Couple of trivia related to the video: -The name Atog was made because it's an anagram of "goat" -There is one more Flagbearer-related card: Coalition Flag. It's not a creature but instead an Aura that turns a creature into a Flagbearer and has the same ability to redirect targets. -Pyrophobia is not the only card to use an obscure creature type to sneakily affect changelings. Goatnapper did it first by taking control of Goats (there were no Goats in its set) and most recently Embiggen gives +1/+1 for each type but can only target a "non-Brushwagg" because it would be op with changelings. -Zubera and Coward are not the only creature types to exist mostly for mechanical reasons: --All Aurochs get +1/+0 when attacking for each other attacking Aurochs. --Spirit Mirror creates a Reflection token, but only if you control no other Reflections (when it came out, there were no Reflections anywhere else) --Tetravus and Pentavus are the only cards that create Tetravites and Pentavites and can sacrifice them for +1/+1 counters. --Minsc & Boo sacrifices a creature and gives a bonus if it's a Hamster, but is the only card capable of creating a Hamster.
Minsc, Beloved Ranger a Legendary Creature form of Minsc & Boo also create a hamster, how ever both the Legendary Creature and the Planewalker create the same legendary token so it can be a little tricky to use them together
Regarding embiggen: Werewolf Pack Leader, Target with Artificial Evolution swapping the word "Human" for "Brushwagg", then target it with ameboid changeling or equip it with a Runed Stalactite so it has all creature types. Use it's activated ability so it loses the Brushwagg type. Embiggen now gives it about +260/+260.
Another interesting point with the Volvers, before Khans block there weren't any factions associated with wedge color combinations, so we used the names of the volvers instead. Eventually Khans came in and Mardu replaced Dega, Jeskai replaced Raka, etc. but that cycle of fairly obscure creatures still has an important place in the history of MTG
Not only that but Invasion block has both "shards" of the Coalition and "wedges" of the Volvers. Arguably Dominaria should dictate what the color alignments are called consistently across the Multiverse.
"Chronotog" was used to speed up a "stasis" deck. As in, your opponent can't do anything (all locked up, can't untap, can't play anything etc) so when it's your turn you use Chronotogs ability to skip your turn to quickly pass the turn to your opponent.....making the game end as quickly as possible
I'd nominate Licids: They were like brain leeches and they all had the ability to attach themselves to other creatures (yours or opponents) also they become the first enchantment creatures in the game, btw. HM to Homarids too: literal crab people
2:30 - 2:38 So Fractals are kind of like the Magic version of Cyberse monsters? Those Beeble things look so 90s cartoon it hurts. I do like how Magic can put flavor text and lore on cards that actually do something. Some of them are kind of funny. "No, not 'washed' ashore. It *walked* ashore."
not necessarily but in my experience, elementals would be the mtg equivalent to cyberse with quite the number of support bleeding into each other like how earth machines do their thing also, risen reef ftw ✊✊
@@michaelhutchinson4752 I knew about the Brushwagg creatures, I meant that the reason embiggen mentions Brushwagg is to stop Changeling cheese and for maximum humor
Coalition Honor Guard was actually amazing in Eternal Masters draft. There were tons of positive effects that targeted a single creature (auras was a theme for green/white), meaning playing the Flagbearer would prevent your opponent from casting any of them since they would have to buff your creature. Having four toughness also meant it was hard for red decks to burn through.
@@collinbeal yeah dl is pretty much milking mtg content at this point i mean i would watch some random top 10s just don’t really take seriously. Best mtg top 10 in youtube are only Nizzahon.
A few more notable "weird" creature types: Surrakar (sentient salamander folk only ever in the original Zendikar block), Brushwagg (a beast covered in a large hide of dry twig like material), Nephilim (not angel related, but rather are essentially eldritch Old Gods on Ravnica), and Licids (creatures that you could pay a small cost and tap to turn them into Auras that gave a creature a small buff, and you could end the Aura transformation at any time by paying another small cost) also Spellshapers (cards that have abilities that directly emulate casting older well-known cards; to activate, you tap the Spellshaper, pay the original card's mana cost, and discard a card, to do the exact same effect the original card had. ex. Bog Witch lets you cast Dark Ritual, Silverglade Pathfinder lets you cast Rampant Growth, Dawnstrider lets you cast Fog, Mageta the Lion lets you cast Wrath of God, etc) Atog, Lammasu, Phelddagrif, Noggle, Ouphe, Lhurgoyf and other -goyf, Kavu, and Aetherborn
@@satansamael666 I was mostly trying to list off actually weird/unusual types Most of the ones you mentioned are just normal real world animals Nightstalker is a good one for this tho
@@LadyTsunade777 the weirdness is more that the physical cards are on singular cards or purely conceptual. The Caribou is especially weird because it’s the only card that is almost nonexistent except for a non physical token that is created from a very old singular card.
I actually ran a Zubera deck back in the Standard of Ravnica/Kamigawa. With the introduction of the shock lands and plenty of sac outlets, Zuberas could get out of hand when paired up with cards like Bloodbond March. Lots of fixing availability made it easy to run all five colors - it wasn't meta, but playing something so off-meta can catch many opponents off-guard since they don't know how to deal with it.
