Best Magic Card of All Time
General forum
Posted on April 15, 2012, 8:39 a.m. by jcris25
Undeniably has to be Fireblast. There is no greater card. Always a great surprise and a potential zero casting cost for 4 damage. Sac 4 mountain for 8 damage?? That is just about half your opponents life total. The great thing is when you have tapped all your land and you have done as much damage as you can in a turn you have nothing else you can do, WONG, sac your land. Undeniably the best card ever created. END What do you think?
[geistflame]] is not a good card. 1R for 1 dam? The only way that card is good if you have some unlimited combo you can keep casting it with. If so I would like to know. Other than that it sucks. Especially the flashback ability. 4 mana for 1 damage then you have to exile it? Give me a break. I hope you were not serious about that. Look at these with the mana cost damage ratio these cards do not need flashback. Lightning Bolt Chain Lightning Rift Bolt Lava Spike
April 15, 2012 9:26 a.m.
nothign screams pain like Squadron Hawk does. my opinion ,its so painful lol
April 15, 2012 9:31 a.m.
OrgasmAndTea says... #9
It's obviously Runeclaw Bear. Hands down. No contest.
April 15, 2012 10:03 a.m.
OrgasmAndTea says... #10
No, seriously, Birds of Paradise has seen the most reprints of any card I can think of. So since we're talking about 'Best' as apposed to 'most powerful', Birds get my vote.
April 15, 2012 10:05 a.m.
lol Guys, power nine?
Also, Giant Spider has seen the most reprints, I'm sure.
April 15, 2012 10:16 a.m.
OrgasmAndTea says... #12
Oh snap! It wins by one print... still, I feel more affection for the birds =)
April 15, 2012 10:21 a.m.
NobodyPicksBulbasaur says... #14
Best card R+D had come up with is Dovescape, hands down. Whoever let that one get printed is a genius...and a dick.
April 15, 2012 10:38 a.m.
gheridarigaaz says... #15
Force of Will? Mental Misstep's dastardly predecessor... then again if we're talking about playability and versatility I'd have to agree with orgasmandtea. Birds of Paradise is gonna be the best in that field
April 15, 2012 10:49 a.m.
Dovescape can work well. I play MTGO and have it in an enchant deck I was building. I abandoned the deck before finishing it. I used Dovescape with Curse of Death's Hold and some Sigil of the Empty Throne. it was cool but became to much work trying to perfect it. IT could also work well with that artifact card that lets you pay 4 and put a creature from your hand onto the field. You could put lots of tokens out at a time with it and especially if you had some Doubling Season. Dovescape is not completly useless. And To the previous post about the power 9, those cards are completly broken but they are not used much any more. They are mostly banned.
April 15, 2012 11:10 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #17
Stone Rain is actually the one that's been reprinted the most times (besides basic lands).
April 15, 2012 11:18 a.m.
@OrgasmAndTea Runeclaw Bear is good, but I think Chimney Imp is much better. There's even an infinite combo.
http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/18872094/Chimney_Imp_combo?post_id=321741438#321741438
Post # 7
April 15, 2012 11:40 a.m.
@OrgasmAndTea Runeclaw Bear is good, but I think Chimney Imp is much better. There's even an infinite combo.
http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/18872094/Chimney_Imp_combo?post_id=321741438#321741438
Post # 7
April 15, 2012 11:40 a.m.
chiccocesena says... #23
such an impossible question to answer. My favorite card is Hatred, but I wouldn't say it's the best card. Glimpse the Unthinkable is a great card
April 15, 2012 1:19 p.m.
This is what I think you'd like, after I seen that Fireblast up there, I thought it was missing its hand'n'hand buddy Barrel Down Sokenzan. I play sokenzan before ya fireblast for best results!haha
April 15, 2012 1:57 p.m.
rckclimber777 says... #25
I think squire1 has it here. Mana Drain is easily the most powerful card ever printed. Yes even better than Black Lotus.
It is an answer to just about EVERY card ever! and on top of it you get mana.
Fireblast... no its just too risky. mana drain it and now you've just saced your precious land and your opponent will be blissfully playing with 6 extra mana next turn. plenty to board wipe and bring a huge creature. Good luck recovering from that.
