I remember when Mental Misstep was released a lot of people were playing it in their decks. I was running a green ramp deck at the time and I played a turn one Birds of Paradise. My opponent immediately used Mental Misstep on it. I however also ran a card called Summoning Trap in my deck. Summoning Trap was cast at instant speed for 4 of any color + 2 Green mana and when cast allowed you to look through the top 7 cards of your library and put a creature from among those cards onto the battlefield and then shuffle the library. But, if any creature spell that I cast was countered on that turn I could then cast Summoning Trap for 0 mana. I had 2 of them in my hand and used both of them which allowed me to get a Primeval Titan and an Emrakul, The Aeons Torn onto the field turn 1. My opponent then forfeit the round and pulled his Mental Missteps out of his deck for some other sideboard cards. I still get a chuckle out of that one.
@joto54592 жыл бұрын
That is disgusting lmao
@DiminutiveJerry2 жыл бұрын
Activated your trap card
@trveheimer63602 жыл бұрын
lol green can be degenerate too
@kevinb54172 жыл бұрын
Sounds like he made a mental misstep.
@joto54592 жыл бұрын
@@kevinb5417 take your damn like
@TurbinationE2 жыл бұрын
13:07 tfw a Yu-Gi-Oh Player understands "Reading the card explains the card" better than most Magic players LOL
@dimmusdongus65962 жыл бұрын
magic players seem way more likely to take design truisms like that for granted rather than thinking them through and applying them
@r3zaful2 жыл бұрын
I mean i can understand every single card game in the market(hs, lor etc but i mostly play weiss and yugioh irl because the demographic here force me to do it) but i somehow still need an emulators to determine how an effect resolve in yugioh negate faceup etc. Show how stupidly annoying yugioh rulings are, but it is so satisfying when i pull it off, like i summoned Lonefire Blossom(im playing rikka irl) through living fossil and activate its effect, then my opponent poker facing my play unknowingly that's a legal move lmao.
@bluehabs2 жыл бұрын
Ironically, neither of them read lol
@arielgomes79892 жыл бұрын
Nah Yugioh players are infamous for not reading the cards, lol. But to be fair, every card is a book nowdays
@saphired022 жыл бұрын
To be fair a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh cards I've seen look like a novel with all the words. Although MTG is getting there. we're just not used to a lot of text.
@alexkitelinger22182 жыл бұрын
Extremely Impressed by him so quickly honing in on exactly what happened with Misstep, spot on.
@sirsimon65622 жыл бұрын
Yes! However i am supprised they did not mention, that with the alternative cost, it can be played in any deck regardless the color!
@sanstheskeleton6792 жыл бұрын
You can easily see a train wreck if you thrive in an environment full of train wrecks
@robinlinh2 жыл бұрын
@T.J. Johnson I immediately thinking about Solemn another Solemn
@jimmysalmeron52922 жыл бұрын
@@sirsimon6562 it happened in yugioh with crossout designator, low cost but going second you can set and crossout a crossout to get out of a bind
@QuantemDeconstructor2 жыл бұрын
@T.J. Johnson one of the counters to Maxx "C" being activating your own to lock your opponent out of it IIRC
@ThePigKnight2 жыл бұрын
“This can counter itself.” *PTSD of mental misstep one ups manship* “Yes.”
@bruwin2 жыл бұрын
That's why at the end you just mention the Storm count to make your opponent sweat.
@ODST_SSGT2 жыл бұрын
mental misstep is still my fav card.
@tungstenzephyr2 жыл бұрын
@@ODST_SSGT I loved the MM Legacy meta no cap...
@V2ULTRAKill2 жыл бұрын
@@bruwin at the end of the war Flusterstorm
@lostalone9320 Жыл бұрын
Thing is that a good amount of the time, making your opponent fight over a Misstep is actually great for you. In a one-for-one battle, you win by being the proactive player.
@ManuSh4d0w2 жыл бұрын
I like it better when you show in the bottom of the screen the rated cards and how the guest is doing, but very fun series!
