Hey listener, Commenticalho Podcast, Episode four forty two one brand. I'm here
Thrie and we're gonna talk about you can win a game of magic the gathering
cards. But the guy with sweatpants now in our theme, so okay bringing
in on that all this is so embarrassing embarrassing. Speaking of embarrassing, Hey
Ryan, We're back for yet another whirlwind adventure. How you doing good?
What is going down? Can you tell it's a bonus episode? You?
I sure hope so? Because the rain is coming down. Uh, the
quality, the number of cards are gonna get into magic, the gathering sealed
booster pack going down down, money that you will spend on said booster pack
going up go. Before we get to any of that, we have to
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of c CEO Sidewalks LAMB Season two right here on YouTube. I've got a
couple things. As per usual you usually do. You would see this delicious
can of Campbell's soup looking beer. I almost dropped it because it's so sweaty,
because it's so hot and humid in the studio tonight. Oh man,
if you're watching on YouTube, Witch shit Be, you would see the pile
of bones brewing code logo behind us. If you're watching on YouTube, Man,
I wish I could remember the name of the Rise Against song that references
rain, because I always think of it when it's at night like this,
because it's it's kind of stormy outside, it's gonna start rain and it's really
humid. You know, I'll do you one. I gotcha. You could
talk Rain by Breaking Benjamin, November Rain by Guns n' Rosa, Purple Rain
by Prince. That's yeah, all of those songs are good, among the
best that those bands can offer. I don't know if I like that second
one. Yeah, I don't think I like them. I got you,
I got you one further. I'm gonna be classic rock guys. I just
just it's just not my stuff. Yeah, you you you more like I'm
gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna peg you, but not like that though I got
you. I'm gonna peg you as post grunge alternative. I'm gonna peg you
as modern heavy metal. I'm gonna peg you as I'm thinking, like,
you know what, whenever I hear a kill Switch Engage song, I think
Uncle Brando. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna that's where I'm gonna put you.
Kill Switch Engage my rest Oh yeah, producer Gary's in the booth.
We see him through the window too. Was so good. Yeah, you
know what, oh man? And I know that producer Gary is gonna love
this. Here's the tangent. Okay, Holy Diver, great song, kill
Switch Engage my favorite cover tune. Really. Oh yeah, and now don't
be don't be remiss here because I know Robert Brynman. Brynman, He's gonna
say, well, what about the Deal version. Deal, He's a huge
deal. He's a big deal guy. Right, and Deal did the original
Holy Diver and it's good. And Deal's lyrics, oh Man, so good,
like top of his lungs. Right. But the guitar solo in the
kill Switch Engage version of Holy Diver one of my favorite guitar solos all time.
Sick. That's a good one. I like that. And for the
record, you can definitely like a cover song a lot, and it in
no way danigrates what oh no, right, because you can like both because
they're they're different. Because if you're playing the song the same, it's not
a cover, it's a yeah, that's like the book in the movie conversation,
right, Like I can love the book and the movie and and one
doesn't take away from the other. They're different interpretations of the same story and
emotional hits and themes and stuff. Right there we go, precisely, there
we go, precisely. Do do do do do? Do? Do?
So good man. I went to see kill Switch Engage one time. There's
a concert story with Uncle Brando, and the lead singer was just super sick,
right, oh yeah, And he finishes, like the second song of
the sets like, dude's for real, I gotta go throw up, and
he runs off to puke and the band just stands there. The guitar players
like, hey, and he's just playing a revenue friendly neighbor to the north,
Friendly to the north. Did people lose their minds? Oh yeah,
we're all saying, we're all like, yeah, cool and like and eventually
Guy's like, I don't think he's coming back, man, I don't think
so we're gonna play the rest of the set. Do you guys want to
sing, and they played the rest of the set and it wasn't until the
encore the singer actually came back and we the crowd just sang the whole set
for them. It was so much fun. That would be so cool.
It was so much fun to do that. And they were just like totally
like the band was into it. And when the guy came back, I
was like, guys, that was fucking awesome. I'm like, that was
so cool that I wasn't even gonna come back and the time you guys,
you guys paid money, so we're gonna do the encore for you, man,
but like, like, thank you so much. It was so cool.
They were all part of something really cool and that was that was dope.
That's that's a cool story. That's a concert story, right, yeah.
Yeah, lots of fun. Yeah, oh yeah, right, lots
of Oh the producer Gary was there. Guys know each other then, No,
that was before you knew each other, you know what. You and
I went to the same concert before we knew each other too. It was
a breach of trust opening up for Finger eleven in that warehouse or whatever.
