Top 10 Best Equipment Cards in MTG

[@doomzilla3568]

For us, yu-gi-oh fans, we lost a great legend today. We all grew up with his work since the beginning days of the anime to the manga and played the card game to this day. From the wonderful characters and creatures he created, we will forever remember them thanks to him. We will deeply miss you Kazuki Takahashi. Rest in peace.

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

Forgive me for being out of the loop, but who?

[@doomzilla3568]

@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire The creator of yu-gi-oh! Kazuki Takahashi passed away today.

[@LJW1912]

@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire Kazuki Takahashi created the original YuGiOh manga, which featured the card game Duel Monsters, which became the YuGiOh card game. May I thank this gentleman eternally for something they so thoroughly shaped my childhood and indeed, much of my life after. May he rest in peace

[@calemr]

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[@grigorvitez897]

Sad day for everyone growing up with yu-gi-oh! manga/anime/games. R.I.P Kazuki Takahashi 😞😢

[@fuzzzx14]

Fun fact, Skullclamp was actually “nerfed” from +1/+1 to +1/-1 right at the end of development. Of course that change is what made it actually broken, but at the time the developers thought that reducing toughness rather than raising it couldn’t possibly make the card better and so they didn’t test it further.

[@ymmijx6061]

the original version was 2 mana and yes gave +1/+1.

[@Nerobyrne]

That would actually make it balanced. I have a card that creates a 0/1 token for 0 mana. Totally busted with this thing

[@johnnyjoestar4473]

@@Nerobyrne Which card? I'm looking through all the existing cards that make 0/1 tokens and the only ones I can think of are Awakening Zone, Khalni Garden, and Turntimber Sower.

[@Nerobyrne]

@@johnnyjoestar4473 I looked it up and it was puppet conjurer, so it actually cost 1, not 0. Still pretty good, but the reason it worked so well was because the deck already had Dross Scorpion in it.

[@claraladuelliste5769]

that's hilarious

[@bgforever]

Rest in Peace, Takahashi... you changed many lifes for the better, and made many of our childhoods May your soul rest well, true King of Games

[@eavyeavy2864]

Comment whore 1) duellog doesnt point this in video 2) 1 comment in this channel

[@Atmapalazzo]

Viewer's note: Affinity actually spent more time not running affinity cards than time running them. Regardless the deck is still called affinity.

[@antaunt2144]

We will all miss Kazuki Takahashi greatly. May he Rest In Peace.

[@yummines]

Yeah, not surprised I saw Skullclamp that high. Paying 1 to draw 2 cards by sacrificing a small token is good, but the fact it sticks around makes it absurd when you have any kind of token generator. The fact that it's completely generic as well makes it a must-have in any Commander deck if you're even thinking of using tokens.

[@makingnoises2327]

7:08 in commander sword of feast and famine is usually considered to be by far the best of the swords, because land ramp and long games are very common in that format, so untapping all your lands gives you a huge amount of extra mana to play impactful spells

[@dustinglasier6417]

Glad I'm not the only one who thought it was weird he didn't go with feast and famine as the example sword. The pro black was even super relevant as it cut off a lot of targeted removal, probably more so than the pro blue and red from the fire and ice.

[@KyussTheWalkingWorm]

@@dustinglasier6417 Those videos are about cards that see play in competitive formats, not in commander.

[@dustinglasier6417]

@@KyussTheWalkingWorm even competitive decks ran feast and famine, like cawblade before Stoneforge Mystic got banned. Even the modern Stoneforge decks were running both SOFAI and SOFAF for a long time.

[@Nerobyrne]

I have skull clamp. As an uncommon. When I saw that card, I was like "why did they ever print this?" I still think that 15 years later.

[@GarethXL]

not to mention clamp was in a structure deck

[@josephwodarczyk977]

It was going to give the creature +1/+1, but they nerfed it last minute to what we have today. And they didn't bother to playtest the "nerfed" version. They were so scared of doing that again that when the situation of last minute changes came up again, they made archangels light. It's so bad, there was no fear for the games health.

