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| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 7:29:06 PM #53 | 34. Merfolk of the Pearl Trident  I think this is the worst card on the entire list. When I got my first starter deck and convinced my mom to play with me. I remember her mockingly summon this card. It stands out to me both as a fond memory and holy crap this card is terrible. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 7:25:41 PM #52 | 35. Progenitor Mimic  This card creates such dumb board states. Its one of my favorite cube cards. Unfortunately a 6 mana clone is just way too expensive and removal is too good these days. . Ill probably still try to splash it. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 7:20:52 PM #51 | 36. Blaze  The very first game of magic I ever played, I had half of my cousins 400 card collection and he had the other half. I was dead on board but he kept playing. Eventually I was excited because I was able to cast blaze for lethal. He played  But still its the only card I remember from my first game of magic. Has to be worth something --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 7:13:16 PM #49 | 37. Pelakka Wurm  When conspiracy came out, I did two drafts. In the first draft I had an amazing Brago deck  The deck was sweet. It blinked stuff, it created value, it was snazzy, and the other 3 players in the pod immediately saw it was sweet and they all attacked me and I came in 4th The second deck had two pelakka wurms in it. It didnt really do anything until it hit 7 mana then it started just dropping wurms and ways to recur wurms. I obliterated the pod. It was a good lesson. In multiplayer games, looking like you dont have a strong deck is just as important as having a strong deck. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 7:00:17 PM #47 | Lopen posted... Seeing this list I had the thought I wanted to make one-- and so far and the answer to this for me is a resounding "true" as I think my favorite card listed here so far is Lava Axe. (Aside from Riding the Dilu Horse but that's not technically on the list) I think there are 2 cards on my list other people actively dont like. Well see what the response is! --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 5:43:04 PM #44 | 38. Golos, Tireless Pilgrim  Back to cube cards! I alluded to Golos in my field of the dead write up, as golos is the best non land to have in a field deck as it can fetch field or any other land you might have drafted. It also can win the game on its own in a field deck, as if you can activate its ability turn 6 you are probably going to win. At the same time, because its 5 mana and the deck construction costs are so high, Ive never felt Golos was too unfair. One of the best cube cards to have come out in the last couple years. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 5:36:51 PM #43 | 39. High Alert  High alert is very similar to roost of drakes. Its a build around uncommon in a fairly recent set. The reason its higher is it is a much more skill intensive card. Unlike roost of drakes which is extremely pushed where absolute worst case scenario is a 2UU 2/2 flier, high alert could technically make your deck worse if you didnt skillfully draft around it. If you had enough of the 1U 1/4 fliers though you would just dominate. Building high alert decks were super fun, and super satisfying when you suddenly were attacking for 20 with all of your crappy defensive creatures --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 5:30:39 PM #41 | 40. Kaldra Compleat This is the most recent card on this list, and its sweet in both design and function. So years ago there were these cards    And in mtg lore there were pherexians who won the war against the side that had Kaldra. So what happened to the armor of Kaldra?  This is one of the strongest cards on the list, both the equipment being indestructible and the creature getting indestructible are huge. Exile and bounce are still a pain, but if your opponent doesnt have either of those to answer this they are going to lose quickly. (If you dont know, living weapon means when it hits the battlefield it automatically is attached to a 0/0 creature token so you are slamming immediately) --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 3:52:33 PM #37 | TomNook posted... This is why I love Riding the Dilu the horse. And it IS legal! Funny enough I changed my sentence from They would never do that in magic to They would never do that in modern day magic because I figured there was probably some ancient card that did that. At least with that card there isnt any reason to gloss over there isnt an end of turn on it, unlike flight cards where there are a million of them that always say until end of turn. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 3:42:45 PM #35 | 41. Really epic punch The background is there was a set with this card  and then an alternate future set with this card  So as part of one of the not legal joke sets they created this card  So you might be thinking, Oh, so the reason this card is 41 is because its a funny joke. No, the reason this card is 41 is they screwed up the rules text and then shrugged and decided it was fine because it was a joke set. Notice the first two cards say until end of turn. Thats how magic works. This isnt digital. Under no circumstance would modern day magic change the stats of a creature without some form of counter or marker indicating they changed, but this card does that. So when this card came out it was an unintended bomb because
