never been to The Blind Eternities myself, but they sound a little like Disneyland which I did go to when I was nine.
- Alex Steacy, Friday Nights
Which episode?
@@SethG27 Strange Brew
Was an incredible quote
@@validtangent I just watched it back. I forgot that they did a Glengarry Glen Ross parody.
what planeswalker is that?
The concept of the eldrazi being projections of the blind eternities into planes reminds me of those visualizations of 4-dimentional objects projected into 3d space, and the fact that we as 3d beings will never be able to see an accurate representation of, say, a tesseract (4d cube).
I think that's the idea they're trying to convey.
But we are 4d beings. We occupy the four dimensions of length, width, height, and time. You aren't wrong that we struggle to be able to reproduce a visible representation of that fourth dimension, but it is inaccurate to say we're three dimensional beings.
@@just_gut that's disingenuous, when one says "we are three dimensional beings" everyone knows that the speaker is talking about spatial dimensions. Time being a dimension is a useless concept in these discussions.
@@just_gut Also, using a single time dimension is popular, but it doesn’t have to be one. And it is not a typical dimension.
I think you and others have a tendency to conflate 4-D in a relativity space-time sense rather then consider of just spatial dimensions. Eldrazi are 5-D to our 4-D in space-time or 4-D to our 3-D to just our spatiality.
Time doesn’t even exist, it’s a concept made by man, not something that actually happens. So it’s useless to even have a conversation about it.
In the novel "Planeswalker". Urza visits the Plane of Equilor. Equilor is said to be one of the most ancient planes. It was so "far away" that it took Urza 100 years to get back to Dominaria after his visit to the plane. I think about that a lot, especially when watching this video. Thanks Sam, you're a gem.
Thats a good take on the constant expansion of the universe and the relationshipof time & space.
in our reality it's hypothesized that even with FTL travel one wouldn't be able to get from one edge of the universe to the other because of the speed of expansion around the edges.
To help conceptualize the differing rates expansion in 4-D, take an un inflated balloon and make some dots on it with a large tipped marker, then inflate it.
(and of course, looking up at the stars is "seeing" back in time. i.e. the light we actually see is ancient and the source isn't even close to being at the position we now perceive.)
Anyways..
Planeswalker is one of my favorite books of all time.
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@@BurnDoubt The universe expands too rapidly for anything starting on one axial extreme to reach the other axial extreme. I could be wrong as I haven't delved into physics since I first went to college but I was under the impression that the accepted theory of expansion currently has a uniform rate of expansion that is accelerating. Hell, it won't be that long on the cosmic scale until no more light from distant stars can even reach us due to spacetime expansion and our bright, starry backyard becomes an abyss of blackness forever. Something that's expected to happen before the final expansion of the Sun. A ship that leaves the edge of the universe today heading in a direct line across a singular plane at the speed of light will have its atoms torn apart by the breakdown of the fundamental forces as the universe approaches heat death long before it could ever hope to see the other side.
Ah the old space is expanding meme, didn't the science priests already backtrack again and say we are constricting now lol
say sike rn bro pls @@offlineraided
@@dragondeeznutts I wish I could
This video is an exquisite art.
Even by the high standard of Rhystic Studies, it is truly remarkably formulated.
Agreed. The pacing and discussion are themselves an expression of poetry.
Cringe
Came to say the same... you put it way better.
Id like to add that the ambient musical choices are very good and the sudden cuts to very dark frames really put me in the mood watching this in a dark room.
This video brought me to an interesting thought: the complete defeat of the Eldrazi means stagnation of the multiverse. Eldrazi is an extention of Blind Eternities, from which all planes once popped. Eldrazi come into a plane to destroy it, collect it's mana and disappear back into The Blind Eternities. But the mana harvested by Eldrazi doesn't faint into nothing. My idea is that this same mana is used to create other planes of existence. Eldrazi are not a multiversal evil, they are a part of natural order of the multiverse orchestrated by whatever it is Blind Eternities have for intellect. Without the process of planar destruction, new planes are simply stopped from being created. Who knows what consequences this might have on already existing planes? What scares me more is that these destructors of planes have a "mind" of their own. They can be called upon, and they can choose to answer. What does it say about The Blind Eternities?
