Magic's Best Worst Card 

LOL the life gain thing is so true! Very well put.

Play it in EDH with Hive Mind

in what format against what deck will this win? it plays a double white creature without any white land. But the explanation really takes the cake. "Step one draw your deck, cast omniscience". Yep resolve a 11 mana card will win you the game. But this deck wont resolve it because you are dead way before you got 11 mana. and having 2 birds out to get double white will maybe work in game one. game 2 your birds get shut down and its gg. the only deck you stand a chance against is the one that plays 25 "you gain 7 life" cards.

why not play mindeslicer?

you can pretty consistently get the 9 mana needed for tooth and nail by turn 3/4. People are hesistant to use their removal spells on your walls. If you resolve a tooth and nail, you get Lost Auramancers and Vampire Hexmage, sacraficing vampire hexmage to kill Auramancers and get omnicience. Then if you can get to an enter the infinite, you can looop ETI, Research, Pull from Eternity and memories journey. to draw your sideboard and then exile everything except your door to nothingness (opponenet's cards + your sideboard and mainboard,." while they loose from drawing from an empty library. TL:DR: You cast tooth and nail entwined. That usually wins you the game, this just happens to be a stupid way of doing it.

Joel Haggis 4D Chess

Well a ton of cards can make you gain life in varying levels of power. Only this card can make you discard your entire hand for one Black at Instant speed.

Coughs arrogantly there is a creature that gives you a instant win condition if you have 40 or more hp(felidar sovereign) if you combine the health gain spell with a spell multiplier (e.g howl of the hoard) that allows you to essentially do that 7 hp gain spell allowing you to win if you have more than 19 hp and if that is the decks gimmick it should be abke to win with idk but it has use

blue oranges yes but there is much better life gain than that

With madness it could be neat!

Uno with nothing

Plays a +4, calls uno; “In response...”

Im totally going to print a copy and keep it around until my next uno game

But whos going to pick black?

@@theredhatgirl5539 CMC 1 means it can be played on a 1. Durr.

reprint it in the next un set with that flavor text plz

Anyone know why this card is not in the hogaak deck.

half beast post

Since discarding is flavored as erasing minds/lobotomy "Print this badboy" would be an initial response after casting One With Nothing

Agreed

agree

Hey doomguy congrats on doom eternal Best damn game I've played in years

"Name a card that isn't in your deck and then exile your entire library." *A S C E N D E D*

I can only see that being useful for spells that are "when you gain life, do X thing". But it also has a high man's cost so good luck with that turn

@@sStyleMo With the blue scientist thing, yes, it's one of the fastest victory one can get

Like Magic's own form of seppuku.

Nateson I almost wanna build that decklist.

Kortran I'd pay for a deck like that

Nateson huh, I didn't know you also play Magic

some of the og "magic cheater revealed" videos were made by him! surprised me when i found out

Yes! That's a badass reference

That's immediately what I thought of

I always name [[you are already dead]]

No no no no no, Rudy's not trying to kill himself, he just likes to discard I guess

Always sunny?

have you heard of dredge though ;)

Lmao I thought about that too

Other: I must keep my enemies from damaging my LP. Black Player: I had 19 sacrificial health, cool. *Let's make my enemies regret their existence.*

Death's Shadow anyone?

Black Magic Players: Life is just another resource to victory!

Hey man, we think life points are very valuable. They’re a secondary mana pool that starts at 19!

Black decks value life more than other decks since to them it’s also a resource

As in, it's all equally impossible

It kinda resonates with a part of my personal motto, "...you got nothing to lose and everything to gain"

@@WingMaster562 terrible life motto

@@maritza8825 a search party has been dispatched on who asked you.

@@WingMaster562 **Scrolls up and reread your first reply** _"a search party has been dispatched on who asked you."_

I laughed.

Is that a motherfucking SZS reference?

