¶ Magic the Gathering Set Discussion
what's good , nerds ? It's jet black extreme , and we're back at again with another episode of the zone podcast . We are at it again with our magic gathering talk and , just like with modern horizon three , we're going to talk about this assassin's creed set that's coming up , uh , with me . Today .
We got talos gundam , we got saitama smash and we got theed Enigma , so let's just go ahead and zone in on it . Gentlemen , what are some cards that you're interested in getting from this set ?
Don't get me started , oh , don't get me started . First off , I need the trio , the new trio that's coming out . I need them , my body wants them . The Capitoline Triad yep , I can't wait for these people to go on it . Just a reference to Juno , minerva and Inu from the Assassin's Creed . I believe it's the second game the Capitoline Triad has .
It says , has those who come before . This spell costs one list to cast for each historic card in your graveyard . For those who don't know Artifacts , legends and Sagas , those are our historic cards . Exile those cards from your graveyard with a total mana value and get this Total mana value of 30 or greater . You get an emblem with these creatures .
Have 9 , 9 , power and toughness . Toss for 10 . Yeah cost for 10 . Yeah , intense crazy who thought this was a good idea to make this card to begin with yeah , there's um , there's several cards that are going to be absolutely ridiculous in this set .
Um , I mean , it's like well , yeah , but there's a couple that like okay . So , for instance , excalibur , sword of Eden , it's a 12 drop legendary artifact equipment , but it costs X less to cast , where X is the total mana value of historic permanency control . So I mean in any legendary . In any legendary matters .
Deck any artifact deck , you're gonna play that for free . Uh , and it says equip creature gets plus 10 , plus 10 and has vigilance . Equip legendary creature is 2 . That's , that's gonna be real easy , um yeah , yeah then you've got stuff like uh , they're reprinting conspiracy , they're reprinting cover of darkness . Um , there's just , there's a lot of good .
Then you've got stuff like their reprinting Conspiracy , their reprinting Cover of Darkness there's just a lot of good stuff in this set . I think that a lot of people kind of blew it off at first because they were kind of thinking , oh , it's Assassin's Creed and you know , ubisoft kind of has a bad reputation . That kind of spoils things for their franchise .
I think it goes deeper , to where they're just getting tired of the whole universe Beyond things , where they just Don't want all these Different IPs , like they essentially don't want it to be the Fortnite of trading card games .
I agree with that . I think that's a valid point too .
It is already . Frankly , I was just about to say it is already it's too late .
No , that's what valid point too . It is already . Frankly , I was just about to say it is already it's too late .
No , that's what I'm saying , Like they're just still bitching and moaning about it . That's all it is .
Yeah , Like we already got my Little Pony , we have now Assassin's Creed Father's Gate from obviously anybody who was playing Father's Gate's , you know , from dnd .
But we we have already tons of universes already and it kind of feels like it's a little bit like fortnite yeah , I mean like , like legit , there was no way you were going to get that and be like , oh no , it shouldn't be the fortnite , no , it's fortnite of cards . Almost every , almost almost every realm is represented .
Believe me , there are a lot of different ones that are supposed to be coming out , which , by the way , let me just do this really , really quick , because most people don't realize that hey , even for card games , we do have data maps .
So there have been several sets that are on the table , if you will , that have not been , you know , given green light to go yet , but they are rumored to go , one of which was a Ninja Turtle set . Now , this Ninja Turtle set was slated relatively around the same time as this Assassin's Creed set .
They went with the Assassin's Creed , but at the same time , I'm relatively wishing that they would burn Ninja Turtles as well . Like , go for it , it'd be great . Come on , just do it .
You know , it would be a good idea for them to do that too , because you can kind of almost argue certain crossovers , like you can kind of argue assassin's creed , for the fact that like assassin was already a character or a creature type in magic .
So like this is kind of like a way to bolster that creature type as to where , like the ninja turtles , bro , you got ninjas , you got yuri , you've got , um , uh , I can't remember his name now , damn , the other ninja . Uh , commander , that's really good , satoru , you've got , you've got ninjas . So , like the ninja turtles , it's just extra flavor .
