What's the 'strongest' Magic card?
Power Nine
The "Black Lotus" card can be played at zero cost, and grants three mana (the game's primary resource) when sacrificed (discarded from play). Thus, the card gives the player an enormous jump in the early stages of a "Magic" game. Former Pro player and Magic writer Zvi Mowshowitz has declared Black Lotus as the best card of its type of all time, claiming every deck in the history of the game is better with a Black Lotus in it. It has since been banned from all official tournament formats save for Vintage, but even there, it is limited to one copy per deck, compared to the normal allowance of four. The illustration on Black Lotus was painted by Christopher Rush, who was at the time a Wizards of the Coast employee. The Black Lotus illustration is a depiction of a black lotus flower over a foliage backdrop.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 2009–2015
"Magic 2012" was the first set to use "dies" to mean a creature being put into a graveyard from the battlefield. It is the first core set to use the keyword "Hexproof", a keyword ability replacing the text "cannot be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control" (cards with this ability had been printed in previous sets, but the ability was not given a keyword). The returning mechanic in "Magic 2012" was Bloodthirst. When creatures with Bloodthirst are played, they gain a boost to their power and toughness if an opponent was already dealt damage that turn. For example, a 2/3 creature with Bloodthirst 3 could enter the battlefield as a 5/6. Bloodthirst was previously seen in "Guildpact" and "Future Sight".
Geoff Capes
As a strongman, Capes became a household name in Britain and many parts of the world. He was particularly known for his incredible hand and arm strength, easily tearing London telephone directories in half and bending rolled steel bars measuring over 1 inch in diameter, and three feet in length. Capes turned fully professional in 1980, the Olympics in Moscow being his last event as an amateur athlete. He had already begun to make a name as a strongman having won the inaugural Britain's Strongest Man in 1979. In that competition he beat Bill Anderson, the World Highland Games champion into second place. Bill went on to the 1979 World's Strongest Man, the first Briton to compete in this tournament, whilst Capes concentrated on his athletic career. In 1980 the Olympics dominated the year and Capes did not compete in Britain's Strongest Man, but he did compete later in the Europe's Strongest Man competition and won that. This ensured his invitation to the 1980 World's Strongest Man and on his first entry he came third behind the by then more experienced Bill Kazmaier and Lars Hedlund. In 1981 he returned and improved to second place, again behind Kazmaier, and in 1982 he came fourth. The 1983 contest was the first held outside the United States and in Christchurch, New Zealand he held off the challenge of a world class field including the young Jón Páll Sigmarsson and to take the first of two World's Strongest Man titles. The Christchurch hosted tournament also had the Canadian world powerlifting champion, Tom Magee, and the European powerlifting champion, Siem Wulfse, competing. But it was the duel between Sigmarsson and Capes that heralded the beginning of a great rivalry. The following year in Mora, Sweden, Sigmarsson, eleven years Capes' junior, took the title proclaiming "The King has lost his crown!". Capes retorted "I'll be back" and the following year won the title in Cascais, his closing remark being "The King has not lost his crown". Sigmarsson won once again in 1986 with Capes coming second.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 1993–2007
"Fifth Edition" was the first version of the base set to use the cosmetic changes that were introduced in the "" expansion (including a slightly expanded text box and bolder, more visible power/toughness numbers) It was also the last version of the base set to use what are sometimes referred to as the "old rules". The rules were drastically changed in "".
Sixth Edition, also known as Classic, was released on April 27, 1999. It contains 350 cards including both reprints of cards from previous core sets as well as new reprints from expansion sets through the "Weatherlight" expansion. The name "Classic" was prominently featured on cases of packs of the set, and the set was referred to by both titles by both Wizards of the Coast and players.
List of Wild Cards characters
Mordecai Jones is the second strongest Ace in the Wild Cards universe, just below Golden Boy. He has a metabolism that is now dependent on radioactive isotopes and heavy metal salts, which he must obtain illegally. His normal body temperature is 106 degrees Fahrenheit, he needs little sleep, he must eat far more than normal, and his weight is four times that of a normal man his size. His increased mass and density give him superhuman strength and durability. He is immune to disease and heals far faster than normal.
Darwin Ortiz
Ortiz is the author of books on gambling and magic. The most recent book on his original routines was "Lessons in Card Mastery". His book "Strong Magic" focuses on practical presentational techniques for close-up magicians. The book has been broadly embraced by the professional and amateur magic community but initially met with negative reviews from the two major US trade publications "MAGIC" and "Genii". Demand for the book has been high, despite the initial inability of the original publisher to reprint the text. Ownership of the copyright has recently returned to the author (along with two other books "Darwin Ortiz At The Card Table" and "Cardshark") and the books are once again being made available to the trade.
List of Black Clover characters
The are strongest order of Magic Knights, the selection of most of its members later revealed to have been part of Patry's design as a majority are reincarnated elves.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 1993–2007
Wizards has used Cartamundi as their card printer since "". For some undocumented reason, during the production of "4th Edition", the company experimented with using other vendors. Some cards were printed by the United States Playing Card Corporation, and had a thicker stock along with a glossy overcoat on the back. While these cards were not intended to be released, some starter packs were leaked out into public circulation. The cards do not glow under blacklight, unlike normal cards, and did not have the normal dot design on the back.Fifth Edition was the seventeenth "Magic: The Gathering" set, released in March 1997. It contained 449 cards, counting multiple illustrations of the basic lands, making it the largest card set in the game's history. It was the first edition of the core set to reprint cards from "", "", and "".
Baduci
The other hand that must be evaluated is the 2-7 triple draw hand. Players use all 5 cards to determine this hand. Like Badugi, the triple draw hand increases in value as the card ranks are lower. The best 2-7 hand is 7-5-4-3-2, where the cards not all of a single suit. An example of the most powerful 2-7 triple draw hand is . Aces are always played high in 2-7. Note that would may seem like a lower hand, but this creates a straight and this is the reason why it is not the strongest hand. The best 2-7 triple draw hand would win the other half of the Baduci pot.
List of Magic: The Gathering keywords
This ability is written "Bestow (cost)" and appears on enchantment creatures. A creature with bestow gives the player the option to cast it as an Aura that enchants a creature, granting that creature its power, toughness, and abilities. A bestow card cast for its normal cost will enter the stack as a creature spell. By choosing to pay the alternative cost, which is a static ability, it becomes an Enchantment-Aura spell; if the creature it targets leaves the battlefield before the bestow card resolves or while the bestow card is enchanting the creature, the bestow card enters the battlefield as an enchantment creature – unlike a regular aura card which would become unattached and go to the graveyard. This mechanic first appeared on some enchantment creatures from the "Theros" block.
List of Overlord (novel series) characters
is a title for the most powerful dragons in the New World. As dragons are the strongest species, Dragon Lords are the strongest beings in the New World. However, around 500 years ago, they went to war with the (implied to have been Players from YGGDRASIL) and lost, resulting in their kind being reduced to a handful.
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Diamond and Pearl – Legends Awakened is the 38th set of cards of the Trading Card Game and the 22nd released by Pokémon USA, and was released in August 2008. The set reintroduces Technical Machines to the Trading Card Game and includes the last of the Pokémon card variants of Pokémon first seen in "Pokémon Diamond" and "Pearl" Video Games (excluding unreleased Shaymin and Arceus). The set includes seven Pokémon LV.X, more than any set thus far. Many great decks came out of LA LV.X cards, a prominent one being AMU. It is the fourth-largest set in the history of the TCG with 146 cards.
List of Power Rangers Mystic Force characters
The former general and leader of the dark army, Morticon appears to be an undead cyborg, with the machinery that comprises the bulk of his body fused to what remains of his blue skin, somewhat similar to Dr. Victor Frankenstein's monster. He is known to use a mystical portal to view the world and wields a sword made from one of the Master's fangs. He possesses Herculean strength, able to hurl the Mystic Dragon (with the Mystic Phoenix riding it) with one arm with relative ease and because of his strength and skill in battle, especially with his sword, he considers himself to be the "Most Powerful Warrior of All Time".
