A History of Elementals 

It's amazing how the quality of Ryan & Nicole's content - already great - is improving with time: not only lore and information, but also meta context (and criticism when due), precise summaries of past & present and finally a look at the future! The vorthos community is lucky to have you two (: can't wait for what you have in store!

Color pie history and time spiral would be a fantatic vid

Early Magic: Cards were either nutty good or a cardboard mistake. What a wild time.

Ryan has the energy of your friend’s cool dad

You should do an "history of mustaches in magic" I would like to hear your take on brink of madness

you could hear the excitement in his voice when he called it a "hell-emental"

Long Ago, the elementals lived in harmony, but everything changed when Moss Monster attacked.

I'm creating a MTG based RPG, your's, lorebrarian's, and aether hub's videos have been the most helpful since I started.

Omnath is amazing!!!! I can't wait for his zandikar rising card!

I loved the original fire elemental. I use that one to represent a freind of mine who passed some time ago. She was a beautiful free spirit.

Last time i was this early, birthing pod was still banned in modern.

Temur elementals is my Favorite EDH deck. Omnath, Locus of the Roil is my favorite commander!

No Earth, Wind & Fire joke? Sad September noises...

You didn’t mention my favorite elemental, thorn elemental

Couldn't agree more: when creatures are setting the tone of the game thru synergies and unique, fun abilities MTG is at its best!

A History of Elves, Goblins, Dragons, Angels or Merfolk would be great.

16:00 Oh, I remember this week! It was the time I brought out my greatest invention: the Mirror March deck. It had about 6 elementals in it and 4 of those were reef, yet I managed to draw myself to death at least twice with the cursed thing. Those were days...

Elemental, dear WotC!

Another fun video Ryan! Keep going

I’ve always loved your videos and Elementals is definitely one of my favorite tribes. This has reminded me that something I think would be nice is covering old Magic stories for newer players (Like me cause I started doing WAR), stuff like the weatherlight saga, the history of planes like Lorwyn and Alara, stuff like that

Another great vid keep up the awesome work.

Favourite Elemental? For sure Horde of Notions. I saw this card and was instantly in love with it so I built an Elemental 5-color-good-stuff EDH deck. Unfortunately not the best commander you could wish for, but I just love all the flavour the deck has. With Horde at it's front, everything elemental you can think of such as Primal Beyond, Flamekin Village, Incandescent Soulstroke, Liege of the Tangle, Risen Reef, Thicket Crasher and all the Omnaths, and goodies such as Cavern, Urza's Incubator, Coat of Arms and Door of Destinies. It's slow, but when it rolls, it rolls 😉

Im glad you guys got your sound fixed 👍

Always enjoyed Magic Arcanum. Great job on the video! Would love a rundown on the history of the Phyrexians from Yawgmoth to what is going on with Karn after War of the Spark.

Once again great job!

Great video as always. I was a little bit disappointed that Omnath wasnt brought up in the video, but was really interesting to see other elemental cards through all sets.

One of my favorites is Rumbling ruin. When it enters the battlefield, it counts how many +1/+1 counters your creatures have, and any creatures your opponents have that are less than that number can't block. Play it after you drop Omnath or Awakening of Vitu Ghazi and you just won the game.

I know a good amount about MTG and the history but, every time I watch one of these I always learn something new. I look forward to learning more.

Why was Time Spiral so controversial? I love it but I also did not play during this time of MTG.

I had never seen an artifact elemental. Great video once again. Malignus is one of my favorites, he is great on my boros deck.

This video is now the guidebook to my elemental deck. thanks mate

I just built an Elemental tribal Commander deck around Horde of Notions! Awesome Vid Ryan, my favorite elemental is probably Risen Reef; it has great flavor text and its probably the best card in my deck.

I’m so glad to watch another one of these. So can I ask what’s your favorite elemental

Just discovered the channel, and I'm really liking it :D

finally! i cant believe youre covering my favorite tribe..

Great Vid! More about tribes please!

I look forward to the legendary elemental videos

Already waiting for that Time Spiral video!

We see what happens when power is concentrated into planeswalkers and artifacts. HOGAAK: hold my beer.

