My favorite set of all time is Future Sight, for a few reasons. First of all, I like the card design that some of them have, although we shall see if that is forewarning of things to come. The second thing was the weird one trip mechanics they threw in, stuff like Aura Swap. The last one being the hints into the future the set gave us, like the Planeswalker card.
I will discuss some of my favorite cards from this set, and why.
Aven Mindcensor is an awesome card for a few reasons. First, it allows you to shut down your opponent’s fetchlands, and also do it the moment they activate the ability, taking them off guard. The same goes for decks that rely on tutors and other such cards to win.
Bitter Ordeal is a nail in the coffin card (no pun intended). With its ability gravestorm, you can Damnation the field and then remove a multitude of awesome cards from your opponent’s deck, completely shutting out aggro decks with the Damnation and combo decks with the card that follows.
Boldwyr Intimidator has arguably one of the best rules text ever, and is extremely useful in any red deck, especially a warrior one. It was a very nice card and I hope to see more of cowards and warriors.
Darksteel Garrison is a nice way to counter pesky land removal on your most valuable lands, while providing the game with yet another artifact subtype: Fortification. Plus, anything with the name Darksteel instantly makes it awesome.
Dryad Arbor is the only land in the game to permanently be a creature and a land at the same time. Although this gives it some inherent weaknesses such as pyroclasm, it is a pretty cool combination of cards we haven't ever seen again.
Fleshwrither was a card whose keyword ability made him completely amazing. For just three mana, you could take any creature in your deck with a mana cost of 4 and put it right into play. This makes cards such as the Nephlim actually playable.
Flowstone Embrace is one of the strangest auras the game has ever seen. (We will get to the strangest one later). For the first time in Magic, it mattered whether that aura was tapped or not, making players look twice after reading it.
This is the first of my multi-blog installment of my favorite future sight cards. Check out http://www.mtgfanatic.com for all these cards and much, much more for low prices and awesome discounts. Enjoy!
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