@@dancing_odie in a way, but a lot of obscure rules do pop up that otherwise would have no reason to be discussed because actual cards won't break those rules.
Yeah MTG has a toooon of fringe interactions where combinations of card effects make the game really confusing for newcomers. The rules seem simple but are actually ridiculously complicated as with 27,000 cards in the game as of yet there are basically an infinite amount of possible scenarios that can occur.
The Jodah one makes sense. Whenever he would deal combat damage, the amount of combat damage he deals is equal to the power of the creature he put on the field. It's basically the same wording as Doran the Siege Tower's "Each creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power"
> "Each creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power" This sounds like a continuous replacement effect to me, whereas I read Jodah as assigning combat damage when its effect resolves. I guess the assigned combat damage is buffered and will be dealt the next time all other combat damage is dealt. As a side effect, all rules lawyers gain vigilance.
Well it opens up some interesting stratagies. Like, what if you stacked a tournament with people running soulherder ephemerate decks with this? You could force a lot of opponents to drop out because they have too much cardboard in their stomach to continue.
33:00 effects that return permanents or spells to their owners' hands also apply to objects that entered the battlefield from the graveyard, exile, the library, or the stack (technically nonland permanents typically don't even enter the battlefield directly from the hand either as they are being cast, so they're put onto the stack first and then enter the battlefield after resolving). Similarly, albeit being worded a bit weird, the second chapter of this saga should put all nonland permanents into their owner's graveyard, regardless of where they came from.
The downside of AI getting smarter is that the comedy it can produce is going away. For example, I don't want realistic AI video. I want janky surrealism that makes me confused and amused!
Argivian War Edga is a combo piece for any "when your opponent draws a card". Oh also as someone mentioned, you can use it with Tergrid to force a player to discard a ton of cards before yoyr turn.
Matteng of khorist combos well with Vampire Hexmage, pay 2 black to cast vampire hexmage, sac Vampire Hexmage, remove all age counters on Matteng, on upkeep add vampire hexmage to the top along with another card from your deck, draw the hexmage, repeat. 2 mana per turn to add a card you want from the GY back to your deck, and at any upkeep you could put hexmage second from the top and essentially tutor any card from your GY. sure it's not breaking games but it stops the cumulative upkeep from getting out of hand, its a decent 4 mana dimir combo, a color combination that absolutely loves card advantage.
21:21: Oko's Authority says,if you win the flip destroy it. What is it referring to, we destroy the target creature,we destroy oko's authority,or will we destroy the coin?
Vessel of the Dreams of the Fire would actually be good in Un-Commander with [The Grand Calcutron] as your commander. Yes, it can be your commander, when Unstable was released, they specifically said on advance it could be as they'd literally run out of room on the card to put that line in.
1:25:00 For Toxic Strike, I interpret it as flipping a coin to decide if it gets +1/+1 for each sorcery, or +1/1 for each instant. I feel like that interpretation makes sense with the wording.
I read partner with lands as any legendary land (like "choose a background" has background as a sub-type, not rules text). It can extend your color identity (for instance, partner with Bojuka Bog for Jund identity)
Argivian War Edga , X (W) Each opponent draws X cards, that could be very dangerous in the right decks. If you have a punish trigger for whenever some one draws, or if you're simply doing a mill deck, or if you have a trigger that cares how many cards are in some one's hand you can give them a very big hand that they don't have to discard right away and then they do have to discard it later to lose those cards. That's a very powerful card with many applications and I would totally use it.
Imagine casting Shallow Grave to get that Griselbrand into play from your graveyard and opponent casts Vessel of the Dreams of the Fire. Sure they could Faerie Macabre instead, but that’s way less damaging for opponent’s ego.
I can't tell if that General Atoni (@1:34:20) looks more like Bruce Willis or Xander Berkeley. EDIT: For those who might not recognize Xander Berkeley by name, here is a short list of recognizable roles: George Mason - 24 Foster Dad Todd - Terminator 2 Agent Gibbs - Air Force One Sheriff McAllister - The Mentalist Gregory - The Walking Dead Gilad Pellaeon - The Mandalorian
If Sanctum Blade was legal in 60 card formats it could be part of a really scary Calibrated Blast combo deck. Pay 3 mana, reveal it off the top, 26 to target opponent.