So I mean , I could see them doing it and it it being a smash hit most definitely so .
Therein lies this fact , and that's why I'm just like , hey , it's too late for that to not be the fortnight of what it was . It's here , it's here now . I'ma say for this , the spoilers that I've seen , and what not ? I like them , definitely like them , definitely intrigued , definitely intrigued .
Also , at the same time , I'm still the person that's going to say them , definitely like them , definitely intrigued , definitely intrigued . Also , at the same time , I'm still the person that's going to say , hey , I'm not trying to spend my freaking rent money to go and basically buy a whole entire day .
I'm not trying to do this , so I am hoping they get better with some of these car prices , but in the same token same token , though and some of them got that text of hey look , I'm expensive because I'm a broken motherfucker , so I can breathe with some of it that right there will give it I'm expensive because I'm busted .
Absolutely .
Now , before I hand this off , JB , let me ask y'all something . Let me ask y'all something right , and this is something to ponder and think about . If y'all ain't got no answer , Y'all ain't got no answer . Why is it that certain cars that we know need to be banned ? And this is something to ponder and think about .
If y'all ain't got no answer , but hey , why is it that certain cards that we know need to be banned need to be removed from things like Modern and Commander ? They need to be removed , or ?
yet not removed . Like fucking Sol Ring . I'm so fucking tired , dude , of having to like go into a commander match and then some dumb motherfucker being like okay , cool , turn one Land , tap soul ring , tap arcane , signet , tap , mana bolt , suck my dick . Also mana crypt . Yeah , fucking mana crypt , just to really put that fire in there .
You know what I'm saying .
Or Rhyzic Study .
Oh yeah , fucking Rhyzic , study . I turned two .
Yeah , rhyzic , study .
Yeah , so yeah . I just got that like I just got that question because , relatively one , it was something that a few friends of mine said to me . They were talking about Yu-Gi-Oh , but I was like I feel like that's not just in Yu-Gi-Oh but in a lot of other card games as well , because there are certain ones that should be banned but they're not .
Like there's a certain one that just literally should be banned but they're not . They never get hit . Yeah , and Magic the Gathering has a bad habit of it because , hey , you know I'm not going to lie while I am a very big Eldrazi fan , some of them shouldn't be there , some of them should not be there Just being real . Some of them shouldn't be there .
Some of them should not be there , just being real . Some of them shouldn't be there . This ain't .
I think some of it has to do with Ulalek .
That's ridiculous . Essentially , that's like a Roman throne for Kula spells you can not only copy spells that you cast , but you also make copies . Copy spells that you cast , but you also make copies of things that's already on the field , or more like you can copy the triggered abilities that pop off while you're casting spells .
So I'm like why , why does Eldrazi need that ?
And also with Echoes of Eternity and all those other cards that we talked about during Modern Horizon 3 , I guess my only theory is I don't think they're keeping track of how players can be uh resourceful and cunning enough to come up with uh combos that was like , okay , uh , we didn't expect it to be that busted , but , uh , just thought We'll print this card .
It'll be fun and it's like no Players are going to find a way . They're going to find a way to make it busted .
It's even more busted that they keep making cards that give you An extra turn , because , for example , in this new set , we're getting a new card that gives you an extra turn . Temporal Trespass you . That gives you an extra turn . Temporal Trespass you , delve , take an extra turn and exile the card and it costs for 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 11 mana .
8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ? Yep , 11 mana . And here's the thing you can just delve it , which is perfectly fine .
But if you're like me and you want to be the asshole of the group , I have an Emotee deck now and for those who don't know what Emotee does , anything that costs for 6 mana or more Cascade , if this shit hits , I'm taking an extra turn and it's gonna go for 11 , so I'm just gonna keep going down .
I'm just gonna keep going down over and over , and if I keep hitting for more than 6 mana , I'm just gonna keep going at . It'm just gonna keep going down over and over , and if I keep hitting for more than six mana , I'm just gonna keep going at it . Oh , cool , uh , karn's temporal whatever the hell gives another fucking turn .
Um , what's the other one that costs for five mana ? That gives you my extra turn if I hit it again .
