Favourite MtG cards?

[Immortal Wombat]

I was rummaging through my RL cards yesterday, and came across a rather nice enchantment combo. Treacherous Link and Pariah on the same (opponent owned creature) - Thus any damage that hits you gets reflected onto them, using the creature as a channel.

Of course, knowing my luck, there's a card that achieves this on its own, but I like it. It does however, present a rather curious paradox which I shall now post in the rules thread...

[Moulinex]

Well I have not been playing Magic for a few years (I stopped during "Visions" edition and started to play with the Legends)
So far as i remember...

Black :
Lich or its lesser counterpart Necropotence
Also nice for the discarding feature...
And a top notch card is also the Underworld Dreams

White :
Balance, Wrath of Gods, Armadeggon (white is nice when you want to kaboom the whole game

Blue :
All the counter... but still like an expensive card named Vesuvan Doppelganger (UU3 if I remember right), beautiful pic (think it was Quinton Hoover's art)

Green :
Birds of paradise...
And also good for the mushroom army (or call it saprolings if you want

Red :
Lightning (R for 3 damage... always nice or the delicious Fork... always fun to use.

Artefact :
Howling mine... or Juggernaut

Land :
Library of Alexandria, nice pic, nice effet...

Multicolor :
Can't remember any card except "Jacques le vert" a multicolor legend making all your green creatures +0/+2

Magic was (and is still) my favorite game during years... but badly it also was a really expensive game (used to be collectionner, meaning I had to buy at last 3boxes of each ediion to have each card once)...
Too bad Wizards of the coast decided to make a new edition about 4 times per year... I miss total chaos games or emperor games... had really good evenings/nights with those cards... and if I wasn't that busy, I would certainly restart playing but I missed that many edition that It would take me a lot of time to retrieve all new rules/cards/tricks/tips...

[Moulinex]

Damn!
Forgot my fave combo...
Blood lust + giant growth + berserk... (basic but always nice)
Then your opponent uses a Swords to plowshares...

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Moulinex
Blue :
All the counter... but still like an expensive card named Vesuvan Doppelganger (UU3 if I remember right), beautiful pic (think it was Quinton Hoover's art)

Blue used to have all the nasty cards, Ancestral Recall, Time Walk, the whole works.

The Doppleganger is a nice card, I have that too.

[loinburger]

Don't forget Control Magic...

[Urban Ranger]

And Steal Artifact
And Clone
And ...

[Mr. President]

(little more recent)

And Palinchron
And Stroke of Genius
And Tinker
And Rewind
And Time Spiral . . .

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Mr. President
(little more recent)

And Palinchron
And Stroke of Genius
And Tinker
And Rewind
And Time Spiral . . .

Tinker isn't all that evil, there are a whole bunch of black cards that do similar things with creatures.

However, Rewind is like a free counter

WotC has been doing the same thing over and over again. Blue was the most powerful at the beginning (Alpha, Beta, Unlimited), so it gave more stuff to other colours. Somewhere in the middle Blue became the weakest, so they start giving nasty things to Blue. But this new stuff is even nastier than the old stuff. Stroke of Genius is like Braingeyser, except that it is an instant

[Jon Miller]

but you have to have 4 open

and rewind sucks if it gets countered

Jon Miller

[Ben Kenobi]

Rewinds are very handy with Winter Orbs/ Tolarian Academy.



Who needs Icy manipulators?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
but you have to have 4 open

and rewind sucks if it gets countered

Of course, imagine how broken it would be if it only costs UU. As for it getting countered, of course, it will have to depend on your skill of playing the game. It's a lot less sucky than, say, Spell Blast getting countered.

[Mr. President]

The "free" mechanic on Rewind, Palinchron, Great Whale, Cloud of Faeries, Time Spiral, and others is blamed by some analysts for breaking the game while Urza's Saga was current.

[Urban Ranger]

I haven't compared them, but there are also many vicious black and red cards in that block as well. In fact, it looks like those blue cards were designed to counter the overwhelming power in some of the other colours.

[Mr. President]

I agree, I hear things like Yawgmoth's Bargain are quite abusable (don't ask me specifically how, though).

Under the right circumstances, Channel can be just as bad as Tolarian Academy - I don't know if you've ever seen the 10 Mountain, 10 Black Lotus, 10 Channel, 10 Fireball deck. That one is almost worse than an Academy deck because it involves fewer cards (which are impossible to get now, but were slightly less impossible to get back in the day).

I'm glad they have the rule on four of any one card. The deck I mentioned above pales in comparison with the 20 Mountain, 20 Lightning Bolt deck.

[Ben Kenobi]

Bah.

Why waste your time with useless cards?

The unbeatable deck:

3 Black Lotus
2 Timetwister
1 Timewalk
2 Lightning Bolt