MTG Top 10: BAD Cards I thought were GOOD When I was a Kid | Magic: the Gathering | Episode 461

[@NizzahonMagic]

It is in fact not Friday, but as I announced on the community tab, I moved this video to today (Wednesday) because of the set review starting this weekend. So, enjoy the early Top 10!

[@JuanFelipeCalle]

For a lot of us, "when we were kids" meant playing with a small pool of cards, both because the game was smaller but also because our play group was smaller, we had less money, less ability to seek out the best cards (or even the 2nd or 3rd best cards). Craw Wurm was a big, bad boy in my play group for a long time, lol. Even Sea Serpent :) And Healing Salve -- not as cool as Lightning Bolt -- but a great combat trick for when your Craw Wurm blocks that Juggernaut.

[@david21216]

Mega old comment but still wanted to comment: I had a similar experience as a young kid growing up in the 2000s except my uncle got me into Magic so i never had friends to play with. Also the only cards I had were like 2500 commons from old sets like masks, I see a lot of the cards in these top 10 worsts like the glare card that lets both players stack each others' top cards God yes Flailing Soldier 😂😂💀

[@sultanofswing44]

One of the first decks I ever built revolved around putting healing salve on an isochron scepter. I thought that was gunna make me unkillable

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

lol of all the things to imprint :)

[@TeensierPython]

But did it work!?

[@stevesmith5883]

I mean you did recognise the power of Isochron Scepter tbf, but imprinting healing salve is definitely a choice move. I love sticking a mana drain under that thing in Jhoira, next to good old dramatic reversal ofc.

[@alexiskoiva5919]

I can feel that when when use was a kid I use to run a mono white gain lifedeck with venerable monk healing salve and angel of mercy. I did run isochron but for holy day so i could just gain life with those other cards while blanking all combat damage

[@sultanofswing44]

Lol no it didn't work. I eventually upgraded to lighting helix and put in ajanis pridemate and other payoffs, but it was to slow and I gave up on the idea before I understood enough to make it work.

[@DeviousPie2]

Seeing Scaled Wurm at number 10 made me so happy. Before I learned how to play, I loved my older brother's fifth edition cards. Scaled Wurm seemed so cool! It had one more power and two more toughness than Craw Wurm!

[@Bartleby1892]

I thought Scaled Wurm must be great because it was literally the booster artwork.

[@BlackwingHecate]

"I think we all have that one giant Wurm we thought was the best..." *Gazes forlornly at her collection of Craw wurms.*

[@davidlundquist1979]

I started playing in 1994, when The Dark was the newest set, and I absolutely loved Leviathan. My 8th grade self completely ignored the mana cost, and that little drawback of needing to sacrifice four Islands before you could deal any damage with it, and just saw the 10/10 trampler. In fact, one of the first decks I ever put together after I stopped just playing with every card I owned combined Leviathan with Teleport. Yeah, for some reason I thought a 10/10 trampler needed to be made unblockable. It went about as well as you'd expect. I think we can all agree though, that Mark Tedin's art for the card was freaking awesome. Same for Polar Kraken.

[@gregjobes9138]

High CMC cards were great in my play group back in 1994, mostly because we were idiots. We didn't know you played one land per turn, we played however many we had in hand, we were also 11 years old. I still remember begging my grandmother to buy me a Shivan Dragon for my birthday, They were going for $16 at the time. Drove an hour to the closest card shop, Dragons Lair, She got me a Shivan Dragon and two starter decks. Got out to the car and opened up the starters, pulled another two Shivan Dragons, I was over the moon. I loved started decks as a kid, I think I thought I was getting more cards.

[@dyne313]

Scaled Wurm. I don't know if I ever thought it was awesome or not, but the art is iconic in my brain. Ice Age was a recent set when I started playing.

[@theblanklogo]

My 'huge wurm' was Leviathan! It's a freaking 10/10 with trample!

[@MortlachNL]

Lord of the Pit for me.

[@Herintruththelies]

Leviathan was also mine. It was so gigantic and awesome and I loved the art.

