It’s fascinating hearing him pronounce some of the names very differently than I’m used to as a long time MtG player, I never would have thought of pronouncing Llanowar that way.

I feel like tabernacle is sorely missed in this list. Great vid tho. Keep up the great work!

Bazaar of Baghdad is a good candidate for this list, ( Tap: Draw 2 cards then discard 3) although not as powerful in a vacuum as library of Alexandria, Bazaars combos and synergies to make use of the cards your discarding with graveyard effects, etc. can be a ton of value but like Urza’s saga you need build around it.

I love your videos! It is so refreshing to be able watch videos about MTG without having to hear several minutes of sellout advertisements and shameless self promotion of social media pages, begging for subscribers etc. I very much enjoy that you get straight to the topic and stay on it. Please stick around and keep doing what you do!

Insanely helpful video, the addition of combos was icing on the cake! Would love to see more like this

Volrath Stronghold will always stay in my heart as the best. One of the first utility lands I first used when I was mtg noob.

I think Bazaar of Baghdad is on the same tier of power as Library, but it is only useful in a certain type of deck.

I love this series man you should post on your Twitter so people can see

I’d personally swap the placement of Strip Mine and Library. They’re broken cards and deserve the top slots because they are lands that both tap for mana and have an ability that can randomly win a game by itself. Between the two, Strip Mine is more consistent and in older formats, being able to destroy broken lands like Bazaar of Baghdad, Mishra’s Workshop, Tolarian Academy, and Urza’s Saga is often more important than incremental card advantage.

As a colorless edh player, I love me my utility lands.

Super happy you are making magic videos. I don’t play YGO but I love watching your videos on cards for a reason I still can’t quite figure out, so great to see you making vids on a game I play. And I took one for the team by sharing the channel with my friends instead of keeping all the OP deck building knowledge for myself. I’d love to see some commander focused stuff every once in a while and mention of a cards potential in commander though, since even though it’s a casual format it is arguably the most widely play format of the game.

I think an honorable mention should be given for inkmoth nexus. Its a card that just straight up wins the game on its own.

What really makes Urza's Saga strong is how you can just build that tutor on the 3rd chapter to be a toolbox for any situation. The Shadowspear gives a creature trample and lifelink, allowing you to gain life if you're behind, or push through damage if you're ahead and need to close out a game quick. There's multiple graveyard hate cards, some creature removal cards, creatures, card draw, and a bunch of other good utility cards. Additionally, since everything can be tutored from the saga, you can just include 1 of each and still have reliable access to them, which greatly reduces the opportunity cost of including situational effects. As for the Neon Dynasty channel cycle, a big part of what makes them powerful is just that you're effectively cutting the number of lands you run without actually cutting lands. Once you hit a certain number of lands in play, more lands are the last thing you want to see off the top of the deck. If you see one of these off the top, that's still action. On top of that, they don't have any real downside, like the Zendikar Rising double faced cards, where the land on the back entered tapped, or cost 3 life to enter untapped. There's also a few ways to get lands back from the graveyard, allowing you to repeatedly use their effects. The reduction in mana flood/screw at zero cost means that basically every deck is running at least one of these cards.

I would have liked to see lands like Cabal Coffers, Gaea's Cradle, Serra's Sanctum, and Tolarian Academy on this list. Lands that really just flood a player with a ton of mana for a single card are crazy. Also, really surprised that Vesuva wasn't mentioned... being able to copy ANY land in play is super useful.

You should call in Nizzahon Magic some day. He knows his MtG VERY well. Nice seeing you doing top 10 lists for MtG.

I don't play MtG and wow, I never knew Venezuela's capital could bounce a legendary creature in Magic.

Slight correction: You can counterspell an activated ability, but you need specific cards to do so. Cards like Disallow and Voidslime can still counter them, but there's less ways to counter them than there are ways to counter basically everything else.

Nice to see Library and Strip Mine are as busted as I remember them being over a decade ago. Fetch lands are also insane, but I guess they don't do much for "utility" besides actually searching some of the utility lands.

Big fan of your Yugioh channel. Couple of critiques though. Not including Bazaar of Baghdad and The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale is definitely an oversight. In the Karakas section, it is worth mentioning that Legacy will often use land-toolboxes fueled by Expedition Map, Crop Rotation, Elvish Reclaimer, and (historically) Knight of the Reliquary, meaning Karakas sees a healthy amount of 1-of play.

I randomly clicked on this video and I got to #4 before he said "let's you go +1" and I was like wait a min...is this duel logs. Checks the channel name. Ah, it sure is.

