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Posted on Jan. 29, 2019, 9:15 p.m. by Will361405
So I have a card that is special to me for literally no reason other than it was my first favorite card, and I always loved it. Phyrexian Hulk it's not very good, but I loved it a ton when I first started playing. I was wondering what are some nostalgic cards for you all, for whatever reason. Also I wasn't sure if this was the place to put this but I hope it was lol
I love these kinds of posts!
I am gonna say Conundrum Sphinx for my post. When I first started to actively collect/deckbuild on my own; this was one of the fist cards that I truly tried to build around from the bottom up. I was CONVINCED that if I had a 4/4 Flying "draw engine" in I would be unbeatable...Granted that wasnt the case but I really had fun building around it with all of the scry and such out there.
January 29, 2019 10:04 p.m.
Amusingly, one of mine is Phyrexian Hulk as well, though a different edition than the one you linked. The flavour extol the 7th Edition printing has always amused me.
Some other favourites are Battle of Wits and Karona, False God - I have always been a sucker for difficult to build around cards.
Then there are the older style of sliver. That entire tribe would make my nostalgic list - everyone I knew who was playing during Scourge had a sliver deck, leading to some very interesting games with out-of-control lording.
January 29, 2019 10:19 p.m.
Darkshadow327 says... #5
Sphinx of Magosi has always been a favorite of mine, and really close to me. It may not be the best card ever, but +1/+1 counters and draw is so cool! I don't know why, but it has always just been close to me.
January 29, 2019 10:20 p.m.
Lambholt Pacifist Flip/ Lambholt Butcher is by far my favorite ever. I love Werewolves, I loved Shadows over Innistrad, and I loved the flavor of the card. The fact that it was actually competitive too was just icing on the cake :-)
January 29, 2019 10:35 p.m.
Dredge4life says... #7
My first deck that actually won games was a G/B Graveyard deck during Theros Standard. I was advised to build it by the back of an M15 token. It ran four Nighthowler . It wasn’t tier, but I loved it. I still have my play set.
January 29, 2019 10:38 p.m.
AnchorCity says... #8
I think my favorite card is the plainswalker I opened in my first booster pack, a foil
Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
.
I have it in my
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
unblockable ninjas deck just because of how much I love it.
January 29, 2019 11:21 p.m.
Giant Adephage is probably mine. While a nice, if not amazing, card, it just appeals to something in my brain, making me keep trying it out
I’m also probably making a deck to play Dragonlord Ojutai , Kaya, Ghost Assassin , and Sorin, Grim Nemesis , and no other reason
January 29, 2019 11:30 p.m.
One of my favorites was
Prophet of Kruphix
, that I played when still new to magic, in this casual deck before I even knew of any formats such as commander. Likewise, this deck included a few other things such as
Arcanis the Omnipotent
,
Roil Elemental
use to be a ton of fun with ramp cards like
Explosive Vegetation
too. Before long, I opened a
Windswept Heath
and sold this when I discovered it was actually something worth a lot, to acquire a bunch of cards like a
Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
,
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
,
Omnath, Locus of Mana
, etc. This was all before I yet still even knew of any formats and sadly some of those cards didn't get used later.
Although I have yet never played with it, I really for some reason like the card Elderscale Wurm because it has such a unique ability.
Because of that early Theros clash deck that contained Prophet of Kruphix , Hydra Broodmaster , Prognostic Sphinx which formed my first magic deck, the Simic colour pair I still very much enjoy to this day.
January 30, 2019 12:09 a.m.
Flooremoji says... #11
When I started playing, I was compleatly sure Avenging Angel was the best card ever printed XD. Those were good times. Besides, the art is nice.
January 30, 2019 1:38 a.m.
Skyler1776 says... #13
My favorite card has a story attached.
So, I had just started playing and went to my store owner to get this card, and he said they were all out. He then said “why don’t you get a booster pack and maybe you’ll open it?” So I get the pack and open the card. That card, Saheeli Rai , is my favorite because I got her when I wanted her.
January 30, 2019 3:22 a.m.
Mirran Crusader holding a scars block sword of x and y, all the power of ending the game with a combo, but in the hands of a small human knight holding an equipment, so good, best standard formats no contest.
January 30, 2019 5:32 a.m.
My favorite card is also my favorite character, planeswalker and creature. I prefer the creature version to the walker, but both are awesome - Venser, Shaper Savant is everything I want to do in Magic. His story is great and I am sad he is definitevely dead, but he did a bunch of cool things.
January 30, 2019 6:11 a.m.
landofMordor says... #16
Honestly, no one has yet convinced me that Searing Meditation isn’t the most powerful text ever printed on cardboard. It wrecked in the Naya deck I learned to play Magic with, it inspired me to be a Johnny, and I’ve forced it into SO many decks since. It’s my opinion that they just haven’t printed 56 other cards good enough for it yet(;
Other fav is Deranged Assistant , cuz that flavor and flavor text!
January 30, 2019 6:52 a.m.
One of my favorite cards was Assemble the Legion . It totaly destroyed my playgroup when we all where new to the game.
An other favorite of mine is Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker cuz its bolas do i need to explain? ;)
January 30, 2019 7:04 a.m.
GoblinsBeatElves says... #18
One of my favorite cards is Mayor of Avabruck Flip. It was the first rare I ever got, and the second magic card I had ever got in general. I wanted to start playing Magic when I was younger, and since I only played Pokémon TCG at the time, I had to trade some of my best Pokémon cards for it. It wrecked my friends when I played with them, because 2/2 wolves every turn was way stronger than the rest of our weak starter decks.
January 30, 2019 7:17 a.m.
My first favorite card was probably Hymn to Tourach . I was the only one in my group that played and they hated seeing me drop that card.
