Chronicles || Crack-A-Pack - Feb 13, 2024
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- Someone's gotta open these packs eventually and that someone is Graham. Today's pack is a booster from Chronicles.
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Graham says he has never seen Puppetmaster before in his human life, but this implies he may have seen it before in his life as a different organism.
Graham the bog rat knows this card like a brother
He saw it back when he was a haunted puppet.
Maybe he got bounced back to hand and now he's a new object so he doesn't remember the Puppet Master
I loved early Lrr with giant space jellyfish Graham....good times
@@lostmarble540 absolutely adore this phrasing
It suddenly occurs to me that a fantasy adaptation of Shakespeare's works as a Universes Beyond set would be a really fun way to call back to the days when Magic cards had Shakespeare flavor text.
Oh man I'd love a set of Shakespeare themed commander precons.
Hamlet would be an interesting commander
Wouldn’t even have to do that, you could realistically make an actual Magic plane based on his works
@@Tristan-2016 While a world based on those stories would be cool, I couldn't imagine the character actually quoting shakespeare. Perhaps a bonus sheet or showcase frame versions that do have quotes though.
@@Mordalon they could do something like the Dracula cards maybe, could be cool
Notably, Boomerang can bounce lands, which most modern bounce effects cannot.
It turns out, being able to bounce your opponent's land on turn two is actually kinda brutal, since even though it doesn't destroy that land, it does put them behind the curve.
Boomerang is tangentially part of one of my favorite moments in Magic history. There was a deck in Kamigawa-Ravnica Standard called Owling Mine that exploited bounce effects like Boomerang and Eye of Nowhere to lock an opponent out of the game, played cards like Howling Mine and Kami of the Crescent Moon to keep the opponent's hand full, and then finished them off with hand-size-matters burn like Ebony Owl Netsuke and Sudden Impact. Desperate to beat the deck, a few players (not at the Pro Tour level, as sometimes told) decided to sideboard *One with Nothing.* One of the worst cards in history, seeing actual (failed) attempts at competitive play.
I like your back and forth with Paul in this episode
They still need to care about the "nightstalker" creature type because of the card "Return of the Nightstalkers" from portal. It reanimates all of your Nightstalkers, so they still need to care about the type.
I bought that precon 40 card deck when I was a kid, love me some Nightstalkers.
There's also not a lot of competition for "Best nightstalker card" and Shimian Night Stalker might be the best one. I like to think that he's from a place called Shim.
@@Kryptnyt Shimia is a place in Dominaria. It got referenced in Future Sight on Shimian Specter.
Shimia is actually a place in Jamuraa, on Dominaria. We also got a Shimian Specter in Future Sight.
I enjoyed the poetry as flavor texts on cards, whether from classic authors, or in-universe poems. I hope there'll be a place for it in some future set.
A few of the showcases in eldraine had some really nice poems on them
The 8th edition printing of Maggot Carrier was my earliest memory of these real-world flavor texts that still sticks with me.
I was positive that "The Woman at the Washington Zoo" was via a WotC employee that was at the zoo in Washington (State, where WotC is) and some random woman spouted those lines. It just being from a poem feels even weirder though, old flavor text is _wild_
The zoo is really nice too
Tormod's Crypt was reprinted was recently reprinted in Core 21, Graham time is going by exactly as fast as you think.
I think Tormod's Crypt was reprinted in Core 2021 as well.
And Dominara Remastered
One of those weird mistakes I immediately knew the origin of: if you click on the Chronicles reprinting on Scryfall it only shows up to the List printing on the side.
Love that Paul is more talkative this episode ❤
11:15 Tell me more about that time four or five years ago in a corset.
Craw… dad.
Oh, giant? Kind of the same thing.
For context: If i recall correctly WotC had a policy back in 1995 to only do unlimited (as in base set) reprints of a card if it had been in a limited-run set before (usually black-bordered). Chronicles was made for markets (like my native Germany) that were gonna get those cards in 4th Edition but didn't get an official release of the original expansions.
This art for Remove Soul gets it into the blue of pretty much every cube I make. Dude just got told Barney the Dinosaur isn’t real.
