Considering it's not legal in tournaments, not adding it fits based on the criteria laid out for the list. It probably should have been mentioned just to say it doesn't qualify though.
Once and future is so underrated. The ability is just as strong, its just more build around. Its a colorless sunforger esc effect from you GY. Do I think it should make the top 5? probably not no, but its clearly slept on. Not as splashable with a clear build around requirement is what makes it low and unplayed.
I am consistently impressed how he is able to pronounce most of the fantasy words decently well, and his ability to read a script in a natural voice with good flow is incredible (I can see why he makes a living partially by reading scripts), it consistently impresses and disturbs me to see how badly he stumbles over actual, normal words and their pronunciation.
@@brandonguffey5959 you mispronounce things on purpose and you get a ton of comments which then makes TH-cam think the video is more popular than it actually it is actually quite smart
"This Sword, which is an equipment, which require creatures to equip to, is really held back in its capabilities by requiring a creature to equip it to." lol
Maybe Top 10 Best/Worst Guild Mechanics? With three trips to Ravnica that makes for a total of 30 mechanics so there should be enough for one if not two lists.
Not sure why it's mentioned that you need a creature to equip the sword of x and y as a downside in ranking of 10 equipment that all require creatures...
Truth and Justice is pretty much mandatory in any infect deck in commander. The +1/+1 doesn't really matter that much, though it is nice. You really take it to add an extra poison counter on every opponent. Equip it on Atraxa and she's immune to getting hit by Swords to Plowshares (the single most common removal spell) and you can get two proliferation triggers out of her every turn.
Yeah, but that still makes it less generically good and requires a board state for a 5 drop to be worthwhile. Doesn't mean it's bad in the deck, but not the strongest
When the Final Fantasy set comes out there is a 99.99% chance they'll make a Gilgamesh legendary creature who will make the perfect commander for such a deck.
There's already several good Commander options for a deck like that. Godo, Bandit Warlord: Ignore the near infinite with Helm of the Host which has a similar result as an after thought, and go grab Sword of Hearth and Home to start flickering Godo and grabbing more swords. Rafiq of the Many: Easy Double Strike to double up on triggers from swords, and access to white which has a lot of equipment synergy cards like Sigarda's Aid or search effects like Steelshaper's Gift. You also get access to additional combat control cards like Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist, so you don't need to worry about being overrun. Galea, Kindler of Hope: same colors as Rafiq, but instead of being inherently good at wielding swords, Galea can help you find them and attach them by playing them directly from the top of your library. Kellan, the Fae-Blooded: Comes with an equipment tutor, has Double Strike, and is in both colors that care about equipment. You get access to almost all the equipment tutors and things like Fighter Class to also help reduce the cost of equipping everything. And this is only a few of the great options available that directly care about equipment. For example, Diaochan, Artful Beauty is a silly option that really only cares about the Protection from Red swords so she can't blow herself up, but can help buy you time to get all the swords.
@lordjaraxxus5418 Actually, there is Sword of Wealth and Power. It came out in Outlaws of Thunder Junction. 3 mana, 2 equip, protection from instants and Sorceries. When equipped creature deals combat damage, copy the next spell played, and create a Treasure token.
The only thing Silver-bordered about Sword of Dungeons & Dragons these days is the fact it makes a gold-colored dragon. Personally, I’d Rule 0 it as a dragon that’s all colors.
If there are more options suitable for the list but not able to make it, an honorable mentions would be pretty great to explain what went there and why
I disagree with some of the list. 1. The colours the swords give protection from matter a lot. For example, pro red and black tend to be better than blue and green. 2. You treated mays as musts, which isn't great. Hearth and Home for example can just be ramp. 3. You over rated format availability. The modern horizons swords are better than once and future, by a wide margin.
You call Sword of Body and Mind the weakest of the original cycle, but it wasn't part of the original cycle. Darksteel only had two swords and Body and Mind wasn't one of them. It was Fire and Ice + Light and Shadow in Darksteel. Dunno when Body and Mind was added, I think maybe return to Mirrodin or something. I had temporarily stopped playing magic around then.
Body and Mind was in Scars of Mirrodin, Feast and Famine was Mirrodin Beseiged, and War and Peace was New Phyrexia. So those three were the “completion” of the OG set of the enemy pair swords in the SoM Block.
