MTG Top 10: Most EXPENSIVE Uncommons | Magic: the Gathering | Episode 547

[@littlemrdoom5997]

List idea: Top ten WORST expensive MTG cards

[@michaelcollins4534]

Would you count promo or chase variants for that? If so I wonder if the red bordered hidetsugu would make the list

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

OK that's awesome.

[@shuboy05]

Wood Elemental is going to make that list.

[@jennietsai1260]

All the bad alpha cards

[@marcoottina654]

worst non-ReservedList * that would be non-boring

[@mikotagayuna8494]

It warms my heart that the top cards in this list are there not because of the Reserve List but because of pure nostalgia and love for the game. In the end, MtG is not really just about busted cards and pretty jewelry but being able to do cool stuff like summoning angels, consulting demons and fiery donuts.

[@rileypowell5354]

"the mtg is not about busted cards" in reference to two of the most busted cards in the entire game

[@aritzmartinezrodriguez1825]

to be fair many of those high end collector cards are in the hands of speculators.

[@danieloconnell231]

Number 1 on this list just proves that the reserved list is a farce and old cards will still hold value even with reprints

[@PhoenicopterusR]

@@rileypowell5354 but their extreme value doesn't come from their power, since recent prints are nowhere near those numbers. So yeah, but also no.

[@TheShinyFeraligatr]

All three of those cards used to be on the Reserve List, though they aren't now.

[@nathaniverson9159]

What's interesting about Sol Ring is that it has a huge price disparity between the original printing and later printings. You can get a copy of it today for roughly $1.50, but the Alpha version is still very expensive. It shows that you can make staples affordable to normal players without damaging the value of the collectibles.

[@TheTundraTerror]

It's cute to imagine a world where WotC doesn't care about bleeding it's playbase dry... room for two?

[@lordbunbury]

Sol Ring is a classic great card with iconic art. Sol Ring would be way more expensive without the reprints. Same for Demonic Tutor.

[@Djewell314]

That's true for basically every alpha card that isn't reserved list

[@kurtilein3]

The argument is disproven by mentioning the ugly-ass faded revised dual lands.

[@notapplicable6985]

​@@lordbunbury good

[@holgerchristiansen4003]

At 15:00 you say that we probably notice a price jump. But the prices shown are the same as before, just the names of the cards are different. So there obviously was a mixup when creating the black box on the right. The real prices, as shown later, are indeed higher, but by the point you say we should have noticed that, those higher prices are not yet revealed :D

[@Xenagos]

Every once in a while Nizzahon just sucker punches you by pronouncing a card in a way you’ve never heard someone pronounce it.

[@aritzmartinezrodriguez1825]

karak-as got me well, xD.

[@NizzahonMagic]

I pronounced it the way Google said to pronounce it. Before I looked it up, I pronounced it the same way I say "Caracas" Venezuela.

[@Big_Man_Enjoyer]

@@NizzahonMagic fair enough, it’s not like we have an anime to explain how to pronounce card names like Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh do haha

[@aritzmartinezrodriguez1825]

@@NizzahonMagic I meant no offense. As OP said "pronouncing in a way you've never heard before" not "pronouncing in a wrong way". English is not even my first language, it happens to me almost every time I heard a legendary's name on the internet, xD.

[@NizzahonMagic]

@@aritzmartinezrodriguez1825 Don't worry, I'm not offended! Haha. Just saying how I got there.

[@filipzo]

Nice to see Ancient Tomb is so sought-after. My Tempest, never used ("2 damage? waaaaaay to much" cit: kid myself), still in the book, is aging well. 🙂

[@agentofashcroft]

same, except i have a playset of them I never used

[@darylarmentrout252]

Ya gotta love it. I'm a old wizard (my bones hurt), I have that Su-chi by the old mana burn rule it would damage you when it died and you had nothing to spend the mana on

[@penguinlust6749]

A relatively recent WotC typo is still causing issues with these lists -- Diamond Valley is a U2 and therefore should be listed as "Rare" as it's the lowest rarity in the set (same as Juzam Djinn, Drop of Honey, etc). However, when WotC migrated their card database to gatherer, the rarity on this card somehow got entered as uncommon. Typos never die. At least scryfall gets it right, as do all the old lists WotC published from 1993 to 2017. For the sake of comparison, both Bazaar and Library are U3s, and are properly labeled as "uncommon". Weirdly, mtgstocks gets it half right, listing it as "uncommon" but then noting that it's a U2, again listing all other U2s as "rare". Oy Vey.