Yeah, dude, o man, I got kicked in the head so hard
at that show. I can tell, oh man, oh man, can
you tell it's a c a CC bonus, Yes, show. Yeah,
we gotta couple things here. A couple of things we brought. We blazed
right past Fusion Gaming online dot com, where you can use special promo codes
CCEO safe to get five percent off all your magic stuff, all your assassins,
creed stuff, spoiler. That's what we're talking about today. Any host
stuff from from before, and any of the bloomborough stuff coming up. Board
games, playmat sleeves, dice, D and D manuals, random boxes with
nothing in them, secret layers, oh yeah, with stuff in them,
with stuff in them. There's probably Pokemon cards. There might be yu gi
oh, I don't care. You have con everything that you could possibly want
for NERD gaming in that store and everybody there pretty fucking cool. Yeah,
can confirm also been there, seen it? Super nice. Yeah, And
we've hung out with them at like the face to face games, Canadian Tour
and stuff. They're always there trading cards. I talked to Aaron last time,
the manager there and or one of the managers, I guess, and
he says, uh, yeah, some guy traded in his whole Commander deck.
This whole Commander deck. Fool. No, they like that. They
like that. So if you want to trade cards in, you trade your
whole Commander deck in. Guy gets a Judge Foil Survival of the Fittest and
he's like, man, he traded in a whole deck worth of like five,
ten, fifteen to twenty dollars cards. I sell those all day.
That's great for business. He sells maybe one two thousand dollars card a year,
right, not everybody's just got cash and let's they trade in their whole
Commander deck. That's the truth. But he comes over to me in Vancouver
and he's like, man, chuck it what I just got, and he's
showing me his Judge Foil Survival of the Finish. Oh shit, you're the
guy. Oh man, that's so good. Yeah yeah, so happy.
So Fusion, We love them, great working with them. CEO say,
you're gonna get you some money off. CEO Perk's gonna get you kickback store
credit, good stuff you can spend last time. The things are gonna buy
anyway, and then you can get some of the back so you can spend
less of it on more things. I was just gonna say that you're gonna
spend less money on stuff you're gonna buy any ways. Yeah, yeah,
so getting a discount one of the benefits when you're a Patreon supporter. There
is a promo code to Commander Cookcoat dot com store. When you're a patron,
you sign up, you get the code when you buy the c seal
merch No, I got I got a Husky's hat on. But when you
want this shirt that Brando's wearing, I got a shirt on. And there's
a tuc on the mic yes, because it's winter gear. Yeah, and
it's summer because it's fricking hot here. People still wear tuks in the summer.
Oh yeah, people don't shower. I don't. I don't get it,
but I mean, hey, if you want to do it, I'm
not going to make fun. If you know what a CEO twok instead,
that's way better than any other tooth that you're gonna wear a c SEK.
They will keep your head warmer and be more comfortable. Probably. Yes,
there is a non zero percent chance that this right here, on top of
this mic arm could be the most comfortable, warmest, most wonderful tuke you
have ever owned. In your life says that Mic stand yeah or boom arm
or whatever it's called. That's right. Big, thanks, big, big,
thanks, out, big thanks out to producer Gary and Hardcore in the
booth today for buying some CEO merch. Out was pretty cool. That's a
merch and they're putting up with our crap. Tonight we're on a second show
following a live show on the damn Radio Network right here in the studio.
So that was the thing that happened to Busy day. Yeah, it's busy
day and we got we got Oilers game to watch after this and beer that
needs drinking. So here's the thing. We got to get into it big
thanks to the patrons. Go over to commander coocoad dot com slash slash shop
that's the official tag, and do your thing Assassin's Creed. I have some
questions, I have some answers probably. Yeah, here's the thing too.
I am not like a big time video gamer, Nope, I am.
Those Diablo two ruined my life twice. Yeah, so my wife, I
don't want to say my wife doesn't let me play anymore, but she constantly
reminds me that if I ever pick up the Diablo two Hobby again, it's
probably over. Yeah, sent the Diablo to ruin your life, Diabolo four
ruined Blizzard, so it works out. Hey, yeah, I got them
back. I got him back like I got got him back by not buying
Diabload three or four. There you go, there we go. I did
something right. Hey, we did it. Okay, So this is we
talked about, talked about it on the pre show a couple days ago.
We have some time now that we've got a couple other creators on the CEO
Media Group kind of channel network whatever doing some of our CEDH and some of
our other content for us, and we've got some more stuff coming up.
