About 20 years back, I bought a couple of packs of Italian Legends. One of my rares was Wood Elemental. God that's an awful card. I knew it would be number one. ... The other rare was Mana Drain, so I can't really complain.
I think Wood Elemental's high price has to do with its rarity. Mainly because whenever a person spends $150 on a pack of Legends and opens a Wood Elemental, they most likely burn it on the spot before killing themself.
@@sammysammyson it would have if it was supposed to or intended to see competitive play. The card was just designed as limited fodder so it isnt relevant enough to errata. The problem with corpse knight errata was that some copies were 2/2 and some were 2/3, so errata was necessary there.3 toughness was also an important threshold as shock was legal
@@R3ach4Th3Sky I just looked at it. Guess it was kept because the team got a kick out of it: ""The original version of this card was as you see it except for 1B. The card was created by Ken during the vampire design. Ken turned over his card designs to Henry (Stern) to put into the set. Henry typed the card in incorrectly as 2B instead of 1B. When the mistake was noticed, most of R&D found it funny and the card was kept as is." "
@@AsgneonthebesT rather just use ashyaya and beanstalk giant instead. They get strong without sacrificing it your lands. Or rampaging brontodon. I used those three a lot in mtg arena. But beanstalk giant is no longer in standard.
You misspoke regarding how regeneration works. It doesn't die and come back, it replaces dying with removing all damage dealt to it and tapping it. Super relevant considering things like creatures with comes into play effects, Rest in Peace, and even the creature's own ability, as entering the battlefield tap =/= becoming tapped.
It also removes it from combat. Not relevant most of the time, but relevant if it is dying in first strike damage step against a double striking creature.
I think I need dentistry due to my jaw hitting my desk so often watching this. I thought I was adequately warned reading the title, but nope, I was not prepared
For me, it is the worst creature ever. 5U for a 0/6 creature that doesn't deal damage when attacks and return to hand when blocks, for spend more 5U again... how is it playable??
@@unisolitario yeah what a POS... trying here to think of a combo that maybe it has a shot.... no, it it a POS in the world of return to hand stuff too.
@@MrDebauch you could potentially try and combo it with high alert so it assigns combat damage with toughness so its a 0/6 that does 6 damage instead of 0
I really want Wizards to go through every unplayable Legend from Legends and come up with a playable version of that card. Same cost, same stats, but upside to make them worth playing. Jedit Ojanen, Warrior for Hire - Legendary Cat Warrior When Jedit Ojanen, Warrior for Hire enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 Cat Warrior Token into play. Other Cats you control get +1/+1 Other Warriors you control get +1/+1
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Warping Wurm is kind of clever design because it actually gets a +1/+1 counter every turn if you don't pay the upkeep, and if it survives a turn then it won't be vulnerable to sorcery speed removal until after you decide to pay the upkeep and get an attack in. That's only bad because it has to survive a turn as a 4 mana 1/1 first, and it's too expensive.
I've always felt that Legends was unfinished, like they ran out of time before coming up with abilities to match the many radically overcosted legends in this set. It is the only reason I can think of to print cards that are worse than commons with similar stats and a much lower CMC. And I do mean in relation to commons available at that time, not from the view of modern power creep where 4 mana can get you a 11/10 creature (which is insane, but that is another story)
Pfft. Wood Elemental is a great finisher in Titania EDH/Commander with haste & trample enablers. Sac all those forests and get an additional 5/3 elemental per sacrificed forest. You guys just don't know how to get value out of him. For added hilarity, though it would be a different deck (like omnath locus of rage), make them be a lot of forest-mountains that you abuse with valakut before sacrificing those nonbasic forests for all that added power and toughness. Sacrifice just one untapped forest after paying 4 mana and you still get a 1/1 plus the added benefit of the 3 damage and a 5/3 creature. It's like it's a land sac effect you can pull to get an advantage, and hey, you get a creature out of it too. Good deal!
"This means if you just try to cast it for four mana and you have no other forests to sacrifice, you just paid four mana to put a card into your graveyard." 😂🤣🤣
Beast of Bogardan. No creature with such a cool name and artwork has the right to be this disappointing. It is a 3/3 creature for 5 mana with Protection From Red and it gets +1/+1 if the opponent controls White cards. So even if the condition for its ability is fulfilled, it is weak for its mana costs and Beasts of Bogardan does not even counter a specific colour, since it has one anti-Red and one anti-White ability.
Yup. Invasion had a bundle of awful rares in it. The original Elder Dragons were from Invasion, as well as Blinding Light and Crystal Spray. Also, depending on how you feel about stifle effects, Bind.
+Veggies Blowup the original Elder Dragons were from Legends... I don't think that the Invasion Dragons have a cycle name, except being called "the Invasion Dragons cycle".
