@@caseywellington4761 sorry, but you should hurt players card values, not the company. Cause you'll buy the packs and blisters, which causes market shifts downward for the older cards, hurting other players. Just print all cards on proxies.
also the best wish story is lsvs story about almost winning a ptq with burning wish storm that had no way to win, he would just wish and hope they conceded
Bun standard. Even it's label screams "this is the official way to play" just so happens to be the most profitable way for them to have everyone play. Wake up sheeple
I’ve played a couple of times against the Karn-Lattice. In the few times that I didn’t have an answer, I never scooped. I made them kill me, drawing and passing until they dropped an actual threat and dropped my life to 0. All out of spite.
@@stigmaoftherose If you're referring to them attempting to combat the deep-seated lack of diversity within the playerbase because of that playerbase, you're dead fucking wrong
@@MineRoyale. care to rephrase that into a way that makes sense? Not that it is at all what I'm talking about but I'm honestly curious what you could possibly mean with whatever you were trying to convey.
This is good and all. But my one wish, my one deepest desire, the one thing that keeps me moving, the being of my existence, my final hope for true peace, my last chance for bliss. Is "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)".
You should do a top ten of your favorite 'Top 10s' for the 300th. It would be a cool way to look back at this series so far, and a cool starting point for those who just discover it.
Pre-Watch: I'm not sure it counts as a wish per say, but I'm expecting to see Mastermind's Acquisition. Post-Watch: Well, at least I got it right this time. Number 10, but I got it right for once. Also, totally forgot Coax From the Blind Eternities existed.
Just want to give a shootout to the ultimate/least necessary tutor in existence, my boi Mastermind. Had a ton of fun casually with my younger cousins. To them it was a miracle to draw so they could pull all sorts of silly shit out of their boards.
As a mostly casual player, I looove Mastermind's Acquisition (and wishes in general). I don't go crazy - even in my kitchen table decks, I believe any deck that uses wishes in casual should use a wishboard (15 card sideboard) rather than a player's whole darn collection, just to keep things fair - and with MTGA, that's now limited to 7 cards in Bo1, which is still fair. But my goodness, I do love it. Especially since they released The World Tree, allowing for many of my decks to run a World Tree + Golos package, and 1-4 copies of Mastermind's (typically 1 for a nonblack deck, and 2-4 for a Bx deck). At that point, it can simply be an expensive tutor if I need it to be that - or it can start assembling a OTK that I have in the sideboard (which I call my winboard for this type of deck :-P ). These days I'm playing more midrange/control types of deck, leaning more towards the latter but midrange in the sense that it's mostly tapout control. It's pretty awesome to be controlling, controlling, controlling... then all of a sudden, out of seemingly nowhere the opponent gets nuked. I haven't yet worked out a winboard for Std22 - but in historic I'm currently using Omniscience (to power the rest of the combo), Scholar of the Ages (to recur the Mastermind's and other spells), Sublime Epiphany (to retrigger the Scholar and add some protection), Thought Distortion (protection/disruption; usually try to get it out if my opponent is consistently leaving mana up and may interfere), Approach of the Second Sun (actual wincon, can draw to the second one straight away with Sublime... or, fun fact, can use Sublime to counter the Approach + create a new Scholar to get it straight back out), Aether Helix (to deal with indestructible permanents that may stop me from winning, namely a Faceless Haven with an indestructible counter on it) and Kaya, Bane of the Dead (to let Helix get throught to hexproof permanents). Aether Helix could be replaced with Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger who can exile indestructible permanents instead, but I like Helix as it offers some backup if Scholar dies before you go off.
Masterminds aquisition had like 4 top8's in magic invitational bo1 standard tournament. Having a full 15 card wishboard is so powerful in bo1. Altough I do agree that doesn't count to your score but it should have been mentioned
While I agree that he could definitely do that and it'd be quite nice to know; I imagine for him that's a ton more research and would probably wind up in a totally different top 10 for almost all of his videos
Keep in mind that for Karn, the Great Creator in modern, Mycosynth Lattice is banned so that synergy doesn't exist in modern anymore. Still sees a lot of play in Tron decks though with a lot of uses for grabbing important artifacts out of the sideboard, such as Sundering Titan or Liquimetal Coating.
