This video comes out. Wizards: "Hold my beer." And now we have Thousand Year Storm.

"Storm will never return" In Guilds of Ravnica, they print a card which literally gives *all your spells* storm, it just doesn't say "storm".

The main reason that the 'Gotcha!' mechnic has a 10 is because it simply didn't work as intended. The Unsets are meant to be silly, and light hearted Magic. 'Gotcha!' cards attempted that by gaming literal human actions. (Laughing, touching a card, etc) Which would have been fine, if people never cared about winning. So, it ended up incentiving extremely boring play, in an entire set about fun.

Last time I was this early damage went on the stack.

Landhome is where the creature dies unless you control a specific land type.

My lgs had to get a judge because a player banded his commander to a bunch of creature and wanted to know if that would deal lethal commander damage.

Cipher is a 9? I love Cipher. My favorite deck I've ever played was built around it. Way better than the Dimir mechanic we got in this set.

Double-Faced Cards are not flip-cards

This video : This list : Modern Horizons : what if we just skip standard and reprint half of these mechanics ?

banding is actually fairly simple when you understand it. Basically you create you band you, attack, opponent declares blockers and then you decide how combat damage is dealt instead of your opponent

My favorite mechanic is an 8 - Buyback. I miss Capsize...

Affinity for artifacts was just printed in WAR and is rated an 8???

how did affinity not make it to 10 a mechanic that almost killed magic or phyrexian mana

Chroma is specific to each permanent while devotion looks at all your permanents.

Banding is very simple. Ignore all the words on gatherer. Basically, you can block or attack with creatures in a band. And you choose how combat damage is assigned. Example: your opponent is swinging with a 4/4. You block with two 3/3s with banding. You can actually split the 4 damage between your creatures, doing 2 to each of them. Your creatures live while your opponent's creature dies. You can stop trample with banding too. Once you understand banding, it's absolutely busted. Also, Mark Rosewater said that RnD is "committed to bringing slivers back in the future." Just not symmetrical ones.

A case for Symmetrical Slivers (though not a great one lol): Theme. Thematically, Slivers adapt to each other and almost immediately take on whatever mutation they observe on other Slivers. That's what that creature does. So, it doesn't make sense lorewise that when a Sliver sees another of its kind, it doesn't automatically, as a reflex, adapt its body in the way the other Sliver has. Doesn't matter if a Planeswalker has summoned the Sliver to fight for them.

Tldr - banding you treat the entire band as one creature and their controller assigns damage. It's simple when you put it that way.

Landhome as a keyword I believe only existed from 6th ed (its debut) to 7th, where it was removed from the rulebook and all cards with it relegated to the "never again" bin, getting errata'd almost reprints with the new "big dumb fish" ability. It was mainly blue: home - cannot attack unless defender controls a land of type . If at any time you do not control any , big dumb fish dies. Sea Serpent was the originator of the ability, replaced with sea monster, then with generic 6/6 for 6 fish that don't need islands to find thier way to the red zone. Banding simplified (ignoring other combat keywords like trample and (timing)strike: while attacking or blocking, any number of creatures with banding may team up with each other and up to 1 without banding until end of combat. The team/band is essentially treated as one creature: they all block the same creature (or band) and may be blocked by a single creature (or band). The controller of the band chooses how all damage dealt to the band is assigned. Evasion abilities are ignored unless all creatures in the band have it. Example - you attack with a band of: mesa pegasus (1/1 flying, banding), Benalish hero (1/1 banding) and white knight (2/2 protection from black). Defending player (who is bad with legacy mechanics) assigns Glissa the Traitor (3/3 first strike, deathtouch) to block. Normally, Glissa would not be able to block mesa pegasus (flying) or white knight (pro black) but since she can block benalish hero normally, the band is blocked (falling back to help the loud, slow hero). During first strike, white knight deals 2 damage to glissa, who simultaneously deals 3 to the band. Normally, due to deathtouch, all 3 would die (not counting the knight's pro black) as her controller assigns 1 damage to each, which is turned lethal by deathtouch. Instead the band controller assigns damage to the knight, who harmlessly tanks the hit (protection reduces damage to 0). The hero and pegasus then each deal 1 additional damage to Glissa, who dies (4 damage total) screaming "F$@% Alpha!"

there is a minor difference in chrome vs devotion... some chroma cards( the one that comes to mind is called "sanity grinding") it references the devotion of cards not on the field which is basically not devotion

So you’re telling me dredge is rated a ten and artifact lands are rated a ten but affinity is just fine and so is infect

The Izzet will remember this ...