Kavu are pretty neat. My favorite interaction with them was my friend had a changeling deck that would take control of a creature by having more of that type on his side of the board. I was playing my old 2002 invasion block deck. I summon Flametongue and deal 4 damage to one of his creatures and his response is "The fuck's a Kavu?" later in the game I summon Darigaaz, the Igniter. Excited he declares he's going to take advantage of kavus and I have to inform him that Darigaaz is, in fact, a dragon, which got a very loud and frustrated "FUCK!" out of him. He has since moved away but the group the still quotes this exchange years later.
i started playing while Kamigawa was the newest set.... (so this whole set has such a big place in my heart, and they are the only magic books i've ever read). i so did play a Zubera spirit deck (best use is to board wipe, since each one sees each other die at the same time...). spirit world was just the theme of Kamigawa thou... + loving the legendary "focus". weirdest type? Squirrels... c'mon, fighting squirrels have to be more weird, than weird creatures that are created to fight or other stuff. Toski, Bearer of Secrets... an Indestructible squirrel that attacks every turn. just imagine a 1/1 squirrel that knows no fear and runs into an Emrakul each turn, and can't die from it...
I always called "Weird" when casting Crippling Fear if I could :D Seeing a text bubble pop up saying: "Weird" and then wiping the board was funny for me in Magic Arena
Even if its absolutely a niche, but back in time there was a real use of Chronatog. I (and many others) used it in Stasis decks. Locking down the opponent in turn 4 with Kismet, Stasis and Chronatog for not taking another turn for the whole game... When you pulled out that combo for the first time against someone and he*she was wondering why you leap your turns... and that face after 3 or 4 or 5 turns just sitting... priceless. :D
My favorite weird creature type is Sand, which only exists because of one legendary character who's cards make Sand Warrior tokens and because of the way creature types work the tokens have both the Sand type & the Warrior type
13:20 Can't forget Boldwyr Intimidator's flavor text. Its abilities let you designate cowards and warriors, separating the weak and the strong. How do you sum that up in one sentence? "Now everyone knows what you are."
There are a few that I honestly thought would have been on this list: Sliver, Lammusa, Lhurgoyf, Phelddagrif, Noggle, and Kavu. I will give a special mention to Gremlins, Aetherborn, and Ouphe which are basically repackaged Goblins and Elementals for Keladash and rebranded Atog respectively. (side note: I feel Weirds are repackaged Elementals specifically used by Izzet and Fractals are just Illusions used in Strixhaven) I can see Lhurgoyf and Kavu being easily dismissed because they are basically just monsters. Lammusa and Phelddagrif the same dismissal for being just different types of chimera. Sliver and Noggle are definitely worth a mention for weird creatures. Slivers are almost indescribable and the fact they are all over the place, ability-wise and visually-wise, doesn't help. Noggles are just strange. They are like donkey-goblins but not really. I don't know anything about the lore behind them but they're weird.
I wouldn't say slivers are necessarily nominated for this, because unlike a lot of the ones mentioned, they are a very solid creature type that can have entire decks built around them, like sure Atogatog can have a commander deck or two but it's gonna include a lot of changelings rather than just atogs, while a First Sliver deck will have only slivers because there are so many sliver cards and they all benefit off of one another
I once used flag barrers to redirect a 50 mana single target burn spell away from my face to the creature because it could target the creature it had to meaning that the kill spell turned into a waste. It basically meant that even if for some reason I couldn't interact directly with a single target spell otherwise I could this way potentially. It was even effective against multiple target spells quite often.
The Nightstalkers where almost all printed in the second Portal set; and the very first in Legends. They also have an onesided mass return from the graveyard, but you have to sacrifice all your swamps 😅
One I wouldn't mind seeing probably doesn't have a lot to work with; A list of the many times beneficial or sensible changes were shot down. There is a rumor (I don't know how true it is) that Rosewater tried to errata the Ravnica Nephilims as Legendary Creatures, but was told that he couldn't. A list of similar quality of life changes being denied may be interesting if there are enough of them.
Chronatog is actually key to a hilariously stupidstax deck, using Stasis and smokestacks to make everything enter tapped, and using chronatog to skip your next infinite turns so your opponent eventually decks themselves.
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I was expecting Brushwagg to be on this list at first. There's a card called Embiggen in Unfinity that specifically says "non-Brushwagg", just so it doesn't power up Changelings by a ludicrous amount. And, there are only 2 (or 3, if you count a test card) Brushwagg cards in the entire game.
Uncle Istvan is still notably weird to this day, due to it NOT having the Legendary supertype. This implies that there is MORE THAN ONE insane murderous hermit named Uncle Istvan out there.
Vampire isn't a rare type nowadays, but back in the day Baron Sengir had an ability which regenerated target vampire... there was exactly one vampire other than Baron himself.
I feel like Brushwagg should have made the list. Only 2 of them have ever been printed, and no other cards give the Brushwagg type. The only other cards that reference it are 2 cards from Unfinity, both of which are tournament-legal. One is a sticker card, and the other is an enabler for a card combo that gives the single largest buff effect possible without using infinite combos (Play Werewolf Pack Leader and Ameboid Changeling. Cast Artificial Evolution [changing Human to Brushwagg] on Pack Leader. Use the Changelings ability to give Pack Leader all creature types. Use Pack Leader's activated ability to make it lose Brushwagg type. Then cast Embiggen on Pack Leader.).
