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I want to learn about more cards like Necropotence. Do something like "Top 10 cards that changed how people understand Magic" or "Top 10 most historically significant cards"
It would be great to have these all the way to different formats like Legacy then Modern. Cards that shaped a whole color like Delver of Secrets, or when Red printed Faithless Looting. Cards that changed the whole dinamic of a color. :)
Love your content man. I work graveyard shift in Virginia and your new video always shows up early into my Friday shift. I haven't missed one in months haha.
When Splinter Twin first came out, I picked up a playset online for a mere dollar, only to resell them a few months later for 80$ (20$ each). I saw so much potential in them at first, even without a Pestermite or Deceiver Exarch combo, and was so shocked that no one else valued them like I did. Kiki-Jiki was such a popular creature, and with the ability to turn another creature into Kiki-Jiki for 1 mana cheaper and with a single target (as you'd probably do with Kiki-Jiki anyway)? Yes, please.
you did it! ive wanted to see this video for a while already. when i posted my question, you were probably already busy with this one haha. what i can conclude from here is that enchantment auras are too narrow to get any good scores. so. the next big one is artifact equipments, but i can wait forever for that one. great video, love the new format, thanks!
Seems like part of the reason O-Ring might fall from the top is that they keep printing the effect on different cards at different mana costs instead of just reprinting O-Ring. They also printed Banishing Light as a "fixed" O-Ring because of some shenanigans you could do with the original card.
I take issue with the statement that they didnt value card draw and thats how ancestral got through. The early assumption of the designers was that no one would collect enough cards to get full playsets of power so they were designed to be overly strong. The other thing is Necro is a much more complicated effect than simply draw many players avoided it because it was confusing and seemed kinda bad what was the point of drawing more cards than you could make use of all while taking damage and restricting the phase in which you could draw? It wasnt until combo winter came around where decks had very high card inequality were drawing sheer volume became far more powerful than just drawing more cards. Drawing a few rituals, some disruption illusions and donate is far more powerful than drawing 2 more 3/3 apes for 3, or several 2/2 protection beaters. The exception was the combination of firestorm and necro where you had a very standard value centric RB deck that then transformed its dead cards into more burn throw 3 extra dead cards into firestorm ding your opponent for 3 and clear 2 blockers, or a blocker and self ping for 3 was a good way to transform extra cards into value in a non combo deck. Necro is very subtle and with card quality being as poor as it was back then its not crazy to think that it was overlooked.
While what you are sayinh isn't incorrect, Richard Garfield himself has said card draw was not appropriately costed in the original set on multiple occasions. Even if you only have a single Ancestral Recall, it is crazy strong when you cast it for one mana, and this was not his intention.
Wasn't modern splinter twin typically played really greasey? Like people would tend to show their opponent that they had the combo instead of deliberately playing it out in order to kind of see if the opponent would scoop or if they have a response 🤔
Hmm. It seems like the original text on Sylan Library was fine. It made perfect sense to me. The "lives" part is sort of weird but that doesn't really matter
OH NO! NOT BLACK SUMMER and COMBO WINTER! I'm having flash backs to Turbo Stasis vs Necro. An interesting note, pretty much everything was restricted and banned in Turbo Stasis but they left Necro alone til 2001 :(
No question; Search for Azcanta is obviously a darn good card but it really impressed me that it is already on place number 10. Considering its age it looks like a baby in comparison to the rest.
I understand your scoring system and why Oblivion Ring is at #1, but when it comes to that type of effect, I feel like Ixilan's Binding is a better overall card, even if it is a bit pricier.
I get you have a grading scale, but moat and The abyss, are game breaking lock down cards that only don't make this list because of when they were released.
I was shocked to see second chance combo with replenish not displayed. Even if you are not closed to the amount of 5 life just mana burn yourself and you can have unlimited turns.
I hate worship to this day. Quit collecting at the time of onslaught, but man was that thing nasty when combined with a creature that couldn't be targeted and you were playing mono red without a removal for enchantments.
Arbitrary not a perfect fit either, as it doesn't indicate a really high number. Arbitrary could mean 7. or 1,000,007. I think Infinite does a good job of conveying the huge number. Obviously, it isn't literal -- but neither is arbitrary.
Enchantments have always been my favorite card type, My favorite of which being starfield of nyx. When Richard Garfield came back to roll out sagas which where like enchantment plainswalkers, you best believe I was stoked.
Tea seriously. I beat a couple of jund decks that ran no basics on turn 2 with it. I knew they had no basics and just mull until it was in my hand ha. Slowed down bogles enough to kill the player.
I don't get it, why would it matter that your opponent blew up Necro before you get the cards? You still get them either way, no matter if Necro is on battlefield or not.
