The Most Obscure & Underrated Cards | The Command Zone 475 | Magic: The Gathering Commander EDH

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If you’ve played Commander for a while, you probably know a lot of the staples. But with so many cards legal in the format, it’s easy to miss some real bangers! This episode, we’re digging through the deep dark caverns of lost and forgotten cards. Searching for the rare and powerful, obscure and underrated hidden gems that can make your deck really shine!
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[@mthlay15]

Prices about to juuump. 😆

[@Sinistra359]

It's fiiiine, if you have a bunch of these cards then your collection value just went up lol and if you can't afford them then there's 10,000 other cards you can play instead 😉

[@carloserausquinhoyos3298]

I guess it pays to be a patron, if you can see these videos early

[@shadedcorner]

Insight's gonna be hella pricey lol

[@shadedcorner]

@@carloserausquinhoyos3298 they only post gameplay early

[@dreadedevil4055]

Coming here after hearing the news about Channelfireball.. I guess it's not the best place to buy magic products. Edit: still good to use their affiliate link to support Command Zone though.

[@pixelbomb97]

My favorite obscure cards that are secretly powerful are deglamor and unravel the aether. They are basically natrualizes that shuffles the target into the deck. It's a natualize that kills blightsteel, any Theros god, and darksteel plate. Also the hidden use of it is if someone plays a vampiric tutor or worldly tutor or any tutor that pits the card on top of the deck, you can force them to shuffle at instant speed.

[@12jacobmar]

Great adds! My play group all started in the Theros Era and God's run rampant in every deck. Gonna keep my eyes open for those cards 👍

[@francoispaolantonacci2280]

Nice

[@ich3730]

would not call these "obscure". I have even seen them in YT deck lists

[@josephmartinez5698]

Nice! I like those. Especially useful, if someone tutors for a card to go on top of the library! Then use either deglamer or unravel...and they lose both their artifact or enchantment, plus their tutored card. Very cool.

[@dogdriver70]

very nice, RIP my OG foil naturalize

[@AHunter817]

Was surprised not to see the most underrated card EVER to be printed... The illustrious, the indomtiable... Dingus Staff!! 🎺🎺🎺

[@WimpyMcWeaksauce]

So what I'm hearing is that if Josh Lee Kwai takes a picture of your card, BUY MORE COPIES OF IT ASAP.

[@davidhoffman6208]

I've been running bolt bend since it came out. Finnaly it's getting the attention it deserves!

[@Veggie_King]

Yesss say it again for the people in the back 👏

[@flintston3r]

I love that card. I started playing around war of the spark, then when the next omnath was released in the core set after I made an elemental tribal deck with bolt bend in it and it one me a few games tbh. Amazing card

[@yannickroy1573]

Its been in my rakdos, lord of riot eldrazi deck since wots came out, so good

[@fblthpthblfp79]

Klothys loooooves to bend bolts!

[@robertfranklin8522]

Same! If my commander is 4 power or more and at least a few of my creatures are I'm running it. Can't beat that price!

[@wizardu7440]

Cosmotronic Wave: "3R: deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control. Creatures your opponents control can't block this turn." A lot of people forget about that second ability. You can get a lot of combat damage in. It also has some combo potential. 0% of decks

[@michaelstevens5712]

I've ran this since it was printed in my most tuned deck (Licia Mardu Lifegain/Akido), where it's exactly the right sort of death sentence an aggro deck like that needs. It gets overlooked because it's an uncommon from a busy set that is also a sorcery and 4MV. Recently, I've swapped it out for an older card that's also rolling at 0%, Barrage of Boulders, which is 2R for the damage and ties the "can't block" to a Ferocious trigger, which should always proc when you actually want to use it.

[@LordRazzia]

I love this card. I remember reading that card and being like "what? this is a common????" This card is like THE card to play as you're about to swing out imo.

[@KaervekTM]

Me and my brother used this to win a Battlebond 2HG draft. Super effective, especially when we were using Sylvia and Khorvath to deliver the beats.

