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Episode 220: Boom Goes the Dynamite (at the right time)
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Hello Podwalkers, and welcome back to the Goblin Lore Podcast! We were fortunate enough to have Wizards graciously provide us with a free Preview Card for y'all from Outlaws of Thunder Junction. And guess what... IT'S OUR BUDDY BREECHES!! That's right we are doing a complete Goblin Profile around this legendary Goblin from Ixalan (and his good friend Malcolm). There's a lot to explore with Breeches's new card (most importantly his move to UR). So we hope you enjoy.
There are two Artists for this card since there are two treatments!
Check out Dmitry Burmak and Michael Walsh!!
ALSO THIS HAS A TON OF SPOILERS FOR STORY
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Opening and closing music by Wintergatan (@wintergatan). Logo art by Steven Raffael (@SteveRaffle)
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Transcript
Introduction & Preview Card Reveal
00:00:29
Speaker
Hello Podwalkers and welcome back to the Goblin Lore podcast and I mean this in the sense of you just heard Taya and I earlier this week this is this is episode number two for the week and
00:00:44
Speaker
All of the hosts are here today. So, hello, Alex and Taya. Yeah, because we've got something really special today. So we had to make sure everybody was here. Yes, we have a free preview card that was given to us by Wizards of the Coast that we are going to be sharing with all of you
Who is Breaches?
00:01:01
Speaker
today. So we're going to just start by just sharing who we have. We have Breeches. Boom goes the dynamite. We have a munitions expert. It is a legendary goblin.
00:01:13
Speaker
And we have it. He's a goblin with a job. We're very excited. Yes. Job is making things go boom. Both the fact that he has a job is exciting and the job itself. Double excitement. You're saying more than just the pirate job. Yes. So he is he is the munitions expert in this Okos crew and
00:01:37
Speaker
So breaches is breaches, the blast maker breaches has moved into red, blue. This is cool. I really love this. So breaches has moved into two colors as has Malcolm, which we'll get to cost red, blue, and a one for a three, three legendary creature, goblin pirate. That's already a great start.
00:01:59
Speaker
I'm like, this is a big goblin. I like a lot of- With menace, with menace too. You get a three, three with menace for that. Three, three with menace. We just could stop there, right? No, no, we can't, no. Our goblins have to do more than that, especially a goblin with a job.
00:02:15
Speaker
Breaches reads, whenever you cast your second spell each turn, you may sacrifice an artifact. If you do, flip a coin. Three of my favorite words on any magic card is flip a coin. And what I love about this is there is no wrong answers. Breaches does something no matter what. So if you win the flip, copy the spell.
00:02:45
Speaker
You may choose new targets for that spell, or the copy. When you lose the flip, I don't actually like that it says when, because I'm like, you're just assuming I'm going to, don't you, wizard? You know me. If you lose the flip.
00:02:58
Speaker
breaches the blast maker deals damage equal to the spells mana value to any target. It's win-win. You cannot lose this flip. Yeah, right. So it's funny. So I bet you kind of wanting to do like a question. I said, you know, I was thinking of the of songs that we could have. Right. I love country music. So people don't know that. I've been posting photos of me, 18 year old Hobbs growing up in Southern California, where the cowboy at.
00:03:29
Speaker
I love old countries. This is something where you and I teenage us would have disagreed vehemently on. I had a bumper sticker on my car when I was a teenager that said discourage inbreeding band country music.
Goblins in Magic: Beyond Combat
00:03:47
Speaker
It's funny because it was probably my secondary or tertiary genre in high school. I was way more into like emo and grunge.
00:03:57
Speaker
Yeah, I think we would have agreed there. Yeah, but the country love that I have, we probably would not have. So I joked that I wanted to give breaches the gambler, but the whole point of the gambler, the song by Kenny Rogers is you got to know when to hold him, you got to know when to fold him, you got to know when to walk away, no one to run. There's a whole joke about you need to have an ace in your hole. Like he is the gambler that doesn't plan on losing. It's not real gambling. Like all the gamblers that we've talked about in magic.
