Fleshmad Steed = Theros set was about the gods. Heracles 8th labor was the mares of Diomades. There were 4 mares (like 4 copies of the cards in a deck). The horses would only eat human flesh and were uncontrollable. When the horses would eat human flesh, they would calm down. So the Fleshmad Steed are the horses. They are stronger then humans (who are 1/1 creatures) and when a creature dies they are eating it so the horses tap. The flavor text is when Heracles crew saw the horses they were not afraid until the horses beat down a person and starting eating him.

@DonniesBoStaff

7 жыл бұрын

guzenfox I was saying the same thing. But which of the cards is actually Heracles?

@nicholasandersen6138

7 жыл бұрын

guzenfox I

@TheShinyFeraligatr

6 жыл бұрын

That's fair, but it's a fucking Grizzly Bears. Before that card it had been seven or so years before a bear with a downside was printed, and it's been quite a few years since then. It should have been a 3/2 or something to justify the downside.

@dson8571

6 жыл бұрын

if every card was good, no cards would be good. :)

@TheShinyFeraligatr

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, but that doesn't mean they should print 4 mana 1/2s with shitty abilities like they used to, and it doesn't mean printing 2 mana 2/2s with hefty downsides in a color that by that point had already gotten vanilla 2 mana 2/2s in actual tribes without it being that amazing.

Enter the Infinite + Omniscience = PLAY ALL THE THINGS!!

@extremdeath1234

8 жыл бұрын

+Dreznin Or laboratory maniac (IE) have minds eye out and when your opponent draws you win

@doombybbr

5 жыл бұрын

To be fair once you have omniscience there are way too many ways to win instantly.

@0m3GAARS3NAL

5 жыл бұрын

Have cards that recycle your graveyard back into your deck, cards that let you have more turns, assloads of draw/stall. TAKE ALL THE TURNS

@professorstarzomski

5 жыл бұрын

Add past in flames. Play all the things twice

@Marci568

5 жыл бұрын

Or psychic corrosion. Mill all the things!

In the old days, creature cards would be typed as, for example, "Summon Cat" instead of "Creature - Cat". So "Summon Legend" means "Creature - Legend".

@pleravens

8 жыл бұрын

+3snoW Actually, Legend was originally a creature type. If you went as written, it would be a Legendary Creature with no types. But I believe it would end up as a "Legendary Creature - Human" (or maybe Wizard).

@3snoW_

8 жыл бұрын

pleravens Oh yeah, i forgot that now "Legend" isn't a creature type anymore lol. There used to be some special creature types, the "Legend" creature type behaved the same way as the "Legendary" keyword does now, and the "Wall" creature type implicitly meant that it couldn't attack. And in the old days creatures didn't necessarily have types if i'm not mistaken.

fun fact: relentless rats has a cousin named shadowborn apostle. play a 20/38 deck with 2 slots taken by grislebrand. that was a standard deck. the card you were thinking of for drafting the table is theive's auction enter the infinite is 12 cmc, not 13

@MoldMice

8 жыл бұрын

+Planeswalker999 That was never a standard deck, but ok.

@kinosmead

8 жыл бұрын

+Dan Racinowski sorry. it was a deck that could be played in standard

@doeball2763

5 жыл бұрын

PERSISTENT PETITIONERS

@EvanFarshadow

5 жыл бұрын

Shadowborn Apostle and Rat Colony and Persistent Petitioners say hello

You couldn't make him sac Progenitus if you wanted to. The word "everything" is arguably the most broad word in the English language, everything includes the player that played him, because that player is indeed a thing. Wizards rulings wouldn't work on him either, unless they want to call their rulings not a thing.

@DesolatorMagic

8 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Hammer Yes I can make him sac it. Look up what "protection" means in the MTG rules.

