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[@blackblood9095]

"Would you believe Modern Horizons 2 has as many unique rules references as Unfinity?". Yes. yes I would believe that.

[@wehpudicabok6598]

"If the monarch dies and all the remaining players have something that says they cannot be the monarch, then there just stops being one." I believe they call this the French Revolution rule

[@ghostlygun2138]

Speaking of formerly unique cards that got their gimmick yoinked later, shout out to my favorite Future Sight card Boldwyr Intimidator. I'd be mad about it, but "Cowards can't block Warriors" is a phrase that deserves to appear on more cards.

[@JudgingFtW]

I'm still sore that Embiggen didn't say "non-Coward" creature. Why wouldn't you be able to embiggen a Brushwagg? At least Coward would make sense!

[@AceSevenFive]

@@JudgingFtW Brushwaggs know what they did

[@mistymysticsailboat]

11:48 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds JUST got spoiled and makes extra upkeep steps 😭

[@mmmmmq]

There’s already the Ninth Doctor actually

[@polbulanosalto7403]

In both of these scenarios it's perfectly clear whether or not you can cast reset

[@PHemidall]

Panglacial Wurm is so stupid that it needs a single video dedicated only to it.

[@TheMessinger47]

8:09 Devour [quality] does exist outside MH2. A card from one of the LOTR sets has Devour Food

[@ari_cool]

the card is [[Feasting Hobbit]]

[@Frommerman]

There's also a dragon with Devour Goblins.

[@poiri]

8:11 there’s Feasting Hobbit, which has Devour Food 3 12:36 the new Niv Mizzet from MKM also cares about color pairs

[@ericbarr734]

I pause many DDR videos, but i think this one is the one I've paused the most. Very interesting stuff! Thanks for covering it!

[@ben_clifford]

Same

[@SpitefulAZ]

Portal Mage from 2017 had its own rule because it was the only card that could reselect which player/Planeswalker an attacking creature was attacking. There are now 4 cards that do this.

[@dulloddity]

11:55 The Ninth Doctor also gives additional upkeep steps. So poor Paradox Haze isn't as unique anymore

[@rogerstewart5525]

Did i miss it, or is panglacial wurm not on this list? I assumed there'd be a section of the CR explaining how that ability works

[@arilipkin7816]

This was the first card I thought of when I saw the title of this video

[@shadogiant]

There is in fact, not a section explaining how it works. It kind of doesn't work, but wizards doesn't see it as a priority to make it functional.

[@jinxed7915]

​@@shadogianti think it works via the Golden Rule (101.1) but there are... fucky interactions with the card depending on what you use to cast it

[@nicholasiverson9784]

As soon as the rules scholars figure out how it works, they'll let us know. @@shadogiant

[@joshez_]

yeah i also came into the comments for exactly this reason. once he got to the season of the witch part where he implied that some cards in desperate need of these rules simply don't have them, i assumed panglacial wurm was just in that category

[@Sauvenil]

Was going to say Bitter Ordeal for its Gravestorm keyword, but then I checked and found they printed a new card with it in Karlov.

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

I know this video must have taken forever to not only research and write the script, but it must have taken a long time to edit as well. Getting all the card images and the amount of CR citations. Props to you Dave on your efforts on this one.

[@JudgingFtW]

You are absolutely correct. The editing for this video was over 3 hours. I shudder to think how long it would have taken if I didn't have a program to generate the images for the CR rules and a macro already set to do the card images.

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

@@JudgingFtW Yeah, I need to get a better setup for my videos. I still have to manually size my card images and move them/crop them. I'm using Sony Vegas from Steam, I miss Adobe Premier which I had on my PC from like two builds ago but my license ended and I've never gotten it back, too pricey.

[@Chpow01]

I'm really shocked Illusionary Mask and Camouflage don't each have their own sections, as when they came out, sure they made total sense to us, same with animate dead, but they are rules nightmares... same with Lich as well.

[@DragoSmash]

for real, Animate Dead is very intuitive in what it does, but the way it needs to be expressed in Magic terms to stay in line with the game mechanics is a nightmare

[@thejackscraft3472]

Another one for the fallen list, Gravestorm. it got a second card in MKM.

