The Best Card in Magic: the Gathering

[@S...O___S...]

Starting the petition now for Spice to create a 3-hour-long video breaking down the justification for "card types in Magic The Gathering ranked by complexity" tier list.

[@Red-Tower]

We need this video!

[@KeganKirby]

​@@Red-Towerconsider this my signature

[@parkerheal7049]

Signed

[@bencouch1178]

Ive gotta know why planeswalkers arent at the top

[@loganator326]

Would honestly love that

[@christopherlundgren1700]

I think that Black Lotus card might actually be pretty good. You can use it to get three green mana to cast your Niall Silvain.

[@MortenHumme]

It is a common mistake among beginners to believe that Black Lotus is a good card. But upon further investigation you will realize that the Lotus cannot deal any damage and that is bad, because the way to win a game of Magic the Gathering, is by dealing damage

[@nathanoberly5068]

​@PrebenHollywoodTV Unless of course, you self-mill, or gain life, or play a specific card twice, or turtle with "Can't lose the game" effects, or mill.

[@MortenHumme]

@@nathanoberly5068 Never heard any of these words in my life good sir, you are either making stuff up, or have dreamt this

[@Blackadder75]

@@MortenHumme you are very mistaken, you can also win by dealing poison (infect toxic) counters or milling the opponent to an empty library. Sadly the Lotus doesn't seem to help in any of those areas as well, really disappointing , overrated flower

[@LilSh1mm3r]

Fucking Brilliant

[@mr.mobboss1190]

My favorite card is Selfess Savoir. 1 White mana for a 1/1 dog creature with the ability " Sacrifice Selfless Savior. Another target creature you control gains indestructible until the end of turn". The flavor text being "She raised him from a orphan pup and gave him a life of love. With his last act, he thanked her". First magic card that ever made me tear up. There's actually a secret lair version where the flavor text is "I never got the chance to say "thank you" or goodbye" 😢😢

[@Spice8Rack]

That cardboard rectangle had no right to be as heartbreaking as it is.

[@Bluecho4]

T_T

[@volosguidetomonsters3440]

One of my favorites as well, I made a dogs tribal deck just to try to make it work

[@nunyabiznes7446]

@@Spice8Rack Feldon of the Third Path ._.

[@ThePuppy009]

Thanks, currently bawling my eyes out at a white 1/1

[@ttamecco]

a low key detail i love about the flavor text on Goblin Grenade: the observer has moved beyond the simple observation “oh wow, that goblin can fly” to the more sublime “oh wow. *Goblins* sure can fly”

[@FanOfMostEverything]

"An Acme-branded Icarus" is the kind of needlessly powerful statement that keeps me subscribed to this channel. Outstanding work explaining just why your pet card is your pet card. Thank you for it. (Also, my favorite card is Rite of Replication, because five copies of something is bound to lead to something ridiculous.)

[@origaminosferatu3357]

Rite of rep is a truly solid bit of nonsense. It is never not fun.

[@element_119]

During the year of college that one of my friends got me into Magic, I was playing with one of his commander decks, and I fell in love with the mechanical flavor of Meandering Towershell, only for that love to be dashed upon the rocks of a removal spell shortly afterwards. Rest in peace, my beloved tortle

[@kieranclarke6161]

It was only 10 years later I relised it had "islandwalk" because it was a "walking island" XD

[@element_119]

@@kieranclarke6161 Oh, that's glorious! I didn't even catch that!

[@Estuways]

Very nice and flavourful chonker.

[@daggerpuppets]

My favorite card is and likely will always be “Revel in Riches”. It was the first rare that I opened when I started MTG at the beginning of college, and it captured my imagination. The extravagance of “you win the game” effects is a delight, and trying to make them work in non-casual environments is a fun challenge.

[@Spice8Rack]

Oh I LOVE revel! There's SO much seretonin released in reading the words "you win the game" on a new piece of cardstock!

[@fartface8918]

aye had a nice mechanized production, revel in riches deck in standard at the time taught me a lot about the game

[@EricChoiniere]

Also Revel of Riches might have the 2nd best copypasta after Platinum Angel

[@poolvolley804]

My favorite card has always been Dryad Arbor. It's perfect in every context it can be used. Turn 1 green sun zenith for dryad has just something that makes me think "This game could end now and I would be happy". I just love the concept of these bushes offering resources and a blocker, plus the occasional flavourful first blood with a literal forest that has no business attacking is priceless. You can also fetch it for an instant blocker or useful body, it's amazing. There will never be any other card that will make me feel the way Dryad Arbor does, I am truly glad it exists.

[@TheJadeFist]

It don't matter who wins or loses the game, but it does matter who got that first hit in.

[@ZRoflcopter]

In a similar vein, Hundred-Handed One from original Theros has been my favorite card and that card that got me to fall further into this game. Magic was something that my friends played around with while I was growing up but I never truly understood or cared to dive into it. Coming out of high school and playing in a kitchen-table draft of Theros and opening Hundred-Handed One in the third pack completely changed my interest in the game. The Monstrous mechanic, while underwhelming from a gameplay perspective, was a thematic banger, being able to make this Giant into an impassable wall made me fall in love with the design space associated with creating both cards and the environments they reside in

[@Spice8Rack]

YES! The "this creature can block an additional 99 creatures" is SUCH a banging piece of rules text!

