Dragon’s Maze || Crack-a-Pack

Dragon’s Maze || Crack-a-Pack - Aug 5, 2021

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2 жыл бұрын

The Moonbase is full of packs. Graham is going to make some sort of a dent in the pile by cracking through this pack of Dragon's Maze. New Crack-a-Pack twice a week!
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@Izandaia 2 жыл бұрын

I remember at one point learning the trivia that the most valuable card from this set was Voice of Resurgence, and the second most valuable "card" from this set was the Voice of Resurgence token.

@ToxicAtom 4 ай бұрын

Very funny, but unfortunately no longer true. Currently the most expensive card in Dragon's Maze is Master of Cruelties at an absolutely back-breaking $4 USD. A single copy of every card in the set will set you back just under ten times that, at a cool $39 USD (at the time I make this comment)

@pyredynasty 2 жыл бұрын

Obscure rule: when someone plays a gatekeepers you have to say, "Yes, my gatekeeper" or you get exiled to the blaggole.

@EternalDensity 2 жыл бұрын

Experience Beej.

@daverapp 2 жыл бұрын

Yo, Baron, I can dig it!!

@luketfer 2 жыл бұрын

A spoony reference in this day and age...someone is showing their age :P

@pyredynasty 2 жыл бұрын

I earned every second of it.

@MSUHitman 2 жыл бұрын

One thing to add to Graham’s point about the land slot, 2 packs in each box had a Shockland in the land slot instead of a gate. That is the only reason sealed Dragon’s Maze boxes have rebounded somewhat in value as every other noteworthy card in the set other than Maze’s End has been reprinted. The same process was repeated with Fate Reforged where 2 packs/box had a fetch instead of a gain land.

@willemboele2079 2 жыл бұрын

that last one can't be true either that or i actually did have the worst box ever (1 mythic a lot of bad rares double)

@nikomcpherson8394 2 жыл бұрын

Did you mean Kahns? I don’t think Fate had fetches…

@mowsey98 2 жыл бұрын

@@nikomcpherson8394 In Khans, the fetch lands occupied rare slots. In Fate Reforged you could get the khans printing of fetch lands in place of the gain lands - 2 per box. This is also true for Dragon's maze and shock lands, where like fate, there are no dragon's maze printings of shock lands, but the shocks would replace the gates at a rate of 2 per box.

@righteousforest5538 2 жыл бұрын

This set may not have drafted well, but after getting back into the game following my Innistrad-Dominaria hiatus finding out there was a set with ALL 10!GUILDS IN ONE PACK made me so excited to get my hands on some packs.

@Reach_W 2 жыл бұрын

Also it gave us one of the best Magic cards ever printed in Maze's End, so there's that!

@EternalDensity 2 жыл бұрын

The living guildpack! ;)

@rennefaireresident9085 2 жыл бұрын

@@EternalDensity guildpact. IDK what a guild pack is except maybe an angry mob...

@LadyLunarSatine 2 жыл бұрын

My main connection to Dragon's Maze was at the prerelease; I and one other guy were repping Golgari and we somehow finished the guild race in first place.

@DimT670 2 жыл бұрын

Love seeing melek on the pack knowing he literally gets killed 10 pages after he is introduced in the book For those curious, Ral kills him impulsively to run the maze because Niv said he couldn't run the maze because he was too selfish and impulsive and didn't have the future of the guild in mind. Ofc thr astute among you will notice that Rals actions basically prove Niv right

@spiralhaze2070 2 жыл бұрын

Pack openings - Pretty good Graham's ramblings - Top notch

@PlussGoodFun 2 жыл бұрын

i feel so bad for dragon's maze, it came out right around when i started magic and i loved it. It's too bad it wasn't such a great set in retrospective :

@ArixOdragc 2 жыл бұрын

I know how you feel, I started with Prophecy.

@matterhorn731 2 жыл бұрын

This is how I feel about Ixalan.

@Sybato 2 жыл бұрын

I really like the flavor text on Hired Torturer, good to know he's passionate about his job.

@hiimemily 2 жыл бұрын

Sin Collector is a strong sideboard option in Modern Humans at least. The only card from this set that sees more play nowadays is multi-format all-star Wear//Tear.

@LadyLunarSatine 2 жыл бұрын

I use him in my Alesha EDH deck, can always use the graveyard as a toolbox against the one guy, gal or them known for board wipes.

