My favorite Warp World story happened during an EDH game. I ended up flipping a Bane of Progress, and another player flipped a Mycosinth Lattice. The end result: everything was now an artifact, including Bane, so it blew up the ENTIRE BOARD, lands and all, and set us all back to zero. That was pretty wild.
I'll never forget casting warp world and having zealous conscripts land with kiki jiki. An opponent hit Faerie Artisains. I still don't know who won that game
@@yankeecj0421 HAH that was going to be my story with Conscripts/Kiki! An opponent cast a spell that copied it out of my yard after we all finished resolving it so we did it again and I blind flipped the combo.
I do actually run a Goblin Game in a deck (along with some cards, that missed this list like 'Thieves Auction') and the ruling determines, to declare the typ of objects you'll hide. (It's also legal to just write down Numbers on pieces of paper)
Goblin Game + Vedalken Orrey + Mindslaver = Make your opponent hide his hand in his pants, his shoes on his ears, and if he hides 20 things, he takes lethal
I feel like you should have had another honorable mention in Barren Glory, since it was a functional reprint of the silver-bordered card The Cheese Stands Alone.
I've actually used Liar's Pendulum. A 1-cost artifact that allows you to draw cards for a couple mana when you can't do anything else is pretty good for Commander artifact-heavy decks.
I run goblin game in my edh deck, me and my friends usually just write a number down on a piece of paper and reveal it at the same time, makes things a lot easier.
Goblin Game keeps generating discussion and they really should just update the template to "secretly choose a number". This is a good list, although I feel like Apocalypse Chime/City in a Bottle, along with Panglacial Wurm, should have made the cut. Like subgames and dexterity, those are the sort of things that black-border now refuses to do.
Kit Sovereign Goblin Game is all flavor. You can just imagine goblins sitting around the fire gathering whatever sticks, stones, shells, etc to play their game. It’s so fun and innocent. I love that card!
Shahrazad is so cool! She does exactly what the character of One thousand and one nights does. Also is pretty queer that the card actually is a sorcery and not a creature. And the best part is the bong lol
Shoutout to Ordeal of a Traveler for doing something quite similar to Liar's Pendulum. Pharaonic Guardian came out only 3 months before Mirrodin, so I don't think Wizards was actively copying Yugioh.
This video reminds me of a wacky Unexpected Results deck I once had. The wackiest cards in that decklist were Scrambleverse, Possibility Storm, Eye of the Storm, Omen Machine and Worldfire. The last 2 being combo'ed with one another through playing an Oblivion Ring onto Omen Machine. The wackiest of the bunch, however, is without a doubt Eye of the Storm. The effect of which is disappointing however, as the headaches caused by it make people concede and shuffle up for a new game... Anyway, cool video and nice trivia I never knew before :)
Kamigawa/Ravinca T2 Warp World was my shit, and my all time favorite combo deck. It was so bizarre I didn't even mind having to explain exactly what Warp World even did.
Liar's Pendulum only seems playable in an aggressive deck like mono red burn. I do not want to reveal my hand and give away information, but if I am just vomiting my hand, then what is there to lose? You rip a card off the top, activate this and name Mountain. Did you rip a useless land? Did you rip a threat/burn spell? Your opponent has to guess, but regardless of what it was, you are going to play it anyway. It is also bad because this is not what an aggressive deck wants, and nobody want unreliable card draw.
AAAAHEEM! I play mono blue with Liars pendulum and Divining Top to combo. If you can scry,draw and stack even the people you play against seem to have fun with it. I once bluffed a Timestop that was even on display on top of my graveyard. Liars pendulum I think is one of my top 10 favorite cards to play
You have misunderstood Goblin Game. The objective is not to run around the room actually hiding objects from each other. You are just supposed to choose a number, and represent that number with hidden objects, such as tokens or coins. Actually, if you like, you could each write the number on a piece of paper instead. It doesn't really matter, as long as the number is hidden from your opponent and cannot be changed afterwards.
Jonas Bergmansson Actually you are describing the way the card works in a sanctioned tournament. But in kitchen table magic, yes you would be runing around the place taking whatever you can find lol
@@melvinfz0301 "you're describing the way the rules work. When you're just playing with friends, you can do whatever you want". Yes, this is true, but it's also a poor way of chosing cards for a list like this. You can play any card however you want with your friends as long as everyone's cool with it, but if youre saying "me and my buddies play this card in a wacky way" you're taking away from the point of this list, imo
@@ikrena4701 My point exactly. The strangest part for me in the video, is when Nizzahon complains that the card doesn't set a time limit. To me that just makes it even more clear that the objective of the game is not the hiding, just the choosing - i.e. you continue to hide objects until you are satisfied with the number you've hidden. I'm ready to bet Goblin Game was never designed with physical dexterity in mind, it's just the clunky implementation in the card text that has people confused.
Neat list video! Thanks for uploading! Seeing Contraptions become an Unset mechanic just frustrates me. All those years of waiting.... & it's effectively banned from a huge portion of play! & only like, a decade later were we told this card from a legitimate set involved a "joke" mechanic! All that possible fun in regular gameplay, DENIED! So frustrating!
