Unglued || Crack-A-Pack - April 5, 2022
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- The Moonbase is full of packs. Graham is going to make some sort of a dent in the pile by cracking through this pack of Unglued. New Crack-a-Pack twice a week!
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"Hey Billy what's your favorite episode of crack-a-pack?"
"I really like the one where Graham talks about doing the hokey pokey for a looooong time"
Game Grumps references in my LRR, perfect
@@nik700 "Hey I'm Graham, I'm not so Graham!"
I want to point out that Knight of the Hokey Pokey has been erratad. The reminder text is now:
"(To do the Hokey Pokey, choose an arm, a leg, or your whole self and put it in. Put it out. Put it in. Shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey Turn yourself around.)"
As soon as they did this, it became my favorite errata they've done.
That’s what it’s all about
Worth noting that this errataed version even got a (much-needed) physical printing in the Unsanctioned box set!
maybe im remembering wrong but i thought the original reminder text was correct. i thought the lyrics were manipulate a limb several times, 'then' do the hokey pokey (whats listed on the card - except for the spin), and you turn yourself around. thats what its all about.
and until bill bailey covered the song in the style of kraftwerk i never knew that the europeans call it hokey cokey.
Yes the calendar/colander joke is a reference to other times artists have misunderstood art breifs, I e. Hyalopterous Lemure depicting a lemur. It is mechanically a parody of Stone Calendar
There's also a bad/dad joke about shouting into a colander "straining your voice", which might be the inspiration for the "talk weird" requirement.
@@amok_sa I never picked up on that.
I just presumed one word might sound like the other if you were doing a weird voice.
And a parody of Phyrexian Grimoire’s flavour text.
Its also a reference to Urza's Miter - the artist drew a Miter, but a Pope's hat, not a woodworking tool.
For Reference (I decided to look this up), Graham did the Hokey Pokey at Desert Bus 8, which was 7 years ago, so it's been at least slightly less than a decade.
Thank you for this relevant yet arcane piece of knowledge.
I’d think that it’d be sooner than that, since he has a small child.
From MaRo's article going into obscure Unglued references:
"Bronze Calendar is really a Bronze Colander. This is a joke at the numerous times artists have misunderstood the art description and drawn the wrong item. The Hyalopterous Lemure (a lemure is a ghost, the picture shows a lemur) is the best example of such a real goof in Magic."
You did get the joke in a way.
Graham stumbling over it is one of the funniest things I've ever seen tbh
Bronze Calendar is an art joke based on the fact that early magic had poor art descriptions and you could get vastly wrong things; i.e. hyalopterous lemure. The art shows a hyalopterous lemur instead of a hyalopterous lemure...two very different things.
The lemures were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead in Roman religion, and are probably cognate with an extended sense of larvae as disturbing or frightening
Sometimes all an artist was given was a card name and they drew from there.
I want to say the funny voice half of the card is because if you're talking in a random spur-of-the-moment accent, calendar and colander might sound the same? The writers were trying to make a joke on too high of a level and it became total nonsense, is the point.
Literally came here to say this
Ankh of Mishra's art from 5th edition is another notable example of the artist not really knowing what they are supposed to draw
@@LurksQED this should be pinned.
@@connorb33 I just checked because it wasn't clicking but holy hell that is a whiff.
"Merely Ancillary Shenanigans" is one of those rare phrases that I immediately identified as both an excellent band name _AND_ Culture series spaceship name.
6:29 The flavor text of Clambassadors is a reference to the card Reparations, which has the flavor text of "Sorry we sacked your village, have some gold", which was stand-in text that was never got replaced.
I came here to say this! :D
Yeah, the clams shelled the village, get it
@@MetallicMutalisk clams have shells!
Mesa Chicken is a card I love for the reason that its activation cost doesn't include a mana cost. Nothing helps get everyone in the proper mood than being able to say, "In response, I give my chicken flying" and then proceed to stand up and start clucking.
The knight of the hokey pokey actually has a rules errata on gatherer which fixes the dance.
Graham walked right over the Henway joke.
"What's a Henway?"
About 5 pounds.
We did eventually get another Clamfolk in the release of Unsanctioned, with Alexander Clamilton.
Also, he walked right over the flavour text reference of that one
THere were other clamfolk in Unglued. Clam-I-Am and Clam session, for instance
As a long-time MTG nerd, my Unglued complete set is one of my favorite collectables I own
Graham overanalyzing silver-bordered cards is a great start to the day.
