Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - #991: Unfinity with Ari Zirulnik, Part 2

Episode Date: December 9, 2022

In this podcast, I'm joined by Ari Zirulnik again (he oversaw names and flavor text for Unfinity) so that he and I can give more off-the-cuff canon material about the characters from Unfinity.

I'm not pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work at Home Edition. So, many weeks ago, I had Ari Zarolnik on to talk all about the flavor of Unfinity, and we had a lot of fun making up, or, sorry, definitively talking about the flavor of the characters, and we didn't get through all of them, and we said maybe we'd come back and do more. So we're back, and we're doing more. Hey, Ari. Hey. How's it going?

Okay, so I have a list of characters we did not talk about. So I'm going to, I'll call them out. And then you and I can talk about where the character came from and any background we want to give the character. Specifically, Infinity characters. These are all Infinity characters. Yes, these are all Infinity characters. Everything we talk about in this next half hour is 100% canon.

Yes. The most viable lore you've ever heard. The most canon podcast ever. Okay. Put it in the wiki. We will start with the most dangerous gamer. So let me read this card real quickly. So the most dangerous gamer is

two black green for a 2-2 So let me read this card real quickly. So the most dangerous gamer is... 2 black green for a 2-2. Legendary creature, human gamer guest. Death touch. Whenever the most dangerous gamer enters the battlefield or attacks, open an attraction. Whenever you open an attraction, put a plus one plus one counter on the most dangerous gamer. Whenever you claim the prize of an attraction, destroy target permanent. So who is this man?

So the one thing I will say is there were four characters that got made during world build, like initial world building, during the world push. Myra, Devil King Neville, the Captain Rex Nebula, and the Most Dangerous Gamer. And we talked about the other three last time. So let's talk about the most dangerous gamer.

Who is he? What's he doing? Why is he here? Well, first of all, his name is fairly self-explanatory. He is the deadliest gamer in the galaxy. There is no one better at sharpshooting little tiny targets with, like, softballs very far away. He can knock over the most milk bottles

in the entire quadrant. This guy, he's unbeatable in the field of games. If you've ever seen in the movies how there's a sequence where there's a montage where they're practicing to get their skills up.

They're running up and down stairs and hitting meat or whatever. So there is one for him, but it's just him mastering every skill you would need to win at carnival games. Yeah, like the ski ball section, it has to be seen to be

believed. Just like hitting the left 500 in the top right corner that nobody can hit every time. Oh, he gets the 10,000 every time. Bam, bam, bam, bam. Yeah, right, you're right. My bad, my bad. Yeah, no, I mean, he's the enthusiast. I think he's been

to every theme park in the universe. Yes. And this one's his favorite. This is the one he keeps coming back to. Well, and the other thing is, he's in it for the prizes. He wants to just, I mean, he's really good, and he'll just, whatever he does, he'll win every game. And Myra considers him, like, there are five plagues as far as she's concerned.

There's a rat problem, there's a bebo problem, there's a squirrel problem, there is a gremlin problem, and there's a most dangerous gamer problem. Yeah, the only thing limiting him is the number of hours in the day right and there's signs like his picture the reason he wears a mask now is there's a picture of his like he has to hide who he is because they won't let him in he has this in fact i think he sneaks in he doesn't even he doesn't even pay for uh to pay to get in oh yeah he just knows um i think like he probably has on some lone asteroid somewhere like a boba fettstyle bounty hunter lair that's just filled with, like, stuffed animals. Oh, I think he has a lair that are stuffed animal heads up on walls. That's what I believe.

Oh, mounted on the wall? Yeah, mounted on the wall. I think that's right, yeah. That unicorn you see right there, that's getting mounted on his wall. But he is, uh... All I'm saying is he is... Myra curses his name probably every day. Yeah, if you see him next to you at the water gun balloon game, run, or you will get wet.

Yes. Okay, next up, we're going to talk about Brim's Barone Midway Mobster. Three white black, 5'4, legendary creature, human rogue. When Brim's Barone Midway Mobster enters the battlefield, put a Pulse of Unpulsement counter on each other creature you control that has a hat. Brim's Barone Midway Mobster has menace as long as you're wearing a hat.