[@micboyyaboy2578]

Yes! I was so sad but also so happy about this. Gravestorm deserves more cards, but I was very sad to see its uniqueness go.

[@thejackscraft3472]

@@micboyyaboy2578 it's a really cool take on the storm mechanic, sadly, though it's definitely weaker than normal storm, I do agree with wizards that it's a pretty risky mechanic to play around with on cards, as a few formats have pretty strong Aristocrats decks, and a powerful gravestorm card would be oppressive with those.

[@micboyyaboy2578]

@@thejackscraft3472 Quite true, unfortunately. It is very fun to successfully pull off, mostly because of that power level with certain archetypes or effects, but that same power with those effects causes it to be a difficult ability to design around in more mainstream ways.

[@enioandries3537]

In 10:40 the card The Ninth Doctor can also create an additional upkeep step.

[@birdofclay9581]

11:40 Today I learned that one of the celtic linchpins in the Kelten- & Römermuseum in Manching, Germany is also a MTG card.

[@JudgingFtW]

Today I learned what the art on Reset was based on. Still no clue what it has to do with resetting anything, though.

[@corin3029]

You looked like you had a blast making this, great video!

[@jhunter123ful]

Startled awake is actually not the only card that CR 701.28d applies to anymore. The invasion battles that have sorcery backsides from MOM could theoretically need the rule as well, since it is possible to turn them into a human creature through a variety of shenanigans and cast moonmist

[@bkoopa6464]

Love the Rasputin joke! Very deep cut that is precisely in my wheelhouse

[@JudgingFtW]

Every time I make an obscure joke like that, I worry whether people will get it. I am very rarely disappointed.

[@polbulanosalto7403]

I don't get it... would you be so kind?

[@bkoopa6464]

@@polbulanosalto7403 The reason films say things like "The events depicted here are fictional. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, in coincidental." is because there was a 1933 film called "Rasputin and the Empress" and the niece of Tsar Nicholas sued the film's producers for libel and defamation of character.

[@namesubjecttochange7781]

9:15 Indoraptor has bloodthirst X

[@seandun7083]

7:10 Aboleth Spawn triggers on opponent's creatures' etbs. 8:00 Eidolon of Obstruction makes your opponent's loyalty abilities cost {1} more Did Serra Paragon get a unique rule to make it work as intended or did they fix it some other way? Wait, how does reset work with Eon Hub? 12:10 It still will be a wall with defender, right?

[@stellatedhexahedron6985]

Eidolon of Obstruction doesn't do the same thing as Carth, though--it changes the cost of a loyalty ability, but not the _loyalty_ cost For the wall/essence situation, you choose the order the effects apply in, so you could have wall of stolen identity enter either as a wall copy of any creature (including essence of the wild), or a (non-wall) copy of essence of the wild. Wall's triggered ability will only trigger in the first case.

[@c001357]

exceptions are the funnest part of any ruleset

[@MakeVarahHappen]

"there's new cards and new rules coming out every couple of weeks" 💀

[@Suspinded]

Re: Elemental Resonance - Charmed Pendant made the original rules for hybrid mana generation necessary. My brain for opportunity wishes they would start using hybrid for "Add X or Y" mana abilities for the sake of shortcutting.

[@stellatedhexahedron6985]

Shoutout to Word of Command. it may not have its own cr text, but as far as i am aware it's the only card that allows playing a land at instant speed (as opposed to putting it on the battlefield)

[@snoozbuster]

Atarka's command can play a land at instant speed. There's also quite a few triggered abilities which can play lands at instant speed (kodama of the east, those damnnable exploring merfolk, probably half the cards in simic)

[@stellatedhexahedron6985]

@@snoozbuster i already pointed out that those don't count; they don't _play_ the lands, they _put them onto the battlefield_. obviously there are a million cards that do that. (the differences are twofold: word of command can't make an opponent play a land if its not their turn, and if it is their turn, it uses up a land drop)

[@snoozbuster]

@@stellatedhexahedron6985 ahhh, okay. I didn't realize that's how that works

[@roxannekrogh4228]

There's actually quite a few of those! Ziatora's Envoy, the Runestone Caverns room from Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Brilliant Ultimatum, Djinn of Wishes, Gix Yawgmoth Praetor, Guile (if you counter an mdfc that's a land), any of the Hideaway enchantments/lands, and even just good old Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir + Dryad Arbor.