00:04:27
Speaker
You have extra thumbs and you have ways to win your coin flips. Yeah. You're not losing here. You're either going to, you're going to copy your spell or do some damage, one or the other. I wish I had artifacts in Nira to sacrifice because this would go in Nira so quickly. And we're going to talk about more about the applicability of this card later. So I'm going to save that discussion for later. So Tia, I did prompt you. You had a song. You didn't come up with that.
00:04:57
Speaker
You know, I'm just, this is for me, you know, I think this just makes me go, breaches makes me think of, you know, click, click, boom, because you know, it's going to explode. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully. If it's done right. I mean, he always does it right. It always explodes. It doesn't, it may not explode where you want it to explode or when you want it to explode.
00:05:27
Speaker
but it's going to explode. That's right. And Alex, did you get a song? Did you remember I posted this question? I absolutely remembered you posted the question 30 seconds ago when you said it. That's what I was thinking. So I very hastily googled songs about explosions and that didn't help me.
00:05:50
Speaker
And then I was thinking, thinking about songs about pirates. And then I came to my favorite song about pirates. And I think maybe he'd be friends with the characters in this song, but there's a song called We Are the Robot Pirates by a band called Songs to Wear Pants To.
00:06:08
Speaker
That is well, it's just a bunch of bad robot computer slash pirate puns. Oh, yeah. I think he would appreciate that. So it's funny, Alex, that you're actually saying this. So I highlighted some things about Malcolm. So we haven't done a goblin profile in a in a while. So we're going to do a goblin profile on reaches. Right. You said nothing. So you mean breaches. Yes. On breaches.
00:06:36
Speaker
They're heterosexual life partners. We've established this.
Breaches' Background & Friendship with Malcolm
00:06:39
Speaker
We know this. They're linked in my mind and in the story. And no, we are doing breaches. We have not done a profile. So when I was doing the research for this, there's actually when Jace is on Ixalan the first time with like no memory. And one of the first things that he kind of does is he actually remembers like breaches, Malcolm and like one or like that's all he knows in his life.
00:07:02
Speaker
And there's a line where he starts kind of like mumbling to himself or he's singing some sort of a song. And Jace's voice was slow asleep. Breaches taught me a song. And Vraska says the one about figs. And Jace just says, it's a rude song. Very rude. He's a rude little goblin. So as soon as you said this, Alex, I was like, yeah, 100%. He is known for chanting.
00:07:31
Speaker
Yeah. At the top of his lungs. Yes. He does everything at the top of his lungs. You know, almost all of his text is in caps. Almost all. You notice, yeah, especially reading the current story, there's it's actually an aberration when it is in lower case. There's like one line he has in the whole story, which is in lower case. I noticed that as I was reading and it stood out to me. And I think that's great that there was a line in lower case because yes,
00:08:00
Speaker
Uh-huh. But I just, he's willing us to chant enthusiastically at top volume about anything. The very first time we meet him, he starts chanting about like, he's chanting about ale and coin. And somebody's like, you owe me money. And he just adds in debt to like his chant. He's like, debt, ale, coins. He just like adds the word in like, yep.
00:08:27
Speaker
So let's talk about breaches. So first thing we know about breaches, breaches is from Ixalan. And breaches is a pirate. He was aboard the belligerent Vraska's ship. Yep. And we talked a little bit and I think maybe we'll get into more of this later because we want to talk about breaches specifically. I joked about the pirates, you know, goblins with jobs, but it's a thing that we've talked about on and off for the last few years now that it was kind of a big deal that at the time,
00:08:56
Speaker
We're getting legendary goblins who had classes in their creature types. You have a goblin, you have a job.
00:09:07
Speaker
And so it was it was good to see goblins being more than just in a lot of fiction. They're the mindless horde of the evil care, you know, the villains. You always had like goblin shaman or goblin war goblin or goblin warrior, things like that. But you finally started getting things like goblin rogues or goblin.
