I love the flavor of "Legendary Planeswalker- Tired" only having one ability that drops it for the exact amount of loyalty it starts with. It just comes in, throws some life at you, and goes to take a nap.
Even if we go with "every keyword ability", it's still gonna be a mess since some abilities got un-keyworded (Landhome), while other got turned into keyword (Ward)
@@akihitokoizumi2474 Fading only works during upkeep (remove fade counter, sacrifice if you can't). So yeah, it'll be dead your next turn, but it's still gonna hang around
55:30 it just bricks the game if you have any card with a persistent effect that makes you reveal the top of your library like lantern of insight, for example. You will just keep putting the top card of your deck onto the bottom till the heat death of the universe.
Flash specter was misunderstood quite a bit. After it's drafted it gives you the option to give flash to any card drafted by reveling it (so you exchange surprise factor for power). Also, it can't untap, as the counter is removed instead of untapping, not as well.
The bit with the counter is just in reminder text though. We don't ususally count incorrect reminder text either. By the rules of the game that text doesn't exist. Far more frustrated by the fact he thought gods could take damage while not being creatures.
I come from a land ding unders. What color will I choose you wonder. Can't you feel, can't you feel the planeswalkers? You better run you better take cover.
54:50 I'd actually think an ability for "Whenever a player reveal a card, you may put onto the battlefield under your control if it's a permanent card" would pretty sweet actually. Take all those cards that have the downside of giving your opponent the ability to look for something, and then just steal it instead, or to make sure they can't use their fetch lands anymore without just giving you a land.
9:50 that includes Phage's ability, right? Second-turn win con, I love it EDIT: Actually, scratch that. It also gets Abyssal Persecutor ability, so you're stuck in limbo
Remember, any spell cast is also exiled and replaced with another card which can not be cast because players can only cast one spell each turn. But rejoice, it will immediately sacrifice itself to create a 20/20 Marit Lage token. The only question is whether you will ever get there or whether it will create some manner of uninterruptable infinite loop with itself and brick the game beforehand.
@@naphackDT Pretty sure if you have every ability, figure out the static abilities first and then choose the order of other abilities that automatically trigger.
@@rastiabertoy8579 but it cant attack in the future. though, i'm pretty sure it will just straight up kill the opponent because of unblockable (all landwalks, hoursemanship, ect.), and poison/toxic 10
That epic card (Fire Force) requires targets though. So if you don't have two creatures to target, it fizzles. That said you can target opponents' creatures at worst. But if your opponent boardwipes then only plays a single creature, they can beat you to death with it.
1) You create targets because you create your 3 zombies. Your opponent can't board wipe while the card is in the middle of resolving. 2) It is "Up to two" target creatures. Meaning you can choose 0 creatures.
@@naphackDT Cards resolve in the order that abilities are on the card. Since the spell doesn't NEED a target to occur in the first place, you will always get the 3x 2/2 zombies before you get to the part where you can then choose up to 2 target creatures to put counters on. Therfore you will ALWAYS have 3 viable targets to choose (If you wish, you don't have to) If it was written "Choose 2 target creatures to put +1/+1 counters on. Summon three 2/2 zombie token creatures" Then you'd need valid targets for the spell to activate in the first place and wouldn't have the zombies until you've met the targeting criteria.
Honestly, that ooze would actually be a sick Commander in itself. No one would want to kill it because it buffs its ability every time you cast it. The best someone could do would be to cast a spell to cause it to lose its ability. Then you kill it yourself and recast it to buff it up. That card would be awesome. The initial casting cost should be higher, but still an amazing card with a unique, yet workable mechanic.
