I'd actually played Battle Cry when it was a new card and because of its age and relative obscurity, it can almost play like a Settle the Wreckage where you only have three open. If you're playing an aggressive white deck and leave three mana open, an opponent really might not know what kind of fresh hell they're in for...
I was thinking about how I get to activate my strong white creatures twice in a turn. This card doesn't have to be a combat trick, it can win games thought.
in defense of rapid fire, in an old ask wizards answer it was explained rampage's effect was changed partway through legends design. it was originally intended to be a creature with rampage x can attack x times. that caused a lot of rules problems at the time so it was swapped out with something less complicated.
As mentioned on the Worst Instants list: you can also combine Glyph of Destruction with Regeneration/Indestructible effects, like Wall of Bone or Amaranthine Wall, but just like I said there: that's still especially narrow.
(2:46) Yeah, I've tried combining Glyph of Destruction with Fling in the past, and I usually couldn't get it to work well enough. (10:37) Rhystic Study? I knew that was a valuable card, but never knew it could be used as a combat trick. :P (You obviously meant Rhystic Shield, of course.) (11:15) It does a second thing, actually. It untaps all your white creatures. I can see that being useful to surprise your opponent when they think you're wide open to attack.
It seems like half of the cards on every "worst cards" video are cards from 1994-1996 that are very underpowered for their cost, are extremely situational, or both. I'd like to see what these lists look like if you ignored cards that were only printed in Magic's first 5-10 years.
Yeah, he could make a "top 100 worst Ice Age cards" video and just list almost every card printed in Ice Age. Nothing like a set that introduces a mechanic (snow-covered lands, in this case) and then prints cards that almost exclusively punish any player for using snow-covered lands. Not to mention the Yu-gi-oh levels of text on most Ice Age cards.
I did recently do "Worst cards in Standard," and that sounds like it is more up your alley. I will be doing the same for some other formats too (Pioneer, etc.,).
Rapid Fire still sucks terrible without the "play before defense is chosen" clause. If you could cast it after blockers are declared, the Rampage 2 wouldn't do anything since the bonus triggers when the extra blockers are declared.
I adore bad combat tricks, bad cards in general are just magnificent. There's something about the fact that these cards will never get put on "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)" though that just makes me feel like they're not *perfect.* But hey, I did once try to make an EDH deck around Wicked Reward, so that card gets bonus points.
@Matthew Gagnon, I see, especially looking at how Wizards built the world around Kaladesh to be a place of awe and admiration for artifice. It's a shame though how it seemed many players were too distracted by the ordeal surrounding Aetherworks Marvel to take in the feel of the world of Kaladesh at the time.
@@normanbromley-xd7ls most magic worlds are not at all "gritty". The last one i could remember would be amonkhet and even then its arguable . Also are you that mad about marvel you had to shoehorn it in a completely different discussion?
My go-to first pick for a reliable combat trick has been coat with venom ever since dtk. deathtouch usually guarantees a kill of enemy creature, and +2 toughness will usually mean my creature survives too, and when it doesn't it is trading up heavily. And it only costs 1 mana.
I think battlecry is more useful for the untap effect than the buff, because if you are tapped out your opponent may attack you thinking it'll go through but you then untap everything and block.
Yeah, that one seems enormously better than Rhystic Shield just for the untap alone. You can tap something twice in a turn, or all out your opponent when they have lethal on you and you don't have it on them. They'll let it through and take a ton of damage and then you can surprise them by being able to block. Now it's still not great, but I can't really fathom it being the worst combat trick.
I think battle cry actually has a purpose, untapping white creatures, while narrow, can be quite an okay effect in decks that want to tap creatures for value, not saying its a good card, just saying that way more restrictive cards like rapid fire are probably worse by a landslide, since they sever close to no purpose and lacking utillity. in addition battle cry can be cast anytime for a storm/cast spell trigger, which can add even more value, not a lot, however its a thing it can do.
I used Wicked Renewal back when combat damage went on the stack in a deck that used primarily shadow creatures to deal damage. It was great for coming out of nowhere to get the last damage in.
