Is serra angel the quintessential MTG card? Something that

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>>48599593
>Is serra angel the quintessential MTG card?
>Something that pops in your head the moment you even think about MTG
Motherfucking Black Lotus.
Yes it is the best and banned basically everywhere and nobody plays vintage and it's expensive as balls and most players probably haven't seen a real one, but it is from a purely abstract perspective the most "Magic" card out there for me. Black Lotus is Magic and Magic is Black Lotus.

Yeah i would have to say Black Lotus.
Even people who never heard of mtg before probably heard of 'that card game where one of the card is 30k bucks'.

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Search your feelings, etc.

>>48599593
If you'd asked twenty years ago (quite literally) that'd be the case. Even moreso than cards which became iconic of an era like Necropotence. Nowadays? Not so sure. Doubt it. If powerlevels had stayed low enough that Serra was still pretty good and consistently tourney-viable? A lot more likely.

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>>48599593

>>48599624
/thread
Nothing tops Black Lotus

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>>48599593
serra angel is the quintessential card for me, but that's only because it was the most played card amongst my friends when we all started in/around 2000.

Funnily enough, I went to a fantasy exhibit at the EMP in seattle recently, and they had some of the prototype magic cards from the beta testing phase, and I think one of them was serra angel; except it was just called "angel" and featured a depiction of angel from the x-men.

I didn't take any picture myself, but if you live in the area and haven't gone, pic related in those glass cases is where they where situated, best I could do from the website.

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>>48599593

Lightning Bolt / Shock
Counterspell / Boomerang
Giant Growth / Llanowar Elves
Terror / Hypnotic Specter
Disenchant / White Knight

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>>48599593
I haven't played that long, but when me and my friends started playing around in 2002, these cards were seen as very powerful cards.
I remember everyone especially had a hard-on for Phage since she has that instakill ability of hers. The least popular one was poor Mistform lol (still love him to this day though)

So yeah, these are my kind of quintessential MTG cards

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>>48599593
To me it's Keldoran Warlord

>>48599836
I was just at EMP like 4 days ago, some of those early cards looked straight outta old school D&D. Fantastic exhibit.

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For me it will always be Thorn Elemental with the 7th edition art. I remember getting a computer game that taught you magic and came packaged in a box with its art for christmas when i was a kid and it hooked me.

>>48599593
As a person who never played Magic or even particularly cared about it, here's a list of the most Magic cards:
- Black Lotus (obviously)
- Counterspell
- Time Walk
- something something Jace, something something that female fire mage that is a rip-off of Lina Inverse
- ???

>>48599692

I want this faggot dead. He impersonates everything that went wrong with MTG.

>>48599593
serra angel
shivan dragon
sengir vampire
craw wurm
fuck off blue

>>48599593
every time i see this card i get a little bit sad that it's basically been power crept by baneslayer angel and baneslayer still isnt a good card anymore

>>48600196
He really doesn't, but it seems like he does because of shitty flavor text (that every author has agreed is out of character) and Jace the Mind Sculptor.

>>48599593

Dark Ritual, hands down.

>>48599593
Savanah lion.

>>48599593
white knight

>>48600196
I reserve that right for Chandra.

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There was a time when this was considered an iconic Magic card and everyone would have recognized the art instantly. Sad to see it go, along with the flavor text to Scathe Zombies.

I really wish they would release a gold bordered, non tournament legal version of one of the classic sets for people who just want to play with their friends like it was 1993 again, collectors be damned.

OFFICIAL ICONIC CARDS:

White: Wrath of God
Green: Grizzly Bear
Red: Lightning Bolt
Black: Terror
Blue: Counterspell

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>>48599593
I was late to the party when it came to MTG, but I remember that my friends all talked about the Royal Assassin when it first came out.

When I think of MtG, the first thing I imagine is the first time I played against a Sliver deck.

Fuck Slivers.

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This card comes to mind whenever I think of mtg. Too bad it's worthless against any deck with bounce/removal.

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>>48600532
>>White: Wrath of God
>Implying its not Serra Angel
>>Green: Grizzly Bear
>Implying it's not Birds of Paradise
>>Red: Lightning Bolt
Agreed
>>Black: Terror
>Implying it's not Dark Ritual or Nightmare
>>Blue: Counterspell
Right

3/5 you could do better, anon

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>>48600044
Good old Keldonischer Kriegsfürst.

This is my submission. And no, I don't think fucking Black Lotus when I think Magic. I don't own one, no one I know owns one. It was discontinued after the first two runs.

>>48599593
For me its Goblin Chariot. It was my first card and the flavor text is 10/10.

Thats the problem with what you are asking. It will be different for everyone based on their own experiences.

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>>48601420

>>48599762

It pains me to play casual these days with people who have strange, foreign cards with considerably higher power curves.

Stopped collecting over a decade ago.

>>48600545
Sorry for reinforcing the "/tg/ is bad at magic" thing, but can this guy assassinate himself?

>>48599593

Counterspell

>>48601521
I'm going to say yes

>>48601521
he needs to tap in order to kill a tapped creature, so...

>>48600233
How can the cards be out of character in a card game? I don't care how Jace acts in some shit novel I will never read. The Jace on the cards, IE: The Jace in the game, is a huge cunt.

>>48601521
No. He isn't a valid target for his own ability.

>>48599593
I only think of giant growth

>>48601521

Magic has you pick targets before you pay costs for a spell or activated ability.

It's a fair question, because not all games use that system.

