I laughed at “Reaping the Temple of Nefaties in Panic.”. Everything about it: the stupid name, with a period, the color pie break, the both scuffed and busted rulestext, and the terrible balance between the two options. Honestly, it’s a beautiful and perfect card. Take noes Wizards, take note…
29:40 Regarding Sultai Elder, the lands will actually go to your own hand regardless of the strange wording due how rule 400.3 works. "400.3. If an object would go to any library, graveyard, or hand other than its owner’s, it goes to its owner’s corresponding zone."
Sultai Elder should read "they search THEIR library for a basic land and put it into play under your control tapped." Now it works. It's slightly balanced (they thin their deck, you get the ramp).
Ghostly Pride has to be the best card printed in this set. It's been Incredibly difficult to play Magic when I have no cards that give me the ability to look at creatures. Biggest addition to the game since Gitaxian Probe was printed, though I have been having to use Clairvoyance again ever since Gitaxian Probe was banned to target myself and look at my hand.
You are absolutely correct about Affinity. When you cast a spell, you first declare that you're casting the spell, it checks for any increase or reduction in costs, then you pay the mana, so if you had 3 islands in play, and it was 3UU, it would see the 3 untapped islands and it would say it costs 2 blue now to cast, then you tap two islands to pay the UU cost and the spell goes onto the stack. Things like this have shown that despite magic having a huge player base, a LOT of MTG players have no clue how the game actually plays and just play based off of assumptions instead of learning the official rules, which I understand to a degree because magic does have a metric ton of rules to learn and it can be very overwhelming for newer players.
Regarding temple of nefadies, you can target instants and sorceries. However, there are rules (304.4 and 307.4) that if an instant or sorcery tries to enter the battlefield, it stays in its current zone instead.
So with Joyen of Power you could target your opponent and you still get the creature considering it says "That player puts that card onto the battlefield under your control."
I really liked how Vodalian Revolution had a bunch of abilities that weren't really broken (I'm sad that the majority of people voted to "shred it"), and "each opponent" isn't exclusive to just Commander. I already know of regular cards like Sizzle (which deals 3 damage to each opponent). It's a shame Veinmash Sliver isn't actually a sliver itself. Also, I interpret "It's a spell" as meaning the human permanent goes onto to the stack, and thus could be targeted with things like Counterspell. Then, if nothing counters it, it gets put back onto the battlefield as if it was just cast, and can trigger enter-the-battlefield abilities again. Oh, and I don't know if you picked up on the fact that Chaos Lord did not say to shuffle your hand into your library, despite multiple people in the chat saying so. This means, if you have other cards in your hand, they stay there, and you add your 7 drawn cards to them, which could result in a rather huge hand after you cast Chaos Lord.
i don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet as this is an older video, but there is a mystery booster play test card named Swarm of Locus. it shares the land type Locus with two lands. the card reads "[this card] gets +2/+0 for each locus you control" and the lands read "add: C for each locus you control " and "when it enters the battlefield, gain 1 life for each locus you control." the ruling for Swarm of Locus is basically "creatures types cannot share basic land types, so we'll changes this if this card ever gets printed, but the creature gains the +2/+0 for each locus land and creature you control, but the lands wont count the locus creature when checking their triggered or activated abilities." which would imply that even creature with changeling don't count as beings mountains. additionally this would imply that if in the future a non-land creature were, if for some reason, to have a land type you would ignore it when other cards search for that land type. so the Phyrexian imp mountain and warrior creature token wont be effected by cards that say "destroy target mountain," "enchant mountain," or "you lose 1 life for each mountain you control" however if for some reason this token were to gain an ability from a card that says: has "[ability that checks for all mountains]" it would indeed count itself, and would count other non-land tokens that share its not land creature type, mountain in this case. same for any other AI or strange future cards that share a basic land type, are not lands.
38:23, Windread Angel is even more broker than you realize. Not only does it bring back every creature from your graveyard to the battlefield every time anyone ever summons anything or flickers any monster, but if you carefully read it you can destroy any Target creature with power less than or equal to the number of creatures you control... Not just your own! In other words? When your opponent plays a bear or something, you can bring back every monster you've ever played or discarded AND destroy the creature your opponent just summoned! THIS IS 100% ALL UPSIDE!
worse than that. Windread angel returns all those creatures from the graveyard to the battlefield. that means all those creatures just entered the battlefield. Which means each of them triggers windread angel.... Your opponent plays a bear, and you wipe their board if there were more creatures in your graveyard than they have in play. Even if the errata ruling clarified that the "if you do" means "if at least one creature was returned this way" if you have a creature with a sac ability, you can throw that on the stack, it will resolve before the latest windread, be there for windread to return, then be sacked again when windread triggering from it entering the battlefield is on the stack and so on.
There is a big downside though. The destroy ability doesn't say "may". So if an opponent plays a creature and its the only creature they have, you will have to kill your own stuff if you have more then one creature in the graveyard
If the first ability reads 'Deals damage to half the loyalty counters on Lava... Rounded up, the card is neat.' No ultimate on the planeswalker, but option to tick up and tick down every turn
The Teacher works fine. The White was adding the counter. The Black was removing tge counter for an effect. The Red was the damage. But yeah. Too powerful.
35:54 There is a typo on this card: intelligence wanted to write "permanently", not "permanent". So this card allows you to sent your opponent to his home and forbid him to play magic forever, provided your opponent is a human, not another unknown creature that loves magic. And "it's a spell" allows your opponent to counter this ability easier than usually because spells are easier to counter than abilities.
