12 Minutes on the Worst Magic: The Gathering Set of All Time 

reuploading because the sound's fixed. if you liked or commented on the previous upload then you have to do the same for this one, it's the law

Both my ears enjoyed this video

for posterity, on the new upload: the children yearn for a coldsnap video

this may be the most Boisian video I've ever seen not made by Jon Bois himself. one Jon isn't enough so I'm glad another stepped in

Ah yes, MTG Jon Bois inspired video. Neat. Edit: I noticed this may have sound mean, I mean this in the best posible way. MTG nature as a card game, their competitive scene and the history of its market can go really well with this kind of video for the amount of statistical analysis you can do.

Me, like 6 minutes in: Man, this is giving me huge deja vu for that one excellent video about how Masques Block both sucked and ruled by HEY WAIT A MINUTE

Never liked a video so fast. Could you do 13 seconds on why Ixalan was mid? (I obey the law)

my right ear can finally enjoy this video

Ok but the Shoal cycle is the most well-balanced five color free spell cycle ever put to print, all those cards are "Pretty good" and did something at some point in magic's history. Credit to that

Jon, you deserve so much more love from the MTG community for your lore-filled takes. Please never stop making these.

I love the Jon Bois vibe this video gives. I never knew that i wanted a Jon Bois for MtG content.

I love this, always looking forward to your sporadic content drops Jon! Suggestion, lower the background music a bit, and fix the left ear audio

Rememered your channel exists and is some of my favorite content after seeing Pinholes Graham's newest video (who does the same style but for hockey). Pleasantly surprised to see a video from 4 days ago now. LOVE it

You're the only reason I ever watched the TCG Player channel, you have a style and presentation that's thoroughly enjoyable

Just watched the new video over breakfast, now I've got ANOTHER one for lunch? Hell yeah.

Even though 16 year old me back then knew little about what constitutes good and bad magic cards, Betrayers and Saviors got me to quit after quite enjoying Champions. I only started again with Scars-Block, so this robbed me of OG Ravnica.

Good visual effects, cute format. Your writing could be tighter and say more about the actual cards. There was a lot of dead air and repeating yourself, and I'm not sure I learned very much.

Dude, I'm loving the magic content with Jon Bois/SB Nation style music/presentation. Keep up the good work!

I love my youtube reccomended sometimes I love this video

So happy to see you uploading again

the return of the return of the king

Jon Bois Inspired MtG video? Absolutely love it. hope to see more!

We back again! Was rewatching your other stuff this past weekend

I think this is one of the best Magic videos I've ever seen... Compelling storytelling, a good voice, and interesting visuals all in one. I'm afraid i might have to go on twitter to ask you for more now...

Coldsnap is actually saucy as hell, but it did badly in Limited because it was a single small set meant to be a third set of a block, and didn't have the rest of the block to work with. (They stacked the set with "x copies in graveyard" spells to help, and there were an abundance of them.) Scrying Sheets, Counterbalance, Rite of Flame, and Skred are a few notable cards. But when it was taken with the whole of Standard in its lifetime, it got to see a lot of silliness, including Counter/Top. And snow-covered basic lands are just objectively better than their normal counterparts.

Dragon's Maze might be the worst limited format ever, MOM Aftermath might be one of the biggest disappointments, but overall, I can't really disagree about Saviors. Great vid

What do you think would happen in Worst Set Ever Block Constructed (Homelands/Prophecy/Saviors)? My first thought is Ebony Owl combined with Prophecy's mana denial, but Prophecy also has many ways to discard cards for effects. I doubt there's anything worth finding with Enduring Ideal, but some of the other epic spells might work because there's nothing to play, your lands might keep exploding and you can have spellshapers. I'm not sure if homelands would have any impact at all, so the format might need that hilarious old rule that said you had to run homelands cards.

Motion Sickness: the Video Everything you said was on point though

Giving a like and comment again to help the video, algorithm, or whatever out. Also to say again, 10/10 video! Always a great day when you upload. I don't remember exactly what my last comment had, but it has something like "Would love to hear about sets you enjoy, or what makes a set strong vs broken."

Literally the most entertaining Magic content on the platform

I can't believe I'm saying this, but the smooth jazz is a little too loud. You're hard to hear around 4:40

dude, Deece, come back. We need you. Also kudos grandissimo for not counting Fallen Empires as a bad set.

Enjoyable video, thanks for sharing! ❤ I haven't played the game, but you gave me enough context to understand what you meant and the style inspiration was immediately familiar.

Looking forward to the next PT video :) thanks for fixing the audio!

My right ear is doing better but I think in the part at 1:22, your voiceover is only in the right ear now?

