Top 10 Cards That Ended Up Being Huge Flops in MTG 

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The issue with Asmo food is NOT that it was not enough busted for MH2, but that it durdled a lot, creating lots and lots of gamepieces without doing much about them. After creating the 20th food token and got Asmo bolted you ran out of options and could get piled on by a lot of decks.

Mispronouncing Chandra is difficult but he managed to do that

second this

All the times where he mispronounced "catastrophe" and other words have been redeemed

What a flex, one of those nerds who spent way too long practicing to show off to their magic mates

Unfortunately he mispronounced Dreadhorde Invasion.

More like "This card seems insane but the deck that wants it can't use it on time"

@@rolandking640 that’s the same thing

Yes, I remember this occurring during the pre-release tournaments. The poor judges had to explain again and again and again, sometimes to the same player. that it isn't how the card works! I do remember falling for that too.

That's a nifty bit of history, thank you, I love these moments, I used to want to be a judge but then... Yeah, anyway I find all the quirks of a developing game system interesting. Have a wonderful time! Thanks again!

Works on contingency? No! Money down

@@bluedestiny2710 punctuation is a big part of MTG.

Blazing Salvo, Browbeat, and Book Burning dealt a fk ton of damage along with making my cabal therapy's 100% accurate... 2 decades ago. Yikes the time has really flown!

Yeah I disagree with that, it also has a presence in edh decks that can interact with the top like Pako & Halda !

The point of the list is more for cards that were severely overhyped rather than just bad cards people thought were good. Temporal mastery was expected to be a an unbelievably broken blue staple card, but only really wound up seeing play in very specific decks, those decks being good, but having to be built around temporal mastery rather than the expectation it would just get slotted in every deck, which to me feels correct as overhyped.

@@romansrevengethethirdstrik8086Disagree. The card still proved itself to be an extremely powerful one and created its own archetypes. Just because it wasn’t as splashable as people were expecting doesn’t mean it under preformed when it became a defining card/archetype.

@@Beaudunk same, i have it in my Aminatou blink-deck, and it's great there.

@@Capsr1990 thats a great inclusion

High power landfall decks sometimes include conundrum on purpose because of the whole conundrum can feed infinites though the ravinca bounce lands can do the infinite however the additional land drops are still great

and i know "Vorinclex, Monsterous raider" had a similar problem but for undying/persist/Luminous Broodmoth stuff

my roomate was so excited to show me how he was gonna stop my omnath deck with confounding conundrum and i just smiled and and told him it was gonna sure mess with my deck :)

They really needed to add a "that player can't play lands for the rest of their turn" clause to it. It feels like the card was made to punish landfall and fetch land heavy decks, and it ended up just helping landfall and only slowing down sorcery speed fetch land decks. Complete failure of design.

EDH sets ruined multiple formats. They turned vintage and legacy into a rotating format

He was close to the correct pronunciation, but got the "daistina" part wrong. The dai is pronounced like die, not day. Other than that, he did well.

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I was just gonna say, how many takes do you think it took to get that right?

@@Yuutsu6 He is right though

@@connorhamilton5707 real pronunciation of a fake word?

The best one is 100% urza's saga. It makes a reasonably large token, and has a few really good cards to search. Lands have a low bar to clear for being playable, and this one passes that by a mile. There's also the phasing of zhafir. Pretty much every deck in edh wants a card that destroys every creature. And this is the ONLY card in blue to do that. I don't know if these next two are played a lot, but they got a lot of people interested. Kiki jiki is a really broken and well loved card. And it's contributed to the game's history. Fable of the Mirror Breaker is a fixed version of this. They put the same character on the final saga chapter so it's fair. Finally hidetsugu consumes all just has a unique effect, that atleast seems better than most other sagas (or cards in general).

I don't know which sagas are the best and worst, but my favorite ones are The Cruelty of Gix, The Eldest Reborn, Michiko's Reign of Truth, Boseiju Reaches Skyward, and The Restoration of Eiganjo

It might not be the most accurate by now as it is a year old and a lot of sagas were printed since then, but there's this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eOlmQ1huPiY.html

Here's a list of the top 10. (My personal opinion) 10) The Eldest Reborn -Saw niche standard play, and does things in commander, if a little slow. 9) Kumano faces Kakkezan - Staple in Mono-red in standard right now. Good turn 1 play that falls off quickly. 8) Showdown of the Skalds A 4-mana draw four is good, with the counters being an acceptable bonus. Saw play in multiple RW decks while in standard, and was a draw to the colour pair. 7) Restoration of Eiganjo One of the better saga's on power level, it's seen very niche play in legacy, as well as a significant amount of commander play. 6) The birth of Meletis - A staple in controlling white decks, allowing you to keep hitting land drops, while providing multiple speedbumps against aggro decks. 5) Hidesugu consumes all. A theoretically powerful saga without a good home. Devastating against the right decks in Modern/legacy, but BR midrange decks often want to use their graveyard to fuel Kroxa. 4) Elspeth conquers death Another control staple with commander applications, ECD removes a threat on their side, and requires an answer before it provides more value. 3) History of Benalia. The best Aggro saga ever printed, history fuelled white-based aggro for as long as it was legal in standard, with the second history being even more terrifying than the first. 2) Fable of the Mirror-Breaker Fable sees heavy play in every format (except vintage). The goblin token provides immediate impact, and threatens to ramp you. The looting provides an important consistency boost to balance out the inconsistency of fast mana, then the reflection threatens to take over the game with various ETB creatures (Bloodtithe harvester in standard and Fury in eternal formats) 1) Urza's Saga Because it's a land, Urza's Saga is uncounterable, has a low opportunity cost and is hard to interact with. The constructs threaten to win the game on their own, and fetching out any 0 or 1 cost artifact allows for a versatile toolbox to answer anything. Urza's Saga is one of the strongest cards in Legacy, and even sees play in vintage shops.