Wood elemental would have been decent if it was a, lets say, 3/3 for luls, that got a +1 +1 counter for every untapped forest you sac'd when played. so if you only had 6 mana at least its a 5/5 lol
I love Viridian Scout...mainly because I love to dissect terrible cards and figure out how much cheaper or stronger I have to make them in order to make them usable. I've figured out how to make Viridian Scout playable in three different ways. One of them is changing the casting cost to G, and the ability cost to 1G...that makes it vaguely playable. Another is to make the casting cost 1G, keep the ability cost at 2G, but make the ability read "each" instead of "target". The final way to change it is to change its p/t from 1/2 to 4/5, or to 3/4 and give it reach. Aven Trooper is a relatively easy fix...change both its casting cost and ability cost to 1W. Mindless Null...just change its power to 4. Viashino Skeleton? Just give it +1/+1 and Haste. Jedit Ojanen? Add the following text "Jedit Ojanen cannot be blocked. Whenever Jedit deals combat damage to a player, draw a card." Akron Legionnaire...this one's a hard one. Assuming it were updated as a superior reprint...I'd make it indestructible and give it lifelink. I'd probably give it an alternate casting cost too...like "You may sacrifice four artifacts instead of paying Akron Legionnaire's mana cost." Wood Elemental is one I've already fixed too...I changed it to "Wood Elemental's power and toughness are each equal to the number of land cards in all graveyards. Sacrifice a Forest: Regenerate Wood Elemental."
way back during Alliances around here, "Playing a Soldevi Steam Beast deck" was how you described your opponent when you curb-stomped him in two games.
No Scornful Egotist? An 8-cost 1/1 with morph? Maybe there's something I'm not seeing in it, some way to make it decent, but it always surprises me when this card isn't #1 on a worst creatures list. I guess it's because of Morph? So you can have it be a 3-cost 2/2, which is better than an 8-cost 1/1, but still pretty crappy. And then you can pay its morph cost to give it a straight-up downgrade. I don't know, that card rubs me the wrong way. At least other really bad cards like Woodfall Elemental are bad in a mildly interesting way. The Egotist is boring _and_ bad.
You missed the entire point of the Egotist. Scourge was a confusing set, as despite being the debut of Storm, it also had a CMC Matters theme (and that's why Storm did nothing at all in Standard! Well, that and Mirrodin...), but the Egotist allowed you to get all of that out on the cheap. When you look at it and see an 8 mana 1/1, you've already failed. What you should be seeing is an 8 drop you can play for 4, and then slam down your Torrent of Fire or Rush of Knowledge (Those three cards all being Common in Scourge to let players have fun with the theme in draft even in a small set, though EDH players can also appreciate the rare Cabal Conditioning amongst other cards)
You can also feed it to the Birthing Pod for a 9 drop. It's not actually playable, but due to weird mechanics, it can be played for significantly less than it's CMC, which at least makes special.
I am disappointed that you explained regeneration wrong. Creatures/permanents that regenerate don't "die". They don't "return" to the battlefield. Regenerate says: The next time this [permanent] would be destroyed or die from lethal damage, instead it does not die, it is removed from combat, becomes tapped, and has all damage removed from it. This confusion is why they don't print "regenerate" cards as often anymore.
A lot of people were saying mindless null was misprinted or it was noticed too late. This is not the case "Henry typed the card in incorrectly as 2B instead of 1B. When the mistake was noticed, most of R&D found it funny and the card was kept as is." (From MaRo's article CARE FOR A BITE?)
The death trigger is actually quite a bit better than that. It makes the opponent put a card from their hand on top of their library, which can be reasonably annoying. It's an awful creature, of course, but it actually can combo into soft locking people out of their decks with a instant sacrifice outlet and repeatable recursion effect. ... Doing this is a shit, multi card combo, but it's there.
I remember out of the 1st 2 random packs of Magic cards I ever bought in 1993: I ended up with a total of 4 Wood Elementals. It was almost another year later before I ever wanted to give Magic a chance after that.
My least favorite is Loafing Giant. 5 for a 4/6 sounds pretty good on paper, but when you have to mill the top card and if it's a land it doesn't deal damage.. This is a loss of a card, and a high percentage chance for it to do nothing.
Phasing was incredible just because of all the screeching about what you were supposed to do with a phased out card. Flip it over? Your opponent will start screaming for the judge. Cover it up? Your opponent starts screaming for the judge. Scoot it off to the side? Your opponent starts screaming for the judge.
What I've heard is that Mindless Null was _supposed_ to be 1B, but somewhere along the line got changed to 2B either as a gag or a mistake and was never changed back.
