Are These The Worst MTG Cards Ever Printed?

Magic has had some pretty bad cards over the year, but none quite as bad as these absolute stinkers! Are these the worst cards ever printed?
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[@CardmarketMagic]

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[@Taz31415]

Uhhh... Faithless looting is banned isn't it?

[@captawesome42]

@@Taz31415 not if you aren't playing competitively it isn't

[@altosforteaquax5083]

You know the video is shit when they start with "one with nothing". The literal lowest hanging of fruit "We're card evaulators, let's start by punching down on the most misunderstood card ever for the lols/memes. Pathetic.

[@GreenLuthor]

Great Wall from Legends was a white enchantment that allowed blocking of creatures with plainswalk. At the time, there was ONE creature with plainswalk (also from Legends). Maybe not the worst card (heck, it wasn't even the worst card from Legends), but certainly one of the most pointless.

[@mstieler8480]

Legends is full of garbage. The cycle (CYCLE!) of "[color] legends gain Bands with other Legends" just... what?

[@Trogdorbad]

@@mstieler8480 I dunno, I've built a commander deck that's comprised of almost exclusively legendary creatures with all 5 banding lands in it Does it need all 5? No, if one creature can make use of the Banding then every legend can, but having all 5 means more consistency and also it'll be really funny to have all 5 out at once also banding lets you assign trample damage to the blocking creatures, which is pretty useful

[@shavedata5436]

@@mstieler8480 I'm another commander player who uses the white banding land in my legendary theme commander deck

[@nailahprincessofhokuto2024]

"Not today Righteous Avengers!" (The name of that one card which btw was a 5 Mana 3/1)

[@nailahprincessofhokuto2024]

So in otherworlds it was a hate card to hate on one specific bad card

[@kevinmorris150]

A quick note on One With Nothing: It did see some sideboard play in Mirrodin/Kamigawa Standard as a counter for exactly Owling Mine, a deck that used Howling Mine to keep your opponent's hand at around 7 cards and Ebony Owl Netsuke to try and burn the opponent out. At exactly one event. And never again.

[@MrPiotrV]

One PT event. It was a strong deck for an entire season. But even if it was only one event, many, many cards never ever see competitive play so already better than 99% of other cards, even if it looks bad initially.

[@guyinthecorner0]

@@MrPiotrV A situational card is not the same as a good card.

[@trveheimer6360]

@@guyinthecorner0 yeah but most cards just never have or cause a situation and thats also what most players freak out about

[@guyinthecorner0]

@@trveheimer6360 I get that, it's very exciting to hear that this pos got any play. But I mean, we can't really all say that One With Nothing is an objectively good card

[@trveheimer6360]

@@guyinthecorner0 yah but like there is theory and then there is practise -> magic formats are wildly chaotic and i think standard is the least random way to play. many other "objectively broken" staple cards rely on interactions between cards that were printed years apart. in a vaccum most of these suck hard but i dont disagree with the assessment that one with nothing sucks, just that the "why was this even printed?" question can be answered by in fact being of mild relevance in its rotation cycle over the draft chaff and therefore kinda justifying being a rare.

[@panko2848]

2:45 in legacy no deck would want One With Nothing because Lions Eye Diamond is legal which does the same thing, for 0 mana, AND nets you 3 mana.

[@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters]

Unless you can donate One With Nothing to an opponent as your casting it with a future card that may be printed. Where as you couldn't donate the LED effect most likely. Who knows maybe one day.

[@livedandletdie]

@@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters Hive Mind, One With Nothing. I mean, if you're playing Hive Mind, just go Hivemind+any of the 5 pacts...

[@livedandletdie]

@@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters Hive Mind forces your opponent to copy spells you cast.

[@VanHornJosh]

Putrid imp lets you pick which and when the cards you discard. It would be played if there were not better discard outlets

[@Vormav-Tingel]

You could also "donate" it with Sudden Substitution to an opponent and even get a creature from your opponent in the process.

[@iankane3732]

Siege rhino actually did see play in modern, in the time frame in between khans release and eldrazi winter, abzan was one of the best decks in the format. It also saw play in pod decks before it was banned. It's too slow now but siege rhino used to be a house in modern as well.

[@betabrett0223]

Sorrow's Path It's a land that allows you to swap what creatures your opponents control are attacking your creatures at the expensive of life and I believe it hurts your creatures as well. Example: your opponent attacks with a 2/2 wolf and a 1/1 spirit. You block the wolf with a 2/2 zombies and you block the spirit with a 0/1 plant. You can then tap this land (that doesn't tap for mana) and make your plant block the wolf and your zombie block the spirit, take two damage, and your creatures take damage from the land

[@osterpenpen9379]

Worse, it does 2 damage to you and all your creatures whenever it gets tapped for any reason, not just its ability. So even if you play Tomb of Yawgmoth and tap for a {B}... 2 damage to you and your entire board.

