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A Keyforge Festivus · Archons Corner

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I don't care what your mama says, Christmas Thomas. I don't care what
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your daddy says. Christmas Thomas. Oh my no is the saddest thing.
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He's making his way to the USA. Well what's going on, everybody?
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I am the one, the only, the w oh okay. I joined
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here by the cast of misfits. We First up, got Ewok Junior.
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Hello, Key Fortumunity, he's glad to be here. Merry Christmas early to
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everyone. He's miss We got the smoke show Duras Corps. Oh ho,
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Mary Forgebles. That was odd and everyone I love it. Man r cons
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and other r cogs and creatures. Uh. And we got a resident PhD
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actors a bug that sounds about right for everything. But it is that time
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of the year again. It is time for our annual Festivus Show, where
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we where we go through the feats of strengths, the airing of the grievances,
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and the Bestivus miracles. First up, gentlemen, remember and listeners,
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there will be no show next week or the week after that, as it
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is the holidays and we'd all like to spend time with our family. I'll
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be here to record. Sheep will be here to record. I probably will
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be too, So make sure that you put that you look out on our
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You can also get access to the drawbetter dot Card's website. Actually everyone can
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have access, but you can get more more deck lookups, and just so
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everybody knows, I believe if I'm not mistaken, grim Reminders is live.
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So if you were at KFC, you were able to look up your gram
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Reminders decks with the with the Z scoring system. If I'm not mistaken,
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that's right, that's right, So make sure you go over there. First.
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Up, we don't have a Y. It's Festivus, so we're not
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going to do a Y. I suck at KeyForge, Well we got we
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had some really good ones this week at our local we did. Is that
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why Wookie doesn't want to talk about it? What did I I'm listening,
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what did I suck at this week? Or anyone? I don't know,
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Jeep, I thought you had the greatest and I don't recall oh is it
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the fact that he forgot so absolutely no key Forge to key Ford night.
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Yes, I did do that. So we did a night where the back
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of your ARCHI needed to either be green and or red. I shouldn't say
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and or because there's no such split color decks in key Forge. But Sheep
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then messaged does and said that he forgot all of his keyboards at home luckily,
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so did you have to keep opening sealed ala till you got either a
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red or a green? Is that? Is that what happened? Santa said
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that that's our good Sheep, very very very very nice this year. Really.
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Oh yes, it seems hard to believe. I know, I mean,
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Choda may have felt bad for Sheep. But there were there were some
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some decks that one of our local store employees had and uh so Sheep got
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a chance to pick there. So we had a box of problems a dozen
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decks or so, and he picked one and it was the first what he
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picked out was red? What was what was it? What was in that
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deck? There? Sheep? That one? It was all about a shadows
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which was double team TP Megan triple Urchin ooh double double Nexus. Yeah.
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Yeah, Well actually the Naxos has turned out to be quite good in the
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games, although not particularly good guards. Yeah, he had a little oh
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and he had a Mars too. It happened to have a battle fleet in
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it. Yeah, but just one and no key abduction. You guys,
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oh a tear. I picked a red deck or I picked a green deck
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off my desk and went, yeah, this one's green. Well, well,
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okay, let's be really honest about this, bookie. You did pick
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a deck off of your desk, but it happened to be a Grim Reminders
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deck. Yeah, I didn't know that upon picking it, Like it literally
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was like, yeah, this one's green. Oh, this one's green too,
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I'll shove that box in my bag. Okay, chodah Hasri. I
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don't know that this would be Grim Reminders. No, it was that.
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Actually, it was a really cool event because with all of us, we
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had two coda that were represented. I brought my World's Collide Saint Nick brought
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me a World's Collide deck, and that sealed deck happened to be red ARCon
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So as I opened it, I'm like, I'm going to totally play this.
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And that was represented. We had m M represented and oh no,
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we had well represented and we had uh yeah, that's right, mister perfect
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Well, that's right. He actually brought on and actually very happy John didn't
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dark tiding to us. I kind of I kind of miss it. I
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mean, I know you guys really disliked with you. I like the combo
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play from d T. I enjoyed it. You're I believe they called it.
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I will say, I believe they call those people masochists. I enjoy
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But out of all of us, we all ended up two and one except
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for was this she now I thought it. I thought it was Look at
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car now I was two and one. Yeah, so we were all two
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and one and then it came down to tiebreakers, which was really odd.
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So yeah, it was fun though it was a time. So the moral
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of the story is, if you're going to key Forge night, bring bring
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some key for bring your key forard stuff. So so this week was actually
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a good week. Uh at at our l LG so we are lgs whatever
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it's called the So we had a new player, which was exciting. So
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I showed up early to teach this guy how to play and oh yeah,
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yeah like he So actually I had met I met this guy at packs pack
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some plug, which is you know, Philly area, and he lives not
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that far from the store. Because I whatever reason, I was chatting with
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him. He's like, oh yeah, I'm local. I'm like, oh
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me too. It's like, oh yeah, he was in Westchester. I
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was like, hey, that's where we play. Don't you want to play
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key Forge? And somehow he actually showed up. That's never worked before,
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and so I taught him how to play. Uh and then uh and then
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we roll into it and uh, we're you know, rock and rolling.
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He's having a good time and uh. So we had it. We had
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a new player that was exciting. Uh. The other thing that was,
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I don't know, shocking to me. I don't know. You know how
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I always talk about how my store is awesome because we have all the sets.
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Well, we no longer have CODA. You're out of coda. I
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think she has some CODA for him. Yeah, I mean I have Coda,
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I got it, but but yeah, none at my LGS. So
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and he's got to get a resupply of woe because he's down to the last
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little bit. So still plenty of aoa coccer, but well, I'm gonna
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put in this this little plug because we saw your sweet event. I think
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that's coming up draz where it was if you win, you have to lose
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is the deck? Yeah, so I I stole this idea from someone I
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don't know, maybe some of beer. I don't know. It's called as
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alliance. We did this already. Yeah, yeah, so it's it's basically
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the ass alliance, right, so, but I didn't say that because plane
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what it is for those listeners who are new and it's anti. It's finally
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a format X ray is good at. Yeah, so basically you so it's
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a three set anti survival. So basically, you show up the store,
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you buy three sealed decks from three different sets. You crack them open,
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you look at them. You could pick any one of those to play around
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one. Uh no alliance BS of course and uh and so you play although
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actually that might be fun cross alliance for some blacky format I don't know,
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but but no, so it should just be crossed anyways. But anyway,
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continue AnyWho, So play round one. If if you lose, you know
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you could still you know, you keep playing round two as if you know
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nothing happened. But if you win, that deck is out, so you
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now only have two decks to play. Yeah, if you win again,
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you're down to one deck. If you win that third time, you just
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win at own point well where I'm assuming we'll get enough folks to go to
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be four rounds. So if you're undefeated the last round, all your decks
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are available to you again. And I took this up a step because we
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were trying to come up with more events for January February as we wait for
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OP and I like the idea of bringing three decks instead of it being sealed,
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but one from each like three different sets. And I think that would
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be a nice little twist so you could see like different sets versus different sets.
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That's what was fun across our red and Green ARCon is just seeing how
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the different sets interact with each other. There's some really cool interplay there.
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Yep, yep. So we're gonna that's going to be happening on the twenty
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eighth, Thursday, the twenty eighth, so one week from when we're recording.
