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Most sponsors dont want that. They want you to read a copy paste script. Also he probably doesnt accept most of them because he only supports products he likes.
@@chromarush1749 That's easily the most important part: Only supporting products he feels comfortable supporting. I don't need earbuds or anything, but if I were to buy some, I'd feel comfortable with something that Prof tells us (even via silly skit) is a quality product.
5:45 Actually, since the aura gives the creature the text ability, the controller of the creature will untap their lands, not the controller of the aura. 14:20 Why would you need to counter a spell that targets Helix Pinnacle when it has Shroud though?
You need to protect Helix Pinnacle when there's an Opalescence on the battlefield and an opponent activated Arcane Lighthouse. I'm sure that's... maybe... possibly... happened before.
If someone can target your Helix Pinnacle with single target removal, they deserve it. I know there are many ways to target things with hex proof, but with shroud I can only find effects that remove/let you target through on creatures. Nothing for permanent or enchantment.
Watch the video! But if you're looking for the specific spells, here is a list: 3:11 Artificial Evolution 4:35 Aura Finesse 5:59 Clockspinning 7:45 Gift of Tusks 8:50 Mistcaller 9:45 Mystic Speculation 11:04 Shadow Rift 12:06 Spy Network 13:25 Turn Aside 14:30 Whim of Volrath
My favorite 1 mana card is genju of the falls. It's a one mana blue enchantment that allows you, at any time, to convert an island into a 3/2 flyer for 2 mana, with the upside that it'll return to your hand if the land-creature dies
I don’t usually run blue, I tend to prefer decks that are heavy in black and that suits my play style more, but i recently built a sultai deck and I really appreciate this video because it helps me learn more cards for a color I’m not very well versed in building/playing.
Great video, a few of your examples were flawed though. (This is meant to be constructive) Somebody already pointed out the issue with the bear umbra example (the creature gains the ability, not the aura so giving it to an opponent hurts you). Shadowrift and swords, you showed one that gives pro blue so you can't target it. Turn aside, you mention pinacle helix which is shroud so it wouldn't be targeted in the first place outside of very specific circumstances. One of my favorite 1 cost blue spell is soothsaying while it's not quite as good as a scry, being able to dig as deep as you want at the end of the turn is often very powerful. Edit: another very powerful 1 cost blue spell is aqueous form. Unblockable, scry every turn for 1? Yes please!
4:18 Text-altering effects apply to the type line too, so changing Human into Goat on Wingspan Mentor also changes the Mentor into a Goat Wizard, and thus it still can't choose itself as the target non-Goat creature. (You still could use it this way to make it give one of your other humans a flying counter, though!) This is just a little nitpick and I still love this card (it's been a longtime favorite of mine - I just wish it had buyback like some of the others you pointed out so that I could use it to run a *bunch* of fun tribal cards and make them all synergize with the same creature type), as well as the video as a whole!
Whim of Volrath, Shadow Rift, and Mystic Speculation have changed up my Merfolk Tribal deck for the better! I also found room for Mystic Speculation in other blue decks I found. This has been a most informative lesson, indeed.
3:50 In your Rite of Replication/Reaper King example, Artificial Evolution does very little. Text-changing effects do not change copiable values, so after Rite of Replication resolves the opponent would have one Goat King and five Reaper Kings. They'd get five fewer "destroy target permanent" triggers, but they'd still get 20 of them and could choose to keep an unmodified Reaper King. Likewise, you can't use Artificial Evolution to let Wingspan Mentor target itself. If you replace "human" with "goat," it'd be able to target a non-goat creature, but Wingspan Mentor itself would be a goat wizard.
the whim of volrath stuff you talked about is what i was doing with my angus deck, northern paladin destroys a black permanent, lifeforce counters a black spell, change them all to what ever colour i need, i also ran some versions of it that effected spells. Loved watching my friend green sun for a red creature in his simic deck
Glad to see Clockspinning make this list. Excellent synergy with Sphinx-Bone Wand as a way for a spell-based deck to put some pressure on on a budget (of money, not mana). As long as you have planeswalkers kicking about it's just a really nice outlet for excess mana.