Remove Soul looks like Dr Manhattan's origin story
Ah yes! My favourite Magic character; the woman at the washington zoo!
Recently I've been bingewatching Wheeler's gameplays of Shandalar, be it on "Is This Your Card?" or the VODs on his own channel, so when I saw the Argothian Pixies I had a real Leonardo pointing moment because the Pixies (along with Urzatron) are in the selection of cards of that game.
One of my earliest times seeing Magic cards was the 8th edition printing of Remove Soul with the guy having a ghost leave his body, and with no one to teach me it was really easy to misunderstand it and assume it could kill creatures on the battlefield, which is a big reason why it got functionally replaced by Essence Scatter. This printing doesn't help with that confusion, especially with the flavor text literally describing someone falling over dead.
Argothian Pixies got a callback in BRO with Argothian Sprite (2-drop 2-power green creature that can’t be blocked by artifacts)
0:16 D: 'A witch! burn him! burn him!!!'
As someone who started playing Magic when those four sets were out of print but Chronicles was on sale I was happy this was a product that existed. These weren't the sets with the (at the time) highest power level, but it was nice to get to play with the cards.
"I LOVE BOG RATS!" is something 14 year old me wrote in 1995 on my deck box because I thought it was funny. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Crazy. I first played MtG around '95, so I have a lot of Chronicles cards. Every time Graham revealed a new card from this pack, I couldn't help but say "Got it." Magic was a Very different animal back in those days. Got back into it in 2017 and I've had a far better time with the game.
Sometimes I kind of wonder how people got *into* the game back then. Everything from that era feels so obtuse and wordy.
@@princess_intell Kitchen table Magic back then was rough. It was pre-internet, so there were a lot of "rules interpretations" that made the game frustrating. Creatures sucked for the most part, so the game was very pay-to-win, and the game stores were even stranger than usual. There was a huge culture shift when geek conversation went from theoretical "who would win in a fight" musings to "want to play some magic? I wont totally demoralize you with a deck I've spent every penny I have on to fill the hole that years of bullying for being a "geek" has left in my by a cruel and ignorant society". Needless to say, I was hardly surprised when "online gaming" quickly devolved into a toxic cesspool of projected overcompensation. Now the cards are better, the game is better and there's actually a scene that has evolved into something a bit more engaging and less "animal fighting pit".
I still remember seeing these at the checkout line at Toys 'R' Us. (I also remember Toys 'R' Us, but that's a different matter.) I got my first multicolored card out of one. Axelrod Gunnarson is by no means a _good_ card, but that gold frame made him cool to me.
I walked into a Toys R Us just a couple of months ago, if that helps.
Ahh yes one of if not the set that lead to the controversial reserved list
I was so delighted by die art of Wall of Vapor. There is a figure to be seen in the mist.
I like that artwork for Urza's Power Plant. Then again, the variant arts for the complete tron from Antiquities are still worth it to me.
I need more Graham being taken aback by flavor text, but I fear having him crack packs of straight Legends is a bit too spicy.
It's the Cronic WHAT cles of Magic's early years!
Speaking of the cropping on remove soul, it pairs nicely with the fact that the flavor text contains "stiffened" and "cocked" which can easily be shortened into words that would make my youtube comment disappear. Have fun with that in sharpie cube!
I bought SOOOOOOOO many packs of these back in the day.
As someone who also started playing at this time, I bought too many Chronicles boosters as a child.
11:42 You got my fave card with the most unhinged flavor text. All other printings of this(Transmutation) do not attribute this to the woman at the Washington zoo.
chronicles had lots of artifacts and elder dragons, lots of us loved it. :)
Delightful as always!
Don't feel so bad about how long ago Tormod's Crypt was reprinted. It was reprinted in Core Set 2021 and Dominaria Remastered.
Shimian Night Stalker was always a pet card of mine and my friend, we'd shimmy when ever it was brought up
2:27 As opposed to... multiple non-human lives that Graham has lived..?
The Legends printing of Metamorphosis doesn't even name the poem being quoted, instead attributing it simply to "Randall".
