Great video as always. However I did very much prefer the larger card images of the previous set reviews. I tend to view these episodes while doing other things around my apartment and it's nice to be able to glance up from a distance and read the cards clearly.
Happy with their insights, but yeah. They should have a retrospective on what they want to have the focus on in their show. Luis doesn't have the appearance or habits for a full screen webcam. Video would be better when the cards are shown bigger and webcams more at the background.
You guys are so nosey. Mind your own business. Is this the best way to do their video? Who knows. No one knows. Very little positives from you people, lots negatives and a ton of no’s.
41:46 - A small upgrade on Aven Wind Mage from M19, which only triggered on instants and sorceries. Mistral Singer triggers on any non creature spells.
3:04:30 Yes. Placing a counter then doubling the counters triggers things that see counters being placed twice. That will come up a few times this format.
Skyway sniper is a 1 drop in gw which means in takes counters amazingly, and in stalled games just shoots down x/2 or even x/3's as a mana sink. It's fairly easy to get it to 2/3 and able to shoot twice meaning a 4/4 flier dies to it straight up. But it's more a gw or gb(to trigger dying) 1 drop. And there are a ton of x/1 x/2 and x/3 fliers that it can kill or trade with fairly easily. And fliers will have to use removal on it as a 1 drop, pairs great with the 2 drop spider to double block any flier in the format generally with 1 living. Minimum a sideboard combo for fliers, him on 1, spider on 2, 1/4 spider on 3 just beats both aggro and fliers. And there are like 5 or 6 common and 5 uncommon ways to add counters to any creature and another 5 or so at rare. It into signpost into cat and you have a 3/4 that pings fliers on 3 or feat, and then either another 2 drop and solidarity is a common with 1 or 2 uncommons with multiple peices each turn.
I loved having both of them in War draft, that spellslinger deck was surprisingly deep. I won a 6 round draft with another player in my pod in the same deck
I am extremely down on new Magic sets these days, so for the first time in years I haven't looked at any of the spoilers. Of course, I'd still never miss these set reviews. Love the content, thank you loads for keeping me interested in looking at new sets! Short update: I'm three drafts in, trophied twice and the format seems really fun so far (I might be biased because winning is fun). The rares are cool, but few of them are instantly game ending, the planeswalkers are fun to play with and against (unlike many in the previous sets), and the archetypes are quite diverse. I'm a bit worried aggro might be too strong, but you can definitely do some 4c shrine nonsense as well, so it feels fairly well balanced.
Frost Otter - 2U uncommon Creature - Otter 2/2 When it Frost Otter comes into play tap a creature an opponent controls. It doesn't untap on the opponents next untap step. When Frost Otter attacks you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
I’m disappointed that they didn’t mention that enchantments and artifacts trigger prowess and get better in the “prowess” (not just spells matter) deck. Don’t forget that planeswalkers trigger prowess too lol.
1:12:20 i kinda wish they gave me some guidance on how highly i should be rating the "bounce a spell on the stack" part of Unsubstantiate. it's such an unusual effect taht i'm not sure how useful (or useless!) it is?
It's basically useless. If you are doing it to a creature it's almost always the exact same as just bouncing it. If you are bouncing a removal spell they still have their removal spell, so they will either just recast it that turn or the next. It's good when you are ahead but pretty bad when you are behind. If you want an unsummon its worth it but I wouldn't put too much stock on the bounce a spell part It never did much the last time it was printed.
Remand this is not. Remand was great because it slowed your opponent down at no card cost to you, Unsubstantiate puts you down a card so it's a worse unsummon and a worse remand. But it's a common so I would still play it in any deck that got value out of casting instants/ sorceries. I'm not unhappy if I bounce my opponents turn 2 play, especially if I can get something down on the board first, and then get some later value out of with the UR uncommon Weird token maker. I would say it fits into a UR aggro-control tempo style deck which is where bounce and tap spells usually shine. Also this gets better if you have hard counters, because you can either use this to buy you a turn to get Cancel mana up, or bounce soemthing that slipped through your counter wall to get a second shot at countering it. But you really need to get some ulterior value out of it for it to not just be card disadvantage.