I had a combo deck that played Stasis, Kismet, and Chronotog. Basically I never took another turn, but my opponents never got to untap or play anything untapped. So unless they could deal with immediately (and I had ways to protect it) I'd win by deck out.
My favorite edh deck is cycling... a deck that plays kenrith as the commander and runes all the weird card cycles, with the inspiration being the volveers.
We usually play on theme for each set release. I do have a (bad) 60 card Fractal deck. . . I wish it ran better, but it just can't keep a board state if the other player is playing any sort of control.
@@joebob7483 Eh, the problem is my husband prefers 60 card, he'll play commander occasionally but we also don't have a play group (can't convince him to try our LGS) so its mostly us at the kitchen table, and he's been playing much longer than I have. . .
@@joebob7483 Due to vision problems I'm not able to drive and not comfortable walking unlit streets in the dark. It's not that big an issue, we get to plan routinely at home together and I use Arena for my commander fix
To be fair, I suppose that the Licid mechanic of turning itself into an aura enchantment or back got revisited for artifacts in the form of Reconfigure. Still....
Correction, in apocalypse the Volvers kickers only used the opposing colors. The Allied colors in Invasion, i believe, and they worked more with a series of wizards
9:02 the Volver the Kicker are only in Enemy color only why dose it say Allies ? the kicker colors are allies to each other but the main color should be the main color that was use to cast it.
The nephilim are a strange group in magic more so for the fact that they are not legandary by all accounts they should be one also makes sand tokens and to my knowledge only like 3 card do that. Phelddagrif is a great and fantastic thing that should be mentioned and i though for sure the number 1 type would have been Rigger that card type was and still is famous because every time a new artifact set came out new existent for new Rigger cards would be on the rise. Not only that is it was in future sight and it was there was 1 card that was a lord for the arctype and had a machanic that did not mean anything at the time only to be used as a major machanic in an un set where it finally got more cards to it type
You could definitely do another list like this there are for sure 10 more. Heck even types like citizens or pesent are odd because they really did not mean anything and only recently got like new cards in the type
Listen I know Unfinity was still a joke set even if it was legal, but I can't not mention the creature type Gamer. Which by extension made every changeling in history a Gamer too.
Well the only reason Gamer because a real creature type is because for some reason they decided to male the ONE gamer creature in the set legal in all formats. Not sure why, since the card is bad, but yeah... now you can run gamer tribal in a changeling deck
Weird in older English meant something fated, or relating to fate. In fantasy it has also come to mean some sort of ghost, or illusion creature. I don't know where that started but it predates Ravnica.
You're forgetting about the Go-Shintai in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. Since the only subtype those creatures have is Shrine, and shrine is an enchantment subtype, not a creature type. They technically don't have a creature type
Pretty sure there's a red blue or blue green card that makes a 4/4 fractal! So it's one of the only ones I know that doesn't create a 0/0 fractal with counters added
I clicked hoping to see Sliths mentioned. Very similiar to Volver. One 1 cycle ever existed in Mirrodin with an addition 6th colorless artifact one. Inspired by MaRo's love for the whirling dervish, they gain a +1/+1 counter whenever they damage a player. Sliths aren't native to Mirrodin but aliens from another plane, brought there as Karn was creating Argentum. Slith Firewalker was one of the first singles I ever bought and holds a special place in my heart. I'd love to see another cycle, reprint, or a slith commander like Atogatog. I run them in Atraxa
One-off creatures: while they are all probably retroactively reclassified... it's still funny to see some creature types that says "Summon Evil Eye" (Evil Eye of Orms by Gore), "Summon Floral Spezzum" or "Summon Lurker" Licids: Creatures from the Tempest block where they become creature enchantments / auras that give beneficial or harmful effects to their host creatures. Example of this is "Dominating Licid", UU1, 1/1, UU1: Dominating Licid becomes an aura that reads "gain control of enchanted creature", then attach Dominating Licid to a creature you control Rigger: I remember opening a pack of Future Sight and drew a "Steamflogger Boss"... which is a "Rigger" type... and I have yet to see another Rigger creature since then. Also, the "contraption" in its textbox seems to imply there are artifacts of that type... so we can assume its a creature type as well Homarids: Lobster people, basically. There are a LOT of them during the Fallen Empires set... but there were very little support for them after that. I think after Alliances, the type kinda stopped being a thing? Thrulls: Same as Homarids: they basically appeared in FE but was largely forgotten afterwards. Unlike Homarids, they do get sporadic appearances... like Blood Pet from Tempest and Endrek Sahr from Future Sight (I think?) Germs: Tokens that appear in "Living Weapons"... and are pretty much the predecessors of Fractals in game function
1) all the old cards literally just summoned themselves since creature types werent really a thing. Those types dont exist anymore. Though i did expect the "Eye" creature type to be on this list. 2) steamflogger boss WAS NOT in futuresight... it was unstable set, where all but 1 rigger was printed. Also contraptions are an unstable set mechanic. 3) thrulls aren't that weird or rare. There are 38 cards that either make thrulls or are thrulls and some have be printed somewhat recently. 4)technically germ is a creature type but its only on tokens and funny enough isnt even recognized as a creature type by wotc's own database
@@fallendeus 1) True, but it still, it never fails to amuse me when I see those cards and remember how WOTC used to work XD So many one-offs that dont really actually need a creature type (i.e why is "Legionnaire" or "Flying Men" a creature type?) 2) Steamflogger Boss was printed on Future Sight first. You can verify with Gatherer. That said, it's interesting to hear that the card revealed a card from an incoming joke set as opposed to an actual tournament legal XD I will check out what these contraptions do so I can FINALLY put my curiosity to rest! 3) true also. At one point they were plentiful. I just found it weird that it and the Thallids were from the same plane. but only the Thallids seems to have proliferated outside of it. Thrulls were as adaptable as far as I remember... but theyre mostly forgotten in newer sets 4) lol poor germ tokens XD but I guess they ARE out of the list of weird creature types if Germs are not even acknowledged as creature types
@@bluedestiny2710 2) yeah that's on me, when i looked it up I didn't realize that there was another set symbol next to it >.> Sadly, all the contraptions are unset only and not legal in any other format. 4) Well they ARE legal creature types as far as the rules are concerned. A changeling IS a germ for example. But if you look on gatherer germs, and sand (im sure more that i can't think of) don't show in the data base because they currently only exist as token creatures, BUT tokens do actually show up for other creature types if they had ever been printed. The new set has phyrexian mites as token only creatures, but they are now a legal creature type as far as the CR goes. Although it doesn't show in the database as being a creature type.