[@JD-gk7eh]

I was going to reply to say this!

[@JD-gk7eh]

What's interesting is that Bazzar and Library got onto the Reserved List despite not being "rares." Really, they probably shouldn't have been Reserved or removed in 2002 when uncommons were removed from the list. But by that time, LoA was still the second most expensive card in AN and Bazaar was pretty close to it. (Juzam was always #1. Bazaar took a while to get over $100.) That's probably why they didn't remove those cards, they were already really expensive despite being "uncommon."

[@codyregan8462]

First time I played against manna drain was imprinted on isochron scepter

[@PeterClausman]

The Old School format has influence on these prices as well. Su-chi is played a lot there.

[@GabAssbreaker]

Power Artifact as well, Power-Monolith is a meta deck in that format.

[@SerpentStar_]

Man this hurts. Back around 2010 sold BOTH my Library of Alexandria and Bazaar of Baghdad for $550. Only reassuring thought is that nothing lasts forever. That includes humans and paper cards 🃏

[@SpiderWaffle]

16:30 This did see play with mana vault for infinite mana, but I'm not sure if there's any records of DCI sanctioned appearances then.

[@tym6217]

I ripped an Ancient Tomb expedition land out of a pack myself. To this day I believe that's the most expensive card I've ever pulled myself. Prior to that it was an original Tour Guide from the Underworld from an Extreme Victory pack back when I still played Yu-Gi-Oh.

[@cax1175]

Yata is free

[@tym6217]

@@cax1175 I stopped playing Yu-Gi-Oh at the end of the Xyz era. I dabble in Duel Links from time to time, but I haven't played paper Yu-Gi-Oh in a long time.

[@cax1175]

@@tym6217 Fair. I play on occasion but very casually. Just wanted to let you know that Yata was unbanned

[@tym6217]

@@cax1175 they didn't neuter it's effect like they did with a bunch of other classic cards did they?

[@Milkybetrayal]

I'm glad I got the Beta Serra Angels when I did. $100. For the pair

[@Pehr81]

I had a playset of Su-Chi's in my Enduring Renewal deck once... :')

[@bojuka_bob]

Watched a couple of these top 10 videos and gave the 👍🏻. KZbin is flooding my feed with these and I'm here for all of it

[@gilliganallmighty3]

The Reserved List, disallowing newer not rich players from using a large amount of game pieces.

[@RibusPQR]

Summon Pirate

[@shuboy05]

There are a lot of Reserved List cards that aren't worth much. Fallen Empires, Ice Age, Homelands, and Alliances are all sets with cheap Reserved List cards.

[@rjphilla]

Cool video! I never noticed that it's EDHRec. I kept thinking you were saying EDH Rack. 😂🤣😂

[@Pistoolkip]

I still own an Ancient Tomb. I found it in a card shop in a pile of refusal cards. It has 'Dust Bowl' written on it. Somebody clearly used it as a proxy as was done with it. Good times.

[@brandontankersley8107]

All you need with the Ironworks is 2 Retrievers and Disciple of the Vault. You have infinite life loss. Throw in Leonin Elder and you have infinite life gain.

[@spiffinn_music_lists]

Someone's read the flavor text of Johnny, Combo Player

[@ringoderbar1522]

I hope a new Top 10 Counterspells is on the horizon :D

[@dagdet]

Would be probably a good idea to split such lists into two parts: modern and pre-modern era. Since it is interesting to see cards outside of vintage and legacy, like fatal push or expressive iteration, but such lists are indeed utterly skewed to older sets. No chances for modern expensive uncommons.

