MTG Top 10: WORST Reserved List Cards | Magic: the Gathering | Episode 298 

The set-hate cards should come back in silver-border sets, it could be pretty funny to have something like "Ravnica? Again? Enough." 4 mana artifact, tap to destroy all permanents printed in a Ravnica set. Flavour text: "Return to return to Return to Ravnica was good, but the fifth war of the spark was something else - Mtg players, 2030"

Imagine a card that says: exile all zendikar cards from opponent's hand, library and graveyard. Costs 2 generic Mana and 1 black.

city in a bottle certainly does not deserve to be on this list it sees a small amount of play in vintage as a way to hate out bazaar of Baghdad and to a lesser extent library of Alexandria. if a card sees play in vintage i dont think it can be considered on a 'worst cards list'

Funnily enough, Mold Demon was the card that got me into EDH. My very first deck ever was Gitrog Monster, specifically so that I could use Mold Demon’s downside as an “upside”

Comedy gold timing with this one Nizzahon

City in a Bottle is a pretty real card in oldschool and even some vintage sideboards.

In Old School-magic (only cards from 93/94) quite a few people wants City in a Bottle banned or at least restricted. I've seen tournaments where house rules decided to ban it. City in a Bottle is definitely considered one of the more powerful cards in the format (and that is a format with Moxen and Library of Alexandria). I understand that EDH is a different format, but putting City in a Bottle as the worst reserved list card ever... That's just shocking :o

Playing Wood Elemental during a game is slightly more environmentally friendly than setting your deck on fire.

"Ultimate Nissa Who Shakes the World. SACRIFICE 30 FORESTS TO CAST WOOD ELEMENTAL."

Fun list! Only disagreement I have is City in a Bottle, which is a very good card in Old School 93-94 format

The one deck with Mystic might is a "mystic in the name" tribal. I- cant even

Wood Elemental is actually a pretty decent lightning rod for kill spells in a Saproling deck. All you need is Life and Limb to make all your saplings and forests into saproling forests. If you don't have enough saps to make Wood Elemental a 100/100 by mid game, you ain't token the duel seriously.

Wood Elemental graces another Worst Top 10 list 🤣 I still remember the names of the EDH decks that you mentioned running these cards (e.g. I hate my life, worst cards tribal, etc. 🤣🤣)

I'm glad Farmstead allows target land to generate mana as usual.

I had an LGS by me that had cards pre priced. 25cents for common, 50cents uncommon, 1 dollar rares and my buddy and I got soo many reserved cards for nothing. (I'm Canadian so it's even cheaper in American)

I love that Cycle of Life is even worse than it looks bc you cannot just target one of your creatures, it has to be a creature you summoned this turn for extra suckage

No Sorrow's Path? I was expecting it at #1, though the expansion hosers are pretty terrible, too.

Y'know, if you just use mystic might's ability on upkeep and then let it die to the cumulative upkeep cost, you did basically get +4/+4 for 3 mana over 2 turns. Still not good, but not the worst deal, really.

The artwork on Mold Demon is awesome. Like a crazy nightmare. Also a little bit like Moss Monster.

The lore behind golgothian cylex is pretty sweet though!

This was great. I think I'd watch 56 more videos covering all 567 cards.

I'd actually like to see the price of the cards in all your videos. It would be interesting to see how their success or failure affects the price, other factors (like being on the RL) notwithstanding.

Alpha cards were not reprinted in Chronicles; it was just a selection of cards from Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, and The Dark. Likewise 4th Edition used cards from these expansions to fill gaps created in the base set by the removal of cards that Wizards considered too broken after unlimited and revised, like the moxen, and the dual lands (they did this prior to the reserve list's implementation). The notion that these sets "tanked" the value of the alpha set is pretty dubious. What really happened is that collectors got upset that cards that had incredibly inflated prices due to scarcity, not playability, lost value on the secondary market (The printing of Legends, for example sold out almost immediately, and Wizards didn't do unlimited printings at the time). So it was really that people who had been lucky enough to snag Legends packs or boxes, were mad that cards like the original Elder Dragon Legends, which were pretty much unplayable under the regular ruleset, had a price correction that reflected their value as game pieces. I would argue that the Chronicles, for all the flak that it gets from people, probably helped the nascent EDH variant, because it made the Elder Dragons, and multicolor legendary creatures in general, available to the playerbase at large. Legendary creatures were thin on the ground for a good while after Legends and the Chronicles reprints, and multicolor ones even more so.

