MTG Top 10: The WORST Three Mana Cards in Magic: the Gathering | Episode 572

[@NizzahonMagic]

SPOILERS: I misspoke about Heroism, and know what it actually does! It belongs at #2 even if it is 2R for each creature.

[@ketselatekle2939]

On the power On El Shaddai Elohim Adoni Ahcad Shama Israel El Roi On the power On St Gabriel On the power On St Michael On the power On Virgin Mary All the ufo and bad gad witchcraft will be in the middle in volcano forever and ever Amen

[@h3h3podcastclipper]

The worst part of the Shrine cycle is that it has never been errata'd to Shrine enchantment type.

[@thesamuraiman]

That'd be cool

[@riccardocalosso5688]

I was wondering about it. Anyway, even if they were, only the white, green, and maybe red would be playable.

[@joshuaspector8182]

If you’re at my table and want to run them, I’ll let you even count them as shrines

[@joelhaggis5054]

They aren't legendary tho

[@RedScarGaming]

The card I would like to add somewhere there is one called "Farmstead". It is an enchantment aura that costs three white mana that you can enchant a land with. At the beginning of your upkeep you may pay two white mana, if you do, gain 1 life. Not entirely useless, but pretty close.

[@pureevil6047]

Wow I just looked up that card and it is awful. Not quite up there with Wood Elemental or Break Open, but still sucks. I guess it gives 3 devotion to white.

[@fidly4]

Okay, but Common Cause is a huge flavor win! "Mercadia City's troops are at their best when they have no enemy to fight" i.e.this enchantment basically only works when you're the only one with creatures on the board, and only if all of those creatures have common ground.

[@ich3730]

But thats not true, it works when your opponent has creatures, they have to share the color. Thats the joke, every creature on the board gets stats that mean nothing because everyone gets the same amount

[@lustacocas]

​@@ich3730 that's the point tho

[@vixenofthedead]

​@@ich3730 you deal more damage towards players

[@MainTopmastStaysail]

@@ich3730 If you have ten white creatures and they have one you are getting way more stats than your opponent.

[@cax1175]

You know Nizzahon, I could make some joke about how you would play Ugin the ineffable, Dragonspeaker Shaman, and Urza's Incubator (Naming Dragons), to put Teeka's Dragon on this list. But honestly, I appreciate your content very much and the effort you put into your videos. Congrats on 80,000 subs and many more to come.

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

Let's hope NIzzahon hits 100,000!

[@cax1175]

I like that Common Cause's flavor text straight up tells you it's only any good if your opponents have no creatures lol

[@jamesc.7216]

I think the idea behind common cause was to beat down spellslinger decks that didn't play creatures. Unfortunately I don't remember that being a thing at the time it actually came out.

[@Rupert3434]

I noticed the flavor text on Common Cause, and it still genuinely cracks me up how brutal all of the flavor text on Mercedian Masks cards is to the people of Mercedia. It's their set, their name is in it, and the text just keeps relentlessly dunking on them. Genius.

[@Captain-Slog]

Kids these days dont know how good they have it. I started playing during Masques block, and every time you make one of these vids i see cards my teenage self used to stare at scratching his head and wondering, "Am i just not a good enough player to understand why this card is good?!". Its okay teenage me, you were just pulling utter garbage in your boosters.

[@BCWasbrough]

Part of his problem were most of the cards in Masques Block are objectively bad. :D

[@Captain-Slog]

Young me just struggled to understand that they'd actually be printing objectively bad cards. I was still able to pick up Urza block pre cons at my local shop, and would often assume I didn't know the rules well enough to know why the Saprazzan Raiders of the world would be useful.

[@Ryokamen]

Hear me out. When we eventually go to the old west plane, horsemanship will return.

[@christopherb501]

In addition to the Nomad type, so irritated Tarkir didn't initiate a horsemanship comeback.

[@riccardocalosso5688]

People says that horsemanship is the same as flying, but it's a lie! Horses are immune to reach creatures, so it's even better.

[@RasmusVJS]

I highly doubt it. In fact, I may go as far as to say I believe there's a 0% chance that that would happen.