It's really good stuff, and that gives us the opportunity to take some time
and say, Okay, what's about this Ubisoft pay to win micro transaction Assassin's
Creed? Are they doing all the games? Because there's like fifty of them?
How do I get the cards? Where do I get other serialized stuff?
How do I collect it? Uncle Brando is the subject matter expert on
all of those things, which makes me happy, thankful, and frankly a
little bit scared. Yes, is it should tell me what I need to
know? How do we start. Okay, we'll start off like this Ubisoft
the Assassin's Creed crossover with Magic. The gathering is in promotion of the latest
Assassin's Creed game. I'm gonna do Wizard's job for them and just say everybody.
Assassin's Creed Ninja is coming out later this year as the yearly installment is.
It feels in the Assassin's Creed franchise is Assassin's Creed Ninja. That's like
the newest game that's coming up. We've had Assassin's Creed Norsemen, We've had
Assassin's Creed Pirate, We've had Assassin's Creed Egypt, We've had Assassin's Creed Italy,
We've had Assassin's Creed some other ship. Have we had a modern one
like it today? Like yes in a way, or it's like a time
travel thing, isn't it time? I have no idea. So the real
basically, Okay, what happens in Assassin's Creed is in the in the near
future, like twenty twenty one seven. They've developed this machine called an animus,
and when somebody gets into it, they can be sent back in time
into the bar of their ancestor and they can relive their ancestors lives. So
if I go into somebody's anus, I can relive the past. Correct.
I don't want to do that. Just like Butt Boy, that's a great
movie. I highly suggest you all go watch you with the butt Boy.
I'm telling you that's a good movie. I'm bringing I'm bringing it not back,
but to the forefront. So bringing butt back, that's right. I'm
bringing sexy butt backs. So the point is, the point is that's kind
of what the games are about. And then the first three or a trilogy
of games focused on this guy, Desmond I believe his name was Sure.
There is a card of him that's the dude in sweatpants that I reckon that
I referenced at the beginning of the video because it's the I was telling hardcore
earlier that he is the thing that everybody who doesn't like Universes beyond was afraid
of. Because now it's like, oh, it's Grover from Sesame Street versus
Pikachu versus off this prime yea Desmond is a dude in skate shoes and jeans
in a bunny hug. Bro it's basically you, Yeah, it's he's wearing
the same shoes I have right down here. So like this this is right
exactly like you, sir, you general magic guy, every guy Yeah,
on a magic card. Yeah, without having a print of proxy. Yeah.
Correct. And I think a lot of people were kind of like afraid
of that in the air quotes and here it is, So I think everybody's
gonna like that. No, I think that the people who are people who
don't like that kind of thing. This is the kind of thing those people
don't like, okay, right, And I think that that's fair to say.
And the Magic Going back to the games for just a second, Like
what happened was they had this great story kind of going on around number three.
The way that the company made games changed. They went from making games
that people liked to making games that people liked that they could then charge the
more money once they've already bought them to thereby increase the amount of money that
they could overall make in each game. So gaming makes money, COSI take
note. And it turns Ben Ben was telling me this yesterday at the Coachman
Licensed beverage room. They switched studios. They went from one studio to like
a different studio. They went from like some Japanese studios, some Chinese studio
and then it's all micro transactions or something. Is that relevant to the magic
card set. It's not relevant to the magic card set, but is relevant
to the kind of the game world, because they went from this kind of
compact storyline that actually would have translated into a really cool magic set into a
we'll call it a bi yearly game franchise where they just kind of do Egypt,
then Pirates, then whatever, then Gangsters, then Space, then Ninja's
Wait a second, wait a second, that sounds perfect. It's ammon cat
ixelon Capena. Yeah is not. Isn't it perfect? Right? And then
they're gonna do them all in one set. Oh and everybody looks the same
because all the assassins stress the same. But the so I think that a
lot of people kind of have a this is a it's fair to say that
universes beyond sets are marketing gimmicks for the property that's coming into magic and nobody
can really refute that that's that is reductionist, but I can't refute it.
It is kind of Usually the sets come out right around the time that that
IP has something coming out fall ahead a TV show Assassin's Creed has a new
Gameye, D and D had the movie. D and D had a movie
coming alone owns that kind of yeah or whatever it was, it was a
foot in the water, right, So there's most of them are an advertising
gimmick, which is I'm not saying that's good or bad, it just is
what it is. And when Ubisoft, which is a company that's known very
well for kind of their micro transaction y kind of proclivities, when they started
doing it, I think that this set in particular is going to have h
immediate negative connotation put on it from the gaming community, and I think that
they'll doubly have a hard time because the sets moving forward with the universes beyond,
which is that we're going to talk about today, are essentially being done
as aftermath boosters, and nobody like those except me, I'm the only one.