I play Soldevi Steam Beast in my politics EDH deck. The theme of the deck is everything gives something to an opponent and is used for large group games to either make allies to kill people or to basically prevent anyone from dying ever. It's certainly not a star in the deck but it's serviceable filler since it can regenerate. I got my whole table laughing once when we all had to look up the eratted creature type to this card when it became relevant to the board state. XD Also, Mindless Null was originally intended to be just 2 mana; but because of a mistake behind the scenes it wasn't realised that it was printed at 3 until it was too late to change it.
One Christmas, my parents bought me a dollar store pack that promised only foils and rares. The first three cards I got were forgettable rares, but the last card was a *FOIL VIASHINO SKELETON*, at the time the worst rated card on Gatherer. I keep it sleeved in a separate box from the rest of my collection
I kinda use wood elemental as a finisher in titiana protector of argoth deck. Have concordant crossroads or a haste enabler. Drop this guy sac 10 lands create 10 5/3 elementals and a 10/10 with haste leave 4 mana up for splendid reclamation. Works great if you build a deck around land destruction.
yes ! I nailed the n.1. when it comes to this people generally talk about scornful egotist but they just forget it's just a 2/2 vanilla grey ogre for 3 which is certainly bad but not really awful (I'm pretty sure some people ended up playing him in limited and some of them even have to thank him for winning them a game). Wood elemental instead is, at best, a ridicoulous vanilla 3/3 for 7 which comes imprinted with quadruple stone rain on yourself. Unfortunately I own 2 copies of him.
So. Correction on banding - it doesn't band with ONLY one other creature, you can band with as many creatures as you want BUT a maximum of 1 of those creatures may NOT have the banding effect: 3 creatures with banding can band together. 2 creatures with banding can band with a creature without banding. 1 banding creature may not band with 2 non banding creature.
Warping Wurm is actually pretty easy to fix. Just make it like the Legends Kobolds and cost 0 Mana, now it costs nothing to play (but instantly phases out) and you can only actually get it starting on Turn 4.
you had jedit ojanen! i don't believe it. i thought you would miss that for sure. in my opinion the worst card ever printed. there is absolutely no reason to ever put that card in a deck.
There is one deck I could conceive playing wood elemental in, which is Titania EDH. That's more than I can say for Aven Trooper or Viridian Scout. They seem like the most wildly bad to me.
Don't know if it was mentionned in the comments, but I do believe a card that regenerates doesn't hit the graveyard, but is instead removed from combat and tapped. Maybe back in the day, regeneration didn't work that way ?
Going about the publishing time vs. top-tier deck placings, how about the entire Mistform subtype from Onslaught block? While it was interesting as a topic, I don't believe it ever took off...
Sadly I know the secret behind Wood Elemental. Being an aficionado of the reserve list, Wood Elemental is on there. Couple that with people who need a copy to round out a complete set of Legends and thus a card that will never see play will just go up. Mold Demon which is also from Legends and on the reserve list is flirting with a twelve dollar price tag.
My take on some of these cards: Soldevi Steam Beast could be more useful together with any card that says opponents can't gain life, or ideally together with rain of gore. This doesn't make it good, however. Mishra's War Machine, now this one's just adorable, because it bands. :P Everything that bands is adorable to me. I agree that it's not a good card, though. Wood Elemental, well, I can think of a combo where you use either splendid reclamation or faith's reward to bring all the lands back, but this only makes it a big, dumb creature with no evasion or self-defense.
I'm so glad the all powerful and all knowing Chimney Imp is not on this list. Although misunderstood by many, some people just cant comprehend his true power. That's why in every black deck I run 6 of him. All hail Chimney Imp!
Wood Elemental cant be the worst. Atleast it synergizes with graveyard decks/abilities. That alone serves some purpose than any other card on this list. I'm not saying it's a good card, but look at the big picture.
I half expected to see Scornful Egotist on this list. 7B for a 1/1 wizard that does nothing while on the board, makes people I know shrug at how bad it is. Yes it has a cheap morph cost, but still does nothing. Despite how bad I know it is though, it's from my favorite set of all time, and could be found in the very first MTG product I ever bought, the Pulverize theme deck. I understand what interactions it may have, but they're limited and not many people would play it or those strategies.
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You've done the best vanilla creatures maybe make a worst vanilla creatures. Gotta have pillarfield ox in the list. Or have top 5 funniest text boxes. "May starving fleas birth a thousand generations on your stubborn hide, cow!" ^---- that is the best one out there
Jedit has one other advantage: cat man boobs. Also, no Zephyr Spirit? A 0/6 blue 7 drop Wall of Junk? Sure, it can attack, but it needs help to have any impact. Drift of Phantasms costs half as much, is 0/5 defender with flying, can be transmuted for 3 CMCs, and was also IN THE EXACT SAME SET. I had a friend that was getting as many as he could so he could wallpaper a room with them lol
Probably already said but wood elemental is a secretly good card. Let's run through the combos in EDH First you have Gitrog Monster, who is the most recent at the time this video was released iirc. He turns into a 4 manager card that says sacrifice x lands to draw x cards and get x p/t. Titanic turns him into a 4 manager dude who reads sacrifice x lands to make x 5/3 elementals and gain x p/t Crucible of worlds helps mitigate the damage as well, as does sudden reclamation. The card is trash everywhere but edh. That, and that its on the reserve list, is why its 10$.