[@stellatedhexahedron6985]

​@@roxannekrogh4228ooh, thanks! guile is especially deliciously weird. i'll forgive myself for not knowing about most of these, but not gix. i've literally played lands with its ability before, how did i miss that?

[@GFreeGamer]

9:50 Dream Devourer is another card that can foretold cards without foretell

[@Frommerman]

Not quite the issue. Dream Devourer gives the cards in your hand foretell. The other card causes cards to become foretold without being foretold from your hand by the foretell ability first.

[@joe_kelley]

9:05 I don't know if you usually consider arena-only cards, but Assemble the Team has you search the top third of your library. The larger point of 701.19f only applying to one card is probably still correct, though, as it seems to only apply to replacement effects as written.

[@brromo]

While it's not in the CR Devil K. Nevil is the only card to have an official instructional video on how it works

[@ettasoeur84]

When you were listing the ones that have an X in a "keyword N" ability, I was surprised to not see Ob Nixilis the Adversary as he's the only one with Casualty X, but it turns out the rules don't bother explaining that one at all

[@lucasriddle3431]

It's adequately covered; if a value is stated as "X" and nothing is defining X, you get to pick what X is as it becomes relevant. Same as any spell with an {X} in its mana cost. 107.3a covers this for additional costs of casting spells (which is what Casualty is).

[@L_O_V_E_L_A_I_N]

Ob Nixilis is also unique in being the only (I think) card in the game to intentionally not have all of its functionality on MTG Arena. The client doesn't let you sacrifice a creature with power greater than X. One of the developers confirmed this was to make the card less cumbersome, as they didn't think the corner cases were worth it.

[@undyne3366]

7:14 yes! Aboleth Spawn says "Whenever a creature entering the battlefield under an opponent’s control causes a triggered ability of that creature to trigger, you may copy that ability."

[@StarlitWitchy]

I thought for sure Raffine was the only card that said "connive X" on it but apparently another equipment does it too Also I nearly thought dream devourer also let you foretell cards without foretell but it doesn't, it just gives foretell to cards

[@scarrboros]

I'm stunned that Panglacial Wurm is not on this list

[@ShinkuDragon]

Ertai's meddling is the one card that i can think of that might have its own rule, since it puts a spell on the stack without even casting it.

[@seandun7083]

Yeah. Putting it onto the stack as a copy of itself also means it needs to have the same targets and everything.

[@polbulanosalto7403]

That is an incredible pull

[@jerodast]

Ertai's Meddling was my favorite card just for being weird back when it was printed, then it became my favorite card again just for being weird after I came back to Magic after a long time away and started focusing on rules interactions and interesting card designs more than actual gameplay...and now I'm ashamed I didn't think of it. I've literally written about online it for having unique mechanics haha. Unless something has changed in last few years, its current oracle text is the only way to copy an object from a previous turn!

[@zWooTWooTz]

I audibly celebrated when I heard the shot at MaRo and Unfinity. What a disaster of a set that the entire eternal format playerbase now has to live with forever.

[@jerodast]

I don't even play eternal formats but I was still so mad that anytime I looked up something in the CR it'd include stuff about stickers or w/e. I'm perfectly happy to have a rulebook clarifying Un-set mechanics but it didn't have to be THE NORMAL RULEBOOK. And don't get me started on replacing silver borders with acorns for reasons I still do not believe exist.

[@fragniz]

Around 8:00, there's no other card off the top of my head that adds another LOYALTY cost to Planeswalkers, making the rule excerpt still unique, but Eidolon of Obstruction from Theros: Beyond Death adds one generic mana to the cost of all loyalty abilities of planeswalkers your opponents control.

[@semperignotus]

In addition to the Ninth Doctor, we also have the new Obeka coming out that grant additional upkeep steps

[@NateFinch]

LOL Dave getting spicy at 6 minutes in. I love to see it. Totally agree on un-cards being legal in normal Magic. Possibly one of my favorite videos here. I love these unique cards. They make the game so much more than just boring combinations of generic triggered and activated abilities.

