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Orim, Samite Healer is one that comes to mind and my friend plays it all the time just to mess with everyone at the table.
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Bit of a cutting error at 9:09 proffesor
looks like you forgot about sift through sands for the unspeakable, that's why it cost that much and is not playable in commander
At 14:03 is one of the best versions of Korobeiniki I've ever heard. Can you tell me the name of the artist?
Fun fact: "Telim'Tor" was intended to be an anagram of "Mr. Toilet"
This really makes me wanna build him...
This fact is _indeed_ very fun, but why exactly?
The reason is someone at wizards wished they could be like "Refrigerator Perry" and be nicknamed for an appliance. Hence El Tim Tor and El Tim Tors tiny rod were born. And later became Telim Tor and Telim Tor's darts
Seat tribal at it again
"More of an embarassment than MTG Arena Brawlidays"... I don't know prof, the brawlidays are really terrible.
Look at how fast this man’s hair grew back. Props, Prof.
He must have used Giant Growth on his hair.
jokes on you, that was three months ago!
@@Insane-Howl-Cowl Either that or it has Flash.
it's just an illusion. if you knew the Prof, or at least saw him more than ten, fifteen minutes at a time once or twice a week, it wouldn't seem so fast.
It's a wig
I'm glad for the "No vanillas" rule because you obviously recognize that Yargle could never fail.
If you build around him Yargle is a legit threat. 9 power is nothing to laugh at with commander damage
@@MidgarMerc Infect Merc?
@@jankspanking8836 I mean if you wanna be boring I guess you can do infect
>yargle
This bad meme needs to die and the people who support it need their cards burned
Yargle's a reasonable voltron commander. Not great by any means, but 9 power for 5 mana's a lot for an equipment deck, and Tainted Strike exists.
At about 9 minutes there is a repeat of 1 phrase. Weird... its supposed to be like that?
Same, I thought it was going to be a joke about a token creator or a doubler/mimic or something
I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught that. I thought I accidentally hit rewind somehow
I thought I was having a stroke
Probably a minor editing mistake.
Yes, this was intentional. Sometimes repetition is used for emphasis.
Chameleon colossus is a HOUSE. Call it a failure when it’s stomping your face in in literally any tribal deck
Or goreclaw, as my table is now well aware of.
Yep definitely seen it get huge in Xenagos decks, and easy to fling if you can't give it trample
yeah, it was a defining card of its standard
It's one of the best tribal cards for tribes that suck too much, or have few options.
Besides that perspective, it's purdy damn good, on it's own.
Even before playing commander I took about 2k damage in one attack by the dude
You made it through a Telim'Tor dunk without noting that his anagram is "Mr. Toilet."
Reminds me of the Warhammer 40K character Khaedruakh the Decapitator.
He was dubbed Khaedruakh the Crappy Spectator, because he must appear on the battlefield in terrain at least 9" away from the closest enemy, he has no ranged weapon and deep strikers can't attack into close combat the turn they arrive. So his spectacular but speculative use is only to spectate. Oh yeah, and the requirement of having to put him into terrain also cuts down his movement range on subsequent turns, if he lives.
To be fair, most of these were made for 60 card, 20 life, 1v1 formats without color restrictions.
Except the Unspeakable, that one is supposed to be in your library and get summoned by Sift through Sands.
Yep I notice several that would be solid in limited
It’s solid in the 99, if you’re building arcane Azami for example
@@Purlsama I'm speaking of Unstable sealed, of course. That is the only reason why you'd want to play that way.
exactly what I was thinking.
Yeah was going to say , alot of these old "commanders" were waaay before EDH even became a thing..just shows you how the old cards have been power crept like a MOFO
The Unspeakable, I feel, was more meant to be played in the deck with Peer through Depths, Reach through mists, and Sift Through Sands. When you play all three spells in one turn (provided Sift is played last) you get to search The Unspeakable and just slam him onto the battlefield. It requires a bit of set up and three cards, but a 6 mana 6/7 Flample at instant speed is a bit better than a 9 mana 6/7 Flample at sorcery speed. Not to mention the three instants all draw cards.
