The MOST Misplayed Cards in Commander!
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- Casual Commander is full of rules misunderstandings, but these 2 cards may be the most misplayed cards in casual MTG! Today, we'll be checking out the misconceptions surrounding Myriad Landscape and Decimate!
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It's very telling that later printings of Decimate had to ADD reminder text.
As far as I’m aware, that reminder text was a recent addition in MKM 😂
@@JayoticMTG yup Gavin Verhey talked about it in a recent video
I would argue that because it's not a named ability(ie. Death touch, Double strike, Vigilance, ect.) the secondary text needs to be there for clarification. Without the clarification it seems like it would take effect and just destroy what it can
@gulax6730 There is a reason most cards say "up to" or "may". All targets must be satisfied otherwise. Compare to a fight spell. You can't only target one creature for this reason.
Most common Myriad Landscape I see is people grabbing different land type.
Yeah lol. People don't like to read cards
That's because magic players can't read
@@da_bosso8634 As the Professor says: "reading the card explains the card"
@@BoBnfishywoah, cool your jets. We are not Digimon players.
Misunderstanding of rules is not the same as not doing what the card says. 🙃
The number one by far is Approach of the Second Sun. I run a Budget Commander League, and a part of the reason we banned Approach is because I am so exhuasted fighting about this card every week. YOU CAN COUNTER THE SECOND APPROACH TO KEEP SOMEONE FROM WINNING, IT ISN'T A CAST TRIGGER.
People always get it backwards. The first one being countered doesn't stop the second one winning. Not the other way around
That would be double annoying, because that means enough people are running approach for it to be an issue, which is another issue in and of itself
@zakbrooks7354 nothing wrong with approach. It's a finisher for control
@@michaeltillotson3711 it's a finisher for everything that doesn't have any other way to win the game. It's not really that it's a problem, I guess it's more of a personal pet peeve that whenever there's a white deck that can't figure out a way to win, approach is always the next best thing. It gets really repetitive
@zakbrooks7354 I lump it in with cards like craterhoof, oracle, Torment. You have completed your game plan and want to go for the win
In my control deck, I have created a soft lock and the only thing left is to win because I can't be stopped.
In a stompy midrange, your board state hasn't been answered soon enough so you hoof to end it
It's just a way to finish the game that you did your game plan
Farseek in mono green
This legitimately made me laugh
I love decimate it had the impression that any illegal target made the entire spell fizzle. Thanks for clearing that up.
I thought this too, nice!
I used to play it that way too. I think a lot of players don't use many multi-targeting spells as they learn the game, so the rule is treated like a single target spell where it fizzles without its target.
It's been 3000 years so I could be wrong, but I think that used to be how it worked way back in the day.
@@JayoticMTGthe amount of times Hex or is equivalent was cast and someone said saccing one of their permanents stops the whole spell is annoying
Never once seen someone attempt to grab to different snow lands because "they're both snow". Lol
I’ve seen so many Reddit posts about that years ago lol
Sphinx of the Second Sun
Weird phase and timing effects are bad for confusing players lol
It’s especially confusing because the first 2 lines seems like a complete thought while the “after this phase” seems like part of the explaining text.
I have never understood the confusion with this card, at all. It's so self-explanatory.
Someone please enlighten me as to how and why people misplay it.
@@sammysammysonpeople think that they get the beginning phase at the beginning of their postcombat main phase, but no, they get it just before endstep
@@dave_eagle2787 It literally says "after this phase" 😭
Huh, yeah, probably right about Myriad being the most common. Although, I think it’s more getting two different lands types, which I see done all the time.
Idk about decimate though, never see that played.
Exotic orchard, using it to tap for all your commanders colors, while your opponent have a command tower on the field. If u play orchard and lets say the izzet player play a command tower. Your orchard taps for blue and red mana.
I like Myriad Landscape for grabbing a basic and a snow land together of the same type, mainly if I have a single one of either in the deck for the purposes of fetching out for Field of the Dead.
I've Never seen anyone misplay myriad landscape
The number of times, i have had someone try to Decimate me, without having enough valid targets, is infuriating.
But the misplay i hate the most, is using red goblins that have 'tap, target creature gains haste' and trying to tap said goblin, when it doesnt have haste on its own, to give another goblin haste.
