Theros || Crack-A-Pack - Aug 15, 2023

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10 ай бұрын

Someone's gotta open these packs eventually and that someone is Graham. Today's pack is from Theros.
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@frenchcookie42 10 ай бұрын

"Dramatic Reengrahament" is a great turn of phrase that needs to stick around.

@NathannMorais 10 ай бұрын

I really appreciate Matt’s editing. At this point I feel like this show is hosted by Matt too, just by how much character he puts on the editing process and overlay texts, and interacts with what Graham is saying. Well done, Matt!

@wehpudicabok6598 10 ай бұрын

Oh my god, they were ROOMMATES!

@KingOfDoma 10 ай бұрын

Not just roommates, but Kynaios and Tiro!

@esperderek5383 10 ай бұрын

Graham, I just listened to you for nearly an hour and a half talking about Olympic mascots, I think it's safe to say a lot of us like listening to you talk. 🙂

@wavesofbabies 10 ай бұрын

I was not prepared for the horse sounds

@deltoran11 10 ай бұрын

"Gotta pay the Blood-Toll" to the tune of "The Cheese Tax" absolutely killed me. Well done

@NStripleseven 10 ай бұрын

I somehow had not seen the Cheese Tax before so that was a nice random find

@gavinli1368 10 ай бұрын

@@NStriplesevenwelcome as one of todays lucky ten-thousand. (And if you don’t know what that means, guess you’ll be going on another internet search)

@deltoran11 10 ай бұрын

It was brought up on Let's Nope a while ago and has been living in my head ever since

@Sientir 10 ай бұрын

The other thing about Monstrous is that it can be activated at instant speed. I have no idea why I assumed it was sorcery speed initially when I saw it (note: I was on a Magic break when Theros came out, so I only saw it later on), but that explains why the activation costs are so high.

@DanielSolis 10 ай бұрын

5:40 Cheese-Tax Puppy {2} {G} 2/1 Creature - Dog Haste You may sacrifice a Food token rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Whenever you sacrifice a Food token, Cheese-Tax Puppy gains +1/+1 until end of turn.

@AutkastKain 10 ай бұрын

I love the set with The heroes

@soratorb 10 ай бұрын

the whinny was terrifying, thanks for that

@arexon123 10 ай бұрын

I do enjoy that the cyclops did not have its feet pictured. Perhaps it was nervous to show off its feathery sandals.

@Rogue_07 10 ай бұрын

The guys on Guardians of Meletis are Kynaios and Tyro, right?

@StarkMaximum 10 ай бұрын

Yes.

@mattlewis3472 5 ай бұрын

The drawer absorbing so much pack energy that it now spontaneously spawns packs feels like a Terry Patchett thing

@Wingnut202 10 ай бұрын

Good old Theros. The set I started magic with. I'm getting back into it now, and its weird to me how nostalgically people look back on it, since it was like two blocks ago for me...

@RumpledNutskin 10 ай бұрын

Why'd you have to remind me that Theros was TEN years ago? I remember playing that standard like it was yesterday

@PidgeMidge 10 ай бұрын

im so mad the Guardians of Meletis roommates joke was so funny

@thejackscraft3472 10 ай бұрын

They did try to fix Regenerate in the from of Shield Counters. they're almost exactly the same, with the exception that they prevent one source of damage, no matter the amount or remaining toughness of the creature, which is different from Regenerate which only helped if the creature was going to die. there are a couple other minor differences, but that's the big one.

@OriginalOwlAssassin 10 ай бұрын

I started playing with Theros and got back into LRR with the Friday Nights series!

@PaulOkon1981 10 ай бұрын

I've always had a soft spot for Voyaging Satyr, was a part of my simic "untap" tribal deck years back. Plus the flavor text is hilarious.

@WilyWiley1 10 ай бұрын

Theros is the set that got me into Magic, always glad to see it on this channel!

@Tr1sh4Lynn 10 ай бұрын

It was my first full set and prerelease, too.

@insane0042 10 ай бұрын

@ 3:00 thank you for coming to my Graham Talks.

@ShaqPlaque 10 ай бұрын

This was the set where dealing 7 damage to a flyer was not enough a substantial portion of the time

@brianlimoges2946 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. Great to hear your voice.