This has been a prevailing theory of the Eldrazi for a bit now, actually! They're not the Lovecraftian elder gods who are creatures beyond our understanding, with dark plots for the world. They're... just the Multiverse's clean up crew, the garbage men, the repair folks. You can see that in their processes; Ulamog consumes, removing the last remnants of order and calming everything down to silence. Kozilek distorts, changing the ruin and dying into clean, sterile colorless mana. And Emerkul mutates, rebuilding what her brothers have given her and ultimately birthing a new world.
Without them, we might not have the death of planes anymore. But does that mean we also no longer have BIRTH of new planes, as well?
I don't know. That implies that the multiverse is finite, which is kinda weird to me. I always saw it as the infinite, as if it was finite, then that makes it so much simpler, too simple.
@@genzo454 If the Eldrazi were genuinely recycling the mana for continuous birthing of new planes that sorta keeps the multiverse infinite in it's own way when considering the passage of time, no? In fact, if entropy exists in mtg, it's the only for the multiverse to escape our own realities ostensible fate of thinning out to nothing and achieving a truly stable "infinity".
This is a good thought. Very "There is no war. There is only the harvest" (such a cool line from what ended up being completely ruined cosmic horror in another piece of media)
@@inaraoftyria3878 I was thinking the same thing
I haven't watched one of these videos in a while. Lost some interest in Magic, I guess. But I love the Eldrazi, so I clicked as soon as I saw.
Same
Wow exactly same
This and a few others (I follow market watch to see if anything in my bulk binder is worth it - if reaper of the wilds ever somehow finds a home, and becomes a $10 each... I get to retire)
Magic costs too much, it will die eventually if they keep increasing the prices
Many Magic the Gathering players ask the question: why does this game suck now?
For real though, I never thought wizards could push me this far away from a game I used to love so much :(
Soon as i saw the title i dropped everything just to watch. The Eldrazi are my favorite tribe and their lore is so intriguing. It is a shame their existence was so frightening to everyone. Now Wizards will probably never use them again out of fear. Emrakul shall remain locked in the moon with story unfinished. No conclusion to her lingering words left before she locked herself in the moon.
only until power creep makes the eldrazi we know relatively balanced
Emrakul's Imprisonment and the Eldrazi themselves were in some DMU lore spoilers
They are only scary due to Annihilator being a busted mechanic. If it weren't for thay we wouldn't have had the eldrazi winter.
I literally just did the exact same thing
@@garrethatch5362 you realize most eldrazies in eldrazie winter didn’t have the annilhiotor ability.
That Calvino quote at 8:23 is something i could spend the rest of time thinking about. goodness gracious. incredible work Sam
this is why fiction is so important. It gives us an opportunity to highlight the truths of reality.
Except that quote doesnt apply to me, my existence goes against existence itself, and that is my goal
Yeah, it hit hard
Yeah, it hit hard
This video is SO GOOD. I love how the blind eternities isn’t just the generic “nightmare fuel we weren’t meant to perceive” Avenue that lots of fantasy media go down, but also a metaphorical space of possibility and invention.
How lucky is the magic community, that rhystic studies analyzes it's oscure lore, puts it in context of current and past culture and science, in a poetic and artistic manner? Very very lucky indeed.
I love how magic seems to be the ultimate intersection of all these disciplines and art forms and I doubly love how you go about so eloquently explaining how it is that ultimate intersection
Imaging the blind eternities reminds me of a little logical loop my brother and I discovered as children where we'd Imaging what nothing looked like only to realize we imagined something and needed to try again.
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind if fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear, is fear of the unknown." -HP Lovecraft
This is now my new favorite video from you, absolutely phenomenal.
That story about Ugin describing the hand grabbing the fish is very reminiscent of Leitner's description of the Entities in The Magnus Archives. That podcast, in my opinion, does a great job at making characters who "understand" the way the lovecraftian abominations work and explain it a lot, yet still making them feel utterly alien and indescribable
TMA is such a good podcast. My friend introduced me to it with S1E2: Do Not Open, and I immediately had to start listening. That playlist was open for months.
More TMA fans! I was wondering if I'd find any here.
Videos like this have a weird way of helping me whenever I have any kind of collapse of myself. Your video essays have a way of soothing me. Thanks for the release right when I needed a bit of calm considering of The Blind Eternities to centre myself. Eldrazi are cool. Another to the list with Red Deck Wins, One With Nothing, and your video on Rancor to listen to for that good experience
This was incredible. I always pigeonholed the Eldrazi/Blind Eternities to Lovecraftian type creatures/entities. This similar, but different perspective really opened my eyes and wowed me. I’m definitely going to check out the Italian author mentioned in the video.