[@superbaas8822]

Sword of the Meek was actually banned in modern for nearly a decade, but even coming off, it wasn't until Urza where it took off. Shadowspear is on point, but should be higher, as it impacts even the eternal formats. For Nettlecyst, it's worth noting that the single type artifact lands are banned from modern, IE, anything that entered untapped. Colossus Hammer is on point. Sword of Fire and Ice is on point, but a lot of it's strength comes from the protection to red. Lightning Bolt is a super powerful removal tool in most formats, and having pro red is that impactful vs it. Shuko's review is on point. Batterskull is on point, but for both what it's done over the years and it's relevance to this day, it's a card that easily deserves a top 3 slot. Khadra is on point. We expect it to go the way of Jitte. Jitte's review is solid, but the +2/+2 mode is the weakest, the life gain comes up a lot. Note the Jitte creature doesn't have to survive combat. I'd actually nudge Jitte to just below Batterskull, but not any lower. Still a VERY strong equipment. Skullclamp is on point for why it's so strong, but it was actually tested. It had an equip cost of 3, and last minute they decided to buff it to a 1 cost equip, and hadn't bothered to test that.

[@epthopper]

Jitte at #2 is 100% correct and I don’t think it’s close. It’s almost impossible to win as a creature deck once counters get on Jitte. Agreed that Shadowspear should be higher, also think that Maul of the Skyclaves should be somewhere on the list as it saw quite a bit of play before the printing of Kaldra.

[@epthopper]

Also Balustrade Spy was never banned in legacy, it was banned in Pioneer. Very different power level formats.

[@superbaas8822]

@@epthopper Fixed the note on spy. I Still stand by my opinion that Jitte has fallen off through the years, but don't at all doubt it's power. I just feel the game has reached a point where Jitte doesn't do enough to out some of the absolute game enders just prior to it on the list.

[@GreatgoatonFire]

Embercleave was a menace during standard. It can really mess up blockers or just kill an opponent with the right board state for just two Red mana. But I can see why it didn't make the list.

[@magnaillusion6085]

I gotta admit I disliked Dimir discard a little bit more during that rotation, but at least the rogues had meaningful interactions. Embercleave monored was just "attack face for 3-5 consecutive turns and then concede if they're still not dead." If they felt particularly daring, they splashed some white for Maul of the Skyclaves.

[@Atmapalazzo]

Duellogs also has a tendency to choose cards that were, at the time, extremely powerful in the meta at the time. For example, Shuko is much more of a powerhouse from extended cephalid breakfast than it's legacy applications today.

[@tinkerer3399]

I loved Embercleave. My definite win con for my "roleplay" Nahiri deck when it was in standard.

[@Crockist]

A quick side-note for Skullclamp: The buffing of the card was kind of on-point, but the story is a little more specific: It was originally +1/+0, but designers thought it was too powerful as is and it was changed to +1/-1, specifically intending to NERF it. As we can see today, that "nerf" was a huge oversight and it just made the card significantly better.

[@ymmijx6061]

actually it was +1/+1 and cost more

[@Crockist]

@@ymmijx6061 Ah whoops, my mistake! Thanks for catching that!

[@ymmijx6061]

@@Crockist oh, my bad, just checked it was +1/+2 (3 to play, 2 to equip)

[@fredyramirez3035]

Duel logs. Yugi oh is on a Duel today. It's creator died a few hours ago...

[@alexandrosstavrou4224]

R.I.P to Kazuki Takahashi.

[@Luminarise]

I been watching your vids for a while. Cool to see MTG appear here since I recently picked up playing Commander format.

[@wavedash101]

I’m surprised Shuko is so high. I’d have expected one of the standard dominant equipments like Feast and Famine or Embercleave to go in over it, and deck creators like Colossus Hammer to as well.

[@GiganticPawUnit]

I think you misspoke a bit about Skullclamp. You said that sacrificing a creature to draw two cards is "a rate that nothing really compares to" - but you're paying two mana to get those cards on the turn you play Skullclamp, and paying 1 when you use it again, which brings it in line with plenty of spells that draw two cards. 1 mana + sacrifice to draw two cards, or 2 mana + sacrifice to draw two cards with some other benefit, is pretty much standard in MTG. They've printed at least 3 black spells that do that in the last year and a half. The real distinction is that Skullclamp makes card draw at that cost accessible to every color, but even more importantly, that it's repeatable.

