4:20 the mechanic is Prowl from Lorwynn, and it lets you pay the alternative cost if you dealt damage with a creature that shares a type (but since it was always on a rogue it would always end up being “rogue or” and whatever other type, usually fairie or goblin).
You asked what it was about Mercadian Masques, the story of that block did deal with urban subterfuge to an extent, so it having cards that fit in Assassin's Creed isn't too surprising.
The flavour on Senu (pronounced Seh-noo, at least based on how the VAs said it in-game) is very strong. Send bird away to scout, then when bad guys are unaware, CA-CAW!
Conspiracy is a slam dunk reprint for this. On flavor for the IP, in a color that many assassin’s are in, and helps to turn on freerunning and any other assassin-matters shenanigans. Great stuff. Makes me wish this was a full set or commander deck. There are a lot of starting ideas here but nothing that ties it all together so neatly.
The Alexios commander deck is super fun! There's an article from around mid-December at edhrec talking about a version focused around equipments I decided to build. Because you still technically control the equipments on Alexios even when he's controlled by your opponents, all the equipment triggers on combat damage still goes to you the owner.
I didn't see the article, but that's how I built mine. All but 2 of the Swords. Then, ones that either gives me land, or treasures, or creature tokens. The only down side is being cloned. The cloner will choose their clone to keep from the legend rule. Then you hope the other players don't target you with the clone before you can get him back out.
Freerunning is to Prowl what Commander Ninjutsu is to Ninjutsu. Notably with Prowl, the rules text doesn't specify that you need to hit with Rogues, it's just that each card with it happened to be a Rogue and the reminder text for it spelled out the types of the creature with Prowl, and Prowl only cares about creatures with the same types as the one with Prowl. The first creature that isn't a Rogue to have or grant Prowl was Hunting Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park UB set which grants it to Dinosaurs. Weirdly, Freerunning's Rules Text also specifies that it only works for Assassins and Commanders, unlike Prowl.
I loved this set, first collector box I ever bought. I've been in love with AC since AC2 came out my freshman year of high school. I definitely dislike the switch to open world that came from Origins, and loved going back to the series roots with Mirage even though I hate Basim as a character. I have a 5 color Ezio deck made of just AC cards (and a few triomes I had altered to fit the series because otherwise the mana was horrible). And this has been my engagement comment! Thanks!
So, at first I refused to buy any of these half packs. But they had Excalibur, which I wanted for one of my decks. Around Christmas, I bought one pack at BAM. I pulled a foil Black Market Connections! Then I received several packs as a Christmas gift from my eldest's boyfriend as he had pulled an Excalibur. First pack - borderless Sword of Feast and Famine, my first sword ever! Another pack, a regular Black Market Connections. Another pack, a foil regular art Sword of Feast and Famine! So I ended up pretty happy about those packs and pulls. I also got two of Alexios, in different styles. I will build a commander deck with him, either for EDH or PDH. I knew nothing about Assassin's Creed but I now want to know more. The historical stuff has definitely drawn my attention.
You actually can draft these boosters, kinda. At Magiccon Amsterdam I played two Assassins Creed Commander Drafts. We drafted one Assassins Creed Booster and one booster each of Commander Masters, Baldurs Gate and Commander Legends and it was surprisingly fun. Basically, you built a good deck out of the three regular boosters and chose a commander from Assassins Creed. I managed to built a passable blue black control deck. If you are a fan of Assassins Creed and/or Commander Drafts, I can highly recomend it. Overall I think the boosters suffer from only being 7 cards, as well as the set being so small in general. I opened three Assassins Creed Boosters in total and got Lydia Frye in all three of them (but also excalibur and caduceus which are preposterous in an equipment deck).
I have an Alexios commander deck, and it is easily my favorite deck I’ve built in over half a decade. He hits the table so early and forces opponents and the entire table into interesting political dealings early. He threatens with commander damage so fast, that games become faster and more interactive.
Agreed. I ran into Alexios when I was making my Karlach deck, and realized how weirdly fun "Hi you have my Commander, have fun" but also load him up with equipment and whatnot. Ya know what's fun to toss in there? Errantry. Also Helm of the Host :D And any other general "whenever this creature attacks" abilities
@ it’s important when choosing attack and damage triggers to buff Alexios with that it’s “whenever equipped creature” rather than “equipped creature gains”. The Sword of X and Y cycle for example, you as Alexios’s owner gets the trigger on damage, not the controlling player. Hearth and Home becomes really good in that context.
