Odyssey || Crack-A-Pack - Jan 11, 2022
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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 Odyssey. New Crack-a-Pack twice a week!
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When you reach 100 episodes of Crack-A-Pack, then you should build a deck with your 100 picks. Either for Draft or a very special commander fight.
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This.
Yeah, who needs lands anyways. :P.
The key is finding the five-colour legend in your draft picks to be your commander.
Crack-a-draft, lol
Beej-a-pack-lander
Yes. Take each of the cards you've picked from each pack. And put them all in a draft (cube) set. And see how that plays out in a chaos draft.
Ah yes the ol' "LRRMTG Crack-A-Pack Friday Night Paper Fight Chaos Cube"
Would love to see it, if not just for that name
sounds awesome
I would love to see it, but I don't know if they file their Magic cards all at the moonbase in such a way that setting this cube up wouldn't be a nightmare for them...
Chaos Winston draft
I like your Crack-A-Pack cube idea!
As an Old who remembers drafting this set, I love Graham's limited analysis here. When he went by Aven Fisher the first time and dismissed it, I thought to myself, "he'll probably regret that, it's one of the best blue commons." He was completely spot on to come back and talk it up, it's the best common in the pack and not really close. (Aven Flock might be second.) Green, blue and black were the best colors in the set and you got exactly no good cards in green or black...
...except Cabal Patriarch, which was one of the top 5 rares in the set. That's just how it was 21 years ago. Don't forget about sacking with damage on the stack!
Phew! Still got it!
Damage on the stack was a big deal back in the day
@@mangoman9290 Losing it killed much of the strategy of the combat step.
Notably, back then combat damage went on the stack, so sacrificing creatures mid-combat for double value was totally a thing.
I think the missing piece for Graham here is that Torment (the second set in this block) would introduce Madness as a mechanic and make those discard effects make more sense. Graham's also doing a good job of showing off why Odyssey block was such an important lesson for R&D. Spikes loved the resource management and obtuse interactions between the cards, but a lot of the cards just felt really bad if you didn't know what was happening, and having to wait a few months for Madness to materialize and make the synergies more obvious certainly didn't help. Relatedly, I mostly stopped playing Magic from about the time this set came out until Shadowmoor. It was a popular time for quitting!
Even with all of the cards in ODY/TOR that want to be discarded, none of the discard outlets in this pack were any good. As far as I can remember the only ones that saw any constructed play were Tireless Tribe, Patrol Hound, Wild Mongrel, Zombie Infestation, Psychatog, and Aquamoeba in TOR.
@@PromotedPawn Wild Mongrel was a beast! But yeah, anything that had you discard a card *at random* was pretty much garbage
It’s kind of ironic you call it a time for quitting when you then came back at Shadowmoor, another time when a lot of underperforming sets had come out.
I used to have a pauper deck that ran Diligent Farmhands, Muscle Burst, Pardic Firecat and Flame Burst. It wasn't the strongest deck ever, but it was fun.
Muscle burst madness was my fav after Torment came out
It's funny that Graham says that having the blue "Burst" card be a draw spell would be too strong, because Accumulated Knowledge is exactly that, printed ~2 years earlier.
Graham's guess of the blue member of the Burst cycle drawing cards was particularly reasonable given that they'd already printed that card two years earlier in Nemesis, under the name Accumulated Knowledge. And it was, indeed, very powerful.
Came down here to make this comment; glad someone saved me the trouble.
Ahh, memories of Extended with Intuition into 3 AK.
Graham: "Check out all the fun stuff."
Text on screen: "Your local library."
Yes, excellent.
I love watching Graham open packs and halfway through be like, "i'm not sure how this set worked, but I'm trying".
The older the pack is leads to more confused Graham, leading to my happiness.
The Rites cycle of cards isn’t great UNLESS you’re getting benefit from discarding and graveyard effects. In which case they’re BANGERS.
Madness, of course, is also a mechanic in this block.
this was also when damage was on the stack, so the cabal is super brutal, basically can't attack into your opponent ever lol
Woo, Diligent Farmhand rep! I used it in so many of my decks as bad ramp, it's become a bit of a meme. Surprised to see it as the most expensive card of the pack, as well. Must see some Pauper play or something.
I think it's a fringe card in Humans and sees a bit of Commander play as well
@@CmdrUD87 Why on earth is anyone playing a Diligent Farmhand in Commander?
It is a bad Sakura-Tribe Elder whose one redeeming feature is a mechanic that relies on playing multiples of the same card. I mean, sure, Steve costs two to cast, but DH costs two to activate, so unless you are using him as a chump blocker, it's not like that extra turn can get you anything.
@@boosterh1113 decks like meren or korvold that like to recur/sacrifice creatures can make use of it. its nothing flashy but it works
If I recall flashback is in Odyssey that would make the discard spells at least considerable.
That Gallantry art is so muscular. Even the ruins in the background look like they're carved out of flesh. Classic Tedin!
"pro tour winner Aven Flock" got me
Hard same. Now I wonder if he's ever been asked to sign them.
