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Episode 266: Planeshifting into the Apocalypse
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Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome back to another episode of the Goblin Lore Podcast! September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Hobbes has been continuing to train for the Twin Cities Marathon (running to raise money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention) and Goblin Lore in conjunction with Drew from Show and Tell will put putting out stories of hope. You can find the ongoing playlist here.
Taya and Alex are back to talk about the Weatherlight Saga with a focus on the Invasion Block. This week will be a dive into flavor and form with our Melthos Review of this block!
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Introduction and Hosts
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Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to another episode of the Goblin Lore Podcast. ah We are continuing the the kind of the pattern that we've had the last couple of weeks um and talking Invasion Block. Before we get into too many details, why don't we introduce ourselves in the first 60 seconds of the cast, unlike last week, because I got distracted by Sonamound voice, I think.
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I'm Alex. done in the Discord. break yeah I thought I had broken the habit. i'm I'm no longer found on much social media. I'm in our Discord, other the the Goblin Lord Discord, which is open for folks if people want to join, but otherwise I am not really present.
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ah My pronouns are he, him, um and we'll do an open question after we kind of do intros and set up the rest of the episode.
Hobbs' Marathon and Cause
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Want to introduce yourself?
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Yeah. Hi, I'm Taya. Taya transcends on Blue Sky, or you can find me on the Discord. My pronouns are she, her, are they, them. And yeah, I'm looking forward to ah looking forward to talking about these two sets today Yeah. And and just for for folks who might have been coming back after a while, like Hobbs is still taking a break.
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um He's working on his, get gearing up for his marathon and and raising money for Suicide ah ah Awareness Month, September's Suicide Awareness Month. And I know he's raising some money for For some causes there and and doing a lot of stuff. I think i know last week he he added a ah quick little thing to the cast to kind of give an update with that, which is which is great.
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Otherwise, he's posting on his social medias um on the blue sky and in the discord. If that's something you're interested in keeping track of maybe stuff in the show notes as well.
Discussion on the Nine Titans: Lord Windgrace
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for that.
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But then, yeah, as Tay said, we're going to be talking two sets this week. We are continuing the Invasion block. A couple weeks ago, we talked about the story for the whole ah the whole block, all three sets.
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Last week, we went through and we did kind of a like a more Malthos look at um Invasion, and then this week, we're going to follow that up with a Plane shift.
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There's so many sets. um Between Planescape and Planar Chaos, I have to pause whenever I say Planeship, whether we're talking Planeship and Apocalypse, the two small sets from that block. But first, um our opening question, because there isn't a lot of legends in this one, unlike our last set where we could kind of pick a fun legend we like.
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We're going to talk about our favorite member of the Nine Titans, which was a group of Planeswalkers that Urza brought together to attack Phyrexia with giant mechs that we got a good look at in the Invasion set. There were several cards that represented them, including one really clunky card that was supposed to be one of these giant, powerful mechs and ultimately falls very far short of the like ah equipment that would show up not even like two or three years later in Mirrodin.
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ah but So these these nine Titans, I think my my favorite, the easy easy answer for me is Lord Windgrace. Oh, you gave me the same answer I did. Is that what you were going to go with Lord Windgrace? I mean, ah me with the cap person? Oh, that's fair. fair.
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i'll i'll else I've got another answer. Go ahead and talk about Lord Windgrace. I could come up with another one too. but Honestly, for me, it's more mechanical. I love Lord Windgrace was the first when they did a set of commander decks with Planeswalkers as commanders.
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One of the first times, not the first, i think they did it with the monocolors. But then later they did another set of Planswalkers can be commanders. lord That's when Lord Windgrace finally got a card.
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And he's a green, red, black, land-centric commander, which is one of my favorite decks. I have a green, red, black, land-centric deck that I built. Way back in Shadows Over Innistrad before there was a specific land commander who of those three colors. And so I'm i'm using Zyre Irene from Legends. And um is it was all built around the Gitrog monster from ah from that that's set, from Shadows Over Innistrad. And then pairing that up with red so I could play Seismic Assault because I like to do mean things.
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Also, I just like to shuffle my cards around and have effects happen a lot. But so yeah I think i really liked his card and Windgrace has some, I think some interesting representation when you kind of talk about like black in the color pie in magic.
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Windgrace is i think after it became the avatar of Urborg, a place that is centered in black mana, but is a character who isn't like with the the stereotypical sort of black is kind of the villain color.
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That's where Yawgmoth is. That's where the Phyrexians started until Mirrodin did weird things and made five color Phyrexians. But you have this representation of someone with this in the color pie who just who isn't villainous in that way.
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but I like I like the character, but whole for me, it's more from a from a card standpoint than from the story standpoint. Yeah. He's just a cool cat guy too.
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Yeah. Cool. yeah Cat guy goes a long way as well. Yeah. Um, well, since you took Lord wind grace, I'm going to go with my second favorite would be Freyly's who also has uh, who was my other, uh, who also has a commander or a planeswalker card that can be your commander, which was her first printing as well.
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Something else they have in common. Um, But she is kind of, uh, she's seen as like a guardian deity of some of the elves on, um, Dominaria.
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ah you know, um, even her, a card we're going to talk about later in this set, uh, Planeswalker's Favor, um, has the the flavor text, Frehly Strengthens Her Faithful. And that's, um, because she kind of, uh,
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you know, power up, powers up her elf believers and the fight against Phyrexia. She's really cool. She's a, know, um, has an eyepatch Nick Fury style.
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Um, just has a cool personality. She's kind of, she's kind of an ass though, uh, in the lore. Um, she wasn't, uh, she didn't have a problem sacrificing other people, uh, to destroy the, uh, um,
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the world shard at the summit of the null moon. uh, so yeah, she's, she's not really a great person unless you happen to be one of her followers.
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Um, but she does a pretty good job and her style is really cool. Mm-hmm. Yeah, fun fun flavor stuff. like the Outside of the Invasion, like Invasion was one of the first sets where I really read the story and really got into the story.
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But then I immediately went and there were books for Ice Age that came out around that time. um that the The story of the set of Ice Age and Alliances was sort of retrofit into some of this stuff.
