If you don't have time to watch the entire review, I also keep updated card rating spreadsheets for every limited set. These are available for all Patrons and Twitch subscribers. You can also access them for free by using a 30-day Prime trial, subscribing to the Twitch channel and subsequently connecting your Twitch to the Discord server.
Told your subscribers how to get access to the list completely free? Another example how content quality is inversely proportional to creator's greed. Absolutely legend.
LegenVD will always be S+ Tier. I saw this on stream, which was an awesome marathon, but I'll watch it again because you deserve it. Thanks man the set review and tier lists are a great resource.
I remember watching him 2 years ago with less than half the subs he has now. I will go ahead and say that he’s has never went below his standards and the content is always S tier. Always trying out new things to tighten up videos, have a better aesthetic, and seamless experience (no abrasive cuts, always adding extra notes if mistakes or better play could have been made, showing cards he mentions because he knows not all his viewers will remember cards verbatim). Never lets us down. As always, great work 👍
YES! I have trouble sleeping at night and when I go to bed I look for his latest upload to enjoy the gameplay and his explanations, if I'm falling asleep I just close my eyes and keep listening to his lovely voice until I pass out. When I wake up I finish watching during breakfast. Haha
You know LVD is super chill when he stilll sounds chill at 1.25% speed =) Love your content man, and best limited player I know of. Consistent but still willing to try janky buildarounds in limited sometimes. Keep up the great work, looking forward to watching you draft and play this new set!
Thanks for the video! This time I'm going to try to rate the cards myself before watching this and see how well my ratings match yours. Hopefully watching you for this long has helped me better evaluate cards :P
1:02:28 wouldn't your opponent not actually gain life off Angel of Destiny, since they're also taking damage? So they'd stay at the same total instead of gaining life with you.
Man, myrad construct with Lithoform Engine and Ozolith is going to be a blast. The colorless stuff in this set isn't very plentiful but what we did get is pretty great.
Hi LegendVD, I love these limited review videos you make, have you thought on splitting this videos by color or some sort, rather than having one long video to cover all? Thanks!
Can't wait to make an All That Glitters deck with all these common artifact equipments. Too bad Myr Adapter isn't in the format. All the free equips would make that fun.
Seems like there's dimir, selesnya, gruul, and golgari and boros focuses this time around. Is that kind of common for a set to not bring much to certain color sets?
Even Ravnica, the dual color plane, only gave love to half the dual colors in any one set. Typically, the love gets handed out more completely over the next 2-3 sets. We know the dual lands for the other pairings are coming next set which I think is the most important part of giving out love to any one dual color. Edit: For a anyone not paying super close attention, here are the pathway lands (dual color lands) of this set. Dimir (Blue/Black) Gruul (Red/Green) Selesnya (Green/White) Orzhov (Black/White) Izzet (Blue/Red) Boros (Red/White)
@@Bapper0 that makes sense. Well I believe the dual color land sets they gave us matched the themes running here, so I imagine next set will have focus on izzet, rakdos, simic, azorious, and orzhov and come with those matching lands in that case.
I updated my comment with the dual lands that they included in this set. Remember that providing dual lands is only half of the puzzle for a dual color deck, but it plays a crucial part. I personally think izzet and orzhov has a lot of potential in this set for constructed, and golgari won’t. I’m a seasoned golgari player and the lack of a dual land really rustles my jimmies.
@@Bapper0 in limited the 5 I mentioned seem to have a cohesive playstyle and that should be easy enough to translate over to constructed, but I'd agree, golgari seems to be shifting playstyles into the 1/1 counters in this set and feels like maybe it's missing half the picture from old sets. That said, easily abzan counters has got some good baseline this time. Izzet in the limited* set is missing half a deck but if you move into constructed it's VERY strong, basically providing direct improvement to the sprite dragon decks currently dominating standard.
