Yup... and then much later, a closer version of the vehicle mechanic called "Hallow Warrior" would be printed in Prophecy (4 mana, 4/4, Hallow Warrior cannot attack or block unless you tap a creature). The biggest difference is that Hallow Warrior is a creature... so it WILL blow up against board wipes.
In the Magic video game Shandalar, the blue colored boss fights start with a Leviathan, then put all their resources into trying to untap and attack with it. Needless to say, it ends up being a great advantage for you in the long run, especially if you get an unsummon or something
Yeah, I've had hilarious moments with the enemy's Leviathans in Shandalar. It's usually not too difficult to draw some sort of answer to it (Swords to Plowshares, Unsummon, Terror, etc.) before it's able to attack on turn 4, and the opponent wastes all their Islands untapping and trying to attack with the thing, so they won't be casting much else.
The deck i ran was usually a Black Red deck revolving around resource denial (i.e Mindtwist, Sink Hole etc) and cards like Erg Raiders, Black Knights, Sedge Trolls and Hypnotic Specters finished the fight (i usually curve out at 3 mana... i only have 2 sengirs) When i fight the blue wizard... i just let him keep Levi... since he wont have any way to untap it amidst all those cards to drain his stuff
Vodalian War Machine is actually super secret tech in Merfolk decks, running the Morningtide/Shadowmoor block Merfolk that do things when they or other Merfolk are tapped/untapped.
Shyft is one of those early cards that were designed to interact with/avoid circles of protection, protection from (color), and color hosing spells (Terror was a common removal spell back then) which were a staple in the early days of casual MtG.
I used to jam a Wilderness Hypnotist into some of the blue decks I played as a kid. Blame Rebecca Guay for being possessed of such incredible artistic talent!
Fun fact: Elder Spawn is the ONLY spawn in MTG. However, there are several other creatures named [cardname Spawn] so it's beyond my mind why these aren't spawns as well, since the creature type exist and is used...
The reason for this is that creature types used to be both a lot more specific and a lot less mechanically significant. This is why Jamuraan Lion had the Lion creature type rather than the Cat creature type or the the Ali from Cairo card has the creature type Ali from Cairo. Later on, it was decided to simplify creature types more, so that Lions and Tigers are both cats, and so on. Furthermore, spawn is sort of a terrible creature type, since spawn literally means offspring, so Spawn of Thraxes means something like “child/offspring of Thraxes”, probably implying it’s related to a larger dragon named Thraxes, while Aboleth Spawn is a young Aboleth, and has nothing in common with Spawn of Thraxes. Making creatures with Spawn in their name have the Spawn creature type would be like saying Lord of Extinction and Lord of the Pit should both have the the Lord creature type.
@@willowdelosrios4326 yeah, I know all this about old creature types and the grand creature type update. The question is why they didn't errata this specific one. Why keep the type spawn when there is only one creature, that could easily get another type.
I've toyed with the idea of making a Commander deck based around all the old school color altering cards and color hosing cards. It would suck and probably be unplayably janky, though.
@@democrrrracymanifest I also had a deck like that on 90s and he's not that bad at that time. Of course you have downsides, specially sacrifice islands to attack, but it was a finisher, you could do 1-2 attacks with trample. Blue creatures used to be really weak at the first editions, so I don't consider "big mouth" so bad as others presented at the video
The strangest thing about the war machine is how poor its attack is. Like, even on flavour grounds shouldn't it be stronger than the creatures piloting it?
Funny story with Cephalid Snitch: In limited, I ran it out of desperation... and my opponent ignored it for a while because I kept dropping bigger threats... by the time he noticed, the Snitch already knocked his life points 8 points XD he eventually got rid of it, but the little Cephalid that could really tried his best and actually contributed a lot in the win (I closed out the game with my 2nd rare: Laquatus' Champion) Anyway, I am quite surprised that Giant Shark and Marjhan avoided this list... actually... ANY creature that had that "land home" mechanic avoided this list is a shocker. For the young ones who didn't live in the middle ages: "Land Home" is a defunct keyword where the creature cannot attack unless the opponent controls a specific land, and the creature will be sacrificed if you do not control that land. Example: Giant Shark: U5, 4/4, Island Home (if you control no islands, sacrifice this creature. If your opponent does not control an island, this creature cannot attack them). If Giant Shark enters combat with a creature that already taken damage this turn, it gets +2/+0 and Trample until end of turn Marjhan: UU5, 8/8, Island Home. Marjhan enters the battlefield tapped and does not untap as normal during your untap step. UU: sacrifice a creature: Untap Marjhan. Play this ability only during your upkeep. UU: Marjhan gets -1/-0 until end of turn: Marjhan deals 1 damage to target attacking creature without flying So yea... im pretty shocked these 2 avoided the bottom 10 O.O
Aside from island home those two seem to have narrow but actual upside from the second abilities you mentioned. Great Shark doesn't hurt you for coming down, and Marjhan has a ping ability for defense. Together the two actually make a decent defense, especially when creatures were a lot worse.