Barreling Attack is even worse than you claim since, if you play it after blocks, the +1/+1 ability you've given the creature never even triggers. The combat trick only works if you tell them it's coming.
My first deck that I built from scratch was a deck which one of its main win conditions was Glyph of Destruction + Fling. There were a handful of ways that I could make this one shot an opponent. The deck wasn't amazing, but it was actually competitive with the power level in my play group.
Now that you mentionned Glyph of destruction & Fling combo, I really want to try a red wall deck in pauper, Cinder wall & Wall of torches are great candidates and can also crew vehicules and defender's already a pauper archetype so you could just include those...🤔
Its crazy how much one mana makes such a huge difference. Rhystic shield would be super good in pauper at one mana, dodging electrickeries and possibly cannonades considering how mana intensive the decks tend to be
Can someone explain to me what the intended benefit of Yare even is? Like why would you want to give an opposing creature the ability to block more of your attackers, even if it didn't grant the power boost?
I've used Wicked Reward in a mono black aggro deck (back in the day): it wasn't so terrible back then. Swing with three critters to try and get that last 6 damage, sac whatever gets blocked and win.
Battle Cry should've been considered to be less bad, solely because that flavor text is valuable life advice. Got me fired from my job at a daycare, but still. Valuable advice!
"worst card type" are my favourite episodes, because while it is clear that not every card should be equally great, worst cards are so bad that you think "how they were ever conceived? Who thought that this would be at least passable?"
theres a weird thing with the audio where the audio noticeably jumps in volume where i can tell where you spliced takes that i have *never* noticed in one of your videos before, i think something didnt export right. The content is as great as always, though. i for one really enjoy the worst lists, theyre my favorite content of yours
1. That flavour though! 4. But imagine how good that will be when someone inevitably blocks your Emrakul with 15 squirrel tokens! The internet tells me that happens a lot. 10. I actually unironically run this in a mono white Soldier deck. Only kitchen table level play, but it works there.
I fail to see the problem with Barreling Attack. It turns one of your creatures into a partial Teeka's Dragon for a turn. Looks more like a Vintage staple.
It seems that the floor for combat tricks is a bit higher than for some other card types. Pretty much all of these, if you were playing a deck in the right colors and it showed up in your hand, or something let you play it from an opponent's deck, you might play. One With Nothing or Alabaster Leech or Akron Legionnaire or Mishra's War Machine would likely stay in hand.
Wicked reward is full of flavour because the black creature is an atog from the ATOG family that get bonuses when you sacrifice something (atog, psychatog, megatog )
perhaps not as bad as the cards on the list but in terms of awkwardness Burning Sun's Fury is right up there. the combination of having convoke and giving haste to 2 creatures ist just so strange to play with
I could see Rhystic Shield being used in Arcades or Doran for a possible 3 power boost or even a Taxes deck where you'd want to make your opponents tap out. To be honest a full board +0/+1 for two instant isn't a bad rate even though it isn't great, there are plenty of +0/+2 for three which I feel is a worse rate. It just needs the right deck to shine but it could pull its weight.
Unnerving Assault is really good in the right deck. Just put it in Ovika, cast it before combat and you have 3 2/1 goblins with haste + a 1/0 bonus for the team.
Slapping Lure on a creature was pretty popular back then, so they made a lot of cards that interacted with that combat dynamic. After a while people realized spending eight mana and two cards on a Lured Thicket Basilisk wasn't as effective on spending the same resources on Ernham Djijin and Armageddon.
Yare could actually be a funny political card in EDH. Because of the way it is worded, you could cast it on an opponent's creature during the turn they're being attcked by a different opponent to cause some funny blow out scenarios. Obviously still situational and clunky, even in that scenario, but could be fun to play it that way.
I own over half of these already, which is kind of funny. I bought my cousins old stuff a few years ago and it had a ton of these terrible effects hidden inside
Wouldn’t it make more sense to list combat tricks that no longer work since damage was removed from the stack? Also combat tricks that no longer work properly due to switching from batch to stack?
