Hey, listen to commentic cook Podcast episode four oh nine. I'm Branda,
I'm Here's Ryan. I'm gonna take a look back at twenty twenty three.
Now are things song? Hey, Ryan's We're back for yet another whirlwind adventure.
How you doing good? We're back. What is going down? Whole
tons going down? We're gonna take a look back at all the stuff that
we really liked, really didn't like, and all the stuff we were right
about and none of the stuff we were wrong about in twenty twenty three.
Before we get to any of that kind of stuff, we have to thank
our official business Daddy's Fusion Gaming Online dot Com, your source for all your
gaming needs, and the official beer sponsor of Commander Cookout, Sidewalk slam on
YouTube, suitson Doo, Pile of Bones, Distillery Slash Beer Homies. They
are the second coolest thing to come out of Vagina, Oh very much show
after our good friend Keel, of course, who sent us a picture on
Twitter of him drinking said pile of bones while holding a commander and having a
cookout. O. Man, that's deep gout. I didn't put all that
together. I saw his commander and he was standing in front of a barbecue.
Yeah, and then like I was like, I didn't see any food
on the grill, and they sent a picture picture. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, he was drinking. He was drinking their their white Ipa, which
I'm told by Pile of Bones is their number one selling beer by far and
away, not close. Are we allowed to say white Ipa on the internet.
Oh yeah, Oh, you might get canceled. I'm sure it's fine.
I'm sure it's good beer. I've never tried it myself. I have
dried several. I'm more of a dark beer man myself. Oh well,
wait, wait until you totally don't see my Christmas present that you totally haven't
already seen, totally discovered new beer while you were away on your holiday.
Oh yeah, it's it's chocolate, it's peanut butter, and it's beer.
Okay, well, just well, we're gonna get to the beer in a
second. I want to circle back around to Fusion real quickly, because I,
when I was on my vacation, turned the data off on the phone
so I didn't talk to freaking nobody. It was awesome. I didn't see
this guy for like ten days. Yeah, that was the best part anyway,
you'd see who I was pointing out. If you're watching on YouTube,
it should be because they work hard to make us look good. Yeah,
Joe's been making you look festive lately. Now that Christmas is over, do
you think do you think you'll make you a green again or blue? Or
maybe he'll alternate colors. Maybe they'll be like a spectrum thing where the colors
changed. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, big thanks to editor Joe
in twenty twenty three. I think we can say that if we're looking back,
he did a good job all year, totally medium thanks to Tyler.
They're both present. Oh oh oh, I was talking about fusion, So
turn a data back on when I when I come off of vacation. Then
I got some kind of food pusoning. But while I was sitting on the
toilet. Yeah, I'm looking at all my emails from the last week,
and I had a bunch of cards come in on my whistling wishless year.
You set them on your wish list, you get an email when they coming,
You buy them real fast when you're on the toilet. Yeah, so
nobody else buys them. Yeah, that's how I do it too. That's
mostly where I do all my wishless shopping. Yea, And when I checked
out, I used CEO Summer Promo code o Yeah yeah, cleansed my colon
save money and cleansed your wish list, Oh I did. Yeah, it
took like four cards off. That's pretty good. I think I dropped like
two or three off of mine too. Yeah. Yeah, I got a
I got a methrow Coat. That's a good card. That's like one of
the best cards of the year. I think that's pretty good. Splash it
in auto equips. Give your guy he uh indestructible. Yep, it's pretty
good, not too bad. It's pretty good cards. So if you want
to be like me and buy cards while you're on the toilet, ce CEO
Summer Promo code at Fusion Gaming online dot com even though it's winter. Yes,
yeah, that's that's some good marketing all around. That was a great
piece of marketing. I told them. I told them, mean something simple
like CCO fist Yes, yeah, New York. It'll change c CEO scum
ceo scum, CCO scrape scum five percent. That's too long. That's too
long, too long, peop Let's spell scrape wrong when it's all one word
like it is. You have to have the eyes right, like, there'd
be all kinds of questions. It's got to be easy. Summer is an
easy word to spell, at least. Yes, sir, taco cat cco,
taco cat taco cat. Yeah, Yes, I'll take it. I'll
take it to I'll take it to the next board meeting. Excellent, Yeah,
the next executive meeting or whatever. Fantastic. Speaking of executives. Executives,
we have some executive business to go through on the cast. I hate
that. Yeah, but it's good kind. It's like to giveaway kind and
it's a Patreon thank you kind that kind of stuff. Okay, that's pretty
good. I don't mind that. That's fine. Let's do last week's winner
last week or just a full confession because we've been doing all the double recordings
for like the last six weeks or whatever it's been because of the holidays and
my family thing that I did. I took the last two pre shows,
combined all the guessers, and picked one winner. So one person's gonna win
three times. No, one person's gonna win one time. Because your good
friend Ryan broke broke as hell. I've got from guessing Yoshi, Maru,
Francisco, the Bird, and Lewis. Three commanders. Somebody got all three
of them. Yeah, multiple people got all three. Wow. Yeah.
Lewis apparently was the hardest one though, as per some of the comments,
Oh, that was our venture into our what is it, our annual venture
into CDH. We were like one dec a year we'd look at CDH deck
and just shit on it. Yeah, it was Tyler's too. Tyler was
trying to explain in the discord, Oh, it wasn't ready yet. Well
you shouldn't have posted it then, Bud. Yeah, and he's like,
well, there's three commanders because I got three pets. I was like,
oh wait, that makes sense, that does make sense, But that makes
sense. You know what would have made that deck better? There's one commander?
Oh yeah, I mean you still have three pets if you want.
But if you want to, you know, when you update all your lists
on on whatever deck listing site you prefer, yes, and then you know
you make the cut in real life. You gotta make the cut on the
internet. Yes, go from three commanders down to one. You know what
that means? Three up, two slots, that's right, play the one
ring at or kub or QB. I was talking about real life, Ryan.
Oh, you're gonna keep the cat and keep the dog. You're gonna
keep the bird. Oh you can only keep one. Mmmm. That's real
life. If you want to go hard playing hardcore mode with your pets,
just throw a knife into the living room. Okay, I'm gonna leave for
an hour. Whoever's left is left. It's like guys have like the super
duper uh what's the word survival mode where you have to eat and drink and
like rest and you can say when you sleep in a bed a man.
I would not want to play that. I would not want to do that.
We're gonna talk about Fallout a little bit on tomorrow's bonus. That's Suppress,
that's look Ahead. Yeah yeah, okay, okay, So we still
haven't said the winner. Oh yeah, who wasn't Gary halfway? Watery?
God? Gary halfwin? Yeah he guessed all three he got him, So
congrats to Gary. He just went to like Commandfest London or something. Ship
Yeah cool. Hey we didn't even get to go to Commandest man. I
hope he wears CEO shirt. Just ship on people. He did wear a
Ceio shirt, and I hope he made fun of people for having weird teeth
and for eating bangers and mash. Oh yeah, I hope, I hope
that he didn't have any English food while he lives in that country. Why
would you want to eat English food? I've never heard a single good thing
about English food. And that's not me being hyperbolic or is that the word?
Yes? Never? But you like and I like potatoes and just meat
wrapped and fried. And I like that you like plain food and I like
spicy fruits. But you also like you're allowed to like more than one kind
of food brand. Oh I suppose, I suppose. I don't know.
You know what I learned today? What is it by today? I mean
yesterday. You can take taco seasoning, yes, and mix it with cream,
cheese and sour cream. Yes. And it makes a really great potato
chip dip free lesson your boys, a culinary cookout podcast. There it is.