Loving the 93/94 cards in your list. As an active Oldschool player, I see these cards getting played all the time. None of them are banned in Oldschool magic and we love playing them and getting ourselves into weird game situations 😝🤘
When Goblin Game came out, my friends and I came up with a house rule for it. Basically, instead of random objects, you would just hide MTG cards from your deck - as many as desired. Then the cards were revealed and life tallied. Worked pretty well.
Grip of Chaos. It's a fun enchantment that make it so EVERY spell or ability that has a single target, choses that target randomly for all legal targets. I made so many people scoop when that hit the board.
Lots of cards from Future Sight could go on here. There are still tons of wacky cards outside of Future Sight as you've shown here in this video, which IMO is a good thing and keeps things fresh and interesting. A bidding deck with Mage's contest, Illicit Auction, Pain's reward with life gain and/or cards like mirror universe, soul conduit, and axis of mortality would be a fun off the wall deck to make.
You know, I once tried to make Goblin Game OTK in vintage. It didn't go very well, and I think I know why! Because you haven't made a video on Top 10 vintage cards (minus power 9) that I can force into my deck! -OK I lied, I've never even played vintage, but I'm really proud of this segue.-
I have 3 wacky cards for you Magister of worth: people vote to either blow up all permanents or bring everything back Capricopian: when it attacks your opponents they can pay mana to make it stronger and change its attack target And rogue troll: a 5/5 for 2 that has to attack and whoever has the least life controls it. There are some weird cards out there
Looked it up, Bound in Silence scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=%28type%3Aenchantment+type%3Arebel%29+color%3DW A little overcosted, but being fetchable by a tribe noted for fetching is nice
One note about Goblin Game is that it's a lot easier to understand if you ignore the "number of objects" nonsense and just have everyone write down a number.
Reality Twist was fun for a couple rounds. Shimmer + Quicksilver fountain was hilarious. Shimmer by itself really screwed up their mana usually unless you were playing 5-color. Tawnos’ Coffin can be pretty broken.
@@VVheeli You could easily time a game out if you brought the biggest bag of rice that you could fit under a very large t-shirt. It would take hours to count and you could win by timeout possibly.
@@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters I think the responses to someone playing goblin game and then proceeding to bust out a bag of rice goes like Lawful good - Concede the game out of respect for the combo Neutral good - Let them do whatever shenanigans they want to since they're clearly dedicated to the combo Chaotic good - Drive to the store and buy an even larger bag of rice to compete with in the goblin game True neutral - Hide one object and then proceed to watch as they lose like 50,000 life Lawful neutral - Use the google conversion for the weight of the bag to grains of rice as the number of objects they hid Chaotic neutral - Eat the uncooked grains of rice after they count them Lawful evil - Insist they count the rice, then counter the spell when they are finished Neutral evil - While they are focused on counting the rice, slowly add the already counted rice back into the yet to be counted rice pile Chaotic evil - Commit suicide in front of them
City in a bottle from arabian nights. "Whenever another card originally printed in the Arabian nights expansion is on the battlefield, it is sacrificed by its controller." Theres a similar card in antiquities but it's an activated ability rather than a static ability. The best part is if your opponent has any card from Arabian nights and a Sigarda in play, the game is force tied since the stack never resolves.
dragonbreath4 true, maybe he could do nonland... Is it the same as top 10 most reissued cards though? I don’t know if they’ve always used different art every set they’ve reprinted a card
Nizzahon Magic yea, the jackalope came from a type of tumor some desert rabbits can get, and, like the story of the 6 inch fish becoming the 6 ft fish, the "weird rabbit with some kind of horn" became the antlered rabbit.
I used to play Warp World in standard. Deck would ramp out tokens and small dudes then cast Warp World. The goal was to hit Ob Nix (the creature) and a bunch of lands. Could also hit other landfall things but Ob was the quickest win cuz it could win on the spot. Deck wasn’t great but still pretty fun and could win out of nowhere when the foe wasn’t expecting it (esp if they’d never seen the deck before). A++ would play more.
the way i've played goblin game before was that everyone secretly picks a number (and writes it down) and then proceed - no need to run around looking for things except some way to track your secret number
I know I got to this video late but I just gotta say, as an old old school MtG player, I heard tales of the ripping up and scattering of Chaos Orb all the way back in like 95-96. Back before most people had the internet, somehow the story of the torn up card has managed to circulate across all of the playerbase and is still remembered, apparently, 25 years later. Just nuts to imagine that the community managed to carry on its own urban legends!
@@jasonhunter2819 Well its not like anyone really used the first C in CCG (Collectable Card Game)at that time. So cards were all still relatively cheap. Not that I could have afforded to play that way.
Man this got me thinking. I wish their was a magic set - or unset- based in a bazaar or auction city where theirs tons of little competitions, mini games and effects based on the sellers. Instead of playing a game where everyone plays for their own benefit, you could be giving or given chances to rapidly change the game - if you win. Idk, it was just my idea
I'm so glad Warp World made this list, I literally just used it tonight and had a BLAST screwing up everyone's board. Hilarity ensued, players were not happy but I didn't care at that point haha.
I Warp Worlded a Phage into play killing my friend who at that point had never got it into play himself. He gave me Warp World thinking it was worthless.
Fun thing with liars pendulum is you only have to reveal your hand if you want to draw a card. So you can use this to bluff. Hand full of land? Claim you have a murder. If they say yes, you don't show hand, they now think you have murder.
