cryptex being a rare has to be a joke from wizards. when your mana rock can just not produce mana, you know something is wrong
@davidhower7095
5 ай бұрын
Corrupted Grafstone moment
@gibbygarbo9475
5 ай бұрын
I used it in sealed it it was actually really good, if it was uncommon it'd break the limited format
@xxANBUxx
5 ай бұрын
@gibbygarbo9475 lol it has one of thee worst win rates in limited for that set. Just having it in your deck greatly lowers your odds of winning.
@gibbygarbo9475
5 ай бұрын
@xxANBUxx It served me perfectly, it helped me fix cause I was playing 5 color niv and I even drew cards with it. I did forget to mention that it was 2HG so longer games helped with the draw, I may have gotten lucky though 🤷♂️
@nCedric1
5 ай бұрын
@@gibbygarbo9475 Im fcking tired of cards being balanced around limited. Magic would be a LITERAL better game if limited didn't exist.
@MakeVarahHappen
5 ай бұрын
I feel like this entire short was made just to dunk on cryptex and I agree
@Thunderjames
5 ай бұрын
Ngl Witsful thinking is looking like a really good card... to put in my Nekusar deck
@wsmiles8677
5 ай бұрын
yea it's a shitty self wheel, not actually terrible.
@eon2330
5 ай бұрын
@@wsmiles8677 Works well with double card draw cards. Most of these do.
@duathhadron5040
5 ай бұрын
Especially if you have Konrad or Tergrid on the field! 😈
@TheIhplodur
5 ай бұрын
It looks good If you want to put cards in your or your opponents graveyards.
@bwahchannel9746
5 ай бұрын
its fun when you target someone else with it
@breadgehog
5 ай бұрын
Drastic Revelation, what were they thinking? If only it was in colours known for both madness and reanimator- oh, right!
@dyciefisk2535
3 ай бұрын
Worst case scenario it's discard your hand draw 4. Definately not nothing.
@yuuumtheepic4118
3 ай бұрын
Its so incredibly overpriced for that though, just play grisly salvage and mill yourself for a third of the cost if you want to fill your graveyard. Or play an actual wheel if you want to discard
@DracoX-hz3tu
5 ай бұрын
I remember my group thought cryptex was a good mana rock for like 3 seconds, before we realized its not remotely consistent to exile actual spells from your graveyard to use it 😅
@craigstuckey319
5 ай бұрын
I had to mull over it for a second before concluding it's ass. There's still only 1 playable 3cmc manarock in all of Magic. I have a feeling that will never change.
@craigstuckey319
5 ай бұрын
Oops. I thought it cost 3. Ignore me.
@albinoredpanda3868
5 ай бұрын
@craigstuckey319 cursed mirror, relic of legends, chromatic lantern and bonders Ornament(in pedh at least) are decent in commander, what 3 cmc rock do you think is the only playable one?
@craigstuckey319
5 ай бұрын
@@albinoredpanda3868 Basalt Monolith. Every card you just named is ass.
@albinoredpanda3868
5 ай бұрын
@@craigstuckey319 not every deck needs to be high power/ tuned as all living shit to be good/fun. Every mana rock I listed is fine, and see play in shitloads of decks.
@jjcc8379
5 ай бұрын
I opened like 5 cryptex. Feels very bad man
@51gunner
5 ай бұрын
I have no idea what they were thinking with that card.
