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My Top 30 M14 Cards (Part 2/2)

Here is Part 1 . Lets start this off with a couple of creatures that didn't make the cut and I'll finish by going through the Planeswalkers. Good 7 Drops, but...   These are all really powerful cards, but at 7 mana it was kind of hard to justify adding them next to the powerful 1 and 2 drops that we have. They do deserve a mention though. The Whale has a very white flavor but with Islandwalk instead of Flying. The Sphinx is downright nasty in a flying deck. It can easily win a game of Limited, though not a Commander. The Horde costs one less than Scaled Wurm , let that sink in. The Color Hosers:   Sideboard options, but in Limited they are powerful enough to justifiably be included. They are all nice weenie creatures which can have a board presence even when not matched with their optimal colors. I love all three of these, I would just never main deck them. Intimidate is better than First Strike, and exiling creatures is better than having hexproof which makes the

My Top 30 M14 Cards (Part 1/2)

M15 is coming soon and by putting a list out now, it won't feel quite as ancient if I did list in 2 months. The core sets aren't usually great, include lots of reprints and zero new mechanics, but that doesn't mean we can't have fun with it. I ended up with 52 cards I wanted to at least mention which is quite a bit, so I made this into a two parter. The Bottom 5: 5. Ring of Three Wishes The 10 mana demonic tutor! Oh you can do it twice? Well that's a Conflux that grabs 3 less cards for 2 more mana. A 20 mana investment is even worse.  4. Demolish They've reprinted this twice in the last year and why? As a sideboard card it's about as mediocre as you can get. There's one land worth blowing up in Mutavault and maybe three artifacts you would consider. 3. Armored Cancrix 5 mana should get you a hell of a lot more than a 2/5 that gets wrecked by the common Marauding Maulhorn . I'm not a fan of that art either. 2. Encroaching Wastes Rem