"Is that meant to be a joke?"
Graham Stark, referring to an un card.
I think the hokey pokey might be a monster mash situation, where the song doesnt actually explain what the titular dance even is
If the Hokey Pokey is the whole thing, it's a nested infinite loop
I seem to remember a story of someone who actually got away with showing their opponent the same card multiple times for a Squirrel Farm. They would hold on to three or four cards and keep showing them in a random order to make their opponent forget which one was which artist.
I love that the one example he gave of one they wouldn't remember the artist for literally has the artist's name in the picture
As for Deadhead, the Unglued QAS (Questions Asked Sometimes) has this to say:
What if my opponent has no cards in hand?
A player cannot lose contact with a hand of no cards.
...even if they lose contact with their hands?
...wait, no, that would be a DQ.
@@LexYeen If Farewell to Arms is any indication, the lawyers probably wouldn't let them do it the other way.
When I played Bronze Calendar back in Highschool, I almost always went with deep, drawn out Os, that made Calendar into Colander. It predated "Bröther may I have some öats", but is in the same voice wheelhouse. "Please do not shatter my Brönze Cölander, bröther".
"Merely Ancillary Shenanigans" is going to become a powerful phrase in my life
I wonder if we will get something in the upcoming Brother's War set that we can appropriately nickname Brother's War Bonds.
I love the amount of time devoted to the hokey pokey et al. Please, yes, more!
Idk why, but “Brother’s War Bonds” really tickled me
I know right? Will be relevant again soon!
The calendar/colander is specifically a reference to a Spinal Tap joke. They sold a 1992 calendar that was Spinal Tap branded but everyone who recieved their package got a colander instead with a note that there was an order fulfillment error and you get this instead of the calendar.
"MERELY ANCILLARY SHENANIGANS" in bumper sticker font is something I would conceivably display somewhere.
how fitting that Crack-a-pack is Unglued on the same day that I got in my 2022 "Fool's Gold" order from Card Kingdom, and 3 of the 4 random cards I received were Unglued favorites: "Timmy, Power Gamer" and the two halves of "B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster)"
I know I love the Bronze Calendar colander joke enough to collect the card just for that, but I have an unusual sense of humor.
About Bronze Calendar, Here is what MaRo had to say about it from 2004: "Bronze Calendar is a parody mechanically (and in name) of The Dark card Stone Calendar... Bronze Calendar is really a Bronze Colander. This is a joke at the numerous times artists have misunderstood the art description and drawn the wrong item. The Hyalopterous Lemure (a lemure is a ghost, the picture shows a lemur) is the best example of such a real goof in Magic."
The call back to reperations on Clambassadors is what makes it for me. 10/10 card.
I'm really curious what Kobold Ninja would have looked like in 1998, and if any part of the concept they might have used later fed into the development of ninjitsu, which is a very unique/novel mechanic that could easily have started from something like this.
Proud to say that I have a copy of Squirrel Farm autographed and altered by Mark Rosewater. On an unrelated note, I should probably take stock of what I'm proud of in my life.
I'm down for some LRR silver-bordered games again. Know Unfinity is coming end of the year, but am a huge fan for example of the occasional silver-border commander, etc. Let silliness reign supreme!
Since we have Sagas now I demand Rooster Saga be made into a card.
Today is my birthday and this video was a great gift, thanks Graham!
Knight of the hokey pokey has actually changed reminder text. The updated version is: "To do the Hokey Pokey, choose an arm, a leg, or your whole self and put it in. Put it out. Put it in. Shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey! Turn yourself around."
Graham, It's 22 years from march 2020 but the colander needs to start moving again.
So the words after the legal text on the Unglued cards read the following message when put in order of collector number - aaaaand I just watched the end of the episode, thanks G!
The collinder/calandar likely a reference to Alchor's Tomb:
Alchor was the name of Peter's (Adkison) main Dungeon & Dragons character that he had been playing for nearly 20 years. Steve Conard designed a card called Alchor's Tome, which was fitting because Alchor was a great and powerful magician. But in a file somewhere along the line "Tome" was misspelled as "Tomb." No one caught the mix-up, and the artist painted exactly what he was told to: a tomb. With that art, there was no other option but to leave it as Alchor's Tomb.
