Oh, and not really a pet card, but I've come to really love equipment artifacts in EDH. Ever since I built an equip deck I've seen how valuable they are in an aggro strategy, having the investment of equips on the board when wipes hit makes the build back up so much faster.

Something like Umezawa's Jitte gets so much value over a game, pumping attacks, picking off mana dorks, and I never have any problem re equipping it if the creatures gets removed because it's always worth another 2.

SaberTech I absolutely love Soldevi Adnate and it's awesome to see it mentioned! I've had it in decks before and it almost always draws removal due to how much value it accrues over turns, and even when it does get removed, you can activate it to itself and it pays back instantly.

Magic has always kind of walked the tight rope of physical equity (money generated) and consumer equity (future money generated), but recent years and decisions have really pushed everything right now. Equity in consumers is the player base, the people who want to stick with the game, play new sets with their friends, and long term planning would see this side as the backbone of the business. How wizards used to do this was to focus on standard, and to try to make it the best play experience possible. Reprints were just not as big of a contention when the majority of players were playing a rotating format, or playing kitchen table.

To me the problem is that they've tried to have their cake and eat it too with standard. If standard was fun to play and affordable, and if I could just go to FnM and have a great time, then I wouldn't have a problem with cards that are not in the format being expensive.

I guess I just think that wotc sprinkling reprints to players the way they do is a short term money grab that creates long term player disenfranchisement, and I think they really need to look at that as a direct cost. Magic is more popular than ever, but if they don't cater the game to the players, they're going to run out of Final Fantasys and Fallouts. Fans went nuts for them, to see fallout in magic, but will those same people care for magic fallout 2, now that they already have that?

Maybe it's just the way I see it, but it seems like wotc is not doing anything for their current player base, focusing completely on the new player base, and long term they should be considering that a tangible resource they are using up.

Hi, and welcome to the community here! Pet cards are always so fun, and it's been a pretty great experience to play over the years and have my pet cards list evolve : )

One of my favorite things in magic is spot removal, and unconventional choices of it. Having to save my resources and make decisions on what to remove really makes the game feel like an expanding puzzle to me.

Some of my favorite pet removal cards are

Savage Swipe I have an entire deck built around casting this as much as possible and double dipping as removal and buff.

Tragic Slip A somewhat situational card, but it takes out everything. I love flavor wise that Blightsteel Colossus can just slip and fall and head right to the graveyard.

Cast Out I've played this card a lot and it's versatility makes it one of those "this is exactly what I needed" draws late game. And it can always just be cycled in the early game if I have another plan going.

Fumiko the Lowblood Can be a brutal removal creature in an aggro deck, taking out their creatures and making them tap all blockers.

Dire Fleet Poisoner I just love the original Ixalan pirates, and flash deathtouch always hits something good.

Mutiny in commander I find that this card always pays off. It's very situational, but the situation of your opponent having two creatures almost always comes up. In my experience, it almost always does more damage than a Lightning Bolt and in EDH I wouldn't really be bolting players anyways.

Lava Dart the cost of saccing a land sounds so steep, but I've won quite a few games now just destroying my own land base at the very end. And I like that because of the recursion, I'm free to cast it early game from hand to hit small threats.

plakjekaas I do apologize for my last response, I just saw how old this thread was I had seen an alert and figured that the last comment was new, so I don't mean to dig up old things, really sorry on that.

plakjekaas I'm pretty sure the entire point of this forum is to voice the opinions of individual players and have a community, and that is exactly what the OP is doing. Telling somebody with a different opinion than yourself to stop being closeminded is not a discussion, it's being a bully.

"Do you fight your doctor when he tries to prescribe you medicine? Even though he knows that would be best for you?" This is a simply ridiculous take, a doctor is not trying to sell you chase mythic rares. What are we even talking about?

I guess my main problem with your reply here is that it has nothing to do with the original topic, and seems to be directly in response to someone that you don't agree with on a broad scale, and that in no way pushes the conversation forward.