Magic Fixes the Marvel Problem

Seth· Host0:00

[upbeat music] Hello everyone, and welcome to episode 589 of the MTG Goldfish Podcast. I'm Seth, probably better known as Seth Perel, and we have the full crew here this week. Kicking things off with the owner of MTG Goldfish, Richard. How are you this fine Monday, Richard?

Richard· Host0:22

Good morning, Seth. I'm running on fumes. [laughs] I stayed up all night playing Slay the Spire two.

Seth· Host0:27

[laughs] [laughs] Oh, may- I, I- May has sacrificed some sleep [laughs] to get some time to play ...

Richard· Host0:35

I, I, well, I gotta ask you, Richard, 'cause I've been playing that game a little bit. So we, we did a video together, like a team game for a Patreon video, but I've been playing a little for fun, too. Do you feel like the game is, like, super easy? Like, like- Well- I mean, is that- Okay, okay.

Seth· Host0:49

So the Pat- so the Patreon video coming up Wednesday, check that out, where it's me, Seth, Nietuch, and Tomer, and we're playing it for the first time, essentially, except Nietuch.

Richard· Host0:59

Yeah.

Seth· Host0:59

He knows what he's doing. So my takeaway from that was multiplayer, super easy. Single player, 'cause I never played Slay the Spire one, I spent I don't know how many runs, 10, 15, 20 runs, like getting dunked on, getting absolutely nowhere, and I'm like, "Is this a Souls game? Like, why is it so ridiculously hard?" [laughs] "How do people enjoy this crap?" But then it clicked. Like, once I, once I figured out how the game is actually played, because counterintuitively, it has nothing to do with cards really, right? [laughs] So once you