I'm about a year and a half into Magic and there's few things as fascinating to me as Time Spiral block. I'd love to hear more about it!

my favorite elementals were in Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, i especially love Ashling

18:02 I really like that line. It’s profound.

I love your videos

Briarhorn is my favorite. Love it so much I have a huge print on my wall.

And no word for Thorn Elemental, famous for killing a Rhox in an 3D intro video? Ok, that matters only to me, I did not play MTG at the time of that video was released, but it shocked me because of its realism. I just rewatched and... I shouldn't have and I would have kept that memory alive. Good thing your videos do not have that problem, great work mates.

Love your videos :D Have a nice day!

"How do they stack up to dragons, elves, and brushwags?" Spice 8 Rack would like to know your location

My first commander happened to be Omnath, Locus of the Roil. Since then I am collecting elementals for it. I saw the art for Omnath in one of the preview products for Zendikar Rising and Omnaty having 4 colors on its 4 arms makes me believe they will add white to it :D

You should do an "History of Merfolks"! would love to see what's the deal behind this tribe P.S - Love the show keep it up!

Definitely got to do a video about breaking the color pie!!

I have been considering building a Elemental based commander deck and this is really great insight into what they can do

As someone who didn't get the chance to play time spiral block, but has been playing heavily for about a decade. I love the effect time spiral cards have had on the game. The color pie is important. But having some splash effects into other colors, especially ones that are considerably weaker than their on color counterparts, is important in my opinion. It demonstrates that while you will never be as good as those naturally attuned to the proper color, if you work hard enough and are willing to pay the costs, you can cast a feasible imitation. Stingscourger is a great example of this. When I, a red mage, summon a sting scourger. It shows that I have the dedication and time put into having learned the spell. But having it be 2 mana, without flash, and a horrible echo cost, it also shows that I have to struggle and give up much more than other mages. Beast within is often cited as a regret for breaking the color pie (not timespiral but same issue). But for me, beast within is fantastic. It shows how phyrexian twisted the nature of things around them. And how Vorinclex's unique brand of green mana twisted by phyrexia corrupts those around it into the beasts he sees as apex predators. Color pie breaks should never be great, but they should exist to fill some niche roles that otherwise have a vacancy. Especially for colors who's color pie is to restrictive (white and red).

I didn't realise Chandra's Spitfire was a reprint! I had just assumed it was a new design precisely BECAUSE of how smoothly it slotted into what loquacious folks might call "death of a thousand cuts tribal".

I always thought if i was a planeswalker my middle ability would be "gain control of all elementals"

Storm wing entity was used in an Izzet aggro deck that won the recent red bull untapped international qualifier 5 tourney

I do love the time spiral era but do recognise its issues and would love to hear your take on it so I definitely say go for it!

I heard Time Spiral. I'd love to hear more on my favorite block. The absolute *destruction* of the color pie in Planar Chaos was the best (but so were the color-shifted cards look and the "future" cards from Future Sight). Though Time Spiral was fun with bringing back old cards

10/10 would watch planar chaos episode. Imp's Mischief is my favorite gatcha card. XD

I love your channel!! I think you guys are amazing. My favorite Elemental is Omnath... wich you did not mention in this video!

@Magic Arcanum, a very very cool video my king 😁 I love that creature Typ and have a Commander Deck with Elementals 😊 thx you for this cool video

Roil Elemental! When the set came out, I was like this card has potential! I would also like a deeper dive into the Time Spiral as well! 🙏🙏🙏

Came for my boy Tectonic Giant, was not disappointed

I've actually got an izzet tempo deck that runs the Sprite and the Stormwing Entity! Super fun deck. Actually uses Will and Rowan too!

Would love to see that Time Spiral video!

I've never heard that anyone thought Time Spiral was controversial, so please cover it soon!

I try to collect them all, Omnath got me

I would love to see a video on time spiral block. I play mostly commander and love going through it for some goodies.

I would like both the legendary elemental video and the time spiral video

The Lightning Rager token from Rite of the Raging Storm. In my commander playgroup we simply call him "Bernt", it's the norwegian name of Bert from Bert and Ernie. He's kinda like a mascot for our playgroup :)

About to go to bed when see new story time video. Good bed time story.