@And-Ham

8 жыл бұрын

"702.16i “Protection from everything” is a variant of the protection ability. A permanent with protection from everything has protection from each object regardless of that object’s characteristic values. Such a permanent can’t be targeted by spells or abilities, enchanted by Auras, equipped by Equipment, fortified by Fortifications, or blocked by creatures, and all damage that would be dealt to it is prevented." Wizards fucked up using the most broad word printed on a card. Unless you want to call sacrificing stuff not a thing (and if it wasn't you couldn't do it).

@Gelfish95

8 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Hammer "Progenitus can still be affected by effects that don’t target it or deal damage to it (such as Day of Judgment)." - gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=179496 As such things that force the sacrifice of a creature, any Wrath effect, a board-wide -X/-X effect can all kill Progenitus. It's actually surprising easy to kill him, and part of the reason why Wizards decided to phase 'protection' out in favor of indestructible.

@And-Ham

8 жыл бұрын

Is Wizard's a thing? Is a wrath effect a thing? is a "board-wide -x/-x" effect a thing? Because if they are, they are part of everything, which Progenitus has protection from. Idc how many rulings there are, wizards decided to print the most broad word on a card in a game where very finite rule matter a lot. Anyone who argues against this is up Wizard's assholes lol

@RidinMusicLines

8 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Hammer You don't have understanding of what "protection" means in MTG. It literally just means it cannot take damage from "everything" or be targeted by "everything." Sacrificing a creature is NOT the same thing as targeting. Boardwiping is NOT the same thing as targeting.

I have both enter the infinite and omniscience. You play your entire library for free.

@guacysock

8 жыл бұрын

Other than the 10 mana it costs to cast omniscience.

@1235squatch1235

7 жыл бұрын

Do that and add things like laboratory maniac or inner fire(adds red mana equal to cards in hand) with any X burn spell. Comet storm is really good because you can mutlikicker it to hit more targets for the X damage.

@kyral19

6 жыл бұрын

Ive hard cast enter the infitnite and then hard cast omniscience a few times to win the game. you do what you gotta do

@znmckague

6 жыл бұрын

It's way easier to go infinite with a Palinchron via High Tide and then cast Mind's Desire

@thezombiefan777

5 жыл бұрын

The Meme Dream Team Jodah?

"Sorrow's Path" has to be one of the strangest (and arguably worst) Magic cards ever printed.

Fleshmad Steed is an example of the 2/2 for 1M. Green was the first with Grizzly Bear, which was meant to show the power of Green with creatures. Eventually White was given the same thing to reflect its power with small creatures. Every other color was forced to have a drawback until creatures got ramped up. Now Green and White get 2/2 with upside, and Black and now Red have occasional 2/2's for 1M, leaving only Blue as the color that can't just have a 2/2 for 2.

@Vigilanchovy

7 жыл бұрын

Dominick Riesland Blue has Phantasmal Bear a 2/2 for 1

@DominickRiesland

7 жыл бұрын

With a drawback. You can always get more if you take a drawback. Phantasmal Bear (and Dragon) can't stand up to a Master Decoy.

Thieves' Auction is the card he couldn't remember at 11:35.

Fleshmad Steve is one of those "we have till midnight to make 20 unique cards" cards

@nolabratteig988

4 жыл бұрын

Omg Steve turned into a zombie.

I think that Fleshmad Steed may be a reference to Ancient Greek mythology. During Heracle's 12 labors he came across a kingdom who's ruler had trained his horses to consume human flesh. Nothing special about them, just carnivorous horses. That would explain it's typing, and its ability might be it feasting on the recently fallen's corpse? Also, the fact that all of Theoros is based off of Greek mythology helps to support this idea.

I think Fleshmad Steed is an example of wizards going too deep into flavor to make anything useful. The Fleshmad Steed is a reference to the Mares of Diomedes, 4 horses that Hercules encountered during his Eighth Labor. They were supposed to be uncontrollable man-eating horses. The tap when something dies is probably referencing that you can't really control when that ability happens (like the horses) for the Steed to go feed on the dead creature (so it is tapped).