@@davidlundquist1979 don’t forget that originally creatures healed automatically after a batch resolved, then they changed it to at end of phase. Even plain vanilla creatures used to be stronger. Then it was healed at end of turn.
I know Yare isn't a good card but it seems a lot better than most cards on this list, in addition to being able to 3 for 2 your opponent it will often save you a bit of life. I could see it having niche cases where you'd want it in a control deck vs creature based agro deck situation. Granted you'd never want to put it in your deck but there are times where it does a nice combination of things that other cards don't.
The top 1 isn't that bad, although to be fair to Nizzahon what makes it not bad is not really an application of the card as a combat trick. The boost to the creatures is middling at best but the untap effect's ceiling is enormously high. Including multicolor creatures there are tons of potential creatures where using their tap activated ability twice is brutal, and I play a Marneus Calgar token deck right now where untapping all my white creatures at instant speed would both enable more effective attacking and potentially blow an opponent out of the water on their attack with a single 3 mana card. Thinking about it I'm tempted to include it, but given that the sets released after the 40k decks were very token-focused, I've already had multiple difficult cut down sessions and don't want to do that again.
I think Unnerving Assault would have been decent (not great, but playable in the right decks) in limited, except that limited environment was busted as hell
I can't lie, I love the flavor on Glyph of Destruction, as bad as the card is. Wicked Reward and Yar have some awesome art, it's a shame they aren't attached to better cards. It just looks like Mirage block had a lot of bad combat tricks xD
Lol, i played wicked reward back in the day before my brother and i knew how to make good decks. I played one single copy. I add a red/black aggro deck and the idea is i play it on my winning turn. My opponent is at 12, i attack all out, i sac the blocked guy to have unblocked guy deal 4 damage extra, then i cast face lightning bolt, then incenerate, and for 5 mana i am doing 10 damage plus two more from my attacker. It wasnt good, but one single copy could feel like 4 damage for two mana with a deck full of fast creatures and burn spells.
Battle Cry isn't the worst combat trick ever. The ability to untap all your white creatures can be useful as the opponent probably won't expect it allowing for some blowouts. It's not particularly good but a lot better than the worst.
@@matthewgagnon9426 not even remotely similar situation. I'm merely pointing out a point that he missed which if you wanted to tap down your creatures to convoke, activate abilities, combo off etc and then use it to untap your board your opponent will have 1 more toughness on all his blockers cause the effect doesn't specify "your" blockers. It just adds a free boost for your opponent's response
I just noticed something very peculiar about your channel : Your historically most important format is Top 10, and more recently you've beginning to do Deck History things ! Those 2 formats mostly revolve around constructed magic ! But the only MTG you play on the channel (nowadays) is Limited ! That's quite funny, but oddly fitting with you having an historian background (iirc) !
I think you were too hard on battle cry… it’s bad but definitely not #1 worst. Untapping all your white creatures sounds very powerful in the right scenario or deck
Battle Cry shouldn't be here, it should be in an underrated white cards in EDH list. It's not "just" a combat trick, it untaps Mother of Runes (3? versions now), Mikaeus, Witch Hunter, Tempest's Orim, the ramping Wayfarer, you have a lot of uses with Battle Cry than just block, on which part Jason Barry in their comment covered perfectly.
There are four two mana White cards that untap ALL of your creatures + some other effect, not just the White ones, so it is pretty obsolete. Is it better than deserving to be at #1? Maybe. But there's still no reason to use it, and it isn't underrated.
