You can tell how busted fetch lands are by how many times they get mentioned in a list that isn't even about land cards specifically. Magic is one of those games where every little thing a card can do is probably relevant to some strategy, and getting to choose a color option as needed, self burn, and send a card to grave all at once is a lot of little things.
Yeah fetchlands are the best manafixing and utility lands simultaneously. Brainstorm in legacy, deathrite, delve, and all sorts of uses it's just insane. Like if fetchlands didn't exist, deathrite shaman is never banned anywhere.
Maybe they could print fixed fetch lands someday? Perhaps ones that make you lose 1 life for each copy in your graveyard as part of the ability instead of the cost, so you can't just throw 16 in a deck with two mountains and call it burn (oversimplification for a deck I love, sorry burn!)
Another subtle aspect of Noble Heirarch compared to other common mana dorks is that it's a human, not an elf. At the time they designed the card, this was probably considered a downside -- there are way more elf synergies than human synergies, especially in green. (And the decision was probably made for lore reasons -- Noble Heirarch lives in the Bant shard of Alara, and all of the Alara elves we see are located in Naya, not Bant.) However, Noble Heirarch played a pivotal role in the 5-color humans deck that was tearing up Modern a few years ago -- not only is a mana dork that creates white and blue mana exactly what that deck wanted (when it's trying to cast cards like Reflector Mage and Mantis Rider), but the human creature type ends up being a huge upside in a deck that plays human synergies like Champion of the Parish and Thalia's Lieutenant.
i think a big part of the way noble hierarch worked at the time was heavily thematic. not viewed as a downside but as an underline of the theme aspects of each shard
I’m so happy you do MTG in your normal format. So much more digestible than other creators. You made my yugioh decks better by expanding my knowledge on the overall meta
I think one of the most important aspects of Allosaurus Shepherd in Legacy Elves is getting around Chalice of the Void, a card that was basically an FTK against elves before Shepherd’s printing.
Definately a huge upside to the card. Caverns already helped out a lot, though mostly to power out a progenitus or something or slow roll 1 elf per turn. Shepherd let you actually attempt to play your deck as intended.
@@Folfire sorting out 2-9 would be tricky. Golgari won in Ravnica, and Dimir lost in Gatecrash. Transmute has slightly more potential, but you're not really going to use it unless you build a deck around it. Although, Tolaria West could be useful in other decks...
What esper does ? Esper players love control decks ..especially the kind of decks and pilots that forget to put WinCons in the deck...so they just win by destroying and countering everything you do for 60+ turns untill you deck yourself..... So, at one time. Elixer of immortality , no joke ... Was the WinCon for the deck... Ran one or two in case one got exiled....
@@Folfire You mean Gruul Dreadmaw. Or possibly Oko, Crowned Dreadmaw. Perhaps Colossal Dreadmaw Hammer if we're talking equip spells. But we all know the best one is Colossal, Lord High Dreadmaw.
One thing I want to point out is that if you buff Esper Sentinel’s power in any way, your opponent will have to pay even more mana to prevent you from drawing a card
It's past its prime, but Phyrexian Dreadnought is a pretty iconic 1 drop creature. For 1 mana, you get a 12/12 creature, but you need to sacrifice 12 power worth of creatures or sacrifice itself when it enters. There was an entire deck built around it called Stifle-nought who's entire gameplan was use stifle effects or cards like Illusionary Mask to get the dreadnought into play without paying its cost. Also Thraben Inspector. It's never been a very flashy card, but its consistently been an include in winning white decks. A single white mana for a 1/2 that makes a clue when it enters, and the clue is a token that you can pay 2 and sacrifice to draw a card. 2w for a 1/2 that draws a card would be alright, but probably not enough to see significant play in constructed formats. However, splitting that cost up ends up making the card so much better. You can play the inspector turn 1, then crack the clue turn 2 if you really need an extra draw, which just helps smooth out a lot of extra hands. On top of that, there's a million ways just having a random artifact sitting around can be useful, so you can usually find some value if the draw isn't immediately important. Overall, the card is still probably worse than anything on this list, but it's a lot closer than it might look at first look, probably sitting somewhere in the top 15 one drop creatures.
Yeah when welder was released it was the undisputed best 1 drop in vintage IIRC. Has so many combo's with it. Mother of runes is amazing in matchups where you need to protect your stuff. Dreadnought is so nostalgic, but I love it. Pretty easy to kill sadly now.
@@dstreetz91 Yeah, Welder was good in Vintage back in the day and then Mirrodin block was released it was totally nuts. Mom is great and DN is sweet but pretty vulnerable these days too but a solid combo card.
Another 1 drop i like is 'Goblin Lackey.' It's one of those cards that can only get better as time goes on. As Magic prints more & more goblins he gets better & better. And he can cheat out 'Muxus' turn 2!