[@andrewnash5813]

Well this comment aged like fine wine

[@andrewnash5813]

Just a instead of horsemanship we got mount lol

[@astuteanansi4935]

Technically, Heroism forces the player to pay 2R for each attacking creature. Red aggro is unlikely to have that much mana to spare to get all of their creatures through, so at least in one specific and decently common matchup, Heroism does do something. Of course, you could just run Ghostly Prison, which has no color restriction and doesn't require you to sacrifice a creature. But if this card wasn't limited to only red matchups and was just "sacrifice a creature: for each attacking creature, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by that creature this turn unless its controller pays 3" it wouldn't have been half bad. I'm kinda surprised we don't see more of these sacrifice outlets in white, considering that "dying for the greater good" should be very on brand for the color

[@catcollector719]

I'm early so ill copy and paste my comment from the last video as the hope that you'll see it: Hey Nizzahon! If you see this comment, I have an idea for a top ten you might be interested in covering. It's "Top 10 Creature Tokens", basically which tokens have seen the most competitive play (As in, which token cards would competitors need to pack in their decks at pro tours). Is it the classic 1/1 green elf? White human? Perhaps it's those devil tokens from various newer sets? Is it Marit Lage? Or a 2/2 goblin that creates a treasure on the attack just because of one broken saga?! I think it's a cool idea if you're digging it.

[@tonythepokemonguy751]

“And it has the worst art” went for the heart with that one 😂

[@honsou48]

Trip wire was probably perfectly fine in Portal Three Kingdoms limited, about 25 creatures in the format have horsemanship, including 90% of the bomb creatures.

[@rajamicitrenti1374]

And WotC just spoiled a new Knight lord that gives all your Knights Horsemanship!

[@calemr]

Common Cause's flavor text is on point. It's usually only going to do anything if you've swept your opponent's board.

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

I will forever defend Evaporate just because of how magnificent its art is, I even bought a playset that's how dedicated I am. Almost as dedicated as I am to "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)"!

[@cax1175]

I play Chandler as a commander just because it's my name, even if he isn't very good. That's how dedicated I am to it. Almost as committed as spreading the good word of Teeka's Dragon!

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

@@cax1175 I play Chandler because I unironically want to go back to Ulgrotha.

[@cax1175]

​​@@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor Homelands Remastered LET'S GO. I also unironically play him. So when I cast him or use his ability (usually in tandem with liquimetal torque or mycosynth lattice), I can go "I, ME, will tap to destroy your creature or I will cast ME".

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

@@cax1175 Homelands evolution, let us see Sengir get nae nae'd!

[@nickhughes8179]

​@@cax1175 Liquimetal Coating, Liquimetal Torque, Mycosynth Lattice, and Myr Landshaper help Chandler and Joven kill nearly anything. Since you have Chandler as a general, I'll suggest Joven in the 99, he's like Chandler's secret partner commander. Goblin Engineer can tutor a Liquimetal artifact or Myr Landshaper to your graveyard and it, Goblin Welder, and Daretti Scrap Savant can recur artifacts and Daretti can trade cards you don't need for fresh draws. If you want to get extra untaps and uses for Chandler, and for Joven if you add him (I do strongly suggest it) then artifacts like Magewright Stone, Patriar's Seal, Thousand Year Elixir, and Voltaic Key (since you can turn other permanents into artifacts) help you pick off multiple targets per turn.

[@KC_Enthusiast]

My favorite thing about the landwalk hate cycle is that the white one is so much worse than the others that it probably deserves the spot by itself. After all, it makes up 10% of all black-bordered cards that say "plainswalk" on it.

[@GreenLuthor]

Although I can't argue with the #1 choice, I feel like Great Wall deserves its own special mention separate from the other four. At least islandwalk, forestwalk, swampwalk, and mountainwalk appeared on cards printed before Legends. Plainswalk didn't appear on ANY cards prior to Legends (the same set as Great Wall), and it only was given to a single card even there. (I think there's... what, maybe six cards IN TOTAL with plainswalk by this point?) (It almost feels like they came up with the cycle, then realized Great Wall did nothing at all, so threw together a plainswalk card just to say there was one in the game.) Yeah, all five are pretty useless, but the one that could only affect a single card that no one ever played anyway was far and away the worst of the worst there. Great Wall had basically zero use without a Magical Hack, and you could probably find a MUCH better use for the Hack. (Like, using it on ANYTHING else.)

