Top 10 Day 0 Erratas in MTG 

This comment hasn't gotten a reprint yet. So the only legal version of it has a mostake.

For maximum confusion, they need to release a zaffai, thunder collecter which refers to itself as zaffai, thunder conductor...

There's something fitting about pixie guide giving a blessing that has an (initially) obscure, ironic downside.

Actually, one of the biggest cards that forgot the "until end of turn" clause was Riding the Dilu Horse, from Portal: Three Kingdoms. It's a sorcery that gives a creature +2/+2 and Horsemanship. Horsemanship being an obscure but powerful keyword that makes it so the creature can't be blocked by anything that doesn't also have Horsemanship. Since Horsemanship was until recently confined solely to the shortly printed introductory set that was Three Kingdoms, it essentially makes a creature with it unblockable. Riding the Dilu Horse has also never been reprinted, but the craziest thing is that when Three Kingdoms cards started seeing more play in eternal formats like Commander, and Wizards discovered the lack of "until end of turn", they actually decided to just leave it as is! It didn't become an aura, and it doesn't add any sort of counters. The official rules text still allows you to give a permanent +2/+2 and Horsemanship to a creature with this sorcery. Which, considering the card is over $250 and hard to find, makes it just a neat conversation piece, rather than a problem.

Fun fact, the unstable card "really epic punch" gives +2/+2 to a card. Not until end of turn, forever.

Forgot to mention that Hostage Taker with its original text would make an infinite combo with creatures that have abilities like "whenever a creature enters/leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life".

Just look at how many of those cards have been released in the last 3 years. Including Bloodvial Purveyor, I count 7.

Canoptek Wraith also works slightly differently from Myriad Landscape, as it allows searching for two Wastes, which you can't do with Landscape.

12:31 Thank you for reminding me of the existence of Mr Bones Wild Ride. Truly an iconic reference

zaffai was my first ever commander precon and to this day is still one of my favorite commanders. Trough all the years I have been playing with that card I never noticed that mistake. My eyes just skimmed over the rest of the name for 3ish years.

Pulled Invert // Invent in a chaos Sealed event. That was a hilarious day.

The german makeshift munition also needed an eratta. It had tap on it instead of pay 1.

Fun fact about the Delina errata: the combo it made with Pixie Guide before the errata was actually worse than you described. Because it included an element of randomness, the chance of you naturally ending the loop got progressively lower until it was almost impossible, but they never reached zero. This meant that the combo, although effectively infinite, didn’t actually end the game in a draw due to its non-deterministic nature. You’d just be stuck there in a purgatory of rolling dice until the loop eventually beat the astronomical odds and ended naturally, or until the end of time, whichever happened first. Probably the end of time.

I assume this just used something like Scryfalls list of day zero errata, which isn't completely accurate, and is more focused on recent cards since the record of those errata is still around. For example, back in Apocalypse, there was a card called False Dawn. It received day 0 errata, because the card as written did a lot of unintentional things requiring some in-depth game knowledge. The article explaining why is gone, but some people have recorded it so you can still read why if you look for it. Other than the text "Draw a card", the entire card got rewritten, and for good reason. Probably one of the most interesting day 0 errata, far more so than any of the ones shown here. It's never been reprinted, so you won't know how it works unless you look up the errata. Regarding the #10 spot reasoning, there are actually plenty of cards that give effects without a duration and without a reminder that they have that effect. Most of them follow up with removing the creature later to avoid those memory issues, but not all of them do. The real reasons for those listed cards needing errata is that those effects weren't just permanent, they were stackable, and may require some particular rules knowledge (Invert). Some examples across different eras of Magic: Mist Dragon has two effects to either give or take away the flying ability to itself. Memory isn't an issue here since it can do either for no cost at any time. Riding the Dilu Horse gives +2/+2 and horsemanship. It was designed as an aura in a set without enchantments, and is probably the most famous example of no duration effects. Fated Return reanimated a creature and gave it indestructible. Kheru Lich Lord reanimated a creature and gives it flying, trample, and haste. Chance For Glory gives all your creatures indestructible. There are also many cards that grant permanent haste, including with keywords such as riot, unearth, dash, and blitz. Usually this doesn't matter, but if you have something like Odric, Lunarch Marshal, then the haste matters for creatures that enter later.

