I love Shahrazad. Absolutely perfect example of gameplay translating to flavor, and a good show of why sometimes you should sacrifice some amount of flavor to keep the game fun.
That type of wording wasn't used in almost any capacity until Yawgmoth's Will, and it was only accidentally seen before then on cards like Necropotence they didn't realize would be good anyway. After Yawg though, it would not be until Odyssey that flashback would make exile a regular cost. And after Odyssey, it wasn't until M11 that they started regularly stapling Exile drawbacks on obviously powerful effects. From Arabian Nights -- Invasion block, you were looking at spells being designed so that you were supposed to be able to copy and reuse them easily. They just would not print references to the Power Nine or other famous strong effects at all in between about Masques to Onslaught, because it was known those cards were so powerful that attempts to weaken them would fail.
I was lucky enough to pull a Yawgmoth's Will right from a booster back in the ancient world. Even then I knew the card was super busted. I should have slipped it right into a sleeve but who would have thought the game would still be going 25 years later? Its stored away in a hardpack now, but definitely "played" condition. The moniker "Yawgmoth's Win" is appropriate- I can't think of a game I lost after resolving it.
The price is always right with me. Except for the ridiculous price of the power 9. I mean, what would you even use them for?! They can't even make it onto "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)"!
I know you post this on every vid but what do you think that list would look like? Sol ring, mana crypt, brainstorm, force of will, workshop, lightning bolt, dual lands, fetch lands, library, strip mine. I’m sure I’m missing obvious cards but this is just off the top of my head
Nice to see transmute artifact so high up in this list. Beautiful card and super useful in the right deck. In mtg 93/94 it has a prominent place in Power Monolith decks.
A stacked list! Lots of fun spells in this one. I’m working on building High Tide for Legacy, and I’m looking forward to slamming lots of Time Spirals in the future!
I think that Reserve List cards shouldn't be considered real Magic cards anymore. They're unobtainable to reasonable players, the better ones are wildly overpriced for their effect, and their presence has a stifling effect on players that would like to expand the formats they play. The jump from Standard to Modern might see you go from a $200 deck to a $1,o00 one. The jump to Legacy might see you in the literal tens of thousands of dollars... mostly because dual lands cost about as much as one month's rent, *each*. This is not healthy.
Would be nice if you did a list like this but with the lowest price the card can be acquired for in mind, you just went through explaining how you will not go into "special versions" of the cards and then you have Grim Tutor at number 8. if i wanted to get a copy of "Grim Tutor" and i just wanted to get the lowest cost version of the card, currently the "special edition" Crack the Vault - Grim Tutor - Secret Lair Drop Series (SLD) is the lowest at $14.00. i would consider a "Grim Tutor" from "Starter 1999" to be the "special variant" of the card as it demands a price much higher than Crack the Vault - Grim Tutor - Secret Lair Drop Series (SLD).
I’d be interested in seeing this top 10 but for cards printed after Modern Horizons. Only because none of this was news to me. And I can imagine it might be the same case for other people watching this as well. Still tho- very grateful for your videos! 🎉
This is certainly an interesting list because of all the caveats and restrictions to what could be considered. Highlights a lot of cards that would not be considered.
Green Sun Zenith is no longer the only spell of it's type that lets you reanimate something. Invasion of Ikoria also does that and is effectively a sorcery
I thought expensive meant cmc for a moment. I was like "how do you do a top ten on just the ten highest cmc" I forgot about this series with actual money costs.
Now I know you said "Other cards in Arabian Nights are not near as expensive". I can only guess you meant just the sorceries because Juzam Djinn would like to have a word with you about his price tag.
Ok so you misspoke on finale of devastation saying if x is 10 or more your creatures get +6+6 amd trample which don't get me wrong would be strong buts actually they get +x+x and trample which is fsr more busted meaning at minimum its +10+10
Not disagreeing there lol you’re right. Just should be clear since trample would make it even more busted (though usually you can tutor something that gives mass trample at that point)
Oh Man, as a 10 year old kid I had Shahrazad. Which was about 25 years ago. I didn't really understand the card back then. Especially since English is not my first language. At some point I sold it together with all the other cards at once, way too cheap. If one knew such price developments only in advance.
Actually it is capitalized. It's just that in this font they used, the capital H looks similar in shape but it's not exactly the same. You can compare in a card like Benalish Hero where there is a lower case and upper case H and compare.
@Rorschachqp You the real mvp. That's really interesting. It certainly is what we typically would consider the "lowercase h" shape but it absolutely is clearly the uppercase font size if you look at Benalish Hero. Neat! Thanks for the info!
