*PSA* Skyclave Apparition is going to be in a Challenger Deck (2 copies) coming out April 1st. Maybe someone will see this. Love this series, guys.

@stormblest

2 жыл бұрын

Is this an April fools joke?

@JonReid01

2 жыл бұрын

@@stormblest no and there are snow lands too this year

@jaysonbassett8417

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man you saved me six bucks I'll just hold out on picking one up my LGS only had foil anyway

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Good to know thanks for that PSA 😌

@Torsav

2 жыл бұрын

@@NitpickingNerds Even for 5 dollars that card is a house.

My number 1 pick for undervalued commander cards is Chittering Witch, currently under 50 cents. The cards just does it all - 4 mana 5/5 in stats across 4 bodies, a repeatable sac outlet and the option to remove creatures at instant speed. Token decks want this card. Graveyard and Aristocrats decks want this card. ETB decks want this card. Even in a creature pile without synergies it performs well, to the point where it's now in the majority of black decks I play. I've been a fan of Pia and Kiran Nalaar for a long time and this is just that on steroids - one token more, one mana less on the sac ability, can destroy indestructible creatures, less colored mana restrictions and it's in black.

Love when you guys follow up on the price of your recommendations at a later date. Great transparency and great accountability! Keep up the good work!

So glad I found you guys, I'm only just starting my commander journey, you are fun and informative

@andrewrockwell1282

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome. I started about 6 months ago and the Nerds have helped me a ton.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

We are glad to help you!

@thetogtube2

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the club! These guys are the best in the game.

@stormblest

2 жыл бұрын

The nerds are the best.

@KevinBushman

2 жыл бұрын

Then I highly recommend you go back too! Their content is so on point, they cover all sorts of topics so well.

I've been following you guys for 6-8 months and you've definitely helped my deck building. I include Nature's Claim in every green deck that's 2-3 colors, among other great suggestions. Keep up the great work!

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words! We are glad to be helping you :)

Been waiting for months but the day is here. Finally got a happy birthday from my favorite MtG KZreadrs! Going to celebrate by nabbing a few from this list. Don't worry, I'll use the affiliate link. Love you guys. Keep on rocking!

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much and happy birthday!

Joined you guys about a month ago. Love the content. Been buying mostly every mdfc land I come across.

Cabal coffers is definitely worth buying right now. It's the lowest it's been in years.

@famousstranger8468

2 жыл бұрын

I pulled both arts from my mh2 bundle I Need them to go up 😅

@Squee_666_9

2 жыл бұрын

@@famousstranger8468 They just about reprinted this one into oblivion. It's not even really used that much in modern and it was printed in a modern product.

@Linky609

2 жыл бұрын

The alt art is so gorgeous, pulled it from my mh2 collector box

I already bought 10 of each of the channel lands including Boseiju (used the NN tcgplayer affiliate link when I did) because those cards for sure are going up in price. They are useful in every format, they won't be reprinted again since they are specific to the Kamigawa plane, and any competitive player will take advantage of the zero opportunity cost.

12:57 seeing the fear and uncertainty in Joes face when he doesn’t know what the lion posing as a house cat will do made my day.

Bring back the price changes for cards from last month! That was my favorite part. Love the content, keep up the grind guys

I got excited when I found Glasspool Mimic a couple years ago. MDFC's are all pretty good

Love that otawara gets around veil of summer

The happy birthdays are a great start to the videos.

Stingin study is my go to budget card for necro potence

I was very fortunate to buy like 4 copies of glasspool mimic, and a couple copies of valakut awakening and bala ged recovery as soon as zendikar rising dropping. Those 3 stuck out as the best of the non mythics, and potentially even better than most of the mythic ones (all but agadeems awakening) in terms of the cards effect. Obviously the mythic MDFCs are easier to find a spot for due to coming in untapped.

To anyone wondering if you should sub to the patreon, yes. The answer is yes. Amber said to, and you don't say no to pretty kittys.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

I can confirm, she DID ask everyone to!

