Favorite MtG card thread

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This little guy.

Even Wizards loves it: "Our condolences to everyone who has been killed by an ornithopter" - Wotc (1995).

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A joke, which wasn't particularly funny, which people latched onto, and is now in high demand, despite being crap. This card is a meme and a metaphor for everything I like and everything I hate in Magic.

I'm also partial to treasured find.

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My first deck back in 2002 or so was based around Unnatural Selection and Engineered Plague. The deck was grindy and tons of fun, and revolved around crippling and stealing my opponent's creatures with cards like Phyrexian Infiltrator and Empress Galina. When Artificial Evolution came out I threw a couple in to change the Wall limitation on US to clam or whatever, which let me do "1: Target creature can't attack this turn." I'm sure it was pretty bad but we were all bad so I had no problem racking up tons of wins with it.

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>>53781758
beep boop

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I'm not pretending it's any good.

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Endless fun in commander

>>53782193
Anything with level up for a single mana is good.

>>53782193
I mean, it's not bad.

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Tormented Soul, royal assassin, dark ritual, phyrexian arena. I run a deck with Last Wish, Dark Favor, Unholy Strength, Tormented Soul, Bonesplitter, inkfathom Infiltrator, and a couple royal assassin's and kill spells, as well as four dark rituals and a phyrexian arena. It's swingy as fuck and VERY vulnerable to removal but that's what last wish is for. Problem is I spent all that time making that deck amd it's really not very fun to play after 1 to 2 games because its so fast. It is fun swinging for 7 on like turn 2 to 3 and then the creature dies and I drain the opponent for 7 mot plus life gain. Last Wish was the first intelligent decision I made for that deck in a while.

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>Cowards can't block advisors
>Gain one life for each ferret on the battlefield.
>Olivia Voldaren turns everyone into cats.

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>>53781758

>>53783533
>Olivia "3-foot-schlong with 30 pussies" Voldaren

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He's my baby.

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>>53781758
Literally me

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>>53781758
there is only one correct choice for this.
so many shenanigans can be had with her.
also i love her.

>>53787601

She's actually really pretty for not having an actual body.

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I love (a)symmetrical effects.

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It's just so damn useful.

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Much fun was had back in the day, still my favourite even though he's less useful now.

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I'm not a competitive shitter I swear, I just genuinely love this guy's ability. I've always loved interactions with the graveyard, and this card, Lhurgoyf, and Vengevine are my favorite graveyard matters cards.

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I like stuff that isn't overly complicated or too vanilla it seems. I like anthem effects and powering stuff up.

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YOU'RE GOING TO DIE AND YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT RIGHT NOW

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It's not fun unless you're trying desperately to not kill yourself by accident.

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>>53781758

Icy Manipulator was one of my absolute favorites back when tapping artifacts turned them off and tapping blockers prevented their combat damage. It's still okay now, but back then it was the ultimate "do anything" artifact. You'd get crazy boardstates and blindside people with some tap interaction that they never saw coming. Some of the best Magic ever.

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I love the value this guy gives, he trades with any creature, he flies and beats for 1, and he is easy to recur. Plus the art and general aesthetic of the card is sweet.

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Because fuck ALL your shit

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This or Gilder Bairn.

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My first card worth anything really.
It's also a great source of shenenigans, infinite life combos, and other fun stuff.

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>>53782193
>>53783083
why does merfolk leveler get generic level up cost while dragon man is locked into mono red?
Also, this guy is an absolute monster. the trample is brutal

>>53791437
love this guy too. yes i've won games by skredding him

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Pic related is the most perfect magic card ever printed.

Murder. Instant. Destroy target creature. Dude with a fucking greatsword through his chest.

There's so little there, yet it has so much weight behind it.

