Players Don't Understand This $1 Tutor. Let Me Explain It. | MTG Commander 

As a game store employee, I've been telling people about Moonsilver Key since Crimson Vow was out. I didn't realize how good it was immediately, but boy even I did.

A Moonsilver Key searching up a Sol Ring is basically just Sisay's Ring, so if you cut Sisay's Ring from your deck, you can replace if with Moonsilver Key to search up your Sol Ring.

So happy to see moon silver key getting the respect it deserves

I always tell people about "In Search of Greatness." A lot of people don't even know about this 2 mana green enchantment that really helps with high mana curve decks. "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may cast a permanent spell from your hand with mana value equal to 1 plus the highest mana value among other permanents you control without paying its mana cost. If you don't, scry 1."

I love it when youtube randomly recommends a video that gives me what I need. I've been building a house deck and an additional tutor is what I've been looking for.

This popped up on my feed today - but i've been singing praises for moonsilver key since it's release - a literal all star in my Osgir deck as it gets me 3 TUTORS for whatever artifact ramp I need, which in Osgir is a lot

Moonsilver key is an absolute icon in my locust god deck. Seeing as the locust god goes infinite with ashnods altar and clamp, and can easily kill someone with strixhaven stadium, the card is absolutely nuts.

Moonsilver Key is THE CARD that helped take my Talrand, Sky Summoner deck to the next level. The deck is built entirely around getting Coveted Jewel out as early as possible, and making as many copies of it as possible, in a game.

My favorite removal spell is Tragic Slip. For one black, it gives an unimpressive -1/-1 to target creature for a turn; it goes to -13/-13 until end of turn if a creature died the turn it was cast!

Love Moonsilver Key! First found it when looking for cards for a Queen Kayla Bin-Kroog deck with Zirda, the Dawnwaker as the companion, and usually found Basalt/Grim Monolith with it for infinite mana. It's found its way into a couple of other decks since.

opened one in an Innistrad pack, hadn’t seen the card before that. Thought I could use it in my Wulfgar deck (which is pretty much barbarians from dnd and d20 rolling cards) to get the puzzlebox. Since then, every time I look at this card it manages to seem even better than I thought it was before. Great card indeed.

Akroma's Memorial is a great finisher piece and often forgotten about. I think out of the last 200 games of commander that I've played, I've only seen it maybe 10 times and 6 of those were because I played it. Granting all the keywords of Akroma, Angel of Wrath to your whole board is huge and can end a game in a hurry if no one can stop it from hitting the board. Combined with something like Painter's Servant, you can basically protect your whole board from your opponents but with the slight drawback of not being able to target your own stuff.

I had a recent game, I was playing a 7 drop commander and it got killed. I used Moonsilver key to grab a Thran Dynamo, and recast my commander right away. The card is awesome.

My realization isn't specifically related to Moonsilver Key, but an enabler card you mentioned: Encroaching Mycosynth. I've been tinkering with a Phyrexian tribal deck with Witch (WUBG) colors that includes MoM Elesh Norn. It has several enchantment anthems that were at risk of being blown up by Norn. But I lightbulbed while watching your video that E-Myco will protect them by turning them (and anything else I may want to include) into ARTIFACTS! Thanks for this video! It was great and inspiring (clearly 😊) & I look forward to watching more of your videos!

I didn't think of using Moonsilver Key to pull dorks out of your deck. Though that probably speaks more to the strength of Biotransferrence and Encroaching Mycosynth. And I _really_ didn't think it could pull out something like a Phyrexian Altar! Maybe I should make room for it in my Wilhelt combo deck, which already uses all the major tutors already... One of my favorite unsung hero cards is Paradoxical Outcome. The worst part about it is that it runs a big fat 4 (well, 3U) mana, but it is _crazy_ good. At Instant speed, you can cast Paradoxical Outcome and target any number of permanents you control and return them to their owner's hand. Plus, for each one you return, you draw 1 card. This is a really good response to big removals and board wipes. It allows you to recast your cards to retrigger casting and / or ETB triggers again. And, of course, it can draw you a lot. I like using it on my mana rocks in Alela, Artful Provocateur. This will let me recast my artifacts again to get Alela's artifact cast trigger, not to mention how it protects my precious ramp from a wayward Vandalblast, Crush Contraband, or the like. And finally, of course, it draws you cards, which can unjam a strategy that slowed down due to not having the right or enough cards.