[@franzise3605]

Four creatures with natural plainswalk actually; Righteous Avengers from Legends (a 3/1 for 5), Graceful Antelope from Odyssey (1/4 for 4 that could make your opponents' lands Plains when it dealt combat damage), Boggart Arsonists from Shadowmoor (2/1 for 3 that could sac to destroy a Plains or Scarecrow), and Zodiac Rooster from Three Kingdoms (2/1 for 2, the closest I'd consider to being 'playable') There's also Old Fogey from Unhinged that had snow-covered plainswalk and Aysen Highway, an enchantment from Homelands that could give all white creatures plainswalk... but it costs 6 mana, so. Yeah Great Wall is pretty wretched.

[@zeusalternative1270]

If I'm not mistaken Heroism ask your opponent to pay 2R for each attacking creature they want to deal damage with, in that case it gets a lot better.

[@Sulmor85]

That would be a reasonable card

[@taitaniagoatstusiii1709]

Just imagine. You're playing a red beatdown deck with dragons and large lads and whatnot, and your opponent, playing Mardu aristocrats, just pops out this thing. What are you going to do? Attack with your team? lmao you idiot figure out who you are paying for, and whether or not they'll just do it again after you're done paying lol. Just one large idiot you can pay for? Congrats, they just prevented you from attacking them with some to most of your team with a janky, 25 cent ghostly prison. While yeah, it probably isn't as scary as a goblin bombardment (...most of the time), comparing heroism to goblin bombardment is more favorable than a 1/2 merfolk that's unusually "good" at not dying to blockers to goblin bombardment (or merfolk of the pearl trident tbh), so it has that going for it. +Hey, even if you aren't playing red, if there is someone else other than the heroism player playing red, only one of you two between you and the heroism player will likely have an enchantment that taxes them, if you ignore potential spite from said red player from the equation. tldr. Yeah it's bad, but in a token deck against red decks, the red player will soon figure out who is not worth attacking. A 3 mana 1/2 isn't coming close to that niche value (just play pearl trident, you'll be fine without that 2nd toughness)

[@eqqaia3856]

Idk, it only affects attacking red crearures. Even with the 2R tax, its pretty bad if your opponent doesnt play any red creatures. Also, i hate if my opponent gets the choice, but i MUST sac a creature to activate heroism.

[@therealHLY]

not really. your still sacking a creature for a fog effect, in a colour that has next to no sacrifice payoffs, and a lot of better, cheaper fogs. the 'best' case scenario is you go down a creature to stop damage... which you can also do without the enchantment. its called blocking. and it only fogs red creatures, so it only protects you from mono-red aggro. it's also telegraped, unlike most fogs, so your opponent can see it and know how to play around it, and it's trying to hose *red*, the colour that's best at pinging your smaller creatures, meaning the card your gonna have to sacrifice to use it is probably going to be more than a 1/1... and then, after all those downsides, they can just pay to ignore it anyway fog, on the other hand, is a 1 mana spell that prevents all combat damage. from everything. with no way out. and costs 1/3 the cost of heroism before the sacrifice. be real, how many times have you fogged in one game? the 'repeatable' side doesn't help much when its still damaging your board and only buying time. a fogs good when you need just one more turn. paying an excessive amount for a bad fog just because it can be used more than once does not make the cards functionality better the worst case scenario is you play heroism and your opponent says 'I'm playing , dingbat'. or they're playing red/black, or red/blue. or red/white, and just hit you with the other half... and still pay for their red card to hit you. the medium fail case scenario is they just pay some mana and their scary creature still smacks into you, meaning you need to block again, meaning you 2 for 1'd yourself or just sacrificed for nothing if it was a black/red mana card and thus gonna be played in decks with sacrifice payoff, then maybe you can make the argument. it's still a terrible sacrifice engine, but it at least might have synergy there. but it costs white mana, and demands white sacrifices. to do an awful imitation of a 1 mana bulk instant

[@rajamicitrenti1374]

Yeah, that does make it a lot better, and according to the Oracle text, that is correct. Still not good, but I do feel it makes it too good to warrant being on this list. Sac 1 creature in White (which frequently does go-wide strategies) for a lopsided Fog that your opponent can negate for 2R for each creature? If they don't pay, you can get favorable blocks on all their creatures and likely kill multiple of theirs without them killing any of your creatures, or they get 1 creature that can damage and you just let that one through and kill multiple others for free but then they don't have much if any mana to improve their board. Only useful in some decks, and only useful against Mono Red Aggro, so who is going to actually run it? But it has its niche that its actively pretty decent in.