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

Yeah, it's kind of putting Card of Safe Return in a list of broken cards and describing it as if it was Supply Squad

[@blahblah-fw5vb]

I feel like you have a misunderstanding about the term rate. It means the frequency in which something is happening. Other cards draw 2 for 3 skullclamp will become a staggeringly efficient machine in the ensuing turns becoming a draw two for two or even draw two for 1. This is an unreal speed and frequency of card draw. It’s not a draw two for 3 that’s repeatable like you disingenuously distilled it to. So no to use the term rate is correct here.

[@kakashilover9231]

With all this MtG videos and channel I might actually get back into MtG and play my favorite gimik: Slivers!

[@randomcatname7792]

New slivers only boost YOUR slivers rather than ALL slivers .. I was so hyped they were coming back, then learned that :(

[@kakashilover9231]

@@randomcatname7792 what's the problem with that? I actually think that's pretty cool b/c now if your opponent takes your sliver they don't get the effects

[@kakashilover9231]

@@randomcatname7792 ok so I'm stupid as I realized that I basically said what was bad about the modern Slivers only affecting your slivers. All your opponent has to do is take your strongest sliver and you can lose a good affect

[@randomcatname7792]

@@kakashilover9231 yeah it makes it easier for red to doom you.. Also makes Sliver vs Sliver battles less chaotic haha

[@LordQuintix]

I'd say 3 of my favorite equipment should've had at least a shout out 1. Sunforger - Allows you to cast a 4 cost instant from your deck for free, so use Akroma's Will. 2. Spellbinder - Can imprint an instant and cast it upon battle damage, Temporal Cascade is one such card! 3. Worldslayer - When it hits a player, wipe the ENTIRE FIELD! They're not as impactful as the ones in the list, but shenanigans ensue each and every time one of these bad boys hits the field!

[@fernandobanda5734]

This video is about the best competitive cards. If anything would have a shout out it would be an 11th place honorable mention in that regard. Those are very random casual weak Equipment. They're fun but they're very very mundane.

[@dm9910]

Shadowspear's activated ability is actually almost entirely irrelevant. The point of Shadowspear is that with low opportunity cost of a single copy which you can search up when you need it with Saga, lifelink and trample is the perfect combination of abilities to put on a big construct. Both hexproof and indestructible are rare keywords in Modern and Legacy and while sure, it might come up once every 50 games, you'd barely notice if that activated ability wasn't there. You'd still play it for the keywords because they completely slam the door on fair decks which might have otherwise been able to race or chump block the constructs long enough to survive.

[@CC-oi9mc]

It was actually super important in standard for a while - being the best way to beat dream trawler decks

[@Achievement_Slayer]

I appreciate DuelLogs putting MTG and YuGiOh in the same channel. I play both on and off

[@yoman8027]

When I read the title I thought "Skullclamp will be number 1". I was not disappointed.

[@jomonramiel7913]

so glad to see you getting into mtg lists. Havent played yugioh in depth in years but your videos gave me a lot of info and now youre talking about my preferred tcg more and more!

[@josephwodarczyk977]

Look up the mana logs.

[@marcoottina654]

1:24 no, You just need either the Ashnod Altar (or Phyrexian altar, but can't let you to increase the total mana available) or the Krark-Clan Ironworks to sacrifice the topther to gain infinite uncolored life, then start keeping the topther to activate the Time Sieve to gain infinite turns :D I love it so much

[@lunae5600]

I got so lucky picking up a jitte in a modern horizons pack I believe . I always wanted one of these staple weapons like sword of fire and ice but when I got the jitte I felt like the shi

[@johnlawyer4954]

Skullclamp doesn't just take over games it takes over metas and entire formats when the clamp was in standard there was no control deck just affinity and clamp decks

[@blazep629]

Can’t wait for the inevitable “Top Ten Un Set Cards”

[@fosterdawson7339]

Yesss

[@jessiegashler427]

As a dredge player, as well as someone who just loves playing graveyard matters decks, how the hell did I not know about the shuko combo? Jesus christ that's crazy

[@SomeGuy712x]

I definitely remember Skullclamp. Maybe they should've made it +1/+0 instead of +1/-1. Also, I enjoyed using Sword of Fire and Ice in the past, after getting lucky to acquire one from a booster pack. It's been a long while since I played Magic: The Gathering seriously, but some of these sound like fun things to try if I ever get my hands on the necessary cards somehow.

