Top 10 Most Annoying Decks of All Time! 

I almost have to disagree with Burn. Compared to the rest of the list, Burn is fair. Sure, getting burned to 0 sucks, but a smart player can easily stomp a Burn deck

5. CounterTop

Jared Hays agreed

all burn does is put you on a 4 turn clock. just like every other good modern deck

@@BR4IN1N4J4R the problem in your logic, is "easily" it has been prooven times and times again, that gaining life do not stop burn. nor is taking him by speed. you have to play a control deck with enough counters and life gain to actualy stabilise, and stabilising is the hard part. i wouldn't call it fair, when you need a dedicated deck to kill a deck. we're not taling sideboard only here, you need dedicated cards in main deck to deal with it. burn is very far from fair, becuse it literally do not play with your opponent in mind. it only plays itself. reguardless of what the opponent plays. which is why the deck is annoying... this is why each decks in the top 10 is annoying, they dont interact with opponent, they just play their game withut a care in the world for what your opponent is playing. and while burn deck of old, with creatures could be stopped... by todays standard with everything that came out, unless you have a cop:red on the board, there is strickly nothing you can do to stop them except hope your life gain or your few counters will be enough for him to miss out on his draws.

Travis Wizard ovenomancer winding canyon.concorunt crossroads. And like being able to drop 9 lands per turn. People still hate that deck. Lol

Travis Wizard my white black death and taxes ruined my friendship but I blame my friend for using reanimator decks

Make friends in your AD&D group.

Why I hate blue

As a cardboard sadist of the highest and most shameful order, Owling Mine is the most fun deck I've ever played and my only regret is it was table banned in my group far too soon. RiP Owling Mine, we hated you before we really knew you, and that's probably for the best.

I used to play that deck against the cpu in the Windows 98 version of Duels of the Planeswalkers.

zaq001 Haha, I was picturing a bodybuilder when I heard that.

gotta love statis. trolling spikes is the best

+Alex Tegmark Stasis is similar enough to the Winter Orb decks that it wasn't included, I didn't want two very similar strategies taking up 20% of the video :p For the record though - Stasis is extremely annoying.

MTG Degree Ok, that makes sense. xD Also, I didn't know that about old artifacts. Now the errata makes sense! : )

+Alex Tegmark that is my all time most hated deck for sure!

I watched this video specifically see stasis and was quite disappointed

+doGdoGman47 Thank you lol :) Sometimes the imported images don't actually get the final editing. This happens rarely, but always when I'm editing tired xD

Understood. I just found it funny.

+MTG Degree I thought it was on purpose.

+doGdoGman47 I thought about bringing that up too

You should look at Necro Donate and I think Mishras Workshop with lodestone golem and chalice

+troy242621 It's called h8 rack m8.

+troy242621 idk I kind of like 8 rack but honestly it's probably just because it's a unique way to win the game.

+troy242621 dude, 8 rack is awsome. i dont play it but my friend does. its balanced, its unique and its fun both to play and play against.

one card, leyline of santity

troy242621 nah it is countered way too easily

+Duncan Ellis (Dunx) No problem, I enjoy making them! Birthing Pod is an interesting card - and it did constitute a reasonably large portion of modern. While it wasn't unreasonably dominant, the card had an inherent problem. The problem with Birthing Pod is that it had an infinitely high power ceiling - as better creatures were printed, Birthing Pod would get better and better. With Wizards wanting to move away from non-creature spells and make more powerful creatures in new sets, this card would get stronger in a hurry. I wouldn't speculate on Birthing Pod - that card is never getting unbanned. Hope that helped explain!

+MTG Degree that makes sense - it wasn't that it was endemic (unlike Dig out a Treasure Cruise) but that it would warp the format around itself as new cards were printed. Thank you.

+UknownSoldier thank you, that helped a lot.

I bet

Talk about research! Yes, Sword was unbanned :)

mmm, dat stasis/kismet(or frozen aether)/ time elemental combo IS delicious.

LastOfUsClips I still run kismet stasis and mono blue chronatog stasis. they are like the Mario party 3 of magic.

chronotog and that one land card from Ice Age with CU: 2 life prevent all damage

LastOfUsClips I read down the comments expecting stasis to be listed. there weren't as many magic players when the Mirage block was "standard" as it was called type 2 back then. When Mirage was type 2 legal it was fucking brutal. almost as bad as necropotence from Ice Age. Take it from an old ass nerd, standard has it good these days lol

i want to try this combo against friends (stasis-aether-chrona) - someone know a good deck ?

A fellow Turbo Fog enjoyer. I tip my hat to you, good sir.

Glad you enjoyed it! :D

GG Degree wouldn't stasis be the same thing as icy manipulator? I can see why you listed manipulator though as it uses less cards

Stasis is a little different. No untap phase at all while stasis is in play.

