this video is brought to you by petal card what's up guys Jared here today we're gonna talk about remakes or a socially sanctioned form of collective DejaVu remakes get a whole lot of flack for being uncreated money grabs without an ounce of artistic justification and sometimes they are just that but other times remakes can be monumentally inventive deviously affective or just plain socially relevant and other times we get this gives your big boy voice so what makes a remake great and perhaps more importantly what makes a remake suck we have a few thoughts and a lot of them have to do with ragging on speed Disney live-action remakes so don't pretend you're not up for that anyway welcome to this wisecrack edition on remakes and of course spoilers ahead for movies you first watched in diapers but before we get into it I want to give a shout out to this week's sponsor peddle card peddle cards is a card that helps you build your credit if you're just starting out in fact you can qualify 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which film executives can only sadly paw around their archives for old IP material to exploit but that's not quite true remakes in literature and music are pretty much as old as the mediums themselves take the German legend of Faust about eight totally reasonable dude who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge fun and presumably a lifetime supply of cheese I mean what could go wrong anyways over the past four centuries his story has inspired an incredible amount of literature ballets operas plays and more each one was a kind of remake even if it didn't come complete with a promotional McDonald's Happy Meal in another example deus Irae an old Gregorian chant that's been haunting dreams since at least the 13th century [Music] eventually got reincarnated into pieces by composers like Mozart list and Berlioz and later into jazz metal and so on given arts history of borrowing from and building on the work of its ancestors it's no surprise that the young art of cinema has been all about remakes since its very infancy see the earliest movies were as you probably know printed on film reels these reels subjected to light and mishandling by pimply theater operators inevitably started to decay so the earliest remakes were actually attempts to replicate old films before they were lost to the sands of time since then remakes have tended to flourish in eras of economic strife and anxiety for instance remakes like the island of lost souls and huckleberry finn kept the movie business humming along during the Great Depression remakes also tend to get a boost during times of technological change take for example the 1980s an era where Americans spent half their time rewinding VHS tapes instead of going to movie theaters desperate studio executives went through a remake frenzy as they tried to get putts and seats today those changes are mirrored by the Digital streaming revolution which has led many of us to prefer a good Netflix and chill sesh over shelling out $20 at our local AMC so it's no wonder that we're living in a remake revolution but is it good or bad for cinema and the culture at large we're gonna be looking at this through the lens of Disney unquestionably the biggest peddler of present-day remakes first let's look at the anatomy of a Disney remake it's pretty simple take a massively popular Disney cartoon make it usually live-action always with a generous dose of CGI and an even more generous dose of celebrities lots of celebrities then at a good unnecessary 40 minutes of running time you by expanding the film's exposition aka the introduction to its world characters etc for example the exposition in the original Cinderella clocks in at about 30 seconds now compare that to the exposition in the 2015 remake which clocks in at a good 19 minutes you can almost feel the writers struggling to pad out the story simply because audiences these days generally prefer to hour-long films and some of this narrative padding seems to be an attempt to give Disney Princesses more to do than just stand around looking pretty which brings us to how these films adapt for modern audiences you take whatever was perhaps objectionable about the original cartoon version say that Cinderella and the prince fell in love after one dance because they're both hot or that jasmine has no discernible character arc or that Dumbo ends with the titular character still working at the circus and PETA would protest and then massage it to make it something a little more politically correct take the perplexing choice to make guests on sidekick Lefou pretty apparently gay for guests on first off whether or not you're all about representation in film it's an incredibly lazy effort Lefou is pretty OneNote and spends most of his time trying to talk Gaston out of wiping up but beyond that it also feels a bit toothless like an attempt to force your way into a bunch of viral headlines after all the gist of the story is still the same Beauty still falls in love with the dude who held her father prisoner then ordered her to spend the rest of her life in his creepy castle and her ability to love him despite him not being very cute becomes irrelevant a moment later when he turns hot these pandering attempts feel strange when compared to the obvious other option that is come up with some new story ideas ultimately this Disney remake recipe yields a bloated version of the original film that feels uncanny and uncomfortable like an absurdly well-funded high school play how would you feel about growing a beard overall these films feel like a cynical attempt to bottle millennial nostalgia in an era when adulting is particularly hard and worse these films are ultimately doomed to fail at doing just that here's why according to film scholar Anat Songer the motivations of an audience watching a remake is a sort of masochistic desire to have the already known experience repeated despite the fact that it's accompanied by the presentment that it will never be basically we walk into the theater hoping to be as wowed by Aladdin as we were the first time we saw it as kids but at the same time we walk in knowing that it's not going to be the same bummer still that hope convinces us to spend good money and time watching our favorite cartoons be butchered so what's really going on when Disney decides to remake the Lion King according to film scholar Thomas leach something very specific to our cultural moment in the past an original film from 1931 didn't really compete with its 1943 remake because come 1944 you couldn't access any of those films anyway it wasn't until the mid 1950s that you could start rewatching your favorite films on TV on the couch and your underwear but in our age of a million streaming platforms a remake is forced into direct conflict with its original will you pay $2.99 to watch Beauty and the Beast on YouTube or pay 15 bucks to go to the theater with a vain hope that it will be better as leach puts it today's remakes have to balance two opposing claims that the remake is just like its model and that it's better that's why most remakes make small changes in Cinderella the prince and cinderella meet up in the forest thus hopefully easing our concerns that they fell madly in superficial love after one waltz but these changes have to be both small enough that they don't anger audiences who love the original and significant enough that audiences don't feel like they're watching a carbon copy and yet with a film as perfect as say Beauty and the Beast any amount of changes like a book that acts as a portal to the place you most want to go in the world feels unnecessary unwarranted and raises a lot of weird questions about the space-time continuum leech goes on to explain that there are essentially four different types of remakes one the readapt ation which just means the filmmaker went to the original source text rather than mimicking previous film versions of the story this applies to adaptations of Shakespeare that are explicitly faithful to the text to the update this means that the filmmaker significantly changed the story as in realigning its cultural socio-economic or political meaning your prime example of this is West Side Story which plants the Romeo and Juliet complex square in the middle of New York City gang wars in the late 1950s or the glorious update to Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew visa vie 1999's classic teen flick 10 Things I Hate About You which sets Shakespeare's story in a then present-day la high school because why not 3 vo maj these are movies that do not attempt to directly compete with the original film but rather function as love letters to the original text they also tend to establish a direct intertextual relation to the original film that is making direct references via inside jokes good examples include 80s films the thing and invaders from Mars both of which openly pay homage to their 1950s predecessors then there's the fourth category the true remake true remakes essentially don't change much of anything about the original text except by making it newer or ostensibly better Airline these categories can be slippery but we think Disney remakes qualify as true remakes though they're technically live-action most rely heavily on CGI effects the jungle book does entirely making them somewhat an updated version of hand-drawn animation according to leach true remakes have a curious relation with their older siblings and that they are inherently trying to replace them the mere existence of a live-action Beauty and the Beast can only serve to make the original animated version less relevant to modern audiences so could live-action Disney films if they're really well made ever outdo their original fundamentally it seems to us like a question of visual storytelling namely what form of narrative is most effective at conveying compelling fairy tales and often fairy tales prominently featuring talking animals or fantastical feats of magic which mouse would you rather see so address which beast would you rather watch throw a fit and which lion would you rather watch singing Hakuna Matata I mean honestly which do you prefer and keep in mind there's objectively only one right answer now there's a legitimate argument to be made that in remaking say black-and-white film in color it might make the story more appealing to modern audiences but our kids these days really that immune to the charms of 2d animation the thing is nobody ever complained that Disney cartoons weren't lifelike enough and