Hey, listen to Comical Podcast Episode four ten. I'm brand o'me here Thrider.
We're gonna take a look ahead at twenty twenty four now in our theme
song, Hey Ryan, We're back for yet another WorldWind adventure. How you
doing? We're back? What is going down? Whole ton is going down
again? Okay, yesterday we took a look back at twenty twenty three's talking
about all the stuff that we were right about, the things we were excited
about, the things we were happy that happened. Yep. Today we're gonna
make some more predictions for twenty twenty four, get people super hype for opportunities
to get to meet and greet you boys, talk about some of the things
that we are excited about. But before we get to any of that,
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 this season
of CEO Sidewalk Slam, Pile of Bones Brewing COO. They are the second
coolest thing to come out of Regina, very much so. I can imagine
if we went to Regina then they would be the third day. I'm glad
we made that mental connection just now. Absolutely, I know where you're going.
Yeah, A couple of things, A couple things, A couple of
things. Okape Fusion Gaming on Land of Cara. Yep, this is your
last opportunity to go there this year and use ce CEO Summer Promo code or
cecial Perks promo code. If it's your first time, then it would be
your first and your last opportunity to use those promo codes in the year twenty
twenty three. This is our last show of the year. Oh man,
Yeah, an airhorn if I should get one. Dude, if I ever
came in, can you imagine blasting an airhorn in this tiny room? We
would just die. We would just be dead. We're just like you see
all the moisture come out of our skin somehow and we just be desiccated.
Gord, I went the opposite way, like on Family Guy when somebody's head,
That's the way I went. Yeah, I rather be like a desiccated
bird corpse and turn us into some kind of energy drink. Home. Yeah,
I've been learning lots about energy drinks over the last couple of weeks because
Rick Flair has one called whoa Energy and apparently you're only allowed to drink one
a day, and it's got a bunch of like mushrooms and stuff in it.
Whoa, And it's got five thousand percent of your daily intake of B
twelve, which I know isn't really harmful to you. Well most most of
them do have a lot of B twelve, but it's still like a funny
amount. Right, If you get five thousand percent of virtually anything from anything,
it's gonna be funny. And I can't think of a single example that
is not that. We won't get into energy drinks and upper limits and the
daily recommended number of international units of vitamins and supplements. Yeah, I could
go deep on that. Yeah, we're not good at those. That was
what I went to school for. Yeah, not me. Hah. Yeah.
I learned about it on the internet over the last couple Oh yeah,
so it's you. We pretty much have the same information. Correct. Yes,
everything on the internet's correct, as long as you heard it on Commander
Cookout. Yeah, Fusion Gaming online dot com, go there, buy your
magic cards? Are you gonna buy them anyways? Correct? Do it save
money? Pay less money? But what you're gonna buy anyway or else?
I want to get right into a look ahead before we move on with the
business. Okay, what are we looking ahead to? Okay, what are
we what are we looking at? And I mean it this time. Okay.
This is to everybody in CECO nation who watches Brando's Box openings on Command
or cookout. That's the BBO on the CEO. Yeah, those are fun.
Go to Fusion, buy a box, use the promo code, ship
them to Brando's house, get them to open them. Oh yeah, then
he'll send them to you. Those are fun. I've done a few of
those now, and I get to alphabetize things and put them in a little
box. Look at you don't have to do any of the hard work.
Yeah, I do it all I can. The last one I did,
I alphabetized by color even Yeah, I alphabetize all the commons on commons in
jank and then all of the good stuff I put in perfect fit sleeves and
put them in their own little box, and then put that box inside the
main box. There you go. If you don't care about somebody else opening
up your cards, get Brander to open them. Get the boxes at Fusion.
He'll get him like in a day. Because that's how like we're pretty
close to fusion, like we're one man box, so fast, so fast.
If you're in Canada and you want to open your own boxes to get
your own box, that's fine too. But I want Brander to open and
do more BBOs and you guys can help with that, and you'll get a
discount on your box and you get him alphabetized. I didn't know that part,
but I don't actually mind doing it. I sit down and I watch
a terrible movie and I I alphabetize cards. It's very relaxing, actually,
me and Big Earth. You might get some ursula fur in the box if
you want it. If you want yeah, if you don't want to,
if you're allergic to dogs. He also has like a hyperbaric chamber that he
gets short cards to hang out in there sometimes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
He looks like a little transform but in a big in a big case.
It's like the get Smart Cone of Silence. If you've ever seen that.
Oh yeah, next piece of business, Next piece of business. We
said, well, yeah, we said thank you to Pile of Bones Brewery.
Yeah, we sure did. But you know what, I do want
to talk about sidewalk slam again. Okay, because I see the first episode
they're released now right, people are bugging me like, no, you know
what. Tyler moved, then he had no internet. Then he went on
a vacation. Frick. We don't pay him to go on vacation all.
So it's gonna come out season one or season two. Episode one is gonna
come out the first week of January. Can he not edit without the internet?
Well, he couldn't download like the files I sent him? What a
dink? Yeah, I know he figured it out, that whole internet thing.
He's your phone as a hotspot. You don't pay for data in America.
He probably does. He's like in he's in Oklahoma. All their internet
towers get blown over and stuff he's got like American internet prices. It would
curl dude or American. It would curl your hair if you find out how
much me and Ryan paid to own a cell phone. It is insane.