Boom , that's another turn oh , there's also morag pre-realism combs , where every time you pop a land , you you get an extra combat phase and a main phase .
Yeah , dude , yeah , it's crazy , you can't tell me that's fair . Oh , but it costs that much mana to some of you kids . There's ways to go around it , trust me . There's so many ways to go around all these type of cards that cost a fuck ton of mana . There are ways , trust me .
I guess that's also why they're not really doing anything about it , because they just expect you to find an answer to it . It's not that broken . Stop that whining , just build your deck up to counter it .
Yeah , because I mean , like , that's the argument , like , uh , that's the argument with , like , the whole turgrid thing , right , where people hate turgrid and people hate her and hate her and hate her .
But realistically , when you think about it , it's the reason people hate her is because , yeah , she's mean and yeah , yeah , she causes you to , you know , have your own shit played against you .
But it's the simple fact that if you're , like , with cards that aren't your commander , it's a little I think it's a different , different conversation because , like you know , you can't see those because they're in the person's deck .
However , like , like , if I sit down at a table and I have Turgrid and Turgrid is in my command zone , all of y'all that I'm playing against should know hold your counter spells . If you counter Turgrid two times , I'm not going to pay nine mana to play her . So all you got to do , let me pop off , do whatever I'm doing .
But as soon as Turgrid hits the battlefield , like as soon as I'm getting to where I can play her , you just need to be ready , because when she hits , you know what she does , you can see that she's there , you know the threat she poses . There's no reason you should want to complain .
If she resolves , it's because you let her resolve and it's a flaw in how you play the game . And I think that goes back to what you just said , like that's how watsi is kind of looking at it . It's like , yeah , these cards may be busted , but people are aware of the cards , so build your deck to handle said card .
That is very true , very true , especially for white cards that all they do is destroy and exile so I mean cards like Turgrid weighs around it . Definitely ways around . You know , getting your ass kicked by your own cards Definitely going to be a way around it .
I mean hold on , hold on .
¶ New Magic the Gathering Set Discussion
I know we're kind of skipping because honestly we were going to talk about a little bit anyways , between Bloomboro and Dustborn . I have my spoilers released right around the time Assassin's Creed's come out . Doomsday's Cruciator to where ? Listen ? Doomsday's Cruciator makes Turgrid and Sjodred look like an act of mercy . Yeah , absolutely , absolutely .
You pop that shit pretty much . You better have your shit out on the battlefield or in your hand , because if your good shit is still in your library , goodbye , gone , exile . All your libraries except the bottom six , mm-hmm .
And it's one of those things where , like , it's getting to the point to where , like and I guess it's kind of been that way all along , honestly , if we're being honest but like , when you look at a person and you see the commander they're playing , you should kind of try to piece together some things you know , because it's like with certain themes .
You know that certain cards go with certain themes , you know . So , like you kind of know what to expect . But that card , dude , oh my , as soon as I saw it , I was like I got a buddy that has a Krig deck and I have I am not bullshitting you , I have played against him and on turn three he has whittled himself down to like eight life .
And as soon as I saw that card , I was like he's gonna get this card and he's gonna do absolutely absurd shit with it in that deck , because it's his main deck . He's been building , he's he's had it for since crit came out and I mean he's just got all of the mono , mono black power cards in that deck . Dude , it is it .
It's absurd what he has in that deck . So , like it , it just goes like you know what this deck does , you kind of know what it does , expect things can I also , uh , throw out there a card that's in , uh , the assassin creed set ?
that kind of scares the shit out of me . For a two drop enchantment , uh , rest in peace . To where you put that on the field , you exile all graveyards . And if a card or token will be put to the graveyard from anywhere , you exile it instead . Like why would you ?
print that . No , I'm so happy . I'm so happy you mentioned that one , because that one in the previously mentioned card I felt like running those , because I was like , hey , you know what , what would happen if I just send everybody's dick to the entirety of the graveyard and exile it ? Yeah , because why ?
not right . If you could do it , why not ?