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OP here
Really glad to see whats going on
but as I said at the beginning of the thread
I would love to see cards that are loved in spite of how good they
they may be stupid
they may make no sense
but they were your first card
or they are just so over the top bad its great
pic related
he sucks hard
I would never trade him away
I love him so for his suckage
I love him for his cornyness
I love him for his over the top name

>>53791827
Did you know that an original Island Fish Jasconious is $7 USD? Insane. Very cool casts though.

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fuck strategy

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>>53781758
I, like any magic player, want extra turns. However as an edh player I prefer fairer effects, so Timesifter to me is the perfect way to give everyone a chance at some extra turns. Well everyone except cedh players, which is just an added bonus.

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Refuse to play Modern until they unban my bad boy.

>>53787601
Good taste anon.

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>>53781758
I started playing around odyssey block and my favorite deck then was UG threshold, with Mulch as my favorite card. The simple value it gives is amazing.

When they put a similar effect on a creature, I instantly fell in love.

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As a beginner i thought This + Madcap Skills was the strongest combo in all of Magic. Good times.

>>53791588
Some colors are more prone to including/requiring a bunch of their own color of mana than others. Blue is supposed to be utilitarian and results-oriented, rather than picky or intolerant. Blue pretty much never costs, or produces, a whole bunch of blue mana.

Red on the other hand is the color of Ritual spells (or it is nowadays) and has the firebreathing ability. Red also has nonbasic hate and cares about mountains now and then. Also, since Kargan has firebreathing the devs probably assumed you'd only put him in a deck that makes a lot of Red anyway.

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started in onslaught and this guy has been getting me some sweet sweet card advantage ever since

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One of my favorite burn cards. Nothing more satisfying then putting one out turn 1.

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You called for me boss?

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Such legendary art.

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comfiest land of all time

>>53792681
I made an EDH deck with this. I had an unusually high number of high-cost cards but still figured, since a third of my deck is land anyway, the odds were good someone would go instead of me a fair amount of time. Upon playing it, I proclaimed, "I have successfully randomized the turn order!" And one of our players just got up and walked away from the table.

I asked him what's up, and he said, "just let me know when it's my turn" and started playing the Binding of Isaac. This guy is usually the most cool headed bro ever, so him walking away with salt told me I had dun goofed. I took the card out of the deck after that game.

To each their own, though.

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one of the best cards ever

>>53793003
>Burn
Also this card is a MASSIVE MEME. Anyone that lets it stay is either a fucking idiot or also playing red and willing to just bolt it.

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>>53793117
So what if I play burn? This is a thread about favorite cards ya dingus. And yeah that's the best outcome if they want it sac'd, they just took 4 to the face turn 1 against burn.

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>>53781758
My favorite aspect of him is that everyone remembers he's got a busted ability, and nobody remembers that he's a 5/5 and can fuck your shit up.

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I love this nigga. He's a rad dude all about the homies, and even though ulting with walkers is hard, dropping his is so much fun. It's a real shame Wizards is trying their hardest to erase his existence, since there's been 3 other R/G walkers since he dropped.

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>>53793064
Oh yeah. I get that. I have a guy in my play group who hates it. Last time I played it I copied it too. No one liked that, least of all me because I had to keep track of it all.

Also I remembered another favorite of mine for the art. Shell of the last Kappa.

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>>53781758
I have won so many games out of nowhere with this guy such a perfect threat you don't even know is a threat until it's too late. EDH player here so I usually just sit back and make a 40+ mana and leave people wondering "okay what it's all for" when suddenly I attack with better Storm Crow and they are taking 40 dmg

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>>53792650

>>53793498

not that guy but why you hatin tho?

>>53793514
Everyone at my LGS ran Queller decks they were just everywhere in my MTG life for a bit.

>>53793590
Probably because it's a cool card with good art and a powerful ability. Sorry if you think your favorites should only be based on something stupid like nostalgia.