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 1993–2007
Seventh Edition was a "Magic: The Gathering" set released on April 2, 2001. It is the only core set since the original "" to have introduced all-new art for every card. The set contained 350 cards. The expansion symbol was a stylized 7.
Justice (Tarot card)
Justice is traditionally the eighth card and Strength the eleventh, but the influential Rider-Waite-Smith deck switched the position of these two cards in order to make them better fit the astrological correspondences worked out by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Today many decks use this numbering, particularly in the English-speaking world. Both placements are considered valid.
The Magician (Tarot card)
In most tarot games, the "Bagatto" is the lowest ranking trump card but worth a lot of points. Therefore, many players want to take a trick when it is played. In most games played out of Italy, winning the last trick with it awards bonus points.
Karate Kid (comics)
A ""living weapon"", Karate Kid is considered the greatest martial artist of all time. Karate Kid is the master of every documented form of martial arts to have been developed up to the 31st century. He possesses the ability to sense the weakest spot in objects and people and his skill in hand-to-hand combat is seemingly superhuman, allowing him to simulate super-strength blows. He can severely damage extremely hard and strong materials — metals, stone, etc. — with a single blow. Karate Kid is also a master with all forms of melee weapons (he was the youngest warrior ever to earn the title samurai), though he dislikes using them and rarely needs to employ them. He occasionally fights Supergirl, though he is regularly beaten by her. This is presumably due to her training by the Amazons of Themyscira to learn to better control her super powers. As Val is male, he is denied Amazon training, making it one of the few skills he has not completely mastered. He fights Supergirl in an attempt to pick up some of those skills secondhand.
Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014
Magic 2014 – Duels of the Planeswalkers (referred to in shorthand as DotP 2014 or Magic 2014) is a video game based on the popular collectible card game , first published by Wizards of the Coast in 1993. The game was released on 26 June 2013 on PC (Steam), Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade), PlayStation 3 (PlayStation Network), iPad (iTunes), and Android devices (Google Play and the Amazon Appstore). It is the fourth game in the "" series. The gameplay follows that of the original card game, however within a more restrained framework. It includes a new feature, "Sealed Play", which allows players to open virtual booster packs and build their own decks. These decks can be used in the special Sealed campaign, and also in multiplayer. The game, like all the previous installments, is priced $10.00 on all platforms. Additional slots for custom made decks can be purchased separately for $1.99. The sequel, "", was released in 2014.
Magic: The Gathering Online
As of March 2014 with the release of "Vintage Masters", almost all Cards that are tournament legal for at least one supported format are available, most of the remaining tournament legal cards that are not printed are basically considered as tournament unworthy cards (such as cards that only trigger their ability during drafts).The earliest set available upon release was "" , which had been released in printed form in October 2000; all sets moving forward were made available online as well, with the exception of some self-parody expansion (Un-sets) and multiplayer sets (like ""). 
For the first 10 years of "Magic Online" sets released online three or four weeks after they released in paper in an effort to appease "brick & mortar" retailers. However, a policy of shortening this delay (to about two weeks) was instituted to allow professional players (who often use "Magic Online" for testing) to prepare for Pro Tour events (which usually happen two weeks after the release of a new set) and to "increase cohesion" between paper and online Magic . Wizards of the Coast has since released more pre-"Invasion" cards online. In the autumn of 2005, "" was released online, nine years after its 1996 print release. This set was chosen as the earliest set usable on "Magic Online" because it was the first to be designed with both Limited and Constructed play in mind and the first to be intended as part of a three-set block. Additionally, Wizards unambiguously owns the rights to the artwork in "Mirage" block, and "Mirage" block contains no cards (unlike "" and ""). It has been confirmed that the eventual goal of the developers was to have every expansion set from "Mirage" onward available online.
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange is described as "the mightiest magician in the cosmos" and "more powerful by far than any of your fellow humanoids" by Eternity, the sentience of the Marvel Universe. He holds the title of Sorcerer Supreme from 1973 (with the death of the Ancient One) to the present, except during an interruption from 1992 to 1995. He relinquishes the title once again in 2009, but reclaims it in 2012 when he proves himself willing to protect the world even without the title.
Magic: The Gathering expansion sets, 1993–1995
"Legends" has a reputation for having an erratic power level and not being balanced particularly finely. Notably, the designers made extremely powerful spells that could lock opposing creatures out of the game entirely such as The Abyss and Moat, but extremely weak creatures. The result was a combination of some of the weakest cards in "Magic" as well as the most potent.
Put (card game)
Considerable daring is necessary in this game, for a bold player will often "Put" upon very bad cards in order to tempt his adversary into giving him a point. Sometimes the hand is played with "Putting", when the winner of the three tricks, or of two out of three, scores 1 point. The best cards are first: the Three's, next the Two's, and then the Aces; the Kings, Queens, Knaves, and Tens following in order down to the Four, which is the lowest card in the pack.
Dai Vernon
Vernon first fell in love with magic when he was seven years old after his father took him to see a magic show. The first real magic book he ever owned was an early edition of perhaps the most famous card book of them all, "The Expert at the Card Table", by S. W. Erdnase. By the time he was 13 he had memorized the contents of the book. He also had a famous encounter with another up-and-coming young magician from his town, Cliff Green, who asked Vernon, "What kind of magic do you do?" Vernon responded by asking the boy to name a card. Upon pulling a pack of cards from his pocket, Vernon turned over the top card of the deck to reveal the named card and replied to the speechless Green "That's the kind of magic I do. What kind of magic do you do?"
List of Negima! Magister Negi Magi characters
While Kū is extremely skilled and knowledgeable about Chinese kenpo style martial arts, Kū lacks knowledge and control of magic, but has strong ki, which rises to otherworldly levels after learning of the magical world. Mana states that "as a normal human, Kū Fei is without a doubt the strongest". Kū is a highly skilled warrior both unarmed and armed. She sometimes uses knives, swords, Chinese war hammers, and she can use the tail on her clothing in a spear-like fashion in order to restrain opponents. While in the Magic World, she was presented with the idea of forming a pactio with Negi, but initially held out due to her embarrassment and family rules; she later made a pactio with Negi after losing to him in an armwrestling match; followed with telling Negi as the man who took her lips he is indebted to become her husband. She than says she is kidding, but Kamo quickly takes into account that Negi's descendent, Chao Lingshen, is Chinese; making for an interesting situation. Her artifact is "Shintetsu Jizaikon", a virtually indestructeble staff able to shift length. It is said to be the replica of the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
Magic: The Gathering Commander
"Commander" also has its own "banned list" of cards, separate from any other format. A list of the recommended banned cards in the format can be found on Wizard's official page hereMagic: The Gathering Commander was released on June 17, 2011. It consisted of five preconstructed decks, each containing three foil oversized legendary creature cards. This set is notable in that it was the first set printed outside of the normal booster pack expansions to have functionally new cards. The set introduced 51 new cards, made specifically for multi-player games.
Dragon Ball (manga)
For the 10th anniversary of the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006, close to 79,000 Japanese fans voted "Dragon Ball" the third greatest manga of all time. In a 2007 survey of one-thousand people conducted by Oricon, Goku ranked in first place as the "Strongest Manga Character of All Time". Coinciding with the 2012 Summer Olympics, Oricon conducted a survey at the international World Cosplay Summit on which manga and anime series attendees considered world class works. "Dragon Ball" was overwhelmingly in first place. The Portuguese edition of "Dragon Ball" won the 2001 Troféu HQ Mix for Best Serial.
