Oh man. I played from around late 1995 until I left for the Marine Corps in early 1999 (and all my cards got stolen while I was away), and remember that every white deck I played against had Serra Angel in it. Such an amazing card for the time, and just seeing the card takes me back to when I was 16 years old, and first started playing. I miss those days a lot.
my friend played back then with a gaea cradle elf deck and had 4 forests in his deck and 1 cradle... and his black discard deck had 14 swamps... "I didnt want to get too many lands". (yes he had a 5 drop lol)
all of the original big flying creatures were on the same level of imposing when we were kids. couldn't bolt any of these, couldn't incinerate any of these, had to pay huge to fireball them, had to go black to play terror (to which one of these was immune to), etc. if your opponent played one of them and you didn't have one yourself, you were pretty much screwed. keep in mind, casual "playground magic" usually revolved around commons and maybe some uncommons. you didn't see many rares back then. cards like these were a very big deal when someone played them. it's like royalty had just arrived. of course, this is all super irrelevant (since the video is about competitive magic), but it really brought back a lot of (mostly) fond memories.
My first thought was he got this idea from False Swipe. No hate, it's a good series and has a lot of potential in MTG for sure. Hope all's chill between the two creators.
Almost retired, but never forgotten! How many memories playing this winged lady in my old decks back in the days, either as the win condition after locking the opponent with Stasis or as the top curve in white wheenies decks. It is heartbreaking seeing her fall from grace, in these days of 1 mana 2/2 with haste, shock at etb, create a treasure everytime you attack (if you read this comment in 2 two years, I'm sure such creature will have been printed).
Excellent deep dive. I especially liked how you even talked about it in limited. As I was watching I thought how Serra Angel is a great example of how a statline (+keywords) can match up really well against what else is in a format. That's something which I think often gets overlooked in limited formats.
This is a great idea for a new series about when doing a deep dive onto single cards not only gives a TON of potential content but also shows why certain cards were good and how the powercreep over time has caused them to fall off. Even more would be a history of cards that were okay/meh for a while but now are a staple in some decks.
Serra Angel won me a game last Sunday. Me and some friends were playing a kitchen table Uncommons only version of modern. She's the big threat in my vigilance themed Selesnya deck.
That sounds like a lot of fun, but I'm amazed that everyone doesn't just play burn. I mean, you've got Lightning Bolt and Boros Charm, what else could you want?
I love this new series idea, I don't think anyone is really focusing on this type of content and it's always great to look back at the past to learn about how we got to where we are today, looking at specific cards to see how they've done is a great new way to do that compared to the top 10 lists
@@NizzahonMagictop 10s will always be lovely, don't misunderstand, but this whole new format is particularly interesting to deeply understand both this game, alongside its mechanics, and how optimizations actually work. The latter is SO useful for both the competitive environment and another one format of yours: draft.
Oh, very cool. Excited for this series. I'm an old player that's been around since the 90s and I remember using old cards like this, even though I mostly just played against my brother back then. The Deck was the first time I had started to hear about achetypes of decks and I just figured it was because I finally had people around me that started to play. A lot of my friends didn't start getting into Magic until Ice Age had released and the cards were easier to find in my area.
Can't wait to see more of this series! I've heard of a lot of the older/original cards but I don't really know their history. Thank you for your dedication to this amazing game NH!
Was completely on board when you asked out about the series concept, and now, even more so. Absolutely keep doing this. It feels like a logical complement to Top 10s and will help you keep those more impactful/unique for when they do land in your schedule. Obviously many more "historic" cards to cover first, but my mono W is showing and I cant wait for the Thraben Inspector video.
This seems to fit with your history professor vibes better than the top tens. You really get to dive into specific card histories in a way the top ten format doesn't allow. Thumbs up!
Huge fan of the new series ngl, in my opinion you're the premier magic history channel. These videos combine two of my favorite things, mtg, and documentaries. These are fire.
As a relatively new player (started in 2018 during guilds of ravnica) this series is amazing. I love learning about the history of the game and iconic cards and would love to see this series continue
Perfect idea for a series. Also please keep it based mainly on creatures. It's a way different topic (and IMO more interesting) than one generically about win-conditions. If you e.g. do a video about Lightning Bolt, the script is almost indistinguishable from a script about the history of Burn decks in general.