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card advantage, huge evasive beater (or tempo-wrecking blocker), storm engine all in one. what more could you ask for in a card desu

>>53792989
i guess that all makes sense

>>53791743
>>53792718
>>53790298
>>53792799
>>53793092
>>53783369
>>53790963
cool

>>53793109
tilt

>>53787601
>>53788031
Master Transmuter needs to get NATURALIZED

>>53781841
I live to murder people with that card. You're a gentleman and a scholar, anon

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Crucible was already posted, so I'll post my second favorite. I'd play Lands if I had the money.

>>53783369
Seconding arena. Always love this card

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>>53793024
ya m8 hook em in de gabba

>>53793001
I love how, when they went back and erattad a bunch of cards to be a race and a class (goblin warrior, elf druid) they just left him a wizard.

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>>53796290
No better feeling in my krenko deck then turn 1 lackey into a turn 2 seige gang.

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[timmy intensifies]

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The most powerful card ever printed.

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>>53796355

>>53791344
Isn't this pretty much a worse Sylvan Caryatid, unless of course you want to buff and attack with it.

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>No one posted capsize

>>53791743
The centered rules text really brings it together as well. The Innistrad 2 version just doesn't have the same ommpfh

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This card is playing magic in it's purest form. No stalling, no waiting, nothing hidden. People play spells whether they want to or not.

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>>53781758
Love the art, the flavour, and the ability is excellent. Just wish there was a good commander to play him with.

>>53796480
I play this with necropotence in edh

>>53796505
That's actually pretty hilarious.

I use March of the Machines with it and just try to get as many Omen Machines on the battlefield as possible with clone effects.

>>53793440
hell, with enough mana you could mill one person and beat down another. I think this just found a place in my EDH whoops all combos deck

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I know it's not just one card, but getting off infinite ETB and ETG effects with bears is so goddamn satisfying.

>>53796355
I loved playing with this card.
>blocking with goats
>drawing cards
>recurring artifacts

>>53796377
I had a real problem not playing this card in limited. Never got to combo it with Reverberate though.

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>eats your attacker
>eats your blocker
>eats your progenitus
>eats your board
>give him trample and lure and he eats your face

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this smug fuck and his death laser

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i have a real problem

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Always and forever

>>53796457
This card owned kitchen table in high school.

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>>53782095
>>53782134
>>53783533
>>53788191
>>53790298
>>53793001
Remarkable choices. Consider yourself men of excellent taste.

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Sylvan Library is fantastic and fuck your color pie.

>>53796501
It has the best flavor text too

>>53797935
>protection from everything

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Funny as hell with the right set up.

>>53800062
Engulfing Slagwurm doesn't actually target, so if Progenitus blocks it, Progenitus will be destroyed by the ability.

>>53791827
One of my first rares. I love the idea behind it.

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>>53800168
Forgot the pic, how embrassing...

>>53796317
>>53787601
Either of these. Master Transmuter has both great functionality (despite being easy to remove) and gorgeous art and can she lead into some hilarious interactions in my Myr deck.
Krenko is Krenko. He's the reason I finally built a Goblin deck after refusing to build red for so long. The salt he generates when he can resolve turn 3 with haste is priceless everytime.

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I really want this effect to be on something playable.

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Boldwyr Intimidator has the best fucking flavor of any card ever. Absolute flavor jackpot. Cowards can't block warriors.

I only wish it didn't cost seven fucking mana for a 5/5. That's just not good enough mechanically. If it was even one mana cheaper I would force it into every cube and commander deck ever.

>>53800323
Shit be damaging to the opponent

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kird ape is probably my legit favorite but this is a less obvious pick

i played both in a deck when i was a youngin. orcish lumberjack too.

>>53800504

Tinder Wall and Orcish Lumberjack are the forgotten greats of the Ice Age RG ramp.

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Mana Vault is my favorite mana rock. It's obviously very powerful, but it has a proper drawback and requires that you use the power in a calculated fashion instead of slamming it like a Sol Ring.

I only wish that it would do 2 damage instead of one. Then the card would be perfect.