Moonsilver Key is probably one the best cards in my Osgir deck because i can use it three times to tutor out basalt monolith and forsaken monument for inf colorless mana or even get things like coveted jewel along side KCI and chromatic star and terrarion to draw cards while making mana

I've been singing it's praises since it was announced. You forgot another great target though, with The Mightstone and Weakstone (for commander players, the back face of meld cards isn't considered for color identity, so it can go in any deck). Another thing I've seen hold people back about it is that it costs 3 mana total to use, which disregards the flexibility of paying some now and some later. You can play it on turn two and save it for a turn where you need and can play the tutor target, so it functions similarly to a 1 mana tutor.

What a great video! I was just looking for more different tutors, and this is perfect!

I just opened the Urza Brother's War precon. I'm not sure how much I'll mod it because I do like the look of the deck, but Moonsilver Key is definitely now on the list. Thanks!

Ive always preached the two recent Innistrad sets for some of their cards. Wash away, Unnatural Growth, moonsilver key, Overcharged Amalgam, the amazing lands, Glorious Sunrise, Adeline who is an all star of many archetypes. There is also Katylda, wether alive or dead she is a great card. I never understood why the two innistrad set got so much crap, they are great imo.

Thanks for the video! It's informative and fun. Keep the good work

The background smash music tells me that u are a man of culture👌 I did think its my son who plays smash on the tv tbh xD

I know I'm late to this video but Enslaved is a really clutch card that earned my respect early on in my magic career. I was playing a casual game of Commander with my friend who was teaching me the game at my LGS. We finish one game and a guy asks to join us. We tell him sure but just to let him know we are very casual and I'm new to the game and he agrees. The first game we play he brings out Slivers and demolished us. The 2nd game he plays a crazy tax/stax/enchantment deck that required us to pay 12 to attack at all. Despite 3 plays from the start of the game ganging up on him lost. We got him down to 14 life and we could have won had I simply had the experience at the time to use enslave on the very thing that was winning him the game. A 10/10 with lifelink. Still, it made me realize that the value that card brings can bring a losing game to a surprise win. Since that game I've used it many times and it's always been worth casting.

I use it in my favorite deck. Xyris commander. I use it to find my decanter of endless water for no maximum hand and add any color mana on tap. It's a 3 color deck, so it's perfect. Helped me out so many times that moonsilver key.

An absolute gem. I play it on my Mishra deck, sometimes it ends up fetching more than once.

I’m about to go ad this into my breya deck. Great vid.

awesome card, i have a Sliver Deck and need to use Chromatic Lantern to fix mana sometimes, i had a Prismatic Omen at first too, but then i realized that if both come up, Omen becomes a dead card, but Moonsilver Key still has utility in such a case, so i dropped Omen for the Key

I knew it was good, but I never put it together in my mind the sheer utility of it… and I’ve used it in decks to search for artifact ramp before, just never realized the variety of artifacts with mana abilities. Even for someone who thought it was a good card already, this is really enlightening… the saddest part for me is that I can only put one copy in each deck, I’m trying to think of ways to build around it in standard/pioneer lol…

Bro I swear clavileno is an insanely underrated deck and I’m getting this rn . Sick video

Also searches Lion's Eye Diamond, Jeweled Lotus, Sol Ring, and any Mox as well.

It’s a staple in my Volrath deck, fetching great henge and having every other creature etb with a counter ready for Volrath’s shenanigans, and also draws! It’s amazing. Plus it’s a 2 drop because Volrath is a 7/5 creature.

My personal favorite card to tutor for using Moonsilver Key is Chromatic Lantern. A mana rock that lets me just tap my lands without having to worry what color mana I hold up? Don’t mind if I do

The celestus is the lore-obvious target for the key, but it's crazy that there's many more locks it can open!

I was out of the loop from magic for a few years but when i saw this card i shid my pants and got one for all my decks. Incredible in 4 and 5 colour decks as it can find lantern. Notable stable in anything non green, and MVP in a MR house deck as it can find you your best reusable dice rolls.

I actually didn't realize triggered abilities could be mana abilities. Not sure whether it affects any of my decks currently, but it's useful to know.

