I think Time Walk is better than Black Lotus since Black Lotus doesn't really help later into the game, but Time Walk is useful at pretty much any point.
Or Ancestral Recall. Pretty useful any time in the game.
I like storm crow because I'm a meme machine
>>48276392
Storm crow is the superior card.
>thread about favorite cards
>actual post says nothing about preference only about card strength
>discussing card strength of the 3 strongest cards ever printed
Cool thread
>>48276404
Gomazoa
Won me the game several times. If this can't kill your opponent, it will still fuck them up, especially if you have Sanguine Bond.
Black lotus
>>48276404
I was always annoyed that this didn't come with a 2/2 zombie, even just for flavor
How is this thing legal in so many formats? Anyways, about the most "Red" card along with bolt.
>>48276392
My friend has a binder full of nothing but Storm Crows. Something like 120 Storm Crows.
Boring answer but I just love it to death
It's perfect in every way
>>48276638
>that birthday I gave my friend 120 MtG cards as a gift
>60 were Scornful Egotists
>60 were Break Opens
The clamps.
Step aside creatures.
I just love this one
Squee ftw
I like to say "no".
Super secret EDH tech
also it's an oyster
Because who doesn't love changing colors.
best enchantment in the game
>>48276625
yup
>>48276642
The bolts with the outdated text can attack planeswalkers too.
>>48277295
>Summon Oyster
It can always do anything. Sadly, it's banned in my favorite formatbeing German Highlander.
>>48277367
That's not how this game works.
Power creep or not, he has some of the coolest lore for any card in my favorite color pair.
I see my favorite has already been posted (>>48277117), so here's my second favorite.
Simple, elegant, and versatile.
As a Combo player at heart and Red aligned, this card is perfect when it comes to risk/reward. The number of times I have won a game soley because of this card is astounding. (I've also lost a number of games to it but I figure if I'm going to lose anyway, might as well go out on my own terms.) The Flavor King through and through.
>>48278574
Christ Almighty
>>48278663
Try Hard Fuck Boy
Kill yourself
>>48276378
>time walk is useful at pretty much any point.
not really
it requires a lot more on your part than black lotus does in order to actually be good. you HAVE to be ahead
play vintage sometime
>>48279100
>this nigga has never even hard casted a Force of Will.
>>48276378
With black lotus you wont be going into late game cause you already won
>>48276534
You're an absent minded, uncreative, uninspired twat c:
pic
>>48279135
?? fuck off
>>48278372
The card is hilarious fun. And it's a pretty nice looking foil!
>>48279200
People are just putting in inherently good cards... it's so sad that people like winning SO MUCH that their favorite card is black fucking lotus because they only thing they enjoy is trying to kill on turn 1 or 2. Boring, stupid, uncreative morons have no imagination and should probably leave the thread imchof
>>48279299
youre taking yourself far too seriously
>>48277342
almost. try Journey to Nowhere
>>48279255
DUDE WTF GET THOSE IN SOME SLEEVES
>>48278254
"damage to one target"
>>48278521
Cheap mana cost + it's a jellyfish
>>48278663
So happy WotC reprinted this
>>48276378
Time walk is the only P9 card that you can afford to not run in Vintage, other than Timetwister.
>>48277367
>>48278254
>>48280081
They can hit Walkers anyway.
>>48279716
Fucking kek.
>>48279753
>RRREEEEEE HOW DARE YOU NOT TAKE CARE OF CARDS I DON'T OWN!!
>>48276378
>>48276385
How did these cards ever get approved for release? The moxs I can understand, but why did they think 2 mana to take an extra turn was at all balanced?
beep boop gonna fuck you up boy
>>48276378
considering i'm an old ass black player from back before the days necropotence ruled the entire damn world, this fucker always made my day drawing him, even if hes complete shit now, hes still the OG badass for shitstomping people.
>>48280357
to be fair back in the day spell cards were expected to be overpowered vs the agrobabby hell we live in today because children and tumblr can't get their shit in line cause muh feefees, and WotC is the cancer killing this game.
>>48280357
Keep in mind, this was a game developed as a side project to be played during downtime between DnD campaigns; the money was going to be used to fund a board game RoboRally.
>>48280403
You speak in buzzwords; not saying I don't partially agree with you, but still, you speak in buzzwords.