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like the The story on the printed cards weren't didn't really necessarily fit that, but still ah it felt, I thought it was really cool. I liked how they fit that in with the sort of solid X blast set off in antiquities. It also wasn't necessarily an antiquities story, but they sort of set up this whole thing that built backstory into the invasion cycle with the brothers war and that creating the ice age and the
Cards from Plane Shift Set
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shard. And then,
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fraley's played a big part in breaking that both the ice age and the shard that prevented planeswalkers from leaving or entering this like close small cluster of worlds so yeah very cool well um I guess we can kick it off, and I'm going to start with, ah wherere we're going to start with ah Plane Shift first and go through that, and then we'll move to Apocalypse. But ah the first card I wanted to mention is Dominaria's Judgment, um which has absolutely beautiful John Avon art, ah very post-apocalyptic,
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um scene ah from one of the greats. And it's just, ah until your end of turn creatures you control gain for protection from white if you control of planes and so on and so forth for the other four colors. um For an instance. So it's it's mostly a little combat trick sort of card.
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um But I just wanted to bring it up because this is like It mostly because of the art and kind of this idea that's like when the flowstone overlaid Dominaria, this was like a whole mini apocalypse in itself.
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yeah and it it's the art is cool i thought that's a good tie-in for that story because it's one of the big things that kind of happens here is the the initial invasion to soften the targets and then the whole plane of artificial plane of wrath just layering on top of dominaria um yeah which since you mentioned it we might as well mention it that's represented it by the card planar overlay um And this is a two and a blue sorcery with each player chooses a land. He or she controls of each basic land type and returns those lands to their owner's hands. That's a blue land.
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Yep. That's an unusual thing to see. And then the flavor text, the Frexians don't want to conquer garmin Dominaria. They want to remake it. Yep. And that they kind of both go into this sort of a a mechanical theme that shows up in these sets a lot where there is a thing that is rewarding you for having multiple colors, as many colors as you can.
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You get more benefit. I mean, we had Coalition Victory in the last set where you just win if you have all five colors and all five basic like land basic. types. But then in this set, these two sets in particular, we see cards that rather than just winning, give you value based on... Well, this one punishes you for having domain. should say cares about that, but you're right. It's a punishment as opposed to A benefit.
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Yeah. Yeah. All right. So what what are you? I'm going to bring up, I think one I mentioned to you after we stopped recording last week, I want to bring up Gainsay. Yeah, I still had it up on my screen we started tonight.
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Perfect. ah But yeah, as as a flavor one, it is it is a great... it's great i love this so just instant for one in a blue counter target blue spell so again like this color hate that kind of exists back then and so that's also kind of over costed but i suppose it's cheaper than blue blue for counter spell at the time anyway that isn't what matters what matters is the flavor text um i'd be happy to stop contradicting you urza just as soon as you start being right a quote from bowl of our planeswalker one of the nine titans
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I just, I just love people calling Urza an asshole or saying he's wrong in like text. Yeah, there's not enough of it.
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um Uh, so, um, I'm going to talk about a cycle next, which is the planes Walker cycle. Uh, they're all two in a, two in a color enchantment, uh, with a four color activation cost. And there's one in each color and they each show a different one of the nine Titans.
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um And they all have an ability that costs four and makes your opponent reveal a random card from their hand, and then something happens based on, ah mostly based on the mana value, except the blue one cares if it's an instant or sorcery.
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um But ah yeah, so they're not they're not a very good good set of cards because it's seven mana before you your first effect and it's completely random what actually happens.
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Yeah, and it's random based on your opponent's hand. So if yeah they have no cards, nothing. So it's it's a factor. it's It's not just random, but it's randomness you can't even control. Yeah.
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Uh, but they they have some pretty cool art. Uh, planes Walker scorn has, um, some, uh, Tevish shot art. That's pretty sweet, uh, from Glenn Angus who, uh, I'm not very familiar with them. So I don't think they did much art.
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Uh, the Fraley's one has an amazing art from Rebecca gay. Yeah. The planes Walker's favor. Um, That one reveals a ah the revealed card gives ah target creature plus X plus X until end turn where X is the converted man converted card's mana cost. So, hey, for seven mana, you could get, you know, plus zero, plus zero to your creature.
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yeah Like the the art on Planeswalker's Fury, I think, is really good, too. this Yeah, but that's the Windgrace one. yeah ah Yeah, it does damage, deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to that player.
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You can only do it as a sorcery because you really needed to limit that ability as an instant. Yeah.
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I noticed the, uh, Freilis's card is, uh, not limited like that. No, none of the other ones are just planeswalkers fury. I think, um, yeah. Oh, blue, blue has the blue one. Yeah. Blue one. all Yeah. it But no, that's, that's a cool cycle. And again, like at this time, like this was many, many years before they kind of came up with a way to represent the planeswalkers on cards. And part of doing that was rewriting how planeswalkers work in the story entirely.
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Um, so this was kind of their way to represent these nine Titans. These five all got to have cards here. Um, a few, there's a few, a few other cards that featured some, so some instants and sorceries that feature them, um, as, as well, but these are, are very specific. There's the name, like these might be one of the, this might be the first time the word planes walkers on a card and magic.
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other than the other way of spelling Planeswalker, which is always a fun joke. Yeah, which there's like one card with Planeswalk in the whole game. Yeah, in Legend. Yeah, there are seven cards with Planeswalker in the title, at least. In the title. And the other two came much, much later. Yeah.
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um Yeah, that that was my. That's a fun one. Well, I might as well um continue so with the card I sort of teased a little bit.
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ah Malicious advice. It's a fun flavor one. So here's a card with Tevish Zat. Again, wrote that that same planeswalker from the the black one there, um giving very bad advice to Dargaz.
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ah So this ah taps, it's a X blue black instant to tap X target artifact creatures and or lands and you lose X life. But then the flavor text rule through fear, Dargaz. Only if the dragons feel terror, will they be your servants? And so...
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kind of setting up this sort of sub story that kind of felt. and Yeah. and And we didn't cover it when we talked about the story, but Tevish Sot's the one who started off that whole dragon.
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he's the one who told Derogaz about resurrecting the other dragons. And, you know, he basically just did it to cause chaos in the middle of all the other chaos that was going on.
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Yep. And so this again, I don't know if this is a very good card necessarily, but it it it's one of the few cards in this entire block that really captures that whole conflict.