Was looking for this exact comment XD. I honestly don't really think that he's that bad as part of the 99, considering the fact that u have a way to easily cheat him out.
Side note: Fireminds foresight does tutor all 3 cards out XP.
I love the idea behind that combo but they made a huge, huge mistake with it:
If you accidentally draw The Unspeakable while trying to go off, you can't put it into play from your hand. Library only.
@@harrison1735 while that is the biggest downside, if you happen to have all three in hand you can play them in response to each other and since Sift through Sands cares if you cast the other two then this significantly decreases your chances of drawing The Unspeakable, not to mention Peer through depths only grabs instant/sorcery cards
The argument's not that The Unspeakable is a bad card just that it's a bad commander, even if you get the three card combo to cheat him out he has to be in your library, so if he's in your command zone it doesn't work. Lets even say it could cast it from the command zone, you can only have one copy of any card in your deck so the chances of drawing the three you need all in one game are slim, imagine the feel bads if you get two right off the bat and then you're holding them up waiting for the third only to never draw it, then you may as well have had a starting hand of five. Lots of commander decks want to win by getting out a three card combo but this doesn't even do that, it just cheats out one big dumb creature who could just be removed and you've been seriously time walked.
@@alexanderforbes1452 that is absolutely correct
9:09 Uh oh, someone messed up the video.
deja-fu ;)
I thought I stroked for moment lol
Look at the paper around 1:51
Shit happens
Okay, the paper may be just on my screen
Isao is spelled with an "I". It's not Lsao.
imao, you're right!
le sao
Ironically, japanese do not have the letter L, nor the pronunciation to L. Chinese is how use frequently.
Like, if it was an L, why would it be lower case...?
@@LenoMateusdoNascimento And interestingly about that, linguists have actually found that their "r" sound is closer to our "l" than our "r", with research that showed Japanese people learning english adapted to speaking and hearing our "l" easier than the "r".
Another White one: Pang Tong, "Young Phoenix" 1WW for 1/2 with T: Target creature gets +0/+2. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.
Until end of turn, I'm guessing.
I built him for lulz
I guess if you have ways to make creatures deal damage equal to their toughness instead of power, at least it would do… maybe 1 more damage than if you attacked with Pang instead of tapping him for the toughness boost, if the defending player has no blockers. Yeah, that’s pretty underwhelming.
There is a repeat edit before "the unspeakable" @ 9:30 although I do very much enjoy both of the intros
He tried to say "the unspeakable" true name. The universe compensated.
Am I stupid? I've listened to that part ten times and I have no idea what the mistake is.
Ninjamanhammer it’s before 9:30. Back up 20-30 seconds
Thanks, I found it. I missed it because I was looking too late.
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13:17
The frick did you just say about my boy Chameleon Colossus?
I know, I shed a tear
He does not know the joy it is to smash for [insert high even P/T]
He does not know the joy it is to smash for [insert high even P/T]
He does not know the joy it is to smash for [insert high even P/T]
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Ironically he's one of the best of the original 11 vanilla Legends
I saw my boy Chandler in the thumbnail, I'll never forget finding him in the 10 cent bin at my lgs
We need a Chandler reprint with "Partners with Joven" errata'd in
@@davispo7550
Oh, yuck.
It's MS. Chanandler Bong!
I like the idea of this episode. However any legendary released before like 2010ish is obviously going to fail as a commander for commander format. Legendaries just wernt designed with commander in mind at this point in time. I would have enjoyed this episode more if it was reviewing failed legendaries of more recent sets or better yet legendaries from commander pre-cons. Again I loved the concept of the episode I just felt like it was kind of obvious with older cards being chosen.
Andrew Kalinauskas
I’d go so far as adding an extra caveat of “has to be at least rare”. Ever since they started doing uncommon legendaries in dominaria, very few if any of those guys are actually good as a commander.
