MTG Top 10: Worst Legendary Creatures | Magic: the Gathering | Episode 105 

2:35 "Yeah, my commander is Urza. There's not really another card that lets you say that" *Modern Horizons*: I'm about to ruin this man's whole career

"One really disturbed person has him as a commander in EDH" LMAO

Embarrassing Story: I once traded my Hypnotic Spectre and two Serra Angels to my friend for the mighty, mighty AXELROD GUNNARSON, possibly one of the most mana-ineffcient cards ever printed. It was the 5th grade and I assumed that more mana=more power :(

I actually have a deck with Huang Zhong in it. It's a Shu deck with Liu Bei as its commander. It's bad.

Trivia: Morinfen was later plagarized slightly in design and name by the Yugioh card Morinphen, which later ended up being such an everlasting meme in Japan that he got sleeves of his own. I think that's pretty legendary.

2:38 this creature is called a Taniwha (tun-e-fa) it is taken straight from Māori mythology

I have a legend from legends that is a 7 mana 6/4 with no abilities... im building vanilla edh around it

My impressions Number 10: Well it's not that bad I could see some uses in some specific decks. Number 1: WHO IN THERE RIGHT MIND LOOKED AT THAT CARD AND SAID YUP THAT SEEMS GOOD LETS PRINT IT.

Veldrane of Sengir has legendary artwork.

I love the fact that if Gosta Dirk was changed from costing 3WWUU to just WWUU, he still wouldn't see any real play...

*Shots fired. Back in the mid-90's before everybody made internet decks I had a pretty good suicide black deck loaded with Gallowbraids and Morinfens and Dark Rituals and Mana Vaults. It won a couple of Type 2 (old Standard) tournaments. I still have love in my heart for the brothers...but I know they are awful.

Did you have fun looking at 50+ legends from legends to find the worst one?

Shimatsu would have been ok if the sacrifice was whenever, not ETB. It be Threaten tribal

Gallowbraid and his buddy are the two phyrexians that killed Crovax's family. That's why they are important to the story, and therefore legends.

I told my friends I have a date with an attractive girl. They told me she was imaginary. Jokes on them because they are too.

I remember pulling Shimatsu as a kid and trying to just figure out why

Back in the day, I played phasing decks with Taniwha, Wrath of God, Armageddon, and mana ramping artifacts/creatures. Never consistent enough to be effective, but it was always fun. Teferi's Veul was a fun addition as well since it allowed you to get phasing creatures back on turns after they attack.

I know you put a lot of time into these top 10 videos. This one was funny, and quite entertaining.

Just want to mention that: Your fav Bird in your intro fits that music so darn well!

You had great jokes in this video.

I have a card from legends (a legendary card) that's a 3/3 for 5 mana that literally does nothing

I’m one of the few people that have a taniwha edh deck, and there are really cool ways to play him. I made the deck essentially based around teferi stax with land destruction and bounce effects. You can lock the game with land equilibrium and sunder for example. A lot of my mana is in artifacts so i dont need lands to win

I have seen a kind of powerful Maraxus deck where they just put a bunch of equipment on him and made him huge. It's cool because he is extremely powerful in combat, and then you do everything in your second main phase. He is pretty hard to get to use, but if you can do it, it is very cool to see.

Number 9 is named after a mythical beast of Maori origin. It's pronounced Tani-Fa. I wish the English alphabet was more well adapted, school would of been easier.

I have a Blind Seer deck, and I have a lot of fun with it. I use a few of the Swords of X and Y, and other cards like Wash Out and Dismiss Into Dream. He's definitely not the best mono-blue commander, but he's certainly unique. Only commander that's at all similar is Eight-and-a-Half-Tails.

I agree with most of it, except something you said about shimatzu. You said red doesnt have many sacrifice synergies, but it has goblins and devour, the sacrifice mechanics.

Shimatsu can work well with nesting dragon since you can make a bunch of eggs with it's landfall ability then sacifice them to him making him big while also getting dragons in return since once the eggs die they turn into dragons

PROF: Keep yo mana open my friends. Me: I'm doing it because the Keldon.