So Okay, Well, now that they're kind of they've expanded that format
and now they're doing it with Assassin's Creed, I'm going to hazard to guess
they might try and do this with Final Fantasy as well. I think that
they said that that's a full set, okay, like like Tails in Middle
Earth ones because this one's a full set too. I set if you did
the old member blocks right, yeah Meircadian Masks was great, big, had
hundreds of cards in the one hundred and fifty, But then Nemesis and Prophecy
were small. They had one hundred and twenty cards forty three. There you
go, And this is the same kind of gimmick, right, you get
like great big sets, and now there's a small set that comes in a
small box with a small booster. Oh okay, Well that leads us into
a preface this. We're not going to talk about very many cards today,
if any. Right, we'll talk about some of them are really cool.
And I was telling when we got review shows coming up, remember we we
we've got some room to kind of breathe and flex and spready. Yeah,
we'll review some of the cards coming up. I'm gonna say first off that
I actually think that this set is, for the most part, right where
a set like this should be. Oh, in what way? There's nothing
game breaking? Most of the cards are pretty interesting. If you're the kind
of person that likes the kind of thing that this is, which in this
case is Assassin's Creed, there's gonna be something for you. Yeah, flavorfly
thematically, artistically, mechanically, For the most part, the cards don't look
so unlike magic cards that there's not gonna be something for enfranchised players that don't
give a shit about Assassin's creed like us. Yeah, there's nothing like the
One Ring that's gonna like or Orcers Bowl Masters that's gonna like totally shift a
format. I really don't think. So. Okay, I might not be
the best gauge other formats outside of Commander, but ile time, I don't
think at this point right now, as we talk about this, with like
eighty percent of the set being spoiled, I don't see anything that's going to
vastly impact the direction of EDH as a format. But I do see a
bunch of stuff that could impact just decks you're going to see popping up.
Well, I think that's fine. That's what sets are supposed to do.
And there's some very key reprints in stuff like Reconnaissance and sort of Feast and
Famine that are needed that you're gonna see prices coming down on cards that people
want. Yes, So I will say, full disclosure, we are recording
this on a date that I believe the full set has not been previewed.
We're looking at ninety six cards on Scryfall that have never seen a printing,
right, so first printings are these is this? This is this is the
ninety six cards that are first printed. And then I have another list of
two hundred and forty nine cards that are a mixture of cards that we've never
seen, plus reprints, plus the special printings or promo like Dark F and
M promo printings and all of the special stuff. It's much like in Aftermath.
Virtually every card on the set has between three and five printings. Okay,
so you're gonna have the regular one, you're gonna have an extended art
one, you're gonna have a etched one. In some cases there's also a
borderless one. So there's lots of different versions of each card. And I
don't think there's like this is one of those sets where rarities just don't even
really matter. There's there's there's no commons, there's only uncommons, then rares
and mythics that nobody loves. That man, every time you say that into
a microphone, WATSI only hears that they're gonna the WATSA imployment that is assigned
to listen to our show, is gonna turn it off right after you said
that and take it to their boss. Yeah, cookout still on the etched
train. The the watsa employe who's listening to it like on their on their
Google home speaker in their kitchen, their phone's gonna hear it and like give
them advertisements on their Facebook page for only foil card or etched foil cards from
like different online retailers, and Commander Cocoat is just contributing to the scum of
the Magic Universe. Sorry guys, yeah, sorry, Wait, we apologize
all the time and ah yeah, well we say thank you and we're sorry.
So how do we get this set? What's what is the shtick?
You Fusion Booster It's can I can I use CCEO save to get Fusion Boosters
at five percent on one hundred percent you can and for a box of this
if you buy the whole box, you can also use CEO perks to you
have yourself the ten percent store credit kickback as we talked about earlier. Now
here's what we're gonna buy when you go out to buy a booster box of
this non draftable set. Oh oh, and if you want one, and
you go to Fusion and get the promo codes, and if you live outside
of Canada, they can't ship you sealed product. So what you do get
in touch with Brando, Uncle Brando. He's gonna open your cards. He's
gonna put it on Brando's box opening. He's gonna to get pounded so you
don't have to, and he's gonna Alphbetize and send you the cards in a
nice little package boom, so you can watch him open your cards if that's
what you want. This is of note h Apparently here in town locally we
have a lot of Assassin's Screen fans because this ship sold out everywhere already.
