Speaker 1: We're recording. I mean, on on are we on? They
Speaker 1: tell us we're on a Welcome to the CEEO pre
Speaker 1: show for episode four fifty two. We're fifty two, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: Holy shit, Yeah, we're back. We're brought to you by
Speaker 1: the wonderful Patreon supporters over at patreon dot com slash
Speaker 1: CEEO podcast.
Speaker 2: Whether they like it or not, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's it. And we're testing a new lighting setup because
Speaker 1: we got invited to gun that day convention tomorrow, Gang
Speaker 1: Beating Gang Beating Convention tomorrow, Saskatoon, August twenty fourth.
Speaker 2: I got my cueball in my sock. I am ready
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got my middle finger sock, my fuck sock
Speaker 1: if you will. And it's uh, they tell me it's
Speaker 1: about anime and gaming.
Speaker 2: No, we're done, not what we're gone?
Speaker 1: Exciss Yeah okay, So.
Speaker 2: Cause it was here, we're talking about it tomorrow. What
Speaker 2: happened two days ago? Yes, so thanks you all for coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's what's.
Speaker 3: That called where you say the thing that you want
Speaker 3: to happen and then it happens.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what do you call that? Producer Gary is
Speaker 1: lazy guy Gary over there. We got LB today what
Speaker 1: do you call it? Manifesting? Yeah, okay, well let's manifest
Speaker 1: the pre show. We've got a winner from last week.
Speaker 2: Of course we do.
Speaker 1: We of course we do. We've got Hey, have you
Speaker 1: seen any I've got this note to specifically ask you
Speaker 1: because you went to the bloomborough like promo day things?
Speaker 2: Sure did.
Speaker 1: What was it called Commander Party? The Commander Party? How
Speaker 1: was it?
Speaker 2: It's terrible?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's terrible, Uncle Brando.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 3: Now, the usually those little variants that they kind of
Speaker 3: throw in for those parties are pretty fun. We really
Speaker 3: enjoy them, yep. And we've had a good time with
Speaker 3: some of them. I took the Lord of the Rings
Speaker 3: one and laminated it and I carried with you when
Speaker 3: I go places, right, But like this one was just
Speaker 3: it was unbalanced and it wasn't very good and it
Speaker 3: was really based on kind of locksacking your way through game.
Speaker 1: And you know, like, uh, because you're really good at
Speaker 1: that when you've.
Speaker 3: Played Plane Chase, right, you it can kind of warp
Speaker 3: games and like, yeah, plane Chase decides who wins instead
Speaker 3: of anything else, same kind of gimmick, but in a
Speaker 3: way more abysmal, kind of just inevitable kind of.
Speaker 1: Way, you know what I mean, And not as much
Speaker 1: even even if the dice in Plane Chase decide who wins.
Speaker 1: At least there's variants because you can go playing to
Speaker 1: plane to plane and there's like seventy or eighty different planes.
Speaker 3: Right exactly, and this one there's seven different spaces on
Speaker 3: a board. You're probably gonna see all of them throughout
Speaker 3: the course of a game. And then the little card
Speaker 3: variant things. Unless you're really doing something specific, there is
Speaker 3: a very clear best one, and if you're not playing
Speaker 3: the best one and someone else is, you're probably gonna lose,
Speaker 3: even if you are really lucky.
Speaker 1: Oh so that's like the Cohle's Notes version of whether
Speaker 1: or not you should play the Commander Party Bloomborough variant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was worth it.
Speaker 3: We played it with a real dex and we played
Speaker 3: it with the four pre cons and from that I
Speaker 3: learned two things. The variant is, in my opinion, terrible,
Speaker 3: and my variation of the Raccoon deck is way better
Speaker 3: than the pre constructed Raccoon deck.
Speaker 1: Was that was that last week's or the weeks before deck?
Speaker 1: Was that four fifty one episode? I think it was
Speaker 1: four fifty one, right, I think it was last week,
Speaker 1: but it's just I don't remember.
