Big Hits, Big Misses with Fallout X MTG Universes Beyond 

I love that inventory management has split second because you're pausing the game it's hilarious.

Ian is actually a fun cross meta reference as he was notorious for using his SMG to kill the player while shooting at enemies.

I feel like the art for blasphemous act should've maybe been like a huge nuclear explosion with the mushroom cloud and everything.

Ian is a great meta-design because Ian was best known for the AI being really bad at deciding when to fire weapons into group fights. So he'd often be spraying you with the SMG as much as the enemies.

As a Fallout fan who recently(like a year and a half ago) started playing magic I'm in love with these decks so far but I wish magic fans got to feel this way about THEIR GAME.

There actually were "proper" zombies in Fallout 3! Just localized solely in the Dunwich Building, as a reference to H.P. Lovecraft.

As a massive Fallout fan, I thought I'd mention some of your points. Centurion of the Marked technically isn't a proper ghoul. He's a Marked Man. Whilst still iradiated, they went through a different process and aren't ghouls in the traditional sense. The amount of radiation that they're exposed to would almost certainly kill a normal ghoul. They have no skin because the winds of The Divide is constantly ripping and flaying it all off, whereas regular ghouls it just sort of rots and sometimes falls off for example. Zombie as a creature type for Ghoul is a miss, though. Vault 21's experiment was that there would be no authority, and that all disputes were to be resolved via gambling. Mr. House, leader of the New Vegas Strip (Who should probably be Esper, not Mardu but whatever), cracked open the vault and offered a game of blackjack it's heavily implied he cheated at to win control over the vault. He kicked everyone, barring one person who he hired, out and filled the lower layers with concrete out of paranoia someone would break into it to enter the Strip without passing the toll. The NCR isn't a paramilitary, it's a nation. The art for Nuclear Fallout is just green skeletons, not ghouls. Other than that there's nothing to add really.

I'm just glad Dogmeat made it. I loved him ever since I first set my eyes on the best boy.

Knowing little of Fallout, but being from the Greater Boston Area, I'm excited to see "Boston" on Magic cards. Already saw Temple of Malice depicting just a friggin' factory out in Saugus, which is something I'd never expect to see before on a Magic card.

Fun fact about nukes: The nuke in megaton degrading wouldn't matter nearly as much as the fact that it is on the ground. Nuclear bombs explode high in the air to make sure that that the energy spreads out and doesn't just become concentrated on the ground surrounding the bomb. Also, nukes don't really use chemicals that can easily degrade with exposure and even with uranium decaying over time it wouldn't matter much because most of it wasn't going to explode anyways since the reaction is so fast that most of the uranium/plutonium is blasted away before it can react.

Do you think now that they've added Synth as a creature type, we could see a Blade Runner Universes Beyond in a secret lair or commander deck at some point?

With how many Rogue's Passage Voltron commander decks have been showing up at casual commander night I am fine with wasteland becoming a thing.

Blasphemous Act should have been a Mushroom Cloud

Ian is perfect because in the game he shoots the PC on accident all the time

Pretty excited to see what my husbando Arcade Gannon does.

I love how in the art of cass’s card is her story in NV when you go and look for her destroyed caravan

Vault 21 isn't actually a casino, it is a hotel. However, the social experiment that took place in the vault was that every dispute was settled through gambling. It mixes a little bit of that lore with the gambling you can do on the strip.

I completed Fallout 2 and I remember Horrigan... barely. I must have been like 12 so he was just "big bad guy who gets torn in half when he dies and then his head explodes". Also, he should have been a soldier imo, since he's part of the Enclave forces.

I like the Mysterious Stranger card. It's right on flavor if it is exiling removal spells, but if it's not then whatever, it's a cool Magic card

So i believe the raveges of war pipboy art while being a refrence to planet of the apes is also a reference to a wild wastland end slide you can get in the lonesome road dlc for fallout new vegas if you send nukes to both the ncr and ceasers legion

As a another fan of Fallout, I love how passionately you talked about the series

8 damage on the whole board is a big number, im pretty sure thats atleast top 10 of every AOE creature burn spell ever.

Iirc when they showed off ravages of war they said something among the lines of "this is for people who want their friends to hate them"

The Master "...was doing the right thing, really..." LMAO

Mr. House shouldn't be Mardu and I will die on this hill. To give him the same colors as Ceaser is completely wrong. They have totally different philosophies. House should be Jeskai or Grixis.

