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InThe99 cards. Yeah, we've

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pulled a good list of them this

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time. Of course, we can't talk about all

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of the cards in the set. Not all of them are

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going to be relevant to commander players. There

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are some very narrow cards that

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came out in the variety of products associated

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with Thunder Junction, which we'll talk about. So

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we're not gonna talk about the ones that are

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for very specific strategies, like deserts or if they're

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like outlaw specific cards. There are some very good

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cards, but if you're building that kind of deck,

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you probably know that they're already good in your

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deck. So we'll talk about the ones that

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are a little bit harder to evaluate. Or might

4:22

be just more broad in their application. We don't need

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to tell you like, hey, put

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the good plus one plus one counter cards in your plus

4:29

one plus one counter deck. Yeah, these are

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a little bit trickier and a little bit

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more generically powerful. And there are a lot

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of them in this set. We're

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gonna be talking about all of the

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cards that can go in the 99

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from the Commander decks, from the main

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set, from the big score,

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which is their like supplemental

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epilogue set. We're not

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gonna be covering reprints or anything like that because you already know

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if those cards are good. But there are

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like three different products and hopefully we will try

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and name what product we can use as well.

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Where you can find them because we know it's

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not particularly intuitive. And

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if you go on Card Kingdom, it makes it easy. You just search for

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the name of card and you don't have to care where it's at. Doesn't

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matter what that is. But

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if you want to pick up a pre-con, we'll tell you

5:14

what pre-con it comes in. Like this first one, which

5:17

comes in the Desert Bloom Commander deck.

5:19

This is the Naya Deserts one.

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It's Angel of Indemnity. Six

5:23

mana, five and a white, for a five,

5:26

five, flying lifelink angel warrior. When

5:28

Angel of Indemnity enters the battlefield, return

5:30

target permanent with mana value four or

5:32

less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

5:35

And it also has Encore, six

5:37

white, white. If you haven't played

5:39

with Encore, it says exile this card from your

5:41

graveyard. For each opponent, create a token copy

5:43

that attacks that opponent this turn. If able,

5:46

they gain haste, sacrifice them at the beginning

5:48

of the next end step, activate

5:50

only as a sorcery. So

5:53

this is like a sun-tightening effect. Yeah, it's very

5:55

similar, right? It's just one more. It's

5:58

almost said CMC mana value. Mana value, yeah. But

6:00

it doesn't trigger on the attack only it triggers

6:02

on the ETB right it's also on a much

6:04

more relevant body Sun Titans

6:06

a 6x with vigilance. This is a

6:08

5 5 flying lifelink Which

6:10

is huge life swing and it's way way

6:12

easier to just get relevant attacks

6:15

out of it Sometimes I've had a Sun

6:17

Titan and I finally do get that attack

6:19

like I have lightning grease or something like

6:21

that Yeah, it's gonna die in combat. Yeah,

6:23

and they want to kill it. Yeah Yeah,

6:25

it's just you can almost always find a

6:27

opponent that's open to a flyer especially a

6:29

large flyer Yeah, so yeah decent chance that

6:31

this sticks around and matters Definitely

6:33

your place style Rachel to have a big 5

6:35

5 flyer out there. Oh, yeah, it's like killing

6:37

me slowly I 5 flying lifelink that's

6:39

my bread and butter right there and they're like that

6:41

is such a pain in the butt How is your

6:44

life swing? Yeah, how's your life total? I

6:47

hate you three times I

6:50

think this cards really sweet. Um Notably,

6:52

I think it will replace Sun Titan for

6:55

me Even without the

6:57

attack because that encore is so good

7:00

And it's very unlikely that you untap with Sun

7:02

Titan where you get to attack So you get

7:04

to play this you get a bigger thing and

7:06

then in the late game after you get board

7:08

wiped or something Like that you can pay eight

7:10

reanimate three five fives flying with lifelink

7:13

and then three Relevant

7:15

permanence from your graveyard with four mana

7:17

value or less. That's just a huge

7:19

swing post board wipe Which is exactly

7:21

what I want out of my white

7:23

aggressive decks Like if there's a

7:25

board wipe even nothing on board somebody clip plays

7:28

this gain 15 life deals with

7:30

team damage on course It yeah, and

7:32

then brings four bodies back. You're like

7:34

I Wasn't

7:36

ready It's pretty great.

7:39

It's easier to cast in Sun Titan too. It's

7:41

only one white that too. Yeah. Yeah I would

7:43

I think if you were sort of predicting or

7:47

Analyzing how many things you

7:49

get back out of the graveyard or with

7:51

a Sun Titan on average It's

7:53

probably like, you know four point

7:57

Four point two man are worth the stuff right once you get

7:59

it to trigger like One and a half times

8:01

maybe on average. Angel

8:03

of Indemnity I bet is gonna be quite a bit

8:05

higher because maybe

8:08

you want on card every game, but when you do

8:10

that's gonna be three things. And I've never been in

8:12

a game where Sun Titan came down and attacked three

8:15

times. Yeah, that's not, unless it's in a crazy blink

8:17

deck. It just doesn't seem like- If it ever did

8:19

that, I think everybody died by the

8:21

second one because you would have to be in such a commanding position

8:23

that you attacked with the Sun Titan, then attacked with it again, then

8:25

attacked with it again, like you had to have won that game already.

8:28

So, Angel of Indemnity, the times you

8:31

do that is going to make up

8:33

for the times that you don't above and

8:35

beyond Sun Titan. So I do think it's just

8:37

going to end up being, you

8:41

get more stuff back from it. And

8:43

the life swing is not nothing, like you said, especially on that

8:45

encore, that's a 15 point swing. We've

8:48

all been in a lot of games where if we could just gain

8:50

a couple of life we would probably win. Or

8:53

be able to stabilize or not die, get one

8:55

more turn. So this being able to

8:57

give you that, yeah. I think it's very strong. I think a

8:59

lot of people are going to look at that encore and be

9:01

like, eight is too much. And eight's

9:03

a lot, but I think this card is for that

9:06

turn. And you don't feel bad tapping out for an

9:08

eighth thing that you know is going to get three

9:10

things back from the battlefield. Yeah, honestly, even if it

9:12

just gets three lands, it sets

9:14

you up so well to recover from a board

9:16

wipe. Even if that's all you got. And

9:18

hopefully you get better than that, obviously. But

9:21

that just says, oh, my next turn, instead of having eight

9:24

mana, I have 11 mana. I'd

9:27

say that's the floor for what you could expect to get. I

9:29

often get a land with Sun Titan when the first time it

9:31

comes out, but not always. But

9:34

yeah, since there's probably been a board wipe or something

9:36

that killed this, there's

9:38

probably more stuff in your yard. And the fact

9:40

that it can get back slightly bigger things is

9:43

then therefore relevant at that moment in time too.

9:45

The difference between three and four in

9:47

Commander is huge. Four drops are in

9:50

white, that's your draw engines, are at four drops

9:52

most of the time. You can

9:54

get back the new trouble in pairs. You can get

9:56

back Mangara. You can get back- Mothering Tye. Mothering

9:59

Tye. Yeah, there's a hugely powerful

10:01

cards pan or Monica you get it back.

10:04

It doesn't quite work Yeah, but you get two other things

10:06

that have ETB's there you go Like

10:09

I play Marshall's anthem in my white. No you

10:11

play angel of deadly get back the pan harmonica

10:13

There you go that board wipe yeah, and then

10:16

you encore or second and just do that. Yeah

10:19

I'd like to get six things back, please pretty

10:23

Like I play Marshall's anthem in my white decks and

10:25

that's for mana and like two to multi kick That's

10:27

eight mana to get two things back, and this is

10:29

eight mana to get three things back on a

10:31

better body So I think

10:33

this card sweet. I'm excited about it. Yeah, honey. That's in the

10:36

desert deck. I'm not sure how good Decent

10:38

deck yeah, that's interesting. I don't know I

10:40

don't know they had to put the card somewhere. Yeah At

10:43

some points. I think they're just like start at the wall.

10:45

Where does this go? Yeah, it's white goes on that one.

10:47

Yeah, okay All

10:49

right, the next card is called Annie

10:51

joins it joins up It

10:54

is one and Nia so one a red

10:56

a green and a white for mana total

10:58

for a legendary enchantment When Annie

11:00

joins up enters the battlefield it deals five

11:03

damage to target creature or planeswalker and opponent

11:05

controls and then has a Static

11:07

ability says if a triggered ability of a

11:09

legendary creature you control triggers that

11:12

ability triggers an additional time

11:15

That's our favorite text lately is that ability

11:17

triggers an additional time yeah, it is Roaming

11:20

throne for legendaries yeah Legendary

11:23

creatures right because yeah, it wouldn't

11:26

obviously trigger your I don't

11:28

know chain veil or something Yeah,

11:31

I mean if it is triggered legendary permanence it would

11:33

come in and deal five damage to two things Self

11:38

okay For

11:42

man a kill huge things sounds really

11:44

powerful I do think that's kind of

11:46

one of the things that makes this

11:49

Really good is the fact that like we're

11:52

used to getting panharmonic on speaking of Which

11:55

is a thing that kind of doubles you

11:57

know parallel lives annoying procession type of stuff

11:59

that like is a set up card that says

12:01

successive things you do later on down the line will

12:04

now be amplified. But usually those

12:06

things don't also do a thing when they come in.

12:08

We call them do nothings, right? Right, yeah. Because they

12:10

don't do anything until you do something else. Right, this

12:12

is not a do nothing though. This is a removal

12:14

spell. Yep, not accosted but still a

12:17

removal spell. We'll kill almost every commander you're

12:19

going to play against, right? Five mana and

12:22

then sits there and has a very relevant, I

12:24

mean extremely relevant because we know all these cards

12:27

get played. Yeah. Ability. I

12:30

mean this is the kind of thing that

12:32

I really like that they limited it to

12:34

Naya because it's roaming thrown but it's more

12:37

controlled where we're not going to see it in every single

12:39

one. If this was monocolored or colorless

12:41

it'd be, you'd see it all the time and it would

12:43

be extremely broken, yeah. But even

12:45

in Naya there's some really powerful commanders that

12:47

this goes in, right? Basically every Naya commander

12:49

you can think of. There's one in particular

12:51

we've been talking about and seeing people talk

12:54

about a lot lately is Voya of course.

12:56

Oh my god. It doubles the ward, it

12:58

doubles the attacker. Because

13:00

that card needed to be better. Yeah, it

13:02

also curves under Voya so it's usually this

13:04

into it. When I thought about

13:06

it because I had an atlodec is atlopilani because

13:09

now all of your eggs, when your eggs die

13:11

they trigger atlat twice. Yeah, it doesn't

13:13

double the creation of the eggs but it doubles

13:15

when the eggs get cracked. Right, yeah. You

13:18

get two things, yeah. I would have to say almost every Naya

13:21

deck or deck that has, there's probably some

13:23

five colors like Kenrith it's probably I guess

13:25

not. Yeah, those are all active. Because those

13:27

are activated abilities. But most things nowadays are

13:29

triggered abilities like enter the battlefields or

13:31

when this happens. I mean I'd say that's

13:33

probably 80% of stuff so you got like

13:35

Jota the Unifier. Yeah, it's gross with Jota.

13:38

It doesn't double that plus one plus one but

13:40

it's when you cast the legendary which it's

13:42

a legendary spell. Yep, also

13:44

that deck's full of legendaries which will also

13:47

trigger off of Annie joins up

13:49

so. Seems good. If you can play

13:51

it, it's almost certainly going to be very good in

13:53

the deck. There will be a few exceptions

13:55

but I think this card is very

13:58

powerful. Yeah, there's not a whole lot to say about

14:00

that. this card it's very very good if you can play it

14:02

look at it if you can't sorry

14:04

next time there's gonna be a lot of why isn't

14:07

this is this yeah why isn't in

14:09

an esper that's good though I like

14:11

I prefer things that make

14:13

it harder for you to play like powerful effects

14:15

that reward you for being in a specific color

14:18

pairing yeah like mothering tithes what if it was

14:20

like Boros only I think that rules yeah I

14:22

think totally different card exactly all

14:24

right next one is

14:27

a little bird it's even

14:29

interrupter one white white for

14:31

a two-two bird rogue with flash and

14:33

flying when even interrupter enters

14:36

the battlefield exile target spell

14:38

it becomes plotted then

14:40

spells your opponent's cast from graveyards or

14:43

from exile cost two more to

14:45

cast okay this is our

14:47

first instance of plot on this episode yeah

14:49

let's talk about it so plot is

14:52

if you cast a spell for its plot cost or

14:54

if it becomes plotted in another way it means that

14:57

you the owner of the spell may cast it

14:59

on a later turn so whatever

15:01

turn it was plotted on they can't cast it that turn they have

15:03

to cast it on a later turn at

15:06

sorcery speed only without paying

15:08

its mana cost though yes now

15:10

in this case the even interrupter has a clever

15:12

little text which says oh it'll actually cost two

15:15

but if you do this to an 8

15:18

CMC 8 mana value spell they'll

15:20

still only have to pay two for it with the

15:22

even interrupter out it's interesting because

15:24

I think you look at this and you're like

15:26

oh it's kind of like reprieve like it bounces

15:28

the spell back to your hand but honestly even

15:30

interrupter is better than that because it basically

15:33

blanks counter spells entirely because they don't

15:35

do anything if they're plotted then their

15:37

sorcery speed only it blanks X spells

15:40

because if you're casting a spell for plot X

15:42

is automatically zero yeah you can't without paying its

15:44

mana cost you can't make X equal to anything

15:46

because you you can't add man to that part

15:48

of it so there are situations where even interrupter

15:50

is a hard counter spell

15:54

and in white we don't have

15:56

a ton of those yeah I

15:58

think the two comparable that I

16:00

immediately think of are reprieve and

16:03

lapse of certainty. So yeah,

16:05

reprieve returns it to hand and lapse of certainty

16:08

puts it on top. Lapse

16:10

of certainty is very close because I would say putting it on

16:12

top is close to saying, hey, you can't cast until next turn.

