Everyone knows that the best card is "Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made This Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental"
Ach! Hans, run! It's the Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made This Card To Have The Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental!
I think you mean Wordmail, which for only one mana gives a creature +1/+1 for every word in its name. Making it a +25/+25 for 1 on Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made This Card To Have The Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental.
So, I haven't played in a while sadly, but when I think of Magic I instantly think of Niv-Mizzet the Firemind(one of my 1st cards, and built a deck around him when I was little right when that set came out), that card holds a special place in my memory.
Loved Hypnotic Specter especially when played turn one. There's always been something so horribly satisfying about forcing one's opponent to discard at random.
Entreat the Angels. I love the way the card looks, I love what it does, and I love that feeling I get when I miracle it in my mono white devotion deck.
My favourite card is tied between camel and tasseled dromidary. I am going to make a modern camel tribal aggro deck called flying camels. My friend won a draft with tasseled dromidary when it was a 5/9 flyer with vigilance which inspired this deck.
My favorite card is ruined servitor. It's a 2 Mana 2/2 artifact with "when this creature dies, each player draws a card" I have no idea why it's my favorite
Felidar Sovereign will always have a special place in my heart. Along with being an amusing way to win EDH/Commander games through hate bears/control so you are able to find a way to take no damage and win, it's 4/6 Vigilance Lifelink for 4WW, which isn't awful and is pretty durable. I remember playing a game of EDH with three of my friends, and I cast Felidar Sovereign and because everyone else was so caught up in stopping one of them from ramping into hundreds of golems (he had an absurd golem deck that ran all the splicers, doubling season, parallel lives, and growing ranks, so it could get a stupid amount of golems in at an unbelievably quick speed), no one addressed my felidar until it got back around to me and I won.
It has to be Thalia, Guardian of Thraben. I played competitive MtG for one standard season and loved my GW Humans by heart. The biggest opponent for me was of course control decks and cheap interaction, so forcing my opponent to pay more mana than they have to was my saving grace. I am a cheap creature enjoyer to this day whenever I pick up MtG.
When I first started playing I learned with my friends cards. But when I got my own cards the best (my fav) card I got was KARN SILVER GOLEM!!! I loved the art. Artifacts (at least the ones I had) weren't great back then so I had trouble building a deck around Karn but he still saw play as a great wall/attacker if it is open. Crazy that Karn was your first Rare as well. P
The deck you talked about for #3 reminded me of one of my favorite decks of mine. It focused on morph and bounce effects, including plenty of self-bouncing to re-play my morphed creatures after they'd already been turned face-up (whether to re-use their triggered "when turned face-up" abilities or to just play a shell game with my morph creatures)
So I started playing magic around the time when new phyrexia came out. My favorite thing about starting with that set, at least to my 10 year old self at the time, was how cool a bunch of the cards were. And by cool, I meant things that were kinda lame in competitive games but just fun to play with casually. I really loved the myr creatures in addition to the creatures I got in my starter deck, which was the selesnya golem deck. The novel idea that creatures could function like lands and provide additional mana to play more things was a very cool concept to me at the time. This leads to one of my favorite cards, alloy myr. Alloy myr isn't all that great in terms of gameplay, but it's a really neat way of fixing mana where I would need it the most, even though summoning sickness pretty much made it worth less than playing actual mana rocks. Plus I really liked the little guy's design. This was also before I learned about llanowar elves which was basically a better version of copper myr in my eyes even though the elves came before it. I just didn't know a card like that existed at the time until I got pounded by it over and over when playing microprose's Shandalar. Those cards are the reason why I love ramping cards, which is why I was really excited to see a card like Svella, Ice Shaper in Kaldheim.
I love Megatog for same reason as your Karn. He was in my first deck - preconstructed Sacrificial Bam deck. I love art and I like ability. But my favorite card is Vindicate
Probably Lord of the Pit, for me. It was one of the first cards I ever received, way back in Revised, and I still have it in a hard case. I think my next tattoo will be the sigil off of the original card art by Mark Tedin.