Chaos Lord is interesting because it doesn't say that you put your hands back in the library when you put your permanents back so you get life totals, plus seven cards, plus all the cards in your hand from before
The funny thing about Windread Angel is that it will trigger for each time, and you can target yourself. So once you run out of opponent creature targets to destroy, you have to target your own creatures since it does not say "may"
One comment about "affinity for untapped lands". According to earliest magic rules, you need to tap lands to get mana and then cast a spell. In online versions it is done automatically or you can tap lands after declaring the spell to cast, but land tapping is done earlier than the spell is cast. We can check it if you have for example some cards like: "this card costs 1 less for each Mountain you control" (for example mountain - and card type is not an instant) and you have Mountain with enchantment on it "whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana - destroy it". Then when you tap this Mountain for mana it should be destroyed and do not count as a Mountain you have. And it should be done and resolve BEFORE you will cast that spell. Unless that spell is an instant - then you can cast it in response to enchantment ability that triggers after you have tapped your Mountain.
"look at" could be an interesting mechanic. like a card could have "if this card was looked at this turn it cant attack" then you would need other cards to activate a cards ability. "look at" might need to be changed to "observe" or something to keep from being confusing tho.
Looking at a creature is already a defined mechanic in Magic. The card Aven Soulgazer has the ability "2W: Look at target face-down creature". So presumably, the ability "1GG: Look at target creature" would let you see what the target really is if it's face-down, and would do nothing if it's face-up.
@@olvynchuru1663 thats not the mechanic "look at/observe" that im talking about. im talking about creating a different ability with the key word "look at/observe"
For Chaos Lord I didn’t hear you mention, it is just cards in play that get shuffled into the library. Cards in hand remain. So you could cast this before the opponent’s discard phase, let’s say they had 6 cards in hand, they draw up to 13 but then have to discard to 7. Whereas you keep whatever is in your hand plus the 7 you draw. Also would allow a certain amount of resource hoarding, like keeping a really good creature in hand that will be tough for the opponent to deal with.
I think Veinmash Sliver doesn't just blink humans or exile them, it puts them on the stack for 1 blue mana xD Triggers ETBs, dodges targetting, but opens it up to counterspells and Obeka-like effects. Nice mechanic, thx, AI. :)
Literal tears streaming down my face right now. Pretty sure I burst a blood vessel in my forehead. Haven’t laughed this hard in ages. Great content, man.
No one knew that Chaos Lord is already a red cad from Ice Age? And the Merfolk Master didn't know that Vodalian is a reference to Vodalia, a merfolk kingdom on Dominaria? Either way, very fun conversation today :)
I once typed (and sadly did not safe the image) Garruk Wildcreeper. The AI mad him a 4/2 for 3 green, and he created a 3/3 elephant token whenever he enters or leaves the battlefield. Also the AI made him common ^^
A decent mechanic actually would be to buff a creatures power and toughness in your graveyard. Then have pay offs like casting a spell that reads draw two cards, if you have a creature card with power or thoughtless five or greater in your graveyard draw three cards instead. Fun mechanic
Actually, I like the idea of first card, but it's more fitting for blue. Manifest future 2U, sorcery Shuffle targets opponents library, then that player reveals cards until he or she reveals a creature card. Put that card on the battlefield under your control, then that player puts revealed cards to the botto of his or her library in random order
Foreboding Liter looks like if the artist misread "Foreboding Litter" and drew a 2L bottle, then the card name was comically changed to "Liter" to fit.
The one of the first cards to create a token creature, Bottle of Suleiman, makes a 5/5 Djinn. I remember having a lot of fun with this one back in the 90s, since the way it's written you could activate it any number of times as long as you pay 1. Much more interesting card that way than how Oracle has it now. I also think when someone was mentioning "it doesn't say hand" on Chaos Lord, the emphasis was that you keep what's already in your hand. So you could float a bunch of mana, wipe the board, then cast the stuff you already had in hand.
In regards to shuffling your graveyard into your library, elixir of immortality does the same thing but is an artifact that only costs 1 to cast 2 to activate.
Pyrothiccan Teacher: Make its bolt into a once-per-turn thing, increase its cost. Sporton of War: If a blank cost is seen as a cost of 0, give it a cost of 99 colourless, to reinforce that it has to be cheated into play. Maybe reduce its power and toughness to an even 20/25. Maybe also add restrictions on how it can be cheated in, or maybe make it unable to be the target of spells or abilities from your side of the field (so it could still be targetted by the opponent, but you can't do something like give it trample.) Ghostly Pride might only let you look at a card, but it's about the *pride* of it. "Yeah, I have 1GG just lying around for my 4B 3/3 Dwarf. Get fucked." Presumably that sort of pride gets you turned into a ghost, but I digress. Wings of Festivity gives a creature in your graveyard the ability to gain +7/+7, but they'd have to return to the battlefield to make use of it. You'd also have to untap them if you want to attack with them. If the 'switch power' thing was removed it would be reasonable, imo.
Pyrrothican Teacher would probably flop pretty hard against most decks Mana cost requires a really strong land base, it's not in green so you won't have any ramp cards that can help with fixing. Play it on turn 3? Dies to bolt Play it on turn 4 with a land in hand? Very slow play, dies to murder or other destroy cards. If it sticks? You need land drops to keep things rolling, which could prove difficult when you're not playing green or blue. Pretty sweet card though!
