My god this video has so many smart jokes, meaningful critiques, and well developed arguments. Sadly, you’re wrong and bad, it’s a real shame.

You're my favourite several cleverly disguised polish women I know

"Stop! You just experienced a reductionist perspective." is possibly the best thing that's been said on the internet.

"one mans jank, is another mans combo piece"

Omg so many good crossovers, YOU EVEN GOT THE REACTIONARY REACTION GUY THAT DUDE NEVER COLLABS

As a Belgian I'm legally required to be impressed whenever the country is mentioned.

I used to think One with Nothing was bad. Now I think One with Nothing is far better designed than most contemporary magic cards, if only because it's easy to remember what it does and hasn't been banned yet.

Spice is actually going more insane each video and we all enjoy it very much

The intro to this video is the perfect mixture of irony and just cutting enough to make me concerned for Spice.

"Someone hand me my emergency copy of Atlas Shrugged!" is going to be my mantra from this point forward

As the proud owner of the title "The Ghost of Karl Marx in 4D", hearing you giggle that made me so happy. I finally found myself in a position to be able to afford to help someone on Patreon and you were my first and only thought!! Keep making glorious content and thank you so much for the hard work :)

"I am offensive and I find this vanilla." - Yargle

He knows what's up. Can't believe Brie Larson was Magic's biggest enemy this whole time.

Can we talk about how creative spice makes his videos? They Are All work of art and absolutely hilarious!

This was so good what the heck. I’m always impressed with how much effort you put into these videos.

“Wizards includes useless cards like Bonder‘s ornament” *Angry pauper noises*

Incredibly stoked HBomb is on a SPice8Rack video!

Wow you actually got a DesolatorMagic Cameo in the first minute!

One of the things that Wizard's did some testing with was whether or not players liked drafting worse cards or cutting better cards and they found that players preferred to cut bad cards. My favorite reason though is that 99% of players have no problem giving away a huge amount of "bad" cards to new players, meaning you can get a huge amount of players learning and playing at no entry fee. If many of us think back to our first magic experiences, older players giving us free cards built out our collections and kept us coming back.

“One man’s jank is another man’s combo piece” 😂 Such a bold and true statement

Thank you for your BRAVE HOT TAKE @Reactionary Reaction. What would all of us fellow ANGRY GAMERZ do without your reactions!!!

The introduction to this video is a thing of beauty; so many carefully layered jokes!

No time to sleep, Papa Spice just uploaded

Honestly the worldbuilding in Legends of Runeterra through flavor text is sourly underrated here, I mean look at cards like Commander Ledros, She who wanders and Lissandras the Watcher and you have beautifully written flavortext that dosen't feel jarring on a card because all that *is* put into a drop down and dosen't interfere with the card or its mechanics, bar that great video as always!

I imagine actually creating 'bad' cards, is probably much harder than creating good ones. I often think about this.

Getting shot by your own unreleased script made me lose it. The slow gun rise was funny as hell.

Took me around 45 seconds to realize I wasn’t watching a desolatormagic video.

Me watching the intro: ah. I see you've discovered Desolator Magic.

Whose next from Breadtube? Going to get Dan Olsen? Maybe Thought Slime? Abi from Philosophy Tube? Innuendo Studios? Also how much more do we have to bully CommandZone to have you guest in an episode of Game Knights?!

"Vanillas do a great job of setting baseline expectations" Wait, when did this became sex Ed video?

I can't belive just how well Hbomberguy as Bruce Tarl fits

Absolutely love how your presentation style and tone, in each video, is different. My girlfriend and I love listening to your videos as we play commander or are driving in the car! Keep them coming good sir!

The Ayn Rand bit was just an excuse to strike a pose at 24:58 and I ain't even mad

I'd argue there's multiple layers of flavour text on CCG's, the actual text but also the often great voice lines that hearthstone (probably others) has. not to mention excepting the first few sets the flavour text of many hearthstone cards is incredibly good and the voice lines can spawn copy pastas based around them being so memorable and fun to hear.

