The Best Phyrexia: All Will Be One Modern Magic: the Gathering Cards (MTG)

Today we're counting down the top 10 Modern Magic: the Gathering cards from Phyrexia: All Will Be One!
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[@MTGGoldfish]

During the section about Elesh Norn I mentioned doubling up Fable of the Mirror-Breaker's Goblin token. That doesn't actually work because Sagas are weird. The trigger when the lore counter is added, not when they enter the battlefield. My bad!

[@jamesrule1338]

Silly question, would it double up the add a lore counter trigger? Since adding the lore counter is an ETB, would the saga immediately gain two counters on it?

[@e.t.6424]

@@jamesrule1338 I believe because it says “AS it enters the battlefield,” there is not technically a trigger associated with a lore counter being put on it, only a trigger for the ability itself.

[@jamesrule1338]

@@e.t.6424 Ah, so like planeswalker loyalty counters then. Ok, that makes sense.

[@BM-on4bu]

Don't apologize, anyone that's dumb enough to take anything anyone says on this website as a fact deserves to be misled. After all its not like you guys are pro-players, you're just a pack of goons led by a homeless looking muppet that talks like a cartoon cereal spokes-mascot.

[@RunninOnYT]

I've been really suprised that Tyvar hasn't been mentioned more. Interesting to see people picking up on it now.

[@tuuru3433]

Gleeful Demolition has me really excited. It’s one of those cards that got me excited to build a deck around it right away.

[@kylarcheng1346]

Can use it on like a darksteel citadel, won't even lose the land

[@funkydiscogod]

@@kylarcheng1346 came here to say this.

[@adamtobiasz8793]

So print it. Don't bother spending money or time to get it.

[@kylarcheng1346]

@@adamtobiasz8793 …wuh can people not just have imaginations anymore

[@adamtobiasz8793]

@@kylarcheng1346 because you can't play with people with it

[@jstuckless]

Hm, I don't think Elesh Norn works with sagas the way you said, the ETB trigger of a saga is to put a lore counter on it, so you wouldn't get two goblins with Fable, you'd just get 2 counters on Fable.

[@notjake2089]

I don't believe you'd get 2 counters either actually. The rules text for getting the first lore counter is an "As this enters the battlefield" rather than a "when" effect

[@piercearora7681]

True

[@Greg_Ulmer]

It doesn't affect sagas at all.

[@derekcline950]

@@notjake2089 @jstuckless "As" and "when" are both ETBs. The difference is that "as" is not a trigger, so it cannot be responded to on the stack (e.g. Annointed Peacekeeper). When a Saga gets two lore counters, it gets each level. It does not skip over one (e.g. how Vorenclex gives two counters to Sagas) It should give two lore counters AND get effects from each *edit* just read Elesh Norns ability again. It specifically says triggered abilities, so I do believe "as" doesn't count. So yeah, I guess it doesn't affect sagas.

[@piperisanerd5912]

@@derekcline950 are you saying that sagas work with elesh norn/yarok? maybe I'm just stupid but I find it hard to understand this comment

[@naomicoffman1315]

Gleeful Demolition also has the Cleansing Wildfire upside of working even if you don't destroy an artifact. Target your own Bridge T2?

[@anthonyellison5998]

Gleeful demolition is also pretty sick with Darksteel citadel and any of the other indestructible artifact lands because it doesn’t need to actually destroy it but have you control it to make the goblins so that’s pretty fun

[@fo-ef8qo]

If I had a Nickel for every time the set name was a red spell, I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but itnis strange that it's happened once

[@izzyv830]

i think if your playing more than one ratchet bomb, there's actually more than one upside to running sylex as well. which is that is has a different name. so it can get around a pithing needle or surgical, once again not a huge upside, but certainly relevant

[@adamtobiasz8793]

Nevynral disk is more op

[@Famydor]

With gleeful demolition you can target your artifact land and make 3 tokens anyway . That's kinda good if you know opponent have 0 artifacts

[@ZakanaHachihaCBC]

Just want to make a correction here at around the 14:05 mark: Elesh Norn has no affect on Sagas. They enter the battlefield with a Lore Counter as a replacement effect, and trigger off the lore counter being placed. She doesn’t double your Sagas or stop your opponents Sagas.

[@lushG678]

Gleeful demolition plus the MH2 indestructible lands will be amazing

[@knabseraph]

you can't put them together. You have to physically destroy the land as the text says.