I love the Reaping of the Temple. Because it's so easy to turn one Swamp, Dark Ritual, Buried Ruins. Now turn 2 you have your 3 best creatures to target in your grave for it
40:32 this card is absolutely broken. the reanimates trigger the same effect again, and no matter how many creatures you reanimate again, you are forced to blow a creature up, meaning you end in a forced infinite loop of blowing your creature up and reanimating it again.
Incorrect. Though I'm a Yu-Gi-Oh player with no experience in MtG, I do know that the target of the destruction effect of this card does not need to be your own creature. I won't claim that I know how the order works, but it reads to me as the monsters return first, then the destruction occurs, meaning that if you targetted your own creature, it is sent to the graveyard after everything has been reanimated.
15:20 This card totally had me right up until the last WORD! Lifelink was a little weird for blue, but I was here for it, then I saw the word hand and almost died laughing.
What I love about Foreboding Liter is that WOTC printing it would send all the Lore channels off looking for what piece of very niche real world mythology they're referencing.
Having a basic land type requires land, having for example island changes how the card works, any island taps for U and so I think because island grants a mana ability, likewise you need the land super type.
Morjiver giant would be easier to cast than chat thought. There are 2 ways to cast spells, normally a player will tap mana and then announce a spell is being cast, but you can also announce the spell before casting it. (This is why you can attempt to cast panglacial wurm while searching your deck, then tap a salvala to pay for it, come up short, etc etc. and cause an illegal game state.) So if you announce that you’re casting Morjiver giant, it’s affinity will determine its mana cost before you tap any lands. Then you pay for the remainder (so turn 3 without ramp, a lot sooner with ramp) Announcing a spell before tapping for mana is really niche (there’s almost never a time that it makes a difference) and people don’t realize you can actually do so, so I feel it’s worth mentioning.
technically, announcing the casting of a spell always comes before paying for it. If you tap lands before, you are just floating a bunch of mana, and the mana only gets spent after announcing the cast. This is easy to see playing mtgo. also, the entire process of casting panglacial wurm happens during the "search your library" portion of whatever effect you are currently resolving. This includes announcing the cast as well as paying the cost. There is no "illegal game state" involved if you can't pay the cost, it just doesn't get cast in the first place. At most, you reveal to your opponent(s) that there is at least one panglacial wurm in your library.
@@Minizemful I was referring to paper magic, I know most digital formats the more competitive players will auto tap lands, but as far as OTB goes almost everyone taps then casts. Both are completely legal forms of casting and almost never affect the outcome of a game. I intended this post to be informational for new players that are always told “tap your lands and cast your spells” to know that either way is legal for the niche interactions that it matters in. As far as panglacial wurm, the reason it is reverted is because the game is in an illegal state(717.1 failing to cast a spell is an illegal board state) and as far as sevala is concerned you fail to cast PW, you’ve activated a mana ability while you’re searching your library and you drew a card(because selvalas MA also includes drawing). Selvala’s ruling is “if you activated selvalas ability to cast a spell and fail to cast it, you may reverse all other mana abilities that can legally be reverted except for selvalas ability. Also in 717.1 regarding reversing illegal actions “players may not reverse an action that required you to reveal a card from the library…. Causes a card to MOVE from the library other than to the stack”. So at the end of the interaction, thanks to MTGS official judge rulings, everything returns exactly how it was EXCEPT you have a tapped creature (probably more of a con then a pro) and you drew a card (a big pro when you are looking at your library). In tournaments this is illegal and most judges will at most give you 1 warning. Judges will tell you to tap selvala before searching if you’re intent is to cast PW. But in unsanctioned play it is a completely legal sequence of actions even though it’s an intentional abuse of illegal board state rulings.
For Vodalian Revolution all you need to do to balance it is flop the abilities so life gain is under the kicker cost, change the red pip to white, and make it legendary. I would totally build a commander deck out of this.
Just for the record, because I've seen this come up in several of these AI generated cards: 400.3. If an object would go to any library, graveyard, or hand other than its owner's, it goes to its owner's corresponding zone. so, for example, Sultai Elder does not function as printed. You would search for the land, then try to put it into their hand, but per rule 400.3, it would go to your hand instead.
4:40 IIRC, there are 3 vanilla Slivers, all artifact creatures: a 1/1 for 1, a 2/2 for 3, and a 3/3 for 5. I don’t remember what order they were released in, other than the last one was is Time Spiral.
As an additional means to balance Joyen of Power ontop of what was mentioned in the video, perhaps it's casting cost should be Suspend 4 - (0) instead. This would give opponents time to prepare if they would have said cards to do so, like deck shuffles, Leyline of Sanctity/Ivory Mask/Witchbane Orb/Imperial Mask, etc.
Angel of Chains just creates tokens of cards with that name. "Phrexian Imp Mountain And Warrior" is the token's name. Veinmash Sliver doesn't say where that human leaves the battlefield to go. Maybe it goes in the library, the hand, the graveyard, the exile of any player. It just leaves the battlefield.
Maybe a slapper would be a type of card that involves a physical/dexterity challenge, with the most common and thus the type-namer involving slapping...a card...? Slapper as a keyword/effect type where you slap the card (and maybe your opponent has a chance to slap the card first to counter or steal the effect) to get the effect. So Lava synergizes with decks that turn Magic into a contact sport
Lava, Great's Call is hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣 But, I would love to see something like it. Loyalty and tap abilities. Are "secrect" spells (yes that's how it is spelled on the card) ones which have been scryed or otherwise put on top of your library? That would be amazing, but Ley would have to be a costly mechanic to balance it.