[@LorxusIsAFox]

Big agree. I've become increasingly uneasy with how much of the corners and borders (and *which* corners and borders) of what a Magic card should be have been getting worn away.

[@MakeVarahHappen]

6:08 I will always feel bad for rules managers but honestly R&D needs to make brand managers sweat a little bit more often.

[@tankdempsey1818]

I'm surprised they didn't make the vulture read as "Discard Circling Vultures: This ability has no effect." Having no effect is already rules text on Fiery Gambit

[@miserepoignee9594]

Still has the problem described with Pithing Needle, though

[@jerodast]

@@miserepoignee9594 IMO that's a very reasonable functional update though. This is the change I would prefer just cuz it's a cool way to do it. (And while Judge Dave is right that they often take pains to preserve functionality, they also HAVE functionally changed cards many times, not to mention rules changes that tweak whole classes of effects.) I may be oblivious to a prized Circling Vultures meta, but I didn't figure the Pithing Needle-Vulture interaction was that critical haha.

[@AnonymousMaykr]

Honourable mention for [[Animate Dead]], where it has a lot of text because its effect doesn't cleanly fit into the current rules. See also [[Necromancy]]

[@colinbamsey5262]

13:28 its cool that magic has a ruling where you invent democracy

[@Dazllingston]

Why are there 15 Phyrexian mana symbols? 5 for 5 basic, and 10 for 5x4/2 double color combinations?

[@Frommerman]

Correct. Some of the 2 color combinations haven't even been used yet, and at this point aren't likely to ever be used for lore reasons, but the symbols still exist in the game rules.

[@seandun7083]

​@@Frommermanmaybe we'll get a completed Tibalt in modern Masters 3 with Phyrexian Rakdos since he never got a card, but yeah.

[@Jozeevis]

Love your videos, and this was really fun overview of unique rules!

[@balbadorf989]

Hi Dave, i think it might be a good short video covering the topic of "Modal spells". With the new riku of the many paths specifying modal spells, it would be a cool dive to see what rules help define modal spells and modality as well as some unlikely examples.

[@Jaketg93]

I love how a card spoiled the same day as this video (extra upkeep Obeka) eliminated a unique rule card (Paradox Haze)

[@soarel325]

Oh my god the Rasputin joke, lmao I think Spectra Ward would be the same effect as Benevolent Blessing? Same goes for the Ninth Doctor giving a second upkeep step

[@flint9759]

10:41 Wasn't the Henzie fix also targeting Serra Paragon? The CR change for Unfinity brought with it a fix for Serra Paragon (the notes on that change specifically mention Serra Paragon, and they talk about 400.7b, 400.7i, and 611.3d). Serra Paragon was also printed after Henzie, if I'm not mistaken.

[@Goodfacts-hj2zf]

Technically there is another card that only searches part of your library but it’s the arena only card “assemble the team” which lets you take any card from the top 1/3rd of your library

[@jerodast]

What a unique video! Definitely the kind of rabbit hole I could see going down...ONE unique rule at a time! I'm curious how you researched this - read the CR comprehensively, looking for any clauses that stood out and you couldn't think of 2 cards it applied to, then Scryfall to confirm? Either way, impressive work! I wish they invented activated abilities with a cost and no effect just for Circling Vultures :P (I don't care about the Pithing Needle - seems fair to let it hit the birds)

[@JudgingFtW]

Goodness no. Scryfall has a filter for "unique rulings", which I used as a starting point. Since all I had was the list of cards, finding the specific rule that applied was a mighty task of CR research. I added to the list from stuff I knew or found out about from other sources, and I subtracted when I couldn't come up with a reason why a specific card would be unique.

[@JustinBabzz]

Rasputin Dreamweaver joke explained: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_persons_fictitious_disclaimer#Origins

[@johnkingsize]

7:15 The rule text of _Elesh Norn: Mother of Machines_ says: "If a permanent entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time." and "Permanents entering the battlefield don't cause abilities of permanents your opponents control to trigger." Interestingly, the first effect is functionally similar to _Strict Proctor_ while the second is not at all, but the second effect is the one that is practically similar to _Strict Proctor_.