I think the Mysterious Stranger is trying to combine the effect of the Mysterious Stranger perk with the Miss Fortune perk? Miss Fortune is basically the Mysterious Stranger but she does random sometimes wacky effects instead of straight high damage. If that's the case, I see what they were going for. I think it would have been better with ninjutsu flavor-wise, but that's just me.

I was literally talking with my friends that its weird that fucking ATOMIC BOMBS only do 13, or less damage. Urza's sylex reprinted to be the atom bomb coulda been neat. Something that destroys all non lands, but not a damage spell.

It would be a crying shame if so many of the pivotal DLC characters like Ulysses and Joshua Graham dont make the cut, but heres hoping they are given the love they deserve ❤

23:51 RAM RAAAAANCCHHH They're clearly building up to that cowboy set

So as an almost 28 year old, I bought the first 2 Fallouts in a bundle around 2012 since I loved FO3 and FNV. I even downloaded them on a flash drive and would play them on the school library computers during study hall. So yes I was excited to see Frank Horrigan on a Magic card

Mantle of the Ancients is a reprint and the art is a reference to the opening scene of Fallout 2 after the tutorial. In FO2, you're the ancestor of the protagonist of FO1, and you're gifted their Vault Jumpsuit after completing the Temple of Trials (forgettable tutorial level) 😊

Puresteel Paladin is such an obvious BOS reference that I forgot there was a magic card called that already. Definitely Brotherhood power armor. 44:37

As someone who has never played a Fallout game but is interested in the universe, this video was insightful.

I dont think they've said anything about being Remastered but the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Anthology coming out this year does have all the games in it. Fingers crossed they Remastered 1 & 2

I like the 'radiation' mechanic so much, I hope they can bring it into universes within - but im worried about how that would work.

I think it's fair to point out a lot of people have watched Fallout lore videos and a lot of people liked Frank Horrigan's lore and VA when they saw it in a video.

just letting you know that fallout did refrerence planet of the apes, in one of the easter egg endings of the fallout new vegas DLC lonesome roads it is exactly the theme that was shown in the ravage of war.

I think saying "I never finished game X" and then following that statement with "this art gives more depth and character to this person than game X did" is a pretty bad take. I'll admit that Fallout 4 isnt the best in the series, but Cait is one of the best written characters in the whole game, and saying a picture of her doing the job she did because it was all she felt ahe could be good at when the PC meets her is better than the story she tells across her journey of recovery is you speaking on something you have not experienced.

One of the endings in FNV was literally the exact same planet of the apes reference, I imagine that's what they were thinking when making the card. But I do agree that blowing up all the lands on a table is not a fun mechanic

I died when you introduced big horn rancher

It’s super refreshing to see some commentary and perspective from someone who actually knows Fallout AND Magic. Some other channels devoted coverage to it, but clearly don’t know anything about the series or lore, and it shows.

The T-45 power armour is fairly good in slower metas. The counters are persistent. Can't imagine PK missed that but saying it "on occasion" gives you a keyword made it sound like maybe he did?

Testing out a thrown-together Liberty Prime deck, it actually has a pretty solid chance of swinging every turn since you're building energy and/or tokens before it drops, and don't forget that since it has vigilance, you can swing and then just before your turn, tap it for the energy. Not to mention the new plasma caster that nets two energy when equipped creature attacks so it pays for itself.

I would say Cait was a well designed character in the game, I like the ability but think it might have been more flavourful to make you discard first since she is more of the act first and think about later person.

Mantle of the Ancients was actually a reprint, but I guess its so old, not everyone saw it unless you played Light-Paws or Galea.

Loved the longer video ! And some really cool cards

🤓 At 29:05 Erm, Actualy the mantle of the ancient was already a printed card from forgoten realms commanders deck

I could listen videos about Fallout MTG for hours, to be honest. Bring on Part 2.

