The WORST Cards in Magic's Most POWERFUL Sets | Urza's Block | Magic: the Gathering

[@NizzahonMagic]

Viashino Weaponsmith is so bad that I didn't want to show it to you. Or something. Somehow, I think I saved over the file incorrectly between editing and rendering, and that’s how I made that silly mistake. Lawl.

[@monterraythehomeless]

Oops

[@nitiratp]

Happens.

[@jadedheartsz]

If you want to reupload this video and fix #10 I wouldn't object.

[@arnegebhardt2209]

Besides the topic: > What U think bout Argothian Wurm?! was it played competive?! my fav art EVER :) Ron Spencer is a boss

[@mikotagayuna8494]

Nizzahon secretly loves Electryte the way he shows it twice.

[@christopherconlon1269]

Wanna see #10, Viashino Weaponsmith? Well, as you know, Card Kingdom links are in the description.

[@sbolton666]

Man remember when magic only came out with 3 sets over one year. Now I don’t even know what if going on half the time.

[@starvalkyrie]

Don't feel bad. Neither does WoTC.

[@slackwellman5499]

Late 90s early 00's mtg art is my favorate Era. Carl crichlow is a legend

[@rajamicitrenti1374]

Parasitic Bond does have a bit of a niche, it's just not a reliable one: In games that go on very long where your opponent has a creature that isn't there for combat but is pivotal to their plans anyway.

[@harryalerta]

Not gonna lie. Every top 10 worst cards my jank loving brain is a sequence of "I can fix them" "they just need some support"

[@astuteanansi4935]

Hear me out... what if... you had Sheoldred in play... and Megrim... and then you make the opponent draw cards, damaging them with Sheoldred... and then you use the Discordant Dirge to make them discard all these cards, thus damaging them with Megrim! A genius combo for a quick win on turn 15 or so :D

[@irou95]

I can see most of these in my draft decks do somehow something. Which isn't true for most of these lists.

[@dragonkings01]

Number 10 was so bad he just showed Electryte smith twice to not shame his video by actually showing it.

[@TwoCentReview]

At least Hawkeater Moth is cute… Also, the art on Reclusive Wight looks dope.

[@BaconJake14]

Worst Card Cube sounds like it could be pretty fun actually, if even just for the meme. With almost 100 worst top 10s there's gotta be a playable cube in there somewhere

[@Y2KNW]

Electrite is kinda crummy in a vacuum, of course. But Magic is a game of card interaction and all it would take is a couple other cards to make him into something your opponents will trip over each other to get rid of.

[@seijhik]

I really dont like to hear that shroud is a worse hexproof when hexproof is just a straight up powercreep... sad to see that now a creature must have etb effects AND agressive stats to be "playable". That's the mindset that destroys the game. Some of these cards are interesting designs that need work to be good, but now a card must be its own payoff to be considered viable. Makes the game dumber.

[@marcoottina654]

3:30 actually, Shroud is the original "idea" while Hexproof is the kinda-fixed version of it (but I would say it's the "unbalanced powercrept" version) also, will your #1000-th "top 10" be a "Nizzahon's favourite cards by effect / art / flavour"? :D (even in multiple parts) I would love a series of, let's say, 10 videos about your interests, I think you deserve some space to freely talk about what genuinely amazes you :D

[@didymussumydid9726]

Urza’s block was the height of mtg in terms of art and lore. It was dope to collect and play casually

[@RobotDCLXVI]

Yep. I started at Urza's Legacy, so I was still casual. A blessing and a curse; I got to avoid the competitive blight of degeneracy, but I also didn't get to collect any of the valuable cards since I was a noob.

[@Obscuredinsight]

Was looking through the card lists on scryfall. Would be such a fun block set to play.

[@nihar2009]

Ya ..the Opal titan was my doorway into magic alongside the badass black knight from 5th edition with the axe and white hair .

[@holotori_senior_admin_teno]

One place I've actually found Purging Scythe to be fun is in a Maha, It's Feathers Night EDH deck. Most of my creatures have higher toughness so they're less susceptible to Pestilence, Nausea, Languish, Caltrops, and such. And if you can keep Maha out for any length of time, it's virtually guaranteed to kill an opposing creature each turn. That said, hardly even an all star there, with its cost, and all the other effects targeting low toughness creatures. But still, is a fun include.

[@benwilson6256]

I love that, good thinking cause I really enjoy this card but I know it isn't that good but even having one card to make it better like that js funny

[@Sauvenil]

Porphyry Nodes and Drop of Honey are interesting cards.