@@AArdW01f I believe the font is influenced by illuminated script used for hand writing old books that monks produced. It’s to give the feeling that we have a spell book (of cards) in our hand. That’s why the backs of the card look like a spell book cover.
I hate the idea of reserved list. If its on that list it should not be playable in any sanctioned format. This is a game meant to be played, yes like anything in life you can collect it but having core pieces needed to play certain formats set to only get more expensive due to this is ridiculous. Want to play legacy? Better get ready to trade your car in for a deck.
Me too. They should go back to the previous Reserved List rules so they can keep releasing newer versions of Reserved List cards but in a highly controlled way so that the release neither breaks the market nor tanks collect-ability of older versions.
I'd think Tinker should be the most expensive sorcery, since it allows you to sacrifice a useless artifact like Mox Diamond for Teeka's Dragon.
This is the only way to use Mox Diamond.
@@TheGloriousLobsterEmperorMox Diamond would be on a Top 10 Best Cards in Vintage (Minus the Power 9!) but ONLY for this reason
@@cax1175u dudes and this power 9 top 10 is hilarious
I can't tell you how many times I've seen Tinker to Teeka's in my cube.
Tinker is only legal in vintage which brings the price down
I love Shahrazad. Absolutely perfect example of gameplay translating to flavor, and a good show of why sometimes you should sacrifice some amount of flavor to keep the game fun.
Timetwister also had lacked the "remove this card from the game upon resolution" clause that caused it to be even more broken
That type of wording wasn't used in almost any capacity until Yawgmoth's Will, and it was only accidentally seen before then on cards like Necropotence they didn't realize would be good anyway.
After Yawg though, it would not be until Odyssey that flashback would make exile a regular cost.
And after Odyssey, it wasn't until M11 that they started regularly stapling Exile drawbacks on obviously powerful effects.
From Arabian Nights -- Invasion block, you were looking at spells being designed so that you were supposed to be able to copy and reuse them easily.
They just would not print references to the Power Nine or other famous strong effects at all in between about Masques to Onslaught, because it was known those cards were so powerful that attempts to weaken them would fail.
In the super-old days of 1994, you could play more than 4x Timetwisters in a 40 card deck, haha.
I was lucky enough to pull a Yawgmoth's Will right from a booster back in the ancient world. Even then I knew the card was super busted. I should have slipped it right into a sleeve but who would have thought the game would still be going 25 years later? Its stored away in a hardpack now, but definitely "played" condition. The moniker "Yawgmoth's Win" is appropriate- I can't think of a game I lost after resolving it.
The price is always right with me. Except for the ridiculous price of the power 9. I mean, what would you even use them for?! They can't even make it onto "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)"!
I know you post this on every vid but what do you think that list would look like?
Sol ring, mana crypt, brainstorm, force of will, workshop, lightning bolt, dual lands, fetch lands, library, strip mine. I’m sure I’m missing obvious cards but this is just off the top of my head
I loved how you grouped the Legends cards, portal cards, urza's cards etc. to take up only one slot.
Nice to see transmute artifact so high up in this list. Beautiful card and super useful in the right deck. In mtg 93/94 it has a prominent place in Power Monolith decks.
Those decks are alot of fun to wield! Definitely a forgotten combos episode worthy😂
@@MarylandBF Sort of...Power Monolith doesn't exist in actual 1994 play, same as Twiddle/Vault.
A stacked list! Lots of fun spells in this one. I’m working on building High Tide for Legacy, and I’m looking forward to slamming lots of Time Spirals in the future!
Mike DiTerlizzi, Phil Foglio, and Kaja Foglio are my favorite Magic artists of all time. I miss that silly storybook art style so much.
Do you mean Tony DiTerlizzi?
I think that Reserve List cards shouldn't be considered real Magic cards anymore. They're unobtainable to reasonable players, the better ones are wildly overpriced for their effect, and their presence has a stifling effect on players that would like to expand the formats they play. The jump from Standard to Modern might see you go from a $200 deck to a $1,o00 one. The jump to Legacy might see you in the literal tens of thousands of dollars... mostly because dual lands cost about as much as one month's rent, *each*.
This is not healthy.
Would be nice if you did a list like this but with the lowest price the card can be acquired for in mind, you just went through explaining how you will not go into "special versions" of the cards and then you have Grim Tutor at number 8. if i wanted to get a copy of "Grim Tutor" and i just wanted to get the lowest cost version of the card, currently the "special edition" Crack the Vault - Grim Tutor - Secret Lair Drop Series (SLD) is the lowest at $14.00. i would consider a "Grim Tutor" from "Starter 1999" to be the "special variant" of the card as it demands a price much higher than Crack the Vault - Grim Tutor - Secret Lair Drop Series (SLD).
