i totally did! i was taught magic with the intro decks to lorwyn. i remember those sets, especially lorwyn/morningtide. i was born/raised in a small, very conservative midwest town and before i moved to cali, my grandmother warned me about mtg (think satanic panic kind of thing/unholy strength controversy era) (and also ac/dc. back in black is a great album). when my friend decided to teach me the game the artwork so helped break that barrier. while i dont do much with magic as much (other than watch your, saffron olives, and the profs videos) i am quite stoked to go back there.
The reason why piracy does not see any play is because mana burn is no longer a thing, so your opponents can just tap their lands in response. There is also a more powerful version of the effect called drain power, released in Alpha. The mana is forcibly drained from their pools meaning even if they tap in response you get the mana
I gotta say, Dev, Stronghold is one of my favorite sets of all time! Mox Diamond, Sliver Queen, Grave Pact, Hermit Druid, as well as shadow creatures and some of the best walls ever printed. There are TONS of hidden gems here, probably due to them being overshadowed by those aforementioned all-stars.
OBJECTION! I was one of those people who named the Lorwyn/Shadowmoor blocks, because Shadowmoor is actually the main time when I quit Magic seemingly for real. But, there are two problems here. * It's Eventide, not "evening" tide. I know, it's weird, but that's how it is. * Shadowmoor and Eventide are their own block separate from Lorwyn block, even though they are largely tied together.
Too bad Piracy became super bad after mana burn was abolished. In theory, your opponents can just tap down and instantly remove any opportunity to yoink unowned mana. At least you could politic with allies for use of theirs.
Piracy could be kimda cool in commander where you can politic your way into letting some people let you use their mana, but now that mana burn isnt a thing, everyone will just tap thier lands in response. Super unique card text though.
I play SO MANY of these in edh. I use the lairs in the decks that run those colors. Shaman of the Great Hunt is a favorite of mine in my Animar deck, which is built for cedh. Used to run Supplant Form, Sigil Tracer, and Galvanoth until I took Mizzix apart. I'm too young to remember Scourge, but I've played Call to the Grave in each Zombie tribal deck I've put together, also the reprints are not white bordered. I play Mortuary in Ghen. Also Piracy doesn't work without the mana burn rule.
My favorite obscure card from a set everyone forgot about is Fade Away from Exodus. Everyone remembers Exodus for Mind Over Matter, but Fade Away is a damn good budget wrath in blue.
The Lairs are interesting cause they have that card type *Lair* , which opens the door for potential “lair synergies and pay-offs” to be printed in the future. Kinda like how gates and shrines started getting more cards the last few years. Might never happen but still.
I started playing right after Invasion rotated but my friend who taught me hadn't updated his lists in a while so I got to see his decks in action. Really cool set and kinda the precursor to Ravnica.
15 minutes would definitely be too long to hold the video hostage, but a full 30-50 seconds would be just long enough of an awkward silence to be funny.
Dark Suspicions is a favorite of mine, I'm fairly new to magic and I love when people recommend me cards from way back for my commander decks. Basically it slots into my mono-black sheoldred the apocalypse deck where I force everyone to draw a ton of cards, even if sheoldred gets hated off the board (and she usually does) that plus underworld dreams and some other effects usually help me out. It's a fun little card.
we.. piracy basicly only says "ur cards cant be countered" becasue in response to you casting that, everyone on teh table will either use their mana to cast instants, or just tap their mana ... so you cant tap anything with piracy ... it was a dmg dealer with manaburn but now ... people just tap before this resolves... what am i not getting here ???
Yeah, I came to say this. Without manaburn there is nothing stopping me from just tapping down all my land when that is cast to prevent it from being used.
Call of the Grave is the singular card that cemented zombies as my favorite tribe. Undead Warchief has to be my favorite creature and I wish both would come to Arena so I can throw it in the same deck as Necroduality.
A man after my own heart. But I can never get Call to the Grave to work. I _always_ want some non-zombie creatures, whether it's Grave Titan or Ghoulcaller Gisa.
@@dreamwalking Sacrifices have to be made for the greater undead good. Besides, there's a fair number of reanimators that specifically return creatures as black zombies in addition to other types like Amonkhet Lili.
Eveningtide? I am agog, I am aghast! Dev, I typically wouldn't fault you for a misspeak, but with how much you love Lorwyn, I have to mention that it's just "Eventide," even if the even is referring to evening, and the full word of morning is in morningtide, so I get why it'd be easy to call it eveningtide.
