The secret sixth MTG life hack is this channel. I don't buy MTG gear without checking The Professor's review first. Thanks for everything you do, professor.
The full set. Of how the Proffesser in this video pronounces Khans of Tarkier Cards. (yesiknowitwasajoke) "Abazane" "Seeeyege ruhino" "Ma'ardoo" "Curakuling Duume" "Juhe'sakeye" "Muhantees Royder" "Teahmur" "Somecardfromtemurgoeshereimeanwhocaresaboutthem" "Sa'hulteye" "Tuhreesor Caroos"
Professor, I gotta say, I really appreciate all the work you put into these videos. I just started playing the game and my friend recommended your channel to me. You've been a great help. :)
MTG Familiar is an absolute must-have app. I'm not sure if it's made its way to iOS yet, but if you're on Android, you need it. Included is an extremely powerful card search, pricing pulled from TCG, card images, a trading helper that tallies cards on two sides, a life counter (with poison and commander damage as well), a searchable rules book, judge texts, wishlists, and more.
Thanks for all the great advice professor! Yesterday one of my local game shops held a commander jamboree and after coming out in the top four I could not help but recall all the great tools and knowledge that you have shared with thousands of viewers. Whilst I didn't win first place, I was still happy to have battled with the Titans of my local meta and walk away having learned new things. Thank you for all that you do and give to this awesome magic community!
Professor, it's not technology being the problem. It's how people's rules, ethics and proper usage of technology can't keep pace with the rate of technological advancement. An ubiquitous example is the vehicle driver who's not paying enough attention on the road & instead are preoccupied either texting or even a normal phone call. It took years of vehicular fatalities for laws to be passed to try to curb this activity. Also have you spent time with someone who (IMO rudely) proceeds using technology over interacting with you or other people in real space? For example, I've seen people a car full of friends who are all busy using their phones instead of talking with each other (hopefully not the driver though). Or a family at a dinner table all using their mobile devices instead of interacting with each other. An example more related to magic, I play against an opponent at FNM, who listens to music with headphones, and sometimes plays mobile games on his phone when its not his/her turn. This should give me an advantage, but regardless of that, the game just becomes less enthusiastic/fun. Technological advance is a marvelous thing, however I'd caution having a one sided perspective on it, and discounting the hidden costs. There are even many side effects of free flow of information from the internet such as, stock market becoming more psychotic in volatility, fun/challenge of mystery/puzzles being easily circumvented (think of how old puzzle games like Myst aren't really viable any more), more or faster group consensus thinking, usually this is positive, but not always (e.g. netdecking reducing the amount of individual creativity because it's a waste of time. damn you spikes!). There is a cost to technology, albeit most of them are subtle, and may or may not be missed. And I shouldn't need to remind people of the warning references from famous books like 1984 & Brave New World.
+naejin I agree with this. A bunch of people sitting on the train reading their tablets is one thing. A bunch of people sitting at the dinner table reading their tablets is another. I see kids out at restaurants all the time dicking around on a phone or tablet rather than eating. I even had to break my wife from messing around on her phone while we're out at dinner. It's extremely rude, and borderline unacceptable to do that in a social environment. On the train, the bus, whatever is one thing, and that's fine.
+Firevine When my father was a child it was considered unacceptable for children to speak at the table at dinner time. Enjoy your idea of acceptable and social while you can because its all relative. It seems that being social by your standard is being attentive in a geographically small, physical location. Same with the definition of rude, this is also merely a temporal standard that will change over time.
I found Metadeck from one of the CZcams comments on this very channel, so it's funny to see this come full circle and have the Professor talk about it. On top of that, I found EDHRec thanks to Wedge of the Mana Source, and THAT has been a great website to tinker around with. I built an entire Surrak deck using the website, a deck I've been wanting to build since Khans of Tarkir, by going through and finding the most interesting options from each section and adding my own personal flair to make a 100 card creature-based ramp deck that looks like a blast to play, and I never would have been able to do it without a little direction.
Stefan Brenner Well to be honest I never had a problem with it but I just tried magiccards.info and it looks great. Honestly just for the larger card display I found it much better.
+Liber Khaos Yeah, I originally discovered magiccards.info while trying to find larger (and more consistent) card images for use in Tabletop Simulator.