>>48280357
Because they are from the original Magic set, which had no context to work in and no history to draw on. The original balance consideration was that kids would buy a few packs and having a few crazy powerful rares wouldn't really matter. Once they realized this wasn't the case, pretty much after the first two expansions, they stopped doing that.
>>48280443
anon i live buzzwords and memes, its literally what i do.
I recognize this guy is expensive to cast and therefore bad, but it was in the core set with which I bought into the game, fat fliers are useful, and Fact or Fiction is a great effect and very appropriate flavorwise as a sphinx's riddle, so I like it.
>>48278588
I had a game of EDH where I was dead on board next turn, so I windmill slammed this off the top.
Spent the first turn clearing out hands and ruining plans, and then on the <FINAL DAY> Zada turned an empty board into fifteen 12/9 hasty trampling double strikers with flying.It's also singlehandledly responsible for innumerable deaths.
God bless this card.
>all these spikebaby's unironically posting power 9
>>48280480
I'm so sorry, but unfortunately your cancer has become malignant.
I have only ever assembled a deck that could win with it once.
It was the worst experience I had in my life.
But just the idea of walking up to someone and slapping their shit with a deck three times their size is hilarious.
So is the flavor text.
Muhffinity.
>>48280443
>buzzwords
I was a management major. This doesn't even come close to that.
>>48280554
Man after my own heart. First deck I built myself was during Worldwake and all my other contenders were in there with Reassembling Skeleton:
Demon of Death's Gate
Child of Night
Stormtide Leviathan
Guard Gomazoa
>>48280546
>>48280546
this guy is an all star in my sedris the traitor king edh deck
pay 2B and i get to swing with a hasty 5/6 flyer, plus i get to distribute the top 5 cards of my library amongst my hand and graveyard pretty how much however i like, because the deck uses the graveyard so heavily, there's no good way for my opponents to split the fact or fiction piles
>>48280740
>I was a management major.
I have a Minor in Business, those classes were the most pathetically easy nonsense I've ever taken. Listening to Chad Thundercocks complaining about Accounting being difficult while I was trying to learn x86 Assembly.
>>48280403
Wow, you turned from real words to undecipherable shit midway through a sentence, good job.
>>48280774
I had fun running infinite mana chains with Black Market and reassembling skellies.
>>48280687
Incapable of sufficient randomization in person. Tried on mtgo, program crashed a turn before I had the win.
>>48280867
Not incapable, it just takes long enough that you get slow play.
>>48280774
the skelly didn't get printed until M11 though and that came after Rise.
I started playing competitive magic at the worldwake prerelease and scrib nibblers pissed off so many people, one of my favorite shitty cards to this day.
You should be very afraid when this is coming at you and I have a full hand.
>>48278338
combine this with invocation of saint traft and then the fun really begins
don't have a pic but my favorite blue mtg card is Show and Tell.
There are a few that come close, but overall I don't think I have had more fun playing magic than while resolving Living Death.
>>48280987
holy shit, i had the best terrible casual deck with scrib nibblers when i was getting into the game
>>48281092
>Behold my stand^2
Combo engine
I like too many cards flavor-wise and mechanics wise but few things make me leer as much as resolving this in Archenemy or EDH. Plus I actually own it, unlike some other favorites like Hatred or Barren Glory.
>>48280988
>but anon you're paying 2 for something with only one toughness...it even gets spell snared, such a terribad card!
The perfect red card.Too good for standard. Hell, I would take a 2R 2/1 that shoots for 2 at this point...
>>48280987
My first prerelease was Theros and I made a dude so angry he ragequit.
>>48281380
>not modern legal
>not good enough for legacy
>literal meme card in vintage
god dammit
Got to love dryads. If only there was a playable one...
Also, how come no one posted standstill?
>>48277342
but that's not possibility storm.
I have a lot of cards I really like:
Nivmagus Elemental is one I've played in both standard and modern. It's a lot of fun and has won me many games.
Doubtless One has great flavor meshed with abilities. (Rescue from the Underworld does too but I've never played with it so I'm not counting it too much)
Academy Rector is a card I really enjoy using and it's always useful.
Lightning Bolt, Murder, and Counterspell are all very simple designs that I find very elegant.
Heartless Summoning, Intangible Virtue, and Curse of Misfortunes are all cards that I love for the build around potential.
My favorite card is not quite the card I think is the most powerful.