Yeah, we've rebranded. We've rebranded, so Gary, get in touch.
You know how to get in touch, and we can get you a
prize. I'll send it all the way over the ocean. Next business,
We've got a Patreon increaser. This guy's already got a nickname. One of
the benefits. You can use it in the discord, which is a real
benefit. That's a real benefit because you can meet like some of the people
that we shit on on the show all the time. Oh yes, and
the people that come to the CSU experiences with us, which we'll talk about
today and tomorrow. Okay, John Armor All, I like that one.
Now that's an old one. I like that one. That's a good one.
Yeah, but but I'm thinking, like, what's he armor alling up?
Like, what's he shining up his dong? Just the end of his
dog we Yeah, yeah, that's why we're that's why we're partners in crime
brand. Yeah, of course, what else would it be? That's what
Maybe his butt cheeks? No, no, just like I just like a
shiny butt cheek. I think it would be weird if you were getting down
with somebody and their ass was just shiny, just shiny looking like like like
butt cheeks or like on SpongeBob or on Red and Stimpy. Remember they always
did the close ups of the butt cheeks and then you could see the reflection
of the mirror and them. Yeah, you don't want that, but nobody
knows. Like the high detail shots where they show something gross, but it's
shiny butt cheeks. Yeah, but if it's like you're weiener, if it's
your pain, that's kind of shiny, It's like, that's kind of weird.
Still, but like you could probably get away with each of life.
I wonder if Sean Armoroll shines it up until it looks like an oscar,
like like a movie oscar. You know, probably do, Yeah, probably
looks like an oscar. Anyway, it's like a weird chod in the middle
and then a little dang. It's got arms that are crossed. It stands
out in the front when he has a party and doesn't let people in unless
they're on the list. Yes, yes, yes, uh Leonardo DiCaprio couldn't
get in for a long time. No, yeah, now, not until
he flamethrower that girl in the pool. I assume that happened in real life.
He's a documentary, right, don't google that. And Once upon a
Time in Hollywood that's a documentary right more or less. Ye, it's based
on true events. We're gonna call it c practically real. Yeah, yeah,
so big thanks to John, and I want to move on to the
next John. John from Gemstone Mind coming over to Commander cook a watch on
Friday. He's doing his first CEDH deck tech and you'll like it? Will
I? You will? I probably won't. It's a challenge. I think
you will. He can, I can like it, or I cannot.
It has it starts with an This is the deck. It starts with an
S and it rhymes with sacks. Well, let me tell you what that
means. It's not because it doesn't start with a bee and it doesn't rhyme
with blash flaunters. Oh yes, no, it does not. It does
not. How can it be? We've been over this. You're allowed to
like more than one thing, but I don't. I know I could,
but I don't. We're going to get into some of the likes and don't
likes. But uh. I wanted to mention John because he worked really hard
on his first video and it looks really good. I've seen it cool and
I'm happy to have CEDH on the channel because I know how popular it is
and I know that like people like to tune in and learn. I watched
it and actually learned some shit. So yeah, you're never too young to
learn or old? How does that go? Old? Never too old to
learn? Not even brando. Hey, I learned a new thing yesterday.
I told you guys about it. The recipe dip. Man, you want
to just put taco season and anything make it tasty? Talk. Yes,
when you put enough spices and salt on stuff, it even would make a
turn taste good. But would it make it taste like not a turd like?
How much taco season would it take to make poop not taste like poop?
I'll bet you it would be a lot, whereas like a reasonable amount
created this fairly tasty potato chip dip. A just question, malijh. Speaking
of taste, Okay, I've got a Christmas present for you, and it's
not poop. Oh well, if it's not poop, I don't know if
I want it. I think a lump of poop and a sock would be
a great present to get it. Yeah, frozen one hit Max Crandell with
it. Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna talk about that tomorrow. It's a
bag totally on brand Lululemon bag, but the logo is off screen so they
won't sponsor us. Would you believe I've never been in that store in my
life. Oh, I've never wont step foot inside of the Lulu Lemon,
although a couple people here in the store say that their stuff is unbelievably comfortable
and they wear it all the time. Yeah, I shall not unbelievably comfortable
in my mouth and want to drink it all the time. Pile of Bones,
there's more there. I knocked it over. Oh no, I caught
it. Oh shit, that's chocolate. Yeah see there's black I pa here,
and there's chocolate stout with a little oop a loop on it. I
figured you'd like these ones. I do so big thanks to Pile of Bones
for these. I want to see the ones to hear. Yeah, Brandon's
gonna drink them up. A lump a guy on the front little fuck.
See that's good. That's good stuff right there. That is excellent stuff.
It was raining when they were delivered, so they got some mud on them.
I tried to wash them off. That's why they're wet. Nothing spilled,
but there's kind of water all over the place. We're not supposed to
have anything in here. That's fine. I'm sure nobody will notice. It's
not like anybody from work watches this. It's not like anybody's gonna fire except
for Aaron mcnott. Oh yeah, watches the show. Yeah, she subscribes
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tooks and everything there. I got a I think I only got two orange
tukes left. They were the most popular tuk. See people like to well,
we know lots of people in the nation actually like to go hunting.
Yes, surprise me. Those high visibility don't get shot in the dome.
Yeah for sure. You ever see Starship Troopers and I goes mad that you
won't have to because they'll see your head not shoot you in it. Mm
hmm. Okay, here's the thing. Twenty twenty three. What a year.
We were right on a bunch of stuff. Yeah, we were.
We changed the world in twenty twenty three. Right, we were basically wrong
about nothing. Correct. Okay, so right about that as well. Yet
another thing in twenty twenty three that you were correct about. Here it is
what how do you where? How do you where? Do we start?
I'm going to think about the things that I predicted slash bitched about. Oh
yeah, let's start with that one, since my favorite one. Okay,
I complained that nagas were not snakes and they are now snakes, I'm taking
full credit for that. Well, I'm sharing it with the nation as well.
Good one. But we did that, all of us did that together.
We did it. Was was Warmer forty K twenty twenty two or three
twenty Oh wait hey, look the list up. It was twenty twenty two,
right, Yes, it was last year, twenty two, dang it.
One of the things we called in the twenty twenty two top fives was
new printings of soul rings and stuff, right, And we got that with
Warmhammer, and it was in Doctor Who and it was in something. It
was not in Lord of the Rings. But they gave us multiple different printings
of sol ring in Lord of the Rings in a different way. But there
there were new ones. And the one that you got in the commander decks
were also different than the standard sol ring art. Was it not? No,
there's one sol ring art in the product, but it wasn't the sol
ring that everybody's looking at. It's not the one that was on the plane
at correct. Yeah, we still got a new one. It's still different.
If you like that one, you can get that one. We also
said it was going to be the most popular one of the year. Did
we not, and we were right about oh yes, because everybody liked that.
Yeah. So I mean Vegas, and I had a media pass in
Vegas. So I'm in this like there's a media lounge. I don't know.
They had water and coffee. I was drink of beer in there.
I mean I totally wasn't. And I talked to a Watsa employee in there,
and I was asking her about Lord of the Rings and just telling her
about me and and and what Brando and I do and that it was like
my favorite set, so happy that it's the thing because oh, because they
were previewing like the holiday cards and stuff, right, yeah, the Hildebrandt
arts and the and the poster arts and stuff that are totally cool. Got
one of those, oh yeah, which one is? No dang no,
just regular dang playing the Witch King o King. Yeah, I might have
to switch it out of the deck because I honestly can't read it and there's
too much text on the card. I remember what it does, man,
I can remember for exiting planes, walkers and all that shite. Nope,
not that, No, goddamn I day with that card does So I'm talking
to this Watsie lady and she is in charge of like ushering the panels and
the speakers and organizing a lot of the show. She's a PR lady.
