mtg extended art cards Hand-painted Magic the Gathering Archaeomancer card with (Equipment Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer

For this list, Im not considering cards that turn into dragons or double-faced cards/sagas

Compare how the Fifth Edition Donato Giancola art looks compared to its first printing in Alpha and you can see the new frame and colors give it a lovely washed out, ethereal quality

The kicker

Veyran goes hard and fast, and has no qualms with taking people out of the game in the set up stages

(Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) The letters arrive, all sealed and read

It being a 4/1 can be a bit of a detriment at times, however we are in a Human deck with a ton of synergies, so I imagine that it'll live for longer than we think