Oh no, it would curl your hair to know how much we pay for
flight cop like plane tickets. Well yeah, but that has something to do
with the Internet. It would curl your hair to know if you lived in
the UK that we can't even get on a passenger train. We just don't
have them here in a country that was literally built on the railroad. Yes,
Like we're in a town right now there was a hub for the Trans
Canada railroad. The reason people live in British Columbia right now is because of
the city we're sitting in and the train that goes through it. And we
can't take a train to go out there. Nope, it's insane. That's
okay, don't make no sense. I rather totally do it. I think
it would be fun. Oh dude, that takes so long, I know,
but it'd be fun. I think it would be cool because you have
to go through like all the back rows and all the tunnels through the thing,
like, oh man, like so many people nitrode themselves to make this
tunnel. So why right that happened? We're off topic. Yes, watch
Sidewalk Slam. It's coming out. There's gonna be one a month. There
are a ton of fun You can see our faces on him now, not
just top down. Yeah, and you can see me like this, Yes,
you can see that if you're on YouTube. It should be because they
work really hard to make us look good. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
We're we're looking forward to working with Tyler again. In the New Year
on Sidewalk Slam and of course editor Joe on Commander Cookout. At least one
of us is yes, very much so, also looking forward to lessons from
c eed h with John he is actually pretty smart. I don't know if
it's true. I've never spoken to the man. Remember I said it yesterday.
I said that he put out the Stacks deck Tech for the holidays.
You can watch it on Friday and he pokes a little bit of fun at
me and my Lord of the Rings fetish. Can we call it that?
Yeah, I think we can just call it that. And I know that
you call Rebecca Rwin when I'm not around. I know that. I know
that. I'm perfectly aware of that. You do we imagine if I al
Rebecca Arwin? I don't have to, I don't have to imagine. All
sure, what's happening. She would look at me and just this this that's
a factual fact laid out on the internet. Just now, that's a funny
joke. But this is this is more accurate. It's a funny fact.
I just said she would she would do this. She would say, don't
ever call me that again. Yeah, And you're like, Okay, you
know what, no sure thing, frodo whatever. I'm just going lawn.
Oh baby, no, no, no, she would say, the minute
you look like Vigo Mortensen in Lord of the Rings, you can call me
whatever you want, That's what she'd say. Probably because he was pretty sexy.
I'm just saying, I don't know, man, I don't know.
I mean, he's pretty medium. I don't know. Seven like Tyler,
I don't know if anybody on Lord of the Rings was actively sexy. What
about what about liv Tyler? But in that movie she was in when she
was younger, it has to be Lord of the Ring. Oh what about
Orlando Bloom? Nope, no, do it for you? Yeah, that's
not that's not my thing. I know lots of people who that's like his
big break, that was his first movie. I'm I'm happy for him,
great for him. He's he's a good actor though too. Yeah, what
about I just like there was no like, I don't know. I wasn't
like not that you have to be there, don't need to be a sex
symbol in every movie. But I was like, oh, really, I
don't know. I'm just not really uh, not really feeling anybody here.
I'm I'm a big Kate Kate Blanchett fan, and I think it's because of
that movie. You're in the start over a k you could have a head
spinning around peak, shooting out, going down the stairs backwards. No,
that's the extra. That's a different movie. That's a different one. Yeah,
they're basically the same. Anyways, we got lessons from CDH coming up.
It's gonna be great. Myself and Mack are gonna do deep dives.
Brando's gonna come along. He doesn't know that yet, but he's coming along
for some of them too. Why I wanted to well, yeah, that's
why you're coming along. Okay, I'm a freaking guy. Those are all
gonna be kicking off in January. I'm excited because it's just it's more stuff
and that that bring me to the first thing I kind of wanted to talk
about is we're on the train again for another year. Even though we can't
get on a train, we're on the train. Is the hype train.
Well, it's gonna be hype for new sets because we're gonna do reviews.
It's gonna be the hype train for CSU experiences and Magic cons and we're putting
ourselves out there for another year despite this. You know, I could go
back to doing what I used to be doing and make way more money,
but I like doing this better. Well this is fun. Well yeah,
that's why I'm doing it. Yeah, why don't we do something that's fun?
We are? Yeah, yeah, so so over here. That's the
first thing that I wanted to say, outside of the podcasting businesses, We're
gonna do a ton of fun stuff. We're gonna do and we're doing it.
You want to get into Chicago? Is that where we're going? I'm
just like Chicago and Vegas, Yes, and at least one other place and
then Calgary edmonsoned if they happen. But I know that we're gonna go to
at least one other one, and I hope that it's another new city where
I get to meet lots of new people, and super secretly, I hope
that it's in the Southeastern United States, even though I know none of them
are going to be there, because I really want to go to be I
want to go there because there's like swamps and alligators and outrageously big snakes,
and I want to see them from far away because they kind of scare me
a little bit, but I want to see an alligator in real life,
not in an aquarium situation. I think that would be lots of fun.
Tyler just sent me the new intro for Sidewalk Slam season two. You want
to see it? Yes, you see it live on air while you're watching
it. I'm gonna say, we're going to Vegas in October. We're going
to Chicago in February. That's next month. I gotta get my plane ticket.
We are going to wherever else that Face to Face has in the Western
Canada. The other one is in Amsterdam, and let's go to fucking Amsterdam.
Babies. Smitty and I talked about it. Fucked up sex clubs,
Lucy Lawless with a five ended dildo. Gun, We're there, baby.