[@jerodast]

I thought of those too but I realized his point was that the cited one actually triggers itself off of the other triggered ability. A continuous effect that does change what HAPPENS when something triggers, but does not itself trigger, isn't quite the same, and may need different rules. (Others have pointed out Aboleth Spawn does indeed trigger off triggers so it does seem like he missed that one)

[@spenser4885]

on the list of rules that used to be unique but arent anymore theres 701.10f, which talks about exchanging entire zones rather than permanents/cards. Was unique to judgemnt's Morality Shift until Harness Infinity was printed in Strixhaven

[@jerodast]

Then weirdly enough, Mordenkainen the same year. Looks like they fell out of love with that one pretty fast :P

[@MisterKartoffel]

7:15 I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere in the comments, but Yarok, the Desecrated!

[@Michael.032]

9:04 I'm not sure if this counts, but an Alchemy card on Arena called Assemble the Team also lets you search part of your library (in this case, the top third)

[@crondog]

Alchemy cards don't show up in Oracle so probably not.

[@TimEddyHughes]

9:15 Indoraptor from the Jurassic Park lost caverns of ixalan set also has bloodthirst X

[@ryanafoster29]

Lol, "Surveil like Google and NSA" Wyll's Reversal allows choosing new targets although the wording is slightly different. Thank you for all the research and content you provide. Question for Thunder Junction cards: I have Doc Aurlock and God-Eternal Kefnet. I draw my first card and its an instant, Kefnet copies the card. Where is the copy? Is the copy on top of the library, exile, or somewhere else before it gets moved to the stack?

[@hoodiegal]

There's a rules clarification on God-Eternal Kefnets scryfall page; "The copy is created in and cast from your hand."

[@jiaan100]

6:13 what happens if you ephemerate the face down instant or sorcery from magar of the magic strings? Since it's being exiled by ephemerate the replacement effect ability doesn't do anything, and the ephemerate effect will try to put an instant or sorcery onto the battlefield. Id guess it just stays exiled? Ok i read the gatherer rulings, it stays exiled. Interestingly an effect that would turn a face down card face up instead does nothing for this one, except for requiring you to reveal the card to show it's an instant/sorcery.

[@jerodast]

It's honestly weird Magar didn't just exile the original and make a 3/3 token with the triggered ability. The trigger would be basically the same thing as Imprint, right down to "a copy of the exiled card" instead of mucking around with "the card with the chosen name", and the fact it's a token would take care of the exile-when-it-leaves-field question. I don't know if they intentionally wanted it to be as weird as possible, or just....forgot that they already had those mechanics ready to go. At least it's the least egregious by far of the black border Un-cards.

[@wesleymclain9146]

Now I'm going to build a deck just to force a judge to make a ruling on Jared Carthalion, True Heir and Fealty to the Realm. Step 1. Play Jared. I can no longer become the monarch this turn. Step 2. Play Harmless Offering giving one of my opponents Jared. Since he didn't enter under their control, they can still become the monarch this turn. Step 3. Play Fractured Identity on Jared. My other two opponents and I each get a Jared. I target the opponent who controlled the original with the ETB and they become the monarch. Step 4. Play Fealty to the Realm on Loot, the Key to Everything. Step 5. Commit regicide. Step 6. Loot is free in our realm as it now has no controller in the game.

[@olleicua]

Doesn't The Ninth Doctor give an additional upkeep step?

[@micboyyaboy2578]

I was gonna say that the Gravestorm keyword was surely more recently excluded from this list as got its second printing from MKM, but then I paused and looked at where the new fortification came from... And yeah, PIP is more recent...

[@jadedtrekkie]

9:15 Bloodthirst X now also exists on Indoraptor from REX

[@S3Mtg]

I have a question about the new Obeka, Splitter of seconds. How does she interact with spells and abilities that cause extra combat steps? For example, you have her and Karlach, Fury of Avernus on the battlefield, and you deal combat damage with Obeka. What happens? Do you get the extra combat first? Or the upkeeps? Or something else?

[@TehWinged]

10:08 Extus, Oriq Overlord is also a creature on one side and a sorcery on the other

[@zyibesixdouze4863]

Extus is an MDFC, not a transform.

