Everyone knows that the best card is "Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made This Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental"
Ach! Hans, run! It's the Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made This Card To Have The Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental!
I think you mean Wordmail, which for only one mana gives a creature +1/+1 for every word in its name. Making it a +25/+25 for 1 on Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made This Card To Have The Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental.
My favorite card is ruined servitor. It's a 2 Mana 2/2 artifact with "when this creature dies, each player draws a card" I have no idea why it's my favorite
Loved Hypnotic Specter especially when played turn one. There's always been something so horribly satisfying about forcing one's opponent to discard at random.
So, I haven't played in a while sadly, but when I think of Magic I instantly think of Niv-Mizzet the Firemind(one of my 1st cards, and built a deck around him when I was little right when that set came out), that card holds a special place in my memory.
My favourite card is tied between camel and tasseled dromidary. I am going to make a modern camel tribal aggro deck called flying camels. My friend won a draft with tasseled dromidary when it was a 5/9 flyer with vigilance which inspired this deck.
When I first started playing I learned with my friends cards. But when I got my own cards the best (my fav) card I got was KARN SILVER GOLEM!!! I loved the art. Artifacts (at least the ones I had) weren't great back then so I had trouble building a deck around Karn but he still saw play as a great wall/attacker if it is open. Crazy that Karn was your first Rare as well. P
Entreat the Angels. I love the way the card looks, I love what it does, and I love that feeling I get when I miracle it in my mono white devotion deck.
Felidar Sovereign will always have a special place in my heart. Along with being an amusing way to win EDH/Commander games through hate bears/control so you are able to find a way to take no damage and win, it's 4/6 Vigilance Lifelink for 4WW, which isn't awful and is pretty durable. I remember playing a game of EDH with three of my friends, and I cast Felidar Sovereign and because everyone else was so caught up in stopping one of them from ramping into hundreds of golems (he had an absurd golem deck that ran all the splicers, doubling season, parallel lives, and growing ranks, so it could get a stupid amount of golems in at an unbelievably quick speed), no one addressed my felidar until it got back around to me and I won.
It has to be Thalia, Guardian of Thraben. I played competitive MtG for one standard season and loved my GW Humans by heart. The biggest opponent for me was of course control decks and cheap interaction, so forcing my opponent to pay more mana than they have to was my saving grace. I am a cheap creature enjoyer to this day whenever I pick up MtG.
Probably Lord of the Pit, for me. It was one of the first cards I ever received, way back in Revised, and I still have it in a hard case. I think my next tattoo will be the sigil off of the original card art by Mark Tedin.
I love Megatog for same reason as your Karn. He was in my first deck - preconstructed Sacrificial Bam deck. I love art and I like ability. But my favorite card is Vindicate
The deck you talked about for #3 reminded me of one of my favorite decks of mine. It focused on morph and bounce effects, including plenty of self-bouncing to re-play my morphed creatures after they'd already been turned face-up (whether to re-use their triggered "when turned face-up" abilities or to just play a shell game with my morph creatures)
My first two pack rares were Knight of the Reliquary and Master of the Wild Hunt. Both are excellent cards, and I've always wanted to build a modern deck that featured one or both of them if possible. However, my first precon rare was Denizen of the Deep, and in that precon I happened to open up an Arcanis the Omnipotent. Arcanis really struggles in modern right now, but he is such a cool card! As for the Denizen, I don't really care as much for it save for the nostalgia. The year that Tenth Edition dropped I also got the Kalonian Behemoth precon and the Shivan Dragon precon. Between all of them though, the Behemoth was my favorite. As for my personal favorite card, I believe it is Teleportal. I love to swing in for game, I don't know why but my favorite mechanics are combat tricks and Teleportal is an insane enabler. It allows damage to be pushed through and the artwork is absolutely stunning! I also feel that the card is quite flavorful because of the idea that a teleportation machine could push creatures through a wall of defenses to strike immediately. It is simply an efficient enabler, and I would like to see it played more.
My favourite card is endless ranks of the dead. It's a silly 2BB enchantment from innistrad, which creates X 2/2 zombies each turn, where X is half of zombies you control. I remember a game, where I had literally thousands of zombies, with four of the ranks in play. The problem was that my opponent had a one guy with "can block any number of creatures" and "negates combat damage". Both of my doomblades were somewhere in the bottom of my library, so I lost the game and won an awesome memory.
Land Destruction oh how that brings back memories. My first tournament win was Invasion Block with Skizzik, Phrexian Scuta, Depletion Counter lands, with Land desctruction.. Turn 2 Stone Rain in a black red agro deck...
Storm crow is also pretty good as well as brilliant spectrum. I love playing brilliant spectrum in a mono blue aggro deck. Mmmf that draw one discard two for four mana value!
Grixis Delver is still my favorite modern deck. Im always playing it. My favorite card though is by far Lingering Souls. So much flavor and insane card. Innistrad btw the best set of all time. The whole block❤
Damnation Emrakul. the aeons thorn Oona, queen of the fae Vampire Nocturnus Mind funeral Dark depths Spellstutter Sprite Bitterblossom Ink eyes, servant of the oni and my all time favorite : Doomblade
My favourite card is sorin vengeful bloodlord. I got him in one of my first ever packs and built a deck around it. It is now a brawl deck, and is my favourite deck, I just love gaining life and then playing cards like bolas's citadel or loxodon lifechanter and annihilating my opponents. I also like skitter eel as it creature types are kind of a meme in my playgroup. One of my other favourite decks is a kitchen table jank simic proliferate deck with it fblthp and sharktocrab known as the UnitedCultOfFishCrab.
For some reasons, I've always loved TAP abilities (because it gives the sensation of having something similar to moving/living objects/robots), adding mana of every color (with TAP abilities), and pumping creatures (especially with static whole-side ability). That's why I instantly loved Slivers and later Elves (like Wirewood Channeler) and Soldiers (Daru Warchief and similar)
My favorite card is Metalwork Colossus, I run an artifact deck for standard (sadly it will go out of standard come october) and his ability coupled with my deck being able to constantly pump out things like prophetic prisms and other non-creature artifacts makes him an absolute beast that can come out as early as turn four. And with cartouche of knowledge and ambition I can pump him up even further and give him flying and lifelink.