January 30, 2019 8:07 a.m.
Three of my favorites are Narset Transcendent , Mindswipe , and Crackling Doom .
January 30, 2019 9:09 a.m.
FSims81,
Yeah, even though "Best card in Fallen Empires" is not exactly high praise,
Hymn to Tourach
was pretty amazing.
January 30, 2019 9:32 a.m.
LittleBlueHero says... #22
My favorite card, like many others is seems, is tied to the early days of playing Magic. I have always loved crocodiles and alligators so when I started playing and learned there was a rare Emperor Crocodile (now a common lol) it quickly became my favorite card. I still to this day love when they print playable Crocodiles and hope one day to see another perhaps unseat the emperor.
Another of my favorites is for the art alone. I will always have a soft spot for Rathi Dragon . I always try and find a home for it in decks but its tough.
January 30, 2019 9:46 a.m.
I loved Living Wall . When you're new to magic and everyone you play with has weak cards, this guy could block anything. I didn't even understand what regenerate did, but he never died anyway. I loved him. I also liked the art.
January 30, 2019 10:27 a.m.
NapoleonBonaparte says... #25
Ojutai Exemplars too few words to describe too many feelings lol
January 30, 2019 11:26 a.m.
Last_Laugh says... #26
Humping monkeys Uktabi Orangutan and Pregnant monkey Uktabi Kong
January 30, 2019 12:03 p.m.
jasonkrivera says... #27
I remember Xanthic Statue was the card I pulled when I cracked my first pack. I remembering being amazed how big it could be, and by the (now, admittedly not so great) artwork on the card.
January 30, 2019 1:31 p.m.
Chasmolinker says... #28
One of mine was Spirit of the Night . I love the artwork on this card. I never played it with Urborg Panther , Feral Shadow and Breathstealer like you're supposed to. Mostly because I was like 12 at the time and didn't have the awareness that competitive magic was a thing. I might build a Mono Black deck one day around this "combo" just for old times sake.
January 30, 2019 4:30 p.m.
Wow. That's some kind of Yu-Gi-Oh stuff going on there.
January 30, 2019 7:52 p.m.
Suns_Champion says... #30
Who can guess MYYYYY favorite card????
Besides the obvious of course, my favorite card is Humble Defector . The flavor is awesome, but the POLITICS in EDH... magical.
January 30, 2019 9:29 p.m.
Back when I started playing, I really liked Elvish Warrior because of its art and flavor text. Same for Elvish Champion
Nowadays Ghave, Guru of Spores is my favorite, though I also really like Earthcraft and Doubling Season (both of which just happen to be in my Ghave deck.)
January 30, 2019 11:25 p.m.
Llanowar Elves , specifically the Dominaria Open House Promo, which I can't link :/ It was the my first promo card, foil card, and card that wasn't from Welcome Decks. It was also the first time I played Magic outside of a buddy trying to teach me. Thanks for asking :D
January 31, 2019 11:55 p.m.
MJS154,
For future reference, it's linked as Llanowar Elves (MOP):
And yeah, that card is gorgeous ...
February 1, 2019 6:17 a.m.
clayperce, thanks, I am hopeless at linking :) It is still my favorite art out there!
February 1, 2019 3:24 p.m.
twistedmage says... #36
My favorite card is Nesting Wurm because when i was first learning how to play my friend used a whole playset against me. never beat that deck then he moved and i never got another chance
February 2, 2019 11:10 p.m.
When I first started playing, I somehow got my hands on a Possibility Storm . For one, I just LOVED the art and the effect isn't too shabby either, considering that it really screws up control. I kept trying to wedge it into any of my decks that had but it just wasn't synergistic with any of them; really frustrating. Then one day, I got really drunk and angry to the point of entering a BLIND RAGE because of that; I grabbed my shotgun and completely destroyed the shed, burning down what was left of it; and then I made a Possibility Storm Deck! Originally, the deck was pure chaos and worked like a charm; I recently added in a mill sub-theme which just made it even more awesome!
February 7, 2019 7:46 a.m.
zenzen10165 says... #38
Oblivion Sower
is by far my favorite card, my first exile matters card and the duel decks version is gorgeous, I keep looking for a place to put it but until more exile matters cards get through Wizards R&D I'll think I'll just have to sit on it.
February 13, 2019 1:19 a.m.
hiddengibbons says... #39
Silklash Spider. It was dining room table magic 15 years ago. My friends and I played unformatted anything goes and we were terrible. I had a spider deck and one of my friends had an angel deck. I equipped Silklash with the Sword of Kaldra and wiped out an army of angels.
February 15, 2019 12:56 a.m.
pizzagod13 says... #41
There is only one card I would ever pick for my favorite card Phelddagrif everyone loves the purple hippo!
April 13, 2019 11:05 p.m.
Noire_Samhain says... #43
The first Mythic I ever pulled, and still the most valuable card in my collection... even if I never can bring myself to put it in a deck.
The art, man.
This is the card that made me decide to make Teysa my commander, even if it doesn't have a place in the deck anymore. Just the duality of it, how each side was totally opposite yet could synergize perfectly in the right deck.
April 14, 2019 5:29 p.m.
SqueeTheNabob says... #44
Bontu the Glorified is probably one of my favorite cards, although I also love Goblin Lackey and Squee, Goblin Nabob , as i used to play a lot of mono-red and used them both.
GrandRoyal says... #2
For me, one of my first cards I opened was Terra Stomper . It's not a terrible card, 8/8, trample, can't be countered for 3GGG is definitely strong but for some reason doesn't quite cut it, kinda understand why but not sure...
January 29, 2019 9:45 p.m.