that's the only supposed problem these live-action films can really claim to solve Disney cartoon characters evoke human feelings even if they're lions or Devils or goblins and they do so because of the stylized artistry not in spite of it charming moments where lions swing from vines aren't lifelike and they're not trying to be of course no matter how loudly we complain facts are facts Disney remakes make Bank take 2017 s Beauty and the Beast which made a chill 1.26 for billion dollars in the box office or 2019 s Aladdin which as of early July crossed the nine hundred million dollar mark Lion King will undoubtedly ride the beyonce Donald Glover Seth Rogen Billy Eichner fan mail to equal success for the most part these movies are automatic no questions asked gold lines of course there are exceptions namely Tim Burton's steampunk Dumbo which again nobody asked for but overall these movies make a lot of people a whole lot richer so needless to say Disney remakes aren't going anywhere as of May there were no less than 16 live-action or CGI remakes in the works meaning that other assorted characters like Mulan lady in the and The Hunchback of Notre Dom are about to get the same treatment whether we like it or not whatever you'll pay to go see it you now are we categorically railing against remakes no way as we mentioned at the top the roads of film history have been paved with remakes but it goes further than that as writer and philosopher Umberto Eco put it the history of arts and literature is full of pseudo remakes that were able to tell at every time something different the whole of Shakespeare is a remake of preceding stories for example Romeo and Juliet borrows heavily from Ovid a first century Latin poet and his story of the similarly bummed out pair of lovers Pyramus and Thisbe echo thus concludes that interesting remakes can escape repetition because see reality and repetition are not opposed to innovate this certainly applies to movies indeed sometimes a really quality remake can eclipsed its original not only in the public consciousness but in pure quality take scarface a 1983 film so beloved in its own right you may not have known it was a remake to be precise the 1983 version is an update of a 1932 film by the same name which centers around an Italian immigrant who makes it big in the bootlegging world of prohibition-era Chicago the 80s version took the basic storyline but jazzed it up centering it around a Cuban immigrant who becomes a hotshot drug lord here we see what feels like a warranted remake that responds to the changing social dynamics of the country's immigration patterns while still grappling with the same themes of immorality greed and ambition here changing the cultural context of the story wasn't a cheap shot at seeming more inclusive a la Beauty and the Beast Lefou having an unnecessary and honestly boring crush on Gaston instead it was a genuinely smart way to evolve a narrative and speak to the changing American landscape also Al Pacino similarly remakes can feel warranted when the technology on or off screen has changed significantly in a way that makes the film objectively more awesome while Beauty and the Beast employed some gnarly CGI to make this candlestick talk and haunt your dreams the technological changes did not again in our objectively correct opinion advance the storytelling and actually may have hindered it Lumiere in the original Beauty and the Beast has expressive eyebrows big sleepy eyes a candle wax cowlick is very clearly a man that was transformed into a candlestick Lumiere and the new Beauty and the Beast looks like a creepy gold figurine your grandma keeps on the bottom row of her cupboard in contrast the increased capacity of practical effects in the 1980s allowed for versions of the fly and the thing that filmmakers could have only dreamed of in the 1950s when the originals were made they literally advanced the storytelling by making far more believable visceral moments in a slightly different vein the 2001 remake of Ocean's eleven felt justified because of all the changes in technology that the wider world had undergone since the original film debuted in 1960 not only had weaponry and surveillance technology changed but also cellphones happened as such the 2001 film has a plot and a star-studded cast better suited to the times then there are remakes that are celebratory love letters pure and simple our favorite example of this is the 1989 film Raiders of the Lost Ark the adaptation a cinematic endeavor by three teenagers to remake the Indiana Jones film shot-for-shot film critic Jim Wynn Dolph describes watching it with a double perspective partly rooting for Indiana Jones to beat the Nazis and partly rooting for the kids on-screen to pull off each filmmaking feat we'd watch this over the new Lion King any day we set out to give you a definitive answer as to what makes a remake valuable and what makes a bonafide stinker but as you can see when it comes to remakes there are a lot of fine lines nuances unexpected triumphs and totally expected failures so here's our somewhat arbitrary and totally up for debate criteria 1 a remake often loves or at least respects its original 2 a remake must advance augment or modernize its original in a compelling way 3 a remake must not undo or erase what is most beloved about its original under this paradigm a film like West Side Story rocks and Disney live-action / CGI films are often stinkers and that they are explicitly untrue to the original charms that made their earlier counterparts work so what do you guys think is the Lion King and abomination or is there value in the Ford assembly line production of Disney remakes what about remakes in general let us know what you think in the comments thanks to all our patrons who support the channel and our podcasts don't forget to hit that subscribe button but before you go I want to give another shout out to this week's sponsor peddle card peddle card is a card that helps you build your credit if you're just starting out peddle has partnered with Webb Bank a member of the FDIC to provide people with no credit history access to a Visa credit card check out peddle card by going to pedal card calm / wisecrack that's pedal with a t p et al card calm / wisecrack to find out more and as always thanks for watching guys


this is a video by real-life lore sponsored by the great courses plus a little over three months ago I released a video about what if everybody on earth lived inside the same city today we're going to talk about something perhaps even more terrifying what if everybody on earth lived inside the same building how large with this building have to be to house all seven point four billion of us alive right now it's not a strange of a question as it may seem at first this picture right here is the town of Whittier Alaska and by that I mean that the entire town is located inside of this one building the entire city's population of 214 people for the most part lives inside this single building and they really don't have to ever leave it this is because almost all of the functions that you would normally find inside of a city are all located inside of the building inside you can find the city's police department the post office the mayor's office a general store a grocery store a hospital a laundromat a hotel a church in the basement and even an indoor playground complete with a swimming pool the building is the city and the residents of the city can stay indoors almost indefinitely whenever the weather begins to get bad because all of the city services as well as their homes are all located inside of it but even still just 214 people live here which is nowhere near the entire human race so let's get bigger and think about buildings with the largest seating capacity the AT&T Stadium in Arlington Texas is the home of the Dallas Cowboys and is truly enormous larger than the US Capitol building and capable of seating 80,000 people which means that you could comfortably seat the entire population of Andorra inside of it but it still isn't as big as the largest indoor stadium in the world which is located here in Pyongyang North Korea and is called rung righto first of May stadium it has the capacity to seat 114 thousand people all indoors 34,000 more people than the AT&T stadium or about the same population as the island of Kiribati or about 20% of the population of Wyoming but even that isn't as big as the largest ever planned indoor stadium which would have been constructed in Berlin by Nazi Germany had they won the Second World War the building would have been called the Volks Hall and would have been capable of seating 180,000 people inside about 5% of the population of modern-day Berlin the building would have been so enormous that German architects calculated that the moisture collected by all of these people breathing inside of it could have actually created artificial rain inside causing the building to have its own weather if we move to outdoor stadiums however which would still be one building in a sense then we can fit much more people the largest outdoor stadium currently is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway capable of seating two hundred thirty-five thousand people a little less than the entire population of Reno Nevada but once again the Nazis had plans for an even larger stadium in the event of a victory in World War two their plans were to construct the Deutche study owned in Nuremberg which would have been capable of seating a massive four hundred five thousand people more than the population of New Orleans and over five times the seating capacity of the AT&T stadium Hitler planned that after Germany won World War two every single Olympic Games for the rest of history would take place here at this stadium but because the war was lost the stadium was never finished however the largest building anywhere in the world in terms of how many people are meant to fit inside of it would be the Great Mosque in Mecca Saudi Arabia during the Hajj period the mosque has the capacity to fit four million people inside of it which is greater than the entire population of Panama there are buildings that could in theory fit more people than this though they're not designed to fit people but we're going to see what could happen if we did so anyway before we get started with this part though let's figure out how many people we could safely fit inside of one square meter after a lot of research it seems that anything over five people per square meter could be potentially dangerous