Magic: The Gathering compilation sets
The second set, Modern Masters 2015 Edition ("MM2"), was released May 22, 2015. It has 249 cards (101 commons, 80 uncommons, 53 rares, and 15 mythic rares). In addition to the blocks in the original "Modern Masters", the 2015 edition features cards from "Zendikar" block, "Scars of Mirrodin" block, "", "", and "". The set was released in Japanese and Simplified Chinese in addition to English. Twenty to thirty cards feature new artwork, and a number of new tokens are included. The English booster pack in "Modern Masters 2015 Edition" used recyclable paper cardboard as packaging material instead of foil packs, the first set doing so in Magic history. It also raised some complaints of easier theft of the cards, however. Notable reprints in "Modern Masters 2015 Edition" included Bitterblossom, Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, and Karn Liberated.
The Magician (Tarot card)
According to Arthur Edward Waite, this card signifies the divine motive in man. It is also the unity of the individual being on all planes, and in a very high sense it is thought. With further reference to the "sign of life", i.e. the infinity symbol and its connection with the number 8, it may be remembered that Christian Gnosticism speaks of rebirth in Christ as a change "unto the Ogdoad." The mystic number is termed Jerusalem above, the Land flowing with Milk and Honey, the Holy Spirit and the Land of the Lord. According to Martinism, 8 is the number of Christ.
List of Power Rangers Mystic Force characters
The Mystic Mother, the "Empress of All Good Magic", is a colossal Ancient Titan-like being who rules over the Magic World and who first appears in the finale episode "Mystic Fate". Udonna has stated that in the "dark days", the Mystic Mother was known as Rita and that she had turned to Good Magic after being purified by Zordon's Energy Wave. The Mother herself remarked that she knew "firsthand the weakness of Evil," and told the Master that he was giving her a headache. She was overwhelmed by the Master and seemingly killed, but was later revealed to have secretly escaped to regroup making Clare a "full" sorceress as she did. Her demeanor is that of a somewhat complacent, smug, but powerful enchantress. She is shown dressed in white much like other fictional heads of wizardly societies.
Mus (card game)
The first round is called "Grande". The two teams compete for the highest combination of cards. The highest cards in the Spanish deck are the Kings, followed by Knights and Jacks. In the variant game with eight kings, the threes work as the regular Kings and are therefore as high. For example, a hand like 'King-King-Knight-7' would be better for this round than 'King-Knight-Knight-7'. As it is a bidding game, if one team does not accept the bid then they may not win the hand even though they have higher cards.
Confrontation (Rackham)
Incantation introduces powerful Wizards to the game. In this supplement a new characteristic appears: Mental Strength. Mental Strength is the essential element used to call upon the power of Magic. Wizards can use that power to change the course of battle: project fire balls, raise the dead and even invoke powerful spirits. Every blister that contains a Wizard includes a free Incantation Rules Booklet as well as cards that describe magic items and special spells particular to each. A small plate of counters representing 'Mana', the very essence of Magic, is also included. 'Grimoires,' packs of 15 additional spell cards, are available separately.
Koto Battle: Tengai no Moribito
Kotodama power can also be wielded as magic, which can be cast on both friendly and opposing units. Like monster cards, the effectiveness of magic is dependent on the level of the kotodama battler. However, magic is not powerful as an offensive force in comparison to other forms of attack, and as enemies become stronger, only the most powerful magic cards can deal out large amounts of damage to opponents. Players will mostly rely on magic to heal (regain HP).
List of Cardcaptor Sakura characters
Little is initially said about Fujitaka's family or past. During the second half of the series, it is revealed that when Clow Reed divided his soul (seeking to no longer be the most powerful magician in the world), he split it into two halves. One of these halves became Eriol Hiiragizawa, holding all of Clow's magic and memories, and the other being Fujitaka, who has no magic of his own, but fathered the one who would inherit the cards. It is stated that Fujitaka has no magical powers of his own, but he is also unaffected by other Clow's magic, such as the Eriol's sleep spell. At the end of the series, Eriol gives half of his magic to Fujitaka. This enables Fujitaka to finally see the spirit of Nadeshiko, who has been watching over her family since her death.
List of Cardcaptor Sakura characters
Later is revealed that Akiho is part of the "D" magician clan, but despite having born from the two most powerful magicians of the clan at the time, she has no magic power at all, thus she grew up in isolation, with only Kaito and Momo to keep her company.
The Legend of Dragoon
They soon discover that Lloyd is gathering other artifacts held by human kings since the days of the Wingly Empire, and at the same time, causing disasters in the lands that he visits. While the party tries to reverse Lloyd’s work, Lloyd manages to obtain all three of the artifacts, and also manages to obtain the Dragoon Spirit of the Divine Dragon, the most powerful dragon in the world. Dart and the party finally manage to defeat Lloyd, who then agrees to take them to Emperor Diaz, ancient Emperor of Gloriano during the Dragon Campaign. Emperor Diaz reveals several things to the party.
Dungeon Magic: Sword of the Elements
500 years ago, the Kingdom of Granville fought a terrible war with Darces the Dark Overlord. A great hero, the warrior "Magi", rose to challenge Darces. He owned six magical swords and a powerful suit of armor that was impervious to all but the most powerful of magic. Five of his six swords were Elemental blades, each created from the rarest metals on earth. The sixth blade, "Tores", used an even more powerful metal.
Catan Card Game
Furthermore, "Wizards" also introduces "citadel expansions", which may only be played on citadels, as well as "magic spells" and "magic action cards": citadel expansions and action cards, respectively, whose effects require magic to activate. Magic spells can be activated once per turn. "Wizards" also includes new units in "dragons", which, like cannons, provide strength but no tournament rating.
Alara block
"Conflux" continues the "Shards of Alara" set's multicolor theme, expanding on it by introducing five-colored cards to the Alara block. "Conflux" is the set with the highest number of five-colored cards of all "Magic" sets. Aside from the multicolored theme, the set makes use of the mechanics introduced in "Shards of Alara",
, , and . "Conflux" also introduced Domain, an ability word which refers to an effect involving the number of basic land types among lands the player controls (this had been used in , but not as a keyword). "Conflux" expands on the existing mechanics of cycling and protection in the form of basic landcycling and protection from everything.
"Alara Reborn" is the first set in the history of Magic the Gathering to consist entirely of multicolored, or "gold", cards (cards which require mana of more than one color to play). It expands on the mechanics, themes and flavor laid down in "Shards of Alara" and "Conflux", but creates new combinations of creatures under the influence of more than one shard, such as coloured artifact creatures from Esper that have the Bant ability .
Elder Sign (card game)
In June 2013, an expansion called Unseen Forces was released. It introduced the Blessed/Cursed mechanic. Two new dice were added - a player uses the white die when they are Blessed and the black die when they are Cursed. The Blessed die has the same sides as a green die and its result can be used to help complete adventure card tasks. The Cursed die also has the same sides as a green die but instead of using its result to aid you, if it matches the result of another die that was rolled, both dice are removed for the remainder of the adventure, making it harder to complete it. The expansion also added many new cards to the game, including optional Master Mythos cards that can be used to increase the difficulty of the game.
Magic (horse)
Strebors Black Magic On Demand, better known as Magic, is a female miniature horse working as a therapy horse inside hospitals and hospice programs. She was named one of History's Ten Most Heroic Animals by "Time magazine". Magic was also selected The Most Heroic Pet in America by the AARP and included in Newsweek/The Daily Beast's Most Heroic Animals of 2010. Magic is a "Reader's Digest " AmericanTowns Power Of One Hero.
Mighty (card game)
Mighty is played by 5 players, but the number of cards can be modified so that 4 people can play. For 5 players, a total of 53 cards (a standard playing card deck and one joker) while for 4 players, a total of 43 cards (a standard deck and one joker - with two red 3's and all 2's and 4's removed) are used instead. Every player receives 10 cards, and 3 cards are placed in the middle. If a player does not receive any face cards (or only one 10), he or she may call a misdeal, and the cards will be shuffled and dealt again.
