really excited for the prospect of you reviewing whole blocks in a single session and editing that into 3 episodes per month, sounds like a much more satisfying schedule than once every 4-6 weeks
Visions had a distinct though unkeyworded theme of returning permanents, usually lands, to their owner's hand as a cost (Infernal Harvest, Flooded Shoreline) or tool to balance rate (Waterspout Djinn, Bull Elephant, Undiscovered Paradise). Additional examples include the five Karoos, Stampeding Wildebeests, Shrieking Drake, Quirion Ranger, and Ovinomancer. Summer Bloom was a savvy design to include in the set as a way to rebuild your bounced resources. Fireblast was likely designed this way and then changed from bouncing Mountains to sacrificing them after the former proved too strong.
Fireblast bouncing Mountains. Yikes. Tap for 2, Incinerate, bounce them for Fireblast, replay a Mountain, Bolt. 10 damage on turn 3. Probably game over. And before anyone says "But you could require the Mountains you return be untapped!" I mean you can, but then the spell just costs RR payable by Mountains only. So that's not a fix, it's just Char without the 2 damage to you and at one less mana.
@@EbonAvatar I fell in love with Tolarian Academy that next fall! I played that deck at the state championships and a JSS qualifier! And it became my favorite card. Before that, it was Ball Lightning, and Fireblast and Incinerate, and Shock, (Bolt was gone by then) and so many more… I love the Tempest/Saga era of Type II
15:48 I will never forget the day that I saw the spoiler for Skullclamp on Wizards website before the darksteel prerelease…. It was shortly after midnight, and I went upstairs into my Mom’s office shortly after midnight to look at the new spoiler. I saw Skullclamp for the first time, and I read it, and then I stared at it. Then I read it again, and I started blinking, unable to believe my eyes. Then I read it a third time, and I said aloud, “That gets banned! They’re going to ban that card! That gets banned!” Call me Cassandra on that little bit of prescience.
One little tidbit was Dark Visions was a big thing as well. There were some printings of Visions where the Black Ink was extremely over-done, leading to some dramatically over-dark cards. I owned a couple of these opened from packs. Warthog was a very dark common I had, and my pride and joy was a Vampiric Tutor that was extremely dark. I also had a dark Natural Order, although it wasn't as dark as the Warthog.
I'm guessing from the end card that you guys aren't going to cover Portal? That makes me very sad :( If I'm mistaken and a Portal episode is after 5ED that would be great!
I have a soft spot for Man-o'-War because in Duels 2012 I once won a game with easily the worst deck in it by making Man-o'-War bounce itself so I could replay it multiple times over multiple turns with Warstorm Surge out to slowly keep their board down and eventually burn them out. It's really fun when you discover such an incredibly janky combo and it happens to win the game. Also it's just a fun and efficient design of a card. And I like the older art with the shark
It was very interesting to learn that Visions started as Mirage 1.5 - I started playing in 2003, way after these sets came out, and what Patrick said is absolutely true: countless times when looking back at those old cards, I have confused Mirage and Visions. "The African ones with phasing".
You mention the commons appearing on the rare sheet -- depending on where the cards were printed these were different cards. Also, the way they were included in the packs, it made them less common that the other commons. Finally, one of the cards was more common than the others as it was 7 cards distributed amongst 50 slots. I think this, at least, was the same in both the U.S. and Belgian printings -- Sisay's Ring. There are plenty of pack opening videos on youtube that contain one or the other type of pack. The version you list is the Belgian printing. The U.S. printing was Phyrexian Walker, Sisay's Ring, Python, Inspiration, Warthog, Goblin Swine-Rider, and Infantry Veteran.
I enjoyed the video as usual, but I wish that a bit of a story/flavor segment still appeared. Sure, the characters and setting are the same as in Mirage, but the final showdown against Kaervek occurs, Mangara is freed, and the story concludes, making space for the Weatherlight saga that starts with the next expansion set. Maybe it's a pity that no legendary cards appear in Visions, that way the story is less tangible than in Mirage. I did expect higher scores - I started with Fifth Edition and back then Visions cards seemed weirdly powerful, though maybe unjustly so in retrospect. Can't wait for the next set reviews.
lol Patrick bags on Vampiric Tutor in Commander but offers up City of Solitude, the card that locks out all interaction. I’ll tell you right now, the only time I’m casting that card is immediately before wiping the whole table with my instant win combo.