Yeah, And she tells me she's like on the PR team. She's sexy.
Here's the thing, Oh, she being on the PR team would probably
know when a product is successful, sure, and to what degree would be
successful at or what kind of elevation level it made it to. So you're
telling me she's smart. She is smart. That's sexy, answered my question.
Yeah, there we go. It's a great way to respect women.
Call them smart. When they're smart. Yeah, when they're not, you
call them out. So I asked her, so is Lord of the Rings
Tales of Middle Earth the most successful set of magic history? She goes like
this, She kind of gives me the side look like this. She starts
kind of doing this, and she goes, what do you mean by successful?
And I go, I mean, did it did it make more money?
Did it introduce the most amount of new players to the game? Ever?
That means money into your pocket? Ever? Did excitement into your pocket?
There we're saying it right now. Was it ordered by more distributors?
Ever? Was it played at its own pro Tour or in the qualifying season
leading up to the Pro Tour more than ever. And I'm asking her all
these questions without saying like did it make the most money ever? Right?
Right? And she's saying she's She's sitting there like, hmmm, man,
how are they gonna deal with me? When I'm like, man, you
guys must have made a lot of money off of that age. So if
you're watching on YouTube, you're seeing what my head is doing the whole time.
And then she goes, I don't know if I can answer any of
those questions pertaining to the success of that product because we don't care how many
people played it. So then I just say, oh, okay, well
you probably can't answer if it made the most money out of any set ever,
did it? And she goes, I definitely can't answer that question,
while nodding her head on and down. Yes, that is exactly what she
did. That was our prediction. And I'm not saying that we were right.
We were right, but I am gonna do what she did as we
are. I'm gonna say it were we were absolutely correct. Well, when
the Lord of the Rings family or the hell their names, or like,
we made more money off Magic Lord of the Rings than we have off the
Lord of the Rings in the last hundred years. Obviously it is more successful.
Oh man, between between fricking Hasbrow and Amazon, Man, that family's
gone as much money as the freaking Queen Hasbro. I can't. I can't
say the Queen. I gotta say the King. Now, we can say
whatever we want, but what's you know what I mean? The King is
not gonna last long. He's like a thousand That's what they said about the
queen we have. But Queen Elizabeth didn't die out of spite. And everybody
knows that if you're from the pond, you're gonna know this or across the
pond. I should say you know that too. She was desperately trying to
outlive her son so her son couldn't be king. She didn't quite make it,
but I think she got close enough. Yeah, yep, yeah,
she wanted her grandson to be king A Yeah, what's his name again?
I don't care, not Harry the other one. I don't care. I
don't care. Somebody somebody's freaking screaming some royalist is like and it's a freaking
Canadian royalist guaranteed. Yeah, it's Gary halfway, yeah, because he lives
there, so he'll know if their money has changed over there yet. Like,
do you think all the Queen Elizabeth money like isn't worth it anymore?
And you gotta have King money now, I bet it's coming out. None
of our money's changed yet, but it's gonna that's weird, man, that's
gonna be weird. I've started to see that get this, get this people
in the Land of the Free. I've started to see the commemorative tunies Elizabeth
man. Yeah, Okay, let's let's take a quick beer break and then
we'll come back and talk some and one of the things we're totally right about.
Oh yeah, is it a set thing? No, we'll just do
it now. We'll do it now before secret layers. We're there. Gonna
be fifty two of them, one for each week. Absolutely, I counted
there was fifty five. That's one a week plus three three almost said two.
And you can minus two from that because two of them were for like
only in stores. You'll only get them at your WPN stores. Oh,
I love PN. I did buy both of them just to like support our
lgs. Yes, uh. And then I played the cards out of one
of them, and then I bindered the cards out of the other one because
I don't play hydras. Ah, yes, yeah, yeah hydros. Okay,
we'll take a quick break. We'll talk one more thing that that we
were both right on, and then we'll talk sets. Yeahs back we are
back. Well we found cookies, yeah, and some brittle Yeah. I
didn't have that. Yeah, I didn't want to eat it's got crushed up
candy canes. Not a peppermint guy. I mean, I know we're gonna
hear that on the internet. Why what you know what I think the peppermint.
The peppermint crowd online is pretty divided. I bet you it's fifty to
fifty, like peppermint to no peppermint. Yes, yes, Like I love
peppermint and I will slay people who don't, oh wow. Versus I dislike
peppermint and will slay people who want to try and feed it to me.
Oh. I just won't eat it when people give it to me. And
if they do give it to me, I'll politely take it and then give
it to somebody who. Yes, like, if you give Brando a candy
cane, I will take it and I will be grateful because you gave me
a thing, and that's awesome, but I'm not gonna eat it. I'm
gonna give it to somebody who will eat it and enjoy it. And if
you make me eat it, like you're gonna stand there and look at me
till I eat it, I will, and I will secretly resent you.
Well, okay, we're gonna talk about sets that Watsy gave us in one
second, but I gotta clear the air about something, oh, something that
we were both right on, but on a technicality each U. Okay,
you will once you hear it, you'll know. Okay. You predicted that
there would be a secret layer in twenty two one three that I would own,
Yeah, now, and you did. I already owned secret layers before
that that were given to me, or that I won and you would buy,
et cetera. You paid money for one, I know you did.
I was there when they gave it to you. I own the Lord of
the Rings secret Layer, you sure do. I actually owned past tense,
owned two of them, one in foil one and not foil. The technicality
is is I did not pay money for it, so you were right.
I do own one, but I didn't pay for it. Did you exchange
goods or services for it? You don't get more questions, sir. You
laid out all the terms and conditions when we made the prediction, so you
can shut up. Man. That Shire Terrace is like eight dollars now,
yeah, oh wow, well, no, they're worth money because nobody bought
it. Yes, that's the oh yes, Watsy's super backhanded plan to make
everybody feel bad. But then all the investors that like fifty eight of them
because they're Lord of the Rings, and everybody's like, oh yeah, lord
of the Ring, I'm one of them. Oh godrick go oh oh man.
My foiled coffee is still still sealed, my non foil one. I
painted all the other cards. I have the misprinted worm Tongue still in its
sealed thing because it was the secret card, right, and I still have
the Shire Terrace this foil shower Shire Terrace dollars not the regular one. Oh
wow, frick yeah, sorry man, sorry dude, they didn't go up
that much. New. It's a playable card. It's fine. It's fine,
yes, especially in landfall decks because it's like it's like fetch Land number
eighty six. I wanted it for omna, Well, I have a non
foil one eight bucks nonfoil. What have you met me? Yes? Oh
man, Okay, if twenty twenty three gave me anything, it was opportunities
to trade excitement for foils. Yes, and see what I did there?
Yes, say that I did. Because we're official now, because we're gonna
be at Magic Fest Chicago in the Creator Area. Don't even call it the
right name. I don't even what are they gonna do? Uninvite me?
It's too late. So we're gonna be there from like in the Creator Area
on the Saturday from two until three thirty. So everybody should come down and
say hi to us and play games with us. I should have mentioned us.
Start cuddle us and kiss us and call us George. You don't have
to do any other stuff if you want to or game. I'm not.