[@brendans1983]

First 2 pack I ever bought had Leviathan and Seasinger in it. Naturally built a mono blue deck, which probably didn't even have enough islands in it to even cast Leviathan, but hey.

[@bewbunyon1]

Imagine you are just chilling in your tower by the sea. You hear an unusual sound outside. You look out outside and see the Leviathan!

[@robmitchell3039]

@@MortlachNL Lord of the Pit won me a lot of games back in the day. When just about the only thing that could kill it was Swords to Plowshares, a 7/7 flying trample was really hard to deal with.

[@tonythepokemonguy751]

This list won’t feel like a personal attack on cards I liked as kid when I first started *sees number 10*. Oh it’s gonna be one of those days

[@om3g4888]

I got a Lord of the Pit in my very first revised starter set. I thought that was the best card ever. 7/7. Flying. Trample. Best card in the game! 😂😂

[@abcdefghijkl5408]

Dude, i traded a few dual lands for a lotp in the early 90s!

[@om3g4888]

@@abcdefghijkl5408 Ouch... I'm glad I held on to my dualies.

[@TransformersBoss]

“I really overvalued life gain in general” I think that happens to basically every new player ever. Even happened to the designers of the game! They thought making Healing Salve and Ancestral Recall each cost 1 was ok!

[@jenniferwilliams9612]

When I was a kid, I remember building a deck with Sea Serpent, phantasmal Terrain, and Fishliver Oil. I figured out that even though the sea serpent couldn’t attack if the other player didn’t have islands, I could use phantasmal terrain to turn one of their lands into an island, and then put fishliver oil on the sea serpent, giving it island walk, and then they couldn’t my block my amazing 6/6 for 6 at all! Fear the power of my deck and my brilliant ingenuity! Also, when I was a kid, I played with the tron lands, back when they were really bad (when you couldn’t tutor them up), and I simply planned on drawing one of each naturally, like a champ!

[@davidlundquist1979]

I teamed up Merfolk Assassin and Fishliver Oil. It seems good at first, a mono-blue Terminate! But neither of the cards does anything without the other, and even when they do appear together, they can only combine to kill four creatures per game, max. I'm not sure why I didn't just play Counterspell and Boomerang instead.

[@bstachutheuneatable1727]

I was way too obsessed with Thorn Elemental bc it was a rare that came in a starter deck, so I intentionally bought 4 decks just to have a play set.

[@VeiRetning]

When I was a kid, I bought my very first The Dark pack and was very lucky(Ahem) to get a Leviathan! Great artwork and 10/10 Trample! So good! Can't wait to smash my opponent with it! Quickly made a deck to put it in and play with my friends. Very happy I manage to get it casted and attacking my opponent finally after sacrificing 4 Islands My friend: Can I terror it? Me: 😱

[@golgariguy]

My "Scaled Wurm" was Enormous Baloth. It looked so awesome and unstoppable! I've recently built a mono green EDH deck with all the big creatures I used to play as a kid (Thorn Elemental, Rhox, Plated Slagwurm...) and bought a foil Enormous Baloth for it! :)

[@omarortiz9660]

Damm, Thorn elemental, Rhox, Krosan Groundshaker, Ravenous Baloth... It was my first deck

[@golgariguy]

@@omarortiz9660 Same! And my second one (the first almost decent deck I've ever built) was mono G Elves :)

[@ROMANTIKILLER2]

It is Friday? Yeah... weekend coming earlier!

[@CaptainWwowW]

I love these, makes me think back to all the terrible cards I thought were good as a kid. Squirming Mass, a 2 mana 1/1 with fear? Sign me up.

[@alaraplatt8104]

i like to imagine that "flailing soldier" refers to the guy getting knocked down in the art

[@danielschneider7015]

When I was a kid we thought Maro from Mirage was the best card ever. As our english was pretty bad back then someone had to translate the card for us and told us that Maro's power and toughness were not equal to the cards in your hand, but equal to all the cards in your collection.

