MTG TOP 10: The WORST Blue Legendary Creatures | Magic: the Gathering

[@Uryvichk]

"How did humans survive the Kami War? Don't ask me, I wasn't any help." --Hisoka, Minamo Sensei

[@timeparadox999]

i swear they just subtracted 1/1 from every creature's statline at the last second for kamigawa block

[@didymussumydid9726]

The Unspeakable definitely needs a thoracic-gynecological exam ASAP; please whip the art director for that one

[@rasta7655]

Taniwha can actually make a really competent stax edh deck- Just tap your lands before they phase out and then cast a mass land destruction spell like sunder to bounce all lands except your own

[@Psyman2]

You can't tap lands before they phase out since it happens during the untap step where no actions can be taken.

[@rasta7655]

@Psyman2 the card reads “at the beginning of your upkeep” so you can just tap and float all your mana in response to the trigger then cast something like sunder once the trigger has resolved

[@Thornspyre81]

Did I hear it wrong? He said the "Unspeakable costs 6 generic and TWO blue."

[@onlyxenolord7494]

God imagine how broken Taniwha would be i phasing gave you landfall though.

[@nonameimpotantlive9233]

Yep my thought

[@Kalenz1234]

Even then it removes all your mana every other turn.

[@Ascendingashes]

She Lu on my Su until I Wu on her Advisor

[@dickdeoreo]

Poor advisor

[@monterraythehomeless]

My guy is gooning, and I’m here for it

[@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai]

@@monterraythehomelessThat’s why he’s ascending

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

👁️👃👁️

[@andyspendlove1019]

I love how unhinged Nizzahon’s comments are compared to how professional and non-humorous his videos are

[@GiganticPawUnit]

Bill Ferny is so confusing. It seems like the card must have been designed to create a horse token when it enters, right? There are only three horses in LTR and LTC, none of which you'd want to give away. When those sets came out, it looks like there was only one card ever that creates horse tokens? (Crested Sunmare) and you don't want to give away a 5/5 for three treasures, either. All the cheap horses you'd want to give away are from like 25 years ago. I have no idea what anyone was meant to do with this card.

[@JoycenatorGaming]

Yeah it definitely feels like they made some kind of an error before it went to print

[@GerBessa]

If you give changeling to Bill Ferny, you can give him, and that removes him from combat. It's not good, but It's a bit like a humble defector. The changeling equipment from Lorwyn is easy to tutor and stays on him when he's gifted so he can be passed around.

[@איתןשי]

I think it was meant to come with cards like that older Akron card which was a 0/4 and gave anyone who is not controlling it a 1/1 every turn... They should have created other 0 power Horses with effects like this (opponent adds 1 mana, controller cannot play counterspells etc.) and add a Lure effect to Bill Ferny

[@GiganticPawUnit]

@@איתןשי Zero power beasts of burden with utility is such a cool concept, like Giant Ox. It would be great to see some cards like that with synergy designed around them.

[@Y2KNW]

Hit up Gatherer for a card called Unnatural Selection and think about horse trading in a whole new light.

[@PKFat]

I feel Blind Seer having so many decks on EDHrec has less to do w/ what the card does, & more to do w/ Vorthos players wanting an Urza deck w/ no other Urza commander option until 2019 when Urza, Lord High Artificer was printed in Modern Horizon.

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

I can speak from personal experience when I say The Unspeakable is absolute garbage. I ran it in my Soulshift Kamigawa deck on EDH, with the three spells, and not once have I ever cast it. Ever. I doubt I ever well. By comparison, I hope that we will one day receive "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)"!

[@Zomburai45]

Basically impossible in EDH. It's more doable in 60-card formats where you can run, you know, multiples of the spells you need to cast. That said, the juice still isn't worth the squeeze

[@HienNguyenHMN]

re: @9:28 Keeping The Unspeakable alive for a turn. Its (his?) three-spell ritual can be cast at instant speed, meaning you can "flash" it in at your opponent's end step. Does that make it better? Probably not. But it's factually true that, if done correctly, you don't need to wait that turn.

[@JaymanfromArkham]

I have a Tomorrow deck I rarely play because it’s busted. Turns take forever and since I’m essentially scrying 3 every time I draw, I can easily get to answers.

[@jamessmells123]

Best deck I ever had was a tomorrow deck…. That just dug and stalled until I got omniscience and enter the infinite… so maybe it was just a tutor less Omniscience -Enter the infinite deck.

[@zotmaster]

I have a Tomorrow deck as well! It's nice how you can make just about anything work since you're looking at 3 times as many cards as everyone else. And if you really don't want friends, Possessed Portal is a great place to start :)

[@liendolf]

Bill plus maskwood Nexus allows you to give tokens. There's other ways in blue to do this too. Taniwha is super broken in land destruction decks. I have blind deer in my color matters deck. He really puts in work there.

[@alexcapps9290]

Missed a point on tomorrow. It allows you to ignore sheoldred and bowmasters draw a card trigger

[@rafaelsousa2633]

If you're playing a format with Sheoldred or Bowmasters, you probably already lost before casting Tomorrow.

[@matthewloser7567]

Tomorrow also prevents you from decking out because you don't draw the card.

[@rafaelsousa2633]

@@matthewloser7567 To be honest, these arguments all boil down to "ACKCHYUALLY, in this very rare and niche circumstance this card is ACKCHYUALLY good".

[@williamkeiser7562]

I actually made a taniwha deck. The part where you lands phase out is actually the upside and it's not all that super hard to manipulate taniwha's phasing. It's built as a stax deck though

[@Space00Cowboy]

Hisoka is bad, yes. But the painting is beautiful. Donato Giancola is a master

[@jorgemendieta8085]

I have a friend with a Tomorrow deck, he's always our target when playing that.