I bought a box of 10,000 commons and in commons in 2010 from sets 2002-2008 or so.... tons of copies of deaths shadow and it was 0.12c at the time. Lots of cards had value and lots went up from that collection but the 12 deaths shadow was always fun to talk about especially when it peaked at 20$
Im loving this channel cause i find MTG much easier to understand and keep up although i don't play Yu-Gi-Oh neither MTG, idk why but im addicted to those top 10
Hmm my personal favorite one drop will always be Mother of Runes. Ive had games in tournaments where my opponents would concede out of frustration vs a 3 MoM board thats just defending untill I hit a decent creature for my swords.
Honorable mention should go to Disciple of the Vault, part of what made Flash Hulk decks so dangerously insane in Legacy and Vintage. Yes, I know there are various versions of FH, but my favorite saw Disciple of the Vault pair with X cost artifact creatures like Phyrexian Marauder and Shifting Wall to deal over 30 points of damage ASAP
Serra Ascendant is a one mana 6/6 flying & lifelink, so long as you have 30+ life. Might be a bit hard in Modern, but Commander starting at 40 life makes it absolutely nuts.
While Ascendant gets turned on immediately in EDH, it's still less of a threat than in 1v1 formats. Your opponents have more life, making a t1 6/6 less threatening, especially in a multiplayer format. Still a great card either way.
@@komradekontroll Yeah def agree. It's not "ban-worthy" like some others may suggest. It's still just a big beater at the end of the day, vulnerable to all kinds of removal.
@@mentaloasis It's definitely a threat, and in a competitive 1v1 edh setting I think it's probably one of the best, but those multiplayer games, you just get a target put on you if it's out before like t3.
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I think Mother of runes should be get honorable mention. I find quite concerning that out of 10 cards, 4 were released in modern horizons. It says something about powerlevel(and probably powercreep).
I like that this video already has the usual pace of TDL voice. The other ones were like at 120% speed hehe. I think the interesting difference between these videos and Nizzahon is that the latter is more focused on metric-based lists. TDL lists can differentiate by adding depth instead of basing it on # of Top placements in tournaments, and have a little more controversy/discussion with it.
@@carter3329 Felidar perfectly legal in EDH and the strategy you describe isn't that easy to pull off. You need to get the Felidar out AND it needs to survive until YOUR next upkeep AND you need to still be above the 40 life at that moment. So that's a lot of ways to disrupt its game winning effect: counter it, remove it at instant speed, remove it at sorcery speed, damage you ... I'm not saying it can't be cheated in early and protected for a turn, but to get that consistenly in commander is a tough ask
Loving the magic content but one ask, could you plz say what set the card is from hell I been playing since invasion an can’t recognize half the new emblems let alone old ones lmao
This effect is often overlooked but ragavan being able to also exile the top of your opponents library with them never being able to get it back can hose combo decks that rely on certain pieces. Any combo deck that needs 2 or so cards to work in a format like modern getting 1 of those cards exiled hurts the deck so much that you either rely on drawing multiple copies of the combo piece or just die. It also can screw your opponent with their draws if they are mana screwed and then you exile their land from the top and they draw into a non land or whatever. As someone who tried to play calibrated blast in modern which essentially revolves around playing the namesake card and hitting a card with 12-15 cmc which deals damage to your opponent equal to the cmc of the card (12 on average but sometimes 15 if you hit autochthon wurm) the deck revolved around drawing blast or getting it with Throes of chaos which is a 4 mana sorcery with cascade retrace. Ragavan being slammed down on turn 1 was scary enough but when it hit either blast or throes of chaos I basically had lost unless I somehow had drawn multiples which is statistically rare by turn 2. Anyways yeah ragavan as existience is killing so many decks like that from being in the meta due to the exile effect (plus ragavan ramping regardless and being 1 mana for a 2/1 and everything yeah it’s busted
Last one, "Goblin Welder" is another 1 drop in red that can be pretty good! As long as u have a way to put things into your graveyard like surveil or "Entomb" you can easily swap a 0 mana cost artifact for a "Wurmcoil Engine" or another high costing artifact.
An honorable mention (I'd assume) would be fervent champion. Another very pushed card, on its own a 1/1 with first strike and haste is already very strong, and throw the ability to pump other knights AND a much cheaper equip cost make for a very scary one drop (imo anyways). Whether or not it actually sees use tho idk
Lah-je is how you pronounce it! Great list. Felt mother of runes also deserved to be on here, but can’t argue with what’s on here. I do not think reclaimer was deserving a spot over Elf boy, however
Something else to consider about elvish reclaimer is it kinda “protects” your lands. If your opponent targets one with wasteland, field of ruin, ghost quarter, or any sort of land destruction, you can sacrifice it to the reclaimer’s ability, fizzle the LD and possibly even get the exact same land Also, shadow has had 4 and 5 color variants that use traverse the ulvenwald, legacy was primarily UB, and grixis was played not for kroxa (you could play this in jund too… also, grixis saw most of its play before kroxa's release), but for card selection cantrips and stuff like stubborn denial I think it’s somewhat undeniable that channeler is better than delver, as when ragavan was legal in legacy, delver was being cut to make room for channeler and ragavan.