“Rage is the only freedom left me.” ....

...I liked kamigawa...

Oh yeah. Great video, series,and channel sir. Maybe a video on any upgrades you made to edh karn deck?

"My commander is Urza. There's not really another card that lets you say that" Except now in Modern Horizons there is!

Can you make a video on best 1 cost spells? Jus a thought...

Greven il-Vec is actually good in tempest and tempest remastered draft.

How to play a Gosta Dirk deck: Step 1: cast One With the Stars on Gosta to turn him into a noncreature permanent Step 2: play any islandwalk creature Step 3: cast Mirrorweave to turn all creatures into your islandwalk creature congratulations now you have taken islandwalk off of all your opponent's creatures, thus getting the maximum value out of Gosta Dirk wait no that still sucks nvm just stick to countering that one merfolk deck I guess

You have another meme to add to this list on the last set. Talking about Yargle, ofc.

blind seer was part of a combo deck I did very well with back in old extended called "Color Manipulation" involving Blind Seer and Southern Paladin/Northern Paladin. It was effectively a control deck that ran 4 copies of blind seer, 3 copies of southern paladin, and 3 copies of northern paladin. The deck worked by turning perminates red or black then destroying them, often lands once no good creatures or other perminants were left on the board. The rest of the deck was counters and spot removal as well as bounce spell and the like. The deck did quite well in it's hey day, I kinda wish they would bring back Northern and Southern Paladin.

Listening to this with the new urza announcement from modern horizons Oh hindsight

Oh c'mon Maraxus is amazing! Mono red equipment deck he gets +1/+1 for all equipments .Also you don't even need to tap your stuff until after you attack.

8:39 doom whisper truly shows the power creep over time vs those cards

Taniwha is the commander in my Summon Bigger Fish deck (Leviathan & co. 'tribal', and summon is summon, no mana cheating ). The combo with Sunder is pretty cheesy so I might swap it for Slinn Voda.

taniwha isnt bad. its fucking awesome in any zedru deck. i love and it will have a place in my heart until the end of time. i really didnt expect to see it on this list

Minor error at 3:15 There is no "phasing/phased out zone", there was, but they changed it. Now "being phased in/out" is just a status just like "being un/tapped" or "face down/up".

As someone from New Zealand, it was painful for me every time you said Taniwha. It should be said Ta-ni-fa. I hope this helps someone.

I was born in 91 I’m 26 I have always been very intrigued by MTG and thanks for the Insight on this card game I have been missing out on I think it’s time to go pick up a deck better late then never great video

Taniwha seems fun if your lands phase out and you play Armageddon with artifact mana

His legend was so lengendary... That his legend was legendary

The thing that really makes my eyes pop about Veldrane of Sengir is that the same goddamn set had Ishan’s Shade, which is also a costly Black 5/5... with Pro White at all times, making him actually pretty good against basically all removal at the time, meaning he wasn’t that bad at all.

I think when Legends debuted, being a Legend was considered an UPSIDE. Also, apparently people thought that cards being gold was the absolutely coolest thing ever, which is what justified the ridiculous mana costs. All that being said, I think I was three years old when Legends came out, so take all this with a generous amount of salt.

I just found you, and I subbed, thanks for the good video

Shimatsu can be paired with creatures like Goblin Arsonist, Pitchburn Devils and Gang of Devils which all look to die and deal damage when they detonate, so filling a deck with guys like that, and having others who bring them back would really benefit especially since when the dust clears for every creature you blow up you've just added to an absolute monster and thats if your opponent is still standing

So would cumulative upkeep be better if it gave you an upside for paying the cost? Like I wish echo would have effects as they enter and exit the battlefield?

I actually use Shimatsu in my Mono R artifacts deck in Modern. Ichor and Mycosynth Wellsprings, Terrarion, Chromatic Star, and Pia's Revolution. The deck also carries Trash for Treasure and Greater Gargadon. He's only a one-of, but he can really blindside an opponent, because he's a surprise sacrifice engine for the deck, whereas Greater Gargadon is pretty well telegraphed.

