What are your FAVOURITE cards?

[Teluin]

Not necessarily the most powerful (although they can be), but the ones you like the most because of various factors like nostalgia, coolness, etc. Let's say name 8.

I got into MtG when I was 8 or 9 years old, and it was around the time 4th edition came out. Some of my all time favourites (and some of the the ones I remember wanting the most back then) include...

Sol Ring
Mahamoti Djinn
Force of Will
Kjeldoran Outpost
Mishra's Factory
Swords to Plowshares
Balance
Wrath of God

Some of these suck by today's standards. I gotta find some friends who want to play anti-Modern (only cards with the old border!).

[Kayradis]

Richard Garfield, Ph.D, Game Designer

[YamiJoey]

Lingering Souls, and Stoneforge Mystic. Bitterblossom is also sweet. BW Stoneblade is probably my favourite deck ever conceived, even if it is generally worse than most other variants.

I'm also a huge fan of Venser, especially with Karakas. That deck is too sweet.

[clavio]

Tangle Wire and Hymn to Tourach.

[Bed Decks Palyer]

I gotta find some friends who want to play anti-Modern (only cards with the old border!).
This is so true. I'd love if our former casual group would form again. It'll be lovely to play with the good old cards with the good old frames.



Let's say name 8.

Armageddon
Balance
Swords to Plowshares

Erhnam Djinn
Maro
Mystic Enforcer
Terravore

Sol Ring
Sylvan Library


Nine cards. I know... :smile: After all, this was meant as a Budget Power Nine, am I right? :tongue:

[Zombie]

Green Sun's Zenith
Reveillark
Pattern of Rebirth
Debtors' Knell
Ponder

Momentary Blink (pre-M10. RIP.)
Chord of Calling
Cabal Ritual
Protean Hulk
Heritage Druid

Hard to name individual cards, because the synergies are what's fun : /

[Tempus]

Gush
Worldgorger Dragon
Trygon Predator
Bazaar of Baghdad
Dark Ritual
Argothian Enchantress
Brainstorm
Noble Hierarch

[Kage]

Fires of Yavimaya
Wild Mongrel
Lotus Cobra
Pyromancer Ascension
Lion's Eye Diamond
Exhume
Desolation Angel

[Richard Cheese]

http://magiccards.info/scans/en/be/12.jpg

Also up there:
Sinkhole
Hymn
Juzam
Ice Storm
Strip Mine
Wall of Blossoms
Gaea's Blessing
Wildfire Emissary

[mini1337s]

Ancestral Recall
Birds of Paradise
Nevinyrral's Disk
Guardian Beast
Brainstorm
Venser, Shaper Savant
Knight of the Reliquary
Fauna Shaman
Jace, the Mind Sculptor

[HPB_Eggo]

Survival of the Fittest
Painter's Servant
Ogre Slumlord
Thoughtpicker Witch
Mycosynth Lattice
Gelectrode
Deadeye Navigator
Crop Rotation

I basically like cool engine/CA cards, whether they happen to be good or not.

[Barook]

Green Sun's Zenith
Swords to Plowshares
Karakas
Mother of Runes
Sylvan Library
Stoneforge Mystic
Dark Ritual
Burning-Tree Shaman

[Fry]

I've always loved the following cards for various reasons...

Mutilate
Death Grasp
Sylvan Library
Reckless Charge

Squirrel Nest
Banefire
Damnation
Mirari's Wake

[ironclad8690]

White Knight
Whirling Dervish
Serendib Efreet
Lightning Bolt
Kird Ape
Psionic Blast
Rogue Elephant

[SirTylerGalt]

Boros Charm
Goblin Welder
Gush
Intuition
Misdirection
Nivmagus Elemental
Stifle
Young Pyromancer

[Firstborn]

Final Fortune has always been my favourite. Always liked the all-or-nothing feel of it.

Close second is Adarkar Wastes but that's just because of the John Avon artwork.

[SaberTooth]

Dark ritual and nishoba sabertooth

[Mewens]

Argothian Enchantress
Essence of the Wild
Gifts Ungiven
Intuition
Meddling Mage
Primordial Hydra (I know, I know)
Repercussion
Young Pyromancer

I'm sure some of those choices are influenced by my latest goofy Legacy build (I'm playing around with a Young Pyromancer deck at the moment. It's a ton of fun, but just folds to DRS, RIP and Scavenging Ooze. Well positioned, I know), but as I sat down and thought about what cards make me smile to play them, that's the list I came up with.

I apparently like difficult-to-interact-with engine cards and smug shenanigans. And being blown out by graveyard hate.

[Quasim0ff]

Gush
Jace, The Mind Sculptor
Lightning Bolt
Brainstorm
Dark Ritual
Dark Confidant
Duress
Baleful Strix

Bolt and Gush are easily my two favorite cards, however.

*The Yawgmoth-Twins are good too: Bargain and Will.

[OmniStrata]

In 'to hump' order...

Liliana of the Veil
Pox
Smallpox
Sinkhole
Hymn to Tourach
Innocent Blood
Inquisition of Kozilek
Spinning Darkness

My Pox deck IS my favorite cards! ^_^

[Hardcore]

Necropotence

Pox

Order of the Ebon Hand

Derelor

Jokulhaups

Lhurgoyf

Pygmy Allosaurus

Folk of the pine

Autumn Willow


Fallen Angel


To name a few.

