Explaining The Card, Explains The Card | Magic's Most Ambiguous Designs

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  @RhysticStudies · 1 year ago · pinned

  You simply can’t make this video without misinterpreting a few details yourself. Let’s pretend my mistakes were intentional (and not me losing myself in my own logic knots.)<br><br><b>1) Stalking Yeti.</b> I believe I was right that this ability is technically not the same as “fight,” but the Yeti can, in fact, take lethal damage in return. If, however, the Yeti has Wither or Infect, that will affect how much damage it takes in-between. Also, damage on the stack was relevant to combat damage and not this ability, which I misunderstood. Weird, weird card, and I’m still not sure I fully understand the intricacies…<br><br><b>2) Squares and Rectangles.</b> I understood this metaphor conceptually when I was writing, but I reversed the terms, then reinforced the error with a graphic that should’ve itself been reversed. Casting is the square and playing is the rectangle, since everything you cast you play, but not everything you play you cast. Right.<br><br>Thanks for the feedback!

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• WA

  @Waffletown654 · 1 year ago

  What a coincidence, Time Walk basically still reads &quot;Target player loses next turn&quot; today!

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• NS

  @NStripleseven · 1 year ago

  Played a game of magic about 15 years ago that’s still running. Floral Spuzzem hasn’t made up its mind about my opponent’s artifacts yet.

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• GA

  @garryame4008 · 1 year ago

  These are the kinda cards that make me sympathize with the employees who translate the cards to other languages

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• JM

  @jmcalcy69 · 1 year ago

  As a judge, I&apos;ve experienced this phrase used so much from a place of toxicity, condescension, or unkindness towards people trying to understand the game.

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• RA

  @Radio_freewill · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQnNJe6utgI&amp;t=1579">26:19</a> “This red mountain is not red.” I feel like René Magritte just giggled a little bit in the afterlife.

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• IG

  @Igor369 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQnNJe6utgI&amp;t=756">12:36</a> Dead Ringers knows what colors the creatures are because it knows what they are not. It knows this because it knows what color they aren&apos;t. By subtracting what their colors are from what their colors aren&apos;t, or what they aren&apos;t from what their colors are, it obtains a difference, or deviation.

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• CA

  @casketbase7750 · 1 year ago

  Progenitus wasn’t mentioned here because he has protection from Youtube videos.

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• YU

  @yungmythologist · 1 year ago

  Special shoutout to the white-border print of Throes of Chaos that doesn&apos;t have reminder text, therefore simply says:<br>&quot;Cascade<br>Retrace&quot;<br>Incredible stuff.

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• FA

  @fatpad00 · 1 year ago

  Something this made me think about is Reading the card DOES explain the card, but you have to understand the language to read the card. Mtg is written in its own language, and the Comprehensive Rules is the dictionary/text book.

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• MR

  @MrEquinoxParadox · 1 year ago

  Although not a particularly difficult card to understand, only yesterday I was explaining Clavileño to a magic newcomer by pointing out that you choose an attacking vampire to possess with a demon soul, which pops out should they die. &nbsp;Sometimes using the actual flavour to explain helps a lot.

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• ME

  @meemnaan3108 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQnNJe6utgI&amp;t=1003">16:43</a> This reminds me of how I explained first &amp; double strike to a friend who was interested in Magic — basically I asked him to imagine two people (creatures) running at each other with swords; that’s the normal combat experience. First strike gives one dude a spear, so he can kill the opponent with a sword if he’s strong enough. Double strike is dual wielding both, so if the spear stab isn’t enough he has the sword too. I think that helped, even if it might not be 100% mechanically accurate.

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