[@joeryan5587]

#10 is the wrong card. I think this is the first time this has happened im one if your videos that i remember

[@superork26]

Same and I watch almost all of these top 10s

[@brodiidias6029]

think hes done it one other time before but either way caught me by surprise

[@spawnofmelkor]

There was the time that One With Nothing was rated the worst sorcery. :P

[@EbonAvatar]

I started playing just before Urza block so this block was like Magic School for me, I learned so much about the game from playing it. And even inexperienced as I was, I still never understood Reclusive Wight. I stared at that card for hours, thinking there must be something I just didn't understand, some secret that made it good, because it just didn't make sense to me that they'd print a card that terrible

[@Asrugan]

I’m surprised you didn’t point out the fact the Wight has been errataed to be a zombie, which is even arguably worse, as almost all zombie decks rely on filling the board with zombies.

[@JervisGermane]

The combo with Purging Scythe was Vhati il-Dal. Indestructible didn't exist back then, and protection from artifacts or from green were and are very rare, so the only viable ways to save anything from them were regeneration or protection from black. That combo wiped out any creatures that didn't have those abilities.

[@crawdaddy1234]

I waaaaay prefer Shroud as a mechanic than Hexproof.

[@TheOldschooljim]

or Ward

[@crawdaddy1234]

@ I don’t mind “Ward: 1” or “Ward: 2” or “Ward: Discard a card” or “Ward: Pay 3 life.” I dislike Watd when it basically becomes Hexproof (e.g., “Ward: 4, or “Ward: Sacrifice 39 lands”).

[@Andesz2x4]

Tfw we used to play parasitic bond A LOT when we started out and just played random kitchen table magic

[@MrJ6H]

Awesome video! Yes, this block had some super heavy hitting cards, but there were many cards that that were not very playable. You could do a part 2 to this!

[@jamesc.7216]

I am looking to build a cube out of awful cards! How did you know?

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

Ahhh bad cards, my favourite genre of Nizzahon video. With the exception of "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)" of course. One day I will make Discordant Dirge get onto that list, I think!

[@JindraAG]

The thing about discordant dirge that might dispute its state as a worst card, is that it is (after a turn) instant speed discard, a horrifically rare thing, because it can be a turn skip if you rip an entire hand during a player's turn. Admittedly for that to matter you have to be in a strong position already...

[@TheOldschooljim]

I've played Lurking Jackals back in the days in my Pox deck. I was easy to cast and survived the pox effect while being on the board. Being at 10 lifes was easy to achieve after a pox effect. Card was not broken as the rest of the set but was playable, more than Lurking Evil ;)

[@didymussumydid9726]

@@TheOldschooljim lurking jackals was very good in suicide black, as it synergized with skittering skirge and often turned into a creature immediately, or could be sacrificed to negator. Nizzahon is brainrotted by modern mtg if he thinks lurking jackals is a bad card.

[@irou95]

It's good that the seers are underpowered. Having an infinite counterspell with seedborn muse (or with prophet of kruphix if somehow playing it in commander) sounds like a miserable experience. I might even try it in a simic deck that has a full hand all the time (like the new Tamiyo)

[@republicservices-bw4di]

Ahh the old editing mistake to drive engagement. Well done nizzahon... well done.

[@guardianeifie]

An idea of how bad Parasitic Bond is, is the card Stab Wound. Stab Wound is strictly better, being one mana less and also giving -2/-2 to the creature in question. That's significantly better, but even with that much upside it still doesn't see play.

[@bluedestiny2710]

I was confused at first why you condensed the entire block for a single top 10... but I guess the other 2 sets, Legacy and Destiny, are a bit too small to make an interesting top 10 on. Still, this DID allow some truly crappy cards to escape the chopping block... like the set of auras that ALSO needed counters that gets accumulated every upkeep and does nothing that immediately impact the board (i.e the red one does X damage to any target per counter on it after the creature dies), the other viashinos (2 mana for a 2/1 with haste that bounced to your hand at end of turn, the 5/3 one that does the say for RR2, or that RR2 4/3 that also sends ALL your creatures to attack when it does), those enchantments where you sacrifice to get an effect only after a difficult condition is met (i.e 2nd Chance allows you to sacrifice it during your upkeep to gain an extra turn if you have 5 or less life, but does absolutely nothing before the condition is met) From Urza's saga, there is an enchantment that turned into a 4/4 vanilla creature if your opponent has no cards in hand.... yea it's Avatar of Will's older brother... but somehow less playable Feels bad to be the worst cards in a broken set :(

[@joshuagannon6566]

In defense of Ivy Seer, yes it is bad, make no mistake about it, and while there are plenty of better options for the deck, it does have a potent use in G/X Infect decks where you can reveal a bunnch cheap or even free green pump spells then use said pump spells after.

[@romankozelov5078]

I played a Collective Restrain 5-color Lock Deck on Enchantments. My main wincon was Collective Borders or Smoldering Tar + White Shrine (don't remember the name). Parasitic Bond could be an option there too...

