Creatures of aether best rival series#
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Creatures of aether best rival free#

Oh, I know, it's the classic lockdown combo you put down Stasis and freeze the entire board at once! Then you play free counterspells like Daze and Force of Will to stop your opponents from casting anything new, and slowly but surely you choke them to death!

Runner Up: Stasis / Karma and Frozen Aether (The last time I came up with a list of ten cards, I spent the better part of two days deciding whether Krosan Cloudscraper was #10 or #8 it's difficult, being retentive.)īefore we start, let's list a couple of cards that are not on here-no, I didn't overlook 'em, I left them off. These cards are listed in no particular order, mainly because it would take me forever to decide what ranking goes where. After all, there's no greater satisfaction than laying down a card and watching people squint as they ask, 'What does that do?' and then seeing their eyes pop open as they go, 'Holy crap.' Some of them are tournament staples (and, admittedly, a little boring 'cause we've seen them all before), some of them are multiplayer-only extravaganzas, and some of them are just plain forgotten cards that maybe you should dig up. So I spent a few hours looking at every enchantment ever printed, and I picked out the best other fifty multiplayer enchantments-cards that could, and should, see play in one of your decks soon. Pernicious Deed is a severe Rattlesnake card once you get it out it says, 'If you annoy me, I will kill everything you love.' This means that the Deed is both finely tuned mass removal and protection from weaker players all at once, making it perhaps one of the best multiplayer cards ever.īut you know, that's a boring article. Now, Pernicious Deed's power has gone down a slight amount thanks to split second cards, but you'd be surprised at how few people are packing Krosan Grips. Deed does the best of balancing all three. Let the players play.įlexibility, power, and fun: great tools in multiplayer. Players understand mass creature kill, and they tend to favor clearing the woods of all the crazy artifacts and enchantments. But it answers virtually every other card in Magic (including Platinum Angel and all the other #1s listed above-not even Glory can protect creatures against it), and it sits in the two colors that may be the most powerful in the game today.Īfter all that, it leaves lands intact-which, for me, is critical to keeping players engaged.

The Deed cannot answer sorceries or instants. recur with Replenish (or several different green cards like Regrowth)?.play at instant speed with Vernal Equinox?.

Creatures of aether best rival series#

combine with a series of goes-to-graveyard effects?.hurt a certain set of players, without touching another set?.threaten to wipe the board if anyone comes near you?.speed the game up by wiping the board of everything but big regenerators?.slow the game down by wiping the board clean of everything but lands?.What do you want to do, exactly? Do you want to: But when it comes in a cheap, permanent, sackable, adjustable, and incredibly effective package, it gets a lot more exciting. I could write more, I guess, but instead I'll quote my predecessor, one Mister Anthony Alongi, who summed it all up so well that I can't top him: Folks, you can't do better than Pernicious Deed.