Worst Planeswalkers in Magic: The Gathering
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If you loved the worst planeswalkers, go watch 1 Hour of the Worst Enchantments here: th-cam.com/video/hH7uidPXN-w/w-d-xo.html
What makes Huatli hilarious is that it’s in boros when all the good dinosaurs are green lol.
So hear me out about karn, imagine it’s an artifact thats 4 mana that says 1 tap: draw a card.
Wait… that’s still awful, nvm.
26:12 that’s why her+1 scrys
19:55
My boy really asked "why is a Planeswalker on a plane that isn't her own?" 😂
Every time we’re talking about bad walkers we need to exclude de precon walkers because they make the discussion pretty bland
I think they count anyway
@@NikachuMTGLive yeah, they do… but they are designed to be bad and take the entire video, pretty much … imo, that makes for a less interesting discussion than it could be otherwise
They're worse than the uncommon walkers from WAR.
I like them cause they foil
We do need to acknowledge them. Just because they're from precons doesn't mean they should not be mentioned
Samut giving haste is so when you use the last counter to give a creature +2/+1 and she dies, the creature she buffs will have haste even though Samut is dead.
I think samut is very good, since she also has 5 loyalty and you get to scry each time so yeah alongside that fiving haste she makes sense
I can see this maybe only in two-headed-giant format.
It does also make when you think how the turn would actually play out. You play samut, and if it isn't countered on the stack, the next time anyone can respond is to the loyalty activation (unless you do something else first) and that creature will get haste even if samut get blown up. So actually if the loyalty ability didn't give haste, the card would actually worse.
Garruk Apex Predator shouldn't be on this list his abilities are to good, the only draw back would be the 7 mana cost but he is in green which makes 7 a lot easier to attain.
Huatli is not worse than Tibalt by any stretch of the imagination but that didn't stop burger boy from saying it in chat 10 different times
What the hell, Garruk, Primal Hunter seems quite good. For green that is decent chance to draw 5-10 with 5 mana.
Not to mention that by the time you ult him you're putting 48 power on the board
He saw Sideboard play in ISD/RTR Standard in Jund sideboards. Totally fine card.
The Jace that makes illusions was from when he was amnesic in Ixalan and became a pirate after being recruited by Vraska.
Liliana deaths weirder is actually pretty good in hapatra commander deck. The sorcery card the fetches her puts -1/-1 on all opponents creatures so you could blow up the biggest threat next turn or +2 her to make more death touch snakes. She is a beefy meatshield cause no one is going to want you to Ult her
Thats what i was thinking
Here thirsty planeswalkers have some apple juice 🧃🧃🧃🧃
Take them before Space Beleren puts them in another sector!
Cunning Castaway should have at least made Illusion _Pirates._
I was new to magic and just found out about plainswalkers, someone offered me a trade their plainswalker with something else of value. I accepted because, PLAINSWALKER! That plainswalker was Tybalt The Feind-Blooded.
Huatli, Dinosaur Knight is worse than you think because there is a Vivien that does the same exact thing except it targets and creature you control. I think they both came out in the same set.
Vivien of The Arkbow from 2019. I was close. Lol
I believe Samut, Tyrant Smasher's ability also would work well on formats with teammates and with his -1 you can give your teamate's creature haste and a minor buff.
Garruk primal hunter made the list??? Damnnation. I made a mono green hydra deck loosely based off the professor’s (if ykyk) idea and I loved combining nissa who shakes the world and garruk primal hunter to pull legitimately all of my lands out of the deck, and then making 36-7 6/6 wurms. If my champion of lambholt managed to stick around too, that’s a game ender right there. But that’s a lot of pieces and I could understand how folks aren’t really a fan of big wind ups.
Saheeli, Sublime Artificer is really good in a Veyran/magecraft EDH deck. Her minus ability can be used to turn your sol ring into a copy of Guttersnipe or something like that
She's the crux of my artifact deck. If you can get her -4 off on turn 5, you can cheat out some pretty ridiculous stuff really early and it all has +1/+1.
I ran her in my Izzet Drakes deck when she was in standard and it worked pretty well. I try to fit her in some edh decks when I can too
I wouldn't say powerstones are useless. While you can't use them for nonartifact spells, you're free to use them for any kind of card abilities, includikäng ones that are used when (eg kicker) or instead of (eg channel) casting a spell. And of course any abilities of in-play permanents.
My nephew uses the Royal scions in his izzet burn deck. But he uses experimental overload. He’ll make the tokens pretty big and give them trample with their second ability.