Probably just because of how creature centric the game is that a 1 mana 1/1 doesn't cut it anymore when it needs to connect. If it was something like whenever it attacked or beginning of your upkeep, put a goblin into play it would still be the best probably, but connecting is so difficult.
Whenever you CAST a spell, the word cast is that apply only when it's your turn or if you play an instant during someone else's turn will that be considered casting it as well?
Surprised Will of the Wisp a 0/1 black flyer that regenerates for 1 black, healing hawk a 1/1 flyer with lifelink, Moss Viper or any other 1/1 with deathtouch in either black or green, Knight of the Ebon Rose, for 2 colorless and one black it gains +3/+3 and deathtouch & if a player lost 4 or more life it gets a +1/+1 counter. Fervent Champion 1 red first strike, haste & whenever he attacks another attacking knight gets +1/+0 until end of turn also equip abilities that target Fervent champion costs 3 less. Lastly Gingerbrute. (Edited to correct toughness of Will of the Wisp)
First found your other channel when I tried to relearn Yu-Gi-Oh but fell out of it , i still watch your videos from time to time just to see how mtg and it differ as a game, and as a mtg player love to see you doing more mtg content
You should do a video series explaining the banned cards probably starting with the Power 9. They are the 3 blue spells and the 6 artifacts that make mana for 0 mana
Good video, but I need to correct you with Flying. Any with that can be blocked by Creatures with the keyword ability *Reach* as well. Reach doesn't give evasion offensively. It's more of a defensive kind of ability.
I think he has done it this way because the original description of Flying is that the creature can't be block except by creatures with flying. Reach was introduced later as "This creature can block as it it had Flying" so it was more of "an exception to the rule". I think only /recently/ has the reminder text of Flying got to include that it can be blocked by Reach. I think that's what has happened.
5:25 - 5:25 Once did this in a Commander game with some friends turn 3, with an opponent playing the Dark Depths I copied. My friends hated me for that. 😂
Ahhh Magic power creep, I remember in 2004 when Champions of Kamigawa came out and one of the best cards in the set was Isamaru, Hound of Konda. Like he was a big deal card because he was a 2/2 for one white....that's it. No abilities just a 2/2 on turn 1 and that was a big deal. Now if any creature has no abilities it is basically considered garbage no matter the mana cost.
While all the life loss from fetchlands, shocklands, and Thoughtseize might seem like a lot, even decks that weren't playing death's shadow did all that on the regular anyway. So essentially death's shadow was buffed by playing the game normally. Add in Mutagenic Growth which was a free +4/+4 until end of turn instant and that's a lot of damage.
It's like you said about the number 1 card, but also in reverse. Stronger formats make him stronger. I only play standard or draft. I never used him. He was fine, but there was always something better I would want to fuel my deck.
I played standard when 'Delver of Secrets' had just come out in original Innistrad & he was prob in at least 1/3 of the decks at my LGS. I played B/R Zombies which to this day is one of my favorite decks. Standard during that time was soooo fun. Haven't felt the same for standard ever since.
I started in Rise or M10, can't remember. I got to experience the most oppressive standard format with jace and stoneforge, only for it to be followed up with one of the best formats in standard. No standard format since has really been as enjoyable.
@@komradekontroll yup i know how you feel. I wasn't playing during the Jace & Stoneforge take over. But i remember one of the decks was called something crow?
Video Series Idea: Top 10 Commander (x) Cards. X = card types: Creatures of power/mana cost/utility/ability, Land, Sorcery, Instant, Artifact, Commander(s).
Allosaurus Shepherd doesn't "Turn your elves into dinosaurs", he makes them both Elf and Dinosaurs. Why? Because he's giving them Dinos to ride! It took me like a year to figure this out 😂😂
My fave way to use deaths shadow is to make a varolz deck, throw shadow in the grave, then scavenge 13 counters onto a critter with trample like lotleth troll. If I have something like doubling season...lol
Thespian Stage doesn't remove counters from the original Dark Depths. It just becomes a copy, and it never gains those counters for itself because it's not entering the battlefield. If a permanent becomes a clone while it's already on the field, it doesn't get etb stuff.
Going into the video, I was thinking on monke being #1. Good to say that I forgot the strongest 1 mana planeswalker to ever exist is, in fact, a creature.
