"Welcome you Ikea Kallaxes. Today were gonna talk about this table. It was released in 2014 I think? 15? No 14, 14. Lots of different models, I want to say we've got ... mahogany?" *Editors note: It is spruce.*
One of my favourite pieces of trivia for The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service is that while the card frame is blue, the text box additionally uses the black parchment background.
Also, that card might be the only one to ever have received an oracle update to its flavor text, which actually says that number is no longer in service (whatever number G reached will forever stay a mystery!) and to go to either the customer support website or Twitter.
@@TheRealWormbo Erase (Not the Urza's Legacy One) has some errata on its flavor text. Abrade and Frazzle are crossed out, since WotC has since used them.
@@TheRealWormbo In addition to Erase (Not the Urza's Legacy One), which is a fantastic name, they also updated Bloodletter to reference how they removed the Æ ligature. I think that might be it, though.
@@TheRealWormbo by “not in service” they likely mean there’s no one staffing it. As Graham says they can’t really let it go because it will inevitably end up being assigned to a sex hotline or something
Maro actually credits Bill Rose and Joel Mick as the ones responsible for coming up with the idea of making a casual Magic set that broke the normal rules and wouldn't be tournament legal. Bill put Maro in charge of it because he was the designer most known for designing cards that got cut from black border sets because the rules manager said "No".
Fun fact, if you play a silver-bordered game and you resolve Mindslaver, due to the Denimwalk rulings, it is legal to make the player you control take off their pants. Y'know, just saying...
Ah Hurloon Wrangler. I remember resolving it once. My opponent got up walked away to their room and changed out of their jeans and came back in a kilt.
"In your end step, I slip in to something more comfortable." then when they return the lights dim and the stereo spontaneously starts playing a bagpipes Barry White. Your opponent's broadsword enters the room before they do.
The nightmare card has errata text. It now directs to an email address and the support twitter. So Twitter is canon in magic do with that what you will
If I remember the flavor text lyric for the Double cards it's In a duel and takin' a lickin' The wizard exclaimed "I'm no chicken!" "I'm facing defeat" "But next time we meet" "You're in for a nasty butt-kickin'!" I don't remember what the cards do, or even what color cards each line is on. I mostly collected the Un-sets since friends never wanted to play with those cards because we were all dorky middle schoolers. And I made myself feel old
In the order you placed them in - Double Dip (White): Gain 5 life Double Play (Green): Basic land search and play Double Deal (Red): Deal 3 damage Double Take (Blue) Draw 2 cards Double Cross (Black): Look at hand and choose 1 card to discard that's not a basic land You choose another player and do the effect immediately (in the case of Deal and Cross, the effects target that player instead of you), then again at the beginning of the next game against that same player. Another fun fact: they all have CMC (or mana value nowadays) of 5, with Dip and Deal being 4X instead of the others' 3XX.
[obligatory playful gaslighting that that art couldn't be anyone other than Claymore J. Flapdoodle, and who is this "Foglio" of whom you speak, ha ha ha]
not sure if you guys really care but i thought i answer graham's question about color id from the mtg wiki page "While in gameplay mechanics, the color of a card is always determined exclusively by the colors used in its casting cost or its color indicator (including some color indicators retroactively applied to cards like Ancestral Vision, which previously specified the card's color in the rule text), the color identity of a card is specified by all mana symbols that appear in its casting cost, color indicator, and rules text."
Sex Appeal has actually been errata'd to say "Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of targets, divided as you choose. If there are more people in the room of a different gender than you are as you cast this spell, prevent the next 6 damage this way instead."
@@Jalais gonna go out on a limb (/s) and say it was the large amount of misogyny coming through with the old trope of "femmes in gaming spaces are so advantaged, they're protected by how much everyone loves them" whereas of course there's no protection in way too many people just being creepy and/or jerks, as happens when you're a minority gender in a space. ...Also the dash of heteronormativity, but that's more the pepper on the yikes salad
@@quintindegroot7710 Pepper on the Yikes Salad is the name of my indie band. Also yeah, that's certainly a card (and an attitude) that hasn't aged well.
