The Weirdest MTG Cards Ever Printed - Part 3
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Part 1 of this series: • The Weirdest MTG Cards...
Part 2 of this series: • The Weirdest MTG Cards...
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Fleshmad Steed = Theros set was about the gods. Heracles 8th labor was the mares of Diomades. There were 4 mares (like 4 copies of the cards in a deck). The horses would only eat human flesh and were uncontrollable. When the horses would eat human flesh, they would calm down. So the Fleshmad Steed are the horses. They are stronger then humans (who are 1/1 creatures) and when a creature dies they are eating it so the horses tap. The flavor text is when Heracles crew saw the horses they were not afraid until the horses beat down a person and starting eating him.
guzenfox I was saying the same thing. But which of the cards is actually Heracles?
guzenfox I
That's fair, but it's a fucking Grizzly Bears. Before that card it had been seven or so years before a bear with a downside was printed, and it's been quite a few years since then. It should have been a 3/2 or something to justify the downside.
if every card was good, no cards would be good. :)
Yes, but that doesn't mean they should print 4 mana 1/2s with shitty abilities like they used to, and it doesn't mean printing 2 mana 2/2s with hefty downsides in a color that by that point had already gotten vanilla 2 mana 2/2s in actual tribes without it being that amazing.
Enter the Infinite + Omniscience = PLAY ALL THE THINGS!!
+Dreznin Or laboratory maniac (IE) have minds eye out and when your opponent draws you win
To be fair once you have omniscience there are way too many ways to win instantly.
Have cards that recycle your graveyard back into your deck, cards that let you have more turns, assloads of draw/stall.
TAKE ALL THE TURNS
Add past in flames. Play all the things twice
Or psychic corrosion. Mill all the things!
In the old days, creature cards would be typed as, for example, "Summon Cat" instead of "Creature - Cat". So "Summon Legend" means "Creature - Legend".
+3snoW Actually, Legend was originally a creature type. If you went as written, it would be a Legendary Creature with no types. But I believe it would end up as a "Legendary Creature - Human" (or maybe Wizard).
pleravens Oh yeah, i forgot that now "Legend" isn't a creature type anymore lol. There used to be some special creature types, the "Legend" creature type behaved the same way as the "Legendary" keyword does now, and the "Wall" creature type implicitly meant that it couldn't attack. And in the old days creatures didn't necessarily have types if i'm not mistaken.
"Sorrow's Path" has to be one of the strangest (and arguably worst) Magic cards ever printed.
fun fact: relentless rats has a cousin named shadowborn apostle. play a 20/38 deck with 2 slots taken by grislebrand. that was a standard deck.
the card you were thinking of for drafting the table is theive's auction
enter the infinite is 12 cmc, not 13
+Planeswalker999 That was never a standard deck, but ok.
+Dan Racinowski sorry. it was a deck that could be played in standard
PERSISTENT PETITIONERS
Shadowborn Apostle and Rat Colony and Persistent Petitioners say hello
I have both enter the infinite and omniscience. You play your entire library for free.
Other than the 10 mana it costs to cast omniscience.
Do that and add things like laboratory maniac or inner fire(adds red mana equal to cards in hand) with any X burn spell. Comet storm is really good because you can mutlikicker it to hit more targets for the X damage.
Ive hard cast enter the infitnite and then hard cast omniscience a few times to win the game. you do what you gotta do
It's way easier to go infinite with a Palinchron via High Tide and then cast Mind's Desire
The Meme Dream Team Jodah?
Fleshmad Steve is one of those "we have till midnight to make 20 unique cards" cards
Omg Steve turned into a zombie.
Fleshmad Steed is an example of the 2/2 for 1M. Green was the first with Grizzly Bear, which was meant to show the power of Green with creatures. Eventually White was given the same thing to reflect its power with small creatures. Every other color was forced to have a drawback until creatures got ramped up. Now Green and White get 2/2 with upside, and Black and now Red have occasional 2/2's for 1M, leaving only Blue as the color that can't just have a 2/2 for 2.
Dominick Riesland Blue has Phantasmal Bear a 2/2 for 1
With a drawback. You can always get more if you take a drawback. Phantasmal Bear (and Dragon) can't stand up to a Master Decoy.
Thieves' Auction is the card he couldn't remember at 11:35.