Hilarious how they had to add the reminder text for Decimate. I get being new, but sometimes it feels like Magic players are actively against learning the rules of the game.
It's only so confusing because of and/or and up to spells. This one being one of the few that doesn't let you choose less is kinda unique
If it was printed for the first time today, it would definitely read “destroy up to one…”. Maybe cost 1 less mana lol
Chaos Warp - Often people want to reveal the top card of their deck before shuffling the card in. This matters is the top of the deck is known to to SDT, JTMS, Oracle of Mul Daya, etc.
Grip of Chaos - Whenever a spell has to choose randomly for several targets, players often forget that once you roll multiple dice the odds change and some low numbers are impossible to roll. You need to use a RNG for each potential target to actually have equal chances of being selected.
I've had too many disagreements with people about this. There's 16 possible targets, so we'll just roll 2d8, a d12 and a d4 etc.
Always just roll the next dice up, in this case a d20, then reroll any result above the number of targets. If that means rolling several clearly distinct d10s to generate a huge number, then that's what you do. (eg: I roll a red d10 as hundreds, a yellow one as 10s and a blue one as singles. Red: 3, Yellow: 8, Blue: 6 gives 386. Hopefully you never need to go that high).
Decimate used to fizzle if a target was lost. They changed the rules a while back.
How old is this rules change? I’ve never heard of fizzling rules having changed in the past, and there are some forum posts as old as 2010 that use the current fizzling rules.
No it didn't but alot of people didn't understand how "fizzling" works so it's very often misplayed.
@@Umezete you are correct. i had heard from friends that decimate used to work that way and assumed that was true.
@@NeonV01D good news i went and looked it up. it hasent changed i just got confused. i had a friend who had told me decimate used to fizzle if a target was lost but upon me actually looking it up this was never the case.
Probably because the spell has chosen legal targets, it resolves. Like a killspell fizzles because it lost it's singular target while Decimate would need to lose all 4 targets to fizzle. You still targeted them when they were initially legal, so why would the whole spell fizzle if it's 3 other legal targets are still there?
Sphinx of the Second Sun; People think they get the Untap, Upkeep, Draw after combat before 2nd Main phase. However, the Untap, Upkeep, Draw phases are after 2nd Main phase, before End Step.
I see people confused with when they gain control of someone’s creature and it doesn’t have haste.
Doesn’t matter if it was summoned 2 turns before you gained control, can’t attack with it unless it’s been under your control since the start of your turn. “Summoning Sickness” is an informal term
Thats a dumb rule for stealing creatures imo
It’s a rule that doesn’t really get the spotlight because most common theft like Act of Treason gives the creature haste. It’s counterintuitive, but Control Magic type effects require you to wait a turn.
@@JayoticMTG yeah it came up recently in my pod with +1/+1 counters making a huge “Skrelv Defector Mite” being enchanted by “Fealty to the Realm”.
Fealty to the realm makes you think you’re gonna be attacking with the enchanted creature a lot. But it doesn’t have haste so it can’t attack the turn someone gains control of it. Then because it was Skrelv, it couldn’t even block. So Fealty to the Realm was significantly less efficient than we thought because of the lack of haste
I have a personal vendetta against myriad landscape because myriad means DIFFERENT, yet because of the stupid text, the lands have to be almost identical. Even if you were to run something like rootpath purifier, the lands would still likely end up being almost identical due to those limitations. If anything, it should be two basic lands that DON’T share a land type.
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I think the "myriad" part is referring to the kinds of lands you can see in the landscape before you make it transform (in lore, not the transform mechanic). It contains elements of all five land types until you pick one to express, then it becomes two of that type.
Had to look this up myself but google definitions mention nothing about it meaning "different". In fact it seems to be of greek origin meaning "many" or "innumerable". The common definition in today's language seems to be just that, "many".
@tonysmith9905 yeah that's what I thought too. Kinda like how the myriad ability has you create multiple of the same creature.
It means many, not different
Myriad means many (from the greek for ten thousand), this card does indeed get "many" lands.
sphinx of the second sun
Most misplays I see are turn priority. I do wish wastes were a basic land type tho.
Yeah, playing casually usually means shorthanding the most technical rules. And I don’t even think Wastes being a land type would be too out of place in the world of Caves and Deserts.
