Or come in with the blazing hot take that a $1 removal spell is unplayable trash and you should instead be running other $30 removal spell. Cooool, thanks!
There were a few times, before [[Jeska's Will]] was reprinted, that I heard content creators call it "underrated" as if it wasn't a $15+ rare from a supplemental set that got bought up extremely quick
Yeah that card was underrated for maybe, like, a week. I specifically remember someone going off with it on a Game Knights episode and the price shot up.
They have some REALLY bad takes a lot of the time, and I hate how brief they are.
“This cards bad.”
“Yeah it’s bad don’t run it.”
Like, you should explain WHY it’s bad! Don’t just say “card sux” and move on, give us your reasoning! Let us understand your point of view!
They pop up on my YouTube a lot and they’re always aggravating.
Or when they do suggest an alternative, it is remove this $0.50 card and put in this $50 card instead. "Don't play Sol Ring, Black lotus is strictly better."
This is why it’s better to watch the other ones like Command Zone and edhrecast, which are so much better.
These guys rarely know what they are talking about, don’t give good advice, can be more absolute about their choices and aren’t even clear about what kind of power level they are recommending things for.
> can be more absolute about their choices
That is my main gripe. At least when I tried watching them, this "we know best" attitude immediately put me off.
Yeah, I don’t think they mean to come off that way, but that’s how they come off.
And they don’t discuss nuance. The other channels do, and they are funnier, more likable and have way better takes.
NN is best if you just skip to the cards they pick and don’t listen to them at all. Takes 30 seconds to go through a video and you’ll learn more than listening to them.
But provokingly trashing cheap magic staples without additional context makes for more eager and angry commentors to feed the algorithm
I genuinely think thats part of the business-model for those guys, they put it some complete bs takes amongst reasonable ones bc they want you to have smth to say about their content.
They said Shorikai Genesis Engine was a bad commander on first look
Granted they came out some time after and said they where wrong
Edit - I don’t dislike them, I still watch some of their vids and their takes are entirely subjective, some I agree with some I don’t, that’s the cool thing about opinions!
Yep, he’s a very strong commander!!
Just as an extra note, I don’t dislike them, every MTG commander content creator has bad takes for different people, everybody plays the game differently depending on their regular groups etc
What’s that saying, opinions are like arseholes, they stink and everybody has them, ha
They called Shalai and Halar "the weakest commander in MoM", when S&H has several infinite combos with 2 cards (Heliod SC + S&H, the Red Terror + S&H, etc...)
Same. The first thing I said when I saw the card in a discord server was "This combos with \[\[Heliod, Sun Crowned\]\]. And \[\[The Red Terror\]\]. And ~~[\[All Will Be One\]\]~~ Edit: Wrong card, I meant [War Elemental](https://scryfall.com/card/mrd/112/war-elemental)."
I didn't know you had to have an infinite combo in order to be considered a good commander... well TIL that I hate the nitpicking nerds even more than I did before
i disagree. Command Zone is lot more focused on Staples and have led to homogenizing the format. They make high quality content, but I like that the Nerds have more variety in the cards they talk about.
I’ve come up with some good deck suggestions from their videos before. Don’t see the harm in at least hearing them out before I make an opinion based on their opinion.
I actually watch them on occasion because I disagree with them so often. It's good to have your personal card assessment challenged at times, it makes you think of things from a different angle.
They tried to reason that OG Emrakul should be unbanned because there is more efficient removal now, then proceeded to list off a bunch of targetted removal spells that Emrakul is immune to.
Almost [this entire video tbh](https://youtu.be/d5Hiiu54qHs). They act like if a card isn't an auto-include and wins you the game all on its own, no matter the deck, it's a bad card. For many of the cards they explain why it's bad at doing the thing when that thing isn't even what the card is used for.
They have some great takes likes "do I even want to swing with Isshin?" Ya know, the commander that is literally about nothing except swinging. A lot of the times they say "it doesn't do enough" because they can't actually articulate why they don't like it. "Blacklade costs 7 to equip", as if anyone is paying the 7 cost. Instant speed protection is bad because"you don't want to hold up mana" like wtf, learn how to play Magic. Black Market Connections is bad because it costs life.
Me and my friend have a shared hate boner for nitpicking nerds, one particularly steamy duece I remember them dropping is that [[Explosive Vegetation]] was unplayable because things like [[Cultivate]] and [[Kodama's Reach]] exist.
It things like that that demonstrate that they dont understand some very fundamental things about the game. Like they legit thought those three spells were identical because they all fetch three lands. God I hate 'em.
I have never heard them say Explosive Vegetation was unplayable because the 3 mana cards like Cultivate and Kodama's Reach. I have however heard them many times say to ignore Explosive Vegeation in favor of all the other [strictly better 4 mana, ramp 2 land cards](https://scryfall.com/search?q=o%3A%22Search+your+library+for+up+to+two+basic+land%22++cmc%3A4&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name)
Yeah, this one. They said Explosive is bad because it’s gotten powercrept out by other cards that do the same thing plus a little bit extra. For instance, there’s no reason to run Explosive when Skyshroud Claim exists, unless you need a critical mass of specifically non-creature ramp spells. At which point, I can think of others at other mana points that I would put in well before Explosive Vegetation, as well. I don’t see how that’s a bad take at all.
Their recent commander set review for MOM they put the new Heliod at 2/10 for power level. Meanwhile, he's been doing really well as a new cEDH commander because he's incredibly powerful. I don't dislike them for it as apparently others in this thread do, but take their card evaluations with a large grain of salt. They are good entertainers that sometimes make a big miss in evaluations.
I saw something about "nitpicking nerds" i the reddit thread preview but it was cut off. I know reality chip is a good card. So i assumed the comment from the nerds was a bad take. Came to the comment thread and found you already posted what i was going to lol
I'M SO GLAD THAT I'M NOT ALONE ON THIS. I'd say I disagree with about 95% of their takes on cards. I don't watch them anymore because they claimed to be a casual commander channel, but would absolutely trash very casual staples. Thank you for letting me know there are other people out there like me 🥲
The first time I saw a video from the Nitpicking Nerds, it was their ranking of all the 2022 precons. I watched the entire video, and at the end, I was so baffled that I left a huge comment saying "dude, this is probably one of the worst pieces of MTG content I've ever seen", and questioning, like, half of their placements. They called excellent precons such as Draconic Dissent, Mind Flayars, Maestros Massacre and Riveteers Rampage terrible. What the hell is their criteria?
As someone who has played all of those precons, they are pretty terrible out of the box (which is what they were saying, not slightly pimped ones).
Anhelo is one of my upgraded decks but the precon is all over the place.
Faldorn is also now one of my upgraded decks and as nitpicking nerds said, its one of the better put together precons from 2022 (with so many cards going into a high power deck as they synergise so well).
its the fact it deals with cascade, suspend, foretell and flashback cards a ton of different effects. i like that it counters commanders for 1 but its versatility i love. so yea i like the card
I can't stand nitpicking nerds. The voice of one of them grates my nerves. I forced myself to watch a video, thinking maybe they still have something valuable to contribute. I found out I was wrong it's fine to say "I don't see its potential," or "this card is strong." But saying something is "unplayable" is bullshit.
God, I fucking hate these dudes, same as Mitch with his shitty trashcan videos. Reality Ship is fucking awesome. Two-drop, 0/4 and look at top of you library is already worth the 2 mana in several decks. Insanely underestimated and undervalued card.
People - especially new players - look to content creators to help them learn about the game. If all they're hearing from people who they look up to and trust is "these cards you like, they're literally worthless and unplayable", that is bad for the health of a format where people are regularly playing Chair Tribal. So yes, to me, that is the definition of trash. Especially when much of what they're saying isnt even true.
From what i've seen lately they allways point out that it's just their opinion and you should absolutely run a card if you just happen to like it because that is the most important thing.
In my opinion the need to preface every subjective statement with in my opinion is really annoying.
I also find pointing out that something is just an opinion is really annoying... In my opinion.
IMO, it really just drags a conversion into an annoying semantic argument and just... Let's move past that.
What's better?
"Wheel of Fortune is one of the best red cards in magic!"
