Top 10 Cards Designed by the Pros - MtG Invitational Cards
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- From 1997 to 2007, Wizards hosted a Magic the Gathering invitational tournament, and among the prizes were the ability to help design a card with the R and D as well as getting your likeness on the card’s art. This tradition was continued with the world championship winner in more recent years, giving us a total of 14 cards that were designed in part by and bear the likeness of a professional magic the gathering player, and as you might expect, most of these cards have ended up being quite powerful. Today, we’re going to go over the best of the best of the cards made by the best.
Script by Pumkinswift
Editing by SL
├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10: Avalanche Riders: (0:31)
9: Solemn Simulacrum: (2:16)
8: Ranger of Eos: (4:26)
7: Fervent Champion: (6:48)
6: Faerie Mastermind: (8:45)
5: Sylvan Safekeeper: (10:46)
4: Meddling Mage: (12:40)
3: Elite Spellbinder : (14:12)
2: Dark Confidant: (16:20)
1: Snapcaster Mage: (18:19)
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The players who designed and are pictured in the cards:
10. Avalanche Riders - Darwin Kastle
9. Solemn Simulacrum - Jens Thoren
8. Ranger of Eos - Antoine Ruel
7. Fervent Champion - Javier Dominguez
6. Faerie Mastermind - Yuta Takahashi
5. Sylvan Safekeeper - Olle Råde
4. Meddling Mage - Chris Pikula
3. Elite Spellbinder - Paulo Vitor Damo de Rosa
2. Dark Confidant - Bob Maher
1.SnapcasterMage - Tiago Chan
Thanks, I wish Logs had included this in the video along with a picture for comparison.
@@JMarsella9 At least the player's likenesses are on the cards.
@@randommaster06 yes but it'd be cool to compare them to the real players.
@@JMarsella9 I was hoping Logs would do it, but he's mainly a Yugioh player, and Konami has basically conditioned them to not think about the individuals behind the work.
Additional Info for the other 4 that's not in this top 10:
- Shadowmage Infiltrator - Jon Finkel (2000 - 2001)
- Rootwater Thief - Mike Long (1998 - 1999)
- Voidmage Prodigy - Kai Budde (2001 - 2002)
- Rakdos Augermage - Terry Soh (2005)
Why would you not mention the players who won the invitationals and got their respective cards?
Omg, yes!!! I thought he was gonna explain the player and the game that the player won. I still like the videos, but I want it to be more of mtg history
I was just going to comment this. I was curious who these people were
I posted a comment listing all the players along with the cards. Like it so it can stay at the top.
Reading the card explains the card
@@brendans1983 For some of them, anyways. It's not on the Invitational winner's cards, just the World Championship ones.
I wonder if anyone was like "Can I be a Penguin Artifacter?" And they just had to say "... No."
Snapcaster Mage was the second attempt. Tiago Chan's original submission was a land.
It was changed because the land was supposed to have a Channel ability to let you counter a spell, which was way too powerful.
@@randommaster06 huh, cool. They kinda did that later one but it was a double sided one that was a worse force spike
@@erlanddrow7950Boseju 2 is way closer to show how powerful a land that can be channeled for a Counterspell effect would be. The fact you don't cast it makes it hard to counter
The best one has to be Dark Confidant or Snapcaster Mage. Their arts are so iconic. Bob and Tiago Chan look so good in those arts
They are! The full art snapcaster is pretty good looking as well!
agree but i already know its snapycaster is number 1
dark confidant lost its eternal playablity from both modren horizon sets (especially because of fury and wrenn and six just like the video said.)
Why not just cover all 14 of them, I'm sure people would have watched, even if it ended up like half an hour long instead of 20 minutes, which I doubt would have happened. I think it probably would have been 25 minutes...
MTG Goldfish recently did a video on all of them, maybe this channel wanted to do something different.
Snapcaster is strong to the point that even when I hadn't even started in Magic, I'd heard the name 'Snapcaster Mage' talked about among my MTG-playing friends. *That's* how much oomph the thing has, that even in my podunk town then I was hearing the fancy strong card being talked about.
Another Ranger of Eos inspired card, Knight-Errant of Eos, is seeing play in standard right now! It has convoke and lets you look at the top 6 cards of your library and add up to 2 creatures with equal or lesser cmc than the number of creatures you convoked to cast it
Mastermind still sees some play in Esper midrange and legends decks in Standard, but folks are experimenting with a 2/1 flier from the new set that can loot to replace it.
Wait a moment. Fairy mastermind WASN'T made by the winner of the championship though. At most they just provided some thoughts but they just picked out from a rare already planned for the set.
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as said by magics own gavin verhey. The old program let players work with R&D to make a card. But since the process was VERY slow with the new program they decided to go with this new system to streamline things.