Can you talk about all cards that share a type and every color got there own version of it like the invoke cards from neon dynasty or decrees from scourge?
6:47 While bad, Chronatog did see use in decks that establish a lock (an unwinnable situation for the opponents), especially in Stasis decks. But yeah, this card is laughable by today's standards.
Actully there’s only one Weird creature type, it’s pretty specific
That's weird
As another MTG player, you stop that.
As a yugioh player I hope u stop Alienating creature types
@@lushfuzzball6005 I don’t think Alien is a creature type in magic
@@monferno1 not to my knowledge but its an archetype in yugioh thats why i said i was a yugioh player
Honorable mention goes to the Goat creature type, for how few they are, yet having a specific counter card in Goatnapper.
Goatnapper was designed to interact with Changelings from the same set
@@artemiskearney8019 or do to lingering fears from the Draw Goat deck
Couple of trivia related to the video:
-The name Atog was made because it's an anagram of "goat"
-There is one more Flagbearer-related card: Coalition Flag. It's not a creature but instead an Aura that turns a creature into a Flagbearer and has the same ability to redirect targets.
-Pyrophobia is not the only card to use an obscure creature type to sneakily affect changelings. Goatnapper did it first by taking control of Goats (there were no Goats in its set) and most recently Embiggen gives +1/+1 for each type but can only target a "non-Brushwagg" because it would be op with changelings.
-Zubera and Coward are not the only creature types to exist mostly for mechanical reasons:
--All Aurochs get +1/+0 when attacking for each other attacking Aurochs.
--Spirit Mirror creates a Reflection token, but only if you control no other Reflections (when it came out, there were no Reflections anywhere else)
--Tetravus and Pentavus are the only cards that create Tetravites and Pentavites and can sacrifice them for +1/+1 counters.
--Minsc & Boo sacrifices a creature and gives a bonus if it's a Hamster, but is the only card capable of creating a Hamster.
Minsc, Beloved Ranger a Legendary Creature form of Minsc & Boo also create a hamster, how ever both the Legendary Creature and the Planewalker create the same legendary token so it can be a little tricky to use them together
@@prinnynaito You're right
Regarding embiggen: Werewolf Pack Leader, Target with Artificial Evolution swapping the word "Human" for "Brushwagg", then target it with ameboid changeling or equip it with a Runed Stalactite so it has all creature types. Use it's activated ability so it loses the Brushwagg type. Embiggen now gives it about +260/+260.
going to cry over how cute Craven Hulk is
9:02 Not to nitpick, but each color has TWO allied colors and TWO enemy colors.
also the kickers are both enemy color to the Volver
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Another interesting point with the Volvers, before Khans block there weren't any factions associated with wedge color combinations, so we used the names of the volvers instead. Eventually Khans came in and Mardu replaced Dega, Jeskai replaced Raka, etc. but that cycle of fairly obscure creatures still has an important place in the history of MTG
Not only that but Invasion block has both "shards" of the Coalition and "wedges" of the Volvers.
Arguably Dominaria should dictate what the color alignments are called consistently across the Multiverse.
No one used those names though, stuff like junk, rug and america were used
"Chronotog" was used to speed up a "stasis" deck. As in, your opponent can't do anything (all locked up, can't untap, can't play anything etc) so when it's your turn you use Chronotogs ability to skip your turn to quickly pass the turn to your opponent.....making the game end as quickly as possible
I'd nominate Licids:
They were like brain leeches and they all had the ability to attach themselves to other creatures (yours or opponents) also they become the first enchantment creatures in the game, btw.
HM to Homarids too: literal crab people
I was actually expecting licids to be on the list
I was shocked that the Spike archetype wasn't on here
Licids were the only way to create tapped enchantments back in the day before I think Soul Scupltor became an option.
2:30 - 2:38 So Fractals are kind of like the Magic version of Cyberse monsters?
Those Beeble things look so 90s cartoon it hurts.