@@KingOfDoma And a spectrum can include opposites, like the color spectrum. The card is exclusionary by intentional goofy design, not bigotry. You wouldn't get upset about the Ray-Gun in Munchkin not working for you because your name isn't some variant of Ray (Rae, Raye, etc)
As soon as Graham reacted, I knew he saw Sex Appeal, lol. I think Rosewater errata'ed it to be "different gender" so all you enbies out there take advantage in your next Unglued draft!
Also yea, according to gatherer the card now indeed reads "Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of targets, divided as you choose. If there are more people in the room of a different gender than you are as you cast this spell, prevent the next 6 damage this way instead."
@@DimT670 "Agender", at least to me, means "absence of gender", think of it as that most people have "gender" characteristic, under which they might be "woman", "nonbinary", etc. I see myself as lacking this characteristic entirely.
Back in high school where we played, well, not kitchen table Magic as much as Hallway Floor magic, I remember my elf deck popping OFF with Flock of Rabid Sheep and us saying "OK. No, we're not gonna sit here and flip a coin 200 times. Mike just gets 100 sheep." "Works for me, pass turn" "Wrath of God." "DANGIT, my sheep!"
I was right there with you thinking you could send an email asking them not to record your call and was very confused how they could retroactively not record the call you're on after they get the email... At least your "then call back" logic made more sense than my time travel thought process
I found a copy of Chaos Confetti(The card you rip up and throw on the table to vindicate anything it touches) a few days ago that I got as a kid. I never knew about Un cards back then and just thought it was a wacky card and held onto it all this time. Hoping to find a good time to use it now, maybe with the next Unset release.
It may have gone partially unnoticed, but the artist names for Unglued cards are not always the "usual" artist names. The artist for Double Play is actually Phil Foglio, for example.
I first found LRR when checking out the Unstable PPR. I had gotten back into Magic around Hour of Devastation and was reorienting myself with everything I had missed since Alara.
I like to think that, if WOTC ever *were* to change their customer service-number, there would be a piece of very perplexing errata added for anyone not aware of The ultimate nightmare of Wizards of the Coast customer service
To me, the funniest part of this video is reading "10 Bizarre and Broken Cards" on the pack wrapper and knowing that the next released Magic set was....Urza's Saga.
@2:28 - during the "Arena League" in 1998, I argued the exact same thing about double deal with a friend. Don't recall how the judge ruled, but the flavor is there :P
BFM! I always wanted that as a kid because it was like Exodia, but in Magic! I had no concept of "silver-bordered" vs. "black-bordered" cards at the time.
Why can't you change the 800 number? Imagine 30 years later, being a California funeral home or something with a brand new 800 number, and someone calls in and asks you to rule on whether or not you can take off your pants in response to a Hurloon Wrangler attacking you.
officially, double cross or any of the "double" cards from unglued allows you to do this to anyone in the next "un-game" no matter how long it has been, so if you play this and it's your last game of the match and you play them in an un-tournament or un-game like a year later, the secondary effect of double cross resolves.
I still fondly recall my Unglued deck revolving around Double Deal. This was a sorcery costing 3RR that dealt 3 damage now and again at the start of the next game against that player. The objective was to use recovery and forking effects to get Double Deal to go off seven times in one match: "I kill you so hard you die TWICE!" Did it work? Hell no. If your opponent lets you cast one troublesome sorcery that costs 5 mana and doesn't directly improve your board state SEVEN TIMES in in one game, they were going to lose their next game against you anyway. But as a concept it's always been one of my favorites.
Another great bitesize vid Graham ty, my daughter and myself enjoyed talking abut the cards and the un sets, we have been playing table magic together but we have no ban lists and just make decks out of the mishmash pile of cards we have got over the last year or two inc a job lot from ebay. Anyway thanks to James and editors aswell for doing a great job. Takecare all. Regards.
The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service has a black board equivalent in Comet Storm. In addition to being less confusing, the black border one is one mana cheaper and instant speed.
My interpretation of double cross, is that you can do it's second effect years in the future, so if you're playing with a friend months apart you can keep a tally of who has double crossed who.
it only occured to me recently that these sets arent just for fun. they also test new mechanics. this has meld, unstable had mutute. the others probably did too but i cant remember now.