And then his flavor text is, the capo of caps, the hitman of hats, the don of donning fashionable headwear. Well, he's definitely got a bit of a racket going on on the midway. Yes. For sure, right? I mean, he's covered. If you want a hat anywhere on the Astratorium,

you've got to go through him. Yeah, yeah. He's got you covered, literally and figuratively. And if you come in with your own hat, so you think you're clever, you think you're wearing your own hat, you might lose more than that. That's all I'm saying. Well, I mean, you'll be approached by someone that recommends, usually you're approached

in the parking lot before you even get in, that they wouldn't recommend you wear that outside hat inside the park. Yeah, it's, uh, the weather's getting dangerous. And he's not, just so people understand, he's not an employee. He does not work

for the park at all. You'll notice it does not say employee on his creature type line. He is just a bad influence, but because he controls the hats on the park, he sort of follows the park around. Yeah, and he has a following, right? Like Caber Thrasher

in this set, right? Like he has enforcers that work for him. Oh, yeah. For sure. Yeah. I'm not sure where he gets his funds. I guess he probably has some... No, no! He controls the hat market! Oh, sure. That's how he gets his funds. Is he just on the Astratorium?

Or is it, like... Does he have a wider reach? I believe he has a wider reach. But I think the Astratorium has kind of a soft spot for him. And I mean, Myra, I think, has come to realize that she just has to deal with him for the hats. Like, Myra's long enough

given up. She's like, fine. The cost of doing business, if I want hats, I need to deal with Brim's. And she's like, fine. That's just the cost of doing business. I think he had a really tough upbringing, like the son of doing business. I think he had a really tough upbringing, like the son of an unsuccessful haberdasher. Yes.

Who just kind of like, he would look at other people's hats and then look at the hats that his own father made him and just feel this burning envy inside of him. And he would knew that someday all of those hats would be under his control. Yeah, I think his father was a little more controlling with hats than was probably healthy for him. And I think once he sort of got out underneath his father, he really decided to make hats his own.

That's canon, too. All of this is canon, folks. All of this. Yeah, it's instantly canon, especially the stuff that seems to contradict itself. That stuff's double canon. Well, I mean, A, it's a complex character. He both loves hats and hates hats.

That's core to who Brim's is. That he has a love-hate relationship with hats. And his dad. Let's know if you want the Brim's Verone spinoff set. We'll do it. It'll be great. 300 Brimstone cards. Okay, next up, we have not one card,

but we have five cards. We're going to talk about Myra's Marvels. So let me run through real quickly for them. So Katarina of Myra's Marvels, two white, white, three, three, legend, creature, human performer. As Katarina of Myra's Marvels enters the battlefield, choose a letter. Whenever you cast a spell whose name begins with a chosen letter,

create a white tutu cat creature token with flying. And she has partner. And then there is Floros of Myra's Marvels. Two blue blue, three four, legendary creature, merfolk performer. As Floros of Myra's Marvels enters the battlefield, choose a number greater than zero. Whenever you cast a spell with power, toughness, or loyalty equal to the chosen number, target artifact or creature becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness XX until end of turn, where X is the chosen number, target artifact or creature becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness XX until end of turn

where X is the chosen number partner. Then is Nocturnal of Myra's Marvels, two black, black, two, two, legendary creature, vampire performer. As Nocturnal of Myra's Marvels enters the battlefield,

choose a word with five or more letters. Whenever you cast a spell with the chosen word in its rules text, you draw a card and lose two life, partner. Ignacio of Myra's Marvels, two red, red, four, three, legendary creature, lizard performer. As Ignacio of Myra's Marvels, two red red, four three,

legendary creature, lizard performer. As Ignacio of Myra's Marvels enters the battlefield, choose the armor, blood, book, bottle, fang, fire, scroll, spear, sword, or water. Whenever you cast a spell with the chosen object in its art, create two treasure tokens, partner as well. And finally, Hardy of Myra's Marvels, two green green,

four four, legendary creature, elf performer. As Hardy of Myra's Marvels enters the battlefield, choose a number. four, legendary creature, elf performer. As Hardy of Myra's Marvels enters the battlefield, choose a number. Whenever you cast a spell with the chosen number of lines of flavor text, put that mini

plus one, plus one counters on target creature, partner. So these are Myra's Marvels. So let's talk about, where does Myra, who are Myra's Marvels? Where do they come from?

