I actually had a deck centered around walls, glyph of destruction and fling combo. It was not too consistent but hey, I did manage to pull it off and win some tournament games with it!
y'know it could be fun to see glyphs return as, like, auras with flash that buff a wall _super_ efficiently and get away with it because ... y'know, you're buffing a _wall_ i say aura in particular because it's kinda silly that the effects only last a turn, when the idea is that you're drawing / carving a symbol of power onto a wall to empower it
A fun thing with Alabaster Leech is to play Painter's Servant on white and donate the Leech to a player who can't produce white mana. Not very useful, but fun.
You know what's funny about Juju Bubble? It's one of the cards from the Legacy! That card is as important as Karn and the Mightstone and Weakstone in defeating Yawgmoth, and...it's awful. Almost as awful as the fact that we still haven't gotten "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)" yet!
The first line of text on the errata is "Enchant creature you control", so as soon as you lose control of the creature, it is no longer a legal target and aura goes into the graveyard.
I'm not sure that there are enough ones that don't have tournament wins. Scryfall lists 49 nonland "mana cost 0" cards, but most are the 12+ Moxen, 3 Lotus, 2 Baubles, 5 Pacts, 3 creatures that see play in affinity, Crypt, Welding Jar, Zuran's Orb, Paradise Mantle, LED, etc., etc. The list is surprisingly loaded.
@Stefano De Rosa You'd be surprised. I'd consider Bonesaw unplayable but it has quite a few top 8's. Same with the three kobolds and a lot of the other random 0 artifacts saw play in oldschool cheerio style decks where they were playable simply by virtue of being 0
One With Nothing might be one of the most iconic “bad” 1 mana spells, thing is One With Nothing was actually a somewhat meta sideboard card for some time which instantly excludes it from the list. Makes you wonder what types of situations it might take to make some of these cards playable.
One with Nothing is my favorite one mana card. It let's you discard your own Teeka's Dragon to then reanimate it next turn. Don't worry, you will heart of the cards reanimate next turn.
I'd love to see a remaster of cocoon. Like it gives the creature flying, defender and +1 counters every turn and you can sac it to have the creature lose defender
Back in the Stronghold day when you had to attack to win, I took a R/W wall deck with Rolling Stone as one win condition and Glyph of Destruction + Fling combo to a 8-0, 16-0 finish in a big tournament in my area. Never had a losing record with it till Urza's Block came out and Combo Winter changed Magic forever.
Fasting seems really terrible but it has a lot of flavor (you starve yourself by not drawing a card) and the design is interesting. An enchantment that gives you something by giving up something seems like an interesting idea to design a card around. Shame it didn't work here.
It would still be bad, but have been interesting in its day if it were 2 life for each fasting counter on the card - gaining that much life was unheard of back then, and 1 mana for a total 30 life would have made people question if it was worth the card draws back then. It'd still be bad, but it'd have been interesting.
@@johngleeman8347 heck even it gave you 10 probably wouldn’t be worth it even as tech as against red. Your going to have barely any cards especially since you wasted one on this clunker. The opponent will be drawing the cards and building up their board while still doing damage to you at the same time 😂
I had a friend a long time ago around mirroden block times that made a wall deck and glyph of destruction was actually one of the main cards. It paired with fling like abilities to do massive damage early game or just kill you.
Early magic was very weird about how it seemed to think Walls, the actual color of spells and life gain at a high cost would be a core part of the game and all of that panned out to just not happen. Still I'm glad cards like early walls matter and color matter cards exist because it can let you brew some real weird niche commander decks these days. Not good commander decks mind you, but I do personally find color control to be fun if not particularly useful. And even then, the Laces are a bad way to do that. Great video as always
Simple...it rotated out of regular play before many people had a chance to acquire it. Magic came out in 1993. Legends was out in 1994. By 1996, they did Chronicles to reprint Legends cards (and mostly novelties like the Elder Dragons). I don't even think Legends was around for Standard/Type II (if it did, it was in the infancy of the formats).
Compared to the average power level of the game, it wasn't bad at all. It had some stinkers but it also had a lot of stuff that was fun at the time. Still can't figure ut how, after opening at least a case of it, I never hit an Abyss or a Nether Void. Did manage to trade an Arcades Sabboth for the only Wrath of God in the playgroup, though.
Everything in Legends is either really bad, or really good. And the really good stuff is aggressively broken. It's probably the most powerful expansion before Urza's Saga.