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>>53781758
There will simply never be anything that ever comes close for me.

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My all time favourite goblin. I always used to play goblin decks just for flavour, so naturally I'd lose quite a bit. There's nothing quite like saccing all your lands then rushing your opponent as a last ditch.

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Simple and effective. And has got me wins through worship


>>53796501
Elemental tribal is probably coming on C17 m8

>>53792681
Looks like a yugioh card

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Codex Shredder. It looks so simple and harmless, but in slow multiplayer games it gets crazy good and multifunctional.

The most obvious function is to just have it return a card - any card - from your graveyard to your hand. While that sounds underwhelming for 1+5 mana, it's still very powerful at instant speed (a sudden Commandeer can have quite an impact, or if you manage to leave 5 mana open you can EOT return any answer in your graveyard to cast next turn), and it's colorless, which grants this effect to colors that usually don't have it.

It also supports self-mill, which is pretty obvious, and in the rare cases where opponent mill is useful you can use it for that as well. However, the fact that it's no-cost instant-speed mill allows for some fun tricks. Anybody stupid enough to tutor something to the top of their library gets their card milled, Future Sight and other cards revealing your top card suddenly get a huge drawback for your opponents, and it can really screw with cards like Sensei's Divining Top (draw ability) and Volrath's Shapeshifter. On the other hand, you yourself get more value out of your Future Sight by milling unwanted cards, can get your Long-Term Plans card in one turn (cast EOT, mill, untap, mill, draw tutored card), and so on.

But what really makes it shine is the combination of self-mill and the regrowth effect. You play Codex Shredder for a single mana, and then you just have it slowly mill you every turn (even if you're not playing self-mill). At some point, either through the self-mill or through normal gameplay, there will be a card in your graveyard that's worth spending 5 mana on, at which point you can retrieve it EOT once you happen to have 5 mana open. (Keep in mind, only the first mana is an active investment, the other 5 can and will be spent at a time you happen to have enough spare mana anyways, unless the value you get from it is worth even more (returning a boardsweeper right when you need it, etc).)

I love this card.

>>53793064
The problem with Timesifter is that the turn order is not truly randomized. It's extremely heavily weighed towards people playing high CMC cards, to the point where decks with lots of low CMC cards often don't get a single turn for like 20 consecutive turns in a 5 player game (it gets worse as there are more players in the game, as the only chance you get at a turn is if everyone playing high CMC cards exiles a land). I used to love the card in casual 1v1 but in my current group it just means I don't get another turn until the end of the game, save for the rare occasion where I get a single turn until the end of the game. By the time I get my second turn (if the game takes that long and I'm still alive), Timesifter has already exiled my entire library.

It certainly is a lot of fun when it does properly randomize the turn order, like in most 1v1 casual matches. But it's extremely unfun when it just makes 1 or 2 players skip their turns for the rest of the game.

>>53781758
>ones that are just fun
Wall of Denial isn't fun. Wall of Denial is undercosted for being extremely difficult to get rid of.

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>>53789725
>one cantrip spell
>one evasion spell
>one doublestrike spell
>gg

Good taste

>>53803550
That may be true but as one of my first cards and the card I learned you can have than four from I have a lot of fond memories of it

>>53803862
Can't not can

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>my first foil rare back in 2003
>its shit
>I still have it and use it on my prison deck cause of nostalgia

>>53804152
Did you find a way to make it good?

>>53797985
wow the spell only costs 2 red tops, you would definitely splash this in a mana-heavy green deck huh

>>53796355
>>53797563
>blocking with goats
aaaay im sold, that right there makes the card worth

>>53804765
Nope, its just nostalgic trash, but cant deny it saved me twice from lethal.

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Nothing's more fun than cloning one of these in a 4 player game

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this card is blue

sure it needs back up like rogues passage and mirror mockery to be amusing.

