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"Is this a scarecrow made out of broomsticks?"
No Nikachu, it's a GOLEM, made out of STRAW.
One would think the name is pretty self explanatory.
my god i sometimes lose braincells watching this channel
Signpost Scarebro is made of sign post which is kinda like a broomstick
A scarecrow made of broomstick...
isnt a scarecrow made of straw too? lol
"But it doesn't do anything"
"No, it does nothing"
Scornful Egoist actually was somewhat useful because you had high converted mana cost synergy in scourge, so you would morph it and then take advantage of having something with 8 converted mana cost on the board on turn 4.
wow these past 10 years i see you everywhere from gamefaq to fg discord to mtg vids
edit: and arc revo live chat earlier wtf
@@sunthi9619 I do all the hobbies.
@@Dreikooit's good to have hobbies
I mean in scourge a 1 mana 2/2 vanilla was still ~~alright~~ for morph matters decks till today but my lady does run it in her blue green revel clash deck and it actually has came in clutch a few times but normally it’s just the agro one drop to pair with birds of parodies in the one slot lol
can't it also be used as removal bait?
46:25 Fun fact: because the original typeset of Magic cards couldn't handle two digits in a single mana pip, the original printing of Aladdin's Lamp had two pips of 5 generic to total the casting cost to 10.
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I would buy that
I'd but card sleeves that said that
came looking for this comment
Darksteel Relic is really cool in the Rise and Shine/Ensoul Artifact deck that uses Darksteel Relics and their indestructible artifact lands to bash in
All those 0 casting cost artifacts and creatures work great with Dargo, the Shipwrecker.
4:16 this 3 mana to drop absolutely killed the morph mechanic
Darksteel Relic is not uninteresting in pre-Brazen Borrower times due to Tezzeret ults and Ensoul Artifact. Kobolds are my absolute blast. I love them with Skullclamp/ Glimpse of Nature and I built a Vintage fun deck in Cockatrice that tried an aggro plan with Kobold Taskmaster and Storm Entity as well
I think I finally understand what Break Open is supposed to do. It's supposed to take away your opponent's ability to control when they morph their creatures, e.g. you could force them to morph a Willbender when there are no other spells to target. Which is a huge gamble, because you might also hit something they do have a target for, but I guess that's why it's red.
Here's the thing though, you're in *red.* You know how else red can achieve the exact same effect? By literally just shocking the 2/2 morph creature. Costs one less mana, even!
In any other color this would've been a shitty card, but it's somehow *extra* shitty in a color that already has plenty of ways to remove creatures of this size
Kobolds of the Kehr Keep was a centerpiece of my old Enduring Renewal deck back in the day. Combo with Ashnod's Alter, and you have infinite mana. Now it has even more ways to be useful.
Fay Jones, who illustrated Stasis, was Richard Garfield's relative and painted it as a favor when MtG was just starting out so give her some credit for her contribution
Darksteel relic is useful if your deck has effects based on the number of artefacts you control.
Also if you want an artifact to turn into a creature.
Add some +1/+1 counters, and boom, you got a hefty creature with the proper set up.
And decks like Urza, Lord high artificer and Media, scholar of antiquities.
Mechanized Production, just create 7 copies and you win.
And it can still be sacrificed, whenever you need to sacrifice an artifact.
@@ghouluoshe8001 yeah, with urza its basically an indestructible mox sapphire
there are plenty of ways to make use of that card in artifact decks. its still fairly useless because there are other 0 mana artifacts, that can actually do something and most of the time the indestructible part doesnt really matter, because there is no point in destroying it anyways.
Digeridoo is from Homelands, if I remember correctly, and it's apparently really good for Minotaur tribal decks
2:56 It's a blowout if your opponent doesn't have Removal and you have something like Kumano, Wedding Announcement, or other buff cards. Good Fling target too
40:36 Hive Mind go BRRRRRRR
Here's usage (that I can remember of the top of my head) for some cards listed. Not saying they are all good, most are just janky but some are actually pretty interesting.