00:09:28
Speaker
In this case, pirates are, you know, kind of more respectable careers. Yes. And I'll say to artificers, I think we talked about this before. Our artists was the one the one element we got prior to it. I'm not saying shaman is not a respectable career that shamans are very valued in their cultures. It's just goblins needed to stretch out their arms and legs a little bit.
00:09:54
Speaker
Yeah, and a lot of what they were getting was a lot more combat-y focused. And, you know, pirates will combat too, but they do other things. And like you say, that also followed with other types, creature types as well, which was the trend that we saw from this that was really, really good to see, like our goblin bards we've been seeing recently and things like that. Yeah, we still don't have a card for Morpo.
00:10:20
Speaker
But we did have that really adorable bard on Ravnica. But yeah, we've talked about goblins having roles. And in Ixalan, he is actually basically like a gunner.
00:10:37
Speaker
Well, that makes him a lot like my buddy Squeak, but he's known first. Yeah, that was Squeak's job for those who don't know. He went from cabin boy to Gunner because that would turned out to be the one thing he was extremely good at and shocked everybody.
00:10:53
Speaker
Yeah, but he's known for his talents and gunnery, not tying. And like I said, his joke about his expertise in yelling. But I mean, he is like a real member of this crew. I mean, they they they were setting out to try to steal the immortal son. But while that didn't work, him and Malcolm got very rich. And they're now part of like the brazen coalition.
Breaches' Role in Current Storyline
00:11:23
Speaker
This is all comes from the, the, the, if people want to see, this is, this was kind of a cool thing they did with commander legend. So we had a lot of story around breaches. Well, sorry. We had breaches in the story for the first six salon, but we didn't get a ton, ton other than they didn't get cars in the first six lines. They were very popular from the story. Everybody loved breaches in Malcolm when the story came out.
00:11:48
Speaker
So when they came around a commander legends, we got both breaches and Malcolm with partner. Yeah. So they were, they were red and blue. So having that partner ability and there was bios that came out and that was where we started getting a little bit more fleshing out. Now, when we returned to Ixalan.
00:12:08
Speaker
breaches and Malcolm have a lot more of a bigger role in kind of this the the whatchamacallit lost caverns like they they actually go down in the caverns. Yeah, they are a set of the point of view characters for the story. They are the pirate faction point of view characters.
00:12:27
Speaker
So they're kind of roll there. They were really being sent to investigate kind of disappearances in the mining town, mining town of downtown, which is a funny name because they're part of the the brazing coalition. And that is the town that was under the coalition's control. What's really funny is they just basically end up like getting attacked by like my coins, which is just really fun to me.
00:12:55
Speaker
Yeah, and throughout the entire story, all Breaches wants to do is fire this huge gun he found. That's the only thing he wants to do, the whole story. He keeps asking Malcolm if it's time to fire his gun. Yes, because he found it! What are you supposed to do with a big gun if you found it? And he gets to. He does actually finally get to, right? Yeah, and he gets to blast apart the big, mean fungus king with it.
00:13:25
Speaker
The Mycotyrant? Mycotyrant, yeah. I was having trouble remembering the name because it was, yeah. Race Elder Fungus. Yeah.
00:13:39
Speaker
I mean this is yeah so like and and this the entire time they are down in the like the the caverns they are together right that is what we're talking about like i think i what's funny is you mentioned a little bit about how malcolm and breeches were very popular and i think a big part of that was the fact that we had a siren and a pirate i'm sorry they're both pirates siren and a goblin who were friends but like not a pairing of what you expect at all
00:14:10
Speaker
No, and Malcolm is like very prim and proper, and then Breaches is a little ball of chaos. Yeah, I mean, they very well fit their monocolor identity when we're first meeting them. Yeah. And two monocolors that in the sort of structure of the game are enemy colors. They're the opposites, blue and red.
00:14:37
Speaker
And so to see that friendship between the two of them, that tight bond, it was good. It's just nice to see the story flesh out things like this more. We talk a lot about, it's just a tiny bit of a tangent, but when we talk about color combinations, where you have the Boros from Avenue, but you also have Lorehold from, why am I blanking? I'm sorry, the school.