[@alaya1347]

No you don't, you have to try, but if that attempt failed and you controlled it at the time you tried, you still get the goblins

[@knabseraph]

@@alaya1347 You're right. The wording I saw in the early prerelease was the if you destroyed the artifact and you controlled it... which is different to the text now. Seemed clunky when I first saw it.

[@jameswilson9936]

Please, please do an against the odds deck with Rotpriest and Zada goblins :P

[@didiez8678]

Can't wait for the Legacy Top10 ^^ Great content though

[@ammonaustin9081]

Mycosyth Gardens could also fit into UB Mill decks that run Mesmeric Orb. It's a good card if we're flooding

[@Hexbox117]

Venerated Rotpriest is going straight into my ivy historic brawl deck. Its so perfect.

[@bernabes8424]

I love the chill Sunday non gameplay videos

[@jozefkeresturi2139]

No Crim ? I enjoy your banter

[@KebbieG]

Crim doesn't play modern that much anymore.

[@jozefkeresturi2139]

@@KebbieG oh, that makes sense

[@BobardeZanzibar]

The selection of a green card for number one wasn't something he could sign off on.

[@satansamael666]

Tyvar is also formatted like 3feri. Should've recognized that earlier but regardless, I believe he's going to be the combo counterpart to 3feri and his suite of control decks.

[@Graatand]

Capricious Hellraiser seems like a glaring omission. I’m totally onboard with AspiringSpike’s argument that it’s not supposed to be viewed as an all-in combo piece, but rather as essentially an upgraded Bloodbraid Elf. The random free spell doesn’t have to be game-winning. It’s more than good enough for it to just be a nice bonus that’s tacked onto a 4/4 flier that - in a deck with fetchlands, DRCs and Baubles - is usually gonna cost just 3 mana.

[@ThorsShadow]

I love how the artwork for "All Will Be One" looks like there are some sort of "tentacles" with the roots of the tree. That and the way Elesh Norn's head and Vraska's body look in the artwork.... The artwork basically looks like it's Emrakul. Foreshadowing?

[@gastastrophe1092]

All Will Be One also plays well with Pentad Prism (the ramp alone justifies it just like in those Ad Nauseum decks)

[@Hanmacx]

All will be One + Everlasting Torment

[@tuuru3433]

The Mycosynth Gardens could be a great fit into a Gleeful Demolition / Kuldotha Rebirth deck. It’s a decent land that can become a zero-mana artifact to sacrifice in the late game.

[@jaggedpeak]

o feel like you could do something with All Will Be One with like a red prison style deck, maybe with ornithopters and memnites alongside infernal plunge to turn one blood moon/another hate piece or maybe just to speed up the win con? idk

[@basler04]

Any plans to have a 30 casual standard decks under $20 article for ONE, or has that finished? I noticed there hasn't been one for BRO

[@ethanbrunott7223]

Why no crim? I like when you guys talk back and forth about these speculations

[@lowskinator]

as a couple of others have said Seth sagas don't work with Elesh Norn since it uses the keyword "As it enters the battlefield" instead of "when it enters the battlefield"

[@Erik_Sjostrom]

Can you do a video on Phyrexia all will be one for pioneer

[@christianmiller4422]

Seth, you lack vision with gleeful demolition. It's a strict upgrade from kuldotha rebirth, so much so that it could see play in affinity.

[@guilhermeribeiromichelino3852]

Hey Seth, finally saw the potential on Tyvar?

[@egare]

I'm not sure Venerated rotpriest goes "infinite(bounded by life)" with two Spellskite, the only mention in the rules of "become the target trigger" is in 601.2c and state that the trigger triggers during the process of casting the spell. There are no reference to 601.2 in 115.7 (changing target) that would implies that those triggered ability get an additional chance at triggering.

[@theopreston8507]

ok but it would be cool if it worked

[@Hanmacx]

It worked that way

[@hectorplanas5017]

It definitely works as it used to work with Wild Defiance on infect decks.

[@egare]

​@@hectorplanas5017 I've seen lot of post stating that it works for Wild Defiance or Livewire Lash, but no ruling or reference to the rules that would suggest it's actually the case.

[@waltergriffith4368]

At me lgs I made a black and white deck it was fun came in 10th place got a really bad hand in my first round

[@ICanJustGoTuckMyself999]

00:06:07 Seth how would you brew it up? I'm wanting to revisit "Sac and Wack" with Anax and Vexing Devil..? With the success rate of 8whack it feels more like much a brew than against the odds imo

[@eliisaac]

8 whack better be on against the odds list again!