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Like you have the dragons in the last set, um but then I don't know if there's much else in here to represent that storyline. Maybe one or two other cards, but this kind of gives us at least a bit of it.
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Yeah.
Deep Dive: Invasion Set Themes
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The, the, day the charm cycle and the layer cycle, I think are both in this set. Yeah. Yes. The layer cycle. Yeah. Both, both represent the dragons. That's true. Yep.
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Um, all right. The next one I want to talk about is Urtai the Corrupted. Uh, this is our friend Urtai who got left behind, after Stronghold and, uh, uh, turned into a four armed Phyrexian, um, agent, uh,
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He's 2 and an Esper for a 3-4 that has blue Saka creature or enchantment counterspell. I hate repeated counterspell abilities. um ah But the flavor text is altered by Phyrexian science, corrupted by black mana, and twisted by rage. Urtai still looked in the mirror and saw only glory. Because, of course, he was so full of himself before he became a Phyrexian.
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It just made him even more so.
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I want to talk about a weird land card because that's kind of my shtick to to an extent. So Natural Emergence is ah is a card I've wanted to try to build a deck around for a long time. Two green, red for an enchantment.
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ah When it comes into play, return a red or green enchantment you control to its owner's hand. um And then has lands you control are two, two creatures with first strike. They're still lands.
00:18:30
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Hmm. Yeah, but that's a weird card. Which is a really weird card mechanically. Of course, that is appealing to me because it's also a weird card that deals with lands. But also, i mean, like it there's a little bit of flavor in this trying to represent, especially um in this set.
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It's sort of present in ah the whole block, but in this set, there's more sort of presence of the plane of Dominaria itself fighting back. And some of that is like, that's the Kavu emergence in the first set is sort of a part of that. It's like, Oh, I guess Dominaria was preparing for this invasion just like Urza, but didn't do all the atrocities that he did. and So this is a little bit like in the art, you kind of see Kavu coming out of trees, I guess it's cool art, but it's, I don't know, but there's also just like the, the idea I think of the land itself sort of coming alive to fight the invasion.
00:19:31
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Yeah. um all right. Uh, the next one I'm going to talk about is whole breach, um, which is a, uh, you know, it's one of those cards that shows up in pre cons quite a bit.
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Um, just choose one, destroy target artifact or destroy target enchantment or destroy target artifact and target enchantment. Um, but this would be a story spotlight if the story was today and it shows the, um,
00:20:01
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it shows the predator crashing into the stronghold and it says, Crovax knows we're coming now. Said a grinning to say, I just sent the predator crashing into his stronghold.
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Yeah. ah you and And just mechanical, like it's a, it's, it's a good, good removal, like basic removal spell for, for these colors.
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is why it shows up in pre-counts a lot. But yeah, good good story spotlight, which like one I didn't even have on my list, but as we're going through, it's like, well, I think I need to bring this up. This also could kind of fit a story spotlight card is Phyrexian Tyranny.
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Well, that was the next one I was going to mention just from the flavor text. Yes. Okay, so an enchantment for for blue, red, black. um Whenever a player draws a card, that player loses two life unless he or she pays two.
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um then the flavor text, he is Yagamoth's reward to me. I shall kill him a hundred times a day. Krovek's talking to Urtai. And in the art, you can see Squee at his feet.
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And that's part of the story that that is how Squee got his immortality is through this nonsense. And it was supposed to be ah thing. Well, not even supposed to be.
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It was an implement of torture.
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and part of his story is that after sort you know, the invasion ends and all of this, uh, the Phyrexians are stopped. He kind of turns it into something else.
00:21:36
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Uh, the next, uh, one I want to mention is Urza's guilt, uh, which is the only time he has ever remotely felt that, uh, emotion.
00:21:48
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have been a lot more of that from him. Yeah. Uh, and the picture shows him in Phyrexia meeting up with his, um, brother that's been chained to a rock or something.
00:22:01
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Uh, and the flavor text is deep in Yawgmoth realm. Urza stopped dead in his tracks and rubbed his sip filled eyes. Mishra, uh, you know it I don't think... I think we talked about this when we talked about the story. I don't think if it the story ever actually answers whether this was just another illusion of Yawgmoth or if it was the actual Mishra.
00:22:25
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um I've always leaned more towards it being one of his illusions like Hanna was. it's... um but it's a Yeah, it's ah a two in ah blue and a black sorcery. Each ah each player draws two cards, then discards three cards, and then loses four life.
00:22:46
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There's a really weird symmetrical card disadvantage and life-loss card.
00:22:55
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I don't think I've ever seen this card played, but it does have a story spotlight on it. But yeah, it'd yeah to be another good story spotlight card. Right.
00:23:06
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Let's talk about a cycle, um the familiar cycle. This is one that I think is just super interesting. So there's there is one in every color.
00:23:17
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So it's their their mono color cards. I believe they're all one and then one generic and one mana of their color. So two total. um And then they're all kind of just basic creatures of that color for that mana cost.
00:23:34
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So you have this Stormscape Familiar is a blue one that's a 1-1 flyer. the white ones are zero three wall, the red ones have one, one first strike, but they all have, um, they reduce the mana cost of spells you cost cast of their two allied colors.
00:23:51
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So storm scape familiar, the blue reduces your white and black spells by one, you know, the white one, then it's green and blue and so forth for, for all five of them. But Hey, always think that's kind of fun. If it's special, if you're you're like playing a three color deck of those colors, you could,
00:24:07
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Makes a number of your spells cheaper, not going to be all of them because they don't get their color. But this also has, then you've got some of the flavor of this. This is kind of the whole point of of a lot of the cards, like this invasion is happening. And so that's part of the reason we have gold and multicolor is these colors.
00:24:25
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these factions and individuals and forces are coming together to fight the invasion. And so you have invasion, the set invasion and planescape are based around the edit, the ally color pairs.
00:24:38
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And so you start to see ally color things, helping each other. I think Planescape, no, Planeship in particular, you see more three-color representation of this.
00:24:52
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So we're seeing not a that a full Alara sort of shard representation, but we're getting a lot more. There are a lot of shards. There are a lot of shard cards. Yeah.
