How This Magic: The Gathering Promo Card Broke The Game

How This Magic: The Gathering Promo Card Broke The Game. This is the story of Nexus of Fate, one of the worst designed cards in MTG history.
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[@jayemdaewarehouse9027]

Back in the day, I played a janky Azorius Mill deck propped up by Teferi. One game my opponent had a playset of Gaea’s Blessing, so I couldn’t Mill them out. I was going to concede, but they hit me with a “Good Game” so instead I got the Teferi Emblem and proceeded to Mill them out. One card at a time. The match took more than three and a half hours due to their slow play. Spite is fun 🤣

[@Slammy555]

What can we do to increase sales? Let's put a card in players have to have! Won't that destroy the format? We'll just ban it!

[@UndeadxPenguins]

Nexus of Fate is one of my favorite cards. I miss playing the Simic version with Wilderness Reclamation in Pioneer & the Temur version in Modern.

[@DamonVerial]

Hi Nikachu. Not a magic player, but I really love your channel. Good stuff, and congrats on the 100k subs in advance.

[@NikachuMTG]

I’ve been waiting for that 100k subs for like 2 years now 😛 so close yet so far 😂

[@greglane334]

@@NikachuMTG You'll get there, your videos are always entertaining.

[@jaredhuckstep20]

I believe the reason it shuffled itself back into the deck is so that torrential gearhulk couldnt abuse it... they solved one problem only to create a worse one.

[@Mitch-b3y]

Nice to see you posting on this channel again! Also, I appreciate the Paper Mario music and Simpsons references.

[@gislo]

I mean, how could they not have forsen this?

[@MetalHev]

Very cathartic to see the monored player being the one to sit around watching people play magic without being able to do nothing.

[@BaldurtheImpious]

7.5k from that well-deserved silver play button! Amazing video, keep them coming! ❤️

[@BurnOneSVE]

Happy to see a new upload to this channel! Hope to see more in the future!

[@dougbrigham5207]

" Dormamu, ive come to bargain"

[@metalblizzard6024]

The proxy thing boggled my mind when I saw this live

[@GorFrag]

extra turn systems work best in single player games

[@uvarighalvarado8677]

I haven't played mtg in like two years, but every single time I see a new Nikachu video on my feed it's pure joy!

[@irishsakura1]

This blew my mind. I doubt I would be able to play that infinite deck correctly.😅

[@benjaminlehman3221]

1. Join a vintage tournament with 60 islands 2. Have judges make your block lotus and power nine proxies 😂

[@ZakanaHachihaCBC]

That’s not allowed via policy. Only cards printed in foil-only or damaged beyond sleeve playability in that event can be proxied by a judge. Everything else is a divination

[@randyvoid155]

hunter is wearing a local stores shirt, love the comic book store

[@54m0h7]

I really don't know what the were thinking with Nexus of Fate. Every extra turn spell except for like 2 say they Exile themselves when they resolve, and then they come along with Nexus that doesn't just not exile but shuffles itself back in. It just screams infinite turns.

[@jaelte]

Of course a year later they printed Standard-legal Brawl decks which included the competitively-played Korvold, Fae-Cursed King which, again, was only available in foil. Seems like some lessons take a while to learn.

[@ZakanaHachihaCBC]

He was in non-foil along with the other 4 commanders and Kenrith. They were just only able to be pulled from the 50$ collector boosters.

[@jaelte]

@@ZakanaHachihaCBC I thought those came out a little bit after the Brawl decks. I think the foils had been around for a bit before the non-foil options existed. I know I played the foils in a GP because the non-foils couldn't be found and I thought it was because they were too new.

[@ZakanaHachihaCBC]

@@jaelte came out at the same time, they just had really shitty pull rates from the boosters and the boosters being at best 50$ each kept them from getting on the market as easily as they should have.

[@ShadowWalker-ng1it]

important not on arena best of 1 there is no timer that's why the infinite nexus loop works

[@NikachuMTG]

Thanks so much! I think this was the detail I was missing when making this video.