@matthewsawczyn65922 жыл бұрын
I love that he refers to a search card as a "tutor", which just shows Magic's historic influence on all card games
@CardmarketMagic2 жыл бұрын
Yu-Gi-Oh players even use mill 😅 and they don't know why
@lostalone9320 Жыл бұрын
Thing is that a lot of these game-actions are used in multiple games and kinda demand a proper one word term to describe them. Tutoring and milling are useful verbs that replace longer sentences.
@mrmoosetachio Жыл бұрын
@@lostalone9320 sure. But they come specifically from Magic cards. Hence OPs comment....
@IamGrimalkin Жыл бұрын
I heard tutor was a reference to a magic card but I don't know what it actually does. But in the past when I heard people mention 'tutor', they were talking about special summoning from deck, not searching? What does it actually do?
@fionathegayesttiefling9867 Жыл бұрын
@@IamGrimalkin In the very first set of Magic, they printed a black card called Demonic Tutor that looked through your library for any card and put it in your hand. Not having been around back then, I can't tell you if that immediately became the name for deck searching effects or if it took until the printing of things like Enlightened Tutor, Mystic Tutor, and Vampiric Tutor (respectively, searched enchantments and artifacts, instants and sorceries, and anything but cost 2 life) to solidify that name for the effect. Importantly those 3 instead of putting it in your hand, put it to the top of your library, thus any deck searching effect became known as a tutor, no matter where the card ended up. Even cards like Buried Alive that send it to your graveyard, are known as tutors (although the actual action of doing it is sometimes called entombing, named after the 1 mana spell that does it).
@mskain48962 жыл бұрын
2:40 Despite declaring it a staple, they UNDERRATE this card. I started playing Magic in '97. Survival of the Fittest released in '98 with Exodus. It was the primary card in the '98 World Championship deck. Certainly the creatures of the time were trash tier compared to modern Magic--Serra Angels, a staple of the series since release, were removed from 5th Edition for being 'far too powerful'--but even with that in mind, this card allowing you to fill your hand and graveyard with any creatures of your choice for very cheap made it quite broken even at the time.
@dstreetz912 жыл бұрын
Yeah, there was even a block deck that used survival called recsur because recurring nightmare was in the same block and oh man was recsur degenerate when you got the engine rolling. It was a slow grind, but it got lots of card advantage going to the point opponents couldn't keep up at all while fogging with spike weaver, gaining life with spike feeder, or pounding your face in with that card that spawns a 1/1 every turn to feed the recurring nightmare and was also a big beatstick. I remember legacy with the card, it was crazy what it could do at the end before the axe came down and now it could do even more of course just getting better with each set usually.
@darrenfrigon23682 жыл бұрын
@@dstreetz91 I had the gold-border Recurring Survival WC deck and it took me a while to figure out how it worked (couldn't just look it up on the internet at the time), but once it clicked, that was a super fun deck to play. It was pretty busted then, but would be absolutely broken with today's pool of cards.
@RamseyHawkeye2 жыл бұрын
Equipments are super hard to evaluate. They would work as great bait in this series!
@elitebuster20122 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, and Stoneforge Mystic
@monkfishy63482 жыл бұрын
@@elitebuster2012 There's absolutely no way he'd fall for Stoneforge. Cheating things out of the Deck for cheap, is universally a good effect, especially when it's coming off a cheap monster/creature.
@VixenIcaza2 жыл бұрын
Maybe do a "swords special" fire & ice, feast and famine, and the world ender type one that looked powerful but was a bit crap.
@ThePigKnight2 жыл бұрын
Just use CAWBlade cards. It’s a hard deck to pilot and not everything is clearly powerful.
@williamsmith95102 жыл бұрын
I think goblin guide is a perfect card to try and throw someone off as well
@joshuaspector81822 жыл бұрын
A- I love he realized it can counter itself. And B- I just love this series haha.
