Hello happy people! Welcome back to my favorite series in my Top Ten suite of articles that I write each week for CoolStuffInc.com! This is the Random Top Ten, welcome back (or for the first time) and take a seat.

How does this thing work? Excellent question! If you head over to WOTC's Gatherer, you'll see a button called "Random Card".

It's right here at the top right corner of the page. It's underneath the search bar. As you can see, hitting this card will lead to a wonderful and delightful place! What I do I abuse this feature in a few key articles for you. I'll hit it and make a 60-card deck around the card that shows up. I'll hit it until I get a potential Commander and then a Random Commander deck around it. And I do it for this article series as well.

Here's how this works. I hit Random Card 10 times, and then I keep them in the order given. And then I do a deep dive into that random card here. There are a few caveats - I'll skip past basic lands, and if I get a card I've already done in this series, I'll take another one. Only two cards of the previous 150 are ones I haven't played somewhere, as I've been continuously playing since 1994 and have played in tons of limited as well, in real life, online, Arena, and with a format I have called AbeDraft that has one of every card printed.

This series is deep, and I could do it once a week every week for the rest of my life!

Ready for the Top Ten? Let's do it!

10. Giant Growth

Wow, we are starting with a card printed in the first set. Giant Growth is a key card that was played a lot during the early eras of the game. You still see Giant Growths at the kitchen table, as well as in Limited. I have played this in a few places, but my favorite was my first aggro deck, a Standard legal deck with Kird Ape, Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Blood Lust, Giant Growth, Taiga, Ghazban Ogre, and many other key cards in Green and Red. Cool, right?

9. Guerrilla Tactics

From an old school Giant Growth to an original burn spell printing from all the way back to 1996's Alliances. Pretty good card for the time and I ran in as well as into it, especially after it was added to the Core Set. As you can see, it's a two-mana instant Shock that punishes some target if your foe forces you to discard it. I've had that happen to me at least five or six times in my MTG career. I'd love to see a better one for Commander that hit someone for 8 damage instead. You could call it, "Gorilla Tactics."

8. Stromkirk Condemned

Hello, awesome 2/2 for two mana. This Vampire Horror can get you to discard a card to pump all your Vampires (including it) for the turn. But you can only do this once per turn. It's like a Wild Mongrel that you can drop and the activate and can go wide in the right build. It's obviously meant to be in a deck that cares about discard, like...say...madness. Or maybe madness. What about madness?

7. Squee, Goblin Nabob

Hello, fans of Squee. Squee, Goblin Nabob was originally printed in Mercadian Masques a set (and block) infamous for being heavily watered down after the powerhouse Urza's Block. But this was a hit and was played in Standard and other places. During your upkeep, you can return Squee from your graveyard to your hand for free. He is a great chump blocker. Where Squee plays nicely is with discard engines. One legal engine at the time was RecSur - Recurring Nightmare and Survival of the Fittest. You could discard Squee to Survival, and then tutor your deck for any creature and put it into your hand, and then do so repeatedly. It's a powerful combo because if you don't start with the Goblin Nabob you can just Survival for it the first time you activate this two-drop. Awesome Possum!

6. Stalwart Valkyrie

I had a Kaldheim card in my last Top Ten and now one in this article. Pretty cool, right? This Standard legal common is a fun Angel Warrior that you can punch with. For a 4-mana investment, you get a 3/2 flyer that can let you pay just 2 mana for this fun lady. I've run her in limited as a 3-power flyer is pretty good. Enjoy the Valkyrie!

And now the top five!

5. Valakut Exploration

Whoa! Standard legal cards back-to-back. Nice! Say hello to Zendikar Rising's Valakut Exploration. This fun Red 3-drop enchantment has landfall, and you can exile a card and play it from the top of your library. And then if you didn't cast it this turn, everyone else takes a bunch of damage and it heads to your graveyard. It's card advantage and a clock in one and pretty good for Commander, and fans of the Planar Portal Commander Deck led by Prosper, Tome-Bound are going to be happily adding this to their deck. I've run it on Arena.

4. Putrefy

Wow commonly played card! This is one of the most common removal spells played in Golgari and is heavily used in Commander. Over at EDHREC.com there are 32,005 decks registered! I've run it in countless builds, and this simple card is iconic for its colors and ability. Love it to death! Check out the power of Putrefy!

3. Qarsi Deceiver

Hello, fun card! Blue gets mana ramp when it is used for artifacts and now...morph, and manifest! Qarsi Deceiver is a great card in the early game as you can block with a cheap 0/4, and then tap it for mana at the end of someone's turn for mana. I've run it in Limited as well as Commander. Enjoy the morphing for this Naga Wizard!

