Ice Age || Crack-A-Pack

Ice Age || Crack-A-Pack - Aug 31, 2021

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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 Ice Age. New Crack-a-Pack twice a week!
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@chifii 2 жыл бұрын

Upvote if you think Graham qualifies as a 2/2 for 2.

@LexYeen 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed without reservations.

@staffordandsuch 2 жыл бұрын

Idk, Graham strikes me as more a Barbarian Guide type

@adiuntesserande6893 2 жыл бұрын

I mean, he *is* the captain of Bear Force One.

@AnInnocuousBlueCube 2 жыл бұрын

I'm seeing him as... a gender-flipped Hanweir Militia Captain.

@havcola6983 2 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to imagine any of the LRR crew in a fight and tbh I think most of them would be 0/Xs with some odd abiliy. 1/3s with Defender tops.

@pyredynasty 2 жыл бұрын

The crazy part is it looks like angry Mark Hamill now, not then.

@Drecon84 2 жыл бұрын

I've always assumed it looked like Soldevi. Only when I looked that up now is when I realized that Soldev was a country in the setting where Ice Age is set and these are all supposed to look like regular soldiers of that realm.

@outistynnanyt5153 2 жыл бұрын

While Graham isn't *technically* a bear, I doubt any Bear Bars would kick him out of he wanted to attend

@IzzysIssues 2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't have said it better

@dougsundseth6904 2 жыл бұрын

The model for Mesmeric Trance is indeed somebody that Dan knows. I know him too, and game with him moderately regularly. Most of the humans that the Boulder Magic artists (Mike Kimble, Dan Frazier, Doug Shuler) painted for their cards are people that I've LARPed with in the same games as Mike, Dan, and Doug.

@pintpullinggeek 2 жыл бұрын

There wasn't a Prodigal Sorcerer in Ice Age but there was a Zuran Spellcaster. "A Tim by any other name will ping as sweet" - Norritt, probably

@ArdenDag 2 жыл бұрын

Came to the comments to say exactly this

@RekkinOnTheInternet 2 жыл бұрын

Norritt seems like the protagonist of a late 90s mascot platformer that failed to achieve even the cult status of Gex.

@paulosa8823 2 жыл бұрын

I would go more with late 80's early 90's creature in horror movie. Gremlins popped right of, but I can see it in something similar to Leprechaun or Critters. Dark humour horror at it's finest.

@jonothanthrace1530 2 жыл бұрын

I remember an early issue of InQuest said that he was essentially Beast from X-Men

@gweedle8521 2 жыл бұрын

@11:34 "This cards SUCKS!" Me, looking at Norrit in my Merieke Ri-Berit EDH deck: "No you don't, sweetheart"

@TheDemonHelios 2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you there. I use Norritt in my Araumi Pauper EDH deck and it is fantastic. It just needs the right deck to take advantage of its abilities

@isawaletomo1680 2 жыл бұрын

Also agree. Just found Fatespinner, which could work well for it. Very abusable card, I would think.

@artemi7 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta agree. Norritt is pretty legit, even today. You don't really have anything that's got that combo of untap and narrow-but-sometimes-very-powerful creature kill on the same card.

@duesexistat5016 2 жыл бұрын

I’d run it just for the art. Plus that ability can be surprisingly useful in a game of commander.

@tomcove 2 жыл бұрын

"You're weird... But fine." Aren't we all?

@BloodKaez 2 жыл бұрын

"Orcish Farmer get your pig ready!" - James, Friday Nights (I think Clanmanders)

@feltyone 2 жыл бұрын

Beat me to it.

@BloodKaez 2 жыл бұрын

@@feltyone :P

@BlueTrebol 2 жыл бұрын

"I blame commander" No, this time it's just people speculating on reserved list cards

@Wraithfighter 2 жыл бұрын

It’s an Ice Age Rare with Cumulative Upkeep, a thing that WOTC will never ever reprint (it’s a 9 on the Storm Scale). Eventually someone’s going to find a deck for that monstrosity, and when it happens, those speculators are going to have all of the supply! :D

@CityofLight11 2 жыл бұрын

I will never not be mad that speculators have sent the price of Wood Elementals to the moon. They're... they're Wood Elementals.