@gogovish 2 жыл бұрын

hi emily

@janmelantu7490 Жыл бұрын

Rubblebelt Maaka was popular in creature-based red aggro decks, but it’s not really used in burn decks because you can just be running all the Bolts.

@Jedicake 2 жыл бұрын

"Profit/Loss seems pretty good" Zealous Persecution: "Am I a joke to you?"

@Orengi-kun 2 жыл бұрын

Damn, beat me to this.

@ShaqPlaque 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to limited, where more mana-intensive versions of prior cards can still be amazing

@armstrongturbo 2 жыл бұрын

It bums me out that this set was such a bomb. I remember buying a box of it when I first got into Magic and loving it.

@matthewyoho5422 2 жыл бұрын

Weird nitpick about language stuff: colloquially speaking, referring to Dragon's Maze as being "a bomb" means that you're asserting that it is good/great (because for whatever reason, being "a/the bomb" means things are good/great... or possibly just explosives). The word you want to describe something that's the opposite of good, also explosives-related, is "a dud" (ie, "a bomb that does not go off"). Confusingly, to say that something "bombed" DOES mean that it did poorly/was received badly (while "dud" only has positive connotations if it's describing a literal bomb that did not explode in the proximity of you or something else you care about). English is a mess.

@armstrongturbo 2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewyoho5422 thanks for the lesson

@simplycifer 2 жыл бұрын

I just got back into MTG with the Forgotten Realms set and this is a nice little trip down memory lane to when I was first playing Magic. I had so many of these cards, and distinctly remember that Sinister Possession art. Love the series, especially with these older sets.

@ShaqPlaque 2 жыл бұрын

This set never gets enough love for being an amazing sealed format. Drafting it sort of didn't work out because of the drafting structure, but sealed was actually amazing. Each pool started with the question of "Am I control or am I aggro?" and "How far do I stretch my mana?" The answer was not all the way, all the time

@nyuzotturunk 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, nice Commodore Hustle intro reference with Toil & Trouble. :)

@geraldtoaster8541 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, may I ask that you display the card as you're explaining it? Fair enough that you'd want to show Graham the majority of the time as he's speaking, but personally I find it bizarrely stressful to try and comprehend the whole card in the fleeting moments that it's displayed. (Sometimes it gets displayed, sometimes it doesn't. I know there's some variation)

@MrUTPlayer 2 жыл бұрын

I wouldnt wanna miss his expressions for nothing in the world! 😂

@liorramati265 2 жыл бұрын

They could do it podcast style with graham taking up the majority of the screen, and then the card on the right

@Slagomancer 3 ай бұрын

Man, I've milled myself with Pilfered Plans way more than I've milled opponents

@GoodRogue 2 жыл бұрын

Sweet goodness, Profit and Loss is Zealous Persecution, but SO much worse.

@racg174 2 жыл бұрын

best thing about this set was drafting triple dgm and getting a hilarious amount of commons

@Halibel91 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact about extort: due to the cost of extort is in the reminder text it doesn't count against its color identity meaning you can run Pontiff of Blight in a mono-black deck.

@Sugarman96 2 жыл бұрын

Crypt Ghast in mono-B, that's where the hype is at.

@kittysniffer8338 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact. I used to exclusively draft magic when the set came out and I disliked drafting it so much that I quit magic for a few years… But know I play commander so I don’t need to tie my enjoyment of magic on the quality of the draft environment! Thanks Dragons Maze!

@thomasrobertson3190 2 жыл бұрын

Sinister Possession is part of a blue-black pauper deck I use to play. Locked down my opponent with cheap 2 drop 2 power fliers then used hidden strings, hands of binding, and sinister Possession to make their attacks bad. I believe I took the black out of the deck sometime later but it was fun.

@ThePyrolith 2 жыл бұрын

Graham “notable bad deck maker” Stark doesn’t quite roll off the tongue

@lucyspencer9752 2 жыл бұрын

I always wondered why Dragons Maze was so unpopular but now I know that it was the limited format which I never played because I was garbage at limited back in high school. Now my limited is very medium. Progress!

@Antimuffin 2 жыл бұрын

The little musical theme that starts the video when you're pulling the card packs out of the drawer... I'm now calling it "the happy noise" because it's very calming and it means Graham is about to talk. 💙

@Prinrin 2 жыл бұрын

While Dragon's Maze is the first paper set to have what is normally the basic land slot be taken by something else (discounting Coldsnap's snow lands), it is not the first set to do so. Every pack of Master's Edition IV (MtGO only) had a tron piece in it.