[@hitmangfx7162]

I remember our old store had like 20 Su-Chi's in the binder for about $1 apiece. They couldn't give them away. I bought one and threw it in a casual deck with large bodies. After it got hit with Wrath of God and I took the mana burn, I took it out and haven't thought about it since I just saw this video.

[@IzzysIssues]

When I saw that KCI was only number ten I audibly "oofed"

[@frankvandorp2059]

One thing all of these cards share (except Serra Angel, which really is $0.04 of course) is that they've never been reprinted at uncommon. Most were upshifted to outright mythics. Because, you know, WOTC totally isn't looking at the secondary market when designing reprint sets "for limited". It's just that cards like Force of Will, Ancient Tomb and Enlightened Tutor would be warping those formats, those are notoriously strong in limited, right? That's the only reason, honestly. Believe them.

[@stevenglowacki8576]

Ancient Tomb is probably really good in Limited, although I suppose it's not ridiculously strong like a lot of bomb rare and mythics are, which I guess is your main point, so OK.

[@razvanz27]

Su-Chi was played in Vintage for quite a while in a Mishra's Workshop / Survival of the Fittest deck called TnT. Also excellent video, thank you for making it.

[@valetboy21]

Where 's The Dark, if you're not making an exception for Arabian Nights shouldn't original Blood Moon and/or City of Shadows make an appearance?

[@MichaelSmith-fm5ln]

Watching this made me go look into my portal 1 binders. Found 3 mint and 1 near mint personal tutors. Found the cruel and slyvan ones too. Not as valuable but still good. Thanks man. Almost forgot I had these.

[@stevenrhodes8338]

@Nizzahon during #3 you mentioned the reserve list, and wizards keeping their promise. I'm curious if you have an output on how you'd feel if they did abolish the lost

[@odioalospoopers]

i'd say it would a net positive where cards like ABULD cards with low price reprints(sol ring, birds of paradise, blood moon, karakas and so on) have shown current prices wouldn't have a dramatric drop in price and players would have access to them, then i remember magic 30th... And there's an above 0 chance that the set was made precisely for that

[@kurtilein3]

@@odioalospoopers Wizards would not survive the lawsuit based purely on the price drop in these ugly faded revised dual lands. You can fight and win a lawsuit based purely on the price drop in these, and claw back every cent you lost due to any of the revised duals dropping in price. And lets be honest, noone would want these, these are ugly and numerous, noone cares if ABU and foreign black bordered duals remain unaffected by a reprint.

[@T4N7]

My mom wanted to buy me cards for xmas 1 yr n was at the LGS n called my brother to ask him wut to buy n just started saying card names. She had put him on the spot n he reacted to Force of Will with a lil more enthusiasm cuz he recognized the name. She hung up on him before he could explain anything else n that is how i got a single copy of the best counterspell in the game to go in wut is probably my worst 60 card deck hut also my favourite :P it was 70 back then. I like how I tend to always have at least 1 of the cards in ur expensive lists. For the first time ever I disagree with ur criteria for this list. I don't think u should've included Uncommon 2 cards with they were the rares of their time. Like u said with alk the tip spot, it is cuz they r on the reserve list that the price is so high but that list is to protect rares. They r protected, ergo they were the "rares" of that set. I would've liked to see wut could've made the list had u not included reserve list cards

[@TheFaithfulAtheist]

Note: Demonic Tutor actually was on the reserved list until the list was revised in 2002, when any and all commons and uncommons from ABU were removed as per player demand.

[@nycstreetpoet]

I think there is also an Ancient Tomb in From the Vault: Realms.

[@antimattered3921]

you mentioned krark-clan ironworks a lot as of late

[@Jessalakasam]

Loyal retainers was also printed in Commander Arsenal and as a 30th anniversary promo

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

That latter one doesn't count.

