My 62 Secret Magic Playtest Cards! | MTG Phyrexia | Unknown Event MagicCon

[@im_Tsu]

Played in this event this past weekend. It was a pleasure to meet you and a pleasure to play in this event. Definitely the highlight of the event for me. Instant Speed Emrakul the Promised End is one of the wackiest things I have ever seen in Limited!

[@GoodMorningMagic]

Did you get to pull it off and make Emrakul?!? I never saw it happen!

[@im_Tsu]

@@GoodMorningMagic I did not but one of the guys next to me did in one of my rounds since his game stalled out. I was trying so hard too though in my games. I had Call Emrakul + Spawning Grounds in a ramp deck in hopes of living the dream. Games would always end before I got to the Emrakul though :(

[@FanOfMostEverything]

This was incredible fun to play in. Shuffling my sideboard for Compleated Chrome Shell was one of the most surreal moments I've had in a game of Magic. My only regret is the one time I was able to play Soul of Mirrodin, my opponent scooped before I could activate it. Thanks again for giving us such wonderfully ridiculous cards to play with.

[@GoodMorningMagic]

Haha! That sounds awesome.

[@spellbreakerunbound]

This was one of the most fun and interesting limited events I’ve had the chance to play in! That angel/demon that makes it so that nobody can win or lose is one of the weirdest concepts for a card I’ve seen in a while.

[@GeekoTreecko]

In my opinion this is probably the best video this channel has had in a while...thank you for creating this pool & giving us insight Gavin!

[@davidjohnson9186]

Hey Gavin! That event on Saturday was absolutely the most fun I had all weekend. I had a blast with the cards you made. Being able to play a Mox Poison was super cool (even though it did lead to my death that game, haha)! Mox Poison: Hugely fun and risky in this limited environment. I would be interested to see an adjustment like: T: Add 1 mana of any color. You get 3 poison counters. Then a separate static ability: At the beginning of your end step, if you have any poison counters, add one poison counter. Join the Winning Team: This card won me my final game thanks to it targeting planeswalkers. Love that addition since in limited playing against a planeswalker can be demoralizing, but this card gives the other person a fighting chance. Again, thank you so much for running this event, I’d love to play something like it again in the future!

[@SaltySparrow]

I'M THE GUY YOU TOOK THE ETERNAL WANDERER FROM LOL

[@zeez145]

Dude seeing you explain all of your designs is so nice, thanks for the video 😸

[@cassie5248]

Glad to see this video, I was afraid these cards would be lost which would be a shame cause they're really neat

[@ScorpioneOrzion]

Platinum Persecutor + R&D secret lair is an evil combo, nobody can even leave the game.

[@ninjawxyz1260]

I remember that someone next to me got sort of __ and __ and I was shocked. It was really cool to discover the other play test cards as I played against others. For example during my last round, I overheard someone next to me cast Mox Poison and I was so surprised, then in game 2 for that round my opponent casted Mox Poison. Overall it was a great event, it felt familiar having a strong influence from Phyrexia: All Will Be One but also felt original and new with all the playtest cards. Also the Sort of __ and __ is something that I can see working for Alchemy as a sort of build-a-sword card

[@Daknor]

This is awesome! Love that folks got new playtest cards as well as getting neat promos!

[@mrknarf4438]

I really love this! In an age when MtG is more and more disconnected from the community, adding some light-hearted, competitive fun that also gives nice bonuses without disrupting the actual game seems great!

[@Metallix87]

I'd love to see Mox Poison as a real card. Just such a clean and straight-forward design.

[@Melissanoma]

It's debatable whether it's good or not in limited, but it's definitely busted in constructed. Most of the time it will just be a free mox you can only tap 4 times.

[@fredgrundeman8673]

As someone who played it on Friday night, I can say its PAINFUL in the age of proliferate :)

[@olafthemoose9413]

I want a 1 mana dork that gives you a poisen counter whenever you tap it or costs a phyrexian green to tap and add one mana of any color.

[@mitchellbender7876]

This event was a lot of fun, I hope you do more like it! Don't think I'll be able to make it to Minneapolis for whatever you do there, but I'm sure it'll be similarly clever. (My personal highlight was opening a Blightsteel Colossus in the List slot of the one Phyrexia set booster in my pool. Seems fitting since I was assigned the Phyrexia team. Of course, I then went on to misread Soul of Mirrodin and put it in my deck thinking it was a valid target... should've left it in my sideboard for Compleated Clone Shell to maybe hit.)