The Research half is so underrated imo! You can search up at instant speed for UG up to 4 cards from your sidebord. That means a playset of answers is now in your deck to beat aggro for example. I really love this card an it serves me well Everytime i play it 😁
Would've been good to mention how dominant Cunning Wake decks were in Odyssey/Onslaught standard. I'm pretty sure there were at least 20 copies of Cunning Wish in the top 8 of worlds that year.
Wishes used to be much better before the exile zone existed, because some of them (Burning, Cunning, Glittering) could grab themselves. This was the main win condition of a Mirari + Mirari's Wake deck that would be able to generate a ton of mana and keep casting and recasting and then flashing back an Elephant Ambush by copying Cunning Wish with Mirari and using it to get a wish in exile that had been cast previously with the copy getting the exiled Elephant Ambush. It was a fairly efficient way of including a win condition in the deck, one that could just keep spitting out more Elephants given more turns or mana. The rest of the deck was just stall, counters, and Wraths, and it didn't have win conditions clogging its hand while building out its mana; early game Cunning Wishes could be used to find hate cards in the sideboard, even if it was just the 4th Moment's Peace to buy two more turns. There may have been a deck that did this with Burning Wish as well, but I have less specfic memories. It also may have been theoretically possibly with Glittering Wish.
If you can loop "research" and load up your library with cards, you can surprise someone by sitting down with a 60 card deck and still winning with a "battle of wits"
There are only two kind of cards that I hate in the game (not like in "not liking to play against them" but like in "I think they are a design mistake") wish cards and the growing number of cards that interact with exiled things, basically becoming "the exile" in to a second graveyard.
There’s a silver bordered card called AWOL. It’s oracle text is something like Exile target creature then move it from the exile zone to the absolutely-no-way-it’s-ever-coming-back zone 🤣
It would be cool to see applicable Silver Border cards mentioned and described in every Top 10 video. Adds a bit of fun, history, and suspense before you get to #1.
i know the mechanic only allows you to pull a card from your own sideboard, but it would be funny if the term "outside of the game" applies to LITERALLY any card from outside the game. Imagine in a match you take out something from a bulk box, or you borrow a card from a spectator.
I loved playing Mirari’s Wake back in Odyssey block. Stall until you can get our both Mirari and at least one Mirari’s Wake. Then just keep spamming out Elephant Tokens with Elephant Ambush. When I had come back to the game and found out that “removed from the game” no longer existed and that Wishes now work differently, it was a little upsetting. Fun deck while it lasted though.
In competitive formats, you have a 60 card deck and a 15 card sideboard. You can bring in different hoser cards or silver bullets on rounds 2 and 3 in a best of 3 hope that helps.
A side board is something they have in most 60 card constructed formats. It's a list of 15 cards that you can use to swap out your main deck cards in between games of a match. This allows you to better tune your deck against your opponent's strategy. Most casual and/or singleton formats do not have sideboards, and they are not used in best of one matches on Arena because there is only one game against each opponent.
Think of the side board as an extension of your deck that contains cards that help you in specific and niche match ups. Cards that have narrow but powerful effects usually end up here so having the option to "wish" for a card out of your side board to help during Game 1 against a specific opponent is an incredible advantage. As Nizzahon mentioned in the video, the term "wish board" was coined because of the side board being filled by virtually singleton copies of cards more popularly known as "silver bullets". Hope this helps too :)
@@NizzahonMagic Fair point. Maybe alist of your personal top 10 Kavu? I mean, you've done personal top 10s before, and if my memory serves from comments on and in videos you do seem to like Kavu.
Wishes should be re-errata'd to allow them to grab cards out of exile again. Maybe that would be overpowered, but It was how they originally worked, and it makes sense for Wish effects to still do this.