Chaos Lord - I don't think Nikachu caught that you shuffle only your permanent into your library then draw an additional seven on top of your existing hand.
24:12 for Chox while i agree that X being the mana value of the damage source makes most design sense, there is no actual mention of that on the card as written, so you'd have to go with the mana value of players which is 0
Are we sure affinity for untapped lands works like that? Because my understanding for casting spells is that you you tap the lands first, then you use that floating mana to cast the spell.
Chaos Lord includes the graveyard, but does no include instants and or sorceries (so its not infinite) but if you run only instants and sorceries and then Chaos Lord and Thoracle, you can win like that (in a very slow, Thoracle control way)
That planeswalker's accomplife (accomplice?) Is super flavorful. Planeswalker brings in creatures from other planes all the time like garruk's harbinger or Chandra's incinerator. Should be a sorcery tho
you could be taking notes of the AI cards that have been approved, so that at some point in the future you can reveal how the AI full set is coming along
No, the Aether vial cannot be used for the Sporton does not have a Mana Value. But.....a Dark Ritual in the first round, then use the mana to cast Entomb and after you put Sporton of War into the graveyard you use the remaining mana to cast Exhume and there you go :)
Escape sound like it would be a regenerate-esque effect. Like, something has the ability pay 2 colorless, target creature escapes. Where escaping is maybe... a creature that was declared as an attacker counts as no longer being an attacker?
36:09 Rules lawyer alert! If the permanent becomes a spell, the spell would go on to the stack and would resolve (or be countered) normally. It's more of a blink effect.
21:47 I think the answer to this question is that it's one "abomination" of a colorless token creature with 4 creature types. I thought it would be able to tap for red mana, but according to the token that is just below it, that does not appear to be the case. Mountain is just another creature type.
Wings of Festivity gives a card in the graveyard the ability that when it's tapped it gains +7/+7 until end of turn so can reanimate it after keeps ability
Shocked that no one is pointing out that "Chaos Lord" is not "... permanents they *control*..." but rather "...permanents that they *own*..." Go get every permanent from every deck you've constructed and shuffle it into your library real quick. No problems there.
Idea for windread angel: after you bring all your creatures back, deal x damage to the creatures u brought back, where x is the number of creatures you control.
I like that idea of the joyen of power but it should make you lose 3 life for each card revealed that way so you would only cheat platinum emperor into play
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Chox prevents damage form cards that have x mana that do x damage.
I laughed at “Reaping the Temple of Nefaties in Panic.”. Everything about it: the stupid name, with a period, the color pie break, the both scuffed and busted rulestext, and the terrible balance between the two options. Honestly, it’s a beautiful and perfect card. Take noes Wizards, take note…
The second mode isn't supposed to be balanced, it's supposed to enable the card to be a counter for itself in the mirror
@@monomanamaniac which just makes it stupider and I love it.
It drops perfectly onto an Isochron Scepter....
the flavor too😂
I think it's a YGO name.
29:40 Regarding Sultai Elder, the lands will actually go to your own hand regardless of the strange wording due how rule 400.3 works.
"400.3. If an object would go to any library, graveyard, or hand other than its owner’s, it goes to its owner’s corresponding zone."
what a tricky way of getting the land to our hand. Rule 400.3 should be the flavor text.
Sultai Elder should read
"they search THEIR library for a basic land and put it into play under your control tapped."
Now it works. It's slightly balanced (they thin their deck, you get the ramp).
@@NikachuMTGLive do you mean the reminder text? Otherwise that would be a very AI think to do.
Wouldn't this be a case of the specific trumping the general? 400.3 applies generally, but Sultai Elder looks like a specific exception to me.
I love how that rule completely shuts of "X" . He has "BU, Tap: Put X into target opponent's hand."
Ghostly Pride has to be the best card printed in this set. It's been Incredibly difficult to play Magic when I have no cards that give me the ability to look at creatures. Biggest addition to the game since Gitaxian Probe was printed, though I have been having to use Clairvoyance again ever since Gitaxian Probe was banned to target myself and look at my hand.
You are absolutely correct about Affinity. When you cast a spell, you first declare that you're casting the spell, it checks for any increase or reduction in costs, then you pay the mana, so if you had 3 islands in play, and it was 3UU, it would see the 3 untapped islands and it would say it costs 2 blue now to cast, then you tap two islands to pay the UU cost and the spell goes onto the stack. Things like this have shown that despite magic having a huge player base, a LOT of MTG players have no clue how the game actually plays and just play based off of assumptions instead of learning the official rules, which I understand to a degree because magic does have a metric ton of rules to learn and it can be very overwhelming for newer players.
Notably, it works with jeweled lotus on turn 1 too with an untapped island.
The only way Chox could ever actually escape and get its counter is to use something like Underworld Breach and give it escape in the graveyard.
Regarding temple of nefadies, you can target instants and sorceries. However, there are rules (304.4 and 307.4) that if an instant or sorcery tries to enter the battlefield, it stays in its current zone instead.
‘Foreboding Liter’ has one of the most kickass lines in its flavour text. “We are rest for your ancestors” should be on a card.
So with Joyen of Power you could target your opponent and you still get the creature considering it says "That player puts that card onto the battlefield under your control."