I am so here for complex semantic arguments about the hokey pokey! :)
Since no one else mentioned it yet, the free-range chicken is a way to sneak the game of Craps onto a card!
it's funny you picked chicken egg as your art example, considering his names in the picture. Love these videos a ton!
Thank you for doing these.
A year later:
JUSTICE FOR BUTT WOLF!
Just found your channel. Really enjoying your content.
I know Graham saying album was a goof, but I firmly believe WotC needs to make an Unplugged set, and the theme is anything in the range of rap battles and battle of the bands.
Butt Wolf was supposed to be a un-reference to legend/playground rumor of the Throat Wolf (way back before the test card of the same name) which was supposed to be iconic creature of the rumor soon to be introduced 6th color, Purple and make "Firstest Strike" Purple's main keyword ability. Think in the same vain as Chaos Confetti or Blacker Lotus.
So Butt Wolf would be basically: Firstest strike + This creature deals combat damage equal to its toughness ?
I actually love the name Clockwork Doppelgänger, I wouldn’t be surprised to see that in a “regular” set in the future.
I have a fungus and Thallid based Ghave commander deck with Fodder Cannon, mortar pod, etc. called the Thallid Shooter that I was inspired to make after watching the original Friday Nights.
Hungry hungry heffer combos well with cumulative upkeep since the changes they made to cumulative upkeep years ago
Based solely on this pack, the egg came before the chicken(s) and now I'm confident in answering that question forevermore
"You do the hokey pokey AND you turn yourself around" implies that the turning around is not part of the hokey pokey.
Oooooh - good point.
I don’t remember if you were intended to draft Unglued, but I’ve definitely done it!
"Merely Ancillary Shenanigans" I need that on a business card.
The Bronze Calendar is supposed to be a dig at cards like Hyalopterous Lemure, where the artists were given the card names but misinterpreted them and drew something different.
Of course Graham gets the card that has the word 'bear' printed on it.
Copyright Line: MTG Unglued
"Here are some cards that didn't make it to print: Socks of Garfield, Hot Monkey Love, Colonel's Secret Recipe, Squee's Play, Banned in France, Spoon, Disrobing Scepter, Butt Wolf, Lotus Roach, Sesame Efreet, Needless Reminder Text, Chicken Choker, Clockwork Doppelganger, Henway, HELP I'M TRAPPED IN CARTA MUNDI, Mad Cow, Poke, Lord of Wombats, Gratuitous Babe Art, Brothers' War Bonds, Dwarven Kickboxer, Mickey's Drunk, Pact with the Wastes, CoP:BO, Urza's Chia Pet, Thallid Shooter, Shoelace, When Chihuahuas Attack, Wall of Cookies, Kobold Ninja, Mucusaur, Kjeldoran Outhouse, Bear in the Woods, Dental Thrull, Flavatog, Cereal Killer."
also The flavor texts of the cards Double Dip, Double Play, Double Deal, Double Take, and Double Cross form the following limerick:
In a duel and taking a lickin'...
The wizard exclaimed, "I'm no chicken...."
"I'm facing defeat,..."
"But the next time we meet,..."
"You're in for a nasty butt kickin'."
+
I want to see what the art would have been for all of these SO BAD.
Someone actually asked Mark Rosewater about Deadhead on his blog 5 years ago. If your opponent has no cards in hand, you do not get to return Deadhead from your graveyard to play.
"Cuz your opponent probably wont remember that Christopher Rush did the art for Chicken Egg"" - shows painting with a huge RUSH '98 signature in the corner
I have 26 sealed unglued packs a full NM set and a empty unglued box I love this set.
So excited for more Friday Nights!!
Unglued and Unhinged didn't age particularly well. But boy does it make for good LRR content rsrsrs
Overlooked point about Deadhead: It's if your opponent loses contact with their hand for ANY reason: knocking the cards out of your opponents hand is valid and is something I've seen done.
Oh, Butt Wolf (From the set number phrase) is almost certainly a reference to the rumored card from the early days Throat Wolf, which supposedly had "double first strike"
Definitely need to use some of the unused cards as intros.
"Greetings you Butt Wolves / Thallid Shooters / Disrobing Scepters / Lords of Wombats / Mucosaurs / Dental Thralls"
Free-Range chicken is like a dice-game. You pay an entry fee. On a double you win. You can pay the entry fee again to reroll but if you get the same total twice in the game you loose and the game ends.
Also like the reference to Reparations on Clambassadors.