The last time it was in limited I felt the bounce a spell part over performed when I wanted it but was definitely not the main mode (something like 0-1 times per draft assuming 3 matches). It is mostly a 2 mana unsummon which tends to be reasonable in decks that want the effect and then once in a while things line up where the other mode just works.
Watching these two awesome dudes try to pronounce gourmand/goremand is hilarious :D. Also; amazing episode as always! (edited so the joke is more obvious).
I like Furor a bit more tbh. If you want to block with the creature, you simply play it post-combat and enjoy a beefy blocker, ready to attack next turn after you play another thing to block with, and it's only 1/1 less than Impending Doom for 2 less, while also lacking the burn downside. The rate at which you let a creature gains stats is worth it for the most aggressive of strategies.
LSV: Hmm an Izzet card that gets me back instant and sorceries from the graveyard and a creature proportional to the amount of instant and sorceries I am playing....I'm gonna have to say A- on this one Marshall.
That's the right grade though, the card is fantastic! I guess you mean it ironically, because the card takes away one point of power from the creature? But the effect is great and the card will end up in your GY anyway later
Can drowsing tyrannodon attack if we use a trick tu give a +1 to it or putting a +1+1 counter since the card says "as long as you control a creature" and not "control another creature"?
Really enjoyed watching the review. After playing about a dozen limited events i'd say my two biggest points of contention with the review retrospectively is 1) Removal is generally underrated in this review. I've found that while creatures like that gold uncommons rated at b+ are good, i'd almost always want grasp of darkness or dragonfire which should have been in the A's. Also i'd argue the 5 mana removal spells (exit the scene and finishing blow) are severely underrated. Some of the planeswalkers and rare creatures demand immediate response or you just lose, and white/black doesnt have many ways to deal with them outside of uncommons/rares. 2) Teferi's Tutelage is completely busted at uncommon, it should honesly be rare. It's even better than LSV predicted here.
Very infrequently. You’re gonna be battling for enough playables quite often and that doesn’t mesh well with picking up tons of duals. Based on all the test drafts I’ve fired, 5 color shrines (or just 5 color at all) is a very rare beast indeed.
3 color is pretty good Jund is great for aristocrats because rakdos and golgari compliment each other really well Grixis has good control Naya is pretty strong for midrange because +1/+1 counters can make things get to 4 power easier Bant pumping your flyers is never bad Esper is meh because you can play a grindy game with the Lifelink draining you opponents but you aren’t getting much to reanimate and you are only picking counters
This may be a well known piece of knowledge, but i noticed with carrion grub, they use 0/5 instead of */5. Has the * just been phased out of magic? Again I may be wayyy late on this lol
Interesting thing about combat tricks. They rated Sure Strike as a C- and Titanic Growth as a D. No explanation on the reasoning. Both are 2 CMC combat tricks, T Growth being the better one in almost every way; it does more damage and has way more defensive potential like saving a creature from a burn spell or grasp of darkness. Im guessing they gave Sure Strike the better rating because aggressive red decks will want a cheap combat trick more than midrangey green decks, even if the trick is inferior, although T Growth is the better card in a Red/Green deck where you can choose between the two. Good example of card evaluation in a vacuum not equating to how the cards will play in actual decks.
@@kevinbob4347 Not sure which card you're referring to. Titanic Growth gives +4/+4 until end of turn. Sure Strike gives +3/+0 and first strike until end of turn. Titanic Growth does more damage and has actual defensive potential like saving a creature from a burn spell or grasp of darkness. T Growth is a better card.
I'm imagining that is the entire reason. Almost all red decks want a sure strike or two, not all green decks care for titanic. Also green two drops are whack this set but idk if that was part of the consideration.
Thx for the review! Always appreciate your takes on the new cards. I just thought the way you talked about b/g like it wasn't a real archetype was kind of weird (when you talked about the signpost ucs in the beginning). It seems like there are enough payoffs and little things going on to make it real. You also kind of hinted at the fact that a lot of creatures die anyway in a usual draft match. I guess in b/g morbid and w/g +1-counters, the Fierce Empath goes up a little bit.