Oji, Goblin Snoop actually works pretty well with impulse draw ("exile, you can cast it" mechanic). It's not really broken, and I can see it being a mythic in some future set
[Tainted Tutor], IT DANGERS!, "Search your library for seven cards and exile them." That's actually extremely broken for 1 mana. Even if you don't have a way to play the exiled cards, this is some serious deck thinning tech. 1 Copy of this card, effectively means your deck has 8 fewer cards in it, and you can pick which 8 get removed. That means you're that much more likely to draw what you need for a combo set up, or just based on match up. If you got anti flying tech like a Racking Canopy for example and you see they have no flying, you can just remove in the middle of the game with the sole down side of 1 green mana. It sounds kinda stupid, but that card would be extremely broken. It's like the reverse of a side board. This is like fetch lands on crack in terms of improving deck consistency. Absolutely IT DANGERS!
I believe thunder roil rakdos would only give all abilities until the end of combat. "Whenever it attacks, target creature has all abilities" means when it's not attacking, they don't.
So if I read it correctly: the Risen Bals ability gives us the copy of each permanent we control. Can it still copy itself as part of its ability? If so, that's like extra broken
1:24:58 I remember Burrowing being a keyword ability, forgot how it works. EDIT: It was an enchantment that gives a target creature Mountainwalk. So, no.
Tainted tutor is actually busted in combo decks, to boost consistency. You run 4 of these and exile 28 cards from your deck, there are 32 cards left in your deck. If you have a 3 card infinite combo, running 4 copies each that's 12 copies of combo peices. Keep the card draw effects as the other half.
tainted tutor would work. You could clear out some of cards out of the deck you don't need at that stage of the game, for example lands and small creatures and other cards not preferable to draw anymore.
I have to respectfully disagree with ToiletDuck64 about flavor text. The picture is also for decoration, and yet cards with a picture are a lot more interesting than the ones from Uncurated that have no picture.
Angel, Ring of Yangel's Findrop is great with Muldrotha. Just res and kill it every turn for some life and you're probably playing a deck with lots of stuff in the graveyard.
It's funny how every exile player card gets shafted away, yet it's just setup for the card that adds exiled player to your library, we playing inscryption magic now
23:17 no, it does nothing 48:47 exiling a player means you exile their deck/permanents, but you cna still cast spells if it says you can from exile, like Squee 57:45 you could activate the ability in response to dressdown
5:52 Reye of Destiny would also replace the drawing of cards from your Clues with another Investigate. If you run out of cards you can’t draw any more, period
I hate sieges because of the Morton's fork they present if you're playing against them. My opponent gets an effect while it's in play and they get a stronger effect if I let them kill it? I think battles and sieges should be reworked so that the opponent gets the front side ability, giving them both a strong incentive to defend it and you and even stronger incentive to kill it quickly.
All abilities include the Phage insta kill ability and protection from everything (is unblockable). Opponent just loses no matter what. Unless there’s something among those abilities that kills you or that creature first.
@@sebbbi2 not sure about that. Sac abilities are pretty much always triggered, and since Rakdos ability activates mid-combat phase, there aren't many occasions for them to work. Closest is "sacrifice after it attacked" (like Decayed)
Lol... I somehow love how AI (like Googles Alpha) is able to learn Chess within 8 hours and then is unbeatable by any human chess master but here AI still manages to screw so many Magic cards up. I guess the rules are somehow chaotic in nature in Magic somehow.
That's because chess has at most just 6 different pieces, which means only 6 "ability texts"/behaviours to keep track of, and the challenge just comes from how they are used together in play. Magic has far more variation in how cards are described and used.
