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00:00From wizard's name Urza to Kudo the Urza, nerds are passionate about a lot of things,
00:04but there's one thing they love above all else, and that is correcting people.
00:08This is I'm Actually.
00:21Joining us today is Allie Beardsley.
00:23Hello.
00:24Brian Kibler.
00:25Hello, hello.
00:25And Olivia Gobert-Hicks.
00:27Hey, friend.
00:27And joining us, as always, in the Fact Checker Room, we have Brian David Gilbert.
00:30Hey.
00:31How's that jumpsuit treating you?
00:32Just like red on the color pie, I feel impulsive and emotional today.
00:37I don't know what on the color pie I would actually be as the fact checker.
00:41And, well, it would probably be white, wouldn't it?
00:44That sucks for, like, law and, like, blue white.
00:47Very blue white.
00:48Is white on the color pie?
00:50Yeah.
00:51Basically, you're Azorius.
00:52You're a cop.
00:52Yeah, you are.
00:52Okay.
00:53Yeah, and I hate to hear that.
00:55Yeah, yeah.
00:55I hate to hear that.
00:56We're going to keep him red.
00:57We're going to keep looking at you.
00:58For today, I'm red.
00:59It's fine.
00:59All right.
01:00So, you know, we all are known to love a trading card game or two.
01:05But y'all have a show together.
01:07It takes place at home.
01:09Commander at Home.
01:10Yeah.
01:10Yeah.
01:11Quite literally, our dining room is taking over.
01:13Yeah.
01:13And everyone here has been a guest on our show.
01:16Yeah.
01:16If any of the crew wants to come on, you know, we'll just make that offer.
01:19Standing offer, you know.
01:20I don't want to keep people on the stage.
01:23All right.
01:23Well, look, Ali, you've been on the show before.
01:26This is your first time on the show.
01:27I have here a stack of statements.
01:30These are incorrect statements about properties that you know and love and it is up to you to
01:33figure out what is wrong with them.
01:35Buzz in and correct me.
01:36You must start all your corrections off with I'm actually, or I can't give you the point.
01:39As a matter of fact, someone else can buzz in, say I'm actually, and steal that correction
01:42from you.
01:43You're free to interrupt me at any time.
01:45And that's about it.
01:46I'm ready.
01:47Let's do it.
01:47All right.
01:48Then let's start with our first statement.
01:52In Magic the Gathering, there are currently 10 cards with the text.
01:55A deck can have any number of cards named blank.
01:57But there are also two cards that limit it with the text.
02:01A deck can have up to seven cards named blank, seven dwarves, and Nazgul.
02:06Ryan.
02:08Actually, a deck can have up to nine Nazgul.
02:11Oh, that is correct.
02:14A deck can have up to nine Nazgul.
02:17The ring rates, nine of them.
02:19Yeah, yeah.
02:19Because Sauron crafted nine rings for mortal men doomed to die.
02:24Ooh.
02:25So that is a point for Brian.
02:27Starting us off great.
02:29So let's move on to our next statement.
02:33Some of the most iconic magic artifacts are the Moxin.
02:36There are five classic Moxin.
02:38Pearl, sapphire, jet, ruby, and emerald.
02:41Those were later joined by Chrome Mox, Crystal Mox, Mox Amber, Mox Opal, Mox Lotus, Mox Jasper, Mox Poison, Mox Tantalite, and even Jack and the Mox.
02:51Um, actually, I believe even though Jack and the Mox is a Mox, it was in an unset.
02:56So it's not legal.
02:57I don't know if that would take it out of that.
02:59It still counts as printed.
03:00It still counts as printed for this one.
03:02So you are correct.
03:03It isn't an unset.
03:04Olivia.
03:05Um, actually, Crystal Mox isn't a card?
03:08That is correct.
03:09That was, that was what I thought, but then I saw Jack and the Mox at the end and I was like, that sounds much less real.
03:15So you're really blowing my mind here.
03:18Jack and the Mox is sick.
03:19I actually just got a copy of it.
03:21They're so cheap.
03:22What is that from?
03:22You roll a dice and then what you roll, it gives you that mana.