Hi Professor, I'm a new but already loyal fan, and I'd like to make a suggestion related to this video. I'd really like to see you discuss and review some of the top MTG sites such as StarCityGames, TCGPlayer and Channelfireball. You could discuss the quantity and quality of magic content available (and whether or not paid premium memberships are worthwhile), as well as the price and availability of Magic singles (for those of us without a well-stocked LGS nearby). Thanks for all the great content!
As an avid EDH player and deck builder, I am now going to try out the EDHREC site to see how it goes. Hopefully, it becomes another tool to help build new decks for me and my friends. Thank Professor!
I was looking for a site just like shoebox, this will help me to improve my deck building abilities. Thank you Professor!!! I really enjoy your channel, greetings from spain.
Regarding the "the more experienced you are, the more you'll like playing blue" statement, its around because blue is one of the most non-linear colors. In actuality, the more experienced you are, the more you'll consider every color, regardless of your own personal taste.
THANK YOU, professor. I hate nostalgic bullshit like that, which pushes the notion that in some imagined past violence was never as brutal, the Christmas ham tasted better, and people were sooo much more engaged in one another... Also, cool video, it's pretty neat that you've upgraded the graphics a lot the last year! :)
Thanks professor for a great channel. :) Been following you since 10. aug. 2013. I have seen your channel just grow and you deserve it. :) I often use your best sleeves video whenever a "which sleeves" comes up online or in real life. Continue what you are doing.
love your channel! I have a request..... I would like to see an EDH/Highlander guide on an angel tribal deck. I can't seem to figure out what route to go.
there are many MTG apps for android and ios. MTG familiar is my favorite tool on android. The the excellent search with so many options, life counters, mana pool, wishlist and trade. It's got it's own spot on my home page
I actually would be equally annoyed if I was talking to someone and then they just started reading a newspaper, or my friends invite me round and are just sat around reading the newspaper, it's not about the technology for me it's about sociability and courtesy :)
WOW Professor, thank you soooooo much for the website's. I greatly enjoy all of your videos, I have been playing for 4 months, and I cant tell you how much I appreciate all the hard work and effort you go to, to help the Magic community. And i'm very happy to be enrolled in these class'es. Keep it up teach! :D P.S These videos are like priceless tools for new players, like me. happy to be apart of such a valued and prestigious Community Colleague ;)
People make useless info on social media but I do get your point. Especially if you look in the stock market of cards. Was glad Pia and Kiran Nalaar went down in price. Plus no LGS means no magic/crates like channel fireball. But I do feel mana curves take way too much time to input. I would rather manually count what costs more or less than 4 mana; it is a great turning point for my artifact deck. Whirler rogue and thopter engineer are so multipurpose
You didn't mention one of the best hacks, the "autocard anywhere" add on. It is a great add-on that will highlight any magic card name with a purple color. This works on almost any website and even works in twitch chat which is the most useful place. When you hover over the name of the card it will display the card right infront of you and will even display the TCGplayer low, medium, and high prices, and even provide a clickable link that will bring you to that card's page TCGplayer. I forget names of cards all the time so just being able to hover over the name to see what the card looks like and does is insanely useful. If you want to see how it looks, download the add-on and return here: Jace, Vryn's Prodigy . You can now hover over and see Jace and what it does.
Love the video. Great information. Good use of multiple "sets". Er, um......and I totally get a Tom Baker vibe from your get up. I keep expecting you to pull a Jelly Baby from your pocket at any moment. Love it!
You have such a great sense of humor. I'm always happy when I see a new video from you. The information and presentation keep getting better and more entertaining. Stay classy Professor.
Btw, Gatherer (originally built by Doug Beyer iinm) supports regular expressions in ways that magiccards.info can't even remotely emulate. Not to mention the watermark field which is completely absent from magiccards.info, (but somewhat limited in Gatherer).
I love magiccards.info! I use it every day, however they tend to be a bit behind on some things. For example, they still list Dig Through Time as legacy-legal and Black Vise as legacy-banned. They only just updated Worldgorger Dragon's legality in the past couple weeks even though that change happened back in January.
great video! I had never heard of edhrec or shoebox prior to this. just want to mention, you forgot to mention r/modernmagic, the subreddit for modern.
for on the go, another great tool is mtg familiar. pulls images up of cards if you want to see exactly what it looks like, prices from tcg player, legality, all sets, its what i personally use on the go. doesn't use data unless you pull pix or prices. hope it helps someone!
