Did This New Magic: The Gathering Card Just Tear A Format Asunder? 

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It's crazy that some random orc archers are better than any version of Legolas in the set.

Boromir sacrificing himself so your other cards can escape unharmed is excellent flavor!

Reprieve also gets around Cavern of Souls which seems great.

It’s notable that Stern scolding also counters grief, solitude, yawgmoth, seasoned pyro, and delighted halfling, so it might be sideboard playable

I feel like orc bowmasters are definitely better than boromir, and possibly also better than reprieve, especially since literally every deck runs card draw, and the card's floor if it hits the battlefield is two bodies and a ping at instant speed for two mana.

That rosie scurry combo is kinda wild

The original two Modern Horizons sets were based on Time Spiral and Future Sight, according to the designers. Those were the first and third sets of a block also containing Planar Chaos, a set featuring cards from an alternate multiverse. Therefore Modern Horizons 3 would be a set focused around a universe different from the rest of Magic’s universe… I think LOTR fits.

Reprieve is so underrated it's ridiculous. It goes around dovins veto and other uncounterable spells, unlike remand. Its a great way to save your own spells on the stack, and you draw. Amazing.

Excited to see TCC's opinion on pauper-legal cards from this set

I'm actually a bit surprised that Forge Anew was not mentioned here. It will probably only be a 2 or 3 of in Hammer Time but it does a lot that the deck likes. - Brings back an equipment from the graveyard - Allows a free equip per turn - You can equip at instant speed during your turn (ie combat) It adds some more resiliency and redundancy to the deck and gives the deck a lot of reach by being able to instant speed put hammer on an unblocked threat as you swing in.

I don't play Modern, but Rosie is an uncommon legendary creature, meaning she can be your commander in both edh and pdh, and would slot well into any token deck.

Players: Rosie is also an uncommon, that means she won't be hard to find! Wizards: I think we screwed up on it's rarity.

MonoBlueTron was so popular that a person started making Yugioh videos with that name.

I'm excited for Orchish Bowmasters in Legacy

I hope you do one for pauper! Birthday escape seems like it will slot into the mono blue agro shell. And Wizards rockets seems like it goes in every 2+ color deck, but will shine in Kudoltha red.

The professor is more and more fun to watch. I love the sens of humour you build since a few months/years. It's like good wines, I can't wait to discover the old Professor in 30 years.

And I’m also pumped to see the other cards, such as “Aragorn the Unifier”, “The Watcher in the Water”, the Sauron cards, AND, “The King of the Oathbreakers”. These cards are gonna be quite interesting.

Both of the infinites in Heliod Company use a legendary and a non legendary creature. They’re both susceptible to the blue counterspell you showed, but they can also be made uncounterable by the halfling card and the counterspell can be reprieved. These new additions seem perfect for a selesnya deck (and not because of white tree).

I play both magic and Yu-Gi-Oh, and I always love your videos like this, because In Yu-Gi-Oh, our format warping mega threats are cards like "The big guy, 3000 atk, 2500 defense, once per turn negate the activation of a card and if you do destroy it also twice per turn you can send one card from both players fields to the grave yard also if this card is in your grave you can banish one little guy from your grave in order to special summon it during either players turn and if you do flip one monster on the field face down into defense position, and if you do, your opponent has to give you a massage. You can only use each effect of "the big guy" once per turn. And then in magic, the format warping mega threat that everyone is scared of is "the tree" It makes my guys a little stronger, and its also a pretty neat little floodgate that stops some interactions.

What I think should have been said with stern scolding is that it can counter cards like solitude.

Was wondering why it's Delighted Halfling and not Delighted Hobbit until I realized that it's meant to be easily reprintable without changing the name, same with Orcish Bowmasters, as well as white Remand and Stern Scolding.

Great video as always, Prof! Love your stuff! It's so apparent how skilled your entire team is. From the scriptwriting to the editing. Top stuff and it's appreciated!

That Rosie Cotton and Scurry Oak is a very good combo. Thank you for the video Professor.

it's pretty funny how many "this will be played in modern" predictions the prof has made that have been completely incorrect lol

Wow, the tree card is quite good. Thanks for sharing.

Glad to see that green/white decks are gonna hopefully see some love, selesnya has always been a favorite of mine.