I run Jakelope herd in my chulane deck so I can keep playing it. I run whitemane and the blue one that also bounce but this one is hilarious because every picks up the card to look at it.
3:08 the jackalope thing is older than the modern jokes - this is why its translated wolpertinger in german for A similar myth: de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackalope
had goblin game cast. each player simply wrote down a number on a piece of paper. went with half of how much life they were cool with losing. was definitely a super weird experience but there easier ways to make some of these happen.
I feel like “Illicit Auction” should have shared #5 w/ “Mage’s Contest.” I’ve owned one since I pulled it from a pack, and haven’t used it in what, 23 years? Always wanted to see it work.
Here is some more cards to totally break the game: Timesifter - completely destroys turn order Grip of Chaos - randomizes all targets of everything Hive Mind - every one copies every instant/sorcery everyone casts with new targets (great with grip of chaos) Shared Fate - players "draw" only from their opponents decks, basically everyone has to play with their opponents cards after they have no more hand cards left (great with windfall effects) Thieves' Auction - players action all permanents in play
I, personally, think you could make certain Un- cards legal in Legacy and Vintage, like the Hosts and Attachments, The Grand Calculation could have some niche uses, As Luck Would Have It could be a control win condition, Crow Storm is another copy of Empty the Warrens, Ineffable Blessing could be a value engine with some unique deck building requirements.. if the Contraption and Physical Activity/ Outside the Game Participation/ Plainly Broken cards are kept banned, we could have some unique cards for people to look forwards to in Legacy/Vintage.
It actually helps a lot of archetypes. Aggro gets the Rocket-powered Snail with Super Haste (this creature may attack and tap on the round before it enters the battlefield. At the beginning of your next upkeep, if its mana cost is not paid, you lose the game) Token flood gets the Earl of Squirrel with Squirrellink (when this creature deals damage, its controller creates that many 1/1 green squirrel creature tokens) Theres a Construct which allows you to name a keyword ability each time your opponent casts a spell and gains that ability, but if you can't think of any more in 5 seconds or repeat one goes back to being a vanilla creature. There's a 2/2 zombie for 1 with Last Strike (this creature assigns combat damage after creatures without Last Strike) which makes it a good 1-drop blocker. If you ever get a chance to play silver-bordered Commander, I highly recommend it, there are a lot of good bombs in un-sets. I've never played legacy, but I know Unstable was designed to be Drafted at FNM, meaning the cards have been playtested to some extent. I think it is time for some kind of format to allow them.
@@sagecolvard9644 wasn't the slow zombie a 3/3 for 2? One problem there could be with silver borders is that some cards with the same name but different rule texts have been printed. That would make it impossible to have clear deck list to register for a tournament. Anyway, I still have my Grusilda commander, but nobody wants to play against me :)
Anne Aunyme perhaps they could use some kind of marker to indicate which card it is? Like maybe each of the cards with the same name are marked as XXX-1, XXX-2 and so on. I don’t know if that makes sense or if that could mess something up but I still think it would be fun to have an official format I could play my unset cards in
Would be nice to see a non-red version of this list as red usually gets a 'weird card' every couple of sets. Still plenty of un-like cards like Dovescape and Frankensteins Monster.
How about Whimsy? XUU, play X random fast effects, generated from a list of random instant effects. Admittedly, it's from the Astral set, which is already not legal in any format, but still, absolute chaos.
See, I'd have put Sorrow's Path on there because it's so hard to think of a time when our would have been useful. Even now, I can think of very few situations where you'd want to ping yourself, and everything you have for 2 just to change two blockers' targets Edit: Apocalypse Chime is also particularly bizarre in that it's anti-set hate.
Here is some more cards to break the game: Timesifter - completely destroys turn order Grip of Chaos - randomizes all targets of everything Hive Mind - players copy every instant/sorcery everyone casts with new targets (great with grip of chaos) Shared Fate - players "draw" only from their opponents decks, basically everyone has to play with their opponents cards after they have no more hand cards left (great with windfall effects) Thieves' Auction - players auction all permanents in play Confusion in the Ranks - Whenever an artifact, creature, or enchantment enters the battlefield, its controller chooses target permanent another player controls that shares a card type with it. Exchange control of those permanents. Eternal Dominion - if you cast this while hive mind is in play, each player just tutors permanents from their opponents decks for the rest of the game. Honorable mention: Lich's Mirror is great if your opponent has control of it and you have Shared Fate, if the opponent dies, he/she is immortal as long as Lich's Mirror is on board (it doesn't get shuffled because opponent doesn't own it) and draws a new hand of 7 from opponent's decks.
Goblin Games „hiding objects“ instruction is supposed to be a fair way to pick a number. You see if you could just pick a number in your head you could change your mind if not everyone reveals their number simultaneously. Of course you could just each write a number down and reveal the numbers simultaneously but I guess hiding objects is more fun. I’m guessing they had counters in mind which people back then used to have lying around when playing magic.
That number one card was copied from Vampire: The Eternal Struggle. The whitewolf ccg that was around in the early years of magic. It has a card called 'Game of Malkav' which works similar to that one.