Spined Megalodon + Rousing Read is a classic combo and they're both at common (though also really expensive) this time around so I think that might push Megalodon up to C level (lol) given Rousing Read is a card you want to play anyway.
fun fact: blackguard is pronounced "blaggerd" and is defined as "a person (usually male) who behaves in a contemptible way". Some info for the pronunciation guide
Almost 4 hour video taping warrants short break in betweens. Hard to fault LSV for itchy bugers that he just need to pick while on the air or something. They can totally take a break every 45 min, I mean it's hard enough just to hold your bladder, can't imagine an itchy nostril w/buger balls 😅
“I think you’re a little OPTimistic on that” .............. was this an intentional pun that went over LSV’s head? Or was it just totally by accident 44:20
Track down by hueristics draws 2.5 cards for 2 mana. Also scry 3 lets you keep and stack any keepable other cards unlike anticipate, see garruk land you don't need and creature and bottom the land put creature on top and you don't have to bottom garruk, same with good spells. Or see 3 lands on turn 2 after keeping a 2 lander and top all 3 instead of bottoming 2 making you likely to miss the next land drop. And it's hard to imagine missing a land or creature going 4 cards deep in green, or late game not seeing a creature card or even just setting up the next turn with 3 lands on bottom or your garruk on top and 2 lands to bottom is fairly playable in top deck wars even if you miss. Also mirraris guile and heroic intervention, basri, white add counters spells, feat of resistance, removal, shrines not having to bottom cards like these is massive and still likely drawing something, especially with scry lands. Bottoming 2 and drawing a scry has dug you 5 deep for your next turn while drawing a dual. 1 mana scry 3 by itself is limited playable. And green does have draw synergies especially simic with say coatl. I think c to c+ is fair on curve but top decking turn 7 that card is a B maybe higher, and toss in ug draw 2 synergies and spell synergies and it's potentially better than opt and helps you dig for your low creature count, as 17 lands 7 creatures and you are overwhelmingly likely to hit going 4 deep with at least a land and dig 2 to 4 deep for one of your creatures. At like 12 ish creatures you fairly consistentlt will hit a creature and almost cannot miss. And at 0 creatures it scrys 3 and still hits a land a huge majority of the time while setting up your draws or bottoming 2 to 3 cards you do not want which is 10% of a limited deck at that point. So build around its maybe b-
You guys. I love the set reviews. But I’m here to see the cards. As much as I love to see your smiling faces, I’d rather see the cards as big as he screen will allow. Please and thank you.
Don't really get LSV's argument on Secure the Scene. It is definitely not a 5-mana Kazmina's Transmutation. Transmutation was an aura that could be removed via enchantment hate or blink effects. Moreover, when the creature died, it went to the graveyard and could be reanimated. Secure the Scene exiles the target creature and replaces it with a token. That's a huge difference. It also hits key Planeswalkers, enchantments, and shrines. Yes, it's better to NOT give the opponent a free 1/1, so I'm not saying this card is amazing. But you will run the first copy of this card in nearly every GW or UW deck. You will probably run 2 copies in this decks if you can get them.
Regarding Goremand and Marshall's comment about it being better with ETB "each player sacrifices a creature"... I disagree, cause then you open yourelf to the opponent responding with a situational removal that kills your other a creature and havin to sacrifice your 5/5 Flyer...
@@smolensk83 If I EVER have to put that card into my deck I feel like something went wrong in the draft...even the most defensive decks will not want the card as it can never trade for an opponents card, where stuff like a walking corpse can at least trade with a random cat or dog against boros and can, theoretically at least, win the game...the wall does none of those things...the one place I can see it being MAYBE ok is in a blue/black deck that has Pestilent Haze as the wall encourages your aggressive opponents to overcommit to the board...but in that scenario it does nothing against the midrange and control decks you're going to face...so yes it is an easy F
I think Liliana's Devotee is a bit under-rated here. The ability to make aggressive attacks/trades in combat, and create value for a mere 2 mana is pretty significant. You are paying 2 mana for a 3/2 creature, which is already decent in itself. Giving that tag line of text to your attacking creatures, even in a limited capacity, appears to be quite powerful. I would Probably pick these pretty highly. They can be quite powerful in aggro or midrange decks. Even control decks with a great deal of removal can benefit from these. So, on that note, I believe this card is a bit better than what it is rated here. We will know more after getting a chance to play it in limited though.