and lead to people trampling each other so at the highest limit let's go with about five people on average being able to possibly fit into one square meter the largest building in the world in terms of its physical footprint on the Earth's surface is going to be the Tesla gigafactory once it's finished being built in Nevada its gargantuan when compared to the AT&T Stadium and the US Capitol building and it would take up a physical space of five hundred thirty thousand square meters or a little larger than Vatican City which means that you could fit the world's smallest country completely inside of the boundaries of the world's largest building at five people per square meter that means that you could fit two million six hundred and fifty thousand people in the building all indoors more people that live in all of Namibia so we're at the scale of entire countries worth of people fitting inside one building now but we can still get much larger the largest building ever designed in terms of the floor space that it would occupy was the Crystal Island building which would have been built in Moscow were it not halted had it have been completed it would have possessed two and a half million square meters worth of floor space which combined could have fit a staggering 12 million 500,000 people or more than the entire population of Belgium but we can still go even bigger if we begin to take a three-dimensional view rather than the two-dimensional view that we've had so far with this in mind the average height for a modern human is roughly 1.63 meters therefore if we construct a cube with a one square metre base and a height of 1.63 meters then we could fit five average humans inside of it this gives us 0.326 cubic meters per person or 3.07 people per cubic metre with this math in mind the largest building in the world in terms of sheer volume is the Boeing Everett factory located in Washington the building possesses 13.3 million cubic meters located entirely indoors which is so large that the building has its own microclimate somewhat similar to what the proposed Volks Hall in Berlin would have been like adding floors into the building with an average height of just 1.63 meters each capable of fitting the average human inside and we could theoretically fit 40 million 800 31,000 people inside of here which would be enough to fit the entire populations of Denmark Norway Sweden Finland Iceland Greenland Estonia Latvia and Lithuania all combined and still have room left over for all of Serbia just for good measure that's the largest building in the world though and that's still not even 1% of the entire human population that could possibly fit inside of it to get to that point we need to construct a new building and if we did so what is the smallest possible size that it could be to fit all of us well at the time of making this video the world population is currently 7.4 78 billion people if we crammed people into the same density as we did inside the Boeing factory then we will require a volume of 2 point 4 3 6 billion cubic meters or 2.4 3 6 cubic kilometers the building would be a cube with sides of 1.3 for 6 kilometers and length at a height of 1346 meters this seems big but placed in downtown New York City it would actually look like this inside of which you can actually fit every single human being alive today the tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa at nearly 830 meters high but the tallest building under construction that will be done in 2020 is the Jeddah Tower which will be much higher when finished at 1008 meters only 338 meters short of our mega cube the base of the cube would only be about five times larger than the Tesla Giga factory as well so building the cube is certainly within the realm of possibility and if it was built the entire human race alive today all 7.47 eight billion of us could all fit inside of a building that would only take around half an hour to jog around so thank you very much for watching this video I must now take the time to thank my incredible sponsor the great courses plus the great courses plus is a subscription on-demand video learning service where you can subscribe to and watch unlimited top-notch courses that are taught by brilliant Ivy League professors as well as experts from National Geographic the Smithsonian the Culinary Institute of America and hundreds of other extremely qualified individuals they offer an unlimited access to thousands of different lectures over pretty much anything that you could possibly ever be interested in if you enjoyed the video that you just watched then I would strongly recommend the lectures on population growth that are a part of their economics and finance courses they 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family of Falcon rockets developed solely by SpaceX it stands 21 metres high and was capable of carrying over 500 kilograms of payload to low Earth orbit for its time this was the most important event in spaceflight history 500 kilograms isn't much but this was the start of everything it created the roadmap necessary towards a future of cheaper and more reliable space travel that day that first successful flight was what single-handedly saved SpaceX from extinction after the first three failed attempts SpaceX was on life support the 100 million dollars that was put into SpaceX was all gone if this fourth flight hadn't succeeded SpaceX most likely would have gone under and all the things you're seeing them do today would have never happened I messed up the first three launches first three launches failed unfortunately the fourth launch which was the that was the last money that we had we thought the one that fourth launch worked or it would have been that would have been it for for SpaceX simply putting something in orbit is one of the hardest tasks there is and all these failures show how challenging the process really is they had done it and it saved everything on December 23rd 2008 NASA awarded commercial contracts out to private spaceflight companies 19 of which went to a company called orbital sciences while 12 went to SpaceX the contract was valued at over 1.6 billion dollars from this SpaceX was saved and they boomed in a good way this time in 2010 SpaceX developed dragon and yet again may the world's first commercially built spacecraft to be launched and recovered successfully from orbit the Dragon spacecraft is the future of manned space travel it can deliver not only cargo but is also capable of carrying up to seven passengers to Earth orbit and even beyond also in 2010 a new addition to the Falcon family would be introduced the Falcon 9 was made with reusability in mind it's a two-stage rocket with nine Merlin engines that's over three times the size of the Falcon 1 both of these the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon capsule were launched together for the first time in December 2010 a year and a half later they were sending dragon to the International Space Station becoming yet again the first private spacecraft to dock at the ISS since then they've been doing routine resupply missions to the ISS funded by NASA so far they've done over 18 resupply missions with only one failure and they have no plans of stopping with all the success of the Dragon spacecraft let's not forget about the Falcon 9 itself after years of work in 2014 the first test flight of the Falcon 9 reusable took place the rocket is the same as any other Falcon 9 but now the rocket was capable of lifting off of the ground launching into this guy over 250 metres and after hovering turned back to the launch pad in one piece after more testing they decided to try and test these for real but just as the Falcon 1 it didn't get that great of a start [Music] but you can only mess something up so many times before it starts to go your way five four three two [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] for the first time we had reusable rockets and space flight was changed forever SpaceX on a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket had successfully launched 11 satellites into orbit around the earth and returned the first stage back to launch pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Florida just four months later in April 2016 they made history yet again Falcon 9 launch dragon on a cargo resupply mission to the ISS for NASA and for the first time landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 back on earth on a drone ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean SpaceX that proved that they could not only land a rocket back on land but also with extreme precision on a barge in the middle of the ocean that's less than a hundred square kilometres in size these launches are quite literally changing the world each and every time but let's get bigger the Falcon Heavy is an engineering masterpiece tens of thousands of hours of work years of innovation all with one goal in mind carrying humans into space returning them to the moon and even beyond the liftoff thrust of the Falcon Heavy is the same as 18 Boeing 747 aircrafts going at full power all at once to even try and compare the two is embarrassing the first stage of the rocket is composed of three different Falcon 9 cores with a total of 27 Merlin engines all firing simultaneously it's essentially like you're launching three different rockets at once and making sure that they all work together shortly after liftoff the center core slows down to conserve fuel while the two side cores use almost all their fuel saving only a portion of it once the fuel is exhausted about halfway through the flight the side boosters separate and return back to the launch pad for a simultaneous landing as for the center core it's used to push the payload into orbit it will be going too fast to return back to Cape Canaveral so once it's completed this mission 8:2 will return to Earth but not on land it will land on a barge approximately 1,300 kilometers off the coast of Florida one rocket one launch three different landings the space shuttle that NASA used from 1972 to 2011 cost approximately sixty thousand dollars for each kilogram of material to be sent into orbit the Falcon Heavy can do the same thing but for just 1,300 nothing else even comes close actually with the ability to lift over 64,000 kilograms a mass greater than a 737 jet with passengers luggage crew and fuel the Falcon Heavy can lift over double what the next closest competitor can do at a third of the cost if there's any rocket that's currently being manufactured in the modern