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But it's in Westchester, Pennsylvania. I'll be there. I'll be there,
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So Wookie, getting your car, start driving. I'm already driving actually,
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and uh or you know, don't care about your safety. Just let
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sheep drive and uh, come on, he hits cats, big orange juts,
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all of you, barriers, potholes, whatever he makes. He's driving.
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Look as long as he's driving Ewok's car, he's finding anything. He
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makes. You turns and you know, control dinner is not a big deal.
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Just downtown nowhere, just makes a U turn. That's fine. You
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guys are a bunch of babies. You know. I've never gotten a chance
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to drive your vehicle, but you've driven my vehicle a lot. I'm seeing
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a trend here that sounds like somebody's the fool here. I'm just saying,
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time the vehicle. Welcome to the sheep car. Whenever you want it,
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you drive. And I watched my life flash before my eyes. I think
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that signal is a problem. And yet your dumb ass is still here talking.
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I know. I never said I've made good life choices. It's just
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that I make choices. Well, DRez, I shared your sweet event which
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came from Sheep and maybe someone else, but whoever first brought it up,
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thank you. It sounded amazing and I think it would be something fun for
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the locals. So if you have a local community, go ahead and you
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know, have some fun with some of these different I think we can officially
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call Josh that says AOA the Cockroach, a keyfordge. I believe we officially
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call AOA the what was it? Was it? Weather Light? Was no?
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Homelands? AOA is the Homelands of KeyForge? Am I wrong? Is
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that? Is that a magic set? I feel it is widely known as
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the worst magic set? Actually maybe, yeah, Homeland is widely known as
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the worst magic set ever printed. It does sound familiar. No, there
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was the other bad one right before that, long before Homelands legend. Well,
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I have driven I have driven this train off the track. So back
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on test feats of Strength, best cards of twenty twenty three come out?
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Yes, so the original We are going through our Festivus Festivus motions, so
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we have the feats of Strength, and we traditionally call that as what are
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the best new cards of twenty twenty three? Fallen Empires? That might be
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it? Falling Empires. That's the one that's pretty bad too. But what
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we're for you, guys, some of the best cards in KeyForge in twenty
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twenty three. Anybody is a whole bunch a bunch. But is there a
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bunch well for you name name one, because maybe a bunch of us,
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maybe some of us are gonna say, okay, yeah, actually the puddle
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was the one that was on the tip of my toe, right on my
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list to common And it's the best that we've ever seen, unfathomable right in
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terms of this set, right, and it seems like it's going to be
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better than then it will be in grim reminders and uh with a fuddle and
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a business sight and some of these real strong commons and unfathomable. It's uh,
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it's it's pretty strong, right, Like people, not only are you
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disrupting because you're you're forcing them to only play uh one house of Cars cards,
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you'll also get folks that get thrown off by it, right, They'll
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they'll call that house even when they wouldn't instead of calling another house and just
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discarding and like reaping. So I feel like the wording on the card makes
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it difficult because it's not like because basically more or less it's control the week,
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right, like more or less ish ish right, But like the way
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is worded, you forget that you're like allowed to just discard cards because like
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you're only allowed to play cards of the chosen house right, right, doesn't
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prevent you from doing other things right. It doesn't prevent you from calling the
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house. It prevents you. And I think a lot of people get that
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confused with control the week or you're like, oh, I just can't call
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that house. I think that happens, or you have to, or they're
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they're they're thinking like, oh, I have to call it so that I
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can play this one card, whereas maybe they should have called the other house
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reaped twice and discarded four. Right, Yeah, I will say that was
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my own. That was my only out in my top finishing third deck in
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the game that I did eventually lose for Worlds, I ran out of options,
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and as I'd be fuddled, I just had to hope that they weren't
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going to call the artifact that was on the board. Now, that did
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not happen, But sometimes you just got to keep leaning into playing and seeing
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how the other players will make their decision. I think draz what you said
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though about commons being powerful is extremely important. See had stated that a long
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time ago, and I stand by it. We want our commons to be
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meaningful, impactful, and powerful. If they are, that's really important.
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For the game, we'll see more of them show up. I do think,
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Wikie. I know you and I were talking about this on the way
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home, that we've seen rares actually increase in their power, but because they
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don't show up as often, they're having less impact on the game. So
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the fuddle was awesome to see. And well, right, like I was
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speaking of, you know, rare showing up less less often, like I,
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you know, I still love brio Zark, but yeah, you know,
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how often are you really seeing it? You know, here's the deal.
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I don't know on occasion about this, maybe we have, but there
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are some rares and I understand, and I believe we've had this argument before.
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I still believe. I don't remember your argument. I just remember you
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being wrong. Well, no I didn't. This is actually this is actually
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Nova's argument. But Nova, you know, because we said, like there's
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just some times where we're we're opening boxes or whatever, and we just like
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it just seems like we keep getting the same rare over and over and over
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again. And her big thing is like, no, that's that's a brain
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trick, Like it's not it's not doing that. I don't know, man,
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I still think sometimes like I'm opening it back and it's like, man,
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another one of these crummey rares, Like I just I don't know,
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I still believe in So we know, from the perspective of the entire set,
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right, you're you're not seeing more of one rare than another unless there's
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some like interesting linkage. But that's like an educase right now, that is
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not necessarily the same as there is no clumping, even if the entire population
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it's evenly distributed. Right, So when it's spitting out all those decks out
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of the processing line, right, and Jeremy's like catching all the decks as
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they're flying off, right, and he's like throw them in in bins,
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right, and he's like, I gotta make sure like this is you know,
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this is the bribos arc batch. Like he's trying to throw them in
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different bins, but you know, like sometimes like the one bin's closest and
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he just like throws them all in there, right. So he's got such
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arms, so you know he's got to Jeremy. So you know, if
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I mean, if Janet was doing it would be perfect Jano. You know,
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did you know Janet's that Tom Brady of Ghost Galaxy turns out she's the
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goat. Like I've I've heard she launched launch grim reminders next from twenty yards
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out, no problems, launched them from from twenty yards out. Also i've
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heard true, Yeah, pinpoint accuracy. It's what I've heard. I don't
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know. I have no proof on it, but hinpoint act we have,
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right, and we have I don't know that we have proof, but we
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have very strong anecdotal evidence that at least in World's collide, there was real
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clumping. Yes, yep, And so now you know, FFG seemed to
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fix some of those issues when when MM came out, but fixed from her
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perspective of, hey, you're not getting the same house you know eleven times
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in the box, right, it was the house issue and wonder why pause
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that? Do we ever find out or just never? Never? Really,
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I would assume it had to do with like the way the algorithm works and
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how they were printing stuff. Maybe they sorted, maybe they accidentally sorted or
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or on purpose sorted and didn't really think about Hey, just means if we
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just like put you know, these twelve in this box and these twelve in
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that box, and so on and so forth, and it's sorted by you
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know, first house name, then like or or you have a process to
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distribute, but it's it's very lackluster. Then you're gonna get house clumping.
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I don't know. Now, I have at times felt like I've gotten a
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or you should have well there's that, but but I have felt like I've
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gotten very before, right. And there was that one time that I opened
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UH to a World's collide x UH from the same box and they both had
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the Nike the forgotten anomaly or whatever, and it was like, well,
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what's the you know, what's the chances of that? Like really low?
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Right? So so now is that any evidence that there's actual clumping there?
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None of the other decks in the box had any anomalies, but the two
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I happened to open at the same time both had it. I don't know,
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you don't know. We have we have no evidence of it as per
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normal on archives corner, we have no proof. So but are there other
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commons folks are UH are feeling that aren't in I would say one, I
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think that really shook shook the scene, not and tell me if I'm wrong.
