Its not drawing. Its putting the catd into your hand from exile 🤓

Neh-crahh-puh-tense.

He definitely does it for the comments.

@@TheSpiritombsableye 🤣 I just wanted him to see the 2 obvious root words. There seems to be a weird mispronounced word each video.

@@corey2232 And in this video, it isn't necropotence. He pronounced it right this time

"And number 1 is Ancestral Recall. For one blue mana, this instant lets you draw three cards. ...Look, you saw the rest of this list. I don't need to explain how broken this is. And that's the list!"

Now that's REAL magic!

Yea, Healing Salve would be so much better!

@ Could you imagine Lightning Bolt? A Storm deck would only have to be like 30 cards and the rest could be mountians.

​@I mean 60 copies of healing salve in a deck least goooooooooo, exponential life gain!!!

@@OtisJCW And a copy or two of Test of Endurance...

which is the correct way btw

Exactly! I've pronounced it Necro-potence since I started playing, which was just after Homelands released.

I hate to say, I got my first copy of that card on a Christmas morning directly out of a pack of Ice Age and I have always said it that way. Yes I realize it is wrong but it's too late to change now lol.

Grisel has been internally banned, I think. Having shown up on too many lists in top spots.

It also could be argued that, in a vacuum, his mana cost is too much That's why he's always cheated out But it's probably the internal banlist lol

you basically have to build your deck around getting griselbrand out so it's options are very limited while the draw on this list can be splashed it basically any deck in those colors for crazy power spikes. while yard strats can be strong the reanimator versions suffer from consistency issues.

@@notabene9804 Any idea where that "internal ban list" can be found?

Or that the "fixed and balanced" version of Necro, Yawgmoth's Bargain, is still too strong for Legacy because 1 card for 1 life is an insane rate.

can be misdirected though just like walk

It is but all of the other cards ahead of it are also super busted. Necropotence is arguable but brainstorm, tc, Recall are all stupid. Really hard to Order imo

Manalogs tends to prioritize cards that are usable in more formats, (legacy, vintage modern, etc), so I can see why it's not higher on the list even though it's so strong on the field

@@kolbybryant1 Tbf clamp is restricted in Vintage as Well isnt it?

It's used in a bunch of infinite draw combos. Especially ones with recursion where you just cycle one card back and forth from the field to the graveyard. If I remember right, one 3 card combo with it is infinite draw and infinite mana.

@@kolbybryant1 Yeah. Skullclamp is banned in Legacy and would be busted if unbanned. I would argue Timetwister wouldn't even see as much play as Echo because the decks that want it for non-LED-mana are just control who sometimes play a 1-of Day's Undoing.

Commander is such an annoying format. I much prefer Gladiator (100 cards Highlander on Magic Arena). Although I still have done memories of playing a Merieke Ri Berit list in Commander back in 2013 or so.

It's the lure of an engagement trap.

@@mightyfp - Yes. I just wanted to share the different perspectives and how there is no definitive answer.

@@PaulGaither I appreciate you and your attention to detail

@@mightyfp - I appreciate you keeping it real.

Add a Druid Class to mitigate the Fastbond damage, ha.

If you're baller, you add Glacial Chasm to negate Fastbond's damage since it's easier to tutor for it.

@@fakeplaystore7991 based

It's actually 2 1/1s. In Magic drawing multiple cards is actually drawing 1 card multiple times. So an effect that draws you 2 cards triggers The Locust God twice

@@jacksonreynolds7433 yeah but you need to sacrifice 1 and I didn't feel the need to specify sac 1 make 2 cus it just nets 1

Like in YuGiOh, how pot of greed is one of the most broken cards in the game despite its only effect being to draw 2 cards. The only drawback is that pot of greed is itself a card. Even the substantially weaker jar of greed (draw 1 card) is still quite powerful despite theoretically just being “replace me with the next card in your deck”. In strategy games, more options = more power

@@52flyingbicycles yup

@@52flyingbicycles also, replacement cards are "less noise = more power to the other cards"

You could easily do a list of the most powerful keyword abilities in Magic (Companion, Dredge, Cascade, Storm come to mind, the hard part would be ordering them) but "worst design mistakes" feels a bit too subjective

TBH that's already this list

Good old Grimjar.

Exactly what I thought.

fortune discards cards, timetwister restores graveyards and hands to deck, and it's in a better colour

i prefer the grave hate function on twist but yes it belongs on this list for raw power. love to hear groans from the players with sculpted hands as a wheel hits the stack

In a vacuum maybe, but timetwister being in blue and being an alpha/power 9 card makes it the more impactful card. Being in the same color as counter spells, time walk, and ancestral recall allowed timetwister to help players dig through their deck to find more time walks and moxes and answers.

Can’t forget Gitaxian Probe.

I was surprised at the lack of wheel of fortune. I recall the time I got one from a booster. I was very disappointed , being a kid that didn't understand the power of symmetrical effects. Some random guy in the store told me "put it in your burn deck and you'll see". Boy was he right.

