Modern Masters... or is it? || Crack-a-Pack - Aug 12, 2021 

Can we please acknowledge the brilliance of packing the turtle pack in the 'hard shell' box? That's a flavour win right there.

Oh my god. I can't believe this made it into it's own video! That was a pack I gave you back at Pax East 2016 when Modern Masters was pretty new. I figured marking it as so clearly fake would let you decide what to do with it and had assumed it got opened off screen at some point. (Also, my name was on the bag that had a bunch of packs in it, but this was before writing our names on the packs themselves was a super common practice.) Fun fact: When this was packed it was every turtle creature that had been printed so far (Excepting the non-turtley changelings) and I had to fill the 15 cards with other tangentially turtle related cards. Finding a Giant Tortoise was somewhat of a challenge.

Weird how this Jumpstart pack didn't have any lands...

Zoology fun fact: All Tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises. Tortoise is a subclassification of turtle in a sense. Tortoises fall in various tortoise families within the Testudine order.

While I encourage everyone to respect Graham's request for untampered packs of magic, I do enjoy these goof packs for their creativity. Plus, since these are pulled at random its kind of like a goof time capsule.

That was a Turtley Legit pack of Modern Masters.

I’m a sucker for tribal and jokes and random “bad” cards so this was right on the money for my engagement. More of this please! Makes me want to make a turtle EDH deck even though it might be pretty terrible.

We love you Matt, and appreciate your editing skills. We know you aren't Cory and that hopefully these were shot before Graham knew you would be editing them as well.

You could say that this pack was turtles all the way down.

A good chunk of Arabian Nights is on the reserve list. And potentially being on the list is the only reason I could think of for the tortoise being $4.

"In a draft, if I opened this pack... I.. I would call a judge. Then concede."

I'm so happy you did this live without checking first. I am happy in this content. Also hurray for snarky Matt edits. I miss Rewatch. Although I guess it hasn't gone anywhere and I replay it often. So... I guess I don't have to miss anything...

I tried to play Shell of the Last Kappa in a commander deck once. It's such a cool idea, but functionally it's "you have hexproof until someone destroys this thing or you have less than 3 lands untapped" since nobody wants to cast into it, so its second ability never gets used. Not nothing, but not worth the price sadly :(

Do you guys think that every crack a pack episode ever, that the original senders of the packs watch it in anticipation longing for the day that they see the packs they sent be opened and yell "THAT'S MY PACK!! I SENT THAT!!"

instead of saying "totally legit" on the tape it should have said "turtley legit"

this whole pack was just turtles all the way down wasn't it

Turtles have Shroud as a theme to represent them hiding inside of their shells to avoid being attacked.

There's no way that Gift of the Gargantuan wasn't there to make the theme less evident at the start...

Ayy finally you opened my trap. Hehehe

I'm very much enjoying saying "what did you just call me?" out loud after the greetings

"Greetings, you Helium Squirters!" That's... kinda lewd?

This is the best episode of this series that will ever be made

"I don't know who to blamTHANK"

Really excited for this advance preview of Turtle Masters, you guys are gonna do a Pre Prerelease too I hope?

It would have been great if they had tried again with the cardboard booster wrappers. It would save so much plastic

"In a draft, if I opened this pack I would call a judge. Then concede. _Then_ take Meandering Towershell and go live in the woods." He did it. He solved the Modern Masters 15 sealed meta.

It is on flavor for the meandering towershell gag pack to arrive- lemme check math. Six years late.

This reminded me of the time you all used a Modern Masters pack for a FNPF draft and it was just 15 Bump in the Night

I think I enjoyed being called a "demigod" last time more than I enjoyed being called a "helium squirter" this time.

It's turtles all the way down. "It" being this pack.

Somebody got a major slow roll off this

this was a Crack, i was giggling for most of it 😂

And here I was foolish enough to think the rare would be Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

Have you considered blaming James?

4:53 Graham: (in my defence it was very early) Paul (from behind the computer) : IT'S NOON!

custom pack draft when?

I’d say you got trolled but instead you got turtled

Anyone notice a sub-theme that almost every turtle card printed in magic is "that's probably not worth its mana cost"

I think you people broke Graham

We all hope you're watching strange turtle hermit.

You should have revealed the last turtle during the next episode

Turtles all the way down.

It's turtles all the way down! Edit: Turtle Masters coming soon?

The pack was turtles all the way down, riding on the back of a (thopter) whale.

Dude, it seems like the amazon resealers were once good people

Could you say someone played a "shell game". eh? Eh?