[@Nerobyrne]

one thing that makes equip cards way better in MTG than YuGiOh is that MTG equips remain on the field after the creature they're attached to is destroyed. Of course, that does mean they are balanced by an equip cost, but I think that's fair.

[@manjackson2772]

Yugioh equips are equivalent to MTG auras, not MTG equips. MTG equips would be like, continuous spells that target a single monster for buffs and you can change the target.

[@Nerobyrne]

@@manjackson2772 I don't think you can compare the two. "destroy target permanent" is very rare and pretty OP in MTG, whereas such an effect in YuGiOh is pretty much staple at this point. If your deck doesn't have a way to remove any card in play, it's not even a candidate for meta.

[@vxicepickxv]

@@Nerobyrne they're becoming more and more common. Most of them are still conditional(generally nonland), or extremely mana intensive(Desert Twister or the superior Scour from Existence), but most effects you would want for removal would also be part of another card effect, or simply a bonus attached to a creature, generally as part of an enter the battlefield effect.

[@legoboy-ox2kx]

Elbrus is probably my personal favorite equipment since it slots in so well with any deck running sigarda's aid.

[@sergioluque8118]

Yesterday i started to play Magic Arena and boom, new video about Magic

[@josephwodarczyk977]

What'd you think?

[@kvnhernandez8]

Oooh hes making mtg. Me and my little bro were just about to try it out this week.

[@Average_CoD_Clips]

Illusionist+ Shuko AKA Cephalid Breakfast was my favorite combo deck back in the day with the Sutured Ghoul OTK. Attacking with a giant trampler for the win was the only fun part, the rest is just methodical milling and playing it out.

[@jehhhGames]

If I was to put a sword from the sword of cycle it would be Sword of Feast and Famine. Untapping all your lands is massive. Giving protection from green and black is also imo much better than blue and red. Black has the best removal in the game and green has the biggest blockers and attackers. Being able to slice through that defense kills green decks. Only downside really is that green likes blowing up all your artifacts and enchantments so I could see that as the argument for bluered as the pro colors. But I think really untapping your lands and essentially having a second turn in your turn can be too back breaking on a board, or even ensuring you have all your mana open to protect yourself off turn is incredible too.

[@sockosophie3132]

Honorable mention: helm of the host , can give you a full board of hexproof and indestructible flying creatures when used on Serapha (gives every other flying creature indestructible) and the Angel that gives any other permanent and yourself hexproof. Funn

[@merkyofaycemfx2944]

you can attach with cranial plating as an instant. you can kill with ornithopter if they are unblocked if you have 2 black mana open

[@anthonycannet1305]

6:57 the card gives +2/+2 but not trample. Unlike yugioh, creatures in magic don’t deal piercing damage unless they have the keyword ability Trample. So even though your creature probably deals more than 2 damage, a creature just 1 toughness can block all of that damage. The damage trigger only happens when it hits a player, so any block will probably prevent it, but it does come with some powerful evasion with pro-red/blue stopping any red or blue creatures from blocking at all.

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

The important part is that red and blue creatures can't block it, so there is a good chance you will attack the opponent directly. Then you get a draw and a random enemy creature takes 2 damage.

[@anthonycannet1305]

@@joanaguayoplanell4912 Right but he said that even if the opponent has a creature with 2 or less toughness you get the damage through, as if it had trample which it doesn't necessarily have

[@Icedpyro21]

Im a little surprised lightning greaves wasn't on the list. also while sword of fire and ice is the OG of the sword cycle, I think that feast and famine is generally considered to be the best one.

[@wizardsmix7961]

You’d be wrong

[@fernandobanda5734]

No way Feast or Famine is better than Fire and Ice.

[@Goten40373]

for kaldra compleat its other main downside is it cant bounce itself like batterskull can.. also i would mention its a reference to 3 separate artifacts that when all equipped/combined they are the separate pieces that would add together to form this.