According to the discordians, the Customer Service card has been errata'd to say that the number printed is no longer in service and you should visit the site instead.
Best game of magic was a friend had the unset card volraths motion sensor on both hands. And took 15 mins to remove his pants by shimmy-ing vigorously to block the wrangler to prevent himself dying
BFM was made into an official Pokemon mechanic and it's a PITA to put into play. You need to find all 4 parts of the card and have them in your discard pile in order to put it into play, but the Prize mechanic, which has you set aside cards for the game's main win con, could easily mess over a V Union deck if one of the quarters ends up in the Prize set (especially since all 4 parts trigger the non-basic energy limit of 4 cards. So you can't have 4 of each quarter of a Pikachu V Union in the same deck!). Granted, there's cards to look at your prize cards but V Union is also due to be rotated out of standard soon (well, most of them at least). At least all of them were boxed set promos instead of being a booster card
Idea for future segments: when doing the price lookup, you could also look up what the prices were at the time the pack was donated, and do a comparison to see how much you gained or lost because of the delay!
Sex Appeal is the sort of thing that reminds you that the '90s were thankfully a different time. (Thankful in the sense that we've changed significantly since them.)
This has me thinking, I remember you guys did a release event for unstable, but have you ever done other draft (or constructed) silver border? I can see that being a blast to watch.
th-cam.com/video/NkIlHLDfwIM/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/pgakGUaqDRk/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/L5ivetoDxB4/w-d-xo.html The first two are Unstable drafts that weren't done on release weekend, but instead done later on. The last is a four-man tournament using the Unsanctioned precons.
Nice detail I just looked up because I was suspicious. Paying 3G for a vanilla creature gets you a 3/4 or a 4/3. So, on average Elvish Impersonators gets you a perfectly good creature for the cost.
The Scryfall errata of Wizards Customer Service had that the number was no longer in service and send an email instead Glad to know the number still works
It would have been funny if they had a new phonenumber, but the voice from the one on the card said "welcome to wizards customerservice.. blablabla.. sadly u are calling from the past and " or something like that. :D
I really enjoy the trend of using the Un-sets to test mechanics that don't quite seem to click. Like with the proto-Meld card, 20 years early, there's a lot of "well, what if..." going on in these silly sets, and I just think that's neat. I'd say "I wonder if they printed these cards as a testbed and then just said, well, let's see what the player response is" but I think I remember an article where MaRo just came out and said that, so... no speculation!
wow, that's the 2nd best card in the set, behind the blacker lotus. This card was an instant legend! i might put elvish impersonators into an elf edh deck. it's not broken, at the very best it's a vanilla green 6/6 4 drop, although having to rule 0 about silver border cards and probably having to show it takes the humor out of just spontaneously playing it.
So let me get this straight.... the ultimate nightmare of wizards of the coast® customer service.. ...is litterally Sorcery speed Comet Storm... ...At uncommon... Comet Storm was a Worldwake Mythic... Times have changed!
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gotta say, i really enjoy this series of graham talking to a camera about anything thats in front of him
Agreed
"Welcome you Ikea Kallaxes. Today were gonna talk about this table. It was released in 2014 I think? 15? No 14, 14. Lots of different models, I want to say we've got ... mahogany?" *Editors note: It is spruce.*
Hurloon Wrangler also led to one of the funniest MTG rules of all time: "Taking off your pants counts as a special action."
So is putting on my robe and wizard hat.
@@EternalDensity Thanks for the blast from the past
“I’m gonna attack you with my unblockable 2/2”
“Oh yeah?” *drops pants* “I’m gonna block it anyway”
Theoretically it wouldn't be against the rules to use Mindslaver to make an opponent remove their pants.
And is faster than a mana source.
One of my favourite pieces of trivia for The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service is that while the card frame is blue, the text box additionally uses the black parchment background.
Also, that card might be the only one to ever have received an oracle update to its flavor text, which actually says that number is no longer in service (whatever number G reached will forever stay a mystery!) and to go to either the customer support website or Twitter.
@@TheRealWormbo Erase (Not the Urza's Legacy One) has some errata on its flavor text. Abrade and Frazzle are crossed out, since WotC has since used them.