[LennonMarx]

Etched Oracle
Krosan Groundshaker
Goblin Welder
Mox Jet
Smokestack
Accumulated Knowledge
Winter Orb (less cool now that it doesn't turn off when tapped)
Tendrils of Agony

[PhantomLotus]

Old:

Mana Drain -- adding insult to injury since 1994. My favorite ramp card.

New:

Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas -- I just love this card. Love the artwork, love the abilities. I haven't been able to bring myself to get rid of my playset, even though it's just sitting in my binder right now. That does it, I'm building a casual deck with Tezz when I get home from work...

[The Treefolk Master]

Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Vedalken Shackles
Maze of Ith
Intuition
Trinket Mage
Engineered Explosives
Vendilion Clique
Academy Ruins
Venser, Shaper Savant

Also:
Punishing Fire + Grove of the Burnwillows
Thopter Foundry + Sword of the Meek

Are two of my favourite combos.

[honz]

Older cards:
Guardian beast
Squee, Goblin Nabob
Recurring nightmare
Cavern harpy
Manabond


Newer:
Gilder bairn
Kalonian hydra
Summoning trap
Windbrisk Heights - i want to play trap ramp in legacy so bad. Maybe in a cloudpost shell...

[from Cairo]

Cabal Therapy
Phyrexian Revoker
Sylvan Library
Scryb Ranger
Aether Vial
Survival of the Fittest
Wasteland
Gush

[Mon,Goblin Chief]

Brainstorm
Force of Will
Mana Drain
Future Sight
Gifts Ungiven
Yawgmoth's Will
Necropotence
Moat

All my old school favorites. What can I say, drawing cards, countering spells and making creatures irrelevant are what makes me happy. Honorable mention to Thawing Glaciers, Counterspell and Oath of Druids before there were that stupid Orchard and modern day fatties (MaherOath was so sweet).

[Humphrey]

Demonic Hordes
Demonic Tutor
Necropotence
Jester´s Cap (IA)
Juzam Djinn
Sharazad

mostly because of their artworks

[JanoschEausH]

This one is my favorite of all time.

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=12438&type=card

[force_of_phil]

Top 10
1. Meddling Mage
2. Green Sun's Zenith
3. Armageddon
4. Cursed Scroll
5. Tithe
6. Grim Lavamancer
7. Elspeth, Knight-Errant
8. Hymn to Tourach
9. Oath of Druids
10. Flametongue Kavu

Lots of good memories tied to each of those.

[guelahpapyrus]

My favorite card of all time - I think I've only cast it once in 10+ years of Magic - Crush of Wurms

It's got big fucking wurms, it's got flashback, you can populate them! All you need is 9 mana....

[Fade]

1.) Life from the Loam
2.) Baleful Strix
3.) Drop of Honey or Porphyry Nodes

[Dark Ritual]

Dark Ritual

Library of Alexandria

Juzam Djinn

Brainstorm

Hellfire

Commandeer

Yawgmoth's Will

Tolarian Academy

I like fair magic cards :wink:

[apple713]

Favorite Reminiscent cards (marks the period I started playing)

Survival of the fittest
Bottle Gnomes
Recurring Nightmare

Favorite artwork

Time walk
Juzam Djinn

For looks / scarcity (just the judge foil version)

Judge Foil Intuition
Judge Foil Gaea's crade

Favorite Alter / amazing card

http://i41.tinypic.com/2meveow.png

[Michael Keller]

All Hallow's Eve.

Season of the Witch.

Always.

[Shawon]

Greater Good (gameplay/design)

Flash Conscription (art)

[TsumiBand]

Wild Mongrel
Phantom Centaur
Battle Screech
Glory
Anurid Brushhopper
Arrogant Wurm
Steward of Valeron
Talisman of Impulse
Exalted Angel
Diligent Farmhand
Muscle Burst
Broodstar
Knight of the Holy Nimbus
Laquatus's Champion
Forbid
Quiet Speculation
Murmuring Bosk


In particular, things on this list that are 'cycles' or in a theme, like the Talismans, Phantom creatures or the Diligent Farmhand + Muscle Burst things. Murmuring Bosk is more of an honorable mention; they need to print more lands just like that only without the stupid tribal restriction, for those of us in the cheap seats.

This may not be a list of favorites, it's more like a list of "why-the-fuck-are-you-just-not-playable"s. But COME ON, Battle Screech is the JOINT. SO MANY FLYERS

[Julian23]

Random card I worshipped back in school:

http://magiccards.info/scans/en/ul/100.jpg

Just three creatures? LOL this card is broken. Everyone easily has 6 creatures by turn 10. This is sick man, just sick.

[Stan]

Random card I worshipped back in school:

http://magiccards.info/scans/en/ul/100.jpg

Just three creatures? LOL this card is broken. Everyone easily has 6 creatures by turn 10. This is sick man, just sick.

I had a deck with that, which used 4 ghazban ogres and 4 of the 2/1 equivalent with cycling (I forget the name). The theory was that either the game went ok and I'd kill them with my weenies, or he'd be winning, I'd lose my ogres, but then the defense of the heart would trigger and fetch me two thorn elementals (which was a chase rare when it came out). it wasn't my best deck, but it was very fun to play with.

