Core Set 2020 || Crack-A-Pack - June 11, 2024
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- Someone's gotta open these packs eventually and that someone is Graham. Today's pack is from Core Set 2020.
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Ferocious Pup is played in 20 percent of all Voja decks on Edhrec.
It's also incredibly adorable. It's my favorite playmat
Also, he's a very good boy
I was gonna say, I guess Graham forgot Voja exists when he said "go-wide wolf commander"
So the answer is Commander 😅
20 percent seems kind of high to me. Every time I've seen Voja it's been some kind of very fast elf nonsense
Nimble Birdsticker was not in the regular core set it was exclusive to the "Core Set 2020/Spellslinger Starter Kit", a short lived intro product with two 60 card mono-colour decks, these ones being red and white. So it couldn't have appeared in that pack, but it is a great card name and worthy of the shout-out.
As a 2/3 reach for 3, it would be welcome in any limited format, but for some reason was not welcomed to this one
It's not just that Ferocious Pup is played in a lot of Wolf Typal decks, but it's foil.
Core Set 2020 was the last set before Throne of Eldraine introduced collector boosters. And say what you will on whether collector boosters are good for the game, they definitely accomplished one thing: tanking the price of foil commons and uncommons.
Like the most expensive uncommon main set foil in Throne of Eldraine is Syr Konrad and he is played all over the place. He's $3.67 USD.
Most expensive in Core Set 2020? Veil of Summer at *$28 USD*. There are also 11 other foil uncommons that cost more than Syr Konrad.
So Ferocious Pup does not surprise me that the foil is approaching a dollar.
I love that Negate art so much that when it released in Ixalan I collected over 20 copies of it in regular printing, and an additional six foil printings. For a card that's usually a 2-of in occasional sideboards.
M20 has some absolute bangers - Cavalier of night, Field of the Dead, Veil of Summer. My favourite thing about this set is that the Dragon-themed cards flavour texts are all adventurers' last words.
"Wolfmander" seems like a sarcastic answer to.the question "What classic movie monster ate all these villagers?"
Yay! You got to my pack soo quick 🥳 Thanks y'all 😄
Harrowhark Nonagesimus, a necromancer from a series of books that are very much Not magic, wears bones so that she always has bones to animate if necessary.
3:55 made me say "oh it's Harrowhark", a reference for all of the lesbian necromancer in space enjoyers
I would die for Ferocious Pup.
Notably, M20 came immediately before ELD, and some of those color hate spells were THOROUGHLY PLAYED and even MAIN DECKED in that standard. Noxious Grasp and Aether Gust were answers to the many green problem children of the format, and Veil of Summer was another culprit in reinforcing green’s standard dominance. On top of that, it also just gave us some really good cards in their own rights. The Cavalier cycle, Agent of Treachery, Elvish Reclaimer, Field of the Dead, Golos, a cycle of Leylines, Lotus Field, Mystic Forge, Sorin (Imperious Bloodlord), Yarok, and a bunch of lower-power but still fairly popular cards
Hilariously, Fry (1R deal 5 damage to white or blue creature or planeswalker) couldn’t kill Oko (he starts at 6 loyalty)
@@janmelantu7490 True, but this was also the standard rotation with Teferi, Time Raveler, and Fry was a perfect answer to him
Ferocious Pup is great for wolf bodies and goes absolutely crazy in flicker setups, since it's one of those rare cases where the ETB token is the bigger body.
I'm gonna share with you the absolute wording nightmare that is the italian printing of Drakuseth's ability:
"Choose up to two targets: Whenever Drakuseth attacks, it deals 3 damage to each of them and 4 damage to any other target."
In a Commander game this implies that you could activate this ability targeting 2 different opponents as many times as you want, then swing with the dragon and carbonize them both.
It doesn't have the colon, so it's not an activated ability. But yeah, weird af wording.
You made me have to look up what a Nimble Birdsticker is.
I remembered the art and that it had reach, but not the stats or cost. lol
M20 was my first set for which I understood the rules of magic (which excludes several sets from the early 2000s). I was absolutely enthralled by Risen Reef.
Man, I will always love that rare. It was my first commander, built from a starter deck and shoe cartons of draft chaff I got from my friends.
I can't believe my Diablo 2 nerd came out during the Boneclad Necromancer talk and said out loud to my screen "Dude, Bone Armor is sick though!"
Sadly I don’t do more than a dollar on patreon but I make sure to buy a piece of merch every time I see you guys!! Got sleeves, play mat, and shirts from you guys! I hope it helps ❤️
Oh hell yeah! I miss the Core Sets.
I'm guessing Voja drove up the cost of the pup, personally.