[@DinoMarcoccia]

I love Duty Voiwalker

[@christianbarrett3040]

All will be one could be an amazing card in super friends decks, but they take time to get rolling Soulless jailer certainly hurts my modern deck as I use light up the stage and undying evil Also I think the Nihiri can work well in hammer time

[@SeiShinjitsuShi]

Back up rotpriest is Ivy.

[@tuuru3433]

Budget 12-crab modern mill please!

[@nicholasiverson9784]

Against the odds - Venerated Rotpriest with Vesuvan Duplimancy in Standard. 4 1 mana protection spells = gg.

[@ilyafoskin]

All Will Be One seems like a design mistake. So many ways to just start an infinite damage chain on turn 6 if it survives turn 5. It’s a kill on sight card. It needed some type of cost like for each counter, exile a card from your grave and then deal the damage

[@baboyaga7711]

Comboing on turn 6 isn't really that impressive in modern though. I think what saves the card is its flexibility in terms of combos. But I also don't think it will have any A-tier deck.

[@AutumnReel4444]

Gleeful Demolition fizzles to a shatter so it is far from strictly better, still good though

[@lamiaprincess6371]

TBH I'm still not exactly sure on the viability of looking at Tyvar in comparison to Grist, because they do such completely different things despite being 3 mana Golgari planeswalkers that it seems pretty clear they would slot into different decks. Grist is probably stronger overall but I feel like they inhabit very different niches and that a direct one to one comparison misses that. Maybe I'm very high on the card but I think Tyvar has a lot of potential as a powerful enabler and less as a general advantage or removal piece.

[@bouthat1]

Soulless jailer is just another artifact that living end can deal with, as most of it's sideboard is designed to do.

[@esrohm6460]

wait so 2 2 drop artifact creatures and 1 1 drop creature plus any spell that targets wins the game. could you make a coco stile vernerated rotprist deck that use something like fatal push as early game removal and then when you get to your combo as the win condition. 20 life is exactly enough for spellskite to retarget 9 times plus the original 1 for 10 infect. that sounds way more legit than doing storm

[@PlatStratsINC]

Does mycosynth gardens stop being a land when it changes?

[@bobboberson6664]

Filigree cyclex is ALL perms with oil counters. Likely won't matter in modern, but interesting nonetheless

[@Grombrindal]

Phyrexia? I was expecting Hasbro to go in a different direction, like Barbie's Dream Vacation.

[@sebostar123]

The best cards are the friends we make along the way

[@JR-xv6mv]

I don’t think you need two spellskites to pull off that trick. Spellskite doesn’t care who or what is being targeted. Hell, the spell doesn’t even have to target anything. You can still activate spellskite’s ability. As far as I understand, you can even activate it with a creature spell on the stack.

[@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters]

How about Phyrexian Dreadnought with The Mycosynth Gardens? Does this work?

[@jaspershepherdsmith9047]

Yes.

[@calebhowe7842]

Unfortunately, venerated rotpriest spellskite doesn’t work, CR 601.2c reveals that becoming a target is part of the process of casting a spell. Change a target doesn’t make the new object become a target

[@bradleykyonizuka2558]

The huge upside to rotpriest as well is if you're opponent is on 8 or 9 poison counters but your creatures have been removed you can play rotpriest if they remove it they instantly die or you can immediately target it with a spell and basically have this pseudo hasty infect creature that you normally wouldn't have access to to end the game not giving your opponent the chance to untap their next turn

[@baboyaga7711]

I don't know....I really think the rotpriest wont see any play in infect at all except for some experimental brews and maybe sideboard slots. Sitting on turn 1 with a rotpriest instead of an infect creature is just miserable and in almost every other case it takes the spot of one of your important pumpspells. I think Infect is too much of a one-trick deck to allow for a second, cute twist like Rotpriest that weakens the core of what you are trying to pull of.

[@Greg_Ulmer]

@BaboYaga I'm not totally sure that it's good,but no one is replacing their turn 1 infect creatures with rotpriest, or playing rotpriest on 1 over an infect creature, so that point is irrelevant. The upside of being able to finish your opponent off without having to play a creature, have it live, attack and get through is substantial though. It could allow the deck to be less one-trick and more grindy, if it works out.