[mishima_kazuya]

Dark Confidant - I love aggressive value creatures that can go into a myriad of decks. Having bob active for a few turns is usually enough to win a game, but it never feels like a complete beating.
Life from the Loam - Well designed card advantage engine, that encourages outside the box thinking in deckbuidling.
Falkenrath Aristocrat - I like 4 drops with haste that are hard to remove.
Giant Solifuge - Same as above :smile:
Inquisition of Kozilek - Well designed hand disruption for formats like Block Constructed or Standard. Its versatile to maindeck, but not too narrow like Appetite for Brains or Duress.
Loxodon Hierarch - The original Thragtusk that started the modern midrange creature design.
Char - Eot Char, untap Char
Fact or Fiction - Probably more powerful back when creatures were more vanilla, but a very fun card to cast and challenging to play against. I think blue could use a good 4 drop that can compete with modern creatures that have all sorts of abilities, like Huntmaster of the Fells or Restoration Angel.

[wizard_of_gore]

dark confidant
jace, the mind sculptor
umezzava's jitte
eternal witnes
pernicious deed
hymn to tourach
swords to plowshares
consecrated sphinx
recurring nightmare
grim lavamancer
praetor's counsel
young pyromancer - new candy :P

[Antonius]

akroma's vengeance
seismic assault
Astral slide
Mirari's Wake
Mirari
Rishadan Port
Tabernacle
Jace the mind sculptor
Mangara of Corondor
COUNTRYSIDE CRUSHER
ETERNAL DRAGON

[Koby]

akroma's vengeance
seismic assault
Astral slide
Mirari's Wake
Mirari
Rishadan Port
Tabernacle
Jace the mind sculptor
Mangara of Corondor
COUNTRYSIDE CRUSHER
ETERNAL DRAGON

I don't see Life from the Loam here Tony...

[kirkusjones]

Laboratory Maniac
Diabolic Tutor (Staples Art)
Children of Korlis
Abrupt Decay
Deathrite Shaman
Dark Confidant
Astral Slide
Life from the Loam

[_Fortune_]

Liliana of the Veil
Shardless Agent
Pernicious Deed
Deathrite Shaman
Bitterblossom
Sorin, Lord Of Innistrad
Slavering Nulls
The Rack

[feline]

Legacy cards: (As of August 2013)
Trinisphere
Chalice of the Void
Armageddon
Time Spiral
Candelabra of Tawnos Mostly just because of it's status as "one of the most expensive Legacy staples" & I actually own them.
Goblin Ringleader
Goblin Charbelcher
Griselbrand

Popular at an older time:
Jackal Pup
Slith Firewalker
Ball Lightning
Fireblast
Isochron Scepter + Orim's Chant

Stuff from old Type II environments:
Astral Slide
Lightning Rift
Tooth and Nail
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Sundering Titan
Plow Under
Paladin en-vec + Umezawa's Jitte
Firemane Angel
Searing Meditation
Dragonstorm

Legacy banned cards:
Contract from Below
Mind's Desire
Wheel of Fortune
Memory Jar
Tinker
Timetwister
Ancestral Recall
Mishra's Workshop
Tolarian Academy
Yawgmoth's Bargain

[troopatroop]

Balduvian Horde
Blastoderm
Quirion Ranger
Survival of the Fittest
Tradewind Rider
Seedborn Muse
Mystic Snake
Eternal Witness


Seeing people post shit like "Abrupt Decay" is just embarrassing...

[Giants1990]

Ancestral Recall
Demonic Tutor
Knight of the Reliquary
Juzam Djinn
Ernham Djinn
Library of Alexandria
Moat
Wrath of God
Nevinyrral's Disk
Armageddon

[Sloshthedark]

Guardian beast - the Art, the textbox, awesome design

Brainstorm - within moments, victory was mine - best flavor text ever
Crop rotation - love lands
Tradewind rider - fun& annoying
Balance - strongest card effect, art
Gamble - art, design
Maze of ith - art, annoying
senseis divining top - so universal, saves itself, has own combo, needs to be oldframed
Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale - annoying
Demonic consultation - art, design

[kiblast]

Stifle because of its flexibility.
Arabian Nights Serendib Efreet I love the art, and overall design of the card.
Standstill Simple yet outstanding card design.
Lightning Angel I always try to play it in all my UWR Geist- aggro/tempo lists and then I end up removing it. But it's so cool.

[YamiJoey]

Seeing people post shit like "Abrupt Decay" is just embarrassing...

Ladies and gentlemen, people on the internet.