[@yellowpie]

I absolutely loved this event, it was one of the many highlights of my MagicCon experience. All the wacky playtest cards were incredibly fun, especially when I would just overhear stuff about ones I had never seen, like someone the game next to me saying “ok, so neither of us can win or lose the game until this guy leaves the battlefield” or some guy in line talking about how their friend pulled a card named “Rosewater’s Menace” and got Mark to sign it. I unfortunately didn’t get any super wacky plays, but getting to Oil Scavenge 4 oil counters onto my Hound of Urabrask was a great way to win one of my games. The next time I head to a MagicCon, count me in for more Unknown!

[@GoodMorningMagic]

I absolutely love hearing stories like this!! I'm glad it inspires that big of surprise and wackiness. Hope to see you at the next one!!

[@Insigneos]

This event was so much fun! I still can’t believe I was able to have you sign my Delphia.

[@mrknarf4438]

7:53 Red Priest of Yawgmoth is very similar to Slobad from the set :D

[@PimpTheMonkey]

I loved that you called Platinum Persecutor "The Standoff in Philadelphia". What a perfect deep cut of a treasured copy pasta.

[@GerBessa]

B/P can be payed with either B or 2 life. BP, the phyrexian oil company.

[@magicmatters]

I love the aggresive mechanic, I think it could be on a magic set. It could be before the normal combat step, to fit the keyword a bit better

[@tuuru3433]

I love how the card codes and set designation are on there. I hope I can go to the event with DA2! Is that what the normal playtest cards for every set look like?

[@WillSmith12346]

An absolutely amazing event. Thank you for the experience.

[@Stonewren]

Dreadmaws ATE 💅✨💖💅

[@brockmckelvey7327]

Mindslaver's Toolkit looks hilarious and I'd love to get one for a friend of mine

[@GoodMorningMagic]

Sounds like maybe it was worth including after all!

[@DrMonty-ng5fo]

@@GoodMorningMagic i dunno, I think it's very disappointing to pull a useless card. I wish it did something by itself, even if it was bad, like having it's own mindslaver ability on it for an extreme amount of mana.

[@brockmckelvey7327]

@@DrMonty-ng5fo I mean, it is a free artifact and can trigger Madness, if you pull anything that has that in the Mystery Booster

[@SaltySparrow]

Enjoyed this event on Saturday. Great job Gavin! I was able to kill someone with leeches! My opponent played join the winning team on my Eternal Wanderer and left me with a mite. That was rough haha.

[@GoodMorningMagic]

Yesssss the leeches kill! 😄

[@JakeDude21]

SNAPsail rider, I see what you did there Gavin.

[@Kukyodragonfly]

I can see an increase on the price of Leeches in the future xd Great video, I've seen playtest cards before but it was nice to see how the process of creating them work

[@fredouellet3160]

I would have a lot of fun playing this event. I love how there are so many easter eggs and references in these designs. But it's hearthbreaking for me to love a game and see how you put so much into your designs while working for a company I grew to hate. It must be difficult for you (and I understand you cannot agree with me, at least publicly). I really hope the company will change it's course and stop taking it's customer for whales that must be syphoned from their last cent.

[@evileyeball]

Poison tollerance reminds me of the scene with the Iocane powder from Princess Bride hahaha.

[@user-if1gh4xl5h]

i neeeeeeed "Then Dreadmaws Ate" to be real

[@ScorpioneOrzion]

I don't think people mind you playing with these if you tell them at the start.

[@drewsmith81]

@@ScorpioneOrzion My Slivdrazi Monstrosity always gets voted out when I ask to play it in my sliver deck. Wonder why :/

[@nathanbarry2840]

I'd like to see something like the Mox Poison explored further. Mana now, but at a real cost seems like some underexplored design space (possibly because of how dangerous it is). Maybe something more along the lines of taking real damage and poison counters would be more realistically balanced. I could also see a get ahead now concept - but at what cost? - where it's actually a land that produces more than 1 mana but does something like phasing out, returning to hand, or sacrificing itself/other lands (I know there's lands that do all of the mentioned, just giving some examples).

[@DavidGreeneMtgJudge]

Edit: I'm mistaken because of how we apply added steps and phases. Even with this card, you complete the effects in the order they are written, which means that you'll apply the added steps from most recently created to last (reverse order.) @6:00 no, you perform the effects on a card in the order they are written. See rules 608.2c and 702.42b.

[@GoodMorningMagic]

You do the effects in the order they're written, but when it comes to taking additional steps the last one you take happens first. So if you entwine it, the last one applies first. Hence the order.

[@DavidGreeneMtgJudge]

@@GoodMorningMagic ah, yeah. I hadn't even considered the addition of steps from the effect. You add them on in order, but apply them with the most recently created one first. My mistake.