Like , just why not ? Right , Like , if you could do it , why not ? Like , just why not , you know ? Finally , by chance , I just decide oh wait , hey , you know what ? I have a card in hand that just pays just enough mana to where , if I exile , if cards are exiled from anybody's graveyard , to you know , I can play any spell within that exile set .
Oh look , wait , damn , those are entire decks . Trust , every card , damn Damn . This is going to be a sad day for you , yeah .
Damn . This is going to be a sad day for you .
Yeah , so , like I said , that's why I just asked you stuff , because , like , legit , I understand . Like , yeah , you know you know the cards , you should know the cards .
So , hey , prep for the same token and term right , all right , I'm about tired of seeing stuff that may be a competition here or there , that's literally , oh , it's the same shit , like soaring . I'm about tired of seeing you , old man , like you know , like I'm about tired of seeing you .
How many times do I have to teach this lesson , old man ?
Fucking smack the shadow over and over . I love the young people you know . To actually add on to this Assassin's Creed , new bundle universes coming out , I gotta say the new Ezio Auditore da Firenze .
I'm building that .
In my opinion , this is a good card . A lot of people are opinion this is a good card . A lot of people are saying that .
Hold on , there's two of them .
There's the mono black and the dimmer . The mono black is great , the dimmer We'll talk about that in just a second . But the ability for Etiolito de la Firenze ? Not only does it have Menace and it gives Assassins free running . You do a combat damage to a player , pay 5 . If that player has 10 or less , that player fucking loses the game .
Definitely pair him with Rams' . That one Assassin , rams' .
Yeah , I know exactly what you're talking about , because I'm currently like , for the past like two weeks , I've been building a deck with him .
Two assassins that I do like Is Edward From you know Black Flag Because you know that was like my favorite game In the series and it will say that , okay , at the beginning you create a treasure token for each type of assassin , pirate or vehicle and or vehicle that you control .
And whenever a vehicle you control deals combat damage to a player , you may look at the top card . That player's library exile face down . You may play any time it remains at exile and they did print the jackdaws . Where you deal combat damage to a player , you discard your hand .
You may discard your hand and if you do that you draw a car for each artifact that you control . So let's say you have like a whole bunch of treasure tokens out on the field . If you have like , say , 20 treasure tokens , then you just draw 20 cards .
So whatever you had in your hand would probably like a minor inconvenience compared to the payoff that you get from it that is true , and that also reminds me that there are another card coming in with black and green as it's colors , and it cost me four . It's also from the new Assassin's Creed .
It's Cleopatra , the Exiled Pharaoh okay , hold on , I see it right here , uh , yeah her .
I love her because she has two . She has two technical , two technical abilities . One is allies , that at the beginning of your end step . Put a one , one counter on each up to two other legendary creatures , and then there's Betrayal . Whatever legendary creature dies , draw a card for each counter on it . The Michael Tyrant , the fucking Michael Tyrant , dude .
This would be phenomenal for him .
Hell yeah , oh yeah , I showed it to OuttaWallet , edward's first mate . He's pretty good and he'd go great with Edward anyway . Square , about the same thing uh , reveal tops his cards when he entered the battlefield , um , and put assassin , pirate or vehicle card among the into your hand and rest in the bottom library .
And whenever vehicle control deals , combat , damage to a player , you may turn auto well from the graveyard to your hand .
So I want to say with edward , uh , if you build around edward kenway like , you can have like a whole bunch vehicles pirates like see , I'm already gonna edit my pirate deck around , uh , edward , to where I'm gonna have like some folks like make it more geared towards vehicles and artifacts and shit .
So try to acquire uh , my opponent's shit , you know kind of real pirates like yeah , one more card that I'm going to mention uh , I , I was kind of impressed with the avaline uh , the grompe uh cards where she has that . Uh , she's a three , three , um two and two um fourth .
So whenever a creature control with death , touch deal , combat , damage to a player , you put that mini one , one counters , on that creature and it has disguise . So that means that say , for instance , I have like a whip of arabos or a bow of annihilation that makes attacking creatures or whatever , all my creatures have Death Touch .