I like kissing and cuddling. That's okay, but yeah, we just want
to see either. I'm really excited for sure. Yeah. You know what,
each time we go to one of these magic Fests and or or what
are they called the Magic Cons. We'll talk about it on tomorrow's twenty four
look Ahead, but we should mention it now, right like we should have
mentioned it when we were talking about the new stuff that we're gonna be doing,
which includes sidewalk slam, didn't mention that either. But the Creator area,
what time two two till three thirty, two till three thirty or two
till four. I think it's two till three thirty. You'll be for ninety
minutes, is the point. Yeah, And whenever we go to these magic
cons, we always have an area where it's like all the whole tables,
like all CEO people. Right, we did it in Minneapolis, we did
it in Seattle, or Bellevue, we did it in Vegas. We do
it everywhere. Yeah, and let's just like get all those people when it's
our time slot, go all crowded Creator Area. We're gonna have booster packs
to give away. We're gonna have stickers. We're gonna be like playing booster
pack wars and freakin' you know what. I've really been liking his jumpstart.
Maybe we'll get some jump start man. Watsee. No, you don't have
to play. No, I'll play on your behavior. I'm the official guest
here. I will be the one who does not suffer that bullshit. Oh
I'll suffer you you will when you sit there not playing Jumpstart or have to
pay money to play jump Start for the first time in your life. Oh
dude, no, I'm gonna bring like Lord of the Rings, Jumpsies,
Jumpsies, Jumpies whatever, they're so bad. Yeah. Well, okay,
we've got a list of sets that have come out this year. Now I
have you've got the sets there from twenty three. I am going to pull
up my show notes because I have some questions for you. Oh that's French
for question. It is yes, it's also Spanish for question. Oh yeah,
no, that's a And now that it's on the internet, I was
gonna say, okay, what are the sets? I guess what was the
first one, Dominary dom Remastered, and with that came what are they called
the Universe Multiverse Legends, Right, was that in there? You know?
Nope? That was in Marching Machines. We'll get there. Nope, I
made the mistake. Yes, okay, so this was a reprint set that
gave you reprints in both the new frame old frame borderless cards, and I
think that that's the I don't think there was a specialty showcase frame in Dominary
Remaster. Oh no, it was stained glass. Dominari is always stained glass,
but that wasn't in here. Oh yeah, oh you could get the
I'm still thinking of the multiverse legends. You can get stained glass things from
like March of the Machines, right, because that was March. Yeah,
there was a couple and there's a couple of March of the Machines or am
I thinking of Brothers War? Yes? Yes, because all of those things
happened on Dominaria, right, yeah, But there was none of that here.
This was all just yeah, okay stuff, that's fine. And it
was good, Yes, it was good. Was it as good as Time
Spiral Remaks? Not even close? Is it? Is it gonna be as
good as Raven Remasters? Better than rabnek Kremaster. We're gonna talk about that
more tomorrow. I have. I'm the man. I'm the one that loves
reprint sets. I love them and Ravnica and no, oh you used to
not anymore. I'm sick of that ship now, okay, I'm over Ravnica
and as such, man, I was going over it with some of the
guys at the LGS, just going over it myself. Dude, this this
is the set. No save it for tomorrow. Save it for tomorrow.
I'm gonna tune in tomorrow Commander Cook of four to ten to hear some really
good Ravene Career Masters of Dominary Your Master was fine. I kind of forgot
that it even happened, if I'm being honest, Yeah, because it was
buried under so much excitement for it was a bad set. It's just there
was so there was such a glut of stuff, and I don't think there
was enough exciting things there. Every so often you wanna goes, oh,
yeah, there's a borderless demonic tutor in there. That's pretty cool. We're
only reprinted all those tutors, that's neat. Yeah, But past that,
it's like what came out in Dominary Your Master that everybody is just raw hard
for. Yeah, and you know what all of those tutors were in Commander
Masters, which is another set from this year that everybody actually besides the price
tag, we'll talk about it when we get there, but besides the price
tag, everybody was I think more excited about Commander Masters, right, yeah,
just like the reprints and stuff. Yeah, and what it did four
prices once everybody stopped buying the booster packs and then stores had to like open
packs to sell singles. Yeah, which wants the value of the car?
What's the value of the path ninety dollars booster pack. All of a sudden,
you're opening up eighteen cents in cards. Everybody stopped buying them as you
should have good on you everybody. So the next set that was in January,
yep, move on to February. This was a good set. This
was a very good set. I like this one. This was a good
set in terms of providing the format of commander with very powerful format defining cards
in things like Shieldred, Eli, Schnorn and the Green One, vorn klex
Y and Mandrac. These were all in for Exia, all will be one
yes, and for Extu only one has the astute honor of delivering to me
two of my very favorite commanders all time that I didn't have to build myself
because the nation did it for me. Which what in the there's the Rozov
lady that attacks and makes little mites over that one and we did her on
the show and the is it a screlve, No, that's the mite.
Oh Man. Scroll was a hero. He was the hero we need and
he got done dirty dang by not being on the box for March of the
Machine anywayways, and the other one was the other one that we did on
the show. It was red and blue and it made goblins when you play,
Oh yeah, Ovika, Ovika, Vika, We've got to I've got
a bonus top five coming out with our most popular deck Techs of twenty twenty
three. That's coming out. It'll probably be out like the first week of
the new year, and Ovika might be on there. That was a good
one. I like both of those cards, lots. Both of them came
from here. In One of my favorite special art treatments of the year in
the oil Slick foils. Oh, I was gonna ask you about that.
Really like those those were cool. They did, like the oil slick packs
in the in the All will be Wondles, right and with the with the
red and white click down life counters. Yeah, this was a cool product.
I actually I think that of the main line sets, I think this
was my favorite one of the year. It wasn't my favorite product of the
year. You freaking buried the lead man. Well you'd say it near the
end, you say, why all the reason, Well, the end of
talking about freaking all over want showcases were cool in the in the ink block
ones, the black and white ones, stepping complete foils were beautiful, totally
cool. Those were freaking cool. I want more of those. I want
Louis Vuitton foils because that's what those reminded me of. But Louis Vuitton,
hey, freaking trying to get that license cost a little more than Lord of
the Rings. Not just kidding it one probably Uh the set aesthetically with the
Frexian language cards and the Frisian just light motif is it's just such a prosocative
Yeah, so cool. Yes, everything about this set was cool. We
said that at the same time as the set came out to right, Like
I remember reviewing last February saying, this set just looks good and all body
horror imagery was so everything about hanging from hooks and ship and their skin's getting
flayed off. I think throughout the year we're going to see that trend continue
with very beautiful cards to look at, very beautiful design for like a second.
Okay, well what's the next set? That was? That was February?
Then we got a bazillion Secretly, yes, the hell is that I
don't know that was that's all online stuff. Then we have March of the
Machine, March of Machine. Where were we with March of the Machine was
happening? We were in that city whose name I can never remember? Minneapolis,
Yes, yes, because this was in April. I always think Cincinnati.
I know that that's not right, but it's the only long city name
I can come up with. Minneapolis for Mom Mom March of Machine, Yes,
Mom Mom came after one. Yes, we were there and that was
our first big CCO experience of the year. Hey, in Minneapolis for a
Magic Con Mini, and that's where previews actually started for Lord of the Rings
too. Yes, I tweeted them all out and stuff, and I guess
we could talk about Minneapolis a little bit too. Hey, I got some
notes on that that I want to ask you about. The Minneapolis was fun,
But what did you think about marcha Machine? It's fine except for battles.