Eternal Dominion is just so overwhelmingly Blue that I can't help but adore it.
It screams "I will rip the secrets from your mind and kill you with them."
cheap, simple hard removal
>>48276843
took me a while to notice that it's the little wizard on the castle skredding the giant with snow
>>48280554
my nigga
this skele is the tightest shit
>>48277346
>>48280554
This was my first deck
Favorite card is >>48281137 though
Vintage trolling at its best
When this was standard, literally every single deck had at least one copy.
This thing appears in nearly every Red deck I make.
>>48282119
Kek, I love copying a counterspell with this card.
>>48281470
Vintage is literally the meme format, and I play it. Fucking Slash Panthers and shit.
>>48276378
>cmc 2
What were they thinking, seriously?
>>48276843
>>48281793
I only just realized skred means avalanche. What the hell?
>>48276378
This nugga rite here
>>48281479
sup
from >>48280988
>>48277242
underated post. Love the reference.
>>48282454
Good taste man. High five.
>>48276625
What happens when you play this card in MTGO?
If only because my second favorite is Kird Ape.
So sad I will never find a home for this card.
>>48282991
yeah. only spell that comes to mind that's both immediately comparable AND playable is voice of resurgence
>>48282991
>FUCK Ravnica: The Card
I love it when they do shit like this.
That's a difficult question but right now, I will go with JtMS, even though I am not much of a blue player. It has a power tier of its own when it comes to walkers and has iconic art.
>>48282335
They weren't, that's the problem. Still aren't.
>>48280791
Oh, hell yeah. I never even considered this guy for Sedris. Mostly because I forgot he even existed.
Have you looked into Phasing/Oubliette effects to help deal with Unearth? It's pretty dumb and almost never worth the cards spent doing it but it's a pretty major theme of my deck just because I like weird rules interactions.
Favorite card for me is either >>48281137 or Life from the Loam because as far as I'm concerned the graveyard is just where I keep the rest of my hand.
>>48276378
i fucking LOVE utopia sprawl, i would put it in any deck i could with arbor elf, i love that interaction
This card does literally everything I love about magic.
>>48276716
>Run Puca's Mischief
Who's laughing now?
>>48283982
The card is amazing but players have ruined it for me. Now I associate Utopia Sprawl with """brewers""" that bitch about dying to combodecks or getting their Garruk countered. It makes my scrub alert go off and I immediately think "oh it's one of those" when I see it on the stack.
HE CAN'T FLY
HE CAN'T FUCKING FLY
>>48282119
How you feel about this little guy?
>>48283982
That's a fucking gorgeous alter
>>48280821
To be fair to Chad Thundercock, that course load is designed for people who are spending significant amounts of their time having sex.
I like this thing.
>>48282384
dang, the flavor with snow mountains is pretty tite
>>48280988
>>48281380
>>48281479
are there any decks where i can use dryad or kavu?
I love this card and I'm not even really sure why.
>>48280272
lol? you can definitely dispense with off-color moxen unless you're playing Storm or something. In UW Standstill you don't even want the Mox Pearl unless you're playing Mentors
>>48279299
>being this mad from competitive people
>In a typically competitive children's card game
Ever think that people like playing the game for different reasons, son?
Saffi is definitely one of my favourites. Other than Boomerang and Brainstorm.
Honestly I think my favourite thing to do in magic are drawing cards, but who doesn't like drawing cards?
>>48281147
Now he's Thalia's stand, right?
BoP has been my favorite creature for a long time.
>>48286003
Have you played Vintage? Time Walk is a cantrip over 50% of the time.
>>48276512
>Still use decks with lava axes
>See this
>>48281226
I really miss the paladin runs. Was such a cool setup for white/black.
>>48285026
I am a fan. I like Jaya's goggles too.
>>48284615
>returning someones land back to their hand and draw two cards
absolutely fucking savage
And only this print
>>48289329
They're your lands, islands to be more specific.
>>48282504
you just pick a number
>>48288007
Yeah lol, a cantrip that untaps all your mana sources and gives you another attack step/planeswalker activation. Time Walk has the lowest opportunity cost of maybe any card ever printed and frequently clinches otherwise unwinnable games.
>>48280272
>Not playing Dredge
Bazaar is the only power I acknowledge.
>>48291254
>>48288007
Here's an example of a deck from which I would probably cut Black Lotus before cutting Time Walk
>>48291333
ok but to be fair that deck looks fucking jank for vintage
>>48291560
It is jank. Swords on your land, gg.