The best use for City in a Bottle is to side it in against the red player who's showing off by running Arabian Nights mountains. But sadly, you can't even do that anymore, as they changed these cards to affect cards originally printed in the expansion, rather than by expansion symbol.

I use elder spwan in my Zedruu edh It`s pretty funny to drop it in with haste hit for 6 then give it away to someone without islands.

i wonder if an 'ashaya, soul of the wild' EDH deck could potentially make wood elemental work? it would have to be a very casual game with friends, but would still be funny none the less.

Can we take a minute to talk about the artwork on Mold Demon? I love that splashy art style

I love these videos so much no joke. They’re so interesting, especially this one.

Note: City in a Bottle is HUGE in Old School. There is a long discussion about errata or restricting/banning it in New England Old School every couple months.

I'm so glad the power 9 has such good art. Can you imagine someone asking what the most powerful card in the 25 plus years of mtg is and you show them the art for wood elemental

Those 16 people running Wood Elemental definitely need their head examined... I keep trying to think of build-arounds to it and I don't know why. You could play black/red/green and have damage be dealt when permanents are sacrificed, like Mayhem devil and others, but then you kind of need to trust the wood elemental to finish the game if you can and in a deck that runs a bunch of colors, you still need a large number of Forests specifically. Even if you have something like Multani to get them back out or a Crucible of Worlds, it still seems like you're setting yourself so far back just to have a creature that's probably not huge and also didn't end the game.

Nizzahon was particularly inspired in this video. It's a lot of fun XD

Just when I was starting to catch up to these today. A top 10 best themed cards would be cool.

You know, I can't stand the idea of the reserved list. Cards are toys, not stocks. They absolutely shouldn't be treated like an investment. It's a shame that they couldn't remove the list even if they wanted to because of Hasbro bullshit. An Alpha Birds of Paradise is still $3000 despite it being reprinted to hell. But even if it did tank, I don't care. Maybe it's my Yu-Gi-Oh background where there's no reserved list and all cards tank in value after a while. Blue-Eyes White Dragon from the first set is ~$40, and it's the most expensive card from there. It also makes Vintage basically unplayable since you absolutely need the Mox and the Power 9 unless you want to try manaless Dredge. Speaking of, do "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)."

Cycle of life actually has some usefulness, you can use it on 0/0 creatures like spike feeder, or pair it with enchantress effects. Still a pretty weak card tho

The reserved list exists because many would rather see their ship sink in greed than give up some of their gold. The game (which can include the sub formats upon which it is played) will one day die due to cost of entry. With less and less players entering a format, the real value of cards legal to that format sinks less and less.

I have been waiting for this episode for years! Ever since I restarted my card-by-card review of the reprintability of The Reserved List card, No Reservations II: magicseteditor.boards.net/board/18/mtg-lounge?q=no+reservations+

Mercenaries is a great example of how strict the colour pie could be in Ice Age... White wasn't supposed to get a 3/3 for 3W without a downside, because it had weenies and anthems. Fortunately it also had Swords! Also, Wood Elemental is now $38, good lord. I think it might be a nice awful Jank card in decks that want to sac lands (and this is an openly bad way to sac lands for almost no payoff), but that justifies a $2 price tag, maybe.

The creation of the reserved list was one of the biggest mistakes wizards has ever made. It made mtg somewhat of a secondary isolated stock market, when in reality it’s just a trading card game. Which created a huge financial barrier for new players and is the main reason the paper eternal formats are slowly dying.