That guest voicings are so good every time

I keep having to rewind your video because I'm knackered from my 8h work day and I can't keep up and now I'm laughing at myself. Am I too tired for KZfaq??? You pack so much into every minute, it's amazing really, love that. I'll be back after a nap.

That intro was desolator magic but he does it unironically

It's amazing that you were able to get desalator magic to appear in your video for the intro

So i've been following you since your Rakos video but i don't think i've ever commented. Just wanted to take the time to say that this was a video i enjoyed greatly, which i hadn't since your power and toughness video nearly a year ago now. Thank you for the video, i had a blast and i hope others did too.

Not enough Vizzerdrix apologia, if you ask me. That Clipping analogy was spot on!

As an indie game designer it makes me happy to see creators going into this kind of nuance about the mistakes that happen when making a game as complex as magic because it allows so much genuine conversation to happen!

Are those X-Wing miniatures in the back there?!?!

I feel One with Nothing fits into “the good” more than the bad. It as part of a standard set where hand size and your opponents hand size mattered as a mechanic. Being able to discard your hand could boost creatures, blank spells, or perform other utility.

Oko reminds me of American politics. No one wants to think about it but we’re constantly forced to.

Can you get more of hbomberguy's normal voice reading flavour text in the future please

ReactionaryReaction and Reasonableist Bear crossover when??

I love that you brought up clipping's Visions of bodies being burned as an example for a good follow up album!! I really love their work and you for mentioning them ^^

The skits in this are some of your strongest yet, absolutely adore this one

The very aggressive grip on the microphone in the opening skit lol

Every new videos reminds me of how much i missed this content. Power bottom (better than top) notch.

"... quick, pass me my emergency copy of Atlas Shrugged..." - suggesting there's more than one in the household?! Deeeesgasting!

It's funny seeing Scornful Egotist with the bad cards, as in Scourge draft you could actually use it as an easy way to get a high CMC card down, which went well with cards like Rush of Knowledge and Reward the Faithful. So it's not even all that bad in the right context!

#ThisIsBrieLarsonsFaultSomehow ahahahaha i died immediately

Well I think wayward guide beast has many layers to it, the surface being a 2/2 haste is great, then you get to the bounce land thing, but then you have to remember landfall is a mechanic and that this card pairs really well with other cards, it just depends on how you utilize it.

Such great videos and you can feel the effort that goes into them, also awesome seeing someone talk about Clipping. and their amazing artistry.

Pleasant Kenobi and Spice putting out videos referencing Rhystic Studies in one day? I smell a conspiracy

Great video overall! I think it does leave out the significant effect of the profit motive though. To get a bit Jim Sterling for a minute, I think some of the ideas from the loot box economy, which arguably have their origin in trading cards games, have fed back in to Magic in a toxic way. When you consider buying a pack, you have some idea of its value, a lot of which is driven by the rare and mythic chase cards. So to drive sales, Wizards has an incentive to print a lot of big, splashy, exciting cards. But in doing so, they almost guarantee that some of those cards will break the game completely in half, and will have to be banned. So a lot of those exciting cards you're hoping to crack during the prerelease might actually end up being worthless in a few weeks or months. And if Wizards prints those cards *knowing* that this will be their strategy, that seems like deceptive advertising. And it's never enough to just make money. Every year a business needs to make *even more* money to satisfy shareholders. So the pressure on designers gets ratcheted up all the time. That, in my opinion, is what led to the absolute avalanche of bans in 2020, where banning a clearly busted card like Fires of Invention just cleared the field for the next broken thing to take its place I still remember the collective madness when Jace the Mindsculptor and Stoneforge Mystic was banned, and the tone of both the communication from Wizards and the response from the community have done a complete 180 since then. Emergency bans in standard went from being a colossal embarrassment which will *never be repeated* to just a routine part of the release cycle, and fans have gone from being outraged at having hundreds of dollars erased on a whim to shouting for bans right out of the gate. All of this is to say that I think the unpredictable value (even on average) of a pack of Magic cards is a feature, not a bug, and that flavor of bad cards is a big factor.

"I'M DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO FREELY EXPERIENCE JOYYY!!!!!"

