Rating Custom Magic: The Gathering Cards on Reddit

[@NikachuMTGLive]

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[@seth8121]

Custom magic went private to protest Reddit's API changes. What's going to happen next stream?

[@Dr_Robin_Zoro]

The reddit doesn't allow posting too many cards by the same poster to allow other peoples cards to have a chance to be seen. It's like 1 card every 6 to 12 hours or so per poster. People should read subreddit rules it's likely the automod is deleting or banning their post.

[@NikachuMTGLive]

Even more reason to spread them out over days

[@clangauss4155]

"One with Pain" can't kill you! The term that gets rounded in "You lose half your life rounded down," is the amount you subtract, not the amount you end up with. If you start at 20 you lose 10 life, then you lose 5 life, then you lose half of 5 rounded down (2) to give you a total of 3, then half of 3 rounded down (1) to give you a total of 2, then half of 2 to a total of 1, then you lose half of 1 rounded down (0) to a total of 1 every turn. You lose 0 life continually at the end instead of dying and you still Have the emblem.

[@troyrussell177]

It combos with near death experience. That white card where you win the game I feel you have exactly 1 life

[@kingginger3335]

Echo doesn't care how a permanent entered under your control. It will always make you pay the echo cost the turn after the permanent comes into play, and it's just a one-time cost. If the permanent is exiled and then returns, you will have to pay the echo the next turns upkeep

[@kingginger3335]

21:49 apparently this does happen. They basically struggle to break free until both animals exhaust themselves and die from starvation or dehydration. Also, its been recorded that when they fight near a watering hole, they can become locked and then fall in the water, causing them to drown

[@StijnHommes]

Deviled Cacophony creates a 1/1 devil for each discarded card. On the play that could be 6 creatures on turn 1. Busted! It doesn't deal 1 damage for each card discarded that way, because "for each card discarded this way" is not within the quotation marks for the text the devil gets. The creator failed to properly template their text.

[@MelOfTheWild]

I don't think it was formatted improperly, could it be worded a bit more clearly? Sure but I think you can still understand it

[@StijnHommes]

@@MelOfTheWild Apparently, it's not clear enough or we wouldn't have this discussion.

[@kingginger3335]

8:30 Diabolic Tutor is the 4 mana Demonic Tutor. Cruel Tutor and Grim Tutor are the 3 mana tutor spells

[@whaleofdarkness]

Actually, ward 10 can be better than hexproof with the card Flagbearer from Apocalypse. Flagbearer forces your opponents to target Flagbearers with any spells that can target it. Ward 10 counters those spells while hexproof doesn't allow your opponents to target the creature at all. This way all your other creatures are protected from targeted removal.

[@MetalHev]

Ward 10 is pretty much a worse hexproof, because any "can't be countered" effect just lols at it, Void Rend for example, or with Lier on the field.

[@northeastoperations]

Banquet gorger should have a soft limit like old school dragon whelp. More than +5/+5 means it gets sacrificed at end of turn.

[@danielsniff6405]

Then it would die after eating 2 food. That would be terrible

[@Mavistka]

It's funny. The Deviled Cacophony does, as chat pointed out, create a token for each card discarded. It's just worded poorly and it's easy to miss the quotation marks. ;) It should start with the "For each card discarded this way, create a 1/1 red devil creature token..." clause. The other interpretation would also require you to keep track of how many cards were discarded for potentially the rest of the game, which would be a clunky design.

[@olixx1213]

Not only would it be clunky It straight up wouldn't work by the rules The game doesn't remember how many cards a spell discarded After resolution of that spell

[@tripple-a6031]

Nikachu, read the cards! Deviled Cacophony creates a 1/1 for each card discarded, Chat even said it multiple times.

[@NikachuMTGLive]

I'm still not reading it that way. And it's unrealistically broken interpreted that way.

[@tk421eatmyshorts]

@@NikachuMTGLive ​The quotes define the ability added to the devils. If you remove the quote section, it says Create a 1/1 red devil creature token for each card that was discarded this way

[@Balor64]

It was probably meant to make multiple tokens, but I think it's also valid to read it as making 1 token that has multiple copies of that ability. So if you had 6 cards in your hand, the token has 6 copies of that ability, so when it dies, 6 triggers go on the stack, each of which deals 1 damage. Edit: (Create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with "When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target.") for each card that was discarded this way. vs Create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with ("When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target." for each card that was discarded this way).

