Every You "Lose the Game" Card Ranked from Hardest to Easiest 

Seth pronouncing Ezio is actually impressively bad lmao.

Easyo Adotray de Freneez. I die laughing every time.

Triskaidekaphobia ranked #13...I see what you did there, Seth.

Seth about to get murdered by a bunch of angry Italians for that pronunciation of Ezio's full name

Hearing SaffronOlive misproununce Ezio that badly has ruined my day Great video tho

Damn it’s crazy that they so seamlessly managed to make Triska’s two abilities have exactly 13 words. It reads so naturally, I never noticed it. Like they wouldn’t have worded it any other way anyways.

They say words can't hurt you. Well what Seth did with Ezio was straight up aggravated assault.

If Italians get upset when you break spaghetti to cook them in a small pot, I can't imagine what they'll feel when they hear your pronunciation of Ezio

7:51. That pronunciation was flawless xD

That pronunciation of Ezio Auditore da Firenze actually dealt me psychic damage. Seth, this one you can actually learn, it's Italian, a good ol' Earth language instead of being some fantasy language without a language guide.

There is a VERY funny conditional line that makes Vraska, Scheming Gorgon extremely reliable: Playing her as an instant-win condition in Black/Green Counters! Any counter doubling effect puts her natural 5 starting Loyalty up to 10, so you can ult her immediately on play, and in BG you certainly have a trample threat or two available by turn 4-6 (ramp depending).

I got a Deck of Many Things win, reanimating an exploit zombie when I was definitely going to lose next turn. One of the more memorable wins I've had.

honorable mention, original play test version of time walk for number 0

SaffronOlive love you man long time watcher but the way you said Ezio name hurt my soul

I’ve been convinced for ages that Seth deliberately mispronounces stuff to make pedants comment as an engagement juicing tactic for the algorithm. I feel like mangling Ezio that egregiously clinches the theory. Nobody gets it THAT wrong by accident.

I've killed so many people with Atemsis in my "Leave me alone; I just wanna draw cards," EDH deck.

I love how Seth has clips ready for like half the cards on the list while simultaneously telling us how hard or impossible it is for each of these cards to activate

I lost to my own Triskaidekaphobia at the Shadows Prerelease

My Door to Nothingness deck in Mirrodin Standard was a beast. It used Urzatron and artifact lands to power out a speedy mana curve, then abused Clock of Omens, Doubling Cube, and Tower of Fortunes to grind out a ton of card advantage. The win came from sinking 20 colorless into Gemstone Array to filter the double WUBRG for the win on turn 5 or 6. Fair warning: Every morph creature is a Willbender!!

I'm surprised Seth didn't bring up Etrata's biggest partner in crime. Well, maybe not cause they're commander only, but I thought it would be relevant enough Mari, the Killing Quill {1}{B}{B} / 3/2 Legendary Creature - Vampire Assassin Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it with a hit counter on it. Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues you control have deathtouch and “Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a hit counter from a card that player owns in exile. If you do, draw a card and create two Treasure tokens.” Mari is the only other card in the entire game to mention Hit Counters. And instead of requiring a combat damage step to make just 1 hit counter, with Mari, she puts hit counters on every creature that dies from any source. So instead of attacking multiple times, you just have Mari out and throw out kill spells/board wipes left and right, then finally sneak in one Etrata attack to finish them off. Of course this still requires them to play creatures, but it's not like they're not gonna play none.

Just lost the game. Thanks a lot.

Historic Fires of Invention Bolas was silly fun, back in the day. Fires into a Bolas plus followed up the next turn by a Mastermind's Acquisition into a Planewide Celebration from sideboard, proliferate 4 times, ultimate to win. And all the other possible variations.

I've won a few games of historic brawl in one turn with the elderspell + nicol bolas combo. It's especially sweet when you kill your own or your opponent's Liliana for the flavour win.

I love playing Phage in commander. Really hard workaround to get her into play but really rewarding when you get to walk from door to door like the grim reaper, slaying your opponents

I'm just now noticing the Ragavan on the dark board in the back. Well played, Seth.

Commander's Quarters did a decklist once of every card that instantly wins, then got several requests for every card that makes you instantly lose... I now run "lose the game tribal" as one of my favorite decks. Besides the original Lich, for pricing reasons, it's got every card that makes ME lose the game in it... and then ways to get value out of them or use them as convoluted win-cons by getting my opponents to "benefit" from them instead. Fractured Identity (exile target permanent, everyone but it's controller makes a copy) on Phage is an amazing multi-kill, btw.