03:26So you might not even need it in your...
03:27If it's a dice roll, it's probably the most recent.
03:30It's unsanctioned, I think.
03:31I'll double check if there might be other printings.
03:35You were like, wait, what?
03:36I just, I, I, as a, well, still kind of, but former jeweler, I know all the rocks.
03:42I was like, that's not, no, it's not that one.
03:44I will say between this and the previous one, like this has kind of had to change just in the past few sets.
03:50Like, you know, to date when we're filming this, this was right after Final Fantasy, which introduced a new, any card with Cid or any number of cards.
03:59So I'm bringing this up also just to cover our ass because in, by the time this comes out and 18 more sets have come out, this is currently correct.
04:07All right.
04:08So that is correct, Olivia.
04:10Actually, Crystal Mox has never been a magic card.
04:13Max Lotus and Max Poison were printed in Unhinged and Mystery Booster 1, respectively.
04:17And Max Lotus taps for Infinity Banna.
04:20Jack and the Mox was printed in Unsanctioned.
04:23Dan Frazier, the artist for the other Moxion, was commissioned to do art for Crystal Mox, card one, but it never came out.
04:30And the art was put on Enlightened Tutor instead.
04:33What was Crystal Mox going to be?
04:35I think it was a Mox attack for Colorless.
04:37Wow.
04:38That was, that was one of the reasons, too.
04:39I looked at that, I'm like, I remember that being somewhere in my brain.
04:42Yeah.
04:42Like the data banks there.
04:43Oh, yeah, that's, that's the thing when I'm actually, sometimes you can know too much because you're like, I have it.
04:47Yeah, totally, totally.
04:48That's usually my problem.
04:49Yeah.
04:51Also, it is wild that Dan Frazier did all of the Moxion, like art, like thinking about that, Justin, purely like a, who has made the art for the most expensive cards?
05:00No, totally.
05:01Whose artist proofs are worth like a million dollars?
05:04Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:05Just absurd.
05:05That's so cool.
05:06But again, all great art.
05:07Good job, Dan.
05:07All right.
05:08That is a point for Olivia as we move into our next statement.
05:11Urza's Legacy, released in February 1999, was the first time Magic featured foil cards.
05:18This type of foiling and magic would last all the way till Scourge.
05:21Pokemon beat Magic to foiling, having foil cards in their first set, which released in Japan on October 20th, 1996.
05:29Um, actually, that's not when the first Pokemon set released?
05:33That is when the first Pokemon set released.
05:36I know much less about that than I do magic.
05:38Um, actually, Urza's Legacy was not the first time Magic featured foil cards.
05:44I'm going to give you the point for that because Lightning Dragon was the first widely available foil premium card as it was given away at the Urza's Saga pre-release in 1998.
05:55Urza's Legacy was the first set to feature foil cards in the booster pack.
05:58So, yes, it, there was no, like, set that came before it.
06:02It was this promo, but Pokemon still beat it to the punch coming out in 1996 with theirs.
06:08Wow.
06:09So that is a point for Allie, bringing us to one point for everyone as we move in to our next statement.
06:15This fan submitted statement comes from Nick Schmucker.
06:18One of the more complicated aspects of Magic the Gathering's rule set is the stack, the system that processes continuous effects.
06:26They are handled in order based on what they do in seven different categories.
06:30In order, they are copy, control, text, type, color, ability, and power toughness.
06:36Oh, actually, that's not called the stack.
06:39The stack is something else.
06:40Yeah, yes.
06:42Do you know the name for what is being described right now?
06:46Just as dumb.
06:50All right, then we'll open it up and they can take a guess.
06:52And if not, then the point goes to Brian, Olivia.
06:55Um, actually, there's state-based effects?
06:57No.
06:58No, no.
06:59That is incorrect.
06:59I'm just sitting here looking at Paul and set this message check.
07:01I know that much.
07:02That was, yeah, that was where I was going to go.
07:03And I'm like, all right.
07:04That can't be right.
07:05I have no idea.
07:05Okay, this was.
07:07They're not layers.
07:07So the.
07:08That is what it is.
07:09It is layers.
07:09It's layers.
07:10Well, yes, too late.