[@VijoPlays]

It also sounds like something straight out of an Un-Set!

[@ragnarbjarnason2386]

I wholeheartedly agree, also it is the first card that I bought as a single online. Fog and Sidisi, the brood tyrant are a close second and third only because I love the Naga creature type and wanted to make a commander with her, and they had introduced rakshasa in the same colours.

[@LibertyMonk]

I really want to equip Hundred-Handed One with an Echo Circlet. I don't remember *why*, but I know there was some kind of reason.

[@collinbeal]

Hecatoncheires are some of my favorite mythological beings! I love the idea of a giant just exploding with arms. 😮

[@soniccore091]

Funnily enough for me the recent favorite is a throwaway mention from this video, Greasefang. I recently got back into playing commander with a group of friends I've been teaching to play magic. When I played standard during Kaladesh block I thought vehicles were one of the most interesting card types I'd seen printed, being able to meaningfully use them in commander with a reanimator playstyle in my favorite colors really made commander click for me. Excelent video as per usual Spice

[@JustTouchCards]

Whenever I'm asked the first thought I have is "Vampire Nighthawk". When I first got into Magic it was on Duals of the Planeswalkers 2013, I think, and there was a white black Lifegain vampire deck I liked. Now I just think I love keywords a lot and it always feels just "nice" to have on the field as a good blocker but also attacker when possible.

[@Spice8Rack]

Oh god yes! When I first saw that card as I was getting into the game I thought it was BROKEN

[@sorry987654321]

it is ; P I had one limited draft game years ago and the vampire staved off a horde of creatures for 15 rounds. I won the game in the end ; D

[@1989nonenowhere]

He's the batman

[@Durtaz]

Ayo! Just made a mono black vampire deck with Henrika Domnathi at the head all so I can play every vampire nighthawk and vampire nighthawk pretender possible! It’s such a cool and satisfying card.

[@BradleyAshley]

Nefarox

[@wjdelu6758]

My favorite card is Doomed Traveller, and I think many of the same reasons you like Goblin Grenade can apply to it. It's simple to understand, but still manages to capture an entire story with its mechanics, art, and flavor text. I also love how it teaches new players that your creatures are going to die, and that isnt necessarily bad. It can even be a benefit to you! As far as sentimentality, I started in M15 and my first deck was GW token convoke deck. Coming from Yugioh, the playstyle of token strategies felt so unique and fun, it is still my favorite archetype to play today. And I can thank my little Doomed Travellers (as well as Triplicate Spirits and Intangible Virtue) for getting me attached to the game.

[@eik3466]

My favorite card was bubbling cauldron, being a centerpiece in the beginner black deck i bought back when i first started. I loved the way it synergised with black creatures such as tenacious dead and how extremly deep an on-demand sacrifice mechanic was... And if you had graver robbers to bring back your small delicious newts! It really made me feel like a necromancer back then which was my most beloved wizard-archetype :3

[@Spice8Rack]

I LOVE cards with specifically reference other cards in their design! It always makes the game FEEL more gamey

[@origaminosferatu3357]

I think I built the same mono black deck and even traded for newts and the witch to go with it. It wasn't good but boy was it flavoursome!!

[@r207]

​@@Spice8Rackwho* so called br'itish person

[@hubertnordvall5837]

I've seen you around on different MtG content creators for years but never seen your channel until now. Didn't know what to expect, but damn, you're hilarious. Very witty writing too. Definitely earned ny sub!

[@Spice8Rack]

Awww that's a lovely comment yo leave! Thank you xx

[@Simon-ow6td]

Doomed Traveler is my favourite card. It is so clean yet does so much with so little creating an incredibly intuitive little story from the name, simple effect and art. On top of that, it has an interesting power level where it isn’t great, but also is quite good as a support player in the right build.

[@wjdelu6758]

Me too! Its like reading an entire novel in as few words and pictures as possible. Plus, its just a fun game peice with surprisingly many interesting interactions and decisions in a low-powered environment.

[@TheMCGamer2012]

Doomed traveler was in my first deck ever, G/W value with Serra Avenger and Kami of the False Hope

[@robertbeisert3315]

Ooh, yeah. All of the Innistrad block had those implied stories

[@roddyrick633]

Definitely a fun video and interesting to see why this card is your favourite there. For myself, my favourite card is definitely Defient Elf from the legions set. It's a 1/1 elf with trample. It's got such a serious looking elf with a bit of flavour text showing how determined they are to fight. But they're a 1/1 elf with trample.... its absolutely hilarious and useless on it's own and I love it every time it comes up in my tribal elf deck.

[@TheJadeFist]

Let's face it elves can easily find a way to make that alot bigger than a 1/1, or a cheeky Coat of Arms will solve the useless of little tribal creatures.