[@casually_lurking]

New Judith remembers this card; Indestructible matters little when they can't block the hoard.

[@Abraktil]

please guys do more of them, people need to play more janky cards intead of all the reprints powercreep stuff

[@Patrick45392]

I suggest you watch the 10 cards you should be putting in your commander decks series by edh deckbuilding

[@Abraktil]

@@Patrick45392 thx but i already do ;) I said that so that their notoriety make people play suboptimal cards

[@Alucardtube636]

@@Patrick45392 i use a combination, without infinite combos and it works wonders fun

[@kartzzy6101]

dear god please no. I hate this series. I hate when I save a card to buy later only for the price to spike super hard because it was mentioned on this channel.

[@metricarea7546]

This!

[@ImakeMID]

Magnetic mine is fantastic anti-treasure tech. you should do a whole video on anti-treasure things.

[@leemiller6977]

They absolutely should

[@kyleblanchard6306]

Blessed respite is one of my FAVORITE cards right now. I’ve used it about every way you can imagine. I’ve saved myself from getting milled out by an opponent, I’ve saved myself from milling myself out, I’ve stopped graveyard shenanigans, I’ve kept myself from getting alpha strik-ed, etc. And I’ve done multiple of those in one cast of the card. This card never feels dead. I love it so much

[@yugioh395]

based take

[@bruisedfrog]

Don't forget using it on your opponent who has tutored for something good or had something bounced to the top of their deck so you can force them to shuffle

[@casually_lurking]

​@bruisedfrog This, this bit here; it makes at a modal middle finger to black as a color.

[@yugioh395]

Here are my 2 underrated bangers: - Telepathy - 1U, enchantment, your opponents play with their hands revealed. This card is in 1% of decks, and I think that should be ~100%. You don't need synergy, this card is just absurdly broken. It's also fun to play because it changes how everyone plays, and you can see it on their faces haha. - Shinewend - 1W, flying 0/0 with a +1/+1 counter on entry. Ability = 1W, remove a +1/+1: destroy target enchantment. This card is in

[@Ryadic]

I think some of the best cards are the ones that make people go, "Huh, never seen it. Doesn't seem good." Then it puts in a ton of work because they don't deal with it. Rhystic Study is instant kill for nearly everyone. Compost? Not so much. But it can get you just as many cards in a game and fly under the radar while doing it.

[@yugioh395]

Yeah I like this way of thinking. I have not been very impressed with smothering tithe because every time I play it, everyone has a conniption.

[@robburgess9684]

One of my favorites is Penance. It has a unique ability that lets you stack your top deck, protect yourself against discard, or playing around chaos strategies like Possibility Storm. Another is Pursuit of Knowledge. Yet another unique ability and white card draw. Also saves you against drawing out if that’s the kind of game your opponents are playing.

[@kylarcheng1346]

As someone who played standard/historic, trust me. a lot of people did NOT forget about Glazath Prizmari

[@JBugsBEER]

Izzet Dragons are no joke! I'm not ready for Goldspan to rotate though :(

[@grizzlyreaper7477]

It's worth mention if you playing blue green, Submerge is guaranteed. Just run Yavimaya, all lands are forests. I have it in a deck and love to submerge in response to a Minds Dilation trigger. Then I get to play the creature!

[@PraiseGodandJesus528]

Simic!🍻

[@Corithaniel]

Aetherize "3U: Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand". It gets around, hexproof, shroud, indestructible and protection. It's instant speed so you can hold up other things as well. It can be used as a bargaining tool or even save your own creatures if combat becomes unfavourable in certain situations. It's also in about 5% of decks according to EDH rec.

[@ich3730]

aetherize didnt perform well for me. its useless as protection, as players will gang up on you and bouncing one guys board doesnt do anything. Normal bounce sweepers are just better

[@macmusial3644]

I feel like the majority of the time Aetherspouts is probably a better card, it costs one blue more but it puts the creatures in the top or bottom of their owner's library, which is a much better blowout since they don't have a chance to rebuild on the turn you bounce everything. It trades a bit of the flexibility Aetherize has for a lot of power to completely shut down an attacking player, which I think is generally better. It's also only played in about 2% of decks which is surprising that neither card is played much.