That's I would pay money to see Lucy Lawless with it. What man said,
she's like fifty two years old and she is so good looking. She
hadn't aged at all. Safe to google, Absolutely google Lucy Lawless. You
will be impressed. What did you think of the interest? Was awesome for
sure. Yeah, now get to work, you scum. The thing about
Amsterdam is I looked into flights and it's gonna be like thirty four hundred dollars
per person. Oh goddamn it. So it makes it a little bit tough
for your good friend Ryan to plan a cecio experience there without some substantial monetary
donations and support. So if that's what about I gotta go too, Well,
yeah, I know that, but I'm the one that's planning it.
Oh yeah. So if anybody in the nation in Europe that wants to go
to Magic Con Amsterdam, A can put us up so we don't have to
worry about booking somewhere. Or if a bunch of people can confirm that they're
gonna go and they want to get like an Airbnb or whatever you have in
Europe, and there is some donations that we talk about or some maybe a
product trade or maybe some we work something out and we can get to Amsterdam.
One hundred percent we will go, and we want to CEC hostle the
CC hostile. Oh no, that's not what we're staying. That's what could
happen if we go to Eastern Europe. I just thought of that. I
hope it. We'll just stay in a CEC hostile it's more euro trip and
less hostile. That would be. Yes, yes, I'm even okay with
nude beaches. I'm there's only the three Magic Cons this year. Yeah,
three Magic Cons. The the Command fests are regional and coincide with like are
they offset like when pro tours or regional championship weekends are, and the schedules
for those are kind of released more regionally and closer to the events. So
we don't know where those are yet. I don't think we'll probably go to
some of those two. Oh yeah, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary. Maybe
maybe there'll be one in like Fargo, North Dakota. What, I don't
know. I don't want to go there. I just made that up.
I don't want to go there. I want to go to Miami. Yeah,
Houston st in Miami, Yeah we could. No, I'm not gonna
say what we could do in because I only know one thing that they do
in Miami besides swim and complain about the government because they're old and we're not
allowed to talk about it on the show. But let me tell you ae
ws Tony Kahan uses it to stay up all night and write wrestling. Mm
hmm, well, people gonna know what that is. Marching powder baby.
I was I was messaging Tyler and didn't hear any of what you said.
So I hope that editor Joe doesn't have to edit in any of it out.
Okay, let's move to We talked about CECO experiences, so that was
that was the orange we did. Come join us, have fun. It's
gonna be great, and they want to meet you. Yes, you don't
have to be in our house to come meet us in Chicago. I've got
man, I've had maybe frick at least twenty people or people who say,
my friends also listen, we want to know where you are. Can we
come to the house, Can we do this? Can we do that?
I keep saying that you can't come to the house. But we're gonna be
there for like three days. We're gonna eat pizza, We're gonna see a
ship fountain, we're gonna do all the stuff that people do at magic cons.
We're gonna have an area, We're gonna have time at the Creator booth.
Brando secured us at two till three point thirty on Saturday, and we're
gonna be there. We're gonna like just rush that whole place with CEO people
and show WATSI that CEO Nation is like the best community in magic. We're
gonna give away booster backs and stickers and tokens and merch and we're gonna have
it all there and we're gonna play magic and drink beer for three days.
Here's how far I'm willing to go to get people to come to the Creator
area. If we can get a substantial presence. I will stand next on
a fish Wizards of the Coast representative, and I will fart like audibly,
audibly. I will fart next to an official Watza human. I want this
to happen. Now. Can I videotape? I hope? So? Can
we get multiple angles, like like a butt angle and a face angle?
Absolutely of their face is what they want, because you know how I eat
on drips. It's beer and taco's baby like, somebody's going down. I
will crop dust somebody until they die. No, you should people show.
You should tell them that you're doing it and get them to guess what it's
gonna sound like or smell like. I don't want this. I don't want
that part. Yes you do. I want, yes, you do.
Everybody wants everything. I'm dibbsing out on the butt angle. I just want
the front angle. See but you show up. That's the kind of stuff
you high class, high brow entertainment with Commander Cookout podcast. Baby, mm
hmm. What else do we have to look out for or look forward to
in twenty twin four? So besides new friendships and new adventure, I feel
like the episode's already over. Well, guess what will drink beer? Now?
We got beer to drink, We got products to look at, all
sorts of interesting things happening. I got you, you got the you got
the list of products up there on my screen. I got this number of
sets now, I know you have the list or she could just count,
Okay, I won't look. Quiz. It's not a quiz, not a
question. Number of sets they've really they've announced, like Modern Horizons three and
the Western Outlaws of thunder Junction and stuff follow Yeah. Do you think we're
gonna get extra stuff thrown in there? Okay, let me see one.
Yes, yeah, yes, more or less secret layers than last year?
More more? Fifty five was last year. I'll bet you twenty twenty three
is fifty five. I'm gonna say sixty. I'm gonna say above sixty,
above sixty, going over sixty. Ok for twenty twenty four. Am I
gonna purchase any of them? That's a good question. That's a hard that's
a hard question. Okay. Now, based on yesterday's show, sorry to
have a caveat. Am I going to own any of them that aren't given
to me? Oh? See that? Yeah? See that. I'm still
I'm still word ninja in you there. No, but you know the ones
I mean, are you are? Am I gonna want to own any?
Am I gonna want any I'm gonna say yes, I am. Yeah.
Previous years I would say no. Last year I had a guaranteed Yeah.
