Graham: hey, let's play some jumpstart! Cameron: is that a themed pack? Graham: uh, let's draft! In all seriousness, jump start seems like a fun product. I played a lot of it on arena, I bought a box to draft with friends, but I haven't had a chance yet. I definitely approve of it it more than the jump start that they've been releasing with individual sets, but yeah it's a good product.
It’s great fun, I’d highly recommend it! The Jumpstart Dominaria was basically just theme boosters but renamed to try and sell them, since the theme boosters were pretty trash.
that uktabi story was great. love it when cards have links. innistrad was before my time but when i learned that shadows' grapple with the past follows on from make a wish, i had to get a copy. now that i think of it, i'm pretty sure i learned that from you on an episode of crack-a-pack.
Added note on the Phyrexian Plaguelord flavor text. It was actually spread over multiple cards in the same set (Urza's Legacy) that were also referencing each other mechanically and describing different, escalating stages of an illness: Phyrexian Denouncer, Phyrexian Debaser, Phyrexian Defiler and ultimately Phyrexian Plaguelord.
I like when they do that, i.e. have cards reference each other in flavor text I remember back in the day when the Northern/Southern/Eastern/Western Paladin cards Flavor text were basically them dunking on each other for example
I was that guy Graham assembled ultimate Expedia against. Not pictured in his tweet was my sad 4/5 Titania and a field full of lands that weren't Argoth. Wish I could have given G a better game, but glad I could provide a nice moment. I did manage to meld Titania a couple times in other games that draft though.
The artist referenced by Cameron while speaking about Phyrexian Plaguelord was I believe Zdzisław Beksiński, an incredible Polish painter with terrible story.
"We're setting a character limit so you don't paste The Raven." Community proceeds to paste each stanza separately, and vote them up so they appear in order.
Thanks for this insight. I feel like art and mechanics usually come first but flavour text and lore is so important to a great card and building a multiverse that ppl want to explore further. It's really cool that contractors can also influence the art and have so much creative freedom
I do appreciate all of these continuity follow-ups, from Kibo to the Plaguelord. (Also, adding "Kibo and the Plaguelords" to my list of good band names.) Looking forward to submitting nicknames for BRO.
I just realized, as a non English speaker, that the translation work must be pretty hard in order to keep flavour and all. I guess it would be hard to get to speak to a translator but if it had to be one could it be a Spanish one? Great show!
Re: Nickname character limit Speaking as someone who pasted the entirety of The Love Song of Night and Day for the card of the same name, I get it. I just hope the character limit isn't so restrictive that it stops my various rewrites of the 1967 Spider-Man theme song that I am prone to submitting.
Ravnica themed Super Monkey Ball when! 23:26 Lavinia hamster balling people and Cameron's comment of no railings inspired this thought and now I need it 😄
J22 will unfortunately not be coming to Arena as-is, but according to WotC Ian, "It’s going to be a while before you can see what we’re doing instead, but you’ll be like 'oh! Okay.'"
@@Mordalon I used to like Historic quite a lot. Alchemy is terrible in all iterations because WOTC shoehorned it into Historic. If it weren't for that I could just say "well it's not for me so I don't care" but instead WOTC forces me to have an optional, and my opinion is that it is all shit
And now I have Rotterdam by The Beautiful South stuck in my head because Graham said, "This could be anywhere". 🤦♂ Viewer error. I take full responsibility.
I actually really enjoyed jumpstart's flavor text tone even as a self-described "Curmudgeon" at the current state of the game. Granted my obvious bias as a long-time fan of LRR, but I feel the flavor text does naturally give a lot of pizazz to what is in my mind functionally a core-set.
18:22 That Peacewalker Colossus art is specifically a reference to the mech Knight of Gold (in particular the Gothicmade version), from the series Five Star Stories, and as it so happens, Knight of Gold's pilot is the God Emperor Amaterasu, so that's a very apt comparison.
Man there goes my plan to nickname Phyrexian Fleshgorger the entire text of Moby Dick with all instances of the word "whale" replaced with "wurmbot". Thank you for this engaging content, may you receive the blessings of the algorithm for the eyeballs delivered unto Google and their blessed advertisers.
For what it's worth - they announced that Jumpstart 2022 will *not* be coming to arena. And to quote the arena team, apparently what will be coming instead will make us not getting J22 make sense
Since it wasn't mentioned in the episode, I have a dire need to know if Graham was responsible for the name of Pirated Copy, because that's my favorite card name in the set, possibly in all of Magic.
My only issue with the Jumpstart 2022 is that the subtheme is not actually "Anime" but ""cute"" anime girls 99% of the time, which is disappointing, but I completely agree that since they are all reprints it's mostly fine.
Peacewalker Colossus just gives huge Gurren Lagann mech energy to me. Love all the anime arts though, they're just fun. Also the artist Cam was thinking of relating to the Plaugelord is the Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński.