[@knoble4797]

Super meta dependant.. higher power metas hardly use combat

[@snowhusk]

@@knoble4797 that's why you play it in your casual decks with playgroups where none of you can afford or justify buying something like cyc rift

[@erikohman2294]

Feelt great in modern. Have opted for sweepier things in commander.

[@ShotensGaming]

Glaring Spotlight was an allstar in my infect deck back in the day!

[@Chris-qq2cu]

these are seriously my favorite episodes! definitely wrote all these down even if i dont have a deck right now for them

[@Zanzibawrr]

The best way to measure how effective compost is, is to look at what the most popular commanders are. 9 out of the top 10 most popular commanders have access to black. Going even further, 18 out of the top 20 commanders also have access to black. It’s safe to say i am glad to own compost.

[@timdornaus]

now this is a podcast topic i can get behind, excited to see which of these i can use in decks

[@4n6redrum]

I think its important to note, "Insight" has the printed text of "successfully casts" and the Oracle text omits "successfully", however, rulings have been made to errata "successfully casts" as "casts", meaning you can still counter the green spell and still gain a draw.

[@xgxwills2857]

I remember when deflecting swat was only $28 and bought 3 of them. To this day I’m so glad I bought them and held them.

[@poupallol]

Only 28*... We don't live on the same plane of existence.

[@IncrediPaulAZ]

I bought several of the two precons with deflecting swat and fierce guardianship. That was one of the first "specs" I did after smothering tithe (and a few others that didn't pan out)

[@xgxwills2857]

@@IncrediPaulAZ my friend has the mutate precon and sold me it for $20 after playing it once. I knew deadly rollick was heavily slept on and bought it off him and it was a straight value move (100 cards for $20 is usually a solid bargain anyways).

[@IncrediPaulAZ]

@@xgxwills2857 oh yeah you definitely won on that deal

[@TripsAhoy]

Prob sell em soon before the reprinting !

[@Tclark6199]

I've found Wylls Reversal from Baldurs Gate is a pretty fun spell similar to deflecting swat as well

[@healusion8912]

I love to run bolt bent, wylls reversal, wild ricochet, and on different effect wild Magic surge, chaos swarp on my red decks

[@ohfish9499]

Chef’s kiss is also amazing, there’s so many fun options to protect your commander in red.

[@damo9961]

Deflecting Swat costs 0. it's the only reason it's good. I'm amazed at how many people rate Wyll's Reversal. I'd rather run a 1 or 2 mana counter every time.

[@aylmao8723]

@@damo9961 have you considered decks not playing blue?

[@UsernameXOXO]

Tibalt would like a word A really bad word

[@Frothmeister]

Cleansing Mediation is the wildest card to be underplayed for me, it's basicially a 1 sided enchantment wipe...

[@spot6532]

Vanishing will forever be my favorite obscure pet card, i put it in every blue deck I have as the ultimate way to protect a key creature against *anything* AND it can also be used to disable opponent's important creatures

[@robertbauerle5592]

Submerge has actually been pretty popular in cEDH for a while, since yes it's likely that at least one opponent has a forest which makes it a free spell, but it's also a one card and free way to stop a thassa's oracle demonic consultation combo if the player using the thoracle has no other cards for blue devotion. After they exile their library but with the thoracle trigger still on the stack, you just put the thoracle on top of their library and then their devotion is zero, and now they have only thoracle left in their deck. Yes they could potentially draw and recast it next turn, but in cEDH a full turn cycle is more than enough to find an answer for that, especially when everyone knows it's coming.

[@12jacobmar]

This was a great episode! Im always on the search for cards out of the norm. Definitely gonna pick up some of these and throw them into a few decks. Thank you! 😊

[@tp1592]

I feel like Sakiko, Mother of Summer is very underrated. It's a cheaper to play, Old Gnawbone, albeit you get green mana instead of treasure. But my LGS either hold her down, or can't stop the train to poundtown when she's out. As a commander of a Hydra/X Tribal deck, it's a workhorse.