I do like how Magic can put flavor text and lore on cards that actually do something. Some of them are kind of funny. "No, not 'washed' ashore. It *walked* ashore."
not necessarily but in my experience, elementals would be the mtg equivalent to cyberse with quite the number of support bleeding into each other like how earth machines do their thing
also, risen reef ftw ✊✊
I would nominate Brushwaggs; the creature type is listed on Embiggen exclusively for changeling, and it sounds funny
There's also an old og magic card called Brushwagg and a couple years ago we got Almighty Brushwagg as well
@@michaelhutchinson4752 I knew about the Brushwagg creatures, I meant that the reason embiggen mentions Brushwagg is to stop Changeling cheese and for maximum humor
Coalition Honor Guard was actually amazing in Eternal Masters draft. There were tons of positive effects that targeted a single creature (auras was a theme for green/white), meaning playing the Flagbearer would prevent your opponent from casting any of them since they would have to buff your creature. Having four toughness also meant it was hard for red decks to burn through.
At 4:31 there is a small error. You are speaking of the original Incarnations while showing the new horizons 2 solitude
He missed bubbling beebles too. And the last word is cut from the end into the intro.
There's usually about 10 errors per video on this channel if you look out for them. I complimented him the other day for only having around 5
@@collinbeal yeah dl is pretty much milking mtg content at this point i mean i would watch some random top 10s just don’t really take seriously. Best mtg top 10 in youtube are only Nizzahon.
A few more notable "weird" creature types: Surrakar (sentient salamander folk only ever in the original Zendikar block), Brushwagg (a beast covered in a large hide of dry twig like material), Nephilim (not angel related, but rather are essentially eldritch Old Gods on Ravnica), and Licids (creatures that you could pay a small cost and tap to turn them into Auras that gave a creature a small buff, and you could end the Aura transformation at any time by paying another small cost)
also Spellshapers (cards that have abilities that directly emulate casting older well-known cards; to activate, you tap the Spellshaper, pay the original card's mana cost, and discard a card, to do the exact same effect the original card had. ex. Bog Witch lets you cast Dark Ritual, Silverglade Pathfinder lets you cast Rampant Growth, Dawnstrider lets you cast Fog, Mageta the Lion lets you cast Wrath of God, etc)
Atog, Lammasu, Phelddagrif, Noggle, Ouphe, Lhurgoyf and other -goyf, Kavu, and Aetherborn
Don't forget Nightstalker, Caribou, Ferret and Sable.
@@satansamael666 I was mostly trying to list off actually weird/unusual types
Most of the ones you mentioned are just normal real world animals
Nightstalker is a good one for this tho
@@LadyTsunade777 the weirdness is more that the physical cards are on singular cards or purely conceptual.
The Caribou is especially weird because it’s the only card that is almost nonexistent except for a non physical token that is created from a very old singular card.
The original atog is also supposed to be an anagram of goat, an animal thought to eat cans and other metals.
The ever rare "Sable" type, with only 1 creature with "Bronze Sable".
I actually ran a Zubera deck back in the Standard of Ravnica/Kamigawa. With the introduction of the shock lands and plenty of sac outlets, Zuberas could get out of hand when paired up with cards like Bloodbond March. Lots of fixing availability made it easy to run all five colors - it wasn't meta, but playing something so off-meta can catch many opponents off-guard since they don't know how to deal with it.
That’s incredible, honestly. Confusion is a viable tactic and I love to see it.
Kavu are pretty neat. My favorite interaction with them was my friend had a changeling deck that would take control of a creature by having more of that type on his side of the board. I was playing my old 2002 invasion block deck. I summon Flametongue and deal 4 damage to one of his creatures and his response is "The fuck's a Kavu?" later in the game I summon Darigaaz, the Igniter. Excited he declares he's going to take advantage of kavus and I have to inform him that Darigaaz is, in fact, a dragon, which got a very loud and frustrated "FUCK!" out of him. He has since moved away but the group the still quotes this exchange years later.
One of the few times I got first at FNM was with a kavu predator deck using fiery justice.
i started playing while Kamigawa was the newest set.... (so this whole set has such a big place in my heart, and they are the only magic books i've ever read). i so did play a Zubera spirit deck (best use is to board wipe, since each one sees each other die at the same time...). spirit world was just the theme of Kamigawa thou... + loving the legendary "focus".
weirdest type?
Squirrels... c'mon, fighting squirrels have to be more weird, than weird creatures that are created to fight or other stuff.
Toski, Bearer of Secrets... an Indestructible squirrel that attacks every turn. just imagine a 1/1 squirrel that knows no fear and runs into an Emrakul each turn, and can't die from it...
Dude, it only takes 13 flying squirrels to kill emrakul. Show them some respect.
I started at that time too! Back when u could buy a rats precon deck with a jitte in it for 10$ at Wal-Mart..... Those were the days
I always called "Weird" when casting Crippling Fear if I could :D
Seeing a text bubble pop up saying: "Weird" and then wiping the board was funny for me in Magic Arena
Even if its absolutely a niche, but back in time there was a real use of Chronatog. I (and many others) used it in Stasis decks. Locking down the opponent in turn 4 with Kismet, Stasis and Chronatog for not taking another turn for the whole game... When you pulled out that combo for the first time against someone and he*she was wondering why you leap your turns... and that face after 3 or 4 or 5 turns just sitting... priceless. :D
My favorite weird creature type is Sand, which only exists because of one legendary character who's cards make Sand Warrior tokens and because of the way creature types work the tokens have both the Sand type & the Warrior type
Sounds like the equivalent of Creator God in Yugioh.
