Players Don't Understand This $1 Tutor. Let Me Explain It. | MTG Commander
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2023
- Moonsilver Key is a brilliant tutor in MTG Commander, the only problem is not everyone knows what a 'Mana Ability' is. In this video, I'll go over exactly what a 'Mana Ability' is and all the awesome different Commander cards you can search up.
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As a game store employee, I've been telling people about Moonsilver Key since Crimson Vow was out. I didn't realize how good it was immediately, but boy even I did.
Really, though. A tut is a tut.
I never slept on it. Im the only one i know who understands just how good that card is. But im also very hesitant to show my friends they can find the Great Henge with it 🤣
A Moonsilver Key searching up a Sol Ring is basically just Sisay's Ring, so if you cut Sisay's Ring from your deck, you can replace if with Moonsilver Key to search up your Sol Ring.
I mean, you could just have relic of sauron at that point if you're in grixis.
So happy to see moon silver key getting the respect it deserves
I always tell people about "In Search of Greatness."
A lot of people don't even know about this 2 mana green enchantment that really helps with high mana curve decks.
"At the beginning of your upkeep, you may cast a permanent spell from your hand with mana value equal to 1 plus the highest mana value among other permanents you control without paying its mana cost. If you don't, scry 1."
I really like the card but you definitely need to build the curve to cater to it.
poor man's sylvan library. love it
I love it when youtube randomly recommends a video that gives me what I need. I've been building a house deck and an additional tutor is what I've been looking for.
RUclips decided it was time to remind everyone this card is really good 😂
I've been running it in my deck stacked around bobbleheads. It says search for target bobblehead.
This popped up on my feed today - but i've been singing praises for moonsilver key since it's release - a literal all star in my Osgir deck as it gets me 3 TUTORS for whatever artifact ramp I need, which in Osgir is a lot
Moonsilver Key is THE CARD that helped take my Talrand, Sky Summoner deck to the next level. The deck is built entirely around getting Coveted Jewel out as early as possible, and making as many copies of it as possible, in a game.
Moonsilver key is an absolute icon in my locust god deck. Seeing as the locust god goes infinite with ashnods altar and clamp, and can easily kill someone with strixhaven stadium, the card is absolutely nuts.
My favorite removal spell is Tragic Slip. For one black, it gives an unimpressive -1/-1 to target creature for a turn; it goes to -13/-13 until end of turn if a creature died the turn it was cast!
opened one in an Innistrad pack, hadn’t seen the card before that.
Thought I could use it in my Wulfgar deck (which is pretty much barbarians from dnd and d20 rolling cards) to get the puzzlebox.
Since then, every time I look at this card it manages to seem even better than I thought it was before. Great card indeed.
Love Moonsilver Key! First found it when looking for cards for a Queen Kayla Bin-Kroog deck with Zirda, the Dawnwaker as the companion, and usually found Basalt/Grim Monolith with it for infinite mana. It's found its way into a couple of other decks since.
Akroma's Memorial is a great finisher piece and often forgotten about. I think out of the last 200 games of commander that I've played, I've only seen it maybe 10 times and 6 of those were because I played it. Granting all the keywords of Akroma, Angel of Wrath to your whole board is huge and can end a game in a hurry if no one can stop it from hitting the board. Combined with something like Painter's Servant, you can basically protect your whole board from your opponents but with the slight drawback of not being able to target your own stuff.
Can confirm. With Memorial on the field in my angel deck, my board becomes hell without artifact removal or a full board-wipe. I find it's best used in decks where creatures "snowball" off each other rather than receive direct buffs via auras and sorceries.
Moonsilver Key is probably one the best cards in my Osgir deck because i can use it three times to tutor out basalt monolith and forsaken monument for inf colorless mana or even get things like coveted jewel along side KCI and chromatic star and terrarion to draw cards while making mana
My realization isn't specifically related to Moonsilver Key, but an enabler card you mentioned: Encroaching Mycosynth. I've been tinkering with a Phyrexian tribal deck with Witch (WUBG) colors that includes MoM Elesh Norn. It has several enchantment anthems that were at risk of being blown up by Norn. But I lightbulbed while watching your video that E-Myco will protect them by turning them (and anything else I may want to include) into ARTIFACTS!