I am commenting because it has been brought to my attention that it is legally required

Everyone's dropping the Jon Bois comparisons (rightfully so), but why do you sound _exactly_ like Jon Corpora (the guy who Pretty Deece for MTGPlayer)? Great vid regardless, love to see more Bois inspired MTG stuff in my feed c: EDIT: Wait it is you! Hi! Made the comment originally before I finished the vid, knew that voice was familiar. Glad to see you back and doing your thing, these vids still make my day

always have to bring up, kamigawa block constructed might be kind of solved but honestly, it's a fun super skill intensive format that i'd recommend anyone who started playing the game in recent years to find a friend to dabble in it with.

Say what you will about Saviors, it gave us the gem that is One with Nothing.

I genuinely think i took 1d4 psychic damage when you showed pithing needle

Solid showing for a new channel, and the John Bois style fits like a glove. All I could complain about is maybe a couple long pauses and the audio mixing being biased towards the soundtrack.

Man am I glad the RU-vid algorithm allowed me to be reunited with your content.

I don't know if I commented or not last time so I'm just here to make sure I'm in compliance.

thanks for the fixed sound tried watching the old one but i died from only one ear

Left channel Jon Coppola when stereo Jon walks in:

My ears are joined in solidarity

Imagine the timeline where zack said 12 hours.

Could you do a 10 minute video about the $1000 magic booster packs?

Feels like homie likes a Jon Bois video You like a Jon Bois video, homie? Chart Party is good stuff.

Owling Mine was fun. I built it for the last Modern tournament I went to, with an updated trick in it: I used Aether Tradewinds and Mystic Sanctuary in a loop once I hit 5 mana, so I could keep bouncing their lands or creatures while still keeping up a counterspell. I even beat Eldrazi Winter game 1 by locking him out, haha. (g2/g3 he sided in Chalices though, sadly.)

Ngl, surprised Dragon's Maze wasn't mentioned.

When it rains it pours, two TBL videos in two days!

Kataki at least did eventually find a home in Vintage sideboards. Good Lord what an awful set

Spice 8 rack is the philosophy tube of magic, your the Bobby broccoli

If we didn't get Saviors of Kamigawa I would never have gotten to build my favorite Commander deck of all time, the Great Snake Mistake. so I still love SoK despite its trouble.

fantastic video, the audio is actually quite good so instead of it feeling weird to have your voice only in one ear i instead compelled to turn my head to the right to hear you better for some reason

Prophecy is still the worst.... You don't sell me.

Top 7 sets imo [by 1) coolness, 2) power balance, 3) impact, and 4) limited environment]: 2 Innistrad 1 Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty 6 Ikoria 4 Ravnica 1 5 Strixhaven: School of Mages 7 Invasion 3 Theros Invasion was just a really solid set with a pretty fun limited environment early on. Ikoria was broken in a fun way with a really interesting limited environment due to Mutate, Cycling, the at-the-time-new ability counters, and companion. Triomes, Companion, Drannith Magistrate, etc. were pretty toxic for various formats, but I think it's the broken set that's the most equally broken and broken for the most interesting reasons. Go back to the pre-release opinions on the set, everyone got it wrong more-or-less, between Companion turning out to be maybe the most broken mechanic ever printed to Emergent Ultimatum randomly becoming the best deck in Standard to Zenith Flare being a playable Standard card to people missing the impact of Drannith Magistrate on Commander. Strixhaven is heavily underrated. Learn might be the mechanic that got slept on the hardest ever - Mascot Exhibition had something like a 70% winrate just being drafted yet it took a solid two sets for people try the mechanic in Standard. It wasn't the most powerful set - outside Mystic Archive reprints and Expressive Iteration - but the set was brimming with interesting cards that did kinda weird/specific things. Favorites include Fervent Mastery, Codie Vociferous Codex, Culling Ritual, Divide by Zero, Ecological Appreciation, Elite Spellbinder, Galazeth Prismari, Hofri Ghostforge, Plumb the Forbidden, Magma Opus, Mavinda Students' Advocate, Mila Crafty Companion/Lukka Wayward Bonder, Multiple Choice, the Command cycle, Resculpt, Sedgemoor Witch, Storm-Kiln Artist, Lisette Dean of the Root [awesome aggro commander], Velomachus Lorehold, Wandering Archaic, Witherbloom Apprentice. Ravnica is a classic, though I think it has definitely aged and it's a slightly clunkier limited format than I remembered. Theros - not particularly powerful, but definitely fun. Constellation, Heroic, Bestow, and Devotion were all pretty sweet, and it's the home to my favorite card [Boon Satyr]. Innistrad is fantastic. Awesome flavor, awesome limited environment [though 2x Innistrad/1x Dark Ascension goes hard], awesome cards. The OG Werewolves sucked pretty hard and the overall power level of the set was pretty middle-of-the-road, but Snapcaster, Liliana of the Veil, Unburial Rites, Delver of Secrets, Kessig Wolf Run, Laboratory Maniac, Past in Flames, Geist of St Traft, Ghost Quarter, Heartless Summoning, Intangible Virtue, Invisible Stalker, and Champion of the Parish are a pretty solid series of poster children, albeit Invisible Stalker a bit on the toxic side. Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty is maybe the densest set ever released for Standard, I believe it still holds the record for wordiest Standard set, and its eternal impact is basically limited to Fable of the Mirror-Breaker, Patchwork Automaton, and the channel lands. That said, I've never had more fun brewing than with NEO and I've never had more fun drafting outside Cube. A big part of that in my eyes is the Saga Creatures being not-so-subtly the best midrange mechanic ever - the set is just value central. Not even looking at those, the set has a lot going on between both enchantment-matters and artifacts-matter, plus Channel and Reconfigure and Modified and Ninjitsu, and a whole heap of cards interacted with multiple mechanics leading to the limited environment having a ton of texture and synergy. I could play that limited format all day, any day.

