A spell with retrace cast from the graveyard doesn’t get exiled after resolving. You can cast it over and over again as long as you pitch a land card every time.
@Psychonautical897 ай бұрын
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.
@mightyone37377 ай бұрын
@@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.
@sephyrias8837 ай бұрын
(05:50 for reference)
@EbonAvatar7 ай бұрын
What's even crazier is how many of these cards were legal AT THE SAME TIME. Without any bans we could have had a standard where Oko, Omnath, Teferi, Uro, and Winona were all legal together. This list could have been retitled "Why 2019-2021 Standard was the worst thing of all time."
@Kiiroita7 ай бұрын
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
@heartfang137 ай бұрын
Imagine coming back into Magic with Arena at this time. Like I haven't really played a ton since 2021
@DaxRaider7 ай бұрын
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
@EbonAvatar7 ай бұрын
@@DaxRaider heh, yeah I guess Oko is a pretty good answer to Omnath and Uro
@maggiek86167 ай бұрын
Alongside your comment of Banned as commander, I still think Lutri should be similar where legal in the 99, banned as companion. Because its just a really restrictive 2 colored Dualcaster Mage if you remove the companion text altogether. Plus he's absolutely the most adorable of the cycle
@Waffletigercat7 ай бұрын
Lutri is cute as a button and I love her.
@triggerhappiest68117 ай бұрын
who else watching this at 1am
@Milkybetrayal7 ай бұрын
12am here
@lemkele17 ай бұрын
I watch it at 7 am, but I am in Germany
@treethegreat528907 ай бұрын
It's a little over 10pm where I'm at.
@VancouverJeff7 ай бұрын
10:22pm here lol
@Sulmor857 ай бұрын
7am, but I'm in Italy
@Waffletigercat7 ай бұрын
Retrace doesn’t exile the card when you cast it from the graveyard. You can keep discarding lands to keep retracing the same spell over and over.
@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor7 ай бұрын
Ahhhh overpowered cards. The fact that the #1 cards exist is proof that Wizards *really* fucks it up sometimes. I mean, the #1 might even make it onto "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)", maybe?
@bobertbojo27 ай бұрын
It sure is wild that only one card on this list is more than 5 years old 😅 I wonder which other "top 10 most overpowered cards" lists would be like this, since I usually think of the most broken cards coming from either alpha or urza's block.
@markfarnsworth55927 ай бұрын
Multicolor cards were introduced in Legends, so no Alpha on this particular list of OP cards.
@HamSandwich-xk3om7 ай бұрын
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
@brycedouglas6207 ай бұрын
Insane how the list said most overpowered MULTICOLORED cards and not just most overpowered cards in general.
@frankh42777 ай бұрын
Retrace doesn't exile the spells like flashback does. That's why wrenn and six is so busted.
@NizzahonMagic7 ай бұрын
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.
@jareddoucette71937 ай бұрын
So all these cards other than DRS were printed in the last 5 years
@bartoffer7 ай бұрын
It's always fun to read over old articles wherein Maro expressly goes out of his way to say "we toyed around with the idea of cards that you can always have start in your opening hand, and everyone pointed out how broken that idea was," and then to look at him haphazardly try to say that he wasn't in the wrong for pushing one of the most idiotic and disastrous mechanics in the game's history because he happened to see that Hearthstone had implemented its own utterly disastrous "deckbuilding restriction" cards. Honestly, the whole of the Alchemy format seems to be motivated by some bizarre envy of a card game that has, in recent years, been nigh on life support owing to a neverending spate of unbalanced, clearly untested cards being released with random effects driving off most of its competitive scene and even dissuading its casual crowd.
@virtueofabsolution76417 ай бұрын
Oh god t3feri. I remember at least one streamer had a countdown timer to his rotation. Honestly all they really needed to do was swap his static and his +1 and maybe make it 1 more.
@ApexZer07 ай бұрын
This list really shows the amount of power creep since throne of eldraine/war of the spark era
@Zendrig7 ай бұрын
Is there a video on the most powerful multicolored cards of each mana value? There absolutely should be.
@marcoottina6547 ай бұрын
2:52 I don't know if you are sarcastic here, but surely make Omnath non-mana-neutral (assuming the player plays and cracks a fetch land in the same turn he cast it) but a net-negative is seriously worthing of planning ahead while playing and pondering what to do
@Quiron19857 ай бұрын
RETRACE will NOT exile the spell.