00:25:03
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particularly in a single color and then having either activations or abilities or key things where they key off of. oh There's quite a lot of ones that are just straight up three colors in this deck, the whole, the whole charm cycle. And then there's one or two of each other, um, like Phyrexian tyranny. We already mentioned this Grixis questing, questing Felderbeef is banned.
00:25:27
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Radiant Kavu is Naya. Yeah. There's, there's a lot in this set. Um, Might be the first time there were a lot of three-color cards in a set. um Yeah, I want to say Legends. it might have been legends well Legends had the Elder Dragon cycle, and then I think it had a few other three-color Legends. but um yeah it yeah if It'd be the first time since Legends, at least, where three-color cards were...
00:25:55
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we're Yeah, we're prevalent for sure. Yeah, and so you have a lot of that with the gold cards, but even outside of the gold, even a lot of the mono-colored cards, we're really keying off of their allies or doing things, giving you a you know card that can choose choose a land type and do something with it.
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And
Analysis of Planeswalker's Cycle
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interestingly enough, all of the two-colored cards are ally-color pairs in this set. um which I'm going to talk about one of those now. And I did mention this during our story discussion, but ah Terminate was first printed in this set.
00:26:32
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Red and black, destroy target creature, can't be regenerated. and it shows Deragos tossing himself in the volcano. And the Flare of Texas, like his mother before him, Deragos gave his life defending Dominaria from the tyranny of self-styled gods. So...
00:26:49
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so um Yeah, this is this is how he stopped the invincible dragons. By tossing himself in a volcano.
00:27:01
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yep Yeah, we had a whole discussion around that.
00:27:07
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Okay. i I just have one more, really, to talk about on this set. Do you... If you have more, I think I have, well, there's one other cycle I want to talk about for sure.
00:27:21
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Yeah, i've got I've got one cycle and one card left to talk about from this set. Cool. I'll talk about the cycle. Maybe i can come up with another card while you're talking about yours. So just, again, continuing, and maybe this is just showing kind of the things that really interested me, particularly when this set was coming out when i was a kid. But the other, another sort of shards type cycle was the battle mages.
00:27:44
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And able I don't know, this is another whole other discussion of how we come up with names for concepts and how Wizards sometimes tries to come up with names for concepts that just don't seem to stick.
00:27:56
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but you have So you have the Stormscape Familiar and the Stormscape Battlemage. Those are both the blue creature that in the Battlemage's case has a white and a black kicker.
00:28:10
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And then in the Familiar's case, makes white and black spells cheaper. So it feels like Stormscape was what they were trying to make the name of Esper. And then it just never really stuck until until the Shards came out. And now we use the Shard names for those three color combos from Shards Alara.
00:28:30
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But so those were were all really interesting. Again, just it's a really interesting concept to me that you have those different kickers, you have those different activations. And A, I mean, just kicker in general was interesting.
00:28:45
Speaker
But these in particular, as opposed to a ah lot of the kicker cards, which, I mean, it's kind of the space and it it fits it, more common and uncommon things. So just like, do a card, kicker makes it better, does more damage, is a creature, comes in plus plus and plus one, plus ones.
00:29:00
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But these battle mages in particular were kick where the kickers doing different things And so if you had the green one and you needed to destroy an artifact, well, four mana for 2-2 and just destroying an artifact is a lot, but like the green is a 2-2 for two and a green.
00:29:19
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Thornscape Battlemage has kicker red and or white. The red deals two damage to creature or player. White destroys an artifact. And so you can pay cast it for less if you don't need to do the two damage or if you don't need to destroy the artifact, but it has that extra utility in there.
00:29:36
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Yeah, I like kicker in general as a mechanic.
00:29:41
Speaker
Um, so I'm going to, uh, the last, the cycle I wanted to talk about was the layer cycle. I mentioned briefly earlier, this is a land cycle um that all have the layer subtype.
00:29:54
Speaker
Uh, they're all named after one of the dragons and tap for any color in the dragon shard. Um, And they all have the same, when it enters play, sacrifice it unless you return a non-layer land you control to its owner's hand.
00:30:12
Speaker
So they're an untapped three mana land, but they set you back a land when you play it. Yeah. But you can't bounce the layer. Probably so you can't bounce it and do weird mana shenanigans.
00:30:27
Speaker
It's just occurring to me. Yeah, probably.
00:30:33
Speaker
yeah that's that's right it's it's cool yeah um and i think this is the first time we got any try lands at all it's the first time we had lands that could tap for any three unrestricted yeah there filter try lands there the yeah from homelands oh those were so bad like everything else in that expansion the lands were bad was waling Yeah, those are so bad. Yeah, on Hava Township, taps to add one colorless or one and a tap add a green, two and a tap add red, or two tap add white.
00:31:14
Speaker
So yeah, the charts shards again, but take yeah three mana to get mana one mana out if you want the red or the white so they all had their like base one this one was green it could tap for the two allies but rather than costing you two for one now you had to pay three for one oh man land fixing used to be awful
00:31:39
Speaker
Okay. Did you find the card? yeah I have one more. Yeah, I got one more from the set that I think is interesting. It kind of, again, illustrative of that sort of shard thing that the colors coming together to fight the other colors.
00:31:52
Speaker
We have Radiant Kavu, which costs red, green, white ah for a 3-3 Kavu and has the activated ability, red, green, white, prevent all combat damage. Blue creatures and black creatures would deal this turn.
00:32:07
Speaker
a limited fog for three mana. Yeah, that only affects two colors. Now, fairness, it's the two you don't have, but yeah not great, but also three three for three was probably a pretty good rate at the time. don't know if 3-3 for one of each mana still was a bad rate. You could figure out how to pay that three mana, which is yeah fair.
00:32:32
Speaker
That was your rare in the booster pack. Yeah, there are some Bad rares in this set. ah But the last one I'm going to discuss is not a not really a bad rare, um but it is the Skyship Weatherlight.
00:32:47
Speaker
It is kind of as far as from a um what it actually does is pretty awful because it doesn't even draw you a card until you've ah paid eight mana into it.
00:32:59
Speaker
Yeah. ah But it lets you, when it comes into play, you can search your library for any number of artifacts and creature cards and exile them under the skyship. And then you can pay four and choose a card at random from those cards and put it in your hand.
