Which part was your favourite? Mine was the bit with the grating singing and blown out ukulele mixing! Also, remember, BespokePost.com fans, that new subscribers get 20% off their first box - go to bspk.me/spice20 and enter code SPICE20 at checkout.
I feel like you broke something in my brain so that I couldn't figure out whether the tune was "Modern Major General" or "We Didn't Start the Fire" and I love you for it.
Going on that last line about you wanting to be a lawyer, that could work for future videos if you ever wanted to prosecute or defend certain characters from MTG lore. :D
A note for Wish: the spell Wish in 5e is almost always best used to cast basically *any spell in the game*, without needing it to be known or prepared, so the Wish card is doing a very good representation of that
One of Froghemoth's main abilities is the ability to swallow things into its massive body, which i think is the allegory they were going for with the exiling of a players graveyard, IE eating a players fallen allies and lost loot.
I really like Wish, because one of the stated uses of Wish in 5e is the ability to cast any spell of level 8 or lower (in fact, it's the only use of Wish that doesn't give you a chance of literally being unable to use Wish ever again.) In essence, it lets you cast any spell you want, but you have to spend extra resources to do so (a level 9 spell slot instead of whatever spell slot the spell you're casting actually is.) In MtG, Wish allows you to cast any spell you want (that's in your sideboard, at least) BUT you have to spend extra resources to do so, in this case mana. It's a really good execution of that idea.
Just looked it up! In 5e, it's explicitly stated in the spell description that using it for any purpose other than recreating a spell has a 1/3 chance of rendering you unable to ever cast it again.
@@catherinecarmen3194 there's a list of things that using wish for that doesnt have the bad things. stuff like creating a mundane item that cost 25k or making 10 people resistant to a damage type
@@PhenyxXanathar "The Stress of casting this spell to produce any Effect other than duplicating another spell weakens you. After enduring that Stress, each time you Cast a Spell until you finish a Long Rest, you take 1d10 necrotic damage per level of that spell. This damage can't be reduced or prevented in any way. In addition, your Strength drops to 3, if it isn't 3 or lower already, for 2d4 days. For each of those days that you spend Resting and doing nothing more than light activity, your remaining recovery time decreases by 2 days. Finally, there is a 33 percent chance that you are unable to cast wish ever again if you suffer this Stress." Straight from the book. There is a list of things you can do other than reproducing a spell, but all of those things still incur the penalty.
"The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of 8th level or lower. You don't need to meet any requirements in that spell, including costly Components. The spell simply takes Effect. Alternatively, you can create one of the following Effects of your choice." it literally specifies that you can alternatively cast it for one of those without the penalty.
Might have said it before, but the thing the bothers me most about this set is how the 'yuan ti malison' card is NOT a malison. Having both a snake head and tail it is an Yuan -ti abomination
@@dallasmeeker5577 Yes a Malison can have a tail in place of legs, thats a type 3 one in the Monster Manual, just as they can have a snake head (type 1). It cant, however have both a snake tail AND a snake head at the same time, thats the definition of an yuan ti abomination.
this actually isnt the first time an ooze has had a splitting mechanic! mitotic slime from m11 was a 4/4 that made 2 2/2s tokens that when they died split further making 2 1/1s! (i promise this isnt a nitpick i just like that card and found a good opportunity to mention it)
My friend runs that in his Rhys the Redeemed Commander deck. If it starts to multiply it goes completely out of control because he runs like all the "my stuff becomes indestructible" spells in WG.
fun fact: the flavor text from 'Critical Hit' is a reference to the fact that one way to naturally overcome a zombie's 'resist death' ability is to strike critically.
The mimic isn't trying to imitate the card treasure chest, it's imitating a treasure token, and even has the subtype and sacrifice ability to be indistinguishable from a regular treasure token.
I refuse to believe that you couldn't think of something for colourless. Truly, the only explaination is that the gray paint is lost to time and endless moves. That, or you were too scared to go back to a shop and purchase it, out of fear of the knowning looks that you might have to face, out of the desperate justifications you may have to make to explain it away. Explain that you purchased no horns, that you know nothing of such things. Also the video slaps, I know nothing about DnD apart from the Strixhaven stuff you've done with your incredibly charming character, and so this video was absolutely incredible!!
Goblin time. "Kisses for all of their many legs." "nothing but respect for my short kings! [sound of flesh slapping]" This is a top-tier, iconic vid, thank you for this.
I love the look of the main hive of the eye tyrant. just being able to trace the outline of the beholder in the background, alluding to the final boss while focusing on the scariest part of beholders, their lairs.
The circle of dreams Druid shields have actually been a circle of shepherds. Shepherd druids are known for summoning and empowering beasts and fae, so getting lots of mana for having a lot of creatures is quite fitting.
oh the giant space hampster thing is super canon. they (wotc or TSR i cant remember) worked backwords from "how would gnomes fly these giant magical spaceships we're making if they dont have magic? oh! lets give them giant space hampsters on wheels"
1:27:00 Fun fact about Gnolls. Their origins in creation were ret-conned they used to be these ugly Gnome-Troll hybrid creatures that were really unpopular. They also followed Yeenoghu, the demonlord, and when he was cursed with head of a hyena, so were all of his Gnoll followers. The story was a bit shaky and has since changed.
I love "murder-tourist" as an alternative to the other word. Also, I can't find a source for this, but I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Inferno of the Star Mounts is the same legendary dragon as on the DM Screen Reincarnated! Keep up the great videos! :D
54:40 The feature of the ward is Spell Reflection/Deflection. Also, in older editions the tarrasque was actually immortal and indestructable, but not anymore. And every DM who wants to threaten their party should maximize their HP. the tarrasque has an AVERAGE of 600hp, and a MAX hp (what everyone should use for *the* tarrasque should they add such an apocalyptic entity) of much higher. Hi youtube! ♡
@1:00:00 (Ish) Y'all missed the joke with Ellywick. She is a bard. You know, famous for exaggeration, extrapolation, chronicling journeys, etc. It's said she did all of those things. Never actually had to -do- ALL of them! At least that's my take.
