Graham from Loading Ready Run opens "Wizards of the Coast presents Dungeons & Dragons: Battle for Baldur's Gate, a Magic: The Gathering expansion, a Deckmaster game by Richard Garfield"
I think you're underestimating the Noble's Purse. It's a 2 cost mana rock that taps for any color, with the downside of having limited use but upside of Treasure/artifact synergies
This set isn’t much in terms of card value outside of the Ancient dragon cycle, but if you want a fun draft this set is shockingly good and I do consider it pretty close to original Commander Legends in that regard. And thanks to that low value it’s usually not too hard to get a draft box of it either.
It's really interesting how when I first opened these packs, I had no idea about the specific characters... fast forward to 2 years later, and my playgroup is working it's way through BG3... these cards are so much fun to draft... Commander draft! What a rush!
So Prized Statue's Idol first showed up on the first cover of the Player's Handbook for 1st edition D&D. It was next shown in Hackmaster's first printed ruleset (labeled as 4th edition because continuity with Knights of the Dinner Table was a thing) on their PHB. Then WotC reprinted the 1st ed PHB again for the memorial printing to give Gygax an actual statue in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. It has also shown up in various cameos and homaged multiple times over the decades, due to being actually iconic for most grognards.
@@Tensen01 I know that and you know that, but It's just called 1st ed by many, mostly because the version of Basic that came out near it is called Blue Book. As opposed to the later B/X and BECMI versions. I was getting a point across Also White box considered 0 edition these days.
Unfortunately, there is not a full cycle of X Orb of Dragonkind. Dragons in Baldurs Gate were primarily in Temur colors so their is currently no orb for Black or White
more thoughts: I think having two cards with the same art but different names and text is grody as hell and should've been a good sign not to do that set I am of the understanding that illithids are mind controller dudes but i choose to believe that goblin in the art of Run Away Together is in perfectly consensual, uninfluenced love with them.
@@violetto3219 In BG3 there’s a hobgoblin and a free mind flayer (Blurg and Omeluum) who are, as far as the game shows, very good friends without the influence of mind control (no specific implications that they’re in love, but I suppose it’s possible!). The card art goblin is a bit more goblin-y (green/yellow skin and shorter stature), but it could be meant to be them and the art could be a consequence of an incomplete art brief or something.
The dragon orbs aren't a full cycle, there's only blue, green, and red ones. This doesn't bother me at all as a 5 color dragon commander deck owner :P. I also just recently added a noble's purse to my goblins deck, not because I think the treasures are worth it, but because it's basically 4 artifacts in 1 card and that deck loves sacrificing artifacts. So that's not "breaking" the card, but it is an alternate use of it.
I can only presume that both this set and Baldur’s Gate 3 had such a disproportionate development cycle that prevented them from being released within a close enough time window to promote each other. Especially since BG3 was in development for about six years.
There was also the D&D movie released in early 2023. All of these things released within 6-8 months of each other. I imagine lining all of these big projects up must have been especially hard.
It's kind of funny that the card is called Wizards of Thay since they're usually called the Red Wizards of Thay but I guess they didn't want to put the word red on a blue card.
For the longest time that kind of thing was something they avoided. Only recently did they relax that rule with cards like Blacksmith's Skill. There are 47 cards in Magic with the word Smith in their name, but only 5 are Blacksmiths, with 2 being from the last 3 years and the other 3 being from before 2000.
I think previewing characters from BG3 in this was nifty. You still had older characters you knew, so if you didn't recognize someone it was this whole mystery of what they're gonna be like.
Noble's Purse is a decent mana rock for affinity decks, Jaheira's a good commander if you want to get really busted with it, throw in a Displaced Dinosaurs and tap to make a dinosaur token before someone immediately kills your Displaced Dinosaurs
Aarakocra Sneak is honestly one of the best initiative creatures; it's better than than blue rare. The stats of 1/4 flier when you need to hold or retake the iniative are kinda incredible.
i do like "green flying creature that can't attack unless..." as a way to print essentially a giant spider, not only are you shutting tiny flyers down but you can also profit from your opponent playing them
@@christopherlundgren1700 It also is even more color appropriate than something like Plummet considering you are using a creature to specifically punish the opponent having fliers. The instances when someone has a flyer and yet can't block this are very narrow.