Speaking to poison counters from back in the day; poison was a small, niche, and hard to pull off alt-win-con. Which back then were few and far between, so pulling of a poison counter win was a boss move. I must have tried four or five different deck designs and color combos. There’s a contingent of Magic players who love doing obscure things in the game (I’m on of those), and poison was a great mechanic for that demograph. And in our opinion, Infect made poison counters go the opposite direction, now it’s one of the “try-hard” mechanics.
It was also on pretty terrible creatures which made it doubly hard to do successfully. I had my poison deck back in the day, and loved it, when it was hard to pull off. I did not like Infect at all. It became too easy to use.
"Le but d'Alain Côté était bon". Nice video guys, you give very interesting and detailed information one set at a time. Most of the time, even though I was there a almost every set release since 1994, I didn't even know half of the content what you present us.
So pumped to watch this. Visions is my favorite set of all time with the way it really started to lean into haste/ETB effects to make creatures impact the game state the turn they were summoned. You guys do such a great job with every set. Please keep up the excellent work!
Mirage was my first set so Visions was very formative in my start playing magic. The amount of good cards available at common rarity made it easy to put together a competitve deck and not feel like it was a pay to win game.
My favorite piece of "Charms tech" was vision charm as a way to remove batterskull. Then when they wanted to print Teferi's Protection into C17, someone had a looksee at the old phasing rules and went "It does *what* with tokens?" and suddenly vision charm stopped seeing play. Ah well, at least blue mages (And Patrick) still have piracy charm.
Teferis puzzle box (one of the later printings) was the first rare that I looked at and said, Wow, this card is so cool, and it cemented my love of magic. Might be my favorite card of all time
I really liked the addition of talking about notable cards in trivia that don't fit the awards. I just love to hear you both riff about cards that are unique/interesting
1:12:36 I like how the water in the River Boa art blends into the card frame so it looks like an infinity pool falling over the front of the card. 1:18:46 Is Gossamer Chains even good? It's basically like having a tapper that costs 2 mana to use.
For these older sets it would be cool if, perhaps as a secondary video, you looked at what inquest named the top 10 cards in the set and then talk about how that played out in standard and limited. It's just cool to see how the best knowledge at the time played out vs. contemporary sensibilities.
Being an elves player I am a bit biased towards the set, Natural order is probably the non creature spell I've cast most in my life time so I was hoping for a slightly higher grade haha! Fantastic episode nonetheless and looking forward to the next one
Keep in mind that edhrec data can be thrown off by cEDH lists which are disproportionately posted online. Most people’s casual deck lists aren’t posted anywhere.
I built a lot of mono red decks featuring Kookus and Keeper of Kookus, even though young me could already recognize that this wasn't really a good use of my mana.
This is a tough one. I gotta think about it. The physical printing problems and quirks of this set were so numerous it's probably skewing my memory of it. For now a 6. Won't get to watch the episode for a week as I'm on the road and get viewing time in very short spurts. I'll see if you agree then. Keep up the good work -- looking forward to this one.
At least we agree. Worth waiting. It was Mirage Pt 2, and that was a good set, so this was too. This story was good ... Weatherlight might have been the hokiest they ever did, but that's for next episode.
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate how crazy of an animal Hippos are? If I lived a long time ago had never seen a hippo, you could probably convince me it was some sort of prehistoric thing that only used to exist.
The idea of a new set needing a unique mechanical identity is a modern concept. Sets didn't used to be designed that way, and I'm not convinced they needed to be!
That card visions, which id never seen before, by no means am I saying it’s good but it’s interesting, seeing a card in white that gave that kind of card selection especially for that time
I can see Kaervek's spite being bad in a Type 2 set. It was a super fun card to play in Type 1.5 Sui Black just to give black some (very flavourful) burn.
16:07 filthy commander player reporting in; I wish this did work in the rules at the time because it's significantly cooler than how jitte is now Edit: 1:14:16 Bonesplitter on Riverboa might now be permanently etched into my lexicon now 1:17:25 Patrick gets it 🥲 tbf cedh is a different thing where it's understandable, but the spirit of the format is understood
1:03:54 Let’s just say that at the time, my local game store was frequently filled with people saying, “I will cast s3x monkey to destroy your artifact.” Because even though all of the other players were older than I was, I was the one who was more mature…
The old card layout sells the fantasy so well of being a magician and having scraps of parchment with a visual portal into a world that has crazy creatures and spells. Plus the thick borders make the card feel like a more solid object. To me, the modern card layout and design just kind of looks like it's trying to be a video game heads up display. It just doesn't really sell the fantasy of what we're doing.
