Purify does NOT belong on here. To quote its description on hearthpwn "This card was the ultimate underdog story. Regarded originally as the worst card in the game, but over time, it rose from the ashes and became a staple for Silence Priest. In fact, it was this card and minions like Humongous Razorleaf that made this card actually viable."
@@kristiankrastanov5995 Except none of the cards in Silence Priest were broken, not in the overpowered way. Most of the cards were in fact complete memes that were unplayable on their own in most other decks. They just so happened to combo extremely well together in that one specific deck that was very fun to play.
Pretty solid list and I agree with a good chunk of it, but definitely not all. Millhouse Manastorm has actually seen top tier play, Paladin cheated it out with Call to Arms specifically because of how huge it was for a 2 drop. Silithid Swarmer saw use in Rogue. Purify was put into some legitimate Priest decks, alongside Inner Fire and cards with attack restrictions. There are a couple other ones I'd argue against, but I think it's fair to call those picks objectively incorrect since they've all seen competitive play at some point, although I know it's hard to keep track of every meta for a game that's been around this long. Also personally found the "this expansion was powerful, but a few cards were weak" repetition unnecessary and kind of grating, but I did like the brief recaps of each expansion and enjoyed the video overall!
I agree with you. He's being so redundant in his speech... Also always saying "this card never saw any play" or "I never saw this card and didn't even know it existed" while I myself played 80% of them and saw plays of most of the rest... This person must not have played Hearthstone too much I guess. I still got the nostalgia I came for with this video though.
As a former silence priest player purify was a great card. Silence a big "can't attack" minion early game, and cycle through your deck at the same time, helped make that deck viable.
Frozen crusher was almost auto-pick in the arena! Purify was in silence priest and he was solid tier-2 deck (I still had flashbacks). Blood herald was good at the arena too and saddlemaster too. Blizz like to print cards valuable for the arena.
@@leonjakobsen272 when DH came to HS, Odd DH was tier 1 in wild, and many lists played Silithid Swarmer... 3 mana 3/5 was good at that time and as Odd DH you attack every turn with the broken hero power.
So, in summation, you kind of missed the ball here, most players, myself included, that played during those expansions, know that most of the cards mentioned were not bad, just niche, and fit into specific decks. I understand that you’re a newer player and just by looking at the cards without context they do seem weak but they were far from it. Good quality vid, needed a bit more research.
@@barethor5869 he has talked about playing since release but he has had to craft so many cards for his "challenges." He has definitely not played since the beginning
@@barethor5869 For some of the challenges like the Lego Weps or Lego Hero cards from KFT, he had to literally craft each one..... He would have had no reason to craft every single one if he has been playing some the start.
Came here to say exactly this honestly. Murloc Warlock used to be one of the greatest tempo-aggressive decks in the game, fueled by Warlock's powerful Hero Power. Very strong deck to start with!
@@alphamindset5592 when DH came to HS, Odd DH was tier 1 in wild, and many lists played Silithid Swarmer... 3 mana 3/5 was good at that time and as Odd DH you attack every turn with the broken hero power.
Millhouse has seen some play depending on the meta; I'd argue Magma Rager and Succubus are two cards that are boderline unplayable due to their downsides (1 health and the discard). Also, Rend Blackhand was used by Dragon Priest when that was a thing. Limited pretty much to that specific deck, but it was perfectly playable.
@@TrixyTrixter Rend was the MVP lategame against anything big your enemy still had in hand. Removal and trades with possibly anything your opponent STILL has? Yes pls. Incredible card, in the right deck way better than The Black Knight, which was a staple tech back then.
3:41 the funny thing is that Seadevil Stinger is really powerful in Wild now with the release of Gigafin in the last expansion, cheating out an 8 mana Colossal Murloc on turn 4 is really powerful
3 mana 3/4 that gives you unlimited beasts sounds like it probably was a top tier arena card. That's probably the only card in the list that screamed amazing to me. Gone are the classic days when a 3 mana 3/4 didn't even exist yet.
I remember back then, old cards, especially Legendaries, used to suck even more due to the lack of dupe protection. Getting 5 Bolf Ramshields in an opening was the worst and most hilarious thing ever. It was a meme dream.
Rarran I actually disagree with your Stormwind pick. I think Two-Faced Investor is one of the most pathetic card I've ever seen. Definitely even worse than the caravans. EDIT: oh, also the worst card in Boomsday was Harbinger Celestia and the worst card in Witchwood was Duskfallen Aviana
@@Rarran Yeah man for sure. I just subbed to you btw! I appreciate the effort you put into your content. I'm glad you've been experiencing decent growth on your channel lately. Cheers!