About the Counterspell and Natural order thingie. In magic, cards don't have "costs" aside from mana to play the spell and activated abilities. Cards only have "effects", which entail the whole card, as per rule "701.5. Counter 701.5a To counter a spell or ability means to cancel it, removing it from the stack. It doesn’t resolve and none of its effects occur. A countered spell is put into its owner’s graveyard." Note, there is something about cost not being refunded, in rule "701.5b The player who cast a countered spell or activated a countered ability doesn’t get a “refund” of any costs that were paid." But this only affects the person who counter spelled, not the person who got countered.
There are actually non mana costs, they're just not very common. Force of will Needs you to discard for a cost for example, and there's no way to respond to this with another counterspell or something. Similarly you can't use deflecting swat on ashnod's alter, because the sacrifice is a cost.
@@josephwodarczyk977 oh yes! About this. Some cards include "as an additional cost" or something along those lines. In that case, if the spell is countered, then yes, you do lose that. But otherwise, you only lose mana.
I would say Reinforced Ronin is a very good card that is incredibly undervalued. 1 red for a 2/2 with haste that returns to your hand and has channel for 1 red and a colorless is quite powerful
You can tell how busted fetch lands are by how many times they get mentioned in a list that isn't even about land cards specifically. Magic is one of those games where every little thing a card can do is probably relevant to some strategy, and getting to choose a color option as needed, self burn, and send a card to grave all at once is a lot of little things.
Yeah fetchlands are the best manafixing and utility lands simultaneously. Brainstorm in legacy, deathrite, delve, and all sorts of uses it's just insane. Like if fetchlands didn't exist, deathrite shaman is never banned anywhere.
Don't forget the double landfall
Maybe they could print fixed fetch lands someday? Perhaps ones that make you lose 1 life for each copy in your graveyard as part of the ability instead of the cost, so you can't just throw 16 in a deck with two mountains and call it burn (oversimplification for a deck I love, sorry burn!)
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When i saw ragavan in second place i was so confused but after seeing deathrite I suddenly remembered that its actually a creature
Another subtle aspect of Noble Heirarch compared to other common mana dorks is that it's a human, not an elf. At the time they designed the card, this was probably considered a downside -- there are way more elf synergies than human synergies, especially in green. (And the decision was probably made for lore reasons -- Noble Heirarch lives in the Bant shard of Alara, and all of the Alara elves we see are located in Naya, not Bant.) However, Noble Heirarch played a pivotal role in the 5-color humans deck that was tearing up Modern a few years ago -- not only is a mana dork that creates white and blue mana exactly what that deck wanted (when it's trying to cast cards like Reflector Mage and Mantis Rider), but the human creature type ends up being a huge upside in a deck that plays human synergies like Champion of the Parish and Thalia's Lieutenant.
i think a big part of the way noble hierarch worked at the time was heavily thematic. not viewed as a downside but as an underline of the theme aspects of each shard
I’m so happy you do MTG in your normal format. So much more digestible than other creators. You made my yugioh decks better by expanding my knowledge on the overall meta
He's bad at MTG though.
@@a_fuckin_spacemarine7514 Oh that’s why his MTG content is all broken, he’s a Yu Gi Oh guy.
I think one of the most important aspects of Allosaurus Shepherd in Legacy Elves is getting around Chalice of the Void, a card that was basically an FTK against elves before Shepherd’s printing.
Definately a huge upside to the card. Caverns already helped out a lot, though mostly to power out a progenitus or something or slow roll 1 elf per turn. Shepherd let you actually attempt to play your deck as intended.
Elves in legacy can get ruined by EE
@@badvoodoo2097 A lot of times, Elves can kill you before you can blow it. At least recover the cards back
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I'd suggest making a series about the guilds, shards and wedges of MTG so there is in expiation on the channel for what Izzet and Esper is.
it would have been great fun to see
As a kind of joke he could make it "Top 10 Guilds of Ravnica Guilds"
@@Folfire sorting out 2-9 would be tricky. Golgari won in Ravnica, and Dimir lost in Gatecrash. Transmute has slightly more potential, but you're not really going to use it unless you build a deck around it. Although, Tolaria West could be useful in other decks...
What esper does ? Esper players love control decks ..especially the kind of decks and pilots that forget to put WinCons in the deck...so they just win by destroying and countering everything you do for 60+ turns untill you deck yourself.....
So, at one time. Elixer of immortality , no joke ... Was the WinCon for the deck... Ran one or two in case one got exiled....
Seeing how good they are in Yugioh which I first found the DLogs doing videos on, I'd like to see a top 10 dinosaurs list.
My personal picks for what could be the top 3.
Ghalta, rampaging ferrocidon, polyraptor/marauding raptor.
@@asta5907 Friend, you are clearly misspelling Colossal Dreadmaw
I'm getting Deathmist Raptor flashbacks here.