00:15:06
Speaker
it's so having these different prismari well the prismari are all for strict saving sorry i thought you were going for the other color combination no no i was just trying to compare two two red and white factions that are red and white specifically not like say the mardew that had black in there at one point but it has this whole thing so having those different representations of these colored
00:15:29
Speaker
these same colors is great and to again to have a goblin who's pretty red and a siren who's pretty blue but to be friends and to sort of not to make too bad of a pawn but to fly in the face of those color expectations from a mechanical standpoint is really nice to see. Yeah.
00:15:51
Speaker
So, you know, there's a cool stuff. I mean, like, and even in the second story for Ixalan, we see like, you know, like Malcolm fights with the mycoids by using his siren song and breaches 100% just wants to pull the trigger on a gun.
00:16:11
Speaker
I mean, and it's just like it, but it's worked like, right. I mean, and that is what I love about it. I wanted to throw, I wanted to throw another couple really funny lines that stood out to me from the story. So like when they are fighting at one point with Vona and Tishana and the hero fans, like they're all on the belligerent, you know, we see, we see Malcolm, the siren and
00:16:40
Speaker
the goblin breaches leaps forward. And I love his language because he does this a lot in the story for Thunder Junction, which we're going to talk about where he just yells whatever he's thinking or doing. He just yells violence. And then it's like the song stopped. Malcolm cheers and yells go for the eyes breaches. Yes.
00:17:07
Speaker
So this was before we had an actual like mincekin boo. Right. Right. So like we got. Thank you, Alison. Thank you, Alison Lors. But like we got go for the ice breaches early on. Nice. So we kind of left them, right? We we left them on Ixalan. We they finished kind of up the fight. What I like about this is there was kind of this discussion about why they were on
00:17:37
Speaker
Thunder Junction. You know, I think that there's been a lot of discussion about that today. I will just flat out say that we're recording on Thursday. A lot of discussion about that concern there.
How Does Breaches Show Discipline?
00:17:49
Speaker
I actually think the Malcolm and Breaches one makes a lot of sense and they tied it together a lot better because of the final chapter. These two are loyal to Vraska. Yeah, they didn't care about anything else. As soon as Vraska was gone, they just peaced out. They peaced out.
00:18:06
Speaker
Yeah. They, they like flew off into the sunset. Like literally, I mean, like to start a life somewhere, I guess. We don't know, but they left. Like the rest of the gang got back together. Yeah. They, they weren't, they, they weren't there because Oco recruited them. They were there because Nebraska brought them in. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:25
Speaker
And I think it makes sense, like with the time they spent on Ixalan with Rascale. And it's funny, Oko was like, wow, that, you know, it would have been good to have them because they were really good at their jobs. Turns out, you know, Malcolm's other ability of being able to scout is fantastic. And Breaches is very, very good at blowing things up. Yeah. And I'm going to, I'm going to take that
00:18:50
Speaker
because there's one specific piece of the story I wanted to talk about when you're talking about blowing things up, because not only is he good at blowing things up,
00:18:58
Speaker
But when they, during the story, needed to blow something up, like there was a point where everything's set up, everybody's like, okay, how are we doing? You have breaches. The story says, ready and waiting, breaches squawked. He's good. He will blow things up in the right time. He's not trigger happy, gonna blow things up early. He likes to blow things up, but he will blow them up at the right time.
00:19:23
Speaker
Yeah, it was it was really literally what's funny is this was brought up to be kind of like a comedic relief kind of situation where we're all like having like walkie-talkie magical walkie-talkies.
00:19:39
Speaker
She's the one. She's the one that we can't actually trust. She's the one who blew the whole train robbery. Yeah, she's the one who did her part early. And even while chaos was happening early, breaches still waited until the right time to set off the explosion. There also was, why did they have to blow the bridge at all? What did that buy them in this whole... I don't know.
00:20:05
Speaker
I think Oco just watched too many Westerns or something. Yeah. Because that is the trope for the Western. Yes, it is the trope. And I'm just like sitting in this story and I'm just like. So supposedly it was that they would see the bridge had been blown and stop the train. Right.
