I dunno, 2/2 first strike for 3 is of course not very good especially by modern standards, but "most useless" that card is not. It's still a 2/2 first strike creature after all. Wood elemental, which is lower on the list is far worse, and so is Egotist (which is at its best 2/2 for 3 without first strike). The fact that it has an ability that it's kinda irrelevant most of the time doesn't really make it most useless, there's worse creatures than that.
@calemr
Жыл бұрын
Worst card should definitely have been the usually Literally unplayable, almost always actively harmful to you, Break Open.
@megapussi
Жыл бұрын
Grey Ogre is a 3 mana 2/2 with no text, flow of maggots is a 3 mana 2/2 with cumulative upkeep 1 (and it cant be blocked by non-walls... but who cares, its a 2/2 that drains all of your mana), and Taoist Mystic is a 3 mana 2/2 who can't be blocked by creatures with Horsemanship- and if you don't know what Horsemanship is, yeah, thats the problem.
@dyne313
Жыл бұрын
Yes, a 3 mana 2/2 First Strike isn't the greatest card, but I can see it being played in many limited formats. Hardly useless. But that ability is usless.
@andrewamann2821
Жыл бұрын
@@dyne313 yes, and no... It can clear blockers for future combat phases, theoretically. It's not particularly useful, i'll grant you, but not useless, just incredibly narrow. With a Horobi on the table, it's technically hard destroy removal in white... Which means that you can do incredibly stupid stuff in, say, an Atheros commander deck, for lulz and learning purposes.
@RedScarGaming
Жыл бұрын
I agree. Certainly not a good card but not the worst card ever. In fact I was versing as opponent in a game of commander who plays some very strange decks. Master of Arms was on the board and my opponent equipped Lure to it, so when it attacks, everything has to block it. He attacked the opponent who was winning, who had to block with all four of his creatures. He payed 8 mana (not easy but still did it), meaning that the winning player tapped all his creatures. The next two players were able to attack with everything and collectively do fatal damage to the winning player. I know there are easier ways to achieve a similar outcome, but it certainly turned the game on the otherwise winning opponent.
@Korabro
Жыл бұрын
Scornful Egotist is definitely the best card on the list. The reason it has such high CMC is because Scourge (The block it originated from) had a mechanic where CMC matters (Such as the card "Torment of Fire") so being able to "cheat out" an 8 CMC card for 4 mana was actually somewhat useful. The card is still terrible, but does have some niche use with cards that care about CMC
@kennydarmawan13
Жыл бұрын
At that point, you're better off using Earthquake Dragon or Shadow of Mortality. Draco even saw play just because its mana value is so high, comboing well with Erratic Explosion.
@tatsumisoulfist7750
Жыл бұрын
This. Card is bad in a vacuum but i distinctly remember opening Egotist on pre-release and putting it in just to add high-cmc cards in the deck. It served it's purpose during limited
@CasualCoreK
Жыл бұрын
yup, like if you have a way to cheat out a better high-cmc card, sure that's better, but scornful egotist cheats ITSELF out. not terrible in limited.
@CasualCoreK
Жыл бұрын
@@kennydarmawan13 how do you propose to use those cards in 2003
@VCV95
Жыл бұрын
I mean, it's a 1cmc 2/2 in blue with zero drawbacks. Where else are you getting that?
@HiddenZabuzaMist
Жыл бұрын
Master of Arms is still a 3 mana 2/2 with first strike, strictly better than any 3 mana vanilla 2/2
@DraggaRyuu
Жыл бұрын
Gonna agree with the chorus here. Master of Arms is definitely not useless. There's a difference in saying its ABILITY is useless vs the whole card being useless. A 3 mana 2/2 with First Strike may not be amazing, but that baseline alone puts it leagues above everything else on this list. Genuinely no reason to include it, especially since the useless ability happened due to a rules change, which means the card isn't even being judged fairly for the intended design space it originally had.