Jace putting+1/+1 counters onto things makes sense now with him being compleated
In my opinion, a majority of planeswalkers are not great in general unless you can pull off their ultimate easily. As soon as you see one on the board, you or it becomes a target.
45:00 there wouldnt be a point in using Samut's ability om your opponents creature since it lasts until end of turn. The opponents creature would lose haste ability as soon as you pass. But it wouldn't matter because the creature will lose summoning sickness as soon as you pass the turn to them. Giving it double haste makes no difference at all.
I found use of Tibalt the Fiendblooded in a deck that revolves around looting. Not the best card in it, but it definitely makes people underestimate me.
niko aris is pretty neat with etb and ninjutsu creatures i think, plus shard tokens are great, the damage mode is pretty situational but that's not why i'd run them
Ob nixilies can be a 5 mana draw 2 or 5 mana removal or slug piece... Overcosted but very, very versatile
Bahamut is the god of all metallic dragons in DnD and those birds surrounding him are supposed to turn into ancient gold dragons. That is his lore and they used a picture acting like he is capable of making imposing dragons appear. Instead he just becomes a 7/7 dragon and he is capable of summoning monks instead of dragons. Grand Master of Flowers is a title for the strongest a monk can get back in older versions of DnD. The whole card is a spit in the face because whoever designed it knew everything about DnD, but nothing about the card mechanics of Magic. His counterpart turned out great. She ended up being a perfect depiction of a DnD character getting turned into a Magic card.
Basically Space Beleren’s ability is putting creatures into Domain Expansions
I love the worst cards lists, because unlike the best cards lists, i see all the stuff I pulled in the past.
And went straight to the jank pile
Sarkhan, the Mad is one of my game winners in my Karrthus EDH deck.
The key with Act of Treason effects is having a sac outlet. It's fine in the right Constructed deck, usually Rakdos, and similar effects aren't bad in Limited when one of the archetypes is Sac. Grab the critter, swing, sac it to get some bonus. It also works alright when the target is an Exert creature. I'm convinced I could come up with an Azorius Birds deck that's at least semi-competitive with Mu Yan Ling, Sky Dancer. Empyrean Eagle, Watcher of the Spheres, Nimble Obstructionist, other cheap flyers and birds with good abilities, and some disruption/counters.
About Garruk, Primal Hunter- if we're talking about competitive MTG, then by all means he is bad, but just like 5 Planeswalkers are really playable competitively. If we're talking kitchen table or commander, his -3 should always put you on a ridiculously high card advantage.
25:07 why don’t you understand that you are meant to use plus abilities first and then use the minuses only once you have enough loyalty that it doesn’t kill them, this goes for every planeswalker in the entire game.
43:33 The ability gives the creature haste because if it removes the last loyalty they still want your new creature to have haste. It's very edge case but still a thing.
Tyrant Smasher is the: Opps, All Berries of Haste granting lol...
Samut, Tyrant Smasher may be good in 2 headed giant. You can give your partners creatures haste.
33:49
I played it in an izzet second draw per turn deck while it was in standard on arena.
Was no topscorer in the end but fun to play and stronger than the average..
Wow im about to put that narset at 20:59 into my Kykar EDH deck lol
I could see Mu Yanling, Celestial Wind being useful if you use her abilities at instant speed, like Wondering Emperor.
46:30 this confused me for a long time too, but it's so that when you use the last 1 loyalty counter and the planeswalker dies, the creature can still have haste. It seems clunky like that but it's the only way that works
50:53 tl;dr battlefield have limited creature space, some spells or creatures can affect rows, columns or entire zones, similar to Space Jace. Some critters are allowed to be played only in specific zones, etc.
Comments on a couple of these planeswalkers:
Niko Aris: This is one of the few cards that can instantly create a large number of enchantment tokens. It works well with cards that care about the number of enchantments you control or enchantments entering the battlefield (e.g. Eidolon of Blossoms).
Nissa, Steward of of Elements: Scry 2 each turn doesn't do anything? Even on a 3 mana planeswalker that doesn't require you to spend additional mana and goes up by 2 each turn if you scry? What were you expecting a +2 on a 3 mana planeswalker to do? For such a low cost, Scry 2 on a +2 ability is really good.
Geyadrone Dihada: This planeswalker is unlikely to just get smacked and die because each turn, you're putting a corruption counter on the opponent's best creature, preventing it from dealing damage to Dihada, while it goes up in loyalty. The main ability is the first one, not the second one. You aren't playing a 4-mana Act of Treason; you're playing a 4-mana planeswalker that drains 2 life from the opponent each turn and makes it difficult for their creatures to kill it.