While not as good, Ghost Quarter was also heavily ran during its time and some decks still run till today. Unlike Wasteland, Ghost Quarter is actually a -1 in card advantage bec you sac it to blow up an enemy non-basic, but you replace that land with a basic land of your opponent's choice. Still, it IS better to give your opponent a basic land over being able to use a more devastating Non-basic like the Tron Lands I would also say Creature Lands are also quite important: Lands like Treetop Village and Fairy Conclave are somethings the win conditions used by decks. They are immune to sorcery speed kill spells, and provides mana early in the game. Late game, they beat down your opponent. Barbarian Ring is also a good Threshold land in the same cycle as Cephalid Colosseum. Red aggro generally doesnt care how much damage they take as long as they do rapidly do damage: and a Barbarian Ring that turns in to a colorless Shock in late game can be a surprise kill spell that is relatively more difficult to counter compared to other burn spells. The other 3 are... ok... but nothing I would make space for I'm surprised Blast Zone didn't make the list. While it cannot destroy cards with mana value of 0 by itself (since it comes in to play with 1 charge counter), I though that its ability to clear permanents of a particular mana cost can pressure your opponent to hold back going wide. Also, I thought Ramunap Ruins would make it here: with the increased number of Desert type lands (And im assuming the original Desert also counts), it has been used as a means of ending matches

Karakas + Mangara of Corondor was also a thing/combo of sorts. Activate Mangara’s ability, while on stack, use Karakas to return to hand. A bit clunky but it’s repeatable Permanent removal.

You sneaky ass spider, you launched it without letting us know!

One I've always had great use of is 'Maze of Ith' . It doesn't produce mana, but you can tap it to untap target creature during combat and have it neither deal nor receive combat damage.

Always good to see you expanding hiru 😊

Wow no manland made it. Field of the dead with all its bannings could have earned a spot. And Tabernacle and Bazaar should definitly be on here.

Overall a pretty good video, both list and most of the explanations, especially the economic term “opportunity cost”. The narrator FYI to everyone else does not play Magic at all…thus the weird mispronunciations; any player would get those fixed playing against other players and being corrected/hearing the others pronounce those cards. Also that’s why you get the jank combos like Karakas on your big Legend in a reanimator deck. Normally if a reanimated creature is killed, you want it to go to the graveyard. The exception is remove from game effects like Swords but the example given Emrakul is immune to instants.

It really is a matter of semantics, but I wouldn't consider Cavern of Souls a utility land. You'd play it to mana fix in any tribal deck that has multiple colored creatures, it just has the random upside of making them uncounterable. It's certainly a very, very strong card in the right deck, but it doesn't actually do anything outside of just fixing mana, so I don't think it qualifies as "utility". It's interesting to consider it versus Voldaren Estate, which has a 3rd, non-mana generating ability, but I don't think I'd consider that a utility land, either. Almost no deck includes it to just randomly generate blood tokens, it's used for the fixing primarily. I think a utility land needs to be a detriment to your mana base to be considered a utility land, as there's supposed to be some trade-off for having an ability in the land slot.

Some of the Hideaway lands could’ve easily been at the 8-10 spot. Free casting for certain circumstances made them shape decks around them. Spinerock Knoll let you cast one card for free if you hit your opponent for 7 in a turn. Dragonstorm was a Storm card that cheated dragons out of your deck at 8 mana which was a lot for a storm card to aim for. So, a few people started running Spinerock Knoll burn decks with the Dragonstorm package so if you ever burned your opponent for 7 with 2-3 cards, and had the storm hidden away, it was like a turn 3-4 kill which in 2008 standard was blazing fast. And you’re still in a Burn deck with fast mana to hardcast your Dragonstorms, so missing with anything wasn’t an awful setback. And this deck was a massive part of the meta back then.

one note to urzas saga: you can make the first token as soon as the second lore counter is put on it, then, in in the next mainphase the counter 3 is on the stack, you are allowed to make another token before sacrificing the saga and search up an artifact, leaving you with two Golems and a searched artifact. So in a vacuum you have two 3/3 and lets say a Jitte or another utility artifact. thats just nuts

A funny thing about Karakas is that it's banned in Commander because it allows you to bypass the commander tax when it's about to get removed.

if you're going to include Library, I'm shocked you don't include Strip Mine or Bazar of Bagdad. Two very powerful utility lands. Another newer powerful utility land that is seeing a lot o play in many formats is Blast Zone.

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I was surprised to not see Maze of Ith in this list. I always found it to be pretty powerful for a land that creates no mana at all.