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Brick nasty, Oh yeah, the nastiest of bricks. He gave,
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he gave, he gave people a reason to fight. Yeah, and yeah,
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I think that brick was a was a real, big, real big
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influence this year. Positive because correct Robner wanting to fight, needed that,
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he needed a way to benefit off it. Yes, I agree, like,
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well they needed that like four sets ago. However, we'll take it
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out, We'll take I guess we'll take it on set five or six.
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I've lost Connor one set number one? What do we got? What else?
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Was sheep? What do you get? Nothing? Nothing? All right,
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Well I will argue that and I will raise you with Legionary trainer.
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Legionary trainer for Alliance and Arkon showed up, and it showed up in full
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force. I think this common is absolutely phenomenal and has a real impact on
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the game. So again, fight you a little bit on lead, because
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Legionary Trainer is only good if you got a sorry in token. Yeah,
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and it's real, real, real good. And when you sorry and token,
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it's pretty oppressive. But it's like if you get legionary train, like
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if you get befunneled in most decks like oh good card. But if you
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get legionary trainer and you get a blurb. You're like, oh, super
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sad, and like you go sit in the corner and cry, I did
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just open a Legionary Trainer Emberling deck. It's uh not that great, that's
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superad. So I know I failed earlier on urb Fuddel, but Legionary Trainer
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two power Dinosaur, Soldier, Saurian creature, each friendly token creature enters play
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Ready play make a token creature, and you saw that show up at Worlds
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in full force. And I think that there's a real reason to it that
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the token spam coming from Legionary Trainer was very real. Yes, I agree
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with you that it is exponentially better with sorry and tokens, but it's only
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tokens. Yeah, Like it's not good with any other token, not like
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my my my Warrior coming in to play Ready does much happens to survive.
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But then you call that's very unlike Ready. I mean it's not you know,
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I'm not gonna pick it out of bed freeing cookies, but you know
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I'm not. You would Wow, how dare cookies in my bed? I
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mean I suppose, I suppose, so I do think I think it's this
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is the difference between ARCon and sealed right like ARCon Heck, yeah, legionary
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trainer. Like if you're playing ARCon, of course you want legendary trainer because
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you're playing Arcons, you're playing it when it's good sealed. Seeing a legionary
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trainer often is you know, it's like I could have you know, maybe
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it would have rather a faust or something. I mean, it's it's possibility
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it gets busted. There's definite possibility. It's like it just it's cracked,
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but not all the time. Yeah, I agree, I do see the
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brick nasty again, all three of these being common brick nasty You just have
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some times where you don't have a brobnar that you've placed, and so you
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don't have a way to be able to fight on turn, and as a
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result that brick is a big target or is really sad. The idea for
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the fuddle, the fuddle gets consistent value, and that's why immediately went to
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it. But I think as we continue to look, each of these cards
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are extremely powerful in their own right, and they have a place still for
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this year in my opinion. You know what, you know, which one's
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really moving up the ranks For me that every time I see it. I'm
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like, this is just gravy. It's the uh, the IRONYX Rebel,
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Like it almost doesn't matter what else is. It's the the does that play
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make a token creature destroyed making no? No, oh, that's very good.
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The vat Minder is also really good. But the Iron X Rebel is
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two power deploy play ready each of Iron Iron ex rebels Mars neighbors, and
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there's so many good Mars cards too. Ready. Yeah, Like, I
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mean even if you just ready to vat minders, it's still real good.
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But you know, if you're ready ing your like oh I said any of
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them, right, But you could read your Harvester, right, you could
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ready your Mesmerist, right, you could ready your Zizok, right, you
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can ready your you're what's that red dude memorics the red right. Like,
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there's so many things that are good to ready, and then there's you know,
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some some upgrades that are okay. But hey, if you get propaganda
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and then you have a rebel, like, you know, you just instant
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value. I like it sitting at the common cart. Yeah, I like
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it sitting at the common level. I have had a turn or two where
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you have actions and you have not a single Mars creature to go with it,
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which is a little sure, okay, but honestly, ironx Rebel is
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a really solid card. Yep. What about Mix? Oh yeah, he's
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good, tall he is, and it's like great art. It is great?
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Is just three, It's just three Myers creatures stacked on top of each
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other. Yeah, Coach and Wookie. What is mixed? The tall minded
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mix number one? He is five power. He's a critter. Your opponent's
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keys cost he's a martian. Your opponent's keys cost plus one for each friendly
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Myers creature in play, which has the possibility now typically you have there at
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least plus one because he counts himself. But with a grunt he can become
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real dumb, real quick. And he's a five power so he's tough to
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deal with. Yep. Well, I think even just a common placing one
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out you get an immediate key cost right always again, as this is a
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race, being able to extend so they can't get that key, or being
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able to increase the cost so that they're not closer to that next key is
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really really important. How is Balder's gate going over? There? Man going
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great? You can watch sheep stream boulders Gate. Oh never mind, And
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so what what card really stuck out to you this year? Sheep? I
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know you said nothing, but you've had time to think and soak this all
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in battle Fleet, that new card battle Fleet. And why has battle Fleet
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really sung to you this year? Because I had two of them in the
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deck I played the most. Please please tell me more. I am just
28:07
on the edge of my seat. Oh yes, they draw off to cards,
28:11
it's great. Did they always draw you extra cards? Hell? No.
28:17
My My favorite game through the whole season of all tours was actually counting
28:25
how many battle Fleets I played, how many cards I would draw, and
28:30
how many Mars cards I'd actually hit off those, and it was really low.
28:36
Like battle Fleet for twenty over the course of four games and draw like
28:40
four total Mars guards is just abysmal. You know, didn't mister Perfect say
28:45
at our local that there's something that you really missed this year at our local
28:48
and that was draw better? Yes? So humorously. Both on Sunday when
28:56
I went to Chicago to play and playing against me Perfect, they both told
29:00
me that the reason I did not win is because I need to learn to
29:03
draw better. We've heard that somewhere. I don't know where, but yeah,
29:07
I don't know. But whoever said that is god darn smart, which
29:11
was so fitting because I can't remember if it was at the end of was
29:18
it at the end of your guys, this game you walk in sheep,
29:22
sheep, you were looking for the TMTP. Yes, it was, oh
29:26
yeah, in the bottom two cards, and literally it wasn't even the bottom
29:30
two It was the next card. But he couldn't there were two cards left,
29:34
right, there were two cards left. They were both but the next
29:37
one was literally to like if he got rid of one more card in hand,
29:41
which he held an urchin, which was his only ouse, he would
29:45
have gotten the TMTP. So he was just kind of screwed either way because
29:48
it was literally the next like the next card he was going to draw.
29:52
Was that too much to protect and had the urchin to take it off?
29:56
Yeah? Iron g's a cruel and happiness Kirkman says, Kaboom, Oh yeah,
30:04
yeah, we like Boom. Yeah, I mean common board clears are
30:11
good, right, Like, so now Boom put each Mars creature into its
30:17
owner's archives, destroy each creature gained three chains. Yeah, so I mean
30:22
if your obviously you have Mars, right, and there's a lot of good
30:26
stuff to archive in your own stuff like the Rebel I just talked about.
30:30
Now, if your opponent has Mars, it can is yes, because there
30:37
might be a moment where like, oh I do want to archive, but
30:41
look at all there you know, rebels and fat minders and whatnot, so
30:47
that can be can be an issue. But uh, I heard SES's favorite
30:55
card this year was the Blacksmith. The Blacksmith, Yeah, yeah, totally,
31:02
yeah, it is a high shredder quality card. We all know how
31:08
much Sheep likes to shred. Mm hmm. Let's get into some other car.