Yeah it’s true fool, I was bumpin’ phat beats here on RUclips, but I got a notification that this video is new, I was like man this beat slaps I don’t know what to do, yeah I guess I’ll scope the vid since I use blue.
Hey ! I dug into my archives and found out I had two Shadow rifts left ! They go directly into my Commander Box ! Thanks Prof for pointing to a cool use for these forgotten cards !
I actually like Clockspinning, and have used it, specifically in Talrand, where it was mostly a card that could nab me 2 drakes a turn while slightly nerfing an opponent's creature, since it wasn't hard to end up vs the odd +1/+1 counter user. The fact that it can add or remove is nice though, makes it way more Johnny-able.
3:50 I get what's being said here but in this instance the five copied Reaper Kings will still say Scarecrow and each will see each other enter for 20 total triggers. Only the original will miss them, and therefore miss out on a comparatively low 5 triggers.
My favorite U cards - Stifle : - Chain of Vapor - Gitaxian Probe - Mental Misstep - Mystic Remora They are all popular. If you never use them, let's try them and you're gonna love them : )
always appreciated. you are the man. it sure is nice to have such a concise well worded "streamer" to spend time watching. you hit all the marks in my book.
Professor, you're the only youtube channel that I dont skip the sponsor claim because you do that SO well. Idk how much they pay you for this but you're doing double the job you're supposed to do, like.. WOW! (oh, and great video as always)
I have exactly one copy of Mystic Speculation from when Future Sight came out. And it is probably my favorite card in my Intet the Dreamer deck. Love it.
One one-mana blue card that I've enjoyed using is Retraced Image. If you're in a staple-heavy meta it can "cheat" the cost of powerful cards. Most cases though it is a blue explore without the card draw. Island, Retraced Image, Island gives you solid ramp early that doesn't get blown up with artifact hate.
Sad that telepathy isn’t on here. It’s one of my favorite pet cards and everytime I play it everyone is like wait what😂 the our knowledge it gives is definitely worth 1 mana
it slows down play and clutters the board immensly. also it has resolving time comparable to Thieves Auction because everyone needs to read al the cards before doing anything. its just not wort it.
I’m a fan of visions of beyond, in commander I find at least one person usually has the required prerequisite for value, at which point it just turns into an ancestral recall;)
Clockspinning is also a good way to ramp planeswalkers, especially Teferi, Temporal Archmage and Tezzeret the Seeker. There's easy ways to even go infinite with it and Temporal Archmage.
There's also the slightly more obvious play in Clockspinning off a counter in Arixmethes, since that will take two off from him and may be enough to make him a creature and ready to swing.
Gotta add a second comment on here really quick. I started watching this channel to learn how to play Pokémon. Now not only do I know how to play Pokémon very well, I also have gotten 2 friends into playing magic with me. I didn’t play magic before watching this channel lol. I love this channel. Keep up the good work.
If you put Bear Umbra on another person's creature it prints the text onto their creature, and THEY will untap THEIR lands. It's the important differentiation between Curiosity, and the "fixed" pseudo reprints like Curious Obsession and there was one more around Ixalan or Dominaria that I cannot remember at all
Brian you cannot target a creature equipped with a Sword of Fire and Ice with Shadow Rift because of the protection from blue. Though you can use Volrath's Whim to change the color of protection. Also Turn Aside is unlikely to save your Helix Pinnacle due to it having Shroud.
In reference to number 8, I prefer slip through space. Same card except it's true unblockable and has devoid, meaning protection from blue is not a way to counter it.
Slip is a sorcery and rift is instant. Also, if your opp have only one blocker (or only one decent blocker) just give shadow to it and swing out. Rift is definitely better than slip. I think it goes rift>artful dodge>slip.
One I am surprised that is not on the list is Abjure. Sure you have to sacrifice a blue permanent to counter a spell, but a one mana counter ANY target spell should be considered.