@@Folfire You mean Gruul Dreadmaw. Or possibly Oko, Crowned Dreadmaw. Perhaps Colossal Dreadmaw Hammer if we're talking equip spells. But we all know the best one is Colossal, Lord High Dreadmaw.
@@Folfire i run him as a finisher in my pauper bant control deck
One thing I want to point out is that if you buff Esper Sentinel’s power in any way, your opponent will have to pay even more mana to prevent you from drawing a card
And if you decrease it to 0, he does nothing
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Serra Ascendant is a good 1 drop in Commander since you meet its requirements immediately and can have a 6/6 flier with lifelink on turn one.
1) Mother of Runes
Hedron Crab, Stitcher Supplier, Phyrexian Dreadnought are also very good one drops.
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It's past its prime, but Phyrexian Dreadnought is a pretty iconic 1 drop creature. For 1 mana, you get a 12/12 creature, but you need to sacrifice 12 power worth of creatures or sacrifice itself when it enters. There was an entire deck built around it called Stifle-nought who's entire gameplan was use stifle effects or cards like Illusionary Mask to get the dreadnought into play without paying its cost.
Also Thraben Inspector. It's never been a very flashy card, but its consistently been an include in winning white decks. A single white mana for a 1/2 that makes a clue when it enters, and the clue is a token that you can pay 2 and sacrifice to draw a card. 2w for a 1/2 that draws a card would be alright, but probably not enough to see significant play in constructed formats. However, splitting that cost up ends up making the card so much better. You can play the inspector turn 1, then crack the clue turn 2 if you really need an extra draw, which just helps smooth out a lot of extra hands. On top of that, there's a million ways just having a random artifact sitting around can be useful, so you can usually find some value if the draw isn't immediately important. Overall, the card is still probably worse than anything on this list, but it's a lot closer than it might look at first look, probably sitting somewhere in the top 15 one drop creatures.
I was partial to phasing out Phyrexian Dreadnought myself using Vision Charm. Yeah, I went -1, but a lot of people couldn't deal with it easily.
@@vxicepickxv I mean, tempoing yourself into oblivion doesn't matter if you win.
Or play it when you control two Eldrazi Mimics and attack with two 12/12s
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I love your format and explanation of cards
That's a decent list. Other inclusions could be Mother of Runes, Phyrexian Dreadnought, Goblin Welder, Goblin Lackey.
Yeah when welder was released it was the undisputed best 1 drop in vintage IIRC. Has so many combo's with it. Mother of runes is amazing in matchups where you need to protect your stuff. Dreadnought is so nostalgic, but I love it. Pretty easy to kill sadly now.
@@dstreetz91 Yeah, Welder was good in Vintage back in the day and then Mirrodin block was released it was totally nuts. Mom is great and DN is sweet but pretty vulnerable these days too but a solid combo card.
Another 1 drop i like is 'Goblin Lackey.' It's one of those cards that can only get better as time goes on. As Magic prints more & more goblins he gets better & better. And he can cheat out 'Muxus' turn 2!
I bought a box of 10,000 commons and in commons in 2010 from sets 2002-2008 or so.... tons of copies of deaths shadow and it was 0.12c at the time. Lots of cards had value and lots went up from that collection but the 12 deaths shadow was always fun to talk about especially when it peaked at 20$
not sure about in modern/legacy, but gravecrawler is a staple in every zombie deck ever
That may be true, however this list seems to be geared more towards 60 card constructed formats in general and not specific decks.
Im loving this channel cause i find MTG much easier to understand and keep up although i don't play Yu-Gi-Oh neither MTG, idk why but im addicted to those top 10
Hmm my personal favorite one drop will always be Mother of Runes. Ive had games in tournaments where my opponents would concede out of frustration vs a 3 MoM board thats just defending untill I hit a decent creature for my swords.
If Allosaurus was in Modern...
BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU!
Honorable mention should go to Disciple of the Vault, part of what made Flash Hulk decks so dangerously insane in Legacy and Vintage.
Yes, I know there are various versions of FH, but my favorite saw Disciple of the Vault pair with X cost artifact creatures like Phyrexian Marauder and Shifting Wall to deal over 30 points of damage ASAP
Ahh... Mirrodin block
deathrite sharman does damage to each opponent not target opponent makes it so much better in commander
Ah yes, Deathrite shaman, best planeswalker in magic.
Serra Ascendant is a one mana 6/6 flying & lifelink, so long as you have 30+ life. Might be a bit hard in Modern, but Commander starting at 40 life makes it absolutely nuts.
While Ascendant gets turned on immediately in EDH, it's still less of a threat than in 1v1 formats. Your opponents have more life, making a t1 6/6 less threatening, especially in a multiplayer format. Still a great card either way.