[@roddyrick633]

@@TheJadeFist very true, lots of ways to pimp him up. The tribal deck I have him in has several affects like that. Where elves are globally pumped up, adding 1/1 counters to elves, and other similar stuff. It definitely gives him a chance to shine. But in a vacuum it's just an absurd keyword to have on a 1/1 creature which is part of what I love about it.

[@TheJadeFist]

@@roddyrick633 My favourite elf is Viridian Joiner, a 1/2 that has tap add Green equal to it's power. Another semi useless ability on its own. Of course you buff that thing up and you can really accelerate things.

[@TheJadeFist]

@@roddyrick633 Also semi related, while sorting through some green bulk cards, I found a Llanowar Elite, cost 1 green Trample, 1/1, but with a kicker of 8 that gives it 5 +1/+1 counters. So another 1/1 Trample Elf, or a 6/6 Trample for 9.

[@modenoatr]

My fave is Dryad Arbor, specifically the From the Vault version. In contrast to Goblin Grenade explaining exactly what it does, I adore how this seemingly vanilla card only works because of all the rules that make the game what it is. I understand that its utterly unique typeline, for good reason, will never be reused, and yet I feel it is a synthesis of all that Magic is at its core: play thing, turn thing sideways (but watch out!)

[@robertkegler5688]

I bought my first dryad arbor in a mall in Rye, NY. I was replacement managing a Chuck E. Cheese at the time, and will forever remember the smell of pizza in a booth CRUSHING coworkers with infect. Thanks Dryad arbor.

[@capn1892]

My favorite magic card has and will always be Stormtide Leviathan. It was in the very first deck that was mine to play and I just remember slamming it down and feeling like I had caused an earth shattering effect on my game, which I had of course. It's still one of my favorite cards to play, even if it's not one of the best cards of all time, cause of all the memories I have with it. That giant fish and I have had many a fun experience together.

[@SkyeFreewing]

Nothing beats the big fish, it's my fav too lol

[@morreamanha]

WHAT?? that’s my favourite card as well! 😁

[@stevenoneil8563]

My favorite card for a long time has been Silver Seraph. Sure, she's almost strictly worse than the first Elesh Norn, but Elesh Norn wasn't my first rare. And that art! Just gorgeous.

[@PUDRETE919]

I had just learned what Mythics are and immediately pulled a Baneslayer Angel, I thought is was the greatest creature ever and for years put it in every white deck I build, the single copy I owned as I did not know where I could buy singles

[@stevenoneil8563]

@@PUDRETE919 Man, to go back to the beautiful days where I had just graduated high school and Baneslayer Angel was THE bomb to beat in Standard, which mattered because Standard was a format people played and liked.

[@PUDRETE919]

@@stevenoneil8563 Build a 8 Baneslayer deck with the strictly better Baneslayer, Lyra the Dawnbringer

[@beylethdirons2160]

Okay, I stopped playing MtG long before planeswalkers... and seeing that you favorite card is goblin grenade filled me with such unbelievable joy I had to pause the video and tell you. I just stumbled onto you and I already love you for your wit, delivery and impeccable choices. Time to watch the rest of the video.

[@beylethdirons2160]

And to answer the question: Elves of Deep Shadow. The art is gorgeous, and the themes of green and black both being done in the same card so well was more amazing back in the day I first came across it. It single handedly pushed me from being a mono, or adjacent color player to trying opposition color decks and digging at the synergies possible there.

[@TheWinterscoming]

Something about the holo Thorn Elemental still gets me. From my first ever magic set that came with the comic strip instructions on how to play. Just a fun card as a kid, 7/7 with trample seemed so epic.

[@MetAlexTHVK]

TBH that card still elicits a "fight or flight" in my head when you mention it.

[@markusbetts]

had a friend who loved Thorn Elemental above all else

[@greenhat1216]

Wasn't that the Beatdown set?

[@Blackadder75]

thorn elemental was actually one of the first green fatties that was good enough to see competitive play , i pretty sure it saw play at the Pro Tour level at some time ( not much, but some)

[@Estuways]

A very cool card.

[@RealBenda]

There is such balanced efficiency to Vampire Nighthawk that just makes me feel drawn to it.

[@vegafoo]

Plus the art!

[@Papupi2pi]

the accessibility and efficiency of Vampire Nighthawk is the reason half of my friendgroup played some form or vampire deck when we first got into magic in 2012. out of all the cards i never played myself, it's probably the ine i'm fondest of

[@Nathanael_Forlorn]

Vampire Nighthawk was my favourite card as well for my first very many years in Magic!

[@willporter7344]

Goblin Grenade is legit my favorite card. I had a similar experience opening the card when I first started magic and I remember the amazing feeling of killing an opponent "out of nowhere" by throwing my last gobbo at them with a goblin grenade. This video really reminded me of the good times spent playing magic in sixth form instead of studying, and I think I might need to go and have a look for that deck now. Thanks for the good nostalgia!

[@technoisthegoat223]

You know what we need? A card complexity tier list. Me personally? I need a place to submit my absolutely disgustingly broken custom cards I made for a custom format just so my hours of work does not go unseen.