07:12And that point goes to Brian.
07:13I'm actually layers.
07:14Great.
07:14It was the continuous part that got me.
07:16I could say this is just a static track.
07:18Even in the, like, deepness I've gotten into, like, doing standard and, you know, limited
07:24games and even going to Grand Prix's once upon a time, I was never messing with layer stuff.
07:31It was commander that brings you, like, face first into all these.
07:35That's one of the funniest things is that commander is, like, the most popular, you know,
07:39form of magic and also the way in which most people get introduced to magic these days.
07:42It's also just the hardest.
07:44Yeah.
07:45Because there's so much shit going on.
07:46There's so much.
07:47There's four different people's stuff.
07:49Yeah.
07:49Like, combine it.
07:50And they're all unique cards.
07:51Commander is.
07:52They create the most, the weirdest game states.
07:53Yeah.
07:53Commander is a skill check for the CR.
07:55Yeah.
07:56Yeah.
07:56That's true.
07:57I truly think, like, when I first got into it, like, someone was like, oh, all you need
08:01to know for commander is, how does your deck work?
08:04And I was like, what?
08:06Okay.
08:06And so I did.
08:07I was like, I know how everything in my commander deck works.
08:09And then as soon as someone plays a different card that, like, interacts with it, I'm like,
08:12well, shit.
08:13I guess.
08:14Yeah.
08:14Okay.
08:15That's the thing, too, because, like, most people will tell you how their deck works,
08:19but people forget how tabletop games work.
08:22Because the moment they're like, it does this, I'm like, let me look that up.
08:25Yeah, no, oh, my God.
08:26Let me look that up.
08:27A huge part of commander is, like, Googling rules and, like.
08:30I will say it also opens up my favorite thing that happens in commander is when I play a
08:33card and I think it only affects one little thing, but it affects every single person.
08:37And I'm like, I'm sorry, I would have not put this card in.
08:40This is super nasty what I just did.
08:42That's the thing that I love about commander is that it's, like, not mean.
08:46Yeah.
08:47And, like, when you're playing, like, competitively, like, one-on-one, it's like, no one's like,
08:51oh, my God, that was so mean.
08:52Like, no one cares.
08:54So that's a funny dynamic.
08:55Whenever we get into magic discourse and people are like, everyone doesn't get mad when you
08:59want to win at commander, everyone wants to.
09:01I was like, no, it's because you brought, like, a ceiling four deck to a table that you
09:07know has, like, bracket two or three.
09:09I was like, but there is CDEDH.
09:11There is that.
09:11There is competitive magic.
09:13And there's so many arenas to be good at magic, to be a professional magic.
09:18And you chose.
09:18My kitchen table.
09:19My kitchen table.
09:20Look, I feel the same way when I go to a playground and I'm doing my iron crosses on
09:24the bars and all these toddlers are getting angry at me.
09:27Like, get better at it.
09:28Okay?
09:28Come on.
09:29That's fan art if I've ever heard of it.
09:31I want to see.
09:32And I want to be tagged in that.
09:34I would like to be tagged in that.
09:35That point goes to Brian.
09:37And that brings us to our first shiny question in the game.
09:40Shiny questions, just like shiny Pokemon, are worth the same, but they're just a little
09:43bit different and a little rarer.
09:45This one's called, What's Your Sign?
09:52One of the most prominent parts of a trading card game is the new symbols you have to learn
09:57for them.
09:57So, we'll show you a symbol and you buzz in and tell us which trading card game it comes
10:01from.
10:02Whoever gets the most correct wins the point.
10:04Spades.
10:06Let's show you your first symbol.
10:11Allie.
10:12Pokemon.
10:12That's correct.
10:13That one was Pokemon.
10:15Your next one.
10:19Olivia.
10:20One Piece?
10:21That is correct.
10:22One Piece trading card game.
10:24Okay.
10:25Okay.
10:25Yeah.
10:26Yeah.
10:27Yeah.
10:27See, I see the crystallization.
10:29Does that just say 4,000 at the top?
10:31Yes, it does.
10:31Wow.
10:32Power creep.
10:34Their numbers are a bit bigger.