31:14
I'm kind of scrolling through the set because another one that comes to mind
31:18
was it Membership Drive. Membership Drive, Oh yeah, make a token creature,
31:22
gain a number freach freach token yes, Frank, making Sanctum usable playable.
31:32
Well, it's definitely the burst house with membership Drive, and it also
31:37
helps to produce I mean, what was well known for being able to produce
31:41
a large amount of tokens and having your token spam and that was definitely an
31:45
archetype to deal with meeting large amounts of sea. So it was Membership Drive
31:49
great, huge advantage. You know, another car and I found real pain
31:53
in the uh. I'm just gonna say it. I'll give you my dollar.
31:57
Real pain any ass to deal with in Sanctum was Katerina. She is
32:04
just a pave in the rumpus. She's a four power play slash after rep
32:07
capture one. When she's killed, you make a token creature for each ember
32:12
on Katerina, So if you can't deal with her, she becomes a real
32:16
problem, real fast. Yeah, and there's lots of great ways to put
32:22
Ember on capture, right, you get the light Bringer out posts throwing three
32:27
on their capture pips yep, yeps, lots lots of different ways. Ray
32:31
Ryder is in set, so you know you can always ready and I don't
32:36
know he has to ready and fight never mind. Yeah, Katerina does come
32:38
in as an uncommon but still wonderful, wonderful car. You know, I
32:43
don't know about that. I saw a lot of Katerinas. Saying I've seen
32:47
a lot of her. She keeps to I think she's stalking me, to
32:52
be honest with you, But I see a lot of Katerinas, So she
32:55
just seems a little more common than uncommon. But I mean that bear on
33:00
the bottom left of the picture that she's summoning almost looks like a like a
33:07
creature from kashik Those cats, I mean, there's cat cat on the right.
33:15
It looks like a little tiny panda. Maybe it's a cat. Almost
33:17
looks like a wookie there, I could I could see a red pant I
33:21
could see a red panda on the bottom left. Yeah. So her flavor
33:27
text is Ember means something different to everyone. To her, it meant friends.
33:31
Ah, can we get some more like very Christmas? Caterina? Did
33:37
she turned into front into animals? I think so? Yeah, I think
33:45
so. I think she captures their souls in Ember. I think we need
33:50
all the time. So, so this is you know, with the story
33:53
coming out, could we go ahead and lean into that? That would be
33:55
something fun? Right? I would like to know. I know, sheep,
34:00
sheep, you have been enjoying the books. We went back and you've
34:04
been reading the books. Boy, you guys not ready for that conversation.
34:10
But would you say that Katerina deserves her own story? Uh? I don't
34:17
know. Well, right, go back, go back to playing your game.
34:25
I know I after reading those I don't think anybody deserves their own story.
34:32
The one thing we did talk about with stories this past Tuesday is why
34:36
are there not more creatures that are more I guess mercenaries is the better word,
34:45
you know what I mean. They can pop up Eddie duck oh oh
34:49
at any house like Officer. Yeah, you kind of liked that, but
34:53
he was always a sanctum creature that just he forced it, right. But
34:59
you're looking. I'm looking for more like creatures that were just like you have
35:04
ten mercenary creatures. They can literally pop up for any house at any time,
35:08
in any deck. So okay, okay, So it's like a happitis
35:14
raptors that could appear at any house. Stop you're you're out of control.
35:21
No, no, no, but I want to act a packet of raptor.
35:24
I'm gonna have more fun with it. Dass, car you're drunk,
35:28
go home, all right? Helping another one that I found very good More
35:36
times than that, it's not always good. Sometimes it's good. Uh.
35:39
Inspiring oration, yep. I was always a big fan of that. I
35:45
loved inspiring oration. I also like epic poem that was the house as a
35:51
whole for Suryan was a little bit sad but those were the two highlights that
35:53
I definitely enjoyed from. Sorry, and what do you mean they have hastics
35:58
raptors. Yeah, you can put your hot light stry on them. So
36:02
again, in sealed, sure we can do some wonderful little tricks. However,
36:10
as a competitive, once competitive podcast, now just key Fords with friends.
36:16
Yeah, not not not so much. Let's just leave it there.
36:20
I mean even in sealed, you don't want those cards. No, you
36:22
really don't know. You need competitive things to be a competitive podcast. All
36:27
right, looking at Star Allons because that's kind of where I'm at you and
36:31
Star Lions. I'm gonna else in story and that really caught my eye.
36:39
No, I mean Bellaton Warrior. I like getting Bellaton Warrior as a token
36:45
of five to two token creatures that you can make a lot of. I
36:49
don't know about you, guys. I pulled out of Oh now I can
36:52
pull the exact amount. Yeah, we already said epic poem Kirkman. No,
36:58
what's really weird about Belleton Warrior is that for me, I pulled one
37:04
at KFC one and I kid you not through my five boxes, I didn't
37:08
get anything. Yeah, it was just one of those tokens that I know
37:14
it's a rare token, but it just did not show it. Are the
37:17
tokens more rare? Is there one token that's more rare than the other,
37:21
Like the bellet tie doesn't drop, like yeah nor rare? Yeah yeah,
37:25
your Berserker, your blurb, your belts Wonderhood decided to make blurb or rare.
37:30
But yeah, I mean the one deck I have is actually from KFC.
37:36
I never pulled one out of all of my okay, out of all
37:39
the rest of my winds of Exchange, which is really weird because there's one
37:43
hundred and forty two decks yep. Like that's not a small amount to only
37:47
have one and it came from KFC. Did we have anything in Star Boys
37:52
that really take our fancy? I mean what I like that? I like
37:59
that, I like that transponder. Yeah, that's certain certain builds, right,
38:05
Like, there's a bunch of actions, right. I like recrded History
38:07
quite a lot. Reparded History was a good card yep, yep. Rogue
38:12
Operations good. I actually liked for Uncommon Collector Boring. I thought that that
38:15
was a fun card to be able to have some play with. Yeah,
38:21
if if he gets some if he gets some uh, if he gets some
38:25
upgrades, then yeah, collector boring can go a little crazy. What was
38:32
rogue operational is that like steal discards the top two decks and the top deck
38:38
steal one for each house represented. It's a little high risk, high reward.
38:45
But so the thing about Woe for Star Lines, in my opinion is
38:50
there's a lot of ability to look at cards, preview cards, select the
38:53
order that you're putting it in, and so rogue Operation more often than not
38:59
hit for me. And part of that came from commons like grunt Work,
39:02
which you look at the top three cards and put them back in any order
39:07
and make a token creature. So you're gaining an amber from it. You're
39:09
going ahead and previewing cards, you're choosing the card that you want to basically
39:15
bury for selection, you're putting the others in order. Like this is a
39:19
huge, huge U turn in. Like Star Alliance did lack some real play
39:23
value to me, but I think there's some key cards that jumped out that
39:28
allowed you to self select and Rogue Operation then really benefited as a result.
39:32
We kind of problem with Star Alliance is like the creatures suck for the most
39:37
part. The actions are quite good. Yeah, you were missing out on
39:43
some of that some of that thing that made Star Alliance Star Alliance, Right,
39:46
you're missing out on that reap with this creature. When you play this
39:51
creature, play a card from another you know that house cheating that they're known
39:53
for, Like it had it, but like it wasn't as impactful. Friendly
39:58
Guy did give you some of that, but that really was about it.