Bear Umbra doesn't work like that. A quick glance at the ruling on Scryfall reveals that "When the enchanted creature attacks, all lands controlled by that creature’s controller (who is not necessarily the Aura’s controller) untap."
2 things: Draw a card, play a land, pass, is Magic the way Richard Garfield intended. Second, I love Clockspinning in my Will and Rowan superfriends deck, Will can make the buyback cost super cheap, and it's really good to surprise my opponents who thought my Planeswalkers were another turn away from ulting, now suddenly ult now.
11:32 Professor I don't think you can use Shadow Rift on something equipped with sword of fire and ice. Protection from Blue applies to your own spells too lol
An even cheaper alternative to Shadow Rift is the Oath of the Gatewatch card Slip Through Space. Effectively the same spell, it's 1 blue mana, target creature cant be blocked this turn. I know that effect is slightly different, but 9/10 times it's the same. It also has Devoid, so it's colorless.
I was running Mystic Speculation and turn aside in my Niv Mizzet drawslinger before this video came out. My replacements for them would be Mana Tap. You basically turn turn that one big thing you havent been able to do anything with because someone put a pacify on it inti mana you can use for other stuff
An alternative to "spy network" could be "telepathy", for 1 blue mana you have an enchantment that make your opponents play with their hands revealed, so you could prepare for anything while your hand is a mistery
I know spy network is card disadvantage and not really a cantrip however, I remember when I first saw the card. It does so many things for just 1 mana, I think the card is awesome.
The bear umbra on an opponent doesn’t work, it ties the trigger to the creature so the opponent untaps All his or her lands :( I wish I worked like that
Just like with the recently printed impetuses, since the card belongs to you, no matter what creature it is attached to, all instances of 'you' gaining an activated ability go to the owner of the enchantment.
@@chromarush1749 The problem here is that it doesn't say "Whenever enchanted creature attacks," it says "This creature has 'Whenever this creature attacks.'" Thus the creature has the ability, not the enchantment, so the creature's controller untaps.
The professor is definitely a legendary creature in the mtg community. I would say he’s mythic, for sure. I wonder what his stats would be and mana colors 🤔 The mtg content is so fun to watch and artful. Wizards of the coast should be paying you for these and give you a lot of fetch lands. 😁Your videos are awesome.
5:50 - actually Prof, if you put Bear Umbra on an Opponent's creature, THEY get the untap too! The creature's controller, not the Aura's, is the one that gains the benefit, since the Umbra is worded as "this creature has " (confirmed by oracle). sorry!
Celerian Wisps is my favourite 1 mana blue card. it cantrips so it doesnt need to do much yet changing the colour of your guy or even an opponents creature can be situationally absurd. Meanwhile untapping a creature mid combat or with a good tap ability does a bunch of work.
I would say vanishing is a pretty good 1 mana cost blue spell. I dont know how much it's used, but with the people I've played with at lgs I've been the only person who used it
I have literally been playing with command the dreadhorde since it came out and never knew I could bring back a creature from other people's graveyards. Reading the card explains the card goddamnit!
I lost my sh*t when the professor mentioned Spy Network! I have so much love for that card. To see all those befuddled faces across the table asking "What did you just play?" "It does what?" is priceless. It was also nice to find out that the price of Mystic Speculation dropped back down from $3.
While I dearly love Aura Finesse, I found that I always replace it with Crown of Ages, because multiple uses in one card slot usually trumps drawing one card. Also, Crown of Ages doesn't need the Aura to be yours, which lets you do even more shenanigans.
I might be one of the few people that actually does stop with just one Mutate creature per stack. Then again, I don't really care about the "when it mutates" effects, but rather the ability to give trample or flying to hydra's and the ability to make legendary creatures non-legendary, by mutating over them; which in turn lets me clone them with more than just Helm of the Host and Spark Double. Best case so far was Parcel Beast over Edric, then casting Tempt with Reflections on it, against 1 opponent who needed lands and 2 that were obsessed with card draw. Things spiraled out of control from there, but it was fun and chaotic, despite the lack of red.
