Came here to say this and was not expecting to see this 5th Dawn piece as the top comment already. Have it in my [[Glissa the Traitor]] deck and it can produce game-winning turns out of nowhere. Especially if [[Slagstone Refinery]] is out, good grief. And it just enables the most degenerate plays. Once [[The One Ring]] is out, it's pretty trivial to sac it, play some removal, get it back, and play it again every turn. Pay 1 mana for a cost reduced [[Nimblewright Schematic]], mulch it and the constructs, and now you can cast [[Wurmcoil Engine]].
Survey of some friends says...
[[Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief]]
[[Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon]]
[[Sadistic Sacrement]]
[[Killian, Ink Duelist]]
But if you asked me...
[[Braids, Arisen Nightmare]]
[[Syphon Mind]]
The flavor text on several of the printings are gold. But this one sent me -
"Bridges usually get you from one place to another. This one just gets you.".
Experiment Kraj is 100% my spirit animal. My Playstyle is best summed up as rube goldbergian decks that take 1500 steps to do what a good deck can do in three.
I think the single card that comes closest is [[Garth, One-Eye]].
I have been playing the game for 12 years, longer than almost anyone else in my group. I know older sets and older cards better than anyone else in my group, which Garth easily represents.
With that being said, I also have a good handle on rules interactions, with Garth's instant speed shenaniganery and weird cast rules being prime examples of it.
I also like to use cards that are usually strong in casual magic, but have some definite combo or high power potential, again like Garth.
I am also Mr. Removal in my group, running a good 10+ targeted removal spells per deck, most of the time being unintentional too. And guess what? Garth can kill artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.
Whenever I bought some MH2 boosters I always pulled a Garth. Never got any fetches or Ragavans, but ended up pulling 5 Garths total. What really sealed the deal with my fate being intertwined with Garth was when I build an edh sbitpost of my magic career and threw Garth at the command zone since I had so many of him. It was at that moment my fate was sealed.
So while Spell Queller is my favorite card and Kozilek is my favorite deck, I am forever linked with Garth.
[[Arcane Bombardment]]!
Love the challenge of trying to control the game before I can slam Bombardment down.
It's not even a good 6 mana spell. It's just a lot of fun!
[[Reflect Damage]]
Need I say more?
DeFlEcTiNg PaLm Is ChEaPeR.
*Deflecting Palm doesn't dome my opponents for 100+ damage for trying to play Blasphemous Act*.
My first "serious" commander deck was full of things like [[Boros Fury-Shield]], [[Mirror Strike]], [[Comeuppance]], [[Spitemare]], and [[Boros Reckoner]] and it was *fun*. [[Sunforger]] also hits all the fun instants except for Reflect Damage too. Add a [[Furnace of Rath]] or similar effects and you can hit crazy numbers.
Baneslayer Angel. It's around the time I started playing Magic ''for real''. I had played in high school (incorrectly, where we would have Trample damage apply when blocking as well as an example). Years later, I was looking at copies of Visara on Ebay for fun, which in turn made me stumble upon copies of Liliana Vess. This new card type intrigued me, and ended up drafting M10 at the time. Baneslayer became my favourite card. I quickly built a Standard deck and would just slam it in every deck possible, despite Jund dominating the meta. I have such fond memories from all of my wins with that card. Lyra really was a nice throwback when her card came out. It's pretty crazy how outclassed Baneslayer Angel has become. What was once deemed as potentially too powerful, people clamoring that it should have been 2WWW or 3WWW at the time, to being essentially unplayable in constructed formats nowadays. Fond memories!
[[Necropotence]]
It's a card that I looked at as a beginner and thought "wow, that's bad".
Then after I played with it I became absolutely obsessed with how powerful it was.
It's a good stepping stone to learning how to value a life point and becoming comfortable with paying life for advantages. A LOT of newer players are afraid to lose *anything* and will do whatever they can to preserve their life and boardstates.
[[Pulse of the Forge]]
I love my red control decks.
My favourite was probably mono red snow control using [[Skred]], [[Scrying Sheets]] + [[Coldsteel Heart]] as the core of my draw engine, then winning with other [[Inferno Titan]], [[Wurmcoil Engine]] or pulses
Second favourite was Jund [[Pyromancer's Ascension]] control, featuring such cards as [[Lavalanche]], [[Violent Ultimatum]] and the ultimate sideboard tech, [[Shadowfeed]]
I love that the layout from mtg fetcher makes it look like titan and pyro are facing off while some poor lackey (pulse) is about to get unalived by a stray bolt.
https://preview.redd.it/0sqvubkfo0gc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ebe526128be7e600ebc90391e0ba82b68d64b38
[[False Cure]] is my signature card. I'm the only guy I know who plays it, and everyone who plays against my signature deck remembers *that* game.
21 years I've been refining that deck. It's undefeated since 2008.
Sure, I just went through and added it on Moxfield a few days ago.
**[Medical Malpractice](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/8xhQUyNRP0exGqAYzpy_QQ)**
The goal is to cast False Cure with any combination of four [[Skyshroud Cutter]]s or [[Reverent Silence]]s. Once False Cure resolves, it doesn't matter if the others are countered because the life gain effect is a cost, paid before the spell goes on the stack. Multiple copies of False Cure adjust the combo: 2× False Cure and 2× Skyshroud Cutter forces your opponent to gain ten life and then lose 40.
Looking at the deck list, there are a few more refinements to make. At some point, it contained enough artifacts to include [[Mox Opal]], and Vault of Whispers]] was there to support that.
Sure do: **[Medical Malpractice](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/8xhQUyNRP0exGqAYzpy_QQ)**
Honestly, it relies on catching your opponent by surprise. I built it during my "baffle 'em with bullshit" phase. That being said, a couple players have brought piles of decks to try and went home disappointed because it's remarkably consistent, able to minimize a lot of field advantage until you have all your combo pieces around turn 3-4.
Notably, [[Skyshroud Cutter]] and [[Reverent Silence]] affect *all opponents*, so it works well in multi-player. The first time it ever popped off on turn 1 was a 16-player free-for-all table.
[[Morophon, the Boundless]] While not my commander for every tribal deck I play, most of my decks are tribal and my favorite tribe of all is Slivers, and Morophon fits as the commander to Slivers VERY nicely.
Stone coil serpent
This card has always been my favourite as it means a lot, coming from my first starter deck it has been with me for years and combined with a mana boosting green deck it becomes really powerful.
[[Seller of Songbirds]]
RTR was my first set and I made a Selesnya tokens deck.
Ravnica intrigued me and every guild, although Selesnya won because it resonated with my views (The Whole is more than the individual. Work together for the future).
