Return to Ravnica || Crack-A-Pack - Dec 3, 2024

[@Sheer_Falacy]

"There's so many spiky things happening here" is, in fact, the motto for Rakdos.

[@foxmar2344]

Being called a "chaos imp" might be the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.

[@violetto3219]

that's chimp for short

[@JQuill116]

RTR holds a special place for me as not only was it the first set I really dove into after coming back to Magic, but it was also the set that led me to discover LRR, as I was looking for MTG content and came upon MTGO Academy and the draft videos from Graham and James.

[@PKFat]

Being told we "Returned to Ravnica" 12yrs ago made me look up when Ravnica: City of Guilds was released. 2005 That was 19yrs ago. There are ppl at my LGS playing FNM that haven't lived a day without Ravnica existing. Fuck I'm old.

[@Belril]

I'm still waiting for them to make a "Datspell" that only counters sorceries.

[@Welverin]

I want 'No'

[@Welverin]

2:15 Rakdos card, definitely attached to her face.

[@DeaconofPlague]

Feels like it's been a second since Graham's been quite this punchy in one of these, no?

[@SpiffyTrev]

I love the unhinged/unplanned outros.

[@inajar7947]

🎶🎶I heard that you were crackin' packs, and you didn't think that i could hear you🎶🎶

[@northeden9674]

Finally tuesdays can be tuesdays again! Always love the Crack-A-Packs! Thank you Graham and LRR Team!!

[@mfsoab]

Thanks Graham... now I have to say Golgari Guildgate with 4 soft Gs everytime and sound like a drunken french dude

[@keab42]

Joljari Juildjate

[@Wynterburne]

It's always nice to start a new booster of crack-a-packs

[@Spinballwizard]

Stab Wound was so good in this limited format. If it wasn't straight up removal for an X/2 (or X/1 I suppose), it was a clock that often put your opponent in awkward positions

[@AzureLord707]

Clearly it should be a Block or a Booster Box of Crack-A-Packs

[@DarkMorford]

My vote is for "block." One syllable, nice and snappy.

[@d.brs01]

love the ideas how about a crack a pack draft?

[@vike140]

Regardless of if it's good or not, Stab Wound continues to haunt my dreams, I cannot escape it

[@simplycifer]

this was the set that was going on when I got into Magic! I think it's one of the reasons I have a soft spot for the Ravnica sets

[@logank9177]

It returns!

[@pierrebaillargeon9531]

The goliath makes a good argument for being the pick, but I can tell you that teleportal wins draft. It might be the slam dunk pick if you're experienced in the format.

[@CorsaroCow]

Thanks for doing these, its such a fun walk down memory lane! I love this terrible set :)

[@Mastumaty]

The Return of the Crack-a-Pack!!

[@KingOfDoma]

Ah, RTR. The set I first cut my teeth on. Nostalgia, even for objectively bad cards. Good times...

[@chaloux9419]

I like the new camera angle when showing the card

[@MarlaDesat]

Delightful as always!

[@itslexactually]

This is the set I learned on… the memories

[@MooGiGon666]

Awwww yeah! Let's get cracking!!

[@SirGrimLockSmithVIII]

Eyyyy, this is the set that got me into magic in middle school.

[@artemi7]

Oh no, he's doing the first vid of this new series and he's already this loopy? This is going to be a *wild* run lol 😂

[@SilverMyr73]

Fun fact about me and my personal play group. We all started in high school (around 2016) and for the first about year of us playing, the strongest deck was my green white lifegain deck, and the most powerful thing that deck could do was play a turn 3 centaur healer into a turn 4 shield of the oversoul on it. If i got the shield on the centaur, i was basically unbeatable

[@oxyfromsg]

Crack-a-pack, I'm glad it's back.

[@Quiltfish]

The heck is that to the left of the closeups? It looks like a Wizards-branded lenscap.

[@paultuck]

I always enjoy a crack a pack.

[@tipulsar85]

Death's Presence is probably a sleeper pull for any Golgari morbid commander decks.

[@TheArcSet]

Thanks for this.

[@MeagenImage]

Return to Crack-A-Pack!

[@Mordalon]

Original Ravnica had a subtheme of Auras mattering, so RTR followed up on that. And Red gets to grant Trample so that isn’t really unusual.

[@ridjf]

Ahh my first set. I loved stalling games with arrests and going wild with unleash even though I didn't know how bad of a mechanic it was.

[@Mordalon]

Neither are bad mechanics.

[@daemonxblaze]

Absolutely love a good crakapack

[@christopherlundgren1700]

Stab Wound is a messed up common.