Nothing but respect to the Professor but I feel like there's a good deal of bad deckbuilding advice here. Most of these cards have only situational utility, which goes against a nearly unbreakable rule of good deckbuilding - that every card in your commander deck should be focused toward your wincon, at least when building for optimization. Some of these cards even have strictly better options. Why turn a creature into a 3/3 heffalump until the end if the turn when you can destroy it and permanently 3/3 it with a Pongify or Rapid Hybridization? Why pay U to scry 3 when you can look at the top 3 of your deck and *draw one* with Ponder, or even scry 2 and draw with Preordain? Four mana to buyback a card that is only scrying 3 is not a good deal. Don't play cards that only have circumstantial utility unless they synergize with your whole deck's strategy, folks.
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"How miserable is it to just drop a land and pass?"
I feel attacked right now Prof. Stop it.
Same
That's why i build a cedh kess deck... almost every card in the deck is 1 or 0 mana. it feels great
lol, ask that question to a blue player
No no for real, I am hurt
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i dont understand how the professor isnt drowning in sponsors, he has the best intros and is always creative with his ad reads
Most sponsors dont want that. They want you to read a copy paste script. Also he probably doesnt accept most of them because he only supports products he likes.
Andrew Sawyer ^^^ yeah... this.
@@chromarush1749 That's easily the most important part: Only supporting products he feels comfortable supporting. I don't need earbuds or anything, but if I were to buy some, I'd feel comfortable with something that Prof tells us (even via silly skit) is a quality product.
He’s one of the only ones I sit through the whole ad segment without skipping
Corporate sponsorship is in direct correlation with number of subscribers.
i like how the professor uses terms that I, your average young delinquent can understand:)
I agree
That intro was totally bodacious, my tubular professor!
stop
plz
5:45 Actually, since the aura gives the creature the text ability, the controller of the creature will untap their lands, not the controller of the aura.
14:20 Why would you need to counter a spell that targets Helix Pinnacle when it has Shroud though?
"Imagine jumping through so many hoops to target a Shroud permanent only to get stopped by "Turn Aside?"
My thoughts exactly.
I was looking for this comment, lol
11:31 Also can't use Shadow Rift to target a creature equipped with Sword of Fire and Ice but I guess it can be equipped later.
You need to protect Helix Pinnacle when there's an Opalescence on the battlefield and an opponent activated Arcane Lighthouse. I'm sure that's... maybe... possibly... happened before.
That Ad was so sneaky. I swear you used haste and unblockable on that
It as a full blown Sneak Attack
Put the lightning greaves on it
I think Marchesa's Smuggler must be the one writing those ads for him
nah, I think he used Skulk because that was a low (damage) blow
Damn how did the Prof know about my mad phat beets.
Only the mtg god knows
He knows because he can sense all music in his classes
14:28 But Professor, Helix Pinnacle has Shroud already. It doesn't need spot removal protection.....
If someone can target your Helix Pinnacle with single target removal, they deserve it. I know there are many ways to target things with hex proof, but with shroud I can only find effects that remove/let you target through on creatures. Nothing for permanent or enchantment.
but what if there is Humility and Opalescence on board, huh? how will you protect your win condition then? oh wait...
Council's judgement from conspiracy works, but it doesn't target.
The Prof sits down on a backwards facing chair
Me: "Oh god, here it comes."
Watch the video! But if you're looking for the specific spells, here is a list:
3:11 Artificial Evolution
4:35 Aura Finesse
5:59 Clockspinning
7:45 Gift of Tusks
8:50 Mistcaller
9:45 Mystic Speculation
11:04 Shadow Rift
12:06 Spy Network
13:25 Turn Aside
14:30 Whim of Volrath
“... Know that if I see any in class they will be confiscated and I’m gonna keep em’!” 😂👍
My favorite 1 mana card is genju of the falls. It's a one mana blue enchantment that allows you, at any time, to convert an island into a 3/2 flyer for 2 mana, with the upside that it'll return to your hand if the land-creature dies
Retraced Image is my pick. One mana mono blue ramp when used on an island as the floor, and the ceiling is super high to cheat things in.