I'd have loved the Tarrasque as a cheap powerful creature that comes in with some kind of "Slumber counters" or something, "The Tarrasque cannot attack of block when it has slumber counters on it", some way to remove the counters, And if it would be destroyed, put some number of slumber counters on it and regenerate it. Also, regarding Mimic: I think it should be an uncastable creature, and have "Sacrifice an artifact: Put Mimic from your hand onto the battlefield." And then it leads to situations of someone attacking you and you go "Ha-ha, it turns out that that innocuous treasure token I had was a monster I can block with the whole time!" It being a "put into play" effect, rather than "Casting it with flash" is meant to invoke the idea that you're not even summoning it, it was already there the whole time. And it being any artifact is because mimics don't Have to be chests.
54:26 it actually makes perfect sense. The tarrasque in dnd, similarly, can be defeated by a level 1 flying gnome with a crossbow, enough bolts, and a dream
Idk if someone else has said this yet, but I feel that the card Mitotic Slime is a pretty good example of a slime from MTG that has the splitting qualities of the oozes and slimes from dnd and other such fantasy settings.
Hey! I never would have expected a bardic Aaron West cover on this side of youtube, but you provided that! 4:09 is 67, Cherry Red by Aaron West and the roaring twenties
As far as I'm aware the Tarrasque has always been a bit of a joke. It's baby's first minmax challenge. 4e was balanced and gamey enough that it might actually have been a challenge (but my god 4e combat could be a slog, so it's hard to say), but I know that in 3.5e there were sub-lvl-10 builds that could reliably kill it, mostly because it had abysmal touch AC. Comparing 4e and 5e numbers is irrelevant, 5e had a major number crunch, a basic lvl 1 goblin warrior in 4e had 29hp and 17 AC, a lvl 3 goblin caster had 46hp and 17 AC. The numbers are just incomparable. Most of the Tarrasque's wimpiness is the curse of MM1. Early monster manuals get power-crept out of relevance and generally have worse designed monsters. The Tarrasque is iconic enough that it's always in the first monster manual. It also suffers from being a big dumb brute. There aren't many levers you can pull to balance it. It's either a rocket-tag nightmare or a wet noodle because high level damage (and even death) is pretty curable, it's not a spellcaster so it doesn't have any way to make that damage stick without 1-turn party wiping (multiple times because Contingency). In terms of durability it misses out on the juicy magical defences so AC and HP are the only real levers you can toggle, it either becomes an unhittable brick that makes martials irrelevant and forces the Wizard to punt it into a demiplane or it's pretty easily blendable by a buffed-up fightsman. 5e Tarrasque is uniquely wimpy in how easy it is to put down for good though. Previous versions had chunky regeneration and/or various anti-death clauses that allowed the bastard to keep coming back unless you pulled shenanigans (suffocation was a popular option, as was dunking it into planes that dealt constant damage). You'd win a straight-up fight in any edition, but in 5e that's it, it stays dead.
54:25 HUGE flavor fail here: Magic Missile’s MTG card says it can’t be countered. This is because Magic Missile the D&D spell does not require attack rolls. It just automagically deals damage to its target. The Tarrasque in D&D, however, has the ability to reflect magical projectiles when they use attack rolls. But the Tarrasque was also given the added on effect of “or if it gets targeted by Magic Missile,” seeing as Magic Missile would automatically hit, but would just bounce right off its reflective armor. But in _MTG,_ this is symbolized by _WARD,_ and YA WANNA KNOW THE FUN THING ABOUT WARD? It COUNTERS things that target it that fail to pay the cost. But MAGIC MISSILE CAN’T BE COUNTERED. So the D&D Tarrasque creature has a built-in defense against the D&D Magic Missile spell’s special feature, but the MTG Magic Missile spell has a built-in NULLIFICATION of the MTG Tarrasque Creatures’s special feature!!
The Tarrasques actually has warding to represent its legendary resistances, where players in dnd will have to spend spells and resources to whittle them down before they can actually target it with anything.
**Magic Missile** has things to say about it: Both the MtG card and the D&D spell are bad options if you just want to harm one big creature but have the advantage that it can't miss (or can't be countered for the card) and that you can split the missile to several targets. The "can't be countered" part is a bit of a flavor fail for how it interacts with the Tarrasque: the Tarrasque is supposed to be nearly immune to that specific spell but, as it can't be countered, her ward 10 ability won't apply against magic missile. That's probably more of a fail on the side of the Tarrasque, though.
Giant Space Hamsters are from the Spelljammer campaign setting, which hasn't really been updated since 2nd Edition. Its whole deal was spacefaring, and it could link the different campaign settings together if a table so desired. The fact that Minsc is aware of Giant Space Hamsters suggests that Boo either really is one or is old enough to remember Spelljammer.
I don't know too much about the Spelljammer setting, but I'm pretty sure that Giant Space Hamsters are actually a thing that exists, so Boo being one of those could be entirely possible
Farideh’s mechanics directly reference abilities of hers from later in the book series Lily mentioned. She becomes a Chosen of Asmodeus, and that gives her the flaming wings depicted in her card art, as well as a supernatural fear aura. When she first gains these abilities, she doesn’t know how to control them. Hence, her card has flying and menace, but only sometimes. It’s spot on.