9:43 No, it's like a Pokémon. Vrock is the shriek it calls out, and people started calling it that. "What manner of monstrosity is that?!?" "Vrock!!" "Oh, understandable."
Hot take: I would first pick marut and the purse. I think it's crucial to stay open in commander draft. And purse is actually really solid. Yes it's slow, but it actually works like a diamond with "upside(?)". Maybe Marut isn't the strongest, but it works fine with the purse and actually fits in quite a lot of archetypes. You could also consider the white dragon over it, because it's a 2 for 1 and that's always good (and it also kinda works with purse), but i think colorless is the way to go. If you wanna commit to blue and go with Imoen because it's a commander, I would take the sneak with it, because synergies and initiative is bonkers. Also the wizards aren't that good in limited, because there's no spellslinger archetype.
Not that Noble's Purse is broken or anything, but a lot of the trouble my artifact tokens deck had when this set came out was consistently making treasures, so Noble's Purse was an OK way of doing that. Eventually got cut from the deck since wizards has gone ham with treasure producers, but I was never super upset at how slow it was since it made up for it with consistency.
Imoen and Scion of Halaster don't combo well, because Scion triggers on the FIRST card you draw each turn, and Imoen's card draw happens in your end step. (Unless you have somehow managed to make yourself skip your draw step.)
The full name of the edition of dnd commonly known as "second edition" was Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition. However, there was also an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons first edition. There was also a Basic Dungeon and Dragons, which ran simultaneous with both AD&D 1e and a big chunk of AD&D 2e, eventually becoming the BECMI version (consisting of 5 main books, basic, expert, companion, master, immortal). In my personal experience AD&D 2e was the edition that is typically meant when people just say "Advanced Dungeon and Dragons" without specifying edition. The terms are therefore not quite synonymous, but somewhat gestures in the direction of each other.
Additionally, with the splitting of D&D editions into two tracks (Basic and Advanced), guess what track 3e, 3.5, 4e and 5e are part of? They just dropped the "Advanced" from the titles after AD&D 2e, because... well... it's better marketing :P
I use Noble’s Purse in a deck that proliferates a lot. With the proliferation it becomes a tapped Arcane Signet that can bank its mana. Even in a treasure deck or one with Academy Manufactor, without keeping it stocked with counters it doesn’t look all that good as a three turn mana rock with synergies.
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My favourite part of this set is that Karlach's price spiked when BG3 came out.
Wizards of the Coast presents Dungeons & Dragons: Battle for Baldur's Gate, a Magic: The Gathering expansion, a Deckmaster game by Richard Garfield
*A universes beyond product
**Commander Legends
Graham from Loading Ready Run opens "Wizards of the Coast presents Dungeons & Dragons: Battle for Baldur's Gate, a Magic: The Gathering expansion, a Deckmaster game by Richard Garfield"
Featuring Dante From The Devil May Cry Series
& Knuckles
I think you're underestimating the Noble's Purse. It's a 2 cost mana rock that taps for any color, with the downside of having limited use but upside of Treasure/artifact synergies
Aarakocra Sneak is quite playable, so much so that it is banned in pauper.
This set isn’t much in terms of card value outside of the Ancient dragon cycle, but if you want a fun draft this set is shockingly good and I do consider it pretty close to original Commander Legends in that regard. And thanks to that low value it’s usually not too hard to get a draft box of it either.
It's really interesting how when I first opened these packs, I had no idea about the specific characters... fast forward to 2 years later, and my playgroup is working it's way through BG3... these cards are so much fun to draft... Commander draft! What a rush!
So Prized Statue's Idol first showed up on the first cover of the Player's Handbook for 1st edition D&D. It was next shown in Hackmaster's first printed ruleset (labeled as 4th edition because continuity with Knights of the Dinner Table was a thing) on their PHB. Then WotC reprinted the 1st ed PHB again for the memorial printing to give Gygax an actual statue in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. It has also shown up in various cameos and homaged multiple times over the decades, due to being actually iconic for most grognards.
It was on the cover for the PHB for First edition AD&D, not D&D, there is actually a difference.