Personal favorite card as well as favorite weird card is Permeating Mass, whenever it hits something that other creature becomes a copy of permeating mass. Throw some indestructible on that bad boy and soon everything will be permeating mass
Chaos Confetti is part of the best combo in mtg though... mycosynth, march of the machines, blacker lotus and/or Chaos Confetti, Mirrorweave and Mindslaver.... I mean its a 5 or 6 piece combo but allows you to rip up the opponents deck :D
Lmao. "Goblin Game doesn't tell you any specifics. It just has players frantically running around trying to hide things." As hilarious as that is, I think that was the entire point of Wizard's creating this card.
@@TheSquareOnes well it would but I didn't mean they are actual jackalopes. I mean that the mythical creature has an explanation it's a rabbit with fungus on it's head.
@@dailydriven2356 This is true, almost every thing in myth can be traced to some real thing blown out of proportion, I find knowing that thing very interesting myself so thanks.
You just bring a bag of rice just in case your opponent plays Goblin Game. Then you open it and hide all the individual pieces of rice. EZ "Dude what's that bag of rice?" "Nothing don't worry about it."
My favorite Warp World story happened during an EDH game. I ended up flipping a Bane of Progress, and another player flipped a Mycosinth Lattice. The end result: everything was now an artifact, including Bane, so it blew up the ENTIRE BOARD, lands and all, and set us all back to zero. That was pretty wild.
Reminds me of the time when I cast Merciless Eviction on artifact, and the opponent used Vedalken Orrery to flash in Mycosynth Lattice.
Ah, bane of progress truly living up to its name
I saw that happen too, but it was painter's servant + all is dust
I'll never forget casting warp world and having zealous conscripts land with kiki jiki. An opponent hit Faerie Artisains. I still don't know who won that game
@@yankeecj0421 HAH that was going to be my story with Conscripts/Kiki! An opponent cast a spell that copied it out of my yard after we all finished resolving it so we did it again and I blind flipped the combo.
GOBLIN GAME IS LEGACY LEGAL. TIME TO BREAK THE FORMAT
I do actually run a Goblin Game in a deck (along with some cards, that missed this list like 'Thieves Auction') and the ruling determines, to declare the typ of objects you'll hide. (It's also legal to just write down Numbers on pieces of paper)
@@Hardc6reStra5tedge I love both of you and your ideas here : p
I run it in my commander deck, it's edh legal too.
BRING A 20 POUND BAG OF RICE
i knew this card on edh actually and its pretty fun i just laught everytime someone cast it
Or this could be called "Top 10 cards you didn't know you wanted for EDH" lol
Goblin Game + Vedalken Orrey + Mindslaver = Make your opponent hide his hand in his pants, his shoes on his ears, and if he hides 20 things, he takes lethal
You Sir, are a genius.
Use censored to make him not able to say a certain word or he loses 2 life.
I feel like you should have had another honorable mention in Barren Glory, since it was a functional reprint of the silver-bordered card The Cheese Stands Alone.
Cheese is actually a much better Barren Glory. Barren Glory only triggers on your upkeep, Cheese can trigger at any time.
DO TOP 10 OF YOUR FAVORITE ART CARDS! Love your vids man!
The same
I've actually used Liar's Pendulum. A 1-cost artifact that allows you to draw cards for a couple mana when you can't do anything else is pretty good for Commander artifact-heavy decks.
Surprised at the lack of Thieves Auction. That card is hilarious.
I was thinking the same thing
I run goblin game in my edh deck, me and my friends usually just write a number down on a piece of paper and reveal it at the same time, makes things a lot easier.
that's basically how MtGO handles the card.
Warp World is legitimately my favourite magic card ever. Happy to see it make the list 💓
Goblin Game keeps generating discussion and they really should just update the template to "secretly choose a number".
This is a good list, although I feel like Apocalypse Chime/City in a Bottle, along with Panglacial Wurm, should have made the cut. Like subgames and dexterity, those are the sort of things that black-border now refuses to do.
Kit Sovereign
Goblin Game is all flavor. You can just imagine goblins sitting around the fire gathering whatever sticks, stones, shells, etc to play their game. It’s so fun and innocent. I love that card!
I found a card at my local store called Raging River, I think it was river anyway. It was really wordy and hilarious
When I think of funny cards, the trio of Krark's Thumb, Krark the Thumbless, and Krark's Other Thumb always come to mind.
Shahrazad is so cool! She does exactly what the character of One thousand and one nights does. Also is pretty queer that the card actually is a sorcery and not a creature. And the best part is the bong lol
Shoutout to Ordeal of a Traveler for doing something quite similar to Liar's Pendulum.
Pharaonic Guardian came out only 3 months before Mirrodin, so I don't think Wizards was actively copying Yugioh.
Minor nitpick: the Tribal supertype was in fact introduced alongside Tarmogoyf in Futuresight, on a Rebel Aura card called Bound in Silence.
This video reminds me of a wacky Unexpected Results deck I once had. The wackiest cards in that decklist were Scrambleverse, Possibility Storm, Eye of the Storm, Omen Machine and Worldfire. The last 2 being combo'ed with one another through playing an Oblivion Ring onto Omen Machine. The wackiest of the bunch, however, is without a doubt Eye of the Storm. The effect of which is disappointing however, as the headaches caused by it make people concede and shuffle up for a new game...