So I hit , swing at you and if you just take the damage , then depending on how much power that my creatures have , then all those creatures get that many 1-1 counters in return . I was kind of impressed by that . I'll definitely add that on to my Timmy deck Big , strong beepy .
What's the name of that commander that comes in for two , that gives double the poison counters for each creature of that touch that hits combat damage ? What was the name ? What was that name . It comes down for two and he has Death's Touch and anytime Death's Touch hits the opponent , instead of one poison counter , it gets two poison counters .
I think you can get fin to pain bigger .
And creatures like that bitch would fucking be phenomenal .
Yeah .
Yeah , for sure . A card that I'm excited for you and I have talked about is you've expressed extreme distaste for him is the Shay Cormac card . He basically removes all protection . You pay one mana , he removes all protection that you can have on your creatures .
And then , whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes a target of anything that I control , you get a bounty counter on him . And then , whenever , uh , that creature dies , you put two , one one counters on Shea , cormac , um , and you know , there's just absolute ridiculous ways to to tweak and bend him and make him do stupid stuff .
One thing that I had mentioned uh off air was a combo that I was going to run in my deck with Shay . It's going to be Hirobi and Tezumic . So , hirobi , whenever a creature becomes the target of an ability , you destroy the creature . Then the other card has an ability . For one black mana you can reveal him and you put a counter on a creature .
Well , pay five black mana , reveal him five times , target five creatures . Shay puts bounty counters on them . Hirobi instantly kills them because they became targeted . Shay gets 10-1-1 counters on them . Like just stupid stuff can happen with that .
No , you know what ? I'm gonna be petty and just use like um , something like shock or something . Just do one , two damage to shea and be like , yeah , get out of here well , once again , though , I mean like the .
The upside to shea , though , is the fact that he only cost a white and a black to play so realistically in . In a game that I'm playing , I would be comfortable with him dying four or five times before I started , getting to the point where I was like , ah , you know , I'm not gonna cast him again , fuck it , because now he's too much .
But I mean at a two drop . I mean , if he gets Popped the first two times he comes out , so be it . You know it sucks .
Nah , I'm gonna be really petty and be like Especially if I had turgorid when , okay , I'm gonna hit you With at least one damage it goes away , but , nope , run that back . I got turgorid , so let me have that real quick . So how does it feel ?
Now you're perfect . There's absolutely ways around it . I mean , that goes back to the conversation we were just having here . If you can plan accordingly . You know you can make anything bearable , just depends on how much you want to deal with it . You know .
Yeah , that's why I say that Magic the Gatherer Is an adult game to where you gotta Really use your brain power to Counter things .
¶ Strategic Depth of Magic
Nothing against the other trading card games , but it's like with the others , it just felt like , eh well , you know , you just put in certain Cards , you know like standard Format , you know for Yu-Gi-Oh Pokemon , whatever the case may be , and you just put in certain cards .
You know like , uh , standard , uh format , you know for yugioh pokemon , whatever the case may be , and you just kind of play them and it was all right for um , my time , like for my season , blah , blah .
But when I got into magic , I'm like , yeah , like I can kind of see how you really have to think things through , like you got to really think outside the box to win games and there's so many different ways that you can win a game . That that's kind of why I really got into Magic .
Yeah , when I see shit like this , it's like , yeah , that's kind of spooky , but it makes it all the more fun to find a way to counter it .
So that way you can just lord over the opponent and be like so that way you can just lord over the opponent , be like , ha ha you , that made you safe and all the other shit yeah , yeah , yeah , you know , but you got me there because there are two things that I don't have a full head of hair and brains .
I'ma youtube that or i'ma tapped out and just look it up and see where it goes . But yeah , no , you got me there , buddy .
You know and that's kind of also going to what you just said about how magic as a card game is a little bit different than the other card games that are out One of the reasons that I feel , uh , the reason that I like commander as a format so much , is just that , you know , I played , uh , I played yugioh for a little while .
I didn't play it for long , I played it for maybe a year , um , and you know , with that card game and then with other formats of magic , uh , the reason I'm I'm not too , you know , with that card game and then with other formats of magic , the reason I'm not too , you know , hot on those , is because , like , you have a deck that does one thing one way
and that's that . You know . Yeah , like in standard or any other format of magic , it's like you can have four copies of a card . So it's like , so if I play something and you counter it , fuck it , I've got three more in there .
