

It’s aggressive, it’s defensive, its efficient removal… It’s everything you want from a cheap red spell! Swords to Plowshares It’s the ultimate counter to counters, and it’s card neutral to boot. Veil of Summer is what saved green from an eternity of suffering through endless counterspells. Picking the best two out of seven is always a great deal. Dig Through Timeĭig Through Time, while not quite Treasure Cruise, is still an incredible card advantage engine. It’s already a great creature on rate, and the ability to steal cards and generate extra mana in a format where cards are already so cheap is unreal. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer is nothing but a menace in the formats where it’s legal. It’s a great early creature, provides card advantage, and significantly throws your opponent off balance through the 1-mana tax. Esper SentinelĮsper Sentinel already made a lifelong impact on the Modern metagame since it was in Modern Horizons. After all, there’s no reason to have powerful cards if you can’t even cast them in the first place. But their real power comes from the fact that they have basic land types and can be fetched.įetch lands rule the world, and being able to fetch one of many different shock lands on turn 1 from a single fetch land provides unmatched mana fixing. The shock lands provide some much-needed fixing in Magic without being tapped. What’s not to love? Shock Lands (with fetches) It outright shuts tempo decks that fail to answer it down and gives its controller incredible interaction capabilities through instant-speed sorceries. Teferi, Time Raveler, while certainly no Oko, Thief of Crowns, is one of the greatest 3-drop planeswalkers in the game. A one-sided board wipe in Commander, it always either wins you the game or heavily delays it when it successfully resolves. Cyclonic RiftĬyclonic Rift has a negative reputation for a reason. Dredge is one of the most powerful and one-sided mechanics in the game, and Grave-Troll is one of the best and most efficient ways not only to dredge cards, but also to win the game. When Golgari Grave-Troll is good, it is good. This card’s power level relies on flipping it, which explains it’s mostly nonexistent impact on Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Standard. Delver is one of the best and most aggressive creatures in the game, and a perfect candidate alongside Dragon’s Rage Channeler in aggressive Izzet decks. Let’s jump right in! Delver of Secretsįirst up is the infamous Delver of Secrets. Today, I’m going to go over the 50 most powerful Magic cards to date and talk a bit about what makes them so strong. Cards so powerful that they’ve been banned from almost every format, are god-tier to this day, and stood the test of time where others failed. Most.īut there are lots of Magic: The Gathering cards that left an unforgettable mark on the history of the game. Most fell into obscurity as time passed and power creep caught up to them. Magic has been around for just over 30 years, and there are plenty of cards that absolutely broke the metagame on release.
