MTG Card Easter Eggs You Can't Unsee
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- Magic the Gathering Card Easter Eggs You Can't Unsee.
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*please sir, can i have some more?*
You have anything to say about how bad the shuffler on Arena is.... I know how to fix it.... Do you ?
@@alexlore4716 how
@@TheLoraxWithMjolnir Rebuild the game on a 128 bit client or better, anything short of that we will forever be stuck in Hell, WOTC knows this yet we hear nothing about Arena 2.0.. they are bastards as long as people still spend money on Arena 1.0 we are fucked endlessly.... Understand how serious the problem is and how it pisses me off everyday while im at work knowing i have shit waiting for me everynight cause it will never change with the Fisher-Yates 32 bit maybe 64 bit shuffler thats borked?....
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Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind has some weird characters in the flavor text that when turned sideways spell Niv-Mizzet. I think it might have been mentioned in a different video though
Oh my young Nikachu, I was there when Negator was printed. It was pure terror when playing with a non-burn deck and your opponent played swamp, dark ritual, negator. I have never in my life seen an era of magic with more first round concedes. It made ripples at the time as one of the most aggresive glass cannon deck types.
Yeah, it wasn't the worst creature if you get it turn 1 with some removal in hand. And the unearth mentioned in the video :)
The amount of times i've confused players when casting Nevinyrral's Disc, and saying Larry Niven's Disc is countless haha.
OMG! I never understood why I was calling it that!
"The sword would come back from the graveyard equipped to the sword." Nailed it.
I love easter egg stuff like this!
Btw, Sword of the Meek is also depicted in Tribute Mage, who can tutor the sword (or the Thopter Foundry)
Also Krosan Grip. Somebody really didn't like that sword
@@quentincongdon6687 krosan grip being especially good against the combo because it has split second
That is an actual easter egg. The one in the video is not. Sword of the meek came out after that return to dust.
@@mfmageiwatch Sword of the Meek has been printed in Future Sight, which is dated in 2007, while the first Return to Dust has been printed in Commander, dated in 2011. So I guess it's a valid easter egg as well as for Krosan Grip (printed in Modern Masters back in 2013 at first with that art)
@@TheWallerit return to dust was first printed in time spiral, 2 sets before sword of the meek. You are wrong.
Flame Jab recycling a Swamp becomes extra amusing when you realize it has Retrace, a mechanic that allows you to recycle the card by discarding a land.
actually perfect
lol
300 IQ move
And it's the same plane.
6:55 Champion of the parish, Nikachu your misunderstanding the context of champion in this instant. In this context its refering to champion as the Hero, ie Hero of the Parish then Hero of the perished.
Read the flavour text again with that in mind it will make more sense
Champion 2. “a person who vigorously supports or defends a person or cause.
"he became the determined champion of a free press"
Oh, I'm just having fun :P
@@NikachuMTG woooosh! Sorry, I should have known better
Back in older formats, Phyrexian Negator was a played card in competitive formats due to being a 5/5 trample for three mana. The decks it was played in operated similar to Delver decks nowadays, where they just used tempo and removal to diffuse the downside of Phyrexian Negator's effect.
Good ole Suicide decks. So much fun. So format defining and dominating as well......
At one point the folks at the DCI and Wizards were discussing banning the Negator......
Swamp, Dark Ritual, Phyrexian Negator on turn 1. Good stuff.
Wouldn't Phyrexian Negator be very good in a Zedruu Commander deck?
@@איתןשי no. Negator wouldn't be permitted in that deck based on Deck Construction Rules.
The Negator is a Black Creature, Zendruu is Blue/Red/White commander.
Even if you found a way to incorporate them in the same deck, the moment they have control of the Negator, they will make a point of removing that Negator fast as possible. (Potentially just pinging it themselves, depending on the deck they are playing.) There are considerably better options for Zendruu decks.
I remember seeing the card played in a Legacy Grand Prix back in the day.
One of my favorites involves Krekno, Mob Boss. In the background of his art you can see two goblins skulking around. That background is the full art for Krenko's Command.
Phyraxian Negator was the backbone of many decks that won GP and PT events in the past, are you sure you don't want a 5/5 trample on turn 1 in an all black aggro rush deck ?
It might not seem so good *now* but it was amazing when it was released, and stayed a powerhouse in Standard and Extended formats for a long time. Look at the history of Suicide-Black decks.