I would love to see invasion plans in a mass goad deck. That would just be really cool. Although if you want my choice then something like nullmage advocate. There are a few advocates like it but not enough for a proper cycle. It is 2G for a for a 2/3 creature that has tap: Return two cards from an opponent's graveyard to their hand. Destroy target artifact or enchantment. That card would be terrible in most sets but is mind blowing in commander.
I started playing magic when fate reforged was released. A draft of it was my first magic experience ever. And the first rare i ever opened was the demon archfiend of depravity. And just soon after I started watching your channel, but I didnt know that it was infact brand new :). So anyway, i love the spotlight that the set is getting here. I played suppleant form in my Brudiclad deck to great succes. I have never really found a Home for the shaman but i bought back in the day thinking that it would be super busted. And it might still be in the right build. I just dont play a lot of temur and maybe thats why. Anyway, great video! I will look for the other series after this one.
Archfiend of Depravity is to this day my favorite card along side a foil Liliana the last hope that my wifi pulled for me in a 2headed Giant tournament that she did with me. Archfiend has been sitting in my Kaalia deck for many years but just the other day I took it out and put in my Sauron deck. Awesome card with a special history to me.
So fun finding gems. I do have a good temur edh deck built around That Bearclaw guy. It's a fun ramp, flash, big dumb creatures deck so the shaman fits perfectly.
I'm actually surprised Sigil Tracer didn't see a reprint in the wizard tribal commander precon, since its inclusion is a no-brainer and I don't remember buying the card.
This is the worst part about the never ending spoiler season. We brush past entire 450 card sets in two weeks, and miss so many good and fun cards! I’ll never forgive wizards for ruining how amazing baulders gate was
Dev: Thanks for Choo- choo- choosing me as you favorite MTG content creator - LOL When I was making my Ur-Dragon deck and discovered the Lair lands= Flavor win 10/10 - Supplant Form vs Elminsters Simulacrum - I'd love another set that was 100% creatures like Legions. That set is underrated for adding a bunch of Tribal staples - Invasion Plans has done work for me in my Xenagos deck, make big creatures with Trample and smash. Invasion Plans vs Bedlam. - Piracy vs Mana Short vs Exhaustion When it comes to cards I am very surprised aren't banned in EDH is Cadaverous Bloom; that card has been sitting in my binder forever but WOW, recently discovered how broken it is,it sure does work in my Aristocratic Yargltani. I think it is funny compared to some of the cards that are banned in EDH, a card that allows you to exile a card from your hand for 2 Green or 2 Black mana... how could this go wrong? :P
Dev you are going to be one spicy Commander player I love it. Keep documenting your ideas before you fall into the staples trap! Great video, so glad people didn't watch it much I get cheap cards. You can't lose!
Piracy ...... !!!!!😳😳😳 I've always been a fan of the Lairs lands, I can't understand why people root for the triomes and ignore those. They come into play untaped ! UNTAPED ! Thanks for the tips !
I just finally got a binder for my lands, and those triomes are expensive. I almost have a full playset of all of them, and ten copies of others. Too bad I don't have a playset of the new capenna's versions....
Waiting for couch card, the cat gave it away. Knew it was gonna be one if those cards wotc prints even though there's no chance it's ever played lol....
MaRo has stated for a long time that the game would be better off if instead of instants we simply had sorceries and simply used flash to make those sorceries into "instants." Would save a LOT of words on a lot of cards.
Piracy would be stronger with mana burn as a rule still. Now, players can just tap their lands in response, and you won't get anything. Back in the day, they would have to worry about taking damge for not using the mana they would make if they tap their lands while this is on the stack.
On scryfall, don't right click on the card image. It'll save as a jpg and you'll get those white corners on all the images. Instead, click "download png image" lower on the page. Then, the card images will have transparent corners. You're already putting so much time into editing, and this one little change would make your videos look so much better.
Paused video at you might forget about stronghold. I for one did not. Second favorite set! SLIVER QUEEN! and spikes. Volraths stronghold!?! There's a lot of power in that set
Wouldn't Sigil Tracer be fun with Harmonic Prodigy and Seething Song. 5 mana in ten mana out. I need to watch one of those new shaman videos. Find out what the heck they are doing with that thing.
Dev is a hidden gem on UA-cam.
Been helping me learn about magic since 2015 legit been an alternative content machine throughout breaks with the game
Sure is
i totally did! i was taught magic with the intro decks to lorwyn. i remember those sets, especially lorwyn/morningtide. i was born/raised in a small, very conservative midwest town and before i moved to cali, my grandmother warned me about mtg (think satanic panic kind of thing/unholy strength controversy era) (and also ac/dc. back in black is a great album). when my friend decided to teach me the game the artwork so helped break that barrier. while i dont do much with magic as much (other than watch your, saffron olives, and the profs videos) i am quite stoked to go back there.
also, screw fairies! bloody wankers all
I've been watching this Channel for years waiting on the full release of the opening song
The reason why piracy does not see any play is because mana burn is no longer a thing, so your opponents can just tap their lands in response. There is also a more powerful version of the effect called drain power, released in Alpha. The mana is forcibly drained from their pools meaning even if they tap in response you get the mana
Really want piracy with split second !