The Laces are underrated. I Use 3 of them in my Commander deck. Thoughtlace + Red Elemental Blast or Pyroblast is a good example. I recently Purelaced an opponent's buffed up Uncle Istvan with a CoP: White in play.
To make Withering Hex much worse: remember that it is the aura that gets the plague counters... which then leads to the creature getting the debuff for each counter. This means that if at any time in the match the Hex gets removed, all that debuff also go with it. It would have been MARGINABLY better if the counters would remain is the aura is dealt with but nope Another equally baffling Aura is Torture way back in Homelands. The art is creepy, just wish the card actually did something. It's a 1 mana aura that allows you to pay B1 to give enchanted creature a -1/-1 counter. Basically, its a BB1 sorcery that gives a -1/-1 counter to any target. Yea... for that rate, I think I'll just go with Dark Banishing? Also, you mentioned the Glyph of Destruction gives +10 / +10... actually it gives +10 / +0. While the distinction is very minimal considering the wall will go boom at the end of turn, you just have to remember it if you use cards on it that cares about the wall's toughness (i.e Doran or the new Acades). On another note, adding Fling to the mix makes it fun: it's basically like throwing an entire skyscraper at your opponent XD
Small correction: Withering Hex actually doesn't place -1/-1 counters on creatures, but "plague counters" that are useless without the aura, making the card even worse.
Nearly any symmetrical card can be "good"(ish) when you take into account that you're the one planning for it. In a vacuum, a card like Stasis, Standstill, or Winter Orb would be horrible. But the decks that ran them were designed around turning the symmetry into advantage. Now, Tahngarth's Glare is no Stasis, but it does give both players some knowledge and deck manipulation. It's highly unlikely your opponent can take advantage of that further than the base effect. If you are playing it, likely you both have ways to undo what your opponent did to your library (any shuffle effect) and take advantage from the knowledge you gained.
Cocoon is a cool idea, sure its bad but a new card with this kind of design seems fun. Maybe give both the cocoon type card and the enchamted creature ward 2-3, 3 counters on sac and maybe both a flying and trample coumter.
I remember getting a bunch of the "Lace" cards way back when they came out and wondering "what would I ever use these for?" Cocoon made me LOL- solid choice for #1.
The leech cycle works well if u run painters Servant and donate the leech. So if opponent isn't using white, you cast the Servant choose white then donate the leech. All opponents spells are white, therefore cost an additional white, which they are not playing. If they can't kill the leech they can cast anything. Lol
In Glyph of Destruction's defense specifically: there *are* ways you might be able to exploit the effect that aren't terrible. For one, it's a destroy effect, so if you cast on a wall that is indestructible, or is able to regenerate it's a really powerful combat trick. For two, the destroy effect is delayed, so it doesn't resolve until end of turn, giving you an opportunity to block, kill a thing in the block, and then use a Fight/fling effect to kill another target at instant speed before the destroy trigger occurs. *Granted* these are pretty niche and you'd have to be pretty hard into a wall centric deck to do anything even worthwhile, but "top 10 worst", I'd say it isn't
Visions is way too powerful for a second spot. Weird version of scry which I can use on my opponent? I would pick it any day over Fasting or color-changing cycle or even some cards not on this list like Lurking Jackals.
Just forcing an opponent to shuffle can win a game, and the low end is somewhat better than scry 1 for 1. It's almost certainly not playable in most formats but I agree it's upside is too high for it to be on this list, much less all the way at #2.
I used to play a Black/White Knight deck with the black and white laces. Unfortunately, I thought they were good because of the way the original manual that came with starter decks phrased the rule for protection. It stated something like "spells of that color don't affect the protected creature at all" which I thought to mean sweepers and untargeted effects. So someone would cast a sweeper, I'd lace it to either black or white and the knights that had protection survived. Unfortunately, that's not actual how it works
Back in the old days, i used the spell SHRINK. Considered bad spell and my opponent is always speechless when i cast it to his/her attacking big creatures, it really make me smile😊
I used to have a Glyph of Destruction/Fling deck that could catch people off guard in some casual games. I think the +10 power for 1 mana is enough upside to keep it off the list.
When One with Nothing isn't even on the list, you know they're bad... Also, I could see Glyph of Reincarnation being used on an opponents wall, so that you can swap a creature with one in your graveyard. It's still extremely bad since nobody plays walls anyway
I'm very interested in Worst Zero Mana Cards list if there isn't one already... Are there some that suck so much they're universally bad/there's always a better 0-mana choice, or would it be a "least-good" list?
I've attempted to do that before, with the idea being that I boost a wall up +20 power with two Glyphs of Destruction, and then use Fling. This plan... didn't really work all that well.