I started playing right before 4th edition came out. I went to a local shop to see what cards they had. There was always a common box and then there was a glass case with the rares in it. I saw a particular rare and had to have it. I saved up and bought it. I soon acquired another from a friend that acquired a collection from someone she knew that quit playing. So now I have 2 Khabal Gouls! I’m very partial to them because of what they do and when I got them (still in my Magic infancy). They don’t see much play because I can always find something better to take their place in a deck. When I do use them, t I use them as a distraction as they are usually the first thing targeted and it allows me to get other things in the board.
I love Rhox War Monk. A supper efficient lifelinker in all my prefered collors and I love the art. I did my exalted-bant deck back in the day 90% to be able to run him (even though cascade-jund was miles better) and bought a custom made playmat with him on.
I had several card that stroke me when I first saw the collection of my brother. There was the Putrid raptor, that I loved the design and a gorgeous shiny Plasma Elemental. Recently I finally made a deck involving the Putrid raptor, some form of Mid-Range Zombie.
Cool I started in fourth edition and quit in the last set of urza block, with Sylvan library being my first rare. I constructed a land destruction deck, that I've kept for years (decades) until recently (2018) I played it w customers (I own a bar) and realized it didn't age well, but went back to playing. Mostly edh now, at my bar twice a week. With an equip (mono red) and an elf deck in modern, that both win by turn 4. And half a dozen budget edh decks :)
I loved Phyrexian Processor. I used to run it in a green white kitchen table deck that had a lot of life gain and all the circles of protection and after gaining a lot of life and preventing it's loss with the circles I could start chugging out 5/5's, 10/10's or I even once did a 20/20 per turn for five mana. My friends never quite knew if they wanted to save their disenchant for one of the circles of protection or one of the life gain enchantments or the processor itself... fun times
My favourite Card is "Flickering ward". 1 mana permanent protection against a color is great. But being able to return it to the hand for 1 white is glorious. FW is the mother of almost all auras (unless that aura grants hexproof or shroud)
I have always loved powerful game changing manipulation effects such as Mindlock orb and Maralen of Mornsong. That all started though with my still favorite Æther Storm. I have grown to like Forsaken Wastes the most recently. lifelink becoming completely a non issue is awesome in my mind.
My favorite card is Opposition, back in the day we played Legacy at my local place and I had a different opposition based deck every week. They started giving me second place prize for free just to throw matches so other people could win. Lol
As far to my knowledge, delver is the only common to be a staple in all non-rotating constructed formats except for commander (legacy, vintage, modern, pauper).
I loved Marton Stromgald for much the same reason you love Karn. I opened him in the first pack I bought, an Ice Age Starter pack (back when these were the only way to get lands). I knew the basic rules of magic by then, and the thought of attacking with a huge board and getting a quadratic effect off of it just blew my mind. Wonder how many people here would even know that Marton Stromgald existed, let alone remember what he does.
I understand your feelings. My favorite card is Daggerback Basilisk, I got 4 in my very first deck, back then he usually end up giving me a couple of turns or even saving me from losing all together. For that reason he has been on my deck ever since =)
Death Baron, Anointed Procession, Unmoored Ego, Dovin's Veto, Assassin's Trophy, Regrowth, Tamiyo: collector of tales.... so far. I like zombie tokens and removal. I had a Collector of Tales and Liliana, Untouched by Death deck last year that was fun. I recurred Assassin's Trophy and Unmoored Ego several times and removed my friends' win conditions~
My favourite card is also my first choice rare from my first booster - Pristine Angel. Removed from nostalgia, it's my playset of Phyrexian Obliterator. So strong, and trollish, in casual that many of my friends just won't play against it.
10 Earthquake 9 Young Pyromancer 8 Lava Dart 7 Chain Lightning (this switches with rift bolt if someone is willing to play tennis) 6 Rift Bolt 5 Figure of Destiny 4 Xenagos, God of Revels 3 Boros Reckoner 2 Goblin Guide 1 Lightning Bolt Yeah, I'm a red mage, and Xenagos is my favorite Commander.
I started Magic around the same time you did and I loved land destruction back then too. I found true love in Wake of Destruction because fuck that land and every land like it.
10. Hymn to Tourach, 9. Hypnotic Specter, 8. Tradewind Rider because I built a deck around it and won a local tournament back in Tempest block, 7. Isochron Scepter, 6. Counterspell, 5. Kiln Fiend/Nivix Cyclops, 4. Thrun, the Last Troll, 3.Goblin Rabblemaster, 2. Ajani, Mentor of Heroes, 1. Game of Chaos, which gets super fun when you turn it into a drinking game.
im relatively new to magic, so the most fun I ever had was bringing a 5 color standard deck to a PTQ and going 7-3 with Sylvan Caryatids and Axebane Guardians. i LOVE sylvan caryatid, the hexproof basically made it a confidant, safe, turn-2 play every time.
Love the art of that versions goblin sharpshooter Karn is an 4/4 Artefact creature for 5 Mana which has Bushido 4 That was INSANE back at that time. Very lucky first draw. I think that was an stable in your decks for the first few years.