This might be not only my favorite video you’ve put out, but my favorite story telling of the MTG universe as a whole. I’m recommending this to everyone I know, MTG players or not.
I like the thought that in some sense the lovecraftian beings are a similar idea through the paranoid and terrified lens of Lovecraft's mind. He saw malice and madness there, because that is who he was, in the same sense as the blind eternities appearing to planeswalkers depending on who they are.
I also shared it with everyone in- and outside of magic
@@willowarkan2263 I love that
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. -H.P. Lovecraft
I think the Eldrazi are actually very close to the true concept of cosmic horror Lovecraft envisioned. His focus was always on creatures, magnitudes, sounds, and colors that could not be described or comprehended, and that would drive people to madness or suicide if observed (as the fish observes the hand). The pop culture depictions of Cthulu and friends are misleading.
Just like how the Blind Eternities stretches and challenges our imaginations of the real, imaginations of 'what's out there,' this video challenges the limits of the video essay.
So much of the video essay genre is characterized as an essay made into a video. This work leverages what makes the video essay special- the direct engagement with the reader, the inclusion of visual media- and turns them up to 11.
It is abstract, but in the best way. It is a prose essay of the highest sense, a blurring of genres, of the arts.
It's poetry, I absolutely love it
Hot off the presses! Another banger. Love how you tie everything in Magic to everything possible outside of Magic. It really helps us laymen feel the artistry that was put into everything Magic, and makes me more excited to see where the magic of humanity takes us!
This is not only some of the best Magic: The Gathering content on the internet, it's some of the finest content period.
Please don't ever stop making these. You're incredibly articulate and a joy to listen to. Well done!
The medium is the message and the medium is mass produced cardboard and printer ink.
fun fact, the "picture of us" featured early on is called "earthrise" but only because upon being disseminated, the image got rotated clockwise by 90 degrees, making it appear as if the photo was taken from the moon's surface looking out over a horizon. really, it was taken from an orbiter, and relative to the camera (if you had been looking through a viewfinder) the moon would have been to the right, and the horizon(tal) would be vertical (rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise)
A perfect exercise in framing, both literally photographically but also the storytelling technique
It's still the earthrise even if you're in orbit. The ISS still sees sunrises.
I've always been a bit dissatisfied with the fact that every creature is canonically just an aether replica. It feels like another case of flavor folding in the face of function (I guess in this case one form of flavor folding to a different sort of flavor). That's probably always going to bug me, but the idea that _everything_ in the Multiverse is nothing more than a construct of aether puts an interesting spin on the concept.
Every *summoned* creature, not every living thing.
@@brunopereira6789 I know, that's what I mean. I think it's kinda lame that when I play a Niv-Mizzet card, within the game's fiction it's just a facsimile of the real thing.
But if even the "real" thing is himself a facsimile of some planotic ideal and is also built of aether, in a way, that I find more interesting.
Well aren't we all but stash of molecules, mainly Hydrogen, Carbon and Nitrogen?
We can even dare say that, putting faith in some theories, we are all but local fluctuations of quantum fields!
In Arena, Garth One-Eye describes summoning as LITERALLY pulling the creature across planes into your plane.
I think magic and aether and metaphysics is just as open to interpretation in magic lore as it is irl. Of course a blue mage would make copies, and a red mage would forcefully summon the original entity...
@@nathanl8622 honestly I prefer it that way, makes more sense to me than literally ripping Niv from Ravnica
This was an incredible video as always, and I think you've outdone yourself with the writing and structure here. I wasn't expecting the part about the dragon and cat avatars, and other dragons and cats being shadows on cave walls. It's such a perfect way to evoke the kind of... I don't know, salience, or dimensionality that we have trouble wrapping our heads around. Reminds me of Interstellar a little bit. Thank you, Sam.
"Like Langoliers, they devour planes"
I see what you did there
omg. i didn't even see what i did there.
So happy to be amongst the five or so people who watched The Langoliers when it was on ABC.
The thing about how planeswalkers summon creatures as concepts and not the actually being itself is such good writing I love it.