[@danielhavens8819]

I think I have two favorite magic cards, with pretty different reasons for each. One is Obsidian Fireheart- it was the first mythic I ever opened, the art is both awesome and confusing (I spent so long looking at it trying to figure out the perspective and which limb was which), and it has the most objectively and unnecessarily cool reminder text in the game with "the land continues to burn after Obsidian Fireheart has left the battlefield." I just love how they decided to go with the shorter, more intuitive phrasing rather than trying to write it out in authentic magic-rules-speak. My other favorite card is M10's Harm's Way. Probably most people haven't even heard of it since it's an old "bad" uncommon but it's seriously one of the most satisfying cards to resolve in the entire game when you play it right. For those who don't know, it's a 1 mana white instant that essentially redirects 2 damage that would be dealt to you or a permanent you control to any other target. Damage prevention is usually pretty bad but I swear this card can play better than Shock, or a lot like Lightning Helix. It's the best Gotcha moment ever when your opponent thinks you're about to trade 1-for-1 on creatures, only to have you save your creature and then also kill another one of their X/2s. And there's no greater high than preventing lethal damage to yourself and sending 2 back at your opponent. It's a super situational card and honestly still not that good but I beg anyone reading this to give it a shot in a casual deck because it can be such a hit of serotonin. I also once had it in a kitchen table boros deck alongside Goblin Grenade :)

[@Kobabel333]

Goblin Grenade it's one of my favorites too. I have great memories using it against some friends at uni, and when got my 5th copy in the only jumpstart game I played, I carry it in my phone case since then.

[@perrydaplat1232]

My favourite card is Claustrophobia. I loved how he's going "gahhhhhhhhhh" initially, but as I've learned more about magic I keep on seeing new stuff about it, such as that "oh, this card takes place on Innistrad" and "Oh, this card probably takes place in Nephalia". Just makes me feel happy whenever I see it, and absolutely FURIOUS that they keep on trying to improve it. NUH UH YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE FLAVOUR AND NAME TO MATCH THE FLAVOUR OF ANOTHER PLANE! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I DISLIKE WATERKNOT GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[@CGoody564]

NO WAY! I was thinking back to my old mtg cards, and what popped in my head was a red goblin riding a mech, but i couldn't remember what it was called. Seconds later, "Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer" appears on screen. I forgot the name and was thinking it was called Goblin Artificer, but that's the one! That card has always stood out to me, due to both the art and especially the flavor text. Edit; i just found your channel, hence not knowing you "bang on about it" and even feature him in your intro

[@Lowrholler]

Rubinia Soulsinger. Not only my first real commander after learning how to properly make a magic deck, but also just for the story of how the artist for the 2012 reprint misread the card's name as "Rubinia SoulSIGNER". So now she thematically is less of a siren-esc mind controller and more of a very underhanded music label ceo

[@MorosSilverwing]

The first card that was truly my favourite and felt unique in that I think i ever only saw one other arena player use it when it was in standard: Alert Heedbonder. A way to incentivize the delightfully defensive keyword Vigilance while making you harder to defeat (in the simplest way). The burst of serotonin of gaining 9 life just by having 3 of them on the board was always satisfying. When a friend put forwarded the idea of running a magic/planeswalker dnd campaign Alert Heedbonder was what I looked to for character creation.

[@Calintares]

My favorite card is Mimic Vat. when I first understood how it could let you get repeated effects I did a deep-dive and looked at all cards with ETB or LTB-effects, kickstarting my cataloguing and memorizing thing. The timing tricks you could do at the end-step led me to learning way more about timing than was normal as well, and probably accounts for why I became a judge

[@teamcyeborg]

My favorite card has pretty much always been Scute Swarm, ever since shortly after starting the game. I was playing MTGA, using a modified version of the mono-white lifegain deck they give you to start, when I came across a Scute Swarm combo deck that created SO MANY TOKENS that the game nearly crashed. I knew I would lose, but refused to forfeit the game, just to see what would happen. I was cracking up as my life total reached the negative hundreds. I immediately got myself four copies of the card and built a landfall deck around it, and to this day it's my favorite strategy still.

[@joelguerra9123]

Phyrexian obliterator. I had been out of magic for some time since the end of the odyssey/scourge block. I loved phyrexia and the creepy body horror aesthetic. When I pulled one in a New Phyrexia draft event, it really encapsulated what Phyrexia (in black, it's origin color) was all about. Loved it, have art of it, used it in D&D games, love it love it love it.

[@volosguidetomonsters3440]

My username on mtg arena used to be Phyrexian Obliterpotence. I was a dirty suicide black/necropotence player at the time

[@kerenvautier5842]

i just want to say that "a ACME branded icarus" is one of the most fun and one of the most poetic sentence i heard on youtube and on internet overall i owe you literrary respect

[@jamesmoore1476]

This actually would have been my first pick for your favorite card. If you didn't actually say so in the flavor of comedy video I definitely took away the impression that that was the case! My favorite is Syncopate with the RTR art. I love the artwork of the woman waving her finger. Tamiyo, Field Researcher is a close second though, my first planeswalker from one of my first packs. As I was conducting field research for my masters at the time it really spoke to me! :D

[@Lycandros]

My favorite card is Inkwell Leviathan. I love how Anthony Francisco gives the creature such a massive scale through the simple inclusion of a lighthouse. I love all of it's keywords making it difficult to interact with. I love that it's toughness is bigger than it's power. I love the creature type Leviathan.