@@Matt-ps9iz Yeah, I tried things like Bullwhip to force an opponent's creature to attack into my walls, but it just wasn't consistent enough by any means, and only barely worked sometimes.
If you eould ever run out of ideas, you could do the "part 2" of top tens: the topo 11-20 :D Funny thing about the last one, Cocoon, is that you can't shut down an opponent's creature after "stealing" it (via effects like "take control until the end of the turn') because the Cocoon will fall off due to its restrictions stopping of being met (enchanting solely creatures you control).
Turning a creature, black and early magic could be useful sideboard tech because most of the black removal specifies non-black creatures however in order to make your creature black, you have to be black which implies your creatures are black and can’t be killed by terror
I have juju bubble in my trazyn deck for the infinite mana infinite life loop. There are way better options for that but I like playing one or two cards that really throw my opponents for a loop
One With Nothing was, surprisingly, included in sideboards for a time as tech against the Owling Mine deck (which filled your hand then dealt you damage for having excess cards in hand). It wasn't GOOD tech, mind, but it, unbelievably, had a use.
If cocoon had something like hexproof, it would be a broken card that allows a player to pump a creature for 4 turns that could essentially be a game ender with all kind of +1 counters and flying
Flailing soldier is a classsssic. I remember having like 15 of them in my big common jug my uncle "donated" to me as a child. Sold 2,300 cards for 21 dollars. And one sacred foundry that they offered 20 for but I said no and then lost the card💀
I feel like Tahngarth's Glare would actually see play if given Pioneer and Historic legality. I would run it in my Historic Boros Prowess deck and use it on like turn 3 to stop the opponent from drawing their board clear or removal spell while also triggering my Swiftspear and Lumimancer, and the downside doesn't matter because I have the damage on board to kill them regardless of if I top deck a land. Izzet Phoenix/Izzet Drakes might also like it because it counts as a sorcery for Phoenix/Drakes and has the same effect of stopping the opponent from drawing their answers. These types of Izzet decks run enough cantrips anyway that the downside of letting the opponent do the same to you just doesn't really matter -- they'll just draw right through the reordered cards anyway.
Alabaster Leech, or at least something from the leech cycle, might've been a good card if it was released in a format with a lot of playable artifacts.
I love playing Visions. It's just a fun little card to use against anyone who runs Library of Leng or similar effects. I love dumb cards like this. For example, I have a Joven deck.
Withering Hex is even worse than you realized because the creature doesn’t actually get -1/-1 counters, the hex gets plague counters instead, so if the Hex is destroyed before it gets enough plague counters to kill your target, the creature loses nothing.
I'd rather have Cocoon than any of the laces. It actually has potential to affect the board positively, whereas the laces need...a LOT of help from the cards around it. I'm surprised Sleight of Mind and Magical Hack aren't on here.
You have to remember that it only works on walls, which can't attack, and *only* while blocking. You could potentially deal some real damage with Fling, yes, but once your opponents wise up to your tricks, they'll usually be able to play around your strategy. And against any control deck without creatures the card is completely useless
@@astuteanansi4935 im not saying its a good card, but for me is not in top 10 of the worst (Merchant Ship is waaaaay worse). You can force combat whit a lot of cards and some walls can overcome that effect (wall of junk bounces, wall of reverence gives you 11 life, amarantine wall becomes indestructible). Again, its not a good card, but could be useful, not like the other 9
Or you could just play Orcish Spy instead of Tahngarth's Glare. It's one sided and repeatable. You could also play Soldier of Fortune that lets you pay a red and tap it to force an opponent to shuffle their library.
To be fair, the effect also prevents all damage done to the wall for the rest of the turn, so it's... *sort of* like giving it +10/+10? Does mess with Wither/Infect if the Wall has Reneneration or is Indestructible.
@@EnderPryde That's why I said it doesn't matter in most situations anyway. Also wasn't Wither/Infect the effect that damage is dealt in the form of -1/-1 counters? So if damage is prevented, no counters are added at all.
@@Lovuschka correct, that's why it messes with those abilities. The glyph prevents the damage, so the indestructible/regenerating wall doesn't get the -1/-1 counters that would *normally* ignore indestructible/regeneration.
Those are very good "handicap" cards, when you want to play against someone who is much weaker than you, you just add those cards to your deck and still try to win => it will get harder!
6:05 doesnt have to be a 2 for 1, side board this in against banding decks and you 2 for 2 your opponent! That will teach them not to play banding cards!