Soldevi Steam Beast would be great in a Kingdom game of EDH where you want the King to stay alive. Regarding regeneration, the card never leaves the battlefield so even in a 1v1 they attack you block and regen and they gain 2 life. Idk what you are talking about Wood Elemental is the best card ever.
How to fix Viridian Scout: its casting cost becomes 2G instead of 3G, and the flier hate ability loses all costs aside from the sacrifice...also, it gains Reach. From unplayable, to acceptable in a Limited environment.
About 20 years back, I bought a couple of packs of Italian Legends. One of my rares was Wood Elemental. God that's an awful card. I knew it would be number one. ... The other rare was Mana Drain, so I can't really complain.
BrotherAlpha I think Mana Drain is uncommon
You are correct. It is so expensive, I just assume it had to be a rare.
So's Force of Will, Sensei's Divining Top, and Dryad Arbor in their original printings. Hooray for weird rarities!
Fallen Empires has some garbage rares, but some really impressive commons.
Mana Drain isn't a rare
I think Wood Elemental's high price has to do with its rarity. Mainly because whenever a person spends $150 on a pack of Legends and opens a Wood Elemental, they most likely burn it on the spot before killing themself.
That one got me 😆🤣
This was hilarious. My favorite part was him mentioning the names of the joke decks that used the cards.
Wood elemental is amazing. That card would still be terrible if it cost 0 Mana, which is kind of incredible.
Mindless Null was misprinted as a 3 mana 2/2 it was supposed to cost 1B.
Idk a 2cmc 2/2 that can't attack or block unless you control a vampire might have been playable in draft but I wouldn't go so far to call it good.
Misprints usually get errated, don't they? Also the card may have been playable as a B 2/2 with that downside.
@@sammysammyson it would have if it was supposed to or intended to see competitive play. The card was just designed as limited fodder so it isnt relevant enough to errata. The problem with corpse knight errata was that some copies were 2/2 and some were 2/3, so errata was necessary there.3 toughness was also an important threshold as shock was legal
@@R3ach4Th3Sky I just looked at it. Guess it was kept because the team got a kick out of it:
""The original version of this card was as you see it except for 1B. The card was created by Ken during the vampire design. Ken turned over his card designs to Henry (Stern) to put into the set. Henry typed the card in incorrectly as 2B instead of 1B. When the mistake was noticed, most of R&D found it funny and the card was kept as is." "
WOOD EXCREMENTAL
Hahahaa
Never seen most of these, but wood elemental makes me ashamed to me a green main.
But hey it becomes less bad in Ashaya amirite? Right? :^)
@@AsgneonthebesT rather just use ashyaya and beanstalk giant instead. They get strong without sacrificing it your lands. Or rampaging brontodon. I used those three a lot in mtg arena. But beanstalk giant is no longer in standard.
You misspoke regarding how regeneration works. It doesn't die and come back, it replaces dying with removing all damage dealt to it and tapping it. Super relevant considering things like creatures with comes into play effects, Rest in Peace, and even the creature's own ability, as entering the battlefield tap =/= becoming tapped.
It also removes it from combat. Not relevant most of the time, but relevant if it is dying in first strike damage step against a double striking creature.
What a shame about the bird at 7, such good art going to waste🙃
Wood elemental has value to collectors because its a rare in legends and that is about all its good for...sitting in a binder to complete a collection
As mentioned by other people, it has a purpose as a budget sac outlet foe Titania decks to crank out elementals
war machine artwork is probably inspired by the stories of da vinci's lost war machine.
For sure, though I think the same can be said of mobile fort.
Look at you smartie pants.
Warping Wurm: 8 mana for a 2/2 that gets +1/+1 every other turn played on turn 2 or 3 at best? lol.
I think I need dentistry due to my jaw hitting my desk so often watching this. I thought I was adequately warned reading the title, but nope, I was not prepared
I can confirm I have run mindless null in sealed. When you're creature-starved you use what you've got.
Was it good?
Wood Elemental is worth around 10$ because it is a Legends card on the reserve list.
I’m so glad mentioned the deck names. That was my immediate thought when opening vid
I love this series so much, haha!
What about Zephyr Spirit?