I was doing fine with the intro until he pronounced bass "bass"
awesome bass!
@@Sceleri Fresh, delicious bass! Be it freshwater or sea bass.
@@MGlBlaze Sea Bass? No, wait- it's at least a C+!
Mason Brown its part of the whole “super hip and rad” joke
as a musician this was really irritating
I don't even play Magic, but I love this stuff
I don’t usually run blue, I tend to prefer decks that are heavy in black and that suits my play style more, but i recently built a sultai deck and I really appreciate this video because it helps me learn more cards for a color I’m not very well versed in building/playing.
Great video, a few of your examples were flawed though. (This is meant to be constructive)
Somebody already pointed out the issue with the bear umbra example (the creature gains the ability, not the aura so giving it to an opponent hurts you).
Shadowrift and swords, you showed one that gives pro blue so you can't target it.
Turn aside, you mention pinacle helix which is shroud so it wouldn't be targeted in the first place outside of very specific circumstances.
One of my favorite 1 cost blue spell is soothsaying while it's not quite as good as a scry, being able to dig as deep as you want at the end of the turn is often very powerful.
Edit: another very powerful 1 cost blue spell is aqueous form. Unblockable, scry every turn for 1? Yes please!
Sometimes soothsaying is better than scry, I use it in Kruphix for a mana dump to set things up.
Where is the 6 hour podcast, I need to listen to it
I believe it's Limited Resources.
Spoiler alert - garrison cat wins because cat
Clockspinning is also a great choice if your commander is Arixmethes, especially since he can help pay for the buyback himself.
I was waiting for [[Soothsaying]]. Talk about an under played 1 cmc blue drop
Seems like Soothsaying is reasonably popular. But it certainly is pretty good in a lot of decks. Might be that it is still underplayed.
4:18 Text-altering effects apply to the type line too, so changing Human into Goat on Wingspan Mentor also changes the Mentor into a Goat Wizard, and thus it still can't choose itself as the target non-Goat creature. (You still could use it this way to make it give one of your other humans a flying counter, though!)
This is just a little nitpick and I still love this card (it's been a longtime favorite of mine - I just wish it had buyback like some of the others you pointed out so that I could use it to run a *bunch* of fun tribal cards and make them all synergize with the same creature type), as well as the video as a whole!
Whim of Volrath, Shadow Rift, and Mystic Speculation have changed up my Merfolk Tribal deck for the better! I also found room for Mystic Speculation in other blue decks I found. This has been a most informative lesson, indeed.
Im pretty sure Bear umbra gives the creature the untap ability, meaning that the creature controller benifits, not bear umbras control.
you are right. there other errors in this video too. :(
Reading the card explains the card.
Now THAT was a good sponsor ad! See? Knew you could do it 🍷
Turn Aside is a great shout. Helped me to protect my mill theme safe in a recent game when I got a scary Consuming Aberration down.
3:50 In your Rite of Replication/Reaper King example, Artificial Evolution does very little. Text-changing effects do not change copiable values, so after Rite of Replication resolves the opponent would have one Goat King and five Reaper Kings. They'd get five fewer "destroy target permanent" triggers, but they'd still get 20 of them and could choose to keep an unmodified Reaper King.
Likewise, you can't use Artificial Evolution to let Wingspan Mentor target itself. If you replace "human" with "goat," it'd be able to target a non-goat creature, but Wingspan Mentor itself would be a goat wizard.
the whim of volrath stuff you talked about is what i was doing with my angus deck, northern paladin destroys a black permanent, lifeforce counters a black spell, change them all to what ever colour i need, i also ran some versions of it that effected spells. Loved watching my friend green sun for a red creature in his simic deck
Glad to see Clockspinning make this list. Excellent synergy with Sphinx-Bone Wand as a way for a spell-based deck to put some pressure on on a budget (of money, not mana). As long as you have planeswalkers kicking about it's just a really nice outlet for excess mana.
Yeah it’s true fool, I was bumpin’ phat beats here on RUclips, but I got a notification that this video is new, I was like man this beat slaps I don’t know what to do, yeah I guess I’ll scope the vid since I use blue.