[@brianmaday9227]

Crazy how Common Cause's flavor text seems to hint at its own worthlessness.

[@mikotagayuna8494]

Great Wall. Undertow. Quagmire. Crevasse. Deadfall. All great card names. All wasted on bad cards. A Vorthos could weep.

[@memyself3510]

I feel like I remember Nantuko shrine being not totally terrible. I think people were trying it out for a while. But it was certainly the only one of the cycle that had any chance of being viable

[@bluedestiny2710]

In a spell heavy deck with a bajillion of cheap spells that cycle through... yes... this card can be useful since you rapidly populate the board with tokens... but you probably should just go ahead and use a better pay off

[@torbk]

My favorite bad 3 mana card is Ice Age's Touch of Death. 2B for Deal 1 damage to a player, gain 1 life and draw a card during next upkeep. And it does it all on sorcery speed. It lets you draw a card, sure, but for 3 mana it is pretty bad. I probably wouldn't play this if it cost 1 mana. However, I love the card art for Touch of Death, and I did occasionally play it even if it was bad even when it came out.

[@WestPictures]

I've never seen Saprazzan Raider before.....if that is number 10 then it's gonna be a ROUGH list

[@TheDom822]

I guess you could Mudhole yourself before shuffling your graveyard into your library so you wouldn't hit unneeded lands on future draws. Super narrow, but it's something?

[@DracoX-hz3tu]

If we ever get a green "play any amount of x card" deck, nantuko shrine would finally have a home to make a million tokens as a comeback option. Ig the white one too since it's also positive but tokens are usually better than life gain. For now they aren't useful tho

[@DutchBlackMantha]

Great Wall is especially bad. You know how many creatures there were with Plainswalk when this came out? One. Even today, there's only 5, and one of those is in an un-set.

[@fidly4]

You slightly misunderstood heroism. The opponent must pay 2R for EACH attacking red creature they want to deal damage. Meaning if they were attacking with ten 1/1 goblins, they'd need to pay 20RRRRRRRRRR. Paying just 2R would allow only one goblin to deal damage and the other 9 would deal none. But wait, any individual white creature you sac reapplies that effect to ALL attacking red creatures, so if you sac two white creatures they now need to pay a total of 40RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Also I think any free sac outlet under 4 mana should be barred from any worst lists regardless of color. If nothing else they're good budget options and can provide redundancy

[@geronimo8159]

I like how you seem personally offended by these cards 😂

[@EnderPryde]

If I had to take a stab at Common Cause being used in EDH, I'd guess it's getting put in Ozhov decks that intend to go *super* wide, and then combo with Darkest Hour and Akroma's Memorial, so you get a bunch of creatures with +2/+2 that are unblockable, and also hard to kill by the opponent. I don't have much faith that's a *good* combo, but it is *something*

[@Captain-Slog]

Fun fact, the Odyssey shrine cycle aren't even shrines. Sucks to be them.

[@Commanderkittenface]

Okay, a three mana enchantment that got rid of all landwalk wouldn’t be amazing but I don’t think it’d be top 10 bad And of the 5, the anti-plainswalk one is the worst because it appears the least and on worse creatures

[@strawhataddison]

I kind of miss cards with symmetrical effects like #4. Howling Mine, Mana Flare, Wheel of Fortune. Theyre just fun for everyone involved.

[@troythewizard9940]

Wizards is long past making a game for fun. Their primary goal is to make the game competitive. If you happen to have fun, it's an unintended design side effect (lol)

[@strawhataddison]

@@troythewizard9940 👍

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

I hate Wheel of Fortune more than anything.