[@anthonycannet1305]

I would argue that Sword of Kaldra is a better equipment than Kaldra Compleat. It costs 4 mana to cast and 4 to equip, gives +5/+5 and whenever the equipped creature deals damage to another creature, exile that creature. The important distinction is that Sword of Kaldra triggers on any damage while Kaldra Compleat only triggers on combat damage. There are ways to get infinite “ping” damage, where a creature has an activated ability to deal at least 1 damage to any target( or just creatures), which allows you to exile every creature on the board by simply activating the ability to deal 1 damage to a creature. So you can remove the opponent’s creatures before blocking (meaning the opponent can’t even choose to just take the damage and spare the creature) and probably swing a +5 creature directly at a player with (now)no blockers.

[@nicolaistuhlmuller8718]

It's waaaaaaay too expensive for that. Kaldra Compleat can be searched and cast on your second or third turn using stoneforge mystic, becomes a 5/5 creature thanks to living weapon and can attack right away thanks to haste, sword of kaldra still needs to pay 4 mana to equip and you still need your ping out on top, so even if you brought it out with stoneforge mystic, you'd still have to gather enough mana to pay the equip cost AND you need your target out too, which costs mana. If it's a "tap for damage" card, you need to wait even longer. By the time you can start exiling cards with sword of kaldra, kaldra compleat on its own has most likely just attacked 4 times already for up to 20 damage.

[@pxc_elijah7686]

Skullclamp is nuts in my elf deck

[@Dionysus24779]

Best MTG equipment I remember is "Worldslayer" which is a 5 mana artifact with an equip cost of 5 which has the effect of "Whenever the equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy all permaments other than Worldslayer." which was incredibly powerful if you could get it onto an indestructible creature and then manage to get a point of damage in, your opponent won't be able to recover from it. Something like the Darksteel Forge could also just turn all your artifacts (and artifact creatures) indestructible. And getting in just one point of damage isn't that hard if you can aid it with a spell or have a high attack creature with trample... such as the Darksteel Colossus, which is a 11/11 with trample and is indestructible by default. Fun times.

[@anthonycannet1305]

The reasons that isn’t on this list are: A) it effectively costs 10 mana to use, B) requires the creature to hit the player, C) doesn’t give evasion to support it’s own trigger like the sword cycle does, and D) requires other fairly expensive pieces to prevent it from ruining your own field as well. So it’s too expensive, hard-ish to trigger, and self-destructive. Yes things like indestructible creatures or dark steel forge can prevent that but those cost a lot of mana. You can also use the cost reductions from artifact and equipment synergies to bring down that 10 mana price, but without protections for them they get removed almost right away by the artifact’s own ability meaning you can’t make any more use of them if your board gets disrupted. Then there’s the various forms of evasion you can give to creatures but for a creature to have indestructible AND evasion it usually means a higher mana cost, or using other auras or equipments to grant those abilities means they can be stripped from your creature if you don’t also have the self destruction protection… in total there are too many necessary pieces that generally come with a high mana cost for that to be a top tier strategy (not only are they cards you need to play, they’re taking up slots in your deck that other better utility cards could’ve fit in)

[@Dionysus24779]

@@anthonycannet1305 I don't remember the name of the cards, but in the deck I used this on I had some older cards which were kinda broken with being able to produce massives amounts of mana, so it was never much of an issue. Though, to be fair, I never played according to any ban-list or whatever, back in the day we just played with any cards we owned.

[@maxwellmulford5898]

I don’t understand how sword of feast and famine’s combat trigger isn’t insanely better than that of fire and ice. You get to untap all your lands.

[@wizardsmix7961]

Then you probably aren’t all that good at the game lol..

[@Urd-Vidan]

I just realized this was Duellogs making a top ten for MTG. Just wanted to see what Equipment are good cus I was searching for new ones for a Vultron. Didn't realize till 30 seconds in that it was him.

[@aaroneisenman6873]

Hello, fellow Vultron player! My advice would be to get the Swords of "X and Y." There are actually 11 of them now, and while some are not as good as others, all of them have relevant abilities.

[@TheRedGauntlet]

Skullclamp is infamous. What a mistake of a card. And yet Wizards repeated their mistake with thing like Oko. They never learn

[@josephwodarczyk977]

I mean weren't they different mistakes?

[@vifanboy4989]

If you plan to do more mtg tops, here are some ideas: best removal spells, best 1 cost creatures, best 2 cost creatures, best enchantments. You can use commander as a reference, cause most enchantments arent modern legal.