. 7:03 Gold
. 25:44 Blue
1:16:42 Black
1:52:59 Red
2:30:40 Green
3:05:33 White
3:42:27 Artifact
3:52:52 Land
Or find just the card you want: www.mtgdraft.guide/
@@dustinsmusings we're a bit too lazy for that bro
@@lesrestall807 Or not lazy enogh to not watch the rest of the color, it goes either way^^
Thanks for this. Not sure why Marshall didn't put timestamps in the description...
Thank you for doing the set review shows they are extraordinarily helpful.
Appreciate seeing the signposts at the front end. That's a great addition.
Hahah LSVs expression at 1:05:38 when Marshall tried to convince him Teferis tutelage is not as good as it might seem.
Marshall on Village rites: "Saving" your creature from removal :D I do hope you don't hobby as a lifeguard
Give him a rifle and he'll never have to get down from the lifeguard seat. Maximum efficiency and nobody will drown on his watch.
Nobody kills my troops but me
3:34:55
You misread the card here, it's actually a 1/1 dog with no abilities. Yep, no abilities whatsoever.
Take a shot every time LSV picks his nose
Bruh, I'm smashed
"LSV, Legendary Creature. UBR
Whenever LSV picks his nose, draw a card."
Finish your drink when he rubs it into his hair or beard
I like the way he rolls them boogers
@@kogetasarada6372 Probably wipes them underneath the table like Stimpy's booger collection.
Great video as always. However I did very much prefer the larger card images of the previous set reviews.
I tend to view these episodes while doing other things around my apartment and it's nice to be able to glance up from a distance and read the cards clearly.
That isn’t how I watch the videos....you should have watched LR years ago-no video just audio lol
I second this!
Review starts at 6:59
Thanks
Thanks! :)
Thanks you re the mvp
Maybe having those web cams isn't such a good thing, if you nose what I am saying.
underrated comment
Happy with their insights, but yeah. They should have a retrospective on what they want to have the focus on in their show. Luis doesn't have the appearance or habits for a full screen webcam. Video would be better when the cards are shown bigger and webcams more at the background.
Nobody nose
You guys are so nosey. Mind your own business. Is this the best way to do their video? Who knows. No one knows. Very little positives from you people, lots negatives and a ton of no’s.
Since nobody said that for the Ikoria review, I'm gonna classify this video as an exception.
41:46 - A small upgrade on Aven Wind Mage from M19, which only triggered on instants and sorceries.
Mistral Singer triggers on any non creature spells.
3:04:30 Yes. Placing a counter then doubling the counters triggers things that see counters being placed twice. That will come up a few times this format.
Great review as always!! Take good rest, LSV & Marshall
LSV I love you but bruh, why you gotta be digging for gold on cam nonstop. lol
Gonbebe totally gross
No shame. I could learn from him :-).
Rolling them boogers
Looks like he's eating too many of them also. Dude needs a treadmill.
At 55:04 I actually thought Marshall gave the card a grade "B careful". :)
awesome video! I would love to see a recap tier list of the cards, and how they size up to each other. (kind of a lot of work though)
12:47 maybe I’m missing something but how the hell is white one of the worst removal colors?
Pause at 2:23:00
You're welcome
You 2 are the best. Didn't expect the set review so quickly
I'm so glad that Prowess is back!
Prowess is evergreen
@@saaiemedia726 Incorrect. It hasn't been evergreen since Eldritch Moon.
@@saaiemedia726 It hasn't been used since 2017.
LSV not paying attention the whole time was really frustrating
I think he forgot he was on camera...
@2:44:20
Am I correct that this wil put 5 counters in the creature if you have the green white gold card?
LSV just found out multitasking
Skyway sniper is a 1 drop in gw which means in takes counters amazingly, and in stalled games just shoots down x/2 or even x/3's as a mana sink. It's fairly easy to get it to 2/3 and able to shoot twice meaning a 4/4 flier dies to it straight up. But it's more a gw or gb(to trigger dying) 1 drop. And there are a ton of x/1 x/2 and x/3 fliers that it can kill or trade with fairly easily. And fliers will have to use removal on it as a 1 drop, pairs great with the 2 drop spider to double block any flier in the format generally with 1 living. Minimum a sideboard combo for fliers, him on 1, spider on 2, 1/4 spider on 3 just beats both aggro and fliers.