Chris Pikula
Pikula is best known for creating the "Magic" card , his reward for winning the 2000 Magic Invitational. In the had a small comeback where he reached the Top 8 of another two Grand Prix events. Pikula also made Top 8 in 2017 at GP Orlando.
Old Kingdom (book series)
"Free Magic Elementals": These are free-willed beings wholly composed of Free Magic. The most common elementals belong to specific "breeds" (such as Stilken, Magrue, Jerreq, or Hish), while the most powerful are unique, or "of a singular nature". Though "many thousands" of Free Magic Elementals escaped the creation of the Charter, most were later imprisoned or enslaved by it. Of the remainder, "no truly dangerous creature of Free Magic has woken in a thousand years, save to the sound of Mosrael and Saraneth, or by a direct summons using their secret names". Some cannot be destroyed except by a Free Magic sorcerer more powerful than they, or by immersion in running water (though Free Magic creatures of the Third Kindred, or those infused with the essence of the Nine, are exempt from this rule). Charter Magic is typically ineffective.
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Black and White – Emerging Powers is the second Pokémon trading card game set based on the Pokémon games, "Pokémon Black" and "White". The set has a total of 98 cards, introducing 31 new Pokémon to the TCG, including special full card art versions of Thundurus and Tornadus. This set features the highly anticipated "Pokémon Catcher" Item card. The first Item card since Gust of Wind that lets a player switch their opponent's active Pokémon, without the opponent choosing the new active. On the release date, the card, an uncommon in the set, was going for upwards of $15.00 on popular buy/sell site TrollandToad.com. The set features Toxic Tricks (Scolipede) and Power Play (Krookodile) starter decks.
Rath block
"Tempest" was the second set and the first standalone in the "Weatherlight Saga", a continuous storyline for over four years' worth of Magic expansions. The release of Tempest represented a large jump in the power level of the card set, compared to the previous block. Many cards from Tempest instantly became (and still are) tournament staples. Its expansion symbol is a cloud, with a lightning bolt erupting out. On 8 December 2008 "Tempest" was released for "".
Viewpoint (card game)
A stronger and more enduring strategy is to understand that the points values of most Viewpoint cards are balanced against the impact they have on the game. For example, Shadow, which is arguably the most powerful card in the game, is worth -15 View-points and allows a player to play an additional card each turn (effectively giving that player two turns to everyone one turn taken by their opponents). Conversely, a card like Shared Perspective is worth 20 View-points because it allows every player to draw a card. Typically, the higher-value, lower-impact cards only allow players to draw cards or make other players discard cards and the lower-value, higher-impact cards allow players to take extra turns or significantly reduce an opponent's total points. Therefore, it is sometimes advantageous to play lower-value cards because they might provide a significantly greater advantage over the course of the game. The strategy of weighing up a card's impact against its value throughout the game is known as the "value-proposition strategy" and is most-commonly used by experienced players.
Grip strength
Although grip strength lends itself to impromptu performances that might feature a unique implement or cater to a particular individual or a small group, performances on standardized, widely available tests carry more weight. One such feat involving world class grip strength is officially closing a No. 3 Captains of Crush Gripper, first accomplished by Richard Sorin in 1991. Card tearing is a traditional feat of grip and lower arm strength that has a rich history, and top performances include John Brookfield tearing three decks of cards at once and tearing 50 decks of cards in less than a minute. Brookfield has explained the technique for tearing cards in both his "MILO" article on the topic, and in his book "The Grip Master's Manual"
Dobbm
The cards’ trick-taking power broadly corresponds to their card point value. Thus the Sow ("Sau") or Deuce ("Daus") is the highest-ranking card. Then follow the: Ten > King > Ober > Unter > Nine > Eight > Seven > Six. This ranking is also valid within the trump suit as well as the plain suits. Hearts are permanent trumps in the normal game. Solo games may have different trump suits (see below).
Stuff the Magic Dragon
Stuff the Magic Dragon is the official mascot of the NBA franchise, the Orlando Magic. His name is a play on the song, "Puff the Magic Dragon"; and "stuff" a slang term for rejecting or "stuffing" a slam dunk or shot.
Stuff the Magic Dragon, the tallest dragon in Orlando's history, has been an integral part of the Magic organization ever since the franchise debuted in the 1989-90 NBA season. He was introduced in a giant egg on Church Street in 1989, where Dave Raymond, the original Philly Phanatic, portrayed him for his "birth". Many think that Stuff is a copy of the Philly Phanatic, but the two mascots were made by the same company, Acme Mascots (Harrison/Erickson), which made many popular mascots including the retired Yankees mascot "Dandy", the Hornets mascot Hugo, and Montreal's Youppi!. He was originally "the Magic's #1 pick in the supplemental dragon back draft, directly out of clown college." Stuff lives in the Dragon's Lair at Orlando's Amway Center and has his own play area, "Stuff's Magic Castle" on the promenade level. He has been entertaining thousands of Magic fans for the past 20 seasons. According to original Magic general manager Pat Williams, various other mascot ideas were thrown before the dragon, including a rabbit, a wizard and a magic bean.
Magic Duels
The core game follows the standard rules of the collectible card game (except that you can only use 1 mythic, 2 rares, and 3 uncommons of any card) "", first released in 1993; each player has a deck of cards consisting of lands and spells. Lands are used to generate "mana", the resource needed to cast spells. Mana comes in five colors, and cards may require colored or generic (mana of any color) to be cast. Spells come in many varieties, from sorceries and instants which have one-time effects, to summoned creatures which can attack and defend from opponents. Players alternate turns playing land cards, casting spells, and attacking opponents until all but one player's life total is reduced to 0.
Magic: The Gathering Online
For cards released before "", special MTGO-exclusive compilation sets called Masters Editions were created. These sets range in size from 195 to 269 cards. Most of the cards in a given set were previously unavailable on Magic Online. Exceptions are usually made to create enjoyable Masters Edition limited environments or to make specifically illustrated cards available online. The first Masters Edition was released on September 10, 2007, with Masters Edition II following in 2008, Masters Edition III in 2009, and Masters Edition IV in early 2011. As of January 2011, Magic Online was missing about 800 cards from the pre-Mirage and Portal sets. Most of the missing cards do not impact normal game play, as many older cards have become outclassed, or functional reprints have been offered. Nearly all other pre-"Mirage" cards usually considered tournament worthy have been released online. The Power Nine were to be released in a set called "Vintage Masters", along with tournament-worthy cards featured in "", which was available in a limited period in June 2014. The addition of Vintage (which also replaced the alternative "Classic" format), made all sanctioned paper formats also available to be played on "Magic Online." In May 2015, a selected range of cards from "Tempest block" were re-released in a set called "Tempest Remastered".
Magic: The Gathering expansion sets, 1993–1995
"Legends" is the first "Magic" expansion to have cards of three explicit rarities: commons, uncommons, and rares. There are 75 common cards in "Legends". Of these 46 are C2, meaning that they appear two times on the print sheet and are thus twice as common as the other 29 C1 commons. 7 of the 114 uncommons are U2 and all other 107 uncommons are U1. Of the 121 rares each is R1, making them all equally prevalent.
Mighty (card game)
The highest card of the trick is called the Boss card. (e.g. if the trick is K, 4, 7, Q, 3 - players state that the trick is "K-boss")
Mighty (card game)
The Joker is the second most powerful card and, when placed, entitles the person who played it to all the cards. When played as the first card, the player must state what suit the Joker represents. If a Mighty is played in the same trick as the Joker, the Mighty takes priority.