All the way down

Plz more "totaly real" packs^^

Urza’s are gear, hammer and flask. Shadowmoor block had hybrid, so it supported a mono color theme by allowing you to cast a bunch of Blue/X hybrid creatures with just Islands. The Scarecrows supported this.

As someone who ships alot of booster packs in mail. They are surprising resilient against damage. Not an excuse for WOTC. They SHOULD improve it somehow due to certain cards in packs can be $100+ and it feels real bad to get a dinged corner or damaged card out of a pack. But it's certainly not a severe problem and only happens rarely IMO. One simple fix I can think of is to have the rare slot in the MIDDLE of the pack. Not at front/back as they currently do it as that's asking for trouble.

I miss the cardboard packs, wish they didn't just drop it. Also gotta open a real MM2 pack next time lol

The fact that Cold-Water Snapper wasn't in the pack is an insult to turtlekind... that card alone cost me time and time again many drafts and pauper matches!

Shell of the Last Kappa recieved a major rarity nerf in Neon Dynasty, and became Old Shell of Kappa, But Not The Last One

I like toitles

Champion is Tori gate Betrayer is shuriken Savior...is the worst...also a lantern

So long and thanks for all the turtles?

OMG I am the same was about the Urza, and Kamigawa blocks, its not just me 😅

In my college playgroup, Meandering Towershell earned the nickname "Durdle Turtle" and we subsequently decided that a group of Commander players is called a durdle due to how long our games usually took.

This was actually super fun! I hope we get to see more joke packs!

I have nearly all of these cards in my turtle tribal EDH deck! Yes, they are just as terrible as they look. Another great card for the category of "has a turtle in the art but isn't a creature" trivia is Switcheroo

dunked on my friends last night in a game of commander with Gruul Ragebeast and Meandering Towershell fun magic is fun

A fine lesson in show prep.

The only thing funnier would have been if there was a package of Turtles (the chocolate candy) gifted with this but likely opened when received.

The shroud ability totally wipes out a LIFO stack that targeted a single creature

Thopter token so that the pack wouldn't be turtles ALL the way down?

Wait, I've seen this before This is not the first time we've gotten a repack with a turtle theme is it not? I feel like the last time this showed up wasn't on Crack a Pack though

So ah, I guess this pack was a tough shell to crack?

This really makes me want a new series where fans/other LRR members make custom packs and Graham has to guess what the theme is.

I assume this will be jokes. ---Graham Stark, 2021

(8:30) What's wrong do you not feel turtly enough for this turtle club.🐢😆

Ah the good ol’ Durtle Turtle. RIP Meandering Towershell

Something something 'Turtles all the way down'.

The crystal symbol isn't an urzas set the urzas symbols are the flask gears and hammer the crystals is prophecy

This was the best one yet!

on the topic of more sustainable booster packs flesh and blood has paper booster packs and apperently there are no problems with it i wish they would share the tech 😮

Fucking. Helium Squirters made me laugh.

At first I was disappointed, then I became thrilled. What a ride.

Sick vid, commenting for algorithm

The art of wormfang turtle is horrifying, thanks i hate it, and i love turtles. Take it away take it away

The moment i saw the art of the first card i knew

Arabian nights is all expensive because it is old, nothing more nothing less

It is, in fact, turtles all the way down.

MODERN MASTERS OOPS ALL TURTLES, MODERN MASTERS OOPS ALL TURTLES, HEROES IN A HALFSHELL!

I'm really sad he didn't say "Durdle Turtle" even once hahaha

They missed Dragon Turtle! 🐲🐢

Yeah that was turtles all the way down...Ba-dum-Tish!

Arabian knight's is a sought after set and also on the reserve site thats why horned turtle is way more money than it should be

I was half expecting the last card to be bump in the night.

As soon as I noticed the theme, I was waiting to see the durdle turtle. XD

all tortoises are turtles, the venn diagram is a circle inside a circle

I like that future Garham corrected which sets they were because the comments were gonna do it if he didn't

How come WOTC can make turtles slow in MTG but can't make them live long enough in D&D?

I think you should draft turtles. It seems open.

2015, slow and steady gets the Graham

I figured they were just pulling a shell game.

Lol dammit you got me I was gonna ask “but what’s your first pick” :p thanks G

It's Turtles It's just Turtles all the way down.

Crack-A-Cardboard! ... Crack-A-Turtle....?

3:52 Calling it now. It's turtles all the way down

Tortoises are Turtles in the same way that a square is a rectangle.