I picked up a couple of these at a con recently for 7 bucks each. Got me a young Ezio, a bunch of named characters I have zero context for (granted I've only played the Ezio trilogy and, I think, only beaten 2), The Hammer Also, and a hidden blade!
Interesingly, Mjolnir is probably a shoe-in to get a reprint (presuming Ubisoft don't have some clause in the contract preventing it) seeing as it also fits the Marvel sets whenever they get around to the Avengers/Thor! EDIT: LOL, I paused the video to post this, and on unpausing G makes the exact same point.
I could see an alternate Mjolnir for the Marvel sets that acts more like a boomerang. Pay mana to unequip it to deal damage, then like exile it or something and have it equip on etb
While Thor's Hammer does stick out if you have no knowledge of AC except for it being "sneaky historical assassin game", but ancient artifacts and "alien/precursor" stuff was part of the games from the beginning, with 1 having the Apple and 2 introducing the ancient race right after you fist fight the Pope.
I’ve never played an Assassin’s Creed game. I was kind of turned off to the whole thing when I found out you’re like some guy in a sci-fi time travel chamber or something. So I’m extra entertained by the words “after you fist fight the Pope”. 😂
Yeah... That was what turned me off. If they were just like... Historical games that were loosely connected, I probably wouldn't have had much problem with them.@@christopherlundgren1700
@ It's less of a time travel machine and more of a "simulate ancestral memories" machine. This series started around the same time as the whole Davinci Code/Angels and Demons along with History Channel going all in on Ancient Alien stuff. Along with the early plot hinging on the 2012 Mayan Calendar Apocalypse, it's definitely a product of its time. I don't know if there is actual time travel in the later games, but I was blown away at the end of 2 when Ezio uncovers a hologram message from some "goddess", and she looks directly at the camera and acknowledges Miles/the guy in the present day, with Ezio being confused at who she is talking to. It's silly, but teenage me thought it was super cool.
"Also from Mercadian Masques" "...Yo, WUT?" Yeah I haven't even seen the episode but, as somebody who was a fairly-active player even before Masques Block? That is the energy it radiated even then. :V
I love Senu, that card’s so fun and has so many random synergies with decent stuff. Like it can never really die with Rest In Peace in play. It’s super silly to hit off Laelia and Inti. It’s really funny to pitch to Solitude, or March or otherworldly light, or Gemstone Caverns. What a great silly bird
My Alexios commander deck is one of the silliest and also rudest decks I have ever made. It is entirely possible and even likely to get Alexios out as early as turn 2 (you can actually get him out turn 1 with a god hand) and at that point he just rushes around the table making everyone suffer. Back in the day I ran Zurgo Helmsmasher + Assault Suit. Alexios is like, nah, who needs all that. SMASHFACE!
The difference between aftermath and beyond boosters is that beyond boosters have one extra card and more reprints to fill out the set. That’s literally it. Also, Aftermath was a failure on every level, their stated reason for it wasn’t even done. It was meant to be a story set and it literally told us nothing except that Nahiri and Nissa didn’t have sparks. The cards like Deification didn’t tell us what happened to Elpseth for example.
Also worth mentioning, they weren’t called ‘Aftermath Boosters’, that’s just part of the set name, they were ‘Epilogue Boosters’ which would’ve worked for Big Score as well for example
Are you forgetting all of the other Planeswalkers that were desparked and got cards in that set? It had Sarkhan, Samut, Calix, Karn, Kiora, Narset, Ob Nixilis, and Tyvar all without Sparks represented by Creature cards. Plus it gave other details hinting at future developments of rebuilding, such as Cosmic Rebirth and Danitha, New Benalia's Light. Yeah the set was a failure in other ways, but no need to act like it didn't have anything to offer.
Use them as a starter just before the main course in a Chaos draft. So everyone opens one pack of this (or another similar small-number pack), drafts it, then goes into the main sequence of 3 packs.
Conspiracy was in Mercadian Masques because of the Mercenary and Rebel tribal synergies (a bunch of Mercenaries could tutor for MV one under their own, while a bunch of Rebels could tutor for MV one above their own). Though Mercs were mostly black and Rebels were white.
Alexios seems very similar to Slicer, who does make for very silly commander games (and maybe takes someone out of the game the next time your turn comes around, 6+6+6+3 is mean commander damage math).