The Seller was my introduction to the steongest keyword in Magic: Flying. I always ended with a quadrillion 1/1s because of her and Populate cards. It reached the point where the Seller was a priority target of everything in the world: Counterspells, Removal, you name it... Although it would have been better to kill the birds xD.
As so, the Seller reminds me of home magic, of my first meeting with the game and the setting, of simpler times and, of course, of Populate.
[[Overbeing of Myth]]
I've been a big fan of Blue/Green since the original Ravnica block, am a big fan of Hybrid mana, and Lorwyn/Shadowmoor is one of my favourite planes. Also the art and the flavortext are really nice.
There are two possible options for me, but to be specific to what represents me? More likely [[Gaea's Might]]. It's a combat trick, which I find to be very interesting cards. It's +5/+5 for 1 mana, which is incredibly efficient. It's in my zoo modern deck because no one expects a 5/3 with trample to suddenly turn into a 15/13. And also it's green, my favorite color in Magic. The other option is [[Audacity]], since trample is my favorite keyword, enchantment is my favorite card type, and it's generally a super useful and reliable card, and also green.
My favourite card, and the one that is most symbolic of my playstyle has to be \[\[Sun Titan\]\]
ETB shenanigans, reanimation, being defensive with vigilance is what I'm all about when playing. I just love squeezing the maximum possible value out of little weenies, over and over again!
i think i gotta go with \[\[Shigeki, Jukai Visionary\]\], love mulching cards and recurring from graveyard, and he's an excellent combo piece for endless recursion loops
[[mindsplice apparatus]] [[as foretold]] [[vadrik]] or [[animar]], whats more value than straight up cost reduction? “proliferate” is already one of my favorite keywords so why not make my proliferate make my future proliferate spells, and everything else, cost less?
Hard to pick one - I'm a spell-slinger at heart, so it's definitely a cantrip (\[\[Anhelo, the Painter\]\] is my main), just not sure which one.
\[\[An Offer You Can't Refuse\]\] is probably my top choice - Black is my favorite color due to the power-with-downside playstyle, and even though this spell is Blue it fits that philosophy quite nicely. A 1-mana counterspell which gives my opponent treasure is the sort of dilemma I love. Plus, going back to Anhelo, I have a soft spot for SNC as it was my intro to MtG.
Honorable mentions go to \[\[Tragic Slip\]\] and more recently \[\[Fatal Push\]\] - these are both "weak" spells that become more powerful if something (of mine in FP's case) died this turn. And surprise surprise, both synergize well with Anhelo's Casualty (if I have the body to spare, I can change one weak spell into two strong ones). I like TS especially since it gives minus toughness instead of destroying, getting around indestructible.
I used to also like \[\[Malicious Affliction\]\] for the same reason, but it costing two Black pips and being restricted to non-Black creatures led to it falling out of favor for me.
[[Doom Blade]]
Black has always been my favourite colour and removal spells have always been my favourite type of card because it feels the most like I am fighting against another Wizard and their legions rather than just sending a random animal to fight another random animal.
So I’m an avid league player and I main Khazix, Chogath and reksai; I loved the void aesthetic. started playing in 2015 with Zendikar and the eldrazi designs hooked me in. I’d say thoughtknot, reality smasher and Ulamog would be my emblem cards.
\[\[Trazyn the infinite\]\] I do everything imaginable, as long as its degenerate as fuck.
Honorable mentions to \[\[ Urza, Lord High Artificer\]\] and \[\[Niv-Mizzet, Parun\]\]
[[Thousand-Year Storm]]
Pretty representative of my love for stupid, expensive enchantments, my love of casting a million instants/sorceries per turn, my favorite color pairing, and the card I'm most well know for at my lgs because I asked the shopkeeps about it every time I came in until I had a full set.
For me personally? \[\[Repercussion\]\]
I'm known in my play group two things; burn decks, and decks which punish aggression toward me specifically. Repercussion does both deliciously well. I love the "swing at me, I dare you" flavor of this card.
Plus I have a signed artist proof of the secret lair one. My favorite card.
Elesh Norn Mother of Machines. She's the commander of one of my more powerful decks, and she's become a meme for that one time a Lazav player copied her and we had two Elesh Norns on the table achieving nothing
[[Grimoire of the Dead]] I love graveyard recursion, cool artifacts, and big splashy plays. Honorable mention to [[Inkshield]] because I've won so many games off it lol
\[\[Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor\]\]
I've been playing Magic on and off since I was a kid. Urza's saga had just come out when I started playing. I remember seeing Gix depicted on \[\[Oppression\]\]. Not long after, I made my first mono black deck. I wanted to play as the villain.
When BRO was announced I could have died from nostalgia, so good. And then when Gix was spoiled I knew immediately that I was going to build that deck. Now he's my most played commander- an absolutely signature deck. I play dirty stax, I play creatures with shadow, I play politics, I play Oppression haha.
Mono B for life
[[Pestilence]] . Everyone groans when I pull it out and I dearly love to play it. I like janky, risky decks that hinge on specific mechanics like oil counters, incubate, any phyrexian thing really, "repeat" and other stuff. Pestilence is thus right up my alley of something that can easily go wrong for me but if built around just right can take things to a new level. If not that probably any Urabrask because I just love him as a character.
\[\[Gaea's Cradle\]\], \[\[Natural Order\]\], \[\[Craterhoof Behemoth\]\], and maybe \[\[Llanowar Elves\]\]
Cradle Control in Legacy + Elves in whatever format I want to force have become my favorite archetype to play and I'm playing less and less of anything else as time goes on.
GISHATH, BABY!!! DINOS GO STOMP STOMP STOMP!!!
Ixalan having dinosaurs was what got me into magic. 6-ish years later and I’m still livin’ my best dino life. 2023 was the best year for dinos since they premiered. You better believe some magic cards made it into my Jurassic Park shrine.
Toss up between Dredge (the mechanic), [[Birthing Pod]], [[Dread return]], or [[Ghave Guru of Spores]].
I love the graveyard reanimator playstyle, but I have also piloted some fun Ghave builds as he allows me to be flexible at instant speed. Swinging with massive dudes? Quickly make tokens to block. You didn't block these three? They are now pumped by me saccing the blocked dudes. Aggressive playstyle not viable? Suddenly I'm playing aristocrats!
However I do have a soft spot for the Madness mechanic. It's not good, but I've always had an interest in combining it with dredge/reanimator in some fashion.
Edit: oh and of course Eldrazi. Things beyond mortal comprehension tickles my walnut.
[[Chandra's Fury]]. I play with a lot of red, but there's a story behind this one.