[@astuteanansi4935]

They should make that an Un-card and name it something like "Marororororororororo"

[@y0_jimb0]

@@astuteanansi4935 Since Maro is Mark Rosewater, the un-card should be Rigar! (Richard Garfield)

[@johnhayes7590]

This speaks to me. I started playing right around the same time as you, and a lot of the cards on this list are the same things I used to try and play with. Keep up the videos, my friend.

[@emperornapoleon6204]

I, too was fooled by Scaled Wurm as a child. When I resolve a big green creature these days, it’s usually Primeval Titan.

[@OJC6]

For me it was Consuming Aberration. It looked terrifying and I thought I could easily get it to be a 25/25 or better. Unfortunately, the one time I did live long enough to cast the aberration my opponent had deathtouch creatures and I could never actually attack with it.

[@mikenahmias7102]

I started in 1996. The two cards for me that come to mind are Giant Albatross and Reef Pirates. I also thought I was so smart when I discovered a combo with Ebon Praetor and Breeding Pit in my black deck. And yes, I too had a "Scaled Wurm" deck.

[@NecroNathancon]

Your talk of your first rare reminds me of mine: Foil time-shifted Sol'Kanar, the Swamp King from Time Spiral, the 75-card packs. I think I started at a pretty good block.

[@omarortiz9660]

For me could be Spy Network: A single blue mana to see opponents hand, top card of their library, all facedown cards and scry 4 at instant speed. I thought it was awesome, but looks like its not really good after all

[@GgOnlyNoobs]

The OG Borborygmos and Living hive were unstoppable in our 5th class "Gruul OP" meta

[@ROMANTIKILLER2]

On a more serious note, I can relate to the video, I also started playing around that time and I had similar ideas on which cards was supposedly good at the kitchen table.

[@daniduc]

I don’t have any cards that I thought were good when I was a kid, because magic didn’t exist when I was a kid. I was 19 when magic was invented and 22 when I started playing. Yeah I’m old. But even tho I was an adult I still played with plenty of bad cards thinking there awesome. Still do. I loved Baron Sengir and built vampire decks with those homelands bats and Sengir vampires (that’s all we had back then). By the way: Innistrad is just Homelands made the right way. And Kaldheim is Ice Age done right (I though Ice Age was da bomb back then, and it is in general a pretty weak set). I love your top 10, and my favorites are the subjective ones, like this. Thanks for your content!

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

It's always great to look back at the cards you thought were amazing and put in work until one day you realised just how awful they were. I never played Magic as a kid, but I can relate because my original high school/primary school YuGiOh deck is *awful.* Cards like White Horned Dragon and The Atmosphere totally fooled me as a kid with their niche abilities and big numbers. I still regret trading away my Relinquished and Black Illusion Ritual for a *fucking Gate Guardian.* But what I am proud of is that I kept playing and got better, because determination is an important aspect of improvement, just as how I am determined to see "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)"!

[@trehenry413]

@The Glorious Lobster Emperor I feel you there on trading your YuGiOh cards. Traded a 1st edition Charizard for a Persian (loved that Pokémon in the show) and some other cards when i was in elementary school...

[@valutaatoaofunknownelement197]

Similar feelings here, learning with time that my collection was rather "weak" and pathetic for actual competitive and modern casual play. Cards like the Atmosphere look cool, are cool, but are best left as junk, fun tabletop/playground boss/tech, or fun cards for challenge s or cubes.

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 I mean I was rightfully getting annihilated by the people who bought the Cyber Dragon structure deck because my collection was from the Synchro era. I just liked the cards, winning was secondary.

[@valutaatoaofunknownelement197]

@@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor In other words, you played for fun. Which I do too. And honestly, that matters more than topping tournaments left and right.

[@valutaatoaofunknownelement197]

Also, I have no intentions of ever going competivite unless it was specially for common rarity, since most of my collection is such bulk.

[@crooker23]

I vibe heavily with Port Inspector's haircut and general disposition

[@lennartherrmann3057]

When i was a kid i misunderstood what tap, add green meant. It was just the tap symbol and the green tree mana symbol, so i thought it must mean you get a forest (as they have the same symbol, lol). From where? ahhh..... your deck? Thats why we played with the most overpowered mana-dorks ever as they could search for a basic from your deck every round and put in onto the battlefield.

