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Mark Rosewater actually mentioned hellbent in one of his Ravnica podcasts and said R&D liked the mechanic but didn't like how useless the player felt after getting it. He mentioned that if they where to try it they would do it so it activates with only one card in hand as opposed to an empty hand kind of how Hazoret works.

Morbid could also return in Murders at Karlov Manor. I don't know, something about it seems to indicate that death and murdering plays a big part there.

I mean... Undying was damned cool too! And... an honorable mention for me is... well, spore counters. I'd like to see a return to that design space, where there'd be thallids and enchantments that have alternative uses for spore counters, while also increasing the production. For instance, one thallid could have "XX, tap; remove a spore counter from X permanents you control; each non-fungus creature gets -X/-X until end of turn". something like that.

i know its a basic one but i LOVE raid, the mardu keyword from Khans. cards like raider's wake and mardu heartpiercer are just so so fun and i can't help but feel the simplicity of the card and it's limited application leaves it unexplored

The number 1 mechanic i wanna see return is definitely Bloodrush. Having your efficient creatures also be combat tricks led to such great cards and fun combat for people that like attacking, and I'd love to see it explored again.

I miss the Devour Mechanic. I started playing Magic around the Alara block and completely fell in love with Jund and Devour. There is nothing like creating some small little Goblins just to have them be snacked by a big dragon that becomes even bigger. At least in LotR I got a Hobbit variant of it xD I guess if we ever revisit Alara, we might see it again. But it looks like this will take a while.

I know it's basically brand new, but I'm really excited to see where they go with Backup in the future. It's such a flavorful and intuitive mechanic, and it seems to have a lot of cool design space for the future

I'm sad that Wither wasn't on the list. I loved the ability and it has no support.

Hellbent should work nicely with typically red exile card draw

RE: PLAY BOOSTERS -- I know this is the hot topic, but as you (hopefully) know, writing and producing a video is something that takes time and when big news stories like this drop, I like to sit and contemplate before writing a script rather than just shout out the first thing that runs through my head. In other words: please be patient. Yes, I will talk about this, but as always, I'll be later to the conversation than most.

These are some of my favorite videos you do, Prof! These are exactly the kinds of cards I look for when digging through my or my friends' bulk/chaff boxes!

Id love to see mutate return with anything other than "when this creature mutates" triggers. Keywords, static abilities, etc. I understand that ut us definitely a difficukt design space with a lot of potential to break games, but I think the mechanic is a lot of fun and finding ways for it to work outside if only working with itself would be a lot of fun.

Its a good day when the prof uploads

As soon as I saw this I thought "we're gonna be seeing some RTR block mechanics on here." I was right, though not about which ones. Also, I'd really really like to see threshold come back, that's perhaps my all time fave mechanic.

Love the vid concept been wanting one like this since I discovered this channel 💯🙏🏼

One of my favourites is populate, don't think that's been in standard other than return to ravnica. Was disappointed it didn't feature in guilds of ravnica.

I can't wait to see my favorite mechanic, banding, on this list. Surely prof talks about banding in this list. Surely.

I really wish Grandeur would come back to standard! I love the ability to turn extra legendries into spell effects. I haven't seen the mechanic outside of a couple of cards, but I thought it was brilliant. With so many legendary creatures out there, it'd make a lot of sense.

I'm probably one of like 3 people out there who dearly loved Modular and Arcbound, I'd love to see more cards, if for no other reason than to help me fill out my Arcbound/Modular deck without having to take every single one thats available

return of arcane and splice was all i wanted from neon dynasty and i got totally let down on that lol. so much design space still available for it, and combining spells together is such a cool thing to do

Great video , good energy. You get better at this every year my dude! GG

Thank you for listing my favorite card in Magic history, Tolarian Academy, as a great mechanic! I love that card! It is part of my favorite deck in all of Magic history!

dredge is probably my favorite mechanic missed by this list.

Great video prof! Enjoyed your explanations and the cards you came up with.

This was a great video! As a Commander player, I'm fortunate that I get to see all those mechanics a lot of the time, but yeah, it would be nice to see them reintroduced into a Standard Set to give us even more options, rather than just the one or two we get in Commander Precons. Also, it's awesome seeing my name in the credits! Proud to be a Patreon sponsor!

