Top 10 Worst Planeswalkers 

I will never get over the emotional damage of going to Avacyn Restored prerelease. My friend pulls a Craterhoof, I pull a Tibalt.

I actually like Huatli, Radiant Champion in EDH, just because her abilities gel with the format much better. First, the four player nature tends towards gummy boardstates and makes Planeswalkers less of a target-after all, you’ve got two other people to worry about. Her second ability also helps pump up your commander to more easily threaten 21 commander damage. The emblem also lacks the “nontoken” stipulation, which turns token producers into crazy draw engines-and in a format where consistency is kneecapped and games tend to go very long, card advantage is king.

I'm pretty sure both Huatli and Mu Yanling saw some competitive play back during their own standard formats.

Huatli has a specific role, and that is to be the top end in a token deck. If you have 4 creatures on board when you activate her +1 ability (Which is fairly easy in those type of decks), that sets her up to Ult range on the following turn (And likely enough chump blockers to see to it). From there, you basically hit critical mass with card advantage (As even something like Raise the Alarm allows you to draw 2 cards). The Emblem is effectively Beck // Call, as it does not care about you casting creatures (Unlike Beast Whisperer) and is optional (So you will not deck yourself because of it).

Goldmane was used in standard back in it's day IIRC due to token decks. Just used the 1/1 counters ability over and over until the opponent died. They also weren't sure what planeswalkers were capable of since they were a brand new card type.

Ajani Goldmain was in LSV's top 8 black while tokens Pro Tour deck. He's actually fantastic, just not broad enough to see play outside go-wide strategies. That's not a bad thing though, because most are only good in the right deck.

Glad to see that Tibalt is still a top option in _something_ !

Huatli screams "token spam", to me. I used to run loyalty elves that could print tokens fast enough to make her pretty usable.

Mu Yanglin, Sky Dancer is actually a really nice support planeswalker. It's probably not gonna win you the game, unless you really go ham with that 4/4 bird token, but the -2/-0 and loses flying is actually pretty relevant, especially against creature decks. Sometimes slowing down your opponent by that 2 damage multiple times is game changing in the early game

The thing with a lot of these is that you don't mention how good they are in the specifics niches they fill and instead are basically just in the "I'm gonna build Atraxa superfriends" mindset. Like with Hualti, Radiant Champion, her +1 is meant to appeal to one of the top selesnya/naya strats of all time, being tokens. And also having at least four creatures out by the time you get Huatli out in selesnya is easy so idk why it's being seen as this huge endeavor in the reasoning

Thank you for not just putting 10 intro deck planeswalkers like other list on RU-vid.

But that Tibalt has a history In the in game lore, he was supposed to be a random character for Sorin (a REALLY powerful Planeswalker) to fight, he was even supposed to die upon his intro, he just stayed because there are very few characters in MTG who are borderline insane

Gideon, Champion of Justice was the first Planeswalker I ever pulled. I was so excited and jammed it in my GW token deck. I dont remember if I ever pulled off the ultimate, but I just really liked him.

There are way worse walkers than Mu Yanling, especially at 3 mana. A good walker typically needs to have at least one ability that protects itself to be good, and not only does she have that, but it's at +2 loyalty. Sure, it's not as good at protecting as creating a creature token (that can absorb more than 2 damage) or outright stopping something from attacking, possibly by removing the threat outright, but +2 on a self-protecting ability is nice. Plus, she's in blue - y'know, the control color. More than likely you can keep them down to their smallest creature (which you neuter with Mu) through your other spells.

I mean, they are all pretty specific cards that want specific builds. Also Tibalt is the only planeswalker ever available in white border!

Mu yanling, sky dancer is a solid threat in 60-card formats.

Compared to the rest, Ajani Goldmane actually saw successfull competitive play. Back in the day, you only used him for its -1 and with a bunch of Kithkins or token based decks after that. Sure, he has not aged like wine but it is at least more playable than the rest of the list. The other that i will give some slack is Huatli, she is still not good but i have seen her using her ult in commander games, the only place were she can actually function.

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

I do like that this list was restricted to Mythics because lower rarity cards tend to be less powerful intentionally. I don't think they any of these are unplayable they just need the right deck to shine. Chandra Ablaze is one where she wasn't printed with a whole lot of support to help her. She likes Maddness and can work extremely well with it. Also the fact she doesn't exile the cards from your graveyard really helps her because you can do some really stupid things with it. I've actually had success with Tibalt, mostly in commander. Surprisingly the disrespect people have for him can work against them. Had this one game where I was just sitting there ticking up Tibalt while they were building up their board and I was able to take all their stuff slap them with it for the win, this actually wasn't a commander game. There is this card from Neon Dynasty called Containment Construct that can make Tibalt's +1 usable. He is still not anywhere 'good' but he isn't as bad as he was with some more support.