I had that order. The guy received only buns at the end :D

one of the best worst oders

Oh my god, I love that comment :D rofl

Or sunbond

Yeah I was gonna say you gotta be stupid to think that's a bad card, combos are everything.

@Red Trout I wasn't saying that combo in specific was great, just that you can always find a use for a card in a specific deck. If you are already using a lich's mastery based deck then angel's mercy can be a good addition to your deck. I'm not saying build a deck around that combo. Pretty much every card has a great use in one deck or another. That's all I'm saying.

And THEN you discard your hand with one with nothing

For 4 mana... meaning you've pretty much given up that turn :/

lmao someone should anime a mtg anime for youtbe

@@thoticcusprime9309 Duel Masters "Your only technique is pulling Fullshock Dragon at the appropriate time."

I unironically would love to watch an anime where characters just play MTG.

@@Bluecho4 There is a really good manga thats backed by WOTC. "Destroy All of Humanity. It Can't Be Regenerated." Takes place in the 90s, its really cool!

That line is so stupid lmao, that’s like saying a card that’s one black mana ‘loose half your life’ is good because it goes against what you value in the game lmao

convenient when your mistakes line up well, eh? hahah.

maybe so. but heroe's reunion? for only 2 mana? now THATS a card!

I certainly will remember it - very helpful with lich's mastery.

Redredret genius!

It's December 23rd, 2023 and Im slowly doing this now with the ORIGINAL Kamigawa foils. Yeah, it sucks with the Mystery Booster foil reprints but the ORIGINALS? Hopefully sonewhere down the road, a new mechanic will draw attention back to this card. Remember Lion's Eye Diamind from the Mirage set?

I remember those days. It was 4 life. I forget the card. Old ass fucking card. like 96 or something.

Nah I remember absolutely loving feed the clan It gave you like 4 health or something but if you had a four or greater toughness creature you gained ten and I thought it was the best thing ever

??? i did not pay any attention to instants...creature cards!!! Angel of Dawn, Indestructible golem!!! Avatar of Woe...this cards are amazing and fun if you can make them work. Angels Mercy is a card for nerds, who dont even check you need to defeat your opponent^^ healer are garbage XD

:(

Everybody laughs at life gain until gollum hits the field

I'm a slay the spire player, never played magic. The card can be okay with good discard synergies but seems like there is not many cards the card can synergize with

I am fascinated as to how you ended up here.

Dude same. I got recommended this vid about 2-3 months ago and it inspired me to actually pick up magic

...holy shit. it has been found!

You will have a Crypt in you graveyard

No, you won't: Sacrificing the crypt is an activation cost. You activate the crypt by tapping and sacrificing it. The crypt goes into your graveyard. The ability goes on the stack, with your crypt in your graveyard. The ability resolves, exiling your graveyard, including your own crypt.

For Demonic Consultation, name »Angel’s Mercy« ;)

@@luziferius3687 Better yet, name Angel's Grace.

Blood Celebrant is a possible T1 win (with dark ritual)

Well, ban the automatic win cards.

There's too many to ban

Anything that has a repeatable "pay life" ability wins instantly Or any Pact Etc

Pact of (whatever) on turn 1. gg

If this card was in yugioh it would somehow break the game

@@The_Visual completely agree the amount combos in something like danger would make them tier 0

@@Rose_Tinted1 No, it wouldn't. There's a card, full salvo, that does this, but also burns the opponent. Cheerful coffin allows you to discard 3 for free, and if you simply want to discard your hand, card destruction allows you to do so while also drawing a new hand. Infernity can clear their hand by themselves, they don't need a card like this, and probably wouldn't play it. The only way DW would play it is if this card also triggers their second effects, otherwise, card destruction, DWD, Dragged, their field spell, and dangers all give them enough ways to discard whatever they want, while also refilling their hands.

The Yu-Gi-Oh equivalent is something like mystical refpanel

LMAO, yeah ... Card Destruction exists though. So they'd probably say that card exists vs make a new one with this effect. It would be great, though. Extra fodder.