I spent way to much money on the assassin's creed set mainly because of how much of a fan I am got alot of cards from even the full art five colour Ezio that I am still hunting certain assassin cards to make a decent commander deck for
i think mjolnir is an artefact of 'the ones that came before' from AC Valhalla, could be wrong though, haven't played the most recent couple of games. 99%-ed origins though
Random trivia about Prowl: while most of the Prowl cards give you a discount and/or gain an extra effect for casting it for the Prowl cost, making it all-upside, Stinkdrinker Bandit is the one card where you may not want to cast it for the Prowl cost, as it buffs your attackers and you can only cast spells for the Prowl cost post-combat.
While I see what you mean, if you are curving out with evasive Rogues, the Prowl helps get it out early, and presumably the Rogue that helped enable the Bandit's Prowl can get in again next combat.
Senu is pretty great. It doesn't have to be exiled with its own ability to come back attacking. I run it on The War Doctor, and I am always happy to see it.
Graham mentioned a while back he would be surprised if anyone could identify where that table came from, I've got a wild guess, is that the table Cracked used for their news bits? It looks very similar in my memory
If I were to draft MTG UB:AC, I’d love to get two or more of Senu in a deck. That would give you the timing you want, where if a Senu is unblocked you can get the trigger to bring your other Senu back and respond by exiling the first one.
These style boosters could work if WotC didnt price them like a normal product. I love them failing at an idea, not fixing the problem, and then just doing the same thing again.
I have no particular interest in Assassin's Creed (or in them continuing to make incredibly tiny boosters) but a lot of the reprint choices in this set are really neat. I feel like Mercadian Masques is a fitting setting to pull from for AC, with it having e.g. opulent cities, scheming nobles, pirates...
I get Graham being confused about Assassin's Creed not being about, y'know... assassinations, but... has the series been about actually assassinating people since, like, the second Ezio game? Feels like they pivoted away from that pretty quick...
Yeah the game does focus on major villains, but the early games really emphasized avoiding engaging random guards as much as possible. It didn't take long for them to make mowing down mobs of enemies trivial.
If you want to get views, I would suggest cutting down on the chit-chat. There's no reason why a crack-a-pack video should be more than 2 or 3 mins long.
ACR Beyond boosters was an awful product. I can say that because I have bought em a lot. Being a fan of the Assassin 's franchise is how they got my money. If it would have been Fallout or Marvel themed for example I wouldn't had spent any euro. It's also bad because the land apears in every booster, and the memory corridor frame card repeats a lot of the same 4-5 cards. The rates are clearly not random, or as random as they should be. I have bought boxes, collector and bundles of this product and still missing 20+ cards of a 150± set (and I'm not collecting the etched or fullart cards). As an assassin's creed set it feels ok, as a magic modern focused set as it was targeted, it also fails because it feels a lot more focused to commander, but without adding any commander set for the occasion. Finally it seems it's a not so bad set, in a horrible product with a weird business move in it. Who knows what they wanted, or expected. It feels half gas in every aspect. As a buyer, for me it really feels like a scam, even that I really liked the set. I hope to never see this beyond boosters again.
What do you mean "without commander set"? It's not a draft set, so why does a set that already has a focus on Commander players also need a commander set? Commander is also the most popular "formal" way to play, so it makes sense that a tiny set like this would default to that way.
@Mordalon sorry, but this was sold to us saying it was a focused modern set, there is plenty of evidence about that. Then it appeared that it was more focused on commander than modern (by cards, effects, etc). So the point is that if it was going to be a commander focused set, they should have done at least some assassin's commander focused precon decks or just said the focus of the set was for commander. Doing otherwise (the way they did) is to cheat the customers. There are some of us that don't care about commander mechanics or games, so it would be great not to decieve or lie to them to sell your products. That was my point, and that is why I said this product was awful.
4:20 the mechanic is Prowl from Lorwynn, and it lets you pay the alternative cost if you dealt damage with a creature that shares a type (but since it was always on a rogue it would always end up being “rogue or” and whatever other type, usually fairie or goblin).
The Jurassic Park set has a card that grants your dinosaurs prowl as well
Beyond Booster just makes me think of some bizarre vegetarian pack of cards.
Definitely. Because there's no meat.
