MTG Top 10: Zendikar | Magic: the Gathering | Episode 296 

When the first card of the list is 32 points, you know there are going to be some powerful cards further up.

I think it speaks to the power and longevity of this set that only two of these cards have an end date in their time frame, and one was just last year with a real possibility it could show up again before 2020 is out.

Day of Judgement is not strictly worse than Wrath of God. What if your creatures have regenerate?

An additional boon for disfigure that you didn't mention is that it can also get around indestructible, when relevant.

I must say, I really like the Card Kingdom intro. I just think it looks pretty. Ahhhh Zendikar, a set which has so many cards with Vintage points. I could pick any of them and find a nice pun. But in the end, I'll choose Expedition Map, since it might just be the one that leads me to finally receiving "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)."

oh, ravenous trap has seen tournament play. in that case, it DEFINITELY deserved to be up-shifted to rare in packs that cost over $100 dollars! and here i thought wizards was just trolling us

What’s the fastest a card has ever reached 100 points?

Fetchlands: we are number one🎵

Ever thought of doing “Best Decks” lists? Like top deck archetypes for each format? I’d be curious to see what decks are, historically, the highest performers in each format. Was Cawblade more dominant than Mardu Vehicles according to Top 8’s? You could also do “Quickest Deck to Reach 100,” or variants of the top decks, like dividing the total number of points by the number of years the deck has existed in some form in eternal formats. I bet things like Affinity and Dredge will have the most points in Modern, for instance, but how many points do they actually average a year? Do most of the points in general come from a specific spike in that deck’s usage at the competitive level like Death’s Shadow a few years ago where I’m sure it put up a number of points very quickly, or will consistently being good but not broken be enough to get archetypes enough points?

I got to say the last time I remember enjoying standard as much as I did back at the start of the Zen block. I believe I loved it in Wold wake the best. I had a killer green black landfall deck.

Your videos have been keeping me sane during my evacuation tenure away from the Lake Charles Louisiana area. Thank you!

Honestly, Expedition Map is such a good card - so simple and effective, and can be useful from the most casual of kitchen table decks to something quite competitive. These days I run a Golgari deck in historic that basically uses Golos and Ulvenwald Hydra to do more or less the same thing (in my case, finding a copy of The World Tree so I can shift from my midrange/control strategy to my OTK).

Could you do a top 10 of Lorwyn? It was on of my favorite sets. Love the videos.

I really like these videos! It is nice for brewing and nostalgia. I’m wondering what is a good source to view older decks en defoliate? Say for instance if I want to see the decks of the time of onslaught.

I didn't play during Zendikar so my knowledge of what cards came first is restrictive uhhhhh Valakut? Edit: Didn't know that Spell Pierce was first printed in Zendikar, huh.

Can't wait for Limited Review week :)

That Dr. Strange reference tho

i'm a bit surprised you didn't mention punishing fire being banned in modern

spell pierce is probably my favorite magic card lol

Spell Pierce is dope!

Surprised Steppe Lynx was on this being played quite a bit of Boros and some zoo lists.

I love the trap series of cards. X3

Day of Judgment isn't really a strictly worse wrath. You could put it in a deck that is good at regenerating all its own creatures and then it'd be better than wrath.

I would like to see a top 10 Shocklands after they rotate later this month. It would be cool to see which colors were more popular than others.

i would love if you did top 10 commons of each color

I was really surprised to see that goblin guide had no points from legacy burn

Its amazing that even tho there is nothing too broken 9/10 cards are still relevant for competitive play to this day

Seems like any deck could play Ravenous Trap in the side deck and hope to get it off with the trap cost.

def a few cards i expected but didnt see. where did emeria or iona or jtn end up?

Fastest click in the Midwest

Didn’t see number one coming but I should have known

Spell pierce is likely to get even more points now that historic is getting tornoments now.

As of this moment, omnath is honestly the only card that does anything worthwhile with landfall. I guess the lotus cobra too, but that requires your deck to be able to take advantage of it. Im gonna guess they are just waiting with the landfall cards; getting the party mechanic out of the way.

Sad fetch lands noises

The last time I was this early I had tapped one land to cast Pelt Collector (what can I say I love green)

But, how many points do the fetch lands have?

Good evening

Woooo

Which figure?

The Fetch Lands were printed in Zendikar, weren‘t they?

Imagine that. Look at what color has the best competitive cards in the set.

You should make a card being baned worth some points

recently, people were whinging over why the New Zendikar Nahiri card doesnt let you damage players. I had a hearty laugh as i had to remind people about OTK strats like Valakut. People would be so fuckin pissed if a planeswalker had that sort of combo potential.

Was anyone else bummed out that the best card from the set was a counterspell?

I've noticed this before, you call the Hogaak deck a dredge deck, however it's a completely different graveyard-centric deck and doesn't run a single card with dredge, neither in Legacy nor when it was legal in Modern.

RU-vid unsubscribed me from you despite me watching your vods on a pretty consistent basis. Wtf.

So when are you gonna tackle the immense task of top 10 humans?

Im sometimes wondering where Nizzahon gets his information regarding standard because Disfigure hasnt seen any play for almost a year so his statement about it is just false unless im missing something. Its not the first time he claims a card saw play in current standard when it really hasnt.

first???