My own favorite card has to be Exava, The Rakdos Blood Witch, the first holo I ever got AND in my favorite color pair. I really want to make an Aggro Exava deck n Commander, but for now it sits as a fun little piece in my Korvold deck
Oh geez, so much to choose from. I started playing around 7th edition, and I remember my friend always loved killing me with Rhox or Thorn Elemental. (Understandable. Couple of fatties that hold up even today. :) ) Of course Planeshift soon came out, and Terminate became an instant favorite of mine. I've also got fond memories of Pariah, Goblin Grenade, Devouring Strossus, all sorts of things. And we can't forget the classic commons. Llanowar Elves, Lightning Bolt, Counterspell, Dark Ritual and the like have always remained some of my favorites. Too many favorite cards to name, but these days I get a lot of enjoyment out of taking cards that are thought of as mediocre, and then trying to maximize their potential. For example, I really like how the cards 'Mystic Genesis' and 'Jace's Ingenuity' are wonderful if they're both in your hand. Somebody playing a big spell? Counter and get a fatty for it! Nothing worth countering? Draw three cards instead! They're conveniently of the same mana cost too. No need to spend your available mana on your turn. You can wait to see what your opponent is going to do, then act accordingly. :)
CJRBm2592 ,,,, Prodigal Sorcerer is probably my fav as well.(Demonic tutor actually, cuz I worship the devil like all MTG players did back then) My Blue pinger deck was unstoppable back in the day. Just eat damage until you can get 2-3 out then it is over. Got a few boosters years later and got 2 Talon of Pain that are ungodly in a pinger deck. Good call on Prodigal Sorcerer. P
Little did nizzahon know that just a few years later we would get an indestructible god that does the exact same thing that conjurors closet and then became even more obnoxious when agent of treachery was printed
Yeah I probably should Have remembered about m20 coming before Theros beyond death and considering how I have a whole deck on area built around that combo I really should have remembered
Favorite enchantment: Cloak of Confusion Favorite creature: Waterfront Bouncer Favorite removal: Spinal Graft (combo with death watch and anything that can target creature) Favorite instant: Boomerang When I was young I didn't pay much money to play magic, all I bought from the card shop in my whole life was 4 packs I got armageddon and jokulhaups which I sold them. Because of this my decks are mostly consist of commons and a few uncommons discarded (literally) by people in the card shop, I played none of the rares even though I got a few, including a time vault (not played mostly because of its banned status). My favorite deck is a blue-black control deck that is built around the first two cards from above. It is designed only good for 1vs1, and it can be very confusing for my opponent until I completed the lockdown combo, where the opponent can't do anything and have his table completely wiped of permanents, with 6 key cards: Cloak of confusion (usually enchant on Cloud spite) Waterfront bouncer Counterspell Scrivener Recoil Rishadan cutpurse Clearly this deck don't play too well against burn decks, but most aggro/combo decks popular at the time had such a bad time playing against it. They only realize my deck's win condition once I keep them top-decking and recovering the counterspell over and over, slowly removing their permanents one by one (usually they will concede before having no hand and no permanents). During the time there was no permanent that can withstand this complex combo, rishadan is slow to remove shrouded permanents after I take care of their lands, but I have curfew and diabolic edict too to deal with aggro decks. It was completely anti-meta, fun and complex to play but not so fun to play against. If they can't kill my 1/1 creatures fast enough they will lose the game, very slowly as I prioritize permanents and cards in hand before opponent's life to ensure no comeback is possible.
Karn!!!!! Like yer vids, I'm old and only played casually with my friend who taught me back in my teens in the 90s so when I bought some cards of my own at a garage sale I was super stoked to find Karn Sliver Golem in there. But I have trouble naming an absolute fav. Probably #1)Demonic Tutor (cuz I worship the Devil. like all MTG players did back then) #2) Prodigal Sorcerer. My Blue pinger deck was unstoppable back in the day. Just eat damage till you can get 2-3 out then it is over. Makes all their blocking/attacking choices impossible cuz the extra damage can go anywhere. And if you don't make me Tap them they go to yer face at the end of yer turn. Got a couple boosters years later and got 2 Talon of Pain that made my Pinger deck even crazier! #3) NIGHTMARE!!!!! #4) Bury #5) Fireball #6) Venom #7) counter spell UU to say "nope" to their big summon or 9 mana fireball was great! #8) Armageddon Land destruction is highly underrated! And if you can wait a turn or two or otherwise make sure you will have land drops the next couple turns it's game over. #9) Fallen Angel. Love the art, love the effect. Love biggish Black flyers. #10) Starfish. Like the art. Looks harmless, but after the third or fourth time it chump blocks a big and puts another 0-1 token into play people start to hate and scheme to get rid of it. A card a both love & hate; "Dromar The Banisher" If I had one I would absolutely love it but as it turns out I don't have one & my friend who taught me to play & was almost the only person I ever got to play did have a Dromar and loved to play it. God I HATE that card/secretly covet it. Have a nice life! Or at least try to. And certainly don't prevent others from trying! P
I forgot about Fog. I love that stupid card. It has won me more games in edh and pissed off more people than I can remember... Nothing quite breaks the spirit of an opponent that can't get damage through because of a one mana "stop it now" button.
ensoul artifact, that was the card that (sort of) held together my azorios vehicles deck, it op and I love it, also caught in the brights which also dose wonders in control vehicles, rishkars expertise, sunbound, brimaz (first mythic) kalitus, daretti ingenious iconclast (first walker I pulled or owned and the only reason I still have a rakdos artifats deck) see the unwritten, part the water vile, sliver hive lord (even though I never played him) oreskos sun guild, arcetype of imagination,
Don't really know an exact Top 10. But I do know that all 3 original Eldrazi Titans (the Annihilators) would be on there. There was something so satisfying about ramping up into those and just watching your opponents board disappear.
One does not simply pick favorite cards... I asked my brother to mention 20 cards he associates me with, then I picked 10 of them. 10: Magical Hacker (good for Planeswalkers and my brother's Green decks) 9: Invisible Stalker (good with Artifact equipment) 8: Sleep (when I first got into Magic in January 2015 I thought it was super broken) 7: Jace, Ingenious Mind-Mage (I like how he can draw you cards or give you borderline Vigilance) 6: Propaganda (slows down mana ramping and aggro decks) 5: Jace's Phantasm (great 1/1 flying for 1, with a little bonus later in the game) 4: Lighting Bolt (do I really need to explain why?) 3: Jace, The Mind Sculptor (yes, I'm that guy) 2: Vampire Nighthawk (there's no reason to run him as long as you're running Black) 1: Jace Beleren (when I was first getting into Magic in January 2015, my brother said, "I was gon'na buy you that card but I didn't have enough money, you should buy it..." so I did)
I started playing right when The Dark was being phased out and Fallen Empires was going on line. I really enjoyed the art of Fire Drake specifically, but boosters for The Dark were always more expensive than fallen empires boosters. Needless to say, I bought waaay too much fallen empires and have little to show for it.
