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Prof when you talked about Crystal skull, you pronounced Isu wrong you pronounced it as I-su, in the games they are referred to and pronounced as Ee-su.
@@germanyjones2700 Yeah, and the worst part is that you're only getting 7 cards per Beyond Booster and only 10 cards per Collector Booster for what is still a premium price. It's basically March of the Machine: Aftermath all over again.
I assume the cards being modern-legal is so AC fans new to Magic can feel they're 'allowed' to play 60-card kitchen table without feeling like they're breaking rules, more than the cards being Modern powerhouses.
the problem is this assumes they would make a deck only out of whats in here, and said deck would die in like 3 turns to any real modern deck so they arent getting a legitimate experience of the format at which point it's hardly even modern anyway so mine as well be a made up format
This set feels like they started a fully draftable modern set (like LotR) but stopped nearly halfway. As if management changed their mind and told them they're no longer doing a full set.
Nah, they likely had all of the contracts signed and everything planned before Aftermath bombed and couldn't change course to something less monumentally stupid.
Card design is also very tricky with expanded universes. One thing the Fallout, LotR, Doctor who, and Warhammer 40K all have in common is that they don't use Magic cards that are specific to Magic (Kodama's reach, Akroma's will, Simic growth chamber, etc) as these would break those universes immersion. (Ironic) One reason I can see why they didn't make precons for Assassin's Creed is the same reason 50% of the cards from this set are black: the universe is very linear as to which it offers. Final fantasy on the other hand..
@@justinanderson2631100%, this is a very forced match. FF will suit the diverse ultra high fantasy of magic very well. I argue 40k also did, and should have had a set beyond the precons (if only I could upgrade the chaos deck within the flavor 😔)
@@justinanderson2631 Yeah, Universes Beyond: FINAL FANTASY will no doubt be better balanced. One other problem with the Assassin's Creed set is that most of the creatures are Humans. There's not a lot of creature diversity. Besides Humans, the only other creature types that come to mind are Birds and Walls. Where with FINAL FANTASY, there are more creature types to choose from. Humans, moogles (that'll be interesting), viera, bangaa, seeq, etc. Also, I know this seems random, but I'm going to predict that there's a good chance these cards won't be reprinted: White Dragon, Blue Dragon, Black Dragon, Red Dragon, and Green Dragon. While these do appear as enemies/bosses in FINAL FANTASY, they are more connected to Dungeons and Dragons. FINAL FANTASY will probably be more character-connected, although we might get the occasional random monster/boss. Something like Omega being a "Legendary Artifact Creature - Construct" or Demon Wall, "Artifact Creature - Wall Demon".
As an AC fan I am excited to make Commander decks for Ezio and Edward Kenway. As a Magic fan I agree that it’s way too soon after MH3 and doesn’t really fit for Modern. I’m still excited for it though, and I particularly love how the Jackdaw’s flavor text includes a sea shanty your crew would sing out on the ocean. I think the set was made by AC fans for AC fans, and like with Doctor Who I greatly appreciate that.
I agree it's such a half-baked set. Both in the content of playable magic cards but also just how powered down most of the cards are. Almost like they tried to do the Fallout sets again, but didn't have enough ideas of their own.
Honestly same here. I dont know why but the release being so close to MH3 also taints this set for me. It just seems a bit pushed, maybe id have vibed with it more if it was released closer to Bloomburrow's release date and push that set to october or november
Honestly, product glut is such a huge problem for me. I love UB, and even Horizons, but at this point it's like... magic is too many things for too many people to rely on WotC any more. Print your own cards and have fun! Just talk to your friends about it!
I came here for phasing and left with a new mattress... Prof, I'll totally help sponsor the channel if I can sleep like a baby and wake up with your locks.
I put in my vote for desynchronization! 4 mana board bounce at instant speed! You should be in the historic archetype or at least artifacts, but when you are Desynchronization is an amazing tempo play!
I really wish they didn't make freerunning a blatantly commander mechanic, especially when we just got the outlaw category. Remove the commander part of the clause and say that you activate freerunning when dealing combat damage with an outlaw, and it still has it's flavor while being playable outside commander.
I don't care about outlaws vs assassins, but I see no reason why free running can't apply to the commander. It doesn't affect Modern and it's not broken by any means.
I love Assasin's Creed, I've been playing since the first game. But I just don't like the sheer amount of IP that keeps getting shoved in our face. But I will like the Behind the Campus video Prof!