Thanks for this video! It was great and inspiring (clearly 😊) & I look forward to watching more of your videos!
I didn't think of using Moonsilver Key to pull dorks out of your deck. Though that probably speaks more to the strength of Biotransferrence and Encroaching Mycosynth. And I _really_ didn't think it could pull out something like a Phyrexian Altar! Maybe I should make room for it in my Wilhelt combo deck, which already uses all the major tutors already...
One of my favorite unsung hero cards is Paradoxical Outcome. The worst part about it is that it runs a big fat 4 (well, 3U) mana, but it is _crazy_ good. At Instant speed, you can cast Paradoxical Outcome and target any number of permanents you control and return them to their owner's hand. Plus, for each one you return, you draw 1 card. This is a really good response to big removals and board wipes. It allows you to recast your cards to retrigger casting and / or ETB triggers again. And, of course, it can draw you a lot. I like using it on my mana rocks in Alela, Artful Provocateur. This will let me recast my artifacts again to get Alela's artifact cast trigger, not to mention how it protects my precious ramp from a wayward Vandalblast, Crush Contraband, or the like. And finally, of course, it draws you cards, which can unjam a strategy that slowed down due to not having the right or enough cards.
I had a recent game, I was playing a 7 drop commander and it got killed. I used Moonsilver key to grab a Thran Dynamo, and recast my commander right away. The card is awesome.
What a great video! I was just looking for more different tutors, and this is perfect!
Glad you enjoyed it :) I hope you enjoy the next one
I know I'm late to this video but Enslaved is a really clutch card that earned my respect early on in my magic career. I was playing a casual game of Commander with my friend who was teaching me the game at my LGS. We finish one game and a guy asks to join us. We tell him sure but just to let him know we are very casual and I'm new to the game and he agrees. The first game we play he brings out Slivers and demolished us. The 2nd game he plays a crazy tax/stax/enchantment deck that required us to pay 12 to attack at all. Despite 3 plays from the start of the game ganging up on him lost. We got him down to 14 life and we could have won had I simply had the experience at the time to use enslave on the very thing that was winning him the game. A 10/10 with lifelink. Still, it made me realize that the value that card brings can bring a losing game to a surprise win. Since that game I've used it many times and it's always been worth casting.
Ive always preached the two recent Innistrad sets for some of their cards.
Wash away, Unnatural Growth, moonsilver key, Overcharged Amalgam, the amazing lands, Glorious Sunrise, Adeline who is an all star of many archetypes. There is also Katylda, wether alive or dead she is a great card.
I never understood why the two innistrad set got so much crap, they are great imo.
I just opened the Urza Brother's War precon. I'm not sure how much I'll mod it because I do like the look of the deck, but Moonsilver Key is definitely now on the list. Thanks!
Nice! I have a budget upgrade video for that Commander deck, it's one of my favourite precons
I use it in my favorite deck. Xyris commander. I use it to find my decanter of endless water for no maximum hand and add any color mana on tap. It's a 3 color deck, so it's perfect. Helped me out so many times that moonsilver key.
I've been singing it's praises since it was announced. You forgot another great target though, with The Mightstone and Weakstone (for commander players, the back face of meld cards isn't considered for color identity, so it can go in any deck).
Another thing I've seen hold people back about it is that it costs 3 mana total to use, which disregards the flexibility of paying some now and some later. You can play it on turn two and save it for a turn where you need and can play the tutor target, so it functions similarly to a 1 mana tutor.
3 mana... Do you mean just one more than a demonic tutor?
@@AngelusNielson Yup. But there are people that like to add that cost to whatever they are tutoring, and three is technically a lot in that regard, if you pay for the tutor and card all at once. You'll see people saying you're spending four mana for a Sol Ring for example.