Blind Seer was good around that time, when color manipulation was a powerful mechanic. One of my favorite combos from around that time was Shifting Sky and Llawan, Cephalid Empress.

Greven il-Vec not worth it? Do you not reconsider that it is utterly obvious black would be sacrificial fodder for the strong as well as his fear ability?

Aw, I really like Blind Seer. I played him in a really funny deck that had color hosers like Douse, Rule of Law, Light of Day, etc. along with other color changers. Yeah, he's probably not great in commander, but he's still a fun nostalgic card for me.

I don't know why phasing gets shit talked though. Its like having a Sundial of the Infinite attached to your flicker but you trade out having the benefits of ETB and/or LTB effects. Also you don't lose tokens if they are phased out, unlike flicker. Enemy commanders are also unable to return to the command zone if phased out as its not like being exiled, tucked, or being sent to the graveyard. Example #1: if your opponent uses Wrath of God while you have this massive army of tokens, you can Teferi's Protection to save them and even get them back on your next untap step. Example #2: Sedris, the Traitor King + Teferi's Veil. Unearthed creatures that get phased out before their trigger are safe from exile. This even applies to cards like Ball Lightning if it survives. Example #3: If you enchant an enemy commander with Vanishing for just {U}, you can, at at any point spend {U}{U} to phase it out. This is a repeatable effect at instant speed. Example #4: Equipoise + Sands of Time. its a really obnoxious stax combo that came out in the same.

I came here to find ideas for my next Commander brew. Not disappointed.

Gallowbraid and Morinfen were the two gargoyle demons that attacked Urborg (Crovax's estate) in the early Weatherlight Saga. It is a really obscure event, referenced by a single sentence in one of the more obscure books.

Use keld in an exalted deck?

That one person running my boi Me Gusta Dirk Diggler *IS* the legend.

Blind Seer used to be permabanned in the EDH community before Wizards took it over, because there was a rule that you couldn't play spells that didn't share a color identity with your Commander. This rule was changed to the "Mana" rule instead because Blind Seer was an on demand 2 mana Fizzle.

Wouldn't Shimatsu be good in a token deck, since tokens count as permanents? Maybe not as a commander, but maybe in the 99 of a Krenko deck or other red token generator deck.

I actually used to run maraxus of keld in my warrior tribal deck because part of the combo was to give all of your guys vigilance. But in the end he was a 6 mana like 20/20 that got chumped, so his power and toughness didnt matter

As a Hakim player (even before Eldrazi Conscription) I take slight offense to his placement on the list, he definitely has an unique effect that has the potential to be powerful. The fact that you can stack the first ability to put how many auras as you want for UU a pop from the graveyard makes him even better; also there's a lot of good self-mill in blue to give you a lot of stuff to choose from.

Like the new intro. Fits the feel of your vids much better

Blind Seer mattered when it was in Standard somewhat. There were plenty of cards that functioned if you had a permanent of X color in the block and if you built a deck around that back then, Blind Seer could fill the gap until you had those cards.

I feel like shimatsu would be OK if you used every single steal spell in your deck...... wait... that's still bad....

You could stock this list almost entirely from the Legends expansion. I have the black/red version of Gosta Dirk in "Ur-Drago"

Gosta Dirk was actually rather useful in my immediate area. Lots of players i knew liked blue white decks. Naturally lots of people liked island walk and even plains walk cards. Even Plains walk was a trick i used a lot with my Magic Hack deck as there was a lot of people who liked white decks with bodyguards becoming necessary for them to survive because of how often they got plains walked. Merfolk decks and "Slight/hack" decks as we called them. The slight/hack wars were real. The blocking island walk was especially useful as other decks with magic hack were around to use their land walk from mountain.swamp or forest were used against all decks, back then. Even though magical hack could change up the island walk that meant an instance of magical hack was used up. Lots of decks just had island walk cause merfolk decks were popular. The fact it was classified as a white card made the very popular Crusade card also useful when in play. Most white decks used 4 Crusades in their decks. In fact land walk of all kinds was just very strong back in the day as there were more decks that had to rely on basic lands. The land walk meta was much different form today. I like the rest of your list though.