You couldn't make him sac Progenitus if you wanted to. The word "everything" is arguably the most broad word in the English language, everything includes the player that played him, because that player is indeed a thing. Wizards rulings wouldn't work on him either, unless they want to call their rulings not a thing.
+Andrew Hammer Yes I can make him sac it. Look up what "protection" means in the MTG rules.
"702.16i “Protection from everything” is a variant of the protection ability. A permanent with protection from everything has protection from each object regardless of that object’s characteristic values. Such a permanent can’t be targeted by spells or abilities, enchanted by Auras, equipped by Equipment, fortified by Fortifications, or blocked by creatures, and all damage that would be dealt to it is prevented."
Wizards fucked up using the most broad word printed on a card. Unless you want to call sacrificing stuff not a thing (and if it wasn't you couldn't do it).
+Andrew Hammer "Progenitus can still be affected by effects that don’t target it or deal damage to it (such as Day of Judgment)." - gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=179496
As such things that force the sacrifice of a creature, any Wrath effect, a board-wide -X/-X effect can all kill Progenitus. It's actually surprising easy to kill him, and part of the reason why Wizards decided to phase 'protection' out in favor of indestructible.
Is Wizard's a thing? Is a wrath effect a thing? is a "board-wide -x/-x" effect a thing? Because if they are, they are part of everything, which Progenitus has protection from. Idc how many rulings there are, wizards decided to print the most broad word on a card in a game where very finite rule matter a lot. Anyone who argues against this is up Wizard's assholes lol
+Andrew Hammer You don't have understanding of what "protection" means in MTG. It literally just means it cannot take damage from "everything" or be targeted by "everything."
Sacrificing a creature is NOT the same thing as targeting. Boardwiping is NOT the same thing as targeting.
My friend actually has a Commander Progenitus deck
I actuaaly just completed mine the other day. waiting FOr the last card to come in before it take it to a tournament
I think that Fleshmad Steed may be a reference to Ancient Greek mythology. During Heracle's 12 labors he came across a kingdom who's ruler had trained his horses to consume human flesh. Nothing special about them, just carnivorous horses. That would explain it's typing, and its ability might be it feasting on the recently fallen's corpse? Also, the fact that all of Theoros is based off of Greek mythology helps to support this idea.
Magic "just keep buying the cards and no one gets hurt"
fleshmad steed is based on greek mythology. flesh eating horses... whenever something dies they stop and eat the corpse
every unhinged/unleashed card ever is weirder than this entire list. you should feature 'the fallen apart' it's just hilarious
I always thought fleshmad steed was purely flavor based, like "oh look a dead body!" and it would run over to eat it as it was mad for flesh and since it was eating it would be preoccupied hence becoming tapped
I came specifically for Enter the Infinite on the thumbnail. And yes, I'm planning on putting it into a deck with four Elixir of Immorality. You hit the nail on the head.
I have a Reaper King Commander Deck
I do to! Mine's scarecrow tribal and runs a bunch of the split cards and all the guild lockets. I call it- all five colourless
I think Fleshmad Steed is an example of wizards going too deep into flavor to make anything useful. The Fleshmad Steed is a reference to the Mares of Diomedes, 4 horses that Hercules encountered during his Eighth Labor. They were supposed to be uncontrollable man-eating horses. The tap when something dies is probably referencing that you can't really control when that ability happens (like the horses) for the Steed to go feed on the dead creature (so it is tapped).
Armageddon predates WotC owning TSR
Yeah... they used some religious stuff on cards... Swords to Plowshares... Wrath of God... they were out there.
***** Or Army of Allah. heh
Wizards Of The Coast didn't acquire Dungeons & Dragons from TSR until 1997 & Alpha came out in 1993 to be precise.
Fleshmad Stead is an ancient Greek Myth about the Mares of Diomedes which was 4 horses that ate human flesh. So, whenever a creature dies the horse will go over there and eat them so it taps. It's actually really great flavor and might combo eventually with a creature untap mechanic.
"That's so deep I need to get a ladder to get back out it it" lmao
That 1996 champion card is so stupid, there's only 1 in existence so getting another one is literally impossible
I've actually got Enter the Infinite in my blue/black zombie deck based on Rooftop Storm. You'd stop laughing when I drop my library's worth of zombies on the field.