A 0/6 für 5U that returns itself to your hand while blocking...
And it doesn't even have flying.
For me, it is the worst creature ever. 5U for a 0/6 creature that doesn't deal damage when attacks and return to hand when blocks, for spend more 5U again... how is it playable??
@@unisolitario yeah what a POS... trying here to think of a combo that maybe it has a shot.... no, it it a POS in the world of return to hand stuff too.
@@MrDebauch you could potentially try and combo it with high alert so it assigns combat damage with toughness so its a 0/6 that does 6 damage instead of 0
@@juno4127 you... you could. You could do that.
I really want Wizards to go through every unplayable Legend from Legends and come up with a playable version of that card. Same cost, same stats, but upside to make them worth playing.
Jedit Ojanen, Warrior for Hire - Legendary Cat Warrior
When Jedit Ojanen, Warrior for Hire enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 Cat Warrior Token into play.
Other Cats you control get +1/+1
Other Warriors you control get +1/+1
That's still bad for 7 mana, karn costs 7
It's draftable and is good in commander. That's all I was aiming for.
Karn, on the other hand, is Modern playable and costs close to $50.
Definitely an interesting idea, would be a fun thing to do with a future Commander release.
I’ve seen remakes of a few, and I did a remake of one of them (Jacques le Vert) a while ago.
Drop the word " other " and I might consider :D
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Warping Wurm is kind of clever design because it actually gets a +1/+1 counter every turn if you don't pay the upkeep, and if it survives a turn then it won't be vulnerable to sorcery speed removal until after you decide to pay the upkeep and get an attack in. That's only bad because it has to survive a turn as a 4 mana 1/1 first, and it's too expensive.
I've always felt that Legends was unfinished, like they ran out of time before coming up with abilities to match the many radically overcosted legends in this set. It is the only reason I can think of to print cards that are worse than commons with similar stats and a much lower CMC. And I do mean in relation to commons available at that time, not from the view of modern power creep where 4 mana can get you a 11/10 creature (which is insane, but that is another story)
Pfft. Wood Elemental is a great finisher in Titania EDH/Commander with haste & trample enablers. Sac all those forests and get an additional 5/3 elemental per sacrificed forest. You guys just don't know how to get value out of him. For added hilarity, though it would be a different deck (like omnath locus of rage), make them be a lot of forest-mountains that you abuse with valakut before sacrificing those nonbasic forests for all that added power and toughness. Sacrifice just one untapped forest after paying 4 mana and you still get a 1/1 plus the added benefit of the 3 damage and a 5/3 creature. It's like it's a land sac effect you can pull to get an advantage, and hey, you get a creature out of it too. Good deal!
Ryan Gainey sadly there are only four Mountain Forests and I'm not sure if you'd want to play all of them.
Mishra's war machine is crippling. it forces you to discard a card every turn to keep it in play.
"This means if you just try to cast it for four mana and you have no other forests to sacrifice, you just paid four mana to put a card into your graveyard." 😂🤣🤣
glad to see you're still making content!
+Derek Sumares I have never stopped since I started!
Beast of Bogardan. No creature with such a cool name and artwork has the right to be this disappointing.
It is a 3/3 creature for 5 mana with Protection From Red and it gets +1/+1 if the opponent controls White cards. So even if the condition for its ability is fulfilled, it is weak for its mana costs and Beasts of Bogardan does not even counter a specific colour, since it has one anti-Red and one anti-White ability.
Everyone forgets about Alabaster Leech. 1/3 for one white that makes all your white spells cost one white more to cast.
And its a rare
Actually there is a whole Cycle of those Leeches with the respective Abilities for their colors.
Yup. Invasion had a bundle of awful rares in it. The original Elder Dragons were from Invasion, as well as Blinding Light and Crystal Spray. Also, depending on how you feel about stifle effects, Bind.
+Veggies Blowup
the original Elder Dragons were from Legends... I don't think that the Invasion Dragons have a cycle name, except being called "the Invasion Dragons cycle".
My favourite "bad" creature is Scornful Egotist.
Yes, I am aware that its block cared about CMC, but in a vacuum, it's absolutely atrocious.
+Dynamaster He is definitely bad, but the existence of Ixidor EDH decks means there is an actual place for him, unlike cards on this list.
A vanilla 2/2 for 3 colorless with an upside?
He is really good in Momir Basic. Makes me almost as happy as a Naya Soulbeast.
I agree I think it deserves an honorable mention before the list
No Chimney imp?
Wood elemental would have been decent if it was a, lets say, 3/3 for luls, that got a +1 +1 counter for every untapped forest you sac'd when played. so if you only had 6 mana at least its a 5/5 lol
Love watching your older content. You speak so fast
I subscribed because of your "worst of" series
I like my 0/1 Trample, Infect, and double strike with shroud thank you very much.
