Honestly, I need to take the moment to say I am so glad that they updated a bunch of these cards to "Phyrexian", and did it by just adding creature types, not taking away. I think that's what made this "Grand Creature Type Update" good compared to the last one. Anyway, in honour of this list having plenty of Vintage points, I have personally resurrected Yawgmoth in order to make sure that someone makes "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)"!
I want you to know that someone literally just complained to maro on tumblr about that, because, and i quote "it makes infect fold to plague engineer" 😂
@@DimT670 but that can be easily handled by using generic tribal support, like Icon of Ancestry or Coat of Arms. Not to mention, Plague Engineer is a Phyrexian too, and could be run in a Phyrexian tribal deck as a counter to itself.
I started in Odissey, but always had a crush for artifacts. When I learned about the Phyrexians, they became my favourite thing ever in Magic. Even have a tatoo of their symbol.
Suggestion: Top 10 5-card cycles by card type. Not the mechanic but the set of cards, example the original 5 Moxes, or the lightning bolt-giant growth-etc cycle
I honestly know almost nothing about the Modern meta, as I haven't played since the year the format came out. But the only card I could think would be #1 was Spellskite, and that's without even realizing how popular it was in that format. I just assumed it was a great sideboard card like it was in Standard, but not THAT great. I know a lot of people talk about how broken Phyrexian mana was, but man I loved it. Everything from the specific cards to the flavor behind it, Phyrexian mana (and to a lesser extent, Infect) both felt so fitting for Scars block.
@@reggietheanarchistrat8805 Obliterator was fucking dogshit, man, it's been in like two top eights in the entire history of the game. No deck that was competitive in weaker formats could afford to run a manabase that would allow for 4 black pips on turn 4, and no deck that was competitive in actual formats gave a fuck about the thing because it's not that strong.
You can really see the surprising innate power of the Phyrexian creature type now that its been added. If good tribal support is added, Phyrexians could be a surprisingly powerful tribe.
I've also seen blightsteel collosus in modern experimenter/transmogrify decks as their card to cheat out. If you don't have path of exile or something, it's very backbreaking
Are there enough Infect cards to even do Top 10 Infect? I remember getting a couple decks together when New Phyrexia came out, including a green Infect deck, and I had several people go "Nope, not playing vs that one."
Batterskull isnt phyrexian, the "germ" tokens are "phyrexian germ" tokens now. So every equipment with the living weapon ability is by default a phyrexian while it's attached to the germ.
I heard somewhere that it's due to the art from the secret lair. The sphinx is with a bunch of kids, and Wizards didn't want people thinking badly of the art. Like the phyrexian is targeting kids for compleation and the like.
I defiantly didn’t like this change as it just killed my Legacy Infect deck:( they play 1 plague engineer and name pyrexian and it now literally kills everything. It was already hard enough to win with it :(
I understand the type update, but I don’t really like it. I kinda liked having Phyrexians be undefinable abominations without a consistent typology. It was especially flavorful for cards that had a class-type but no race-type because they’re so unclassifiable
Yeah, but we basically know how it'd go. Eldrazi initially wipe the floor with them, but some little drop of oil lingers on...eventually corrupting everything from lesser Eldrazi up to the big boys. Then we're stuck with not only plane-eating god-like beings, but now they're Phyrexian monstrosities too! lol
@@corey2232 I still wanna see it. Would make for interesting lore and character interaction. No gate watch. The phyrexians would be the empathetic "good guys" thinking their hot shit until meeting the eldrazi and having to adapt
@@Coreyseyes11 I think it'd be awesome. You just know WotC would never fully kill off either of their 2 most popular big bad races. The only thing I worry about is where they would go from there. Phyrexians & Eldrazi are both pretty much unstoppable forces as they are, combine their powers into a new super being & then what? Pretty much makes all other villains obsolete, and if you make a set where everyone teams up to defeat them, everything afterward would feel underwhelming. But I'm still with you despite my reservations. Pure curiosity alone makes me want to see it :)
I mean nobody wants to see every single deck running Phyrexian Metamorph, Git Probe, and Dismember, not to mention all the Pod decks that would crop up
Why don't you tell us the total number of cards with point after you tell us the total number of considered cards? That would be an interesting information ^^
Oh yay, another example of people trying to give a pronunciation by using regular, ambiguous pronunciation guides. If only everyone knew the phonetic alphabet!
The most hilariously overpriced Phyrexian goes to our lord the Obliterator. It goes for 30 dollars a pop despite being reprinted twice, not being legal in standard or pioneer, being played in under 1 percent of the modern meta, and you can't make him your commander. Obliterator costs the same as an entire play set of skyclave apparitions solely because Timmy wants to play him on the kitchen table. Unlike say Siege Rhino that absolutely dominated its standard, the obliterator's greatest ever showing was the first month it was legal in Historic because new players kept failing to read the text and attacking into it! Siege Rhino is 20 cents and it's still a better card than obliterator ever was.
Spellskite is funny here because lately it has fallen out of favor among sideboards in my local meta as well as in online play content. Someone once explained to me why it has been seeing so much less play, but I really can't recall the entire explanation. I think it has to do with the meta outpacing its ability and Soul Scar Mage just ignoring the card altogether by making burn spells more efficient in the long game. It also gets dunked on by Heliod Ballista and Yawgmoth Messenger combos because Spellskite either triggers the lifelink/counter ability or it is an illegal target. There is definitely more to it than that, but I do appreciate that it still turns off Niv Mizzet combos in EDH 😅