I was just going to make this same comment.
Sliver overlord?
@@oORoOFLOo
The purpose of EDH was to use the original Elder dragons as your commander
check out the Nitpicking Nerds on RUclips, they ranked every legend ever in magic's history.
I always think Oriss, Samite Guardian has Satyr legs and is sitting extremely uncomfortably. That is how the card looks to me when it's not up close.
I feel like Isao isn't that bad compared to Anthousa oddly enough.
1: While both aren't particularly good for their mana cost, if you apply Bushido, then in terms of combat he becomes a 4/3 for 3 versus Anthousa's 4/5 for 5. Albeit Anthousa has a much bulkier body outside combat, hence one doesn't need to worry about stray bolts and the like, but this leads into the second point:
2: While Isao's regenerate ability is meant to be used for other samurai, he is still a Samurai and I do believe is able to be regenerated via this effect, thus if you have mana to spare your opponent would be wasting their time if they don't have more spells and abilities to deal it damage than you have mana for regeneration.
3: Isao is unable to be countered, which while I don't know if counterspells are as heavily used in EDH compared to other formats, can still come in handy, and complements his regeneration ability.
Can't be countered is only relevant with high cost/impact cards... like Niv Mizzet
Hexproof would be nicer... you would have something that you COULD Voltron...
Prof : No one has an Oriss commander deck.
Me : Challenge accepted.
Helm of the Host plus bounce effects and creature recursion with Sun Titan, Emeria Shepherd, or Teshar.
That sad moment when Anthousa was your foil rare from your first ever booster box
Little editing flirp at 9:06 I was half watching this and it made my brain feel like I time traveled lol
I have to know: Where did you get the word "flirp" from?
Dustin Weyler lmao I don't know I've been using it since elementary school! 😂
This is a very fun series. I love seeing new cards from the 23,000 out there. Been some insane trash through the years and it's fun to see them.
The moment he said Future Sight, I was like, "oh, is it Oriss?"
It really goes to show that Green is strong, when even it's candidate for 5 terrible commanders is an uncounterable, regenerating samurai for 3. That's atleast a resistant voltron idea
I'd rather just build Thrun The Last Troll but okay XD
5:32 "Now, you may find yourself unable to remember this card..."
Oh no, Professor. I remember Anthousa very well. I pulled a normal playset and a foil between my Prerelease pack, Fat Pack, and an impulse booster alone.
Anthousa haunts my dreams.
It's so crazy that they bothered to give her prerelease promo it's own art.
I feel sorry for you :(
@@Kryptnyt I know, right? And it's not even good!
@@SomeRUclipsTraveler It's passable. She's cute at least, eh?
Whoa Prof, how you gon' dis Chameleon Colossus like that?
That creature is a beast, I play jund and I scramble my brains out just to kill it. Cant terminate, cant fatal push, cant maelstrom. I pray to RNG jeebus I draw Lili and that is my opponent's only creature.
I'll have you know Chameleon Colossus' parents are extremely proud!
Honestly Isao sounds pretty decent. An uncounetrable commander with built in protection for a voltron build, and he even has a minor buff on being blocked. You could probably do a lot worse.
That's because it's Green and Green always has the good stuff. lol
But I agree and over the years with more and more potential Samurai in Green it will likely become better.
With three new Samurai from Kamigawa Neon Destiny, one that's actually pretty good, it's already a bit better.
Anthousa did well and looked fun on MTGMuddstah
My Anthousa deck does very well for itself at casual tables. You can abuse her ability with untap effects to storm off. archidekt.com/decks/203117#Mono_Green_Scepter_Storm
I saw that video too. Considering trying out that deck for myself.
That chaos orb is amazing and hilarious to see on a professors desk. Chaos Professor!
It's actually a deck box.
I just stumbled across Ishi-Ishi, Akki Crackshot recently, and was in awe of how unplayable he was.