Faithless Looting is usually better, since it can leave you with some spells to cast and let you dredge off of it

@@sandwichboy1268 But Faithless Looting is banned, making One With Nothing ironically INFINITELY better then Faithless Looting. At least in modern

How can you utilize it?

@@elgatochurro discard your entire deck, do dredge shit

This is one of those cards where its value is inherently low in most modes, but in a EDH deck, this thing could pop off really quick.

So have you played a game yet?

@@aj1218 not yet but I did figure out I'm trans, does that count for anything?

@@plusonerabbit Congratulations, the mtg community is pretty welcoming to the LGBTQ. So feel free to join us.

;) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-inA5z8jwWXY.html

For reals tho, we need that needle. You damn right!

It looks like it's for a dredge deck (black/green). Dredge plays most all its cards from the graveyard so that card starts up your dredge engine for one black. To be fair, I haven't played magic in a looooong time so maybe dredge isn't a thing anymore, but it looks like that's what that card is for.

Dredge hasn't been around for a long time, but you're right. It's meant to set up either dredge or necromancy. I had a deck that would have been supercharged by one with nothing. The idea: Mono black. Turn 1, I would draw, then discard. It's a waste of a turn, but I would discard a powerful eldrazi, like It That Betrays. Next turn, I'd use a dark ritual to cast necromancy. By resurrecting It That Betrays on turn 2, I lock my opponent down completely. They have 1 turn to stop my creature or they lose. Everything on the battlefield that was theirs becomes mine, and all because I played a 12 mana cost creature for 3 mana.

Now I'm going to have to try to build that on MTG online

Oh shit now I'm going to be thinking about this

@@tomaszurbanowicz1559 same

@@tomaszurbanowicz1559 go with a laboratory maniac, is cheaper. Also, you don't even need the one with nothing in this combo

Much more likely to support a victory with Barren Glory than a self-mill victory like Wielder of Mysteries or Manaic.

One with nothing with rielle everwise is a wheel of fortune Might be interesting

the hot dog vendor says, "that'll be $2.50." the monk hands him a five dollar bill. the hot dog man says, "thanks have a nice day." the buddhist monk says, "where's my change?" the hot dog man says, "change must come from within."

LOL Genius ending.

One of the best jokes I've heard in a long time. I may have to steal this. 👍

@@Goreblender Buddhist monks can't touch money.

@@oo-wr4pq now we know why!

great story. thanks for sharing that.

@Unknown Entity Yes but the same logic of asking how before why is how we get the destruction of the nuke, it is how we get globe warming, it is how we get cults formed, it is how we make rash decisions that only help us in the short term, because we do not think of the long term impact of things. Asking how before we ask why will invarably cause things we do not wish to happen, because we never ask why we are doing these things. Why are we invading this country, why are we following this guy, why am i doing what i am doing. These are all valid and important questions to ask your self, but is so often ignored because we are to focus on the how. We need a balance of asking how and asking why, rather than only asking one thing or the other.

@@ultralight9625 Agreed

@@ultralight9625 I couldn't have said it better myself.

I'm a Johnny in a totally different card game and still instantly clicked on this video. "Best worst card" in any game is literally bait for us. XD

@@clayxros576 i dont claim any of these titles,i especially dont like the name johnny

Don't mention that name or any of his elks here ever again! He has been banned, but his crimes are far from being gone from our memories.

@@mlgproplayer2915 Brainstorm, Ponder, Ancestral Recall, Force of Will, Lightning Bolt, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben... His ilk goes on. He has *a lot* of ilk. Mostly in blue

22freedom33 i

ooooooooooh

I've learned that many folks are still passionately against this card, so perhaps not. **fist bump**

Brian Tinsman so you like... do magic?

head bump

After the 'print this bad boy', did they send you a bandage?

That is the most chill reaction to being trolled by co-workers ever

I'n going to put one in my Damia, Sage of Stone commander deck.

