Looking for Peace - Continuing with Donovan's theme of card pool clearing is this combotastic gem. While it does have a significant drawback, by the time you're ready to use it, it shouldn't really matter.
 
Aggro
Ultimate and Immortal - This aggressive foundation caught my eye because it has the potential to be greater and more consistent that Way of the Mightiest, which is already in widespread use. Unfortunately, simply using this card opens you up to the possibility that your attack may only get +4, but that's the usual pump for Way anyways. The 4 control rating is obviously an argument against this card, especially when Way of the Mightiest checks for 5, but I still see a fair amount of potential for this card.
 
Control
Destiny - I both love and hate Destiny at the same time. On the one hand, I see it as an apology for Blood Runs True, one of, if not the most dominating card from set 8. On the other hand, I see it as the near complete death of CC Hax as a viable strategy. This card is the Red Lotus of set 9, the stifling answer to a ridiculous problem, except that unlike Red Lotus, Destiny doesn't care if it's committed or not, because the instances in which you'll play the card for the activated ability are few. Watch for Red Lotus and Destiny to play very well together, and perhaps for the emergence of Chaos or Death as the answer to almighty Evil.

Lesser of Many Evils - I see this card being used as an end-game wrap-up ability similar to Taking the Bait activations, in the sense that when you use it, you plan on winning that turn, or at least leaving the opponent in a bad way. Against many Evil decks, this card could effectively negate their entire staging area, provided they haven't set up with Oral Dead or a Seal of Cessation. While I don't see this card being as game-breaking as Destiny, I do see it excelling often in many situations, if only as "just" another ability your opponent has to negate.

Makai High Noble - A decent counter to Olcadan's Mentoring and many other cards, Makai high noble promises to be one of the ridiculously hard-to-find uncommons for the sheer usefulness of its ability coupled with its amazing stats. The price on these is soaring already.

Program Malfunction - This is without a doubt, my favorite card of set 9. It was pretty bummed with the set as a whole until I stumbled upon this gem, which made me turn around and look at the rest of the set more closely. I almost wanted to write on article on this card alone. Instead, it blossomed into what you are reading now. Where do I begin with this beast? Should I bring up the fact that it can completely nullify a foundation you would otherwise have no answer to for the rest of the game? Or the fact that it provides you with yet another card that your opponent must negate? This card and others like it push control decks to their limit and can help achieve the critical mass needed to overwhelm the rock-solid control decks we have to deal with thanks to set 8 and Evil (and Infinity)-based promo cards.

Psycho Style - Everything that I said about Program Malfunction applies to psycho style, except that Psycho Style has the capability to be far more offensive in nature. Given the proper setup, you can take away half of an opponent's foundations before delivering your fatal attack, or mess up your opponent's fatal attack phase with the same strategy.

Self Sacrifice - This is one of my favorite cards in set 9 for how tricky it is, both to use, and when it's actually in use. This card can cause a lot of damage, and perhaps even set your opponent back a full turn or two. Get away with one of these against an unprepared control player and you may have just won the game. I don't care much about the typo on the card, however, you would think someone in the office would learn how to use a spell check, but it may be too late, because sources indicate it may have been distroyed in set 8.

Without a care - Olcadan's Mentoring on a common foundation, need I say more?
 
 
This really seems like the set Promo Alex was designed for, as it magnifies his abilities and can possibly push him over the top in the competitive environment. In that same vein we have Makoto which has created quite a fuss in speculation about her true capabilities, which is something that can perhaps only be appraised adequately as time passes and she gets a couple of tournaments under that black belt of hers.  

As far as the staging area manipulation theme, by which I refer to the set of cards that allow you to move cards in your staging area to other places, it seems rather gimmicky at this point, excepting of course all of the combos with the Broken series of assets, including Bleeding Internally. Time may prove me wrong, which I actually look forward to in this case.

It turns out that this set actually has a fair amount of control cards anyways, and I find them to be of much better quality than the aggro cards when compared side by side as I did above. This to me is a pleasant surprise of course, but some of you may be wondering what I have against assets, actions and attacks. The answers is: nothing at all, really, they just don't interest me as much as the new foundations a set has to offer. I would like to know what other cards people are excited about, of course. I for one, like Great Gerdenheim, but a set of those things would be almost $100! Naturally, that sort of thing violates my mission as stated above, but we'll discuss more on that later. For now, I hope set 9 gives you good reason to be excited about the future of UFS.