I loved the leviathan card and he terrified my buddies because once he hit the table it was game over! My favorite card ever… until I played him against real decks 😂😂😂 it’s crazy how many of these cards we tried to use back in the pre internet days thinking “there is no way this card could be this bad”
Egotist, while isnt that good, was in an environment where its absurdly high CMC actually counts. There were several spells and effects that check your permanent with highest CMC and this card is a decent choice since you can sneak it in pretty early. After flipping it from being a Grey Ogre, your spells would be counting 8 for its effects (i.e Torrent of Fire deals X damage to any target, where X is the highest CMC among permanents you control)
The Saprazzan Outrigger is actually the basis for the very first deck I EVER designed, almost 20 years ago: it exploited ETB effects, specifically the red enchantment Furious Assault (better known as the Strictly Worse Impact Tremors), to stall the board and gradually whittle down the opponent's Life. ...and, even though it was my very first deck EVER, I recognized that the Outrigger was crap (for the reasons you identified) and replaced it with Shrieking Drake and Imaginary Pet. It was a great inspiration; it's a terrible card.
This brings me back to when I first starting playing and how HORRIBLE my blue deck was that ran only Leviathan and Polar Kraken as wincons. Which looking back, I don't blame anyone but myself for losing every single game I played with that deck. Didn't help it was usually multiplayer games so playing a control deck was the shortest path to defeat.
Dont worry... im on the same mindset as you. Big numbers is just attractive to kids O.O Also... to give Polar Kraken some credit, it's WAY easier to use compared to Leviathan. There ARE scenarios where you would only lose 3 lands and win the game ... as opposed to Leviathan which would cost at least 8 on its own. Kraken was THE biggest creature until Vision's Phyrexian Marauder was printed... and was still an ok choice for reanimators looking to close out a game ASAP (tried it with Animate Dead as early as turn 3.. I usually get to swing in at least once before that Dark Banishing would take it out)
Wait but control has always been superior in 3+ player games. Aggro is just inherently dogshit in a Format where you have to depleat more then one life total to zero
Wow. That Svyelunite Priest is terrible 😂 if your opponent does have instant speed removal, the ability is useless because they'll cast it in response to your activated ability. If they don't have instant speed removal, the ability is irrelevant. How did the devs miss the fact the timing restriction is so counterintuitive, it makes it literally useless. There are zero scenarios it actually works 😂 6:11
Actually, there is three I can think of. Damage spells that can't completely kill one of your creature. Like if you attack with with a X/3, it get blocked by a 1/X and then it get shocked for 2.(Could just take out the priest if it that much of a issue for the opponent however) All those "Destroy target creatures if they taken damage this turn" spells. And the "Target attacking creature" cards. Still pretty useless, but not completely.
@@scapheap Fair. You are correct. Scenarios so flipping niche I didn't even consider them 😂 The Preist has the most mild, impossible-to-predict scenarios where the ability helps lol
MaRo on Zephyr Spirit: "Every once in a while we want a creature so bad even the beginners get it’s bad." He didn't elaborate WHY they want such a creature, but, mission accomplished I suppose.
I ran a Leviathan/Animate Dead/Homarid Spawning bed deck for a while. Never tried to attack with the Leviathan- just put it through the bed, get it back out with an Animate Dead and get lots of 1/1 creatures. It worked reasonably well- and was fun to play.
Yet another list of awful cards with awesome art. Elder Spawn is just delightfully bizarre and creepy, plus the lighting is really interesting. Vodalian War Machine on the other hand has always been hilarious to me because it looks like a carousel. All those merfolk are just having fun at the fairground!