Hey ! I dug into my archives and found out I had two Shadow rifts left ! They go directly into my Commander Box ! Thanks Prof for pointing to a cool use for these forgotten cards !
Totally thought that was gonna be a "serious talk" about secret lairs.
Prof, that was some FANTASTIC physical comedy at the end. Much props.
I actually like Clockspinning, and have used it, specifically in Talrand, where it was mostly a card that could nab me 2 drakes a turn while slightly nerfing an opponent's creature, since it wasn't hard to end up vs the odd +1/+1 counter user. The fact that it can add or remove is nice though, makes it way more Johnny-able.
3:50 I get what's being said here but in this instance the five copied Reaper Kings will still say Scarecrow and each will see each other enter for 20 total triggers. Only the original will miss them, and therefore miss out on a comparatively low 5 triggers.
My favorite U cards
- Stifle :
- Chain of Vapor
- Gitaxian Probe
- Mental Misstep
- Mystic Remora
They are all popular. If you never use them, let's try them and you're gonna love them : )
Oh... I was already using Clockspinning as my favorite little dirty secret.
Prof this is one of my FAVORITE series youve ever done! Spectacular! Wonderful service to the game in a much needed way.
always appreciated. you are the man. it sure is nice to have such a concise well worded "streamer" to spend time watching. you hit all the marks in my book.
I still can't believe you managed to make your sponsor time so fun to watch. Every time.
Professor, you're the only youtube channel that I dont skip the sponsor claim because you do that SO well. Idk how much they pay you for this but you're doing double the job you're supposed to do, like.. WOW!
(oh, and great video as always)
I love me some 'Curfew'. Super underrated- especially with a creature etb deck.
Yay! [Curfew] buddies!
13:40 Hindering light & Dawn Charm cost 2 (and have white in their cost) and also counter a spell that targets you.
I have exactly one copy of Mystic Speculation from when Future Sight came out. And it is probably my favorite card in my Intet the Dreamer deck. Love it.
One one-mana blue card that I've enjoyed using is Retraced Image. If you're in a staple-heavy meta it can "cheat" the cost of powerful cards. Most cases though it is a blue explore without the card draw. Island, Retraced Image, Island gives you solid ramp early that doesn't get blown up with artifact hate.
Sad that telepathy isn’t on here. It’s one of my favorite pet cards and everytime I play it everyone is like wait what😂 the our knowledge it gives is definitely worth 1 mana
I'm glad your group let's you play with that. Mine usually ganged up on my as soon as I drop it so I ended up removing it entirely from my decks
The only problem with Telepathy is finding room on the table for everyone to lay out their hands.
it slows down play and clutters the board immensly. also it has resolving time comparable to Thieves Auction because everyone needs to read al the cards before doing anything. its just not wort it.
I play telepathy in my sen triplets deck!
So fun to play but wastes a lot of time while playing si most people don't allow it. :(
I’m a fan of visions of beyond, in commander I find at least one person usually has the required prerequisite for value, at which point it just turns into an ancestral recall;)
Wow.... I'm definitely running Mystic Speculation in my Haldan and Pako deck now, thanks a lot 😊
Clockspinning is also a good way to ramp planeswalkers, especially Teferi, Temporal Archmage and Tezzeret the Seeker. There's easy ways to even go infinite with it and Temporal Archmage.
There's also the slightly more obvious play in Clockspinning off a counter in Arixmethes, since that will take two off from him and may be enough to make him a creature and ready to swing.
Gotta add a second comment on here really quick.
I started watching this channel to learn how to play Pokémon.
Now not only do I know how to play Pokémon very well, I also have gotten 2 friends into playing magic with me.
I didn’t play magic before watching this channel lol.
I love this channel.
Keep up the good work.
Daaaaaw. Thank you. :)
Tolarian Community College you’re very welcome! Thanks for the great videos!
Prof is actually really good at these ads. Not ashamed to say I was influenced into picking up a pair
If you put Bear Umbra on another person's creature it prints the text onto their creature, and THEY will untap THEIR lands.