00:33:15
Speaker
Yep. So, ah and it's a legendary artifact in case you want to run more than one of these for some reason. Yeah. yeahp um But yeah, this is another awful rare. It's got great art from Mark Tadine, though. ah And um we finally got a good Weatherlight card in Dominaria. It took another 20 years, but we did get one.
00:33:42
Speaker
Yeah, and and for those who missed the discussion about it last week too, because Legend worked really... It was an old, old version of the Legend rule here, so you couldn't even do like a slightly older version where you... You could do one of the newer versions where you play a new Skyship Weatherlight to destroy your old one to refresh and do a new thing.
00:34:02
Speaker
The new one always died, so only the old one stayed in. Yeah, that is such a cool, bad card. Yeah, such an important card.
00:34:15
Speaker
like yeah the The namesake of the ah the Weatherlight saga and oh boy, is it a stinker. yeah i mean In any a way, the most consistent character of the of the whole storyline.
00:34:30
Speaker
Gerard is around for most of it, but not not all of it. But the weather ship is... Sky ship Weatherlight is there the whole time.
00:34:41
Speaker
All right. to Move on to Apocalypse.
00:34:46
Speaker
Yeah, sure. I'll go ahead and start us off just because want to talk about a related card. um The Legacy Weapon, which has got the stars. It's got some amazing skyship weatherlight art by John Avon. John Avon is just a master of art, especially landscapes.
00:35:04
Speaker
ah But ah yeah, this is another bad rare. ah It costs seven mana for a legendary artifact. um So it does nothing. Absolutely nothing when you pay seven mana.
00:35:16
Speaker
yeah And then you can pay Wooburg to remove a target permanent from the game. So exile target permanent for Wooburg. So 12 mana ah to finally exile something.
00:35:29
Speaker
ah And because it might be bad if cheated in the play, if it's put in your graveyard from anywhere, you reveal it and shuffle it into your library. So it's got the old Eldrazi cloth.
00:35:40
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:42
Speaker
uh yeah the old drowsy clause yeah this also was a card that i thought was so awesome when it came out and i definitely wanted to build a five color deck and put that in there because could just continue continuously exile things that was so cool for you know all of the mana
00:36:07
Speaker
um i let's talk about um Let's just talk about guided passage. This is, I don't think it's a good, it's definitely not a good card.
00:36:19
Speaker
It's not even a great flavor card, but it's one of my favorite cards in this entire set. Um, blue, red, green for a sorcery reveal the cards in your library.
00:36:32
Speaker
Period. That is a complete sentence. An opponent chooses from among them a creature card, a land card, and a non-creature, non-land card. You put those cards in your hand, and then you shuffle your library. So you just hand your deck to someone and say, get me some cards.
00:36:46
Speaker
And then they just get to look through your entire deck and decide what to put in your hand. And I love this card so much more than it deserves. Yeah. and this art makes almost no sense either i mean it's more like ah lifting the rocks off of passage so i mean literally they're doing you know um but uh yeah it's that's one of my favorite bad cards yeah
00:37:18
Speaker
um I'm going to ah talk about a cycle, which is another land cycle, which was the enemy pain land. So they printed the ah the original, the allied pain land all the way back in Ice Age.
00:37:32
Speaker
um but enemy colors had not gotten any mana fixing since Alpha Duel Land. there There were really bad ones in Tempest. Oh, Tempest has some bad ones.
00:37:44
Speaker
Tempest has, I believe they are both Pain and Depletion Counter at the same time. Pain and Depletion at the same time, wow. Just awful, man.
00:37:56
Speaker
Because it would be too powerful if you tap for a red mana this turn and tap for a blue mana next turn. Yeah. And take two damage to do so. Oh,
00:38:08
Speaker
oh wow. That is bad. Yeah, but these those these are cool. And one of them, at least, is a good story card. Like Caves of Koilos, the black-white one, is important the story. yeah Any of the other ones, are those just more generic?
00:38:24
Speaker
They're, I mean, um they're all pretty generic. ah Yeah, Shivan Reef, Llanowar Waste, and Battlefield Forge. look The red and white one doesn't even get to get named after a place.
00:38:38
Speaker
That's true. They're like, we we don't have anywhere we could call red and white. We'll just, so Battlefield Forge, sure. Yeah, that's one of my favorite land types. Forests, swamps, plateaus, forges.
00:38:55
Speaker
guess. Sacred forge fits too. That's right. and That's the shock land too. yeah God, how many years later they still couldn't come up with something better.
00:39:11
Speaker
Oh, okay. That's cool. um So I'm going to talk about... Okay, this is going to be weird. There I'm going to talk about one cycle in particular, but I want to mention that there is a cycle of cycles that maybe we'll come back to some of these other ones later.
00:39:26
Speaker
There is in this set a common, uncommon and rare of all three mono colors or all five mono colors that fits some sort of theme.
00:39:39
Speaker
Most of them have like the same name. so the The white one is scattered about a little bit. it's the The white one is the flag bearers cycle. And I want to talk about this because just the mechanic of the flag bearer weird.
00:39:53
Speaker
So these are, so for example, the common one is Coalition Honor Guard, which is three and a white for a 2-4 flag bearer with the ability, if an opponent plays a spell or ability that could target a flag bearer in play, that player chooses at least one flag bearer a target. If anybody has ever played a master set where this was in the draft pool, you know how absolutely annoying this card is.
00:40:23
Speaker
Yes. Because it's any spell or ability. Any. Yeah, anything that could target it has to target it.
00:40:34
Speaker
Yeah, it's... I think that's just a weird mechanic. And I think at this point in time, that may have been baked into the creature type. Because this was a thing.
00:40:48
Speaker
Wolves was the other example of this, where at this point in time, and this will get into another card I might talk about next, a creature... What we think of as Defender, the mechanic Defender where a creature cannot attack, that wasn't an ability before.
00:41:05
Speaker
That was just intrinsic in a wall. So if something was a wall of swords from Alpha, it couldn't attack because it is a creature-type wall. So there is a spell, an enchantment called Unnatural Selection, which for a blue lets you turn a creature into any other creature type except wall because wall had rules baggage attached to it.