Haven't watched but seeing if my One Mana White Card, Isolate, is still number 1. Opened it during a pre-release ay Eldritch Moon and hated it ever since.
One with Nothing is certainly a bad card for one to play in most scenarios, but most of Nizzahon's selected Worst Cards aren't just bad, they also ooze mediocrity. OwN is a puzzle; Cocoon is just puzzlingly bad execution of a cool concept. Plus, the rules text "Discard your hand" is super elegant in a way that none of the Top 10 cards except the Laces even come close to achieving.
It's a garbage card but you could still donate the Leech to someone not playing white and then change the colour word and really make the game difficult for them, but that's bringing two other cards into mix and at that point you can make almost anything useful.
Zedruu COULD donate it to an opponent, she's in the right colors...but there's usually MUCH more hilarious jank you could be gifting others than their own personal Thorn of Amethyst.
Juju Bauble may be the card with the biggest disparity between the quality of its art and flavor to what it does in a game.
i might be a dumb dumb, but whats the flavor?
It's part of the Legacy, the weapon that destroyed Yawgmoth.
I think juju bauble might legit be the worst magic card
It's actually called Juju Bubble, which is probably a typo
@@floppyslot You're correct. Bauble still kinda makes sense though.
I actually had a deck centered around walls, glyph of destruction and fling combo. It was not too consistent but hey, I did manage to pull it off and win some tournament games with it!
Yeah that's what I thought. +10/+0 for 1 mana can't be that terrible even if the creature can't attack.
y'know it could be fun to see glyphs return as, like, auras with flash that buff a wall _super_ efficiently and get away with it because ... y'know, you're buffing a _wall_
i say aura in particular because it's kinda silly that the effects only last a turn, when the idea is that you're drawing / carving a symbol of power onto a wall to empower it
A fun thing with Alabaster Leech is to play Painter's Servant on white and donate the Leech to a player who can't produce white mana. Not very useful, but fun.
Saw someone do that in Commander, guy damn near flipped the table. XD
It's so nice that they made Fasting go away after five turns to limit the negative impact on you.
You know what's funny about Juju Bubble? It's one of the cards from the Legacy! That card is as important as Karn and the Mightstone and Weakstone in defeating Yawgmoth, and...it's awful. Almost as awful as the fact that we still haven't gotten "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)" yet!
It is horrible. It restricts you from playing Teeka's Dragon. And for what, some life?
@@cax1175 Tell me about it, appalling, really! Any card that stops you from playing Teeka's Dragon is just offensive!
You should do a top 10 worst cards that actually got points in formats. :)
New top level legacy combo: Take control of an opponent's creature until end of turn, Coccoon it, laugh at them, leave building
The first line of text on the errata is "Enchant creature you control", so as soon as you lose control of the creature, it is no longer a legal target and aura goes into the graveyard.
Can you do a worst 0 mana card list?? Could be cards that are not inherently bad, but are just the least used of all 0 mana spells
I'm not sure that there are enough ones that don't have tournament wins. Scryfall lists 49 nonland "mana cost 0" cards, but most are the 12+ Moxen, 3 Lotus, 2 Baubles, 5 Pacts, 3 creatures that see play in affinity, Crypt, Welding Jar, Zuran's Orb, Paradise Mantle, LED, etc., etc.
The list is surprisingly loaded.
@@derekcline950 Being the worst sometimes doesn't mean being bad :p
Proceed to list worst land
@@derekcline950 you listed pretty much all the good ones, between the others, there are 15+ cards that are between bad and straigh unplayable
@Stefano De Rosa You'd be surprised. I'd consider Bonesaw unplayable but it has quite a few top 8's. Same with the three kobolds and a lot of the other random 0 artifacts saw play in oldschool cheerio style decks where they were playable simply by virtue of being 0
One With Nothing might be one of the most iconic “bad” 1 mana spells, thing is One With Nothing was actually a somewhat meta sideboard card for some time which instantly excludes it from the list. Makes you wonder what types of situations it might take to make some of these cards playable.
Because of the owl right?
@@DimT670 yeah
My dreadhound commander deck loves one with nothing
One with Nothing is my favorite one mana card. It let's you discard your own Teeka's Dragon to then reanimate it next turn. Don't worry, you will heart of the cards reanimate next turn.
if you were a card, I'd run one with nothing so I could discard you
such a classic, solidified gameplan in the game of magic. truly the of all time.
@@demilembias2527 I share my name with a card but if you were smart, you'd run me in the command zone.
