Top 10 of all time is going to be hard. I like quirky cards most of the time, but this list may not reflect that. in my deck designing career I think I've hit both ends of the scale. Tournaments and casual. Sometimes the most efficient card isn't the best fit for the deck. When you need a card to do a specific thing you'll run into interesting cards to fill those gaps. Stuff you would have never thought of before, or maybe didn't even know about until you starting looking.

Time Twister - The only piece of the Power 9 I've ever owned. Owned it twice. I used it to create an infinite library. It's rarely a card you don't want to see(there are times it completely sucks to draw), but it's pulled it's weight in so many games it gets a spot.

True Believer - An Ivory Mask reprint from Legions I think. "So strong were his beliefs that mere facts cannot shake it." Awesome flavor text and flavorful too, shielding his "God" from effects. Always fun to play.

Peace Keeper - There's a lot of fun in taking away the attack phase. This little guy from Visions(EDIT: Weatherlight) is hilarious at times. As long as you can protect him the world will be free from war, and isn't that what everyone wants? Sure, you need to pay him every turn, but no one said peace was free.

Herkyl's Recall - The card's flavor text is an example of how recorded history isn't always correct. I'm a huge fan of the Bounce mechanic. If sometimes just to see how many times my opponent will cast the same spell. A creature that's perpetually sick isn't really there is it? I play a lot of artifact decks too where this card can be abused to the point of broken with the right supporting cards.

Shahrazad - White direct damage, just very slow direct damage. This has been played against me more times than I can count, and sometimes I think the only motive was for my opponent to shuffle his deck(my friends are weird like me). This card brings out deck qualities you may not know are there, until you have to play with a random 27 card cross section of your deck in a sub game. The sub game is what is loved and hated about this card. I don't mind the sub game. The sub game has turned the tide of the main game for me before.

Swords to Plowshares - The spirit of this card is awesome. Full of flavor, decently powerful, and the art is good too. I like the visual it creates. Shivan Dragon? Go be a farmer. I always use 4 in any deck that it's legal to have them. It really says "White" to me, along with my next favorite.

Wrath of God - God is angry. God will start the world over from scratch. I've moved away from creature heavy decks as I played longer, but it's never a bad card to use even if you are creature heavy, just got to weigh the variables on when you'll want to cast it. This card is like the "Judgement Day" card and encompasses White for me more than any other. This card feels more powerful in multiplayer too, which God smites down all the creatures of four or more players. Wrath indeed.

Memory Lapse - "Um, oh... what was I saying?" I find this card funny. It also creates a visual in my head that is hard not to smile on. Maybe think of Ash in Army of Darkness. "Klaatu, barada... nickle... nike... ugh...." "Well, I didn't say every word exactly!". It's secondary mechanic of putting the card on top of it's owner's library, at one time not sure if it still does, allowed it to counter "uncounterable" spells too. Well, "counter" is also a stretch since it more delays. Memory return apparently. I usually only use straight counters. The usual suspects, like Counterspell, Arcane Denial, etc, but there are reasons for why you don't want to counter something. Or just not see that threat right now. The spell could be perfectly ok for them to cast--next turn. It's a fun card, and can be annoying to you to draw sometimes or the person it's being played against, but if it's in your deck, it's got a reason.

Storm Cauldron - I like resource management that doesn't exactly kill the resources. Land Destruction is boring and much more mana intensive. This card can punish decks not running alternate mana sources. That's the obvious use. Another use is simply to fill your opponent's hand up. Sure it's all Land and he can play 2, but they'll feel it's effect after awhile. It works better if you combine it with cards that change their hand, like Teferi's Puzzle Box. They'll think twice about returning their only Mountain if they don't know if they'll draw one next turn. It's a different type of resource management you force on opponent's to see how they deal with it. Punish them for their hand size. Black Vise and it's variants. Use the mana denial aspect with cards that make things cost more, Feroz's Ban comes to mind. Make them pay for things that are normally free, Propoganda, Dream Tides. The added bounce makes this card really show it's potential if you attack one or all of it's aspects. I've lost a lot of games due to a Cauldron in play I couldn't remove due to either changing hands, lack of mana, spell costs bumped up(Gloom), or something else. It does a decent job of protecting itself, but with support is amazing.

Winds of Change - This card goes well with others I've mentioned, like Storm Cauldron and Herkyl's Recall. I really like the name of this card, what it does, and that it's red. Sure Wheel is amazing to draw and will probably help you win more, but this card has flavor that one really doesn't have. It obviously combines with Underworld Dreams. Ever tried it with Prosperity? Interesting multiplayer card for that. "Everyone draw 8. Now Winds of Change." It mainly throws monkey wrenches in people's plans, or can really damage them in the right deck. I think this card is very flavorful and is a lot of fun to play. I'm tempted to every time I see it even when I know playing it will kill my momentum.

BONUS: One With Nothing - Most people saw this card and thought "Utter crap." I looked at it and thought "How can I abuse this?" Discarding your hand at instant speed is awesome. There's a lot of obvious uses for it like Madness, Reanimation, and Hellbent. Well, sometimes you just got to get under 5 cards to dodge a Vise. Maybe you need to line up your graveyard a specific way. I look at this and see potential. Most look at it and throw it away

My list looks like I'm a pretty old school player I think UsaSatsui would agree to that. I haven't played type 2 in years and am pretty casual now, so my likes are not bent toward efficiency and winning ASAP. Sometimes you want to play and play more, so cast Shahrazad.

Honorable Mentions: Gaea's Blessing, Regrowth, Sol Ring, Fog, Mountain Goat, Unsummon, Squee, Golbin Nabob, Crusade, Dark Ritual, Nevinyrral's Disk, Prosperity

lordsathien wrote:

Yeah Ghandi, I'd say you're a pretty old player. Old enough to forget that Peacekeeper is from Weatherlight and that its name is one word. Also, there isn't a card named Storm Cauldron (the only results I could find on gatherer were Cauldron Dance and Ice Cauldron.

Storm Cauldron was reprinted in Mirrodin. Or whatever that artifact set is called. Good set. I like it. Conceded on Peace Keeper. Set aside, I think my section is valid. Storm Cauldron debuted in Alliances.

Will you let us know when the article is done Kynte?