*Darksteel Relic* : Basically and indestructible Mox on an Urza deck, comparable to how Mox Amber works.
*Kobolds* : Great for Winota.
*Force of Savagery* : Insane if you have any anthem effect or cads like Metallic Mimic.
*Scornful Egotist* : Jokes aside, very interesting for cards like Birthing Pod or Eldritch Evolution. It also can be used with Nahiri's Wrath and Blast of Genius
*Urza's Bauble* : Pretty good and expensive card actually, doesn't deserve an explanation but try "Ashnod, the Uncaring". (I use it)
*Tel-Lijad* : Works with Gitrog at least.
*Goblin Snowman* : Pair it with "Lure" and "Fight to the Death" and you get an instant meme.
*Chaoslace* : Counters red elemental blast.
*Zephyr Spirit* : Same thing as Goblin Snowman, but if it's still alive it can survive "Fight to the death" or "heat stroke"
*Dream Fighter* : Can be paired with Lure and actually survives "Heat Stroke" and so on. Out of all of these, one of the best since it's 3 cmc.
*Lupine Prototype* : Amazing for Selvala (I use it)
*Juju Bauble* : Infinite life with Brighthearth + Monolith combo.
*Myr Mindservant* : Works with cards like Mystic Forge, but it's a pain.
*Grip of Chaos* : The more players the better. Can be very chaotic on commander making a ton of cards backfire even. (Def will try)
*Arctic Merfolk* : Not the best card but ETBs are pretty strong, can find a lot of use actually.
*Wood elemental* : Well at least it works with Gitrog again.
*Rhystic Circle* : Costs that require generic mana and don't require tapping can be very dangerous. Infinite generic mana and you basically won't take damage.
*Arena* : It's actually cool if your cards have deathtouch. And if they're big enough, it's basically a free kill every turn. It works almost like effects that say "each opponent sacrifices a creature"
*Mage' Contest* : This card is fun tbh. Me and my friends used it once or twice when we where younger and had burn decks.
*Apocalypse Chime* : Is actually a metaphor for how we feel about homelands.
*Sky Swallower* : I believe Torpor Orb and "end turn effects" like Sundial of the Infinite work here.
*One with Death* : Busted with Stunning Reversal.
*Aysen Highway* : Since -walk effects are rare to nonexistant these days, this basically makes you army of 1/1 soldiers unblockable (I'm trying). Dies to Apocalypse Chime tho.
*Alladin's Lamp* : You can sac a token to get it back from your graveyard with Goblin Welder. It makes for a great activation of Smelting Vat, specially if you have Brighthearth or Ashnod. When it dies you can also get basically any artifact back from your graveyard with Scrap Trawler. Just went tryhard on this one.
*Psychic Surgery* : Actually makes some tutors useless.
*Rishadan Pawnshop* : Saves your bird from a bolt.
*Rakalite* : Goes well with infinite generic mana again, and can be sacced for Smelting Vat to get basically 2 of anything in an artifact deck.
Cephalon Snitch was printed on the black heavy Torment set. At the time, the best removal spells for Block Constructed, which I don't think has been a format in a long while (think Hyper Standard: latest 3 associated sets only), and Standard Constructed, were all black. To combat this, most decks started running pro-black creatures or ways to gain protection from a chosen color. (there were a lot). Hence, Cephalid Snitch got printed.
Teferi's Isle is a bit hard to use; it comes into play tapped, then phases out during your next untap step (this untaps it btw). It remembers that it already came into play, so it won't repeat the "comes into play tapped" trigger, so when it finally phases back in on the next turn, you can actually use it. I used Ley Druid or Candelabra of Tawnos to untap it back in the day for both immediate use and to get more mana out of it, but yeah, the investment required to make it better than a basic island is rough. Amulet of Vigor would be nice with it now, I guess. Basically the only reason this thing was ever used was for busted Armageddon, Jokelhaups, Balance, Pox strategies; you blow up lands when it's phased out, and then it phases in to give you 2 mana on your first rebuild turn.
Can you play one while one is phased out and they just switch?