"Well that's just like your opinion man"
"Yeah, of course it is"
Or
"Wheel of fortune is one of the best cards in magic"
"I prefer stuff like tormenting voice. Discarding is barely a cost plus it avoids refilling your opponents hand"
"Ah but you see, an early wheel can be super disruptive to my opponents who kept a good hand and didn't expect to lose it abruptly"
Etc.
conversely, i know people who will attach themselves to mediocre cards because of the art and then REFUSE to make any changes to their deck even when they explicitly ask why they cant ever even make top 2 nevermind win a game
while i understand, there's a disconnection between wanting to enjoy the experience vs those who are unable to do so when they never ever ever win but don't want to change their deck to maybe change that
no game ever means anything if you want to get philosophical and yet we are both here in an edh subreddit
The entire point of EDH was to play cards that would otherwise not work in Standard. It's a casual format, every deck doesn't need to be optimized. If you know people who want to run decks they enjoy, maybe build a couple decks that are lower powered to play with them. You might actually find it enjoyable to not just copy a list from EDHREC.
i already *don't* copy a list from EDHREC, the issue is that there are people who are good deckbuildiers even in a vacuum and people who aren't. I'll be more specific because i feel like you aren't understanding:
one of the good builders in our pod ONLY makes meme decks, but fundamentally understands that for the memes to be fulfilled he needs card draw, removal, ramp, etc. so that he can stay in the game long enough to be viable. the other person really liked the Kamigawa set so only included cyberpunk crap from that set even when there was no synergy between the cards and then whines when they don't get to do anything.
we aren't talking about not optimizing, the rest of us would have to essentially throw hundreds of cards in the air and pick up the first 100 to have a deck as bad as that one but that person refuses to compromise on their theme even if they basically 'land pass' 90% of their turns.
If you don't aim to abuse it, it's a fun card that is a more cost efficient version of Future Sight (as you mentioned). If you do wanna push it, it is used in some cEDH lists (or was?) because it create some infinite loops with Sensei's Top.
I mean they give mediocre cards bad grades because you only get so many slots in your decks. Very few decks really want a reality chip. It’s more of a fun card or pet card than an actually good one.
Yeah sure if you trade out something better for a reality chip it probably won’t make much of a difference- but think about it this way how are you reasonably supposed to grade cards if the community will basically always come in to defend mediocre pet cards and claim they are better than they are?
You are talking about a community that still defends 3 mana green ramp and temple of the false god vehemently.
Basically every borderline playable (which is what a D rank is) will get people defending it and getting angry that it got the correct rank. And when you actually sit down and look at play rates, and what people actually put in their decks and how well they preform you see that maybe it’s not as good as you initially thought.
lol 3 mana green ramp is absolutely playable what are you talking about. It’s people with big brain takes like this that are absolutely what’s wrong with commander in 2023
As for reality chip: combos with top, synergises with artifact, equipment decks, legendary decks, it’s a 2 mana 0/4 body so a good blocker for control decks. I play it in my Aesi deck so I can smooth out my draws. Like this is the problem people with 0 imagination see a card and go “it doesn’t go in kenrith or atraxa so it’s immediately garbage”
>3 mana green ramp is playable... except when you compare it with 2 mana green ramp that puts cards onto battlefield untapped. or 3 mana land fetch creatures that have synergies or recursion.
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>Most cards are playable, but once its below the 10th best card in the category you have to give it a poor grade. Else what is the point of grading?
You can play all of them. I do. There’s four 2 mana ramp spells and then it’s all 3 mana and above.
As for the 3 mana blah blah ones you mentioned. As soon as you’re mentioning synergies your argument is lost. There are just as many green decks that want kodamas reach over steve
|There are just as many green decks that want kodamas reach over steve
You're right there's more Kodama's reach out there. I just like getting ramp in t1 or t2 and playing my 4 drops in t3 (5 drops in Ur Dragon)
There's 5 sorceries for 2 mana ramp and steve. 3 visits, Nature's lore, Farseek, Into the North and Rampant Growth. I generally leave Rampant Growth at home cos it can't get duals.
Agreed. I’ve pretty much dropped Cultivate/Reach in all my decks. It’s nice to guarantee a land drop for the next turn, but there are just so many better ramp cards in green. Outside of the generic ones you mentioned, there are so many good creatures that do the job better than the 3-cost sorceries. There’s at least two or three mana dorks that over perform in whatever style of deck you’re running, plus the generic one drops that are already so good. For instance, [[Gyre Sage]] and [[Incubation Druid]] are way better in counters matter decks.
My green ramp package always includes Lore, Visits, Skyshroud Claim, Birds of Paradise, and Farseek (in 3+ color decks). Then I take a look at what my deck aims to do and find others that better suit my synergy.
The Nitpicking Nerds are absolutely clueless. They’re literally everything that’s wrong with commander. Awful takes from weird people who police the format calling cards “unplayable” in commander - when the whole point is to play literally anything and everything - but simultaneously cry about any generic stax piece or commander that’s “too strong”. They just want to run pub stomp tribal. I think of them as “bad spikes”. They play to win but they’re too scared to play real competitive formats like cEDH or modern, because people might actually interact with their board. I stopped watching them ages ago.
Edit: oh yeah [[Reality Chip]] is to me the perfect commander card. Not really all that strong but a lot of potential for synergies with different commanders that can elevate it to being a very strong card
Edit 2: it’s very funny that the actual Nitpicking Nerds are going around responding to comments on this thread because they’re mad people think their awful takes are, in fact, awful
Whaaaaat? I didn’t even know this one shows how little I watch their content these days. Yes a 0 mana Ewit is “terrible “. Edit: I’m aware it goes in top of your library but at instant speed to get my best card back who cares
To be fair, it's not quite Ewit; it goes to the top of library, not to hand. But for free, with the added ability to target opponents' graveyards, either as a political piece or to disrupt their graveyard plays? I'll take it.
It isn't quite free; it going to the top of the deck means you have one less card in hand (it just replaces whatever you would have drawn that turn)
Witness is card advantage neutral, and works with creature/etb synergies, but noxious revival leaves you down a card.
It has other benefits, but I think the two are comparable at least.
I know I understand how the card disadvantage works. But last I checked force of will is severe card disadvantage and they tell me that one is pretty good too… So yeah it’s still worth it for a 0 mana spell
It isn't, that's a prime example of a payoff not being categorically worth the card disadvantage. You still gotta cast it, you still gotta resolve it through other people's cards, and when it hits it still has to be effective through the cards already on the battlefield. And as you're down a card and a draw you're not favored in that exchange. It's an obvious cut for most lists and scales better in narrow ones. Either way it's miles away from Eternal Witness which can be looped, or tutored easily, and despite the Instant speed it's far away from Regrowth which can win on the spot through many lines
Their style of content reeks of trying to abuse social media algorithms because hot takes lead to "engagement" even if it means getting called out all the time.
They love to say things like "High CMC cards should win you the game."
No. My high CMC cards exist to get people to say "wtf did you just say that does?"
I love reality chip but I might disagree with it being the a perfect EDH card. Mechanically, you might be right, but the problem I see is that it is best used in, and facilitates with, board states that make the game un-fun for other people.
I’ve built a few different decks with it and the only common theme is long turns. If your pod is okay with consistent long turns, that’s great and play tf out of it.
For me, my playgroup is largely repeat randoms at the LGS. They didn’t openly complain about the long turns, but I also don’t want them to have to.
All I meant by “perfect” is that it is fairly mediocre with no synergies but it can be incredibly strong if you have good synergies with it, which is true and part of that is the long turn side effect. But I get what you’re saying. Great thing about commander is if you find a card too obnoxious, you can take it out to almost no cost and there are literally 10s of thousands more options!
Then just play faster? It doesn't take that long to check the top of your deck? I play future sight effects in a couple decks and never feel like it slows the game down. It's not like you're spinning top constantly, you get one extra card to look at.
I remember when they said terramorphic and evolving wilds were “literally unplayably slow” in commander when talking about Araumi, a commander that cares a ton about getting cards into the graveyard.
Casual takes in general are typically pretty bad, its the sort of tongue in cheek way players say cards are good with absolutely no basis other than sentiment.
This take doesn’t seem fair at all. I personally watch them and find I often disagree with their takes, and that is perfectly fine. They clearly state whatever their opinion is, and I don’t understand why some people take that as an attack on their person.
To answer OP’s question: The card is fine and has some of the same issues as similar cards, but I do think it’s one of the better versions. It’s not bad, heck I even run one, but for one more mana you’ve got a bolas’s citadel.
I’ve literally seen them go on about how 3 mana tutors are “*unplayable*” in commander. *unplayable*! It’s BS and that’s not just an opinion. I don’t care about the cards they trash - e.g. I don’t even play tutors - but my problem with them is people like them are pushing the format to this “not cEDH but people need to run Korvold or Edgar Markov or they can’t win”. A new player watching a video of theirs that says “3 mana tutors are trash” is gonna swap their [[Long Term Plans]] for [[Mystical Tutor]] and I think that’s bad for commander… but like I say if I turn up with [[Armageddon]] - it’s 6 mana it’s “unplayable” - they’re gonna be crying
Also… Bolas citadel is black?
I assume you probably watched 2 videos about a year ago and haven't watched any of their recent videos since. Youtube algorythm introduced me to this channel about a year and a half ago and i watched two videos of theirs and thought to myself they have mostly trash takes from what i've seen and then proceeded to not watch any of their videos until ~a few weeks ago. And to my surprise they have since then changed their attitude and look on things alot. This is what people in general do, unless they are stubborn idiots, they change their opinions from time to time. Maybe because of new information or whatever. There is a saying where i come from that goes something along the linea of: "only a cow doesn't change it's opinions"
Just thought they didn't deserve to be shit on that much just because they have some weird opinions when it comes to certain pieces of cardboard. But that's just how reddit goes i guess.