Yeah, that was easy fucking layup right. Yeah. But I think they're
gonna get you this year again. I think they are. Yeah, yep,
I think they are. Do you think this? I just thought of
this one when we were talking about this. Do you think there's going to
be more secret persistent petitioners? Yes, you do, because we just got
a new apostle, right, yep, there's been new apostles, there's been
new rats of both kinds, and there's a new persistent petitioners. Over the
last couple of years or whatever, well, persistent petitioners in Ravnica, the
old bordered ones good thing that didn't invest in all foils yet. Hey man,
you just just don't. Just don't. Man, We're getting a new
Bruvak in Ravnka Remastered. Here there's one of three cards that are awesome in
that set, very awesome. So well, let's get into the sets.
And what's the first one January is Ravniker Remaster. And I could not give
less of a ship. Our next our next episode of Commander Cookout is maybe
going to be our look at Ravenka Remaster. Yeah, so preview. I
do not give a shit. I think that for people who didn't play during
og Ravnica, yep, tons of cool stuff. This is just like I
say about every set like this, so much for you. There's shock lands.
There's a whole bunch of really curated, really good Ravnica stuff that you
probably don't have that you're gonna be able to pick up for men, and
important stuff for the format, right like Schoklands are a very important part of
deck building because once you have a set, it's like you, it makes
building almost whatever you want way easier. And let me yes, yes,
but and I'm not saying this is gospel. I stand to be corrected,
and I hope I'm wrong. Okay, a lot of the verbiage they've used
to describe where you would get a Shockland in this set is very, very
similar to where they describe you getting a Shockland in Infinity, and those things
were not common. So I'm hoping that that's just a weird coincidence and we
actually don't. They just exist in a rare slot. No. Oh,
They're like they're their own little special thing and it's stupid. And I hope
that in this wor or do they or do they just mean like the potential
of where you could get a serialized one? There are no serialized ones.
No, they're serialized Schoklands. Oh yeah, old border ones. Yeah,
border ones yeah, old order serialized. Yeah. I need a I need
a new sacred to sacred fambr I just traded Smitty, I had one.
I traded them for some Lord of the Rings cards. Man them dang those
dang foil frickin' Laurion reveals, Hey, those are expensive. But the point
is Ravnica remastered. I'm just not for me because I did get so into
Ravnica initially and kind of as periodically as they've come out. I want an
anime Cranco. Oh yeah, maybe a full art Life from the Wall.
And that's I got. I got two things to say about Ravnica and then
we'll move on. Yeah, because it's the first thing Ravnaker remastered, first
set ever where nearly exclusively. I like the anime arts printings cool. I
like the style and variations and cards selections that they gave us in the anime
style yep. In the past, I either haven't liked them or anime is
not my thing, or I didn't like the cards. These ones I like,
these ones are good. The spark double also is really cool. Fan
of that. Okay, that was the first thing I wanted to say.
The second thing I wanted to say about Ravnica Remastered is uh, frick and
I don't remember. Probably wasn't that good? It was good? Nah No,
I don't mean you, I mean the set. Oh, we'll remember
it for next week and we'll have lots more to say about it. And
don't just not come back because I say I don't give a shit, Because
I will give a shit for your benefits. There's lots of value to you,
the listener in the set, just not for me, the orator.
I thought you're gonna say, old guy, and you know what, that's
okay, Sure, it's fine that these things aren't all for me. That's
great. Let's get a drink of pile of bones. Then we'll come back
and do the next set. Sounds fantastic. I remember what it was gat
This is the first Ravnica set ever that isn't guild focused. Now, mechanically,
that doesn't really change anything for Commander players, but it might be interesting
just to see if it's not based on ten two color pairs, what cards
are remastered. Let me give everybody out there a little teaser or something.
I'm gonna get real upset about. As you know, all these sets have
rare slots. Yes, I am very upset that there is a particular type
of card in the set that is being reprinted all at rare. I'm gonna
say there's ten or twelve of them. I am not happy. Tune into
the Ravneka Remastered preview show. Crap all over at show. I guess we're
not gonna do that. We're gonna have fun too, but we're gonna have
fun crap. And also, because as you know, pooping is fun.
Next month or the month after that, and the next month after that is
I guess two things, and I have to differentiate there are two things,
because one of them I'm whatever, I don't give a shit, and the
other one I'm very excited. Oh I don't know which one is gonna be.
Which actually it's murders at Carlov Manor, yes, and Ravnica Clue addition,
okay, let me guess. Okay, uh, for people, this
is going to be similar to Lost Caverns of Xelon and Special Guest Jurassic Park
ish ish Okay, So murder at Karlov Manor is it's Ravnica? Still right?
It happens on Ravnica and there's a dude who's trying to solve a mystery
of a murder at Karlov Manor. But also it's Special Guest Clue because who
owns Clue? Hazbro fucking Hasbro. Of course, to lallare one, Yeah,
which one are you excited about? And which one do you hate?
I want to say, you're excited about Clue and you don't give a shit
about the Ravnica you got? Baby. Clue is my favorite board game when
I was a kid, and oh yeah, everybody hates clu I love Clue.