Despite having fallen in love with competitive Modern strategy, for sentimental reasons, my favorite card is probably Catacomb Slug. It's just terrible, but it's one of the first cards I ever used and it reminds me of a time where my friends actually liked playing Magic with me. A close second would have to be Novablast Wurm. It was one of the first huge creatures I saw when I started playing Magic, and I loved the short and simple "destroy all other creatures." I had planned to build a deck of small humans that tapped for mana all for the express purpose of getting out Novablast Wurm so they could see their deity come to life only to wipe them all out. As much as I love blue/white control I find it hard to say I have a favorite card for it. Restoration Angel is very fun to mess with but I can't say it's one of my favorites. I hate to say it, but Karn Liberated was one of my favorite cards to use. I absolutely love artifact decks, and Karn was one of the coolest powerhouses I've ever used. His ability to control boardstate so easily led to my love of control decks. Of course this also leads to my wishing I hadn't have gotten into competitive Magic, otherwise my friends might still play it.
I wouldnt say that era was the last time a LD deck was viable in standard. Granted the deck i ran when Alara and Zendikar were standard wasnt technically LD but an esper deck running spreading seas and convincing mirage with a side of tectonic edge and ardent plea/kathari remnant/deny reality/enigma sphinx to get there against all the jund running rampant in those days might as well have been turn 2 LD lol
1. Spellskite 2. Tinker 3. City of Traitors 4. Metalworker 5. Delver of Secrets 6. Mogg Infestation 7. Knight of the White Orchid 8. Thundermaw Hellkite 9. Venser, the Sojourner 10. Scroll Rack
Mycosynth Lattice is my favorite MTG card. My modern deck is U/R Mycotron, with Hellkite Tyrant for taking all their shit, and March of the Machines to destroy all lands and keep them from being played... ever.
I run conjurer's closet in my yasova dragonscale edh deck. Jeez... I lost a friend once by permenantly stealing all his eldrazi titans by voltroning up yasova then stealing his eldrazi with yasova until end of turn and then blinking it with the closet and then permenantly keeping his stuff. if I didn't have closet I would just fling it at him for 10 to 13 damage. Yasova Dragonclaw May not be my favourite card but she's in my top 20.
not in any order my favorite cards are lightning bolt, rancor, memnite, elixir of immortality, Thalia guardian of Thraben, doom blade, path to exile, vexing devil, Serra Angel/Baneslayer angel, brode mate dragon my first card
Takklemaggot, always has been, always will be. 4 Takklemags and all my creatures with Protection from black and a Darkest Hour. After all these years its still my favourite deck (that everyone in my LGS hates, but I cant help myself)
Takklemaggot is a very interesting card, he eats your opponent creatures! How cool is that! Unfortunaly it's text is (as it's usually the case in old cards) ...poorly worded. I imagine you must have been flooded with questions about how it works, especially if your opponent have a hexproof or shroud on the table. I think it would be great if he was reprinted.
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Everyone knows that the best card is
"Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made This Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental"
Ach! Hans, run! It's the Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made This Card To Have The Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental!
An there is actually a card that deals damage for the number of words in target creature's name, so you have an awesome combo there.
Fruitcake elemental wins
I think you mean Wordmail, which for only one mana gives a creature +1/+1 for every word in its name.
Making it a +25/+25 for 1 on Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made This Card To Have The Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental.
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My favorite card of all time sadly didnt aged well but I can clearly remember all the fun I had playing royal assassin as a kid.
Ser Pounce III Maaan, I remember playing this card with my cousins haha really iconic card
MrHupo did you played it together with icy manipulator hehe.
Tatsuhiro Satou Sigarda is definitely the human commander
Nothing wrong with Royal Assassin, its great in limited, even playable in cube and some commander decks.
Ser Pounce III love that card
I like Memnite. for no particular reason other than its a Memnite.
Oh thank God I'm not the only one
I Love it too😁
I like memnarch
The most vanilla creature of all time
i like bottle gnomes, for no particular reason other than its a bottle gnome
My favorite card is ruined servitor. It's a 2 Mana 2/2 artifact with "when this creature dies, each player draws a card" I have no idea why it's my favorite
Loved Hypnotic Specter especially when played turn one. There's always been something so horribly satisfying about forcing one's opponent to discard at random.
So, I haven't played in a while sadly, but when I think of Magic I instantly think of Niv-Mizzet the Firemind(one of my 1st cards, and built a deck around him when I was little right when that set came out), that card holds a special place in my memory.
My favourite card is tied between camel and tasseled dromidary. I am going to make a modern camel tribal aggro deck called flying camels. My friend won a draft with tasseled dromidary when it was a 5/9 flyer with vigilance which inspired this deck.
My favorite card has got to be Phyrexian unlife. Love the artwork, flavor and function of that card.
When I first started playing I learned with my friends cards. But when I got my own cards the best (my fav) card I got was KARN SILVER GOLEM!!!
I loved the art.
Artifacts (at least the ones I had) weren't great back then so I had trouble building a deck around Karn but he still saw play as a great wall/attacker if it is open.
Crazy that Karn was your first Rare as well. P
Entreat the Angels. I love the way the card looks, I love what it does, and I love that feeling I get when I miracle it in my mono white devotion deck.
Felidar Sovereign will always have a special place in my heart. Along with being an amusing way to win EDH/Commander games through hate bears/control so you are able to find a way to take no damage and win, it's 4/6 Vigilance Lifelink for 4WW, which isn't awful and is pretty durable. I remember playing a game of EDH with three of my friends, and I cast Felidar Sovereign and because everyone else was so caught up in stopping one of them from ramping into hundreds of golems (he had an absurd golem deck that ran all the splicers, doubling season, parallel lives, and growing ranks, so it could get a stupid amount of golems in at an unbelievably quick speed), no one addressed my felidar until it got back around to me and I won.
