this video is sponsored by curiositystream and nebula hey everybody so in the original 1992 aladdin this is the scene where aladdin our protagonist meets jasmine his love interest jasmine is walking around the city pretending to be a common person she sees some hungry children take some food from a nearby vendor and gives it to them when the vendor confronts her she immediately apologizes multiple times and assures the man that if he just let her go back to the palace she could pay him easily no one steals from my car i'm sorry sir i don't have any money oh please if you let me go to the palace i can get some from the sultan do you know what the penalty is for stealing this is a very simple character building moment for jasmine one that tells us most of what we need to know about her she is nice good-natured but also naive ignorant she took this vendor's food because she doesn't know what money is because she has lived as a princess in the palace for her whole life in other words this is jasmine's first taste of freedom and learning and that makes sense because her entire character arc is about freedom and learning the 2019 live action movie changes this moment in a subtle but very important way now when the vendor confronts jasmine she says this stealing no i pay you i think sir i don't have any money let go of food take it easy jamal khalil walks away from the stone and this one this one she's still the bread those children were hungry that's right she doesn't apologize she's not all that confused and she certainly doesn't feel bad now she stands up for herself this new interaction is really odd right because i think we can plausibly read it in two very different ways the first way is obvious it's the way that was clearly intended by the film and that is meant to be understood by literal children jasmine's line here paints her as a political actor who has the right opinions she sees some children starving and gives them some food no the food did not belong to her or the kid but from her perspective the maintenance of private property isn't worth letting people die as she says in her own self-righteous way those children were hungry a sentence meant to justify her criminal actions now i am of course sympathetic to jasmine here as you might imagine i don't like it when kids die and think that what she did made sense given the circumstances but this leads us to our second interpretation of the scene that jasmine is just a judgmental hypocrite jasmine is a literal princess and her main goal in this film is to become the sultan in other words she is an agent of the state one who wields tremendous power and wealth and who lusts after more so then what on earth gives her the right to tell this vendor that his bread should be free to the starving are her resources that no doubt eclipse this man's by multiple orders of magnitude available to the needy no they're not and this fact never changes by the end of the film jasmine is the sultan and seemingly nothing all that meaningful or revolutionary happens as a result of that she doesn't make sure all the poor have enough food in fact hungry kids never even come up after this scene poverty is just a prop so then here we find some interesting narrative tension right a character who questions authority challenges the ways that resources are distributed yet never seems to question her own authority what she represents the status quo she works to uphold we might say then that our new aladdin movie is deeply confused about power it is fixated in a way the original film never quite was on how we should conceptualize the ruling class how society ought to be structured on the strange and mysterious ways that power functions and in this video i just want to dive deep into the strange rabbit hole that this film presents us oh uh one thing i i recently moved my apartment and i don't know if this new set looks all that great i am working on it but please cut me some uh slack okay okay we'll come back to jasmine in this peculiar scene in a while like toward the end of the video but for now let's change our tune and talk about language if i asked you what is the definition of the word prince i imagine that most of you would give me one answer a prince is the son of a monarch he either has will have or could have some authority in some state largely based on his parentage it's not that simple of course prince philip for example was not a prince because he was the son of a monarch but because queen elizabeth declared him so but either way it seems like being a prince has something to do with a having some power in some country and b being related through some process to a monarchical dynasty i bring all this up because after aladdin finds the lamp after the genie gives him three wishes aladdin's first wish is to become a prince hey can you make me a prince there is a lot of gray area in make me a prince and on first blush it seems like the genie doesn't make him one sure genie gives aladdin a fun outfit throws him a parade etc but he doesn't give him any power in any country and he doesn't make him related to a monarchical dynasty that's puzzling and i'm by no means the first person who's found that puzzling there's actually an existential comics about this that's pretty fun so trying to resolve this strange situation we can respond in one of two ways first we could say that the genie just didn't grant aladdin's wish this is what existential comics concludes in fact and i think it makes a lot of sense aladdin wished for one thing the genie gave him another so i guess he lied simple as that that said i personally just don't think that the genie is a liar i don't think he'd do that to aladdin do that to my boy and that's why i prefer the second response that we could give that maybe the genie did grant aladdin's wish completely granted in every sense of the word but just did so in a really odd way see in addition to the definition of prints that we provided before the one related to royalty and power we can imagine in other definition a prince is somebody who people call a prince there's really no definition more concise or elegant than that right it can be applied to just about anything what is an apple that thing we call apple what is a furby well it's a furby and it seems to be this definition of the word prince that the genie is using to the genie prince is just a social performance and for that reason there's no need to give aladdin a country or make him related to some king all aladdin actually requires is a cool outfit and a parade and for everyone to look at him and say that's a prince all of this can be said of the original film of course much of the same stuff happens in that movie can you make me a prince but the remake really hammers it in the genie and aladdin constantly talk about how aladdin is a prince of nowhere a babwa a fake city i'm afraid i'm unfamiliar with abba well it's south at one point jasmine looks at a map trying to find this place and the genie just quickly adds it aladdin is a prince that is what he wished for and that is what he got but the process through which he becomes one is framed constantly and quite literally as a function of language there's something that really works for me about this in that when we go looking for it we can see this idea coming up over and over in aladdin we can see it in the sultan this bumbling brainwashed figure who performs the role of sultan who is considered the head of agruba but who does nothing whose entire kingdom is controlled by jafar we can see it in aladdin in the very first scene we meet our protagonist he's stealing some bread and the guards chasing after him call him riffraff street rat and aladdin famously says i don't buy that here aladdin's class his position is posed not simply as a function of material reality but as a social role in proximity to power an identity that has been forced on him but importantly there's nothing about aladdin that makes this the case no essential street ratness to his being and as we watched the movie we learned that there's so much more to aladdin than being a street rat just just a whole lot more they'd find out there's so much more to me and finally here we can see it in a line that jafar says in the remake steal an apple and you're a thief steal a kingdom and you're a statesman this is the most on the nose imaginable right here jafar outright says that the difference between a legitimate action being a statesman and an illegitimate deviant one stealing food is not some moral proposition with gravity no it's just a matter of performance who you are and how you are received and so in a funky way it makes a lot of sense that when aladdin asks to be a prince he is not given a country or a royal family no to find out if you are a prince or a sultan or a street rat or a statesman you must simply ask what language game am i playing and where have i been arbitrarily placed at the table so far in this video i think i've kept things fairly simple and close to a common sense reading of this text maybe one or two of you are as we speak writing a comment like big joel thinks he's so smart just because he adequately interpreted a film meant for children please i should do what he does and he should clean my balls you know that's actually the second time on my channel that i've said that sentence i should do what you do and you should clean my balls i don't know why exactly i like it so much but i do there's just something that's so viscerally appealing about it right like imagine that you were working for amazon and you were in a union and you were all striking and jeff bezos came in to break up the strike and one of the union guys was like ceo of amazon more like ceo of my ass i should do what you do and you should clean my balls and like all the union guys were like oh he went there dude and jeff bezos was like how dare you speak to me like that and everyone started chanting like clean my balls jeff bezos like can you imagine something like that happening in uh real life that would be pretty uh pretty lit right but anyway the reason i wanted to go through all of this with you is because it is absolutely necessary to fully understand what's coming next in this video let's talk about one of the most wild scenes i've ever watched in a movie so later on in aladdin jafar steals the lamp and conjures up the genie to make some wishes the