age that escape it while sending humans into deep space it's the Falcon Heavy it's the most powerful rocket in the world currently in use and the fact that you can save and reuse over half of it makes it the most efficient rocket ever made reusable rockets are a necessity why in order to live on other planets the only way that will be feasible for the masses is to reduce the cost of spaceflight drastically right now the Falcon Heavy costs about 90 million dollars per launch if we can engineer these rockets to have a lifespan of a hundred launches and we're looking at under a million dollars per launch compared this to the Saturn 5 in 1969 which in today's money caused a few billion dollars per launch and you'll start to see the power of reusability just the first stage of the rocket accounts for over 75 percent of the total cost the fuel used on a falcon 9 launch is cheap when compared to the price tag of the rocket coming in that only around 250 thousand dollars per launch or about 0.3 percent of the total cost a Boeing 737 costs around a hundred million dollars on average compared to the Falcon Heavy at around 90 million it's essentially the same now imagine that every time we take a flight around the world on one of these planes we destroyed it afterwards imagine that every time we drove to work or school we had to destroy the car but yet when it comes to space flight rockets tend to fly once and only once despite the rocket itself being the majority of the cost this doesn't make much sense looking back on history reusability is the common denominator when it comes to widespread access to anything if cars couldn't be refilled and taken on multiple trips he would own them if airplanes were all simply one-way flights and couldn't be reused no one would be flying imagine having a rocket with humans that could be launched sent to orbit returned to the surface refueled and then launched again multiple times in the same day this is the key to affordable space travel all we have to do is perfect it once perfected an even bigger rocket and development by SpaceX will revolutionize the way we travel to be a far more big Falcon rocket will be over 118 meters high it's over two and a half times as strong as the Falcon Heavy it's a spacecraft through seven engines on top of a booster named super-heavy with 31 more Raptor engines it's capable of carrying over a hundred thousand kilograms of material not only into low-earth orbit but to Mars as well if a base is set up on Mars it could refuel and then go even further than that but the bfr comes starship it's just the top part of the bfr instead of putting payloads in orbit or sending us on deep-space missions it can also be used for travel on earth starship is a system that will bring some of the shortest travel times humanly possible you will be able to reach anywhere on earth in under one hour imagine the commercial uses for this you could work anywhere in the world and have a commute shorter than you would today you could order a package and have it sent to you from across the world in hours visiting friends and family would be easy and the term long-distance starts to lose its meaning the designs of the bfr changed year after year when working on revolutionary ideas chances are you're not going to get it right on the first try historically SpaceX is the biggest example of that but when you realize that the starship itself is more powerful than the Falcon Heavy the investments in rocket technology will start to become apparent with space flight reusability is the only way we can ever even think about leaving earth and venturing anywhere else without it cost will remain too high and the dreams of going anywhere else but here will remain just that a dream the SpaceX are the ones leading the charge the the ones who are tackling the problems that nobody else will while governments across the world push their space agencies to the sides private companies will rise up these are the ones who are building the future of our species these are the ones who are reading the interests of space travel in everyone's minds and these are the ones who will fill in the gaps and go even further beyond what anyone else in the world is doing if you're uncertain about the future of SpaceX I 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i hate cable management so much oh dear wires thick or thin you've been with me since the beginning i watched you grow from kilobits to megabits then finally into gigabits sweet sweet gigabits but the world is changing and i feel it's time to admit i've been seeing someone else logitech the sponsor of this video wishes to remove my copper bindings freeing me forever from tangled feet knocking over my drinks and wait who am i kidding i have always hated you wires i've just been too lazy to dump your ass that is until now no no i actually do still have to do this [Music] the first rule of cable management is of course to clean everything up we've got about an hour until when show so you're gonna see the speed version of that we're gonna be unplugging everything moving stuff around so now is a great time to declutter the workspace and clean my desk and peripherals if i was a lazy boy i could just toss my keyboard into the dishwasher like we did you guys can go check that video out i don't think anyone's gonna warranty your keyboard after it's been through such uh an ordeal but they all did work so of course though for me since part of the video is the logitech sponsorship i'm actually going to be replacing not just my keyboard but also my mouse mouse pad and even my headphones we're starting of course with the g915 tkl i've been enamored with this one ever since my unboxing over on short circuit it uses logitech's lightspeed technology that means that it performs as well as a wired device or better it uses their gl switches that are available in two different configurations there's a clicky one and there's a tactile one personally i prefer the tactile one just because i don't want anything to get picked up in my microphone but both of them share the characteristics that they're both fast and accurate at half of the height of normal key switches making the entire keyboard as logitech puts it impossibly thin there's per key rgb media buttons a scroll wheel and it gets 40 hours of battery life and unlike my old keyboard look how much more space i'm gonna have i'm finally going 10 keyless i'm ready to give up my number pad because quite honestly i almost never do work at home anymore now my mouse um i had not actually intended to upgrade it's already a g pro wireless but hey the g pro wireless super light is here and actually hold on a second does this feel like there's anything up here super light does it actually feel like an empty box to you though no they told me it's in here they told me it's it it's definitely in here okay wow have you felt this thing yet yeah it did a short circuit on it oh really it is super light it weighs in at just 63 grams which is roughly the weight of two rechargeable double a batteries it has much larger slippy pads compared to the regular g pro wireless you get 70 hours on a single charge and all it costs you is giving up your rgb which i don't know man the g pro is already pretty light all right you know what i'm gonna give it a try i guess i should sort of explain what power play is for the uninitiated if you get one of these little wireless charging module my jigs from logitech you pop that in your mouse it comes as a kit and then you get one of these power play mats it actually comes with either a cloth or a hard surface that goes on top of it the idea is that your mouse charges continuously while you're using it and you never have to remember to charge it which is pretty flippin sick i came up with the brilliant idea of putting a different mouse pad over top of it i have revealed my secrets to you i've been using that mousepad for a long time it was time to time to change it out oh that actually lines up pretty nicely you know what i might go for the 30 mil ltt northern lights desk pad for this lttstore.com one of my worst defenders though isn't even the mouse and keyboard it's my hd 600 headphones they come with this super crazy long wire like it actually goes all the way wrapping around the table in the back and stuff and there's this much left and i have never bothered to replace it and i constantly get tangled on it and actually get stuck in my chair super annoying now i might end up still needing these for monitoring my stream because to my knowledge there's no way to plug a usb headphone into the go xlr but at least for gaming it would be nice to not have to deal with them so that's where the pro x wireless headset comes in it uses logitech's same lightspeed wireless interface it's got 50 millimeter drivers rated for 20 hours of use at a time 15 meters of range which given that i will never be going any further than here from my desk should be fine just fine and perhaps most importantly for me they have completely redesigned the fit compared to other logitech gaming headsets and it's like man these are cushy and comfortable now and they've got blue voice mic filters so you can reduce noise add compression cool stuff like that that's new since logitech's acquisition of blue a little while back of course you might have noticed in all of this that my desk has not gotten significantly tidier the cold hard truth is that there are still a lot of things that just can't go without cables you got your monitor you got your streaming gear you got your audio gear uh thunderbolt so what about those wires time to manage them in one hour all right let's go my biggest worry is not that in my hurry i will do a bad job but in my hurry i will make horrible horrible mistakes because i am planning to go you know one step above like i want to drill holes in the table and run like my power play cable into the table and then under the table if i put it in the wrong spot then the ergonomics of this desk are going to be bad forever when's the last time i even used speakers but then i rest my feet on my subwoofer really get rid of them yeah good stuff this thing has served me so well for so many years though i'm getting sentimental about a subwoofer do you know how much comfort my feet have gotten from sitting on this i'm just noticing that there are one two three power cables down here that are not plugged into anything what is this i never ran the displayport cable that my wife needs for her station um back to the server room from the back of this