I actually learned about landhome the other week. It's supposed to be a drawback for having a "strong" creature. The opponent needs the basic land type named for the creature to attack and you need that basic land type to... keep your creature from blowing itself up.

Whooa. Can you put a link to this in the description? I was always wondering if this was a thing. Now I know.

Pretty cool. What's _phasing_ rated? 9?

“I don’t like the Izzat guild” Neither does my friend... who runs an Izzat spells deck

I freaked for a moment when you said Slivers. So glad it was just a change.

Man, when you said there was an 11, I KNEW it was gonna be Banding. Now I gotta go check this out.

The tricky thing about banding is that it works differently on offense as it does on defense. Here's how I'd explain it: - Whenever you attack with a creature (even if it doesn't have banding), you can combine it with any number of other creatures you control that have banding (forming a band that contains at most one creature without banding). If you do, then any creature that blocks any of the banded creatures is considered to be blocking all of them, and you (instead of the defending player) decide how to distribute the blockers' combat damage among the banded creatures. - Whenever you block a creature with multiple creatures, if _any_ of those creatures has banding, then you (instead of the attacking player) decide how to distribute its combat damage among the blockers. There are also some creatures, such as Battering Ram, that have only the first of these two abilities -- "banding when attacking". (Battering Ram in particular also has the ability that if it's blocked by a Wall, that Wall is automatically destroyed at the end of the combat phase.)

And Guilds has a card called Thousand Year Storm which... does the same thing... for all instants and sorceries.

Banding is basically making multiple creatures attack as one, and when blocked, you decide how damage is distributed amongst your creatures

One question about the artifact lands: Wasn't artifact affinity the only reason why they became an issue? I feel like I'm missing something important here.

I think the concept behind slivers - especially lore wise - is super interesting, but I have too much respect for my opponents and my self to try it out.

Aaaaaand they've just printed storm again. Time to wait for the simic sliver that gives all other slivers "Bands with other slivers" in the next set

How do people think banding is so confusing? It's basically "treat all these creatures as a single one; their controller decides how damage is divided among them".

Seeing someone play a storm deck is what inspired me to pick up M:tG Seeing that glorious cascade flow was fascinating, and so much more satisfying than anything I'd seen from other CCGs up until that point. To this day pretty much all I play are combo decks because nothing will every be as satisfying in Magic as bringing someone from 20+ down to 0 in a single turn

Banding: Each creature blocking one member of a band blocks all members of the band. The controller of the band distributes damage being dealt to the band by creatures it is in combat with. Ante: The card flipped up, no matter what it was, is removed from the game for the duration of the game. Yes this can be a basic land. Chroma: Is not devotion. Chroma causes each card affected to count itself separately. Modern flip cards: You can easily substitute another card into the deck for when you draw the card, as long as you note what card is substituting for what.

Now we all have cards with storm in Modern Horizons 2

Now we have duel color indestructible artifact lands.

Hey Des, If you are doing a video based on a centralized source, it would be nice if you could link it in the description. I know I found it with a quick search, but it does make the video just a little bit nicer for your subscribers =) Cheers for another great video, A

Link to the list?

They have proxy cards in the packs with checkboxes you can mark as being representative of a certain flip card, which you keep to the side.

There should be an 11 for “it was a mistake to ever print this in the first place”. Phyrexian mana comes to mind as well as Companion

I love this. You should go through the whole storm scale

That intimidate reasoning is really weird considering lots of cards target specific things.