I once witnessed in a game where someone cast Shahrazzad within a Shahrazzad game. It was banned in our playgroup by the very next day.
A top 10 list of surgical extraction/ cabal therapy style effects would be cool!
Show and Tell was banned in Premodern but recently that ban was lifted.
Time walk?
Got to be.
Capture is temporal manipulation not time warp
I’d be interested in seeing this top 10 but for cards printed after Modern Horizons.
Only because none of this was news to me. And I can imagine it might be the same case for other people watching this as well.
Still tho- very grateful for your videos! 🎉
$53000 is some interesting rounding at 16:16 haha
Yes! Another top 10 list!
Top ten most expensive pauper cards
Honestly except for battles and planeswalkers the serie can be: THE MOST EXPENSIVE cards of Alpha!
I have a signed Yawgmoth's Will, ha.
Ahh the reserved list, my old nemesis!
This is certainly an interesting list because of all the caveats and restrictions to what could be considered. Highlights a lot of cards that would not be considered.
Some cards on this list made me drop my jaw,
it would be cool if you would show the prices of the unlimited cards too, when Betas are mentioned 😍
Green Sun Zenith is no longer the only spell of it's type that lets you reanimate something. Invasion of Ikoria also does that and is effectively a sorcery
I thought expensive meant cmc for a moment. I was like "how do you do a top ten on just the ten highest cmc" I forgot about this series with actual money costs.
Now I know you said "Other cards in Arabian Nights are not near as expensive". I can only guess you meant just the sorceries because Juzam Djinn would like to have a word with you about his price tag.
I specifically said cards on the reserved list that no one plays.
@@NizzahonMagic Where is Juzam Djinn played?
Wow 50secs ago, that was lucky timing
Finale of devastation is not the only green card that can tutor from the graveyard. Invasion of ikoria can also do this.
Ok so you misspoke on finale of devastation saying if x is 10 or more your creatures get +6+6 amd trample which don't get me wrong would be strong buts actually they get +x+x and trample which is fsr more busted meaning at minimum its +10+10
Not trample, haste
@jackvogel701 right I forgot gives haste point still stands that it's +x+x and not a flat 6
Not disagreeing there lol you’re right. Just should be clear since trample would make it even more busted (though usually you can tutor something that gives mass trample at that point)
I think there is an annotation about this in the video.
@jackvogel701 honestly I think I had crater hoof on the brain since that's usually what this card gets for me most the time
Oh Man, as a 10 year old kid I had Shahrazad. Which was about 25 years ago. I didn't really understand the card back then. Especially since English is not my first language. At some point I sold it together with all the other cards at once, way too cheap. If one knew such price developments only in advance.
You know what's funnier than reading Shahrazad when your English is not that good? Reading to your opponent...
"A mere $16,000..."
Lol
Yawgmoth's will $150? Huh, I think I sold that for the equivalent of about $15 some ten odd years ago.
I have a white bordered wheel of fortune. Pretty good condition.
It’s Wednesday my dudes
Wait finale is 50$?! Maybe ill sell that lol
I like the Shahrazad timestamp
finale of devastation 10 mana pumped into it grab craterhoof go
Hell yeah
Why isn't the h in hellfire capitalized
I must know
If you look at old cards, the H isn't capitalized on any cards.
@NizzahonMagic but.... y tho....??
Actually it is capitalized. It's just that in this font they used, the capital H looks similar in shape but it's not exactly the same. You can compare in a card like Benalish Hero where there is a lower case and upper case H and compare.
@Rorschachqp
You the real mvp. That's really interesting. It certainly is what we typically would consider the "lowercase h" shape but it absolutely is clearly the uppercase font size if you look at Benalish Hero.
Neat! Thanks for the info!
@@AArdW01f I believe the font is influenced by illuminated script used for hand writing old books that monks produced. It’s to give the feeling that we have a spell book (of cards) in our hand. That’s why the backs of the card look like a spell book cover.
I hate the idea of reserved list. If its on that list it should not be playable in any sanctioned format. This is a game meant to be played, yes like anything in life you can collect it but having core pieces needed to play certain formats set to only get more expensive due to this is ridiculous. Want to play legacy? Better get ready to trade your car in for a deck.
Me too. They should go back to the previous Reserved List rules so they can keep releasing newer versions of Reserved List cards but in a highly controlled way so that the release neither breaks the market nor tanks collect-ability of older versions.
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