AI physically cannot do illegal moves in chess, it's like, imagine if instead of moving your arms up/down right/left you could do chess moves, you wouldn't be able to do anything outside of this just like how you can't move your arm in 4D. On the other hand magic card AI is using semantic, not the rules of the game directly, so it's more like, you're asking it to decide what direction an arm can move to help design the joints and it goes "what about back in time?" obviously you *know* that's not an option but it doesn't really have that limitation baked in. There is also the fact that there is no objective metric to use to train the AI on what a good magic card is, while the rule of chess themselves give feedback on what a good and bad move is because it affects if you win or lose or not at the end. (and because it's objective it means it's very easy to simulate super fast at a massive scale, while any feedback you'd give the AI for cards would have to be done by humans which is going to be much less data)
That epic card making the zombies is not strong at all, the second all your creatures are dead or you only have 1 creature left, you can never cast it again because you have no targets for the +1/+1 counter part of it which fizzles the whole spell
I think Shell Spectre can never untap after its been tapped because if it were to untap, you have to remove a counter instead. I wonder what happens to it once it has zero counters. AI! Gotta love confusion. 🤷♂️
Actually yeah, banishing 7 cards of your choice from your deck face up would be busted in yugioh, even better than pot of greed or graceful charity for the right archetypes, and even in others, taking 7 cards of your choice out of your deck would be great, prevents you from drawing the cards that are only there to fuel the engine early later on in the game and such.
If you try to train a new AI model by using an AI model on its own output, it leads to model collapse becoming useless. So it better not be learning from itself.
9:57 uhhh yehh prity shure the game just ends in a draw loose and win are abllitys uh lol also epic is a abilty yeh cards a mess 1:24:31 i choose gold lolo
They have shadow and defender... so they can't attack, and they can't block anything that doesn't have shadow lol... so basically, it is the most useless god creature in the game.
I love the flavor of "Legendary Planeswalker- Tired" only having one ability that drops it for the exact amount of loyalty it starts with. It just comes in, throws some life at you, and goes to take a nap.
Even if we go with "every keyword ability", it's still gonna be a mess since some abilities got un-keyworded (Landhome), while other got turned into keyword (Ward)
It would have fading with no counters so would die
@@akihitokoizumi2474 Fading only works during upkeep (remove fade counter, sacrifice if you can't). So yeah, it'll be dead your next turn, but it's still gonna hang around
55:30 it just bricks the game if you have any card with a persistent effect that makes you reveal the top of your library like lantern of insight, for example.
You will just keep putting the top card of your deck onto the bottom till the heat death of the universe.
Nobody is talking about the fact that there's Yoda on the artwork for Oji, Goblin Snoop.
23:20 Technically Crowd of Sanity does do something; it commits a crime.
I've seen nearly every stream you've posted for years. Usually I have to catch the replay tho. You are my favorite MTG Content Creator.
Thanks so much! Catching the replay is just as good as catching it live!
Flash specter was misunderstood quite a bit. After it's drafted it gives you the option to give flash to any card drafted by reveling it (so you exchange surprise factor for power). Also, it can't untap, as the counter is removed instead of untapping, not as well.
That was definitely the most frustrating rule fail of Nika for this stream.
Yeah that was bad. 😢
The bit with the counter is just in reminder text though. We don't ususally count incorrect reminder text either. By the rules of the game that text doesn't exist. Far more frustrated by the fact he thought gods could take damage while not being creatures.
52:00 This card is so flavorful too. Straight up good card design.
I come from a land ding unders. What color will I choose you wonder. Can't you feel, can't you feel the planeswalkers? You better run you better take cover.
54:27 combo'd with Lanturn of Insight wins the game instantly XD
54:50 I'd actually think an ability for "Whenever a player reveal a card, you may put onto the battlefield under your control if it's a permanent card" would pretty sweet actually. Take all those cards that have the downside of giving your opponent the ability to look for something, and then just steal it instead, or to make sure they can't use their fetch lands anymore without just giving you a land.
9:50 that includes Phage's ability, right? Second-turn win con, I love it
EDIT: Actually, scratch that. It also gets Abyssal Persecutor ability, so you're stuck in limbo
Remember, any spell cast is also exiled and replaced with another card which can not be cast because players can only cast one spell each turn.
But rejoice, it will immediately sacrifice itself to create a 20/20 Marit Lage token. The only question is whether you will ever get there or whether it will create some manner of uninterruptable infinite loop with itself and brick the game beforehand.
@@naphackDT Pretty sure if you have every ability, figure out the static abilities first and then choose the order of other abilities that automatically trigger.
