Magic: The Gathering has produced many powerful cards over the years, but with so many available cards, certain cards will definitely be overlooked.

Magic: The Gathering is the world's first trading card game, and it has been very popular since Alpha was released in August 1993. Since then, dozens of card sets have been printed and many formats have been developed, from supplementary draft restrictions to modern and commander/EDH. Hundreds of cards are essential for one or more of these formats.

Many Magic players widely recognize and agree with the established cards for each format, and some cards are used in many formats. Nevertheless, given the large number of cards, some powerful options are destined to be underestimated or unknown for years-that is, until resourceful players discover them and add them to the deck. Which Magic card is the most underrated?

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Nothing is a notorious card in the Kamikawa championship environment. This is a cheap black moment that can discard the player's entire hand. It is useful for graveyard-oriented decks, such as modern dredging decks. It is worth noting that it works at an instant speed, which is unusual for the fold effect. This card is also very effective if the opponent uses "wheel" effects such as "reforging soul".

When Vanishment was cast at its Miracle cost, considering its absolute flexibility, it was very cheap. Divination, surveillance, and brainstorming effects allow you to draw the card as expected easily and accurately. In addition, placing the target card on the top of its owner's library will delay them from drawing a new card.

Finally, Hex Parasite comes from New Phyrexia, a series that cares about -1/-1 indicators. However, Hexagon Parasite can use its effect on any type of counter, the most notable being the planeswalker loyalty counter. This creature is cheap to cast and use, and a deck without black mana can pay 2 life for this effect. Hex Parasite can play well against typical control decks.

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With some notable exceptions, such as the Manaless Dredge Legacy deck, every M:TG deck requires a land. These are usually used to repair the player's mana so that they can cast all spells on the curve. Multi-color decks require lands that can tap mana of any color, and some of the most expensive and most popular cards in decks or formats are cards with fixed mana, such as ten-card cyclical land acquisition, ten impact Earth and (mostly all) ten alpha double lands. Each of these paper magic can cost hundreds of dollars. Some lands even have three or more colors tapped, but they often enter the battlefield tapped and need to pay lives or more.

This is why the often overlooked defiled castle is so interesting. It can get 1 colorless mana, or mana of any color, and deal 3 damage to its controller. This provides ultimate mana flexibility in exchange for dome bolts for each use. At first, swapping a mana for a crossbow bolt sounded outrageous, but although the defilement of the fortress is not a must for every deck, it has its advantages.

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On the one hand, it will not enter the battlefield tapped, but more importantly, there is an option besides its fixed mana ability. Sometimes the player needs to pay a colorless mana for the universal or colorless mana requirement in the mana cost of a spell or ability. Competing places like the City of Brass and Confluence of Humans only have their mana repair ability to cause damage, so even if you pay a general fee, they will cause damage to these lands.

Tarnish Citadel works best in the Commander format. In this format, trading Bolt for mana is not a big deal for most decks. This is especially true for those who aim to gain life. In fact, some decks will like it, such as Darion, King of Keldo.

In a five-color deck, it is important to immediately obtain mana of any color. These decks can have one command tower, one mana confluence, one brass city, and one defiled fortress, so they can have more repair sites than before. Even in the five-color ground, the fortress of bleak is also very flexible, even more flexible than its competitors. Currently, its value on the market is 25-30 US dollars, which clearly proves that this Odyssey land is powerful but underestimated.

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