Land destruction is good stuff. I remember playing back in the day w/sinkholes and unrestricted strip mines. Good times :)
Wake of destruction on an island. It doesn't get better when the guy is caught with his pants down. Often times enough to yield a concession
It has to be Thalia, Guardian of Thraben. I played competitive MtG for one standard season and loved my GW Humans by heart. The biggest opponent for me was of course control decks and cheap interaction, so forcing my opponent to pay more mana than they have to was my saving grace. I am a cheap creature enjoyer to this day whenever I pick up MtG.
This is the most underrated mtg channel put there. Thank you for the great content
Probably Lord of the Pit, for me. It was one of the first cards I ever received, way back in Revised, and I still have it in a hard case. I think my next tattoo will be the sigil off of the original card art by Mark Tedin.
I had a horrible breeding pit / Lord of the pit deck back in the 90s. I never won with it. 😆
I love Megatog for same reason as your Karn. He was in my first deck - preconstructed Sacrificial Bam deck. I love art and I like ability. But my favorite card is Vindicate
Moonveil Dragon is my favorite card it's the card that got me back into magic.
The deck you talked about for #3 reminded me of one of my favorite decks of mine. It focused on morph and bounce effects, including plenty of self-bouncing to re-play my morphed creatures after they'd already been turned face-up (whether to re-use their triggered "when turned face-up" abilities or to just play a shell game with my morph creatures)
My first two pack rares were Knight of the Reliquary and Master of the Wild Hunt. Both are excellent cards, and I've always wanted to build a modern deck that featured one or both of them if possible. However, my first precon rare was Denizen of the Deep, and in that precon I happened to open up an Arcanis the Omnipotent. Arcanis really struggles in modern right now, but he is such a cool card! As for the Denizen, I don't really care as much for it save for the nostalgia. The year that Tenth Edition dropped I also got the Kalonian Behemoth precon and the Shivan Dragon precon. Between all of them though, the Behemoth was my favorite. As for my personal favorite card, I believe it is Teleportal. I love to swing in for game, I don't know why but my favorite mechanics are combat tricks and Teleportal is an insane enabler. It allows damage to be pushed through and the artwork is absolutely stunning! I also feel that the card is quite flavorful because of the idea that a teleportation machine could push creatures through a wall of defenses to strike immediately. It is simply an efficient enabler, and I would like to see it played more.
Nizzahon. Get back to playing land destruction.
Also, make an LGS that also serves pizza, Pizzahon.
My favourite card is endless ranks of the dead. It's a silly 2BB enchantment from innistrad, which creates X 2/2 zombies each turn, where X is half of zombies you control. I remember a game, where I had literally thousands of zombies, with four of the ranks in play. The problem was that my opponent had a one guy with "can block any number of creatures" and "negates combat damage". Both of my doomblades were somewhere in the bottom of my library, so I lost the game and won an awesome memory.
Land Destruction oh how that brings back memories. My first tournament win was Invasion Block with Skizzik, Phrexian Scuta, Depletion Counter lands, with Land desctruction.. Turn 2 Stone Rain in a black red agro deck...
Storm crow is also pretty good as well as brilliant spectrum. I love playing brilliant spectrum in a mono blue aggro deck. Mmmf that draw one discard two for four mana value!
Grixis Delver is still my favorite modern deck. Im always playing it. My favorite card though is by far Lingering Souls. So much flavor and insane card. Innistrad btw the best set of all time. The whole block❤
Damnation
Emrakul. the aeons thorn
Oona, queen of the fae
Vampire Nocturnus
Mind funeral
Dark depths
Spellstutter Sprite
Bitterblossom
Ink eyes, servant of the oni
and my all time favorite : Doomblade
My favourite card is sorin vengeful bloodlord. I got him in one of my first ever packs and built a deck around it. It is now a brawl deck, and is my favourite deck, I just love gaining life and then playing cards like bolas's citadel or loxodon lifechanter and annihilating my opponents. I also like skitter eel as it creature types are kind of a meme in my playgroup. One of my other favourite decks is a kitchen table jank simic proliferate deck with it fblthp and sharktocrab known as the UnitedCultOfFishCrab.
For some reasons, I've always loved TAP abilities (because it gives the sensation of having something similar to moving/living objects/robots), adding mana of every color (with TAP abilities), and pumping creatures (especially with static whole-side ability). That's why I instantly loved Slivers and later Elves (like Wirewood Channeler) and Soldiers (Daru Warchief and similar)
My favorite card is Metalwork Colossus, I run an artifact deck for standard (sadly it will go out of standard come october) and his ability coupled with my deck being able to constantly pump out things like prophetic prisms and other non-creature artifacts makes him an absolute beast that can come out as early as turn four. And with cartouche of knowledge and ambition I can pump him up even further and give him flying and lifelink.
I started playing right before 4th edition came out. I went to a local shop to see what cards they had. There was always a common box and then there was a glass case with the rares in it. I saw a particular rare and had to have it. I saved up and bought it. I soon acquired another from a friend that acquired a collection from someone she knew that quit playing. So now I have 2 Khabal Gouls! I’m very partial to them because of what they do and when I got them (still in my Magic infancy). They don’t see much play because I can always find something better to take their place in a deck. When I do use them, t I use them as a distraction as they are usually the first thing targeted and it allows me to get other things in the board.
I want a doughnut!!!! Happy one year of top 10s :)
I love Rhox War Monk. A supper efficient lifelinker in all my prefered collors and I love the art. I did my exalted-bant deck back in the day 90% to be able to run him (even though cascade-jund was miles better) and bought a custom made playmat with him on.
I had several card that stroke me when I first saw the collection of my brother.
There was the Putrid raptor, that I loved the design and a gorgeous shiny Plasma Elemental.
Recently I finally made a deck involving the Putrid raptor, some form of Mid-Range Zombie.