@Kryptnyt 2 жыл бұрын

@@Wraithfighter It's also somewhat outclassed by a few cards. Compulsion and Unfulfilled Desires, while not being strictly better, are generally better and I would recommend them first.

@skagra4290 2 жыл бұрын

@@Wraithfighter the storm scale only affects premier sets.

@CalebDenn 2 жыл бұрын

For anyone interested, Mesmeric Trance was the rare. As for Norritt's ability yes its bad, but i could see it as a targeted destruction almost. You have to choose a creature that must attack before attackers are declared that your opponent has controlled since the beginning of the turn. Choose something that is already tapped out and has a annoying static or activated ability.

@paverce 2 жыл бұрын

That dragonfly ist just too gigantic to see anything else when zoomed out that far.

@KevinOMalleyisonlysmallreally 2 жыл бұрын

James: "Orcish farmer get your pig ready!" Graham: "I like that they both have one pokey tooth"

@TundraWolfe 2 жыл бұрын

That Last Unicorn clip had me DEAD. Thank you Matt!

@dragonegger2 2 жыл бұрын

I used to think that movie was a fever dream only I had.

@vzq5175 2 жыл бұрын

@@dragonegger2 I have felt that way about a lot of media. Anyone else remember Action League Now?

@ahrenstarr6273 2 жыл бұрын

Never drafted Ice Age, but I remember feeling jealous when my friend got a Ice Box then my parents bought me Mirage instead. Turns out I probably got the long term value from the LED.

@disco_falcon1895 2 жыл бұрын

I can't believe Graham didn't portmanteau Centaur Archer. It's right there! Perhaps it was simply too easy.

@jeffreydenenberg7101 2 жыл бұрын

arcentaur

@towelguy 2 жыл бұрын

withering wisps is a weird pestilence that does a good job in a mono b commander deck with snow swamps (also let's you play dead of winter, which is better and the main reason for snow swamps but hey, it's a better pestilence in this case)

@Trainwithseb 2 жыл бұрын

I can see it especially if you have a black creature that can regenerate so it never goes away

@WhiteWizard42 2 жыл бұрын

The only reason I've ever seen someone run Withering Wisps was because Zur can find it.

@Kryptnyt 2 жыл бұрын

It's a shame because most Enrage creatures aren't in black (I think Nested Ghoul is the one that comes to mind the most, and he's middling) I think the best version of the effect might be Crypt Rats. Getting lifelink or deathtouch on an enchantment is a lot harder to do.

@PromotedPawn 2 жыл бұрын

As far as the draft pick goes, open palm slam Withering Wisps. There’s a reason they don’t print Pestilence style effects anymore and that’s mainly because they don’t do much for constructed while being absolute BOMBS in limited. In any limited format that offers a card like that, they’re almost always one of the best picks in the entire set.

@d.j.8059 7 ай бұрын

Pestilence ruining Urza's Saga drafts as a common put an end to all that.

@grahamoliver1470 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love how Burnt Offering and Dark Ritual ended up in the same pack as Norrit. Old sets are so fun to look back on.

@mfitkin 2 жыл бұрын

Whoa that soldevi simulacrum not only looks just like Mark Hamill, but have you seen Knightfall on Netflix? It’s okay but Mark is incredible in it and honestly in some ways it’s hilarious. He plays a Knight Templar with a beard and it’s just literally him on that card.

@austinaustinaustin 2 жыл бұрын

I can't explain why I've become so suddenly obsessed with this series but I'm just gonna roll with it

@joel767 2 жыл бұрын

Necropotence was in this set, and at the time of drafting everyone thought it SUCKED. It most likely would have been passed over in a draft (at the time), so if you were sharp enough to realize how it could be used, Dark Rit might not be a bad pick. Going by today's knowledge, it's unlikely you would be passed Necro.

@Hannibal1462 2 жыл бұрын

Drafting as we do today wasn't really a thing back then, though variant drafting was sort of a thing.

@toastermon2272 2 жыл бұрын

I think we're slowly arriving the point, where Necro starts to suck again. The drawback is real this time around with so many GY shenanigans going on, not drawing the cards directly is also a big downside, as is the mana cost. There's just way better ways of getting card advantage, that don't have such heavy drawbacks. Source: Playing mono black in multiple (singleton) formats and it hasn't made the cut in 2 years, apart from a devotion style deck.

