Commander Masters || Crack-A-Pack - April 23, 2024

Jazal & Herald Of The Host. If you untap with that, using Jazal's ability would be +4/+4 for each creature, which includes 3 fliers and a first strike.

Bad memories of opening one of these and getting zetalpa.

Without Fierce, I would probably grab both white cards.

But I am not very good at drafting. :)

Golem and Fierce, I'll probably wheel some playable blue and I can grab any Blue X commander out of the next few packs.

Even if it wasn't the chase card, i'd take fierce guardianship and... Maybe the legend? No matter what you do, you probably table some blue playables.

fierce guardianship/minds aglow for me, got the good starting of a blue base control deck there

Heartless Hidestugu is way too much fun to pass. Probably taking that and Meteor Golem.

<3 thank you for the rashomon gag

Probably a bad pick, but I like Mire Triton. Fun little utility creature that enables shenanigans.

Reminder: In Commander Masters Draft you can draft two mono-coloured legends as if they had partner.

Because of that I‘ll take Jazal and Guardianship

Taking the swamp! They'll never see my monoland deck coming!

I really like that Herald of the Host, it's got flying and vigilance what more could you want

Padeem and the counterspell, of course

Excellent, as always. Thank you.

I take the two big white cards cause they are both good, and the signaling cuts white entirely.

Probably Padeem and Fierce or Padeem and Golem (or Padeem and Minds Aglow if I'm feeling spicy/contradictory)

even if Fierce wasn't worth anything I still think it'd be the pick with Frantic Search.

the turn 1 Minds Aglow is Magic's version of the Trolley Problem
it hurts no one if you dont fund the MA, but it benefits everyone when you do

I think I take Goildmane since his floor is good and then his ability could win you the game.

I appreciated your Kylie Minogue joke.

"Terrible mouthfeel" And terrible fingerfeel too, judging from when it was your M14 spoiler.

I love how elvish mystic's flavor text is full of hope about rebuilding, and then you look at the card it was a functional reprint of, Llanowar Elves, and its flavor text of "we will fuck you up if you come in here." xD

I love that Graham felt obligated to ask "meatier than what?"

I'm sorry, are you telling me that we've reached the point that Serra Angel is directly power-crept by an uncommon creature

Always love this series thanks Graham hope you’re having a great day

I think I'd take Padeem and the Fierce Guardianship; you get the strong, expensive counterspell, and you get to pick a build around commander early

❤ that was a killer pack! 🤓 great pulls

Disgress all you like, Graham. We fellow Graeme's approve of digressing.

Crack! A! Pack!

Probably path of ancestry and meteor golem, keep myself open and get some fixing gojng in case of falling into a 3+ color commander

This video has an annoying "chirp" that occurs every few seconds on repetition... I thought it was my game but nope, it's the video.

There is some background music barely playing? No likey.

If there wasn't Fierce Guardianship, you take the 4/4 for 2WW. That's a pretty big beater with first strike especially.

I'd take the double white as they synergize insanely well with the tokens attacking proccing jazals activation ability. but that's just me.

No one else seems to have already, so... um, äckshüälly, myriad means ten thousand (but just like with a hundred or a thousand, people use it to mean "big number" (or, more precisely "Torg no know big number word"), but it takes a bit of squinting for it to mean "three" :P).

(I am fully aware Graham translated the meaning of the word in context, rather than the literal meaning, to help non-native English-speaking listeners instead of actively sabotaging them)

If guardian was worthless I’d also do the padeem/golem combo.

Although myriad does mean "numerous", it more specifically means "10,000". It's probably good for balance reasons they went for the more general meaning.

i finally noticed the quick way to see if the rare is at the front or back of the pack. look on the wrapper - made is us: rare at the back. made in japan, rare near the front after land, art or token. i still feel the need to save the rare for last when cracking packs.

Fierce Guardianship + Deranged Assistant is what i would pick.
Ramp is super important in Commander Draft and hard to come by in blue.
Also passing a bunch of blue means you have a bad pack 2 but in pack 1 and 3 the other Player is the one getting cut so dont worry about it too much.

I think I'd probably end up taking both the white cards, as Jazal seems very good

Incredible Rashomon joke in there, excellent work!

Given the "Fierce Guardianship is not (t)here" caveat, I might take the white cards, but most likely I would take the borderless cards. If I had this pack not in an actual draft but on [insert name of website that has bots to draft with], I would start with Path of Ancestry and Meteor Golem to stay open.

Minds Aglow

I'm a sucker for a good angel, so I'd be grabbing that one.

Gram was on his bs on this one!! Big fan

“Commander shares a type with your commander” unless it’s a sorcery or enchantment on the backside.

Delightful as always!

I just noticed the intro opens the "backlog" drawer 😅

I’d prob just take Ajane and Guardianship or Padeem and Meteor golem

I enjoyed watching Graham laughing at the flavor text on Meteor Golem, remembering Kathleen saying she wrote that text during the Commander Masters prerelease.