Oh yeah, so no no BBO so far as of as of our recording
right now on the twenty first of June, I do not have access to
a box. Okay, this is you want a BBO SOMETHINGE gonna have to
help me out. This is what we're gonna do. Ceco Nation. There
has to be a BBO. Get your box from Fusion because you're gonna buy
one anyways, get a discount, get Uncle Branda to open it. I
will, I'll happily do it. That's all I got to say, so
we got it, and I gotta I got a fun idea for if I
get to open one. Oh yeah, got a real fun Oh man,
I hope that. I hope the microphones will pick up that fricking thunder off.
Then it's jeepers, creyers. We're gonna lose power here right away.
Yeah, no, I should I should have said that. I'm knock Wood.
Okay, how do we get the how do we get these? Okay,
So if you go to your local game store and you buy yourself a
booster box of Assassin's Creed, buy Ubisoft Magic Gathering, whatever, whatever,
Okay, you're gonna get yourself a twenty four pack box. Okay, this
is not so outside the realm of normal, not so terrible, and you're
gonna get seven cards per pack. Okay, that's weird. That's a little
weird, and that's what you're gonna get. But in there, what you're
gonna get is a full run of virtually everything available in the set, sands,
full or extended art foils and etched foils. Okay, okay, I
didn't want those anyways. You can still get all the borderless stuff, which
is really cool. There is a scene. It's like an ancient rome scene.
It's got the five horizon lands of and one of the assassins and one
of the assassins in it. It's really cool. Hopefully if you're watching on
YouTube joke and have it on the screen for you now, it actually looks
really really nice. That is a nice one. Those will be available in
nonfoil in your regular plasma booster or what the hell they're called. Yeah,
jerk off booster that's what I'm gonna call it. If you decide that that's
not for you, you can get a bundle. The bundle will also possess
frame boosters or whatever the hell they're calling them, and all the regular stuff
you get in a booster. That's your dice. That's your buy a booster
box bundle promo. And like the basics and foil and nonfoil or whatever,
the special treatment is precisely okay, So bundles and and and then jerky boosters
single packs, and then you can get a collector booster box of this and
those are your standard twelve pack booster boxes. Yeah, that will come with
ten card packs. Oh that's weird too. Yeah, So now what would
I expect to pay for that collector booster like the same. The exact dollar
amount eludes me at this exact moment, but they are less than the average
collector booster box again as of right now. Okay, so we would get
less cards and pay less money. Yeah, the math checks out there as
long as it like as long as it actually checks out. Yeah, and
like that's from my cursor cursory evaluation of Assassin's creed capability. Yes, you
will pay a little bit less for this, not as less as people I
think were expecting. I don't think people were expecting to pay as high a
price four packs that do not have fifteen cards in them. But this is
the world we live in. People hated Aftermath, and it's sold very poorly
even though it's sold okay, and so Watsy decided not to do it anymore.
But they had already kind of print to ordered this product. So that's
why it's happening like this. Okay. So there is a possibility that this
isn't going to be the thing moving forward. But in the articles that I
have read, this is what Watsy is planning to do with universes beyond going
forward. And when you say there's some kind of what's a word we haven't
used yet, crate boosters, regular just whatever's and collectors because this is to
draftable products, so they don't have draft boosters, correct, right, They've
got just like frickin no play boosters. None of that shit is. Yeah,
you're buying them to open them up to hope you again. Yeah,
you're buying them to finger blast booster them. Yeah, you'll buying them because
you like Assassin's creed or you want to sort a feast and famine. That's
why they're here. Twenty four packs with five cards a piece. Now,
this is Canadian prices, which is about thirty five percent more than American prices.
So if in America it costs one hundred dollars, in Canada, it
costs one hundred and thirty five dollars, same amount of money in real life,
like if I were to go and exchange currency. And while that does
sound like an outrageous number, that is true. Yeah, it's thirty five
percent. Roughly, it's sometimes thirty two, sometimes thirty seven. Sure,
sue me, okay, so Canadian dollars. I wish we could sue them
for the finger blast boosters. Yeah, one hundred and eighty bucks. Is
that what you would pay for a normal booster box? About? I think
that's a little bit more than what I would pay for a normal booster box.
Aren't they like usual one hundred and forty Nope, because now they have
those play boosters and that made price go up. Oh okay, of course
it is because fuck me, okay exactly, yes, yes, booster collector
box, twelve packs, not all the foils, all the potential for serialized
Socrates with the K and all the stuff, all that stuff. Okay,
three hundred fifty bucks Canadian ooh, that is that's what I would pay for
a regular ass, mother ass. That is collective boosting. That is the
exact same price you would pay for a collector booster box. So that's Canadian
prices. Remember, so take about thirty five percent off if you're American.