I really liked how Vodalian Revolution had a bunch of abilities that weren't really broken (I'm sad that the majority of people voted to "shred it"), and "each opponent" isn't exclusive to just Commander. I already know of regular cards like Sizzle (which deals 3 damage to each opponent).
It's a shame Veinmash Sliver isn't actually a sliver itself. Also, I interpret "It's a spell" as meaning the human permanent goes onto to the stack, and thus could be targeted with things like Counterspell. Then, if nothing counters it, it gets put back onto the battlefield as if it was just cast, and can trigger enter-the-battlefield abilities again.
Oh, and I don't know if you picked up on the fact that Chaos Lord did not say to shuffle your hand into your library, despite multiple people in the chat saying so. This means, if you have other cards in your hand, they stay there, and you add your 7 drawn cards to them, which could result in a rather huge hand after you cast Chaos Lord.
also if you float all your mana and cast chaos lord. you now get a chance to get a bunch of stuff on the board. rip oponents
I just liked the idea of the revolution being kicked, and it's bigger the more opponents. flavor win!
Each opponent's society has a revolution, so more revolutionaries for more opponents. It's great!
i don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet as this is an older video, but there is a mystery booster play test card named Swarm of Locus. it shares the land type Locus with two lands. the card reads "[this card] gets +2/+0 for each locus you control" and the lands read "add: C for each locus you control " and "when it enters the battlefield, gain 1 life for each locus you control."
the ruling for Swarm of Locus is basically "creatures types cannot share basic land types, so we'll changes this if this card ever gets printed, but the creature gains the +2/+0 for each locus land and creature you control, but the lands wont count the locus creature when checking their triggered or activated abilities." which would imply that even creature with changeling don't count as beings mountains.
additionally this would imply that if in the future a non-land creature were, if for some reason, to have a land type you would ignore it when other cards search for that land type. so the Phyrexian imp mountain and warrior creature token wont be effected by cards that say "destroy target mountain," "enchant mountain," or "you lose 1 life for each mountain you control"
however if for some reason this token were to gain an ability from a card that says: has "[ability that checks for all mountains]" it would indeed count itself, and would count other non-land tokens that share its not land creature type, mountain in this case. same for any other AI or strange future cards that share a basic land type, are not lands.
10:20 instant and sorceries can't enter the battlefield. If you Manifest an instant or sorcery and then blink it, it will be exiled forever.
38:23, Windread Angel is even more broker than you realize. Not only does it bring back every creature from your graveyard to the battlefield every time anyone ever summons anything or flickers any monster, but if you carefully read it you can destroy any Target creature with power less than or equal to the number of creatures you control... Not just your own!
In other words? When your opponent plays a bear or something, you can bring back every monster you've ever played or discarded AND destroy the creature your opponent just summoned!
THIS IS 100% ALL UPSIDE!
Windread Angel is the equivalent of a Torrential Tribute in Yu-Gi-Oh and yes you're absolutely right for it being powerful.
@@Romeo_of_Romelution it's more like slifer on steroids
worse than that. Windread angel returns all those creatures from the graveyard to the battlefield. that means all those creatures just entered the battlefield. Which means each of them triggers windread angel.... Your opponent plays a bear, and you wipe their board if there were more creatures in your graveyard than they have in play. Even if the errata ruling clarified that the "if you do" means "if at least one creature was returned this way" if you have a creature with a sac ability, you can throw that on the stack, it will resolve before the latest windread, be there for windread to return, then be sacked again when windread triggering from it entering the battlefield is on the stack and so on.
There is a big downside though. The destroy ability doesn't say "may". So if an opponent plays a creature and its the only creature they have, you will have to kill your own stuff if you have more then one creature in the graveyard
Lava, Great's Call seems interesting lore-wise. A living temple, that's gained a Planeswalker spark? Neat stuff.
If the first ability reads 'Deals damage to half the loyalty counters on Lava... Rounded up, the card is neat.' No ultimate on the planeswalker, but option to tick up and tick down every turn
Lore-wise speaking, "Vodalian" is the Merfolk undersea Empire on Dominaria.
Sometimes there are custom/AI designed cards that I wish were real, would be so fun to play with them
Do it anyway if your playgroup accepts it.
"Finally, creatures can have a basic land type."
Never again... Dryad Arbor was a thing
What do you mean "never again?" There was what's her name that made all of your creatures into lands, as well.
@@andrewamann2821 Ashaya
The Teacher works fine. The White was adding the counter. The Black was removing tge counter for an effect. The Red was the damage. But yeah. Too powerful.
It also goes perfectly with the art. Best card overall for me.
These interactive streams we've been having are super fun! Hope we keep doing these
35:54 There is a typo on this card: intelligence wanted to write "permanently", not "permanent". So this card allows you to sent your opponent to his home and forbid him to play magic forever, provided your opponent is a human, not another unknown creature that loves magic. And "it's a spell" allows your opponent to counter this ability easier than usually because spells are easier to counter than abilities.
AI makes cards exile human players so they can play each other
GO TO YOUR ROOMS.
Chaos Lord is interesting because it doesn't say that you put your hands back in the library when you put your permanents back so you get life totals, plus seven cards, plus all the cards in your hand from before
And cards stay in your graveyard too
The funny thing about Windread Angel is that it will trigger for each time, and you can target yourself. So once you run out of opponent creature targets to destroy, you have to target your own creatures since it does not say "may"
One comment about "affinity for untapped lands".
According to earliest magic rules, you need to tap lands to get mana and then cast a spell.
In online versions it is done automatically or you can tap lands after declaring the spell to cast, but land tapping is done earlier than the spell is cast.
