MTG Card Easter Eggs You Can't Unsee 

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The amount of times i've confused players when casting Nevinyrral's Disc, and saying Larry Niven's Disc is countless haha.

Oh my young Nikachu, I was there when Negator was printed. It was pure terror when playing with a non-burn deck and your opponent played swamp, dark ritual, negator. I have never in my life seen an era of magic with more first round concedes. It made ripples at the time as one of the most aggresive glass cannon deck types.

"The sword would come back from the graveyard equipped to the sword." Nailed it.

I love easter egg stuff like this! Btw, Sword of the Meek is also depicted in Tribute Mage, who can tutor the sword (or the Thopter Foundry)

Back in older formats, Phyrexian Negator was a played card in competitive formats due to being a 5/5 trample for three mana. The decks it was played in operated similar to Delver decks nowadays, where they just used tempo and removal to diffuse the downside of Phyrexian Negator's effect.

Flame Jab recycling a Swamp becomes extra amusing when you realize it has Retrace, a mechanic that allows you to recycle the card by discarding a land.

One of my favorites involves Krekno, Mob Boss. In the background of his art you can see two goblins skulking around. That background is the full art for Krenko's Command.

Larry Niven's The Magic Goes Away did a lot more than just get referenced in Nevinyrral's Disk. It could actually be argued that Niven's work inspired the entire flavor and function of Magic: the Gathering. In The Magic Goes Away, magical power was a limited, finite resource that was literally drawn from the land and it took time for the land to recover, which inspired Richard Garfield to create the tapping land for mana mechanic. While it was originally based on the oil crisis it actually made a brilliant game mechanic, as the main character had to seek out other lands just to gain the ability to use magic again... or in MtG terms, he had to control more lands, to tap for mana.

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind has some weird characters in the flavor text that when turned sideways spell Niv-Mizzet. I think it might have been mentioned in a different video though

As someone who dabbles in zombies, the champion lore is cool... but, you can't help but smile seeing artists reference their other work!

"A really old set called Tempest." I feel old, but also heartened that this game is still alive and booming.

Older sets when you put all four basic land together it's one giant landscape. That was fun to discover.

Phyraxian Negator was the backbone of many decks that won GP and PT events in the past, are you sure you don't want a 5/5 trample on turn 1 in an all black aggro rush deck ? It might not seem so good *now* but it was amazing when it was released, and stayed a powerhouse in Standard and Extended formats for a long time. Look at the history of Suicide-Black decks. As for the Disk. Everyone knew that, as it was frequently mentioned by Garfield during the Alpha, Beta, Unlimited and Revised releases of the game. So much so that it is even mentioned specifically on the product packaging. It is only the newer players whom don't know about the reference. But seriously. Phyraxian Negator was and is nowhere near as bad as you make it seem. It is and was a force to be reckoned with.

Yes I played Disk for ages and just learnt now this esster egg 😉 And yes, as someone else stated, I played during Urza, and if u weren’t playing burn red or monogreen aggro, the start swamp-ritual-negator was lethal even for Replenish or Bargain! Am era buried under the dust…

Return from Extinction goes even deeper with the slivers. At some point they were made to look humanoid but people hated it. The card from Modern Horizons shows the oldschool Tempest era slivers.

My favorite and relatively new one is the updated art on Imperial Recruiter has the silhouette of Kiki-Jiki and Pestermite which is the infamous creature combo used by UR Blue moon decks to close out the game.

Always love seeing some Slivers being mentioned. Never thought about the whole Easter Egg thing though. But I have seen Steam Vents depicted in other card art. But only the Gildes of Ravnica version.

6:55 Champion of the parish, Nikachu your misunderstanding the context of champion in this instant. In this context its refering to champion as the Hero, ie Hero of the Parish then Hero of the perished. Read the flavour text again with that in mind it will make more sense

Cheers Nikachu! Thanks to this video, I purchased a foil Kiora, the crashing wave, on ebay for a great price in an auction that had less than 2mins to go! I am a big fan of Hokusai's wave of Kanagawa artwork.