It's the important differentiation between Curiosity, and the "fixed" pseudo reprints like Curious Obsession and there was one more around Ixalan or Dominaria that I cannot remember at all
Brian you cannot target a creature equipped with a Sword of Fire and Ice with Shadow Rift because of the protection from blue. Though you can use Volrath's Whim to change the color of protection. Also Turn Aside is unlikely to save your Helix Pinnacle due to it having Shroud.
In reference to number 8, I prefer slip through space. Same card except it's true unblockable and has devoid, meaning protection from blue is not a way to counter it.
Slip is a sorcery and rift is instant. Also, if your opp have only one blocker (or only one decent blocker) just give shadow to it and swing out.
Rift is definitely better than slip. I think it goes rift>artful dodge>slip.
One I am surprised that is not on the list is Abjure. Sure you have to sacrifice a blue permanent to counter a spell, but a one mana counter ANY target spell should be considered.
This is literally the only big channel that I don't skip the ads because he makes them so funny
When I started to watch professor's videos I really could'nt tell is the ads he did were real or just jokes.
Here's a guy who knows.how to advertise.
Clockspinning is one of my favorite cards
Bear Umbra doesn't work like that. A quick glance at the ruling on Scryfall reveals that "When the enchanted creature attacks, all lands controlled by that creature’s controller (who is not necessarily the Aura’s controller) untap."
I loved the Tempest set so much.
Probably one of my all time favs.
2 things: Draw a card, play a land, pass, is Magic the way Richard Garfield intended.
Second, I love Clockspinning in my Will and Rowan superfriends deck, Will can make the buyback cost super cheap, and it's really good to surprise my opponents who thought my Planeswalkers were another turn away from ulting, now suddenly ult now.
I have a niv mizzet commander deck with minor scry synergy and these one-cost instants make me excited!
All Tolarian videos from here on out should have the Professor sitting on the chair like this. It really makes Magic much more relatable.
Great video been really loving your content lately
11:32 Professor I don't think you can use Shadow Rift on something equipped with sword of fire and ice. Protection from Blue applies to your own spells too lol
I love that you put effort into your adds
@11:31 : just make sure to cast Shadow Rift BEFORE equip the Sword of Fire and Ice ;)
An even cheaper alternative to Shadow Rift is the Oath of the Gatewatch card Slip Through Space. Effectively the same spell, it's 1 blue mana, target creature cant be blocked this turn. I know that effect is slightly different, but 9/10 times it's the same. It also has Devoid, so it's colorless.
I really really love that room you're in!
That was some top notch physical comedy there at the end. Peter sellers would be proud.
I was running Mystic Speculation and turn aside in my Niv Mizzet drawslinger before this video came out.
My replacements for them would be Mana Tap. You basically turn turn that one big thing you havent been able to do anything with because someone put a pacify on it inti mana you can use for other stuff
An alternative to "spy network" could be "telepathy", for 1 blue mana you have an enchantment that make your opponents play with their hands revealed, so you could prepare for anything while your hand is a mistery
That chair bit at the end got me. Great bit of physical comedy 😂
For your consideration: Artificer's Assistant, Cloudfin Raptor, Pteramander, Sleight of Mind, Stubborn Denial, Curiosity & Gigadrowse
Best commercials ever! Loved the recommendations.
I know spy network is card disadvantage and not really a cantrip however, I remember when I first saw the card. It does so many things for just 1 mana, I think the card is awesome.
The bear umbra on an opponent doesn’t work, it ties the trigger to the creature so the opponent untaps
All his or her lands :( I wish I worked like that
Just like with the recently printed impetuses, since the card belongs to you, no matter what creature it is attached to, all instances of 'you' gaining an activated ability go to the owner of the enchantment.
@@chromarush1749 The problem here is that it doesn't say "Whenever enchanted creature attacks," it says "This creature has 'Whenever this creature attacks.'" Thus the creature has the ability, not the enchantment, so the creature's controller untaps.
