Explaining All The Most Popular Formats in MTG Easily and Plainly

How about a run through of different types of 3+ MTG games that can be played? For example: Brawl, 2 headed giant, assassin, king of the hill, etc... Assuming people still do that? Used to be how I spent my lunches at school with 7 other MTG players and 1 epic game.

Inb4 "stan dared" "modarn" and "comandar"

I remember the chaos of early magic days. One of my favorite memories is going so summer camp right when Prophecy was the newest set. We would sit on the floor of the multi-purpose room in a massive circle and play a single free-for-all game that anyone with a deck could join. Meaning we often had 20-30 people all playing a single game of magic.

It was absolutely nuts and a terrible way to play the game. You would literally have to stand up and walk around the inside of the circle in order to see what cards the other kids had played. Combined with how many people were playing, that meant it might take fifteen minutes or more between each of your turns. Again, terrible way to play but I loved it and cherish those memories.

This is why yugioh is better

Very informative

Vintage for life.
Maybe because at this point, all of my cards are considered Legacy... at the very least.

Sooooo historic brawl = commander 🤔

Question: if I just go to a store to meet someone and want to play my first game, what format should I be on the lookout for? I really can't tell. Like what am I playing if I'm just hanging out in the games room using 60 cards, 20 life, and just whatever cards seem fun with friends doing the same?

Standard - you need a new deck every 2 years. lol, try every month. Con’s for Historic and Explorer - unable to feasibly acquire cards required in the format

I think i might get into pauper simply because I do own a lot of common cards.

My favorite is kitchen table format. The only rule is no companion cards (just a commander) and no crying and if your turn is taking too long the table can declare your turn over. It’s contextual. Are you busy with procs and counters? Do your thing. Are you just wonderingg what you should do. AUTOMATIC END STEP.

to be fair, in historic and others like it. weak decks not being able to play isnt a con on the formats part. its ppl just making bad decks.

I'm gonna say it as it is: commander was better before, not because it was better with commons and stuff that had no place in other formats, but because you could actually find people to play said other formats at all.

Great video but should update to reflect that standard changed to 3 years and now they focus on commander and Modern not standard anymore

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I <3 Premodern

i dont get why they have like 40 formats

I would love to see a format simply restricted by card cost. Obviously that’s very hard to dictate since card prices are always changing, but a fairly easy way to solve this would be to update the card list every say 6 months. This would mean you would HAVE to have an online deck builder to let you know what cards are legal but it would be nice to have as it would allow a huge card pool like modern, allowing lots of different archetypes at a fairly low cost (consider $60 tops if the max card cost was $1).

Just going to point out that you could technically play explorer in paper, though it could be hard to find someone else that wants to play explorer. You could be sure your decklist is free of pioneer bans and play with someone playing pioneer, though.

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good video. Ive never played MTG and know nothing about it. All I know is my local store (very small in small town in Australia) mainly does Draft and Commander it seems. I should try a Draft sometime!

RIP EDH

Perfectly explained!

What's the sideboard in mtg?

Wtf I know this voice

Is there a pined comment about the changes to the standard rotation? Otherwise this video needs to be updated

Yo, what about cube?

For anyone watching this for education on the formats post-May 2023, Standard's time frame has been increased from ~2 years to ~3 years.
For posterity

"historic brawl is very long and grindy" said like someone who hasnt played historic brawl recently, i cant count how many games thay have gone on longer than a few turns before someone scoops

i feel like i have heard this dudes voice before

I want to start and never played before besides a little on arena what format is best for beginners
And what should I buy to start out

With the exception of when i go to in store events, the only formats we do are commander and “standard” standard just meaning 60 card decks and 15 card sideboard, we have our own banlist and stuff. Just makes things easier and more fun to us

Legacy is the BEST format, too bad it's slowly dying...

Minor correction: you listed Pioneer as an eternal format, but it's just a non-rotating format like you listed Modern

What format is blackagorn?

So standards is basically well basic lol
Buy new deck and boosters and build or update your deck... I really don't see a con in this.

The most powerful format should be Freeform

Should really have talked about cube during the limited part of the video.

Also, explorer doesn't use any cards on arena except digital cards. Explorer uses the pioneer legality, wich excludes paper cards like those from modern horizons 2 that are on the client.

Good video overall but there's a lot of omissions/mistakes...

One big benefit to Pauper is that many cards that wouldn't normally see play are suddenly a lot more useful.

Thank you, man. That is what I was looking for!

I’m still salty Oathbreaker isint a popular format, i love it to death

Alchemy is not a format, its an abomination

"no Planeswalker as a commander" tell that to the folks that make it cause I'm pretty sure I've seen a Planeswalker as a commander.

No Planechase format :(

As a Legacy Burn player, I am offended that you would suggest mono-red burn isn't viable in Legacy! Sure, it's not currently Tier 1 and we're still one or two cards away from being able to consistently win on turn 3, but mono red burn is still a very solid deck in the format. I just wish we got as much love as some of the other deck archetypes do with each new expansion...

So basicaly: you want to play then by new cards. Lol

"Modern has a diverse metagame". It used to. It's just MH2 block-constructed now.

I like playing old rules limit 4 of 1 card play ban cards

also in commander you can use a few planes walker they just have to say you can

The real problem with historic is having every answer to a threat (almost) ever printed, and half of the threats.