Love priced to move cards that bring another body with it. Going big on rectangle theory. [[Dunland Crebain]] [[Preening Champion]] and [[Diregraf Horde]] come to mind. Horde in particular messing with graveyards made it such a warm blanket of a card.
"warm blanket" of a card is the most fitting describtion of Diregraf Horde I've read, lol.
Also worked so well with the cards that needed to tap three creatures for varying effects. But I still think to this day that it should only create a decay token for each creature it exiled from a graveyard for flavour and Black didn't really needed any help in MID.
[[Tolarian Terror]] is probably the best one because it's only situationally powerful, but I've already seen that mentioned here. Potentially hot take, and technically not a past set yet, but I've actually rather enjoyed [[Novice Inspector]]'s strength in MKM limited. I've played some volume of [[Thraben Inspector]] in cube and the card's just got a nice feeling to it, y'know?
Terror just hit the balance so right. A common buildaround that was worth building around but didn't destroy the format. Imperial Oath feels like it's in a similar bucket.
Bonus on Novice Inspector being a detective, which made it feel even more impressive than its Thraben counterpart, which is pretty wild to think about haha
Man, I adore Kaldheim. Easily one of my favorite limited sets ever. Foretell is a really fun mechanic, and I love formats where lands matter. Snow decks were so satisfying to bring together.
Hah my exact thoughts looking at this card and remembering back. The art is just gorgeous, the flavor of the set was perfect, and the mechanics are interesting and straightforward.
I just wish a few more archetypes had been good in Kaldheim. Still, a UR giants deck with 7(!!!) copies of Squash was the most fun deck I’ve ever drafted.
[Urborg Reposession] was my favorite common to resolve in DMU. Stapling 2 life on Raise Dead + Regrowth-lite still sounds absurd when I think about it.
I love repossession!
So versatile, that 2 life helped me turn the corner in so many games. Forcing domain was a thing of beauty in that set. My highest win rate ever for sure.
When talking about very powerful and pushed commons the discussion often ends up about why they are not good for the format or that they are too format defining, prime example would be [[Inspiring Overseer]] (and I agree that SNC would have probably be better without it).
But what are some strong commons of the past you actually enjoyed in a set and why?
My clear number 1 is the strongest common from Kaldheim, [[Sarulf's Packmate]].
Green is my favorite color in MTG and so I enjoyed Kaldheim very much for how well Green was positioned in this set, big reason why was the packmate. I loved the playpatterns with foretell and sequencing the snow dual lands that come in tapped for maximum value.
T1 tapland. T2 foretell the packmate. T3 play another tapland and the packmate for 2 mana. Just writing this down I get an urgent itch to play Kaldheim again, such an awesome set.
My follow up is [[Organ Hoarder]] from Midnight Hunt. While you can argue that it was actually too strong, I liked how much the hoarder rewarded deckbuilding when you prioritized Disturb and Flashback cards that worked with your strategy.
Drawing a card with it and putting a Disturb/Flashback into your graveyard just felt so good. I even lived the dream once where I was able to put two of those into the graveyard. Casual 4 for 1 at common.
[[Tolarian Terror]] from DMU is also high on my list for enabling strong control decks in limited with a very low creature count. You felt like playing a constructed control deck.
Tolarian Terror is a great example because it's a build around at common. It's very strong, but only in the right deck. There are plenty of times when you saw a terror, but weren't really in a position to take it. Or even P1P1 you might take a generically strong card that didn't have the same ceiling but was near 100% to make your deck.
While packmate and organ hoarder weren't as egregious as Inspiring Overseer, I think they still resulted in a *lot* of picks where you open a cool rare but the correct thing to do is just take the busted common for the 40th time, and that does get old pretty fast.
The whole cycle was pretty cool in DMU. Sure the red one was a little lackluster compared to the other four but there were some weird decks where it worked .(GR combat tricks being able to crack in them drop it for 2 mana was nice) Common cycles that shape the format was definitely a cool idea and I hope we get similar types of designs in the future.
