This is how I felt when I first saw "invisible stalker", which has hexproof and unblockable.

The combination of Deathtouch and First Strike is up there as well. (especially on creatures with more than one power)

This guy gets it. I miss block constructed.

The artist name is puddinhead?

And remember, this was Mirrodin... so it had Equipment options too outside auras and counters Try dealing with a Troll ascetic equipped with a Loxodon Warhammer and Fireshrieker >:)

I love first strike death touch

Some context for wotc and its rarity choices at the time. This card internally at wotc was expected to be a cheaper newer tournament capable version of the old school beatdown card morphling. Wotc playtesters thought it would be used the same exact way as an attack step calculated mana dump while holding control cards in your hand for a tempo beatdown. Naturally it was rejected as being clunky and slow due to modern blue decks not having access to super cheap 1-2 mana counterspells.

God how did they make something as strong as Vein ripper, this is making me want to play Vampires and not play anything else.

The best Keyword combo.. Trample, Deathtouch!! Never before have they both been on a creature.

Choke is the greatest green card ever, all blue can do once it’s out there is bounce it back but wait there’s no mana. You cast choke then the next turn you cast your monster creature you’ve been holding.

Trollll

Young Nizzahon went from trying to make Leviathan work to dealing with a regenerating troll. A common MTG upbringing.

Survival of the fittest if it wasn’t green wouldn’t be banned, it’s not that good but cards like elvish piper and land producing creatures make it crazy.

Wild people couldn't figure this out.

The number one troll in Magic history isn't part of "Magic history," it's Lord of the Rings. 😢

"Trolls that have left the biggest impact on competitive magic the gathering", my votes go to Alex Bertoncini and Mike Long.

Fabulous top 10 as always Nizz. Would you consider doing any pioneer masters draft content? The format is sweet

08:50 I'm pessimistic on this. Thrun is weak to edict effects and gets outraced by things like Abhorrent Oculus, especially under consideration of Unearth.

Least expected #1 ever.

You sound younger.

Remember when I first learned about this and mircle theirs such little tidbits that we take for granted

And here I was putting my trolls of khazad dum in the bulk bin 😂

you should do another top 10 trolls but for players not cards lol

Guessing Trolls of Khazad-Dun or whatever it is spelled like as number 1. This game is so cooked

Love to see such a stacked list with a Pauper All-Star at the top. Makes up for our lack of representation on the rest of the list

Technically, the top troll has a degree of resilience, but not against magic (instants, sorceries, PWs, enchantments, any targeting basically). However it is hard to block and thus hard to kill in combat. It's very minor and honestly, this thing seems like it could've had more toughness and/or power since it was so menacing

Fun video series idea for you how about a series of videos that cover each year of MTG showing how the game has evolved over time

need more mutate support, desperately. its a highly complex and entirely unique mechanic unlike all else and i love it. thx for bringing more attention to it after years of none

Could Varolz + Phyrexian dreadnought a thing? Sorry...havent played in ages.

Gotta pay the troll toll

It's somewhat sad that more recent cards almost always come on top of old-time classics. It would be nice some time to engineer a top 10 such that old cards are better than new ones. 😊 (Though you may point out that's the case when you do top 10 most expensive cards... 🤔).

Why did they do away with regeneration? To me it was iconic especially on trolls.

Nothing like the beautiful combination of land tutoring and super menace

A top 10 list of a creature type that almost exclusively exists in green? Of course the top spot is a non-green card and it being played has nothing to do with what it does as a creature! The state of the "creature color" is just sad...

I thought TheAsianAvenger was Magic's greatest troll.

How tf is a common #1.

1st place made me realize that one day in the not too distant future the tops of these lists are going to be filled with UB trash and not classic magic cards :(

Autumn Willow sort of has hexproof-esque abilities from Homelands

8:00 The correct pronunciation is "Assholewhonamedmeneedstobeshot"

I just don't like how if it's face down, you have to pay 6 mana to get it to dodge a spell. Morphling... this ain't it.

Oddly enough one of my favorite creature types

I'm a simple man. I see my boy Varolz mentioned, i like the video

I'm honestly shocked at that number one. How did a French vanilla troll beat out Golgari Grave Troll?

5:15 notably, Ocelot Cats could double your TREASURE tokens (as well any other tokens), because that broken s**t of a card does NOT have any reasonable limitation on it (except for "tokens that have entered this turn", which is ... the bare minimum) 20:20 also, all "Impending" cards functionally have Haste if they were cast with the "Impending" alternative cost

It's not in this list, but the Sedge Troll/Hedge Troll is my favorite of all the trolls just for being a very good parallel of mechanical, art and story flavor. A bit of a shame the space for those little short stories is so low when cards have to do so much these days.

I hope you are just as resilient as a troll! Missing your videos and hoping covid doesnt deal to much damage to your income. ❤❤❤❤

Troll Ascetic is so iconic that we called hexproof “troll shroud” before it was keyworded (such as on Slippery Bogle)

holy the intro jumpscared me^^

You have to pay the troll toll...

Been thinking a lot about Thrun lately and how the newer one kind of takes 2 steps back from the anti-control pillar that The Last Troll was. "Almost-hexproof" just feels out of place, and the inability to protect itself during your opponent's turn (aka the time it's most likely to die via sweeper) feels like an astronomical miss. All while costing more mana. Idk it just feels to me like it doesn't occupy the same niche that The Last Troll did, so options like Shifting Ceratops and Balustrade Wurm feel like better sideboard choices.