16:15

But at lapse of certainty, they do have to pay the

16:17

mana cost all the way over again. Reprieve

16:19

is interesting because you draw cards, you replace the card,

16:22

the reprieve itself, but if they had

16:24

the mana, they could cast it again right now because

16:26

you just returned it to hand. There's

16:29

another interesting thing because Avon Interruptor does not say

16:31

it counters the spell, it says exile the spell.

16:34

Reprieve is sort of like this, but lapse of

16:36

certainty says counter that spell. And that matters because

16:39

if a spell says can't be countered or you

16:41

use an effect that makes your spells uncounterable, Reprieve

16:43

and Avon Interruptor will still work on that stuff

16:45

because they're not technically countering it. So

16:47

those are just nice little things to have. Somebody goes to Supreme Verdict

16:50

and you have a big board. Avon Interruptor

16:52

will solve that problem and probably a good solve in

16:54

that instance because usually they're trying to wipe your board

16:56

when your board's very scary and you only probably need

16:59

one more turn with that board because now you get

17:01

to pump it and win or whatever. Yeah,

17:03

I think this is a very good defensive counter

17:05

spell. You're stopping a board wipe,

17:07

you're stopping an opponent's win con, you're trying to

17:10

delay it for a turn. You could

17:12

do this for rampant stuff, but it doesn't feel

17:14

as good when it's a setup thing because

17:18

win cons and board wipes are so

17:21

timing focused. So if you can interrupt

17:23

a counter spell or something that really

17:25

matters when it was cast, this becomes

17:28

even more powerful. Yeah, it's not good

17:30

against, speaking of, paying harmonicons and

17:32

stuff like that, right? To stop their setup

17:34

plays because they just cast it on

17:36

their next turn before they would cast their next thing

17:38

anyway. It's not that different than probably what they were

17:40

going to do. But I like what you said there

17:42

which is to protect your board or stop something that's

17:44

impactful to you right now. This

17:47

will do that and then say, you know. Now,

17:50

I've also got this two-two flyer

17:52

that's not totally irrelevant. Yeah, it

17:54

really matters that this is on a body

17:57

because it can wear swords, it can be

17:59

blinked. You can do this more times. Like

18:02

if somebody gets you with an ephemerate in

18:04

this thing that is backbreaking. Yeah, if they

18:06

just have like an El Jazi Displacer out

18:08

or something, what can you

18:10

cast? You're staring at it being like crap. Anything

18:13

really scary there, you're going to do that

18:15

to it for basically free. Yeah. And

18:18

then in the meantime, it's got this little static ability that says,

18:20

spells your opponent's cast from graveyards or from

18:22

exile costs two more to cast. And

18:25

that's not crazy relevant, but it

18:28

hurts impulse draw a lot. Yeah,

18:30

yeah, yeah. That's going to incidentally

18:32

just hurt stuff other people are

18:34

doing. And that's not the main reason you're playing it. But

18:37

that is definitely, you like, what's

18:39

the blue card that says when people cast

18:41

things from other places that you get to

18:43

draw? Yes, ghostly pilfer. Yeah, so that's a

18:45

similar card that's sort of just incidentally dealing

18:48

in a similar space. And you like it because you

18:50

draw a lot of cards off of it. Yeah. Which tells you

18:52

people are casting things from other places. Other places. Often

18:55

enough that it matters, this card will say, you

18:57

probably can't do that as much or maybe you can't do it

18:59

at all all of a sudden. Yeah,

19:02

I think even an interrupter is going to be a very,

19:04

very powerful magic card. It can be extremely

19:06

oppressive if used in these high synergy situations

19:09

that we talked about, like the blinking it

19:11

repeatedly and all of that. And it does

19:13

have, it's a hate piece. It does say

19:16

that on it. So there

19:19

are definitely play groups that are like, we're

19:21

not into that kind of play. To me though, it's

19:23

still... It's so sick. Yeah, to me though, it's still

19:25

nicer than a regular counter spot. I agree, yeah. Because

19:28

it doesn't actually stop, it doesn't stop it forever at

19:30

its base use. Obviously, with synergies, it can be a

19:32

little more oppressive. But I think in

19:34

your average play group, it would be hard to complain about this too bad

19:37

because it's like, just not right now. You

19:39

get to do that next turn. It reminds me of delay. Yeah.

19:42

I love Reprieve and I love Laps of Certainty.

19:44

I think almost it's bad though as we continue

19:46

to make these because one of the reasons Reprieve

19:48

and Laps of Certainty are so good are

19:51

people don't calculate it into their

19:53

sequencing. They just assume certain things

19:55

as urine white. And

19:57

the more that there is, the more they start to think of it

19:59

like... blue and the more they start to go, how many

20:01

manna you got open? Okay, it could be these cars. All right,

20:03

so I'm just going to calculate it and what if they did

20:06

that to me. And now

20:08

I'm going to play slightly differently and maybe not make

20:10

it as devastating to me. So

20:12

it's almost worse when there's more of

20:14

them. That's true. Yeah. Like

20:16

you look at three manna open and well, one or

20:19

in this case two of them are white and you're

20:21

like, could be nefarious

20:23

protection. Yeah. Could be. A

20:25

few years ago you're like, you can't do

20:27

anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But now it's lack

20:29

of certainty. It's even interrupter, it's reprieve, it's

20:31

to ferries protection, any number of more protection.

20:34

Yeah. White is trickier than ever has

20:36

been and I really do like this card. Yeah,

20:39

I mean, I'm definitely going to play it. Yeah,

20:42

yeah. I mean, the

20:44

coolest thing about white is white is so

20:46

pesky like this. It is so resilient. It

20:48

is so interactive. And that's

20:51

exactly what this bird does. I think the word

20:53

you're looking for is annoying. Annoying? Yeah.

20:57

Will not die. All right. So

21:00

the next card is an

21:02

interesting one. It's called crackling spell

21:04

slinger. It's three red red

21:06

for a two two human wizard. So a five man

21:08

a two two. It has

21:10

flash. Okay. When

21:13

crackling spell slinger enters the battlefield,

21:15

if you cast it, the

21:17

next instant or sorcery spell you

21:19

cast this turn has storm. Storm

21:23

means when you cast that spell, copy it

21:25

for each spell cast before this turn, you

21:27

may choose new targets for the copy. So

21:30

you will definitely at least the next instant

21:32

or sorcery spell you cast this turn, you'll

21:34

get two copies of it because you've cast

21:36

a crackling spell slinger. Yeah.

21:39

So at the very base level, it

21:42

is for each spell cast before this

21:44

turn. It doesn't care which player cast

21:47

those spells. So if

21:49

somehow we set up a scenario where

21:51

Rachel casts two spells, I flash this

21:53

thing in and then cast an instant

21:55

or sorcery, I'll get four of

21:58

it. Yeah. Which is like. We

22:00

should say this is in the quick draw commander deck the

22:03

spell slinger one fitting

22:06

I do think that that

22:08

is where this card is so

22:10

efficient and looks the most powerful to me is

22:13

you flashing it in on somebody's end step after

22:15

they've cast a Reserved

22:17

two cards right because then you can take

22:20

your swords plowshares you can take your bounce

22:22

spell you can take your lightning bolt or

22:24

braid and Have four targets

22:26

for it pretty good It's a lot of mana

22:28

to hold up in red seven mana if you

22:31

cast this and that our braid but right with

22:33

swords or something It would be six which yeah

22:35

a lot you'd have to have other options in

22:38

your hand if somebody didn't cast two

22:40

or three spells Yeah, yeah to

22:42

me. That's the sort of opportunity

22:45

but also Almost

22:47

like begrudgingly. I

22:49

would do that scenario right because I'd

22:52

rather use offensively right as

22:54

a wincon Yeah, that's the

22:56

other side of this card right is

22:58

that it it's in red

23:00

So you're in these giant red mana maker

23:03

colors With your

23:05

mana geysers and your Jessica's Wells so

23:07

you can have a huge turn and

23:09

basically turn You know

23:11

whatever toothpick you find into a wincon as

23:14

long as you can storm hard enough of course

23:16

Yeah, you're I think you you know red

23:19

is just so good now Like

23:21

you said, Jessica's will mana geyser. There's also a dockside

23:23

storm kill artists and Bergy Even

23:25

like seething song and there's a whole bunch of little pieces

23:27

in there where if you're a spell

23:29

Slinger deck I don't think it's super hard to imagine

23:31

scenarios where you're using this either You

23:33

use this in the mana geyser to just get twice

23:35

as much mana or you mana geyser into this To

23:39

then cast three or four more other things before

23:41

you say okay, you know I've cast seven eight

23:43

things You know and now I'm

23:45

gonna I guess you

23:47

would have you have to sequence this obviously where you

23:49

cast the other things And then crackling spell Slinger and

23:51

then whatever you know you might be able to just

23:53

do a lightning bolt in there Yeah at the end

23:56

and be like yeah, I have 22 lightning bolts though.

23:58

Yeah, that'll do it out at least two

24:00

players. Yeah, and that's lightning bolt. That's probably not

24:03

what the ending thing is.

24:05

It's torment of a hill fire maybe, or

24:07

it's worse things is all the thing. It's

24:10

an interesting card. Wizards really loves

24:12

to print these five mana

24:14

creatures with spell slinging abilities.

24:17

Usually with flash. This isn't even the

24:19

only one in this set of

24:21

commander pre-cons they did. It

24:24

also sounds the same. It's

24:26

smirking spelljacker. It's

24:28

also a five mana flash creature

24:30

that has like spelly ability. Right.

24:33

So it's not easy to find spots

24:35

in your spell slinger deck for a

24:37

five mana creature, especially a five mana

24:39

creature that isn't good

24:41

until you have your big turn. But

24:44

it does play into that

24:48

pattern of we make a ton of

24:50

red mana, we have the big turn,

24:52

we cast this, and we've done it.

24:54

Yeah, if you're paired with blue too,

24:56

there might be ways to pair it

24:58

with some bounce to reuse it. So

25:00

use it in your scenario like you said, but

25:02

still have it available to me to use in

25:04

the big game ending scenario. Also I think- Oh,

25:06

you can use it with a land that bounces

25:09

wizards. There you go. That's great. That's

25:11

Talerian, nope. Is it Talerian Academy?

25:13

That's not it. Not that. Yeah. I

25:16

can picture the land, but I forget the name

25:18

of it. Riptide Laboratory, there you go. Yeah,

25:21

you can bounce it with the land. That's pretty sweet.

25:24

Yeah, I think you're likely to be in blue with

25:26

this, right? Because that's the Spell Slinger decks. And

25:29

another thing I would say is red and blue,

25:31

but more red these days, is often making a

25:34

lot of treasure as the

25:36

component of what it's doing. And

25:39

so you might have the mana to do this

25:41

in a pinch when you just notice, oh, Jimmy

25:43

cast four spells this turn. I am going to

25:45

do the cast this and

25:47

swords type of deal. And maybe

25:49

it's unsummoned, right? Yeah. That's

25:51

actually not bad because you go, cool. Huge tempo

25:53

play. Build your own cyclonic rift, I guess. Right.

25:56

Jimmy cast four spells, you crackling Spell Slinger, and

25:59

some sort of un- some invariant and one of

26:01

the storm copies targets the crackling spell flinger. That's

26:03

pretty neat. Being able to hold

26:05

that back and make sure that you always

26:07

have that kind of interaction up or you

26:09

still have that win con for the later

26:12

turn. Yeah, there's definitely some

26:14

neat tricks here. We've seen a lot

26:16

of this kind of card and I think this one

26:18

is the most playable version and the one that I

26:20

am most curious to see what

26:22

it does in games. I agree with you though.

26:24

There's a limited amount of spots in it for

26:26

this and is it enough

26:28

to push out the do-it-do caster mage fury storm

26:31

stuff that sits there because you can't have very

26:33

many of those cards in your deck because they

26:35

don't do anything on their own. You

26:37

don't want to find yourself with a hand with three of those in

26:39

it. You really can only have a couple of them in your deck

26:41

and does this push one of those other ones out? I

26:44

don't know. Yeah. Curious to see

26:46

especially if you're in a mono red storm deck,

26:48

I think you could do some cool stuff

26:50

with it but the blue really does help with

26:52

all the on summons. Okay,

26:55

up next we have due list

26:57

of the mind. Oh,

27:00

this is the Nathan's Toyor of the World

27:02

Championship card. Yep. It's pretty

27:04

sweet. Looks just like him. Yeah, except for with

27:06

wings. Or does he have wings? I don't know if I've ever

27:08

seen Nathan. I'm pretty sure Nathan does have wings actually. He's got some special powers.

27:12

One and

27:14

a blue for a star three

27:16

human advisor with flying and vigilance.