Yeah because it existed in a format with where you could run 4x Tinker alongside other absolutely ridiculous cards like Mana Vault, Vamp Tutor and Yawgwill - all of these cards are banned in legacy and restricted in vintage. I don't think Memory Jar would be see play in today's Legacy if it was legal, and it hasn't seen Vintage play for years. It's too expensive to play for real and as a Tinker target it's outclassed by Bolas' Citadel and even Coveted Jewel. If it was reprinted in a standard-legal set, it would see zero play in Modern, Standard or Pioneer because those formats don't have the fast mana or ways to cheat it into play. Commander is the only place where this card actually has a niche. So, while it was certainly a strong part of a ridiculous deck in its time, it wasn't even close to the strongest card in the deck that made it infamous. And it has absolutely not held up to the present day. It's useless in the newer formats which can't support it, and there are better things to be doing in the older formats that can.

1: Fetches 2: Classic dual lands (no downside) 3: Shocklands (enters tapped unless you pay 2 life) 4: Fastlands (enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands) 5: Checklands (enters tapped unless you control a ___ or a ___ 6: Horizon Canopy (Pay 1 life, tap, add _ or _. 1, tap, sac to draw a card) 7: Grove of the Burnwillows (tap: add R or G, each opponent gains 1 life) 8: Triomes (enters tapped, cycling 3, has three basic land types) 9: The "bad" fetches (Evolving Wilds etc) 10: Snow Basics

@@williamdrum9899 Snow has more than basics, too. It has Scrying Sheets and Mouth of Ronom and Faceless Haven and Dark Depths and comes-in-tapped duals of all flavors. Scrying Sheets is particularly good even though it's niche.

@@williamdrum9899 Maybe that's justifiable as a list of fair mana-producing land cycles and fetches, but I don't see how you could possibly arrive at a top 10 without a single one of: Strip Mine, Mishra's Workshop, Wasteland, Bazaar, Dark Depths, Academy, Cradle, Tabernacle, Mystic Sanctuary, Valakut, Boseiju Who Endures, Cavern of Souls, Ancient Tomb, cloudposts, Urza's Saga, or Field of the Dead. I think once you factor in those, only fetches and original duals can make any serious claim to remaining in the top 10.

@@dm9910 most of those were covered on top 10 utility lands, so that would be a very redundant video.

Both Frantic Search and Time Spiral came out in Urza's Saga, alongside Tolarian Academy and its ability to tap for unethical amounts of blue mana.

@@fakeplaystore7991 dont forget snap

Is frantic search really more powerful than faithless looting? I know some strategies can utilize the untap more, but overall faithless looting is a better enabler due to being 1 mana

@@darkhelmet1582 I'd say Faithless Looting is probably stronger most of the time, but Frantic Search is strong enough in certain situations to be banned in legacy, due to the untap, which was probably the tipping point to put it on this list over Faithless Looting.

I was looking for this comment 😂

What does that card do 😮

Can you remind me what that card does? It's such an unknown and niche card that I have yet to hear the explanation for a millionth time

There is one already

great in response to discard affects

you forgot the ability to hide cards from discard

God I love Time Spiral. I'm surprised it didn't get a mention when Echo of Eons did.

Funnily enough it technically doesn't count as "drawing" for effects that care about that, even though that's what you're physically doing.

but it does "ignore" typical anti draw cards that are common in commander. but since you don't "draw" more than putting back, you "don't" draw into a card advantage anyway. its more about synergy with shuffling, or top of library synergy.

Bazaar is technically a broken draw card but it's broken because of the discard really. It's just an incredible enabler for Dredge.

Bazaar and Library could never appear in a top 10 Draw Spells lists though.

You effectively do have to do that if you're playing in a non-casual environment. It gets weirder though if you draw cards for some other reason *before* Sylvan's trigger resolves. Because according to the wording on the card, you can put back any 2 cards you drew this turn. You basically have to call a judge over to get them to watch you play the turn so that they can confirm you didn't cheat.

@@dm9910 - yeah, but usually the game is a stickler for keeping cards separate if you have to make a decision like that. I'm blanking on the card, but I know there's one, lol. And yeah, catrips that tell you to draw a card at the beginning of the next turn can really screw things up as well, I didn't think about that.

Top wasn't really used for drawing in legacy. It was for counterbalance.

Commander is just stupid and in no way an indicator for Card value

I don’t think it has had as big an effect on 60 card as it had in edh, games either don’t go long enough and/or it doesn’t do enough in legacy/vintage to justify taking turn 3 off without affecting the board significantly.

@@luckyduck4084 That's a fair assumption, I hadn't thought about that. It's been so long since I've played a regular 60 game 😂

Yes, there definitely are cards that replace themselves as well. Honestly though skull clamp is good enough with any cheap creature (or tokens that are very easy to make)

Yes, but it also has WAY more ways to make tokens than Yugioh does. So typically it's better to just, like, make three 1/1s off one card and feed them to the Skullclamp for a cool +5 or so. Most 1-toughness creatures won't have powerful enough death triggers to be worth the mana it takes to play them.

Mtg has a ton of creatures that have a “when this creature dies” effects. Even more conveniently, there are some 1 mana 1/1 creatures that make a 1/1 token when they die :)

Yes, but they're nowhere near as frequent. The most well-known floating effects are Academy Rector and other similar cards, the Kamigawa dragons, and Protean Hulk.

That's not a draw spell. It's a cantrip. It only ever replaces itself.

Granted the "draw a card" IS the reason it's banned, but still it probably doesn't qualify since it's card advantage neutral

you said it: it's banned. That makes it less valuable on his lists

That's probably for the best, as nobody likes playing against Cheerios Storm.