[@Fyrefrye]

@@osterpenpen9379 Even worse, it only lets you target your opponent's BLOCKING creatures, so you're likely killing several of your attacking creatures mid-combat. The only potential use I can see is in multiplayer where you're messing with combat between two other players and you have a board of creatures that either can take the damage, benefit from the damage (stuffy doll or the enrage dinos), or you're playing control and don't have any creatures. So maybe in a weird control deck in commander... maybe.

[@garrisonwu5862]

It could have some uses in dino/sliver decks that want your own creatures to get damaged, but not being able to tap for mana is a major downside.

[@lordyoofy5529]

The worst card in my opinion is Wood Elemental. Ayye I didn't think it would be mentioned

[@satansamael666]

Dan “Siege Rhino is not good enough for Modern.” Abzan Yorion “am I a joke to you?”

[@CardmarketMagic]

Dan: Yes...but please don't beat me in a game otherwise I am going to look rather foolish

[@satansamael666]

@@CardmarketMagic Carl! Dan’s asking for a challenge.

[@vicdark8807]

Goblin Firebug is from an era where red did not get 2/2s for 2 without drawbacks. Also it is from a tribal set so it has a highly relevant creature type. I'm not saying that the card is good but it is not as bad as modern players might think (it is bad thou, but nowhere near the worst magic card ever printed).

[@heavyonthemustardplz]

Was going to make a similar comment. The card is not good by any means, even for the time, but if you're drafting goblins in ONS block this card could very easily make the deck.

[@seandun7083]

I think I heard that one with nothing was played in sideboards in standard against decks built around ebony owl netsuke and howling mine While a vanilla 2 mana 2/2 isn't great, it also isn't something that was given to red at common until shadows over innistrad, a very long time after legions (not to say the card is in any way good) Ixadron is an example of a card that flips things face down and it is actually pretty good in commander since face down creatures can't be turned face up unless they have morph or were manifested. Mindless null is a pretty bad card. 3 mana 2/2 that can't block unless you control a vampire It's also pretty interesting to look at cards that were once thought to be terrible but have since become format defining (dark depths, lion's eye diamond, death's shadow)

[@ethanowens473]

The 2/2 goblin would be fun to give control to another player.

[@2LettersSho]

Woah, just did a scryfall to check that and that's quite the amazing fact; every red, common, 2 mana 2/2 had a downside for over 20 years...

[@heavyonthemustardplz]

@@2LettersShothis wasn't exclusive to red either, both black and even more so blue would not get 2/2s for 2 without downsides, although green and white could.

[@Fyrefrye]

A fun thing to do when looking for bad cards is to go on gatherer (the official card database from wizards) and do a search filtering by lowest community rating. Once you get past a few of the newer cards with only 1-2 votes you start finding the REALLY bad ones. Razor boomerang is there (good job on getting that one). But then there's Aven Trooper. 4 mana (3+w) 1/1 flying bird soldier with "2+w, discard a card: this creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn." The art even looks half-finished. Another fun one is Sorrow's Path. A land with (heavily paraphrased) "tap: target two of your opponent's blocking creatures. swap the creatures they're blocking if all new blocks are legal. When this land is tapped, it deals 2 damage to you and all your creatures."

[@Fyrefrye]

Oh. nearly forgot another gem: Aladdin's Lamp. 10 mana artifact with "pay X mana, tap: the next time you would draw a card this turn, instead look at X cards, draw one of them, and put the rest on the bottom of your deck in a random order."

[@dapperghastmeowregard]

I feel like Break Open has a niche use as potentially getting your opponent to waste a Willbender or Voidmage Apprentice, or even Bane of the Living/Skinthinner. I don't think Razor Boomerang is THAT bad. Prolly not constructed playable, but it's basically "5: Deal 1 damage to any target," basically a slightly pricier Rod of Ruin that can theoretically be activated multiple times. The worst card is Great Wall. It's not a creature, so it can't even theoretically kill an opponent, and its sole function is to negate an ability only used by like 6 cards of the tens of thousands printed in the game's 30 year lifespan.