I really enjoyed the more long-form video essay format, and the topic was fun too. It feels like you won't run out of interesting cards to talk about for a while
I remember fearing this card when I first started playing around the time of Tempest. She was still one of the most powerful creatures in the game at that time. Can’t wait to see more of this series in the future, it’s going to bring back some great memories of my teenage years.
I really like this as something else in the vein of Deck History and B&R, a different angle to look at the history and development of the meta. Hope to see more
Love it. Thank you so much for the new style content. It would be cool if when you were talking about the older decks that the card was involved with you talked about more of the single cards in that deck so we get a better feeling of the big picture.
I like the start of this series! I love seeing old pro tour decklists so I wouldn’t mind if you included even more of them and maybe even clips of pro tour coverage if it exists
Awesome concept for video. I like your top 10 videos, but also missing deck history videos. ..and this type hits that history-nostalgia spot just right. 😊
Love your content already and this will make it even better! You are easily one of the best MTG channels out there. Can't wait to see what cards you'll cover next.
Commenting for the algorithm! I've been subscribed to the channel for a number of years now and I've never left a comment- but I really really like the idea of this series!
Very interesting! I look forward to future instalments. Shout-out to Serra Angel for also leading to a bunch of other Serra-related cards and story elements
Good stuff I enjoyed it. I still remember my excitement back in the late 90's when I finally managed to complete a playset of Serra's for my silly four color big flyers deck
Seems like a great start to a cool series. It'll be nice to see cards from different era's of Magics history. We could look back at cards like Progenitus and Jace the Mind Sculptor. Cards that were the top of their game but aren't in the spotlight as much today.
It's May the 1st, 2024 and as I woke up to take a piss at 2 am, I saw that Nizzahon had new content! 🥹 I said to myself, "I really need to sleep so I'll save this for work tomorrow..." As I sit on my exercise ball while eating lunch at home, (I work remotely) I am enjoying this clip that pertains to one of Magic's most iconic creatures. 🤝👍 I'm already subbed to this channel and always eagerly await to watch the new content when I'm in a comfortable place but this clip easily earned the signature, "LIKE." 👍👍👍🤝 Great editing skills too Nizzahon.. 👌
would definitely be interested in more of this. i'm curious as to how you'd handle cards with really expansive histories (lightning bolt comes to mind), since your (non-limited-focused) videos are usually under 20 minutes. regardless, excited for more.
Big fan of this idea! Getting a deep look into specific cards and what makes them iconic/good sounds mad interesting (also you won't be running out of ideas anytime soon either lol)
A cool idea for a series would be to go through the history of each format and determine what card got the most points in that year, excluding basic lands. So like for modern, you start with the first year, then you count all the modern events from that year and determine which card showed up most often. That would probably be pretty cool.
2:03 Cool lineup, but they all died to Cockatrice. I remember being salty that green had basically no fliers (and no removal), so I crammed as many Cockatrices in my green decks as I could to block. Had Force of Nature though. 8/8's with trample were no joke back then! Especially with double Giant Growth! Serra was also the perfect work-around to the vaunted $15 Royal Assassin. Good old days!
I would like to see more in this series. I'm always on board with deep dives of classic cards and decks. Serra Angel still sees the board on my side of the table, whether it's in my Commander deck or used as an Angel token for Resplendent Angel, and of course I only used the original art printings.
I enjoyed this series and would definitely watch more episodes like this. :) I like that you pointed out Serra Angel, even though it would absolutely never see play in Constructed today, was still a powerful card in Dominaria Limited. Makes me wonder what other iconic cards from the game's past could still be fun limited role players. I think Serra Angel probably actually holds up a lot better than Erhnam Djinn would in a contemporary Limited environment.
Oh man. I played from around late 1995 until I left for the Marine Corps in early 1999 (and all my cards got stolen while I was away), and remember that every white deck I played against had Serra Angel in it. Such an amazing card for the time, and just seeing the card takes me back to when I was 16 years old, and first started playing. I miss those days a lot.
NEW SERIES GANG WHERE YOU AT
I’m up I’m up! It’s 5:43 am … I can only catch these so early. Niz is a maniac and posts these wee ass early
Can’t wait for episode 2, which will surely be “How Good was Teeka’s Dragon Really?”
I was searching for a playlist when I realized this is a first!
@@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai That video would be like six hours long chronicling ever top it had ever had, even in other card games.
Itching for the next episode!
This series is going to be pretty sweet. Seeing the deck lists from back in the day makes me realise how unhinged mana bases were.