Thanks for your videos - as always. It was only a few hours after watching this I lost to an opponent casting their second Approach of the Second Sun.

The Ezio pronuntiation slapped me right in the face

I'm digging that blood moon tele you have in the background Seth. \m/

My buddy had a Triskaedekaphobia standard deck and I played Triskaedekaphile back in Vow standard when we had Sea Gate Restoration. Good times. Hard card to win with, usually it was off the back of the dimir control plan.

My Phage commander deck is one of my favourite decks. Love it sm

Phage my beloved, I remember pulling her twice back in the day. Her name and art makes her my favorite!

Its also notable for Etrata that there are two more cards that "exile X your opponents control and place a hit counter on it" in Ravenloft Adventurer and Mari, the Killing Quill, meaning in commander/legacy at least there are much more straightforward paths to victory

The b-roll footage of Seth's efforts to use many of these cards while talking about how hard it is to use many of these cards Honestly made this video so much better

As a fan of alternate wincons, I've attempted and succeded at most of these, and I can confirm the Deck of Many Things one is near impossible to pull off without infinites or board states that your opponents concede to anyway. My heart broke a bit when Seth opened by saying he wouldn't cover giving your opponents the things and then triggering the clause. It's very funny when you force them to exile their brand new Lich Mastery :) And these "alternate wincons" usually aren't that easy, or efficient to pull off anyway.

With Etrata, you did miss how you can speed it up with Mari, the killing quill and Ravenloft adventurer, both of which exile cards with hit counters. Probably doesn't change the ranking, but is worth a mention.

For future reference, it's pronounced like, "Et-see-oh Ah-dih-tor-ay Dah Fear-en-zey".

Worth noting that we've gotten a handful of cards that deal in hit counters since Etrata's release, so she's become feasible even if you only get in one attack with her.

I have both a vorpal sword and Vraska The Unseen in my sister's of stone death deck that is based around a ton of ramp and board wipes early to control the board an use her abilities with trample to get through. I have considered adding a Phage as well

I had a game with my Superfriends deck where I had Vorinclex on the field, played Ugin Spirit Dragon, immediately ulted, drew into both Nicol Bolas God-Pharoah, and Nicol Bolas Dragon-God, proceeded to ult God-Pharoah and then Dragon-God. Very sudden borderline unstoppable win once Ugin resolved.

I refuse to believe that pronunciation of Ezio was on accident, that was incredible 😂

I could see the planeswalker deck vraska work with counter doublers to one-shot a table in a single combat step. Super friends shenanigans and proliferate can also help pump those rookie numbers up. Also, since Doubling Season costs 5, this costing 6 means it's perfect for curving out!

As someone whose favorite commander deck is his Uh-Tem-Sis deck, if you build the deck to ramp into strong late game bangers, you kill two birds with one stone by ensuring your hand has weird costs while also giving you a gameplay in the meantime that makes for a great puzzle every game

One important note about Vraska, Scheming Gorgon: your creature doesn't have to deal combat damage to kill, just *any* damage. A "tap to deal 1 damage" creature works just fine, making her a little better.

Gotten a few Door wins with an Urtet deck recently. Chromatic orrery, clock of omens and doubling cube assures if it enters you can hit it

I've consistently had Vraska the unseen in decks since the card came out. I've won with her ultimate once with Xavier Sal. I had intruder alarm and another walker out so I made a bunch of non legendary tokens copies of him and the following turn sacced all of them to each other to proliferate her to ultimate

Atemsis is actually really fun to build around in edh. Built it for a friend and it was really enjoyable to playtest

In standard I have an exile focused mono white control deck that then uses faithbound judge to close out games I don't really maintain card advantage in, and as long as they are never able to ruin my graveyard it absolutely works deck isn't even close to meta, yet still manages to have a decent winrate for me

I played a trickadekaphobia and tree of perdition deck in a dimir control shell back in kaledesh standard. Pretty fun, I went 2 and 1 a few times at fnm's.

