The Worst Cards We've Ever Played | Commander Clash Podcast 110 

The true beauty of Commander is when the worst, most unplayable cards become best in slot due to new commanders and synergies

It’s too bad both Richard and Crim had to miss this episode because I would love to hear their worst cards.

Seth learning that card draw isn't everything is the greatest character growth I've ever seen in any form of media possibly ever. ❤

Seth's Shadowborn Apostles decks changed something in my brain chemistry. I built it right away and I'm so happy about that beautiful mess to this day

For me, it’s probably Syncopate and Condescend in my Mizzix deck. Paying UX for “counter target spell unless its controller pays X” is pretty bad, especially in Commander, but in a Mizzix deck, it’s basically U for “counter target spell and get an experience counter.”

I was 100% expecting Tomer to mention Kaldra

A bit off topic but I'd like to give a shout-out to Seth because he's such an amazing moderator!

Just starting the video. Looking forward to Seth defending something like 7 mana draw a card.

Thank you for flashing up the cards currently talked about on screen!! I was about to Google Beantown bullies but you saved me. I love how you do that now. Great addition to the podcast!

Pyromancer's Swath in some Rielle decks seems like it has potential. Turbo wheeling with Rielle out

Love it when phil’s on the pod

So glad you did this it’s my favourite clash topic. All we need now is commander clash key word tier list.

Drift of Phantasms is my favorite of the blue transmute cards. So many combo pieces.... and Rhystic Study... are 3 cmc, so the capacity to fetch them for 3 mana in a color that usually can't tutor is pretty nifty.

Haze of Rage/Seething Anger in a Vadrick deck. They’re basically reusable rituals and if you have a birgi or storm kiln artist it goes infinite.

Phil, never stop running Seedtime until it at least happens once.

Mercenary Tribal could come back for Thunder Junction or whatever the Cowboy set is called

I think this was the funniest episode of the show that I have seen. I often try to optimise my decks, but there is something so charming about making jank work.

Love it! “Worst” cards episode

Okay Seth, here's what you do: -Cast a Panoptic Mirror -Imprint it with Saheeli's Artistry -Get a Pixie Guide, Deck of Many Things, and a Mirror Box on the field. -Copy the Deck of Many Things and the Pixie Guide every turn. -Make sure you have a Patchwork Gnomes or something similar to keep your hand empty! -Activate your DoMT's every turn until you hit that 20. -Watch in horror as your opponent exiles the creature you reanimated and you have to start over.

Foils are over $100, but regular Seedtime is under $10

Me sweating, waiting for Tomer/Phil to say Hedron Archive.

Too bad Crim isn’t here to say “Forest”

This was such a good episode. Thank you.

I play Homarid Spawning Bed in Octavia, Living Thesis. Five mana = ten 1/1s, replay Octavia next turn and get in with as many 8/8s as you can (possibly all of them if you have Chain of Vapor or Gigadrowse)

39:00 Hi, I'm one of the 5 other people running Ethereal Usher. It's in my Will, Scion of Peace deck, mostly to dig up Dovescape, but sometimes to find the Chimli that lets me break parity. Third most likely target if I somehow already have those two would be Ojer Taq so I can triple my birds.

note on Ethereal Usher: it's super useful in any deck that wants a specific 6-drop in play of a type that the deck's colors are bad at tutoring for. i've played it in a temur +1/+1 counter/aristocrats deck to get Death's Presence and an izzet storm deck to get Thousand-Year Storm

"Crim is in a hurricane." Something I had hoped to not hear about someone living on the *west* coast. Weather is getting crazy...

As someone who also has a 6-cost tribal deck, mine is Karona with Gyruda companion, transmuting Netherborn Phalanx to grab Twilight's Call and then combo with it is a finisher line if I see my opponents have a stacked graveyard and/or field. The deck also has a cycling sub-theme so I usually gain a good board presence from the Twilight's Call anyhow.

I started running Necropolis in Imotekh, because I can respond to activate its ability and hold priority to keep activating it as many times as I have artifact creatures in the GY. I haven’t seen that oracle text on any other magic card either.

Spirit mirror is a great situational counter to changeling decks, it also gives you recurring tokens. Plenty of people running maskwood nexus for combos...

Tomer has been training for this episode his entire edh career

Wait the Homarid Spawning Bed is actually sick

Does anyone have experience buying mtggoldfish merch, the process, and the processing time?

Homarid Spawning bed is a Esix, fractal bloom staple. Esix wants token creators that make multiple tokens at a time.

Homarid Spawning Bed combos nicely with Mystic Reflection

I built a Prismatic Bridge deck once that only flipped vanilla creatures like Grizzly Bears, Hill Giant, and Water Elemental. It was great

Squallmonger looks awesome for Nikya! Debating trying a copy there

If Tomer doesn't mention Fade Away or Moonfolks, then I'll desagree with the cards he mentioned, haha.