13:20 Can't forget Boldwyr Intimidator's flavor text.
Its abilities let you designate cowards and warriors, separating the weak and the strong. How do you sum that up in one sentence?
"Now everyone knows what you are."
Who is the Warrior and who is the Coward depends on the ethics I employ.
There are a few that I honestly thought would have been on this list: Sliver, Lammusa, Lhurgoyf, Phelddagrif, Noggle, and Kavu. I will give a special mention to Gremlins, Aetherborn, and Ouphe which are basically repackaged Goblins and Elementals for Keladash and rebranded Atog respectively. (side note: I feel Weirds are repackaged Elementals specifically used by Izzet and Fractals are just Illusions used in Strixhaven) I can see Lhurgoyf and Kavu being easily dismissed because they are basically just monsters. Lammusa and Phelddagrif the same dismissal for being just different types of chimera. Sliver and Noggle are definitely worth a mention for weird creatures. Slivers are almost indescribable and the fact they are all over the place, ability-wise and visually-wise, doesn't help. Noggles are just strange. They are like donkey-goblins but not really. I don't know anything about the lore behind them but they're weird.
I wouldn't say slivers are necessarily nominated for this, because unlike a lot of the ones mentioned, they are a very solid creature type that can have entire decks built around them, like sure Atogatog can have a commander deck or two but it's gonna include a lot of changelings rather than just atogs, while a First Sliver deck will have only slivers because there are so many sliver cards and they all benefit off of one another
@@brosam_, the video says weird, not rare, or unused or things like that.
I have a sliver deck and I think they deserve to be on the list.
Yes, the Noggles is what I was thinking. I knew it looked like a donkey, but I couldn’t remember the name. Thank you👍🏻
I once used flag barrers to redirect a 50 mana single target burn spell away from my face to the creature because it could target the creature it had to meaning that the kill spell turned into a waste. It basically meant that even if for some reason I couldn't interact directly with a single target spell otherwise I could this way potentially. It was even effective against multiple target spells quite often.
I know it’s Ret-con but I still like the uncle istvan creature type!
Honestly there are far too many great and unique creature types in the game, though am surprised Brushwagg didn't make the list.
Is charging badger a brushwagg
Same with Noggle.
The Nightstalkers where almost all printed in the second Portal set; and the very first in Legends. They also have an onesided mass return from the graveyard, but you have to sacrifice all your swamps 😅
One I wouldn't mind seeing probably doesn't have a lot to work with;
A list of the many times beneficial or sensible changes were shot down. There is a rumor (I don't know how true it is) that Rosewater tried to errata the Ravnica Nephilims as Legendary Creatures, but was told that he couldn't.
A list of similar quality of life changes being denied may be interesting if there are enough of them.
Chronatog is actually key to a hilariously stupidstax deck, using Stasis and smokestacks to make everything enter tapped, and using chronatog to skip your next infinite turns so your opponent eventually decks themselves.
I guess Bushwags only have one card but still. also never thought of cowards being a anti changeling tech.
Brushwaggs have TWO cards actually
Never forget the Almighty Brushwagg
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I was expecting Brushwagg to be on this list at first. There's a card called Embiggen in Unfinity that specifically says "non-Brushwagg", just so it doesn't power up Changelings by a ludicrous amount. And, there are only 2 (or 3, if you count a test card) Brushwagg cards in the entire game.
"Uncle Istvan" was a pretty strange creature type back in the day. Later reprint seems to have changed it to "human", though!
"Summon Uncle Istvan"
Uncle Istvan is still notably weird to this day, due to it NOT having the Legendary supertype. This implies that there is MORE THAN ONE insane murderous hermit named Uncle Istvan out there.
Vampire isn't a rare type nowadays, but back in the day Baron Sengir had an ability which regenerated target vampire... there was exactly one vampire other than Baron himself.
I feel like Brushwagg should have made the list. Only 2 of them have ever been printed, and no other cards give the Brushwagg type. The only other cards that reference it are 2 cards from Unfinity, both of which are tournament-legal. One is a sticker card, and the other is an enabler for a card combo that gives the single largest buff effect possible without using infinite combos (Play Werewolf Pack Leader and Ameboid Changeling. Cast Artificial Evolution [changing Human to Brushwagg] on Pack Leader. Use the Changelings ability to give Pack Leader all creature types. Use Pack Leader's activated ability to make it lose Brushwagg type. Then cast Embiggen on Pack Leader.).
I had a combo deck that played Stasis, Kismet, and Chronotog. Basically I never took another turn, but my opponents never got to untap or play anything untapped. So unless they could deal with immediately (and I had ways to protect it) I'd win by deck out.
put yourself in a time loop and watch your enemies age to death. brutal!
I feel that the Nameless Race is number one of strange creature type, being the only creature without a proper creature type.
Elder and sand should probably have made the list. Also honorable mention to old types like dervish and “uncle istvan”
the Nephilim are also a strange type, only four ever printed in Ravinca and their lore as I recall was also odd and unsatisfying
Beeble are a 10 on the Beeble Scale of course
I have yet to see many of these:
- Worms
- Brownies
- Goats
- Falcons
Brownie isn't a real creature type.
Falcon isn't a real creature type.
Worms and goats arent really weird at least not to other creature types.