Anyway, cool video and nice trivia I never knew before :)
Kamigawa/Ravinca T2 Warp World was my shit, and my all time favorite combo deck. It was so bizarre I didn't even mind having to explain exactly what Warp World even did.
Liar's Pendulum only seems playable in an aggressive deck like mono red burn. I do not want to reveal my hand and give away information, but if I am just vomiting my hand, then what is there to lose? You rip a card off the top, activate this and name Mountain. Did you rip a useless land? Did you rip a threat/burn spell? Your opponent has to guess, but regardless of what it was, you are going to play it anyway.
It is also bad because this is not what an aggressive deck wants, and nobody want unreliable card draw.
Oh, it is definitely bad. This list is mostly bad cards
Uktabi Orangutan, aka "the sex monkeys". That photo is absolutely ridiculous.
AAAAHEEM! I play mono blue with Liars pendulum and Divining Top to combo. If you can scry,draw and stack even the people you play against seem to have fun with it. I once bluffed a Timestop that was even on display on top of my graveyard. Liars pendulum I think is one of my top 10 favorite cards to play
You have misunderstood Goblin Game. The objective is not to run around the room actually hiding objects from each other.
You are just supposed to choose a number, and represent that number with hidden objects, such as tokens or coins. Actually, if you like, you could each write the number on a piece of paper instead. It doesn't really matter, as long as the number is hidden from your opponent and cannot be changed afterwards.
Jonas Bergmansson Actually you are describing the way the card works in a sanctioned tournament. But in kitchen table magic, yes you would be runing around the place taking whatever you can find lol
@@melvinfz0301 "you're describing the way the rules work. When you're just playing with friends, you can do whatever you want".
Yes, this is true, but it's also a poor way of chosing cards for a list like this. You can play any card however you want with your friends as long as everyone's cool with it, but if youre saying "me and my buddies play this card in a wacky way" you're taking away from the point of this list, imo
@@ikrena4701 My point exactly.
The strangest part for me in the video, is when Nizzahon complains that the card doesn't set a time limit.
To me that just makes it even more clear that the objective of the game is not the hiding, just the choosing - i.e. you continue to hide objects until you are satisfied with the number you've hidden.
I'm ready to bet Goblin Game was never designed with physical dexterity in mind, it's just the clunky implementation in the card text that has people confused.
@@JBergmansson yeah, I dont know why they haven't eratta'd it yet. It seems so obvious to change "hide any number of objects" to "chose a number"
@@ikrena4701 It would have to be something like "Secrectly choose a number, 1 or higher, and write it down".
Neat list video! Thanks for uploading!
Seeing Contraptions become an Unset mechanic just frustrates me. All those years of waiting.... & it's effectively banned from a huge portion of play! & only like, a decade later were we told this card from a legitimate set involved a "joke" mechanic! All that possible fun in regular gameplay, DENIED! So frustrating!
I just went to Card Kingdom yesterday. Love that place. The crazy hobo outside screaming that "EVERYONE IS BITCHES" was a nice touch.
I love the flavor text of Chaos Confetti.
"And you thought that was just an urban legend."
Warp World is hilarious in my mono red Ilharg deck, especially when I have Anger in my graveyard lol
Loving the 93/94 cards in your list. As an active Oldschool player, I see these cards getting played all the time. None of them are banned in Oldschool magic and we love playing them and getting ourselves into weird game situations 😝🤘
When Goblin Game came out, my friends and I came up with a house rule for it. Basically, instead of random objects, you would just hide MTG cards from your deck - as many as desired. Then the cards were revealed and life tallied. Worked pretty well.
Grip of Chaos. It's a fun enchantment that make it so EVERY spell or ability that has a single target, choses that target randomly for all legal targets. I made so many people scoop when that hit the board.
Lots of cards from Future Sight could go on here. There are still tons of wacky cards outside of Future Sight as you've shown here in this video, which IMO is a good thing and keeps things fresh and interesting. A bidding deck with Mage's contest, Illicit Auction, Pain's reward with life gain and/or cards like mirror universe, soul conduit, and axis of mortality would be a fun off the wall deck to make.
You know, I once tried to make Goblin Game OTK in vintage. It didn't go very well, and I think I know why!
Because you haven't made a video on Top 10 vintage cards (minus power 9) that I can force into my deck! -OK I lied, I've never even played vintage, but I'm really proud of this segue.-
If I recall correct, they actually made a Shahazad like card in Unhinged. "Enter The Dungeon" I think it was
They made another variant in Unstable, called The Countdown Is At One.
Warp World is probably my favourite card in Magic. Warping out Bogaarden Hellkites &/or Avenger of Zendikar is far too much fun XD
I have 3 wacky cards for you
Magister of worth: people vote to either blow up all permanents or bring everything back
Capricopian: when it attacks your opponents they can pay mana to make it stronger and change its attack target
And rogue troll: a 5/5 for 2 that has to attack and whoever has the least life controls it. There are some weird cards out there
Tribal did exist in Future Sight, there was an arrest with tribal - Rebel
Luminous Bonds
@@oliverwilson11 it's an arrest effect
Looked it up, Bound in Silence
scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=%28type%3Aenchantment+type%3Arebel%29+color%3DW
A little overcosted, but being fetchable by a tribe noted for fetching is nice
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scryfall.com/card/fut/20/bound-in-silence
One note about Goblin Game is that it's a lot easier to understand if you ignore the "number of objects" nonsense and just have everyone write down a number.