[@thecusk6918]

Ooh, my favorite card has been Possibility Storm for pretty much all my time with magic. Not only was it a rare from Dragon's Maze, the first set I opened, it immediately appealed to my love of stupid complexity, "game within a game" type effects are super awesome imo, it's a surprisingly versatile combo piece, and I'm an open contrarian, meaning that having a jank rare from Dragon's Maze as my favorite card instead of something actually iconic is inherently pleasing to me. Also, the art is awesome.

[@gyrasolune5436]

Honestly Farewell probably is my favorite card. Its very mechanics are laid out like a poem - they're simple and the explanation is obvious, and while its nature as exiling makes it extremely permanent mutual purging, it practically begs you to do something weird to take advantage of the modality. And the simple name + aesthetic of the card not as some vast destructive apocalypse, but as a gentle blowing away. Somehow, in the anime as hell set, they wordlessly /nailed/ the vibe of the Weird Existential Ending a lot of people love

[@maddie2267-t2j]

I feel the same exact way about my favorite: lich's mastery. It's flavor is so perfect for it's function. Exchanging life for power and undeath but at the cost of losing everything over time. Literally exiling your entire board and everything you've achieved if you lose too much life. It is so perfect for what playing black feels like.

[@abentevent]

Congrats on the life stuff. I'm pumped for the tarkir video that I'm sure will come out before the next tarkir set!

[@meowserita]

My favorite card is definitely deadbridge chant, which is the epitome of what made me fall in love with golgari. Mill yourself to make use of stuff in your graveyard and bring stuff back every turn? Yes please. Also helps that it was the first mythic i opened from a pack

[@Red-Tower]

That was basically *the* card that helped me realize that my graveyard could be a resource and self-mill could be a form of card draw.

[@velour5952]

It was also my first mythic :) golgari for life

[@collinbeal]

Ooh this card's really cool! Can't wait for it to come to Arena, which it will eventually

[@iwantafreeshirt]

We love a short video, no need to apologize or to rush my spicy 8rack

[@war_crimes_uwu]

My favorite card will always be primal command. The lynchpin of my favorite classic modern deck pushed out since by modern horizons, but also a great example of the possibilities that "choose two" entails.

[@AutumnReel4444]

Primal Command is top tier

[@collinbeal]

I just bit the bullet and took a break from crafting the Titan cycle on Arena to get myself a copy. I haven't put it in a deck yet, but I'm excited to resolve it! I also got all the Dragons of Tarkir Commands and Archmage's Charm 😎

[@williamenciso9198]

One of the few times that I DIDNT skip over the sponsored part. Phenomenal work Spice, you had me reeling.

[@serenarussell6031]

My favorite card has to be Goblin Electromancer, I think. One of the first cards I pulled, evocative of my favorite style of magic with brightly colored clothes, contained lightning bolts, and an engineering aesthetic, while also providing an excellent and evocative mechanical effect. One of the parts of magic that hooked me early on. And of course, also a goblin.

[@snazzygoose1149]

I love Goblin Electromancer! I only really got into magic this year, but that card dragged me into its orbit and then suddenly I had a goblin deck

[@wickederebus]

I love running 4 Electromancer and 4 Baral together for my Storm deck. Throw in 1 or 2 Birgi, and 1 to 2 Storm-Kiln, and maybe an Urabrask. Just deep draw, passive red mana generation, treasure generation, and sometimes a little extra burn to make the game end faster. I'm already disrespecting my friends/opponents at the kitchen/living room table, I might as well make my solitaire deck go a little faster for them.

[@DolphinTillTheEnd]

I was watching an older video and you described yourself as something along the lines of "A worse in every way Jacob Geller" and honestly not only you do put as much though into your videos as he does, but you could confidently say that your comedic timing is better (i love Jacob and I'm really glad i got into Magic lately because it lead me to your channel and honestly there's few channels as good as yours out there)

[@RoninRose541]

My favorite card by far is Warp World. I remember pulling a foil one from a free booster and that’s the card that made me appreciate magic artwork more. And also the reason why I’m notorious at my LGS for running bad cards because I like the artwork or because they ensue absolute anarchy upon the table.😂 Also a note on your mana tithe comment: Always expect Rebuff the Wicked and Avoid Fate 😂

[@MetFreak42]

Just checking in, patiently waiting for Spice's next vid. ❤🤘

[@thatvillainjay]

My all time card was No Mercy. The art, the mechanics and flavor text just nail what black and the phyrexians are all about

[@Adunapheth]

Goblin grenade is more than a card, it's a state of mind. The 90's "Fuck it, we ball" meme in cardboard form.

[@scavenger1498]

I think the card I’m most attached to is Harm’s way. The giant pillar of light in the art suggests to me that rather than a sword simply going into a different back, the literal fate-stuff of conceptual harm got redirected, and that just tickles my brain for some reason. Also I just love gotchas that aren’t counterspells.