[@bradleykyonizuka2558]

@@baboyaga7711 idk you aren't playing this over your other infect creatures so of this is the only creature in your opening hand it means you wouldn't have had that infect creature anyway and would be forced to mulligan.which mulligans are brutal in a meta full of scam decks so anything that helps avoid a mulligan is improving the deck and while toxic 1 isn't a huge help you it is still potentially adding poison counters while you wait for inkmoth or another infect creature to come online. You see a lot of keeps where inkmoth is the only infect creature which is slow and puts you essentially down a land and makes pumping more expensive because you have to use a land to turn on inkmoth and then inkmoth is now your creature not available for mana and even when using it for mana it doesn't make colored man which is also very awkward for an infect deck. I understand the opportunity cost is lower for a land slot but if inkmoth can make it worth with that overall awkward interaction with the rest of the deck I think this has a good chance to work as well. At the VERY least in the sideboard

[@baboyaga7711]

@@Greg_Ulmer Yeah, but that's not what the deck wants. It's like saying making burn or 8-whack more grindy. Sure you could do it but only by watering down what makes the deck good in the first place and making it worse. You could also add proliferate or something similar to make Infect more grindy...but nobody does that because you are inevitably weakening your core game plan for it. What I meant with turn 1 is that an infect hand without an infect creature turn 1 is pretty much a no-go. So I don't see anyone slotting out an infect creature for this.

[@baboyaga7711]

@@bradleykyonizuka2558 Meh, I am pretty unconvinced. Inkmoth doesn't take a spell-slot in your deck so I don't think that comparison is very valid. And what else would you sleeve out for the Rotpriest? Most infect decks are just infect-creatures, pumpspells and protection and I don't think Rotpriest offers enough value to make it worth replacing any of those. If anything Rotpriest will have it's own infect archetype which focuses much less on pump-wins. But that would be a completely different deck.

[@mr.nobody6726]

I am interested to play elesh norn in a 5 color bring to light (if she isn't super expensive) and makes me even more sad to see yorion banned

[@adamtobiasz8793]

By all means print the card. Don't bother to spend cash or time to get it.

[@mr.nobody6726]

@@adamtobiasz8793 for commander sure but sadly it isn't allowed at my regional modern tournament (But I won't play her anyway so...)

[@adamtobiasz8793]

@@mr.nobody6726 yeah but casual play you can get away with it.

[@pauperjaymtg2920]

Nivmagus elemental is the back up for rotpriest

[@Hanmacx]

All will be One + Everlasting Torment + any damage

[@adirangan]

Does elesh norn stop primeval titan's attack trigger?

[@caseywellington4761]

No, just the etb

[@honorsquanch7044]

With how the format looks right now, minor misstep should absolutely be #1 on this list

[@Nitestorm1985]

Where’s the phyrexian Rex or thrun or even the white obliterator IMO these cards are much better than most on that liSt

[@primykins106]

Please tell me anybody hear has watched the Hasbro and WotC parody of Marley and Marley from Muppets Christmas Carol! It's wonderful!

[@natejablonski]

Miss Crim on the video.

[@mikejh1604]

Could you not copy Chalice with Mycosnth gardens for free in order to get a free 0 cost hate card

[@timothyjarman2308]

How is hellraiser not number 1 ler alone not on this list at all

[@pgDraxos]

Pioneer and Standard Videos when?

[@nikhilchhagan7371]

Standard sucks hard rn

[@jasonkorf7700]

All will be ONE will be make Infect and Amulet Titan great again.

[@ashdog9235]

Amulet is already great 😔 but yippee for infect

[@jasonkorf7700]

@Ash Dog I'm not saying it's a good thing or bad thing, but that's what some of these cards are intended to do. As for Amulet Titan, it kinda fell off a little bit as one of the top decks in Modern, but obviously, that's gonna change with the release of ONE.

[@duncanwalla7014]

Elesh norn will not see play.

[@bastienm347]

"The seedcore"... how do you know that a creature is phyrexian ?

[@ryanhall6223]

No crim in the best of videos anymore?

[@daximus5988]

Pretty sure Norn doesn't effect Saga's at all, their effect isn't an entering the battlefield effect. Rest looks good though.

[@theonlyjeff]

First ❤

[@demundoamundo5950]

Title of the video was a bit confusing. I think its better and mote clickbaity to call it "top10"