53:02 Reason-Dart is unreasonable, crowd of sanity was insane...
Thunder Roil Rakdos also gives "Defender" so the creature with all abilities can not attack.
But if it's already attacking defender means nothing
@@rastiabertoy8579 but it cant attack in the future. though, i'm pretty sure it will just straight up kill the opponent because of unblockable (all landwalks, hoursemanship, ect.), and poison/toxic 10
That epic card (Fire Force) requires targets though. So if you don't have two creatures to target, it fizzles. That said you can target opponents' creatures at worst. But if your opponent boardwipes then only plays a single creature, they can beat you to death with it.
It says up to 2 creatures, which means you can choose 0.
1) You create targets because you create your 3 zombies. Your opponent can't board wipe while the card is in the middle of resolving.
2) It is "Up to two" target creatures. Meaning you can choose 0 creatures.
Is it a reference to the Fire Force anime?
@@tarille1043 You can't target creatures that don't exist yet.
Example: Turn 1 land, elf.
Turn 2 land, cast epic spell targeting elf. Elf becomes 2/2, 3 2/2 tokens enter battlefield.
Turn 3 epic targeting zombies. 2 zombies become 3/3, 3 more 2/2 tokens enter battlefield. Opponent boardwipes on their turn.
Turn 4 epic with 0 targets, 3 2/2 zombies enter battlefield.
@@naphackDT Cards resolve in the order that abilities are on the card.
Since the spell doesn't NEED a target to occur in the first place, you will always get the 3x 2/2 zombies before you get to the part where you can then choose up to 2 target creatures to put counters on.
Therfore you will ALWAYS have 3 viable targets to choose (If you wish, you don't have to)
If it was written "Choose 2 target creatures to put +1/+1 counters on.
Summon three 2/2 zombie token creatures"
Then you'd need valid targets for the spell to activate in the first place and wouldn't have the zombies until you've met the targeting criteria.
Angel is unbelievably flavorful in a 'Please, just end me' kind of way
Arel is playing some 5D necromancy chess with that waterk.
2:19 I looked it up, there’s 4. They are:
Fathom Feeder
Mindmelter
Sire of Stagnation
And Ulamog’s Nullifier.
Honestly, that ooze would actually be a sick Commander in itself. No one would want to kill it because it buffs its ability every time you cast it. The best someone could do would be to cast a spell to cause it to lose its ability. Then you kill it yourself and recast it to buff it up. That card would be awesome. The initial casting cost should be higher, but still an amazing card with a unique, yet workable mechanic.
Oji, Goblin Snoop actually works pretty well with impulse draw ("exile, you can cast it" mechanic). It's not really broken, and I can see it being a mythic in some future set
Risen Bals always have my attention
1:16:17 also you can still activate abilties, so you can still channel, and use stuff from the graveyard and and Field
27:30 Spree with no spree lmao
40:22 Because with this card, you could reveal your own hand. So cards that benefit from being revealed would activate
There are 6 or 7 devoid cards with black and blue in the mana cost.
Waited 2 weeks for that! Zibers ahoii!
[Tainted Tutor], IT DANGERS!, "Search your library for seven cards and exile them." That's actually extremely broken for 1 mana. Even if you don't have a way to play the exiled cards, this is some serious deck thinning tech. 1 Copy of this card, effectively means your deck has 8 fewer cards in it, and you can pick which 8 get removed. That means you're that much more likely to draw what you need for a combo set up, or just based on match up.
If you got anti flying tech like a Racking Canopy for example and you see they have no flying, you can just remove in the middle of the game with the sole down side of 1 green mana.
It sounds kinda stupid, but that card would be extremely broken. It's like the reverse of a side board. This is like fetch lands on crack in terms of improving deck consistency.
Absolutely IT DANGERS!