[@ich3730]

@@troythewizard9940 What the fuck are you smoking? Balance is the worst it has ever been. We had more bans in the last 5 years then in the history of the game combined. Modern is dead, legacy gets ruled by a commander mechanic, standard is as P2W as it always was. Meanwhile EDH leads the charge as the premier format, crossovers with multiple brands are printed in black border and every card has like 10 different artstyles to choose from that are unrecognizable from how its supposed to look. MTG is the least competitive it has ever been.

[@Paulthored]

Flowstone Armor used to be a nice effect in my casual play group. Also Common Cause is best when you can guarantee that your opponents have no creature's. Literally, it boosts your own creature's when after board wipes that you have prepared for. I imagine that a bunch of haste CMC 1 attackers... 🤷‍♂️😉 Fun fact: Stone Wall, is one of maybe a Dozen cards that mention Plainswalk by name in their text box.

[@IvarTheBonerless]

Landwalk is great for thematic purposes. It should be part of the modern game.

[@ZackeroniAndCheese]

I agree. I think it's much more engaging than "can't be blocked"

[@joelbailey8007]

Flowstone armor was used in block draft. It was decent for adding a Little extra damage to kill an opponents creature by pumping yours or lowering their creatures defense.

[@Y2KNW]

I got a Celestial Prism in my first cold Revised starter, back when the land you got was entirely random. I played it in the few two colour decks I built because it was the only mana rock I had under 4cc until Fellwar Stone came out later :P Pretty sure I still have it.

[@sawyermifsud852]

I feel like Trip Wire doesn't belong on this list. it's a card that is okay in its set context. Like the only reason that it is considered bad is that horsemanship only existed in Portal TK as a thematic version of flying. If you somehow did a TK draft, then it would be perfectly fine though.

[@DutchBlackMantha]

Yeah, the Portal sets are designed for 2 new players playing against each other. And in those games, Trip Wire is basically their Plummet.

[@ich3730]

its like saying "wow red elemental blast surely is a trash card, how am i supposed to know my opp plays blue" xDD

[@RasmusVJS]

@@ich3730 Except "playing blue" is something there's a high chance of your opponent doing. "Playing horsemanship" is basically 0%.

[@julianlaywine7453]

I could see Nantuko Shrine being playable in edh if green ever gets a Dragon’s Approach-type card that you can build a deck around.

[@-ZH]

I mean, you could just play a 2 colour commander

[@norrock1]

I've got a deck idea for Aven, Cabal, and Nantuko Shrine. I would want to utilize the other 2 shrines but they have to much of a downside to the person actually playing the cards and I don't think I can come up with a way to effectively exploit that downside into an upside.

[@-ZH]

You’re telling me an aven/nantuko shrine, relentless rats deck hasn’t been made yet?

[@zackkelley2940]

See also Persistent Petitioners, Shadowborn Apostle, and Dragon Approach. Not sure how good it'd be, but it'd be interesting building a deck around one of these and the aven/nantuko/etc shrines.

[@wardious2562]

At this point you can probably omit the color hosers from future lists, considering they’ve appeared in at least 1/3+ of the worst lists you’ve done.

[@macmusial3644]

I think Undertow might be slightly less bad than the rest of its cycle, specifically because I can imagine it being a relevant meta call in a Zur the Enchanter commander deck if you have an opponent who plays merfolk tribal and frequently has islandwalk active against you

[@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters]

Surprised to see Nantuko Shrine on here honestly. For a squirrel deck in the early 00s it's not that bad and your opponent getting squirrels could help you if you slam down a Coat of Arms and attack for lethal.

[@pkfatstephen6287]

"But Great Wall is good bc it can stop Planeswalkers!" "No, it stops plainswalk" "It would be good against a white deck with a lot of plainswalk creatures then!" "Look up how many creatures have plainswalk" "..."

[@ohuckabee]

As far as the Legends landwalk hosers go, Great Wall should absolutely be above the others. At the time of its release, the only creature with plainswalk was also in Legends. Though in terms of flavor, plainswalk doesn't even seem that special. Getting through mountain ranges, sure. Forests and swamps, absolutely. Islands are generalized as waterways, so you need a boat or the ability to swim. But plains? It's level, open terrain. You'd be better off with a keyword for creatures that *can't* navigate that. (Ask me about my Flavor Judge deck.)