Commander clash mentioned this on their MDFC podcast. The land types matter to an extent on some colors. Green it really doesn't matter, but mountain, island, swamp, and plains are all important for their colors

Ashaya, soul of the wild is such a sweet card for anything with green in it and creatures. Currently at below 6 euro here in Europe. That is a steal in my opinion. Especially as it can be a monster of a commander too enabling tons of nasty combos. Or just laugh at effects that can't handle nonland permanents.

Thank you Nitpicking Nerds for the great deals on cards.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watch our video

Hostage taker from Ixalan also was misprinted and could, for a short time, exile itself and go into an infinite loop.

For Hostage Taker you can kill it with it's ability on the stack and the target will never get exiled at all.

Agree on the MDFCs. I run them in every deck. Don't sleep on Sejiri Shelter. IMO the best of the white cycle.

Big fan of kiki jiki. I picked up a time spiral remastered copy last year and got a sweet full art alter of the masters art. Also got a play set of the fable of the mirror breaker. Fun card to mess around with. Not amazing in commander tho due to the long turn cycles

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

I am trying the card in my helena and Alena Deck cuz they give haste

Glasspool mimic in my party deck is "best creature in play as a rogue" !

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

It fits that role super well

I also recommend picking up Bear Umbra right now if it would fit in a deck. The card has only been previously printed twice and was going for about $15, but it was reprinted in the Neon Dynasty pre-con and is now being sold for about $5! Totem armors might not be the best, but having an aura with an attack trigger that untaps all lands you control can lead to huge turns!

@Linky609

2 жыл бұрын

Pair it with hellkite charger ggs

I don’t know how I missed wall of mourning! I’m tinkering with my mono-W zombie cat god and I LOVE that card especially with some of the blink I’ve been using.

I picked up 2 sokhensan, 1 otawora, 1, eiganjo, and 4 takenuma

Stinging study is amazing in my k’rrik deck 🖤

Cherries & Beezy's Cat Stare down at 12:57... LOL

I like these new Powered-Down Nerds 👍

Okay let's talk about managorger hydra. That card does some massive work. If you get it out turn two it's usually bashing faces for 5 on turn 3, then 9 ect...if someone uses removal that's also a win. They just used a 3 or 4 mana removal spell to take out a 3 drop. That's a win. That's one less removal spell not hitting your commander or combo piece ect. Also throw some boots on that baby and suddenly the table has about 4 turns to draw a wrath or its gg. He is an allstar in my Ezuri deck. Also couldnt agree more on the horse spirit. I have it in my xenagos deck and its hilarous to turn mana dorks or imperial recruiters into 10 10 monsters that need to be answered.

@HomeCookinMTG

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know who’s playing 4 mana removal barring sweepers, and if they used a 3 mana spell on it they traded 1 for 1, but a lot of the good removal is 1 or 2 mana.

@Goodthrust69

2 жыл бұрын

@@HomeCookinMTG lol the 4 mana land removal in this video. Which I still think is bad. That's a different discussion. Even if it eats a swords I consider that a win.

While they may not be budget shocks and fetches are the lowest they've ever been so good time to pick those up or extra copies for future decks.

The legendary lands are fantastic for budget tainted pact decks

You look so much happier than the Twitter episode, I'm glad you were able to keep moving forward. It's always infuriating when people purposefully misinterpret you and your opinions and straw man you to oblivion. Social media is such a pain. Thanks for the good content and for keeping it coming every day!

NEW NITPICKING NERDS VIDEO!

Slippery Bogbonder is sitting in my bulk box. It needs to be put in my Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider deck immediately! Thank you nerds !

@Linky609

2 жыл бұрын

Run in my Kyler deck and it's an awesome card.

35:38, hey Adarkar Wastes would be a good reprint.

Today (feb 24) was MY birthday. You’re doing work out there boys ! Keep it up!

The channel ability is an activated ability meaning it can be countered.

Yeah when Stinging Study got spoiled I immedietly ordered one for my Oloro deck :p

lol yesterday was my birthday 🥳 thanks beezy!

Phimage is filthy, pretty high praise to call glasspool mimic better. mdfcs are pretty nuts though.