Yugi Mutou
Some time after Pegasus' tournament, Dark Yugi learns from a woman named Ishizu Ishtar that he was once a Pharaoh but his memory was erased during a conflict. Shortly after this, Kaiba announces his own tournament – Battle City – where every loser in the competition has to give the winner their most valuable card. A group of hunters led by Ishizu's corrupted younger brother, Marik, are set to challenge Yugi, having a vendetta against the Pharaoh. In one duel, Yugi is faced by Slifer, the Sky Dragon: one of the three Egyptian God Cards which are recognized as the three strongest cards. Yugi defeats Marik's hunter and earns Slifer. He later uses it to defeat Yami Bakura and once again to confront Kaiba in a rematch, as his rival uses the second God Card: Obelisk the Tormentor. Yugi defeats Kaiba and obtains Obelisk. In the finale, Yugi faces Marik's own darker alter-ego who has the third God Card: The Winged Dragon of Ra. Using a card Kaiba previously passed him, Yugi defeats Marik, obtains Ra and becomes the tournament's champion.
List of Masters of the Universe characters
He-Man is "the most powerful man in the universe" and in most media he is the alter-ego of Prince Adam. He is armed with a power harness that enhances his strength, the Sword of Power, a battle axe, and a shield. Early media, such as the minicomics packaged with the original run of action figures, also depicts him carrying a knife. He-Man possesses superhuman strength and is capable of performing incredible feats, such as lifting heavy objects such as boulders and buildings, breaking solid rock with his fists, as well as having the advantage over just about any opponent. He is a formidable warrior, although he usually prefers to avoid conflict. He is a strong upholder of moral justice and is regarded by the people of Eternia as their greatest hero. In the original minicomics He-Man was a wandering barbarian hailing from a jungle tribe, but both the DC comics and the cartoon series "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" portrayed him as the alter ego of the young Prince Adam, heir-apparent to the throne of Eternia, and most media since have followed suit. Prince Adam is the son of King Randor and Queen Marlena of Eternia, and is viewed by many as fun-loving, lazy and cowardly. This is merely an act to keep people from suspecting that he is also He-Man. The 2002 cartoon revealed that Adam was carefree and reckless in his younger days, before he accepted his destiny. Prince Adam was given the Sword of Power by The Sorceress of Castle Grayskull, and when he lifts the sword and says "By the Power of Grayskull... I Have the Power!" he is magically transformed into He-Man, defender of Eternia. Man-At-Arms, Orko, and the Sorceress are the only characters who share in the knowledge of Adam's secret.
Rudy Coby
He then attempts to "dethrone Harry Houdini" by performing "The World's Most Dangerous Card Trick". The trick is ultimately a joke, hyped up to humorous levels. Coby selects a child from the audience, gets him to select a card at random, and wires himself up to a cardboard bomb (telling the volunteer not to be "fooled by its cheesy cardboard-like appearance"). He tells the volunteer to detonate the bomb at an appropriate time, and after deliberately fudging up the times, gets set on fire but eventually produces the correct card, proving himself to be "The Coolest Magician on Earth".
Monster Magic
Monster Magic is an out-of-print collectible card game by Trio Toys. It was released in 1995. The first and only set was called "Alpha Series" and had 104 cards. The packaging for the game suggested that four more expansions may have been released which would bring the total to 520 cards, however its unlikely they were ever released.
List of Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight characters
Dragon Knight slots his cards on the dragon-like slot on his left arm called the Drag Visor. As Blank Knight, the design of the slot, called the Ride Visor, was more generic but worked the same way.Dragon Knight's slot changes from his arm slot to a dragon-like gun called the Drag Visor-Zwei. The Survive card is inserted inside the dragon mouth and the cards are slotted on the side of the slot.Kamen Rider Wing Knight is a close-range fighter possessing two swords (his default rapier which also allows him to slot Advent Cards, and his Sword Vent, a large lance-like sword). Because of this, he is better suited for one-on-one combat, and he is the 4th strongest Kamen Rider. Wing Knight can also use his Trick Vent to create copies of himself to aid him in combat to overwhelm stronger opponents or even out a battle involving multiple enemies. Len also has the ability to access a stronger form by using the Survive Card. In his Survive Mode, his armor and Advent Deck change to a deep shade of blue, with a cape being added to his armor. His new cards reinforce his single combat skills allowing Wing Knight to use his slot in different ways. Len's Kawasaki ZX-14 transforms into the Wing Cycle, Wing Knight's motorcycle. The Wing Knight deck is the only deck that hasn't once traded hands with another user, as Len is the only Rider not vented in the series.
List of Akame ga Kill! characters
Raised under her father's philosophy of "the strong survive and the weak die", has gained notoriety as one of the Empire's most powerful generals. Originally a resident of a northern tribe of Danger Beast hunters, Esdeath is the last of her people and twisted her father's ideals before enlisting the military and quickly rose to her current position. Esdeath then selected her Imperial Arm , the blood of a Danger Beast that she assimilated into her circulatory system to gain the power to create and manipulate ice. Esdeath later invented various ways to manipulate her powers that include a Trump Card which allows her momentarily freeze time around her. Esdeath used her abilities to conquer the Northern lands, encasing her enemies in ice, before being summoned back to the capital to deal with Night Raid as leader of the Jaegers after her Three Beasts fell against them.
Ultimate Combat!
Players in Ultimate Combat! compete to knock their opponent unconscious using cards representing various martial arts moves and techniques. Players alternate turns with each turn consisting of the following phases:Players build up a base of power by deploying foundation cards over successive turns (akin to land cards in Magic: The Gathering), and then use those foundations to bring other cards into play. The most important of these other cards are the technique cards, which can be used to launch or block an attack. Each turn, during the activity phase, the acting player may launch an attack using a single technique which has previously been brought into play, and the other player can respond by blocking with a technique or his or her own. Any and all techniques used in an attack are discarded afterwards, so players must weigh whether to expend a technique on defense, as it will then not be available for offense. Various modifiers are applied to attack values based on whether the combatants are moving, and as a result of any advantage cards played during the attack, with the final resolution possibly including the defender taking damage.
Shadow Hearts: From the New World
Magic returns in the form of Stellar Charts, where characters equip Stellars onto the chart. The charts are based on the constellations of the twelve zodiac signs. Finding and fitting all the Stellars onto the charts rewards the player with the Melt Crest Stellar, the strongest non-elemental magic in the game.
Collectible card game
"Magic: the Gathering" saw a large player boom in 2009, with the release of the "Zendikar" expansion. The spike in the number of "Magic" players continued for a few years and leveled off by 2015. Interest also developed with their multiplayer format called Commander. This increase in the player base created a based on finance speculation. New players entering the market from 2009 to 2015 desired cards that were printed before 2009 and with smaller print runs. Demand outstripped quantity and prices of certain cards increased and speculators started to directly manipulate the "Magic" card market to their advantage. This eventually attracted the interest of the controversial figure Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, for a brief period of time. Prices of cards from previous sets increased dramatically and the American market saw an influx of Chinese counterfeits capitalizing on the demand. This created a unique situation where the most desirable and expensive cards could be printed by counterfeiters, but not by the brand owner, due to a promise made with collectors back in 1996 and refined in 2011. In 2015, Wizards of the Coast implemented more anti-counterfeit measures by introducing a holographic foil onto cards with specific rarities, in addition to creating a proprietary font.
Darkana Tarot
The deck contains 79 cards, instead of the traditional 78. Hale added an additional Major Arcana card as number 23, "The Badass". It still contains the other standard 22 Major Arcana cards, with two distinct differences: "Strength" was changed to "Fortitude" and "Judgement" was changed to "Prudence" The changes in names for these two cards was done to reflect the symbolism of the four Cardinal Virtues (fortitude, justice, temperance, prudence), all of which appear in most standard decks as strength, justice, temperance, and judgement.