As for the Disk. Everyone knew that, as it was frequently mentioned by Garfield during the Alpha, Beta, Unlimited and Revised releases of the game. So much so that it is even mentioned specifically on the product packaging. It is only the newer players whom don't know about the reference.
But seriously. Phyraxian Negator was and is nowhere near as bad as you make it seem. It is and was a force to be reckoned with.
I would say Negator was Tier 1 in it’s time (like Morphling or Masticore) but it is pretty unplayable by todays standards.
@@NikachuMTG it can still fit in some decks. But yea, it isn't as good now as it was then. That whole "powercreep" thing.
There are very few cards from before 2002 that are playable now. Which shows a lack of competent game design in the newer stuff. (Game design itself has courses focused on preventing power-creep and making sure that older mechanics/items/cards stay relevant in new additions. Something not really happening in MtG, or most games for that matter.....)
Larry Niven's The Magic Goes Away did a lot more than just get referenced in Nevinyrral's Disk. It could actually be argued that Niven's work inspired the entire flavor and function of Magic: the Gathering. In The Magic Goes Away, magical power was a limited, finite resource that was literally drawn from the land and it took time for the land to recover, which inspired Richard Garfield to create the tapping land for mana mechanic. While it was originally based on the oil crisis it actually made a brilliant game mechanic, as the main character had to seek out other lands just to gain the ability to use magic again... or in MtG terms, he had to control more lands, to tap for mana.
As someone who dabbles in zombies, the champion lore is cool... but, you can't help but smile seeing artists reference their other work!
Return from Extinction goes even deeper with the slivers. At some point they were made to look humanoid but people hated it. The card from Modern Horizons shows the oldschool Tempest era slivers.
I remember being one of those people who hated the humanoid slivers. What an awful direction to take that classic creature type.
@@NikachuMTG For me it was making the new Phyrexians casually transform as a result of contact with Karn's glistering oil instead of introducing one of the numerous planes overtaken by Yawgmoth like the ones Urza mentions in his travels to find someone who could have found a way to stop them. Much like Mercadia that served as an interplanar marketplace and was kept without much modification for centuries. For some reason Wizards just made it seem like all the oldschool Phyrexians vanished when Urza absorbed Yawgmoth and became Planeswalker Karn.
Older sets when you put all four basic land together it's one giant landscape. That was fun to discover.
All four?
But never knew that
Yes I played Disk for ages and just learnt now this esster egg 😉
And yes, as someone else stated, I played during Urza, and if u weren’t playing burn red or monogreen aggro, the start swamp-ritual-negator was lethal even for Replenish or Bargain!
Am era buried under the dust…
"A really old set called Tempest."
I feel old, but also heartened that this game is still alive and booming.
Same. My first deck was one of the cold snap premade decks, but my friends had older. Including my science teacher who held the after school magic club!
My favorite and relatively new one is the updated art on Imperial Recruiter has the silhouette of Kiki-Jiki and Pestermite which is the infamous creature combo used by UR Blue moon decks to close out the game.
You made up like half of these, and they are wrong... Back from Extinction is not a reference to the Tempest card Extinction, it's a reference to the slivers being wiped out like 3x, and always coming back.
That crab does not have a giant brine elemental in its tiny claw. It barely even looks like it.
Return to Dust came out 2 sets BEFORE sword of the meek, and WAY before the banning or unbanning of it.
great video.............................
The question isn't whether slivers will adapt to a world's perils but whether the world's perils will adapt to slivers. ~tempered
Phyrexian Negator is also depicted WAY in the background of the Jumpstart Phrexian special swamp
Always love seeing some Slivers being mentioned. Never thought about the whole Easter Egg thing though. But I have seen Steam Vents depicted in other card art. But only the Gildes of Ravnica version.
Phyrexian Negator is one of my favorite cards of all times. 👍🏻
Yo man the clickbait title & thumbail, the cuts with the tone, it’s all a little much
There's an easter egg in the Original Kamigawa Block where a blue instant or Sorcerery ,(I can't recall which sorry hah) depicts Emrakul The Aeons Torn in the background. Always made me wonder if the Eldrazi aren't somehow related to Kamigawa
A lot of people think that's Emrakul, but it's just a spirit.