[@DoABarrelRol1l]

I kind of want to see Razor Boomerang in some 'artifiacts etb matter' deck or a silly storm combo. Make it cost less to cast, less to equip (I'm sure there are plenty that make it cost 0) and either a creature that untaps itself when doing the above or something like Stonybrook Schoolmaster + haste or a wide board of 1/1s could be a cool way to throw the 'rang 3-5 times in a turn then hit them with a Grapshot etc. I do think they could have made it 2 damange, cost 1 less, equip for 1 less, for give the equipped created +2/0 (you can always stab someone with it), or a combination of all 4 to be a quaint fun card. You say Great Wall is bad but I'm destined to make a legacy Plainswalker deck if only for the pun and confused faces of my opponents when they thought I was playing Super Friends.

[@namiotp]

hey, at least a 3 mana "do nothing" isn't as bad as a 4 mana "do nothing" with wood elemental!

[@dapperghastmeowregard]

@@namiotp You can get 5 forests in play, cast a 1/1 Wood Elemental, and attack your opponent 20 times with it. It's so infinitesimally small odds that it's never going to actually happen, but in the halls of thought exprriments that's enough to put it over Great Wall (plus technically it does let you sacrifice lands badly if your deck cares about that).

[@spilledmilk2178]

Break Open still isn't useful at even that cause it's not like you have a way of knowing what an opponent's morph cards are until they've been turned face up anyways, so you'd just have to get lucky in targeting the counter spell morphs, which in that case running any kind of cheap removal like a shock would just be 100% better as it actually has numerous other uses on top of just that one single thing Break Open may or may not be able to do in that specific scenario.

[@errieck4212]

Goblin Firebug could be played for example in a Blim, Comedic Genius Commander Deck, or in general decks where you try to give your opponents bad stuff from your board

[@Yammenkow]

Yup i have one in my Zedruu the Greathearted commander deck. The downside discourages the enemy from sacrificing it and meanwhile it gives me cards and life

[@dustinross2618]

Or in any type of deck where you're actively trying to sacrifice your own permanents. Get 2 Mayhem Devil's on the battlefield, later play and sacrifice a Goblin Firebug to Deadly Dispute and sacrifice one of the tapped lands. You would now get to draw 2, make a treasure token, and deal 4 damage divided as you choose to any target. Combine that with the fact that you're most likely at turn 5 by this point and have generated some treasure tokens, you can cast another spell dealing an additional 2 damage divided as you choose to any target per treasure sacrificed. All that for 4 mana and a land sounds like a solid combo to me.

[@Dreikoo]

A lot of morph creatures didn't have a morph trigger ability back in the day but their morph cost was usually lower than their regular casting cost so the idea was you play it as a morph when you can't play anything else and then transform it when you have enough mana.

[@Lucas-xy9qh]

Break open could be reasonable back in the days but with high risks. There were morph effects that prevented all combat dmg or countered a spell, so they were like very situational. But there was also a 13/13 behemoth that could come around with that :D

[@zemratsu]

Feels like nowadays nobody runs any morphs except Counterspell types and the like. So Break Open hasmore use now than when it was released?

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

CLOUD SCRAPER! I can't find my copy i had as a kid anymore =(

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

@@zemratsu if you're at a commander table and want to metagame the 1 morph deck..... just kill the face down card

[@zemratsu]

@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 Honestly if I were playing red vs morph I would try to get AEther Flash out ASAP.

[@masaufuku1735]

Even in situations where flipping it would effectively fizzle an effect - i.e. a counter effect, a buff that lasts till end of turn, etc - a card that does 2 damage to a creature would be better in virtually every situation. Either you force the opponent to pay the morph cost themselves, or you kill the creature and don't have to worry about it's morph effect. And there are plenty of red cards that can do 2 damage to a creature for 1-2 mana.

[@MrPiotrV]

Wood elemental has been, in my mind, the worst card ever made ever since I discovered it 15 years ago.

[@robertb6889]

Not quite as bad as the card “one with death” that was not a serious card but pretty damn close.

[@randomjunk1977]

Whenever I think of bad cards the first that always comes to mind for me is Soldevi Steam Beast. Not because it's so catastrophically bad (but it is quite bad) but because at one point I had some random Magic cards in a case in a drawer and I would see them whenever I opened that drawer. There was a copy of Soldevi Steam Beast on too that I would always see and shake my head at. It's an artifact creature that costs 5. It's a 4/2 and has Regenerate for 2. Also, every time it becomes tapped, it heals an OPPONENT for 2.

[@namiotp]

hey, just give it vigilance! 5 mana 4/2 with regenerate is not bad at all!