Like this is horrendous gameplay experience to get gotten by this card, but because it was a silver bordered joke set they left it in and it was hilarious. I had a lot of fun playing it when I went to the release of this set. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 3:31:03 PM #33 | 42. Hypnotic Siren  A weird case of modern Nostalgia, about 6 moths after I picked up magic again after having not played since being a kid I entered a 9 man GPT. It was sealed with a cut to top 8 where I had a horrendous pool and went 0-2 then got the bye which automatically made me make the cut to top 8 (I have to imagine the person who missed the cut had to have quit magic in shame) In the top 8 I drafted two hypnotic sirens and beat a try hard who raged he lost to someone playing two hypnotic sirens. (I should clarify hypnotic siren is really not a good card. But it seemed sweet to me!) Because I won I won a double bye to GP Atlanta, so I drove 6 hours slept in my car and proceeded to 1-2 drop. It was my first ever serious tournament which is cool. I also imagine my ex-wife probably enjoyed the alone time with her boyfriend. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 3:23:31 PM #31 | 43. Griselbrand  Another card the victim of being too good. Griselbrand is THE reanimation target as getting Griselbrand lets you draw into all of your other action. The second modern deck I ever built was Grishoal Brand where the combo was to reanimate Griselbrand and use   To gain enough life to draw your deck. The deck wasnt good. After dropping $600 on it I took it to one tournament, proceeded to go 0-3, and felt kind of dumb. Nevertheless Griselbrand is still a cool card. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 3:18:04 PM #30 | Alanna82 posted... The fact that lava axe is bad shows how power creep is. I haven't played magic since around 2000 and I remember liking Lava Axe. (Isn't it basically the equivalent of a 5 damage fireball? 5 damage for 5 mana was acceptable back then. ) You would like limited then, lots of creatures and creature removal. Honestly it wouldnt surprise me if lava axe was bad in 2000. Not being able to kill creatures is just too big of a detriment --- |
| Topic | Magic the Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms |
| masterplum 07/24/21 1:56:18 PM #264 | I mean historic is already a digital only format. I dont think digital only cards is any worse than digital only sets like Amonkhet remastered or vintage masters --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 1:43:09 PM #24 | 44. Smiting Helix  I think this is the only card on the list that I have actually never played. I just love the design. So the joke here is that there was this card  Which was a pretty powerful card against aggressive decks. Killing a creature and gaining 3 life is pretty backbreaking against aggressive. The funny thing is that doing damage while gaining life is very Red/White. But its also very mono black. There are tons of black cards like drain life  that do that. So technically you could have the cost be RW or black, and thats what smiting helix is. If it was an instant it would probably be in all sorts of cubes, but unfortunately it being a sorcery means it isnt good enough so I probably wont ever play it. Amazing design though --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 1:36:42 PM #23 | Just kidding real 45  I forgot how goofy the art on this card is. Yeah I think I have to give the nod to volcanic hammer as a tiebreaker. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 1:33:21 PM #22 | 45. Lava Axe We would like to give a warm welcome to our first objectively bad card!  I used the portal art for the picture because this is the version of Lava Axe that made the list. Lava Axe is bad, but when you are 7 years old lava axe is awesome. Its 1/4 of your opponents life! Thats so much! While this is the lowest ranked nostalgia card on this list, it isnt the worst one. At least Lava axe is arguably playable in some aggressive limited decks. Some upcoming nostalgia cards are even worse! which in a way bumps Lava axe down a bit. Its bad, but isnt so objectively bad to be funny looking back. Honorable mention also to volcanic Hammer which is 1R to do 3 damage to anything which also was awesome in my portal starter deck. You both get objectively terrible red card nostalgia kudos. