My favorite magic card is:
Vanish Into Memory
Not only does it have a really bad-ass name when you're casting it on Dark Depths token, (You were to be feared... once. Vanish into Memory.) but it's a great card.
I play mostly EDH, and I've gotten more wins off this card than any other. It's one of the best cards in UW and even has a spot in my 5c goodstuff deck.
Cast it on your creatures to save them, draw cards and re-use ETB effects. Cast it on opponents tokens as removal + card draw. Cast it on their Avacyn, Angel of Hope to get 8 chances to find a planar cleansing and path to exile. It's never been a dead card for me, and I don't even play combos (where digging 7-8 cards deep while delaying a threat can turn a loss into a win very often.
Not to mention I've had more than a handful of Omniscience -> Kozilek, Butcher of Truth -> Vanish into Memory and win that turn off of +16 new cards with Omniscience.
Good luck to everyone! I just hope I win and this doesn't Vanish into Memory. (I sure hope that pun didn't disqualify me. )
Edit: To site owners and such. Where the term 'UW' is above I had it in mana tags and it appeared at the start of the paragraph. Might want to look into that.
A 2/2 Zombie just doesn't beat a 0/1 Eldrazi spawn or 1/1 deathtouch rat for me in most games.
Claim you're trying to help them get past the crappy draws before you play it. Then one of two things happen:
1- You hit 3 or 4 non-lands and Casey loves you.
2- You hit the cards you listed and give a rueful expression: "Wow that's terrible luck! Sorry buddy! I won't hit you with him at all."
You actually increase the upside of the play this way, and it's not like you'd beat down the guy you just got lands from with the sower anyway. (Then the lands go poof!)
EDH is interesting because the politics change everything. For someone who was once a social retard like me, figuring out how to play people against each other is really fun and rewarding.
That said it's probably a better idea to go for Jamie here. He's got only 3 more lands in play, so unless all of his lands are from fetchlands and none of Casey's are, you're not seeing a big difference in chance to get a land. Plus you're possible to exile part of an artifact combo, and if dies making lands go poof you're still gaining something from it.
One of the upsides is obviously that I have a ton more disposible income to buy new cards I might want, but I've run into a problem. I haven't had time to even look at new sets coming out since the Theros block.
I've been told about and gotten a few specific cards, but I'd like to know if anyone has any resources that I can use to see the interesting EDH cards from each set.
Altar of the brood was great for my wrexil mill deck, and I know there's tons of great cards that I've missed.
Thanks guys!
If you're still getting killed by creatures, try winning faster. Instead of giving yourself an extra turn of life, win a turn sooner.
Undying
Persist
And much more.
Every time I mention it people go "It only hits one person though."
That's irreverent. I find that 90% of the time I or someone else board wipes, it's because of one problematic board. Then that guys is annoyed at you, they untap first and one of the other people might be a little ticked off too.
When you only wipe that guy's board, you have blockers and he doesn't. You can bash him, and if he really was a threat then people will hit him over you despite you having just drawn like 5 cards.
I'd suggest you try it out.