@@komradekontroll Yeah def agree. It's not "ban-worthy" like some others may suggest. It's still just a big beater at the end of the day, vulnerable to all kinds of removal.
@@mentaloasis It's definitely a threat, and in a competitive 1v1 edh setting I think it's probably one of the best, but those multiplayer games, you just get a target put on you if it's out before like t3.
Commander is a singleton format, so it's very inconsistent if you get it early enough to make a big difference.
Nice video. Disciple of the Vault is also pretty good.
Actually, Allosaurus Shepherd is also legal in Historic as well because Jumpstart was also a Historic supplement set in Arena
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I think Mother of runes should be get honorable mention.
I find quite concerning that out of 10 cards, 4 were released in modern horizons. It says something about powerlevel(and probably powercreep).
Beat a death shadow deck with deflecting palm with a spell pierce ready and a stubborn denial waiting just in case there was counter magic
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Deathrite Shaman, is easily #1 one drop, mana production, graveyard control, life gain, life loss and ok blocker, all for 1 mana. It wins games.
I like that this video already has the usual pace of TDL voice. The other ones were like at 120% speed hehe. I think the interesting difference between these videos and Nizzahon is that the latter is more focused on metric-based lists. TDL lists can differentiate by adding depth instead of basing it on # of Top placements in tournaments, and have a little more controversy/discussion with it.
One of the best 1 drops IMO (and only really for Commander) is 'Serra Ascendant.' You can't beat a 6/6 flying lifelinker for one white mana!
Downside is you instantly become the archenemy. So, better come prepared
@@todddalton4579 true true, BUT if u can get out Felidar u win b4 anyone gets a chance! if its a legal card???
@@carter3329 Felidar perfectly legal in EDH and the strategy you describe isn't that easy to pull off.
You need to get the Felidar out AND it needs to survive until YOUR next upkeep AND you need to still be above the 40 life at that moment.
So that's a lot of ways to disrupt its game winning effect: counter it, remove it at instant speed, remove it at sorcery speed, damage you ...
I'm not saying it can't be cheated in early and protected for a turn, but to get that consistenly in commander is a tough ask
@@tomcads1604 Yea it's def a hard way to win & a very un-fun way too!
Just came here to ensure the 1-mana Planeswaker was #1. I was not disappointed.
You can make a top 10 for the best Magic cards of each 2 color combinations.
My favorite combinations are Green/Blue and Green/Black 😉
Loving the magic content but one ask, could you plz say what set the card is from hell I been playing since invasion an can’t recognize half the new emblems let alone old ones lmao
I'm really old. I was expecting Birds of Paradise, Savannah Lions and Mogg Fanatic here.
Me too. I was thinking of Kird Ape, Rogue Elephant, and Ghazban Ogre too.
@@GMontag Gotta love a first turn Kird Ape played with a Taiga.
Goblin Welder and Goblin Lackey... should be here!
This effect is often overlooked but ragavan being able to also exile the top of your opponents library with them never being able to get it back can hose combo decks that rely on certain pieces. Any combo deck that needs 2 or so cards to work in a format like modern getting 1 of those cards exiled hurts the deck so much that you either rely on drawing multiple copies of the combo piece or just die. It also can screw your opponent with their draws if they are mana screwed and then you exile their land from the top and they draw into a non land or whatever. As someone who tried to play calibrated blast in modern which essentially revolves around playing the namesake card and hitting a card with 12-15 cmc which deals damage to your opponent equal to the cmc of the card (12 on average but sometimes 15 if you hit autochthon wurm) the deck revolved around drawing blast or getting it with Throes of chaos which is a 4 mana sorcery with cascade retrace. Ragavan being slammed down on turn 1 was scary enough but when it hit either blast or throes of chaos I basically had lost unless I somehow had drawn multiples which is statistically rare by turn 2. Anyways yeah ragavan as existience is killing so many decks like that from being in the meta due to the exile effect (plus ragavan ramping regardless and being 1 mana for a 2/1 and everything yeah it’s busted
Esper Sentinel is also a commander staple.
Last one, "Goblin Welder" is another 1 drop in red that can be pretty good! As long as u have a way to put things into your graveyard like surveil or "Entomb" you can easily swap a 0 mana cost artifact for a "Wurmcoil Engine" or another high costing artifact.
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@@badvoodoo2097 I was thinking of that card when i posted but couldnt remember the name! Yes i agree
ideas for future videos
top 10 best dragon in magic
top 10 card with haste in magic
top 10 destruction effect in magic
top 10 exile card in magic
Really glad the duel logs made a branch channel for magic
An honorable mention (I'd assume) would be fervent champion. Another very pushed card, on its own a 1/1 with first strike and haste is already very strong, and throw the ability to pump other knights AND a much cheaper equip cost make for a very scary one drop (imo anyways). Whether or not it actually sees use tho idk
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Great list. Felt mother of runes also deserved to be on here, but can’t argue with what’s on here.