Reality Twist was fun for a couple rounds.
Shimmer + Quicksilver fountain was hilarious. Shimmer by itself really screwed up their mana usually unless you were playing 5-color.
Tawnos’ Coffin can be pretty broken.
Poor shaharazad, never got to see that comp. Boros burn play. Cry everytime
I never noticed that Squee has a Null Brooch behind his back in this art. That's amazing.
Bring a bag of skittles and eat them during your match. Play goblin guide and put skittles into your mouth to hide them
I don't think you are meant to necessarily run around hiding objects with Goblin Game. The clue is in the art..
Next time I get to play goblin game, I’m getting out a bag of rice.
@@VVheeli You could easily time a game out if you brought the biggest bag of rice that you could fit under a very large t-shirt. It would take hours to count and you could win by timeout possibly.
@@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters I think the responses to someone playing goblin game and then proceeding to bust out a bag of rice goes like
Lawful good - Concede the game out of respect for the combo
Neutral good - Let them do whatever shenanigans they want to since they're clearly dedicated to the combo
Chaotic good - Drive to the store and buy an even larger bag of rice to compete with in the goblin game
True neutral - Hide one object and then proceed to watch as they lose like 50,000 life
Lawful neutral - Use the google conversion for the weight of the bag to grains of rice as the number of objects they hid
Chaotic neutral - Eat the uncooked grains of rice after they count them
Lawful evil - Insist they count the rice, then counter the spell when they are finished
Neutral evil - While they are focused on counting the rice, slowly add the already counted rice back into the yet to be counted rice pile
Chaotic evil - Commit suicide in front of them
City in a bottle from arabian nights. "Whenever another card originally printed in the Arabian nights expansion is on the battlefield, it is sacrificed by its controller." Theres a similar card in antiquities but it's an activated ability rather than a static ability. The best part is if your opponent has any card from Arabian nights and a Sigarda in play, the game is force tied since the stack never resolves.
Wow, I love the idea of Goblin game. It is certainly something from the game theory..
I actually drafted Goblin Game in a mystery booster draft! I didn't end up playing it, but I still love it because it's so wacky.
1:45 What? Tarmogoyf casually mentioned planeswalker and tribal as card types before they existed? I never would have known that, that is amazing.
well actually, Bound in Silence was a tribal enchantment printed before tarmogoyf. still, planeswalkers being mentioned without existing was cool.
They were printed in same set
@@NizzahonMagic oh
contraptions are so cool, i would love for them to appear in the "core" game somehow
Reality Twist which is also from Ice Age is very similar to Naked Singularity.
Honestly, one of the wackiest cards is Goblin Artisans. It means that paste and hard hats are canon in Goblin lore.
Do the top 10 most repainted cards in magics history thank you soooo much love your videos. Keep it up.
Like what cards have had the most different art with the same text? sounds cool
well top 5 would be basic lands lol
dragonbreath4 true, maybe he could do nonland... Is it the same as top 10 most reissued cards though? I don’t know if they’ve always used different art every set they’ve reprinted a card
actually I just thought they reuse the same art for the coresets sometimes so its two different top 10s I guess
Actually jackalopes are "real", but the antlers are a specific type of tumor.
Wut
Nizzahon Magic yea, the jackalope came from a type of tumor some desert rabbits can get, and, like the story of the 6 inch fish becoming the 6 ft fish, the "weird rabbit with some kind of horn" became the antlered rabbit.
@@entothechesnautknight1762 Yeah, caused by a virus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shope_papilloma_virus
I've casted many a Goblin Game in Commander!
I used to play Warp World in standard. Deck would ramp out tokens and small dudes then cast Warp World. The goal was to hit Ob Nix (the creature) and a bunch of lands. Could also hit other landfall things but Ob was the quickest win cuz it could win on the spot. Deck wasn’t great but still pretty fun and could win out of nowhere when the foe wasn’t expecting it (esp if they’d never seen the deck before). A++ would play more.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Enter the Dungeon when talking about Shahrazad as i'm sure its a reference
Now I wish Enter the Gungeon had a deck of cards gun that fired MTG cards out.
@Lord Inquisitor Shadowlord wut?
ohhhhh ok, i've heard of it, never played really
the way i've played goblin game before was that everyone secretly picks a number (and writes it down) and then proceed - no need to run around looking for things except some way to track your secret number
I know I got to this video late but I just gotta say, as an old old school MtG player, I heard tales of the ripping up and scattering of Chaos Orb all the way back in like 95-96. Back before most people had the internet, somehow the story of the torn up card has managed to circulate across all of the playerbase and is still remembered, apparently, 25 years later. Just nuts to imagine that the community managed to carry on its own urban legends!
Reminds me of the stories about hardcore mode magic. When you destroy a card you actually destroyed the card.
@@vederianl9723 Chaos orb, I played just after that time passed and even back then it was like wuuuuh? Why on earth would you ever?
@@jasonhunter2819 Well its not like anyone really used the first C in CCG (Collectable Card Game)at that time. So cards were all still relatively cheap. Not that I could have afforded to play that way.
