I'm honestly shocked they don't see a bit more play just as 1-ofs to lean on for longer games/lame draws. I've found a single Raven's Crime useful in almost every deck I've thrown one in just for funsies, even decks that had nothing to do with hand destruction. It's just never a bad option to trade a spare land for something good your opponent has been holding onto.

@@Psychonautical89 I guess Jump-Start is the safe version it (and maybe how people got confused). Risk Factor is a suspiciously playable card IMHO in Burn, where the opponent's life is an especially valuable resource already, and 3 cards for 3 is incredibly good for Burn, so the opponent gets to choose from two bad outcomes, and if you're in Legacy you can run Fireblasts to draw into if the opponent tries to stick you with cards when you're out of mana (Red doesn't get many free Burn spells, but you can run a bunch of bolts already). By the time the opponent has no choice but to feed you cards they should be low enough that Fireblast is a real issue. I think as long as you're threatening a turn 3 or 4 win with Burn you're probably fine.

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And all the companions too, as well as enter the wild, growth spiral, fires of invention, wilderness reclamation, field of the dead and many others. Also, wrenn and hogaak were released around the same time and expressive iteration only little bit later

Imagine coming back into Magic with Arena at this time. Like I haven't really played a ton since 2021

there is a non zero chance that having them all would have balanced it out and nothing would need to have been banned xD honestly look at timeless its pretty good because all the broken cards balance each other perfectly xD

@@DaxRaider heh, yeah I guess Oko is a pretty good answer to Omnath and Uro

Lutri is cute as a button and I love her.

12am here

I watch it at 7 am, but I am in Germany

It's a little over 10pm where I'm at.

10:22pm here lol

7am, but I'm in Italy

Multicolor cards were introduced in Legends, so no Alpha on this particular list of OP cards.

Not only that, but I remember many multicolor cards back then weren't that great with a few exceptions. I thought they were cool af and I collected quite a few, and I don't recall many of them being good, looking back lol

Insane how the list said most overpowered MULTICOLORED cards and not just most overpowered cards in general.

I may have underpowered Retrace, but that ultimate has very little to do with why Wrenn and Six is good in 60-card formats. That's why I was able to get Retrace wrong, because one hardly ever sees the emblem.

Squandered Resources is actually the only one that got banned. That said, it should have been in the honorable mentions, and got left out.

it is basically draw 2 for 2 mana, because you can hit your lands drops with it, also it was just another super good cantrip in blue decks that pushed them over the edge. EI was just the straw that broke the camel's back for value.

@@christopherprementine5287 Oh to be sure, it's an amazing card. I'm just surprised it's still around in Modern. I would think in Legacy, it would have been a popular Daze/FoW target.

@@hitmangfx7162 Well, that's the problem. The only deck that was running it was Izzet Delver. There have been multiple cards that have been banned for FOW and Daze's sins, including Ragavan and Dreadhorde Arcanist. The deck is just oppressive when allowed to run the full suite of cards it wants.

legacy just has more efficient cards, which means the chance of getting to fully take advatage of both the one added to hand and the one exiled at the same time, and izzet control/combo decks in legacy where already just a bit more potent than modern, what with cards like force of will and daze etc that it doesn't take much to push into problem territory, whereas in modern its still an amazing card (and murktide/izzet delver is a top tier deck dont get me wrong) but its not quite pushing the envelope as much

Delver is the time tested "best Legacy deck". The deck essentially seeks to slow itself down (losing land drops off of daze/wasteland, or draw steps from force of will) to slow *you* down even more. This leads to the ideal Delver board state, where the Delver player has cheap threats to kill you with, and they're stopping you from developing more. This is an incredibly powerful strategy, and it only has one real weakness: it fizzles out HARD. Delver will very rarely win games that go into topdeck wars, because so many of their cards are terrible topdecks. Daze and Wasteland are usually not good enough if the opponent is able to get a few lands out, FoW requires a second card to be played, and all of its threats are one drops that die to everything. This glaring weakness in the Delver deck is also the best way to beat it. Just stall until they run out of cards! If you look into the Legacy banlist, many of the cards on there were banned because they gave Delver card advantage. As a brief list, Dig Through Time, Dreadhorde Arcanist (it casts cantrips from the yard), Expressive Iteration, Ragavan, Treasure Cruise, and Wrenn and Six were all banned mostly because of Delver decks. The deck just is not allowed to have card advantage thats too fast, or too efficient. Expressive Iteration falls into that camp. It doesn't seem like a simple 2 for 1 is that big of a deal, but trust me, it is. The card wasn't good enough to see play in any other Legacy decks, but it gave Delver the best possible 2 for 1 they could ask for, and games where they resolved more than 1 copy of it felt unwinnable.

In his defense, I also thought that was the card's name for a while.

T3feri so good at time travelling he time traveled me all the way until he rotated out of Standard! Blue/White control was so stupid back then I just stopped playing for literally years.

Valki wasnt broken. Cascade was. Valki was cascades final straw

Well yes, but actualy no. I play Magistrate in a casual CMDR deck, so that when I encounter a smartass with “casual” deck, there is something to postpone them.

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Honestly even if it was a minus 1 would be more balanced as Oko in the early game would more likely die to the Elk'd permanent

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I’m curious as well.

He wasn't even the most OP multicolored card in his own set, that was probably Psychatog

Well, it's not really #1, just Lurrus is.

Lutri was banned just because of a ubiquity concern, which is incredibly silly considering it would be relegated to Izzet decks anyway and are we really going to sit here and act like thats a good reason? Sol Ring and Command Tower are in virtually every single deck in Commander, so Lutri being another card on the list is honestly whatever. Lurrus though, Lurrus is a nightmare of card design. Especially when most of the absolute best cards in the game are all 3 mana or less and have disgusting synergy with one another.

Agreed, but the RC would never say no to Papa Hasbro. ...............I do love broken mechanics so I do have three EDH decks with companions.

Tibalt is a weird case because it's monocolored on the front, so I'm not sure whether it would technically count under Nizzahon's rules. I would count it, personally. But also, it's only really broken when combined with cascade. Outside of cascade it's a powerful but fair card.

@@wehpudicabok6598 the fact that the rules change had to happen for an extremely old rule at this point to me makes it potentially the most broken card.

​@@satansamael666nah I think MDFC as a whole just proved they needed to finally update Cascade, much like when they had to change Split cards to have combined CMC outside of the stack.