Cedric Phillips and Patrick Sullivan are here for their deep dive on Magic’s first humor product — Unglued!
The duo dissect Magic’s most unique set yet, with their thoughts on having a set designed and developed by a single person, the debut of full-art basic lands, and why Unglued ultimately works even if it’s not for everyone.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:57 Facts
12:59 Mechanics
20:26 Cycles
28:12 Trivia
57:17 Awards Show
1:08:17 Grade
1:21:31 Card Image Gallery
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Credits:
Directed by: Jonathan Choi
Produced by: Cedric Phillips and Jonathan Choi
Edited by: Jonathan Choi
Written by: Cedric Phillips and Patrick Sullivan
Graphics by: Ray Dill
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UN sets have more future sight than Future Sight ever had
Cedric, I agree with Patrick here: you’re taking the easy cop-out route there, you could’ve said the island is my choice but for the exercise also name a nonland card
Keep making such great videos
WOOOO DIDNT KNOW HOW MUCH I WANTED THIS LETS GOOO
My favorite part of this expansion was the $1.99 price point at my local card shop. The 92 cards were easy to hand collate into a set and it felt complete because of no premium versions.
The Unglued island is god tier
One of the things that I think is underrated about unglued is, Maro talked about it on drive to work, about the lengths that players will go to make a card work. He references a card to do with like, wearing jeans or something? Id have to look it up, but basically they ended up with a bunch of people at the prerelease taking their trousers off mid game to make cards work. And while that'l can be funny to some people (I'm generally more with Cedric on enjoyment with unsets), that realisation changed a whole lot about how they looked at card design going forward based on that experience.
Patrick looking good dude!
Hehe I love and respect Patrick's defense of this set
Nothing beats seeing your first silver bordered card when you're new to Magic.
“Why risk offending people???” Ever consider that I find this attitude offensive???
In Patrick's defense, there is a Roald Dahl book called The BFG (Big Friendly Giant).
An un-set tournament where the whole tournament is officiated by judges who are unqualified or don’t know the game, and players are encouraged to cheat to win
I’ve actually played Unglued draft and will say Chaos Confetti is a common and very difficult to beat. At the time it had the downside that you had to present the same deck every game 1 so you’d generally run just one copy and if you used it enough that you ran out of spares in the sideboard you had a dead card, but now you can just run them all and replace them as you tear them up. You’ll generally win any game you get to activate it so that’s a pretty great deal.
Once More With Feeling is such a great cube card
36:11 uh what happened here? is there a card that was named with a word that is not considered PC these days?
Cedric stop moaning this set was amazing back in the day 😊
Y'all (which probably means Cedric) should set aside half an hour during research to listen to MaRo's drive to work episode on the set. He talks a lot about the trivia but also where the designs come from and where they went wrong or right.
For Unglued, he's also talked about how he got chastised by WotC accounting for framing that $1 check for art instead of cashing it 😂
That grade is insultingly high, I can only deduce Maro was standing behind the camera holding them at gunpoint given how much Patrick glazed this set.
I'd love to see Ced and Patrick Winston draft an unset and do a gameplay video for it
Fun fact about the Unglued Island: On the card "Elspeth, Sun's Champion" there is an island in the background, that island has the SAME Topology as the Unglued Island and is a direct reference back to one of the best Basics ever printed!
Jonathan Choi is my hero. Proving that great editing is just as important as great writing and presentation.
I had to stop using my unglued forests after TERF Nielsen
Unglued came out when I was first getting into Magic as a lad and we all loved these cards. We played them in our kitchen table decks all the time and the games worked just fine. I didn't know until this video that there were people that hated the first Un set
Looking forward to the future episodes on Unhinged (which has far fewer redeeming qualities), Unstable (which is a legitimate contender for one of the best draft sets of all time), and Unfinity (which is… a mess).
The guy who invented "Forgetful Fish" (aka Dandan) also made a format BASED ON THE ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS cards, it requires 3 players, each player gets a playset of one of the three RPS creatures (1 player gets 4 paper tiger, another gets 4 rock lobster, etc) with these being the only Creature cards in the format.
HOWEVER I think you can adapt that format to 2-player, ie. one player gets 4 paper tiger while the other player gets 2 rock lobsters and 2 scissor lizards. Maybe worth trying out?
edit: come to think of it, Wirecat and I think Ebony Rhino may have also been included for thematic reasons (the theme being animals made out of a specific material)
I'll admit I chuckled at Kjeldoran Outhouse
Thank you for getting a haircut 🤭
Jack-in-the-mox is best vintage cube card imo
I have a question elemental.
A long time ago, sometime before 2000, my local card shop had a winner takes all multiplayer game, with no banned or restricted list. Everyone paid $5, we sat in a huge circle, and everyone tried to do the most busted thing they could figure out. For the most part we were a bunch of teenagers in the poor part of town and our decks still weren't great, even with nothing banned. But one guy came to the table with a deck with 4 copies of black lotus, lotus petal, lion's eye diamond, other cards like that, and The Cheese Stands Alone. He won.
I don't think Patrick and Cedric mentioned it, but a big legacy of Unglued was tokens.
So much of this set (and honestly most of the Un-sets) rides or dies on the back of if a person can buy into MaRo's specific sense of humor. There's upsides and downsides to such a fact, but it will mean that anyone for whom the set falls flat, it'll fall REALLY flat.
You oughta get that TOA ad copy updated, the list of "upcoming events" they will be at have all passed as of the release date of this video.
40:27 The problem is they didn't go far enough!
"Fireball deals ⌊X/(Y + 1)⌋ damage to Y + 1 targets."
I really appreciate the Unglued lands not just because its novel and beautiful but because it's SO easy to tell them apart. It's a crapshoot in current sets whether the full art Swamp secretly looks like a Plains or not and it's really annoying.
Please a gameplay video of some kind! I loved this set and bought a lot of packs back in the day, but don't think anybody else I knew felt the same way so I never really got to play with them.
Are Adventures just fixed forecast cards?
question elemental how dare you
I remember seeing talk that it was actually hard to make unique looking Islands in earlier magic. I think they were generally drawing normal-looking islands back then. I guess they were forced to get creative in how they represented bodies of water and shores, which is what Patrick references as reasons Islands can look so unique now.
Shout-out to Greg Hatch for showing us the power of Sky Hussar in the greatest MTG match ever caught on camera.
The performative outrage about that ogress card, and the ensuing outrage spewed was honestly pretty pathetic.
best block coming soon!!
Island is a good pull, but the fact BFM wasn’t picked?! Ugh
I think when given the objective of "a set not meant for tournament play" creating something that actually provided innovations in the coming decades is not to be overlooked.
That said, these sets took a long time for me to be fine with.
I can't imagine why so many women don't feel comfortable playing in tournaments. Women are just genetically less competitive. I mean, it definitely can't be because men who make and play the game are consistently disgusting toward them. That couldn't possibly be it.
No love for Goblin tutor
BFM is precursor to meld mechanic
This means we’re one video closer to the Urza’s Saga episode.
My group used to call Skull Catapult a Thallid Shooter, due to my thallid deck at the time.