I know most are talking about old mechanics, but I thought demonstrate was a really cool mechanic that I would love to see again.

Hellbent could be great for impulse draw decks which exile cards to use later

The card that got me into MTG was when a fellow Boy Scout played a Beta Dark Ritual when I was watching other Scouts play MTG for my 1st time. The coloring and art is just so amazing on it. The 1st keyword I fell in love with was Trample... Ball Lightning was one of my favorite cards when I started for the art and the ruthless 6 power with Trample.

I know this is a 7-month old video and that this is only a minor detail, but i LOVED the transition from Ashling to Grief at 14:50!! Seriously, whoever made the mental connection that they were nearly the same pose and decided to put them together, I appreciate you

Handsdown one if my favorite content creators for Magic even if I'm not a huge Commander player. Keep up the good work, Prof. c:

Watching these videos in the morning is the best. Reminds me of watching the actually fun educational shows mixed in with cartoons on Saturdays as a kid.

Morbid is my #1 fave mechanic, with Tragic Slip being one of my fave cards of all time! Hoping for a return in Duskmourn. Also got SUCH nostalgia hearing you talk about Goblin Grenading your Arsonist to Brimstone for 5! that was me too back in the day!!!

I came into magic around ixalan/guilds of ravnica on arena. I loved the Enrage mechanic with the Dinosaurs. Like many, I do love me some dinosaurs, but the thing I love about the mechanic is how creature centric is. It was also fun seeing what option I had to deal damage to my own creatures to create an advantage. Ranging Raptors + Forerunner of the Empire helped me out on mana fixing. Also Temple Altisaur was a must have for me in my Enrage Decks.

I loved extort due to how efficient it made your curves, allowing it to overperform in casual environments. I also like how with it being loaded on creatures it encourages you to stall out the board rather than wiping it.

I started playing Magic basically during Avacyn Restored, and absolutely loved the soulbond mechanic. It felt clever to work with and had neat interactions. Even with a somewhat niche flavor and only moderate design space, I'd love to see it again.

For Evoke, dont forget that its also crazy synergistic with decks that care about death or sacrifice triggers. You don't need flicker or undying to get amazing value out of it in Korvold for example.

I like the Ashling background when you introduced Grief! Similar posing, it definitely had to have been intentional xD

I've always like Provoke as a way to mess with the combat phase. Being able to force a block from a specific creature is a new way to play the combat part of Magic. Unfortunately, it has never been printed on a good creature, and was printed before the 8th edition, that means no Modern playability... So it was long forgotten. But it was good! And I'd love to see more printed in the future.

I'd never really thought about it, as it hasnt come up in any games I can remember, but I didnt know that +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters canceled each other out. I thought they were seperate entities on a permanent. Interesting.

I look forward to your video on bands, hoping it explaining how it's very easy to understand mechanic now that damage is off the stack and how it's an excellent counter to trample. I really want bands back in new sets! No, seriously it's actually pretty good now.

AB-solutely love that you included Indestructible Aura in your cold open card gallery... that art is très'mazing (I love it So. Much.)

I really wish they'd put Overload on spells with two targets. Either spells with two separate effects, where maybe one of them doesn't have the "you control"/"an opponent controls" restriction, i.e. scales up symmetrically to make for a double-edged sword, in line with reckless Izzet mad science; or even spells with one effect connecting two targets for quadratic blow-up - imagine overloading a "target creature you control fights target creature you don't control" spell. There's a lot of interesting design space to explore.

I was always a big fan of exalted, it let you swing big by going wide and left several options for blockers of your side of the field

I was shouting so excitedly when I heard #1 was also from the Llorwyn/Shadowmoor twincycle, because I really like Kinship as a mechanic. I *REALLY* want more of a heavy focus on "Tribes matter" because I love playing tribal decks. I've got a casual Bant/Brokers Merfolk deck that plays with a bunch of silly Llorwyn cards, and besides lands, everything inside is a merfolk. Merrow Reejery + Drowner of Secrets + Stonybrook Banneret + Fallowsage leads to a pretty silly infinite combo where you play a merfolk, mill yourself with Fallowsage into Drowner, and draw a card for Fallowsage, then use the cast merfolk triggers to untap lands and Fallowsage. Repeat until you've got 2-5 cards in deck, then drop Thassa's Oracle. Silly fun.