Well, they are the top performers at the park. This is the main draw. If you're coming to see the circus and you want to see the show, you're coming to see these five incredible individuals do their thing um but mark i uh i have some news for you okay you've stumbled into the lightning round

a list of attributes and i'm going to tell them to you and you are going to rapid fire go through each of these characters and tell me about them. Okay. Per by list. Will do. So we're going to start with dietary restrictions. Katerina, go. Katerina is a vegetarian.

Floros, go. Floros eats lots of fish. Nocturno, go. Nocturno eats blood. Ignacio, go. Ignacio eats small creatures.acio, go. Ignacio eats small creatures. Hardy, go. Hardy eats, Hardy is

eats lots and lots of meat. Alright. High protein. I'm sorry? Katerina left-handed. Katerina's left-handed. Floros is right-handed. Nocturno's right-handed. Ignacio is left-handed.

Hardy is right-handed. Awesome. What's their favorite magic set? Candorita's favorite magic set is Amonkhet, because there was cat tribal in it. Floros's favorite is anything that has merfolk tribal in it.

So, like, you know, Anonslot didn't have merfolkal in it. So, like, you know, An Onslaught didn't have Merfolk Tribal in it. So maybe, um, maybe Lorwyn, because Lorwyn has Merfolk Tribal. Nocturno likes, uh, I think he likes things that are dark. So, you know, Innistrad-type sets. Things were, uh, things were looking bad.

He enjoys the darker sets. Ignacio, interestingly, really likes Rise of the Odrazi just because he likes playing more of a battleship environment. And Hardy, Hardy's favorite is Infinity itself.

How does he know the existence of Infinity? I don't know, but he somehow does. That's incredible. Last one. Deepest, darkest secret. Deepest, darkest secret. Katarina is, she's a dog person. Floris's deepest, darkest secret is that that shine isn't natural.

Nocturnal's deepest, darkest secret is he likes garlic. Ignatius's deepest, darkest secret is he always wanted to be a dragon. And Hardy's deepest, darkest secret is he likes garlic. Ignatius' deepest, darkest secret is he always wanted to be a dragon. And Hardy's deepest, darkest secret? Steroids. Don't tell anyone, but you tell the wiki. It's canon. All canon. That was a wonderful lightning round, Mark.

Okay. So, Miners Marvels, the interesting thing about them is that they were originally branded as the Three Ring Cir. That's why if you notice, they have three rings in their art, um, that they, uh, they are, they are, they understand that they're the big players and they banded together. with us and you make contracts you had to deal with all of us together they did that and so myra has to deal with them as a set of five so she's like well as long as i have to deal with them together she branded them and made them the myra's marvels um but they are quite spectacular by the way so if you uh if you're going to go to the astrotorium and spend some time in the big top these five like until you see flying kittens you just haven't seen a show, so. It's true.

I still remember my visit to the AstroTaurium. It was beautiful. Okay, next up. It came from Planet Glurg. Okay, so. Where did that come from? Not a lot of people know where it came from, Planet Glurg came from, but it turns out it came from Planet Glurg.

That's not a lie. So, XX Green Blue, 00, Legendary it came from Planet Glorg. That's not a lie. So XX, green, blue, 00, legendary creature, alien ooze. You may have it came from Planet Glorg,

enter the battlefield as a copy of X, different creatures on the battlefield. It has a total power, total toughness, combined mana cost, all text boxes,

names, art, and so on. And it says a sludge with a grudge. So by the way, he has a name. It came from Planet Glorg has a name. So do you want to tell us

what Planet Glorg's name is? Oh, yeah. It's Stefan. Stefan? Yeah. It's a full name. Yeah. Planet Glurg is his nickname for short. Well, I mean, that's what they call Stefan. Like, they... It's kind of

really... Like, he's like, I have a name. You have to... Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's... He finds it kind of offensive that they refer to him, you know, like, there's a lot of people from Planet Glurg. I'm one of many creatures from Planet Glurg. He's part of Planet Glurg. It's his home. You know, but it just,

anyway. That's why he has a grudge. He's mad. He's mad that no one really understands him as an individual. They just see him as this being that destroys things. But in the Astratorium's defense, in Glurgian, the name Stefan is approximately 3,000 characters long. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really hard to pronounce.