Magic "just keep buying the cards and no one gets hurt"

Armageddon predates WotC owning TSR

@KabukiKid

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah... they used some religious stuff on cards... Swords to Plowshares... Wrath of God... they were out there.

@KabukiKid

7 жыл бұрын

***** Or Army of Allah. heh

@victorvaldez8869

6 жыл бұрын

Wizards Of The Coast didn't acquire Dungeons & Dragons from TSR until 1997 & Alpha came out in 1993 to be precise.

My friend actually has a Commander Progenitus deck

@Ghost-jc4cm

5 жыл бұрын

I actuaaly just completed mine the other day. waiting FOr the last card to come in before it take it to a tournament

Old Magic the Gathering did not just make up their own mythology. There is actually a card named "Frankenstein's Monster".

fleshmad steed is based on greek mythology. flesh eating horses... whenever something dies they stop and eat the corpse

That 1996 champion card is so stupid, there's only 1 in existence so getting another one is literally impossible

Fleshmad Stead is an ancient Greek Myth about the Mares of Diomedes which was 4 horses that ate human flesh. So, whenever a creature dies the horse will go over there and eat them so it taps. It's actually really great flavor and might combo eventually with a creature untap mechanic.

I always thought fleshmad steed was purely flavor based, like "oh look a dead body!" and it would run over to eat it as it was mad for flesh and since it was eating it would be preoccupied hence becoming tapped

I have a Reaper King Commander Deck

@noahwolff5455

4 жыл бұрын

I do to! Mine's scarecrow tribal and runs a bunch of the split cards and all the guild lockets. I call it- all five colourless

I really like this series! Keep it up man!

every unhinged/unleashed card ever is weirder than this entire list. you should feature 'the fallen apart' it's just hilarious

Speaking of the Autochton Wurm, its kind of funny to think about the kinds of things it survives: It survives a high-speed meteor smashing into it (Shivan Meteor, 13 damage to a creature). It survives getting blasted by Hell (Into the Maw of Hell). And so on.

13:30 In Hearthstone, when you play the weapon "Aluneth" you hear it say "You cross the infinite", perhaps a reference to this card with the effects being rather similar

Wizards should play a Scrambleverse with their MTGA shuffler and matchmaker

The card you was thinking about that was draft like was called "thieves auction". Remove all perminents from the game. Starting with you and going clockwise, each player chooses a permanent from outside the game and places it onto the field. Do this till all cards that were removed by this auction has been played. It's one if my favorite cards because when people play "I win decks" or "you can't touch me decks" you can just kick em in the shins with this.

Aside from Flavor, the only way I can see using Fleshmad Steed someone effectively in a game is if you could cheat out all four copies and play Tamiyo , the moon Sage and sacrifice a creature, so that all four tap, allowing you to draw no less than four carbs from one of her loyalty abilities. I don't know how practical this would be overall, just a thought. As far as summon Legend as a creature type, when the game first came out, it was how they identified legendary creatures. Summon Legend has now been redefined by Oracle as legendary. I love your videos and the series, thank you for posting them

The Epic spells from Saviors of Kamigawa need to be in the next one

Omniscience + Locust god + Enter the Infinite= game over

There is always the Unglued and Unhinged sets, but those cards were intentionally designed to be weird.

I came specifically for Enter the Infinite on the thumbnail. And yes, I'm planning on putting it into a deck with four Elixir of Immorality. You hit the nail on the head.

I love that he is so concerned with naming a specific product for fear of "getting sued". You are allowed to have opinions about a product dude.

@DesolatorMagic

8 жыл бұрын

"Hey, everyone, Deso-sleeves allow for cheating and are used by cheaters. Don't buy them or people will think you're cheating." Even I'd sue myself for saying that if I made Deso-sleeves lol.