[@para111111]

also soldevi sentry, 1/1 with 1: regenerate, opponent may draw a card

[@Keksoe666]

Here's the thing about "One with Nothing" : it's not "bad-bad" it's "weird-bad" and I know this is a weird defense but it's a good card in the way that it makes you think about how to use it. Really bad cards are the cards that are generic and forgettable like the millionth printing or alternative of things like Suntail Hawk or your generic red burn-spell. But cards like "One With Nothing" make you think of a way to use them, make you think of a way to sort of..."justify their existence" in a way? But I'm playing stuff like "Biovisionary", so I might not be the best judge of value xD

[@DedicatedCaffeineUser]

One with Nothing is only really viable with Barren Glory or Cheese Stands Alone as your victory conditions

[@walls_of_skulls6061]

Indestructible land that says "when this land is destroyed it deals 10 damage to any target" sounds like an incredibly flavorful and kinda fair volcano/mountain card

[@bensonprice4027]

8:55 some morph creatures were 1/1 or 1/2 and they had really niche things for when you wanted to flip them. Break Open came from onslaught where the effect was first explored. Some cards might be duds

[@nineinchnailz069]

I had always heard that the worst card in M:tg was Sorrow's Path.

[@Laezar1]

Break open is a card I have, always loved the art was one of the first magic cards I've seen and that weird thing in a shell was super fascinating as a kid. But then I couldn't figure out what the hell was up with that effect. I just assumed there were a lot of face down card shenanigans and that it would be important for some decks but apparently it was always trash and never served a purpose lol, that's a bit sad.

[@astuteanansi4935]

Well, if you're going up against a deck that runs Willbender, it can be slightly useful. Normally it would be more efficient to just use Shock to try to kill the morphed creature for 1 mana less, but if the Willbender user has mana open they'll just throw that shock at your creature or your face. But if you use Break Open, they can't do that because you don't have any morphed creatures, so the ability ends up wasted. Big brain plays

[@cameronpowell1864]

With Chainer as commander, one with nothing often works pretty well to enable Chainer to finish.

[@tiam2674]

Zephyr Spirit do I need to say more a blocker for 6 mana that sucks at blocking

[@ryanburkett949]

I used to play Juju bubble in my infinite mana combo colorless deck as a way to gain obscene life when I needed. It helped in situations where I didn't have my combo draw engine or the opponent was making me lose life when I drew cards.

[@AmideusTV]

Break Open can be used on Manefest cards to forcibly trigger an effect, and it can also be used when you know what the creature is. I have used it in commander to counter decks running morph triggers that counter a spell. It is definitely weak but certainly useful in a variety of real applications.

[@seandun7083]

You could also just play shock

[@joshuaturner4602]

So a face down creature doesnt always have an effect, most of the creatures that have morph or megamorph on them will do something when they are flipped face up, but there is a mechanic called Manifest which just takes a card and puts it facedown and makes it a 2/2. I remember watching a game in standard where this agro beatdown deck become a control deck post sidboard using Mastery of the Unseen to Manifest lands and sorceries off the top of his library so he can have enough creatures to finish off his opponent after countering most of his early game plays. so sometimes like if it was an instant or sorcery that got manifested turning it face up will just make the creature evaporate (because instants and sorceries are not permanents) but in 99% of cases if the creature has an ability other than an enter the battlefield ability flipping it face up makes that ability live again

[@DoABarrelRol1l]

Yeah seems like one of the only uses for the card. I think it could have been ANY card face up or maybe cantrip just to be a neat trick when drafting.

[@The5lacker]

Turning an Instant/Sorcery face-up doesn't actually evaporate it, fun fact. Instead you just reveal that it was indeed an Instant/Sorcery and put it back face down.

[@joshuaturner4602]

@@The5lacker Oh thats even worse than I thought it was, I just figured once you turned it into not a permanent it when to the bin

[@Danceofmasks]

IMO the worst card ever printed was "Mountain" ... From Arabian Nights. It was the only basic land from that set, and it took up a slot in your booster pack. Yeah, I know it's apparently worth a lot these days, but back then you'd be super mad if you got one.

[@KoboldCloaca]

5:25 After this part about bears, he says, in under the span of a minute: " _Bear_ minimum." " _Bearly_ acceptable." And " _Bear_ in mind." Coincidence? I think not.

[@Ixidora]

I run Razor Boomerang in my Sram EDH deck as a win con, cost reducers make it free to cast and Puresteel Paladin makes it free to equip, combine that with Monastery Mentor and a Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots and you have infinite (tapped) tokens and damage

[@pianoforte611]

Break open is the best answer. Other cards have some tiny benefit for the cost, Break open is pure downside, it literally upgrades your opponents creature.

