Revealing Cards From the Expansion Wotc Never Printed

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[@ColMcWillis]

A lot of people are unaware, but the alpha version of the set included a land that tapped for green and said "this doesn't count as your land drop for the turn". Most people glance over it till I mention Uncounterable Mox. I'll reach out to Keith to see of he can remind me of the name.

[@ColMcWillis]

I confirmed with Keith (the one that contacted Barry and found the set) and he confirmed it was called Wild Forest and never made it out of the alpha design of the set (probably for being OP)

[@auberry8613]

@@ColMcWillis I love the idea of a card even more OP than a mox lmao

[@jaminkauf6242]

While obviously completely broken, with the intention of the "very rare" rarity, it sounds cool. Once in a lifetime you just come across this card and are just blown away by its power.

[@marcoottina654]

they could create it by adding a "When it enters the battlefield, tap it and your opponents draw a card. if you don't, sacrifice it". it may be balanced this way

[@DiabloTommaso]

Funny question should that land count for landfall?

[@CityXV]

Can't wait to build my Atlas, Staff of Odin, Lifegeyser stall deck.

[@loxeggcheese]

High treason sounds like so much fun. I can imagine how many weird rules interactions would ensue

[@ankhi3585]

Annihilator trigger on the stack, cast high treason, opponent is the defending player now.

[@andresarancio6696]

I can imagine how the Staff of Odin came to be. "Hey Barry, after those Atlas and Lifegeyser cards, I was wondering." "Hm?" "Just how long will a game take? Like, how are you ending those games when you have a billion lands and life?" "Yeah... there should be like, a stopping point right? Game too long, let's go home kinda thing" "Yeah, like, pffft, imagine playing to turn 30, gone through half your deck and stuff" "...Having 30 mana you mean..."

[@barath4545]

Some notes: - Staff of Odin being Poly makes a TON of sense. Tapping your opponents stuff with Icy was HUGE back then and a useless 20-CC artifact was no good, but if you could feed it just 10 colorless (Remember the Tron lands from AQ, Sol Ring, Mana Vault and so on), then it could always be fired off. Also, in Alpha there was a little card called Animate Artifact which would make it 20/20 and then only Swords and Desert Twister could take it out, or an X spell as Terror cannot touch artifacts! Staff of Odin is better than it seems. - Geyser of life being blue/green makes thematical sense - Green for life and Blue for "geyser" (water) - And the 8 CC makes sense since it kills any red deck and the damage based black decks from that time (Drain Life, Frozen Shade, Nightmare). - Huge creatures (LB proof) with no drawbacks back then were RARE - Pretty much just Shivan, Serra, Juzam - Island Fish Jas, Lord of the Pit, Force, Personal Inc, were all horseshit. So the Archangel being held back to Visions makes a lot of sense as Spirit of the Night and Crimson Hellkite was the first big creatures with no drawbacks in Mirage, after a while. - Plasma Balls invented Kicker but in a way Fireball already had that with the intense math you had to do after paying the first Red. - Atlas still makes sense at 6G. Back then colorless was cheaper and not restricted to artifact casting - except for the Workshop - Sol Ring, Tron lands, Mana Vault, Basalt Monolith and offcolor Moxes could EASY hit those 6 before you even had 3 lands down. Would not make a big difference initially, but it's green and enemy colors black had Sinkhole and blue had Statis. And Atlas has no drawbacks and is still 5/5 and EASY to fit into a multicolor deck with artifacts and get down on turn 3/4. - Blessed Land is what Consecrate Land from Alpha should have been! White was weak enough back then already, since a lot of players despised the Circles/Wards and anti-color stuff cards, so usually White was handicapped when players boycutted the Circles/Wards from play and Wild Growth was weaker but it was also just Common, so would have made sense. - High Treason is to be compared to Eye For an Eye and Reverse Damage from AN and Alpha - But I feel the nearest time they made it was Reflect Damage in Mirage. The card would have made a ton of sense and it's regretable it was not made in period. - Manipulation is weak, but move around Auras back then was big as there was a LOT of Auras around, both good and bad ones. In a stalemate late game that one spell could shake up the entire stalemate and weaken one main threat severely. Would make sense in "93/94 format" for sure. - Caterpillar reminds me of Rukh Egg, 0/3, kill it with a block or better, Wrath of God and it converts to a 4/4 flying dragon. The cards might seem weird to newer players but makes a ton of sense to me, who played from Revised to Tempest but mostly with 93/94 cards.

