Elders… be they dragons, dinosaurs, or Final Fantasy villains, they’ve always got cool abilities and an epic feel. This week we review your submissions to the challenge of designing new Elders creatures. Thrown into the mix is Juliet’s challenge to include… the whole alphabet? Another great wacky mix of card analysis, creativity, and tangents about childhood and podcast saints.
Cards mentioned in the episode Scryfall Gallery
From vtbassmatt
From perryk
From JourneymanEuge
From Justnigel
From Khord
From Pat
From Juliet
From PlaidWeaselVT
From Qirn
From AuxiliaryOtter
From Xena
From JamesDaltonBell
From Craftedlavaistrue
Topics Discussed:
- patron saint of podcasting
- elder beasts
- dudes who are powerful who have their arms outstretched
- mandel blow
- +1/+1 counters equal to the mana spent, not equal to X
- if you keep zooming, you can keep zooming
- should a fractal entity be more exponential?
- the sweet spot when a type has just enough support
- E as in enters
- sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
- high ward mana costs vs high ward life costs
- magic as garfield intended
- yuri chess
- what should “devotion” mean without a qualifier?
- mythmaking
- morphing from the command zone
- multicolor companion ikoria god?
- the voice in the ozolith
- subtle on the alphabet scale
- discard synergy for GW?
- “equal” a clutch contributor to the bonus points
- fewest letters for alphabet challenge
- the W is white mana
- redcliff lore catchup
- if this is true, this land enters untapped (it does anyway, but still)
- a sometimes-untapped triland is already pretty good
- redcliff lore soapbox
- proxy printing hot tip
- making sure both the new creature and other creatures get the jolly bonus
- everyone gets to be jolly, your opponents too
- qirn hits us with the “don’t worry about it”
- scavenging a legendary onto itself
- melvin timmy
- first we have the alphabet with no reminder text, then with only reminder text
- a new creature with all the abilities of the others… Cell?
- the commander on the bottom
- inflicting rules knowledge at the commander table
- it does… nothing
- seasons of war shoutout
- alternative commanders
- the rotting tree is home to many squirrels
- do you need to know the alphabet to be a bully?
- mean horse girl kicks
- rugrats
- full metal alchemist and brother heights
- juliet pick: jolly elder
- tim: two of ometecuhtli
- extended outro
- track by Kevin MacLeod