00:41:25
Speaker
yeah Which is no longer the case. yeah um Now, I don't think they've changed that card to make things turn into walls. But nowadays, you can turn something into a wall and it doesn't do anything with it.
00:41:38
Speaker
And they've retconned or whatever they call it, errated all of the walls printed before this change. So they all have Defender now on the card.
00:41:49
Speaker
But yeah it's just a weird, a weird way. I mean, like the game is widely complex with so many mechanics these days anyway, but this is just a a weirder thing that used to exist that they decided to clean up.
00:42:02
Speaker
It doesn't exist today.
00:42:07
Speaker
Um, the next card I want to mention has our friend Lord wind grace on it. And that's divine light. ah And it's a a white for a limited fog. Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn to creatures you control.
00:42:22
Speaker
um But it's one it's got Lord Windgrace on it. And this is a mono-white spell of which he is a Jund-color planeswalker from Grixis-colored domain.
00:42:37
Speaker
And he's casting the odd color out. Yeah. Which, I mean, is weird, but sort of fits the theme of Apocalypse, which is enemy colors finally coming together and being like, you know what?
00:42:50
Speaker
I don't like you, but I hate those Phyrexians even more. Yeah, that and old school Planeswalkers could literally do anything. It didn't matter really what their color identity was. Yeah.
00:43:02
Speaker
um But the flavor text on it is Phyrexia is an unforgiving place, and I am an angry lord in an unforgiving mood. Just excellent flavor text.
00:43:15
Speaker
Yeah. Okay, well, that sort of dovetails right into a card that was on my list. We might as well talk about Diversionary Tactics. um A white enchantment for three and a white, the tap which has tap two untapped creatures you control, tap target creature.
00:43:34
Speaker
ah But most relevant is the flavor text. It's the oldest trick in the book, said Guff, and I ought to know, I wrote it. Yeah. not exactly a story spotlight card, though that maybe there is a Guff card later that kind of fits that.
00:43:51
Speaker
Yeah, there is Is ah referencing the fact that Guff wrote the whole story of the invasion and was encouraged to make it not end badly, i guess.
00:44:05
Speaker
Which is just a strange detail of the story that for some reason they thought was necessary.
00:44:14
Speaker
So I'm going to mention the card right next to it because it's part of another cycle, the Vulver cycle, which is another creature type that had a full cycle around it. um And they all had the, unlike the battle mages from the previous set, this one has the two off-color kickers, but they're the ah wedge color. So it has both um enemy color as its kicker values.
00:44:37
Speaker
So they work exactly like the ah the battle mages did, except they have abilities for their, um,
00:44:50
Speaker
Yeah, and they come in bigger. At least the white one comes in bigger if you kick it. I don't know about the other ones. Yeah, I think that's how those ones all Yeah, they all do. yeah yeah and so like rather than being like a battle mage getting a spell-like effect, they are coming in stronger if they sort of incorporate and out an enemy color um while they're cast.
00:45:12
Speaker
So they come in with some plus one, plus one counters and some abilities. And gain two abilities. Yep. Yeah. That are relevant to those colors.
00:45:22
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's a, it's a cool creature cycle and they have some pretty cool art too. I have no idea what a vulvar is, but they look pretty cool, but it's a creature type that still exists. I actually looked it up in the comprehensive rules today. Well, was looking up whether flag bearer was still there and had intrinsic rules, but notice that vulvar was still listed in the creature types that exist in the game today.
00:45:48
Speaker
um I might as well like, well, and got that white vulvar. I, that art again, brought that Ron Spencer arc. I kind of wanted to build a deck just so I could play that card.
00:46:01
Speaker
But, um, and cycles thing I pay a lot of attention to. and in these sets, they did a lot of this. The, the vulvors a rare cycle that does this, but there is actually enchantments at uncommon and creatures at common that all fit that same cycle.
00:46:19
Speaker
So you have like the, the Dega cycle are the white ones. Cause you've a discipline sanctuary, Dega disciple, Dega sanctuary Dega vulvar. um The common creatures are like the Spellshapers I mentioned last week from from the ah Shard Spellshapers from Invasion, where it was like white creature has a blue ability and a green ability.
00:46:45
Speaker
These are wedges, like the Volvers, and so you have a white ah but a white creature with a black ability and a red ability. I think this one, the abilities are the same.
00:46:59
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. So like the green one has a black, the black lived target creature gets minus black tap target creature gets minus two minus zero. And the white one also has that as its black ability. So I think these five link that way.
00:47:14
Speaker
Yeah, they're pretty, that's pretty cool. and The enchantments all do something if you control permanence of their enemy colors. Yep. Yeah, if you control like the the white one, if you at the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a black or red permanent, gain two life.
00:47:30
Speaker
If you control one of each, a black and a red, gain four instead. Of course the white one is life gain. Yeah, that's what they did back then. But the blue one draws you cards.
00:47:41
Speaker
Because, you know, that's about the same. Three cards, three life, you know, both about a mana. um Oh, and Natural Selection's actually in this set. I mentioned it earlier. It's from this set. I thought it was from a later... I thought it was from the ah Onslaught block.
00:47:57
Speaker
um But yeah, it's... I have that in my Slivers deck so I can make things into Slivers and then steal them with my commander. Yep, that's a good way to do that.
00:48:12
Speaker
All right, so I'm going to... Where did it go, Callie? You're adorable, but you're in the way. um
00:48:22
Speaker
We mentioned the Phyrexian Arena already. We talked about that. Which is part of that black cycle, too. Yeah.
00:48:34
Speaker
Because there's the Phyrexian Arena, the Gargantua, and the Rager. all have similar effects at common uncommon rare nice um yeah and the effraction arena would be a story spotlight in this set probably uh i think we talked about that already too um so i'm gonna get i'm gonna go with pernicious deed uh which um
00:49:06
Speaker
This used to be a commander staple, but I don't see it much anymore. um It's one of black and a green for an enchantment. and You pay X and sacrifice it to destroy each artifact creature enchantment with converted mana cost X or less.
00:49:22
Speaker
And it shows Freyly setting off one of the bombs in Phyrexia that they've set up. and It says, Yawgmoth, Freyly's whispered as she set the bomb, now you will pay for your treachery.
00:49:35
Speaker
Right, I forgot that. Of course that was one of the bombs. The soul bombs or whatever. Yeah.
