Hey guys, love the video! One thing I request is that you put the names of the mentioned cards in the description so it makes it easier to buy the cards using your affiliate link!

@chrisdomingo9143

2 жыл бұрын

Write the card down while watching .. or if watching on a smart phone take a pic … simple

@DaGraveCrowder

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisdomingo9143 I do but that takes time and it seems others want this too

@LukeFromNY

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisdomingo9143 not helpful!!!!!!! It’s just as easy for nitpicking to put in the extra work!!!

@rjb4031

2 жыл бұрын

If they put the cards in the description people aren't going to watch the video which is counter productive. Just screen shot it.

@PostSomething

2 жыл бұрын

Then they won't make money from people watching the video

One thing to mention for Chaos Warp is also that it is so much fun. I love the chaos factor it adds to the game, makes every match memorable when they get something crazy.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

That is 100% true the 1% of the time it hits a crazy thing it makes them pop off

@skate14eras

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve had a creature of mine get chaos warped into my dance of the dead. Mind you, I’m running Yarok as my commander. Used dance of the dead on dockside extortionist from opponents graveyard. Also had their rebel in riches from my agent of treachery. Produced 26 treasures and won on my next turn. Will never happen again. It was outstanding.

When Embercleave rotated out of standard last year, I picked up a copy for my Tana the Bloodsower/Kamahl deck. It has made me so many saprolings.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Tana loves Embercleave

@nicholasbruce4124

2 жыл бұрын

HIT ME WITH THAT DECKLIST

@Kazz1187

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! But I grabbed a few for my commander voltron decks haha

@danielgoldberg2129

2 жыл бұрын

Just yesterday I moved 3 copies of Embercleave from my bulk rares box into my staples binder.

@Kazz1187

2 жыл бұрын

hell yea, staple indeed

Me: well I've spent more than I wanted to this month on magic, but I got a lot of stuff. I will just not buy things for a while and enjoy what I have. The Nitpicking Nerds: or.... You could buy these.. Me: well there goes another $44.

@JohnnyMottaBrawlFather

2 жыл бұрын

Literally me 😆😆 couldn’t resist

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

We are sorry :) lol

Phyrexian Reclimation is a fantastic pick up at under $4. The card is always so much better than my opponents expect both for unexpected combo potential and outright insane value.

More equipment synergy in white decks: Equip Colossus Hammer to a creature with a Luminous Broodmoth flying counter on it to make your creature lose flying

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

I like that spicy combo a lot!

@jayrpg9114

2 жыл бұрын

colossus hammer, sigarda's aid, luminious broodmoth, and a sac outlet for a janky 4 card combo.

@schrottinator

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryanburris8590 The flying counter is irrelevant for Broodmoths ability. It ony cares about flying. How it got flying or how flying was removed doesn't matter. It still works.

Loving all this content guys! Always been a fan but lately at work I’ve been hooked to watching/listening! U guys thinking of doing more podcasts?? I also enjoyed those

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting, it means a lot! We are tossing the idea around, but can't say for sure yet

@JohnnyMottaBrawlFather

2 жыл бұрын

@@NitpickingNerds nice! Whatever you guys do I’m definitely pumped to see you guys keep growing! You both and the professor are currently my favorites lol you all seem like you’d fit in my playgroup so good 😆

The List version of Aura Shards is actually more like $4 which is like insanely cheap for how powerful it is. Now it is a slam dunk in any deck including budget

Here again like I am every day! Hiiiiii! Love everything you guys do and I’m so proud of how much you’re growing! ❤️

Pulled a foil Nezahal out a booster box, gorgeous how it looks like actual sunlight goin through dark water.

I reallllllly wish I had bought several copies of Phyrexian Altar when I got my first one for ~30. Same goes for Ashnod's Altar when it was like $5, but $10 is still worth it. Sweet combo with Slimefoot as a commander plus a token doubler!

@Kazz1187

2 жыл бұрын

Ayyyyy better to call it the altar of slimefoot

@NightOfCrystals

2 жыл бұрын

For real. Got a Phyrexian for $5 years ago - wish I had bought many more.