[Megadeus]

Deus of calamity obviously it's one. But I also love cabal therapy, smallpox, wasteland, I also love wish boards. Utility is fun because it opens up for many lines of play. Mox Diamond because I like fast mana. Smokestack is a sweet card. Resource denial is a fun strategy

[wcm8]

Some old favorites:

Quirion Dryad
Pernicious Deed
Hypnotic Specter
Drain Life
Zuran Orb
Spellstutter Sprite
Sky Spirit (really love Rebecca Guay's art)

[kingtk3]

Nightmare
mana drain
survival of the fittest
morphling
necropotence
yawgmoth's will
recurring nightmare
zur's weirding
nevinyrral's disk
goblin welder
volrath's dungeon

[Purgatory]

Brainstorm
Fact or Fiction (rewards good decision making skills)
Meddling Mage (rewards good meta knowledge)
Stoneforge Mystic (although I'm hipster for it and liked it more when I played it in UW Tempo before Batterskull was printed)
Flooded Strand (I love how the blue and white mixes on the frame)
Adarkar Wastes (Ice Age illustration is sweet)
Thoughtseize (same as FoF)
Vendilion Clique (rewards good plays when it comes to timing etc.)
Jace, the Mind Sculptor (because best PW, because best art, because f*ck you)


I look like an Azorius/Esper Fanboy here, but I like other cards too, like Nimble Mongoose (I have a misprint that my brother gave me some 12 years ago that I still use), Archaeomancer (such a small and humble creature, but very powerful in EDH), Pernicious Deed, etc. etc. If I had to pick 8, it'd be the 8 above that comes to mind first.

[Rood]

Island
Swamp
Dralnu, Lich Lord
Maelstrom Wanderer
Standstill
Lightning Bolt
Delver of Secrets (Probably my #1 favorite card tbh)
Spell Pierce/Red Elemental Blast
Opportunity

[Nonex]

Aluren
Survival of the Fittest
Astral Slide
Lightning Rift
Birthing Pod
Chord of Calling
Reveillark
Veteran Explorer
Greater Gargadon
Food Chain
Lobotomy
Liar's Pendulum

[Bed Decks Palyer]

Nimble Mongoose (I have a misprint that my brother gave me some 12 years ago that I still use)...Picture, please?

[Smmenen]

Moat
Gush
Misdirection
Lion's Eye Diamond
Merchant Scroll
Yawgmoth's Will

[Kich867]

Cabal Therapy.

[monovfox]

For me:

Hypersonic Dragon
Time Vault
Kiln Fiend
Aether Vial
flickerwisp
Spellskite

[lordofthepit]

Lord of the Pit
Necropotence
Demonic Consultation
Dark Ritual
Recurring Nightmare
Wild Nacatl
Noble Hierarch
Knight of the Reliquary
Green Sun's Zenith
Scavenging Ooze
Punishing Fire
Lightning Bolt
Brainstorm
Cursed Scroll

[RaZe]

Lightning Bolt
Tooth and Nail
Goblin Lackey
Goblin Welder
Knight of the Reliquary
Green Sun's Zenith
Balance
Liliana of the Veil

[MGB]

Back to Basics - So simple, so unique, and so powerful

Preeminent Captain - The essence of aggro that forms the lynchpin of my favorite tribal type in Magic (Soldiers)

Mishra's Workshop - The definition of a broken facilitator that spawns an entire archetype in any format it would be made legal

Force of Will - The most perfectly designed card in the history of the game

Hymn to Tourach - The essence of the entire color Black

[Amon Amarth]

Tangle Wire
Goblin Recruiter
Necropotence
Demonic Tutor
Tinker
Gush
Psychatog
Fact or Fiction
Balance

Basically, just fun cards.

[luckme10]

Dark ritual
Royal Assassin
Uncle Istvan
Mirror Universe
Vesuvan Doppleganger
Lord of Atlantis
Morphling
Cheatyface!

[Aggro_zombies]

Hmm...

Life from the Loam
Birthing Pod
Astral Slide
Tortured Existence
Eternal Witness
Skullclamp
Roaring Primadox
Mulldrifter

Those are my absolute favorites, although many of them are better in smaller formats or simply casual fodder.

[Bed Decks Palyer]

Hmm...

...
Eternal Witness
..
Roaring Primadox
...

Those are my absolute favorites, although many of them are better in smaller formats or simply casual fodder.
Ha! Do I smell a casual combo!?

I love Stampeding Wildebeests. Amazing illustration, pretty nice concept. I played a deck with them and Multani's Acolyte plus Wall of Roots back then in my early 20's. Is there any chance to brew some kitchen table monogreen monstrosity with Primadox, Stampeding Wildebeests+Stampeding Serrow, Witness, Thragtusk, Walls of Roots and Bossom, Indrik Stomphowler, draw-Elves, etc.?

[Jamaican Zombie Legend]

Argothian Enchantress - I heart Enchantress.

Flametongue Kavu - And other Machine Head mainstays like Crypt Angel and Blazing Specter.

Wild Mongrel - Ahh...U/G Madness; when I still liked casting Blue cards.

Jaya Ballard, Task Mage - EDH general goodness.

Angel of Despair Augh yeah, Goth Angels.

[Admiral_Arzar]

Mind's Desire. Amazing card, amazing art, and it symbolizes my favorite archetype (fast combo) better than any other card I think.

[Bobmans]

Masticore, because you love it and hate it at the same time.

