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.
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 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.
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.
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
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."
@@BeefMonster If you want help with Green mana, then the best hidden green creature card is Stone-Seeder Hierophant. It will triple any basic land when a land comes into play.
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'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.
@@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.
@@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.
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 does double duty in Kozilek, the Great Distortion as well, being able to tutor up a mana rock at any CMC to counter a spell. And that's on top of finding Sol Ring early, Forsaken Monument late, or some utility like Stonespeaker Crystal to get rid of graveyards.
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.
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.
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 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!
I found this card in a precon a year ago and I was surprised because I immediately recognised its usefulness. I have to say, though, you expanded my vision greatly. Thanks.
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
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.
@@attackoncardboard you have any of the many cards that make your creatures lands and have deathrite shaman's first ability. This is the typical one we use to show this because people forget about this.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
I use this in a CEDH mono-blue Teferi deck to ensure I hit enough 2+ mana producing rocks to pull the Chainveil combo. It also grabs me Grim/Basalt Monolith if I have Power Artifact/Rings Of Brighthearth, it gets Chromatic Orrery for fixing, Throne Of Eldraine for card draw/blue mana/Chain Veil combo mana, and sometimes a basic Island is crucial to have. It's even decent fodder for Transmute Artifact. This is all made possible for a deck that struggles to find good tutors to compete with the very black-supported meta hosting the best tutors in the game. 3 generic is a bargain compared to paying any sort of color mana cost. People still sleep on this card.
you forgot the best artifact mana rock ever. I use moonsilver key to get it for my Jodah EDH deck: Timeless Lotus: 5 to play, comes in tapped, but taps for 1 of EACH color mana. on turn 3 get it in hand, turn 4 play it, turn 5 have 10 mana at your disposal
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
In a deck that duplicates artifacts, moonsilver key is probably the best tutor you could hope for. Think Mishra or Osgir for instance. You can get a LOOOTTT of mileage out of moonsilver key in decks like that. With Osgir, it would be at least 3 uses up to maybe 10-20 uses, and with Mishra it can be essentially unlimited until you get to a boardwipe, unless you have artifact retrieval from graveyard.
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!
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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
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.
“My favorite card that players seemed to forgotten” is Stone-Seeder Hierophant. This minimum mana tripler is definitely worth making a video about. Yes, I said at minimum it can give you three floating mana per turn. When it ISN’T summoning sick on the battlefield, you can tap a basic land for 1 floating, tap this creature, untap that same basic land, & now retap that same basic land having 2 mana floating. Play a new land for turn which untaps this creature. (The original basic land is still tapped.) The creature can now untap the original basic land, and you have 3 mana floating. It gets even better when you add things like WILD GROWTH which adds a mana to your mana pool. You can tap that basic land for 2 mana - with Wild Growth attached. Tap the creature which untaps the basic land, & Wild Growth. Retap the same basic land w wild growth for another 2 mana floating. Play a new land for turn which untaps the creature, and now the creature can untap the basic land with wild growth again for a total of 6 mana floating. You can boost her abilities power with cards like Overgrowth, & Market Festival, or substitute Wild Growth for Utopia Sprawl. It gets even crazier when you add the above combo with also playing Three Visits, or Skyshroud Claim. Just imagine what it would do with Boundless Realms! Stone-Seeder Hierophant gains/nets mana with cards like Lotus Field, Collective Voyage, Summer Bloom, Gaea’s Cradle, Tempt with Discovery, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, etc. This is the greatest hidden card of green ramp!
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
And also you can search your chromatic lantern or gilded lotus for a mana curve. For the colourless players this is even more precious because you can find the sac-draw ones for a bit of sustain. For the draw decks you can find Thought Vessel. If you have jewelled lotus, you basically dont need this card because im sure you have all the tutors. For the legendary decks you can find the Relic Of Legends. Last but not forgotten, you can fetch your enigma jewel and combo someone.
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.
I remeber buying a playset of these because I missunderstood the text. When I reread it I immediately put it into my Urza Lord Protector deck to grab the mightstone and weak stone for melding
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
Moonsilver key is great for mono red decks. You can have it tutor liquimetal torque which turns all your artifact destruction into nonland permanant removal
I have it in my ashnod the uncaring deck, she makes it so I can find any of the two that I want. A land plus a mana rock or two mana rocks for 2 of any color is pretty good
I have this in my Multani Maro-Sorcerer deck just to find things like thought vessel for max hand size. Didn't realize it counted triggered abilities though! It can fetch gauntlet of power and caged sun???
