In Magic the Gathering, if a card is good, it is usually obvious how and where that card is good right away. However some cards take far longer to find their niche. All it can take is one new card or a shift in meta for a card that has existed for years to suddenly become playable. In some cases cards have gone from outright unplayable to genuine meta threats in the top tiers of play.
Script by Uncrowned Jules
Editing by Pumkinswift
├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10. Mystic Remora: (0:18)
9. Inverter of Truth: (2:17)
8. Goblin Lore: (4:30)
7. Mycosynth Lattice: (6:09)
6. Mishra’s Bauble: (8:26)
5. Death’s Shadow: (10:13)
4. Summer Bloom: (12:13)
3. Grindstone: (14:02)
2. Indomitable Creativity: (15:43)
1. Dark Depths: (17:25)
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Why was mindbreak trap shown when talking about mill?
i am so tired of hearing "that card is unplayable"
this is utter bs. every card is playable.
Lion's Eye Diamond. The card was unplayable until Dredge became an archetype
I think you clearly left off Bazaar of Baghdad. This card was at one point just $20 and was literally considered trash. Then people began to realize the kind of stipulations with graveyard shenanigans, and now it’s VERY banned in Legacy and is a huge staple in vintage
there's a fine line between "cards that are useless now but will eventually be good" and "cards that are useless now but will eventually be banned"
4:23 that is so dumb. If the combo is too strong, why not ban Thoracle instead?
Maybe this should be two videos: 1) Junk cards that became good in Commander Format; 2) Junk Cards that became good later
14:45 mindbreak trap isn't a mill spell it's a counter spell?
I think it's fitting that a card called Goblin Lore is used in a deck that's about utilising RNG to flood the board with random shit.
"moslty", "teir".
Downvoted.
Mycosynth Lattice and Inverter of Truth really got the ol' Halq Treatment; getting banned because a newer, infinitely more toxic card got released and "we can't ban a card we're currently selling!"
Lions eye diamond was missed
Why isn't Lion's eye diamond on the top of the list?
Very nice content! Keep uploading
As someone playing since early 1994, I can assure you that casual players have been playing multi-player since the very beginning. Commander may have been the first multiplayer format that WOTC intentionally and consistently designs for, but it is absolutely incorrect to say that in the beginning there was only 1v1. Couldn’t be further from the truth.
you missed one thing with deaths shadow there's also the printing of "Phyrexian Unlife" which basically changes damage to poison when your life is 0 but most importantly you don't lose the game.
the key of why it's so good with death shadow is you can loophole the clause with life loss or payment since that's not damage with the shocks and fetches basically negative life it gets +1/+1 for each -1 of life
Am I missing something or is bauble just an autoinclude in every deck because it makes your deck effectively 56 cards.
There's a lot of incorrect info in this video. Not gonna claim it's intentional, but figured I should correct some changes:
1. Death's Shadow deserves to be on this list, but its time to shine dates a little further back than Khans. Both fetches (from Zendikar, in the same block) and shocks (from original Ravnica) were available before Khans block. Suicide Zoo predated Khans by a couple sets (first becoming a deck with the unbanning of Wild Nacatl during Theros block), but it stayed tier 2 until the Khans ban of Birthing Pod. This pre-Khans deck used cards like Street Wraith and Dismember alongside the fetches, shocks, and Thoughtseize to control its life total, and playing a more agressive, go-wide strategy than more modern Jund and Grixis Shadow lists.
2. Mishra's Bauble saw significant play long before MH1. Jund Death's Shadow became a major player in the format during Shadows Over Innistrad and Eldritch Moon, using cards like Tarfire and Bauble to ramp up Tarmogoyf and to activate Delirium for Grim Flayer and Traverse the Ulvenwald. 4 copies were also played in Lantern Control, you'd often see a couple one-off cards like Bauble and Seal of Fire to grow Goyf in "boomer Jund" lists, and decks like UB Tombstalker and Soulflayer Surprise often ran 4 copies as ways to both add consistency (by making the deck effectively 56 cards, a strategy often referred to as Turbo Xerox) and fill the graveyard.
Lions. Eye. Diamond.
Hi I'm lion's eye diamond.
You didn't mention how Bauble works exceptionally well in Delver, the best Legacy deck:
-It's a noncreature spell, which triggers Dragon Rage Channeler, immediately giving more value than intended (surveil 1).
-It goes to the graveyard by itself or can be surveiled by DRC, at which point it's a new card type for delirium.
-By going to the graveyard and drawing afterward, it's essentially a cantrip so the floor is very high. And it's an easy extra card in the graveyard for delving Murktide Regent.
-Although you can only look at the top card and not move it, if you don't like your top card, you can use a fetch land to shuffle your library, essentially working as card selection.
Goblin Lore seems like a great Timmy card, they don't print many of them today.
No Lion's Eye Diamond? That card was sa bulk rare for about a decade until Infernal Tutor came around.
I remember the Donate/Illusions of Grandeur combo from back in the day. Illusions of Grandeur was not played at all until that combo.
The section with Myco Lattice is wrong, the card became popular and good with the release of Dark Steel Forge and Nevs disk. Allowing you every turn board wipe everyones board but yours.
Commander does not matter for Comp, never will, stop pretending it does. It only makes Comp harder to obtain by increasing random cards that would cost a Buck to like 50. Remora was always about Vintage, especially both helping and battling combo
Great list! Hope we see more soon
The Beamtown Bullies also made Inverter of Truth a threat in Commander.
The Beamtown Bullies should had been mentioned with Inverter of Truth.
Urza, Lord High Artificer uses cards like Mishra's Buable" as a mana rock specifically. The fact the "construct token" gets bigger with each artifact was just a nice bonus but normally it's tapped for a blue mana, never attacking, and never blocking. Grind Stone is specifically powerful because of Painter Servant, which i believe should not had been on this list depending on how long after the second card was printed. However, they must be on this list for that same reason.
Dark Depths? that's your number one? There are SO MANY cards that got good after a new card was released. Take Ruxa, Patient Professor for example, until he was released NO ONE PLAYED VANILLA CREATURES. Suddenly, anything and everything that just makes a 4/4 beast, or 1/1 Squirrel was sought after.
What made Indomitable Creativity good was the printing of Fable of the Mirror Breaker, which proved to be the perfect partner for it.
Where are LED and Illusions Of Grandeur?
I'm suprised flash wasn't on this list… printed in mirage. Was never played at all.. all of a sudden it won a PT with protean hulk and was emergency banned. Being able to win on your opponents first upkeep via gemstone caverns and discard mana was kinda game breaking.
For me, the most common example was Krark Clan Ironworks, It appeared in fifth dawn and it didn't do anything during those days until someone used it in the infamous KCI combo deck.
High Tide. Printed in late 1994 in Fallen Empires, wasn't even touched until Urza's Saga was printed 4 years later.
shoulda added lantern. card literally made a insanely good deck that won at the highest level in modern
Flash
Pretty sure during the grindstone section, that card was supposed to be archive trap and not mind break trap
Just copy and paste lantern control.
Lion’s Eye Diamond should have been number one. It was a $.25 rare for almost a decade before dredge was a thing. A lot longer then all the others on this list.
Wasn't LED a bulk rare for about a decade?
Amazing!!!!!🎉
Eater of Days was a rubbish bulk rare where it forces the controller to skip their next two turns. It was like that until Beamtown Bullies came. That turned that card into something to expect in a Commander deck as a staple with Beamtown Bullies as the Commander. Didn't make any waves, but it shows that something pointless and garbage today could become very useful tomorrow with the right card(s).
How isn't Lion's Eye Diamond #1