I think it's because having a sixth basic land type would explode the rules somehow. There's an old Maro article about Barry's land where he goes through the problems they encountered when they originally tried to make a colorless basic land waaaaay back when.
@@nuclearphish8051 im already mildly miffed at the new land in MH3 that counts as any nonbasic, why tf does it have tower, mine and power plant as possible types? I think it's cool but it's just going to make urzatron that much more ridonkulous lol. I don't want to slot in demo field, field of ruin, wasteland and other targeted LD but if it filters into my local meta the salt I'm gonna have to add to my brewers recipe book are not going to be pleasant lol. In fact- nvm all that, just gonna go unblockable slapfest player removal.
Not even that it has to be a sixth basic land type, but just not typed at all. We don’t have basic deserts or caves after all.
@Badassest I think it's for commander they also seem to be adding a LOT of non basic land hate in MH3
Another one is people playing shrines not understanding that Shrine is not ancreature type, its an enchantment type.
Also how Myriad the triggered keyword ability EXILES the token after combat, NOT sacrificing it. I see alot of death triggers people get wrong.
Lastly how Obeka players keep using threaten effects that don't work with her.
Tbf about the shrine one it is very misleading
I don’t know if I’d say misleading, but since the shrine creatures’ type line reads as “enchantment creature - shrine”, it doesn’t do a good enough job to tell the player that shrine isn’t the creature type.
Every time I see an effect that creates a token or brings back a creature temporarily, I need to check both of you sacrifice or exile it afterwards, as well as if you do so at end of combat or end of turn.
I think I do have a myriad in my colorless now that you mention it lol
I used Taste of Death with some newer players and they asked "What if I don't have 3 Creatures?" "They you do as much as you can"
I see people forgetting that the hideaway lands comes into play tapped.
Yeah. That part used to be hidden in the reminder text so I don't really blame people for just skimming it.
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Thank you! I love this game and I need an outlet of some kind to get my ideas out of my head haha
Farseek in mono-green.
Sphinx of the Second Sun. The untap happens before the end phase, not immediately after the ability resolved
Some people don't know the difference between "whenever you lose life" and "for each life you've lost"
Also the effect on something like Goro-Goro and Satoru. “Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to a player” means it triggers up to 3 times, not once.
Would that not be only once in the sense it states not for each but for if? As it states "whenever one or more creatures damage a player" it would imply with the 'one or more' portion would give one instance rather than many. This is exactly what I meant. People don't know the difference, and to be fair, that's why I didn't explain myself before.
The “one or more creatures” part basically just cares that at least one creature hit your opponent, but the “damages A player” part means it triggers for each opponent that gets hit
“Is no type a type” is some “does a set of all sets contain itself” shit
I knew about Myriad Landscape not tutoring Wastes, but I've never heard of people doing the snow thing. However, I did not know you had to have targets for everything with Decimate.
I’ve never seen anyone actually try to do the snow land thing in person, but I’ve seen it a bunch in rules Reddit threads haha.
Not being able to search for wastes is an interesting detail I had not been aware of (hadn't seen it tried yet, so the whole thing is new to me)
Yeah it’s a bit strange, but adding it as an additional land type would be kind of wonky (domain gets even better lol)
@@JayoticMTG - I had included a waste in a deck I have with domain because I thought it counted. I'll have to take that out
The first problem with myriad landscape is putting it in your deck
It’s a pretty good ramp piece in a non- green deck, it’s one card that can help put me ahead when i don’t draw my artifacts, so i usually put it in non green decks
@@tachankskang It's *really* not good, it entering tapped, costing 2, and then the two lands all entering tapped is a serious hit to tempo, and them needing to be the same type makes it's colour fixing pretty atrocious, too.
It's ~fine~ for casual, but everything is "fine in casual". The vast, vast majority of the time you're better off running a basic.
chains of mephistopheles
The infamous flowchart haha
I now know how to play myriad landscape and decimate properly now. Both was literally in my chisiro pre-con lol
Moraug, Fury of Akoum, I will admit I initially misread this card too when it first came out. One of the official rulings here: "There won’t be an additional main phase after the additional combat phase. For example, if the landfall ability resolves twice during your postcombat main phase, you’ll get two consecutive additional combat phases after your main phase (untapping your creatures at the beginning of each), followed by your ending phase."