We can check it if you have for example some cards like:
"this card costs 1 less for each Mountain you control" (for example mountain - and card type is not an instant)
and you have Mountain with enchantment on it "whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana - destroy it".
Then when you tap this Mountain for mana it should be destroyed and do not count as a Mountain you have. And it should be done and resolve BEFORE you will cast that spell. Unless that spell is an instant - then you can cast it in response to enchantment ability that triggers after you have tapped your Mountain.
"look at" could be an interesting mechanic. like a card could have "if this card was looked at this turn it cant attack" then you would need other cards to activate a cards ability. "look at" might need to be changed to "observe" or something to keep from being confusing tho.
like a beholder, cards being looked at cant activate abilities
Looking at a creature is already a defined mechanic in Magic. The card Aven Soulgazer has the ability "2W: Look at target face-down creature". So presumably, the ability "1GG: Look at target creature" would let you see what the target really is if it's face-down, and would do nothing if it's face-up.
@@olvynchuru1663 thats not the mechanic "look at/observe" that im talking about. im talking about creating a different ability with the key word "look at/observe"
For Chaos Lord I didn’t hear you mention, it is just cards in play that get shuffled into the library.
Cards in hand remain.
So you could cast this before the opponent’s discard phase, let’s say they had 6 cards in hand, they draw up to 13 but then have to discard to 7.
Whereas you keep whatever is in your hand plus the 7 you draw.
Also would allow a certain amount of resource hoarding, like keeping a really good creature in hand that will be tough for the opponent to deal with.
I think Veinmash Sliver doesn't just blink humans or exile them, it puts them on the stack for 1 blue mana xD
Triggers ETBs, dodges targetting, but opens it up to counterspells and Obeka-like effects. Nice mechanic, thx, AI. :)
Was looking for this comment. Putting a permanent on the stack is such a fun idea.
Seems that AI is calculating the power level projection very well.
Regarding sporton of war, i think having cards with no mana cost that can only be cast via cascade or etc would be a really interesting concept
Literal tears streaming down my face right now. Pretty sure I burst a blood vessel in my forehead. Haven’t laughed this hard in ages. Great content, man.
you're welcome!
Chaos lord would add another hour to our commander matches. My friends and I don’t have that time.
No one knew that Chaos Lord is already a red cad from Ice Age? And the Merfolk Master didn't know that Vodalian is a reference to Vodalia, a merfolk kingdom on Dominaria? Either way, very fun conversation today :)
I once typed (and sadly did not safe the image) Garruk Wildcreeper. The AI mad him a 4/2 for 3 green, and he created a 3/3 elephant token whenever he enters or leaves the battlefield.
Also the AI made him common ^^
I started laughing and didn’t stop until you figured out “liter”
A decent mechanic actually would be to buff a creatures power and toughness in your graveyard. Then have pay offs like casting a spell that reads draw two cards, if you have a creature card with power or thoughtless five or greater in your graveyard draw three cards instead. Fun mechanic
Actually, I like the idea of first card, but it's more fitting for blue.
Manifest future
2U, sorcery
Shuffle targets opponents library, then that player reveals cards until he or she reveals a creature card. Put that card on the battlefield under your control, then that player puts revealed cards to the botto of his or her library in random order
"Angel of Chains is definitely a dragon." -- Rose Markwater
The Foreboding Liter is actually a cute pun, considering the old pink elephant saw involving drunkenness.
Foreboding Liter looks like if the artist misread "Foreboding Litter" and drew a 2L bottle, then the card name was comically changed to "Liter" to fit.
The one of the first cards to create a token creature, Bottle of Suleiman, makes a 5/5 Djinn.
I remember having a lot of fun with this one back in the 90s, since the way it's written you could activate it any number of times as long as you pay 1. Much more interesting card that way than how Oracle has it now.
I also think when someone was mentioning "it doesn't say hand" on Chaos Lord, the emphasis was that you keep what's already in your hand. So you could float a bunch of mana, wipe the board, then cast the stuff you already had in hand.
In regards to shuffling your graveyard into your library, elixir of immortality does the same thing but is an artifact that only costs 1 to cast 2 to activate.
Pyrothiccan Teacher: Make its bolt into a once-per-turn thing, increase its cost.
Sporton of War: If a blank cost is seen as a cost of 0, give it a cost of 99 colourless, to reinforce that it has to be cheated into play. Maybe reduce its power and toughness to an even 20/25. Maybe also add restrictions on how it can be cheated in, or maybe make it unable to be the target of spells or abilities from your side of the field (so it could still be targetted by the opponent, but you can't do something like give it trample.)
Ghostly Pride might only let you look at a card, but it's about the *pride* of it. "Yeah, I have 1GG just lying around for my 4B 3/3
Dwarf. Get fucked." Presumably that sort of pride gets you turned into a ghost, but I digress.
Wings of Festivity gives a creature in your graveyard the ability to gain +7/+7, but they'd have to return to the battlefield to make
use of it. You'd also have to untap them if you want to attack with them. If the 'switch power' thing was removed it would be
reasonable, imo.
Foreboding Liter is literally just an MTG/Mountain Dew crossover card. You open the cap and mountain dew elephants come pouring out
Pyrrothican Teacher would probably flop pretty hard against most decks
Mana cost requires a really strong land base, it's not in green so you won't have any ramp cards that can help with fixing.