[@Ethereal_Echo]

Saprazzan Raider seems like a card that was designed to interact with damage on the stack. If I'm not mistaken, this was printed when damage was still on the stack. If so, it would always escape combat but still potentially damage or kill the enemy creature meaning that it would always kill X/1s. That being said, it still probably would have been bad even in that kind of scenario but much less embarrassingly bad as it is here.

[@GrizonII]

It wouldn't work even with damage on the stack, I'm pretty sure, since block triggers still occurred before damage as far as I'm aware.

[@5cmain207]

Nantuko is actually playable in edh decks utulizeing cards of whom you can play any number in your deck. And i think this narrow use case makes it far from worst cards ever.

[@theunwelcome]

I really do enjoy these "worst" list videos, I dunno why, maybe it's the extra helping of snark that comes with them heh

[@WolfOfMassDeath]

The Tripwire comeback to deal with Cavalry Charge precons 😤😤😤💀

[@tylerowens]

I'm surprised the islandwalk one hasn't seen play as sideboard tech. Merfolk lords which give island walk and spreading seas is a thing, though I guess you can just remove the lord for cheaper than 3 mana so I guess I've talked myself into why this is still bad even against merfolk which is its perfect matchup. 😂

[@123silverslash]

Honestly I could see nantuko shrine working in a golgari sewer rats deck, since at best your opponent can get 3 1/1s with any of their spells, but you can get theoretically dozens of 1/1s with your rats. I could see a sultai rats deck running that and sacrifice outlets with like tetsuko umezawa to flood the board with unblockable 1/1 squirrels each time you play a rat. Still not an amazing card, but not as awful as the rest of the cycle.

[@davidsewnauth140]

For April 1st, can we get a pizzahon top 10 toppings?

[@nobodyimportant72]

Hint of Insanity could have a place but only against a few decks. Here I'm thinking of things like Relentless Rats where you can break the four card limit and thus can have a deck, and hand full of that specific card; don't know that any of those have ever been any good so while Insanity would be great against them it's not likely to happen. The other place it might be useful if against those cards that would let you search up all of the other copies of that card top put into your hand such as Squadron Hawk; you can even see them add the three cards with the same name to their hand to know this will hit but the problem of course is just how many such effects are there to hate on. If you had a meta where such decks and cards were common Hint of Insanity wouldn't be a bad card but we don't see that meta.

[@hi-i-am-atan]

i wonder how much saprazzan raider should be costed if you slap menace on it i guess it'd also need to be given dash or outright haste if it's gonna keep that 1 power, as otherwise it'd basically be storm crow that your opponent can make you cast again and for as _mighty_ as that sounds,

[@ibewsparky98]

The prism was around when mana burn was a thing, correct? Could this have been made with the benefit of filtering and reducing mana burn in mind

[@NizzahonMagic]

No. That is far too narrow of a use.

[@obsidiousmarical3498]

The green and white odyssey shrines seem decent in commander if you are playing dragons approach deck

[@dustfinger_until_dawn]

But i think that the green and the white odyssey shrines are playable in something like a gruul or boros or naya dragons approach edh deck. The white one is kinda useless but the green one can probably produce multiple squirrels in a game

[@gakk8658]

Poor Tarv. Great thumbnail art, though!

[@Scrye750]

I had a deck a while ago. WB deck with 100% protection from black creatures, darkest hour and common cause. Then, common cause was a underpriced double anthem.

[@NizzahonMagic]

If you are playing a WB deck, Common Cause won't be buffing your creatures very often. And that's without mentioning your opponent's side of the board.

[@rajamicitrenti1374]

​@@NizzahonMagic With Darkest Hiur it would work. According to the Gatherer rulings, all creatures don't have to share all colors, they just have to share a single color. Darkest Hour would ensure this is always the case, and your creatures having Protection from Black makes the buffs your opponents' creatures get less meaningful (unless they can fly over yours or go significantly wider than yours).

[@nycstreetpoet]

I expected to see Staff of the Ages which is also 3 mana, but it shuts off ALL landwalk abilities, not just one type

[@DracoX-hz3tu]

I love how you make the hint of insanity pun EVERY time it makes a worst list 😂

[@NizzahonMagic]

So..both times?

[@rareroe305]

Good flavour on the #1s though.

[@lustacocas]

Heroism could get a special rule where it doesn't consider red as it's identity, maybe?