Prof! So happy to see an Audible sponsor! For real, great job!
6:48 "2/2s? You're not gonna overwhelm anyone in commander with that stampede" *Chuckles in Goblin*
Chuckles in 1/1 rats
I think it's more about the number and method. First, they're lands, which means you're losing mana by using them. Second, the Heroic trigger means you already had to use mana to trigger the ability in the first place.
Chuckles in Echoing Truth
*Cries in Lonely Krenko*
*laughs maniacally in zombie*
"it ain't it chef"
-Prof 2020
Absolutely love it😂😂😂😂
"Aye, girl!"
“Lsao”? Isao, Prof! That’s a capital I, not a capital L!
My suggestion is that you make this is series. Going into the other color combinations would be actually kind of interesting.😎
More videos like this one please! Thanks Prof!
Zhang Liao might even be a janky mono B ping/discard tribal deck
Edit: don't you dare calling phage a bad commander. Yes she's a tricky deck and janky but command beacon allows things to happen.
Regarding Phage, you can also use Sundial of the Infinite to end the turn, Platinum Angel to avoid losing, Thrull Wizard or Withering Boon to counter her, or, if you want to shift into Maximum Overjank, Abyssal Persecutor and Gauntlets of Chaos to have an effect like Platinum Angel.
@@movezig5 I'm sorry, did you just say a way to play Phage is to counter her? Counterspell your own commander in MONO BLACK?
I know about those two counters and I know why you do it so her etb doesn't kill you. But in order to make her playable, we truly need to consider saying the phrase "Cast Phage, hold priority, cast Withering Boon, countering Phage."
*??????????????*
@@DarkX64 or you can run Platinum Angel/command beacon.
How have no one mentioned Torpor Orb yet?
"No one has an Oriss, Samite Guardian deck."
Pretty sure CureForTheCommonGame either has one or is working on one. :P (Then again, he's trying to build a deck for every legal general.)
She seems more servicable than someone like General Jarkeld
Was looking for this comment
I'm looking at Draco, the artifact dragon from Planeshift. Yeah, it's 16 mana and demands you play basic lands for a cost reduction. What do you get for all your hard work? A 9/9 flyer that gets chumpped by Arboreal Grazer.
Oof. Initially I was thinking you could circumnavigate that issue by playing Dryad of the Ilysian Grove and Prismatic Omen... But then I remember it's colorless. And that Wastes are the only legal basic you could use. Using an Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and a Quicksilver Fountain can help you drop the cost a little bit but not completely. With all 3 in play the best you can do is a 10 colorless mana 9/9 flyer that you pay 4 additional colorless for each upkeep or it dies. If you're missing one it's a 12 and 6, or 2 for 14 and 8.
now I just feel like redesigning old legendaries, starting with the ones pointed out here. (and the telim'tor bit made me laugh hard when you said flanking tribal and I realized "oh yeah, I still have that built." if he had been white as well I feel like he'd be an ok card because then you get cavalry master)
The Professor talking about Audible? It's only a matter of time now before the Professor talks about Raid: Shadow Legends. Lol.
But, but, The Unspeakable has a built-in way to get it to the battlefield without that massive 9-CMC cost: Sift Through Sands, Peer Through The Depths, and Reach Through the Mists! You just have to cast all three in one turn, for a CMC of 6! You just need to find a way to get your commander from the command zone into your library... And then find all three parts of that combo...
I would have loved to see Flanking come back in Eldraine:P
Woah, those commanders are, as the kids would say, *frantically flips though notebook* totes wiggity yo!
Sucks that Zhang Liao is a bad commander. He's one of my favorite characters in Dynasty Warriors.
Yaaas another Dynasty Warriors player!
I know right, I wish they’d do like a Return to Three Kingdoms set with revamped Generals.
@@thrillhouse4151 oh that would be awesome. And they would be less expensive then they are currently. Win win! I would love a rakdos LuBu or something like that.