And there are like 5 or 6 common and 5 uncommon ways to add counters to any creature and another 5 or so at rare. It into signpost into cat and you have a 3/4 that pings fliers on 3 or feat, and then either another 2 drop and solidarity is a common with 1 or 2 uncommons with multiple peices each turn.
Feeling bad for SpellGorger Weird, it's friend didn't pass the reprint test
Spellkeeper Weird's flavor text:
"They worked well as a team, but they knew it couldn't last forever."
I loved having both of them in War draft, that spellslinger deck was surprisingly deep. I won a 6 round draft with another player in my pod in the same deck
1:13:30 It was actually CUMBER Stone.
Welcome to LSV's Top Draft.. Picks.
I am extremely down on new Magic sets these days, so for the first time in years I haven't looked at any of the spoilers.
Of course, I'd still never miss these set reviews. Love the content, thank you loads for keeping me interested in looking at new sets!
Short update: I'm three drafts in, trophied twice and the format seems really fun so far (I might be biased because winning is fun). The rares are cool, but few of them are instantly game ending, the planeswalkers are fun to play with and against (unlike many in the previous sets), and the archetypes are quite diverse. I'm a bit worried aggro might be too strong, but you can definitely do some 4c shrine nonsense as well, so it feels fairly well balanced.
Frost Otter - 2U uncommon
Creature - Otter 2/2
When it Frost Otter comes into play tap a creature an opponent controls. It doesn't untap on the opponents next untap step.
When Frost Otter attacks you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
You two don't put any drafts on yt anymore : (
I’m disappointed that they didn’t mention that enchantments and artifacts trigger prowess and get better in the “prowess” (not just spells matter) deck. Don’t forget that planeswalkers trigger prowess too lol.
So uh, if you reanimate a goremand, there's no downside at all. That seems good.
Goremand gets bonus points for name and flavour (get it? Goremand Flavour?? Hahaha)
Less than four hours? I approve. Great stuff guys :)
1:12:20 i kinda wish they gave me some guidance on how highly i should be rating the "bounce a spell on the stack" part of Unsubstantiate. it's such an unusual effect taht i'm not sure how useful (or useless!) it is?
It's basically useless. If you are doing it to a creature it's almost always the exact same as just bouncing it. If you are bouncing a removal spell they still have their removal spell, so they will either just recast it that turn or the next.
It's good when you are ahead but pretty bad when you are behind. If you want an unsummon its worth it but I wouldn't put too much stock on the bounce a spell part It never did much the last time it was printed.
Remand this is not. Remand was great because it slowed your opponent down at no card cost to you, Unsubstantiate puts you down a card so it's a worse unsummon and a worse remand. But it's a common so I would still play it in any deck that got value out of casting instants/ sorceries. I'm not unhappy if I bounce my opponents turn 2 play, especially if I can get something down on the board first, and then get some later value out of with the UR uncommon Weird token maker. I would say it fits into a UR aggro-control tempo style deck which is where bounce and tap spells usually shine. Also this gets better if you have hard counters, because you can either use this to buy you a turn to get Cancel mana up, or bounce soemthing that slipped through your counter wall to get a second shot at countering it. But you really need to get some ulterior value out of it for it to not just be card disadvantage.
The last time it was in limited I felt the bounce a spell part over performed when I wanted it but was definitely not the main mode (something like 0-1 times per draft assuming 3 matches). It is mostly a 2 mana unsummon which tends to be reasonable in decks that want the effect and then once in a while things line up where the other mode just works.
Great review guys! Thank you very much!
I would argue that radiant fountain is a build around D+ in a strong monocolor deck. Maybe even C+ plus if it's white lifegain.
Watching these two awesome dudes try to pronounce gourmand/goremand is hilarious :D. Also; amazing episode as always! (edited so the joke is more obvious).
Goremand* how is it pronounced?
Almost as funny as you trying to spell it correctly lol
It is a pun on the actual word 'gourmand'.