I only play commander so no complaints from me about anything involving modern lol and I love assassins creed so I’m stoked for this but also quite bummed they didn’t make any precons for it
Despite the number of historical figures and game characters they had, it just doesnt feel like they had enough content to work with to make a full set. More than a secret lair, but not enough for commander decks or to make it draft worthy. Ends up coming across as "Okay, we fullfilled the contract, we made assassin's creed cards, everyone can go home early today"
Commander decks would have really worked well I think, I don't know all the assassin's creed games, but I would have made one for the Italian games with I think he is Etizo, one for black flag aka pirate, and then you have room for 2 more, realistically you'd have to go for the Japanese game that is coming up, and realistically one of the newer games, with the pirate game being fulfilled I'd say either the Greek or the Egyptian one
It was never meant to be a full set, it was supposed to be another MOM: Aftermath, and they pivoted a bit after how much people hated how Aftermath worked
@@TheRamenRider firstly, Italian would be the best creature subtype to ever be added, next, there are 3 Italian assassins creed games, that's plenty for a single commander deck
So excited for my Etrata deck with this release, one of the best commanders to come out of MKM getting some sweet additions from ACR. Cloaking is just theft but less feels bad because opponents didn’t play them first
I don't think you are being hard on the set as a Magic expert, but I look at it as an entry point for Assassin's Creed fans to get into Magic; I am one of them. Thanks for giving pointers on what to use the cards with though. Edit: spelling
I think, even though excalibur says equip legendary 2, if something causes it to come in play attached to a creature, it can still be any creature since its an equipment.
Holy crap! _Zur the Enchanter_ can tutor out _Reconnaissance_ and put it directly into play, then use it to pull himself out of combat before any damage is delt. He can then proceed to do that for the next turn, and the turn after, etc; each time grabbing a new enchantment.
I think we are just getting closer to all products being modern legal. I wouldn't be surprised to see commander precons be straight to modern at some point in the future.
4:00 Thank you for explaining the End of combat phase! It's really useful for me since I play Kaust and I didn't know I could use his flip ability after damage.
As an assassin’s creed fan, I’m so excited for this. As a magic fan, I wish they made commander decks. I’m excited to see what other cards are being made besides what we were shown and leaked out. I think this set will be fun, but I agree it’s too soon for them. Should’ve waited a bit longer and fleshed out the set.
When covering the Reconnaissance trick, you can also do shenanigans like that with Ninjutsu. After a ninja or any creature with Ninjutsu can swoop in and swap with an unblocked attacking creature after they have dealt combat damage. It's a handy trick if you have any ETB triggers out like on Kindred Discovery and you chose ninja for your type.
17:59 Yes, Professor, this video has been a big help, as all your other videos are (except maybe the 1 million Scrooge video, which was VERY entertaining, but you do remind viewers the most important lesson: "buy singles"). You've given me a lot of ideas for ways to build my Assassin's Creed commander deck when it comes out. Why am I buying it? I'll comment on that when I go watch you review of it being 7 cards. I'm behind on watching your uploads. And I do agree with your questions. Example: why so soon after MH3? Product fatigue for one. Thanks for another great video. Professor for President 2024.
Excalibur is also a good way to get the Capistole Triad (or whatever) halfway to popping if it ends up in your graveyard. Because, say, you made a token of it and sacrificed the real card.
Not gonna lie this crossover made me finally pull the trigger on MTG. Bought the LoTR and Assassins Creed starter kits. The LoTR starter kit was on sale for 10€ so couldnt help myself buying that one too.
@@davidhower7095 hey we are grasping at straws anyway, so i still think its the best way to trigger freerunning. If you can think of something better be my guest.
@@davidhower7095 of course that one is also a decent option, but the idea behind my comment was that a changeling would probably be more likely to find some sort of niche in a given deck compared to an human assassin.
One fringe case I could see for brotherhood regalia in commander is for outlaws focused decks - you may have a creature in the 99 that isn't an outlaw but offers a ton of value in your deck (I have a jasper list with Jaxis so I can copy cards with desirable triggers like generous plunderer artifact burn or big game hunter ETB removal for example) and by turning it into an assassin it becomes an outlaw with the benefits this might give to the deck's goal.
You should do a separate video for just Pauper cards from Assassin's Creed. I miss Pauper content. Everyone does Commander and I do like Commander, but I like Pauper too. They are the only true non rotating eternal formats.
@@leress yeah, I know, that's why I assumed that there were commons in the main set. I don't really have much interest in Universes Beyond, Assassin's Creed. I was really just hyped about the DND, and LOTR Sets. So I honestly don't follow Universes Beyond too closely unless it's a set that particularly interests me.