Antes were how we all played magic locally during alpha/beta. You would draw 1 card out of your deck not playing with it and it be on the line. I lost a shiven dragon and I could of won a land. We played for keeps

Why were the aircraft lands banned?

I think chroma has a 10 because it is not consistent, sometimes it counts all your permanents, sometimes it affects each permanent depending on the number of symbols the permanent has, sometimes it counts symbols on your graveyard, etc. devotion is 100% consistent

Haha, dude you're hilarious, love when you started going off on the izzet. Favorite thing about you is you sound like comedian Nick Swardson

I wish they would bring back mana burn, you had to be a lot more thoughtful in the day when playing your mana rocks

9:13 hexproof from color was printed in Dominaria

Landhome is an obsolete generic keyword ability used in conjunction with a quality such as land type. It captures the flavor of things that require a certain environment. [1] [2] The mechanic is still used occasionally, but it is now written out in the card text. Landhome was originally a group of abilities (islandhome, mountainhome, and so on) that prevent the creature with the ability from being declared an attacker if the defending player controlled no lands of the appropriate type. Additionally, creatures with landhome are sacrificed if their controller doesn't control any lands of the appropriate type. It is now printed as two abilities: " can't attack unless defending player controls a ." "When you control no , sacrifice ." Like Haste and Vigilance, Landhome was not originally keyworded, but unlike those abilities, it lost its keyword after WotC decided it was 'uninteresting,' and appeared on too few cards. [3] Although only Islandhome was ever printed on a card (and on only five cards at that), other cards have abilities that are functionally identical. Source: the mtg wiki for landhome

Something I would love to see is a series of sets that are printed outside the Standard environment (Meaning they never become legal in Standard, Conspiracy would be an existing example) that is mainly used to test experimental mechanics before considering them for a Standard set by seeing how they perform in Draft. Modern, Commander, ETC. and eliminating what doesn't work or is too powerful as future design choice. If used correctly, this would help make sure cards like Thousand Year Storm NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!!!!

Am I one of the few people who can fully easily comprehend how banding works?

Des here is Banding in a nutshell you want to double block to kill something you don't get to decide damage however if you band together to block you do so that 10/1 first strike deathtoucher can die and only take 1 card with it. Same thing for attacking you band together and your big guy gets a meat shield.

No one else has explained it properly. Land home is the keyword given to old creatures like Leviathan (which has islandhome) that say "this can't attack unless your opponent has an island, if you do not control an island sac this

All banding is, is that if you attack with 2 creatures with banding and 1 without they band together and do their damage to the one creature and then you choose how the dmg goes to your creature's (instead of the attackee assigning the battle dmg you choose it for his creature.)

Landhome- this creature may only attack an opponent if they control a , if at any point you don't control a sacrifice this creature.

The controller of the attacking band chooses how combat damage is dealt rather than the controller of the blocking creature. It also allows you to assign non lethal damage to crratures in the band. I.e if a band of 2 2/2s is blocked by a 2/2 the bands controller can assign 1 damage to each of the creatures in the band.

Landhome. A creature with Islandhome, for example, could not attack an opponent unless they controlled an island. AND if you didn't control an island, you had to sacrifice that creature.

soooo, does that mean you didn't like, thousand-year storm?

"Landhome" makes you sacrifice the creature if you control no specified basic land of the type. F.e. Islandhome; Swamphome (the only two homes that exist on physical cards, if i recall correctly).

To explain banding, imagine you are attacking with a group of creatures. Normal combat says the controller of the damage source assigns it, for a band you would assign the damage instead. With banding, it works for attacking as well as blocking, and each time the band's controller assigns damage instead of the controller of the damage source. Landhome is like landwalk, in a way. It was like in mirage with phasing, to put you in that mindset. Let's take foresthome as an example. If your opponent doesn't control a forest, you can't attack them. Iirc, if you don't control a forest you either have to sac it or it can't do anything

What's your beef with the Izzet Guild?