[@leemay7780]

Cool topic, hope to see some different cards in future gameplay vids besides Rystic studies

[@yugioh395]

agreed. I wish people played with less staples. I play at about an 8 or 9, just beneath cEDH with mono white cards and few staples lol. It can be done

[@stryk55]

Awesome, sooo many cards from my collection I held on to (stopped playing 2003-2018 just because I fell out of the game) were featured here! Finally feeling a little vindicated jamming them in decks the past 5 years!

[@derekshultz1424]

This is great! I started playing/collecting during Shards of Alara so I have many of these just lying around. Thanks!

[@patircksalter]

This is a fantastic video guys. From the awesome intro at the start to showing us a lot of cards I didn't know about. Keep up the great work!

[@ianleggett8429]

Compost is a power house in my white bordered tribal deck. Then you throw in Sleight of Mind and Mind Bend and you can change the Color to whichever is most relevant.

[@LordRazzia]

Glaring Spotlight was one of my cards actually, which is awesome. One of my other cards is Summary Dismissal. "It can't be countered." "That's cool, but it's getting exiled it off the stack." It can also deal with an instance of someone making copies of spells, or even a random planeswalker ult if it somehow comes to that. I also like Cosmotronic Wave for my combat centric, or tribal decks with red in them. Also any copy or redirect spells can be nuts too. There's a few other ones I love that I can't think of right now.

[@snowhusk]

8:30 at our lgs we were once greatly educated on this topic by the store owner. Protectin - DEBT. Damage, enchant, block, target

[@fajenthygia5760]

Is this finally the episode when someone mentions Soltari Visionary?

[@nanya524]

Bolt Bend... HA HA HA! I used that a couple of weeks ago. I cast River's Rebuke to bounce my opponent's field, he used Dovin's Veto and I realized "oh wait, my commander has 4 power" so I used Bolt Bend to make Dovin's Veto counter Bolt Bend instead of River's Rebuke.

[@wildernaut595]

IKR ITS SO FUNNY

[@justinfs]

It occurs to me that Submerge can also be used to protect your commander and avoid commander tax.

[@chrismarlow9585]

Really enjoyed this video! I thought I've seen enough videos like this that I'd know almost all of them... but I barely knew half! It'll be fun to try these out :)

[@KyuuStarr]

Submerge has another use case if you’re worried about not playing against green: if you’re playing green and blue then you can run Yavimaya to give your opponents Forests, especially if your deck is already running some land tutoring.

[@MrDesoron]

My tower of magistrates just arrived! I bought two for my Planeswalker Voltron decks to remove luxior and have them dodge removal

[@valiantcoffee]

Yeeeeesss, so many of these are cards I've been playing for a while now. Insight and Compost are basically staples in every deck of mine that can play them due to the popularity of Black and Green. Glad to see them both get some attention. Definitely worth

[@charliemarlow647]

All great picks! Underrated card for me is Tidal Barracuda - provides amazing protection on your turn, as well as a Vedalken Orrery effect, but other people don't want to remove it because they get the flash speed too! Over-performed every time I've played it

[@claygillman9351]

I love hearing about cards that I didn't know about. Especially when they are cards that aren't played much. If they aren't in a lot of decks, then I won't see them on EDHREC either.

[@KingRorix]

I wish more people played Spy Network. 1 mana, 4/5 effects...so good. Doesn't belong in every deck, but I don't know how it doesn't see more play.

[@ColorwaveCraftsCo]

This is one of my favorite episodes of command zone podcast in quite some time!! Please do more episodes like this in the future 😊

[@SamanthaIsTyping]

Really happy to see Argivian Find on this list! I plugged it into my first EDH deck years ago and got so many puzzled looks from my group, I've always been surprised that more people don't run it.