Yes, AMAZING tutor right there

If you're running artifacts you MUST have Thran Dynamo for both it's mana gen and for flavor

It blew my mind seeing people call this card bad when my immediate first thought was an extra slot to find Ashnod’s Altar or Phyrexian Altar to win the game lol

It's also easily reusable too. Sun Titan, Academy Ruins, Goblin Welder just to name a few ways to get it back to use again and again!

I'm going to buy this card right now. Thanks for making this video. 🕊

Thank you for this. Now I need to go and buy up a few copies. :)

The one deck i have Thats updated enough to have a moonsilver key is kinan. It grabs basalt monolith or if I’ve Andy found that, it grabs the filter for my infinite mana.

A flaw with biotransference is that its already black. While it does allow for tutoring most cards in your deck, you could at that point just play even a diabolic tutor.

did not realize it was a dollar. It is a super good card that could pretty much round out a mana base in any deck and do double duty for decks that want to search up specific artifacts it can grab

As someone who did buy a bunch of them for less then a dollar I’m glade I’m not alone

when this card was revealed in vow, i glossed over it thinking "welp, yet another 40 euro rare that i'll never get to use" i was BAFFLED when it came out at like 1 euro and stayed there up to this day too, card is insane!

For the same mana cost and activation cost, and not much more cost in terms of $, you can play Wishclaw Talisman, the real 3rd best tutor in EDH. Wishclaw finds anything. It finds Opposition Agent to surprise your opponent when they attempt to activate the Wishclaw you gave them. It finds Flicker or Aminatou the Fateshifter to bring that Wishclaw back onto your field with all the wish counters back. It finds Dockside Extortionist and adds to the artifact count. It finds Goblin Welder to make your opponent sac the Wishclaw Talisman and allow you to get it back... this card is seriously slept on.

moonsilver key is the glue that makes my memnarch deck function, it's incredible and I wouldn't have won many games without it. Fabricate is of course better, but it's already in the deck!

I use it in my graveyard deck to find ashnods or phyrexian altar. It's an amazing card

Already was going to brew with it but you have opened my eyes further

Key is cool, but I think the actual most underplayed tutor in Commander is Fervent Mastery. Just triple gamble for 4 mana and 17 cents, and most of the time it plays like an upgraded Buried Alive that also grabs Past in Flames or Dread Return.

If you are going to run tutors, this is definitely the way to do it: utility tutors that search for utility cards. Mystical Tutor into a Fierce Guardianship is just so boring...

I've got quite a few of these keys. Sadly, I don't use them that much, but they will start going into decks that have difficulty tutoring and ramping along with Navigation Orb.

Moon silver key's limitations hold it back in many folks eyes, it is indeed awesome in the right decks with target(s) built in for it but outside of those it isn't great if they had just said artifact and not limited it to mana producing artifacts then this would be alot better, same goes for the land part drop the basic and this becomes loads better. Don't get me wrong it is a great card but it's limitations hold it back from the full greatness it might have achieved.

So many great ideas here, and not just for tutoring mana artifacts.

I feel like anyone that built the urza meld deck would have known about this card and thats kinda it. It's super busted having a second copy of Mightstone but also 2 sol rings is lit

people really do forget that some of the most busted artifacts in mtg have mana abilities huh? i saw this card and thought "wow that's crazy asf" while everyone else was calling it sorta mid and i was so confused.

An absolute gem in my Acererak deck!

Thought it was fake when it was spoiled. Ungodly strong in my artifact deck Honestly didn't even know that it could get land and I've been playing it since release

I have faith in you brother you are the future of mtg RU-vid all hail Attack on cardboard amazing videos and amazing card selection

I tried Moonsilver key into Ashnod the uncaring deck to fetch her dedicated altar and some other mana producer, its great.

I love moonsilver key in my Urtet Myr Deck ☺

you even mentioned my favorite pet card. GOLD HOUND

People forget its multi-player. Any tutor that's "downside" is other player also searches is great. I actually love wish claw in commander

I use moon silver key in my Noyan Dar deck to find indestructible artifact lands but this card tutors for the best card in the format: Sol Ring which is always a good target

I have an Emrakul commander deck on Arena and moonsilver key has been a useful part of it since the start. Such cheap tutoring!

Oh! I use this in my Xyris deck so I can get Phyrexian Alter so I can turn all those snake tokens into mana.

Oooo loved the MGS inventory sound effects. So iconic and recognizable

In my Glissa the Traitor deck Moonsilver Key is absolutely fantastic, along with expedition map, Mishra's bauble, mind stone, just anything cheap I can sacrifice for ramp or draw power.