I personally think this set was in a bit of development purgatory and got shuffled around and changed a few times. Originally I think they wanted to do the normal 4 commander decks plus collector boosters but at some point realised they didn’t have enough content or deck diversity for 4 maybe 3 but 2 strong ones. So then they decided to reinvent aftermaft boosters to see if they work for a UB set and decided for some reason to make it modern legal like LOTR.
@17:53 “Am I being too hard on [pause]” is an interesting accidental euphemism. I still try to prevent myself from saying “more on that one” when replying to other people’s comments during meetings due to the audible connotation it solicits. English is just a hopscotch game in a minefield sometimes. The last thing Syr Gwen decks needed was redundancy on Colossal Hammer. Speaking of equipment, I had just started using Psychic Paper in my Hope of Ghirapur voltron deck. Sad to see it didn’t even last a year without being power crept out by another Universe’s Beyond card.
I like that you cover both modern and commander (in the 99). And I also like the switch you make. It was entertaining and I was wandering if you switch back to the modern 😅
You keep mentioning, "watch another video immediately".... I think you gave everyone a great idea for a solution to gaining more youtube revenue: Release two videos back to back, snd don't beg to have loyal fans to watch something they have already seen. It's a bogo for channel promoting and it makes sense. Say a new player gets introduced to commander: the commandzone having two new videos will double the engagement from both new and old fans of the content. But maybe you care about accessories for your decks too and you watch TCC to get both product reviews and card assessments. Release two new videos, maybe one of each, and you'll get the kind of engagement youtube is requiring. 😊 Ty prof!
Props to the editor for using glitches on the cards. Flavour win🔥 I love the assassin's creed stuff. I haven't played since brotherhood and it's like seeing family i haven't met with in over a decade. Pumped to have magic's assassins joined by these veterans to bolster the theme 👌
I have a Karlach, Fury of Avernus deck that is built around multiple combat steps. I’m thinking I need to find a way to get Excalibur attached to it to KO multiple players in one turn. 😂
Not new but since you mentioned reconnaissance. Cover of darkness with psychic frogs seems like it could have potential. I've seen psychic frog roll people in hilarious fashion even without unlockable
I don't understand why one would complain that they made it Modern legal. It's not like you can't use it for Commander even if it is also intended for Modern, and if there isn't much to really matter for Modern, it's effectively no different than if it was just a Commander set. Seems like it works out fine as is.
I suspect the reasoning for modern legal is that MH3 is the most recent release, so the 2 types of magic that are most likely being played at any given LGS when a new player goes in to pick up these ACR cards are Modern and Commander. It's probably also why this set got a 1v1 Starter Kit as the "precon" product. Now, whether any of the AC cards are actually going to be competitive in the Modern meta is a completely different story. But ultimately if the new player does want to keep playing a 60 card format then they'll need some better Modern legal cards and MH3 boosters are going to be right there waiting for them. For me, there are some nice-to-have reprints and a bunch of creatures that are going to go into commander decks. It's the sort of thing where I might grab one booster as a treat after a draft, but I'm just going to grab the singles that I actually want.
Bruh, I gotta say you missed how potentially busted that God triad whatever is for affinity commanders (praying it doesn't accidentally be good in modern). You play normally then all of a sudden, there's a close to if not 0 mana 7/7 hitting the table that turns everything you have into 9/9s.
I think we can all agree on the following: "Assassin's Creed fans will be happy at the idea that they get the IP added to the game" "The handling of and execution of this IP's addition to Magic is questionable and confusing" "The Assassin's Creed cards might be fun for fans, but they have little impact on the game"
Reconnaissance seems crazy strong. For one mana give all of your creatures better version of vigilance. So you can not only save your creatures from dying to blockers, but also get attack triggers without any risk or trigger for targeting creature with spell/ability. It would be strong even it could be used once per turn.
I've never played any of the Assassin's Creed games, but I do like the look of the set. There are a good number of cards that look like they'd be right at home in my Cube or Commander deck of choice. Too bad that Assassinate didn't make it into the main set, but it might be available as a List card. If not, Royal Assassin still makes up for it. I just wish we had both. This set looks like it will have lots of fun interactions built in. A member of my play group at my LGS joked about giving Dogmeat The Spear of Leonidas. That's how you know he's a good boy. Similarly, I think it would be hilarious (not to mention ironic) to use Haystack to phase out a Needlebug, but I don't know if it would work. Needlebug has protection from artifacts... Anyways, I'm kinda excited for this set as I already have some Assassin's Creed cards on my Card Kingdom wishlist.