I love Embercleave. Once, a friend of mine was playing my Xenagos deck and attacked another guy with a 12/12 hasty Etali. He flipped Embercleave from the top, making Etali a 13/13 haste trample double strike and killing the poor guy ^^

I play Defense of the Heart in Tiamat and almost ALWAYS go into Morophon & Jodah. The card DEMANDS an answer.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Oh geez that's powerful as HECK

@michaelturner5093

2 жыл бұрын

Another Tiamat deck with Morophon and Jodah! I'll definitely look into Defense of the Heart, thanks!

@starmanda88

2 жыл бұрын

How have I never seen this card it’s insane! Thanks for the tip.

@stevesmith5883

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's great, I run it in Selvala, Heart of the Wilds Eldrazi, typically get Nyxbloom and then whatever Eldrazi is the most relevent to the current boardstate.

@zackkelley2940

2 жыл бұрын

Emiel and Eternal Witness is particularly hilarious. Back n hand... replay. Get two more creatures with Defense of the Heart... blink Witness. Back in hand... replay. Repeat ad nauseum^^

I literally bought Kaya's Guile three weeks ago and was surprised how good the card is at almost every stage of the game. Great video as always, NN. 😄

such a great series, always excited to see what cards the nerds are super high on

Oh, guys, I didn't know Reiterate is so low and reprinted too?! Omg, my Wort needs this :) thank you very much

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!!

The good thing about maze of ith is there is a brief window where the creature has already dealt damage and is still considered attacking, and you can then tap your maze of ith to untap your creature to hold up as a blocker. So it can be pretty useful outside of stopping your opponents stuff.

Thank you guys for the B-Day shout out! 25 has been awesome so far 🙌

I love Broodmoth so much, that I got a bit sad when I realized it's not a good idea in my Alela fairie tribal deck.

Important to note that Maze of Ith can untap your own creature, either for an attack trigger on a creature you can't lose or for psuedo vigilance

The channel most worth watching on KZread

This is better than your normal videos by far.

One of my favorite parts of chaos warp is the fact that the owner shuffles it into their library and they put a card on the battlefield. Meaning when an opponent steals something of mine and tries to pull nonsense, I can chaos warp my guy back into my deck and I’m the one who gets to play the top of my deck. Very niche, but soooooo satisfying when it happens!

I have a Nezahal voltron deck that is a blast to play. Turns out casting a bunch of one sided board wipes and turning a one card draw engine into a one shot is pretty decent

I love this kind of videos thx guys

Keep up the awesome content guys

I think the thing that maeks me shy away from cabal stronghold is that I need 5 other swamps (so at least 6 lands on the field) for it to be better than a swamp, and I often cast cards like Dark Prophecy and Sign in Blood, which are so heavy on the pips that sometimes I need 95% of my mana base to be able to tap for black

I'm happy that there are quite a few cards mentioned which I bought recently. After the errata on Ranar, I wasn't sure for quite a while where to go with this deck now. Full blink would suit Brago better, there is too little foretell. I went with a hybrid blink/exile/token (mainly to draw cards with Trident, recon mission) or later to have tokens be 4/4 angels). Lion Sash is such an awesome card for ranar. For 1 mana you can remove key pieces your opponent might need, buff the sash and get a 1/1 flyer!

* one more argument for chaos warp is: If the opponent gets something bigger, the whole table has this "oh no" moment and creates unforgettable memories! * I once had a game where I played seedborn muse in my tasigur deck and the table was like "does anyone have a removal?" and they didn't, so they decided to just scoop up and play the next game haha. * beezy: "...unti the day that I die" cherries: super sad face... lovely. keep up the good work!

I bought a bunch of Mystic Remoras after the last time you guys pointed it out as a surprisingly inexpensive card. Really odd that such a powerful, popular old card with a single printing is at that price.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

We have had about 20 of them for a long time and everytime i see it's price I just say well dang that is low for a commander staple

@njensen218

2 жыл бұрын

It's partly because it's a Common

@thekopekemaster

2 жыл бұрын

@@njensen218 True, but the same is true for Rhystic Study, and Force of Will was an uncommon, so commons/uncommons from old sets can absolutely demand very high prices.

Also the versatility of maze this is really up there definitely give it a try play attention to the Combat step phases

I pulled Defense of the Heart in a List slot last month. It’s in my Tuvasa deck, usually to find Nylea’s Colossus and Archetype of Imagination. Hard not to kill someone.