Hey legendvd, I'm a little confused with some of the high ratings you've given after you explained your rating system. Is Phylath really worthy of an S rating? That means it's an absolute bomb and can win games by itself. I mean it's strong but for one thing it doesn't fly, it doesn't remove anything, and if you don't hit landfall for a few turns you just have a vanilla 5/5 green creature for 6 mana plus some chump blockers. Compared to a card like dragonlord artaka, or primeval titan, it really falls short, and to me those are cards that are worthy of an S.
the blockers buy you an enormous amount of time to find lands or more action, 7 0/1s is a nightmare to attack into without flying because you lose all your creatures to optimal blocks while any suboptimal blocks get covered with plant chumps. like, honey mammoth gained 4 life and was pretty good at stabilizing, the elemental gains somewhere around 15-25 virtual life *and* threatens to build more stats
@@ensrceler you make some good points. My biggest concern is whether it can be classified as an absolute S tier bomb. Time will tell ofc but I personally would never under any circumstances take this over some of the S tiers in the set, so along with my above points myself I wouldn't put this in S class
Ok I think you severely underbilled Ruin Crab. It's strictly better than Hedron Crab, which was an absolute firecracker in Zendikar limited. I know times have changed and everything, but bottom line is it's a must-answer 1-drop that some colors can't answer.
Wait a second ... I haven't thought about that. Do you just have to take it out of the sleeve and flip it to the side you're using whenever you reveal it? That's really awkward. Plus in limited if it's a new card to you and you need to check the details of the text before you make a play, you reveal your hand by unsleeving a card to read the other side :/
@@metdickey3237 In limited, you just use a checklist card to avoid revealing your hand. Especially since you usually don't have sleeves during a draft.
In Paper you can use transparent Sleeves for the card and use some cards printed by WotC which are lists where you can check which double card it is. You have the card list in the deck and the card per-se at the side (prob in a box so your opponent doesnt see it. Still a bit annoying, but doable.
@@LegenVD YT player was showing "auto 1080p60" and HD icon and I also forced the YT player to same resolution, but it didn't helped. Now I've investigated further and if you compare card text at [07:25] to a card text at [26:55] there is a clear difference. It looks like some card texts are crisp and some are blurred. More examples that show inconsistency between each card text, shown from a timestamp [55:15] and a few next fast-switched land cards at [56:02]. It can't be only me.. :(
If you don't have time to watch the entire review, I also keep updated card rating spreadsheets for every limited set. These are available for all Patrons and Twitch subscribers. You can also access them for free by using a 30-day Prime trial, subscribing to the Twitch channel and subsequently connecting your Twitch to the Discord server.
Told your subscribers how to get access to the list completely free? Another example how content quality is inversely proportional to creator's greed. Absolutely legend.
Good video layout better then limited resources where their set review is two giant heads talking and tiny cards noone can see.
LegenVD will always be S+ Tier. I saw this on stream, which was an awesome marathon, but I'll watch it again because you deserve it. Thanks man the set review and tier lists are a great resource.
Ggs
I remember watching him 2 years ago with less than half the subs he has now. I will go ahead and say that he’s has never went below his standards and the content is always S tier. Always trying out new things to tighten up videos, have a better aesthetic, and seamless experience (no abrasive cuts, always adding extra notes if mistakes or better play could have been made, showing cards he mentions because he knows not all his viewers will remember cards verbatim). Never lets us down. As always, great work 👍
the way he talks is so chill, its great that this video can pull double duty as a really great set review and as an ASMR video!
YES! I have trouble sleeping at night and when I go to bed I look for his latest upload to enjoy the gameplay and his explanations, if I'm falling asleep I just close my eyes and keep listening to his lovely voice until I pass out. When I wake up I finish watching during breakfast. Haha
He's also secretly embedding subliminal messages in his voice that way, telling you to buy magic cards from his store
watches for 3h 30 min, sees lotus cobra grade, ah yes, this is why i subscribed, amazing review sir!
This is so awesome the way you talk about the cards and even rate them and stuff. I think you're the only channel that does this.
Nizzahon magic also does a pretty good job but not in a single video format
limited Resources are still my go to
I can't tell if this is sarcasm but there are absolutely lots of channels that rate cards for new sets.
@@Friendofme The community rating thing is kind of rare though in set reviews, right?