What if Loyalty Pile is an enchantment that says "whenever you search your library for Scent of Protection: Praest, you deal 7 damage to target to player." Get 1 Scent to get the pile then 3 more scent searches to win.
I can see a combo with Argrivan War Edga, with things like Rhystic Study and Smothering Tithe. I make everyone draw three cards, and if they can't pay 12 mana, I draw three cards and make three treasure tokens. Add Annointed Procession, Doubling Season, or any other token doubler, and you now also have an infinite mana combo with Smothering Tithe.
Regarding the second card, a two-color card with a powerful enter-the-battlefield effect and a good body but an upkeep of a third color is interesting design. You could do a cycle like that.
Jodah just deals combat damage in the amount equal to that creatures power, it becomes linked to it in a sense. So you can buff the other creature and Jodah would also deal increased damage, during Combat.
Sanctum blade comes out: opponent steals your commander: now they have the commander you own and all their mana is fixed instead. That's a nope card. Print it!
Vessels of the Dream and Fire matter for if someone plays the silver border card: Grand Calcutron, which doesnt let you shuffle your hand and makes you play the cards in order
Wail of the weakbeast is also a rulings nightmare because the copies are non-determinative. So you have to resolve all 1 million copies to determine deck order lol
The most logical way to interpret Jodah's "combat damage" thing imo is that while his power is still 5, during combat whether attacking or blocking, he deals damage equal to the other creature's powers instead.
Oko's Authority is a cool concept for a card. Flip a coin, buff a creature or kill it. I especially love the if you "win the coin toss" so it's backwards lol just to be more of a trickster troll card, perfectly inline with Oko as a prankster fairy. It needs to be an instant and/or cheaper, it being sorcery kinda kills it's value as a potential combat trick. It should probably also be either or part blue or green, alot of fairies are black but I don't think Oko ever was.
It's pretty clear that the ai philosophy behind the card is opposite to your notion. The sorcery is a gamble to destroy an opponent's creature. You target a creature and buff it, this is the trade off. You then flip a coin and if you win you get to destroy that target creature. If you lose then you buff their creature until the end of turn. Yes, you can use it as a gambit per your example but the way that Oko's Authority is written implies the opposite. This is a nerfed Dreadbore.
Agree This would be good as an off-black instant destruction effect. Green makes the most sense. The added cost and inconsistency are the price paid for cramming this thing into a deck that otherwise doesn't have access to destruction.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 Well flavour wise, I would still it make an instant. It's not a gamble during your main phase. Now if it's being used as a combat trick, it makes a gamble, cause you can screw yourself over with it at time in the game it makes a difference.
Memory legion is a slow burn devastating mastery. 4 mana cost changes from "one opponent keeps 2 non-land" to "doesn't happen this turn". Considering devestating mastery's price, the AI version is unplayable.
For prast you can put what ever card you want on the bottom of deck. This does let you change your deck a bit. As to put on bottom you don't have to show it.
Toxic Strike, ignoring the instant- aura enchant creature part. For each instant or sorcery card at random, a random duration trigger? So... EVERY PLANKSLEGNTH OF TIME there's a coin toss to decide if it happens or not. That creature is going X times 10 to the REALLY BIG NUMBER by the time you finish explaining the card.
there away to bounce matteng of khorist each turn to where only have put two card on top library. since you bounce each turn so only have cumulative upkeep of 2
Argivian War Edga would be broken in commander if you have smothering tithe. Also assuming you have three opponents, if they can’t pay for smothering tithe you could make them draw their decks because you would net positive mana by just activating (x) for 1.
Oh god yea that's busted. T4 tithe, assuming everyone pays the tax then they all have 2ish mana open T5 play the Edga, pay 3 to force everyone to draw 2. Six triggers on the stack, opponents can only deny 3, use the 3 treasures to draw 2 again. Repeat.
1:03:50 Blaping mirries is definitely broken. Jhoria is a Legendary creature that does the same thing, but it's 2RU and its a 3/3. u can have FOUR jhorias ... in artifact storm, blapping mirries is even more broken
46:42 - Doesn't that mean you have to reveal it if you want to add it to your hand? If you don't reveal it, then it doesn't go to your hand and so instead goes to the bottom of the deck.
i think "jodah the deserter" would deal damage equal to the power of the creature you put into play with it rather than its own. its like the cards that have creatures deal combat damage equal to their toughness.