I did build a Relentless Rats deck for modern built with some removal, a bunch of swamps, and of course, a bunch of relentless rats. The reactions are priceless.

Armageddon is my favorite spell to cast in Mental Magic.

1:10 Summon is what creature spells were called in the early days of magic. It represents you, the planeswalker, summoning a creature from it's home plane, the whole "you can't bring living things between planes" wasn't a thing back then.

Shared fate - Enter the infinate - destroy shared fate ... make your opponent cry...

I've actually got Enter the Infinite in my blue/black zombie deck based on Rooftop Storm. You'd stop laughing when I drop my library's worth of zombies on the field.

This vid, for some of it's faults as many have "politely" pointed out, HAS given me some neat ideas for making a halfway-competitive rainbow deck

I remember playing a Relentless Rats in an Abzan token deck (technically before Abzan was introduced through Tarkir. I think it was 2011?). The deck itself was very unreliable, but fun, with the main focuses being Conjurer's Closet (flicker every turn), Doubling Season (double every effect that gives tokens or counters), Cathar's Crusade (everything gets a +1/+1 counter whenever something enters the battlefield), and Populate (when it appeared). Used a Soul's Foundry in one duel to get a Relentless Rats token. Doubling Season doubled it, again thanks to a Parallel Lives. Everything gets 4 +1/+1 counters, doubled by a Doubling Season and again by a Corpsejack Menace. Next turn, Populate with Growing Ranks, get 4 more and everything gets 16 more +1/+1 counters. That's now 8 Relentless Rats, half 32 counters and half with 16. Then my opponent used an instant to prevent all damage that turn and wiped them away with a Martial Coup...

I love dropping Scrambleverse in EDH

here's the most random/weird cards I know : guild feud, possibility storm, knowledge pool+ obviously it's combo with curse of exhaustion, shared fate (you play your opponent's deck and you opponent plays yours), biovisionary, steamflogger boss, platinum emperium, gamble (the name, really Wizard?), confusion in the ranks (oh, the frustation this card can bring in a multiplayer game...), Grip of chaos, warp world (this+suspend cards) There you go, have fun seing the weirdest cards Wizards ever did :)! Btw, love your videos, keep this awesome work :D!

@Deris76

8 жыл бұрын

Oh, didnt know this one, thanks x)!

The reason why Fleshmad Steed isn't weird is because of the set it came in. Remember in that set "Inspire" was a mechanic in JOU, so this creature synergizes with the untap mechanic from Inspire in auras which state "When this creature becomes untapped do ". It's actually quite useful in limited. Armageddon isn't weird, just a tiny bit janky. I run two copies in my modern tournament deck,. it uses borderposts to generate mana so it screws over everyone else who isn't me. Progenitus isn't unreasonable, all you need to spit him out on the field is a Quicksilver Amulet to spit him out on turn 5, or Dramatic Entrance to spit him out on turn 3. Hive Mind is a janky card you might want to look at. There's an entire deck built around it and the Pact spells that cost 0 mana.

I actually played a Defender Ramp combo deck back when Enter the Infinite was in standard, using Enter the Infinite as a combo piece. It went infinite with Triton Tactics, Axebane Guardian and Sylvan Cartatid plus others to play infinite lands, draw my deck an infinite number of times and win with any number of effects all in a single turn. I could win with Mill thanks to Doorkeeper, Burn thanks to some big Burn X spell as well as maze’s end (which I could build up in one turn). It wasn’t the best against fast decks, but it WRECKED control.

Infinite + Laboratory Maniac, and perhaps even a draw effect . I'm partial to skyscribing, combining it with keening stone, traumatize, etc...another dual win condition

Play cards that say, "shuffle it into your library," with enter the infinite. Now you have an infinite ammount of creatures that returned from the graveyard to the battlefield.