I see that as a misunderstanding of tutors though. You are spending mana to get access to an effect you find valuable at the moment guaranteed. You are increasing the consistency of your deck by using tutors, helping ensure you are able to do what you want/need to do. And Moonsilver Key does this in a very powerful way by allowing you to pay for it's cost over multiple turns, and is potentially reusable if you can bring it back out of the graveyard.
Demonic tutor is a $50 card though 🫤
@@connorhamilton5707 The best way I've seen it said is "A tutor is literally the exact card you need at any given moment."" Unless you're playing CEDH, which I don't like at all, that seems a fair deal for the sol ring.
I prefer to think of it as it was explained to me. "A tutor is whatever card you need the most at any given time." And that's how I see it. They make a deck even more consistent.
@@attackoncardboard Proxying, famously, not real.
Thanks for the video! It's informative and fun. Keep the good work
awesome card, i have a Sliver Deck and need to use Chromatic Lantern to fix mana sometimes, i had a Prismatic Omen at first too, but then i realized that if both come up, Omen becomes a dead card, but Moonsilver Key still has utility in such a case, so i dropped Omen for the Key
I was out of the loop from magic for a few years but when i saw this card i shid my pants and got one for all my decks. Incredible in 4 and 5 colour decks as it can find lantern. Notable stable in anything non green, and MVP in a MR house deck as it can find you your best reusable dice rolls.
An absolute gem. I play it on my Mishra deck, sometimes it ends up fetching more than once.
I knew it was good, but I never put it together in my mind the sheer utility of it… and I’ve used it in decks to search for artifact ramp before, just never realized the variety of artifacts with mana abilities. Even for someone who thought it was a good card already, this is really enlightening… the saddest part for me is that I can only put one copy in each deck, I’m trying to think of ways to build around it in standard/pioneer lol…
It’s a staple in my Volrath deck, fetching great henge and having every other creature etb with a counter ready for Volrath’s shenanigans, and also draws! It’s amazing. Plus it’s a 2 drop because Volrath is a 7/5 creature.
did not realize it was a dollar. It is a super good card that could pretty much round out a mana base in any deck and do double duty for decks that want to search up specific artifacts it can grab
The background smash music tells me that u are a man of culture👌
I did think its my son who plays smash on the tv tbh xD
I’m about to go ad this into my breya deck. Great vid.
The celestus is the lore-obvious target for the key, but it's crazy that there's many more locks it can open!
I found out about this card while building a celestus deck for 60-card, I just hit scryfall for cheap artifact tutors and immediately realized that it would go hard. I can now start changing the time much more consistently and start making funny triggers go brrr.
Also searches Lion's Eye Diamond, Jeweled Lotus, Sol Ring, and any Mox as well.
It's also easily reusable too. Sun Titan, Academy Ruins, Goblin Welder just to name a few ways to get it back to use again and again!
Bro I swear clavileno is an insanely underrated deck and I’m getting this rn . Sick video
Thanks for taking the time to comment! 🙌 I hope you enjoy the rest of the content!
For the same mana cost and activation cost, and not much more cost in terms of $, you can play Wishclaw Talisman, the real 3rd best tutor in EDH. Wishclaw finds anything. It finds Opposition Agent to surprise your opponent when they attempt to activate the Wishclaw you gave them. It finds Flicker or Aminatou the Fateshifter to bring that Wishclaw back onto your field with all the wish counters back. It finds Dockside Extortionist and adds to the artifact count. It finds Goblin Welder to make your opponent sac the Wishclaw Talisman and allow you to get it back... this card is seriously slept on.
You also enable your opponent to tutor and potentially win on the spot. It's also black, so not universal.
@@jacket2848 Did you read anything I wrote? None of the scenarios allow your opponent to tutor.
Requires black mana to cast, not universal. Those scenarios sound good on paper, but there will always be games where Wishclaw will backfire. If your just searching artifacts and the odd basic land, Wishclaw is wasted money.