[@RagingRugbyst]

staff of odin would be SO FUN as a "-(wincon)" in commander, the first time. It'd make for an interesting game theory scenario at EDH tournaments if it weren't banned.

[@reubenfromow4854]

All of these feel like direct-to-Commander cards

[@iag037]

Do another round of Barry's cards, they are awsome!!

[@briansteiner6292]

the Plasma Balls conversation alone deserves a like. Love your content! Keep it up!

[@ravenknightvincent2722]

Mono-white aggro is a deck that's always randomly topping tournament in standard, a W 3/2 might push it to consistent play.

[@2007Shockwave]

Symbol of power actually seems quite good for certain decks. Sure not enough to stop a turn one Rahgavann, but kill it on the spot after. It has potential.

[@justintcov2402]

I would love to play with this

[@Verno-wv2oe]

My tron eldrazi would like this

[@chompythebeast]

It feels like it would definitely have a home in a few EDH decks

[@massimocarnevali2900]

It’s always a party when a new video comes out

[@lucas5656]

Me aswell, havent played magic in like 7 years :D But those Videos are really good and entertaining!

[@lorenzobassi3082]

Fact

[@pogeman2345]

Man, looking at Atlas and then at a card like Azusa, Magic has really come so far.

[@garethchandler4329]

So much of early Magic is really creative and flavourful, but terrible in a practical sense. It probably didn't matter much back then because none of the players knew what they were doing either.

[@A12C4]

Them: Why would you pay 7 mana for a 5/5 that let you play another land per turn? You don't need more lands!! Me playing Aesi in 2022: y tho

[@mercadepalmer6967]

This was great, please give us more cards from Barry! Very ahead of the time designs(mostly)

[@MapOfEurasia]

17:18 - I think in a very near future we'll see those legendary dual lands in a new set,

[@Pistolsatsean]

Would make sense with DMU as would be legendary and work very well with domain

[@Samantho87]

honestly they would be a bit too good I think. Like not a reason to not run a copy in any deck in any format ever, especially in formats with fetches

[@justintcov2402]

And add indestructible 🤣 secret lair only

[@Lightning_Lance]

I was thinking the same! It seems like a perfect way to get around the reserved list, guaranteed not to devalue cards. Only I would not just make them legendary, but also make it so you can only play 1 in each deck. But the big issue is that they would of course be mythic rares... If they printed them as rares, I would love it. If they print them as mythic rares, this would be awful for the game.

[@robertb6889]

Add the restriction: if this land is not played from your hand, sacrifice it. Then you can’t search or pull it out, you only get one.

[@TROLOLOLOLO007]

Manipulation is actually kind of cool since you can also change around opponents auras too. But still kinda weird unless the set has A LOT of auras.

[@Smith.S.E.]

Great episode, especially about the 100 life at the end. Can't wait for more if you have it

[@stekei514]

Man, just think about Lifegeyser with one or two activations of Lifebringer....would Stall you the game enough to make your Staff of Odin work. Great Episode btw.

[@jesselaplante1040]

Aetherflux Resevoir lol

[@xolotltolox7626]

@@jesselaplante1040 K, so now you did nothing lol you pay the 100 you gained, to take away the 100 you gaveto your opponent

[@PraetorGix]

Great video guys! I first learnt about Spectral Chaos several years ago but many of the cards you showed weren't known back then. It's great that more cards from the set kept popping up into the wild. Please do more of these!