[@nowaynowaynottoday]

Helm of the Host would be another strong contender. In EDH Helm + Godo is almost unbelievably broken. And there's probably like at least 5 more swords that could make the list!

[@The1AndOnlyGoldenboy]

I'm surprised Deathrender isn't on the list, it'd be low on the list, but it's definitely a great Equipment to cheat out big beefy creatures. Loved using in WB to cheat out something like Avacyn or Griselbrand. Oh, and Grafted Wargear... a persistent sac engine that equips for 0, definitely deserves a mention even if it's just to mention how it synergizes with Skullclamp. Surprised that neither Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots didn't make it either. Wouldn't expect them to make the Top 5, but they're always solid in aggro decks. Sword of Feast & Famine is the best sword equip, not Fire & Ice. F&F literally untaps all your land when the equipped creature hits, that's WAY better than just dealing 2 extra damage and drawing a card. I get that it's subjective and based on the precise circumstances, but if we're just generalizing things, untapping your lands alone is better than both of Fire & Ice's damage effects.

[@SinisterSama]

More research would be required as THOSE ARE STAPLES FOR EQUIPS..... Deathrender is nasty, Wargear is nice when you want to sac something. None of the good shoes are there and fire and ice is outclassed by feast and famine.

[@pyrotempestwing]

Haven’t watched yet, predicting Skullclamp at #1.

[@pyrotempestwing]

booyah!

[@Not_Skorpion]

You were right ✅️

[@assault410]

nothing comes close lol

[@Y0G0FU]

Most broken card to ever be buffed during Development. :D

[@Recesaron]

I don't think Shuko deserves to be so high on the list. It has only ever top 8'd 3 major level legacy tournaments, and only twice in the last decade. If the list was going purely by the power level of the cards Shuko probably wouldn't even get an honorable mention, but it is a more than interesting enough combo to warrant its inclusion; even though its not the only card that can do it (grafted wargear, lightning greaves, umbral mantle, and leather armor can all do the same thing), it is the most iconic one that can. Shadow Spear should also be higher up, that thing is not going to stop being crazy. It's newer than Colossus Hammer and has SIGNIFICANTLY more top 8s; and sees play in most formats, where as the hammer is basically modern exclusive. Would have loved to have seen Embercleave on the list. Sadly it just isn't good enough after rotating. It tore standard apart the entire time it was legal; but outside of that, colossus hammer only needed Sigarda's Aid to do what ember cleave needed four creatures to do.

[@wpmer]

Cranial platings alternative equip cost of BB can be done at instant speed where as most equips are the slowest speed of sorcery

[@phir9255]

you say it like there are other speeds other than these 2

[@Bigd2k]

I remember from MTG Arena there being a equipment creature that was a bunny rabbit. I remember it was 1 mana to equip it and it gave haste. So it pretty much was 1mana to give a creature you had haste every turn.

[@MrShukaku1991]

So a worse version of Lightning greaves, which was 2 to play, gave haste and shroud and could be equipped for free.

[@scriptneon]

rabbit battery?

[@andynonya1490]

I put skullclamp in my squirrel commander deck, totally worth it

[@francescopapaitaliani6399]

The sword of the meek worked with the krark-clan ironworks too

[@fosterdawson7339]

I was watching this and thinking “wait what equipment is better than jitte?” And then #1 came on screen and I was like “ah. Right.”

[@TheLegendaryyoshi]

I was really confident embercleave would make it. Guess equipment is stringer than I thought

[@epthopper]

Cranial Plating is still better than Nettlecyst actually. The cheaper cost means it sees far more play. (Especially when Lurrus was still legal)

[@anamazingkobold1564]

Man, Nizzahon magic looks strange today

[@eavyeavy2864]

This

[@nackle_]

Skull CLamp in a Locust God deck is nuts

[@novashad8]

You should do mtg top 10's more often.

[@kcStranger]

"And then, the combonation attacked."

[@joelbailey8007]

Jitte is soooo good in boros because of all of the double strike they have.

[@Duckee444]

Argentum armor is what I used with my mystic.