There is one thing I want to correct: Gatherer has, or rather had a comment function. If you want comments for any card except for M15 and newer, you should use Gatherer. Unfortunately, this function is now blocked, but many of the old comments are still constructive or funny. Oh, and Professor: Concerning the internet, do you use any MTG-Apps? I really love MTGFamilliar, the search function is not that great, but it works offline! As always, sorry for the bad english and thank you for the great video(s)!
Magiccards.info is my go-to, but didn't have BfZ even available on the site until more than a week after the release date. Until the lag gets fixed, I will still use Gatherer as my backup each time a new set comes out.
This is like a cross between Blue's Clues and a bad infomercial and I can't decide if I like going back to Prof's old videos or not. Like, Prof's corniness makes his channel, but like, I can only take so much 80's porno/VHS tape from school aesthetic.
What the heck. How could you not name tappedout.net?! That's probably one of the best sites. You can: Playtest, trade, build any deck, talk in a large forum and more!
+The Raven I hate TappedOut. It's a decent site for inputting a deck you've already built somewhere else, but for building a deck from scratch it's rather poor. I used to use MTGBuilder but that site died quite some time ago and a lot of my homebrew ideas went with it.
+ForeverLaxx Hate? It's quite possibly the best goldfishing website out there, not to mention it's extremely popular and has been for years. If I was going to recommend an online tool, it would be tappedout.net in a heartbeat. I also used Mtgdeckbuilder a while back, Manastack.com is a replacement I use in terms of being able to see the cards on a list while you brew. But after I build a deck, i always goldfish it and with the keybinds available tappedout is lightning fast. Not mentioning this in his video was a huge mistake, it's probably THE best "hack"
Harry Crane Popularity doesn't equate to usefulness. Certain things can be popular because they've been around the longest, but better products can and do come out that put the old ones to shame. TappedOut remains popular because it's recognizable and many people are reluctant to move on to other programs/sites that do specific things better. People are just used to TappedOut and I don't think the site is particularly strong at anything. My friends IRL share my opinion of the site. It's just really bad for what we need in an online MTG deck source. Trying to build a deck on TappedOut from scratch is near impossible as the interface and deck-building system assumes you already have a deck and are just using their site to post/test it. As far as testing goes, I don't think it does that very well either as I prefer to use DeckStats for that. About the only advantage TappedOut has going for it at this point is the ability to get input from other users if you're willing to post your deck idea and they want to say something about it. TappedOut tried to be a one-stop-shop deck site so you don't have to use three different sites to get everything done, but I believe it isn't adequate at any of it. Deck building is poor, testing leaves much to be desired, and most of the comments on decks that I've seen are just people parroting whatever the accepted meta for the format happens to be. I just plain don't like the site at all.
Awesome video! I am currently using the superbrew feature (Subscription) and storing my entire collection over at MTGGoldfish. I find it a lot better than Shoeboxmtg. However, Showboxmtg is very good for being free!
I wish you have a school for MTG. a place where we can learn, practice and get a cert... Maybe a 1 year course, where we were trained on mastering the game. :D
The secret sixth MTG life hack is this channel. I don't buy MTG gear without checking The Professor's review first. Thanks for everything you do, professor.
Noise Pollution Give this guy a medal, he deserves it.
Best lifehack from the internet to make your mtg life better: Tolarian Comunity College.
Wearing a blazer over a tweed suit jacket? That's too much class for me.
+notjux It's an overcoat.
+Tolarian Community College For the sake of humour, I'm going to continue to pretend it's a blazer. Great video.
+notjux 420 blazer it? Kappa
Bazer/overcoat? Doesn't matter like damn professor save some freshmen for the rest of us
The full set. Of how the Proffesser in this video pronounces Khans of Tarkier Cards. (yesiknowitwasajoke)
"Abazane" "Seeeyege ruhino" "Ma'ardoo" "Curakuling Duume" "Juhe'sakeye" "Muhantees Royder" "Teahmur" "Somecardfromtemurgoeshereimeanwhocaresaboutthem"
"Sa'hulteye" "Tuhreesor Caroos"
Well, maybe he wanted to say: " Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", because that seems quite similiar to the words he said.