@@rexempire3365 It's only $4, not a seriously huge waste of money. About the same price as a pack, but you get a rare you actually want instead of some random bulk rare.
Moon silver key's limitations hold it back in many folks eyes, it is indeed awesome in the right decks with target(s) built in for it but outside of those it isn't great if they had just said artifact and not limited it to mana producing artifacts then this would be alot better, same goes for the land part drop the basic and this becomes loads better. Don't get me wrong it is a great card but it's limitations hold it back from the full greatness it might have achieved.
I actually didn't realize triggered abilities could be mana abilities. Not sure whether it affects any of my decks currently, but it's useful to know.
In my most recent videos, I always like to explain the more intermediate/advanced rules just to make sure it's nice and clear for everyone :) I hope it helps.
I feel like anyone that built the urza meld deck would have known about this card and thats kinda it. It's super busted having a second copy of Mightstone but also 2 sol rings is lit
Thank you for this. Now I need to go and buy up a few copies. :)
I'm going to buy this card right now. Thanks for making this video. 🕊
Hope you enjoy the rest of the content! 😄
moonsilver key is the glue that makes my memnarch deck function, it's incredible and I wouldn't have won many games without it. Fabricate is of course better, but it's already in the deck!
I use it in my graveyard deck to find ashnods or phyrexian altar. It's an amazing card
I have faith in you brother you are the future of mtg RUclips all hail Attack on cardboard amazing videos and amazing card selection
Appreciate the kind words. Hope you enjoy the rest of the content ☺️
Already was going to brew with it but you have opened my eyes further
😃 Happy to help! Hope you enjoy the other content too :)
So many great ideas here, and not just for tutoring mana artifacts.
I hope it got the creative juices going for you :)
In my Glissa the Traitor deck Moonsilver Key is absolutely fantastic, along with expedition map, Mishra's bauble, mind stone, just anything cheap I can sacrifice for ramp or draw power.
Biotransference also works VERY well in Glissa since she already wants to be playing LOTS of artifacts and it lets her recur any of your creatures as well. It ALSO lets Moonsilver Key search for cards such as Priest of Yawgmoth and Soldevi Adnate.
My Glissa deck is actually Necron tribal.
when this card was revealed in vow, i glossed over it thinking "welp, yet another 40 euro rare that i'll never get to use"
i was BAFFLED when it came out at like 1 euro and stayed there up to this day too, card is insane!
I tried Moonsilver key into Ashnod the uncaring deck to fetch her dedicated altar and some other mana producer, its great.
If you're running artifacts you MUST have Thran Dynamo for both it's mana gen and for flavor
The one deck i have Thats updated enough to have a moonsilver key is kinan. It grabs basalt monolith or if I’ve Andy found that, it grabs the filter for my infinite mana.
Same, i Play kinnan. Nice that IT can grab treasure vault
It blew my mind seeing people call this card bad when my immediate first thought was an extra slot to find Ashnod’s Altar or Phyrexian Altar to win the game lol
As someone who did buy a bunch of them for less then a dollar I’m glade I’m not alone
I use moon silver key in my Noyan Dar deck to find indestructible artifact lands
but this card tutors for the best card in the format: Sol Ring which is always a good target
Another amazing often slept on tutor is Search for Glory imo. Search for any snow permanenet... ok, great in really specific deck, search for saga, well... Kiora bests the sea gods, The Eldest Reborn, And some others are all fine, but... Search for legendary is powerful, any Planeswalker, legendary land (Boseiju, Otawara, gaea's cradle, urborg, halls of heliod's generosity...), legendary enchantment (in shrines deck it's basically Idylic Tutor, on top of all other legendaty enchantmentd, it can also dig up Backgrounds), Legendary Artifact (even outside of creatures, there's legendary equipment too), Legendary Sorceries...
I would like to point out Thalia's Lancers which will grab any legendary CARD on ETB...
