On a recent episode of Last Comic Standing a comedian recited these lyrics and commented on how bizarre they truly are. He had a good point; these are the kind of lyrics that an alcohol-riddled homeless person might write. The bit stuck with me and as I was looking at a recent card a shocking realization occurred. My favorite Magic cards are truly bizarre as well. I've seen a few others talk about theirs too, and I realized maybe I'm not the only one who has some oddball favorites.

Today, some of us are going to share a few of our favorite things:

Cashew
Color: Green
Set: Fallen Empires
Card: Su-Chi
Artwork: Gilder Bairn
Artist: Ron Spencer (Thallid, Sapphire Leech, Ronom Serpent)
Tribe: Golems
Deck: Rouge Brutal Bitter (Extended - BG - Aggro Control)

A custom homebrew deck evolved from my earlier deck Thallid Shooter and originally inspired by Chris Pikula's Rogue Dead Guy Ale (hence the name homage). It's a Dark Confidant-driven power Aggro deck utilizing extremely fast play and one-three drop monsters.
 

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	Rouge Brutal Bitter. Extended: Aggro Control
	Lands (22) 6 Swamp 4 Overgrown Tomb 4 Tainted Wood 4 Twilight Mire 3 Forest 1 Svogthos, the Restless Tomb Creatures (26) 4 Dark Confidant 4 Dusk Urchins 4 Nantuko Shade 4 Tarmogoyf 3 Hypnotic Specter	Spells (12) 4 Duress 4 Hymn to Tourach 3 Profane Command 3 Putrefy 2 Garruk Wildspeaker 1 Vampiric Tutor
	by Cashew

Ryuzaki
Color: Blue
Set: Dissension
Card: _____
Artwork: Clockspinning
Artist: Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai (Dust of Memories, Electrolyze, Poison the Well)
Tribe: Shapeshifters
Deck: Coin Chaos (Classic - Red - AltWin Deck)

Everybody loves coin flip decks. This is a simple version that uses the usual suspects Krark's Thumb and Chance Encounter to get achieve victory.

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	Coin Chaos. Classic - AltWin Deck
	Lands (20) 20 Mountain Creatures (4) 3 Wall of Stone 1 Mijae Djinn	Spells (36) 4 Chance Encounter 4 Desperate Gambit 4 Fiery Gambit 4 Krark's Thumb 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Planar Chaos 4 Pyrite Spellbomb 3 Game of Chaos 3 Winter Sky 1 Crooked Scales 1 Goblin Game
	by Ryuzaku

Michael_Zeora
Color: Black
Set: Onslaught
Card: Boros Swiftblade
Artwork: Brom's Fortitude, aka Greel, Mind Raker
Artist: Donato Giancola (Razia, Boros Archangel; Tolsimir Wolfblood)
Tribe: Elementals
Deck: Eventide Boros (RW - Extended - Aggro)

This is a combat-heavy deck based on the Boros guild style blitz attack. The only way to win is to knock the opponent down, and knock them down fast. Early cards like Recruit and Lasher will give you an advantage off the bat, while Figure of Destiny grows into a winning card. Other staples such as Boros Swiftblade help ensure that your creatures can slice through towards an opponent for a couple extra turns.

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	Eventide Boros. Extended - Aggro
	Lands (22) 8 Mountain 8 Plains 4 Soul Foundry 2 Rugged Prairie Creatures (23) 4 Boros Swiftblade 3 Stigma Lasher 2 Auriok Bladewarden 2 Balefire Liege 2 Boros Recruit 2 Figure of Destiny 2 Hateflayer 2 Hobgoblin Dragoon 2 Nobilis of War 2 Skyknight Legionnaire	Spells (15) 3 Char 3 Lightning Helix 2 Fencer's Magemark 2 Guardian's Magemark 2 Sunforger 1 Brightflame
	by MZ

Luthervamplord
Color: Blue
Set: The Mirrodin Block (Post Banning of Affinity)
Card: Counterspell
Artwork: Aleski Briclot's Jace Beleren
Artist: Aleski Briclot
Tribe: Enchantresses
Deck: Wizard Tribal FTW (Blue - Tribal: Wizard - Classic)

Further proof that A) Luther is a mean S.O.B and B) Control is fun. The aim of this deck is to drop Wizards that net you cards or filter your deck in the earlier stages so you can grab lands and counterspells to ruin your opponent's game plan.