Yes giant space hamsters are a thing, the roman allegory space hippos (Giff) use them to power their space ships (as in actual ships, called spelljammers). The spelljammer lore has always been on the fringe of dnd lore because most people treat it as a dark age swords and sorcery ttrpg, but you start to find some interesting stuff when you delve deeper into the cosmology
I do think that the circle of dreams has some connection with the actual subclass, as both of them do have a need for more Creatures to be more powerful, but still pretty weak.
I personally think that it should have been circle of Shepherds, because they are all about summoning a lot of creatures and then providing buffs for them, meaning their abilities are more effective the more creatures they have on their side.
I think Xorns not having any kind of evasion is a bit of a flavour fail. Their most iconic ability was always their ability to pass through unworked stone as if it were water.
Rally Maneuver was put in the insignificant pile, but it actually mirrors its namesake perfectly. Battlemaster Fighters get a pool of dice they can use to execute specific maneuvers in combat, Rally being one of them. In dnd, the maneuver let's you give a creature temporary hit points, which is exactly what the card does by boosting the toughness. It's also great in the fact that you can target 2 creatures, meaning one is issuing the command just like in dnd.
I'm not a TH-cam creator so I'm not smart enough to know if you get to see how fast someone clicks the "like" button on one of your videos. Just so you know, the time from when I began watching this video and the subsequent "like" click was nothing short of blazing, you superhero of DnD/MtG hilarity :)
Here's a nitpick for your nitpick video, I think the Tarrasque's ward is a reference to it's reflective carapace ability, which protects it from targeted spells in the same way ward protects big T from targeted removal.
On Wish, one of its big abilities is allowing you to cast any other spell of lesser spell level. So casting it to then cast a spell from your sideboard is super flavorful.
52:00 There is a splitting Ooze that halfs in size everytime it is "killed"; Mitotic Slime (M11) creates Tokens half it's size which in turn create Tokens half their size, so it goes from 1 4/4 to 2 2/2's to 4 1/1s And Splitting Ooze (CN2) allows you to create one monstrous ooze after the other, creating tokens of the base creature
In the Dungeon of the Mad Mage, the Lost Level ends in a room that allows adventurers to learn about the dungeon via magic. The Deep Mines contain the lair of a wizard who's been studying the dungeon, allowing you to learn more. But the "Dungeon Level" is a mystery to me. I guess there's a map?
another little bonus for the design of "wish:" In 5th Edition you can use wish to cast any spell up to 8th level in the game, most notably letting you have access to spells outside of the spells you know or even spells outside of what your class would otherwise have access to altogether. Pulling a card from your sideboard and thus out of your deck (your 'spells known' as it were) feels delightfully on theme. Thumbs up!
for the painter girl, the treasure I suppose that represent their paintings, and the fact that if creature cast with treasures comes with bonus it's a reference to them coming to life
Ellywick recently got a new bit of lore in the new Wild Beyond the Witchlight sourcebook/adventure. She's actually canonically a planeswalker now, and is so powerful, she's unstatted (something reserved for deities and planewalkers). Boo is generally believed to be an actual miniature Giant Space Hamster by the fanbase. Xanathar has a very cool quirk with his ability that got looked over (SPOILERS FOR WATERDEEP: DRAGON HIEST) The Xanathar actually has DM-limited omniscience. According to the adventure rules. **He actually knows everything the DM knows at all times.** He eve has access to the Monster Manual, the DMG, and even the players' personal character sheets! This is why he is able to steal from opponents' decks and use their cards.
she isn’t mentioned in WBtW at ALL, which really bummed me out because when they announced her they said she would be a relevant character in that adventure!!
1:09:25 i run this in my wyll deck, because i have advantage (so super low chance to roll 2 nat ones) and it's a piece of dice roll. it's not spectacular, but the deck was built on a budget so it works fine
There's one thing that the Mimic card does that the Treasure Chest card should have built in- Mimic is listed as the subtype 'Treasure.' It only aids a few cards for synergy, but the idea that other cards are 'tricked' into having their function work with the Mimic was the kind of flavor that ties it better with the MtG leudonar than the Treasure Chest did
My favourite detail about bugbears is that they are really goddamn stealthy for some reason. They're fucking huge and buff as all hell but they are some of the most capable assassins of D&D's monstrous races and I literally don't know why
So in a few years, Wotc will release "The OG Tarrasque", that is way overpowered to reference the older editions *rubs hands maniacally* Also, the treasure chest would be a great thing to copy in a Mario Kart themed edh deck
The splittibg of slines upon death has been done before in Magic's history, card was called Mitotic Slime, a 4/4 that when it died made 2 2/2s and when those died they made 4 1/1s
Froghemoth actually has a lot of lore from earlier editions (going back to Temple of the Frog). I haven't read it, but Frog God Games was clearly pretty inspired by whatever was in it, and in their supplements that reference the Froghemoth it's divinity is rooted in swamps and trapping souls preventing them from moving on to their final rest. This causes some friction with other beings at similar power levels because souls of the penitent are how you measure the power of divine beings. All that to say, I think Froghemoth's flavour is very in-line with its lore.
When you were talking about Ochre Jelly, you mentioned that there were no other oozes in magic that have that splitting ability. However, there was card previously printed that splits when it dies, mitotic slime. It’s an ooze that starts as a 4/4 and splits into two 2/2s which each split into two 1/1s. Also there is a card called splitting slime that while not exactly having the split mechanic, does at least reference it in flavor and has a somewhat parallel ability.
Fun fact with Asmodeus; According to some deep lore, his Devil form is actually a false projection. His true form is an evil Coatle (winged snake thing) who got dumpstered so hard he fell all the way to the 9th Hell, and his body is literally that layer. Hes actually trapped there while his body recovers, ergo not being a Planeswalker right now.
