Now that we have a final environment for Duels let's discuss and vote on which cards are the best. I know I am setting myself up for a lot of work with this, but I'm cool with it.

Here's the deal, post a reply with a list of up to 100 of your favorite cards in Magic Duels, each card you list gets a point. I will start a running list in the OP of which cards get the most points.

Have fun!

Ongoing Results: (EDITING IN PROCESS, PARDON THE DUST)
First Place
1: Smuggler's Copter - 7 Points.

Second Place, Four Way Tie!
2: Liliana, Last Hope - 5 Points.
2: Gideon, Ally of Zendikar - 5 Points.
2: Scrapheap Scrounger - 5 Points.
2: Tireless Tracker - 5 Points.

Sixth Place, Three Way Tie!
6: Harnessed Lightning - 4 Points.
6: Mwonvuli Acid-Moss - 4 Points.
6: Fatal Push - 4 Points.

Ninth Place, Four Way Tie!
9: Perilous Myr - 3 Points.
9: Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger - 3 Points.
9: Archangel Avacyn - 3 Points
9: Winding Constrictor - 3 Points.

Thirteenth Place, Sixteen Way Tie!
13: Unlicensed Disintegration - 2 Points.
13: Nissa, Vastwood Seer - 2 Points.
13: Declaration in Stone - 2 Points.
13: Languish - 2 Points.
13: Voltaic Brawler - 2 Points.
13: Lathnu Hellion - 2 Points.
13: Aethersphere Harvester - 2 Point.
13: Torrential Gearhulk - 2 Points.
13: Tireless Tracker - 2 Point.
13: Gisela, the Broken Blade - 2 Points.
13: Disciple of the Ring - 2 Points.
13: Hanweir Garrison - 2 Points.
13: Verderous Gearhulk - 2 Points.
13: Key to the City - 2 Points.
13: Sylvan Advocate - 2 Points.
13: Angelic Destiny - 2 Point.

Twenty-ninth Place, Sixty Eight Way Tie!
29: Glyph Keeper - 1 Point.
29: Greenbelt Rampager - 1 Point.
29: Longtusk Cub - 1 Point.
29: Glint Sleeve Siphoner - 1 Point.
29: Walking Ballista - 1 Point.
29: Fleetwheel Cruiser - 1 Point.
29: Skysovereign, Consul Flagship - 1 Point.
29: Aether Harvester - 1 Point.
29: Confirm Suspicions - 1 Point.
29: Censor - 1 Point.
29: Jace, Vryn's Prodigy - 1 Point.
29: Blessed Alliance - 1 Point.
29: Ob Nixilis Reignited - 1 Point.
29: Nantuko Husk - 1 Point.
29: Chandra, Flamecaller - 1 Point.
29: Glorybringer - 1 Point.
29: Woodland Wanderer - 1 Point.
29: Vessel of Nascency - 1 Point.
29: Blossoming Defense - 1 Point.
29: Sorin, Grim Nemesis - 1 Point.
29: Tamiyo - 1 Point.
29: Veteran Motorist - 1 Point.
29: Explosive Vegetation - 1 Point.
29: Reclamation Sage - 1 Point.
29: Woodland Bellower - 1 Point.
29: Fog - 1 Point.
29: Sandwurm Convergence - 1 Point.
29: Jagged-Scar Archers - 1 Point.
29: Sylvan Ranger - 1 Point.
29: Reflector Mage - 1 Point.
29: Cruel Reality - 1 Point.
29: Forest - 1 Point.
29: Mountain - 1 Point.
29: Plains - 1 Point.
29: Island - 1 Point.
29: Swamp - 1 Point.
29: Bruna, the Fading Light - 1 Point
29: Always Watching - 1 Point
29: Thalia's Lieutenant - 1 Point
29: Thought-Knot Seer - 1 Point
29: Sphinx's Tutelage - 1 Point
29: Valor in Arkos - 1 Point
29: Drake Haven - 1 Point
29: Kari Zev, Skyship Raider - 1 Point
29: Insult // Injury - 1 Point
29: Enigma Drake - 1 Point
29: Thalia, Heretic Cathar - 1 Point
29: Baral's Expertise - 1 Point
29: Elder Deep-Fiend - 1 Point
29: Thermo-Alchemist - 1 Point
29: Weaponcraft Enthusiast - 1 Point
29: Selfless Spirit - 1 Point
29: Duskwatch Recruiter - 1 Point
29: Spell Queller - 1 Point
29: Angel of Invention - 1 Point
29: Whirler Rogue - 1 Point
29: Esperzoa - 1 Point
29: Anguished Unmaking - 1 Point
29: Yahenni's Expertise - 1 Point
29: Thopter Engineer - 1 Point
29: Exquisite Firecraft - 1 Point
29: Westvale Abbey - 1 Point
29: Wandering Fumarole - 1 Point
29: Shambling Vent - 1 Point
29: Lumbering Falls - 1 Point
29: Hissing Quagmire - 1 Point
29: Aether Hub - 1 Point
29: Evolving Wilds - 1 Point

Total Cards Submitted - 96.