so i just have like a rando long display port running here oh shoot i hate cable management so much why am i even doing this ah oh i'm gonna be so dirty there's blown cellulose everywhere david it's everywhere it's the first time i had to go out into it look how they massacred my boy look at that we finally got the plate on the wall the way it's supposed to be like it's supposed to wait i knocked over all my cable management stuff i should just call this video linus falling apart for 15 minutes should i just start drilling holes in the desk yeah throw away no time like the present right fortunately this is a crappy particle board table that worked out okay sweet now i just gotta do that a bunch more times let's get the monitor back on the desk because i can't even like i can't even visualize where everything needs to go until i got the monitor let's go another hole right there and we'll run everything through that i actually cannot believe that i am drilling holes in my desk how does this track work what do you do with all the bricks okay so we'll do like that length this is a dull saw and that's how the dinosaurs died out all their backs broke all right the point of these is the cables can kind of enter and exit anywhere you want at these little like gaparoos this stuff honestly seems pretty useful i'm just kind of taking some of my cables and stuffing them up in here one of the little life hacks that i've tried to use a number of times over the years but not with much success is hot gluing power bricks to the bottom side of your table i've found that even if you use like the industrial strength hot glue it just doesn't hold so having some kind of like race or bracket or something on the bottom of the table and then cable tying the power brick to it that's the only way that i've had success ah this cable tie ripped should have got it from lttstore.com just dropped a power brick on my face there we go okay that is strapped nice and tight no oh i started drilling and that's right where my stupid power bar that i just locked in place is i think only one way to find out oh no don't do that shout i think i hit it oh i drilled into it a bit this is fine because i have a slightly larger spade bit great the problem is that when you've already drilled a hole with a different spade bit using another spade bit to enlarge it not a great experience oh wow i just i can't hold it steady uh okay you know what am i better off going from the bottom or from the top from the bottom there's gonna be like an exit wound but from the top this thing could walk all over the place okay i'm going top down i'm going top down here we go um okay maybe i could okay what did i just hit okay well it clears it recalling that good for the mount for my usb hub and i get to put all of my wireless accessory dongles in it what am i rolling over you know what it doesn't matter now where do i want the go xlr because i'm about to drill a big old hole here oh metal shoot oh no oh it's so close we're going in at an angle oh i thought i cracked the display stop it i thought i had a grip on it no wow the display was stronger than the the plastic from the drill came off okay please tell me it's not cracked i won't be able to tell until i actually have an image this thick boy xlr cable here we go oh it's so tight uh where's my drill i'm widening it we're going wider ouch okay come on i think that's funny do you little one this is what madness looks like all the cable management all the cable management will be right foot liners i mean it feels crazy to say it but are we there can you see any of these cables from back there no hey well that is the goal isn't it no offense dyson but this is a job for a real man's vacuum with leopard print now we find out if i cracked my monitor panel or at least we should i never actually turned the computer off did i oh i did oh okay i thought it was supposed to be working right now this is working now hey this thing is really light wow holy crap that is crazy uh okay man it's almost like unnerving hold on i haven't tried these yet are these just gonna like straight up work for me here how cool would that be pro x wireless gaming headset just flipping works man wireless technology has come a long freaking way all right discord it involved drilling many holes in my desk um because like some things yeah some things need wires luke some things need wires even wireless it's all a lie because it has to charge somehow uh okay good you got my webcam feed now all right sick let's uh let's do wan show real quick styles here shall we okay but first big thank you to you guys for watching big thank you to logitech for sponsoring this video i think that the before and after kind of tells the whole story here that looks so much better needs a little bit more vacuuming but i think you guys get the point i'm going to do that we're going to get one show started and you guys can check out the links to where to get all this good logitech wireless goodness down in the video description oh yeah if you didn't get it for christmas now's the time i need water


something has just announced the galaxy s 20 ultra and it's an absolute mammoth of a smartphone we're talking 16 gigs of ram and a camera with a hundred times zoom it's not just better than any flagship phone they've ever released before it is a tier above you could almost call it a super phone so today we're answering the big question does the Galaxy S 20 ultra destroy the iPhone 11 Pro max I think the results might surprise you the first thing you'll notice putting both these two devices side-by-side is the ultra is an absolute unit of a phone it's massive for most people's hands the iPhone 11 pro max is a large device but Samsung takes that and then adds about 5% more height and almost 10% more thickness to be honest though I don't think that in itself is a problem it's large enough that you can forget about it being a one-handed experience but as long as you go in with that as an expectation you'll spend more time at gawping at the Magnificent display you get then worrying about how you're gonna hold it but more on that in a minute what is weird though is that even though Samsung's phone towers above apples in size it's actually lighter and I'm gonna be honest feels a little bit cheaper while Samsung has actually upgraded the metal they use in their phone rim from 7000 series aluminium to something that's now 1.2 times stronger Apple uses stainless steel which has many times the mechanical strength of aluminium anyways it'll be far more resistant to dents and scratches plus I just like the density of the material the iPhones weight just makes it feel a touch more premium and well it is a little early for me to try it myself if we dropped both phones on their sides my money would be on the iPhone surviving with far less damage that said though whilst it only feels okay I think the s20 ultra looks fantastic compared to the standard s xx which visually looks not too distinct from the company's own mid-range phones this beefy camera module makes the ultra look whoa badass when you're holding it you feel like you're holding cutting-edge technology I love that idea but I will say that the design is a little Sheltie compared to the iPhone it's got an enormous camera module with text just highlight its new space zoom feature but the iPhone is a little more understated classier its matte finish gets instant plus points for me because of its ability to resist fingerprints and avoid that kind of stickiness you can sometimes get with glass camera module is protected by Gorilla Glass six but its sheer size means that it's gonna cause major wobble if you put a phone on a flat surface oh yeah and both phones have ip68 water and dust resistance ratings and neither has a headphone jack slight bummer yeah but Wireless is where we had it I think having a headphone jack on a mainstream flagship 2020 smartphone is gonna be a rarity anyways so design and build wise I would slightly side with Apple but now is where the tables start to turn and by the way I'm launching a pretty massive giveaway starting today of one Galaxy S 20 ultra and/or galaxy s 20s it's free and international and all rules are going to be in the description I'm gonna say it now the display on the galaxy s 20 ultra is the best display on a smartphone period I could just leave it at that but it is better than the iPhones in so many ways that I think we should talk about it for starters what they have in common is that both use OLED technology for deep contrast and they both have an almost identical brightness of 800 nits across the whole display but then well the s20 ultras panel is just colossal in size we say that every single year because somehow each generation these screens just keep getting bigger and this time round you're looking at a whopping at six point nine inches then why not sound like a big jump versus the six point five inch iPhone screen but in terms of screen area that's a difference you'll feel Samsung's tiny hole punch camera which is 40% smaller than past generations combined with tiny bezels all the way around means that the Ultra feels almost borderless and futuristic compared to Apple's large notch and thick black rim now back when the iPhone 10 came out which is the first time we saw Apple use this front design we thought it looked slick and futuristic because fair enough up against Galaxy s8 that was Samsung's equivalent at the time it was but since then whilst Apple is using the same design Samsung's has come so far and to put a number on it the s20 ultra screen to body ratio sits at around 90 percent versus Apple's approximately 84 what is interesting though speaking of borders is that the s20 lineup is the first time Samsung has backtracked on curved displays compared to the s10 and other previous flagships these new displays look almost flat there's still a slight curve which is more than you can say for the iPhone but it's nowhere near as Atticus before I'd say it's fair enough the curves didn't really have any functional benefit and I don't think there'll be that many people that missed them there is more to this ultras displayed oh it's a quad HD plus panel giving it around 30% more pixels than the iPhones display but the best bit is that it's refresh rate is double whilst the 11 prose panel refreshes are pretty normal 60 times per second Samsung's does 120 and it changes things you know how Apple has always had this reputation for buttery smoothness that it's Android rivals just haven't been able to replicate well