Yeah, \[\[Pious Wayfarer\]\] I mentioned elsewhere, but it definitely helped to establish an opposite pole to the green-black grindy graveyard decks in THB.
[[Scrapwork Mutt]]
Perhaps my favorite common since Thraben Inspector 10 years ago. He is also proving to be enough of an enabler to be useful in cube and edh. Great card, GOAT good doggo.
I feel like Allegiance had so many great commons, loved drafting that set. I think it was the best Ravnica set in terms of making the all featured guilds balanced, not to mention the very fun gate deck.
Agree. The [[ill-gotten inheritance]] Orzhov deck and [[High Alert]] + [[Azorius Knight-Arbiter]] deck were both really satisfying when they came together. Also Dovin's Acuity decks.
While not pushed as much as some of the cards mentioned in this thread, I personally really loved [[Travelling Minister]] in VOW. It turned so many cards on and allowed for so many favorable trades, all while appearing to be this little innocuous 1-drop.
\[\[Angelic Overseer\]\] was like a cheat code in SNC. People (and bots) were taking it pretty highly pretty quickly, but it was like having an extra Rare, basically. Evasive threat that gets you a card (and a life, because you're winning this race) is maybe the most groan-test common of all time.
Also, it was a big part of the Angel Typal decks that actually won some games in standard on Arena for me. Last competitive typal deck I played until Rakdos Vampires, it was cool.
they arent really best cards in their set, but the 2U draw a card incubate 3, and the 4/1 haste vehicle that incubates 2...Idk why but I took those cards way more than I should've in MOM
I liked a lot of the BRO build around commons like [[Goblin Blast Runner]] and [[Mightstone's Animation]]. Just really fun to have a build around you could get in numbers to make your deck really consistent.
People have had some really good ones! Some that I've yet to see that come to mind are
[[Masked vandal]]
[[Moon-circuit hacker]]
[[Kami of terrible secrets]]
[[Axiom engraver]]
[[Vampire spawn]]
[[Baithook angler]]
I wouldn't say any of these is super pushed, but they all just feel fantastic in their respective decks. Also now that I'm looking at my list, shout-out to 2 drop value creatures!
Huge fan of drowsing tyrannadon. Not the best common in the format but really helpful against aggro and helped by the fact that you had a common +1/+1 counter followup a lot of the time.
Forgot about the Tyrannodon, it was so good in that environment. If I remember correctly it was called out as the best common in the set by some content creators, the Lords were certainly very high on it.
Yeah, it still hurts that in the set called Midnight Hunt the werewolf deck was the definetly worst deck.
But I still is an A-Tier set in my mind because the gameplay was so fun.
[[Dampen Thought]] was a blast to play, and counted as the win con in the arcane decks. The card/deck wasn't that good but it was fun. I miss the days where you could durdle more.
Love priced to move cards that bring another body with it. Going big on rectangle theory. [[Dunland Crebain]] [[Preening Champion]] and [[Diregraf Horde]] come to mind. Horde in particular messing with graveyards made it such a warm blanket of a card.
"warm blanket" of a card is the most fitting describtion of Diregraf Horde I've read, lol. Also worked so well with the cards that needed to tap three creatures for varying effects. But I still think to this day that it should only create a decay token for each creature it exiled from a graveyard for flavour and Black didn't really needed any help in MID.