Great episode, Guys.

Now my mind is out here trying to brew an instant speed pyromancer swath deck with harnfel

Clackbridge Troll. Just love the silly lore behind it.

On the topic of Pyromancers Swath, I've got a URG commander deck built around mainly Song Of Creation, that also runs Grafted Skullcap, Avaricious Dragon, and Curse of Obsession, mainly on the theory that discarding to 0 at endstep is generally stapled to a phenomenal effect like drawing every time you cast a spell, and running more simultaneously doesn't add more downside while giving more benefits. I dont run Pyromancers only because i don't use instant or sorcery damage

Juju Bubble in Karlov of the Ghost Council for me. The best part is that I cut it not because it didn't work for me but because I didn't need two of that kind of effect, as I also ran Royal Herbalist. I eventually cut Royal Herbalist too for better stuff, but it definitely put in some work in the time I had it.

I used to use Shields of Velis Veil as a spite play against Commander removal in my Hazezon Tamar deck.

I run Aladdin's Lamp in my Bosh, Iron Golem Combo deck. The deck needs infinite red mana to win, but it is a lot easier to make infinite colorless mana. The lamp lets me tutor for something to filter my colorless mana, and if the combo is disrupted I can fling it for ten damage. I also run Elfhame Sanctuary in my Lord Windgrace deck to guarantee I have a land to discard with him.

pyromancer's swatch could work in elsha the infnite storm, you dont need a hand. also super easy to build around with play from top and lingering impulse effects.

i use ethereal usher in my dimir mill deck and i love the card! i have some creaetures that want to attack/have to connect so it's effect isnt bad, and a lot of important cards in the deck (like the boardwipes) are 6mv so i can transmute

time and tide baby! give it a try.

Is there a link to the Bullwhip game?

I’m gonna throw a meme pick in for Tombstone Stairwell, which with Cathar’s Crusade, has become a meme phenomenon in our group.

Tomer you seem to have failed to mention fade away!

Good thing Richard is not here to say "Swords to Plowshares is the worst I've played"

Ive been waiting for the Homarid commander deck drop for years now..

I’ve used magnifying glass so many times in breya. It comes in clutch as fucj

I used to play Desert Twister on my Wort, The Raidmother deck (copy-my-spells deck), the best case scenario was twelve mana and tap two green creatures to destroy two permanents.

My favorite is Descendant of Masumaro in my Shalai and Hallar deck. Unplayable in basically any other deck, but there it does a decent amount of damage each turn.

I used to have an enrage commander deck and that plays some bad cards but I think Splintering Wind takes the cake, but its really good in that deck because it's repeatable self damage that you get more self damage the next turn when you don't pay the cumulative upkeep on the token

I have played a card called Lifetap before where I gain a life whenever someone taps a Forest. Not that good generally but if you can play Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth as well, it really goes good.

spawning bed is legit in mono blue affinity. narrow af deck list though but you have access to color changers as well. and in general color changers work well with it.

Has to be Endless Atlas for me. Even in mono-colored, I never seem to draw it at a point in the game where using it is optimal.

Mothdust changeling is amazing in Yuriko. My yuriko deck also played Wings of Velis Vel - 1U instant: target creature becomes a 4/4 flying changeling until eot Also Aven windreader. Six mana flying 3/3. Cycles for U and gives something flying until end of turn. Id say both those cards are pretty crapy, but they are wonderfil in Yuriko.

34:25 The way to update Magnifying Glass for 2023 Commander is simple: reduce the cost of the card to 2

Homarid Spawning Bed goes in my Jalira deck, since I run threaten effects to steal opponent creatures and then sac them into top-end non-legendaries. The Spawning Bed is redundancy for Jalira.

seedtime is a $5 card. the foil the expensive, nearly $200, but the normal version isnt particularly expensive

im making a deck dedicated to animating the WORST artifacts in all of magics history to beat people down with in commander. so soon i think the worst card id have played will be alladin's lamp. just becomes a 10/10 beater

I ran the swath in my syr crash storm deck Pretty good there when you don't even need your hand

Try out Bullwhip in a dinosaur deck with enrage triggers, you can whip opponent's creatures to attack into your own, or you can just whip a dino for a trigger!

Seth saying transmute is an old mechanic. I started playing magic in OG Ravnica. I feel like Seth just called me old lol

I was hoping editor would pull up the Camarid token they made for MTGO! It's so cute but also delicious looking!

Have you all ever done a commander clash on the topic of evasion? What is your tier ranking of the different mechanics plus what are each of your favorite cards for commander that either has or gives the different types of evasion?