Fallout 1&2 vids are a pretty popular neich for people who don't quite jive with the crpg style and limitations. That's how I know of frank, the master and marcus pre fnv

referencing our pop culture is mostly a fallout 2 thing and about planet of the apes if you take the wild wasteland perk in new vegas you get a planet of the apes reference into the game

I always like the dynamic of throwing an Armageddon or ravages of war into a play group. Mana rocks start to become a more viable source of mana acceleration and it help mitigates the excessive prevalence of green based decks that naturally ramp harder and face little threat from being board wiped as opposed to the mana rocks which always get caught up in a pernicious deed or farewell effect. Lets be honest we all know there are a significant number of busted non basics lands that are hilariously overpowered and largely impossible to remove. Field of the dead, Valakut, mount doom, Gaia cradle, cabal coffers, bazaar of baghdad etc. If in a fallout crossover we didn't get a destroy all lands effect that would have been a massive flavor fail.

As a late gen Fallout fan (3,4,NV), I think all of the flavor has been pretty spot on with this set like all of the other Universes Beyond sets. I especially love the Vault sagas

Idolized helps push wandering throne and similar abilities so any commander is basically able to Voltron, I guess.

I, too, came to the Fallout franchise via Fallout Tactics. Since, I’ve played Fallout 2, 3, and 4, and I love them all.

Actually funnily enough in fallout new Vegas if you complete the lonesome road dlc they actually make a planet of the apes joke in the ending slide show if you have the wild wasteland perk on

I was hoping we'd see a reprint of Assault Suit printed as a power armor, but I think it's very reasonable they didn't do that, I just love that card.

Mantle of the Ancients is a reprint right?

So much cool equipment tech for my Dwarf Iron Man deck.

Blasphemous Act is in every set but is one of the best wipes for red. Also I feel it is a flavor win for this set because the dropping of the bombs themselves is the Blasphemous Act.

I'm 40. I genuinely am excited for Frank. That said he was only in the game for five minutes, wasn't foreshadowed at all (as far as I remember?) and is just a big guy so you're still right about the other 90% of people. Also because I thought he had two guns and not a gun and his knife (it's been a while alright?) I named my Frank Horrigan deck "So anyway, I started infecting". I mean, I think it's funny.

For me Mysterious Stranger is more of a black card than the red one. The ability of destroying creature fit more from his than random use people spell. A Huge Miss imop.

Fallout NV had a few perks with vault boy referencing movies. The professional, Silent running, Logan's loophole.

First thing that came to mind for Idolized was Ishinn decks because the enchanted creature is the one with the triggered ability so it will trigger twice.

Ravages of war is a great reprint is on flavor and just because some play groups don't like land destruction doesn't mean all groups won't allow it

I came here for the cards, stayed because Kenobi is a based og + new vegas fallout fan like me

I am enjoying the hell out of this as a die hard Fallout fan! Thanks for putting this together, I am cube card shopping as I watch your review. Happy cubing! -Anthony aka Uber Bear.

Does Strong Back + Junk Jet work, reading the card explains the card, but I can't figure out the if it does

It's probably not possible but I would love it if larian studios could make a new isometric fallout

I already planned out my Frank Horrigan infect deck. I'm so ready.

Really disappointed Joshua Graham didn’t get his own card. Maybe something with undying.

I feel like blasphemous act could have been the scene from the start of fallout 1 with Canadian citizens being executed in the street, or any of the many concentration camps or references to the camps that we visit throughout the games if we needed to have blasphemous act reprinted again

So wanted to clarify re: Planet of the Apes. The world isn't frozen in the 1950s. The bombs dropped in October 2077, and what we're seeing in the game as the aesthetic of the pre war period is a retro style, and the history of the world doesn't actually diverge from ours until around the 1960s where in their world, they didn't make some of the energy saving advancements we did, and so they ran out of fossil fuels well before we're set to. Short story, Planet of the Apes could have easily existed in both timelines.

wondering if were gonna get player characters as cards, also as far as ravages of war goes, one of the wild wasteland endings to lonesome road new vegas dlc has a slide that references the ending of planet of the apes.

I find that How one feels around the power armor card depends on which games you played because its based off the fallout 4 armor. Its a massive flavor win for the fallout 4 armor because it starts with an energy core in it and require energy to run or its just a hunk of metal

Mysterious Stranger should have destroyed a permanent or done a comedy amount of damage to a target on entry with a coin toss or dice roll, not whatever the fuck this is.