"That's so deep I need to get a ladder to get back out it it" lmao

I've had Enter the infinite and omniscience quite a while, and has thought the combo would be hilarious but have never really tried it. A few weeks back I made a mono-blue deck with loads of stall mechanics, like counterspells, bounce creatures, defenders, Vortex elementals and such, combined with some mana ramp and card draw. I stall until I have 10 mana, or until I have the cards I need, play Omniscience and then enter the infinite, draw my whole deck, and play and bounce Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger until the opponent has no permanents left, and they mostly just give up from there. It's obviously not an even remotely competitive deck, but for playing at home with your friends own creations, it can hold it's own surprisingly well, and being mighty annoying at the same time.

Thrumming Stone + Relentless Rats = fun

A friend of mine used Enter the infinite in a (non tournament legal) high tide deck. From there he could choose whether to mill his enemies or just play Laboratory Maniac and draw two cards. He's reworked his deck a couple of times since then.

You, uh. You don't need to explain where the term 'Armageddon' comes from. It didn't originate with the movie. xD

@YanouUTG

5 жыл бұрын

Not to mention that he says that Wizards owns Dungeons and Dragons, which was only an early 2000's acquisition. Armageddon was made *long* before that. I was still a child (8-10 range) when this card came out. I'm 35 now.

That's true about theros. I had a grave crawler deck. Geralfs messenger is still one of my favorite and most broken cards to this date

I use enter the infinite as part of a 1-2combo with omniscience. It is my secondary "I win" deck

Fleshmad Steed is a reference to the Labors of Heracules. One of them involved cleaning out the stables of horses that ate human flesh. (Also it's got the minus ability because it's meant to be a teaching tool. Not all cards are good.)

Enter the Infinite would actually be crazy with Omniscience

Fleshmad steed could combo with 2 Umbral Mantle, another Fleshmad Steed, Mycosinth Lattice, Clock of Omens, Acorn Catapult, Abzan ascendancy., Hissing Iguanar, and Ashnod's Altar. Infinite mana, Infinite 1/1 fliers, infinite Squirels, or just ping your opponent to death. Such versatility!!

Enjoying this series :)

some more weird cards that I can think of at the moment are Teferi's Realm, Illicit Auction, and timesifter.

Armageddon was a staple back in the day with Erhnam Djinn. You ramp with elves and birds and get out a Djinn or two and then Armageddon lands and you slaughter your opponent because you have a huge creature or two and they almost surely have less. You also have birds and elves to help you get back in the game quicker than your opponent can, if necessary. Later on, when Zuran Orb came out, it was always used with Armageddon to get you life while blowing up lands.

Armageddon: Artifact Lands + All Artifacts are Indestructible = I have mana, you don't. Can't wait to play my Platinum Angel... (Okay, so this deck design isn't going to win many games, but it is funny).

WOTC didn't own D&D when they made MTG. also, TSR, the original owners of D&D made a card game to compete with MTG called Spellfire. Which didn't really turn out so well.

Offtopic somewhat: In Commander, I like doing Aladdin's Lamp + infinite colorless mana generation for tutor every turn.

Fleshmad Steeds ability is probably from it's name. It's fleshmad, so anytime a creature dies, it can't do anything other than try and eat the corpse.

I remember with Enter the Infinite, it was around the same time Omniscience existed, which reads "You can cast cards from your hand without paying their mana cost". I had a mana screw deck that I ran that I wanted to jokingly put Omniscience and Enter the Infinite into just to do ridiculous shit.

You damned kids... you can't imagine the lore of what magic was 25 years ago!

possability storm is pretty great and funny, its along the same lines as scrambleverse

Enter the Infinite is a great card. If you cast this spell with a sphynxes tutelage, or Jace's erasure. Now, if your using a large deck, you probably milled any inexperienced players at the table.

Flesh mad steed is a mythology reference. The mares of Diomedes were trained to eat human flesh. The flavor is the horse gets distracted by tasty dead meat so it taps. Theros was full of stuff like that, some more well known than others.