27:20

Due list of the mind's power is equal to the number of

27:22

cards you've drawn this turn. Okay.

27:25

Whenever you commit a crime, you may draw

27:27

a card. If you do discard a card,

27:30

this ability triggers only once each turn. So

27:33

it'll make itself a two, three if you do that. A

27:35

two, three? On your turn. On

27:37

your turn, yes. And then a one turn on everybody else's turn if you do

27:40

that. If you do that, yeah. It's a zero, three most of the time. The

27:43

first thing we need to talk about is crimes. Right. How

27:46

do you commit crimes? Well, by

27:48

targeting, it's whenever

27:50

you cast a spell or activate

27:52

an ability that targets an opponent

27:55

or their things that includes spells

27:57

on the stack, permanents on the battlefields,

27:59

their hand. their library or even

28:01

cards in their graveyard. Basically,

28:04

any time you actually activate

28:06

or cast something that it

28:09

doesn't affect your stuff, it's probably a

28:11

crime. Yep. So counterspelling stuff even. Crime.

28:13

And add looting to it on top

28:15

of it with this card, which is

28:18

pretty strong. This is

28:20

an interesting mechanic

28:22

in Commander, because control and going

28:24

one for one targeting stuff isn't

28:27

a great strategy just overall. So

28:29

I would say if you're targeting stuff

28:33

that often, your deck is like a heavy

28:36

control deck. Or you have

28:38

a commander that has some kind of ability to target stuff.

28:40

Yeah, because if your commander can target stuff repeatedly,

28:43

then all of a sudden you're adding loot to

28:46

whatever that is. And that's pretty

28:48

good. I don't think the power increase is

28:50

worth a lot, although you're in blue, so

28:52

you may have a turn where you draw

28:54

20 cards somehow. In which case, this

28:56

does become relevant as a 20 power flyer that

28:59

can smack somebody and kill them, which

29:02

I guess is a possibility I hadn't really thought about

29:04

until just now. It's really cool. That's

29:06

an upside. You

29:09

know me, I love a combat trick. I

29:11

love the idea of casting a mystic confluence

29:13

and drawing three cards and eating somebody's attacker

29:16

with it. Or they don't block and you

29:18

maybe got Ley Line out or something and

29:20

you're like fork a windfall and just kill

29:22

you. Yeah. You know, something like that. That's

29:24

cool. Or like the Game Night Live, where

29:26

you can close the psychic possession or whatever

29:28

that Prof had on me and he drew

29:31

like 28. This

29:33

just incidentally has 29 power probably now. On

29:36

a two man a creature? Yeah. If

29:39

you're drawing a ton of cards, this can

29:41

definitely be a little

29:43

engine piece early that can surprise take

29:45

somebody out of nowhere. Yeah. To me,

29:48

the biggest comparable is Ledger Shredder, which

29:50

is an amazing card that we

29:53

see a ton of because it's so good

29:55

and so efficient. And this is a

29:57

two man a flyer with similar abilities.

30:01

How do you feel about that comparison? Ledger

30:03

Shredder, you don't have to do anything. Yeah. It's

30:08

hard to beat you to get

30:10

to loot for free. As it gets bigger,

30:12

it just stays bigger. It stays bigger, yeah. I

30:14

don't think this is better than Ledger Shredder in

30:16

the average deck. I think if you're in a

30:18

wheels deck or if you're in... My guess is

30:20

Ledger Shredder is still probably better, even in a wheels deck.

30:22

Yeah. I mean, I'm still thinking about it being 20

30:24

power. But

30:27

I think generally you're going to see more cards

30:29

with Ledger Shredder and you're going to be happier

30:31

with Ledger Shredder on more turns. Yeah. But

30:34

it is neat that it's a different wincon for

30:36

drawing cards that isn't just like the five-man

30:39

artifact that pings when you draw cards. I

30:41

can never think of the name. The five-man

30:43

artifact that pings whenever you draw cards. Psychosis

30:45

crawler? Yeah, that one. Okay. Well

30:48

done. This has been a pop quiz. I

30:50

passed. This is how

30:53

I think about cards is in Scryfall searches. I don't know

30:55

the name of any of them, but I could be like

30:57

CMC5, colorless. I

31:00

feel like I used to know the name of all

31:02

cards, but there's so many really snouts really hard to

31:04

sort of keep up. My brain's full. Yeah.

31:07

So this is an interesting card. I think it's definitely

31:09

playable. I think it's a little bit niche. I

31:12

think you

31:14

really want to be committing a lot of

31:16

crimes, like you said, your commander's doing it,

31:18

or maybe something like 20

31:21

cards in your deck, maybe even a little more

31:23

target your opponent or

31:26

something of theirs. Yeah, maybe if you have

31:28

a burn deck or something like that. Or

31:30

maybe you have something

31:32

closer to 12 to

31:34

15, but three or four of those are

31:36

repeatable. Yeah. A tim or something

31:39

like that. Obviously, people don't just

31:41

play tims. You either play a ton of

31:43

tims or none. I love this in a

31:45

tims deck though. That's fun. Yeah. So

31:48

maybe you've got a couple of different things that

31:50

could target your opponent's stuff repeatedly at low cost

31:52

or no card cost. And

31:54

then this gets a little bit better. Because

31:57

looting is super powerful. I think people underrate

31:59

just how powerful. that card selection is. Oh

32:01

yeah. Plus you're in blue, often putting

32:03

things in the graveyard is not, they're not

32:05

lost to you, right? You still have access to it.

32:07

So yeah, this is a playable card and a good

32:09

card. I

32:12

think it's easy to look at Ledger's Treasure and be

32:14

like, Ledger's Treasure's better and think then I don't play

32:16

this. And it's like, you know, this is. It's different,

32:18

it's a little different. Yeah, but I think you can,

32:20

a lot of ex could. Or you play both? Play

32:22

both and be just fine, yeah. Yeah,

32:25

I was looking at, I

32:27

had a tough time picking cards

32:29

with crime on them for a

32:31

commander because you just really, really

32:34

need that repeatable ability. So I

32:36

was like looking for commanders that

32:39

fit the crime profile. Yeah.

32:44

He didn't even work for the FBI for that guy. Yeah.

32:47

And first of all, Seldegriff is

32:49

full of crime. Yep. My

32:52

girl, every ability that a Seldegriff

32:55

has is a crime. So

32:58

that's the kind of deck that I would look at

33:00

and just run through all of the crime cards and see

33:03

if them match any of your specific deck

33:06

restrictions. Like

33:09

I play with Karuga, so I can't play a dual

33:11

list of the mind, but I do really like the

33:13

Free Strider lookout. Oh yeah, so

33:15

this is another card from this set that

33:18

we wanted to bring up here because I

33:20

think it fits a similar pattern of what's

33:22

your deck doing, can it commit

33:24

crimes repeatedly and that would be like, do you

33:26

play this card? So Free Strider lookout is whenever

33:29

you commit a crime, look at

33:31

the top five cards in the library and you can put a

33:33

land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. And

33:36

it's a three, three creature for three with

33:38

reach. And I think that's a very

33:40

powerful ability if I just incidentally get

33:42

to just ramp every

33:44

time that I commit a crime. And again,

33:46

if you're playing, I was thinking that one is

33:48

like Kenrith becomes kind of good. Like I'll give-

33:51

You can have a counter. Yeah, I'll give five life

33:53

or I'll put a counter on your thing so that

33:55

I can ramp out a land and maybe do that.

33:57

Like, okay, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put a

33:59

counter. on your thing, ramp out of land, put a counter on your thing,

34:01

ramp out of land, put a counter on your thing, ramp out of land, okay,

34:03

I killed the thing. Ramp out

34:05

of land. Crime.

34:08

Yeah, I mean

34:11

with Feltigraph I was like, okay, I want to be

34:13

giving hippos. Anyway, if I have this on board, I'm

34:15

going to run Feltigraph out earlier, I'm going to be

34:17

handing it out to, you can still hand it to

34:19

the same person, you just only do it once per

34:21

turn. The once per turn limitation isn't

34:23

so bad in Commander if you can do it at

34:25

instant speed. The other cool

34:27

crime enabler that I found was Scarab

34:30

God, which is really good with

34:32

Dualism of Mind, because the looter is really good

34:34

with Scarab God and if you pick off stuff

34:36

in their graveyard that counts as

34:38

a crime. So there's definitely

34:40

some cool things you can do, check your commanders, see

34:43

if any of them can repeatably do crimes, and then

34:45

you can look at the crime cards a little bit

34:47

closer. All right. Oh

34:49

boy. Wow, back came right back. I

34:52

did the thing where I threw it and landed almost, yeah. Oh

34:55

he's back. Okay, the next

34:57

one is everybody's favorite and very cute

34:59

in his cowboy hat. It's Fibblethip, Lost

35:02

on the Range, One

35:04

Blue Boo for a 1-1, Legendary

35:06

Homunculus, has Ward 2,

35:08

as everything does these days. You may

35:10

look at the top card of your library at any time. The

35:13

top card of your library has plot. The

35:16

plot cost is equal to its mana cost.

35:18

You may plot non-land cards from the

35:20

top of your library. This

35:23

is a very interesting card. It's

35:26

sort of like the Avon Interrupter where it plots something

35:28

that doesn't have plot, where it

35:32

lets you just put a ton of stuff

35:34

into exile if you

35:36

keep hitting spells, that is. Right,

35:38

it can't plot land, so it works like future

35:40

side in all of the variants where sort of

35:42

once you hit those, future side I guess you

35:44

can get through the first one and you can

35:46

play it, right? Yeah. Once you

35:49

get to a land with Fibblethip,

35:51

you're done, unless you can Sensei's

35:53

top or something shuffle in some way. Plot

35:57

itself is really hard to evaluate for me.

36:00

I agree. Because how likely is it

36:02

that I'm able to pay any amount

36:05

of mana for something that doesn't

36:08

do anything right now? It's

36:13

really interesting. Proactive spells

36:15

that you want to further your

36:17

board. It

36:21

gives you this strange thing where you can

36:23

commit mana for a

36:25

big turn later. That's

36:29

certainly one play pattern in Commander. But

36:33

then committing mana and

36:35

not having any defenses, not having any creatures,

36:37

sort of leaves

36:39

you a step behind.

36:42

So Fivile Dip is one of those things where it's

36:44

like, I wonder if you look a step behind and

36:47

you're actually a step ahead, kind

36:49

of like a Vidalkenori thing. Or

36:51

if you look a step behind and you're

36:53

a step behind. Well,

36:55

and also, they see

36:58

what you plotted. Yeah, it's the face

37:00

up thing. Kill is

37:02

so tricky. Yeah. So

37:04

if it's something awesome, they

37:06

know that's coming. There's

37:08

no obfuscating it. Now, you

37:12

can cast it off a plot at any turn after

37:14

the turn it was plotted. So you don't have to

37:16

do it the next turn. It's your turn. Yeah.

37:20

At Sorcerer's Speed. Yeah. But

37:22

it doesn't have to be the very next turn. And I think

37:24

that can work in the favor of certain effects where

37:27

it's like, I'll just let it sit there. And if it's

37:29

a board wipe or something, it's like, people know you got

37:31

it. They have to play weird. But you

37:33

can just be like, oh, you didn't want to stick your neck out

37:35

and put any creatures out. I just

37:37

won't cast it. And then it becomes like an Avineral

37:39

disc or something. So in that case, you could use

37:42

it to your advantage. But it's definitely to your disadvantage

37:44

where you go, plot expropriate, go. Well, they're

37:46

going to try and kill you. We're going to kill

37:48

you now. Yeah. Yeah. It

37:51

would become awesome creature. Nyxbloom ancient, go.

37:54

They're going to hold up. They're going to play around it. Yeah. And

37:57

if they're hanging out, I'm just going to hold up this source of plowshares or

37:59

whatever. And so that

38:02

give and take is just hard to evaluate. It's hard

38:04

for me to tell how good

38:06

or bad that will be. So

38:08

the best place that I can think about it

38:10

is if you have a commander that you generally

38:12

want out early or

38:15

you want to wait till cast spells until your commander

38:17

is on the board is like

38:20

a big thing. Like Joda the Unifier is something

38:22

that we mentioned already. So if you can plot

38:24

a couple of creatures, slam Joda, and then cast

38:27

this from exile, cast this from exile, and

38:30

have a huge turn, that's

38:32

very powerful. Yeah. Yeah,

38:35

that play pattern of my commander is a

38:37

setup card. And what I

38:39

generally have to do without the plot is

38:41

play it, cross my fingers, hope to untap,

38:43

then do stuff that gets me the

38:46

value or the synergy from the commander. Or wait until

38:48

you have the mana to do both on the same

38:50

turn. Right. And

38:53

you may still have to do this. Wait until I can

38:55

at least hold up some counter magic or some protection. So

38:58

I have a better chance of untapping with it. Or wait until I have

39:00

swift foot boots or greaves or something out and

39:02

then do it. So this is another way to kind

39:04

of tweak that play pattern of make

39:06

sure I get value out of my commander. That's interesting.

39:09

I think if that's a really important part of your

39:11

deck then maybe Fivible Fit belongs. Speaking of greaves and

39:13

swift foot boots, I think plot gets a lot better

39:15

if you have a bunch of haste enablers in your

39:18

deck. Yes. Because then you plot a

39:20

creature and normally it's like, man, I'm not gonna

39:22

attack for that creature with that creature next turn

39:24

either. It'll be the turn after that when it

39:26

comes off a plot. That was a long time.