Professor, I gotta say, I really appreciate all the work you put into these videos. I just started playing the game and my friend recommended your channel to me. You've been a great help. :)
MTG Familiar is an absolute must-have app. I'm not sure if it's made its way to iOS yet, but if you're on Android, you need it. Included is an extremely powerful card search, pricing pulled from TCG, card images, a trading helper that tallies cards on two sides, a life counter (with poison and commander damage as well), a searchable rules book, judge texts, wishlists, and more.
Thanks for the MTGSalvation shout-out!
-XO, a Mod
+Jacob Cuff Of course! MTGSalvation rocks. Has everything players need. And cheers for your work as a Mod.
Thanks for all the great advice professor! Yesterday one of my local game shops held a commander jamboree and after coming out in the top four I could not help but recall all the great tools and knowledge that you have shared with thousands of viewers. Whilst I didn't win first place, I was still happy to have battled with the Titans of my local meta and walk away having learned new things. Thank you for all that you do and give to this awesome magic community!
One of your Best VIDEOS! Very useful to me! Working on a good standard deck. Thank you Patreon People!
Professor, it's not technology being the problem. It's how people's rules, ethics and proper usage of technology can't keep pace with the rate of technological advancement. An ubiquitous example is the vehicle driver who's not paying enough
attention on the road & instead are preoccupied either texting or even a normal phone call. It took years of vehicular fatalities for laws to be passed to try to curb this activity. Also have you spent time with someone who (IMO rudely) proceeds using technology over interacting with you or other people in real space? For example, I've seen people a car full of friends who are all busy using their phones instead of talking with each other (hopefully not the driver though). Or a family at a dinner table all using their mobile devices instead of interacting with each other. An example more related to magic, I play against an opponent at FNM, who listens to music with headphones, and sometimes plays mobile games on his phone when its not his/her turn. This should give me an advantage, but regardless of that, the game just becomes less enthusiastic/fun.
Technological advance is a marvelous thing, however I'd caution having a one sided perspective on it, and discounting the hidden costs. There are even many side effects of free flow of information from the internet such as, stock market becoming more psychotic in volatility, fun/challenge of mystery/puzzles being easily circumvented (think of how old puzzle games like Myst aren't really viable any more), more or faster group consensus thinking, usually this is positive, but not always (e.g. netdecking reducing the amount of individual creativity because it's a waste of time. damn you spikes!). There is a cost to technology, albeit most of them are subtle, and may or may not be missed. And I shouldn't need to remind people of the warning references from famous books like 1984 & Brave New World.
+naejin I agree with this. A bunch of people sitting on the train reading their tablets is one thing. A bunch of people sitting at the dinner table reading their tablets is another. I see kids out at restaurants all the time dicking around on a phone or tablet rather than eating. I even had to break my wife from messing around on her phone while we're out at dinner.
It's extremely rude, and borderline unacceptable to do that in a social environment. On the train, the bus, whatever is one thing, and that's fine.
+Firevine When my father was a child it was considered unacceptable for children to speak at the table at dinner time. Enjoy your idea of acceptable and social while you can because its all relative. It seems that being social by your standard is being attentive in a geographically small, physical location. Same with the definition of rude, this is also merely a temporal standard that will change over time.
...just enter in your collection and...
Good one, Professor. "Just" thinking about that gives me the shivers.
As an education major, hearing you sprinkle your philosophy of what you feel education should be fills me with joy.
I found Metadeck from one of the CZcams comments on this very channel, so it's funny to see this come full circle and have the Professor talk about it. On top of that, I found EDHRec thanks to Wedge of the Mana Source, and THAT has been a great website to tinker around with. I built an entire Surrak deck using the website, a deck I've been wanting to build since Khans of Tarkir, by going through and finding the most interesting options from each section and adding my own personal flair to make a 100 card creature-based ramp deck that looks like a blast to play, and I never would have been able to do it without a little direction.
Thanks Professor! I was breaking my mind to find some cards left in my Titania EDH deck and EDHREC helped a lot!
THANK YOU. I'm so tired of hearing people complain about tablets and smartphones!
Are you still using Gatherer?
...
Why do I feel shame as I find myself answering yes to that question?
+Liber Khaos I like Gatherer still. I like the random card generator.
Stefan Brenner
Well to be honest I never had a problem with it but I just tried magiccards.info and it looks great. Honestly just for the larger card display I found it much better.