AND it comes on a decent body with two relevant types (and all the bonuses that come with it being on a body such as being able to blink it). A copy will run all of .25.
Yes, AMAZING tutor right there
I have an Emrakul commander deck on Arena and moonsilver key has been a useful part of it since the start. Such cheap tutoring!
Key is cool, but I think the actual most underplayed tutor in Commander is Fervent Mastery. Just triple gamble for 4 mana and 17 cents, and most of the time it plays like an upgraded Buried Alive that also grabs Past in Flames or Dread Return.
Thank you, didn't think to put this in my Elona Aristocrat deck until now.
I can't believe how well this slots into Aristocrats 😁
@@attackoncardboard Yep, unfortunately, I play Historical Brawl on Arena, so I can only get an Ashnod's altar and not much else in Orzhov colors. But still being able to off Elona is important to the deck so every bit helps.
@@attackoncardboard My favorite tutor in Aristocrats, at least in the deck I play in Historic Brawl is Illicit Shipment, though. Gotta love getting a couple of cards I need while "popping" Elona with Cathar's Crusade in play.. good times.
An absolute gem in my Acererak deck!
A flaw with biotransference is that its already black. While it does allow for tutoring most cards in your deck, you could at that point just play even a diabolic tutor.
(Great video though)
Yeah, black already has the best tutors in the game, I thought it was worth mentioning in case something in the future gets printed to make it even better. Biotransference does have the token generating mechanic built in so it can still be useful.
@@attackoncardboard agreed.
@@jeezy.breeze Why not playing "both"?
@@kevinwestermann1001 both what? If you mean biotransference and the key its because you'd need to spend 7 mana just to get one card
Thought it was fake when it was spoiled. Ungodly strong in my artifact deck
Honestly didn't even know that it could get land and I've been playing it since release
I've got quite a few of these keys. Sadly, I don't use them that much, but they will start going into decks that have difficulty tutoring and ramping along with Navigation Orb.
If you are going to run tutors, this is definitely the way to do it: utility tutors that search for utility cards. Mystical Tutor into a Fierce Guardianship is just so boring...
Oooo loved the MGS inventory sound effects. So iconic and recognizable
I grew up playing those games. They're my favourites 😀
chaos wand ! always in my heart
People forget its multi-player. Any tutor that's "downside" is other player also searches is great. I actually love wish claw in commander
My personal favorite card to tutor for using Moonsilver Key is Chromatic Lantern. A mana rock that lets me just tap my lands without having to worry what color mana I hold up? Don’t mind if I do
Once someone told me it could get altars and KCI I was sold on the card and strongly consider it for most of my decks
you even mentioned my favorite pet card. GOLD HOUND
Oh! I use this in my Xyris deck so I can get Phyrexian Alter so I can turn all those snake tokens into mana.
Yes, absolutely true. My lgs and webs, already sell all of those last year
I run this thing in my Zirda deck. it is an ALL STAR. I would even say it makes the deck far more consistent by a long shot. Already have the monolith in hand or available somehow? Grab Prismite or something so you can have the colored mana you need to cast your gross big game ending X spell.
I just like the flexibility it offers and after researching this card more while writing the script for this video, I absolutely love the potential tool kit you can build.
@@attackoncardboard it is definitely silly. I'm even debating on slapping it into my upcoming equipment deck for... Reasons haha
people really do forget that some of the most busted artifacts in mtg have mana abilities huh? i saw this card and thought "wow that's crazy asf" while everyone else was calling it sorta mid and i was so confused.
I love moonsilver key in my Urtet Myr Deck ☺
I still love my buckle up precon. Moonsilver key basically is a win con im that deck with everything its able to hunt out. Silly the amount of hate i saw it get at release
I guessed what it was before watching, but I didnt think it would be right lol. I use it to get basalt monoliths to use with my nyxbloom ancient.