Would love to see a short of top 5 creatures to target with a kicked Rites of rep

I find the format a money pit without proper education..... Its crazy. Thank you so much for your work! Having a Deck Plan, Target Removals, Mana Ramp, Lands and Card Draw are the most important. Can you make a few videos describing each one of this categories? Kind of deck plans (+1/+1 Counters, Sacrifice, etc) and cards for the rest of the categories?

@markwindle1633

2 жыл бұрын

don't worry man, just proxy everything you need. It's all good!

Hell yes time to see what cardboard i should probably spend my money on

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

All of it!!!

@Dogmagic420

2 жыл бұрын

@@NitpickingNerds there's actually a handful of cards on this list I already have a decent stockpile of, and more to stock up on!

Karmic Guide being worth 25 cents took me by surprise, that card combos with anything

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

That card is such a house!

I was so disappointed when the crowd lands came out in Battlebond and didn't have land types. They would have been similar to Jeweled Lotus, almost exclusively usable in Commander. This would have been a way to have "functional reprints" of OG duals without affecting Legacy or OG pricing.

My syr konrad mono black deck is the only deck where i dont really run mdfcs or kamigawa lands. Cabal coffer, cabal stronghold and all the mana crypt like effects that care for swamps specifically are so strong. Plus nykthos, vesuva, thespian stage, bojuka bog etc. So my 26 basics + 11 nonbasics is packed very tightly with little wiggle room.

That Dack Fayden is cheaper because the ult ability only happens once where the other Dacks give you an emblem.

Karmic guide goes ham in Alesha

Slippery bogbonder is fun in skullbriar

Stinging Study is great in Tasigur

Rite of replication is so fun in my Grazilaxx deck. I always try to copy Psychosis Crawler’s because i want you to Loos 6 for every Card I draw

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Well that is a lot of life lose

Animar loves Thundering Mightmare.

Someone in my play group was like, “There aren’t any infinite combos in this deck,” and somehow another player gained control of them and discovered one… for 18 mana… Archaomancer, Rite of Replication kicked with Time Warp. 😂

@HomeCookinMTG

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the loop I found in my Zada deck, I have the dualcaster mage combo in there, but if I have both heat shimmer and twin flame, and I control ardent elementalist, Zada, and storm kiln artist, it makes infinite infinite power hasty bois

@crawdaddy2004

2 жыл бұрын

@@HomeCookinMTG When Paradox Engine was legal, I had built my first Commander deck. I found that with Planar Portal and a bunch of mana rocks, I went infinite. 😂 Completely unintentional.

Vines Of Vastwood seems a bit better to me than Slippery BogBinder. Not having to pay the extra mana for the counters is awesome if I just want to disrupt someone's Swords To Plowshares. But vice versa I can also pay the extra green to pump my creature for a big hit. Plus its a $1!!!

I have Stinging Study in my Liesa, never a bad draw 😁.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Super solid I. That deck

Tbh, I think slippery bogbonder is now $4 simply because of you guys lol

Imperial Recruiter is stupid cheap right now (MH2 in Card Kingdom is $7.5 right now), buy while you can!

Uploaded 6 seconds ago? Let’s do it

@andrewrockwell1282

2 жыл бұрын

Totally let's do it.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

We're doing it!

@joshholmes1372

2 жыл бұрын

It's done.

I love these videos

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

We enjoy making them too!

Correction with artifact lands, phyrexian metamorph and sculpting steel, they can be lands also

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Well kinda lol

@Npocommander

2 жыл бұрын

@@NitpickingNerds and with any of the artifact cost reducers like etherium sculptor you can ramp for 2 colorless

I'd love to come in as a guest player on shuffle scuffle.