@alexperrie40517 ай бұрын
have you ever thought of doing most banned or restricted cards across all recognized formats it would be interesting to see how formats like Pauper would affect the list giving broken cards like Gitaxian Probe more formats to be banned in
@jamesvacca88357 ай бұрын
I’m a little surprised Squandered Resources and Cadaverous Bloom weren’t at least honorable mentions.
@NizzahonMagic7 ай бұрын
Squandered Resources is actually the only one that got banned. That said, it should have been in the honorable mentions, and got left out.
@hitmangfx71627 ай бұрын
It really is something when you see cards legal in Modern, but banned in Legacy. I get Wrenn and Six because of Wasteland, but I don't quite get Expressive Iteration (Storm/combo decks?)
@christopherprementine52877 ай бұрын
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.
@hitmangfx71627 ай бұрын
@@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.
@brycedouglas6207 ай бұрын
@@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.
@therealHLY7 ай бұрын
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
@noguy59617 ай бұрын
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.
@blueblurr30417 ай бұрын
Ah yes, Teferi Time Traveller. What a card 😂
@xXSamir44Xx7 ай бұрын
In his defense, I also thought that was the card's name for a while.
@joeofthefallen7 ай бұрын
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.
@ElPanadero187 ай бұрын
Though Valki technically wasn’t banned, I feel like needing a rule change to un-break it should earn it a spot on this list.
@Orcasgt227 ай бұрын
Valki wasnt broken. Cascade was. Valki was cascades final straw
@danielgraves137 ай бұрын
imo, Drannith Magister should not apply to the command zone. would be a great card to add to edh with that caveat.
@IvanKolyada7 ай бұрын
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.
@Matti_Mattsen7 ай бұрын
this list might aswell be called "FIRE desgn, the list". Man, was this design approach a mistake...
@autobotjazz19727 ай бұрын
WOTC tried real hard to not have to ban Hogaak but still had to after banning at least one card around him in that deck, that is telling on how busted he is. Also Yorion is basically unplayable as a companion in commander as it is not possible to ful fil it's condition.
@T4N77 ай бұрын
Wait, edit to add this question. How does Hope of Ghirapur keep sacrificing itself? Doesn’t it require a target to use the ability? Can it be used even if it has no targets? Cuz doesn’t the target opponent have to be dealt damage by that HoG while it was on the battlefield since the game treats it as a new permanent every time it enters the battlefield? It doesn’t say “… that was dealt combat damage by a creature named Hope of Ghirapur this turn…” I don’t understand Have they not yet made a rebalanced version for Historic? The reason the Restricted list was is useless for Lurrus is cuz she basically alrdy Restricted herself with her limitation, u can’t have permanents that cost more than 2 mana n she costs 3 so the only other place u could play the other 3 copies of her in ur 75 was alongside the first copy in ur sideboard but the other 3 wouldn’t have access to her companion ability so I would need wish effects to get more of her.
@Orcasgt227 ай бұрын
You know you are busted when you get banned in Vintage.
@DarthCaustic7 ай бұрын
Please explain to me where Oko is $3 because I’ll buy all of them.
@matthewollar98427 ай бұрын
😂
@Jazzomancer007 ай бұрын
Oko's plus one should have been a minus two
@maggiek86167 ай бұрын
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
@AwakenedAvocado7 ай бұрын
As a Woodlands elk I approve this comment
@Psychonautical897 ай бұрын
Is Nizzahon an older MTG thing? Where is your name from, man?
@Sanguivore7 ай бұрын
I’m curious as well.
@RibusPQR7 ай бұрын
Ayesha Tanaka and Nature's Blessing are the most band multicolored cards.
@henryzelman45417 ай бұрын
Minsc & Boo and Comet definitely deserves to be on here. If they wasn’t printed to be legal only in legacy and vintage than they would’ve been banned out of standard, pioneer, and modern.
@specb2117 ай бұрын
Man...knowing I'm old when I thought Shadowmage Infiltrater would make the list 😂
@EbonAvatar7 ай бұрын
He wasn't even the most OP multicolored card in his own set, that was probably Psychatog
@personalthesus7 ай бұрын
Like. Love. MOAR MOAR MOAR 😍❤️🥰 Love this idea becuz it really does fill a missing gap of your “method”👍🏻❤️💪🏻
@TheWashout137 ай бұрын
I love Winota. It was my first deck on Arena to get me to mythic. Stoked to see it at #9!!