Re: Vanilla - it's worth noting Vanillas have 4 mechanical areas to explore: 1. Devotion. Maybe your Devotion to white deck wants a 1/7 for WW 2. Creature types. Maybe Crab Lackey lets you drop Crabs for free when it deals combat damage to an opponent. 3. Power & Toughness. Does a card let you draw a card whenever you cast a 4 power creature? Maybe play green's (U) 4/1 for 1G. Wait, that doesn't exist? Someone get on that. Or Pendelhaven stuff; whatever floats Memnite. 4. Vanilla creatures have no abilities. So print cards that reward you for having such creatures; maybe a legend that lets vanillas cantrip, or lets you play vanillas from the grave as though they're in your hand, etc. The hard part about Vanillas is printing fair ones that might see constructed play. Taking advantage of 1-4 helps; but sometimes you just need to stop power creep. 2/1 for W used to be the best you got, but not that you get 2/1s for W w/ upside, Savannah Lions have bought the farm. A Catlord of Vanilla Cantrip lord or the like might help to make them fringe playable as well; but not obsoleting "the best" vanilla creatures a color gets at it's pricepoint (2/2 first strike for 1R @ (R) w/ upside? Screw you WOTC!)

Holy shit. Not gonna lie you had me in the first half... really intense introduction to the channel lol... Subscribed, this video just kept getting better.

#ThisIsBrieLarsonsFaultSomehow abousletly destroyed me for a few minutes

Spicalicious Huit Shelf: “WoTC keeps printing intentionally bad cards” KONAMI: *laughs in Unmeasurable power creep*

Love the new video, I was sorting through my old draft chaff and was actual wondering about throttle vs flatten last night.

Thank you for this vid, and all your others. Feel like the intro was direct rip on that awful timcast video and i appreciate that

I can't wait for spice to have a ton more patrons and then half the run time is just the credits and him reading out his patrons

COSMONAUT CROSSOVER! Spice, you know the best people on the internet

I swear I put notifications on for this channel. Thank god I found this video lol great content as always!

Man, I forgot Scornful Egotist. It's my favorite bad card, if only because the gatherer discussion is plastered with "ALL HAIL THE GREAT LORD EGOTIST." It's like the more expensive Storm Crow in terms of Magic memes.

Now I'm just wondering where I can get that shirt

"#ThisisBrieLarsonsFaultSomehow" I'll be laughing at that one for awhile.

"The entire Kalemne precon..." As a tribal lover I am so hurt by this.

Harris reading Bruse Tarl flavor text is something I never thought I needed until I got it.

Love me a Spice video especially one with a spicy take. One piece of criticism/point I wished was addressed was that of "trap" cards. I don't know if there is specific terminology in the mtg community to refer to that, but in at least d&d optimization any choice that a player makes which presents itself as doing one thing but actually does that thing poorly or does something different entirely is referred to as a trap (one example of this is ironically the find traps spell, which doesn't actually tell you the locations of traps nor any hazard, with another being witch bolt, which does very poor damage for the level and is very easy to stop). The problem associated with the "traps" is that someone new to the game could choose or use it without any knowledge of why it is bad, and while for someone who really wants to learn how to identify strong vs weak abilities this could be a learning tool, for a casual player they might not understand why what they are doing is ineffective. I don't see any reason why the same principal couldn't be applied to mtg, where a new or casual player might pick up a pre-con and play with it, see they are doing poorly when compared to other decks and not have fun, but not be able to recognize why. Perhaps more people get utility out of it than develop bad preconceptions but that seems hard to demonstrate?

Visions of Bodies Being Burned was such a fucking incredible album

I’m late to the party, but I quite literally choked on my coffee laughing while watching this! You are an absolute gem of a human and have quickly become my favourite creator on KZfaq (sorry Professor...) Thank you so much for all that you do for the community Spice🖤

I've been eagerly awaiting your latest release! This makes my day, perfect timing my friend!

So this is what Rhystic Studies has been doing this past year

The voices in this have shaken me to my core

This is such an awesome video. I specifically love how you referenced the rhystic studies video on one with nothing. Keep up the excellent work!