For those who don’t know, Ivan Floch won PT M15
At this point in time I’ve seen so many first pics in this cracker pack series I want to see Graham make a commander deck with all of his first picks.
remember damage stacked when it was the new set and was drafted... so in limited you can wait for damage to stack and then use the cabal patriarch's ability to get the max value
your 2/2 bear can do the 2 and you still get to sac it to cabal patriarch and removed it from the grave killing a 6/6 while in combat
I don't know who decided to start the bitcrush SFX for the pack opening ASMR, but I am HERE FOR IT.
I had to get an ointment for Aven Fishers once, I think.
"Pro Tour winner Aven Flock" nearly made me choke with laughter; thanks for that
I believe sir that is Manbearpig depicted on Primal Frenzy.
I started playing Magic with the Odyssey pre-cons, so this brought back a lot of memories. Thanks, Graham.
I actually just opened a pack of Odyssey yesterday (nostalgia Xmas gift to myself). I happen to be building a Magda Dwarf fortress deck, and lo and behold: Mine Layer (the rare) and Pardic Swordsmith, two dwarves I do not own yet, in the pack. Sometimes coincidence smiles, and it certainly brought one to my own face.
I love these old arts, really evokes the memory of being 13 years old and nerding out at all this stuff.
odyssey was the set that was out when i first started playing. being in middle school at the time i didn't really know how to properly play until years later. but i did get the 'one-two punch' precon deck. roar of the wurm, firebolt, elephant ambush, nantuko mentor, aw ye
Graham burying the lead here by not saying that the diligent farmhand was the most valuable card.
The phrase is "burying the lede", FYI.
@@BenMarcWilliams it’s just an intentional misspelling of lead so does it really matter
it's not just a bearpig, it's a man fighting a bearpig! that's so close to manbearpig!
Odyssey was my first magic set. And black was my first color focused. Good memories from this. I was nine years old then
I really like the art from Odyssey, lot of cool styles and some of the first magic cards I ever saw, so major nostalgia points!
There was an entire cycle of cards instants/sorceries caring about how many copies of itself you have in your graveyard, but diligent farmhand and pardic firecat are the only cards with a line of text like that. The other three spells in the cycle don't have an accompanying card. You just happened to open them both
I had 4 Dilligant Farmhands and 4 Muscle bursts in my first ever mono-green deck. Its one of my favorite cards of all time!
The Diligent Farmhand/Muscle Burst combo was a big part of the first deck I actually built. A blue/green deck focused around getting threshold to pump a bunch of things (either especially creatures w/ trample or with Stone-Tongue Basilisk). Just ramp a bit (Werebear helped) and if I was using the tramplers, and not the Basilisk, sac the Farmhands after blockers (unless I already had threshold), then cast the Muscle Burst (or 2) as the combat trick. Worked great in the middle school lunch room.
I JUST got the Ivan Floch joke
"unappealing in the nose realm" is definitely how I will describe challenging olfactory experiences from now on.
NGL I both loved and love this set. Was one of the sets I started with too, and it may have started my love of graveyard decks.
This set was slow and creatures were small, so my recollection is that Cabal Patriarch is pretty much a windmill slam bomb. I was actually surprised by the pack being better than I expected for an old set. I like Odyssey.
Really just out here face shaming that beautiful creature, whose already under duress having to charge that armoured thug. I expected better, Graham.
Yeah, they were still figuring out how to make that whole "graveyard matters" thing work at the time.
My Rielle, the Everwise EDH deck loves Rites of Initiation, the red card of the cycle. Pumping the team by my hand size is a pretty fun aggro play.
Rites of Spring was a favorite of black/green reanimation decks.
Rite of Spring is great in Sasaya, Orochi Acendant. Basically, you want 7+ forests in your hand so you can flip Sasaya and use their Essense to literally get exponential amounts of mana
This video made me curious enough about the set to draft the format on forge, it was a lot of fun recommend.
rites of spring enables threshold, which was a mechanic in this set
eyy its the set with my most favorite mountain art!
Enduring together.
Love Flame Burst. Have a whole pauper deck built around it and spells like it.
I find it hilarious that they created two creatures to interact with the red and green cards of the Burst cycle, and then just decided that was enough. Could they not figure out how to give Life, Aether, and Mind Burst support creatures as well?
Love the quote on Pardic Firecat
Had to look up Muscle Burst, and oh god. A playset of that and Diligent Farmhand would be insane.
I remember there was something like a 100 card "booster" although it was the entire block rather than just Odyssey. Young me mistook it for a deck and added lands for the worst 5-color deck of all time. It did have Worldgorger Dragon as one of the rares at least.
Rites of spring seems mad good in Sultai.
Me chewing on a handful of nuts.
Frantically searches for the cameras.
I bought this set when it was new.
Graham, please continue saying Bear. It makes my heart beats.
"Pro Tour Winner Aven Flock"
*lol*
Odyssey was the big set of the block, the very next set (Torment) introduced Madness, so as the block went on, you got pay offs
Scrivener was part of a cycle that Gravedigger was also part of. The other cards are Anarchist, Cartographer and Auramancer.
