Unappreciated Magic Cards 1


First and foremost, I want to bring up Plague Sliver.  Juzam Djinn sells for over $200.  Plaguey goes for a buck-fifty.  Each is a 5/5 for two colorless and two black.  Each causes the controller to lose one life during upkeep.  "But Plague Slivers suck in sliver decks!"  The losing life ability does not stack.  In a sliver deck, yes, this card would suck.  Would you put Juzam Djinn in your sliver deck?  Probably not.  They are the same card except that if your deck has Plague Slivers in it, you screw over any sliver deck you might play against.  This dollar price discrepancy is insane.

Next, Skyshroud Elf.  It's a common green elf for two mana that allows you to filter colorless to red or white mana.  Fantastic.  Joiner adept, somewhat similar, rare.  This cheap common makes a green/red/white deck pretty easy.

And last, the split card LIfe/Death from Apocalypse.  The Death part is 1B to put a creature in your graveyard into play.  You lose life equal to the mana cost of said creature.  Sound familiar?  The B casting cost Reanimate rare from Tempest does the same thing, from any graveyard.  Life/Death sells for twenty cents.  Reanimate goes for eight dollars.  I'm not saying that they are equally powerful cards, I'm just pointing out alternatives to rares that cost more money to do roughly the same thing.