I wish Leviathan was better. Such cool flavor and art. And being THE Leviathan of biblical myth... Maybe make an updated, Legendary card that refrences the original in a Commander set or something.
You can use my Leviathan in the thumbnail, but you can never convince 11 year old me cracking it from a pack that it is not the ultimate bomb, hahah. I still have a mono blue bounce deck that uses it as a finisher.. at this point more of a callback to my original love for the card, but it’s still kicking in a semi-competitive deck in my circle at least!
I'm just glad you didn't put a Homarid on here. Nobody, and I mean *NOBODY* would survive dissing Homarids. The amount of emotion I would feel would be the exact opposite of the day we finally got "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)"!
There was actually one Homarid that saw meta relevance. It was Deep Spawn... thanks to its relatively big booty (6/6), trample, its ability to dodge spot removal (shroud) and a relatively negligible drawback (mill yourself 2 cards per turn). Reanimators used to love the card
MtG card idea inspired by Saprazzan Raider: Saprazzan Waverider - 2B - 3/2 - Haste, Skulk - When this creature enters the battlefield, you get a wave counter. Whenever Saprazzan Waverider becomes blocked, you get x treasure tokens, were x is the number of wave counters you have, the Saprazzan Waverider is returned to your hand
Surprised Ovinomancer didn't make the list though I guess it at least tries to do something. Removing a single creature a turn after casting it and after bouncing 3 of your own lands, only to have Ovinomancer return to hand seems hilarously overcosted.
If i were to just guess: that thing was Blue's only creature that can get rid of an opponent's creature with little questions asked at the time. Yea its slow... but it gets the job done. Turning an opponent's 6/5 Spirit of the Night into a 0/1 sheep is still something relevant But it IS bad tho... Also.. Sheep token! Edit: you can actually make this card work with a global haste card (i.e Anger). Play the Ovinomancer, activate effect, bounce it to hand, then decline to pay the ETB cost. It just becomes a bad sorcery for 3 to destroy anything and create a sheep token. If you have Alluren, you can make this an instant, 0 cost removal spell. Convoluted, sure... but it can work .
I love Leviathan’s art. Seeing it for the first time forever shaped my mental image of all Leviathans. Tedin’s art is awesome. Although I knew it was a hard card to work with even then. Too costly.
Sarpazzan Outrigger does not deserver to be on a 'worst card list'. I played it in Masques Limited, and it was actually really good. Unlike the other creatures tied in #1, The outrigger is aggressively costed and actually kills stuff in combat (the ability works different from the other two cards). Masques block was so bad that you had to consider: would you want to draw a 5/5 for 4 each turn? In most cases, that's better than every other card in blue you could draw in masques block. The outrigger owned the ground, while you flew over with your airships.
I'm surprised that a two mana 1/1 or 1/2 hits the list. At least in draft, I'd rather have one of those instead of a Leviathan or one of blue's other overcosted creatures with downside.
@@BobardeZanzibar A 1/1 can do 5% of the damage needed to kill an opponent, or kill an attacking x/1 or chump block something or be sacrificed to something. And a two mana card can almost always be played; a ten mana card is often just dead weight in your hand.
Me: "It's gonna be hard to hear him slam Leviathan. That was one of my favorite cards when I was a kid, and I insisted on playing it in my decks." Nizzahon: "Leviathan was one of my favorite cards when I was a kid, and I insisted on playing it in my decks."
Leviathan has close place to my heart .Since my BEATDOWN BOX SET back in 2001 . What an Excellent product for its time . Even won a few games with Leviathan . Still love the time when my buddy played a hunted wumpus hahahahahah ! niche but nice
I get the MM block was supposed to be watered down in contrast to the Urza block, but what they they thinking when they made Saprazzan Outrigger? Like the goggles, it does nothing!
Ok, I'm going to go to bat for Port Inspector: Yes, it's bad, but it's effectively a vanilla 2 mana 1/2 which is not bad enough to put on a 'worst' list. Something like Balduvian Conjurer or Cloud Skate, or Coastal Drake, or Coral Fighters, or Homarid Shaman, or Merfolk Seer are infinitely worse cards
Wouldn't Vodalian War Machine be decent while blocking? Think of it as a 0/4 Wall that can get +2/+1 with every Merfolk tapped - not such a bad cost back then Still bad, but nowhere near as bad as the others...
WOTC actively making bad cards : wtf are you doing you're ruining the game! WOTC actively making good cards: wtf are you doing you're ruining the game!