Playing a land counts as playing a card. Juju bubble is even worse haha
I'd love to see a remaster of cocoon. Like it gives the creature flying, defender and +1 counters every turn and you can sac it to have the creature lose defender
Back in the Stronghold day when you had to attack to win, I took a R/W wall deck with Rolling Stone as one win condition and Glyph of Destruction + Fling combo to a 8-0, 16-0 finish in a big tournament in my area. Never had a losing record with it till Urza's Block came out and Combo Winter changed Magic forever.
When played early, I've seen Visions either save your tempo draws or hurt opponents tempo draws.
You know these cards are bad when Healing Salve does not even make the list.
Fasting seems really terrible but it has a lot of flavor (you starve yourself by not drawing a card) and the design is interesting. An enchantment that gives you something by giving up something seems like an interesting idea to design a card around. Shame it didn't work here.
It should give way more life and for each counter.
Sadly it was created when Wot thought that life is more important than card advantage
@@marcoottina654 How much life would you have to gain for it to be a worthwhile effect? +7 life per card skipped? XD
@@johngleeman8347More. 3.5 life per card over two turns is bad.
It would still be bad, but have been interesting in its day if it were 2 life for each fasting counter on the card - gaining that much life was unheard of back then, and 1 mana for a total 30 life would have made people question if it was worth the card draws back then. It'd still be bad, but it'd have been interesting.
@@johngleeman8347 heck even it gave you 10 probably wouldn’t be worth it even as tech as against red. Your going to have barely any cards especially since you wasted one on this clunker. The opponent will be drawing the cards and building up their board while still doing damage to you at the same time 😂
Juju Bubble in the preview = like at instant speed.
If cocoon gave +3/+3 and flying for a three turn trade it would be a good card for 1 drop chumps.
I had a friend a long time ago around mirroden block times that made a wall deck and glyph of destruction was actually one of the main cards. It paired with fling like abilities to do massive damage early game or just kill you.
Early magic was very weird about how it seemed to think Walls, the actual color of spells and life gain at a high cost would be a core part of the game and all of that panned out to just not happen. Still I'm glad cards like early walls matter and color matter cards exist because it can let you brew some real weird niche commander decks these days. Not good commander decks mind you, but I do personally find color control to be fun if not particularly useful. And even then, the Laces are a bad way to do that.
Great video as always
Legends appears in so many of these worst-of lists; at this point I don’t know how Legends didn’t just flat-out kill the game.
Simple...it rotated out of regular play before many people had a chance to acquire it. Magic came out in 1993. Legends was out in 1994. By 1996, they did Chronicles to reprint Legends cards (and mostly novelties like the Elder Dragons). I don't even think Legends was around for Standard/Type II (if it did, it was in the infancy of the formats).
Compared to the average power level of the game, it wasn't bad at all. It had some stinkers but it also had a lot of stuff that was fun at the time. Still can't figure ut how, after opening at least a case of it, I never hit an Abyss or a Nether Void. Did manage to trade an Arcades Sabboth for the only Wrath of God in the playgroup, though.
Everything in Legends is either really bad, or really good. And the really good stuff is aggressively broken. It's probably the most powerful expansion before Urza's Saga.
Can't wait for another Top Quality Top 10 by one of the Top 10 MTG Content creators!
The Laces are underrated. I Use 3 of them in my Commander deck. Thoughtlace + Red Elemental Blast or Pyroblast is a good example. I recently Purelaced an opponent's buffed up Uncle Istvan with a CoP: White in play.
...your pod is playing some serious jank there, and I have to give you at least some props for that.
@@Stray7 Sometimes the jankiest pods are the most fun. No one there was looking for turn 2 combo wins, we're not in a league.
To make Withering Hex much worse: remember that it is the aura that gets the plague counters... which then leads to the creature getting the debuff for each counter. This means that if at any time in the match the Hex gets removed, all that debuff also go with it. It would have been MARGINABLY better if the counters would remain is the aura is dealt with but nope
Another equally baffling Aura is Torture way back in Homelands. The art is creepy, just wish the card actually did something. It's a 1 mana aura that allows you to pay B1 to give enchanted creature a -1/-1 counter. Basically, its a BB1 sorcery that gives a -1/-1 counter to any target. Yea... for that rate, I think I'll just go with Dark Banishing?
Also, you mentioned the Glyph of Destruction gives +10 / +10... actually it gives +10 / +0. While the distinction is very minimal considering the wall will go boom at the end of turn, you just have to remember it if you use cards on it that cares about the wall's toughness (i.e Doran or the new Acades). On another note, adding Fling to the mix makes it fun: it's basically like throwing an entire skyscraper at your opponent XD
Small correction: Withering Hex actually doesn't place -1/-1 counters on creatures, but "plague counters" that are useless without the aura, making the card even worse.
