Mirrodin

So it's a mana value five, just five colorless.

It's an artifact and it's a rare originally printed in Mirrodin.

No, it's not Eldrazi Monument.

Yeah, that's where I was leaning.

Joven and Chandler just stole it.

I mean, you said the

card's from Mirrodin, so it's like pre-Phyrexian.

Honestly, I don't know what a Time Sifter is.

And creatures you control can't have minus one counters put on them randomly.

I guess because that ties into the whole infect Mirrodin plotline.

Yeah.

Bottom line, this is an indestructible card.

But that's what this card is doing.

Okay, so next, we get to Darksteel, which is the second set in the Mirrodin block.

So this costs, gets Grimoire, costs four.

Whenever an opponent discards a card from his or her hand, you may draw a card.

Oops.

Okay, next up is Venser's Journal.

So Venture's Journal is from Scars of Mirrodin.

It costs five.

Well, hey, for folks who haven't been playing Magic the Gathering since 1997, let's talk about Phyrexia, Phyrexianism.

I first encountered it in 2003 with the Magic the Gathering set, Mirrodin.

It's a very interesting story.

You should read about it.

Well, there are a lot of concepts in the game that apply weirdly to the subjects we cover.

I don't know.

Makes you think about that set, Ben, that came out a long time ago called Conspiracy and how excited we were.

We were like, they made a set called Conspiracy?

They could even, like, I mean, Magic the Gathering is a game of fives, right? So just, like, you can find something.

You can find, give me the courts that are the five sons of Mirrodin or whatever.

Give me,

like, I don't know.

Yeah.

I mean, James could...

People associate me with Kamigawa where really they need to associate me with Mirrodin because that's where the tism really ran wild.

But this bad boy is...

are tribal well that's that's quite a useful way that's quite a useful way into this because a little bit of the concept behind the podcast i think and tell me if i'm wrong but i think it's that you are a more experienced player um how long have you been playing magic the gathering

so i started uh just before mirrored in so i think scourge is when i started playing i remember the first pack of magic i ever bought had it had effects on the net i think uh Flooded Strands so whenever that was it was probably like around the 2000s nice but I didn't actually really learn to play Magic until sort of like the end of Mirrodin the start of Ravnica and Kamigawa somewhere around there and I thought it was shit shit What changed? I played loads of card games in the meantime and I just thought, this man, this is fucking boring.

That might be part of growing up in my formative years of magic being in Mirrodin, which has known for being quite a bland block.

We look back on it now and it's absurdly powerful.

He's got some of the most cracked cards known to man.