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!).
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Richard Garfield, Ph.D, Game Designer
Originally Posted by Lemnear
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.
Tangle Wire and Hymn to Tourach.
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.
ArmageddonLet's say name 8.
Balance
Swords to Plowshares
Erhnam Djinn
Maro
Mystic Enforcer
Terravore
Sol Ring
Sylvan Library
Nine cards. I know...After all, this was meant as a Budget Power Nine, am I right?
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 : /
Gush
Worldgorger Dragon
Trygon Predator
Bazaar of Baghdad
Dark Ritual
Argothian Enchantress
Brainstorm
Noble Hierarch
Fires of Yavimaya
Wild Mongrel
Lotus Cobra
Pyromancer Ascension
Lion's Eye Diamond
Exhume
Desolation Angel
Also up there:
Sinkhole
Hymn
Juzam
Ice Storm
Strip Mine
Wall of Blossoms
Gaea's Blessing
Wildfire Emissary
I think the biggest thing is the deep seeded emotional understanding that the right play is the right play regardless of outcomes. The ability to make a decision 5 straight times, lose 5 times because of it, and still make it the 6th time if it's the right play. - Jon Finkel
"Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings."
Ancestral Recall
Birds of Paradise
Nevinyrral's Disk
Guardian Beast
Brainstorm
Venser, Shaper Savant
Knight of the Reliquary
Fauna Shaman
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
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.
I've always loved the following cards for various reasons...
Mutilate
Death Grasp
Sylvan Library
Reckless Charge
Squirrel Nest
Banefire
Damnation
Mirari's Wake
Cockatrice: EMFry
White Knight
Whirling Dervish
Serendib Efreet
Lightning Bolt
Kird Ape
Psionic Blast
Rogue Elephant
Boros Charm
Goblin Welder
Gush
Intuition
Misdirection
Nivmagus Elemental
Stifle
Young Pyromancer
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.
Dark ritual and nishoba sabertooth
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.
The proper plural must be "hall of fames." You wouldn't say Halls & Oate, now, would you?
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.
Last edited by Quasim0ff; 08-15-2013 at 04:52 PM.
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! ^_^
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