39:28

Yeah. But oh, I've got greaves or swift foot

39:30

boots. I got an anger. I got rhythm of war

39:32

or whatever. In my deck. Rhythm of the wild.

39:34

In my deck. Then that's enough to

39:37

kind of make plot probably a little bit better in my

39:39

deck than the average deck. Makes it a little more like

39:41

suspend. And I

39:44

think all those things are, do you just have factors that I'm

39:46

in? But it's really hard for me in my mind right now

39:48

without sort of seeing it all in action. And it's gonna be

39:50

very situational too. There'll be certain games where like, I can't afford.

39:53

There's a cool card on top of my deck, but I can't afford

39:55

in this game against Rachel because she likes to fill the board up

39:57

really early. Mm-hmm. She just.

40:00

You don't pay five mana put that on plot and

40:02

nothing this yeah, yeah Like if

40:04

you ramp on to cast fivile tip on

40:06

three and then hit a land on top

40:08

you're like Yeah, cuz

40:10

you play three mana one one. Yeah, and I

40:12

this is terrible Yeah, and then next turn you

40:15

plot like two things and you still

40:17

only have a three mana one one and a rock Yeah,

40:20

and then you cast Joda and cast those

40:22

things. That's a big turn but like Everybody

40:25

can see that coming Yeah,

40:27

if they just counter Joda or kill it

40:30

Immediately like yeah You're

40:34

in you're in pretty big trouble there and they saw

40:36

it coming Yeah, I mean they if you're playing against

40:38

Joda, they know they have to counter it anyway But

40:40

well, they don't have to counter it always sometimes you

40:42

can kill it You can kill it later like if

40:44

they if they cast early and do the cross

40:46

your fingers thing Yeah, it's interesting

40:48

and a civil tip is so

40:50

different I think the natural thing that you compare

40:53

it to is reality chip, right? Yeah, it's

40:55

a cheap effects that lets you cast up

40:57

off your library some card advantage Yeah, and

40:59

it's like reality chip is two to cast

41:01

three to equip you can't cast until you

41:03

equip but you know when you need To

41:06

equip basically. Yeah, and I still think

41:08

reality chip is so so much better even with that

41:10

man about yeah way better And way better cuz

41:12

you get this up now Yeah But there are definitely

41:14

decks where I could see fivile tip being really

41:16

really powerful where you can just bank a bunch of

41:18

mana for That one turn like in

41:21

a storm deck We were

41:23

like, all right, I know I'm gonna get hit for

41:25

a little bit, but I'm gonna bank some spells I'm

41:27

gonna pre cast a bunch of things so I can

41:29

get my storm really high on my next turn I

41:31

have three free spells and I'll take the damage in

41:33

the meantime Yeah, so maybe it

41:36

is really good if you just have a bunch

41:38

of one-mana cantrip type things Yeah, because you just

41:40

plot away Three cantrips

41:43

that are just adding to your spell count giving

41:45

you some minor little, you know, manamorpho style Yeah

41:47

something and draw card and you're just setting up

41:49

for like, okay That's gonna be the turn and

41:51

I that turn isn't next turn probably either. I

41:54

mean that it's probably like three or four turns

41:56

down The road when I draw the other pieces,

41:58

but It's

42:00

kind of cute in wheel decks if you

42:02

can like save be like alright, I'll plot

42:05

that one and like you're just trying to

42:07

get Spells in

42:09

weird places where you can store them before

42:11

you wheel But there

42:13

are some use cases where

42:15

plot is really interesting The

42:18

the more we talk about the more I think

42:20

it's probably better with instant sorcery based stuff that

42:23

I creatures But yeah, just

42:25

because of the summoning sickness aspect of it

42:27

So maybe it works that way with artifacts and

42:29

enchantments as well But yeah, I

42:32

didn't really talk about that way before but

42:34

there's like a guardian project with plot I

42:36

would add then that's way that's better than

42:38

Guardian project in my mind Yeah, cuz you

42:40

almost never just cast Guardian project and then

42:42

cast a creature Yeah, and there are in

42:45

the set there's like yeah that kind of

42:47

effect that has plot Beast whisperer then falls

42:49

under that same category. Absolutely. Well, yeah, just

42:51

don't make it vulnerable. Yeah Yeah It

42:53

makes it way more likely you're gonna least get

42:55

a card off of it if you

42:57

can yeah cast it on if you can plot it on four

42:59

and save it so it like There

43:01

definitely is situations where plot does

43:03

feel really good because you're keeping stuff

43:05

safe until you can definitely use it

43:08

But that's an area you talked about which is going to be like 40%

43:10

of the time Yeah, where you play

43:12

this and it you know in your next turn. It's

43:14

a land on top. Mm-hmm You

43:17

played a three-man and one one. Yeah It

43:20

feels rough. Yeah, it was pretty bad. I

43:22

don't know. I don't know I have to

43:24

see this one actually I want reports back

43:26

for people out there. Yeah, play fibble sip.

43:28

Was it good? I do want to do

43:30

a little bit of a of a notice

43:32

to those others a lot a little building

43:34

around fibble sip the

43:37

EDH wreck page right now

43:39

for fibble tip has Ancestral visions on it and

43:41

the suspend cards that don't have mana cost because

43:43

they're like oh you could plot it for zero

43:45

And then you have an ancestral recall It

43:48

doesn't have a mana cost and fibble

43:50

tip specifies its plot cost is equal

43:52

to its mana cost So

43:54

if it doesn't have a mana cost like

43:56

lands like ancestral visions you cannot plot it

43:58

from the top of your Library. So it

44:00

is a non-bow. Okay, what

44:03

about like split cards? Split

44:05

cards, because I believe their

44:08

mana cost is the whole thing,

44:10

it's both sides together, it's extra

44:12

bad because you have to pay

44:15

both sides to plot it. So

44:17

it's basically equal to their mana value in that case.

44:20

I believe so. If it's a two cost thing and

44:22

a six cost thing, you have to pay eight and

44:24

then you would only get to cast one of those

44:26

when you cast it, right? And it sees colors too.

44:28

So like mana cost is if you plot it, if

44:30

it's one blue blue, you have to pay one blue

44:32

blue, it's not three colorless. So if it's a split

44:34

card and it's like one in a blue and two

44:36

black black, you'd have to plot it with the

44:39

three blue black black. Okay,

44:41

what about MDFCs? So

44:44

this is where things get interesting. Or

44:47

you might be able to break it a

44:49

little? Yes. So with like the Volki Tybalt,

44:51

you can plot it for its Volki cost, for

44:53

one in a black, but when you go to

44:56

cast it, the card gives you an option to

44:58

cast either side. So you can plot for Volki

45:00

for one in a black, but you cast the

45:02

seven mana plants for the upper side. So

45:05

when you go to cast it, you can cast either side,

45:07

but when you plot it, you're only plotting off the front

45:09

side. So that would be abusable only in the case where

45:11

the MDFC has a cheaper CMC on the front than it

45:14

does the back. Right. Yeah, and then you can keep the

45:16

mana cost. Right, it doesn't work with the lands. Like with

45:18

the ones that have a lot of the stuff on the

45:20

back. Okay, what about adventures? Oh,

45:22

God. So the

45:25

mana cost of adventure spells is equal

45:27

to the permanent side. The top right

45:29

corner. The top right corner. Yeah. So

45:32

if you were plotting like a brazen

45:34

borrower, you would pay one blue blue to

45:36

plot it, but you could cast

45:38

either side of it when you go to actually

45:40

cast it. So you could cast it for petty

45:42

theft, or you could... And then when you go

45:44

into exile and then you still cast out of

45:46

exile. Yes. But you would basically be paying three

45:48

for that adventure card. Right. Or you could just

45:51

straight go to the creature if you wanted to.

45:53

Yeah. So you could flip that though and do

45:55

like a cheap creature with an expense. Yeah, so

45:57

you're looking for... I'm trying to think of adventure

45:59

cards that are... cheap creatures

46:01

but expensive. It's the

46:03

dark tree. There's not many. They're usually the other

46:05

way around. Yeah, there's the mana dork from Wild

46:07

of Eldraine. The one and a green that bounces

46:10

to its thought. Oh, that bounces to it, Bramble.

46:12

Yeah, so that's- Yeah, it's a seven mana like-

46:14

Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah. I

46:16

think is what it does. Yeah, and it bounces back to your hand

46:18

so you can do that later in the game. Yeah. Oh, so you

46:20

could do that for two off of plot.

46:23

Just go straight to the seven mana thing. Yeah, yeah,

46:25

cast the seven mana thing and then cast the creature

46:27

and you're getting your mana dork. Okay. That's

46:30

illegal in standard, right? I believe so. So

46:32

there's- I don't know if people are gonna

46:35

be like, Fivilethib in standard, but- I don't

46:37

know, don't know. That one's free, Nathan Stoyer.

46:39

Yeah. Shut

46:43

up, Josh. Dang it, you ruined my

46:45

next world. Gave it

46:47

to everybody for free. So there aren't like,

46:50

Fivilethib does offer so many weird corner cases that

46:52

you do sort of have to keep an eye

46:54

on. It's also terrible

46:56

with expels and with counterspells, so be careful if you're

46:58

putting Fivilethib on your deck, but he might be sweet.

47:01

We have no idea. We're not sure. Yeah,

47:03

that one's fine. Cool to

47:05

talk about that. All

47:08

right, this next one is awesome.

47:10

It is our very first Spree

47:12

card. It's final showdown. Well, this

47:14

card is the real deal. Okay,

47:17

so the way that Spree works is

47:19

when you cast a spell, you can choose

47:21

one or more additional costs, but they

47:23

have a default mana cost in

47:25

the top right corner. This

47:28

one is white plus

47:32

any number of the below. So it's

47:34

white plus one. All creatures

47:36

lose all abilities until end of turn.

47:39

Next one is plus one. Choose a creature

47:41

you control. It gains indestructible until end

47:43

of turn. And the third

47:45

ability is plus three white, white.

47:47

Destroy all creatures. So

47:49

you could pay one and a white to have

47:51

creatures lose all abilities. You can pay one and

47:54

a white to have a creature you control gain

47:56

indestructible until end of turn. You

47:58

could pay three white, white, white. and

48:00

destroy all creatures, or you could do any

48:02

combination of any of those things. Yeah,

48:05

the original white you don't have to

48:07

pay twice, but if you wanted to

48:09

say, immediately when I look at this, I say, oh, I want

48:11

to give one of my things indestructible and then kill everything else, that

48:14

would cost one white,

48:17

white, white plus three, so. So

48:20

seven altogether. Yeah, just to do

48:22

that, just to do those two things, and you wouldn't have

48:24

everything else lose all abilities. If you want to do that,

48:26

you gotta add one more man to what I just said.

48:29

So the kicker here is, so it doesn't get lost

48:32

in all of the Spree explanations, is this

48:34

is an instant. Yeah,

48:36

I mean this card. I mean the

48:38

kicker here is Spree. The kicker here is that Spree

48:40

is kicker. That's exactly what I

48:43

thought when you said that. Yeah,

48:45

so let's talk about these abilities sort of

48:47

individually. The first one, I think is kind

48:49

of underratedly powerful. People do play sudden spoiling,

48:51

which is obviously better because of the split

48:54

second, but this thing where

48:56

you turn all creatures sort of off, but

48:59

they just lose abilities this turn. So it's

49:01

like you go to combat and I'm gonna

49:03

stop all your attack triggers or something like

49:05

that. Yeah, they had an Atali that was

49:07

about to swing and you're like, we can't

49:09

have that. I can't kill it or anything,

49:11

but what I can do is give us an extra turn here. To

49:14

deal with it, I'm just gonna make you have no

49:16

ability. So have fun with your six six to swing

49:18

it in and doing nothing else. Yeah, your opponent has

49:20

a two lane deck. You're like, all right, before any

49:23

of this begins in your upkeep, I'll pay one and

49:25

a white and I'll have all your creatures on board

49:27

lose all abilities. Especially

49:29

two lane. Yeah, especially because they have all those mana dorks. You

49:33

can turn off all those mana abilities in

49:35

their upkeep. It doesn't end up being very

49:37

powerful and too many decks will feel like

49:39

you time walked them where that

49:41

turn is just kind of like they can't do

49:43

much with it, which is

49:45

powerful and powerful on its own. I

49:47

think rarely, it'll be the most rarely used

49:50

one of the three though, probably. I do

49:52

wanna mention with this, it doesn't stop enters

49:54

the battlefield abilities and it won't affect any

49:56

creatures that entered the battlefield after this ability.

50:00

results. It's not quite the same. Yeah, it's in

50:02

all creatures, but it's only the ones it sees

50:04

when it results. Right. Yeah. Okay,

50:06

then the next ability is this one where you

50:08

can give one of your

50:10

creatures indestructible. So it's, my

50:13

brain wants to think of it like Boros charm or something, but that

50:15

is like give all my stuff or hero your victim. Yeah, this is

50:17

one thing. So

50:21

if you're casting this alone, it's to blank

50:23

a removal spell, but specifically like a red

50:25

or a blue or even a black

50:28

removal spell. So it's okay,

50:30

but in a pinch, it's a protection

50:32

spell that you can hold up that'll

50:34

save an important piece. Yeah, it could be also

50:36

a board wipe. Yeah. You know, comes along and

50:39

you're like, no, I don't want my commander to

50:41

die. Yeah. So that is a scenario that comes

50:43

up. Yeah. And then

50:45

the third mode is an

50:48

instant speed wrath, which is

50:50

route. Right. That's, you

50:52

know, destroy all abilities at instant speed. It

50:55

is important to note that these resolve in the

50:57

order of the card is how these work. So

50:59

the first ability is all creatures lose all abilities.