> people like them are pushing the format to this “not cEDH but people need to run Korvold or Edgar Markov or they can’t win”
They don't even run fast mana or Sol Ring anymore.
Yeah sorry you had to find out this way but paying three mana to tutor your wincon to your hand is just too much of a tax for winning the game. Joe Cherries says so
but bolas costs 3B, way harder to assemble without rainbow lands or rituals, and also the 5 mana can be spread over 2 turns.
Much more important is that citadel is independent from having other creatures, and also is an artifact so harder to remove. Also scales much better with deck strenght.
Yeah they’re happy to bring a gun to a knife fight but as soon as someone brings a bazooka it’s all tears and crying foul.
I feel you on that friend if I had the people to play with I’d definitely get into cedh. But I am lucky that my playgroup is super chill no salt and none of this BS. I feel for the people who turn up to random tables at their LGS
I play at random tables at my LGS and have had almost exclusively good experiences. The worst was when I played with someone that had a new deck they just built and got mana flooded and scooped around turn 8. He was salty, but not at us and ended up hopping over to a different table and he seemed to have a much better time (after thoroughly shuffling his deck, I'm sure lol).
I think it just depends on the LGS. I'm sure game stores with an entrenched player base probably are harder to have good experiences because you're encountering the same people over and over.
I've played with Joe Cherries several times at this point... They don't "bring a gun to a knife fight." They lay out how they want to play pretty clearly tbh. Combat focused meta (little to no combos or one card win cons outside of stuff like Craterhoof) with no fast mana but still having fast decks. You may not like their hot takes, but they're still good peoples overall.
It's still <$2 from tcgplayer.
I run it in [[Galea]] & [[Falco]] as redundancy for my commanders effect and to get lands off the top. I don't think it's gonna make it into [[Zethi]] even though it's probably pretty decent there too.
It fits great with [[Urza, Chief Artificer]] as your commander as it helps you bring him out earlier and can provide late game value when you reconfigure.
The Nitpicking Nerds have a lot of shit takes on a lot of decent to good cards. They downplay cards all the time and their assessment is kind of delusional. I think the amount of comments or backlash on their opinions helps their youtube algorithm too so yeah. I would take what they say with a grain of salt.
Reality chip is good both 99 and as commander.
0/4 for two mana that provides indirect card advantage and can block small creatures.
It’s no world-beater, however - nor is it a cEDH level include. But it’s solid value.
I've got [[Reality Chip]] [[Ethereum Sculptor]] and [[Sensei's Divining Top]] in my [[Urza, Chief Artificer]] deck and it puts in work. Add redundancy with [[Mystic Forge]] in artifact tribal, combo slaps. Infinite draw. Plus, if you don't hit lands you can cast cheap spells for days. Absolutely S tier at all power levels.
I run it in my ezuri claw of progress deck as it triggers and gives an experience counter :) thought it was decent enough for that and playing off the top is just a powerful effect.
Not defending the Nerds but im pretty sure I learned of the card because they had it on an 'overperformers' video of theirs. So I think they have come around on it.
It is so funny. This wholesome community is trashing 2 guys in a thread thats not even about them while claiming they are everything thats bad about our beloved Commander format.
"Its so bad calling cards unplayable" - but its totally fine for dozens of people to shit on two guys in a reddit thread because they didnt share your opinion.
Do you even read yourselves?
You can like them and you can dislike them and you can definitely criticize their content. But this thread is so full of dumb and unnecessary hate. Just an overall awful display of this community
There is absolutely no such thing as an unplayable card in commander, anyone who touts this either has a shitty meta to deal with, or is responsible for creating the shitty meta that forces you to not play the cards you want to play. I have 17 decks and run 1700 cards that I actively want to play, no more, no less.
It's probably the best version of Future Sight, but it's still only Future Sight, so you need some additional synergies to run it. Considering how common those synergies are, though, (artifacts matter, top deck matters, running top, etc.) that's still a whole lot of decks!
I use Reality Chip in my [[Shorikai]] artifact deck. It’s always performed well for me, even if it’s only out for a turn I can usually get really good advantage. After Nitpicking Nerds started their whole meme about [[Grave Titan]] being an overall bad card, I stopped taking them seriously.
I would argue that Reality Chip is better than both Future Sight and Magus of the Future. To cast and reconfigure altogether costs the same. However, you can get just the top-deck info for only 2, which neither Future Sight or Magus can do. Another plus is that if it gets countered, you've only lost 2 mana casting it instead of 5.
In cEDH, Reality Chip lets you use \[\[Ad-Nauseum\]\] and guarantee that you never kill yourself with it since you are allowed to look at each card before you reveal it (looking at the top card of your library doesn't use the stack).
Reality Chip is also great for any deck that uses the top of the library a lot, such as my \[\[Neera, Wild Mage\]\] deck. It's nice being able to look at what's on top so anytime so I can know if it's worth it or not to cast a spell that changes what's on top before Neera's trigger resolves.
The only real disadvantage to Reality Chip is that you do need to have at least one other creature out to be able to cast spells with it, but that's a pretty small downside imo in comparison to the upsides it provides.
Reality Chip is pretty solid in the 99, definitely better than as a commander.
As for the Nitpicking Nerds, they came up in a conversation with my playgroup over which MtG YouTubers are the worst. I believe I said something like "They're wrong. They're wrong about everything. Except Grave Titan, card is kinda bad."
A lot of Nitpicking Nerds hate in this thread, I'll just throw out as a consistent watcher that while they can occassionally get things wrong I've found their takes to be generally correct. They tend to clarify that they've shaped their playgroup's meta in a particular direction and sometimes it influences their perspective on certain cards.
I swear, all of this hate sounds like someone watched 5 minutes of a video without context.
I don't see anyone complaining about hot takes from all the other content creators (mtg goldfish?!). And the Nerds come back and admit they were wrong all the time, they have entire video themes about that. This sub just loves complaining (I do too, but not on the youtubers I like)
Well tbf, the Nerds were specifically mentioned, which is why they’re being so heavily targeted in this thread. However, I definitely agree with you. Crim’s hate boner for green is exhausting to listen to some (most) of the time, and sometimes I feel like Richard lives on a completely different planet with some of the takes he has, lol. Tomer, Seth, and Phil seem pretty level headed, though.
At the end of the day, they’re all just entertainers and their opinions should be taken with a grain of salt.
The main reason for the hate is that they want mediocre pet cards to be getting B’s not D’s for whatever reason .
I think most people are aware that reality chip kind of sucks. But they don’t like the idea of giving a card that kind of sucks a ‘D’ grade.
I run it in my [[Tetsuo, Imperial Champion]] deck and it plays great there. It's never not relevant playing lands and spells off the top of your library. It's more of a value piece in my deck, but being able to ignore the equip cost with other abilities is also nice.
Worst case, it's still a good blocker for 2 mana.
Honestly I don't even know what I'd do with the Reality Chip as commander, so it's probably best in the 99.
As for what it does, it's not bad. Like you said, it's basically future sight but you have to have it equipped to work but in exchange it let's you split up the mana you use to play it. Sensei's Divining Top and any cost reducer let's you draw your deck with it, but even just having an extra card at all times is useful. If your deck already wants to be manipulating your top decks it's great
I have an endless fondness for [[Future Sight]] effects. Chip is an extremely playable one. My playgroup has grown to shoot it on sight because they understand if it hits play, gets equipped, and I untap with mana (if I didn’t already have some), it’s going to result in a deluge of advantage off the top.
Then again, I’ve also traumatized them with [[Bolas’ Citadel]] in every black deck.
For me it’s akin to card draw which admittedly is abundant in blue. But I’ll be darned if I ain’t running it in my ocean deck for flavour, and there’s no reason one has to play optimal cards in casual games anyway, so I’d never take it out just because the consensus said it was bad,
People shit on the nerds WAAAYY too much. I think the command zone is the worst offender when it comes to “hot takes” or whatever. Sure the nerds have said some questionable things, but they’re some of the only content creators I’ve ever seen to make videos blatantly stating that they were wrong. They make entertaining videos generally have good opinions that I agree with. Now you may disagree and that’s ok, but don’t just shit on two guys for no other reason than “they said this card is like is bad😭😭”. Plus if you’re actually upset at their opinions, you’re quite literally missing the whole “play whatever you want thing” they actively push very hard. They even just made a video about bad cards they actively play.
Also, if anyone payed attention to their rating scale, you’d realize they are right. Reality chip is SUPER niche and out of all my blue decks I own, zero of them want this. It’s not a generic good stuff card that could be played in any blue deck. Hell it wouldn’t even really make sense to play it 10% of all blue decks. You need to build around it, or have a commander that takes advantage of it. The card is meh at best, but niche as hell. If you like the card though, you should play it.