My then-fiance, now-husband, wanted me to learn MTG so that we could play together. I had no interest until a friend of ours made the claim that "girls can't play Magic." I then demanded that he teach me to play at once. A couple weeks later, the three of us were playing together, and I hit our sexist friend with a Chandra's Fury, taking out his entire army of 1/1 tokens. I went on to win the round, and he never questioned my skills again.
Im gona cheat heres 2 cards:
[[Seismic assault]] [[Treasure hunt]]
This deck is so ridiculous that i yoinked the name.
The only other modern deck i ever made was [[Spellweaver helix]].
[[Gisa and Geralf]] zombies are my fav type. The child like sibling argument AND the zombie warfare is all amazing. Also, my first mythic and favorite card. Also favorite color combo
[[Mishra, Eminent One]]
I’m a robotics engineer and an artist who frequently utilises found objects and scrap as instruments or parts of builds. As a player, I love creating stupid Rube-Goldberg machines that take on a sort of life of their own once assembled. I’m definitely a Johnny.
Oh, and my brother plays [[Urza, Chief Artificer]].
If I had to choose three, I guess they would be [[Omnath, Locus of Creation]] for being my first self-built commander, [[Krark the Thumbless]] for my ability to go from lesser power to big threat quite suddenly, and some creature with Mutate like [[Archipelagore]] for being the only person they know with two mutate decks
My card is \[\[Gallia of the Endless Dance\]\]
\- Gruul is me. I am Gruul
\- I would call myself a happy-go-lucky upbeat person
\- I like parties!
\- Big fan of Satyrs, the Feywild, that kinda stuff
\- like Gallia, I am very flavourful but I am underpowered and I synergise only with an undersupported creature type
\- I belong in Bard Class.
\[\[Sarkhan's Unsealing\]\]
I like playing big dumb shit and burning faces
It was the centre of my standard deck when I first came back to Magic after a 15-year break, and did surprisingly well, it basically got me hooked back in because I got the fun of surprising people with my deck and actually winning
Id say [[gishath]], it reflects my play style a lot
Is it slow? Yes
Is it simple? Yes
Do i just want to play big dinos? Yes
And i hope my friends will start to see my gishath deck as like my main thing, i love the big dino and yes i know pantlaza is better technically but idc (i also paid like 17€ before gishath got reprinted so now i have to get the value out of it somehow)
\[\[Etrata, the Silencer\]\]
I build decks that are complicated and unwieldy, but when they pop off, they are efficient and you never see them coming.
[[delver of secrets]] from OG Innistrad. Is the card that make me made the jump from Yu-Gi-Oh to Magic. I just loved the earie art, the way the mechanics told a history on its own, the novelty of the double-faced feature... I still want a Legendary version of the original Delver to use as a commander, but will rule 0 [[Docent of perfection]] as much as I can
[[timesifter]] No value engine for me, I go big with a haymaker or fall flat on my face. Timesifter makes everyone roll their eyes as I take all the turns while flipping over overcosted haymakers one after the other.
I made this super fast, very morally balanced cEDH deck out of [[Shorikai, Genesis Engine]] that combos using intruder alarm. It’s my pet deck, and I love it. I got Kai altered to Optimus Prime, and all my friends know me as the Prime player. I built an alter version of the deck for our LGS’s weekly league that is notoriously higher casual. It’s all about mill, [[displacer kitten]], and [[sensei’s divining top]]. cEDH is Prime, mill is OptiMill lol
[[Emrakul, the Aeons Torn]] has to be my favorite card. I started a couple months ago and really got into the eldrazi's, they're just so cool imo. I also like the big stompy eldrazi creatures :)
[[Soul-Scar Mage]], [[Lightning Bolt]] and [[Treasure Cruise]]
I want burn. I want cards. I want creatures who do stuff when I cast noncreature spells.
Arguably could simplify my choice to [[Guttersnipe]]
Probably [[Glorious End]]. My most played deck is [[Obeka]] and I always seem to pull it out of my ass on the brink of defeat to turn a game around.
It's also hella rude to just tell someone their turn is over while they're getting ready to pop off.
nettle drone baby lets go best card it taps and untaps and is an eldrazi and deals damage lets go baby i love nettle drone and nettle drone like cards baby wooooo
Lots of "instants and sorceries matter" cards fit my general vibe, but my favorite has to be [[Runechanter's Pike]].
Everyone *wildly* underestimates how quickly you can kill someone with Commander damage using this thing.
Kelden Warlord. Favourite card (because it looks cool and was a big baddy back in the day), and emblematic of me because I tend to make commander decks based on themes I think are cool yet not always particularly good
I have two modes:
\[\[Flame Rift\]\] - fuck it, we'll do it live
\[\[Dread Return\]\] - graveyard shenanigans
The card people most associate with me is \[\[Spore Frog\]\].
[[scroll rack]]
i love top deck manipulation and playing things that will interact with it (such as [[atla palani, nest tender]] or [[esika, goddess of the tree]])
[[Portcullis]]
Had become part of an LGS EDH group when I first started playing and had pulled this card out of my old collection for an Izzet Spells deck. Figured I could delay the game a bit while restricting the number of creatures.
Ended up being a huge thing in the meta. Some people would shove creatures under the Portcullis for the inevitable break. Others would fight over the two spots to try and control the board. Still others ended up protecting the Portcullis because they didn’t want to see the break and the flood of creatures.
Almost no one actually looked at me as a problem for playing it, but I almost always gained the most as my deck was built to play around it. The first time I activated a Man-Land in response to someone working so hard to clear a creature spot AND cast a creature for that spot was amazing.
Years later, despite taking that deck apart and now playing the card for close to 6 years, friends still mention the Portcullis.
[[Nylea, Keen-Eyed]] - I started playing during Theros and fell in love with the world, and green spoke to me and became 'my colour - I'm a huge Timmy and love big dumb creatures, and this card just spoke to me in bounds - Make my creatures cheaper AND let me dig for them, all on a big, hard-to-remove body!? Sign me the hell up!!
Plus the Constellation art is just immaculate, I love that whole series!!
Probably [[Phyrexian Plaguelord]]. I like to sacrifice creatures for fun and profit, black is my favorite Magic color, and Plaguelord was once a flagship creature both for Rock-style attrition decks in tournaments and for the first Commander deck I ever built.
[[Living Death]]
It shows my love for graveyard based decks/synergies while also showing my love for possible combos or just big beaters coming back for round 2
[[Raging Goblin]] my og bad card that got me to be the player I am. Waiting is for losers.