the s20 completely will reverse that trend for me using both side by side for the first time as samsung felt like the more fluid experience and it's not just that Samsung's display refreshes twice as fast but it also has twice the touch response rate that means that it's faster at registering your touches which makes everything just feel more instant and responsive I should clarify here the display on the iPhone 11 pro max is top shelf but the display on the Ultra is unlike anything I've ever seen before now I mentioned Apple's sizable knotch and so while we're here it's worth noting that it's not there for show it has all the sensors needed for face ID which if you've never used it works incredibly and if you have you'll know what I mean just by scanning your face face ID is secure enough to make bank transactions autofill your passwords and so on Samsung's face scanner is fast but it only uses a 2d camera so it's more of a tool for convenience than it is a safety measure the phone does though have an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner pretty much the same as the one seen on the note 10 last year now just before we get to cameras which is arguably the main event of this new s20 ultra there is something else I always like to keep track of with new phones processing power and what there are a lot of different variables at play here the main takeaway is that both are kind of on par depending on your region Samsung uses either the Exynos 990 or the snapdragon 865 chipset so versus last year's s10 that's around a 15% faster CPU a 25% faster GPU and an AI engine that's at least twice as good but that actually puts it slightly behind is the a13 Bionic chip in the iPhone there will be some tasks the Samsung does better but for most games and apps I'd expect them to run a tiny bit faster on life something that does kind of make up for this though with an absolutely absurd amount of RAM 12 gigabytes on the base model and over to 16 gigs and when you factor in that this is the fastest round we've ever seen on phone the performance ceiling here is sky-high the iPhone by comparison only has four gigs so something will definitely have an edge when you're juggling heavy tasks but just bear in mind that because iOS is optimized to not need as much RAM the difference won't be as noticeable as it sounds on paper I've tried opening apps flicking between them and there was a tangible difference between the performance of this s20 ultra and even Samsung's phones from just a few months ago but something I actually noticed even more was just how fantastic the haptics are here the ultra uses the same vibration motors as the Galaxy Note Templar it but it's been further tuned to offer what I'm gonna say is the most satisfying physical response to touches you've seen on a phone I really would recommend you go into store you try the phone because I would rank it above Apple in this aspect ok then it's no secret that the camera is a very important part of the s20 ultras proposition I mean this is quite possibly the largest camera module I've ever seen so to start with a side-by-side looking at specs Samsung's camera makes the iPhones look a bit like a toy but we have to be careful here because the specs can be a little bit misleading its main camera has a 108 megapixel resolution versus 12 on the iPhone it has a 48 megapixel telephoto camera with support for 100 times space zoom versus the iPhones Macs of 10 times zoom the ultra wide cameras then are almost identically SPECT with both having a white 120 degree field of view but on top of that Samsung has an additional in-depth vision sensor which the iPhone doesn't so on paper this kind of gives you the impression that these two phones are in completely different leagues like they're not even comparable and that is kind of the case but also not really so that main camera or 108 megapixels you can take 108 megapixel photos but most of the time you probably won't the benefit comes mainly because of something called pixel pinning there's quite a few fans out there that can do this they merge for smaller pixels into one bigger one to make those resulting pixels cleaner and more noise free well the s20 ultra uses something called Nonna binning converting not four but nine pixels into one and so whilst you do still end up with a 12 megapixel photo from this 100 an 8 megapixel camera the size of those pixels and the resulting quality is three times greater than the iPhone so Samsung's 12 megapixel photos have an incredibly crisp finish and this translates to it's night mode too when you take a nightmare shot now you can hold your phone still for eight seconds and capture way more light than you're used to with a Samsung Apple's night mode is really good but Samsung's is now better in my opinion for the first time you can actually record 8k video at a proper frame rate it's only 24 frames per second which means you'll definitely benefit from sticking it on a tripod when capturing but just the fact that you can shoot a K video is staggering 8k is four times the resolution of 4k and to give you some idea this shot right here is a still image taken from an 8k video shot on this phone and just this screen grab alone is a 33 megapixel image in its own right that you can then zoom all the way in - aside from the low frame rate though this 8k footage also takes quite a long time to render on these new phones before you can watch it back in 8k so it might not be a future you keep on what about that zoom though a hundred times that sounds almost unbelievable and it kind of it's the numbers don't tell the full story see in my briefing samsung only talked about their hybrid zoom capabilities not once did they actually disclose the actual optical zoom value of the camera which is the figure we usually use to compare phones they say the phone can losslessly zoom in 10 times but from what I can see the actual optical zoom range is only about four to five times now still impressive mind you and certainly Dwarfs the iPhones - times zoom but it does mean that if you were going to try zooming in a hundred times like it suggests doing right on the back of the phone most of that zoom is digital and the end result is just not going to be all that sharp and then you got the ultra wide which has seen some small but important improvements the field of view is now actually slightly smaller than past Samsung phones but has the benefit of almost none of that weird distorting fisheye effects that were used to seeing on ultra wide cameras and switching between the lenses on Samsung's phone no longer feels like switching between lenses which is something the iPhone has done really well from the start so as far as the user is concerned using these cameras on both phones just feels like using one camera but one with a whole load of options and that's how it should be some songs for additional sensor is just a depth camera meaning that when you take a portrait mode shot for example you're just getting a bit more information about how far away your background is the phone also has a 40 megapixel selfie camera versus Apple's 12 they're both very good and I should say at this point when it comes to cameras the battle is not won with hardware it's won with software and Samsung's camera software is catching up rapidly with apples but at the same time their hardware has just leapfrogged apples for something that is a great position to be in and speaking of software obviously with either of these two phones you're buying into a completely different smartphone ecosystem of course Android versus iOS in itself that could be an entire video but there's a couple of things worth noting with this comparison in particular Samsung's phone ships with Android 10 combined with their 1 UI 2.1 skin and this delivers quick share it's one touch sharing between Samsung phones and tablets finally an Android equivalent to Apple's airdrop there are a couple of other smaller things like help samsung has increased the vibrance of their icons but largely not a huge shift from the software you'd find on the note 10 last year the iPhone 11 pro max looks like an iPhone and that's either a great thing for you or not such a great thing you'll benefit from a lot of iOS is traditional advantages like getting a lot of games and apps a little early you're generally getting less bloatware on the phone compared to the Samsung which comes with a whole suite of apps you'll probably never touch and buy phones have fantastic integration with Mac's if your Mac user plus what you lose in the lack of customization you gain in software support the very nature of Apple only releasing a few phones per year means that they can really focus on delivering updates you can expect a new iPhone to stay up to date for around five years after launch whereas I'd only give the s20 old travell to now just before we conclude here there's a couple of things I want to touch on firstly that I love the fact that companies are finally paying attention to battery no matter how great a phone is it's camera if performance if the battery's dead it's useless so with that in mind something has fitted their device with their largest battery ever I believe five thousand milliamp hours and Apple has done theirs at 3969 that obviously sounds like a clear win for Samsung but I can tell you right now with apples battery optimization and the fact that Samsung's new display will literally suck battery like a vampire this is anyone's game and you're gonna have to wait for the full battery comparison to see the true winner so do you subscribe if you want to see that coming fairly soon both phones ship with decent but not all that impressive Chargers out the box you get a 25 watt charger with the Samsung and you get an 18 with the iPhone it's good that the s20 ultra can theoretically support 45 watt charging that's very fast but it's a bit of a shame that when you buy a phone at this price you have to pay extra to get a charger that can do that I also spend some time with the speakers on this new phone and they're good pretty much the same deal as with past Samsung flagships you've got the main chunk of audio that comes from the bottom firing speaker but then also through this sliver of an earpiece at the top I would lean slightly towards the iPhone in terms of overall speaker quality but then Samsung is leagues ahead in connectivity to start as it has a hybrid dual SIM slot by default which means that you can have one sim and a microSD card at the same time up to an extra terabyte of storage and 5g