@inserttaken_name1762
5 ай бұрын
made the mistake of playing it during the prerelease, didnt matter mind you i bricked so hard all event i went to 1 in one of the games but still sucked when i got a 2 lander and that shit
@Alex_Simpson711
5 ай бұрын
I can see drastic revelation being good in a grixis re- animator deck or grixis madness deck in commander and as for wishful thinking I can see that being ok or good in a nekusar deck or a dimir control deck or some sort of a weird colored black discard themed deck with blue in it or any control deck that runs blue and black in it or any graveyard shenanigans running deck in commander that runs blue and black
@inserttaken_name1762
5 ай бұрын
i was thinking admiral brass for sending pirates to the bin, reloading your hand and possibly sending more pirates if your lucky
@oblvionprophet64
5 ай бұрын
Drastic Revelation actually seems really good with Madness effects. Plus, have Bone Miser on the field and get ridiculous value from pitching 5 lands or something
@HomestyleThaJerk
5 ай бұрын
Brilliant spectrum, i use in my Jodah archmage eternal deck. Since i "may pay WUBRG rather than paying a spells mana cost" i can actually spend 5 mana to draw 5 cards and discard 2. A little expensive for a draw spell but its on theme and digging 5 cards deep i feel like isnt terrible.
@MCMasterRanger
5 ай бұрын
I've never thought of using converge cards with Jodah! You could also run Painful Truths to turn it into draw 5, lose 5 life.
@Marty-mk2fm
5 ай бұрын
Drastic is good for instant/sorcery commander decks like me surimon because you run out of card quick and it’s a big spell so it combos well
@sketchyzxch2958
5 ай бұрын
I can see idle thoughts actually being useful though 😂 my first commander deck was yidris maelstrom wielder he’s gives you cascade for every spell casted after dealing combat damage to a player and that would fit right in for a 3 drop cascade and extra card draw when you’re dead in the water
@psymar
5 ай бұрын
and you can activate the ability repeatedly before letting any of them resolve
@majordude83
5 ай бұрын
@@psymar Thanks for confirming. I was like, "Did he really just misunderstand the first card on the list?" We need judges proofreading these KZitem short scripts, haha.
@SOADandLeftWing
5 ай бұрын
The obnoxious youtube tiktok-like shorts UI really gets in the way
@MrCheung113
5 ай бұрын
I put wistful thinking in Ian Malcolm deck.
@inannaenigma9391
5 ай бұрын
That second to last one would be good to mill your opponents tho… 👀
@monatsayuri39
4 ай бұрын
Drastic revelation actually seems really good. It doesn’t specify that you have to start with seven so it could bring you from one card to 7, than it says at random, that could be from the top of deck. Put it into a reclaim grixis deck and you’ve got yourself a synergy
@adamtobiasz8793
5 ай бұрын
Yeah, I agree with this. Draw 2 then discard 4 WTF?
@adamtobiasz8793
5 ай бұрын
@@roberteldritch6285 yeah still shitty card is shitty.
@UniversalJuan
5 ай бұрын
@@roberteldritch6285 They should also never look up the card Rielle, the Everwise. Way over their head there
@RosinGod
5 ай бұрын
Cryptex for slime against humanity and dragons approach decks haha
@adamtobiasz8793
5 ай бұрын
@@UniversalJuan sure
@adamtobiasz8793
5 ай бұрын
@@RosinGod they are any good themselves even?
@cringusmoss9937
5 ай бұрын
You can activate idle thoughts multiple times while the ability is on the stack. It's still terrible.
@Mizelei2012
5 ай бұрын
Well, doesn’t the effect state "draw a card if you have 0 cards in hand", so it checks it while resolving it, right. It would have been different if it said (2): draw a card. (Activate this only if you have 0 cards in you hand)
@cringusmoss9937
5 ай бұрын
@@Mizelei2012 you can ACTIVATE it multiple times. You'll only draw one card, on the first resolution. You could get really galaxy brain and discard the card to a separate ability before the next one resolves. King of Clunk.
@Mizelei2012
5 ай бұрын
@@cringusmoss9937 I was saying that, so I agree. Your suggestion to combine it with a discard effect is good. Although you would maybe run this in a commander deck where the commander allows you to discard. But then it would still be inefficient. Also you wouldn't want to be keeping your hand empty constantly in order to take advantage
@cringusmoss9937
5 ай бұрын
@@Mizelei2012 definitely it's a clunky and inefficient ability regardless. I always find it useful to try and find a way to turn the worst cards useful. If it was even 1 mana to activate I could see it bring breakable.