very first thing he asks is to be the sultan for my first wish i wish to be sultan of agrabah what as a response to this wish coming true hakeem the sultan's guard a character invented for the remake immediately becomes loyal to jafar the new sultan you obey the sultan so you obey me now then jasmine sings a song and yells at hakeem about how he shouldn't stay true to jafar and he turns his loyalty back to jasmine and the original sultan her father my princess i think the first question we should probably ask about this moment is this when jafar asks the genie to be a sultan what does the genie do it certainly seems like he doesn't do very much at all right he kind of just gives him a big hat puts him down and acts like the wish was granted if you said to me you know what big joel i sure do wish to be president and i looked at you and gave you a president's hat and said wish granted most of us would not think i had actually done the job right most people wouldn't go on to call you the president and it's hard for me to see how this situation with the genie is any different once again then we might feel tempted to say well i guess the genie just did not do what he was asked to do what a dick but see that just cannot be the case because in this movie hakeem is right there this person who has sworn loyalty to the sultan and after the genie does whatever he does hakeem believes he must be loyal to jafar it seems to me that this strange event describes an understanding of power that is kind of the opposite of the one we had before as we said before aladdin becoming the prince is conceptualized as this moment of performance his prince-ness comes from a series of gestures a parade and some clothes as the movie implies these trappings are all that a relationship to power is but for jafar that's not true everybody already knows who he is and there is no real work put into making him the sultan in the minds of the people around him no there's only one real conclusion that we can come to that when the genie grants jafar's wish to be a sultan he is actually meaningfully changed into one there is some metaphysical force that makes sultans sultans and the genie gives him that power here is not language it's not a game it is a rigid set of supreme laws in one of the most telling scenes in the film something that was there in the original jafar now a sorcerer unmasks aladdin aladdin he's been pretending the entire time an imposter it is genuinely difficult to make sense of jafar saying this line here we have a man who has for the entire movie been lusting after control of the genie when he finally gets that control his first wish is to be a sultan and yet he looks at aladdin and concludes that he's a liar that he isn't a real prince how does that make any sense at all these two boys attain their titles in the exact same way through the power of a genie so what kind of distinction could jafar possibly be making here why would he believe that aladdin is not a prince if he believes that he is a sultan and the wild thing is within the movie it seems like jafar is correct that he is a real sultan and that aladdin is not a real prince after all after this moment the entire court sees aladdin for what he truly is no longer see him as prince ali and since the only thing making aladdin a prince in the first place was being perceived as one when his perception changes so too does his title even the genie implicitly agrees that p is no longer a prince and here it is must marry a prince right but you say the words and this law just kind of like goes away but jafar with his strange supernatural claim to the throne seems to be a sultan to the end it's important to note that while hakeem does end up rebelling against him he's convinced to do so because jasmine tells him to stop following tradition so much but now you have to choose duty isn't always honor our greatest challenge isn't speaking up against our enemies but defying those whose approval we seek the most in other words jafar is a sultan this is a hard reality that cannot be denied but hakeem decides maybe i just shouldn't follow the sultan anymore you know these days it seems like looking at a film's puzzles and inconsistencies is often seen as passe or dull we all know what aladdin is about right it's not a hard movie to watch or comprehend i mean it's aladdin right so why care about its inner logic so much but here i want to ask a question why are we able to understand this movie why is it that the first time i saw aladdin 2019 none of this really occurred to me like if you were some kind of robot trying to understand humanity through the movies it makes it seems only natural that you'd stop and wonder about these basic things wait what is a prince in this movie what is a sultan what's up with this genie who can supposedly grant any wish but who never seems to do what you expect him to who has authority in this movie and why these aren't unimportant questions as far as i'm concerned they're fundamental to the plot of this film so why don't we care i want to contend something here that the very fact that they could make aladdin without considering these things that we can watch it without our brains breaking without even getting confused tells us something about ourselves tells us that power as far as we are concerned doesn't need or even really want some coherent explanation we might like to think of ourselves as these rational asians people who look at statecraft and government and say this is how it works and this is why and if something doesn't make sense if we don't think some power is just or logical or whatever we'll say well that's dumb we're not following our own standards here let's change it but aladdin 2019 comes in and says no it's not quite that simple at least within this fictional world the thought experiment that it provides power requires no explanation it can be illegible but nonetheless just kinda work let's return to the scene that started this all jasmine standing in the market giving some bread to some hungry kids and getting mad at the vendor for calling her a thief she's still the bread those children were hungry because i hope that we can now see that this moment is a microcosm of the entire film on one hand jasmine here conceptualizes power as a kind of cruel performance in the same way that the only difference between a street rat and a prince is a bunch of arbitrary gestures the only difference between children starving and not starving is an arbitrary rule the food is there the kids are hungry so why should we call it stealing when they eat but on the other hand jasmine conceptualizes power as a divine and unchanging claim to the throne in the same way that jafar truly becomes a sultan as a matter of fact after he makes his wish jasmine can maintain her station maintain her riches and her authority because she is in always a princess looking at this now i want to say no that's not how this works jasmine either your power to rule and profit from this country is as illegitimate as the vendor wanting to keep his food or you're both fine and can keep your possessions from the people who need them you can't have it both ways but to watch this film none of this particularly matters the vendor is bad he shouldn't keep his food jasmine has no such moral obligation and should in fact be the sultan because she's so good power is quietly incomprehensible a blur that neither can nor should be understood and that's all right by us so i think i can take a stab at what you're feeling right now wow that was a great video by big joel aladdin more like a radden because that video was so good that it was frankly radical but now that it's done all i want is more of him i can't think about anything else and i'm starting to worry that there's something very broken inside of me and that's why i'm excited to talk about the streaming service nebula every month for the foreseeable future i'll be releasing a video on there so right now there's a video about shane dawson's weird 911 trutherism there's a video about the channel's school of life and why people defend it and most recently there's a video about how much i hate the film about time i truly hate that movie with all of myself every fiber of my being and so i'm excited to finally have the opportunity to tell somebody about that these videos can be released to the public usually after like a year but most of them probably won't be since they're not always going to be something algorithm friendly or something i'd want to release on my channel for whatever reason i've really enjoyed making these videos and it seems like people have been enjoying watching them so it's been a good time all around the whole thing is pretty cool with a subscription to curiosity stream where you can watch great nature documentaries like this david attenborough one about ants you'll also get access to nebula where you get my videos early those bonus ones i talked about and access to tons of other stuff bonus vids from lindsay ellis sarah zedd tom scott more than that for 15 you get the whole thing for a year which you know i think that's a pretty uh good deal anyhow if you're interested in any of that sign up at the link in my description so that's it thank you so much for watching my video man this was a weird one like i was so passionate about this aladdin project for so long and and now that it's done now that i kind of watched it over i was like man is this dense this is the most confusing i've ever put on youtube i feel like like i'm i'm watching it like are people gonna see the difference between jafar and aladdin's claim to power are they going to be receptive to the fact that they're entirely different processes or did i not convey that enough i'm just sitting here at 3am wondering about this one um but if you did like it if it did work for you feel free to like comment and subscribe uh and give me money on patreon if you want just so you know all the videos i release over on nebula are also released there i didn't want to make anyone feel ripped off or whatever and now it's time for my patreon question of the video i'll make it a short one because i've talked for a long time already sandra gl asks from one jew to another what's your bagel order everything bagel uh with a chive cream cheese please okay uh bye everybody see


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10.