51:01

Everybody loses all abilities. Then you give a creature

51:03

indestructible, then the board

51:06

wipe happens. It wouldn't make sense if it didn't

51:08

work that way. Exactly. That's why it's written that

51:10

way. That's how all of these spree cards will

51:12

work. They'll resolve in the order written. Yeah.

51:15

So I mean, that's, that's energy is obvious.

51:17

You turn off all abilities so that even

51:20

if a thing says, oh, when it dies, I'll get

51:22

this, or it has indestructible

51:25

other things, stuff like that, they

51:28

lose all those abilities. And then you protect your

51:30

one thing and then you blow everything up. It

51:32

also helps you play around. If you

51:34

know an opponent has a heroic intervention, you

51:36

can be like, even if you cast heroic intervention

51:39

in response to this, your creatures are going to

51:41

lose indestructible. Yeah. Cause the way that would work

51:43

is heroic intervention would have to resolve before final

51:46

showdown resolves, in which case, cool. You

51:49

got hexproof and indestructible, then it's gone now.

51:52

Thought you were cute. Yeah. Thought you were cute. There's

51:56

another thing you wrote down here, which I didn't really think

51:58

about. This is incredible. Yeah. This is

52:00

where my brain kind of goes wild with

52:02

these Spree cards is because

52:04

the mana value of final

52:07

showdown is one, you

52:10

can find it with things like Spellseeker, which

52:12

looks for cheap spells under two. You

52:14

can find it with Sunforger, because

52:17

it is an instant with mana cost four or

52:19

less. And Sunforger will cast it

52:22

for free, but because Spree is an

52:24

additional cost, it will give you the

52:26

opportunity to cast additional costs. You can

52:28

pay the additional cost. So you can't

52:30

use a board wipe part for free.

52:34

So if you want a board wipe finding

52:36

it with Sunforger, you will pay that white

52:38

and red to unattach it.

52:41

Go find this, cast it for free, quote

52:43

unquote, but it only covers that one white.

52:45

And then you'll pay an additional three white

52:47

to actually make that happen. You'll get the

52:49

bill for the additional, but you can't do

52:51

it. Still seven mana instant speed

52:53

board wipe you tutored for. The

52:56

other crazy thing you can do with this is

52:58

put it on Isochron Scepter. Yeah, that's kind of

53:01

nuts. It

53:03

sees it as a one mana instant. Of course, you

53:05

are going to have to pay those additional costs, so

53:07

you'll pay two to cast it and then you can

53:10

pay an additional whatever you need. But the Utilion is

53:12

great because now you're paying, oh, I just want to

53:14

protect and give an destructible this time, but I'll still

53:16

have it for next time if I want to wipe

53:18

the board or whatever. Really, really powerful stuff. I

53:21

mean, this card is so, so flexible and I really like

53:23

it. I wouldn't cut a board wipe for this. I would

53:25

cut a protection spell for this, I think. Because

53:29

it's a board wipe, which adds to your

53:31

numbers. I think board wipes are very powerful

53:33

right now. And it

53:35

has all this flexibility that if it gets stuck in

53:38

your hand when you're ahead or early game, it still

53:40

does stuff. Yeah. I think

53:42

we're in an era now too where

53:44

the pendulum is swinging back towards, I

53:47

know people are not going to like me saying this, but we

53:49

need more board wipes in our decks

53:51

than we have for the last couple of years.

53:55

We used to say, oh, you want about five board wipes in

53:57

your deck. And then For the last few

53:59

years, we've kind of. Lord and I'm to go

54:01

to nursery your knees Me: Board wipes

54:03

Be proactive. Do stuff, don't burn up.

54:05

They makes the game longer by law

54:07

but they make every leisure. Who was

54:09

worn down so many things? Just have

54:12

ward that. It's. Become

54:14

inefficiencies single target, remove on a loss

54:16

of and some in many cases like

54:18

roaming thrown plus you know voy our

54:20

whatever or out and you just. It's

54:22

basically hacks proof? That's it. Yeah, yeah, need

54:25

to read about those things. There's a mere

54:27

i'm over there like this whole thing is

54:29

is gone badly. In need more life more

54:31

than used to sell the fact that this

54:33

can. In. We need more and this can

54:35

fill a slot. That. Could. Also be

54:37

another thing as flexibility. I think it's

54:39

yeah, this hurts pretty incredible. I really

54:41

am hired. Final Showdown I'll I like

54:44

any card that makes me feel smart

54:46

and the fact I can use as

54:48

and so many situations as to great

54:50

effect. Yes I'm makes me really excited,

54:52

especially for White. They don't love to

54:54

give white a ton of modality. Yeah

54:56

it gets very powerful like a vision

54:58

things but there's not a lot of

55:00

modal white spells outside of let us

55:02

hear from and I guess is the

55:04

the think of or farewell but this

55:06

is good in different. Places depending on

55:08

if you're ahead or behind. You

55:10

will find a way to get value out of

55:13

it for to yeah yeah he I'd the I

55:15

just cameras were many games where you're like oh

55:17

and or found a spot to use. My final

55:19

showdown like this will be like school I saved

55:21

my commander and that was able to continue my

55:23

gameplan or as they were to do a crazy

55:25

thing and I stopped it with the southern spoiling

55:28

thing or the only chance I'm asking was to

55:30

wipe the board into reset and so that let

55:32

me do that in spain since be this huge

55:34

on a board wipe we were going to that

55:36

buy gas one of the biggest downsize afford wife's

55:38

especially nowadays because the so much to sufficient. Stuff

55:40

so much man a creation that you often

55:43

if you just board wipe. An

55:45

impasse. Rachel bills or boards him. He builds

55:47

his board and Megan builds her board and

55:49

you come back to your turn you into

55:51

one that are worth and you're like everyone's

55:54

boards huge than the last one. reportedly my

55:56

board which means I even I do with

55:58

the others replace did Rachel's use. Or board

56:00

before I use mine and so see Now

56:02

Scott the initiative from me and self instance

56:04

be board wipe allows your and set before

56:07

my turn to do that comes to my

56:09

turn I'm now in the driver's seat. I

56:11

republic my board first and everybody else is

56:13

looking to me like crap. I'm in a

56:15

refill my board but just it's to use

56:17

his first Yes yeah I love that. Yeah.

56:20

Oh you attacked me board wipe? Yeah. It's

56:25

also true too because yemi like I don't need

56:28

he will use as I've and less that attacks

56:30

coming right. And if it's not fun you know

56:32

I'll hold up production or something like and the

56:34

best way to find out of a test for

56:36

me. I used to wait until it happens to

56:39

be like oh it is okay well now board

56:41

I guess ssssss pretty go gaps. I like the

56:43

car lot. oh right okay this next one is

56:45

interesting. It's called a fleeting

56:47

reflection, one in a blue. For

56:49

an instant target creature you control

56:51

games hex proven Telenor Turn untapped

56:53

That creature until end of turn.

56:55

It becomes a copy of up

56:57

to one other target creature. So.

57:01

Hacks: Prove it and habit. And.

57:03

The make it a clone of something but own to end

57:05

of turn. If you like. It's

57:07

up to the is after. Yeah, I'm. So

57:10

I don't discard is really interesting and I

57:13

I think when you look at it you're

57:15

like what scenario would I need x prove

57:17

and on tap and a clone or something

57:19

else says So I think this card makes

57:21

more sense and is. Is

57:23

looks better to me if he to

57:25

split up into three. Thanks! If this

57:27

is a spell that says untapped target

57:29

creature or target creature gains tax proof

57:31

or target creature you control become the

57:33

copy of something else because all those

57:35

you can see the scenario where those

57:37

are very powerful like on tapping a

57:39

creature and having a powerful mandatory on

57:41

tapping a big blockers giving something expert

57:43

by the obvious applications and then if

57:45

your opponent has an old now bone

57:47

or some terrifying threats even a death

57:49

touch her you can instant speed get

57:51

the thing that you. Want use

57:54

it and. It doesn't

57:56

matter that it has x proof. that doesn't matter

57:58

that with untapped but those are nice things I

58:01

just think there's a lot of scenarios where

58:03

fleeting reflection can

58:05

be a really neat tool, but

58:08

obviously you need one of those things to be exactly

58:10

what you're doing. And I think for me, it's the

58:12

protection. It's going to be the primary usage. Right.

58:17

Like I have a deck that's full of twiddles that

58:19

untaps my creature. So it'll

58:21

go into that deck because the untap is really,

58:24

really strong. But I could certainly see situations where

58:26

I'm like, all right, I'm going to turn my

58:28

one-one spirit token into your Itali and I'll attack

58:30

with it and see what happens. Right. Because

58:33

mine can attack right now, presumably. Yeah.

58:36

And you weren't ready for this weird clone

58:40

that I can use here. So it's

58:42

like a combat trick and it's a clone

58:44

and it's a production spell and all of

58:46

those things are playable and really

58:48

powerful in Commander, especially for 2-mana. Yeah.

58:53

I don't love it. Yeah. Because

58:57

to me, you're most likely to

58:59

whatever your best thing is. Yeah.

59:02

They're trying to remove that and that's why you need the hexproof. And

59:05

so probably not going to clone something else because that's probably

59:07

your best thing and you want it for a certain reason.

59:11

And if you proactively use it on

59:14

a token to turn it into,

59:16

let's just say a Nyxplume agent or something,

59:18

that would be sweet. You open

59:20

yourself up to, they remove

59:22

in a response or something like that and you kind of get

59:24

blown out in those circumstances and you lose

59:26

the protection part. Like if it's there for

59:28

protection, I think

59:31

you'd go forward in an explanation scenario. Okay,

59:33

fine. It's

59:35

worth a shot to go after it. So I

59:38

think it's not usable but I think it's just rare

59:40

that you're going to really want more than one

59:42

of these modes. And the protection one

59:44

being the most important means like, I

59:48

think most of the time I'll rather just have a counter spell

59:50

because I can be so much more proactive with the counter spell.

59:53

I don't think that's exactly my thing. It also

59:55

stops their other stuff. So if I replace a

59:58

negate with this. I

1:00:00

feel like my flexibility with Negate

1:00:02

is much greater than my flexibility with this. Yes,

1:00:05

Negate cannot turn my spirit into an

1:00:07

Avacyn, but most games

1:00:09

I don't run into a situation where I

1:00:11

wish my Negate could turn

1:00:13

my spirit into an Avacyn. Yeah,

1:00:15

and that's how I sort of think about it. And the untap I think

1:00:18

is sort of the weakest of all of them, because

1:00:20

I love tapping and untapping things, don't get me wrong,

1:00:22

but on a one-use instant is not the way I

1:00:24

really want to

1:00:26

do that. Oh yeah, definitely. But

1:00:29

you might come into scenarios where you do find

1:00:31

that it is worth it to do that. I just

1:00:33

think it's hard to predict with any given game

1:00:35

or even one out of 10 games is going

1:00:38

to present you with that shot. Yeah,

1:00:40

I think this is not a... I

1:00:43

wouldn't replace a Counterspell with this. And

1:00:46

in a lot of my decks, I only

1:00:48

run a certain number of Counterspells, so this

1:00:50

gives me a neat defensive sort of techy

1:00:53

piece that can use the

1:00:55

board and do a trick that

1:00:57

people wouldn't expect. I love

1:00:59

the idea of turning a creature into a

1:01:01

more powerful blocker to kill the thing. It

1:01:03

becomes a removal spell, but you have to

1:01:05

play it really, really, really

1:01:07

sharp and you need to have creatures on the board to use it.

1:01:10

So it's not as good as a

1:01:12

Negate, but I do think that it's like...

1:01:15

But the problem is there's so many versions

1:01:17

of Negate that you're just choosing to play,

1:01:19

which I think is fine for like, I

1:01:21

want to keep my power level of my deck down or other

1:01:23

reasons. But like, oh man, that scares

1:01:25

me, that scenario where I cast some of my things

1:01:28

so I can block you. A

1:01:30

removal spell removes their creature and

1:01:32

you can't really... It's hard

1:01:34

to get blown out by that, but they go, okay, cool, you turn

1:01:36

your thing into a thing, I remove your thing. And

1:01:39

it's like, ugh, I hate that scenario. I would just rather... If

1:01:41

I just had a sword, I just killed a thing attacking me

1:01:43

and now I didn't put myself in

1:01:45

the situation where they kill one of my creatures

1:01:47

and I lost this card on my hand. It's

1:01:49

just a more interesting card than putting another

1:01:51

blue removal spell or another Counterspell into

1:01:54

your deck. And It

1:01:56

presents these sort of strange situations where

1:01:58

you're like, okay, I'll clone my... They

1:02:00

are made dumber test or something like that

1:02:02

and now I have two of those. And

1:02:04

you know that you've got these tech pieces

1:02:06

that are really valuable. If you have them

1:02:08

cloned or you know that it on tapping

1:02:10

as a big part of your strategies, this

1:02:12

is gonna be a more useful tool than

1:02:14

it looks. because it looks. Like.