[@nbsmith100]

.... have a deplete your deck build with this card in it to use as the final card- you'd never run out of a single card and you'd only have to shuffle a deck of one card. I had a an eternal turn build well before this card came out, but this card would have massively simplified it lol.

[@omegablackzero7951]

Waiting for the Alchemy version that shuffles into your opponents library instead of your own.

[@svenornitier]

"dormammu, i've come to bargain" deck

[@germ4bass]

Anybody remembered Tempo from Spell fire? Anybody remembers Spell fire?

[@mooglechao]

My man out here with the Kirby Super Star music!!!

[@xXBlood87Xx]

The fact that someone designs these cards and don't think about the game possibly breaking.

[@Austin555661]

Man I opened so much m19 trying to get this card only to realise it was a buy a box exclusive(I had just started playing magic so I didn't know what that was lmao)

[@NikachuMTG]

OH NO!

[@benjaminlehman3221]

14:26 where is this non foil Kenrith? I like his art but I don’t like foils?

[@NikachuMTG]

Maybe I screwed up and it didn't exist at the time. You can get "the list" version of Kenrith, I see a few copies on ebay and tcgplayer. I'm not sure when it was added to the list though. Thanks for pointing this out! Maybe the exclusive foils ended at him.

[@skeven0]

3:18 oh boy you are SO SO wrong in that statement, that Turbofog is a COMBO deck once you go off, its 9/10 times not gonna brick itself. Even the old modern deck thats called Taking Turns ( and its many variants) that existed long before Nexus existed could play forever until Opponents scooped or died to a manland etc FUNFACT: that nexus/Reclamation deck is one of the reasons why we hardly see FOG effects in standard sets and if there are such effects its cost is around 3mana+

[@vanesslifeygo]

This card text sounds a little bit like a banned card Primal Seed in Yugioh.

[@annagramgaming8934]

I don't know why they don't get it through their heads that the moment you offer an extra turn card, people will do anything possible to get infinite turns. At least for instant and sorcery extra turns, they language should have been remove from game after the spell resolves, instead of worrying about libraries or graveyards. They did this with Recall years ago, and I doubt it was as dangerous effect as getting an extra turn.

[@ASoulphoenix]

When Magic becomes Solitaire, geesh

[@sebastiana2060]

You’re back ! Missed you bro

[@7Alberto7]

Oh look, the legend is back! Welcome back Nikachu!

[@supportcarriesu7604]

been waiting for the next upload!

[@fred-ss4ym]

Nice, like this new style of content. Theres so much you can do, since the game has been broken so many times

[@toooes]

Same; it’s great Nikachu has started doing Magic the Gathering content

[@huyphan7825]

This card would be broken even by Yugioh standards. MODERN Yugioh standards

[@ShadowTaiga]

This was the first in a long series of choice's by wizzards that got me to quit playing magic.

[@Affordablemtg]

Packs of modern horizons 3 were 14$.

[@Junksaint]

They just kinda print money now and kids without money have no shot. Fun to reminisce tho

[@stringdoll50]

this one also made me quit mtg along with the woke agenda pushing this was in 2019 I believe where the moment They released nexus + this wilderness. i 100% knew this is no longer pvp game, it is SP game just like yugioh

[@ShadowTaiga]

@@Affordablemtg i was in the process of getting cards to play modern when they released MH1. So i never finished making my modern deck.

[@Affordablemtg]

@@ShadowTaiga I've made many, just not any good ones yet.

[@SnackCakes]

Love this man, you're amazing Nikachu!

[@maniacmatt7340]

Any opinion on the recent bans? In particular jeweler lotus and mana crypt. Feels weird to me considering the power in commander as it is.

[@NikachuMTG]

Personally I think there should be 2 ban lists, one for a high power environment and one for lower power. Both casual and competitive players can use either ban list based on their taste for gameplay. Alternatively the point system outlined by the Professor is a really good idea.

[@Nightenstaff]

I haven't played Magic for decades and even I could see this card was a bad idea. And being forced to use proxies because your cards are self-marking is the most Hasbro statement I've ever heard.