I do not think reclaimer was deserving a spot over Elf boy, however
Something else to consider about elvish reclaimer is it kinda “protects” your lands. If your opponent targets one with wasteland, field of ruin, ghost quarter, or any sort of land destruction, you can sacrifice it to the reclaimer’s ability, fizzle the LD and possibly even get the exact same land
Also, shadow has had 4 and 5 color variants that use traverse the ulvenwald, legacy was primarily UB, and grixis was played not for kroxa (you could play this in jund too… also, grixis saw most of its play before kroxa's release), but for card selection cantrips and stuff like stubborn denial
I think it’s somewhat undeniable that channeler is better than delver, as when ragavan was legal in legacy, delver was being cut to make room for channeler and ragavan.
I didn't even know you did Magic. Welp, another sub.
I don't disagree, but it is wild to me that Goblin Lackey doesn't crack the top 10 anymore.
Probably just because of how creature centric the game is that a 1 mana 1/1 doesn't cut it anymore when it needs to connect. If it was something like whenever it attacked or beginning of your upkeep, put a goblin into play it would still be the best probably, but connecting is so difficult.
Whenever you CAST a spell, the word cast is that apply only when it's your turn or if you play an instant during someone else's turn will that be considered casting it as well?
If you play an instant on someone else's turn it does indeed count as a cast.
There are typos @4:23 and 8:00, but I'm no curmudgeon. Still like the content you're producing, and hope you keep up the good work!
Can you do a series on the banned cards in magic?
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@@CodeVenomSnakes Mother of Runes, for some reason not in this vid
@@CodeVenomSnakes it's a nickname for a white magic card called mother of runes
how about the first incredibly stated one mana creature savannah lions. the backbone 1-drop to the first white weenie decks
Surprised Will of the Wisp a 0/1 black flyer that regenerates for 1 black, healing hawk a 1/1 flyer with lifelink, Moss Viper or any other 1/1 with deathtouch in either black or green, Knight of the Ebon Rose, for 2 colorless and one black it gains +3/+3 and deathtouch & if a player lost 4 or more life it gets a +1/+1 counter. Fervent Champion 1 red first strike, haste & whenever he attacks another attacking knight gets +1/+0 until end of turn also equip abilities that target Fervent champion costs 3 less. Lastly Gingerbrute. (Edited to correct toughness of Will of the Wisp)
for Death's Shadow, are there any ways to turn off his card abilities? Maybe pull a combo of Patriar's Humiliation, then swing for 13 round 2?
Aaah, Thoughtseize for round 4, or Gut Strike's and Shock lands to get a round 1 Death's shadow out, then Patriar's turns it from a 1/1 into a 13/13
First found your other channel when I tried to relearn Yu-Gi-Oh but fell out of it , i still watch your videos from time to time just to see how mtg and it differ as a game, and as a mtg player love to see you doing more mtg content
Wait, you have a MTG channel now? Crazy.
You should do a video series explaining the banned cards probably starting with the Power 9. They are the 3 blue spells and the 6 artifacts that make mana for 0 mana
Top ten printings of Lightning Bolt xP
Good video, but I need to correct you with Flying. Any with that can be blocked by Creatures with the keyword ability *Reach* as well. Reach doesn't give evasion offensively. It's more of a defensive kind of ability.
I think he has done it this way because the original description of Flying is that the creature can't be block except by creatures with flying. Reach was introduced later as "This creature can block as it it had Flying" so it was more of "an exception to the rule". I think only /recently/ has the reminder text of Flying got to include that it can be blocked by Reach. I think that's what has happened.
5:25 - 5:25 Once did this in a Commander game with some friends turn 3, with an opponent playing the Dark Depths I copied. My friends hated me for that. 😂
Top 10 Slivers
Top 10 cards that mess with the exiled zone
I love the flavour of that dang monkey so much
Ahhh Magic power creep, I remember in 2004 when Champions of Kamigawa came out and one of the best cards in the set was Isamaru, Hound of Konda. Like he was a big deal card because he was a 2/2 for one white....that's it. No abilities just a 2/2 on turn 1 and that was a big deal. Now if any creature has no abilities it is basically considered garbage no matter the mana cost.
While all the life loss from fetchlands, shocklands, and Thoughtseize might seem like a lot, even decks that weren't playing death's shadow did all that on the regular anyway. So essentially death's shadow was buffed by playing the game normally. Add in Mutagenic Growth which was a free +4/+4 until end of turn instant and that's a lot of damage.
It's like you said about the number 1 card, but also in reverse. Stronger formats make him stronger. I only play standard or draft. I never used him. He was fine, but there was always something better I would want to fuel my deck.