Battles suck. I want them to go away forever, not just because
they're goddamn sideways, but like, does anybody play them? I've actually seen,
being honest, a bunch of people not slotting them into their decks to
be memes. There's one of them that I play because it's the same effect
as another card that I would definitely play instead of it if the price tag
was lower. But I own this one as opposed to I don't own this
other one. We've done a few decks that have battles in them since April.
April, yes, April, and I've played against a few battles in
person at our LGS. Okay, so I have a card that says,
whenever it does damage to a creature or battle, do something. I actually
had somebody at the LGS this in the month of December say what's a battle?
So that is my range too, from what is a battle? To
I've seen them in ten months or sorry, eight months. I've seen them
maybe twice on podcasts because that's what we do, and maybe twice in real
life. There we Go. So they weren't as prolific as some of the
individual cards that we got, like in All will be Won, I also
got I've seen more mandracs than I've seen battles. There we Go, There
we go, because I played twos pretty freaking good. Not on the same
deck though, Oh yeah, who are you fu jesse Man? I saw
him the other day, oh Man, fricka. I wish I was playing
in the game with him. I woant to kill him. That's good.
Okay, what was no No Minneapolisneolis. My notes on Minneapolis got a whole
section for him. Okay, Jesus, it's our first time going there.
Like we've been to Edmonton and Calgary and Vegas, Vegas a bunch, yeah,
but our first time in Minneapolis. Ya get this. This is what's
so great about the CCO experience. I ate food and like a real like
diner on the corner in America, some like Big Fat Lady cooked me an
egg. Check this out though, Man, that was cool. I'm got
in trouble for paying on a building. You can't be outside the United States.
You can in Canada. It's not it's like you still get in trouble.
You get a ticket, like if the police catch you. But like
it's a very bad list to be on in the United States and we didn't
know that. Yeah, but we won't talk anymore about that so CCO experience
for any of the new listeners. If you become a patron, you get
an invite to the experience. You sign up, we get a house,
we get a fridge full of food and booze and we just play magic and
it's a big party. And I was gonna say we all sleep together,
but what I mean is in the same house and we go to a magic
con for three or four days. Yea. And Minneapolis was four days based
on like flight times and who drove and and cost. Ye you stayed for
Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night yep. And Max
Crandell and the Commander Central guys came over, and the Wiscanting guys came over,
and everybody that we met from the Midwest brought beer. They all drove
because it's the Midwest, you freaking drive everywhere, and they all brought beer
from their own places. And the first night I was like, man,
there's no room for beer. I have to buy because I didn't have to
buy any because the whole fridge was full. And it was so freaking awesome.
And the first night we got there, we had all these awesome friends
and cool people that we see like Lenny and Steven and Frickin' and Max Crandell
was there and I had a whole long chat with him, and he ended
up leaving with a bunch of black eyes and stuff, and it was like
these people you've never met. For everybody else that we'd never met just on
Discord or whatever, you meet them in real life and it's like instantly you're
just friends. And then they say, man, Brown, do your shorter
in real life? And it always happened life. Yeah, that always happens.
But the point is is you go from like zero to one hundred on
the friendship scale like the minute you meet each other, because it's like,
oh, yeah, I'm I'm Zoidberg Jesus on Discord. Yeah, what's up?
He saved our lives in Vegas. We'll talk about that, lady.
Oh yeah, we will hear. Yeah, So Minneapolis, you got any
good memories? You got any good story? It made me that egg,
that's my favorite part. And we were stayed next to a bakery and they
gave us donut. They did, Yeah, our Airbnb had a deal with
them. It was our first Creator Corner. I think they called something different
now, but it was called Creator Corner then. And we had some conversations
with the WATSI like Creator Team. They're called Oh and I met Elliana.
I still have I still haven't watched that part of my arm where she touched
me. Gross yeah, gross, getting moldy. She's gonna be in Chicago
too, touch his other arm. Be funny. It was. It was
a very proud and vindicating experience talking to Watsy and getting acknowledgment and just having
people that I admire and respect, like other creators, say hey, like,
good job, I'm happy for you guys. That was my probably my
favorite part of that whole experience. And we went to that rad party at
that brewery. Oh yeah, man, dude, we missed that one.
Oh hell, that was awesome. We got to do that more often.
Yeah, wats you should invite us to more of those things because that's where
we really because the talk was and it was an open bar. Oh yeah,
dude, how foggy it was. No, it was just me.
No, I thought that was my brain from being brand of you know who
told us that we're doing a good job. Tell me freakin' Josh Lacroix.
Ah, I never heard of her, So I'm I'm I'm just talking to
you at the bar or whatever or or like over at the table. And
and because there was like shuffle board there or something, Yeah, there shuffle
like a bean bag tossing yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I'm like,
I gotta go get a drink or whatever. So I just walked up to
the bar and I just leaned on the bar. I ordered a drink or
whatever, and uh, some dude beside Me's like, hey, what's up
man. I turned Josh Lee quy like what's up? So I just spent
I don't know, twenty minutes talking with him, just chatting about like commander
cookout, commands own and and just what he does on his day to day.
And he told me that he really likes commander on Populum and like people
always come up and talk to him, right, and he he was just
like answering people's questions and and he he kept asking me, well, what
do you think Ryan? And I was like, oh fuck me and Josh
Lee Kui, We're like what he's now or whatever? Right, Like I
knew him from before, like we know him, yeah, but I'd never
had a beer with him. So that was that was another kind of cool
highlight. And that was dope. Yeah, that's pretty fun. Next set.
Next set was Screwed Josh Yeah oOoOO oo oo ooh ooh, March of
the Machines. Aftermath, Yes, yeah, after Math of the Minneapolis party.
Yeah, with Smitty falling asleep in his chair as he always does,
like every time he comes and waking up and ordering burger. We get a
bang on the door because he's hungry, he like orders burgers or whatever.
And I didn't know he did it. He just fell asleep his phone still
in his hand, you know, And the freaking door gets banged on,
and I'm like, oh great. The owners freaking saw that there's people at
the house and there's booze, and they called the cops. And I'm like,
oh fuck, what is this high school? Yeah, and I'm thinking
it's the cops or the owners and go to American prison. My life's flashing
before my eyes. I'm like, no, they called me yesterday. They're
from Colorado, not from Minnesota. Like, what the hell is going on?
Right? And Smitty's like, my burger. They just got the notification.
So he's like wow. His eyeballs are hanging down to the floor.
He's like because he fell out of his head, you see. Oh no,
sorry, his bags his eyebags because he was so tired, get tired,
and so he goes he gets this freaking briefcase of burgers. Then burgers
and we all have burgers and he's blooged. He splurged and got cheeseburgers with
cheese and pickles. Oh yeah, so we had about fifteen of those.
That's good anyway, Machin's Aftermath. Those were the mini boosters with like five
cards in them. Yep, no commons, no bullshit. What did you
think about that? I like that a lot. I really liked Aftermath.
The more I looked back at it, the more I really liked it.
And I'm gonna tell you why. Never before his Magic the Gathering Ever released
a set where one hundred percent of the cards were actually playable except after Math.
No way, because that's a good piece of review right there. You
can look at every card and Aftermath and every single card. I'm not saying
it's the best card, but it's a card that could go in your deck,
whether it be dinosaurs or sea monsters or I want to draw cards Dot
Deck or Attack he Equippy, Attackie or Land. It's all there, and
it's all playable. It was supposed to supplement. It's like it wrapped up
the story of if you gave a shit about that, it wasn't it was
nothing mechanically to do like you need to get these to complete this meld set
from the previous set. It wasn't anything mechanically for the game. It was
story driven and the mechanics on the cards played well with March of Machine cards.