I'll admit kinda miss the old version. who DOESN'T want to make a magic card?
Amazing!!!!!❤🎉
Why is Elite Spellbinder the only card on this list without its original art? did PVDDR do something wrong?🤔🤔
Avalanche raiders are the GOAT for me, good times as a kid playing that old card :3 ♥
Can't tell you how many times I conceded to turn 1 fervent champion on arena when it was in standard. You could tell right away whether or not you could stabilize before getting cleaved based off your starting hand. That version of rdw was brutal and it seemed like they always had 2 champions or champion and robber of the rich in the starting hand.
I still use snapcaster on my extra turns edric deck. It goes pretty hard in that deck and has won me games very consistently. Faerie mastermind is also in that deck!
I can't believe WotC gave Solemn Johnson a card of his own before Konami.
We'd never know, even if they did. He could have created and illustrated the entire Kashtire archetype for all we know.
16:16 Invasion of Ghobakhan has this effect on the frontside, and a +1/+1 on all attackers plus sac for indestructible on the backside
I loved the beginnings of this channel and duellogs, but its really become the watch mojo of mtg channels
It has
You can watch any other channel if you don't like it.
Just an errata: the more recent cards based on the world champions were not desinfnby the winners, they just share their appearence
Pretty sure I read that Mastermind WAS designed by the champion
All the cards were designed by WotC with INPUT from the champions.
You mentioned there were 14 of these cards... why not feature the other 4 as honorable mentions?
the other 4 that wasnt in this list that I am aware of are:
- Shadowmage Infiltrator: UB1, 1/3 , Fear (cannot be blocked except by Black and Artifact Creatures), when this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw 1 card
- Voidmage Prodigy: UU, 2/1, UU: Sacrifice a Wizard: counter target spell. Morph 3.
- Rakdos Augermage: BBR, 3/2, First Strike. Tap: Reveal your hand and discard a card of target opponent's choice. Your opponent then reveals their hand and you choose 1 card from it, that player discards that card. Play this ability as a sorcery.
- Rootwater Thief: U1, 1/2. U: Gains Flying until end of turn. When this card deals combat damage to a player, you may pay 2, if you do, search that player's deck for any card and exile it. Shuffle deck
The common thing I can see with all 4 of of these cards is that they dont immediately do anything when they hit the table... and their effects can be slow to pull off. 2 of these cards require to do combat damage, the augermage has a bizarre way of discarding cards that I wish could be used as an instant... and Voidmage requires significant mana AND resources. I have copies of all 4 of these cards XD
PS: It also doesnt help that, at the time, Rakdos and it's "look ma, no cards in hand!" (Hellbent) strategy wasn't THAT refined yet... most of its cards weren't on rate if youre not in Hellbent
You kinda touched on this, but several of these cards weren't the most powerful things you could be doing in these sets
- Infiltrator: Was downright novel at the time and still solid in a vacuum - I've seen it in cube for years - but it wasn't even the best UB1 creature in its own set; Psychatog buried you in discard shenanigans before Infiltrator drew you enough cards to matter
- Prodigy: Wizards were the main blue tribe in Onslaught and their support was buns, you would just rather play Elves, Goblins, or even Zombies/Clerics before Wizards
- Augermage: Outside of some cool legendaries Dissension did all three of its guilds pretty dirty. Hellbent in particular sucked because it was super swingy (you had it or you didn't, and if you didn't you were below rate) and it encouraged you to over-commit (and get BTFO)
- Thief: An expensive way of pulling a singleton copy of something out of your opponent's deck, doesn't impact the board, mostly a worse Storm Crow, and Merfolk used to just play Better Creatures instead of other Merfolk until better Merfolk came around
With the recent improvements in digital art I'm looking forward to seeing more and more of these cards with a proper action pose instead of just being a modified resting portrait. We might even get a card where the pro is in the backline with minions in the foreground and their face is only recognizable if you look at it as closely as a true MTG fan would.
Ehh I think the quality is going in the opposite direction. Yuta's face straight up looks photoshopped onto the card with how much it clashes with the surrounding art. The older pieces done with traditional painting or digital painting look significantly more aesthetically pleasing imo.
@@wizardsmix7961 Maybe, I just personally feel that being a 'fantasized' retrace of a normal photo pose makes the piece feel lower quality by default regardless of the artist's talent. That to me can give even the most skilled artist's redraw of it an unshakeable Deviantart OC feel.
Snapcaster Mage is the most glaring example because under the bells and whistles I can see Tiago standing casually in the studio just by looking at the card. Surely they deserve better than that.
@@jshtng78 I personally don’t really see it. At least in my experience whenever I tell newer mtg friends that snapcaster or dark confidant were real pro players in the art they are always surprised and never noticed anything weird about the art.