Man this got me thinking. I wish their was a magic set - or unset- based in a bazaar or auction city where theirs tons of little competitions, mini games and effects based on the sellers. Instead of playing a game where everyone plays for their own benefit, you could be giving or given chances to rapidly change the game - if you win. Idk, it was just my idea
I'm so glad Warp World made this list, I literally just used it tonight and had a BLAST screwing up everyone's board. Hilarity ensued, players were not happy but I didn't care at that point haha.
Shahrazad is on the list and he doesn't even talk about Wedge's two-headed giant sub game during the Unstable preprelease. I mean it was crazy.
Confusion among the ranks+Grip of Chaos+Norin the Wary or Akroan Horse=ultimate chaos board state
I Warp Worlded a Phage into play killing my friend who at that point had never got it into play himself. He gave me Warp World thinking it was worthless.
What about the ante cards? Tempest Efreet, Bronze Tablet, and Amulet of Quoz should've at least been an honorable mention.
While certainly unusual by today's standard, I don't think WotC would put an ante card in an un-set because of gambling concerns.
They were printed when ante was standard rules.
Fun thing with liars pendulum is you only have to reveal your hand if you want to draw a card. So you can use this to bluff. Hand full of land? Claim you have a murder. If they say yes, you don't show hand, they now think you have murder.
I run Jakelope herd in my chulane deck so I can keep playing it. I run whitemane and the blue one that also bounce but this one is hilarious because every picks up the card to look at it.
“Jackalope: bastard pets of Piltdown Man.”
3:08 the jackalope thing is older than the modern jokes - this is why its translated wolpertinger in german for A similar myth: de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackalope
had goblin game cast. each player simply wrote down a number on a piece of paper. went with half of how much life they were cool with losing. was definitely a super weird experience but there easier ways to make some of these happen.
I'm just starting to watch the video but I'm confident that Goblin Game will be #1
I feel like “Illicit Auction” should have shared #5 w/ “Mage’s Contest.” I’ve owned one since I pulled it from a pack, and haven’t used it in what, 23 years? Always wanted to see it work.
Thanks to niz for the top 10 cards I'm putting in my commander decka
Here is some more cards to totally break the game:
Timesifter - completely destroys turn order
Grip of Chaos - randomizes all targets of everything
Hive Mind - every one copies every instant/sorcery everyone casts with new targets (great with grip of chaos)
Shared Fate - players "draw" only from their opponents decks, basically everyone has to play with their opponents cards after they have no more hand cards left (great with windfall effects)
Thieves' Auction - players action all permanents in play
I remember being a kid, cracking a Planeshift booster and getting a Goblin Game and not knowing what the fact to do with it
I, personally, think you could make certain Un- cards legal in Legacy and Vintage, like the Hosts and Attachments, The Grand Calculation could have some niche uses, As Luck Would Have It could be a control win condition, Crow Storm is another copy of Empty the Warrens, Ineffable Blessing could be a value engine with some unique deck building requirements..
if the Contraption and Physical Activity/ Outside the Game Participation/ Plainly Broken cards are kept banned, we could have some unique cards for people to look forwards to in Legacy/Vintage.
Slutass Möth I think they should create a new format that is just vintage with all the unsets legal
Aurelia Gray Un-vintage?
It actually helps a lot of archetypes. Aggro gets the Rocket-powered Snail with Super Haste (this creature may attack and tap on the round before it enters the battlefield. At the beginning of your next upkeep, if its mana cost is not paid, you lose the game) Token flood gets the Earl of Squirrel with Squirrellink (when this creature deals damage, its controller creates that many 1/1 green squirrel creature tokens) Theres a Construct which allows you to name a keyword ability each time your opponent casts a spell and gains that ability, but if you can't think of any more in 5 seconds or repeat one goes back to being a vanilla creature. There's a 2/2 zombie for 1 with Last Strike (this creature assigns combat damage after creatures without Last Strike) which makes it a good 1-drop blocker. If you ever get a chance to play silver-bordered Commander, I highly recommend it, there are a lot of good bombs in un-sets. I've never played legacy, but I know Unstable was designed to be Drafted at FNM, meaning the cards have been playtested to some extent. I think it is time for some kind of format to allow them.
@@sagecolvard9644 wasn't the slow zombie a 3/3 for 2?
One problem there could be with silver borders is that some cards with the same name but different rule texts have been printed. That would make it impossible to have clear deck list to register for a tournament.
Anyway, I still have my Grusilda commander, but nobody wants to play against me :)
Anne Aunyme perhaps they could use some kind of marker to indicate which card it is? Like maybe each of the cards with the same name are marked as XXX-1, XXX-2 and so on. I don’t know if that makes sense or if that could mess something up but I still think it would be fun to have an official format I could play my unset cards in
Would be nice to see a non-red version of this list as red usually gets a 'weird card' every couple of sets. Still plenty of un-like cards like Dovescape and Frankensteins Monster.
How about Whimsy? XUU, play X random fast effects, generated from a list of random instant effects. Admittedly, it's from the Astral set, which is already not legal in any format, but still, absolute chaos.
You forgot the functional reprint of a silver bordered card that is a regular card
The Cheese Stands Alone / Barren Glory
Good list!
