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  • @camdenharper7244
    @camdenharper7244 Місяць тому +93

    "Elf Lizard Wizard" may be the most satisfying creature type to say out loud

    • @altromonte15
      @altromonte15 Місяць тому +9

      King Gizzard and the elf lizard wizard

    • @bat9056
      @bat9056 Місяць тому

      - "Vote for the Lizard not the Wizard"

    • @dyciefisk2535
      @dyciefisk2535 Місяць тому

      And I also love that I can pinpoint the exact card by the creature type alone.

    • @TrumanTheGrayMerchant
      @TrumanTheGrayMerchant Місяць тому

      With the Viashino errata, there will be three more regular Lizard Wizards

    • @Sarcorco
      @Sarcorco Місяць тому +2

      I'm sure the card exists simply for that reason

  • @smalltimeonline
    @smalltimeonline Місяць тому +52

    Finally, lizards of the coast

    • @timothylee8494
      @timothylee8494 Місяць тому +3

      “Coastal Lizard” should definitely be a creature at some point. Maybe if they resurrect the core set…

    • @EBHsswvZUM
      @EBHsswvZUM Місяць тому

      Coastal Rootwalla, with Madness for 0 and the ability to pump up its toughness 1/turn for low cost. Like the fat-bottomed control crabs we see pretty often.

  • @ViashinoWizard
    @ViashinoWizard Місяць тому +23

    7:40 Nice, adding "Nizzahon Top 10 Silver Medalist" to my resume.

  • @XEndlessSteelX
    @XEndlessSteelX Місяць тому +12

    Basking Rootwalla is my second-favorite card in the entirety of MTG. Lovely to see the little guy here.

    • @nickalasmontano1496
      @nickalasmontano1496 Місяць тому +1

      What's your #1?

    • @XEndlessSteelX
      @XEndlessSteelX Місяць тому +2

      @@nickalasmontano1496 Krosan Cloudscraper. I know it's a trash card, but childhood nostalgia (aka Big creature go bonk on the Living Room floor) is just too strong.

  • @TheGloriousLobsterEmperor
    @TheGloriousLobsterEmperor Місяць тому +16

    Ahhhh lizards, I'm a big fan of lizards, they're pretty cool. Even though I'm more of a non-mammalian synapsid guy. I wonder if we'll ever see a Dimetrodon in MTG, just like how I wonder if we'll ever see "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)"!

  • @mikotagayuna8494
    @mikotagayuna8494 Місяць тому +7

    I can envision a future where a new, heavily-pushed Lizard would shred every format and make it to the top of this list. They would have to name it Teeka's Lizard as it would be the only name that would give it justice.

  • @stigmaoftherose
    @stigmaoftherose Місяць тому +3

    Another important part about viashino pyromancers run through standard is that there was a standard legal instant called wizzard lightning that cost 3 to do 3 but was discounted to be a lightning bolt if you controled a wizard and in mono red there was only really viashino pyromancer and one other mono red wizard that cost less than 3 mana.

  • @cax1175
    @cax1175 Місяць тому +14

    I love Viashino Heretic. One of my favorite cards in my Chandler (my actual name as well) Commander deck.

    • @marcoottina654
      @marcoottina654 Місяць тому +2

      Give liquimetal coating / torque to him, you'll blow up almost anything!

    • @gakk8658
      @gakk8658 Місяць тому +1

      I assume you're running Joven, the biggest Juggalo in mtg

  • @user-gj4ml7su3n
    @user-gj4ml7su3n Місяць тому +2

    I can't properly convey the emotional whiplash I suffered when seeing my dear friend Scorched Spitter followed promptly by my mortal enemy Frilled Mystic.

  • @gakk8658
    @gakk8658 Місяць тому +1

    Viashino Sandstalker was a great card for it's time. 4 hasty power for 3 mana was the best deal around, and like Nizzahon said putting it back into your hand wasn't 100% downside because of Cursed Scroll, and any time you can turn a downside into an upside in mtg you have the potential for competitive success. It was also good because your oppo always had to account for it after you played, even though it wasn't on the board, so even though it wasn't there it still was affecting the game. As an aggro player, any time you can turn just having mana and cards into a game changing affect back on a control deck, it was nice.