[@blacklancejeo6625]

Speaking of 3 mana, is there a top 10 for best “Hurloon Minotaur stats” (2/3) in the game?

[@faerie7dragon]

Mudhole is so bad, that it feels Nizzahon was holding back a laugh.

[@paraphilicanalysis1737]

I will say, I don’t think undertow deserves to be tied for the number one spot. It’s definitely a terrible card, but at least it does something against merefolk. On the other hand, Barbarian Guides has a overcast ability that only works if your opponent is playing snow-covered lands

[@xxANBUxx]

Common Cause was much worse than that initial read I did. I didn't even think about needing my opponents creatures to be the same color also.

[@dougdimmadomeownerof]

What are your top 10 favourite silver border cards?

[@kingfuzzy2]

landwalk hate is always worth it magical hack and toski exist

[@MainTopmastStaysail]

Common Cause is bad but it's not "worse than Mudhole" bad. It can do something for a reasonable price in situations that are achievable in a regular game. If you your opponent has one white creature and you have 3 or more white creature tokens, for instance, you're getting an ok deal. Should add that most of the Shrines in fact do not help your opponent, because they're meant to punish people for casting their second-on copies. Their problem is not being symmetrical, it's being meaninglessly narrow.

[@ThingsareLikeable]

the fact that so many of these are rare cards is just extra salt on the would

[@michaelmorris4515]

This particular video reminds me of a joke card I made up a long time ago. The Goggles 3 Artifact T: Do nothing

[@bluedestiny2710]

Before finishing, my prediction is Ignoble Soldier is somewhere high in the list... maybe #2 - #1 Edit: It didn't even make it??? Damn... these cards are horrid! I guess having a beefy ATK and can STILL trade (albeit you have to go through hoops to do it) helped keep it out... Edit 2: I also thought Indentured Djinn would make this list. It is a UU1 4/4 Flying creature that gave Ancestral Recall to all other players. It's good for multiplayer, sure, but in single player? Your opponent probably got something much better than that 4/4 flier with the 3 cards he got from you... AND he gets to be able to use some or all of it before the Djinn could even attack Also, to give Common Cause some credit, the deck I ran it in before was a mono-white aggro. I would play it on turn 4 - 5 ... and by that time I have at least 2 - 3 creatures more than my opponent. All my creatures have some sort of ability that makes my opponent's life harder, like 1st strike, protection from a color etc. which makes it disadvantageous for him to block... but he has to or he takes +2 damage for each creature he lets through. Also, i would usually have other Anthem effects in the field like Glorious Anthem Obviously, I;m not saying it's good... and I ended up dropping it for a set of Anthems in my deck... but its got SOME use compared to many of the other cards in the list

[@RibusPQR]

If your opponent has non-white creatures, Common Cause stops working.

[@magicsinglez]

Flowstone Armor is a cool name.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

Ah, Celestial Prism. Even in 1995 I knew this was a dumb card.

[@danhostetler1423]

I don't know about Common Cause being number 4. With any post board wipes in a white or combo'd white colored deck where you have the sole creatures and can make sure they're mono colored after the wipe could use it. It's mana intensive and niche to combo with, but far more useful than any other card on the list at least. Edit: removed brainfart mite idea. Thanks ANBU.

[@xxANBUxx]

Mites are artifact creatures lol.

[@danhostetler1423]

@@xxANBUxx you're right, I forgot that it's non-artifact creatures and all mite tokens are artifact creatures. But a player can still board wipe with a teferi's protection and keep their board or command the dreadhorde up a mono colored army or foretell a doomskar and drop nevinyrral urborg tyrant and the zombies would all share black with him so they'd get +2/+2. Your board just has to have 1 common color not all the exact same color and something like painter's servant forces the entire board globally to have a common color. So while I was mistaken on the mites, the point is that Common Cause is far less useless than the rest of the cards on the list and have some combo'd effects to give it a mildly niche but viable life in a few decks. So being on the list and even up at number 4 seems out of place.

[@magicalgirlanime]

These worst card lists have been getting better lately. Only thing I'd say is about Trip Wire - if you replace horsemanship with flying which is significantly better then you're left paying Vindicate mana for much, much worse targeting and I think that's enough to make the list anyway, it being horsemanship instead is enough to make the high end of the list.