10:35All right.
10:36Let's go to our next one.
10:41Brian.
10:41Heart style.
10:42Yes.
10:42I better know this.
10:46Let's move to our next symbol.
10:52Olivia.
10:53Magic the Gathering.
10:53Yeah.
10:53That is correct.
10:54Dang, old school.
10:55Yeah.
10:56Yeah.
10:56I have played that card.
10:58Oh, wow.
11:00All right.
11:00Let's look at our next card.
11:05Olivia.
11:06Flesh and blood.
11:07That is correct.
11:08I never would have got that.
11:09I have not played that.
11:10All right.
11:11Your next symbol.
11:16Ryan.
11:17Netrunner.
11:19Incorrect.
11:19I've never seen this before in my life.
11:22I don't think I have either.
11:24Animorphs.
11:26I'll say the Star Wars Unlimited.
11:28Incorrect.
11:29We'll call it there.
11:30This is from Gundam Arsenal Base.
11:32I would never have guessed that.
11:34Of course not.
11:35It's only available in Japan.
11:36And I played it when I went to Japan.
11:39And it is a tower defense game that gives out, like, random trading cards that you can use.
11:45And it uses RFID that when you play it on the deck, you feel like you're in Yu-Gi-Oh! for real.
11:50And so you get, like, a mobile suit and a pilot.
11:53And you can just, you know, develop your deck because you get two cards for free every time you play.
11:58Whoa.
11:58And you build your own deck.
11:59If he came back from Japan, he was telling me all about this.
12:03And he was like, yeah, I, like, bought so many cards.
12:05I spent so much time on this.
12:06And I was like, cool.
12:07Are there any, like, arcades around here that play it?
12:09And he was like, nope.
12:09Nope.
12:09Nope.
12:10It's just okay.
12:11Just have them in the, just, yeah, just have them waiting for me.
12:14You're ready for next time.
12:14Oh, yeah.
12:15And I definitely keep checking to make sure it's still in circulation.
12:18Because knowing my luck, I'm going to come, like, loaded.
12:20And then it's like, actually, the game just kind of died out.
12:23It flopped.
12:24That brings us to the end of this shiny question.
12:27Allie and Brian, you had one correct.
12:29Olivia, you had three correct.
12:30So that point goes to you.
12:31All right.
12:32All right.
12:33Bringing us to one for Allie, two for Brian, two for Olivia, as we move into our next statement.
12:40Magic the Gathering has a history of decks with ludicrous food names, such as Ponza, a land destruction-based deck named after a type of calzone served in Wisconsin, or Quicken Toast, a blue-white control deck named for an item from Quick, a Belgian fast food chain.
12:55Um, actually, Quick is a French fast food chain?
12:58That is incorrect.
13:00It is named after that.
13:01Interesting.
13:02Quicken Toast was not a blue-white control deck.
13:05Oh, no!
13:05You didn't say-
13:05Um, actually.
13:06No!
13:06No!
13:07Um, actually.
13:08I'm still in this!
13:12Um, actually, Quicken Toast was not a blue-white control deck.
13:18Yes.
13:19Do you know what type of deck it was?
13:20It was, in fact, a blue-white sacrifice deck.
13:28That is incorrect, but we will give you that point unless anyone knows exactly what type.
13:33Um, actually, it was a burn deck?
13:35That is incorrect.
13:36Okay.
13:37Brian?
13:38Worth a shot.
13:39Um, actually, it was a combo deck.
13:40That probably-
13:41That is also incorrect.
13:42Allie, you'll get the point.
13:43Woo!
13:44Quicken Toast was a five-color control deck.
13:46Oh, okay.
13:47And also, a Ponza calzone is deep-fried, and you owe it to yourself to try one before you're old enough to know better than to eat it.
13:53Oh, that's my guess.
13:54Have you had one before?
13:55I've never had one, but I did look up pictures, and I'm trying to figure out if it's worth it to go to Wisconsin just to get one.
14:02That sounds great, honestly.
14:03Yeah, absolutely.
14:04I mean, I can even tell you it's specifically a Ponzerata was what it was named after.
14:08Okay.