  • @makenshao9886
    @makenshao9886 Місяць тому

    Oh I'm really happy seeing Lore Drakkis in this. He was one of my favorite cards in my Izzet Drakes deck. And he was kn theme too!

  • @Unforgiven215
    @Unforgiven215 Місяць тому

    On Incubation//Incongruity, the reason it is seeing play in Modern Living End is because it synergises very well with Bloodbraid Marauder. Bloodbraid Marauder requires Delerium to Cascade and Incubation puts 2 card types in the graveyard. The Incongruity half rarely sees play.

  • @TheShinyFeraligatr
    @TheShinyFeraligatr Місяць тому +2

    Ah yes, can't have Viashino and Lizard, but having Dog, Wolf, Fox, and Jackal is totally fine, having Wurm and Worm is fine, and having Djinn and Efreet is normal.

  • @dr.tre90
    @dr.tre90 Місяць тому

    I started to watch this with my lunch in a mall. At the table in front of me there are two kids. One of them has a plastic animal toy in hand... And it's a lizard. How epic.

  • @kNightPhantom392
    @kNightPhantom392 Місяць тому

    Riveteers Requisitioner was a nice two drop viashino. The new one drop reckless lackey kind of takes its place now. Not sure which is better

  • @v3pic
    @v3pic Місяць тому

    I remember thinking it was odd that the anthropomorphic cats of mirrodin and regular cats of say Amonkhet were both considered just cats. But from a tribal support standpoint, I couldn't complain much. Having good support locked behind semantics would've been a pain

  • @samogburn2662
    @samogburn2662 Місяць тому

    Shoutout to obstinate familiar, my favorite MTG lizard

  • @thomasbuchovecky171
    @thomasbuchovecky171 Місяць тому +2

    Do Top Ten Split Second cards, please

  • @marcellachine5718
    @marcellachine5718 Місяць тому

    The first lizard i can remember is the leaping lizard from homelands.

  • @randallross420
    @randallross420 Місяць тому

    Viashino Sandstalker was one of the first cards i ever got

  • @Rexcilious
    @Rexcilious Місяць тому

    So, when they retire a creature type, do all creatures of that retired type become errata’ed (in the oracle text) to the non-retired type?
    For example, will all previously typed Viashino creatures now become lizards?

  • @millenniallife2740
    @millenniallife2740 Місяць тому

    Series idea: decks built around 1 broken card ex: Nykthos

  • @pedropimenta896
    @pedropimenta896 Місяць тому +1

    Are Merfolk becoming Fish then?

  • @oakguy2153
    @oakguy2153 Місяць тому

    What were the points for tte Roowallas ?

  • @dracosdiabolis1769
    @dracosdiabolis1769 Місяць тому

    Always kinda thought Varishino's (cherries lol) were more akin to kobolds. Lol

    • @ceulgai2817
      @ceulgai2817 Місяць тому

      They were: They're both reptilian humanoids descended from dragons.

  • @aaron9797
    @aaron9797 Місяць тому +1

    first naga now vishino what is next

  • @bobjones4469
    @bobjones4469 Місяць тому +7

    Does this mean all minotaurs are now classified as cows? All gorgons are snakes, all merfolks are fish?

    • @jesseknorr8037
      @jesseknorr8037 Місяць тому +1

      No no and no

    • @ViashinoWizard
      @ViashinoWizard Місяць тому +1

      No, those are all fantasy creatures that predate Magic, as opposed to Viashino/Leonin/Loxodon etc. being MtG-specific takes on lizard/cat/elephant people. Cephalid might end up becoming octopus, though.

    • @jellywillreturn
      @jellywillreturn Місяць тому

      @@ViashinoWizardThen explain nagas.

    • @bonidc6732
      @bonidc6732 Місяць тому

      You got a point

    • @sallomon2357
      @sallomon2357 Місяць тому

      ​@@jellywillreturn they announced they would be replacing that too (with Snake), but for some reason unlike the Rakshasa in the same set they... didn't change them.

  • @awildsylveon9896
    @awildsylveon9896 Місяць тому

    Shoutouts to Frilled Mystic for carrying my Simic +1/+1 deck to victory when my LGS drafted Ravnica Remastered

  • @jonothanthrace1530
    @jonothanthrace1530 Місяць тому

    Incubation Or Incongruity is a very strange combination.