Cool I started in fourth edition and quit in the last set of urza block, with Sylvan library being my first rare. I constructed a land destruction deck, that I've kept for years (decades) until recently (2018) I played it w customers (I own a bar) and realized it didn't age well, but went back to playing. Mostly edh now, at my bar twice a week. With an equip (mono red) and an elf deck in modern, that both win by turn 4. And half a dozen budget edh decks :)
I loved Phyrexian Processor. I used to run it in a green white kitchen table deck that had a lot of life gain and all the circles of protection and after gaining a lot of life and preventing it's loss with the circles I could start chugging out 5/5's, 10/10's or I even once did a 20/20 per turn for five mana. My friends never quite knew if they wanted to save their disenchant for one of the circles of protection or one of the life gain enchantments or the processor itself... fun times
My favourite Card is "Flickering ward".
1 mana permanent protection against a color is great. But being able to return it to the hand for 1 white is glorious. FW is the mother of almost all auras (unless that aura grants hexproof or shroud)
I have always loved powerful game changing manipulation effects such as Mindlock orb and Maralen of Mornsong. That all started though with my still favorite Æther Storm. I have grown to like Forsaken Wastes the most recently. lifelink becoming completely a non issue is awesome in my mind.
Trepanation blade. That moment when buddy playing Mirko Vosk EDH deck ask if someone has artifact removal when i cast it is pure joy.
Crucible of Worlds. Useless in most decks but when you you’re playing Darreti, Scrap savant and discard 2 lands to draw 2, *mwah chefs kiss*
My favorite card is Opposition, back in the day we played Legacy at my local place and I had a different opposition based deck every week. They started giving me second place prize for free just to throw matches so other people could win. Lol
As far to my knowledge, delver is the only common to be a staple in all non-rotating constructed formats except for commander (legacy, vintage, modern, pauper).
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I loved Marton Stromgald for much the same reason you love Karn. I opened him in the first pack I bought, an Ice Age Starter pack (back when these were the only way to get lands). I knew the basic rules of magic by then, and the thought of attacking with a huge board and getting a quadratic effect off of it just blew my mind.
Wonder how many people here would even know that Marton Stromgald existed, let alone remember what he does.
I understand your feelings. My favorite card is Daggerback Basilisk, I got 4 in my very first deck, back then he usually end up giving me a couple of turns or even saving me from losing all together. For that reason he has been on my deck ever since =)
just got back into MTG these vids are amazing thanks for helping me back in!! 2020 and still watching binging through self isolation
Death Baron, Anointed Procession, Unmoored Ego, Dovin's Veto, Assassin's Trophy, Regrowth, Tamiyo: collector of tales.... so far.
I like zombie tokens and removal. I had a Collector of Tales and Liliana, Untouched by Death deck last year that was fun. I recurred Assassin's Trophy and Unmoored Ego several times and removed my friends' win conditions~
My favourite card is also my first choice rare from my first booster - Pristine Angel. Removed from nostalgia, it's my playset of Phyrexian Obliterator. So strong, and trollish, in casual that many of my friends just won't play against it.
Volcanic Island. What isn't to love about that card? Or Crumbling Necropolis if you can afford to have a turn without an extra mana early.
10 Earthquake
9 Young Pyromancer
8 Lava Dart
7 Chain Lightning (this switches with rift bolt if someone is willing to play tennis)
6 Rift Bolt
5 Figure of Destiny
4 Xenagos, God of Revels
3 Boros Reckoner
2 Goblin Guide
1 Lightning Bolt
Yeah, I'm a red mage, and Xenagos is my favorite Commander.
Wow, that karn story is beautyful
I started Magic around the same time you did and I loved land destruction back then too. I found true love in Wake of Destruction because fuck that land and every land like it.
10. Hymn to Tourach, 9. Hypnotic Specter, 8. Tradewind Rider because I built a deck around it and won a local tournament back in Tempest block, 7. Isochron Scepter, 6. Counterspell, 5. Kiln Fiend/Nivix Cyclops, 4. Thrun, the Last Troll, 3.Goblin Rabblemaster, 2. Ajani, Mentor of Heroes, 1. Game of Chaos, which gets super fun when you turn it into a drinking game.
Monty Walsh ,,,,,The combo of #6 on #7 is OP!!! As soon as I saw Isochron the first thing I thought was "constant counter? That seems fair!". P
im relatively new to magic, so the most fun I ever had was bringing a 5 color standard deck to a PTQ and going 7-3 with Sylvan Caryatids and Axebane Guardians. i LOVE sylvan caryatid, the hexproof basically made it a confidant, safe, turn-2 play every time.
Love the art of that versions goblin sharpshooter
Karn is an 4/4 Artefact creature for 5 Mana which has Bushido 4
That was INSANE back at that time. Very lucky first draw. I think that was an stable in your decks for the first few years.
Close, but Bushido 4 would have been "gets +4/+4 until end of turn" rather that "gets -4/+4"
There's a whole lore reason to this effect, too!
Ah, minus 4 didnt read it carefully enough. Still an pretty good artefact and argothian enchantress is nice too.
My favorite card is Darklit Gargoyle. A white storm crow, artifact creature, and it can make itself into a 9/1 with the help of tempered steel.
Given how much you like enter the battlefield effects on creatures, I'm surprised Venser the Sojourner didn't appear on here.
Annex is a very cool card, but they should make a version of it that prevents the targeted land being used in response (except maybe for mana).
My own favorite card has to be Exava, The Rakdos Blood Witch, the first holo I ever got AND in my favorite color pair. I really want to make an Aggro Exava deck n Commander, but for now it sits as a fun little piece in my Korvold deck
Oh geez, so much to choose from. I started playing around 7th edition, and I remember my friend always loved killing me with Rhox or Thorn Elemental. (Understandable. Couple of fatties that hold up even today. :) ) Of course Planeshift soon came out, and Terminate became an instant favorite of mine. I've also got fond memories of Pariah, Goblin Grenade, Devouring Strossus, all sorts of things. And we can't forget the classic commons. Llanowar Elves, Lightning Bolt, Counterspell, Dark Ritual and the like have always remained some of my favorites. Too many favorite cards to name, but these days I get a lot of enjoyment out of taking cards that are thought of as mediocre, and then trying to maximize their potential. For example, I really like how the cards 'Mystic Genesis' and 'Jace's Ingenuity' are wonderful if they're both in your hand. Somebody playing a big spell? Counter and get a fatty for it! Nothing worth countering? Draw three cards instead! They're conveniently of the same mana cost too. No need to spend your available mana on your turn. You can wait to see what your opponent is going to do, then act accordingly. :)
Don’t worry about being the land destruction guy, I’m the mono blue control guy!