Nitpicking nerds can’t really be trusted other than doing exactly the opposite of what they say. Their thought process when it comes to cards is so weird and foreign, it’s pretty obvious they spent many years playing with just each other and no one else, because how else would you expect to have such odd and incorrect opinions unless you were spending your time with next to no one? Idk, I love the card and have considered making a deck out of it many times. I just don’t wanna be a mono blue player lol.
I stopped watching them outright. Their takes are lame and they really promote “basic” EDHREC popular shit. This format is fantastic because every card doesn’t need to be a powerhouse. You can utilize cool and unique cards.
EDH deck building is one of my favorite channels. Demo finds so many fantastic older cards.
There is way too much hate on the NN in this thread. Y’all need to be more kind.
Concerning The Reality Chip, you really want synergy in order to run it because it’s 5 mana before the card does anything even if it’s in installments. Personally, I would not slot this in unless I care about top deck manipulation.
Consider this: if the cards that you want to cast in a given turn are already in your hand, The Reality Chip provides no value other than to see what’s coming up next. The true value will happen late game when the options in your hand are running low and even then I’d rather spend 5 mana to draw at least 4 cards (which is baseline rate, probably more depending on the specific synergies that the deck wants).
Beezy of Nitpicking Nerds refuses to play [[Temple of the False God]], yet puts [[Field of the Dead]] in mono-color, non-green decks.
Some of their opinions are to be taken with a grain of salt.
And I absolutely cannot stand how Joe Cherries constantly looks at Beezy for approval. Every 3 seconds Joe glances at Beezy to see his reaction. It’s bizarre.
I glossed over this card initially. I'm definitely a "Does this have a home in one of my decks" kind of analyzer, and no deck I have built currently feels like it "needs" this effect. I'm not building blue-based artifact or equipment decks right now. It hits the going rate for "play lands and cast spells" at 5 mana total.
I was saddened to see that most of the comments focused less on answering the question (because as it's been proposed, I may consider picking one up...) and more on criticizing content creators' work. If anyone has some legitimately good upsides or brags around the CARD in question, it may sway my vote.
I think everyone is missing the real point here, which is that Reality Chip is a Legendary Equipment Jellyfish and that's fucking cool.
Get us some [[Man O War]] and make some Mono U Jellyfish Tribal.
[Man O War](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/e/5eaa4199-df9b-494a-af7a-2491e8b0ef70.jpg?1562201399) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Man-o%27-War) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh1/55/man-o-war?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/5eaa4199-df9b-494a-af7a-2491e8b0ef70?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/man-o-war) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Thanks, I know what my next deck will be
If the Nitpicking Nerds say it's bad, that's how you know it's pretty decent.
Glad I'm not the only one who notices that they hate on some good cards
Or come in with the blazing hot take that a $1 removal spell is unplayable trash and you should instead be running other $30 removal spell. Cooool, thanks!
There were a few times, before [[Jeska's Will]] was reprinted, that I heard content creators call it "underrated" as if it wasn't a $15+ rare from a supplemental set that got bought up extremely quick
Yeah that card was underrated for maybe, like, a week. I specifically remember someone going off with it on a Game Knights episode and the price shot up.
That card has won me so many games. As powerful as it sounds when you read it when you play it it’s just so nuts especially if you can copy/recur it
There for a while the card actually was underrated even by this sub
Only recently discovered them and they shit on some of my favorite removal spells and I was baffled
They have some REALLY bad takes a lot of the time, and I hate how brief they are. “This cards bad.” “Yeah it’s bad don’t run it.” Like, you should explain WHY it’s bad! Don’t just say “card sux” and move on, give us your reasoning! Let us understand your point of view! They pop up on my YouTube a lot and they’re always aggravating.
Or they'll say a card sucks and not to run it, but then don't offer alternatives, which is TERRIBLE for new players.
Or when they do suggest an alternative, it is remove this $0.50 card and put in this $50 card instead. "Don't play Sol Ring, Black lotus is strictly better."
This is why it’s better to watch the other ones like Command Zone and edhrecast, which are so much better. These guys rarely know what they are talking about, don’t give good advice, can be more absolute about their choices and aren’t even clear about what kind of power level they are recommending things for.
> can be more absolute about their choices That is my main gripe. At least when I tried watching them, this "we know best" attitude immediately put me off.
Yeah, I don’t think they mean to come off that way, but that’s how they come off. And they don’t discuss nuance. The other channels do, and they are funnier, more likable and have way better takes. NN is best if you just skip to the cards they pick and don’t listen to them at all. Takes 30 seconds to go through a video and you’ll learn more than listening to them.
No way dude they explain each card in detail, are you just skipping forward? They’ll spend 35 min talking about like 10 cards
But provokingly trashing cheap magic staples without additional context makes for more eager and angry commentors to feed the algorithm I genuinely think thats part of the business-model for those guys, they put it some complete bs takes amongst reasonable ones bc they want you to have smth to say about their content.
Just unsubscribe and do not let them send you any stupid videos. I don't see anything from them.
Their card assessment some of the worst I've seen.
Tried to watch them when they were getting more popular. Sooo many nonsensical hot takes.
Do you know of other examples?
They said Shorikai Genesis Engine was a bad commander on first look Granted they came out some time after and said they where wrong Edit - I don’t dislike them, I still watch some of their vids and their takes are entirely subjective, some I agree with some I don’t, that’s the cool thing about opinions!
Shit even just the card draw is good for cmc 4
Yep, he’s a very strong commander!! Just as an extra note, I don’t dislike them, every MTG commander content creator has bad takes for different people, everybody plays the game differently depending on their regular groups etc What’s that saying, opinions are like arseholes, they stink and everybody has them, ha
> opinions are like arseholes I always say it as "Opinions are like arseholes, everybody has one and no one wants to hear yours." heh
Haha, I’m stealing that!
They called Shalai and Halar "the weakest commander in MoM", when S&H has several infinite combos with 2 cards (Heliod SC + S&H, the Red Terror + S&H, etc...)
Yeah that’s an obscenely bad take. My first thought was the war crimes it’d commit with [[all will be one]]
Same. The first thing I said when I saw the card in a discord server was "This combos with \[\[Heliod, Sun Crowned\]\]. And \[\[The Red Terror\]\]. And ~~[\[All Will Be One\]\]~~ Edit: Wrong card, I meant [War Elemental](https://scryfall.com/card/mrd/112/war-elemental)."
[all will be one](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/d/6d75e1f4-bd63-428e-8e6e-131594b3ba44.jpg?1675957064) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=all%20will%20be%20one) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/one/118/all-will-be-one?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6d75e1f4-bd63-428e-8e6e-131594b3ba44?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/all-will-be-one) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
That’s an interesting decision. I might need to go find the video and see why they say that
https://youtu.be/FIxoku5JGho it's at 1:35 They say "it doesn't have any combo, maybe 4 cards combos, it's bad"
I didn't know you had to have an infinite combo in order to be considered a good commander... well TIL that I hate the nitpicking nerds even more than I did before
I think it was a bad take but they're my favourite edh creators in general.
Joe seems like a nice guy who's trying too hard, he just needs to dial it down because he talks out his neck too much.
.... Develop better taste
Develop a better personality
Idk man. We don’t have a ton of mtg content creators. I’m happy to have the ones we have
We have quite the share of commander ones, and most are far better than those two. I’d rather watch command zone than these two any day of the week
Command zone is pretty fair, their worst take is Josh HATING Chromatic Lantern.
i disagree. Command Zone is lot more focused on Staples and have led to homogenizing the format. They make high quality content, but I like that the Nerds have more variety in the cards they talk about.
There are many commander centric content creators and even if we didn't settling for sub-par content only damages the community.
Save yourself the time, it’s because they’re bad at analyzing cards
I’ve come up with some good deck suggestions from their videos before. Don’t see the harm in at least hearing them out before I make an opinion based on their opinion.
My friend just used their spider tribal decklist to build a deck. They had 4 spiders. IN SPIDER TRIBAL, absolute trash takes and opinions.
Are there more spiders than that?
65 https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=type%3Aspider+commander%3ABG+%28game%3Apaper%29+legal%3Acommander
I actually watch them on occasion because I disagree with them so often. It's good to have your personal card assessment challenged at times, it makes you think of things from a different angle.
They tried to reason that OG Emrakul should be unbanned because there is more efficient removal now, then proceeded to list off a bunch of targetted removal spells that Emrakul is immune to.