[@SilverDungeoneer]

@@NikachuMTGLive You create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with (quote) When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target. (end quote) for each card discarded this way. Remove the effect text as if it was an effectless token and you have Create a 1/1 red Devil creature token for each card discarded this way.

[@willowdelosrios4326]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Kami of Endless Winters isn’t as broken as Nikachu thinks, at least in commander (and let’s be real, this card isn’t going to be used anywhere but commander). First off, in a commander deck you are drastically limiting your options by taking this as your commander; there are a decent number of Snow cards, but 99% of the auto-include staples like Thassa’s Oracle, any of the Tutors, Rampant Growth, Cultivate, most counterspells, Keeper of the Illysian Grove, Sylvan Library, the majority of removal spells, and about a billion more that I’m probably forgetting, are all not snow cards. This means that your options are incredibly limited, despite you have access to all colors. 1:19 We already have a mono-green card with an identical effect (the OG Omnath), plus a couple others who do something similar. As far as I am aware, none of those cards are considered overpowered, and don’t receive much play. It’s a good effect, but hardly unprecedented, and unlike Omnath, Locus of Mana, having Kami of Endless Winters actually limits you significantly. As much as “dies to removal” is not normally a balancing factor, in this case it sort of is; sure, you can build up mana in your mana pool over time, but all that built up mana disappears if a step or phase ends with Kami of Eternal Winters off the battlefield. While there are ways this ability could get out of hand quickly (off the top of my head, that snow god from Kaldhiem can net you a huge amount of mana over a couple rounds of play) if not dealt with, but given that anyone who wanted to pull this off could pull it off way more effectively and powerfully with Omnath as their commander instead, this card isn’t a big deal

[@mackenzieshoemaker4541]

For the first one, he’s says it can’t happen like Omnath isn’t already a creature

[@Oxygen1004]

2:49 Using the Urborg Scavengers for a turn 4 for a 3/3 with alot of keywords and if you for instance have Atraxa in the grave then it can attack the same turn and become a 4/4 while also having lifelink and deathtouch. Thought obviously this only works in best of one, but giving it very easy access to tons of good keywords doesn't seem like that good of an idea

[@gabrote42]

7:34 Dimir Show and Tell? Rakdos Burn with Blasphemous Act or the convoke 10 mana burn spell? I dunno, but it LOVES to fetch Emrakul

[@gabejuhasz3743]

its fun to compare Reoccuring Nightmare to Corrupt, witch for 5 and a black just drains equal to the number of swamps you control.

[@pejman3]

one with pain + any card that makes you gain at least 1 Life per turn = you wont die ever

[@x_mazda8235]

American education... "Sisyphus philosopher" xD

[@mightyfp]

The closest you can get to knowing what it's like to be a ghost is listening to a podcast where the hosts are trying to understand something you understand - deviled cacophony makes a devil for each discarded card. The for each card discarded this way should've been the first clause to make it easier to understand

[@jeffe2267]

I feel like Nikachu misreads/misunderstands cards on purpose at this point lol

[@Mavistka]

45:01 One with Pain will actually keep you alive until you lose by other means, since it's the life loss that is rounded down ;)

[@Dr_Robin_Zoro]

Also cards get banned if the artist is missing or wrong.

[@NikachuMTGLive]

Yeah, that's true. They are very strict about artist credit.

[@danielsniff6405]

Kami of endless winters isnt a 5 color commander, it is colorless, and you can only add colored snow cards.

[@troyrussell177]

When I was like 7 ( I think it was 8th edition ) I played a magnavore deck. Deck was stone rain, demolish, boomerang, pyroclasm, wildfire and maganore. I played the deck cause it was idiot proof and gave 7 year old me a chance at standard. It was a land destruction deck though and it pissed a bunch of people off.

