"Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?"- Job 41:1 (KKV) It describes both Leviathan and the impossibility of controlling it.
Having been alive and active in Magic at the time of this set, I know all of these from artwork alone. The fun thing about the Segovian Leviathan is that there wasn’t anything special about it when it was first printed, but its existence raised the question how can a 3/3 anything be considered a “leviathan”? And the answer they came up with is that “I guess on Segovia everything must just be tiny”. Thus that became the plane’s identity in all future appearances.
It's funny, I immediately knew that the card at 3:59 was Circle of Protection: Artifacts, not because of the art, but because it's the only CoP whose activation cost is 2 instead of 1. Also, if CoP: Artifacts surprised Graham, Circle of Protection: Shadow is going to blow his mind.
Wow the art for Holy Strength is so embedded in my mind I was surprised that Graham/you’d never seen it! It’s from the exact same era as the vanishing-pentagram art for Unholy Strength. Maybe the saturation? Revised cards were super de-saturated. Or maybe +2/+1 is like a zillion times better than +1/+2.
Segovian Leviathan is why Segovia is a tiny plane. A leviathan that dwarfs whales is only a 3/3? The retroactive explanation is that the whole world must be miniature.
This would have been in my peak magic youth. I started in 1995 right before Ice Age came out. So I missed the really spicy stuff like dual lands in legends sadly. I stopped playing in like 1999 so 1997 would have been my peak magic years.
I knew every one of these, though CoP:A I could only distinguish because of the activation cost. And I continue to love every foreign-language episode of CaP.
Wait... did Graham just have a better record on guessing cards correctly than he did with packs that are using the alphabet he's familiar with? ... that's WILD
This was so nostalgic and so depressing in a way. I was 17 when this set came out and my friends and I were waaaayyyyy into Magic at the time. I remembered/recognized every single card. I can't remember things that happened yesterday, but every single card from that pack has been burnt into my memory.
5th edition was the set that I attempted, stupidly, to try and get an entire playset of. Only now do I realize that the art of Jayemdae's Tome has a face drawn into it!
Imageing draft in Japan in japanese with out knowing the language only to loose in the finals because you thought you remembered the creature haveing trample when it had reach.
I knew most of these on sight. I blame the many hours I spent staring in wonder at the MtG Official Encyclopedia, which was a physical book that covered all of Magic up through... Fourth Edition. Look, it was published in 1996. I acknowledge my relative ancientness.
"alright, first up..." got me laughing so hard :D. Also, several of these cards Graham did not recognize were featured before: Murk Dwellers made an appearance in a Stump the Experts, Foxfire was in the pool of a Beejlander- Deck you built on stream, Segovian Leviathan was in a commander- deck.
Wait, Remove Soul is painted by Mike Dringenberg? Holy shit, I need a large print of that ASAP. MD is a total master of his craft, incredible vision every time.
Oh yeah, Mike Dringenberg painted a bunch of cards back in the day. Sue Ann Harkey, the art director at the time, brought in a bunch of comics artists like Dringenberg, Terese Nielsen, Rebecca Guay, Paolo Parente, and Kev Walker. My favourite pieces by Mike Dringenberg are the Chimera cycle from Visions.
I think the Japanese Grizzly Bears has an actual shot at commanding a premium price, compared to the English version. Maybe not the most sought-after, since its been reprinted a lot and there are some nice foil versions and ancient Alphas and Betas to be had. Then you have the astonishingly expensive Razorclaw Bear.
I think the *worst* thing that can happen is Wheeler laughing at you but even then that's not much bc you'd have to pull him away from mahjong to do it.
I recognize that Jayemdae Tome art! Mostly because it is one of the old rares that I see in the back of my binders that just has never been worth selling.