I'm surprised and disappointed that you didn't talk about how players used to use Mirari to copy Cunning Wish, so they could wish for an instant and another Cunning Wish, therefore always having a Cunning wish in hand. Same thing was done with Burning Wish in type 2.
Same. The ability of the burning and cunning wishes to wish for themselves is something that newer player (those that never played before the exile zone had its name) may not catch up.
Consider yourself lucky Storm and High tide combo used to be everywhere. Burning Wish in particular was brutal I lost a Legacy tournament once when I had a Meddling Mage in Play naming Tendrils my opponent wished for grapeshot killed the mage with Grapeshot then killed me with Tendrils.
"The only wish, so far, that is an instant" Wait... Glittering Wish and Research are both instants... And the Ring of Maruf and Spawnsire of Ulamog are both effects that can be used at instant speed...
could Glittering Wish be turned into a infinite engine because it removes itself from the game, effectively becoming a card you own out side of the game, so one in deck, and one in side board mean you keep swapping them for each other, and using the Ascendancy for mana dorks to fuel this combo and buff the board
Uh, no? Haha. I mean yes, it is worse, but it is WAY worse. It doesn't let you search your library at all, just your sideboard -- so I think the comparison doesn't really make sense.
@@NizzahonMagic You know, I didn't really think of sideboard utility properly there. You're right. I know what wishes work like compared to tutors but somehow didn't connect the dots. But sheesh is it overcosted.
Top 10 Wishes:
1) Reprint Scalding Tarn
2) Reprint Misty Rainforest
3) Reprint Marsh Flats
4) Reprint Verdant Catacombs
5) Reprint Arid Mesa
6) Reprint Bloodstained Mire
7) Reprint Flooded Strand
8) Reprint Polluted Delta
9) Reprint Wooded Foothills
10) Reprint Windswept Heath
#REPRINT_FETCHLANDS_YOU_COWARDS
I can get behind this wish! Legit reprints, not blatant money grabs like the Secret Lair fetches pls!
WotC be like "but I like money 💰"
@@caseywellington4761 sorry, but you should hurt players card values, not the company. Cause you'll buy the packs and blisters, which causes market shifts downward for the older cards, hurting other players.
Just print all cards on proxies.
it’s pretty cool that this series also serves as a teaching tool for magic terms like “wish” hopefully you can do more similar things
also the best wish story is lsvs story about almost winning a ptq with burning wish storm that had no way to win, he would just wish and hope they conceded
#1 wish should be for a balanced standard environment.
Current standard is super balanced what are you talking about
#firemark
😂😂😂 this
Bun standard. Even it's label screams "this is the official way to play" just so happens to be the most profitable way for them to have everyone play. Wake up sheeple
Or any environment for that matter
I’ve played a couple of times against the Karn-Lattice. In the few times that I didn’t have an answer, I never scooped. I made them kill me, drawing and passing until they dropped an actual threat and dropped my life to 0. All out of spite.
Can't they immediately +1 and attack you with a 6/6?
based
2019 was a mistake of year for magic. God Karn, Hogaak, Urza, Oko all debuted that year.
Its still getting worse as the company cares more about politics than good design st this point it seems.
@@stigmaoftherose im very interested about your explanation on what political context companions have 😂
@@stigmaoftherose If you're referring to them attempting to combat the deep-seated lack of diversity within the playerbase because of that playerbase, you're dead fucking wrong
@@NicerDicerSmart you seem to lack reading comprehension if you think I said the cards themselves were in any way political.
@@MineRoyale. care to rephrase that into a way that makes sense? Not that it is at all what I'm talking about but I'm honestly curious what you could possibly mean with whatever you were trying to convey.
This is good and all. But my one wish, my one deepest desire, the one thing that keeps me moving, the being of my existence, my final hope for true peace, my last chance for bliss.
Is "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)".
10 million subscriber celebration video...
@@Reliquancy 😳
The most ardent wish of our friend the Lobster Emperor is a Top 10 Vintage Cards (minus Power 9)
🦀 (no lobster emoji available)
All hail our crustacean Lord
🦞🦞🦞
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
You beat me to it.