1:09:38 I mean…. IDK, I think that Juju Bubble is worse than both Time and Tide and Maptopi Golem.. I mean, cumulative upkeep, and if you play any card, you sac it, and the big effect that Juju Bubble can do…. Pay 2 mana, gain 1 life!…. I think that we have a winner!
Hearing Cedric talk about how Visions released on MTGO when he was in college is insane to me, because that set came out when I was 2 years old and I’m in college now!
"Tutoring seems to be pretty antithetical to the spirit of the format" - yes. Yes it is. I think commander is a very different game to what it was 15 years ago. Not entirely worse but a lot of groups play with highly optimised and powerful decks. It's kinda sad what precons and metadeck sites have done to what the format meant to me but, ultimately, if folks are having fun then all power to them. For me though some of the enjoyment is in having a different experience every time i play a deck. I do think conditional tutors can be fun based on theme or art etc but In casual games of edh vampiric/demonic tutor can straight up get in the bin.
As someone who has played commander, I don’t think EDHrec is a good barometer of what people actually play. Not entirely at least. When I was playing it was EXTREMELY rare for someone to play Vampiric Tutor. There is more things like Academy Rector, to go get one of your combo pieces, or something to protect yourself like Propaganda. But maybe it’s played more in cEDH, it’s way more competitive, kinda like the Legacy version of Commander.
OH MY GOD SO SOON AFTER THE LAST EPISODE???? LETS FREAKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Must be Christmas!
Releasing this during my 6 hour road trip = Christmas miracle
really excited for the prospect of you reviewing whole blocks in a single session and editing that into 3 episodes per month, sounds like a much more satisfying schedule than once every 4-6 weeks
Visions had a distinct though unkeyworded theme of returning permanents, usually lands, to their owner's hand as a cost (Infernal Harvest, Flooded Shoreline) or tool to balance rate (Waterspout Djinn, Bull Elephant, Undiscovered Paradise). Additional examples include the five Karoos, Stampeding Wildebeests, Shrieking Drake, Quirion Ranger, and Ovinomancer. Summer Bloom was a savvy design to include in the set as a way to rebuild your bounced resources.
Fireblast was likely designed this way and then changed from bouncing Mountains to sacrificing them after the former proved too strong.
Fireblast bouncing Mountains. Yikes. Tap for 2, Incinerate, bounce them for Fireblast, replay a Mountain, Bolt. 10 damage on turn 3. Probably game over.
And before anyone says "But you could require the Mountains you return be untapped!" I mean you can, but then the spell just costs RR payable by Mountains only. So that's not a fix, it's just Char without the 2 damage to you and at one less mana.
UR counter burn tempo deck featuring Man-o-War was the first deck I piloted to the semifinals at a little store called Star City Comics and Games
We're getting sooooo close to Tempest, the point where a young Ebon Avatar started playing Magic. I can't wait. Gimme Tempest now!!!
Tempest block is when I started playing competitively, I still love my good old Sligh deck!
@jenniferwilliams9612 what a time to be a Magician that was. To this day Sliver Queen is still my all-time favorite Magic card
@@EbonAvatar I fell in love with Tolarian Academy that next fall! I played that deck at the state championships and a JSS qualifier! And it became my favorite card. Before that, it was Ball Lightning, and Fireblast and Incinerate, and Shock, (Bolt was gone by then) and so many more… I love the Tempest/Saga era of Type II
Weatherlight and tempest are my jam.
15:48 I will never forget the day that I saw the spoiler for Skullclamp on Wizards website before the darksteel prerelease…. It was shortly after midnight, and I went upstairs into my Mom’s office shortly after midnight to look at the new spoiler. I saw Skullclamp for the first time, and I read it, and then I stared at it. Then I read it again, and I started blinking, unable to believe my eyes. Then I read it a third time, and I said aloud, “That gets banned! They’re going to ban that card! That gets banned!”