If you can change the targets of an activated ability with a spell or ability, Royal Assassin can kill himself while attempting to kill another creature.

That produces believable flavor, IMO

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>>48599593
There was an advertisement (probably in Nintendo Power) that had an Orgg in it. This hecker will always be the mascot to me.

Serra Angel is a good power uncommon for limited these days.

She's fair, but somewhat costly so she doesn't go into competitive constructed.

Her final resting place as solid limited minibomb is not the worst for an alpha card.

Also, would post all of the art of her to make her iconic art.

... I got my mom a Wonder Woman cup that did the same with Wonder Woman

>>48599773
If not the card you think about for MTG then most certainly the one you think about first when red as a color comes up. This and counterspell for blue are the quintessential spells for their colors.

>>48602057

I'd say bolt is more iconic, because its name is not just the game action it has you do.

>>48599593
MtG as a franchise isn't as iconic as yugioh or pokemon, so noone really thinks of a specific card when they think of the game.

>>48599892
/thread

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>>48599963
I'll never understand the border change.

>>48600246
I couldn't survive without dark ritual.

>>48601823
The cards are an abstraction of a story, not a story themselves, you goofball.

>>48599963
>it's all creature types at once
>so they had to put the wall text on there
This amuses me.

>>48600516
>print old sets

I wish they would too. I'd make some janky Unlimited/Arabian Nights/Antiquities cube.

>>48600196
>impersonates
personifies

>>48606549
I never had the chance to try limited in those sets. The first few cubes would be pretty interesting while everyone tries to figure out some janky synergy.

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>>48600516
also this

>>48599593
Im gonna agree with you anon. Serra angel is one of my favorite cards because of its power level and simple design. Its a good barrometer; I would redesign the whole game so that this card is poster child of uncommon power level.

>>48601965

>Magic has you pick targets before you pay costs for a spell or activated ability

not even close

>>48602655
They used to have "marquee cards" you'd see plastered over MTG stuff, such as Juzam Djinn, Hurloon Minotaur, Jester's Cap, etc.

>>48608559

shit picture is way smaller than I thought it was. For anyone who doesn't recognize this thing from memory, it's relentless rats.

>>48599593
Black Lotus, Serra Angel and Lightning Bolt are the Exodia, Blue Eyes and Dark Magician of Magic.
As in they're the most iconic cards for people who were around gen 1. But neither is truly the IP's mascot like Pikachu is for Pokemon

>>48600196
Why? He looks cool and telepaths are awesome

>>48605484
It really is better graphic design/UI.
It just isn't as flavorful or unique.

>>48599892

this! omg Grizzly Bears was awesome. I got into Magic with a computer trial demo disc that featured a red and green deck that you could play as against the computer. Grizzly Bears was my jam.

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>>48608994
Here's the thing. Way back when, the definitive blue wizard was this guy called Ertai. Ertai was a smarmy, cocksure, quippy fellow who counters spells and doesn't give a fuck.
This set a precedent for counterspell related flavor text to be quippy and smarmy which held over even after Jace became the archetypal blue mage, even though Jace is a stuttering loser who just wants to solve puzzles all day.

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>>48609347
Additionally, Jace, the Mind Sculptor turned out to be one of the strongest planeswalkers (and even one of the strongest cards) ever printed, and it portrays Jace in a badass combat pose wielding some ultimate magic that will certainly wreck your shit.
Even though Jace hasn't won a single fight in his life without getting his own mind blown to hell, I'm pretty sure. He's definitely one of the weakest planeswalkers since pretty much everyone shrugs off mind magic with enough focus or after only a few moments of reverie.

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>>48599836

http://www.magiclibrarities.net/963-rarities-playtest-cards-english-cards-index.html

There's no easy way to link the specific image, but the (Serra) "Angel" card in question is the first on the page of white cards.

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>>48600196
Same. Also want to see less of Gideon noble bright.

>>48600786
Why are Magic players always the biggest mouth breathers in the entire table-top hobby?

You can't even count, is that why you don't play fun games?

>>48599963
I just got some major nostalgia for the first standard season I was a tourneyfag for. Odyssey/Onslaught was a special time.

Surprised no one posted this yet, it's been the Blue-Eyes White Dragon of Modern for a longass time now.

>>48599593
I dunno, I always think Ornithopters.

>>48611644
Vraska the Unseen is good but hardly that popular, anon

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>>48611673
That's a good joke, that is a damn good joke. I like you Anon, but no I meant this one.

>>48607307

But it's exactly right. Don't be the posterboy for

>/tg/ is bad at magic

please learn the rules or at the very least look the card up in gatherer

>>48599593
Red is easily Lightning Bolt and I'm leaning towards just Counterspell for Blue (good old, straight to the point Counterspell) even though it's not in Modern.

For "defining card" i guess black lotus or lightning bolt or something.

I started playing during rtr, but I only played commander for a while, and one of my friends had a bolas deckbox, so I usually think of bolas and Ulamog the Infinite Gyre, because he seemed extremely impressive in every aspect.

Plus I saw him a lot from my other friend's braids deck

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>>48599593
>CTRL+F
>This isn't mentioned

/tg/ let me down

>>48602057
Eh, the 'blue card' for me is divination. Maybe I play limited too much.

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>>48599593
For me, whenever i think of MTG i think of the omrstplrlcnswmtcthtalcnee

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>>48617521
Or the really big guy

>>48617521
I imagine that would actually have been a popular and memorable card, so props to the market research team.

>>48617521
art rampage was my favorite un-mechanic

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>>48599963
Holy fuck, these