[@andgarrett]

That was, by far, the most engaging MTG commentary I have ever come across. I could never smash the like button hard enough.

[@darksteelhero1]

My favorite card will always be Grey Merchants of Asphodel. It was the first card i ever built a deck around. It was also disgusting in pauper alongside chittering rats

[@Spice8Rack]

Gary was an absolute house when I was getting into magic and definitely encouraged me to play mono-black as much as I did!

[@victorperezurbano9504]

Ah, yes, chittering rats, ghostly flicker, gary, archaeomancer... Those were fun times indeed (for me)

[@AnthonyCapps]

My favorite card has to be Goblin Guide. I play a lot of cube nowadays and it gives me great joy to pick that card and play an aggro deck against my friends. A 2/2 with haste for one mana and just one little and very interesting downside; I'll never get tired of it. Also Spice, you of course can do whatever you want but I enjoy the short videos as much as the long ones! I'd say do more if it makes making the longer ones easier or gives you a "break" of sorts

[@GiantEnemyGeorge]

My favourite card is Ornithopter. Seeing it for the first time opened me to the world of Magic games beyond 'mindlessly smash creatures into each other'. Made me start thinking creatively about deck design. Took a while for the lesson to take, but it happened all the same. Honourable mention to One With Nothing, my beloved.

[@TheJadeFist]

Cards like Ornithoper really sell the difference between Magic and Yugioh, it isn't always about simply having the biggest dude on the board, infact most of the time, it isn't the biggest boy who wins. Cards can be useful and powerfulin other ways. Ornithoper both having flying can be a free flying blocker or used as a flying to launch a potentially unblocked attack, or being a free artifact for affinity. Throw a cranial plating on it and that little 0/2 is going to chunk off 15 health

[@bugwrld8891]

Openeded a paradox engine in one of my first packs and had so much fun with it in a 20$ mono green standard cryptolyth rights deck. Not sure if its truly my favorite but I love how simple the text box is compared to its insane potential and how it feels like youre building a machine :)

[@grahamhogan1021]

I will always have a special place in my heart for Brushfire elemental, got me back into magic and its combo’s with ashaya and Druid class kept me playing

[@0th_Law]

Sentimentally speaking, mine'd be either Goblin Electromancer or Young Pyromancer. Both cards that formed the core of my Izzet spellslinger deck's philosophy, which itself was the result/cause of me really finding my colors, so to speak. As for flavor, honestly, there's a bunch, but off the top of my head... Tragic Poet, from the Dominaria printing. The vibe, of someone who's desperately hurting inside, but still desiring to help others and be remembered is just... perfect.

[@llamarama6976]

for me it has to be sundial of the infinite (and by extension obeka but sundial was the OG). My favourite part of magic is testing the limits of magic. To bend, warp and conceive of wild combinations or ideas for a deck. two of my favourite deck have concepts that in some way or the other violate the fundamental things that make magic, magic. And then there is sundial. a card so seemingly useless on the surface conveyed in such an intriguing simple way to immediately catch my curiosity upon seeing it asking me to understand why and how it would ever be used (in its own right like one with nothing yet it holds far more untold power). why would you possibly waste mana to... end your turn sooner?! that's awful! the cards wonderful intricate looking device, name tells you it should be powerful. Not only that but this card is the true gateway into advanced magic. Learning how this card is used (both correctly and also learning the incorrect misunderstandings) teaches you so much about phases and turns that you possible had never thought about before. Also at the end of the day... nothing beats seeing a new players face turn from curious amusement to total horror as i play some absolutely terrible cards (its own wonderful difficulty in making any sundial style deck is you want to maximise value by ignoring cards that without it are frankly terrible and highly likely to screw you over) and turn them into power nine level plays. (p.s. i wasn't trying to turn this into an essay itself but making me think about my favourite card simply brought this out of me)

[@topdeckhelix8450]

Ahh spice… when I started playing I bought a box of a couple thousand cards. More than a 100 copies of goblin grenade in there and I’ve made countless goblins decks. The efficiency is great; hilarious card and amazing theming. Great vid, you nailed the passion of mtg here

[@Mealbot2000]

Please, do tell your thoughts on the works of Kwame Ture, or the new union movement, I would love to hear. I did also see Brennan Lee Mulligan in the picture so am by default invested.

[@sirearlgrey2036]

I like that you brought a mention of Goblin Game at the beginning of the video. It's such a silly card, but I love it and actually got to play it with people who found it as hilarious as I do the other night. It was great!

[@ourhouse2996]

I LOVE cards that have that kind of personality. Goblin Grenade you are strapping a dynamite on that goblin and throwing it at its target. My favorite example is Stone Giant. It gives a creature with toughness less than it flying until end on turn and on next end step it is destroyed. The Giant literally throws a smaller creature and it dies on impact.

[@leobutler2353]

I don't often comment on videos. I really enjoyed this one though and genuinely laughed out loud at your advertisement part way through. Loved it all!