@@BjornFriborg Ah, nice. Thanks. Good to know.
How many copies of colossal dreadmaw is too many for a limited deck?
I like Furor a bit more tbh. If you want to block with the creature, you simply play it post-combat and enjoy a beefy blocker, ready to attack next turn after you play another thing to block with, and it's only 1/1 less than Impending Doom for 2 less, while also lacking the burn downside. The rate at which you let a creature gains stats is worth it for the most aggressive of strategies.
Dude, I love you guys
LSV: Hmm an Izzet card that gets me back instant and sorceries from the graveyard and a creature proportional to the amount of instant and sorceries I am playing....I'm gonna have to say A- on this one Marshall.
That's the right grade though, the card is fantastic! I guess you mean it ironically, because the card takes away one point of power from the creature? But the effect is great and the card will end up in your GY anyway later
@@deraxtmorder6397 It doesn't reduce the size of the creature. You make the creature before returning the card.
@@deraxtmorder6397 I was just making fun of the fact that LSV always loves UR over everything else.
Can drowsing tyrannodon attack if we use a trick tu give a +1 to it or putting a +1+1 counter since the card says "as long as you control a creature" and not "control another creature"?
Really enjoyed watching the review. After playing about a dozen limited events i'd say my two biggest points of contention with the review retrospectively is 1) Removal is generally underrated in this review. I've found that while creatures like that gold uncommons rated at b+ are good, i'd almost always want grasp of darkness or dragonfire which should have been in the A's. Also i'd argue the 5 mana removal spells (exit the scene and finishing blow) are severely underrated. Some of the planeswalkers and rare creatures demand immediate response or you just lose, and white/black doesnt have many ways to deal with them outside of uncommons/rares. 2) Teferi's Tutelage is completely busted at uncommon, it should honesly be rare. It's even better than LSV predicted here.
I am delivert!
been waiting so long. Love this show
Looking at the Black and Red removal spells I think Titanic Growth is going to play out better than Sure Strike in this set.
With the common dual land cycle in this set. how likely is 5 color going to be a viable option?
Very infrequently. You’re gonna be battling for enough playables quite often and that doesn’t mesh well with picking up tons of duals. Based on all the test drafts I’ve fired, 5 color shrines (or just 5 color at all) is a very rare beast indeed.
3 color is pretty good
Jund is great for aristocrats because rakdos and golgari compliment each other really well
Grixis has good control
Naya is pretty strong for midrange because +1/+1 counters can make things get to 4 power easier
Bant pumping your flyers is never bad
Esper is meh because you can play a grindy game with the Lifelink draining you opponents but you aren’t getting much to reanimate and you are only picking counters
This may be a well known piece of knowledge, but i noticed with carrion grub, they use 0/5 instead of */5. Has the * just been phased out of magic? Again I may be wayyy late on this lol
No, Carrion Grub just has 0 base power. Mortivore and the like have variable power based on other conditions.
Luis is definitely saying Seasoned Halibut right?
put rousing read on the snek (lorescale coatl) is straight gas
Interesting thing about combat tricks. They rated Sure Strike as a C- and Titanic Growth as a D. No explanation on the reasoning. Both are 2 CMC combat tricks, T Growth being the better one in almost every way; it does more damage and has way more defensive potential like saving a creature from a burn spell or grasp of darkness. Im guessing they gave Sure Strike the better rating because aggressive red decks will want a cheap combat trick more than midrangey green decks, even if the trick is inferior, although T Growth is the better card in a Red/Green deck where you can choose between the two. Good example of card evaluation in a vacuum not equating to how the cards will play in actual decks.
First strike is way better than the 3 health
@@kevinbob4347 Not sure which card you're referring to. Titanic Growth gives +4/+4 until end of turn. Sure Strike gives +3/+0 and first strike until end of turn. Titanic Growth does more damage and has actual defensive potential like saving a creature from a burn spell or grasp of darkness. T Growth is a better card.
I'm imagining that is the entire reason. Almost all red decks want a sure strike or two, not all green decks care for titanic. Also green two drops are whack this set but idk if that was part of the consideration.
LSV has a nose for good cards. Can you dig it?
Pride Malkin: does that smug cat make anyone else feel unstoppably violent?
