Top 5 Red Cards 

Honorable mentions: bit.ly/4bXedaj

3:41 Ok, they're just teasing us at this point. BRING ON THE SERIES!

3:34 The improvement from Shock to Lightning Bolt is 50 %, not a third.

16:00 It's clearly Shock the Monkey.

Carl putting Thoralf's english on blast with subtitles *chef's kiss*

Comparing Ragavan to Jackal pup gave me an idea for a video concept. (And maybe you've done this before). But the idea is upgrading old competative decks with modern power crept equivalents. So you would want to keep the general spirit and functionality of the deck the same but swap out cards with their modern power crept equivalents. You could even do some sort of funny time traveling bit.

Before hearing the list: 1. Underworld breach 2. Wheel of fortune 3. Lightning Bolt 4. Ragavan 5. Faithless looting

I remember back in M10 when Lightning Bolt returned to Standard. It was such a moment of joyous moment for players.

One red card that isn’t mentioned in the article but that is so good it was banned in legacy is goblin recruiter

i actually have a fun Ragavan story! my first time playing UR Murktide, in the second round of the fnm I was playing against a weird combo deck that used a 1 of Emrakul as the win condition. We make it to a game 3 and on turn 2 I dash a Ragavan, he connects and exiles the Emmy. Opponent does some thinking to figure out if theres any way he wins that game, then extends the handshake and concedes!

Goblin guide deserves an honourable mention. Its one of the few old creatures with downsides, that are still playable.

If only we have a way to know what is better, bolt or ragavan... Like with a deck with only bolts vs a deck with only ragavans or something.

Great video as always, boys. I would love to see you guys make an appearance on other shows such as Game Knights or Shuffle Up and Play - hopefully there can be a collab soon!

Love the content as always, can't remember the last video I missed.

I love how every once in a while, when somebody flubs a line, instead of editing it out the editor does the exact opposite and highlights the flub for all to see! I absolutely love this. It gives such a casual and relaxed vibe to y'all's videos. Love y'all's content. All around great stuff!

Tibalt's trickery and Fable done dirty xD

Glad to hear Blue Moon getting a shout out, holds a very special place in my heart as the deck that properly got me into Modern and into the game in general

Carl brought up a great point on the comparison of Bolt vs Shock, which reminded me of another thing you can teach new players thanks to Bolt. And that's Lightning Strike vs Bolt. 1 mama may not look like much, but it can mean a big difference

I once played Blood Moon in draft (Amonkhet Invocation) and it really did a good job since my opponent drafted Desert archetype x)

Depends a lot on the format. In Commander, Dockside Extortionist and Deflecting Swat are definitely top 5. In Cube, Broadside Bombadiers, Fable of the Mirror Breaker and Caves of Chaos Adventurer are top 5.

Love this crew! Keep up the good content

I really like your background music in this episode.

Awesome video as Always ❤

Can you guys make a video where it's jam as many different mechanics together? I wanted to see what it would be like to play with energy counters, the dungeon, the monarch, experience, quests, emblems, etc. all at the same time!

I picked a few of these, surprised not to see Splinter Twin or Fires of Invention on there but then at the same time everything that did make the cut makes sense. Glad to see Lightning Bolt getting the respect it deserves, I'd argue it's basically format defining in Modern.

Some of the top game changing red cards for me are “smoke, sneak attack, fury, terror of the peak, grapeshot, and tibalt’s trickery”. Edit: forgot “transmogrify”

hope you guys do this for every color!

I thought it would be a top 5 red cards that "changed the game-state" the most, like Scrambleverse and Thieves' auction, not game changing cards 🤣

An answer to kill Ragavan with a burn spell : "Heat the Ape"

In vintage the go to combo with wheel and time twister is hullbreacher. Also works with orchish bow master and sometimes sheoldred. With hullbreacher you get your mana back worth of treasure plus a black lotus and a lotus petal worth. So you get rid of their hand and get 7 one time use mana worth of treasure very powerful even for vintage.

Teasing the Pauper best deck ever series?! Lets go!

Broadside Bombadiers is probably deserving of a spot on this list I know it’s brand new but it’s literally the best non-power card in Vintage Cube which is kind of absurd for a red 3 drop

11:55 the crazy thing about this statement is the opposite is but true too. As in the strongest cards in a vacuum don’t get played much. Because of how much you usually have to do to use them.

"Shock the Simian"

Great video! I love red decks

Jamin's take on blood moon made him my favorite Cardmarketer

I liked Wheel of Fate a lot - it happens after a few turns but it's free then, so you both get a new hand on your upkeep, but have all of your mana open too.