Speaker 3: It's much better because mine has I counted, I have
Speaker 3: thirty seven things that interact with my with my commander,
Speaker 3: and the actual pre Con deck has like twenty and
Speaker 3: I didn't see any of them.
Speaker 2: I was playing like a girls seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah if you're if you're new to magic, that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just several things.
Speaker 3: Whereas like the pre Con, I played like a Tlly
Speaker 3: and a Galta and a rampaging bay lots. But it's
Speaker 3: just like all these just like regular kind of just
Speaker 3: like real good stuff. I ended up playing yep, and
Speaker 3: it like why So while the other three pre cons
Speaker 3: definitely did the thing, there were lots of fun. Maybe
Speaker 3: I was just unlucky in draws in line, but mine
Speaker 3: was just a little slow, I mean a million man.
Speaker 1: I had nothing to do with it and then just
Speaker 1: lost for people. People who like the peaks behind the curtains.
Speaker 1: Maybe the show sounds a lot better now that they
Speaker 1: unplug the air conditioner. Really good, we should do. How
Speaker 1: many Commander parties have you been to? Three or four?
Speaker 2: I can't say all of the Lord of.
Speaker 1: The Rings one the Bloomborough one. What other ones have
Speaker 1: you done?
Speaker 2: Thunder Junction, Thundy?
Speaker 1: What was that one? I don't even remember that one.
Speaker 1: I didn't go to that one.
Speaker 3: I don't remember what it was, but I know I
Speaker 3: went to it.
Speaker 2: It was fine. There was like break that break the bank.
Speaker 1: There was like oh yeah, man, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the break the Bank.
Speaker 2: One, and it was rain I went to. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you mentioned that.
Speaker 1: We got to do like a little reviewer or a
Speaker 1: ratings show which ones are the best, because I went
Speaker 1: to the Lord of the Rings one and it was
Speaker 1: really good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The Varian's actually fun. It gave some strategy and maybe you.
Speaker 1: Had to like pick a character before you start and
Speaker 1: then like get special rules whether or you like had
Speaker 1: a ring or not or something.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, the Clue is really cool. The Clue one
Speaker 2: really neat for I forgot about that one. Murder It whatever.
Speaker 3: There's some neat stuff out there that I think kind
Speaker 3: of gets overlooked a little bit because they only show
Speaker 3: up on one day and you have to ask after
Speaker 3: a specific time at the store to see if you
Speaker 3: can have one, especially now that they've changed the rules
Speaker 3: on when the events can happen. So unless you're like
Speaker 3: Ozzy and Momo who collect them, the odds are you're
Speaker 3: probably not going to see them in the wild very often,
Speaker 3: which is too bad because some of them are.
Speaker 1: Neat are they like greedy whales that just get like
Speaker 1: all of them so nobody else can have any or
Speaker 1: do they do? They get like enough so everybody can
Speaker 1: have one when they go and.
Speaker 3: Play, Oh, they have one of each one so that
Speaker 3: they can play it if they want.
Speaker 1: Oh, like one from each of the different parties that
Speaker 1: there has been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then the store, this store usually gets enough.
Speaker 2: We had we overbooked. We had to move another table
Speaker 2: into the into the store.
Speaker 1: Last where's that other table?
Speaker 3: When I ever show up late because you have to,
Speaker 3: you haven't and by the time you show up, everybody
Speaker 3: has shown up and been turned away.
Speaker 1: I meant to show up this week, but I was
Speaker 1: pretty obvious by Yeah, you had something else going on.
Speaker 1: Academy trip. I'll tell you about that.
Speaker 3: We had like thirty two or thirty four people. I
Speaker 3: think we turned away like thirteen because the store was Oh,
Speaker 3: it was very bob.
Speaker 1: Gone are the days when the empty store in the
Speaker 1: mall was right next to the lgs and we could
Speaker 1: just fill an empty retail store and if we needed
Speaker 1: to go and buy something, we'd just go next door
Speaker 1: to the actual store. Hey, we could eat in there.