1) Banding is relatively straightforward, they just wrote it very oddly. As a keyword ability it interacts oddly with the regular blocking rules, in that any creature with banding automatically forms a band with everything making the same block as it, but it's otherwise fairly intuitive once you untangle it. Offensive bands are declared when you declare attackers, subject to the all-banding-plus-one-buddy rule, and then it exists for the rest of combat. A band works like this: you commit to all the creatures in the band attacking together. They all have the same target, and if one of them gets blocked, they're all blocked (regardless of menace, flying, etc). You can boot stuff from the band by making the creature in question not attack, but otherwise they stay together. The advantage of having a band is this: during the damage step, the controller of the band decides how its damage gets assigned, rather than the controller of the thing damaging it. Say I've got a bear with deathtouch and a 1/4, and you have a 1/3 and a 2/3. If I swing, the best I get is a one for one trade with your 2/3. If one of my dudes has banding, though, I can attack with both of them together. Now if you block with the 2/3, *I* get to do the damage assignment for both sides, so I can just put his damage on my 1/4 and be fine. If you bring in the 1/3, it's even better, since I get two kills... unless one of your guys also has banding, in which case you can force all the deathtouch damage onto the 1/3. The damage assignment does need to be legal, though, so you can't do something like spread damage from a 3/3 out among three 1/2's. Bands with other was fixed in 2010 (about 8 years after it was publicly declared never to expand beyond the eight cards that currently mention it). Now, a [foo] creature with "bands with other [foo]" can form bands only with other [foo] creatures, but the other creatures don't need to have any form of banding. Before 2010, though, it was utter nonsense, because "bands with other [foo]" only let the creature with the ability band with creatures that had "bands with other [foo]". The only justifications I can come up with for that nonsense is that they didn't want to print "bands with other [color] legendary creatures" on the banding lands, or maybe that they wanted to make sure tapping your Shelkin Brownie was enough to stop me from making my two Wolves of the Hunt into a 12-mana-over-three-turns vanilla grizzly bear (to go with the 4 mana grizzly that spawned them). But yeah, the deliberate incompatibility of this rule with the type system is what really made it stupid, not anything about banding, which was just weirdly written because of how magic rules text works. 2) Chroma only counts the affected card's devotion, not your total devotion. Light from Within gives Benalish Marshall +3/+3 and gives Rustwing Falcon +1/+1. If they bring back devotion, they're going to either call it devotion and just say it's your devotion to the color rather than the gods of this one particular plane that happen to line up with the color wheel. It's always been "devotion to [color]", not "devotion to [god]" anyway; there's nothing to change. Maybe make it exclusive to green or white if there's no in-set reason to give it to everyone. 3) Intimidate has a 10 because it's been replaced by menace, a distinctly less stupid mechanic. Otherwise it would probably be at 9 with landwalk.

But what about storm crow

Landhome was a set of drawbacks that were basically the opposite of landwalk abilities. For example, Sea Serpent had islandhome -- it couldn't attack a player who had no islands, and it died if its controller had no islands.

darksteel citadel happy days :D

Apparently landhome was like a psuedo landwalk but if the defending player didn't have the land type you couldn't attack with that creature and if you didn't have the land type you had to bury it

Chroma isn't actually 100% the same as Devotion. Devotion to [mana type] refers to exactly one quantity - the number of that type of mana symbols in the mana costs of permanents you control. Chroma can check mana symbols on single creatures (Springjack Shepherd, Light from Within, Fiery Bombardment), or on cards in zones other than the battlefield, such your graveyard (Umbra Stalker), revealed from your hand (Phosphorescent Feast), or revealed from the top of your library (Sanity Grinding).

As far as ive seen, banding goes like you choose how combat damage is done to blocking creatures instead of the attacking player. Like how you attack with a 3/3 and they block with a 1/2 and a 1/3, you can choose to do 3 to the 1/2 or or 3 to the 1/3 or any combination of that. But with banding you choose how its done so same attack scenario you can have 2 damage done to the 1/3 and 1 done to the 1/2 to have all creatures survive

landhome is if you don't control a land of the type it calls out the creature is destroyed, you might also need your opponent to have that type of land to attack, more common as islandhome

Chroma is not Devotion. They are VERY similar, but chroma counts the number of mana symbols in a specific set of cards, which may or may not be in play, while Devotion counts all permanents in play. Basically, certain Chroma cards CAN count mana symbols of cards revealed from, say, your library, and care about those, but not in play.