@joel767 2 жыл бұрын

@@toastermon2272 Hey I love mono black! What singleton formats are you playing out of curiosity? I know it's still very prevalent in commander. What has it been phased out by? I would guess that Peer Into The Abyss, while more pricey mana-wise, is better?

@Asrugan 2 жыл бұрын

The big combo at the time was Necropotence+Zur’s Weirding, great fun.

@suNn.K.O 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love Tedin's art. Beautiful.

@Timlin22 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like Orcish farmer could be useful to shut down gaia's cradle or Tolarian Academy, especially if you can give the farmer haste. You play it, don't attack, let them untap then you tap the farmer to turn the cradle or Academy into a swamp in the upkeep step. That way they can't get the same value since the mana evaporates moving to the main phase. Unless they have a way to give everything flash, you repeatedly shut their best land down. Thay being said, the Orc still isn't good, but it does have a use

@clearchalk 2 жыл бұрын

Prodigal sorcerer isnt in Ice Age but Zuran Spellcaster (which is identical in function) is!

@ArkaosMotovlogs 2 жыл бұрын

Mesmeric trance actually found a loving home in my Estrid the Masked deck recently! With infinite mana it’s a good way to filter through my deck or generally get stuff in the graveyard and use Estrid to bring it back to the battlefield for free, including itself after never paying the cumulative upkeep. Even considerably bad cards have an important place! Haha

@hamishian0 2 жыл бұрын

It's not bad if is part of a win con... right? Right!!!?

@JimPea 2 жыл бұрын

It's funny how early Magic's cards go from broken to absolute trash to totally appropriate for Standard sets printed today.

@EmperorsTeeth 2 жыл бұрын

Geez, Norritt's Oracle Text actually has MORE words than the printed card! It actually seems... useful. Like, repeatable Goad, but they can hit you, with the bonus that it kills stuff. Handy as it can take out those annoying creatures you're opponent would just tap to avoid attacking with. I might pick a copy up!

@bruhyoufarted3689 2 жыл бұрын

I dont think graham has played against pestilence before

@LadyLunarSatine 2 жыл бұрын

That's just a better Pestilence for the most part.

@marxmeesterlijk 2 жыл бұрын

Norritt + Icy Manipulator is the real play here.

@ahrenstarr6273 2 жыл бұрын

I view Graham as more of an 0/2 Legendary Human Bear Comedian for 1G. If Graham attacks, all other Bears get +1/1. (Maybe there needs to be 3 - 6 other Bears attacking for Graham to trigger)

@rpriske 2 жыл бұрын

Starting at Ice Age and stopping for a very long time is me too!

@masterthnag105 2 жыл бұрын

Norritt is actually pretty good for commander because it can force utility creatures to swing out when a play would want to keep them back. Mana dorks that get used for mana just die etc...

@DarthKorren 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoy the reveal that Graham's story about the ice age started from Friday Nights - Throwback was absolutely true

@brendaneichler5244 2 жыл бұрын

I actually started with this set

@Milambus 2 жыл бұрын

Back then I comboed Norrit with Royal Assassin.

@martypunker 2 жыл бұрын

Now I just want a game where people are shown Magic art and have to guess....anything... about the card.

@edatthegovernance 2 жыл бұрын

Graham, you can't be a bear, Kathleen wouldn't let you in the house due to her on record perfectly reasonable concerns about bears.

@ConnallTara 2 жыл бұрын

centaur archer! my boy! (can confirm he was oracle texted to be an archer)

@brendaneichler5244 2 жыл бұрын

Centarcher, really

@jaredmoore6741 2 жыл бұрын

last time I was this early I was looking at Ice Age spoilers

@hiimemily 2 жыл бұрын

"I don't think I qualify as a bear." Yeah, you're too slender for that. You're more of an otter. ...I swear you've brought this up in a nicknames podcast before.

@gogovish 2 жыл бұрын

hi emily

@karvamammutti 2 жыл бұрын

Dragonflies, by definition, are insects of uncomfortable size.