13:30
In Hearthstone, when you play the weapon "Aluneth" you hear it say "You cross the infinite", perhaps a reference to this card with the effects being rather similar
Old Magic the Gathering did not just make up their own mythology. There is actually a card named "Frankenstein's Monster".
I love that he is so concerned with naming a specific product for fear of "getting sued". You are allowed to have opinions about a product dude.
"Hey, everyone, Deso-sleeves allow for cheating and are used by cheaters. Don't buy them or people will think you're cheating."
Even I'd sue myself for saying that if I made Deso-sleeves lol.
The Epic spells from Saviors of Kamigawa need to be in the next one
There is always the Unglued and Unhinged sets, but those cards were intentionally designed to be weird.
here's the most random/weird cards I know : guild feud, possibility storm, knowledge pool+ obviously it's combo with curse of exhaustion, shared fate (you play your opponent's deck and you opponent plays yours), biovisionary, steamflogger boss, platinum emperium, gamble (the name, really Wizard?), confusion in the ranks (oh, the frustation this card can bring in a multiplayer game...), Grip of chaos, warp world (this+suspend cards)
There you go, have fun seing the weirdest cards Wizards ever did :)!
Btw, love your videos, keep this awesome work :D!
Oh, didnt know this one, thanks x)!
Speaking of the Autochton Wurm, its kind of funny to think about the kinds of things it survives: It survives a high-speed meteor smashing into it (Shivan Meteor, 13 damage to a creature). It survives getting blasted by Hell (Into the Maw of Hell). And so on.
Aside from Flavor, the only way I can see using Fleshmad Steed someone effectively in a game is if you could cheat out all four copies and play Tamiyo , the moon Sage and sacrifice a creature, so that all four tap, allowing you to draw no less than four carbs from one of her loyalty abilities. I don't know how practical this would be overall, just a thought. As far as summon Legend as a creature type, when the game first came out, it was how they identified legendary creatures. Summon Legend has now been redefined by Oracle as legendary. I love your videos and the series, thank you for posting them
I did build a Relentless Rats deck for modern built with some removal, a bunch of swamps, and of course, a bunch of relentless rats. The reactions are priceless.
Wizards should play a Scrambleverse with their MTGA shuffler and matchmaker
I really like this series! Keep it up man!
Omniscience + Locust god + Enter the Infinite= game over
Armageddon is my favorite spell to cast in Mental Magic.
You, uh.
You don't need to explain where the term 'Armageddon' comes from. It didn't originate with the movie. xD
Not to mention that he says that Wizards owns Dungeons and Dragons, which was only an early 2000's acquisition. Armageddon was made *long* before that. I was still a child (8-10 range) when this card came out. I'm 35 now.
The card you was thinking about that was draft like was called "thieves auction". Remove all perminents from the game. Starting with you and going clockwise, each player chooses a permanent from outside the game and places it onto the field. Do this till all cards that were removed by this auction has been played.
It's one if my favorite cards because when people play "I win decks" or "you can't touch me decks" you can just kick em in the shins with this.
I saw the thumbnail, I then proceeded to scream "Leave my scarecrows alone!"
I used to drop Chains of Mephistopheles just to watch how long it took for my opponent to read/comprehend all the text. Lol
Omg! You literally at the end summarized my blue deck with elixir of immortality and enter the infinite, I also added omniscience to be able to cast everything in my hand for free.
Play cards that say, "shuffle it into your library," with enter the infinite. Now you have an infinite ammount of creatures that returned from the graveyard to the battlefield.
Flesh mad steed is a mythology reference. The mares of Diomedes were trained to eat human flesh. The flavor is the horse gets distracted by tasty dead meat so it taps. Theros was full of stuff like that, some more well known than others.
also, when Armageddon was first printed, I don't think that wizards owned d&d yet.
Yup... Wizards acquired D&D in 1999.
@@Zaprozhan no, wrath is creatures and were both around at the same time
some more weird cards that I can think of at the moment are Teferi's Realm, Illicit Auction, and timesifter.
Shared fate - Enter the infinate - destroy shared fate ... make your opponent cry...
"I'm not even a crow and I'm scared of him" rofl
Fleshmad Steed is a reference to the Labors of Heracules. One of them involved cleaning out the stables of horses that ate human flesh. (Also it's got the minus ability because it's meant to be a teaching tool. Not all cards are good.)