My favorite edh deck is cycling... a deck that plays kenrith as the commander and runes all the weird card cycles, with the inspiration being the volveers.
gotta give a shoutout to my homie EYE tribal.
my favorite creature type will always be changeling and the chaos that coat of arms causes with them
I don't play coat of arms anymore for this reason.
No Reflection? Not a mention of Bringer or Slith? Nephilim, Phelddagrif, and Lammas also come to mind. 😮
I think you used the wrong art for Equilibrium there, the one depicted doesn't have beebles on it (it's the 7th one rather than the Exodus one)
Varchild's War Riders and Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor are the only creatures that create 1/1 Survivor Tokens
We usually play on theme for each set release. I do have a (bad) 60 card Fractal deck. . . I wish it ran better, but it just can't keep a board state if the other player is playing any sort of control.
Commander is good for obscure tactics! Well, as long as there are enough cards of that type to synergise…
@@joebob7483 Eh, the problem is my husband prefers 60 card, he'll play commander occasionally but we also don't have a play group (can't convince him to try our LGS) so its mostly us at the kitchen table, and he's been playing much longer than I have. . .
That's unfortunate. Have you considered going yourself?
@@joebob7483 Due to vision problems I'm not able to drive and not comfortable walking unlit streets in the dark. It's not that big an issue, we get to plan routinely at home together and I use Arena for my commander fix
What? No mention of Licids or Spikes, both from the Tempest cycle?
To be fair, I suppose that the Licid mechanic of turning itself into an aura enchantment or back got revisited for artifacts in the form of Reconfigure. Still....
Top 10 weirdest cards from the “UN”sets. Pretty much the 4 joke sets of magic. Could be a nice april fools video.
Nephilim are the easily the weirdest creatures. Each of their cards' art is like a Benadryl hallucination.
Wow, you're right and I love them.
auratog was relevant in enchantment reusing strategies earlier in the game, going as far as o be some what competitive.
Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
Correction, in apocalypse the Volvers kickers only used the opposing colors. The Allied colors in Invasion, i believe, and they worked more with a series of wizards
Surprised to not see Bringers.
As someone who likes weird things, I am now interested in trying out a "Weird' Deck
Chronatog is played along with Stasis. Great card
The furtive Spike, so easily forgotten...
I’d love to see a Top X cost spells
My boys, the Noggles, get snuffed yet again
Spellgorger weird was a beast in my feather deck back when war of the spark was in standard
It's the Exodus version of Equilibrium that shows the proto-Beeble, not the 7th Ed. one.
I love Atogs, especially the Necratog
Cowards are absolutely more bizarre than Weirds, which are largely unremarkable (if synergistically mediocre) as a creature type.
Yeah but this is a Weird list not a Bizarre list
9:02 the Volver the Kicker are only in Enemy color only why dose it say Allies ? the kicker colors are allies to each other but the main color should be the main color that was use to cast it.
My shortlist:
Licid
Brushwagg
Nephilim
Reflection
Shrine
Treasure
Clue
Bringer
Rigger
Shrine, Clue and Treasure aren't creature types
Shrine is an ENCHANTMENT TYPE NOT A CREATURE TYPE
Treasure and Clue are ARTIFACT TYPES NOT CREATURE TYPES
The giant red volver flying/lifelink/beefy was the volver most likely to be slapped down. .more for casual or on magic online.
The nephilim are a strange group in magic more so for the fact that they are not legandary by all accounts they should be one also makes sand tokens and to my knowledge only like 3 card do that. Phelddagrif is a great and fantastic thing that should be mentioned and i though for sure the number 1 type would have been Rigger that card type was and still is famous because every time a new artifact set came out new existent for new Rigger cards would be on the rise. Not only that is it was in future sight and it was there was 1 card that was a lord for the arctype and had a machanic that did not mean anything at the time only to be used as a major machanic in an un set where it finally got more cards to it type
You could definitely do another list like this there are for sure 10 more. Heck even types like citizens or pesent are odd because they really did not mean anything and only recently got like new cards in the type
Listen I know Unfinity was still a joke set even if it was legal, but I can't not mention the creature type Gamer. Which by extension made every changeling in history a Gamer too.
Well the only reason Gamer because a real creature type is because for some reason they decided to male the ONE gamer creature in the set legal in all formats. Not sure why, since the card is bad, but yeah... now you can run gamer tribal in a changeling deck
Weird in older English meant something fated, or relating to fate. In fantasy it has also come to mean some sort of ghost, or illusion creature. I don't know where that started but it predates Ravnica.
It also means something a bit like "wizard."
I was really hoping to see Ouphes
Shout-out to Nameless Race, the only creature with no creature types, as a joke.
You're forgetting about the Go-Shintai in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. Since the only subtype those creatures have is Shrine, and shrine is an enchantment subtype, not a creature type. They technically don't have a creature type
It looks like that Firebender with the eye scar.
Pretty sure there's a red blue or blue green card that makes a 4/4 fractal! So it's one of the only ones I know that doesn't create a 0/0 fractal with counters added
I was expecting Spike to show up
I clicked hoping to see Sliths mentioned. Very similiar to Volver. One 1 cycle ever existed in Mirrodin with an addition 6th colorless artifact one. Inspired by MaRo's love for the whirling dervish, they gain a +1/+1 counter whenever they damage a player. Sliths aren't native to Mirrodin but aliens from another plane, brought there as Karn was creating Argentum. Slith Firewalker was one of the first singles I ever bought and holds a special place in my heart. I'd love to see another cycle, reprint, or a slith commander like Atogatog. I run them in Atraxa
Craven Hulk's art and fluff text is the best. Just a big guy that thinks its a goat.