[@DMBlade4]

I recently discovered Calming Verse. It's a 4 mana one-sided enchantment boardwipe. I had no idea it existed but it's pretty cool

[@CianDelano]

Personally, I love Personal Sanctuary, It is very narrow in what it does, but the ability to protect yourself from instant damage, as well as any of those spells that damage you as well, is simply fantastic.

[@dsadams17]

It also makes pain lands significantly better.

[@nigelkurtz3781]

I love this episode so much, I’m sure it was twice as much work as any other episode but it’s so helpful. Especially when you are just looking for the silver bullet. I’m always looking for neat cards to spice up a deck and maybe save a few bucks lol. Also bolt bend is so good, I played it in my budget Etali deck and bolt bent someone’s gilded drake and gave them a plant token 😝

[@jk47Ssb]

If you go to MTG stocks and look at the price graph of these cards they all spiked on July 12th, the same day this video was released. Pretty good little scheme, im sure they could talk about any card, it will spike . Rinse, Recycle, Repeat

[@bradleypower4290]

3 of my favorites: Invert the Skies: 4 mana to make all your creatures effectively unblockable for a turn, or to do the reverse and make absolutely sure that you can deal with your opponent's fliers? Yes please. Brave the Sands: Vigilance is powerful because of how it leaves your creatures open to block, this takes that effect and neatly doubles it. It works really well in my Arcades defender deck. Volcanic Vision: This is a one-sided board wipe that can also get any instant or sorcery from your graveyard if you play it right, in my Narset deck I almost always win the game when I play it. One of my favorite cards ever.

[@starmanda88]

Oooo good suggestions. I might just put volcanic visions in my niv mizzet deck ^.^

[@chef2chiefchef2chief61]

Galazeth Prismari is in my Jeskai Equipment deck, with a sunforger package. Tapping equipment to get mana for spells through galazeth is a great home for the young Elder Dragon

[@KiLLaPeNgUiN198]

For Compost, I believe you even get the trigger when an opponent CASTS a black instant or sorcery (ie a lot of removal) since the cards will resolve and go to the graveyard. Another bonus to it beyond mill and discard.

[@BstFrmThEst]

For me it’s Infiltration Lens. {1} Artifact Equipment: Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked by a creature, you may draw two cards. Equip {1}

[@LordRazzia]

It's one of the first cards I ever opened, and I always thought it was interesting. Definitely always wanted to try and use it, but a lot of times I find myself preferring to make it evade. Though that being said, giving them the choice while this is out is brutal lol

[@donovanloreman]

Treasonous Ogre is only in 2% of decks, and that is wildly underrated in and red deck. If you need to pop off, he is your boy.

[@seymour47]

This seems like a great choice for Raggadragga.

[@yugioh395]

I feel like he only really belongs in cEDH decks though.

[@donovanloreman]

@@yugioh395 nah man,he goes in any deck that wants to combo. Which is anything 6+

[@yugioh395]

@@donovanloreman Debatable. He’s really only strong if you pay an enormous amount of life, and that is only strong if you win that turn, which is really hard to do unless you’re playing at a really high power level. If you’re only paying modest amounts of life, you’re better off with something more mana efficient and less risky.

[@IVISMiLESIVI]

One card that recently got my attention was Mana Severance. A guy was using Elsha the infinite and casted it because he had plenty of lands/mana available, so it made sense to get rid of all the lands in his library so he could almost always cast what was on top. Very ingenius.

[@chrisalegria3655]

I love to use Lifeforce and Deathgrip Enchantments that counter green or black spells in non blue

[@carlschneider4229]

Glad to see Argivian Find get a shoutout. I found I had one of these and thought it was super-good, but saw it in no deck lists and couldn't believe it. Been using it for years.

[@Micro_Tyrant_Games]

Minds Aglow also has the bonus that you can play it when your opponents are mostly tapped out, or to try and bait out mana saved for a counter spell.

[@felixzahner495]

i play blue and i wouldn´t fall for that unless i am desperate.

