The Most Important Card from Every Year in Magic: the Gathering (MTG)
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- The story of Magic: the Gathering's 30 year history, told by the most important card printed each year from 1993 to 2022.
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0:00 Start
0:13 Black Lotus
1:13 Nicol Bolas
2:00 Cadaverous Bloom
2:27 Vampiric Tutor
2:42 Gaea's Cradle
3:06 Memory Jar
3:34 Rhystic Study
4:05 Entomb
4:27 Fetchlands
4:43 Solemn Simulacrum
5:01 Sword of Fire and Ice
5:18 Shocklands
5:48 Dark Depths
6:13 Garruk Wildspeaker
6:48 Tezzeret the Seeker
7:23 Baneslayer Angel
7:53 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
8:35 Kaalia of the Vast
8:59 Griselbrand
9:33 Tarmogoyf
10:17 Siege Rhino
10:44 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
11:07 Emrakul, the Promised End
11:47 Hazoret the Fervent
13:15 Nexus of Fate
14:07 Oko, Thief of Crowns
15:20 Jeweled Lotus
15:43 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
16:18 Supply Llama 
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"Nicol Bolas is responsible for creating the Reserve List"... Ahh I see his evil deeds truly reach every corner of the multiverse, even reaching our own reality. Truly one of Magic's greatest villain, together with Yagwhmoth and WoTC themselves.
Really it was all of Chronicles that created the Reserved List, Nicol Bolas is just a good example :)
Evil? I LOVE the reserve list! The Professor put out a video last year where he tried to "prove" the reserve list is unnecessary. His examples made no sense. It's a much longer discussion than I can fit in a comment, but he's wrong.
@@thechestrockfield I dont know why you would love the reserve list unless you're a boomer magic player sitting a bunch of reserve list cards, tho I'm interested in hearing a tldr of why you personally like it (not why you think some random youtuber I dont care is wrong).
I dislike it because it made legacy and vintage unplayable for anyone who wasn't playing during the early days of magic. Having pieces of cardboard cost hundreds and thousands of dollars makes no sense to me.
However I understand why it is such a necessary evil, they way it was worded makes WoTC extremely vulnerable to getting a bunch of really expensive lawsuits filled at them if they ever go back on it. I actually saw a video on a lawyers take on it (one that knows about magic history and plays the game) and concluded that the promise does counts as a legally binding contract, and that its very unlikely WoTC goes back on it, because basically anyone with a reserve list card can theoretically sue them for the economic losses.
@@SilverAlex92 and they would lose big time in any court. Even in countries where verbal contracts are legally binding, at the end of the day, they means nothing unless you can provide a neutral witness, and even then they don't hel up oh so well. A written statement from 20 years ago by a different management, not even resembling a contract gives zero ground to stand on. I would like to see those morons try to sue a bank becuase they convinced them to invest in a certain title "because it will grow" and subsequently lost money to it.
If there is some evil in Magic it's the secondary market.
Oh, and boomers don't even know what Magic is, they were ammried with two chilfren and a full time job when the game came out.
@@SilverAlex92 WoTC is an absolutely massive company though that should have no problem fending off random people who sue them with WoTC having an gigantic reserve of money and a full team of lawyers
seth... im pretty sure the basic lands have to beat out black lotus for 1993. i don't think there is a more important card in the game.
Lol true ig
I mean there reprinted every year. Updated list basic land cycle every year......
Well, you could replace each land with black lotuses and it would be better than lands during that time in the day
@@baileynicholson251 in 93, every pack didn't come with a basic land and they weren't basically free in every LGS.
There were decks with no basics... I played some. You played lotus and mox
Great list and video! Think I'd have picked Lurrus over Jeweled Lotus, though.
For sure, it also would’ve been fun to hear him talk about the whole companion situation
wait so everything is commander *stares off to earth
loaded gun pointed at head "always has been"
Yeah, I was really torn on that year. I think the important of Commander is the biggest recent evolution in Magic, and Jeweled Lotus is a good example of that change, but as far as competitive play Lurrus is in a league of its own.
Yeah Lurrus did the impossible and got a power level ban IN VINTAGE. That's remarkable
Weren't people using Jeweled Lotus in non-Commander eternal formats, too?
Memory Jar wasn't responsible for combo winter, in fact it was notable for being banned basically as soon as it became legal. Wizards was scared because combo winter had been going on for months, they had just banned a bunch of cards (like Time Spiral) to try and stop it, and they didn't want Memory Jar to bring it back, so they banned it pre-emptively.