@karfsma7782 жыл бұрын
Monogreen running missteps to misstep their opponent's missteps on their elves
@joshuaspector81822 жыл бұрын
@@karfsma778 yep! Every deck period! 😒😒
@annaxuldraugworc78322 жыл бұрын
Welp in Yugioh we have a card called Solemn Judgement, which allows us to yeet a card activation clean with the cost of half a life point and it's still super good ,so seeing mental mistep only cost 2 lives for a effect of disruption I instantly thought it was a staple
@cephery84822 жыл бұрын
Tbf it’s not quite that. It’s a much more limited range you can use it on, like a judgement for 800 but you can only use it on a normal summoned monsters effect. But that judgement is also a handtrap that counters itself.
@lawtonadams42352 жыл бұрын
Like solemn warning where its nore limited but only 2000 life which while not a staple did see a bunch of play back when traps were viable
@randommaster062 жыл бұрын
An episode about limited cards would be great. Cards like Goblin Shortcutter from ZDR or Imperial Oath from NEO is a great way to look at another side of MtG.
@colgatelampinen25012 жыл бұрын
This is pretty great content. Some suggestions for future episodes: Darksteel Relic Curse of Silence Mind Swords Meddling Mage Jace, Wielder of Mysteries Kappa Cannoneer
@QuantemDeconstructor2 жыл бұрын
Be really funny to see a card like Norin the Wary and Dark Depths on here
@StarkMaximum2 жыл бұрын
Only now watching this do I realize that the double faced cards where you pick a side to play are basically pendulum monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh, where you choose whether you play it as a monster or a spell.
@ant-onemusic4442 жыл бұрын
I mean that's a stretch
@SKKaelth2 жыл бұрын
@@ant-onemusic444 just a little bit
@paxpacis22 жыл бұрын
As a non Magic player Pendulum cards were the first thing I was thinking off too. Instantly thought "So basically works like a Pendulum card"
@Aquilenne Жыл бұрын
Out of curiousity, do they still count as both types while in the GY for stuff like Delerium or Tarmogoyf?
@owenwells7692 Жыл бұрын
@@Aquilenne as far as I know they count as the front face while in the grave, so in Cosima's case he would count as the creature side.
@wjdelu67582 жыл бұрын
I really want to see how a Yu-Gi-Oh player would react to cards like Relentless Rats or Shadowborn Apostle, even if they are easy to evaluate
@rustycox77412 жыл бұрын
Yu-Gi-Oh player here, dabble in Magic now and then. Relentless Rats seems better than Shadowborn Apostle because it’s just a flat boost to your other rats, Apostle probably isn’t going to activate it’s effect during a game. The effect of being allowed any number of those cards in a deck is very funny, Digimon has similar cards, I don’t think Yugioh could have a card with that effect without making it very bad
@ich37302 жыл бұрын
@@rustycox7741 They both never saw any tournament play. But they DO have some really fun EDH decks
@HomeCookinMTG2 жыл бұрын
@@rustycox7741 apostle is actually better due to combo potential because of the card edge Walker. At least IMO. The only thing that relentless rats can really combo off with is thrumming Stone
@IamGrimalkin Жыл бұрын
As a yugioh player: MTG has no zone limits, right? So you could summon a load of Relentless Rats and use them to OTK? Like you might do with Numeron in yugioh? (Although this kind of card would never be printed in yugioh, you can't even play 4 different Umi retrains).
@chuckwagon3718 Жыл бұрын
@@IamGrimalkinYes, Magic has no zone limits, so in theory you could storm off to play a ton of rats, but they have summoning sickness and can't attack because they don't have haste, meaning you need to pass turn to your opponent, who could wipe your whole board and leave you with nothing. The rats also cost three mana each, which is awkward because it means you normally can't cast two of them a turn until turn 6, which is very late, plus you have to actually draw all of them. Obviously you can build your deck to give your rats haste and draw more cards and make more mana, but now you're diluting your rats with a bunch of other pieces just to make them playable (and spending more mana to do it). It's just too much work for a mediocre payoff. If you're already building your deck to include massive mana generation or infinite mana and tons of card draw, you want a wincon that wins the game on the spot with a single card, instead of trying to cast a bunch of rats. Something like Tendrils of Agony would be a much better choice; even mana-intensive Storm wincons like Mind's Desire or Dragonstorm are more efficient. Compare also to cards like Empty the Warrens or Chatterstorm, which will also make a huge board of creatures but do so when you cast just one copy of that card, so you don't need to draw as well and can do it earlier because you don't need to have as many cards or as much mana available to get your reward. Honestly, Relentless Rats seems better played fairly to apply pressure in a grindy midrange strategy, but even there and even sticking just to the Rat creature type, you'd be better off playing Pack Rat along with cards you could discard for value and removal.