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After a decade my Rabid Wombat deck became an Aura Gnarlid deck but that doesn't mean I don't still love this thing.

GOBLIN WELDER
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Best angel, coming through.

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>>53805857
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>>53804818
>>53804765
>>53804152
Force Bubble can actually be quite good, either by

a) playing it in a context where you only get attacked once per turn (1v1, 2HG, multiplayer with attack restrictions (such as 'attack left')) and bouncing it in response to its sacrifice trigger; or

b) stacking it with other damage prevention/replacement/misc defensive effects, making sure you take no more than three non-replaced/prevented damage each turn; or

c) playing it together with 'damage everyone' effects such as Pestilence, Sulfuric Vortex, etc. Sun Droplet may be better in certain circumstances, but Force Bubble replaces the damage leaving your life total unharmed (whereas Sun Droplet can be destroyed to deny you the life recovery); as such it's also not hosed by anti-lifegain, plus since it's a replacement and not prevention it's not even affected by 'can't be prevented'. (It also stops 'when you deal [combat] damage' effects from triggering.)

Note that A, B and C are not mutually exclusive. You can build a deck around this kind of stuff. Hell, you can build various decks around this kind of stuff.

Even in the worst case, it's still an expensive sorcery-speed Fog. And as with Fog cards, you can play it with recursion for repeatable damage prevention.

The best reason not to play Force Bubble though is that Delaying Shield often serves the same purpose better with similar shenanigans.

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Delicious ceramic pope, honestly I love the art for most of the New Phyrexian cards

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>>53806393

>>53791827
Kek, his french name is "Île-poisson Seyidna Yûnûs". Even more over the top.

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Ali from Cairo... is doin' his thing.

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>>53806393
Not the greatest card but I love the idea of swarming an opponent with a bunch of tiny toxic mouths

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*Tinkers for Memory Jar*

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Just casting it feels so good.

>>53801636

I really need to get one of those for my Dragon Tribal in EDH. Such a fucking beast.

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>ctrl+f "skeleton"
>0 results

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>>53781758
I'd played magic for a few years before I started getting REALLY into the game and following wizards updates on the website. The Legions preview article that talked about the artwork for this guy was the first MTG article I'd ever read and I pretty much fell in love with this card instantly.

Enough to the point that I still have 27 of these things sitting in a binder, including three foil versions, one of which is signed by the artist.

>>53808196
You da real MVP
Simple and effective, great concept, and with an absolutely killer flavour text.

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>>53808623
Ever since I started magicing cards like this were my favorite. Royal Assassin, Dark Banishing, Sengir Vampire too.

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>>53791827

I like all of the terrible fish. Land eating, islandhoming, stupidity. Love it.

>>53801897
nah, my picks for the tribes are Human, Angel, Demon and Dragon.

Though I wouldnt say no so a good elemental commander for OFH.

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There's honestly nothing more satisfying than playing a Delver turn one, flipping it turn two, and beating the opponent's face in while they struggle to resolve relevant spells

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this or Firedrinker Satyr, only because Firedrinker was a running joke in my old play group

>>53791743
Probably the most elegant card in the game.

>>53798021
That card is super cool. One of my favorite dragons.

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>>53809508
>nothing more satisfying
Excuse me, sir, but have of our lord and saviour, Rancor?

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Arc-Slogger because I don't need a library when I have 4 Shocks.

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>>53781758
Unironically and absolutely this purely for the art, I own 8 and I wish I owned every one ever printed. The perfect pleb-filter for only two mana. I'm only interested in magic for the art and the ephemerality of the card form itself and the atypical art of this card is so redolent of the early 90s I just love it.

>>53810616
Pretentious as fuck, and I completely agree with you. More abstract art when goddamnit.

>>53791743
For a card with that little rules text, you would expect some flavor text. Nope. Murder speaks for itself.

Is there any other instant/sorcery/enchantment with that little rules text? There can't be, right? Three words: effect target subject.

