Top 10 Sagas in Magic

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Sagas are one of the newest card subtypes in magic. These enchantments represent stories being told. They start on the first chapter, moving down to a new chapter at the start of your turn, getting a different effect each time. Once you get through every chapter, they sacrifice themselves. Sagas have only been around for a few years, but have still proven themselves to be powerful cards. Today, we’re going to go over the best of this relatively sparse type of card.
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├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10: History of Benalia: (0:23)
9: The Birth of Meletis: (2:49)
8: Kiora bests the Sea God: (5:08)
7: Showdown of the Skalds: (7:06)
6: Binding the Old Gods: (8:56)
5: Hidetsugu Consumes All: (10:14)
4: Elspeth Conuers Death: (13:20)
3: The Akroan War: (14:51)
2: Fable of the Mirror Breaker: (16:52)
1: Urza’s Saga: (18:58)
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  • @Darkusflame
    @Darkusflame3 ай бұрын

    I'm surprised Kumano Faces Kakkazan wasn't so much as mentioned. It's a 1 mana saga that buffs a creature on the chapter 2 and becomes a creature that exiles any creature your opponent loses on 3 Edit: Wow. I didn't expect this to blow up

  • @Metallicity

    @Metallicity

    3 ай бұрын

    I feel like this list in general underrates the power of the NEO transform Sagas. Much like Adventures before them, every single design was a built-in 2-for-1 that generated upfront advantage and then still demanded a removal spell for the threat it ended on.

  • @yejifanboy1981

    @yejifanboy1981

    3 ай бұрын

    i wish this stupid card would be banned in standard alreadyy zzz

  • @Tinil0

    @Tinil0

    3 ай бұрын

    @@yejifanboy1981 Eh, I can't really feel that way. It's really good, but it never feels overwhelmingly powerful. I'd rather see some of the awful board clears like sunfall and farewell get either nerfed or banned in standard.

  • @TheSmartCinema

    @TheSmartCinema

    2 ай бұрын

    @@yejifanboy1981 basically 99% of why I play Alchemy. It has its downfall, but you know what it does NOT have? Kumano or Raffine.

  • @sgtartorias7122

    @sgtartorias7122

    2 ай бұрын

    That's probably the saga I see tho most hands down

  • @Griever49
    @Griever493 ай бұрын

    you said Wizards probably intended the Akroan war to work differently, but I doubt it, because the theme works this way. It is based on the story of the Trojan war, what most people know from the Illiad, the war was caused by the abduction of Helen, who was originally married by the Spartan King Menelaus, but because of Gods' bs, she was taken from him and given to this other trojan dude as his bride, which caused the war. At the end, Menelaus takes Helen back and they return to Sparta. So, taking the creature is the abduction, forcing the attack is the war, and the final chapter is representing of the casualties of the war, but Helen survives and goes back to her husband, so it makes sense that the creature returns to the oponent

  • @michadomeracki5910
    @michadomeracki59103 ай бұрын

    When I started playig MTG Arena during Kamigawa Neon Dynasty I thought that Sagas were the coolest cards in the world. Bro look at these animations, I have a scroll! 3 effects from one card? Bro this must be so good :D

  • @demiurge2501

    @demiurge2501

    3 ай бұрын

    Me pack 1 pick 1ing fable of the mirror breaker

  • @johnhayes7590

    @johnhayes7590

    3 ай бұрын

    I won a KND draft with g/w enchantments. It was great

  • @nickniehaus1763
    @nickniehaus17632 ай бұрын

    Binding was really “kill anything, then put a land on the battlefield tapped”

  • @dracosfire7247

    @dracosfire7247

    2 ай бұрын

    Deathsprout, but for basically everything

  • @chase9053
    @chase90533 ай бұрын

    One saga I've fell in love with lately is the restoration of eijango. In a mono white small guys deck, it does so much. Got a extra land you want to play? Discard it and bring it back! Got a Heliods punishment you need to put on a target with hexproof? Discard it and bring it back! Your impassioned orator got murked? Discard some junk and bring it back! It's sooooooo good.

  • @Bobthemightyone-uz8de
    @Bobthemightyone-uz8de2 ай бұрын

    Minor missed detail about The Akroan War is that it's very good in vehicle aggro decks. RG stompy with the vehicles Esika's Chariot, Smuggler's copter, and Skysovereign could really use the full effect of The Akroan War by tapping the stolen creature by crewing a vehicle during the trigger and either give back a tapped creature or kill the creature with the War's third ability.