Egotist is actually a combo card. You're not supposed to ever cast it for its mana cost. Its failcase is being a 3 mana 2/2, which is pretty awful nowadays but was a decent if unimpressive body back in the day. But its true purpose is to be combined with cards that care about mana cost, of which the set it came in had a few. So it's basically a modal card, either a combo piece or a 3 mana 2/2 blocker if you happen to draw it when you can't take advantage of its true purpose. I dunno if it ever saw competitive play anywhere, but even if the Egotist was *just* a 3 mana 2/2 with no other upside, I don't think it would even make this list
It appeared in a set were casting cost mattered so it had a narrow use case. So egotistical wasn't always awful (don't get me wrong it was never good) so doesn't make the lists
Nope, I've never played Magic. You got me. The effect is powerful when attached to a real card worth of value. (See: Thoughtseize or Gitaxian Probe). It has never been powerful when that's the only effect you get. In the cae of the Inspector, you have a highly conditional version of the effect attached to an understatted creature. My point is that the upside on the card is very, very small -- and it is.
Shift+coalition victory plus two triones= win. That doesn't make shyft good but I think it should arguably keep it of the list since it can at least make some fun commander decks if coalition Victory wasn't banned.
Vodalian War Machine is kind of the first vehicle. Tapping creatures to allow it to attack
Yup... and then much later, a closer version of the vehicle mechanic called "Hallow Warrior" would be printed in Prophecy (4 mana, 4/4, Hallow Warrior cannot attack or block unless you tap a creature). The biggest difference is that Hallow Warrior is a creature... so it WILL blow up against board wipes.
In the Magic video game Shandalar, the blue colored boss fights start with a Leviathan, then put all their resources into trying to untap and attack with it. Needless to say, it ends up being a great advantage for you in the long run, especially if you get an unsummon or something
Yeah, I've had hilarious moments with the enemy's Leviathans in Shandalar. It's usually not too difficult to draw some sort of answer to it (Swords to Plowshares, Unsummon, Terror, etc.) before it's able to attack on turn 4, and the opponent wastes all their Islands untapping and trying to attack with the thing, so they won't be casting much else.
The deck i ran was usually a Black Red deck revolving around resource denial (i.e Mindtwist, Sink Hole etc) and cards like Erg Raiders, Black Knights, Sedge Trolls and Hypnotic Specters finished the fight (i usually curve out at 3 mana... i only have 2 sengirs)
When i fight the blue wizard... i just let him keep Levi... since he wont have any way to untap it amidst all those cards to drain his stuff
It's like if a Yugioh game dumped all resources into Armor Exe.
Vodalian War Machine is actually super secret tech in Merfolk decks, running the Morningtide/Shadowmoor block Merfolk that do things when they or other Merfolk are tapped/untapped.
Shyft is one of those early cards that were designed to interact with/avoid circles of protection, protection from (color), and color hosing spells (Terror was a common removal spell back then) which were a staple in the early days of casual MtG.
Fun fact: When the Dark came out Leviathan and Maze of Ith were both the most expensive cards from the set for a while at $10 each.
I used to jam a Wilderness Hypnotist into some of the blue decks I played as a kid. Blame Rebecca Guay for being possessed of such incredible artistic talent!
Fun fact: Elder Spawn is the ONLY spawn in MTG. However, there are several other creatures named [cardname Spawn] so it's beyond my mind why these aren't spawns as well, since the creature type exist and is used...
The reason for this is that creature types used to be both a lot more specific and a lot less mechanically significant. This is why Jamuraan Lion had the Lion creature type rather than the Cat creature type or the the Ali from Cairo card has the creature type Ali from Cairo. Later on, it was decided to simplify creature types more, so that Lions and Tigers are both cats, and so on. Furthermore, spawn is sort of a terrible creature type, since spawn literally means offspring, so Spawn of Thraxes means something like “child/offspring of Thraxes”, probably implying it’s related to a larger dragon named Thraxes, while Aboleth Spawn is a young Aboleth, and has nothing in common with Spawn of Thraxes. Making creatures with Spawn in their name have the Spawn creature type would be like saying Lord of Extinction and Lord of the Pit should both have the the Lord creature type.
@@willowdelosrios4326 yeah, I know all this about old creature types and the grand creature type update. The question is why they didn't errata this specific one. Why keep the type spawn when there is only one creature, that could easily get another type.