[@pentatronic]

Haha me too. We basically thought land = mana.

[@TheEiric]

I loved that raging goblin could attack on turn one and kept adding him to red decks

[@Melvinvanharn]

Raging Goblin was playable. He functioned as a imitation 2/1 for 2, because if attacked for two turns, he got in the same amount of a Jackal Pup or Goblin Cadet. I played 4x Raging Goblin in my standard/Type II deck around Saga/Masque block, and I top 8ed 2001 WI states with 4 copies of him.

[@crovax1375]

Gravebane Zombie was an old favorite of mine. I loved to combine him Brine Shaman!

[@christiansassmannshausen5495]

Sun Web was originally supposed to be unable to block LARGE creatures, then the Art came back and it was ensnaring a Dragon... So they actually changed its effect instead of the art for some reason.

[@AlphaSquadZero]

They turned an island into a creature card because of the art.

[@TrikeMan115]

videos like this are extra helpful to people like me who havent played magic since childhood and are getting back into it; seeing the inefficiencies spelled out is nice

[@donut22_0]

When I started playing arena my friend smacked me with a dungeon venturing deck. Thought it was so broken lol

[@zackestin1368]

venture decks have won multiple alchemy events at this point to be fair, it is the most consistent deck in that format.

[@MortlachNL]

My walls deck will always have a special place in my heart. Animated Wall of Swords or Wall of Fire were fun!

[@TheKeaver]

One of mine that immediately comes mind is Rona, Disciple of Gix. I was absolutely convinced that this card could be a value machine, so after my first foray into Standard with the rotating Amonket (and my BW Zombies deck) I tried to build a whole new deck of Esper Historic. Shoutouts to Cabal Paladin, another card I thought would be good since I could hit the opponent for 2 every time I cast a historic spell, lol.

[@TheShinyFeraligatr]

Megatherium is an interesting case, because I think if it was a 5/5 we'd be looking at it in a similar way to how we look at Blastoderm one set later. The gap between 4/4 and 5/5 in Constructed is massive.

[@cousinjimmy2638]

I used to think Dark Maze from Homelands was a good card because I could surprise my opponent. That surprise worked once.

[@rareroe305]

It's Friday!? Sweet, short week!

[@SCKentrol]

I used to love my Gustcloak creatures from onslaught. I had a mono-W soldier "gustcloak" bird/soldier deck with Radiant as the boss monster and Aven Brigadier. Unfortunately, the gustcloack them didn't show up in legions & Scourge

[@tomaszjackowski1981]

I am also the Healing Salve guy. My first deck was White heal deck :D

[@TempestDacine]

My huge wurm was m11 darkshade wurm. Which was p ironic considering i started in scars where i had access to some of the biggest and baddest fatties of all time. Started with red green eldrazi spawn running slow enablers like awakening zone and skittering invasion to enable the wurm, hand of emrakuls, and reverberated fireballs haha. Platinum Emperion and darksteel sentinel were the strongest cards to me then. Eventually I fell in love with scars and all the crazy artifacts and counters they made. Because of this I was esp in love with proliferate and used slow grindy proliferate cards like inexorable tide and contagion engine to kill creatures with -1/-1 counters, increase charges on lux cannon and tumble magnet, and poison the opponent to death with ichor rats to avoid combat.

[@toastghost9145]

My Wurm was Duskdale Wurm; a 7 mana 7/7 Trampler. I also adored Kraken Hatchling (1 mana 0/4) and Fog Bank (2 mana 0/2, Flying, ignore combat damage).

[@OrangeKing529]

This is more a bit of MTG trivia than anything else, but it's worth noting that Iron Star is technically ineligible for this list! It made a top 8 appearance at the 1995 Worlds in a mono-red deck, with Andrea Redi using it in the mirror. So that's a minimum of 2 points for Iron Star. ;)

[@ecpmath5658]

Ornithopter is mine. Let’s be honest, at some point everyone has seen ornithopter and thought it was busted before understanding the importance of card advantage.