@mrphlip 2 жыл бұрын

Part of the problem with the cluestones comes from the fact that DGM has 70 commons... a pretty normal number for small sets. But, for various accounting reasons, that included the 10 gates, which showed up in the land slot in the booster... so there were only 60 commons that would actually show up in the collation for the common slots. Of which 1 in 6 were cluestones. So you were expecting to, on average, see almost 2 cluestones per pack. Sometimes you'd get a lot more (I think my record was 4, maybe 5?).

@thewonderdoc2999 2 жыл бұрын

Profit//Loss is just Zealous Persecution but you are allowed to pay 3 extra for the effect.

@houseofshadow6380 2 жыл бұрын

Pontiff of Blight in a Commander deck is just gross, especially in a Zombie deck that can generate a lot of mana! Absolutely love it!

@houseofshadow6380 2 жыл бұрын

Also, loving that the Cluestone was the second most expensive card in this pack lol

@Engineer_Hall 2 жыл бұрын

Other fun thing about the bloodrush mechanic is that it couldn't be countered. You could really get someone with it

@TherealSpartann30 2 жыл бұрын

Graham is correct in that the land slot was messed with the first time but he neglected to mention they also had a chance to have either a shock land or maze’s end at appropriate rarity in addition to all the gate lands. So theoretically there were “god packs” of 3 mythic rares floating around in this set

@rubilina1357 2 жыл бұрын

Dragon’s Maze was when I picked up the game. Built a Commander deck with Exava, my first ever legendary right out of the into pack. Still have Teysa, too; just wish I could find a home for her.

@ExKiwi-yw8er 2 жыл бұрын

I genuinely really love dragons maze. It's so jank it's charming, a lot more interesting than SOME modern sets. I always pick it for chaos drafts because I'm evil. Great set.

@kitsovereign4127 2 жыл бұрын

Before you get too tempted to stick Profit//Loss in your EDH deck, check out Zealous Persecution first.

@moxavenger 2 жыл бұрын

Pack cracking as an art form.

@Qegixar 2 жыл бұрын

Dragon's Maze draft was a fabulous mess and I loved every moment of it.

@OGNoNameNobody 2 жыл бұрын

Absoulely correct. *Pontiff* is 100% the pull from this pack. That is all.

@ShinjiSixteen 2 жыл бұрын

Delightful as always; thank you!

@TheThirdGenQ 2 жыл бұрын

Rubblebelt Maaka was huge card in RDW and Rabble Red standard decks.

@Kryptnyt 2 жыл бұрын

Just when you think the US postal service has stopped shipping human excrement to your door, here comes Dragon's Maze!

@durge12 2 жыл бұрын

did a pack of DM for a chaos draft- wasnt expecting much but opened master of cruelties!

@vincentmccue7481 2 жыл бұрын

Ah, extort...when you want to have everyone else ask you if you want to pay the 1.

@xanderhunter 2 жыл бұрын

Drown in Filth is my Drowning Pool and Cradle of Filth Fusion band.

@pyroxx462 2 жыл бұрын

I like how they made zealous persecution in alara and thought "This is too good at two mana, lets make it five mana for the same effect"

@shaden489 2 жыл бұрын

I think the land slot could also be a shock instead if a gate

@kilo3989 2 жыл бұрын

"IT SURE IS"

@irreleverent Жыл бұрын

No one is running Profit//Loss in commander, but some people probably run zealous persecution.

@kilo3989 2 жыл бұрын

Oh man, this is wonderfully timed--I just hit my lunch break!

@toagunga 2 жыл бұрын

Fun thing about dragon's maze too, every pack had a gate OR a shockland!

@Dragonroot95 2 жыл бұрын

*animates ferally*

@aidancox5481 Жыл бұрын

Pontoff of Blight is especially broken in K'rrik

@0M4STERM1ND0 2 жыл бұрын

Love these videos

@TheThanimal 2 жыл бұрын

Dragon's Maze was the first expansion I bought an entire box of. Played packwars with a friend who box their own box as well. It is a wonder we are still involved in the game at all.

@drewa6891 2 жыл бұрын

Drown in Filth is on tour with Cradling Pool

@mattybbg6850 2 жыл бұрын

I'm stealing the ERRRRR for my phone notifications.

