The WORDIEST Card! 

He specifies printed by wizards, IIRC secret lair is a separate entity. (Correct me if I’m wrong)

The Secret Lairs are developed and printed by WotC, they are only sold and distributed by another company.

@@The94Nut I think that's splitting hairs. They're an official product that, for all intents and purposes, is by wotc regardless of any contractors

Secret lair basic lands are technically an alternate art. A basic land has no text, the text on those lands is essentially artistic

Is that really an argument against, if the winner of the award is not even a legal magic card? :D

First guess is Thoracle or Illusionary Mask.

@@junebyrd Questing Beast, it's always Questing Beast

I bet it's a saga

I imagine its some early artifact or enchantment pre-errata. Still kind of a cheaty answer though

@@jordantiburcio4541 Just on a first pass, the new Braids' Frightful Return clocks in at 456 characters (including name and type line, excluding mana costs and text on the frame). This beats Thoracle's 450 characters. The reminder text of Read Ahead gives it an edge over other sagas which fall short of Thoracle, like Firja's Retribution and Elspeth Conquers Death.

Also on the topic of wordy cards, you should check out Odric, Flippy Flappy Tactician, a meme card that executes this concept well.

I didn't but once I read your comment, maybe it's because it's an Un-set

That's incredible. Cardmarket's editors must have just googled "magic card back" and used a _fake_ one that was being shopped around back when the concept of purple being added as a real Magic color was big. I forget if this was fanmade (likely) or a Wizards mockup for an article (less likely), but I can confirm that is a fake card back and the proper card has a regular Magic back (until double-faced cards, the card back was sacrosanct and literally could not be messed with at all after it was decided that every Magic set would have a single, unified card back).

Everyone makes that mistake every once in a while 😅 even channel fireball at the grand prix

Just call it OMRSTPLRLCNSWMTCTHTALCNEE for short.

I knew yugioh players wouldn't disappoint!

@@MansMan42069 honestly, More text doesn't always mean Better card , Some of the most BUSTED cards ever printed have relatively small effects, (Like painful choice , graceful charity , half the zoodiac archetype , and more obviously, pot of greed with a grand total of three words and it's never getting unbanned in any none joke format .

I thought it would be Questing Beast. Blasted thing does something new everytime you read it.

@@AJKiesel QB isn't actually that wordy, it's just that none of the abilities are linked to each other, or intuitive in any way. Whereas a wordier card like soul separator may use a lot more words, but you can 'get' it.

@@simonteesdale9752 - Whoosh…

Full text lands technically have no text though 😉 basic lands are textless and the full text lands are essentially full-art lands, where the text is the art

Best colour

I did compare oracle text, rather than printed text iirc, so Ice Cauldron might've missed out a bit because of it. Still, you can't beat two-sided cards 😅 -Jamin

Haha and they also make the text in the tiniest font size possible 😅

You most likely did (unless I've got a doppelganger somewhere that also played THG that day) Which round did we play? -Jamin

@@CardmarketMagic The first one. You went for Domain and shot us in the face for 10 damage 3 times because you bounced that archer back to your hand

Fun fact! The full text lands have no text. They are technically full-art lands, with the text being the art 😉

Or... you know, Viconia.

Fun fact! The full text lands have no text. They are technically full-art lands, with the text being the art 😉

Those are alternate art cards. Actual basics have no text, in those special-release lands, the text is really just the art.

Full text lands have no text 😉 they are technically full-art lands, with the text being the art

Questing beast has less text, but it somehow feels like more text...