I pulled a triskaidekaphobia at the shadows over innistrad prerelease two-headed giant event, and my friend and I decided to go for it. We won a game with it and the look on our opponents’ faces was priceless 🤣

In commander, door to nothingness is the go-to wincon of Ramos, Dragon Engine decks, as Ramos generates a lot of 5-color mana and that's the perfect sink for it.

i gotta say, i like some of these cards and while i didnt play mtga with triskedaikaphobia it sounds not that hard or at least kinda funny to try. But i had some really nice games and wins with the strixhaven Stadium (by PROLIFERATING rather than attacking!) in Standard in MTGA - and a lot less in historic but i could win against some friends. Instawins (or loses) are kinda fun to play and to build around i think =) and thx for the list

Ah, Vraska the Unseen. Only planeswalker I have ever pulled! It was a $30-40 dollar card then, too! Was great trade fodder!

Ranking of "You Lose the Game" would be fun. Not even in a "oh, you can use this convoluted strategy to use that effect to your advantage" but just "what if I want to spectacularly lose?".

I’ve had a pretty easy time getting Frodo’s kill off. In my experience people tend to wait until you’ve invested the six and have the four temps to kill him. Make him indestructible to avoid basic removal. Play a “destroy all” board wipe and go in for the kill. Plus if you have a few pie breaking counterspells it’s really easy to make him dodge being exiled. I play him with wraiths and enemies will often use all of their removal on the wraiths before Frodo is a problem and run out of removal by the time he is

I pulled off Atemsis in a game with Unesh as the commander. Unesh's ability can add so many cards to your hand it's super easy to get 6 different mana values

I used to play a very effective Etrata deck. It has some creatures to block, 60 cards only, some control spells and 4 etratas on it. What means each 15 card, one was Etrata and the more the game stand, more likely was for me to draw her back.

The Vraska assassins are also prime for the various unblockable artifacts that usually require a low power to work.

I'd love for Seth to know I've gotten a deck of many things win, in commander, with Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar. I forced the table to attack each other through Kardur and chainer, using witches oven and underworld cookbook to generate tons of food. When i had one opponent left i cast deck, hit the 20, and force fed the reanimated creature some food to finish the Elf player off before they could kill me. I had a playmat commissioned to celebrate

That cut during 15 was very funny.

I've seen a deck of many things being played exactly once, and in that game my opponent managed to roll the 20. He pulled a goldspan dragon from my graveyard, and i, who had not read the card, did cast a removal on said goldspan....

That Telecaster with blood moon art on it goes soooo hard.

I have an atemsis edh deck. When it goes off it goes off. But it's also kinda easy to shut down if I don't have counters.

Please try Insidious roots with moss-pit Skeleton! When the roots puts counters on the plants it creates, the skeleton then sees those counters and goes to the top of your library thus leaving your graveyard for a second trigger. Not infinite but seems like a cool synergy.

Strixhaven was great with Teferi something sunset something and a few cheap untap artifact creatures. Won a handful of games with that. Another was the enchantment that let you win if you have so many counters. It was in standard at the same time there was an aura that doubled counters. Stick that on a X cost or hexproof creature and it quickly reached the criteria.

One of my favourite moments from drafting the deck of many things is I was dead on board and empty handed, drew the deck of many things, played it and rolled 20 and grabbed my opponents creature to block and not die. For some reason the opponent decided to attack, I blocked with his creature and stole the game.

I got the Hidetsugu Consumes all kill in a game of Commander. I had Nalfeshnee out and exiled a copy of Chandra's ignition. Nalfeshnee copied Chandra's Ignition when I cast it, and well, on the second cast of Ignition, I won.

I have definitely won with Atemsis before. I can't remember what deck, probably EDH. But I think they had Unlife/Solemnity down so it was actually really clutch.

Ezio and tree of perdition or the Sorin that takes life total to ten seems simple enough. Probably need a whispersilk cloak too. So a 3 card combo, but one card is in the command zone. Seems pretty doable.

On top of Door being easy to trigger it also pairs well in a gate deck with Maze's end. So I find it strange that you say the only reason it is that high is due to improvements in recent years when it is able to be done with an infinite mana engine that can generate any colors during any time since its release.

I have Atemsis in my Unesh deck (probably the worst sphinx in there tbh), and just earlier this year I got my first Atemsis kill, the deck is pretty much a perfect home for it though since I tend to have a massive hand and my curve goes from 0-8.

I used to have a Jeskai control deck that could absolutely kill people with Atemsis on a consistent basis. So much that the playgroup feared it and it was often kill on sight even without much of a hand. It's not a card you should actively shove in decks, but if you just happen to have a lot of card draw and a good MV spread across your deck, it can occasionally be a good inclusion.

