Can’t wait for Graham to put helm in a commander deck and have everyone in the pod gang up on him because they think he’s running the combo

Graham: *Opens a $75 USD combo piece that has never been reprinted in paper* "Wow look at this weird thing. Kinda cute. Anyways." hehe.

Just in case anybody doesn't know: Helm of Obedience combos with Leyline of the Void or Rest in Peace to mill an opponent out. Helm specifically looks for cards hitting the graveyard, and if they never do because they get exiled instead, it keeps milling until the library is empty.

When Big G hit the Helm of Obedience I was sitting in anticipation of him learning the price.

4:05 "There are good cards in Alliances; none of these are them. Helm of Obedience"

"Dominaria wakes from its long, cold sleep. Its people face a world torn by natural and political storms." Same.

Helm of obedience is Part of The Main wincon of my Marchesa deck with Rest In Peace or leyline of the void

Get that Helm a sleeve.

woah woah woah woah, putting a banding blocker into play at instant speed is actually really solid.

Notes and Rules Information for Spiny Starfish: Spiny Starfish’s first ability creates a regeneration shield for it. Spiny Starfish’s second ability checks whether it _used_ any regeneration shields that turn, not whether any regeneration shields were created for it. (2009-10-01)

A surprise banding blocker is actually a pretty strong combat trick in limited. Banding is deceptively powerful, but no one took the time to understand it.

Hail storm would actually be pretty Dec in a dino enrage deck ironically consider the whole cold blooded thing.

When G pulled the helm I let out a real loud YEAH BUDDY

ok so here's how regenerate USED to work. there was an interveining step after a creature was dealt lethal damage but before it was removed from the field. this is when regenerate would be used to make it no longer marked with damage.

"This skeleton is just having the time of their death!" _pffft_

Clearly Graham didn't play legacy in the old days. Good old helm of obedience plus leyline of the void or rest in piece combo. That card murders people graham. Kills them right dead. Lol

Watching this I was like 'oh Heck, forgot helpm was in this set he's gonna be happy about that pull.. .. ..oh, he doesn't't know... ... ...well he IS gonna be real happy when he checks the prices'

"There are good cards in Alliances! None of these are them!" "Anyway, Helm of Obedience..."

Graham not being aware that Helm of Obedience is a $60 2 card combo piece. I also would run it if it weren't for the unfortunate wording which makes it incredibly powerful.

Editing suggestion: when talking about the art of a card could we have it on screen a bit longer?

Spiny Starfish is Legit my favorite Magic card! He is throwing his babies! Great blocker that makes more blockers, great for a sacrifice deck, fun all around for creature entering the battlefield effects.

Well, this pack was really good. Helm is incredible.

Martyrdom is a cornerstone of my "Brash Taunter et. al" EDH deck.

Banding is great on blocks, an instant speed banding dork seems pretty good! I actually really like that design.

False Demise can go on opponents' creatures, and still puts them on the battlefield under _your_ control. So if you want to put a lot of work into stealing a thing, that's an option I guess.

Spiny Starfish is one of my favorite cards to cast in my entirely ocean-based Commander deck! It can be a frustrating blocker to deal with... and that art is perfect! Is it powerful? Nahh, but I love it.

I'm actually jealous of Graham not knowing about Helm Combo.... I can't even imagine how nice those commander groups must be.

In case anyone else was wondering: At time of publication, Alliances booster packs are $60-70 US, and there are three hits in the 'did we make the money back' lottery: Helm of Obedience, Force of Will, and Lake of the Dead.

“He looks like he’s having the time of his death” got me good LoL 🤣

4:20 Helm of Obedience is a popular combo card when paired with any effect that makes things entering the graveyard impossible such as leyline of the void, rest in peace and Dauthi Voidwalker. It basically oneshots people in commander.

Hail Storm is a play on Sandstorm, which was a common green effect at the time. False Demise can enchant your opponent's creatures and reanimate them on your side. Which I think Graham missed if he was saying it's worse than Demonic Gifts. Helm of Obedience I believe might have been mentioned in 30-40 comments already. A surprise blocker with banding is a pretty good combat trick.

You keep opening packs from when I played as a kid and it makes me feel both nostalgic and old. I'm pretty sure I have Hail Storm, Lim-Dul's High Guard, Phantasmal Fiend, and Fyndhorn Druid chilling in a long box somewhere. Also I really like the little visual edits for comedic effect, very well done.

I want an opening where the hand pulls out a pack of Homelands, pauses, then puts it back.

Instant speed banding dude is pretty good though.

10:00 correct! This actually got errata'd to a bird.

"There are good cards in alliances. None of these are them." "Helm of Obedience..." WELL THERE YA GO

False Demise can steal opponent’s creatures and even got a callback in Time Spiral.

Important difference with False Demise, it can be used on your opponents creatures as a convoluted(maybe cheap) way to steal a creature.

While I've been enjoying this series, I really love it when Graham tackles the older sets. This one was particularly great.

I dunno why but I really like being called weird things at the top of the episode.

Sooo, is anyone going to tell him about the helm combo?

"something something state based actions" good description of magic as a whole

Hey man, I use Errand of Duty in my Knight tribal commander deck. It does work!

little did graham know, the helm sees legacy plays as a combo with rest in peace and leyline of the void as a one shot mill combo

Love this series. Eventually I think it would be really funny to have all the different LRR people do their own episodes to provide their wacky commentary on packs/cards!