1:02:16

Box. But I think

1:02:19

it's neat. Yeah, I could don't expose extras

1:02:21

I can see. Likes getting a second. storms

1:02:23

Omar to see. Take it a second Burgee

1:02:25

though. sneer. Ah, you get a second.

1:02:27

We the same legendary bowser read thing that

1:02:30

when he sacked the Treasury's enter the Red

1:02:32

Back the New one. Out

1:02:34

his i forgot. Point is oh now I

1:02:37

asked this one proctor it's and totally another

1:02:39

part of that good friend Dragon is no

1:02:41

one there are just make it has er

1:02:43

staff for more. There's yang so so maybe

1:02:45

their situations where I want to have a

1:02:48

thing. yeah I mean I'd just rather play

1:02:50

the mirror with the artifacts can just turn

1:02:52

into South Sea Yeah Mirage, Max, Mara, his

1:02:54

eye with. A

1:02:58

successful. I

1:03:00

just keep. I know this is a magical

1:03:03

growth is that if. I keep imagining attacking

1:03:05

with for things and turning when you're on

1:03:07

block creatures into an old. Number Three is

1:03:09

her as a major and twelve forever as

1:03:11

the. Asus for

1:03:13

all those hours of people just

1:03:15

play Obama and. And

1:03:17

you're not dead. Sweet.

1:03:20

System. Turn. As a

1:03:22

D are all the mob ah

1:03:24

or more before the break your

1:03:27

hair. Is another story card

1:03:29

citizens the great Train

1:03:31

Heist. So. It's manner cost is

1:03:33

read at His first ability is plus two

1:03:36

and a read on top of creatures you

1:03:38

control if it's your combat lasers additional

1:03:40

combat days after this phase of the second

1:03:42

one is plus two powerless creatures you control

1:03:45

your put on his own. The first I

1:03:47

can tell him to turn in. The

1:03:49

final one is plus a red to target

1:03:51

opponent. When a creature you control deals combat

1:03:53

damage to that player, this turns create

1:03:56

a tapped treasure token so this is an

1:03:58

extra combat. Spell. yeah That's

1:04:00

the main component, right? Yeah. Yeah. The

1:04:02

other stuff's not. It's not as flexible,

1:04:04

I think, as final showdown, where you're

1:04:06

like, here, this part's good. And here,

1:04:08

this part's good. It's like, this is

1:04:10

an extra combat. If you have additional

1:04:12

mana, maybe it's a little pump. Yeah.

1:04:14

I think you could do the pump

1:04:16

first strike sometimes as just like, I

1:04:18

want to get an attack, and it allows me to

1:04:20

get a big attack in that I can feel good.

1:04:22

Like, if they block, I don't just get destroyed

1:04:25

here. I have something. Yeah. Yeah. But in general, you're going

1:04:27

to want to save this, set it up for like, I

1:04:29

have a really good attack. I'm going to do that twice.

1:04:31

I'm going to make treasures. I'm going to hit them harder

1:04:33

than they think. Right. Yeah. I think

1:04:35

the main thing to talk about this

1:04:37

is it's less about Spree, because it's just

1:04:40

a four mana instant speed extra

1:04:42

combat. It's just how good, how

1:04:45

much better is instant speed extra combat

1:04:47

than sorcery speed extra combat? Like, what

1:04:49

is the difference between that? It's

1:04:53

a decent bit better, because if you have to

1:04:55

cast a sorcery speed one, I know if I

1:04:58

can block and kill anything, I should, because it

1:05:00

won't be sweet on me a second time. Right.

1:05:02

So that kind of matters. You can cheat some

1:05:04

more damage in there for sure. Like, if you

1:05:06

think you're only getting hit for like six, you're

1:05:08

like, I guess I'll take six. Yeah. No, but

1:05:10

that's going to be a second one. I'll follow

1:05:12

up one. Suddenly, it's five

1:05:14

mana. All those things are one bigger, and

1:05:16

you have a second hit. It's

1:05:18

better, but it's not like twice

1:05:21

as good or something. It's not like the board wipe,

1:05:23

where it's way better at instant speed. It's like, yeah,

1:05:25

it's better at instant speed, but

1:05:27

it doesn't intrinsically change it, I don't

1:05:29

think. Yeah. It's, I think

1:05:33

it's definitely better, of course, any

1:05:35

time you can sort of get one over on your

1:05:37

opponents and feel like you had less information when you

1:05:39

made your blocking decisions is good. But

1:05:42

most of the time, if you have blocks, you make the blocks. And

1:05:44

if you don't have blocks, you don't make the blocks. Like,

1:05:47

let's say that there was a sorcery version

1:05:49

of that same effect that was one less

1:05:51

mana. You would play the sorcery version like

1:05:55

100% of the time. I would think so, yeah. Whereas

1:05:57

a board wipe, let's say, Breath of

1:05:59

God versus a five mana. There's no five-mana instant speed

1:06:01

board wipe in white, but if there was you'd play

1:06:03

the instance speed 100% of the time Yeah,

1:06:05

I would think so. Yeah, so I think that

1:06:07

shows you kind of the difference in parallel between

1:06:09

instances or trade for different kinds of effects Yeah

1:06:12

The the treasure making is interesting though because

1:06:14

if you have apt Yeah

1:06:17

But still if you have good attacks and you

1:06:19

can hit with even just three creatures make

1:06:21

six treasures right over the course of those two attacks

1:06:24

Hit them for a decent chunk of damage Maybe

1:06:26

kill them maybe knock them out maybe That's

1:06:30

pretty good. The six mana for your next turn means like,

1:06:32

you know, if I'm taking out a player I'm probably taking

1:06:34

on the rest of the table next turn what

1:06:36

let's say you have Two

1:06:38

creatures on board. Yeah, it's turned

1:06:40

like three Do

1:06:43

you burn the Rachel game? She has two creatures

1:06:45

on turn three? Yeah Good.

1:06:47

I guess you have to Jessica's will into

1:06:50

it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I mean

1:06:52

it not if you don't even do the extra

1:06:54

combat Would you just burn this treasure thing like

1:06:56

if you would spend two mana to get two

1:06:58

tap treasures? I don't think I would yeah,

1:07:01

and then I mean even next turn you on tap you have

1:07:03

six mana Yeah, but

1:07:05

it's one use mana. I think if I got

1:07:07

three treasure, I would start to think about it

1:07:09

Yeah, but I don't think would you would you

1:07:11

pay two mana for two tap treasures? Depends on

1:07:14

what my commander is I guess if I get

1:07:16

like slam and Aurelia after that then maybe but

1:07:19

old school nurse or something Yeah Something like that

1:07:21

if it's really important that you get your commander

1:07:23

down early This is sort of and

1:07:25

your commander protects itself so that I doesn't immediately

1:07:27

get removed I basically lost this card and the

1:07:29

commander right? Yeah, it's really

1:07:31

tough for me to imagine spending either of

1:07:34

the two abilities Without

1:07:36

the extra combat. So I

1:07:38

that's what I was thinking It was like when is

1:07:40

are the treasures most impactful that you wouldn't be? Yeah,

1:07:43

if you're really wide and you had a lot of

1:07:45

tokens Yeah, you could think about it in that like

1:07:47

maybe the first attack is Well,

1:07:50

the first attack is gonna knock somebody out and there's still other

1:07:52

players left You might as well use the second attack on the

1:07:54

other player. So yeah Yeah, it's

1:07:56

hard to you're right. It's hard to imagine

1:07:58

a lot of scenarios where You

1:08:00

you're not just holding this for the

1:08:02

extra extra combat. Yeah. Yep, cool

1:08:06

We still have a lot of cards to talk about oh, it's

1:08:09

worth mentioning You can find this with Sunforger also, which

1:08:12

is really really good and put it on ice

1:08:14

crimes after two Yeah, you can do it like

1:08:16

you can hit with the Sunforger equipped and then

1:08:18

pop the Sunforger off and cast this It gets

1:08:20

way better with the ice upon actually because the

1:08:22

treasures pay for the next one Mmm,

1:08:25

so that becomes a like yeah, I'm

1:08:27

getting extra promise every turn once

1:08:29

I could kind of get in Yeah, I would

1:08:31

think about this as to read read for an

1:08:33

extra combat with some upside Especially if you have

1:08:35

some synergy like Sunforger or a spell seeker Okay.

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No. Well, it is the last Thunder Junction

1:13:16

episode. So we're a little bit cowboyed out

1:13:18

maybe. Maybe. Any way. No, we're not cowboyed

1:13:20

out. We need to cowboy up. Isn't

1:13:23

that a thing? I don't know. All right. We're

1:13:25

moving on here. We're talking about the cards in the 99 from Outlaws of

1:13:29

Thunder Junction. Our next

1:13:31

card up is a

1:13:33

mono black one. It is a spree card.

1:13:35

It is insatiable avarice. One

1:13:37

black for a sorcery has spree, but

1:13:39

only two options. Option

1:13:41

number one, you have to, you plus two,

1:13:43

so it will be three mana to do this. Search

1:13:46

your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card

1:13:48

on top. And then the

1:13:50

second spree option is plus black, black

1:13:53

target player draws three cards and

1:13:56

loses three life. So for black, black, black, you

1:13:58

can draw three, lose three. for

1:14:00

black, black, black, and two, you

1:14:02

can search for, remember it

1:14:05

resolves in this order, search for a card, put it on top of

1:14:07

your library, then draw three cards and lose three,

1:14:09

one of which will be the card that you search for. Okay,

1:14:12

so it's a three-mana imperial

1:14:14

seal-ish, a three-mana draw three, five-mana

1:14:17

demonic tutor draw two.

1:14:19

Sure. Ish. Ish. You

1:14:22

lose some life from there. And it's black, black, black. Yeah.

1:14:25

Which is rough. Yeah,

1:14:27

this is an interesting, I

1:14:29

think the first mode is an

1:14:32

incredibly over-costed tutor. Yep. And

1:14:34

if you don't have a way to draw it immediately,

1:14:36

I would feel very behind.

1:14:38

Yep. Just paying two and a

1:14:40

black for a top of library tutor. Yep. But

1:14:43

three-mana draw three, lose three, that's

1:14:45

a card that we would play. Absolutely,

1:14:47

I mean, that's like mono-black painful truths,

1:14:50

kind of, which is three-mana draw three,

1:14:52

lose three. You have to be very

1:14:54

heavy black because it's black, black, black.

1:14:56

So yeah, the casting cost is tough,

1:14:58

but if you're mono-black or maybe two-color,

1:15:00

but like 60% of

1:15:03

your deck is black and your mana leans towards black

1:15:05

a lot more. Because

1:15:07

yeah, you don't need the gases on turn three either. No.

1:15:10

You don't need cards yet. So you're casting

1:15:12

this a little bit later than that. So

1:15:15

it's not like you need to hit black, black, black in your first three lands

1:15:18

or something like that. And you're

1:15:20

in mono-black already. You're gonna

1:15:22

have the mono-black supercharged packages,

1:15:24

like the one that doubles all

1:15:26

your swamps and herb orgs, yep,

1:15:29

it's definitely good in like a Keurig deck where

1:15:31

you really focus on the black deck. Now it's

1:15:33

a free draw three. It's a lose a lot.

1:15:36

It's a lose seven. More

1:15:38

than that, you have to play black, black, black. So

1:15:41

it's six, nine, pay

1:15:44

nine, draw three. Yeah, and I will

1:15:46

say one of the upsides of just draw spells is the fact that

1:15:48

they can dig you out of like missing land drops and things like

1:15:50

that. So if you start out and you're in an Orzhov deck and

1:15:52

you go, you know, swamp,

1:15:54

swamp plains, this won't help

1:15:56

you find that fourth land drop. It has to be black, black, black. So

1:15:58

maybe I was a little bit wrong. when I said that

1:16:01

it didn't matter as much. Yeah,

1:16:04

I think this is just, here's a question. Diabolic

1:16:06

tutor versus this. I

1:16:09

would run this. It's like four

1:16:11

mana to go get a card to

1:16:13

hand. It's really hard to follow that

1:16:15

up with an actual play. Whereas

1:16:18

like, but you know, this is black, black, black, I

1:16:20

guess. You want to draw three? I just don't like

1:16:22

tutors. I just don't like tutors is what it is.

1:16:25

They're close. They're close. Yeah, I agree

1:16:27

with you. I would play this over... Most of the

1:16:29

time I'd just rather draw three. Diabolic tutor. But I

1:16:31

think the gap between those two is not that big.

1:16:34

And I don't play diabolic tutor, which is why I

1:16:36

don't think this is generally going to see a ton

1:16:38

of play. It's just too inefficient

1:16:40

and too hard to cast. And you know, it is nice

1:16:42

to think when you add them up, you get both

1:16:44

things. But that's five mana. You're not casting any of the

1:16:47

stuff you got. Right. Yeah.

1:16:50

I would think about this as a three mana draw spell with

1:16:52

an emergency tutor option. And

1:16:55

like, I really need a board wipe. Yeah. The

1:16:57

problem is I have to spend five mana to go get that. That's the

1:16:59

chance I can still cast it after the attack. You need eight mana to

1:17:01

follow it up with a toxic dailers and a lot more life. Yeah.

1:17:05

Yeah, it's not my favorite. I don't think I'm going to be putting

1:17:07

this in a deck right away. Yeah.

