Magic: The Gathering: 10 Most Powerful One-Mana Creatures In Standard Right Now

1. Cauldron Familiar

And finally, coming in at number one is the most combo-heavy card on this list – Cauldron Familiar. While this may not look like a great card from the get-go, it has incredible potential as long as it’s played in the right deck. Its entry ability allows you to gain one life while reducing the life of each opponent. This makes his card great in games with more than two-players, but the true power of this card comes when you can repeat the effect.

Food can be created by multiple cards, including the aforementioned Gilded Goose which can generate food every turn. With both of these cards in play, you can return Cauldron Familiar to the battlefield every time it dies, ensuring the repetition of the damage and healing effect. However, the go-to card to combo with Familiar is Witch’s Over which allows you to sacrifice a creature to create food which gets around the dilemma of what to do when your opponent doesn’t kill the cat.

Furthermore, while various food-creating cards require tapping them to make food, neither Cauldron Familiar’s entrance effect nor its re-summon effect are tap abilities, meaning, if you’ve stocked up on food and have another way of repeatedly killing this creature, you can keep this effect going as many times as you have food for, potentially doing a high amount of damage on a single turn.

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