Before you comment how these planeswalkers are “good” remember these are just the “worst” ones planeswalkers are very hard to be bad 😅

Good video dude!

You could still use Nissa's search ability if you want to just shuffle your library as you can fail to find as that ability is giving you a specific quality of the card to search for (AKA card name). So if you hit a land pocket or a nonland pocket, you have an option to shuffle your library whenever you need to as long as Nissa stays alive.

Ajani Goldmane had a really fun combo with the ult tho. In the same set that he came out, I think, there were enchantments to give double strike and lifelink respectively. Your life total would triple every battle phase, and the avatar's stats would also triple. It was insane when it worked.

Gideon Champion of Justice is pretty funny against certain combos though. I was running a landfall deck and had just cast a kicked Rite of Replication on my Avenger of Zendikar for ludicrous amounts of tokens. Then my friend played a Gideon, used his +1, and cast a creature board wipe, leaving him with a 100+ loyalty Gideon.

I once placed top 24 in nationals using Sarkhan The Mad in standard, it was a really weird deck that primarily used his -2 ability to get rid of Abyssal Persecutor after getting my opponents below zero. There were other ways to sac the demon, but this card (2 of them in the deck) provided ways to do some of the interesting interactions, I also ran that sparkmage haste creature with the lifelink and deathtouch equipment.

I actually run Sarkhan the Mad in my Ur Dragon deck and I really like it there. The 0 is some card draw in a pinch, the minus is the only instance of targeted sacrifice I can think of and can be really nice removal sometimes, and the ult can hit as soon as he comes down and closes out a lot of games. There are so many times where you can swing all and then hit someone for basically double damage in second main or swing all at one player and then hit another with the ult. It's at least fast enough to include in an aggressive creature based deck.

i would definitely say, Hautli and Ajani are actually not too bad in token decks, espically in certain formats, the problem is they are relegated to specific rolls that hold them back, make them less flexible or at least being worthwhile to flex into something because there are better options for those specific niches or styles.

An Insurrection effect is good in multiplayer, particularly commander, BUT it must be noted that attaching it a clock makes it far, far worse because it gives each opponent that much time to interact. The opponent has four turn to prevent Tibalt's ultimate, but in an average game of commander they have TWELVE.

Sarkhan seems actually really good, in a changeling deck. Sure he can only do it once, but as a finisher...

Number 1 really surprised me! 😬😬 I played a lot with Jace, the Living Guildpact back in the days of standard.

MYSD is actually really good as a sideboard option in Azorius Control, and in some matchups even outperforms T3feri (a planeswalker so good he had to be banned out of Pioneer and Modern). Her +2 basically turns off most aggressive creatures in the format, so she can plus up and slow down the enemy attack. The 4/4 token blocks really well and also poses a threat. She basically just does everything that Azorius Control wants to do

Ive always had a love for the OG Gideon

... Nissa was a big part of a green elves deck in Standard at the time it was printed. Called Eldrazi Green, I think? Had Khalani Hydra too

Amazing!!!!

I actually ran Chandra Ablaze in my mono red EDH deck. It had a lot of “ Threaten” effects. I actually like this card.

I got a hard disagree on some of these. Mu and dovan Are both able to protect themselves. So while they weren't great cards any walker that can defend itself is at least a solid C. Also ajani dosnt read good now but back in the day he was a solid card in token decks.

Tibalt:Oh shit here we go again.

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The card game that I've been tooling around with is heavily based on the VS system, and I'm biased, but I feel like it's my favorite way of doing a resource card system, but was hampered by some of the surrounding mechanics. 2-card draw per turn makes it so you never stop curving, and resources having an inherent +1 (or +0.5) means that they were not really allowed to be that strong. Instead I'm working on variable draw power, sort of inspired by MtG's commander format, where your choice of a character as a [insert non-infringing "commander" term] gets you conditional draw so you're at some fraction between 1 and 2 draws per turn on average that gets more costly over time, for a less automatic curve. And to solve the +1 of activatable resource cards, you need to "recharge" any card you activate with a cost based on the card before it can count towards your resources again, meaning you can get that +1, but it will cost you tempo, with weaker cards being free or nearly free, and stronger cards being closer to something like Horizon Canopy or Scavenger Grounds in MTG, where you're basically sacrificing it as a resource in order to get its effect.

but the nissa is green and if you have a lot of ways to proliferate and have a elf tribal deck, chances are it will be devastating

Would nissa revane be good in a colgari commander deck that is very elf heavy?

