black lotus mtg card - Alpha CGC 9.5 Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt. Magic: The Gathering's Most Valuable

Honestly, this and number two are probably interchangeable

We might not have had a console at home, but that didn't stop me from somehow learning about games I wanted from magazines

Prepare yourselves

Toxic Deluge is one of the best black board wipes in the format, scaling its kill power to slip past indestructible creatures, and Skullclamp remains the gold standard of cheap card draw

Its been years since I last played a game where neither me nor my opponent put a counter of any kind on the board, so the ubiquity of proliferate commanders makes them eternally playable, and more often than not, fairly powerful

The struggle was in my muscle memory to not do what I normally do out of habit and draw a Mouse Guard character with Mabels Cragflame sword