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.
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.
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.
damn, i play digitally only and don't care about price, but this is really selling me on taking another look at moonsilver key for a bunch of my decks as just a raw value piece for grabbing altars and Ironworks, on the same card that can in theory ramp (in monocolor or two color decks that don't hit every land drop the first four turns basically every time) or that can help get out other weird comboey value pieces (in my glissa traitor deck or some other artifact heavy builds)
I've been stoked about this card since I pulled it from a deck, but really haven't been playing it as much as I should. I really do need to pick up a couple more.
My favorite tutor is Guided Passage ($0.17) 3 mana and you get 3 cards to your hand. I play it in decks where i only have 1 creature so my opponent has to give me the creature i want, a land, and a 3rd card.
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...
Is Imperial Seal really third? If so it's a distant third; it's SO much worse than Vampiric Tutor. Vampiric Tutor on the previous player's end step is great, but Imperial Seal on my turn, having to know a whole turn-cycle ahead of time? Bleck!
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 play it in decks that really need ashnods or KCI. Also in my Breya deck it searches many interesting combo pieces like Pili-Pala / Grand Architect or Urza, Lord High Artificer.
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.
I never slept on this card. My mind instantly went to that it can find ashnod's altar and phyrexian altar. For my yarus morph deck I use it to find the altars, great henge and forsaken monument depending on the situation.
Been preaching the good name of Moonsilver Key for a while now. It's great for grabbing welfare stone/chromatic lantern as well as any altar if I need a sac outlet
Funny how the Double Feature Foil version of this card is now $60. xD
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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 !
Passed by two of these while buylisting stuff, I’m keeping the two copies I have. I knew these were going to be sleep commander staples when Midnight Hunt was released.
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
Didn't know this existed, but it has potential, I might run it in Da Vinci... There are only a select couple mana rocks I can get disgusting with without a lattice to fix the colored cost problem, then again the deck has better more general artifact search and plenty of draw power.
You know, I got a copy some time ago after watching this vid the first time around, but now I think I oughta get another for my Yasova deck so I can get Phyrexian Altar more consistently
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.
Yeah I kept moonsilver key out of draft chaff just because it was another "egg" for colorless combo decks. After using it once to grab a soul ring (or if you're really smart... ASHNODS ALTAR) I WAS SOLD.
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 🤣
I tried to tell all my friends about it when it came out. Think I bought 2 dozen copies.
Finding Forsaken Monument with it blows people's minds
That card is amazing; if you can use it it's worth running- like Wayfarer's Bauble but for set-up & finishers.
So happy to see moon silver key getting the respect it deserves
Heck yeah 😤
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.
@@fasterbuilder11 if u are at least 3 collored ...
It’s actually a lot better than Sisay’s Ring since you pay in installments. Imagine you only have a 2 or 3 land hand.
@@Dyllon2012 Not just that but you also end up with a Moonsilver Key in your graveyard which is massively useful in many decks such as Muldrotha.
sisays ring is a turn 4 drop. moonsilver key + sol ring is a turn 3 plus you'll be free with 3 more mana with 1 of the 3 is a colored one.
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.
I was also building Mr house as well as Leonardo davinci from creed and this is starting to look perfect for that.
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.
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
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
The problem with that it's that it looks painfully slow. Enchantments that don't do anything when they come into play are a big tempo disadvantage.
@@BeefMonster If you want help with Green mana, then the best hidden green creature card is Stone-Seeder Hierophant. It will triple any basic land when a land comes into play.
@@Shendueyeah that's why rhystic study is a famously bad card, it's just so bad for tempo
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'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.
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 does double duty in Kozilek, the Great Distortion as well, being able to tutor up a mana rock at any CMC to counter a spell. And that's on top of finding Sol Ring early, Forsaken Monument late, or some utility like Stonespeaker Crystal to get rid of graveyards.
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.
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.
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 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
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 found this card in a precon a year ago and I was surprised because I immediately recognised its usefulness. I have to say, though, you expanded my vision greatly. Thanks.
In my opinion the goat of tutors that most I show it
to never heard of is ‘insidious dreams’…..it’s roughly $8 for not just a tutor but a multi-tutor.
Although you get completely blown out by a single counter spell, VS the other tutors where you dont have that risk at all.
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
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.
Glad to see the Celestus get mentioned given it is the card moonsilver key was designed to tutor for
Fun fact from a Judge: the triggered ability of caged sun is NOT always a triggrred mana ability :)
Example?