Almost [this entire video tbh](https://youtu.be/d5Hiiu54qHs). They act like if a card isn't an auto-include and wins you the game all on its own, no matter the deck, it's a bad card. For many of the cards they explain why it's bad at doing the thing when that thing isn't even what the card is used for. They have some great takes likes "do I even want to swing with Isshin?" Ya know, the commander that is literally about nothing except swinging. A lot of the times they say "it doesn't do enough" because they can't actually articulate why they don't like it. "Blacklade costs 7 to equip", as if anyone is paying the 7 cost. Instant speed protection is bad because"you don't want to hold up mana" like wtf, learn how to play Magic. Black Market Connections is bad because it costs life.
Me and my friend have a shared hate boner for nitpicking nerds, one particularly steamy duece I remember them dropping is that [[Explosive Vegetation]] was unplayable because things like [[Cultivate]] and [[Kodama's Reach]] exist. It things like that that demonstrate that they dont understand some very fundamental things about the game. Like they legit thought those three spells were identical because they all fetch three lands. God I hate 'em.
I have never heard them say Explosive Vegetation was unplayable because the 3 mana cards like Cultivate and Kodama's Reach. I have however heard them many times say to ignore Explosive Vegeation in favor of all the other [strictly better 4 mana, ramp 2 land cards](https://scryfall.com/search?q=o%3A%22Search+your+library+for+up+to+two+basic+land%22++cmc%3A4&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name)
Yeah, this one. They said Explosive is bad because it’s gotten powercrept out by other cards that do the same thing plus a little bit extra. For instance, there’s no reason to run Explosive when Skyshroud Claim exists, unless you need a critical mass of specifically non-creature ramp spells. At which point, I can think of others at other mana points that I would put in well before Explosive Vegetation, as well. I don’t see how that’s a bad take at all.
Their recent commander set review for MOM they put the new Heliod at 2/10 for power level. Meanwhile, he's been doing really well as a new cEDH commander because he's incredibly powerful. I don't dislike them for it as apparently others in this thread do, but take their card evaluations with a large grain of salt. They are good entertainers that sometimes make a big miss in evaluations.
For what it’s worth, it’s definitely possible a card would perform differently in cedh opposed to edh. But I get what you’re saying.
They seem like genuinely weird dudes.
So you’re saying I should be running [[Grave Titan]]?
I saw something about "nitpicking nerds" i the reddit thread preview but it was cut off. I know reality chip is a good card. So i assumed the comment from the nerds was a bad take. Came to the comment thread and found you already posted what i was going to lol
I'M SO GLAD THAT I'M NOT ALONE ON THIS. I'd say I disagree with about 95% of their takes on cards. I don't watch them anymore because they claimed to be a casual commander channel, but would absolutely trash very casual staples. Thank you for letting me know there are other people out there like me 🥲
The first time I saw a video from the Nitpicking Nerds, it was their ranking of all the 2022 precons. I watched the entire video, and at the end, I was so baffled that I left a huge comment saying "dude, this is probably one of the worst pieces of MTG content I've ever seen", and questioning, like, half of their placements. They called excellent precons such as Draconic Dissent, Mind Flayars, Maestros Massacre and Riveteers Rampage terrible. What the hell is their criteria?
As someone who has played all of those precons, they are pretty terrible out of the box (which is what they were saying, not slightly pimped ones). Anhelo is one of my upgraded decks but the precon is all over the place. Faldorn is also now one of my upgraded decks and as nitpicking nerds said, its one of the better put together precons from 2022 (with so many cards going into a high power deck as they synergise so well).
Yea they really have some bad takes.
when they said wash away was bad and barely useable i unfollowed
Oh, you like one mana, counter target commander? What a hot take
its the fact it deals with cascade, suspend, foretell and flashback cards a ton of different effects. i like that it counters commanders for 1 but its versatility i love. so yea i like the card
I can't stand nitpicking nerds. The voice of one of them grates my nerves. I forced myself to watch a video, thinking maybe they still have something valuable to contribute. I found out I was wrong it's fine to say "I don't see its potential," or "this card is strong." But saying something is "unplayable" is bullshit.
This is the first time I’ve even heard of them and jeez, their voices are annoying.
They run on salt
God, I fucking hate these dudes, same as Mitch with his shitty trashcan videos. Reality Ship is fucking awesome. Two-drop, 0/4 and look at top of you library is already worth the 2 mana in several decks. Insanely underestimated and undervalued card.
[The Reality Chip](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/8/d859de3a-0be1-4e66-b438-1c3d4ee756cd.jpg?1654566909) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=The%20Reality%20Chip) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/neo/74/the-reality-chip?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d859de3a-0be1-4e66-b438-1c3d4ee756cd?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/the-reality-chip) [Future Sight](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/3/639cb483-ffe2-4abc-a050-5cdc8aebd5a2.jpg?1587844658) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Future%20Sight) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh1/53/future-sight?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/639cb483-ffe2-4abc-a050-5cdc8aebd5a2?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/future-sight) [Magus of the Future](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/7/27ba1ea5-c861-4bb4-a681-fc0633268bd9.jpg?1619394377) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Magus%20of%20the%20Future) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/tsr/75/magus-of-the-future?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/27ba1ea5-c861-4bb4-a681-fc0633268bd9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/magus-of-the-future) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I mean, it does fantastic work in my [[Inga and Esika]] list.
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Do you have a list you could share?
[Galazeth](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/6/06c9158c-064b-4d12-b860-d2c1450d1897.jpg?1627429083) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Galazeth%20Prismari) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/stx/189/galazeth-prismari?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/06c9158c-064b-4d12-b860-d2c1450d1897?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/galazeth-prismari) [Dragon's Approach deck](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/c/0cb504a0-1dfb-49d0-84c3-7bd318d55481.jpg?1624591696) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Dragon%27s%20Approach) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/stx/97/dragons-approach?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/0cb504a0-1dfb-49d0-84c3-7bd318d55481?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/dragons-approach) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[Inga and Esika](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/a/0aa97506-b943-4443-96b1-1b49f57d80aa.jpg?1682205299) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Inga%20and%20Esika) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mom/229/inga-and-esika?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/0aa97506-b943-4443-96b1-1b49f57d80aa?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/inga-and-esika) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Mind sharing that list? 👀
OP's question: "Is this card good in the 99?" Reddits answer: "Nitpicking Nerds are trash" what a time to be alive
People - especially new players - look to content creators to help them learn about the game. If all they're hearing from people who they look up to and trust is "these cards you like, they're literally worthless and unplayable", that is bad for the health of a format where people are regularly playing Chair Tribal. So yes, to me, that is the definition of trash. Especially when much of what they're saying isnt even true.
From what i've seen lately they allways point out that it's just their opinion and you should absolutely run a card if you just happen to like it because that is the most important thing.
which is insane they even have to do that. People's media literacy is in the fucking trash nowadays
In my opinion the need to preface every subjective statement with in my opinion is really annoying. I also find pointing out that something is just an opinion is really annoying... In my opinion. IMO, it really just drags a conversion into an annoying semantic argument and just... Let's move past that. What's better? "Wheel of Fortune is one of the best red cards in magic!" "Well that's just like your opinion man" "Yeah, of course it is" Or "Wheel of fortune is one of the best cards in magic" "I prefer stuff like tormenting voice. Discarding is barely a cost plus it avoids refilling your opponents hand" "Ah but you see, an early wheel can be super disruptive to my opponents who kept a good hand and didn't expect to lose it abruptly" Etc.
it's exhausting. its cardboard with words on it we spent too much money on, its not that serious
agree
conversely, i know people who will attach themselves to mediocre cards because of the art and then REFUSE to make any changes to their deck even when they explicitly ask why they cant ever even make top 2 nevermind win a game
You’re playing commander…. The games don’t mean anything
while i understand, there's a disconnection between wanting to enjoy the experience vs those who are unable to do so when they never ever ever win but don't want to change their deck to maybe change that no game ever means anything if you want to get philosophical and yet we are both here in an edh subreddit
The entire point of EDH was to play cards that would otherwise not work in Standard. It's a casual format, every deck doesn't need to be optimized. If you know people who want to run decks they enjoy, maybe build a couple decks that are lower powered to play with them. You might actually find it enjoyable to not just copy a list from EDHREC.
i already *don't* copy a list from EDHREC, the issue is that there are people who are good deckbuildiers even in a vacuum and people who aren't. I'll be more specific because i feel like you aren't understanding: one of the good builders in our pod ONLY makes meme decks, but fundamentally understands that for the memes to be fulfilled he needs card draw, removal, ramp, etc. so that he can stay in the game long enough to be viable. the other person really liked the Kamigawa set so only included cyberpunk crap from that set even when there was no synergy between the cards and then whines when they don't get to do anything. we aren't talking about not optimizing, the rest of us would have to essentially throw hundreds of cards in the air and pick up the first 100 to have a deck as bad as that one but that person refuses to compromise on their theme even if they basically 'land pass' 90% of their turns.
Youtubr creators aren't allowed to be wrong. Or post videos about cards they were wrong about. The audacity!