Doing a quick scryfall search, that is a lot less true day zero erratas than I thought! However, when it comes to day 0 erratas my mind goes to Serra Paragon since it didn't work since it was granting a function of as it moves through zones which doesn't work since it loses that memory as it moves through zones making the point of the mythic rare useless. Serra Paragon isn't on that scryfall search since it was a rules update to that make it work not an Errata even though it is effectively the same thing, just in a different area to prevent future problems.

The Dynaheir was a really big surprise for me. I have been using her in my Codie and I have missed the errata completely, so I have used her to double the mana activations and the cascades Codie gives, but nobody has said anything about it either, so I never had to look it up.

5:30 Intangible Virtue is a creature.

(12:30) "Mr. Bones' Wild Ride" gave me a good chuckle.

Ok, #4 was the funniest on the list. Imagine getting your d20 combo deck to the point where you have a guaranteed OTK, and then realize to your horror you can't actually finish your attack because you're forced to keep rolling.

My favorite creature appeared on this list. Intangible Virtue... Wait, errata that!

Alter of the Pantheon stands out to me. As written, it added one to all devotions meaning a two color devotion could receive 3 devotion rather than the intended 1. It made a difference for me on day one.

I could go into why it doesn't even make sense to call a colorless card a color pie bend, but instead I'll just note we've had two colorless artifacts (Scampering Surveyor and Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree) just in the past two Standard legal sets which provide land ramp to any deck. And while LCI had a minor land theme regarding Caves which might justify a "colorless bend", that same argument doesn't extend to MKM. Colorless cards are mostly just allowed to get whatever effect they want, as long as it isn't efficient enough to step on the toes of colors that do that same effect.

The other commander that was immediately errata'd was Zevlor, Elturel Exile. By being able to ONLY target an opponent or opponent's permanent, made quite a difference to the cards the ability could affect.

There was a day 0 errata to Ambassador Blorpityblorpboop to better clarify what the second ability does. Without the errata, it almost reads like you’re supposed to combine the total powers and toughnesses of stickers you control. There hasn’t been a reprint for the Ambassador to make this change in paper.

Interesting that it didn't include impulse, one of the first day 0 errata where they accidentally left the text "then shuffle your library" on the card after telling you to put the cards on the bottom of your deck

My favorite card errata will always be Floral Spuzzem. Not sure if it was a day 0 errata, but the card was nonfunctional without it. As written it read "If Floral Spuzzem attacks and isn't blocked, then Floral Spuzzem may choose to destroy target artifact that opponent controls and deal no damage." This means that without the errata you will be waiting for your Floral Spuzzem to decide which artifact it wants to target with its ability.

One of the weirdest errata is Ranar, the Ever-Watchfull. With not one but two erratas to his name. With a pretty easy to understand rule but difficult to write down correctly.

Would you consider making a list of the top 5 most playable set/ block of the last 10 years and why?

In the Brazilian version of expedition map, say that you can only search a Basic land, not any land, is not a errata but a funny mistake

An issue I see with Zaffai is: it doesn't require the player activating its ability on scry to reveal the card.

Another card I thought was suppose to have "until end of turn" was Chance for Glory but I can't find any errata, so I guess my creatures are just indestructible for the rest of the game? Probably ok cause you lose after second turn 😅

Important note for Zaffai, she was the face commander for the Prismari Commander deck for Strixhaven so I think the error is that much funnier

8 new (war of the spark block onward) 3 old (pre khans of tarkir) 1 middle (in between these) damn wizards is slacking these day on their cards

Delina also had an advantage card in its own color - berserker class

I am still of the opinion that Oko, thief of crowns was meant to have an until end of turn clause on his turn things into an Elk abilty...

I love your videos

i know this isn't "day zero" errata, but Rukh Egg and Eater of the Dead had a ton of errata very shortly following their printing.