The ultra-rare "multi-block mega-cycle". Gravedigger debuted way back in Tempest, Exodus (the third set of the Tempest block) brought us Anarchist, Scrivener and Cartographer, and I guess they either didn't realize that they'd created a super-cycle or never quite found the right card for white (though it was pretty obvious), because Auramancer didn't appear until Odyssey (along with a reprinting the other four to make it a "in-set" cycle).
Also, none of these cards combo with either flashback or threshold.
Guy laughing at Rites of Refusal and all the other discard cards - "I don't think that's particularly good"
Well it's worth checking the mechanics of this block. Madness, Threshold...
I'm here just for the humour, never mind the cards. Fantastic! I'm also wondering whether there has ever been a time when the name Graham has chosen for the viewers turns up as a card in the pack
Turn 2, cast Rites of Spring, discard four Basking Rootwalla...
I actually prefer Rites of Refusal in my pauper UR Madness deck. (Fun fact: you discard as part of resolution not cast so if they counter it you dont get hosed)
My first ever draft was when Odyssey was new. I started collecting more afterwards
For years I thought that the woman on gallantry art was a satyr cause the left leg looks a lot like a hoof
The onscreen editor comments where great!
Nut Collector- first I lol'd, but then [sees price] I srs'd
Could it perhaps be a man bear pig?! 0.0
Worth noting the Rite cycle had some utility in Odyssey because it enabled Threshold
now you have to build a commander deck around the patriarch just for the memes
Diligent Farmhand: actually a banger in edh as a worse Sakura Tribe Elder, if you care about your ramp spells also being creatures
I would like to see a Crack-a-Pack cube, if only done as a chaos draft of sorts. I don't think it would make sense to try something using only the first picks, as that would be very difficult to actually pull together. However, taking, say, the top 24 highest-dollar-value packs -- or just 24 packs -- and tossing them into a draft environment would be fun, especially being able to compare actual first picks against your theoretical first picks (The first pack may line up well, but the second pack is informed by the first, so pack 2 pick 1 could see wildly different results).
I may just be biased towards chaos draft videos, as they are quite fun...
Primal Frenzy clearly depicts a Bearboon
was not expecting the Ivan Floch joke.
I am doing well. Thank you Graham.
Cabal Patriarch . . . That is just Q from ST:NG
Rites of spring could technically be good in green black with for specific things
rites of spring is godly in the gitrog monster cEDH deck
Funny enough, I used to run Sphere of Law in the SB of Strawberry Shortcake because the burn matchup is just THAT bad.
just collectin that Nut.
You seemed to have fun with that "greetings you nut collectors" intro
I have collected so many nuts. Cashews are the best :3
Polearm classification police! That’s not a halberd! Looks more like a naginata to me.
Protour winner aven flock ....ded...xD hahahahah
1999: Rancor
2001: Primal Frenzy
Engagement for the engagement god!
Ahhh! It's Manbearpig!
Grahm, I'm pretty sure the term for buttbreathing is called a fart.
The more mana you sink into powering up the stench, the better it keeps the opponent at bay.
whoa ive never seen Scrivener before in my life but I want one for my pauper commander deck
Scrivener used to be a pretty reasonable common, although there’s a bunch of newer dudes that are just better. If you’ve already got your Mnemonic Wall, Archeomancer, Salvager of Secrets, or if you’re red, like a half dozen other cards, then Scrivener it’s your time to shine.
It and Gravedigger were part of a cycle of ETB creatures that return something from the graveyard to hand.
@@Mordalon Yeah, there's also Anarchist for sorceries, Cartographer for lands, and Treasure Hunter for artifacts.
All from the Tempest block, and all brought back for Odyssey, EXCEPT for Treasure Hunter which got subbed out for Auramancer that does enchantments, a functional reprint of Monk Idealist from Urza block.
The art of Primal Frenzy is half man, and half bear-pig. Just thought you should know
I would say the enchanted creature looks more like a cross between a bear and a baboon. The bearboon?
I would love to see an odyssey draft
So Charging Badger is Primal Frenzy on a stick?
Nice to see doom guy and Sonya from Street Fighter get work in their later years.
Disappointed that I wasnt called a Wild Mongrel
Sphere of Law exists for that era of Magic where you have "a white deck", and your friend has "a red deck", and you keep losing, and instead of like, getting better, you just add white cards that say "if your opponent is playing red, absolutely fuck their shit" and hope you draw them when you're playing that friend. If you're devious, you'll sneakily add your little anti-red package into your 80 card deck right before playing them so you don't have to draw them against your friend's blue/black deck.
I started in Odyssey, love to see the Patriarch
Manbearpig. Sweet.
I think putting a lo pass filter over the pack-opening part kind of defeats the asmr thing Graham is going for
Do old packs like this have the new card smell still?
Wow, this brought me back. Odyssey was when I first started playing Magic, and a pack like this was probably one of the first packs I ever opened. On that note... oof, I don't remember Odyssey being so rough. Maybe this was just a really, REALLY bad pack, but dang, basically all of those cards are garbage.
scriviner is a human wizard
ManBearPig is real, I am cereal