Play it on turn 3? Dies to bolt
Play it on turn 4 with a land in hand? Very slow play, dies to murder or other destroy cards.
If it sticks? You need land drops to keep things rolling, which could prove difficult when you're not playing green or blue.
Pretty sweet card though!
dies to removal has never been a real issue
Also "Sporton of war" is the best name for any card ever
I love the Reaping of the Temple. Because it's so easy to turn one Swamp, Dark Ritual, Buried Ruins. Now turn 2 you have your 3 best creatures to target in your grave for it
34:35
Nikachu: Yup this would go infinite!
Doesn’t go infinite
40:32 this card is absolutely broken. the reanimates trigger the same effect again, and no matter how many creatures you reanimate again, you are forced to blow a creature up, meaning you end in a forced infinite loop of blowing your creature up and reanimating it again.
Incorrect. Though I'm a Yu-Gi-Oh player with no experience in MtG, I do know that the target of the destruction effect of this card does not need to be your own creature. I won't claim that I know how the order works, but it reads to me as the monsters return first, then the destruction occurs, meaning that if you targetted your own creature, it is sent to the graveyard after everything has been reanimated.
15:20 This card totally had me right up until the last WORD! Lifelink was a little weird for blue, but I was here for it, then I saw the word hand and almost died laughing.
Ok I laughed at a fair few of these - especially the flavor texts, but "Lava, Greats Call" legit broke my sanity for a few minutes.
What I love about Foreboding Liter is that WOTC printing it would send all the Lore channels off looking for what piece of very niche real world mythology they're referencing.
I absolutely LOST it at Sultai Elder when i realised you give the land to your opponent. What a play
If you announce cast morjiver giant before you tap your lands you can pay for it with lands and still get the affinity
Having a basic land type requires land, having for example island changes how the card works, any island taps for U and so I think because island grants a mana ability, likewise you need the land super type.
39:00 "I am wrigglers." This Gerrard of Zendikar vampire dude sounds like an interesting character. I want to know more about him.
Morjiver giant would be easier to cast than chat thought.
There are 2 ways to cast spells, normally a player will tap mana and then announce a spell is being cast, but you can also announce the spell before casting it. (This is why you can attempt to cast panglacial wurm while searching your deck, then tap a salvala to pay for it, come up short, etc etc. and cause an illegal game state.)
So if you announce that you’re casting Morjiver giant, it’s affinity will determine its mana cost before you tap any lands. Then you pay for the remainder (so turn 3 without ramp, a lot sooner with ramp)
Announcing a spell before tapping for mana is really niche (there’s almost never a time that it makes a difference) and people don’t realize you can actually do so, so I feel it’s worth mentioning.
technically, announcing the casting of a spell always comes before paying for it. If you tap lands before, you are just floating a bunch of mana, and the mana only gets spent after announcing the cast. This is easy to see playing mtgo.
also, the entire process of casting panglacial wurm happens during the "search your library" portion of whatever effect you are currently resolving. This includes announcing the cast as well as paying the cost. There is no "illegal game state" involved if you can't pay the cost, it just doesn't get cast in the first place. At most, you reveal to your opponent(s) that there is at least one panglacial wurm in your library.
@@Minizemful I was referring to paper magic, I know most digital formats the more competitive players will auto tap lands, but as far as OTB goes almost everyone taps then casts. Both are completely legal forms of casting and almost never affect the outcome of a game. I intended this post to be informational for new players that are always told “tap your lands and cast your spells” to know that either way is legal for the niche interactions that it matters in.
As far as panglacial wurm, the reason it is reverted is because the game is in an illegal state(717.1 failing to cast a spell is an illegal board state) and as far as sevala is concerned you fail to cast PW, you’ve activated a mana ability while you’re searching your library and you drew a card(because selvalas MA also includes drawing). Selvala’s ruling is “if you activated selvalas ability to cast a spell and fail to cast it, you may reverse all other mana abilities that can legally be reverted except for selvalas ability. Also in 717.1 regarding reversing illegal actions “players may not reverse an action that required you to reveal a card from the library…. Causes a card to MOVE from the library other than to the stack”. So at the end of the interaction, thanks to MTGS official judge rulings, everything returns exactly how it was EXCEPT you have a tapped creature (probably more of a con then a pro) and you drew a card (a big pro when you are looking at your library). In tournaments this is illegal and most judges will at most give you 1 warning. Judges will tell you to tap selvala before searching if you’re intent is to cast PW. But in unsanctioned play it is a completely legal sequence of actions even though it’s an intentional abuse of illegal board state rulings.
For Vodalian Revolution all you need to do to balance it is flop the abilities so life gain is under the kicker cost, change the red pip to white, and make it legendary.
I would totally build a commander deck out of this.
I love the flavor text on the card Forboding Liter, its like its insinuating that the weatherlight isn't real.
At least it wasn't Gerrard of the Zendikar vampire
Instants can't enter the battlefield. If an instant would enter the battlefield, it remains in its previous zone instead. rule 304.4
Just for the record, because I've seen this come up in several of these AI generated cards:
400.3. If an object would go to any library, graveyard, or hand other than its owner's, it goes to its owner's corresponding zone.
so, for example, Sultai Elder does not function as printed. You would search for the land, then try to put it into their hand, but per rule 400.3, it would go to your hand instead.
4:40 IIRC, there are 3 vanilla Slivers, all artifact creatures: a 1/1 for 1, a 2/2 for 3, and a 3/3 for 5. I don’t remember what order they were released in, other than the last one was is Time Spiral.