+Liber Khaos Yeah, I originally discovered magiccards.info while trying to find larger (and more consistent) card images for use in Tabletop Simulator.
+Liber Khaos I just like the comments. Full of trivia and weird synergies!
+Stefan Brenner magiccards.info has a random card generator
It's videos like this that makes me glad to be subscribed! That EDHREC will help me out greatly!
Mispronouncing Abzan as Abbazane and siege as sai-gee was really funny. Very enjoyable video. Glad to learn new sites to use.
That Underground Sea art is spectacularly amazing!
I like that the professor seems to be getting more comfortable with his language, and what he can say. It's subtle, but noticeable.
Hi Professor,
I'm a new but already loyal fan, and I'd like to make a suggestion related to this video. I'd really like to see you discuss and review some of the top MTG sites such as StarCityGames, TCGPlayer and Channelfireball. You could discuss the quantity and quality of magic content available (and whether or not paid premium memberships are worthwhile), as well as the price and availability of Magic singles (for those of us without a well-stocked LGS nearby).
Thanks for all the great content!
+Elliot Klinge Thanks for the suggestion. I have a video like this in the works.
+Tolarian Community College careful with that one, we don't want our professor making any enemies. :)
Great video! There is also the lesser known subreddits for /r/modernmagic and /r/threecardblind.
You are hilarious. Please don't ever stop.
I want you to know that it was your videos that got me back into playing magic.
(1) Love the argument and sentiment, (2) did not expect you to take this view point.
As an avid EDH player and deck builder, I am now going to try out the EDHREC site to see how it goes. Hopefully, it becomes another tool to help build new decks for me and my friends. Thank Professor!
I was looking for a site just like shoebox, this will help me to improve my deck building abilities. Thank you Professor!!!
I really enjoy your channel, greetings from spain.
Regarding the "the more experienced you are, the more you'll like playing blue" statement, its around
because blue is one of the most non-linear colors. In actuality, the more experienced you are, the more you'll consider every color, regardless of your own personal taste.
Awesome video! Thanks for posting it on my b-day Prof.!!!
Thanks for the information, Professor. I didn't know about the /r/edh forums, will definitely use it. As always, appreciated.
As someone who's making a commander deck for the first time.... EDHREC is a godsend.
As a returning player after six years, this video has saved my life nearly a year after publication. Great content dude.
THANK YOU, professor. I hate nostalgic bullshit like that, which pushes the notion that in some imagined past violence was never as brutal, the Christmas ham tasted better, and people were sooo much more engaged in one another...
Also, cool video, it's pretty neat that you've upgraded the graphics a lot the last year! :)
Thanks professor for a great channel. :) Been following you since 10. aug. 2013. I have seen your channel just grow and you deserve it. :) I often use your best sleeves video whenever a "which sleeves" comes up online or in real life. Continue what you are doing.
Wow! Shoebox consumes my deckbox inventory. I'm sold!
love your channel! I have a request..... I would like to see an EDH/Highlander guide on an angel tribal deck. I can't seem to figure out what route to go.
I kinda lost it when I saw the Rolad Dahl Omnibus.....I love those stories.....
Wow I never heard of MTG shoebox and Metadeck! Amazing tools, thanks for this video!
I wish the entire world could watch the first 1.5 minutes of this video!
Also, great video for Magic players. I really enjoy all your work. Thanks.
there are many MTG apps for android and ios. MTG familiar is my favorite tool on android. The the excellent search with so many options, life counters, mana pool, wishlist and trade. It's got it's own spot on my home page
Thanks for the tips Prof! As an EDH player EDHREC is a really cool site I hadn't heard of!
+Brad Plays (BradAlmighty) You are going to LOVE that site.
I actually would be equally annoyed if I was talking to someone and then they just started reading a newspaper, or my friends invite me round and are just sat around reading the newspaper, it's not about the technology for me it's about sociability and courtesy :)
WOW Professor, thank you soooooo much for the website's. I greatly enjoy all of your videos, I have been playing for 4 months, and I cant tell you how much I appreciate all the hard work and effort you go to, to help the Magic community. And i'm very happy to be enrolled in these class'es. Keep it up teach! :D
P.S These videos are like priceless tools for new players, like me. happy to be apart of such a valued and prestigious Community Colleague ;)
Production quality on camera. "Great."