[@schumerus6786]

“Then Dreadmaws ate” is now officially a card, yes it is, you won’t tell me it isn’t haha. Also Soul of Mirrodin is actually a really good card I think, a sort of Win con with enough artifacts in the deck, because it puts it in play at instant speed. Then I particularly like the Mox Poison. It’s one of those cards where you can really feel the draw back sneaking up, 2 poison is 20% to death, but having a free ramp is not to underestimate. I’d have tried it as a side board if my opponent didn’t play proliferate or poison

[@8thy]

What an amazing concept! Wish I could have gone, curse of being Australian haha. Inspiring idea though, I’ve made many a custom card recently so doing something like this with those could be fun:)

[@theBestInvertebrate]

Very fun, it would be neet to send out event kits to run stuff like this at LGSs.

[@gamingtime9716]

Poison Tolerance is definitely something that could have made it into ONE. Toxic is already a much less degenerate keyword than infect, but as I thought we learned in Kaldheim, a single hate card (especially when it's not colorless) against a mechanic that can easily be oppressive isn't enough. It can't possibly be enough.

[@obsidiansiriusblackheart]

I could imagine a set where you could have the same creature, but one copy is compleated and one isn't. So like the cat, the compleated version would have the same stats, but different mechanic!

[@chimneyimp1486]

6:35 hey I took that personally! also we need life cloud. we really do - sincerely every Quintorius player

[@snackplaylove]

I hope some of these are secretly real and in something in the future 😂 Awesome group of cards and video. Hope you get to lead a set soon so I can pay money for a slice of this awesomeness

[@resolvegaming2263]

Almost certainly on your radar for the future already but would love a video discussing the decision to do two characters on a card in March of the Machines, rather than something like MDFC or partner with

[@shaesaesheickoes5695]

Platinum Persecutor sounds like it would be fun. Maybe throw it into that one four color Commander Precon of Meletis?

[@violetlazuli3998]

I'd really love to see sword of _ and _ as a real (probably un) card. Would be able to have the urza website assist, and even randomise a 3rd sword for the protections. I'd run it in every deck my playgroup let me. This seems like such a fun event, would love to have played in it. Hope whenever a magic con comes outside the US we can get something just as cool

[@LlywellynOBrien]

There needs to be something like 'no more headcanons' or 'canonical story'. Sorcery, maybe xxx WUBRG and it reads 'take control of X nonland permanents that make more sense on your side, call a Dev team member to decide if players are unsure'. Similarly 'death to traitors' which would be cheaper and either nuke all nlps that don't make sense or a number (I suppose X or xx would be enough).

[@bAd12cheZ]

The basic stick figure drawing was amazing and I wish it can be used next time.

[@dylanmiller9162]

Megasunburst actually seems like a viable modern take on sunburst-which I always loved and was…never as powerful as I wanted it to be

[@OmegaShinku]

Wait, hold on, why would you resolve untap upleep draw by going backwards? cards with several effects within the same one tend to resolve in order printed no? (tooth and nail for example, has the "search for creatures" first, then the "put creatures on the field" second)

[@snackplaylove]

I think each choice is a separate effect and so FILO does that for you. Have a feeling this mattered with one of the commands but I’m old and I’m not sure 😂 Ed: oh - Gavin explained better further down.

[@Metallicity]

I'm surprised the rules can't handle "artifact creatures that weren't originally artifact creatures", since Sunburst, another mechanic originating from Mirrodin, can correctly check if a card was originally a creature or not (to determine if it should get +1/+1 counters or charge counters): "If this object is entering the battlefield as a creature, ignoring any type-changing effects that would affect it, it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it. Otherwise, it enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it."

[@TeaHauss]

Today I learned you resolved entwine effects in reverse order. always thought it was the other way around

[@DavidGreeneMtgJudge]

That is incorrect. See rules 608.2c and 702.42b

[@yellowpie]

I'm working on building a cube that uses these unknown cards, and I have a question that I'd like to know the answer to before it causes any arguments: Oilskelion and Sojourner's Enforcermite both don't have the Artifact type printed on them, but were designed to be riffs on artifact creatures and have creature types usually reserved for artifact creatures. Should they be played as artifact creatures or not?

[@GoodMorningMagic]

I think playing them as artifact creatures is fine :)

[@KakuEpsilon]

I'm kinda surprised we've never seen a Playtest Card that's a planeswalker based on people who work there, like yourself or Mark Rosewater.

[@dyne313]

As somebody who loves Divine Intervention, I want Platnium Persecutor.

[@samkominowski6394]

A video about fringe decks wizards is aware of need help in formats such as modern and pioneer would be really cool! (specifically there restore balance x as foretold x electrodominance x crashing footfalls deck in modern)

[@Kelv1nat0r]

I had a great time playing in the Friday event! Tricky Mage to go get Contagion Clasp was my favorite combo :) I never got to 13 mana to kick it, but was it intentional that Call Up Emrakul for Help doesn’t give you the Mindslaver effect since it’s a cast trigger?

