Favorite MTG Card(s)?

[ZephyrPhantom]

Thread topic is simple : what are your favorite MTG cards? Please provide images (use the Gatherer to find them if you have to.)
If you have more than 5 favorites, post your top five.
My personal favorites are:

Templar : Vigilance is a really handy ability, IMHO, especially on a high HP creature like this with some blocking. However, being able to search a source of much-needed White mana can also be bonus, which makes it a great common. (Plus, his armor is cool.)
Guildmage : Early game creature that can be placed in a black or blue deck without hassle. Give it two turns after it gets played and you have a flexible drawing/discard source in a U/B deck.
Terminate : Like Terror and all its variants, but without any restrictions (vs. Murder, it has -1 CMC). A personal must-have in a R/B deck if you can spare it (or don't have something like Dismember.)

[thispersonisagenius]

The only one I can think of ATM is:

I'm a huge fan of infect. It's like your opponent only has 10 life and it hurts creatures too.

[OldTrees]

Card 1: The ability to enslave players in multiplayer. A dead opponent (0hp) must slay all your opponents before slaying you.
Card 2: EDH War profiteer card. Let each opponent need to deal with all other opponents before they can worry about you.

Let's just say, I prefer using my opponents over using my cards.

[Rutarete]

I have many I like, but I think these two are my favorites:

[dragonsdemesne]

Hmm... I'll do a couple here.  Keep in mind that I haven't bought any cards since about 2000.  I'll pick a few from my collection.  (so no ancestral recall or stuff like that; I didn't quite get into magic early enough for that)


Anyone here remember 'black summer'?  I -still- have a variant of that deck kicking around, and it -still- wins, even with this being restricted.


I cannot possibly count the number of otherwise unwinnable games this card has managed to turn around for me.  Its low cost and versatility as well as its sweeping board effects make it probably the best white card ever printed up to when I stopped buying cards.


I love control decks, and this card loves them, too.  Tied with Mana Drain as the ultimate counterspell, but I don't own any mana drains.  The most fun I've had with this card is against n00bs who'd never seen pitch spells before :p  But, but, you're tapped out, what the heck do you think you're doing?  Surprise!


Dual lands   Love them!  This is the only one I own more than one of (I have four of it, in the necro variant I mentioned above.  Actually, Balance is in that deck, too)


The only reason this card isn't worth as much as a mox is because it's uncommon (wtf?!?!? :p) and because it survived one more set than the moxes.  There are very few cards that are more welcome to see than this in your opening hand.

I'll list Tinker as an honourable mention :p  Urza's block was so ridiculous, and this was one of the best cards in the set, at uncommon, if you can believe it.  MTG was already starting to die out amongst the crowd I hung out with, due to the increasing speed at which expansions were printed, and after the urza's block, most people I knew quit.  I lasted a few more sets, but it got ridiculous with new expansions coming out faster and faster, as often as every 2-3 months by the time I stopped buying.  From what I understand, they're still pumping out 4-5 sets a year.  Magic is a great game, but it turned into too much of a money grab for me, but I still love to play with what I've got when I can find opponents.  They did the same thing to AD&D when Wizards acquired TSR, too, and Hasbro buying up Wizards made it even worse, but I'd better shut up before this turns into an epic rant :p

[plastiqe]

I don't know any of the sets you guys posted except for dragons' cards.  But... but... you have Ancestral Recall as your avvy and you don't even own one, for shame.  : (

I had a white/artifact multiplayer deck with stuff like Balance, Armageddon, Serra Angel, Meekstone, Winters Orb, Icy Manipulator, Limited Resources and a bunch of other lockdown cards.  It was great when we would play like a five player free for all and nobody except me could do anything.  Of course, this invariable led to a kill plastiqe first mentality in following games lol.  Grave Pact was brutal in those games too.


When me and my brother first started playing we thought this was +1 +2 for each forest.  It was still great once we actually learned how to play.  R/G Stompy was my favourite deck, I used Kird Ape in conjunction with:


My buddy had an absolutely OP deck that revolved around massive amounts of green mana with the Urza's set and spawning little 1/1 green fern tokens for the kill.  If he had something like Collective Voyage back then we would not have stood a chance.  My brother had another green deck with Deranged Hermit that gave 4x squirrel tokens.  If I didn't Pyroclasm at the right time I was done for.  So many dead elves... awesome card art also.


These two were just a lot of fun.  I'd bounce the licid onto someone's creature, regenerate that creature (tapped) and bounce off.  Oh, you're trying to kill my licid with cc?  Now it's an enchant.  Oh, you're trying to disenchant?  Now it's a creature.  Oh, I'm out of green mana, I'll save him with my Portal.  Oh it's my turn and you're all tapped out.. Portal.  The blue licid was crazy good.

[regen2k9]

For newer MtG cards:

Oh, the havoc I've wreaked with this li'l guy.

And for older MtG cards:

So cheap.  So simple.  So effective.

[ARTHANASIOS]

Holy Day! The "Sundial" of MTG, overpowered IMO!!!

[Evan_85]

Most fun I had with a gravedigging highlander deck. Kuro was it's star player. Well, one of them.

[bjessee]

While I had a whole bunch of great cards, my two favorites would have to be


I pulled them both from packs and had a lot of fun with both.  And what is not to love about a crazy, frothing wombat?

[Rutarete]

I just made a deck around this and have discovered on,y the tip of the iceberg on what I can do with it. It has joined my favorites.


http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=230624