I freaking I have a Clue game that's from nineteen fifty at my house
that I used to play with my grandma when I was a little Kid's all
the og pieces and everything. I freaking love Clue. Oh man, I
was gonna make an old man joke. And I didn't even have to because
you worded that like the game and you were both kids. Yeah, didn't
have to because I went there anyway. And it's gonna give me the opportunity
to equip a brash Taunter with a lead pipe and kill Max Crandell, man
and and man, if it couldn't get any more exciting, if it couldn't
get any better, there is going to be a Rapnaka Clue edition boxed set
that comes with all of the Clue cards so you don't have to buy collector
boosters to find them. They're just going to sell them to you and you
get like a Clue X Magic variant game. It's gonna be so much fun
to play, and I'm so excited about it. Okay, and I'm gonna
turn you up to eleven. Can't Oh yes, I can. Okay,
let's do it. Max Crandell has guaranteed that in Chicago we will go for
beer. Also the set Doujour when we're in Chicago, the set that comes
out that weekend that you can buy. Oh oh baby, Oh I'm gonna
cheat so i can put a lead pipe on a masker all, Oh baby,
I'm gonna have a brash tunder and a lead pipe in my pocket and
all staple together. Oh no, oh no, because I'm able to slip
them one of my pocket into my hand where nobody's looking. Oh man,
oh man, I've never been so excited to cheat at magic the gathering in
my life be playing cheaty face and mind slavery. Take control of Max Crendell's
turn. You don't notice, Oh classic move. Here's why here. I'm
not excited about murders at Carloff Manner because it's another rappning a set. I
don't give a shit. I'm interested in the story. I'm interested in what
they're doing, and it has the distinction of being the first showcase art.
I actively do not like the uh like the ones where it's like the the
photographs of the characters they look like. Yeah, I do not like those.
That's a classic trope, though, Hey like it. It is the
board game trope, right, but something about it like, oh, it's
not magic. I'm not that's not that's not it. But it's just if
we were making that argument still man little smokes. It's just I don't it
rubs me the wrong way, like it just it hits me wrong, just
like sketch art did. I don't like it. It's just it's unappealing to
me. And it's that's fine, and I'm sad that I'm gonna open those
cards like, oh man, this is the only version of this car I
have. Ship, But say LVI, maybe my mind will change as it
is wont to do. Maybe you see me and you say, like,
hey, these look pretty good. I saw the I saw the full art
Lost Cavern's exelon cards like the basics, Yeah, look pretty freaking good.
And you know what, I didn't really like them until I seen them.
Sure now I do. Well, we'll do you have that. Speaking of
full art Ship next set. Next set is Universes Beyond. I think it's
gonna be released like Doctor Who Is follow that's four commander decks. We already
have the commanders spoiled as of this recording. They're gonna do the collector booster
gimmick, just like they did with Doctor Who. I'm very excited for this.
We know that a few of the reprints include Wasteland. Well, yeah,
they're printing Wasteland into a that's a that's a big deal. That's a
good that's a it's a big thing. And there's a couple of Lord of
the Rings with as a box top er. I guess doesn't really count,
yea that it doesn't count. This is and this is when you're guaranteed to
get so it's gonna have your full art treatments. It's gonna have all of
the things from Fallout that would make really interesting magic with the little pit boy
guy and all the Voltech propaganda poster stuff. Yeah, I think we're gonna
get a really unique and really cool looking set here. I want to be
cool. I watched the live like weekly empty the live stream when they previewed
all of this, and I'm like, it secrets out. I don't watch
movies and pliviating me. I'm not a real nerd. How can I talk
on the Internet. But I got excited about followed because aesthetically it looks like
how I know that Fallout looks. I've seen fallout alters all over the place.
I've of course, I've I'm immersed in pop culture. I have a
kid, and I am a nerd on the internet, and there's sometimes fall
out references on the discord. I've got Brando, you've played the games.
I've seen them in stores like gaming stores and stuff. So I'm versed in
what it looks like and what it's about. And it looks as though Magic
has captured what it's about like it looked like they captured with Doctor Who,
and what I can confirm, being an entrenched Lord of the Rings nerd,
they did capture with Lord of the Rings. So at this point, and
what Warhammer people tell me they feel when they see the pre con Warhammer decks,
so at this point in time, I did a lot of research on
those Warhammer things, and even like from my tertiary glance, Yeah, I
think that they did a really good job there too. These universes beyond as
much as people complain about them, I think they're not going that hard.
That's where I was going. Okay, so we've got enough enough data to
make a trend line now, so we've got forty k yep, Lord of
the rings super great. We'll call Drastic Park. We'll say Drastic Parks in
there. It was good, and they're good at least they look good.
And we know that the cards are flavorful because we've seen the movies. Yep.
So that Doctor Who was good. That's a data line of four sets,
Clue and Fallout. We're gonna put those. They look like they've captured
the essence of those things. And we know that they've got Clue officionados because
they just go to Hasbro and say, hey, we're doing this. Yeah,
and has was like, well, you make all the money, so
you can do it. Man, Oh I love that shit. And and
Clue is not something that that like, it's not like something that you could
have two very diverse opinions about. Like it's a board game and every and
it's self contained. Right, It's not like I can have an opinion about
Clue and it be vastly different or a different interpretation of the game than you
can, because it's a board game and itself contained. So to to reskin
that or to rebrand that onto magic when you've got a like a fucking enterprise
of people that are like getting good at this, I think that the Clue
Skin Universe is beyond whatever is going to be good. I do too,
And I think that the Fallout one is going to be good. I think
the Fallout one's going to be goddamn excellent. Let's skip ahead. I got
one more thing I gotta say right off of what you were saying, Okay,
universe is beyond all these hits out of the park. What's the one
that they missed? What's the one that wasn't very good? Oh, Transformers,
Oh damn it. That was kind of shoehorned in there, Shure,
that was really shoehorn in, especially because it was like after forty K and
before Lord of the Rings, Like, just why wasn't it after Lord of
the Rings or why wasn't it They had to have known they had a good
product with Warhammer forty K, Like they had to have recognized, like these
decks are powerful, they play well together. It's an endearing franchise with lots
of magic crossover Like, why didn't they put a little bit more? I
can't think of a single Transformers cart even know what it does. I want
to say, like ad spend or like why didn't they put a little bit
more oomph behind the transformers. Yeah, because it feels very shoehorned in and
it's like the second biggest ip, like do it some respect? Yeah,
fus, it's probably not their second biggest ip. It is to me.