Also Necropotence not being on this list is true insanity :D
Academy caused combo winter for sure.
Agree 100% with Necro, Jar was banned because it won like 6 PTQ's that release weekend
@@marcrivkin3999 Jar was banned before release. Due to the time lag that bans had at the time, it left a single weekend to play the card in tournaments.
@@Dermalol jars emergency ban announcement was the Monday after the set was release. Jar was legal for PTQs that weekend. I drove from Michigan to Pennsylvania sat after the ptq in Detroit.
I agree Necropotence is far more significant than Memory jar or Cadaverous Bloom. But, it was released in 1995 and people only start playing with it some years later making it irrelevant in 1995, and ineligible for 1996-1999.
Honorable mention to Umezawa's Jitte for 2004 slot.
Jitte was in Betrayers of Kamigawa, released in 2005
Would love to see a video about promises WotC has made to the community, and if they've been kept or not.
Also how fast they break said promises like the one on Mythics that was broken in the same year it was made when they printed Lotus Cobra in Zendikar.
@@pixywings7715 Out of curiosity, what promise concerning mythics and lotus cobra did they break ?
@@helylemarie1684 Wizards claimed that mythic cards would not just be the best cards and tournament staples then proceeded to immediately print bankslayer angel in M10 and Lotus Cobra in Zendikar and it was downhill from there. Mythics were supposed to be cool unique effects not just busted stats and tournament staples.
@@pixywings7715 To be fair they’ve had a long-running trend of designing sets several years before their release, so by the time they made that promise, Zendikar was pretty much completely done going through R&D.
@@helylemarie1684 going off what the other commenter said Wizards claimed mythic would be reserved for cards that had high casual appeal or cards that would damage limited, by either being too strong or way too week. The perfect example of a mythic as is was explained by WotC is Maelstrom Nexus. Baneslayer angel you could argue is bad for limited and has casual appeal, but Lotus cobra one set later in zendikar is the perfect opposite. It is competitively costed, has almost no casual appeal as a skill intensive mana dork, and is perfectly fine for limited. Promise broken.
For 2020 I would go for Lurrus. It affected a lot more formats and is representative of the companion mechanic being broken. It banned basically everywhere in paper except Vintage similar to Oko.
I remember at one point it was banned in Vintage due to it being restricted would effectively do nothing
Lurrus shouldve been banned from being your companion, but i don't like that hes just outright banned.
Definitely agree, Lurrus casts a far longer shadow in my mind than Jeweled Lotus - but maybe I'm just underestimating the importance of Commander to MtG as a whole
Or Negan, The Cold Blooded for opening up MTG to external IP, plus selling functionally unique cards direct to players. I would say this is even more significant than a "whoops, we pushed a card or mechanic too hard."
It's not banned in commander (though it's nowhere near as good in the format), but as a second example of why the mechanic was a mistaken mechanic, Lutri was the first and so far only time a card has been banned in the format before the card was even released.
Also even just looking at commander from 2020, since he picked a commander-only card, Fierce Guardianship and Deflecting Swap are both more impactful than the lotus.
95: Brainstorm, 96: Force of Will if you look with hindsight. Bolas and Bloom were certainly relevant for time
Yeah I think this is a great example of what metrics you use to make this list
Yeah the metrics shifted way too much across the video
This!!! A million time this. Fow defines the entire legacy up to this date
Yeah, it was tricky. Overall my goal was to pick cards that were important to the evolution of the game rather than just the most powerful cards each year, but I I can see arguments for things like Brainstorm and FOW for sure.
@@seilaoquemvc2 I tend to agree. I'd say it changed In 2019. But all things considered a methodology or Honorable mentioned would have been helpful. I think blood mood falls into the reverse. Not especially impactful at the time but has significant longevity
Supply llama is a great choice, since it also has something to do with Wizards’ abysmal supply chain!
The pandemic has had major impacts on the supply chain for a lot of companies, not just Wizards. Thew new Digimon card game has been hit by it, for instance.
Well if it keeps fucking _Fortnite_ cards more scarce and away from my LGS, keep those supply issues coming. I don’t like the idea of crossovers in general, but this is the stupidest, most shamelessly pandering one they’ve done yet, and I don’t know if they could top it if they tried.
@@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai don't ask for it, they certainly could! What about publicity in the form of magic cards? (like a well known food chain franchise or drink)
@@fredouellet3160 Ben & Jerry’s tribal? I’m down to clown.
Blood moon in 1994 Seth? are you a little biased? Love you.
