Just curious - partly as a hypthetical, partly as a brewing idea. What 1 card would you choose (let's say you had all 5 colors to work with) if you only wanted to dedicate 1 card slot to being a "win condition" in your deck? Helix Pinnacle? Memnarch? Karn Liberated? Curious as to your suggestions!
Tooth and Nail and Defense of the Heart come to mind as well, although they technically don't do the winning themselves, much like Primal Surge, you should be winning by resolving the spell.
Mind's Desire functions similarly with the right set up.
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Exsanguinate and Genesis Wave are both great and can go in a lot of decks. I wouldn't consider Mind's Desire a one card win con, as it requires other spells to go off.
There's a lot of good candidates. How you define "single card" though will give you varying answers. Even something like Tooth and Nail which can win the game on its own still requires you to be playing the cards necessary to fetch with it. Is that considered a single card? That's your call.
I think my answer is going to be Blue Sun's Zenith because there's almost no opportunity cost associated with using it as a win condition. You can just play the card as you normally would, as an instant speed draw spell during the mid and late game. Each time you use it it just winds up back in your deck, and once you hit a critical mass, you can just use Blue Sun's Zenith to draw someone out at instant speed. It's kind of like a 0 card win condition.
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WUBRGMr. Bones' Wild RideGRBUW Trap your friends in an endless game with this 23-card combo!
It's often funny to me that these big mana vampire spells are just uncommons. I know rarity is mostly about drafting and buying packs, but they close out games!
EDIT: Primal Surge / Genesis Wave? Mind's Desire?
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(U/B)(U/B)(U/B) JUMP IN THE LINE, ROCK YOUR BODY IN TIME
(R/W)(R/W)(R/W) RISING FROM THE NEON GLOOM, SHINING LIKE A CRAZY MOON
(U/R)(R/G)(G/U) STEALIN' WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUYIN'
I'm ashamed to have overlooked this. Looking at my off-the-cuff suggestions in the first post, you can probably see what colors my mind's been in
R.I.P. Sundering Titan (6/20/12) and Braids, Cabal Minion (9/12/14)
Mind's Desire functions similarly with the right set up.
UBRG Yidris, Eye of the Storm
WBR Kaalia, Herald of Apocalypse
UBG Damia, Sage of Nightmare
WBG Karador, the Bridge Between
WU Grand Warden Augustin IV
RG Omnath, Locus of Awakening
BG Nath Addict
UR Niv Mizzet, Brain Aflame
B Kokusho, the Mourning Star
U Memnarch is All
RBW Mardu Reveler
Commander:
UW Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper - One-Punch Griffin || UR Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain - Historic Tribal Superfriends
GR Omnath, Locus of Rage - Turbo Lands Spellslinger || WURBG Scion of the Ur-Dragon - Living Death Reanimator
BGonti, Lord of Luxury - Gonti's Midnight Party
Under Construction:
WGU Rubinia Soulsinger - Enchantress || RBGU Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder - Cascading Artifacts
RU Jhoira of the Ghitu - Dragonstorm Eldrazi || RU Mizzix of the Izmagnus - Spellslinger
WURBG The Ur-Dragon - Cloning for the Win || WGU Roon of the Hidden Realm - Creature Toolbox
RBGU Vial Smasher the Fierce Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix - Lots'a Combos || BW Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim - Reanimator Combo
WBGU Atraxa, Praetors' Voice - Modified Precon
BUR Nekusar, the Mindrazer || U Arcanis the Omnipotent - Artifact "Storm"
Exsanguinate and Genesis Wave are both great and can go in a lot of decks. I wouldn't consider Mind's Desire a one card win con, as it requires other spells to go off.
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I think my answer is going to be Blue Sun's Zenith because there's almost no opportunity cost associated with using it as a win condition. You can just play the card as you normally would, as an instant speed draw spell during the mid and late game. Each time you use it it just winds up back in your deck, and once you hit a critical mass, you can just use Blue Sun's Zenith to draw someone out at instant speed. It's kind of like a 0 card win condition.
Trap your friends in an endless game with this 23-card combo!
Rise of the Dark Realms can be very powerful as can Expropriate.
I'll mention Debt to the Deathless because no one else has.
UBRKess, Dissident MageUBR - Controlling Dissidents
GRhonas the IndomitableG - Indomitable Four Drops
WUBOloro, Ageless AsceticWUB - Loot & Renanimate
Then it's not single card now is it?
Rise of the Dark Realms needs creatures in the graveyards aswell.. so it's not a one card win condition.
and surges need permanents in the decks.
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Darksteel Reactor in Vorel.
Debt to the Deathless in Ayli, Oloro, etc.
WBG Karador, Ghost Chieftain
B Toshiro Umezawa
BG Pharika, God of Affliction - Necromancy and Politics
WWW The Church of Heliod
WBR Zurgo, Helmsmasher
RG Wort, the Raidmother
UBR Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge
UG Vorel of the Hull Clade
(U/B)(U/B)(U/B) JUMP IN THE LINE, ROCK YOUR BODY IN TIME
(R/W)(R/W)(R/W) RISING FROM THE NEON GLOOM, SHINING LIKE A CRAZY MOON
(U/R)(R/G)(G/U) STEALIN' WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUYIN'
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StaffMoral victories are the best kind.
This was the first one I thought of.
It says it's a draw... But is it really a draw? Is it REALLY?
I need to pick up a copy to mess with my playgroup
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