Top 10 WORST Cards That Saw Tournament Play 

It really is. The most notable cards are Merchant Scroll (sorcery speed tutor for blue instants/sorceries), Koskun Falls (Propaganda but black), and Didgeridoo (a minotaur tribal piece). After that it drops off.... and drops HARD.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@zackkelley2940Autumn Willow too. Before there were Slippery Bogles, there was _her._ And unlike Bogles, she was already beefy and thus harder to remove.

makes me wonder how a Homelands format would look like...

@@zackkelley2940 You had a memory lapse and forgot about Memory Lapse.

Honestly, there were a few (emphasis of few) cards from Homelands that were halfway decent Zackkelley2940 presented a list, here are some more that I saw actually see some real action: - Truce: W2 Sorcery that allows each player to draw 2 cards. For each card they dont draw, they gain 2 life. This is good for White Aggro Decks that go wide because they need any way to reload their hand - Eron the Relentless: RR3, 5/2, Haste, RRR Regenerate. It's usually used as a finisher by Red Aggro decks... and that regenerate does make it harder to kill most of the time. - Apocalypse Chime: 2, Artifact. 2, tap, sacrifice Chime, destroy all permanents from the Homelands Expansion. Yea... its... a dumb card... but it made it in sideboards thanks mainly to Ishan Shade and Autumn Willow. Both these cards are real win-cons that were hard to deal with... and the Chime provided universal sweeper that can get rid of those cards, something decks like Blue and Red severely lack. - Spectral Bears: G1, 3/3, when this card attacks, if defending player does not control a black permanent, it does not untap during your next untap step. Its an above rate card, and even today its still a pretty good rate. That drawback is real, tho, so its still used sparingly - Primal Order: GG2 Enchantment. During each player's upkeep, this card deals X Damage to them, where X = number of non-basic lands they control. I think this is one of the very few cards from that set that has gotten better ... esp now that everyone and their mothers run a critical mass of non-basics and... yea... that's pretty much all i can think of I am a little surprised tho, that 2 cards: Feroz's Ban and Willow Priestess hasnt been abused by... anything yet. The Ban is a 6 mana artifact that increases the mana cost of all creature spells by 2... and the Priestess' 1st ability allows you to tap it to sneak any Fairy permanent from hand to play. Is it bec of their mana cost (priestess cost GG2 for a 2/2 btw)

Not legal but it can be a wincon in Claire D'Loon.

@@zackkelley2940 what?

@@ari_cool Essentially a silver border card from the recent unfinity set. Not technically legal in any format but you could run it as a commander (with Battle of Wits in the 99) if everyone involved is ok with it. Normally tokens are NOT cards but her ability says that they are now cards. This means they stick around in your graveyard, can be shuffled into your library, etc.

@@zackkelley2940 that’s super cool

That's far too complicated in place of casting a doom blade.

@@darcytucker416 kind of seems like it but infinitely repeatable removal is kind of nice

Sees play in specifically poison storm/control, whatever you want to call that deck. Since they’re proliferating both the counters on arrows and the -1/-1 counters (usually multiple times a turn), it’s more efficient than you’d think. It being colorless also works well with Everflowing Chalice.

See yah, I was thinking that, hell, my goofy ass was thinking it'd be funny to run in a casual commander game with Vorinclex

@@darcytucker416 Cast Down*

What's wrong with that

Need more than 240-250 card in your deck. And in commander, you only have 99.

I’ve seen it quite a bit in land matters commander decks.

@@jefffrederick258 they should play ghost town, perfect with burgeoning

They played against one too many unsuspecting blue players.

Use the garbage to pitch to stormbind to clear the way for deadly insect. 4 hits is all you need. That's how it won. If opponent didn't draw non targeted removal in time, gg. My guess is that non targeted removal wasn't common in that standard format.

@@RobotDCLXVI why did they include the baubles? is it to get to deadly insect?

@@goldenarmour7975 Green didn't really have the ways to search for creatures that it does now, so we relied on "thinning the deck" to increase the chance of hitting the big drops. 4 of each artifact essentially turned your deck into 52 cards, giving you better odds (or so the logic went)

Yeah, they were several decks that wanted UP.. It was almost broken in decks like 5C Green, for instance. Giving access to all colors AND working around Winter Orb was a big deal.

Yeah pretty sure it was ran in a block deck too. Prosbloom. Mirage block had the original fetchlands, but they entered tapped though amusingly they were still used with brainstorm in extended when necropotence was legal. I don't recall what other lands mirage block even has though I remember tempest block having enter the battlefield tapped painlands, now THOSE can burn.

It did see play in vintage dredge in like 2014 afaik

It was definitely in vintage dredge at one point when they ran bloodghast. The thing about dredge is that undiscovered paradise is perfect for it. You almost never need more than 1 mana for the deck because your sideboard of artifact, enchantment, and creature removal to get rid of annoyances will be 0 or 1 mana at most. Only time you played 2 mana spells in dredge was in extended in the mid 2000's because of the lack of options compared to vintage and legacy where you had people casting life from the loam and tolarian winds.

the green red spiders deck topped a pro tour where the format was ice age block constructed, which was a 2 set format featuring ice age and alliances, pretty much any potential deck that would have won that event would have recieved "shittiest deck to top a pro tour" looking through the card pool, the shitty spider deck was probably the strongest aggro strategy possible in the format, featuring lots of repeatable burn and trying to play 3 drops on 2 with fyndhorn elves while being amazingly positioned vs pretty much every other possible creature strategy by nature of lots of repeatable removal and being resilient to pyroclasm for potential red mirrors, unfortunately only 2 of the decklists have survived that i've been able to find, being the spiders deck and a 4 color control list that just got completely run over in finals, theres actually live footage of the match if you were to look through youtube which is cool ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1aKNP0qiPrg.html

Isahn's Shade was also very good because between being black, pro white, and 5/5, it was almost immune to targeted removal of the time. It was a very good top end finisher in its day.