@Doct0rLekter2 жыл бұрын
I feel like dredge cards would potentially be difficult to see the power of. Lions eye diamond is another example of a broken card that is hard to evaluate at first glance. Sensei’s divining top would probably be easier to figure out it was at least good, but I imagine it would be hard for someone to recognize just HOW good it really is.
@empty50132 жыл бұрын
i think anyone who reads LED would say its strong because its so suspiciously hard to use.
@Doct0rLekter2 жыл бұрын
@@empty5013 I don’t know this would look any better to an MTG noob than something like One With Nothing.
@TheJohtaja2 жыл бұрын
@@empty5013 Somewhat on the contrary, initially people thought LED's drawback was impossible to circumvent and the card was useless.
@empty50132 жыл бұрын
@@TheJohtaja it kinda was until cards came about that can abuse it and rules changes took place that made it more usable
@dstreetz912 жыл бұрын
LED at first was...bad. Even though demonic tutor existed there wasn't storm cards printed yet. It only took a few years for it to reach oh this is just flatout broken though when burning wish was released into the world and vintage got the 4 burning wish 4 LED with yawg's win in the sideboard, wheel of fortune, timetwister, all sorts of silly stuff ensued.
@fajenthygia57602 жыл бұрын
I've watched a lot of videos like this... and 16:39 is probably my favorite moment in any of them. Kudos on recognizing the counterwar potential.
@Brad10 Жыл бұрын
I can tell this guy is very intelligent and analytical by his thought process spoken out loud. It's always fun to see these videos.
@Nalianna Жыл бұрын
it's exactly why i like watching him talk. This is some of the best content.
@TheEmperorGulcasa2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, mental misstep, the miniature force of will. The phyrexian set made a lot of interesting decisions.
@kylecabrera1422 жыл бұрын
The omenkeel is terrible in standard but amazing in EDH. It's a great feeling when the rest of your tables eyes pop out their sockets when you exile the top 17 cards of someones deck and now you'll never miss a land drop. The keyword here is the omenkeel says when a vehicle does damage not when it deals damage.
@CardmarketMagic2 жыл бұрын
Every card can be great in the right EDH deck 😉 for the purposes of these series, we pretend EDH doesn't exist and focus on the 60-card formats
@quinci2 жыл бұрын
Love this series! One thing I think should be mentioned just as background info to help out is the distinction between /playing/ a land and having a land enter the battlefield. It seemed like at times he was evaluating some of the cards (Cosima, Undergrowth Champion) by thinking of the land effect as only happening once per turn because you're only allowed to /play/ one land per turn (unless a card like Explore etc. lets you do otherwise). But of course decks with green in them can easily be putting out 3 or 4 per turn with good ramp. I realize fetches were mentioned, but other ramp stuff wasn't. Cheers!
@miroslavmitakov95352 жыл бұрын
Would love to see cards that can break Yu-Gi-Oh like sensei's divining top or cards that are so weird like gitrog monster and just bad stuff like Aurelia's fury
@arielgomes79892 жыл бұрын
Kinda hard to evaluate what would "break yugioh" since magic cards are balanced around mana which yugioh doesnt have. A lot o cards would break yugioh if they didnt have mana costs. Most draw spells would
@fredrikfagerberg67832 жыл бұрын
The equivalent of Stupor and Act of Treason (and of course divination) are banned in YGO. Not having a mana system wildly alters the power level of noncreatures
@alexryu26322 жыл бұрын
@@fredrikfagerberg6783 You're absolutely correct on these points, but we did get the Act of Treason equivalent back last banlist, and it's seen no play due to the current speed of the game (Not discounting Change of Heart's history of course, it's just too likely to be prime negation-bait in most matchups to be worth running the one copy in your deck)
@stickofbutter41442 жыл бұрын
Some fun cards to evaluate. Yagmoth’s will, painter’s servant necropotence, helm of obedience, life from the loam, maze’s end.