Except they didn't do that for that reason. Jumpstart is a format that utilizes a specific type of pack. Like Draft. Jumpstart DMU, Jumpstart BRO, are packs for their respective sets, designed for Jumpstart.
@@inajar7947 expoect u cant even play it completly as they are not even divadable by 4 xD its so bad the jumsptart dmu and bro are just repackaged themed boosters
I think it's a good idea to ditch the single-gender creature thing in general. Why not open the door to show those characters as being able to present however they'd like? There are plenty of other ways to make a fantasy race interesting besides, "what if these ones were only hot ladies?"
Hey, I'm the guy named Chris. This was fun! Sorry about Deadly Plot.
Chris! Hello! It was great working with you.
@@LRRMTG Likewise!
Also, great username! :D
So cool. Really appreciate your work on the cards guys and I'm glad WOTC get ppl like yourself in to give fresh takes and good ideas
Wow, Graham directly involved in completing the lore of Uktabi Prince is incredible. I love that story. :D
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Graham: hey, let's play some jumpstart!
Cameron: is that a themed pack?
Graham: uh, let's draft!
In all seriousness, jump start seems like a fun product. I played a lot of it on arena, I bought a box to draft with friends, but I haven't had a chance yet. I definitely approve of it it more than the jump start that they've been releasing with individual sets, but yeah it's a good product.
It’s great fun, I’d highly recommend it!
The Jumpstart Dominaria was basically just theme boosters but renamed to try and sell them, since the theme boosters were pretty trash.
that uktabi story was great. love it when cards have links. innistrad was before my time but when i learned that shadows' grapple with the past follows on from make a wish, i had to get a copy.
now that i think of it, i'm pretty sure i learned that from you on an episode of crack-a-pack.
Added note on the Phyrexian Plaguelord flavor text. It was actually spread over multiple cards in the same set (Urza's Legacy) that were also referencing each other mechanically and describing different, escalating stages of an illness: Phyrexian Denouncer, Phyrexian Debaser, Phyrexian Defiler and ultimately Phyrexian Plaguelord.
I like when they do that, i.e. have cards reference each other in flavor text
I remember back in the day when the Northern/Southern/Eastern/Western Paladin cards Flavor text were basically them dunking on each other for example
The Phyrexian progress notes also show up on Engineered Plague and later Plague Engineer, although those don't talk about the four stages of phyresis.
Graham, thank you for the spectral sailor flavor text! No notes, it’s my most anticipated card from the set
Love me some Tap Tap Concede. Great stuff as usual, please take this engagement as my smallest bit of thanks.
I was that guy Graham assembled ultimate Expedia against. Not pictured in his tweet was my sad 4/5 Titania and a field full of lands that weren't Argoth. Wish I could have given G a better game, but glad I could provide a nice moment. I did manage to meld Titania a couple times in other games that draft though.
You had them both?? I'm so glad you got make the meld happen... and not against me 😅
Love getting a peak behind the curtain with all the names and flavour text stories!
The artist referenced by Cameron while speaking about Phyrexian Plaguelord was I believe Zdzisław Beksiński, an incredible Polish painter with terrible story.
I believe the artist they're talking about while discussing Phyrexian Plaguelord is Zdzisław Beksiński
Cam’s little pout every time they mention sponsors is so endearing! Love the show as always
"We're setting a character limit so you don't paste The Raven."
Community proceeds to paste each stanza separately, and vote them up so they appear in order.
Thanks for this insight. I feel like art and mechanics usually come first but flavour text and lore is so important to a great card and building a multiverse that ppl want to explore further. It's really cool that contractors can also influence the art and have so much creative freedom
Actually, Fade into Antiquity is a reprint from Theros
Adam would never make that mistake
I love the tone of this set. So delightful!
I do appreciate all of these continuity follow-ups, from Kibo to the Plaguelord. (Also, adding "Kibo and the Plaguelords" to my list of good band names.) Looking forward to submitting nicknames for BRO.
I just realized, as a non English speaker, that the translation work must be pretty hard in order to keep flavour and all. I guess it would be hard to get to speak to a translator but if it had to be one could it be a Spanish one? Great show!
I look forward to all the Nickname Entries that are just "The Entire Text of The Raven"
The Kraken has just given me a great idea for my DnD campaign. Thanks everyone!
Re: Nickname character limit
Speaking as someone who pasted the entirety of The Love Song of Night and Day for the card of the same name, I get it. I just hope the character limit isn't so restrictive that it stops my various rewrites of the 1967 Spider-Man theme song that I am prone to submitting.
Hold up, they printed a Preordain with Aminatou on it? Gonna get me one of those in foil.
it would be cool if they expanded on whatever Aminatou is about
Graham's flavor text for Rhystic Study sent me xD
Ravnica themed Super Monkey Ball when!
23:26 Lavinia hamster balling people and Cameron's comment of no railings inspired this thought and now I need it 😄
Jumpstart; the Combine mechanic, but for your entire deck at once.
Combine mechanic?
Apologies. Combine is the keyword. I meant Augment, from one of the Un sets.