14:09Because I was around when that was a thing.
14:11Wow.
14:12All right, let's move on to our next statement.
14:15The Pokémon Trading Card Game finally graced our cell phones in 2023 with the debut of two separate apps, Pokémon Trading Card Game Live and Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket.
14:27While Live uses the same rules as the physical trading card game, Pocket simplifies the rules with smaller decks, 20 cards instead of 60, and faster gameplay.
14:36Um, actually, Pocket does not use a 20 card deck.
14:41Pocket does use a 20 card deck.
14:43Brian?
14:44Um, actually, they didn't both come out in 2023.
14:47No, they both came out in 2023.
14:49Um, actually, Pocket makes the rules more complicated with smaller decks.
14:54No, it does make it easier.
14:55It actually has layers.
14:56Yeah.
14:57We'll call that there the correction that we were looking for was that before Pocket and Live, there was Pokémon TCG Online, which debuted in 2011 and was taken offline in 2023.
15:12Live is considered its direct replacement, so Pocket and Live wasn't the first time it graced our phone.
15:18Cause your phone can get on the internet?
15:20Cause your phone got live, yeah.
15:22Oh, right, yeah, yeah.
15:23I mean, your phone was able to get...
15:24My desk!
15:25Your desk!
15:26How'd you guys do that?
15:27Yeah.
15:28Alright, we'll move on to our next statement.
15:32Of course you should fight fire with fire.
15:35You should fight everything with fire.
15:37Just the thing for those pesky water mages.
15:39All my spells smell like burnt hair today.
15:42These are just a few of the memorable quotes on the flavor text of cards from the fiery pyromantic planeswalker Chandra Nellar.
15:49Um, actually, some of these flavor texts are not from Chandra's planeswalker cards, they're other Chandra cards as well.
15:56Incorrect.
15:57Brian.
15:58Um, actually, just the thing for those pesky water mages quote is not from Chandra Nellar.
16:04I will say that one isn't from Chandra Nellar.
16:08As a matter of fact, I will say that none of these quotes are for Chandra Nellar.
16:12If you can...
16:13Oh!
16:14Um, actually, they're from Jessica.
16:16No, not Jessica, excuse me.
16:17I'm actually there from...
16:19Oh my God, why am I forgetting her name?
16:21No!
16:24I cosplay her for cosplayers!
16:28Just call.
16:29Um, actually, they're quotes from Jaya.
16:31Dude!
16:32That is crazy.
16:34It wasn't J!
16:35There was an A at the end!
16:36I was almost there!
16:37Oh my God!
16:39These are quotes from Jaya Ballard.
16:42She is Chandra's protege.
16:44Wow.
16:45Mentor.
16:46Mentor.
16:47Yeah, that's, I'm sorry.
16:48Chandra is the protege.
16:49She was one of that, uh...
16:52Care Keep!
16:53Super early flavor text.
16:54Yeah, yeah.
16:55Super early magic.
16:56Care Keep stuff.
16:57All my spells smell like burnt hair today was the first time in my life that I thought,
17:00like, oh, it must be really stinky if you're a fire mage.
17:04Like, I never thought about how, like, even like Zuko from Avatar must be, like, you're sweating all the time.
17:09You're accidentally burning weird shit.
17:11Like, it must be very smelly as a fire mage.
17:14That is a point for Brian, uh, as we move in to our next shiny question.
17:21Ooh!
17:22Get carded!
17:27The IP to collectible card game pipeline is strong, but do you know which of these intellectual properties have their own collectible card games?
17:35We'll give you a property, and using your paddles, you need to tell us if this has a card game spinoff or is sadly cardless.
17:42Whoever gets the most correct wins the point.
17:44As a reminder, these are IPs that have their own collectible card game, not featured in other ones, like a secret lair or something like that.
17:52So, let us start off with your first IP.
17:55Tomb Raider.
17:56Do we think it's carded or cardless?
18:00Yes.
18:01Olivia and Brian are correct.
18:03There is a Tomb Raider collectible card game.
18:06Wow.
18:07There's also a Lara Croft magic card.
18:09Yes.
18:10True.
18:11That was a secret lair.
