Editing Power Nine (section)

== Additional Contenders ==
A few cards have been called the tenth member of the Power Nine, but they have never been officially adopted as such because they were not ridiculously broken.

=== Contract from Below ===
''Discard your hand, ante the top card of your library, and draw 7 cards. Remove contract from below from your deck at the beginning of the game if you're not playing for ante.''

Literally banned from every format not because of its power level but because it incorporates literal gambling into the game. WotC banned it, alongside all other ante cards before the authorities would step in because the game had gambling elements. Ignoring the fact that it adds to your ante, it lets you draw a whole new hand for a single black mana. You are probably not losing if you just drew a whole new hand, and if this card can be built around (like in a storm deck) it is downright unstoppable. But again, since it is an ante card it cannot be legally used in any official format. Since Shandalar is a single-player video game the gambling problem isn't relevant and even then it's on the same defacto ban list as the Power Nine.

=== Library of Alexandria ===
''<nowiki>{T}</nowiki>: Add <nowiki>{1}</nowiki> to your mana pool.''<br>
''<nowiki>{T}</nowiki>: Draw a card. Activate this ability only if you have exactly seven cards in hand.''

More mana is always nice, but the second ability is what really makes this card. The extra drawing power might seem limited at first, but when you combine it with additional drawing power from any source this card becomes valuable in just about any deck that draws cards. This is so powerful that Library of Alexandria is Restricted in Vintage and Banned everywhere else.

=== Sol Ring ===
''<nowiki>{T}</nowiki>: Add <nowiki>{2}</nowiki> to your mana pool.''

Sol Ring is a ridiculous mana source from Alpha that is restricted in Vintage, which leads many to refer to it as the tenth member of the Power Nine, although [[Arabian Nights|Library of Alexandria]] is also a strong contender for the title. Unlike the "real" Power Nine, Sol Ring is weak enough to be considered legal in [[Commander]], where the increased life totals and singleton limit on cards keep the ramp it provides from being too big of a deal.

===Tolarian Academy===
''<nowiki>{T}</nowiki>: Add <nowiki>{U}</nowiki> to your mana pool for each artifact you control.''

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.  '''Banned.'''  Banned in Legacy, banned in Commander, restricted in Vintage.   This ''legendary'' land doesn't even come into play tapped.  It can pump more mana off the goddamn moxes and sol rings.  

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