Fun fact. I do not own and never have owned a trading card. I do not play trading cards. I love the art on the cards, so that fascinates me. Mtg has good art... I could watch you and the professor talk cards all day. You do a good job of video production. Thankyou for sharing your insights...... BUT BUT BUT I want to share something with you. You seemed to like singing the card names as lyrics. So I just want to suggest to you, the best lyrics for your style of playing comes in the form of the "Personal adverts" in your local newspaper. Give it a try. I'd love to hear you sing the personal adds from your local area! lol
great video as always, loved lily's partecipation, I only have one small nitpick abobut the lore of the fire giant king zalto, the one on the front page of the player's handbook is actually king Snurre, it's written in the handbook itself in the second page, under the credits. it's just a small detail, but since you are going to make a video where you talk about the nitpicks in a video about nitpicking, I want to take part in it
I think the direct comparison of stats between 4th and 5th edition for the Tarrasque isn't very helpful, considering that a max level party in 4e will be getting like, +30 to attack rolls, while a 5e party would be lucky to get half that.
I personally would’ve given the Gaea’s cradle elf to the Circle of the Shepard, since that’s the circle associated with summoning large numbers of creatures and buffing them to fight for you. The subclass that gives you benefits based on the number of creatures on your team getting the Gaea’s cradle effect would be the best flavour, IMO. Great vid by the way!
Am I the only one that, when Spice drops a new video, watches the video and then spends the next day or two going back and rewatching older videos? One of the only TH-camrs that has content I'm rewatching regularly that was released a year ago.
Uhm. Boo shows up in Spelljammer? I don't have those books, a friend does, so I don't know the details, but I am 100% certain a giant space hanster called boo is a notable NPC in them😂
Your idea to have had cards that considered the level of a class is freakin' awesome! They should definitely do that if they ever go back to DnD, or even the next time they use class cards regardless.
Another nice thing about critical hit is the flavor text, it says that this is how you can kill undead, and in the monster manual, zombies have undead fortitude, which lets them roll a con save when they take damage that would kill them and if they succeed they don't die, but if they take radiant damage or a critical hit, they don't make the con save and just die
Pausing at the Tarrasque. I was introduced in 2nd edition and in that, the Tarrasque's thAC0(the inversed math equation they used for being able to hit your target) was a negative number, which somehow translated (written on the Monster Manual page for the Tarrasque) to mean that the PC's could only accidentally hit the Tarrasque with a weapon, meaning a roll of 1 was the only way to hit it. 😂
Lost Mine of Phandelver you mention that one of the storerooms can get you gear from an NPC named Sildar. Sildar’s Gear isn’t actually found in the Lost Mine. It’s found in Cragmaw Castle in the chapter prior.
They should have made all treasure chests into transform cards. When you transform them, that's when you find out if it's a mimic or if you roll the d20 for loot.
Seeing as we as players are Planeswalkers I feel like they used Ellywick as a reference to the meme power fantasy of being a bard that can convince anyone to do anything.
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Which part was your favourite? Mine was the bit with the grating singing and blown out ukulele mixing!
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I definitely had to rediscover the Wonder Years going down an Aaron West Google Spiral looking up lyrics so, thanks Spicy!
Why haven't WotC given you a job yet?
I feel like you broke something in my brain so that I couldn't figure out whether the tune was "Modern Major General" or "We Didn't Start the Fire" and I love you for it.
Going on that last line about you wanting to be a lawyer, that could work for future videos if you ever wanted to prosecute or defend certain characters from MTG lore. :D
55:54 This is an automatic thumbs up.
"My boss is an app and my office is a corridor" is a brilliant and horrifying distillation of the content creator's life.
A note for Wish: the spell Wish in 5e is almost always best used to cast basically *any spell in the game*, without needing it to be known or prepared, so the Wish card is doing a very good representation of that
BTW, the commander precons's Wild Magic Sorcerer is actually a very very good representation of chaos magics, it has cascade and likes exiled cards.
Oh cascade
One of Froghemoth's main abilities is the ability to swallow things into its massive body, which i think is the allegory they were going for with the exiling of a players graveyard, IE eating a players fallen allies and lost loot.
Shoulda had the flavour word _vore_
Oh I'm so glad you brought back the dancing sword bit
Me too! It was a joy to film haha
The dancing sword and your "beef" with the Professor are my top 2 favorite bits from your channel
I really like Wish, because one of the stated uses of Wish in 5e is the ability to cast any spell of level 8 or lower (in fact, it's the only use of Wish that doesn't give you a chance of literally being unable to use Wish ever again.) In essence, it lets you cast any spell you want, but you have to spend extra resources to do so (a level 9 spell slot instead of whatever spell slot the spell you're casting actually is.)
In MtG, Wish allows you to cast any spell you want (that's in your sideboard, at least) BUT you have to spend extra resources to do so, in this case mana. It's a really good execution of that idea.
using wish to cast an 8th level or lower spell is *one* of the uses that doesnt result in you maybe not using wish again, but it's not the only one
Just looked it up! In 5e, it's explicitly stated in the spell description that using it for any purpose other than recreating a spell has a 1/3 chance of rendering you unable to ever cast it again.
@@catherinecarmen3194 there's a list of things that using wish for that doesnt have the bad things. stuff like creating a mundane item that cost 25k or making 10 people resistant to a damage type
@@PhenyxXanathar "The Stress of casting this spell to produce any Effect other than duplicating another spell weakens you. After enduring that Stress, each time you Cast a Spell until you finish a Long Rest, you take 1d10 necrotic damage per level of that spell. This damage can't be reduced or prevented in any way. In addition, your Strength drops to 3, if it isn't 3 or lower already, for 2d4 days. For each of those days that you spend Resting and doing nothing more than light activity, your remaining recovery time decreases by 2 days. Finally, there is a 33 percent chance that you are unable to cast wish ever again if you suffer this Stress."