@Alistor76
5 ай бұрын
@@cringusmoss9937 The card that breaks Idle Thoughts is Cadaverous Bloom. Very easy to chew through your deck for Thassa's Oracle. Alternatively, Blood Scrivener and Phial of Galadriel let you draw two cards per activation, as would something more orthodox like Teferi's Ageless Insight or Alhammaret's Archive.
@cameronsteele371
5 ай бұрын
My favorite counter spell to use as a draw spell is casting 0 drop memnite holding priority countering it with arcane denial. You draw three cards for a blue and a colorless next upkeep
@lunahazlewood5443
4 ай бұрын
Eruth, Tormented Prophet turns idle thoughts into something fantastic 😄 (she replaces all your card draw with exiling top 2 of library and being able to cast them until end of turn)
@SwedeRacerDC
5 ай бұрын
Brilliant Sprectrum does work in 4/5C decks that can make use of the discards. It's much easier to cheat creatures into play with some form of reanimation than to play then from hand
@Khaion
5 ай бұрын
I'm working on a Quintorius, Field Historian Deck and I plan to try out Cryptex as a way to trigger his ability. I could see it being used in a similar way in a Tormod deck
@wyrn3382
5 ай бұрын
We can’t read cards because of the text in front of it
@thrifty0413
4 ай бұрын
I could see Idle Thoughts being usable in decks relying on madness, discard tactics, storm or anything else that either funnels stuff out of your hand or plays cards faster than it can draw them
@GynxShinx
5 ай бұрын
I actually think Yellow being forced to take off her hat kind of makes sense as for many people coming out as who they are is a life or death forced move.
@Javikazi
4 ай бұрын
Nekusar and madness keeps a constant eye at wistful thinking
@stephenborders2883
5 ай бұрын
Funny enough, Drastic Revelation could have a use but, there's more efficient cards than it. Actually, almost all of these have a use.
@philipboardman1357
3 ай бұрын
I didn't know _Wistful Thinking_ existed. This will pair amazingly well with _Waste Not._
@Nyundaa
5 ай бұрын
I'm surprised Armistice isn't on here. 2W for an enchantment that has an activated ability that costs 3WW and gives an opponent 3 life. For that huge cost all you get is to draw a single card.
@skyshadow6617
5 ай бұрын
run Wistful Thinking in your Ian Malcolm deck. Still giving a player card draw, but now you force them to discard more than they drew and you take a card from the top of their deck.
@Tvboy777
5 ай бұрын
Ooh, that cryptex actually looks kind of nice in my proliferate deck.
@M.O.Valent
3 ай бұрын
Am i wrong or can't idle thoughts be activated multiple times on the stack tô draw more than one card?
@bryantan4228
5 ай бұрын
Idle Thoughts goes infinite with Cadaverous Bloom
@joshrivet4011
5 ай бұрын
Idle thoughts seems like a good hellbent option, especially if you have a way to make mana on castings, like Urabrask, the God of Storytelling, and the Strixhaven Dwarf that makes treasures. It would make a somewhat slow and annoying game, but with the right build, you could make 6 mana per cast and have 2 mana to draw while Hellbent.
@AbstractFive
5 ай бұрын
Loved wistful thinking in one of my tsp block decks. Was great with DASH HOPES.
@Naetheras
5 ай бұрын
Some of those cards would make nekuzar do happy noises
@JhettJones
5 ай бұрын
Why would you not be able to activate Idle Thoughts multiple times if your hand is empty? Nothing on the card prevents you from activating multiple times before letting it resolve.
@Mizelei2012
5 ай бұрын
In my playgroup we have the regular mulligan rule. But, if you have 1 or 0 lands in hand you can show it to everyone and mulligan it for free.
@ich3730
4 ай бұрын
That just incentivizes people to build bad and greedy manabases
@Mizelei2012
4 ай бұрын
@@ich3730 no, because everyone plays with other playgroups too. You're not going to change your landbase because one of your 3 playgroups is more lenient.
