Summary
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City of Three Trees is 2024's best land for Commander, providing mana advantage for creature-centric decks.
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Surveil Lands are click-in and offer a card selection for each color pair.
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Nadu, Winged Wisdom dominated modern and old formats with powerful abilities.
During 2024, Magic: The Gathering saw many sets released. From the first set of Ravnica Remastered in January to Foundations in November, the game has seen a giant influx of cards. There were remastered sets, standard sets, commander drop decks, and more.

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2024 saw the release of many powerful cards, and many of these cards found their way into various formats, such as the new Pioneer staples and even meta switches in the powerful Legacy format. No matter what format you played, there was a new map that entered his meta that was released in 2024.
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City of three trees
Typical payout
While Three Tree City doesn't see play in established formats, it is the best land of 2024 for Commander. If you're playing any deck that focuses on one creature type, you'll want to have room for Three Tree City.
A city of three trees can generate a ton of mana, only three creatures of the same type are required to get positive mana. Most of the best utility lands land, but not in Three Tree City, and even if you don't have the creature types you want, you can still tap them for colorless mana so it never sits around doing anything.
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Observation lands
A staple of One-Ofs
While not the most exciting maps, Surveil lands are undeniably the best land cycle of 2024. There's one card for each color pair, all tap-in and allowing you to watch one when they enter the battlefield.

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The most notable part of the maps is that they have basic land types. This means you can search for them in your library using fetchlands. As such, they are often played as “one or two” (more often “one of”) cards as cards to get in the last phase to have some control over what you draw next turn.
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Slackshot exhibition
For Spellslingers
Slickshot Show-Off immediately became a staple of any red-based aggro deck, playable in Standard, Pioneer, and Modern as soon as it was released. The amount of damage that Slickshot Show-Off can do with the right combination of cards can lead to game wins as early as turn three.
Being able to build Slickshot Show-Off helps keep it safe from removal, as well as casting a ton of spells for free next turn. The gruesome fury used at the Slickshot Show-Off is one of the scariest things you can see when you don't have removal, and often results in game wins.
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Ripper lived
Bane the Pioneer
Vein Ripper was responsible for what was widely considered a bad Pioneer format, being cheated on turn three by Sorin the Blood Lord. This combination led to a win at the Pro Tour Murders At Karlov Manor and a frenetic nature in the following RCQ season.
Ward ability, great stats, and fantastic trigger ability all contributed to how powerful Vein Ripper became. The card was responsible for Sorin's ban, and it is still found in midrange special decks for vampires as a player since the deck can easily cast it.
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Hero Heartfire
Small mouse, big power
Heartfire Hero is the heart and soul of mouse-based decks in Standard and a key player in Rakdos Prowess in Pioneer. The card can deal an unexpected amount of damage and makes blocking it ineffective if it has a lot of power, as it just deals damage equal to its power every time it dies to the opponent. It is often combined with a throw spell that causes it to transfer its power to the opponent twice, often winning the game on the second turn.
Heartfire Hero grows in stats every time he is targeted by a spell or ability you control. Decks that play Heartfire Hero have no shortage of ways to do this, and not removing them early can often win the game.
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Unholy addition // Ritual chamber
Draw and sleep cards
Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber, one of the best room cards for constructed formats, reimagined black midrange decks in both Standard and Pioneer. While the 6/6 demon is useful for the Ritual Chamber, the main attraction is the Unholy Annex. If you have multiple copies of Unholy Annex on the battlefield, each one will potentially burn your opponent for a ton of life.
There are many demons with powerful effects that you can easily expose yourself to, so you won't lose yourself from the game. She is often paired with Demons Bloodletter of Aclazotz and Archfiend of the Dross, two cards that will add to the damage your opponent is taking from Unholy Annex.
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Ocelot pride
Tokens For Lifegain
Ocelot Pride is a staple of the Boros Energy deck in Modern, and was so strong that it had to be nerfed in the Historic format (at the expense of costing two mana instead of one). It's often paired with Guide of Souls, which gains life when a creature enters the battlefield, which in turn triggers Ocelot Pride and gives you a ton of energy counters.

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In just a few turns, Ocelot Pride can turn into a ton of Cat tokens on the battlefield, especially if you set up City Blessing. The first hit makes him a solid early game hitter as well, making him great in combat and ensuring you get a life trigger thanks to lifelink.
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The hideous Oculus
New Tempo In Town player
Abhorrent Oculus is one of the best new tempo cards of 2024 and can be played in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, and even some Legacy decks. He is most often played with decks that cast a ton of spells, so you can always cast him by banishing six cards from your graveyard, or with decks that reanimate him directly from the graveyard.
If your opponent is not ready for this, you can always show fear at least once, since it happens at the beginning of your hold. Even if it gets removed, since it's played in decks that regenerate a lot, it hardly matters since you can just bring it back from the graveyard.
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Psychic frog
A little bit of everything
Psychic Frog is a fantastic two-drop that draws you cards, builds your graveyard, and acts as a great attacker and blocker. Since all of his abilities can be used at instant speed, Psychic Frog can suddenly become much stronger, or gain the ability to fly defensively, or trick blockers into suddenly becoming stronger.
Psychic Frog is a staple of Dimir and Esper-based decks, and we've seen play in Modern, Legacy, and even the all-powerful Vintage format. It's used a lot in graveyard decks, especially reanimator decks, with the ease with which Psychic Frog can put a creature straight into the graveyard.
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Nadu, Winged Wisdom
Best in 2024
It is impossible to name the best magic card of 2024 to anyone but Nadu, Winged Wisdom. The Nadu decks Winged Wisdom responsible for Modern's “Nadu Summer” were far from the best you could play. Despite being banned in Modern only two months later (and in Commander just a month later), it is still a top deck in Legacy.
Targeting a creature with an ability was trivial, and with Nantuko's Heart of Spring supporting Nada, you had a constant source of new creatures to target with non-zero mana abilities to practically round out your entire library. The number of benefits that Nadu provides is immense and why it is the best map of 2024.