The Most Brutal Hate Cards No One Plays

What comes to mind when you think of hate cards in MTG? Blood Moon? Thalia? Well back in the early days of Magic Wizards made an even more brutal class of hate cards - cards that hate out their own entire set!

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[Turkintor]

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

[vertitron]

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

[marymccleary]

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.

[whaleofdarkness]

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 :).

[Jchmcom]

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.

[felixstoll]

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

[Zosh_]

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)

[bigwig]

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.

[jamesgasik]

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

[the_names_rob]

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

[braddl]

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

[TheBalogna]

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.

[alilhard]

First thing that came to mind at the start of the video is "Drought" and I'm absolutly looking at building an edh deck with a ton of this kind of effects.

[DavidFlores-pcnj]

That last you said is such a great idea

[clydegrey]

That homelands removal gets rid of digeridoo 😂

[maximuscesar]

Choke is the most brutal of all to me. I'm normally at the other side of it, but null rod is pretty brutal as well against some decks.

[darklightmagus]

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

[SwedeRacerDC]

Apocalypse Chime "Pay 2: sacrifice this permanent. The end"

[fafflerproductions]

It's absurd today, but when you consider it as a card game just starting out... It actually becomes a cool mechanic.

If limited doesn't exist, and if there's only a handful of sets that exist... This kind of is a cool mechanic.

Not good for long term. But based on how many broken cards were banned from the early days, it's safe to say that they just hadn't figured things out yet. Or even knew how much their game would grow in the future

[grinreaperoftrolls]

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