So, I mean, I... Yeah. You see it, and you're like, I'm not even going to try. But it's just Stefan. Yeah, I mean, when he was young, he fell down a well, and it took them 18 months to be able to get to him, because it took that long to say his name. Was it like Stefan? Yes.

Stefan is the English version of it. It's very, very long in Galerganese or whatever the official language is. Yeah, which is also where the Galactopod flavor on Icing Manipulator came from. Yes. So that's another fact about that planet. I think it's like an ocean planet. Yeah, my take on Stefan is he didn't get enough love when he was a child. And so he takes other people's identities because he's like, will you love me now?

You know, and so I think it's just there's a self-esteem issue. I mean, it really, when it boils down to it, he just, he wants to be loved. I mean, that's all. Why does he attack things and take over other people's identities? Just wants to be loved, that's all. Yeah, I mean, like, I don't want to

be it came from Seattle, I get it. Yeah. Okay, next up, we're going to talk Doodle. So, Doodle so Doodle Doodle character characterist six generic mana

legendary creature legendary artifact creature robot one one when Doodle character enters the battlefield create a four four color sketch creature token

when you have 15 seconds to draw the token is flying if it has wings and is art the same is true for first strike and a sword

vigilance and a shield menace and mean eyes trample on horns death touch and claws life, Menace and mean eyes, Trample and horns, Death, Touch and claws, Life, Lick and things, and Haste and footwear. So here's the big question. I'm going to ask you, and you're going to explain this to me. There are a lot of robots, but this is the only legendary

robot. How did he be, like, how did Doodle become the one robot that, you know, has a name and everything? So when Pietro was the creator of the clown robots at the park, created Doodle, she accidentally endowed it with the gift of prophecy. So Doodle's caricatures kind of, like, they have portents of the future. Like, he'll draw a family, like, you know,

on the surfboard with a big head, everyone's, like, facial features exaggerated or whatever, and there'll be, like, a little shark fin in the background or something. And a month later, that family will be vacationing on Glurg, which we said was an ocean planet, and they'll get eaten by sharks. Ah, so that's why so many of his characters have mean eyes. Yes, exactly, because really just lots of bad things fall.

It doesn't seem to be Doodle's fault. Like, I don't think Doodle is influencing the future. But I do think that somehow, due to some glitch in programming, Doodle is predicting the future. The other thing that I'm not sure people, I don't know if people realize, but I will tell you, is Doodle was Pietro's first creation.

And early on, she thought that she would just put advanced AI into every robot. And then after she made Doodle, she realized, uh-oh, if too much AI makes... He wasn't supposed to be a character choice. He wasn't designed to be a character choice. That's not at all what he was designed to do. He, like, he was, he had a completely different function. I think he was, like, scrubbing, you know, the rollercoaster or something, the royal. I heard he was a bellhop. Oh, he was

a bellhop. Okay. It's mystery. It's mysterious. Yes, but anyway, he didn't do what he was told, and what Pietro realized is, look, I need the robots to do the thing I designed them to do, and she realized that, like, okay, I gotta tone down on this AI. And so, Doodle's the only one that has kind of a

fully, that's why he's the only legendary one. He's the only one that has sort of a full personality. Because Pietro realized that the robots just didn't do what they were supposed to do if you sort of gave them a full AI. So. Yeah, it's really a tragic story about man's arrogance. Yeah, it's really a tragic story about man's arrogance. Yeah,

yes, and Doodle, by the way, there was a path where Doodle decided whether to overrun the park or to become a characterist, and he thought long and hard about it, and ended up becoming a characterist, because he wanted to use his gift of seeing the future, and that