@Chatty_Protagonist 10 ай бұрын

Ordeal is 100% the pick. Theros didn't have a lot of cheap removal and taking out a Heroic creature before it could trigger won a lot of games.

@cassie5248 10 ай бұрын

9:40 this was definitely the set to bring back scry in big numbers, but! we did see scry return twice before this. once in m11 as the first returning-coreset-mechanic when they used to do that, and once in futuresight. and not as a one-off like a lot of time spiral things, but on a decent number of cards. it was the mechanic meant to represent "future" the most

@thomaspadilla6965 10 ай бұрын

Theros was my first set of Magic and I still love the set so much

@Eramiserasmus 10 ай бұрын

Love these crack-a-packs. Theros wad the first major set I got to play LGS events for. And it's about the time I found LRR!

@kilo3989 10 ай бұрын

4:24 This effect makes me very happy, thank you editor(s)!

@observantowl1726 10 ай бұрын

voyaging satyr has a fun flavor text👍

@Welverin 10 ай бұрын

3:00 You’re welcome. That is why I’m here.

@MarlaDesat 10 ай бұрын

Delightful as always!

@jeffandsteve6972 10 ай бұрын

It wasn't just that cycle, BTW; all of the cards with bestow gave stats and abilities that were identical to the card itself. (Even some negative ones, such as 'can't attack alone'.) I don't know if it was more for flavor or for ease of reasoning, but it was a deliberate design decision.

@Yuzuki1337 10 ай бұрын

Mark Rosewater talks a lot about R&D on his Tumblr blog, he had previously confirmed that it was a deliberate choice to help reduce mental load.

@ShaqPlaque 10 ай бұрын

Hypnotic Siren is a slight stretch on this front, since the ability it grants is Mind Control

@iankernohan3874 10 ай бұрын

Always thought that was an owl on shredded wings!

@RobertJW 10 ай бұрын

I really shouldn't have been drinking while Graham talked about the Guardians of Meletis. There was almost a computer desk disaster of Mountain Dew.

@catgoodrick 10 ай бұрын

Staggeringly Fast Theros Boosters

@bendertusepaki8995 10 ай бұрын

Always excited for some Theros opening!

@zachariahhuey9876 10 ай бұрын

I quickly went to smash the subscribe button BUT I’ve already subscribed 🤓

@zackbryans4982 10 ай бұрын

I started playing magic with a box of donated cards when I was 7, but I started buying my own cards and really playing when Theros and Journey into Nyx came out. Some of may favourite cards, mostly because nostalgia but also it's just so fun.

@christopherlundgren1700 10 ай бұрын

To be fair, you can’t see the I’ll-tempered cyclops’s feet in the illustration, so the scenario outlined by Graham is not out of the realm of possibility.

@elijahmcdowell9690 5 ай бұрын

Ah man. I never played this standard format, but taping voyaging dryad to untap nykthos seems really fucking good.

@elijahmcdowell9690 5 ай бұрын

Wait what am I talking about? I played the hell out of this format at FNM. I just never saw someone do that, and I was too focused on RDW at the time.

@LadyLunarSatine 10 ай бұрын

Heads up, "omenful" isn't a word but "ominous" is.

@violetto3219 10 ай бұрын

i'm so full from omens

@AnInnocuousBlueCube 10 ай бұрын

Fiddling with my scrying tools and orb, not really looking to gain true futuresight, just feeling a bit omenish.

@Yuzuki1337 10 ай бұрын

Well now we want it to be a word >:(

@inf0phreak 10 ай бұрын

You chose "The Cheese Tax" as a melody, while I chose "Troll Toll". Yeah, yours is definitely the more creative choice.

@kilo3989 10 ай бұрын

They shoulda called Bestow "Piggyback" instead. Ride another creature piggyback--if it dies or gets exiled out from under you, well, ya just keep running!

@dreamshade 10 ай бұрын

Frau Blucher! (Legendary Cleric)

@NStripleseven 10 ай бұрын

Bestow: Reconfigure, but aura

@meander112 9 ай бұрын

Engagement for the engagement god!

@binks5215 10 ай бұрын

I'm confused as to why Graham is asking us if we know of the technology for pack-generating drawers. Surely Paul is "Working on that Technology"?