Oh, I was gonna say, probably monopolies bigger, or we're jumping ahead.
We're jumping ahead speaking all the universes beyond. This is going to be
in July. This is Assassin's Creed. All of the things I said now
biases aside. I think depending on what portion of the franchise they focus on,
right, because it exists in a whole bunch of different times, right,
Yes, like freaking back in the Pyramids and then vikings and then like
it started evil times. It started in Egypt and came up to the future.
And by the future I mean from now like okay, So depending on
when they focus is going to be what lens we have to view it through.
Right. We can't say, oh, they didn't get this right because
in the Egypt one or the Valhalla one it was different, Right, No,
what part of Assassin's Creed are they going to look at? And if
we view it through that lens and kind of eliminate the rest of the stuff.
I bet you it'll be very good. I have two things I worry
about. Oh, I'm gonna put them out Fortnite too. They shoehorned that
in and and and that's like the biggest game in the world. They should
have done better on that, sure, Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed. Here's
my two things that I worry about. One the modern day settings. In
Assassin's Creed, you legitimately could have a guy in a bunny hug and jeans
on a magic card. And he's not like a he's not a psychic.
They don't go to another realm. He doesn't have grappling hooks, right,
He's just some dude. And I does he use a gun? No,
He's like he can't even fight. He's just some asshole in a hood kind
of a pair of jeans. They're probably not gonna do. That's so interesting,
but it could happen. There is a possibility that could happen, and
you got to emotionally prepare for that. The other one is all of the
main characters of Assassin's Creed all kind of look the same. So if you
have Altier and Itsio and egypt guy, when you look at him from the
back. They all have the same hood on, and they all have the
same pants on, and they all use the same weapon. Have you ever
seen Chase He looks the same all the time. Well yeah, but he's
jas he's one iteration of one guy. Oh I thought that that's how Assassin's
Creed worked. No, No, they're all there's a different guy every time.
So you could run into because nobody and you can lie and say that
you do. You don't know what all Tar looks like. You can't picture
him in your hand. Nobody listening to me right now knows what that man
looks like. I'll bet you most of the people who are casual Assassin's screen
fans don't even know which game he was the assassin in. Let us go
down in the comments. I just I think that they all kind of look
the same, and that could be a difficult thing to overcome, right,
just to make them look like they do in the game, but different from
each other, and not maybe to dedicate like twelve cards to these guys.
Maybe from a magic standpoint, maybe that's a strength. Because let's say I
got into Assassin's Creed because I because I heard the Valhalla song on YouTube and
I'm like, hey, what games it is from? Hum We'll play Assassin's
Creed Valhalla, and then I get and I play Magic. So I'm like,
oh, this guy looks like the guy from the game I played,
not knowing it's a different guy because I'm not that enfranchised. This isn't that
same guy. Yeah, So I don't know. Maybe maybe it's a strength.
Maybe it's like pleasure through ignorance, right, Like, I don't know,
so I'm just okay with it. Assassin's Creed Origin by far my favorite
one. Not the best one, but it is my favorite. There you
go. Let's let's jump back there after Fallout. This is quarter two.
We don't know when this is gonna come out. I assume June because that's
when they do a product release, and we have a July product release in
Assassin's Creed, which is confirmed. This is Outlaws at the Under Junction.
This is the first freaking Western set. I'm pumped for this. It's altho
the hundredth Magic expansion. Yes, that's like full set expansion. Yeah,
yeah, that's pretty neat. I think this is gonna be really cool.
I've gone on the internet as to say I think we're gonna see the return
of battles, except instead of having sieges, they're gonna be duels, duals
like shootouts. Yeah, that's that's just me. Do you think there's gonna
be an equipment where it's like a steel plate under your poncho? Oh no,
not steel plate, the door on one of those pot belly stoves.
Oh yeah, there's gonna be I'm waiting for saloon doors. Yeah, I'm
thinking of I'm oh, and we made this joke before already, saloon spatoon.
Kick the door open, you intimidate? Oh right, because you kicked
the door, kick the door open of the saloons. I don't even know
what intimidate does. Saloon door hits you on the butt on the way out,
sasparilla bottle. What what about horsemanship? Maybe being a horsemanship self self
playing piano? Oh yeah, haunted Pianoah what about what about jump off the
balcony onto your horse? Oh hell yeah, yeah, dude, burry my
shell at wounded knee? What about dragged by the neck behind a horse a
quartered Oh? Now we're getting done about public hanging yup. Now we're talking
yep, shunning from the village. Oh oh, buried, buried, and
your face gets eaten by amps. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yep,
staked out in the pan and you get stampeded by cows. Oh yeah,
no, horse pulls your limbs apart. Yeah, that's quartering. Oh
yeah, quartering, it's what that is. Yeah. Uh man, it's
it's hard to pick anymore without going racist. And that was the problem for
like thirty years. Right now we're doing it. Now they're doing it,
So I'm excited to see. I just would have done it with goblins and
elves and murphfolk. I would have done it twenty years ago, but that's
just me. Well, then you'd have blue goblins because you can't make them
any color that people are. Why can they be green? Goblins are green?