J22 will unfortunately not be coming to Arena as-is, but according to WotC Ian, "It’s going to be a while before you can see what we’re doing instead, but you’ll be like 'oh! Okay.'"
Why does that make me nervous?
@@leafkindruid because it probably involves Alchemy nonsense
Alchemy is fine in Jumpstart.
@@Mordalon I used to like Historic quite a lot. Alchemy is terrible in all iterations because WOTC shoehorned it into Historic. If it weren't for that I could just say "well it's not for me so I don't care" but instead WOTC forces me to have an optional, and my opinion is that it is all shit
And now I have Rotterdam by The Beautiful South stuck in my head because Graham said, "This could be anywhere". 🤦♂
Viewer error. I take full responsibility.
I actually really enjoyed jumpstart's flavor text tone even as a self-described "Curmudgeon" at the current state of the game. Granted my obvious bias as a long-time fan of LRR, but I feel the flavor text does naturally give a lot of pizazz to what is in my mind functionally a core-set.
18:22 That Peacewalker Colossus art is specifically a reference to the mech Knight of Gold (in particular the Gothicmade version), from the series Five Star Stories, and as it so happens, Knight of Gold's pilot is the God Emperor Amaterasu, so that's a very apt comparison.
The backstory behind the Uktabi chimp is insanely fun haha
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Poor Lavinia, gotta roll a bubble back to the station and fill out at least a small stack of forms
Loved hearing the deep dive into the Uktabi cards lmao
Zdislaw Beksinski might be the artist you were thinking of around 48:30
I love that leyline paratrigonometrics got another reference on Rhystic Study
Mtg greenhorn here. What was the first reference?
Man there goes my plan to nickname Phyrexian Fleshgorger the entire text of Moby Dick with all instances of the word "whale" replaced with "wurmbot".
Thank you for this engaging content, may you receive the blessings of the algorithm for the eyeballs delivered unto Google and their blessed advertisers.
11:30 Shout out to Research Assistant, though. Also, 26:00 we are gonna see Adam play a Kibo-EDH deck some time in the future, right?
Look, the Kibo story is amazing, but did anybody think to record it when Wheeler found out they were printing a Monkey that makes eggs and grows?
For what it's worth - they announced that Jumpstart 2022 will *not* be coming to arena. And to quote the arena team, apparently what will be coming instead will make us not getting J22 make sense
Since it wasn't mentioned in the episode, I have a dire need to know if Graham was responsible for the name of Pirated Copy, because that's my favorite card name in the set, possibly in all of Magic.
Sorry, no!
Damn, beat me to it!
"Apparently Grafted Warhear doesn't even go in aristocrats anymore"
Oh no, who told Cam?
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huge win for girls who love demons in finally getting demon girl
It's Beksinski!!!!!!!!!! My favorite painter
Cameron doing the Wojak point in the thumbnail
Uktabi story is A+++ :)
I'm not sure it'll be on Arena b/c I feel like they would have confirmed it if it were. Which is pretty sad...
Wait wtf wasn’t brothers war released like 30 seconds ago? Jumpstart 2022 is already here?!
Not everything is for everyone. One of these is a Standard set.
Wasn't Lady Orca a Demon?
My only issue with the Jumpstart 2022 is that the subtheme is not actually "Anime" but ""cute"" anime girls 99% of the time, which is disappointing, but I completely agree that since they are all reprints it's mostly fine.
48:43 Zdzisław Beksiński, maybe?
hair for the engagement gods
Peacewalker Colossus just gives huge Gurren Lagann mech energy to me. Love all the anime arts though, they're just fun.
Also the artist Cam was thinking of relating to the Plaugelord is the Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński.
Face isn’t big enough for GL.
they rly destroyed the jumpstart brand by labeling their themed boosters as jumpstart to sell them better.
Nah they just reprinted tons of useless and or alredy reprinted cards. That s what killed it for me
@@DiabloTommaso it's not the product for you
Except they didn't do that for that reason.
Jumpstart is a format that utilizes a specific type of pack. Like Draft.
Jumpstart DMU, Jumpstart BRO, are packs for their respective sets, designed for Jumpstart.
@@inajar7947 expoect u cant even play it completly as they are not even divadable by 4 xD its so bad the jumsptart dmu and bro are just repackaged themed boosters
I can't believe they didn't mention pirated copy
I just want a rapacious dragon
So much MTG product coming out that Tap Tap Concede (& LRR as a whole) are missing out products, like Brothers War Jumpstart (which sucks).
I’m personally not a fan of Soul Read. I feel like that name belongs to a Mise effect or something.
I think it's a good idea to ditch the single-gender creature thing in general. Why not open the door to show those characters as being able to present however they'd like? There are plenty of other ways to make a fantasy race interesting besides, "what if these ones were only hot ladies?"
What you aren't saying is very loud
Another great product that WotC treats like trash
How?
Looks like my wife needs ardoz for her muxus deck.
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