40:01
I will say anything creature wise that does Friendly Guide have deploy If he had
40:09
to play, he would have way more use because typically when you're playing creatures,
40:14
your play, you're playing all your Star Alliance creatures. So what are
40:16
the chances one of his neighbors or one or more of his neighbors is going
40:20
to end up as Star Alliants. Pretty good, and it takes three turns
40:23
to set it up, well, if you're going to set it up.
40:25
So what I found, he's way better. Yeah, what I found is
40:30
that for me, I just placed Friendly Guide on one side and then I'll
40:32
played all my Star Alliants on the other. So I only got one value.
40:37
Talking about Friendly Guide is not that great. I don't know. I
40:44
think it's there. He is bad. I agree, he's bad. We
40:49
did. I guess Brabner, we missed that I think two big cards,
40:53
which was Ragnarok Prep mm hmm and Rant and Right. We didn't. We
40:58
didn't mention either one of us, which a really good powerful cards from twenty
41:01
twenty three. Yeah, like Brobner getting one of only two scaling Ember control
41:08
cards in the set and the only one without a big trade off, which
41:14
was such a weird thing because I was like, you just don't go to
41:15
eight and it still had way more impact than well, right, because you've
41:21
got Ragnarok Prep, right, they brought back Berserker Slam, they brought back
41:24
Bumpsy right like, and there's plenty of capture pips flying around, right,
41:29
so there's there's a bunch of common cards where it's like seven doesn't get you
41:35
there necessarily. Well, Berserker Slam like you have, Yes, you had
41:42
lots of options to be a Strata smack, and Berserker Slam in combination with
41:45
Rant to Arrive is really really important, along with Bumpsy that you had talked
41:50
about all right, last house here, and I feel like we're gonna have
41:53
a few cards we've already told you there before. Yeah, before you bounce
41:58
off of Brobner I'll say that while it did show up as a rare,
42:02
Hellifast was super fun and something that was a bit of a chase, and
42:07
so for me, even though it was a rare, that stood out.
42:10
And it says, search your deck and discard pile for up to four Bracken
42:15
cards with different names. Reveal those cards and put them into your hand.
42:19
Shuffle the deck. Game chains equal to the number of cards put into your
42:22
hand. In this way, it did not allow you to take multiples of
42:25
let's say, brick Nasty that you have. But honestly, the Bracken players
42:29
for the for the band turn one to play Halifast. That's brutal, man,
42:36
absolutely brutal. If you're in the second position, that can be straight
42:39
up game winning most of the time, right there. All right, Yeah,
42:45
I ended up having to buy a Halifest deck because I just apparently can't
42:49
open one, but I did get a few. The other great were card
42:54
endless hordes. Yeah, real good. Just pump out a ton of creatures,
43:04
right, I guess I should read it. For each enemy creature,
43:06
make a token creature ready it and I haven't fight that enemy creature ignoring taunt.
43:09
Resolve these fights one in a time. So there's a ton of good
43:14
tokens for this. There's some less good tokens, but you know, pretty
43:19
much all the broad narc tokens. It's great with. It's still good with
43:22
stuff like grunt and fish and and a whole bunch of things. But even
43:30
prospector you're drawing cards, right, So yep, so it's good stuff all
43:37
right, moving into the fish. I feel like they got a few good
43:42
cards, just a couple. We already talked about the funnel. A site,
43:49
as say, a bissile site, destroy a friendly creature. If you
43:52
do, look at your opponent's hand and choose a card from it. The
43:55
player discards that card. Seems good, real good. Yeah, knowledge of
44:04
the hand and take away their important card. Hold on, that's all.
44:12
Oh I got hurt, and so whatever reason, it's a great catch and
44:15
release that cough. I'm gonna try to That's why we're getting it. You
44:20
had to catch a release. Next, turn each creature to its owner's hand.
44:23
Each player discards random cards from their hand until they have six or fewer
44:29
cards in hand. Gain two chains. This this was a card that was
44:34
able to be abused repeatedly. I wouldn't necessarily see what do you mean by
44:40
abused repeatedly? You know how many times I got a board and then I
44:45
end up getting Catch and Release. Now we were playing sealed, so I
44:46
didn't even know he had it. But it's like, oh, I got
44:51
a board and they're like, yeah, I have like two creatures, and
44:52
then you play some cards, play catch and release. I take my cards
44:55
back. I'm still under hand size. I don't have to discard anything you
45:00
need to discard down to six cards. Yeah, I think that it was
45:04
a real equal It was a real equalizer in games. And that's the power
45:08
for it. I mean that's it was solid because it has hand management,
45:13
it has the ability to impact the board, and it basically brings everyone back
45:16
to it. I honestly think Catch and Release might have been a little too
45:22
overpowered. I can't disagree, but I really liked it for only two chains.
45:28
So for two chains, I wipe, I wipe my woes away,
45:31
and I randomly have a chance to get rid of whatever your plans were going
45:36
to be for next turn. If you are if you are behind, yes,
45:40
if you're ahead, it's even. If you're ahead, it's fine,
45:43
no way. If you're ahead, like what a head on board? You?
45:49
Okay, if I have board this card, why would I be going
45:52
ahead and doing it? If you have bored I can see that, but
45:54
I thought you were. I was like, if you're ahead and like they
45:58
have a board and you don't, you still play this all right? Adult
46:05
Swim father awesome? No, okay, moving on. I don't I don't
46:10
know. I was not a big fan of Adult Swim. I think definitely.
46:15
I don't know. For me, it just didn't really hit it.
46:17
I mean, I like it. It depends on what your token is.
46:21
If your token is going to be hit by Adult Swim, you don't want
46:23
this card in your deck, which was most let's be very honest, it
46:28
was most. Whoa. But if you've got Warrior, you've got Berserker,
46:31
you've got bellots on Warrior, then it's real good. Okay, so three
46:37
out of the yeah. Yeah, So I you know, it's it's uh
46:40
sort of like we were talking with Legionary Trainer. It's uh like ARCon good,
46:46
not so much sealed good. Okay, it has a possibility to be
46:50
still good. So I mean, yes, yes, but but you know
46:55
you're not hoping for it in sealed whereas you might be angling to get that
47:01
in your deck with art Coon. All right, illusions of grandeur. Before
47:07
you get to illusions, I'm gonna say the card that really stood out to
47:10
me, both in the little dude who's there and the actual play is Fathom
47:16
Reader four our Awkland creature. While you control a token creature, your opponent
47:22
refills their hand to one loss, so it's hand limiting. And then play
47:27
make a token creature, so you're getting a body, you're making a token
47:30
creature. You got a sweet little dude who's sitting in the back who we
47:32
need a plushy of hands down. Yeah, oh yeah, And it's in
47:38
common. So honestly, where was it? Was it? Mister was it
47:43
mister perfect who had three three Fathom readers out that just literally, there's my
47:49
hand, it's gone. I had no response for it. It became oppressive.
47:54
But I've seen it more often than not, and it's it's a really
47:58
nice card. So I enjoy it, and I think that's going to wrap
48:04
it up. I don't really remember any Timmy. I mean Timmy, Timmy,
48:09
Timmy, Timmy. It is uncommon. Yeah Timmy about Timmy, Yeah,
48:15
I got I got Timmy four Power Akland while you control a token creature,
48:21
your opponent cannot forge keys make a token creature, and he makes his
48:23
own token creature. Yeah, this is so good man. Yeah, Timmy
48:28
is Timmy real real good. I was gonna say, do we do Briosarc.