[@Isheian]

I started running Insight after it got recommended by the EDHREC team, and I've only had one game where there was no green deck at the table. I've watched people not play green spells to prevent me from drawing cards and I've drawn tons in games. I can highly recommend it, and I can say the same for bolt bend. Wild growth is amazing as well...

[@otakurooney]

I've come across submerge, compost, and argivian find in Cedh, those are great includes. I've never heard of suppress before today, but it looks fun to play, reminds me of head games. I really like delirium as an underrated card, it can snuff out a craterhoof win or any combo that pumps a creature infinitely, it can synergize if you're pumping your opponent's creatures yourself or giving them big creatures like with beamtown bullies. It is in 0% of decks on edhrec.

[@felixzahner495]

Head games is better. You give a player all the answers for your opponent which can not hurt you.

[@monomanamaniac]

Credit voucher is one of my favorite cards! It sees no play, but I actually run it in multiple decks. If you care about wheels but you don't want your opponents to get fresh cards and you can keep any cards you don't want to get rid of and you don't discard those cards either. It's my favorite wheel spell

[@Stray7]

Usually if I'm running a lot of wheels, I actively want stuff in my graveyard. If I want this sort of effect, I'll run Valakut's Awakening, which costs 1 less, doesn't need to be cast on my turn to have ready, replaces itself, and can be a land in a pinch if I need it. I mean, if this card works for you, it works for you (you can wheel in non-red decks with it), but it's not for me.

[@monomanamaniac]

@@Stray7 I can see the argument, but I still think that credit voucher has its uses. Yes it does have to be on board, but in artifact decks that's actually a good thing. If you don't need to pay for it all at once then it actually costs less than awakening. The cards are shuffled in, so they're not locked at the bottom of the deck and you can pivot away from top deck locks from like scroll rack or brainstorm. I'm not saying it's the best, but it's in very few decks and I think it deserves a lot more love

[@Stray7]

@@monomanamaniac I'm not saying it doesn't have it's uses, just that I've weighed it before and it didn't fit the needs I wanted for a wheel. I can see the value in the shuffle and the fact it's an artifact, those are just synergies that the decks I have don't quite care for.

[@FFFirestorm]

Honorable mention on Bioshift->Fate Transfer is in the same vein.

[@suzannahcooper8913]

Fury storm was one I eyed early for my Blood Avatar deck where main goal was to cast commander repeatedly to have an army of blood avatars and opponents with no creatures. Glad I secured a copy finally before this video came out XD

[@Nixx2709]

As much as I love watching Game Knights' or Extra Turns games, these info videos are fun, especially when I'm reminded I have these cards...somewhere 😄

[@asimplememer4623]

Deadeye Quartermaster is pretty sweet. For 4 mana, you get a 2/2 that tutors for any equipment or vehicle (there a lot of those nowadays). It's like a budget Stoneforge Mystic for blue.

[@HopelessRetirement]

FINNALLY! I opened a Glaring Spotlight in a pack I bought back when it was the newest set and I've thought about it here and there for YEARS. Now just to figure out what deck to put it in... and actually finish any of the decks that I think of, and then buy the cards. Muldortha or Glissa maybe?

[@viridian8853]

Holistic Wisdom is one of my favorite cards in my exile-based O-Kagachi deck. When you can exile creatures like Misthollow Griffin or Squee, the Immortal it feels like getting creatures back for free, and there's ways to get the other card types back too. I have my doubts that I'd ever play it in a different deck, just because of the lost opportunity to get those other cards back, but it's still a strong card

[@flintston3r]

I used to run bolt bend in my Temur Omnath deck and it absolutely caught so many in my playgroup off guard. Really good card tbh

[@thomaslepage5941]

On a similar note to suppres, I've been the target of a well timed "Mana Short" multiple times. The first time killed me and other casts have put me in last place at the point of the game from being ahead. Mana Short: 2U - Tap all lands target player controls and that player loses all unspent mana.

