Rhystic Studies
@RhysticStudies
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magic the gathering history and culture • sponsored by @UltimateGuard • team @Basilisk_GG
Austin, TX
Joined September 2014
This video is about Magic cards that need further explanation. 🎥:
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married the love of my life this weekend. cried my eyes out. can't believe it.
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jesus hell.
@MTGSecretLair I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready! Secret Lair x @Nickelodeon @SpongeBob SquarePants arrives in 2025!
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logging off for a few days, but the detail that kills me here is "IP"
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I’ve officially completed my Ph.D. of Italian Studies from UT Austin.
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frame textures are still the most useful and powerful visual shorthand in magic. it's amazing to me how efficiently they can condense multiple bits of game information to be understood at a quick glance.
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this is so tremendously fucked up i wish it was in the set.
I Photoshop Paddington into a Magic card until I don't: Day 313
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"activate only as a sorcery" is the terms and conditions of magic. truly devilish shit. a fundamental slight against the people.
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if i yelled at a camera for a living, i'd at least send the RC some ad royalties for the layup today.
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got it off my chest (way too harshly, sincerely apologize for that. a tale as old as time.) . magic rules.
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someone should release a 39 minute documentary about lantern control this weekend.
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last night my gramps passed away. he was my north star, my role model, my buddy; the single most important man in my life. i only hope to be what he was to me.
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This video traces a 30-year history of Magic's biomechanical villains — the Phyrexians — and showcases the evolution of their visual design. It also provides an introduction to the esoteric Phyrexian language. ft. @HighlyEntropicM . 🎥:
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if tony hawk played magic he would build a ramp deck.
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my next video is about magic cards that need further explanation
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OH MY GOD LMFAO YES.
My friend @RhysticStudies said if I was a real wizard, I'd be able to summon Chaos Orb onto the Las Vegas Sphere. ✨
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magic is a high fantasy trading card game with vast worlds and rich characters. for example, there is old stickfingers. good ole old stickfingers. there is also the tiny cretin, fblthp. fans love that one. and how could i forget, asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar.
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a year ago today, I went full time on Rhystic Studies. since then, I've made 12 videos in 12 months, commissioned a new logo, and formed countless new connections. thanks so much for supporting the show and helping make the dream real! . can't wait for year 2.
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Standard:. • 75 cards .• bans every day.• costs $40,000 .• can’t even play Young Pyromancer. EDH:. • 100 cards.• you just drink beer and play 8 drops.• beer .• 8 drops.
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this has not left my mind for nine days.
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inevitable.
In the next few years, Magic will have a balance between Magic Multiverse sets and Universes Beyond sets with #MTGFoundations as the consistent through line.
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played pokémon tcg for the first time last night. imagine if vintage magic cost 26¢.
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i am not a "content creator" i am a neurotic hobbyist with hyper-fixations and adobe creative cloud.
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defending my phd tomorrow morning can i get some 📚 📚in the chat!!!.
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a post i wrote on reddit re: wizards sponsored work
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This video examines Carly Mazur's striking illustration of Faithless Looting and the backlash that befell it. 🎥
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I keep asking myself: "who's the next magic art study?" and then I keep coming back to Igor Kieryluk.
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just about every inch of this magic card is dissonant with both itself and contemporary magic design. a true disasterpiece.
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you know, I can think of one good way to spend $50.
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game studios now referring to their own work as "content" jesus christ i am going insane over this.
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"we should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.".
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This video is for those who go all-in. This is the story of Red Deck Wins. 🎥:
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ive been reminded of how bitter and resentful this community can be. makes me sad.
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my entire edh deck and i draw from the pockets one card at a time.
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i love when someone's favorite magic card is like some shitbag uncommon from journey into nyx. my people.
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if you'd like to feel very smart this morning, you can go comment on the black lotus vid with one index finger raised directly the air
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thanks for all the love a couple days ago! i typically don't celebrate my birthday much, but my fiancée put together a lovely evening and made a huge carrot cake from scratch, and you can't beat that in a thousand eons even if you tried
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this video explores life and death in the snow-covered, Norse-inspired world of Kaldheim. 📽️:
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what if Magic made cards featuring characters from other franchises? - InQuest (May 2001)
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• considered undraftable.• dominated for 15+ years.• debuted in blue .• now in red/black.• vanilla as fuck.• hella trophies.• 1/2 (ok that's a stretch). tarmogoyf is tom brady
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been thinking a lot about "elegant" magic cards, and i'm curious what you'd point to as exemplary.
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This video is about the rise and fall of Tarmogoyf, and with it, the golden era of Modern Magic. featuring @CedricAPhillips . 🎥:
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where orzhov and rakdos intersect.
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starting a thread of these images living in a folder on my desktop called #weirdmagic. it's my outlet for the surreal, late-nite, existential, yet playful dread that overlaps with this game in a (hopefully) lighthearted way. that's not well written, but you get it.
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studying red decks all month and i just think this card is a masterpiece
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This video explores how Magic — and other visual media — depict the apocalypse. 🎥:
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From a fleeting idea in a forum thread to winning the Pro Tour, Lantern Control challenged our understanding of Magic and forever changed how we think about its core game systems. 🎥
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This video tells the story of Hogaak’s 73-day rampage through the Modern format in the summer of 2019. 🎥:
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viewers will know Rei Nakazawa wrote the original flavor text here. well, this is the first major update we've had in 17 years, and it very poetically details an orochi preparing for its death.
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i promise to god the only enjoyable way to play elder dragon highlander is if your deck is a strong 1 and every card you cast makes you chortle and snicker like a child.
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lots of new fans of wylie beckert in mtg but nobody knows she's a woman so i just wanna make sure my friends know wylie beckert is a woman. here she is 🎨
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green lantern control.
A Marvel Rivals player hit Grandmaster without dealing damage. They played almost solely Rocket Raccoon and only healed allies
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love this for prof.
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this video is about an illustrator's allusion to a timeless painting and the magic of ukiyo-e woodblock prints. The Great Wave off Dominaria.📽️:
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hard to say this politely without sounding arrogant but — i don't care at all if you don't watch my vids. but if you pretend you do when we hang out i can always tell.
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my new video debuts today at noon central time:. The Glimmer | 25 Years of Foil Magic Cards.
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this video is about Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar and the art of naming magic cards (feat. @EthanFleischer). 🎥:
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that fuckin sponge broke me, man. happy to laugh it off.
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i've drafted foundations four times and have won three games total! is the format hard or am i just a million years old?.
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hypothetically, if each player in a four player game had a timesifter, do you inevitably reach a point where the normal turn order dissolves? what about 10 timesifters?
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This video investigates the haunted plane of Duskmourn – an endless labyrinth of chimeric monstrosities, manifest anxieties, and outdated technologies. Below, a moth feeds on all its fear. #sponsored by @wizards_magic . 🎥:
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and they say the gruul carve no monuments.
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"I found this Shock the other week in a parking lot in downtown Denver. it reminded me a lot of Sam's video on the Gonti deck. thought I'd share it with you all!". - a patron in the discord
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