That first decklist: 15 lands, no basics, 5 Moxen o_O
my friend played back then with a gaea cradle elf deck and had 4 forests in his deck and 1 cradle... and his black discard deck had 14 swamps... "I didnt want to get too many lands". (yes he had a 5 drop lol)
I appreciate that Nizzahon has become the History Channel for Mtg. I WILL watch videos like this
Appreciate you schooling the kids on just how good this card was and the importance of power creep
all of the original big flying creatures were on the same level of imposing when we were kids.
couldn't bolt any of these, couldn't incinerate any of these, had to pay huge to fireball them, had to go black to play terror (to which one of these was immune to), etc.
if your opponent played one of them and you didn't have one yourself, you were pretty much screwed.
keep in mind, casual "playground magic" usually revolved around commons and maybe some uncommons.
you didn't see many rares back then. cards like these were a very big deal when someone played them. it's like royalty had just arrived.
of course, this is all super irrelevant (since the video is about competitive magic), but it really brought back a lot of (mostly) fond memories.
Haha, as a big fan of False Swipe Gaming, I find that very cheeky but very fitting. Magic does have its own tiers after all.
It's missing the song tho
@@TheRealmDrifter "the song" is highlander droid on epidemic sound by formant X
very nice song
Don't wanna make it *too* similar.
The one thing I would add is the "we'll be covering these competitive formats" card.
My first thought was he got this idea from False Swipe. No hate, it's a good series and has a lot of potential in MTG for sure. Hope all's chill between the two creators.
We gotta get more of this series!
The background is the Best Serra Angel artwork! Or at the very least, my favorite!
The mention of Blastoderm makes me want to see a video on that card in this series
I do enjoy in March of machines we got the evolving spinoderm a nice nod to it
Oh mannn Blastoderm takes me back to the only time I played paper Type 2! FIRES OF YAVIMAYAAAA
Good call. Blastoderm was the peak of its day.
Hell yeah, excited for this new series.
Almost retired, but never forgotten!
How many memories playing this winged lady in my old decks back in the days, either as the win condition after locking the opponent with Stasis or as the top curve in white wheenies decks.
It is heartbreaking seeing her fall from grace, in these days of 1 mana 2/2 with haste, shock at etb, create a treasure everytime you attack (if you read this comment in 2 two years, I'm sure such creature will have been printed).
Ironically Serra Angel would kill that 2/2 card you described.
She can still get wins, even if she isn’t the most efficient
Magda, the Hoardmaster is pretty damn close to what your describing there.(get a treasure whenever you commit a crime...in red.)
like the idea of this series! it sounds like a fun way to look back at cards that are beyond their heyday or had different moments in the spotlight
Hyped for a new series!
I used to play a mono blue where air elemental was the win con. 4/4 flyers used to do a lot of work.
Mahamoti Djinn. 😂
Excellent deep dive. I especially liked how you even talked about it in limited. As I was watching I thought how Serra Angel is a great example of how a statline (+keywords) can match up really well against what else is in a format. That's something which I think often gets overlooked in limited formats.
This is a great idea for a new series about when doing a deep dive onto single cards not only gives a TON of potential content but also shows why certain cards were good and how the powercreep over time has caused them to fall off. Even more would be a history of cards that were okay/meh for a while but now are a staple in some decks.
yesss this would be great
10:30 important to note that Serra Angel was originally an uncommon from Alpha/Beta through 4th Edition.
As a fan of false swipe gaming and your content, i truly hope you continue this series
Serra Angel won me a game last Sunday. Me and some friends were playing a kitchen table Uncommons only version of modern. She's the big threat in my vigilance themed Selesnya deck.
That sounds like a lot of fun, but I'm amazed that everyone doesn't just play burn. I mean, you've got Lightning Bolt and Boros Charm, what else could you want?
@@davidlundquist1979Lol. Top 8 is 7 Burn decks and 1 Soul Sisters 😂
I love this new series idea, I don't think anyone is really focusing on this type of content and it's always great to look back at the past to learn about how we got to where we are today, looking at specific cards to see how they've done is a great new way to do that compared to the top 10 lists
Glad you enjoy it!