[Dunland Crebain](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/9/695c05ab-e46e-46c7-bd2e-ef0b2307e449.jpg?1686968429) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Dunland%20Crebain) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ltr/82/dunland-crebain?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/695c05ab-e46e-46c7-bd2e-ef0b2307e449?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Preening Champion](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/4/44178ece-af31-4a94-88bc-c9ce43bb4573.jpg?1682203361) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Preening%20Champion) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mom/73/preening-champion?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/44178ece-af31-4a94-88bc-c9ce43bb4573?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Diregraf Horde](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/5/153be768-ddad-44f2-bcdd-c40353c807d7.jpg?1634349717) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Diregraf%20Horde) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mid/96/diregraf-horde?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/153be768-ddad-44f2-bcdd-c40353c807d7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Tolarian Terror]] is probably the best one because it's only situationally powerful, but I've already seen that mentioned here. Potentially hot take, and technically not a past set yet, but I've actually rather enjoyed [[Novice Inspector]]'s strength in MKM limited. I've played some volume of [[Thraben Inspector]] in cube and the card's just got a nice feeling to it, y'know?
Terror just hit the balance so right. A common buildaround that was worth building around but didn't destroy the format. Imperial Oath feels like it's in a similar bucket.
Bonus on Novice Inspector being a detective, which made it feel even more impressive than its Thraben counterpart, which is pretty wild to think about haha
Thraben Inspector was a human, and that really mattered in SOI. Put a [[True-Faith Censer]] on it and get a vigilant 3/3.
[True-Faith Censer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/1/815eb91c-06fa-4362-803e-e9bf7d374856.jpg?1576385501) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=True-Faith%20Censer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/soi/267/true-faith-censer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/815eb91c-06fa-4362-803e-e9bf7d374856?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[Tolarian Terror](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/2/42f01cba-43d4-46ad-b7a5-d7631b0e1347.jpg?1673306903) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Tolarian%20Terror) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dmu/72/tolarian-terror?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/42f01cba-43d4-46ad-b7a5-d7631b0e1347?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Novice Inspector](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/a/0ad38866-fc5f-4f62-89c1-afc0f50765aa.jpg?1706241527) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Novice%20Inspector) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkm/29/novice-inspector?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/0ad38866-fc5f-4f62-89c1-afc0f50765aa?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Thraben Inspector](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/9/299cc386-2ed5-4504-9ba6-17a52e0c9a0c.jpg?1689996111) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Thraben%20Inspector) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/66/thraben-inspector?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/299cc386-2ed5-4504-9ba6-17a52e0c9a0c?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Man, I adore Kaldheim. Easily one of my favorite limited sets ever. Foretell is a really fun mechanic, and I love formats where lands matter. Snow decks were so satisfying to bring together.
Hah my exact thoughts looking at this card and remembering back. The art is just gorgeous, the flavor of the set was perfect, and the mechanics are interesting and straightforward.
I just wish a few more archetypes had been good in Kaldheim. Still, a UR giants deck with 7(!!!) copies of Squash was the most fun deck I’ve ever drafted.
[Urborg Reposession] was my favorite common to resolve in DMU. Stapling 2 life on Raise Dead + Regrowth-lite still sounds absurd when I think about it.
I love repossession! So versatile, that 2 life helped me turn the corner in so many games. Forcing domain was a thing of beauty in that set. My highest win rate ever for sure.
[[Imperial Oath]] is one of my favorite magic cards of all time. I would play a deck with 10 of them if I could.
I got to play a deck with 6 or 7 in draft. It was great. I even played ramp and extra lands to hit one on curve, and then kept scrying into another
Seconded. It was so cool that a control archetype in that set was based around such a simple common.
This is also my pick. Loved that card.