Call me Cassandra on that little bit of prescience.
One little tidbit was Dark Visions was a big thing as well. There were some printings of Visions where the Black Ink was extremely over-done, leading to some dramatically over-dark cards. I owned a couple of these opened from packs. Warthog was a very dark common I had, and my pride and joy was a Vampiric Tutor that was extremely dark. I also had a dark Natural Order, although it wasn't as dark as the Warthog.
I'm guessing from the end card that you guys aren't going to cover Portal? That makes me very sad :(
If I'm mistaken and a Portal episode is after 5ED that would be great!
portal came out after 5e, I trust they're going to cover it
I have a soft spot for Man-o'-War because in Duels 2012 I once won a game with easily the worst deck in it by making Man-o'-War bounce itself so I could replay it multiple times over multiple turns with Warstorm Surge out to slowly keep their board down and eventually burn them out. It's really fun when you discover such an incredibly janky combo and it happens to win the game. Also it's just a fun and efficient design of a card. And I like the older art with the shark
It was very interesting to learn that Visions started as Mirage 1.5 - I started playing in 2003, way after these sets came out, and what Patrick said is absolutely true: countless times when looking back at those old cards, I have confused Mirage and Visions. "The African ones with phasing".
You mention the commons appearing on the rare sheet -- depending on where the cards were printed these were different cards. Also, the way they were included in the packs, it made them less common that the other commons. Finally, one of the cards was more common than the others as it was 7 cards distributed amongst 50 slots. I think this, at least, was the same in both the U.S. and Belgian printings -- Sisay's Ring. There are plenty of pack opening videos on youtube that contain one or the other type of pack. The version you list is the Belgian printing. The U.S. printing was Phyrexian Walker, Sisay's Ring, Python, Inspiration, Warthog, Goblin Swine-Rider, and Infantry Veteran.
I enjoyed the video as usual, but I wish that a bit of a story/flavor segment still appeared. Sure, the characters and setting are the same as in Mirage, but the final showdown against Kaervek occurs, Mangara is freed, and the story concludes, making space for the Weatherlight saga that starts with the next expansion set. Maybe it's a pity that no legendary cards appear in Visions, that way the story is less tangible than in Mirage.
I did expect higher scores - I started with Fifth Edition and back then Visions cards seemed weirdly powerful, though maybe unjustly so in retrospect. Can't wait for the next set reviews.
Props for the OG Nordiques sweater!
I wrote a comment separately, but i'll write it here too: "Est-ce que le but d'Alain Côté était bon?"
lol Patrick bags on Vampiric Tutor in Commander but offers up City of Solitude, the card that locks out all interaction. I’ll tell you right now, the only time I’m casting that card is immediately before wiping the whole table with my instant win combo.
Speaking to poison counters from back in the day; poison was a small, niche, and hard to pull off alt-win-con. Which back then were few and far between, so pulling of a poison counter win was a boss move. I must have tried four or five different deck designs and color combos.
There’s a contingent of Magic players who love doing obscure things in the game (I’m on of those), and poison was a great mechanic for that demograph. And in our opinion, Infect made poison counters go the opposite direction, now it’s one of the “try-hard” mechanics.
It was also on pretty terrible creatures which made it doubly hard to do successfully. I had my poison deck back in the day, and loved it, when it was hard to pull off. I did not like Infect at all. It became too easy to use.
"Le but d'Alain Côté était bon". Nice video guys, you give very interesting and detailed information one set at a time. Most of the time, even though I was there a almost every set release since 1994, I didn't even know half of the content what you present us.
Best M:tG series on TH-cam.
So pumped to watch this. Visions is my favorite set of all time with the way it really started to lean into haste/ETB effects to make creatures impact the game state the turn they were summoned.
You guys do such a great job with every set. Please keep up the excellent work!
Mirage was my first set so Visions was very formative in my start playing magic. The amount of good cards available at common rarity made it easy to put together a competitve deck and not feel like it was a pay to win game.
My favorite piece of "Charms tech" was vision charm as a way to remove batterskull.
Then when they wanted to print Teferi's Protection into C17, someone had a looksee at the old phasing rules and went "It does *what* with tokens?" and suddenly vision charm stopped seeing play. Ah well, at least blue mages (And Patrick) still have piracy charm.
Love the Nordiques hoodie!