I was thinking the same thing as well with Escape. "Why play from my hand when i can play from my graveyard." :)

Well played...

Beautiful

Brian Halphin on top of that having monsters in your graveyard whike playing black usually means summoning them from the graveyard at a discounted cost and gaining the zombie attribute which can be beneficial especially with a lilianna on the field.

Putrid imp, lotleth troll.

IllogicalBear holy casul

IllogicalBear you'd be better off with a card that discards from your library, that way you'd still be able to power up your creatures without sacrificing your hand.

Nathan Froese Self mill is always a dangerous game. Discarding from hand, while reducing options, ensures you know what is going into your graveyard and when.

someone had to do it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

TheManaSource Oh snap!

Don't worry Wedge, we love you :3

NOWS YOUR TURN!!!!!!!

You need a hug wedge? You need some selfcare?

it was stream of life for me, which is usually worse hahaha.

@@anthonyjs8048 Wellwisher. Elf tribal with Wellwisher.

@@InfluxDecline That one's good in Pauper at least

Juan Grille what about nullhide feroxes

@@spemtjin5460 Only works if your opponent makes you discard them, not on your own, right?

How about Cluthmother Zavas?

My 9th Plage of Death this game: AYYYYYYYYYYYY

that's awesome: I didn't know that. thanks for sharing.

Barren glory is a card, but it doesn't do that from exile, it also triggers on upkeep and only needs you to meet the hand and permanents requirement.

Barren glory?

This is very close to the cheese stands alone

but still they win.

TD you missed the joke

@@TD-sh6wd But not in your heart.

same here

damn it, you're right!

But a touch down is 6 points😉

That makes it better than a touchdown!

It's a touchdown AND a field kick! Mest card ever! Shoulda been an uncommon!

Field kick? You mean a PAT

Zach Chaffee Except that Sam creates original, creative and valuable videos. Sam's channel is like a good book while a lot of other channels are... a tabloid.

Momo Mikoshiba This, wedge literally copies all of his content, anyone could do what he does.

Erik Cobra Right. Other MTG channels are guilty of the same thing, so I don't wanna single him out now, but stuff like worst cards ever is just this terrible low level clickbait stuff like you see in online ads on porn sites. So I very much appreciate original works of art like Sam's. There are little creators out there who are as original, PROFessional and creative.

Momo Mikoshiba Worst cards ever isn't even the worst offender. His spoiler videos, deck techs, commander spotlights. All he does is look at mythicspoiler, a random deck, or edhrec and make a video about it. It's almost 0 effort.

I see wedge as less of an entertainer and more of a magic news source. His goal isn't to create new amazing content but to keep you up to date on what is happening in the world of mtg. Hence the name of his channel, the Mana SOURCE.

cast it with Sudden Substitution and see your opponent flipping the table at your face

Ancestral Disappointment I like it

@@GalileoAV Ancestral Disappointment is the title of my memoirs.

It's even better at what it does than recall :)

@@Bluecho4 yo

Ancestral amnesia or three with nothing: discard 3 cards Probably a white card lol, it's honestly better than Healing Salve because it works in reanimator or dredge etc

That’s only true nowadays - in the old days you would have taken 3 damage from activating it if you didn’t have an immediate use for it.

how much damage you take does not change how effective it is at discarding your hand tho. Its still a 6 cards to grave for 0 mana

@@khurgar8120 But life is a resource, too. You're discarding your hand at the expense of 0 mana and 3 life. Or you could spend 1 mana and 0 life to use OwN.

good point. I tried to make that card work back in the day, but couldn't do it. I bet now it could be usable.

metaljeffenc Muldrotha EDH.

I can't believe I've never seen this card before. it's incredible!

I'm curious to know what the deck is. Do you have it on tappedout or something?