Best ad opening I have seen in dayz... Thanks Prof bro.
I would also recommend telepathy, while you may be hated out, you have all the knowledge from your opponents that you need.
The professor is definitely a legendary creature in the mtg community. I would say he’s mythic, for sure. I wonder what his stats would be and mana colors 🤔 The mtg content is so fun to watch and artful. Wizards of the coast should be paying you for these and give you a lot of fetch lands. 😁Your videos are awesome.
It's getting to a point where I'm looking forward to your next video so I can also see your sponsor pitch.
5:50 - actually Prof, if you put Bear Umbra on an Opponent's creature, THEY get the untap too! The creature's controller, not the Aura's, is the one that gains the benefit, since the Umbra is worded as "this creature has " (confirmed by oracle). sorry!
Celerian Wisps is my favourite 1 mana blue card. it cantrips so it doesnt need to do much yet changing the colour of your guy or even an opponents creature can be situationally absurd. Meanwhile untapping a creature mid combat or with a good tap ability does a bunch of work.
I would say vanishing is a pretty good 1 mana cost blue spell. I dont know how much it's used, but with the people I've played with at lgs I've been the only person who used it
Is this the first time we had a panoramic view of the Studio/office? It looks really cool
I just bought a couple foil Turn Aside a few weeks back. Both Talrand and Damia use it
I relate to the intro promo, especially since I have used the E25s in school(listening to metal, not rap) and outside of class.
Mystic speculation is one of my favorite magic cards of all time if I can fit it into an edh deck it goes in
shadow rift and similar cards are awesome alongside precursor golem (my favorite "bad" card) push 9 damage through and draw 3 cards seems good to me
I have literally been playing with command the dreadhorde since it came out and never knew I could bring back a creature from other people's graveyards. Reading the card explains the card goddamnit!
That was a pretty good setup for the sponsor.
I lost my sh*t when the professor mentioned Spy Network! I have so much love for that card. To see all those befuddled faces across the table asking "What did you just play?" "It does what?" is priceless.
It was also nice to find out that the price of Mystic Speculation dropped back down from $3.
While I dearly love Aura Finesse, I found that I always replace it with Crown of Ages, because multiple uses in one card slot usually trumps drawing one card. Also, Crown of Ages doesn't need the Aura to be yours, which lets you do even more shenanigans.
11:36 Can't cast Shadow Rift on a creature equipped with Sword of Fire and Ice, as the sword gives pro-blue!
How come this is what people notice not that he wants to counter a spell that targets helix pinnacle
I spit my beer out in the intro when I heard him say “awesome bass (like the fish)” when referring to the headphones.
14:21 Why would you need Turn Aside to protect Helix Pinnacle? It has Shroud.
good timing...lol
I might be one of the few people that actually does stop with just one Mutate creature per stack. Then again, I don't really care about the "when it mutates" effects, but rather the ability to give trample or flying to hydra's and the ability to make legendary creatures non-legendary, by mutating over them; which in turn lets me clone them with more than just Helm of the Host and Spark Double.
Best case so far was Parcel Beast over Edric, then casting Tempt with Reflections on it, against 1 opponent who needed lands and 2 that were obsessed with card draw. Things spiraled out of control from there, but it was fun and chaotic, despite the lack of red.
Nothing but respect to the Professor but I feel like there's a good deal of bad deckbuilding advice here. Most of these cards have only situational utility, which goes against a nearly unbreakable rule of good deckbuilding - that every card in your commander deck should be focused toward your wincon, at least when building for optimization. Some of these cards even have strictly better options. Why turn a creature into a 3/3 heffalump until the end if the turn when you can destroy it and permanently 3/3 it with a Pongify or Rapid Hybridization? Why pay U to scry 3 when you can look at the top 3 of your deck and *draw one* with Ponder, or even scry 2 and draw with Preordain? Four mana to buyback a card that is only scrying 3 is not a good deal.
Don't play cards that only have circumstantial utility unless they synergize with your whole deck's strategy, folks.
Yay! I loved all of this! Thanks for more prof TCC flavor!