[@ThymeTwister]

The art for Blessed Land is actually gorgeous and very flavourful

[@Grunspreke]

The Common "Blessed Land" already existed in Alpha as the Uncommon "Consecrate Land", but it didn't add the extra mana. This feels like playtesting revealed Blessed Land to be too strong, so they removed the mana flare-esque part and moved it down to Uncommon...

[@faucetrememberly2399]

Carl and Jamin's shirts in this episode are 🔥🔥🔥 And Thoralf's world champion top looks great on him as always.

[@peterpeterson4800]

Lifebringer doesn't have lifelink though. Lifelink doesn't use the stack, while his ability would, and it's only activated when Lifebringer deals damage to an opponent, so you don't gain life when blocking or getting blocked.

[@Lightning_Lance]

yes, it's the [...] mantle ability, I forget the name.

[@AkiVainio]

The Lifebringer does not have lifelink, it's a trigger, which can be important, because if it was lifelink, you would have to activate it before damage, in which case you might be blown out.

[@JamJestKesh]

lifegeyser would be such a win condition against a lot of aggro / burn decks, if you could ramp it a bit

[@gleeber5449]

I'd love to see more of these videos! We need the full set list!

[@johnsanko4136]

There's a wonderful story around Spectral Chaos being buried for years and years until Keith Adams "The Misprint Guy" brought it to light and put it on the internet for everyone to see. Fun fact, the Invasion block was effectively a love letter to Spectral Chaos.

[@rashakor]

You guys forget that at that time Bury bypasses indestructible effect. So “Blessed land” could still be Armaggeddoned!

[@jesselaplante1040]

Even though Lifegeyser gives each player 100 life, it basically ensure that Control decks have enough turns to just win the game.

[@bestaround3323]

Use that other card to double it twice.

[@m_hoch_drei]

Wait! A planeswalker with an ult "the game is a draw" would be a really interesting card.

[@Teeleer]

i feel like manipulation back then could only be good if they had a wall and you put the enchantments on the wall. Now I can see it being used as an anti-voltron, like if you have a creature with a sword of light and shadow, you can move all the white auras/enchantments they have onto that creature to make it fall off and go to the graveyard

[@d.j.8059]

High Treason looks awesome, and as a player who loved trying out weird control decks, I would have tried my damndest to make Lifegeyser work.

[@MrPiotrV]

3/2 for W would be very very playable today

[@ReyosBlackwood]

Great Cat Armand in Arahbo EDH would be amazing, swinging for 6 turn 2 is pretty good

[@TheeKrix]

It was really nice to watch Bill Ny The Science Guy, Jimmy Fallon and one of the Lollipop Kids come together and make a great MTG video.

[@Alexsnow0_0]

Also an amazing video please keep it up. Also it would be nice to see more content like this one.

[@CilantroGamer]

After watching this video, I read through the full spoiler for the set and while it definitely has a lot of super weird, very oldschool ideas, cards that were very far off from the color pie (even as it was vaguely obeyed in the early days) and most creatures have really bad rates, it has some genuinely cool ideas and cards that seem quite printable / playable nowadays. One example was I think a Werewolf for WB that is a 4/1 on your turn and a 1/4 on your opponents turns. I'm sure there's been actual cards similar to that printed in the mean time but it's a simple idea, the cost isn't outlandish by any means, and it's got a good bit of flavor tying the whole thing together. Really quite a forward thinking set in a lot of ways, and I feel like Magic as a game was done a disservice by this set not having been printed directly in some form.

[@PauperRulesCommittee]

I still have the formal response from Wizards somewhere from when I submitted my own art and card designs. They sent them back with a formal submission form, saying they could only accept whole sets, and gave me an example form for Ice Age. And my art and cards wsn't very good, anyway

[@releasethedogs]

You laugh about Staff of Odin but I legitimately like and would play this card.