I assume this is a joke, but not everything is a cycle. To people who don't know, Pestilence/Pyrohemia is a colorshift. It's a card made for one color that also mechanically works in another color and gets a near identical card for that color. Some other examples include Wrath of God/Damnation, Elvish Spirit Guide/Simian Spirit Guide, and Serra Angel/Serra Sphinx.
Sword of Once and Future goes insane in my Zada commander deck. Pro B/U is really good and the combat trigger is a.) really easy to deliver if I have a trample enabler and b.) able to take amazing advantage of the vast majority of spells in that deck.
once and future is the only sword I own, and I was so hyped when I pulled it, except it's currently worth less than $2 and all the other swords are at $7-$40 :(
The protecrions arent "universally good" theres a stringent heriarchy first being colors with good creature removal then colors with good artifact removal being the order White=black> Red=green> Blue Swords with protections considered definitely changes the dynamic
It was revealed that an 11th sword would be coming out of Thunder Junction. Don’t remember the name, but instead of giving protection from 2 colors, it gives protection from instants and sorceries, and the usual +2/+2.
I have had some decent success with sort of hearth and home in Mono white Angels as well as ranar ever watchful. it helps in both decks a lot, but I wouldn’t say it’s a must have. You definitely something big with evasion which both decks have
Sword of body and mind is also just good in any token army style deck, though I agree that it's bad against graveyard decks. However, I will say that unless your opponent has a resurrection based commander, the milling can still cause them to just lose the draws they needed for graveyard access, which is always fun
I'm struggling with the fact that I kinda want to take all of the swords of x and y out of my Galea Kindler of Hope deck because they make colored equipment fall off
Feast and famine is stronger than fire and ice and you can't change my mind. On opponent with an empty hand and doubling your mana is absolutely insane.
A niche but fun use for Hearth and Home is that you are able to blink target creature you OWN, rather than control. This means if one of your creatures has been stolen by an opponent, you can use this ability to return them to your control. Essentially "finding their way home".
Using Olivia Voldaren is probably one of the worst examples of a mana sink as she is a mana sink in commander only. Since you were ranking these based on the other formats, you should've used something like a walking Balista or hangerback walker. As those are much better mana sinks that see competitive play in Hardened Scales lists in Modern
The Sword of Once and Future is a sleeper. That thing has done so much more for me than I thought. It has allowed me to play easy tutors from my graveyard for free, whether it be a nature’s lore, farseek or just a good generic tutor, plus pro black and blue is really good
I only disagree w/ the placements of Light & Shadow and of War & Peace. Despite W&P having one of the weaker triggers, I did actually run it in an old version of a Stoneforge deck bc its protection ability was against the most relevant removal colors in modern -- esp before the Fury ban. That said, Light & Shadow and Fire & Ice put more work in pretty much every time. Can't speak to its usefulness in legacy vs Miracles, tho.
Sword of once and future is the worst sword is the worst sword in the cycle as you have to build around it to fully utilize the abilities. Yes the surveil is fine but if thats all your doing then the sword overall is very meh. Forge and frontier is also just ok. Yes you can potentially ramp but if you cant play the 2 cards you exile then you just loose those cards forever. Also maing it #9 for me. Also the best sword of the bunch is Feast and famine. Untapping your lands and making your opponent discard can just be very strong as you ether have you mana to do something precombat or have your mana up for your opponents turn. Personally 10: Sword of once and future 9:Forge and frontier 8:War and peace 7:Truth and Justice 6:Sinew and Steel 5:Light and shadow 4:Body and mind 3:Hearth and home 2:Fire and Ice 1:Feast and famine
Forge and Frontier just requires casting post-combat instead. It's pretty easy to adjust to, and the only thing you have to do to utilize it to the fullest in deck construction is not put instants in the deck, while sticking to sorceries you always want to cast instead of only in niche cases. On average it'll pump out more card advantage than Fire and Ice, and its protection is more relevant due to green just being better to have protection from than blue.
it's unnaceptable that Sword of Dungeons and Dragons was not mentioned AT ALL on this list.
I was waiting for him to say that. Alas, no dice.
@imaginarymatter I see what you did there 😏 😂
Considering it's not legal in tournaments, not adding it fits based on the criteria laid out for the list.
It probably should have been mentioned just to say it doesn't qualify though.
@@connorhamilton5707 A joke card should get a joke place on the list. "And lastly at the 0th place we have Swords of Dungeons and Dragons."
Maybe we can ask if he could add it in…roll for Persuasion.