@profoundd2 жыл бұрын
+1 for necropotence, back why Scrye used to rate the cards it was a 1 out of 5. It took what felt like forever in the pre-dojo days for the world to learn how broken it was.
@jakubfabisiak98102 жыл бұрын
they did Necro
@devonlello66442 жыл бұрын
For mental misstep, since it has pherexian mana, you can play it in any deck regardless of colour
@Nalianna Жыл бұрын
Mono grenn vs Mono white.... forest, llanowar elf, go... plains, savannah lions? *green player - No!, misstep*
@joshuaspector818220 күн бұрын
Man I love his assessments. Listen to him dissect mental misstep was perfect. 😂
@mageius2 жыл бұрын
I actually like seeing things like this as it show the balance between both games. I've played both games and can tell you it's always nice to see people look at the other game and get a solid grasp on the mindset of somethings.
@seanhutt4621 Жыл бұрын
As someone who came around from the beginning of magic Loved both infinite living death and rec/sur Survival has a special place in my heart ❤
@NessOnett82 жыл бұрын
"Mental Misstep" is a good description about the designers who thought that card was a good idea.
@ShadowWasntHere84332 жыл бұрын
Verdict: Adam is better at Magic than Toffel is at Yugioh
@jamesaditya52542 жыл бұрын
This means we must have a rematch. More staple or stinker content
@mackadam5894 Жыл бұрын
On Mental Misstep: It's also broken because ANY deck can run it thanks to it mana-less cost. So now, no matter your deck's colors, you had access to counterspells.
@tentacle_love Жыл бұрын
I think if you really want to throw him for a loop ask him what he thinks of Bonesplitter. It's a great example of a card that would otherwise be in one category, but because of the existence of another card, it goes straight into the other. Mirrodin block btw is filled with cards like that.
@SakuNeku2 жыл бұрын
I like how he instantly stapled Mental Misstep, it's basically MtG's Ash Blossom/Effect Veiler but on crack
@cheeveka32 жыл бұрын
That guy hasn’t even seen other counter spell cards like Force of Will, Flusterstorm, Force of Negation, and Fierce Guardianship.😂🤣
@alucard43442 жыл бұрын
Dude looked at a non once-per-turn draw 1 and said "yeah that's a stinker"
@Dj878872 жыл бұрын
I calculated about 20 years ago that each life point in Magic is equal to 400 life points in Yugioh since 8000 ÷ 20 = 400, so the Yugioh version of Yawgmoth's Bargain would say Pay 400 life points to draw a card.
@Joe-ck3ju Жыл бұрын
i can remember everyone playing MM back in standard and Extended (you all remember Extended?!?!?!). it gave EVERY color access to counter. I used to play RDW with a play set of Mental Misstep just because you didnt have to spash blue.
@MrMartinSchou2 жыл бұрын
To my mind, the thing that makes Mental Misstep so insanely powerful, is that you can play it in a non-blue deck.
@dizzyblizzy28062 жыл бұрын
That coupled with the phyrexian cost is what got it banned in modern/legacy. In EDH you still have to be in blue to play it and it doesn't see much play in casual, but it feels nice when you're going forth and the starting player loses his turn one fish or sol ring.
@bruwin2 жыл бұрын
Yep, if it required you to discard a blue card, it would have been a budget Force of Will. Still really good, but not nearly as oppressive. Allowing anyone to spend life to cast it just forced it to be a sideboard card for everyone.
@lordvika2526 Жыл бұрын
I think the first one is good combined with decks that lets you dredge monsters...so a green black deck would work great.