@@NizzahonMagic Battle Cry was overpowered already in Alliances by Energy Arc, I'm well aware. Tims, Witch Hunter, Mana makers, lots of fun. But that's my point - the combat trick is the bonus aspect in Battle Cry. You don't compare it with the Shield Walls, but with untappers. I think 65 decks is underrated, maybe that's where it should be. I do accept that I might be biased towards my own beginnings :)
Aleatory didnt make this list... This is gonna be interesting R1, instant, play only after blockers are declared. Flip a coin. If you win the flip, target creature gets +1 / +1 until end of turn. Draw a card at the beginning of your next upkeep
@@NizzahonMagic I see.. you're right. At least you still get something out of it... I just wish it just gave that +1/+1 boost no questions asked. I wonder why they thought they needed to make it a 50% chance. Even back then, this was highly underpowered and you would rather sleeve in an Incinerate or a better burn spell at that mana cost. Also, I found out the HARD way that Wicked Reward could not sacrifice multiple creatures... LMAO a judge got called over while we were in the middle of the game and it was a "moon or bust" scenario. I needed to deal 10 damage. I had a 2/1 creature that got in for damage, and I thought I could sac my 2 other attacking creatures but... nope... so I lost in the backswing TwT
I can’t imagine a world where suddenly having unexpected blockers available is worse than a +0/+3 your opponent can pay to turn off for the same price
Yea that card is actually decent. I can see it winning you a commander game for example, it doesn't belong in this list
I'd actually played Battle Cry when it was a new card and because of its age and relative obscurity, it can almost play like a Settle the Wreckage where you only have three open. If you're playing an aggressive white deck and leave three mana open, an opponent really might not know what kind of fresh hell they're in for...
I was thinking about how I get to activate my strong white creatures twice in a turn. This card doesn't have to be a combat trick, it can win games thought.
in defense of rapid fire, in an old ask wizards answer it was explained rampage's effect was changed partway through legends design. it was originally intended to be a creature with rampage x can attack x times. that caused a lot of rules problems at the time so it was swapped out with something less complicated.
As mentioned on the Worst Instants list: you can also combine Glyph of Destruction with Regeneration/Indestructible effects, like Wall of Bone or Amaranthine Wall, but just like I said there: that's still especially narrow.
It means its passable in a gimmicky wall-tribal deck. but, is that even a thing?
I guess it could also be changeling-only removal.
@@tefnutstemple7433 for what it's worth, enabling wall tribal would absolutely be a pet goal of mine if i ever found myself as part of r&d
@Tefnut's Temple good obscure way to remove a Taurine Mauler.
(2:46) Yeah, I've tried combining Glyph of Destruction with Fling in the past, and I usually couldn't get it to work well enough.
(10:37) Rhystic Study? I knew that was a valuable card, but never knew it could be used as a combat trick. :P (You obviously meant Rhystic Shield, of course.)
(11:15) It does a second thing, actually. It untaps all your white creatures. I can see that being useful to surprise your opponent when they think you're wide open to attack.
I'm not crazy. He said study which I found interesting
Once upon a time i also tried Glyph of Destruction with Fork and Fling. It was truly a wish upon the stars to align.
The rhystic cycle from prophecy is getting wrecked
It seems like half of the cards on every "worst cards" video are cards from 1994-1996 that are very underpowered for their cost, are extremely situational, or both. I'd like to see what these lists look like if you ignored cards that were only printed in Magic's first 5-10 years.
Yeah, he could make a "top 100 worst Ice Age cards" video and just list almost every card printed in Ice Age. Nothing like a set that introduces a mechanic (snow-covered lands, in this case) and then prints cards that almost exclusively punish any player for using snow-covered lands. Not to mention the Yu-gi-oh levels of text on most Ice Age cards.
I did recently do "Worst cards in Standard," and that sounds like it is more up your alley.
I will be doing the same for some other formats too (Pioneer, etc.,).
Rapid Fire still sucks terrible without the "play before defense is chosen" clause. If you could cast it after blockers are declared, the Rampage 2 wouldn't do anything since the bonus triggers when the extra blockers are declared.
I adore bad combat tricks, bad cards in general are just magnificent. There's something about the fact that these cards will never get put on "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)" though that just makes me feel like they're not *perfect.* But hey, I did once try to make an EDH deck around Wicked Reward, so that card gets bonus points.
I've been trying to make One With Nothing work for the better half of a decade now 😅
I absolutely adore bad cards
It’s questionable to call Rapid Fire a combat “trick”
It definitely surprises someone at instant speed with how bad it is
Also Rapid Fire has art that doesn't fit the gritty feel of Magic worlds.
@@normanbromley-xd7ls Magic has plenty of times not been gritty.