>>48285074
i want to get my playset altered, but im not sure the best way to find sombody
this guy is my dude right here
>>48277367
You target a player with a planeswalker with the bolt, if it resolves you may choose to have it deal damage to the planeswalker instead.
One is fun. Two are funny. Three are ridicoulus.
Now give all of them Deathtouch.And then my friend played All is Dust.
Always like turning the opponent's heavy hitters against them
>>48280357
One thing to note is that Richard Garfield did not anticipate people buying so many packs or people selling singles such that one person can literally have every card they want.
He figured one copy of a very powerful card won't be that crazy, given what the rest of the deck is full of.
>>48281380
As far as I can tell, this is the only thing that exists that fits that criteria. The only other one that comes close has it as a "dies" trigger.
>>48285998
It is the chillest value engine ever. You doing stuff? Cool, cool, I like doing stuff. Have some more.
Gotta go with big 'moggy. The best feeling in the game is seeing my opponent helplessly mill themselves for 20, because I am a sadistic asshole.
>>48276598
10/10 would scoop to this
>>48296450
There's Murderous Redcap, but that costs 4.
>>48296470
Mill for 20? Mill?
No my friend, that's EXILE for 20.
Best art in the game to be honest, senpai.
This card is one of my favorite cards simply because my friends absolutely fucking DREADED it, because they knew that this fucker was coming to ruin them. It turned my deck into a ticking time bomb.
The laughs we all used to have when I'd blow their board to smithereens were endless. I dearly missed it when it left Standard.
>>48300724
My close second place would go to this cutie patootie. I loved pulling the rug from under people at the last moment to steal a win by comboing it with Shifting Loyalties.
>>48285500
Jesus that's one torturous as fuck card.
>>48284615
WHY DOES THIS EVEN HAVE A COST?!
OOMPH
>>48300857
its pretty much tied with winter orb for most annoying edh card
>>48291333
So you cut turn 1 Jace before you cut Explore? I play Landstill, I've cut time walk a lot because its rarely better than a cantrip. I think my current build axed it for a Top.
>>48289329
its "islands" that "you control"
but drawing 2 cards for no actual mana cost is so powerful that the card is still good
>>48301443
Gush tends to generate mana. I love my 14 land decks.
>>48301443
It is the most minor of set backs that it is barely noticeable.
Leave two islands open, counter their thing with counterspell, then draw two cards off of gush. Next turn you will be down one land at most, you paid for your counterspell and gush in cards and countered one of their more important things.
Not to mention with a good number of cards it isn't even a downside, but even another upside.
>>48301667
It's pretty fun with Storm, too.
I started playing Magic right when RTR came out. The first real standard deck I played was WG tokens. I ran that same deck until Innistrad rotated out and I was constantly making tweaks and improvements. This guy felt more like a friend than a card by the end. It also brought me to tears when it rotated out. About a year later I decided to get into modern. I was going to build B/W tokens. Busting out my foil playset, it felt like I was getting back together with an old friend.
>>48276716
break open is pretty much the worst card in magic
it is literally the ONLY card in the game that never helps you and only helps the opponent barring things like spell triggers
>>48301667
More like tap UU, Gush, preordain, probe, time walk, untap mox mox ponder attack for 21 with monks.
>>48285980
>>48285980
>>48285980
miracle gro used to run it, and it's actually a good deck that's important in mtg history.
>>48302722
MiracleGro could use the land bounce to fuel Foil, and avoid Winter Orb's bullshit
>>48276378
Volatile Rig. It works rather well in my Kresh, the Bloodbraided commander deck and I love the artwork and the general flavour of the card.
>>48280656
I still tear up a bit when I read that Lightning Bolt flavour text.
>>48280656
>hypnotic spectre
Look up "yugioh spirit reaper."
![Image[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/jEAafej.jpg "Image[1].jpg")
i'm a dragon!!!
i'm a DRAOOOON!
suck my diiiiick!!
I:M A DRAGOOOON!!
>>48303608
What about it? Hypnotic Specter is seven years older than Spirit Reaper.
>>48303679
I know, I just thought it's funny.
>>48289339
Got it foil
>>48281226
Muh nigga. Nothing does "fuck all you cunts" like mono black.