I remember back when I was reading Battle for Zendikar, and the Eldrazi were released. Though it wasn't described, the mental image that immediately popped into my head when the binding of (I think) Kozilek came undone, was just of a flood of tentacles and flesh simply... appearing from all directions. Like a fish observing a finger breaking the water's surface, I could not comprehend how something could simply step into the fabric of my reality, but my brain tried anyway
As much as I love the concept, I wish Wizards was more consistent with their interpretation. There are many examples of planes being describes as if they took up space, Dominaria being “in the center”, Kamigawa being “far away”
Maybe those distances are just to describe the ease with which you can planeswalk from those plane to others, or how much they are planeswalked to and from. Dominaria is a crossroads to which almost everyone has gone at least once, whereas as Kamigawa may be a bit more isolated and unknown.
To continue the apartment complex metaphor, maybe the walls are a bit thicker in some places. Maybe some rooms are so tiny that you can easily miss them, while others are so big and full of activity that you simply can't miss them
@@Le_Codex Or to put it even more simply, it's convention. Dominaria is in the center because that's where all the important early characters are from and interact with. Think of it like the model of geocentrism vs heliocentrism. It's the MTG version of geocentrism.
That one painting you showed, *In Absentia* by Tanner Ortery, is beautiful.
I found his site and am heavily considering purchasing a print of it. Thank you.
yeah his work is so cool. i'm glad you dig it too.
Every video you make is perfect. You make people think about Magic’s lore that they otherwise may not have thought of in that way
Wake up babe, new Rhystic Studies just dropped
Outstanding work as always, Sam. Abstract thought is always a wild thought experiment. Have you ever pondered words, like "why do we call the color orange 'orange' and not something else?" Or considered the concept of nothingness and non-existence? It's like you can feel you brain trying to fold itself over like a blanket or a towel in an attempt to comprehend it.
Idk. Non existence is pretty easy to grasp. Just take what you have now and subtract everything. Maybe other people can't understand that, but it's easy for me. I've never felt my brain fold up or get exhausted thinking about this stuff. Lots of people apparently do when doing abstract thinking. That, I don't think I can comprehend. Sorry if this came off as like, pretentious or whatever. I just find other people struggling to comprehend such simple things fascinating. Perhaps they are thinking visually or in ways that are otherwise not completely void of all but logic? That would make sense. I wonder if its because people normally can't grasp what they haven't experienced, and nothingness is a lack of experience.
Oh BTW the answer to that orange question is just that that's the name everyone decided on in the English language. Its entirely arbitrary. But it was going to be something. And its not like its gibberish. Its named after the fruit. Sure other orange objects exist, but that's a pretty common always orange one, so it makes sense we chose that. Even if other names might have also made sense, if it was one of those instead, we would be asking the same question for that one, and why it isn't called orange. In other words, its called orange because of the many options we have, that's the one that it became. And all that's ignoring that it was likely a natural cultural development. Given how language works. No one really put much thought into it then either, so my explanation, which basically just boils down to "it is because we said it is, and if we had arbitrarily decided something else, we'd be asking the same question about that choice anyways", is sufficient. Its like asking, how are humans alive if its so unlikely for life to form. I don't know, but if we weren't, we wouldn't be able to ask that question, so really we just happen to be the one version of reality where we are, and we are that one because we couldn't be a different one and still exist to ponder such a thing. I realize that probably just made it more confusing but whatever. Was just a fun parallel I noticed.
Once again, apologies if I'm being annoying. I literally can't help it. I'm neurodivergent. I'm not even really writing this for the person I'm responding to, but rather for no one in particular. I'm just writing this because I can.
Uhhhh. Idk how to end this.
@@--CHARLIE-- just be honest with yourself. you wrote it to demonstrate value in yourself as being very clever. you clicked post so others would see and validate that desire. the problem is that when its filtered through the lens of anothers perspective, it comes off vulnerable and condescending.
I always loved the flavor text for the Serum Visions secret lair cards. The poems about desiring knowledge from the blind eternity coupled with the surrealist art really make for intriguing cards
"What would you exchange for a cosmic secret? Any payment is a small price for insight."
"She drank, and in the depths of the Blind Eternities, an ancient eye opened."
"Future, present, and past become one in the blink of an eye."
"'Why stop at the third eye?' came a whisper from the cup. 'Drink more, and open them all.'"
(Idk if there's a proper order for these but I usually assume it's this)
I can see in the Blind Eternities!
This might be my favorite video from this channel, holy crap
Come for the Magic content, stay for the questioning the nature of your own reality. That's the full RhysticStudies experience.
Great video Sam!
Oh THIS is what you meant by weird. Yeah. This qualifies. Can't wait!
Dude this is not just a Video Essay, this is Cardboard Poetry, i haven't played Magic in years and yet you stay one of my favorite channels ever.