[@Siggy313]

A morph creature that explicitly gets worse and has no effect after turning it face-up: Scornful Egotist. I have no idea why that card exists.

[@hauntedsunsets]

the only idea Break Open gives me is for some EXTREMELY specific politic play in commander games by offering to flip up an opponent's charge as part of a deal

[@charlesdaugherty321]

Wood Elemental does not say 'Sacrifice any number of untapped Forests YOU OWN.' Can I sac my opponents forests?

[@teamcyeborg]

Goblin Firebug would be great in, say, a commander deck with the Gitrog Monster... if it were green or black.

[@jawstrock2215]

I can see the boomerang as being protection from things targetting untapped creatures..... that's about it.

[@IlpalaGaming]

So one of the worst EVER has to be Chimney Imp. For 4B (FIVE mana total) you get a 1/2 flier. With the bonus effect of "When Chimney Imp dies, target opponent puts a card from their hand on top of their library" Just. Nothing about this card feels good to play. No one ever wants to spend their entire turn 5 playing a creature worth about 1.5 mana with an effect that does something as little as blank a draw phase.

[@SamBashline]

Chimney Imp is useful because you can sacrifice it at Instant speed to put a card from your opponent's hand back on top of their deck. Before their first main phase, but after they draw for the turn, sacrifice Chimney Imp with some effect and make them put back the card they just drew. If you have a way to recast the Chimney Imp (or otherwise get it back on the field), or if you have more than one in play, you can effectively make it so your opponent never gets to play any more cards.

[@SceneTurkey]

Goblin Firebug is an AMAZING card to put in a Zedruu deck

[@osterpenpen9379]

A subtly bad card is Squire. It's a 1/2 with no abilities for {W}{W}. It's not the *worst* card, but it's below curve and double white.

[@GazaElDiablo]

Break Open is good specifically against Blue Morphs... all the morph up counterspells or counters triggers

[@telph3223]

And against scornful egotist it turns a 2/2 into a 1/1.

[@williamwinder5011]

Juju bubble is unusable.

[@ryangainey94]

Rakalite is my pick. You pay 6 mana for an artifact that says pay 2 mana: Prevent 1 damage to any target, and then has the additional clause that at the end of any turn in which Rakalite's ability was activated, you return it to your hand. So a turn 6 or 7 you play this card and it does nothing... A turn 8 or 9 you play this and can pay 8 mana to stop 1 point of damage... Then it returns to your hand so you have to do it AGAIN. The only way you really make this card useful is by having infinite mana, but if you have infinite mana, there are so many BETTER things you can be doing with it, and every time you recast it is another opportunity for your opponent to use countermagic on it if they draw it so it's not even consistent damage prevention

[@SceneTurkey]

5:25 2 mana 2/2 is literally what a bear is, if it has more stats, it's not considered a "bear" anymore

[@danimitetwitch]

I only know of 1 card that even remotely works with One With Nothing and it’s a newer card for like 7 mana that let’s you exchange your hand and your graveyard. I like it’s test card variant, One With Death. One black mana, and you lose the game.

[@joshuahadams]

Razor Boomerang sounds like Yūgioh’s Final Countdown but a thousand times worse. Final Countdown basically requires you to pay 1/4th your starting life, and if you can stall for 20 turns you win. It’s a Normal Spell, basically a sorcery, and incredibly difficult to tutor without incredibly high cost cards like Left Arm Offering - which requires exiling you whole hand - or Ancient Gear Drill - Requiring a discard and keeps you from using Final Countdown for a turn along with only using Ancient Gear creatures, which are all based on high attack and trample effects.

[@tubebrocoli]

Colfenor's Plans. It's already bad when you first read it, then you notice it counts itself. Then you notice you can't put lands into play with it.

[@Yammenkow]

I run goblin firebug in my Zedruu deck. Give it to my enemy and it's basically "sac a land or let me a card and life every turn".

[@Enchurito]

I'd say one of the crappiest is aven trooper 3W Flying 2W discard a card aven trooper gets +1/+2 until end of turn 1/1 It's a crappy 1/1 flyer for 4 with a terrible ability that other cards did for free. In the same era there was madness cards that benefited from being discarded, aven trooper was garbage when there was wild mongrel that is a 2/2 for 1G that lets you discard for free to give it +1/+1 until end of turn and change it's color.