My first two pack rares were Knight of the Reliquary and Master of the Wild Hunt. Both are excellent cards, and I've always wanted to build a modern deck that featured one or both of them if possible. However, my first precon rare was Denizen of the Deep, and in that precon I happened to open up an Arcanis the Omnipotent. Arcanis really struggles in modern right now, but he is such a cool card! As for the Denizen, I don't really care as much for it save for the nostalgia. The year that Tenth Edition dropped I also got the Kalonian Behemoth precon and the Shivan Dragon precon. Between all of them though, the Behemoth was my favorite. As for my personal favorite card, I believe it is Teleportal. I love to swing in for game, I don't know why but my favorite mechanics are combat tricks and Teleportal is an insane enabler. It allows damage to be pushed through and the artwork is absolutely stunning! I also feel that the card is quite flavorful because of the idea that a teleportation machine could push creatures through a wall of defenses to strike immediately. It is simply an efficient enabler, and I would like to see it played more.
My favourite card is endless ranks of the dead. It's a silly 2BB enchantment from innistrad, which creates X 2/2 zombies each turn, where X is half of zombies you control. I remember a game, where I had literally thousands of zombies, with four of the ranks in play. The problem was that my opponent had a one guy with "can block any number of creatures" and "negates combat damage". Both of my doomblades were somewhere in the bottom of my library, so I lost the game and won an awesome memory.
I love Slivers. Since Tempest introduced them in the late 90's I've been a huge fan. Sliver Queen would have been my #1 pick. Maybe you could do a "Top 10" slivers, if you haven't already. I'd like to see which slivers made the most impact in MtG over the years.
My favorite deck I have is an old 1999 printed copy of the Tokyo champion decks that year. The gold border kai budde wildfire deck was my fav to play with at school. Nice to see your top 2 cards from that deck! I think it's still a relatively beast deck given its 22 years old. I just wanted something unique as a kid and everyone had color this color color that decks. I thought I'd surprise everyone coming with nearly full on artifacts. That deck holds my favorite cards due to effects that scale and age well + nostalgia of course. I really have fond memories of Covetous Dragon and Earthquake. 6/5 flying dragon for mountain + 4 was slick in 2000. Also really liked Earthquake. A deck with insane amounts of colorless mana and a mountain + X card for raw damage output to non-flyers (hooray for covetous dragon) and players. Sort of card where a lot of mana and a life lead can simply mean a win if done right. Phyrexian processor is interesting too. With karns ability and phyrexian, the deck always had the potential to create some big creatures beyond the 6/5 dragon.
Land Destruction oh how that brings back memories. My first tournament win was Invasion Block with Skizzik, Phrexian Scuta, Depletion Counter lands, with Land desctruction.. Turn 2 Stone Rain in a black red agro deck...
Well, my favorite card only found rare use against control freaks in my burn deck, Obliterate. However, it still holds my fondest memory, being that it turned a 3v3 that was very contested into a win in just one turn. Nuking one opponent is fun, but doing it to six players at once, with your guys able to fill up their mana pools before, was completely hilarious.
For some reasons, I've always loved TAP abilities (because it gives the sensation of having something similar to moving/living objects/robots), adding mana of every color (with TAP abilities), and pumping creatures (especially with static whole-side ability). That's why I instantly loved Slivers and later Elves (like Wirewood Channeler) and Soldiers (Daru Warchief and similar)
My favourite card is sorin vengeful bloodlord. I got him in one of my first ever packs and built a deck around it. It is now a brawl deck, and is my favourite deck, I just love gaining life and then playing cards like bolas's citadel or loxodon lifechanter and annihilating my opponents. I also like skitter eel as it creature types are kind of a meme in my playgroup. One of my other favourite decks is a kitchen table jank simic proliferate deck with it fblthp and sharktocrab known as the UnitedCultOfFishCrab.
My number one favorite card, as you might be able to guess from my pic, is lightning bolt. I loved a lot of cards in this list and have been enjoying the videos keep up the good work!
Grixis Delver is still my favorite modern deck. Im always playing it. My favorite card though is by far Lingering Souls. So much flavor and insane card. Innistrad btw the best set of all time. The whole block❤
Storm crow is also pretty good as well as brilliant spectrum. I love playing brilliant spectrum in a mono blue aggro deck. Mmmf that draw one discard two for four mana value!
I started playing right before 4th edition came out. I went to a local shop to see what cards they had. There was always a common box and then there was a glass case with the rares in it. I saw a particular rare and had to have it. I saved up and bought it. I soon acquired another from a friend that acquired a collection from someone she knew that quit playing. So now I have 2 Khabal Gouls! I’m very partial to them because of what they do and when I got them (still in my Magic infancy). They don’t see much play because I can always find something better to take their place in a deck. When I do use them, t I use them as a distraction as they are usually the first thing targeted and it allows me to get other things in the board.