I love my sliver deck thrull deck n merfolk deck.
One-off creatures: while they are all probably retroactively reclassified... it's still funny to see some creature types that says "Summon Evil Eye" (Evil Eye of Orms by Gore), "Summon Floral Spezzum" or "Summon Lurker"
Licids: Creatures from the Tempest block where they become creature enchantments / auras that give beneficial or harmful effects to their host creatures. Example of this is "Dominating Licid", UU1, 1/1, UU1: Dominating Licid becomes an aura that reads "gain control of enchanted creature", then attach Dominating Licid to a creature you control
Rigger: I remember opening a pack of Future Sight and drew a "Steamflogger Boss"... which is a "Rigger" type... and I have yet to see another Rigger creature since then. Also, the "contraption" in its textbox seems to imply there are artifacts of that type... so we can assume its a creature type as well
Homarids: Lobster people, basically. There are a LOT of them during the Fallen Empires set... but there were very little support for them after that. I think after Alliances, the type kinda stopped being a thing?
Thrulls: Same as Homarids: they basically appeared in FE but was largely forgotten afterwards. Unlike Homarids, they do get sporadic appearances... like Blood Pet from Tempest and Endrek Sahr from Future Sight (I think?)
Germs: Tokens that appear in "Living Weapons"... and are pretty much the predecessors of Fractals in game function
In a joke set, Unstable, we finally saw more riggers, and even know what a contraption is
1) all the old cards literally just summoned themselves since creature types werent really a thing. Those types dont exist anymore.
Though i did expect the "Eye" creature type to be on this list.
2) steamflogger boss WAS NOT in futuresight... it was unstable set, where all but 1 rigger was printed. Also contraptions are an unstable set mechanic.
3) thrulls aren't that weird or rare. There are 38 cards that either make thrulls or are thrulls and some have be printed somewhat recently.
4)technically germ is a creature type but its only on tokens and funny enough isnt even recognized as a creature type by wotc's own database
@@fallendeus
1) True, but it still, it never fails to amuse me when I see those cards and remember how WOTC used to work XD So many one-offs that dont really actually need a creature type (i.e why is "Legionnaire" or "Flying Men" a creature type?)
2) Steamflogger Boss was printed on Future Sight first. You can verify with Gatherer. That said, it's interesting to hear that the card revealed a card from an incoming joke set as opposed to an actual tournament legal XD I will check out what these contraptions do so I can FINALLY put my curiosity to rest!
3) true also. At one point they were plentiful. I just found it weird that it and the Thallids were from the same plane. but only the Thallids seems to have proliferated outside of it. Thrulls were as adaptable as far as I remember... but theyre mostly forgotten in newer sets
4) lol poor germ tokens XD but I guess they ARE out of the list of weird creature types if Germs are not even acknowledged as creature types
@@laszlokaszas1003 Thank you! I will check out those cards so I can FINALLY put my curiosity in those cards to rest XD
@@bluedestiny2710 2) yeah that's on me, when i looked it up I didn't realize that there was another set symbol next to it >.> Sadly, all the contraptions are unset only and not legal in any other format.
4) Well they ARE legal creature types as far as the rules are concerned. A changeling IS a germ for example. But if you look on gatherer germs, and sand (im sure more that i can't think of) don't show in the data base because they currently only exist as token creatures, BUT tokens do actually show up for other creature types if they had ever been printed. The new set has phyrexian mites as token only creatures, but they are now a legal creature type as far as the CR goes. Although it doesn't show in the database as being a creature type.
I think Sliver should be on the list.
I love them, but they are surely weird.
Chonotog saw some play in prison decks.,winter orb, etc. can’t remember . Maybe some players we’re trying to deck you.
Flagbearer is not useless. It is a staple in pauper.
this video changed my life
Surprised kobolds didn’t make the list.
Can you talk about all cards that share a type and every color got there own version of it like the invoke cards from neon dynasty or decrees from scourge?
Disappointed on the lack of Eye and Brushwagg from this list.
6:47 While bad, Chronatog did see use in decks that establish a lock (an unwinnable situation for the opponents), especially in Stasis decks.
But yeah, this card is laughable by today's standards.
Stirmcore Weird has been slapped down a few tines
Lol, I remember the power of the Volver. .but certainly not as a Volver-deck
7:30 - Just not THAT equilibrium; the one from the set 'Exodus'
13:54 Car-Gahn/Gen
Amazing!
Oh dear, there seems to be a lot of audio issues around #2
7:38 There's also Bubbling Beebles.
EDIT: 8:08 I see now.
When even squirrel isn't obscure enough to make it near the list
Squirrels arent even obscure. Squirrels have had ALOT of cards and support for them.
No mention of the strongest creature type in the game, Brushwag.
zubera was cool cuz it kinda dipped into yugioh archetypes style of card design
I always found Ouphes odd, and generally under-printed
All hail the Almighty Brushwag!!
Was expecting sand to be here. Still, a very weird list.
Dont think he wanted to put types that only appear on tokens. Otherwise a lot of the list would just be token only types.
4:30 That's an MH2 Incarnation similar to Fury, Solitude. Valor is the correct one.