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Yeah, Codex Shredder is one for me too. I thought it was just going to be in decks that I really wanted to Regrowth a spell, but I keep convincing myself that nearly every deck is better with Codex Shredder and Salvaging Station in it. Pro tip, it's not.

Also, Rings of Brighthearth. I'm convinced that paying 5 total mana for a Rampant Growth on a fetchland activation is reason enough to run it in every deck.

Stoneforge Mystic - Say I have one equipment in the deck that's good in maybe one specific situation, now considering that every deck is running Skullclamp also, Stoneforge makes it into way too many of my White decks. I can't stop myself.

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Also, Rings of Brighthearth. I'm convinced that paying 5 total mana for a Rampant Growth on a fetchland activation is reason enough to run it in every deck.

Rings has gotten so expensive lately. I love it when bulk rares I collected a couple of play sets of becomes expensive. Also, double planeswalker abilities and Divining top draws.

Oboro, Palace in the clouds. Another card I horded when it was a bulk rare that's for some reason seeing legacy play. I just really like the ability to bounce my land and replay it for no good reason while being immune to strip mine.

Phyrexian Reclamation ends up being in just about every Bx deck I build.

Rings Of Brighthearth is a wonderful toolkit card. I think too many see it in a too-limited light of the combo. I remember copying a Strip Mine three times and setting a guy back to zero lands. One-side Armageddon? I'll take that.

When I was still running in Titania I used it to wrath my own lands with Ghost Quarter, getting them back as untapped basics!

I see so many good cards and here I use Court Street Denizen in my white decks because I find it useful tapping people's creatures

Buried Ruin has started showing up in more of my decks, even ones without a strong artifact theme.

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Buried Ruin has started showing up in more of my decks, even ones without a strong artifact theme.

Mine too... My mono black doesn't have that many artifacts, but being able to recur wrath-ifacts like Oblivion Stone and Perilous Vault are really valuable against enchantress and artifact decks, both of which are problematic for mono black.

Possibility Storm is another one for me. I put it into all of my red decks. I don't like policing games with counter-magic, so being able to mess with people's game plans with an enchantment is perfect for me. And, counterspells will almost never work against me.

It also combos very well with certain cards, like Ruric thar, the Unbowed, Primeval Bounty, Managorger Hydra, etc.

Withered Wretch and Nezumi Graverobber

Nevinyrral's Disk , board wipe is fine but really like how it effects the flow of the game if it untaps.

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I see so many good cards and here I use Court Street Denizen in my white decks because I find it useful tapping people's creatures

This is interesting. I may pop this into Mikaeus. The tendency for big x token spells late game means it could easily tap down an opponents whole team.

I've been consistently shocked by how good Pit Trap and Soul Snare are. They're not autoincludes, but they go in a lot of my decks.

They seem worse than the usual spot removal, but I've had Soul Snare's rattlesnake capability essentially keep me safe from multiple creatures for multiple turns.

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I've been consistently shocked by how good Pit Trap and Soul Snare are. They're not autoincludes, but they go in a lot of my decks.

They seem worse than the usual spot removal, but I've had Soul Snare's rattlesnake capability essentially keep me safe from multiple creatures for multiple turns.

I have never played soul snare, but I think rattlesnake cards like this are underrated in general. They just look worse than their instant speed equivalents on paper, but then in real life they can do so much work for you.

Auriok Champion for me. It's unobtrusive, gains a lot of life, blocks a lot of stuff effectively, and carries equipment really well, especially swords. I think it makes it in to all of my white decks these days.

I try to keep my 6 EDHs as much different as I can, but some cards are just way too good (I will ignore Sol Ring being currently played in 5 of my decks):
Solemn Simulacrum has a home in 4 of my decks. Always value, always solid, always good. I like my sad robots.
Oracle of Mul Daya has a home in 3 of my 4 green decks. At first I played her in only one deck, but over time she convinced me to be too good to be left out.
Academy Rector has a home in 3 of my 4 white decks. Probably the best white 4-drop of the format. At minimum I get something like Phyrexian Arena or Sylvan Library. In the one of the best cases I get to do: Altar of Bone'ing him for Living Plane and Linvala, Keeper of Silence on turn 4.

Interesting fact: I just noticed that all three of them are 4-mana creatures.

Regrowth sees play in all 4 of my green decks.
As her counterpart with legs: Eternal Witness.
Another green all-star in my decks: Beast Within, giving my access to instant speed LD and a Planeswalker removal.
I also play Unexpectedly Absent in all 4 of my white decks, usually over Swords to Plowshares and Path to Exile. Except for lands it can handle many things, especially if the opponent runs tutors, green ramp spells and/or fetchies. Also denies sometimes a to-the-top-tutor like Vampiric Tutor or blanks the chance of drawing a game-changing solution in close games.

I never thought I'd be making room for both Strionic Resonator and Conjurer's Closet in so many of my decks. They just generate huge amounts of value in so many situations.

Strip Mine feels like it should be in all my decks despite the fact that I only have one copy. Not because I'm a monster but because there are just too many super utility lands that need to be destroyed.

This will sound silly, but, Sun Titan. I guess I never thought I'd have this many white decks.

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Rings Of Brighthearth is a wonderful toolkit card. I think too many see it in a too-limited light of the combo. I remember copying a Strip Mine three times and setting a guy back to zero lands. One-side Armageddon? I'll take that.

You sure you can copy one activation multiple times with Rings Of Brighthearth?

Did he have a fun game after you reset his land to 0?

Spike Weaver was a surprising addition in my deck and has become a staple in pretty much every green deck for its ability to completely hose combat based decks in a color that can tutor it.

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You sure you can copy one activation multiple times with Rings Of Brighthearth?

I'm certain you can't - it's a trigger that you can pay for once.

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Rings Of Brighthearth is a wonderful toolkit card. I think too many see it in a too-limited light of the combo. I remember copying a Strip Mine three times and setting a guy back to zero lands. One-side Armageddon? I'll take that.

You sure you can copy one activation multiple times with Rings Of Brighthearth?

Did he have a fun game after you reset his land to 0?

You cannot use a single copy of rings of brighthearth to do this. However, you can copy it through cards like Copy artifact or copying it's ability with things like Strionic Resonator. With just a single Rings and a Strionic resonator you could Use rings to copy Strip Mine, Strionic copy rings, into Rings copy Strionic for 4 Strip Mine abilities.

For me, it's been Soul of New Phyrexia. Since it was spoiled, I knew I wanted one, but didn't anticipate that it would find a home in half of my EDH decks for one reason or another.

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Did he have a fun game after you reset his land to 0?

Assume so, otherwise he wouldn't have kept playing. I get my lands brown up all the time ( though Mycosynth Lattice / Hurkyl's Recall combo happens more often, and U/x artifacts is a common build ). But then again, I don't get what makes most casual players sad. For me, getting killed off by a huge x/x creature is more unfun than having a land wrath happen.

Oh there's also Steel Hellkite. In almost every colour combination he provides a potential answer to troublesome permanents (he's amazing against token swarms). And, worse case, he's a big flying beater with colourless firebreathing. He sometimes gets cut, but he is almost always in the initial pile.