There are many other cards that can be listed of course that have a strong case for being the best card out there. But I'd probably concede to a deck running Mana Drain as soon as they revealed one of them to me.
oh and as a sidenote Geistflame is not a bad card. Certainly not the best card ever printed, but it is a killer in draft.
oh and Island has a strong case too. I mean its free to play, comes into play untapped. Tap it and you gain 1 BLUE! mana and you can do that as soon as it comes into play... can you say OPed!
April 15, 2012 2:04 p.m.
Most people who run Fireblast run 4. There is always a second one around the corner.
April 15, 2012 2:19 p.m.
OrgasmAndTea says... #27
rck... that's complete bullshit. Forest is clearly the most powerful land ever printed. I've won entire games with nothing but a forest.
Erm, actually the last is true... I play elves and have actually won games before with a single land...
April 15, 2012 2:23 p.m.
1996 World Champion id say is still the best on the fact that Tom Chanpheng had register'd his deck wrong an forgot his U/W duel land, thus being stuck to sideboard the Sleight of Mind he could never cast, as well as the rules stating he must fill the duel land space with just plains. still won that shi'!
April 15, 2012 2:35 p.m.
rckclimber777 says... #29
lol OrgasmAndTea. Yea those elves are a tightknit group and they are pretty low maintenance with that one Forest. But who wants to tap one forest to get a Green mana when you can tap an island to get a blue mana lol.
(ironic since my favorite decks to play when I first started were both green. One was a green beast deck and the other an elf deck and now if my deck doesn't have a counterspell in it, its simply because the deck isn't finished yet.)
April 15, 2012 2:45 p.m.
Storm Crow hands down is the most powerful card ever
(if you don't know what I am talking about, see the comments on it in gatherer)
April 15, 2012 2:46 p.m.
rckclimber777 says... #33
trembles at the sight of the card that must not be named.
burkek and olowleye how can speak its name and not quake in fear?
April 15, 2012 3:43 p.m.
My Brother rckclimber777. Its I who shook within every letter I pressed. A decade an 6 years, has passed. An a decade an 6years shall never be forgotten.
April 15, 2012 3:58 p.m.
chiccocesena says... #35
i don't know... i like our fellow Storm Crow, but i'm more of a Suntail Hawk guy. that little bird is my buddy
April 15, 2012 4:01 p.m.
Still gotta be Storm Crow. I mean, look at its stats! Those are game-breaking numbers right there.
April 15, 2012 4:48 p.m.
This card is super broken Berserk. THat is a powerful card. Especially if your opponents lands are tapped out.
April 15, 2012 5:42 p.m.
in all actuality, the most broken card besides Storm Crow, is Yawgmoth's Will. There is a large movement to ban it in vintage because even as a 1 of it is still just well above the power level of everything else. In reality, Yawg-win is just an instant win almost every time it resolves.
April 15, 2012 7:14 p.m.
gheridarigaaz says... #43
is there some running joke concerning Storm Crow? I dont see why it's broken. its good but I wouldnt say its broken, there are other, stronger, 2 cmc fliers... Leonin Skyhunter, Hovermyr, Stormfront Pegasus and Squadron Hawk to name a few. what's so special about Storm Crow?
April 15, 2012 7:25 p.m.
gheridarigaaz, yes see the wizard gatherer page for storm crow
April 15, 2012 7:27 p.m.
metalmagic says... #45
I'm actually pretty sure Contract from Below is the best card ever printed. Better than Mana Drain. I went there.
April 15, 2012 7:37 p.m.
rckclimber777 says... #46
lol metalmagic I've never seen that card nor ever heard of a concept like it in magic. I'll give you that. 1 mana to draw 7 cards is ridiculous.
I've never played with Yawgmoth's Will but that sounds like it's absurdly powerful in the right deck.
April 15, 2012 7:59 p.m.
metalmagic says... #49
Dude yeah, it's a free mulligan after you've started your first turn. It's so good and so banned, lol. I think you are still allowed to play in tournaments with it in Las Vegas though :D
April 16, 2012 12:49 a.m.
It's just such a defining card. It opens T1 for so many combos and it's quite understated I feel compared to before. I guess without Yawgmoth's Will out of the picture (I would consider that card the number two), it's less broken, but it still enables so much out of one black mana cost.
squire1 says... #2
Mana Drain
April 15, 2012 8:47 a.m.