[@SurgingChaos19]

Great to see Submerge get some love. The condition to meet in order to cast it for free is so absurdly easy to meet (especially since it will count duals/shocks that are forests). A zero mana answer that sends a creature to the top can lead to so many blowouts.

[@aces6123]

Mogg salvage does the same work for me also. Love them both

[@metricarea7546]

Shard Convergence, wow! I am just now building a 5C deck, thanks for that tip!

[@chochomiak]

Wash Away is nice little grave and commander counter for one mana plus Cancel in other instations.

[@meatshild16]

Im going to need to see the other 1/2 of these list asap!

[@cowabunka]

wow, i didn't think you guys could up the production value higher, but that intro is another level, well done

[@flyingplane1]

I already gave this episode a thumbs up at 1 and a half minutes :D I love it !

[@BigTonyToes]

I love the new intros that tease the video! Great way to start each pod!

[@kapiatgatas]

Submerge. In my group/LGS, looks like I'm the only person who plays this card. They forgot it's 0 mana in instant speed. Compost is in my Sidisi deck.

[@andrewwebb3813]

Insight has been my favorite piece of secret tech in EDH for a while now. Speaking from experience, it’s amazing. There have been games where it’s a dead draw, but if there’s even one green deck at the table, you’re drawing 3 cards off it minimum.

[@leemiller6977]

An obscure card that I like to play is a real blast from the past....Viashino Heretic from Urza's Legacy set is awesome artifact removal that will also make you opponent take some damage when you use the creature to blow up their artifacts.

[@reapersaurus]

I think the Heretic is one of the best cards that noone plays or talks about.

[@leemiller6977]

@@reapersaurus I also like to use Smash to Smithereeens. Same effect but one time use artifact removal and they will take 3 damage.

[@Hyxtrem]

Fabulous video, thanks a lot to you. I bought a Bolt Bend instantly for my deck xD.

[@matthewbrooks5335]

I love Bioshift! When I first started playing magic, I used to play it with a centaur with heroic, so it would get three +1/+1 counters and shift it to another one, triggering both and making them bigger!

[@natejablonski]

I have two similar cards that do work in green stompy decks: Winds of Qal Sisma and Terrifying Presence. They are both 1G for a fog effect with a twist. Winds has a Ferocious clause where your creatures still deal damage. TP targets one creature to deal damage and the rest don't. Both can be used defensively if necessary, but their real power is by swinging and hoping blockers are declared in a way that theoretically favors them. The two combined are in roughly 3K decks on EDHRec. Compared with Fog's 12K, I think these cards deserve a little more love.

[@cmoore6547]

Put seedtime on an isochron scepter as a counter deterant

[@philellis3463]

Invasion Plans from Stronghold is really cool. It is a red enchantment from 2 and a red. Card text: All creatures block each combat if able. The attacking player chooses how each creature blocks each combat

[@PaulGaither]

Submerge: Thanks to Mizzix of the Izmagus, it has been a staple for me since 2015. Bolt Bend: Another Misdirection for my Mizzix deck for a single red pip thanks to experience counters, and can even add another one if I only have two or three.

[@erikohman2294]

Great home for submerge =)

[@Squeakel1]

What a great list of cards, you can tell the research for this video was thorough!

[@table8352]

comment was 5 mins ago, the time of writing this, 1 hr long vid, watched in 30 mins, 2x speed, or like farming. hmmmmmmmmm

[@Squeakel1]

@@table8352 I listen to this at 4x while I do lawn work :) I appreciate you being on the look out for bs though!

[@table8352]

@@Squeakel1 yoo thats sick! nice

[@nycstreetpoet]

I never used Fury Storm, but I did use Wild Ricochet: it’s Misdirection + Fork in red. I do play Holistic Wisdom. 0% of decks play a favorite card of mine: Nostalgic Dreams. For GG, sorcery: As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Return X target cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Nostalgic Dreams. Fantastic in general, brutal in reanimator and dredge decks.

