The way to get the vast majority of cards into play where they can actually do something is by casting them. However, there are a few cards that, for whatever reason, see heavy play but are almost never cast. So today, we’re going to go over the most powerful cards in the game that people don’t cast.
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├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10: Archon of Cruelty: (0:14)
9: Progenitus: (2:10)
8: Narcomoeba : (4:14)
7: Street Wraith: (5:53)
6: Kaldra Compleat: (8:30)
5: Leyline of the Void: (10:28)
4: Elvish Spirit Guide: (12:01)
3: Omniscience: (14:05)
2: Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: (15:27)
1: Griselbrand: (16:59)
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Admittedly, this is just for commander, but Razaketh being free from a shadowborn apostle deck is pretty great. You can combo off the turn you get him and win.
Emrakul I've actually cast semi regularly in modern tron. His shuffle ability has actually saved my ass vs mill decks too, though that's a fairly rare occurence.
UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH i stay casting emerakul with channel… when is vintage cube coming back 🙁
Is this the duellogs guy?
question are these for what format though?
Glimpse of Nature was a card with so many possibilities
I don't even play MTG and yet somehow i ended up here. Huh.
Decents path is so slept on I can't stress enough. 4th turn draw step free world spine worm.
Laughs in Lavinia
I built a deck built around Omen Machine… which lets you cheat out, say, Emrakul while also ACTUALLY CASTING IT. Meaning it gives me the extra turn.
I had no idea you had a 2nd channel
Ty
For Flying it can be blocked by creatures with Flying or Reach not just creatures who Fly
Death shadow Never be 13)13 is a 12/12
I feel like Flash deserved a spot on the list.
Number 1 should have been Island.
The card literally transcends formats, and has crucially impacted every meta.
(On second thought, the whole list should have been filled with lands.)
basic land
#1 is Island…
I've hard cast Progenitus in draft before…
Wait… Didn't this guy used to do WoW videos? I swear that's his voice.
Alternate title: Top 10 Cards That Are Worth Their Weight In Gold
11:40 one clarification about Leyline of the void: it only prevents 'cards' from going to the graveyard. Tokens are not considered 'cards' and still technically hit the graveyard before vanishing. Therefore Leyline of the Void does NOT prevent death triggers of tokens.
I hate to be that person but number 1 is Island
Blightsteel Collossus. It's something mostly cast by Tinker, or more recently, with Magda, in some Legacy decks I've encountered.
Top 5 cards you don't cast in MTG:
Planes
Mountain
Forest
Swamp
Island
I would've expected Bridge from Below to be on the list… while every card on the list could still be cast by hook or by crook for some effect, Bridge is actually the one card that does absolutely nothing when cast.
Anger and Wonder are also cards worth considering for their time period.
Not including bridge from below seems like a miss, I think I've only ever cast it once, just so that I could trophy it and put it in my graveyard.
you can block flying creatures using ones with reach
you forgot Gleemax!
How is island not at the top of the list
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One thing i don't understand: why do you say Emrakul has no instant value? When it enters you gain an extra Turn. Thats some good value, even more since in the extra turn Emrakul can attack. All befor your opponent can realy react. How is that not instant Value?
What’s a way I can protect my dragons deck from a cheap 2-3 mana anti dragon/anti flying board wipe
Ps edit: if you can cheat the effects fo Spawnsire of Ulamog you can actually get out all three Titan Eldrazi in both their forms and a number of other cards to boost them up including maybe Eldrazi Conscription on Emrakul making it a 25/25 giving it trample on top of its flying and protections and adding another 2 to its annihilator
Almost all of this stuff is either wrong or incredibly out of date. Archon of Cruelty's nonlegendary status is important in legacy and vintage due to the threat of Karakas. Mo one plays Progenitus in anything anymore, elves generally play Craterhoof Behemoth instead. Grave Troll is banned in every format but Vintage.
Chancellor of the annex, free mana tithe to protect your combo from getting force of willed if you start first.
Omniscience is also played in Lotus Field Hidden Strings in Pioneer. It’s usually one of the choices for Emergent Ultimatum alongside Pore Over the Pages and Peer Into the Abyss. The correct choice is usually to disallow omniscience so it isn’t often cast this way, but it can also be hard cast in the deck with the ludicrous mana generation it has.