@@tom4465 Admitedly I don't see that often, yeah
3 hours of magicarps. Nice one!
you're a beast! thanks for the video and all the effort behind it :)
Oh, I needed this so much
You know LVD is super chill when he stilll sounds chill at 1.25% speed =) Love your content man, and best limited player I know of. Consistent but still willing to try janky buildarounds in limited sometimes. Keep up the great work, looking forward to watching you draft and play this new set!
You did decide to submit on here as well, thank you Luca, you're awesome :)
It's strange that Veteran Adventurer has the "Vigilance" key word at the bottom of its text box.
Zagras, Thief of HARD BEATS
He likes to party
Thanks for the video! This time I'm going to try to rate the cards myself before watching this and see how well my ratings match yours. Hopefully watching you for this long has helped me better evaluate cards :P
He usually streams on twitch the ratings with live voting the Sunday (for US) before each set is released. Just in case you wanted to participate.
Very cool with the community rating!
Very excited to see the decks you will come up with this set lvd!
CANT WAIT FOR YOU TO DRAFT THIS ON ARENA IM SO EXCITED
1:02:28 wouldn't your opponent not actually gain life off Angel of Destiny, since they're also taking damage? So they'd stay at the same total instead of gaining life with you.
Yup, it's a weird card.
I love the new colors
Man, myrad construct with Lithoform Engine and Ozolith is going to be a blast. The colorless stuff in this set isn't very plentiful but what we did get is pretty great.
Yes! I was really looking forwad to this video!
Hi LegendVD, I love these limited review videos you make, have you thought on splitting this videos by color or some sort, rather than having one long video to cover all? Thanks!
I prefer a single video, tried splitting them up originally.
@@LegenVD got it! NP
Thanks LVD, now I got you and Nizzahon as reference for limited.
As always, you are doing the Lord's work out here, Luca. Thanks man!
This is fantastic, with so much detail!
oooh yeah baby
Can't wait to make an All That Glitters deck with all these common artifact equipments. Too bad Myr Adapter isn't in the format. All the free equips would make that fun.
You truly are a Legend
Saw & baffled by Concerted Defense as a blue UNCOMMON, came here to figure out how stacked blue truly is! Thanks LegenVD
Wait for this every set 😁 ty
Thank you for your work you are the best❤️
Zagras inspires me to make a Mardu deck with a party theme (think outlaw's merriment)
Are you gonna be streaming today or are you saving the stream for tomorrow?
Nice. Is there a constructed review somewhere as well?
4 hour ASMR stream woop woop!
Seems like there's dimir, selesnya, gruul, and golgari and boros focuses this time around. Is that kind of common for a set to not bring much to certain color sets?
Even Ravnica, the dual color plane, only gave love to half the dual colors in any one set. Typically, the love gets handed out more completely over the next 2-3 sets. We know the dual lands for the other pairings are coming next set which I think is the most important part of giving out love to any one dual color.
Edit: For a anyone not paying super close attention, here are the pathway lands (dual color lands) of this set.
Dimir (Blue/Black)
Gruul (Red/Green)
Selesnya (Green/White)
Orzhov (Black/White)
Izzet (Blue/Red)
Boros (Red/White)
@@Bapper0 that makes sense. Well I believe the dual color land sets they gave us matched the themes running here, so I imagine next set will have focus on izzet, rakdos, simic, azorious, and orzhov and come with those matching lands in that case.
I updated my comment with the dual lands that they included in this set. Remember that providing dual lands is only half of the puzzle for a dual color deck, but it plays a crucial part. I personally think izzet and orzhov has a lot of potential in this set for constructed, and golgari won’t. I’m a seasoned golgari player and the lack of a dual land really rustles my jimmies.
@@Bapper0 in limited the 5 I mentioned seem to have a cohesive playstyle and that should be easy enough to translate over to constructed, but I'd agree, golgari seems to be shifting playstyles into the 1/1 counters in this set and feels like maybe it's missing half the picture from old sets. That said, easily abzan counters has got some good baseline this time.
Izzet in the limited* set is missing half a deck but if you move into constructed it's VERY strong, basically providing direct improvement to the sprite dragon decks currently dominating standard.