2. Goblin Commando

I like Goblin Commando so much that it was a common in a Core Set I created called Abeth Edition. We played it in our play testing it with my group. It's more of a Limited star, or just getting started star, but I do like it! It's pretty fun in limited formats as its removal on a stick. It's pretty saucy in formats that care about Goblins and it's a bit relaxing as a card. It's fun in the sun!

Alright, last card...ready?

1. Fog

Wow, that's crazy! I got a one-cost Green common instant from the same set as the first and last card in the Top Ten! Cool right? Talk about iconic. Forget that Putrefy thing. The damage prevention effect is called the "Fog Effect" and other instants that prevent combat damage are called "Fogs." Fogs are a key part of the game. I've played them; you've played them. Everyone has played them. They are great! You can keep yourself alive from a key attack for another turn, and that's basically a limited Green Time Walk. On that extra turn it buys you, you can draw the card you need to sweep the board like Wrath of God, or your own threat like a Force of Nature that will stop the pounding. You could counterattack and win the game with your extra turn. It's pretty good and it's been moved to White (Holy Day), Black (Darkness), and has added abilities like keeping attackers from untapping for a turn (Tangle) and such. It's a powerful card to end the list on!

And there we go! I hope that you enjoyed today's random Top Ten! It's so much fun, right?

If you enjoyed this Ten Set of Chaotic Fun Times, then look at the previous 15 in my Appendix below!

Random Appendices

Did you like those random 1-set cards of craziness? Excellent! Here are the first eleven iterations of random fun for you to unpack!

1. Random Top Ten #1. My first top randomly features both hits (such as Grim Lavamancer) and 'what the?' moments, such as Narwhal. Enjoy!
2. Random Top Ten #2. If you like high profile spells like Gush and Fire // Ice, then you came to the right place! If you like old and obscure stuff like Silver Seraph and Infernal Darkness, then you also came to the right place.
3. Random Top Ten #3. Sometimes in these random builds you have a lack of any sort of theme. But we did finish with a rare that I used to win my first ever Sealed tournament, so there you are!
4. Random Top Ten #4. This was about when I realized this series had legs, so I began to codify the various articles. This Top Ten's random feature is high profile cards and a full three are commonly seen in multiplayer or kitchen table gaming.
5. Random Top Ten #5. Including cards like the dreaded and the game-winning Door to Nothingness, this is a fun random blast!
6. Random Top Ten #6. This Random Gatherer-Inspired slate of ten includes cards such as Thallid, Forbidden Orchard, and everybody's favorite infect creature. And cards you likely forgot about (or never knew about) with Savage Firecat and Wall of Light in there as well! Check out the randomness!
7. Random Top Ten #7. In this Random Gatherer article, we see cards like Blessing, Coercion, the Zombie Dinosaur beasts of Putrid Raptor, and Dingus Egg. Check it out!!!!
8. Random Top Ten #8. From Bad Moon to Ball Lightning, and from Armory Automaton to Power of Fire, we have a ten-set of randomly chosen cards for your enjoyment. This Random List is the list that keeps giving, as I decide to pause and create a Top Ten Ways to Abuse Power of Fire in the middle of my top ten list so you get TWO TOP TEN LISTS for the price of reading a single article. What's not to love?
9. Random Top Ten #9. Who wants Black Sun's Zenith or Muldrotha, the Gravetide? Who wants Kjeldoran Knight or Staggershock that you may not have known about? My #1 card was a Commander legal leader and I turned and was inspired enough to create a budget Commander around him the next week!
10. Random Top Ten #10. Top Ten Ten Time! and you can see cycling lands, Eldrazi, Defenders, and Beetles. And not necessarily in that order! Enjoy!
11. Random Top Ten #11. Lets break out of the ten-set! You can see cards in here like Sorin, Solemn Visitor, Claws of Gix and a powerful #4. We even get my favorite card name of all time. What'll be? Check it out!
12. Random Top Ten #12. For this fun article I get forgotten cards like Samite Alchemist and fun cards like Hot Soup. I know you wanna check it out, right? Right!!!!!
13. Random Top Ten #13. It's awesome. Sauce. Sau-some. It has cards in it like Call the Skybreaker and Kor Hookmaster. I know that you want to click that link for the Sau-some!
14. Random Top Ten #14. Hither thou goest! It includes cards like Cloudshift and Blighted Fen. For the first time in the series the top card by power and quality in the list actually hit my #1 spot randomly.
15. Random Top Ten #15. This is the second time I've had a card that I haven't played somewhere. That took a while! For this random pile of awesomeness we got cards like Novablast Wurm and Goldspan Dragon.