Nether Traitor is my $2 favorite Monarch, Coveted Jewel and Planeswalkers sniper and perfect with all equipments and damage triggers. Just a perfect card all around in tons of decks.

A good seedborn muse "trick" (not the best by far just good/fun) is in conjunction with Sprout Swarm

Don't worry, I've done the mana geyser, reiterate, and fevered suspicion combo. I thought it up myself, you played every card in your opponents deck and leave them with only lands... How are they going to win? Edit: it's in my Prosper play my opponents deck, deck.

Interesting note for Cabal Stronghold that people often miss. If you have Urborg out, and you are running any other basic land, they still count as basic swamps. So a mountain when Urborg is out, is a basic mountain/swamp which counts for Cabal Stronghold.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

It is such a strange interaction

@loxeggcheese

2 жыл бұрын

Oh that’s some sick tech

Seedborn Muse was reprinted in a precon before. The only copy I have is from the Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer precon. Buuuut, I still don't forsee that happening often and $10 still feels super fair for that card to me. Also, thanks for reminding me about Reiterate. I definitely gotta get one for only $2.50.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

It is and Nether Traitor dipped so low with Timespiral Remastered

@Solemnyty

2 жыл бұрын

@@NitpickingNerds indeed! I did pull a Nether Traitor from my box. But Reiterate is one of the cards I was most happy to see reprinted and still haven’t picked one up. Thanks again for the the reminder!

Video so nice, I watched it twice.

Another 2 cards at always worth buying are Feldon of the third path (old border is required) and brash taunter. Two of the best red cards in commander

@RecoveringSpartan

2 жыл бұрын

Man, Feldon always seems sweet but I always end up cutting him.

@yeetboi2392

2 жыл бұрын

@@RecoveringSpartan make him the commander and he becomes the most fun mono red commander, especially if you can end your own turn

@RecoveringSpartan

2 жыл бұрын

@@yeetboi2392 I've never built him as the commander but that does sound fun, or in a sneak attack style deck to reuse fatties in the bin but then reanimator just seems better

@yeetboi2392

2 жыл бұрын

@@RecoveringSpartan Sundial of the Infinite makes those tokens stick around perminantly

@RecoveringSpartan

2 жыл бұрын

@@yeetboi2392 I agree as a commander it makes sense and seems fun. But it's hard for me to see it being good in the 99 since it requires such a unique combination of cards to really shine

Full art borderless gold stamped signed black and white art card lands are gonna be hot cards. They only come in Crimson vow and midnight hunt set boxes and both of those are basically done. Double feature means neither set will get a reprint before going OOP. Double feature was the reprint for both midnight hunt and crimson vow. Filling a 360 card binder takes a little over $1,000,000 in sealed being opened and all the art card stamped lands going directly onto the market.

I am sad. Yesterday was my birthday and I unfortunately did not get a Happy Birthday from the Nitpicking Nerds. Today's episode was pretty quality though.

O-ring can't even get rid of Grave Titan without leaving 2 2/2s on the board!

So glad other people are hip to how awesome Nezahual is

You guys are great :)

AH HA!!!! Fond something for my Mono green, using the East Tree, which I totally overlooked and forgot, while using Halana, Kessig Ranger, which is my Commander and works well. East Tree will help it a lot, but the reason I overlooked it was that I thought it was for creatures only, not just permanents. WOW!

Kodama is so good I found an accidental infinite mana combo with it in my Koma deck 😂😂

Nice curated list! I want to point out that (17:30) is not Gambler's Fallacy; it is in fact the opposite. Gambler's Fallacy would be "I got screwed over 5 times in a row by Chaos Warp, my next 50 times should be good".

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Either one is the gamblers fallacy. :)

Every single card in this video is a Solid pick, thanks for all the amazing content

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind words! :)

@JaimeAGB-pt4xl

2 жыл бұрын

@@NitpickingNerds Btw, I have a question/suggestion for an episode of Shuffle Scuffle ... have U guys considered Playing with decks from Ur fanbase?, you could request some patreons to submit deck lists, and proxy decks U guys liked to play with in the show, maybe even a portion at the end lf the episodes for suggestions or so... Just an idea ✌🏻

I really like chaos warp. I would love to see other colors break the pie as long as there’s potential risk the cards.