Joe C, you seem well versed in the play this set will have. I agree.
scute bug and cobra turbo is gonna be amazing! :3
very nice!
Hey legendvd, I'm a little confused with some of the high ratings you've given after you explained your rating system. Is Phylath really worthy of an S rating? That means it's an absolute bomb and can win games by itself. I mean it's strong but for one thing it doesn't fly, it doesn't remove anything, and if you don't hit landfall for a few turns you just have a vanilla 5/5 green creature for 6 mana plus some chump blockers. Compared to a card like dragonlord artaka, or primeval titan, it really falls short, and to me those are cards that are worthy of an S.
the blockers buy you an enormous amount of time to find lands or more action, 7 0/1s is a nightmare to attack into without flying because you lose all your creatures to optimal blocks while any suboptimal blocks get covered with plant chumps. like, honey mammoth gained 4 life and was pretty good at stabilizing, the elemental gains somewhere around 15-25 virtual life *and* threatens to build more stats
@@ensrceler you make some good points. My biggest concern is whether it can be classified as an absolute S tier bomb. Time will tell ofc but I personally would never under any circumstances take this over some of the S tiers in the set, so along with my above points myself I wouldn't put this in S class
I keep seeing phylath in cobra lists, and I'm like dude. Greenwarden gets you 4 landfall triggers every turn with a fetch in the bin
huh. Okay, Im waiting for Historic videos with this cards)
so if akiri had used the activated ability in the trailer, she would have lived?
When I clicked on this video I honestly thought it was a limited resources video😂
Ok I think you severely underbilled Ruin Crab. It's strictly better than Hedron Crab, which was an absolute firecracker in Zendikar limited. I know times have changed and everything, but bottom line is it's a must-answer 1-drop that some colors can't answer.
Why am I never able to pull off my shenanigans?
@1:03:19 - someone act of treasons your angel on their turn, attacks you, you lose, fd xD yea def agree this cant be S rank
whats the s cards now?
4 hours? You spoil us!
I smell a Zareth and Orah bans in 3....2.....1.....
Ugh, the green inscription being the cheapest (in RAMP colors) and being instant is DUMB.
Oh no - not the double-sided cards again... Too uncomfortable to play in paper.
Wait a second ... I haven't thought about that. Do you just have to take it out of the sleeve and flip it to the side you're using whenever you reveal it? That's really awkward. Plus in limited if it's a new card to you and you need to check the details of the text before you make a play, you reveal your hand by unsleeving a card to read the other side :/
@@metdickey3237 Yeah, it's really annoying...
@@metdickey3237 In limited, you just use a checklist card to avoid revealing your hand. Especially since you usually don't have sleeves during a draft.
@@Irydion I always bring sleeves to limited events :shrug:
In Paper you can use transparent Sleeves for the card and use some cards printed by WotC which are lists where you can check which double card it is.
You have the card list in the deck and the card per-se at the side (prob in a box so your opponent doesnt see it.
Still a bit annoying, but doable.
Tbh the community ratings just seem completly random, people instantly give S or A to random common pack fillers...
Noice
Druids: :'(
7th (son of a 7th son)!
:)
:D
I got a headache after trying to read blurred text on shown cards. Sadly, this video is unwatchable for me even in 1080p. :(
Double check the resolution, because that seems very strange.
Crisp on my end.
Replace potato with a device that is not a potato. Fixed.
@@LegenVD YT player was showing "auto 1080p60" and HD icon and I also forced the YT player to same resolution, but it didn't helped.
Now I've investigated further and if you compare card text at [07:25] to a card text at [26:55] there is a clear difference. It looks like some card texts are crisp and some are blurred.
More examples that show inconsistency between each card text, shown from a timestamp [55:15] and a few next fast-switched land cards at [56:02].
It can't be only me.. :(
@@RmFrZQ It's weird, it works perfectly for me. Try to check LVD's VOD on Twitch. Perhaps it's your internet connexion that faces some issues.
Kaza is just a B... Its legendary creature. Goblin electromancer is even better than this.
Nissa is broken
sadly you and your Community damatically underestimated Omnath...
These are draft ratings.
Yeah omnath isn't crazy in limited