U use token spam or damage lock?

theres also a gideon that can let you remain alive on 0hp too. or on 10+poison counters or even with no library left

Rhystic Studies with lich and other similar cards. You pay life usually via necropotence to pull up your library, then cast all the dark rituals and repay in kind

challenge accepted. have fun!

Welcome to my lifestyle. Go wacky or walk home. I want to see my opponent experiencing temporary madness while they watch me do the weirdest thing they've ever seen anyone do in the game before I blow their mind with crystal clear insanity or bizarre play-styles. I never even care if i win. I simply want to dunk on ppl and scream in their face, if I happen to win, cool. I made perhaps the first Warcry Barbarian on battlenet and the comic shop erupted in endless laughter when i dueled my friend and literally blew his speakers out from screaming rapidly while stunning his character. He scrambled to turn the volume down but it was too late and then he DIED. HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH It was glorious and I live for these moments. Tbh, I'm the most legendary among my friends because i always pull this shit. My brother is often top competitor and another friend of mine buts heads with him but ppl remember my shit because I literally spend countless hours secretly building something absurd to spring on all of them at exactly the right moment. They don't see it coming because I'm actually just clowning these games that I can master without effort but I just like to make ppl smile and laugh way more than win. Its not about winning, its about looking amazing no matter what you are doing. Keep the path, force them to feel the weird!

I would go for a commander deck seeing as your commander would be safe from the discard effect and could either use the newly discarded hand or draw into things that could, and yes I know this comment is 10 months old I’m mostly taking to myself.

Ah, a jank deck. Those are most fun as one shot with friends.

Start with Avaricious Dragon and Asylum Visitor or maybe Hive Mind +Megrim+ wheel/howling mine/bounce spells with ensnaring bridge on defense?

rilesthegiles LED is not even named in the video and that makes me so sad :(

I don't think it's fair to compare most cards to something that's restricted in vintage. That's like saying "dude, why can't these lame ass draw spells/1 mana cantrips be as good as ancestral recall?" Now, comparing it to say... putrid imp would be something worth considering. Though anyone that has played putrid imp in the appropriate deck knows it can do some prettttty busted stuff and you could argue that R&D has since learned its lesson and one with nothing is the "fixed" putrid imp.

AgaresOaks it's totally fair to compare it. Formats are a "player" invention, for kitchen table-type and in general it is totally alright to compare every card to every other.

Kitchen tables are just flowing with all those $100+ reserve list cards. If you're insistent on that point I'd like to note for kitchen tables it's important for budget versions of cards to exist and that $2 is a much more reasonable price point than $100. You could see why I would encourge comparing it to a 25 cent card instead.

literally there are so many better ways to do everything one with nothing does. i think the only thing one with nothing has is that it is an instant. so until we find a reason to instant speed discard hand in some way where led cant then one with nothing will continue to be bad in every deck

I supposed Burn and Combo would be the only way to play, since you can't attack yourself :(

Or you could cast one of the Pacts and not pay the upkeep cost haha

I both accept and surrender at the same time...I therefor win..Good game

In response to you responding and surrendering, I put me surrendering on the stack. The game ends before you even join. Thus there is no game, and I am one with nothing.

Aryan Stanley conceding doesn't go on the stack :p

Done it once with a Razia's Purification and two creature with sacrifice effects. Sure most games you lose horribly but on the rare chance you can stall long enough to board clear and empty your hand it's quite memorable.

I could see it working with a few other cards. Wrath of God (or equivalent), Flashfires, and some non-land source of a single red and a single black mana, and, obviously, One with Nothing. Wrath of God buries all creatures on the field, Flashfires destroys all plains, One with Nothing gets rid of your hand. You just need to find a way to play a Black card and a Red card in an otherwise white deck.

@@dusklunistheumbreon OG Dual lands and checklands count as basic land types, and you can get them with fetchlands. Armageddon is better though, it's white and destroys all lands. That said, I think the simplest combo is with Decree of Annihilation or Kaervek's Spite. There is also a tournament legal clone of The Cheese Stands Alone called Barren Glory. Then of course your opponent plays Rainbow Vale, blocking your Barren Glory with a card that seems almost as useless as One With Nothing.