What about the planeswalker "Koth of the Hammer?" Name "Koth" is also an acronym for itself:
K - Koth
O - Of
T - The
H - Hammer
:O
Am I misunderstanding, or did you read "champion" to mean he beat them? He was fighting for them, so they rose with him and made him stronger.
hahaha, I'm just having fun.
I'm pretty sure Sword of the Meek and Return to Dust was already mentioned in another Nikachu's easter egg video
You might be right...
In the Art of expropriate there are also the 5 moxen
Cheers Nikachu! Thanks to this video, I purchased a foil Kiora, the crashing wave, on ebay for a great price in an auction that had less than 2mins to go! I am a big fan of Hokusai's wave of Kanagawa artwork.
It's the perfect addition to your collection!
I loved that last Easter egg. From champion of the parish to champion of the fallen, I mean, perished.
Krosan grip also depicts the sword of the meek getting obliterated.
Had to scroll quite a ways to find this haha. I also made this comment
For the hacks vid and the Jace can u still play with it in a tournament?
If the back of my Jace (which says "Black Lotus") isn't visible through the sleeve, yes it should be tournament playable.
You know that a champion can just be someone chosen to fight in your name right? He doesn't have to win a fight first to be called one
Nevinyrral’s disk one was mind boggling to me. That’s a cool Easter egg I will definitely be telling to customers that come to the LGS I work at
girl: Come to my house.
rk post: I can't. I have to paint Flame Jab.
girl: My parents aren't home.
rk post: Give me 5 minutes.
I knew about Champion of the Parish/Perished because they're in one of my decks, but I didn't know about the third member!
Larry’s Disk.. now I know why people called it when I started playing years ago lol.
Everyone just called it that but never knew why hah.
Thanks for letting me know
You're welcome!
I liked this video. A minor nitpick. Art for Return to dust was made before both parts of thopter-foundry combo had been printed. In Time Spiral.
Come ooon Phyrexian negator was awesome during its time. Lots of cool suicide black decks back in the olden days.
Champion got killed by Avacyn in shadows over innistrad . He came back as a zombie in midnight hunt.
Easter egg videos are one of my favorites, makes me love Magic more.
The cliffs in the background of Seaside Drake are the Cliffs of Moher on the west coast of Ireland.
Deep Analysis has a couple of Cephalid looking at the head of a Masticore... and the flavor text is "The specimen seems to be broken." Anyone who as ever played against a Masticore knows that card is SUPER BROKEN.
Gearsmith Guardian connects with Gearsmith Prodigy to form the full picture.
Seasoned Pyromancer is literally a grown-up Young Pyromancer, both of whom are drawn by Cynthia Sheppard.
Probably fairly known, but Ral, Izzet Viceroy and Tomik, Distinguished Advokist each have a cloth on their hand depicting the other's color(s) in their respective art.
Thanks to this video, I now understand why "Sword of the Meek" and "Thopter Foundry" were in the Myr Commander Deck I saw on this site another day.
I’m an old-time player who remembers back when Mark Rosewater was such an influence on the game’s design that they named a big green creature after him that complemented his playing style - Maro. 😎👍
So informative and fun. I love how decades later I can still be surprised by Magic. Thanks🙂
Khans of Tarkir and Dragons of Tarkir have a bunch of them because of the nature of alternate timeline. ex. Feed the Clan and Ancient Carp. "Why eat now what could one day turn into a feast."
Weed.
It's sort of upsets me because I know God damn well that most of these people had someone teach them how to play they didn't just pick it up on their own especially how 20-30 years ago they didn't have learn how to play kits you had to have a friend hence the whole damn marketing that they had but obviously like you said you had to have a brain back then so we obviously know that there is a crowd of people who discriminate against those that they consider without brains it's like I told him yeah it took me a while to learn chess but I beat my dad by the time I was 13
Gisela Blade of Goldnight has many cards that allude to her eventual corruption.
There is also the Grove of the Guardians land card with the Risen sanctuary card that is a playable card, and you can use the Risen Sanctuary as the 8/8 token instead...