Do not eat the delicious cards
This implies the existence of Impossible Boosters
@ that's what they're doing for the next unset
“I can’t believe it’s not Magic!”™
You asked what it was about Mercadian Masques, the story of that block did deal with urban subterfuge to an extent, so it having cards that fit in Assassin's Creed isn't too surprising.
I only read that book recently but I was very surprised by the guerrilla warfare undercurrent to the story!
The flavour on Senu (pronounced Seh-noo, at least based on how the VAs said it in-game) is very strong. Send bird away to scout, then when bad guys are unaware, CA-CAW!
The only thing that would make it more flavorful is if it got +1/+0 when it attacked from exile, because it's divebombing.
I note also that it comes back attacking after blockers have been declared, so it always gets in.
Conspiracy is a slam dunk reprint for this. On flavor for the IP, in a color that many assassin’s are in, and helps to turn on freerunning and any other assassin-matters shenanigans. Great stuff. Makes me wish this was a full set or commander deck. There are a lot of starting ideas here but nothing that ties it all together so neatly.
The Alexios commander deck is super fun! There's an article from around mid-December at edhrec talking about a version focused around equipments I decided to build. Because you still technically control the equipments on Alexios even when he's controlled by your opponents, all the equipment triggers on combat damage still goes to you the owner.
I didn't see the article, but that's how I built mine. All but 2 of the Swords. Then, ones that either gives me land, or treasures, or creature tokens.
The only down side is being cloned. The cloner will choose their clone to keep from the legend rule. Then you hope the other players don't target you with the clone before you can get him back out.
@@ANitschkeProduction Try Helm of the Host. MORE ALEXIOS!
The precursor race stuff was in the very first Assassin's Creed game.
Can you blame them for Mercadian Masques reprints? That set’s got so many damn interesting cards in it.
Freerunning is to Prowl what Commander Ninjutsu is to Ninjutsu. Notably with Prowl, the rules text doesn't specify that you need to hit with Rogues, it's just that each card with it happened to be a Rogue and the reminder text for it spelled out the types of the creature with Prowl, and Prowl only cares about creatures with the same types as the one with Prowl. The first creature that isn't a Rogue to have or grant Prowl was Hunting Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park UB set which grants it to Dinosaurs.
Weirdly, Freerunning's Rules Text also specifies that it only works for Assassins and Commanders, unlike Prowl.
I loved this set, first collector box I ever bought. I've been in love with AC since AC2 came out my freshman year of high school. I definitely dislike the switch to open world that came from Origins, and loved going back to the series roots with Mirage even though I hate Basim as a character. I have a 5 color Ezio deck made of just AC cards (and a few triomes I had altered to fit the series because otherwise the mana was horrible). And this has been my engagement comment! Thanks!
So, at first I refused to buy any of these half packs. But they had Excalibur, which I wanted for one of my decks. Around Christmas, I bought one pack at BAM. I pulled a foil Black Market Connections! Then I received several packs as a Christmas gift from my eldest's boyfriend as he had pulled an Excalibur. First pack - borderless Sword of Feast and Famine, my first sword ever! Another pack, a regular Black Market Connections. Another pack, a foil regular art Sword of Feast and Famine! So I ended up pretty happy about those packs and pulls. I also got two of Alexios, in different styles. I will build a commander deck with him, either for EDH or PDH. I knew nothing about Assassin's Creed but I now want to know more. The historical stuff has definitely drawn my attention.
"here we are..." *looks at watch"
me: oh I'm about to get some insight into their recording schedule!
"...now."
You actually can draft these boosters, kinda. At Magiccon Amsterdam I played two Assassins Creed Commander Drafts. We drafted one Assassins Creed Booster and one booster each of Commander Masters, Baldurs Gate and Commander Legends and it was surprisingly fun. Basically, you built a good deck out of the three regular boosters and chose a commander from Assassins Creed. I managed to built a passable blue black control deck. If you are a fan of Assassins Creed and/or Commander Drafts, I can highly recomend it.
Overall I think the boosters suffer from only being 7 cards, as well as the set being so small in general. I opened three Assassins Creed Boosters in total and got Lydia Frye in all three of them (but also excalibur and caduceus which are preposterous in an equipment deck).
That’s a sweet idea.
Oh no! You have foiled my Conspiracy!
I'm not the only one that says "He is worthy!" when Mjolnir is attached to Captain America, am I?
I have an Alexios commander deck, and it is easily my favorite deck I’ve built in over half a decade.