We all know that there is only one proper way to win Magic, if you are playing properly. And that is obviously by using The Cheese Stands Alone.

Nicol Bolas Dragon God + Aminatou + Oath of Teferi is infinite activations. Once you have used bolas to remove all your opponents legendaries double up the counters with Vorinclex for the win. It is shockingly fast and consistent in a Sisay deck.

In arena I've won with both Vorpal Sword and Strixhaven Stadium. Treating Strixhaven stadium like a mana rock worked fine for me because people don't think I'm using it as a win condition.

I’ve won more commander games with Nicol Bolas, dragon God than I can count :)

Man, that Ezio pronunciation in Seth’s already glaring voice…

Atemsis triggers off of all damage and not just combat, a funny interaction that I’ve seem come up a couple times. So with something like warstorm surge, you can kill people on etb.

"What did I get right" - A nice and interessting list. "What did I get wrong" - Definitely the name of my boy Ezio :D

I played against someone on Door to Nothingess (commander: Child of Alara) the other day. I won because the 4th player lost prior and they chose to take out the player on the commander that gives everything vigilance if you have 3+ creeatures.

I built a Phage EDH deck and is really fun to play. It's like the Dark Souls of decks, one mistake and you're dead.

atemsis actually was a consistent win in my Jin-Gitaxias Core Augur deck, atleast 2-3 times every 10 or so games.

Opponent: let's their guard down around Ezio. Me: reanimate a Magister Sphinx

I use strixhaven stadium in my garruk, cursed huntsman brawl deck and I've gotten a few wins from it usually because people just don't know about the win the game trigger and if they do its only a colorless mana so they don't wanna remove it until it's too late

Thank you for your service Saffron Olive!🕊️

I have won with Vraska Golgari Queen's emblem twice. Once during when it was in Standard where I was in a board stall and managed to get the emblem but the opponent kept killing my creatures. I needed to use Tamiyo Collector of Tales to recur a Nissa Who Shakes the World from my graveyard to make a hasty 3/3 land to kill my opponent. The other time wasn't even my Vraska but my opponent's Vraska who was about to get the emblem on their next turn. I use Mass Manipulation to steal their Vraska, ultimate it for the emblem, and immediately killed the opponent with it. Also I managed to win with Vorpal Sword's opponent loses the game in limited.

Isio Audotre di Franis killed me, but not in the way the card meant to.

Put Strixhaven Stadium in a deck with a lot of 1 power creatures and cards that say "The ring tempts you" and always choose a 1power creature as your ring-bearer, it would only be able to be blocked by a creature with power 1 or 0

I got 2 of my friends with Triskaidekaphobia in the same game for the win. It was so satisfying.

(6:05) I love how Triskaidekaphobia is actually #13 on this list. And, I have won with it before. I've also had a draw game happen with it before, when the opponent managed to reduce my life total to exactly 13 while they were at 13 themself, which was hilarious. (15:58) I almost won a game with Vorpal Sword attached to an unblockable Changeling Outcast one time, but the opponent Disenchanted it, so I ended up winning that game the old-fashioned way, by beating them down to zero life points with my Demons.

Art on mirrordin besieged would have been a sick battle type card - start with 5 hits - flips into karn.

16:54 "Those win trigger at your upkeep" Says Seth showing us an Angel of destiny triggering on our endstep

bonus points for putting Triskaidekaphobia at #13! :D

Ironically, I had atemsis in my maelstrom wanderer commander deck for the longest time. I actually killed people many times with the trigger. It only got cut because I got bored of actually getting it off so much.

I actually saw goldfish rank Atemsis poorly in the past, and I took that challenge to make a commander deck with it. The deck actually won a few games--partly because it is damage and not combat damage, and there are cards that can draw you 15 or more cards in one go (like ancient silver dragon).

Door to nothingness with Ramos dragon engine really good

Not gonna read all the comments to see if anyone said this yet, but Ezio is pronounced like the online store where people sell stuff they made, but with an O on the end. Etsy-O. Love your content Seth!

Door to nothingness is my favorite in my Ramos deck, especially with voltaic key

I feel like the first vraska you listed on this list is easier to win the then some of the other cards you just need double season with it the. You can use it last ability as soon as you play it and should win on the the spot.

I love nothing more than hearing Seth say, “Vuh-roska, Gol-Gary Queen”