Every single card in this video works. Such a misleading title...

problem is that your opponents will always get to pick the option, so it never does what you need

@@TheRengarde Therein is the beauty of using it in such a deck. Your opponent's choice will always advance you towards a win.

@@qawamity no browbeat is just bad. It doesn’t do anything until turn 3. Burn wants to win on turn 3/4. On turn 3 it’s bad because 1. Burn might not have third land up 2. If you need the damage 2 bolts is cheaper and does 1 more point, while also proccing prowess twice 3. It can’t kill a creature or be used as a combat trick 4. You always get the option you don’t want (cards when you need damage or damage when you need cards) Drawing cards in this way doesn’t help burn win because yes potential 3 bolts is good but your opponents deck is going to have ways to either win in that span of time or shut you down. They aren’t just sitting there waiting for you to burn them out. What you’ll find is that this card only wins you games you would’ve won anyway.

@@kentmiller808 Prowess? Why the fuck are you using creatures? It does nothing until turn 3? Wow, no shit? So that's how casting costs work. Amazing... See, in a bolt deck, Browbeat ALWAYS does something that advances the deck to victory. It literally does. Not. Matter. What your opponent chooses. As for drawing cards not mattering, dude, why aren't you running any cards like Fireblast? Sac lands, damage to enemy dome. Easy peasy.

It's pronounced exactly as spelled though

Every card has a place in EDH, though. Sorrows Path sees use in dinosaur enrage tribal, One With Nothing is in some Anje Falkenrath decks, even Wood Elemental sees a little play with Titania, Protector of Argoth decks.

@@calemr Wood Elemental sees play in Titania decks as a joke. I agree with everything else you said, but there is no use case where Wood Elemental is better than 99 other cards you could have slotted in instead of it.

It's also great in Hinata decks.

@@rinbin9772 Jup i have it in my hinata deck :D I also run feather in my Hinata deck so i can be the biggest asshole out there.

I may be looking into getting this card for my Hamster Bomb deck as another kill condition.

I remember that! Long time ago..

blazing salvo and breaking point in there to?

ohhhh, i was wondering about that. I remember Risk Factor being played pretty widely in red decks at the time, it's probably the combination of the Instant speed and the Jump-start that made it see play. funny how the little differences can add up to a big difference!

Risk factor

It's a lowkey house just because the zombie token lifelink text is amazing

When I saw the card for the first time today I thought wow this card is awful. Either it's final fortune for another mana, or it's 7 mana time walk when at 5 mana time walk is just okay. Only reason it could be good is if you could chain many of these together in something like an alrund epiphany deck to make tokens, then utilize the tokens more with consecutive extra turns.

Almost perfectly

Provided my sleep lacking brain recalls the rules correctly: Spell is cast; priority based responses; target is declared; more priority based responses; then in priority order, players (including the caster of Browbeat) decide whether to take the damage or not. Talking is a free-ish action, so players could discuss before any priority is passed.

did i ever tell you about the time i traded my theros pre-release thougtseize for a playset of vexing devils?

The card on it's surface looks really, really bad as a 3 mana 2/2. Like it would die to almost all removal spells except the smallest ones like gut shot. The payoff was also pretty small since the flipside can shock players or creatures and once in a while give some form of inevitability with the emblem.

This and risk factor are some of my favorites in obosh for that reason no one's taking that damage when it's doubled lol

Don't need tutors when you have greater good and stuff that just lets you go infinite. Not to mention the most broken repeatable tutor in survival of the fittest and gaea's cradle to fuel it all because why ban gaea's cradle, it's not like they banned academy over 10 years ago. Such a silly color.

Beauty of nature is everlasting in anything it does. No wonder it's the best color. Meanwhile in Yugioh, our green, WIND, is just plain weak in most cases.

This, I played x4 doom whisperer and 2 dream eaters as finishers in UB control during that set. The second ravnica set that block kinda pushed it out hard though, with vivien and hydroid krasis. Traded with carnage tyrant well which was in BG mid.

@@AzurielMist yeah and with unmored ego the deck was pretty consistent dealing with teferis and extra turns exiling any potential finisher and with the amount of discard (duress and thought erasure) there fell decks who can withstand dimir in that standard

Rhystic Studies talks about it's story: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pukpaxSBeAE.html

Oh god was that card a steaming pile. I forgot about it until you reminded me and now I remember a friend of mine having a conversation with a stranger in Seattle where the stranger was hyping the card up and my friend was like this card is awful and bad.

What was bad about it?