I was a dirty Necropotence player back in the day. Really liked Black Vice, Stormbind, Howling Mine, Icy Manipulator. Will always have a soft spot for Kird Apes and Hymn to Tourach.
I had several card that stroke me when I first saw the collection of my brother. There was the Putrid raptor, that I loved the design and a gorgeous shiny Plasma Elemental. Recently I finally made a deck involving the Putrid raptor, some form of Mid-Range Zombie.
I love Rhox War Monk. A supper efficient lifelinker in all my prefered collors and I love the art. I did my exalted-bant deck back in the day 90% to be able to run him (even though cascade-jund was miles better) and bought a custom made playmat with him on.
Cool I started in fourth edition and quit in the last set of urza block, with Sylvan library being my first rare. I constructed a land destruction deck, that I've kept for years (decades) until recently (2018) I played it w customers (I own a bar) and realized it didn't age well, but went back to playing. Mostly edh now, at my bar twice a week. With an equip (mono red) and an elf deck in modern, that both win by turn 4. And half a dozen budget edh decks :)
My favorite card is Metalwork Colossus, I run an artifact deck for standard (sadly it will go out of standard come october) and his ability coupled with my deck being able to constantly pump out things like prophetic prisms and other non-creature artifacts makes him an absolute beast that can come out as early as turn four. And with cartouche of knowledge and ambition I can pump him up even further and give him flying and lifelink.
Damnation Emrakul. the aeons thorn Oona, queen of the fae Vampire Nocturnus Mind funeral Dark depths Spellstutter Sprite Bitterblossom Ink eyes, servant of the oni and my all time favorite : Doomblade
My favorite card has to be either drana blood chief because she shows what a vampire should be something that drains you and becomes stronger. Or Aurelia the warleader her art and abilities are just so beautiful.
I loved Phyrexian Processor. I used to run it in a green white kitchen table deck that had a lot of life gain and all the circles of protection and after gaining a lot of life and preventing it's loss with the circles I could start chugging out 5/5's, 10/10's or I even once did a 20/20 per turn for five mana. My friends never quite knew if they wanted to save their disenchant for one of the circles of protection or one of the life gain enchantments or the processor itself... fun times
My favourite Card is "Flickering ward". 1 mana permanent protection against a color is great. But being able to return it to the hand for 1 white is glorious. FW is the mother of almost all auras (unless that aura grants hexproof or shroud)
I have always loved powerful game changing manipulation effects such as Mindlock orb and Maralen of Mornsong. That all started though with my still favorite Æther Storm. I have grown to like Forsaken Wastes the most recently. lifelink becoming completely a non issue is awesome in my mind.
When I pulled conjurers closet back in avacyn restored I saw what kind of potential it had, love that card especially I I get to blink some sweet angels
Land destruction is ok- I started playing at about the same time- Urza Block, but the card stores around still had a LOT of Tempest Block in stock. I played Sliver and was eaqually "loved" as the land destruction guys :-) One of my first cards I remember was Ravenous Rats and from that moment on, I loved "comes into play" effects! Brian Seldens Deck from Worlds with Survival of the Fittest and Recurring Nightmare is still my favorite. Thank you for this video- it made me remember the old days and old friends :-)
My favourite card in Magic was either Enter the infinite or Progenitor Mimic; these two cards were parts of my two favourite combos which made me smile each game.
I loved Marton Stromgald for much the same reason you love Karn. I opened him in the first pack I bought, an Ice Age Starter pack (back when these were the only way to get lands). I knew the basic rules of magic by then, and the thought of attacking with a huge board and getting a quadratic effect off of it just blew my mind. Wonder how many people here would even know that Marton Stromgald existed, let alone remember what he does.
I understand your feelings. My favorite card is Daggerback Basilisk, I got 4 in my very first deck, back then he usually end up giving me a couple of turns or even saving me from losing all together. For that reason he has been on my deck ever since =)
Death Baron, Anointed Procession, Unmoored Ego, Dovin's Veto, Assassin's Trophy, Regrowth, Tamiyo: collector of tales.... so far. I like zombie tokens and removal. I had a Collector of Tales and Liliana, Untouched by Death deck last year that was fun. I recurred Assassin's Trophy and Unmoored Ego several times and removed my friends' win conditions~
As far to my knowledge, delver is the only common to be a staple in all non-rotating constructed formats except for commander (legacy, vintage, modern, pauper).
im relatively new to magic, so the most fun I ever had was bringing a 5 color standard deck to a PTQ and going 7-3 with Sylvan Caryatids and Axebane Guardians. i LOVE sylvan caryatid, the hexproof basically made it a confidant, safe, turn-2 play every time.