18:12Yeah, but it exists.
18:13It does?
18:14In order to get pictures of all these, Art did have to purchase all of them.
18:17That's awesome.
18:18So if you'd like to take a look.
18:19Okay.
18:20Great polygons.
18:21I will say Ben Brode did it better.
18:23Great polygons.
18:24When he dressed as Lara Croft, he was more convincing.
18:26Wow.
18:27This is very, I just got paid and I'm at boarders.
18:30Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:31This is.
18:32All right.
18:33Your next card game is Alien vs. Predator.
18:36Did it have a card game or is it cardless?
18:41Everyone is incorrect.
18:42It did get a card game.
18:43Wow.
18:44There was an Alien, Predator, customizable card game.
18:47In the early 90s, there were so many things that jumped on the bandwagon of magic success.
18:52Oh, yeah.
18:53Your next property is Aragon.
18:55That's the book series, right?
18:57Yeah.
18:58This has to be one of these.
18:59This is correct.
19:00That it is.
19:01There is no card game for Aragon.
19:04I feel like I would have heard of another dragon card game.
19:07Yeah.
19:08It's kind of in my wheelhouse.
19:09Yeah.
19:10Well, your next IP is Bratz.
19:12Does Bratz have a collectible card game?
19:15You know.
19:16Sure.
19:17Olivia and Ali, you are correct.
19:18Oh, no.
19:19There is the Bratz fashion party fever game.
19:22I will also say that when we got this, this is truly, they have like little red circles
19:27that you put over certain things to read.
19:29Is that where you put their noses that aren't there?
19:31Yeah.
19:32Oh, no.
19:33To be able to like read text.
19:34But originally, I thought that these, you were just supposed to be able to read.
19:37And it's maybe the worst interface I've ever seen from any card.
19:41It's just, it is a nightmare to look at.
19:44Yeah.
19:45It's got the little magic.
19:46Yeah.
19:47A little, you have to like look through it with a specific thing.
19:49And there's a dice.
19:50Rate if you're colorblind.
19:51Rate if you're colorblind.
19:52It says it's toy of the year.
19:54I think it's for Bratz.
19:55Yes.
19:56This is indeed the 2003 toy of the year winner, property of the year Bratz.
20:01Yeah.
20:02So I don't think it's this.
20:03I don't think it's this.
20:04I'm going to doubt was the actual winner.
20:06Yeah.
20:07Yeah.
20:08All right.
20:09The key is Austin Powers.
20:12Austin Powers.
20:15Yeah, baby.
20:17Everyone's correct.
20:18It is in fact a.
20:19Wow.
20:20That was that time when there were so many ads coming out, right?
20:23And it's exactly the kind of property where it's like, yeah, let's just, let's just put this shit in a card.
20:28If you'd like for me to read off the text of one of the cards.
20:30Please do.
20:31This card is called Austin Powers Kama Sutra.
20:34Play on table.
20:35Your Randy vibes now also provide Shagadelic vibes.
20:40All right.
20:41Your next card game is Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
20:46Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
20:48Ryan, Ali, you're correct.
20:50It does have its own card game.
20:53Wow.
20:54Wow.
20:55Beautiful.
20:56These are packs.
20:57I think I remember seeing these booster packs at a store sometime.
20:59When did this come out?
21:00Well, let me go ahead and just check the packaging.
21:021996.
21:03Yep.
21:04Wow.
21:05That era.
21:06Exactly.
21:07It was like, what can we throw at the wall and hope sticks?
21:10Yeah.
21:11Next one is SimCity.
21:13SimCity.
21:14SimCity.
21:15I mean.
21:16That is correct.
21:18There is the SimCity, the card game.
21:21Wow.
21:22Look at that council member.
21:23Christian shirt.
21:24Yeah.
21:25There's some good ones.
21:26That is the mood.
21:27I mean, granted, we just only could afford, you know, one booster pack of this extremely
21:32rare and important piece of card lore, but a lot of these are just like straight up pictures
21:37that I think somebody went around and chose to.
21:38These are stock photos.
21:39They just went around town?
21:40Yeah.
21:41They did fill.
21:42Yeah.
