"Whenever an opponent casts a Modern Horizons card they must pay you $10 or immediately concede the game."

How about “Cards never printed in a standard legal set etb tapped”?

Kids in the 90s weren't used to games you had to keep buying. I would have found the concept of drafting offensive. My expectation was that, by buying a 60 card starter pack and winning random singles in the ante, I should have everything I needed to play the game as long as I wanted to. Remember, Alpha, Beta, Third Edition, and Unlimited were all basically edits of the same game. These hate cards helped avoid the impression that I had to buy the expansion set to keep up with my friends. I could just win a game where City in a Bottle was my opponent's ante. I'm sure wiser people saw in the marketing and lore that the game was intended to become an empire of disposable cardboard, but they had to ease us kids into it.

The real non joke reason why that will not happen is because black border cannot reference what sets cards were printed in. But I hear you saying "These card clearly do that, wtf are you talking about?". Well the text of the card is actually incorrect, when you activate them you are not supposed to check scryfall or gatherer, or just the set symbol, you are supposed to check the comprehensive rules where there is a list of cards for each of these hate cards and on that list is written every card they affect.

I shouldn't share this, but there is a brutal hate card in commander. Condemn. {W} "Put target attacking creature at the bottom of its owner's library". Mind you this can be played when a commander attacks anyone not just you. Since it's not going to the graveyard or to exile, the rule of putting it back in the command zone doesn't apply. Their commander, is GONE. They will now have to find and pull some tricks to ever see it again, defeating the whole purpose of the format.

True man, we need this for Modern Horizons 2 😂😂

8 or 9 years ago I’m at a legacy tournament playing Mud and the judges get called over to a table and there’s a bit of laughing from people and one dude is particularly upset. He was a well known Burn player that had a particular like of all things rare - foils, misprints, first editions, and things that weren’t even supposed to be printed. To that end he chose to play with Arabian Nights mountains. His opponent had City in a Bottle specifically just for this Burn player. I wish I had finished my match faster to go see it but that poor guy must have been the saltiest player on earth after having to throw his mountains in the graveyard.

I've seen City in a Bottle played in Vintage sideboards against Dredge, so it's not completely useless. Considering Dredge players mull for Bazaar of Bagdad aggressively, that's not the worst idea :).

The also blew up the lands from that set so people ran lands from sets that werent effected by those cards

Luckily Arabian Nights wasn't a draftable set. 8 card packs and 93 total cards with rarities that are very different than current day. And no one chaos drafts 8 card packs that according to your website cost a quarter million dollars.

While I would love to see cards like that, I think it would be too confusing. The reason is that reprinted cards in secret lairs, master set, etc. would make it confusing for newer players that don't know which cards is from MH2 or not (for example)

Dark Ritual, Gloom. Back in the day it just crushed mono white.

Honestly, I would be 100% on board with them making this style of hate card again outside of Standard. Maybe lose the second "can't play cards" clause on City in a Bottle, or replace it with a form of graveyard/hand hate for those cards, but I don't think it would be too OP. Heck, cards like these could even force decks to diversify a bit.

How about Winter Orb which hates out people from playing Magic:the Gathering?

I have been t1 channel fireballed in real life, but just thinking of Stasis still gets me irritated.

Here we go again!!! Secound!!!

And then we recently have "War of the Spark" Saga which does the opposite and is War of the Spark love.

There was a kind of hoser for Legends as well, Arena of the Ancients.

It would be hilarious if they had a set changing mechanic similar to color changing or replacing text

Basics from these sets: ☠️