Once and future is so underrated. The ability is just as strong, its just more build around. Its a colorless sunforger esc effect from you GY. Do I think it should make the top 5? probably not no, but its clearly slept on. Not as splashable with a clear build around requirement is what makes it low and unplayed.
top 10 cantrips in modern and counterspells in modern
Wealth and power didn’t make it on the list?
I am consistently impressed how he is able to pronounce most of the fantasy words decently well, and his ability to read a script in a natural voice with good flow is incredible (I can see why he makes a living partially by reading scripts), it consistently impresses and disturbs me to see how badly he stumbles over actual, normal words and their pronunciation.
He frequently mispronounces the fantasy names just as often.
It’s to manipulate the TH-cam algorithm
@@untilthewheelsfalloff1751 how does that work?
@@brandonguffey5959 you mispronounce things on purpose and you get a ton of comments which then makes TH-cam think the video is more popular than it actually it is actually quite smart
"This Sword, which is an equipment, which require creatures to equip to, is really held back in its capabilities by requiring a creature to equip it to."
lol
Truth and Justice places the +1/+1 on any creature you control, not limited to the equipped one
On a side note, Truth and Justice let's you target any creature with the counter, not just the equipped one
Maybe Top 10 Best/Worst Guild Mechanics? With three trips to Ravnica that makes for a total of 30 mechanics so there should be enough for one if not two lists.
Actually there are 29. convoke was so nice they did in twice
Dredge would be number 1 on one of those lists. That's for sure.
@@spencersivertson9321 Oh, I didn't know that. Still enough for a list.
@@JohnDoe-df7bl 100% percent
Not sure why it's mentioned that you need a creature to equip the sword of x and y as a downside in ranking of 10 equipment that all require creatures...
Truth and Justice is pretty much mandatory in any infect deck in commander. The +1/+1 doesn't really matter that much, though it is nice. You really take it to add an extra poison counter on every opponent. Equip it on Atraxa and she's immune to getting hit by Swords to Plowshares (the single most common removal spell) and you can get two proliferation triggers out of her every turn.
the counter is also nice with atraxa since you poliferate alot with these decks
Yeah, but that still makes it less generically good and requires a board state for a 5 drop to be worthwhile. Doesn't mean it's bad in the deck, but not the strongest
Shame the video didn't acknowledge the Sword of Dungeons and Dragons.
Correcting: Feast and Famine is, *quite fitting* , a very feast and famine card.
There's a much greedier part of me that wants to field all ten swords.
Eleven.
@@EntropicUsername I don't think the sword of dnd would count unless it is commander.
When the Final Fantasy set comes out there is a 99.99% chance they'll make a Gilgamesh legendary creature who will make the perfect commander for such a deck.
There's already several good Commander options for a deck like that.
Godo, Bandit Warlord: Ignore the near infinite with Helm of the Host which has a similar result as an after thought, and go grab Sword of Hearth and Home to start flickering Godo and grabbing more swords.
Rafiq of the Many: Easy Double Strike to double up on triggers from swords, and access to white which has a lot of equipment synergy cards like Sigarda's Aid or search effects like Steelshaper's Gift. You also get access to additional combat control cards like Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist, so you don't need to worry about being overrun.
Galea, Kindler of Hope: same colors as Rafiq, but instead of being inherently good at wielding swords, Galea can help you find them and attach them by playing them directly from the top of your library.
Kellan, the Fae-Blooded: Comes with an equipment tutor, has Double Strike, and is in both colors that care about equipment. You get access to almost all the equipment tutors and things like Fighter Class to also help reduce the cost of equipping everything.
And this is only a few of the great options available that directly care about equipment. For example, Diaochan, Artful Beauty is a silly option that really only cares about the Protection from Red swords so she can't blow herself up, but can help buy you time to get all the swords.
@lordjaraxxus5418
Actually, there is Sword of Wealth and Power.
It came out in Outlaws of Thunder Junction.
3 mana, 2 equip, protection from instants and Sorceries.
When equipped creature deals combat damage, copy the next spell played, and create a Treasure token.
The only thing Silver-bordered about Sword of Dungeons & Dragons these days is the fact it makes a gold-colored dragon. Personally, I’d Rule 0 it as a dragon that’s all colors.
Gold tokens from Theros produce any color of mana so this gold dragon being all colors checks out
Ah, the Sword of Sinoo and Steel. Underrated for sure.
If there are more options suitable for the list but not able to make it, an honorable mentions would be pretty great to explain what went there and why
I mean there's only 11 Swords and 1 of them is an un-card
sword of s'noo n' steel
I disagree with some of the list.