@byronsmothers8064
5 ай бұрын
So I need to invest 4 colors to come out next positive, but it copies faithless looting with two colors, as a 4 cost. What a card!
@Vearru
4 ай бұрын
Brilliant spectrum should either be instant speed or cost 5 and only have you discard 1. I remember seeing this card when bfz was first released and was so confused why this card was ever designed and printed.
@lilsavage3781
5 ай бұрын
i’m surprise contact other plane ain’t make the cut but tbh the possibility to scry and draw is without question better than one or the other
@HokaMagic
3 ай бұрын
Cryptex might actually be a spicy include in Tekuthal
@sheanstanks
3 ай бұрын
Me who uses storm crow as my commander: "you just don't know how to use these cards properly smh"
@wilsoncrunch1330
5 ай бұрын
These cards work great in my Beamtown Bullies deck. Love giving bad upkeep creatures to my opponents.
@Shoyro
5 ай бұрын
*raises up fists In comically oversized boxing gloves* Wistful Thinking IS GOOD. In Nekusar decks, any deck that uses land recursion from the graveyard, and Dimir Zombies that involve the graveyard for their main strategy. Fight me, Beezy.
@Dark-Pikachu1
5 ай бұрын
Brilliant spectrum what was point of WOTC adding those last 3 words for no reason like am confused?
@FishWash
5 ай бұрын
Painful truths is on the side, looking down condescendingly
@SwedeRacerDC
5 ай бұрын
@@FishWash I don't even like painful truths. You better be using it in a non-blue deck, because it's not that great otherwise. Why lose the life? Discarding cards can actually be a huge advantage. A play it in a 5 color deck of mine that wants to reanimate things. Throw some minor dragons into the bin and reanimate them all on another turn. It pushes even further into your deck and gets rid of stuff you don't need or want in the graveyard. Losing life is usually not a benefit, but if you want that, then it becomes the better one. But more likely than not, graveyard recursion of one form or another make the spectrum a superior card for people who know how to utilize it
@adamxue6096
5 ай бұрын
I think Wizards was like ooh buut what if you do some weird things and so you draw 5 CARDS from it... discard 2, it must be done. I will say that it's kinda funny if you use some sort of sphere of resilience type effects so that you can draw 5 from it, like, just so your friends can look at you in disgust.
@SwedeRacerDC
5 ай бұрын
@@adamxue6096 Yeah, I will often cast it with Fist of Suns (or Jodah) for all 5 colors to get even more value out of it. Discarding cards is not a disadvantage unless every card in your deck is absolutely unique including your lands, and if that's the case... Then build a better deck...
@adamxue6096
5 ай бұрын
@@SwedeRacerDC You know it would be fun to build a reverse scam deck like that, just to gain some dubious benefits from these type of cards But I feel like there aren't enough of these to make a whole deck with it
@livedandletdie
5 ай бұрын
Idle Thoughts is a good card, LITERALLY. Mono Blue Affinity can use it to draw cards, After all most spells are free in the first place. There's a lot of ways to use Idle Thoughts to basically draw your entire library in one turn.
@w47765
3 ай бұрын
Cryptex would have been fine if the collect evidence cost was one or less. Then you'd be able to use it as a niche way to snipe materials that your opponent may be trying to pilfer and regularly add mana of any color with the second ability coming after exiling three cards being perfectly reasonable considering the rate of return. Collect evidence three for one mana is dumb as hell for a mana rock that cost more than 1.
@psymar
5 ай бұрын
you can absolutely stack the ability on Idle Thoughts by using its ability before the previous use resolved
@proxyaskew
4 ай бұрын
you can stack the ability, but it won't do anything unless you empty your hand before each trigger resolves. having an empty hand is the condition for drawing the card, not for activating the ability. if you just stacked it with an empty hand, you would draw a card after it resolved the first time, and then the subsequent resolutions would do nothing, because your hand is no longer empty.