[@tendinietzscheMTG]

I do love "Worship". Mainly because its flavour text "Believe in the ideal, not the Idol". It's an unassuming yet powerful message. Serra is a favorite persona of mine since I started playing Magic and this message from her in this card is simply perfect. To me, it's touching and profound. Mechanically, the card is also beautiful, yet not that powerful. And aesthetically... gosh, Mark Zug's despiction of Serra, her pose, her statue and the surroundings... the colors... I can't even describe. I fell in love with that card the moment I saw it.

[@Hoodges157]

Anguished Unmaking. It was thw first card that got me invested in Magic as a story, which is usually the tipping point for me to actually play a game. The art for it became my first playmat, and the tragedy of Avacyn and the other Innistrad angels lead to my current love and collection of angels as a whole. I know its nowhere near the best, but that low-cost exile saw a lot of use in my favorite early decks

[@salmonellamuffin]

My favorite card was already called out in the first thirty seconds lol Alesha always holds a place in my heart. A perfect confluence of recently coming out as trans, a block that also became my favorite, and a commander deck that I have never taken apart filled with some other particular favorites of mine Master of Cruelties and Lim-Dul's Paladin.

[@AkiVainio]

My favorite card: Erg Raiders. Back in the mid-90s, I felt it was sort of my card, because others weren't playing it around where I lived, while I found it to be very good in tournaments, because it could easily slip past Counterspell on the play and we didn't have many such effective creatures back in the day.

[@Spice8Rack]

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[@SaoPauloOrBust]

Spirit of the Night. Two reasons: 1. The idea that you could summon this monstrosity straight out of your deck by assembling a team of three smaller creatures was a big "aha" moment for young me. 2. The art is incredible.

[@Venusmoder]

"kwame ture" BASED BASED BASED

[@markcazakoff4644]

Favourite card is definitely Armadillo Cloak, for similar reasons to yours Spice. It was one of the first cards I ever saw, it has Goblin Grenade's similar silly yet serious flavour and feel, it's powerful in the right situation but is certainly no Lightning Bolt, and it helps you learn about the terrible unyielding math that is 2 for 1-ing yourself by playing Auras on your creatures without a Boggle plan. One of the first cards that totally wrecked me and my Armadillo Cloak plans was, funnily enough, Goblin Grenade.

[@danny_rags]

It was the discovery of “Goblin Grenade” that made me a pure tribal player.

[@CovetedPeacock]

Such a phenomenal video as always - the description of the flavor text's fantasy captures so much of what I love about your scripts and videos, such wonderful scene-building that really lends itself to perfectly capturing what it'd be like to witness a Goblin Grenade for real. That said, I resent the ad reel's implication that Slobad is single. We *all* know he can get it. c;

[@CPrs3394]

Wow trip down memory lane there! I also started about that time and fondly remember opening this card and looking for goblins to pair it with. The person who taught me magic sent my life total to 0 many a time with this card. Also points for reminding me of Frontline Sage from my very first sealed deck! Haven’t thought of that guy in a decade

[@LinaDanceMachina]

This is a lovely breakdown and examination. Nicely done. Wheel of Misfortune is probably my favorite. It might used to have been Time Spiral, but, my heart is in a different place now. As someone who put Goblin Game on the screen in this video, I'm sure you can understand.

[@tsmangin]

One of my favorite Spice vids. Love the in depth analysis of what makes this card great. I watched it 3 times

[@phoenixantis6994]

I remember being a little kid, maybe 6 or 7 years old, watching my parents and their friends playing Magic around the fold up card table from the closet. I asking my dad once what his favorite Magic card was, and I still remember his answer: Goblin Grenade. I wish I could've played with him. Thanks, Spice. You've reminded me of good times.

[@waitWAID]

I love this kind of takes on cards because it reveals a lot of the mind of the player... In my case, I hadn't really had the one favorite card, until I bought an outdated precon deck (not commander) and saw Hailstorm Valkyrie... The art is really beautiful in on itself; but then you read it, what, Black mana angel wizard with trample and flying, and a pump ability which uses the color agnostic snow mana to activate... That's almost as if all colors and colorless were represented in a single mono colored card, and that's just mesmerizing to me!

[@pineapplesandthegovernment6522]

Vendilion Clique, personally. Just beautiful art, a neat cost, neat stats, elegant keywords (with flying and flash together) and a great ETB ability, but one that also gives you opponent some compensation, so both players feel kind of good. Plus you can use it on yourself for added interesting decisions and strategic depth. Add that to being a faerie and being from Lorwyn (the best expansion) and it's just an all-round pleasure to play with.

[@walvens3080]

I have been immediately called out with specifically Alesha being my favourite card because she's my favourite commander, so this promises to be a good video

[@ericpratt9554]

I opened an Arcanis the Omnipotent in (at least close to) the first pack I ever opened. I think it’s more art and flavor text for me than mechanics - he has ever since been my “ominous, mysterious wizard badass” mental image, to the point that I made him in Sculpey around that time and have a half-finished denim cloak sitting in my parents house from about a decade later.

[@tezzeretsen7555]

I found a 3rd edition Plague Rats on the floor in 7th grade. I've been playing since and its still my favorite.