1. The colours the swords give protection from matter a lot. For example, pro red and black tend to be better than blue and green.
2. You treated mays as musts, which isn't great. Hearth and Home for example can just be ramp.
3. You over rated format availability. The modern horizons swords are better than once and future, by a wide margin.
Yea Fury is such a big threat in Modern these days...
Was
You call Sword of Body and Mind the weakest of the original cycle, but it wasn't part of the original cycle.
Darksteel only had two swords and Body and Mind wasn't one of them.
It was Fire and Ice + Light and Shadow in Darksteel.
Dunno when Body and Mind was added, I think maybe return to Mirrodin or something. I had temporarily stopped playing magic around then.
Body and Mind was in Scars of Mirrodin, Feast and Famine was Mirrodin Beseiged, and War and Peace was New Phyrexia. So those three were the “completion” of the OG set of the enemy pair swords in the SoM Block.
Drink everytime you hear cost 3, equip for 2, and give +2/+2
Still waiting for the Pestilence/pyrohemia cycle to be completed...
Still waiting for the Damnation/Wrath of God cycle to be completed...
I assume this is a joke, but not everything is a cycle.
To people who don't know, Pestilence/Pyrohemia is a colorshift. It's a card made for one color that also mechanically works in another color and gets a near identical card for that color. Some other examples include Wrath of God/Damnation, Elvish Spirit Guide/Simian Spirit Guide, and Serra Angel/Serra Sphinx.
No Sword of Dungeons and Dragons? Booooo!
Sword of Once and Future goes insane in my Zada commander deck. Pro B/U is really good and the combat trigger is a.) really easy to deliver if I have a trample enabler and b.) able to take amazing advantage of the vast majority of spells in that deck.
Why is being in modern horizons unusable for standard? Is it too old?
Modern horizons skipped standard entirely. Like its purpose was to put cards in modern, without affecting standard.
Just learned that the original is "Sword of fire and ice" whereas the translation in french is "sword of fire and water". Weird.
It shoots water like a fire hose if you have a French accent.
Pretty good video. What about Top Theros gods next
once and future is the only sword I own, and I was so hyped when I pulled it, except it's currently worth less than $2 and all the other swords are at $7-$40 :(
7:15 THIS IS INSANITY THAT NO ONE REALIZES YOU CAN USE THIS WITH ADVENTURES
Wait... Really?
As a commander player that has a deck that uses ALL OF THE 10 SWORDS...
TOTALLY AGREE WITH THE RANKING
The protecrions arent "universally good" theres a stringent heriarchy first being colors with good creature removal then colors with good artifact removal being the order
White=black>
Red=green>
Blue
Swords with protections considered definitely changes the dynamic
It was revealed that an 11th sword would be coming out of Thunder Junction. Don’t remember the name, but instead of giving protection from 2 colors, it gives protection from instants and sorceries, and the usual +2/+2.
I have had some decent success with sort of hearth and home in Mono white Angels as well as ranar ever watchful. it helps in both decks a lot, but I wouldn’t say it’s a must have. You definitely something big with evasion which both decks have
Sword of body and mind is also just good in any token army style deck, though I agree that it's bad against graveyard decks. However, I will say that unless your opponent has a resurrection based commander, the milling can still cause them to just lose the draws they needed for graveyard access, which is always fun
I'm struggling with the fact that I kinda want to take all of the swords of x and y out of my Galea Kindler of Hope deck because they make colored equipment fall off
Your list is so backwards. War and peace could be 8th or 7th body and mind is definitely 9th truth and justice deserves top 3
I would say while Sinew and Steel has the worst combat trigger, it had the best protection color pairing
Feast and famine is stronger than fire and ice and you can't change my mind. On opponent with an empty hand and doubling your mana is absolutely insane.
Pretty sure with Hearth and Home it’s an Option to Blink a creature, you don’t have too. Plus it will always let you ramp getting more lands out.
Sword of hearth and home at 8 is such an insult, its power in commander is totally worth putting a few spots higher in my opinion
Only one I strongly disagree with is Truth and Justice. It’s top 4 swords
Sword of Body and Mind has won me a lot of games in cube limited since it's a 2 turn clock more often than not in that format.
2:44 that’s wrong, you can put the counter on any creature you control not just the equipped one
How can you make a top 10 of something which there's only 10 wut
Easily. It's a worst to best list.
There is actually 11.
Sword of wealth and power?