[@Tm00ne]

Foretold Soldier becomes foretold also.

[@Death_by_Tech]

11:52 obeka splitter of seconds has changed this! I wonder if that’s a record for this channel in terms of a new printing changing something

[@enumeration]

For CR 506.6 (when looking at Firkraag) can someone explain if I am understanding the last part of the last sentence correctly. It seems to imply a boardstate where a creature attacking was the only legal play but that creature wasn't required to attack (from goad e.g.). Does it mean a board where an opponent has e.g. trove of temptation (essentially a player goad) and I have only one creature, and the rule is distinguishing between a player being forced to attack but that specific creature not being forced to attack?

[@jerodast]

That's what I figured yeah. Also "can't attack alone" with a goaded creature for example.

[@storrentMC]

Hi, Dave. You're a smart cookie. Thanks for the content.

[@Gnilson5]

“Raging River” was the first card that came to mind when I read “unique ruling”.

[@Def-cd6bm]

"Google and NSA having a baby"... but they're brother and sister!

[@LorxusIsAFox]

Your point?

[@Pogonotrophist]

Can't believe Panglacial Wurm isn't on this list.

[@dzspdref]

Anything about Chaos Orb and Falling Star with being flipped onto the battlefield, and also Blacker Lotus for ripping up the card but what if that puts them at less than 60 legal cards and is disallowed even though the game requires them to do that?

[@hawkicelol]

i wanna collect all these and toss em in a binder with the ruling next to the card hahaha

[@GreatWhiteElf]

Some great picks if you want to start a judges tower lmao

[@Flyboy245]

Very cool episode. The notorious section was funny haha

[@Quroe_]

The rule that describes land types did not include Caves until the set after it came out.

[@Quroe_]

205.3i: Lands have their own unique set of subtypes; these subtypes are called land types. The land types are Cave, Desert, Forest, Gate, Island, Lair, Locus, Mine, Mountain, Plains, Power-Plant, Sphere, Swamp, Tower, and Urza's. Of that list, Forest, Island, Mountain, Plains, and Swamp are the basic land types. See rule 305.6.

[@miserepoignee9594]

There's more than one card that rule applies too, though.

[@ettasoeur84]

The rule that describes Planeswalker types is also missing Quintorius, from the same set, and he's still missing as of now. Poor elephant dude

[@Quroe_]

@@ettasoeur84 Wow, you're right! Here's the rule at time of posting: 205.3j: Planeswalkers have their own unique set of subtypes; these subtypes are called planeswalker types. The planeswalker types are Ajani, Aminatou, Angrath, Arlinn, Ashiok, Bahamut, Basri, Bolas, Calix, Chandra, Comet, Dack, Dakkon, Daretti, Davriel, Dihada, Domri, Dovin, Ellywick, Elminster, Elspeth, Estrid, Freyalise, Garruk, Gideon, Grist, Guff, Huatli, Jace, Jared, Jaya, Jeska, Kaito, Karn, Kasmina, Kaya, Kiora, Koth, Liliana, Lolth, Lukka, Minsc, Mordenkainen, Nahiri, Narset, Niko, Nissa, Nixilis, Oko, Ral, Rowan, Saheeli, Samut, Sarkhan, Serra, Sivitri, Sorin, Szat, Tamiyo, Tasha, Teferi, Teyo, Tezzeret, Tibalt, Tyvar, Ugin, Urza, Venser, Vivien, Vraska, Vronos, Will, Windgrace, Wrenn, Xenagos, Yanggu, Yanling, and Zariel.

[@Quroe_]

@@miserepoignee9594 You're right. You win the internet for today. Until we meet again!

[@TheGorillah]

Hey, quick question about how Serum Powder works: Let's say i take a first mulligan and draw seven new cards. I don’t like these but have a Serum Powder in Hand: Do I have to exile all seven cards and draw seven new, then decide which one hoes to the bottom of my library? OR Do I have to exile all seven cards and draw seven new and keep them because it is not mentioned in the effect of Serum Powder, that i have to discard? OR Do I have to put a card on the bottom of my library first and then exile six cards and draw six new cards?