[@gieslebt]

I thought the short form was great. Sometimes its daunting to get through a really long video. So glad to see a shorter version as well as your long versions.

[@beeson97]

The first card that amazed me was Omniscience. I had just learnt the basic principles of the game, and Omniscience completely broke those principles in a way that I found very fun and silly. At a lofty 10 mana it felt like an achievement unlocked to successfully cast it too. Honorable mention is Experimental Frenzy. I loved that mono-red pre-constructed standard deck that it came in, and I've tried very hard to make it playable in other formats after its rotation out of standard

[@Chucky5525]

Consuming aberration was my very first magic card. It was a holo and was gifted to me. I didn't know about milling decks at the time so I just put a smorgasbord or blue black cards that didn't synergize with each other but I still had a lot of fun and as soon as I casted it I knew the game was over for my friends

[@UwURainUwU]

You are a gift to this community and I'm so happy to hear about your partner and yours new situation. x

[@HawaiianJuicebox]

My favorite card ever printed is probably Cloudstone Curio, because I love being able to recylce my enter the battlefield effects over & over again, & most of the time I'm playing a combo deck in EDH, Cloudstone Curio is a part of it

[@idlerwheel]

I really started playing around fallen empires and this card was a house. This makes total sense for your villain arc. Loving the videos and the Gobbo content.

[@x-29aguy52]

The notion about Goblin Grenade helping to broaden game understanding by way of getting the player thinkin' 'bout those Goblins is a very real one, too. When the question of favorite cards was posed, I immediately thought of a Yavimaya Enchantress I pulled back when Urza's Destiny first came out, which served as my own first crucial moment of "Wait a minute... could I build an entire deck around this whole Enchantment interaction?" Suffice to say, it was the start of a much more meaningful understanding of the game. And it's good to remember that cards like this really can have teaching moments built right into them.

[@saltedsage]

My favorite card is Shaman of Spring. Back in high school, when I was making my first D&D character, I couldnt find any art that looked as I imagined her to. Remembering a Magic card I loved, I quickly pulled up the image in a photo editing software and changed the hair color, pixel by pixel, to a vibrant ginger. Every time I see Shaman of Spring, I am reminded of all the fun times I had in that campaign. Mori Nisse, legend of my heart.

[@number4497]

I don’t have an eternal favorite card, but I think light-paws is my current favorite, albeit pretty repetitive to play. Feather is pretty cool too, as is the guy who puts poison counters on your opponent when your stuff becomes targeted. Anyway, awesome video, good luck on the move! ❤️

[@WhalePants]

This hits home! Definitely my favorite card as well! Same set/foil GG got me hooked!

[@technoisthegoat223]

Emrakul the Aeons Torn. Edit: After reconsideration, the card that genuinely got me interested in the game was Benthic Infiltratior. It has decent toughness and abilities for the cost. Additionally, it introduced the concept of exile to me through ingest, and made exiling cards my favorite mechanic, as well as the Eldrazi as my favorite species. Finally, its ability that prevents it from being blocked is simply amazing.

[@ryanparker260]

My favorite card is Dreamscape Artist. I love planar chaos so much, and I utterly ADORE spellshapers, and dreamscape captures both of those perfectly. Land ramp in blue, and the versatility in the option select to change an unwanted card into more resources. I love it so much, my partner bought me 250 copies as a joke.

[@mistybaby420]

hell yeah! this is also my favorite mtg card (in its entirety) it was in one of the first decks i played and i loved everything about it the flavor text was so high brow for how silly the art is! (my other favorite is the swamp and island drawn by ron spear, best land art to date)

[@kymaeraa]

Tibalt cosmic impostor is my absolute favourite. It was a card I pulled out of a birthday present pack from my sister, right after I started playing again after a long hiatus. It was the first big money card I had ever pulled, so it was the catalyst to me using sleeves for the first time. It also introduced me to my now favourite deck archetype: thieves. I love using my opponent’s cards and effectively creating a mirror match every game. The art as well really pulls me in. The art of a sneaky guy, but not just any old serious dimir sneak. A sort of chaotic rogue that revels in the discord he sows.

[@MorosSilverwing]

I love the image of Spice forcing me down into a chair opening up a laptop and blasting this video full blast so everyone in the cafe can hear it. Regulars have heard it 8 times this week.

[@elizabethhicks4181]

My favorite card is Starfield of Nyx. Not only is it a beautiful piece of art, enchantress is my favorite style of deck to play. It encapsulates what I think enchantments should be when you extrapolate the game out to the flavor idea of a wizard’s duel: a field spanning effect that changes the rules of reality, turning enchantments into creatures that can punch faces. Plus the flavor idea of old enchantments being born again from the stars is a really cool vibe and it’s just pretty c:

[@Piemaster1123]

I've finally gotten around to diving into your videos after getting sucked into your Horror Board Game Analysis video. Watching these videos makes me miss my old goblin decks: Aggroblins, Gobbo Combo, and Fear My Black Goblins. Man, I've got to dig those back up and find some people to play with. Here's to Goblin Grenade! The Best Card in Magic: The Gathering!