I feel like these fit into magic pretty well. Way better than some of the other ones in the pipeline. I could see buying a commander deck if it was decent.
So I’ve been a huge Assassin’s Creed fan ever since Assassin’s Creed II and Brotherhood. I absolutely LOVE that they are getting a Collab. However I’m also VERY disappointed with how they’re treating the cards and how we’re doing the 7 pack and 10 pack boosters at premium pricing. I was ready to go all out with this set and drop so much money, but after seeing it revealed slowly day by day I’ve come to be super cautious and uneasy on what I preorder. I ended up ordering 1 collector’s booster box just to celebrate the launch, and plan to buy singles afterwards to build an Ezio deck. I wish this set was way more hype but I had a strong feeling early on it would turn out this way.
For the MH sets there are complaints that there are too many modern relevant cards but here there are too few modern relevant cards. Some people will complain no matter what is done.
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At first I thought you made a joke video on AC, because I didn't even noticed that apparently the AC set got spoiled.
Wasn't MH3 like last week?
Prof when you talked about Crystal skull, you pronounced Isu wrong you pronounced it as I-su, in the games they are referred to and pronounced as Ee-su.
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This set is utter dogshit
@@germanyjones2700 Yeah, and the worst part is that you're only getting 7 cards per Beyond Booster and only 10 cards per Collector Booster for what is still a premium price. It's basically March of the Machine: Aftermath all over again.
Lmao 😂
This has actually happened for one of the jumpstart products xD
Best opening ever 😂😂😂👌👌
I assume the cards being modern-legal is so AC fans new to Magic can feel they're 'allowed' to play 60-card kitchen table without feeling like they're breaking rules, more than the cards being Modern powerhouses.
Yo, this is a great take. Maybe this is a promising shift to opening new doors in a new age of fun and fantasy!
I totally forgot this was gonna be Modern legal, ugh
Be nice if they took that same approach for LoTR
the problem is this assumes they would make a deck only out of whats in here, and said deck would die in like 3 turns to any real modern deck so they arent getting a legitimate experience of the format at which point it's hardly even modern anyway so mine as well be a made up format
This set feels like they started a fully draftable modern set (like LotR) but stopped nearly halfway. As if management changed their mind and told them they're no longer doing a full set.
Nah, they likely had all of the contracts signed and everything planned before Aftermath bombed and couldn't change course to something less monumentally stupid.
Card design is also very tricky with expanded universes. One thing the Fallout, LotR, Doctor who, and Warhammer 40K all have in common is that they don't use Magic cards that are specific to Magic (Kodama's reach, Akroma's will, Simic growth chamber, etc) as these would break those universes immersion. (Ironic) One reason I can see why they didn't make precons for Assassin's Creed is the same reason 50% of the cards from this set are black: the universe is very linear as to which it offers.
Final fantasy on the other hand..
@@justinanderson2631100%, this is a very forced match. FF will suit the diverse ultra high fantasy of magic very well. I argue 40k also did, and should have had a set beyond the precons (if only I could upgrade the chaos deck within the flavor 😔)
According to MaRo, they ended up deciding not to make it draftable because they were having issues with color balance.
@@justinanderson2631 Yeah, Universes Beyond: FINAL FANTASY will no doubt be better balanced.
One other problem with the Assassin's Creed set is that most of the creatures are Humans. There's not a lot of creature diversity. Besides Humans, the only other creature types that come to mind are Birds and Walls.
Where with FINAL FANTASY, there are more creature types to choose from. Humans, moogles (that'll be interesting), viera, bangaa, seeq, etc.
Also, I know this seems random, but I'm going to predict that there's a good chance these cards won't be reprinted: White Dragon, Blue Dragon, Black Dragon, Red Dragon, and Green Dragon. While these do appear as enemies/bosses in FINAL FANTASY, they are more connected to Dungeons and Dragons. FINAL FANTASY will probably be more character-connected, although we might get the occasional random monster/boss. Something like Omega being a "Legendary Artifact Creature - Construct" or Demon Wall, "Artifact Creature - Wall Demon".
As an AC fan I am excited to make Commander decks for Ezio and Edward Kenway. As a Magic fan I agree that it’s way too soon after MH3 and doesn’t really fit for Modern. I’m still excited for it though, and I particularly love how the Jackdaw’s flavor text includes a sea shanty your crew would sing out on the ocean. I think the set was made by AC fans for AC fans, and like with Doctor Who I greatly appreciate that.
Feel the same way brother, I only want a commander deck for Ezio filled with assassins.