1:17:10

The next card is Kambal,

1:17:13

Profiteering Mayor. One,

1:17:15

a white and a black for a two for

1:17:17

human advisor. Whenever one or more

1:17:19

tokens enter the battlefield under your opponent's

1:17:21

control, for each of them, create a

1:17:23

tapped token that's a copy of it.

1:17:26

This ability triggers only once each

1:17:28

turn. Then whenever one

1:17:30

or more tokens enter the battlefield under your

1:17:32

control, each opponent loses one life and you

1:17:35

gain one life. So

1:17:37

this is interesting. If

1:17:39

your opponent makes a treasure token repeatedly,

1:17:41

like with a Storm Kiln artist or

1:17:43

something, you get one tapped treasure token.

1:17:45

If they play a Dockside Extortionist, they

1:17:47

get four treasure tokens. You get four

1:17:49

tapped treasure tokens. But

1:17:51

no matter how many tokens you make, you drain them for

1:17:54

one. Yeah. I

1:17:58

think this card is very powerful. I

1:18:02

mean everything makes tokens now. Everything makes

1:18:04

tokens. The fact that it's not just free to tokens. Everything

1:18:06

that a computer deck has is like a stack of tokens

1:18:08

this high. Yeah. It's, there's

1:18:11

so many removals that make tokens. It's nuts.

1:18:14

If somebody beasts within their card and you get

1:18:16

a free beast out of it, that's

1:18:18

awesome. Pretty great. I mean there's clues,

1:18:20

there's foods, there's maps, there's

1:18:22

treasures, there's bloods, there's

1:18:24

zombies and staprelings and

1:18:27

plants. Like it's

1:18:29

insane. In fact I would say one of

1:18:31

the hardest things we deal with with

1:18:33

gameplay episodes for this show is not

1:18:36

finding the cards for the decks, it's finding the tokens for the

1:18:38

decks. And enough tokens. And I would say 90% of games

1:18:41

we get into the middle of the game and

1:18:43

somebody plays the card and we're like where's the whatever

1:18:45

token and we look through this huge stack and

1:18:47

we've just missed them because there's so many. Yeah. Yeah.

1:18:51

It's crazy. So yeah just that part of it is going to, you're

1:18:53

just incidentally, you don't even have to build your deck around it. This

1:18:55

is the type of card where you just play it, if

1:18:58

you've got token synergies it's going to be great but even

1:19:00

in not token synergies you're just going to get a lot

1:19:02

of stuff. I think you could just throw this in the

1:19:04

deck. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Because

1:19:07

it's just a little hate bear that says like okay if you're

1:19:09

going to make some tokens over there you

1:19:11

better slow down just a little bit. Maybe

1:19:13

don't play that Annoying Procession because I will

1:19:15

be benefiting from your Annoying Procession. Oh

1:19:18

boy. Like it's tough

1:19:20

to play against if you're playing the token deck.

1:19:22

You do have to find an answer for this.

1:19:24

So it is a little bit of a speed

1:19:26

bump for the kinds of decks that are really

1:19:28

running rampant in Commander. Yeah.

1:19:30

Not to mention there's just so many removal spells

1:19:33

that just hand out free tokens all the time.

1:19:35

Like that you could run in your deck, you could

1:19:37

run a generous gift. I don't

1:19:40

love it but you could. Oh yeah that's true

1:19:42

because you give them a token. Yeah so you give

1:19:44

yourself an elephant in exchange. We're talking about in the

1:19:46

99. In the 99 yeah. So it's

1:19:48

not exactly a build around. Yeah. If

1:19:50

you build a Ken Ball deck then generous gift definitely goes in it.

1:19:53

For sure. It's full of these. There's

1:19:55

a brand new generous gift that I wanted to mention.

1:19:57

We're not going to talk about it because it's like

1:19:59

pretty good but you know it's bovine. find intervention. So

1:20:02

one in a white, destroy target artifact or creature,

1:20:04

its controller makes a two-two ox. All right. Combo.

1:20:07

I was thinking like rampage of the clans or something

1:20:10

that gives a lot of tokens to everybody all at

1:20:12

once. And I like that because

1:20:14

it's spread out. It's like Jimmy gets three,

1:20:16

Rachel gets four, Jake gets two, and I

1:20:18

get all those because they're all made at once,

1:20:20

right? Yeah. I mean, if they're all entered the

1:20:22

battlefield under your opponent's control for each of

1:20:25

them, yeah, create a tapped token. That's a

1:20:27

copy of it. This ability triggers only one

1:20:29

each turn. Yeah. I mean, I would assume if

1:20:31

all the tokens are made at the same time, you get

1:20:34

all of them. So that could be a cool

1:20:36

little combo depending on what colors you're in and

1:20:38

what your deck's doing if it doesn't have a

1:20:40

lot of enchantments and artifacts. There's like commanders that'll

1:20:42

give tokens away to your opponents and it's obviously

1:20:45

very powerful in those decks like a Shaderix type

1:20:47

of thing. You give them an inkling, you get

1:20:49

the inkling as well. But generally, I think this

1:20:51

is just the kind of card you can throw

1:20:53

into a white, black Legends deck or a white,

1:20:56

black, black token deck and it's going

1:20:58

to do a lot of work for you. Yeah. Even

1:21:00

just sort of a Kenrithy five color trying to cover

1:21:02

a lot of different angles and it's just saying like,

1:21:04

if I play against a token deck, this will help

1:21:07

me keep up with that. Yeah. Oddly,

1:21:09

I think this card would be better if

1:21:11

it didn't have the draining effect because the

1:21:14

draining effect is kind of like, hey, remember,

1:21:16

this card's a problem. Interesting. I'm doing something

1:21:18

every time you're doing something. Yeah. It has

1:21:20

a ... I just think it's

1:21:23

going to be annoying because you're going to have to

1:21:25

be like, hey, can I borrow

1:21:27

a couple of goblin tokens? Yeah. I'm going

1:21:29

to make those. Yeah. Okay. Can I borrow a couple of

1:21:31

those? Boards

1:21:34

are full of there. That'll

1:21:37

cause me to want to kill you. Yeah. You're going to

1:21:39

need ... Yeah.

1:21:42

Oh, four, four beasts. I only have three, three beasts.

1:21:44

Can I borrow one of your ... Okay.

1:21:47

The next one is lava

1:21:50

spur boots. You

1:21:52

know, it's not really a cowboy wild

1:21:54

west type of setting unless there are

1:21:56

some boots with the spurs. Mm-hmm. They

1:21:59

are men for one. Lava's for Roots.

1:22:02

One mana for an artifact equipment, Equip

1:22:05

creature gets plus one plus O and has haste

1:22:07

and ward one. Alright, these

1:22:10

are Swift for Boots at home kind of. Yep,

1:22:12

and equip for one. Did I already say that?

1:22:14

No, I never said that. Yeah, one to cast,

1:22:16

one to equip, plus one plus O,

1:22:18

haste and ward one. So

1:22:20

we know these abilities are powerful in Commander already, so

1:22:23

like we know that ward is good, we know that

1:22:25

haste is good, one to cast, one to equip, it's

1:22:27

hard to ask for cheaper. The question

1:22:29

is, does this beat out Swift for Boots? Yeah,

1:22:32

because it's one less mana

1:22:34

to cast it, same equip cost,

1:22:37

and you get ward one instead of hex proof,

1:22:39

which is a big difference. And plus one plus

1:22:41

O. Yeah. It's tricky, I mean, I don't run a

1:22:43

lot of Swift for Boots these days, like if I want

1:22:45

a pair of shoes, I run Lightning Greaves, and then if

1:22:48

I'm like trying to equip it with stuff, I'll run

1:22:51

Swift for Boots. I don't tend to run both, especially

1:22:54

if I'm trying to use Swift for Boots to

1:22:56

protect like a commander that wants

1:22:59

to attack right away, it's just expensive to cast your

1:23:01

commander and hold up the one to attack. But

1:23:04

this is really cheap, you can

1:23:06

find it with Urza Saga, so

1:23:08

there's like more synergies around Lavas

1:23:10

for Boots. Yeah, I'm

1:23:12

like you, I don't play Swift for Boots that much, so

1:23:14

the question is kind of like, it's definitely not as good

1:23:16

as Greaves, Lavas for Boots and Lavas for Boots. I don't

1:23:19

think so. Yeah, it's Lavas for Boots.

1:23:21

The amount of mana you save between two and one

1:23:23

versus the equip cost of zero and one is... And

1:23:26

the equip cost is the cost you're gonna pay repeatedly,

1:23:28

so that matters a lot more. And

1:23:30

for that reason, I do think Swift for Boots is

1:23:32

probably in my estimation still better, because

1:23:34

the protection component is usually the more important

1:23:37

component to it, and the haste is good,

1:23:39

but I don't necessarily... Usually you're

1:23:41

playing Swift for Boots, and usually you're

1:23:43

playing Greaves also, mainly because I don't

1:23:45

want my commander to die. I

1:23:47

mean, I think haste is a huge part of those though. I

1:23:50

attack more than you do, but like... That's a very

1:23:52

good part, but I think you want

1:23:54

the protection and the haste is gravy. It's

1:23:57

rarely that I want the haste and the protection is gravy.

1:24:00

And the Ward 1 is a huge

1:24:02

difference between text proof. Yeah. And the

1:24:04

two-mana, casting costs versus the one-mana, I

1:24:06

think is less of a... A

1:24:08

big difference? Yeah, to me, because I'm not going to

1:24:10

pay that over and over. So it's really just one-mana

1:24:12

total somewhere over the course of the

1:24:14

game, which feels OK to me. If the equip cost

1:24:17

was zero on Lava Spur Boots,

1:24:19

I would have a difference. Then definitely, yeah.

1:24:21

Or if Swiff of Boots was two to

1:24:23

equip and Lava Spur Boots was one, although

1:24:25

Swiff of Boots becomes quite bad at two

1:24:27

to equip. I think the one colorless is

1:24:29

actually huge. It just fits into commander curves

1:24:31

really well, especially in decks that are running

1:24:33

talismans and that kind of thing, because so

1:24:35

often... Cast the signet and... Yeah. Or not

1:24:37

signet. You cast your arcane signet. There you

1:24:39

go. You cast your mind stone, and then

1:24:41

you can cast it right away. And it

1:24:43

comes down the turn before that. So it

1:24:45

just fits in the early turns better for

1:24:47

me. Whereas Swiff of Boots, I

1:24:49

would still rather ramp onto, and then I want

1:24:51

to cast my commander. Even if I don't have

1:24:53

the Swiff of Boots, it feels awkward. But the

1:24:55

problem is, in those scenarios, you often, if you're

1:24:58

so tight, don't have the extra mana to equip

1:25:00

it anyway. Yeah. So it's, I

1:25:02

don't know, I don't think it's

1:25:04

going to matter all the time that you're able to get

1:25:06

it out there. You also have to be able to equip

1:25:08

it. Yeah. So I don't know, because Ward 1.

1:25:11

Ward 1 is not Hexproof. I'm annoyed by

1:25:13

Ward and just how much they've been putting

1:25:15

it on stuff. And it just takes away

1:25:17

the interactivity of games when

1:25:20

you just aren't able to remove stuff. Or Ward

1:25:22

2 and Ward 3 feels like whoever

1:25:24

removes that loses the game, because they had to pay

1:25:26

so much to do that that they couldn't develop

1:25:29

their board, and everybody else just benefited. But

1:25:33

Ward 1 is the one where I think they should have

1:25:35

just restored. They shouldn't have had Ward in a number. I

1:25:37

think Ward should have just only been Ward 1, and that's

1:25:39

all you can do. Sure, yeah. And just give it Hexproof

1:25:41

or give it Ward, but also just don't do that most

1:25:43

of the time. So to me, Ward

1:25:45

1 is just not very much protection. If

1:25:47

it was Ward 2, I think

1:25:50

they're concretely better than Swiff of Boots. Yes.

1:25:53

I will be putting this probably over Swiff of Boots

1:25:55

in Lord of Tresserhorn, because the plus 1 plus 0

1:25:57

makes a very big difference when you're a prep commander.

1:26:00

Commander's power is 10, but that is

1:26:02

a pretty narrow use. Yeah, and I can't

1:26:05

think of a deck that I have

1:26:07

where I even care about the power

1:26:09

of the commander. I

1:26:14

can't think of one or two. I'm

1:26:16

trying to, but I can't think of one. That's the

1:26:18

difference between us. Hey, you said Gremen. Gremen's

1:26:21

power matters. But I don't care about Gremen's power. And

1:26:23

there's how many cards you draw. It's

1:26:25

how I can... Yeah, I'm gonna pump it. So one

1:26:27

doesn't really matter that much to me, yeah. All

1:26:30

right. Speaking

1:26:32

of equipment at home, this

1:26:34

next one is Lost Jite.

1:26:38

It is a one-mana legendary equipment. It

1:26:40

says, whenever a quipped creature deals combat

1:26:42

damage, put a charge counter on Lost

1:26:44

Jite. Remove a charge counter

1:26:46

from it. Choose one. Untap

1:26:48

target land. Target creature can't block this turn.

1:26:50

Or put a plus and plus one counter

1:26:53

on equipped creature. It has equip one. One

1:26:55

to cast, one to equip. Three abilities. And

1:26:57

you only get one charge counter. It's like

1:26:59

they split Umi's always Jite down the middle.