billy
dies
the
departed
the
gut
punch
that
one
feels
when
watching
the
end
of
the
departed
is
pretty
much
unparalleled
in
cinema
as
he
attempts
to
bring
criminal
mole
colin
sullivan
to
justice
undercover
cop
billy
is
shot
in
the
head
by
the
corrupt
trooper
barrigan
totally
out
of
nowhere
it's
so
unexpected
and
so
incredibly
frustrating
to
witness
billy
got
so
damn
close
to
putting
the
mole
away
and
escaping
with
his
life
but
instead
he
dies
like
a
dog
in
an
exceptionally
brutal
way
to
rub
souls
in
the
wound
the
villain
even
ends
the
film
free
from
punishment
and
while
there's
sure
to
be
repercussions
leaves
the
audience
with
the
message
that
crime
has
beaten
justice
it
was
a
decision
that
caused
scorsese
to
give
a
last-minute
death
to
sullivan
to
make
them
feel
like
at
least
something
was
there
to
hold
on
to
however
at
its
core
it's
a
fittingly
grim
end
for
a
character
who
let's
face
it
had
been
playing
with
fire
from
the
beginning
and
while
we
didn't
get
our
desired
ending
we've
got
a
moment
that
will
live
on
forever
number
nine
upham
fails
to
save
melish
saving
private
ryan
though
saving
private
ryan
is
ultimately
a
melancholic
meditation
on
the
tens
of
millions
of
lives
pointlessly
lost
in
world
war
ii
it
is
still
able
to
craft
personal
tales
that
invoke
truly
upsetting
moments
i
mean
take
the
case
of
poor
private
melish
who
gets
way
laid
by
a
german
soldier
while
corporal
upham
stands
on
a
nearby
staircase
paralyzed
with
fear
and
unable
to
save
him
the
audience
is
forced
to
watch
as
the
soldier
eventually
overpowers
melish
slowly
driving
a
knife
into
his
chest
and
killing
him
while
upham
does
nothing
to
help
it's
a
scene
taylor
made
to
leave
the
audience
throwing
up
their
arms
in
despair
even
if
on
reflection
it's
a
perfect
summation
of
how
the
average
person
would
act
when
forced
into
the
throes
of
war
it's
so
disturbing
and
harrowing
the
audiences
are
reviled
but
also
entranced
by
the
events
and
become
more
emotionally
invested
than
ever
before
number
eight
the
military
arrives
two
minutes
too
late
the
mist
say
what
you
will
about
the
mist
i
mean
okay
i
will
i
thought
it
was
a
bit
wank
but
the
ending
is
something
of
a
singularity
when
it
comes
to
audience
frustration
and
it's
one
that's
clearly
been
designed
to
be
as
such
at
this
point
in
time
david
his
son
and
a
few
fellow
survivors
have
spent
the
entire
movie
escaping
a
fleet
of
grotesque
spider-like
interdimensional
aliens
and
are
driving
through
the
mist
when
they
come
across
a
gigantic
lovecraftian
beast
and
then
the
gas
in
the
car
runs
out
there's
no
hope
and
no
chance
of
survival
so
the
adults
enter
into
a
suicide
pact
to
avoid
a
painful
death
at
the
hands
of
the
alien
monsters
and
moments
later
david
shoots
his
own
son
and
also
the
three
other
survivors
with
no
bullet
left
for
himself
a
distraught
david
then
walks
into
the
mist
waiting
to
be
devoured
by
the
approaching
creatures
only
for
the
mist
to
recede
and
the
us
army
to
emerge
revealing
that
humanity
has
regained
the
upper
hand
and
the
alien
threat
is
being
taken
care
of
it
is
about
as
much
of
a
few
ending
as
a
film
can
muster
up
i
won't
lie
to
you
i
hated
this
ending
but
upon
reflection
it's
still
up
in
the
air
as
to
why
did
i
think
it
a
cheap
rug
pull
or
was
it
actually
clever
enough
to
make
me
care
about
the
inversion
of
a
horror
movie
with
a
downer
ending
nah
it
was
most
definitely
cheap
number
seven
patrick
returns
amanda
to
her
mother
gone
baby
gone
ben
affleck's
fantastic
thriller
about
the
hunt
for
a
missing
child
concludes
with
the
revelation
that
the
girl
three-year-old
amanda
was
kidnapped
by
captain
jack
doyle
who
felt
that
he
could
offer
her
a
better
life
than
amanda's
cocaine
addicted
mother
helen
we
then
see
patrick
discuss
with
his
partner
angie
about
who
should
look
after
the
child
prompting
angie
to
say
that
she'll
leave
if
patrick
calls
the
police
on
doyle
yet
that's
what
patrick
does
and
soon
we
see
amanda
back
with
helen
who
once
again
leaves
her
child
without
a
sitter
while
she
gets
ready
to
go
out
only
for
patrick
to
show
up
at
the
end
to
look
after
her
now
audiences
have
agonized
over
gone
baby
gone's
final
dilemma
for
over
a
decade
as
to
whether
or
not
patrick
did
the
right
thing
and
that's
the
innate
brilliance
of
this
ending
you're
meant
to
be
torn
by
the
morality
of
the
choice
between
an
unfit
mother
and
a
man
who
kidnapped
a
child
had
the
film
simply
ended
with
amanda
living
a
happy
life
with
doyle
it
wouldn't
be
anywhere
near
as
poignant
then
again
the
blood
pressure
of
the
audience
might
have
been
significantly
lower
if
it
had
number
6.
jimmy
murders
dave
mystic
river
clint
eastwood's
oscar-winning
drama
follows
x-con
jimmy
as
he
investigates
the
murder
of
his
19-year-old
daughter
katie
now
this
culminates
in
a
desperate
understandably
angry
jimmy
blaming
his
childhood
friend
dave
for
the
killing
ultimately
coercing
him
into
a
confession
on
the
promise
of
sparing
his
life
but
of
course
after
confessing
dave
is
stabbed
and
shot
by
jimmy
who
subsequently
then
dumps
his
body
into
the
mystic
river
the
next
day
detective
shawn
another
of
jimmy's
childhood
pals
informs
jimmy
that
he
caught
the
real
killers
and
katie's
death
was
part
of
a
prank
gone
wrong
it's
another
rug
pool
style
twist
but
one
that
is
incredibly
depressing
and
makes
the
audience's
trust
and
support
of
jimmy
to
get
revenge
feel
dirty
and
misplaced
it
speaks
on
the
dangers
of
mob
mentality
and
the
desire
for
a
course
of
justice
by
whatever
means
and
here
well
we
couldn't
have
been
more
wrong
number
five
delacroix
execution
the
green
mile
i
cannot
watch
this
scene
without
my
blood
actually
boiling
and
more
than
a
few
times
it
has
brought
me
to
tears
of
frustration
for
that
reason
alone
i
know
what
the
green
mile
does
perfectly
emotional
staging
as
dell
is
prepped
for
his
electrocution
antagonist
warden
an
all-around
[ __ ]
percy
intentionally
forgets
to
wet
the
sponge
which
will
hasten
the
death
and
minimize
his
suffering
the
result
is
utterly
horrifying
a
scene
in
which
we
can
see
a
man
get
set
on
fire
as
the
electricity
cooks
him
from
the
inside
out
and
a
panicked
conversation
as
to
what
to
do
about
it
from
the
wardens
eventually
the
pain
is
over
but
the
anger
or
the
anger
remains
in
a
form
of
justice
though
percy
is
then
brainwashed
by
john
coffey
from
which
he
never
recovers
and
is
admitted
to
a
psychiatric
hospital
for
the
rest
of
his
life
still
though
i'm
very
angry
number
four
the
killer
isn't
caught
zodiac
david
fincher's
zodiac
is
a
masterful
meticulously
accurate
account
of
the
zodiac
killer's
rampage
across
the
san
francisco
bay
area
in
the
late
1960s
and
early
1970s
fincher
goes
to
immense
detail
about
both
the
brutality
of
the
zodiac's
killings
and
also
the
desperate
quest
of
both
the
police
and
cartoonist
robert
graysmith
to
catch
him
and
while
just
about
every
serial
killer
movie
ever
made
ends
with
a
big
reveal
and
the
killer
being
blown
away
by
the
hero
zodiac
was
never
caught
in
real
life
and
rather
than
rustle
up
a
hollywood
ending
fincher
stays
entirely
true
to
reality
the
film's
final
scene
sees
surviving
zodiac
victim
mike
identifying
arthur
lee
allen
as
the
man
who
shot
him
22
years
prior
but
of
course
the
evidence
is
far
from
concrete
as
a
result
the
audience
is
left
agitated
but
also
in
awe
of
the
film
they've
just
watched
not
everything
has
a
happy
ending
after
all
i
mean
it's
not
your
mother's
massage
parlor
is
it
number
three
washes
death
serenity
never
ever
trust
joss
whedon
to
keep
a
beloved
supporting
character
alive
because
there
is
always
a
good
chance
that
he's
going
to
off
them
for
that
big
emotional
payoff
such
was
the
fate
of
wash
who
had
been
a
fan
favorite
all
the
way
through
firefly
and
serenity's
runtime
after
a
perilous
battle
between
the
reavers
and
the
alliance
things
appear
safe
that
is
until
wash
is
impaled
by
a
riva
harpoon
now
given
how
wash
was
easily
a
fan
fave
and
in
many
ways
the
heart
and
soul
of
the
firefly
series
seeing
him
die
in
such
a
brutal
way
was
deeply
traumatizing
if
not
also
incredibly
annoying
to
fans
at
least
we
can
say
that
his
death
meant
something
but
still
the
emotional
damage
was
like
well
bloody
harpooned
to
the
chest
number
two
nick
stays
with
amy
gone
girl
and
now
for
another
exercise
and
david
fincher
chastising
his
audience
his
remarkable
2014
thriller
gone
girl
sees
nick
attempting
to
clear
his
name
as
he
becomes
the
prime
suspect
in
his
wife
amy's
disappearance
and
as
it
turns
out
amy
staged
her
own
disappearance
and
in
revenge
for
nick's
infidelity
is
attempting
to
frame
him
for
her
murder
now
in
the
end
amy
is
forced
to
change
her
plan
and
frame
another
ex-boyfriend
for
her
kidnap
before
she
then
returns
home
to
nick
nick
is
cleared
of
all
charges
but
wants
nothing
to
do
with
amy
who
then
soon
enough
announces
that
she's
pregnant
having
inseminated
herself
with
nick's
frozen
sperm
nick
feeling
a
sense
of
duty
to
his
unborn
child
decides
to
stay
with
amy
and
maintains
the
facade
to
the
media
that
he
and
his
wife
are
simply
a
happy
reunited
couple
audiences
are
practically
left
screaming
when
gone
girl
ends
because
nick's
behavior
seems
so
asinine
and
yet
so
bizarrely
relatable
it's
a
horrible
car
crash
can't
look
away
type
scenario
and
number
one
the
charlottesville
montage
black
clansmen
while
each
of
the
aforementioned
movies
at
least
had
some
semblance
of
hollywood
artifice
to
hide
behind
that's
not
at
all
the
case
with
the
jaw-dropping
conclusion
to
spike
lee's
black
clansmen
after
the
main
kkk
storyline
has
concluded
lee
seamlessly
cuts
to
footage
of
the
2017
unites
the
right
rally
in
charlottesville
virginia
where
a
white
supremacist
terrorist
drove
his
car
into
a
crown
of
protesters
and
killed
32
year
old
heather
heyer
we
then
cut
to
footage
of
president
trump
comparing
the
white
supremacists
and
the
peaceful
protesters
while
refusing
to
fully
vilify
the
perpetrator
as
a
terrorist
and
there's
a
tribute
to
haier
and
finally
an
image
of
the
american
flag
upside
down
a
common
sign
of
distress
or
protest
the
closing
montage
was
an