[@trveheimer6360]

i hate how they nerfed free outlets for sac/discard and basically everything. i get why and powercreep bla bla but they came up with so much hilariously downpowered shit i didnt even want to do any of these strats anymore. like when they made activated abilities be only sorcery speed AND used only one time per turn AND be on a expensive creature

[@andscifi]

Delif's Cube may not technically be worse than any of these since it doesn't actively hurt you to play it. But it's both terrible and convoluted. It's an artifact that costs 1 to play. Then if you attack with a creature and that creature isn't blocked you can pay two colorless and tap the cube to have that creature do no damage in combat. Then you can put a counter on the cube. Once it has a counter you can pay two mana and remove the counter to regenerate target creature. So for 5 mana and not doing damage with a unblocked creature you can regenerate something once. Got to love fallen empires.

[@gus3000spam]

About "Break Open" : it has some niche use cases, considering some Morph effects are very circumstantial ; ex : "counter target spell", "return attacking creatures to owner's hands", etc. If you know that the face down creature is one of these, this can feel very good to play. Does that make it a good card ? No, absolutely not. Still fun though

[@forposterity4031]

JuJu bubble is a good late game card. Lets say you can use 11 mana mid to late game, play this card and immediately gain 5 life, next turn another 5 life. A few good combos too with "whenever you gain life...." effects. Now if you have this card in a mana producing deck mid to late game you might get a 10 life boost for two turns.

[@lunaristhomsen6941]

Goblin Firebug is a zedruu piece for the record. Maybe it's not the best zedruu piece but it's still funny

[@JoshBlair83]

One With Nothing could be a game ender if you had Faith of Devoted and Maurading Blight Priest on the battlefield. Maybe Vito, too, to take care of someone with a higher life total.

[@Cosmikaze]

Scornful Egotist. I remember opening it in a pack ages ago, I had to read it 5 times just to make sure I wasn't missing something. I guess it can be used in certain combos that requires high CMC cards, but outside that very specific niche it's just terrible.

[@sufifi]

Card like Pearl Unicorn or (even worse) Mindless Null are 2/2 for 3 with colored mana in their costs (and even a drawback for the latter). Bad as it may seem, Scornful Egotist is better than these cards since it's a 2/2 for 3 colorless which can actually trick opponents into thinking you've got something good down there.

[@majinshinsa]

I created a deck that won with Barren Glory + Leave//Chance + One with Nothing. Have Barren Glory on the battlefield, EoT cast Leave then One. Now all you have is a victory at the start of your turn! (I used a modern ad naus shell to make a worse deck)

[@maltesers182]

Razor Boomerang can be used in EDH/Commander if you are using an Artifact focused deck which lowers it's cost to 0 and use Paradox Engine to keep untapping everything it goes from being terrible to be a game winning but it needs alot of set up but so fun when it works lol

[@ryanburkett949]

Paradox Engine is banned in commander.

[@maltesers182]

@@ryanburkett949 Oh that makes sense it's a great card i will have to change up an old EDH deck i got

[@akihitokoizumi2474]

Viridian longbow exists

[@wombleking]

My pet terrible card is Ember shot from Judgement. '6R: deal 3 damage to any target. Draw a card.' Lightning Bolt but pay 6 extra to turn it into a cantrip.

[@peterpeterson4800]

Siege Rhino used to see play in Modern, did it not?

[@calemr]

I know it saw play in Standard at the time.

[@SIeepwalker1]

It was a modern staple for a while. Abzan was one ofthe best decks and played 4 of them

[@SIeepwalker1]

Also when pod was a thing.

[@MrPiotrV]

Yeah, it did. I hate to say this yet again but that guy (daniel) very often doesn't know what he's talking about.

[@ThatOneWeirdFlex]

Razor Boomerang might have a niche in Artifact ETB Commander decks.

[@akihitokoizumi2474]

That would be the only reason to use it over viridian longbow.

[@matthewkeeling886]

To be fair to Goblin Firebug, it is from Legions (a relatively weak set overall), 2/1 was the standard p/t for Red 2 drops back then and there was a bit of a goblin theme in that block. So it deserves a bit of slack. All that being said; it was still awful by the standards of the time.

[@videogamescoverftw]

the only good way to use one with nothing offensively is hive mind, which makes everyone cast the spell. Even then there are better things to cast with it like pact of negation where they are forced to counter your pact of negation and if they cant pay they lose

[@Nose4a2]

Goblin firebug in zedruu commander actually sounds pretty funny

[@makotoxchihiroyaoifangirl8409]

One with nothing would be funny to play with Hive mind after you empty your entire hand onto the board.