I really want to see Shyfts ability on a more aggressively costed creature. Such a cool little effect wasted here.
It IS one of the easier creatures to use for a Coalition Victory win... but that 2 toughness does make it very easy to remove
@@bluedestiny2710 would be a funny thing to have with say Shifting Sky+ Light of Day, or some other ridiculous combo.
I've toyed with the idea of making a Commander deck based around all the old school color altering cards and color hosing cards. It would suck and probably be unplayably janky, though.
Thanks!
You bet!
You always know my boy Leviathan is gonna be on here!
@@democrrrracymanifest I also had a deck like that on 90s and he's not that bad at that time. Of course you have downsides, specially sacrifice islands to attack, but it was a finisher, you could do 1-2 attacks with trample. Blue creatures used to be really weak at the first editions, so I don't consider "big mouth" so bad as others presented at the video
The strangest thing about the war machine is how poor its attack is. Like, even on flavour grounds shouldn't it be stronger than the creatures piloting it?
Funny story with Cephalid Snitch: In limited, I ran it out of desperation... and my opponent ignored it for a while because I kept dropping bigger threats... by the time he noticed, the Snitch already knocked his life points 8 points XD he eventually got rid of it, but the little Cephalid that could really tried his best and actually contributed a lot in the win (I closed out the game with my 2nd rare: Laquatus' Champion)
Anyway, I am quite surprised that Giant Shark and Marjhan avoided this list... actually... ANY creature that had that "land home" mechanic avoided this list is a shocker. For the young ones who didn't live in the middle ages: "Land Home" is a defunct keyword where the creature cannot attack unless the opponent controls a specific land, and the creature will be sacrificed if you do not control that land.
Example: Giant Shark: U5, 4/4, Island Home (if you control no islands, sacrifice this creature. If your opponent does not control an island, this creature cannot attack them). If Giant Shark enters combat with a creature that already taken damage this turn, it gets +2/+0 and Trample until end of turn
Marjhan: UU5, 8/8, Island Home. Marjhan enters the battlefield tapped and does not untap as normal during your untap step. UU: sacrifice a creature: Untap Marjhan. Play this ability only during your upkeep. UU: Marjhan gets -1/-0 until end of turn: Marjhan deals 1 damage to target attacking creature without flying
So yea... im pretty shocked these 2 avoided the bottom 10 O.O
Aside from island home those two seem to have narrow but actual upside from the second abilities you mentioned. Great Shark doesn't hurt you for coming down, and Marjhan has a ping ability for defense. Together the two actually make a decent defense, especially when creatures were a lot worse.
I loved the leviathan card and he terrified my buddies because once he hit the table it was game over! My favorite card ever… until I played him against real decks 😂😂😂 it’s crazy how many of these cards we tried to use back in the pre internet days thinking “there is no way this card could be this bad”
Love these top 10 worst videos, they always give me a laugh
What song is played in the outro?
No Scornful Egotist?? Damn guess he's so bad he shouldn't be brought up
Well he has a purpose... and that purpose is to be a high CMC creature that you can cast for a lot less mana. It's not much, but it's something.
Egotist is a 2/2 for 3 that can turn into upside which is better than anything on this list
Egotist takes the punches. In a well built wizard deck, the CMC pays for itself plus a tap body. i scoff at those who mock the Egotist.
Egotist, while isnt that good, was in an environment where its absurdly high CMC actually counts. There were several spells and effects that check your permanent with highest CMC and this card is a decent choice since you can sneak it in pretty early. After flipping it from being a Grey Ogre, your spells would be counting 8 for its effects (i.e Torrent of Fire deals X damage to any target, where X is the highest CMC among permanents you control)
The Saprazzan Outrigger is actually the basis for the very first deck I EVER designed, almost 20 years ago: it exploited ETB effects, specifically the red enchantment Furious Assault (better known as the Strictly Worse Impact Tremors), to stall the board and gradually whittle down the opponent's Life. ...and, even though it was my very first deck EVER, I recognized that the Outrigger was crap (for the reasons you identified) and replaced it with Shrieking Drake and Imaginary Pet. It was a great inspiration; it's a terrible card.
This brings me back to when I first starting playing and how HORRIBLE my blue deck was that ran only Leviathan and Polar Kraken as wincons. Which looking back, I don't blame anyone but myself for losing every single game I played with that deck. Didn't help it was usually multiplayer games so playing a control deck was the shortest path to defeat.