@@lorenzogonzalez8995I'm working on a decklist for this, as soon as I have one, I'll put it here if you want
@@lorenzogonzalez8995same! Im getting a bundle just for fun today
I build an Ezio Legendary assassin's deck and let me tell you... it rakes!! Lol It's my new favourite deck!
I am so glad Reconnaissance got a Reprint, it is so good and the savings on buying it single will be neat!
my Zur the Enchanter has always liked Reconnaissance ...
I'm definitely running Excalibur in my Godzilla deck. Making Godzilla effectively a 17/17 off one card with no downside is really nice.
If a MTG player read this back in 1999, they would think that they were going crazy.😂
Thank goodness the Nadu deck got a new tool! Glad wizards is helping tier 3 modern decks with this set! /s
I agree it's such a half-baked set. Both in the content of playable magic cards but also just how powered down most of the cards are. Almost like they tried to do the Fallout sets again, but didn't have enough ideas of their own.
Looking forward to building Ratonhnhaketon. Woo for Conner
I actually really like AC3 and Connor's character. I feel like the other characters got way more love than he did this set 😢
Excalibur is gonna cook well in Chiss-goria which loves artfifacts and equipment.
Zhulodok halves Excalibur's cost and you'll probably have a couple of mana rocks lying around already. Easy double cascade for 12.
I just do not vibe with this set, but I'm here for the prof!
Honestly same here. I dont know why but the release being so close to MH3 also taints this set for me. It just seems a bit pushed, maybe id have vibed with it more if it was released closer to Bloomburrow's release date and push that set to october or november
Same man
Some of the art is so boring imo. like the black ezio looks like it was done by a cheap a.i
Honestly, product glut is such a huge problem for me. I love UB, and even Horizons, but at this point it's like... magic is too many things for too many people to rely on WotC any more. Print your own cards and have fun! Just talk to your friends about it!
I came here for phasing and left with a new mattress... Prof, I'll totally help sponsor the channel if I can sleep like a baby and wake up with your locks.
darn. assassin creed still gonna be the first mtg set/packs i ever buy :D
besides precon decks
Cleopatra seems like a solid fit in Skullbriar and a flavor win for Hapatra.
I put in my vote for desynchronization!
4 mana board bounce at instant speed! You should be in the historic archetype or at least artifacts, but when you are Desynchronization is an amazing tempo play!
Oh yeah, it's likely replacing Crisis of Conscience in my Blast deck!
I really wish they didn't make freerunning a blatantly commander mechanic, especially when we just got the outlaw category. Remove the commander part of the clause and say that you activate freerunning when dealing combat damage with an outlaw, and it still has it's flavor while being playable outside commander.
but most outlaws do t really all make sense free running. and its still playable outside of commander cause it triggers on assassins.
I don't care about outlaws vs assassins, but I see no reason why free running can't apply to the commander. It doesn't affect Modern and it's not broken by any means.
i feel like if it was rogues and assassins that would have been better
I love Assasin's Creed, I've been playing since the first game. But I just don't like the sheer amount of IP that keeps getting shoved in our face. But I will like the Behind the Campus video Prof!
I only play commander so no complaints from me about anything involving modern lol and I love assassins creed so I’m stoked for this but also quite bummed they didn’t make any precons for it
Despite the number of historical figures and game characters they had, it just doesnt feel like they had enough content to work with to make a full set. More than a secret lair, but not enough for commander decks or to make it draft worthy. Ends up coming across as "Okay, we fullfilled the contract, we made assassin's creed cards, everyone can go home early today"
Commander decks would have really worked well I think, I don't know all the assassin's creed games, but I would have made one for the Italian games with I think he is Etizo, one for black flag aka pirate, and then you have room for 2 more, realistically you'd have to go for the Japanese game that is coming up, and realistically one of the newer games, with the pirate game being fulfilled I'd say either the Greek or the Egyptian one
I don’t think Italian is a creature type
It was never meant to be a full set, it was supposed to be another MOM: Aftermath, and they pivoted a bit after how much people hated how Aftermath worked
@@TheRamenRiderWhats that got to do with anything? Assassin, human, rogue, pirate, warrior, or scout could be used.
@@TheRamenRider firstly, Italian would be the best creature subtype to ever be added, next, there are 3 Italian assassins creed games, that's plenty for a single commander deck
14:30 Hi there, I'm the Sixth Doctor. This is a card for me.
The Animus will find a nice place in my Gitrog, Ravenous Ride Deck. Having easy access to a high power creature after sacrificing one could be nice.