seemed like a better use than, you know, overrunning the park, so. Yeah, if I could see the future, I that seemed like a better use than, you know, overrunning the park. If I could see the future, I would definitely be on a boardwalk somewhere. 100%. Okay, next we're going to talk Spinneret. So Spinneret, Arachnobot, 3 black, green, 2, 4, legendary creature, spider performer, reach. When Spinneret Arachnobot

enters the battlefield, open an attraction. As long as you control 3 or more attractions, Spinneret gets plus 2, two plus O and has menace. Highway injuries are down 95%. Spider-related injuries are up 3,000%. So I think Spinarak was hired as the safety manager in the big top, right? Like there's all these high-flying tricks and stuff, and people are getting hurt.

Space nets are just not as sturdy as as as earth nets due to gravity and rotation and orbiting and forces so you need something stronger so you heard the spider who could spin these like reinforced safety nets and so so people stop falling to the ground and i think that's really great, and I see no downsides, Mark. Well, I mean, the only downside is that Spinnerette is one of the highest paid employees slash performers in the park. Because the deal that was struck with Myra is she'd get a little extra bonus in regards to not eating any of the performers. Yeah, which, except of course, like everyone else in the park, Spinnerette is in a union. And she does have union mandated breaks and snacks yeah and sometimes those union mandated snacks are a less successful performer and that's just how life that's the circle of

life and it's beautiful well i mean i i think myra decided that like right the compromise was every once in a while she gets to eat a performer, but it's usually a low, right, something that's not performing well. So, and by the way, it's part of Mybra's program to motivate the performers to do their best work. Yep. It hasn't failed. The thing that really infuriates Myra is that all of the

Beebles and the Rats and the Squirrels and the Gremlins are too small to get caught in the net, and they just slip through. So it's really... Yeah, so it's got to part of the employee motivation plan. Okay, next, we're going to talk about Solar Flora, Intergalactic Icon,

3 white, white, 3, 3, legendary creature, human guest, auras and equipment you control attached to Solar Flora, Intergalactic Icon affect other creatures you control, as those auras and equipment were attached to them. Counters and stickers on Solar Flora affect other creatures you control, as those counters and stickers Okay, so this is... Soul Flora is an influencer. Mm-hmm.

And she is... Notice she's a guest. She does not work at the park. But she enjoys flaunting into the park. She loves dressing up. And wherever she goes, there's cameras everywhere. You can see in her picture, there's just paparazzi falling around her everywhere. So let's talk a little bit about the paparazzi at the park.

Yeah, I mean, in general, the AstroTourney is a big deal, right? There's going to be names that show up. You get your Sora Flora. I heard that Harvey Galaxy comes by sometimes. That Interstellar Greg makes an appearance. Every big-name celebrity from space that you and I both know about so well, grew up watching on the Interstellar TV, are here at the park. So there's a healthy amount of paparazzi

that are there to snap pictures of the guests enjoying themselves, you know, playing some arcade games, only rarely getting beheaded. Like, it's all in good fun, right? Yeah, and Sola Flora is there a lot. This is one of her favorite places. I mean, it's not the only place she goes, but it's one of her favorite places to visit.

And Myra understands how much publicity she gets. So Myra always, you know, makes her feel like a star. She's the only person that Brim's Verone leaves alone. That is true. She can wear her own hat in. Yeah, that helm

is her own helm. The helm of the host that she wears. That's her own helm of the host. And not one she bought at the park. Yeah. I mean, it's a legendary artifact. There's only one. Yes. Okay. So, let's talk Magar of the Magic Strings. One black red, 3-3, legendary

creature, minotaur performer. One black red. Note the name of target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard and put it onto the battlefields face down. It's a 3-3 creature with, whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may create a copy of the card with a noted name, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost, and

if this creature would leave the battlefield, exile instead of putting it anywhere else. So Magar is a puppeteer. Yeah, does he make his own puppets, or are they, like, cursed? I think he both makes them and they are cursed oh okay very good very good i'm glad it's both of those yeah his specialty is making cursed marionettes

i mean aren't all marionettes a little bit cursed i mean no one quite knows how he makes the marionettes and i mean there are rumors about some of the dark magic he uses to make them. All that is known is don't mess with Maegar. Nobody who's messed with Maegar, like, people just disappear that mess with Maegar. Don't mess with Maegar. Yeah, do not talk in the middle of a show. Oh, never, never, ever. And also, just to be safe, if he has to audience volunteer, I would also.