Agreed that Sinew and Steel is absolute garbage. Red & Black are the 2 best pro colors from removal, but those abilities are trash
Well no, that'd be white and black. The only reason I need pro-red is so your goblin horde doesn't have the option to hold some blockers back.
Truth and justice is great in infect too.
you now whats gonna be on first.
X&Y you say? 👀
enemy of Sword of Z and W
Up next is the Cycle of "Sword of Sun and Moon"
@@s4ad0wpi followed by the sword of sword and shield-a little redundant if you ask me
@@XYGamingRemedyG just a little
Colored lustrous & brilliant Scarlet/Violet & Teal/Indigo
I'm glad the one "Sword of X and Y" I own happens to be Sword of Fire and Ice, which I acquired way back when Darksteel was the newest set I think.
+2 mace is the best sword.
2:28 so it’s garbage! Great !
A niche but fun use for Hearth and Home is that you are able to blink target creature you OWN, rather than control. This means if one of your creatures has been stolen by an opponent, you can use this ability to return them to your control. Essentially "finding their way home".
F+F always the best.
Using Olivia Voldaren is probably one of the worst examples of a mana sink as she is a mana sink in commander only. Since you were ranking these based on the other formats, you should've used something like a walking Balista or hangerback walker. As those are much better mana sinks that see competitive play in Hardened Scales lists in Modern
Consider equipping them on creatures with Double Strike, such as Fencing Ace (1-cost 1/1 soldier).
The Sword of Once and Future is a sleeper. That thing has done so much more for me than I thought. It has allowed me to play easy tutors from my graveyard for free, whether it be a nature’s lore, farseek or just a good generic tutor, plus pro black and blue is really good
Top 10 Elves
This was good, man. Definitely worthy! All 10 really were better than the one before it. And clearly Fire and Ice is king of the pits
Wait a second!!! You do the wow lore videos too! I knew I recognized your voice
Great, now do the top 10 WORST swords of X and Y. Bet we see a bunch of different cards on that list!
Very interesting group there.
Hope to see Top 10 Legends Retold cards soon.
I only disagree w/ the placements of Light & Shadow and of War & Peace. Despite W&P having one of the weaker triggers, I did actually run it in an old version of a Stoneforge deck bc its protection ability was against the most relevant removal colors in modern -- esp before the Fury ban.
That said, Light & Shadow and Fire & Ice put more work in pretty much every time. Can't speak to its usefulness in legacy vs Miracles, tho.
Hmm, I have always known these cards as "swords of blank and blank"
As a commander player this list was a trip
Light and shadow should have been dawn and dusk
This man can not pronounce any word
It's distractingly bad. The production quality is otherwise very good and his opinions are relevant and popular, but holy shit.
That's a feature, not a bug. It gets people to comment.
Top 10 christmas cards
I still prefer nicknaming O&F to Past & Prophecy.
Amazing!!!!!
In commander Sword of Forge and Frontier is by far the best one. It does the two things players want to do in the format: card draw and ramp.
Feast and Famine effectively gives you an extra turn every combat phase, while also giving you protection from the scariest creatures in the game.
Sword of once and future is the worst sword is the worst sword in the cycle as you have to build around it to fully utilize the abilities. Yes the surveil is fine but if thats all your doing then the sword overall is very meh.
Forge and frontier is also just ok. Yes you can potentially ramp but if you cant play the 2 cards you exile then you just loose those cards forever. Also maing it #9 for me.
Also the best sword of the bunch is Feast and famine. Untapping your lands and making your opponent discard can just be very strong as you ether have you mana to do something precombat or have your mana up for your opponents turn.
Personally
10: Sword of once and future
9:Forge and frontier
8:War and peace
7:Truth and Justice
6:Sinew and Steel
5:Light and shadow
4:Body and mind
3:Hearth and home
2:Fire and Ice
1:Feast and famine
Truth and justice is pretty solid in the right deck. Forge and frontier is pretty good as well. I would put both above sinew and steel easily.
Forge and Frontier just requires casting post-combat instead. It's pretty easy to adjust to, and the only thing you have to do to utilize it to the fullest in deck construction is not put instants in the deck, while sticking to sorceries you always want to cast instead of only in niche cases. On average it'll pump out more card advantage than Fire and Ice, and its protection is more relevant due to green just being better to have protection from than blue.
I won't consider the cycle complete till we get a pro multicolor and colorless sword
That's not really how most cycles work.
@@josephwodarczyk977 yeah but I want it done this way lol