MTG Top 10: Gods | The BEST Gods in Magic: the Gathering 

Yeah i miss sets like theros, the lore was so good. So well designed, greek myth is also one of favourite thing

But the God card itself counts towards the devotion. Does the God believe in itself

@@assault410yes

I still think their indestructibility should also have been linked to devotion. A god with no followers can be erased.

​@@assault410That's why the god alone doesn't make itself a creature

IIRC I'm pretty sure lore supports! The gods came into their very existence and power through the belief of mortals on the plane of Theros. And, Gods are fickle beings so I could also see them being like "I ain't intervening for you, you aren't devoted enough." I love Theros so much!

Assuming that most Presidents have past experience in government, Advisor makes the most sense to find a bunch of lawyers.

The Kaldheim gods because they are literally their own weapons on the other side. Plus, they are analogous to the Asgardians and we might be seeing more of them when the MCU set comes out.

Back in 2013 she had to be like that for balance. Imagine if Path to Exile got rid of the opponents creature and gave you a land. Lol. In 2024 both Pharika and Path to Exile may be underpowered but they certainly weren't back then. If you look at Magic's 30 year history you'll see a long timeline of cards gaining better and better abilities compared to 1993 while still having to have drawbacks. Remember she is already a 3 to cast Indestructible card, and becomes 5/5 with enough permanents, and is green and black the colors of fastest mana. Elves of Deep Shadow and Llanowar Elves are enough to quickly get to 7. Then she's 5/5 that you didn't spend much on and can pick out graveyard targets quickly. A 1/1 with deathtouch is assumed to be way smaller than the opposing reanimation threat.

The Theros Gods remain stronger than Desecrator Demon, and Desecrator Demon and Phyrexian Obliterator are two data points hinting that Black is just not allowed to have any creature that is actually better than Juzam Djinn in an Aggro Deck. (Which is WHY Black was forced to make its whole creature identity about Reanimator combo since Odyssey.) 5/5, 4 mana. That's a big waterline for all creatures in Magic in part because one color is banned from crossing it without a downside. If Black is 20% of all creatures, All of White gets to be much better at midrangey rates Blue they choose to not give strong stats to for game balance reasons but the Reserved List isn't one of the reasons (Serendib Efreet isn't on the List); Sphinxes and Djinn have slowly gotten better as well as midrange Crabs and other cards, but not by a lot, let's say Half of Blue cards tend to fall noticeably short of competing with 1/1 for 1 or 4/4 for 4. (With the other half getting better over time) That's 10% more of All Creatures that generally don't pass the Juzam Test. That's 30% of All creatures that cannot be better than Juzam Djinn. +5 years to Masticore, which was a colorless version of Superman (Morphling) and considered the best creature in its day. Maybe easily besting Serra Angel. If you don't count reanimation targets and think only of the Hardcast, it wouldn't be until Onslaught block provided easy fast tribal zerg rushing that Masticore would diminish in notoriety, that is almost 5 more years over 4 more Blocks (Masques, Invasion, Odyssey, Onslaught) From Juzam to Masticore to Elves/Goblins; what is better than Onslaught? M10 without a doubt. Suddenly lands were a lot better and Lords were quickly getting better and Lorwyn, Zendikar, Scars, and Innistrad were all feeding support for some of the tribal decks. Noticeably Elfball decks were just one of a line of Elves as a tribe picking up where Channel left off; Elvish Piper could get Progenitus and it wasn't really possible to ban all the Elf cards that could drop a fatty, since Llanowar Elves basically counts. Wrath of God was the old control stick, and it was a lot more mana than Tormods Crypt for any thought of graveyard shenanigans. Basically the answer before the Gods hit the scene was "Akroma Angel of Wrath/Baneslayer Angel/Sphinx of the Steel Wind" in Combo And Elves + Eldrazi in aggro. The Eldrazi were basically just 3 cards so there was always a real lingering fear they might just banhammer them, and they don't count the same way as a type with so many powerful examples that banning could never cover them all. 1 Gods 2 Eldrazi/Angels/Sphinxes/Dragons 3 Praetors 4. Elves/Goblins/Merfolk/Zombies 5. Demons and anything like Deaths Shadow with a Drawback 6. Darksteel Colossus and any Very Outdated Combo targets 7. Spiritmonger/Masticore/Morphling 8. Psychatog, Rats, Scavenging Ooze and other things with a gameplan for winning with synergy but might be chumpblocked today. 9. M11 Titans sad to say. 10. Probably Hydras because like Giants they are fair for the mana. You have time to do something if your deck is doing anything. The bottomline is whether someone thinks Gods or Praetors are better. They don't need a reanimation or other cheat spell and they come down fast for what they do. And before the Praetor 2.0 and 3.0 cycles, it probably would have been the Gods without stopping to blink because all of the New Phyrexia ones were Reanimator targets so there's more steps the plan can go wrong on.

Also isn’t alrund just a raven on the back?

@@jackvogel701 I always forget about him

@@shaden489 We now have multiple layers of people forgetting Kaldheim gods...

Because each side of the card had its own mana value.

​@@NizzahonMagic Then you should be able to cast the sides with the allowed mana value, it would make sense

So you have to understand that magic's rules are written like coding language and nothing is intuited. Cascade was "check through library until you find a card with lower mana cost, then cast it" and Modal DFCs were "this card has two sides, when you cast it, pick which side you want to cast." So you'd cascade, cascade would see Valki and go "you can cast that!" and Modal DFC would then chime in "youre casting that? pick which side!" after cascade had finished it's business.

All things, even the gods, must bow down to the Ebon Praetor.

Number 8?

@@Mississippi_Jack So it is.

She didn't much find success in constructed formats except for EDH where she's always on the verge of being banned.

Saw that to 😅

He's a win con in commander, which is a casual format. Nizzahon only looks at competitive formats like Vintage and Modern.

I mean, he might get back on the list eventually speaking he is seeing play in the Pioneer World Tree combo since he combo kills with the fire Ojer and God-Eternal Rhonas.

Dies to doomblade

While I get where you're coming from, they aren't the same thing. Avatars are representations of aspects of a higher power, while gods are, well, gods.

What you prefer and what is reality are not exactly the same

Why