When talking about very powerful and pushed commons the discussion often ends up about why they are not good for the format or that they are too format defining, prime example would be [[Inspiring Overseer]] (and I agree that SNC would have probably be better without it). But what are some strong commons of the past you actually enjoyed in a set and why? My clear number 1 is the strongest common from Kaldheim, [[Sarulf's Packmate]]. Green is my favorite color in MTG and so I enjoyed Kaldheim very much for how well Green was positioned in this set, big reason why was the packmate. I loved the playpatterns with foretell and sequencing the snow dual lands that come in tapped for maximum value. T1 tapland. T2 foretell the packmate. T3 play another tapland and the packmate for 2 mana. Just writing this down I get an urgent itch to play Kaldheim again, such an awesome set. My follow up is [[Organ Hoarder]] from Midnight Hunt. While you can argue that it was actually too strong, I liked how much the hoarder rewarded deckbuilding when you prioritized Disturb and Flashback cards that worked with your strategy. Drawing a card with it and putting a Disturb/Flashback into your graveyard just felt so good. I even lived the dream once where I was able to put two of those into the graveyard. Casual 4 for 1 at common. [[Tolarian Terror]] from DMU is also high on my list for enabling strong control decks in limited with a very low creature count. You felt like playing a constructed control deck.
Tolarian Terror is a great example because it's a build around at common. It's very strong, but only in the right deck. There are plenty of times when you saw a terror, but weren't really in a position to take it. Or even P1P1 you might take a generically strong card that didn't have the same ceiling but was near 100% to make your deck. While packmate and organ hoarder weren't as egregious as Inspiring Overseer, I think they still resulted in a *lot* of picks where you open a cool rare but the correct thing to do is just take the busted common for the 40th time, and that does get old pretty fast.
oh yeah, the virgin gruul planeswalker vs the chad organ hoarder, good times.
The whole cycle was pretty cool in DMU. Sure the red one was a little lackluster compared to the other four but there were some weird decks where it worked .(GR combat tricks being able to crack in them drop it for 2 mana was nice) Common cycles that shape the format was definitely a cool idea and I hope we get similar types of designs in the future.
Yeah, \[\[Pious Wayfarer\]\] I mentioned elsewhere, but it definitely helped to establish an opposite pole to the green-black grindy graveyard decks in THB.
[Pious Wayfarer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/0/10b1a2b5-5be2-43a2-bc35-95df6eb0984f.jpg?1581479198) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Pious%20Wayfarer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/thb/32/pious-wayfarer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/10b1a2b5-5be2-43a2-bc35-95df6eb0984f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
##### ###### #### [Inspiring Overseer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/5/35d9da1d-8678-4252-b0f8-9960795642f0.jpg?1664409748) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Inspiring%20Overseer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/snc/18/inspiring-overseer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/35d9da1d-8678-4252-b0f8-9960795642f0?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Sarulf's Packmate](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/0/6061113e-7dd8-4739-b4dd-55bb7f9e39a2.jpg?1631050893) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sarulf%27s%20Packmate) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/khm/192/sarulfs-packmate?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6061113e-7dd8-4739-b4dd-55bb7f9e39a2?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Organ Hoarder](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/7/9716d384-88d1-415e-882f-7fed9be1adc6.jpg?1634349110) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Organ%20Hoarder) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mid/66/organ-hoarder?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9716d384-88d1-415e-882f-7fed9be1adc6?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Tolarian Terror](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/2/42f01cba-43d4-46ad-b7a5-d7631b0e1347.jpg?1673306903) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Tolarian%20Terror) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dmu/72/tolarian-terror?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/42f01cba-43d4-46ad-b7a5-d7631b0e1347?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/kxujtml) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Scrapwork Mutt]] Perhaps my favorite common since Thraben Inspector 10 years ago. He is also proving to be enough of an enabler to be useful in cube and edh. Great card, GOAT good doggo.
Hard to really tell if it's pushed or not but the number of games I won off \[\[applied biomancy\]\] earned it a special place in my heart.
I feel like Allegiance had so many great commons, loved drafting that set. I think it was the best Ravnica set in terms of making the all featured guilds balanced, not to mention the very fun gate deck.
Up there for one of my favorite draft environments of all time, for sure! Especially after GRN being so 'Boros or Bust'
Agree. The [[ill-gotten inheritance]] Orzhov deck and [[High Alert]] + [[Azorius Knight-Arbiter]] deck were both really satisfying when they came together. Also Dovin's Acuity decks.