21:43I mean, that card you can just rename to like the council member if he's type.
21:47Like I see council member.
21:48I was just about to say that.
21:49Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:50I see that council member on field.
21:52I'm swiping right.
21:53She's involved at the crown.
21:54This one was?
21:55This was 94.
21:56This is the finest Photoshop 1994 could give you.
21:59Wow.
22:00Goes to removal service.
22:01Oh, yes.
22:02Just very artfully put on the facade of the building.
22:04That's so funny.
22:05This is actually like the sort of prequel to the Spirit Halloween banner.
22:08Yeah.
22:09It is.
22:10It's like exactly the same style and everything.
22:12Yeah.
22:13Okay.
22:14So at the end of that shiny round, Ali, you had four correct.
22:18Brian, you had four correct.
22:20Olivia, you had four correct, which means everyone gets a point.
22:23Okay.
22:24Wow.
22:25This was one of the hardest shinies to write.
22:26Not because it was hard to find like weird ones, but because every IP has a card game.
22:31Like if you can list any IP right now, there's a 90% chance that there's a collectible card game.
22:36Yeah.
22:37One that I was really hoping to hear was the Bible, because there is in fact the redemption card game, which is the second longest continuous published card game out there after magic.
22:46Wow.
22:47Oh my God.
22:48It apparently is still very popular in like the Bible though.
22:51Wow.
22:52There was a time back when people wrote like tournament reports for magic on like Usenet BBS services.
22:58And someone wrote a satirical redemption tournament report.
23:02Yeah.
23:03It was incredible.
23:04That's amazing.
23:05I implore anyone watching to go try and find that like the way back machine because it's unbelievably funny.
23:10I also, I just want to say looking through this, like when you said redemption, it is indeed a long running card game, but like there are multiple Bible card games.
23:19There's also Bible battles trading card games.
23:22Redemption actually looks pretty cool.
23:24They also, they also use shag points.
23:27Yeah.
23:28Yeah.
23:29Yeah.
23:30It's weird.
23:31Whenever you can get your Randy vibes high enough in redemption.
23:33Yeah.
23:34Yeah.
23:35That's why the virgin birth was a miracle.
23:37Yeah.
23:38All right.
23:39So Ali, you have three points.
23:40Olivia, you have three points.
23:41And Brian, you have four points.
23:43And we move into our next statement.
23:46Rounds in Magic the Gathering competitive tournaments are traditionally 50 minutes long, though the required minimum is 40 minutes.
23:53And the top eight of those tournaments are untimed.
23:56When the time is up in the round, the active player finishes their turn.
24:00Then you proceed to three additional turns.
24:03If there is no winner at the end of those turns, the match is a draw.
24:07Um, actually, you play five additional turns at the end of the round.
24:11That is correct.
24:13I didn't even look at the correction because this is a Hall of Fame competitive player.
24:17This has come up a few times in my life.
24:20Yeah.
24:22Brian, has there been a time that you've, like, gone through all five and it has changed the current state?
24:27Oh, yeah.
24:28Yeah, absolutely.
24:29I mean, when you get to the late turns in a competitive game, like, you're often very close to the end of a game.
24:34And sometimes it can inform, you know, the way that you choose to play the game knowing how much time is left in the round.
24:39It's like, okay, I can't win this game, but maybe I can get a draw because I'm so far behind.
24:42Yeah.
24:43I will point out it's very important that there are time limits for most Magic rounds.
24:47There was the Masters Series, which was kind of a, you know, second tier competitive event that they used to hold alongside Pro Tours.
24:55And I played a match at a Masters Series that was three and a half hours long.
24:59Oh, no.
25:00And I don't want to do that.
25:02Yeah, totally.
25:03That's like one commander game.
25:05That was one.
25:06I had to play again after that.
25:07That's so funny.
25:08That is a point for Brian as we move into our next statement.
25:13One of the most memorable moments in Magic Tournament history, dubbed the top deck of the century, is 2006 Pro Tour Honolulu semifinals match between Craig Jones and Olivier Ruel.