[@milesredgate4596]

I love bioshift! Other great things about it, it can also just be used offensively too, not just to save counters. If you have anything out that interacts with counters being placed, like a doubling season, or a hardening scales or whatever, bioshift can make one creature with 10 counters into 2 creatures with 10 counters, or one creature with twice the amount of counters. Can also be helpful is say you were "forced" to build up the wrong creature with counters, once you get the right creature, you can just bioshift them over, and at instant speed too! So can even be used as combat tricks

[@andrewforsythe9146]

Though it costs more than Bioshift, Fate Transfer can steal your opponents' counters (and not just +1/+1 counters, if it's relevant). Exodus's Spike Cannibal has some nice potential too, albeit not as an Instant.

[@reapersaurus]

Yep - them putting a spotlight on Bioshift, but not mentioning Fate Transfer is a big oversight. I would argue that for only one mana more, Fate Transfer is a far superior and flexible card.

[@moreparmesan5261]

My favorite underrated card has to be steely resolve. Great enchantment!!

[@kevinchamp9722]

Ceta sanctuary; it's really only good in temur and temur+ lists, but it's fairly good card advantage/filtering. Extra good if you want to discard cards.

[@caseyhubbard19]

I've been using Glaring Spotlight for awhile. I run it in nearly all of my decks. It is soooo good.

[@ctomsky]

Fun facts! Like Urborg, you can play Yavimaya in monoblue to give opponents Forests. Also, Bolt Bending a Dovin's Veto to target itself is hysterical. As for my own favorite underrated cards, Oath of Lieges and Bucknard's Everful Purse are my favorites!

[@DontStopTheHustle]

Spells cant actually target themselves, but you get essentially the same thing by redirecting DV to the bolt bend

[@ctomsky]

@@DontStopTheHustle Actually, they can! Just not as they're being cast. Targets are chosen as you cast a spell, so that spell hasn't become a legal spell on the stack yet in order to be targetable. But once its on the stack they ARE just another spell on the stack, so an effect that changes the target CAN change that target to itself as long as it's a legal target (ie Essence Scatter can't target itself but Counterspell or Dovin's Veto can!)

[@DontStopTheHustle]

@@ctomsky This is incorrect. Spells are not a legal target for themselves. 113.4. A spell or ability on the stack is an illegal target for itself

[@bourgeoiscaesar]

Came across Argivian Find back when it was around $1.50 and ended up giving it to a friend for their Light-Paws deck. Kinda wishing I had bought a backup now lol

[@yummines]

I always thought it was weird that nobody in my playgroup plays Wild Growth even though everyone has at least 2 decks that have green. It literally pays for itself, and then just gives extra mana every turn.

[@ToastyWaffle7710]

I love Drumhunter, its ramp and card draw, especially for budget

[@marcocapolli]

Compost works also with black instant and sorcery your opponents cast if I'm not mistaken. So you don't even need to mill, its just enough that your opponents with black are playing the game

[@illordwin]

Submerge you can even use to protect your own creatures big making it the next thing you draw. Can help prevent commander tax or loosing a key piece.

[@mightyone3737]

So it was a decent call to grab a Magistrate's Tower I gather, that's sure spiked a bit. I agree Wild Growth sees too little play for how good it is, it's a powerhouse of a card if you don't explicitly need the 1/1 dork, or if you've already got all the ones you can use in the deck. It's a tad salty, but Omen of Fire is a good card if your Red deck doesn't like being interacted with on the stack, as is Boil and Boiling Seas. You can probably run all 3 in a Red deck if your power level is pretty high (and everyone favours Blue). It's a lot less salty now vs non-mono decks, because they run so few lands that'll get hit, but if you play against someone who runs mono-Blue, they're going to be having a rough go if they cross you. A card I didn't see people using but I tried out and loved is Phyrexian Purge, can be much better than Fire Covenant, but it's a serious oldie. Great in a deck that likes to clear the board, but doesn't especially want to lose it's own stuff, or that might have a short-term ally you want to keep it's creatures. Lots of weird and technically playable stuff like this from the Weird Old Days.