Tome Enema??
3:33:25 LSV hardcore picking his nose
i think burn bright is fairly useful for the izzet prowess deck
Thx for the review! Always appreciate your takes on the new cards. I just thought the way you talked about b/g like it wasn't a real archetype was kind of weird (when you talked about the signpost ucs in the beginning). It seems like there are enough payoffs and little things going on to make it real. You also kind of hinted at the fact that a lot of creatures die anyway in a usual draft match.
I guess in b/g morbid and w/g +1-counters, the Fierce Empath goes up a little bit.
I spent so long trying to find spirit of malevolence in the m21 spoiler before realizing it’s only in the planeswalker decks. :P
I love Traitorous Greed, you'll be able to activate the abilities of creatures you steal with the mana it gives you.
2:22:55 LSV experiences the Thrill of Possibility.
Digging for treasure tokens
Is there anywhere we can get this in text format for quick checking while drafting?
CFB pro is genius, I’m glad they implemented it so we can keep enjoying their content
Isn't Swift Response a slightly better card than Seal Away from Dominaria? Just checked and that one got a B-
Spined Megalodon + Rousing Read is a classic combo and they're both at common (though also really expensive) this time around so I think that might push Megalodon up to C level (lol) given Rousing Read is a card you want to play anyway.
3:56:00 very important 👌
Can't wait to play this set
Love the show! Thanks guys. I hope you are all staying strong in these troubling times.
4h hours episode, lets freakin gooooo !
Funny to see this episode before 547 in video format)
Gnarled Sage does trigger mid-combat off a Thrill of Possibility, so there's that.
I feel like gormand if you can reanimate it is super good cuz it ends up being one sided.
I love this show, but I also love that LSV did a HUGE nose pick at heartfire immolater. It made me laugh so hard
Sorry if this has been said elsewhere or answered already, but why is episode 547 not on TH-cam? Is there a special reason?
It’s behind a paywall.
@@lindsayssbm that's not true. It's on the limited resources site. I don't know why it's not on TH-cam
The first 10 minutes was a political discussion where they lectured the audience about racism. Marshall must have had second thoughts
fun fact: blackguard is pronounced "blaggerd" and is defined as "a person (usually male) who behaves in a contemptible way". Some info for the pronunciation guide
Almost 4 hour video taping warrants short break in betweens. Hard to fault LSV for itchy bugers that he just need to pick while on the air or something. They can totally take a break every 45 min, I mean it's hard enough just to hold your bladder, can't imagine an itchy nostril w/buger balls 😅
30:15 LSV forgets there's a camera
Thx for the review guys with solid points! You guys look tired, distracted and a little sick though. Take Care!
“I think you’re a little OPTimistic on that” .............. was this an intentional pun that went over LSV’s head? Or was it just totally by accident
44:20
Track down by hueristics draws 2.5 cards for 2 mana. Also scry 3 lets you keep and stack any keepable other cards unlike anticipate, see garruk land you don't need and creature and bottom the land put creature on top and you don't have to bottom garruk, same with good spells. Or see 3 lands on turn 2 after keeping a 2 lander and top all 3 instead of bottoming 2 making you likely to miss the next land drop. And it's hard to imagine missing a land or creature going 4 cards deep in green, or late game not seeing a creature card or even just setting up the next turn with 3 lands on bottom or your garruk on top and 2 lands to bottom is fairly playable in top deck wars even if you miss. Also mirraris guile and heroic intervention, basri, white add counters spells, feat of resistance, removal, shrines not having to bottom cards like these is massive and still likely drawing something, especially with scry lands. Bottoming 2 and drawing a scry has dug you 5 deep for your next turn while drawing a dual. 1 mana scry 3 by itself is limited playable. And green does have draw synergies especially simic with say coatl. I think c to c+ is fair on curve but top decking turn 7 that card is a B maybe higher, and toss in ug draw 2 synergies and spell synergies and it's potentially better than opt and helps you dig for your low creature count, as 17 lands 7 creatures and you are overwhelmingly likely to hit going 4 deep with at least a land and dig 2 to 4 deep for one of your creatures. At like 12 ish creatures you fairly consistentlt will hit a creature and almost cannot miss. And at 0 creatures it scrys 3 and still hits a land a huge majority of the time while setting up your draws or bottoming 2 to 3 cards you do not want which is 10% of a limited deck at that point. So build around its maybe b-
Thanks! Great content!