Love the content, as always! Keep up the positively potent picks and perspectives that you perpetually provide as a purveyor of pulse pounding particulars.

A thing that the video didn't have the chance to cover due to the date it became popular is the samwise gamgee guy with the cat and a sac outlet (like viscera seer). unearth and coco look great there, stitcher's supplier even

Okay the "and then ONE MORE WAS FORGED" bit had me in stitches 😂

Delighted Halfling is an upgrade to the long forgotten Utopia Tree! 🤣

Great work with the #1 slot here Prof, thoroughly enjoyable content as usual.

Some of the "legendary matters" creature cards will slot nicely into my Mardu Legendary Humans EDH, like Eowyn, Merry and Eomer. Both Gandalf the White and Flowering of the tree are outside my price range for now but Day of destinies is already in there and should work nicely for now..

I still see Boromir as this set's sleeper hit. God is that card so good

great video, I loved your clear explanations and visual examples.

Quick- stop working and discreetly watch this instead....

My current favorite commander is Solphim. Its a fun deck. But I do like to run wand of chaos, wand of wonders... + Aria of flames and now there's lovely space for fiery inscription and fall of cair andros.

“Sir, your replicator has made General Tso’s Chicken 8,457 times.” “Yes, and?” “And NOTHING ELSE sir.” “Well, I get pancakes at Quark’s.”

Delightful Halfling into T3feri in Bant Control looks funny

Treasure cruse format being featured on shuffle up and play is probably the most exciting part of this video. Treasure cruise is like planechase but better (mostly because wotc doesn't have their hands in it... Yet) if you haven't tried it, proxy up a deck and give it a go.

I’m not a modern player but I’m VERY pumped to see the knights of dol amroth. Just to add them to my knight commander deck. Even though they’re not that good, I still love the knights in lord of the rings.

Good review of the cards prof, wish modern wasnt so expensive to get into

Samwise Gamgee might be good enough to see some play, going infinite with cat and a sac outlet.

So my rainbow dragons EDH deck now has BoP, CoS, AND Delighted Halfling?

I'm surprised Samwise Gamgee didn't make this list, him + cauldron familiar + viscera seer/goblin bombardment/free sac outlet is GG. Anywho nice video Prof!

Not brewing anything but I was really interested in Samwise Gamgee in a similar shell to Yawgmoth using Caldron Familiar.

I think Boromir also handles any Battles should those come up; sure, you get the front side, but it gets countered when flipped since it's being cast for no cost, right?

16:11 it is a masterpiece! What a pace, what a tone and accent. True Morrdor is indeed capitalistic management of WotC and Hasbro...

it surprises me that you didn't talk about Forge Anew, but I kinda agree about the rest of the list

Samwise in Asmo food for cauldron familiar combo. also looking at samwise in saffi renegade rallier combo.

Can I just say that I've always appreciated how transparent and fair-to-viewer you are with the sponsored sections of your videos. I appreciate the #Sponsored stamp on screen during. You're doggedly decent, professor.

Homie and I are splitting a collector and set box, looking forward to making some decks. Top 5 cards IMO: 1) Delighted Halfling - Uncounterable legendaries and mana dork for 1 green mana? Yes please! 2) Flowering of the White Tree - Best anthem printed imo 3) Sol Rings (duh) 4) Aragorn Company Leader - Maybe not top 5, but damn it is strong in a deck with a lot of tempting options. 5) Glamdring - Good cheap equipment with a powerful effect And my personal favorite for the set is Last March of the Ents. Sick flavor, great finisher effect, can't be countered, I like this one

I know its not modern of pioneer but I've got a good idea for a G/W legends w/ Hobbits things waiting for the release. Really excited this set looks like it could be fun!

The first creature I thought of when that enchantment was spoiled was Ragavan. Is there any viable Winota/Boros deck for modern that could benefit from that two drop?

I thought it was called “Lotr Commander legend 3”

Hahaha loved the little surprise flavorful twist

I think Samwise Gamgee is gonna see a lot of modern play and is definitely a missed card on this list. The fact that it very easily goes infinite with cauldron familiar means its gonna be a beast

Rosie Cotton pilots my Phyrexian Mite lunch deck, it's a delight.