You could play Piracy to force them to consider tapping out, generally clearing the way for your next plays.
Do we need a split-second version that let's you take the mana before they can react?
THIS
the Lorwyn block was on my LGS's shelves when I started playing! so I know them
My first few packs had Mana Reflection and Idyllic Tutor in them : )
5:30 ... I would argue "Win More" isn't an issue in Commander, because even if you defeat one player, you still have at least two more to deal with.
Your opponents can float mana in response to Piracy, so it's mostly a worse Drain Power (which is cheaper, also).
I gotta say, Dev, Stronghold is one of my favorite sets of all time! Mox Diamond, Sliver Queen, Grave Pact, Hermit Druid, as well as shadow creatures and some of the best walls ever printed. There are TONS of hidden gems here, probably due to them being overshadowed by those aforementioned all-stars.
Oh mortuary! What a cool card: I combo off with it, bolas citadel, a sac outlet and Gary
The Dev, out here posting 3am uploads for all us sinners.
And third-shifters.
OBJECTION!
I was one of those people who named the Lorwyn/Shadowmoor blocks, because Shadowmoor is actually the main time when I quit Magic seemingly for real. But, there are two problems here.
* It's Eventide, not "evening" tide. I know, it's weird, but that's how it is.
* Shadowmoor and Eventide are their own block separate from Lorwyn block, even though they are largely tied together.
The only thing with Piracy is your opponents can just tap all their lands in response. But boy does it make your mana geyser go off xD
Too bad Piracy became super bad after mana burn was abolished. In theory, your opponents can just tap down and instantly remove any opportunity to yoink unowned mana. At least you could politic with allies for use of theirs.
Piracy could be kimda cool in commander where you can politic your way into letting some people let you use their mana, but now that mana burn isnt a thing, everyone will just tap thier lands in response. Super unique card text though.
Sometimes getting them to tap out is also quite useful.
I actually only know about Starter '99 because I've seen Piracy before. But I couldn't remember what it was called, so thank you.
Easily named all the Lorwyn block. Three of my decks and my cube are still heavily Lorwyn based.
Dev lately these videos have been great well done
I play SO MANY of these in edh. I use the lairs in the decks that run those colors. Shaman of the Great Hunt is a favorite of mine in my Animar deck, which is built for cedh. Used to run Supplant Form, Sigil Tracer, and Galvanoth until I took Mizzix apart. I'm too young to remember Scourge, but I've played Call to the Grave in each Zombie tribal deck I've put together, also the reprints are not white bordered. I play Mortuary in Ghen. Also Piracy doesn't work without the mana burn rule.
Sigil Tracer/Rally the Troops is a pretty nice combo actually.
You got me with Mortuary. Never seen it before in my life.
My favorite obscure card from a set everyone forgot about is Fade Away from Exodus. Everyone remembers Exodus for Mind Over Matter, but Fade Away is a damn good budget wrath in blue.
60% of the time it works every time.
Shaman of the Great Hunt is one of my favorite EDH cards. He provides that passive effect and threatens to draw you so much.
The Lairs are interesting cause they have that card type *Lair* , which opens the door for potential “lair synergies and pay-offs” to be printed in the future. Kinda like how gates and shrines started getting more cards the last few years. Might never happen but still.
it's wild they didn't do it in AFR or Baldur's Gate
I wish they would print more Lairs
I started playing right after Invasion rotated but my friend who taught me hadn't updated his lists in a while so I got to see his decks in action. Really cool set and kinda the precursor to Ravnica.
15 minutes would definitely be too long to hold the video hostage, but a full 30-50 seconds would be just long enough of an awkward silence to be funny.
Dark Suspicions is a favorite of mine, I'm fairly new to magic and I love when people recommend me cards from way back for my commander decks. Basically it slots into my mono-black sheoldred the apocalypse deck where I force everyone to draw a ton of cards, even if sheoldred gets hated off the board (and she usually does) that plus underworld dreams and some other effects usually help me out. It's a fun little card.
we.. piracy basicly only says "ur cards cant be countered" becasue in response to you casting that, everyone on teh table will either use their mana to cast instants, or just tap their mana ... so you cant tap anything with piracy ... it was a dmg dealer with manaburn but now ... people just tap before this resolves...
what am i not getting here ???
