Lab Report 012: What’s Your Spite Card?

**Lab Report 012: What’s Your Spite Card?**

Let’s get personal for a second — do you have a spite card?

You know what I mean: that one card someone told you was garbage, useless, a waste of a slot... and ever since then, you've played it in everything out of pure stubbornness.

Mine?
💧 Elixir of Immortality.

Yeah, that one. The 1-mana artifact that gains you 5 life and shuffles your graveyard into your library. It’s not flashy. It’s not broken. But ever since a friend told me (and let’s be honest, he probably didn’t say it this harshly — but it’s how I heard it), that “Elixir is a trash card and I was dumb for playing it,” I’ve made it my personal mission to jam it into every deck possible.

What started as petty rebellion turned into a long-term love story.
And the thing is? It’s actually saved me:

Kept me from milling out.
Gained me just enough life to survive a turn.
Gave me a surprise card draw when I needed it.

Now it’s not even about the spite. It’s tradition. It’s identity. It’s comfort. It's my one-card protest banner that says, "I play Magic my way."

So tell me —
What’s your spite card?
What card do you defend to the bitter end, even if no one else gets it?

Drop it in the comments. Let’s share our pet peeves and petty victories.

Because sometimes, Magic is just about doing the dumb thing that makes you happy.

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