From a constructed perspective, that rare isn't great but man it's just so cool. One of my first decks on Arena was a reanimator deck with that and Bond of Revival.
M20 was my favorite core set to draft simply bc all of the 10 draft archetypes converged into the 3 enemy-color legendary creatures in the set. (Kykar is a flier who cares abt spells and going wide aka. the 3 draft archetypes, or Yarok being an elemental, caring about creatures, and being a great blocker for control decks, etc.)
Ferocious Pup in foil is expensive because he's the goodest boi
Sanitarium Skeleton won me my LGS's prerelease tournament. I was the problem bringing it back every turn to block my opponents' big green creature during the finals letting me chip away for like 4 turns.
Drakuseth was the first rare magic card I ever opened, which is fun
I really liked the themes of this set intersecting across wedges.
Just looking at the signpost uncommons, the ally colour ones represent a theme and the enemy colour ones represent the intersection of two themes. For example, Jeskai is about fliers. The WU one is a Flying lord, the UR one is a Flying Elemental (intersecting with Temur Elementals) and the RU one is a Flying creature with an attack trigger (intersecting with Mardu Aggro).
Ah yes, my first ever set
MTG card prediction: Next year, Negate will be reprinted with 'Nuh-uh' as both flavour and rules text.
Drakuseth is literally the reason I took my Miirym dragon deck apart. That deck tore people apart and then there were 2+ of them at the same time 😂
I was able to afford one draft of Commander Legends, and first picked Drakuseth and Swiftfoot Boots. I then drafted every piece of ramp and every other haste enabler I could find (Surrak wound up being my partner commander) and won every game I played that night because no one else could keep a creature on the field when I was swinging with a hasty Drakuseth on turn four 😂
1:38 Negaté
Man, I miss core sets. They felt like palate cleansers in the world of Magic flavor.
2:20 The foil of that is really good looking as well, and I hate most foils.
Ferocious Pup also fits into the Werewolf deck for commander.
5:22 Medieval nerd who got mad at "Glaive" of the Guildpact here, those would be *vambraces* or *bracers*. A Gauntlet covers the hand, not the wrists/forearm.
Hell yeah, birthday crack a pack
I recommended Ferocious Pup to a friend for their commander deck between the pull and price list even coming up...
Core Sets were light time through the year.
Scholar of the Ages + Soul Salvage 👨🍳😘 (throw in a Murder as a treat)
The first set of the FIRE era
Was it? Or was that the next set, Throne of Eldraine?
@@wavesofbabies M20 had Field of the Dead, think banned cards is what we are going for here 😅.
@@rubyseverinwhitworth9066 true. I forgot that was M20
@@rubyseverinwhitworth9066 FIRE design wasn't about making every card powerful. It's the reason Limited became so consistently good because of the increased strength of commons and uncommons, which we still experience today. FIRE was literally about raising the power of commons and uncommons.
GRN and especially WAR were the start. Look it up.
Sadly not a german Pack. I love the pronunciation of you every time.
You mean red not green I think lol
4RRR....ah..ah...ah
Fun fact: that pup has human teeth!
Wolf pup expensive cause cute
Can I buy that Ferocious Pup off you for my bad werewolves commander deck? If so, could you sign it? If so, could you put an "awoo!" on there?
M20 was goaded and based
greetings yoked ox
I do not miss core sets, even the third one felt really forgettable and it was probably objectively the best designed of the three with actual set mechanics going on and stuff. lol 20 had something too, I think 19 was the "just dump in some cards we wanna reprint, a few designs that don't really have a home elsewhere and for the rest nobody cares" set. lol
See that's why Core Sets were awesome, they were just a bunch of generic reprints that needed reprinting
@@necrocreature9117 Nothing is stopping them from printing those cards anywhere else, it is not worth a set. It creates a dull draft environment and low value boosters where only the chase cards mean anything, even to casuals.
I agree that people romanticize the Core sets a bit too much, but the recent ones were at least better about having synergies and themes be more present at common and uncommon.
@@Mordalon They were putting in more effort for sure, but it still fell so badly short from other standard sets.
Why is there a witcher on the cover?
That’s Sorin
I feel like core sets could work if they just... Didnt make the set so underpowered in the common and uncommon slot?
Like most of these cards were not worth the cardboard they were printed on in 2019 let alone now, but there are so many common and uncommons from magic's history that could work together in a limited environment that would also create a great basis for standard for the next few years.
Like a 3/2 flyer for 5 that gains 4 health? Snore! Reprinting Immodane's Recruiter or Dog Walker in two years? Impactful.
You do realize that, as on-ramps to the game, reprinting a bunch of nonconnected creature abilities (like Adventure and Disguise) in a core set isn't super helpful, right?
Wait.. am I…first?!