So excited for my Etrata deck with this release, one of the best commanders to come out of MKM getting some sweet additions from ACR. Cloaking is just theft but less feels bad because opponents didn’t play them first
14:40 I am already planning to put Crystal Skull in my Tom Bombadil sagas deck
And Excalibur! Tom typically has 7 CMC of sagas going, making Excalibur an easy late game play.
I don't think you are being hard on the set as a Magic expert, but I look at it as an entry point for Assassin's Creed fans to get into Magic; I am one of them. Thanks for giving pointers on what to use the cards with though.
Edit: spelling
I think, even though excalibur says equip legendary 2, if something causes it to come in play attached to a creature, it can still be any creature since its an equipment.
My wife got into magic and assassins creed is one of her absolute favorite games. Seeing her joy for it is how I feel dr. Who and fallout players felt
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Octavia, Living Thesis: am I a joke to you
Kind of surprised Yuriko didn't even get a passing mention in the Excalibur bit.
Basim seems great in modern if there's a deck that can support him. Two mana for a 2/2 effectively unblockable, and he gets bigger every turn.
In the words of WotC, “Your decks could use more Ass… _continue reading_ “
Holy crap! _Zur the Enchanter_ can tutor out _Reconnaissance_ and put it directly into play, then use it to pull himself out of combat before any damage is delt. He can then proceed to do that for the next turn, and the turn after, etc; each time grabbing a new enchantment.
Ca-DUCE-e-us is the funniest pronunciation of Caduceus I've ever heard lmao
Very good 20 second video.
I think we are just getting closer to all products being modern legal. I wouldn't be surprised to see commander precons be straight to modern at some point in the future.
4:00 Thank you for explaining the End of combat phase! It's really useful for me since I play Kaust and I didn't know I could use his flip ability after damage.
Watching because the Prof asked me to...but I love that opening bit!
Prof feels like the Mr. Rogers of magic the gathering. Just invites you to hang out with him and talk magic
Did anyone else think of that video of the T-Rex with the sword when he was talking about Ghalta and Excalibur? No? Just me?
"Why did it have to exist at all" is the quintessential question
As an assassin’s creed fan, I’m so excited for this. As a magic fan, I wish they made commander decks. I’m excited to see what other cards are being made besides what we were shown and leaked out. I think this set will be fun, but I agree it’s too soon for them. Should’ve waited a bit longer and fleshed out the set.
you should talk about the two decks in the assasins creed starter box
Not even a fan of AC anymore, but came here to watch you vent about how ridiculous the release schedule is. Love your content Prof!
When covering the Reconnaissance trick, you can also do shenanigans like that with Ninjutsu. After a ninja or any creature with Ninjutsu can swoop in and swap with an unblocked attacking creature after they have dealt combat damage. It's a handy trick if you have any ETB triggers out like on Kindred Discovery and you chose ninja for your type.
Ah yes Staff of Hermes is going right into my Oloro+Sanguine's Bond deck
17:59 Yes, Professor, this video has been a big help, as all your other videos are (except maybe the 1 million Scrooge video, which was VERY entertaining, but you do remind viewers the most important lesson: "buy singles"). You've given me a lot of ideas for ways to build my Assassin's Creed commander deck when it comes out.
Why am I buying it? I'll comment on that when I go watch you review of it being 7 cards. I'm behind on watching your uploads.
And I do agree with your questions. Example: why so soon after MH3? Product fatigue for one.
Thanks for another great video. Professor for President 2024.
Excalibur is also a good way to get the Capistole Triad (or whatever) halfway to popping if it ends up in your graveyard. Because, say, you made a token of it and sacrificed the real card.
Not gonna lie this crossover made me finally pull the trigger on MTG.
Bought the LoTR and Assassins Creed starter kits.
The LoTR starter kit was on sale for 10€ so couldnt help myself buying that one too.
Congratulations professor for reaching 1 million subscribers!
Fine Ill add Excalibur to my Emry deck. Cant resist a good flavor win
The black one drop unblockable changeling COULD enable freerunning at low-ish opportunity cost in modern.
Dies to Bowmasters
@@davidhower7095 hey we are grasping at straws anyway, so i still think its the best way to trigger freerunning. If you can think of something better be my guest.
Hookblade Veteran is a 1 mana 1/2 Assassin with flying. Obviously not perfect evasion, but it’s probably enough?
@@davidhower7095 of course that one is also a decent option, but the idea behind my comment was that a changeling would probably be more likely to find some sort of niche in a given deck compared to an human assassin.