Renewal is a fantastic chapter of writing. Between Pia's admission to Chandra and Nissa's parting secret to Yahenni, I can't decide which moved me more. One lays bare the complicated emotions of a mother who, despite being caught up in a revolution, had been processing her emotions at the realization that the daughter she had buried had grown into an angry and vengeful woman. The other marks a moment of growth for a character who had once been prejudiced, and had developed the empathy needed to be able to gift a person of a short-lived species a final comfort.
I'm always a little bummed that most people didn't get why Pia's Revolution was an enchantment whilst Chandra's Revolution was a sorcery. It's cos Pia's Revolution was built on wanting to change things and actually make a permanent impact. Chandra's was just for the sake of her venting her feelings.
"The eldrazi are the rats", those are some fucking scary rats tho.
I've listened to this at least a dozen times. This is, so far, at least, your own personal masterpiece. When I recommend your stuff to people who don't play magic, this is what I send them.
To those who like exploring this concept, I recommend checking out Jacob Geller's video "Fear of Depths" as well as checking out the anime Made in Abyss.
This comment made me go watch several of Geller's videos, and on one of those videos Rhystic Studies commented about how much they loved it.
Time is a flat circle.
The fact that I feel like I both gain knowledge and also gained nothing I think is the point. We are blind to what we can't see, but that's just one of the senses. It may not be tangible, but there are other ways to experience or witness the blindness
only rhystic studies can make you grapple with your impossibly small existence over a child's cardgame. man don't miss
This is a masterpiece. Not only are you explaining a facet of a beloved card game, you're breaking down the correlations between truly deep cuts into consciousness, perception and reality. The Blind Eternities. Thank you for your efforts, this is truly appreciated.
I like to describe the blind eternities similar how dream was described in the sandman comics:
The infinite planes of the multiverse represent everything that is possible. And even in a word filled with reallity changing magic, all it's potencial is just a drop of the ocean of unprobabilities of the blindceternities.
oh men. I wish this video was an hour longer. ❤️❤️
oooooh a video that weaves together some of my favorite things. I am a bit shocked at how deep this goes in my interests outside of mtg, thank you so so much.
INVISIBLE CITIES QUOTE!!! It’s my favorite book of all time, I have reread it twice and still find new details in every vignette. Instant like on the video from me!
Right?!?!? Its such a small book but it has so much to be found. Its my favorite too!
@@franciscopetrucci Absolutely. Calvino is a master writer. I’m glad that there are others who appreciate it as much as I do 🙂
@@joshuajohnston4825 Calvino wrote the phrase 'rectilinear penetration', for which I can never forgive him
Let's go! This channel is a jem in the community
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Its a great mox for sure
Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
Opening with an Italo Calvino quote means this is instantly amazing
Excellent work making this video unnerving and unsettling. The prevalent existential questions and subtle editing choices had me spooked.
Why are your videos always the best thing I’ve ever seen, every time I see one? You need to stop making me cry.
Man your videos always leave me with more questions, in a good way! Your storytelling is infectious and keeps the mind wanting more. Please continue these and I hope Wizards does more with you in the future. Great work!
Cozied up for another awesome one. Thanks as always Sam, I love the content
I appreciate that the video length is exactly og emrakuls power and toughness
I felt awkward posting that this video brings me comfort when I'm feeling down in the dumps, and then I scrolled down and a bunch of other people posted the same thing and I don't feel so down in the dumps anymore. Thank you so much for gifting us this video.
Ugh these videos make me believe in so many forms of art that i am usually sceptical of
As always. Amazing and thought provoking. Thank you so much
1:25 "They did surgery on a grape."
Beautifully esoteric, perfecrly composed and weird. That early Plato's Cave mention set the tone so succinctly. I love this one
what are the blind eternities
This has to be one of my favorite videos ever at all.
I absolutely adore your perspective and inquisitive mind. It's amazing to see it unfold.
Damn the interpretation of Eldrazi really reminds me of Berserk, the exact same motif is used there...
I wonder how a set exploring the blind eternities would be. Like following different planeswalkers hence you get different interpretations of it and the spells; or a weatherlight-like ship exploring them and seeing weird unstable impossibilities...
there are rumours that in 2023 there will be the "most ambitious set in MTG yet".
Rumours are what they are and should always be taken with a side of salt, but if we're considering possibilities, what if they're working on a blind eternities set?
6:55 lol I love how he just casually uses langoliers as a point of reference as if they’re a common thong everyone ought to already be familiar with.