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 1:25:56 PM #21 | Isquen posted... If you also rate based on "Interesting Art" one of my favorite cards is an old "Abbey Matron." that cards absurd haha. While I dislike bad art, art doesnt really factor into my rankings too much. My rankings are pretty much entirely based on playing the card and how interesting of a design the card has --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 1:23:33 PM #20 | 46. Time Vault  Once a vintage cube all star, time vault has been removed from most cubes because its too good, which I reluctantly agree with. Nevertheless, one of my favorite vintage cube drafts ever was a hyper efficient time vault deck that was pretty much nothing but tutors, ways to untap artifacts, and time vault. Time vault hits all the high notes of being a build around card with a fun payoff that dramatically changes the value of other traditionally mediocre cards like Kioras Follower (UG 2/2 tap to untap a permanent) but unfortunately because its an artifact that can be activated immediately as opposed to a creature combo its just too strong for most cubes. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 12:39:28 PM #15 | 47. Wurmcoil Engine  The very first constructed deck I built was a Modern R/G Tron deck, and Wurmcoil engine is one of the payoffs. 5 years ago a turn 3 Wurmcoil against creature decks was pretty much game over, and Wurmcoil was pretty much your only out against burn decks. Nowadays its just too slow and too vulnerable to exile and bounce effects, but in 2016 it was great --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 12:22:59 PM #14 | 48. Sword of body and mind (But really all the swords)  Swords are sweet. I picked body and mind because it for a long time was the best one in limited (Though with all the graveyard mechanics recently I dont know if that is actually true any more) Swords are extremely demoralizing to opponents that cant deal with them. They are invitations to slow inevitable deaths. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 12:06:27 PM #13 | And back to cube 49. Field of the Dead  Amusingly this card might be higher if it was weaker. If it was legendary it probably wouldnt have been banned in standard and it being too strong for standard is one of the reasons it has a little bitterness attached to it. In cube, especially lower powered arena cubes this card is both awesome to play with and interesting to play against. Its usually fairly obvious after a few turns if your opponent is playing a field of the dead deck which means you have an opportunity to craft a game plan against it. Drafting field of the dead is also fun because there are plenty of cards that get better (or worse) when trying to draft a field of the dead deck. I think any player who has drafted cube enough is going to eventually make the mistake of putting cultivate (Which searches your deck for two basic lands and puts one into play) in a field deck only to realize that when your deck is playing 5 basic lands cultivate is a huge trap. Field of the deads best friend is higher up on the list --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 11:56:24 AM #12 | First non cube card up 50. Roost of Drakes Roost of drakes is one of the best uncommon build around limited cards in recent memory and it was just so much fun playing kicker cards that dont do much just to make tons of drakes. One of the running themes in the top 52 is I really like cards that just demoralize your opponent and this is the first one that fits the bill. You land a turn 4 Roost of drakes and your opponent is already thinking the game is pretty much over but they will still die slowly.  --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 11:49:40 AM #10 | Dark Silvergun posted... Cool cards. with some interesting effects. Since I haven't played Magic in a decade, I don't know what the *Cube Format* refers to though. Cube is a draft format where instead of drafting certain sets, you pick 540 specific cards and randomly put 360 of them in 15 card piles. You then draft those cards. Its usually considered the best non constructed format because you can play a wide variety of decks and strategies and because its singleton you get to play with a lot of different cards --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 11:38:19 AM #7 | The Mana Sword posted... Too many red cards on this list You made me count Assuming I didnt count wrong heres the tally White 6 Blue 7 Black 6 Red 4 Green 4 Gold 11 Colorless 11 Lands 3 --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 11:21:07 AM #6 | before the top 50, lets get some honorable mentions out of the way Honorable mention: Old cards too good to be really interesting    These cards are fun to draft, but honestly pretty miserable to play against. Time walk loops especially. Time walk, regrowth time walk, Snapcaster mage Time Walk. Its completely plausible for some vintage cube decks to cast time walk 3 turns in a row. Which is thoroughly enjoyable for one of the players --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 11:14:12 AM #4 | Speak of the devil 51. Inferno Titan  The titan cycle was pretty pushed for 2011, and while they dont really hold up as well 10 years later outside of dedicated combo decks, inferno titan still makes it into some cube lists. While its not the best titan, I do think its the most fun to play. Plus the art is sweet. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/24/21 11:05:43 AM #1 | The Yugioh topic inspired me to put together a list. Because why not. 52.Coalition Relic  All 52 cards fall into one of 3 categories.