I'm going to make a 240 5-colour bad stuff deck
Mindless Null was supposed to cost 1B but it was misprinted as 2B. When the mistake was caught, WotC decided not to errata it.
Scornful Egotist could have at least been an honorable mention. I had too many of those back in the day, utterly useless
I love Viridian Scout...mainly because I love to dissect terrible cards and figure out how much cheaper or stronger I have to make them in order to make them usable. I've figured out how to make Viridian Scout playable in three different ways. One of them is changing the casting cost to G, and the ability cost to 1G...that makes it vaguely playable. Another is to make the casting cost 1G, keep the ability cost at 2G, but make the ability read "each" instead of "target". The final way to change it is to change its p/t from 1/2 to 4/5, or to 3/4 and give it reach.
Aven Trooper is a relatively easy fix...change both its casting cost and ability cost to 1W.
Mindless Null...just change its power to 4.
Viashino Skeleton? Just give it +1/+1 and Haste.
Jedit Ojanen? Add the following text "Jedit Ojanen cannot be blocked. Whenever Jedit deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
Akron Legionnaire...this one's a hard one. Assuming it were updated as a superior reprint...I'd make it indestructible and give it lifelink. I'd probably give it an alternate casting cost too...like "You may sacrifice four artifacts instead of paying Akron Legionnaire's mana cost."
Wood Elemental is one I've already fixed too...I changed it to "Wood Elemental's power and toughness are each equal to the number of land cards in all graveyards. Sacrifice a Forest: Regenerate Wood Elemental."
way back during Alliances around here, "Playing a Soldevi Steam Beast deck" was how you described your opponent when you curb-stomped him in two games.
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No Scornful Egotist? An 8-cost 1/1 with morph? Maybe there's something I'm not seeing in it, some way to make it decent, but it always surprises me when this card isn't #1 on a worst creatures list. I guess it's because of Morph? So you can have it be a 3-cost 2/2, which is better than an 8-cost 1/1, but still pretty crappy. And then you can pay its morph cost to give it a straight-up downgrade.
I don't know, that card rubs me the wrong way. At least other really bad cards like Woodfall Elemental are bad in a mildly interesting way. The Egotist is boring _and_ bad.
You missed the entire point of the Egotist. Scourge was a confusing set, as despite being the debut of Storm, it also had a CMC Matters theme (and that's why Storm did nothing at all in Standard! Well, that and Mirrodin...), but the Egotist allowed you to get all of that out on the cheap.
When you look at it and see an 8 mana 1/1, you've already failed. What you should be seeing is an 8 drop you can play for 4, and then slam down your Torrent of Fire or Rush of Knowledge (Those three cards all being Common in Scourge to let players have fun with the theme in draft even in a small set, though EDH players can also appreciate the rare Cabal Conditioning amongst other cards)
I've used this in a Food Chain deck. I would play it morphed, then unmorph and exile it for 9 mana.
You can also feed it to the Birthing Pod for a 9 drop.
It's not actually playable, but due to weird mechanics, it can be played for significantly less than it's CMC, which at least makes special.
Egotist is supposed to combo with cards that exploit mana cost without actually having to pay a ridiculous mana cost to make use of it.
karplusan giant, a 7 costing (one red) 3/3 giant, with the ability to tap a snowcovered land to give it +1/+1 until the end of turn
I gotta say, I wrecked some weird limited and custom formats with Mishra's war machine. A big bander is annoying as hell.
I am disappointed that you explained regeneration wrong. Creatures/permanents that regenerate don't "die". They don't "return" to the battlefield. Regenerate says: The next time this [permanent] would be destroyed or die from lethal damage, instead it does not die, it is removed from combat, becomes tapped, and has all damage removed from it. This confusion is why they don't print "regenerate" cards as often anymore.
Yeah, I definitely misspoke. As pointed out by several others in this comment section.
Could have sworn I would get to see Zephyr Spirit on here.
Ah well, nice list, always fun to rag on the Wood Elemental
A lot of people were saying mindless null was misprinted or it was noticed too late. This is not the case
"Henry typed the card in incorrectly as 2B instead of 1B. When the mistake was noticed, most of R&D found it funny and the card was kept as is." (From MaRo's article CARE FOR A BITE?)
Chimney Imp is a 5 drop that's a 1/2 flying that gives your opponent stuff back from the grave.
The death trigger is actually quite a bit better than that.
It makes the opponent put a card from their hand on top of their library, which can be reasonably annoying.
It's an awful creature, of course, but it actually can combo into soft locking people out of their decks with a instant sacrifice outlet and repeatable recursion effect.
... Doing this is a shit, multi card combo, but it's there.