@@Tensen01 I know that and you know that, but It's just called 1st ed by many, mostly because the version of Basic that came out near it is called Blue Book. As opposed to the later B/X and BECMI versions. I was getting a point across Also White box considered 0 edition these days.
Unfortunately, there is not a full cycle of X Orb of Dragonkind. Dragons in Baldurs Gate were primarily in Temur colors so their is currently no orb for Black or White
Any ideas on what they should do for dragons cast through those?
@@LadyLunarSatine White would probably be Gain 3 Life or something around that. I'm less sure of Black. Maybe Surveil 2?
@@LadyLunarSatine Fairly sure white would get 3 life or something like that.
Black I'm less sure on. Maybe Surveil 2?
Aarakocra Sneak is an all star in one of my favorite formats, looking at every vintage legal card in alphabetical order on scryfall
more thoughts:
I think having two cards with the same art but different names and text is grody as hell and should've been a good sign not to do that set
I am of the understanding that illithids are mind controller dudes but i choose to believe that goblin in the art of Run Away Together is in perfectly consensual, uninfluenced love with them.
Except, the two versions of those cards were never meant to overlap.
@@violetto3219 In BG3 there’s a hobgoblin and a free mind flayer (Blurg and Omeluum) who are, as far as the game shows, very good friends without the influence of mind control (no specific implications that they’re in love, but I suppose it’s possible!). The card art goblin is a bit more goblin-y (green/yellow skin and shorter stature), but it could be meant to be them and the art could be a consequence of an incomplete art brief or something.
@@cold_ay_It is not a goblin that’s why. It is a Githyanki.
The dragon orbs aren't a full cycle, there's only blue, green, and red ones. This doesn't bother me at all as a 5 color dragon commander deck owner :P. I also just recently added a noble's purse to my goblins deck, not because I think the treasures are worth it, but because it's basically 4 artifacts in 1 card and that deck loves sacrificing artifacts. So that's not "breaking" the card, but it is an alternate use of it.
I can only presume that both this set and Baldur’s Gate 3 had such a disproportionate development cycle that prevented them from being released within a close enough time window to promote each other. Especially since BG3 was in development for about six years.
There was also the D&D movie released in early 2023. All of these things released within 6-8 months of each other. I imagine lining all of these big projects up must have been especially hard.
It's kind of funny that the card is called Wizards of Thay since they're usually called the Red Wizards of Thay but I guess they didn't want to put the word red on a blue card.
For the longest time that kind of thing was something they avoided. Only recently did they relax that rule with cards like Blacksmith's Skill. There are 47 cards in Magic with the word Smith in their name, but only 5 are Blacksmiths, with 2 being from the last 3 years and the other 3 being from before 2000.
That Copy token is ridiculously much cooler than the one they keep using.
I think previewing characters from BG3 in this was nifty. You still had older characters you knew, so if you didn't recognize someone it was this whole mystery of what they're gonna be like.
This set was absolutely goated. Drafting Commander Legends 2 was easily the most fun I ever had playing Magic.
Not only do the common initiative creatures see some Highlander play, they also saw Pauper play until they were banned for being incredibly busted.
Noble's Purse is a decent mana rock for affinity decks, Jaheira's a good commander if you want to get really busted with it, throw in a Displaced Dinosaurs and tap to make a dinosaur token before someone immediately kills your Displaced Dinosaurs
I love the Wizards of Thay/tham/thairs
9:30 Two words: Unwinding Clock
Aarakocra Sneak is honestly one of the best initiative creatures; it's better than than blue rare. The stats of 1/4 flier when you need to hold or retake the iniative are kinda incredible.
i do like "green flying creature that can't attack unless..." as a way to print essentially a giant spider, not only are you shutting tiny flyers down but you can also profit from your opponent playing them
Besides, how often is your Giant Spider even attacking in most games?
I hated it when I looked at it, but I guess when you put it that way, it's basically a wall that occasionally gets rowdy.
@@christopherlundgren1700 It also is even more color appropriate than something like Plummet considering you are using a creature to specifically punish the opponent having fliers. The instances when someone has a flyer and yet can't block this are very narrow.
The way Graham says "Marut" it's like the record scratch that abruptly stops the music in the comedy movie trailer.
9:43 No, it's like a Pokémon. Vrock is the shriek it calls out, and people started calling it that.