The land's ability would either need to target or use the stack.
@@attackoncardboard you have any of the many cards that make your creatures lands and have deathrite shaman's first ability. This is the typical one we use to show this because people forget about this.
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
Might toss this in my Mr. House Deck. Tutor for my d20 rolling artifacts with it.
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.
I didn't realize you could search for cards like Extraplanar Lens with this! Nice! Subscribed :)
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…
I use Moonsilver Key to search for Basalt Monolith or Gemstone Array. I have it in my rainbow deck and it just gets my infinite mama combo out faster
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
Moonsilver key is in my Osgir deck, and it's so good. Tutoring for "Mana Rocks" with versatile abilities is so good.
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!
I use this in a CEDH mono-blue Teferi deck to ensure I hit enough 2+ mana producing rocks to pull the Chainveil combo. It also grabs me Grim/Basalt Monolith if I have Power Artifact/Rings Of Brighthearth, it gets Chromatic Orrery for fixing, Throne Of Eldraine for card draw/blue mana/Chain Veil combo mana, and sometimes a basic Island is crucial to have. It's even decent fodder for Transmute Artifact. This is all made possible for a deck that struggles to find good tutors to compete with the very black-supported meta hosting the best tutors in the game. 3 generic is a bargain compared to paying any sort of color mana cost.
People still sleep on this card.
Yes, AMAZING tutor right there
you forgot the best artifact mana rock ever. I use moonsilver key to get it for my Jodah EDH deck: Timeless Lotus: 5 to play, comes in tapped, but taps for 1 of EACH color mana. on turn 3 get it in hand, turn 4 play it, turn 5 have 10 mana at your disposal
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
In a deck that duplicates artifacts, moonsilver key is probably the best tutor you could hope for. Think Mishra or Osgir for instance. You can get a LOOOTTT of mileage out of moonsilver key in decks like that. With Osgir, it would be at least 3 uses up to maybe 10-20 uses, and with Mishra it can be essentially unlimited until you get to a boardwipe, unless you have artifact retrieval from graveyard.
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!
The real best tutor that is underplayed is mausoleum secrets. Instant speed and soooo good
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.
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.
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.
I love moonsilver key I have it in my muldrotha deck to fetch lotus petal to loop with displacer kitten
I never knew it counted triggered abilities, but I did notice that it hit Altars. It's interesting to see some of the other odd ball uses for the card
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!
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 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.
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.
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
If you're running artifacts you MUST have Thran Dynamo for both it's mana gen and for flavor
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.
“My favorite card that players seemed to forgotten” is Stone-Seeder Hierophant.
This minimum mana tripler is definitely worth making a video about.
Yes, I said at minimum it can give you three floating mana per turn.
When it ISN’T summoning sick on the battlefield, you can tap a basic land for 1 floating, tap this creature, untap that same basic land, & now retap that same basic land having 2 mana floating.
Play a new land for turn which untaps this creature. (The original basic land is still tapped.) The creature can now untap the original basic land, and you have 3 mana floating.
It gets even better when you add things like WILD GROWTH which adds a mana to your mana pool.
You can tap that basic land for 2 mana - with Wild Growth attached.
Tap the creature which untaps the basic land, & Wild Growth.
Retap the same basic land w wild growth for another 2 mana floating.
Play a new land for turn which untaps the creature, and now the creature can untap the basic land with wild growth again for a total of 6 mana floating.
You can boost her abilities power with cards like Overgrowth, & Market Festival, or substitute Wild Growth for Utopia Sprawl.
It gets even crazier when you add the above combo with also playing Three Visits, or Skyshroud Claim.
Just imagine what it would do with Boundless Realms!
Stone-Seeder Hierophant gains/nets mana with cards like Lotus Field, Collective Voyage, Summer Bloom, Gaea’s Cradle, Tempt with Discovery, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, etc.
This is the greatest hidden card of green ramp!
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
as someone who started playing magic the gathering last week with a vampire deck, this helped me a lot!! thanks!!
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And also you can search your chromatic lantern or gilded lotus for a mana curve. For the colourless players this is even more precious because you can find the sac-draw ones for a bit of sustain. For the draw decks you can find Thought Vessel. If you have jewelled lotus, you basically dont need this card because im sure you have all the tutors. For the legendary decks you can find the Relic Of Legends. Last but not forgotten, you can fetch your enigma jewel and combo someone.
