Glad you're enjoying it - we like to discuss current sets as well, but I could pretty easily imagine us spending a significant more time in the 90s sets. Also curious to see if this level of in-depth for a single set can sustain itself through the whole set - there are a lot of asides we're working in early on, and we're TRYING to pace them out, but we'll see how it looks when we wrap in...I don't know, early December??
@@ManaCritics I don't care about the current sets. I stopped keeping up with the new releases a few years ago now, and I won't play anything released past May 2021. I grew up with the story of The Weatherlight and its crew, and the modern sets are too far removed from what entertains me.
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.
Ah, so "big creature threats" parses as "of the big threats, the ones that are creatures," rather than "the big creatures, who are threats" - that would make sense. And I've definitely seen reference to the "5 cards from each set" rule you're referencing, but we've been having a hard time nailing down the exact definition of each format during this time period - things were obviously still in a pretty formative state, and it seems like the rules were changing from event to event.
Hooray! Part 2. I hope you keep going after this and do more old sets.
Glad you're enjoying it - we like to discuss current sets as well, but I could pretty easily imagine us spending a significant more time in the 90s sets. Also curious to see if this level of in-depth for a single set can sustain itself through the whole set - there are a lot of asides we're working in early on, and we're TRYING to pace them out, but we'll see how it looks when we wrap in...I don't know, early December??
@@ManaCritics I don't care about the current sets. I stopped keeping up with the new releases a few years ago now, and I won't play anything released past May 2021. I grew up with the story of The Weatherlight and its crew, and the modern sets are too far removed from what entertains me.
I was looking forward to this. Hope its as good as the first one.
Thanks, and we hope so too ;)
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.
Ah, so "big creature threats" parses as "of the big threats, the ones that are creatures," rather than "the big creatures, who are threats" - that would make sense. And I've definitely seen reference to the "5 cards from each set" rule you're referencing, but we've been having a hard time nailing down the exact definition of each format during this time period - things were obviously still in a pretty formative state, and it seems like the rules were changing from event to event.
Orgggg!!!😂
Right!?