Ajani Vengeant: In Modern, I've seen people use this card quite a few times in land destruction decks. They use it to tap down one of the few lands you have remaining, and if you manage to get out a small creature, they can just kill it with the -2.
im going to defend chandra ablaze. it does everything red needs. it makes burn spells, draws you cards, and makes your opponent pitch their hand, and has an ultimate that should just win you the game. if we aren't punishing garruk apex predator for being 7 mana but having great abilities we shouldn't punish chandra
im pretty sure Tibald won't ever be matched. the first line of text is all you need to know. It's the only +1 he's got, and "draw a card, then discard a card AT RANDOM" is an ability that never saw any play in any card in mtg history, ever. The rest are minus abilities but they don't matter since you're simply never getting to that much loyalty without putting yourself in a losing position. As far as I remember, he was actually SO BAD that people didn't even draft him in limited. I don't think you can say this about any other planeswalker.
Wasn't playing when Huatli was printed but I'd guess dinosaurs were common enough that at least you'd still draft her in limited.
Samut, Tyrant Smasher's power is for 2-headed giant games.
extremely pleased tibalt was the first one, what a classic. still remember being a kid and buying one for 3 dollars at the LGS. thought i was getting a deal haha
stop flaming my boy bolas though, will not stand for this slander
This inspired me to make a modern deck around Samut, the Tested, which if you have a doubling season effect out you can search your library for 5 creatures if you run 4 copies. I have tested it for a bit and it is quite good and less than 10 dollars. Love the content!
you're welcome!
Tibalt can kill people cheaper with one of the infinite planeswalker ability combos, which is more than can be said about a lot of useless planeswalkers.
It also does something before the game ends or needs justification for dragging the game longer.
I really like Power stones. They don't sac like Treasure. Help cast artifacts. And fund Affinity.
And you can filter the mana to be useful. And they work fine for activated abilities.
That Space Jace sounds really obnoxious to play with, which is much worse than just being underpowered IMO.
Man I have never heard of more than half of these. Where do all these planeswalkers come from?
41:16 The way that this 6 mana Dovin has a -1 that's the same as some like...4-5 mana Tamiyos, who have it as a +1.
Saheeli sublime artificer minus two is actually pretty good imagine turning servo's into blightsteel colossus or wurmcoil engine
I was half expecting to see the Angrath cards in the video. Was he ever used? I know I just use him in my minotaur commander deck for the flavor and based on the battlefield since each one did something completely different.
Dovin, Grand Arbiter is actually alright. Just ignore the -1 almost entirely. He's quite nice in a few decks...essentially all of which are tokens decks. Esper Spirits and Azorius Soldiers are the main ones, but Jeskai Goblins is another avenue. It's trivially easy to get him to +8 with 1 activation of his first ability as you only need to swing wide and make contact with 4 chumps, then you are adding 3 off of a 10 filter. People complain because he doesn't have immediate impact, but he costs 3 mana and has a good ultimate that is piss-easy to accomplish.
Anyone else feel bad for David struggling to convey that Niko Aris helps with ETB cards with his +1?
Karn, Living Legacy is beast nasty as a mono colorless Oathbreaker.
Garruk Primal Hunter was a top 3 card in standard for most of it's life there, what?
If your opponent kills smamut, tyrant smasher in response to the -1 or when you pass to the combat phase your creature will still have haste is the main use I could think of for it including that keyword in the text of its loyalty ability.
my suggestion finally made the thumbnail!
I use Ob Nixilis in a deck with cards like Underworld Dreams, Sheoldred, The Apocalypse and none other than Secret Rendezvous, the best card in the deck.
Nikos bounce ability shouldn’t be looked down on.. chulane loves that stuff.
Tibalt is a bargain compared to Gamble, a one-Red sorcery which works the same as his +1 ability. Last time I checked, you can pick up Tibalt for less than $1, while Gamble is around $4.
23:53 this deck already exists. It's Atraxa Superfriends. Thats all the deck has is planeswalkers, proliferate, and ways to double counters on stuff. But you could totally make that the name
What is there to there to not get about Samut. If samut is at 1 loyalty, and you use the ability, it dies, none of your creatures have haste anymore so that's why the ability gives haste. "so just don't use it" but what if you NEED to use it? This doesn't need proofreading, it does exactly what it does.
33:59 it needs “can be your commander
34:50 what the guy doesn't know is that it's a win cond with the card Peer into the abyss
huge fan of the set up us the bomb reference
Ob Nix is an all-star in
my Sheoldred, the Apocalypse deck
Niko and Narset are both very underappreciated, but it depends on the format and build you're playing them in.
Niko's plus is a good option in flicker/etb piles. I acknowledge there are way stronger options but it's still one other thing you can do.