Knight of the White Orchid and Weathered Wayfarer, along Knight Exemplars , Day of Judgment, etc...always pretty effective

Omniscience into Enter The Infinite. Look into it, and TRY not to think like a villain.

Here's the weirdest combo ever. Play a deck with 20 or more creatures. First, somehow play Omniscience. Then, play Enter the Infinite. Then, play Mortal Combat (the card). Then play some Mortal Combat. Then, play One with Nothing and win the game.

Scrambleverse, Thieves' Auction and Confusion in the Ranks work well with Brand

Way to use Armageddon: Get Artifacts that give you mana at no mana cost before casting it.

This is a great series, thanks for uploading! Side note, when are you coming out with more unwritten rules videos? I love learning about the mechanics of the game.

@DesolatorMagic

8 жыл бұрын

+Terry Johnson Right after people climb down out of my ass about my conclusions and math and logic being wrong in those series. Did you see the number of thumbs down? Over 100 comments have been removed by me too. Why post themes and patterns in card design if morons are just going to scream about me being wrong like a bunch of 2 year olds?

@terryjohnson5967

8 жыл бұрын

+DesolatorMagic Eh, fuck em. You're the first person I've seen on the internet (personally) that even talks about themes and patterns in the card design and that's enough for me. Maybe I don't watch enough videos about magic or something and someone else also covers this, but I think you do it well. You should at least do one for each color before calling it quits on the series. Pretty please? :D

As others have already pointed out, Wizards did not buy TSR until 1997. Also look at early MTG cards, there are loads of references to old mythology, history and literature. Armageddon as a concept, even if people don't know the exact details, is pretty much common knowledge though, so Wizards using that as a card name was more or less inevitable.

Thieves' Auction is what you was thinking when you talked scambleverse.

On 1996 World Champion: "Summon [Creature Subtype]" used to be the type line for all creature cards. "Legend" used to be a creature subtype. When the Legendary supertype was created, "Legend" ceased to be a creature subtype, and all Summon Legend cards were errataed to become Legendary Creatures, and they added in new appropriate creature subtypes to them. (Some Summon Legend cards had an ability granting them another creature type, like Barrin, Master Wizard. His printed text gives him the type line "Summon Legend" and the ability "Barrin, Master Wizard counts as a Wizard." Of course, he was errataed to be a Human Wizard.) On Reaper King: The 2/C hybrid cost was a cycle of mono-color cards, plus Reaper King. On Scrambleverse: The other card you're thinking of Thieves' Auction, which exiles all nontokens and then brings them back. On Autochthon Wurm: It's pronounced "ah TAK than". It means roughly the same thing as "aborigine" (in the general sense, not the Australian sense, although Autochthon Wurm would probably be right at home Down Under). What do you mean there's nothing like it except an angel? There are two angels with convoke, and 10 creatures with convoke other than this Wurm (including one other Wurm). If you just meant expensive creatures, there are 12 others with cmc above 10. One also has a cmc of 15 (Emrakul, the Aeons Torn), and one has a cmc of 16 (Draco, with an ability that can reduce his cost down to 6). On Enter the Infinite: It costs 12, not 13. Almost nobody loses after resolving Enter the Infinite. It is many, many times stronger than Commune with Lava. You don't need to reshuffle your graveyard after ETI, you simply win. Usually one the spot, without waiting a turn. In Standard anyone who tried to play it used Omniscience, and in eternal formats they have access to absolutely absurd mana rocks and rituals, on top of Omniscience. Letting your opponent resolve ETI is a death sentence.

@Lithl

8 жыл бұрын

vormov "Errata" is not an obscure word. "Errataed" is not actually a word, because _errata_ is Latin and adding _-ed_ is not how you create past tense in Latin, but it's an Anglicization. I'm no expert on Latin, but I believe if I were to be pedantic about it, the correct word in context would be _errabat_, which _would_ be considered obscure to most.