Wall of Heat was the first Legends card I ever saw.
Well before chronicles came out, I rocked puppetmaster and boomerang in a blue/white Tetravus deck.
I had a deck made around crawl giants when this set was out, I would lure it and give it regeneration - basically attack, and trample the other player to death, regenerate the crawl giant as needed.
I'm pretty sure I have every single one of these cards (except maybe the Shimmying Night Stalker). I bought so many discount packs of Chronicles and Fallen Empires...
Also, Graham and Paul are a good pair on the Crack a Pack!
Favorite reprint set
Ahead of its time
All of these are going in my lotto scratch off cube
Engagement! Algorithmic expansionality!!
8:06 WOW
HUGE ups for the DS9 mug :3c
As far as Chronicles packs are concerned this was not too bad. A couple of staple cards and Transmutation is a neat effect to have in black (I always wanted to try it with Starlit Sanctum, Nomads en-Kor and Daru Spiritualist to turn infinite life into infinite damage).
Ah yes, _Chronicles_ ; one of Magic's Top 5 Most Historically Significant sets.
An also aside; _Chronicles_ clocks in as my *very first* ever booster box purchase.
Lastly, Graham whiffed on this one; 1st pick in draft is *Craw Giant* .
What a weird and delightful set of MtG cards
Chronicles was from 1995.
Viewer's note: I had just started University.
how many went to scryfall to check the other nightstalkers?
A great many of them straight up have rifles...
Portal: Second Age had Nightstalker Tribal!... Sort of
Algorithmic Tap
More rhyming flavor text.
Edit: Also more real world poetry lines and what ever absurd utterance was on Transmutation.
I think that Night Stalker is just a naked Snow Miser
where'd you get the DS9 mug?
i was 10 when this set came out
Hey torrmad’s crypt has been reprinted sooner than core 2015, i didnt get into magic until core 2019 so theres that.
Bring back Shakespeare quotes in flavor text!
Whooh first crack
Shimian (石棉) is chinese and means asbestos. Don't know why it stalks the night.
Shimia is a place in Dominaria, on the continent of Jamuura. It got a callback in the form of Shimian Specter in Future Sight.
Wow, Mark Rosewater wasn't kidding about there being some simple, evocative card names that got totally burned off on terrible cards that don't do anything early in the game's life.
Crack! A! Pack!
Commenter's note: I was 15 at the time, in 1995. On the day this video aired I ticked over another year. :-D
Chronicles draft when?
I was 10 when this came out. 😁
I was -6
❤
Chronicles was great, in part because they over printed it to the point it was worthless, as a kid from a poor family buying whatever white bordered packs the LGS had bought way too many of and had to sell at a discount is basically the only option I had.
... but we can still have a card named Master of Puppets. Cue the Metallica-Reference!
Does ben or wheeler edit?
Usually Matt
Isn't the outrage from collectors about the reprints in Chronicles that lead to the Reserve List?
Alas, yes, I do recall that it's why we have that accursed policy. (I might have strong feelings about it. >_>)
Engage!
Tron needs some nicer reprint art.
Having a creature type that shares the name with a famous serial killer is a bold choice, WotC.
...wat?
"I dont know rarities" - me watching my first LRRMTG video
yeah, ill go watch people crackin packs of stuff they know.
Remove Meat
Oh silly Limited player, Tron is practically dead in Modern along with Affinity, Dredge, and Humans. You can blame both Modern Horizons sets for that.
Also thanks to that some of those archetypes got enabled in other formats.
Fun fact about puppet master: the activated ability doesn't work if it's from its own triggered ability. You only get to retrieve the aura from the bin if it goes there by the creature it enchanted leaving the battlefield via an effect that returns it directly to the hand.
How's that for intended card design?
that’s patently untrue. look at the oracle text, i assume it always worked the way it was intended
@@IsaacMyers1 I actually did. It seems I missed the words "this way" when I was reading..
@@raze667 I apologize for being rude.
@@IsaacMyers1 Didn't come across that way. As they say, "reading the card, explains the card." And I missed some key words. :)