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Is Ludo named after the Labyrinth character?

Land tax guy's hat is obviously fine Beeble pelt.

36:30 - I had one of these Icatian Javelineers as a kid. I so wanted them to be good. But a one use Tim is not particularly great! I love the art of the weird octopus harlequin masks - they have a really weird mix of 300 style Spartans and Commedia dell'arte ...

Nice Zelda shirt! and thank you for being active on reddit, it's how I found you guys.

I always loved this art even though the card isnt the greatest

Pump-knights was definitely a term used for those Order of cards and also those from Ice Age. They were pretty good especially since Necropotence was just around the corner.

For the Aeolipile article: I think the "big creatures" of Type II might be referring to pump-knights. I also find the part where they say that once the new rules of Type II were established it found new use a bit ironic because it might be including the rule that you have to play 5 cards from each legal set (Pro Tour NY in 1996). Like of course it's going to see use if you are forced to play FE cards, it's one of the few playable ones.

Oliver Farrell, who famously put the king of Stromgard's head on a spike then declared himself Lord Protector

I do absolutely adore the art from this set. So much of it felt like Illumination work straight from Medieval texts. It had just enough whimsy to be fantastical, but it remained reserved enough to feel more regal and serious.

Melissa Benson's signature would be considered a **Hallmark**

Boom! First view, first like, first comment! 58:00 You got pretty close to saying this outright: The Icatian military doesn't just synergize, it curves out. Turn 1: Plains, Scout. Turn 2: Plains, Javelineer, Infantry. Turn 3: Plains, Medic. Turn 4: Plains, Skirmishers. Turn 5: Plains, Phalanx. Turn 6, Plains, Lieutenant. Now you're ready to attack with your Skirmisher/Phalanx/Infantry band, which will all have first strike, with the resources left over to raise their power or prevent damage to them, with the Javelineer standing by ready to pick off an X/1 that might stand in their way. That band will punch through almost anything in the set. Getting set up involved 13 cards over six turns, your opening hand and first six draws. You're now playing off the top of your library, but that's fine, because all you need from now on are replacements for casualties and more resources to support them. The only thing in Magic at this time that will stand up to this force is a go-wide strategy of goblins and orcs (or Saprolings) that can keep chump-blocking your band and respond with attacks you can't quite neutralize yourself.

Wait.... Wasn't that the waffle house envy picture you sent me?

9:37 Oh my! I had this book (the Magic Encyclopaedia) as a young tween. I used to pore over this for hours. And then as a teen I just stopped playing Magic.

The Domains in the early novels are the lands labeled Aerona on "modern" Dominaria maps: Keld, Benalia, Shanodin, etc. It's in the extreme northwest of the map.

I hate that this made me laugh

Poor Bill. He owes Shriek some mass.

Bruh I thought this was about Fallen Empires in Stellaris.

@9:36 I have that book!

You just said that the lack of a Rezitativ is what distinguishes the Broadway Musical from the classical Opera. 😂

This is a very fun video, I love the draft commentary.

Just subscribed <3 Fallen empires is one of my favourites set and I had a nice thallid taxes brewing before my mates switched to play Swedish old school. Also, I'm a sucker for overly long videos on very niche argument, so yeah, i'm binging everything now :) Cheers!

That face, when you finally mentioned spore counters on Elvish Farmer - that's what it's all about! 🍄🍄🍄

In the original novel, the thallids were secretly derived from thrulls, so there was a connection between those two explaining both the almost-undetectable intelligence that's still capable of resentment, and also the ability to work together and overcome their oppressors. You're correct about the mantis mating. I read that it's the equivalent of an alien observing a serial killer doing what serial killers do and it goes down in the alien biology books as the standard human mating procedure. You can look at the mechanical interactions between the elves and the thallids, that not just in flavor but performance the thallids do the same things the elves do, but better.

Talking about trees, elves cohesiveness of theme, flavour, art etc. to decide which card nailed it best, and then "I just really like Salamanders..." - "Yeah, that's fair, too..." That totally made my day!!!

Gee -looking at the Thallid cards - they almost could be printed as 1 drop creatures in modern magic. They do a lot for that era for one mana!

Man I love these chats - nice way to wile away my lunch hour! Fallen Empires is such a nostalgic set for me - when I was a kid these were the cheapest backs, that I could actually afford with my pocket money. I kinda knew they were bad but I just wanted to buy cards!

56:55 That's my favorite Thallid too! I have it in my Nemata deck!

I really like that the art of implements of sacrifice was a self portait with various household objects.

Yay! Part 3 already. This was faster than I expected with your trip to Vegas. Glad to see it!

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I applaud your restraint on meeting Rosewater and not punching him in the face. I think that would take more self-control than I have, especially after going through what you went through before that.

It's times like this I am sad I live Down Under. But then I look at the elections going on up there and I think, nah I'm cool. I'll just have to miss out on Magicons!

That weekend was genuinely a blast, and being with y'all definitely cemented it as a core memory. SO MANY BOXCARS

Serves me right to comment on Midwatch! Of course you were cosolaying Innistrad!!!❤❤❤

Wow, it looks like you're wearing a trircorne in one of the videos. Were you channelling the Fashions of Innistrad??? ;)

I look forward to mark rosewaters thoughts on fallen empires.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How did I miss flubs the fool?! I'm very upset with myself for being so behind

Orgggg!!!😂

I was looking forward to this. Hope its as good as the first one.

Hooray! Part 2. I hope you keep going after this and do more old sets.

Wait, that card totally was a coat!

Fallen Empires has my favorite flavor text of any card, the the flavor text on one of the Dwarven Soldiers: “Although the Dwarves staunchly defended their walled city-states against the Orcs, their civilization was the first to fall, and its name was sadly lost.” -Sarpadian Empires, vol. I (the only flavor text that I might rank as better, or equal, is Juzam Djinn: "(....) The night I think is best for hiding all"

This was my fav set by far. As a kid I found so many Fallen Empires cards dirt cheap at conventions... now I know why! Great video, stoked for THALLIDS.

The orc's downside is that they cannot block creatures that could defeat them. I feel they won because they were brave as long as they were on the offensive. Good old "red deck wins" strats.

Engagement for the engagement god, comments for its comment throne!

Suprised how unpopular this video is. You guys have good production value and the script is well written and researched (the parts that arent improvised i mean). It really shows a love to old magic that brings back how it could have felt to play the game before it became so complex and optimized.

When I was first playing MTG as a primary school kid - these packets were the cheapest. They were the only boosters I could afford to get after school! Such a trip back. Whilst it’s a highly underpowered set - if you make a saprolimg / fungus deck you actually need cards from this set. I remember opening a Night Soil and having no idea what to do with it. But it intrigued me so…

What an insane video!