[@reversal5035]

the crossover i didnt expect hype

[@vincentwiliamphilips]

Top 10 tier 0 modern magic decks

[@RealKorean]

My favorite equipment is sword of feast and famine

[@claraladuelliste5769]

i easily guessed number one, i think anyone even remotely familiar with mtg can lmao, it's so far removed in power level from every other entries it's not even comparable

[@drollereagle2684]

No Godsend, 3 and 2 white to cast, 3 to equip, +3+3 and banish whatever you attack

[@Death2010]

sword of feast and famine is way better then fire and ice, better colors to have protection from and untapping all your lands on contact with the opponent is just so good... and it does something else too, but I honestly don't remember what because it's not anywhere near as good as the untap.

[@Death2010]

right. it was discard a card, which is decent.

[@adamdouce353]

I feel like this whole list could've just been the Swords of this and that

[@benplocica3790]

Any equipment that costs 0 mana. They are used in a storm deck called cheerios.

[@alialluaibi3008]

Please do Top 10 best link monsters or Top 10 non-Number XYZ monsters or Top fusion monsters that can only be brought out by polymerization !

[@Alarakoru]

You really need to learn more from edh format, there are a ton of cool interactions there. Nice video!

[@edwardiris58]

What the best way to cheat out Kaldra Compleat other then the ways listed here.

[@dedgamingchannel3748]

Sword of Feast and famine is so powerful its played in almost every deck fire and ice isn't that good untapping all your lands and taking cards out of your opponents hands is broken

[@Atmapalazzo]

Honestly it's a toss up, but the history of fire and ice is longer than feast and famine, so it probably earned the spot.

[@dedgamingchannel3748]

@@Atmapalazzo I'd agree if it wasn't for the fact that Feast and famine can virtually double your mana and gives pro black green which is a killer protection choice

[@MrArbaras]

FaF was the straw that broke the camels back and forced the ban on Mind Sculptor and Stoneforge in Standard. Being able to untap and hold counter magic far outways 2 dmg and a card, not to mention you get one of your opponents cards in the proccess. Not even debatable imo.

[@Atmapalazzo]

@@MrArbaras that was batterskull actually

[@MrArbaras]

@@Atmapalazzo Had to look it up cause the dates were so close together. I thought it was just before, but was one month after NPH release. It certainly should have happened earlier though, and doesn't really change my point.

[@bensell982]

As an honor to the recent death of Kazuki Takahashi, how about a top 10 of cards designed by Takahashi himself?

[@wrath5420]

Ho so now there will also be Magic the Gathering top 10? I really hope so

[@randomcatname7792]

Could someone please explain the lack of Godsend on the list? Is it because it is White? It is one of the best equipments in the game no doubt, and completely shuts down several decks

[@krvys7226]

The card see's no real play in any competitive eternal format, and even when it was in standard, it wasn't really ran. Dont mistake me: its a cool card. But its a 6 mana investment the turn it comes down, that is only a possible +1 in card advantage. (thats assuming the opponent blocks) Compare that to all the "Sword of ___and ___" that exist. all of them are only a 5 mana investment turn they come down, offer some form of evasion, and force the opponent to choose between blocking, which means a -1, or letting it through, which usually is at least a +1 in advantage. Hopefully this context helps a bit. and I am willing to be proven wrong if you can show me a list for modern, legacy, or vintage. I love hearing about stratagies i have not seen before.

[@Xepscern]

The absense of Embercleave is pretty staggering

[@vxicepickxv]

Not really. Each card on this list is superior to Embercleave.

[@KoboldCloaca]

>no Thornbite staff As a rat player, I am shocked, appaled and most of all: dissapointed. Marrow-Gnawer gang rise up

[@LevVL]

lightning greves deserves meaning

[@kipp14]

Ugh that skullclamp art

[@magicsinglez]

I don’t have many mythical. . .i probably have half of these.

[@henke37]

I think that you need better proofreading, because the number of typos in the video was exceptionally high.

[@justinmaitland7335]

kaldra compleat screams for flavor text

[@vifanboy4989]

Cranial plating is better than cyst. Both are played but plating will forever be a 4x im aggro decks.

[@fernandobanda5734]

Cyst comes with a body. That's very hard to beat over an Equip that needs to attach to something.