Ah yes the Lorwyn block was my first encounter with MTG, truly a blessed time to start playing.

One of my favorite keywords in general is Offering (even if the cards it is on aren't my favorite), but they did return to it for one card recently!

I start watching Dr Who because of you Prof! I'm on episode 11 from the 2005 serie,i'm going to enjoy the long ride! Thank you

14:57 Just look at that mythic cycle lined up. A thing of beauty

The card that made me fall in love with the game was Geralf's Messenger. It was such a horse in Innistrad standard. I had been aware of the game for maybe seven or so years prior and played a few games from some early 00's, but it wasnt until that set and the zombies that made me sink my teeth (and money) into. Love that battery-chested doofus. Outclassed nowadays for the cost, but still very powerful in the right deck.

Cool to see persist in the top spot. Definitely one I’d love to see more of.

Innastrad was the first set that came out after I started playing. I'm very nostalgic about that set (well block) and all the mechanics were so good.

Fateful Hour from Dark Ascension is a mechanic I’d love to see return. Love the flavor of making desperate plays when you’re on the brink of death.

I real hope they give us more evoke creatures (that aren’t free spells)

Indestructible Aura is the greatest card art of all time. Thank you for putting it in the intro

I love effects that give you card advantage when you're hellbent, stuff like Asylum Visitor and Mindstorm Crown and Ghirapur Orrery, it's like you're playing slay the spire dumping your hand and filling up again every turn

Im so happy to see extort on a list like this, ive loved extort for so long and since i started playing mtg for the very first time. This was so vindicating to me

Great video, but I'm just dropping in the comments to say how excited I am to see the professor play Volrath the Fallen in the next episode of Shuffle Up & Play. That's my first ever commander and my favorite Magic villain of all time!! 😄

I really liked the flavor of the Emerge mechanic. The idea of something bursting out like an Alien is so on point. I love that they finally returned to the mechanic with the Dr. Who set.

Brimstone Volley is super underrated. In that standard format I won multiple games by just sacrificing my Geralf's Messenger, ETB lose 2 life, cast Brimstone Volley. 7 damage out of nowhere, instant speed and just 3 mana. MaRo has also mentioned that it was a fantastic flavor mechanic, because what happened was that it made creatures dying inherently suspenseful. If your opponent suddenly sacrificed their own creature it meant a demon might be coming! That's literally straight out of a horror film.

Grove of the burnwillows comes to mind for me. I'd have thought they'd have shown up just because of commander. Giving one player instead of all would be another cycle of them too.

Rakdos and the hellbent mecanic was my first introduction to MtG before actually playing with 1st Theros. It will always have a special place in my heart. I made a Grenzo Dungeon Warden deck because the bottom mill gives card advantage without ruining the Hellbent :3

Rampage! I loved rampage, and I will eventually be adding earthbind, lure, and teeka's dragon to a deck for some jank winning.

Couple of my friends met you at portland retro game con this past weekend. Wish I could’ve too.

17:53 Prof just casually droping this HUGE BOMB!! 😍

What makes all of these and most other well-designed mechanics great is that they’re grokkable and super flavorful every time.

I really hope that we get more foretell cards, I love that mechanic!

Gosh the old cards art is so nice ❤

Echo. Great mechanic. Lets you play a big card. Also cumulative upkeep I miss as well

I pulled out my thousands of magic cards for the first time in years and started looking at them at the beginning of this video. In a random pile, the 4th card I looked at was the basilica screecher that he mentioned for extort. I literally did a double take when I realized it.

Thanks for being awesome!

What I hate is when they introduce a new keyword, then bring back the ability in a later set, but don't reprint the keyword because the keyword was meant to be iconic to the previous set and not part of this set's identity.