Glossary of card game terms
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The Duelist
"The Duelist" was known to occasionally give out promotional cards from upcoming "Magic: The Gathering" releases. In addition to Magic, it also served as a way for Wizards to introduce players to other products it owned, including the moderately obscure "" and the more popular "Legend of the Five Rings". Other card games were profiled, such as "Star Trek", "Star Wars", and the "Pokémon Trading Card Game". "Magic" gradually lost the magazine's focus as it put more emphasis on up-and-coming card games; with Pokémon's immediate North American success, "The Duelist" was converted into a dual-format publication, with general separate sections for Magic and Pokémon. By this time, it had already expanded to covering video games and others.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 1993–2007
Like the previous core set and all core sets since, several cards were removed and new ones were added from "Fourth Edition". Among those cards removed were those that had attracted controversy from those outside the game. Most of the cards whose art depicted nude or near-nude humanoid forms (including and ) were excised, as were many that had overtly religious themes (including and ), though one demon, , remained. One card, Unholy Strength had its artwork altered to remove a flaming inverted pentagram in the background (as compared to this). Also removed were the original ten "dual lands" (one for each pair of ). With the ability to tap for one mana of either of two colors, they were deemed too powerful. A number of other cards would also be pruned from the set for being too powerful, but some (such as ) would appear in future sets.
Mighty (card game)
The player who calls the highest bid becomes the "President" and takes the three cards at the center. Then, the president substitutes any cards he does not want with the cards in his hand and places three cards back in the center. The President then declares who their "friend" is by stating the name of a card the friend should be holding. For the remainder of the game, the friend and the president are in a team against the other players, although the president cannot be sure who the friend is until the friend plays the card for which they were called (e.g. Mighty if the president called for Mighty-friend). Typically, the president should call "Mighty-friend" meaning that the player holding the Mighty card is the friend, though the president may also call "Joker-friend" or any other card. Additionally, the president may choose not to call a Friend at all.
List of Friday Night Magic cards
Before 2015, cards are awarded to the winner, the most sporting player (replaced by the finalist in 2005), and two other players chosen at random. Since 2015, distribution is left to the event organizer's discretion, although WotC provides guidelines to ensure every player has a chance to obtain the promotional card.
2009 World's Strongest Man
The 2009 WSM line-up was said to have been one of the best ever. Every major federation and Strongman competition is represented. Among those competing were the current World's Strongest Man, Mariusz Pudzianowski (also the last man to win the World Strongman Cup); Fortissimus champion Zydrunas Savickas, titled the Strongest Man on the Planet, (also the Strongman Champions League winner); and the Arnold Strongman Classic champion, Derek Poundstone, (also the current Strongman Super Series overall champion). Additionally, a former World's Strongest Man, Phil Pfister, the Highlander World Champion Sebastian Wenta, the Rolling Thunder world champion, Mark Felix, and 15 current national champions and a former World Champion in the 105 kg class. So strong was the line-up that Tarmo Mitt, four times WSM finalist, was among the reserves. The competitors held, between them, at least 15 strongman world records.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 2009–2015
Magic 2012 was released on July 15, 2011. It is the thirteenth core set for "Magic: The Gathering". This set has 97 new cards in it.
Collectible card game
Despite limited success or no success at all in the rest of the CCG market, "Magic" had recovered and Wizards learned from its lessons of 1995 and early 1996. Players still enjoyed the game and were gobbling up its latest expansions of "", "", "" and by year's end, "Urza's Saga" which added new enthusiasm to "Magic's" fanbase in light of some of the cards being "too powerful."
Lord Voldemort
In "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", Voldemort furthers his quest for ultimate power. He disposes of the Minister for Magic and replaces him with Pius Thicknesse, who is under the Imperius Curse. Establishing a totalitarian police state, he has Muggle-borns persecuted and arrested for "stealing magic" from the "pure blood" wizards. After failing to kill Harry with Draco's father Lucius Malfoy's borrowed wand (to avoid the effect of Priori Incantatem), he goes on a murderous search for the Elder Wand, the most powerful wand ever created, seeing it as the weapon he needs to overcome Harry's wand and make him truly invincible. He goes on a quest that takes him out of the country to Gregorovitch's wand shop, where he kills the old wandmaker. His journey also takes him to Nurmengard, the prison where Gellert Grindelwald is kept, and he kills Grindelwald as well. He finally locates the Elder Wand and steals it from Dumbledore's tomb.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 2009–2015
M10 was the first core set to use the "mythic rare" rarity as well as the first core set to include planeswalkers, a relatively new card type which was first introduced in 2007. All five of the initial set of planeswalkers from "Lorwyn" were reprinted in M10 as mythic rares.
Wizards of the Coast has also overhauled the with the introduction of "Magic 2010". The changes included the renaming of several zones and actions of the game, eliminate the 'mana burn' rule of the game, and more relevant for gameplay, an alteration to the way combat damage is assigned. This was the first major alteration of the game rules since the introduction of "" rules in 1999, and was instituted to make the game more streamlined and intuitive; previous damage-assignment rules, for instance, would allow a creature to, in the words of "Magic" Rules Manager Mark Gottlieb, "swing its fist to punch, vanish from the battlefield, and [still] have that punch land." The rule changes, as with most rules changes, raised some controversy.
Magic 2011 was released on July 16, 2010. It was the twelfth core set for "Magic: The Gathering". The set contained 110 new cards and 139 reprints.
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List of named devils in Dungeons &amp; Dragons
The Blood War miniature set featured a Pit Fiend as the most powerful creature in the Lawful Evil faction, if not the most powerful creature of the set. It came with an Epic stat card of 310 points. The card came with a very high armor class stat, along with spell resistance, a general DR, high attack power and a very powerful "meteor swarm" 9th level spell.
List of Magic: The Gathering sets
The trading card game has released a large number of sets since it was first published by Wizards of the Coast. After the 1993 release of "", also known as Alpha and Beta, roughly 3-4 major sets have been released per year, in addition to various spin-off products. "Magic" has made three types of sets since Alpha and Beta: base/core sets, expansion sets, and compilation sets. Expansion sets are the most numerous and prevalent type of expansion; they primarily consist of new cards, with few or no reprints, and either explore a new setting, or advance the plot in an existing setting. Guilds of Ravnica is the most recent expansion set as of October, 2018. Base sets, later renamed core sets, are the successors to the original "Limited Edition" and are meant to provide a baseline "Magic" experience; they tended to consist either largely or entirely of reprints. Compilation sets also exist entirely of reprints, and tend to be made as either a special themed product, or as a way to increase supply of cards with small printings. Examples of compilation sets with randomized boosters include "" and "Modern Masters". There also exist compilation products with a pre-selected and fixed card pool, such as the "Duel Decks" and "From The Vault" series. serve a similar function; however, they are always attached to a specific set or block, while compilations are free to pick and choose cards from any set.
Tommi Hovi
The deck that took Hovi to his win at Pro Tour Rome was of a type that is now considered the most powerful and "broken" in the game's history: The Academy Deck, named after its key card, Tolarian Academy. The card can be tapped to add 1 blue mana to its controller's mana pool for each artifact under that player's control. Decks of this type rely on large numbers of mana-producing artifacts (like Mox Diamond, Lotus Petal, Grim Monolith, and Thran Dynamo), mechanisms for repeatedly untapping the Academy and/or those artifacts (like Voltaic Key and Mind Over Matter), and ways to get more cards into the player's hand (like Stroke of Genius). Time Spiral was a particularly abusive card in this deck type because it replenishes the player's hand, recycles the graveyard, and untaps the Academy at the same time. The game ends when the Academy player generates enough mana to cast a 60-point (or so) Stroke of Genius on the opponent, resulting in the opponent getting "decked" and thereby losing the game. This deck type was so powerful that almost every card in it was put on the Restricted list, and even then, it continued to survive as "Neo-Academy".