extremely
powerful
upsetting
and
righteously
angry
way
for
lee
to
draw
parallels
between
historic
white
supremacy
and
that
which
still
pervades
today
this
is
a
case
of
a
film
not
just
wanting
you
to
be
angry
but
wanting
you
to
do
something
about
it
and
there
we
go
those
were
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movies
that
pissed
audiences
off
in
the
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way
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hello fellow dendrites I'm Pruitt and this is Jim Davis and some might see it as cold-blooded to shed the trappings of man flesh but there is one out there who's not gonna turn down your worship it is dinne dar he will eat the Sun and he will make a new place for all yon tea on web DM this episode is brought to you by the dungeon craft Kickstarter live now build your own battle maps in no time at all by using over a thousand pieces of gorgeous terrain they're a cool-looking easy to store and affordable way to level up your combat each book consists of reversible pieces for building dungeons cityscapes and wilderness along with all the creatures you need to run your game they've even got companion books for battles on the high seas or in hell they send us an early prototype and they are useful it's all get up so check out link here and in the description Jim once again first of all tunnel snakes rule tunnel snakes rule just wanted to get that out of the way we're talking about you on t1t you you want e I prefer personally snake people serpent folk why would you know what they call themselves the scaled ones scaly kind people of you there's a lot of different sort of names for them of course there's a lot of our own history and conspiracy theories you can draw from when dealing with reptilian humanoids such as yawn team I British have a whole thing about reptilian people this is probably one of my favorite of like monstrous peoples of a big fan of like pulp fantasy and so the stories have say the serpent man of Valusia in the king called stories or the various serpent people that show up in different conan tales or mythos horror it's just like alright I'm here for this yeah give me give me all kinds of snake people whether they got snake arm snakes for heads lower bodies of snakes cut them open snake spill out of them give it to me I'm here for yeah they're like rushing nesting monsters just snakes within snakes snakes are just kind of like tentacles another way of doing a cosmic or thing I think probably for me it's because I am not a particular fan of snakes they're just one of those animals that I look at it like man I hope we never meet each other and because I've lived in Texas that's not the case and rattlesnakes I've run into too many of them in my life water moccasins water moccasins copperheads it's one of those animals that you're like okay you got to stay away from this is the serpent it's a snake you know there's strong mythological and mystical symbolism to them and not always was it bad like not all snakes were seen as wise it's just one of those things where I finally have such rich potential and they are an antagonist in Dungeons and Dragons that I think works really well you could substitute them for drow you can substitute them for tea flings they've got that we used to be humans at one point but we did something terrible to ourselves I like that aspect of them particularly because it's it's one of those things of just like this this could be you given enough time and enough bad to say bad decisions yeah this could be you too this could be you too and if you get caught by them and they feel like that you would be a worthy addition to their society they can turn you into one of them they can create an abomination or a Malazan out of you and now you're just you've had your emotions too stripped from you and you've been suffuse dwith serpentine magics and praised endar eat the Sun praise didn't are the term morality tale has a whole new connotation when it comes to being turned into a snake person because it is that that whole like this ancient empire like they at one point they were the they were the top and now they're there they're hiding in the muck waiting for their chance waiting for their channel rise again I find like the auntie of say the Forgotten Realms really inspiring and that country of them was calling you know Raja or something like that around the serpent hills and the high more these are like dry dusty hills and they're riddled with all these tunnels where they live and then there's like this sulfurous mud flats nearby you can just imagine these like serpent people that have evolved to live in this environment and they're used to just the steam and the sulfur and the poison of it and they're just waiting there and it's like you got everybody's got to stay out of here do not come do not come around here this is our place we are a country that that is in this world and and sort of like trying to revitalize their fallen Empire and of course there must be up to no good which is why it's great source of adventure or there's the auntie that are in Choate that you might use for your own games it's like they are the descendants of whatever indigenous Empire was there that has long fallen and replaced by other successions of empires yeah you guys like did this to yourselves and I think that's why I like you auntie is that whereas I look at like orcs and goblins and and and all the others and it's like someone did something to them and now they've just had so long of a bad run of it that they're the evil guys no yawn T you guys did this to yourself like you know like you're the ones who started worshipping these gods you're the ones that transformed yourselves and they in this manner they're the one that rip your emotions from you and and made you this sort of like cold calculating monster and that's what's interesting about it I'm role played a yawn T before yes and that was the most interesting part I think trying to roleplay a superior emotionless just no empathy no sympathy you still have to work with these people I think there's a few inspirations from from pop culture that you can draw on I know I drew I drew from a more evil version of Q where it's just you almost think of these things it's just like yeah it's it's it's whatever but it's it's almost I would hate to say fun because they don't have emotions right but you know just being around these makes them kind of feel better because it's proof of his own superiority another more recent would be from the Orville Isaac who's the robot who's the completely superior but emotionless it's a great like watching that it's like oh yeah that's that's Y on t and then the last one I think of Sherlock Holmes just the mentality of just having to deal with these idiots that you're surrounded by constantly I mean just like you're not even a human it could be something to kind of draw from from a role-playing perspective really got to stretch yourself in these because this is an option that if you take it similar to say drow or tea flings or depending on what the way it works are portrayed in your world have a conversation about it with your group because you know the group might appreciate like having a spy in their midst or someone who's just kind of like yeah I'm tolerating being with you and you know well we'll see how long this lasts so in that sense I think like they're very pendant on like party composition and what kind of campaign you're playing but that's just if you're trying to use like baseline the aunty you know you reskin these guys and just about any any way you want and he'll they do every spring alright there we go transformed humans the decisions of an ancient magical society that they worship snakes and wanted to become more like them the potential for a reborn conflict that's millennia old that now that these like hibernating serpent people are returning to activity they're going to revive those conflicts yeah we went into you know hibernation for eons to skip ahead far enough in time so that you know we would be in a position to rebuild our empire we wouldn't have any competition from other big empires out there and they looked forward in time or just like yeah we put ourselves into sleep then we'll wake up and erupted from the ground are these giant breeding pits and snakes the world is made a little bit better for them to live in yeah I'd be a little hotter more humid they weighed out geological epochs that are incompatible with their physiology and but I've always wanted to create a monster that vacillates between life and undeath when they want to go into hibernation they transform themselves into a type of undead but when they're ready to re-emerge and and be active in the world they revitalize themselves someone that has if you conceive of save necrotic energy more like balancing and kind of act and and and you know they change their internal balance so that it's more like say dark necromancy and then whenever they're ready to come out they change it to light necromancy and then they're sort of like suffused with healing magic in life and shed their mummified dry snake skin to emerge pristine and glistening ready to greet the world as its next I am a snake so you see something like that you come across a hibernation chamber of them the presence of fresh blood awakens them before they're ready the meet creatures have arrived let us awake from our slumber and have breakfast if that was the case then like maybe they would seed the world with clues as to their whereabouts so that people will come to try to find them therefore ensuring that they have something to eat when they are ready those are more maybe away diems with what would conceive of them what about s'more player option the fact that they they do want to add to their empire so they have that whole like capture not kill mentality like at least there that's a way to ease into a party when we played there