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

I mean, Ornithopter *did* become good but that was a long time later and for very different reasons than anyone could have thought. Ornithopter became good not because of itself, but because of busted synergies. Affinity was a mistake.

[@davidlundquist1979]

Heck, there was a time when I thought the Kobolds were good, even though they're objectively worse than Ornithopter.

[@frankvandorp2059]

I think I grew up around the same time as you. Bad cards I thought were good include Lesser Gargadon, Alabaster Dragon, Metathran Aerostat, Magnigoth Treefolk and Fault Riders.

[@nezzivancic3644]

I made a mercenary deck as a kid as well. Their ability to recruit felt awesome(I did not know Rebels were a thing), and their artwork, particularly Rathi Fiend and Cateran Brute blew me away. It did not take me long to realize how bad the deck was, facing against my brother's mono green ramp deck.

[@CoderWilll]

Will now try to make a port inspector deck for pauper!

[@BLKCLVR]

My big one was definitely Caravan Hurda. My brother played a red deck so having a lifelinking blocker felt so powerful. Little did I know...

[@FnrrfYgmSchnish]

Scaled Wurm was always a favorite of mine, too. That and Rootbreaker Wurm. (I still love wurms, even though I know the older overpriced-vanilla-big-thing ones aren't so great to play now. I collect them, and have a binder devoted solely to the wurm collection -- got about two-thirds of every wurm printed so far!)

[@andrewpalella9923]

I build an extended control deck with scepter chant that used blinding angel and iridescent angel as it's finishers

[@RAS_Squints]

This vid should be change to 'another reason why the Masques block is Trash'

[@jamesgasik3424]

When I first got into the game, I thought my Clockwork Beast was incredible. A 6/4 for 6 that I can throw in any deck? Incredible! Except...it really wasn't a 6/4. It ate all my mana to keep it 'wound up', and it instantly shrank to a 5/4 if it blinked. And has no abilities!

[@elogee_yt]

I first started around 8th edition, and I had one similar to your Scaled Wurm, Enormous Baloth LOL

[@john-os8ei]

some of my favorite cards that i started with steel wall, anvilwrought raptor, and hexplate golem not to great. but blightsteel is still rockin around in satoru umezawa.

[@radiantrealms]

I had the same overrating of seeing the opponent's hand. Had a singleton Urza's Glasses that I jammed and swapped between every deck :D.

[@smallmetalowl3209]

What really grates about the lucky charm cycle is that Wizards felt obliged to include it (or an “improved” version of it), in every core set for what seemed like forever, long after everyone was in on the gag that these were terrible cards and a big waste of set slots. There might be a nostalgia value to them, but nobody wants to see them actually printed in a set again.

[@mayamayhemmusic]

Healing Salve is actually quite good in.a Firesong & Sunspeaker commander deck. It becomes a lightning bolt that also gains you life :D

[@christophercombs7561]

The "scales wurm" card my play group started off with was Broodstar

[@akoskovacs6830]

I bought my first deck around Shadowmoor. In retrospect, I misunderstood the game quite a lot. I got the rules, but my concept was something like this: "You need to build a deck which spams the most tokens, creates the most life etc without interfering with your opponent, like an economy simulator." Played my elves, created tokens, duplicated the tokens, got life for them and I was like yeah, this deck is very strong. Then a guy used some black/red magic on my elves and I was like how to play my elven civilisation-building solitaire game if you keep interfering? I lost, of course.

[@tuomashoffren534]

Mine were fog effects, especially fog itself. I didn't have a green deck that didn't have a playset of fogs.

[@ernestyork7328]

Healing salve used to be a must in any deck with white in it when I was a kid.