@SpitefulAZ7 ай бұрын
I heard the main yorion was banned in modern was because logistics of players having an 80 card deck in a format with fetch lands.
@jimharris53207 ай бұрын
Companion as a mechanic should just be banned in EDH. The idea behind Companion was to give other formats access to commanders. EDH doesn't need extra commanders, that's what Partner is for.
@furyxan7 ай бұрын
I'm surprised Hydroid Kraysis didn't make the list.
@markadkins18427 ай бұрын
The Red/Blue Companion was my #1 prediction specifically because I remember it receiving an IMMEDIATE ban the day it dropped!
@NizzahonMagic7 ай бұрын
Well, it's not really #1, just Lurrus is.
@WhipLash42o7 ай бұрын
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.
@seilaoquemvc27 ай бұрын
The first card that popped in my head was actually atraxa… then i realized that she’s still not banned anywhere… lol
@VancedAlt-bg7il7 ай бұрын
Who's up overpowering they card
@BaconJake147 ай бұрын
I truly think companion shouldn't work in commander. It is the only mechanic that does not 1 but 2 things commander is not about. It lets you play 101 cards in a 100 card format, which not even the partner mechanic allows, and in a format with no sideboard it lets you use a card from outside the game, which every wish effect is unable to do. There wouldn't even have to be a special case just for companion. It's right there on the card in both mechanical iterations that you bring the card in from outside the game.
@AlienCowThatMoos7 ай бұрын
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.
@gregpeloquin63457 ай бұрын
uhhh right... so Deathrite Shaman was also bananas in standard. Turns out Grizzly Salvage and Tracker's Instincts and friends still made it crazy good. Junk reanimator is easily the standard deck I have won the most with and it's not close. Good lord was that deck dumb and good lord was Deathrite the lynchpin of that deck.
@jnor7 ай бұрын
More companions!!! And uban
@CeJAZZ4 ай бұрын
Trade Offer: -You get: 10/10 rating -I get: 3/3
@TheFallenA7 ай бұрын
I really wish Leovold play in commander 😭
@bathsaltcircus96307 ай бұрын
Great video!
@DaxRaider7 ай бұрын
oko aint banned in timeless :) also honestly the yorion ban in modern might be place 1 for the most stupid ban ever xD
@denissinner46253 ай бұрын
The honorable mentions is filled with underwhelming cards that just happened to be particularly good in a given standard metagame, but in a vacuum, would you leave wondering why they had ever needed to be banned.
@Doggy_Styles_Coding7 ай бұрын
i wanna know the value of my car
@datenrest47317 ай бұрын
You are Missing Minsc and Boo, Timeless Heroes
@satansamael6667 ай бұрын
I’m surprised Tibalt isn’t in here.
@wehpudicabok65987 ай бұрын
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.
@satansamael6667 ай бұрын
@@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.
@maggiek86167 ай бұрын
@@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.
@DaxRaider7 ай бұрын
can it be ur a modern player ? honestly feels like you counted most weight on modern bans xD
@josephmay8527 ай бұрын
Leovold, prophet of kruphix? Truly an evil creation
@NicoloRisso7 ай бұрын
The number should be 689th though
@SpitefulAZ7 ай бұрын
What da hell is more broken than Oko 😅
@Milkybetrayal7 ай бұрын
Multicolor pass
@SpitefulAZ7 ай бұрын
Hmmm leovold isn't even red.
@PokeBattlerJaze7 ай бұрын
So....Cascade?
@the_names_rob5 ай бұрын
No way oko was 3 bucks lol
@FlibTheBard7 ай бұрын
Eldrane has got to be the worst standard legal set printed.
@TheLuminousCleric7 ай бұрын
Wotc prints all these busted cards then bans them or nerfs them. Why should I buy cards?
@thevaultwalrus7 ай бұрын
wow this isn’t full of Legends from Legends because they all got banned i thought those seem way better than stuff like omnath
@mtg_synergizer60227 ай бұрын
If my previous comment doesn't show I'm gonna have to unsubscribe :(
@SpitefulAZ7 ай бұрын
They assumed Omnath's gender. Cancel this creator 😂