48:32
I still like Brios arc just being rare. You didn't see enough of
48:36
it, you didn't see that's one of the best cards in the it is.
48:40
But being rare, how many times do you see it? And then
48:43
how many times do you see it in decks that you actually want to play?
48:45
Right, That's that's the biggest problem I think personally. But it's real
48:51
good and it's back, it's back and grim reminders, so well, you
48:53
know, probably see probably where I think we're not seeing as much, we're
49:00
not seeing as many good things out of I mean it's so early, we
49:06
don't know. There's definitely stuff the whole, sure, but but you know
49:13
it's for you jan you got a battle test. No, well, you
49:16
got a battle test the stuff, right, so to see what really happens.
49:21
But but right, Brio right now is in a set where you know,
49:25
a quarter of the time it's tokenized, right, and it's rare,
49:29
right, so so, but I think we'll see good decks of Bryo.
49:35
All right, so we have our next stop. If you're following along,
49:38
we've done the feats of strength. That it's time for airing of the grievances
49:43
you missed. You missed Equadon, Man, did I miss suck? Was
49:46
there any like really super cards on an Equadon that like? So this is
49:51
this is this is what was interesting Aquadon. When we came in, I
49:55
was really hot on it. I was, and I will say I will
49:59
say prosper Factor does have like nice draw in it for me. They think
50:07
they have great utility cards, generous offer is good, destroy a friendly creature,
50:10
game two, mass buyout. It's just a lot of their stuff seems
50:15
so like sand Hopper, I guess is always good. Is good here?
50:22
Yeah, it's good, but at the auction off at common for Pursian artifact
50:29
is very good. Yeah, but you got to give them an number to
50:32
do it. I don't care if you have an oppressive artifact with the ability
50:37
to purge it, it's not coming back. This is a really important part.
50:42
The giving one amber is absolutely nothing. I think I think the uncommon
50:47
of pull up steaks actually was really an interesting card and a lot of fun
50:52
marash very good. I feel like they they were like Mars of Coda,
50:58
right. If you got them in like a certain order, they could be
51:00
really really good, but like if they got out of order or anything like,
51:05
they could just be really really bad. And most of the decks that
51:08
I've gotten with Equaedon have a blacksmith in them, so it's like it just
51:12
almost makes them unplayable. I will say the one card from Equaedon that really
51:17
stood out, it does come in it are rare, but that is Talent
51:22
Scout. It has an amber to power Roka. Talent Scout may be used
51:28
as if it belonged to the active house. Look at your opponent's hand and
51:30
play a creature from it as if it were yours. Your opponent takes control
51:34
of Talent Scout. This is the interaction that I want to see. So
51:37
game development spot on a lot of fun, very very interactive, and it's
51:45
something that a lot of players were really scared of, to be honest.
51:47
So this was awesome to see. Yeah, it shouldn't have been a rare,
51:52
uncommon I think might have been a good spot for it. Okay,
52:00
I do think a lot of the Commons and Equoedon were lackluster, which is
52:04
why I do think your analogy to to Cod to Mars is not that far
52:08
off. Yeah, I just I didn't see much in Equadon, And even
52:12
when I get an Equaedon, it's like, oh, look gem Cote Vendor.
52:15
Yeah, I probably won't be playing this, And more times than not,
52:17
when I'm playing a deck with Equedon in it, like I don't have
52:22
any plays really to make with them. Yeah, I mean closed, it's
52:27
uncommon and rares right like that are doing it all, you know, I
52:30
mean closed really good outposts. Exchange program is there, but maybe I mean
52:37
doesn't always hit. You know, you're kind of looking for that shrewd investor
52:40
if you're doing an exchange program or whatever. That one is where you both
52:45
capture three, your opponent captures three and you capture three. Right, Only
52:50
good in combo often right, so, and when you don't get the other
52:53
combo piece, you're left looking funny. But let's go into the airing of
53:00
the grievances. I feel like we've done this for the most of twenty twenty
53:02
three, so we're gonna We're gonna kind of make this short and sweet.
53:07
What is one thing you would have changed about key Forge in twenty twenty three?
53:15
You walk? Oh, I want to start with sheep. I mean
53:17
he is way too quiet over there, all right, sheet. One thing
53:24
I would have done better? All right? Dress sealed vaults. That's that's
53:35
what I would like to see. No, no, No, one thing
53:38
you would have changed for He would have added to sealed vaults. Oka,
53:43
yeah, add sealed vaults. Yeah yeah, yeah, you walk. I'm
53:49
going to go ahead, angle with clear communication ahead of time for the vaults.
53:54
I like that we had him. I absolutely love our worlds that went
53:59
off. It was an amazing time vault season. I enjoyed being able to
54:02
meet so many people on the road. And again, our community is great,
54:06
but with changing of dates, adding of locations, it made it really
54:10
really difficult to plan. And so that's what I'm that's what I would change
54:14
for next year, meaning twenty twenty four, which is quick around the corner,
54:19
quickly letting people know and then sticking to those dates. My biggest change
54:27
would have been with how alliance was handled. I think putting the ruling of
54:34
like, hey, you got to keep it, it's all got to be
54:36
in one set. I think that's more or less okay, But I think
54:39
that you should have given it the opportunity to breathe then targeted your problem children,
54:49
and then made abandon restricted list. I think it was done kind of
54:52
backwards. I think they listened to a handful of people are going these cards
54:57
are going to be a problem, but you never let the meta kind of
55:00
shake itself out. You created a meta and then let it shake itself out
55:07
without actually knowing if these things were going to be a problem in the first
55:10
place or not. That would have been my big change. A Sheep said
55:16
his which was useless. Yes, right, So yeah, well, and
55:23
that's honestly what I was going to say. If it's not for Sheep or
55:28
Southerly, who is we're sadly missing or zee. I think that local op
55:32
was a really missed component. We need to be able to have marketing,
55:39
some way to communicate to new players the stores, Hey, we're playing,
55:44
and local op is where it has to start. I think people keep saying,
55:47
oh, our numbers are low for VT. I don't see how they
55:51
would be high when people don't know and aren't regularly actively playing in local OPA.
56:00
So that's something that we have to be able to change. It's not
56:04
that we can get rid of local OP. It's not that we can get
56:07
rid of vault tours. We need to have the local OP and then we
56:10
need to build up to those large experiences before the cast, I was talking
56:15
about those experiences from Worlds to Vault Tours of Hey, I went out,
56:20
I got this Vault Master dek. I got this experience where I was able
56:24
to go ohut and play this combo and it just went off. Or I
56:28
should have never won this game, but I lucked out because of RNG.
56:31
Those are the fun moments that you bring back, and they're catalysts for your
56:36
local op to continue to excite people. We need both and that's a really
56:42
important part going forward. All right, let's move into the year two thousand,
56:47
otherwise known as twenty twenty four. What is one thing if you were
56:53
if Gig came to you and said, Mary Christmas, choose one one thing,
57:00
oh and we will automatically implement it. What would that be? Eloc
57:08
I think that it has to be local op, that is, with a
57:14
monthly setup that incentivizes players to come out. All right, I think that
57:21
is the number one thing there's no question about it. It needs to be
57:27
yesterday so that the stores are already working on it. Drafts car Well,
57:34
I guess I could say the same thing I said for what they could have
57:37
done better. But let's do cool ope stuff. Then deliver stuff to my
57:45
store that's going to get us excited to come out and to have a great
57:49
time together. Forge and Keys Sheep figure out where they have to market the
57:58
game to find new players. H wookie Ye, it'll bring in new people.