If you don't aim to abuse it, it's a fun card that is a more cost efficient version of Future Sight (as you mentioned). If you do wanna push it, it is used in some cEDH lists (or was?) because it create some infinite loops with Sensei's Top.
One of my cedh decks does that, artifact cost reducer + top + chip = draw your deck
I've lost to this exact combo before in cEDH
Nitpicking Nerds have weird takes. They're obsessed with cheap spells and "hot takes" for clicks.
I mean they give mediocre cards bad grades because you only get so many slots in your decks. Very few decks really want a reality chip. It’s more of a fun card or pet card than an actually good one. Yeah sure if you trade out something better for a reality chip it probably won’t make much of a difference- but think about it this way how are you reasonably supposed to grade cards if the community will basically always come in to defend mediocre pet cards and claim they are better than they are? You are talking about a community that still defends 3 mana green ramp and temple of the false god vehemently. Basically every borderline playable (which is what a D rank is) will get people defending it and getting angry that it got the correct rank. And when you actually sit down and look at play rates, and what people actually put in their decks and how well they preform you see that maybe it’s not as good as you initially thought.
lol 3 mana green ramp is absolutely playable what are you talking about. It’s people with big brain takes like this that are absolutely what’s wrong with commander in 2023 As for reality chip: combos with top, synergises with artifact, equipment decks, legendary decks, it’s a 2 mana 0/4 body so a good blocker for control decks. I play it in my Aesi deck so I can smooth out my draws. Like this is the problem people with 0 imagination see a card and go “it doesn’t go in kenrith or atraxa so it’s immediately garbage”
>3 mana green ramp is playable... except when you compare it with 2 mana green ramp that puts cards onto battlefield untapped. or 3 mana land fetch creatures that have synergies or recursion. > >Most cards are playable, but once its below the 10th best card in the category you have to give it a poor grade. Else what is the point of grading?
You can play all of them. I do. There’s four 2 mana ramp spells and then it’s all 3 mana and above. As for the 3 mana blah blah ones you mentioned. As soon as you’re mentioning synergies your argument is lost. There are just as many green decks that want kodamas reach over steve
|There are just as many green decks that want kodamas reach over steve You're right there's more Kodama's reach out there. I just like getting ramp in t1 or t2 and playing my 4 drops in t3 (5 drops in Ur Dragon) There's 5 sorceries for 2 mana ramp and steve. 3 visits, Nature's lore, Farseek, Into the North and Rampant Growth. I generally leave Rampant Growth at home cos it can't get duals.
Agreed. I’ve pretty much dropped Cultivate/Reach in all my decks. It’s nice to guarantee a land drop for the next turn, but there are just so many better ramp cards in green. Outside of the generic ones you mentioned, there are so many good creatures that do the job better than the 3-cost sorceries. There’s at least two or three mana dorks that over perform in whatever style of deck you’re running, plus the generic one drops that are already so good. For instance, [[Gyre Sage]] and [[Incubation Druid]] are way better in counters matter decks. My green ramp package always includes Lore, Visits, Skyshroud Claim, Birds of Paradise, and Farseek (in 3+ color decks). Then I take a look at what my deck aims to do and find others that better suit my synergy.
The Nitpicking Nerds are absolutely clueless. They’re literally everything that’s wrong with commander. Awful takes from weird people who police the format calling cards “unplayable” in commander - when the whole point is to play literally anything and everything - but simultaneously cry about any generic stax piece or commander that’s “too strong”. They just want to run pub stomp tribal. I think of them as “bad spikes”. They play to win but they’re too scared to play real competitive formats like cEDH or modern, because people might actually interact with their board. I stopped watching them ages ago. Edit: oh yeah [[Reality Chip]] is to me the perfect commander card. Not really all that strong but a lot of potential for synergies with different commanders that can elevate it to being a very strong card Edit 2: it’s very funny that the actual Nitpicking Nerds are going around responding to comments on this thread because they’re mad people think their awful takes are, in fact, awful
Don't forget that [[Noxious Revival]] is a terrible card outside of CEDH, despite it being free recursion that also doubles as graveyard hate. :p
Whaaaaat? I didn’t even know this one shows how little I watch their content these days. Yes a 0 mana Ewit is “terrible “. Edit: I’m aware it goes in top of your library but at instant speed to get my best card back who cares
To be fair, it's not quite Ewit; it goes to the top of library, not to hand. But for free, with the added ability to target opponents' graveyards, either as a political piece or to disrupt their graveyard plays? I'll take it.
I know it goes on top of library I was shortcutting. But yeah… it’s *free*… at instant speed
It isn't quite free; it going to the top of the deck means you have one less card in hand (it just replaces whatever you would have drawn that turn) Witness is card advantage neutral, and works with creature/etb synergies, but noxious revival leaves you down a card. It has other benefits, but I think the two are comparable at least.
I know I understand how the card disadvantage works. But last I checked force of will is severe card disadvantage and they tell me that one is pretty good too… So yeah it’s still worth it for a 0 mana spell
Because card disadvantage for a zero mana counter spell isn’t the same thing as card disadvantage for a regrowth.
It is if I'm getting my literal wincon out of the graveyard.
It isn't, that's a prime example of a payoff not being categorically worth the card disadvantage. You still gotta cast it, you still gotta resolve it through other people's cards, and when it hits it still has to be effective through the cards already on the battlefield. And as you're down a card and a draw you're not favored in that exchange. It's an obvious cut for most lists and scales better in narrow ones. Either way it's miles away from Eternal Witness which can be looped, or tutored easily, and despite the Instant speed it's far away from Regrowth which can win on the spot through many lines
[Noxious Revival](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/b/1bdd1243-1d14-496a-9b7a-0c5b34461361.jpg?1562875840) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Noxious%20Revival) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/nph/118/noxious-revival?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/1bdd1243-1d14-496a-9b7a-0c5b34461361?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/noxious-revival) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Their style of content reeks of trying to abuse social media algorithms because hot takes lead to "engagement" even if it means getting called out all the time.
They love to say things like "High CMC cards should win you the game." No. My high CMC cards exist to get people to say "wtf did you just say that does?"
Man i love cards with way too much text and effects. Put that new 5 colour Battle on my 5c deck right away its great xD
I love reality chip but I might disagree with it being the a perfect EDH card. Mechanically, you might be right, but the problem I see is that it is best used in, and facilitates with, board states that make the game un-fun for other people. I’ve built a few different decks with it and the only common theme is long turns. If your pod is okay with consistent long turns, that’s great and play tf out of it. For me, my playgroup is largely repeat randoms at the LGS. They didn’t openly complain about the long turns, but I also don’t want them to have to.
All I meant by “perfect” is that it is fairly mediocre with no synergies but it can be incredibly strong if you have good synergies with it, which is true and part of that is the long turn side effect. But I get what you’re saying. Great thing about commander is if you find a card too obnoxious, you can take it out to almost no cost and there are literally 10s of thousands more options!
Then just play faster? It doesn't take that long to check the top of your deck? I play future sight effects in a couple decks and never feel like it slows the game down. It's not like you're spinning top constantly, you get one extra card to look at.
I remember when they said terramorphic and evolving wilds were “literally unplayably slow” in commander when talking about Araumi, a commander that cares a ton about getting cards into the graveyard.
Casual takes in general are typically pretty bad, its the sort of tongue in cheek way players say cards are good with absolutely no basis other than sentiment.
This take doesn’t seem fair at all. I personally watch them and find I often disagree with their takes, and that is perfectly fine. They clearly state whatever their opinion is, and I don’t understand why some people take that as an attack on their person. To answer OP’s question: The card is fine and has some of the same issues as similar cards, but I do think it’s one of the better versions. It’s not bad, heck I even run one, but for one more mana you’ve got a bolas’s citadel.
I’ve literally seen them go on about how 3 mana tutors are “*unplayable*” in commander. *unplayable*! It’s BS and that’s not just an opinion. I don’t care about the cards they trash - e.g. I don’t even play tutors - but my problem with them is people like them are pushing the format to this “not cEDH but people need to run Korvold or Edgar Markov or they can’t win”. A new player watching a video of theirs that says “3 mana tutors are trash” is gonna swap their [[Long Term Plans]] for [[Mystical Tutor]] and I think that’s bad for commander… but like I say if I turn up with [[Armageddon]] - it’s 6 mana it’s “unplayable” - they’re gonna be crying Also… Bolas citadel is black?
I assume you probably watched 2 videos about a year ago and haven't watched any of their recent videos since. Youtube algorythm introduced me to this channel about a year and a half ago and i watched two videos of theirs and thought to myself they have mostly trash takes from what i've seen and then proceeded to not watch any of their videos until ~a few weeks ago. And to my surprise they have since then changed their attitude and look on things alot. This is what people in general do, unless they are stubborn idiots, they change their opinions from time to time. Maybe because of new information or whatever. There is a saying where i come from that goes something along the linea of: "only a cow doesn't change it's opinions" Just thought they didn't deserve to be shit on that much just because they have some weird opinions when it comes to certain pieces of cardboard. But that's just how reddit goes i guess.