00:20:27
Speaker
And then the train, but part of this also comes back to Gissa because her ghouls attacked the conductor of the train. So it doesn't slow down. Yeah. Yeah, but they'd already captured the guy anyways. I don't really know why they needed their train to slow down.
00:20:48
Speaker
Yeah, you know, it's contingencies. It's contingencies, I guess. But but I, you know, I joked in our Discord or Discord and online that I was I am totally fine to allow breaches in GISA to plan anything. Yeah, it's fine. Like I do appreciate what you're saying, though, Alex, there is a degree of I can wait for the signal. I'm going to do it. I'm going to be excited.
00:21:13
Speaker
Yeah, but again, that kind of is a fleshing out of characters because part of red's color pie is impulsiveness. And he did such a good job in all of the Return to Ixalan block, too. He held his shot that whole time. And, you know, for a mono red character, that is that's a lot of self control. Yeah, yeah. And I appreciate that.
00:21:39
Speaker
Level of making him not just a caricature like he's like to explode things because goblins love to explode things But it's like but he has that self-control And which I think goes a little bit to the goblin with jobs thing like he has his job. He's going to do the job well, I really what's funny is the you know, like who you would think of being as the stereotypical like
00:21:59
Speaker
Chaos Gremlin or Goblin in this situation is Tiny Bones. Oh, yeah. He fulfills that role. He just steals to steal, like literal no reason. Just to annoy. Yeah, just to annoy. Just annoy breaches. Yeah, flat out like he eats stew that he can't eat because it goes through his body. He steals his flask to drink out of it.
00:22:27
Speaker
once again doesn't have a body. Still coins he doesn't need. Breaches shows an incredible amount of
00:22:39
Speaker
patients. I would just try to smash tiny bones. Well, yes. Each time he gets robbed. Tiny bones may deserve it. Tiny bones also seems to be immune to smashing though. There's that too. And that's also a situation where breaches doesn't need to exercise patients, so he saves that for when it's needed.
Evolution of Breaches in Cards
00:23:03
Speaker
So I want to talk a little bit about the evolution. So he has been mono red in previous iterations. So we had him first as the.
00:23:11
Speaker
The version that was in the Commander of Legends was the Brazen Plunderer. So that card was the one where basically it cared about pirates, right? So whenever one or more pirates you control deal damage to an opponent, exile top card of your library. And then you may play those cards and you may spend mana of any color. That was the one that had the partner ability. And then he comes back as the eager,
00:23:38
Speaker
Eager Pillager, which I don't remember what the ability is on that one. Eager Pillager has first strike, changing off his menace. Also a 3-3, that's interesting. He's been a 3-3. He's been a 3-3, cross course. But then Eager Pillager also has, whenever a pirate you control attacks, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn. Create a treasure token, target creature can't block, or exile the top card of your library, you may play it this turn.
00:24:08
Speaker
And so we do know the partner versions were meant to be played together. And the partner version of Malcolm plays very well with the partner version. Yeah. Because it's basically when your pirates deal damage, you get a treasure token, which then lets you cast the spells that you've done. Right. And the partners for that set were all mono colored, if I recall correctly. Yes. Yes. Yes.
00:24:32
Speaker
Yep, that was that was part of the thing. The mono colors to pair either with each other or with the two color ones from the previous commander sets. But also this Malcolm like all of them because he's a siren has flying, which pairs nicely with breaches triggering off of pirates dealing combat damage to opponents. So they both came with like some form of evasion, which they can then yeah, trigger each other as a belly suit because they both trigger off of pirates.
00:24:57
Speaker
So let's talk about them now. So Malcolm was also spoiled today when we were recording this. He said this at the beginning. Malcolm is now red, blue, and breaches.
00:25:08
Speaker
is now red-blue. Which is really cool to see. We did a whole episode on this fairly recently about characters who go through color shifts and kind of how that's represented in the story and sometimes it's a mechanical thing, but it's a fun sort of mythos examination to look at these characters' progression. And we have this fun thing where a mono-blue character hangs out with a mono-red character long enough, and then they both end up having a blue-red version. Yeah.