1000% completed fallout 1 and 2, Frank horrigan was an awesome antagonist and voice by Michael Dorn (Worf from star trek) I actually wish he was a bit better or cheaper at least. just felt called out lol

If you think about the creatures that Megaton's Fate can take out, things with a toughness of 8, those are usually huge titans (like Liberty Prime!) or behemoths with a fat ass. So it makes sense for a single nuke to do 8 damage, and Blasphemous act (actual nuclear war and perpetual wasteland, combined with the moral blasphemy you mentioned in the vid) to do 13. Even mechanically, red boardwipes are usually 3-4 damage for 3-4 mana, so getting 8 damage for 6, spitting some rads in other players' faces, and having the choice of instead ramping yourself towards Revel in Riches or Hellkite Tyrant is pretty good, imo.

The completion of the Odyssey filter lands set is the single thing about this set I'm the most excited about. Hope they get an universe within reprint very soon. Odyssey is the set the ally ones were first printed btw.

Like you, I'm torn on Blasphemous Act. Flavor wise, I think Chain Reaction might have been a better fit for a red wrath effect for the set... but on the other side, I can remember when they didn't print Blasphemous Act as often as they are now and the card spiked at around $10, so they do need to keep putting more of them into circulation.

In my opinion, the jeskai energy deck needed a lot of things to go right especially without green or aetherworks marvel and I think it just didn't meet that

In defense of Veronicas art and your point of it not matching her. When you meet her at the 188 trading post. She is standing in front of a bar run by 2 people from Primm. To use the reference picture you used for in game as a base. The bar in question is behind the player character in game, so she can look over your shoulder and see the bar in question. Though to argue in your favor for your base point. The bar in question looks nothing like the art on the card, but Ill chop that up to New Vegas engine looking like Iraq in 2004. Great video Vince! Please forgive what might be the saddest nerdiest comment I've ever posted lol.

MacCready in a toughness matter deck could be really nice. Like - The Pride of Hull Clade with trample suddenly becomes REALLY difficult to block.

The number of people who played Fallout 1 and 2 are probably pretty high since those two and Tactics have been sold in a bundle together on steam were at times each game was under 1 dollar. That being said I believe a lot of Tactics mixed reviews were from it being unplayable on a lot of PCs, the steam version may have fixed it since then.

I appreciate you sir. Nice dive into things. I never got into fallout bc I preferred multiplayer. Nice to see other people get excited about it. My friends here in Texas are hyped for it.

Ravages or war can be and should be if able in a commander deck no matter what, land destruction is awesome, build that salt score up up up!

The Blasphemous Act art should be the crucified townsfolk of Nipton from FNV

Mantle of the Ancients is actually a reprint, and yes, it's very strong.

Never played any of the Fallout games, but I'm psyched for every green aura you preview. I haven't had much new tech for Ivy lately, and Strong Back is sick as hell

I am holding out hope they made a card for Joshua Graham.

So far nothing has excited me. I do like some of the reprints like hullbreaker, and walking ballista but none of the new cards have set off a spark. I ordered a collector box so I hope atleast a few cards inspire me to build around them.

I still never played the "modern" Fallout games... but man, I'm gonna say, I love the isometric lands. And energy coming back. Those are the things I'm excited about.

Though how is running all 7 bobble heads (plus one other manalithe) in a casual 5c deck supposed to work in a field of 8, 9, 10, and EX decks?

This set is pretty rad! ☢

I love the Fallout games... bummed that the collector boxes are going to be so hard to get my hands on.

While I agree with you on the zombie vs ghoul thing, you don't want to lock the cards into only being viable in that set. There are no Ghoul creature types in magic. It's the same reason you end up with Halflings in the Lord of the Rings set instead of Hobbit. Hobbits do not exist outside of Middle Earth. So Wizards would either have to license the term in perpetuity to expand on the creature type, or you'd have to accept that those creatures would become the next Brushwagg.

I like the long form spoiler videos, now I don't have to hunt them all down myself, Goated. Thanks PK.

Magic zombies are sometimes depicted as sentient, especially Liches.

Me personally I loved Fallout 4. It was my first fallout game and I loved the characters and gameplay the combat is so fun to me. I’ve played hundreds of hours of that game. I’ve since gone back and played new Vegas and I’ve had a lot of fun with it but there is just so much modern game elements missing in my opinion like no sprinting and the gameplay just feels sloppier overall.

Lol it’s ok to not know this but calling aradesh an overseer is funny. That is the man that founded the New California Republic

I think Blasphemous Act would have fit better if it had been tied to Ulysses' actions in Lonesome Road, rather than just the nukes more generally. "If you believe in something enough, you must be willing to let it burn".