[@shaneg9081]

As soon as I saw the title, I knew one with nothing would come up, and yet there have been times when it actually was a good card. Some strange corner cases were needed, but it is sometimes playable.

[@FionaLovecraft]

Wave Elemental and Ashaya, Soul of the Wild, All your creatures are forests so you have a bunch of tokens you can just sacrifice to feed to it.

[@nahuelkid]

You know what fucks me up about Razor Boomerang? If it said THE CREATURE dealt the damage, it could actually be pretty spicy.

[@trveheimer6360]

the goblin just sacrifices a land for flavour reasons i guess. kinda respect that goblin vibe.

[@livedandletdie]

Goblin Firebug+Donate. Or any Donate like effect. For when you need to sinkhole your opponent but aren't playing black. Wood Elemental is DOPE. You cheat it in, sac all your forests, then you play Second Sunrise or Planar Birth or Splendid Reclamation. Plus you have some Landfall trigger creatures in play, like Hedron Crab or Ruin Crab... There are better ways to trigger landfall, and there are better ways to sac your lands. But Wood Elemental, is a card no one expects you to play ever.

[@Tiax776]

What the hell were they thinking with Wood Elemental? There's a 3 mana 4/4 with trample, toxic and proliferate. Ridiculous. There's also Questing Beast for 4 mana.

[@TheJuanamador]

I think the only good target for Break Open is a morph card called Willbender. When it flips counter spell. So flip it when so it counter one of your spells

[@trveheimer6360]

damn exactly my thought and i also commented that

[@joshhudson9839]

Scornful egotist says hello in context of the morph discussion. Also when you said a card from zendikar my mind immediately went to mindless null, but then you showed a card from worldwake :(

[@stamythezombie]

Now I just wanna go to my store and start casually start asking for these cards until they catch on.

[@TheBalthassar]

Scornful Egotist doesn't like when you do Break Open on them.

[@vivecanada1]

One With Nothing actually saw sideboard play, because Owling Mine was a deck for a while.

[@YourCrazyOverlord]

Delif's Cube is real stinker most people don't bring up.

[@mrsplays9817]

Razor boomerang is EXTRA bad cause the creature itself doesn't even deal the damage so you can't make use of lifelink or deathtouch or infect or anything.

[@barath4545]

Juju bubble had niche uses! ... If you got stuck in stalemate games, you could just dump all mana in it, and gain life ever turn. I remember using it to gain 8-14 life usually over 2 turns where noone wanted to attack anyways so for that it was awesome.

[@rajamicitrenti1374]

One with Nothing has one (very risky) use: combined with Armaggedon to meet the win condition for Barren Glory.

[@trumpetperson11]

Or you could just play LED, or literally any of the many cards that let you discard, but with some kind of advantage.

[@ChouRaiyuki]

One of my favorite cards is Carnival Of Souls which apparently was considered one of the worst cards ever printed at the time it released (and I guess for that reason had the further misfortune of ending up on the reserve list). IIRC Mana burn was part of the reason. While it isn't great now it's thankfully not nearly as bad partly due to mana burn being gone and partly due to stuff that can actually synergize with it.

[@ravemac5008]

One with nothing in the right build crushes js

[@grantharriman284]

The only use for razor boomerang is to repeatedly trigger effects off artifact/equipment entering the battlefield, and even then it's slow and expensive.

[@erithanabonngrace4695]

Animate juju bobble, training grounds or heartstone to reduce cost to 1, add channel. Infinite activations to feed into cleric class (infinite life+mana) Dina (infinite player damage), or trelasarra (infinite +1/+1 counters and scrying)

[@Scarlettshardd]

If you are playing channel you probably don't need a card like juju bobble to win 😂

[@FilmscoreMetaler]

The REAL worst card ever has to be Rocket Launcher. It's a 4 mana artifact with the ability to shoot 1 damage for 2 mana but destroys itself at the end of turn after using it. If that sounds too powerful, it also comes with summoning sickness.

[@hyousai]

Rocket Launcher makes a decent outlet for infinite mana, as you can use it to just win the game by activating it a jillion times in a row. I considered using it in my Arixmethes deck, but it lost out to the similar but superior Goblin Cannon.

[@erikfrederiksen4863]

@@hyousai Yeah, rocket launcher is a total game ender.

[@chrisgaston2122]

I still think Goatnapper is the worst card I own. Nobody plays goats.