@mbalazs3544 Жыл бұрын
9:06 the most powerful black spell of the game :D
@TheRubsi Жыл бұрын
I don't know if it was mentioned but tireless tracker would fit very well too especially after we saw cosima :)
@friedpinnapple2 жыл бұрын
“That was my generous offer” this is my generous gift!
@Level_1_Frog2 жыл бұрын
I think if you want to trip Adam up you should include one of the 'pact' cards like Pact of Negation or Slaughter Pact- having a card that is initially free but forces you to pay a cost later could be hard to figure out, and those cards vary wildly in playability so you can pick one that's a staple or a stinker.
@TheSandwhichman1082 жыл бұрын
I have an mtg card called goblin assault team. I soon realized it’s a reference to goblin attack force from yugioh.
@Bhandy11232 жыл бұрын
I like the more qualified/educated guesses on this genre! Great video!
@CardmarketMagic2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed!
@lucacapasso94932 жыл бұрын
I am a yugioh player and the minute i saw mental misstep i knew it was absolutely busted. It's like a solemn judgment that can be activated from hand but the cost is 1000 lifepoints instead of half of whatever you have.
@andrewcooper79492 жыл бұрын
16:52 "ok... This cards really good..." He sees it.
@Monkeylordz882 жыл бұрын
Staples: Goblin Guide Mishra's Bauble Crucible of Worlds Gush Thassa's Oracle Dark Depths Stinkers: Kalonian Hydra Temporal Mastery Phyrexian Obliterator Stuffy Doll Phage the Untouchable Divert Decimate
@CardmarketMagic2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! We are always looking for new ones, especially good stinkers!
@ivorymantis10262 жыл бұрын
Honestly, most of these cards' power can be answered by a simple question: "How often would this card feasibly be 'dead' in my hand?" If it's lower, theoretically it should be closer to staple than chaff.
@Lightning_Lance2 жыл бұрын
yes, consistency is more important than potential
@Frommerman2 жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to do this with the following 5 cards: Survival of the Fittest Fauna Shaman Birthing Pod Prime Speaker Yannifar Evolutionary Leap They're all, broadly speaking, the same effect: pitching one creature to go find another, on a permanent which lets you do it repeatedly. But two of those cards have entire archetypes named after them, and the other three saw either zero play or extremely fringe play.
@Nomanzo2 жыл бұрын
Mental Misstep also doesn’t have any color requirements, so it could go in literally any deck (except in commander). Phyrexian mana was a mistake. Anyway, I always want more people to talk about Panglacial Wurm, so that’s my suggestion.
@tocu982 жыл бұрын
Worth noting on Survival was played in era as it was in the same block and standard as living death so you can just playing a bunch of green 1 turn than living death some fattys such as the big one at the time verdant force. Bargain was in the same set as Archenemy Rector and in one of the most powerful blocks of magic cards ever, within that block was the more reasonable card pyrexian tower to sac the rector to get bargain and have the mana to start moving to kill your opponant the power on the deck was the 2nd post in the format (the other one got very banned) however the win condition of syphon life not great.
@tylerjones37862 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see what his, and your view, of "Go-Shintai of Life's Origin" is
@spitfiremase2 жыл бұрын
I like Cosima's back half more than it's front half. That sort of flexibility is good, but it is still Christmas-landy for it to work out for you like the front half
@heroeus81732 жыл бұрын
Interesting Magic seems to have more enchanted,medievalesque terms I might try it some day
@jakubfabisiak98102 жыл бұрын
Some cards to include in these: Fact or Fiction, and Steam Augury Gifts Ungiven Standstill Tangle Wire Rishadan Port Cursed Scroll Isamaru, Hound of Konda Remand Wild Nacatl Venser, Shaper Savant Ball Lightning
@tacopanda36922 жыл бұрын
MY FAVORITE SERIES IS BACK!!!
@mountzion04 Жыл бұрын
I think if you take into account that the cost for drawing a card with YW is 5% of the mtg life total the equivalent in yugioh would be 400 which makes it an almost insta bann if ever entered into the yugioh meta it would just be absolutely busted
@baukeschenkelaars65552 жыл бұрын
Cards that I would be interested in seeing are Hedron Crab, rune-scarred demon & Gadrak the crown-scourge
@sejama66252 жыл бұрын
If I'm not wrong, those are combo cards? It's harder to judge combo cards individually.