[@yurielx]

15.25 Strictly better Isamaru. Barry knew cats are better than dogs. 😎 The man was a visionary.

[@jasonkulbaba9821]

Lifegyser is under appreciated, just think of a control deck playing millstone with these bad boys

[@Bhandy1123]

I loled at Thoralf's Ajani comment at the end

[@Pehr81]

Dual lands actually have a downside that many people don't realise. The downside is Landwalk.

[@alexiswigginton452]

Always love the videos where you guys just talk about cards and magic

[@Dracas42]

I think they gave Lifegeyser blue mana because of the connotations with water, but it doesn't make sense within the game mechanics. I'd totally keep that card in my sideboard if it was cheaper, though! Take that, aggro decks!

[@chrayez]

I think Staff of Odin would have been more interesting if the casting cost and activation cost were swapped. As it is now, if you’re able to cast it (even if some Rituals or fast mana were involved), you’ll almost definitely have enough mana to activate the ability once you untap, giving exactly one turn for your opponent to respond. If you could play it for 10 but had to wait for 20 to activate it, there would have been more “strategy” or mind games involved. Do you wait to play it until you know you’ll have 20 mana on untap, or do you play it earlier to bluff fast-mana? 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Alexsnow0_0]

Wow, can you imagine a Barry secret Lair to honor him and they just print all these cards.

[@CardmarketMagic]

That would be wonderful!

[@OdePery]

Please more of this, please please please!

[@LordoCombine]

the Code is available ONLY on your phone!!! ... or any other devices.. :D

[@TheyCallHimPogo]

I liked this one. Good job guys.

[@isaacwakefield5915]

That Keith Haring shirt is insanely cool

[@beesus1412]

manipulation would be neat in certain commander pods, i could see it being used to power down a threat and spread around resources inefficiently for your opponents if they're aura heavy

[@poketech7192]

Keep up the great content you guys!!

[@romanninjaprincess4477]

I could see Lifegeyser being used in milling simic decks.

[@Bobbias]

God I love the old school approach to card design.

[@Rizzydom]

Really fun video! I loved the idea with the chaos spells :D

[@herrar6595]

At 4 mana, I think lifegeyser would actually be quite a powerful card... Maybe in a mill deck of some sorts

[@PaulLaPorteJr]

You guys should proxy the Spectral Chaos cards and do a draft.

[@CardmarketMagic]

We'd absolutely love to! Unfortunately, draft content doesn't do well on our channel 🥲

[@MrJerichoPumpkin]

the Shadow (the Shadow? the Shadow!) is very similar to a card from alpha or beta, but I can't remember thr name, it had a flaming skeleton of sort in the art and was a BB 1/1. Lifebringer does NOT have lifelink, it has it's own ability that stacks with lifelink.

[@theeternallysurprised]

Staff of Odin was basically in Legends in the form of Divine Intervention!

[@yoshimitsu5537]

This was so much fun, thanks!

[@xakannax]

more of this would be great!

[@Tompaguden420]

Great content as always! :D really enjoyed the cards

[@DeathEatsCurry]

If Lifegeyser was GGGGWWWW instead of blue, it would see *so* much play in Bilbo commander decks.

[@ReyosBlackwood]

The set they never printed that I am most curious about is Mirrodin Pure.

[@Naetheras]

Barry was the shit, wtf. He was future sight before future sight. He probably was like lets make a set in 10 years that peaks 10 years ahead of that set. There is probably a futurer sight. That was made before future sight that is gonna be released 2035

[@2007Shockwave]

Making a lot of comments for this one, how the Staff of Odin specifically stated it didn't need to be tapped to be used, going into old school rules of the game where tapped artifacts were "shut off". Never played with the rules myself, but curious what and old rules game would be like.

[@auberry8613]

That was for continuous artifacts, not all artifacts. Why? Cause screw you for trying to understand how artifacts work or something. The other 2 artifact types being mono and poly and discussed in this video, mono artifacts and poly artifacts looked the same for their text box, but you'd just have to know that mono artifacts tap to activate unlike poly artifacts.

[@simonandersen7942]

They need to print the legendary dual lands in the next commander set.