I think people are so used to cards like this giving you an additional main phase as well that they miss this.
Yeah, Moraug is worded in a pretty strange way. You also can’t crack your fetch land during combat because his trigger only works during your main phase.
@JayoticMTG another weird thing about him is that, the combat phase you get is before your actual combat phase, so in your actual combat phase, your creatures don't untap.
Moraug is an incredibly weird card for how you would think it works.
It feels like every card that gives extra combats is slightly different. You really need to read them carefully each time before planning out your turn.
I did think that decimate fizzled entirely if there is suddenly one invalid target
Worst I've seen is stasis seedborne muse. In theory you stop everyone untapping with stasis and then untap on their untap step with seedborne muse which reads. You untap all permanents you control on each other players UNTAP STEP. Stasis reads SKIP other players UNTAP STEP. The untap step doesn't occur so seedborne muse doesn't trigger, so you don't untap. Better to use something that flickers your permanents or untaps at another point in time. Like your end step with wilderness reclamation.
My friend who plays izzet precon from strixhaven often tries to copy spell which has already resolved with cards that target spells in stack
I find the decimate thing to be a bit funny because of yugioh, and more specifically for reasons that are a bit hard to explain.
I guess the best way to put it is that because of the PSCT (problem solving card text) it's usually pretty clear what the requirements have to be to activate a card.
For example, decimate written like a yugioh card would look something like this: "Target a(n) artifact, creature, enchantment, and land; Destroy them."
I messed up how this would be written a tiny amount, but the idea is there. It's written to be incredibly clear that you need to target one of each when you activate the card.
PSCT is a bit of a mess when you're first learning it, but eventually it becomes very similar to seeing keywords like flying and reach and just knowing what those mean when seeing them.
Admittedly though, there are some ideas that could easily be portrayed by keywords like Hard Once per turn (HOPT) effects and flipping a monster face down (book).
They would be a bit confusing at first, sure, but "target a face up monster; book that monster." Takes up less space than "Target a face up monster; set it face down in defense position."
The thing I see about Myriad Landscape is that people forget it comes into play *tapped*
Back in 2018 when Is tatted with Lord Windgrace’s commander. I didn’t know that about decimate and had a very experienced player explain it to me.
Hex Parasite and Urza's Saga - too many people think that no lore counters = saga is destroyed... it just resets it.
I used to do something similar with Glissa Sunslayer removing lore counters from Sagas in Brawl. It’s a pretty cool way to reuse Sagas, but the abilities don’t trigger until another lore counter gets placed on it.
I had to target my utopia sprawl to cast my Decimate the other night with my Borborygmus Enraged deck. Not a great feeling but definitely worth it.
I wonder how many times two concordant crossroads have been on the field at the same time, especially with its reprints
The reprints make it more likely now than ever, but it's still a pricey card for the average player haha
Every card with ward is misplayed in commander.
I play too much cedh so for me it’s easily lion’s eye diamond. To be fair that card is a rules nightmare, but still if half the people I’ve seen tried to play the card the same way in a legacy tournament they’d get a game loss immediately.
I’m not super well versed with LED, but I know you can crack it as a mana source to cast Infernal Tutor with Hellbent in Legacy, it’s pretty weird haha
@@JayoticMTG You cannot use LED to pay for an Infernal Tutor. What you can do, is cast an Infernal Tutor with mana from other sources, hold priority, then use LED in response to discard your hand for the hellbent effect.
Holding priority here is super important, since if you don't, the opponent can pass priority without doing anything to force the Infernal Tutor to resolve while your hand still has cards in it.
Yeah. Without the "activate only as an instant" you could use it to cast a card from your hand (since you move it to the stack before being asked to pay costs) which they intentionally didn't want.
@@JayoticMTG it’s the same problem as Krark clan ironworks, the order in which costs for spells are paid after announcing they are being cast. LED is only at instant speed, specifically not sorcery because then you could essentially use it to cast yawgmoth’s will from hand and put the rest in the graveyard, and then immediately play the led again.
Well I’ve learned something new then haha. I thought I remembered hearing about that, but I’ve never really followed the Legacy meta.