So they've gone up since I looked at them this morning, they've gone up,
But I think that might be due to serialized cards coming out and people
saying, oh, yeah, there's this, Now I can get this,
now I can get Also, remember that universes beyond products in collector pack form
usually do cost a little bit more. Look at the doctor who stuff.
Look at the Lord of the Ring stuff, look at the wall out stuff,
fallout stuff, all a little bit more than than the uh. The
units usually Canadian prices about three ten to three twenty, right for just like
a box of Bloomborough or a box of New Copana Thundy Junction. Yea at
this point, just like eight bucks. Yeah, let's be honest. Yeah
yeah, yeah, people will give that to you for a So you just
sing a song and they'll give it to you. I have to singing in
public with your shirt off, but they'll still give you a box for a
song. Yeah, and then the bundle is eighty bucks. Now, I
have no idea how you know what? I know that the bundle that I
got when Lord of the Rings came out last June, like it almost exactly
a year ago to this day, was eighty dollars. Then they came out
with the holiday bundle a little bit after that, and that one had the
funky dice and like the different collector packs or different packs in it or whatever,
that one was more. Yes, well those ones are more because it
has the collector pack and the limited edition dice, and it came with the
scene card and stuff. But the body og one. Yeah, the og
one was eighty bucks. So this is almost exactly on par with other universes
beyond products that we've seen that land somewhere in between a regular product and the
most premium of products, which I would consider in the last twelve months or
so to be like Lord of the Rings collector packs. That's probably the highest
of pimpest of highest of end thing that you could buy like off the shelf
because it had serialized, it had poster cards, it had one ring and
orchest brawl masters like all these cards top you know, like a hot staples
format staples that are all over one hundred dollars. And if you've got like
a foil serialized one ring poster, that's like a two thousand dollars magic card.
Right, So that drove the price. What should we expect to see
on that end of it? That justifies this a little bit higher than normal
price. How do we how do we get the goods? Yell? Now,
the highest of high end stuff obviously you're only going to find in your
collector packs, yes, and what you're looking for in this case, there
are five cards, okay, five hundred of each card, five hundred serializers
five hundred serialized versions of five individual cards, and they're the I forget what
the word is, the historical figures from the Socrates, Socrates, Cleopatra,
Leonardo da Vinci. Yes, and the other two haven't been released yet.
We don't know. They're going to come out with double Rainbow, super duper
foil, serialized by some kind of number out of five hundred, and they're
going to be released in the language that the person would have spoke in their
home region of the world. Example being Socrates is going to be in Greek
Latin and no, he would be in Greek or Greek and Greek. Cleopatras
in like a version of Greek that has some like Egyptian symbol stuff in it,
and Leonardo da Vinci is Italian? Are people going to complain about the
Cleopatra looking too much like the invocation Asian ship? I actually kind of like
her card. I kind of like it. I kind of want one,
not the serialized one because too many monies. But yeah, I got my
serialized card. I'm I'm done. Now you got a herobi, I do
have her. You know what, I don't have one damn serialized card.
I was hoping to get like a brew bac. But I didn't. I
didn't want to fork up the cash in Seattle, and I'm not going to
freaking Vegas. Thanks f you, Alex. He's picking me up for my
wedding tomorrow, though, So I can't be that mad at what a piece
of ship. I wonder what serialized I should get. Can't afford a one
ring, certainly can't afford an Elvin soul ring. No, man, I
am not freaking made out of money? What a Dwarven soul ring? I
do have a non serialized version of that, but still more than more money.
It's many's there there. You got to really have one that you really
really woor You just gotta like or you gotta hit it the right time.
You gotta hit it. Yeah, I gotta. You gotta open one.
I mean you gotta hit it like a pack, right. Yeah. I
actually I own three serialized cards. Three. I have a Herobi and I
have an Urta Brass I traded for it or LGS, and I got a
like a fourth doctor or something that I cracked in a box. Oh,
you cracked one in a box, not even on a BBO. No,
just at the store. You are so sucky I know, and do you
know what the thing is. I'm not gonna play it ever, and nobody
wants it. Oh like nobody wants it? Hey maybe Ziberg Jesus wants Hey
store, do you want it? She's like nah, man, like that's
it's too much for me to take and selling that nobody's ever gonna want it.
Come on, man, and nobody's buy lists serialized card. Right,
It's it's like one thousand dollars, but nobody will ever buy it exactly.
