Throne of Eldraine || Crack-A-Pack - Feb 6, 2024 

Gotta agree with Paul here. He makes a good point. Like, we have an animal mouse and a computer mouse. You can have an architectural gargoyle and an artifact creature gargoyle.

After watching this video, can confirm that I am now an elk

No Graham... A Gargoyle is stone by day, warrior by night. They were betrayed by the humans they had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken, and they live again! They are defenders of the night! They are Gargoyles™!

Graham expecting gargoyles to have an entire building gutter hooked into the back of their skulls at all times or else they're not a gargoyle

The adventure name tangent made me think that could make for an interesting Stump the _________ segment. Give only the name of the adventure, and have the guessers come up with the adventure's text and the creature's name and text.

I remember at pax 23, I got in an elevator, my friend held it open for the next guy, asked what floor, and Graham said his floor. I did a literal double take. One of the most surreal moments of my life.

🤏🕶😐 That gargoyle discourse just blew my mind

Fertile Footsteps also gets you the land untapped so that's a nice bonus.

Fertile footsteps notably brings the land in untapped as opposed to rampant growth

Revenge of Ravens was a gigantic beating in limited. LSV infamously gave it a 1.5/5 in his set review, but after a week of the format being out, went back and updated his rating to 3.5/5 and basically said, "My bad, this card is bonkers." Black also had Syr Konrad who was also really good for an uncommon, not to mention a handful of 2-for-1s at common and solid removal (like Bake into a Pie).

That knight land is Tournament Grounds. It taps for a colorless or it taps for a red, white, or black but it can only be used to cast knights or equipment.

Everyone knows a Gargoyle with water coming out of its mouth is a Gar-gurgle.

"Greetings, you Jousting Dummies" was very good.

This set was a BLAST to draft with other people.

6:15 as soon as gargoyle was mentioned, i knew what was going to happen. I appreciate this level of quality

Crack! A! Pack!

One card with adamant i cast a bunch is foreboding fruit. Its a sign in blood for 2 and a black that makes a food if you spend 3 black mana. Thats one more food to resurrect the cat

At first I thought "what about the adventure called Wish?" After looking it up, the card is called Fae of Wishes and the adventure is Granted which would be a weird name for a card

One could argue that since it takes mana to awaken the gargoyle, that it's a grotesque until then, and is only gargoyled with magic. Although one would need to see if it did spout water when in idle mode :p

... or you just draft outflank, which was a bomb in White Weenie. Ever hit a creature for 5 or so with it?

heck yeah, Revenge of Ravens is my favorite card

You’re welcome 👍🏻

This gargoyle chat is why I love LRR. Also Graham is right.

I definitely remember Cut Down on the Giant Killer. EDIT: Ah frick it's Chop Down.... Oh well

So, I almost know all the common adventure-names from Throne of Eldraine, plus those of the most played rares. The reasons for this is that I really got into the game starting with this set and drafted it at FNM relatively frequently where I actually called out the name of the adventures I cast. So Gift of the Fea, On Alert, Rider in Need, Dizzying Swoop, Boulder Rush, Haggle, Treats to Share, Shield's Might, Oaken Boon, Venture Deeper plus Harvest Fear, Curry Favor and Rage of Winter I would be able to tell you some combination of what creature it's on in terms of gameplay mechanics, what that creature is called and what the Adventure itself is(, meaning both if it's an instant or sorcery and what it does). Seasonal Ritual I might guess right, but I had honestly misremembered the name of that one and similarly if I was given the name of the creature I might misremember Harvest Fear as Reap Fear and Rage of Winter as... Frost Winds or some such. The rest of them that didn't see extensive play I might have a chance to remember properly, but aside from Alter Fate I am much less confident.

I believe all of us have been elk'd.

Didn't the LOTR themed Commander stuff have a deck that let you spam Food tokens like it was going out of style? Seems like Feasting Troll King would be an interesting addition to that deck as a way of cheating out a big green beatstick...

I do love that Gargoyles in Discworld actually did have mouths like waterspouts.

8:46 Yeah, but can you imagine having to fight a “Burning Yard-Trainer”? Some kind of flame elemental turned gardener…

Did you know the word gargoyle has the same root as gargle. Gargling water is their whole identity. How dare a grotesque appropriate [Lochtwain Gargoyle tilts head back, snorts, gargles spit and snot and lets loose]

Ah yes feasting troll king with 3 giant skewers eqipped, block if you dare.

Adventures I remember: *Petty Theft* *Curry Favor* *Profane Insight* *Chop Down* ..... oh, and *Venture Deeper* . That's it.

I’m surprised you stopped at Stomp when Petty Theft on Brazen Borrower was right there…

Here's the thing, if the gargoyles have to eat and drink then they are naturally waterspouts.

Counterpoint to Paul, isnt there a card from one of the newer Ravnica sets that has a Grotesque in both its art and its name?

So can “dingle that hopper” be a new card kingdom pin?

I'm a big fan of Paul-Graham Tangents!

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Delightful as always!

Offscreen Paul Crack A Pack jumpscare. I would argue that a gargoyle doesn't have to be actively spouting water from its mouth to be a gargoyle, it just has to have the capability. It's not raining in the art, is it? QED. Also, it's not as fun as flample, but, or the troll king...tragilance?

I've gotten opponents with a single Revenge of Ravens. What you do is flood the board with zombie tokens, and when your opponent finally builds up enough board presence to overrun alpha you, they realize too late that it's the moment you've been hoping for. Just enough time for an "Oops." before they're Giga Drained.

trans gargoyles is also gargoyles.