The Brothers’ War Nicknames || TTC 439 

The arbalest Engineers part was from Meet the Engineer from valve for TF2.

The Tower Worker nickname bit was mainly a reference to the flavor text for Carnival of Souls from Urza's Destiny: "‘Davvol, blast those elves.’ ‘Davvol, transport those troops.’ No one cares that today is my birthday.”

They read the whole Monty Python bit 🥺 Bless

If you go to Scryfall and go “s:bro” the jumpstart cards do actually show up. It’s just that a set search in Scryfall will categorize based on where you can find the cards, so they won’t be in the first block of cards. (Which are labeled “IN BOOSTERS • 290 CARDS”) You have to scroll pretty far down, and then there’s a category that says “JUMPSTART CARDS • 5 CARDS” It’s incredibly amusing to me that a feature designed specifically to help you figure out where to find the cards has instead caused you extra confusion on where to find the cards

I'm a simple LRR fan: I see a nickname podcast, I watch it immediately

"it got razed" was my favorite dad joke of this batch

I don't remember half the nickname submissions I made, but, of course, the fact is forever stuck in my memory that I thought of "Mishra, Hood Ornament of Mak Fawa" for Mishra, Lost to Phyrexia too late to submit.

Many of these I laugh at. Airlift Chaplain I was moved to a standing ovation as it carried on and on

I just need to say that your remarks from a prior podcast on how "nobody hates urza like Kayla Bin Kroog" is basically the dominarian version of "does a bear poop in the woods?" has been making me chuckle for actual eeeks

My first time watching one of these: “How on earth is this over 90 minutes?” Me at 6:44: “Oh.”

Out of all the nicknames I submitted, I wanted the one for Thran Spider to win more than any other, so I'm pretty happy. I'm also ecstatic that Graham knows the how the melody of the second half of the song goes, because I don't think everybody does, so I was a bit worried about that.

38:30 GRIM HENSON!

Fun fact: I stopped watching one LRR show to watch this one. And will go back to watching it when I was done with this one.

Nicknames are always fantastic. Very cool to hear some behind the scenes stuff from Kathleen.

At the 2HG pre-release, i used the exile your op graveyard mode of Titiana's Command. Of course this was after i milled 42 cards from their library. They conceded on the spot.

Graham, I know you are glad you stopped writing these but I laughed way harder at some of your jokes and puns than the community's.

I found your channel after buying a pack of Khans, the first pack I had bought since Urza's Legacy.

Urza's Command could also be Reduce Produce Deuce/Deuce Deduce

35:01 those are called porcupines and their main use was stopping naval vessels, they also commonly had mines on them

1:07:30 Just noted Cam suggesting Kayla's nickname was Iambic Pentameter, and I think it's actually Dactylic... a rolling three-syllable pattern of stressed-short-short, rather than a two-syllable alternation of stressed-short.

Hostile Negotiations should have been some kind of reference to the "aggressive negotiations" exchange from Star Wars Episode II. "So then we entered into hostile negotiations." "What's that?" "Negotiations with bombs, basically." "You call this diplomacy?" "Of course not. I call it hostile negotiations."

For shame Graham, "fly me closer I want to hit them with my sword" is a paraphrased 40k meme xD

Emergency weld caught me off guard

THIS is exactly what I needed on a Monday full of office paperwork.

Notably, spiked chains in 3.5 had 15-foot reach-already long for a reach weapon-but let you attack enemies closer than that, which was unusual for reach weapons and I think was the key thing that let people get up to Shenanigans™.

Sunk-Cost Fallaji. Good lord.

Woohooo some of my suggestions made it! The Mishra meld took way too long to find rhyming words that would include flank (because -1/-1 is flanking)

Ooh, got the last one! Thanks as always for doing these; they're always great fun. Also, OMG Puppies's rebuses are very entertaining to see during the voting phase.

For what it's worth the second mode on Titania's Command can do a lot in a land-animation setup, but even then the bears are just... so fuzzy.

One of my favorite nicknames is calling Phyrexian Dragon Engine, Phyrede (Freddie)

Having never seen some of these cards before, this should be fun

Go on Graham, say Panharmommycon, don't back down.

I didn't have time to participate in the naming/voting this time because I was too busy with Christmas prep, but it was a delightful episode nevertheless. Cheers to everyone who contributed.

42:42 My submission wasn't a reference to any other submission (remember, we can't see the other submissions when we're writing them), the idea was just that someone had written something really gruesome. That's why I wrote Kathleen laughing at it, I feel like her sense of humor is such that she'd enjoy a really gruesome joke. In regards to Bartholomew's submission on this card, can I just mention that I always thought it was kind of rude for Obi-Wan to say this right in front of R2-D2?

Arbalest Engineers the nickname is from "Meet the Engineers" from Team Fortress 2

Airlift Chaplin 🤣 that was awesome

49:32 "The food court should be bigger, all of the big franchises are going to want in"

SO GOOD. HELL YEAH I LOVED THIS

and coincidentally, the only card i'm missing from those 5 jumpstart cards is the geology enthusiast. its so annoyingly complicated to find out where cards are from. now that theyve started doing set/collector pack exclusive commander cards too.