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For me, the card of 1995 has to be Necropotence. It dominated the format back then and is still played in some decks today. And for 2004 Arcbound Ravager has to be the card of the year 2004! It defined the whole standard format back then, created a whole deck type, and is still played in Modern decks.
Skullclamp and arcbound ravager seems to be more impactfull card than Sword of and ice. Same for artifact land and solemn simulacre
While Kalia and commander sets maybe was big politically, for the actual game new phyrexia and phyrexian mana with cards like birthing pod and gitaxian probe were far more impactful for the gameplay itself.
With oko I always think back to the podcast where Seth and Richard were trying to figure out how good it is.
If I recall correctly: Seth thought it was maybe playable but not good. Richard called it out as the best planeswalker ever printed with a lot of hesitation.
I might be wrong and find the video, but I recall it differently, as Richard thought it was trash, and they were waiting what "food" means, to see if the card was even useful. I remember richard saying it was just a worst beast withing.
@@ODIRGO I just rewatched it and remembered it right. Check around 12 minutes:
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Oko second ability is the issue. Should have been a -3
I'd hazard the question was that the +1 was a permanant change that hadn't quite registered in peoples minds. normally it would be until the end of turn which is still good but, may not brick things for people.
Pretty wild. This video just popped up on my recommended list. I played magic pretty casually with friends from around 2007-2010. The cards are so complicated now. I chuckled when he mentioned that the Mystic Rhino was an example of how power creep has made it seem weak compared to modern standards. I thought to myself that it seemed super broken!
I got into Magic in 2015. My first set I ever got was Origins. I've been watching MTGGoldfish ever since and absolutely love the team. Seth, you're my favorite. I haven't played Magic myself since 2020 due to how broken some things became, but I still love the content. Keep up the amazing work Goldfish Team!
Thing about the rarity change by "adding" mythic: they didn't really "add" mythic, they added the current conception of "rare", and rebranded old "rare" as "mythic".
The probability of opening a mythic in a new pack is the same as old rares from large sets: 1/121, generally referred to as R1 because it appears once on the rare sheet. In Alara they added a new probability, 2/121, or R2 - cards of this rarity appear twice on the rare sheet, making them twice as likely to open. They didn't actually add a new more-rare rarity, they added a new less-rare rarity and shuffled the names around to make it _look_ like the "new" thing was "more rare". Fun fact: the only time fetchlands were printed at R1 ("mythic") was in Onslaught.
Force of Will was an uncommon in Alliances.
Well, you can really tell when I played the most, and when the mass of releases really got out of hand. I have everything on the list from 1994-2015, managed to get one Nexus from 2018, and haven't had any of the cards on the list since. Too many cards coming out to keep up, not enough events to use them or get them at. Fantastic list, and great reasoning on everything!
Really liked the video, hope to see more content like this 👍🏼✨ (Necropotence, Lurrus and Smuggler's Copter are the ones for me that deserved a mention)
Love the inclusion of Garruk, he is so underrated these days. Just gotta love untapping 2 bounce lands with him amongst other shennanigans. He was the first walker I got back in the day in the xbox promo version which came for free with duels of the planeswalkers.
Love this throwback. I still have many of the cards on this list, and it warms my soul. My favorites are my Chronicles Nicol Bolas & Oko...
Soon it will be
2023: Pickle Rick
2024: Kool-aid man
2025: Mark Zuckerberg's BBQ sauce
2026: Jar Jar Binks
Ohhhhh Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhhh
* smashes through the 4th wall *
We can only hope 😄
You forgot Colossal Dreadmaw!!
How could you?!
and Storm Crow!
Maybe I need to be a meme card from each year list.
@@MTGGoldfish Please
@@MTGGoldfish then it would just be
2017: Colossal Dreadmaw
2018: Colossal Dreadmaw
2019: Colossal Dreadmaw
2020: Colossal Dreadmaw
This list will keep me up tonight, thanks. I should have watched when you released it....
One of my favorite videos you have made. Thanks.
That was a fun watch. Good job Mr. Olive
Im glad cadaverous bloom is the card for 1996, one of my absolute favorite mtg cards created the year of my birth, responsible for one of the first true combo storm like decks, I play a cadaverous bloom combo in my grismold enchantment deck with cards like recycle and null profusion to win the turn its played.
2004 must be ravager, it was absolutely dominant back then and still is the best 2 drop ever printed in my opinion. The only reason why it could not dominate older formats back then was because pernicious deed was still around.
Ohh the first time magic died.
Yo love the Rhystic Studies channel plug. His videos are fantastic.