Straight from the book.
There is a list of things you can do other than reproducing a spell, but all of those things still incur the penalty.
"The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of 8th level or lower. You don't need to meet any requirements in that spell, including costly Components. The spell simply takes Effect. Alternatively, you can create one of the following Effects of your choice."
it literally specifies that you can alternatively cast it for one of those without the penalty.
So wait you are telling me that by being annoying human beings and pointing out your mistakes we get you to make another video? WONDERFUL
Incoming Backup, it's annoying pieces of shit who point out all my mistakes which puts views on the counter and food on my table!
@@Spice8Rack great, then I will finish watching the video and make a list
Also wild shape isn't a spell, it's an ability
@@Spice8Rack Does that mean if we bug you enough you'll push back the video about mill versus discard again? Because I like that running joke
Might have said it before, but the thing the bothers me most about this set is how the 'yuan ti malison' card is NOT a malison. Having both a snake head and tail it is an Yuan -ti abomination
actually if you read the lore for Malisons its said that they have a large range of appearances, one of which is having a tail in place of legs
@@dallasmeeker5577 Yes a Malison can have a tail in place of legs, thats a type 3 one in the Monster Manual, just as they can have a snake head (type 1). It cant, however have both a snake tail AND a snake head at the same time, thats the definition of an yuan ti abomination.
this actually isnt the first time an ooze has had a splitting mechanic! mitotic slime from m11 was a 4/4 that made 2 2/2s tokens that when they died split further making 2 1/1s! (i promise this isnt a nitpick i just like that card and found a good opportunity to mention it)
I love mitotic slime, especially with populate
Ah, glad I checked the comments and found someone saved me the trouble of bringing up Mitotic Ooze.
My friend runs that in his Rhys the Redeemed Commander deck. If it starts to multiply it goes completely out of control because he runs like all the "my stuff becomes indestructible" spells in WG.
fun fact: the flavor text from 'Critical Hit' is a reference to the fact that one way to naturally overcome a zombie's 'resist death' ability is to strike critically.
I am SO HAPPY the NFL theme has been picked up by more people whose videos I love, it’s so simple yet effective as a dumbass meme
The mimic isn't trying to imitate the card treasure chest, it's imitating a treasure token, and even has the subtype and sacrifice ability to be indistinguishable from a regular treasure token.
But it's also not a token and could be made better by mirroring treasure chest which also makes treasure tokens
Wild shape is a druid ability not a spell, and circle of the moon druids can transform into animals of higher CR, up to CR6 at lv18.
Was about to post the same thing
Shoutout to Sam Guay, artist on both of those cards
Notably, the highest cr creature that moon druids cam turn into are mammoths which in magic are also under the elephant creature type
I refuse to believe that you couldn't think of something for colourless. Truly, the only explaination is that the gray paint is lost to time and endless moves. That, or you were too scared to go back to a shop and purchase it, out of fear of the knowning looks that you might have to face, out of the desperate justifications you may have to make to explain it away. Explain that you purchased no horns, that you know nothing of such things.
Also the video slaps, I know nothing about DnD apart from the Strixhaven stuff you've done with your incredibly charming character, and so this video was absolutely incredible!!
Would Artificer work?
The goblin Deez Nuts joke made me laugh out loud
Hehehe I'd give this a heart but I don't wanna spoil the gag yet ;)
Wasn’t expecting that at all. Hadn’t laughed this much in a while!
@@Spice8Rack spoil deze nuts
Genuinely one of the funniest jokes I've seen in a video
The video was so good it couldn't be contained in one video
Bless you
Goblin time. "Kisses for all of their many legs." "nothing but respect for my short kings! [sound of flesh slapping]" This is a top-tier, iconic vid, thank you for this.
Another banger
Thank you sweet boy
52:38 , Thunderclap deals thunder damage, not lightning damage and therefore would not trigger the ochre jelly's splitting ability
Yeah, but it’s super easy to mix up when you start playing
I love the look of the main hive of the eye tyrant. just being able to trace the outline of the beholder in the background, alluding to the final boss while focusing on the scariest part of beholders, their lairs.
Thank you for talking about Senor de los Banditos. It was my favorite part of spoiler season.
The circle of dreams Druid shields have actually been a circle of shepherds. Shepherd druids are known for summoning and empowering beasts and fae, so getting lots of mana for having a lot of creatures is quite fitting.
oh the giant space hampster thing is super canon. they (wotc or TSR i cant remember) worked backwords from "how would gnomes fly these giant magical spaceships we're making if they dont have magic? oh! lets give them giant space hampsters on wheels"
I think what spice was contesting was whether or not it was Canon that boo was actually a miniaturized giant space hamster or a regular hamster.
The wait is finnaly over! Bless you, the spiciest man
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Fun fact about Gnolls. Their origins in creation were ret-conned they used to be these ugly Gnome-Troll hybrid creatures that were really unpopular. They also followed Yeenoghu, the demonlord, and when he was cursed with head of a hyena, so were all of his Gnoll followers.
The story was a bit shaky and has since changed.
I love "murder-tourist" as an alternative to the other word.
Also, I can't find a source for this, but I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Inferno of the Star Mounts is the same legendary dragon as on the DM Screen Reincarnated!
Keep up the great videos! :D
I think Kalain is referencing how in Strixhaven treasure was used to represent art.
54:40 The feature of the ward is Spell Reflection/Deflection.
Also, in older editions the tarrasque was actually immortal and indestructable, but not anymore.
And every DM who wants to threaten their party should maximize their HP.
the tarrasque has an AVERAGE of 600hp, and a MAX hp (what everyone should use for *the* tarrasque should they add such an apocalyptic entity) of much higher.