If Gemstone is in your opening hand you may put it into play before starting the game, while spirit guides can be exiled from your hand for mana. Resulting in two mana to do the combo.

Let's face it, blue deck players are the scum of magic. it's very hard to have an enjoyable game against a blue deck.

@@MrFIRESEAL117 lol you must be a Pokemon player lost in Magic. Go cry elsewhere. There are plenty of decks to crush blue. But maybe your intelligence is not enought to play with or against blue.

@@MrFIRESEAL117 Hahahha! Have you ever played mtg?

@@8bitenial313 sorry if I wounded you with my comment bitch boy. It's true, blue deck players are pretty much reviled.

@@MrFIRESEAL117 In any Vintage or Legacy tournament, blue is present in 75% of decks. This is because manipulating your cards and your opponent movements is playing magic more in depth. Not mono blue decks, but using tools like Force of Will, Ponder, Stifle... allows you to play with more strategy.

+Nicholas Schreck This is the comment i was looking for. I think status deserved a shout out at the very least!

Yeah I agree, also mentions burn but no land destruction?

land destruction isnt as bad as having land and not being allowed to use it...you feel?

stasis, stacks, storm, you name em... there is much more decks that would get in the top 10 of my list then these... dont get me wrong these were great back in their time... but many of them are easily countred by todays standard.

@@dndbasement2370 absolutely. This looks like a list made by a player who doesn't know cards pre kamagawa.

or Ironworks

+horsey not a knight and back in te day i did abuse some winter orb/icy manips

Correct, it's one or the other, not both. They're mistaken on how it works.

@@ArcticShallRule you know what i just realized he meant to do both, as in exile a random card for the caverns, AND exile the guide also

that was my first though

+Curtis Heater thought

Don't forget to fork it.

Channel was restricted pretty quickly which limits your chance of drawing it.

That deck caused my friends to stop playing. Plenty of 5 turn kills in ~1996.

Sure. But on a block list.

I play faeries in modern :)

Faeries... *Shivers*

It's unbox therapy

Curse of Exhaustion/Eidolon Rhiortic/Rule of Law and to an extent the AEthersoworn Canonist

+DeanGuitarsForLife! It's the same idea, and it can be annoying to play agains curse+pool, but the curse+pool-lock deck is way harder to pull of

Knowledge pools, can clone it a few times if you want, plus crappy low cost instants. Take your opponents deck and leave them with garbage.

heh. my favorite land destruction combo is acid rain (destroy all forests) + crystal spray (change land type or color word of any card). so i can destroy all of any Type of land I want :p. ( can also use shimmering mirage instead of Crystal spray but I like CS' s versatility)

I'm guessing that dedicated land destruction isn't here because it's far too slow of a strategy to be anywhere close to competitive MtG.

I agree, although ponza was a thing in standard. It just wasn't played enough to gain much notoriety.

Just get your lands Shroud and play Kudzu on an opponents land. Opponent will have to think twice before tapping. And you are guaranteed to kill their lands. But I doubt that most players have Spiritual Asylum, which give all your lands and creatures Shroud. Seeing as it's from Nemesis. It's annoying to play against though. Both Kudzu and Spiritual Asylum can be tutored with Enlightened Tutor. Toss in Idyllic Tutor if you need to. Finishers for that deck well, you could Flash Rector in an Omniscience to Emrakul, the Aeons Thorn. I mean There are a lot of defensive strategies you could use in that deck. I mean you technically don't need the combo of Spiritual Asylum and Kudzu, but yeah.. It certainly makes it more annoying.

Sinkhole was the fast targeted land destruction card. I played against it back in my day casually, but it was already out of print. Every other targeted land destruction was 3 mana or more. It was certainly annoying and the one I built was rather effective, but I didn't play competitively. From what I recall, land destruction was never really dominant in the competitive scene. Also, most players used very low cost spells back then. With 2 land in play, you could get some decent threats into play. Targeted land destruction can be defeated with a deck of many low cost spells and many decks had enough low cost spells to be able to play enough to defeat targeted land destruction. I have a Icy Manipulator/Winter Orb deck. I supplement it with Armageddon and artifact mana. I also have a deck based around Armageddon. I think land destruction and Stasis fit within the same category as Icy Orb. They are all mana control decks which is actually may favourite types of decks. I rarely play them as I understand how annoying they can be.

+Gabriel Frassy Good Question! I want to know as well

+Gabriel Frassy This isn't about powerful decks that are hard to beat. It's about annoying ones. You know, like sitting in front of an egg player who takes 30 minutes to do their combo.

+Liber Khaos Okay, then Why isnt Stasis on the list? Or Land Destruction?

+ultratog1028 Because the author doesn't think them as annoying, has never faced them or plays a style that disrupt those decks. Or you know, because he didn't think about it. Whatever the case it hardly matters. It's a top ten based on a subjective topic. There's probably a casual player out there wondering why Zubera Caretaker isn't on the list.