The most misplayed card I've ever seen is Noxious Revival, simply because I believe it to be the most difficult card to use optimally in all of magic. You can use it to recur your own cards, you can use it to stuff an opponent's draw, and you can also use it in response to a shuffle in order to permanently remove a problematic card from an opponent's graveyard. Finding that perfect, juicy moment is quite the challenge because you never know if this is the right moment, or if another better moment will arise later in the game.
I've never used the card in a game before, but that's a cool way to think about its uses. I love cards that do one thing on the surface level but have extra depth and versatility!
I see foodchain misplayed alot in cedh pods, many people apparently don't know that it can't be used to cast anything but creatures or maybe they're trying to get away with cheating by acting dumb.
Return of the wildspeaker
I misplayed decimate for years playing when I was younger lol. I still love it I'm commander though.
Add sphinx of the second sun to the list lol 😅
The number of times I've seen Act of Treason effects in an Obeka, Brute Chronologist deck is embarrassing
This is actually why I cut decimate from my decks. An opponent not having an enchantment just makes the card dead
If you’re in pods that don’t play a lot of enchantments, totally fair.
@@JayoticMTG I never build my decks based on certain pods. I always build my decks to go 1v3 into blind pods
@@Its109TheGamer Enchantments are usually the most annoying and least removed permanents, though. Smothering Tithe, Stasis, Rhystic Study, Imprisoned in the Moon, 9/10th of pillowfort... I could buy a particular opponent not having one, but none of your opponents? Not even an Idolize or Wild Growth floating around? Doubling Season, Parallel Lives, Hardened Scales?
@@gatherer818 I'd rather my removal spell be active when I need it instead of waiting for an opponent to let me use it, so I just got to use stuff like Assassin's Trophy and Boseju. I typically have artifacts out, but I would prefer not to hit my own if an opponent didn't get the turn 1 sol ring. It's just been more of a negative card in testing
Now do Sphinx of the Second Sun. Everyone I know (including myself) played that card wrong until recently for some reason.
I actually covered it in a recent Short! Judging by those comments, it seems like most people didn’t know it triggers on your postcombat main phase but the extra step happens BEFORE the end step.
Angel of serenity. I see way too many not read the second text box
That’s gotta be the weirdest Oblivion Ring effect I’ve seen, they go back to hand?!
@@JayoticMTG Yeah, if it returned to the battlefield, it would end up being a constant army reanimator. Temporarily exile another copy with it, and you can store an angel and two other creatures again and again, making you heavily resistant to regular removal.
It also has the Oblivion Ring bug, where you can remove Angel of Serenity in response to the first trigger to permanently exile the cards. Was one of the biggest impact cards I had in my Roon blink deck a long time ago.
There's actually a similar angel in standard right now, called Aurelia's Vindicator, which exiles when turned face-up.
Thanks for reminding me that myriad landscape is useless in my colorless deck 😂
I've heard it can find a single waste of it's search, but that just means it's a 3 mana rampant growth, just bad not useless.
@@byronsmothers8064 it's not rampant growth though since you lose a land.
I can understand the confusion of Snow Lands, but i didn't know Wastes didn't count
They are basics, so you can technically fetch a single one, but at that point you're prolly better off just cutting the landscape for another Wastes.
Tbh, I've been taking 2 different basic lands with myriad and I never knew I was cheating. Guess I shouldve read the card better
I still run Myriad in my Zhulodok deck because it does generate colorless mana and counts as one of the five lands needed for Temple of the Gods
there are more than enough colorless land that come into play untapped and have an actual ability
A couple weeks ago at my lgs there was a guy who hadn’t played in 10-15 years and was getting back into it and I had to explain wheel of misfortune
It is amazing how many people are confused by that card. I have seen lots of people screw that one up. And while it IS a wordy text box, it's not particularly complicated.
I've been there before, I paid a bunch of life once thinking I would keep my hand. Nope, it just damaged me down to 1 life and wheeled my hand away haha.
I dream of a day when decimate targets a single permanent.
That would be simply delirious.
@@seandun7083 We can turn lands into creatures, creatures into artifacts, and creatures also becoming enchantments. It is entirely possible. I'd love to make a deck where I could do that and have decimate targeting one permanent be an alternate win con among my friend groups, because it is insane, but not impossible.
I see hex misplayed in the same way and the red green removal spell. Hex need 6 creatures total not up to six, sometimes you have to take a few of your own creatures.
It’s a pretty efficient removal spell, but Hex casts such a wide net that you often have to trip over it yourself haha.