Power Conduit and Chisei Heart of Oceans can remove age counters from cards with cumulative upkeep, which will mitigate it a lot.

Would mana maze also be an option for the seer? ... if yes it could be very hard

Wasn't jedit ojanin the cost of gosta Dirk but a vanilla 5/5? I feel like that's worse than gosta but I could be very wrong

Honestly how did you put 8 in there??? You can make infanint tokens easily.

The Keld dude bypasses his weakness almost entirely with vigilance, and late game you're mana alone would make him a 10/10. The oni shitlord may actually be the most effective self sacrifice mechanic I've ever seen and makes RIDICULOUS things happen paired with some black creatures. The blind seer works well in a blue red deck as an easy counter for protection or color targeted spells. Most of these cards are shit on their own, but can fill a really useful role in a lot of dual colored decks

Would you consider Neheb, The Eternal to be a profitable venture in a commander deck?

Shimatsu the Blookcloaked; an upgraded Wood Elemental. XD

I'm looking at making a Tymaret Seize and Destroy deck, and Shimatsu would actually be fun in that haha

Shimatsu was a gimmic to be used in a gimmick Black/Red deck and it really wasn't good or bad.

blind seer is a really nice colour manipulation control deck in edh and its kinda fun

Top 10 non-werewolf flip cards could be interesting. Elberus the binding blade and westvale abbey come to mind. elberus was actually my first mithic rare. oh the days

One of my friends has a blind seer edh deck and it's shockingly oppressive. Plus I'm pretty sure this video inspired him to make it

Number Six. There is one card name Herald of Leshrac that will steal land from your opponent every turn so says by spending three turn, Herald of Leshrac will become a 8/10 Flyer if you were to be capable to attack with him, if not, why not take six of his land as you play him? I came back after a decade of isolation and my first twist of learning there's no longer Mana Burn.

Blind seer is an incredibly powerful EDH commander if you build around him. I'm surprised it's on your list.

I remember running Shimatsu in my red white Samurai bandit deck... I don’t even know why.. I just thought it was cool that a demon was leading a bunch of bandits.

Don't mind me , I just play for fun at the end of the day and that allows me to come up with more.. Sadistic combinations to screw with my friends as such, my opinion on Worst Legendaries is vastly different than the normal. 10. Blind Seer is fun if you've got Mana to burn, especially since it targets spells. 9. Taniwha brought back memories of suicidal decks. 8. In an old fashion Factory deck that just produces or has insane draw power . 7. Personally speaking, I liked Hakim during the Ravinca block. Running him in a Blue/Green, can cause some nightmarish combos if the people you're playing with don't get suspicious. Sadly, all of my friends were suspicious of me the moment they saw something on the board that wasn't 50 Saprolings waiting to be sacrificed. Essentially, if you set him up with say.. Fists of Ironwood, one of the destruction enchantments, your choice of mana generation, where in a simic deck comes out of thin air and bam, Saprolings out the ass. That is again, they don't put the kibosh on him immediately. Blue/Red is where things get really nasty, but you'd only really get one or two shots off before the cost becomes prohibitive but hopefully the damage is done and they're not ready to tank your recovery. 6. Shimatsu is another creature that THRIVED in Ravinca, he found a home in my Green/Red token decks. He's terrible in my opinion because he lacks trample and haste. Hell , even mountain walk would be great. 5. El Vec was meh. He's just not special. 4. I 've used these guys back in the day. They synergize well with Darksteel , Time Spiral and Kamigawa, but you need a plan. 3. I've got nothing on this guy. Jesus. I forgot he existed. 2. Got me there. 1. Thank you for reminding me this card existed. Now excuse me, I have to skull clamp myself. All in all, great video. Really reminded me how out of touch I am with the current Magic Meta.

These Mirage cards make me want to make some Mirage decks. But you're crazy if you think a six-mana 7/5 with Fear that just wants _one_ sacrifice (especially in black) is as bad as everyone's favorite do-nothing multi-color Legendaries.