Prodigal Sorcerer
Eldrazi Displacer
Tyrant of Discord
Treasure Cruise
Shaman of the Pack
Those are my favorites from bottom to top.
CJRBm2592 ,,,, Prodigal Sorcerer is probably my fav as well.(Demonic tutor actually, cuz I worship the devil like all MTG players did back then) My Blue pinger deck was unstoppable back in the day. Just eat damage until you can get 2-3 out then it is over. Got a few boosters years later and got 2 Talon of Pain that are ungodly in a pinger deck. Good call on Prodigal Sorcerer. P
In no particular order: Doubling Season, Glimpse the Unthinkable, Thallid, Serra Angel (because nostalgia), Sprout Swarm, Grinning Ignus, Krenko Mob Boss, Mycoloth, Gravecrawler, Yavimaya Dryad
For me.. counterspell ... was a staple of annoying the shit out of my friends as a kid.
Little did nizzahon know that just a few years later we would get an indestructible god that does the exact same thing that conjurors closet and then became even more obnoxious when agent of treachery was printed
You have your chronology backwards there. Agent of Treachery came first!
Yeah I probably should Have remembered about m20 coming before Theros beyond death and considering how I have a whole deck on area built around that combo I really should have remembered
Favorite enchantment: Cloak of Confusion
Favorite creature: Waterfront Bouncer
Favorite removal: Spinal Graft (combo with death watch and anything that can target creature)
Favorite instant: Boomerang
When I was young I didn't pay much money to play magic, all I bought from the card shop in my whole life was 4 packs I got armageddon and jokulhaups which I sold them. Because of this my decks are mostly consist of commons and a few uncommons discarded (literally) by people in the card shop, I played none of the rares even though I got a few, including a time vault (not played mostly because of its banned status).
My favorite deck is a blue-black control deck that is built around the first two cards from above. It is designed only good for 1vs1, and it can be very confusing for my opponent until I completed the lockdown combo, where the opponent can't do anything and have his table completely wiped of permanents, with 6 key cards:
Cloak of confusion (usually enchant on Cloud spite)
Waterfront bouncer
Counterspell
Scrivener
Recoil
Rishadan cutpurse
Clearly this deck don't play too well against burn decks, but most aggro/combo decks popular at the time had such a bad time playing against it. They only realize my deck's win condition once I keep them top-decking and recovering the counterspell over and over, slowly removing their permanents one by one (usually they will concede before having no hand and no permanents). During the time there was no permanent that can withstand this complex combo, rishadan is slow to remove shrouded permanents after I take care of their lands, but I have curfew and diabolic edict too to deal with aggro decks. It was completely anti-meta, fun and complex to play but not so fun to play against. If they can't kill my 1/1 creatures fast enough they will lose the game, very slowly as I prioritize permanents and cards in hand before opponent's life to ensure no comeback is possible.
Karn!!!!! Like yer vids, I'm old and only played casually with my friend who taught me back in my teens in the 90s so when I bought some cards of my own at a garage sale I was super stoked to find Karn Sliver Golem in there. But I have trouble naming an absolute fav. Probably #1)Demonic Tutor (cuz I worship the Devil. like all MTG players did back then)
#2) Prodigal Sorcerer. My Blue pinger deck was unstoppable back in the day. Just eat damage till you can get 2-3 out then it is over. Makes all their blocking/attacking choices impossible cuz the extra damage can go anywhere. And if you don't make me Tap them they go to yer face at the end of yer turn. Got a couple boosters years later and got 2 Talon of Pain that made my Pinger deck even crazier!
#3) NIGHTMARE!!!!!
#4) Bury
#5) Fireball
#6) Venom
#7) counter spell UU to say "nope" to their big summon or 9 mana fireball was great!
#8) Armageddon Land destruction is highly underrated! And if you can wait a turn or two or otherwise make sure you will have land drops the next couple turns it's game over.
#9) Fallen Angel. Love the art, love the effect. Love biggish Black flyers.
#10) Starfish. Like the art. Looks harmless, but after the third or fourth time it chump blocks a big and puts another 0-1 token into play people start to hate and scheme to get rid of it.
A card a both love & hate; "Dromar The Banisher" If I had one I would absolutely love it but as it turns out I don't have one & my friend who taught me to play & was almost the only person I ever got to play did have a Dromar and loved to play it. God I HATE that card/secretly covet it.
Have a nice life! Or at least try to. And certainly don't prevent others from trying! P
I forgot about Fog. I love that stupid card. It has won me more games in edh and pissed off more people than I can remember... Nothing quite breaks the spirit of an opponent that can't get damage through because of a one mana "stop it now" button.
ensoul artifact, that was the card that (sort of) held together my azorios vehicles deck, it op and I love it, also caught in the brights which also dose wonders in control vehicles, rishkars expertise, sunbound, brimaz (first mythic) kalitus, daretti ingenious iconclast (first walker I pulled or owned and the only reason I still have a rakdos artifats deck) see the unwritten, part the water vile, sliver hive lord (even though I never played him) oreskos sun guild, arcetype of imagination,
Don't really know an exact Top 10. But I do know that all 3 original Eldrazi Titans (the Annihilators) would be on there. There was something so satisfying about ramping up into those and just watching your opponents board disappear.
One does not simply pick favorite cards... I asked my brother to mention 20 cards he associates me with, then I picked 10 of them.
10: Magical Hacker (good for Planeswalkers and my brother's Green decks)
9: Invisible Stalker (good with Artifact equipment)
8: Sleep (when I first got into Magic in January 2015 I thought it was super broken)
7: Jace, Ingenious Mind-Mage (I like how he can draw you cards or give you borderline Vigilance)
6: Propaganda (slows down mana ramping and aggro decks)
5: Jace's Phantasm (great 1/1 flying for 1, with a little bonus later in the game)
4: Lighting Bolt (do I really need to explain why?)