4:08 Frozen crusher saw pretty decent play in arena and I even saw some silence priests using this at the start of ungoro, had good combos with sunfury protector or silence
I know saying "I think Toothy Chest" is a dark souls reference was probably just for the memes, but I still got a good laugh out of it. Imagine not knowing the RPG trope of Mimics in the RPG trope set Kobolds and Catacombs, a literal riff on Dungeons and Dragons.
Zayle isn't really a pick. It wasn't a meta pick, it was a free card. There are worse cards in that set. Example: Dr. Boom's scheme being a 4 mana gain 1 armor unless you held it all game in which case maybe it becomes a 4 mana gain 20 armor once you've already stabilized and you may as well just win
For the first couple expansions, Warlock was actually the only class that could reasonably play murlocs. Murlocs had a really low curve and no class synergies, so Warlock was the best fit due to life tap. I'm struggling to remember if any other class managed to play murlocs in a meta deck. I think Shaman may have worked because he had the best tools for buffing small minions, but Warlock definitely worked best.
I am surprised you picked Blackhand over Majordomu for Blackrock mountain. Blackhand's effect might be very niche but at least he doesn't set your max health to 8.
@@blindey it's 4/5 most card need support to be good a lot of rouge card would be terrible without Shadow Sept you don't see people saying oh question rogue is terrible the card is weak on it's own purify played a key part in that deck and there for the game is good
Toothy Chest isn't a Dark Souls reference. It's just a mimic. Dark Souls didn't come up with them. They've existed in RPGs and DnD for quite a while, being able to take the shape of ANY inanimate object, but are most commonly found to become chests, due to the huge amount of adventurers going for them, and falling for the trap over and over again due to greed.
Purify was in a very good priest deck that killed you on turn 4 sometimes. It was a silence priest. When purify was released, everyone did think it was garbage though...definitely was NOT.
Love the vids Rarran but IMO you're dead wrong about Kobold Taskmasker... very underrated card that can allow a Priest to have an attacking 15/15 minion on the board on turn 4 ;)
You've probably been told this by now but toothy chest is a reference to mimics which yes, exist in dark souls but have been around since super early versions of d&d
It says a lot about power creep when a card like Stablemaster is seen as bad. I remember how people were talking about Spider Tank being amazing in GVG because it was a 3 mana 3/4. Stablemaster is a 3 mana 3/4 with quite a significant upside, and that is apparently seen as bad now
Literally came to the comments to see if anyone said this exact thing. Haven’t played in almost 3 years and played since launch. So thought this video would be a nice nostalgia trip (which it was!) but goddamn seeing a 3 mana 3/4 value generator get the WORST CARD of a set was just baffling lmao
Blood Herald actually won me a game more than once. A staple card in my Unseal the Vault deck My favourite instance was when my opponent had lethal on board and I dropped this 30/30 hoping to psych them out. It worked and they missed lethal, giving me the W.
Blood Herald worked well when showing up early in a Hunter deck with plenty of 1/1 beasts and others that have been sacrificed. Two uses of Storm of Locusts and suddenly you have a 5 cost15/15 ready to go.
I do realize that Surrender to Madness was one of the most scuffed cards in the entire game at the time. But when I ran it with zombie resurrect priest it was hilariously broken. Remember that this was a time where you'd be fighting up until 10 mana and control decks were still active. What I would do is find a way to shuffle a bunch cards back into the deck via Spirit of the Dead over the course of the game, and around turn 9-10 I'd play Surrender into Mojomaster Zihi. Then if I was lucky I'd have Bwonsamdi on-hand and fill it with lots of 0 cost minions with +3/+3. It didn't always win but it did spite Mecha'thun players that dominated the scene so it holds a special place in my heart just for that.
The first 3 of 4 are funny due to each being very viable at one point or another. Mill house being a strong recruit minion, stoneskin gargoyle in inner fire priest, and rend black hand being premium removal when legendaries where becoming good. Still a nice video
Actually, Generous Mummy is real combo card. All you need to do is gift this minion to your opponent (usually by using Brann+Sailas or Warlock's Treachery). It even can survive almost any AoE! I've seen a ton, no - *a ton* of clips working entirely because of that card.
i haven’t played hearthstone since like one night in karazhan but i’m addicted to watching these videos about states of the game because it brings me back. early hearthstone days were the SHIT man. hope y’all are doing well also i think for BRM majordomo executus is an honorable mention. i loved playing him but holy shit did you lose on the spot like 90% of the time ahahaha edit: AND NAH !! purify was goated in that deck. i played it back in the day. there was a bunch of like, beefy minions (ironically, silithid swarmer might’ve been one of them), that had text like “can’t attack”, but you could silence them, power word: shield, then double their health with that one spell, sometimes twice, and play inner fire, and BAM, 30/30 minion lmao most of the time tho you could do this combo twice and those 14/14s you got pretty easy were hard to deal with.