  • @slumpcat6352
    @slumpcat63522 ай бұрын

    when Benalia is #10 you know it's gonna be a crazy powerful list

  • @matthewdaley4403
    @matthewdaley44033 ай бұрын

    Kinda shocked the Cruelty of Gix wasn't on here.

  • @nickniehaus1763

    @nickniehaus1763

    2 ай бұрын

    And Kumano

  • @Necroskull388
    @Necroskull3882 ай бұрын

    I REALLY like the design space of Sagas. Has Wizards misstepped with them? Sure. But I really like the card type -- it offers a lot of interesting design space. The Elder Reborn is still a great swiss army knife for black Commander decks without being too competitively costed.

  • @pletato4729
    @pletato47292 ай бұрын

    i’m a bit surprised michiko’s reign of truth didn’t get a mention it doesnt go in every deck but the decks that do want it really profit

  • @tonysmith9905

    @tonysmith9905

    2 ай бұрын

    Decks? There's only one deck. It's not even that strong of a deck unless you're playing bo1.

  • @nitiratp
    @nitiratp2 ай бұрын

    Your summary of History of Benalia is almost exactly what I was thinking about sagas: if History is 10th, sagas must be pretty good :D

  • @KarasuTheClumsy
    @KarasuTheClumsy2 ай бұрын

    My favorite memeroy of Limited was a Theros: Beyond Death draft where I somehow got 3 copies of Kiora bests the sea god so my whole draft deck basically just revolved around stalling until I could play those

  • @TrumpLester
    @TrumpLester3 ай бұрын

    Just gonna say, you're one of my favorite MTG KZreadrs out there. The concise and knowledgeable lists are one of my highlights of my day. Bless you, and may your work continue in fruition.

  • @LostRiver77
    @LostRiver772 ай бұрын

    This video makes me happy thinking of playing these cards back in Standard and now in one of my commander decks

  • @SolviKaaber
    @SolviKaaber2 ай бұрын

    I have so many great memories of GRN/RNA standard casting History of Benalia and The Eldest Reborn. Sagas are great

  • @Zephyrt3mp3st
    @Zephyrt3mp3st2 ай бұрын

    I knew Urza's saga was going to be number one. I'm surprised you only VERY briefly mentioned how abusive blinking saga's at the right time can be especially in cases like Urza's or kiki-jiki.

  • @Ceyx000

    @Ceyx000

    2 ай бұрын

    Not to mention Urza's Saga, being an enchantment, can be returned to top of deck with "Hall of Heliod's Generosity".

  • @Zephyrt3mp3st

    @Zephyrt3mp3st

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Ceyx000 yea Urza's is ripe for abuse with a lot of strategies

  • @quacker2212
    @quacker22123 ай бұрын

    Where is The Greatest Show in the Multiverse? It carries midrange artist typal!

  • @ShakerGER
    @ShakerGER3 ай бұрын

    Sagas feel super new

  • @mr.wafflesrz1137

    @mr.wafflesrz1137

    3 ай бұрын

    They're from Kamigawa Neon Dynasty, like, 4 years ago

  • @Dizzy0422

    @Dizzy0422

    3 ай бұрын

    They originated in Dominaria back in 2018. Relatively new in the grand scheme of the game's 30 year lifespan all things considered.

  • @nickniehaus1763

    @nickniehaus1763

    2 ай бұрын

    @@mr.wafflesrz1137Birth of meletis? Elspeth conquers death? Akroan war? Did you start playing magic yesterday?

  • @mr.wafflesrz1137

    @mr.wafflesrz1137

    2 ай бұрын

    @@nickniehaus1763 I totally forgot about those, but that doesn't mean you can answer like that

  • @TheLuckySpades

    @TheLuckySpades

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@nickniehaus1763History of Benalia? The Antiquities War? Phyrexian Scriptures? Did you start playong mahic yesterday? (All the Sagas you list are from 2020, but Sagas were introduced in 2018 in Dominaria)

  • @IIIXouIII
    @IIIXouIII2 ай бұрын

    Theros sagas were heavily played because of yorion and doom foretold but neon dynasty sagas are clearly better, kumano and michiko will surely outclass birth of melitis

  • @IneptCardCollector
    @IneptCardCollector2 ай бұрын

    BTOG is a card I've only used once, and the table let me do it, but warned me they'd normally kill it outright.