Funny thing about Chaos Warp is that you will never know if you shuffled a killer card off the top and buried it in the library. Also, Maze of Ith works great with Yavimaya in play.

It is my birthday! You guys are too kind.

I play defense of the heart in my gruul dragon deck and it so fun. If you wan to win on the spot Klauth and hellkite charger both have haste and make infinite combat steps. Other wise just take 2 dragons with nice utility in that moment, like furnace dragon (I have 3 artifacts in the whole deck. Yeii for green ramp)

@derekketcham1540

2 жыл бұрын

How would you be able to activate the chargers ability? Kaluth mana can only be used to cast spells

Mystic Remora is a great hint of yours. In a lot of situations I consider it even better than Rhystic Study.

If I remember when I first started playing DOH was rather pricey? And Ive won several games with my selesnya lockout deck with heart alone. Sigarda/avacyn. You get your privileged position/sterling Grove, Leyline of sanctity and you're good I think lol.

Here's some super budget cards at all time lows that could make your next list: Hostage Taker, Karmic Guide, Timeless Wittnes, Etali, Primal Storm and I like Spectral Deluge at 75 cents over Evacuation.

Also I don't think you mentioned it but another benefit of Chaos Warp is that if you want, you can use it on your own like, Token and potentially get something nuts Typically only if there's like, nothing else you'd want to use it on, but it's still a potential upside!

@RecoveringSpartan

2 жыл бұрын

Chaos warping your own stuff is so fun, but I can't imagine a scenario where it increases your winrate to cast it on your own stuff. It's value in hand as a future removal spell seems like it would always outweigh the potential value. Maybe feather the redeemed if you have spare mana but even then I'd rather cast a cantrip I think

@applesmcfoolishness8536

2 жыл бұрын

@@RecoveringSpartan never said it would win you the game, just that it *is* a thing you could do Even if you never do it, the fact you can is still an upside!

That "yass yass" for song dryad is Joe giving us a sneak peak on his sassy side

Seedborn muse wrecks face in my Koma cosmos serpent deck. When I start tapping down lands you should be worried.

I'm at 6 minutes, i dont know if you present it in this video or in a previous one but command the dreadhorde at 0.50$ is a worth buying card imo + nice budget option. One printing + It is an all star on my RB reanimator deck (win me a lot of games which one is today lol) and its super cheap!

Shoutout to the nerds on Call the Coppercoats and Perplexing Test. The rise has begun and I’m glad I’m sitting on a dozen of each. Commander legends duals up a couple bucks too.

Seedborn muse does so much work in my Kinnan deck - insane.

37:37 I love rolling my opponents into pretzels with Ashnond’s Altar.

Cabal Stronghold is good in two color decks if you can get an Urborg. Basic Islands, for example, would contribute to the extra mana since they would be BASIC swamps.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't play it past 2 colors personally

Cool shirts Lads! What is the batman one?

chaos warp your own Zada with a board full of goblin tokens... fun times

Love the shirt Joe, i have that same shirt, its a walmart classic.

NEW NITPICKING NERDS VIDEO!

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

The dedication is real

@jarendavidson5758

2 жыл бұрын

@@NitpickingNerds The day I miss a vid… might as well be doomsday

Seeing y'all argue about maze makes me want a video on cards you two disagree on. Maybe there aren't enough to make a whole video but it could be fun

I'm loving Mothra. It's a staple in many of my decks. Pair with the oozolith!!!

hope you're right about lion sash, cause i got a pre-release version.

Also i love Embercleave for it was the bane of standard for a certain amount of time.

As it is actually my birthday today (turning 27) thank you.

I run generous gift in every white deck. Mono or splash But honestly I’ve never seen someone else use

Kaya's Guile really depends on the meta you are playing in. The best mode is the graveyard hate, but I've seen it be a dead card before because my opponents were simply playing decks that were not using their graveyards much. Having your opponents all sac a creature is a 3 for 1 but I personally dislike sac effects that my opponents have control over. The last 2 modes are totally not worth it in my opinion. But yeah in a meta where your opponents are using their graveyard as a second hand it's an amazing card.

i play chaos warp in my krark sakashima copy critical mass combo deck and even thou I might cast chaos warp like 2-6 times a game I pretty much never hit something bad whit it so yes in all decks that have red its in the deck

Janky combo of the day: Defense of the Heart, search for Terror of the Peaks and Scute Swarm, then cast scapeshift