@@unclerobbieslug Yes, but you're still left unable to use it for 2 turns unless you have an Amulet of Vigor or some way to untap lands.
Darksteel Relic has only two purposes. 1) Aids in you achieving metalcraft (you know the 3 artifacts needed) by at least it cost zero mana and it has i bonus of being indestructible. It has one other very fringe bonus if you have a If you have out a2) phylactery Lich the relic can be the artifact you put you Phylactery counter on. This way this Lich will remain indestructible just like the Darksteel Relic. Having a 5/5 indestructible creature is kinda nice.
Cycle of life can be played in a +1/+1 counter creatures. These usually are 0/0 and enters with counters.
So, for 3 mana you get +1 toughness for a turn and then add a +1/+1 counter to it
Darksteel relic sees play in the cheerios deck, also very good with certain cards that rely on another cards survival, it's also great when animated into a creature
When i was a teenager, my uncle gave me a precon deck of scourge that came with scornful egotist... never understood what was it us- ALL HAIL THE GREAT LORD EGOTIST
Myr mindservant was a safety valve in the block where they first introduced Scry for when you realised all your good cards were now on the bottom
34:19 I really appreciate that “gyahuck!”
😂 A lot of game stores took the activated ability for Apocalypse Chime literally back in the day 😂
I'm gonna say i like arctic merfolk in a kicker deck since it's two mana to return one of your kicker creatures to your hand so you could get it's kicker effect again
You can sac relic to krark or any other artifact sac outlet, and then cast underworld breach and sac it as many times as you have cards to Exile for it to escape, theoretically welding jar, or an 0 mana artifact creature would be better. You could also run it in jhoira where its basically just running one less card in your deck. In teshar its a free unearth.
One with nothing is a chefs kiss with Tergrid on field and that blue enchantment that exiles cast spells and makes the caster cast all cards exiled with it (hive mind?)
53:05 "whenever X, Y" is a trigger, so the player shuffles, putting the trigger on the stack and then you get to stack their deck a little after - this is the exact same way every trigger is worded, so the wording is fine.
Granted there are better things to do with infinite mana, but Juju Bubble can gain you infinite life, which makes it very hard for them to kill you.
I guess it just adds another stupid win condition to a deck that tries to generate infinite mana.
Now if you can stack infinite Myr Mindservant deck shuffles, your opponent concedes immediately and you're disqualified.
Teferi's Isle from what I can tell works like this:
Turn 1: Play, it enters tapped.
Turn 2: During untap step it phases out.
Turn 3: During untap it phases in, then untaps. **This is why someone was saying every three turns. But it's actually every other turn after this. The problem is it wasn't on the field during the untap step of the turn you play it.**
Turn 4: During untap it phases out.
Turn 5: during untap it phases in, then untaps.
Force of Savagery would be good in a green stompy deck if they can play a green liege or some other effect like that. I know there are effects that cause creatures to enter the battlefield with +1/+1 countters on them, but I can't find them.
"Evermind" is a good one 😂
The Pawnshop is great for "Enter The Battlefield" decks! Just keep putting them back into you library and bringing them back out gaining the effects
Back there in the time of Mercadians, was a lot of great rebels in the colection who use to play in the rebels tribe deck, a extremelly powerfull deck in standart at the time, and also the colection have Rishadans Port, a great card.
Steamflogger Boss is one of my favorite "do nothing cards." Besides changelings, there are no other Riggers legal in any format, and you can't assemble contraptions in any format besides Un-formats.
Edit: I just learned of Moriok Rigger, which is the second rigger that isn't an Unset card.
Fun fact, Moriok Rigger is not actually a Rigger. So Steamflogger still does nothing.
@@Atheau I mean, changelings and Mistform Ultimus, but Rigger tribal is still not good.
They added the rigger subtype to it in the great creature type update. It's never been reprinted so you can only see that in Oracle.
Considering Attractions now, they really SHOULD just make the Contraptions and assembly cards legal. Fun fact: many Attractions have mechanics you can't otherwise utilize, i.e. dexterity. Not so with Contraptions; as is, they're ALL perfectly compatible.