[RThomas-]

Food Chain and Goblin Recruiter -- gave me a turn 1 kill in my first Vintage tournament; hooked me in to Magic for good

Null Rod -- my favorite sideboard card ever and went into everything I played

Goblin Charbelcher and Demonic Consultation -- helped me make my first ever tournament top 8

Survival of the Fittest -- R/G Survival Advantage was my first ever Legacy deck, hooked me in to this format

Golgari Grave-Troll, Stinkweed Imp, Golgari Thug -- my favorite cards in my favorite deck to play now and for the rest of time

Proteus Staff -- favorite casual card ever

[GreekAsTheGods]

Fatigue
Rayne, Academy Chancellor
Divert
Extract
Magus of the Bazaar

[Octopusman]

Magus of the Moon

Blood Moon

Chalice of the Void

Maze of Ith

Winter Orb

Icy Manipulator

Meddling Mage

Peacekeeper

Stasis

Grim Lavamancer

Honorable Mention: Chaos Orb

[Eldariel]

Sea Drake, Serendib Djinn, Flying Men, Humility, Maze of Ith, Manabond, Time Vault, Yawgmoth's Will, Wheel of Fortune.

[Tourach]

Gush
Demonic Consultation
Hypnotic Specter
Blood Moon
River Boa
Rancor
Cursed Scroll
Sheltered Valley
Gaea's Cradle
Wasteland

[Bed Decks Palyer]

Sea Drake, Serendib Djinn...
There's a deck called Faerie Stompy that uses these creatures, you may look it up, I think you'll like it... :tongue:

[Arianrhod]

Trinket Mage = Gifts Ungiven > Pernicious Deed = Sun Titan > Survival of the Fittest = Recurring Nightmare

[AEnesidem]

Jace TMS, Snapcaster mage, vedalken shackles, knight of the reliquary

[Fuzzy]

Survival of the Fittest
Rishadan Port
Fires of Yavimaya
Blastoderm
Opposition
Glare of Subdual
Flametongue Kavu
Psychatog
Upheavel
Bloodbraid Elf
Force Spike
Rising Waters
Stasis
Phyrexian Negator
Academy Rector
Price of Progress
Blood Moon
Ajani Vengeant
Uril, the Mistwalker
Loxodon Hierarch
Grave-Shell Scarab
Cursed Scroll
Jackal Pup
Aluren
Living Wish
Life from the Loam
Geist of Saint Traft

[Mister Agent]

Word of Command
Mana Drain
Standstill
Terminus
Lord of Atlantis

[Barbed Blightning]

Mangara of Corondor
StP
Cryptic Command
Wasteland
Deathrite Shaman
Time Walk (artwork)
Time Stop

[Mr.C]

Hmm.

Hand of Justice
Doubling Season
Imperial Recruiter
Grindstone
King Suleiman
Thing From The Deep
Juniper Order Advocate
Descendant's Path
Icatian Moneychanger

In no particular order.

[eriktyvollk]

Stifle
Silence
Daze

[TsumiBand]

So, these aren't *favorite* cards, but pretty much every undercosted UB flyer/beater ever.

Talking about

Urborg Drake
Moroii
Thought Devourer
Necrogen Scudder



and so on. I bet there is some kind of terrible UB Suicidal Flying Things deck just lurking waiting for its day in the sun.

[Illissius]

Mist Dragon
Force of Nature
Warping Wurm
Flood
Survival of the Fittest
Plated Spider
Capsize
Dakkon Blackblade
Time Spiral
Grim Monolith
Ghost Ship
Soldevi Digger
Ring of Gix

New cards suck. It is known.

[TarmoX]

Gameplay
JaceTMS
Life from the loam
Grove + Pfire
Wasteland + Stifle
Scryb Ranger

Art
Perish - Spellstuttersprite - PTE (DCI) = i love Rebecca Guay :smile:
Hymn to Tourach (wolves)
Thalia

Memories
Avatar of woe = Begin to play
Morphling + Masticore = Old extended strong cards
Fires of yavimaya + Blastoderm + Flametongue Kavu = Best and funny deck to play (at time)

[Dreg]

Worm Harvest is my all-time favorite, due to some absurd EDH shenanigans i managed to pull out with it.

Other honorable mentions include:

Phyrexian Negator
Carrion Feeder

[AngryTroll]

I can't believe no one has yet named Spiritmonger! That guy's a beast (literally).

I also have a problem with Grizzly Fate. I'm 6-3 over the last three weeks playing GBu Nic Fit with Grizzly Fate as the win condition (instead of, well, good cards).

[Bed Decks Palyer]

I can't believe no one has yet named Spiritmonger! That guy's a beast (literally).

I also have a problem with Grizzly Fate. I'm 6-3 over the last three weeks playing GBu Nic Fit with Grizzly Fate as the win condition (instead of, well, good cards).

I'd swear you'll name Troll Ascetic... :smile:
I once played Grizzly Fate in one of my casual decks. It was... strange. :confused::laugh:

[AngryTroll]

I'd swear you'll name Troll Ascetic... :smile:
I once played Grizzly Fate in one of my casual decks. It was... strange. :confused::laugh:

Oh, Troll Ascetic also, preferably wearing an Armadillo Cloak, but a Rancor will work too.

It's fun to watch opponents' life totals go 20-12-X. I picked up four foil 7th Edition Grizzly bears and four Beta Grizzly Bears to turn sideways. My friends have started picking up foil Grizzly Fates to give me. In a deck full of fetchlands, Brainstorms, Ponders, Veteran Explorers, and Deeds, hitting Threshold hasn't been too tricky.