This is dope. As a relatively new player it's nice to know mtg history so i can get the jokes and references online
The joy in seth's voice when he says "Siege Rhino" is so adorable :D
4:45 and 5:08 I love the subliminal background messages of leveler and blightsteel.
People thought you were meeting but the "supply llama" was acrually pretty insightful.
Awesome video! It would be cool to see a history or list of magic cards that are a book, tome, slate or scroll/ tapestry etc..
Bloodbraid Elf and Brainstorm should have made the list. Seemed like inconsistent selection criteria, some years it was a powerful card that was good in its time like Seige Rhino or Baneslayer, sometimes it's a card that is good today but wasn't at the time like Rhystic Study.
While I agree on almost all the cards choices, I think 2003 and 2004 should have been cards like "Seat of the Synod" and "Skullclamp", for their ubiquitous presence and subsequent banning across multiple formats.
Other than that, nice video, thanks :)
9:00 My favourite thing about this card is that I saw a GDC talk Mark Rosewater did about designing Magic and he highlighted this card as an example of failing to keep with theme because:
-It was a 7/7 creature
-It had an ability that cost 7 life
-To let you draw 7 cards
-And it cost *8* mana
Even if it was for balance, he noted that it makes the whole card feel off because there's obviously a clear theme that wasn't being committed to
Seeing Black Lotus always stings my heart, I got one and a couple Moxes stolen when I was a kid
Talk about a tone deaf response!. Sorry that happened to you. I recall a store owner that would stand over us and if he saw us pull anything good would aggressively push to sell it to him. I was a kid and just wanted my cards, after his assault of "deals" I went to the bathroom only to find my cards missing with my friends saying that owners told them his policy was to watch the cards for people who left them in the store. When I asked him for them... he asked for proof via an ID. I was 10 and I started crying and never returned.
This is a cool video! id also like to see this list again but only give the context of the time back on each of the years. id like to see what people back in 2006 thought were the most broken cards etc.
2006 was a really good year for Mtg. Time Spiral was released which featured Dominaria. Lots of players came back due to nostalgia. It was also the year before planeswalkers were introduced.
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Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God.
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@@davenirline First Ravnica, Coldsnap, and Time Spiral were all in standard and it was insane. Then Ravnica rotated out and Lorwyn started and it was still insane. IMHO Coldsnap completely defined Standard for almost two years. Scrying Sheets may have been the most iconic card of that Standard.
I had the opportunity once to buy a Artist proof black lotus for $1,000, but decided not to because at the time they weren't really considered worth anything. Never knew until now I had made the biggest financial mistake of my life. I instead bought another Chris Rush artist proof that he had painted a black lotus onto the back of. I paid $300 for it. Nowadays I wouldn't even know how much it would be worth.
Would have picked Command Tower over Kaalia, and I am beyond shocked Lurris did not make this list.
Really well done. I enjoyed every second of this video. I really appreciate the work that went into making this. Thank you.
What an amazing thumbnail and even better video!
Great list! It was great watching and seeing some of the most busted cards, especially in recent memory haha
Thought I’d see snap caster! Awesome and fun list
This list is the most relevant from each year to modern magic.
Making me relive the Hazoret punt hurt my soul
Should have done honorable mentions for the following
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, a really important card that is the pinnacle of being unstoppable and still sees play while the sculptor has been powercrept to not be nearly as popular. Although putting a Jason Chan card on here is something I love to see.
Lightning Bolt over Lotus, this one is a bit crazy but considering that bolt is a common card that has been reprinted at least a dozen times and still fetches over 2 dollars a copy shows how crazy the card is
Lurrus-being able to completely re-sculpt decks it is in should be enough to be on a list like this
Smugglers Copter and the vehicle deck alongside Saheeli Rai and Felidar guardian also were game breaking cards
Seeing that dude attack with Hazoret instead of killing him with the Incendiary Flow definitely got me saying “wtf” 😂
Good video though Saffron!
I think Tibalt cosmic impostor was a way more important card for 2021. It was so powerful that WotC had to change the rules of cascade, many years after the keyword's release!
Goldfish crew forgetting about Necropotence is becoming a norm now 🤣
Thanks. Now I know what to look for in these 10k cards gifted to me.
great videio, im just surprised to see hazoret on here instead of chandra torch of defience
love me a video looking back on magics past
I feel like the years of Mirrodin block might be better represented by one of the many cards that were banned there. I understand this isn't a list of "strongest cards in each year" but like...when I think Mirrodin, that was basically the height of nutty design all the way til we hit the era of no longer having themed blocks (and arguably, maybe even then too.)