Haven't played mtg for very long. Only started a year and a half ago, so I'm not as experienced. I also can only play on mtg arena, because all the local game stores and card shops aren't allowing sit-down gaming at the moment. That being said, I have a few favorites so far. In no particular order, I have Fae of Wishes for its way of getting combo pieces without having to run them in the main deck, and combos well with Omniscience. Esika, God of the Tree, though only for its Prismatic Bridge side with my current planeswalker deck (very silly with Sarkan the Masterless). Lastly, Iharg the Raze Bore. Very first time I ever played mtg with some friends, I got to use him with Krenko and make a ton of Goblin tokens, and I have loved him ever since.
My favourite card is also my first choice rare from my first booster - Pristine Angel. Removed from nostalgia, it's my playset of Phyrexian Obliterator. So strong, and trollish, in casual that many of my friends just won't play against it.
I started Magic around the same time you did and I loved land destruction back then too. I found true love in Wake of Destruction because fuck that land and every land like it.
Have you ever used Strionic Resonator[s] to copy the triggered effects of some of your favorite mentioned cards? (And possibly "trigger" your opponents even more?) That artifact (along w/ Brighthearth Rings) gets insane in the right [casual] deck.
My personal favorites currently are Reprocess and Lotus Cobra. Reprocess is very lovely for a combo in Land Matters deck. Either play Splendid Reclamation after using Reprocess or have World Shaper on the field and sacrifice it along with the lands, so you get the lands back immediantly. EDIT: Now that I remember, Sharuum is one of my other favorites because my Breya deck uses her a lot and she's so much fun to abuse.
10 Earthquake 9 Young Pyromancer 8 Lava Dart 7 Chain Lightning (this switches with rift bolt if someone is willing to play tennis) 6 Rift Bolt 5 Figure of Destiny 4 Xenagos, God of Revels 3 Boros Reckoner 2 Goblin Guide 1 Lightning Bolt Yeah, I'm a red mage, and Xenagos is my favorite Commander.
Number 1 (or top 3, not sure how to rank this) for me is probably Hanweir, the Writhing Township. The flavor and art are fantastic and totally unique, a whole town fusing into one massive abomination. My first ever deck was a R/G humans deck in Eldritch Moon, and I ran 4 copies of Hanweir Garrison and Hanweir Battlements to get it out whenever I could. I always dreamed of playing it when I had Bloodmist for an instant 20 damage, and I actually did get it to happen once.
Some of my favourites are: Lightning Bolt, Hymn to Tourach, Goblin Recruiter, Forgotten Ancient... Mostly things that crossed my path of learning the game and leaving somewhat of an impact. Either flavor wise or whatever.
My favorite card is Opposition, back in the day we played Legacy at my local place and I had a different opposition based deck every week. They started giving me second place prize for free just to throw matches so other people could win. Lol
10. Hymn to Tourach, 9. Hypnotic Specter, 8. Tradewind Rider because I built a deck around it and won a local tournament back in Tempest block, 7. Isochron Scepter, 6. Counterspell, 5. Kiln Fiend/Nivix Cyclops, 4. Thrun, the Last Troll, 3.Goblin Rabblemaster, 2. Ajani, Mentor of Heroes, 1. Game of Chaos, which gets super fun when you turn it into a drinking game.