Then what's it worth? Nothing? If it was number sixty nine or seven
or one or three hundred out of three hundred whatever, then sixty nine of
the tenth doctor, I would have retired already. Yeah, I'd be retired
on the moon. Man. I love sixty nine of what serialized card?
Yeah, buddy, Yeah, Okay, I got one last question. Okay,
I got one last question about well, kind of serialized. But I'm
seeing so fricking many different treatments just on this one screen. I'm seeing an
assassin's trophy in the dark in the dark F and M foil promo treatment,
you know how they do. Those are the ones, Those are the etched
Okay, I'm seeing an Aya of Alexandria Aya Aya of Alexandria in like some
weird, really geometric sort of frame treatment all of Zendakar rising. That frame
is like the showcase frame. Hold on, I ain't even done yet.
I see I see the old school kind of like Renaissance looking painting of Mary
Reid and Anne Bonnie. Those are just your typical borderalist cards. Oh that's
a border list. That's the borders card, because the other ones totally have
borders. Frick there's Showcase and there's there's I don't know how they change them,
but the Showcase one from this set is meant to there's our boy Desmond
with his fucking jeans and his hoodie and his man purse and his t shirt.
Fricking guy, he's got one of those belts at Randy River used to
sell, like in two thousand and one, a car seat belt. Yeah,
and they flop down. People tuck those in. What a douche and
we wore them. This is the kind of guy you'd make fun of,
Like, this is the guy that drives the jacked up white truck with the
truck nuts hanging off. I don't even think stick or slapped on the back.
He kind of reminds me of you wearing clothes from two thousand and one.
He's got a picture a Calvin peeing on a logo of an auto brand.
He doesn't like, right, douche, What a douche, bro.
But the point is, how do we get all these most You can get
virtually all of these treatments in both types of packs. But if you want
the etched and the foil of your Borderless cards and I believe foils of the
Showcase cards, you gotta get him in the Collector But everything else is a
vailable in the regular pack as well, much like in US what was it
called Aftermath, where you could basically get everything in both versions of the packs.
You just have a higher chance of getting them in your your collector packs.
And there's some cool stuff in here, like the the I think,
oh, there's some good cards that I'm gonna play in this. In this
set, the showcase frames are very reminiscent of the game. If you've ever
played the thing, it's like the geometric showcase frames, the geometric showcase frames.
If you've played the games, you'll remember when you when you're walking along,
right, because you've got to remember the whole game. It's it's it's
a video game, but it's also a simulation in the game, so of
course there's going to be like all sorts of interference and pixelization and stuff that
we kind of comes up. We would call that a frame narrative, and
that is all very reminiscent of what these frames look like, like just kind
of every so often to be walking like some just a glitch in the matrix,
Yeah, just some glitches and weird lines and stuff will kind of pop
up around stuff usually used to indicate something important in the game, but this
or something bad is gonna happen exactly. Yeah. Yeah, and you can
actually you can see it on my my favorite art in the whole set,
Ryan has it up. So I'm going to talk about it is on this
one, but it's in French. What's the translation? That is reconstruct history
if I remember correct, Oh, that's this is a reprint. Yeah,
it's a reprint cards and you can see the gold things. That's that's a
loading screen an assassin's creed. No, it shows that picture of something a
pyramid the matrix kind of light stuff going up and down on it. I
just really liked that picture. That's really cool. Assassin's Creed origin was the
Assassin's Creed that I liked. I'll talk about my favorite card in the set
so far that i've that i've read, because I haven't gone through all of
it yet. Oh that's a that's a good one, is it? Senu
Senu keen eyed protector bird scout two to one for white one. Legendary creature,
flying and vigilance. Okay, so it's good vigital. That's actually important.
Tap it, exile it. You gain two life and scribe too.
Sick. Yes, so I can attack and then I can block, and
then I can exile it before it dies. That's also when a legendary creature
you control attacks and isn't blocked like all the other birds in my bird deck.
If Senhu is exiled, put it onto the battlefield, frickin' attack and
not even tapped attacking, so you can you can actually do that and just
exile it again right away. Dude. It doesn't have haste, it's got
a tappability. It's all your Yeah, that's sucking, but dude, this
is a good card. It's a relevant creature type to me. It fits
right on curve with like the agroness of that deck. It protects itself,
it attacks, It has scry, which is something that White always wants to
protect it, attack it exile. It's also from Assassin's Creed origins. Baby,
that's the Egypt one. Ye, that's that's his sidekick bird. He
like sends the bird off. I remember the commercials. Yeah, yeah,
right, like that man. I've actually talked about that game on the on
the show. But yeah, cool encyclopedia mode where it teaches you all about
Egypt and stuff. Yo, yeah you did. It's a good game.