Tahngarth's glare is surprisingly effective in a Pako & Halden deck.
Nearly any symmetrical card can be "good"(ish) when you take into account that you're the one planning for it. In a vacuum, a card like Stasis, Standstill, or Winter Orb would be horrible. But the decks that ran them were designed around turning the symmetry into advantage. Now, Tahngarth's Glare is no Stasis, but it does give both players some knowledge and deck manipulation. It's highly unlikely your opponent can take advantage of that further than the base effect. If you are playing it, likely you both have ways to undo what your opponent did to your library (any shuffle effect) and take advantage from the knowledge you gained.
Cocoon is a cool idea, sure its bad but a new card with this kind of design seems fun. Maybe give both the cocoon type card and the enchamted creature ward 2-3, 3 counters on sac and maybe both a flying and trample coumter.
I remember getting a bunch of the "Lace" cards way back when they came out and wondering "what would I ever use these for?" Cocoon made me LOL- solid choice for #1.
The leech cycle works well if u run painters Servant and donate the leech. So if opponent isn't using white, you cast the Servant choose white then donate the leech. All opponents spells are white, therefore cost an additional white, which they are not playing. If they can't kill the leech they can cast anything. Lol
In Glyph of Destruction's defense specifically: there *are* ways you might be able to exploit the effect that aren't terrible.
For one, it's a destroy effect, so if you cast on a wall that is indestructible, or is able to regenerate it's a really powerful combat trick.
For two, the destroy effect is delayed, so it doesn't resolve until end of turn, giving you an opportunity to block, kill a thing in the block, and then use a Fight/fling effect to kill another target at instant speed before the destroy trigger occurs.
*Granted* these are pretty niche and you'd have to be pretty hard into a wall centric deck to do anything even worthwhile, but "top 10 worst", I'd say it isn't
2:56 the bard with 20 charisma will convince the commander table to pump it up
6:18 what if you use it on your opponent's wall?
Visions is way too powerful for a second spot.
Weird version of scry which I can use on my opponent? I would pick it any day over Fasting or color-changing cycle or even some cards not on this list like Lurking Jackals.
Agreed. It also helped you plan better knowing what's coming up.. Oh 5 lands incomming?... shuffle.😅
Just forcing an opponent to shuffle can win a game, and the low end is somewhat better than scry 1 for 1. It's almost certainly not playable in most formats but I agree it's upside is too high for it to be on this list, much less all the way at #2.
I used to play a Black/White Knight deck with the black and white laces. Unfortunately, I thought they were good because of the way the original manual that came with starter decks phrased the rule for protection. It stated something like "spells of that color don't affect the protected creature at all" which I thought to mean sweepers and untargeted effects. So someone would cast a sweeper, I'd lace it to either black or white and the knights that had protection survived. Unfortunately, that's not actual how it works
I remember using Fasting with a Necro deck. Skipping my draw and gaining basically 10 more cards never hurt.
Back in the old days, i used the spell SHRINK. Considered bad spell and my opponent is always speechless when i cast it to his/her attacking big creatures, it really make me smile😊
I used to have a Glyph of Destruction/Fling deck that could catch people off guard in some casual games. I think the +10 power for 1 mana is enough upside to keep it off the list.
Glyph/Hammer? :)
When One with Nothing isn't even on the list, you know they're bad...
Also, I could see Glyph of Reincarnation being used on an opponents wall, so that you can swap a creature with one in your graveyard. It's still extremely bad since nobody plays walls anyway
I'm very interested in Worst Zero Mana Cards list if there isn't one already... Are there some that suck so much they're universally bad/there's always a better 0-mana choice, or would it be a "least-good" list?
You could play Staunch Shieldmate as a one drop in a Winota Deck....saw some people do it
Dunno if anyone else noticed this but the soldier in Flailing Soldier is the same one on the card Security Detail
Glyph of Destruction is one of the first cards I thought of, but it would be really fun to give a wall +10 power and then Fling it
I've attempted to do that before, with the idea being that I boost a wall up +20 power with two Glyphs of Destruction, and then use Fling. This plan... didn't really work all that well.
@@SomeGuy712x well, obviously, you have to build the ENTIRE deck around just this specific interaction.
@@Matt-ps9iz
Yeah, I tried things like Bullwhip to force an opponent's creature to attack into my walls, but it just wasn't consistent enough by any means, and only barely worked sometimes.