Thanks for the reminder fellas I gotta slot Blood Moon into my Historic Brawl Ragavan deck. I'm playing it out of necessity because i've not spent any money on arena. Got a 15 Wins 3 Losses rate yesterday felt so good.

My favorite thing is when i save a cardmarket video for later then when i refresh the title changes lol

I’ve cast both karns from a Tron deck with ragavan … that was pretty fun

The only one I missed while guessing was Ragavan. I'm not as familiar with newer cards. I picked Goblin Welder. Also, I put Wheel of Fortune at #1.

For some reason I thought Wheel of Fortune was still closer in price to something like Gaea's Cradle compared to something like Copy Artifact. For such a staple Reserved List card, I honestly might have to come around and finally pick up a copy. The French or Italian white border cards seems like a good deal.

Welcome to the next installment of "Rubbing embarassing losses in Jamin's face"! Now with a new "I am so done with these guys" reaction face! Stay tuned for more!

14:00 Before Jackal Pup there was Savanah Lion without any downsides.

16:00 - I nominate Annihilate or Axe the Ape.

I know this is only for legacy. But, I feel that price of progress deserves a shout out. It is single handed player removal for 2 mana, also a big fan of Eidolon.

I'm surprised Fury didn't make the list or the honorable mentions. It seems stronger than a lot of the cards in the honorable mentions. Same with Sneak Attack and Fable. Also, this card is probably too new for this list, but I think the current strongest red card in Vintage cube is Broadside Bombardiers (might be Fable but this card is nuts too). That card does so much damage.

I love turn 1 winds of change (edited). 1 red all players suffle their hand into their library and draws that amount of card. Basically force your opponents to take a free muligan they are stuck with regardless of how bad the new hand is.

Personally, I would have switched position 1 and 4 for this ranking, simply because Lightning Bolt is just the ultimate red card for me, but I'm fine with the "more powerful" card taking the win, here. Thanks for the video, folks!

Blue Moon was a sweet deck!

I've never played Magic before, but for some reason keep watching videos of other people playing. I successfully guessed that Lightning Bolt, Blood Moon and Ragavan would be in the top 5.

I have very rarely played with any of these spells. (Most of my time playing was in the time when Lightning Bolt was considered too powerful to reprint.)

I've played Ragavan twice. It was in my worst deck and I just tossed all my expensive cards into the deck trying to make it work. It never really did, but one game, I got a wild no lander and kept. Opening hand had Ragavan, Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, Commander's Sphere, and Moonshaker Calvary. I can't remember what other two cards. Turn one: Crypt into Sol Ring into Commander's Sphere and then cast Ragavan. Turn two: Attack with Ragavan, get a treasure, played whatever was on my opponent's deck. Turn three: Land, sac treasure, and tap out the stones for Moonshaker. It was a silly game and was over on turn 5. Monkey too powerful.

This series has turned into “Dunk on Jamin” and somehow feel for him and find it hilarious

Blood Moon is such an important card because it’s a meta check. It keeps greedy mana bases in check.

1:14 "After this was printed..." I mean, it was in alpha. "After Wheel of Fortune was printed" is the same as "while Magic existed"

surprised dockside extortionist didn't make the top 5. But good list!

Im relatively new to magic and drew a ragavan at the MOM prerelease. I looked at it and thought "hm... Neat" and put it away. Later into that event somebody bursts out with excitement and shouts that he got ragavan and i started googling the price of that card and only then thought of telling my boyfriend (who got me into mtg) that i got ragavan as well 😂 i thought it to be a really good card but it didnt occur to me that it could be worth that much xD

One of the biggest steps on your MTG skill curve is the moment you understand that Lightning Bolt is (even) better in control decks than in aggro decks.

Won one of my games in a recent cEDH tournament almost exclusively on Blood Moon, shut down my opponents so hard I barely had to use any of my other control magic to hold down my advantage to the win. When it works it works HARD.

Wheel of fortune is at best 7 card advantage for 3 mana, but usually more like 3-4. 2 mana draw 2s are usually bot banned, the problem is, wheel can assist a mono red beatdown deck thats faltering against a midrange or combo in topdeck mode to reset the board, and deal like 8 damage next turn., likely closing out the game. It makes an already stron archetype too consistent.