So informative and fun. I love how decades later I can still be surprised by Magic. Thanks🙂

I loved that last Easter egg. From champion of the parish to champion of the fallen, I mean, perished.

Nevinyrral’s disk one was mind boggling to me. That’s a cool Easter egg I will definitely be telling to customers that come to the LGS I work at

There's an easter egg in the Original Kamigawa Block where a blue instant or Sorcerery ,(I can't recall which sorry hah) depicts Emrakul The Aeons Torn in the background. Always made me wonder if the Eldrazi aren't somehow related to Kamigawa

Phyrexian Negator is also depicted WAY in the background of the Jumpstart Phrexian special swamp

Easter egg videos are one of my favorites, makes me love Magic more.

Thanks to this video, I now understand why "Sword of the Meek" and "Thopter Foundry" were in the Myr Commander Deck I saw on this site another day.

I love Larry Niven. I love Nevinyrral's Disk. Had no idea why the strange feeling of familiarity.

Krosan grip also depicts the sword of the meek getting obliterated.

These Easter eggs are always fun to see, especially when they tell a story!

The great wave is also depicted in Rampant Growth. MTG artists love that wave!

the disc was by far my favourite. I also felt old when you said that tempest was a super old set ^^

This video brought back good memories of my Magic origins…thanks Nikachu.

Hey there Nikachu, love your stuff and I'm always showing Magic buddies your content as well. Keep up the amazing work, as you never stop giving me great information and laughs.

Another great video and awesome commentary. Keep up the great work and catch ya on the flippity.

One of my favourite Easter eggs is the Sun Titan stuff; Sun titan, Terminate and Animate dead, even the flavour text follows the story!

Gisela Blade of Goldnight has many cards that allude to her eventual corruption. There is also the Grove of the Guardians land card with the Risen sanctuary card that is a playable card, and you can use the Risen Sanctuary as the 8/8 token instead...

I'm pretty sure Sword of the Meek and Return to Dust was already mentioned in another Nikachu's easter egg video

Amazing! I love expropriate,so many more easter eggs in that art!

This was awesome! Please do more MTG Easter eggs.

I’m an old-time player who remembers back when Mark Rosewater was such an influence on the game’s design that they named a big green creature after him that complemented his playing style - Maro. 😎👍

What about the planeswalker "Koth of the Hammer?" Name "Koth" is also an acronym for itself: K - Koth O - Of T - The H - Hammer

Larry’s Disk.. now I know why people called it when I started playing years ago lol. Everyone just called it that but never knew why hah. Thanks for letting me know

I knew about Champion of the Parish/Perished because they're in one of my decks, but I didn't know about the third member!

Great video I love seeing MTG easter egss and call backs. Expropriate is my favorite card but you missed all the other MTG references in the art, like all the moxes just thrown about the painting

Phyrexian Negator is one of my favorite cards of all times. 👍🏻

Hi, "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" photo appears to be inspiration for Riveteers Ascendancy's art :)

I can't remember the other cards that tell a flavor text story, but I know Unruly Mob is part of a series of cards with flavor text basically laying out Innistrad history being survived by this small band of folk.

Thanks 🙏🏻 learned a few things with this video😉

Come ooon Phyrexian negator was awesome during its time. Lots of cool suicide black decks back in the olden days.

Deep Analysis has a couple of Cephalid looking at the head of a Masticore... and the flavor text is "The specimen seems to be broken." Anyone who as ever played against a Masticore knows that card is SUPER BROKEN.

that Negator can't catch a break 😆, from getting Unearth to getting bonked in the head by an Ancient Silverback (Urza's Destiny)

I was hoping for a video like this!!

The question isn't whether slivers will adapt to a world's perils but whether the world's perils will adapt to slivers. ~tempered

Probably fairly known, but Ral, Izzet Viceroy and Tomik, Distinguished Advokist each have a cloth on their hand depicting the other's color(s) in their respective art.

I don’t know if you covered that already but make a video of the first ever MTG tournament would be so cool

There is a yellow rag doll that artist Richard Thomas got a lot of mileage out of. It appears in the art for the Black Vice, the Cursed Rack, Leshrac's Rite, the Rack, and Wall of Wonder.