You can tell it’s COP: Artifacts because the activated ability costs 2 instead of a single generic. It’s from Antiquities (which created artifact-focused continuations of Alpha Cycles), because even back then, they realized a single mana COP was miserable
Truly geeking out, Japanese 5th is so fun. I pumped the fist when Graham knew Mesa Falcon. I am not a person who has 'pack lust', but watching this makes even me want to find out how much it'd cost to get some JP 5th packs to crack.
Circle of Protection: Artifacts isn't even the weirdest CoP! That title most likely goes to Circle of Protection: Shadow from... I think Tempest, or maybe Stronghold.
I got Islandwalk on first one solely because I recognised kanji for island. Second had brown in the circle which was the old school colour of artifacts I believe.
I bought a lot of 5th edition back in the day. I knew them all, but the Imposing Visage. I hadn't seen that art in years (only have the Ice Age version now). Shucks.....
God this was such a nostalgia hit for me. 5th Edition was when I got started with this game. Also, why isn't the dude's name Initiative of the Ebon EYE with that art?
CoP artifact is both part of the cycle AND part of most annoying deck of White Wizard in Shandalar (it's all artifact damage, except he pops in CoP early so it's "damage for thee, but not for me")
My 5th Edition Holy Strength was a critical party of my deck! (Because my deck was made up of trash friends gave me and that enchantment meant my junk was a bit better)
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"Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?"- Job 41:1 (KKV) It describes both Leviathan and the impossibility of controlling it.
Having been alive and active in Magic at the time of this set, I know all of these from artwork alone.
The fun thing about the Segovian Leviathan is that there wasn’t anything special about it when it was first printed, but its existence raised the question how can a 3/3 anything be considered a “leviathan”? And the answer they came up with is that “I guess on Segovia everything must just be tiny”. Thus that became the plane’s identity in all future appearances.
I recognized each of these cards on sight. It was SO AGGRAVATING
It's funny, I immediately knew that the card at 3:59 was Circle of Protection: Artifacts, not because of the art, but because it's the only CoP whose activation cost is 2 instead of 1.
Also, if CoP: Artifacts surprised Graham, Circle of Protection: Shadow is going to blow his mind.
Actually knew a few of these from spending way too many hours watching Wheeler's Shandalar VODs
Murk Dwellers goes kinda hard in Shandalar, more than you'd think at least
Played way too much Shandalar as a kid to not know many of them. Of course, that's 4ed, but there is a lot of overlap.
This was a particularly rousing episode pf Graham muddles through a foreign pack
The Foxfire art is great.
I have a sleeved Mesa Falcon now, thanks to CGB. : )
Who’s CGB? I only know Mesa Falcon Guy.
Kind of crazy to think this pack sat around for over a quarter of a century waiting to be opened.
Wow the pack art for the really is the embodiment of "inside you there are two wolves" huh
Man, this took me back.
The noise Graham made when he saw Foxfire was great.
The COP: Artifacts confusion was wonderful.
Pretty sure Graham has seen Foxfire during Serge's dollar store highlander deck build
But would he have remembered it? Would anyone want to remember any of the cards they saw in Beejlander?
I swear they were just talking about that exact card art in a recent video. I think the Bloomburrow previews, TTC #513
@@hiimemilyoddly enough I recall it.
Damn, good memory
They also mentioned it during a recent taptap because a new card had a similar art style. Though I do not remember if Graham was on that one.
Wow the art for Holy Strength is so embedded in my mind I was surprised that Graham/you’d never seen it! It’s from the exact same era as the vanishing-pentagram art for Unholy Strength. Maybe the saturation? Revised cards were super de-saturated.
Or maybe +2/+1 is like a zillion times better than +1/+2.
Segovian Leviathan is why Segovia is a tiny plane. A leviathan that dwarfs whales is only a 3/3? The retroactive explanation is that the whole world must be miniature.
And they didn’t make it canon on cards until Modern Horizons, as I understand it, with Segovian Angel.
No, there is also the hippodrome from planechase
@@Theareen1138 Right, yes, I forgot that plane card actually referenced the “everything is small” concept.