That’s the 10 million subscriber celebration video...
I used to play Burning Wish in my Extended Aggro Loam deck. Thanks for the memories.
You should do a top ten of your favorite 'Top 10s' for the 300th. It would be a cool way to look back at this series so far, and a cool starting point for those who just discover it.
Pre-Watch: I'm not sure it counts as a wish per say, but I'm expecting to see Mastermind's Acquisition.
Post-Watch: Well, at least I got it right this time. Number 10, but I got it right for once. Also, totally forgot Coax From the Blind Eternities existed.
Just want to give a shootout to the ultimate/least necessary tutor in existence, my boi Mastermind. Had a ton of fun casually with my younger cousins. To them it was a miracle to draw so they could pull all sorts of silly shit out of their boards.
This is one of my favorite lists you've done Nizzahon, great job.
As a mostly casual player, I looove Mastermind's Acquisition (and wishes in general). I don't go crazy - even in my kitchen table decks, I believe any deck that uses wishes in casual should use a wishboard (15 card sideboard) rather than a player's whole darn collection, just to keep things fair - and with MTGA, that's now limited to 7 cards in Bo1, which is still fair.
But my goodness, I do love it. Especially since they released The World Tree, allowing for many of my decks to run a World Tree + Golos package, and 1-4 copies of Mastermind's (typically 1 for a nonblack deck, and 2-4 for a Bx deck). At that point, it can simply be an expensive tutor if I need it to be that - or it can start assembling a OTK that I have in the sideboard (which I call my winboard for this type of deck :-P ).
These days I'm playing more midrange/control types of deck, leaning more towards the latter but midrange in the sense that it's mostly tapout control. It's pretty awesome to be controlling, controlling, controlling... then all of a sudden, out of seemingly nowhere the opponent gets nuked. I haven't yet worked out a winboard for Std22 - but in historic I'm currently using Omniscience (to power the rest of the combo), Scholar of the Ages (to recur the Mastermind's and other spells), Sublime Epiphany (to retrigger the Scholar and add some protection), Thought Distortion (protection/disruption; usually try to get it out if my opponent is consistently leaving mana up and may interfere), Approach of the Second Sun (actual wincon, can draw to the second one straight away with Sublime... or, fun fact, can use Sublime to counter the Approach + create a new Scholar to get it straight back out), Aether Helix (to deal with indestructible permanents that may stop me from winning, namely a Faceless Haven with an indestructible counter on it) and Kaya, Bane of the Dead (to let Helix get throught to hexproof permanents). Aether Helix could be replaced with Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger who can exile indestructible permanents instead, but I like Helix as it offers some backup if Scholar dies before you go off.
Masterminds aquisition had like 4 top8's in magic invitational bo1 standard tournament. Having a full 15 card wishboard is so powerful in bo1.
Altough I do agree that doesn't count to your score but it should have been mentioned
While I agree that he could definitely do that and it'd be quite nice to know; I imagine for him that's a ton more research and would probably wind up in a totally different top 10 for almost all of his videos
Keep in mind that for Karn, the Great Creator in modern, Mycosynth Lattice is banned so that synergy doesn't exist in modern anymore. Still sees a lot of play in Tron decks though with a lot of uses for grabbing important artifacts out of the sideboard, such as Sundering Titan or Liquimetal Coating.
Good point!
The Research half is so underrated imo! You can search up at instant speed for UG up to 4 cards from your sidebord. That means a playset of answers is now in your deck to beat aggro for example. I really love this card an it serves me well Everytime i play it 😁
Spawnsire of Ulamog is also a wild card to play!
Everyone: uhh nice, new MTG Top 10 video!
Me: uhh nice, new lobster emperor comment about "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)"!
Would've been good to mention how dominant Cunning Wake decks were in Odyssey/Onslaught standard. I'm pretty sure there were at least 20 copies of Cunning Wish in the top 8 of worlds that year.
Woah! I definitely thought Mastermind’s Acquisition would be pretty high on this list.