1:27:02

Now it's two. Yeah, I mean Umi's always

1:27:04

Jite is broken, so I'm glad they like fixed it. But they

1:27:06

lowered the cost to make up for it, which is a big

1:27:08

deal. It's a big deal. Yeah. And

1:27:10

these abilities are interesting. They're not as punishing as

1:27:13

Umi's always Jite, which has like removal and gain

1:27:15

life and... The removal is the part where it's

1:27:17

just like, why does it have removal? That just

1:27:19

seems mean. That... The

1:27:22

fact that you can just pick off creatures after

1:27:24

that thing has died is bananas. But this

1:27:27

has the target creature can't block this turn, so

1:27:29

it gives like, you know, removal

1:27:33

if you're attacking. But I think

1:27:35

the big thing

1:27:37

to talk about here is the untap target land. Yeah.

1:27:41

Because you can kind of store mana in this

1:27:43

sword. Yeah, you brought this

1:27:45

up and I didn't think about it in these terms,

1:27:47

but it's a smart way to think about it, which

1:27:49

is like it kind of makes each counter

1:27:51

a treasure. Yeah. Like

1:27:54

at minimum a treasure. Because it taps for

1:27:56

mana of any color and it's like an

1:27:58

expenditure of a resource. You take off

1:28:00

the counter and you untap a land and then

1:28:02

you have to use that land right now Otherwise,

1:28:05

why'd you do that? Very similar to a treasure.

1:28:07

Yeah, that's at a base level obviously Yeah, and

1:28:09

it gets even better the more powerful lands you

1:28:11

have Yeah, so if you have a niktos if

1:28:13

you have a cabal coffers if you have a

1:28:15

guy's cradle if you're like a lotus fail Yeah,

1:28:17

anything that taps for more than one mana this

1:28:19

gets better and better and better Yeah, I like

1:28:22

to run a lot of untappers and run bounce

1:28:24

lands and even those enchantments like market festival You

1:28:26

can make yourself a land that taps for four

1:28:29

and then have two or three Think you know

1:28:31

even one or two things out that untap lands and

1:28:33

this GT You could remove a counter tap it remove

1:28:35

another counter tap it remove another kind of sorry move

1:28:37

a counter untap it then tap it Obviously, so

1:28:40

if you have a niktos and you can activate

1:28:42

it three times like you're probably gonna win

1:28:44

that turn Yeah, that's a that's a wild thing I

1:28:47

mean this card is so power for those who haven't played with

1:28:49

umi's always to you say It's combat damage

1:28:52

of any kind. Do you don't have to hit a player?

1:28:54

You get hit a creature You could be blocking you could

1:28:56

be attacking it any time it deals any kind of combat

1:28:58

damage and once you get a couple counters on It it's

1:29:00

almost impossible to block You don't even need to know block

1:29:02

clause because once you've got four or five counters on anything

1:29:04

to block with you go cool I'll just put counters on

1:29:06

this thing to kill your thing Yeah, and

1:29:08

you're not attacking the token player that's got chump

1:29:10

blockers. You're attacking the player That's like got only

1:29:13

two important things and they don't want to lose

1:29:15

them for free to your counters Then it is a

1:29:17

removal spell so you they're just like don't block get

1:29:19

another counter now We can you know

1:29:21

untap six lane our land six times and you're just

1:29:23

waiting for that other shoe to fall Yeah, I mean

1:29:25

the power of umi's always to today has always been

1:29:28

Thread of activation. Yeah, right. It's not necessarily the

1:29:30

activation Although that is very powerful too But the

1:29:32

fact that they could do it means that you're

1:29:35

not gonna commit more creatures to the board It

1:29:37

means that you're you have to play on the

1:29:39

back foot until that is gone Yep,

1:29:41

you can't play any small creatures. They're just so free

1:29:43

to kill. Yeah, even the big ones you can't really

1:29:45

block Yeah, and this is not as good because the

1:29:47

modes are not as good the life game of Is

1:29:50

sort of sneaky good on whom is always detail is

1:29:52

just like you're losing game, but they just can't kill

1:29:55

you Yeah, but it can give you a lot of

1:29:57

mana. So it might be able to do a little bit

1:29:59

of an impression a sword and feast of famine and later

1:30:01

in the game. But I think this is probably only playable like if

1:30:04

you've got some of the lands like you said, I don't think you

1:30:06

can just run this in a deck and

1:30:08

be like, I'm going to untap

1:30:11

my basic lands or my, you know, my

1:30:13

triomes. You know, that's not going to be

1:30:15

impactful enough. I think

1:30:17

you have to have a couple

1:30:19

of coffers and nikthos, something like that,

1:30:21

something very high impact, but

1:30:23

you have to have one or two of those.

1:30:26

It's going to be great in the decks where you're running that

1:30:28

little package where you, you know, you got an expedition map and

1:30:30

you're going to go find your cabal coffers and that's one of

1:30:32

your game plans. Then it becomes

1:30:35

quite good. Yeah. I mean, there's

1:30:37

just not many things in the game that

1:30:39

can untap lands without paying any mana repeatedly

1:30:41

in the same turn. Most of the time

1:30:43

you have to tap a thing to untap

1:30:45

a land and that happens once. And this

1:30:47

is a way to do that. It only

1:30:50

really does something in the early game or if you

1:30:52

have a creature on board, but like it's

1:30:55

going to do a lot of work for you and

1:30:57

it's very, very low opportunity cost. And it's a hard

1:30:59

thing for your opponents to interact with because you hold

1:31:02

the coffers, right? And you're like, Oh, the detail now

1:31:04

has four counters on it. That doesn't look that bad

1:31:06

to people. And you go coffers, tap it, untap it,

1:31:08

tap it, untap it, tap it, untap it, tap it,

1:31:10

torment of hellfire done. Yeah. Right.

1:31:12

Whatever. But it's just like, uh,

1:31:15

exsanguinate. It doesn't like that where their

1:31:17

opportunity in Iraq that was very low,

1:31:20

very tough. They can't even

1:31:22

kill the creature out from under it.

1:31:24

Right. Yeah. So the ability. Of the

1:31:26

sword is removing the counters. Yeah.

1:31:29

Um, really powerful. It's not

1:31:31

as powerful as its big brother, but, um, powerful,

1:31:33

the big brother was going to do a lot

1:31:35

of work. Uh,

1:31:38

okay. All right. The next one is also

1:31:40

an impression of its big brother. Yep. Memory

1:31:42

vessel. It is three

1:31:45

red, red for an artifact. You tap

1:31:47

an exile memory vessel and then each

1:31:49

player exiles the top seven cards of

1:31:51

their library until your next turn. Players

1:31:54

may play cards. They exiled this

1:31:56

way and they can't play

1:31:58

cards from their hand. activate

1:32:01

only as a sorcery. It's

1:32:05

worth noting both Lost Gte and this card are available

1:32:07

in the big score expansion. Those are just going to

1:32:09

be in the play boosters in the list slot, but

1:32:13

they'll have a different icon

1:32:15

on them. Both reimagined

1:32:17

fair versions of spooky cards from the

1:32:19

past. Yeah, this is a new memory

1:32:21

jar. We've got them in a vessel

1:32:23

now. Play

1:32:27

the left. Where am I memory? I swear I

1:32:29

left it in this jar. Nope,

1:32:31

nope. It's in these dice? I

1:32:33

don't know. Those are

1:32:35

totally dice. Yeah, so this is

1:32:39

my Horcrux. It might be a dice. Just one

1:32:41

in each. Yeah, this is very interesting. It's got

1:32:43

a lot of fixes on it. It exiles itself.

1:32:46

It has colored pips. It

1:32:50

can't be activated at instant speed. Memory

1:32:54

jar was broken in so many ways. There's

1:32:57

a lot of breaks. It also impulse draws

1:32:59

instead of drawing. To me, the biggest one

1:33:02

and the biggest thing that kind of makes

1:33:04

it... Because memory jar, there's all

1:33:06

kinds of loops and combos with it, obviously. But

1:33:08

even at a base level, a really good usage of

1:33:10

it was you play it, you wait

1:33:13

till your next turn, you activate it, and

1:33:16

now everybody sets their hand aside and

1:33:18

picks up a new seven, which sounds like,

1:33:20

hey, everybody got the same thing, but it's your turn

1:33:23

and you just untapped. Unless they didn't

1:33:25

do anything on their turn and have a

1:33:27

Vidalcanore out, they're stuck with only

1:33:29

the instance that they have mana to cast. So

1:33:32

they draw kind of zero cards, maybe like

1:33:34

one. Basically like they mill seven, you draw

1:33:36

seven. Yeah, they're going to get those other

1:33:38

ones back, but you drew seven, you cast

1:33:40

those seven, then the turn ends, and

1:33:42

you get the other cards you used to have back, and so did

1:33:44

they, but they didn't get to use any of the cards in the

1:33:46

interim. And that's just a

1:33:48

very baseline scenario for memory jar.

1:33:51

It just became a sort of draw seven, which

1:33:53

is nuts. Never

1:33:55

mind that they didn't know, like, hey, don't make this recurble and

1:33:57

other things. And then you can do stupid stuff like... Cyclonic

1:34:00

Rift and then they have to discard

1:34:02

all that stuff. Yeah like welder it

1:34:04

in yeah Yeah,

1:34:07

I memory vessel has a lot of breaks on

1:34:09

it to prevent it from being memory jar But

1:34:11

it does have some sort of interesting lines

1:34:15

of text on it that I Don't

1:34:18

think I've ever seen it says So

1:34:21

you keep these cards until your next

1:34:23

turn and so do all of your opponents. Yeah,

1:34:25

that's what I guess I did Didn't

1:34:27

explain that part. Yeah, the difference is here is

1:34:30

like you impulse drop But

1:34:32

you don't go back to being able

1:34:34

to play cards from your hand until

1:34:36

your next turn. So Rachel

1:34:38

gets on tap and use the seven

1:34:40

cards Yeah, and Jimmy gets on tap and use the

1:34:42

seven cards He got then making it sound tap and

1:34:44

uses them to card she got and then it comes

1:34:46

back to me And now we can't use those cards

1:34:48

anymore In yes until

1:34:51

your next turn not even the end. So yeah

1:34:53

that makes it a Lot

1:34:56

worse because you're you're getting seven cards sure and you

1:34:58

get them first But everybody does get seven

1:35:00

cards that they're gonna get a fresh card Yeah,

1:35:03

the interesting thing about it is it says that

1:35:06

they cannot play cards from their hand. That's weird.

1:35:08

I Don't think

1:35:10

that's a line of text on any other magic

1:35:12

card. I can't think of one but

1:35:14

it's um So you can

1:35:16

lock players out of their draw engines if

1:35:18

that you know that they have a scary

1:35:21

card in their hand They

1:35:23

tutored you can be like yeah, you can cast

1:35:25

that after you play with these seven cards So

1:35:29

it does sort of trap them with

1:35:31

seven for a full rotation If

1:35:34

you have any information about what's in their hand

1:35:36

It can be very very powerful effect and if

1:35:38

they have any kind of onboard card draw engine

1:35:40

like a guardian project or you know When they

1:35:42

cast creatures they're drawing extra cards. They're not getting

1:35:45

any of that benefit for a full turn they'll

1:35:48

on tap with a lot more cards, but I Wonder

1:35:51

if there's a way that mmm. This is

1:35:53

how my brain works to like yeah Somehow

1:35:56

keep that part where they're like then they can't

1:35:58

play cards from their hands I mean it's

1:36:00

players camp like art so you lock yourself out

1:36:03

of it. Good point. Maybe I'm an impulsive draw

1:36:05

deck I'm prosper or something. Yeah, yeah, you're benefiting.

1:36:07

Yeah, I don't know but that's

1:36:09

an interesting line I mean you probably make token

1:36:11

copies of this. Mm-hmm. Yeah, there you go And

1:36:13

that's how you sort of keep doing it and

1:36:16

if you know they sort of got Specific important

1:36:18

things in their hand you just lock it away for two

1:36:20

or three turns and that's probably enough Yeah, that's cool. The

1:36:22

like the blue one that makes token copies of the thing

1:36:24

It's in yeah, and just kind of do this every turn.

1:36:26

Maybe that's a way to kind of do it. It's kind

1:36:28

of fun I mean, you

1:36:30

know who should jump through for Keep

1:36:33

them from the really frustrate Jimmy, but like, you know, it

1:36:35

might be worth it Jimmy

1:36:37

would jump through the hoops to frustrate you Friends

1:36:41

it's worth noting you can play this with a

1:36:43

drainage magistrate You can cast the cards out of

1:36:45

your hand they can can't cast the cards out

1:36:48

of their you know Turns

1:36:54

out dress magistrates pretty impressive pretty good

1:36:57

All right, let's keep moving This

1:37:00

next card is pillage the bog black and a green

1:37:02

for a sorcery Look at the top X cards of

1:37:05

your library where X is twice the number of lands

1:37:07

you control put one of them into your hand And

1:37:09

the rest on the bottom of your library in a

1:37:11

random order it is plot one

1:37:13

black green Cost

1:37:16

is more than this man. Okay. Yeah, hypothetically. It's a

1:37:18

you plot it now So you cast it's more impactful

1:37:20

when you have more lands later, right? He

1:37:22

would plot it, you know when you

1:37:24

have a spare three mana the longer you wait

1:37:27

them closer gets to a tutor I guess yeah,

1:37:30

and I think that you see more and more lands

1:37:32

if you're in a ramp deck obviously you wait until you're

1:37:34

like I have a I'm gonna cast a

1:37:37