Card game
The best-known deck internationally is the 52-card Anglo-American deck used for such games as poker and contract bridge. It contains one card for each unique combination of thirteen "ranks" and the four French "suits" "spades", "hearts", "diamonds", and "clubs". The ranks (from highest to lowest in bridge and poker) are "ace", "king", "queen", "jack" (or "knave"), and the numbers from "ten" down to "two" (or "deuce"). The trump cards and "knight" cards from the French playing tarot are not included.
Odyssey (Magic: The Gathering)
Psychatog is a blue-black "" creature card printed at the "uncommon" level of rarity in the Odyssey expansion set in 2001. Its abilities, which allow the player to strengthen it by discarding cards or removing cards in the graveyard (discard pile) from the game, resulted in Psychatog being labeled "broken" (overpowered) by players; in an online poll conducted in 2002 at Magicthegathering.com, 35.9% of respondents said they believed that printing Psychatog had been a mistake. Six of the top eight players at the used Psychatog-based decks, including the winner, Carlos Romão. It is one of a cycle of multicolored Atogs.
Geoff Capes
Aside from the World's Strongest Man, Capes also won Europe's Strongest Man on three occasions, in London (1980), Amsterdam (1982) and Marken (1984). He regained his Britain's Strongest Man title in 1981 and again in 1983. He won the World Muscle Power championship in 1987, and has been ascribed two World Muscle Power championships by the creator of the event, David Webster, although other sources suggest the 1987 victory was the only one. In 1987 his win in the World Muscle Power was accompanied by a win in the World Strongman Challenge and he is one of only three athletes to have won all three titles. There was no World's Strongest Man that year, but an event was held designed specifically to pit the three most successful strongmen against one another. Called the Pure Strength, the Ultimate Challenge, it featured Bill Kazmaier, Jón Páll Sigmarsson and Geoff Capes. The event was held at Huntly Castle and Capes entered despite having been in hospital the previous weekend with strained trapeziums. Strong performances in the first few rounds belied his condition but he eventually pulled out during the log-lift and ended the contest in third place. Capes, the oldest of the three, was close to strongman retirement at this stage and the next year, the World Muscle Power where he finished second, proved to be his last major outing as a strongman.
List of MÄR characters
(ロコ "Roko")
Loco is the strongest of the Rooks and one of the first Chess Pieces introduced. Loco's name means a patron of healers in the religion of Voodoo, a reference to her ÄRM Straw Doll (Spikes and Hammer). Loco was born 32 years before the main part of the series. At age 26, Loco, at that point a Pawn, the lowest Chess Piece rank, was given the order to participate in the attacking of an unknown town. While fighting, Loco's only ÄRM the Weapon ÄRM Ring Dagger, was broken, leaving Loco defenseless. While stumbling throughout the battling village, Loco crossed paths with a midget-like cloaked figure carrying a large suitcase. The cloaked person asked Loco if she wanted strength, to which she answered that she only wanted power to fight with. The cloaked person then gave Loco the suitcase, telling her it was full of seven Darkness ÄRMs, the cost of using being reversed aging (similar to Monster Girl), and the mysterious figure died from the ARM's effects. Using the Darkness ÄRMs, Loco eventually increased in the ranking system to the strongest of the Rooks. The Darkness ÄRMs affects had damaged her, however, as her body had been transformed into a young child's by the series' beginning when she was 58 years old.
List of Negima! Magister Negi Magi characters
Fate Averruncus (Tertium) is an expert in both Western and Eastern magic, and he is highly skilled in martial arts (his fighting style is Kung Fu). He use a lot of water-based spells, petrification spells, and his specialty: earth spells (all from minor to massive stone attacks). He can also perform Eastern magic (such as summoning demons). Rakan said his strength is at least 8000, but it seems that Fate might be stronger than that. He has Pactio contracts with five female mages, Shirabe (real name Brigitte), Shiori (real name Luna), Homura, Koyomi and Tamaki and possibly 57 others. He also created an item by using Asunas magic canceling power. It grants him the powers of the Mage of the Beginning called "The Code of the Life Maker", which allows him to destroy and recreate worlds or dimensions at will.
Three-Dragon Ante
One mortal, "The Druid", allows the lowest strength flight to win the gambit (reversing the normal rules). Several strategies revolve around disguising one's intent to play the druid and other low-strength cards to unexpectedly run away with the stakes. "The Thief", who allows the player to steal 7 gold from the stakes if it triggers, is also a powerful mortal card that helps players with weak hands. For players attempting to win the gambit by playing high cards, The Dragonslayer is another powerful mortal.
Patge Gregori
Patge Gregori (, in English "Page Gregory") is, in Catalan tradition, the most powerful page to the Three Magi or Three Kings who bring gifts to the children on the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany (the night of 5/6 January). He has wide open eyes (the Catalan expression for this, "ulls com taronges", literally means "eyes like oranges"), and ears that can hear everything for miles around. He knows who has been good or bad, and lets the Kings know whether to bring gifts (for the good children) or a lump of coal (for the bad ones).
Masters Edition
"Masters Edition III" consists mainly of cards from "", "", and "Portal Three Kingdoms". While "The Dark" and "Legends" reflect the era "Masters Edition III" cards should be mostly from, the "Portal Three Kingdoms" cards are arguably the most distinctive part of ME3 even though that set was released five years after "Legends" and "The Dark". This is because one of the most widely used creature abilities in "Magic", "", is almost completely replaced by its "Portal Three Kingdoms" counterpart, "". The other mechanics employed in "Masters Edition III" are multicolored cards and Legendary Creatures. "Masters Edition III" has a minor tribal theme of Faeries, Kobolds, and Minotaurs. "Masters Edition III" also reprints six World Enchantments.
Chrestomanci
As enchanters, Chrestomancis are among the strongest magic-users in their world. The two featured Chrestomanci in the series have serious magical weaknesses; whether this is a result of their magical strength or a coincidence is unknown. In Christopher Chant's case, this weakness is silver: he cannot work magic while silver is on his person or while being touched by silver; he is also unable to work magic directly on silver. Eric "Cat" Chant's weakness is that he must work magic through his left hand; his right hand cannot work magic.
Yu Yu Hakusho Trading Card Game
In addition, a "mystery card" called "The Dark One" said to be the ultimate card. Three copies of it were given to each Score employee. It had an attack of 99000 and the effect "Since you work for Score you can choose a card in your hand or in play and change the effect of the card into anything you want for the remainder of the game." This was one of the most sought after cards in the game when it was first revealed. It was created as a marketing tool to increase the hype of the game. One of these cards was sold on eBay for over $1,000 which made it one of the most sought after cards.
Masters of the Universe
The series mostly focused on the two primary characters, the blonde muscular He-Man, "the most powerful man in the Universe", and his nemesis, the evil skull-faced, blue-skinned sorcerer Skeletor and their many moral-themed encounters on the planet Eternia. Set in a hybrid world of sword and sorcery and technological sci-fi, He-Man does battle with Skeletor to prevent him from conquering Eternia and discovering the secrets of Castle Grayskull (a mysterious ancient fortress with a skull-shaped facade, that contains great power and magic). As with many toy franchises which have been transferred to several different media, there are a number of story differences between the various versions of Masters of the Universe. In most continuities from the Filmation series onward, He-Man is the secret identity of Prince Adam, the son of King Randor and Queen Marlena, the ruling royal family of Eternia. Adam becomes He-Man by holding aloft his magic Power Sword and uttering the words "By the Power of Grayskull..." and serves as the protector of good on Eternia. He is first given this ability by the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull, a powerful magic-user and mystic guardian of the castle (who in many depictions is able to transform herself into the falcon Zoar). Upon Adam's transformation into He-Man, his cowardly green pet tiger Cringer becomes the mighty Battle Cat, a giant armored beast that He-Man often rides into battle.