He hits the table so early and forces opponents and the entire table into interesting political dealings early. He threatens with commander damage so fast, that games become faster and more interactive.
Do you have the list sharable? It looks like a lot of silly
Agreed. I ran into Alexios when I was making my Karlach deck, and realized how weirdly fun "Hi you have my Commander, have fun" but also load him up with equipment and whatnot.
Ya know what's fun to toss in there? Errantry. Also Helm of the Host :D
And any other general "whenever this creature attacks" abilities
@ it’s important when choosing attack and damage triggers to buff Alexios with that it’s “whenever equipped creature” rather than “equipped creature gains”.
The Sword of X and Y cycle for example, you as Alexios’s owner gets the trigger on damage, not the controlling player. Hearth and Home becomes really good in that context.
I picked up a couple of these at a con recently for 7 bucks each. Got me a young Ezio, a bunch of named characters I have zero context for (granted I've only played the Ezio trilogy and, I think, only beaten 2), The Hammer Also, and a hidden blade!
Interesingly, Mjolnir is probably a shoe-in to get a reprint (presuming Ubisoft don't have some clause in the contract preventing it) seeing as it also fits the Marvel sets whenever they get around to the Avengers/Thor!
EDIT: LOL, I paused the video to post this, and on unpausing G makes the exact same point.
I could see an alternate Mjolnir for the Marvel sets that acts more like a boomerang. Pay mana to unequip it to deal damage, then like exile it or something and have it equip on etb
I vehemently dislike the stinger open. I don't want spoiled on the thing I'm about to watch.
While Thor's Hammer does stick out if you have no knowledge of AC except for it being "sneaky historical assassin game", but ancient artifacts and "alien/precursor" stuff was part of the games from the beginning, with 1 having the Apple and 2 introducing the ancient race right after you fist fight the Pope.
Came here to say this, tho they turned it up in the later games
I’ve never played an Assassin’s Creed game. I was kind of turned off to the whole thing when I found out you’re like some guy in a sci-fi time travel chamber or something.
So I’m extra entertained by the words “after you fist fight the Pope”. 😂
Yeah... That was what turned me off. If they were just like... Historical games that were loosely connected, I probably wouldn't have had much problem with them.@@christopherlundgren1700
@ It's less of a time travel machine and more of a "simulate ancestral memories" machine. This series started around the same time as the whole Davinci Code/Angels and Demons along with History Channel going all in on Ancient Alien stuff. Along with the early plot hinging on the 2012 Mayan Calendar Apocalypse, it's definitely a product of its time.
I don't know if there is actual time travel in the later games, but I was blown away at the end of 2 when Ezio uncovers a hologram message from some "goddess", and she looks directly at the camera and acknowledges Miles/the guy in the present day, with Ezio being confused at who she is talking to. It's silly, but teenage me thought it was super cool.
Fun fact senus ability doesnt care how it got exiled so you can pitch it to a force style of card and get it back if you can trigger it somehow 😀
"Also from Mercadian Masques"
"...Yo, WUT?"
Yeah I haven't even seen the episode but, as somebody who was a fairly-active player even before Masques Block? That is the energy it radiated even then. :V
You know, these LRR videos are one of the few videos I actually hit the like button, I really need to do it more often
I love Senu, that card’s so fun and has so many random synergies with decent stuff. Like it can never really die with Rest In Peace in play. It’s super silly to hit off Laelia and Inti. It’s really funny to pitch to Solitude, or March or otherworldly light, or Gemstone Caverns. What a great silly bird
My Alexios commander deck is one of the silliest and also rudest decks I have ever made. It is entirely possible and even likely to get Alexios out as early as turn 2 (you can actually get him out turn 1 with a god hand) and at that point he just rushes around the table making everyone suffer. Back in the day I ran Zurgo Helmsmasher + Assault Suit. Alexios is like, nah, who needs all that. SMASHFACE!
The difference between aftermath and beyond boosters is that beyond boosters have one extra card and more reprints to fill out the set. That’s literally it.
Also, Aftermath was a failure on every level, their stated reason for it wasn’t even done. It was meant to be a story set and it literally told us nothing except that Nahiri and Nissa didn’t have sparks. The cards like Deification didn’t tell us what happened to Elpseth for example.
“The Kenriths died… the end.”
Also worth mentioning, they weren’t called ‘Aftermath Boosters’, that’s just part of the set name, they were ‘Epilogue Boosters’ which would’ve worked for Big Score as well for example
@ You are correct! In my defense, Epilogue Booster is a dumb name.