That makes sense to me. He's not *really* 5 power, his power is effectively the same as whatever he brought out, that 5 is just there for things like Crew costs and whatever.
war edga card nasty, since you can make people draw cards. there are things out there that say if you draw a card you lose life or mill cards. so you play this combo with argivian war of edga and sheoldred the apocalypse. since could spend one white and any amount of mana. so lets say you have total 9 mana one is white other 8 any color or colorless. with sheoldred the apocalypse table. you could make people 16 damage a turn. also argivian war of edga with black vise will work too. since could do this at being of some turn and have sheoldred the apocalypse take tons of damage
the first card would work with [True Polymorph] say someone has a artifact token deck etc and then as they attack with more then then 3 bam they lose them is how i think this would work
1:39:10 Find a way to destroy all opponents permanents, then play the card with hive mind. Get infinite hand size before playing the card, and Pass your turn over and over until your opponents draw their entire deck and lose the game
18:54 this card is broken, if you leave it for one turn its a 2 mana return 2 spells from gy to top of deck, op. It only gets stronger if you leave it for longer, you don't have to pay the upkeep, and to top it all off its a 3/3 trample menace creature...in blue! Way too op imo.
these AI streams are a great way to learn about MTG. nearly every card has some kind of rule discussion around it, lol.
Yeah its a great way to learn how not to play magic
@@dancing_odie in a way, but a lot of obscure rules do pop up that otherwise would have no reason to be discussed because actual cards won't break those rules.
Yeah MTG has a toooon of fringe interactions where combinations of card effects make the game really confusing for newcomers. The rules seem simple but are actually ridiculously complicated as with 27,000 cards in the game as of yet there are basically an infinite amount of possible scenarios that can occur.
@@doodeedoodee layers. Just... everything about layers.
The Jodah one makes sense. Whenever he would deal combat damage, the amount of combat damage he deals is equal to the power of the creature he put on the field. It's basically the same wording as Doran the Siege Tower's "Each creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power"
> "Each creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power"
This sounds like a continuous replacement effect to me, whereas I read Jodah as assigning combat damage when its effect resolves. I guess the assigned combat damage is buffered and will be dealt the next time all other combat damage is dealt.
As a side effect, all rules lawyers gain vigilance.
i love how the reddit logged the "make them eat your cards" mushroom as OP
Well it opens up some interesting stratagies. Like, what if you stacked a tournament with people running soulherder ephemerate decks with this? You could force a lot of opponents to drop out because they have too much cardboard in their stomach to continue.
well you see, there was another AI card that basically has the effect of "If an opponent has 8 cards in them, you win"
33:00 effects that return permanents or spells to their owners' hands also apply to objects that entered the battlefield from the graveyard, exile, the library, or the stack (technically nonland permanents typically don't even enter the battlefield directly from the hand either as they are being cast, so they're put onto the stack first and then enter the battlefield after resolving). Similarly, albeit being worded a bit weird, the second chapter of this saga should put all nonland permanents into their owner's graveyard, regardless of where they came from.
damn that "Mind Strength" art goes hard 😂
timestamp?
The downside of AI getting smarter is that the comedy it can produce is going away. For example, I don't want realistic AI video. I want janky surrealism that makes me confused and amused!
Then hope it becomes smarter. "AI, show me what it would look like if I asked 2023 AI to generate a magic the gathering custom card".
Argivian War Edga is a combo piece for any "when your opponent draws a card".
Oh also as someone mentioned, you can use it with Tergrid to force a player to discard a ton of cards before yoyr turn.
Goes infinite in a 4 player table with smothering tithe, as long as nobody pays the 2
@@GardeBotor if no one counters the ability trigger
That first card got “Lord of the Rims”
The art on that last card ("The Grizzly") is a good fit for the card text - even the card doesn't understand what the card is supposed to do
Matteng of khorist combos well with Vampire Hexmage, pay 2 black to cast vampire hexmage, sac Vampire Hexmage, remove all age counters on Matteng, on upkeep add vampire hexmage to the top along with another card from your deck, draw the hexmage, repeat. 2 mana per turn to add a card you want from the GY back to your deck, and at any upkeep you could put hexmage second from the top and essentially tutor any card from your GY. sure it's not breaking games but it stops the cumulative upkeep from getting out of hand, its a decent 4 mana dimir combo, a color combination that absolutely loves card advantage.