Karn!!!!! Like yer vids, I'm old and only played casually with my friend who taught me back in my teens in the 90s so when I bought some cards of my own at a garage sale I was super stoked to find Karn Sliver Golem in there. But I have trouble naming an absolute fav. Probably #1)Demonic Tutor (cuz I worship the Devil. like all MTG players did back then) #2) Prodigal Sorcerer. My Blue pinger deck was unstoppable back in the day. Just eat damage till you can get 2-3 out then it is over. Makes all their blocking/attacking choices impossible cuz the extra damage can go anywhere. And if you don't make me Tap them they go to yer face at the end of yer turn. Got a couple boosters years later and got 2 Talon of Pain that made my Pinger deck even crazier! #3) NIGHTMARE!!!!! #4) Bury #5) Fireball #6) Venom #7) counter spell UU to say "nope" to their big summon or 9 mana fireball was great! #8) Armageddon Land destruction is highly underrated! And if you can wait a turn or two or otherwise make sure you will have land drops the next couple turns it's game over. #9) Fallen Angel. Love the art, love the effect. Love biggish Black flyers. #10) Starfish. Like the art. Looks harmless, but after the third or fourth time it chump blocks a big and puts another 0-1 token into play people start to hate and scheme to get rid of it. A card a both love & hate; "Dromar The Banisher" If I had one I would absolutely love it but as it turns out I don't have one & my friend who taught me to play & was almost the only person I ever got to play did have a Dromar and loved to play it. God I HATE that card/secretly covet it. Have a nice life! Or at least try to. And certainly don't prevent others from trying! P
Oh geez, so much to choose from. I started playing around 7th edition, and I remember my friend always loved killing me with Rhox or Thorn Elemental. (Understandable. Couple of fatties that hold up even today. :) ) Of course Planeshift soon came out, and Terminate became an instant favorite of mine. I've also got fond memories of Pariah, Goblin Grenade, Devouring Strossus, all sorts of things. And we can't forget the classic commons. Llanowar Elves, Lightning Bolt, Counterspell, Dark Ritual and the like have always remained some of my favorites. Too many favorite cards to name, but these days I get a lot of enjoyment out of taking cards that are thought of as mediocre, and then trying to maximize their potential. For example, I really like how the cards 'Mystic Genesis' and 'Jace's Ingenuity' are wonderful if they're both in your hand. Somebody playing a big spell? Counter and get a fatty for it! Nothing worth countering? Draw three cards instead! They're conveniently of the same mana cost too. No need to spend your available mana on your turn. You can wait to see what your opponent is going to do, then act accordingly. :)
My own favorite card has to be Exava, The Rakdos Blood Witch, the first holo I ever got AND in my favorite color pair. I really want to make an Aggro Exava deck n Commander, but for now it sits as a fun little piece in my Korvold deck
not only did John Avon draw all the best art on lands, he also did the art for the card that steals the cards that he did the best art for...also major props for Furnace Celebration, it is also my favorite limited card...I have 27 on mtgo from drafting Scars sooooooo much...fume spitter, spellbombs, replica's...also have over 30 of each of the mana myrs from Scars too...oh, and over 30 plague stingers and cystbearers too LOL
Favorite enchantment: Cloak of Confusion Favorite creature: Waterfront Bouncer Favorite removal: Spinal Graft (combo with death watch and anything that can target creature) Favorite instant: Boomerang When I was young I didn't pay much money to play magic, all I bought from the card shop in my whole life was 4 packs I got armageddon and jokulhaups which I sold them. Because of this my decks are mostly consist of commons and a few uncommons discarded (literally) by people in the card shop, I played none of the rares even though I got a few, including a time vault (not played mostly because of its banned status). My favorite deck is a blue-black control deck that is built around the first two cards from above. It is designed only good for 1vs1, and it can be very confusing for my opponent until I completed the lockdown combo, where the opponent can't do anything and have his table completely wiped of permanents, with 6 key cards: Cloak of confusion (usually enchant on Cloud spite) Waterfront bouncer Counterspell Scrivener Recoil Rishadan cutpurse Clearly this deck don't play too well against burn decks, but most aggro/combo decks popular at the time had such a bad time playing against it. They only realize my deck's win condition once I keep them top-decking and recovering the counterspell over and over, slowly removing their permanents one by one (usually they will concede before having no hand and no permanents). During the time there was no permanent that can withstand this complex combo, rishadan is slow to remove shrouded permanents after I take care of their lands, but I have curfew and diabolic edict too to deal with aggro decks. It was completely anti-meta, fun and complex to play but not so fun to play against. If they can't kill my 1/1 creatures fast enough they will lose the game, very slowly as I prioritize permanents and cards in hand before opponent's life to ensure no comeback is possible.