Cam was born for this thumbnail reaction era

I'm not excusing WotC's absurd card distributions across their products, BUT... While it's not always straightforward, identifying the source of the cards isn't exactly an exercise in quantum theory: 1. If a card's collector number is just a 3-digit number, and isn't in the form of "###/###", it's from the extended set. It could be showcase, borderless, extended art, foil-etched, etc. 2. Showcase and borderless cards can appear in draft and set boosters; extended art appear in collector boosters; Jumpstart-specific cards appear in set and collector boosters. Foil-etched, if applicable, typically only appear in collector boosters. 3. If you're viewing the set in Scryfall, sort by "Set/Number", and the cards will be divided into their respective sets. WotC assists this by grouping the cards together in their numbering, with cards from the same source being grouped together. [Geology Enthusiast appears in a section literally titled 'Jumpstart cards'.] Again, WotC's flow chart sucks and I'm not making excuses for them, but this is the kind of this which should be only confusing to the average consumer, not those in the content creation and retail spaces. A couple minutes of looking at the set in a non-IAMSOMAD!!! open mind allows it to become a lot clearer. WotC, for all their faults, also creates a webpage with the product breakdowns for each set. If you Google/Bing/Whatever "mtg [SET NAME] product breakdown" it's usually the first or second result. They don't make the information THAT hard to locate.

Must have been a long day for the crew but if I played a drinking game with every time there was a yawn I think I would be dead.

Graham’s getting his hair back!

Not really a correction more of a "um actually". The german name for Iron-Craw Crusher COULD mean Iron stomach through up machine, simply because "brechen" means both crush and and vomit (I know weird). I assume the actual meaning is more Iron stomach crushing machine

Thanks for this.

Springleaf chum reminds me how annoyed I am that the Emmara commander starter deck doesn't have a Springleaf drum.

I was expecting an "Oh mein gott" joke after the "no mishra, don't run into the cave" bit.

The 'Tower Worker' joke is a reference to "Carnival of Souls". Same joke from 1999.

That holy grail name was hilarious

For Bladecoil Serpent I like Knife Noodle for the alliteration.

9:50 YES! My name got picked!

Engagement! For the algorithm! Would it be possible for some of these visual gags /acrostics to be edited in or linked in the video description? Even just a link in this video to the webpage where we can go look at them ourselves would be a time saver.

Gruesome Realization: "YOU CHANGED BRO!"

28:30 is just the plot of Strange Dogs

Calamity's Wake and Liberator were the best ones

I'm so glad my simulacrum joke got mentioned

Lmao the TF2 reference is great

38:49 I just realized that due to the flavor text on Gnarlroot Pallbearer I should have submitted "Mourning Wood"

Also, loving the Monty Python references xD

Goblin blast runner: delver of sacrets

1:06:18 is a reference to one of the Destiny 2 Long Game streams, where Graham 'repeats' "Use the Umbral Engrams on the Prismatic Recaster in the HELM"

sylexs don't kill people people kill people

Amazing.

23:54 hey now, it explicitly does counter fabricate. fabricate is a triggered ability

Dreams of Steel and Oil. So, Alberta?

Just to add to the confusion, I opened a foil Geology Enthusiast in a set booster.

Actually, this is set in the past, so if anything, Blast Zone should be Blast from the Future

Ravnica may not have chainsaws but I would be shocked if there isn't an izzet artificer working on a trainsaw.

Myrel has a whole other ability in reference to the most notable and strongest ability on the card that everyone in the community noticed

Chainsaw where originally invented as a surgical device.

Ravenous Guacamole

Myrel, the Grander Abolisher

Am I stupid for thinking “Gold, Frankensence and Myr” would have been better for Disciples of Gix?

5 planes canonically have chainsaws, cause they forgot Ol' Buzzbark leader of the goblin explosioneers on bablovia (the plane of unstable)

When my name got dropped for 3/4 Urzas I was so happy with myself.

Blast zone should be called urza’s legacy

6:10 It's referencing Warhammer 40k, Dawn of War.

Can't believe Citanul Stalwart, wasn't just Lunatic Stalwart

I propose Bonobo Bot for Simian Simulacrum.

would a ravnican chainsaw be the Gruul Clans dream or nightmare?

god. i am wracking my brain trying to remember what “No one hates Urza like Kaya bin-Kroog” is a reference to

The no one cares it's my birthday flavor text in unfinity was a reference to a card from... I want to say urza's saga? one of the urza's ones im pretty sure

ah crud I forgot to participate this set

BRO!

I was today years old when I learned how to pronounce ASCII.

On Giant Growth: I think the reason it was hard to read is that I actually submitted two rebuses which were right next to each other on the list and you were parsing them as one rebus. The first was "growth" in very large letters, the second was "giant" in letters of ascending size (so it's growing).

For the garish

Emergency weld crapshot when?

Huh. Fun fact there hasn't been a card that starts with n and ends in bolt. But Beacon, Intimidation, Guiding and now Obliterate.

the tf2 reference killed me tbh

Okay, so like, I just checked on some old videos and why are Friday Nights showing on MtG's official channel? Did they buy the rights to them or something? Idk where else to ask this.

Need the lyrics for spider thraan

BRO!!!

CATleen Dimir

This bit should've ended years ago.

Borthers War? Was that the last set? I don't remember.

Fallaji Dragon Engine can fly??

43:15 i don't get it.

Is OMG Puppies okay?

I apologize for all the ones I submitted making fun of flavor text, I forgot you were on the flavor text team.