[@GuiGomesb]

My favorite pack cracker!

[@Sientir]

I feel like that Big Bug would be an uncommon these days...

[@RNGmancer]

Crack-A-Pack-Is-Back!

[@campbellolney9753]

Death's presence has always been a pet card of mine, I have run it in a couple commander decks. It is a card that sometimes does good and useful things, I can say that much.

[@demolisherman1763]

Crack-A-Pack-Back!

[@theunwelcome]

ooo I want that goliath for my spiders and insects commander deck

[@ankhi3585]

I remember coming back to RTR after a long hiatus and thinking the beetle was a bomb because of its stat-line. Turned out it wasn't even that good in limited. It just gets chumped by tokens so the scavenge never even comes up.

[@Redshirtdraper]

Cracking packs!

[@thomaschoma8914]

The funny part of looking back on these packs is how bad creatures were when a 4 mana 5/5 was a rare haha

[@Mordalon]

4 mana 5/5 with upside.

[@Timbobs]

I am in chaos! And doing well

[@olliejones3302]

a new crack-a-batch

[@adiuntesserande6893]

Racecourse Fury is almost certainly going to reappear in Aetherflux, I'd wager.

[@MM-lv7iy]

Hi Graham!

[@trumpets101]

I haven’t taken a look at the frequency that the crack a packs are on and off air, but I would call them seasons. However, not in the sense of western media seasons, but more like anime seasons.

[@justinleach4775]

Somehow, Crack-a-Pack returned…

[@taylord2006]

Crack! A! Pack!

[@wavesofbabies]

Crack a Pack Back From the Past Samurai Jack

[@skuddstevens]

Return to Crack-A-Pack. Jamescrash. Graham's Maze.

[@TXtriple6]

Please more german boosters, I love your pronunciation Graham. ❤

[@Thavleifrim]

I feel like if deviant glee was printed with that art today there'd be a twitter thread about how it must be AI art because of the weird chain thing.

[@bondeulv]

The chain goes behind the head and is part of the costume I think?

[@Thavleifrim]

@@bondeulv yeah i could see that, really it was less a comment about the art and more thinking about how there's a band of people now looking to find the next big AI controversy to get their 5 minutes of fame and throwing any slightly incongruous piece of art under the bus as "must be AI" for example the recent sephiroth art that people decided must be AI because his belt buckle had a different design in the art compared to the game.

[@shep-b8u]

why should it have vigilance? OG watchwolf doesnt come with vigilance

[@Mordalon]

Why shouldn’t it is the question.

[@DJMIKEYSAXX]

Yo i got GOT by the hidden pack on set

[@RumpledNutskin]

Which spell? Dis spell.

[@lydiajohnson1318]

Death's Presence plus cards that double +1/+1 counters can get very out of hand, in Commander.

[@sylvrstone]

[@Programmerman]

Man blast from the past, back when they needed filler commons for some reason. Thankfully nothing is really as bad as Search Warrant these days

[@d.brs01]

too cracked to pack the revenge of the pack😂 other stupid sequil name in all fairness i didnt see the pack till it was moved

[@Omegatronacles]

So Overload is just Kicker with more words.

[@Mordalon]

It’s similar in that it is an additional cost for alternative/additional effect, but it’s not more words. Kicker often requires more words to explain what you get for the kicker, Overload just replaces all instances of one word with another.

[@Omegatronacles]

@@Mordalon Kicker 3. If Kicker was paid, Replace Target with Each. Kicker with more words :)

[@Mordalon]

@@Omegatronacles That's not how that works. Divine Resilience shows how it works with Kicker, and it requires things to still be targeted, which matters as there are many effects that care about you targeting your own things or targeting your opponent's things. Also, Kicker is an additional cost, Overload is an alternate cost, which very much matters. Damn, the card from MH, costs Black mana but has a mono White Overload cost, meaning you can cast it with just White mana. With Kicker it would require paying Black and White. And this is just the first of potential examples of Overload costs being different colors from their mana costs.

[@Omegatronacles]

@@Mordalon I apologise that my flippant commentary has been taken at face value. I was making passing reference to the joke that every mechanic is just kicker, best summed up in TCC's video, however that joke did not land for you, and in doubling down on the joke I did not make that clear.

[@Mordalon]

@@Omegatronacles TCC didn't invent that. He just took what MaRo already had said many times over the years about mechanics being similar. The actual line is how most mechanics are essentially Kicker or Split Cards (Additional cost for bigger effect or alternate cost for alternate effect)

[@erikbowers0776]

Bug

[@pytawidmo]

*beeg* bug