Is it bad that I see Brand of Ill Omen and think 'Braid of Fire says yes'?

The thing I still don't understand about the reserve list is that if the cards were reprinted the old ones from older sets would still hold relative value due to them being collectables and the new ones price would be lower

Brand of Ill Omen is also the same card that inspired the pose Godwyn the Golden is in after he is murdered. Miyazaki is a known nerd and plays MTG.

Similar to Pendrell Mists (and let's not forget about Magus of the Tabernacle) is Vile Consumption. 1UB: All creatures have “At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay 1 life.” Paying 1 life instead of 1 generic mana doesn't hurt QUITE as much but it can still add up REALLY fast. It's also really easy to offset as your in great colors for lifelink/drain/etc effects.

Shimmer is very interesting because it targets basic and non-basic land types. So while you could name swamp or island, you could also name gate or desert. So, with a floor of 1/2ing the effectiveness of one basic land type, it also has the ceiling of destroying land based decks.

I'd highly recommend Cadaverous Bloom. The card is broken in Yargle and Multani, draw 18 cards get a possible 36 mana... card wins me games - Halls of Mist gets really fun with Moonfolk and Mana Breach, which allows you to reset the cumulative cost :P

I have this in my Ghen stax edh deck. I use it with Solemnity. Cumulative upkeep actually puts 'time counters' on the permanent with the text and Solemnity prevents those counters from being placed on the Brand, making it stick around for free.

not sure if this was talked about already, but hall of gemstones is another fantastic card for cedh that I don't see too often.

back in the day i had a kaima the fractured calm deck. it was really bad because i was quite new back then, but one card i thought was really good was brand of ill omen. glad to see someone giving it the spotlight, its really underrated!

Hilariously I run both Brand of Ill Omen and Glacial Crevices in a Svella, the Ice Shaper Gruul Snow deck. I like going heavy in thematics, so most permanents that don't have the Snow Super-type themselves are from the Ice Age, Alliances, Coldsnap, and Kaldheim(with a few exceptions for cards to bring lands back from the graveyard because there is a lot of self-land destruction in Gruul Snow), It's one of my three Snow decks(I wanted every color to be covered at least once and Red and White each only have one valid Legendary Snow Creature)

One thing to note the modern wording of Cumulative Upkeep uses time counters placed on the card to indicate how many time the cost needs to be played so you can use effects that remove counters to keep the cost low or use Solemnity to never pay it if its in play first.

I run Inner Sanctum alongside Brave the Sands in a go-wide deck. If I get both out the game is mine until a board wipe. And then my Clever Concealment does it’s job 😊

Great video! I do love picking up old underplayed stuff. I think Wizards really needs to figure out the reserve list problem sooner than later.

Not a Reserved List card but Ashes to Ashes is one of my favorite hidden gems from The Dark. Mono black 2-1 exile at the same cost as Murder is just fantastic

Glacial Crevasse - man, they just gave Fog effects to *everybody* back then, didnt they?

There is a certain irony in suggesting Shimmer as a budget buy... and then suggesting running it with cards that are very much NOT budget. Yavimaya isn't TOO bad at about $8 but Urborg is a $40 card. If you have black Blanket of Night makes a serviceable budget replacement for Urborg at about $.70.

Love that halls card but remember that it doesn't take a land slot, it's essentially a zero mana enchantment since it doesn't tap for mana

Phyrexian purge and sangromancer is effectively an asymmetrical board wipe as well, which is probably a good consideration :)

Just found this series and I already love it All these mirage and tempest and ice age cards are so wacky.

Everytime a new BTAB comes out, I hit a whip and then a nae nae

Shimmer can also hit Caves, Gates, Urza's, Deserts, Lairs, Locus, Sphere many people don't realize this. It can also with Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth, Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, Prismatic omen and/or Stormtide leviathan can be used to make it hit all lands.

brand of ill omen is a great stax piece. I used it in a build around slicer where I'd enchant my own slicer then give him to each other player, preventing them from playing creatures on their turn.

Nobody asked but here are some of my favourite cheap reserve list cards (~5 dollars): Not crazy powerful but Rainbow Vale is a very fun politics/dealmaking card that forces you to give the card to a player when you tap it for mana. Apocalypse is the card equivalent of flipping the table over because you lost; destroying all permanents on the board while discarding your hand in the process. It’s practically useless in everything but Barren Glory decks but its hilarious to use when your losing just to spite your opponents.

One that I love from Ice Age is Ice Cauldron. Play it in Prosper to just exile cards in your hand to then play back out with no downsides. Play it in a control deck. If the turn cycle ends without anything to interact with, just dump your extra mana into it and throw a sorcery speed card in so that you don't lose tempo. Or, you can put it in a deck with a high CMC curve. Only have 6 mana available and an Emrakul in hand? Store 6 mana and Emrakul in the cauldron in your opponent's end step, untap with that same 6 mana, and now cast your 12 mana spell with only 6 mana available. Best of all, the cards in exile don't care if Ice Cauldron gets removed. The only thing that blowing up Ice Cauldron does is destroy the mana stored in it, you are still allowed to cast cards exiled with Ice Cauldron even if it gets removed

For other reserve list cards I would also recommend Grim Feast and Carnival of Souls.^^

My favorite card on the reserve list is Forcefield. Which is a shame cause I really want one. For those who don’t know, it’s 3 colorless artifact that says; pay 1 colorless and prevent all but 1 damage from target source of damage. That may not sound impressive until you realize that it’s very strong at defending against Voltron decks. I want them to reprint or at least make a spoof card of it. Even paying 2 mana for an ability like that is golden

they can reprint the reserved list. just slight mods need to be added. like make snow covered dual lands. make ancestral recall with buyback. make time walk a sacrifice half you life rounded down. make the moxes indestructabile with an extra ability. sacrifice to scry 2.