I love the idea of an assassins creed commander deck. I wish they would’ve made some commander precons for it.
of course there is a bed ad when i just bought a bed xD
OMG This Helix add made by Prof is so quality XD
One fringe case I could see for brotherhood regalia in commander is for outlaws focused decks - you may have a creature in the 99 that isn't an outlaw but offers a ton of value in your deck (I have a jasper list with Jaxis so I can copy cards with desirable triggers like generous plunderer artifact burn or big game hunter ETB removal for example) and by turning it into an assassin it becomes an outlaw with the benefits this might give to the deck's goal.
You should do a separate video for just Pauper cards from Assassin's Creed. I miss Pauper content. Everyone does Commander and I do like Commander, but I like Pauper too. They are the only true non rotating eternal formats.
Except there are no commons in the set.
@@SovietDancebot oh, I didn't realize. Sorry.
@@SovietDancebot There are commons but they are only in the starter kit. 1 reprint and 9 new ones.
@@WCD_Media there are commons but they are in the starter kit, 1 reprint and 9 new
@@leress yeah, I know, that's why I assumed that there were commons in the main set. I don't really have much interest in Universes Beyond, Assassin's Creed. I was really just hyped about the DND, and LOTR Sets. So I honestly don't follow Universes Beyond too closely unless it's a set that particularly interests me.
I like Bill&Ted plainswalkers ! 🤘🦁🤘
Battlefield Improvisation should have gotten a mention for Modern, that looks like it could be insane in hammertime decks
Im excited for this set, we bought a booster box and my sister and i got the “Secret Lair Alert” 🚨
And order the assassin‘s Creed version too 😂
Honestly the best part of this set for me is that I get more Ancient Egypt themed cards.
I’m salivating, both for myself as an assassins creed fan and for myself with a Daxos Voltron deck.
I personally think this set was in a bit of development purgatory and got shuffled around and changed a few times. Originally I think they wanted to do the normal 4 commander decks plus collector boosters but at some point realised they didn’t have enough content or deck diversity for 4 maybe 3 but 2 strong ones. So then they decided to reinvent aftermaft boosters to see if they work for a UB set and decided for some reason to make it modern legal like LOTR.
@17:53 “Am I being too hard on [pause]” is an interesting accidental euphemism.
I still try to prevent myself from saying “more on that one” when replying to other people’s comments during meetings due to the audible connotation it solicits.
English is just a hopscotch game in a minefield sometimes.
The last thing Syr Gwen decks needed was redundancy on Colossal Hammer.
Speaking of equipment, I had just started using Psychic Paper in my Hope of Ghirapur voltron deck. Sad to see it didn’t even last a year without being power crept out by another Universe’s Beyond card.
I like that you cover both modern and commander (in the 99). And I also like the switch you make. It was entertaining and I was wandering if you switch back to the modern 😅
After equipping Ghalta with Excalibur don't forget to double the power to 44 with the Skullspore Nexus.
You keep mentioning, "watch another video immediately".... I think you gave everyone a great idea for a solution to gaining more youtube revenue:
Release two videos back to back, snd don't beg to have loyal fans to watch something they have already seen. It's a bogo for channel promoting and it makes sense.
Say a new player gets introduced to commander: the commandzone having two new videos will double the engagement from both new and old fans of the content. But maybe you care about accessories for your decks too and you watch TCC to get both product reviews and card assessments. Release two new videos, maybe one of each, and you'll get the kind of engagement youtube is requiring. 😊
Ty prof!
People forget about wither which this staff bypasses it's a nice upgrade honestly
Will you also make a video about the Starter Kit??
Excited for the Emry and Excalibur
STOP THE PRESSES! Whoever is editing this video and used the haystack and then untapped Ezio needs a raise, and I'm talking RIGHT NOW!
Props to the editor for using glitches on the cards. Flavour win🔥
I love the assassin's creed stuff. I haven't played since brotherhood and it's like seeing family i haven't met with in over a decade.
Pumped to have magic's assassins joined by these veterans to bolster the theme 👌
I have a Karlach, Fury of Avernus deck that is built around multiple combat steps. I’m thinking I need to find a way to get Excalibur attached to it to KO multiple players in one turn. 😂
I can't wait for Wizards to start making Magic about Magic again.
You are the heart and soul of this community 🤍💙🖤❤️💚
Such an amazing episode!
Excalibur on a double striker seems fun
Brotherhood Regalia will be perfect for Kaalia of the Vast.
Not new but since you mentioned reconnaissance.
Cover of darkness with psychic frogs seems like it could have potential.