>>53795047
Volkan Baga's Mox artworks are so sublime that I even would rather use this card over the original Stronghold version. That's saying a lot since normally I try and get original printings

>>53810616
I'm not a big fan of the art, but I just love that it was made by Richard Garfield's aunt.

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>>53810616

90s art was best art.

>>53810732
Ignoring reminder text, there is a Sorcery with exactly one word on it: Wake of Reflections.

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>>53812352

>>53812543
why did I laugh?

>>53789227
>I just genuinely love this guy's ability
It's shit. You've fallen for a meme.

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I love the flavor so goddamn much.

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When it hits, you're opponents will be dumbfounded to wtf just happened.
>Where did these 100 cats with 100/100 P/T come from

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>>53781758
When i play this one, my play group knows shit's about to get real.

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>>53781758
Why isn't this banned in commander?

>>53812619
Because it's literally all white has.

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>>53785763
I play an embarrassing amount of Pauper EDH and whenever I play with anyone who runs black (including myself) this card is always included. I fucking love this card too anon, along with Porcelain Legionnaire.

I do have to concede to being a faggot and picking Cruel Ultimatum as my favourite card though. This was the card that really gave me that "Holy shit" reaction when I saw it, and I've been playing since Onslaught. It's what made me love Grixis.

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>>53796476
>>53810178
>>53810732
come on, guys

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>>53812584
My black/white brother!

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Killer art. Amazing flavor and lore. I have a bit of a personal connection with the Sliver tribe.

Of all the Legend Sliver, it's the one that bombs the field the second it hits instead of enabling a combo/protection.

>>53806498
What if he's not in Cairo when you summon him?

>>53793207
cant see shit, captain

>>53798108
Tawdry kitsch is fun to say.

>>53794525
>griselbrand is your FAVORITE mtg card

Tell me, what's it like being complete faggot?

>>53796355
patrician taste my man

>>53781966
I like how the flavor text hints at the fact that they had no plan for riggers ever

I also love how Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker breaks the colour pie. His +3 is literally just Bramblecrush, but he is not green.

The color pie can go fuck itself.

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>>53812906
Ayyyyyy

>>53812894
That's also an ellegant cart. If only the art fit the card as perfectly as Murder's

>>53803305
Playing Fun police with this card was one of the funniest (while playing it) and shittiest (while playing against it) experiences I had playing this game. Great taste

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This card loses you friends.

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>>53812657
>it's all white has

>>53812619

These cards are easy to fix for EDH.

Simple...go by ratio/percentages! 30 life equals 50%+ above starting health!

How has the MTG community not resolved this already, I don't get it.

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>>53781758
Fun times.

>>53813284
spicy

>>53813276
The community can't do shit; at least not if they care about competitive EDH.

For whatever fucked up reason this card is not banned/fixed like that by WoTC.

>>53813276
Because the MTG community is the most pedantic crop of literalist twats there ever was.

Don't ever expect the community writ large to do the sensible thing if not enshrined and codified in strict predefined rules.

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This, 8-player games. Tap 1 extra mana to play a Feldon's Cane after it resolved then drop a land. Shit-eating grin all the way home.

>>53796501
I never knew I could get this erect over reminder text.

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love my 5 color decks

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>>53810732
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Shame all versions with that text also have flavor text on it, even if it is good.

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>>53788422
I hate that art, the rune does not align with the character. Here is my favorite

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Always include one in my white decks.

>>53810719
Literally never. They don't do stuff like that anymore, every card depicts a specific thing or thing happening now.

>>53810616

it seems 90%+ of new card art has to look SUPER EPIC!

hate that shit.

>>53813329
You're complaining that players are strict about using rules as written for a game that has very clearly defined rules and is played by millions of people in dozens of countries?

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I love everything about this card. Sometimes I feel like it personifies me a little as well.

The name is awesome, the art is awesome. I still have hope that one day somebody will figure out how to break this card and make it badass in modern.