00:25:36
Speaker
that complimentary part of the red blue, and they both work. And once again, so the new version of Malcolm, Malcolm the Eyes, because that's his job, is a red-blue, two-two, flying haste. Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, investigate. Do y'all remember what investigate does? Before you even put that ability on the thing, a two-two flying haste for two. No.
00:26:05
Speaker
What do you get for two-mana nowadays? Yeah, a lot. Back in my day. Back in my day, that'd get you a grizzly bear. So the ability here is investigate, which is cool, thematic, really flavorful with the eyes, and importantly, investigate creates
00:26:34
Speaker
A Clue token. And Clue tokens. Are artifacts. Yes. And when you clash your second spell age third, you may sacrifice an artifact. So you have the ability to stack these triggers that basically Malcolm can fuel the artifacts that you need to then sacrifice two breaches. Yeah, I would be really upset if anybody wouldn't let you rule zero these as partner commanders.
00:27:02
Speaker
Oh yeah. Yeah. And they also, as their casting costs too are two and three. They curve into each other. Yeah. I was, you know, if this wasn't a standard set, they'd probably have partner with.
00:27:21
Speaker
Right, and that would be cool, I think, with these mechanic with the two of them. Yeah. The partner with mechanic, which is, if people don't know, partner with is different than partner. Yeah, partner with, you get a specific.
00:27:35
Speaker
So one thing we're going to be doing, we will be sharing art. We are kind of very fortunate in this free preview that Wizards gave us and that we get a card with two arts as well. We got one of the special treatments. So these will be posted on all of our socials. You'll be able to see them. You'll be able to look at them, I'm sure, in the spoiler.
00:27:57
Speaker
that up on Scryfall and everything by this time. But I want to just kind of like highlight the fact that we get kind of the wanted poster version of breaches, which is by Michael Walsh. So if people don't know, Michael Walsh has done for magic. He did. Well, he's done others in the set. So he did Oco because the Oco just went up for sale for the from this. And then he also has done. He did. I want to say the secret layer.
00:28:26
Speaker
that had like the grave crawler and stuff like that. He's a comic book artist. I want to say on this art that Fuse is kind of, it's not there anymore. We just really need to get rid of them. Yeah, maybe waiting a little too long for the right time. You're worried is what you're saying a little bit. I'm a little worried here, yeah.
00:28:53
Speaker
Oh, so that's yeah. So so so Michael Walsh is a predominantly a comic book artist. Now what he has done for magic has been amazing.
New Gameplay Mechanics & Strategies
00:29:02
Speaker
So he did Admiral brass, where he actually used Jason Rainville's mom as the reference for his version in the Mesoamerican art.
00:29:14
Speaker
He did the Creep Show with the flip side of it with the Death Baron. It's the Death Baron Creep Show. He did the Crawling Chorus, that really creepy triangle art with faces from All Will Be One. Do you all remember this art? Yeah. I mean art.
00:29:36
Speaker
So I really do like it. I'm just posting so Alex will have to see this again. Yes, thank you. But he did the Oko thief of crowns version that is supposed to be like a wanted poster from the newspaper. The one poster for tiny bones. Sorry, I did see that I didn't really need to see it again. But thank you.
00:29:58
Speaker
So we get that right. And like you said, I love that there's like a fuse. It's right down to the hand. It is very comic booky. It's got red and blue tints to the art basically to make it have that flair of the coloring in it. The other art is much more of what we expect from Ixalan goblins in like a traditional and it's Dimitri Burmak. So if people don't know, Dimitri Burmak is the one who did muxus.
00:30:28
Speaker
Oh, yes. So this is a nice return for for me, at least I love that art. The muxus art is one that I'm a huge fan of. Dimitri kind of had done that. And this is the day you were saying of the two versions, actually, this is your favorite of the two arts. I like this one just because one, it's a classic Western trope to it. There's a lot going on in it.