But what if the murphfolk are green the murphfolk are blue? Yes,
God, it's not that hard. I'm excited to see. Okay, we
talked about and joked about all the tropes, and the tropes are gonna be
fantastic. It's just like the horror tropes in Intro. Want to remember spur
like must have been the wind that was in destruct too, I know,
but like the Jacqui tropes and all the Werewolf's tropes and stuff. Right,
Yeah, I'm excited to see all the tropes, but I'm excited to see
kind of like the things that you really are are an ingrained part of like
a modern Western movie. Like what do you expect to see? There's probably
gonna be brothels and very graphic violence and alcohol consumption. Those are three things
that I very much associate with modern day cowboy movie. Do you think there's
gonna be a car that's want to kill a hook up? Do you think
there's gonna be Oh, do you think that there's gonna be wanted posters showcases?
Oh? Did we just as the next prediction? Yeah we did,
Yeah, dienhorsemanship, wanted poster showcases, Return of Battles is duels, battles
as duels, saloons, platoons, saloon doors, steal under your pawn show.
So he like gives you indestructible me through a quote recent you know that
wouldn't be terrible. Actually that's a one. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
The guy not knowing you have it on is essentially the same thing as
it happened flash right, correct, Yes, you just flash it on and
auto equipped. He's already it's literally mythrol coat. Yeah, it's the exact
same thing. Oh man, that's pretty good. That'll be the box topper
if we get that exactly right. Wats he has to buy us a beer?
Oh? Next thing? Also, I just want to talk about all
the thunder jugs all. Do you think there's gonna be freaking trains, yes,
all vehicle trains from a dinosaurs yes? Or do you think there's gonna
be stage coaches? Yes? Do you think there's gonna be a dead end
bridge where the train drives off the bridge? Oh? Yeah there is.
Oh yeah, there's one of those covered bridges that spins around. You run
into it on your horse and they spin the thing. Yeah. Oh man,
freak. Oh do you think do you think there's gonna be like do
you think there's gonna be the band of bandits that shows up to somebody's farm
and burns all the horses and kills the family of the cowboy while he's not
home? Or a guy who gets his face so he's got like a scar
that holds his lipshut, and then and then later that year, the same
guy plays theanos in the Marvel expansion. Do you think there's a cannibal that
eats people and then get superpowers from eating people, and then he tricks somebody
else into also being a cannibal and eating people, and then he also gets
superpowers, and I got another one. I got another one. Do you
think there's gonna be one where Wiley coyotes riding a rocket running off of a
cliff and then holds up a sign and says help, but then he falls.
Do you think there's gonna be one that says that, No, that
lasts one. I don't think so. Yeah, Lonitudes got everything up to
that part. I'm into, But that's that's as far as I go.
Madi Ho Ho three, I'm gonna I'm gonna go on record. I'll believe
it when I see it, and I'm already over everybody Internet bitching about how
this ruins modern Madi Ho three because there's gonna be new cards and expensive reprints.
Do you think we'll see Zasaga in there? Yes? Do you think
we'll see I don't know what, something else that blows up every format,
just like Grief and Fury did. Yes, I do, because they have
to do that to justify the increased price point. Yeah, they see fetches
in it. No, we won't see shocks because we're getting shocks in Ravnica.
They probably won't give us shocks twice in the same year. No,
I don't, I don't. I don't know. Maybe I don't, you
know, I don't even care modern horizon sets. I'm kind of I'm kind
of done with it. But they give you so many cards for commander.
Yeah, beat it. Let's just move on to the next thing. It's
bloomborough. Yeah, this is like the Secret and nim No, what's the
books? Watership Down? What's the other book series? Uh? You know
what the mice and the foxes and stuff. Isn't that Watership Down? Nope,
that's just Rabbits Okay, very violent. Yeah, it's very remember that
movie being very violent. And I know it was a book. I know.
Is it Five Goes West mout Laws at thunder Junction? Do you think
there's gonna be a mouse blowing in a tumble lead? Oh? I hope
so. Oh man, it's the mouse and a cowboy hat just sitting on
a train on top of somebody's bag, just being sad. Yes, And
it's just gonna break every slide down a open banana peel for a slide man
so Bloombero, I think will be. I think it will be the cutesiest
of cutesy sets. I think it's gonna feel a lot like El Drain.
And I'll bet you whatever the showcase art is, I'll bet it's gonna be
rad Yeah, I bet you. I'm thinking watercolor paintings with animals and like
story beauty. I want that. I bet you it's gonna be a mixed
mixture of I bet you it's gonna be a mixture of King Arthur style.
But don't be confused with They'll Drain, because I know there's some cross over
there. King Arthur slash like Renaissance, like Spanish Italian Renaissance style, but
like with water shipped down secret and nim and I don't know, I don't
know, But the point I think that that's gonna be a cool one.
I do think that it's going to be pretty all of this. We can't
gauge power level ahead of time, but I think that that one's gonna be
really cool looking. I bet that's gonna be my favorite looking one of the
year. Is Yeah, I thought, uh croos of thunder Junction. As
long as it's not too steampunky. Oh you like it if it's late bro,
if it's more like oh really, oh yeah, guaranteed. If it's
more Wild Wild West instead of more like frickin the Magnificent Seven. Ah sure,
I'm thinking like traditional cowboy movie from the sixties versus Wild Wild West ravenous.
I want. I want like Clint Eastwood, Yeah, and guys looking
at each other when it's like a three way draw for like twenty five minutes.