Right. Yes, and there are some there's some cool that Nissa is
really cool. There's an enchantment that finally you keep a ball lightning forever.
Yes, just lots of neat stuff there that you don't And there was a
lot more of those that seemed to be crammed into that set than most other
sets. I think that's because they weren't I'm gonna use the air quotes balancing
for the draft environment, and because they you know, made the packs full
price for a third of the cards, so all the cards were a little
bit better the machine. Yeah, I don't, I don't know if I'm
I don't know if I have a complaint about that. Let's make the packs
the same ice would give us less but give us better stuff. Yeah,
I'm oh, give us better stuff. But and I'm gonna circle back again,
give us better stuff, but the packs same price, less cards,
less cards, same price sounds bad? Yes, cards, better packs,
same price, this is good. Yes, this is a good thing.
I agree, Okay, I concur Okay. So what's the next set after
Aftermath? Yeah? Baby, Oh this is the one? Hey, hey
it's Commander Master. Wait a second, what ain't you missed one? You
missed one? Well, I forgot that one even existed? Yes, which
one? Is it? Right? Yes? What is this? Hang on?
Lord of the Rings? What is that? Baby? I never heard
of that Lord of the Rings, Tails of Middle Earth. It's pretty good.
It's fine, it's pretty good. You ever heard of the one ring?
Yeah? Tune into my top five cards of the year? Are there
three cards from? Ah? I did an honorable mention which included, ah,
there's a little bit of pile of bones for everybody. I did an
honorable mention that included Lord of the Rings cards. There's a cycle, and
then there were some cards. I don't want to spoil it, but this
set was very good, very well received, many many, many powerful cards.
Yes, yes, we got an extra special little I guess what do
we call it? Experience? I guess with this set because the release for
it, the pre release weekend for it was the Edmonton Regional Championship weekend that
we did the Edmonton command Fest. Remember it was command Fest Lord of the
Rings. Yeah, we were there. Yeah, and I did two seals.
I did a casual Tim Horton's not Sealed event where we like traded cards
and played each other's decks and stuff. But it was sealed, and I
lost to a guy who got double orcs bow Masters. Geez, I wonder
why, ye orchy b and mirkwood bats. That's what I lost to.
That'll do it. That'll do it every time. Yeah. And then you
and I did sealed too, had a giant ran the table. Yea.
We beat some folks. We beat some folks. Yes, yes, there
was times where we didn't even lose lives. Yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes yes there are times where we had to throw a magic at
ourselves so that we didn't feel like we're blown people out. Yes, yes.
And the funniest part about that when you okay, so when you play,
like when we have to do sealed or whatever, whenever we do it,
we pretend we're nubes hey, like how much life do we start at?
And we put our lands like not how we normally do, and we
say like is this good? We pretend right, and never played before when
people find out like that. We are ringers, not freaking' noobes. It's
very funny. That's our thing. So we did that and Alex and Aiden
came to that with us, and you guys, did you play any of
the pre cons with them or was it just them? Oh? No,
I avoided the ship out of that. Yeah. They helped us run the
CEO booth at the Command Fest and they were jamming games of pre cons.
We fired eighty three games that weekend. That's pretty good out of our booth,
and a lot of them were pre con games because we had a set
of the pre cons. Yes, if we just they come in and play
our handy dandy precond This is this is what I'll say of the Lord of
the Rings because I've done a bunch of live streams and we've covered it a
lot, and we've detected a lot. Best set of the year, this
is mine. I think you could probably ask ten people that aren't Brando,
and probably ten people I wouldn't be surprised if they said that this is the
best product of the year, because it's frickin' the best. It had the
most powerful cards in it. Yeah, three of the pre cons were very,
very powerful. The elf voting one wasn't as powerful and annoying. Yes,
the salur On one fun to play, very powerful, very flavorful because
you get all the bad guys in one deck, like Doctor who did to
coincidentally same colors gris is because they're the villains. Yeah. The Charge of
the row Herem deck very very very powerful, and the and the Hobbit deck
was stronger than you'd think, stronger than you think, and I think the
most tunable because it takes like a couple of card switches. And then now
you've got a combo deck. Yes, yeah, which we've done on the
show. Yes we did so. Yeah, hands down my favorite set.
I don't I don't know if I have a favorite card out of the set,
but oh I do, I do one of my favorite cards of the
Okay, well let's save it to the end. You got anything to say
about Lord of the Rings that I haven't already said? Ever, Fine,
for those of us that aren't Lord of the Rings weaves it was fine,
A seven ten fine with it. I mean it was a it was a
luxury priced, yes, saying you know, and it was the draft and
set boosters were a little bit more. It was the It was the collector
packs that I think lost five that's how much they were here, seven,
ten, forty five, yes, yeah, and the collector packs even went
up as high as sixty I remember before they found the ring, and when
they found the ring, they went back down to forty five. Yeah,
and now you can't really get them anymore, right, because it was a
one time specialty product. Man, that's too bad. Hey, the collector
boosters are all like that. I think that people notice it more with things
like Lord of the Rings and Doctor Who. But the fact is there's one
run of collector boosters and that's it. Yeah. If they show up at
your lgs more than once, it's because the distributor had some left, or
the stores were they said, okay, get me eighty cases or whatever they
got sixty forty now and we'll take forty later, yeself. Yeah, that's
where all that comes from. There's all the collector boosters are like that.
It just so happened that the Lord of the Rings once sold out immediately.
Yeah, so man, we noticed it more. Okay, last memory about
Lord of the Rings from Edmonton. We the doors opened and our booth right
by the door. Hey, yeah, right, by the doors. Perfect.
We had a banner and everything, and we're walking in and it was
fricking raining so hard all weekend. Remember we're walking in. We're late because
of the rain and traffic and parking and covering up our boxes with our merchant
shit. So we walk in, the doors are locked. We're calling like
Kelly the event organizer, and there's dudes waiting in line being like hey Ryan
Lebrando, Yes, cco, we're coming right to the booth or whatever.
Right, Yeah, the door's open. Everybody runs to the vendors just to
buy collector boosters and Lord of the Rings and then Rich the owner of Fusion
Fusion Gaming online dot com you remember them. Rich says to me, yeah,
Lord of the Rings, collector boxes. Then tire event sold out in
seven minutes. Yep gone, Yeah, we're gone. We managed to score
two of them, we did. We opened FID with Aaron and Tyler.
Yeap, dude, that was freaking fun as a good one. You got
hammered on your box, all you got you turned like six hundred dollars into
like freaking forty into dollars. It's worse in Vegas, Yes, it was.
I couldn't I could have actually gambled instead of foe gambled and probably done
better Uncle Brando's Vegas while not in Vegas Emporium. Yes, off set,
this is Commander Masters, And I'm gonna go on record and I'm gonna say,
yeah, I might catch some shit for this. I think this is
this is real worst set of the year because of the price, and I
think that it had a lot of now that we're not talking about like hyped
about it and like the hype trade right now, what was here? Honestly,
Andy Warhol profile pictures with Allard Demonic Tutor. I don't know, like
textured foil, jeweled Lotus, that's pretty good. Sure, sure, sure
if you get that textured foil, the which ones do I have, because
you can go out and just buy them now and they're not very much money.
I have a Koselec and yeah, and the Goblin Dude Grenzo and the
Minuttar guy Naheb, and I bought all of them for not very much money.