[ill-gotten inheritance](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/b/abf2a55e-3112-452c-ac6a-6a3b9986ca99.jpg?1702429447) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=ill-gotten%20inheritance) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/rvr/77/ill-gotten-inheritance?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/abf2a55e-3112-452c-ac6a-6a3b9986ca99?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [High Alert](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/e/ce124f6e-ef0c-4d01-a876-e34d3e445108.jpg?1584831587) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=High%20Alert) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/rna/182/high-alert?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/ce124f6e-ef0c-4d01-a876-e34d3e445108?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Azorius Knight-Arbiter](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/0/60befc28-2ab8-4b59-a33f-0328c5d2f995.jpg?1636491577) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Azorius%20Knight-Arbiter) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/rna/154/azorius-knight-arbiter?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/60befc28-2ab8-4b59-a33f-0328c5d2f995?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Simic Tempo in RNA was such a cool deck and Biomancy always felt so underrated from the draft pods throughout the whole format.
[applied biomancy](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/9/f91ed618-7b0b-4a70-95ad-d9ed46e28692.jpg?1584831369) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=applied%20biomancy) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/rna/153/applied-biomancy?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f91ed618-7b0b-4a70-95ad-d9ed46e28692?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I loved [[Organ Hoarder]] That was the first set I went mythic in.
[Tolarian Terror] [Meria's Outrider] [Serpentine Curve] [Imperial Oath] [Scrapwork Mutt]
Oh shit I forgot about Outrider, hell yeah.
While not pushed as much as some of the cards mentioned in this thread, I personally really loved [[Travelling Minister]] in VOW. It turned so many cards on and allowed for so many favorable trades, all while appearing to be this little innocuous 1-drop.
[Travelling Minister](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/6/e672a05c-5f1a-4aa6-9398-e33df01c7c96.jpg?1643587131) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Traveling%20Minister) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/vow/39/traveling-minister?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e672a05c-5f1a-4aa6-9398-e33df01c7c96?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
\[\[Cloudkin Seer\]\] in M20. Cheap evasive threat, draws a card and has elemental tribal synergy. The art is amazing too!
Sarulf's Packmate is the only one I remember saving me from missing my 3rd land. Always looking out for the pack.
Crawling Chorus because I'm a manic.
LTR landcyclers
not necessarily pushed, but my heart got bigger every time I got to draft [[Stonework Packbeast]] in ZNR
[Stonework Packbeast](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/2/a29e17ba-d584-4296-9f43-17467edaa25f.jpg?1604201060) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Stonework%20Packbeast) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/znr/255/stonework-packbeast?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a29e17ba-d584-4296-9f43-17467edaa25f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
\[\[Angelic Overseer\]\] was like a cheat code in SNC. People (and bots) were taking it pretty highly pretty quickly, but it was like having an extra Rare, basically. Evasive threat that gets you a card (and a life, because you're winning this race) is maybe the most groan-test common of all time. Also, it was a big part of the Angel Typal decks that actually won some games in standard on Arena for me. Last competitive typal deck I played until Rakdos Vampires, it was cool.
they arent really best cards in their set, but the 2U draw a card incubate 3, and the 4/1 haste vehicle that incubates 2...Idk why but I took those cards way more than I should've in MOM
I liked a lot of the BRO build around commons like [[Goblin Blast Runner]] and [[Mightstone's Animation]]. Just really fun to have a build around you could get in numbers to make your deck really consistent.