@jaydenyamada2916 2 жыл бұрын

Ah burnt offering, key card in fishelbrand, the wacky delve sacrifice storm pauper deck

@TheSonOfRyan 2 жыл бұрын

Nice last unicorn bit

@duesexistat5016 2 жыл бұрын

Burnt offering is a good piece of gear. In a deck that wants things to die, in those colors, at instant speed, I’ve found it quite useful.

@Alexm920 2 жыл бұрын

Ice Age was also one of my first Magic exposure, that and the first Portal kit. Big nostalgia times.

@thetiax 2 жыл бұрын

I distinctly remember Norritt's artwork being used for a full-page ad for Ice Age in Scrye magazine. Then I got the card and was very confused.

@Crossark1 Жыл бұрын

The caveat on withering wisps feels pretty directly targeted at preventing shenanigans with Dark Ritual

@stratuvarious8547 2 жыл бұрын

Graham, Noritt, much like Nettling Imp and Royal Assassin was used to just murder many creatures for value, a truly great card

@creaturetypesorcery 2 жыл бұрын

I love seing older packs being opend.

@TheGabrielbowater 2 жыл бұрын

Norritt coupled with Icy Manipulator was recurrent creature kill, like a budget Royal Assassin

@TheJohtaja 2 жыл бұрын

Burnt Offering has been an important part of pauper jank combo decks run by Caleb (Gannon).

@criticalsquire 2 жыл бұрын

2:19 Good job resisting the portmanteau. Centaurcher.

@nathanjudy7705 2 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh, Burnt Offering, best way to sacrifice a Griselbrand

@gijswelten 2 жыл бұрын

G gets to write flavour text once and immediately starts giving off on flavour text writers of yore XD

@Krosserdog 2 жыл бұрын

Prodigal Sorcerer isn't in Ice Age, but there is a functional reprint as Zuran Spellcaster. In fact, you will not notice from this pack, but Ice Age has a few functional reprints with different names. Identical ABU / 4ED etc cards but with different names. Fyndhorn Elves is another, it's just Llanowar elves again.

@thecolortwelve3784 2 жыл бұрын

Oh boy. Hitting me right in the childhood

@flaetsbnort 2 жыл бұрын

there are lots of Norritts, and Istvan is their uncle

@Asrugan 2 жыл бұрын

Norritt + Leviathan was usually a finisher in my deck back in the day (with optional Jump or Invisibility)

@pleaswaite 2 жыл бұрын

I'm just getting back into the game after not having played since about the Ice Age era. These cards and the packaging are pure nostalgia to muddle school for me

@wademiller2376 2 жыл бұрын

Dark ritual is great! Also the artwork on that particular pack is excellent

@masterthnag105 2 жыл бұрын

This series is good for picking out old cards that might be fun for commander

@cronnie994 2 жыл бұрын

that last image was rather cursed

@michaeldrew4239 2 жыл бұрын

Ice age didn't have a Prodigal Sorc, but they did have the Zuran Spellcaster, which is exactly the same thing.

@Aaron-wv5si 2 жыл бұрын

I'll always have a soft spot for Shambling Strider. First MTG card I ever laid eyes on.

@Daniel199423 2 жыл бұрын

I remember Norrit from back when I was first playing Magic. He's good at making your opponent's weak creature with a cool activated ability attack. Also, he can destroy any creature they have that's tapped during their pre-combat main phase.

@bryancooper1244 2 жыл бұрын

I just come here to be called names by Graham

@treybooher9608 2 жыл бұрын

I am not sure why but when Graham held the pack up it just seems like it would be icy to the touch. Full of cold, cold life waiting to burst out.

@mongoosedoesmagic6478 2 жыл бұрын

Goblin sappers works perfectly in an commended deck I’m making, thanks for showing it off!

@farrowking37 2 жыл бұрын

I am deeply scared of any deck where Goblin Sappers is the lynchpin. Whatever you are doing, it's too powerful for us mere mortals.

@Drecon84 2 жыл бұрын

So much awesome art in that pack.

@charanth182 2 жыл бұрын

Totally started magic the same way with ice age

@AscendtionArc 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video.

@trilemma85 2 жыл бұрын

Seems to me that Mesmeric Trance isn't being propped up by Commander (it's only in 33 decks on EDHREC), but instead is being propped up by speculators who froth at the mouth whenever they find a new card that is on the reserved list.