@@NizzahonMagictop 10s will always be lovely, don't misunderstand, but this whole new format is particularly interesting to deeply understand both this game, alongside its mechanics, and how optimizations actually work. The latter is SO useful for both the competitive environment and another one format of yours: draft.
props to FSG, classic format here and hoping it works out for the channel
The series should be" what mtg cards didn't stay as Tauros"
Great pilot episode! As a long-time viewer of both FSG and you, Im really excited for this to continue!
This series has my vote! Very well done!
Babe, wake up. New Nizzahon series just dropped
Oh, very cool. Excited for this series. I'm an old player that's been around since the 90s and I remember using old cards like this, even though I mostly just played against my brother back then. The Deck was the first time I had started to hear about achetypes of decks and I just figured it was because I finally had people around me that started to play. A lot of my friends didn't start getting into Magic until Ice Age had released and the cards were easier to find in my area.
Can't wait to see more of this series! I've heard of a lot of the older/original cards but I don't really know their history. Thank you for your dedication to this amazing game NH!
Nizzahon dropping another groovy series, can’t wait to see more breakdowns of iconic cards. You’re a legend m8
Was completely on board when you asked out about the series concept, and now, even more so. Absolutely keep doing this.
It feels like a logical complement to Top 10s and will help you keep those more impactful/unique for when they do land in your schedule.
Obviously many more "historic" cards to cover first, but my mono W is showing and I cant wait for the Thraben Inspector video.
This seems to fit with your history professor vibes better than the top tens. You really get to dive into specific card histories in a way the top ten format doesn't allow.
Thumbs up!
Huge fan of the new series ngl, in my opinion you're the premier magic history channel. These videos combine two of my favorite things, mtg, and documentaries. These are fire.
As a relatively new player (started in 2018 during guilds of ravnica) this series is amazing. I love learning about the history of the game and iconic cards and would love to see this series continue
Perfect idea for a series. Also please keep it based mainly on creatures. It's a way different topic (and IMO more interesting) than one generically about win-conditions. If you e.g. do a video about Lightning Bolt, the script is almost indistinguishable from a script about the history of Burn decks in general.
We have a winner with this series. Keep it going, and thank you for all the content you produce.
Very excited to see more of this series!
I liked this video. It was informative and fun. I love Serra Angel.
Great episode! I hope you continue the series. This was a great shot of the good old nostalgia.
I really enjoyed this. I hope you are able to continue this as a series. Thank you for your content, it's highly enjoyable.
Love the series. I watch your videos for Magic history and this is exactly the sort of thing I want to see.
Nice vid! Enjoyed the reprint background as well as effectiveness in different formats across time. Looking forward to the next one!
Great video. I am convinced this series is worth doing, so I really hope the views will be there. Keep doing your great work!
Please do deliver of secrets if you do more of these
I really enjoyed the more long-form video essay format, and the topic was fun too. It feels like you won't run out of interesting cards to talk about for a while
Awesome video. Keep it going. As MTG player since 96, I enjoy the nostalgia
I am really excited to see the continuation of this series. This was a great video.
I remember fearing this card when I first started playing around the time of Tempest. She was still one of the most powerful creatures in the game at that time. Can’t wait to see more of this series in the future, it’s going to bring back some great memories of my teenage years.
Thoroughly enjoyed the pilot and I hope the series continues! I am definitely interested.
I really like this as something else in the vein of Deck History and B&R, a different angle to look at the history and development of the meta. Hope to see more
Thank you for this, I am looking forward to more of this series!
Love it. Thank you so much for the new style content. It would be cool if when you were talking about the older decks that the card was involved with you talked about more of the single cards in that deck so we get a better feeling of the big picture.
even as someone who barely plays 60 card constructed, i love hearing the history of stuff, great new series :)
Love it. Having started playing during revised, everything in this video tracks with what I remember from that time.
Great new series. Looking forward to many more. Great to see a card's history.
Great new series! Looking forward for further cards and their history.
Super excited for the new series! I was thinking about False Swipe when you announced the name, but it's cool that it was a distinct homage.
I like the start of this series! I love seeing old pro tour decklists so I wouldn’t mind if you included even more of them and maybe even clips of pro tour coverage if it exists
This was a great dive and think it is a great addition to your other content
Please continue and keep up the great work
Awesome concept for video. I like your top 10 videos, but also missing deck history videos. ..and this type hits that history-nostalgia spot just right. 😊
I really enjoy this video. I'd be totally up for more episodes, as there are lots of iconic cards.
Can't wait for the lightning bolt episode
Lightning Bolt was and still is good though, I don't think there is a debate because it never fell off.