Teferis puzzle box (one of the later printings) was the first rare that I looked at and said, Wow, this card is so cool, and it cemented my love of magic.
Might be my favorite card of all time
Probably my new favourite magic content. So many good hours of watching.
This goes perfectly with my morning routine today!!
Thanks guys, this series has been awesome!!
I really liked the addition of talking about notable cards in trivia that don't fit the awards. I just love to hear you both riff about cards that are unique/interesting
I loved this block! Very underrated.
I have really been loving these. I really hope you guys cover MTG Vanguard!!
1:12:36 I like how the water in the River Boa art blends into the card frame so it looks like an infinity pool falling over the front of the card.
1:18:46 Is Gossamer Chains even good? It's basically like having a tapper that costs 2 mana to use.
For these older sets it would be cool if, perhaps as a secondary video, you looked at what inquest named the top 10 cards in the set and then talk about how that played out in standard and limited. It's just cool to see how the best knowledge at the time played out vs. contemporary sensibilities.
Being an elves player I am a bit biased towards the set, Natural order is probably the non creature spell I've cast most in my life time so I was hoping for a slightly higher grade haha!
Fantastic episode nonetheless and looking forward to the next one
Visions was awesome to play with and I still love it. Yall are harsh, great magic cards straight up
PSully's hippo sounds is worth the price of admission.
Loved Patrick's rant about vampiric tutor, I feel similarly about unconditional tutors in causal EDH
Shoutout to Tithe, the most underplayed card ever, can fetch up to two lands with plains type (yes: duals and triomes). Even the art is great!
Keep in mind that edhrec data can be thrown off by cEDH lists which are disproportionately posted online. Most people’s casual deck lists aren’t posted anywhere.
I built a lot of mono red decks featuring Kookus and Keeper of Kookus, even though young me could already recognize that this wasn't really a good use of my mana.
TH-cam this is a great video you want more people to see it trust me
This is a tough one. I gotta think about it. The physical printing problems and quirks of this set were so numerous it's probably skewing my memory of it. For now a 6. Won't get to watch the episode for a week as I'm on the road and get viewing time in very short spurts. I'll see if you agree then. Keep up the good work -- looking forward to this one.
At least we agree. Worth waiting. It was Mirage Pt 2, and that was a good set, so this was too. This story was good ... Weatherlight might have been the hokiest they ever did, but that's for next episode.
griffin canyon's artist is Griffin. Love it
I had my only tournament win with a Chronatog Stasis lock deck (with Kismet) shortly after Visions came out. Just deck them by skipping all my turns!
I’m just happy every episode reminds me to relisten to summer in abbadon.
no carnival of souls award for juju bubble? I'm starting a riot at resleevables HQ, fr
River Boat spent years as a mainstay in Pauper as a tech piece against the dominant mono-blue delver/fairies deck.
Resleevables: After (The) Dark!
An early christmass present. Thank you so much
Thanks for the video!
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate how crazy of an animal Hippos are? If I lived a long time ago had never seen a hippo, you could probably convince me it was some sort of prehistoric thing that only used to exist.
The idea of a new set needing a unique mechanical identity is a modern concept. Sets didn't used to be designed that way, and I'm not convinced they needed to be!
I used to put Rancor on River Boa.
That card visions, which id never seen before, by no means am I saying it’s good but it’s interesting, seeing a card in white that gave that kind of card selection especially for that time
Two cards that didn't get mentioned that I remember people being extremely hyped for at release was Aku Djinn and Archangel.
I don't think competitive players were excited for Archangel, but yes it was a sought-after casual card for sure.
Didn’t mention the final part of the Uktabi Orangutan cycle, Kibo Uktabi Prince in Jumpstart 22
Just want to throw it out there that Ovinomancer is pretty decent with Mairsil, The Pretender in EDH
love the nordiques hoodie
The other excellent part of Griffin Canyon is that the art is done by Stuart Griffin
Was bout to ask if the crew noticed it. Sharp eyes, Joe
Cedric losing it at Jitte was some awesome.
Late night drop hitting so hard, guess I'm gonna be up for another hour and a half
44:57 I know what Cedric wants for Christmas.
Loving the nordiques hoodie
I know the hosts love World Enchantments, so I was a bit disappointed to not hear a Pillar Tombs of Aku rant.