[@romankozelov5078]

Remember the moment, when opponent played Snaketongue RGB deck, was absolutely locked by 3 Collective Restrains, already got two Global Ruins but still had about ten lands. I have got Smoldering Tar + two Shrines - so, on every upkeep he was getting -1 life and I got +8 lives. Finally, he has got his chance and played at the end of turn + upkeep on his turn TWO Urza's Rage with kickers - finally passing the prevention and counterspells. After this hit, my life counter fell off from 74 to 54...

[@HWHY]

Grats on 90k!

[@benwilson6256]

Something about hawkeater moth makes me want to ignore its bad stats to play it somehow.

[@TheCheat420]

Memory Jar and Yawgmoth's Will are legal in commander.

[@darian235]

As a kid I used to run parasitic bond... thought it was an okay card lol. So bad.

[@lancourt]

That reclusive wight.... ugh. For one more mana you could get a sengir vampire (or serra angel in white)

[@minervadetauro7646]

4:04 Brine Seer definitely has seen some shit

[@jackiespaceman]

For some reason I like the Worst lists best Worst Elves?

[@avatar2xl]

Badass arts tho

[@tylerdryden]

And yet the artwork is still far and away better than the trash nowadays.

[@crawdaddy1234]

I think Jar MIGHT be fine to unban in Legacy at this point.

[@samogburn2662]

Fledgling osprey better not be on this list! Its too cute to be bad

[@jasonking3182]

Let’s just say late 90s Magic was different…..

[@cax1175]

Congrats on 90k Nizzahon, thanks for years of good content!

[@nobodyimportant72]

"Incredibly pushed cards," and how do they compare to modern cards especially if we look at creatures?

[@NizzahonMagic]

Power creep largely only applies to creatures, as eager as people are to apply it to everything. The best instants, sorceries, and Artifacts are largely 25+ years old. And the three cards I mentioned are far more powerful than the pushed creatures of today. As are most of the other Urza's Block cards that got banned.

[@nobodyimportant72]

@@NizzahonMagic That is certainly true although we still do get the occasional non-creature that is pretty terrifying.

[@IAMMADEOFMEAT]

Perfect timing

[@Wrightkov]

Not me wanting ivy seer in a g/g card draw dexk

[@marciodemeo4731]

@NizzahonMagic please do a Top 10 Urza’s Saga and Destiny

[@memyself3510]

If the moth had hexproof instead of shroud, what limited grade do you think you would give it?

[@jackiespaceman]

If the set has an aura theme, C- Otherwise D

[@memyself3510]

@ sounds about right

[@stevenrhodes8338]

I still enjoy these small mess up it reminds me your human not a robot that just shovels out videos constantly

[@lyndsaypeters5981]

10:35 just play Stab Wound same cost same effect but it also gives -2/-2

[@stevenrhodes8338]

Ahhh power creep

[@giancarlodisalvo1784]

Feels like 2 and 3 do more than some of the other ones earlier in the list

[@NizzahonMagic]

2 may as well do nothing, so that's a tough argument. With the scythe it at least has a nice ceiling, but it's so narrow I still think it's worse.

[@chuckstevens4985]

Durge is much better than cards 6 through 2 honestly. Still awful but don’t think it makes sense at number one.

[@zarfax1992]

Number 10 is number 9, smh

[@Cloudpiroth01]

That's how underwhelming it is lol

[@michaelharmsen8861]

I saw that too.

[@EvilDMMk3]

Heh, oops

[@johnj4471]

I was sitting there like “hard to block?”

[@EddDoubleDD]

so you can edit in your one take error but can't get the right card that's funny

[@MatthewKehn187]

Conflicted

[@personalthesus]

As I was watching this video I’m thinking it was the first time I had NONE of the cards on the worst list…. But then we got to #1 WE’RE #1 BABEEE

[@benwierchowski3496]

Do More Pauper Content!! love me some powerful commons

[@xyryyn]

Urza's Block flashbacks... Combo Winter, the first time I quit Magic "forever"

[@ItsDangerousGoAlone]

If someone tries playing with pick #3, I sure hope the opponent plays Stuffy Doll afterwards.

[@TwoCentReview]

Urza’s block was so broken, that MTG played like Yu-Gi-Oh! (This isn’t me casting shade at YGO, but pointing out that MTG is supposed to play different than YGO)

[@assault410]

top 10 nizzahon mistakes

[@gudaofujimaru4146]

#10?

[@CoL_Drake]

#10 is the wrong card.

[@MrYancakes]

HEY EVERYONE. NIZZAHON MADE A MISTAKE. POINT AND LAUGH!

[@MrYancakes]

jk ilu

[@andygoody2599]

#7 bad stats plus bad art = a truly terrible pair

[@pidromepunch2760]

Pretty big error in the first card.