5:30 and even the flavor SUCKS BALLS since your opponent doesnt pay them MORE, he pays 1 mana less!

The art for Mold Demon XD

Aegis meaning: the protection, backing, or support of a particular person or organization.. Could also mean a shield like you said. But for the card on this list I believe it does make sense 🤔

thanks for putting card prices.

How much use wood Wood Elemental get if you could sacrifice tapped Forests as well?

The reserve list: the worst and most enduring of Wizards' knee-jerk reactionary decisions!

"Hello everyone it's Wednesday and that means..." - Wait, you're not Nizzahon ?!

I thought I had seen some bad creatures in the Kawigama block, then I found out that Wood Elemental existed.

surprised sorrow's path wasn't on this list. a land that doesn't tap for mana and that pyroclasms your board in order to do things is just awful. Maybe it escaped the list by being in meme decks where people donate it to the opponents and tap it down

City in a Bottle is extremely strong in 93/94 formats, so it’s way better than all other cards on this list. Apocalypse Chime should have been alone on top.

I actually saw 4 near mint city in the bottle for like $50 one time in a LGS about 15 years ago lol .Man I wish I had scooped them up .Cant believe that is a $400 card now.

Veldrane of Sengir look like a pirate David Bowie

Mystic might actually works kinda nice with the new enchantment commander from baulders gate

sylex is good because antiquities has a lot of busted cards, but city is best because it's a static effect.

Wood Elemental has it's place in EDH decks where scaficing lands get's you value. Gitrog, the mono green that makes 5/3 tokens when lands are blown up. Besides have four left over after casting Wood Elemental is enough for Splendid reclamation the turn after.

Oh, boy. Time to see all 10 of these on the next Market Watch as buyouts because reserved list cards got mentioned. Seriously, Wizards, just do away with that list already. There's not even a legal issue holding you to it, and the 2 people who'd be mad at it kinda deserve what they'd lose (talking about you, Alpha Investments, using the list to drive prices up to 4 digits).

Sometimes I like to guess which cards make a list before watching. But I am not actually sure which cards are on Reserved List, or even if some of those cards are not rare. If any of the Bands with legends lands are Reserved List then I think they might make it and if any of the prevent specific landwalk ability enchantments from Legends are as well then those too. Obviously Wood Elemental makes the list (LOL). I would put Shelkin Brownie on the list as well (but it is not rare and quite probably is not on the Reserved List). Sure against top decks and players Shelkin Brownie is quite possible a 2 mana chump blocker and much better than anything Wood Elemental could be against those decks and players. But in my personal subjective criteria and ranking terrible cards are likely being played against other weird, bad, under-powered, poorly constructed cards, decks and players and in that scenario Wood Elemental has the theoretical potential of becoming a 5/5 or 6/6 or something and doing something if the opponent has no or cannot find hard removal. Shelkin Brownie on the other hand basically doesn't amount to anything other than perhaps dealing the last one or two points of unblocked damage, which needs something quite remarkable to actually happen (well maybe that's is better best case, hmmm). Having some thoughts on the matter, but I still think I think Shelkin Brownie is worse than Wood Elemental though.

Wood Excremental is definitely a Number 2

I thought "rarer" was not a word. It is. Glad I looked that up.

Wood Elemental might finally be playable with Ashaya, since nontoken creatures you control are also Forests

Wood Elemental is actually good in one EDH deck. Titania, Protector of Argoth. She loves to sacrifice lands. If you have 7 forests, you make a 3/3 wood elemental and 4 5/3 elementals.

#1 cards (apart from Apocalypse Chime) are good sideboard in Old School.

I was guessing sylex would be played the most out of that cycle due to Urza flavor decks

It’s a power move to beat somebody with wood elementals though.

What about a card that hates on cards originally printed in Alfa?

For the expansion, hate cards, do those that were reprinted in other sets count? I can understand how maybe something that was printed in 4th or 5th edition might not be part of this, but what about those printed in chronicles?