Whoever is excited about that WW card never played modern for sure

I play a B/U artifact Myr deck in modern/ legacy... and even I'm adding the Orcs in my sideboard as an aggro swap vs full control decks.

Stern Scolding will now be known as "Fatal Shush".

Delighted Halfling also trades with Ragavan in combat.

Omg that skript and the delivery are extremely satisfying.

Hey I've seen this one before! Good stuff Edit: flowering of the white tree isn't going to break the format. It'll be a contender but it's going to be right next to other decks in the format.

speaking of shuffle up , i already saw the most recent and already looking forward to the treasure cruise one

I just like how boromir combos with ratadrabik

Stopped playing for so long i actully have no idea what ward does lol

Man... white black recursion shenanigans with boromir has some crazy potential...

I've been brewing an Azorius food token blink deck using Rosie Cotton, Protector of Gondor and Eastfarthing Farmer with a bunch of removal, flicker and counter spells. I make food tokens, put the +1/+1 counters on the creatures while using counter spells to protect them. And then use removal to clear the way for me to mash their life total.

Rosie definitely going into my Rocco food deck

that squirrel combo looks a little nutty

That finale!

What else could make the Coco Rosie deck work? How about a mana dork that makes Rosie and Heliod uncounterable?

The Scurry Oak Rosie Cotton combo will be in Historic.

Is that music in the intro from "look around you"???

Wow, finally a use for Collected Company!

Lotho feels overlooked. Being a effective Orzhov Channel on a body is pretty gas, Orzhov Stoneblade perhaps.

I'd like to point out more cause it's funny than I think it's useful Boromir counters defeated battles as they are exiled then cast for no mana cost

Rosie and Oak tutored up with protean hulk.

I know this focus is on modern but man commander is being ripped open as well. Maybe a short based off how much commander is going to spike in power? Legendary matters decks are going to be so powerful.

Oh god the rosie combo is legal in historic too! now all we need is walking ballista and we can lose the life gain all together

I love that Rossie and her combo card are uncommon. Meaning it won't be expensive. Collective Company might increase though. I never thought I'd play GW, I'm more of a RB player but here we are. I wish she had been an elf.

Orcish bowmasters + wheels in commander seems juicy

Does that mean Boromir counters cards like Mana Crypt, Mox Amber or Ornithopter too? The combo with Rosie Cotton and Scurry Oak only works if you manag to put a wrench in it if you want to do anything else for the rest of the game like attacking with other creatures in the same turn you activated the combo.

Sisay cedh is gonna love flowering

The 3rd toughness means cascade decks have to have Brazen Borrower and not fire\\ice. love it

I am so excited to see Vince on SUP

Rosy Cotton! She works a lot better than Ivy Lane Denizen since she can be Companied, but if you want a 5th or 6th of either combo piece add Ivy Lane Denizen as extra Rosie's & Herd Baloth as extra Scurry Oaks!

I see some strong cards on the "Horizon"

The moment I saw Reprieve I knew it was absolutely busted, but that's because I've played Remand. It's nuts, and while you can't count on it for long you are guaranteed to catch people off guard with it if they don't see you in Blue. Mana Tithe still has that effect to this day and it's not even half as good.

I'm SHOCKED that he didn't include "Mirkwood Bats" in his top 3 😮

It sure is weird seeing all these references to a property I don't know anything about in MTG videos, I never know what the LotR bits are about

The most powerful ability in magic will always be, Draw a card.

This is pure gold!

Rosie Cotton and Scurry Oak are neat but if its a never ending combo it ends the game in a draw, not a win. Aswell, if you cast it at instant speed with collective company on their endstep, youll never get to untap and attack because the combo never ends, unless you have an instant speed removal to take out one of your own combo pieces. sporemound & life and limb are a similar effect that gives you infinite saprolings that are also lands, but the game cant progress without a krosan grip or some type of removal.

This may sound like a stupid question, but I assumed you of all people would know, does the VIP pass for command fest give you a three day pass? Because they are different in the website and the list of stuff you get doesn't include how many days

Yes new prof video 💜

stern scolding also hits grief and solitude which is huge against scam in modern

LOL no shot Flowering of the White Tree is going to impact modern that much

yikes, delighted halfling is already 20.5 €! Orcish bowmasters is also super expensive, there was talk about it might being banned in commander