@Matthew Gagnon, I see, especially looking at how Wizards built the world around Kaladesh to be a place of awe and admiration for artifice. It's a shame though how it seemed many players were too distracted by the ordeal surrounding Aetherworks Marvel to take in the feel of the world of Kaladesh at the time.
@@normanbromley-xd7ls most magic worlds are not at all "gritty". The last one i could remember would be amonkhet and even then its arguable . Also are you that mad about marvel you had to shoehorn it in a completely different discussion?
Well, at least battle cry untaps your creatures. I guess it can used for some convoke thing?
Untap is it's main effect - and it's not even good at that! There are multiple cards that untap for 1W
@@matthewbarratt4935 what 1w card untaps ALL your creatures ?
Call to Glory
Rally of Wings
Roar of the Kha
To Arms
My go-to first pick for a reliable combat trick has been coat with venom ever since dtk. deathtouch usually guarantees a kill of enemy creature, and +2 toughness will usually mean my creature survives too, and when it doesn't it is trading up heavily. And it only costs 1 mana.
Seems to me like Yare would pare really well with a First Strike creature.
Or something with deathtouch
I saw what you did there 😂
This makes Rhystic study look like mutagenic growth.
I think battlecry is more useful for the untap effect than the buff, because if you are tapped out your opponent may attack you thinking it'll go through but you then untap everything and block.
Yeah, that one seems enormously better than Rhystic Shield just for the untap alone. You can tap something twice in a turn, or all out your opponent when they have lethal on you and you don't have it on them. They'll let it through and take a ton of damage and then you can surprise them by being able to block. Now it's still not great, but I can't really fathom it being the worst combat trick.
I think battle cry actually has a purpose, untapping white creatures, while narrow, can be quite an okay effect in decks that want to tap creatures for value, not saying its a good card, just saying that way more restrictive cards like rapid fire are probably worse by a landslide, since they sever close to no purpose and lacking utillity.
in addition battle cry can be cast anytime for a storm/cast spell trigger, which can add even more value, not a lot, however its a thing it can do.
That is definitely Master Shredder from TMNT in the artwork for Flowstone Strike (4:54). You can't change my mind.
I never knew there was a card called Yare! XD
Battle cry was good in the day when you played against multiple people.
Barreling Attack does combine well with cards like Lure, or the Nessian Boar. If it must be blocked by everything, the boost gets massive.
I used Wicked Renewal back when combat damage went on the stack in a deck that used primarily shadow creatures to deal damage. It was great for coming out of nowhere to get the last damage in.
Yeah but have you considered the fact that Flowstone Strike has Shredder fighting Dirk the Daring on it? 10/10 card
Barreling Attack is even worse than you claim since, if you play it after blocks, the +1/+1 ability you've given the creature never even triggers. The combat trick only works if you tell them it's coming.
My first deck that I built from scratch was a deck which one of its main win conditions was Glyph of Destruction + Fling. There were a handful of ways that I could make this one shot an opponent. The deck wasn't amazing, but it was actually competitive with the power level in my play group.
Prediction: something with flowstone but only for your side is on here
Fanatical Fever looks like Beavis doing his Cornholio routine lol he needs TP for his bunghole and he'll go to any length to get it lol
All combat tricks are beautiful
Now that you mentionned Glyph of destruction & Fling combo, I really want to try a red wall deck in pauper, Cinder wall & Wall of torches are great candidates and can also crew vehicules and defender's already a pauper archetype so you could just include those...🤔
Actually finished someone off with Glyph of Destruction+ Wall of Fire and Fling in EDH. It was beautiful.
Its crazy how much one mana makes such a huge difference. Rhystic shield would be super good in pauper at one mana, dodging electrickeries and possibly cannonades considering how mana intensive the decks tend to be
Can someone explain to me what the intended benefit of Yare even is? Like why would you want to give an opposing creature the ability to block more of your attackers, even if it didn't grant the power boost?
You can boost your own creatures with it, just only when you're defending. It doesn't specify that it affects your opponent's creatures
Can you force an opponents defending creature to block a specific creature that you are attacking with?