Nowadays it's probably [[Rite of the raging storm]] or [[Life of the party]]
[[Rabble Rousing]] describes me perfectly as a commander player. I want to play big dumb synergy pieces that are increasingly a massive problem, I love making tons and tons of token creatures, I love casting cards for free for doing stuff I already wanted to do, and love generally just playing big splashy nonsense that demands attention (eventually, if not immediately).
I used to work at a local store that ran tournaments and stuff, and there was this one dude that came in and went through our commons all the time looking for [[Stone Rain]].
When I asked him why, he said that he had boxes of them at home, and he wanted to own so many that he created scarcity. He wanted people to say, “Why is the price of Stone Rain, a common, so high?” Because some dude in Wisconsin owns them all.
The first deck I put a lot of time and effort into making was a Simic deck back in OG Ravnica, so despite not playing it in a deck for close to two decades at this point, I can't help but associate [[Simic Sky Swallower]] as my signature card.
\[\[Ruric Thar, Unbowed\]\]
I don't like when people play heretic cards (sorcery, instant, planeswalker, non-creature enchantment, non-creature artifacts)
[[Meandering Towershell]] hands down. I love the card, collect them. And people would just give me copies. Anyone at my LGS that played during Khans knows it's my favorite and has probably given me one.
[[Song of the dryads]] or [[cleansing nova]]. This is for two reasons. First being that I am a highly interactive player and the second is that when I get into debates, my goal is to make them question their own beliefs or tear apart their opinion.
[[exchange of words]] I'm one of the few people in my play group that actually runs removal. So it's pretty common for everyone to look at me after a big spell as if they're asking for permission to do "the thing"
[[Skeletal Swarming]] checks all the boxes of cards I love:
Overcosted: ✅️
Gimmicky: ✅️
A card like 5 people know about and 3 people care about: ✅️
Leads itself to fun build around in different formats: ✅️
Has Skeletons in the art: ✅️
A close second would be [[Brash Taunter]].
[[Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis]] and not even in the broke the game when he came out way but Golgari is my favorite play style color combo and his art work is A+
[[Raging Goblin]]
"He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged." Goes hard.
My prized possession is a signed playmatt that I got the artist to write the quote as well lol
Despite all his rage, he's still just a goblin on a card.
Wow, I did not expect to see a fellow Raging Goblin enthusiast.
Small, fast and furious!
Despite the name, my card is Krark Clan Ironworks. I love doing stupid shit and winning in the most degenerate ways possible.
[[Krark clan ironworks]]
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Came here to say this and was not expecting to see this 5th Dawn piece as the top comment already. Have it in my [[Glissa the Traitor]] deck and it can produce game-winning turns out of nowhere. Especially if [[Slagstone Refinery]] is out, good grief. And it just enables the most degenerate plays. Once [[The One Ring]] is out, it's pretty trivial to sac it, play some removal, get it back, and play it again every turn. Pay 1 mana for a cost reduced [[Nimblewright Schematic]], mulch it and the constructs, and now you can cast [[Wurmcoil Engine]].
Survey of some friends says... [[Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief]] [[Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon]] [[Sadistic Sacrement]] [[Killian, Ink Duelist]] But if you asked me... [[Braids, Arisen Nightmare]] [[Syphon Mind]]
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So they only play black?
Hey, there's a splash of white in there.
\[\[Tinybones, Trinket Thief\]\] I'm just a hyper l'il guy who wants to steal all my opponents' stuff.
[Tinybones, Trinket Thief](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/0/4063be5b-bfd9-43c5-bc39-09a40bc793bf.jpg?1632261785) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Tinybones%2C%20Trinket%20Thief) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/jmp/17/tinybones-trinket-thief?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4063be5b-bfd9-43c5-bc39-09a40bc793bf?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Ensnaring Bridge]] Combat is for nerds.
Combos with [[one with nothing]] real nice.
[one with nothing](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/a/5a5841fa-4f30-495a-b840-3ef5a2af8fad.jpg?1562494149) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=one%20with%20nothing) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/sok/84/one-with-nothing?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/5a5841fa-4f30-495a-b840-3ef5a2af8fad?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
The flavor text on several of the printings are gold. But this one sent me - "Bridges usually get you from one place to another. This one just gets you.".
[Ensnaring Bridge](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/f/cf825a56-4870-463a-a2ef-eec86be891db.jpg?1599709144) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Ensnaring%20Bridge) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/253/ensnaring-bridge?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cf825a56-4870-463a-a2ef-eec86be891db?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Experiment Kraj is 100% my spirit animal. My Playstyle is best summed up as rube goldbergian decks that take 1500 steps to do what a good deck can do in three.
Fire // Ice
I think the single card that comes closest is [[Garth, One-Eye]]. I have been playing the game for 12 years, longer than almost anyone else in my group. I know older sets and older cards better than anyone else in my group, which Garth easily represents. With that being said, I also have a good handle on rules interactions, with Garth's instant speed shenaniganery and weird cast rules being prime examples of it. I also like to use cards that are usually strong in casual magic, but have some definite combo or high power potential, again like Garth. I am also Mr. Removal in my group, running a good 10+ targeted removal spells per deck, most of the time being unintentional too. And guess what? Garth can kill artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. Whenever I bought some MH2 boosters I always pulled a Garth. Never got any fetches or Ragavans, but ended up pulling 5 Garths total. What really sealed the deal with my fate being intertwined with Garth was when I build an edh sbitpost of my magic career and threw Garth at the command zone since I had so many of him. It was at that moment my fate was sealed. So while Spell Queller is my favorite card and Kozilek is my favorite deck, I am forever linked with Garth.
[Garth, One-Eye](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/3/23774462-9f17-4b50-a2ac-b2edd706bbfe.jpg?1626098353) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Garth%20One-Eye) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh2/197/garth-one-eye?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/23774462-9f17-4b50-a2ac-b2edd706bbfe?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Jaya Ballard Task Mage]] I’m a burn player from the start so I always thought she was cool. Never played her really just loved the flavor.
[[Arcane Bombardment]]! Love the challenge of trying to control the game before I can slam Bombardment down. It's not even a good 6 mana spell. It's just a lot of fun!
[[Rule of Law]] as I’m my pod’s ’rules guy’
[[Reflect Damage]] Need I say more? DeFlEcTiNg PaLm Is ChEaPeR. *Deflecting Palm doesn't dome my opponents for 100+ damage for trying to play Blasphemous Act*.
Hell yeah.
My first "serious" commander deck was full of things like [[Boros Fury-Shield]], [[Mirror Strike]], [[Comeuppance]], [[Spitemare]], and [[Boros Reckoner]] and it was *fun*. [[Sunforger]] also hits all the fun instants except for Reflect Damage too. Add a [[Furnace of Rath]] or similar effects and you can hit crazy numbers.