were well there were two aunties and it drew it right and the Giroud kind of been out of it for a bit so it was more like the auntie looked at each other and then looked at him it's like well at least we'll have some meat in case we've run out of other meat with us like we literally looked at you as like our reserve for observers yes so let's keep him alive outside of a party where two-thirds of the party is comprised of beyond tea I mean I could see how sometimes that might be a little rough to introduce into a normal like we're heroic adventuring party and this is re aunty just don't worry about him yeah unless they were playing some kind of like illusionist enchanter they had some disguise self or maybe they're a warlock of jinn dark and they take disguise self they never appear as a young team I mean to me that would be the heart of a yachty right like deception is is their thing I would love to play that because when that secret finally got out you want to talk about drama you want talk about story at the gaming table you're just embedding it for ten adventures down the road and it could be that like time away from the auntie and time away from their ritual cannibalistic practices from their serpent magic from all of that life in a deep undercover as a as a spy for them like they all know that you run the risk of like reversion and like your emotions coming back but it's a risk right and so those Y on t that go out into the world to spy or gather information or something like that like maybe they are seen as disposable in that way by their superiors and it's like yeah you provide us valuable information but when you come back from the outside world you will be tainted you will not be welcomed back in here because you're no longer pure you've been swimming amongst the muck you know these mongrel creatures we were at the height of our civilization they were just swinging through the trees kind of thing you know like that you which of those liberal cities and I think you learned off to live with people how dare you it's ripe for potential and you get that kind of like outcast from an evil society if you're looking to do that and you don't want to do the more traditional half work or drow jaunty is available for that or you could even just be like they're not sinister they're just like snake people and they're just weird and they're not the first player option that has like emotionless as part of their thing right there's several of like lizard folk have sort of an alien mindset like that kobolds or forged you could place a dragon born that way depending on how you see the relationship between them and Dragons and even something like Ravnica the the vettel can I believe they have that kind of same very cerebral we removed our sort of emotions and our different kind of person Simek hybrids it was similar alive I don't even know what that would be but maybe it is one of those things where it's like you're the magic still has to fight against you know your natural inclinations and if you if you don't renew it through these ritual practices in their society then maybe you do revert that's the reason why they just send these low people on the totem pole out into the world the pure blood cuz there's a more snake you look like the more power you have in their society so if you just look like a person that you got like little fangs or there were some scales behind the ears for like slit eyes I like them for for not just like snake people but like as this is a human that's experimented on themselves to some degree I in lamb between two rivers yon tear often the product of Vavoom answers most things in lamb treat two rivers are both its thing you know there are you aunty there but then I will also take them and rescan them for other things so they represented wastelanders that it had something done to them or did it to themselves when it comes to picking what kind of like if your snake people what kind of snake like there's so many different kinds of snakes you could you could come from a Yan T coral snake like with the you know red black and yellow stripes you know what would that look like or like a Diamondback of a black adder you know I mean these are these are all different because I think I went with a black mamba for Salazar yeah that was the base for him yes I like the black and the red and there's so many different varieties I would play more of their interaction with what how how evil they are based off the kind of snake if there's just like a like a grass snake there from you know some grasslands they just want to be left alone they just you know do their thing they hunt small prey they could be anything it could be anything yeah you could have great big constrictor snakes and maybe you switch around their stats a little bit you know give a strength instead of say charisma you know take away their poison unity and poison spray and maybe give them like a bonus to grapple or something like that and now you've got light bill a powerful bill now you've got wise beyond their years because they live for forever kind of snake person a a a someone who's maybe seen as a sage their emotionless 'no cysteine as an asset and it's like yeah they we found a place for them they recognize the value of being part of our society and we take advantage of their different perspectives we appreciate the fact that this you know this group of very slow very methodical very patient Reptoids have something to offer us because they think right and with that different way of thinking that lack of emotion they're of course less likely to get rattled oh I'm talking like other serpent type creatures that they might be connected with the one that immediately comes to mind is Nagas of course whether it's antagonistic or cooperative Hydra would be one even just like dragons you know like there's all sorts of creatures in the monster mail that like different versions of dragons don't have legs and they're more like serpent I mean like more like Chinese dragons make sense to that you can just kind of trim a little bit and you know these guys they're just like kind of the coal bulbs instead of cobalt Stu dragon you could very much be that they are the ones that are the true descendants of that instead of saved kobolds or a dragon born or you could just sort of like mix them all together and just say like these are the Reptoids we've got portals we've got you on tea we've got lizard folk and kobolds and dragon born one of the things i like sort of about Tiamat from her you know mythological origins is the idea of like yeah she's just like hanging out with Abzu and a bunch of gods came along and killed her husband and now she's just like pissed about it and she'd rather be just like asleep and chilling out in the oceans it's only just like the chattering of these mice nothing furry creatures don't even lay eggs they give grosses it to give birth to live young with milk like how disgusting is that like maybe that's just the basis for it so a little mammalian all of these Reptoid people's are put on the earth to just like cleanse it of all these mammals and make it safe for dragons and and serpent kind again because they just breed like well they breed like mammals the concepts that you can you can make with this character given the traits especially that that charisma int yeah bonus it's a little weird if they're emotionless why they have a charisma bonus unless it's like their lack of emotion makes them more adept at manipulating others right well they're just standoffish I mean it's the ultimate like Dow of Steve or whatever like since they they don't show any interest everybody you know nature abhors a vacuum they're just constantly making people they're the ultimate bad boys right just reminds me of my father your father had scales well nobody no charisma is there because this is really one where I feel like they want you to play like warlocks and sorcerers or just any kind of real casting because I mean a little bump to in also I mean you could be a wizard what game was we were running where someone playing like a auntie mystic I was Josh in the he had like giant growth and and he took all the spells all the powers are like let him change his physical form and say you just like turn it like a giant constrictors and just enormous least spit I remember I'm soloing that Lich for a while so there was that that's maybe one way to do it that that they just represent any kind of like ant based caster maybe you flip it around it's plus two n plus one charisma I just took that that charisma bonus and made a paladin oh yeah because you know everything else who cares but at least I can put my lower stat in charisma and it won't be as low it's the way I saw it I told my invisible son character was a serpent person she called upon the serpent it was like one of the things that I had for for her was like heard the spells that she would have selected would be reflected in the color of her scales an invisible son every school of magic has a color associated with it right so maybe you can like translate something like that to D&D and if you've got like a sorcerer or a wizard jaunty and they do have scales or something like that that may be the kind of magic that they're proficient in is reflected in arcane patterns runes on their scales that changes over time you could do that with say a draconic lineage sorcerer angle like well maybe it's we're gonna like slightly reskin this and maybe pick you know energy type that fits more like serpent the wings are gonna be like feathered wings you know so you get that sort of like multicolored cosmic serpents feel to them now I've talked myself into into a TV character you can peyten up and play up that magical element to them the fact that they do have this strong connection with magic and like you can like lean into that and make them more than just people with like snake features that they are magical snake creatures really find