I've used Wicked Reward in a mono black aggro deck (back in the day): it wasn't so terrible back then. Swing with three critters to try and get that last 6 damage, sac whatever gets blocked and win.
Battle Cry should've been considered to be less bad, solely because that flavor text is valuable life advice. Got me fired from my job at a daycare, but still. Valuable advice!
"worst card type" are my favourite episodes, because while it is clear that not every card should be equally great, worst cards are so bad that you think "how they were ever conceived? Who thought that this would be at least passable?"
theres a weird thing with the audio where the audio noticeably jumps in volume where i can tell where you spliced takes that i have *never* noticed in one of your videos before, i think something didnt export right.
The content is as great as always, though. i for one really enjoy the worst lists, theyre my favorite content of yours
Rystic Shield isn't a good card, but saying it's worse than Rapid Fire? I felt like Rapid Fire was in a league of its own in terribleness
1. That flavour though!
4. But imagine how good that will be when someone inevitably blocks your Emrakul with 15 squirrel tokens! The internet tells me that happens a lot.
10. I actually unironically run this in a mono white Soldier deck. Only kitchen table level play, but it works there.
14 year old me is very called out by this list lol
I will say that Glyph + Fling was a lot of fun in the lunchroom in 8th grade.
I fail to see the problem with Barreling Attack. It turns one of your creatures into a partial Teeka's Dragon for a turn. Looks more like a Vintage staple.
well there's the 4 cmc.
It seems that the floor for combat tricks is a bit higher than for some other card types. Pretty much all of these, if you were playing a deck in the right colors and it showed up in your hand, or something let you play it from an opponent's deck, you might play. One With Nothing or Alabaster Leech or Akron Legionnaire or Mishra's War Machine would likely stay in hand.
I don't think Rapid Fire qualifies as a combat trick. Is it a trick if you must play it before blockers?
Wicked reward is full of flavour because the black creature is an atog from the ATOG family that get bonuses when you sacrifice something (atog, psychatog, megatog )
perhaps not as bad as the cards on the list but in terms of awkwardness Burning Sun's Fury is right up there. the combination of having convoke and giving haste to 2 creatures ist just so strange to play with
I cant be the only one who thinks that the right guy on the card at 4:58 looks like Shredder from TMNT right?
Nope!
@@NizzahonMagic glad im not alone. Thank you.
I could see Rhystic Shield being used in Arcades or Doran for a possible 3 power boost or even a Taxes deck where you'd want to make your opponents tap out. To be honest a full board +0/+1 for two instant isn't a bad rate even though it isn't great, there are plenty of +0/+2 for three which I feel is a worse rate. It just needs the right deck to shine but it could pull its weight.
Unnerving Assault is really good in the right deck. Just put it in Ovika, cast it before combat and you have 3 2/1 goblins with haste + a 1/0 bonus for the team.
Lure is mentioned quite often in "Worst" Top 10 Videos xD
Slapping Lure on a creature was pretty popular back then, so they made a lot of cards that interacted with that combat dynamic. After a while people realized spending eight mana and two cards on a Lured Thicket Basilisk wasn't as effective on spending the same resources on Ernham Djijin and Armageddon.
What happened to combat tricks that affect your opponent's creatures. Sure, a meh boost sucks, but what about a meh downgrade?
Yeah, I'd say disorient is worse than a lot of the cards on this list.
I got very excited seeing that the glyph only made number 10.
Yare could actually be a funny political card in EDH. Because of the way it is worded, you could cast it on an opponent's creature during the turn they're being attcked by a different opponent to cause some funny blow out scenarios. Obviously still situational and clunky, even in that scenario, but could be fun to play it that way.
I thought that odyssey card , last rites?? Would be on here for sure
I thought at first we had shirtless nizzahon guest starring here!
Love the worst lists as always Nizza
Yare on a deathtouch creature is narrow but really good
I own over half of these already, which is kind of funny. I bought my cousins old stuff a few years ago and it had a ton of these terrible effects hidden inside
Rhystic Shield has a home under Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant in Commander
Wouldn’t it make more sense to list combat tricks that no longer work since damage was removed from the stack? Also combat tricks that no longer work properly due to switching from batch to stack?