[Tylert]

Young Pyromancer!

[LeoCop 90]

Goblin Warchief

Goblins is my pet deck, i started playing during onslaught block, and this card represents all that is goblin: play a bunch of cheap creatures and swing immediately with them for the win. Also, i like the art and flavor text very much.

Onorable mention goes to Forgotten Ancient, all-star of my red/green fun deck for years.

[Phoenix Ignition]

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=35072&type=card

Probably my all-time favorite.

Anything that went into UG Madness, though, that deck was my first competitive and my favorite deck ever to play.

[AngryTroll]

Anything that went into UG Madness, though, that deck was my first competitive and my favorite deck ever to play.

This. All of my favorite cards either were played in Madness (my first real deck) or were opened by me in Invasion block boosters, back when I was learning to play and every card was a completely new card to me.

[Bed Decks Palyer]

I played RGW Madness/Zoo in 7thEd-TSP Extended with Tireless Tribe, Wild Mongrel, Arrogant Wurm, Basking Rootwalla, Werebear, Anurid Brushhopper, Mystic Enforcer, Call of the Herd, Roar of the Wurm, Fiery Temper, Violent Eruption, Reprisal, Lightning Helix, Umezawa's Jitte, fetches, painlands and shocklands.
Those were the times...

http://www.daviddisalvo.org/storage/nostalgia.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1336658458310

[paeng4983]

Lightning Bolt, Ancestral Recall, Giant Growth, Healing Salve, Dark Ritual
Mountain, Island, Forest, Plains, Swamp.

[HammafistRoob]

My top 5

Hammerfist Giant
Chub Toad
Hammerfist Giant
Whiptongue Frog
Hammerfist Giant


Sad thing is, I actually killed somebody with the Giant in Vintage back in the day, in the goblins mirror believe it or not. That's why I'm in the hall of fame yo

[Julian23]

My top 5

...
Chub Toad
...


All hail to the Chub! I remember when Chubstill hit the scene like a hurricane and people started hoarding the Chub. Replacing Phyrexian Dreadnought with it is such a subtle yet elegant change, should have thought of it myself.

[TheInfamousBearAssassin]

My top 5

Hammerfist Giant
Chub Toad
Hammerfist Giant
Whiptongue Frog
Hammerfist Giant


Sad thing is, I actually killed somebody with the Giant in Vintage back in the day, in the goblins mirror believe it or not. That's why I'm in the hall of fame yo

I had to throw away like 20 Hammerfist Giants the other day.

[DragoFireheart]

http://media.wizards.com/images/magic/daily/arcana/1086_1z2qy8ydkb.jpg

[Goaswerfraiejen]

I'm a big fan of River Boa: http://alteredcardsbylaura.com/viewcard.php?img=g%20River%20Boa.jpg&name=River%20Boa

[TsumiBand]

I played RGW Madness/Zoo in 7thEd-TSP Extended with Tireless Tribe, Wild Mongrel, Arrogant Wurm, Basking Rootwalla, Werebear, Anurid Brushhopper, Mystic Enforcer, Call of the Herd, Roar of the Wurm, Fiery Temper, Violent Eruption, Reprisal, Lightning Helix, Umezawa's Jitte, fetches, painlands and shocklands.
Those were the times...

+1

This is a gentleman's deck right here. I fully endorse this approach to Magic the Cards.


I can't believe no one has yet named Spiritmonger! That guy's a beast (literally).

I was just thinking about this guy. In a lot of ways this creature was ahead of its time - think about the current state of creatures in Magic and then look back at Spiritmonger:

6/6 for 5cmc with no drawback
3 abilities - one for resilience (regen), one gets around dumb protection (color choice), and one to grow him and keep him relevant in the event he ends up outclassed by something dumb like Goyf or KotR (+1 counters)

Compare it to, like, Reaper of the Wilds from Theros. Or do a Gatherer search for Modern-legal creatures in BG. He compares pretty well. I don't think time has slowed down Spiritmonger one bit. Maybe his casting cost is a little prohibitive, and maybe it's just better to like resolve S&T or something and poop an Eldrazi into play, but man if I were going to build a BG list tomorrow you can bet that at the least it would like live on my Living Wish board, or something. Something. Spiritmonger freaking rules.

I think I said this already, but the Phantom cycle from Judgment has always been a favorite of mine. I want to equip a Batterskull to Phantom Centaur and tell every aggro-control player what to go do with themselves.

[HammafistRoob]

I had to throw away like 20 Hammerfist Giants the other day.

You're dead to me.


But no seriously why? You shoulda sent em to me I only have about 250.

[boneclub24]

Berserk is the be-all end-all of magic.

[Grollub]

Grollub

What a surprise! Best art and flavor in MTG, ever! <3 <3 the Grollub.

[GoblinZ]

a lot...
Sea drake
guadian beast
chains of mephistopheles
imperial recruiter
rishadan port
goblin matron
kird ape

mountain bandit

[Bed Decks Palyer]

Grollub

What a surprise! Best art and flavor in MTG, ever! <3 <3 the Grollub.

Hello Grollub, are you Grollub (http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/Grollubguy/Questions.html)?