Dont worry... im on the same mindset as you. Big numbers is just attractive to kids O.O
Also... to give Polar Kraken some credit, it's WAY easier to use compared to Leviathan. There ARE scenarios where you would only lose 3 lands and win the game ... as opposed to Leviathan which would cost at least 8 on its own. Kraken was THE biggest creature until Vision's Phyrexian Marauder was printed... and was still an ok choice for reanimators looking to close out a game ASAP (tried it with Animate Dead as early as turn 3.. I usually get to swing in at least once before that Dark Banishing would take it out)
Wait but control has always been superior in 3+ player games. Aggro is just inherently dogshit in a Format where you have to depleat more then one life total to zero
Wow. That Svyelunite Priest is terrible 😂 if your opponent does have instant speed removal, the ability is useless because they'll cast it in response to your activated ability. If they don't have instant speed removal, the ability is irrelevant.
How did the devs miss the fact the timing restriction is so counterintuitive, it makes it literally useless. There are zero scenarios it actually works 😂
6:11
Actually, there is three I can think of.
Damage spells that can't completely kill one of your creature. Like if you attack with with a X/3, it get blocked by a 1/X and then it get shocked for 2.(Could just take out the priest if it that much of a issue for the opponent however)
All those "Destroy target creatures if they taken damage this turn" spells.
And the "Target attacking creature" cards.
Still pretty useless, but not completely.
@@scapheap Fair. You are correct. Scenarios so flipping niche I didn't even consider them 😂 The Preist has the most mild, impossible-to-predict scenarios where the ability helps lol
Zephyr spirit is one of my fav cards, when i was a kid i had a spirit and arcane deck where it, blinking spirit and oyobi were my favs
MaRo on Zephyr Spirit: "Every once in a while we want a creature so bad even the beginners get it’s bad." He didn't elaborate WHY they want such a creature, but, mission accomplished I suppose.
Potential Remy parody: I’m Blue (If You Play Me You’ll Die)
4:15 WAIT I’m Wu (Can’t Believe I Cost Five)
I ran a Leviathan/Animate Dead/Homarid Spawning bed deck for a while. Never tried to attack with the Leviathan- just put it through the bed, get it back out with an Animate Dead and get lots of 1/1 creatures. It worked reasonably well- and was fun to play.
Yet another list of awful cards with awesome art. Elder Spawn is just delightfully bizarre and creepy, plus the lighting is really interesting. Vodalian War Machine on the other hand has always been hilarious to me because it looks like a carousel. All those merfolk are just having fun at the fairground!
I wish Leviathan was better. Such cool flavor and art. And being THE Leviathan of biblical myth... Maybe make an updated, Legendary card that refrences the original in a Commander set or something.
I started my collection the day The Dark came out. I opened a Leviathan and soooooooooooooooooooooo wanted it to be good.
You can use my Leviathan in the thumbnail, but you can never convince 11 year old me cracking it from a pack that it is not the ultimate bomb, hahah.
I still have a mono blue bounce deck that uses it as a finisher.. at this point more of a callback to my original love for the card, but it’s still kicking in a semi-competitive deck in my circle at least!
Love the Top 10 lists!😅
I'm just glad you didn't put a Homarid on here. Nobody, and I mean *NOBODY* would survive dissing Homarids. The amount of emotion I would feel would be the exact opposite of the day we finally got "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)"!
There was actually one Homarid that saw meta relevance. It was Deep Spawn... thanks to its relatively big booty (6/6), trample, its ability to dodge spot removal (shroud) and a relatively negligible drawback (mill yourself 2 cards per turn). Reanimators used to love the card
MtG card idea inspired by Saprazzan Raider: Saprazzan Waverider - 2B - 3/2 - Haste, Skulk - When this creature enters the battlefield, you get a wave counter. Whenever Saprazzan Waverider becomes blocked, you get x treasure tokens, were x is the number of wave counters you have, the Saprazzan Waverider is returned to your hand
Old Giant Blue sea creatures have cool artwork at the very least.
Also, I hope you are feeling better Nizzahon.
You can actually cheat Leviathan into “attacking” with Ilharg, the Raze-Boar to try to bypass the Leviathan's downsides
Sure can.
But you can also do this with much better cards.
