#10 Orcish Bowmasters This being #10 on our list, even with the caveats listed above, is incredibly exciting
Merfolk Trickster Merfolk Trickster might be one of the most annoying creatures to Aether Vial into play, at least for your opponents
If the counter is removed, the ability goes away
TheChirurgeon: These "X Magic" cards are just fantastic ways to model the tiered spells of Final Fantasy and the modal mode makes a lot more sense - and allows for a lot more flexibility - than just doing multikicker, where you can have nonlinear scaling
The fact that it gives the caster a ton of mana in return makes it miles better than the already pretty powerful Counterspell
A 3/2 hasty attacker is fine, but the real value was casting a hard-hitting spell like the Planeswalker Liliana of the Veil, Abrupt Decay, or Tarmogoyf to get ahead in any matchup