Tibalt is an example of Wotc experimenting with 'walkers. Now that we have the one Chandra from War of the Spark that can add loyalty to other red 'walkers a lot of the weaker walkers can see more use.

Back when MTG Arena came out i played Ajani Goldmane Beatdown decks that focused on getting many Ajanis on the field, get absurd life totals and every turn buff my creatures higher with the -1 abillity :D It worked pretty well until they released further sets with more and better answers to this :P

I once went up against someone who made an Avatar with Goldmane's ability and attacked me I blocked it with Mogg Maniac, which deals damage to a player when it blocks a creature they control equal to the amount of damage they took

0:22 Do a failed mechanics video on Planeswalker Decks if possible. The fact the Planeswalkers there are designed to be unplayable in constructed formats clearly shows why those decks are unpopular. Also, as for the worst Planeswalker deck Planeswalker, according to Nizzahon, it's Mu Yanling, Celestial Wind. Also, do the Top 10 Planeswalker deck Planeswalkers.

Ajani Goldmane saw a lot of use back in Lorwyn/Alara Standard. The mono-white deck would use it as a triple anthem to enhance all your cheap creatures.

I see some problems here since mythic rares versus ordinary rares don't quite work as mythic rares were introduced after planeswalkers. Additionally several of these planeswalkers are from the first three or four years of planeswalkers. As time has marched on planeswalkers have become more refined in how they work, and the power level of cards has steadily creeped up due to hasbro executives. Many of these planeswalkers saw a lot of play in standard (where almost all planeswalkers were designed for) But like most cards fail to take hold in modern, pioneer, legacy, or vintage. ... you're 100% correct on Tibalt though.

It was funny to see Huatli on here. I built a sliver Brawl deck with her as the commander and she actually ends up being disgusting most games. I'm sure there are much better choices, but i really like her. In a sliver deck her ultimate is pretty trivial to get off, and her second ability becomes the actual kill ability.

Sarkhan can just take opponents out of the game in ur dragon decks, and huatli given she can be protected is just beast whisperer as a passive in an emblem which can't be removed.

I have a soft spot for Tibalt, but only because he was the first Planeswaker I ever pulled. Then about a week later they released the duel decks Sorin vs Tibalt, and I felt like crap.

a lot of planeswalkers suffer the same fate of "win more" design, the only time they work at their full potential is when you have a full board, and at that point, you are probably already winning, unless its a board stall, but in that case it'd be better to topdeck a removal spell or a finisher that could more efficiently break the stall.

Huatli, while not a great card ofc, is really good in token decks in edh due to her ulti which triggering upon tokens etb. I have used her quite effectively a few times to draw a ludicrous amount of cards. I just cast her once i have assembled 4 or more creatures so that she gets to 8+ loyalty right away and have creatures to protect her for 1 round.

Huatli goes very good in my arcades deck. Spam defenders, put huatli down, +1 her for crazy loyalty, wait a turn, ult her, then repeat if possible. The doubled card draw on arcades trigger is very nice.

You are sleeping on Mu yanling, she is a control planeswalker, if you play mass removal of creatures and have a Mu Yanling card in play you more or less have a lock on the gamestate, at least creature based. It's mana value of 3 let's you play her fairly soon and just before the vast majority of mass removal. She does suffer with highly aggressive turn 1 and 2 creature plays tho, but that doesn't make her one of the worst in my opinion

I'm a little surprised Jace, Mirror Mage isn't here. I alwayd thought that one was particularly underwhelming.

How good would some of these be in a commander deck with proliferate, allowing you to get loyalty faster for "free"?

You know Tibalt kind of puts into perspective how powerful tutoring is in commander. Gamble is a card that for one red mana lets you search your library for any card then you have to discard a card at random. Gamble (while being the weakest of the 1 mana tutors) is still considered quite playable (at least from what more experienced players I’ve talked to say) despite the downside of a random discard. Drawing a card is not an upside worth that downside but pulling any one card from your deck IS.

I'd love to see people's takes on how to make these atleast viable by changing as little as possible, like for instance making Tibalt's +1 *"Target player* draws a card and discards one at random"

I simply don't agree that Sarkhan the Mad is bad. His -2 is really good, and you can do it 3 times. His 0 ability deals damage to himself, which means that damage can be prevented.

Half this deck list is in my Falco superfirends deck as being very cheap planeswalkers with abilities that grow thier loyalty fast, which is more important than anything else as the deck runs ichormoon gauntlet.