My favorite Reserved Los5 card is Firestorm. Also I think there should not be a Reserve List.

Triangle of War is also VERY easy to recur as a 1 drop artifact.^^

Thanks for the insight. I saw at LEAST two new includes for my Rainbow FogArch build.

Psst... try Priest of the Blood Rite... I've been piloting it in pauper commander and it goes unbelievably hard, even in regular commander I play it in any black deck that can abuse etbs and I haven't regretted it so far. It's not quite gary tier imo, you dont get the crazy drain but you do get some insane board presence if you manage to blink/loop the priest a few times.

Temporal aperature seems really good in a Jodah Deck

0:08 - and that card on the right is why I'm just tossing the pieces of Cradle Control into Nic Fit. It's still not _cheap_ cheap, but it shaves a few grand off the price by not having to pay for Cradles.

Edit: When reading more about Betrayal I realised, it's not on the RL. It's just a $0.20 card that hasn't been reprinted in 28 years. Huh. I'm super intrigued how you didn't mention Betrayal. I think it's a super interesting card that easily gets back and goes positive in value, especially against decks where your opponents want to attack often, such as voltron decks. I plan to use it in my group hug Second Doctor deck, to stick it on peoples' creatures who decide not to gain the card draw from his ability. And, since it's when it's TAPPED, if you put it on someone's BoP, it essentially turns it into "T: Gain one mana of any colour. That one opponent draws a card." Which is kinda nuts, especially on tap-effect creatures your opponents REALLY want to keep around. Makes them have to rethink, "is this value for me worth the value for them?" Oh, and in case it's something like a Myr deck where the opponent wants to tap and untap their creatures all day, you'll have an infinite draw engine just because your Betrayal is sitting on their Myr Galvanizer.

7:10 I built a Zur, Eternal Schemer deck that tried to give Pestilence-style enchantments deathtouch, and Inner Sanctum was one of the ways to keep my board intact! Turns out that while fun to design and build, the "underpowered wrath the board every turn" deck is not very fun for you or your opponents. I don't play Zur anymore.

Brand of ill omen is going into my mazzy curses deck immediately

inner sanctum also has a place in a casual tameshi, reality architect list. you can let it die and reset it whenever you need it. that commander does many weird stuff and i bet that if we go into the tank we can find many weird cards from the earlier days of magic to put in there. also triangle of war works well with tameshi as well. it is a very interesting card, with some success in cedh, but most importantly a house for a recursion deck in azorius.

If you live in europe and use cardmarket to buy cards definitely consider getting a braid of fire together with brand of ill omen as its also less than a mh3 booster and could lock out a player almost indefinitely

Man im grabbing phyrexian purge for my rowan scion of war deck that effect is sick.

Absdolulty loved some of these cards! absolutely perfect for a mono-red deck I'm looking at!

Damn shimmer is so crazy, thats actually such a funny card. Like sure, yavimaya very often gets pulled out by someone but even wo you can mess with whoever looks like they are about to win

Shimmer is an all star in aminatou and brago builds

I picked up like 5 balls of mist years ago for all my colourless decks without realizing it was reserved list till today 😂.

Brand of Ill Omen would also work beyond mono red, if you have blink effects.

What do you think of Legacy’s Allure?? I have been tinkering with an Esper Draw/Go control deck with Queza at the helm and I’m currently going with the non-combo build focusing on stealing late game threats. It’s much less powerful than the combo build but I’m enjoying it.

Ty for the recs! How have you been recently, Mr. Trinket Mage?

honestly my mono blue voltron deck would love shimmer

Triangle of War is a great find. I have a Jared Carthalion true heir deck that has many burn and fight spells and I missed this one.

8:06 ah yes, repetible colorless card advantage. I use chaos wand in my budget Omnath Locust of All control deck and right now my friends are so tired of the card that they removed it at any chances they have

I usually never bother with the reserved list cards. I do agree though. we will never see a CEDH tournament from wizards of the Coast. they would have to consider doing away with the reserved list and printing the reserved list cards and more often. which, I think needs to happen anyway.

i'm probably sabotaging myself by mentioning this. But i'd enchant Slicer with that enchant.

I use pendrell mist and pendrell veil in my mono blue cedh control urza deck

Halls of mist is def going in my Kura, Boundless sky deck. Its no Chasm but at that price could be a fun tutor that'll have my friends doing a double take at this never before seen card

I have Undiscovered Paradise as an unexpected include in my Windgrace landfall deck. Let me max out the landfall triggers by playing the same land every turn. Even better if Azusa is out and I can drop everything.

Brand of ill omen+braid of fire shuts them down

Happy Birthday to me: a new Trinket video!

You should check out Arena It's a land that doesn't tap for mana, but has a 3 mana tap Fight effect

We can fix the reserve list land card issue with snow covered duals. Or just snow covered cradle. Problem solved

Had to take brand I'd ill omen out of my mazzy deck.... Felt like a war crime

My brother in christ you gotta show us the mono W draw go, I need to know how it works. (I've been trying for years, except my commander is oketra the true)

Not a fan of Jabari’s influence being nonblack non artifact creature honestly

I see SpongeBob reference, I like. Also this series is awesome.

With the increase of mtg prices, your gonna recommend dual land one day xD

The game has a bunch of alternatives to Inner Sanctum now and most are better.

Mistake? LOL! They knew EXACTLY what they were doing and are now currently cashing in because of that awful 'mistake'. Poor Wizards...

Temporal Aperture is Urza redundancy lol, you hit infinite mana? okay, cast the entire deck and win

None of these cards are "busted".