Speaker 1: And it was like closed off from the rest of
Speaker 1: the mall because like the storefront or whatever. But at
Speaker 1: a certain time they just like kind of half closed
Speaker 1: those little roller gates that mall doors have. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was the best.
Speaker 2: That was really cool. Or when we just playing the
Speaker 2: hallway that was good too.
Speaker 1: I didn't like that because old people always came up
Speaker 1: and said, what are you guys doing?
Speaker 3: What was the same old people every time, So you
Speaker 3: could tell them a different story each time and see
Speaker 3: if they picked up on it.
Speaker 2: It didn't.
Speaker 1: They never did.
Speaker 2: They never did. They just kept asking. It was really good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it, So okay, last week's winter I'm very excited.
Speaker 2: Oh many people, did you guess wrong?
Speaker 1: Well, I've been given it to patrons, right, I've been
Speaker 1: given it to the Patreon supporters.
Speaker 2: But the guessing game is the important. Everybody guess the
Speaker 2: crazy methed out globe.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no it was.
Speaker 2: It was a handsome glove.
Speaker 1: It was which globe would we play, wasn't it?
Speaker 2: No? It's which glob art was your favorite? Oh there's
Speaker 2: only one glob?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that's only there's two ars.
Speaker 2: There's two.
Speaker 1: Well what do people say? Everybody guessed it was the
Speaker 1: meth out one, like the the the showcase one or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's like the handsome one, the tinder profile globe. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: and then there's the globe that shows up for the date.
Speaker 1: Which one do you like?
Speaker 2: The globe that shows up for the date because it's crazy?
Speaker 1: Look, is that the one I'm supposed to say?
Speaker 2: No, you're the one that liked the handsome globe on
Speaker 2: the thing. You told me that when we're talking about it.
Speaker 1: The first trap glob Yeah, glob trap.
Speaker 2: Man, glarb is so good. I have been using that
Speaker 2: as a Gary adjective.
Speaker 1: But Gary knows about the glarb. But the other producers
Speaker 1: in the studio right now, and they're probably like, what
Speaker 1: the hell are these guys talking about? Anyone? Watch Commander
Speaker 1: Crook idiots, Why did anybody look at LB's in there.
Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, they know me in real life. They
Speaker 2: know what's going on. They understand.
Speaker 1: Oh well, big thanks. Everybody left to comment and said glar,
Speaker 1: but big thanks to the patrons where we have a winner.
Speaker 1: We do, and you know him?
Speaker 2: Do I?
Speaker 1: Jesse's him? New Jesse?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: Yep? Okay, I haven't seen him for a long time.
Speaker 1: Think he plays magic. Still he must he's still a patron.
Speaker 1: They must he had a kid.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he can he form a has
Speaker 2: a kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he probably hates time and money, so he had
Speaker 1: a kid and now he has none of either either
Speaker 1: of those. Okay, Jesse, wat just get in touch Commander
Speaker 1: cook at gmail dot com. He knows he's contacted us before.
Speaker 1: He's probably won before.
Speaker 2: Probably not probably, No, no, he has because everybody who
Speaker 2: plays wins.
Speaker 1: There you go, so Jesse, big, thanks for playing, big,
Speaker 1: Thanks for being a patron. Yes, we got a new patron.
Speaker 2: We gotta thank okay.
Speaker 1: Next or tomorrow, next day. And he's got one of
Speaker 1: those names games that just is a nickname.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's exciting.
Speaker 1: Well it makes it easy.
Speaker 3: So his name is like knob Goblin or Gobbler, mushroom
Speaker 3: stamp or something.
Speaker 1: Hey yeah, yes, it's more magic related.
Speaker 3: Carry syphilis, yes, yes, yes, if he was a dinosaur
Speaker 3: and had like the one with the yes packy syphilis saurus.
Speaker 3: Yes because yeah, yeah, because a dinosaur with syphilis.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, he's probably got spina bifiosis or something. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. Okay, And we've got a deck that you
Speaker 1: picked out as the head of deck list procurement for
Speaker 1: Commander Cocode Enterprises. Brando's got us a deck that I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit concerned doesn't have a win con.