Spiny Starfish’s first ability creates a regeneration shield for it. Spiny Starfish’s second ability checks whether it _used_ any regeneration shields that turn, not whether any regeneration shields were created for it.

You know I've never felt much like a Phantasmal Sphere.... more a Phantasmal Triangular Prism

I'm enjoying this series, though It'd be nice to see the art while Graham is talking about it :P

I honestly don't hate the starfish, it's essentially just infinite chump blocks forever.

Opens the second most expensive card in the set: "what a cute jank we got here! defnetly puting it on ine of my EDH decks"

Im loving these relaxed look through of the cards, and Grahams jokes :), looking forward to more!

A quick search on scryfall shows me why that card is good... "If an effect like that of Leyline of the Void prevents cards from being put into your opponent’s graveyard, the process described in the first sentence of Helm of Obedience’s effect will never stop. Your opponent’s entire library will be exiled, even if X is 1."

False demise is commander jank at it's finest. It's both protection for a creature or a theft effect if you can kill someone else's creature

I feel like that starfish is really good in blue/black so you can make a ton of tokens for blocking and easy fodder for "sacrifice a creature" effects.

Well I think my new favorite magic art is that High Guard

Graham will crack them packs until the packs have been cracked

Love the cracked a pack. This series is one of the higlights of the week.

Helm was the shit back in the day too :D So nice to see some of that old artwork.

Looking forward to Graham milling someone's library with Leyline of the Void and Helm of Obedience!

I think he missed out of the fact that the squire token gets BANDING! Which makes it a playable

I like the little shot of grabbing the pack from the box at the beginning! very nice touch

Note, Helm of Obedience is one-half of a Legacy combo deck with Rest In Peace. Since the cards never hit the yard, you just exile their whole deck.

Soldevi Sage! All star from Graham's *Classic* Sixth Edition land destruction draft deck... It destroyed everyone's lands...

Congrats on the helm hit. Would definitely watch more of these

Graham, banding is powerful.

‘You boy. Take this lightning bolt for me’ ‘But sir, I’m supposed to be holding this sword by the window’ ‘IT IS YOUR DUTY OF ERRAND!!’

Helm of Obedience works fantastically with Leyline of the Void (or any other card that replaces graveyards) in mill decks. MtG market value 10/14/2021 is about $42 American.

Helm of obedience combos with the black layline and Rest In Peace

I love it when Graham cracks himself up looking at these old cards. :P

I love this series. It’s amazing.

Alliances had multiple arts, so the other art for Phantasmal Fiend does show those are it's hands/arms

Important about Phantasmal Fiend. At the time, damage would go on the stack. So switch p/t. 5 damage on stack. switch p/t again. effectively a 5/5 for 4 (and 4 mana each turn) - but back then threats like that weren't really around.

I think old school regeneration was basically like clippy popping up and saying "Uh oh it's looks like this creature is going to die, do you want to regenerate it? Y/N" but I wasn't as much of a rules nerd back then.

Yes I am here to watch Graham open magical cards.

"I will deal all this Fireball damage to my Stuffy Doll"

Obedience + Leyline of the Void is bonkers

Loving this series keep it up. Maybe a rotating cast would be cool.

“hail Storm” hurts my soul

This video has more minutes than the pack has cards, I love it.

As often as you want, please do these. These are great. And when there are like ten or so ill Playlist them in a row at times.

Crack a pack with Graham is always funny to watch; I totally like this show..

Now I want more Scott Kirschner and Anson Maddocks art on cards. Their art is so striking and intriguing!

helm of obedience plus the Leyland of the void= ONe opponent exiles their entire library.

Helm of obedience is not entirely obscure, but its price is more reserved list than actual player demand, so you will definitely find people who need to read the card 2 times and then think "Wow what a weird and interesting card"

Engagement for the algorithm gods! But also these videos are really sweet, I've missed the crack a packs on TTC and this scratches that itch real good

Helm is a Legacy win con with RIP or Leyline of the Void. It's on the Reserve List which is why it costs so much lol

I could see hailstorm in a dinosaur deck running enrage.

Hail storm seems like an interesting way to trigger enrage on the ixalan dinos

Oh SHOOT Helm is worth money, nice pull

Best set ever

ah spiny starfish. Used in combination with any instant speed sac outlet could let you get a wall of starfish every turn.

Love those pack openings, keep it up!

Keep these coming! Love it!

These crack-a-pack videos are great - keep them coming

Honestly, getting a creature with banding at instant speed is bonkers in limited. Banding when blocking means you can just block with a bunch of creatures and not have anything die. That's pretty decent.

Loving this.

Banding is good, but most people don't know how to use it. Errand is a good limited trick. It allowed you to summon a chump blocker that banded with something that had good power that you didn't want to die. You assigned ALL combat damage to the knight token and the creature blocked was killed. The Sage is fine for what it does. What it does is turns excess lands into card draw and allows you to put cards in your graveyard. I used it with Animate dead waaaaaay back in the day for some funny stuff. Of course decks back then didn't have much to actually bring back from the dead. The fiend was a prototype Morphling.

i am engaged with this content make more of it praise algorithmn

Helm of Obidence Combos with Rest in Peace to Exil their library

Oh god. Oh god. Oh no. Graham opening this pack, where they used to put the uncommons and then the rare up front, followed by all the commons. Then seeing a Helm as card three, and I almost had an aneurysm. I remember owning a set of Helms like 8 years ago because I foolishly wanted to run that deck in Legacy. Turns out virtually everything else the deck would need was insanely expensive...and has only gotten more expensive in the past eight years. Especially Underground Seas.