[@chaosfellow7407]

For Potential you could use virtue eater to absorb all the abilities

[@pejman3]

The kami of endless winter is colorless so you can only play colorless + snow cards (thanks to its effect) His effect also should have been you can have cards of any color identity otherwise you can't play the snow basics and are doomed xD

[@gdragon9338]

Yeah, I don’t think this card is actually broken. One, as you said, only snow and colorless (It can have snow basics because they are snow cards). Also, the last two effects only work when it’s on the battlefield, they aren’t leadership effects.

[@pejman3]

@@gdragon9338 not sure about being able to play the snow lands because they don't have a color thus don't fit in "snow cards of any color"

[@mawillix2018]

Should probably be color identity, rather than color.

[@crowcoregames1785]

the everdoor is from spirit fairer (the game) its a passage for spirits going into the afterlife and the flowers are what are left behind

[@Mayohills]

2:30 would be pretty cool with kumano faces kakkazan, imagine a T1 kumano and a T3 Potential. still a 1/1 but you can work with it

[@Zalsabrav]

The potential card is a funny punch at having zero potential.

[@amazincrackmonkey7176]

"20 bucks is 20 bucks" -nickachu😂

[@Temperans]

Potential is broken with the White and Green cards that add a counter when a creature enters the battlefield. After that point potential can just be infinitely buffed with the only counter being "opponent sacrifices a card" or some way to remove hexproof.

[@mawillix2018]

Potential would be dead before the ability resolves.

[@Temperans]

@@mawillix2018 would it? Its an enter the battlefield effect and it feels it would resolve before it dies.

[@mawillix2018]

@@Temperans It depends on how the effect is worded. "When [...] enters the battlefield [...]", and "Whenever [...] enters the battlefield [...]" go on the stack, so Potential would die as a state based action before the effect resolves. For Potential to survive, you need to change HOW Potential would enter the battlefield. (Or have a continuous effect, like mentioned in the video "Creatures you control have +1/+1") "If [...] would enter the battlefield [...] instead", "[...] would enter the battlefield [...] instead." "As [...] enters the battlefield [...]", "[Permanents] enter the battlefield with [...]", "[Permanents] enter the battlefield as [...]", and "[Permanents] enter the battlefield [state]" could all be used to modify HOW Potential would enter the battlefield, one example would be Bloodspore Thrinax, another would be Rythm of the Wild.

[@Temperans]

@@mawillix2018 so its possible, it just has to be a specific type of effect. Still my opinion stands that if it is allowed to stay in the battlefield long enough to get a +1/+1 counter it definetly becomes broken. Now that I think about it, it also become broken with cards that make 1/1 token copies of a card in your graveyard.

[@DrLawIrk]

Bere'sit is the first book of Torah, meaning "in the beginning" :) cool name for that card!

[@jamesmoniz5263]

Unseen agent would be crazy busted if it we still played with damage on the stack. 3 mama with flash, and you can effectively send it back to hand for 3 mana AFTER combat and it’s already killed something. Man they need to bring back damage on the stack, it’s so cool lol

[@gabejuhasz3743]

One with Pain and Oloro would be broken as both the emblem and Oloro sit untouchable inside the command zone. each upkeep you gain 2 life up to 3 then lose 2 life back down to 1 and can never take damage for the rest of the game.

[@MetalHev]

Yeah that Nightmare is not fine at all for 6 mana, its last effect is literally Corrupt, a recent 6 mana card.

[@dioliksniper5618]

35:51 you create 1/1s equal to the discards. They all only deal 1 damage. The air quotes end at the word “target” not “way”. Edit: Oh, it was explained. I see

[@algotkristoffersson15]

For each card discarded this way create a 1/1 demon with [effect] that way you don’t rely uncomfortably much on punctuation

[@Mayohills]

10:20 Reocurring Nightmare is a way better version of corrupt, especially in Mono-black

[@triox64]

The green one is a better garden. Would definitely go in my polymorph deck.