+Liber Khaos Then the title of the video should be "10 decks that are annoying to me" rather than "Top 10 Most Annoying Decks of All Time!"

+Zach In this case, you're exiling a card in your hand to gemstone mines that you don't need for the combo. Then you are exiling either spirit guide to make an additional mana. So to make the two mana, you need three cards. What I'm saying is, your understanding is correct. That's not what I was attempting to say in the video. Other people might have the same impression though and come to the comments, so I'm glad we could work it out. See you next video! :)

Perfect way to be an Ahole back when we had cash prizes for weekend tournaments.

Nice avatar

Siege Rhino is actually getting a downswing right now. The reason Abzan was so powerfull wasn't actually because of Siege Rhino, but because the most powerfull cards in standard were Elspeth, Thoughtseize, Kourser of Cruphix and Siege Rhino and the only deck you could put those into were Abzan

+Anders Kjøllesdal Hansen you say that, and yet the damned rhino just won the BFZ protour

+egyptcraze my rhino rage forced me away from standard it's such an annoying card i found i was always thinking 'how can i handle siege rhino' whilst building decks and that just sucks. #abzanmentality got me crazy

+egyptcraze - A creature-based Grind- machine? How is that annoying.

+Mos Maskinen its more annoying than faeries

Same logic then goes to blue as well. Countering spells and bouncing creatures is a big part of blue.

That's just the game. And takes a damn good hand to actually get a turn-3 kill.

Some people hate Green because it plays several 8/8's on turn 5.

Terrastomper, Terrastodon, Imperiosaur...

I can have 36 mana easily on turn 8, 18 on an average hand for turn 5

phyrexian hydra.... 7/7 with infect for a total of 5 mana.

I play it

+Lightman0359 there is a modern version that uses Enduring Renewal + Grinding Station (or Blasting Station) + Ornithopter (or Memnite). It is nowhere near competitive as the original was back in its day, but it's still annoying enough when you lose to it.

when calculating the converted mana cost of a spell X is equal to 0

+vogel664 Agreed. That deck is an abomination.

+vogel664 That deck is essentially banned because it is impossible to guarantee that you will finish the combo in a reasonable amount of time, that is if you're playing emrakul in it.

+vogel664 Secret paladin is also annoying

+Dorion Fleming Not on the draw! :D

true

+MTG Degree Sliver should have made the list, they are making a "all slivers you control have indestructible" card.

+Sweg Key that Sliver card was printed in M15.

+MTG Degree Protean doesn't kill on the draw though? You require your main phase to play land, generate mana. I guess if you had 2 spirit guides (any) with a manamorphose, a flash and a protean hulk/summoners pact it would be possible though. But that requires 5/7 card of your opening hand to be exactly what you need. Also my Goryo's vengeance deck in modern has the potential to kill first turn before my opponent gets to play, it's rare, but it happens. Great video btw, never heard of "The deck" before hahaha, Kinda describes every legacy deck ever.

+TheCrafter34Comments the counter to people playing blue is to also play blue. You get the best games by far that way, especially is eternal formats :D

just play a hexproof deck/uncounterable its far from a competitive deck...but I built one specifically to piss off control players

Jojoforpres That's not the only way blue players have any fun and a gank is an awful and childish idea. After playing thing in the ice counter draw for a while I learned that it's not hard to actually play and beat a blue player. You just can't be a knucklehead and expect to shit out all the spells you want left and right without any repercussion.

I love this game but I've always hated blue. I believe it is the strongest and most broken color. If the only way to combat something is by using that thing then the game has no balance. I would love to see a list from over all the years of competitive magic play of what decks have been the most winning by color. Don't get me wrong I still love this game I think it's a great game and I play it all the time. I also think it's a little bit of sour grapes on my part because I've always gravitated towards green which it seems to be the favorite color of the least Advanced players where blue is the color of the most advanced players

Dana Coleman blue is balanced, there aren’t many viable mono blue decks. The only decks in legacy that are mono blue and somewhat viable are high tide and omnitell, and both of those are fragile decks. People like to complain about blue being overpowered or imbalanced, but forget that there are potent hate cards in every color.

in the first place

Yes it did. Read each individual card and listen to the strategy.

+CADE PLAISANCE It didnt break any rules. Can you point to a specific illegal thing the deck did because I dont it. Start with gemstone cavern in play, tap it for blue and simian spirit guide, flash in protean hulk, it dies then you go ahead and get the creatures from protean hulk, since the x creatures technically have 0 cmc you can get as many x creatures as you want in addition to the four disciples. Nothing this deck did was illegal, just incredibly broken.

+CADE PLAISANCE Well, the deck was only a thing because they removed the errata on Flash, changing it back to the printed version.

+CADE PLAISANCE i agree lol but damn heck of a combo.

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