  • @christopherb501
    @christopherb501 Місяць тому +1

    Reminder: we DID have a non-Viashino one-of sentient Lizard in Arcavios.

  • @christopherb501
    @christopherb501 Місяць тому

    #3 - still irritated the later card wasn't a different type mash-up.

  • @nickalasmontano1496
    @nickalasmontano1496 Місяць тому

    Hell yeah!

  • @darushkii
    @darushkii Місяць тому

    Lizards of the Coast

  • @AsianMLGIRL
    @AsianMLGIRL Місяць тому

    I ❤ rootwall

  • @awesomeguy5451
    @awesomeguy5451 Місяць тому

    when you see it!!!

  • @user-cd2hx8Amity
    @user-cd2hx8Amity Місяць тому

    LIZARDS!!!❤

  • @louisnemzer6801
    @louisnemzer6801 Місяць тому

    Frilled Mystic all the way

  • @ceulgai2817
    @ceulgai2817 Місяць тому

    Striking while the controversy's hot, eh?

  • @jefftaargus6672
    @jefftaargus6672 Місяць тому

    merfolk are still the best

  • @Shimatzu95
    @Shimatzu95 Місяць тому

    So they remove viashino, a already established creature type and at the same time add new animal types all the time (mice not just being rats for example)? Talk about inconsistency in designdirection

  • @ClubbingSealCub
    @ClubbingSealCub Місяць тому

    THEY RETIRED VIASHINO??

    • @JasonOshinko
      @JasonOshinko Місяць тому

      The creature type, not the species.

  • @darthparallax5207
    @darthparallax5207 Місяць тому

    Where's Ignoble Hierarch?

  • @lizardsofthetoast
    @lizardsofthetoast Місяць тому

    I am the top lizard 🦎 in mtg. For i am lizards of the toast. Do not forget or else.

  • @joshelderkin9592
    @joshelderkin9592 Місяць тому

    Rip viashino

  • @pureevil6047
    @pureevil6047 Місяць тому +6

    Retiring Viashino was a mistake. WOTC could have developed the Viashino as thier own original lizardfolk. Instead they threw it away.

    • @Blargnla
      @Blargnla Місяць тому +2

      I was super attached to Viashino in general. I won't say that I see the value in consolidating them all, but after the slap in the face that was having Kylox on the ads in Karlov Manor only to have him die immediately in the story, I really feel awful.

    • @poiri
      @poiri Місяць тому +9

      There are still viashino in the game, the only thing changing is the creature type. Others like the ainok, leonin, rhox and loxodon are their own animalfolk, they weren’t “thrown away”

  • @anthonypeters3005
    @anthonypeters3005 Місяць тому +2

    Please Top 10 Basic Lands

  • @iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS
    @iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS Місяць тому

    I really wish theyd make a bazaar of Bagdad stule card where it would draw 1, discard 2 so it could still enable these kinds of decks in commander because original bazaar is so dang expensive

  • @sshim950
    @sshim950 Місяць тому

    : )

  • @SuperMerryGo
    @SuperMerryGo Місяць тому

    We're both bird guys, you and I. We have a love bird and a green cheeked conuren But i just got a pet lizard (dispar uromastyx) and she is my world. My partner is into lizards so this means a lot to us!

  • @mjjjuly
    @mjjjuly Місяць тому

    this is a disappointing change. i wish they would also do the same treatment for werewolves, errata them to become just wolves

  • @ShakerGER
    @ShakerGER Місяць тому

    He sounds even more depressed than usual O.o

  • @Dinamosaur
    @Dinamosaur Місяць тому

    Hopefully Bloomborrow will bring our cold-blooded friends some support!
    Why the hell didn't they do the same thing for homarids into crabs BTW? They're even less anthropomorfic than Viashinos FFS!

    • @ceulgai2817
      @ceulgai2817 Місяць тому +2

      Literal answer (per MaRo's blog), iirc: Because they're lobsters, not crabs.

    • @Dinamosaur
      @Dinamosaur Місяць тому

      @@ceulgai2817 Then why aren't they...oh, forget it!

  • @catoticneutral
    @catoticneutral Місяць тому

    I get why they changed viashino to lizards, but still, it feels like this game loses more and more of its personality with every set...