If I build the deck that way , like you , you have one thing that you're , you're , you're gonna go for and that's how your deck is gonna win .
And the reason I prefer commander over other formats and even over other tcgs in general is because , since it's a singleton format , it's so much , it feels so much more diverse because , like , I will build a deck and I will say this is the idea that I have . This is the one way that I know it can .
And then you start building those synergies and you just figure shit out as you go and like I've had decks that I've built and I was like I know it will do this and I know this card works well with it and so does this one .
And then I get in the middle of a game and I play something and then one of my buddies goes wait a minute , let's look at this again . And I look at it . I'm like , oh shit , I didn't even realize it did this and it's it's .
It's like the deck plays completely different after that because you've unlocked something that you were kind of aware of or not necessarily aware of , and it makes you look at the deck differently because you built it to do A , but now you know it can do B , c , d and E and it's just a lot of fun because you find new ways around winning or losing or if
you're a Timmy just doing big stupid stuff , you know yeah , that's all it is .
To where there's so many different ways , you know , like with commander , the different colors , the different legendary creatures , or planeswalker that's allowed to be commanders , like there's something about it . To where the commander half the fun is building the deck and then the other half is playing it .
Yeah , and then part of it , and then part of it . Right is is is having your opponent look at you , laugh , smack you in the face and be like nope counter or
¶ Strategic and New Magic Card Discussion
that's .
That's the other fun part , but it's not for you , it's for the opponent yeah I mean , you know , that's why you keep things strapped like , say , to mill the inner sun or which bane orbs , so that way shit like that doesn't really annoy you anymore mildew and her son or witch bane orb .
So that way , shit like that doesn't really annoy you anymore . And even even if even if I've had I've had too many people going like , oh cool , that's a great card , all right , cool , yeah , I'm gonna counter that . Yeah , that's a great card .
Though it's a great card it's like , hey , what's that , you , what's that ?
say , oh yeah , no , that's not that that's what I made my emotee deck , because Because Cascade , there are two ways you can only counter it . You can counter it by activated ability or just straight what was the other one . Another one of them is just counter it by the activated ability or by triggered ability .
So Cascade is just not going to happen , but it's Cascades , it's happening .
Love it , alright Was there any other cards that y'all wanted to mention ?
Not that I could think of right off . Oh plenty , oh , there's , there's , there's OK . I have like , maybe one more , maybe one more OK , maybe two more , ok , maybe , maybe , maybe just another one . The other one is one of my favorite artists of all time is Leonardo da Vinci . He is actually making his debut along with a couple of other characters .
Until end of turn , you pay five . By the way , until end of turn , thousands of you control have base power XX , where it's the number of cards in your hand . That is easy for blue , since this card is only three blue . And the other ability is you pay three blue and tap , draw a card that discards .
If the discarded card was an artifact , exile it from your graveyard . If you do create a token , that's a copy , except it's a zero . Two softer artifact with flying , in addition to its other type , that can get nuts real quick , especially if you have a , an Ursa , I would say like a thought vest .
That can get nuts real quick , especially if you have a Inursa .
I would say like a thought vessel . So you have no maximum hands , you have unlimited hand size . That's what I mean .
Then you have , like the hidden blade that's also coming in . Has flash For two , gets a plus one . Has first strike . Attach to a creature that can choose an assassin , it gains death . Touch . Until I return , the animus is actually , uh , gonna join us in the gameplay and cost two . It's a great card . Look it up , I'm sure you're going to love it .
Um , the other sco , which is the blade of vengeance , which is the dimmer , like we said earlier oh wait , hold on , hold on .
uh , I was looking at some of the cards and I'm just now looking at the jacob bride card because I was thinking I saw on fucking evie , but like I didn't see on jacob yet , like I didn't see and I'm just not looking at it now .
So , okay , uh , obviously you partner with jacob , with evie , but whenever one or more sass you control , deal , combat , damage to a player , exile up to one targeted assassin card or card with free running from your graveyard . If you do copy it , you may cast a copy . So hold up .