Love your content already and this will make it even better! You are easily one of the best MTG channels out there. Can't wait to see what cards you'll cover next.
Commenting for the algorithm! I've been subscribed to the channel for a number of years now and I've never left a comment- but I really really like the idea of this series!
Thanks for leaving your first comment!
Very interesting! I look forward to future instalments. Shout-out to Serra Angel for also leading to a bunch of other Serra-related cards and story elements
Great video. Can’t wait to see more of this
Been a fan of False Swipe Gaming for years and always down for more MTG informational and historical content.
Great idea, will be here for every one of you keep doing this!
This was an amazing video. I'll be following this series closely!
Good stuff I enjoyed it. I still remember my excitement back in the late 90's when I finally managed to complete a playset of Serra's for my silly four color big flyers deck
love the series! I'm very interested in magic history in general. give us more!
Love the idea for this series! Would love to see more.
Seems like a great start to a cool series. It'll be nice to see cards from different era's of Magics history. We could look back at cards like Progenitus and Jace the Mind Sculptor. Cards that were the top of their game but aren't in the spotlight as much today.
Thanks for the new series! Looking forward to having the hypnotic specter treat!
It's May the 1st, 2024 and as I woke up to take a piss at 2 am, I saw that Nizzahon had new content! 🥹 I said to myself, "I really need to sleep so I'll save this for work tomorrow..."
As I sit on my exercise ball while eating lunch at home, (I work remotely) I am enjoying this clip that pertains to one of Magic's most iconic creatures. 🤝👍
I'm already subbed to this channel and always eagerly await to watch the new content when I'm in a comfortable place but this clip easily earned the signature, "LIKE." 👍👍👍🤝
Great editing skills too Nizzahon.. 👌
would definitely be interested in more of this. i'm curious as to how you'd handle cards with really expansive histories (lightning bolt comes to mind), since your (non-limited-focused) videos are usually under 20 minutes. regardless, excited for more.
Big fan of this idea! Getting a deep look into specific cards and what makes them iconic/good sounds mad interesting (also you won't be running out of ideas anytime soon either lol)
Soooo excited for this new format!! Can't wait for the tarmogoyf episode!
A cool idea for a series would be to go through the history of each format and determine what card got the most points in that year, excluding basic lands. So like for modern, you start with the first year, then you count all the modern events from that year and determine which card showed up most often. That would probably be pretty cool.
2:03 Cool lineup, but they all died to Cockatrice. I remember being salty that green had basically no fliers (and no removal), so I crammed as many Cockatrices in my green decks as I could to block. Had Force of Nature though. 8/8's with trample were no joke back then! Especially with double Giant Growth!
Serra was also the perfect work-around to the vaunted $15 Royal Assassin.
Good old days!
This is a great new series! Would definitely want to see more
I would like to see more in this series. I'm always on board with deep dives of classic cards and decks. Serra Angel still sees the board on my side of the table, whether it's in my Commander deck or used as an Angel token for Resplendent Angel, and of course I only used the original art printings.
Really fun to learn more history on iconic MTG cards.
I love this series idea. Definitely keep it going.
I love this, please keep it going! Especially if the next card is the gobbo! Teach the youngsters how damage hitting the stack was truly dark times…
Definitely excited to see more of these videos
Saw the title and thought False Swipe was getting into Magic XD. This series is gonna be good. :)
Extremely excited for this series!!
Absolutely love it! Please keep doing this type of video.❤
Love this new series!! Please do more!
Big fan. I feel like there's this is a good way to give individuals from top 10s more explanation!
Yes! I'm so glad that you made this video
I really hope you continue this amazing series
I enjoyed this series and would definitely watch more episodes like this. :)
I like that you pointed out Serra Angel, even though it would absolutely never see play in Constructed today, was still a powerful card in Dominaria Limited. Makes me wonder what other iconic cards from the game's past could still be fun limited role players. I think Serra Angel probably actually holds up a lot better than Erhnam Djinn would in a contemporary Limited environment.
Absolutely dope. Hope it keeps going indefinitely.
Nice new format! I hope it is succesful. I really enjoy the concept.
I was so excited to see this series!
Love this series idea. Great first video!
Great idea for a series! Looking forward to it :D
This series rocks! Would love to see more
I loved the Deck History series. I hope this one sticks around for awhile too
Love this series! Hope to see it continue! :)