[@CruentusDK1]

Totally worthless rares might be interesting. Love seeing that a couple Fallen Empires cards actually made this list. So many of the old ones from my first years of playing are soo terrible by todays standards. Since the Dark, Fallen Empires, and 3rd edition were the cards I first started playing with, I always try to slip in a few cards from these sets into newer stuff, but most can't even compete. Serra Angel and Sengir Vampire the staple creatures of the time, both flying, 4/4, having special abilities, 5 casting cost, and 2 devotion. You used to be able to look at a card and know what it should cost to cast. Now I think they just roll the dice when creating cards.

[@SerathDarklands]

I own an Antiquities Su-Chi, but I'm never going to sell it because I just love the card.

[@JohnSmith-hs9ez]

I really expected force of will to be number one but I forgot that you're counting the most expensive printing not the cheapest printing.

[@besslerclement3811]

I have a question, if you milled Su-chi, did you still get the mana?

[@aritzmartinezrodriguez1825]

No. Old text says "its controller gains...". Only permanents in play and spells on the stack have controllers. It would affect cards in the library if it said "owner". And new text only says: when Su-chi dies,... So I am not even sure how it worked with spells back in the day, because spells have controllers, so with the old text (I think) you would also get the 4 mana if Su-chi gets countered.

[@Gamemaniac92711]

No, it needs to go to the graveyard from play according to its current errata

[@jonothanthrace1530]

Transmute Artifact is one of those cards that I wish would be reprinted just to have a version with much simpler text.

[@omnivision616]

I remember buying my FoWs for $5 each. Those were the days...

[@kurtilein3]

Wasteland and Ancient Tomb were at 50 cents to 1 USD when the set was new and being cracked in numbers.

[@apjapki]

I kind of love the sword and shield icons from Portal sets. I'd happily see them on all cards.

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

In my native card game of YuGiOh, it's rare for cards to even break $100. Let alone *thousands.* But you know what's rarer? "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)".

[@NightfallTH]

Whats with Sorceress Queen?

[@joelmonteiro1419]

I had no idea Sylvan LIbrary or Mana Drain were uncommon.

[@shuboy05]

It's why they never ended up on the Reserved List.

[@Kommander]

Enlightened Tutor was in 6th Edition aswell

[@darylarmentrout252]

Who can complain about #1, NICE!

[@heath1948]

To be honest because I am a budget player If I were running an angel deck, I would use a reprint of Serra angel in it

[@chriszablocki2460]

If I ever play again, I'll build a baller EDH and pauper deck. And that's it. I'm serious. And even that won't happen until I'm gainfully employed for at least a year.

[@kjmergen]

11:04 2/3, not 3/2

[@HelminthCombos]

Theres a new Su-chi but its an 8 mana 8/8 vigilance ward 2 and when he dies he gives back 8 mana not 4.

[@destructorv2]

somehow i have a feeling i have those cards (not those top 3, 2 and 1 though) but I just threw it in the storage. maybe I'll have to dumpster dive again

[@andrewsparkes6275]

Could you re-do all of these price lists at some point, but using the cheapest version of each card instead? Because no-one in their right mind would ever call Serra Angel an "expensive uncommon" overall. These lists get kinda boring when we know the most expensive of anything will just be an expensive Alpha version or Judge Promo of an everyday cheap card, or something on the Reserved List. But it'd be way more interesting knowing what's the most actually-expensive card even if we were searching for the cheapest version of a card to put in a deck.

[@darthanakinII]

You missed tieing in grinding station with krark clan iron works

[@gwikeh]

Yeah, power creep has hurt Serra Angel, but we all know the reason why the Alpha--Fourth Edition printings are in demand and every other printing is not ...

[@cax1175]

When the tomb is ancient.

[@SpitefulAZ]

How about top ten non RL cards only printed once. Like Personal Tutor.

[@edwardfearan5708]

I was pretty chuffed when I found 2 Transmute Artifacts in my random cards that I came close to giving away. The $700 AUD I got for selling them helped get me through covid. MTG cards save lives. :)

[@denissinner4625]

There is no argument if Mana Drain is the second best counter spell in the game. Like, which other counterspell besides force of will is any competition? There is really only the argument if Force or Drain is the #1.