You could use argivian war edga with that sphinx that draws you two cards for each card an opponent draws.
There is also cards that basically applies negative effects if they draw too many cards
This can actually combo, making it really strong if no enemy mana is up
13:25 THE SECRET MILL DECK willlll ruuuule the worlddd
Nvm, Matteng of Khorist literally counters this other AI card often
21:21: Oko's Authority says,if you win the flip destroy it. What is it referring to, we destroy the target creature,we destroy oko's authority,or will we destroy the coin?
The Stephen King novel. . .
Vessel of the Dreams of the Fire would actually be good in Un-Commander with [The Grand Calcutron] as your commander. Yes, it can be your commander, when Unstable was released, they specifically said on advance it could be as they'd literally run out of room on the card to put that line in.
1:25:00 For Toxic Strike, I interpret it as flipping a coin to decide if it gets +1/+1 for each sorcery, or +1/1 for each instant. I feel like that interpretation makes sense with the wording.
I read partner with lands as any legendary land (like "choose a background" has background as a sub-type, not rules text). It can extend your color identity (for instance, partner with Bojuka Bog for Jund identity)
21:40 how does he not see that he's on the damn card!?
oh wow, you're right!
Argivian War Edga , X (W) Each opponent draws X cards, that could be very dangerous in the right decks. If you have a punish trigger for whenever some one draws, or if you're simply doing a mill deck, or if you have a trigger that cares how many cards are in some one's hand you can give them a very big hand that they don't have to discard right away and then they do have to discard it later to lose those cards.
That's a very powerful card with many applications and I would totally use it.
Imagine casting Shallow Grave to get that Griselbrand into play from your graveyard and opponent casts Vessel of the Dreams of the Fire. Sure they could Faerie Macabre instead, but that’s way less damaging for opponent’s ego.
I can't tell if that General Atoni (@1:34:20) looks more like Bruce Willis or Xander Berkeley.
EDIT: For those who might not recognize Xander Berkeley by name, here is a short list of recognizable roles:
George Mason - 24
Foster Dad Todd - Terminator 2
Agent Gibbs - Air Force One
Sheriff McAllister - The Mentalist
Gregory - The Walking Dead
Gilad Pellaeon - The Mandalorian
1:13:30 Finally a Way to tell my opponent what I think of their Sheoldred the Apocalypse.
Djul bases can attack many times. It doesn't untap during your upkeep, but it untaps normally during your untap...
If Sanctum Blade was legal in 60 card formats it could be part of a really scary Calibrated Blast combo deck. Pay 3 mana, reveal it off the top, 26 to target opponent.
mind strength I think you can put it into play as your 1 land for turn or pay 2 during main phase to play it as an additional land essentially
I put it out for nothing tap sac pay 0 for x and put all my creatures into play
What if Loyalty Pile is an enchantment that says "whenever you search your library for Scent of Protection: Praest, you deal 7 damage to target to player." Get 1 Scent to get the pile then 3 more scent searches to win.
Chaof-Ghoul is the AI's attempt to give blue a Questing Beast.
I can see a combo with Argrivan War Edga, with things like Rhystic Study and Smothering Tithe.
I make everyone draw three cards, and if they can't pay 12 mana, I draw three cards and make three treasure tokens. Add Annointed Procession, Doubling Season, or any other token doubler, and you now also have an infinite mana combo with Smothering Tithe.
Regarding the second card, a two-color card with a powerful enter-the-battlefield effect and a good body but an upkeep of a third color is interesting design. You could do a cycle like that.
asbout the 4 mana red instant sweeper? DOes it require a land creature to not fizzle, or does the 26 damage happen anyway?
The ironic part about sanctum blade is that if it were your commander it doesn’t do anything
1:12:18 - I don't think Obzium God is broken but I think it is breakable.
Was that the weapons factory theme from Super Mario RPG? You thought we wouldn't notice, but I can't forget a song in 13/8
That White Yanggu flavour fails for the token not being Mowu or otherwise puppy related.