@MizzenMastodon 2 жыл бұрын

12:35 "Their are some who call me ... TIM"

@FnrrfYgmSchnish 2 жыл бұрын

I think an Ice Age "starter deck" was my first Magic purchase, also.

@TalosParoxi 2 жыл бұрын

never have I felt more called out by one of grahams openers

@scryptogram5686 2 жыл бұрын

burnt offering is used in some mono-black pauper decks

@kellehm1 2 жыл бұрын

No joke: my first MTG products were Revised Starter Boxes...I didn't know they weren't decks until JUST NOW.

@foxmar2344 2 жыл бұрын

After some thought I do think Graham qualifies as a 2/2 for 2. Maybe with reach?

@superneeg 2 жыл бұрын

Graham's experience with the Ice Age starter deck is the exact same thing I did at the time. It was the first MtG product I ever bought, shuffled he whole thing together, and played it as if it were a deck. It did not work.

@theomniarch7405 2 жыл бұрын

Prodigal Sorcerer was not in Ice Age but Zuran Spellcaster sure was. I remember trying to make a pinger deck back in middle school.

@cellard00r60 2 жыл бұрын

My husband and I love watching your videos together ❤ we play with our 3 kids! The ASMR makes me so happy 😊

@auggiesunflower2159 2 жыл бұрын

A “sapper” is a person in a military that breaches fortifications etc. originally, they would tunnel under a wall and then try to bring it down by either digging or burning out the supports. This seems to be what the goblin sappers are trying to do based on the art, and why they can make a creature unblockable. Sapping was also highly dangerous and not a really fun job. Hence, for RR your creature is unblockable, but the sappers die lol.

@gonzoron 2 жыл бұрын

Norritt was Tims 9-12 (after Prodigal Sorcerers and Zuran Spellcasters) in my UB Tim deck back then. And look out when he paired up with Reveka, Wizard Savant! Also, they were a preview card in the Duelist (or Inquest?) before the set came out, so I actually paid a whole dollar at my LGS for the first one I got, just to be the first in my group to have an Ice Age card.

@Jaebird88 2 жыл бұрын

Norritt looks like if someone brought in a gremlin from the Gremlins movie into the Gargoyles cartoon.

@blitzkrogg2589 2 жыл бұрын

My uncle introduced me to magic when 4th edition came out. I still remember seeing the black lotus In my local lgs for $300

@egriffin4164 2 жыл бұрын

Commenting before I watch: I hope there is a jester's cap.

@zach3553 2 жыл бұрын

Crack-A-Cold One!

@natetwehues2428 2 жыл бұрын

I'd consider Graham to be at least a 2/2. Man is huge

@skiffer3 2 жыл бұрын

Withering wisps is bonkers and fun :D

@slowmo56 2 жыл бұрын

back in the day i bought a 4th edition starter deck as my first ever purchase. shuffled it up and went to play with some kids at school and one of them asked me, "what kind of deck do you have?" "Kind? its....4th edition." he had a mill-control deck and the rest is history.

@theodorestephens2504 2 жыл бұрын

Mesmeric trance combos with dredge cards to mill your deck quickly, I guess?

@panykfelidae9018 2 жыл бұрын

Giant growth, a giant dragonfly with a... with a.... well... for scale

@kilo3989 5 ай бұрын

Five Color Bad Stuff: Ice Age Starter Pack

@thecolortwelve3784 2 жыл бұрын

I definitely have that dark ritual, goblin sappers, and shambling strider in one of the boxes in my closet

@CapeMonkeyPrime 2 жыл бұрын

Prodigal Sorcerer is not in Ice Age but the functionally identical Zuran Spellcaster is! NORRITT 4 LIFE

@joe.5103 2 жыл бұрын

That dragonfly art is definitely repurposed from a creature that got cut.

@L337P1R4735 2 жыл бұрын

Graham isn't a bear, he's not big enough, Graham is a wolf lol

@paulallison3974 2 жыл бұрын

In Ice Age draft (not that I was any good at the time) I would take noritt usually in the 4-10 pick range, my memory is that creatures were just generally terrible in the set. That strider was a monster and the archer just fine.