Fwiw, you can grab a single wastes off of myriad landscape, just not two. This is helpful if you want a land in your bin for whatever reason (such as Promised End)
There are much more efficient ways to do that, though. Evolving Wilds and friends, Promising Vein/Shire Terrace if you want the land untapped, and Demolition Field to actually blow something up. Even Terminal Moraine and Warped Landscape are better because they don’t ETB tapped.
That’s interesting, it’s got a marginal niche use. Still not a great rate for a tap land and 2 mana sadly.
Interestingly, Myriad Lanscape and Rootpath Purifier *would* allow you to get two Gates, Caves, Deserts, or even Urza's lands, as it cares only that they're basic (granted by Purifier) and share a *land* type (rather than specifying for them to share a "basic land type" as, say, Sprouting Goblin requires).
Similarly, Dune Chanter plus Myriad Landscape would let you get two basic lands of *different* basic land types cause they'd still have one land type in common: Desert!
As niche as those two effects are, they are an interesting way of turning Myriad Landscape from a subpar ramp land into specific tutors!
My friends play a lot of landfall decks, so Moraug, Fury of Akoum is probably the most misplayed card I see.
How do they mess up a simple landfall trigger?
@blaineward5223 they just see "land fall get an additional combat" without realizing that, by the way it's worded, it's better to play your lands in second main to actually get the additional combat steps. To be fair, it is worded kind of confusingly.
@@ryanheinbach6374 Even if the lands enter during they're preconbat main phase, they'll still get the additional combat steps
@blaineward5223 if you do that, you will get the additional combat first, and you won't untap during your regular combat
Fair point there
Whelp, I know what I’m taking out of my Kozilek deck.
Waste still should have been a type. I will die on this hill
The misplay with Myriad Landscape is running it at all
It’s ok in a mono colour deck without much access to land ramp, but it’s usually the first land I cut from my decks nowadays.
Every time I play a Case with a new pod they think it auto solves on the end step rather than meeting the criteria. Incredibly confusing and unhelpful reminder text.
Yes, the way it’s worded makes it look like it auto-completed at the end step. There has to have been a way to word it less confusingly haha
We misplayed Elegant Entourage. We gave the creatures +1/+1 counters instead of just +1/+1
We just cast a Kappa Cannoneer in our pod for the first time last night, and we didn’t realize it gave +1/+1 counters haha
People think Urza is for comboing when he's actually for cheating out huge sea creatures
For myriad in colourless it might just be people grabbing a land thats cheaper then a waste
No people play it because they think they can get wastes. Also there are a million untapped colorless lands that do something and are also cheap
I've done the decimate mistake myself.
ive never seen decimate played ever ngl
It’s lost some of its lustre in light of new removal spells, but it’s still a great card!
theres a wincon in one of decks called firestorm, additional cost to cast, discard x, deal x damage to x targets. thing is x cant be more than the amount of viable targets, i have to count all creatures and players before discarding
Oh true, that’s really awkward haha. You can’t deal more damage than the number of legal targets
sphinx of the second son
The biggest misplay is to even put Myriad Landscape in ANY deck...
It’s a fine utility land in 1-2 colour non-green budget decks, but it’ll eventually get cut as your ramp gets better
@@JayoticMTG Its not, its the biggest trap ever. It gives u a net mana loss over multiple turns before u get the +1. Even in a penny deck you are better off to play a basic land every single time!
Regenerate. Everytime I get corrected on its use, and learn the right way. Somebody else corrects me again later saying that's wrong. I've been taught about 5 different ways regenerate works
If it was still used today, I'm sure it would be more understood. As is, I've had my own misconceptions about Regen since I started a decade ago lol
If it would be killed by Damage or Destroy effects then regenerate will replace that. It doesn't stop anything else.
Each instance of regenerate only protects it from one death, but will remove all damage, tap it and remove it from combat.
I did not know about the Waste ruling
I learned it Monday lol had to remove it
It oddly passes by people, I’ve seen some comments pointed out that they just now learned about Wastes having no land type haha
I see fetch lands misplayed constantly.
Never crack them on your own turn. Wait for your opponent to try and use sorcery speed hate and crack it in response.
Same thing if they try to blow up the land you fetched.
