Reveillark. Powerful, Fun, enables combos, but not too busted because of setup and being expensive. Makes you excited for what 2-power-drops will come in the next set.
I would've gone with Pacifism and Divination, similar to Patrick's choices because all are simple elegant staples but his are more competitively playable. Nice job!
I'm pretty sure Duress and Negate have already been standard legal for my entire time playing magic (I started some time in Tarkir block). As a result, I'm declaring these answers a cop out. We all know the real answer is the Circle of Protection cycle, like Andrew Garfield intended. Btw, if someone wants to fact check me there I'd be interested to know if they have been legal this whole time, but not interested enough to figure out myself lol. If they ever weren't legal that time frame, it couldn't have been for long. Edit: Realized I typed Andrew Garfield instead of Richard Garfield. But I'm going to double down and just assume he is also a CoP enjoyer.
Duress was printed in Dragons, rotated out when Kaladesh was released, then was printed in Ixalan and hasn’t rotated out since. I believe it has only been out of Standard (since M10) for a total of 2.25 years: 9 months during og Innistrad block, 6 months during Khans block (Thoughtseize was legal tho), and the year of Kaladesh-Amonkhet blocks
They've been legal for most of that time because they keep getting reprinted, even when it isn't necessary for set design or is a good flavor fit, because the standard format needs them. Cards like those two are exactly what Foundations is for, so they don't have to remove new designs to fit format staples into regular sets. Is it the easy answer? Yes. Is it correct? Also yes.
@@Scrimshaw_DuBois42 In some way Duress and Negate are bad examples by this logic. They are incredibly easy to fit into just about any set because of the lack of flavor or design overhead, have a good play pattern, and are decently valuable in limited sideboards. They aren't "removing new designs just to include format staples". If that were the case DMU and MOM wouldn't both include Negate (from a standard rotation perspective that's completely redundant). Plenty of sets that aren't even standard legal have included these cards because they are just good work horse cards to have in the file. In fact, I'm going to make the bold guess we will probably still see these cards printed at a pretty similar rate even after Foundations. Having fun Universes Beyond versions of these iconic (but very flexible and non-world unique) cards will probably also further justify their inclusion in sets. I don't think Foundations adds or changes anything here which is why I don't even think it's a great answer on top of it being an incredibly obvious one.
I've been a big believer in "Giant Growth" for this answer for years. It doesn't have any real level of tournament pedigree, but combat tricks are actually super important to low-level play. Even if most combats usually don't have one, the idea that someone COULD have one adds so much to low-level beginner Magic. Also, I recently taught a new player to play, and I cobbled together a beginner box and initially couldn't find Giant Growths, so I was looking all over the place for a super-simple trick to show as the first combat trick, and it really is so clean compared to everything else like it. I eventually found a single Giant Growth and it was actually clutch.
Foundations chose to use Bear Cub, a functional reprint of Grizzly Bears first featured in Portal: Second Age. I think the idea was to choose a creature that "felt" more like a vanilla 2/2, since those aren't considered very strong these days. Grizzly Bears isn't actually as surefire a pick as you would think. The last time a functional reprint of Grizzly Bears was in a core set was M15, though there were color-shifted versions in other core sets, like Walking Corpse in M21.
Perfect 2 for 2 from Patrick with the bonus point from Cedric
Reveillark. Powerful, Fun, enables combos, but not too busted because of setup and being expensive. Makes you excited for what 2-power-drops will come in the next set.
Disenchant, Duress, Negate, Giant Growth, Shock
All of them made it to Foundations except Shock. They used Burst Lightning instead.
I would've gone with Pacifism and Divination, similar to Patrick's choices because all are simple elegant staples but his are more competitively playable. Nice job!
They went with Quick Study over Divination. Pacifism is in there though.
Episode 69? Nice.
I'm pretty sure Duress and Negate have already been standard legal for my entire time playing magic (I started some time in Tarkir block). As a result, I'm declaring these answers a cop out. We all know the real answer is the Circle of Protection cycle, like Andrew Garfield intended.
Btw, if someone wants to fact check me there I'd be interested to know if they have been legal this whole time, but not interested enough to figure out myself lol. If they ever weren't legal that time frame, it couldn't have been for long.
Edit: Realized I typed Andrew Garfield instead of Richard Garfield. But I'm going to double down and just assume he is also a CoP enjoyer.
Duress was printed in Dragons, rotated out when Kaladesh was released, then was printed in Ixalan and hasn’t rotated out since. I believe it has only been out of Standard (since M10) for a total of 2.25 years: 9 months during og Innistrad block, 6 months during Khans block (Thoughtseize was legal tho), and the year of Kaladesh-Amonkhet blocks
@@janmelantu7490 Thanks!
They've been legal for most of that time because they keep getting reprinted, even when it isn't necessary for set design or is a good flavor fit, because the standard format needs them. Cards like those two are exactly what Foundations is for, so they don't have to remove new designs to fit format staples into regular sets. Is it the easy answer? Yes. Is it correct? Also yes.
@@Scrimshaw_DuBois42 In some way Duress and Negate are bad examples by this logic. They are incredibly easy to fit into just about any set because of the lack of flavor or design overhead, have a good play pattern, and are decently valuable in limited sideboards. They aren't "removing new designs just to include format staples". If that were the case DMU and MOM wouldn't both include Negate (from a standard rotation perspective that's completely redundant). Plenty of sets that aren't even standard legal have included these cards because they are just good work horse cards to have in the file. In fact, I'm going to make the bold guess we will probably still see these cards printed at a pretty similar rate even after Foundations. Having fun Universes Beyond versions of these iconic (but very flexible and non-world unique) cards will probably also further justify their inclusion in sets.
I don't think Foundations adds or changes anything here which is why I don't even think it's a great answer on top of it being an incredibly obvious one.
I'd go with something from the Nestlé family of products.
I've been a big believer in "Giant Growth" for this answer for years. It doesn't have any real level of tournament pedigree, but combat tricks are actually super important to low-level play. Even if most combats usually don't have one, the idea that someone COULD have one adds so much to low-level beginner Magic. Also, I recently taught a new player to play, and I cobbled together a beginner box and initially couldn't find Giant Growths, so I was looking all over the place for a super-simple trick to show as the first combat trick, and it really is so clean compared to everything else like it. I eventually found a single Giant Growth and it was actually clutch.
Nice episode
All three of the cards they listed are in Foundations, so good on them.
I’d like to see Big Bird in Mtg! Forgotten classic!!
I was really hoping spell pierce would be included
The Amazing Spiderman
Dark Ritual, obviously
Lightning Bolt abd Counterspell
chrome mox and mirror universe
Grizzly Bear and Take your pick.
Foundations chose to use Bear Cub, a functional reprint of Grizzly Bears first featured in Portal: Second Age. I think the idea was to choose a creature that "felt" more like a vanilla 2/2, since those aren't considered very strong these days.
Grizzly Bears isn't actually as surefire a pick as you would think. The last time a functional reprint of Grizzly Bears was in a core set was M15, though there were color-shifted versions in other core sets, like Walking Corpse in M21.
Planar Void and Karakas
So make legendaries unplayable in standard? Lol
Get on playing those old games again. New magic is lame 😂😂