Surprised Ovinomancer didn't make the list though I guess it at least tries to do something. Removing a single creature a turn after casting it and after bouncing 3 of your own lands, only to have Ovinomancer return to hand seems hilarously overcosted.
If i were to just guess: that thing was Blue's only creature that can get rid of an opponent's creature with little questions asked at the time. Yea its slow... but it gets the job done. Turning an opponent's 6/5 Spirit of the Night into a 0/1 sheep is still something relevant
But it IS bad tho...
Also..
Sheep token!
Edit: you can actually make this card work with a global haste card (i.e Anger). Play the Ovinomancer, activate effect, bounce it to hand, then decline to pay the ETB cost. It just becomes a bad sorcery for 3 to destroy anything and create a sheep token. If you have Alluren, you can make this an instant, 0 cost removal spell. Convoluted, sure... but it can work
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I love Leviathan’s art. Seeing it for the first time forever shaped my mental image of all Leviathans. Tedin’s art is awesome.
Although I knew it was a hard card to work with even then. Too costly.
Sarpazzan Outrigger does not deserver to be on a 'worst card list'. I played it in Masques Limited, and it was actually really good. Unlike the other creatures tied in #1, The outrigger is aggressively costed and actually kills stuff in combat (the ability works different from the other two cards). Masques block was so bad that you had to consider: would you want to draw a 5/5 for 4 each turn? In most cases, that's better than every other card in blue you could draw in masques block. The outrigger owned the ground, while you flew over with your airships.
I'm surprised that a two mana 1/1 or 1/2 hits the list. At least in draft, I'd rather have one of those instead of a Leviathan or one of blue's other overcosted creatures with downside.
Why? A 1/1 accomplishes so little. At least the other creatures can win combat on their own.
@@BobardeZanzibar A 1/1 can do 5% of the damage needed to kill an opponent, or kill an attacking x/1 or chump block something or be sacrificed to something. And a two mana card can almost always be played; a ten mana card is often just dead weight in your hand.
I think Zephyr Spirit has been used in Spirit decks.
Possibly due to card interactions?
Me: "It's gonna be hard to hear him slam Leviathan. That was one of my favorite cards when I was a kid, and I insisted on playing it in my decks."
Nizzahon: "Leviathan was one of my favorite cards when I was a kid, and I insisted on playing it in my decks."
Honorable mention for sapphire leech?
Leviathan has close place to my heart .Since my BEATDOWN BOX SET back in 2001 . What an Excellent product for its time . Even won a few games with Leviathan . Still love the time when my buddy played a hunted wumpus hahahahahah ! niche but nice
I almost feel like you should do worst creatures of all time before or after 1999
You know, I've done time specific ones before -- like only looking at Standard or Modern, but they do far worse in terms of views.
Leviathan is worst blue creature with the best art …you should do a worst card/best art series
Already did it.
@@NizzahonMagic I stand corrected - leviathan has some of my favorite art period…and it sucks that it is on such a terrible card
Surprised Leyline Phantom escaped that top group. Is it because it’s at least square and not like a 0/6?
I get the MM block was supposed to be watered down in contrast to the Urza block, but what they they thinking when they made Saprazzan Outrigger? Like the goggles, it does nothing!
I'm surprised Scornful Egotist didn’t make it.
It isn't nearly as bad as people think. Don't get me wrong -- it's bad. But it is a three mana 2/2 with upside.
I’ll try to fix Port Inspector. Make it a 2/1 instead of a 1/2, and change it’s ability to trigger when it attacks. Then I think it’s decent.
One day you'll do a Top 10 when I own as many cards as I do on your worst lists ... one day
Have you done a Top 10 Most Expensive Cards Banned Everywhere? 'Coz that would be an interesting list.
I would put +1 counters on port inspector and give the choice of taking 3 or 4 or let me see there hand
Sounds like a good way to lose.
@@NizzahonMagic lol, not for strategy purpose. Just giving a option for opponents
2:24 then why is it so much goddamn money?
For flavor, Port Inspector should have been a 1/4 with reach that when it blocks you get to look at op hand.
LSV might disagree with your power assessment of looking at your opponents hand. He values it a lot.
He values it on cards that do something else, yeah. We're not talking about Gitaxian Probe or a discard spell here.
Haven't watched yet, but if Vizzerdrix isn't on this list, I'll be surprised
If you think a 7-mana 6/6 is worse than any of these, you're wrong. Haha.