@@christopherb501 💯 I've been thinking this since they showed up in Unstable. The only fear that I have is that they would take over Legacy. It's kinda like the initiative, you get free value every turn.
My favorite do nothing card is deep slumber titan. I had a deck built around him and a bunch of burn the board spells
Few Rakalites were pretty good back in the day when I played in our FLGS tournaments. Antiquities had just appeared (and nobody here had any Arabian nights).
I got a urza land artifact deck with four Candelabras and bunch of clockworks, rocket launchers etc. I recall having few rakalites as well, as mana was definitely not an issue and Rakalites were a way to keep me and my stuff invulnerable during opponents turn. I could then cast it again on my turn to wait for the next opponents turn. Yeah, time has really passed this one, but try playing with Unlimited+Antiquities as your whole card pool and situation changes :).
Rishadan Pawnshop could be used in decks that play temporary control effects, shuffling the opponents creature away after attacks.
I have lupine prototype in a couple decks. That 5 is amazing for crewing and other stuff.
Many years ago, I made a large multi-player deck that included four (yes four) Chaoslaces. The deck played COP Red and added Blue Elemental Blast + Hydroblast. (These weren't the main theme of the deck, but filled a function). Other players got so used to the combo that as soon as I tapped one red mana, they'd all go in unison -- "It's red -- it's dead". Of course, I had ways of cycling my graveyard back into my library, so this happened a LOT.
Capable of eliminating multiple opponents at once, the deck was a hell of a lot more competitive than it may sound. Though I'm sure it would struggle against modern power-crept decks.
Force of Savagery was obviously meant to work with Tenacious Pup from alchemy.
Darksteel relic is great for Affinity decks or that mechanic that turns on when you have three or more artifacts in play. It can also be good in storm style decks that want to cast a bunch of cheap spells in one turn before dropping a massive storm spell. With a commander like Jhoira, this is a zero mana cantrip, and with Urza, its basically a free mana rock.
Scornful Egotist has a play mechanism. There was a series of cards that let you draw cards, counter a spell, and other things based on the highest converted mana cost. It sucked because it was too slow to be effective
The card shown; Lupine Prototype
(2) 5/5
Is great for a vehicle deck.
Hi nikachu. I love this subject can't stay till the end, but I'll watch the rest later. Thanks for doing these.
Played against a Phylactery Lich deck that utilized Darksteel Relic. Was a fun little deck, hard to interact with in a casual, 60-card, kitchen table environment.
Phychic Surgery seems like it would be really good! Oh you wanna use that fetch land? Or if someone Vamp Tutors, you just exile the thing they put on top. Its like a weird stacks piece but i like it
Scornful Egotist used to be fringe good. It was an 8 converted mana cost creature for 4 mana in a set that cared about your highest converted mana cost. Scornful Egotist was a resource card
darksteel relic goes in my urza deck so i can make indestrtuctable 1/1s
kobolds of kher keep works in a kobold tribal deck
force of savagery works in kresh to give 8 counters or you can play one of the green anthems turn 2 i believe
cycle of life i feel could be useful somewhere like if your local meta loves slaughter the strong
lens of clarity is an under rated card just for the ability to look at your next draw
"Go make your force of savagery deck" - already have!
Rishadan Pawnshop with a lot of Treason effects and you shuffle the best creatures into their decks after attacking with them.
Darksteel relic is my favorite card. I'm not big in any 60 card formats, but relic is pretty good in alot of commander decks
Force of Savagery combos really well with Cycle of Life
Agree to disagree on Darksteel Relic. Works great in a Mishra Eminent One or Jhoira Weatherlight Captain commander deck. Has great synergy with anything that says "when you cast an artifact" or "when an artifact enters the battlefield. Storming with other zero cost artifacts. There's so many effects that turn artifacts into creatures, thus making the creature is indestructible.
Rishadan Pawnshop was played in Cowardice to shuffle itself back in and deck your opponent.