This is a great series, thanks for uploading!
Side note, when are you coming out with more unwritten rules videos? I love learning about the mechanics of the game.
+Terry Johnson Right after people climb down out of my ass about my conclusions and math and logic being wrong in those series. Did you see the number of thumbs down? Over 100 comments have been removed by me too. Why post themes and patterns in card design if morons are just going to scream about me being wrong like a bunch of 2 year olds?
+DesolatorMagic Eh, fuck em. You're the first person I've seen on the internet (personally) that even talks about themes and patterns in the card design and that's enough for me. Maybe I don't watch enough videos about magic or something and someone else also covers this, but I think you do it well. You should at least do one for each color before calling it quits on the series. Pretty please? :D
This vid, for some of it's faults as many have "politely" pointed out, HAS given me some neat ideas for making a halfway-competitive rainbow deck
I actually played a Defender Ramp combo deck back when Enter the Infinite was in standard, using Enter the Infinite as a combo piece. It went infinite with Triton Tactics, Axebane Guardian and Sylvan Cartatid plus others to play infinite lands, draw my deck an infinite number of times and win with any number of effects all in a single turn. I could win with Mill thanks to Doorkeeper, Burn thanks to some big Burn X spell as well as maze’s end (which I could build up in one turn).
It wasn’t the best against fast decks, but it WRECKED control.
I remember playing a Relentless Rats in an Abzan token deck (technically before Abzan was introduced through Tarkir. I think it was 2011?). The deck itself was very unreliable, but fun, with the main focuses being Conjurer's Closet (flicker every turn), Doubling Season (double every effect that gives tokens or counters), Cathar's Crusade (everything gets a +1/+1 counter whenever something enters the battlefield), and Populate (when it appeared). Used a Soul's Foundry in one duel to get a Relentless Rats token. Doubling Season doubled it, again thanks to a Parallel Lives. Everything gets 4 +1/+1 counters, doubled by a Doubling Season and again by a Corpsejack Menace. Next turn, Populate with Growing Ranks, get 4 more and everything gets 16 more +1/+1 counters. That's now 8 Relentless Rats, half 32 counters and half with 16. Then my opponent used an instant to prevent all damage that turn and wiped them away with a Martial Coup...
I love dropping Scrambleverse in EDH
There is a new naga that lets you play lands from your graveyard. I now want to make a deck using those two as a combo
OMG, like 9 hours before I watched your video, I found out about reaper King and decided to start brewing a American Commander deck with him as Commander. seeing him here makes me happy. :D
1:10 Summon is what creature spells were called in the early days of magic. It represents you, the planeswalker, summoning a creature from it's home plane, the whole "you can't bring living things between planes" wasn't a thing back then.
A friend of mine used Enter the infinite in a (non tournament legal) high tide deck. From there he could choose whether to mill his enemies or just play Laboratory Maniac and draw two cards. He's reworked his deck a couple of times since then.
Enter the Infinite would actually be crazy with Omniscience
Omniscience into Enter The Infinite. Look into it, and TRY not to think like a villain.
Thrumming Stone + Relentless Rats = fun
Offtopic somewhat: In Commander, I like doing Aladdin's Lamp + infinite colorless mana generation for tutor every turn.
I've had Enter the infinite and omniscience quite a while, and has thought the combo would be hilarious but have never really tried it. A few weeks back I made a mono-blue deck with loads of stall mechanics, like counterspells, bounce creatures, defenders, Vortex elementals and such, combined with some mana ramp and card draw. I stall until I have 10 mana, or until I have the cards I need, play Omniscience and then enter the infinite, draw my whole deck, and play and bounce Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger until the opponent has no permanents left, and they mostly just give up from there.
It's obviously not an even remotely competitive deck, but for playing at home with your friends own creations, it can hold it's own surprisingly well, and being mighty annoying at the same time.
I remember with Enter the Infinite, it was around the same time Omniscience existed, which reads "You can cast cards from your hand without paying their mana cost". I had a mana screw deck that I ran that I wanted to jokingly put Omniscience and Enter the Infinite into just to do ridiculous shit.
Thieves' Auction is what you was thinking when you talked scambleverse.
