The Worst Cards In Hearthstone History 

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."

I need a video essay on how Duskfallen Aviana is better than Deadly Arsenal.

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!

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.

Silithid Swarmer was definitely played in rogue.

Dreaded mount, really? It is not that bad, worst card from stormwind is two faced investor for sure...

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.

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.

murloc warlock was actually an extremely meta deck in beta and vanilla hearthstone

Silithid Swarmer is definitely not the worst card. It’s even one of the better cards. It saw play in wild odd rogue and odd DH

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

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.

The visuals on this video are incredible. You forgot to include the worst card ever: Duskfallen Aviana (Druid Legendary)

Half of cards mentioned are actually good. Some of them were 2 good and had to be removed from arena. Sad list.

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.

Expansion based on DnD: “I think it’s a Dark Souls reference.” 🙃

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

swarmer was played a bit in rogue and purify was good in priest for a good while it was a T2 deck

Gargoyle was a good target for inner fire priest. Good buff target.

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.

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.

I feel like a lot of the cards u mentioned in this video actually were not "worst card".

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

That feeling when you don't draw any of your hard counters after your opponent drops a 15/15 Blood Herald in arena...

purify is unironicly one of my favorite cards, silence priest was the first deck i hit legend with so it will always hold a place in my heart

Awesome video, love the new kind of content! Btw, Blood Herald has actually been great in Duels in token DH has it can become massive. It usually has a spot in the starter deck.

I unpacked 3 Bolff Ramshields and no other legendaries out of 80 packs on TGT launch day. Suffice it to say, Bolff is not a card I remember fondly.

Zayle was awesome ! It was like whizbang but it targeted the classes associated with the league of evil. Good decks at the time.

Really liking these commentary/Hearthstone historian kind of videos. Keep it up!

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 ;)

I loved this format, you might wanna do more of these!

Great video ! Hadn't enjoyed one of your videos as much for quite à while :)

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.

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.

Love this video a lot. I’m not a mercenaries player but I like your content so I’m happy to see this. And the editing and visuals are perfect

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.

Now this is the type of content that I enjoy. This and commentary videos ala Zeddy. Keep it up 👍🏼

fun fact: slithid swarmer sometimes used to see some nieche play in odd rogue/dh

Great video! I have to disagree on Purify. Didn't that see some fringe play in those Humongous Razorleaf decks?

Millhouse is amazing in decks that can cheat out low cost drops - was great with Call to Arms

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.

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

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.

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.

I’m pretty sure the reference for toothy chest is for babbling books ‘ do you wanna cast a spell? I want to cast a spell!’ play sound

Looking back at this it felt really funny that gigafin was released, and the jailer after that

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

My man's never heard of silence priest :(

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

Haha, vivid spores. I got it off fire heart when on my quest shaman deck the other day. I had completed quest with brucan down, I had just used feral spirit so had 4 wolves, I was fishing for a charged call but got garbage so I used spores to get the 2nd round of picks. It’s so funny when they have to essentially take out 8 wolves and only realise it after the first hit. It’s also funny using after playing charged call with a dark moon rabbit being a pick.

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.

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.

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

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 actually run "Vivid Spores" in my Evolve Shaman deck, to make sure i have a good board to resummon the next turn

I had a Blood Herald in a hunter and a similar demon hunter deck. I really liked both of those lol

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.

Purify was actually useful in silence priest, which was, at that time, a pretty good deck after Ungoro was released

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

loving these new vids! gameplay is nice, but this is a really interesting break from gameplay

Reminds me of the Purify parody video with Kripp, still great to this day.

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!

In my experience “which is a lot” Firehawk is amazing in arena if hit on 3 it’s nasty

Ogre Warmaul was a niche card, there were WAY worse cards in GVG

I've seen Rend Blackhand's effect be used..... in that one tavern brawl where you get a bunch of copies of random legendaries.

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.

REcently ive been putting bloodherald in duels with the hero brann ,run a token minion setup ,and grab the spell that gives charge, if you dont win with the cheap minions you have like 15 dmg in hand by the time you can play it

Can u do a “best card of each expansion” Great video

I had a Sethekk/Bloodweaver/Korrak miracle priest deck that ran Kobold Taskmaster that actually did pretty well, and was very fun too.

I have found memories of playing firehawk on three and watching my opponent go into panic mode to remove it.

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.

I play Dreaded Mount in combination with Raise Dead and a couple of other cards, and I always end up with 6 1/1 unkillable demons on the board that keep respawning. I beat some reslly strong decks with it, quite fun :)

I ran millhouse legit 3 times. one in control warrior when everyone was playing control warlock and it won me games because either the warlock would tap and not answer it and now i have a 4/4 or they would use a free soul siphon and tap so they didnt have removal late game, once in recruit paladin and it won and lost games but was a lot of fun and once in priest Murozond the Infinite i was usually at high health with taunts so id use millhouse to try and bait a big turn. when you play millhouse and win it make an impact and i loved it

i actually had a lot of great plays with rend blackhand back in the blackrock dragon priest days

Great content! Please do more of this. If you look back you can see that there has been a lot of great content in Hearthstone, before drowning in power creep....

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

Kobold Taskmaster is actually pretty decent in Arena. Also, I had a little success with Surrender to Madness Aggro Priest as a fringe deck.

Millhouse? You mean Powerhouse Manastorm?

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

3 mana 3/4 with a possible upside considered as worst card of the set? Holy-moly.

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

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 will say, I ALWAYS had fun playing Millhouse Manastorm. I think I lost more than I won with it but it was always fun to play and if they didn't meet a win condition the opponent would play wildly or quit bc they didn't have something to play that early.

-Complain about Blizzard printing bad cards -Complain about Blizzard's power creep Pick one.

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.

Bro this content is fire, New Sub

I love how "why did they make this" is a valid rank for some cards

Thing is, the time millouse was released, spells weren't as op as we know them now. There was freeze mage, which needed all spells and Antonidas for the combo, and not really much more. As far as i remember, I mean. But yeah, ofc some cards only get worst cause of new expansions :p

Well about Rend Blackhand. I don't really want to defend the card but i actually played in a Dragon Paladin deck which was performing well i think in the time when standard and wild came into the picture. The deck was in wild ofc and some control decks really caused me problem with legendarys like Ysera, Ragnaros etc. BGH could kill some of those cards but not something like Ysera so i ended playing Rend Blackhand which was good addition, well kinda more like there was no good options and had to play it. But never seen anyone using it and havent used any of other decks ever (even other dragon decks not).

Tooth Chest is a Dungeons and Dragon reference to a monster called a Mimic that can disguise itself as mundane objects

Remember that time when Reynad beat Rarran with Millhouse?

Loving these new informative contents

How did Two Faced Investor not make the cut for stormwind?

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.

The powercreep!!! I stopped playing at Kobalds & Catacombs and that 3 mana 3/4 of Dark on Faire would have been a solid card back in those days…

Don't know if it's worse than the EVIL cape legendary, but a RoS card that I really didn't understand its existence was Arcane Servant. It was just a River Crocolisk with an Elemental tag. Like, Hearthstone just felt so over these kind of textless minions at the point RoS came out that it just badfled me.

great stuff!

2:47 Quite surprisingly silithid swarmer saw play in odd dh in wild

Amazing content, love historical hearthstone videos.. especially as the game is pretty much history now 🤣

If you ever played millhouse at any point vs a mage, you had a deathwish.