Yeah, I would not do that. But he is, it is an amazing show. He is, I mean, he's not one of Myra's marvels, but he is definitely one of the highlights of the park. I mean, while his puppets are creepy, they are, I mean, the fact that they are puppets, like, you know, when you're in the show, you forget they're puppets. That's how good it is. I would say, I would describe them as almost lifelike. Yes. But anyway, they are... Some say they are fallen spells that...

But anyway, no one quite knows what the puppets are made out of. That's true. Okay, next up, we're going to talk Meet and Greet Sisay. Red and a green, one, one, legendary creature, elf performer. Whenever you cast a spell,

choose one. Flavor. Meet and Greet Sisay gets plus one, plus one until end of turn for each line of flavor text that spell has. Or history.

Create a treasure token if that spell doesn't share an expansion symbol with a permanent you control or a card in your graveyard. Okay, so Meet and Greet Sisay. Let me explain real quickly. She is playing the part

of Cisse, much like if you go to Disney World, you might meet Cinderella or Snow White. But she is a she is so good at Cisse that Myra has her play Cisse whenever possible. And I should note, Cisse isn't an elf. Like, actual Cisse isn't an elf.

But she's so good that like everyone looks back at the fact that she happens isn't an elf. Like, actual Sisay isn't an elf. But she's so good that, like, everyone looks back at the fact that she happens to be an elf. I mean, I think that the first Firaxian invasion of Dominaria was so long ago that the details of Sisay's

exact personality have been kind of lost in the transition from magic world to the Astratorium, right? So I think as far as guests know her being an elf, they don't even know. They're like, oh, sure. I mean, I think the people at the Astratorium believe that the actual Sisay was an elf.

Because meet and greet Sisay, so what's her real name? It's Jennifer. Jennifer. Jennifer is so good. She so becomes Sisay that people just believe this is what Sisay was. And she really has

kind of warped the conventional view of who Sisay was from, you know, in modern sort of the people that live in the AstroTaurium, or people that visit the AstroTaurium. You know, her greatest secret is that her first set was actually Darksteel.

Oh. So that's if she never actually played with any of the old Weatherlight Saga cards. Okay. She read the wiki. We gotta go on. We have more characters. Okay, next up, Clare de Lune, Joy Sculptor, white and a blue, 2-3, Legendary

Creature, Human Reformer. When Clare de Lune, Joy Sculptor. White and a blue. 2-3. Legendary creature. Human reformer. When Clare de Lune, Joy Sculptor, enters the battlefield for the rest of the game, tokens you own become cards that are still tokens. They continue to exist after you leave the battlefield. One white-blue tap. You may put a token from your graveyard or hand onto the battlefield. She'll sculpt goblins, saplings, meral age,

though that one will take a lot of balloons. A lot of balloons. So, interestingly, now we all know that there is a robot on there that make like you can go see the balloon peddler that makes that makes balloons so there's a robot that makes balloons but claire said no no there's an art to it that you know that the robot can't capture the art maybe they can make them way way faster, but they can't get the artistry that she gets into her. And the other thing is

her balloons come alive. It's a slight difference. I think we can paraphrase one of the rejected flavor texts for this card as part of, which is that she knows that they're done when the squeaking becomes screaming. Yeah, but I think Claire is interesting

in that I think when she first came to Myra to try to get a job there, Myra was like, look, I don't need a balloon maker. I have a balloon maker. I have a robot that does it. And I think she so wowed Myra with what she was able to do that Myra, like, on some level

she's as much a performer, right? I mean, she's not like an employee who just makes balloon animals. She's an artist that, in front of your eyes, creates something marvelous. Yeah, I think she had, like, a John Henry-style, like, balloon-off with the balloon-making robot.