OK you got me with "shuffle your graveyard into your hand" XD
As an additional means to balance Joyen of Power ontop of what was mentioned in the video, perhaps it's casting cost should be Suspend 4 - (0) instead. This would give opponents time to prepare if they would have said cards to do so, like deck shuffles, Leyline of Sanctity/Ivory Mask/Witchbane Orb/Imperial Mask, etc.
I would just like to say that I’ve been trying to build an aether vial deck with Asmo so i got really excited at around 44:40
Angel of Chains just creates tokens of cards with that name. "Phrexian Imp Mountain And Warrior" is the token's name.
Veinmash Sliver doesn't say where that human leaves the battlefield to go. Maybe it goes in the library, the hand, the graveyard, the exile of any player. It just leaves the battlefield.
The human sliver says it's a spell. I believe it's effectively recast.
Maybe a slapper would be a type of card that involves a physical/dexterity challenge, with the most common and thus the type-namer involving slapping...a card...? Slapper as a keyword/effect type where you slap the card (and maybe your opponent has a chance to slap the card first to counter or steal the effect) to get the effect. So Lava synergizes with decks that turn Magic into a contact sport
Lava, Great's Call is hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣 But, I would love to see something like it. Loyalty and tap abilities. Are "secrect" spells (yes that's how it is spelled on the card) ones which have been scryed or otherwise put on top of your library? That would be amazing, but Ley would have to be a costly mechanic to balance it.
16:00 Now this is the card that would be released in the same set as the Mortal Invocation from the other video! Super op lol
Chaos Lord - I don't think Nikachu caught that you shuffle only your permanent into your library then draw an additional seven on top of your existing hand.
24:12 for Chox while i agree that X being the mana value of the damage source makes most design sense, there is no actual mention of that on the card as written, so you'd have to go with the mana value of players which is 0
The fact that chaos lord doesn't shuffle back players' hands and he glossed over that despite his chat BEGGING him to notice lol
Are we sure affinity for untapped lands works like that? Because my understanding for casting spells is that you you tap the lands first, then you use that floating mana to cast the spell.
Angel of Chains with a Artifact Storm type of deck and a Valakut as your wincon. Looks great.
I love the flavour of Foreboding Liter: A giant bottle of mountain dew that attracts elephants
If your opponents don't have creatures, Windread angel literally breaks the game with an infinite loop that you can't stop.
Which makes the game a draw
Chaos Lord includes the graveyard, but does no include instants and or sorceries (so its not infinite) but if you run only instants and sorceries and then Chaos Lord and Thoracle, you can win like that (in a very slow, Thoracle control way)
Could you potentially link some of the AI sights used to create these cards?
Maybe I’m missing something, but if I’m not, this would be SUPER helpful!
That planeswalker's accomplife (accomplice?) Is super flavorful. Planeswalker brings in creatures from other planes all the time like garruk's harbinger or Chandra's incinerator. Should be a sorcery tho
you could be taking notes of the AI cards that have been approved, so that at some point in the future you can reveal how the AI full set is coming along
No, the Aether vial cannot be used for the Sporton does not have a Mana Value. But.....a Dark Ritual in the first round, then use the mana to cast Entomb and after you put Sporton of War into the graveyard you use the remaining mana to cast Exhume and there you go :)
My favorite part of the aether vial, sporton of War combo is sporting replaces the two cards when it enters. Just on case.
Turn 1 mountain vial
Turn two mountain vial in sporton fling
Escape sound like it would be a regenerate-esque effect. Like, something has the ability pay 2 colorless, target creature escapes. Where escaping is maybe... a creature that was declared as an attacker counts as no longer being an attacker?
36:09 Rules lawyer alert! If the permanent becomes a spell, the spell would go on to the stack and would resolve (or be countered) normally. It's more of a blink effect.
40:30 lmaoo that's godlike flavour right there
The Hyalop is making us ask the big questions, like "What is the mana value of a man"?
21:47 I think the answer to this question is that it's one "abomination" of a colorless token creature with 4 creature types. I thought it would be able to tap for red mana, but according to the token that is just below it, that does not appear to be the case. Mountain is just another creature type.
Some of these cards are so cool you could make a whole new card game with these ideas.
34:46 that wouldn’t go infinite. It’s not combat damage
Ghostly Pride's art was amazing. I want to be haunted by a dwarf pilot.
29:49
The entirety of Nikachu MTG in one sentance
Wings of Festivity gives a card in the graveyard the ability that when it's tapped it gains +7/+7 until end of turn so can reanimate it after keeps ability
That last one could do any of the 5 SNC creatures that exile themselves from your hand to make a land into a triome. They can all be cast from exile.
Ability of Sultai Elder is very often just a shuffle, because you can elect not to find.
Shocked that no one is pointing out that "Chaos Lord" is not "... permanents they *control*..." but rather "...permanents that they *own*..." Go get every permanent from every deck you've constructed and shuffle it into your library real quick. No problems there.
I literally haven’t laughed this much in I don’t know how long
Idea for windread angel: after you bring all your creatures back, deal x damage to the creatures u brought back, where x is the number of creatures you control.
Who knew that spirits comes in a bottle
And it’s a full liter of spirits
I like that idea of the joyen of power but it should make you lose 3 life for each card revealed that way so you would only cheat platinum emperor into play
Does the super odd veinmash sliver cause you to cast that human permanent you converted into a spell? It really doesn't specify
you should try using Urza's AI and maybe even try community suggestions