Gratuitous Babe Art has to be a Fire Elemental reference.
Possibly a protype of Red-Hot Hottie.
On tonight's crack a pack, Graham get confused by chickens.
Don't ever call me a scissors lizard unless you are a paper tiger
Pretty sure the Bronze Calendar art/flavor disconnect is a reference to Hyalopterus Lemure, which the artist misinterpreted as a lemur, a primate, instead of a lemure, a spirit.
It’s a double reference for bronze calendar. The art direction in the past was sloppy, hence the lemur lemure issue. Stone calendar was a card from the dark that reduced all your spells costs by 1. And since you read or talk funny in miscommunications, they kindve altered the mechanic to play on the joke itself across two cards 😇
I love the phrase "ancillary shenanigans" though I'm also pretty sure WotC wouldn't print something like the Knight since I think its ability can be somewhat ablest.
I'd like to think the confusion between Bronze Calendar's mechanics and art have to do with some artists getting confused with what they were supposed to draw (Hyalopterous Lemur or Guma come to mind).
They still do some dexterity cards, just not to the same degree. Unhinged had Slaying Mantis and that flying head saucer.
They actually errata'd the reminder text so it no longer requires you to stand up.
Henway? What's a Henway?
(come on, don't leave me hanging here)
Around 5 lbs.
@@thelukehathaway THANK YOU!
Not much friend, what's a Henway with you?
It's a brand of hard cider.
Two or three updogs.
"Merely Ancillary Shenanigans" is a great album name.
Man... I spent a while reading all the copyright text while this epsiode was running, and right as I finish Graham says he's gonna say what it was... Good job me
I believe the joke with Bronze Calendar is that when you begin using the silly voice, the way in which you're likely to say it sounds like Bronze 'Colander.' Or, at least, that's what I felt after playing it, saying that way without even realizing I would, and then me and my bff going "Oohhhh! Okay. Ha ha." Also, I feel like you probably have to *have* a hand for Deadhead's effect to work. Probably. I cannot believe there's not Gatherer text for this, you'd be astonished how many addendums there are on Gatherer for silver bordered cards. Which, by the way, are also on Scryfall, so you don't have to ever go back to using Gatherer (yay).
(I... I once yoinked the glasses off same said bff's face for a Blurry Beeble, which she said in no way could have possibly been a legal move. It was not.)
I really wanted graham to call the lyrics "Ancillary Hokery-Pokery"
I like the Calendar joke because of how stealthy it is.
Love the Star Trek mug
The dentists I go to are called grateful dentists, and yes, there is a strong grateful dead theme
I look forward to Graham's new vblog "Why Funny?"
I'd love to see a draft of this
Ancillary shenanigans would be an amazing pin 😂
Leans in to mike: “its been 24 years since this released graham”👍
Thank you Heather
The flavor text on Clambassadors is an allusion to the flavor text on Reparations.
Joke sets are great.
"'Justice for Butt Wolf' -Graham Stark 2022" -Graham Stark 2022
Back in the old days of Fallen Empires, Thorn Thallid was nicknamed Thallid Thooter
No, not Cereal Killer like the food. Cereal Killer like the guy from Hackers! ("Spandex. It's a privilege not a right.")
Butt Wolf was probably a reference to Thoat Wolf, the secret powerful card with firstest strike
Not twenty two, not twenty, but twenty FOUR years ago now! By this point in time Unglued has, statistically, graduated university.
24 years ago Graham, 24 years.
You guys should do an un-set chaos draft
Once upon a time, when I was in university and able to play tournaments for profit. I had a set of 20 of each of these lovely Unglued lands. One break in later, I was quitting the game because my entire collection was stolen.
I definitely had someone make multiple squirrels off the same card against me
About naming the artist, Phil Foglio (naturally) did art for Unglued, but is attributed as "Claymore J. Flapdoodle" in all the art credits, thus for Squirrel Farm, saying "Phil Foglio" would be incorrect.
Clambassadors seems genuinely playable in Zedruu
unglued basics are the best basics!
The card names Grahams reads out at the end are indistinguishable from twitch subs
"Maybe we'll see one sometime"........foreshadowing
Ancillary Shinanigans is a great deck name
Clambassador is actually gas sir. You get to choose the thing they get. Give them detrimental cards
I was just about to say. Gift decks are a thing. Surely there's some lethal combos with Clambassadors.