All of them individually cost me less than ten bucks. So here's the
thing though, So all this the set was fine and powerful stuff, it
was not worth the price in any way, shape or form. It did
nothing to bring down the cost of cards that like the big stuff, the
jeweled lotus, the medallions, the prices didn't come down. I think some
of them actually went up. The medallions went down a few dollars for a
while, yeah, And the rest of the cards were all kind of There
were cards like this set sucked and balls it. I think there were cards
like and don't quote me on the exact cards, but a card that comes
to mind is like Selvalla, where a Salvalla was like six bucks or eight
bucks and the foils were like one hundred and then it came out in this
and foils went got chopped in half and the card went down to a dollar
and it was what it was, a jumpstart card, right, the conspiracy.
Yeah, so there was cards like that that were artificially expensive because there
was scarcity, right, But then it just gets a set release and it's
fine, now it is what it should be. So it did that.
It did that, and cards like the medallions went from thirty five to twenty
seven or twenty five and it's like, well, I'll get it now,
I guess or I opened what I opened up a sapphire medallion in a sealed
pool and I'm like, great, I actually needed this card and I'm going
to play this copy of this card because I perfect now right, And sure
I had to shell out the money for the booster packs or the sealed or
whatever, but if I was gonna do that anyways, and also got a
thirty five dollars card I wanted. Neat. That's what the set did for
me. Yay. Yeah, so I don't know, I was unimpressed by
it. And how about when you opened up last card to the whole freaking
pack though, you opened up a foiled Jude Motus. That was when we
were open flipping at my cousin's house. That was really cool, dude,
Man, I wish we were videotaping that one. That's where you were like
you're feeling the bottom of it and you just go fucking that boy. Yeah,
you were actually pissed off. You're like, oh, man, I
got this on sale and I even the sale price. I made fucking half
my money back. He was like, actually was pissed right, Yeah,
And uh, you got like a demonic tutor or something, didn't you was,
Oh that was Alex, not you. Yeah, that was not me.
And you're feeling the back of it. Fuck is not even textured whatever.
You flip it over and it was Alex, me, you, Laura
and my cousin Jess, And you flipped it over and as soon as you
started to move the hand, like Lara was drinking and just doesn't play,
so she didn't know what it was. And Alex, I think I just
reacted faster than he did because you moved your hand away and I saw that
it was a jewel lotus and we were all like wow, just like what
the dogs are going on? The dogs? Fuck? Yeah, man,
And we're already kind of half in the bed because we're already at the bar
that night. Yeah, and uh man what at the time, it was
like a two hundred dollars car. It was awesome. It was that was
cool and I'm glad I own that. But like overall, that's a again,
that's one of those like fancy upgrades that ye did I need it?
No? Did I want it? Yeah? I did. And if you
take it to a vendor or a store and even if they give you like
sixty percent store credit, you you immediately paid for the box that you got
it in, because yeah, because you got the box, I think from
Fusion on Sale, right, Yeah, they just had a sale because they
were like packing up because it was Sunday. We don't want to put these
on the bus to get them home. Yeah, so you just grabbed him
by the shirts summer and give me your discount. I do that in real
life. And then the guy get this is weird and they go and get
the boss and the boss gives and he's like, what now, Brando,
it's awesome. Next set, Next set, Wilds of l Drain. Do
you remember what wild Drain? Uh? This gave us one of the best
cards of the year. It happened in Beseech the Mirror. This is a
very powerful card it gave us. But what, like, you're a Aron
Carr is going to be mad because he's a big ld Drain he likes this
one. But like, did I feel like Wilds of l Drain was awesome?
Yep, until Ixlamb came out and then nobody gave a ship about it.
Wilds of l Drain was as cutesy and fun as I like my magic
sets to be, just not serious enough for it to be all doom and
gloom like like we had in earlier in the year. Earlier in the year,
like all will be won and brothers war and all about war and like
the body decay of time and people getting their skin ripped off, and then
we get like candies that are trying to eat you. That's kind of funny
because it wasn't an onset, because like we are on the record of not
liking unsets very much or if at all, And this gave me exactly the
amount of fun that I wanted. And I was happy to pick up some
of the singles that I needed correct And it was fun to look at the
art in high res because it was all really nice. I really like that
showcase one where it's like the big pink cake eating that guy. Yes,
I still like I have one of those. I just like to show people
sometimes look at this card. It's crazy, Like that's awesome, you know
what? Because this was the wilds of l Drain, I kind of wish
that they would have done a new showcase border for it, like a gingerbread
style one, because there's so much to do with food coming right off the
Lord of the Rings. They're doubling down on food, right, double downing
on food. Nah, never eat those he poop somebody else's pants. Yep,
yep, yep, yep. That was a bacon eater. Actually,
CEU episode five, I think cut still my son's favorite story. U.
No, this set was good. Nothing wrong with it, I have no
there was. Agatha's Coffin was in it too. That's a card that people
like. No, Agatha's Soul Cauldron Coffin Cauldron Cauldron another one of the best
cards of the year. Actually, you can make soup in either of those
things. Agatha's Soul Cauldron was one of the cards that Cecio Nation on the
Discord suggested to me the most for their top cards of the year, because
you can comble with it, you can get value with it. It's a
graveyard remover. It made my honorable mention. Though it's a money remover.
It just takes money out of your wall. Yes, it made my honorable
mention, and I went deep on Commander at Populum two seventeen. Sure,
I also liked the Enchanting Tales, and yes, those I thought were great,
and they brought a lot of with the exception I think of Riistic study.
They all went down. I think that all of them not only did
they go down, but they went down to like, if you want to
play these cards, do it because they're like a buck. Yeah, because
they put two Enchanting Tail slots in a collector pack, didn't they. Yeah,
there was two slots, and some of them were like common and uncommon,
so you got a lot of duplicates, as you do when you buy
lots of collector packs. But Intruder Alarms and Parallel Lives, Yeah, all
those cards came down to like, Sneak Attack was in there, very reasonable.
The only one I like, I say, the only one, the
only one that wasn't brought down to heal, so to speak, was Ristic
Study. Oh and Smothering Titties. Yeah, oh no, it was only
the hashtag web stuff one though. Yeah, the anime confetti foil one is
still lots of money. But the Rumpel still skin one is still like oh
yeah that was in there. Ten but it looks like the paper art one.
Yeah yeah yeah, And it's cool if you want to play those cards
you can now. And the reason you can the Enchanting Tail sheet in Eldrain.
And I still like that paper art style too. I like that.
I like those two like that. Where do we go from there? Where
do we go? From after Wilds of l Drain, there was a oh
Doctor Super Layers. Doctor Who is next Who my favorite set of these.
This is your favorite more than all Wibi won. This is my favorite,
like overall product of the all Oily one is my favorite mainline release. Okay,
yeah, Doctor Who is my favorite product of the year. Not because
I'm a huge hoovey in none of that stuff. Let me see if I
got this right. It's because when you buy the Commander Decks, you get
one hundred percent of every single card in the product. Absolutely, you spend
the three hundred dollars or whatever it is on the Commander Decks and you have
a complete set of Doctor Who. Correct. If you don't want that and
you want to spend a little bit less money and get a collector booster box,
you can do that. You can take a shot and see what you
get. And I love that because it's it's I don't know how to articulate
it, even it's you can go out and just buy the shit because you
want to play with it. That's awesome, yes, But if you want
to go and get special treatments and foils and all this stuff, then you
roll the dice on it. Yep, right, or buy an individually a
Fusion gaming online correct. And I think that if if every Magic set could
do that, find a way to do it without limiting like product size or
limiting product offerings, like because you could only buy collector boosters or precons.