I played standard when 'Delver of Secrets' had just come out in original Innistrad & he was prob in at least 1/3 of the decks at my LGS. I played B/R Zombies which to this day is one of my favorite decks. Standard during that time was soooo fun. Haven't felt the same for standard ever since.
INS-RTR-THS standard is considered the GOAT standard format for many people. So many different viable decks, lots of interaction and fun cards
I started in Rise or M10, can't remember. I got to experience the most oppressive standard format with jace and stoneforge, only for it to be followed up with one of the best formats in standard. No standard format since has really been as enjoyable.
@@komradekontroll yup i know how you feel. I wasn't playing during the Jace & Stoneforge take over. But i remember one of the decks was called something crow?
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Video Series Idea: Top 10 Commander (x) Cards. X = card types: Creatures of power/mana cost/utility/ability, Land, Sorcery, Instant, Artifact, Commander(s).
The white 2/2 legendary 1drp is great with new mox amber btw
Allosaurus Shepherd doesn't "Turn your elves into dinosaurs", he makes them both Elf and Dinosaurs. Why? Because he's giving them Dinos to ride!
It took me like a year to figure this out 😂😂
I'm sad that Norin the Wary didn't get an honorable mention.
If your life is negative, dose deaths shadow get a buff? Like if you have a gid out and your neg 10?
Yes
Edit: Sorry. Turns out I was wrong. It can't go above 13/13 naturally.
are there decks that play delver and channeler together?
nvm lol
I like Llanowar elves, Stone throwing devils, and Raging Goblin
Modern fetch lands from New Capenna would do well with two of the cards on this list!
"Cater hoof" lmao
Haha Allosaurus Shepard just got a reprint in what I assume will be a modern legal set.
Serra Ascendant in commander is insane as you start with 40 life. So it’s a 1 mana 5/5 flying creature with lifelink.
Deathrite Shaman, the one mana planeswalker indeed.
Maybe not top 10, but an honorable mention to scute mob. A one drop that can pretty quickly turn into a 5/5 is pretty good
I'm surprised I didn't see gravecrawler on this list . It's a very good zombie focused combo piece
What are can trips?
Sad to see Serra Ascendent didn’t make the list :(
My fave way to use deaths shadow is to make a varolz deck, throw shadow in the grave, then scavenge 13 counters onto a critter with trample like lotleth troll. If I have something like doubling season...lol
"Kayterhoof Behemoth" ☠️
Can someone explain how copying dark depths with thespians stage makes it have no counters? I’m not sure I understand?
Dark depths enters with counters and when you copy it it technically never entered the battlefield so it never gets those counters
Thespian Stage doesn't remove counters from the original Dark Depths. It just becomes a copy, and it never gains those counters for itself because it's not entering the battlefield. If a permanent becomes a clone while it's already on the field, it doesn't get etb stuff.
Going into the video, I was thinking on monke being #1.
Good to say that I forgot the strongest 1 mana planeswalker to ever exist is, in fact, a creature.
I think Allosaurus Shepard is modern legal now because of double masters. Or am I wrong?
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Goblin Lackey, Sylvan Safekeeper, and Mother of Runes all say hello
No honorable mentions for Kird Ape, Savanna Lions or Benalish Hero?
About the Counterspell and Natural order thingie. In magic, cards don't have "costs" aside from mana to play the spell and activated abilities. Cards only have "effects", which entail the whole card, as per rule "701.5. Counter
701.5a To counter a spell or ability means to cancel it, removing it from the stack. It doesn’t resolve and none of its effects occur. A countered spell is put into its owner’s graveyard."
Note, there is something about cost not being refunded, in rule "701.5b The player who cast a countered spell or activated a countered ability doesn’t get a “refund” of any costs that were paid." But this only affects the person who counter spelled, not the person who got countered.
There are actually non mana costs, they're just not very common. Force of will Needs you to discard for a cost for example, and there's no way to respond to this with another counterspell or something. Similarly you can't use deflecting swat on ashnod's alter, because the sacrifice is a cost.
@@josephwodarczyk977 oh yes! About this.
Some cards include "as an additional cost" or something along those lines. In that case, if the spell is countered, then yes, you do lose that. But otherwise, you only lose mana.
The entire point about that bit is that Natural Order does in fact have that additional cost, so it does happen even if countered.
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I would say Reinforced Ronin is a very good card that is incredibly undervalued. 1 red for a 2/2 with haste that returns to your hand and has channel for 1 red and a colorless is quite powerful
True, Reinforced Ronin is a good way to get lots of damage in early. It’s very versatile.
Vexing devil which forces your opponent to choose a one time payment of 4 life or let it be and have to deal with a 4/3 on turn 1.
Remember when Savannah Lions was one of the best 1 cost creature? Pepperidge Farm remembers.