literally no Apple phone as I've now supports 5g but with the ultra you're getting pretty much the most complete package of 5g connectivity even for wireless charging Samsung's phone can wirelessly charge faster than Apple's and it can reverse Wireless charge other phones that's something that has not yet come to the iPhone 11 pro so bringing this all together where do we stand well the s20 ultra is undoubtedly phenomenal it is so many new and impressive things all at once but the one thing that will count against it is the fact that for the first time ever Samsung is more expensive out of the final confirmed prices of time of filming right now but I'm told that you can end up paying as much as 200 to $300 more for our galaxy s 20 ultra over an 11 pro max to be really honest though I think that's fair game what you're getting and it leads me to quite an interesting conclusion for quite a few years now my smartphone recommendation has been if you're on a Samsung phone buy the latest Samsung if you're on an iPhone buy the latest iPhone because neither company's phones have been so far ahead of the others that it makes sense to go through all the hassle of switching ecosystems but the s20 ultra now offers so much more than its iphone counterpart that for some users this might make sense it's camera it's display its storage we're talking about a phone that can have 1.5 terabytes of data stored on it with a micro SD card slot it is just a nuts phone and so what I'm saying is for the first time this is a device I can recommend to not just Samsung and Android enthusiasts but even iPhone ones too it is that good if you enjoyed this video don't forget to enter the giveaway all the rules are in the description and with that being said my name is Erin this is mr. who's the boss I'll catch you in the next one


[Music] [Music] this video was sponsored by card Kingdom you can buy all the cards in this video at card Kingdom com hello everyone I need to hone it's Friday and that means it's time for another MTG top-10 this week we're looking at an entire card type this is something I've done already for things like artefact sorceries and planeswalkers and today we're looking at enchantments this list was the most work-intensive one I've ever done because so many cards were eligible for it there are over 2,000 enchantments and all of magic and in this video we're going to talk about that 10 enchantments that have left the biggest mark on Magic's competitive history before we get started a quick reminder and how I score these lists pro 2 or mythic championship legacy and vintage Championship events are all worth 2 points and a Grand Prix top 8 is worth 1 point before we get into our actual top 10 there is one notable exclusion I think we need to talk about because I don't think a video about the enchantments that have had the biggest impact on the game would be complete without it that card is of course necro Potence while it only has 35 points and the cutoff for this list ended up being 49 I think an argument can be made that this enchantment was one of the most impactful enchantments ever heck maybe I should just make an entire video about Nick mmm basically capable of drawing you as many cards as you want every turn necro Potence was absurdly powerful but it was a card that people almost universally panned when they first saw it you have to skip your draw face and pay life to draw cards that hardly seemed worth it to people according to the major gaming magazines of the time anyway but this card really drove home the point of card advantage and brought it front and center in magic in a way that it just hadn't been before it sounds strange to us today to think that people didn't value card advantage since it is such a huge part of the game now but people really didn't know how powerful it was if they did how could something like ancestral recall have been printed a 1 mana draw three spell if people including designers understood the power of card advantage well necro ponens made people understand that in a new way it was worth skipping your draw step it was worth losing life to do it it was worth having to wait until the next in step to get to draw the card and it was worth the risk of your opponent blowing up necro opponents before you could get your new cards this was especially true for aggressive decks who could just unload their hand on the board and then start using necro opponents to make sure they continue to have threats your opponent used a board sweeper no problem pay seven life and draw seven new cards necro Potence powered aggro decks were the first thing to emerge and emergence they did in the standard format of 1996 and 1997 this is a period often known as black summer because the entire standard format was warped around decks that ran necro Potence and decks that tried specifically to beat necro Potence in 1997 necropotence decks also emerged and extended where they dominated between 1997 and 2000 it was then that Wizards finally took action in 2001 necro Potence was banned and extended and remained on the banned list for the next decade until extended ended in 2011 they also banned it in legacy even though no one was playing it there at the time just to make sure no one ever would and it was restricted in vintage since 2001 when the ban hammer came down across multiple formats necro Potence has been quiet with the one exception being a vintage championship top eight in 2013 I think it is probably safe to say that without wizards taking action necro Potence would have made the list and even though it does and it definitely needs to be mentioned in a video about the best enchantments ever all right now let's move to the list proper to number 10 and number 10 we have the only legendary enchantment to make the list and the only double-faced card - and that search for s content which transforms into us contest son can ruin also the newest card to make the list search first Khanda is part of a cycle of double-faced legendary enchantments that flip into legendary lands and of that cycle search for us contest proven the most powerful at least thus far while it is on its enchantment side it gives you some nice card selection while also helping you get closer and closer to transforming it into us Kanta the sunken ruin once you get there you get a land that gives you both card selection and card advantage it has had a lot of success in standard primarily in control decks like blue white control and Geoff Skye approach it also saw play in god pharaohs gifts decks which had the graveyard synergy and wanted to put cards in their graveyard so it worked extra well there in standard since almond get rotated out it still sees play in is it and just guy control and picked up a top eight at the last pro tour it has already found homes in other formats too such as in Grix control lantern control in blue.white control in modern search for as Conda also works nicely in legacy miracle deck since it gives you a bit of control over what's on top of your library overall the search is still seeing a lot of play and in the next few years it could really solidify its position on this list instead of just barely making it like it did today at number 9 we have a car that can completely transform a game of magic and that's stand still once you play this magic turns into a game of chicken where both players have to decide whether or not they want to give their opponent three cards or if they can afford to continue to not cast spells generally the person playing stand still can take most advantage of it since their deck is built with standstill in mine meanwhile standstill effectively shuts the opponent down or forces them to give you insane card advantage it's a bit of playing both block in standard blue gained mana stacks and block like running it in the sideboard in standard it picked up 1 Grand Prix top eight in the sideboard of a psycho tog deck but it's on no play in extended basically this is one of those cards that it took people a little while to figure out how to make use of it once they did though it became quite powerful that's why it sees a lot of play today in both legacy and vintage its most popular home in both formats has been the pseudo eponymous land still deck this deck is loaded with things that aren't technically spells but can still win you the game this includes creature lands hence land still as well as cards with effects when you cycle them such as decree of justice this deck countering your turn one play and then dropping a standstill on turn two is utterly devastating because you were then faced with a horrible option of letting your opponent draw three cards or beating you to death with Mishra's Factory it's a pretty interesting deck and one that has managed to be relevant and legacy consistently since 2005 it's going to continue to be relevant in eternal format so it may have a shot at moving up this list and number 8 we have a card that was part of a powerful combo in both standard and modern until it got banned in modern and that's of course splintered twin when combined with creatures with an enter the battlefield ability like pester might or deceiver Ex arts splinter twin can create infinite copies of the creature with haste because each new pester might on taps the one with or on it and just keeps going what's more is pester might in deceiver ex Ark both also have flash so flashing one of them into play and turned three at the end of your opponent's turn and then I'm tapping and putting the twin on it turn four was a pretty common play pattern decks running the splinter twin combo we're often more blue-red control decks that can beat you in a variety of ways with splinter twin being the route they take when they have hard to disrupt it at all splinter twin had some success in standard but there it could only be played alongside deceiver X Ark making the combo a little less consistent this led to but only getting a single point in that standard format modern is where splinter twin really shine where it was one of the format's top 2 your decks between 2011 and 2015 when splinter twin got banned a splitter twin deck even managed to top 8 the 2015 legacy championship but it never really became a fixture in that format since being banned and modern splinter twin has not found a home anywhere and ultimately its position on this list could be in danger especially since standstill and search for its conta are both seeing plenty of play right now at number 7 we have the oldest card to make the list and that's Sylvan library