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	Wizard Tribal FTW. Tribal: Wizard - Classic
	Lands (20) 18 Island 2 Riptide Laboratory Creatures (24) 4 Sage of Epityr 3 Information Dealer 3 Supreme Inquisitor 3 Temporal Adept 3 Voidmage Husher 2 Azami, Lady of Scrolls 2 Jushi Apprentice 2 Rayne, Academy Chancellor 2 Soramaro, First to Dream	Spells (16) 4 Counterspell 4 Ixidor's Will 4 Mana Leak 4 Rewind
	by LV

Death_By_Beebles
Color: Green
Set: Ravnica
Card: Bouncing Beebles
Artwork: Bitterblossom by Rebecca Guay
Artist: Rob Alexander
Tribe: Merfolk
Deck: Big R/G Aggro (Standard - RG - Aggro)

The following is Zvi Mowshowitz's Pro Tour Hollywood deck. It's a fairly straight forward to the point Red-Green Beatdown deck. The thing is no matter how simple these decks seem, they always tend to work; proof that Red-Green Aggro continues to leave a major footprint on Standard.

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	Big R/G Aggro. Standard - RG - Aggro
	Land (23) 7 Forest 4 Fire-Lit Thicket 4 Grove of the Burnwillows 4 Karplusan Forest 2 Mountain 2 Treetop Village Creatures (28) 4 Birds of Paradise 4 Chameleon Colossus 4 Countryside Crusher 4 Deus of Calamity 4 Llanowar Elves 4 Magus of the Moon 4 Tarmogoyf	Spells (9) 4 Lash Out 3 Tarfire 2 Firespout Sideboard (15) 4 Kitchen Finks 2 Firespout 2 Loxodon Warhammer 2 Primal Command 2 Squall Line 1 Cloudthresher 1 Shivan Dragon 1 Sulfurous Blast
	by DBB

hamsandwich
Color: Black
Set: Ravnica
Card: Stinkweed Imp
Artwork: Toil to Renown
Artist: Rebecca Guay
Tribe: Rats
Deck: Aussie Assault (UBR - Standard - Combo Deck: Seismic Assault-Swans of Bryn Argoll)

This is a deck from Australian Aaron Nicastri making waves on the Standard theme. Driving off an easy to achieve infinite combo on Swans, it turns mass card draw into a recurring free nuke that's nearly impossible to stop. Expect to see more Swan decks making headlines now.

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	Aussie Assault. Combo Deck: Seismic Assault - Swans of Bryn Argoll
	Lands (27) 4 Dakmor Salvage 4 Gemstone Mine 4 Graven Cairns 4 Reflecting Pool 4 Shivan Reef 4 Vivid Creek 3 Vivid Marsh Creatures (7) 4 Swans of Bryn Argoll 3 Vendilion Clique	Spells (26) 4 Beseech the Queen 4 Lotus Bloom 4 Ponder 4 Seismic Assault 4 Telling Time 4 Thoughtseize 2 Gaea's Blessing Sideboard (15) 4 Imp's Mischief 3 Damnation 3 Firespout 2 Krosan Grip 3 Pact of Negation
	by Aaron Nicastri

death_by_aggro
Color: Green
Set: Invasion
Card: Last Stand
Art: Pendelhaven (the FNM promo art)
Artist: Lars-Grant West
Tribe: Wurms
Deck: Bonzai (RGB - Extended - Aggro)

A homebrew deck, built around a love of the Golgari guild and specifically the Scarab. It utilizes recurring threats and a general love of the graveyard to overcome opponents. Killer Instinct throws an interesting twist on additional ‘yard feeding.

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	Bonzai. Extended - Aggro
	Lands (24) 9 Swamp 8 Forest 7 Mountain Creatures (18) 4 Golgari Thug 4 Grave-Shell Scarab 4 Stalking Vengeance 3 Gleancrawler 3 Mindslicer	Spells (18) 4 Killer Instinct 4 Putrefy 4 Search for Tomorrow 3 Dread Return 3 Last Gasp
	by death_by_aggro

Drathro
Color: Black
Set: Ravnica
Card: Dystopia
Artwork: Devouring Strossus by D. Alexander Gregory
Artist: Kev Walker (Roar of the Wurm, Krosan Beast, Rancor, Swarm of Rats, Upheaval)
Tribe: Rats
Deck: Legacy BW Confidant (BW - Legacy - Aggro-Control)

This deck is based on Chris Pikula's 2nd place Deadguy Ale deck at GP Philly. You disrupt early with discard and land destruction, then clean up with pumpable Shades and Knights. Main deck Withered Wretch can be savage, Dystopia is awesome against Survival, and a first-turn Hypnotic Specter can just wreck some decks.

