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
Oh shoot! Yeah!!! That would’ve been one of the tours. Super fun show and tour
Best content you guys have made hands down. Also the section on richard talking about starting mtg goldfish like a boss is really wholesome. 😊
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
This is such a cool idea, so interesting in fact I am positive WOTC would never do it haha
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.
For that I think New Capenna would have to shift too as they are currently the plane for the Shards
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.
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.
Love the Postcast! Finally some fish mail answered! 🎉
You know Richard and Crim are from California when they think there's a Doordash for farm animals.
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
I felt Caverns was very different. Mechanics were GY focused instead of more tribal mechanics
@@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!
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
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.
I feel as though every time Niuttuc has shown up to a game, he's absolutely wrecked everyone
@@Kryptnyt niuttuk is definitively the sweatiest regular guestplayer but when it comes to the main cast its probably tomer or richard.
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.
There are more than us than you might think! We had a whole prerelease crew in my grad program.
@@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.
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.
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!
11:08 Seth doesn’t realize we just returned to Eldraine 🎉
Great video. Loved hearing about everyone's backgrounds before goldfish.
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.
Loved this episode. Please do these every few months
Richard is a metalhead for sure. If the thing he loves becomes popular, he doesn't like it anymore 🤘🍻
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
International wizarding school competition... I think I've heard of this somewhere.
Punk rock is all about producing a feeling of urgency. The more anxious you feel, the more the punk is working
LOL I loved this episode getting some lore from the cast!
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!
You're not dropping the link to Crim playing the guitar?
I gotta see this video of Crim on Conan! Anyone know where I can find it?
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?
"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
Goldfish don’t sweat!
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1st Fishmail readout!! Whoot!
Also thanks so much for the most positive response I could have hoped for.
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[SIDE NOTE]: Yeah those numbers you sometimes see in comments is something(dumb) CZcams 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....😅
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
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!
Richard piloting inti, not a testament to how good it is
that was a weird reading of "no name no body" 😂
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
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 😄
The first and last ones are the keys to enlightenment
Maxime Maltais 😅! It kind of feels like an honor to have my name butchered by Seth at this point!
Richard is such a legend. Quitting his job just to play Diablo is absolutely crazy.
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
Finally something me and Richard have in common. Barely any music tastes and silence but listened to kpop back in time. 😅
Seth having amazing tastes in music genres? That tracks. Even some country is amazing. I play guitar myself haha started at 11. I always wanted to be another SRV, then i got older and saw it was easier to play 3 chords and scream! 😂😅🎉
I think Crim is the most competitive, but he's also the best looser too. He's always happy to loose to some nonsense.
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”
54:10 completely agree with Richard here.
All colors losing their identities has made Magic a shell of its former self.
That's not what he said. The color pie not mattering doesn't have anything to do with how Magic feels.
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 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.
As someone who only recently started listening to the podcast, ace there any great episodes that I should go back and listen to?
Probably the commander videos to start, a lot of these episodes are about time sensitive stuff but commander videos are more about game theory
Ok, Im going to have to look into Crim's music career now.
commander clash week, "No color restrictions." book it, codfather!
We are going back to Tarkir next year, I believe 👀👀
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Punk is literally the antithesis of Jazz
@@BobardeZanzibar one has a great focus on complexity and virtuosity. The other was a direct rejection of both of those things
@@camdenharper7244jazz is such a broad genre though that I feeling defining jazz as the antithesis of punk is maybe not correct either.
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
Ikoria subset monster hunter world. Can focus on explore, mutations, equipment, cats and dogs
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.
Is there a link to Crim playing on Conan?
crim whipping out the entire "real emo" copypasta. my kind of people
How come there is no data under timeless on goldfish?
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?
now I really wanna send my carrier goldfish with some letters.
Seth would be a great game show host
Just tried to redeem the Mtgo code and found out the promotion ended at 6 🤦♂️😭
"Nona menobody"
Wow, richard, that was a Seth level pronunciation 😅
As someone from DC Crim saying Rites of Spring is from NYC hurt me to my bones
Works on my pc
Ironically enough I wrote a college paper on why I thought Iron Man was the best superhero.
Finally crim and I can agree on something, music.
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).
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.
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.
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Great idea let's make a Ragavan+Urza deck! /quit
We want a link to see Crim on Conan!
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.
"too patient" sounds like a sanitized version of "I durdle so I can get all the value"
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)
@@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
@@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
We need more hot takes from Richard.
"If you dont get tips, you lose so much money" Tell me you like in America without telling me you live in America
Theros: The Iroan Games
listen bros!! Lets explore ZAHLFIR !!!
Crim would be so much happier if he was doing music lol its super obvious
I wanna see return to tarkiar
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
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?
The number thing is because CZcams 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.
I want a return to zendikar farming simulator.
Goldfish don't sweat they are in water
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.
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
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.
Why not Slivers on Ikoria? That seems really cool and fits very well.
I think they just meant since it was already in the prompt, find another story to tell on ikoria as an discussion topic
Poor Maxime Maltais got his name butchered by everybody
I dont understand why haveing decks that put themselves together is a bad thing? Like its called haveing a theme.
I'd actually love to return to theros right now after what happened in the phyrexian invasion. All the mono colored gods were compleated, that opens up so much story telling.
Seriously imagine if tomorrow aliens invaded, and they were able to turn our gods against us as well. How do you recover after that
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.
Crim's band on Conan: czcams.com/video/xSfK8a6vww0/video.html
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
Real MVP
Is Crim, Toki Wartooth?
Conan is also absurdly tall. He still bent down to give me a handshake and I was in a platform 🤣
thank you!!