Wasn't expecting a book recommendation...yet here we are. Thank you good sir!
I actually remembered the Anthousa, mostly because I tried to find a way to build around it. No progress has been made
I really like the concept of grandeur, giving redundant legends a use, in edh it's pretty useless though, unfortunately.
It isn't though. Mirage Mirror and recursion like Phyrexian Reclamation make my Korlash deck playable. Dread Presence or Ob Nixilis, the Fallen to end games.Turn Mirage Mirror into Korlash let real Korlash go to bin then get to hand with Reclamation. Discard get two Swamps, drain some one, rinse, repeat (I also run Amulet of Vigor to keep it going and tutors up the yin yang to get the pieces, lol)
A new take on that mechanic should just say "discard another legendary card" so that you don't need the same legend twice.
Can't believe how Prof keeps this amount of great work! Quality AND quantity. Hope he's sleeping well
Prof you truly are the most creative, funny and over all greatest person/mtg channel on the interweb
9:30 I smell a reload coming. time to watch the video again!
Who complained about Gerrard? That card is busted as a commander.
Agreed. Buddy of min'es got an eggs-style Gerard deck and cleans up with it. Turns take forever, but it gets there.
fiddlestyxify eggs is the way to go. A pyrite spell bomb is very powerful when you can use it infinite amount of times.
I wish to add to the list "Mishra, Artificer Prodigy" a total disappointment.
I hope the future sets will have a new version of him, kind of like Urza or Yawgmoth from Modern Horizons.
Mishra does work with Possibility Storm, thanks to stacking triggers... I didn't even run any applicable tutors in that particular Breya build...
@@mtgskunkworx1671 It's still a disappointment if have to use 1 specific card to make your commander work. Breya for example, the card works on her own, and the rest of the deck works with her, not "play possibility Storm or Mishra is a Vanilla card", i really like the mtg lore, and i would like a Mishra that is worth of his name.
I have a Mishra deck and I promise you he is not a dissappointment. There are quite a few cards that make him super powerful and he is a stax commander god. I know that's not for everyone but he's amazing.here's my list for reference: www.mtgvault.com/enewbis1108/decks/mishra-control-kd/
I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that he works extremely well with Nether Void, Blood Funnel, and Planar Chaos for a gross one sided stax deck. Granted, that's you dumping at least $450 on Nether Void alone.
Aside from the usual Possibility Storm/Nether Void/Blood Funnel/Planar Chaos talk, you can also build Mishra as a thief deck with cards like Praetor's Grasp, Grinning Totem, Hostage Taker, Silent-Blade Oni, Havengul Lich, and more to exile cards from opponent's battlefield/hand/library/graveyard and cast them yourself. Pick an artifact you already have in your library/hand/graveyard, you get a two-for-one bargain!
I watched this for the nostalgia of those old legends. We've come a long way.
I do like how everything you need to know about the Unspeakable is in its flavor text "...madness has given it form."
As for a legend I was expecting to be on your list, given your criteria, I was surprised you didn't mention Haakon, who can be a great roleplayer in the 99 but can't even function as a commander according to the rules interacting with its text.
The Unspeakable was one of the first commanders I used when I was a kid. I was just so enthralled with the four card combo of first have the Unspeakable in the deck, then cast Reach Through Mists to draw Peer Through Depths, so that I might reveal Soft Through Sands off the top 5 or my library. Finally I can cast the Unspeakable from my Library and pass the turn reveling in the glory of my 6/7 flying monstrosity.
Certainly mishra, artificer progidy. It says: "Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card with the same name as that spell and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle it."
Wich is worse than your number 1 spot as it can do nothing else!
There actually is a potent (but pricy) commander deck built around mishra and cards like blood funnel, possibility storm, and nether void. basically you run stuff that counters or changes spells and uses mishra to fetch the spell back to cast anyway!