The shards are excellent in enchantress/constellation piles. I remember one time I won a game of EDH by having Doomwake Giant and Archon of Sun's grace out and casting it for 4, making another shard with the -1, giving my opponents' creatures -5/-5 and netting me 5 pegasi.
I also run him in my Raff Capashen Historic Brawl & EDH decks as a pseudo-Sphinx's Revelation. It's not as strong as the OG Sphinx's Rev but it's another massive draw effect that pulls me ahead. The scrying is also super helpful in a singleton format where it's harder to get the cards I need when I need them.
Narset is an absolute all star in the 99 of a Kykar Historic Brawl/EDH deck. It's an ultimate in 3 turns if you plus and defend with spirit tokens, you're likely going to be running high costed cards in there for spirit sac payoffs anyways so the +1 and -2 are insanely helpful and don't need any extra deck tweaking. As for the ultimate, you're casting a bunch of noncreature spells to begin with. Between this and the possible aerial assault the clock for closing games out is insanely fast.
with samut when u remove the final loyalty it would leave and your creatures would not have haste
so it is not redundant
I'm proud to own 200+ Tibalts. It's my main "trade" binder i take everywhere.
Sad I missed this stream, super fun video!
Powerstones can be used to activate mana abilities thogh. Put it trough an artifact that gives you colored mana from generic.
Karn Living legacy looks good.
You should be able to use his own powestones for his 2nd ability.
Paying for an ability is not casting a non artefact spell.
Then his max ability is turning all his powerstones into damage pings.
I use Grand Master of Flowers quite Effectively
Honestly Geyadrone Dihada isn't that bad. I've played it in Modern and did pretty well with it
I only like cards like act of treason when I have a sacrifice outlet 😀
There's never been a competitively viable Chandra card. In any format.
There is no reason an elf deck cannot pull off the Nissa ultimate.
Samut , The tested isn't that bad that it's unrunnable.
Loved in decks with doubling season as it's a 4 cost tooth and nail once it's on the board.
i think the idea for dovin is to fill the board with small flyers and grow it rapidly using +1, then draw 3 with it every other turn. Very slow control card that does not have the needed flyers available.. maybe some day some faery deck could use it or something. Very slow.
Ellywick seems quite flavorful.
Niko was solid.
I’d argue the Liliana Death wielder ult is still pretty bad. 7 mana to get back your creatures, is just a budget Rise of Dark Realms. (I only play commander so that’s how I formed my opinion)
So far, I don't agree with Nicol bolas and the garruk apex one. Those are both great in the late game when you have your board state and are going for that game ending move
Ob Nixilis, the hate twisted with the new sheoldred isnt bad.
Mu yanling celestial wind is terrible. But it did win me a single game once so it's goated imo.
35:25 what if your opponent is at 2 life.
Deceiver planeswalker deck is funnily easy to build around for modern... made a few people rage
20:00 calls jeskai a 'naya' 😅
I use Act Of Treason to steal an opponents creature atk with it, then sacrifice it to activate an ability of one of my cards.
Bolas the deceiver is made to play with Nekusar Mindrazer. I can’t call it a bad card for commander (with Nekusar)
Actually won a peasant cube game by activating Saheeli's ability. Played her, bolted to the face (and thus got a servo), activated her and turned my servo into a copy of my Charging Monstrosaur and attacked with both for lethal.
I believe the worst Planeswalkers are the ones in the precon decks.
Was that the same Brian F that plays street fighter
I have Geyadrone Dihida in my Marchesca deck. I’m not sorry
I don't actually think that Tibalt is *bad*. There are a few decks that can make use of him. Rakdos Madness, Grixis Midrange Control, and Izzet Burn can all properly appreciate him. To put it another way, I think that, from a general playability perspective, he's a solid 6/10 due to being useful in only a few decks.
Lol.....
Even played to.a build around. Their are way better 2 mana core red spells that perform much better then tibalt. Tibalt is a terrible planeswalker and terrible card.
You look so much like Rhys James I had to check that you weren't the same person.
Saheeli, Sublime Artificer is extremely powerful. Making a second Wurmcoil, Blightsteel, or god forbid Aetherflux Reservoir has won me many games.
It's still incredibly satisfying to ult the 4 mana Dovin planeswalker, perma-stax all opponents permanents on an emblem is too spicy
The argument that proliferate/doubling season/Vorinclex makes them broken can be said about most planeswalkers. Sure there are like 1-2 who have stupid good ultimates that can instantly go off with one of these situations but doesn't make the planeswalker good, it's because those cards/mechanics that help it are busted