Separate everything with a star symbol or higher from the rest
2 Firewall Dragon Was Once a Dominant Meta Threat First Printing: Code of the Duelist Because Konami needs to maintain a card balance standard, they occasionally place cards on the game's Forbidden & Limited Card List
You look at Sceptile-EX, the un-evolved version, and you're like, "Sleep poison is sort of a mediocre first attack, but it's fine as long as the second attack is good," and the second attack is actually very good
Protean Hulk Dissension classic Protean Hulk used to be the cream of the crop for creature tutors and still shows up alongside green commanders these days, as one of the best green tutors in the game
Cyclonic Rift sits high on this ranking, and sees a lot more play (sometimes by an order of magnitude or more) than any card above it
Aetherdrift (DFT) Take more than just a joyride with the first Standard-legal set of the year: Aetherdrift