Possibility Storm makes Mishra very fun to play while serving as a stax piece for your opponents :)
Mishra's actually really interesting. If you counter your own artifact, it enters via his ability, and Possibility Storm essentially gives your Artifacts cascade.
Mishra's busted though
Think about what that actually means. All that needs to resolve for this ability to occur is the cast of the artifact. So let's say your opponent counterspells your artifact. It hits the graveyard, sure. Then, trigger resolves: you tutor it from your graveyard back into play. Essentially: Artifacts you cast can't be countered.
''These commanders fail'' Sounds like my mom, when she talks about her childeren, when they play hearthstone...
Well she's right. Hearthstone? Not magic? What are they thinking?
Dry erase marker on paper! Truest monstrous 😊
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Im so glad to see how much you've grown!
when is he ever gonna pronounce chief AS CHIEF and not CHEF
Hopefully never
Ah, Audible, the pinnacle of "selling out" 🤔
Raid Shill Legends would like to have a word with you
Duuuuh yeah! Books is fer dummiz
Nice jump edit around 9:10, "AND it...Our NEXT commander..."
That little chaos orb model is really cool. Hope u don't have to tear it up.
I'm glad creators like you, Nitpicking Nerds and Commander's Quarters have been engaging in the topic of bad commanders.
It's honestly a fun topic and newer players can also see how far our legendaries have come.
Great list! I can imagine this list was fun to develop :D
This needs to be a multipart series until all sets are covered.
The black one was so forgettable that I forgot what it was before the video was over.
I didn't know the Professor is left handed! That's really cool!
Zhang Liao even has a grammar error in his original text.
Ironically enough now I have a list to put together when I want to wean someone onto Commander but not make it totally obvious that I am pulling the punches.
Great, now I got to grab a few more cards!
Brothers Yamazaki (Champions of kamigawa)
This particular commander requires a second copy of the card out in play to make use of its ability. It negates the legend rule, however "Partnership" is not mentioned on the card nor was even an idea during Kamigawa. There are almost no copy clones that would make this commander function as the text box states "If there are exactly two permanents named Brothers Yamazaki on the battlefield, the "legend rule" doesn't apply to them". So Mirror March would be a wasted effect beyond the initial coin flip.
Melek, Izzet Paragon. Neat ability, but as a 6-drop, you're now diluting your deck with artifacts so that you can cast the Weird. And then even more non-instants and sorceries to manipulate the top of your deck. And then you might be burning your opponents. Drawing even more cards where Melek can't help them in your hand. Or taking all the turns. Which works. But is where your playgroup leaves you on the side to deal the necessary turns and damage while they play the rest of the night without you.
i mean, with Oriss, you could always make copies of it (helm of the host for example) bounce the original to your hand, and then fire off Grandeur. if you can do this repeatedly, you can essentially lock opponents out of the game for as long as you need, meaning in a way, Oriss is one of the best white commanders for card draw! with her and smothering tithe, you can potentially rack up treasure tokens while the table has no response.
You should definitely make a part 2 of this sometime, maybe on multi colored commanders?
Chameleon Colossus being a failure to its' parents? The parents must have had extremely high standards. Too high of standards. That boy will key your car, eat it and then kick your house over just for the pre-show before he gets to stomping.
Hey, thanks to give me a list of new commanders to challenge myself to build!!!
The last one can lock the board if you have a way to get it back into your hand after cloning it every turn.
I would like to see a support for the Grandeur Legendary creatures. Something as simple as a rules changes to allow up to 4 copies of those cards in commander or even some signature spells that act like those cards would be something more. Its an interesting mechanic that hasn't been touched on. I actually expected it to return in Dominaria. I also really want to go back to Kamigawa. I think we have the right tools in Transform and a few other smaller mechanics to do it some justice.
I think the blue one can use clones and bounce so you can use the Grandeur ability but it is too much for too little
Another horrible Kamigawa commander is Hikari, Twilight Guardian.
It's a 5 mana white spirit whose only effect is it gets removed from the field until the end of the turn whenever you cast a spell.
