I love [Oil-Gorger Troll]. ONE was one of my favorite draft environments, and I really loved the oil counter mechanic. I keep a very jank oil based edh deck around. He won me a bunch of games in draft, I love the art, and the “flavor” text (get it?) cracks me up.
What card sparks joy for you and why?
Not only do I love the art, but the ability at the time was fairly unheard of. It is way overcosted now. But still such a fun card.
I know that thats foam, but my brain says he is eating popcorn and loving it
To be fair, that is how I look when I eat popcorn.
Basilica Bell-Haunt
The art, the solid mana cost and the frame colors make it an aesthetically very pleasing card, but when it was revealed I figured it would be a good draft card but not playable in Standard. But it turned out to be a fantastic stabilizing card in Esper Hero and punched way above its weight as an uncommon. GRN/RNA was also just a great era for Standard so it’s tied to good memories from that time as well.
Yeah thats a dope looking card. Always love seeing non-generic mana costs, even though I know it makes the card worse.
Gravecrawler for me. Always loved zombie decks and how annoying these were to fight.
Ah the lynchpin of my [[Varina, Lich Queen]] deck! I really enjoy one drops, especially when they do that much work.
I’ll always have fond memories of [[Aurochs Herd]]. I know a lot of people don’t like Coldsnap draft, but I’ll play it anytime, and I’ll probably try to force green.
I love it! Makes me want to put together a jank 40 card tribal. Doesnt seem like it’d be expensive…
Hurloon Wrangler
(with Denimwalk)
Once Upon a Time is perhaps the greatest gameplay-flavor integration win Magic has ever had. For a while, standard matches all began with someone saying the name of the card.
Avenging Angel seemed so cool when I first started playing. It didn’t die, and a 3/3 flyer was pretty good a closing games (though not as quick as a Thorn Elemental).
I just loved how it kept coming back to avenge itself.
The most metal White card. Black gets all the cool spooky business, Red gets all the fury and devastation, and here’s a goddamn nuke with minimal centered text.
I love Wash Out, it’s a real game changer in monoblue.
Oh yeah my friends hate that card in my [[Naban, Dean of Iteration]] deck