Fire Emblem
A key element in combat since "Genealogy of the Holy War" is the Weapon Triangle, a system governing the strengths and weaknesses certain weapons and types of magic have against each other in a rock–paper–scissors fashion. For weapons, lances are stronger than swords, swords are stronger than axes, and axes are stronger than lances. In the magic system, fire is stronger than wind, wind is stronger than thunder, and thunder is stronger than fire. From "The Binding Blade" through "Radiant Dawn", these three elements are collectively known as anima magic. Anima is stronger than light, light stronger than darkness, and darkness stronger than anima. In "Fates", the Weapon Triangle relationships add other weapons: swords and tomes are stronger than axes and bows, axes and bows are stronger than lances and shurikens, and lances and shurikens are stronger than swords and tomes. Most games use a Weapon Durability system: after being used a certain number of times, a character's weapon will break. Different entries have various systems related to weapons: in "Genealogy of the Holy War", weapons can be repaired at special shops; in "Path of Radiance" and future games, weapons can be bought and upgraded, while "Fates" replaces the durability system with a system where more powerful weapons weaken some of their wielder's stats.
Strength (Tarot card)
The "Strength" card was originally named Fortitude, and accompanies two of the other cardinal virtues in the Major Arcana: Temperance and Justice. The meaning of Fortitude was different from the interpretation of the card: it meant moderation in attitudes toward pain and danger, with neither being avoided at all costs, nor actively wanted.
Comparison of top chess players throughout history
In contrast to Elo and Sonas's systems, Raymond Keene and Nathan Divinsky's book "Warriors of the Mind" attempts to establish a rating system claiming to compare directly the strength of players active in different eras, and so determine the strongest player of all time. Considering games played between sixty-four of the strongest players in history, they came up with the following top ten:These "Divinsky numbers" are not on the same scale as Elo ratings (the last person on the list, Johannes Zukertort, has a Divinsky number of 873, which would be a beginner-level Elo rating). Keene and Divinsky's system has met with limited acceptance, and "Warriors of the Mind" has been accused of arbitrarily selecting players and bias towards modern players.
Power Nine
The Power Nine are among the very few widely recognized cards never to have received updated artwork from their original printing. As a way to rectify this, since 2003, the winner of the annual Vintage Championship has received a unique, oversized Power Nine card featuring brand-new art. These prize cards are considerably larger than actual cards, and therefore cannot be used in play. The five Mox cards feature artwork that represent the settings of the Magic expansions released in their corresponding years. Their artist, Volkan Baga, has also illustrated two other Mox cards—Mox Opal and the reissued Mox Diamond—in the same style. The following cards have been given to the winners:
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 1993–2007
"Fifth Edition" was the first version of the base set to reprint cards from the "" and "" expansion sets; it also reprinted more cards from those sets than any other version of the base set has. Because those expansion sets were perceived by some players as weak, there was some dissatisfaction with the "Fifth Edition" card mix. However, many of the reprinted cards were good enough to be used in tournaments, and at least one "Ice Age" card, , was later considered so overpowered as to merit banning from a number of sanctioned tournament formats.
Cardistry
Los Angeles-based magician Brian Tudor released an instructional VHS tape in 1997 dubbed "Show Off" which featured only flourishes, including numerous variations of Sybil. The tape was well received by critics and resulted in growing attention to card flourishing as a performance art.
Sybil enthusiasts and twin brothers Dan and Dave released in 2001 "Pasteboard Animations", another VHS tape explaining advanced cuts and flourishes. It sold hundreds of copies and was critically praised in a "Genii" magazine review that same year. In 2004, the twins released the instructional DVD "The Dan and Dave System" which officially separated advanced card flourishing from magic. Three years later in 2007, Dan and Dave released "The Trilogy", a three-disc DVD set. Retailing at $85 per unit, "The Trilogy" is the best-selling cardistry release of all time, having sold more than 25,000 copies. Virtually every cardist mentions either the "System" or "The Trilogy" as the source of their inspiration.
Magic: The Gathering expansion sets, 1993–1995
Similar to "The Dark", "Fallen Empires" is widely regarded as an overall weak set in power level. The set "with mixed reviews from players, and controversy over the set's effectiveness still rages on." The set's large printing meant the individual price of each card on the secondary market was comparatively inexpensive, fueling perceptions of a weak power level. Still, the set has its proponents, who note its strong flavor and good commons. Richard Garfield described it at the time as "easily the most complicated and best-looking of the expansions. The play value is high for the complexity, and the cards are very valuable for play. The flavor is probably the most cohesive since "Arabian Nights". This expansion is easily my favorite."
Magical Battle Arena
Every millennia, in order to maintain the cosmic balance of magic amongst the multiverse a tournament is held in order to find the greatest, most powerful mage. The participants in this tournament are all kidnapped from their world of origin and transported to a separate dimension. All are told they must fight and win in order to return home. Along the way one competitor the character comes across is their friend (and/or companion). They first must fight, and when the character succeeds in defeating them, they join forces. Once the character and their companion have faced and defeated all the other competitors, they face the apparent host of this tournament, and are told the truth of the fighting. In order to maintain the cosmic balance of magic among the multiverse, the strongest and most powerful mage must be made a "teosu" - sacrificed to run the "magical tuning system Kyrios". The last duty of a "teosu" is to select the next one, and the tournament was the most effective way of finding who would become the next. After these characters fight, it is decided that they will all work together to find an alternate solution to maintain the balance, though the plan is never clarified.New characters released in the Lyrical Pack (update to 1.50 from 1.05): Vita, Yagami Hayate, Takamachi Nanoha StS, Lord of Nightmares, and Kita Kita Oyaji are not available in Story mode.( Update to 1.70 from 1.50): adds Fate T. Harlaown StS from "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS", and Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu from "Magic Knight Rayearth" (they play as one character and the player can swap between them using special moves) but they are also not playable in Story mode.
List of Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight characters
Siren slots her cards in the crossguard of her rapier called the Blanc Visor. Like the Black Visor, it can be used as a weapon if she doesn't have enough time to slot her cards.Kamen Rider Wrath is the 2nd strongest Kamen Rider. Wrath can easily take on stronger Riders, especially when Xaviax uses the body. He can easily overpower others with two swords for Sword Vent. He is also the only Kamen Rider who can teleport allowing him to disappear in a flash, leaving behind a cloud of gold feathers which he can use even when preparing his Final Vent. This technique doesn't require a card to perform. In addition, he can also teleport with others.
Poker Effective Hand Strength (EHS) algorithm
Hand Strength (HS) will enumerate all possible opponent hand cards and count the occurrences where our hand is strongest (+50% of the cases where we are tied):
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Because of its completely new format, this was thought to be a good time to balance the card game with less powerful versions of previously printed cards. For example, Energy Removal 2 serves an identical purpose to Energy Removal from the Base Set, except a coin must be flipped to determine if the effects are successful. However, this set also introduces the Supporter card, a type of Trainer card that now dominates competitive play.
Zole
The Zolīte playing deck consists of all the Aces, Kings, Queens, Jacks, Tens and Nines plus the 8 of diamonds and 7 of diamonds. This gives a total of 26 cards. The Queens, Jacks and all Diamonds are permanent trumps giving a total of 14 trumps. The Queen of Clubs is the strongest card in the deck followed in order of strength by the Queen of Spades, Hearts and Diamonds and then the Jack of Clubs, Spades, Hearts and Diamonds and then the Ace, Ten, King, 9, 8, 7 of diamonds . The remaining 12 cards are suits of Clubs, Spades and Hearts comprising in order of strength the Ace, Ten, King and 9. All suits are of equal strength.