Yeah, I came to say this. Without manaburn there is nothing stopping me from just tapping down all my land when that is cast to prevent it from being used.
Call of the Grave is the singular card that cemented zombies as my favorite tribe. Undead Warchief has to be my favorite creature and I wish both would come to Arena so I can throw it in the same deck as Necroduality.
Undead Warchief was so fun back in the day!
A man after my own heart. But I can never get Call to the Grave to work. I _always_ want some non-zombie creatures, whether it's Grave Titan or Ghoulcaller Gisa.
@@dreamwalking Sacrifices have to be made for the greater undead good. Besides, there's a fair number of reanimators that specifically return creatures as black zombies in addition to other types like Amonkhet Lili.
Eveningtide? I am agog, I am aghast! Dev, I typically wouldn't fault you for a misspeak, but with how much you love Lorwyn, I have to mention that it's just "Eventide," even if the even is referring to evening, and the full word of morning is in morningtide, so I get why it'd be easy to call it eveningtide.
Invasion plans seems like a pretty decent include for all of the big goading decks like Karazikar, Baeloth Barrityl, Marisi, or Kaima.
I would love to see invasion plans in a mass goad deck. That would just be really cool. Although if you want my choice then something like nullmage advocate. There are a few advocates like it but not enough for a proper cycle. It is 2G for a for a 2/3 creature that has tap: Return two cards from an opponent's graveyard to their hand. Destroy target artifact or enchantment. That card would be terrible in most sets but is mind blowing in commander.
I started playing magic when fate reforged was released. A draft of it was my first magic experience ever. And the first rare i ever opened was the demon archfiend of depravity. And just soon after I started watching your channel, but I didnt know that it was infact brand new :).
So anyway, i love the spotlight that the set is getting here.
I played suppleant form in my Brudiclad deck to great succes. I have never really found a Home for the shaman but i bought back in the day thinking that it would be super busted. And it might still be in the right build. I just dont play a lot of temur and maybe thats why.
Anyway, great video! I will look for the other series after this one.
Archfiend of Depravity is to this day my favorite card along side a foil Liliana the last hope that my wifi pulled for me in a 2headed Giant tournament that she did with me.
Archfiend has been sitting in my Kaalia deck for many years but just the other day I took it out and put in my Sauron deck. Awesome card with a special history to me.
I got the lorwyn order, that my favorite set and block of all time my knees hurt
Call is one my favorite tech from that set
So fun finding gems. I do have a good temur edh deck built around That Bearclaw guy. It's a fun ramp, flash, big dumb creatures deck so the shaman fits perfectly.
Love this video, Dev!
Haven't played MTG since amonketh but damn your vids makes me wanna play again.
Fun video Dev!
He's been killing it lately
I'm actually surprised Sigil Tracer didn't see a reprint in the wizard tribal commander precon, since its inclusion is a no-brainer and I don't remember buying the card.
This is the worst part about the never ending spoiler season. We brush past entire 450 card sets in two weeks, and miss so many good and fun cards!
I’ll never forgive wizards for ruining how amazing baulders gate was
I mean we also have some content creators to blame (not dev) for the constant “YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS CARD” Videos for all the expensive mythics
Only three cards In and stoked!
Was feeling pretty burnt out. Turns out I don't know all the good ones. Good job dude!
It's good enough for a happy birthday some time this month lol
Dev: Thanks for Choo- choo- choosing me as you favorite MTG content creator
- LOL When I was making my Ur-Dragon deck and discovered the Lair lands= Flavor win 10/10
- Supplant Form vs Elminsters Simulacrum
- I'd love another set that was 100% creatures like Legions. That set is underrated for adding a bunch of Tribal staples
- Invasion Plans has done work for me in my Xenagos deck, make big creatures with Trample and smash.
Invasion Plans vs Bedlam.
- Piracy vs Mana Short vs Exhaustion
When it comes to cards I am very surprised aren't banned in EDH is Cadaverous Bloom; that card has been sitting in my binder forever but WOW, recently discovered how broken it is,it sure does work in my Aristocratic Yargltani. I think it is funny compared to some of the cards that are banned in EDH, a card that allows you to exile a card from your hand for 2 Green or 2 Black mana... how could this go wrong? :P
18:55 That would be pretty neat in a Banding deck.
I have a Grixis Clones EDH deck and Supplant Form has done work in the deck. Did not know about that promo though, nice!
Oh I 'member starter! 'Member the giant "planeswalker" cards! I 'member!
I started playing around scourge, that was the first booster pack I opened.