@absenteechild85422 жыл бұрын
The best part of Mental Misstep if you don't even have to play blue for it because of its alternate cost. Throw it into your mono red burn, throw it into your Dune deck, who cares.
@OlAgony2 жыл бұрын
Really cool video, will like to see Fact or Fiction and Norin the wary be evaluated
@qwteb2 жыл бұрын
Yugioh player: if it has a wall of text probably good
@fromryuk77852 жыл бұрын
Mental misstep for magic sounds like the ash blossom of yugioh. Both cards create such intense tempo disrupting effects and can literally switch the game result in 1 turn.
@paupanades9957 Жыл бұрын
His thought process is nice regardless of if hes right or not
@Lukas-rv4lc Жыл бұрын
Fable of the mirror breaker, skrelv, platin Angel, darksteel Kollos and Alruns Epiphany would be my suggestions.
@DaemonRayge2 жыл бұрын
Mental Mistep Wars sound a lot like Hand Trap Wars in Yu-gi-oh
@ArxGaming672 жыл бұрын
I really feel like even with how straight forward Magic is this is a lot easier than Yugioh or something like Hearth stone imo
@xana39612 жыл бұрын
To point out how good yawgmoth's bargain was, there's another card called Griselbrand who was a 7/7 flying intimidate (can only be blocked by monsters that share a color with Griselbrand) who costed 4 and 4 black. He had an ability that simply read "pay 7 life: draw seven cards." On release he was immediately busted because everyone cheated him in. You couldn't control how many cards you got or how much life you paid, really. But he was still just as broken as yawgmoth's bargain. You could potentially put Griselbrand in for 2 or 3 mana as opposed to his "normal" cost of 8 mana. Yawgmoth's bargain was able to drop turn 2 or 3 often enough... which was just so fast it would just win you the game. And, unless you countered it, even if you targeted it with removal it could just respond to the removal with drawing cards anyways. The card was *beyond* broken.
@spitfiremase2 жыл бұрын
Griseldaddy has Lifelink, not Intimidate
@Lucarioguild72 жыл бұрын
I think pulling stuff out that were a staple of their standard but didn't see much success in eternal formats would be this game on hard mode
@sdfkjgh2 жыл бұрын
I got one: Weather the Storm.
@ExTrEmEStOrW Жыл бұрын
idk why undergrowth champion is bad, yes maybe back then it was slow, but now a day you can literaly put it in a +1/+1 counter deck, landfall deck, and then you can equip it with idk something to give it trample indestructible, and hexproof and you got yourself 1 hell of a monster on the field
@BhbtheRock2 жыл бұрын
I'm going to start running these by my partner who is a new player. Great learning opportunity!
@CardmarketMagic2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic!
@outbreakprime62462 жыл бұрын
Cosima is a great card in a deck where it's wanted (i.e. Shorikai) but in a vacuum I guess it needs some support.
@sudonahm69402 жыл бұрын
Qasali Ambusher, Primeval Titan, Tallowisp, Infernal Caretaker, Any of the Karoo Lands would be my spread.
@tylerrehkopf Жыл бұрын
The dude in the white sweatshirt looks exactly like ShadyPenguin in the thumbnail. Hope someone else sees what I see
@nooneofconsequence1251 Жыл бұрын
You may have done more to fool him about Cosima if you mentioned the fact that you normally can only have one legendary creature with the same name in play at a time... so.. having the back side (which interacts nicely with the front side) somewhat mitigates the downside to putting multiple copies of the same legend in your deck
@safersephiroth9432 жыл бұрын
Countering a t1 sol ring with MM is god tier.
@Level_1_Frog2 жыл бұрын
I'm kind of shocked that the only one he got wrong was Yogmoth's Bargain
@prakajr22 жыл бұрын
How the turn have tabled.