I feel like Isao got the short end of the stick. I could see it as an interesting mono-green voltron commander. It's a voltron commander that can regenerate itself, and is in the right color for drawing cards, or even throw in an enchantress subtheme for extra benefit. The green slot should probably go to Bounteous Kirin who just gains you life and costs 7 mana.
13:20 hey, don’t insult those changelings, they work as excellent squishy bears in my Ayula, Queen Among Bears Bear Tribal deck
The talk about Isao made me think about Samurai tribal. Kamigawa predates edh (or at least the edh’s explosion in popularity) and because of that cards were designed with different goals in mind. This is most notable in Kentaro who was designed with the idea of playing multicolor samurai decks, but is limited to monoW in commander. Another notable Samurai that would have a different color identity if it were printed today is Konda. He’s the supreme ruler of the lands, the Samurai serve him. Surely he’d be 5 colors, similarly to General Tazri or Kenrith.
Speaking of 5 color Samurai commanders... I’ve been hoping for a return to Kamigawa for more than a decade, and now I have a new reason for that - I would love an homage to Seven Samurai. A 5 color legendary samurai card that depicts a group of ronin. It could be a mono color card with an activated ability for each member of the group (5 samurai instead of 7, but that still works as an homage), just like Kenrith. But perhaps, each ability could be a combat ability, instead of utility. So, vigilance/lifelink for white, unblockable/removal tax for blue, deathtouch/menace for black, haste/firebreathing for red, reach/trample for green. Just an example, but I think it would be a cool card.
Munda, Ambush Leader. Don't remember him? Don't worry, no one does. A hasty 3/4 for 4 in Boros, that whenever he or another ally enters the battlefield, you get to look at the top four cards of your library, reveal any Allies there, and put all the revealed Allies on top of the deck while everything else goes to the bottom.
Not going to pretend like I didn't use that ability with Shifting Shadow + an indestructible ally in a deck once, but I never said it was a good deck.
One thing you missed on Zhang is that it is any damage, not just combat damage. If you are building a mono black discard deck and throw in some pinger equipments he can actually be pretty useful by locking down a certain opponent’s hand.
Videos like this are where I pick my next deck build.
Calling Chameleon Colossus a disapointment to their parents is a bit unfair I think. He's pretty ok.
Alhammaret High Arbiter from Origins. 7 Mana for a 5/5 flier who when he enters gets to look at each opponents hand and you get to preemtively stop a card from being played until he leaves the battlefield.
So get to 7 mana, play this, ban something, but only until any piece of removal gets rid of it.
I feel like this video was low key a dare to get your rebellious students to brew decks around bad commanders XD
With Pariah, Oriss can become a permanent fog... It has some ways to make it actually less useless than many of the others you mentioned.
As soon as he stated the rules I said "If Anthousa is left out I'm gonna be mad."
Close enough I suppose haha
I put the Unspeakable into my Mizzix Storm Deck, mostly to get a bonus from the three arcane spells, that when cast in succession lets you fetch him and put him onto the battlefield. Unsurprisingly, he never got summoned and was essentially a dead card in the deck. So, yeah, bad legendary is bad.
challenge accepted... making a commander deck for each of these.
Feels like a spiritual successor to Wedge's Worst Cards Ever series
At 9:04, or you okay Brian?
I think you forgot to edit out your first take
Idk, unspeakable’s pet spells reach through depths, mist through sands, and sift peer throughs kinda make me want to build a deck around it.
My pick is Iname as One. It's 12cmc 8/8 whose enters triggers checks to make sure you cast it from your hand, so it doesn't work in commander. Its death trigger, oddly, does work in commander, since you can put it in your command zone and still get the effect, and it's even semi-powerful: Reanimate a spirit. But it's still a death trigger, and a tribe-specific Rise from the Grave as a death trigger on a legend that's not even in the best colors for that tribe (UW) is definitely not worth 12 mana.