Great video I love seeing MTG easter egss and call backs. Expropriate is my favorite card but you missed all the other MTG references in the art, like all the moxes just thrown about the painting
or did I?
that Negator can't catch a break 😆, from getting Unearth to getting bonked in the head by an Ancient Silverback (Urza's Destiny)
Like my last comment about the whole shunning and unwelcoming of new players like the reason why I bring that up is because I know a lot of people who never even got into the game because of that they really wanted to but because they felt so welcomed they didn't go back
great vid nikachu, although I really dont like the screen beeping transitions, its way louder than your normal voice volume so it just kinda hurts my ears also just sorta seems out of place, maybe like a static tv sound and visual transition would be better
What's next? You're gonna tell me Nikachu is actually a Pokemon player with his name inspired by Pikachu?
So there's a card called the llurgoyf and it has a quote on it from saffi ericksdotter she has a card in regular mtg and an unsanctioned set and then they just made hans ericson in commander legends that coincides with their story. Saffi and hans both work together as well as the outcome for the llurgoyf!
Weird because return to dust came out before sword of the meek though both did come out in the same cycle. Return to dust came out in time sprial and sword of the meek came out in future sight. He was acting like return to dust came out after sword of the meek.
One of my favourite Easter eggs is the Sun Titan stuff; Sun titan, Terminate and Animate dead, even the flavour text follows the story!
I forgot what exactly it was, but I remember one from Odyssey block that had to do with Kamahl and Mirari. I think from when it was on his sword
i was just going thru a box of my cards to just grab up some alright ones for a 60 card black deck and ill be damned if i didnt come across all of these lolz i actually put some unearths in this one too
I have a brother named Stephen Ellis that goes by Steve and he loves magic. If it wasnt him that secretly made the art for Disperse then I should at least buy him that card for fun.
Unspeakable Symbol and Wipe Clean tells a story, both on their flavor and on their arts both illustrated by Arne Swekel
I have a good one. Lhurgoyf is Fyogruhl spelled backwards.
Wyluli Wolf (Arabian Nights): the name is an Anagram of Lily Wu - the Wife of Richard Garfield
I love Larry Niven.
I love Nevinyrral's Disk. Had no idea why the strange feeling of familiarity.
It should be mentioned that Flame Jab has Retrace...so you can pitch his land to cast it from your graveyard.
My favorite mtg kind of easter egg is that swamp in Crimson Vow thats literally made by Piggy.
Piggy is my favorite artist lol
Hi, "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" photo appears to be inspiration for Riveteers Ascendancy's art :)
Disc hands down. I've used that card since 1998 and never knew.
poor Iceberg Cancrix crushed to death by the brine elemental (i think everyone noticed the crableggs under the elemental)
I need more
I don't feel cyclopes necessarily need to have one eye, nothing in their name suggests so. Their eyes just need to be round.
My favorite Easter egg Krenko's Command art is in the background of krenko mob boss's art.
Like # 188
Your Easter egg videos are awesome
Glad you like them!
I don’t know if you covered that already but make a video of the first ever MTG tournament would be so cool
another good one is the spirit of Precinct Captain looking over the soldier token from Ravnica in the art of Spirit Bonds
Nikachu you rock man !!!!!
Literally the first time a nevinyrral's disk got played against me i realized it was larry niven backwards lol
You forgot Tasigur the Golden Fang hanging around Dragonlord Silumgar’s neck.
If you get to play Phyrexian Negator on your enemys board it suddenly is a really good card. ;)
Signing up to the parish like yeah my first name is “The” second name is “champion”
chaos magic is what you find in the book of the damned. so look at choas warp japanese alt art
Phyrexian Negator is one of my favorite cards of all time!
Yep been playing for about 20 years. Never knew that about nevs disk.
The wording for Extinction males it sound like the name should be Genocide.
These Easter eggs are always fun to see, especially when they tell a story!
Some of these seem just to be lore story cards but not easter eggs
Arent easter eggs from other games( or sim) ?
The great wave is also depicted in Rampant Growth. MTG artists love that wave!
I’m surprised you didn’t have the niv-mizet easter egg ⤵️ turn sideways
"Really old set named Tempest"
*played Tempest in High School*
:,(
Are we not going to talk about the Keyblade behind the Izzet Cyclops?
The Disk is my favorite card, also my favorite easter egg!! love your videos
Champion has more than one definition...I encourage use of the dictionary.
Isn't trophy or tribute mage also holding a sword of the meek in the art?
The Great Wave is also the inspiration for 10E's Rampant Growth