Whenever you attack with an assassin , you can exile one of your assassins in the graveyard or any card with free running , and then you just copy it onto the field . Huh , okay , that's cool . What color is that ? It's mono black .
Mono black .
Yep .
Cool Mono black is not known for . Well , I mean , what am I talking about ? Yes , they are . They are for the tokens . I wonder if I can make more .
Like copy it multiple times . Well , I mean , maybe I'm drawing a blank right now , but , right , you're saying there's things that can definitely help because , like , if you have , if I'm not mistaken , I think almost all of the assassins are legendary creatures they are yeah , so uh , you would want to run something like um , what ?
the hell is that not , that's not roaming throne . That's not what I was thinking um . It was from hold on , uh kamigawa , the most recent one , um one that it's an artifact and it removes the legendary rule . You can put that in there so they can just copy it and copy and copy oh , yeah , yeah , I know , I know what you mean .
And they all get a plus one . Plus one yep cost for either four or five or something . It has a price to pay on it yeah .
So I mean , there's you can .
You can do tons of stupid stuff with it , man , like , like , like I was saying , I think they , um , like I said it with the modern horizon episode , I think at this point , uh , watsi , their , their card designers are just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks and they're really doing some outlandish stuff , stuff that , like you know , years ago we
would have talked about it and like man , it would have been cool if we had a card like that . Man , that's way too broken . And now we see it .
We're like man , they're doing shit like this and it's way too broken and and they keep doing it and they keep like upping the ante at times and it it's getting to where it's fun , but it's kind of scary because , like , who knows what else they're gonna also the .
The card name you're looking for was uh was , mirror box for three that is the card .
Yes , I knew I could see the . I could see the art in my head . I just couldn't remember what the damn card was called oh , um , here's something that's slightly interesting .
I know it's like a uncommon , but , uh , something related to what you were up to tattoo . Um , the templar knight cards were okay . Now white has a cards where you have as many of the templar knight cards in there . So that's kind of funny because we were talking about Singleton format and whatnot .
But yeah , you pretty much have as many Templar Knights in this deck . So if you were to build something like that one Mardu Commander that makes equipment easier for you to equip to knights or whatnot , circle win I think it was , um , something like that , or markov or something like that . Uh , you just have all those knights and whatnot .
And do you just recently make a templar themed deck box for somebody ?
yeah , I did . Uh , I printed a templar helmet deck box and I shipped . Yeah , I did . I printed a Templar Helmet deck box and I shipped it out today . Actually , I had to take it and ship it out today . That would be a very thematic deck to put it in . That would be a lot of fun . I might actually do that . Exactly , exactly , man .
I think it would be fun to have just a deck that's mono-white in a Templar deck box and it's just fucking like 50 of them and I mean it's nice that white's finally getting the ability to do that , because you know you've got that with black . Has the rat card that does it .
And green has the oozes .
Yeah , green has the oozes , Blue has . Uh , what the hell is that ? Card Blue has it too . I've got like 10 of them floating around somewhere . They're absolutely annoying . But I think red is the last card or the last color that does not have a card with that wording on it , that you can put as many as you want in there .
Man , I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being Goblins .
It needs to be , because I mean , that's the equivalent of like Goblins to red , the rats are to black . You know , it's just that is what it is . I gotta find that card now . That's gonna drive me crazy .
I'm trying to think if there was any other cards that was interesting to me . What was that one artifact that kind of spooked me a little bit Smoke Bomb . At first I thought Crazy yep . At thought . Uh , I thought that was like some sort of enchantment , but oh wait , no , I was reading . I was um thinking about it um too hard .
But essentially , with smoke bomb is a artifact card has flash , all creatures have shroud and the beginning of your upkeep . You can sacrifice . You have to sacrifice smoke bomb and when you do target creature you control can't be blocked . This turn .
But like I'm trying to figure out , okay , how can I like fish that back out of my graveyard so I can like keep using that if I need to ? Or maybe if I had it built like with Dereddy and Genius Iconoblast where I can copy artifacts . But I know blue Are better at copying Artifacts .