You guys. I love the set reviews. But I’m here to see the cards. As much as I love to see your smiling faces, I’d rather see the cards as big as he screen will allow. Please and thank you.
The land mass depicted on the mosaic floor of Read the Tides looks kind of like an outline of the US state of New Jersey.
It also looks like the Korean peninsula.
44:16 I think you're a bit OPTimistic on that
Frost Breath into Enthralling Hold...seems good. Frost Breath C
Luis Vargas. Update mtga draft helper to match arena cube please
Welp, Selfless Saviour wins the award for the being the first ever flavor text I've gotten teary-eyed over.
'Blackguard', oddly enough, has nothing to do with neither black nor guard. It's pronounced; 'blaggard' and means scoundrel.
Did Luis just call seasoned hallowblade seasoned halibut?
Don't really get LSV's argument on Secure the Scene. It is definitely not a 5-mana Kazmina's Transmutation. Transmutation was an aura that could be removed via enchantment hate or blink effects. Moreover, when the creature died, it went to the graveyard and could be reanimated. Secure the Scene exiles the target creature and replaces it with a token. That's a huge difference. It also hits key Planeswalkers, enchantments, and shrines. Yes, it's better to NOT give the opponent a free 1/1, so I'm not saying this card is amazing. But you will run the first copy of this card in nearly every GW or UW deck. You will probably run 2 copies in this decks if you can get them.
Personal opinion, I wish the card on screen was larger
So we're getting a return to Kamigawa set soon, huh? Shrines, Spirits-matter? Have there ever been shrines in any other set?
Regarding Goremand and Marshall's comment about it being better with ETB "each player sacrifices a creature"... I disagree, cause then you open yourelf to the opponent responding with a situational removal that kills your other a creature and havin to sacrifice your 5/5 Flyer...
While that would be painful currently you get 2-1'd by countermagic without impacting the opposing board at all.
Thinking about it again... also if it had been as MArshall suggests, it could be used as a 6 mana edict if needed and we have no board...
That reaction to Secure The Scene was shocking, to be honest.
“Exile target nonland permanent” in Limited always froths my loins, regardless of CMC.
Wall of Runes cant be an F. Some slow blue controldecks love to have it as an early blocker that helps you hit your land drops. Id say C- to D+
It can be an F. And it is
@@clutch512 No. It is not.
@@smolensk83 If I EVER have to put that card into my deck I feel like something went wrong in the draft...even the most defensive decks will not want the card as it can never trade for an opponents card, where stuff like a walking corpse can at least trade with a random cat or dog against boros and can, theoretically at least, win the game...the wall does none of those things...the one place I can see it being MAYBE ok is in a blue/black deck that has Pestilent Haze as the wall encourages your aggressive opponents to overcommit to the board...but in that scenario it does nothing against the midrange and control decks you're going to face...so yes it is an easy F
So! for starters its, UW Flyers >RW Aggro/UR Spells>RG +4/GW +1+1>BG Graveyard Where does the others go?
Did LSV discover Tinder or what is he doing 60% of this podcast looking at his phone
Millenials... right?
It throws me off completely
lsv is trolling us on Anoited Chorister.
Did u really just say you would put 5 of these into a deck? Is that a joke or am i missing some mechanic or rule?
There is no 4 of rule in limited...if you get 6 copies of a card you can play all 6...
Plant for later is a Good one :D
Man, the wire is very good
I think Liliana's Devotee is a bit under-rated here. The ability to make aggressive attacks/trades in combat, and create value for a mere 2 mana is pretty significant. You are paying 2 mana for a 3/2 creature, which is already decent in itself. Giving that tag line of text to your attacking creatures, even in a limited capacity, appears to be quite powerful. I would Probably pick these pretty highly. They can be quite powerful in aggro or midrange decks. Even control decks with a great deal of removal can benefit from these. So, on that note, I believe this card is a bit better than what it is rated here. We will know more after getting a chance to play it in limited though.