Honestly if you ever want to do a sequel, "the card that best represents the set or block it was from" would be a cool video concept.
I never liked planeswalkers, but when Jace came out I made a superfriends deck in standard with Jace's, Elspeths, Gideon's ect. House of a deck. My favorite standard deck at the time was Emrakul polymorph, though.
Such an awesome video
I am actually surprised Karn the actual strongest planeswalker didn't make this list.
I used to do a lot of damage with cadaverous bloom, lich, and drain life. Toss my whole hand for a big drain to cadaverous bloom and draw about 20 cards then discard 19 cards for 38 black mana tap a mountain for a 38 point fireball which I anticipated drawing almost 60 cards could deck me and wasn’t sure if that would create a draw or if I would lose before damage was resolved.
Such a cool video idea
I wouldn't call Black Lotus the most important card from Alpha because so few got to actually play with it, even at the time. I'd give the title to Sol Ring. In 1993-96 EVERY deck had a copy of Sol Ring, even cheap crummy decks. Since it was a restricted uncommon, it was easy to get (no one needed to horde 4 of them, so they could trade the extra to a buddy). It made every deck better in almost every situation. It made clear the power of even the most basic mana ramping.
Now I’m curious to see a video of the most broken sets as a whole.
A note on Tarmogoyf, goyf's price drop from the all time high has less to do with the reprints (it would see a dip but then start to climb back up) and more to do with how much its meta share has dropped, it was once one of the most played cards in one of the most played decks in magic now it only sees play as a fringe card in what is now a fringe deck.
It's really a combination of the two, imo. Gofy isn't as heavily played as it use to be *and* it has been reprinted aggressively.
theese are the kind of videos that makes our day a little better :v
Gaea's Cradle over Tolarian Academy is silly - Academy is the biggest poster child for why this era was the combo era, and part of why the next YEARS of magic development were so downpowered. Just because Cradle sees more play today isn't really a reson to promote it here.
Also, Force of Will over Vampiric Tutor. Vampiric and the like are just poor stand-ins for Demonic Tutor anyway. Force is iconic, and holds an entire format together.
Command Tower is also a better stand in for Kalia, as it shows true commander-centric design, and goes in every commander deck to this day.
Siege Rhino should have been Treasure Cruise. Nobody outside standard ever cared about Siege Rhino.
@Ryan Completely agree with most of this comment. Tolarian Academy was so warping it forced R&D to return to Earth when designing future cards. Also Force is definitely the most iconic/important card of 1996 considering it sees heavy play in all formats it is legal in and is the metric that free counterspells are compared to. Even newer players usually know what FoW does.
As I started playing Magic when Darksteel was the current set, I was genuinely surprised to see the Swords as being the most important card that year, here. In my experience as a new player back then, it would have had to have been either Arcbound Ravager, the Artifact Lands, or ignoring them, Tooth and Nail.
Or even Darksteel Colossus
Skullclamp should be worth a mention. But anyway, you give some good options already. Swords is a perfectly decent card, but it wasn't exactly important for anything in particular. Can even make a solid case for Crucible of Worlds being more important.
Force of will!!!!!! Got me into pro magic in the 99s
Cool video, though I would have said Necro for 1995 (so much so that it was the first card I thought of for specific year before starting to watch.)
"What happened to Oko?" We made a planeswalker with a +1 that made a 3/3 and didn't put Lightning Bolt and Counter Spell in standard.
Kaalia's cool, but Command Tower is definitely way more important as a representation of Wizards beginning to release official Commander products.
I got my Rhystic Study for 10 cents...
10 cents.. I got a playset and was like "THIS CARD IS SO GOOD"
Please talk about Force of Will? We definitely could use more hype for the game. Would be greatly appreciated 🙏
If it was a game worth talking about you wouldn’t have to beg people to do so.
Was surprised force of will wasn't included. Arguably the most important card of legacy.
One of the most important card of all time
It wasn't nearly as game-saving when it was printed though - there weren't really any combos like there are now. Now it's absolutely necessary to not lose turn 1 in Legacy or Vintage. (Once Cadaverous Bloom was printed I bet Force of Will saw more play.)
super sweet video
This is a fun knowledge vid. I kinda think skullclamp should've been picked over sad/mad robot tho
Its Just great, we have a big star like posty playing magic. That reinforce why magic its a so special game, anyone could be a player, and thats awesome.