00:30:59
Speaker
I like the color, I like the action. The other one is pretty cool, except for Breach is about to blow his arm off.
00:31:10
Speaker
He's just lighting the dynamite here, so he has plenty of time to get away. The fuse on the dynamite on the bottom of the bridge slash railroad tracks does not look that long either. No, but at least there's some there. Yeah. At least he can drop off and get caught by Malcolm in this case. Yes, that is true. That is true. Malcolm is going to probably be close by and flying. So yeah.
00:31:34
Speaker
The arts are just but it is kind of cool getting something this story driven, right? Like breaches roll as the blast. I do have to say that like one thing before you go on. Yeah. If those are, you know, to the the scale of this this ral and this dynamite, those cactuses have to be massive. Force perspective. No. Yeah. Like, yeah.
00:32:01
Speaker
Well, we did see a cactus tarantula on this plane. Yeah, there's a lot of nightmare fuel for me on this plane. I expected that with desert animals and there being spiders, but. So thoughts to either of you have a deck that this either goes into or that you are interested, like to build it. I already have too many is it decks, but I really like this car. Is it a problem to have too many is it decks?
00:32:36
Speaker
If I made another is it deck I would have like twice as many is it decks as my next closest
00:32:48
Speaker
But I say like Neera you I would love this to be in Neera But I don't have enough artifacts in Neera to because she's all about like second spells and stuff like that So it's so easy to trigger and copying spells and stuff But I just don't have enough artifacts to sacrifice in that deck to trigger it reliably if I had more things that like made treasure it would be a
00:33:14
Speaker
Um, possible, but there's not a whole lot in there that does it. So I was wondering about that. I was thinking, I mean, theoretically you hadn't seen Malcolm, I think when I first had brought this up. So Malcolm, I mean, once again that the hard part is right. Malcolm actually, yeah. I mean, I would need both of them to make it work though. And I don't know if that's worth disrupting my spell package enough to put both of them in to maybe make this cool thing happen. Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:41
Speaker
But I would totally build him, or build a Rule Zero, Malcolm and Breach's deck. See, that's, yeah, that I think is where I really... Well, so like, this goes into a potential build, at least my casual, but can't really be ever casual, Karkashima build? There is no thing casual about that.
00:34:03
Speaker
This would only be once, I'd only get it like once. Well, so like, yeah, I will say in the very competitive builds, you're looking for one big turn versus my casual one. There are a lot of times I might just want to cast like two spells in a turn. And I would get that copy that free copy or domain somebody would be fine.
00:34:23
Speaker
I mean, I would definitely play this in my build that is higher powered, but is by casual. I mean, it's not like it's not built around just like one mannequin trips that all make like one mannequin trips or rituals. It does have lots of ways to with. I think the first time I ever played it with you all, I managed to like wheel everybody so much and still lose the game. Like I pretty sure. Tell your son destroyed us in that game, but
00:34:54
Speaker
Yeah, sorry. But yeah, so that I would actually put in my build of Quark and Sagashima. That is funny as I could just build it as a breach as Malcolm deck, which would potentially be a little more casual just by taking away the redundancy of coin flipping. Yeah, yeah, I don't I don't really have a deck. I don't know that I have it strictly is it deck right now.
00:35:22
Speaker
I mean, you do now. Oh, I think it's we're going to lead you. I do love I do love the vial smasher ness of that lose a flip. Yes, which which is funny. Oh, how does how does thumb work? Could I choose to lose that? Or do I have to try to win it?
00:35:41
Speaker
No, you get to choose which one you choose the result. You choose a result. Well, that is a bad result. Sorry. I just accidentally typed Quark into Google instead of Scryfall. And I apparently there's a bunch of stools that are just called Quark. A bunch of Quark stools. That's a good name for a stool. Yeah. I mean, like they said, I want to flip coins. I want to flip coins. I want to flip coins and deal damage.