Holy cow! This video was such fun I love it

I love the flavor text for disperse.

I always love the easter egg videos! Thank you sir 🙂

An oldy easter egg I've seen is goblin grenade from fallen empires. The one wielding a spear the name 'Mike' can be seen hidden in the barbs of the spear.

My favorite Easter egg Krenko's Command art is in the background of krenko mob boss's art.

Kind of a well known one (or at least is was back in the day), Pemmin's Aura, which almost turns a creature into Morphling, is an anagram for "I am superman".

The Disk is my favorite card, also my favorite easter egg!! love your videos

Am I misunderstanding, or did you read "champion" to mean he beat them? He was fighting for them, so they rose with him and made him stronger.

I forgot what exactly it was, but I remember one from Odyssey block that had to do with Kamahl and Mirari. I think from when it was on his sword

These easter egg vids are a lot of fun.

Big Larry Niven fan, and I picked up on it immediately. :)

The cliffs in the background of Seaside Drake are the Cliffs of Moher on the west coast of Ireland.

Nikachu you rock man !!!!!

Your Easter egg videos are awesome

So there's a card called the llurgoyf and it has a quote on it from saffi ericksdotter she has a card in regular mtg and an unsanctioned set and then they just made hans ericson in commander legends that coincides with their story. Saffi and hans both work together as well as the outcome for the llurgoyf!

Champ of the Parish and Champ of the Perished were my faves.

Favorite theme of this channel. Easter eggs!

I liked the Wave, really cool!

This maybe more like a coincidence than an easter egg, but if you look at the card Scarscale Ritual, you'd see the art is about a merfolk with scars on its back, and that the artist was someone named Richard Sardinha.... Coincidence?

Khans of Tarkir and Dragons of Tarkir have a bunch of them because of the nature of alternate timeline. ex. Feed the Clan and Ancient Carp. "Why eat now what could one day turn into a feast."

Phyrexian Negator is also in the art of a swamp shipped with the phyrexian praetors secret lair.

Yep been playing for about 20 years. Never knew that about nevs disk.

I have a brother named Stephen Ellis that goes by Steve and he loves magic. If it wasnt him that secretly made the art for Disperse then I should at least buy him that card for fun.

It should be mentioned that Flame Jab has Retrace...so you can pitch his land to cast it from your graveyard.

The Great Wave is also the inspiration for 10E's Rampant Growth

another good one is the spirit of Precinct Captain looking over the soldier token from Ravnica in the art of Spirit Bonds

More easter egg's and lore will be good 🤤 love ur content THX...

Unspeakable Symbol and Wipe Clean tells a story, both on their flavor and on their arts both illustrated by Arne Swekel

ooof i've got bad memories of playing against a first turn swamp > Dark Ritual > priest of gix > phyrexian negator. bad memories, nikachu!

great video.............................

For the hacks vid and the Jace can u still play with it in a tournament?

Disc hands down. I've used that card since 1998 and never knew.

My favourite ,,easter egg" is that Stone Tongue Basilisk and Worldgorger Dragon (Wayne England) both look very much alike.

My favorite mtg kind of easter egg is that swamp in Crimson Vow thats literally made by Piggy. Piggy is my favorite artist lol

Gearsmith Guardian connects with Gearsmith Prodigy to form the full picture. Seasoned Pyromancer is literally a grown-up Young Pyromancer, both of whom are drawn by Cynthia Sheppard.

Mercurial chemister seems to be making the destructive orb featured in merciless eviction.

If you get to play Phyrexian Negator on your enemys board it suddenly is a really good card. ;)

i was just going thru a box of my cards to just grab up some alright ones for a 60 card black deck and ill be damned if i didnt come across all of these lolz i actually put some unearths in this one too

Phyrexian Negator is one of my favorite cards of all time!

At 5:38 when he says "Someone looks a little hungry," I got an ad for Uber Eats.

I liked this video. A minor nitpick. Art for Return to dust was made before both parts of thopter-foundry combo had been printed. In Time Spiral.

You forgot Tasigur the Golden Fang hanging around Dragonlord Silumgar’s neck.

In the Art of expropriate there are also the 5 moxen