I remember out of the 1st 2 random packs of Magic cards I ever bought in 1993: I ended up with a total of 4 Wood Elementals. It was almost another year later before I ever wanted to give Magic a chance after that.
If I remember right, Mindless Null was originally supposed to be 2 CMC (1 and a black) but was changed at the last minute for whatever reason
My least favorite is Loafing Giant. 5 for a 4/6 sounds pretty good on paper, but when you have to mill the top card and if it's a land it doesn't deal damage.. This is a loss of a card, and a high percentage chance for it to do nothing.
Number seven would make an awesome T-shirt so there's that going for it.
6:00 that Mishra roast😂
Worst legendaries next?
They would just all be from Legends. Haha.
true
Phasing was incredible just because of all the screeching about what you were supposed to do with a phased out card. Flip it over? Your opponent will start screaming for the judge. Cover it up? Your opponent starts screaming for the judge. Scoot it off to the side? Your opponent starts screaming for the judge.
What I've heard is that Mindless Null was _supposed_ to be 1B, but somewhere along the line got changed to 2B either as a gag or a mistake and was never changed back.
I play Soldevi Steam Beast in my politics EDH deck. The theme of the deck is everything gives something to an opponent and is used for large group games to either make allies to kill people or to basically prevent anyone from dying ever. It's certainly not a star in the deck but it's serviceable filler since it can regenerate. I got my whole table laughing once when we all had to look up the eratted creature type to this card when it became relevant to the board state. XD
Also, Mindless Null was originally intended to be just 2 mana; but because of a mistake behind the scenes it wasn't realised that it was printed at 3 until it was too late to change it.
Funnily with that wording Wood Elemental does not even allow you to sacrifice those forests by himself. At least that was fixed with the Oracle text.
One Christmas, my parents bought me a dollar store pack that promised only foils and rares. The first three cards I got were forgettable rares, but the last card was a *FOIL VIASHINO SKELETON*, at the time the worst rated card on Gatherer.
I keep it sleeved in a separate box from the rest of my collection
IIRC Mindless Null was supposed to cost 1B, but they put 2B as a typo and only caught it when the card sheets were already getting printed.
I kinda use wood elemental as a finisher in titiana protector of argoth deck. Have concordant crossroads or a haste enabler. Drop this guy sac 10 lands create 10 5/3 elementals and a 10/10 with haste leave 4 mana up for splendid reclamation. Works great if you build a deck around land destruction.
Chimney Imp. It is both bad and gives the impression it wants to fly up your tailpipe ;)
yes ! I nailed the n.1. when it comes to this people generally talk about scornful egotist but they just forget it's just a 2/2 vanilla grey ogre for 3 which is certainly bad but not really awful (I'm pretty sure some people ended up playing him in limited and some of them even have to thank him for winning them a game). Wood elemental instead is, at best, a ridicoulous vanilla 3/3 for 7 which comes imprinted with quadruple stone rain on yourself. Unfortunately I own 2 copies of him.
Number 9 is the greatest joke in mtg history :)
With the steam beast in mind, there's gotta be stuff out there NOW where something on YOUR side that can hurt the enemy for gaining life somehow..
So. Correction on banding - it doesn't band with ONLY one other creature, you can band with as many creatures as you want BUT a maximum of 1 of those creatures may NOT have the banding effect:
3 creatures with banding can band together. 2 creatures with banding can band with a creature without banding. 1 banding creature may not band with 2 non banding creature.
Fun fact about mindless null it was meant to be a 2 drop but there was a typo and they didnt bother to fix if
Warping Wurm is actually pretty easy to fix. Just make it like the Legends Kobolds and cost 0 Mana, now it costs nothing to play (but instantly phases out) and you can only actually get it starting on Turn 4.
This might as well be "Top 10 Creatures most likely to appear in a Saffron Olive deck"
you had jedit ojanen! i don't believe it. i thought you would miss that for sure. in my opinion the worst card ever printed. there is absolutely no reason to ever put that card in a deck.
Interesting that you mention phasing not being seen again but here in 2020 we have Teferi, Timeless Voyager. Times change huh?
Cabal Inquisitor
1B, 1/1
Threshold- 1B, tap, exile 2 cards from your graveyard: Target player discards a card. Use only as a sorcery.
There is one deck I could conceive playing wood elemental in, which is Titania EDH. That's more than I can say for Aven Trooper or Viridian Scout. They seem like the most wildly bad to me.
Don't know if it was mentionned in the comments, but I do believe a card that regenerates doesn't hit the graveyard, but is instead removed from combat and tapped. Maybe back in the day, regeneration didn't work that way ?
+Head Minerve It did.
Going about the publishing time vs. top-tier deck placings, how about the entire Mistform subtype from Onslaught block? While it was interesting as a topic, I don't believe it ever took off...