But I'm just saying yeah , not to change the subject . Shadowborn Apostle , that's the blue card . Shadowborn Apostle is the blue card that you can have as many as you want in your deck .
Alright , yeah , shadowborn Apostles , the blue card that you can have as many as you want in your deck , all righty , was there any other cards y'all want to talk about with this set ?
There's just too many cards to talk about on this set , but goddamn , are there so many great ones that are coming out . I personally , I I want to get my hands on cleopatra and the triads , because frankly , that's ridiculous .
Yeah , um , so not necessarily new cards in this set , but , um , to stay on topic with the assassin's creed , um , did you guys see the with the Assassin's Creed ? Did you guys see the two sets that Secret Lair is releasing for it ?
I glimpsed that , like how I saw they were trying to reprint Admiral Beckett Brass as . Edward and I wanted that one for sure .
So what they did , they've got two sets , right . Right , they did their one set where they re-scanned a bunch of um , you know , current commanders or current legendary creatures as characters from the set um . So with that one um they have . Let's see it's Najila is Ivor the Raven Clan Champion . They've got an Altair , he is Kelsen the Plague .
They've got Queen Marchesa as Amunet Tyrant's End . They've got Ramsey's the Assassin Lord as Basim Master Assassin , and then they've got the Admiral Beckett Brass as Edward Jackdaw Captain , which I thought that was really cool , really flavorful . I like that , the ones that I like , and I pre-ordered both of these and I'm very happy that I did .
They did a set of secret layer cards that are Leonardo da Vinci sketches , oh yeah . Apollo yeah yeah , so you get Blade of Selves , Conqueror's Flail , Dark Steel Plate , Death Render and Whisper Silk Cloak and they all the card art all looks like just old parchment paper with like and it's really beautiful art .
They all look like pencil sketches and all of the text for the cards are just kind of like scribbled where it fits around and it's it's really beautiful art . They're all . They all look like pencil sketches and like . All of the text for the cards are just kind of like scribbled where it fits around the artwork . Uh , I thought that was really cool .
Uh , I don't know if I'm gonna use all of them , but I damn sure ordered both secret layers the day they went live I feel you man .
If only money wasn't that tight around here , because you know I'm trying to do things . But yeah , maybe I'll get lucky and find them like floating around For sale .
We're all in it together , yeah .
Um , was there something else that I might want ? I don't know . Uh , tell us , um you got anything you want to add on to all this , like any cards that you're anticipating ?
oh , no , no , no , y'all , y'all perfectly fine . I take this card because I have literally , like I said , I'm holding things to the chest . If you will , as far as what I , if you will as far as anything else , because , hey , talos is just waiting for certain things to drop out . We're going to see about some stuff .
Okay , I feel that . Well , Tattoo , did I tell y'all that anything y'all want to add on , because I'm pretty much tapped out now .
I'm tapped out myself . I got no more mana . I spent all of it .
I'm good uh , only thing I've got is you guys know , I do the 3d printing thing along with jet . I do deck boxes , I do tokens , uh , I've started doing fun little counters and stuff , and then I also . I also print other stuff . But I do have an Etsy shop . It's something crafty prints . Look that up , you can reach out , find me on social media .
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I try to stay kind of active in all of our groups so that people can see me . I try to post my stuff regularly . When I forget to post it in the groups , one of you guys will be posted for me . So that's appreciated to whoever it is that keeps doing that . I appreciate that .
But yeah , anything you guys will be posted for me , so that's appreciated to whoever it is that keeps doing that . I appreciate that . But yeah , anything you guys need from actually having deck boxes , tokens counters .
Just hit me up , I'm sure I've got something fun oh yeah , well , with that being said , I'm gonna be looking into the assassin's creed set as I uh edit my decks , maybe build a new deck base around some of these cards , because they're very interesting , to be perfectly honest with you .
And of course , we are going to talk about the bloom borough and dust warn set when they come around too . But until then , stay nerdy , my friends . Great things are coming . We're zoning out of here , so have yourself a good morning , a good afternoon and a good night .