Is Aethersphere Harvester the same as Aether Harvester?

ugh, top 10 would make more sense, no? I can't imagine listing 100 cards.

I think i want Smuggler's Copter as number 1.

Your list doesn't have to have 100, that is just the maximum.

Oof. That'll be one hell of a write-up, and some positions aren't even clear.

I'll see whether I can find the time and motivation to write them up.

Do we want the list to be the 100 best cards, or people's 100 favourite cards? There is a difference, and best to clear up which we want before starting to list cards.

I think for the sake of diversity it should be everyones subjective favorites.

Only got 5 as favourites, I'll leave the "meta" pissing contest to the rest of you.

5) Nissa, Vastwood Seer - Something about her design just felt more fun and useful than any other PW. Arguably the "best" general use PW in Duels due to how she fits in almost any deck.

4) Declaration in Stone - The most fair and efficient creature removal we had, I really liked the design and offset.

3) Languish - A board wipe that you can't play around without increasing toughness at instant speed or countering. The true test for creature based decks.

2) Harnessed Lightning - The removal spell I championed and everyone shat on during KLD spoiler season as being "worse than what we already have". Time was my ally.

1) Glyphbae - The closest I ever got to having my very own Dragonlord Senpai in Duels.

1-Perilous Myr

greenbelt rampager
longtusk cub
voltaic brawler
winding constrictor
glint sleeve siphoner
walking ballista
scrapheap scrounger
lathnu hellion
harnessed lightning
unlicensed disintegration
smugglers copter
aethersphere harvester
fleetwheel cruiser
skysovereign, consul flagship

Rough top 10 for me:

1. Smugglers Copter
2. Scrapheap Scrounger
3. Gideon, AoZ
4. Unlicensed Disintegration
5. Torrential Gearhulk
6. Harnessed Lightning
7. Fatal Push
8. Tireless Tracker
9. Aether Harvester
10. Liliana, Last Hope

Torrential Gearhulk
Disciple of the Ring
Confirm Suspicions
Censor
Jace, Vryn's Prodigy

Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
Blessed Alliance
Gisela, the Broken Blade
Archangel Avacyn
Declaration in Stone

Languish
Ob Nixilis Reignited
Fatal Push
Nantuko Husk
Liliana, the Last Hope

Lathnu Hellion
Hanweir Garrison
Chandra, Flamecaller
Glorybringer
Harnessed Lightning

Nissa, Vastwood Seer
Woodland Wanderer
Vessel of Nascency
Blossoming Defense
Verderous Gearhulk

Voltaic Brawler
Sorin, Grim Nemesis
Tamiyo
Veteran Motorist
Winding Constrictor

Smuggler's Copter
Aethersphere Harvester
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
Scrapheap Scrounger
Key to the City

Gonna do green HOF as i have an unhealthy obsession with it:

1) Tireless tracker - auto include practically, card was just absurd.
2) Sylvan advocate - auto include practically, card was just absurd.
3) Explosive vegetation - Took up the moss helm with vigour, remained best ramp spell throughout its life
4) Vastwood seer - unless you were balls to the walls aggro, or were already running the other 165 nissa's, it was hard to not run her
5) Rec sage - in a world full of vehicles and tutelege this was our shining light in defence
6) woodland bellower - kept getting better and better as we got more targets for it
7) Fog - when memes go too far, always the answer to the question "how could i lose from here?"
8) Sandwurm convergence - Just wish I got more time to screw over suntail hawks with it


Also Vert where did vessel come from, I don't think i've seen anyone sing its praises haha

I love the card. It's flexible and great. It was between that and Oath of Nissa for me since I wanted a tutor effect in there and Vessel is just more consistently effective for me.

