Ferocious Pup is played in 20 percent of all Voja decks on Edhrec.

Nimble Birdsticker was not in the regular core set it was exclusive to the "Core Set 2020/Spellslinger Starter Kit", a short lived intro product with two 60 card mono-colour decks, these ones being red and white. So it couldn't have appeared in that pack, but it is a great card name and worthy of the shout-out.

It's not just that Ferocious Pup is played in a lot of Wolf Typal decks, but it's foil. Core Set 2020 was the last set before Throne of Eldraine introduced collector boosters. And say what you will on whether collector boosters are good for the game, they definitely accomplished one thing: tanking the price of foil commons and uncommons. Like the most expensive uncommon main set foil in Throne of Eldraine is Syr Konrad and he is played all over the place. He's $3.67 USD. Most expensive in Core Set 2020? Veil of Summer at *$28 USD*. There are also 11 other foil uncommons that cost more than Syr Konrad. So Ferocious Pup does not surprise me that the foil is approaching a dollar.

Yay! You got to my pack soo quick 🥳 Thanks y'all 😄

I love that Negate art so much that when it released in Ixalan I collected over 20 copies of it in regular printing, and an additional six foil printings. For a card that's usually a 2-of in occasional sideboards.

M20 has some absolute bangers - Cavalier of night, Field of the Dead, Veil of Summer. My favourite thing about this set is that the Dragon-themed cards flavour texts are all adventurers' last words.

"Wolfmander" seems like a sarcastic answer to.the question "What classic movie monster ate all these villagers?"

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, a necromancer from a series of books that are very much Not magic, wears bones so that she always has bones to animate if necessary.

3:55 made me say "oh it's Harrowhark", a reference for all of the lesbian necromancer in space enjoyers

Notably, M20 came immediately before ELD, and some of those color hate spells were THOROUGHLY PLAYED and even MAIN DECKED in that standard. Noxious Grasp and Aether Gust were answers to the many green problem children of the format, and Veil of Summer was another culprit in reinforcing green’s standard dominance. On top of that, it also just gave us some really good cards in their own rights. The Cavalier cycle, Agent of Treachery, Elvish Reclaimer, Field of the Dead, Golos, a cycle of Leylines, Lotus Field, Mystic Forge, Sorin (Imperious Bloodlord), Yarok, and a bunch of lower-power but still fairly popular cards

I would die for Ferocious Pup.

Ferocious Pup is great for wolf bodies and goes absolutely crazy in flicker setups, since it's one of those rare cases where the ETB token is the bigger body.

I'm gonna share with you the absolute wording nightmare that is the italian printing of Drakuseth's ability: "Choose up to two targets: Whenever Drakuseth attacks, it deals 3 damage to each of them and 4 damage to any other target." In a Commander game this implies that you could activate this ability targeting 2 different opponents as many times as you want, then swing with the dragon and carbonize them both.

Man, I will always love that rare. It was my first commander, built from a starter deck and shoe cartons of draft chaff I got from my friends.

M20 was my first set for which I understood the rules of magic (which excludes several sets from the early 2000s). I was absolutely enthralled by Risen Reef.

You made me have to look up what a Nimble Birdsticker is.

Sadly I don’t do more than a dollar on patreon but I make sure to buy a piece of merch every time I see you guys!! Got sleeves, play mat, and shirts from you guys! I hope it helps ❤️

I'm guessing Voja drove up the cost of the pup, personally.

M20 was my favorite core set to draft simply bc all of the 10 draft archetypes converged into the 3 enemy-color legendary creatures in the set. (Kykar is a flier who cares abt spells and going wide aka. the 3 draft archetypes, or Yarok being an elemental, caring about creatures, and being a great blocker for control decks, etc.)

I can't believe my Diablo 2 nerd came out during the Boneclad Necromancer talk and said out loud to my screen "Dude, Bone Armor is sick though!"

Drakuseth was the first rare magic card I ever opened, which is fun

From a constructed perspective, that rare isn't great but man it's just so cool. One of my first decks on Arena was a reanimator deck with that and Bond of Revival.

Sanitarium Skeleton won me my LGS's prerelease tournament. I was the problem bringing it back every turn to block my opponents' big green creature during the finals letting me chip away for like 4 turns.

Ferocious Pup in foil is expensive because he's the goodest boi

2:20 The foil of that is really good looking as well, and I hate most foils.

I really liked the themes of this set intersecting across wedges. Just looking at the signpost uncommons, the ally colour ones represent a theme and the enemy colour ones represent the intersection of two themes. For example, Jeskai is about fliers. The WU one is a Flying lord, the UR one is a Flying Elemental (intersecting with Temur Elementals) and the RU one is a Flying creature with an attack trigger (intersecting with Mardu Aggro).

Ah yes, my first ever set

I was able to afford one draft of Commander Legends, and first picked Drakuseth and Swiftfoot Boots. I then drafted every piece of ramp and every other haste enabler I could find (Surrak wound up being my partner commander) and won every game I played that night because no one else could keep a creature on the field when I was swinging with a hasty Drakuseth on turn four 😂

Ferocious Pup also fits into the Werewolf deck for commander.

MTG card prediction: Next year, Negate will be reprinted with 'Nuh-uh' as both flavour and rules text.

Hell yeah, birthday crack a pack

5:22 Medieval nerd who got mad at "Glaive" of the Guildpact here, those would be *vambraces* or *bracers*. A Gauntlet covers the hand, not the wrists/forearm.

Oh hell yeah! I miss the Core Sets.

1:38 Negaté

Drakuseth is literally the reason I took my Miirym dragon deck apart. That deck tore people apart and then there were 2+ of them at the same time 😂

Sadly not a german Pack. I love the pronunciation of you every time.

Core Sets were light time through the year.

Scholar of the Ages + Soul Salvage 👨‍🍳😘 (throw in a Murder as a treat)

You mean red not green I think lol

4RRR....ah..ah...ah

greetings yoked ox

Fun fact: that pup has human teeth!

M20 was goaded and based

Wolf pup expensive cause cute

The first set of the FIRE era

Can I buy that Ferocious Pup off you for my bad werewolves commander deck? If so, could you sign it? If so, could you put an "awoo!" on there?

Man, I miss core sets. They felt like palate cleansers in the world of Magic flavor.

I do not miss core sets, even the third one felt really forgettable and it was probably objectively the best designed of the three with actual set mechanics going on and stuff. lol 20 had something too, I think 19 was the "just dump in some cards we wanna reprint, a few designs that don't really have a home elsewhere and for the rest nobody cares" set. lol

Why is there a witcher on the cover?

I feel like core sets could work if they just... Didnt make the set so underpowered in the common and uncommon slot? Like most of these cards were not worth the cardboard they were printed on in 2019 let alone now, but there are so many common and uncommons from magic's history that could work together in a limited environment that would also create a great basis for standard for the next few years. Like a 3/2 flyer for 5 that gains 4 health? Snore! Reprinting Immodane's Recruiter or Dog Walker in two years? Impactful.

Wait.. am I…first?!