@@SomeGuy712x I imagine not, though I commend you for trying - trying to get stuff like that to work is pretty much the story of my MTG life
If you eould ever run out of ideas, you could do the "part 2" of top tens: the topo 11-20 :D
Funny thing about the last one, Cocoon, is that you can't shut down an opponent's creature after "stealing" it (via effects like "take control until the end of the turn') because the Cocoon will fall off due to its restrictions stopping of being met (enchanting solely creatures you control).
I am shocked that One With Nothing was playable enough to not make this list.
I was expecting it too
Turning a creature, black and early magic could be useful sideboard tech because most of the black removal specifies non-black creatures however in order to make your creature black, you have to be black which implies your creatures are black and can’t be killed by terror
Well this list gonna be entertaining.
I have juju bubble in my trazyn deck for the infinite mana infinite life loop. There are way better options for that but I like playing one or two cards that really throw my opponents for a loop
Glyph of Destruction is for use with Fling and related effects.
One with nothing escaped the list
One With Nothing was, surprisingly, included in sideboards for a time as tech against the Owling Mine deck (which filled your hand then dealt you damage for having excess cards in hand). It wasn't GOOD tech, mind, but it, unbelievably, had a use.
If cocoon had something like hexproof, it would be a broken card that allows a player to pump a creature for 4 turns that could essentially be a game ender with all kind of +1 counters and flying
Surprised one with nothing missed this list!
These gotta be some combo with glyph of destruction, right?
Omg glyff of destrucion would be hilarious in a borros deck combined with fling effects!
And here I was getting excited to see One With Nothing on this list.
I can remember trying to get Fasting to work when The Dark came out. No matter what I tried, it still sucked.
Flailing soldier is a classsssic. I remember having like 15 of them in my big common jug my uncle "donated" to me as a child.
Sold 2,300 cards for 21 dollars. And one sacred foundry that they offered 20 for but I said no and then lost the card💀
I highly suspect that the 'Flailing soldier' in the card's artwork is actually the one getting clocked and not his burly opponent.
I feel like Tahngarth's Glare would actually see play if given Pioneer and Historic legality. I would run it in my Historic Boros Prowess deck and use it on like turn 3 to stop the opponent from drawing their board clear or removal spell while also triggering my Swiftspear and Lumimancer, and the downside doesn't matter because I have the damage on board to kill them regardless of if I top deck a land. Izzet Phoenix/Izzet Drakes might also like it because it counts as a sorcery for Phoenix/Drakes and has the same effect of stopping the opponent from drawing their answers. These types of Izzet decks run enough cantrips anyway that the downside of letting the opponent do the same to you just doesn't really matter -- they'll just draw right through the reordered cards anyway.
I would bet my house that if it were Pioneer/historic legal it wouldn't see play.
Unfortunately we don't have a way of testing this.
Alabaster Leech, or at least something from the leech cycle, might've been a good card if it was released in a format with a lot of playable artifacts.
Now I'm not trying to say tahngarths glare is good, but it is funny in my Etali edh deck 9:22
Uh, I had an Amazing glyph of destruction wall deck that flings for lethal, including wall of blood, etc.
I love playing Visions. It's just a fun little card to use against anyone who runs Library of Leng or similar effects.
I love dumb cards like this. For example, I have a Joven deck.
Withering Hex is even worse than you realized because the creature doesn’t actually get -1/-1 counters, the hex gets plague counters instead, so if the Hex is destroyed before it gets enough plague counters to kill your target, the creature loses nothing.
I'd rather have Cocoon than any of the laces. It actually has potential to affect the board positively, whereas the laces need...a LOT of help from the cards around it.
I'm surprised Sleight of Mind and Magical Hack aren't on here.
Idk, but a +10 boost in power for one Red Mana could be really useful
You have to remember that it only works on walls, which can't attack, and *only* while blocking. You could potentially deal some real damage with Fling, yes, but once your opponents wise up to your tricks, they'll usually be able to play around your strategy. And against any control deck without creatures the card is completely useless
@@astuteanansi4935 im not saying its a good card, but for me is not in top 10 of the worst (Merchant Ship is waaaaay worse). You can force combat whit a lot of cards and some walls can overcome that effect (wall of junk bounces, wall of reverence gives you 11 life, amarantine wall becomes indestructible).
Again, its not a good card, but could be useful, not like the other 9
"One with nothing counters Owling Mine" players ain't ready for Fasting
I'm so glad upkeep costs on cards isn't really a thing anymore.