@0011peace
5 ай бұрын
with infite mana you can draw your deck until you hit more than 1 land. trhhgere is cards like that form a another mechanic . Cast a creature gain 1 for each color
5 ай бұрын
I use Idle Thoughts along with another card I'm blanking on in Mizzix because I tend to run out of cards in hand. And mana is not the issue there, since most of my spells typically cost 1 or 2 mana.
@GGcm0
5 ай бұрын
idle thought should have sayed instead "at the beginning of your endstep if you have no cards in hand, draw seven cards
@troygarcia6674
3 ай бұрын
I know this is hyper specific. But I have a Tinybones deck. So someone else in my group could slot in Idle Thoughts to pay 2 and prevent getting pinged for 10 damage. Still bad, but the thought of that made me laugh.
@greyimpala2116
5 ай бұрын
overwhelming intellect - "6 mana: Counter target creature spell. Draw cards equal to it's mana value"
@chaosredefined3834
5 ай бұрын
That's an essence scatter + concentrate if you merely counter a 3-drop. Which is worth 6 mana. If you manage to counter a 6+ creature, then you end up drawing more than the mana value, which is not easy. I'm not saying it's good. But it's at least on-rate. Which is more than I can say about most of the ones they showcased.
@HouYi-b6g
5 ай бұрын
tried to find a way to make cryptex work and even in things like self mill or proliferate the card is just bad. Situational mana rock is what kills it. Drastic Revelation needs to cost at least 1 mana less to be playable.
@abluedragon78
5 ай бұрын
Even at 3 mana I'm not sure it would be worth it, discard 3 at random sucks pretty hard.
@level20art50
3 ай бұрын
Ok though but Cryptex is absolutely the kind of jank that I want to put into an Atraxa proliferate deck if I ever make one. I just wanna do weird stuff with weird counters. Same thing with Replicating Ring.
@FaerieScion
5 ай бұрын
Besides Cryptex all of these are somewhat playable in limited at least
@KenSamaGomenasai
4 ай бұрын
Cryptex is a 2 mana uwbrg rock... It's really strong for that alone
@spam0n0cheese
5 ай бұрын
I found Cryptex is useful in the Slime Against Humanity decks. You don't mind exiling them to help pay for another copy.
@OdinMagnus
5 ай бұрын
It's still 3 mana for 1 mana and nothing special, you could just play Celestice instead and draw and discard to increase your slime size
@michalkostyk5583
5 ай бұрын
Wishful thinking can actually work in Rielle I guess
@NezMog
5 ай бұрын
Idle Thoughts isn't a thing you just throw in a blue deck It's a build around: Mind Over Matter, a land that makes 2, Idle Thoughts will RIP through your deck
@nilantive
5 ай бұрын
wistful in Rielle the Everwise kinda goes hard though
@xyriliawhitestrake7263
4 ай бұрын
Brilliant spectrum is really interesting when placed directly next to painful truths From the same set btw, classic rarity difference. They couldn't have at least made it discard one card?
@lokismischief2512
4 ай бұрын
I bought so many packs of mkm because i was acting foolish, and i never popped one cryptix. I feel good that I didn't. That card is a literal slap in the face lol
@patrickforshag2908
5 ай бұрын
Wistful thinking looks pretty good in Rielle
@h191_box
5 ай бұрын
wistful thinking is similar to "target opponent discard 2 cards and mill 2 cards", if u know the top card of an opponent is not that bad
@Teeleer
5 ай бұрын
i have cryptex in my war doctor deck, its not meant to draw cards, its to exile to get counters on the war doctor
@rocknut144
5 ай бұрын
Actually idle thoughts would go nicely in my shared fate deck.
@DiscardatRandom
5 ай бұрын
Why can’t you stack the idle thoughts activation?
@squ1gg10
5 ай бұрын
If you have no cards in hand, so as each activation stacks, once the first resolves for draw you'll have two in hand so you can't draw more bc you don't have 0 in hand anymore
@williamdrum9899
5 ай бұрын
The condition is checked on resolution. If it said "2: Draw a card. Activate only if you have no cards in hand" then you could stack it.
