History YMMV / MagicTheGathering

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** Mark Rosewater is the head of Wizards R&D and is essentially the public face of Magic design and development. If something goes wrong, it's his fault. Even if he had nothing to do with it, it's always [[FanNickname MaRo's]] fault. The game's inventor, Richard Garfield, seems to have escaped this.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: ''Unglued'' and ''Unhinged'' are illegal for [[SeriousBusiness serious play]] and most cards from those sets will never be re-printed.

* FridgeBrilliance: Necrogen Scudder was the only Phyrexian card in Scars of Mirrodin that didn't feature infect, proliferate, -1/-1 counters, or other Phyrexian mechanics and was not legendary like Geth. But it does require you pay 3 life. The Mirrans got all the lifegain, and a card which prevents life loss altogether, while Phyrexians got most of the life payment. But then you realize that Phyrexians don't care about life (since they win by poison counters) and are happy to pay it, as shown by Phyrexian mana cards.

** A lhurgoyf is simply something that makes blue/green mill playable, and makes multiplayer games into a nightmare.

*** Another aspect of it is colors. Blue will never be as powerful as it was in the early days, before Revised Edition. In recent years, especially with Disenchant becoming green (as Naturalize), green has become more powerful.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=1058 Atog]] gained a {{Hatedom}} from being the most printed card other than basic lands for a few months after ''Revised'', but by the time ''Mirage'' made atogs an iconic race, not only had the haters disappeared in a puff of apathy, but the people who liked the atogs' goofily-large toothy grins and power in decks built to feed them were more plentiful than ever.

* TierInducedScrappy: The most powerful cards and decks frequently attract a {{hatedom}} as players grow tired of seeing the same cards at the top tables of every tournament. Victims have included:

* LawfulEvil: Yawgmoth.

** Mark Rosewater is the head of Wizards R&D and is essentially the public face of Magic design and development. If something goes wrong, [[UnpleasableFanbase as it inevitably will]], it's his fault. Even if he had nothing to do with it, it's always [[FanNickname MaRo's]] fault. The game's inventor, Richard Garfield, seems to have escaped this.

*** Wearing Lightning Greaves tends to cause [[IncrediblyLamePun your heels to be hot]].

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Maybe. Most, if not all, of the ridiculously powerful, unbeatable cards people mention on this page, like Necropotence and Black Lotus, came in the earliest sets. However, those early sets also featured many completely useless abilities, like "bands with other". Conversely, new sets feature bigger and bigger creatures for cheaper mana costs (and/or more bizarre alternate costs) and/or with more unusual abilities. While, in another sense, some new cards are objectively weaker than their old counterparts: several cards in recent sets are identical reprints of older cards in every way except for costing more mana to cast, such as Counterspell and Cancel. This is tantamount to an admission that those effects were valuable but too easy to get, so designers made it just a little bit harder. Perhaps the best way to put it is that power levels have been smoothed out: there are fewer {{Game Breaker}}s in modern sets, but also fewer completely useless cards. YourMileageMayVary, of course.\\
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In general, certain game concepts have been reevaluated constantly over the years. Card drawing of any kind has gotten more expensive because of its sheer power. The same holds true with non-land mana producers, land destruction, and the aforementioned (and often annoying) countermagic. On the other side of the coin, creatures have gotten cheaper for their power because of a realization of how fragile they are. Accordingly, the number of very easy, drawback-free ways to destroy them have been reduced. Magic, the reasoning goes, was never meant to be played with an entire category of card being "useless." The days of Draw-Go and other completely creatureless decks may never return.\\
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The entirety of Magic's PowerCreepPowerSeep could be summed up as this: As a whole, creatures sucked and Spells were unbelievably powerful for the first decade of Magic; during the second decade of Magic, there's been a trend of Creatures becoming more powerful than Spells printed in the same sets. As a whole, Artifacts, Enchantments, and Lands have been a good 50/50 when it comes to Suck vs. Quality all along; however, back in the day, either an A/L/E was amazing or complete garbage, whereas these days almost all A/L/E's are pretty well even in being reasonably decent, with the occasional holy-crap card (in a good or bad sense.) Thus, in any given Legacy deck, expect to see mostly older spells, mostly newer creatures, and a mix of lands, artifacts, and enchantments from all over Magic's history.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The announcement that Jace, The Mind Sculptor and Stoneforge Mystic would be banned from standard caused this among large portions of people

** [[http://magiccards.info/wwk/en/31.html Jace, the Mind Sculptor]]'s unprecedented price tag (about $100 at its peak), combined with his status as a staple in multiple formats, has earned him a lot of unpopularity among some segments of the player base.

* FridgeBrilliance:
** The purpose and potential of a number of cards are easily overlooked at a glance. A good example is 'Goatnapper', which allows you to [[ExactlyWhatitSaysonTheTin gain control of an opponent's goat]]. A quick glance through the archives reveals two goats, neither in print, and both useless - until you remember the block it came out with contained the very useful [[VoluntaryShapeshifter changeling]] race, who [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot count as every creature type]]. Including "Goat". (As well as "Mutant", "Ninja", and "Turtle". [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles The Teenager creature type is]], however, still missing.)
** Many cards contain subtle shout-outs to other cards that fall under this trope. For example, it's easy to notice that [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=126289 Fortune Thief]] is a throwback to the Arabian Nights card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=957 Ali from Cairo]], but if you look closely at the art, you can see that the Fortune Thief has the same ability because she stole Ali's magical amulet. There are numerous other examples, most of which are pointed out on the official website's "Magic Arcana" feature [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Archive.aspx?tag=arcana&description=arcana here]].
* FridgeHorror: [[http://inkwelllooter.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-life-as-weapon.html The Living Weapon germs are trapped inside their twisted, weaponized shells, unable to leave without dying, forced to kill or die.]]
** Eldrazi Spawn tokens. Eldrazi ''Spawn''. As in, children. You sacrifice them to add mana, most likely to summon the big Eldrazi.

* CompleteMonster: Or rather, "[[JustForPun Compleat]] Monster." Yawgmoth started out as a blend of all the worst parts of AdolfHitler and Josef Mengele. This was when he was still human. After gaining control of Phyrexia, he ended up as the multiverse's equivalent of {{Satan}}.

** Also has UrbanLegendOfZelda written all over it. There is no Black Lotus or Mox in ''Zendikar''.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: New players may be mystified as to why certain famous/infamous cards have such a reputation. Sometimes this is because of their still immature grasp of the game, but other times it's because those cards were simply good in their particular metagame, making their dominance a matter of context.

** The Jund deck that dominated Standard after the release of ''Alara Reborn''

* TheUntwist: In the ''Scars of Mirrodin'' storyline, Phyrexia has vastly superior forces, the element of surprise, and is the bad guy. Any GenreSavvy player worth his salt would think TheGoodGuysWin against overwhelming odds, right? Nope. Welcome to New Phyrexia, folks.

* UnpleasableFanbase: Every aspect of Magic has someone that complains loudly about it. Fans are for/against foil cards, okay with/against the mythic rarity, faster/slower metagames, and more/less split cards/gold-bordered cards/legends/artifacts/whatever... a popular joke is that if Wizards put hundred-dollar-bills in packs of Magic, people would complain about how they were folded.

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