Amazing🎉

Whatever is about to happen on that Canoptek Wraith card, it's going to be messy and involve a lot of screaming...

i reckon pixie guide should've gotten an errata, because it says ignore the lowest roll, what if all the dice come up with the same number, does it ignore all dice rolls, sure it'll be explained in the oracle text, but if you're going to your FNM and someone pulls this combo off, there could be a debate, then it requires a judge.

A lot of these changes could have been resolved with a rules change that clarifies abilities of these types automatically have the wording left off the cards.

I think for April fools day you should do a video on characters you mispronounce not throwing shade but it would be funny

canoptek wraith has one major difference over myriad landscape in that it can get wastes. probably the reason they changed the formatting.

I’m really surprised to not see triumph of saint Katherine here. There were some crazy interactions if your opponent gained control of it before it died Edit: just realized that this wasn’t a day 0 errata

Well, technically, ridding the dilu course doesn't have until the end of turn and is played as is.

Good thing I watched the video I was playing bloodviel pevayor wrong the whole time

So Delina can decide that she has an appropriate amount of pixies :)

Vesuvan Doppelganger should have been #1 on this list INQUEST had more entrees on this card than any other back in the day!!

7:22 I didn’t have an issue comprehending the effect. People might need to read more non-fiction books, tbh.

Hostage Taker also gives infinite EtB without errata as a sidenote.

Are misprints the same as errata?

This comment has gotten a reprint now, so this version of it doesn't has a mistake.

Was impulse not a day zero errata? Because if it was it seems weird to not include it on this list

i thought henzie would be on here for sure

Meanwhile, Konami will ban you for life if you put dice on your cards, yet CONSTANTLY prints effects that permanently change stats or other things about a card. Brilliant.

How does Zaffai's errata not have a gameplay effect? The rule says when a card's name is printed on it, it can be replaced with "this card". But before the errata, its name wasn't printed on the card.

Really don't see why Canoptek Wraith doesn't simply have the exact wording as Myriad Landscape.

A reminder to all card games: Stickers can't work as a mechanic at all. Funny as they may be, they ruin everything.

Kinda wild that the majority of these cards were printed in the last few years lol

On a more serious note my understanding of the rules text differs from yours. I thought Dynaheir hypothetically would tap itself, then pay 5 mana for the mana ability which is itself an activated ability. While mana abilities don’t use the stack, Dynaheir should still see the ability and then do something off of that. Except it was rules texted away. Why would Dynaheir not see that you spent 5 mana on an ability?

felidar guardian lacked "another" originally, which meant you could infinitely blink itself

Now if only they would errata ward to say “if ward cost is paid, the spell targeting this permanent cannot be countered.” It seems like a huge oversight to make players pay extra for a spell and then have that spell be countered. Especially since ward cards are predominately blue. Like, they have counter spells? Why are you giving them added protection on top of that?

The erratta for suspend didnt make much sense to me

Top 10 Elves

I learned the word errata like one month ago, and now i'm suddenly seeing it everywhere Am I the only one?

I'm not sure how you can make a list like this and not include Orcish Oriflamme.

So..... Pixie Guide received no errata.

So for Hostage Taker if I'm not mistaken, it's a continuous effect like Banishing Light where if it would leave the battlefield before the target has been exiled, then the target remains on the battlefield (never leaves)

I request videos for the Top 10 Myr cards and the Top 10 Sliver cards, please.

#6 - Should have become a Map.

Errata is already the plural. Erratum would be the singular.

Don't wanna be THAT guy but "Errata" is already plural, it's Latin.

So, they errated Marath so it wouldn't become a 2 card infinite. Yet they leave so many 2-card infinite combos available to exploit. Sure, whatever you want WotC

You need to errata your spelling.

Grip of chaos from scourge got day zero errata because, as written, it would trigger whenever any spell or ability went on the stack. Including its own triggered ability. So it would cause an infinite loop as soon as anyone did anything

They massacred my girl Dynaheir.

Stickers is such bullshit, altering the cards of your enemy in any way should be bannable not a mechanic, altering the cards of your opponent with the permission of your opponent should result in 2 bans

Errata is the plural of erratum. "Erratas" is not a word.

get your shit together wotc, jesus

Bold move to release such a nit picky video where you misspeak so frequently.