@@BaddeJimme I love all these ideas here in the comments :D I love weird win conditions (just started thinking about a self-mill deck with the new Jace, wielder of mysteries).

Play normally, put down TCSA as soon as you can, cast decree of annihilation the next turn.

Can you cast it instantly?

@@johnroush1099 you can activate the ability at instant speed to discard your hand.

@@just_no2764 is that what I asked? >.>

@@johnroush1099 no, but once it hits the table, contrary to One with nothing which can be counterspelled, very few things can stop you from discarding your hand since it is a cost. Also, you get 3 mana for it.

Any fatty that can cycle would probably be more effective but still creative

Even better combo: t1 land pass t2 dimir bounce land pass discard Jin Gitaxias or something t3 land Reanimate holding up Counterspell Mana 😂

Dumbest comment ever? Probably.

Devotion to Red and Fanatic of Mogis.

Textless creatures with a CMC of 3/4 will be bad if their stats aren't stellar. He showed it in the video, a 3/2 for 3 is just bad. Noone wants to play that. It will never see play.

I was playing against a burn deck once that was utterly destroying me. I then played a card that caused him to flip cards from his deck until he reached a creature, then I came in control of it. It was a full burn deck not a single creature... I killed his ENTIRE deck with one card and won the game.

@@avalerionbass I top 8'd a tcgplayer event once because I strip mine'd a person with Ghost Quarter tech. Dude completely forgot to put basics in

thanks my man.

man i now value bad cards more than anything. To be honest though, how come there is no synergy with this? I literally cannot believe there isn't an artifact or enchantment, or creature even that doesn't do any sort of direct damage towards players or creatures everytime you discard cards. Seems unreal to me.

There is plenty of synergy with this card.... its just that there are usually better cards to get a similar effect.

I think it would have been awesome if morph cards face down had an effect when it dies face down. It would definitely play mind games as they don't know which creature they should destroy.

Not to mention cards that work with CMC values...

Scornful Egotist at least had a purpose - fueling in-block cards like Rush of Knowledge and Torrent of Fire. Onslaught Block had a lot of "CMC matters" cards that he was meant to fuel - drop him as a morph, throw a spell, morph him face-up for one mana for huge effect. Not at all efficient by modern Magic standards, but it was a thing and you'd see some people run him back then for that reason.

so great to hear. thank you, and welcome aboard.

Same!

Oi there Rhystic, ye got a loicense for that quality?

funnily enough, there would emerge a hierarchy of good cards in such a pool! it's all relative, as it were.

hahahah. you madman!

me no know

Seeing what dredge is capable of, I totally agree

Not one with nothing, dredge wants Breakthrough

thanks for stopping by and giving it a chance.

so efficient it hurts.

Now i'm seriously thinking in make a commander deck with this combo in it.

You can play small pox instead of sink hole and you don't even need one with nothing. If you are looking for consistence that is.

nice to know, now that they eradicated mana burn...

How? At most it gives you a handful of Delve fuel (pun intended). At that point couldn't you run Gurmag Angler and get more value?

Wait nvm the cast from gy effect makes it work

And it's gone

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YES!

RJTheHero same man

I haven't played it in years I have no idea

Play it, it is fun!

you haven't, but you will

Neither do I, but I still enjoyed it

the value (!!!)

jazzwlf jazzwlf My God... Have mercy on us!

Seriously though, Break Through The Line was great in its format, and I have it as a secret tech card in my Cube.

That spelling of "mediocre" was pretty awesome. If only you could right click words and correct spelling.

passive aggressive grammar nazis are a thing now? naiz

The Cheese Stands Alone? Barren Glory?

yeah I didn't like how that was on worst cards ever. it wasn't a mistake like the other cards in the series