This would have been in my peak magic youth. I started in 1995 right before Ice Age came out. So I missed the really spicy stuff like dual lands in legends sadly. I stopped playing in like 1999 so 1997 would have been my peak magic years.
Love the old core set episodes.
I love whenever we have a pack from the 3rd to 5th era as it's my childhood. I have a cop artifact, murk dwellers and foxfire.
I knew every one of these, though CoP:A I could only distinguish because of the activation cost.
And I continue to love every foreign-language episode of CaP.
What a cool lot of art.
I owned some 5th edition when I was a kid, so I recognized some of the art and knew what some of the cards did! Very fun to play along!
Wait... did Graham just have a better record on guessing cards correctly than he did with packs that are using the alphabet he's familiar with? ... that's WILD
I knew a surprising number of these for someone who started way after 5th. I was surprised Graham didn't know about COP Artifact.
I recognised it as artifacts because it cost 2 to activate instead of the normal 1.
The 5th edition starter pack was the first Magic product I bought (followed by a 23 year hiatus) so this was some major nostalgia.
Honestly, that Ebon Hand dude is very good mana fixing
This was so nostalgic and so depressing in a way. I was 17 when this set came out and my friends and I were waaaayyyyy into Magic at the time. I remembered/recognized every single card. I can't remember things that happened yesterday, but every single card from that pack has been burnt into my memory.
5th edition was the set that I attempted, stupidly, to try and get an entire playset of. Only now do I realize that the art of Jayemdae's Tome has a face drawn into it!
Never forget that this is the set that introduced the 5th edition rules change
11:10 Someone alert Mesa Falcon Guy!
Oh, man, I'm ancient - I recognized all of these off the bat.
Yup. Was in my 20’s and had been playing 4 years already 😢
oh, that was a trip down memory lane, i knew 12 of the cards just off the art.
Initiates of the Ebon hand looking like Samuel L Jackson hiding under a sick turban with that look
That smell was super addictive back in the 90’s
It might be fun to see the card you call us in the intro.
It probably says something about my ravenous LRR consumption that I immediately recognised Foxfire because it was in beejlander
Me shouting at the screen: ARTIFACT! CIRCLE OF PROTECTION ARTIFACT!”
5th Edition came out about 3½ months before I was born.
Imageing draft in Japan in japanese with out knowing the language only to loose in the finals because you thought you remembered the creature haveing trample when it had reach.
wait until you hear about CoP lands...
Um actually that's a RUNE of protection
By god this man always knows a grizzly bears when he sees one
I recognized Foxfire on sight, love the art, love the card name - could not possibly tell you what it does 😂
I knew most of these on sight. I blame the many hours I spent staring in wonder at the MtG Official Encyclopedia, which was a physical book that covered all of Magic up through... Fourth Edition.
Look, it was published in 1996. I acknowledge my relative ancientness.
"alright, first up..." got me laughing so hard :D. Also, several of these cards Graham did not recognize were featured before: Murk Dwellers made an appearance in a Stump the Experts, Foxfire was in the pool of a Beejlander- Deck you built on stream, Segovian Leviathan was in a commander- deck.
Just wait until they hear that there's also a Circle of Protection: Shadow (not in this set of course). That'll really blow their brains.
Wait, Remove Soul is painted by Mike Dringenberg? Holy shit, I need a large print of that ASAP. MD is a total master of his craft, incredible vision every time.
Oh yeah, Mike Dringenberg painted a bunch of cards back in the day. Sue Ann Harkey, the art director at the time, brought in a bunch of comics artists like Dringenberg, Terese Nielsen, Rebecca Guay, Paolo Parente, and Kev Walker. My favourite pieces by Mike Dringenberg are the Chimera cycle from Visions.
I'm mildly ashamed that I was able to recognize nearly all of these with a look, aside from the COP:Artifacts. Unlike Graham, I knew it existed.
Generally Runic was Thurmros Dragonsoul's nickname in Wizard College. Got there.