I would add Volrath's Stronghold(personal favorite), Tabernacle of Pendrell Vale, and Bazaar of Baghdad to this list

I miss the Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale. Thx for this Video, k

Something to note at 5:31, both of those card displayed to deal with Emrakul can't target Emrakul due to the protection. Cards like Damnation can kill it due to the lack of targeting. The reason the land works so well is because it is colorless, not because it's an activated ability.

Was sure to see either gaes craddle or serras sanctum on here with enchant evening

There are counter spells for activated abilities like disallow for example

Bazaar and tabernacle should have been on this list for sure. Possibly dark depths/thespian stage as well. Phyrexian tower and mutavault are also considerations.

At our shop we have what we call "The Rule of Three" any infinite loop can only be used 3 times and then they have to be exiled.

I've seen it mentioned a few times, but Bazaar of Baghdad should have have been the featured card and Cephalid Coliseum should have been the runner-up. CC is a very sparsely played card, while Bazaar is the literal pillar of at least 15% of the vintage format. And if we're using that logic, then Libaray doesn't even make sense to be on the list. In current-day magic it's not even a good card in the one format its legal (it's also bad in cube). Vintage is a format defined by three broken lands (Bazaar, Tolarian Academy, and Mishra's Workshop) and none of them made the list.

Hey MrLogs, how about a video explaining the different formats in magic? It would make all the others easy to comprenhend. I know there are quite a bit around youtube but they're not very werll explained, i feel you'd make a better work Anyways, love the content, keep it up!

Fun interaction with Karakas you dont really see anymore: if you have a Mangara of Corondor, you can tap him and respond to the activation with Karakas. The game will try to resolve as much of the ability as possible, meaning you get to exile a permanent and return Mangara to your hand. This lets you exile a permanent every other turn, which is pretty huge in slower matchups!

Cavern of Souls works well in a lot of creature based combo decks too. Even if u only can get 1 feature past a counter that could be enough to win the game. Zirda + Mantle + Dork comes to mind. The dorks r so plentiful that they can get countered n u'll have a back up but also lots of them share a creature type so u can protect a few at a time by naming human or elf or druid. But the real niche for it is to protect Zirda fuz otherwise the deck does nothing but play 1 drop mana forks which means ur only alternative is flying overhead with a Birds of Paradise while getting buffed by the Exalted on 1 of the Hierarchs

Would love to see “Top 10 Angels of All Time” :)

Very informative.

Would the artifact lands count? They don't actually do anything themselves, but they were broken as shit with Affinity and had to get banned from like everything immediately. Besides Bazaar that everyone mentioned, some others worth consideration are like Urborg, which is usually combined with Cabal Coffers in Commander for obscene mana production. Glimmerpost was also used in conjunction with the other locust lands to make tons of colorless (it's own effect is fairly meaningless though). The locutsts also got banned from a lot of stuff for their mana production. Academy ruins for recycling artifacts also. Mishra's factory, Mutavault and the Nexuses could all become creatures of different varieties also.

No honorable mentions for ormandahl land? It’s a elf deck win condition and it was a standard powerhouse Now it sees only play in some edh decks

Karakas is also great for bouncing commanders and upping command tax on your opponents cheaply

When I hear "utility land" I usually think of a land with an ability other than "add mana" or "search your deck for a different land", so I wouldn't include cavern and dryad as "utility lands" personally.

Not the only creature land now. Now we have creature land tokens.

Top 10 Chaos-Inducing Cards! Surprised at no Bazaar of Baghdad.

I think its very interesting the difference in card draw power between magic and hearthstone, especially given lands exist so drawing is more important in magic. But drawing 1 or 2 cards off library is gamewinning, while over in hearthstone, i just watched someone play one of several 2 mana draw 5s (radar detector, another is impending catastrophe, secret passage is a 1 mana draw 4 after the nerf...)

Thawing Glacier was one of the first, true fetch lands. It gave Ley Druid another good target aside from Maze of Ith.

I’m learning so much

Dope man, do you play MTG? Thought you only did Yugioh?

Counterspells exist for all colors. There’s more than meets the eye.

i feel like the top 5 are just so hard to rank and order, cause like wasteland is such a powerful card in legacy and always will be . just imagine it in modern. also urzas saga has been only recently printed and around for less time but has had such a huge impact on every format its insane how good it is . i thought it be banned honestly.

Okay I arrive a long time after the video, but just in case someone sees this, bouncing a Griselbrand with Karakas is pretty much useless because the controller can activate it in response. And most decks just use Griselbrand as a draw tool and win with a combo, so bouncing it is not so great.