Jodah just deals combat damage in the amount equal to that creatures power, it becomes linked to it in a sense. So you can buff the other creature and Jodah would also deal increased damage, during Combat.
Sanctum blade comes out: opponent steals your commander: now they have the commander you own and all their mana is fixed instead. That's a nope card. Print it!
Vessels of the Dream and Fire matter for if someone plays the silver border card: Grand Calcutron, which doesnt let you shuffle your hand and makes you play the cards in order
Wail of the weakbeast is also a rulings nightmare because the copies are non-determinative. So you have to resolve all 1 million copies to determine deck order lol
The most logical way to interpret Jodah's "combat damage" thing imo is that while his power is still 5, during combat whether attacking or blocking, he deals damage equal to the other creature's powers instead.
Arguvian War Edga also goes well with red or black with cards that punish discards. Or blue with mill.
your grey hair looks great
Oko's Authority is a cool concept for a card. Flip a coin, buff a creature or kill it. I especially love the if you "win the coin toss" so it's backwards lol just to be more of a trickster troll card, perfectly inline with Oko as a prankster fairy. It needs to be an instant and/or cheaper, it being sorcery kinda kills it's value as a potential combat trick. It should probably also be either or part blue or green, alot of fairies are black but I don't think Oko ever was.
It's pretty clear that the ai philosophy behind the card is opposite to your notion.
The sorcery is a gamble to destroy an opponent's creature.
You target a creature and buff it, this is the trade off. You then flip a coin and if you win you get to destroy that target creature. If you lose then you buff their creature until the end of turn.
Yes, you can use it as a gambit per your example but the way that Oko's Authority is written implies the opposite. This is a nerfed Dreadbore.
@@ChaosCron1 At 3 mana though it's not even a cost effective gamble for either effect.
Agree
This would be good as an off-black instant destruction effect. Green makes the most sense. The added cost and inconsistency are the price paid for cramming this thing into a deck that otherwise doesn't have access to destruction.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 Well flavour wise, I would still it make an instant. It's not a gamble during your main phase. Now if it's being used as a combat trick, it makes a gamble, cause you can screw yourself over with it at time in the game it makes a difference.
I love this content, I spat myself at General Atoni
Memory legion is a slow burn devastating mastery.
4 mana cost changes from "one opponent keeps 2 non-land" to "doesn't happen this turn".
Considering devestating mastery's price, the AI version is unplayable.
Aether shadow, is a beast type creature, and looked like the Beast from Beauty and the Beast live action.
Militant Vortex makes a little sense if you consider etbs as part of the choosing new targets for the copy.
Pook ftw, you are just really close to the mammoth. Ice green, ewe green, wee all green for ice green.
Sometimes I think the AI is making fun of us... this card that makes "Pook" and nothing else could be a reference to that.
For prast you can put what ever card you want on the bottom of deck. This does let you change your deck a bit. As to put on bottom you don't have to show it.
The ai cards have been comin out more legal
Its learning
Chaos-Ghoul is a self driving vehicle.
Toxic Strike, ignoring the instant- aura enchant creature part. For each instant or sorcery card at random, a random duration trigger? So... EVERY PLANKSLEGNTH OF TIME there's a coin toss to decide if it happens or not. That creature is going X times 10 to the REALLY BIG NUMBER by the time you finish explaining the card.
there away to bounce matteng of khorist each turn to where only have put two card on top library. since you bounce each turn so only have cumulative upkeep of 2
smothering tithe + war edga is like a repeating draw mill engine tbh
Argivian War Edga would be broken in commander if you have smothering tithe. Also assuming you have three opponents, if they can’t pay for smothering tithe you could make them draw their decks because you would net positive mana by just activating (x) for 1.
59:34 So Molten Sunderwood would allow to have Legendary Lands in the command zone to play :^O
13:16 If you pay a lot of mana,can you make your opponent mill out,with this ability of the War Edga thing?
Yes
13:20 Enough mana and it's an instant win, since you'd be able to deck everyone in the game at once.
There's also a card that makes opponents take damage whenever they draw cards, which combos with war edga too
Argivian war edga two card combo win game with smothering tithe if opponents tapped 16:00
Oh god yea that's busted.