[@gislo]

btw, that David fella n the first game looks very similar to that poker player hm... could he be a poker pro too?

[@NikachuMTG]

David is in fact the poker pro!

[@gislo]

@@NikachuMTG oh man, i remember he had diamond earrings and seeing him on poker after dark and wsop many years back. Cool.

[@toooes]

4:13 what in the unholy hell

[@jeffbo7515]

There are...whole ass companied selling anime proxys 😂 And YES. Theres also un-H-oly anime art...😂❤yw

[@xnevyn5578]

Oh boy emblems! I will forever love how you can't interact with them /s

[@clintongriffin2077]

Seems fine. The deck has a plan and it did it.

[@yayforjoe]

I thought moving to your end step emptied your mana pool. Did that get put into the game or is that not actually a thing?

[@NikachuMTG]

You mana empties passing through each step, but you can still add mana once you're in the end step. So Wilderness Reclamation triggers at the end step, in response you float as much mana as you can, then the trigger resolves and all lands untap. So long as you can play at instant speed at your end step you can use the floating mana.

[@Jaspersrab73]

YOOOOO FINALLY!

[@Eltharyon]

I played this on arena, it was pretty much unbeatable lol.

[@Crushanator1]

As someone only just getting back into Magic after playing Japanese TCGs for the past decade or so, it's absolutely shocking to me how awful Magic's foiling is, and how not only are people okay with it but most players actually like to have foils

[@NikachuMTG]

Wizards has experimented with a bunch of new foiling styles and techniques over the last 4 years. I think they are looking for something new that sticks with everyone. But most people are just happy with how things are right now; except tournament players of course :P

[@Phoenix512100]

What's even funnier with the last couple years of doing so many collectors and special treatments that the foil version is the cheaper version than the non foil version of the traditional MTG style.

[@NikachuMTG]

This might be partially true because foils are so heavily printed that they aren’t so rare and special like they used to.

[@nogard0497]

Love to see your hair looking younger!

[@NikachuMTG]

I'm aging in reverse now

[@nogard0497]

@@NikachuMTG I can ship textbooks for High School curriculum next week 😎

[@gilbertosantiago2210]

I love these stories soooo much! Nikachuuuuuuuuuuu /hug

[@KendoOCE]

He’s back!

[@GraemeGunn]

I played through Standard when this was legal. Yikes.

[@NikachuMTG]

You're a survivor! Personally I was playing mono blue tempo and it wasn't that big of a deal for me.

[@GraemeGunn]

@@NikachuMTG I'd get really unlucky playing against it - one time my opponent only had one copy in their deck - they found it, cast it, then shuffled, and I cut the deck, putting the card right back on top for him. Lmao. I don't care about losing though, I just like playing the game, but man was that unlucky.

[@NikachuMTG]

Probably wasn't that unlucky. One aspect of foils is that when you cut the deck, it is more likely than not you are cutting to the foil card and placing that pile on top.

[@BaldurtheImpious]

YESSSS. IVE WAITED SO LONG. ❤❤

[@toast_recon]

Nexus of Fate is my favorite card all time. I know I'm the bad guy

[@astylessss]

FINALLY

[@ThereIsNoSpoon678]

So… proxies are okay now?

[@NikachuMTG]

Only if approved by the judges! (But you have to prove you own the real card)

[@Markersify]

instant umm hello??

[@Tletna]

Nikachu, I'm begging you. Please stop using this fakey voice in these KZbin videos. You have a real voice that isn't obnoxious. I've heard it. It exists.

[@greglane334]

Typical blue players smh

[@erisdiscordia5429]

Why do you sound so weird? It's like your voice is just slightly sped up or something.

[@NikachuMTG]

What's funny is that most people think I'm talking too slowly.

[@erisdiscordia5429]

@@NikachuMTG That's so weird lol. Gotta say, the higher pitch was only in the beginning, you went back to normal, to my ears, pretty quickly once you got into the video.

[@RIP_Texpert]

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