Maybe "Top 10 silver border cards" would be funny video?

Dude I love your videos keep it up

Would love the story of power 9 some day. Like, why did WotC choose to print such powerful cards? By mistake? As an incentive to buy the boosters and products? For investment? Also the story behind the cards themselves, artists designers and so on as they're so iconic.

Agree with Library being an amazing card! Back in the 90s most people in my area (Fla) considered it power 9 over twister, because honestly, the only reason twister has its current price is because its EDH legal. At the same time it makes me sad people are aware of libraries power, I secretly wish it would be unbanned so I can play one of my favorite cards again... #sadpanda

Bazaar of Baghdad isn’t been on the list, and that card is crazy strong, I would however place that second. Strip mine is the most universally over powered utility land. It can easily lock your opponent out of the game with several 2 card combos. It’s even restricted in vintage.

I have never heard anybody say Llanowar like that, hahaha. Le No War Elves. :D

Reminder: Library of Alexandria isn't just strong, it's widely considered the strongest card ever printed outside of the power nine

7:56 it needs to be three other Islands, not just lands, and that's a quite important difference.

Amazing!

I first pick library every time in my power cube

I was expecting maze of ith

"Llanowar" is pronounced similar to "Man-O-War" it's not quite the same but you'll almost certainly be saying this particular name so often that this will help

Man I remember playing Library with Necropotence. Over draw with necro then draw a card on top of it...

Cavern of souls should be #1 if you take into consideration every format. Specially highlander formats.

Where's Bazaar of Baghdad, Strip Mine, Vesuva, and The Tabernacle of Pendrell Vale?

Bazaar of Baghdad, and Dark Depths/Thespian Stage

Cephalid colosseum is getting into modern in MH3. How much do you think it's going to get played?

Not sure if others will agree but I feel like Maze's End should have been somewhere in this given how much utility it has for pulling Gates from your library if you're running any form of gate deck, ignoring the instant win condition because it's basically an added bonus that usually doesn't happen in practical circumstances. I'd also like to hear your take on what you'd consider the best cards that modify a land in some way or turn another card into a land. I built a green deck a while back that has all kinds of interactions with lands and +1/+1 counters that can end in a full set of angry unkillable forests and I want to see if I can do another one that can just do land interaction without the need for the counters,

I swear we're going to have a 'Videos since Dredge has been mentioned:' counter just constantly set to zero.

dude theres a land that produces zombies for free and is easy to infinity combo, ive lost to it several times in commander but cant remember the name. this is def. better than all of these

Nice informative video! I would have tried to fit Tolarian Academy/Gaea's Cradle on the list.

top ten cards that immediately make your opponent scoop (not let you continue the game and combo off)

Tabernacle at pendrell Vale didn't make this list? That card is really strong to as its basically single handedly controls the board

As an old-school Artifact player myself, ANY card that can turn into a Black Lotus is a bit beyond broken, even if it IS a build-around. 😱

Some non blue counterspells include mana tithe(white) or red elemental blast(red). These are not as good as the mainstay blue counters as they are too narrow, risky(like tibalts trikery), or too inefficient late

You can use mana abilities and tap things on your opponent’s turn?

I’ve only seen a few of these magic videos but I am quickly learning Dredge is fucked.

one quastion where is phasbian stage which can be every utilaty land

Library is funny because it sees basically zero play in vintage due to the speed of the format and the fact that it’s really hard to use going first, but it would absolutely be broken in any other format and might see play in vintage if it was unrestricted and you could see it consistently/build around it.

Regarding number four: Darksteel Citadel is among the best cards you can fetch this way, as it's basically replacing the saga with another land that's even harder to get rid of. The fact that it can be fetched this way at all lets it buff the construct token!

Surprised that Tolarian Academy was not on the list... or would that not be considered a "utility" land?

Gaeas cradle, bazar of Baghdad, valakut molten pinnacle?

Is it possible to activate multiple Libraries of Alexandria if you have seven cards in habd, and then tap a LoA for a card, put it on the stack before you draw, then tap another LoA? I vaguely recall this beinag a thing.

I remember Strip Mine.

How about Cabal Coffers?

Is Dryad Arbor really the only land creature? That seems crazy to have a whole mechanic like that on only one card

I feel like Urazs Saga should be higher on the list

Gaeas cradle 🎉🎉🎉

No Tabernacle, Bazaar , or Mishra's workshop :(

I'm new to magic, can someone explain to me why Banishing Light and Fiend Hunter are answers to Emrakul? Emrakul has protection from colored spells, and both of those cards target...