T4 tithe, assuming everyone pays the tax then they all have 2ish mana open
T5 play the Edga, pay 3 to force everyone to draw 2. Six triggers on the stack, opponents can only deny 3, use the 3 treasures to draw 2 again. Repeat.
i would rly like to know if gpt-4o can do a better job :)
obzium god with life from the loam and jace the mindsculptor.
4:00 instead of dealing 5 when in combat it deals the power of the creature you put
The War Edga is milling your opponents. If you can make them draw more cards than they have, they lose.
1:03:50 Blaping mirries is definitely broken. Jhoria is a Legendary creature that does the same thing, but it's 2RU and its a 3/3.
u can have FOUR jhorias ... in artifact storm, blapping mirries is even more broken
Jodah is a deserter because if you don't pay the red mana during your upkeep, he deserts.
Fyling Artisan counters War Cluster. You are no longer a forest so you dont get dealt 5 damage.
Unfortunately for Liliana's legality, planeswalkers don't have graveyards.
War cluster is just drunk Star of Extinction
vessel of the dreams of the fire is actually pretty good in a grand calcutron deck
46:42 - Doesn't that mean you have to reveal it if you want to add it to your hand? If you don't reveal it, then it doesn't go to your hand and so instead goes to the bottom of the deck.
shuffle your hand actually would work with the "your hand is a program" (un?)card
i think "jodah the deserter" would deal damage equal to the power of the creature you put into play with it rather than its own. its like the cards that have creatures deal combat damage equal to their toughness.
That makes sense to me.
He's not *really* 5 power, his power is effectively the same as whatever he brought out, that 5 is just there for things like Crew costs and whatever.
war edga card nasty, since you can make people draw cards. there are things out there that say if you draw a card you lose life or mill cards. so you play this combo with argivian war of edga and sheoldred the apocalypse. since could spend one white and any amount of mana. so lets say you have total 9 mana one is white other 8 any color or colorless. with sheoldred the apocalypse table. you could make people 16 damage a turn. also argivian war of edga with black vise will work too. since could do this at being of some turn and have sheoldred the apocalypse take tons of damage
That first card. Flying and reach. like it needs reach if it got flying. xD
the first card would work with [True Polymorph] say someone has a artifact token deck etc and then as they attack with more then then 3 bam they lose them is how i think this would work
1:39:10 Find a way to destroy all opponents permanents, then play the card with hive mind. Get infinite hand size before playing the card, and Pass your turn over and over until your opponents draw their entire deck and lose the game
Well, if each opponent draws X cards and X is one thousand...
Sulstred Nightwatch is anti-Draco/Leyline of the Guildpact tech.
1:02:42 as a deaf person this card is super appreciated
Matteng of khorist would be cool in a Miracles deck
Another reason obzium god is fair, if it is countered or removed you are out a land.
LoL, I need Wail of the Weakbeast in my artifact warp world deck.
1:41:51 Their are ways to manage to gain 5 life when a creature enters the battlefield
What is zibers?
Not a danger, but not a shred either.
4:13 wtf people did you forget the classic wall archetype?
Argivian War Edga + Smothering Tithe
Matteng of Khorist is a good sideboard card against mill decks.
What is Planeswalker? A miserable pile of loyalty!
omg I hope I remember that
For some reason when he scrolls by the polls it really triggers me how many people vote "OP" for every card that is even remotely playable
8:29 All CREATURE cards from YOUR HAND, NOT EVERY CARD,so it1s balanced cause it only allows CREATURE CARDS to be put out
That argivian war edga plus smothering tithe equals I just win the game cause everyone else loses their deck
Deck idea:
1 Obzium God
59 Swamps
the first car I think you need to crew it with another card ability before it becomes a creature.
If that was the case it wouldn't have creature in the initial type line
18:54 this card is broken, if you leave it for one turn its a 2 mana return 2 spells from gy to top of deck, op. It only gets stronger if you leave it for longer, you don't have to pay the upkeep, and to top it all off its a 3/3 trample menace creature...in blue! Way too op imo.
Jesus Christ if craterhoof could be in the command zone!! 😂😂
I want Sanctum Blade for my Yuriko deck
Koblings died; the pega!
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1:16:31 This Card is great for Pauper infect
Brings new meaning to the phrase "I'll make you eat those words!"