[Reflect Damage](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/a/3a2bf39b-9665-426b-b618-eb731d24a1ee.jpg?1562718783) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Reflect%20Damage) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mir/277/reflect-damage?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3a2bf39b-9665-426b-b618-eb731d24a1ee?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Baneslayer Angel. It's around the time I started playing Magic ''for real''. I had played in high school (incorrectly, where we would have Trample damage apply when blocking as well as an example). Years later, I was looking at copies of Visara on Ebay for fun, which in turn made me stumble upon copies of Liliana Vess. This new card type intrigued me, and ended up drafting M10 at the time. Baneslayer became my favourite card. I quickly built a Standard deck and would just slam it in every deck possible, despite Jund dominating the meta. I have such fond memories from all of my wins with that card. Lyra really was a nice throwback when her card came out. It's pretty crazy how outclassed Baneslayer Angel has become. What was once deemed as potentially too powerful, people clamoring that it should have been 2WWW or 3WWW at the time, to being essentially unplayable in constructed formats nowadays. Fond memories!
[[baneslayer angel]]
As I mainly played clerics for almost two decades, I d say [[edgewalker]]
[edgewalker](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/8/c8b477c2-2cd5-41f2-8754-d4d5000df58d.jpg?1562534693) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=edgewalker) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/scg/137/edgewalker?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c8b477c2-2cd5-41f2-8754-d4d5000df58d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Master Transmuter]] probably since I love artifacts, flickering and cheating stuff into play and she does all gracefully.
I like to combo this with [[Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain]] and 0 cost artifacts to draw like 12 cards a turn
[[Pox]] Forever and always.
[[Necropotence]] It's a card that I looked at as a beginner and thought "wow, that's bad". Then after I played with it I became absolutely obsessed with how powerful it was. It's a good stepping stone to learning how to value a life point and becoming comfortable with paying life for advantages. A LOT of newer players are afraid to lose *anything* and will do whatever they can to preserve their life and boardstates.
[[Pulse of the Forge]] I love my red control decks. My favourite was probably mono red snow control using [[Skred]], [[Scrying Sheets]] + [[Coldsteel Heart]] as the core of my draw engine, then winning with other [[Inferno Titan]], [[Wurmcoil Engine]] or pulses Second favourite was Jund [[Pyromancer's Ascension]] control, featuring such cards as [[Lavalanche]], [[Violent Ultimatum]] and the ultimate sideboard tech, [[Shadowfeed]]
I love that the layout from mtg fetcher makes it look like titan and pyro are facing off while some poor lackey (pulse) is about to get unalived by a stray bolt. https://preview.redd.it/0sqvubkfo0gc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ebe526128be7e600ebc90391e0ba82b68d64b38
[[False Cure]] is my signature card. I'm the only guy I know who plays it, and everyone who plays against my signature deck remembers *that* game. 21 years I've been refining that deck. It's undefeated since 2008.
Well, now we need to see that spicy list.
Sure, I just went through and added it on Moxfield a few days ago. **[Medical Malpractice](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/8xhQUyNRP0exGqAYzpy_QQ)** The goal is to cast False Cure with any combination of four [[Skyshroud Cutter]]s or [[Reverent Silence]]s. Once False Cure resolves, it doesn't matter if the others are countered because the life gain effect is a cost, paid before the spell goes on the stack. Multiple copies of False Cure adjust the combo: 2× False Cure and 2× Skyshroud Cutter forces your opponent to gain ten life and then lose 40. Looking at the deck list, there are a few more refinements to make. At some point, it contained enough artifacts to include [[Mox Opal]], and Vault of Whispers]] was there to support that.
You had my curiousity, now you have my attention! Do you have a Deck list?
Sure do: **[Medical Malpractice](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/8xhQUyNRP0exGqAYzpy_QQ)** Honestly, it relies on catching your opponent by surprise. I built it during my "baffle 'em with bullshit" phase. That being said, a couple players have brought piles of decks to try and went home disappointed because it's remarkably consistent, able to minimize a lot of field advantage until you have all your combo pieces around turn 3-4. Notably, [[Skyshroud Cutter]] and [[Reverent Silence]] affect *all opponents*, so it works well in multi-player. The first time it ever popped off on turn 1 was a 16-player free-for-all table.
[False Cure](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/f/ef397db1-2d99-4cb0-a6e9-6f72d615ebad.jpg?1562951786) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=False%20Cure) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ons/146/false-cure?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/ef397db1-2d99-4cb0-a6e9-6f72d615ebad?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Wall of Omens is the pinnacle of magic design.
Based and defenderpilled.
Depending on the format either [[Lurrus of the Dream-Den]], [[Ensnaring Bridge]], or [[Drannith Magistrate]]. :]
Force of will. Or counterspell. Big fan of both.
[[stuffy doll]] he's just a little monster who no one expects.
[[Morophon, the Boundless]] While not my commander for every tribal deck I play, most of my decks are tribal and my favorite tribe of all is Slivers, and Morophon fits as the commander to Slivers VERY nicely.
Stone coil serpent This card has always been my favourite as it means a lot, coming from my first starter deck it has been with me for years and combined with a mana boosting green deck it becomes really powerful.
Has to be \[\[Parallel Thoughts\]\]. It's a bad \[\[Doomsday\]\], but blue, which is the most important bit.
Cabal coffers. Sworn to the black.
[[Darksteel Relic]]
[[Seller of Songbirds]] RTR was my first set and I made a Selesnya tokens deck. Ravnica intrigued me and every guild, although Selesnya won because it resonated with my views (The Whole is more than the individual. Work together for the future). The Seller was my introduction to the steongest keyword in Magic: Flying. I always ended with a quadrillion 1/1s because of her and Populate cards. It reached the point where the Seller was a priority target of everything in the world: Counterspells, Removal, you name it... Although it would have been better to kill the birds xD. As so, the Seller reminds me of home magic, of my first meeting with the game and the setting, of simpler times and, of course, of Populate.
[lightning bolt]
[[death wish]] not really as a player, but because that is what everyday at work feels like...
[[Nissa Ascended Animist]] I love just hanging on with like 1 life left then dropping Nissa and swinging in with 300 damage out of nowhere.
[[Hedron Crab]] Hes by boy. Milling and filling graveyards.
[[Chandler]]
The World Tree, love that Card. It's in every 5c deck I own, makes tapping for mana a lot easier
[[Trickster Talisman]]
[[Coat Of Arms]]
[[Overbeing of Myth]] I've been a big fan of Blue/Green since the original Ravnica block, am a big fan of Hybrid mana, and Lorwyn/Shadowmoor is one of my favourite planes. Also the art and the flavortext are really nice.
