Now that 2022 has had some time to settle and we’ve had enough time to play with the cards from the final releases of the year, we’re ready to share our favorite cards from 2022. We (Chief, Who Endures and Exxaxl, Progress Tyrant) will recap our selections for each major set released last year.

Have you ever had the oddly specific desire to turn every single creature spell that you cast into either a Knight of Autumn or an Elvish Rejuvenator? Well, now you can!

I don’t know if this was supposed to be a card for Standard and they simply ran out of room there, and I think it’s an interesting ability to play around with, but to me boxed precons really shouldn’t have cards that don’t work in the deck they got printed in. Putting Greed, Phyrexian Reclamation or fetchlands in the precon would have prevented this card from just being a glorified Vampire Nighthawk.

Exxaxl: ‘Now that I flashed in my Embercleave in response to Tetsuo’s attack trigger, I will cast Surge to Victory for free from hand, targeting Invoke Calamity in my graveyard!’

Chief: Please stop. This is why more people are starting to play stax.

While the enemy painlands have been reprinted multiple times in recent years, we haven’t seen the allied painlands since Tenth Edition. That means that it has been 15 years since they were last reprinted. I’m honestly not sure why they’ve been overlooked for so long, but this set seems like a great place to bring them back.