Flailing soldier is insane in some decks UR training grounds with braid of fire for example .
Just play any creature with Firebreathing or the Shade Ability instead.
You have an interesting definition of "insane."
Or you could just play Orcish Spy instead of Tahngarth's Glare. It's one sided and repeatable.
You could also play Soldier of Fortune that lets you pay a red and tap it to force an opponent to shuffle their library.
When I saw the leech at n°10, I knew this was going to be q good list
Nizzahon is misreading the card at 6:05 by giving the wall plus 10 toughness. It gives +10/+0. Doesn't matter in most situations anyway.
To be fair, the effect also prevents all damage done to the wall for the rest of the turn, so it's... *sort of* like giving it +10/+10?
Does mess with Wither/Infect if the Wall has Reneneration or is Indestructible.
@@EnderPryde That's why I said it doesn't matter in most situations anyway.
Also wasn't Wither/Infect the effect that damage is dealt in the form of -1/-1 counters? So if damage is prevented, no counters are added at all.
@@Lovuschka correct, that's why it messes with those abilities.
The glyph prevents the damage, so the indestructible/regenerating wall doesn't get the -1/-1 counters that would *normally* ignore indestructible/regeneration.
What about that card that discards your hand? Does it cost more than 1? :o
One With Nothing. Yeah it does cost one mana, but it has far more utility than anything on this list.
#1 Reminds me of Cacoon of Evolution and Great Moth 😂
I use Alabaster Leech in my Zedruu deck.
I love how this video and "worst wife gain" have the same thumbnail.
At least Alabaster Leech can block a T1 Ragavan and live😅
Great. I love "Worst" lists.
Pechino Express non è per il BIC?
I am shocked SHOCKED he didnt mention one with nothing
Flailing Soldier flavor on point though lol
No "One With Nothing"? Did someone finally figure out a way to use it?
I play those Glyphs in my 5 Color Wall Commander Deck! 🧱
Those are very good "handicap" cards, when you want to play against someone who is much weaker than you, you just add those cards to your deck and still try to win => it will get harder!
Tahngarths glare and visions is anti-doomsday tech. 😂
Correction: doomsday, non-thoracle tech. Need to make that distinction probably 😂
UNDER CARD KINGDOM PRICE AND EDH REC you should put the card set the card is from and the year printed!. we don't know all the symbols!
Speak for yourself. I know all the symbols, and what year they were printed. That said, including that information wouldn't be a bad idea.
The leeches are good in Zedru. Nowhere else.
6:05 doesnt have to be a 2 for 1, side board this in against banding decks and you 2 for 2 your opponent! That will teach them not to play banding cards!
..yes, THAT will teach them not to play banding. And not, you know, the crappiness of the mechanic itself.
Fasting is definitely the actual worst as there is no use case at all. Flailing Soldier second worst. I'm lenient on the 1% corner case fringe cards.
It's weird how Leech would be "better" if the curse element was worse.
Hypothetically, couldn't Fasting be sideboarded against a mill deck?
Ya know, glyph of destruction goes pretty well with fling...
I don't recall ever seeing Cocoon before. That card certainly is atrocious.
Haven't watched but seeing if my One Mana White Card, Isolate, is still number 1. Opened it during a pre-release ay Eldritch Moon and hated it ever since.
If Glyph of Destruction wasn't just when blocking, I could see it making a decent combo with Animate Wall. Decent, not great.
Glyph of destruction and fling is pretty op.
no One With Nothing?
That card never finished in the top 8, but it was played in the sideboard at a couple of tournaments.
One with Nothing is certainly a bad card for one to play in most scenarios, but most of Nizzahon's selected Worst Cards aren't just bad, they also ooze mediocrity. OwN is a puzzle; Cocoon is just puzzlingly bad execution of a cool concept.
Plus, the rules text "Discard your hand" is super elegant in a way that none of the Top 10 cards except the Laces even come close to achieving.
Surprised there is no one with nothing lol
That's because unlike the other cards on this list, One With Nothing had a very niche case use that made it playable as a sideboard card.
@@Stray7 I have heard people wanted to try it but never have so it could theoretically be useful but it isn't
It's a garbage card but you could still donate the Leech to someone not playing white and then change the colour word and really make the game difficult for them, but that's bringing two other cards into mix and at that point you can make almost anything useful.
Zedruu COULD donate it to an opponent, she's in the right colors...but there's usually MUCH more hilarious jank you could be gifting others than their own personal Thorn of Amethyst.
6:09 +10/+0