I love when a lore video crosses into mad ramblings I find scrawled on the walls of a burned down cabin territory
You know, I have had an on going existential crisis ever since I was about 7 and someone explained to me that some people can't see certain colors or see colors differently then me. I quickly realized that I could never see the world through their eyes, smell it with their nose, hear it with their ears. In that moment I realized that I am trapped in my brain. More extreme thoughts followed such as, where was my mind before it was born. As an adult I spend a lot of time thinking and pushing back those thoughts. So thank you for bringing them to the front in a way that doesn't trigger a panic attack. Thank you for putting them so powerfully and poetically. I'm really glad I found your channel a few years back.
Such a amazing job as always
13:05 I love the parallel conotations of religous interpretation that comes through in your examples of the different planar denizens.
Top notch video, Rhystic. I love me some existencial dread mixed with the awe of being sentient matter. Keep up the amazing videos.
The eldrazi are like 3d objects in a 2d world. We can only see a slice of them and they have a complex perspective we can’t imagine. Much like flatlands
I usually think of Rhystic Studies as the channel that "talks about Magic art", but I only just realized it's actually the channel that "talks about Magic _as_ art"
wow 3 ads in the same video? grats on getting paid for making what we love
This is by far my favorite video of yours. I straight up watched the entire video again after I finished it because it was that good. It's so well put and thought provoking good sir. Amazing Work!
Everything you do is always incredible and insightful. I love this content, taking a hobby we all love and pointing out the real world relationships from art and design, to metaphysics, to red deck wins. Always a masterpiece
This is the most comprehensive and interesting video on such an incomprehensible topic. Thank you for these 15 minutes filled with thoughts that are far beyond mtg alone and excellent examples from art, science and philosophy. As a big fan of Eldrazi, I just bow down
This has to be my favorite video of yours. Simply incredible and thought-provoking. 10/10
This video has an excellent unsettling quality to it.
I juste can't find the words on how interesting you are to listen to, I never played magic, never watched someone played, I'm not an artist of any kind and everythime I find myself watching one of your video I just can't help being immersed in a world I don't know nor understand and I love it so much
You are truly one of the best videomaker thanks a lot my friend
OMG WOTC give this man a job, pay for Rhystic Studies. Like I want full booklet art analysis of every set ever to be printed. or no stay free i'll pay for Rhystic Studies. You are so good for this community.
Man. I remember signing up for a channel about art. This was incredible. Sam, we don't deserve you. The enlightenment you provide is transformational.
Love your work, Sam. Teaches me to always think critically and appreciate things for what they represent as well as what they are. Thank you for the content.
Travelling through the planes as a planeswalker is like going to sleep and waking up in another plane. The dreams you have in between is your conciousness trying to make sense of what you encounter when you pass through the blind eternities.
The Eldrazi, are like the feeling of déja-vu you feel when you recognize something you dreamed of when you are awake. That's why Emrakul drives people mad. She shows you the horrors you thought only excisted outside of your woken reality.
The blind eternities - that region between the graveyard and the library outside of the battlefield.
This is what my simple mind can wrap itself around :)
But seriously, thanks again for another compelling dissection.
Will be waiting for the next one.
I just wanna say I love these videos because of all the great artists you show. Seriously, these videos have turned me into an art critic
I love how you emulated the feeling of cosmic horror throughout the video. Your videos are always such an inspiration for me!
"We tried to make sense of what all this is. We're still trying to make sense of what all this is. What is all this?"
Still can't get over how beautifully quizzical the writing of this episode is. Oh, to know so much, only to realize how much more we have to learn!
The best part of my day is a new Rhystic Studies video. Keep up the great work.
just some more random ways of thinking of the blind eternities:
-they are the space of possibilities- the planes that aren't, that can never be.
This was an excellent video (as always). Thank you for sharing! 🙏
14:01 "Matter certainly likes to show off" bro I came here for magic stuff, not to question the nature of reality as we perceive it, taking into account the stance that we are just matter trying to quantify our existence as particles. Excellent work as always
This might be my favourite of yours yet. Thank you for making it!
Such a great mood and tone set in this one, Sam. The video’s theme and design in this one was stellar.
The blind eternities are the time between two games of Magic
I adored the reference to The Langoliers in this video! That really jogged my memory from when I was a kid!
This is one of your best videos yet. Extraordinary work!
Incredible work as always
Beautifully unsettling. Well done!