The card is also riffing on a printing of fireball that had X and Y on it and confused a lot of people.
@@TheRealWormbo In addition to Erase (Not the Urza's Legacy One), which is a fantastic name, they also updated Bloodletter to reference how they removed the Æ ligature. I think that might be it, though.
@@TheRealWormbo by “not in service” they likely mean there’s no one staffing it. As Graham says they can’t really let it go because it will inevitably end up being assigned to a sex hotline or something
Maro actually credits Bill Rose and Joel Mick as the ones responsible for coming up with the idea of making a casual Magic set that broke the normal rules and wouldn't be tournament legal. Bill put Maro in charge of it because he was the designer most known for designing cards that got cut from black border sets because the rules manager said "No".
Fun fact, if you play a silver-bordered game and you resolve Mindslaver, due to the Denimwalk rulings, it is legal to make the player you control take off their pants.
Y'know, just saying...
in my universe Emrakul, the Promised End can do exactly this but I prefer just force player to bring me some tea
6:22 There is indeed a cycle of Double cards. Bonus points: their flavor text is a limerick!
Ah Hurloon Wrangler. I remember resolving it once. My opponent got up walked away to their room and changed out of their jeans and came back in a kilt.
"In your end step, I slip in to something more comfortable." then when they return the lights dim and the stereo spontaneously starts playing a bagpipes Barry White. Your opponent's broadsword enters the room before they do.
Shame you didn't have a card with Tartanwalk
@@GullyRooster Now I want to see John Churchill on an Invitational card.
The nightmare card has errata text. It now directs to an email address and the support twitter. So Twitter is canon in magic do with that what you will
Also, flavor text errata is lol.
If I remember the flavor text lyric for the Double cards it's
In a duel and takin' a lickin'
The wizard exclaimed "I'm no chicken!"
"I'm facing defeat"
"But next time we meet"
"You're in for a nasty butt-kickin'!"
I don't remember what the cards do, or even what color cards each line is on. I mostly collected the Un-sets since friends never wanted to play with those cards because we were all dorky middle schoolers. And I made myself feel old
In the order you placed them in -
Double Dip (White): Gain 5 life
Double Play (Green): Basic land search and play
Double Deal (Red): Deal 3 damage
Double Take (Blue) Draw 2 cards
Double Cross (Black): Look at hand and choose 1 card to discard that's not a basic land
You choose another player and do the effect immediately (in the case of Deal and Cross, the effects target that player instead of you), then again at the beginning of the next game against that same player. Another fun fact: they all have CMC (or mana value nowadays) of 5, with Dip and Deal being 4X instead of the others' 3XX.
"claymore J Flapdoodle" is the name Phil Fogli uses on his "Un-" cards for anyone who doesn't know.
Whole lotta Foglio art there. He really is the perfect artist for an Un-set.
And hopefully someday soon we get to see his art in a Secret Lair. It was announced last year.
[obligatory playful gaslighting that that art couldn't be anyone other than Claymore J. Flapdoodle, and who is this "Foglio" of whom you speak, ha ha ha]
Girl Genius UB please.
@@Mordalon This is now a crossover I want!
@@tipulsar85 Foglio 'Kenrith' planeswalker card/s, can you imagine it?!
not sure if you guys really care but i thought i answer graham's question about color id from the mtg wiki page "While in gameplay mechanics, the color of a card is always determined exclusively by the colors used in its casting cost or its color indicator (including some color indicators retroactively applied to cards like Ancestral Vision, which previously specified the card's color in the rule text), the color identity of a card is specified by all mana symbols that appear in its casting cost, color indicator, and rules text."
Sex Appeal has actually been errata'd to say
"Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of targets, divided as you choose. If there are more people in the room of a different gender than you are as you cast this spell, prevent the next 6 damage this way instead."
Wait, is that his problem with the card, the word opposite?
@@Jalais Gender is a spectrum, friendo.