[@NizzahonMagic]

Well, I think some other free counterspells are in the conversation at this point.

[@Ambushw23]

Why does price matter on EDHrec you can just create any deck list you want

[@NizzahonMagic]

Well, what matters is how in demand a card is in EDH, and EDHRec is a reasonable representation of that, better than any other metric at least.

[@JoyousOblivion]

Basically a list of ‘uncommons’ only because WoTC didn’t really have rarity understood at that point haha. Would like to see a top 10 list of uncommons that doesn’t count cards pre-modern era.

[@diegoblin9090]

List idea. Most expensive sets/products that have at least 1yr old

[@rfs8194]

I can't believe Mana Drain was an uncommon!

[@toastghost9145]

I'm curious as to how a "cheapest card" list could be made. Top Ten Bulk Rares, maybe?

[@jonnymmac]

Everytime I see one of these price episodes I have to go check my old collection in the attic and see how many of them I have. Lol

[@nikolamatasin3877]

Top of the list just shows that Reserve List is a lie! Even more recently Dockside Extortionist showed that reprints can't hurt some cards (especially if there's a different art variant)

[@magicsinglez]

It’s always been called, ‘car-aak-us’.

[@gerudo4sale861]

Top 10 idea: Most misplayed cards

[@amtracktrack4963]

Very nice!

[@diegoblin9090]

Top 10? Top 24 feels like xD yeaah!!

[@magicsinglez]

My God. Ancient Tomb sold for 10 cents or something for a couple of years.

[@bushwagg_YT]

Ok, so your kinda wrong in a weird way, rare cards were not introduced until legend’s so wouldn’t the list just be dominated by power 9?

[@NizzahonMagic]

Well, there wasn't technically rare, but there was "rarest uncommon" which was de facto rare.

[@gcleeman]

Disappointed that U1 was counted as uncommon, if you're doing that then you should be including summer magic in these lists

[@crawdaddy1234]

Fun interaction with Sylvan Library is if you dredge all three cards, you don’t have to pay ANY life. If you dredge two cards, you have to put the drawn card back unless you pay four life; if you only dredge one card, you have to pay four life for each of the cards you drew.

[@raynmanshorts9275]

#1 proves that the reserve list is unnecessary.

[@kurtilein3]

This nonsense argument, which keeps coming up, is disproven by mentioning all the ugly faded revised dual lands.

[@seijhik]

Prrices of Card kingdom are what you get when someone just put random numbers in place of a price for a card

[@EMSWK]

Easily could have retitled this to most expensive uncommons in vintage...

[@savingstumps]

"assuming they keep their promise"

[@rjphilla]

How did you pronounce number 4 😂

[@rasen7721]

list idea: top 10 least expensive mtg cards

[@michaelcollins4534]

What would be the other 5 after basic lands lol

[@holgerchristiansen4003]

@@michaelcollins4534 Some trash tier commons that nobody ever uses

[@KPX01]

in a sense we already have that with the worst card series

[@MrSaverio97]

Razorfield thresher

[@agentofashcroft]

least expensive mythic rares

[@Roleandjro]

Technically this list isint true cause candelabra of tawnos and mishras workshop are uncommons cause antiquities and Arabian nights didn’t have rares they only had 8 card packs also juzam djinn is worth more than diamond valley

[@evilpooky]

More like a top 21 ;)

[@cax1175]

The only life point that matters is your last one

[@FransLebin]

lol nizza'a caracas pronunciation strikes again

[@googleplusisterrible4837]

Cara-Kaas

[@kurtilein3]

I disagree about the sets that "technically have no rares". There was no rare sheet, but cards could appear on the uncommon sheet exactly once, making them rare by any definition, or several times, making them less rare. These cards clearly are the rarest cards in these sets, some sources simply call them rares, while others differentiate between U1, U2 and U3.

[@ComixMultiplication]

Karra-kos? Really?

[@MatthewCushing]

so i've been pronouncing Karakas wrong this whole time........New set review coming out tomorrow?