[@serenab5707]

I love skull clamp

[@fwg1994]

Note that most Affinity tends to include 4 Cranial Plating in the deck, while only 2 or fewer Nettlecysts. The extra mana does actually matter a lot here, and the instant speed equip part of Cranial Plating can make a big difference here. Modern has some extremely efficient instant speed removal at the moment, so being able to move the Cranial Plating in response to removal can mean the difference between hitting for lethal or not and dying on the next turn. Also for Shadowspear, the combination of trample and lifelink is a big part of what makes it so good, as both address issues the kind of decks interested in Shadowspear face. Trample means their big creatures can swing through for damage and actually close out games, while lifelink means they can come back from a slow start. The combination of the two and an extra +1/+1 means that just having almost any creature on the board with a Shadowspear becomes pretty hard to race. A 3/3 creature becomes a 4/4, meaning an 8 point life swing opponents need to beat each turn, and since it has trample, they can't just stall with smaller creatures. As for Sword of Fire and Ice and Batterskull, I think the cards are a little past their prime. While the sword does give two of the most relevant colors for protection, it doesn't give them until after its equipped, and spending 2 mana to equip it, only to have that creature get removed is a disaster, as it likely means you spent an entire turn doing nothing. Then, even if you get it equipped, you need to be doing combat damage to a player to really start generating value from it, which may not even happen. The card just takes too much time before you start getting value out of it to be consistently powerful. Batterskull is much the same in that its just a little slow and easy to interact with. While its not quite as bad as the swords are in that regard, it does just have something that fills its niche better in most cases. Other cards that weren't mentioned that definitely deserve consideration are Lion Sash and Embercleave. Lion Sash hasn't really found a home yet as far as I know. Being white, and costing white to activate really limits it when white has traditionally been one of the weakest colors, and often only makes it in as a splash color for competitive decks. The combination of graveyard hate that gets big or can make other creatures big is powerful and mucks a fair number of decks. So I could definitely see it finding a home, especially as they continue to push white more. Embercleave has been a real powerhouse in creature based aggro decks for its ability to just end games out of nowhere. It doesn't really synergize with the current meta for modern, but I don't think much would need to change in the format for it to just take off.

[@krvys7226]

To add context to the OP's take on Cranial plating, as I know a few people are not normally magic players: Equip costs can only be done at sorcery speed. However, if an ability attaches the equipment, such as Cranial platings (B)(B) effect, it can be done at instant speed. hope OP doesn't mind me adding that bit of context for people who don't know

[@donbeu1185]

If this was a Yu-Gi-Oh list, the impact of equip cards would be not as cool (except for fairy lily)

[@MABfan11]

Top 10 Tutors in MTG

[@52flyingbicycles]

Hold on a second, making an X/1 creature lose 1 toughness makes it die? There are creatures with 0 toughness though. Making an X/1 creature lose a toughness makes it an X/0 creature. Which is functionally the same as an X/1 but still. Since when has losing toughness been equivalent to taking damage?

[@fernandobanda5734]

It's not equivalent to dealing damage but it is true that a creature with toughness 0 or less dies. Check any X/0 creature and you'll see that they always have a way to increase their toughness. The only exception is a card from Future Sight, as that was an admittedly weird set.

[@Neelo5000]

Since the game was invented, actually. If a creature has 0 toughness when state-based effects are checked, it dies. Most creatures with a base toughness of 0 will enter the battlefield with at least one +1/+1 counter (like Kalonian Hydra, for example).

[@blaw770]

Dude sword of feast and famine is way better then fire and ice just sayin , being able to untap all your mana and to male them discard is way better then deal 2 damage and draw

[@fernandobanda5734]

Not really unless you're playing a very slow format.

[@NitoVandrick]

number 1 is pot of greed

[@zexalplays]

Rip Kazuki takahashi

[@askus9319]

based mtg video

[@cax1175]

I like fireshrieker so I can one shot people with Kozilek

[@Not_Skorpion]

Love you!!!

[@Alikaakui808]

Caw Blade 😁

[@clementb6963]

Umezawa's Jitte and skullclamp aren't good cards, they are error of design. I don't play yu gi oh, but I play Magic and when I see all the mistakes and approximations you do about it, I can only wonder that you are doing the same for yu gi oh

[@fulanodominicano]

Best and worst Commanders :D