I've seen Mu Yanling multiple time in duel commander, in bird/flying deck. Setting up birds and lowering my creature power was quite anoying. When youbgo first and can play mu yanling t2 and a 4/4 bird t3 is quite strong

Huatli looks to have a niche in more aggro token/low CMC decks where you play as many creatures as you can, as fast as possible. Her +1 is extremely aggressive in lettting her stay on the board, her -1 is potentially game ending (giant growth a 2/2 double striker with at least 4 other creatures on the field and GG) And her -8 basically lets everything creature you play go +0 instead of -1... and considering how fast GW can ramp and dump creatures onto the field, it wouldn't be unheard of to pop her emblem turn 4. She's weak to board wipes, but pretty much all creature focused decks are.

Needs to include Space Beleren

Mu yangling is one of the planswalkers I have successfully ult'd it multiple times. Underrated

Sarkahn seems like a decent finisher for ur dragon/tiamat commander decks

Nissa is great in my Ezuri edh deck, but that's diffrent I know. She gives me a free elf, then gains me 10 life every turn. She also isn't worth targeting when you've got 15 elfs you can regen, but I've only ever gotten the ult 2 times despite using the deck for years. One of those times I got board wiped and couldn't save them all 😢

0:22 That Gideon wasn't in an intro deck, lol. Martial Paragon was.

The "worst" videos are the best ones!

I will die on the hill that sarkhan the mad is great in dragon tribal edh decks. If you have a board up it basically reads 5 mana kill someone instantly. Also nissa revane can gain a ton of life and expand your board a bit in elfball edh decks. Ik this list focuses on 60 card formats but I think it's worth mentioning

I dunno if Tibalt is worse then Chandra, because at least with Tibalt, you can Chaos warp him into a high-value Planeswalker instead, spending only 5 mana over two turns to get out a 7+ mana walker. It's at least more usable then that Chandra.

I made a pillow fort Gideon deck that won my locals 60 player standard tournament. It was probably the only format he is good in.

9:57 In my “pir and toothy” deck this jace can use his ult in the second turn, or, if i bring him with a proliferate, in the same turn (It enters with 1 more loyalty)

Sarkhan's only use is to play him when your opponent has less health than your dragons have attack for a nice finisher. Essentially, he's a sorcery dressed as a planeswalker ^^

I actually have a soft spot for self milling myself with Huatli in my Rhys deck

what about top 10 cards that untap other cards? maybe both as activated abilities (Free from the Real, Voltaic Key, Pili-Pala??, Umbral Mantle, ...) or as a triggered ability in 2 distinct videos :D also also, cards that can untap themselves

Not gonna lie, one of the ways I've always wanted to win in EDH was Tibalt's ult plus Breath Of Fury. Never got it but did get a win by using his -4 once.

Does this channel look at cards in a vacuum or take into account the history? Because Ajani 1.0 was played to great success thanks to kitchen finks and spectral procession.

Dovin and Huatli are super good in go-wide decks. Dovin and a bunch of fliers can snowball like crazy and I can't even count the number of evasive 1-cost dorks that were in his standard, but I remember Healer's Hawk being everywhere. Huatli goes even crazier since she enables a hand-vomit strategy and you can VERY easily stack her emblems to draw two or even three cards. Absolute nonsense with token generators and since it's an emblem, you have to brick hard on draws to run out of gas when she's popped ult. Amazing weenie support. EDIT: having sifted through JUST Arena walkers at mythic in standard release sets, Kaladesh Dovin seems worse, Ellywick Tumblestrum from Forgotten Realms is simply bad, Dominara Jaya is terrible, Niko Aris from Kaldheim is godawful, Jace from both Ixalan AND Zendikar rising are terribad, M19 Lilianna is essentially unplayable for what it does, Samut the Tested from Ahmonkhet sucks bad. Mostly bad takes, do more than five minutes of research, next time.

Mu yanling was one of the biggest bombs in its limited and obviously for 3 mana it couldnt make a 4/4 flier in the same turn she came down. To make her competitive all it needed to do was removing all abilities from the creature with her +2.

i was at a lgs in bothell/mill creek washington and in a 6 person game saw someone ultimate tibalt and kill the whole table

Note about ajani He came out in lorwynn and is in white AS in white weenie deck by turn 4 when you play him you should have about 2-4 creatures out meaning his -1 would dish out 2-4 power gain and you wouldn't leave him open is he the strongest planeswalker no should he be number 8 also debatable

Good video but some more "this is usually what this Planewswalker does" would add some context to the video. Nissa for example is often more about lands or generic "Green stuff" not Elves.