My favorite elemental is ingot chewer, for being the incarnation of "smashitude." I'm hoping that in Zendikar Rising there's some sort of sneak attack style enchantment that let's you turn your lands into a copy of an elemental in your hand for cheap, like turning all your lands into a duplicant of an elemental in hand

I'm sure this video will be great and I'm eagerly excited for it That being said, if for some reason the Phyrexian's suddenly come up in the conversation *again*, I'm gonna pop a blood vessel. #PhyrexiansWhen

I would absolutely love to hear the story behind Planar Chaos and Time Spiral!

You forgot to mention Worldwake double color Elemental manlands, like Celestial Colonnade for example. And any mention of Lightning Skelemental is incomplete without his BFF, Thunderkin Elemental. Other interesting ones were Morningtide Reveillark, which pave the way for his grandson, Vesperlark.

They also updated old Multani and Molimo to be Elementals. Important to know for Omnath decks.

Really like the video! You said how you will rank the legendary elementals by power and their role in the story in a later video, Will you do that for other tribes in the future?

Fun Fact: I own an updraft elemental, and seriously considered putting it in my mono blue commander deck because I was running low on flyers.

I love Multani. I'm such a sucker for book tie-in cards.

A color pie vid about Time Spiral block would interesting. You could probably make a similar video about Scars of Mirrodin, especially with its greatest mistake, Phyrexian mana. As for Elementals, given Lorwyn and Shadowmoor are basically what really got me into _M:tG_ (despite how little I get to play), I look fondly on their Elementals the most. Don't really have a favorite, though I would say that Ashenmoor Gouger has the most memorable flavor text of them and that Fulminator Mage is the "funniest" mechanically.

Wonderful! I have a request, Ryan... can you do a video about Future Sight? That's one of the "chapters" I really don't understand and it would be a lovely story... Great video as always, Keep safe!!!

a time spiral video would be sooooo awesome!

I can't wait for Omnath lore. Yes I would love to see a video about why time spiral is so controversial

Ashling is my favorite elemental. I had a deck box and sleeves ❤️

Great elemental vid! how about some love to fearies next?

I love the designs of the non-kin Lorwyn elementals. Their abstract forms are just so interesting to me. Probably my favorite elemental art in all of MTG is the Woeleecher from Shadowmoor. Despite it's gross grubbiness, it's kinda cute. Edit: Initially said Mindleecher, but I meant Woeleecher. I corrected it.

I would like to a video of the time spiral block, the timeshifted cards, the color shifted cards. I think it would very cool and so much lore

the time spiral idea would be awesome!!!!!!

Informative! Oddly apropos, this came out right when I took apart my Horde of Notions Elemental Tribal EDH deck; it was fun, but a Prismatic Omen is better used elsewhere, y'know?

Awesome! Some breakfeast!!!!!

I freaking loved Time Spiral block, and I miss my UR suspend deck with Jhoira at the helm. It got me to Top 8 in FNM without me realizing it 😅. It saddens me that I no longer have most of my cards from the block, save for a fair amount of rares, including four Akroma, Angel of Furies and Ancestral Visions.

I'd really like a video on Time Spiral!

Elementals are just baby avatars.

Storm Entity, bought one for my cube, bought one weeks later for mono red edh, again for temur elemental edh and then again for jeskai mutate edh

Avenger of Zendikar and Omnath (in particular locus of rage) They are from my second favorite plane, and i get both cards as christmass present from my fiance ❤

Great vid :) What do you think will be the returning mechanics for Zendikar?

I would love to hear about Time Spiral

I noticed that you didn't talk about Omnath but I forsee you doing a special video for them with the release of Zendikar Rising!

Amazing amazing video fantastic to see long video back!!! They are the best i alwais want more lore!!!! Time spiral block? Simply one of the best Favorite elemental? Fire elemental from Alpha (🙃🤣) (and every elemental draw by Ron Spencer!!!!!) Fantastic job as alwais thank you!!!!!

Everyone was mad about the Risen Reef, and after Uro got printed, the Reef never seen play again

Time Spiral is definetly what i would want to listen about!