inspiration in the mythology and the like of you know serpent gods too to make a Castro den Darby praised in Darby Perez I like a good mythology that involves a cosmic serpent you know like shedding its scales and creating stars and planets the first God's being bon mots and demons and their conflicts fuelling like the creation of worlds and mountains and rivers and things the first Celestials being massive serpents that that come and live in the world and like in part the the wisdom of the gods two people maybe it's not like a reptilians versus mammalians thing but it's like the Reptoids were the first people here and they see it as their responsibility to like Usher everyone and into that we were rushing in talking about concepts with with with the traits but we can go ahead and move into that because I like I already said charisma plus two and plus one they get dark vision Hey why wouldn't they why wouldn't I have snakes can see in the dark the trend that is as of late which is the innate spell casting of these player races that's the new hotness that is the new hottest thing is it's old but it's still like you know it seems like half of them now getting poison spray as a canned trip it's a it's one of those canned trips I find that people usually don't take but when you have it yeah like I used it quite a bit if you don't have a you know a class that has something like that then it could be handy poison is one of those damage types that if you're looking at just like pure numbers and break down along with fire one of those that's really commonly resisted by monsters and the like I think a lot of people discount it or or don't like consider it as maybe an option or something but having access to it certainly thematic there's all different ways you can reskin it the big thing with any kind of innate spell casting is the to answer the question are these actual spells as in does this person have to do the Josh sure's say the words use the material components can it be counter spelled can it be dispelled like is it a spell or is it just using spells as a way to shorthand a special ability to me that's always something I want to answer and it's one of those things where it's like any kind of innate spell casting whether it's you on tea or furl bogs or drow or something like that more inclined to say like this is a consequence of the magic inherent in you and like spells represent the ability of someone that doesn't have inherent magic working their magic you've got poison spray because you're a snake person you have a poison gland in your jaw and you constrict your muscles in your mouth and shoot it out even the animal friendship with snakes is a consequence of all different of just like some of its training some of its like a very subtle form of magic maybe it's that all of these serpents are really super intelligent and we just listened to them and talked to them then maybe we don't get along we're trying to do is tell us how to how to change our lives for the better and we run away screaming I do love that hold the animal friendship with snakes like at will and it's so formatic and I think we carried around just a bag of snakes because at any time when we would need some I hate animal friendship go do a thing but then suggestion once a day which this kind of goes back to I just think of Jungle Book oh yeah just the spirally eyes and just this is it you snakes you got it you got to watch him like suggestions kind of that it does play into that sort of like a reverse of the snake charmer archetype but it is that the the mystical the yeah don't just they're just gonna talk to you and you'll do something it's not overt there's nothing necessarily flashy about it it's that creepiness it's the subtlety it's the deception that makes you aunty so fun to play even if they're even if they're like play along and they're good like they might just be mistaken like oh you're a serpent person and have to deal with the fact that maybe people just don't trust you our have to work harder to to gain their trust and maybe eventually they you know overcome their difficulties and it's all good and blah blah blah having that in your back pocket is certainly pretty fun a fun suggestion place at the right moment can stave off so many combat you know just tell someone can you just take a lap please just walk away that's my favorite one for suggestion just just walk away just put down your weapon and walk away you don't even have to fight I just love the open-ended yeah you have to follow this for eight hours it's a powerful spell it's cool that it sort of like reinforces there are sort of themes of course all these things can be changed up and made more specific to your specific type of yan tea but of course when you do that much stuff to your own body with magic you're gonna develop some resistance you're gonna you're gonna build up that resistance a bit so that's maybe why the pure bullets can't go full snake magic resistance is one of those abilities that changes practically every edition of D&D it used to be like a percentile that you just like rolled and you had to get above it after that it was sort of like a static number that you had to get above on a caster check there have been spells of the Lord or whatever and now in fifth edition it's just sort of it began I advantage on safes versus magic or save versus spells and spell like effects and on the one hand I miss the old school oh yeah you didn't I've got 95 percent magic resistance not touching me because it also was like yeah I that means I cannot benefit from good from beneficial spells guy can't be healed I can't benefit from a haste or a dimension doors yeah some creatures could lower it voluntarily but then they don't have their protection against against magic there it's a strong ability in fifth edition but isn't the like killer ability it's been in Prior the closest thing I can think of is what gnome that gets advantage on int charisma and wisdom saves on magical effects from this is just you know magic resistance and if you're playing like an oath of ancients paladin you could also have resistance to magic damage I mean I went to a conquest but I can see that I like clothes of ancients just because the resistance to magic damage or ability and just like the theme of that style of paladin an ancient kind of like tree Viper or something like that you know when those ones that there's coils of world he's been trying to fracture a part since the beginning and only by my coils am i keeping it together it's sort of like an opposite of the the serpent choose you know gnaws at the roots of the world tree it's the serpent protects the world tree that could be the secret hidden truth yeah that the millions they have perverted for their own propaganda against stupid mammalians of course they have poison immunity yeah the immune to the poison condition yes which you know that takes care of that poison condition is like the feature of a lot of low-level monsters and mid-level monsters as well and just like bee and it's some nasty effects come along with with poison you know it's one of those things where you know I'm not sure if you're a DM out there poisoning your enemy's weapons can and probably should if it's appropriate and this is I've suppose that and this is just one it's like yeah I don't want to be knocked unconscious by this thing I wanted to take an extra 12 d6 and damage I don't want to have to deal with all this just give me the weapon and and you know don't worry about it given how common poison is I can see it coming up huh quite a bit and of course languages you know common abyssal jerk on it because that you know they're there God is kind of evil they're kind of descendant from dragons if they're more serpentine I mean it's it's whatever you know I would let them you know speak with serpents and and talk with them I'd let them do all kinds of serpent magic adjacent things you just like reinforce the flavor of them everything I love you auntie and I I've tried to work them into every setting that I have I tried to find a place for them mostly because I do think they make great villains look at him just a little bit differently you don't like have them be always wicked always evil and you're just having more alien and unknowable and weird that's closer to how I have the the auntie planet Starbound they haven't gotten there yet 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of yog ma adams opening hand contains two snow-covered swamps blood pet and vinners fair reanimate soul ring and a nick dose shrine to nix without further ado let's kick off this manifestation of masochistic members marauding their magic mess Mike wins the fork in the toaster challenge and gets to start us off Mike plays a command tower for turn he casts a man of all he then cast talisman of creativity he taps his talisman to cast serum vision with an explosive turn one start Mike passes Adam place a snow-covered swamp he cast his soul ring he passes Garret plays a tropical island he casts mocks diamond discarding cephalad Coliseum he then cast a vote a druid he and sister Ryan plays a wooded foothills he cracks it for a badlands he also Casasola he and sister during his draw step Mike takes a damage through men of all he casts a talisman of progress he then cast pyroclasm which basically is just targeting Garrett's druid but nothing else Mike ship sister adam plays the snow-covered swamp he taps for and pays six life to cast his commander Kyril son of yog mom he pays to life and casts blood pet Carrick triggers and Adam puts a +1 +1 counter on all through he passes Garry plays a flooded strand per turn he casts a carpet of flowers which feels pretty awful considering no opponent currently controls an island he gives a turn to Ryan Ryan draws a card per turn looks at the board state looks at his hand decides to hold up and passes the term during his draw step Mike takes a damage to his mana ball he