[@OceanicBacon]

it’s the third option. You bottom a card, then you exile 6 and draw 6. If your new 6 has a serum powder, you can exile those 6 and draw 6 more. If it doesn’t then you can keep it or go to 5 as normal

[@TheGorillah]

@@OceanicBacon Hmm, this sounds like a Paris Mulligan with one extra draw but i heard Serum Powder is much stronger with the London Mulligan rule. Are you sure this is the right answer?

[@OceanicBacon]

@@TheGorillah That is definitely how it works. The london mulligan makes mulliganing in general more powerful than the paris mulligan, so in that sense Serum Powder is stronger with the london mulligan, but you still have to bottom the appropriate number of cards before you exile your hand.

[@TheGorillah]

@@OceanicBacon In that case there wouldn't be an advantage between for london mulligan. It would bring the paris mulligan in todays play with an extra draw. So no advantage because with the london mulligan you can usually draw seven new cards.

[@OceanicBacon]

@@TheGorillahUsing the powder is not an actual mulligan so the functionality doesn’t change with changes to the mulligan rule, but i suppose the London mulligan does make serum powder easier to find as you are mulliganing

[@Zorgdub]

9:48 How about Foretold Soldier from the WHO set?

[@igNights77]

Love these deep dives

[@hawkecrail5186]

Don't forget trinisphere

[@jerodast]

11:08

[@PT-pn5ge]

6:11 Hella based there my man! Earned my sub!

[@GASTON460]

315.3 was amended after the conspiracy release to include a clause that says conspiracies outside the game cannot enter the game solely because of death wish. There have been a few more unrestricted wishes printed since.

[@TheYWNightmare]

Sideswipe may be the only card that can "change any targets" but Redirect's "choose new targets" comes pretty close.

[@Felixr2]

On the note of Henzie Torre being the most recent broken-on-release card, wouldn't that be Serra Paragon? I'm pretty sure I remember that one having similar issues.

[@JudgingFtW]

Actually, now it's Wheel of Potential

[@Felixr2]

@@JudgingFtW Really? That's surprising. How exactly does it break? I'd assume, looking at the card knowing that something is wrong, it's probably that 'you *may* pay X energy counters', so if you don't, X is somehow undefined for the second part of the effect? Or is it something completely different?

[@jerodast]

@@Felixr2 Judge Dave made a later video about this you may have seen by now, but I'll try to recall the answer just for completeness of this thread :) You are very close to correct: X isn't undefined, you get to choose it, just like you always can if the effect doesn't specify. Then, as you said, you can simply choose not to pay it! And the rest of the effect doesn't care if you don't. Oracle wording is now updated.

[@Felixr2]

@@jerodast Yes I've seen both of his videos on the topic. Very wild situation.

[@billvolk4236]

Something I've always wondered and that isn't explained in the collection of rulings in Gatherer: does "top creature card of your graveyard" mean the topmost creature card in your graveyard, or only the top card, which must be a creature? For example, if your graveyard has a creature with a sorcery on top of it, can you exile the creature to Circling Vultures?

[@OceanicBacon]

The top creature card in your graveyard is the topmost card in your graveyard that is a creature, even if that card is not the top card of your graveyard. So in your example you can exile the creature to circling vultures even if there is a sorcery on top of it.

[@byeguyssry]

I suddenly wonder what would happen if you have a Panglacial Wurm in deck that you wish to cast while the opponent has an Aven Mindcensor in play

[@astanix]

You can only cast it if you 'see' it while searching your deck. If Aven Mindcensor is in play it would need to be in the top 4 cards you're looking at while searching.

[@bjrnstrottman5637]

Suppose you cast a Panglacial Wurm when you see it among the top four that you are allowed to search with Mindcensor. Do you continue to search the remaining three, or do you add another card to the search amount?

[@jerodast]

@@bjrnstrottman5637 A plain reading of "search the top four cards" would still include Panglacial as among the four cards you searched, even though you did something else with it while you were searching those top four cards, but I don't think there's an official rule on this.

[@fealoga3951]

These cards are absolute bangers

[@gatherer818]

It's not exactly the same, but to go with Benevolent Blessing, there were a few older white Creature Enchantments (surely now erratad to Auras) that granted protection from a color and specified that the granted protection didn't remove the Aura... even when they were granting a specific color besides white, so turning the Aura black wouldn't cause pro-black to knock it off.