[KntrellCL]

My favorite card of all time is Life from the Loam! Such a powerful card hehe

[Bed Decks Palyer]

+1

This is a gentleman's deck right here. I fully endorse this approach to Magic the Cards.



I was just thinking about this guy. In a lot of ways this creature was ahead of its time - think about the current state of creatures in Magic and then look back at Spiritmonger:

6/6 for 5cmc with no drawback
3 abilities - one for resilience (regen), one gets around dumb protection (color choice), and one to grow him and keep him relevant in the event he ends up outclassed by something dumb like Goyf or KotR (+1 counters)

Compare it to, like, Reaper of the Wilds from Theros. Or do a Gatherer search for Modern-legal creatures in BG. He compares pretty well. I don't think time has slowed down Spiritmonger one bit. Maybe his casting cost is a little prohibitive, and maybe it's just better to like resolve S&T or something and poop an Eldrazi into play, but man if I were going to build a BG list tomorrow you can bet that at the least it would like live on my Living Wish board, or something. Something. Spiritmonger freaking rules.

I think I said this already, but the Phantom cycle from Judgment has always been a favorite of mine. I want to equip a Batterskull to Phantom Centaur and tell every aggro-control player what to go do with themselves.

I'm glad you like my "Madness in the Zoo Park" theme deck. :-)
On Spiritmonger: Yep, this one is pretty powerful. Shame that the other options available like Thragtusk (or however it's called), S&T->Emmy, and of course Goyfs, Goyfs, Goyfs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiuHdUkuRi0) completely rotated Monger out of format.

I liked the phantom dudes. I played Phantom Centaur with Armadillo Cloak in Ext. In fact I played anything possible with Armadillo Cloak, be it Soltari Priest, Troll Ascetic or even Exalted Angel. It was brilliant. RDW and BDW pilots simply LOVED to play against me. (Tbh, sometimes they were fast enough, also timely played FotBH helped them quite a lot.)
I'm not sure if I ever Cloaked my Eternal Dragon, though. But lets pretend that this also happened...

[JUNI0R]

Berserk is the be-all end-all of magic.

Oh, yeah!

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/macho-man-randy-savage.jpg

[GexxX]

The cards I like most are the ones I played during my journey through the years of magic. I'll just fire out an order and try to cut it down to the top 10.

Dark Ritual:
A no-brainer. This was the Black Lotus of my youth. Reprinted enough to make it cheap and black was the most fun anyway. To this day I love casting this card. Skulls everywhere :D

Kird Ape:
"Pressure" is what this card should have as a flavour text. With my first playset of Duals being Taiga no wonder i like this little monkey so much. Paired with Rancor and Gianth Growth makes it quite the beast. I'm a big fan of Arabian Nights which makes it my favorite creature of all time! Goyf who?

Necropotence:
This is the one card changing magic for me. It shows you how much power you generate by drawing cards. It also has some cool skulls printed on it. The suicidal taste makes it even more lovable.

Force of Will:
When you have discovered what incredible hings you can do in the early turns to win the game you automatically think about ways to deny it. This Card does it all. Simply put the purest element of control in my opinion.

Rogue Elefant:
You may have noticed that I love agressive plays. Yep, I do. Going to extra turns was never my thing. I wanna be able to play a game of magic in 10 minutes.

River Boa:
The trio of creatures is complete. These were my beloved ones back in 2005. R/G Beats (if some remember) was my thing. Not overthinking, but somewhat challenging. I obviously changed my view and figured creatures are a little boring. I still remember the jungle thingies smacking some serious face. Times, good old times.

Oath of Druids:
Yeah, I love this card. 1G for a big, fat creature. Seems fair. It was just so much fun tuning different decklists for weeks. For me losing felt okay. As long as I resolved an Oath. True story. Unfortunately games were boring at times and winning felt like no effort, losing felt like there was nothing you could do. Similar to modern Show and Tell decks. Although we are talking about the difference on Vintage and Legacy.

That's it.

[Kap'n Cook]

Zodiac Rooster
Mountain Goat
Goblin Welder
Gilder Bairn
Crypt Rats Visions art though

[Megadeus]

I can't believe no one has yet named Spiritmonger! That guy's a beast (literally).

I also have a problem with Grizzly Fate. I'm 6-3 over the last three weeks playing GBu Nic Fit with Grizzly Fate as the win condition (instead of, well, good cards).

I've been searching for a sorcery that makes a win condition for my Loam deck to try out... DOING IT!

Also some of my favorites are: Life from the Loam (insane CA engine when undisrupted), Pernicious Deed (awesome board wipe), Green Sun's Zenith (Tutor and put into play for 1 more mana? Busted), Burning Wish (Red Demonic Tutor is pretty decent), Grim Lavamancer (I just like shocking things repeatedly) , and Cabal Therapy (the feeling of blind hitting with this is awesome).

[Bed Decks Palyer]

Rogue Elefant:
You may have noticed that I love agressive plays. Yep, I do. Going to extra turns was never my thing. I wanna be able to play a game of magic in 10 minutes.