Coalition relic is one of the weakest of category 3. Cube is my favorite format, and coalition relic is one of the better cube cards you can draft. Being able to double accelerate you in any color is a big deal when you are trying to play your 6 mana bombs on turn 4. Just an overall solid card. --- |
| Topic | Magic the Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms |
| masterplum 07/23/21 10:08:43 PM #260 | Other than being a hilarious color pie break, that card is pretty cool. Realistically that should probably be UB --- |
| Topic | Magic the Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms |
| masterplum 07/23/21 9:42:08 PM #258 | I dont have any issue with it. There are certain things you can do in digital that are impossible in paper, like in the Eternal card game there is a keyword called echo where when you draw a card with echo you create two copies of that card, so for instance a faithless looting effect drawing that card becomes a draw three discard two instead of a draw two discard two Seeing magic harnessing cool mechanics like that in digital only seems interesting. --- |
| Topic | My top 52 favorite Yu-Gi-Oh cards [ygo] |
| masterplum 07/23/21 5:21:06 PM #218 | Waluigi1 posted... I didn't even know Graceful was banned O.o One of the issues Yu-Gi-Oh has is with no costs to cards any card that gives cost free card advantage or selection almost by definition has to be banned. There would be practically no deck that would ever not play it. Pot of greed has the same issue --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 376: Pigs in Space |
| masterplum 07/23/21 12:24:04 PM #32 | Xeybozn posted... Why would Republicans need to pack the Supreme Court when they'll have at least a 6-3 advantage already? And if they really wanted to do that (or anything else that scares Democrats), they could just get rid of the filibuster themselves at any time. Really, the filibuster helps the GOP way more because it blocks popular Democratic bills and gives them an excuse for not passing the crazy stuff that the GOP base wants the most. Because they are insane and could do it for giggles --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 376: Pigs in Space |
| masterplum 07/23/21 9:20:07 AM #19 | Reg posted... Dumb You are proposing killing the filibuster to enact a voting rights act instead? I mean neither of these options are good ones. You kill the filibuster and lose the election you suddenly could be looking at a packed Supreme Court by republicans. --- |
| Topic | My top 52 favorite Yu-Gi-Oh cards [ygo] |
| masterplum 07/23/21 8:39:56 AM #182 | Shuffle face up? Wtf theres no way that could ever be tourney legal --- |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/22/21 7:24:49 PM #97 | My guess is in upper tiers supports will be more popular because supports don't really need to farm as much. --- |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/22/21 12:46:36 PM #63 | Aint a moba until people complain about teammates every game --- |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/22/21 11:09:05 AM #51 | I mean its not young people. The game doesnt explain strategy. --- |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/22/21 9:35:35 AM #48 | Using slowbro to stop my opponents from doing anything while my teammates actually knew what they were doing was fun --- |
| Topic | Magic the Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms |
| masterplum 07/21/21 12:20:25 PM #241 | |
| Topic | My top 52 favorite Yu-Gi-Oh cards [ygo] |
| masterplum 07/21/21 12:19:26 PM #115 | |
| Topic | NBA Finals topic |
| masterplum 07/21/21 7:47:26 AM #220 | I love when someone makes an absurdly long post, but then posts something in the first paragraph like Lebron should have 0 rings for example that instantly alerts you that you can stop reading and saves you time. --- |
| Topic | My top 52 favorite Yu-Gi-Oh cards [ygo] |
| masterplum 07/20/21 10:16:50 PM #88 | You have also convinced me to do my favorite 52 magic cards after this is done. --- |
| Topic | Stock Topic 31 |
| masterplum 07/20/21 12:35:39 PM #333 | Should have just put all of my money into Cracker Barrel leaps. Up 30% since yesterday. --- |
| Topic | My top 52 favorite Yu-Gi-Oh cards [ygo] |
| masterplum 07/20/21 12:22:05 PM #72 | MZero posted... Never got past this stage so most of this topic is over my head but I like it Funny enough, I was talking to a game store owner who said this was a huge problem in competitive Pokmon. Players would just straight up misrepresent the game state and refuse to acknowledge it was wrong. He said that never happened in magic and happened less in yugioh. --- |
| Topic | Stock Topic 31 |
| masterplum 07/20/21 11:26:24 AM #332 | yep, back up almost the exact amount I lost yesterday. --- |
| Topic | How concerned are you about the Delta Variant? |
| masterplum 07/20/21 7:25:08 AM #30 | Honestly? I hope the world catches up in vaccinations and then it gets worse. I think a plague that cuts down tens of millions of people dumb enough to not get vaccinated is one of the ways humanity gets out of the mess its in. --- |
| Topic | My top 52 favorite Yu-Gi-Oh cards [ygo] |
| masterplum 07/20/21 7:22:50 AM #66 | I feel there is a universe where I ended up a hardcore yugioh player instead of a hardcore magic player, but in that universe Konami doesnt make some of the idiotic decisions they made. Changing old card text being one of them. That and the unabashed power and complexity creep always spooked me off. Though to be honest, not being draftable was always the biggest hold up. --- |
| Topic | My top 52 favorite Yu-Gi-Oh cards [ygo] |
| masterplum 07/19/21 9:31:32 PM #37 | I played yugioh for like 6 months 15 years ago but I play a ton of Magic. Am I wrong that the first card giving you 3000 life points once.... still wouldn't be very good? --- |
| Topic | Stock Topic 31 |
| masterplum 07/19/21 11:11:06 AM #310 | Up $250 on my CBRL leap already. If I were moonroof I would sell now! --- |
| Topic | Stock Topic 31 |
| masterplum 07/19/21 10:03:09 AM #308 | Bought a cracker barrel leap for 180 days out. I think we are going to see coronavirus fears not affect business, especially businesses that are so tied to conservative states. --- |
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