[@Redfoxe]

Sclaed Wurm was one of my favorite cards as a kid. I mean 8 mana 7/6!!. What could beat that!! Reya Dawnbringer was another one of mine, Just 9 mana and being able to bring back a creature at your upkeep. (I didnt know about reanimator decks)

[@SmugLookingBarrel]

I didn't start playing magic until I was quite a bit older than 11, but my "bad card that I thought was good" goes to Dust Stalker: a 4 mana 5/3 Haste Devoid, but if you control no other colourless creatures, it bounces to your hand at end of turn. I was like "wow, 5 damage for 4 mana? I just need to cast this four times and I can kill my opponent with it, plus I can bounce it to my hand so they can't interact with it". Turns out, they can just block it.

[@fredriksundelin6093]

Anything that could pump was godtier to me. Shivan dragon from 5th edition, was one of my early gems.

[@davidlundquist1979]

Hey, Shivan Dragon was genuinely one of the strongest creatures in the game for the first few years, along with Serra Angel and Sengir Vampire. Nothing wrong with having nostalgia for that.

[@marvthebass]

Orcish Oriflamme, Doubtless One, Nameless One, Ring of Protection cycle, Phyrexian Reaper (to be fair, the meta at the school cafeteria was super green heavy 🤷)

[@Psychonaut165]

When I was about 11 I played some of the flailing creatures in a mono red land destruction deck with a full set of rishadans ports. The deck was actually pretty good. I won a few local fnm tournaments with it 😂 It had those tapped lands that came into play with two counters that you could remove a counter for two mana. So I would use those to play stone rain on turn 2 🤷‍♂️

[@trevorr994]

My favorite combo as a kid was Serra Avatar + Armadillo Cloak.

[@aliertufekci1993]

For me, it was Krosan Cloudscraper. A 13/13 for 10 mana? Sign me up! You can even morph it to later turn face up to surprise your opponent! Of course, one Terror from my opponents quickly shattered my dreams of ever winning with it. It's still a cool inclusion in commander for Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer, though.

[@jamessnedeker4799]

I once milled an opponent to death with a Petra Sphinx with a few instill energies on it to untap it over and over.

[@luisivanpozos2090]

I started playing magic in onslaught block. I made the mistake of buying U/B illusions with low power and toughness and my younger brother bought the R/G beast deck and I was so afraid of his Towering Baloth (8 mana 7/6 green beast) because whenever he played that card it felt like inevitable doom hahaha.

[@JoeyLamontagne]

I remember loving my Wall of Glare because I also had Mother of Runes

[@Kasigi03]

We have similar reactions to Scaled Wurm and Shrouded Serpent (from another one of your videos). Both were the first cards I came across and thought they were amazing, simply bc of the art and idea of what they were. Funny how bad cards a lot of times however, have great art. They suckered us!!!

[@NizzahonMagic]

I have a whole MTG Top 10 on bad cards with great art! Haha

[@keithmpire]

I entered a tournament with a Sheltered Valley deck, where you gain 1 life if you have 3 or fewer lands in play. I actually managed to win one game, but lost every match.

[@ryanstrongbad]

I think most of us can relate to the wurm thing. I got in on Revised and was all-in on Fallen Empires. I had a thrull deck that was loaded with ‘awesome’ cards like Ebon Praetor, Breeding Pit, Lord of the Pit, Thrull Champion, Demonic Horde, and so on. Honestly, though, making decks like that to play with today would be amazingly fun.

[@TheMisleduser]

Nice. I don't know if I thought it was good but scaled wurm was one of my favorite cards. Just thought it looked cool when I was a kid.

[@isendahl1054]

Sea Serpent; CoP (Color) only sideboard - 3 each X 5; and Lord of Tresserhorn.

[@chad3166]

My favorite large wurm was and is Penumbra Wurm... Good enough to get reprinted in ultimate masters

[@TheTrashGremlin]

my huge worm was worldspine worm. it's a 15/15 that makes 5/5s when it dies!! it's gigantic, and a mythic rare so it couldn't be bad. ignore the fact i was exclusively trying to hard cast it and never got to.

[@iceicicle3046]

I used to think that cards that do something like "look at the top 4 cards of your and you can choose a creature and put it into your hand" were really bad because of the other part of the effect where you'd have to put the rest of the cards on the bottom of the library. I was like "but what if you have to put a good card on the bottom of your library?"