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@1:00:00 (Ish) Y'all missed the joke with Ellywick. She is a bard. You know, famous for exaggeration, extrapolation, chronicling journeys, etc. It's said she did all of those things. Never actually had to -do- ALL of them! At least that's my take.
I'd have loved the Tarrasque as a cheap powerful creature that comes in with some kind of "Slumber counters" or something, "The Tarrasque cannot attack of block when it has slumber counters on it", some way to remove the counters, And if it would be destroyed, put some number of slumber counters on it and regenerate it.
Also, regarding Mimic: I think it should be an uncastable creature, and have "Sacrifice an artifact: Put Mimic from your hand onto the battlefield." And then it leads to situations of someone attacking you and you go "Ha-ha, it turns out that that innocuous treasure token I had was a monster I can block with the whole time!" It being a "put into play" effect, rather than "Casting it with flash" is meant to invoke the idea that you're not even summoning it, it was already there the whole time. And it being any artifact is because mimics don't Have to be chests.
"my decendants will look upon my wasted time on a dying earth and shriek with pain and rage at how fully i squandered it"
beautiful opening to a video
54:26 it actually makes perfect sense. The tarrasque in dnd, similarly, can be defeated by a level 1 flying gnome with a crossbow, enough bolts, and a dream
Circle of the moon Druid’s can actually turn into elephant when they hit level 12
I liked all the man-land cards in this set because you could see the silhouette of the creature it was supposed a lair of.
Idk if someone else has said this yet, but I feel that the card Mitotic Slime is a pretty good example of a slime from MTG that has the splitting qualities of the oozes and slimes from dnd and other such fantasy settings.
Hey! I never would have expected a bardic Aaron West cover on this side of youtube, but you provided that! 4:09 is 67, Cherry Red by Aaron West and the roaring twenties
As far as I'm aware the Tarrasque has always been a bit of a joke. It's baby's first minmax challenge. 4e was balanced and gamey enough that it might actually have been a challenge (but my god 4e combat could be a slog, so it's hard to say), but I know that in 3.5e there were sub-lvl-10 builds that could reliably kill it, mostly because it had abysmal touch AC. Comparing 4e and 5e numbers is irrelevant, 5e had a major number crunch, a basic lvl 1 goblin warrior in 4e had 29hp and 17 AC, a lvl 3 goblin caster had 46hp and 17 AC. The numbers are just incomparable.
Most of the Tarrasque's wimpiness is the curse of MM1. Early monster manuals get power-crept out of relevance and generally have worse designed monsters. The Tarrasque is iconic enough that it's always in the first monster manual.
It also suffers from being a big dumb brute. There aren't many levers you can pull to balance it. It's either a rocket-tag nightmare or a wet noodle because high level damage (and even death) is pretty curable, it's not a spellcaster so it doesn't have any way to make that damage stick without 1-turn party wiping (multiple times because Contingency). In terms of durability it misses out on the juicy magical defences so AC and HP are the only real levers you can toggle, it either becomes an unhittable brick that makes martials irrelevant and forces the Wizard to punt it into a demiplane or it's pretty easily blendable by a buffed-up fightsman.
5e Tarrasque is uniquely wimpy in how easy it is to put down for good though. Previous versions had chunky regeneration and/or various anti-death clauses that allowed the bastard to keep coming back unless you pulled shenanigans (suffocation was a popular option, as was dunking it into planes that dealt constant damage). You'd win a straight-up fight in any edition, but in 5e that's it, it stays dead.
There's also no reference to Kalain being a vampire in Waterdeep Dragonheist. Kalain is just a painting bard with a tragic backstory.
54:25 HUGE flavor fail here: Magic Missile’s MTG card says it can’t be countered. This is because Magic Missile the D&D spell does not require attack rolls. It just automagically deals damage to its target. The Tarrasque in D&D, however, has the ability to reflect magical projectiles when they use attack rolls. But the Tarrasque was also given the added on effect of “or if it gets targeted by Magic Missile,” seeing as Magic Missile would automatically hit, but would just bounce right off its reflective armor. But in _MTG,_ this is symbolized by _WARD,_ and YA WANNA KNOW THE FUN THING ABOUT WARD? It COUNTERS things that target it that fail to pay the cost. But MAGIC MISSILE CAN’T BE COUNTERED.
So the D&D Tarrasque creature has a built-in defense against the D&D Magic Missile spell’s special feature, but the MTG Magic Missile spell has a built-in NULLIFICATION of the MTG Tarrasque Creatures’s special feature!!
The Tarrasques actually has warding to represent its legendary resistances, where players in dnd will have to spend spells and resources to whittle them down before they can actually target it with anything.
**Magic Missile** has things to say about it: Both the MtG card and the D&D spell are bad options if you just want to harm one big creature but have the advantage that it can't miss (or can't be countered for the card) and that you can split the missile to several targets.
The "can't be countered" part is a bit of a flavor fail for how it interacts with the Tarrasque: the Tarrasque is supposed to be nearly immune to that specific spell but, as it can't be countered, her ward 10 ability won't apply against magic missile. That's probably more of a fail on the side of the Tarrasque, though.
Thanks, Spicy Boy! "I'm a Paladin in the streets, a Bard in the sheets" seems like a good way to do things.
Giant Space Hamsters are from the Spelljammer campaign setting, which hasn't really been updated since 2nd Edition. Its whole deal was spacefaring, and it could link the different campaign settings together if a table so desired. The fact that Minsc is aware of Giant Space Hamsters suggests that Boo either really is one or is old enough to remember Spelljammer.