Yooooooo Looks like I'll be buy more cards again 🙃

Good list. My picks would be sneak attack, ozolith, godo(not necessarily for the helm but just an equipment tutor plus) tezzeret betrayer of flesh (good planeswalker especially in artifact decks that cheats mana and enables infinite combos) sword of hearth and home, the class cards from AFR and wound reflection.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

The Ozilith is a card I love but I think ti is a little pricy

@imanujakku

2 жыл бұрын

@@NitpickingNerds i suspect minsc and boo and the broker’s ascendancy synergy will push this card to a point its not attainable at all. This is more endure the pain now or get ready to proxy because if this card remains under 20 for long id be surprised.

I think in the same way chaos warp is good, Tibalts Trickery is also really good. It comes out pretty cheap too and can offer different forms of interaction for red decks that normally wouldn't have any interaction other than say deflecting swat

When you talk about powerlevel from Commander Legends, you need to take the different metas into account. Oppo Agent wins off of an intuition and is a serious stax piece in cEDH. I do not think Kodama is a staple at all, since that card needs to be built around.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

We tend not to speak for cEDH because we do not play it often :)

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY AND I GOT A BANGER VIDEO

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday and glad you enjoyed!

Research Thief from the kamigawa precons is extremely underrated. Although not a staple for any deck with blue in it, an artifact deck that has essentially an instant speed Toski can get such massive value that I'm surprised it's only a quarter.

How many staples are too many staples? I noticed in a lot of my decks, typically only the enchantments and creatures are unique to the deck, but my instants, artifacts and sorceries usually remain unchanged staples.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

This is an interesting point I had not thought about but I feel about the same

@Ilasperr

2 жыл бұрын

For removal i don't mind running similar package every deck. For card advantage and win cons I like to keep it synergy based rather than raw power. I find this approach keeps things unique but still relatively powerful.

Could we get a text list to put into mass entry for these videos?

I really like Rhystic Study but yeah it is an expensive card. I also like Mystic Remora (which is why I have 5 of them). That being said in my mostly simic deck (its all color but 90% of its colors are green/blue) I have Rhystic Study and instead of Mystic Remora I choose the green enchantment card Virdian Revel. What that card does (in case you didn't know) is that whenever an opponent sacrifices an artifact (that includes Treasure tokens btw) I can draw a card..can't remember if its a may/have to draw effect but regardless still a great card imo.

One time someone in my playgroup chaos warped an opponents card and the permanent off the top of the library was omniscience lmao

the seedborn muse effect is so ridiculous that my patron of the orochi deck has jet to lose a singular game where i where able to activate orochies effect and thats an 8 mana seedborn muse that only works for green creatures and forests and is an activated ability while seedborn just untaps everything and with haste for 3 less mana.

Refreshed KZread had this video saying it was uploaded 5 seconds ago

Ophiomancer and [[Atrition]] - destroy an opponents creature every upkeep for the low low cost of B. It's like having an unrestricted Fatal Push every upkeep. Ophiomancer and [[Contamination]] Everyone's mana is black until Contamination is dealt with. Seeing as opponents only have black mana that's going to be a little harder to get rid of, seeing as black has only ONE card to deal with enchantments.

I’ve seen big fish in cedh as well, kinnan and tasigir mainly

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

That is so damn cool!

Best part of song of dryad's, following it up with vesuva.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

I love that little combo so much!

Yarok, the Desecrated loves Kodama of the East Tree long time.

13:53 ‚at the beginning of each cupcake‘ how can you Pokerface through that?

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

He had cupcakes on the brain!

Maze of ith is absolute fire in Jorn, god of winter.

Seedborn muse also will help you not to tap out with all out attack

Bought the commander collection black for $53 a few days ago

*sees chaos warp* *flashbacks to when someone got the same permanent back when they flip the card*

My guy cherries 🍒 has the same Walmart Mario shirt i have . I actually own two of them because they are so comfortable lol

I think Mystic Remora has 1 printing because of the pseudo-reserve list because it has cumulative upkeep.

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

Well it would be a card that print in something like a premium product that it doesn't matter in like Mystery Booster had cumulative upkeep cards

technically you could get rid of song of the dryads with land destruction too

@NitpickingNerds

2 жыл бұрын

This is true