"It is the third most valuable card in the set." In the screenshot: three cards with higher prices. (Haha...)

doing my civic duty to comment. thank you very much for making these

Could you do 30 minutes on why triple betrayers is the best draft format ever

So glad i got to see this❤

I still saw this and am still a nerd.

pro tip: open the video in vlc or smplayer or something and force it to mono

last time i watched this with only my right ear on time for my left this time

Hurray for multi channel audio!!!

Saviors had Twincast and Sakashima. Be nice!

they're called manlands

Ideas unbound has been seen in doomsday lists in the past? Thats kinda something?

Oh hey, time to watch this banger again!

As a massive Kamigawa fan... It's hard to deny this XD. My pick would probably be Rivals of Ixalan. As an avid MTG hipster, I love all the unique effects. Best Ixalan has going for it is Pitiless Plunderer, i suppose, but the card design overall feels very boring, even if it may be objectively 'better' than Saviors. Commander definitely is a massive factor though.

Pithung Needle the GOAT

Yay! My headphones that for some reason prefer the right side despite all the settings saying its equal love this!

I love *your Jon Bois inspired style

finally, mtg jon bois has arrived 🥰

wait, holy shit, this is where you're uploading now??? i watched you on TCGplayer a while ago!

I was afraid when the og video dissapeared, but I'm glad it was just a tech issue

bro watched some bobbybroccoli before you made this, or what? This video was fuckin awesome, and I hope another stray tweet or comment inspires another talk of this sort. Damn dude.

Looks like Wizard Squares kino is back on the menu boys!

jon bois? in magic? in this economy?

Homelands is objectively the worst.

I'd argue more for MoM: A, but that isn't really a set. Epic is so funny to me as a mechanic- but it really just doesn't help. I'd rather "Epic" was more like an enchantment that sat there and was powerful until you used some removal or something. Though I guess that would require it to just stop Sorcerer speed casting.

Awesome Video Jon! nice to hear your voice again. one question: What's 'Twitter'?

I think Bloomburrow might take top spot as new best set ngl

Nice video, Wait. No Fallen Empires mention?

EYO PAUSE NEW JON DROPPED

I know it's going to look a lot like bobbybroccoli but please use easein/out for the camera movement. Linear kinda hurts the eyes. Great vid tho.

Can you do the video over again, but in 15 minutes instead?

The video so nice you have to see it twice😂

Great video, i always knew Homelands wasnt as terrible as everyone says, it still terrible but i still like some of the cards in that set. The fact that the only card i knew from S. Of Kamiwaga was Pithing Needle says a lot about the set. P. D: i would love to see a video about Coldsnap as well.

Don't mind an excuse to watch this video again

I really like the Video, but i wish you showed f.e. the epic Cards, in a way, to be read by us viewers.

Wtf a mtg video that isnt a borderline shitpost on a white background powerpoint???

it's modern horizons 1

Yay fixed audio

IMHO Urzas Saga was the best

I feel like the original eldraine is pretty high up there on my least favorites list. Just kinda unbalanced with no super interesting cards

Ok, your argument is good. I did not come here expecting to disagree with you, Savior was a safe pick for a worst set. BUT You kinda cheated on the 12 minutes, theres a lot of time you take very long and noticeable pause that didn't bring anything. I can forgive the bad audio, but that kind of cheating? I can't let it slide /s

swaggy

The style of video and the voiceover is bit too much like Jon Bois, which is fine! but your wearing your influence a bit too close to your sleeves. Great vid tho, would watch again