00:36:12
Speaker
Yeah, I guess I guess I can build another is a deck. Make this my flat out just coin flip one, bringing in Malcolm likes that I would totally want to partner
Theme of Friendship & Loyalty
00:36:23
Speaker
these. These are definitely like the story lore type things that I think are partners that people would be hopefully okay with. Because that's what we have we have
00:36:33
Speaker
We have Goblin and a Siren that are friends. I have always loved this. I love, I know it's my cheesiness, but I mean, one of the things about Slowbad, from the very first profile we did on Slowbad, was that he became friends with an elf and a robot.
00:36:51
Speaker
I mean, that's, that's, that's why he was friends with a golem and a robot. I mean, a golem and an elf. And it was that unlikely friendship. This is something else that we have in these types of relationships and showing how goblins could care for others. And outside of goblins, I think is just something that I'm always drawn to in Magic Story.
00:37:13
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, and that was a big part of that first profile was, was highlighting not only, you know, the, the friendship that they made, but then the fact that slow bed gave up God like planeswalker hood to save his friends. Yeah. Like his friendship was that important. And that car was offering, well, I can, I could bring you out into the multiverse and show you all the things he's like, but what I want's right here. I want my friends. And so you see that same powerful friendship between Malcolm and breaches.
00:37:44
Speaker
It looks at the loyalty to the whole crew, like the loyalty to Nebraska. Yeah. Yeah. One hundred percent what brought them on this job was not money. I mean, I understand they're set up as the like money hungry, but they've got it. Yeah. Well, they did before the fungus army took over all of the pirate area.
00:38:10
Speaker
I mean, that's the assumption because the whole pirate town kind of got wiped out. Okay. So their coin also did. You're thinking. I'm, I'm guessing that, um, they lost their investment in downtown and probably. And the hint at the end of the story that the fungus got away on the pirate ship is probably not a good sign for the future financial prospects of the brazen coalition. Okay.
00:38:39
Speaker
So they probably did need the money. Well, maybe they're just going to set up life in the desert. We don't know. They literally rode off into the sunset. They did. But, you know.
00:38:53
Speaker
Jason Vraska, they're probably just going to pick them up somewhere because they're too good. They're good lackeys. I
Episode Wrap-Up & Appreciation
00:39:01
Speaker
thought you were going to say that Jason Vraska are just good hearted. Like, oh, no, no, there's no breaches in Malcolm are just really good lackeys. And they said Vraska could use some of those right now. They are very good at their jobs.
00:39:21
Speaker
So once again, thank you Wizards for this free preview. We are just excited that we got a legendary goblin, especially one that I think I love Ixalan goblins.
00:39:34
Speaker
I love kind of the monkey pirates and I love this long thing, but goblins always get to me. I love it. They need them. And this is just such a great just this card is awesome. Like this is this is a take on red blue that I love to see. Yeah, I'm I'm a big fan of the the Spell Slinger red blue decks and
00:39:59
Speaker
You know, most of them lack, one of the things they lack is a way to deal damage or win games. It's a big problem with a lot of near decks that don't go like near Eldrazi. But being able to do direct damage with this is actually a pretty cool way to move the game along.
00:40:18
Speaker
And I want to highlight it just says second spell each turn that can be creatures. So there is a world where you could be using this to get token copies of like creatures that you want. Yeah, mine. Mine. You're a deck is mostly creatures is when cons it's mostly like it's dragons and serpents and other big blue and red beaters. Yeah. So getting two of those would not be the worst thing in the world.
00:40:43
Speaker
Yeah, that's a good point. And also per turn doesn't say your turn. It does not say another thing. Yeah, that's why I'm saying it'd be so good in Europe. I had the artifacts to do it because near it is doing all the things this card set does except have artifact. So what you really need is you need is you need Malcolm and breaches and then near it just in the deck.
00:41:06
Speaker
Yeah, I have to gamble for Nira. Oh, that seems really appropriate. So this is yeah. Come on. You got this. Well, thank you all for a second episode this week. This check out the other cards that are coming out for outlaws of Thunder Junction. And yeah, I guess we're going to find out soon why Jace is Jace again.
00:41:36
Speaker
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00:41:58
Speaker
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00:42:26
Speaker
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