3:59 then release it allready. XD I feel like I went cold turkey, ever since the community posts. I neeeed my pauper! Pleeasse!!❤

Wizards should print Bolt Lands, triomes which enter tapped unless you pay {3}

Ragavan is only truly wild if you weren't in the weeds of early yugioh where Yata-Garasu could lock you out of the whole game even without Chaos Emperor Dragon being main way to do it. I was legit shocked when Ragavan got released because how could they not see how much it feels like a broken legacy card that gets limited to one a deck.

Toffel caught so many strays lol

Pauper series pls

Bolt is one of the cornerstones of the original design of the whole of magic.

RIP Dockside 😢 Also, I was 100% expecting them at some point to say Shivan Dragon

I thought this was going to be about red cards that change the game while you’re playing. Here I was expecting Warp World, and Scrambleverse.

It was a period of *intentional* power increase in order to try to sell more cards.

watching card market, mein mutter just brought me a big jar of sauerkraut to open, and i have to practice a wagner etude after i watch this. i'm the most german man in california today lol

I forgot about Breach. I was betting on Looting and Fury rounding out the top 3

Im surprised "Before I cast this cool pirate, how many artifacts and enchantments are in play" didnt make the list.

Honorable mention to dockside

I still rememeber when my ragavan kept connecting against a mill player and i milled them out

Please play MonoG ponza in the best of Pauper!

Blood moon! Personal favorite.

No article in the description or comments?

I'm a bit disappointed that the discussion of Underworld Breach caught LED, but failed to mention the most busted third card to include with them: Brain Freeze. Vintage and cEDH make quite efficient use of this pile... It also works pretty nicely with Wheel of Fortune, of course!

Wheres Toffel?? Also who’s this handsome new guy!?

dwarven miner dwarven blastminer orcish settlers wake of destruction anarchy ragavan, nimble pilferer shattering pulse meltdown gorilla shaman vexing shusher lightning mare fanning the flames mana flare fire servant feiry emancipation fireball crackle with power overabundance lightning helix lightning bolt radiant scroll wielder mine layer sudden demise pyroclasm wall of earth ----------- these are some of my most favorite red cards

I’ll never forget when Ragavan was spoiled and people dunked on the card. But then immediately realized how busted he was.

Pauper Commander episode when :)

Fable of the mirror breaker not being on this list I feel is a crime

I'm suprised Simian Spirit Guide wasn't somewhere around here

Maybe Meteor the Monkey? I just like the idea of someone casting a Shivan Meteor on a Ragavan, he deserves it though

You guys should look up the red sorcery "Warp World".

I've only playing MTG for about 6 years. The best red cards i remember are Embercleave and Fires of Invention. 😅

I have a fun Ragavand story. It was in EDH. I played pirate typal, my deck doesn't have him in it. It's to expensive. What it does have is Breeches in the command zone. So I hit the player with the value pile and hit their monkey. If you thought he was disgusting on his own, you don't want to play him with the rest of the crew. A 4/3 monkey with a flying counter that generates two treasures on hit and exiles two cards is a truly disgusting thing. He needed to use an exile based removal on his own monkey as I threatened to make it indestructible with Tyrite Sanctum . Which I also stole and later added to the deck for moments like that.

Is Thoralf doing okay? When was his last physical exam? He might want to get checked out...

14:07 I will not tolerate Jackal Pup slander😡 Jackal Pup, combined with a Pariah's Shield (and something that makes the Pup kndestructible🙄) is one of the greatest combos you can find in all of Magic. #RespectTheJank

These kinds of videos are fun and all, but i really wish there were some more regular feature matches of pioneer or old standard decks, with pros. The best part of this channel is how easy it is to follow along with a match, with seeing cards in hand, cards hit off something like impulse, and the amazing interviews. The newer more faster paced feature matches are not nearly as engaging.

I thought Chandra flarme of nalar might have got as it was so versitly for so long

Please never stop highlighting a card with clips of Jamin losing to that card

i havent watched the video yet, but my top 5 are: dockside, ragavan, lightning bolt, wheel of fortune and red/pyro blast. lets see how my predictions are. edit: yeah i dont agree with bloodmoon and i forgot about breach. woops

wheel of foturne is terrorfighing realise that they printed not 1 not 2 not 3 but 4 difrent cards that break it narset, nekuzar, shelodred and of course bowmasters

underworld breach is so busted id argue its a top 10 magic card of all time. its one of THE best cards in vintage currently

Blood moon will always be my second favorite card in magic next to lightning bolt. It just is a card that can win games and do nothing at the same time.

Faithless looting is just out of competition since its to broken

Goblin Recruiter is a really good card specifically in Goblins. Getting to stack your entire deck is something that doesn't belong in Magic.