00:49:44
Speaker
Yeah, that's that's a cool, that was a really cool card and it's a cool story moment. Yeah, they printed a lot of lot of good ah board wipes since that used to be a common like commonly played board wipe.
00:50:00
Speaker
Yeah. So I want talk about another cycle. So there's a creature in each color. um I guess I think of this as the messenger cycle, but there's only one of them that actually have messenger in the name.
00:50:16
Speaker
But these are typal kind of cards in this set, building for you know five creature types that one in each color that are are kind of prevalent in that color. So you have like the white one is enlistment officer for three and a white for two, three with first strike. And then it has when it comes into play, reveal the top four cards of your library.
00:50:37
Speaker
Put all soldier cards this revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library. like you have the The goblin one is the ringleader. There's a 2-2 with haste for four.
00:50:48
Speaker
Does the same with goblins. There's one for for all five colors. I think it's merfolk, elves, and I feel like i'm missing a color. I'm blanking on it.
00:50:59
Speaker
So it's it's a cool, um there there this wasn't a primary, you know, creature type matters was not a big thing in these colors, but again, this sort of represented the the last gasp, these these different factions kind of gathering everyone they can to try to make this final push to to win the war against the Phyrexian invasion.
00:51:25
Speaker
All right. ah and i want to I'm going to go on to one the other ones. All of the gold two-color cards in this set are also enemy color. ah And the red-blue one Squeeze Revenge.
00:51:41
Speaker
And it shows him um messing with Ertai's machine kill Ertai. to kill errti
00:51:51
Speaker
And it's ah so one one and then is it choose a number flip a coin that many times or until you lose a flip, whichever comes first. If you win all the flips, draw two cards for each flip.
00:52:04
Speaker
So this is like most likely scenario. This is a a divination, a 50 percent chance at a divination.
00:52:17
Speaker
Yeah. ands ah airport but and It's he's still Squee. Yeah, he's still Squee, so I had to mention him, but it's not a good card.
00:52:31
Speaker
No, but it it is also sort of the the the second half of the Phyrexian Tyranny card, where It was the whole thing about him just being tortured, and now this is Squeeze squeeze Revenge, where he turns around and they underestimate him, and that is to Ertai's demise.
00:52:54
Speaker
And since I'm on it, I'm going to go ahead and just mention the other Squeak card in this set, Squeeze and Braith. ah which is, uh, uh, got some and more cool Rebecca gay art. Uh, she's amazing. I'm so sad. I did not get to get any cards signed by her in Vegas, but, uh, uh, it shows this art of squeak giving a hug to Sissy after he's been rescued and squeak is just all balled up at Sissy's feet. Uh, you know, he's been traumatized. The poor guy's really gone through it.
00:53:28
Speaker
Um, And it's a red and a white for an enchant creature. Enchanted creature, it's plus two, plus two. And when enchant creature is put into a graveyard, return that creature card to its owner's hand.
00:53:40
Speaker
So it gives you it gives you a little squee ability on an enchantment. Yeah, which is just fun. And maybe them trying to like make enchantments not suck.
00:53:53
Speaker
I mean, they accomplished that with Rancor and Urza's Saga. That's true. This would have been after that. Um, yeah. I want to talk about these two cards that I never had. Just kind of glad we do this because sometimes I notice things that I hadn't really put together before.
00:54:11
Speaker
So I want to talk about Shimmering Mirage, which is a, an instant for one of blue. It's a target lands type becomes the basic land type of your choice until end turn. Draw a card has great Rebecca gay art and,
00:54:25
Speaker
Cool. I mean, it's this sort of basic land matter stuff, but it didn't occur to me. like ah the The flavor text is, oh, is that all you need? Why didn't you just say so? And the quote is from Reef Shaman.
00:54:37
Speaker
Well, Reef Shaman is a card in this set. It's a 0-2 merfolk for one, whose ability is tap target lands type becomes the basic land type of your choice into land of turd.
00:54:49
Speaker
It's just like, I don't I don't know that we've ever had like normal creatures show up in a set and then get quoted on the flavor text of a different card. No, I don't think so. that It's a weird, weird thing. But then it also like it happens with legendaries all the time, but not with.
00:55:08
Speaker
Yeah. Normal creatures. But then just mechanically, they also sort of tie into a but If you turn a land, the land's type becomes, so you can turn one of your planes into a swamp. Now, of a sudden, it makes it easier for you to cast your white you know youre your black spells if you're splashing enemy colors.
00:55:28
Speaker
So it's a little bit of ah a color fixer. um in blue, but also you can use it for key, you know, if you're you're you're looking to have that plane so you can trigger something that carries, you know, a domain ability or something like that.
00:55:43
Speaker
Or if you're trying to, you know, hurt an opponent, whereas the one that spell from landscape that bounces lands of every basic land type, and if they're playing green or red, you can be like, well, that's a plans now, you got to bounce that too.
00:56:00
Speaker
Yeah, that's pretty cool. um I'm going to mention another cycle, and that's the X and Y cycle, which were the split cards. i think This is the first time they were printed.
00:56:14
Speaker
yeah in Invasion, and then this is the enemy color half. Oh, yeah, and Invasion plus this. Yeah, i because we talked about them during Invasion. but ah So this one had one for each of the enemy pair colors, and there were things like Fire and Ice,
00:56:27
Speaker
which the fire side is an instant that deals two damage divided as you choose among any number of target i targets. And then the ah ice side is a one in a blue instant, which taps a permanent draw so and draws a card.
00:56:41
Speaker
um That's probably the uncontested best car best of the cycle, right? Yeah, I think so. It gets printed in master sets.
00:56:54
Speaker
um It shows up in cube. And according to, Scryfall, it was in four different world championship decks too. wow. Yeah.
00:57:05
Speaker
Yeah. That's a, that's a good sign of it. Um, So funny that they had those gold border like world championship decks. Those were so cool. I was love those.
00:57:16
Speaker
Yeah, it it was it was fun as as a kid to be able to buy that deck. Hey, because then you could do fun things like play those decks against each other or it just like gave you access to some cards because they were gold bordered. You couldn't play them in official magic. They had a different back.