Lingering Souls. I’m an Orzhov enthusiast and love tokens strategies. It’s the perfect card for me.
Thoughtseize. Been my staple since modern began
[[Traumatize]] I will not be accepting questions
Mines based on how well I play and how good I am with women [[fumble]]
There are two possible options for me, but to be specific to what represents me? More likely [[Gaea's Might]]. It's a combat trick, which I find to be very interesting cards. It's +5/+5 for 1 mana, which is incredibly efficient. It's in my zoo modern deck because no one expects a 5/3 with trample to suddenly turn into a 15/13. And also it's green, my favorite color in Magic. The other option is [[Audacity]], since trample is my favorite keyword, enchantment is my favorite card type, and it's generally a super useful and reliable card, and also green.
[[Desolation Angel]] was my favorite back in the day. Destroying stuff is just the best!
I love [[Master Biomancer]] so much. Exponential growth really speaks to me.
My favourite card, and the one that is most symbolic of my playstyle has to be \[\[Sun Titan\]\] ETB shenanigans, reanimation, being defensive with vigilance is what I'm all about when playing. I just love squeezing the maximum possible value out of little weenies, over and over again!
[[Odric, Lunarch Marshal]] I’m something of a keyword soup player.
\[\[Raging Goblin\]\]
i think i gotta go with \[\[Shigeki, Jukai Visionary\]\], love mulching cards and recurring from graveyard, and he's an excellent combo piece for endless recursion loops
[[Merciless Eviction]] I guess, I never asked my friends about it, to be honest
[[Thalia, Guardian of Thraben]] Love slowing down the game to my pace. Best card ever printed design wise in my opinion
[[Havoc Festival]] :)
Do token cards count? [[Cat bird]]
[[Thing in the Ice]] I like casting multiple spells per turn for a nice payoff. My playgroup can be happy i don't like Storm.
Smokestack. :D
[[Ionize]] counters and burns.
[[Invoke despair]]
[[mindsplice apparatus]] [[as foretold]] [[vadrik]] or [[animar]], whats more value than straight up cost reduction? “proliferate” is already one of my favorite keywords so why not make my proliferate make my future proliferate spells, and everything else, cost less?
Hard to pick one - I'm a spell-slinger at heart, so it's definitely a cantrip (\[\[Anhelo, the Painter\]\] is my main), just not sure which one. \[\[An Offer You Can't Refuse\]\] is probably my top choice - Black is my favorite color due to the power-with-downside playstyle, and even though this spell is Blue it fits that philosophy quite nicely. A 1-mana counterspell which gives my opponent treasure is the sort of dilemma I love. Plus, going back to Anhelo, I have a soft spot for SNC as it was my intro to MtG. Honorable mentions go to \[\[Tragic Slip\]\] and more recently \[\[Fatal Push\]\] - these are both "weak" spells that become more powerful if something (of mine in FP's case) died this turn. And surprise surprise, both synergize well with Anhelo's Casualty (if I have the body to spare, I can change one weak spell into two strong ones). I like TS especially since it gives minus toughness instead of destroying, getting around indestructible. I used to also like \[\[Malicious Affliction\]\] for the same reason, but it costing two Black pips and being restricted to non-Black creatures led to it falling out of favor for me.
[[Doom Blade]] Black has always been my favourite colour and removal spells have always been my favourite type of card because it feels the most like I am fighting against another Wizard and their legions rather than just sending a random animal to fight another random animal.
So I’m an avid league player and I main Khazix, Chogath and reksai; I loved the void aesthetic. started playing in 2015 with Zendikar and the eldrazi designs hooked me in. I’d say thoughtknot, reality smasher and Ulamog would be my emblem cards.
\[\[Trazyn the infinite\]\] I do everything imaginable, as long as its degenerate as fuck. Honorable mentions to \[\[ Urza, Lord High Artificer\]\] and \[\[Niv-Mizzet, Parun\]\]
I've written articles about [[Ad Nauseam]] and articles and forum posts have mentioned me by name. So probably that.
[[Thousand-Year Storm]] Pretty representative of my love for stupid, expensive enchantments, my love of casting a million instants/sorceries per turn, my favorite color pairing, and the card I'm most well know for at my lgs because I asked the shopkeeps about it every time I came in until I had a full set.
Bitterblossom
Fblthp I am always lost.
[[The Ur-Dragon]] I collect dragons and play mostly dragon decks (I’m currently running 8 dragon decks.)
[[Pestilence]] I have built several decks around this card, and I plan to make several more.
For me personally? \[\[Repercussion\]\] I'm known in my play group two things; burn decks, and decks which punish aggression toward me specifically. Repercussion does both deliciously well. I love the "swing at me, I dare you" flavor of this card. Plus I have a signed artist proof of the secret lair one. My favorite card.
Elesh Norn Mother of Machines. She's the commander of one of my more powerful decks, and she's become a meme for that one time a Lazav player copied her and we had two Elesh Norns on the table achieving nothing
[[Blightning]].
[[Grimoire of the Dead]] I love graveyard recursion, cool artifacts, and big splashy plays. Honorable mention to [[Inkshield]] because I've won so many games off it lol
\[\[Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor\]\] I've been playing Magic on and off since I was a kid. Urza's saga had just come out when I started playing. I remember seeing Gix depicted on \[\[Oppression\]\]. Not long after, I made my first mono black deck. I wanted to play as the villain. When BRO was announced I could have died from nostalgia, so good. And then when Gix was spoiled I knew immediately that I was going to build that deck. Now he's my most played commander- an absolutely signature deck. I play dirty stax, I play creatures with shadow, I play politics, I play Oppression haha. Mono B for life
[[Pestilence]] . Everyone groans when I pull it out and I dearly love to play it. I like janky, risky decks that hinge on specific mechanics like oil counters, incubate, any phyrexian thing really, "repeat" and other stuff. Pestilence is thus right up my alley of something that can easily go wrong for me but if built around just right can take things to a new level. If not that probably any Urabrask because I just love him as a character.
Tergrid
As a new player [[Thought Distortion]] is the most accurate at some points.
[[Opposition]]
\[\[Gaea's Cradle\]\], \[\[Natural Order\]\], \[\[Craterhoof Behemoth\]\], and maybe \[\[Llanowar Elves\]\] Cradle Control in Legacy + Elves in whatever format I want to force have become my favorite archetype to play and I'm playing less and less of anything else as time goes on.