If I were going to design a card, I’d want it to be like this:
“Trial of Atlas” 1, one white and one black
Enchantment
“During your upkeep, you may choose a card type. All cards with that card type will receive one stun counter.
After three uses of this cards effect, it is transformed into ‘Atlas, Holder of the World.’ “
“Atlas, Holder of the World” 1, 1 of each color
Creature- Deity
“The person who controls this card has their health set to 10, they cannot take damage from any other sources than ‘Atlas, Holder of the World.’
Every turn ‘Atlas, Holder of the World’ is on the field, each player takes 1 damage at the start of their upkeep.
After the owner of this card has their life reduced to 0, every other player loses the game except for the owner of this card.
Indestructible
5/5
Elite Spellbinder above Meddling Mage is craaaaazy
Talking about Faerie Mastermind like it's not currently still legal in standard is a little odd.
I'd like to see one about the most universal artifact cards, it perhaps the most niche artifact cards.
Just a small note, when describing snapcaster mage, you said it targets a spell in your opponents graveyard.
It is said Thai he does it for both inside joke and checking whether or not the audience keeps the attention
Tiago (snapcaster mage) beat my ass at a prerelease years ago… it was an honor
Didn’t know sad robot was a champ card. I feel like that should be honored in all the reprint art
Who helped design Ranger of Eos? :') I love that card
Do extended top tier decks
Would’ve been nice who designed which one, I have no idea who the pros who designed them are but this is pretty cool
Isn't it written on the bottom of the card?
I would make one that's a 1 mana artifact that has Tap: Dredge 20
Also, instead of me I would have them put The Professor on there instead if he was cool with it.
In fact , some of them are not designed by pro players , WOTC asked them to choose a new card they already made for a future set that would release in a next 2-3 years .
That why recently pros card has a decent effect .( Ex. Fairy mastermind and that red champion from ELD)
poor Void mage...( from onslaught ) , I feel sad to you 😅
Ya’ll forget the true best: Shadowmage Infiltrator 💯
Shadowmage Infiltriator was a replay good card in its time
Anyone else think Godo, Tireless pilgrim is the solem simulacrum
the playter respect is cool but I finally know now why some cards art looks offputting
Top 10 Elves
weirds me out to hear you talking about current standard in the past tense and I don’t even play standard
Modern Invitational winners don’t design cards anymore. They pick a card, like Faerie Mastermind, and they put the art on it. They have very minor say in the design.
i wonder what LSV or Kibler would design? LSV I'm guessing would be a control creature of some sort, probably one that gives you initiative or monarch. Kibler, a dragon.
You got snapcaster mages abilities very wrong haha
Very starnge you didnt mention the players they are based on buy still a good video
Why did you use the art without the champion on elite spellbinder and not bring up the actual people huge miss imo
Hope TheDuelLogs gets his own card someday.
A tutor/wish card that can get any card you need.
They have that already. It's called Death Wish and lets you put any card from outside the game in your hand. For half your life lol
@@CleazyMane-ef2cg I see. But how about a WUBRG cost without any drawbacks?
Faerie Mastermind is an allllll star in commander. If its not dealt with, it can easily draw a significant portion of your deck over one turn cycle. I recently had Alhammarets archive out with Seedborn Muse. Flashed in FM after my turn, triggered its draw, everyone draws 1 and i draw 8. The whole table looked at me and went "what the actual F$%@?"
It died before my next turn, but drew me 24 cards before it got banished to the shadow realm. I could have guarded it, but i had already drawn multiple win cons.
I dont leave home without it anymore.
I think from Eldraine onward they stopped letting the winners on their invitationals design cards, but instead they must choose an already designed card that their likeness will be put on.
Fills out the list, but I’m afraid the person who scripted Fervent Champion and Faerie Mastermind are idiot sandwiches.
I’m upset no one made an intentionally bad card. Bunch of try hards man.
Who are the pros?...
missed opportunity to mention that the art is based on the pro who designed each card
He says that like 8 seconds into the video
this is hot soup erasure
Downvoting bc players who made the cards were not also listed.
He says openers graveyard reading out snap caster. Also he says flashback weird. Don’t tell me these videos are AI🫣
If I were going to design a card, I’d want it to be like this:
“Trial of Atlas” 1, one white and one black
Enchantment
“During your upkeep, you may choose a card type. All cards with that card type will receive one stun counter.
After three uses of this cards effect, it is transformed into ‘Atlas, Holder of the World.’ “
“Atlas, Holder of the World” 1, 1 of each color
Creature- Deity
“The person who controls this card has their health set to 10, they cannot take damage from any other sources than ‘Atlas, Holder of the World.’
Every turn ‘Atlas, Holder of the World’ is on the field, each player takes 1 damage at the start of their upkeep.
After the owner of this card has their life reduced to 0, every other player loses the game except for the owner of this card.
Indestructible
5/5