Speaker 2: No, it totally does. It's an alternate win con.
Speaker 1: And you said it was a group hug deck on
Speaker 1: last week's episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're doing it. So we're trying it. And see,
Speaker 3: I want to point out.
Speaker 1: But that's not a hint for anybody who actually wants
Speaker 1: to play the guessing game. How do you guess the Commander?
Speaker 1: I said that I liked the art in It's a
Speaker 1: Bloomborough Commander and it was my favorite Commander art. Oh,
Speaker 1: here's the hint. I said in the set review that
Speaker 1: this is the card that's going to complete my Giant
Speaker 1: or my big card collection.
Speaker 2: This was the card that's a good one. And then
Speaker 2: if I don't know if I really like Shreks, who've
Speaker 2: ever seen poor Boots? Yeah, he looks kind of like that.
Speaker 1: I'll give you one more hint, and this one's really
Speaker 1: up to Sif this is the only hint that we gave,
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody would get it. But this
Speaker 1: character is a flower name. Did you know that?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Did you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I if I gave you that hint, would you associate
Speaker 1: that with this character? I don't think you would.
Speaker 3: If you gave it to me and I was reading
Speaker 3: through cards, I'd probably get it.
Speaker 1: And I think that I have the hook, like I
Speaker 1: think that I have the the why this is and
Speaker 1: why this isn't a good name for this deck strategy
Speaker 1: being group hug, So we'll talk about that a little
Speaker 1: bit tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Like group tug, it kind of is.
Speaker 1: That's what we should call it. You know, you know
Speaker 1: how people like say group's lug where everybody takes damage
Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, should we just like petition to
Speaker 1: of course we should petition because that's my favorite thing
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: Group tug is all we're all pulling in the same direction.
Speaker 1: Yes, it does really make sense. I know that the
Speaker 1: producers are all sitting around, like, what the hell are
Speaker 1: these guys talking about the plating nods?
Speaker 3: If they played magic instead of being just regular nerds,
Speaker 3: they really are You know what, Dragon told me today,
Speaker 3: tell me he's got like this cool nickname dragon and stuff.
Speaker 1: And he's like, yeah, I got this cool lightsaber. It
Speaker 1: makes noise when I hit it against stuff.
Speaker 2: It was the greatest, man.
Speaker 1: I just got hit with a SODA's your wife?
Speaker 2: I mean she does make a noise if you hit
Speaker 2: her against stuff. That's kind of what it's kind of how.
Speaker 1: You just have to my leg this week though, And
Speaker 1: I'd be down for the counts. Yeah, if you know,
Speaker 1: you know, okay, well, we're doing this deck. Leave it
Speaker 1: in the comments. I'll take people that do it in
Speaker 1: the comment, like, do it in the comments, who leave
Speaker 1: a comment with the guests for tomorrow's commander, and I'll
Speaker 1: throw it into like a number generator with Patron numbers.
Speaker 1: So if you want to play the guessing game, you
Speaker 1: get entered. If you're a Patreon supporter, you get entered
Speaker 1: for no extra work because guessing is so much freging work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and either way you can get entered. So Brando has fun.
Speaker 1: I get to say thank you and we'll do that.
Speaker 1: We shall any last words on the pre show episode
Speaker 1: four fifty two, we're doing this deck. I like the
Speaker 1: card I want I wanted a deck so bad that
Speaker 1: we can just freaking cheat like crazy, because this guy
Speaker 1: kind of does a really cheaty thing, but not in
Speaker 1: the colors that are normally cheaty.
Speaker 2: Well, we're gonna cheat, but just like ineffectually.
Speaker 1: Oh good. Yes, yeah, we're gonna cheat, but it's like
Speaker 1: we get permission like swingers. Yeah, yes, this is nice,
Speaker 1: Like that swinger group Tug.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna swing and tug at the same time.
Speaker 1: Hit our theme song.
Speaker 2: Ryan broke his leg