Yeah this was a time where people feared turn 2 dark rit into juzam's djinn because it was a 5/5 beater that most removal couldn't answer outside of swords. Ihsan's shade was just a little pricier, but protection from white meant it could only really be answered by countermagic or a 2 for 1 like double bolt.

@@robmitchell3039 I didn't mention that stuff because it was already covered in the video

@@soarel325 I commented before I got to that part.😀

Same. With exploration and Asuza I don't always have multiple lands to be dropping. That's a guaranteed late game drop

Yeah I think serrated arrows even saw some standard play when it was reprinted in timespiral in 2006. Not a horrible card by any means, but by far the best card in homelands outside of merchant scroll though if you don't have blue instants arrows is at least useful.

During it's time, Ishan's Shade (Black) was a real threat thanks to what Logs already mentioned in this video (prot from color, being black, big booty), so that's one Autumn Willow (Green) was a legitimate threat during that time: 6 mana for a 4/4 with Shroud that can be turned into Hexproof provided you paid 1 green mana in the turn you want to target her with spells, was unheard of during her time. She was a legit win-con for decks that love to slap her with auras Truce (White) was a sorcery for W2 that gave each player the option to draw 2 cards, or gain 2 life for each card they DONT draw. Not the best, but it does still help the White Aggro players reload their hand so its an option Eron the Relentless (Red) was a RR3 5/2 creature with Haste and RRR: Regenerate. This was used by red aggro to finish off opponents since that thing coming down usually meant the enemy has taken a beating already Merchant Scroll (Blue) was a U1 sorcery that allows you to tutor any Blue instant or sorcery ... till this day this card is still being used Memory Lapse (Blue) was a U1 instant (then it was an "interrupt) that counters a spell but returns on top of owner's deck instead of graveyard. Till fairly recently, the card has seen play thanks to its hard counter effect and it's flexible mana cost (unlike, say, Mana Leak where you can stop the leak if you had extra 3 mana, making it less useful in the late game), but im sure other newer counterspells have beaten it by now Spectral Bears (Green) was a G1 3/3 bear creature that, unless defending player controls a black permanent, does not untap as normal after declaring an attack. While that drawback is real, that rate is still pretty good and worth running by green aggro at the time. Apocalypse Chime (Artifact) was 2 mana artifact that you can pay 2, tap and sacrifice it to destroy all cards from the Homelands expansion. Yea, it's... pretty dumb, but it DID find its way into sideboards to deal with Ishan's Shade and Autumn Willow. It was mainly for players who have no access to mass sweeping spells. Those are all the cards I can think of...

Ah, nice! Thank you for such a greatly thorough answer!! Very fun read!@@bluedestiny2710

New to this channel? He always mispronounces stuff to get views.

People come here for his mispronunciations? I thought it was just for the comments to boost algorithms. You gotta at least understand it and appreciate the strategy.

It doesn't.

I was writing that at exactly the same time as you! 😂

@@Leuber it was such a missed opportunity 😭

Battle of Wits decks are usually built with 230-240 cards in their deck, so you have 30-40 cards to play with until Battle of Wits no longer works. You can stuff your deck full of cards that search for it, but more commonly it ends up being a secondary plan that your deck does somewhere around 5-10% of the time. The fact that you have such a high deckbuilding cost for a win condition that doesn't happen often, and also has a high mana cost, is what makes it not very good.

At least it's memorable, if nothing else.

Yeah you mostly couldn't rely on BoW consistently as a wincon. Sure you had some tutors for it like enlightened tutor, but it's so much less likely to draw. IIRC someone on the SCG circuit ran battle of wits in legacy and got to put it into play off an opponents show and tell, but I could be wrong that was a long while ago. Shuffling that monstrosity of a deck makes my hands hurt just thinking about it.

How do you spell jsut then?

I don’t think dude has been in the magic scene very long

What card is bad "objectively"? Almost every card with any text is going to have weird situations where it's "good" and the only way to say a card is good or bad is to compare it with others.

@@fernandobanda5734 That was part of my point. The only thing I could think of are useless cards with old mechanics that don't work anymore, but that's it. Every card is useful somewhere. There are however, objectively worse cards to play. Like in Legacy or Vintage, playing a cancel over a Counterspell, mana drain, or force of negation/will. But, in Standard, Historic, etc., Cancel is the default Counterspell that counters everything and is used. It's just a worse pick in some formats, but not "bad".

@@BoyGamer100 My point is saying "These cards aren't bad" does nothing for these kind of top videos. If every card is equally defensible, then we really can't say anything.

@@BoyGamer100 Being worse then the majority of options is considered "being bad" by most english speaking humans. Do you really not understand what we mean when we say "One with nothing is a bad card" ?

​@@fernandobanda5734 Exactly. That's why things like this annoy me. I'm also annoyed because these cards aren't even really bad. There's far worse that could be on this list.