plays a plane for turn he gets a personal tutor fetching up a gamble onto the top of his library he falls up by casting time-twister everyone looks at him kind of strange and that's when Mike realized he missed the sequencing a little bit and now has to shuffle a his gamble he just tutored in response and in order to ensure the combos are kept out of Garrett's graveyard Adam pays to life and cast cremate targeting to bow a druid from Garrett's graveyard care responds by cracking his flooded strand to fetch up an underground sea cremate resolves then time-twister resolves and everyone shovels hands in graveyards into their library and draws the new seven next might cast gamble apparently he drew that after they twisted so he searches up a card into his hand he discards a card at random which is a silence he casts a mana and falls up with a scroll rack with a pretty good setup he passes to Adam Adam plays an ancient tomb for turn he casts insidious dreams discarding two cards one of which is grape crawler and fetching two cards into the top of his library he casts a dark confidant he attacks Mike with Kerik Mike loses six and Adam gain six Adam passes at the end of Adams turn Garrett casts a mystical tutor fetching up a windfall to the top of his library Garrett plays a flooded strand again and everyone really starts thinking about cutting everyone's decks better next time he cracks it for a breeding pool and to play untapped pain to life he cast windfall ryan wanting to actually play a spell from his hand before it gets wheeled again and to make sure the rest of the group doesn't refill their hands and to make sure Garrett doesn't get more wind constant to his graveyard casts pyroblast countering this vow with nothing else Garrett passes Ryan plays a blood group into play untapped pain to life he casts his commander on your falkenroth he ends his turn during his upkeep Mike loses his mana crypt trigger and takes three damage he also activates his scroll rack for for setting aside four cards in his hand drawing four and putting the other four on top of his library still in his upkeep he casts enlightened tutor fetching up a mystic or more onto the top of his library during his draw step he takes the damage to mana ball in his main phase he casts assault ring he then casts Verity circle with that card being absolutely brutal to Ryan strategy he responds to activating Anja discarding nightshade assassin untapping Anja and drawing a car he activates her again discarding gibbering dissent grave scrambler eCourse lick and twins of myrrh our state all in tapping and drawing he then finishes up by tapping and discarding tarnished Citadel and drawing a card then Verity circle resolves next Mike taps his talisman to cast mystic Remora all set up for success he gives a turn to Adam during his upkeep Adam reveals reanimate through dark confidant in his main face he pays to life and cats buried alive it resolves and he searches up a direct scape zombie razzaq at the foul blooded and a villus Broker of blood into his graveyard he then casts free enemy targeting Rasik at it resolves Raziq EV enters and Adam loses eight life he activates Rosie cath sacrificing dark confidant and paying to life in response my caste sorts of plowshares targeting razzle cap in response to that Adam activates rather calves again sacking blood pet and paying two more life it resolves and Adam fetches up a card into his hand he then responds by paying to life and casting calling the week sacking rasa katha to save it sorts fizzles and then as other search trigger results and he fetches up another card into his hand next Adam activates Drake's cape zombie unearthing it onto the battlefield he pays to life through Carrick again to cast grave crawler from his graveyard he casts animate dead target near as a calf and every enters he activates raza calf pain to life and sacking grape crawler to fetch up a card into his hand he then casts what he tutored which is an eighth or flux reservoir he demonstrates a loop where he pays to life cast grave crawler gains live through aether flux and then sacks it again to Rizzo cast enough times to gain enough life to shoot everyone with a deluxe Mike brings back Ella this game and his opening hand contains a hallowed fountain lotus petal island mr. Kimura at theorem sculptor shiitake and probe and an enlightened tutor Garrett is playing ball wrap again and keeps a hand with cavern of souls command tower mystical tutor ancient tomb crow moths force of vigor and a yabba Maya coast Folger joins us this game plane antlia Palani he keeps an opening hand with marsh flats chrome mocks pool among the infinite Gaia birds of paradise savage swipe guttural response and a cetacean tactics ryan is playing Anya again this game and keeps a hand with an exotic orchard blood-stained mire senseless rage strong kirker cultists monks salvaged and a mausoleum secrets Mike gets to start us off Mike plays an island for turn he cast a mystic Remora and everyone immediately hates him forever he casts a lotus petal and passes the turn folger plays of marsh flats return he cracks it for a temple garden into play untapped paying to life he casts of birds of paradise Folger tells everyone not to feed the fish and everyone agrees Folger passes Garret plays a command tariff return he turns the folder with a menacing smile and cast crow mocks breaking the fish pact immediately and imprints force of vigor he said it was for a good cause because he then he casts a hermit droid with all bets off Garret passes Ryan plays a blood-stained Myers return he cracks it for a Badlands he casts a soul ring again to dilemma into full truth Brian tells Folger he needs to deal with a turn one hermit druid above a turn one fish Ryan and sister turn his upkeep Mike pays for his mystic Remora he can stir taxi and probe paying to life and targeting Fulcher he looks at Folgers hand and draws a card he plays a hallowed fountain into play untapped pain to life he then casts grapeshot targeting Folgers bird and hermit druid with nothing else he passes Folger plays a forest per turn and passes as well Garrett plays an ancient tomb for turn and also passes Ryan plays an exotic orchard for turn he counts his commander Anja falkenroth he passes during his upkeep Mike lets his mystic Remora die also during his upkeep he casts enlightened tutor fetching up a mana Krypton to the top of his library in his main face he cast mana crypt he then cast as Orias signal he falls up with an aetherium sculptor all through Mike passes Folger starts off his turn by casting a chrome box in printing gutter oil spots he then cast survival of the fittest he gives a turn to Garrett at the end of Folgers turn care cast mystical tutor fetching up a shallow grave which is a big problem Garrett starts off his turn by tapping his ancient tomb the cast shallow grave targeting hermit druid her maturity enters and is given haste he activates her madrid flipping his deck into his graveyard NARR Camilla triggers and enters the battlefield he plays the Yabba Maya Coast triggering blood gas and eneter some battlefield this is when Garrett lets everyone know that his dread return is not in his graveyard but instead in his hand so he reluctantly passes the turn at the end of Garrett's turn ryan activates Anya discarding senseless rage untapping Anya and drawing a card he activates Anya again discarding biding rain Strom Kirk occultist psychotic haze grapes grappler and a skirt prospector he then cast Smaug salvaged for its alternate cost targeting mike's aetherium sculptor then Ryan begins his actual turn Ryan plays a luxury suite for turn he casts a demonic tutor in response Garrett cast memories journey targeting reanimate shallow grave and necromancy in his graveyard they shuffle in and then Ryan fetches up a card into his hand Ryan passes the turn during his upkeep my cast mystical tutor fetching up a time twister on to the top of his library he casts time-twister everyone shuffles hands and grave guards into libraries and draw seven Garrett feels kind of good and kind of bad at the same time about it though he plays a command tower of return he cast mystic Remora he ends his turn at the end of Mike's turn Folger activates survival of the fittest discarding Dryad Arbor and searching up a dockside extortionists into his hand Folger plays a wood at foothills per turn he cast dockside extortionist extortionist centers and Folger creates five treasures he cast his commander hat Lopilato he falls up with a sylvan library Folger passes Garrett starts off his turn by tapping ancient tomb cast gilded Drake folder knows where that's going but the Drake resolves gilded Drake triggers when it enters the battlefield and in response Folger cast swords to plowshares targeting the Drake Drake exiles and Garrett gains three life Garrett then taps his jump of my coast to cast birds-of-paradise he then cast an elves at beep shadow he attacks Mike with dark amoeba and Blood gas and then passes the turn at the end of Garrett's turn Brian activate Sonya discarding reckless worm from under the floorboards murders compulsion and restless dreams Brian then cast mausoleum secrets fetching up a bend peer tutor into a sand during Ryan's upkeep he casts vampiric tutor he fetches up a card onto the top of his library and to life he then draws the card he tutored in his main phase he activates Anja discarding world Gorger dragon and drawing a card he counts animate debt targeting his World War drew animate dead resolves and the dragon move begins he generates infinite mana and lutes Lithonia discarding and drawing until he finds what he's looking for which is a comet storm to shoot the entire table garret brings back ball wrap this game and keeps a hand of windfall flash horseshoe crab windswept teeth Sylvan library breeding pool and eternal witness Ryan brings back on you this game and keeps a hand with mana confluence polluted Delta blood strength