25:25Craig, facing lethal damage next turn, and with only a single draw step left, flips his next card as he reveals it to be a game-winning spell, causing the commentary team to disclaim,
25:36Oh, it's Lightning Bolt.
25:38Oh, my God.
25:39Oh, my God.
25:40Brian.
25:41Brian.
25:42The card was Lightning Helix, not Lightning Bolt.
25:44Um, actually, I'm actually.
25:45Didn't say I'm actually.
25:46Didn't say I'm actually.
25:47You didn't say I'm actually.
25:48No, it did afterwards.
25:49No.
25:50I was letting you take it since you got stolen from.
25:52I missed it and I was sitting there.
25:54Fuck.
25:55You can always just pass and I'll do it and then it's even worse.
25:58Um, actually, it was Deflecting Swat.
26:00Wow.
26:01Um, actually, it was Lightning Helix.
26:05That is correct.
26:06That brings our score now to three for Ali, four for Olivia, and five for Brian.
26:12Woo.
26:13And it is time for our final shiny question of the game.
26:16Don't stop, you're sleevin'.
26:19Sleevin'.
26:20And we're taking it to the shiny stage.
26:22Hold on to that sleevin'.
26:29No one wants to be the last person to sleeve their deck at a draft.
26:32Each of you will receive a standard 40 card deck and you must sleeve the cards as fast as possible.
26:37Fastest wins, but don't damage the cards.
26:40Everyone comfortable and ready to start sleeving?
26:43Yeah.
26:44Yeah.
26:45Yes.
26:46All right.
26:47Three, two, one, start.
26:53Oh!
26:58These square corners are absolutely screwing me up.
27:00They're real hard.
27:01They're screwing me up.
27:05Brian, I only got you as Ify the Rare.
27:11Oh no!
27:12Oh no!
27:13Oh my gosh.
27:14With what seems to be a huge lead, Olivia is cleaning up.
27:21It's all right, Ali.
27:24Beautiful.
27:25All right, now we're gonna have a shuffling company.
27:26Yeah, yeah.
27:28Yeah.
27:29So, Ali, you sleeved your deck in two minutes and 26 seconds.
27:34Crazy.
27:35Brian sleeved your deck in two minutes and 18 seconds.
27:39And at two minutes exactly, Olivia, you sleeved your deck the fastest and you get the point for this shiny question, bringing us to three for Ali and five for Olivia and Brian as we move in to our final statement.
27:53Uh-oh, uh-oh.
27:54Which is always concerns real life skills.
28:01Can't afford to get into a trading card game?
28:03Make your own.
28:04To make politics more interesting, the small town of Kawara in Japan made Parliament, TCG, an indie card game with local politicians as the cards.
28:13This became extremely popular in the community, leading to kids asking the politicians for their signatures.
28:18Ali.
28:19Um, actually, it wasn't local politicians as the cards.
28:23That is correct.
28:24Do you know what the cards were?
28:27It was like animals as the politicians as the cards.
28:30That is incorrect.
28:31We'll give them both an attempt to guess exactly what it is.
28:33If not, you'll get the point.
28:34Olivia.
28:35Um, actually, it was prefecture politicians instead of locals.
28:41That is incorrect.
28:42Brian, did you want to take a guess?
28:44Um, actually, it was national politicians.
28:50That is also incorrect.
28:52The game was called Oji-san TCG, and it features 47 different cards featuring middle-aged and elderly men in the community.
29:00Like, all-rounder Mr. Fuji.
29:02That's amazing!
29:03A highly sought-after card that highlights a well-known community volunteer.
29:06I love that!
29:07A little volunteer!
29:08It has become, like, very popular among the kids, to the point that, again, like, the good cards, all-rounder, is like, when they see him, they're like, oh, can I please get you to sign my card?
29:19Like, apparently made things, like, really wonderful in the community.
29:22This is the coolest thing I think I've heard of in a long, long time.
29:25Yeah, so that point goes to Ali, bringing them to four points.
29:30And our winners today, Olivia and Brian, thank you all for playing, and thank you for watching.
29:37Join us next time for even more pedantic corrections here on Um Actually.
29:41You guys look like pro bono lawyers.
29:45There's a built-in daycare at the law firm, don't worry.
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