That's it, right, Yeah, so there's no draft for people who like
that, that's not us, but that's people. Yeah, this is a
Commander product. It's for us, not for you people. Not for you
people, no, man, that's gonna get us canceled, Not for you
drafting scum. But I just I loved how they handled it. And like
all collector boosters are so goddamn expensive, you literally don't have to buy them.
You can forget that they exist because you can just go out and buy
the shit. And I love that. And it turns out that there's lots
of really neat stuff. There are some decent reprints, and the decks on
their own are very fun to play. These are the first Commander decks I've
ever bought that I actually left together, and I use this oil from my
boxes to foil them out, so even my pre con foiled out. Baby
pre cons, you foil savage A man, A love that said, like,
you know what, I love that that collector packs drive the price of
like regular foils and some regular nonfoils down through the floor or into the base.
Right, Oh yeah yeah, oh man. Like I went out and
I bought a Surge like a Surge foil full art of a Doctor Who card.
A little while it was like three bucks. It was like no money.
Remember when Surge foils came out in uh or Hammer or Hammer and they're
all like forty dollars. Yeah, and now there are no dollars. It's
awesome. It would actually cost me less to get the Surge foil and I
did to get a regular foil or a nonfoil full art of the same card.
And I love that stuff. I love that stuff that that happens because
it that's what you want, that's what you want to see. And Doctor
Who did it and it made me excited to see fallout and not. We're
going to talk about that tomorrow. But I think that if they do follow
it the same way, we're gonna be we're gonna be in for a treat.
I think that's what I think. I think it's confirmed that they're not.
Well, we'll talk about it tomorrow. Next one, next one,
last one. This is the last one, right, last set of the
year. Lost Caverns of Excellent, Lost Caverns of your Mother's Ass. Is
Jurassic Park better than the Enchanting Tales answer? No, good question, though,
good question, but no, no, no, they are not as
in the new Jurassic Park cards because they're new cards, right, are not
better than getting reprints of staples, super sweet staple cards. Correct. And
while I'm not saying the cards are bad, they're not, but I would
prefer they use that design space personally to give us reprints of stuff, reprints
of stuff and put them into Could you get Enchanting Tails reprints in el drain
in set boosters, Yep, you get them anywhere. They're everywhere. Yes.
I like that because there's always cards that are gonna either spike and stay
high or overtime creep back up and watsy before before sorry, before they get
to like the thirty forty dollars unreprintable threshold wats you can just go whoop,
put them in a collector special printing pack that we're gonna print anyways and whoop.
Done. I e riistic study. It's uncommon smothering tie that was a
common improphecy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and the best of the cards
with the ristic prefix. I think it might be the only playable one with
the ristic prefix. There is one. There's a tutor that lets you search
for any card unless somebody pays one. Yeah, and it costs that card
to play. It costs three. Yeah cars. That card's terrible. Yeah,
add one amount of any color to your man unless it pays well,
oh, what is it ristic quarry? I think I think it is.
I think so, man. I love that I've got a bunch of those.
Jurassic Park was cool, it was neat. I know that it's an
endearing part of like especially millennial pop culture, because it came out in the
early nineties and and has been a fran like a movie franchise and a video
game franchise and a toy franchise and a cartoon franchise. Even even now there's
Drastic Park cartoons on now that my kid watches, yeah, like twenty five
or thirty years. Yeah. So I know that people are very into it,
and I respect that, especially as somebody who who got my cake and
got to eat it too. With the Lord of the Ring set to have
a Jurassic Park thing come out, even though I agree, I would like
to see expensive reprints before new cards. And maybe because Jurassic Park probably is
deep enough, it probably could have got it in its entire own treatment like
fallout Doctor Who. Maybe not like Lord of the Rings, maybe there isn't
that much, but definitely like Doctor Who, where there's four pre cons and
done right, like make a Jurassic Park pre con for each movie or each
like make it, make a fucking two of them, make a dinosaur pre
con and a human pre cone and introduce some like come play in the store
variant where like the dinosaurs try to kill the humans or make it like a
two headed giant commander thing, you know, and and you can extra market
it like that without without having to do a whole set like Lord of the
Rings. But Drassic Park was good, Exelon was good. We always could
use more like classic creature type stuff. Always need more dinosaurs, we always
need more more folks. We always need more vampires because that's the ship that
people likes to play, and less goblins that are blue monkeys just throwing that
out there, just thrown, unless it's just their butt Cheeks Man, We've
come full circle, had all the way back to the butt Cheeks Favorite cards
of the year. What do you got mine? Nas Gool Nazy like Nasgool
the lot refitted my entire talks Real deck so I could play Nasgool never looked
back, Can't Stop, Won't Stop. Favorite card of the year is obviously
brash Hunter, But since he was released back in twenty didn't he didn't get
a reprint this year? Or did he? I think he actually did.
I think he was in a collector command. He wasn't released this year,
it doesn't count. I think that my very most favoritist card that has come
out this year is and hear me out The daalk Emperor. Oh yeah,
yep is a seven man a thing with like affinity for dles. But every
every upkeep he makes your opponents either sack a dude or gives you a three
to three menus guy with haste. And it gives me the opportunity to like
scream exterminate at the top of my lungs in public and nobody can get mad
at me. Yes so, and I actually added it to like three different
decks, and I always get really excited when you get to play it.
Love that card? Yeah, love it a lot. Yeah. And you
said your favorite Commander product was Doctor Who, your favorite set was All but
would be one. Yep, I love the aesthetic of All will be one,
but I have to give both props to Lord of the Rings earth right.
We all knew, Yeah, we all knew favorite card? Though?
What do tell? Do tell man? There's so many There was like eighty
six thousand cards that came out this year. What could the favorite be?
Yes? You know what, I'm legitimately curious about this. Is it gonna
be some weeb shit? Is it gonna be no? You know what?
You know what? I want to say. My heart goes to thick Daddy
Souron like I played it on the first episode of season two, Sidewalk Slam.
It's coming out next week. I it's It's one of my favorite decks.
Now it's all upgraded, but it's only Lord of the Rings cards.
The card is so goddamn powerful. You pay eight man and you get like
twenty power worth of guys across three bodies. It's fantastic. But I also
built guy here the Windlord, which is like a bird deck, but the
card is not that good. You could say the one ring, but that
feels like a cop out. Yep. Here's a card that I had a
whole whole ton of fun with, though it's a fun ass card. This
is Pallenteer of or thank If you want to take your time to win a
game of magic, tell you you play this card. I do play that
card, actually, Palenteer or thank Yeah, I play it in my wolfgar
El Drawsi deck. Yeah, because people don't think it's all drawsy right away.
So you drop it on turn three and you stry one. There's a
twelve drop on top, and they will, oh, you definitely mill one.
Suck. It's like, yeah, take twelve. Yeah, and then
everybody's afraid. They're like it's it's uh you you scry. And then you
put a like a what is it a thought counter or something on influence count
influence counter, yeah, influence counter, and then you mill equal to influence
counters, and they take damage equal to the converted amount of cost of the
cards milled, or they let you draw, or they let you draw a
card. I twelve somebody on the first one just like b cute see,
and then shuffled my graveyard into my library, and then the next time it
was like two cards. You ain't got it again? Sixteen that guy,
it's awesome. I'll tell you this. I'll tell you this. Never once
have I drawn a card off a pallenteer war think it's always mill and take
damage. I don't know why, what what are people thinking? Once I
sixteen to then they stopped taking the name. You start to let you draw
cards. Yeah. See that's a fun ass card right there. Thats a
fun ass card and it's been a fun ass year twenty twenty three. Dude,
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