@samuelmeyer4119 2 жыл бұрын

Ok, so I was listening to this in the background and I heard Graham pause for a sec, then say "Ahh" and start reading the fuse card. And somehow, I instantly knew that the joke was that he looked at the card confused, turned it sideways, and figured it out. Just posting this 'cause it made me feel smart. Also maybe stop being predictable Graham? (just kidding, I love your humor)

@breawycker 2 жыл бұрын

Dragon's maze has the least value out of any set. It's 156 cards and Scryfall says the market value for all of them is $57.29

@Kootify17 2 жыл бұрын

Liked just for the Izzet cluestone joke.

@tiamatt44 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I just had a flashback of when you and James was drafting Gatecrash, and I think someone gave you guys the challenge where you had to win a game through only extort damage. Which turned out to be a lot less fun than anyone thought since there were a lot of times where you guys clearly had lethal through extort plus attack damage, but the game would drag on since you could only extort them. Wasn't the most fun game to watch but props for making the effort.

@danholomy5852 2 жыл бұрын

Extort was my favorite mechanic ! Blind Obedience lets gooo

@artstsym 2 жыл бұрын

Turns out trying to cram every guild in one set was a bad idea, who could have seen this comi- everyone. Everyone saw this coming.

@brandonrichard9568 2 жыл бұрын

I remember opening a full booster box and getting about 90% of the set collected from that one box.

@mathewevans9706 2 жыл бұрын

Dragon's Maze: At least it's not Gatecrash!

@Longclaw959 2 жыл бұрын

My first set baby

@DimT670 2 жыл бұрын

Dragons maze basically single handedly killes blocks it was so bad

@DubWubby 2 жыл бұрын

I started in Gatecrash and Pontiff of Blight was my favourite card!

@natetwehues2428 2 жыл бұрын

I totally forgot that Return was the second time we returned to to Ravnica.

@WestleyTaninger 2 жыл бұрын

Huh. I remember quite enjoying the RtR-Gatecrash-Dragon's Maze drafting I did. Admittedly, that's probably because I'm terrible and love decks with far more colours than sense, which that trio of sets was pretty great at IIRC. Though I do wonder if the cluestones would've been better received if it weren't for how many gates there were. When every pack has some kind of guaranteed fixing, extra fixing at common is not nearly as exciting.

@mhutt333 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine your first sealed experience is with Ravnica leaning on Dragon's Maze at SDCC after a few year's long magic break (only hearing about the cards through TTC). Thank goodness for M14 coming out the next day, using 2HG aswell!

@maritheganger1237 2 жыл бұрын

Oh hey! the set i started my mtg journey on! and the same first pack that got me a voice of resurgence which i used to fund my first ever modern deck. Rakdos Vampires

@taylord2006 2 жыл бұрын

Crack a pack! Keep em coming!

@nicholassulfaro1727 2 жыл бұрын

So my first ever lgs draft was of this format. I went 0-3 with an WBG deck, but I opened a foil Voice of Resurgence on my first pack. I totally lost that draft, but in other ways I so totally won that draft.

@novarren 2 жыл бұрын

I think the guy in Pilfered Plans is a wearing a Selesnyan headdress and Mirko Vosk is Mind Drinking them? I can't remember if we've otherwise seen the Selesnya guy while not having their mind drunk.

@phtown 2 жыл бұрын

You should definitely make a commander deck with Profit // Loss and Pontiff of Blight. It would probably suck, but the important part is that you're having fun.

@aidancox5481 2 жыл бұрын

I once won a game of commander with Pontiff of Blight

@mcbiscuits8015 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoy the CH reference

@TheMaestroso 2 жыл бұрын

Remember my prerelease of this fondly, because I got the chase mythic (at the time, anyway, as it was worth $40+ - also, holy crap it's only $3.50 now) Voice of Resurgence in my pool AND in one of my prize packs.

@jesuschrist9677 2 жыл бұрын

there was not a gate in every pack as some would have a shock land in the land slot

@KingOfDoma 2 жыл бұрын

I know I've accepted that I'm old. How? I'm concerned that Graham didn't explain "regenerate"...