Good story, great sets. Also Necra was a WAAAAY better name than abandoned. (For that matter, so was Junk)
Dev you are going to be one spicy Commander player I love it. Keep documenting your ideas before you fall into the staples trap! Great video, so glad people didn't watch it much I get cheap cards. You can't lose!
Piracy ...... !!!!!😳😳😳
I've always been a fan of the Lairs lands, I can't understand why people root for the triomes and ignore those. They come into play untaped ! UNTAPED !
Thanks for the tips !
Does the card draw get doubled with Harmonic Prodigy, or does that not cover activated abilities? 5:43
I just finally got a binder for my lands, and those triomes are expensive. I almost have a full playset of all of them, and ten copies of others. Too bad I don't have a playset of the new capenna's versions....
I think they're a good investment but who knows
So there's no Maro teaser breakdown video this time around? This makes me sad because I like your take on all the teasers.
Invasion Plans is amazing - you can turn it into a one-sided board wipe every turn if you time it right.
Oh man, I remember piracy. I used to play it in a deck with mana barbs. That was so long ago...
Isn’t piracy garbo though? Everyone just taps their mana in response? I mean I guess that means they can’t do anything after that but still.
Invasion plans was fantastic in my goad deck, man
I have long wanted to make Piracy (the Magic card) work competitively. It never made the cut.
Wow, what a finisher for the list. Piracy looks like a custom card people would call you in idiot for making.
Just getting into commander....?
Tiiight vid.
The train it's real my wizard
Gotta put some respect on Dev, from another Dev. Love your videos man.
Dark Suspicions + Prosperity + Skirge Familiar = 👍😀👍
Nice content dev! Stay healthy
I started with scourge/legions lmao
Maybe that's why I was so creature focused when I started haha
Waiting for couch card, the cat gave it away. Knew it was gonna be one if those cards wotc prints even though there's no chance it's ever played lol....
Nice video Dev. Can't you tap all your lands in response to "piracy"? I guess this card was better with mana burn rules back then.
the jund lair with Korvold is basically a lotus petal that draws one
@Dev, make some Pauper videos!
Also, Lorwyn is the best set EVER created for the game....(even with Planeswalkers).
So, "Rally the Troops" is a sorcery whose text box makes it an instant?
Freakin' weird.
@@EddDoubleDD ok
MaRo has stated for a long time that the game would be better off if instead of instants we simply had sorceries and simply used flash to make those sorceries into "instants." Would save a LOT of words on a lot of cards.
Ironically I would actually watch you take the channel hostage. I mean I am already subscribed, but I would be down for whatever.
Dark Suspicions + One with Nothing = beastmode
Dev I am ready to commit to this: You’re my favorite Magic Content Creator. 👍🏻
You my spirit animal dev
Piracy would be stronger with mana burn as a rule still. Now, players can just tap their lands in response, and you won't get anything. Back in the day, they would have to worry about taking damge for not using the mana they would make if they tap their lands while this is on the stack.
how does rally the troops work if it's a sorcery?
Call to the Grave was my first rare on a booster
On scryfall, don't right click on the card image. It'll save as a jpg and you'll get those white corners on all the images. Instead, click "download png image" lower on the page. Then, the card images will have transparent corners. You're already putting so much time into editing, and this one little change would make your videos look so much better.
Paused video at you might forget about stronghold. I for one did not. Second favorite set! SLIVER QUEEN! and spikes. Volraths stronghold!?! There's a lot of power in that set
Can people tap their lands in response to you wanting to tap their lands for piracy?
Yes. And then you move steps so all their mana drains. Now you can try to win in your post-combat main phase.
Mortuary with Syr Konrad!
this video was mind blowing thanks
I love this channel
Naw, damn that. Every table is now a battletable..
*eventide not eveningtide*
I remember Surge! it wasn't as good as mt dew.
Wouldn't Sigil Tracer be fun with Harmonic Prodigy and Seething Song. 5 mana in ten mana out. I need to watch one of those new shaman videos. Find out what the heck they are doing with that thing.
I think Galvanoth would go fantastic in my Ovika deck
1:01 🔥
You have a really cool attitude, awesome voice and I’d be so down to play a commander match with you on the table.
Three people. A total of three people knew about Steam Catapult prior to this video.
More commander please
Do it DEV!!!!!
Needs more Dwarfs
Remember when dev used to rock the curly bangs? 😂
Piracy was a promo card.
Suh-boom-tig 😂
happy birthday!
Actually, 🤓👆 it's Eventide not Eveningtide!
Do fallen empires !!! AGAIN
I abuse supplant form in my orvar edh deck often. Someone drops a bomb its mine now and im copying it endlessly.
Unfortunately you can tap lands in response to piracy