@@Jalais gonna go out on a limb (/s) and say it was the large amount of misogyny coming through with the old trope of "femmes in gaming spaces are so advantaged, they're protected by how much everyone loves them" whereas of course there's no protection in way too many people just being creepy and/or jerks, as happens when you're a minority gender in a space. ...Also the dash of heteronormativity, but that's more the pepper on the yikes salad
@@quintindegroot7710 Pepper on the Yikes Salad is the name of my indie band. Also yeah, that's certainly a card (and an attitude) that hasn't aged well.
@@KingOfDoma And a spectrum can include opposites, like the color spectrum. The card is exclusionary by intentional goofy design, not bigotry. You wouldn't get upset about the Ray-Gun in Munchkin not working for you because your name isn't some variant of Ray (Rae, Raye, etc)
Fantastic episode. I lost it at "no, not moving on."
As soon as Graham reacted, I knew he saw Sex Appeal, lol. I think Rosewater errata'ed it to be "different gender" so all you enbies out there take advantage in your next Unglued draft!
Me, an agender, rolling on in and destroying the table because everyone else is one of the binaries. 🌈
@@Sahdirah but wouldn't you simply count as different gender? Or do you mean when you cast it?
Also yea, according to gatherer the card now indeed reads "Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of targets, divided as you choose. If there are more people in the room of a different gender than you are as you cast this spell, prevent the next 6 damage this way instead."
@@DimT670 "Agender", at least to me, means "absence of gender", think of it as that most people have "gender" characteristic, under which they might be "woman", "nonbinary", etc. I see myself as lacking this characteristic entirely.
@@sol5038 It's like how colorless isn't a color!!
And now the 1st half of BFM will spike as 50 copies get sent to Mail Time.
Back in high school where we played, well, not kitchen table Magic as much as Hallway Floor magic, I remember my elf deck popping OFF with Flock of Rabid Sheep and us saying "OK. No, we're not gonna sit here and flip a coin 200 times. Mike just gets 100 sheep." "Works for me, pass turn" "Wrath of God." "DANGIT, my sheep!"
Sacrificial lambs.
I was right there with you thinking you could send an email asking them not to record your call and was very confused how they could retroactively not record the call you're on after they get the email... At least your "then call back" logic made more sense than my time travel thought process
Got three of these in the attic. No idea what to do with them lol. I guess they'll go in the 'Booster Tutor' pile.
I found a copy of Chaos Confetti(The card you rip up and throw on the table to vindicate anything it touches) a few days ago that I got as a kid. I never knew about Un cards back then and just thought it was a wacky card and held onto it all this time.
Hoping to find a good time to use it now, maybe with the next Unset release.
4:30 VLC toolbar cameo
"I have been Graham. And now I am become 1/2 half of BFM, the cracker of pack envelopes"
"nJudge...?" got me a good laugh
It may have gone partially unnoticed, but the artist names for Unglued cards are not always the "usual" artist names. The artist for Double Play is actually Phil Foglio, for example.
I first found LRR when checking out the Unstable PPR. I had gotten back into Magic around Hour of Devastation and was reorienting myself with everything I had missed since Alara.
The art on Double Play lmaoo
Edit: 6:00 I didn't even notice the "This art is fantastic btw" because I was staring too hard at the art lol
I like to think that, if WOTC ever *were* to change their customer service-number, there would be a piece of very perplexing errata added for anyone not aware of The ultimate nightmare of Wizards of the Coast customer service
it's a small thing but the name of the Ultimate Nightmare... piercing into shot before the other names got me. very funny vid, thanks!
Enjoying the process of getting more packs done. Or start the monthly chaos drafts to reduce the amount.
All that good old Claymore J. Flapdoodle art.
To me, the funniest part of this video is reading "10 Bizarre and Broken Cards" on the pack wrapper and knowing that the next released Magic set was....Urza's Saga.
Would you guys do an Uncommander game at some time?
I love these, I love getting back from school and just listening to Mr G
I'm so glad there was the Ultimate Nightmare in the pa- oh my god and even half of the BFM too I'm so glad
As well, the Ultimate Nightmare was functionally printed in non-silver bordered as Comet Storm in Worldwake
Wow, what a great pack! A good group of some of the more iconic cards from Unglued. Loved this vid!
Beat me over the head with that nostalgia!
These Double X cards would be super good to have in a cube, methinks.