I think there is more you can do with morbid outside of 2nd main. Firstly you have sacrifice decks that can trigger morbid at instant speed, removal spells such as lightning bolt or doom blade can do the same. Then you can combine it with other keywords like devour and causualty in a plane focused on survival and Exploitation of weaker beings. The addition of more evoke cards would also make morbid more viable on 1st main.

The art for Indestructible Aura is crazy! I didn't know that card! I need one just for the art! xD

Sunburst. SUNBURST!!! And Converge, I guess, very similar. Absolutely wonderful, beautiful, perfect mechanics. If you apply shower thoughts to the idea of Sunburst/Converge, you see that it intrinsically shows a property of MTG. If you play fewer colors in your deck, you are going to be somewhat restricted on card quality and strength. If you play more colors, you are going to have access to stronger cards, but you'll notice it'll be more difficult to make sure you have access to all of your colors on time. Cards like Engineered Explosives and Pentad Prism are perfectly serviceable if you only have two colors, but they scale in value the more colors you have (EE can hit a wider range of CMC; you can reap the benefits of the "any color" clause of PP). So, it doesn't completely punish a player for not having lots of colors, but it showcases the power of lots of colors. This deck building restriction trade-off is probably what makes deck building so much fun.

Listening to the intro and TINKER! Immediately sprung into my head, I immediately asked myself, "what is wrong with me?"

I'm always going to have a soft spot for modular. I love both having a bunch of small things, and building one big thing over time, so this is a perfect mechanic for me. Sadly, the infamy of Arcbound Ravager means I don't think we'll be seeing it in standard after Mirrodin block, but at least it reappeared in modern horizons 2.

No mention of Undying along with Persist? It functions almost exactly the same, albeit with less "loopy" support.

this list makes up for that mana base video. hellbent, morbid, extort and evoke are some of my favourites for sure

Didn't realize Return to Ravnica is already 10 years old. Making me feel old, prof

Hellbent could certainly show up again in that villains focused set Thunder Junction coming up.

I saw someone’s custom card once with embalm AND eternalise, with both costs different to its mana cost colour, which looked really interesting

I still can't wait for new Mutate cards. I loved the flavor of it.

The card that made me fall in love with Magic was og Emrakul, and after the Prof started hyping up the keywords all I could think of in my smol head is Annihilator, only showed up once, over 10 years old, "loved by everyone"...

Great picks

I really dig Threshhold, mill could always use some more support especially in green and white!!

Provoke is one I'd like to see return. I understand that it has essentially been replaced with fight spells, but i like having the ability on a creature!

I had wondered how many of these wpuld be kicker and im pleasantly surprised it was only 3

RTR block was when I started playing, Gatecrash was the first set to come out when I was playing and I loved extort so much as a newbie.

Hellbent feels like it could fit very at home on Innistrad as it’s a plane which now features madness as a returning mechanic, and self-discard is great with the eventual no hand payoff, and could be a fitting keyword for devils of the plane

Crazy that extort is that old now, I remember playing with it when I very first got into magic. Orzhov and Dimir in RTR, my first magic loves. Still play BW to this day, though it's mostly on arena sadly.

I absolutely love morbid as a mechanic. I made a morbid pauper deck, and it is one of my favorites

Persist with Solemnity is just such a fun, awesome combo that doesnt break the game but still is fun to pilot

Hellbent and Miracle are my favorite keywords to work together. It's the ultimate top deck combo.

10:36 Did you make these summary sheets or are there available on a website?

I was looking for izzet hellbent cards earlier this week for my Edgin, Larcenous Lutenist deck since I can dump my hand pretty quickly

I really appreciate how positive and constructive this one is. Though I can't help but notice that Elite Inquisitor has protection from zombies, haha.

Rancor, Treetop Village, and Argothian Wurm were the cards I remember most when I started.

My first precon deck was a white/blue aven soldiers banding deck. I won so many games cause no one really understood how banding worked. It's my fav mech and god damn it, *I* want it back!

A mechanic that Id really like to see more done with is cipher. I always found it to be an interesting mechanic. I didnt even know a new card with cipher was recently printed until just now. Which is awesome but I want more!