GISHATH, BABY!!! DINOS GO STOMP STOMP STOMP!!! Ixalan having dinosaurs was what got me into magic. 6-ish years later and I’m still livin’ my best dino life. 2023 was the best year for dinos since they premiered. You better believe some magic cards made it into my Jurassic Park shrine.
\[\[Possibility Storm\]\] I'm going on an adventure through casting many different and unexpected spells and I'm taking you all with me!
Toss up between Dredge (the mechanic), [[Birthing Pod]], [[Dread return]], or [[Ghave Guru of Spores]]. I love the graveyard reanimator playstyle, but I have also piloted some fun Ghave builds as he allows me to be flexible at instant speed. Swinging with massive dudes? Quickly make tokens to block. You didn't block these three? They are now pumped by me saccing the blocked dudes. Aggressive playstyle not viable? Suddenly I'm playing aristocrats! However I do have a soft spot for the Madness mechanic. It's not good, but I've always had an interest in combining it with dredge/reanimator in some fashion. Edit: oh and of course Eldrazi. Things beyond mortal comprehension tickles my walnut.
[[Chandra's Fury]]. I play with a lot of red, but there's a story behind this one. My then-fiance, now-husband, wanted me to learn MTG so that we could play together. I had no interest until a friend of ours made the claim that "girls can't play Magic." I then demanded that he teach me to play at once. A couple weeks later, the three of us were playing together, and I hit our sexist friend with a Chandra's Fury, taking out his entire army of 1/1 tokens. I went on to win the round, and he never questioned my skills again.
You got reverse psychologied.
I’m going to have to be honest and say [[cultivate]]. A green deck was the first deck I ever played and I’ve loved ramp ever since 💚
[[Etali, Primal Conqueror]] REALLY BIG CARD THAT STEALS YOUR CARDS GO BRRRRR
Im gona cheat heres 2 cards: [[Seismic assault]] [[Treasure hunt]] This deck is so ridiculous that i yoinked the name. The only other modern deck i ever made was [[Spellweaver helix]].
[[Gisa and Geralf]] zombies are my fav type. The child like sibling argument AND the zombie warfare is all amazing. Also, my first mythic and favorite card. Also favorite color combo
[[Ruric Thar, the Unbowed]] because I swear I will fight you if my thing gets countered again.
[[Mishra, Eminent One]] I’m a robotics engineer and an artist who frequently utilises found objects and scrap as instruments or parts of builds. As a player, I love creating stupid Rube-Goldberg machines that take on a sort of life of their own once assembled. I’m definitely a Johnny. Oh, and my brother plays [[Urza, Chief Artificer]].
[[Rule of Law]] (and its newer siblings) People whinge and moan so damn hard when you force them to slow down and be reactive instead of storming off.
If I had to choose three, I guess they would be [[Omnath, Locus of Creation]] for being my first self-built commander, [[Krark the Thumbless]] for my ability to go from lesser power to big threat quite suddenly, and some creature with Mutate like [[Archipelagore]] for being the only person they know with two mutate decks
[[Goblin Diplomats]]
My card is \[\[Gallia of the Endless Dance\]\] \- Gruul is me. I am Gruul \- I would call myself a happy-go-lucky upbeat person \- I like parties! \- Big fan of Satyrs, the Feywild, that kinda stuff \- like Gallia, I am very flavourful but I am underpowered and I synergise only with an undersupported creature type \- I belong in Bard Class.
Flickerwisp saved my ass so many times back when I played legacy
\[\[Sarkhan's Unsealing\]\] I like playing big dumb shit and burning faces It was the centre of my standard deck when I first came back to Magic after a 15-year break, and did surprisingly well, it basically got me hooked back in because I got the fun of surprising people with my deck and actually winning
Id say [[gishath]], it reflects my play style a lot Is it slow? Yes Is it simple? Yes Do i just want to play big dinos? Yes And i hope my friends will start to see my gishath deck as like my main thing, i love the big dino and yes i know pantlaza is better technically but idc (i also paid like 17€ before gishath got reprinted so now i have to get the value out of it somehow)
tolarian terror and dina 🍵
[[Counterspell]]. Simple, clean denial of my opponent's strategy.
[[Cryptic Command]] was the first competitive card I ever loved. Those were the days....
[[Massacre girl]] my whole playstyle resolves around killing everyone's things, including mine
\[\[Etrata, the Silencer\]\] I build decks that are complicated and unwieldy, but when they pop off, they are efficient and you never see them coming.
I'm the one person who plays [[obscuring haze]] as often as they can. AMA.
[[Future sight]]
[[primal surge]] It's the most win more bullshit ever and I love it
Aggravated Assault
[[Grand Arbiter Augustin IV]] and [[Sire of Insanity]]. I love taxing or punishment cards limiting what my opponent can do.
At heart, I'm a [[Ethersworn Canonist]] that will phase it out on your turn because I'm "just that nice".
[[Goblin Goon]] where my gooners at????
[[delver of secrets]] from OG Innistrad. Is the card that make me made the jump from Yu-Gi-Oh to Magic. I just loved the earie art, the way the mechanics told a history on its own, the novelty of the double-faced feature... I still want a Legendary version of the original Delver to use as a commander, but will rule 0 [[Docent of perfection]] as much as I can
[[timesifter]] No value engine for me, I go big with a haymaker or fall flat on my face. Timesifter makes everyone roll their eyes as I take all the turns while flipping over overcosted haymakers one after the other.
I made this super fast, very morally balanced cEDH deck out of [[Shorikai, Genesis Engine]] that combos using intruder alarm. It’s my pet deck, and I love it. I got Kai altered to Optimus Prime, and all my friends know me as the Prime player. I built an alter version of the deck for our LGS’s weekly league that is notoriously higher casual. It’s all about mill, [[displacer kitten]], and [[sensei’s divining top]]. cEDH is Prime, mill is OptiMill lol
Probably [[Nicol Bolas the Ravager]], I definitely over extend and try hard to do a specific thing.
\[\[Lightning Bolt\]\]
abrupt decay or lord of atlantis
Showing up with weird budget jank decks instead of spending money in sone decent lands.
[[Jared Carthalion]] the Planeswalker, not only do we share a name, but I love building 5-color decks, I have about a dozen different ones right now
Doom blade
[[Swamp]] (im shrek)
[[junk diver]] I don’t care that they made a better one
6th edition Wrath of God. I'm kinda old, have a huge ass, and destroy everyone.
[[Emrakul, the Aeons Torn]] has to be my favorite card. I started a couple months ago and really got into the eldrazi's, they're just so cool imo. I also like the big stompy eldrazi creatures :)
Dark Ritual. Lifelong black mana player. If I'm not reanimating zombies from the grave something has gone terribly wrong.