@Lithl

8 жыл бұрын

vormov Ngram shows it diminishing from being used in 0.000256% of all books in 1795 to 0.000019% of all books in 1994, and has since been climbing, to 0.000027% in 2008. It's pretty common to use to refer to Oracle text in MTG, though, as well as tabletop RPGs.

@Lithl

8 жыл бұрын

vormov The difference between 0.000256% and 0.000027% is one order of magnitude.

Another dickhead card I love is "confusion in the ranks". It's an enchantment that reads "when ever a player puts a nonland perminent into play, that player must switch it with another target perminent that shares a type they do not own" ( creature for creature, artifact for artifact, enchantment for enchantment) and so on. This is great for really screwing with theme decks that rely on certain things happening and you're tossing out junk cards that don't do anything to steal their stuff. Like token generators and enchantments that don't do you any good.

Omg! You literally at the end summarized my blue deck with elixir of immortality and enter the infinite, I also added omniscience to be able to cast everything in my hand for free.

I competed in the worlds '96, and they had made a video of how the world champion card was printed. I think most of the participants thought of it as a trophy rather than a card.

I actually really like Fleshmad Steed, and here's why. Flavor. It taps whenever another creature dies because it's eating the body.

Btw enter the infinite -> omniscience -> play entire deck -> laboratory maniac -> opponent rage quit

@DesolatorMagic

8 жыл бұрын

+Ides Hatred Someone played that deck against me a long time ago and I threw a counter spell in there somewhere and they got all mad.

4:15 "It's nice and convenient being white".

also, when Armageddon was first printed, I don't think that wizards owned d&d yet.

@KabukiKid

7 жыл бұрын

Yup... Wizards acquired D&D in 1999.

@OdinMagnus

5 жыл бұрын

@@Zaprozhan no, wrath is creatures and were both around at the same time

There is a new naga that lets you play lands from your graveyard. I now want to make a deck using those two as a combo

No, you always, "Enter the Infinite" when you have infinite mana so you can play all those cards and win that turn.

Had a friend at an event get hit with omniscience into enter the infinite, into the new boborygomos and they discarded all their land for lightningbolts. Enter might be a weird card, but lots of fun and i adore the artwork.

Enter the Infinite had a nice combo with Laboratory maniac

"I'm not even a crow and I'm scared of him" rofl

Armageddon was handy in games against demonic horde decks in the old days. Drop an Armageddon and watch them get eaten alive.

What I really like to do while playing with my friends is play Enter the Infinite then play Prophet of Kruphix so that I can play Laboratory Maniac at the end of their turn before I lose the game. This in turn allows me to win the game. My deck also has a lot of counters so I can just counter all of their counters.

A lot of strategy with Armageddon dealt with either having creature mana or artifact mana so you would be better off than your opponent. Either that or to seal up the game after getting a big creature out. For more info, see decks such as Ernhamgeddon or Titania's Song.

OMG, like 9 hours before I watched your video, I found out about reaper King and decided to start brewing a American Commander deck with him as Commander. seeing him here makes me happy. :D

enter + psychic corrosion = win

The Fleshmad Steed drawback is purely for flavor. Whenever a creature dies, the horse stops what it was doing and begins eating the dead thing. (becomes tapped)

Love the amount mtg KZreadrs know about the game

you make me feel bad for having Amen Skirmisher in my deck :(, love the series tho

Relentless rats is a reference to plaguerats who worked the same way, because the four cards rule did not exist in early magic.

Armageddon has to be taken in context. Remember, printed in alpha, beta, unlimited, etc. What is also in these first few sets? Moxes and black lotus. Imagine a deck with no land all moxes. This is the ultimate screw your opponent card for a no-land deck. I knew a player back then that had a fast casting white creature deck with no land. He had 20 white moxes. Two Armageddon in the deck was all it took.

I used to drop Chains of Mephistopheles just to watch how long it took for my opponent to read/comprehend all the text. Lol