1:00:00 FINALLY an amazing flavour text and he didn't even read it 😮💨
I believe thunder roil rakdos would only give all abilities until the end of combat. "Whenever it attacks, target creature has all abilities" means when it's not attacking, they don't.
27:39 maybe its like that one mtg card that drops onto a table and destroys stuff. Your opponent has to literally kick it
39:42 - I'm pretty sure under tournament rules you can reveal your hand only one, and take a shortcut to whatever the X was, though
48:27 Ride the Gravitron like a Boss XD
So if I read it correctly: the Risen Bals ability gives us the copy of each permanent we control. Can it still copy itself as part of its ability? If so, that's like extra broken
1:24:58 I remember Burrowing being a keyword ability, forgot how it works. EDIT: It was an enchantment that gives a target creature Mountainwalk. So, no.
Gatherer of Velis Valor would be a fun commander. Are there better UBRG commanders? Sure. I am just a sucker for demons in a suit.
I think Thunder Roil Rakdos's target would typically die to some form of Landhome.
Tainted tutor is actually busted in combo decks, to boost consistency. You run 4 of these and exile 28 cards from your deck, there are 32 cards left in your deck. If you have a 3 card infinite combo, running 4 copies each that's 12 copies of combo peices. Keep the card draw effects as the other half.
You can do better than that. If you don't need the other copies once you have them in hand, you can just remove the other copies from your deck.
tainted tutor would work. You could clear out some of cards out of the deck you don't need at that stage of the game, for example lands and small creatures and other cards not preferable to draw anymore.
I have to respectfully disagree with ToiletDuck64 about flavor text. The picture is also for decoration, and yet cards with a picture are a lot more interesting than the ones from Uncurated that have no picture.
"RUbal Dreamer" combos with Balance
I think Carnival just puts you in some kind of magic purgatory where you have to leave the LGS
Angel, Ring of Yangel's Findrop is great with Muldrotha. Just res and kill it every turn for some life and you're probably playing a deck with lots of stuff in the graveyard.
It's funny how every exile player card gets shafted away, yet it's just setup for the card that adds exiled player to your library, we playing inscryption magic now
Angel, Ring of Yangel's Findrop is great with Muldrotha. Just res and kill it every turn for some life.
23:17 no, it does nothing
48:47 exiling a player means you exile their deck/permanents, but you cna still cast spells if it says you can from exile, like Squee
57:45 you could activate the ability in response to dressdown
Final cauldron + Caretaker's talent would be absurd
Sunder Spores artwork looks like psilocybe mushrooms. AI was high when it came up with it
Exiling a player is like a ring-out in a fighting game. So they lose due to ring out.
Permanently has You win the game and You loose the game
I think there is a song about the Final Cauldron by Europe
5:52 Reye of Destiny would also replace the drawing of cards from your Clues with another Investigate. If you run out of cards you can’t draw any more, period
So no losing to being milled while hellbent?
If you have no cards in library and no cards in hand you lost the game a long time ago
Doesn't say "instead" so you investigate and draw
@@wulfgrumheimfjarl3346 good catch, went right by me.
I hate sieges because of the Morton's fork they present if you're playing against them. My opponent gets an effect while it's in play and they get a stronger effect if I let them kill it?
I think battles and sieges should be reworked so that the opponent gets the front side ability, giving them both a strong incentive to defend it and you and even stronger incentive to kill it quickly.
Can you tap a siege? De de de do, the final cauldron. X=10. he turns blue when he chokes. Burrowing and ding their undera
All abilities include the Phage insta kill ability and protection from everything (is unblockable). Opponent just loses no matter what. Unless there’s something among those abilities that kills you or that creature first.
Sure, but you *also* get the Abyssal Persecutor ability on it, so you can't win anyway. Tough luck
Funny card :)
Oh, but it also has many sacrifice itself abilities. You put Phage kill trrigger on stack and sack itself :)
@@sebbbi2 not sure about that. Sac abilities are pretty much always triggered, and since Rakdos ability activates mid-combat phase, there aren't many occasions for them to work. Closest is "sacrifice after it attacked" (like Decayed)
It also has dark depth's ability, so it will instantly kill itself to create a 20/20 Marit Lage token.