I don't know too much about the Spelljammer setting, but I'm pretty sure that Giant Space Hamsters are actually a thing that exists, so Boo being one of those could be entirely possible
Yeah, Boo is a miniature giant space hamster
Farideh’s mechanics directly reference abilities of hers from later in the book series Lily mentioned. She becomes a Chosen of Asmodeus, and that gives her the flaming wings depicted in her card art, as well as a supernatural fear aura. When she first gains these abilities, she doesn’t know how to control them. Hence, her card has flying and menace, but only sometimes. It’s spot on.
I don't think she ever actually is capable of flight if we're gonna nitpick. It's been a while since I read the series.
Just super casually putting Last Surprise from Persona 5 under the goblins section for seemingly no reason other than it being a bop
Yes giant space hamsters are a thing, the roman allegory space hippos (Giff) use them to power their space ships (as in actual ships, called spelljammers). The spelljammer lore has always been on the fringe of dnd lore because most people treat it as a dark age swords and sorcery ttrpg, but you start to find some interesting stuff when you delve deeper into the cosmology
Only know Spelljammer exists from an ancient Something awful article making fun of the art
I do think that the circle of dreams has some connection with the actual subclass, as both of them do have a need for more Creatures to be more powerful, but still pretty weak.
I personally think that it should have been circle of Shepherds, because they are all about summoning a lot of creatures and then providing buffs for them, meaning their abilities are more effective the more creatures they have on their side.
A year late but if no one’s gonna say it, I will. Thanks for the overdramatic rendition of 67, Cherry Red. I love that song, I love that band lmao
Wild Shape is not a Spell in D&D, it’s an ability of the Druid Class
I think Xorns not having any kind of evasion is a bit of a flavour fail. Their most iconic ability was always their ability to pass through unworked stone as if it were water.
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The intro to red was honestly a thing of pure beauty, a true masterwork of comedic tension and release
Scanning the comments to see if I mispronounced anything as badly as Bahamut in the last video.
I think you got away with it... this time
5:53 I CANNOT believe you'd do my boy Mitotic Slime so dirty. He's been out here splitting since m11
"Murder Tourist" is my new favorite way of referring to "just kill all the things, even if they're helping you" players.
Rally Maneuver was put in the insignificant pile, but it actually mirrors its namesake perfectly. Battlemaster Fighters get a pool of dice they can use to execute specific maneuvers in combat, Rally being one of them. In dnd, the maneuver let's you give a creature temporary hit points, which is exactly what the card does by boosting the toughness. It's also great in the fact that you can target 2 creatures, meaning one is issuing the command just like in dnd.
I'm not a TH-cam creator so I'm not smart enough to know if you get to see how fast someone clicks the "like" button on one of your videos. Just so you know, the time from when I began watching this video and the subsequent "like" click was nothing short of blazing, you superhero of DnD/MtG hilarity :)
Here's a nitpick for your nitpick video, I think the Tarrasque's ward is a reference to it's reflective carapace ability, which protects it from targeted spells in the same way ward protects big T from targeted removal.
love the content spice man, happy festivus
On Wish, one of its big abilities is allowing you to cast any other spell of lesser spell level. So casting it to then cast a spell from your sideboard is super flavorful.
52:00 There is a splitting Ooze that halfs in size everytime it is "killed"; Mitotic Slime (M11) creates Tokens half it's size which in turn create Tokens half their size, so it goes from 1 4/4 to 2 2/2's to 4 1/1s
And Splitting Ooze (CN2) allows you to create one monstrous ooze after the other, creating tokens of the base creature
In the Dungeon of the Mad Mage, the Lost Level ends in a room that allows adventurers to learn about the dungeon via magic. The Deep Mines contain the lair of a wizard who's been studying the dungeon, allowing you to learn more.
But the "Dungeon Level" is a mystery to me. I guess there's a map?
I've listened to Goblin Time so many times today that I need it on sound cloud, please. The entire rant has HUGE Mark Bonanno energy.
Can't see what's wrong about a Triumphant Adventurer killing the Tarrasque. They are, after all, Triumphant.
The spell Wish in DnD allows you to cast any spell of 8th level or lower, and the Wish card in MtG allows you to cast any spell from your sideboard.
another little bonus for the design of "wish:" In 5th Edition you can use wish to cast any spell up to 8th level in the game, most notably letting you have access to spells outside of the spells you know or even spells outside of what your class would otherwise have access to altogether. Pulling a card from your sideboard and thus out of your deck (your 'spells known' as it were) feels delightfully on theme.
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for the painter girl, the treasure I suppose that represent their paintings, and the fact that if creature cast with treasures comes with bonus it's a reference to them coming to life
It's probably already said, but the froghemoth was an alien in the module "the barrier wastes" aboard a crashed starship (dungeon).
Ellywick recently got a new bit of lore in the new Wild Beyond the Witchlight sourcebook/adventure. She's actually canonically a planeswalker now, and is so powerful, she's unstatted (something reserved for deities and planewalkers). Boo is generally believed to be an actual miniature Giant Space Hamster by the fanbase. Xanathar has a very cool quirk with his ability that got looked over (SPOILERS FOR WATERDEEP: DRAGON HIEST) The Xanathar actually has DM-limited omniscience. According to the adventure rules. **He actually knows everything the DM knows at all times.** He eve has access to the Monster Manual, the DMG, and even the players' personal character sheets! This is why he is able to steal from opponents' decks and use their cards.
Thanks for the spoiler-warning!
she isn’t mentioned in WBtW at ALL, which really bummed me out because when they announced her they said she would be a relevant character in that adventure!!
1:09:25 i run this in my wyll deck, because i have advantage (so super low chance to roll 2 nat ones) and it's a piece of dice roll. it's not spectacular, but the deck was built on a budget so it works fine
Lilly Simpson is underrated cool to see her here
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*Gasps* Flametongue?! Twinkle is a defending scimitar not a flametongue! The sacrilege!