I want that more than I want Wild Wild West. And I don't
want Bloomborough to encroach on any of that. Okay, okay, last one
of the year that we have confirmed right now is dusk morn the House of
Horror. You're gonna like this one. I you know what, I'm tempering
my excitement because they've already done it in the Ferrexia sets last year. I
think that that was for me peak Horror. Oh yeah, I was gonna
say, never temper your excitement, because then you won't have been excited the
whole time. Well, they may maybe the better to be excited and let
down than to never have been excited. Oh no, I don't want to
be let down. Well, if you don't look at it like a letdown.
It's still it's still gonna be sort of what you think it is,
and it's still gonna be a magic set that we're gonna talk about it and
enjoy. It's gonna be really cool. I think it's gonna be super cool.
But I think they have a large hurdle to already go over, given
they've already done All Will Be Won. My favorite type of visual horror in
the body horror that they did in All We Won, And I just I
don't know if they can top it esthetically for me, but I'll bet you
they're gonna come real close and they're gonna they're gonna try some shit. I
hope they do, because they've already done in a strad like Hammer horror,
horror, classic horror. Yeah, and so it's gonna be so now it's
gonna be what's left Saw and Scream and all that's the slasher movies. I
don't think that they'll go slasher. They might. They might do like the
Kings of Horror. So you have like a Chucky card and a scream guy
card. Picture man, that could be so cool. It's like the there's
like a dude looking in a mirror gives me thirteen ghost vibe. Hey done
it? Yeah? With Shaggy from Scooby Doo, isn't that? All I
remember is the Juggernaut holding that guy up and breaking him in half backwards and
that was awesome. I remember that part. Man. You know the guy
that played Shaggy and Scooby Doo whose name I cannot Matthew Lillard. Yeah,
there's no reason he should not play Carnage in a Marvel movie. I don't
know what that means. Lots of people out there do Garnage. Oh I
know who has the Spider Man villain? Matthew Lillard would make an excellent Cletus
Cassidy, excellent. And I'm just throwing that out there. That's another uh
maybe not a prediction, but a wishless thing. Matthew Lillard also magic player,
so he probably listens to us. So get on that, bud Man.
I can't find what the hell these books are called. Oh oh no,
I just did ah ah bo and no that's the website. Oh oh
oh, farm and Gobble Gobble, red Wall, Yeah that is it?
Red Wall? Is it? There was a cartoon about Red Wall. I
remember watching it. Yeah, it was wasn't there a bunch of different Red
Wall books? Though? Well, yeah, yeah, there they all are.
Yeah, there's tons of books. I remember watching the cartoon. Right,
that's what it's going to be. Okay, I'm changing my prediction.
It's a little bit going to be a crossover between Chronicles of Narnia and Red
Wall. There it is Red Wall for sure. Now that I feel like
an idiot for not thinking that. Yeah, me too, man, So
twenty twenty four over twenty twenty three, ryme, what do you think?
Is it going to be more Lord of the Rings? Aside Oka, Lord
of the Rings cannot be part of the conversation when gauging overall excitement for for
the IPS, you think it's going to be a better year, an equal
year, or I don't want to say worse. I don't want to say
worse because I think I was more hyped for core sets last year. You
know why last year. But I'm still excited. It's I know that they
will I know that they'll give us fantastic, great, powerful, format defining
and influential cards that I want to play, that I want to paint,
that I want to own, that are going to be expensive. But it's
hard to imagine cards that are better than things like mandraq Eli, Schnorn,
Mother Machines, Shieldred, the Card draw One Vorlex. Yes, it's hard
to imagine cards that are going to be better than the One Ring or Orcy
be Right, Compy Swarm. It's hard to imagine salur On the Dark Lord
just not being the best commander in my mind. But Lord of the Rings
aside, we're getting another horror aesthetic set in whatever it's called. Oh,
I hope there's a scream guy. I want them to be scream guys so
bad. I think this time around, where the mechanics and the set design
is actually horror themed instead of just like the horror visual that we got in
All Will Be One. Yeah, I think the new horror set is going
to be actually horror and it's going to be actually fantastic. That's that's why
I'm excited for that. Overall will Be One, though I don't think the
cards will be as good as All Will Be One. Fair. I am
very excited, more excited than I've been in a good long while, not
counting Lord of the Rings for Outlaws at Thunder Junction, I have been for
more than a decade wanting a Western set since the first idea came into my
mind, like back in two thousand and eight, nine, ten, whenever,
Like that's a long time ago. I've been thinking, why don't they
do a Western set, right? And then they missed their opportunity as as
kind of the world kind of became a little bit more sensitive to kind of
Western tropes, traditional Western tropes, and how that isn't always presented in a
okay way for a kids game, And then I thought, wow, it'll
never happen, at least not the way it traditionally has been presented. Now
it is, So I'm excited to see not only the set but what they
came up with. Wonder if they're going to crossover with Borderlands. That'd be
really cool. But they're not really around anymore, so probably not. Oh
yeah, but that was like the biggest video game in the world for like
a bunch of years, wasn't it. Because there's two of them, aren't
there three of them? There's three of them, But Borderlines two is the
best one, wasn't it? Absolutely? It was? Yeah, Yeah,
I bet you we'll see some that would be cool. Cross'd be a good
secret layer that would be a universe is beyond or a reskin or what I
call it, friends from friends from other places. Whatever it is, Yeah,
whatever it is, Yah point is twenty twenty four is going to be
a great year for Magic. More importantly than magic, it's gonna be a
great year for you boys, Ryan and Brando and for all of you as
we get to hang out with you for another year. Thank you so much
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