Production quality on the slides and animation. "Did you even proof this?"
Can not recommend EDHREC enough! It's such a great site to research commander decks and to find the right deck for you.
People make useless info on social media but I do get your point. Especially if you look in the stock market of cards. Was glad Pia and Kiran Nalaar went down in price. Plus no LGS means no magic/crates like channel fireball. But I do feel mana curves take way too much time to input. I would rather manually count what costs more or less than 4 mana; it is a great turning point for my artifact deck. Whirler rogue and thopter engineer are so multipurpose
I attempted to go to Cube Tutor and it was down briefly.
We did it Reddit!
New magic player here, and I am in love with this channel! New subscriber and post notifs on :)
Thank you so much! And welcome!
this is by far, your best video til date' GOOD JOB profesor, thank you so much!
Omg, this dude. Thank you so much. Your videos are really great. Cheers from Perú.
Love the production quality of this video professor
I love the red wall background!
You didn't mention one of the best hacks, the "autocard anywhere" add on. It is a great add-on that will highlight any magic card name with a purple color. This works on almost any website and even works in twitch chat which is the most useful place. When you hover over the name of the card it will display the card right infront of you and will even display the TCGplayer low, medium, and high prices, and even provide a clickable link that will bring you to that card's page TCGplayer. I forget names of cards all the time so just being able to hover over the name to see what the card looks like and does is insanely useful.
If you want to see how it looks, download the add-on and return here: Jace, Vryn's Prodigy . You can now hover over and see Jace and what it does.
Love the video. Great information. Good use of multiple "sets". Er, um......and I totally get a Tom Baker vibe from your get up. I keep expecting you to pull a Jelly Baby from your pocket at any moment. Love it!
Wow, I just want to say i consider myself a competitive player, but i never realized some of the sites that existed. I just want to say A+ sir!!!
"just enter your collection"
I ain't made of time... This seems really cumbersome to do, while I absolutely love the the concept itself.
I almost died when the Kerbal Space Program music started playing
You have such a great sense of humor. I'm always happy when I see a new video from you. The information and presentation keep getting better and more entertaining. Stay classy Professor.
This is probably one of my favorite TCC videos to date. It is just incredibly helpful!!
Holy smokes - I KNEW ABOUT ALMOST NOTHING IN THIS VIDEO!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
well i liked the intro a lot!!! And, like aways, an excellent video with premium content! Thank you Professor! :)
Btw, Gatherer (originally built by Doug Beyer iinm) supports regular expressions in ways that magiccards.info can't even remotely emulate.
Not to mention the watermark field which is completely absent from magiccards.info, (but somewhat limited in Gatherer).
i never knew about edh rec. THIS IS SO COOL. thanks professor.
I love magiccards.info! I use it every day, however they tend to be a bit behind on some things. For example, they still list Dig Through Time as legacy-legal and Black Vise as legacy-banned. They only just updated Worldgorger Dragon's legality in the past couple weeks even though that change happened back in January.
This video really helped me as I'm young when it comes to MTG. Thanks :)
great video! I had never heard of edhrec or shoebox prior to this.
just want to mention, you forgot to mention r/modernmagic, the subreddit for modern.
has anyone ever said you have a passing resemblance to Jeff Daniels? Awesome video btw.
I've been wanting to develop a cube for a while and this may help!
Scy-gee Rhino... I laughed way harder than I should have.
for on the go, another great tool is mtg familiar. pulls images up of cards if you want to see exactly what it looks like, prices from tcg player, legality, all sets, its what i personally use on the go. doesn't use data unless you pull pix or prices. hope it helps someone!
Thanks Professor for inspiring me to continue to do the things that I love
There is one thing I want to correct: Gatherer has, or rather had a comment function. If you want comments for any card except for M15 and newer, you should use Gatherer.
Unfortunately, this function is now blocked, but many of the old comments are still constructive or funny. Oh, and Professor: Concerning the internet, do you use any MTG-Apps? I really love MTGFamilliar, the search function is not that great, but it works offline!
As always, sorry for the bad english and thank you for the great video(s)!
It's a very minor thing, but as far as I know, magiccards.info doesn't let one search for cards by watermarks. The Gatherer does, though.
Magiccards.info is my go-to, but didn't have BfZ even available on the site until more than a week after the release date. Until the lag gets fixed, I will still use Gatherer as my backup each time a new set comes out.