Apocalypse World is so cool. The classes are super flavorful and their mechanics like managing your own cult is just * chef's kiss *.
There's one thing that the Mimic card does that the Treasure Chest card should have built in- Mimic is listed as the subtype 'Treasure.' It only aids a few cards for synergy, but the idea that other cards are 'tricked' into having their function work with the Mimic was the kind of flavor that ties it better with the MtG leudonar than the Treasure Chest did
My favourite detail about bugbears is that they are really goddamn stealthy for some reason. They're fucking huge and buff as all hell but they are some of the most capable assassins of D&D's monstrous races and I literally don't know why
When you get around to the follow-up, do consider calling it an Errata video!
So in a few years, Wotc will release "The OG Tarrasque", that is way overpowered to reference the older editions *rubs hands maniacally*
Also, the treasure chest would be a great thing to copy in a Mario Kart themed edh deck
The splittibg of slines upon death has been done before in Magic's history, card was called Mitotic Slime, a 4/4 that when it died made 2 2/2s and when those died they made 4 1/1s
Froghemoth actually has a lot of lore from earlier editions (going back to Temple of the Frog). I haven't read it, but Frog God Games was clearly pretty inspired by whatever was in it, and in their supplements that reference the Froghemoth it's divinity is rooted in swamps and trapping souls preventing them from moving on to their final rest. This causes some friction with other beings at similar power levels because souls of the penitent are how you measure the power of divine beings. All that to say, I think Froghemoth's flavour is very in-line with its lore.
When you were talking about Ochre Jelly, you mentioned that there were no other oozes in magic that have that splitting ability. However, there was card previously printed that splits when it dies, mitotic slime. It’s an ooze that starts as a 4/4 and splits into two 2/2s which each split into two 1/1s.
Also there is a card called splitting slime that while not exactly having the split mechanic, does at least reference it in flavor and has a somewhat parallel ability.
Fun fact with Asmodeus;
According to some deep lore, his Devil form is actually a false projection. His true form is an evil Coatle (winged snake thing) who got dumpstered so hard he fell all the way to the 9th Hell, and his body is literally that layer.
Hes actually trapped there while his body recovers, ergo not being a Planeswalker right now.
Fun fact. I do not own and never have owned a trading card. I do not play trading cards. I love the art on the cards, so that fascinates me. Mtg has good art... I could watch you and the professor talk cards all day. You do a good job of video production. Thankyou for sharing your insights...... BUT BUT BUT I want to share something with you. You seemed to like singing the card names as lyrics. So I just want to suggest to you, the best lyrics for your style of playing comes in the form of the "Personal adverts" in your local newspaper. Give it a try. I'd love to hear you sing the personal adds from your local area! lol
great video as always, loved lily's partecipation, I only have one small nitpick abobut the lore of the fire giant king zalto, the one on the front page of the player's handbook is actually king Snurre, it's written in the handbook itself in the second page, under the credits. it's just a small detail, but since you are going to make a video where you talk about the nitpicks in a video about nitpicking, I want to take part in it
I think the direct comparison of stats between 4th and 5th edition for the Tarrasque isn't very helpful, considering that a max level party in 4e will be getting like, +30 to attack rolls, while a 5e party would be lucky to get half that.
I personally would’ve given the Gaea’s cradle elf to the Circle of the Shepard, since that’s the circle associated with summoning large numbers of creatures and buffing them to fight for you.
The subclass that gives you benefits based on the number of creatures on your team getting the Gaea’s cradle effect would be the best flavour, IMO. Great vid by the way!
Am I the only one that, when Spice drops a new video, watches the video and then spends the next day or two going back and rewatching older videos? One of the only TH-camrs that has content I'm rewatching regularly that was released a year ago.
With Kalain, I think the treasure token represents art here, a bit like it did in Strixhaven.
Uhm. Boo shows up in Spelljammer? I don't have those books, a friend does, so I don't know the details, but I am 100% certain a giant space hanster called boo is a notable NPC in them😂
Your idea to have had cards that considered the level of a class is freakin' awesome! They should definitely do that if they ever go back to DnD, or even the next time they use class cards regardless.
Wild Shape lets you transform into a elephant in AD&D, meaning: this has references beyond 5E, which is a positive thing actually
Another nice thing about critical hit is the flavor text, it says that this is how you can kill undead, and in the monster manual, zombies have undead fortitude, which lets them roll a con save when they take damage that would kill them and if they succeed they don't die, but if they take radiant damage or a critical hit, they don't make the con save and just die
Boric wins the election and a new spice8rack video? this is the best Christmas week
Death to the legacy of Pinochet! Vive La Big D&D Video!
Pausing at the Tarrasque. I was introduced in 2nd edition and in that, the Tarrasque's thAC0(the inversed math equation they used for being able to hit your target) was a negative number, which somehow translated (written on the Monster Manual page for the Tarrasque) to mean that the PC's could only accidentally hit the Tarrasque with a weapon, meaning a roll of 1 was the only way to hit it. 😂
"It's like an evil blob creature" aka my spirit animal.
Lost Mine of Phandelver you mention that one of the storerooms can get you gear from an NPC named Sildar. Sildar’s Gear isn’t actually found in the Lost Mine. It’s found in Cragmaw Castle in the chapter prior.
They should have made all treasure chests into transform cards. When you transform them, that's when you find out if it's a mimic or if you roll the d20 for loot.
Heyy it's finally here!.
It took me exactly this long to sleeve up an entire modern deck.
Seeing as we as players are Planeswalkers I feel like they used Ellywick as a reference to the meme power fantasy of being a bard that can convince anyone to do anything.
Damn, no mention of the most iconic wizard spell being unavailable to all legendary wizards from AFR and AFC in commander.