And Bonus points to the Nationaliites who know what episode that is right, comments
that maybe when you mos or if you got an Assassin's Creed game that you
liked that you think I should maybe give another chance to I played one.
I really liked one. Yeah, I played two. I didn't like two
because it was just exactly the same as one. It was just more one.
Well, when they got the formula that was that worked and they didn't
do it. And that makes sense. But if you look at Magic,
it's fucking thirty three years old. Man. They do the same thing every
year, except charge is more money for it. We still freaking pay.
I feel like I bought the same game twice and so I just didn't.
It was this isn't for me, And I tried it again in Origins because
they did a different thing and you liked it and I really enjoyed it.
And then when I forget what the next one was, but I got that
one was like, this is just like Origins, was just a less cool
setting and more micro transactions. So that's when the switch happened. Yeah,
yeah, Well Origins had some of them like it was like, do you
want this horse? I want the horse that can run forever? Yeah?
Money? Oh you like this weapon? No, no, it's Wizards.
Now it's exciting. Oh hey you want to you want a very exciting weapon?
Excitement, Yes, lots of that going on. We like excitement too.
Yeah. You know what, I'm here's the last thing that I've got
because I don't wanna. I don't want to review any more cards and tell
you about my favorites or things that I think are the best in the set,
because I haven't looked at all of them yet, and I certainly haven't
looked at all the reprints. I love how in each set over the last
little while we've gotten a bunch of different versions of the card Murder and true.
The card is fine, and it would be maybe a card I play
like in a raw dog deck or whatever, because it's not worth anything.
But I can put the exact one that I want in the deck that that
kind of fits my theme or my strategy. I can have an assassin,
I can have an orc. I can have this or that or this or
whatever it is in whatever treatment if I want foil or promo or whatever.
It's gonna give me exactly kind of like a little snapshot of what set it's
from. And I think it's such like a kind of an obtuse card that
is still useful. It's a perfect little snapshot. And I like that.
And this one in the Assassin's Creed set's got a cool art. It's like
an assassin jumping down onto a guy. I assume he's gonna stab him in
the head with one of his like wrist spikes hidden blade action, yes,
or one of his boot blades, because that's a thing too. Now I
don't remember that. That's probably from a game I didn't play. Yeah,
sure, I love it, Murder. Keep putting it in SETSWATSA the Murder
and Terminate that's also in here. Go for the Throat also in here.
So many common removal spells in this set because they're all Assassin related, yes,
including Assassin's Trophy, Assassin's Trophy, Assassinate, and Royal Assassin all in
the set. Oh very good. I wonder if watsy just went onto Scryfall
because they don't even use Gatherer and just like typed in Assassin and the dude
the boss is like, yep, yeah, do it, just print it
and save us some time and money. I want pictures of Assassinate. Yeah,
that's that's one hundred percent how it went. I want pictures of Assassin,
man, that's what they said, yes, yes, correct. So
I don't know. The last thing that I would I would like to say
about this is one check out Fusion Gaming online dot com. There source for
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or anything else that you want, any kind of nerd things, and just
in case the promo code changes, go and freakin use it quickly. So
Fusion sees a little push right at the end, like pre order your Assassin's
Creed stuff or or whatever. You want and make it cheaper for yourself.
They're gonna they're gonna have it. And I as I check it out,
my hands are behind my head. You'd see if you're watching on YouTube,
I'm checked out. See you later. As I think we've said on the
show a bunch of times, these Universes Beyond are never bad for Magic because
it's just gonna bring more people. They're gonna play our game with us into
it, and that's always important and we always want to see that, and
that's really great. This one might not be for either of us, but
that doesn't mean there is stuff that we're not gonna want. I'm playing that
bird there we go see. We're gonna get birds, we're gonna get swords,
we're gonna assassins, we're gonna get dudes in jeans. And if that's
your thing, it's right here for you. And I'm really happy that the
people that like that sort of thing are gonna be able to get it,
and they're gonna be able to find it either at their lgs or from their
friends or at Fusion. All those things are good, and we're really happy
that everybody's going to get a chance do experiences. Oh, yes, these
two experiences are coming up. We're going to Regina in September, We're going
to Calgary in November, and who knows what we're gonna do in between now
and then, but maybe if we figure it out, we can tell you
more about it on our next very exciting episode of Cool Man Er Cookout podcast.
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