@randonuser2655 10 ай бұрын

0:50 its called a printer gram

@KynElwynn 10 ай бұрын

Pro to the satyr untapping a land? Nykthos was in this set.

@NStripleseven 10 ай бұрын

Very very true

@ahrenstarr6273 10 ай бұрын

Regenerate could almost be replaced by the shield counters introduced previously.

@3N3MYKN1GHT 10 ай бұрын

These and dragons maze were the first magic packs id ever opened, wild mechanics, very kamigawa esque complexities.

@Timlin22 10 ай бұрын

A disappointing lack of Shuss, Izzy, Lizzy, and Mukmuk cards in this set despite it being Greek/Olympic themed.

@karanojin 10 ай бұрын

wow its the guardians of meletis from the mtgo sound and display menu

@StarkMaximum 10 ай бұрын

Seriously why that card and why that card for TEN YEARS

@apothecyte701 10 ай бұрын

If you had the technology to clone Paul around still, you might be able to just get packs of Theros.

@Drecon84 9 ай бұрын

But won't it all be the same pack that way?

@apothecyte701 9 ай бұрын

@@Drecon84 I mean, probably yeah.

@ulrichs.3228 10 ай бұрын

So the nymphs are kinda sorta precursors of "living weapon" equipment, -ish? (And do I want to know if the shield tokens from... Neon Dynasty? worked any better than regeneration?)

@twarnold14 10 ай бұрын

Well, living weapon predated bestow, so not precursors. But yeah, they are a weird mirror of each other. One starts as a (pseudo) creature and becomes an attachable thing while the other starts as an attachable thing and becomes a creature. Really though they were the latest entries in WotC’s attempts to make auras that do not have inherent card disadvantage. Rancor’s cycle (when going from battlefield to the graveyard, return to hand) and totem armor (aura dies instead of the creature) were previous entries.

@gamerbear84 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, since then the Boon of Erebos effect could either be the returns into play or just straight up gets indestructible. I think we're in a better place than Regenerate now.

@Myrph 10 ай бұрын

Ah, Flamespeaker Adept, a card you probably shouldn't build a deck around, and yet I built a deck around it! Honestly, wasn't terrible, did okay at FNM, though certainly wasn't the most winningest deck around at the time. With cards like Aqueous Form, Journey's End, Magma Jet and Titan's Strength you could get it surprisingly large, sometimes unblockable and with enough consistency to be a fun deck to play with!

@jimharris5320 10 ай бұрын

Hey roomie, let me touch your hair in this one portrait that guy over there is painting of us. It'll drive them nuts thousands of years from now.

@CodeNamR 10 ай бұрын

To be fair we can't tell if that cyclops has feet.

@taylord2006 10 ай бұрын

Crack! A! Pack!

@CatSculptor 10 ай бұрын

Theros is one of my all-time favorite sets, but a lot of the cards in it have unfortunately been power crept out of playability in eternal formats. Makes it easy to draft, though

@Asiis 10 ай бұрын

As a matter of fact: No I don't enjoy watching Graham talk. I just watched every single crack a pack video back to back because I'm a masochist. In fact, I might go and watch all episodes of tap tap concede back to back too now.

@germanyjones2700 10 ай бұрын

Hooray Graham! Boo that rare! Booo

@greatdinn8489 10 ай бұрын

The technology to generate packs exists, Brother, but understandably many doubt its legitimacy.

@Cthulhu3C 10 ай бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pc-jhrmhnqeupnU.html Fun fact: we were flesh-mad steeds just two months ago!

@ChemistGeometric 10 ай бұрын

Easily my favorite plane despite the disrespect it gets from the story

@Oakenbull 10 ай бұрын

First, where is my prize?

@Taruan 10 ай бұрын

Great to see Theros! Still dislike the audio effect applied to the crack packing asmr, makes me wish we just didn't have the pack cracking noise if we are just going to heavily filter it

@ourotayuun 10 ай бұрын

"Regenerate" is such a bad keyword. All they had to do was *not* make it a verb. Call it "Regeneration"! Done. A creature with Regeneration with Regenerate. No more implication that it's an (re)action as opposed to a status effect.

@Mordalon 10 ай бұрын

It had other issues beyond that. Also, “regeneration” wouldn’t work on Instants that grant the effect until end of turn.