Adore Moonsilver Key, been running it since it came out
Its good especially as another colorless "ramp" option for decks that cant do that very well
Realmbreaker would for sure be a solid target; even if you don't run any praetors, stealing lands from your opponents and slapping their top deck tutoring along the way is major value
Hello, may I ask how the ability of realmbreaker is considered a mana ability?
Sorry if I don´t see the reason, just wanted to know, if I miss something based on the definition of mana abilities.
@@BestBalrog You're correct. 'Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree' does not have a mana ability. I must have been thinking of another card when I originally saw this comment 😅
@@attackoncardboard no worries, was not Sure if maybe i missed something :)
Thanks for the Fast response!
I knew it as soon as the vid said "$1"
Such an underrated card
My favorite Tutor of all time is Rhystic Tutor
It's crazy that the whole Rhystic Cycle is completely terrible except Study 😂
Best card no one runs. Thaumatic compass. Guarantees you land drops early if you really need them, then once you hit 7 lands, it actually ramps you by turning into a maze of ith that taps for mana. Its fantastic in lands matter decks, its great in decks that don't fight super well, and its just always good in metas with big creatures or voltron commanders.
Oo yes! Good pick!
YES! I've been hard on MSKey for as long as it has existed!
ive owned several copies, ill give em a shot now.
Guild Feud is such a janky card I would LOVE to see a stratagy built around.
TL;DR its a one red 5 generic Enchantment that makes you look at the top three of your liberary and lets you put a creature onto the battlefield with the rest going into the yard, a opponent does this same trigger and if 2 creatures are revealed by doing this they fight
I've been liking the Goldhound, haha.
I like Manglehorn, always has targets, and screws with especially treasures
If you don't have a way to counter treasures in your deck, you're going to have a bad time.
My K’rrik deck loves moonsilver key!
Imagine what shenanigans you could get up to if you ran it alongside Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Funny how The Celestus has "{T}: Add one mana of any color." presumably just so the Key can find it
Hashtag LORE!
Good video. I am confused as to how it gets 2 cards you listed in your video. Neither of them Produced mana or were a basic land. Biotransference in particular makes no sense how that is searchable. Could you please explain?
I think you missed the explaintion. Biotransference and Encroaching Mycosynth aren't searchable, but when you play them they make your creatures/permanents in your deck artifacts. Which now means any creature or permanent with a mana ability can be searched up with the Key :)
@@attackoncardboard thank you, I did miss that part of the video somehow. I appreciate the clarification!
Grim tutor is crazy underrated. Literally the same as demonic tutor but also pay a little life
Grim Tutor costs 3cmc instead of 2. Not QUITE the same as Demonic Tutor.
It is also a $20 card despite this. Underrated it is not.
Moonsilver Key, aka Wayfarer’s Bauble II: Artifact Boogaloo. Obviously, the difference between being a one drop that activates for two mana and a two drop that activates for one mana matters, since the presumption is that the Bauble can be dropped on one no matter what, while the Key has to wait for turn two unless fast mana is available. That said, I have a hard time seeing a deck that wants Bauble but NOT the Key. Even if you’re ignoring the artifact part, it’s till really good, and the extra artifact synergy lets you do silly things in artifact decks.
Also a insane card to fetch some Metalworker
I use im teshar as it can be a mana crypt or my combo piece (altars)
I didn't think about the artifact lands and I agree that moonsilver key is underrated, but I disagree with the fact that it goes in any deck. Since I've been removing sol rings from most of my decks, it's not nearly as useful as just putting a mana rock directly into your deck (thus skipping the searching part for a mana rock and the 3 mana it costs to do so) or straight up using one more land in the deck (or wayfarer's bauble in a non-green deck, that works too if ramp is really the focus here).
But in a deck where there are at least 4 to 5 really good targets, sure !
I have won so many games getting timeless lotus with moonsilver.
An honorable mention goes out to "Night Dealings"
I use this tutor to search for Crystalline Crawler or Ashnod's Altar and finish the game with an infinite combo in my Glissa, the traitor deck. :D
Excellent use!