Once someone told me it could get altars and KCI I was sold on the card and strongly consider it for most of my decks

Another amazing often slept on tutor is Search for Glory imo. Search for any snow permanenet... ok, great in really specific deck, search for saga, well... Kiora bests the sea gods, The Eldest Reborn, And some others are all fine, but... Search for legendary is powerful, any Planeswalker, legendary land (Boseiju, Otawara, gaea's cradle, urborg, halls of heliod's generosity...), legendary enchantment (in shrines deck it's basically Idylic Tutor, on top of all other legendaty enchantmentd, it can also dig up Backgrounds), Legendary Artifact (even outside of creatures, there's legendary equipment too), Legendary Sorceries...

chaos wand ! always in my heart

Yes, absolutely true. My lgs and webs, already sell all of those last year

Best card no one runs. Thaumatic compass. Guarantees you land drops early if you really need them, then once you hit 7 lands, it actually ramps you by turning into a maze of ith that taps for mana. Its fantastic in lands matter decks, its great in decks that don't fight super well, and its just always good in metas with big creatures or voltron commanders.

Funny how The Celestus has "{T}: Add one mana of any color." presumably just so the Key can find it

I knew it as soon as the vid said "$1" Such an underrated card

Adore Moonsilver Key, been running it since it came out

I still love my buckle up precon. Moonsilver key basically is a win con im that deck with everything its able to hunt out. Silly the amount of hate i saw it get at release

Realmbreaker would for sure be a solid target; even if you don't run any praetors, stealing lands from your opponents and slapping their top deck tutoring along the way is major value

I didn't think about the artifact lands and I agree that moonsilver key is underrated, but I disagree with the fact that it goes in any deck. Since I've been removing sol rings from most of my decks, it's not nearly as useful as just putting a mana rock directly into your deck (thus skipping the searching part for a mana rock and the 3 mana it costs to do so) or straight up using one more land in the deck (or wayfarer's bauble in a non-green deck, that works too if ramp is really the focus here). But in a deck where there are at least 4 to 5 really good targets, sure !

Thank you, didn't think to put this in my Elona Aristocrat deck until now.

YES! I've been hard on MSKey for as long as it has existed!

I've been liking the Goldhound, haha.

Guild Feud is such a janky card I would LOVE to see a stratagy built around. TL;DR its a one red 5 generic Enchantment that makes you look at the top three of your liberary and lets you put a creature onto the battlefield with the rest going into the yard, a opponent does this same trigger and if 2 creatures are revealed by doing this they fight

My favorite Tutor of all time is Rhystic Tutor

Good video. I am confused as to how it gets 2 cards you listed in your video. Neither of them Produced mana or were a basic land. Biotransference in particular makes no sense how that is searchable. Could you please explain?

I have won so many games getting timeless lotus with moonsilver.

Imagine what shenanigans you could get up to if you ran it alongside Lurrus of the Dream-Den

ive owned several copies, ill give em a shot now.

I guessed what it was before watching, but I didnt think it would be right lol. I use it to get basalt monoliths to use with my nyxbloom ancient.

My K’rrik deck loves moonsilver key!

I run this thing in my Zirda deck. it is an ALL STAR. I would even say it makes the deck far more consistent by a long shot. Already have the monolith in hand or available somehow? Grab Prismite or something so you can have the colored mana you need to cast your gross big game ending X spell.

An honorable mention goes out to "Night Dealings"

Its good especially as another colorless "ramp" option for decks that cant do that very well

Moonsilver Key, aka Wayfarer’s Bauble II: Artifact Boogaloo. Obviously, the difference between being a one drop that activates for two mana and a two drop that activates for one mana matters, since the presumption is that the Bauble can be dropped on one no matter what, while the Key has to wait for turn two unless fast mana is available. That said, I have a hard time seeing a deck that wants Bauble but NOT the Key. Even if you’re ignoring the artifact part, it’s till really good, and the extra artifact synergy lets you do silly things in artifact decks.

Also a insane card to fetch some Metalworker

I like Manglehorn, always has targets, and screws with especially treasures

Grim tutor is crazy underrated. Literally the same as demonic tutor but also pay a little life

Awesome vid!

Shhhh, don't tell everyone how good it is! It needs to stay cheap so I can carry on putting it in every single deck!