Yeah, patience is key with fetches. If you need the mana right now, sure, but you’re often better off waiting for your opponent to move first.
That goes for anything tbh, I see so many new players play activate abilities and cast instants at sorcery speed that they are better off holding up.
If you're playing casually, it is just efficient use of your time to crack straight away, name the target and let your opponent start there turn while you search.
Yeah, if the land entering untapped matters then crack away. But if you’re just grabbing a surveil land/triome, it’s more time efficient to announce and pass.
Be careful doing this if your opponent has an Urza's Saga that's about to tutor though. If you don't respond to the search trigger, then they can grab Pithing Needle and name your fetch before you get another chance to crack it.
Also be wary in formats where Opposition Agent or Stifle are legal.
I know some els already said it but approach of the second sun
That is why people are underplaying Decimate and it is a shame. We even got the special Drew Tucker art people! That and Hull Breach are staples in my RG+ decks.
I have misplayed decimate before I haven't in awhile but I've done that myriad landscape though that one is surprising to me.
Counterpoint, myriad landscape is cheaper than wastes. In a colourless deck, it have no real downsides and you can sacrifice it with its ability, you won't get any lands, but you get to shuffle your deck and sacrificing a permanent is occasionally useful.
it comes into play tapped, that's the downside. There are more than enough colorless utility lands that come into play untapped. Also you can find 1 wastes but there are still way better options
You must be joking right?
@@maxbodifee3263 no. It is cheaper than wastes (in dollar/euro/whatever floats your bank), so it's fine in a colorless deck. It does come in tapped, but have an occasional use for sacrificing and shuffling your deck, which I surprisingly have gotten use of a handful of times.
Not a card but a rule: Damage does not reduce the creature's toughness
Yep, you can’t use Cut Down to destroy a Sheoldred with 4 damage marked on it
commander tower with exoctic orchard on the board. know lots of people who thought it gave WUBRG no matter what
That makes sense when you think about it, but so many gold lands “could produce” any colour so I get the confusion
I’ve had three people I’ve played with misplay shorikai genesis engine by thinking that the pilots can crew as if their power was two or greaternot two greater and it’s so funny to see the light leave their eyes when their commander is ruined
That really doesn't "ruin" the commander it just makes it sensible. I have no idea how 3 different people would misread that.
That makes the pilots better doesnt it? Crew as though they were 3/1’s isntead of 2/1’s?
Brainstorm is the most misplayed card
It’s misplayed more in the sense of good vs bad Brainstorms, you gotta find a shuffle effect for it to be any good
Deflecting swat almost always mis played
I like these styles of effect, but they can lead to some wonky interactions. Like you can’t redirect a counter spell to itself, but you can redirect it to Deflecting Swat itself.
I have played morbid landscape wrong
I see Maurag misplayed a tonne
Thassa's Oracle. They think it belongs in a fun casual commander deck but really it's supposed to stay in a binder.
Sphinx the second son and I was just as guilty as anyone else. I thought that you untapped at the beginning of your post combat main face, but you don't. You untap right before your end step.
Sphinx’s wording is so awful and confusing, I genuinely wonder how that text box came to print haha
I've been victim of Decimate targeting me for all its targets several times, can I count these as misplays lol (not casted by myself, someone else)
Any card with cascade on Shuffle Up & Play
Myriad landscape can however hit gates if they are considered a basic in deck such as with rootpath purifier ;) food for thought ❤
The Rootpath Purifier synergy is pretty cute, even if it’s a one-of effect that’s not always going to be activate
Brainstorm in the pass with nothing to shuffle the deck or no use for the cards in the top of the deck
Arena players when Timeless first released got it wrong so many times haha
Master Warcraft always gets mis played, you chose what creatures attack, not who they attack. That's a mistake I've seen made a lot
That card’s kind of weird, so many of these types of effects let you choose who gets attacked. But it’s a pre-Commander card, so multiplayer gameplay was definitely not considered lol.
They probably run it in colorless decks because it still taps for a colorless mana and was reprinted a lot. Yes a Waste would be better if you just need a land BUT wastes have not been printed a lot..
Yeah it’s a very accessible colourless land, it’s just useless to colourless decks haha
There are a ton of untapped colorless lands
Wastes are wastes they included that card in the eldrazi deck last year
Wastes don’t have a land type, they’re just basic lands