Oh, she got the job. She did. 100% she did. She got the job, yeah, yeah. It was very old American fable. And I think, I think to this day, Pietra's greatest sadness is that her balloon robot didn't win that battle. Yeah, it's definitely a big regret she has, but I think Pietra concedes

that also the balloon robot isn't that funny, so she kind of puts her energy elsewhere. That is true. Okay, next up, Grand Marshal Macy. One white, black, 2-2, legendary creature, human performer. You may choose not to untap Grand Marshal Macy during your untap step. If you do, put a pause counter on it. Then you lose one life for each pause counter on it.

Whenever Macy becomes untapped, remove all pause counters from it. 2 and tap. Choose until end of turn or this turn effect. As long as Macy remains tapped, that effect doesn't end. So here is the interesting story of Grand Marshal Macy. Originally, she worked in the concession stand. She did the drinks.

And whenever the parade came by, she would leave her job and go get in and march in front of everybody. And Myra kept putting her at different parts of the park, but she kept doing this. And then Myra finally gave in

and said, okay, apparently she just wants to leave the parade. Why am I stopping the inevitable? And she just let her leave the parade. Yeah, I think that she's a natural born leader

and people want to like literally follow her, which makes her such a good parade grand marshal. Yeah. The other thing about her is that she has a little bit of magic. I don't know if people know this, but

that she makes the parade last longer. I don't know if people know that, but her mere existence there is, and this is one of the reasons that Myra, I think, gave in to letting her do the parade, is her magic just makes the parade sort of longer than normal. Okay, we're almost done here.

So I have a few final ones we'll get to real quickly. So these last few, I'm going to do... This is for you. We're going to do lightning round. I'm not even going to read the cards. I'm just going to say the card. You tell me a factoid about each of these characters. Are you ready?

All right. Yeah, I'm ready. Okay. First up is Jermaine, Pride of the Circus, the lion lion tamer. Scared of spiders. Interesting. And he works with spiders. So that's interesting.

Next. That's what made it interesting. That is interesting. Lila, hospitality hostess. Lila, hospitality hostess. Lila, hospitality hostess. She loves working with children, but she actually favors the Blorbian kids more than the other ones

because she feels kind of bad. So she's like, I love all my kids equally, but really she's a Blorbian, a friend to the Blorbians more than that. A friend for the Blorbians. Okay. Next up, Roxy, publicist of the stars. She doesn't have her flyers licensed, which is awkward because her car is her. It's kind of flying around, barking at people.

But she did not pass in flight school. Okay. Space Family Goblinson. marketing people but she uh she did not pass in flight school okay space family goblins in um they are honestly you would think by the way they all bicker that like the family is is kind of on the outs and maybe the their parents can get separated soon but actually their home life is extremely wholesome and positive very. A very tight-knit family. Yeah. Angelic Herald. He actually has the left ankle of a

devil. Ooh! Due to a deal gone wrong. Everything else is of an angel. It says in the player text, but devil's ankle. It's a condition. Okay, the final card to ask about. Vorthos. Honestly, Vorthos. Honestly, Vorthos could tell you way more about herself

than I could. Yeah, the one thing is, Myra struck a deal with Vorthos. Vorthos is only allowed to do the trivia contest once a month. But in exchange for only doing it once a month, she has a pass to the park.

Yeah, I think that's right. I also think that on the days where she's not allowed to enter, she's still in the audience just kind of like whispering to someone next to her, like, I know that one. So anyway, I can see my desk here. So I want to thank you, Ari,

for having a full run through. So now we've done all the characters, all the legendary characters, from Infinity. And so for all you out there, if you haven't had a chance to play Infinity, you can play all these fun characters or make decks with them and construct it

or do all sorts of fun things. But I want to thank you for being with us, Ari. It was a lot of fun to talk about all the characters. I had a great time, Mark. Thanks for having me. Okay, everybody else, I can see my desk. So we all know what this means. It means the end of my drive to work. So instead of talking magic, it's time for me

to be making magic. I'll see you all next time. Bye-bye.