What would Graham do without James! 😅
I think the Japanese Grizzly Bears has an actual shot at commanding a premium price, compared to the English version. Maybe not the most sought-after, since its been reprinted a lot and there are some nice foil versions and ancient Alphas and Betas to be had. Then you have the astonishingly expensive Razorclaw Bear.
I think the *worst* thing that can happen is Wheeler laughing at you but even then that's not much bc you'd have to pull him away from mahjong to do it.
I recognize that Jayemdae Tome art! Mostly because it is one of the old rares that I see in the back of my binders that just has never been worth selling.
Almost a quarter century from print to open.
You can tell it’s COP: Artifacts because the activated ability costs 2 instead of a single generic. It’s from Antiquities (which created artifact-focused continuations of Alpha Cycles), because even back then, they realized a single mana COP was miserable
Truly geeking out, Japanese 5th is so fun.
I pumped the fist when Graham knew Mesa Falcon.
I am not a person who has 'pack lust', but watching this makes even me want to find out how much it'd cost to get some JP 5th packs to crack.
Circle of Protection: Artifacts isn't even the weirdest CoP!
That title most likely goes to Circle of Protection: Shadow from... I think Tempest, or maybe Stronghold.
"Circle of Protection: Artifacts" Exists?
There is also Circle of Protection: Shadow printed later on
I got Islandwalk on first one solely because I recognised kanji for island. Second had brown in the circle which was the old school colour of artifacts I believe.
I bought a lot of 5th edition back in the day. I knew them all, but the Imposing Visage. I hadn't seen that art in years (only have the Ice Age version now). Shucks.....
God this was such a nostalgia hit for me. 5th Edition was when I got started with this game. Also, why isn't the dude's name Initiative of the Ebon EYE with that art?
Don't COPs prevent ALL damage from a source?
Were there no basic lands in 5th edition boosters?
Everything but the Swamps out of those rule!
As soon as I saw that it cost 2 to activate, I knew that was COP: Artifacts. (I am part of the Class of '97, Jordynne. )💀
Knew all of them easily except Imposing Visage.
Shout out to Mesa falcon guy!
CoP artifact is both part of the cycle AND part of most annoying deck of White Wizard in Shandalar (it's all artifact damage, except he pops in CoP early so it's "damage for thee, but not for me")
Whales for scale
love Magic, titanic leviathan that makes whales seem tiny... 3/3
elephant 3/3
must be a really dumb fish that can't fight
The 3/3 is what's left after they case pacifishm on it. ;-)
It's a titanic leviathan from the tiny plane. So it might only be the size of an elephant on other planes
@@Drasvin but it doesn't even have the tittle of "Sea Tyrant"
Look up Segovian Angel from MH and Invasion of Segovia from MoM.
@estebanrodriguez5409 it's also not legendary. So it's not a particular individual, just one of the multiple leviathans on Segovia.
Oh boy! I started playing magic with Portal and Fifth Edition 😄 good old days.
(I am ancient 😅)
Also, wasn’t the first crack-a-pack also a fifth edition pack?
I love Foxfire, I have it in diferent printings ✨
That was my nickname in Tolarian Community College? Generally Runic?
My 5th Edition Holy Strength was a critical party of my deck! (Because my deck was made up of trash friends gave me and that enchantment meant my junk was a bit better)
Crack! A! Pack!
Butt breathing, Graham Stark!! Just stop it. We are not making it. A thing, just no😂😂
0:43 I was 13 myself.😄
How did Graham saying "join button" coincide with my respective button being highlighted with a rainbow highlight?
What happens to all the cards that are opened on crack-a-pack? Does Graham get first dibs?
I wasnt even born when this was printed!
A bible quote on the leviathan, huh?
I don't care for Gob.
What's the pack 1 pick 1 though? 😅
No first pick?
"Butt-breathing"
Really, Graham?
like this comment if this pack of magic cards is older than you