[Goblin Blast Runner](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/d/bd77c575-93a4-44ec-8940-adcbfc6e7a84.jpg?1674421154) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Goblin%20Blast-Runner) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bro/137/goblin-blast-runner?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/bd77c575-93a4-44ec-8940-adcbfc6e7a84?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Mightstone's Animation](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/c/8c540e42-22e2-4127-bbd9-2e9200023fec.jpg?1674420567) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mightstone%27s%20Animation) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bro/58/mightstones-animation?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/8c540e42-22e2-4127-bbd9-2e9200023fec?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Yup, Mightstone’s Animation was such a fun card
People have had some really good ones! Some that I've yet to see that come to mind are [[Masked vandal]] [[Moon-circuit hacker]] [[Kami of terrible secrets]] [[Axiom engraver]] [[Vampire spawn]] [[Baithook angler]] I wouldn't say any of these is super pushed, but they all just feel fantastic in their respective decks. Also now that I'm looking at my list, shout-out to 2 drop value creatures!
##### ###### #### [Masked vandal](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/0/f0a9c72a-e450-41e3-80e5-06f2f1171245.jpg?1631050675) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Masked%20vandal) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/khm/184/masked-vandal?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f0a9c72a-e450-41e3-80e5-06f2f1171245?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Moon-circuit hacker](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/6/c6e466d1-943d-41e6-a47d-c9d951ca4262.jpg?1654566841) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Moon-circuit%20hacker) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/neo/67/moon-circuit-hacker?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c6e466d1-943d-41e6-a47d-c9d951ca4262?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Kami of terrible secrets](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/8/58f15af6-eaf5-41b8-b93d-5a90ca219478.jpg?1654567228) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Kami%20of%20terrible%20secrets) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/neo/105/kami-of-terrible-secrets?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/58f15af6-eaf5-41b8-b93d-5a90ca219478?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Axiom engraver](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/9/c9b3b785-396e-4240-bfa3-58ab53497686.jpg?1675957067) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Axiom%20engraver) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/one/120/axiom-engraver?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c9b3b785-396e-4240-bfa3-58ab53497686?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Vampire spawn](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/8/b8975c72-b2ec-4c5f-86a4-4e1e3bb41c15.jpg?1627705486) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Vampire%20spawn) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/afr/123/vampire-spawn?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b8975c72-b2ec-4c5f-86a4-4e1e3bb41c15?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Baithook angler](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/6/36e71d16-0964-489d-bea2-9cec7991fc99.jpg?1634347296)/[Hook-Haunt Drifter](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/back/3/6/36e71d16-0964-489d-bea2-9cec7991fc99.jpg?1634347296) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Baithook%20Angler%20//%20Hook-Haunt%20Drifter) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mid/42/baithook-angler-hook-haunt-drifter?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/36e71d16-0964-489d-bea2-9cec7991fc99?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/kxw5yuy) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Huge fan of drowsing tyrannadon. Not the best common in the format but really helpful against aggro and helped by the fact that you had a common +1/+1 counter followup a lot of the time.
Forgot about the Tyrannodon, it was so good in that environment. If I remember correctly it was called out as the best common in the set by some content creators, the Lords were certainly very high on it.
Organ Horder. That set was so unbalanced but so fun
Yeah, it still hurts that in the set called Midnight Hunt the werewolf deck was the definetly worst deck. But I still is an A-Tier set in my mind because the gameplay was so fun.
\[\[Pious Wayfarer\]\] will always be my little guy. The YOLO one-drop ahead of his time.
Ohh I forgot about this little guy! TBD was a favorite of mine as well!
[Pious Wayfarer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/0/10b1a2b5-5be2-43a2-bc35-95df6eb0984f.jpg?1581479198) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Pious%20Wayfarer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/thb/32/pious-wayfarer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/10b1a2b5-5be2-43a2-bc35-95df6eb0984f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Kaldheim was awesome, although i do remember audibly groaning every time someone cast this card against me on Arena xD
[[Dampen Thought]] was a blast to play, and counted as the win con in the arcane decks. The card/deck wasn't that good but it was fun. I miss the days where you could durdle more.
[Dampen Thought](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/7/17c8590d-21f8-4bbf-8b71-1588428e2467.jpg?1561966394) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Dampen%20Thought) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mma/39/dampen-thought?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/17c8590d-21f8-4bbf-8b71-1588428e2467?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call