Just bought a lions eye diamond, worth it… kinda

Managorger hydra is good, easily gets to like 15/15 trample and does a shit load of damage

Aw man, now that they wished ppl happy birthdays, that patreon do be looking even better! 👀

Apparently people just really want the Stained Glass Narset, it was crazy when I was checking, replacing Liliana as the chase card from Drops. I guess she's the 'default' drop for an October drop, hence killing the value. Must have broken some hearts of people stockpiling Lilianas. As always, they'd be punished for not having bought the more expensive Liliana I'm guessing, the Japanese Anime pre-release foil, which is absurdly pricey. I think I like the Saheeli more maybe for art, it's a tough call, but the anime Liliana is pretty cool, but I'll be happy if I end up with a Stained Glass Dreadhorde General. I did get an Ornithopter once, so I'm not sure it's certain, I'd have a good laugh anyways! Boseju is so absurd that it's warped how I play my cEDH deck, it's now very tempting to dig for Greater Auramancy to protect my Rule, #cEDHProblems I guess? When you insist on running all Rockstar combos, you have to make sure nobody else is doing anything. The other channel lands are also issues for that deck, especially Eiganjo and Otawara, they are both so damaging and hard to protect vs. I wonder about Imposter Mech, but it's still new, so who knows where it'll go? The ability to copy a powerful mana dork can be good (it's got haste!), copying a better creature seems really good. In stronger metas where you don't necessarily run big creatures (and probably want the abilities), it's probably going to feel amazing, like a fixed Gilded Drake, but one that doesn't give them a 3/3. Almost never better, but I struggle to see this card being a dead draw, other than right after a wipe. Also, how does nobody use Transmogrifying Wand?? This is 3x a removal spell on an artifact? 6 mana to kill 3 creatures would 100% see play as a colourless card, getting it 1 per turn feels worse but hardly unbearable. I run this and have almost universally been happy to see it. It's good when you're a ahead, and it's great when you're behind. It's slow, but it's also a slow 3 drop, which is fast enough to run through it's counters. Even Osgir doesn't use this card very much afaik.

One think about all MDFCs and others 2 sided card you should think about is that the reprint chance is very low to nonexistent. There is probably not going to be any product wizards will put out that will have these reprinted in them because they have 2 sides and the logistics of that. I can't see commander decks coming with MDFCs anytime soon.

Rite of replication on a terror of peaks could kill someone in your ur dragon deck.

Rite of Replication + Scourge of Valkus = 180 damage 😁

Scooze has single handedly won games for me. It becomes one of the best cards ever printed in Gnawbone deck because you always have extra mana. Typically I just have my biggest threat hand me their graveyard and say, "oh these are gone now". Lol

Love ondu inversion

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Us too

It could be possible for the crowd lands getting reprinted in commander legends baldurs gate.

I need to stop procrastinating about the commander Legends lands

I wanna visit the iron buffalo coffee and my fellow nerds heaven

Id use mdfc with bounce lands

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

That is a strong interaction

@tiagomanuelzanfrademeloego7694

2 жыл бұрын

I have a Korvoldo where I run a copy of kazuul's fury. Oh boy. Play as a land. Sac it for korvold. Recourse with eternal witness and fling a big fat dragon on opp face. So good

Anyone else wishing The Wandering Emperor was an actual commander with different abilities or maybe a creature? I think that would be pretty cool

@HahaHaha-rj2zq

2 жыл бұрын

It's Emurkal

Can you use skyclave apparition in mono white decks? I just noticed that it makes a blue token.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Yes you can, the blue token doesn't affect the card's color identity!

Question for my friends over at NN since you guys love the lands with spells on the other side...if I have an oracle of mul daya in play and my top card is mdfc, can I play it off the top of my library as a land? If the land side was the top side I wouldn't question it but since the land is on the backside, I'm not sure.

@samuelrobinson4638

2 жыл бұрын

I believe the ruling is that the Zendikar MDFCs are always the front side. The only time they are also treated as lands is when you are able to play a land. For example: - if it's in your hand, and you can play lands from your hand (as there are no spells on the stack and it's during a main phase) then you can treat the MDFC as a land. - if it's in your graveyard, and you have the ability to play lands from your graveyard (same as above, but you also have a Crucible of Worlds effect out) then you can treat the MDFC as a land. I don't think these rulings are up for debate. And using the same logic, if you have something that allows you to play lands off the top of your library, these should counts as lands. What I'm curious about is it's interaction with "you may put a land from your hand into play" effects, like on Growth spiral or Burgeoning. As I don't think you can technically play these MDFCs with those effects

@tomikvrona1681

2 жыл бұрын

If you "put a land on the battlefield" then the front face must be a land. If you "play" a land, you may choose the land on the back, even if the front isn't a land. Oracle of Mul-Daya allows you to "play" lands, so you may choose to play the back side of a modal double-faced card. 712.8. A player playing a modal double-faced card as a land chooses one of its faces that's a land before putting it onto the battlefield. It enters the battlefield with that face up. See rule 305, "Lands."