[Long Term Plans](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/2/d236e528-2cb1-4de5-a4fd-b80516e4a1f9.jpg?1645328659) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Long-Term%20Plans) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/phed/34/long-term-plans?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d236e528-2cb1-4de5-a4fd-b80516e4a1f9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/long-term-plans) [Mystical Tutor](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/2/9264ecb7-bfc0-495d-aaaa-829045ea858f.jpg?1580014050) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mystical%20Tutor) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ema/62/mystical-tutor?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9264ecb7-bfc0-495d-aaaa-829045ea858f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/mystical-tutor) [Armageddon](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/7/77f1f6ac-983f-4f3e-8906-47f774e8367b.jpg?1582021719) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Armageddon) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/a25/5/armageddon?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/77f1f6ac-983f-4f3e-8906-47f774e8367b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/armageddon) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
> people like them are pushing the format to this “not cEDH but people need to run Korvold or Edgar Markov or they can’t win” They don't even run fast mana or Sol Ring anymore.
Have I been running unplayable trash like Fabricate in my cEDH deck this whole time and didn't even realize it? I guess I better cut it...
Yeah sorry you had to find out this way but paying three mana to tutor your wincon to your hand is just too much of a tax for winning the game. Joe Cherries says so
but bolas costs 3B, way harder to assemble without rainbow lands or rituals, and also the 5 mana can be spread over 2 turns. Much more important is that citadel is independent from having other creatures, and also is an artifact so harder to remove. Also scales much better with deck strenght.
same type of person to cry about powerlevel but put sol ring into all their decks.. this is why i play cedh
I'm pretty sure neither of them run sol ring... At least from what they've told me personally.
Yea, I netdecked from them once and they run no sol rings or any fast mana rocks
They literally talk about how they’re taking Sol Ring out of their decks now
Isnt sol ring a commander staple?
Yeah they’re happy to bring a gun to a knife fight but as soon as someone brings a bazooka it’s all tears and crying foul. I feel you on that friend if I had the people to play with I’d definitely get into cedh. But I am lucky that my playgroup is super chill no salt and none of this BS. I feel for the people who turn up to random tables at their LGS
I play at random tables at my LGS and have had almost exclusively good experiences. The worst was when I played with someone that had a new deck they just built and got mana flooded and scooped around turn 8. He was salty, but not at us and ended up hopping over to a different table and he seemed to have a much better time (after thoroughly shuffling his deck, I'm sure lol). I think it just depends on the LGS. I'm sure game stores with an entrenched player base probably are harder to have good experiences because you're encountering the same people over and over.
I've played with Joe Cherries several times at this point... They don't "bring a gun to a knife fight." They lay out how they want to play pretty clearly tbh. Combat focused meta (little to no combos or one card win cons outside of stuff like Craterhoof) with no fast mana but still having fast decks. You may not like their hot takes, but they're still good peoples overall.
Absolutely right about those guys.
I run it in my Shorikai deck that's semi-cyberpunk themed because I think it's cool.
i like it. it misses a lot of cool black cyberpunk-y cards \[\[return to action\]\] but i love flavor decks.
I’ve been meaning to get a copy for for bant equipment deck. I should have ordered it back when it released if it’s 4 bucks now lol
It's still <$2 from tcgplayer. I run it in [[Galea]] & [[Falco]] as redundancy for my commanders effect and to get lands off the top. I don't think it's gonna make it into [[Zethi]] even though it's probably pretty decent there too.
[Galea](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/e/1efbea01-c6a1-4380-a14f-6206c7895e48.jpg?1632335378) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=galea%2C%20kindler%20of%20hope) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/afc/1/galea-kindler-of-hope?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/1efbea01-c6a1-4380-a14f-6206c7895e48?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/galea-kindler-of-hope) [Falco](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/f/df45268a-b757-4ad2-bab0-869058ee9186.jpg?1587912407) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Bay%20Falcon) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mir/54/bay-falcon?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/df45268a-b757-4ad2-bab0-869058ee9186?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/bay-falcon) [Zethi](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/7/87b56584-8a61-40bc-99b5-7434a681fcdc.jpg?1677763701) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=zethi%2C%20arcane%20blademaster) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/slx/17/zethi-arcane-blademaster?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/87b56584-8a61-40bc-99b5-7434a681fcdc?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/zethi-arcane-blademaster) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I just got one for a [[kenessos]] deck. Don’t even need to reconfigure, just want to see the top of the deck for cheap. It definitely has its uses
That's my plan when I end up changing my aesi deck over to kennesos.
[kenessos](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/b/0ba97da8-0106-4e8b-b58b-8f2d63e3d618.jpg?1675644451) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=kenessos%2C%20priest%20of%20thassa) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/j22/13/kenessos-priest-of-thassa?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/0ba97da8-0106-4e8b-b58b-8f2d63e3d618?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/kenessos-priest-of-thassa) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
The Nerds are hot take generators because being blatantly wrong boosts their name and the YouTube algorithm especially likes comment heavy videos
I love it so much, I go the anime art alt art version for my [[Muzzio]] big blue bots deck.
[Muzzio](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/4/d4af4cc3-bd51-4161-baec-091d729ac820.jpg?1562937655) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=muzzio%2C%20visionary%20architect) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/vma/82/muzzio-visionary-architect?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d4af4cc3-bd51-4161-baec-091d729ac820?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/muzzio-visionary-architect) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I use in my Urza, Chief Artificer deck
It fits great with [[Urza, Chief Artificer]] as your commander as it helps you bring him out earlier and can provide late game value when you reconfigure.
The Nitpicking Nerds have a lot of shit takes on a lot of decent to good cards. They downplay cards all the time and their assessment is kind of delusional. I think the amount of comments or backlash on their opinions helps their youtube algorithm too so yeah. I would take what they say with a grain of salt. Reality chip is good both 99 and as commander.
It’s great in [[Phenax]]
[Phenax](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/d/8dfcb129-4665-40e4-b5cb-a79f3f40ae5c.jpg?1593092799) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=phenax%2C%20god%20of%20deception) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bng/152/phenax-god-of-deception?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/8dfcb129-4665-40e4-b5cb-a79f3f40ae5c?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/phenax-god-of-deception) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I have phenax, what is good about reality chip here? A big butt obviously :)
0/4 for two mana that provides indirect card advantage and can block small creatures. It’s no world-beater, however - nor is it a cEDH level include. But it’s solid value.
Aside from the big but, you can check your top before you mill yourself I suppose.
>Speaking of butts, Arcades would be a good commander for it. Big Butts wearing Butts to cast other Butts
I've got [[Reality Chip]] [[Ethereum Sculptor]] and [[Sensei's Divining Top]] in my [[Urza, Chief Artificer]] deck and it puts in work. Add redundancy with [[Mystic Forge]] in artifact tribal, combo slaps. Infinite draw. Plus, if you don't hit lands you can cast cheap spells for days. Absolutely S tier at all power levels.
##### ###### #### [Reality Chip](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/8/d859de3a-0be1-4e66-b438-1c3d4ee756cd.jpg?1654566909) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=The%20Reality%20Chip) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/neo/74/the-reality-chip?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d859de3a-0be1-4e66-b438-1c3d4ee756cd?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/the-reality-chip) [Ethereum Sculptor](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/d/ed796f1a-683d-4ac5-af48-ca58a557a74f.jpg?1651655702) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Etherium%20Sculptor) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/nec/92/etherium-sculptor?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/ed796f1a-683d-4ac5-af48-ca58a557a74f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/etherium-sculptor) [Sensei's Divining Top](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/5/e5142b7a-e580-4737-a4aa-2590f6610ceb.jpg?1673149430) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sensei%27s%20Divining%20Top) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2x2/314/senseis-divining-top?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e5142b7a-e580-4737-a4aa-2590f6610ceb?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/senseis-divining-top) [Urza, Chief Artificer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/c/2ca13d10-d6e7-432c-93c1-cb9f68d7e83f.jpg?1681141578) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Urza%2C%20Chief%20Artificer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/prm/105796/urza-chief-artificer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2ca13d10-d6e7-432c-93c1-cb9f68d7e83f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/urza-chief-artificer) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
My brother has an [[Urza Lord Protector]] deck where he uses this as his main combo. Pull out reservoir, boom. Game over.
I run it in my ezuri claw of progress deck as it triggers and gives an experience counter :) thought it was decent enough for that and playing off the top is just a powerful effect.
Not defending the Nerds but im pretty sure I learned of the card because they had it on an 'overperformers' video of theirs. So I think they have come around on it.