Opening a pack from 2016 gives me hope that, some day, the packs of C-23 that I sent in the November 2016 mailtime will someday get cracked...
@2:28 - during the "Arena League" in 1998, I argued the exact same thing about double deal with a friend. Don't recall how the judge ruled, but the flavor is there :P
ALSO also, the customer service number was wrong for several years after WOTC moved offices.
Oh man, Hurloon Wrangler would be backbreaking in Canada...
Looking forward to a Silver Border Chaos Draft
the phil foglio art on double play and the pseudonym is so good 👌
The Unsets are my favorite Magic cards, can't wait to see the new set with the LRR touch!
I built an Un-Cube a few years back, having to pay more than a few bucks per rare that isn't Cardboard Carapace seems nuts.
Yay my favourite Magic things. Un sets and Graham
Hey Graham, do you curate the packs you pick, or do you close your eyes, reach in, and grab one?
I think it's the latter and they straight record that for the intro each time. That's what I would do.
There was a ruling put on the double cards after it happened after at a tournament that “double effects and but used in a DCI games”
That drawer opening is such a money shot oh yeah lol
My favorite was always infernal spawn of evil... it's coming I say!.
BFM! I always wanted that as a kid because it was like Exodia, but in Magic! I had no concept of "silver-bordered" vs. "black-bordered" cards at the time.
Why can't you change the 800 number? Imagine 30 years later, being a California funeral home or something with a brand new 800 number, and someone calls in and asks you to rule on whether or not you can take off your pants in response to a Hurloon Wrangler attacking you.
Today i learned that the LRR MTG logo runs on a what seems like a 2 second loop? :D
And also, if you look closely at 4:30, said loop is being played through VLC :D
officially, double cross or any of the "double" cards from unglued allows you to do this to anyone in the next "un-game" no matter how long it has been, so if you play this and it's your last game of the match and you play them in an un-tournament or un-game like a year later, the secondary effect of double cross resolves.
Huh, the other half of BFM is cheaper. Interesting.
I still fondly recall my Unglued deck revolving around Double Deal. This was a sorcery costing 3RR that dealt 3 damage now and again at the start of the next game against that player. The objective was to use recovery and forking effects to get Double Deal to go off seven times in one match:
"I kill you so hard you die TWICE!"
Did it work? Hell no. If your opponent lets you cast one troublesome sorcery that costs 5 mana and doesn't directly improve your board state SEVEN TIMES in in one game, they were going to lose their next game against you anyway. But as a concept it's always been one of my favorites.
i love the phone call LOL
Another great bitesize vid Graham ty, my daughter and myself enjoyed talking abut the cards and the un sets, we have been playing table magic together but we have no ban lists and just make decks out of the mishmash pile of cards we have got over the last year or two inc a job lot from ebay. Anyway thanks to James and editors aswell for doing a great job. Takecare all. Regards.
The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service has a black board equivalent in Comet Storm. In addition to being less confusing, the black border one is one mana cheaper and instant speed.
My interpretation of double cross, is that you can do it's second effect years in the future, so if you're playing with a friend months apart you can keep a tally of who has double crossed who.
“If either BFM card…
More creatures.”
Um actually UNlimited was the first UN set.
Gotta love the Foglio art!
I can't wait to see this one!!
I am not disappointed!
it only occured to me recently that these sets arent just for fun. they also test new mechanics. this has meld, unstable had mutute. the others probably did too but i cant remember now.
with the double cards, I dont think you need to pick someone you are current playing with, you can just pick some beside you.
Engagement for the engagement god!
Do my denim socks count for denimwalk? do I have to tell my opponent?
Why on god’s green earth do you have DENIM SOCKS???
According to the discordians, the Customer Service card has been errata'd to say that the number printed is no longer in service and you should visit the site instead.
4:13 remember: taking off your part can be done at instant speed and doesn't use the stack. ;)
Best game of magic was a friend had the unset card volraths motion sensor on both hands. And took 15 mins to remove his pants by shimmy-ing vigorously to block the wrangler to prevent himself dying
"Judge, my opponent is slow playing by removing their pants too slowly."