I know what you meant there, but "switching from batch to stack" still sounds really painful.
@@davidlundquist1979 don’t forget that originally creatures healed automatically after a batch resolved, then they changed it to at end of phase. Even plain vanilla creatures used to be stronger. Then it was healed at end of turn.
Battle Cry existed when banding was easily available for white. While terrible now, it was from it during its time.
I know Yare isn't a good card but it seems a lot better than most cards on this list, in addition to being able to 3 for 2 your opponent it will often save you a bit of life. I could see it having niche cases where you'd want it in a control deck vs creature based agro deck situation. Granted you'd never want to put it in your deck but there are times where it does a nice combination of things that other cards don't.
Me: The trick only has to work once.
Statistics: TRASH.
Me: What are the odds?
Glyph of destruction in a Boros Rolling Stones deck could be fun
#2 might work in a Arcades, the Strategist, and Doran, Siege Tower decks since 3 damage out of nowhere is not a good thing with those decks.
Battle Cry was actually not bad around the time I was playing it back in Ice Age.
yare really feels like it should give first strike
I wish Rhystic studies was the same price at mutegenic growth
Pramikon + Glyph of Destruction + Flint could be a thing 😂
Both 5 and 6 and illustrated by Ron Spencer… Poor guy
He painted a lot of bad cards.
The top 1 isn't that bad, although to be fair to Nizzahon what makes it not bad is not really an application of the card as a combat trick. The boost to the creatures is middling at best but the untap effect's ceiling is enormously high. Including multicolor creatures there are tons of potential creatures where using their tap activated ability twice is brutal, and I play a Marneus Calgar token deck right now where untapping all my white creatures at instant speed would both enable more effective attacking and potentially blow an opponent out of the water on their attack with a single 3 mana card. Thinking about it I'm tempted to include it, but given that the sets released after the 40k decks were very token-focused, I've already had multiple difficult cut down sessions and don't want to do that again.
There are four two mana White cards that untap ALL of your creatures + some other effect, not just the White ones, so it is pretty obsolete.
I think Unnerving Assault would have been decent (not great, but playable in the right decks) in limited, except that limited environment was busted as hell
Flowstone Strike: Yo, it's Shredder!
I thought the same thing.
And some how these are on the reserved list.
5:45
7:38
That #1 card... Who would have thought to see art like that...
I can't lie, I love the flavor on Glyph of Destruction, as bad as the card is.
Wicked Reward and Yar have some awesome art, it's a shame they aren't attached to better cards. It just looks like Mirage block had a lot of bad combat tricks xD
Top ten Timetwister effects!
Cast glyph on shapeshifters, boom 10 attack creatures!
Still has to be blocking.
Yare is a pretty bad card from Mirage. I can think of a much better card from that set with the best ability when in combat, Rampage 4.
I'm gonna attack you and God help you if you double block
Yeah man, back in mirage block one game I had 2 yare's and a daze... Good grief
I think Yare can be used when an opponent is attacking an opponent in edh
Lol, i played wicked reward back in the day before my brother and i knew how to make good decks. I played one single copy. I add a red/black aggro deck and the idea is i play it on my winning turn. My opponent is at 12, i attack all out, i sac the blocked guy to have unblocked guy deal 4 damage extra, then i cast face lightning bolt, then incenerate, and for 5 mana i am doing 10 damage plus two more from my attacker. It wasnt good, but one single copy could feel like 4 damage for two mana with a deck full of fast creatures and burn spells.
Battle Cry isn't the worst combat trick ever. The ability to untap all your white creatures can be useful as the opponent probably won't expect it allowing for some blowouts. It's not particularly good but a lot better than the worst.
I like the Fling/Glyph of Destruction thing. I don't care if it's jank. 😂
The last one is even worse cause if used offensively your opponent's blockers get boosted
That's like saying Doom Blade is terrible because you can kill your own creatures with it.