[@jsum33]

Nobody has ever loved a card as much as I loved Serra Avatar in 1998. Also Argothian Wurm and Endless Wurm my overvalued wurms.

[@jormgundtheballast7397]

For me, it was Spirit of the Night. The nut draw turn 1 Dark Ritual into three more Rituals for a turn 1 Spirit. So young and impressionable back then lol.

[@pentatronic]

I remember wanting to get a Spirit of the Night and all those Nightstalker creatures you could sacrifice to summon it. All I managed to get though was an Urborg Panther and a couple of Feral Shadows.

[@Nopenotyou]

This was right around when I first started too, and god did I try to make Mercenaries work. I had more success with a B/R land destruction deck once Invasion rotated in

[@magicsinglez]

I have seen Sunweb behind illusionary Mask.

[@llongone2]

I can remember trying so hard to make Sunweb "work".

[@schmian95]

I was convinced that Phantasmagorian was awesome. Not because abusing graveyard abilities can be strong, but because a 6/6 was the biggest creature I owned lol.

[@wanderinghistorian]

When I first started I traded a Meditate for a Mogg Bomber because it was SOOOO cool you guys.

[@dominiciancabatit6012]

I still get sold by the card's artwork. Hehe.

[@TheEvolver311]

For me it was Djinn and Efreet, I still try fingers crossed anytime a new one is printed

[@capn_sarge]

It's Wednesday not Friday you made me question reality with this video + intro but other than that I'm not complaining!

[@eauzone806]

Sunweb + animate wall... So good memories...

[@Faint191]

Literally the first thing I thought was "lol scaled wurm" I popped when it came up first.

[@martenrange1940]

This list brings back memories of my vanity . I was working hard on making a mercenary deck work. Rebels are good so obviously mercenaries should be too?

[@zachary7573]

Mine would be the mana batteries from legends. Can’t believe I traded a bad moon for one lol.

[@strawhataddison]

I remember me and all my friends liking Lord of the Pit, Minion of Leshrac, and Baron Sengir.

[@bluedestiny2710]

To give them SOME credit: once any of them enters the field, they present a very real clock your opponent has to race against: LotP has flying AND trample with a 7/7 body, the Minion destroys a creature or... land i think, by tapping and has Pro Black, and Baron Sengir gets bigger when chump blocked or opponent takes 5. Since they are black, aside from Swords to Plowshares, there's little your opponent can do to efficiently eliminate them during their time period and would require multi-blocks or multi-burns to get rid of them. Reprisal (W1, Ins, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater) didn't appear until Alliance...

[@strawhataddison]

@@bluedestiny2710 Yeah, they're not all that bad. They could probably find a home in an EDH deck today.

[@mzmz2787]

Nizzahon, it pains me that you have Healing Salve even listed, let alone listed as number 1. Actuality, let me tap 1 white and cast Healing Salve to prevent (some) of the damage this has caused. 😅 Healing Salve will always have a special place in my heart as it was responsible for me winning my first tourney ever. This was back in 1997 and I was stationed in Germany at a small base. They held a sealed deck tourney - if memory serves, 6 Weatherlight boosters and 1 x 5th edition starter deck. I made it to the finals, which was a best of 3. I lost game 1, handedly. Game 2 was back and forth until he had a creature advantage. So my opponent went all in on attack. I took in the board, Healing Salve in hand, and after some calculations I realized that after assigning my blockers and tapping for effect (you get love too, Heavy Ballista!), that I would survive. I declared my blockers, tapped my Ballista to take out an attacker, and just as my opponent said something to the effect of "you're still dead," with shaky hands I cast Healing Salve, leaving me at 1 after combat damage resolved. People lost their minds. My opponent, with his surviving creatures tapped out, then conceded the game as he had no way to stop me once it was my turn. The 3rd game, my opponent was completely on tilt and I won the game fairly easily. Got a Revised starter deck as part of the prizes and a Wheel of Fortune (which I still have!) out of it. Great memories!!!

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I had forgotten about the claiming cards. I need to throw some in my casual commander decks for some political fun.