58:06
I swear it will, swear it will. Mine would be no further
58:10
game founds. I understand why they're doing what they're doing. However, I
58:21
feel like cutting out the middleman in the gaming world. Magic the Gathering is
58:25
already trying to do this and it's not. I can't say it's not going
58:31
great because they posted record profits again, but cutting out the middleman and making
58:39
the stores feel unimportant. Aren't they also having record player leaving the game?
58:46
Yeah? I mean, or is it record? The only way they can
58:52
tell if people are leaving the game is arena play, so they're having record
58:58
amounts of people leaving a but I don't I don't really know if there's a
59:01
lot of like Friday Night Magic is down. I would have to do more
59:06
research in that, but I mean they are seeing record profits. I feel
59:10
like a lot of that had to deal with the one Ring, basically your
59:15
lottery to meet post Malone during the Lord of the Rings drop. So yay,
59:22
Well, I think the problem, Yeah, I think the problem with
59:24
that is it came out so soon and as a result, what do we
59:30
care anymore? And I think that's what needs to be kept in mind for
59:32
key forging. I think that's all fine and dandy, but let's not give
59:37
them. Let's not give wizards any new ideas. Because there was already weeks
59:43
before, there was already conspiracy theories floating around that they were going to hold
59:45
it until there was some special release they were going to drop a Lord of
59:52
the Rings, and that you were only basically going to be able to find
59:53
the one ring in those because it dropped like a month or two after this
1:00:00
set actually dropped, so that it would just keep people buying so that they
1:00:04
would maybe eventually find it, and you are only going to find it there
1:00:07
because you basically had one one option to find it. So but it didn't
1:00:12
happen that way, and that's I think I think that's better for magic than
1:00:16
anything else, because if it did happen the other way around, and the
1:00:20
conspiracy is theorists for proven right, it could have been some weird things with
1:00:25
serializing, and you know, I feel like they could have had some lawsuits
1:00:30
on our hands. Don't know, but I feel like they could have been.
1:00:34
So I know that Z is not here and Southerly is not here.
1:00:37
So I'm going to go and put in one more Festinus miracle. What we
1:00:40
want in twenty twenty four, and this is if we're going twenty twenty four,
1:00:45
this is on Christmas of this year or January. First, I need
1:00:49
an announcement for here's the vault to Her season, so I have something to
1:00:54
look forward to. Here are the ten events that are happen happening worldwide,
1:01:01
that are happening in these months. I'm telling you that that is a big
1:01:09
Festivus miracle. But right now the competitive Key Forge arena area is very quiet
1:01:19
and very depressing, and I think that we're missing that excitement after KFC that
1:01:25
hoopba like, hey, we got something to look forward to. There's nothing
1:01:30
for me right now, and there's nothing for a lot of the competitive players,
1:01:32
so that would be the big Festivus miracle in that manner. Again,
1:01:39
tell us right now when we're having some events. Here's the ten different events
1:01:49
right now on TCO. There are ten people playing. Two of them are
1:01:53
in our chat. Ten games or ten people. They're ten total players.
1:02:00
Two of them are in our chat. It's a busy time with job.
1:02:08
It is a busy time. I'll give that. But unless you're like single
1:02:16
and then you're bored with nothing to do or which I which, I don't
1:02:25
think it's the right market for this game. Well, the problem isn't The
1:02:30
problem isn't that. The problem is is that when you're bored and you're not
1:02:32
feeling engaged in the game, you go elsewhere. And we don't need to
1:02:36
lose a single player. I love the community. We want to keep everyone.
1:02:38
So they should do for people that are sitting alone by themselves at home
1:02:45
looking for something to do. Just like all those celebrities. We should release
1:02:51
a bourbon brand, right, so we should get Nasty's bourbon. Is that
1:02:58
how we're marketing it now? Yeah? Yeah, I think irresponsibly and it
1:03:05
probably will work. Yeah, we could put together like a game night then
1:03:12
have a shot, have a drink, drink forge responsibly. You must take
1:03:19
a shot of Alert. I'm not going I'm not going in there, but
1:03:27
I mean enjoy nice beverage. Did you imagine the guy? You know?
1:03:31
Just like I can't do it again. I refuse to forge my last key.
1:03:36
I can't do any of our alert. It's supposed by Milart for my
1:03:40
family Christmas party. Who's who's going alert? All right? So there may
1:03:47
where people have to drink awful shots. O god, there you go.
1:03:52
That's that's the reason. That's why Millard is purchased. Gotcha? So so,
1:03:57
Drazz, as a resident liquor experts, can you please explain to the
1:04:00
lovely public what molart is? Gasoline? Yeah, that's what. It's kind
1:04:05
of like bad stuff. What is it? It's wormwood, right, that's
1:04:11
what? Yeah, it's it's a yeah I think so. I'm not an
1:04:15
expert on milort, but is yeah, like a wormwood spirit, but not
1:04:19
so so. The most common wormwood spirit you'll think about is Absinthe was a
1:04:24
delicious at what that's that's okay, No it's not, it's not. I'm
1:04:32
saying what else? What would you know? Wormwood from? From Absinth?
1:04:39
Got it all? Right. According to Wikipedia, Molart is a brand.
1:04:45
It's a bosque liquor b A with the funny little dots. That's a type
1:04:54
of sweetist drink flavored with a niece or wormwood. Introduced in the thirties and
1:05:00
long produced by Chicago two thousand and eight. It's last in play. Okay,
1:05:05
this is Jepson's Alert, got it? Why can't I just find regular
1:05:10
old alert? Was no nobody else actually gonna make free? Uh? Yeah,
1:05:17
it's it is just this brand. Like I don't think there's a lot
1:05:21
of copycats of this because nobody actually drinks it. It is terrible. It
1:05:27
is straight garbage. Don't ever put it to your lips. Go ahead,
1:05:29
but I mean you should try at our next tastes like pencil shavings on a
1:05:36
heartbreak? Is the quote here? You know, if I could put if
1:05:42
I could put heart heartbreak to a flavor, Yeah, that's about right.
1:05:46
Yeah it is. It's an aggressive flavor. Uh, there's a lot of
1:05:51
bitterness. There's a lot of but you know, I like a lot of
1:05:56
uh bitter liquors. Like I'm a big fan of Amoros, but this is
1:06:04
this is not one that I'd be like, Yeah, let me regularly pull
1:06:08
that out right, it's it's it's it's intense. You should you should try
1:06:15
it just to know, just to know what it's like. You know,
1:06:16
like a like a frenette, uh Bronca is very popular, that is a
1:06:21
very aggressive flavor that is like or don't like. But I I at least
1:06:26
feel like fernet is uh like high quality When I taste it, I'm like,
1:06:34
there is high quality ingredients in here, and it's like an acquired taste.
1:06:38
But I kind of like it, and it can be really good in
1:06:40
cocktails. I well, lort. I mean, maybe it's also acquired taste,
1:06:44
but I don't personally, I don't taste like quality when I taste it,
1:06:48
or say, like, okay, like a quarter ounce of this in
1:06:51
some cocktail where it's subtle would be a good thing, all right, So
1:06:56
I guess Alert is more of a brand than it is anything else. Well,
1:07:00
nobody else is trying to make the lord, right, So that's the
1:07:02
thing, right. So because it's it's a brand of basque, like I
1:07:08
said, it's b a with the two little dots and then s K,
1:07:13
I don't know how deep I want to go with this because I don't know.