Too lazy to suggest more than but I think it has to be Archangel Avacyn. I like the flash surprise element and her transform alter ego. Gisela, the broken blade is a candidate too. Both are probably because I was a big fan of baneslayer angel from Magic 2015 but in the same vein Avacyn's flash and ETB effect is better even tough it's more expensive but same cast cost as baneslayer angel.

The entire black/green control deck from Origins season. RIP Perilous Myr.

Oh yeah, Moss probably deserves an honourable mention, as the card that damn near broke duels haha



....alongside Jagged-scar archers of course

Pretty much certain cards that either rotated out because of balancing issues and cards that were banned in Standard that we also have access to. In addition to other such cards that are so powerful they either prompt a concession on the spot or win on their own.

***In no particular order, this is my top 10***

Perilous Myr - During Origins season, this card would literally be seen in EVERY deck. It was good because most of the best creatures in the format had 2-3 toughness.

Mwonvuli Acid-Moss - This thing had been around for quite some time before BFZ hit but because of the incentive of Ulamog being the biggest baddest thing to ramp into with few answers to it in the format, Ramp quickly took over the meta and being slower was mitigated by the tempo of the Acid-Moss. Also, since majority of the metagame was midrange at the time, anything as slow or slower than MossRamp got destroyed except for Mono R.

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger - If you've got no answer to this thing you lose on the spot.

Sylvan Ranger - This card enabled the powerful strategy of 4-color planeswalkers, a deck which the format had little answers for because we lacked things like Negate and other such nonland permanent interaction.

Smuggler's Copter - This guy on the play wins games and enables madness. Too much value for 2 mana.

Reflector Mage - The more you get to abuse this card to more aggrevating it becomes to play against if your running some normal creature deck.

Liliana, the Last Hope - I remember when dropping this turn 3 on the play was GG unless your opponent could race it, which they likely won't, or remove it, which at the time before Censor was unlikely.

Gideon, Ally of Zendikar - Dropping this on turn 4 with little interaction was GG.

Fatal Push - I literally see this card in every god forsaken deck on ladder these days. Definately shifted the meta by itself! Enables control decks with B, Mardu Vehicles, BG Snek, WB Lifegain...pretty much anything in B.

"the rare battle lands" - Every multicolor deck has these.

Thanks for all the great submissions! I'll update the tally this afternoon (Pacific Timezone).

Someone has to say it:
Forest, Mountain, Plains, Island, Swamp. Definitely top 100 cards.

My personal favourites:
Red: Hanweir Garrison (literally a snowball effect if you can keep 'em alive. Ocasional melds are really fun)
Black: Cruel Reality (A recent addition, probably the most oppressive card in Duels and it kills walkers, you've got to love that)
Blue: Disciple of the Ring (Used to be the most oppressive card in Duels, still the ultimate control finisher or reanimation target)
Green: Verdurous Gearhulk (8/8 for 5? +1/+1 counter synergy? As good as Green gets...)
White: Angelic Destiny (You wouldn't believe how many games I outright won with this :gasp: aura)
Artifact: Key to the City (unblockable, Instant speed madness enabler and looting all-in-one. Love it)
Colorless: Ulamog (back when I played paper Magic, I wouldn't believe a 10cc creature would be playable outside of a reanimator deck, but then we didn't have indestructable or ramp back then)

There you go...

Some of my favourites:

Bruna, the Fading Light - was anyone expecting something else? I love Bruna, and really tried to make her work in AKH, but there simply aren't enough cards to go with her. It's not that the angels are bad, but rather there just aren't enough of them, and meanwhile the humans tend to be aggressive. Bruna still works in Orzhov control, but is in my opinion a subpar option I run just because I like her.

Archangel Avacyn & Gisela, the Broken Blade - I might've overused these two cards simply because I love Bruna, but still, they're very strong in their own right.

Tireless Tracker - one of the best value creatures ever printed.

Sylvan Advocate - this guy just slots easily into all the green decks I ever make. Like, ever.

Mwonvuli Acid-Moss - those were the days ...

Angelic Destiny - not a good card, but the art is nice Could use the flavour text on Divine Transformation though!

Always Watching - white humans was my go-to aggro deck for a long time. This card is as emblematic of the archetype as any (together with Thalia's Lieutenant, I guess).

Thought-Knot Seer - the strongest of the colourless cards. Extremely good.

Liliana, the Last Hope - T3 Liliana on the play > control decks. At least until AKH.

EDIT: Lol mostly white and green cards, no red no blue, even though it's not like I didn't try playing those colours.