12:15 in my Izzet deck, I can chaoslace your Master of Waves on the stack then Blue Elemental Blast
37:30 with Sky Swallower on the stack, I will cast Teferi's Protection
(bad combos that actually work)
22:20 I need that! I’m cursed. I drew 9 lands in a row one game, 6 in the next, and the last one I only drew lands the entire game. I had 9 lands out in a deck that doesn’t really need more than like 4
Rhystic Cave does have a use if against a green deck with some 'Giant Growth' in it. Just as a way to feasibly prevent a blocker.
Or to prevent a blue deck possibly using a 'Counter Spell' on something important.
There are a few more uses for tapping that last mana of an opponent's. But wasting a land drop for that "protection" seems wasteful.
If you're trying to explain Scornful Egotist to someone, please mention that this specific set brought many CMC synergies (cards that care about your highest CMC among permanents you control)
The "lupine werewolf" person might have meant "Lupine Prototype" which actually was a good threat in an artifact deck. Not top tier, but good casual fun. You can put your hand on the table quickly, with cheap artifacts and some supplemental spells, and aggro away.
EDIT: That one was also mentioned later on the show.
I wonder if there are pod/neoform decks with scornful egotist (pull out a 9CCM creature)
Glasses of urza are great if you are playing control. Tells you what you need to be saving those counterspells for.
phasing does not trigger ETB's or LTB's so the land would not enter the battlefield taped when it phased in and would not trigger any leave the battlefield effects from other cards, because the card is not actually leaving the battlefield.
What's funny is, when I was a sort of newbie I used a few of those do nothing cards and actually won a few tournaments with them.
for Chaoslace, I got 4 of them and the blue Laces and use all of the blue/red elemental blasts (and at the time Ice Age just came out with Hydroblast, etc), so I mashed all of that together with some removal and clones and howling mines and it actually worked. I was chaoslacing lands and Blue elemental blasting them... and my god if I played against a person using blue or red or both, it wouldn't be a fun time for them. It was so janky, I loved it.
I still remember when I once died to a Thoughtlace.
Lupine prototype looks like a perfect card combo for one with nothing ;)
Teferi's Isle (the phasing land) might be okay if it gave you 3 mana of any color instead of two blue. Or if it didn't enter the battlefield tapped.
Rystic Cave was awesome for a minute because of the rules at the time meant the opponent wasnt able to pay the 1.
Dang now I gotta use Apocalypse chime as sideboard tech against minotaurs, blow up that Didgeridoo with it.
I didn’t see Delif’s cube or spatial binding mentioned
This derailed very quickly from “cards that do nothing” to “cards that are really bad”
Force of Savagery is hilarious with the Golgari Troll legend that gives all creatures in gy Scavenge = to Cmc also the Myr Mind master I use in Artifact Combo with Mystic Foundry so I never get stuck on lands. Colfenor's plans are a Doomsday benefit card :) pseudo draw your doomsday pile and never deck out. One with Death with Hive mind your opponent loses before you do.
Teferi island.
You play enter tapped
Turn 2 in your upkeep phases out
Turn 3 you phase in, and you can use and add 2 mana
Turn 4 phases out ...
Turn 5 2 mana
41:41 there's a Green version of this card called Hidden Path only it cost 2GGGG. I use it in my Toski Stomps your face, deck. It was basically useless until Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth was printed.
I have a deck with Chaoslace (4) with Blue Elemental Blast, Hydroblast and ways to recycle my graveyard.
Darksteel Relic + Ensoul Artifact
Force of Savagery did come out the set right after Gaea's Anthem came out as a green Glorious Anthem. Today you might drop a Sylvan Anthem right before it or it could work if you had something that would give it +1/+1 (or at least +x/+1 counters) on it when it enters the battlefield. Rhythm of the Wild might help.
Straw Golem: If "successful" meant it had to resolve instead just getting played it might be more interesting.
Cephalid Snitch came out in the black HEAVY Torment set although it does seem there were relatively few Pro-Black creatures in the block in white and green.
Kudzu is eternal land destruction that you pass back and forth.