[@kuruchy]

Best video so far! Pretty funny too! Keep it up guys!

[@crushedscouter9522]

The arena boys are on this channel now?? I've been wondering where they went!

[@mladjo2505]

Awesome!

[@jesselaplante1040]

So friggin cool

[@fabiogarzaro8272]

Yes please, this was amazing

[@CrusixMusic]

Would be great is plasma balls was printed 'I'm going to pay four mana, and kick my balls'

[@whitesmith5985]

Yo making the original duel Lands legendary is an awesome way to reprint them and have them not too powerful

[@itbeharry]

The shirts are full of drip guys. Do you have links?

[@Jps927]

Holy shit that guy looks like the science guy from crash course :O

[@Scrimshaw_DuBois42]

Symbol of Power is great against aggro decks, but you can also break it with your own X/1 creatures for immediate death triggers. Definitely broken

[@emidex8721]

I HAVE FRIENDS NOW THANKS TO THIS VID ILYYY

[@CardmarketMagic]

Welcome friend 🙂

[@GeauxGames]

Barry was clearly a genius

[@Lcngopher]

With regards to atlas, we later got a three drop 1/2 that allows two extra land drops per turn in azusa lost but seeking. She sees play in some ramp strategies in older formats. For example, i run her in my mazes end modern deck which also runs prime time and his amulet friend

[@CardmarketMagic]

Azusa is a fantastic magic card! It shoes how power creep affects the game

[@parkcollie-zd6jo]

the art on manipulation rocks

[@xavierlegaz7464]

With Manipulation you can steal auras from other player's creatures

[@danielcrowley162]

I think they should actually use that Legendary Duals idea, printing dual lands that are functionally identical to OG duals with the sole downside that they're legendary. Is it broken? Maybe only in commander. Do I care? Nope.

[@brent123412]

i have the same flower shirt

[@walls_of_skulls6061]

Blessed land could totally be printed now

[@kristenhawkins5453]

It,s so so good ❤❤❤❤❤

[@2007Shockwave]

Flash my kicked plasma balls! Damn it! XD

[@philippniemann8842]

Oh my God! 😮 I have friends now! 😮

[@Alpha_November]

Thumbs up for plasma balls kicker

[@Arivia1]

This got me to sub!

[@CardmarketMagic]

And we thank you tremendously for it!

[@MrWarptime]

Give me Lifegeyser and I'll run it with Tainted Remedy.

[@pearcehubbart3767]

Lifegeyser bilbo baggins.

[@franklinhodsoniv8210]

Is there a database where all these Spectral Chaos card images are?

[@CardmarketMagic]

Here you go! thechaosorb.com/spectralchaos-set-images/

[@peterpeterson4800]

It's really painful if someone hits your board of elves with a green kicked Plasma Balls.

[@arcuscotangens]

The way Blessed Land is worded, could I cast multiple Blessed Land on the same land?

[@tyrusdalet]

I would say no. When a card refers to itself by name, it means “this object”. So when you enchant the land, it becomes unaffected by (and unenchantable by) all other enchantments OTHER than the one specific Blessed Land enchanting it. New ones couldn’t target it.

[@arcuscotangens]

@@tyrusdalet Clearly that is how it is intended, but I don't think the text makes this absolutely clear. I could easily imagine this slipping past quality control until some judge has to rule on it.

[@tyrusdalet]

@@arcuscotangens text means nothing when the way cards work is spelled out clearly. Rules as written, the only way that you would be able to enchant it with multiple copies with how it’s worded it would need to specify that “cards called Blessed Land can target this land”. Hell, the way that it’s worded as is, even flickering the enchant for a free re-attach wouldn’t work, as it can’t be ENCHANTED by other enchants, not that it can’t be the target of other enchantments.

[@MadisonM1996]

Lifegeyser + Tainted Remedy LOL.

[@TostonDePana]

Plasma' Balls

[@thork_tv]

lifegeyser for wubrg could be balaced