Infinite + Laboratory Maniac, and perhaps even a draw effect . I'm partial to skyscribing, combining it with keening stone, traumatize, etc...another dual win condition
you make me feel bad for having Amen Skirmisher in my deck :(, love the series tho
You haven't played blue in commander until you go omniscience into enter the infinite
Thieves auction is the card he couldn't think of at scrambleverse
I use enter the infinite as part of a 1-2combo with omniscience. It is my secondary "I win" deck
if my memory serves right the fleshmans steed was used in combos where it had enchantment or something similiar "when ever X is tapped" something happens with other creature giving it untap so that you could repeat the prosess multiple times
Summon legend and your awe at the wording is to funny
You damned kids... you can't imagine the lore of what magic was 25 years ago!
Armageddon was a staple back in the day with Erhnam Djinn. You ramp with elves and birds and get out a Djinn or two and then Armageddon lands and you slaughter your opponent because you have a huge creature or two and they almost surely have less. You also have birds and elves to help you get back in the game quicker than your opponent can, if necessary. Later on, when Zuran Orb came out, it was always used with Armageddon to get you life while blowing up lands.
possability storm is pretty great and funny, its along the same lines as scrambleverse
Enter the infinite is actually played in omni-tell in legacy, a very expensive competitive deck. You are never casting that thing for 12 mana.
That's true about theros. I had a grave crawler deck. Geralfs messenger is still one of my favorite and most broken cards to this date
Love the amount mtg CZcamsrs know about the game
Fleshmad steed has to stop and eat every corpse he come by. Whenever a creature dies, Fleshmad steed is so crazed for meat it has to tap and nibble at the body. It's not a zombie but the flavour text says it been corrupted, so now its a carnivore. With extra legs.
Had a friend at an event get hit with omniscience into enter the infinite, into the new boborygomos and they discarded all their land for lightningbolts. Enter might be a weird card, but lots of fun and i adore the artwork.
I don't know what experience this guy has with magic but these "weird card" I see most of them at least once a week in commander
Knight of the White Orchid and Weathered Wayfarer, along Knight Exemplars , Day of Judgment, etc...always pretty effective
I competed in the worlds '96, and they had made a video of how the world champion card was printed. I think most of the participants thought of it as a trophy rather than a card.
Enter the Infinite had a nice combo with Laboratory maniac
Randomly got this recommended to me lol
Armageddon:
Artifact Lands + All Artifacts are Indestructible = I have mana, you don't.
Can't wait to play my Platinum Angel...
(Okay, so this deck design isn't going to win many games, but it is funny).
Fleshmad Steeds ability is probably from it's name. It's fleshmad, so anytime a creature dies, it can't do anything other than try and eat the corpse.
Enter the infinite plus omnipotence would be so good, just play your entire library
Or omniscience plus lab maniac and you just win
I once made a commander deck online that was 50 relentless rats and 50 swamps commanded by erebos
I had a standard scrambleverse deck. Had an opponent give up because he didn't want to determine who got what
Way to use Armageddon: Get Artifacts that give you mana at no mana cost before casting it.
A lot of strategy with Armageddon dealt with either having creature mana or artifact mana so you would be better off than your opponent. Either that or to seal up the game after getting a big creature out. For more info, see decks such as Ernhamgeddon or Titania's Song.
Fleshmad steed could combo with 2 Umbral Mantle, another Fleshmad Steed, Mycosinth Lattice, Clock of Omens, Acorn Catapult, Abzan ascendancy., Hissing Iguanar, and Ashnod's Altar. Infinite mana, Infinite 1/1 fliers, infinite Squirels, or just ping your opponent to death. Such versatility!!
"Mana Clash" is a fun one that is similar to "Game of Chaos".
Btw enter the infinite -> omniscience -> play entire deck -> laboratory maniac -> opponent rage quit
+Ides Hatred Someone played that deck against me a long time ago and I threw a counter spell in there somewhere and they got all mad.
I actually really like Fleshmad Steed, and here's why. Flavor. It taps whenever another creature dies because it's eating the body.
You gotta talk about One with Nothing. Ive always wanted to make this useful
the lick on the ticket was amazing to see
Relentless rats is a reference to plaguerats who worked the same way, because the four cards rule did not exist in early magic.
Scrambleverse with Hive Mind on the field is a headache