"What manner of monstrosity is that?!?"
"Vrock!!"
"Oh, understandable."
Hot take: I would first pick marut and the purse. I think it's crucial to stay open in commander draft. And purse is actually really solid. Yes it's slow, but it actually works like a diamond with "upside(?)".
Maybe Marut isn't the strongest, but it works fine with the purse and actually fits in quite a lot of archetypes. You could also consider the white dragon over it, because it's a 2 for 1 and that's always good (and it also kinda works with purse), but i think colorless is the way to go. If you wanna commit to blue and go with Imoen because it's a commander, I would take the sneak with it, because synergies and initiative is bonkers. Also the wizards aren't that good in limited, because there's no spellslinger archetype.
The cards in this set generally aren’t worth a ton but there’s SO many playable cards for commander, it’s one of my favorites ever
Not that Noble's Purse is broken or anything, but a lot of the trouble my artifact tokens deck had when this set came out was consistently making treasures, so Noble's Purse was an OK way of doing that. Eventually got cut from the deck since wizards has gone ham with treasure producers, but I was never super upset at how slow it was since it made up for it with consistency.
Imoen and Scion of Halaster don't combo well, because Scion triggers on the FIRST card you draw each turn, and Imoen's card draw happens in your end step. (Unless you have somehow managed to make yourself skip your draw step.)
The full name of the edition of dnd commonly known as "second edition" was Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition.
However, there was also an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons first edition. There was also a Basic Dungeon and Dragons, which ran simultaneous with both AD&D 1e and a big chunk of AD&D 2e, eventually becoming the BECMI version (consisting of 5 main books, basic, expert, companion, master, immortal).
In my personal experience AD&D 2e was the edition that is typically meant when people just say "Advanced Dungeon and Dragons" without specifying edition.
The terms are therefore not quite synonymous, but somewhat gestures in the direction of each other.
Additionally, with the splitting of D&D editions into two tracks (Basic and Advanced), guess what track 3e, 3.5, 4e and 5e are part of? They just dropped the "Advanced" from the titles after AD&D 2e, because... well... it's better marketing :P
I use Noble’s Purse in a deck that proliferates a lot. With the proliferation it becomes a tapped Arcane Signet that can bank its mana. Even in a treasure deck or one with Academy Manufactor, without keeping it stocked with counters it doesn’t look all that good as a three turn mana rock with synergies.
I loved the first D&D set. I made a cube out of it.
I was looking forward to this one so much until I saw the price on the boosters...
I was playing BG3 in 2022, well act 1 over and over.
Nothic are basically what happens to Wizards who delve too deep into dark secrets when they aren't smart enough to become a Lich.
For a second there I thought this was going to be Graham Eats the Whole Thing
nice to see that booster set I always liked
I absolutely LOVED that set!
I'm engaging to get my daily source of vowels!
Kevin: Scion of MacHalaster
I thought all the cards were going to have the question mark
This is an engaging and entertaining video
6:15 Omeluum and Blurg OTP
Ah ra ahrara ahrararara sneak 🤣
Was that a Mentok the Mindtaker reference?
I am so glad I'm not the only one who noticed 😂
this set is dirt cheat and very fun to draft i built a set cube out of it and have a blast every time i bust it out
The algorithm rules us all
A Slaad once bit my sister... No realli!
Not broken, but noble’s purse is useful on my Atraxa proliferate deck. Lets me bank mana when I don’t have something to cast.
14:26 Stop trying to make Vrock happen!
Delightful aas aalways!
Sucks when the _PARTY_ ends early, doesn't it?
Rob the Hoard used to be called Rob the Wealthy, but Robert went a bit overboard.
I've always pronounced 'Aarakocra' as "air-ah-ko-krah"
and 'Marut' is "mah-root" I think?
Magic: the gathering: commander legends: universes beyond: dungeons and dragons: battle for baldur's gate
Who's rob and whats going on with his hoard?
6:15 That art makes me deeply uncomfortable.
Crack! A! Pack!
So much faffery
*M A R u T*
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Not to be pedantic, but magic the gathering is inherently a multiplayer game you and 1 opponent, thus multiple players.
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Well, at least you got some office supplies.