Flexibility is king! 👑
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.
I remeber buying a playset of these because I missunderstood the text. When I reread it I immediately put it into my Urza Lord Protector deck to grab the mightstone and weak stone for melding
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
okay this video made me subscribe. ive been telling people about this card for a while and i also love goldhound as its so underrated.
Moonsilver key is great for mono red decks. You can have it tutor liquimetal torque which turns all your artifact destruction into nonland permanant removal
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.
I have it in my ashnod the uncaring deck, she makes it so I can find any of the two that I want. A land plus a mana rock or two mana rocks for 2 of any color is pretty good
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 use it in my graveyard deck to find ashnods or phyrexian altar. It's an amazing card
I have this in my Multani Maro-Sorcerer deck just to find things like thought vessel for max hand size. Didn't realize it counted triggered abilities though! It can fetch gauntlet of power and caged sun???
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 have faith in you brother you are the future of mtg RUclips all hail Attack on cardboard amazing videos and amazing card selection
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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.
An absolute gem. I play it on my Mishra deck, sometimes it ends up fetching more than once.
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.
Oooo loved the MGS inventory sound effects. So iconic and recognizable
I grew up playing those games. They're my favourites 😀
damn, i play digitally only and don't care about price, but this is really selling me on taking another look at moonsilver key for a bunch of my decks as just a raw value piece for grabbing altars and Ironworks, on the same card that can in theory ramp (in monocolor or two color decks that don't hit every land drop the first four turns basically every time) or that can help get out other weird comboey value pieces (in my glissa traitor deck or some other artifact heavy builds)
I've been stoked about this card since I pulled it from a deck, but really haven't been playing it as much as I should. I really do need to pick up a couple more.
Hopefully this video has given you don't inspiration! 😁
Insatiable Avarice is another good cheap one now - with spree, you can draw 3 with it as well - cmc 3 for tutor, or 5 for tutor and draw
My favorite tutor is Guided Passage ($0.17) 3 mana and you get 3 cards to your hand. I play it in decks where i only have 1 creature so my opponent has to give me the creature i want, a land, and a 3rd card.
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...
I'm 0 seconds in, and I can tell by the blurry image from midnight hunt that this is about moonsilver key, and I already agree.
Is Imperial Seal really third? If so it's a distant third; it's SO much worse than Vampiric Tutor. Vampiric Tutor on the previous player's end step is great, but Imperial Seal on my turn, having to know a whole turn-cycle ahead of time? Bleck!
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 play it in decks that really need ashnods or KCI.
Also in my Breya deck it searches many interesting combo pieces like Pili-Pala / Grand Architect or Urza, Lord High Artificer.
Imagine what shenanigans you could get up to if you ran it alongside Lurrus of the Dream-Den
THANK YOU! I'VE BEEN RAVING ABOUT THIS CARD!
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.
I never slept on this card. My mind instantly went to that it can find ashnod's altar and phyrexian altar. For my yarus morph deck I use it to find the altars, great henge and forsaken monument depending on the situation.
Been preaching the good name of Moonsilver Key for a while now. It's great for grabbing welfare stone/chromatic lantern as well as any altar if I need a sac outlet
Funny how the Double Feature Foil version of this card is now $60. xD
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 !
Passed by two of these while buylisting stuff, I’m keeping the two copies I have. I knew these were going to be sleep commander staples when Midnight Hunt was released.
This would be a great way to tutor my favorite card to name ten times fast: Cradle Clearcutter.
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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
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
Didn't know this existed, but it has potential, I might run it in Da Vinci... There are only a select couple mana rocks I can get disgusting with without a lattice to fix the colored cost problem, then again the deck has better more general artifact search and plenty of draw power.
You know, I got a copy some time ago after watching this vid the first time around, but now I think I oughta get another for my Yasova deck so I can get Phyrexian Altar more consistently
Already was going to brew with it but you have opened my eyes further
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People forget its multi-player. Any tutor that's "downside" is other player also searches is great. I actually love wish claw in commander
I tried Moonsilver key into Ashnod the uncaring deck to fetch her dedicated altar and some other mana producer, its great.
Thanks for the video! It's informative and fun. Keep the good work
I'm going to buy this card right now. Thanks for making this video. 🕊
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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.
Yeah I kept moonsilver key out of draft chaff just because it was another "egg" for colorless combo decks. After using it once to grab a soul ring (or if you're really smart... ASHNODS ALTAR) I WAS SOLD.