[@joshuaminnich3896]

lock horns with a small indescribable creature is really powerful

[@BadDrummerCarl]

Lmao, flat out ignores that King Louis XVI can just makes 4 treasures on ETB and every one of your end steps, at instant speed. A lot of the donations are usually busted cards

[@tk421eatmyshorts]

Agreed, I played against a Jared Carthalion, True Heir fog/fight tribal deck. They got the monarch back and they either fogged all my combat damage and would fight to kill my creatures and buff Jared. Four peasants means you will never get combat damage through

[@jeffe2267]

Even just getting the 4 food or 4 fogs is broken. All of the modes are insane lol

[@victhefoxygamer_6180]

40:00 on the topic of chaos, I love me a possibility storm

[@dropsgaming3703]

I tihnk the first card is just meant to have the mana last through phases within the turn, not over multiple turns

[@isaiahcummings3820]

How do you break this? "Exile target creature card from your graveyard this creature gains all abilities of that card"

[@kylecabrera142]

8:25 I like it. I think you guys underestimate taking 4 + damage. Everyone talks about paying life like theyre alwayse at 40.

[@Waffletigercat]

There’s a 2 mana tutor that just gets you the card. There’s a 1 mana tutor at instant that puts the card on top of your deck, no questions asked. Ominous Tutor is unplayable.

[@StijnHommes]

Delayed Ritual is a fun card, but the wording could improve. Chapter 2 should be "Target opponent discards a card." The definition of discarding already specifies it comes from their hand. Shouldn't King Louis XVI have a Human Noble creature type or something?

[@rotboy101]

Kinda surprised you let "Sexy Anime Gurl" be shown. Some people are down bad if they're making cards like this.. Then again these are mtg players I'm talking about. Most mtg players have never talked to a girl in their lives 😅🖤🖤

[@RIP_Texpert]

Potential has indestructible, i don't think it will die with 0 toughness

[@firstandlast.1254]

It will still die.

[@emiliomunozlevine1565]

Kami is fine because it doesn’t stay through turns

[@kingginger3335]

20:30 AI is creating nude pictures of women who have never existed before. But you would never be able to tell unless you look at the very fine details in the background. It's kind of terrifying

[@KendricStern]

berzerk is DOUBLE no comparison

[@srg_aliens]

high cmc cards like emrukul

[@Blizz3112]

the Fetchlands can be easily prevented from being broken by the following lines onto them: Plains: After resolving this effect, you cannot gain any life this turn. Forest: After resolving this effect, you cannot create tokens this turn. Mountain: After resolving this effect, effects that prevent your opponent from blocking your creatures except this one are ignored (this includes land walk effects, protection, menace, fear, and any other effects that prevent your opponent from blocking). Swamp: After resolving this effect, you cannot remove cards from any graveyard this turn (including your own). Island: After resolving this effect, you cannot mill cards (you or your opponent) this turn.

[@alexMendoza-wl5oj]

Stream Idea, cards you play to cheese your (commander) meta. Glacial chasm, dumb knuckle dragging gruul players. More like Yogioh players.

[@TheeMasterSword]

The show card is fine? We have a god that does the same thing you take issue with and it sees virtually 0 play at 5 mana.

[@heavenlypatriarchDM]

Nikachu, for these custom cards you should select one to be the winner each show that you think would be the best candidate to actually print.

[@smeatar]

Why do you say that those land creatures are busted?

[@Waffletigercat]

The Swamp one definitely is because it could make an insane number of very cost-efficient tokens, very easily. I honestly didn’t think the others seemed that bad though. The Forest one would have to jump through a lot of hoops to get huge, and even then it doesn’t have evasive keywords so you’d need to give it like trample or flying too. The Mountain one is just a mostly worse but fetchable Spikeshot Elder, which only ever saw fringe play. The Plains one is functionally an O-ring that dies to creature removal and has an upkeep of W. It would probably be decent in limited but see little to no other play. The Island one is maybe alright as a backup wincon in control? Seems very slow though. The thing that makes Dryad Arbor so busted is it’s synergy with Green Sun’s Zenith, but GSZ is banned in every format where it became a problem, and the Echo cost would also make that combo a lot weaker on this Forest. And GSZ wouldn’t even be able to fetch the others. Honestly, the Echo cost would make all of these very slow to use, too.

[@oriandstuff]

search for maybe an eldrazi?

[@chrismaples9392]

Tutor Emrakul for later

[@ubertuna1]

Banquet Gorger gotta combo with Cheesynth Lattice: All permanents are food in addition to their other types. All permanents have {2}, Sacrifice this permanent: Gain 3 life.