>>53794288
>sorry that my favorites are based purely on power level and not something stupid like EMOTIONS

wow anon what is it like being a literal autistic person. And I'm not using the casual internet definitions of 'literal' and 'autistic', I am saying you are LITERALLY autistic

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>>53810732
still, murder>cancel. but the same camp

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>>53805857

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>>53814612
I prefer this one, honestly.

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>>53781758
This card will always have a place in my Artifact EDH. Using it with Myr Turbine + Unwinding Clock feels so satisfying.

>>53783565
Is a nice card.

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> for the 'wtf' deck

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>>53815675

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Boy, how I wish he was a legendary

>>53805683
Patrician

>>53815675
Don't let the black people find out about this or we'll soon see it with one of those super lazy ass "Captions" that says something along the lines of "Wen u nut but she keep suckin"

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Phyrexia ain't got nothing on this cutie

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Best art, best flavor text.

>>53810732
Wake the Reflections. One word: populate.

>>53812543
Now put that art on the card, and change the cost to 4 and a blue.

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>>53815675
>>53816123
For you from my lazy ass

>>53813276
Because it doesn't really need fixing. All that thing will do is get removed and paint a huge target on your head.

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>>53808196
>>53809137
so much this.
black weenie cards are aesthetic

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>>53818313
same vein

>>53812944

Not the anon you replied to but i'd imagine it feels a lot like a turn 2 win in modern and a turn 1 win in legacy.

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What does this say about me

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>>53818942
whew lad

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>>53812911
I personally like pic related because its pretty easy to get out and also has such a bid difference...

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This guy is stupid fun to play.

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>>53819357
Drop a white mana in there

>>53818942
bane? fire?
brother.

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>>53781758

The centrepiece of my first competitive (and very successful) deck.

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>>53781758
Path to Exile, but only if it has this art.

The absolute pinnacle of form, function and flavor. There are equals, but I don't think anything is better.

>>53820500
I like that art a bunch, but I also have a thing against spells that aren't actually spells. This is just some dude going to the afterlife or something, which is something I'd prefer on Rest in Peace (which also has great art.)

As a result, I'm boring and prefer the Leonin being blown apart art.

>>53794857
top kek

>>53820651
No, see, that art is the absolute perfect representation of what Path to Exile actually does. In fact, none of the others comes close.

Arthurian Legend says that when Arthur was mortally wounded by Mordred, he did not in fact die, but was instead put into a coma and ferried off to a mystical land called Avalon, where he would lie in wait for the time when Britain would need him again in its most dire hour.

That art is very evocative of the Arthurian legend, and think of what PtE does; you exile a creature, not killing it or destroying it, but putting it beyond anyone's reach. Not only that, but you also get a land for the creature lost. Thus the art: a hero is being sent out to sea, with his wife/lover and child, as well has his subjects looking on (see the torches in the back?). Is he dead? Or just sleeping, waiting for the next time he is needed? And in return, you get a land (Avalon).

>>53819357
I understand and accept your taste, but the following is why I disagree:

I actually really liked humanoid Slivers. They are a natural result of a species that adopts the beneficial traits of the things it consumes and encounters. Bio evolutionary race going humanoid is fine. They all at least look like Slivers.

But to me, Megantic doesn't look like a Sliver at all. IT's face isn't slivery. It's claw hands don't look like Slivers. It doesn't have the telltale bug chitin or tentacles of the new slivers. I dislike that card on art alone.

As an actual card, it's k.

>>53820862
Right, but it's very difficult to magically compel someone to do that in an immediate and succinct fashion.

>>53814972
If you don't already I suggest you make an EDH deck around him I don't think he will ever be good in modern.

>>53789854
I fucking love Phyrexian Etchings.

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It's eats, It rapes, It's 10/10 with trample, and when I ramp a Hero's Bane to 34/34 and sac it to the hungry hippo, everyone hates me

>>53800228
It can eat itself to get bigger. It. can. eat. itself. to. get. bigger.