That Homarid Spawning Bed is a relic of the time when they were pushing terrible giant blue sea creatures.

I actually built a 'win with Deck of many things' commander deck based on Richards Jan Janson deck... Built from the bones of Tomers one with nothing artifacts deck he played several seasons ago (Headed by silus wren) I have had some success with it but it's a hard to pilot deck.

Okok. Rielle, the Everwise and Pyromancer's Swath is crazy. Calling it now.

I used to run one with nothing in my Olivia, Crimson Bride deck. If I got her out, I could dump a few good creatures or some madness creatures with it.

I run surgical extraction in my teysa deck, because it is instant speed graveyard hate for zero mana. Also, one of the people in my playgroup has the gitrog, and its one of the only ways to stop the kozilek loop

So I built a Haakon deck a while back (2018?) with the expressed purpose of NEVER casting my commander, and no janky tech to put him into my hand/graveyard. He just existed to stare disdainfully at my opponents from the command zone. Judging them. Admonishing them with just his cruel gaze. And the. deck. worked. It was just jammed full of all star black cards that can do work in EDH games (looking at you Torment of Hailfire), and it won a ridiculous share of pods it played in, I think in part because people dismissed it as an unplayable, Phage-style commander.

Phyrexian Ingester : super high cost creature with targeted creature removal (exile) combo's with blink effects! I love clearing a board with this guy in my Derevi deck lol

I run Eladamri's Vineyard and original Xira Arien in my Yarlock mana burn deck. Both cards perform way to well for what they are.

I play Apocalypse in my Hinata, dawncrowned deck. Exiles all permanents and then you discard your hand. You have to play Disorder in the court or March of swirling mist to save all your creatures but it basically wins the game

My Top 'Too Specific' 5 (still play them, a lot): 1. Dakra Mystic - Love this card, it's my favorite Merfolk 2. Centaur Vinecrasher - Any landfall deck - grows with AoZ and Phylath 3. Charmed Pendant - Top deck knowledge = mana 4. Fathom Feeder - Favorite Eldrazi 5. Surge Engine - Too much fun

Netherborn Phalanx is good in Runo. 6 mana creature into the yard to transform Runo. Can grab the best 2 sea monsters in Spawning Kraken and Serpent of Yawning Depths among others. Plus late game you can clone it as a burn wincon. It’s straight fire in Runo/Krothuss!

Watching this after seeing Seth start using Mind's eye and then falling in love again is really funny.

Not sure if Darkness counts as a bad card, but it's definitely saved my bacon several times in my K'rrik deck

I think Swath could work in my Rielle, the Everwise deck 😆

Transcendence might be good with a "players can't gain life" effect like havoc festival or leyline of punishment.

W-wait Seth said sometimes its not always the best to drawn cards? The mad lad

My freshly built Shelob deck plays Spitting Spider which lets you sac a land to deal 1 to all fliers, terrible cost usually but with my commander it says sac a land kill all fliers and make a food token version of them

Lol I run those changeling cards in my sliver overlord deck 😂

Tbh I run Bullwhip in my Lynde deck. It's pretty pillow forty, so attacking in isn't always viable. I stuck it in for the lulz and flavor, and found that, while still bad, it worked well enough

Best changeling card is Fortified Area. It gives all your walls banding, aka win when you opponent concedes to not think about combat math anymore

Brb going to make a deck with only these cards in them

So ive got two. The first is Gigapede, a 5 mana 6/1 with shroud and a form of recurssion. I run it in Godzilla (Zilortha) because his ability makes it essentially a 6/6. The other is vhait il-dal, who can tap to change a target creatures power or toughness to 1. I run it in hapatra to insta kill anything with -1/-1 counter on it.

Pyromancer's swath could work in Toralf, God of Fury Imodane, the Pyrohammer would work good with Pyromancer's swath

Tomer we gotta see an updated list of 6 cmc tribal I feel like its been a year since we've seen it please

I think the "worst" card I've played is Saltskitter? To generate ETB triggers for soul sisters and other effects. I do adore the salty little guy but a 4 mana 3/4 common that takes frequent washroom breaks isn't exactly Black Lotus.

I really want the changeling decklist!

Another use for surgical is it is a free way to shuffle a deck. Not sure if that is ever relevant but it is something that it does.

I have a Mari, the killing will mercenary/rogue/assassin deck. Brutal.

I play cryptic annelid in my eligeth scry deck. A 4 mana 1/4 that doesn't actually do anything is pretty bad

I mean, Surgical Extraction does remind me of Slaughter Games. Devoting a single card to point at a player and say 'No Sol Ring' is funny in an extremely petty way.