  • @Y0G0FU
    @Y0G0FU2 ай бұрын

    Urzas Saga is one of my most favourite cards in Magic (and i bet its will be the Nr. 1 Spot :P ). It has so much flavour, its one of the most versatile Cards and its not really strong enough to be considered being broken. A super well designed Card and the Saga mechanic overall is one of my all time favourite Mechanics ever added to a TCG or CCG.

  • @7Alberto7
    @7Alberto72 ай бұрын

    Amazing

  • @Rith9789
    @Rith97892 ай бұрын

    Do a best creatures that turn into Sagas!

  • @Ceyx000
    @Ceyx0002 ай бұрын

    Im surprised Phyrexian Scriptures & Cruelty of Gix werent honorable mentions

  • @gabrote42
    @gabrote422 ай бұрын

    12:26 Also saw play in Legacy for quite a while until stuff like Stone of Erech became more popular. Bosh n Roll has a lot of lists with it. Why no Kumano, Gix or Eldest? Those were very good last I checekd

  • @fluffdafire157
    @fluffdafire1572 ай бұрын

    I'm still waiting for the day when they make a saga where the last effect is to remove all lore counters from this card

  • @welbenn
    @welbenn2 ай бұрын

    A saga triggers after the draw phase. It is written on the card.

  • @ReederMG
    @ReederMG2 ай бұрын

    Top 10 Elves

  • @chesburgr
    @chesburgr2 ай бұрын

    Kiki-jiki is one of my favorite cards, it's just so interesting to me in terms of flavor and the obvious strength, it should definitely stay banned though

  • @lachlank.8270
    @lachlank.82702 ай бұрын

    Mirror Breaker #1 calling it before watching

  • @cerebralisk
    @cerebralisk2 ай бұрын

    legit shocking not to see the cruelty of gix mentioned

  • @multiream
    @multiream2 ай бұрын

    I swear to god if i see kiki jiki for the 20th time on these videos

  • @ReederMG
    @ReederMG2 ай бұрын

    Top 10 equipment with equip cost 4 or greater

  • @nickniehaus1763
    @nickniehaus17632 ай бұрын

    Why can’t it be portable hole?

  • @nickniehaus1763

    @nickniehaus1763

    2 ай бұрын

    Oh my got that’s why, 0 or 1 cost. That’s horrendous. Tricky.

  • @Watch-0w1
    @Watch-0w12 ай бұрын

    Chariot?

  • @Morppadorp
    @Morppadorp2 ай бұрын

    no The Huntsman's Redemption is kinda crazy imo

  • @drillmachine7
    @drillmachine73 ай бұрын

    I like your top... except for top 5 and 3. Hidetsugu is an answer as a sideboard, impossible to put it in top 10 and Akroam's war was very played but it's not better than other sagas in this top. It's an error not to include in top 3 one of the best sagas... Kumano saga played in mono red decks in every single format. Then, I would include Eiganjo's restoration and Elspeth's nightmare... and for me Kiki Jiki is n°1 and Urza is 2nd.

  • @scales8768

    @scales8768

    2 ай бұрын

    FOr the others idk, but you are right, Kumano is a monster.

  • @tonysmith9905

    @tonysmith9905

    2 ай бұрын

    Eh, Hidetsugu is literally played in every single B/R sideboard at least as a 1 of in pioneer, modern and some times even legacy or vintage. The matches that it's good in it completely DESTROYS them. No other saga is able to utterly dominate matches and turn them around like it's able to, so I think it's actually worthy of the spot. Even in standard it has the ability to crush boros convoke any other deck that relies on tokens or graveyards.

  • @scales8768

    @scales8768

    2 ай бұрын

    @@tonysmith9905 Back when I played MTG Arena, it was amongst my favorite cards in Kamigawa. I tried to make it work so bad but problem is, it is a dead card in the format I was trying to make it work: Standard B01 and HB. But oh boy when I saw the card I knew it was busted.

  • @tonysmith9905

    @tonysmith9905

    2 ай бұрын

    @@scales8768 It was never a bo1/main deck card though. If you want a shell for it try running a copy of it with Beseech the Mirror in bo1. You might survive against convoke long enough for it to take over since you'd need to get to turn 4 for Beseech. Against Roots and other decks you should definitely live long enough.

  • @scales8768

    @scales8768

    2 ай бұрын

    @@tonysmith9905 Haha I know, but back then I did not played BO3 at all. I tried to make it work because I love the design so much but yeah it failed :)

  • @jon2818
    @jon28182 ай бұрын

    I feel like #1 isn't really that good. My favorite saga is definitely boseiju reaches skyward

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