[@tentacle_love]

Break Open is probably the worst card ever printed. At best, it's useless if your opponent doesn't use face down cards. At worst, you spend resources to speed up your opponent's tempo and help them. It literally never does anything good for you. I think there is only one creature that, when it is turned face up, can change the target of a spell or counter it unless someone pays extra. and if I'm not mistaken, the decks that use that can return it to hand or place it face down again. Still no gain. With regards to the 2/2 goblin mentioned, the goblin decks that would have run that would not care in the slightest if they lost a land on their turn, they probably have one or two to spare and it wouldn't really slow down their tempo enough. In that example, creature type matters. But then that was a long time ago, I don't remember how good those goblin decks were at the time and there was probably a better two drop.

[@epi1763]

i would love to see adam in a feature match and see the perspective of a new player and see what deck he ends up liking.

[@CardmarketMagic]

Why not?

[@dimitrivynokurov8304]

the goblin is good in commander if u can exchange control of it and then bounce it. u can basicly start a combo to destroy your opponets lands while exchaging him with good card from your opponent. zedruu edh will love this card! :D

[@Gab8riel]

I love staple or stinker, can't believe I hadn't seen this one yet

[@Emily-de2te]

One with nothing actually saw tournament play as sideboard tech vs owling mine decks. The flip card could maybe see a use vs werewolves *maybe* (not 100% on that. Same with other mdfcs like thing in the ice etc)

[@hewhoisnamed9050]

Goblin firebug into switcheroo, next

[@sekishudai]

Scornful Egotist ... I have, like ten of these since it came out, still don't get it I use them backward in sleeves to put printed proxies on top...

[@pureevil6047]

[Break Open] is the worst card ever printed. Perhaps tied with [Wood Elemental]. Break Open turns a face down creature you opponent controls face up for {1}{R}. This is always a benefit for your opponent and a detriment to you.

[@casaroli]

You can give the goblin to the opponent and flicker it. There’s at least something to be done.

[@brendanmckee1846]

My pick would likely be all those cards with phasing from Mirage. I mean, have you seen Teferi’s Drake? 2U for a 3/2 flying you only get to use every other turn is pretty garbage

[@stigmaoftherose]

Necropolis is my favorite bad card. When talking about break open, scornful egoist is the only face down creature with practically no upside however you can use it in a birthing pod deck to get to 9 cmc really fast. However the worst card ever printed is zephyr spirit. It was intentionally the worst card ever printed.

[@marcoottina654]

No one would ever play zephyr spirit even if it would have cost just one blue mana

[@stigmaoftherose]

@@marcoottina654 nah if it cost one blue it would be great in a Doran like deck. It doesn't have defender so it can attack and deal 6 for 1 mana the high mana cost is part of why it is bad.

[@marcoottina654]

@@stigmaoftherose it would require a splice of blue (which is doable in some defender decks, like one of mine). But still, your argument holds up

[@darilmarra4383]

12:40 I'm sure that if you manage the miracle to WALK from UK to Australia you have the divine power to make that card good somehow

[@farorbull1735]

@CardmarketMagic The only reason to run Break open that I can think of is vs Manifest if the Manifested creature is not a Creature? really bad though.

[@dulloddity]

Scornful Egotist 7U U- Morph 1/1 and that's it. It gets WORSE when you flip it. and even just casting it that way is still 4 mana total

[@MindstabThrull]

Goblin Firebug was not horrendous, as getting a 2/2 with a relevant creature type for 1R at common was really hard to find. Things have got much better over the years such that you can actually get 1R for a 2/2 with a relevant creature type and a bonus at common, but it took a very long time until that was a thing. Compare to Ironclaw Orcs, which were 2/2 at common with a drawback that didn't let them block anything big and had a rarely-relevant creature type. We are talking about a card that's nearly 20 years old by now, after all. I could see Break Open being used if you have a creature that says "can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or greater" and turning it face up before blockers are declared. Niche use case but is usable. Razor Boomerang sounds like a really bad Viridian Longbow, which is 3, tap equipped creature: 1 damage to any target, and costs 1 to cast - and is common. The only reason I can see Razor Boomerang being useful is to save from being destroyed. Also how did nobody come up with: Chimney Imp 4B Flying When Chimney Imp dies, target opponent puts a card from their hand on top of their library. 1/2

[@ManaDrain315]

I was just thinking that Goblin Firebug seemed reasonable for an Onslaught block draft common. Only green got bears without drawbacks at the time.

[@MindstabThrull]

@@ManaDrain315 Yeah, and it was a Goblin, which meant it had a relevant creature type. Is it better than Goblin Piker? (Portal Second Age, then to core sets 9th-M12; 1R for a 2/1 Goblin Warrior, no abilities). That second point of toughness, especially in combination with Lord effects, would certainly help.