[@GoodMorningMagic]

Glad you had fun! Yeah, that was intentional. Seemed plenty good to get a 13/13. :)

[@JANKLORD]

Gavin, this is incredibly cool.

[@MrClaymore152]

Any word on when tickets will be on sale for MagicCon Minneapolis? I’m local and really want to snag a spot at this event!

[@GoodMorningMagic]

I don't know exactly when, but once passes are on sale I imagine event ticket sales can't be too far off!

[@Viktxr]

What's the difference between poison tolerance +1 and poison tolerance +2?

[@Metawatt13]

I wasn’t there unfortunately, but phyrexian ornithopter looks amazing

[@anthonybrainwood8015]

De-proliferate could be named dwindle.

[@bobbyfasciano4137]

Is Snapsail Rider a reference to Marvel Snap? It’s gotta be, right? Neat design space in that game and interesting to see something like that make it’s way to magic even if in a one time format like this one.

[@moogsynth87]

I’m making a Goblin Savant and putting it in my krenko deck!

[@nycstreetpoet]

“Resilience” sounds better than “Poison Resistance,” in my opinion. Not really a relevant point, just my two cents. I would love to see Mox Poison (I would’ve preferred the name “Corrupted Mox”), but I think 2 poison counters is too many. I would also love a “fixed” Sword of Fire and Ice, with protection from UB, and an option to draw a card, but if you do, you also get a poison counter (Sword of Greed and Corruption?)

[@Kakerate2]

How did you get authorized to do this? As a game dev, I'd love to do something like this.

[@Thestar17x]

Poison mox sounds great

[@zztzgza]

Any chance these playtest cards are gonna be printed so they're available to people that weren't at this event?

[@geraudeliot5454]

Isn't "red priest of Yawgmoth" the original design for the new phyrexian Slobad? o_O

[@anthonywolf943]

dude phyrexian broodstar... could be fun lol

[@user-if1gh4xl5h]

would/should Leeches Medic use the conjure terminology that mtga use? to unite the digital and (pseudo-)paper mechanic

[@GoodMorningMagic]

I just used the same technology Mystery Booster used for its cards like Time Sidewalk - could also use Conjure or something though, for sure. :)

[@meep4563]

Gavin seems to be making moves to improve magic, but what will be done about the greedy monetisation by wotc, it's essentially a fruitless endeavour if good cards are put behind a paywall

[@Doodmin]

I need me to get one of those old way phyrexians

[@hrocxvid]

Gavin, were "Halana and Alena, Partners" a prototype for the partnered Legendary creatures we saw in the spoilers for MOM? Cool video as always.

[@nlamothe]

I need Deliferate for real in my saga decks...

[@CeleTheRef]

was the mana cost always supposed to be that hard to read?

[@markciafullo6450]

Wait, I thought it was the other way around for Untap, Upkeep, draw, because otherwise Tooth and Nail and Command Performance wouldn’t work as intended…

[@GoodMorningMagic]

It goes on the order on the card, but the problem is that when you're adding steps or phases the last one you resolve is the first one you take. Oops!

[@zachsmthinorother6574]

a comment for the algorithms!

[@kenpokid10]

Would Snapsail Rider happen to have been a coy reference to a certain mobile card game that came out last year? 😏

[@Trinitybolduan]

Mox hands down

[@VivBrodock]

mox poison is probably really bad in formats that use All WIll be One cards heavily. But would be busted in Legacy/Vintage

[@finks1]

People would sideboard so much proliferate lol

[@VivBrodock]

@@finks1 eh, a couple miser poison counters real ain't all that. Like mox poison would be specifically for combo decks that only want it for a couple turns. Sideboard cards in legacy are for winning the game against specific matchups.

[@lukek.5773]

pls i need a magicon in florida. i got back into magic a month after the tampa grand prix and had to miss the Orlando magifest 😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@OGNoNameNobody]

*Mox Poison* Why? Simple. In a game of Vintage, if you have to tap your Mox for mana more than 4 times, you weren't winning that game anyway.

[@Hexatomb]

I was there, I wish I knew how to sign up for stuff like this. I didn't get the command zone pass thinking I could just buy it when I arrived so all I did was travel 2200 miles to sit around not knowing anyone.

[@BenjaminKlahn]

Need to update your copyright dates... 2014, lol, wow

[@ilovenubz]

Algorithm

[@pyredynasty]

Antiliferate

[@natenathan2654]

You go through these way too fast! They are all new cards after all