@@halfpintrr yeah and dw it seems like both Graham and James forgot it too and it definitely took me a second to remember 😂
Are you forgetting all of the other Planeswalkers that were desparked and got cards in that set? It had Sarkhan, Samut, Calix, Karn, Kiora, Narset, Ob Nixilis, and Tyvar all without Sparks represented by Creature cards. Plus it gave other details hinting at future developments of rebuilding, such as Cosmic Rebirth and Danitha, New Benalia's Light. Yeah the set was a failure in other ways, but no need to act like it didn't have anything to offer.
“You can’t draft seven car- **six** cards.”
This feels like an alley-oop to the weirdest FNPF draft in quite some time, but I’m extremely here for it.
You'd need what... 9 packs per person though?
Use them as a starter just before the main course in a Chaos draft. So everyone opens one pack of this (or another similar small-number pack), drafts it, then goes into the main sequence of 3 packs.
Conspiracy was in Mercadian Masques because of the Mercenary and Rebel tribal synergies (a bunch of Mercenaries could tutor for MV one under their own, while a bunch of Rebels could tutor for MV one above their own). Though Mercs were mostly black and Rebels were white.
And Time Spiral had Conspiracy on the Time Shifted sheet, along with having multiple Rebels throughout the Block.
Alexios seems very similar to Slicer, who does make for very silly commander games (and maybe takes someone out of the game the next time your turn comes around, 6+6+6+3 is mean commander damage math).
I spent way to much money on the assassin's creed set mainly because of how much of a fan I am got alot of cards from even the full art five colour Ezio that I am still hunting certain assassin cards to make a decent commander deck for
In AC Valhalla that hammer is super OP
Worth noting is that Conspiracy is the only card of its ilk to overwrite creature types, enabling combos with WIck, Rotlung Reanimator et al.
Alexios sounds like store-brand Assault Suit on a stick
Right. Slicer, Hired Muscle would be a correct answer too.
i think mjolnir is an artefact of 'the ones that came before' from AC Valhalla, could be wrong though, haven't played the most recent couple of games. 99%-ed origins though
I've been subscribed for years, I don't really have anyone I know that would be interested if I shared it, but I can certainly leave a like!
HAMMER!
I think it would be amusing to get several boxes of Assassin's Creed and draft commander decks, especially with these silly 7 card packs.
come for the Graham commentary
Stay for the James help
Come back for the Graham
Masques had themes of piracy and intrigue. I think that might be a reason that the cards fit the theme pretty well.
Random trivia about Prowl: while most of the Prowl cards give you a discount and/or gain an extra effect for casting it for the Prowl cost, making it all-upside, Stinkdrinker Bandit is the one card where you may not want to cast it for the Prowl cost, as it buffs your attackers and you can only cast spells for the Prowl cost post-combat.
While I see what you mean, if you are curving out with evasive Rogues, the Prowl helps get it out early, and presumably the Rogue that helped enable the Bandit's Prowl can get in again next combat.
@@Mordalon True, and I do admit it's been a while since it's ever been relevant, so my memory on the exact play patterns is foggy.
A lot of people hated this set, but I thought it was cool. Just too expensive per pack.
PS Vita mention! Vita means life.
Yay Grahamcrackers!"
0:40 so, is this a Deckmasters(tm) game designed by Richard Garfield? 🙃
Them Universe Be Yondin'
The basics in this set are pretty sweet, though
Senu is pretty great. It doesn't have to be exiled with its own ability to come back attacking. I run it on The War Doctor, and I am always happy to see it.
Graham mentioned a while back he would be surprised if anyone could identify where that table came from, I've got a wild guess, is that the table Cracked used for their news bits? It looks very similar in my memory
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If I were to draft MTG UB:AC, I’d love to get two or more of Senu in a deck. That would give you the timing you want, where if a Senu is unblocked you can get the trigger to bring your other Senu back and respond by exiling the first one.
Love this bird
Senu is my favourite commander. Nobidy expects JUST how annoying she can be.
I also bought a bundle! Felt like that was decent.
Batman Beyond Burger Booster
I enjoyed this Beyond Crack a pack.
These style boosters could work if WotC didnt price them like a normal product. I love them failing at an idea, not fixing the problem, and then just doing the same thing again.