>>48284736The bird's not the creature, it's the vines in the background.
>>48297186
No contest, the best black spell in terms of art, flavor and mechanics.
>>48300908
It's not uncommon to hardcast it, same as Force of Will. A control deck can grind the game out to turn 10+
>>48303623
Superior version comin' thru
>>48304003
There's an old folk belief in New England, that if a person dies and the whippoorwills are silent, that means the soul escaped, but if the whippoorwills catch the soul they chatter and torment it for days.
>>48304046
That's dumb. Tell the people of New England that I think their story is dumb, and that THEY'RE dumb.
![Eastern%20Whip%20poor%20will_LauraGooch_FlickrCC_314[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mELMkaa.jpg "Eastern%20Whip%20poor%20will_LauraGooch_FlickrCC_314[1].jpg")
>>48304064
I want so much to make this work, but it's just too damn slow. Best I've managed is pairing it with Assemble the Legion, but that's even slowerer. Anyone have any suggestions? In b4 "kill yourself".
>>48304076
Play stax instead t b h mate. Same effects, less jank
>>48304091
My meta is dredge heavy, stax does nothing.
>>48304111
If your meta is dredge heavy, I'm not sure you're gonna get anything to work other than hatebears and a crapton of gy hate. What format?
>>48304128
Casual.
>>48304133
Buy 4 bazaars and teach them how to really dredge.
>>48304142
>$2500 for casual
WHERE CHINAMAN AT
>>48304142
What, and make my meta even more oppressive? The only saving grace atm is that their dredge decks mostly suck/
I have so many fond memories of multi.
>>48304228
Forgot image
This harmless-looking uncommon is so crazy multifunctional it has saved my ass, won me the game, helped me recover and allowed me to do pretty much anything countless times. I play it in almost every single one of my decks. It's extremely underrated for slow multiplayer formats.
Its primary mode (as in, you start with that, in practice it tends to shift to something else) is as a slow sifting card; you drop it for one mana, then you mill yourself for one every turn until you hit a card that's good enough that you'll pay five mana to retrieve it.
Secondly, it can retrieve any card you have previously cast but is now in the graveyard. Opponents recovered too quickly after a board sweeper? Return it and cast it again. Serious threat just got eliminated? Nope, anything you can do, you can do twice unless it gets exiled. Codex Shredder is colorless and can return any card, including cards your color combination normally can't retrieve. It's instant speed, so it allows you to play around a lot of graveyard removal (retrieving the card when the player removing stuff is tapped out, etc). Combined with certain other recursion cards it can also indirectly recur itself (Auriok Salvagers being a particularly fun combination).
Third, it plays a support role AND abuses your graveyard in self-mill decks, or when someone else is milling you for whatever reason (often as an unintended side effect, because milling someone with a Codex Shredder is a terrible idea). In slow formats, it's a surprisingly efficient mill card (one of the best cost-to-milled-cards ratios among all cards), and any cards milled by other means can also be retrieved by Codex Shredder.
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(Continued from >>48304420)
Fourth, it manipulates the top card of your opponent's library, hosing cards like Vampiric Tutor, Liliana Vess and Bringer of the Black Dawn, as well as reducing the power of tons of other cards (Sensei's Divining Top can no longer save itself or be abused for combos, Future Sight and similar effects can be disrupted if you get priority, it messes with opponents when they play library manipulation themselves, etc).
Fifth, it's library manipulation for yourself. You can skip a card once per turn when playing Future Sight, your Long-Term plans become very short-term (play Long-Term Plans at the end of the previous opponent's turn, mill immediately, then mill during your own upkeep to immediately get the card), and so on.
On their own, none of these five options are particularly impressive. But getting all five of them, all instant-speed, on a card that costs only a single mana is just insanely good. Over time, it's been increasingly becoming the target of spot removal in my group, proving how useful it is and adding a sixth function as lightning rod to draw removal (reminder: this is a 1-mana card that doesn't even cost you card advantage if you happen to have five spare mana left) before casting a more expensive artifact.
I liked the card when I first saw it, but back then I did not realize just how incredible it is in practice. If you're playing a slow multiplayer format, you just have to try this card.
Time Spiral brought us many weird cards, but nothing weirder than this beauty. You can use it to combo out, but it's real fun factor is in slow multiplayer formats, where there's always some flashy spell for it to snag and where you can keep it fed with cantrips.
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