I would also offer Illusionary Mask as another totally ridiculous card
Fair
No Illicit Auction? One of my favorite red cards ever and almost everytime I play it in my chaos EDH deck people ask what the hell it is.
I was hoping for timesifter on here. Getting multiple timesifters into play requires getting out a pen and paper for a flowchart
I rarely play red, but I guess that Warp World must be pretty fun when you have as many tokens as cards in play...
I'm just surprised Possibility Storm didn't at least get an honorable mention.
I would see play Chaos orb on a parabel fly or better:
on the space Station ISS - a sociologic philosophic Experiment to wait till it hits the ground!
What, no Raging G
River? Surely the most bizarre attack effect out there
Try the card "Camouflage" out for size.
I see your Camouflage and raise you one Turtle McDurdle (aka Meandering Towershell).
See, I'd have put Sorrow's Path on there because it's so hard to think of a time when our would have been useful. Even now, I can think of very few situations where you'd want to ping yourself, and everything you have for 2 just to change two blockers' targets
Edit: Apocalypse Chime is also particularly bizarre in that it's anti-set hate.
Here is some more cards to break the game:
Timesifter - completely destroys turn order
Grip of Chaos - randomizes all targets of everything
Hive Mind - players copy every instant/sorcery everyone casts with new targets (great with grip of chaos)
Shared Fate - players "draw" only from their opponents decks, basically everyone has to play with their opponents cards after they have no more hand cards left (great with windfall effects)
Thieves' Auction - players auction all permanents in play
Confusion in the Ranks - Whenever an artifact, creature, or enchantment enters the battlefield, its controller chooses target permanent another player controls that
shares a card type with it. Exchange control of those permanents.
Eternal Dominion - if you cast this while hive mind is in play, each player just tutors permanents from their opponents decks for the rest of the game.
Honorable mention:
Lich's Mirror is great if your opponent has control of it and you have Shared Fate, if the opponent dies, he/she is immortal as long as Lich's Mirror is on board (it doesn't get shuffled because opponent doesn't own it) and draws a new hand of 7 from opponent's decks.
Warp World! So happy to see this on your list, it's a pet card in my Riku EDH deck
Goblin Games „hiding objects“ instruction is supposed to be a fair way to pick a number. You see if you could just pick a number in your head you could change your mind if not everyone reveals their number simultaneously. Of course you could just each write a number down and reveal the numbers simultaneously but I guess hiding objects is more fun. I’m guessing they had counters in mind which people back then used to have lying around when playing magic.
That number one card was copied from Vampire: The Eternal Struggle. The whitewolf ccg that was around in the early years of magic. It has a card called 'Game of Malkav' which works similar to that one.
Personal favorite card as well as favorite weird card is Permeating Mass, whenever it hits something that other creature becomes a copy of permeating mass. Throw some indestructible on that bad boy and soon everything will be permeating mass
That is itself a refence to Essence of the Wild, from OG Innistrad, which is a very cool card I pulled and never managed to figure out a use for.
Kinda surprised Goblin Test Pilot didn't make the list. Choosing a totally random target is really strange, especially in multiplayer.
Which is why Grip of Chaos is so fun
Chaos Confetti is part of the best combo in mtg though...
mycosynth, march of the machines, blacker lotus and/or Chaos Confetti, Mirrorweave and Mindslaver....
I mean its a 5 or 6 piece combo but allows you to rip up the opponents deck :D
A player may concede at any time
Goblin game: you have 1 Mississippi to hide as many things as possible.
Hides deck
It can be one deck or X amount of cards. Genius
My favorite wacky cards are Form of the Squirrel (the one that turns you into a squirrel) and the Granny's Payback (you gain life equal to your age).
Form of the Squirrel is a reference to Form of the Dragon.
Best/Funniest/Most Flavorful flavor texts would be great
These cards are just screaming "Put me in your edh deck so your friends can suffer"
Lmao. "Goblin Game doesn't tell you any specifics. It just has players frantically running around trying to hide things." As hilarious as that is, I think that was the entire point of Wizard's creating this card.
Hi Nizzahon,
Is there going to be a fourth Un-set? You seemed to intimate such when talking about your number 1 pick here.
Calling it now: Un-Printed.
Jackalopes are real but they are rabbits with fungus growing on their heads I saw a documentary on it
That's like saying big feet (big foots?) are real but they're just humans in furry costumes.
@@TheSquareOnes well it would but I didn't mean they are actual jackalopes. I mean that the mythical creature has an explanation it's a rabbit with fungus on it's head.
@@dailydriven2356 This is true, almost every thing in myth can be traced to some real thing blown out of proportion, I find knowing that thing very interesting myself so thanks.
They’re Grass-type???
Hey wait a second these are all in all of my edh decks
Apart from goblin oriflamme and the banned ones
Nothing makes me more upset that they wasted Contraptions and Assemble on an unset.
It's the only place they belong really.
Maybe one day they'll print a card that says "go play a Yu-Gi-Oh game with your opponent, whoever loses the game loses 8 life points"
Can you explain the card Camouflage? The card text and the website rules are basically the opposite of eachother.
See my top 10 on most confusing cards for that. Haha
You just bring a bag of rice just in case your opponent plays Goblin Game. Then you open it and hide all the individual pieces of rice. EZ
"Dude what's that bag of rice?"
"Nothing don't worry about it."