Nicolle Bolas must be proud of her transition
Nice job
I agree with most of your picks and I like the list overall, but I do have a few bones to pick (especially 2020):
1995: Nicol Bolas over Necropotence (Necro was one of the most iconic cards of all time, still sees commander play today, would see legacy play if it weren't banned, and while I get Nicol Bolas was just a platform to get to talk about the RL, that doesn't make it the most important card of 1995. Also if you're going to include Yam's punt on the Hazoret play, you definitely should have included the all time greatest gameplay commentary of Randy yelling "DON'T SAY 4!".)
2003: Solemn over Chalice of the Void (Chalice has had a major influence on the game overall, much larger than Solemn. Solemn obviously has had a larger impact on commander specifically, but that doesn't overshadow Chalice as one of the greatest hate cards of all time.)
2007: Garruk over Jace Beleren (Jace became the cornerstone of magic's planeswalker design, if you want to pick a walker for '07 instead of thoughtseize (I think you're probably right to) pick the one that became the face of magic for the next 10 years.)
2020: Jeweled Lotus over Lurrus or Negan (Lurrus is so impactful on competitive magic since 2020 it's hard to overstate. Lurrus most likely killed any chance of Companion ever returning, is the only card ever banned in vintage for power level reasons, dominated legacy and modern until its eventual banning, and is one of the most glaring design mistakes of all time. Outside of competitive magic, Negan and the idea of other pop culture IPs showing up in magic, secret lair exclusive cards, and Wizards selling cards directly to players, cutting out the LGS which had been the foundation of the game for nearly 30 years, has had a massive impact on the relationship that players have with the company that makes the game.)
awesome video
Amazing video this time
Thanks!
4:23 I don't think Entomb works with Emrakul, since the graveyard is shuffled back into the library.
Me: I never understood why people though Oko was that good
Mellisa: we did underestimate how strong the plus 1 is
Me: wait, the second ability is a PLUS one....I see...I did not read the card properly when it came out
that and it's a permanent change and not until the end of turn which people may not have computed at the time either.
Started playing in 2010! The perfect year to start playing. I traded so many fetch lands away….. for total junk. I would get mad when I cracked lands.
I would've put a card like lurrus in the 2020 slot, since companion as a whole was arguably the biggest design f*** up in magic history, and resulted in an errata that literally changed the text of the card and made the reminder text on the original prints incorrect, something that they have never had to do before (arguably the wall defender change but there was never reminder text for it) and hopefully will never have to do again. Lurrus and companion as a whole is emblematic of how much more frequently magic get torn apart by massive blunders like oko, lurrus, uro, ragavan, murktide, etc.
I think I would have gone with Skullclamp for Mirrodin-block, it's nuts.
Definitely. Skullclamp saw play from affinity to goblins, it was insane seeing that card play. Solemn is a good card, but there's no comparison here... maybe they chose this one bc skullclamp was banned fast?
awesome to see emerakul the promised end here, legit the reason i quit playing standard 5 years ago and wont ever go back. bought a playset of smugglers copters for an insane price and a playset of her for another insane price just to play in some standard tournys coming up only for both cards to be banned. ill probably never go back to competitive paper magic after that. bans hurt the game in a lot of ways.
Still trying to get that Lotus for the 30th anniversary. Feel free to check out the project on the channel. Nice video, great wrap up of where we’ve come from
very cool look back, i'm sure there will be tons of churn on your picks, but fun retro regardless
You have missed Rishadan Port from 1999. Cursed Scroll, Mox Diamond, Wasteland, Masticore from 97-98. Still powerful and playable.
I think a mention to OUAT would've been neat in the Oko section
Person: Asks when I was born
Me: I was born in the year of such famous magic cards as…
"2018, Nexus of Fate"
PTSD INTENSIFIES
1:55 "A promise that Wizards continues to keep to this day" @ reserved list. O sweet summer child, they broke that promise a few times already (From the Vault/Duel Decks) and just did it again (MTG 30th).
I'd argue that Chandra torch of defiance is more iconic than hazorat. A 4 ability planeswalker than still sees consistent play in pioneer after a long stint in modern and a dominating performance in standard.
Hello MTGGoldfish, those old school magic cards are the cards I played.
well done
RIP the best card game ever. I like how you can pinpoint around what times each bad decision was made just by looking at the most important cards from each year.
I am really wondering what criteria you are using to determine important cards? I agree with some of these, and disagree with others (possibly because I have never played EDH). Although I like the inclusion of the Wallet-Slayer Angel, and Jace, the Wallet Sculptor.