I've seen psychic frog roll people in hilarious fashion even without unlockable
I don't understand why one would complain that they made it Modern legal. It's not like you can't use it for Commander even if it is also intended for Modern, and if there isn't much to really matter for Modern, it's effectively no different than if it was just a Commander set. Seems like it works out fine as is.
I suspect the reasoning for modern legal is that MH3 is the most recent release, so the 2 types of magic that are most likely being played at any given LGS when a new player goes in to pick up these ACR cards are Modern and Commander. It's probably also why this set got a 1v1 Starter Kit as the "precon" product. Now, whether any of the AC cards are actually going to be competitive in the Modern meta is a completely different story. But ultimately if the new player does want to keep playing a 60 card format then they'll need some better Modern legal cards and MH3 boosters are going to be right there waiting for them.
For me, there are some nice-to-have reprints and a bunch of creatures that are going to go into commander decks. It's the sort of thing where I might grab one booster as a treat after a draft, but I'm just going to grab the singles that I actually want.
Reconnaissance could be good against opponents who goad your creatures and you actually don't want the creature to attack.
i love getting a good night sleep
Bruh, I gotta say you missed how potentially busted that God triad whatever is for affinity commanders (praying it doesn't accidentally be good in modern). You play normally then all of a sudden, there's a close to if not 0 mana 7/7 hitting the table that turns everything you have into 9/9s.
this really feels like it should have been, idk, 2 commander precon decks? Ezio and Everyone Else, or Assassins and Templars
I think we can all agree on the following:
"Assassin's Creed fans will be happy at the idea that they get the IP added to the game"
"The handling of and execution of this IP's addition to Magic is questionable and confusing"
"The Assassin's Creed cards might be fun for fans, but they have little impact on the game"
I don't play modern but I am very excited to build Ezio for commander.
I appreciate you sharing the your top 7 cards from Assassin's GREED. I like Viewpoint Synchronization and Caduces. Thank you for the video Professor.
Reconnaissance seems crazy strong. For one mana give all of your creatures better version of vigilance. So you can not only save your creatures from dying to blockers, but also get attack triggers without any risk or trigger for targeting creature with spell/ability. It would be strong even it could be used once per turn.
Do you think it has modern applications? Because as far as commander goes, it's a reprint and has been legal since the formats inception.
I've never played any of the Assassin's Creed games, but I do like the look of the set. There are a good number of cards that look like they'd be right at home in my Cube or Commander deck of choice.
Too bad that Assassinate didn't make it into the main set, but it might be available as a List card. If not, Royal Assassin still makes up for it. I just wish we had both.
This set looks like it will have lots of fun interactions built in. A member of my play group at my LGS joked about giving Dogmeat The Spear of Leonidas. That's how you know he's a good boy. Similarly, I think it would be hilarious (not to mention ironic) to use Haystack to phase out a Needlebug, but I don't know if it would work. Needlebug has protection from artifacts...
Anyways, I'm kinda excited for this set as I already have some Assassin's Creed cards on my Card Kingdom wishlist.
I feel like these fit into magic pretty well. Way better than some of the other ones in the pipeline. I could see buying a commander deck if it was decent.
I think excalibur has more chance than the animus of having use in modern
Shoulda just created a ‘only for commander’ legality the moment they printed a commander precon
As a morph aficionado, I'm excited for become anonymous for Commander
I’m watching this a second time because prof said it didn’t do numbers. 🙏🙏🙏 I was distracted the first time anyway so why not?
So I’ve been a huge Assassin’s Creed fan ever since Assassin’s Creed II and Brotherhood. I absolutely LOVE that they are getting a Collab. However I’m also VERY disappointed with how they’re treating the cards and how we’re doing the 7 pack and 10 pack boosters at premium pricing.
I was ready to go all out with this set and drop so much money, but after seeing it revealed slowly day by day I’ve come to be super cautious and uneasy on what I preorder. I ended up ordering 1 collector’s booster box just to celebrate the launch, and plan to buy singles afterwards to build an Ezio deck.
I wish this set was way more hype but I had a strong feeling early on it would turn out this way.
Hasn't this set been in the works for over a year? I could be wrong but i remember hearing about it when the 40k set was coming out.
The animus is going into my 14th doctor deck
Wish this came in commanders. But also I probably only would’ve ended up buying an Altair one if so.
looks like a lot of fun stuff for my erza precon to be upgraded with
For the MH sets there are complaints that there are too many modern relevant cards but here there are too few modern relevant cards. Some people will complain no matter what is done.