I have no particular interest in Assassin's Creed (or in them continuing to make incredibly tiny boosters) but a lot of the reprint choices in this set are really neat. I feel like Mercadian Masques is a fitting setting to pull from for AC, with it having e.g. opulent cities, scheming nobles, pirates...
If they ever did a full AC set, I could see them using reprints from and making it like Conspiracy, another setting with those themes.
In December I found a 2 sealed pack bundle for about 11 USD at target so I think we can say this concept has failed.
Did get some decent pulls!
Mjolnir is from AC Valhalla
We need a return to Mercadia.
I didn't know they made this
the playstation vita was a system that deserved better than that horrible memory card situation
Has anyone ever tried drafting aftermath or a beyond booster by just using twice as many boosters?
Gonna guess Mjolnir was a reference to AC: Valhalla? Maybe?
I get Graham being confused about Assassin's Creed not being about, y'know... assassinations, but... has the series been about actually assassinating people since, like, the second Ezio game? Feels like they pivoted away from that pretty quick...
Yeah the game does focus on major villains, but the early games really emphasized avoiding engaging random guards as much as possible. It didn't take long for them to make mowing down mobs of enemies trivial.
BEYONDDDDDDS
If they wanted to do something like Aftermath... Geometry?
Hopefully the last ever beyond booster.
Crack! A! Pack!
Cap off a draft with one weird tiny pack!
i will engage for the algorithm!!
playstation vita mentioned
If it's only 7 cards and you have a bundle maybe open two packs at a time in future?
They're beyond boosters, without even being a booster.
Assassins Creed seems like a non-set... the Lord of the Rings sets at least had a LOT of fanfare
Beyond Booster: The "Stop trying to make 'Fetch' happen" of Epilogue Boosters.
I'm very glad that the Magic community collectively said: "No, 7 cards in a pack is not enough"
I'm honestly surprised that a Beyond booster had enough cards in it to last for a 13 minute episode.
Really? He can go for 5 plus minutes on just a vanilla 2/2.
@@alexpozniak4106 And we love him for it.
The cards deal with unique mechanics and atypical flavor for Magic, of course there'd be more to talk about than your typical random common.
I'm truly happy for people who are enjoying Universes Beyond but boy what a mess
How is it a mess? I get not liking it but it's not disorderly.
If you want to get views, I would suggest cutting down on the chit-chat. There's no reason why a crack-a-pack video should be more than 2 or 3 mins long.
The chit-chat is what people tun in for. If you just want to see the cards, just look up Scryfall.
ACR Beyond boosters was an awful product. I can say that because I have bought em a lot.
Being a fan of the Assassin 's franchise is how they got my money. If it would have been Fallout or Marvel themed for example I wouldn't had spent any euro.
It's also bad because the land apears in every booster, and the memory corridor frame card repeats a lot of the same 4-5 cards. The rates are clearly not random, or as random as they should be.
I have bought boxes, collector and bundles of this product and still missing 20+ cards of a 150± set (and I'm not collecting the etched or fullart cards).
As an assassin's creed set it feels ok, as a magic modern focused set as it was targeted, it also fails because it feels a lot more focused to commander, but without adding any commander set for the occasion. Finally it seems it's a not so bad set, in a horrible product with a weird business move in it. Who knows what they wanted, or expected. It feels half gas in every aspect.
As a buyer, for me it really feels like a scam, even that I really liked the set. I hope to never see this beyond boosters again.
What do you mean "without commander set"? It's not a draft set, so why does a set that already has a focus on Commander players also need a commander set? Commander is also the most popular "formal" way to play, so it makes sense that a tiny set like this would default to that way.
@Mordalon sorry, but this was sold to us saying it was a focused modern set, there is plenty of evidence about that. Then it appeared that it was more focused on commander than modern (by cards, effects, etc). So the point is that if it was going to be a commander focused set, they should have done at least some assassin's commander focused precon decks or just said the focus of the set was for commander. Doing otherwise (the way they did) is to cheat the customers. There are some of us that don't care about commander mechanics or games, so it would be great not to decieve or lie to them to sell your products.
That was my point, and that is why I said this product was awful.
I enjoy this content but God is this set and incredibly loud wet sounding fart
How? It has some very interesting cards. I like the pseudo return of Prowl and the flavor is on point.
@@MordalonNobody wants to open expensive packs of 7 cards especially when you have a chance to pull a basic