[@jerodast]

I thought the same, but I think he is indeed going for "exactly the same" because the rule for BB is distinctly more complex. It has to deal with the timing of the attachments whereas the "not removing this thing" only had to distinguish "is it this thing or not".

[@sammiddleton7663]

Doesn't Gather Specimens have a unique place in the replacement effect priority hierarchy?

[@BubblewrapHighway]

That was a wild ride.

[@toniskoppelmann8165]

You forgot floral spuzzem. It's the only card that makes a decision for itself

[@jerodast]

Lol that's a good one for the "old cool templating" file :)

[@greenhawk565]

If it was Sphinx of the Second Sun instead of paradox haze, would it work the same way?

[@corbenmurphy1807]

Bro cooked on this one

[@Unzorn]

Sooo... I guess Judge Dave isn't a fan of Unfinity 😂

[@JudgingFtW]

Unfinity is great. Cards from Unfinity being legal in sanctioned games of Magic is way, Way, WAY, WAAAAAAY more problems than it's worth.

[@jerodast]

@@JudgingFtW I'm just blown away at the over"correction". They could've easily made cards along the lines of "The Cheese Stands Alone" legal without going straight to "let's also make a bunch of weird mechanics black border too" and he might've actually got what he wanted. And apparently one comment about the sticker ban implied he was frustrated he didn't have control over the Commander Rules Committee? Mark, if people wanted to play silver borders in their casual commander games, they already could, you didn't have to force it...

[@arilipkin7816]

Is there anything about Gilded Drake and "This ability can't be countered except by spells and abilities?"

[@haeilsey]

not unique (see original printing abrupt decay for a famous example), it's just the old way to write "can't be countered" for things except permanent spells, because things were "countered on resolution" if there weren't legal targets anymore (you might hear the term "fizzle" for it). I think when they updated the wording to remove the extra text on all those cards they made it so things simply "don't resolve"

[@arilipkin7816]

@@haeilsey Abrupt Decay can't be countered BY spells or abilities. Gilded Drake 's ability can't be countered EXCEPT by spells or abilities. This is because they didn't want the ability fizzling to result in you keeping the Drake; it's either exchange it, sacrifice it, or counter the ETB trigger.

[@WhiteWizard42]

@@haeilsey no, Gilded Drake was *opposite* from that. You can Stifle it but not fizzle it, and the phrasing ariiipkin7816 is the phrasing that it used before its current "still resolves if its target becomes illegal"

[@z_o_i_n_k_s]

This entire time, I thought Fleshwrither had Transmute.

[@seankearney5828]

No mention of Panglacial Wurm

[@Idran]

Panglacial Wurm actually doesn't have any CR text specifically devoted to it. You're expected to just wing that one (or have the Oracle text handy).

[@megaclpb2623]

2:57 the difference is that the right one doesn't have stats

[@marlmachine]

6:04 get emmm

[@DiverseCurse]

The oracle text of Drain power states that "Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control." That's odd to me, as the card seemingly forces a player to activate the abilities. Like, your opponent, by the card's effect, must use all of their lands to add mana to their mana pool. How does the resolution of this spell work? Can you, in regular circumstance, activate mana abilities as a spell is resolving? Another part of the card says "Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way." Can your opponent use that mana before its "stolen?" What is the timing window for how an opponent can react to this before, during and after this spell has resolved? I think a better wording for this card would be something like "Tap all lands target player controls. Then that player loses all unspent mana in their mana pool and for each land tapped this way, add one mana of that player's choosing that the land could produce and add mana equal to the mana lost this way to your mana pool." I just feel like the whole "forcing you opponent to activate their lands" is weird and unnecessary.

[@poiri]

You can activate mana abilities during the resolution of a spell or ability if you have reason to, such as paying for a Mana Leak or casting a spell during the resolution of a spell like Invoke Calamity if you need to pay mana for some reason. Or in this case, because you want that mana for yourself. Also that text is functionally different since they won’t take damage from, say, an Ancient Tomb, as well as only getting one mana from it, it’ll also work differently with any filter land