@retrowaffles5442 2 жыл бұрын

The old set/block design of being smaller sets that draft together and all three from the year being from the same plane was... Weird. Not sure if I miss having more time dedicated to each plane, I would have loved more of kaldheim, but I'm glad we only got one set of strixhaven

@bigwig8657 2 жыл бұрын

Cluestones weren't that much worse than lockets, just rtr limited was much faster on avg than grns block. Boros was the only fast aggro in the block in grn/rna, rakdos and orzhov aggro were more grindy aggro than 1 drop, 2 drop, 3 drop, 3 or 4 drop, cosmo wave dead. They were much more early drops to trigger spectacle with and just kill your big stuff/outvalue you with jugglers, bladebrand combos, after life etc. And unleash, bloodrush and boros mechanic all were super aggressive mechanics.

@gameprose4293 2 жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie, I used Toil and Trouble in my Nekusar the Mindrazer EDH deck.

@BenBeverwriter 2 жыл бұрын

I agree that Extort was fun! I have a BW commander deck that makes good use of the mechanic.

@TheOrigamiGamer 2 жыл бұрын

Only slightly relevant to the video but I wonder if we could get a mashup card that mixed the mechanics bloodrush and madness.

@FanOfMostEverything 2 жыл бұрын

Most Dragon's Maze packs had a Gate in the land slot. Some had a shock land, and a few had Maze's End. Yes, there was a mythic rare exclusively in the land slot. Also, I did a triple Dragon's Maze draft once. I do not recommend it. So many Cluestones...

@RobertJW 2 жыл бұрын

I also have once tried that experience.

@RobertJW 2 жыл бұрын

SO. MANY. CLUESTONES.

@DrewSwenson 2 жыл бұрын

RTR was my First set, and Gatecrash my second. Azorius all day! I didn't really pick up much from Dragon's Maze though.

@nerothewizard 2 жыл бұрын

The problem with this limited format was exactly that common cycle of gatekeepers. Everything in this format was a 2/4. Combat was a slog and a nightmare, and there wasn't a "fast" deck because all the mana fixing entered tapped. That said, Pontiff of Blight is a very fun card, and I definitely play it in my Endrek Sahr Commander deck.

@falke3090 2 жыл бұрын

Ok, but how do you pronounce hypenation when both the wolf and the rider are armoured?

@bigwig8657 2 жыл бұрын

Full set ravinica was maybe the most complicated to draft format if you didn't know which guilds were in which packs and plan accordingly. Tbh I would actually quite like to see a grn-rna-war draft format since War wasn't a guild set and the mana would support playing wedges and shards of 1 pack 1 guild, 1 pack 2 guild really easily. Arena get on it

@NStripleseven 2 жыл бұрын

hey guys did you know sometimes you have to play cards?

@VAB0L0 2 жыл бұрын

I bought a DGM fatpack at Toys R Us at a 50% discount a year after the set was out, and lemme tell you, it still wasn't worth it :P

@TalosParoxi 2 жыл бұрын

speaking of gatekeeping I just found out that the gatekeeper video isn't available in Canada anymore for some reason...

@LRRMTG 2 жыл бұрын

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@matthewyoho5422 2 жыл бұрын

As disappointing as Dragon's Maze might be... it WAS the set that gave us "Ruric Thar, the Unbowed", which is to date still my favorite Magic card. So I have a bit of a soft spot for it.

@teddybagadonuts2617 2 жыл бұрын

Now is Graham not a fan of Coloe Out of Space or just the card???

@goblinclockwork5959 2 жыл бұрын

Boy is profit/loss sure not zealous persecution.

@resrrasg8881 2 жыл бұрын

Sad lookimg dymir man, orzov? (gram looking at selesnia man)

@EternalDensity 2 жыл бұрын

The real feral animists are the people who downvote such engaging content.

@EternalDensity 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry I didn't mean to gatekeep!

@zach3553 2 жыл бұрын

Crack-A-MAZE

@ulrichs.3228 2 жыл бұрын

Funny (and by funny I mean mind-numbingly boring) anecdote: I quit playing Magic around when Shadow was the thing (Early Weatherlight block, I think). Mumble decades later, I decide to buy a box of bulk commons, because I figured sorting cards might help calm my OCD. You cannot imagine how awesome gates are to somebody who played 4th to Weatherlight, during which period there were no dual-mana lands whatsoever and everybody played two-color decks exclusively, because 3+ wasn't viable and mono meant you lose to the guy with the CoP. So yes, dual-color gates please, until I die from cardboard constipation like some MtG Elvis.