These grades are lower than I expected. Visions is full of great playable cards
Elephant grass in legacy enchantress is good
I can see Kaervek's spite being bad in a Type 2 set. It was a super fun card to play in Type 1.5 Sui Black just to give black some (very flavourful) burn.
Thanks Patrick for the Vampiric Tutor rant.
You are right man. Tutoring tries to add consistency to an unconsistent format. That’s not desirable.
Love the Quebec Nordiques shirt 👍
My heart can't take it! Love it!
You guys should play some games from these old formats!
Marx and a Raekwon biography on the shelf? A man after mine own heart.
oh man i forgot about hunted wumpus, i loved that thing.
I am seriously considering Time and Tide in one or two of my blue splashed commander decks to troll people's Teferi's Protections
city of solitude is my favorite magic card.
Cedric, I also love river boa. I love equipping river boa. How does a river boa hold a loxodon warhammer?
It swallows it whole and kinda headbutts you
16:07 filthy commander player reporting in; I wish this did work in the rules at the time because it's significantly cooler than how jitte is now
Edit: 1:14:16 Bonesplitter on Riverboa might now be permanently etched into my lexicon now
1:17:25 Patrick gets it 🥲 tbf cedh is a different thing where it's understandable, but the spirit of the format is understood
Didn't you just do mirage? It's a Christmas miracle!
wake up people time to resleeve adn get the algorithm! pumpin p.s. ive seen this man do the best cartwheel ever
1:03:54 Let’s just say that at the time, my local game store was frequently filled with people saying, “I will cast s3x monkey to destroy your artifact.” Because even though all of the other players were older than I was, I was the one who was more mature…
i hope you're spelling charlie catino wrong on purpose lol. that's some inside baseball.
Out here pumping.
Pumping that ALGORYTHM.
Patrick looking like a bomb pop
Just finished taking my midterm exams and wanted to go to bed after a long week. Guess its gonna be another ninety minutes
instant speed discard is so messed up. I only played with it via mardu charm and k-command but wow.
why is Suleiman's Legacy not a sorcery? -edit - oh my god I read sacrifice it at first, not bury the creature that entered play. card is hilarious
The old card layout sells the fantasy so well of being a magician and having scraps of parchment with a visual portal into a world that has crazy creatures and spells. Plus the thick borders make the card feel like a more solid object. To me, the modern card layout and design just kind of looks like it's trying to be a video game heads up display. It just doesn't really sell the fantasy of what we're doing.
Late night drop you love to see it
you gotta get eugene to come on the show, he's a legend
Vizzy vizzy vizzy, you can see.
Can anyone ELI5 the play Patrick talks about at 1:16:00?
My Holiday Fix
1:09:38 I mean…. IDK, I think that Juju Bubble is worse than both Time and Tide and Maptopi Golem.. I mean, cumulative upkeep, and if you play any card, you sac it, and the big effect that Juju Bubble can do…. Pay 2 mana, gain 1 life!…. I think that we have a winner!
Hearing Cedric talk about how Visions released on MTGO when he was in college is insane to me, because that set came out when I was 2 years old and I’m in college now!
I skullclamped my buddy recently in a game and it still feels great
dude i totally didnt know about the uktabi orangutan lore
love it
Goblin Recruiter is nothing like Top. Top makes games take forever. Recruiter makes games end within the next turn cycle.
"Tutoring seems to be pretty antithetical to the spirit of the format" - yes. Yes it is.
I think commander is a very different game to what it was 15 years ago. Not entirely worse but a lot of groups play with highly optimised and powerful decks. It's kinda sad what precons and metadeck sites have done to what the format meant to me but, ultimately, if folks are having fun then all power to them. For me though some of the enjoyment is in having a different experience every time i play a deck.
I do think conditional tutors can be fun based on theme or art etc but In casual games of edh vampiric/demonic tutor can straight up get in the bin.
As someone who has played commander, I don’t think EDHrec is a good barometer of what people actually play. Not entirely at least. When I was playing it was EXTREMELY rare for someone to play Vampiric Tutor.
There is more things like Academy Rector, to go get one of your combo pieces, or something to protect yourself like Propaganda.
But maybe it’s played more in cEDH, it’s way more competitive, kinda like the Legacy version of Commander.
Uhh the Boa holds the Bonesplitter with it's tail, duhhh
big time !