@ruineves11232 жыл бұрын
I dont think the omenkeel needs to be crewed for the effect tho
@loki55952 жыл бұрын
I once build a land deck that could play like 5-10 lands on 1 turn u should have told him these options :)
@davidjc3692 жыл бұрын
I think is the moment to start showing him combos and interaction, so he has to guess if they are good or bad...
@Moonscar12 жыл бұрын
This is a weird comment, but this entire video has given me such deja vu. Like I swear I have seen the exact cards haha
@HighLanderPonyYT2 жыл бұрын
What's the practical difference in how Necropotence and Yawgmoth's Bargain work, if any? They seem really similar, with bargain being a streamlined version of the two.
@MrNess6402 жыл бұрын
Necro gives you the cards on your end step rather than right away and exiles whatever you discard. It also isn't technically draw, so it can go under a card like Notion Thief.
@HighLanderPonyYT2 жыл бұрын
@@MrNess640 So true, thanks!
@wariv7746 Жыл бұрын
Love this series! Keep it up!
@BronzeToMythic2 жыл бұрын
Gonna make this poor dude read Cosima? I haven't even finished reading that card yet 😮
@colgatelampinen25012 жыл бұрын
Fortunately you watched this and didn't have to
@TheMorbidHobo2 жыл бұрын
I'd love for bot Ur-Dragon and Tiamat to be on here. Different episodes though.
@AnsticePalo Жыл бұрын
Survival of the Fittest was busted the day it was released. I have no idea why this pro MTG player is saying when it was released all creatures sucked when this came out after multiple sets where creature power level was rising exponentially.
@grantharriman2842 жыл бұрын
The big thing with mental misstep is that you can play it without having blue mana. Even colors that don't get counter options can pay 2 life to use it. Mono Green? Sure, just pay 2 life.
@veryblocky2 жыл бұрын
I only really play Commander, so I don’t usually think about what cards are good in Modern/Legacy. For example, I play very few 1 CMC spells in my decks.
@joshuagriffith91912 жыл бұрын
That seems weird design to me. I don’t play commander very often, but my decks have quite a few 1 mana spells in them. There are a lot of really broken 1 mana spells this protects against. If it’s completely useless in the board state it can be pitched to Force or Will or Force of Negation also.
@veryblocky2 жыл бұрын
I must just play a lower power level, no one in my play group runs force of will or force of negation. I just had a quick look, and my decks have an average of about five 1 CMC spells
@joshuagriffith91912 жыл бұрын
@@veryblocky Nice. I envy you then buddy. I had to upgrade my decks to even be competitive with the commander play groups. Kind of killed any of the little interest I had in the format.
@LieseFury Жыл бұрын
i thought that was steve mould at first
@buckle97332 жыл бұрын
Shambling ghast would be a good one
@vendorbruh99772 жыл бұрын
Am I crazy or are Thoralf's forearms massive af?
@rtvandle3 ай бұрын
Survival is a stinker cos it costs $350 bucks for a copy :P
@retronymph2 жыл бұрын
Nexus of fate, the card so accidentally powerful wotc printed it as a buy a box promo Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis Garth One-Eye Questing Beast Fable of the Mirror Breaker Lantern of Insight Golos, Tireless Pilgrim Revel in Riches Field of the Dead Teferi, hero of dominaria Lurrus of the Dream-Den Uro, titan of nature's wrath Thassa's Oracle Channel Brazen Borrower Embercleave
@sagejackson68862 жыл бұрын
Love this series! Keep it coming! My card suggestion: emrakul the aeons torn
Its a bit telling that all the creatures were the stinkers and all the non-creatures were staples. I think next time you have to make sure to mix it up more. or just make it only creatures or only non-creatures. I think for MTG its a bit more difficult to see which creatures turned out to be good.
@ryantwomey34632 жыл бұрын
Necropotence for more mana is still strong
@alicetheaxolotl2 жыл бұрын
You should do this with Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
@luxgracetail45992 жыл бұрын
What's the endscreen music?
@Thestar17x2 жыл бұрын
Yugioh player and magic player evaluate expanded format pokemon cards?