I think that Gosta Dirk's cost is kinda reasonable on paper when you consider that in early MTG Islandwalk was like one of the bigger (but not that good) strategies pushed for Blue and First Strike on 4/4 body was pretty damn good. Sure overall it ended as very crappy and bad card, but if one try to tear it down and ask "okay but why?", it's actualy makes perfect sense that counter to Islandwalk AND first striker with respectable body was pretty expensive thing.

Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked could go well in an Alesha deck, I think, particularly given that you can pull him out of your grave for two tapped and attacking and he can be however big you have room for; Alesha's white gives you lots of token gen, too, so you can feed him lots of stuff... Weird how Devour goes best with white, which is a color it's not usually.

I just wanna say that no cards aren't really bad because of all the different possible combos in the game, any card can be good given a good combo

Good List although I would remiss if I didn't chime in here about the #9 pick Taniwha. I have built a Taniwha deck with the ability in mind and I can confirm that Zedruu isn't the only way to make this card playable. And that also the fact not having lands and only mana rocks is completely fine as long as my opponents suffer as well. Enter Mono Blue STAX the only viable way that I could reasonably build such a card with such an effect and to abuse it to maximum effect. With cards like Winter Orb , Static Orb , Porticulus , Ward of Bones and many others, you will be glad you don't have lands. How to do you play spells under phasing? As Foretold, Free counterspells and cheating cards into play with Muzzio, Thran Temporal Gateway and Show and Tell. How do you win? Artifact lockdown with Darksteel Forge, Nev's Disk , Mycrosyth Lattice and Unwinding Clock , Infect with Blightsteel Colossus, Teferi + Knowledge Pool hardlock or create a boardstate that angers everyone to concede. Having Played the deck for more than 5 years the times I've played with it. Noone has fun. In fact some playgroups suggested not to play that deck because of how infuriating it gets. Quick tid bit- Since Phasing happens at the beginning of the untap step, you cannot respond with instants during that phase. Its something that I thought I could get away with too but it doesn't work that way unfortunately. You are correct to assume that you will need mana rocks to cast anything assuming you haven't kept any land in hand to cast colored spells.

The way I took this is "10 Challenging Legendary Creatures to Build a Commander Deck Out of." I gratefully accept this challenge.

A Gosta Dirk Commander deck? My guess would be to try a synergy with Island Sanctuary and something that suppresses flying. Even then it's a horrible idea when better defensive combos exist

I played as a kid around the time of onslaught, mirrodin, and kami. I dropped the game before Ravnica came out for a variety of personal reasons, including constant moving and struggling to find other players. But one hallmark of my grievances at this time was frustration with my performance. I didn't really understand proper deck building, and I kept trying to use all these flashy new legendary kamigawa cards but to little avail. I blamed myself... I mean surely the developers knew what they were doing right? These cards are legendary. They have to be good. It's just me obviously. I'm the weak link smooth-brain in this chain. And Shimatsu was front and center in these cards I was CONVINCED were good but too clever for me, and so I dropped it. Imagine my shock after picking up arena back in 2020 and finding MTG info channels like this one to expand my knowledge of the game and finding vindication at last. It wasn't me... he was just that freaking bad. Thankyou for shelving that silly emotional baggage.

I had a couple of them monsters cards had Gallowbraid an Morinfen in my half black half green deck

Number 6 could be used in goblin token decks. For four you essentially get a devour 1. Mechanic. Which isn’t bad.

Seems that with the recent trend of Rakdos Sacrifice being a thing, Shimatsu is looking pretty good now for just triggering a bunch of Sacrifice and death effects for a big creature

Could you use taniwha to phase your lands out then cast a destroy all lands spell?

shimatsu would be great in a devil tribal. or a green deck. you can sacrifice lands, so something that pulls them out of your graveyard is cool.

I am kind of surprised that Sivitri Scarzam wasn't the Legends representative. She's a Blue Black Craw Wurm that has a HIGHER converted mana cost in addition to being two colors. So she's a vanilla creature that is harder to cast to put ONE copy of what you could do in Green for cheaper. Legends had a HUGE number of Legendary Creatures that were just vanilla, no special abilities whatsoever.