To bad to Nizzahon that Teeka's Dragon is not Blue.
Port inspector is funny AF
Why not Vizzerdrx😢
Polar Kraken didn't make the list! WOOOOOOOO.
It still sucks, even though I love it.
How can be port inspector worse than elder spawn idk
I mean it's bad but not that bad to be in this top come on hahahahha
Lots of fallen empires on here...... no surprise
Leviathan should be #1. Maybe it still holds a soft spot for you.
Haha maybe.
Hey Nizzahom I’m interested in some Unbanning Videos. Fastest Unbanning or Longest to get Unbanned/Unrestricted(the opposite)
Leviathan was tricky at the time bc a 10/10 for 9 was insane value, but all that downside...
No Giant Shark? It seems worse than most of these.
Smh those saprazzan folks know how to make atrocious creatures. One may be a flule, but two is clearly a talent b
Ok, I'm going to go to bat for Port Inspector:
Yes, it's bad, but it's effectively a vanilla 2 mana 1/2 which is not bad enough to put on a 'worst' list. Something like Balduvian Conjurer or Cloud Skate, or Coastal Drake, or Coral Fighters, or Homarid Shaman, or Merfolk Seer are infinitely worse cards
I expected polar kraken to be on this list but... wuff, some of these cards are just worse than that somehow LOL
Wouldn't Vodalian War Machine be decent while blocking? Think of it as a 0/4 Wall that can get +2/+1 with every Merfolk tapped - not such a bad cost back then
Still bad, but nowhere near as bad as the others...
i predict this list to be full of leviathans. and big awful blue creatures
I'm surprised that scornful egotistical didn't make the list. An 8 mana 1/ 1 is pretty bad.
It’s also a 3 mana 2/2.
I'd rather have a 2 mana 1/2 that has a tiny bit of upside than a 3 mana 2/2 whi is only good at pretending to be something good. Lol.
WOTC actively making bad cards : wtf are you doing you're ruining the game! WOTC actively making good cards: wtf are you doing you're ruining the game!
Nice
Expected to see scornful egotist. It's always been a mindbogglingly bad creature to me.
Egotist is actually a combo card. You're not supposed to ever cast it for its mana cost. Its failcase is being a 3 mana 2/2, which is pretty awful nowadays but was a decent if unimpressive body back in the day. But its true purpose is to be combined with cards that care about mana cost, of which the set it came in had a few. So it's basically a modal card, either a combo piece or a 3 mana 2/2 blocker if you happen to draw it when you can't take advantage of its true purpose.
I dunno if it ever saw competitive play anywhere, but even if the Egotist was *just* a 3 mana 2/2 with no other upside, I don't think it would even make this list
It appeared in a set were casting cost mattered so it had a narrow use case. So egotistical wasn't always awful (don't get me wrong it was never good) so doesn't make the lists
3 mana 2/2 is with funny "cmc matters" upside is "mindbogglingy bad"? You should never look at this Video, you might faint xD
So Vizzerdrix is basically a better Elderspawn? Lol
I'm no game designer, but why a Zephyr Spirit, a literal wind spirit, DOES NOT FLY? Top 10 cards that should fly but doesnt when? haha
"Knowing your opponent's hand isnot very good" have you ever played magic? Yes the card is bad but that kind if effect is extremely powerful
Nope, I've never played Magic. You got me.
The effect is powerful when attached to a real card worth of value. (See: Thoughtseize or Gitaxian Probe). It has never been powerful when that's the only effect you get. In the cae of the Inspector, you have a highly conditional version of the effect attached to an understatted creature. My point is that the upside on the card is very, very small -- and it is.
Scornful egotist?
I actually have Leviathan in my commander deck. My goal is to win with it.
You should pick better goals
@@fastydave burn like a mono-red
Good luck with that
@@nickbalmes6640 Thanks! I like how getting it and using it is like a final attack in a way!
Wilderness hypnotist could've literally costed one mana at this point, weakened any creature, and it'd STILL be bad 😂
Outrigger was decent in MM draft. Shouldn't be on this list.
You remember MM draft differently than me.
Shift+coalition victory plus two triones= win. That doesn't make shyft good but I think it should arguably keep it of the list since it can at least make some fun commander decks if coalition Victory wasn't banned.
Scornful egotist?