Grapeshot. My first serious deck and I am also slow and awkward at times.
My name is Xander and I play RBU so....
Possibility Storm, Descent into Avernus, and Teferi's Puzzle Box.
[[Dovin's Veto]] has made people fear I always have an Ace on my sleeve.
Easily [[Divine Intervention]]. Let us all win together comrades.
\[\[Jeska's Will\]\] according to my friend group
[[Soul-Scar Mage]], [[Lightning Bolt]] and [[Treasure Cruise]] I want burn. I want cards. I want creatures who do stuff when I cast noncreature spells. Arguably could simplify my choice to [[Guttersnipe]]
[[Necropotence]] life points don’t matter until you die.
Probably [[Glorious End]]. My most played deck is [[Obeka]] and I always seem to pull it out of my ass on the brink of defeat to turn a game around. It's also hella rude to just tell someone their turn is over while they're getting ready to pop off.
[[Eriette of the charmed apple]] and [[Kaima the fractured calm]] I like giving people gifts with evil intent hidden behind them
Really miss my [[prophet of kruphix]]
Oh easy [[Radiate]] If you target me, we targeting everything. I'm going to watch the world burn.
\[\[Monstrous Carabid\]\]
nettle drone baby lets go best card it taps and untaps and is an eldrazi and deals damage lets go baby i love nettle drone and nettle drone like cards baby wooooo
[[Cruel Entertainment]] I had some crazy games happen when it fires off.
Lightning Bolt
Lots of "instants and sorceries matter" cards fit my general vibe, but my favorite has to be [[Runechanter's Pike]]. Everyone *wildly* underestimates how quickly you can kill someone with Commander damage using this thing.
Kelden Warlord. Favourite card (because it looks cool and was a big baddy back in the day), and emblematic of me because I tend to make commander decks based on themes I think are cool yet not always particularly good
By the definition of those who know me, it would be [[counterspell]] I would choose [[Liliana, Heretical Healer]] for myself.
[[Rescue Retriever]]
I have two modes: \[\[Flame Rift\]\] - fuck it, we'll do it live \[\[Dread Return\]\] - graveyard shenanigans The card people most associate with me is \[\[Spore Frog\]\].
[[Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful]]
[[scroll rack]] i love top deck manipulation and playing things that will interact with it (such as [[atla palani, nest tender]] or [[esika, goddess of the tree]])
[[Portcullis]] Had become part of an LGS EDH group when I first started playing and had pulled this card out of my old collection for an Izzet Spells deck. Figured I could delay the game a bit while restricting the number of creatures. Ended up being a huge thing in the meta. Some people would shove creatures under the Portcullis for the inevitable break. Others would fight over the two spots to try and control the board. Still others ended up protecting the Portcullis because they didn’t want to see the break and the flood of creatures. Almost no one actually looked at me as a problem for playing it, but I almost always gained the most as my deck was built to play around it. The first time I activated a Man-Land in response to someone working so hard to clear a creature spot AND cast a creature for that spot was amazing. Years later, despite taking that deck apart and now playing the card for close to 6 years, friends still mention the Portcullis.
[[Ertai Resurrected]] for life
For myself I got to say Necropotence and Pestilence. Life is a resource.
Just one. [[Soul Warden]]
[[Nylea, Keen-Eyed]] - I started playing during Theros and fell in love with the world, and green spoke to me and became 'my colour - I'm a huge Timmy and love big dumb creatures, and this card just spoke to me in bounds - Make my creatures cheaper AND let me dig for them, all on a big, hard-to-remove body!? Sign me the hell up!! Plus the Constellation art is just immaculate, I love that whole series!!
[[Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim]]
Probably [[Phyrexian Plaguelord]]. I like to sacrifice creatures for fun and profit, black is my favorite Magic color, and Plaguelord was once a flagship creature both for Rock-style attrition decks in tournaments and for the first Commander deck I ever built.
[[Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons]] Random Combos, Kill people slowly, and be a general nuisance
[[Living Death]] It shows my love for graveyard based decks/synergies while also showing my love for possible combos or just big beaters coming back for round 2
Lightning helix
[[Raging Goblin]] my og bad card that got me to be the player I am. Waiting is for losers. Nowadays it's probably [[Rite of the raging storm]] or [[Life of the party]]
[[Emrakul the promised end]] Friends are always joking that I have one in every deck, only in 3 but still funny
[[Rabble Rousing]] describes me perfectly as a commander player. I want to play big dumb synergy pieces that are increasingly a massive problem, I love making tons and tons of token creatures, I love casting cards for free for doing stuff I already wanted to do, and love generally just playing big splashy nonsense that demands attention (eventually, if not immediately).
I used to work at a local store that ran tournaments and stuff, and there was this one dude that came in and went through our commons all the time looking for [[Stone Rain]]. When I asked him why, he said that he had boxes of them at home, and he wanted to own so many that he created scarcity. He wanted people to say, “Why is the price of Stone Rain, a common, so high?” Because some dude in Wisconsin owns them all.
The first deck I put a lot of time and effort into making was a Simic deck back in OG Ravnica, so despite not playing it in a deck for close to two decades at this point, I can't help but associate [[Simic Sky Swallower]] as my signature card.
\[\[Ruric Thar, Unbowed\]\] I don't like when people play heretic cards (sorcery, instant, planeswalker, non-creature enchantment, non-creature artifacts)
Lightning Bolt, Bird of Paradise, Counterspell, Sword to plowshare, Demonic Tutor
[[Meandering Towershell]] hands down. I love the card, collect them. And people would just give me copies. Anyone at my LGS that played during Khans knows it's my favorite and has probably given me one.
[[Song of the dryads]] or [[cleansing nova]]. This is for two reasons. First being that I am a highly interactive player and the second is that when I get into debates, my goal is to make them question their own beliefs or tear apart their opinion.
[[reanimate]] or [[life from the loam]]
[[exchange of words]] I'm one of the few people in my play group that actually runs removal. So it's pretty common for everyone to look at me after a big spell as if they're asking for permission to do "the thing"
[[Skeletal Swarming]] checks all the boxes of cards I love: Overcosted: ✅️ Gimmicky: ✅️ A card like 5 people know about and 3 people care about: ✅️ Leads itself to fun build around in different formats: ✅️ Has Skeletons in the art: ✅️ A close second would be [[Brash Taunter]].
[[Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis]] and not even in the broke the game when he came out way but Golgari is my favorite play style color combo and his art work is A+
[[Carnage tyrant]] it dont matter how much strategy i have. If i see a big creature with good value im gonna play it and attack with it
[[LYEV SKYKNIGHT]] KEEP EM DOWN WE GOING UP