@samuelrobinson4638

2 жыл бұрын

@Dimitri Klockenbring oooh that's an interesting rules distinction, gj wizards.

One time I kicked a rite of replication on one of my opponent's nyxbloom ancients and then proceeded to win the game off the amount of mana I generated

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Beezy did that once too!!!

When your secrets aren’t secrets other ones: mana drain, imperial recruiter (6.50), fetch lands (Misty’s we’re like 80 before MH2), teferis protection (also much cheaper than what it was), drown in dreams (blue version of jeskas will dual mode with commander) The rest have been on my get now for a bit. Great vid!

With karma guide, with the ability on the sack can I sack it for mana, then target it with its ability?

@goosel9347

2 жыл бұрын

Not a judge but I’m pretty sure that the target has to be legal when the ability is first put onto the stack so no. You can’t take any actions until you’ve selected a target and by that point it’s too late to sacrifice the guide.

Wall of Mourning's ceiling is higher than three cards, no? What if you're playing a 5- or 6-player game? A 4-player constellation isn't the only way to play EDH!

You could almost say Dack Fayden at 9 dollars is… a steal?

@starmanda88

2 жыл бұрын

Ba dum tsh

I like Rite of Replication in my Reaper King deck; make 5 Reaper Kings, destroy 25 permanents lol

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Well that is just a win RITE!

Why did you guys leave kodama off this list? He's only 2 or 3 bucks right now which BLOWS my mind. Every time I resolve him I feel like I'm cheating! Anyway, great video. Oh and I'd love to see your skullbriar deck, I'm curious what tech you run 🏃‍♂️ 😉

Im pretty sure Amber wants a copy made of her.

Hot take: Just proxy expensive cards as long as they look good and don't drastically change your deck's power level

@thetogtube2

2 жыл бұрын

haha really should have been here yesterday haha (guessing that you are referring to yesterdays video?)

@bradmacgregor8722

2 жыл бұрын

They just made a video about that. Might be a better place for that discussion this video is clearly for people buying MTG

@smittynumber1812

2 жыл бұрын

@@thetogtube2 didn't see that video, thanks

Video idea and Question, do we buy neon dynasty cards now or do we wait ?

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

We are not really sure when the best time to buy cards tbh

@cloudycalcifer7799

2 жыл бұрын

@@NitpickingNerds you guys responded before i got to the end of the video. Thanks 🙏 non the less.

you missed a chance to say "From Beezy - for FREEzy"

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Darnit! Next time maybe

Always love u❤️

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Love you too (without making you uncomfortable)

I usually don’t buy super expensive cards (the most I’ve spent on a single card is $30) but I’m debating on buying a copy of sword of fire and ice for my shadrix silverquill deck due to him having double strike. Is it worth it?

@xXCigarXx

2 жыл бұрын

It is pretty sick shooting a couple utility guys on board plus drawing two cards....plus two protections and a stat boost that with double strike gives you 4 more damage....if you choose just to shoot face with the sword triggers....that's a extra 8 damage on a double striker.

@nickp465

2 жыл бұрын

xXCigarXx yeah the double strike is the only reason why I’m thinking of buying one, you make good points. Thanks!

Oh man don't promote the Neon D lands I need them to go down in price... I kidd everything you do is great

Get replication specialists at .25

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

It is pretty good

@Npocommander

2 жыл бұрын

@@NitpickingNerds my breya deck broke it lol

Look at all these proxy targets

Lol TCG player going nuts with Wall of Mourning sales

NN's opinion on natural order?

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

REALLY strong magic card, super good as long as you have things to cheat out

Rite of replication+ur dragon?

Why are these videos still showing up for me go awaaaaaaaaay