Power Nine

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The Power Nine are the most powerful (and therefore expensive) cards in Magic, all originally printed in Limited Edition Alpha, the original form of the game. Every single one of them is so broken that they are banned in every format except Vintage (a format that exists as an asylum for cards too powerful for the other formats) and even then they're restricted to one per deck.

The Cards

Ancestral Recall

Target player draws 3 cards.

That's three cards for one mana. If you're not immediately jizzing your pants at the thought of what you can do with that, you'll fit right in with the rest of /tg/ when it comes to Magic.

Time Walk

Take an extra turn after this one.

There have been many ways to take an extra turn in Magic, but this is and will always be the cheapest and least restrictive way to do it. This makes it trivial to set up a combo that lets you play the same Time Walk over and over again for infinite turns. In fact, for a while the sheer infamy of this card led to the DCI banning all cards of the form "take an extra turn after this one" from non-Vintage formats because of the distorting effect of infinite-turns combos, and all the extra-turn cards Wizards prints of late generally either have punishing preconditions or make you lose the game after the end of the extra turn.

Timetwister

Each player shuffles his or her hand and graveyard into his or her library, then draws seven cards.

Timetwister isn't brokenness isn't as obvious as the others, since it's seemingly symmetrical, but if there's a large asymmetry in players' current hand sizes the casting player can get a downright degenerate level of card swing out of one card and three mana, while kicking any combo pieces out of the opponents' hands.

Black Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice Black Lotus: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool.

Jesus Christ, how horrifying. Wizards has a long history of trying to "fix" this card, and every time except for one (Lotus Bloom, which takes three turns to get you mana and still ended up being the highlight of at least one World Championship deck) the "balanced" Lotus clone was still so hideously broken that it ended up getting banned.

The Moxen

Five artifacts, each imitating a basic land.

This is a big deal because while basic lands are restricted to one per turn to keep endgame from happening by turn three, artifacts have no such restriction; you can play them all at once to get your heavy hitters on the board while your opponent is still playing with two-drops.

Sol Ring

{T}: Add {2} to your mana pool.

Often referred to as the tenth member of the Power Nine, Sol Ring is a ridiculous mana source that is restricted in Vintage. However it's weak shit compared to the "real" Power Nine and is weak enough to be legal in Commander, where the increased life totals and singleton limit on cards keep the tempo boost it provides from being too big of a deal.