as you can see this card came out way back in 1994 in legends as you can also see the wording on the card is incredibly confusing and kind of hilarious I mean it says you lose four lives how about some quality control anyway let's look at a more recent reprint where this card actually does make a little more sense all right there we go so yes Sylvan library is an incredibly powerful card it lets you draw two extra cards a turn and yeah sure you do have to pay for life for each of them if you want to keep them in your hand but even if you choose not to it gives you some powerful card selection since you can also choose to put the card back on top that you draw normally the card advantage this card can grant you is frequently going to be worth a life sort of like we mentioned with necro Potence earlier people did not immediately realize how strong this card was as a result Sylvan library didn't see any play until two years after it was printed after people realized the power of card advantage thanks to necro Potence at first saw play in green white aggro decks that finished in the top eight at pro two in New York in 1996 this was a good place for the library aggro decks of course want to win the game quickly and providing you with extra cards is a good way to swarm your opponent soon thereafter it started seeing play and extended primarily in the oath of Druids combo deck another deck that wanted to win quickly so going down on life didn't matter as much as finding your combo pieces by drawing the extra cards the eternal formats are where the library has had the most success though in Legacy it's primarily seen play in aggro decks like zoo jund and delvar in vintage it seemed play recently one of the decks that it's all play in way back in the 90s and that's an oath of druids Dec and number six we have the only mind-control effect to make the list and that's the Reg of disloyalty while it is obviously a pretty narrow mind-control effect since it can only steal creatures with converted mana cost two or less it is still an incredibly powerful version of this effect effects that steal creatures are powerful because they allow you to develop your board while taking away from your opponents it's almost like you're playing a creature that says when this ended is a battlefield destroy target creature and create a copy of it and yes this one is a narrow version of that effect but three mana to steal a to drop is still a great deal especially in formats that have powerful creatures that cost two or less like tarmogoyf delvar of Secrets and young Pyromancer at first I'll play in standard control decks and extended its I'll play in fairies and in prawn decks as you probably guessed from the examples of creatures it can steal that I gave you though it's done the most in modern format loaded with powerful two drops and number five we have the only multi-coloured enchantment to make the list and that's detention sphere detention sphere not only comes with a powerful exile effect that enchantment based removal spells frequently bring but it also exiles any copies of the car to your opponent might have this can be particularly strong against multiples or tokens especially tokens because those don't ever get to come back even if the sphere is destroyed it had three top eights at the block pro tour in espera controlled Exodus that was effective in standard two but it also stopped playing other control builds like band and Jess kind standard and modern it continues to see play today in blue.white and just guide control decks and number four we have an enchantment that turns out creatures and that's bitter blossom a powerful turn to play bitter blossom quickly fills the skies and makes spot removal horrible this one card gives you so many cards worth of value that losing one life every turn just doesn't matter you're going to win the race pretty easily since the bitter blossom also quickly gives you more than two Manas worth of power the power of this enchantment was further enhanced by the fact that faerie tribal decks were incredibly good and blocked standard and extended so most decks that ran this even got some extra value out of the creature type in blocked bitter blossom managed nine Grand Prix table eights all of them in Fury decks the majority of its appearances in standard were also in faerie decks but it also saw some success in black queen elves and black white tokens the card was incredibly dominant the best indication of which may be that at Worlds in 2008 seven of the top eight decks were running bitter awesome a pretty good sign that the card was just a bit too good for that standard environment it of course also saw play in the extended version of fairies when the modern format was created in 2011 bitter blossom was preemptively band because Wizards was concerned that would be too good for the format in 2014 it got unbanned and since then it hasn't been a dominant card but it has found some success in meta games where spot removal is heavily played you know cards like lightning bolt paths to exile and fatal push bitter blossom can really shine since being unbanned it has seen play index like jund affinity and then fine it has even had some modest success and legacy with most of its success coming more recently in grits as delvar and deaths shadow decks at number three we have the only enchantment creature to make the list and that's coarser of crew fix the coarser is probably my favorite card to have made the list I love value engines like this playing lands off the top of your library can sound unassuming at first but this is the kind of card that once you play with it it's clear just how powerful it is if you can play a land off the top of your library that effectively means you're drawing a card this piles up value in a hurry and over the course of the game it will give you several cards worth of value it doesn't hurt that it has nice defensive stats and also gains you life every time you play a land either it's a control players dream all of that added up to make the coursers see a lot of play is one of the best cards in its block and standard formats like bitter blossom the coarser saw an absurd amount of success at pro to our journey to necks in 2014 the block pro tour the courser was in seven of the top eight decks in standard its primary home was a deck loaded with the best cards in standard abzan mid range it also stopped playing devotion to green and salty whip these days coarser is seeing play and modern index like john scape shift and toolbox decks like collected company in court of calling and number two I've actually included three cards but that's because they are all heavily played sideboard hate cards and I didn't really want three of those taking up three spots on the list so I decided to talk about them together they are rest in peace which is the actual number two on the list in terms of its score stony silence which would have been number four and lay line of the void which would have been number five rest in peace is one of the best ways to hate on graveyards and non-rotating formats because it not only gets rid of everything already in the graveyard it makes it so that nothing else can go into it it has been a fixture in the sideboards and standard modern see and vintage stony silence meanwhile hates on artifact based decks especially in modern turns out most artifact heavy decks are pretty reliance on using their activated abilities while rest in peace' has seen a lot of play in several formats stony silence has been played the most in a single format in modern where it can really bother decks like affinity hardened scales lantern control and Tron turning off the abilities of cards like Ark bound ravager walking ballista and Codex shredder is pretty nice it has seen play in other formats like vintage and legacy but it does so much less frequently lay line of the void like rest in peace hates on graveyard strategies while it costs twice as much mana and dozen exile cards that were in the graveyard already when it comes into play the fact that can come down for free before the game even starts helps balance that out a little bit it also doesn't mess with your graveyard so if your deck is interested in doing that but you want to run graveyard hate in your sideboard ley line of the void is for you there weren't graveyard decks for it to hate on in standard or block but an extended it came along at the right time to combat the early dredge decks in modern it is run less frequently than rest in peace but recently has seen a bit more play as the graveyard focused Hollow one decks have started putting in their sideboard to combat the mirror and other graveyard decks in the format it also sees a fair bit of play in both legacy and vintage where there are plenty of degenerate graveyard strategies and at number one we have an enchantment that's a removal spell and that's oblivion ring while this wasn't the first version of this effect they ever saw for that you have to go back to the obscure and way more confusing ugly at oblivion ring has become the most iconic version of this effect leading to people calling any enchantment that exile something while it stays in play in Oblivion ring affect its flexibility to hit any type of permanent makes it very nice and that flexibility and efficiency has led to it seeing a ton of play since it was printed in 2007 it has seen play in every format that awards points in this video series except for vintage in block it was featured in kithkin aggro decks and modern it was seen in Tron and Eldrazi acro and extended it was featured in blue-white control and nya burn and legacy it has seen play in death and taxes and miracles standard though is where it has done the most this is in part because it was legal and standard for a really long time it was first printed in lorwyn but was also reprinted in magic 2012 and 2013 this means that it was legal for most of the standard formats between 2007 to 2013 and all of those standards it was a very useful removal spell and its ability to exile all kinds of permanence made it see a lot of play despite all of its success its position on this list may be somewhat vulnerable as since 2013 it has only added four points to its score cards behind it still seeing play regularly could overtake it at some point well that does it for this week's MTG top ten if you enjoyed this video don't forget to like it and share it so others can enjoy it too you want to make sure you catch future MTG top 10s don't forget to subscribe thanks for watching [Music]