Duuuuude that RnD card is nuts I love the idea of that
Wishes used to be much better before the exile zone existed, because some of them (Burning, Cunning, Glittering) could grab themselves. This was the main win condition of a Mirari + Mirari's Wake deck that would be able to generate a ton of mana and keep casting and recasting and then flashing back an Elephant Ambush by copying Cunning Wish with Mirari and using it to get a wish in exile that had been cast previously with the copy getting the exiled Elephant Ambush. It was a fairly efficient way of including a win condition in the deck, one that could just keep spitting out more Elephants given more turns or mana. The rest of the deck was just stall, counters, and Wraths, and it didn't have win conditions clogging its hand while building out its mana; early game Cunning Wishes could be used to find hate cards in the sideboard, even if it was just the 4th Moment's Peace to buy two more turns.
There may have been a deck that did this with Burning Wish as well, but I have less specfic memories. It also may have been theoretically possibly with Glittering Wish.
Last time I was this early, I played Type 2.
Another great video Nizzahon!
If you can loop "research" and load up your library with cards, you can surprise someone by sitting down with a 60 card deck and still winning with a "battle of wits"
Your sideboard is only 15 cards.
There are only two kind of cards that I hate in the game (not like in "not liking to play against them" but like in "I think they are a design mistake") wish cards and the growing number of cards that interact with exiled things, basically becoming "the exile" in to a second graveyard.
There’s a silver bordered card called AWOL. It’s oracle text is something like Exile target creature then move it from the exile zone to the absolutely-no-way-it’s-ever-coming-back zone 🤣
Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power Nine)
Vs.
The Ethics of Mill Vs. Discard
Which is the greater meme?
It would be cool to see applicable Silver Border cards mentioned and described in every Top 10 video. Adds a bit of fun, history, and suspense before you get to #1.
i know the mechanic only allows you to pull a card from your own sideboard, but it would be funny if the term "outside of the game" applies to LITERALLY any card from outside the game. Imagine in a match you take out something from a bulk box, or you borrow a card from a spectator.
#1 Spawnsire of Ulamog
Add a 3 card wishboard, separate from the side board, that way commander can wish too, and make learn playable there
I loved playing Mirari’s Wake back in Odyssey block. Stall until you can get our both Mirari and at least one Mirari’s Wake. Then just keep spamming out Elephant Tokens with Elephant Ambush. When I had come back to the game and found out that “removed from the game” no longer existed and that Wishes now work differently, it was a little upsetting. Fun deck while it lasted though.
That Karn Lattice lock looks fun....
Vicious wishes make delicious dishes.
I’m newish here, can someone explain how the “side board” works?
In competitive formats, you have a 60 card deck and a 15 card sideboard. You can bring in different hoser cards or silver bullets on rounds 2 and 3 in a best of 3 hope that helps.
A side board is something they have in most 60 card constructed formats. It's a list of 15 cards that you can use to swap out your main deck cards in between games of a match. This allows you to better tune your deck against your opponent's strategy. Most casual and/or singleton formats do not have sideboards, and they are not used in best of one matches on Arena because there is only one game against each opponent.
Think of the side board as an extension of your deck that contains cards that help you in specific and niche match ups. Cards that have narrow but powerful effects usually end up here so having the option to "wish" for a card out of your side board to help during Game 1 against a specific opponent is an incredible advantage.
As Nizzahon mentioned in the video, the term "wish board" was coined because of the side board being filled by virtually singleton copies of cards more popularly known as "silver bullets". Hope this helps too :)
Thanks guys, it’s a lot more clear, I haven’t seen this many cool people on UA-cam in quite a while
Note: "Wish" cards do absolutely nothing in commander, due to there being no sideboard.
Oooh I'm here pretty early. Do a Top Ten Flavor Wins of your opinion!
I think he’s already done a couple in that vein if you’re needing a fix
I have already done a few flavor videos, and I am planning on another in the near future.
Viviens main power in pioneer is wishing for ulamog with all that Mana you generate in monoG devotion
I wouldn't consider Research a wish effect, personally.