This video in a nutshell: - Almost every expansion was one of the most powerful expansions ever - Cards that actually saw play, sometimes even in S-Tier decks, were the worst cards ever - The powercreep started to happen in every set - wHy WoUlD tHeY pRiNt ThIs, when talking about cards that could actually be used if the meta was slightly different
Yeah this video was terrible tbh, couldn't even finish it, Rarran has some good content, but a lot of his stuff also screams that he didn't play the game much until recently and is trying to act like he is an OG.
95% sure there was a unicorn deck that used Purify in standard, but since those humble beginnings it has risen to be a staple of silence priest decks everywhere.
Purify was actually kinda choice during that standard meta. You ran big minions with debilitating effects like this minion cant attack and then you buff them like crazy
Well, purify was actually used in priest decks. I don't remember the details, but purify removed some negative effects from cards, like "can't attack", so it was useful.
3:20 wasn't Purify used for cards like Ancient Watcher in Silence Priest? I wasn't active during this "era", but my friend told me it actually used to be a thing :)
It was, I used to play a ton of purified decks. Lots of fun and not even that bad at the time. At first 'purify' was a meme but it became somewhat viable.
As someone who still slots Rend Blackhand into several dragon decks, nobody ever expects it. I tend to sit on it until late game when a legendary is used to respond to my big dragon board. Then I just instagib it and continue on my merry way. Fire Hawk is useful when I'm discovering elementals against a high hand size deck, but not something I'd main board
> Every RPG in history takes influence from DnD, including Dark Souls > Kobolds and Catacombs is very obviously a DnD expansion > "I think it's a dark souls reference" Nailed it
Saddened that we didn't get to hear about the Silverback Patriarch ....and sorry, but the pick for Rastakhan's Rumble should have been Hi'reek, the Bat.
If any card was either part of a meta deck once, or a staple in arena then it can't be a candidate for worst card. Silithid Swarmer was playable by rogue/DH, and Fossilized Devilsaur was a constant in Arena during it's rotation where just having a big late-game body (sometimes with taunt) often wins you games rather than topdecking a 2 drop. Also in some cases people underrate cards simply because they overextend in trying to build a deck around a mediocre card, which in itself isn't horrible but by tweaking a deck to try to make it good you lower your winrate, throwing a mid card into a S-tier deck is still viable.
I'm kinda on the same page as you on every card, apart from Ogre Warmaul, it has been played in some aggro warriors in the old times, also, it can't be the worst card when there's Mini-Mage in the same set
Millhouse is the ultimate 2-drop from the “summon a random 2-cost minion” lackey in wild. Pulling that dude when I’m playing rogue is a good way to win on like turn 7
I just felt some crazy kind of whiplash as a player who stopped playing Hearthstone a few years ago and seeing that 'Saddlemaster' card as being the worst card in a set. To my early-Hearthstone brain that card just seems really good with no drawbacks.
I used blood herald a lot in my auto generated demon hunter deck, it usually just burned a removal card and let something else live, but sometimes it won the game in one hit.
Purify was used in a divine spirit combo deck with the 4 mana 7/7 that can't attack. It was super slow and not a good deck, but the meme value was excellent. Also....how do you not know what a mimic is? (Toothy chest) I love a lot of the cards mentioned in this video though. Not every card needs to have competitive value. It's a game! Some cards can just be fun!
Blood hearld isn't bad in the slightest you get a copy of it at the start of the game as hunter and by turn 10 you had a 20 20 minion witch cost 5 mana
What's with these picks, man? Haha These arent the best cards but they're far from being the worst cards in their sets. Many see fringe / niche play which is more than a lot of cards can say. Deathaxe Punisher was in fact super doodoo, I'll give you that haha
I'm pretty sure I've hit legend with two of these cards - Purify for sure, such an awesome archetype ('unicorn' lol). Rend Blackhand was a really fun meta tech at some point for control mirrors. And OMG toothy chest is a DnD reference, not a Dark Souls one lol.
I'd like to argue that Majordomo Executus should have made the list. It's so bad that not only did it see only see play in meme decks, it was usually considered the worst possible card to get from random summoning effects.
Great video Rarran! A suggestion for you though. Some of the cards you read the card text and others you just said were bad without reading what they did. Sometimes I like to watch while doing other things and it would be nice if you explained what all the cards did so I can enjoy your content on the go. Just a thought, keep up the great work my dude!