I recall a cycle of anti-slivers, having negative & hindering effects, people sideboarded them to basically break sliver decks

I don't know, I kind of like having the ability to have a 1/1 for 1 artifact sliver in my sideboard to counter slivers.

and then they print thousand year storm

Chroma and devotion are not the same. Read those cards again. Chroma is each card. Each creature gets +1/+1 for the white mana in its mana cost. Notice the "it's mana cost." Devotion is total of all casting costs as a whole. "Cost of permanents you control."

Sliver mirror-matches are fun. Probably because I always have 4 dormant slivers.

Bands : the group is blocked as one. But the controller of the band either way controls how damage is dealt. Band of 1/1 2/2 9/9 band blocked by a 1/1deathtouch instead of blocker choosing where to assign the damage the ands controller does. So the 1/1deathtouch can do his damage to the 1/1

Banding means that a creature with banding and one more, will attack as one, can be blocked as one, and the attacking player is the one who will divide the combat damage, not the defending player.

“I wish all flip cards would have a 10” Strixhaven: ah ha ha fuck you

Banding allows the you the controller to choose how the damage from opposing sources is distributed instead of the damage originators controller

I want the level up mechanic back! A lot of balanced level up cards for like the last set of Ravnica and the set thereafter

Ah, good memories of storm when pauper first came out. Pissed off many an opponent. Fun way to shove it up a counterspell deck lol

Fear wasn't replaced by Intimidate, because a non black creature could gain fear and be spooky scary. My edh deck uses this tactic.

Funny thing is I love 3 of the abilities on this list. Storm dredge and all slivers are asking to me but they are not for everyone for example i played a 4 player edh game where everyone played slivers and we all used the slivers that had the all slivers ability it was chaos and i loved every minute. Love storm and dredge because I built decks that win by turn 2

I loved landhome can't attack if you don't control a specific basic land these creatures were strong at the time if it didn't have land home it would've been broken for the most part

banding just means u attack in a group and you get to pick how your combat damage is dealt if they block

I never got into MtG because of Slivers so in my mind they deserve a 10.

Banding is confusing? It's basically just 'you know how you can team up creatures when blocking? Some creatures can do that when they go on the offensive, too.'

U should post the link in the description

I was looking at the scale, infect and living weapon aren't as high as I was expecting.

Banding essentially means that all creatures in a band attack or block as 1 creature. Damage is assigned by the owner of the banded conglomerate rather than the player dealing damage. If they would explain it like that, no one would get confused. Really the other player doesn't need to care: treat it as 1 creature, and then damage is assigned to creatures by the other player (remember we are treating the banded creatures as 1 creature so if this was a block of with 3 creatures, 2 of which are banded, you assign it as normal.Then any damage assigned to the banded creatures, the then further divided as the controller sees fit).

Eight is minor miracle, nine is major, ten is right after hell freezes over

I shall add. Donate was so broken when it came out, that every card that got donated for 2 years of tournaments got banned. And then the card Donate was banned in Extended (current day modern).

Artifacts lands and storm aren't coming back... oops

Love the new flips

Landhome was atrocious. If you didn't have a particular kind of land in play, you sacced the creature, and if your opponent didn't have that particular type of land in play, you couldn't attack them.

Well technically the lowest level of hell is frozen and all.

I liked the original flip cards that had a regular magic card back. They really aren't very confusing. If your opponent cannot keep track, just put a counter on them when they are flipped, though it shouldn't be a problem. The newer flipcards are garbage in anything but Arena. Having to constantly take my cards out of their sleeves, flip them and reinsert them is horrendous, especially if you play something like werewolves. Some sleeves don't even work with them like the transparent ones. And don't even mention that "replacement card make an x with your pen and replace the card with the real card when you play it" thing. That is even worse.

Master of the Feast can combo with Consecrated Sphinx.