@wickidgames
5 ай бұрын
Graveyard decks looking at drastic revelation like 😍😍😍
@ragewinninethousand4140
5 ай бұрын
I was thinking about that wizard that lets you draw a card for SEVEN but at least you still have a creature meh
@inserttaken_name1762
5 ай бұрын
drastic revelation in admiral brass might not be that bad, lets you send your pirates in hand to the bin and possibly more depending on draws
@TheSebastianfan
5 ай бұрын
hmmmm........I wonder how much fun wishful thinking would be in the game Dandan or "Forgetful Fish"
@idjles
5 ай бұрын
cryptex+storm proliferate
@DoABarrelRol1l
5 ай бұрын
Idle Thoughts is super cool! I love hellbent / top deck strategies. But yeah probably could have been 1 cmc
@James-lu2jn
4 ай бұрын
I can't read the cards with the gift and support buttons above your name lmao
@dylanclark1775
4 ай бұрын
Wishful thinking paired with notion thief is actually disgusting
@pseudohippie55
4 ай бұрын
Cryptex is double crap A terrible mana rock and terrible card draw. No wonder it's based off of a cipher. You'll decipher a super complicated one before you can find one positive thing about that card.
@oktalley99
4 ай бұрын
wistful looking like some good carddraw in my rielle deck. 3 mana to draw 6 and hopefully pump my commander with instants i discarded
@under1085
5 ай бұрын
First one is actually ok in Eruth decks due to not actually drawing a card
@travishinton7762
5 ай бұрын
Wait the idle thoughts could maybe be good mana sink? If you got no spells to cast but a lot of mana, you just go 🎣 and hope you get a bigun
@joegarcia9729
3 ай бұрын
Wistful thinking could be good in Rielle
@Sophia-sh1ky
5 ай бұрын
Drastic revelation is meant for nekusar, discard 10 then hit everyone for 10 infect
@parttimed.m.1111
3 ай бұрын
Witsful killed me so often when i faced megrim
@double8261
5 ай бұрын
Idle thoughts is actually a kill combo if you have infinite colorless mana in eruth tormented prophet deck and wishfull thinking is also good and i have built this commander 😅
@DeclanBarter
5 ай бұрын
Hilarious option using whistful on someone with two cards in hand
@timberwolfbrother
3 ай бұрын
Cryptex can at least be worked with by proliferating
@BarbeqdBrwniez
4 ай бұрын
Drastic Rev seems fine enough in the right deck.
@DarkJusticeMetal
3 ай бұрын
I got a foil Idle Thoughts. I'm just waiting for *the* deck to show up that breaks it
@LPchief
5 ай бұрын
I kwep trying cryptex in my spells decks...
@lastresortknives
5 ай бұрын
Where is urzas blueprints?
@nicolaschield1431
5 ай бұрын
Don’t ask to fight, you’ll die
@adamxue6096
5 ай бұрын
Yknow it would be hilarious to do some sort of cursed deck where you make everyone pay more for all the spells but you don't commit scams, you just pay up... and cast Brilliant Spectrum using all 5 colors, drawing 5 then discarding 2. It's still not good, but it will be absolutely hilarious to just play these sort of garbage cards and effects in reverse 100 IQ fashion.
@craigstuckey319
5 ай бұрын
Divination is also super bad. If you play it you should feel bad. It's ass.
@dunefox8
4 ай бұрын
Figures it was from MKM
@bboytrippleM
5 ай бұрын
Cryptex is okay in graveyard strategies
@dariusgibson3368
5 ай бұрын
But idle thoughts with Asmodeus is really good
@Dani-on-yt
3 ай бұрын
I think wistful thinking is not that bad in a Rielle, the everwise deck
@basketball2560
5 ай бұрын
This is exactly how you should be drawing cards. Todays meta is broken.
@enjaded7222
5 ай бұрын
wistful thinking good for self discard for reanimator tho
@vaterbot8961
5 ай бұрын
Idle Thoughts is good in an Eruth, Tornented Prophet deck
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