1:07:17
We're deeper than we already need. I say, it's terrible. It'll
1:07:23
literally like if you want to taste depression, take a shot of alert.
1:07:27
Like that's literally like that's little like it is so like I got tricked into
1:07:31
it once. And you know, in my younger years, I used to
1:07:35
do uh, and I'm not proud of this. I used to do shots
1:07:39
of one what is it, one fifty one and ever clear to show how
1:07:42
manly I was. Gosh, I would never drink this, I mean,
1:07:46
and I could probably still do it today, right, no, prob bob
1:07:49
right, it'd be awful, But like I could do it welcome, I
1:07:56
could not do my lot like I took a shot I'm alert, and I
1:08:00
could never like I don't even know how to just like very few liquors make
1:08:04
me just like you knock it back and you just shiver. Millard's one of
1:08:11
those liquors, like you just incontrollably just shiver. Yeah that's about right.
1:08:18
Yeah, but except the end, I never said I'll have another. Well,
1:08:24
boys and girls, we do have good news coming out earlier this week
1:08:28
on the eighteenth, a holiday surprise. That's right, Grim Reminders has been
1:08:34
packed and they are already going ahead and looking at shipping out. Woo hoo.
1:08:41
No, there you go going out to heading out to Asia first.
1:08:45
It's going to get there last. But still I was going to say,
1:08:47
I still going to get there in the end. But yeah, but that's
1:08:50
I think it's the right bove right. So oh no, I agree,
1:08:55
But Asia, Australia candidate in US in that order. Oh sorry, uh
1:09:00
Europe, so they had Asia Europe. What's sad is US will still get
1:09:04
all their packages first for US, but they'll be closer together. And to
1:09:10
know that they're already done in theory, they'll be closer together. Well,
1:09:15
they're gonna be. They're gonna be closer together, and we're I'm just saying,
1:09:19
don't don't tempt the I want to say the post office faiths, but
1:09:24
don't tempt shipping fates. Like weird things happen in shipping that like you just
1:09:30
can't explain. I agree with that, but I'm saying, we are packing.
1:09:34
I'm excited to see key forge that was printed earlier in boxes, Like
1:09:40
I just get the feeling that it's going to be like, oh, it's
1:09:42
going to Asia and that boat is gonna sink. But but I mean,
1:09:48
I hate, I hate to say this, but that is outside of gg's
1:09:53
control. That is outside of like what they what they did is they made
1:09:58
sure the next update will come the first week of January. They have it
1:10:01
packaged, they're on pellets. That's good for Gigi. And what we need
1:10:06
to say is awesome job on improving that process from WHOA, So I'm I'm
1:10:12
pumped for that. Yep. Yeah. I think they might be trying to
1:10:16
lean into which is a good thing. Trying to lean into the under promise
1:10:21
and over delivery this time around, which which is a nice will be a
1:10:26
nice change of pace if they can keep that up. So or they just
1:10:30
make no promises and nothing happened. Well, there's that, but we know
1:10:34
we never promised anything. What do you mean, well, right, so
1:10:38
they don't want to they don't want to under deliver or we said we were
1:10:42
under delivered. We just said we were going to review the OPI process for
1:10:45
the four to six weeks. We never said we were going to do anything
1:10:47
but we but we know that's not true, Wookie, and I don't want
1:10:50
that spread because they talked about being able to have scenarios. They talked about
1:10:55
comedy or sarcasm. Wookie, No, no, no, I mean it's
1:11:00
not that, but like there will be items, we just need to be
1:11:02
able to see it sooner rather than later. And that's that's an important piece.
1:11:06
People have a very short attention span. We get distracted and then we
1:11:10
go to other events. It would be great to have something to look forward
1:11:14
to. I need that carrot in front of me. Did we get playstyle
1:11:16
yet? Set you're attached to a game store, we know nobody has play
1:11:27
Style. I know it's being tested in some non specific Gigi environments. But
1:11:34
so if I needed play styles within the next nine days, how would I
1:11:39
get it? You would make it yourself. You'd pay, you'd pay soullarly.
1:11:45
Oh okay. So if I were a game store and I need to
1:11:47
play Style, but there's other ways to be able to run it right now.
1:11:51
D ok has their tournament software which we've been using. There are other
1:11:55
things out there that you can use, so we won't handle I am using
1:11:59
the place benchmark as a way to determine their accuracy on their timeline to which
1:12:04
they presented to me at the twelfth of twelfth of November. So I will
1:12:14
not take your bait, Sir, will just need Josh, just come on
1:12:17
the shell, like we said, and tell us all about plans. Josh,
1:12:25
all right, So who had the over for tonight? I said an
1:12:30
hour? We're at an hour. Yeah, you're way off on that,
1:12:32
which is significantly less. Then we're not in ninety minutes, not yet,
1:12:39
but it's still significantly less than the hour forty two hours we've been going.
1:12:45
It's like reading a freaking on what do they call that? Audiobook? Reading
1:12:50
a book audio? Some of us actually read books, and so those are
1:12:57
enjoyable experiences for the people assible, I bet my wookie, uh, your
1:13:04
your vocabulary can increase too if you read and and it'd be nice. Is
1:13:10
up? Okay, thumb is up. For the people that have the time
1:13:14
to do reading, that's great. Some of them have time. You got
1:13:18
to slow down and just read. Man. No, I don't have time
1:13:21
to slow down. I gotta keep going, gotta keep going, gotta keep
1:13:24
going and keep going. Got things to do. It's Christmas, I got
1:13:28
ship to do. Thank you, drazz. That is a beautiful picture that
1:13:33
I bend my wookie. Oh, it's ernest you like I would have preferred
1:13:40
the Shark from Suicide Squad that had the book upside down. But that's me.
1:13:45
But that's gonna do it for us this week. Thank you all so
1:13:48
much for listening. Again, no show for the next two weeks. We
1:13:55
uh we are taking the Arkans Corner sabbatical, a vacation, a spend time
1:14:00
with your families. If we do do a show, we'll be released on
1:14:03
the Patreon. Sheep said he'll be here next week. I probably will too.
1:14:09
We'll figure out something to talk about, but that will be releasing the
1:14:14
Patreon. If we do anything as that, make sure you go over to
1:14:16
the Patreon. For a little as dollar you can get all the benefits and
1:14:21
get get some grim reminder deck numbers. I remember they just shipped it,
1:14:28
so it's coming soon. Get ready, get a bank your tokens or whatever
1:14:32
it is deck imports tokens what do we call them? I don't know,
1:14:38
but I don't remember what slarly call them. I think it's just deck imports.
1:14:43
But that's gonna do it for us this week. We'll see ya next
1:14:45
week. Oh now, broad nor Now work on now logos and disc on
1:14:54
sectem on mows on shadows and untaped to the top of the vault, to
1:14:59
the top of the crew. Usable now, forge away, forge away all.
1:15:06
Merry Christmas to all, May the forge be with you. I feel
1:15:13
like there's a missed opportunity because it should have gotten now shadows now this,
1:15:15
It would have rhymed better. But that's me ah well, but because because
1:15:19
this runs with this, Oh did you use this already? I missed was
1:15:25
Let's not talk about it? Are we? Are? We gonna get in?
1:15:28
Christmas is number one. I don't care what everyone says. Christmas is
1:15:35
awesome McCord. I don't care if you think it's a lot Christmas center.
1:15:57
I don't care what the catamar read. I don't care what day is.
1:16:02
Wish it was Christmas today, christ was Exery Day.