We (I mean lots of us) played a Rogue_Elephant_Harvest_Wrum_Fallow_Wurm.dec. It was amazing. Crappy and unreliable, but when you got the !combo! out (once in 100 games) it was really satisfying! :smile:

[Kove]

I know these cards are semi-janky but I still love them. I find them really satisfying to play. :)
Shard Phoenix
Crystal Ball
Wall of Blossoms
Invigorate
Primal Order

[afb0032]

Dark Ritual
Phyrexian Negator
Recurring Nightmare
Necropotence
Yawgmoth's Will
Counterspell (MM art)
Force of Will
Enter the Infinite

[J.V.]

Fact or Fiction
Mulldrifter
Nimble Mongoose
Wasteland
Hammerfist Giant

[FieryBalrog]

I absolutely love Life from the Loam and am always sad that it's not very good in Legacy any more. In fact when Modern was announced the thing I was most excited about was having a format where I thought decks like Loam.dec were going to be fun and reasonably competitive. (cue wah-wah sound).

I also adore Knight of the Reliquary. He's the epitome of what a good creature should be in my eyes. He isn't a mindless ETB value explosion; he actually has to, wow this is craaazy, stick around for a turn to do stuff. He has a tension between his tap ability and attacking. Yet he's powerful and rewarding and you can do lots of different things with him.

Some other cards:
Argothian Enchantress
Karn, Silver Golem
Chalice of the Void
Armageddon

[Bignasty197]

Goblin Welder
Spiritmonger
Pernicious Deed
Sun Titan
Future Sight
Phyrexian Arena
Birthing Pod
Noble Hierarch

[TheInfamousBearAssassin]

Krosan Tusker
Haunting Echoes
Fire Covenant
Humility
Opposition

[Bed Decks Palyer]

I also adore Knight of the Reliquary. He's the epitome of what a good creature should be in my eyes. He isn't a mindless ETB value explosion; he actually has to, wow this is craaazy, stick around for a turn to do stuff. He has a tension between his tap ability and attacking. Yet he's powerful and rewarding and you can do lots of different things with him.

Yes! Well put!

[AngryTroll]

Does anyone else remember the days when Skullclamp and Yavimaya Elder were legal together in Survival? It was awesome.

[baghdadbob]

Krosan Tusker
Haunting Echoes
Fire Covenant
Humility
Opposition

Why is there no Fire Covenant deck?

[HammafistRoob]

Why is there no Fire Covenant deck?

It's played in the sideboard of BUrg Thresh. Not a Fire Covenant deck per se, but I didn't even know the card existed until it popped up there. It seems pretty good with Death's Shadow type cards, although that's probably a little on the cute side to be honest.

[TsumiBand]

Why is there no Fire Covenant deck?

I think it doesn't stack up well compared to other Pyroclasm-like effects, and most of those don't get played, and you would have difficulty casting this spell if you were behind. And it doesn't hit players for obvious reasons, unless you're playing with Repercussion of course. :)

[Julian23]

http://magiccards.info/scans/en/ul/71.jpghttp://magiccards.info/scans/en/us/28.jpg

Cast on an opponent's creature.

Just throwing it out there. By far my favorite combo back at school. People hated me, lol.

[caiomarcos]

Mirage's Final Fortune:

http://magiccards.info/scans/en/mr/173.jpg

Final Fortune is my absolute favourite one, but there are many that I really like:

Renounce
Hypnotic Specter (Alpha art)
Frenetic Efreet
and others...

[FieryBalrog]

My favorite combo in school was Terravore + Nature's Revolt + Pyroclasm. (Armageddon was too easy).

[Illissius]

[Treacherous Link][Pariah]

Cast on an opponent's creature.

Just throwing it out there. By far my favorite combo back at school. People hated me, lol.

Oh god, mine too! I also added

http://magiccards.info/scans/en/us/159.jpg

[caenel]

For me, there is no contest:

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=3646&type=card

I never ever had as much fun as when I was trying to make an Ovinomancer/Fastbond creature control deck. Occasionally, it even worked :tongue:

[Machahiko]

http://magiccards.info/scans/en/zen/36.jpg http://magiccards.info/scans/en/jr/26.jpg
http://magiccards.info/scans/en/vi/67.jpg http://magiccards.info/scans/en/ala/63.jpg

[TheInfamousBearAssassin]

I think it doesn't stack up well compared to other Pyroclasm-like effects, and most of those don't get played, and you would have difficulty casting this spell if you were behind. And it doesn't hit players for obvious reasons, unless you're playing with Repercussion of course. :)

I mean most Pyroclasm-like effects aren't asymmetrical and can't kill Goyfs realistically.

The reason it doesn't see more play is because decks with badlands are rarely viable and people don't know it's good. I had to pull some teeth to get it included in my friend's Cube list.

[TsumiBand]

I mean most Pyroclasm-like effects aren't asymmetrical and can't kill Goyfs realistically.

The reason it doesn't see more play is because decks with badlands are rarely viable and people don't know it's good. I had to pull some teeth to get it included in my friend's Cube list.

Eight years ago I would have Fire Covenant'd the shit out of Phyrexian Negator.

Killing Goyf though, that's like... lots of life. :( Still, maybe. W/e.

Maybe play it with omfg RAKDOS ANTHEM. j/k.

[r3dd09]

I've been saying Doomsday is my favorite card

Another card that comes to mind is Staff of Domination and Karmic Guide.