[@Y2KNW]

Bill Ferney and an Unnatural Selection lets you stick an opponent with some pretty funny creatures. Or if you have a way to temporarily steal someone else's creature and then pawn it off on a third player lol.

[@graysond3753]

Revaka better than it looks imo, obviously it's not a super-strong card but I think there are limited environments where "2 damage every other turn" is a reasonable threat. I personally have an old-border cube with Revaka in it. I think if you imagine an alternate universe where it's a red Amonkhet card that reads "tap, exert: deal 2 damage to any target" you'd go, huh, reasonable filler card for limited. But being a blue homelands card with a bunch of text makes it seem worse than it is. Mistform Ultimus should be on this list (despite having cool flavor). A below-rate vanilla creature that never did anything even at the time it was released.

[@Kasigi03]

Outside of competitive, Blue might have some of the WORST legends ever. Mostly due to stats when blue was more focused on abilities than strength and those abilities had TERRIBLE costs and conditions. Oh man, I forgot how BAD a set like the Kamigawa block was to legends. Yes, they had some ridiculously powerful ones, but they had some of the WORST in the game too, especially for the time it came out.

[@crawdaddy1234]

For Alhamaret, I didn’t realize that you could only choose ONE card. I thought, at first glance, it was one per opponent (which would still be bad 😂).

[@brodiidias6029]

Hisoka commander deck with a card draw/self mill focus could be fun. Not for my friends but for me for sure

[@XEndlessSteelX]

I think today, Taniwha would not even see play if it had just 2CMC.

[@darushkii]

I have a blind seer commander deck and let me assure you, it puts in some pretty ridiculous work. Just gotta know what to do with him, especially if you like playing on hard mode :)

[@sagesmukler9383]

Personally, I'd prefer a vanilla 2/1 for 2 over a 5/5 with flying for 7.

[@nonameimpotantlive9233]

Same

[@NizzahonMagic]

It kind of depends on what you're looking at. On their respective turns that's kind of true, but if you think about which one has a better ability to take over a game, it's definitely the 5/5 Flyer that can turn off a removal spell. But we're splitting some pretty crappy hairs here.

[@david10808]

I used to use Reveka, Wizard Savant with Norritt from Ice Age. It sure was bad yes

[@dogmonolith]

I mean, all I can think of is how funny Alhamarret could be in a blink deck though

[@NizzahonMagic]

Alhamarret's effect resets every time you blink it, so you only stop one card at at time.

[@dogmonolith]

@ womp womp

[@maximiliangunther9597]

Tomorrow is the best card on the list by far. The card selection you get, not to mention the combo with Sylvan library. Lu su also wins the game with mind over matter. Much more abusable than a 5 mana enchantment

[@JB-kh7eb]

I was expecting mistform ultimus on there.

[@cax1175]

Hisoka is Kozilek at home

[@JoycenatorGaming]

I was still pretty new to the game when Alhammarret, High Arbiter came out and I wanted him to be good so badly. And he just wasn’t

[@ryanatchley5115]

This is going to be a good one

[@curiousjapan]

new commander decks here I come

[@doomjazz420]

I hope one day they release a horse with downside for Bill

[@audeliciousness]

Was hoping Reveka, Wizard Savant ranked higher.

[@22freedom33]

Tomorrow is great for a mill deck, never loose for drawing cards

[@kieranharwood7186]

Underrealm Lich does it better. Plus now you're in Golgari, much better than smelly ol' Blue.

[@shaden489]

honestly only reason the number 1 card is number 1 is cause the ability costs mana if it didnt garentee people would play it as a sort of worse version of kozalek the great distortion

[@jamessnedeker4799]

A Lu Su that can use its ability when it comes in play isn't going to keep it off this list.

[@NizzahonMagic]

Actually, I think it probably would. Drawing a card up front and then drawing a card every subsequent turn is pretty alright for 5 mana.

[@jamessnedeker4799]

I feel like I would want something bigger than 1/2 for 5 mana even if it weren't primarily used for combat. I'm a casual player though so you're most likely right.

[@j-rey-]

How is Tomorrow bad exactly? Sure, it's not amazing, but you made it sound like you only got card selection and not card advantage. You get both. It is almost like scrying 3 before each card you would draw otherwise, meaning brainstorm would get you 9 cards into your deck. Plus, it gets around Sheoldred, Bowmasters, Narset, etc., draw triggers, and it has a toughness of 5, so it's not easily killed.

[@NizzahonMagic]

It doesn't give you card advantage at all on it's own, though. It's a replacement effect. It IMPROVES the quality of your draw, which like I said that ability is pretty nice -- but on a 6-mana 1/5 that slow of an ability isn't very good. Try playing with it sometime, and you'll be underwhelmed. I've been there. Haha.

[@IskandrArchive]

Poor blue, it just got some of the most inefficient creatures

[@PhoenicopterusR]

Nah, blue doesnt need the help of efficient creatures.

[@PapaBradford]

Why did Bill Ferny even get a card? It's not like he was important in LOTR

[@LemonpeelEater]

Was expecting Geralf's Masterpiece to be on the list, but apparently it's too mediocre

[@dasgepunktet2426]

More to the point: NOT Legendary.

[@NizzahonMagic]

Not legendary. Also, was pretty good in Limited.

[@Strail_R]

it feels kinda weird that most of these are asian themed

[@poultrylord7300]

Why's there a vajayjay in the thumbnail lolol

[@soprettymuchthatsthewayitis]

that is crazy to me

[@lancejburns]

We don't speak about it

[@alexsduthie23]

The second time you said Taniwha is that closest to how it's pronounced

[@TheEvolver311]

This list illustrates why we didn't return to Kamigawa for decades it was a dud farm of a block