Well done again Professor. Another helpful video for all of us.
Abazane with Syji Rhino won the Professional Tour !
This is where you heard it first fellas !
How long did you resist before going and fixing that land binder you shoved into the cabinet?
+Lucas Martin Behind the scenes secret: not a real land folder. just a prop.
Hahahaha ok makes sense now.
You rock Prof. Great starting humour and life lesson/point
This is like a cross between Blue's Clues and a bad infomercial and I can't decide if I like going back to Prof's old videos or not. Like, Prof's corniness makes his channel, but like, I can only take so much 80's porno/VHS tape from school aesthetic.
1:38 Very hot day today, professor.
Also great channel to learn.
TappedOut and MythicSpoiler deserved a spot on this video. But all in all great video still :)
What the heck. How could you not name tappedout.net?! That's probably one of the best sites. You can: Playtest, trade, build any deck, talk in a large forum and more!
And btw, I store my cards in a shoebox.
+The Raven I hate TappedOut. It's a decent site for inputting a deck you've already built somewhere else, but for building a deck from scratch it's rather poor. I used to use MTGBuilder but that site died quite some time ago and a lot of my homebrew ideas went with it.
+ForeverLaxx Hate? It's quite possibly the best goldfishing website out there, not to mention it's extremely popular and has been for years. If I was going to recommend an online tool, it would be tappedout.net in a heartbeat. I also used Mtgdeckbuilder a while back, Manastack.com is a replacement I use in terms of being able to see the cards on a list while you brew. But after I build a deck, i always goldfish it and with the keybinds available tappedout is lightning fast. Not mentioning this in his video was a huge mistake, it's probably THE best "hack"
Harry Crane
Popularity doesn't equate to usefulness. Certain things can be popular because they've been around the longest, but better products can and do come out that put the old ones to shame. TappedOut remains popular because it's recognizable and many people are reluctant to move on to other programs/sites that do specific things better. People are just used to TappedOut and I don't think the site is particularly strong at anything.
My friends IRL share my opinion of the site. It's just really bad for what we need in an online MTG deck source. Trying to build a deck on TappedOut from scratch is near impossible as the interface and deck-building system assumes you already have a deck and are just using their site to post/test it. As far as testing goes, I don't think it does that very well either as I prefer to use DeckStats for that. About the only advantage TappedOut has going for it at this point is the ability to get input from other users if you're willing to post your deck idea and they want to say something about it.
TappedOut tried to be a one-stop-shop deck site so you don't have to use three different sites to get everything done, but I believe it isn't adequate at any of it. Deck building is poor, testing leaves much to be desired, and most of the comments on decks that I've seen are just people parroting whatever the accepted meta for the format happens to be. I just plain don't like the site at all.
May I ask you: Do you now any site, where you can get deck help? I only know of one good one. And that's tappedout.net.
Can't fool me, Professor. That was no tablet! That's a kindle!
Never seen this video before thought it was a new video meant to help during covid 19
Awesome video! I am currently using the superbrew feature (Subscription) and storing my entire collection over at MTGGoldfish. I find it a lot better than Shoeboxmtg. However, Showboxmtg is very good for being free!
I wish you have a school for MTG. a place where we can learn, practice and get a cert... Maybe a 1 year course, where we were trained on mastering the game. :D
"Liked" this over just the intro.
Making a functional commander cube is my MTG dream
Professor, check out Tappedout. I'd say the best place to build decks and have others see them. They have a pretty good playtest feature, too!
Now I'm just imagining the reddit robot thing greeting people at the pearly gates
It's an alien
You’re the Mister Rodgers of Magic.
im going to be starting college soon and I wish you were my professor!
I searched "Tolarian any other word" and this was the first video that popped up
The tcgplayer app formerly scryglass makes importing a list to shoebox so much easier
"Please don't store cards in a shoebox" hahaha the disclaimer-like voice on that one xD
I like the mr. rogers neighborhood type feel
Let us not forget Untap.in, the king of playtest and a replacement for proxies!
Have to take a look at cube tutor and see if would be handy at all for the largest cube in the world (that I know of)
This video is just AWESOOOOOOME!!! Thanks a lot, professor.
Hahaha. I literally thought about storing my cards in a shoebox right before prof said dont store your cards in a shoebox