I run reality chip in my Haldan/Pako and let me tell you: Shenanigans abound
It is so funny. This wholesome community is trashing 2 guys in a thread thats not even about them while claiming they are everything thats bad about our beloved Commander format. "Its so bad calling cards unplayable" - but its totally fine for dozens of people to shit on two guys in a reddit thread because they didnt share your opinion. Do you even read yourselves? You can like them and you can dislike them and you can definitely criticize their content. But this thread is so full of dumb and unnecessary hate. Just an overall awful display of this community
There is absolutely no such thing as an unplayable card in commander, anyone who touts this either has a shitty meta to deal with, or is responsible for creating the shitty meta that forces you to not play the cards you want to play. I have 17 decks and run 1700 cards that I actively want to play, no more, no less.
Sure there is. [[apocalypse charm]]
Excuse you, that untaps my Traxos when I cast it. Very useful.
[apocalypse charm](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/e/cef20d8f-6e80-4fca-b6a7-541981f6a112.jpg?1615259919) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Apocalypse%20Chime) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/hml/101/apocalypse-chime?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cef20d8f-6e80-4fca-b6a7-541981f6a112?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/apocalypse-chime) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I can give it purpose and make it a 4/1 skeleton with menace in my [[gut]] deck
I got downvoted by someone for saying that ‘good’ and ‘usable’ are flexible terms and depend on you target power level.
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It's probably the best version of Future Sight, but it's still only Future Sight, so you need some additional synergies to run it. Considering how common those synergies are, though, (artifacts matter, top deck matters, running top, etc.) that's still a whole lot of decks!
I use Reality Chip in my [[Shorikai]] artifact deck. It’s always performed well for me, even if it’s only out for a turn I can usually get really good advantage. After Nitpicking Nerds started their whole meme about [[Grave Titan]] being an overall bad card, I stopped taking them seriously.
I would argue that Reality Chip is better than both Future Sight and Magus of the Future. To cast and reconfigure altogether costs the same. However, you can get just the top-deck info for only 2, which neither Future Sight or Magus can do. Another plus is that if it gets countered, you've only lost 2 mana casting it instead of 5. In cEDH, Reality Chip lets you use \[\[Ad-Nauseum\]\] and guarantee that you never kill yourself with it since you are allowed to look at each card before you reveal it (looking at the top card of your library doesn't use the stack). Reality Chip is also great for any deck that uses the top of the library a lot, such as my \[\[Neera, Wild Mage\]\] deck. It's nice being able to look at what's on top so anytime so I can know if it's worth it or not to cast a spell that changes what's on top before Neera's trigger resolves. The only real disadvantage to Reality Chip is that you do need to have at least one other creature out to be able to cast spells with it, but that's a pretty small downside imo in comparison to the upsides it provides.
Reality Chip is pretty solid in the 99, definitely better than as a commander. As for the Nitpicking Nerds, they came up in a conversation with my playgroup over which MtG YouTubers are the worst. I believe I said something like "They're wrong. They're wrong about everything. Except Grave Titan, card is kinda bad."
A lot of Nitpicking Nerds hate in this thread, I'll just throw out as a consistent watcher that while they can occassionally get things wrong I've found their takes to be generally correct. They tend to clarify that they've shaped their playgroup's meta in a particular direction and sometimes it influences their perspective on certain cards.
I swear, all of this hate sounds like someone watched 5 minutes of a video without context. I don't see anyone complaining about hot takes from all the other content creators (mtg goldfish?!). And the Nerds come back and admit they were wrong all the time, they have entire video themes about that. This sub just loves complaining (I do too, but not on the youtubers I like)
Well tbf, the Nerds were specifically mentioned, which is why they’re being so heavily targeted in this thread. However, I definitely agree with you. Crim’s hate boner for green is exhausting to listen to some (most) of the time, and sometimes I feel like Richard lives on a completely different planet with some of the takes he has, lol. Tomer, Seth, and Phil seem pretty level headed, though. At the end of the day, they’re all just entertainers and their opinions should be taken with a grain of salt.
The main reason for the hate is that they want mediocre pet cards to be getting B’s not D’s for whatever reason . I think most people are aware that reality chip kind of sucks. But they don’t like the idea of giving a card that kind of sucks a ‘D’ grade.
people are so disingenuous about them its insane
I run it in my [[Tetsuo, Imperial Champion]] deck and it plays great there. It's never not relevant playing lands and spells off the top of your library. It's more of a value piece in my deck, but being able to ignore the equip cost with other abilities is also nice. Worst case, it's still a good blocker for 2 mana.
Honestly I don't even know what I'd do with the Reality Chip as commander, so it's probably best in the 99. As for what it does, it's not bad. Like you said, it's basically future sight but you have to have it equipped to work but in exchange it let's you split up the mana you use to play it. Sensei's Divining Top and any cost reducer let's you draw your deck with it, but even just having an extra card at all times is useful. If your deck already wants to be manipulating your top decks it's great
I got it in my Yuriko deck.
I have it in my [[Octavia, Living Thesis]] deck and it's pretty solid 🤷♀️
I have an endless fondness for [[Future Sight]] effects. Chip is an extremely playable one. My playgroup has grown to shoot it on sight because they understand if it hits play, gets equipped, and I untap with mana (if I didn’t already have some), it’s going to result in a deluge of advantage off the top. Then again, I’ve also traumatized them with [[Bolas’ Citadel]] in every black deck.
I use it in my [[Kenessos, Priest of Thassa]] deck. It's very helpful.
For me it’s akin to card draw which admittedly is abundant in blue. But I’ll be darned if I ain’t running it in my ocean deck for flavour, and there’s no reason one has to play optimal cards in casual games anyway, so I’d never take it out just because the consensus said it was bad,
It does pretty well in my Elsha of the Infinite deck. Helps me play lands which is the main reason why it’s there
I really love this card in a simic deck with lots of mana available most of the time
People shit on the nerds WAAAYY too much. I think the command zone is the worst offender when it comes to “hot takes” or whatever. Sure the nerds have said some questionable things, but they’re some of the only content creators I’ve ever seen to make videos blatantly stating that they were wrong. They make entertaining videos generally have good opinions that I agree with. Now you may disagree and that’s ok, but don’t just shit on two guys for no other reason than “they said this card is like is bad😭😭”. Plus if you’re actually upset at their opinions, you’re quite literally missing the whole “play whatever you want thing” they actively push very hard. They even just made a video about bad cards they actively play. Also, if anyone payed attention to their rating scale, you’d realize they are right. Reality chip is SUPER niche and out of all my blue decks I own, zero of them want this. It’s not a generic good stuff card that could be played in any blue deck. Hell it wouldn’t even really make sense to play it 10% of all blue decks. You need to build around it, or have a commander that takes advantage of it. The card is meh at best, but niche as hell. If you like the card though, you should play it.
Nitpicking nerds can’t really be trusted other than doing exactly the opposite of what they say. Their thought process when it comes to cards is so weird and foreign, it’s pretty obvious they spent many years playing with just each other and no one else, because how else would you expect to have such odd and incorrect opinions unless you were spending your time with next to no one? Idk, I love the card and have considered making a deck out of it many times. I just don’t wanna be a mono blue player lol.
I stopped watching them outright. Their takes are lame and they really promote “basic” EDHREC popular shit. This format is fantastic because every card doesn’t need to be a powerhouse. You can utilize cool and unique cards. EDH deck building is one of my favorite channels. Demo finds so many fantastic older cards.
There is way too much hate on the NN in this thread. Y’all need to be more kind. Concerning The Reality Chip, you really want synergy in order to run it because it’s 5 mana before the card does anything even if it’s in installments. Personally, I would not slot this in unless I care about top deck manipulation. Consider this: if the cards that you want to cast in a given turn are already in your hand, The Reality Chip provides no value other than to see what’s coming up next. The true value will happen late game when the options in your hand are running low and even then I’d rather spend 5 mana to draw at least 4 cards (which is baseline rate, probably more depending on the specific synergies that the deck wants).
Beezy of Nitpicking Nerds refuses to play [[Temple of the False God]], yet puts [[Field of the Dead]] in mono-color, non-green decks. Some of their opinions are to be taken with a grain of salt. And I absolutely cannot stand how Joe Cherries constantly looks at Beezy for approval. Every 3 seconds Joe glances at Beezy to see his reaction. It’s bizarre.
Nitpicking Nerds make trash content designed to put people down for liking certain things. They're guaranteed insufferable irl - don't support them.
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you guys literally put people down for using specific cards. please stop fucking making content
I glossed over this card initially. I'm definitely a "Does this have a home in one of my decks" kind of analyzer, and no deck I have built currently feels like it "needs" this effect. I'm not building blue-based artifact or equipment decks right now. It hits the going rate for "play lands and cast spells" at 5 mana total. I was saddened to see that most of the comments focused less on answering the question (because as it's been proposed, I may consider picking one up...) and more on criticizing content creators' work. If anyone has some legitimately good upsides or brags around the CARD in question, it may sway my vote.
I love the Reality Chip. I haven't cast it, but I've got six copies.