0:12 [B-52's music intensifies]
Ah, Unglued! Because you, too, want to play Alexander Clamilton.
Technically, he’s from Unsanctioned
BFM was made into an official Pokemon mechanic and it's a PITA to put into play. You need to find all 4 parts of the card and have them in your discard pile in order to put it into play, but the Prize mechanic, which has you set aside cards for the game's main win con, could easily mess over a V Union deck if one of the quarters ends up in the Prize set (especially since all 4 parts trigger the non-basic energy limit of 4 cards. So you can't have 4 of each quarter of a Pikachu V Union in the same deck!). Granted, there's cards to look at your prize cards but V Union is also due to be rotated out of standard soon (well, most of them at least). At least all of them were boxed set promos instead of being a booster card
Idea for future segments: when doing the price lookup, you could also look up what the prices were at the time the pack was donated, and do a comparison to see how much you gained or lost because of the delay!
Doubles were a cycle.
I am still waiting to finish resolving a Double Deal against a friend I haven't seen in 4 years.
The Ultimate Nightmare of WotC Customer Service is a joke on one of the old efreets that was printed with a border that didn't match its casting cost.
changing the available hours for WOTC is definitely "power creep"
Sex Appeal is the sort of thing that reminds you that the '90s were thankfully a different time.
(Thankful in the sense that we've changed significantly since them.)
This has me thinking,
I remember you guys did a release event for unstable, but have you ever done other draft (or constructed) silver border?
I can see that being a blast to watch.
th-cam.com/video/NkIlHLDfwIM/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/pgakGUaqDRk/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/L5ivetoDxB4/w-d-xo.html
The first two are Unstable drafts that weren't done on release weekend, but instead done later on. The last is a four-man tournament using the Unsanctioned precons.
Nice detail I just looked up because I was suspicious. Paying 3G for a vanilla creature gets you a 3/4 or a 4/3. So, on average Elvish Impersonators gets you a perfectly good creature for the cost.
Timely to be opening an unset pack.
The Scryfall errata of Wizards Customer Service had that the number was no longer in service and send an email instead
Glad to know the number still works
It would have been funny if they had a new phonenumber, but the voice from the one on the card said "welcome to wizards customerservice.. blablabla.. sadly u are calling from the past and " or something like that. :D
Graham, I made the same email/recording misinterpretation you did.
Can't believe they had the same tagline for Unglued and Eldraine
8:50 I tried calling that number as well, it didnt work for me though.
For a second I thought it was Unhinged and he was gonna open with "Greetings you Dumb Asses."
Power creep 😹
I don't know how likely it is but i would love to see a draft of old UN sets because it would be so wacky and weird.
I really enjoy the trend of using the Un-sets to test mechanics that don't quite seem to click. Like with the proto-Meld card, 20 years early, there's a lot of "well, what if..." going on in these silly sets, and I just think that's neat. I'd say "I wonder if they printed these cards as a testbed and then just said, well, let's see what the player response is" but I think I remember an article where MaRo just came out and said that, so... no speculation!
Rocket-Powered Turbo Slug’s super haste (which had it attack the turn before you cast it) directly inspired the Pact cycle from Future Sight
Ah double cross: the only magic cards objectively unplayable in game three in REL
Can we get the wizards customer service voice actor in the next ppr?
wow, that's the 2nd best card in the set, behind the blacker lotus. This card was an instant legend! i might put elvish impersonators into an elf edh deck. it's not broken, at the very best it's a vanilla green 6/6 4 drop, although having to rule 0 about silver border cards and probably having to show it takes the humor out of just spontaneously playing it.
What background music do you guys use?
Someone should go ask maro what the rulings for sex appeal in regards to intersex people are
I've got a Bad Ass in a Time Machine, still waiting for my next game with a certain player since the Unhinged Prerelease.
34 seconds. Gotta be the fastest I've accidentally clicked a LRR video.
So let me get this straight....
the ultimate nightmare of wizards of the coast® customer service..
...is litterally Sorcery speed Comet Storm...
...At uncommon...
Comet Storm was a Worldwake Mythic...
Times have changed!
Hmmm. Anyone have the name of the small bit of music that plays during the intro?