of lunacy violent eruption and dancer the dead soldier brings back at love this game and keeps a hand with savage swipe mirror entity Casali pride mage bloom tender plains utopia sprawl and a marsh flats Mike brings back else of this game and keeps a hand with command tower mana confluence island pre-ordained cloud key and a Verity circle and Folger starts us off Bolger plays a forest return he cast utopia sprawl naming red he passes carrot plays a breathing pool into play tapped he passes the turn Ryan plays a polluted Delta fraternal he also passes Mike plays a command tower per turn he cast preordained scrolling and drawing he passes back to vulture vulture plays of marsh plants return he casts bloom tender he gives the turn to Garrett Garrett also plays a marsh BOTS return he cracks it for an underground scene he casts Sylvan library he shifts the turn to Ryan at the end of Garrett's turn Brian cracks is polluted Delta for a badlands Brian plays a mana confluence return and passes Mike plays an island return and also passes at the end of Mike's turn vulture cracks is marsh flats for a temple garden in tube late at Folger plays a Plains return he cast his commander at Lokelani he taps his bloom tender for Naya and casts mirror entity and holy smokes boulders only turn three-man knowing the game is over unless someone does something Mike goes for the strategic play and caste chain of vapor targeting Garrett's Sylvan library now you may be wondering why he may have targeted Garrett's permanent instead of just bouncing folders permanence directly basically this puts Garrett into a really tough spot by choosing Garrett's permanent Garrett has to essentially sacrifice a land if he doesn't want to in the game but it will put Garrett way back it's a risky play because Garrett can choose not to continue the chain and it puts it on everyone else to try and stop him so what does Garrett do Garrett observes the board state and decides that he will leave it up to the fates chain resolves Garrett bounces his library and does not sack a land to copy it he decides to let the chips fall where they may and see if anyone has another answer no one does unfortunately and mirror entity resolves Folger activates mirror entity for zero Holtz priority puts a hundred thousand extra activations on the stack for zero as well continues to hold priority and pays to life to cast mutagenic growth targeting ATLA keeping her from dying he then passes priority one by one everyone else passes and the loop begins bloom tender and mere entity becomes zero zeros with all creature types which includes egg they die and Atlit triggers Folger flips from his library and reveals per furrows and puts it onto the battlefield this loop continues killing creatures flipping them dealing two damage to each opponent with / froze and reshuffling his graveyard back into his library with hula moth until the peripherals triggers kill everyone at the table Ryan brings on you this game and keeps an opening hand with a chrome mocks tarnished citadel Sydney and spirit guide right a flame cast warp sulphureus springs and a Twins of morale restate Garrett brings bowler at this game and keeps an opening hand with necromancy wall of roots empiric tudor soul ring apprentice necromancer tropical island and a watery grave Mike brings Ella this game and keeps an opening hand with Island Tundra hallowed fountain mocks diamond chrome mocks grapeshot and a swords to plowshares folger brings ATLA Palani this game and keeps an opening in with two forests sacred foundry survival of the fittest and a mirror entity and Garrett starts us off Garrett plays a watery grave and to play untapped pain to life he can't set vampiric tutor he fetches up a card onto the top of his library and loses to life Garrett passes the term Ryan plays a sulfur springs return he casts a chrome mocks imprinting write a flame he exiled Simeon spirit guide from his hand taps sulfur springs for black and cast anja turn one feelin pretty good he passes to Mike Mike plays a Tundra for turn he casts a mana crypt he casts a MOX diamond discarding an island he then casts a chrome mocks imprinting swords to plowshares then stealing Ryan's thunder casas own commander Elsa on turn one as well everyone at the other end of the table starts sweating and my kins astern Folger in the spirit of keeping height going plays a sacred founder tapped and passes Garret plays a tropical island for turn he casts a hermit druid he passes the turn at the end of Garrett's turn ryan activates Anya discarding twins of morale restate untapping Anya and drawing a car he activates Anya again discarding Sun scorched desert and drawing he then begins his turn Ryan plays a tarnished Citadel for turn and passes during his upkeep Mike cast scroll rack from the top of the cyber and his main face he casts serum visions from the top of his library he holds priority and casts soul ring from the top of his library as well he passes priority and Ryan responds by casting chaos worth targeting scroll rack it resolves Mike shuffles in his scroll rack and then flips the top card of his library which is an etherium sculptor which is much worse than a scroll rack then soul ring resolves and serum vision resolves mike draws to as christ to at the bottom mike a scrape shop targeting Anya and Hermit druid in response Brian activates Anya discarding blood mad vampire on tapping on you and drawing the cart he activates Anya again discarding call to the netherworld untapping anya and casting it for it's madness cost which is zero he returns the twins to his hand and discards a card he activates Anya again the twins untapping and drawing he then activates her one more time discarding shadow of the grave and drawing then Anja and the hermit druid die Mike then attacks Ryan with OSHA and gives a turn to Folger Folger plays a forest for turn he guesses her Bible of the fittest he ends astern Garret plays a nurturing peatland for turn he taps the peatland to cast wall of roots he adds a counter to his wall of roots to cast soul ring he then cast necromancy targeting hermit druid in his graveyard hermit druid enters and Garrett passes the turn Ryan plays a marsh flats return he passes Mike starts off his turn by casting enlightened tutor fetching up a sensei's divining top on to the top of his library he plays an exotic orchard for turn he casts sensei's divining top from the top of his library he holds priority and Cazadores signet from the top of his library as well in response Bryan cast red elemental blasts targeting aetherium sculptor in response might cast omens veto in response ryan taps a sulfur springs to cast tainted pact he holds priority and cracks his marsh flats he fetches up a bat Lance then mike responds to the stack by casting rolling earthquake for one off the top of his library Hermit true it dies again and everyone takes one then tainted pact resolves he flips until he finds a slaughter pact and stops he cast slaughter pact targeting aetherium sculptor again with that aetherium dies and the rest of the stack resolves Mike spins has stopped to look at the top three of his library he casts pre-ordained from the top of his library he attacks ryan without show with nothing else mike passes Folger plays a forest per turn he counts sylvan library he gives the turn to Garrett Garrett starts off was turned by casting brainstorm he then taps his peatland to catch shallow grave it resolves and Hermit druid enters the battlefield with haste he activates hermit druid milling his entire library dark amoeba triggers and he puts it onto the battlefield he casts dread return from his graveyard with a splash back cost sacking three creatures he brings back necrotic ooze with no other responses garrett shows this loop necrotic ooze now has all activated abilities of all cards in all graveyards garrett activates wall of roots ability putting a negative one negative one counter on it to add a green he activates blighted bats ability with the green to give the ooze haste he activates channel or initiates ability to add a mana removing a negative one negative one counter he activates devoted druids ability putting in a negative one negative one counter on it and on tapping he demonstrates his loop of tapping and untapping to get infinite mana he then uses walking ballistas ability to add 100,000 plus one plus one counters to the use he then activates walking blesses ability to shoot everyone at the table until they are dead ladies and gentlemen what a night it was Congrats to all the players on their respective wins and explosive decks these decks were a lot of fun to play with and against each other and it was amazing to see each of them go off in the way they did that night Folgers ATLA deck was really cool with its creature based strategies which is right up Folgers alley his god hand in his game shows you just how powerful that combo can be Garrett's ball wrap deck was really neat with its intricate Hermit druid necrotic ooze combo he threatened to win multiple times that night Ryan zhonya deck was his own experiment drawing from the inspiration of other decks out there and he had a fair bit of interaction and answers as well as very early combo and potential Mike's deck is never empty on board with answers from hand and library and can always get out of a pinch also can be built in so many ways and that's what's great about her adam's kirik tech was a perfect example of what life as a resource can do for you this commander is super broken and we love him to death there is no player of the game or most valuable card this time because each deck performs so well in their respective games there were so many valuable cards that no one card can be chosen for this episode well that about wraps it up for the lightning round tune in next time when we Duke it out to see who will be king of the competitive EDH table thank you so much for watching and we will see you next time [Music]