Love the art of that versions goblin sharpshooter Karn is an 4/4 Artefact creature for 5 Mana which has Bushido 4 That was INSANE back at that time. Very lucky first draw. I think that was an stable in your decks for the first few years.
ensoul artifact, that was the card that (sort of) held together my azorios vehicles deck, it op and I love it, also caught in the brights which also dose wonders in control vehicles, rishkars expertise, sunbound, brimaz (first mythic) kalitus, daretti ingenious iconclast (first walker I pulled or owned and the only reason I still have a rakdos artifats deck) see the unwritten, part the water vile, sliver hive lord (even though I never played him) oreskos sun guild, arcetype of imagination,
Here is my top ten. It's a weird list, because some of these cards were used very effectively against me, not by me, but I give credit where it's due. No particular order. 1. Festering Wound it was the key card in my only very successful Standard deck that beat everyone 2. Serra Angel I have always loved this card, and it warms my heart she's still being printed. Coolest angel ever. 3. Phyrexian Negator So cool. They exist to cease. 4. Altar of Dementia An artifact that I often cursed as my library disappeared. A key card in my friend's Mill deck. 5. Elder Land Wyrm Not a good card. I just liked it. Sometimes it's best to let sleeping dragons lie. 6. Lotus Petal It was banned, but we all used it anyways. Such lovely things. 7. Mox Diamond I pulled one fresh from a pack. These were highly prized in my day. 8. Black Knight The key card in my Black Speed Deck. 2 for 2/2 first strike protection from white? Awesome at the time. The Fifth Edition art was the best. Don't ask him why he fights. 9. Rathi Dragon A key card in my Red Deck. 5/5 flyer on the cheap. Won a lot of games. Kingdoms will be thine. 10. Serra Avatar For awhile, Avatar decks were all the rage. Gain stupid amounts of life, play a Avatar, attack for lethal. Games during that time often went into the 100-200 life totals. It was chaos. I loved this card's art as well.
It's nothing special but mine is Urborg. I got my first one way back when first started playing out of a booster pack. Now I have 10 copies and I run one in every black deck. Cause why not? Plus I like the artwork. Nevinyrral's Disk with the original artwork is up there too.
I forgot about Fog. I love that stupid card. It has won me more games in edh and pissed off more people than I can remember... Nothing quite breaks the spirit of an opponent that can't get damage through because of a one mana "stop it now" button.
Don't really know an exact Top 10. But I do know that all 3 original Eldrazi Titans (the Annihilators) would be on there. There was something so satisfying about ramping up into those and just watching your opponents board disappear.
Little did nizzahon know that just a few years later we would get an indestructible god that does the exact same thing that conjurors closet and then became even more obnoxious when agent of treachery was printed
Yeah I probably should Have remembered about m20 coming before Theros beyond death and considering how I have a whole deck on area built around that combo I really should have remembered
One does not simply pick favorite cards... I asked my brother to mention 20 cards he associates me with, then I picked 10 of them. 10: Magical Hacker (good for Planeswalkers and my brother's Green decks) 9: Invisible Stalker (good with Artifact equipment) 8: Sleep (when I first got into Magic in January 2015 I thought it was super broken) 7: Jace, Ingenious Mind-Mage (I like how he can draw you cards or give you borderline Vigilance) 6: Propaganda (slows down mana ramping and aggro decks) 5: Jace's Phantasm (great 1/1 flying for 1, with a little bonus later in the game) 4: Lighting Bolt (do I really need to explain why?) 3: Jace, The Mind Sculptor (yes, I'm that guy) 2: Vampire Nighthawk (there's no reason to run him as long as you're running Black) 1: Jace Beleren (when I was first getting into Magic in January 2015, my brother said, "I was gon'na buy you that card but I didn't have enough money, you should buy it..." so I did)
For some reason my favorite card in MTG is Stalking Vengeance. At one point I got really into Avatars, and he was the first Avatar I ever opened. I thought he sounded broken as hell just from reading the card, and even now he's kinda good in EDH. I absolutely love playing a Thunderblust and him off of a Hypergenesis with my commander in play in my Kresh the Bloodbraided EDH. Also Worldspine Wurm. Because he's basically a giant earthworm who can kill Emrakul. My best freind says the two cards he associates with me the most are Savage Summoning and Surrak Dragonclaw, because I hate counterspells with a vengeance. To be more precise I hate how much value they give you over your opponent, countering a 7 cost creature for 2 of your mana is insane value, and that creature doesn't even get to use it's enter/leave play abilities, unlike with removal.
Torpor Orb and Hushwing Gryff must make you a bit sad. I also sympathize with the land destruction kick. Good times, well, when your the one blowing them up. :)
I started playing right when The Dark was being phased out and Fallen Empires was going on line. I really enjoyed the art of Fire Drake specifically, but boosters for The Dark were always more expensive than fallen empires boosters. Needless to say, I bought waaay too much fallen empires and have little to show for it.