I would use darksteel relic i a tezzeret master of tbe bridge deck. Usd some copy cards to copy it. That way, your opponent cant destroy them to ruin your plan to hit them with that plus on tezzeret. I know people is going to say there are better cards for it, but this costs 0 mana, you have 3 of these and you can copy them. Plus with tezzerets static of every artifact you have lowers your stuff by that much is good. The 0 mana thopter and this you got 6 mana reduction. It has a purpose, it not completely useless
Teferi isle phase in before untap step you can untap it than main phase 1 tap it for 2 blue mana
Fun fact scornful egotist was printed in the same block as rush of knowledge
25:30
Well, I think approach of the second sun would benefit from it
Urza Bauble is a deck thinner. You play it, you draw a card in the next upkeep. The "look at a card at random" is totally secondary. The card would have been played even without that effect.
I mean, cheerios was a deck in legacy for a little while along with Crimson Kobolds, Crookshank Kobolds, you would also run Kobolds of Kher Keep and any other other 0 drop creatures you wanted, with glimpse of nature to keep drawing cards, which lets you keep playing more 0 drops, ideally you then have some sort of green mana generation, I think it ran Gaea's Cradle, and crop rotation, so you can get the Cradle, then play Beast Master's Ascension, turn your board sideways, and useually win given everything resolved I don't think Cheerios has seen any play in the last 5 years, but it was a fun deck.
Fun fact: Arena was the only version of the fight mechanic before fight became a thing
Force of Savagery sounds like the Scrap Kong of MtG
Myr Mindservant: "Everyday I'm shuffling! Doo doo doo dooo doo doo doo. Doo doodoo doo doo doo doo doo."
you could tezzeret or ensoul artifact darksteel relic to make a 5/5 indestructible
Scornful egotist is actually good in scourge era, a lot of cards were dependent on high cmcs to have big ass effects
Counter to force of savagery being useless is the commander volroz who makes it so force is 3 Mana for 8 counters from the graveyard via the scavenge ability.
1:29 Kobolds of Kher Keep goes infinite with Cloudstone Curio + Rograkh Son of Rohgahh + Impact Tremor's. That seems like it's a lot to set up, but it's easier if you just play all of the 0 mana creatures and have Rograkh as your commander. There's other effects like Impact Tremor's. The deck is mostly just loot spells and combo pieces. I built it just to see what would happen, and it's not that bad. I've pulled it off in cedh a couple of times.
cloudstone is such a funny combo card
its great for artifact deck that needs artifact where more you have on field more power full things get
Could you run darksteel relic in gleeful 8-whack?
Ig Darksteel relic isn’t too bad if you find a way to turn it into a creature. Maybe affinity for artifacts deck. I can see it being used in a lot of cool niche decks
The issue with Apoclypse Chime, it cant hit merchant scroll, the one good spell from it.
59:47 wdym? Kudzu is basically Armageddon, but 1 mana cheaper and with a chance you keep some of your lands since you probably ramped out in Green.
One with death and hive mind seems fun.
lol
Scornful Ecotist is good for cards that involve your highest cost creature I guess
Mindservant actually has some usefulness to it if you have access to any kind of a card that allows you to look at the top card of your library. Pretty expensive, but it's technically speaking not nothing.
Plus somehow it's really endearing. It's just a little dude that wants to help you shuffle.
Brake open works on more than just morph, it works on any card that is face down. Such as the planeswalkers that are creatures first and then transform flipped. They are face down since one side is the back while the other is the face.
Still a bad card, but it does affect more than morph. People just always only refer it to morph.
Lupin Prototype only requires A player, not the one you are attacking. So you have no cards, any other player has no cards, doesn't matter. As long as any player doesn't have cards in hand this thing does something.
I think with the pawnshop would be good if you take control of an opponents creature
Force of avagery is actually a staple on Varolz Commander decks, since it can be sacavenged to 8 counters for 3 mana
Scornful Egotist while a bad card I believe there was a "mana cost matters" trope in the block it was released which allowed for some janky but decent things to happen