Reverberate and Fork have one difference. Fork is on the Reserve List

Lol, pretty sure Wood Elemental is strictly a Titania finisher piece as a cmc4 sacrifice outlet for your lands so you can get in with 5/3s. It is still horrible though, and I hate that it doesn't allow you to use your lands that you want to sacrifice because it basically wastes your entire turn to pull off.

I was stunned there were not one but three cards worse than wood elemental in this list. XD

mold demon has some pretty bitchin art

Wood Elemental is probably played in EDH in decks that want to put their lands into the graveyard.

An Aegis is also a goats fur and that's where it comes from etymologicaly.

Unfortunately, the playlist didnt appear on screen..

I really expected to see Wood Elemental at number 1...I still think of it as the worst card ever printed from a power perspective. At least City in a Bottle can deal with City of Brass, Bazaar of Baghdad, Library of Alexandria, or to a lesser extent, Juzam Djinn, Ernham Djinn, or Desert Twister. And Apocalypse Chime can deal with Merchant Scroll, Ihsan's Shade, or Didgeridoo.

Sorrow's Path is my pick. I have about 70 of them

Actually some of the ones you listed as top 1 (set hate) see some play in old school cube.

I was sure Sorrow's Path was going to be #1. Though, I do kind of want to put one in a Zedruu deck, for shits and/or giggles

if i had ti my way all cards on the reserve list would be banned in all formats , even vintage . why? because if they will not ever reprint it then it should not be usable and left to the collectors since thats the real purpose of the list. it exists to artificially prop up card values.

I get city in a bottle from am EDH perspective is not a good card, but in another format (93/94) it is an almost automatic sideboard inclusion, which is why it is asking for such a ridiculously higher price tag compared to it´s antiquities version. So calling it the top 1 worst card on the reserve list is a bit much. IT also see´s quite a bit of vintage play.

0:52 Translated from Nizzahon’s very civil, charitable, and polite summation: “Because players, way back in 1996, were being basic bitches about reprints.”

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Does Legends have any good creatures?

i want to see 10 best cards of all time

Mold Demon looks badass

they should make a hoser for Modern Horizons 1 and 2

A lot of mtg content creators are talking about the reserved list. I never really paid any attention till now

I think the number 1 cards on this list are somewhat playable. Sure, they're absolutely terrible in the average case, but their success case is good enough to make it into some sideboards. I feel like worst lists should have cards that are completely unthinkable to ever even seriously consider for any real competitive deck. Maybe Nizzahon is imagining like if there were a cube of every card every made, and then his number 1 cards would be the absolutely last cards picked.

Idk I think Arabian nights has more powerful cards than antiquities. It has only like workshop transmute artifact and power artifact su chi and like 1 other card where nights has juza dinner library of Alexandria bazaar of Baghdad. Serimdeb ferret the 3 mana 3/4 flier. Drop of honey diamond valley. So it’s closer than ya think ohhh and calendabra of towands is as in antiquities.

Farmstead is decent in one of my decks with specific commander

cool cool

I really like this list, but it has it has me wondering what the top 10 worst banned cards are.

Because the best defense, is a good offense! *shades*

I have an Italian Wood Elemental and I simply can't believe it is not #1. Edit: ... I also have a City in a Bottle. Jesus, I have to sell that thing.

Mystic Might is actually not bad. At worse, it is a color-pie-breaking sorcery with rebound that gives +2/+2 for a mana cost of 1U. With the upside of rebounding it a couple more turns if you have lots of mana. This is more playable than most blue combat tricks we see every set and certainly better than many cards not on this list.

reserve list is basically to appease people who "collect" cards, rather than actually play... kind of some BS.

The people playing these cards are most likely meme lords and theur decks are probably just giant shitposts

City in a bottle is a error on this list

Wooooo

Veldrane is reserved by me. Ÿ.

Everybody wants to talk about the Reserved List lately, huh?

Farmstead 480 dollars....