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	Legacy BW Confidant. Legacy: Aggro Control
	Lands (21) 6 Swamp 4 Scrubland 4 Wasteland 3 Polluted Delta 2 Tainted Field 1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Tomb of Urami Creatures (16) 4 Dark Confidant 4 Hypnotic Specter 4 Withered Wretch 2 Knight of Stromgald 1 Nantuko Shade 1 Order of the Ebon Hand	Spells (23) 4 Dark Ritual 4 Duress 4 Hymn to Tourach 4 Vindicate 3 Sinkhole 3 Swords to Plowshares 1 Icequake Sideboard: (15) 4 Engineered Plague 3 Perish 2 Cursed Scroll 2 Darkblast 2 Dystopia 2 Pithing Needle
	by Drathro

Dazboot
Color: Blue
Card: Reclaim
Artist: Unknown
Tribe: Wizards
Deck: Daz's version of SunnySideUp (UGR - Combo Deck: Second Sunrise - Extended)

Played by the French at Worlds 2006, this deck is a combination of mainly cards that are complete junk on their own, and yet bind together to make a powerful combo. You pop Lotus Bloom with a lot of artifacts to draw a lot of cards and follow it up with a Second Sunrise to draw more cards, hopefully finding another Second Sunrise or a Cunning Wish for Reclaim to do it all again. Once you empty your library, you use Conjurer's Bauble to infinitely recur a Second Sunrise until you either deal infinite damage with a Pyrite Spellbomb or force your opponent to draw his deck with a Cephalid Coliseum.

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	Daz's version of SunnySideUp. COMBO DECK: Second Sunrise - Extended
	Lands (20) 5 Island 4 Archaeological Dig 4 Ghost Quarter 3 Cephalid Coliseum 2 Plains 2 Seat of the Synod	Spells (40) 4 Chromatic Sphere 4 Chromatic Star 4 Conjurer's Bauble 4 Lotus Bloom 4 Reshape 4 Second Sunrise 4 Skycloud Egg 3 Darkwater Egg 2 Cloud Key 2 Mystical Teachings 2 Reclaim 1 Cunning Wish 1 Pyrite Spellbomb 1 Sungrass Egg Sideboard (15) 3 Engineered Explosives 2 Ancient Grudge 2 Orim's Chant 1 Angel's Grace 1 Brain Freeze 1 Echoing Truth 1 Pithing Needle 1 Reclaim 1 Seedtime 1 Spoils of the Vault 1 Trickbind
	by Dazboot

EinsteinMonkey
Color: Blue
Set: Onslaught
Card: Impulse
Artwork: Unhinged Forest
Artist: Puddnhead
Tribe: Dragons
Deck: Train Wreck (BRG - Extended - Control)

A Black Control deck splashing Green and Red for added power. It makes your opponent feel like they've been in a train wreck by demolishing their field, hand, and cards. Helldozer or Haunting Echoes finish...if the other guy hasn't broken down and conceded yet.

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	Train Wreck. Extended - Control
	Lands (26) 11 Swamp 4 Cabal Coffers 4 Bloodstained Mire 4 Overgrown Tomb 2 Blood Crypt 1 Polluted Delta Creatures (2) 2 Helldozer	Spells (32) 4 Duress 4 Pernicious Deed 4 Wrench Mind 3 Burning Wish 3 Chainer's Edict 3 Decree of Pain 3 Mutilate 3 Putrefy 3 Staff of Domination 2 Haunting Echoes Sideboard (15) 3 Infest 2 Consume Spirit 2 Haunting Echoes 1 Boiling Seas 1 Cranial Extraction 1 Crime // Punishment 1 Flashfires 1 Life from the Loam 1 Mind Sludge 1 Nightmare Void 1 Tranquility
	by EM

Streetz
Color: Blue
Set: Urza's Block
Card: Triskelion
Artwork: Wake of Destruction
Artist: Kev Walker
Tribe: Insects
Deck: Processed (White - Classic - Combo: Angelic Chorus - Phyrexian Processor)

A fun and easy to build Combo deck. Processed uses some basic defense until the Processor-Chorus combo comes into play. From that point on, you dump all your life and gain it back with every Processor baby churned out. Meanwhile your basic defenses continue to check you while your Phyrexian army takes over the entire field.

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	Processed. Classic - Combo: Angelic Chorus - Phyrexian Processor
	Lands (23) 18 Plains 4 Forbidden Watchtower 1 High Market Creatures (27) 4 Academy Rector 4 Angelic Curator 4 False Prophet 4 Longbow Archer 4 Mother of Runes 4 Soul Warden 2 Fountain Watch 1 Serra Avatar	Spells (10) 4 Spirit Link 3 Phyrexian Processor 2 Angelic Chorus 1 Ivory Mask
	by Streetz