"... which is pretty gross."
I love this series.
Top 10 Nizzahon Top 10 lists based on the standard metrics.
I’d all just be simic.
Anything that lets you search up anything more than a basic land is a mistake. And I could be persuaded to include the basic lands. :D
Kind of surprised spawnsire of ulamog isnt on here.
I'd love to see you make a list of the top 10 Kavu. Such an underrated creature type.
There are not 10 with points.
@@NizzahonMagic Fair point. Maybe alist of your personal top 10 Kavu? I mean, you've done personal top 10s before, and if my memory serves from comments on and in videos you do seem to like Kavu.
9:51 How you know someone isn't caught up with current day MTG... Tutoring up banned cards, eh?
Well, that used to be what they did -- I'm talking about the past my man. He is still played in Modern now, even if the lock isn't a thing anymore.
Wishes should be re-errata'd to allow them to grab cards out of exile again. Maybe that would be overpowered, but It was how they originally worked, and it makes sense for Wish effects to still do this.
Djinn of Wishes is awesome when you can proliferate the counters. I only play commander at this time though so I have no opinion on any other formats.
Djinn of Wishes doesn't actually "wish," though.
@@NizzahonMagic was spawnsire of Ulamog close to making the list?
3:57 .... "Blainswalker"?
She can activate at instant speed if your opponents name is Blaine, or if they have an altered 🅱️lains land card
I'm surprised and disappointed that you didn't talk about how players used to use Mirari to copy Cunning Wish, so they could wish for an instant and another Cunning Wish, therefore always having a Cunning wish in hand. Same thing was done with Burning Wish in type 2.
Same. The ability of the burning and cunning wishes to wish for themselves is something that newer player (those that never played before the exile zone had its name) may not catch up.
#1 wish should be a non toxic community
Surprised living wish has not been used in land matters decks.
Yes right on time cx
I was sure Karn'd be number 1
The new #1 Wish is Wish
MTG Top 10 wishes ;)
1. I wish they banned Teferi
2. I wish they banned Teferi
3...
I wish they NEVER PRINTED Wilderness Reclamation 😡
Literally the only one I can think of is Fae of Wishes so...meph?
Edit:
Ah, didn't play older formats to know about this card.
Consider yourself lucky Storm and High tide combo used to be everywhere. Burning Wish in particular was brutal I lost a Legacy tournament once when I had a Meddling Mage in Play naming Tendrils my opponent wished for grapeshot killed the mage with Grapeshot then killed me with Tendrils.
Calling It: Karn at #1
So death wish, ring of ma'ruf, and spawnsire of ulamog didn't make it. What was the 14th card? The 4th card not to make it?
Golden Wish.
@@NizzahonMagic thank you, guess it got grouped with the others in my head when you talked about it in the beginning.
And then Lessons happened.
13:27
"The only wish, so far, that is an instant"
Wait... Glittering Wish and Research are both instants... And the Ring of Maruf and Spawnsire of Ulamog are both effects that can be used at instant speed...
Glittering Wish is a Sorcery...
could Glittering Wish be turned into a infinite engine because it removes itself from the game, effectively becoming a card you own out side of the game, so one in deck, and one in side board mean you keep swapping them for each other, and using the Ascendancy for mana dorks to fuel this combo and buff the board
No, the rules for what "outside the game" means changed before 2014.
Wait so the original white wish was essentially a worse demonic tutor? Sheesh.
Uh, no? Haha. I mean yes, it is worse, but it is WAY worse. It doesn't let you search your library at all, just your sideboard -- so I think the comparison doesn't really make sense.
@@NizzahonMagic You know, I didn't really think of sideboard utility properly there. You're right. I know what wishes work like compared to tutors but somehow didn't connect the dots. But sheesh is it overcosted.
Woooo
Cool
My wishes for magic are a fun standard and less broken as fuck cards messing up all formats
Aye
Woo 3 secs
An absolutely ridiculous mechanic.
top 10 shrines? just rating them all
But there are 11