Dovin is good in BANT spirit tokens, all spirit tokens have flying, the only problem is no having haste and vigilance in said tokens.

They have to tone down the power of planeswalkers that are printed at 2 mana - who knew?! 🙃 I mean, yeah, Tibalt is bad, but would you rather a 2 mana walker *not* be bad and actually be playable? 🤢 A lot of this list ended up being: 1. Early generations of walkers (Lorwyn, Zendikar) while they didn't have the balance of them downpat (after all, JTMS also came out in Zendikar block). 2. Cheap walkers that have to have weaker abilities in order to not dominate the metagame (after all, you see when we get strong 3 mana walkers like Lilliana of the Veil and 3feri how obnoxious things get) 3. Gideon being treated like a true walker, instead of the quirky pseudo-creature that he is.

Pretty sure there are many many planeswalker being worse than Huatli, Radiant Champion. An comparing here ultimate to Beast Whisperer is just bad judgement. Like getting a card for each token you create or not getting a card is a huge difference :D

Why is Ajani here? He saw pro tour play at the time

I actually REALLY like Ajani Goldmane. The protection he offers himself is fantastic and yes it requires other creatures to already be out but if you didn't already have creatures out why would you play a planeswalker then? He's great in both a life gain deck but also a deck you want to have +1 counters on your creatures.

Even in commander Tibslt doesn’t seem that good sure you could theoretically pull it off but token decks and stompy decks I.e. the things you would most want from him probably can get around all the protections needed the second his ultimate ability actually becomes a threat

Thing is, for the most part, these criticisms are only accurate if these cards are being run in beginner decks piloted by low ELO players. More advanced players typically build decks with these downsides in mind and try to negate, capitalize, or synergize with them. With the rise of proliferation mechanics, a -15 ult isn't insurmountable.

You know planeswalkers are busted to absolute hell when the top 10 worst planeswalkers are better than most cards in their cost range.

Sarkhan's -4 alone makes him actually pretty damn good for a dragon commander deck. That's an easy killing blow if he resolves being cast. Huatli is AMAZING for commander. Green white can poop out the most tokens on the field easily. Having a ton of token blockers, paired with a card who will be very hard to remove with how quickly she generates loyalty, is nuts. Then we look at her -1, which is a low hit on herself and makes you a massive creature. Her ultimate doesn't even have a high cost to her, and will give you insane card draw in a token deck. I don't see why she's on this list unless we're exclusively talking constructed (standard, modern, ect) play. Saying tibalt can have a place in commander is laughable. He's extremely fragile and slow. For his ult to go off, you need to go 5 turns (4 to gain the loyalty and the 5th to ult) and the opponents need to have a big enough board to justify it. If your opponents have creatures worth taking, tibalt will be dead long before then ANYWAY. ESPECIALLY in commander.

Tibalt is good Sideboard against those who draw darn near Infinitely, like any Blue Boi with a card that eliminates Hand Size then draws 10+ cards. Tibalt makes them regret that decision with reckless abandon!

Dovin, Yanling and Huatli aren't that bad though. They're at least better than the chandra flipwalker

hautli isnt held back by her abilities, shes held back by her mana cost, that 1 white mana changes her from broken to top end for gw humans elves with hautli would be the most broken thing ever, u would turn 3/4 ultimate every game u drew her elves run like 12-16 lands and a LOT of mana creatures, so turn 1 u drop land + mana elf, turn 2 drop 2 elves (probably no land) on 3 if u have the 4rth elf u can play her and get her to 8 loyalty on play

What eeveelution is Gideon?

Huatli in a Token Deck is really strong, I got the emblem often an have than a really good card draw. you don't play her if you own no creatures on the board...

You are definitely incorrect about goldmane, while he was in standard there was a popular deck with tokens that played cards like spectral procession. So you would curve three into four

Say what you will about Champion of Justice, nothing I've done in MTG was as satisfying or clownshoes as building him up to 15, turning him into a creature and flinging him with Brion Stoutarm for lethal. Practical? Optimal? Hell no, but it was hilarious and got a good reaction at the LGS during silly casual games.

Honestly, I think both 6 mana Mu Yanlings are worse than the 3 mana one, especially the Celestial Wind one: 6 mana for -3 bounce 2 creatures or +1 -5/-0 - and only in the third turn you can give your fliers +5/+5 - any blue flyer deck has won by that point or is so far behind it doesnt matter... It's such a shame really, we get spammed with Teferi's with broken effects and then there is Mu Yanling, just weaker.

Goldman was just one of the first they released. You have to be cool with him. But sure if you compare this one with Vess or Wildspeaker...