00:57:30
Speaker
But if you're just playing with your friends and you got sleeves, who cares? Yeah. Some of those gold border cards are pricey now, though. the you know There's a Grim Monolith. there's a um There's a Force of Will. There's ah the first that's Gaius Cradle. Gaius Cradle is a really expensive one. oh Yeah, those those were fun.
00:57:54
Speaker
I tried to do stuff with Night and Day, which is the black and white one.
00:57:59
Speaker
Not good. I mean, knight was black for target creature gets minus or minus one until end of turn, and then white creature, two and a white creature's target player controls get plus and plus one until end of turn.
00:58:11
Speaker
Oh, and there's two different artists. Are there others with two different artists? Yeah. Most of them are. Wow. Yeah. That never even occurred to me. I don't know how that works in Vintage Art is Constructed.
00:58:25
Speaker
It's something wildly off topic, but anyway. and those are Those are cool. um I guess I'll bring up the story, sort of story spotlight card referenced earlier and didn't actually talk about.
00:58:36
Speaker
ah Wild Research, two a red enchantment with, oh boy, two abilities. The first is one in a white, search your library for an enchantment card and reveal that card, put it into your hand, then discard a card at random, then shuffle your library.
00:58:53
Speaker
ah Blue does the same thing, except it's an instant. Again, reveal it. discard a card at random and then shuffle it. um And this is showing Commodore Gough like frantically flipping through the book that he has written that more of the events that are happening and who's in the background.
00:59:13
Speaker
I don't even know who that is. There's definitely another character in the background of that art. Yeah. Oh, Bolivar. Oh, that makes sense. Bolivar. Yeah. Yeah. Like Napoleon? That doesn't make sense to me. oh Still don't have a Planeswalker card for Bolivar.
00:59:32
Speaker
oh Him ah and the two Tavishok killed off, Daria and Christine. So we don't have Planeswalker cards for those three.
00:59:48
Speaker
um All right, I'm going to, the next going to talk about is Soul Link, which is a one white and a black for enchant creature. Enchanted creature, when enchanted creature deals or is dealt damage, you gain that much life. So it's kind of like super lifelink.
01:00:02
Speaker
um um but it shows ah and not really the best quality art, ah but Urza standing over Gerard, Gerard's down on the ground and bleeding and has dropped his sword.
01:00:17
Speaker
And this is showing when Yawgmoth just kept killing or healing Gerard up because Urza kept kicking his ass. ah And it says they dance like puppets to a tune only Yawgmoth could hear.
01:00:34
Speaker
ah So they did that up until Gerard finally took Urza's head. Here's a weird one.
01:00:46
Speaker
guess I never really put together how strange this is. It kind of fits the theme, but it's it's doing the enemy color sort of theme in a weird way. ah The card went above that in Scryfall. Shield of Duty and Reason.
01:00:58
Speaker
It's white for an enchant creature, which is an aura creature. um And then the ability enchanted creature has protection from green and from blue. So this is actually, rather than white working with red and black. No, what? so I don't see this on the...
01:01:18
Speaker
You said Shield of Fate? Shield of Duty and Reason.
01:01:24
Speaker
I don't even see that on the... Oh, that's weird. Is that from Apocalypse? Yep. Yeah, it it's like... it's like white working against its two allies in this case, as opposed to working with its um enemies. And I just realized, too, the art is by Anthony Waters, who was sir on our show at some point in years ago.
01:01:50
Speaker
Just a neat. Weird little thing in in this set. I'm getting toward the end of my list. How many more do you have? I got one more to talk about.
01:02:03
Speaker
um Oh, yeah, okay, so that was mono-white, that's what I said, okay, I missed, that's why I didn't see it, I was not scrolled up nearly far enough, um so the um last one I'm going to talk about is ah Prophetic Bolt,
01:02:30
Speaker
ah which um is one of the only close-up arts we kind of get at Boulevard. And it's ah you know it's three of blue and a red for an instant that deals four damage to target creature or player. And then you can look at the top four your library and put one in your hand.
01:02:50
Speaker
So it's a four damage plus draw damage. with selection for five mana, not particularly great, but it just shows Boulevard absolutely ah eradicating this Phyrexian.
01:03:04
Speaker
um, but yeah, it's just, I and wanted to mention it because it's more Boulevard. and, and this one gets reprinted pretty frequently too, with, you know, much different art.
01:03:18
Speaker
ah It's never been, or it was reprinted once with the original art in Commander 2011, but ever since then it's had a new art, which is just more of a generic a wizard casting a spell.
01:03:32
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. why Well, I'll close it out here then with one card just based on the flavor text. We get some good ton Garth flavor text here on the card. Smash.
01:03:43
Speaker
Smash. I guess we we don't have a ton of one word cards and in this set because we're getting to weird stuff with the multi... with the... um the enemy colors things, but we had a lot in Invasion.
01:03:57
Speaker
But ah this is a instant for tuna red, destroy target artifact, draw a card, and the great 10 card flavor text. They're ugly and they're in my way. He's smashing... I don't even know what he's smashing.
01:04:11
Speaker
Like, little statue things, but... I don't know. Fun, fun, 10 Garth flavor text. We did get a couple of one, one word names though. We got index, which is a bad card.
01:04:22
Speaker
Jilt, which is, uh, um, not, ah it's all right. Uh, and we got vindicate, which is a classic. Ooh, yes, that is a classic. Yeah, that's, that's fair. Cause yeah, we, we get, it's old enough that we get a bunch of those still relative to modern day. Like it's really noteworthy when we get a one name card these days.
01:04:44
Speaker
Yeah, and unless we're in a set where that's the only place they're ever going to use that word. And then sometimes we see quite a few of them. Yeah, that's true. there's There's some there's some like made up words, too. But yeah, yeah.
01:04:57
Speaker
I like that index. That's another another good guff card, probably. As
01:05:07
Speaker
a. More guff are and that is a um limited trap card if you've ever seen one. it was printed in some core sets and definitely not a card you want to be playing. Like a lot of card disadvantage there.
01:05:29
Speaker
So, all right, cool. Well, that was a lot of fun kind of going over these sets and talking story, talking cards, some mechanics and some story in the cards.
Episode Conclusion and Listener Engagement
01:05:42
Speaker
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01:05:58
Speaker
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