God damn I just lost the game, and seriously it had been years! I didn't think I still could lose.
why did no one say anything about yoda with snoop
the Elf win spell makes Pendelhaven ultima busted xD
Maybe Thunder Roil Rakdos returns all abilities to target creature if it was previously affected with "loses all abilities"
All future card templates will be "target creature loses all abilities and can't regain those abilities."
That prize guessing on Souls of Throne's Justice feel like it's plucked out of Un-sets. Otherwise, very doable.
thunder roil raktos have decayed?
I love how kantra of greatness has partner but it isn’t even legendary
Lol... I somehow love how AI (like Googles Alpha) is able to learn Chess within 8 hours and then is unbeatable by any human chess master but here AI still manages to screw so many Magic cards up. I guess the rules are somehow chaotic in nature in Magic somehow.
That's because chess has at most just 6 different pieces, which means only 6 "ability texts"/behaviours to keep track of, and the challenge just comes from how they are used together in play. Magic has far more variation in how cards are described and used.
AI physically cannot do illegal moves in chess, it's like, imagine if instead of moving your arms up/down right/left you could do chess moves, you wouldn't be able to do anything outside of this just like how you can't move your arm in 4D.
On the other hand magic card AI is using semantic, not the rules of the game directly, so it's more like, you're asking it to decide what direction an arm can move to help design the joints and it goes "what about back in time?" obviously you *know* that's not an option but it doesn't really have that limitation baked in.
There is also the fact that there is no objective metric to use to train the AI on what a good magic card is, while the rule of chess themselves give feedback on what a good and bad move is because it affects if you win or lose or not at the end. (and because it's objective it means it's very easy to simulate super fast at a massive scale, while any feedback you'd give the AI for cards would have to be done by humans which is going to be much less data)
thunder roil rakdos gives a creature fading. since it has no counters it just dies
1:41:02 Nikuchu clearly didn't watch Madoka
I wanan watch 2 ai generated people play ai mtg against each other
Final cauldron is OP lmao
Tyver is exclusively useful for making sire of stagnation cast U less
That epic card making the zombies is not strong at all, the second all your creatures are dead or you only have 1 creature left, you can never cast it again because you have no targets for the +1/+1 counter part of it which fizzles the whole spell
I think Shell Spectre can never untap after its been tapped because if it were to untap, you have to remove a counter instead. I wonder what happens to it once it has zero counters.
AI! Gotta love confusion. 🤷♂️
Souls of the Throne's Justice,can be play in Pokemon Card.😂
AI can't even physically interact with MTG players and yet it already wants to clean them.
Actually yeah, banishing 7 cards of your choice from your deck face up would be busted in yugioh, even better than pot of greed or graceful charity for the right archetypes, and even in others, taking 7 cards of your choice out of your deck would be great, prevents you from drawing the cards that are only there to fuel the engine early later on in the game and such.
Dismissed slime against humanity way too fast when talking about tainted tutor.
If you try to train a new AI model by using an AI model on its own output, it leads to model collapse becoming useless. So it better not be learning from itself.
Ingest isn't an old mechanic.
Carnival - can't you target planeswalkers as players? So exile target player is just a janky way of saying exile a planeswalker, right
35:16 Shock lands go not stonks.
Thunder roil rakdos.... gain phasing
I just lost the game
have you ever thought about learning the rules to this game?
I don't want to be a judge
9:57 uhhh yehh prity shure the game just ends in a draw loose and win are abllitys uh lol also epic is a abilty yeh cards a mess
1:24:31 i choose gold lolo
They have shadow and defender... so they can't attack, and they can't block anything that doesn't have shadow lol... so basically, it is the most useless god creature in the game.
Aquites Surenzuard when you have no elves in play. 0x2=0