As someone who plays Ojamas, a 0 ATK archetype fueled by 0 ATK vanillas In a game about hitting the opponent with big bunguses, The second category is what I think of when people say bad cards. While I'm not familiar with the MtG examples, But I have played a fair bit of the Official Anime Spin-off. Duel Masters has multiple mechanics dedicated to using bad cards together to make them better. For example a creature with Wave Striker is functionally a Vanilla that cannot use Vanilla support, However when there's 2 other creatures with Wave Striker on the field, Then all of them become effect creatures, Usually gaining the effect of the other Wave Striker creatures on your field in addition to their own effect. Similarly the Knight Magic mechanic introduced spells which had a creature type and the effect that they'd activate their effect twice if a creature of the associated creature type was on your field at activation. This meant that these overpriced spells were secretly more powerful than their regular counterparts, But required you to consciously choose between cheap reliable cards and janky but impactful cards. This way game designers can make bad cards good, without falling into the bad on accident category.

Great video, I think I laughed about as much while watching this video as during the rest of the month.

Woah I can't believe you didn't credit DesolationMagic for showing up in the first minute

the absolute emotional miasma when you mentioned clipping in a seemingly negative-ish capacity was as amusing as it was rollercoasteresque good point in the end cool

I got an LOL Dance Dance Dance add and I didn't realize it wasn't a part of your exceptional dissertation until after a few seconds had passed.

I’m sorry but I’m @6:28 currently and hearing my favorite mtg youtuber collab with my favorite ✨variety✨youtuber made me audibly gasp and I’m incredibly happy thank you so much

Holy shit that Atlas Shrugged segment was hilarious.

Wayward guide beast shouldn't have been one of your examples, it's super situational but because it has haste it may as well just be a 1 red sorcery that says return a land, which is super useful in that set because of all the landfall abilities plus being able to pull stuff like emeria's skyclave that you already played as lands.

Lovely work. A balm on my soul in these times where we all just feel so stuck in place (for six days and to the tune of nearly 60 billion dollars)

I personally have made weenie decks with all my bad cards, including Pillarfield Ox in order to have simple and inexpensive base decks in which I could give to younger players who would struggle with wordy cards with more than flying/vigilance/deathtouch/haste; or tap to do something simple, such as Llanowar Elf and Prodigal Sorcerer. They get so hyped to play that Tusked Collosodon or Alpha Tyrranax, even though there's probably a thousand better cards, if that's all they have, and it works for them, and it works for me who has to get a bunch of functional decks on the cheap, well, it's actually a good thing! Also, I guess some of them can fit into tribal decks I guess... :^)

Just use the YuGiOh style of limiting cards to 1 or 2 (or 3, in the case of MTG) to help fix cards that aren't broken enough to be banned but still are unhealthy for the game.

This video is great, and you continue to impress with both your content and delivery! What did you say about my boy Bonder's Ornament? How dare you, sir! This card is a critical card advantage engine for several of my artifact driven Commander lists!

I wanna thank you for your video awhile back that turned me onto Thought Slime. Watching him has helped me a lot and helped me put my feelings into words. Without you i wouldn’t’ve found him

Holy shit that opening scene made my week! Thank you spice lord

im already smiling seeing himwalk onto the camera

You have never seen the good the bad and the ugly?! Wow! You are in for a treat! What ever you do, watch it with a good sound system! "The Ecstasy of Gold" by the sadly late Per un pugno di dollari is just *chefs kiss*. It gives me goose bumps each time I think about it.

Your voice is a gem to add to the community. Please bring more videos! (Something about Arena being imperfect?)

A classic example of Political Science major explains Magic

One With Nothing is not a "bad" card. It's a "johnny" or "combo" card. There are cards with combo and synergy in mind, and they may seem to be very bad outside of their niche, because they usually are.

So at around 13:50 it looped, so it went from saying “they would do better to have” and then it looped to say “drafted a deck around an over expensive counterspell that they failed to cast in a meaningful way”

Hey guy I've never seen before, thank you for making this video about this thing that I don't participate in that I watched through all the way anyways. Now I've subbed just like I do with those other guys who make videos mostly about things I don't have any independent interest in. You know who they are.