[@magicalgirlanime]

I think depending on the standard that Trip Wire-but-flying might actually see niche play in mono green.

[@FrankFrankly711]

I play Great Wall in my 5 Color Commander Wall Deck! 🧱

[@RiptornRory]

Having had played back in the day when Mudhole was first printed, I feel pride seeing it here when I knew it was one of the worst spells ever.

[@HydraHunterMkII]

Just watched this today, in said weird future where a new horsemanship card was announced lol

[@nathannguyen9907]

Was expecting kaervek’s spite

[@raynmanshorts9275]

Why are there 71 decks with the shrines in them for a _singleton format?_

[@ildathet]

flowstone armor can target any creature, so it's a minus one on a stick, not the best but can kill lanowar elf

[@NizzahonMagic]

I mentioned exactly this in the video. It is still awful.

[@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai]

Flowstone Armor is pretty terrible, but it’s a really cool historical footnote as a precursor to Equipment. I’m kinda surprised they didn’t just keep that design. It works.

[@nickhughes8179]

Zelyon Sword from Fallen Empires and Runesword from The Dark were original equipment prototypes.

[@rajamicitrenti1374]

​@@nickhughes8179 Nah, Tawnos' Weaponry was in Antiquities.

[@Finngrinder]

Well, at least Quagmire can Giggity ;)

[@ultratog1028]

Odyssey really showing up for this list

[@gantzisballs]

Odyssey was my first block and oh boy does it have some bad cards!

[@monkeygaming2859]

Haven’t seen the list/video I’m calling hint of insanity is #1

[@clearlypellucid]

Common Cause doesn't deserve to be on this list. It's bad, but it COULD be useful in a control deck that's good at keeping your opponent's cards off the board. Again, absolutely a bad card, but not "worst 10" territory.

[@progressquest]

Fail: You forgot One With Nothing.

[@elkraft1046]

I don't think that common cause deserved it's spot. There area lot of decks out there that play zero or very few non-artifact creatures. against some decks, it's twice as powerful and easier to cast, compared to glorious anthem... which is bad, but not the worst :)

[@NizzahonMagic]

I don't think you are reading it right. It checks your opponent's creatures too and you have no control over them. So it usually does nothing.

[@elkraft1046]

@@NizzahonMagic I understand :) but if your opponent is playing few or no creatures, like some decks do, it is a powerful effect for three mana. It could be considered for a mono-white deck that like to go wide. Like white weenies. I'm not saying the card belongs in a world-class deck, but at least this can be powerful under some circumstances, unlike some of the other cards ;) Zero control over your opponents creatures is a bit much, removal is always an option :D

[@lachlank.8270]

I'm offended by the art on Celestial Prism... because it's bad

[@rainbowcrash6990]

Im proud to own *multiple* of these lol

[@apjapki]

Feels like those shrines should be typed as shrines and the old template equipment templates as equipment. Having relevant types would at least make them a bit more interesting as casual pet cards and matches the retrospective updates we see for creature types.

[@sethzard]

Wasn't the raider better a bunch better when damage went on the stack?

[@RibusPQR]

The raider would return before the damage went on the stack.

[@sethzard]

@@RibusPQR Ahh, good point.

[@BCWasbrough]

Celestial Prism wasn't *as* bad in 1995, but yeah. Nobody used it then, either.

[@Ouja]

I had 4 in my 5 color deck. When everyone told me 5 color Decks didn't work. I still use them today, but now they're in my Blim deck. People love getting a Celestial Prism.

[@Ouja]

I had 4 in my 5 color deck. When everyone told me 5 color Decks didn't work. I still use them today, but now they're in my Blim deck. People love getting a Celestial Prism.

[@valetboy21]

Much like your most expensive card series, this list should have been restricted to one representative per set as power creep assured all of the cards mentioned were from the distant passed, when commander didn't exist and the only format close to it was highlander and that was a fringe play style even then.

[@anthonypeters3005]

@NizzahonMagic sorry Im late but I am still requesting Top 10 Basic Lands for Earth Day

[@Goblintom]

Raider a 10? Oh boy...

[@evilpooky]

Top 18 ;)