Sadly I know the secret behind Wood Elemental. Being an aficionado of the reserve list, Wood Elemental is on there. Couple that with people who need a copy to round out a complete set of Legends and thus a card that will never see play will just go up. Mold Demon which is also from Legends and on the reserve list is flirting with a twelve dollar price tag.
My take on some of these cards:
Soldevi Steam Beast could be more useful together with any card that says opponents can't gain life, or ideally together with rain of gore. This doesn't make it good, however.
Mishra's War Machine, now this one's just adorable, because it bands. :P Everything that bands is adorable to me. I agree that it's not a good card, though.
Wood Elemental, well, I can think of a combo where you use either splendid reclamation or faith's reward to bring all the lands back, but this only makes it a big, dumb creature with no evasion or self-defense.
Technichally wood elemental has a home in decks that like having cards in the grave
Soldevi steam-beast actually seems fun for politics or group-hug, since you can give a player life every turn.
I'm so glad the all powerful and all knowing Chimney Imp is not on this list. Although misunderstood by many, some people just cant comprehend his true power. That's why in every black deck I run 6 of him. All hail Chimney Imp!
Wood Elemental cant be the worst. Atleast it synergizes with graveyard decks/abilities. That alone serves some purpose than any other card on this list. I'm not saying it's a good card, but look at the big picture.
@GamerBear or put it into a titania deck and lulz
I half expected to see Scornful Egotist on this list. 7B for a 1/1 wizard that does nothing while on the board, makes people I know shrug at how bad it is. Yes it has a cheap morph cost, but still does nothing.
Despite how bad I know it is though, it's from my favorite set of all time, and could be found in the very first MTG product I ever bought, the Pulverize theme deck. I understand what interactions it may have, but they're limited and not many people would play it or those strategies.
i remember someone being upset about how bad Fleshmad Steed is but i dont think it comes close to even number 10 on this list
I have never played MTG and don't know anything about how it works, and even I can see these cards are pure trash.
Takeno's Cavalry is missing from this list.
could we get a top 10 infect cards? i have always loved running it and want to see the strongest ones and what you think of them! thanks for the awesome content as always!
Wood elemental actually combos well with titania in edh and then next turn just use the green sorcery to bring them all back.
Depending on the deck, I may add one Aven Trooper just for the art.
You've done the best vanilla creatures maybe make a worst vanilla creatures. Gotta have pillarfield ox in the list. Or have top 5 funniest text boxes.
"May starving fleas birth a thousand generations on your stubborn hide, cow!"
^---- that is the best one out there
Good call
I remember buying the first pre-made vampire deck and this card came in it I always hate and I would pull it out immediately when I got the deck
Magic players in the 90s: what's so great about this card?
Wizards: it's gold!
Jedit has one other advantage: cat man boobs.
Also, no Zephyr Spirit? A 0/6 blue 7 drop Wall of Junk? Sure, it can attack, but it needs help to have any impact. Drift of Phantasms costs half as much, is 0/5 defender with flying, can be transmuted for 3 CMCs, and was also IN THE EXACT SAME SET.
I had a friend that was getting as many as he could so he could wallpaper a room with them lol
Probably already said but wood elemental is a secretly good card. Let's run through the combos in EDH
First you have Gitrog Monster, who is the most recent at the time this video was released iirc. He turns into a 4 manager card that says sacrifice x lands to draw x cards and get x p/t.
Titanic turns him into a 4 manager dude who reads sacrifice x lands to make x 5/3 elementals and gain x p/t
Crucible of worlds helps mitigate the damage as well, as does sudden reclamation. The card is trash everywhere but edh. That, and that its on the reserve list, is why its 10$.
I built a Banding deck and Mishras War Machine didn’t even make the cut there
I don't know why but the flavour text of the viridian scout makes me laugh
What about the 8 mana 1/1 that has morph for a B
I dont remember what ut was called but it was an old card
Scornful Egoist is that cards name.
Soldevi Steam Beast would be great in a Kingdom game of EDH where you want the King to stay alive. Regarding regeneration, the card never leaves the battlefield so even in a 1v1 they attack you block and regen and they gain 2 life.
Idk what you are talking about Wood Elemental is the best card ever.
Some of these cards could be used by exchanging control of them
How to fix Viridian Scout: its casting cost becomes 2G instead of 3G, and the flier hate ability loses all costs aside from the sacrifice...also, it gains Reach. From unplayable, to acceptable in a Limited environment.
I miss Ignoble soldier in the list, that's so bad I thought it was a mistake in the text.
Besides that, really nice video :D
Yeah, that could have made the list for sure. Might have to do another top 10 worst creatures some day, there are so many!