3: Jace, The Mind Sculptor (yes, I'm that guy)
2: Vampire Nighthawk (there's no reason to run him as long as you're running Black)
1: Jace Beleren (when I was first getting into Magic in January 2015, my brother said, "I was gon'na buy you that card but I didn't have enough money, you should buy it..." so I did)
I started playing right when The Dark was being phased out and Fallen Empires was going on line. I really enjoyed the art of Fire Drake specifically, but boosters for The Dark were always more expensive than fallen empires boosters. Needless to say, I bought waaay too much fallen empires and have little to show for it.
havoc festival
goblin rabblemaster
sliver overlord
silklash spider
engulfing slagworm
traumatize
siege gang commander
commander eesha (first rare ever pulled)
polukranos, world eater
butcher of the horde
A few of the cards on the list I would make, would have a couple dragons. Mostly Dragonlord Atarka, and Dragonlord Dromoka.
maze of ith far and away my favorite followed by og counterspell niv mizzet the firemind among various other cards but predominantly in grixis colors
To me, nizzahons defining trait is now that he likes destroying land
My favorite card is ruined servitor. It's a 2 Mana 2/2 artifact that when it dies everyone gets to draw a card
Creature: Archangel (quinton hoover)
Artifact: Tangle Wire
Enchantment: Paralax Wave
Sorcery: Pillage
Instant: Counterspell
PW: Nahiri, the harbinger
Land: Rishadan Port
2 Mirrodin and 2 Innistrad. Brings a tear to my eye
Blightsteel Colossus, Stuffy Doll, Serra Angel, Geist of the Saint Traft, Archangel of Thune
I don't remember the name, but enchantment that gave +1/+1 for each forest. My friend used to play it and I hated it, thought it's so broken
Despite having fallen in love with competitive Modern strategy, for sentimental reasons, my favorite card is probably Catacomb Slug. It's just terrible, but it's one of the first cards I ever used and it reminds me of a time where my friends actually liked playing Magic with me. A close second would have to be Novablast Wurm. It was one of the first huge creatures I saw when I started playing Magic, and I loved the short and simple "destroy all other creatures." I had planned to build a deck of small humans that tapped for mana all for the express purpose of getting out Novablast Wurm so they could see their deity come to life only to wipe them all out. As much as I love blue/white control I find it hard to say I have a favorite card for it. Restoration Angel is very fun to mess with but I can't say it's one of my favorites. I hate to say it, but Karn Liberated was one of my favorite cards to use. I absolutely love artifact decks, and Karn was one of the coolest powerhouses I've ever used. His ability to control boardstate so easily led to my love of control decks. Of course this also leads to my wishing I hadn't have gotten into competitive Magic, otherwise my friends might still play it.
I enjoyed reading your comment, but I have to say, reading that your friends only used to like playing Magic with you made me so sad. xD
Could you make a top 10 humans in magic?
Zurgo helm smasher. Murder. Reassembling Skelton.
I wouldnt say that era was the last time a LD deck was viable in standard. Granted the deck i ran when Alara and Zendikar were standard wasnt technically LD but an esper deck running spreading seas and convincing mirage with a side of tectonic edge and ardent plea/kathari remnant/deny reality/enigma sphinx to get there against all the jund running rampant in those days might as well have been turn 2 LD lol
No more land destruction - Karn and Mycosinth Latice... lol
I have to do this in my commander-groupd though
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And there it is, folks.
I do enjoy horobi deaths whisper but that's mostly for EDH so I guess Glen elendra archmage
1. Spellskite
2. Tinker
3. City of Traitors
4. Metalworker
5. Delver of Secrets
6. Mogg Infestation
7. Knight of the White Orchid
8. Thundermaw Hellkite
9. Venser, the Sojourner
10. Scroll Rack
Mind over matter. Love that card and i think I've won every time I've ever played it.
Mycosynth Lattice is my favorite MTG card. My modern deck is U/R Mycotron, with Hellkite Tyrant for taking all their shit, and March of the Machines to destroy all lands and keep them from being played... ever.
Next do your top 10 favourite Guilds!
1. Jin-Gitaxias 2. Oona 3. Aetherflux reservoir 4. Phyrexian metamorph 5. Thrun the last troll. Can't really decide past that.
Emrakul the aeons torn is definitely my number 1 followed by animar soul of elements
i need conjurers closet for my purpheros edh now.
+Victthequick Yeah you do.
Nizzahon is chewisch. Interesting
Personally Anowon is my favourite card, I love mah vamps :)) love your videos nizzahon!
I love sneak attacking Mystic snake 🐍
Best Card ever is obviously Knight of the Reliquary. Such a cool guy, she does everything.
Awesome list!
I run conjurer's closet in my yasova dragonscale edh deck. Jeez... I lost a friend once by permenantly stealing all his eldrazi titans by voltroning up yasova then stealing his eldrazi with yasova until end of turn and then blinking it with the closet and then permenantly keeping his stuff. if I didn't have closet I would just fling it at him for 10 to 13 damage. Yasova Dragonclaw May not be my favourite card but she's in my top 20.
1 Sphinx's revelation 2. Jace tms 3 blood baron of vizkopa 4 phyrexian obliterator 5 ponder 6 mana drain 7 supreme verdict 8 stoneforge mystic 9 Grave Titan 10 mana leak. Yeah I'm that guy....
not in any order my favorite cards are lightning bolt, rancor, memnite, elixir of immortality, Thalia guardian of Thraben, doom blade, path to exile, vexing devil, Serra Angel/Baneslayer angel, brode mate dragon my first card
Takklemaggot, always has been, always will be. 4 Takklemags and all my creatures with Protection from black and a Darkest Hour. After all these years its still my favourite deck (that everyone in my LGS hates, but I cant help myself)
Takklemaggot is a very interesting card, he eats your opponent creatures! How cool is that!
Unfortunaly it's text is (as it's usually the case in old cards) ...poorly worded. I imagine you must have been flooded with questions about how it works, especially if your opponent have a hexproof or shroud on the table. I think it would be great if he was reprinted.