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This guy. Back when I was in either 5th or 6th grade I thought that Leviathan was the shit, then I opened this guy. While I have long since lost the one I originally opened all those years ago (along with like 98% of the cards I had from back then) I still keep one in my B/W EDH deck and if he ever became standard legal again I would probably try to build some stupid deck with him.

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I love this dumb shit.

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First rare I ever got, and god damn do I love it, it really evokes the feel of playing giant ass deathmachines in green. I wish supertrample was still a thing.

>>53825665
Damn good taste.

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>>53810732

I always liked this one.

>>53826001
god 7th edition had ugly art

>>53783533
I was introduced to the game by a guy who used that card along with Quest for Ula's Temple to cheat Angels and shit out really fast. Ever since then I have been a pretty ardent Johnny.

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>>53826153
Yeah, the later versions definitely looked cleaner, though I was always partial to the glowy green smoke on the 7th version.

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Easily my favorite EDH deck, too.

>That global effect that's easily abusable with untap effects
>People wanting to keep you around for more cards but forgetting that you're building up mana
>An actually cute looking knife-ear

>>53826029
I have hit Brilliant Plan with Mizzix at 4xp so many times that it has gained a reputation in my playgroup.

U=Draw 3 is just so nice.

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>Dead
>I steal your boots
>Huh.

I have never seen this car elicit any other response than something along the lines of, "Oh."

>>53826296
Such an all-star in my Samut Legendary tribal. I've gotten the parlay four times in a turn and dumped it all into Chord.


>>53819992
I am glad the reprinted it enough to bring the price down but I really prefer the old art.

>>53818942
I made my Mizzix X spell tribal and its the Izzet deck I've always wanted. Actual burn in EDH was a pipe dream of mine before. I run Jhoira but its basically Eldrazi City with Wipes.

>>53801663
Thats the most gob thing I've ever heard.

>>53800323
it's a nice card in the newer Ezuri, as one of the many toolbox cards you can run.

>>53801235
it gets so dirty with voltaic key effects

>>53806436
>Atraxa infect makes its rounds and group makes house rule that infect wins at 20
>This kills my Blightsteel Colossus wincon for Jhoira + GAAIV
>Throw Phyrexian Unlife in 3 different white decks
>20 infect rule is only for Atraxa now

I hated Atraxa Infect but damn if that rule didnt suck.

>>53826855
thats kinda BS m8. But then again, so's Atraxa.

On topic, Zameck and master biomancer are tied for my favorites, cause they can make undying/persist cards come back forever

>>53826321
You know, you're right. All it takes is one guy with boots or greaves and you've got "R: creature gets hexproof" Also works as a combat trick. Sign me the fuck up.

>>53809508
I like how he went through his own little storyline

Not a single motherfucking lightning bolt. You disappoint me, /tg/.

I just lost The Game

>>53801636
This guy knows what's up.

>>53805857
I had a flicker deck back in timespiral rav standard with her that my lgs hated

>>53799708
You are why cockatrice is terrible.

>>53800032
it's reminder text. Still the best though.

>>53815615
huzzzah I cast down a wall to block your vile beasts effect.
>flicker

>>53817253
I love it.

>>53813244
>7 mana and needs to stick around for a turn to destroy a colored permanent
Meh.

>>53820876
But you agree oldslivers were better mechanically right.

>>53806936
Came here to post this. I just love things that are not just one shots but continuously usable, to set up loops or whatever, and this thing does it all by itself.

>>53805857
Also as someone who played NicFit for a while in a Show and Tell meta, there's nothing quite like using Birthing Pod on this to find an Ashen Rider.

>>53831852
Explain please. I don't play MTG online, only irl.

Omniscience, the most blue card ever, with Enter the infinite.

>>53783369
This also, that arena flavor text is 10/10