5 Bad Magic Cards That Broke The Game

I was playing white weenie in an extended tournament and killed my opponents Phage with a Jitte and Second Sunrised for the win he was not pleased. Good times. Lol

Poor guy in the purple is trying so hard to hold onto his hair

Mana screw against humanity

Guy from video: Maybe we should accept the fact that we lose sometimes.
FNM nerds: WTF does that even mean?

I'm surprised no one mentioned Tarmogoyf. A card that was a bulk rare at first, but then became THE MOST powerful creature in Modern for over a decade.

Carl, where do you buy your clothes? Because you usually dress so cool.
Like the hoodie on this video...

Btw, awesome video, as always

I actually watched the vid of Cifka winning the pro tour with eggs, and it was great. Not necessarily the gameplay itself, but he was so freaking elated to win - it was a great moment for Magic IMO.

L.E.D.

I enjoy that we've now entered the Cardmarket Extended Universe where older videos can get clipped into the new videos for additional context / for the lols

demonic consultation -> thassa's oracle

Lattice was kind of always broken. "Everything is X" is already great. Everything being the type that has SO MUCH synergy was amazing. There's cards like "artifacts are indestructible" that can shut down your entire opponent's deck, or the dragon that steals all artifacts when it attacks and, surprise, you win the game if you control 15 or more artifacts. It was well and truly busted always and has only gotten stronger

Hard to imagine " Lion's Eye Diamond " is not on the list

This video doesn't need background music. At all.

Minor point, but could the GBP prices have '.' swapped for ',' and ',' for '.'? I got very confused about the Black Lotus pricing for a second.

My friend once traded four Tarmogoyfs for a Bitterblossom. A week later, Tarmogoyf was worth $60.

Cant believe KCI wasnt on this list, its basically the definitive "nobody knew how this card worked but it turns out its busted" card.

Hey guys!
Loved the video! Thanks for the great content!
An idea for you all is maybe the mirror of this video?

"5 Cards that COULD break the game" - Basically cards that are simply untested [due to lack of support or etc]

Lantern of Insight would've been among my top picks for this!

The number 1 spot should absolutely go to Balustrade Spy/Undercity Informer, two cards that at first glance look like pack filler but in the right deck literally win you the game on the spot the moment you use their ability.

Surprised Flash and Grindstone didn't make the list.

Lantern Control is every true control players wet dream. I must say, nothing is more enjoyable than an ensnaring bridge, a bunch of pithing needles, codex shredders, and bojuka bogs to deal with graveyard decks. And in the mirror match, Stony Silence, and Altar of the Brood.

Ban Karn not Mycosynth Lattice, is my proposal, Karn is generally a card with extremely poor design. Mycosynth Lattice itself allowed for a lot of fun decks to surface once in a while, Karn is the problem here, not Lattice, Lattice didn't harm the game at all, Karn did.

Wonderful insights! So much fun, love the vids! You just earned another sub.

Shadow was always one of those cards where people knew it would have its day in the sun. It never was "bad"

I was active in the forum where the Lantern thread started. The thread exploded pretty quickly and became the most popular thread in the Modern sub-forum almost immediately. I remember being almost dumbfounded by the fact that so many people got interested in such a stupid idea and stuck with it for so long. It was such a weird experience eventually being proven wrong to that extend and I haven't experienced anything remotely close to this ever since.
Of course after the deck won its first tournament the creator of the original thread went to the Legacy sub-forum and tried to convince people there that a Legacy version of the deck he was working on would soon take over that format as well. None of the other Legacy players took him seriously that time and I guess the nay-sayers won that particular round.

How is Lion Eye Diamond not on the List? That card was essentially useless until Dredge came around (Belcher a little sooner)

I would add Liquid Metal Coating to this list. Typically not a great card but once you consider all the cheap mana cost cards that destroy artifacts, it becomes a powerful maneuver. I've won many games just because my opponent's gets fed up and scoop

Dark depth….

I always loved Mycosynth Lattice with March of the Machines..... kill everyone's land.... Had a deck with gilded lotus and pemmin's aura for infinite mana, with Memnarch to take everyone's things. Fun times back when Mirrodin was around.

Lantern control was my favorite deck to face. I played mill at the time. Stick a crab and they can't control much due to every card in deck being a mill spell

Demonic consultation was played in necro.

I made an EDH Group Hug Deck that used Mycosynth Lattice to do opposite...It gives lots of mana, card draw, land draw, lands work no matter mana, and lands count for more mana (mana flare + mirrorworks is fun)... It is an Enabler Group Hug deck. I love it. Usually end the game by giving everyone 20 cards at once plus infinite handsize...and others just do their thing.

The second i saw deaths shadow at the worldwake prerelease, i called it. I said out loud "somebody is going to break this thing"

Surpised to not see Lion's Eye Diamond in this video or in the article. I liked the video though! very interesting.

I remember when Dark Depths, Mishra's Bauble, and Counterbalance were all bulk, while Orhan Viper was the chase rare in Coldsnap

Hasbro broke the game years ago by getting rid of the color pie. 😢 gg

The lantern of insight deck reminds me of the Mystic Mine deck from Yugioh. Essentially, they would play a permanent called "Mystic Mine" that locked both players out of creature abilities and then play a permanent called "Goddess of Skuld's Revenge" that would let you look at the top 3 cards of you opponent's deck and place them back in any order. With these 2 cards, you can prevent your opponent from using creature abilities to remove the "Mystic Mine" while also preventing them from drawing into any non-creature outs due to stacking their draws with "Goddess Skuld's Oracle".

EL EE DEEEE

Bazaar and LED really slept on here, I was expecting Bazaar to be the #1 on the lost the whole video.

S T R O O P W A F E L

I'll never not be mad they killed Lattice for Karn's sins because Karn is objectively the problem card and Lattice has value as a brewers pet card

I played Mycosynth Lattice in standard with March of the Machines as a combodeck. The Combo kills all lands and lets me win with some manarocks afterwards. :)

HARD disagree with Lattice, in itself it is still a "bad" card, it just happens to combo with a broken card.

Otherwise I remember looking at the Death's Shadow in my binder for years and thinking "Man this is a cool card, I'm sure a deck that uses it would be so cool". And yeah, love that deck !

STROOPWAFEL... use the O from " to cope " en you'll say it correctly... that " struphwaffel" is a horrible rape of my language..

i think at n.1 there should be tabernacle at pendrell vale. When legends came out, and for several time it was worth 50 cents. people taking it out from a booster pack was like "why am i so unlucky?"

guys, please don't record videos so early in the morning/so late at night. Poor Carl can hardly stay awake! Hope you're not pushing yourselves too much to deliver content, we are all cool with less or shorter content if that means you don't have to give up all of your free time!

Where's faithless looting in this top 5? It's definitely top 5 worthy