@@matthewgagnon9426 not even remotely similar situation. I'm merely pointing out a point that he missed which if you wanted to tap down your creatures to convoke, activate abilities, combo off etc and then use it to untap your board your opponent will have 1 more toughness on all his blockers cause the effect doesn't specify "your" blockers. It just adds a free boost for your opponent's response
Battle Cry may be the worst combat trick, but it works great on a W/x soldier tribal deck with Catapult Master.
For a second I thought you were naked save for the cap 😮
Battle Cry may be a bad combat trick but the untap isn't bad for Tappers decks. People play Village Bell Ringer for the same effect.
First!
This is gonna be a real unstacked list.
Does Blind Fury count as a combat trick?
Battle Cry is another Vitalize for white. Thank you for the find.
wall of junk, glyph of destruction, and glyph of doom beat that combo 👌🏻
Is that Shredder from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the Flowstone Strike artwork?
Wondering if yar could allow for some funny edh plays on your opponents. 🤔
"Glyph of Power" + Changeling Token + ??? = PROFIT
Don't forget it still has to be blocking.
@@NizzahonMagic Ah dang you're right 😅
At least number 6 combos well with [[Daze]]
I feel like 1/3 of your Top 10 Worsts Lists mention Lure effects so... how about Top 10 Best/Worst Lure Effects?
What is that art on Rapid Fire?! Lmao its as if WotC had a competition for middle school kids and whoever won gets their art put on a card.
Yare cannot target your creatures
It can, actually. It's a weird, archaic thing, but you're the defending player any time you get attacked.
Two words: SORROW'S PATH!!!!
I'm not sure in what world Battle Cry is a "combat trick". It shouldn't be on this list.
I just noticed something very peculiar about your channel :
Your historically most important format is Top 10, and more recently you've beginning to do Deck History things !
Those 2 formats mostly revolve around constructed magic !
But the only MTG you play on the channel (nowadays) is Limited !
That's quite funny, but oddly fitting with you having an historian background (iirc) !
Fighting Chance isn't on the list?? The fact that it's a rare makes it even more disappointing..
I think you were too hard on battle cry… it’s bad but definitely not #1 worst. Untapping all your white creatures sounds very powerful in the right scenario or deck
So it is fun taking all these worse of cards and put them in draft box
Battle Cry shouldn't be here, it should be in an underrated white cards in EDH list.
It's not "just" a combat trick, it untaps Mother of Runes (3? versions now), Mikaeus, Witch Hunter, Tempest's Orim, the ramping Wayfarer, you have a lot of uses with Battle Cry than just block, on which part Jason Barry in their comment covered perfectly.
There are four two mana White cards that untap ALL of your creatures + some other effect, not just the White ones, so it is pretty obsolete.
Is it better than deserving to be at #1? Maybe. But there's still no reason to use it, and it isn't underrated.
@@NizzahonMagic Battle Cry was overpowered already in Alliances by Energy Arc, I'm well aware. Tims, Witch Hunter, Mana makers, lots of fun. But that's my point - the combat trick is the bonus aspect in Battle Cry. You don't compare it with the Shield Walls, but with untappers.
I think 65 decks is underrated, maybe that's where it should be. I do accept that I might be biased towards my own beginnings :)
Aleatory didnt make this list...
This is gonna be interesting
R1, instant, play only after blockers are declared. Flip a coin. If you win the flip, target creature gets +1 / +1 until end of turn. Draw a card at the beginning of your next upkeep
The fact that you draw a card off of it keeps it from being a complete disaster.
@@NizzahonMagic I see.. you're right. At least you still get something out of it... I just wish it just gave that +1/+1 boost no questions asked. I wonder why they thought they needed to make it a 50% chance. Even back then, this was highly underpowered and you would rather sleeve in an Incinerate or a better burn spell at that mana cost.
Also, I found out the HARD way that Wicked Reward could not sacrifice multiple creatures... LMAO a judge got called over while we were in the middle of the game and it was a "moon or bust" scenario. I needed to deal 10 damage. I had a 2/1 creature that got in for damage, and I thought I could sac my 2 other attacking creatures but... nope... so I lost in the backswing TwT