@michaelbreedlove348
Жыл бұрын
Yeah. I feel like this was one time where Wizards SHOULD HAVE errata'd the card to keep its intended purpose.
@Xylarxcode
Жыл бұрын
How is Master at Arms the worst of all of these? Even if its ability does nothing these days, it's still a 2/2 with first strike for 3 mana. Not great by any stretch of the imagination by today's standards, but at least it's something. Even without its ability, a first striker with that power and toughness for that CMC wasn't terrible for the time it was printed in. It is terrible now, but so are many other (very similarly statted) cards from back then. Bad card, but not nearly as bad as most of the others on this list. Surely not deserving of the top spot in a top 10 list of useless cards.
@JD-gk7eh
Жыл бұрын
There's a whole lot of 2/2s for 3 that have no first strike. Master of Arms is already better than those.
@coletrainhetrick
Жыл бұрын
You can still use its ability too to synergies with tapped matters spells, particularly the wandering emperor. I can think of scenarios where you can use it to force a card to get tapped that they wouldn't expect it, particularly Atraxa.
@joelrandall2348
Жыл бұрын
Heck if you wanted you could still combo it with something like royal assassin.
@cooldes4593
Жыл бұрын
Aw face it guys, it's just a 1/1 for 8 mana! Not only that, bu-ALL HAIL THE GREAT LORD EGOTIST!!!
@breawycker
Жыл бұрын
Glad to see people still remember the classics
@TheBadsectorzero
Жыл бұрын
blue, 8 to cast, vanilla 1/1 with no other abilities? heck this should be the wors-ALL HAIL THE GREAT EGOTIST
@exlenor
Жыл бұрын
@@breawycker Classics? What clas-ALL HAIL THE GREAT LORD EGOTIST
@christophergutzeit8827
Жыл бұрын
Like, which would you rather have in your deck, Great Wall or Master of Arms? An actively useless Enchantment or a 2/2 First Strike?
@Prince_Eva_Huepow
Жыл бұрын
Definitely not Brownie.
@Hinaguy749
Жыл бұрын
Nine-Ringed Bo is meant to interact with the Soulshift mechanic from original Kamigawa block to prevent it from triggering and getting your opponent a spirit back when a creature with Soulshift dies. Mudhole was meant to turn off Threshold which was in Odyssey block.
@matthewgagnon9426
Жыл бұрын
Mudhole was still terrible back in the day because in Odyssey it'd be rare a land went to the graveyard unless you used land destruction. It was unplayably bad then and it's even worse now.
@pintpullinggeek
Жыл бұрын
@@matthewgagnon9426There were a number of sac lands in Odyssey block as well as self-discard effects to get to Threshold so there were numerous ways to get lands into graveyards. Yeah Mudhole wasn't great but it wasn't useless, just a block-specific sideboard card.
@calemr
Жыл бұрын
Scornful Egotist DOES have a use. In the set it was printed (Scourge), several cards cared about mana cost, and this got you an 8 cost for 3 mana. For example, with SE on the board, Torrent of Fire would deal 8 damage to any target, or Rush of Knowledge would let you draw 8 cards. It still wasn't that good (Both of those cards cost 5 mana, meaning it's a total of 9 mana for either effect, even if you can play it turn 5 with no acceleration), but it did do the thing it was meant to do.
@Xaxares
Жыл бұрын
It is also one more morphed card on the field. Letting the opponent gamble on which critter to shock.
@tjaremertens1464
Жыл бұрын
@@Xaxares but u could just play a better morph card for this reason😅
@CheckervonNekka
Жыл бұрын
I do not understand how master of arms is "useless". Sure, it's ability is bad nowadays, but it's still a 2/2 body with First Strike for a reasonable cost. It actually adds to the board. Would you play it? Of course not. But it's still so much better than so many other cards that do nothing for your board state (like Fasting)
@WishMakers
Жыл бұрын
That #1 is... contentious. The card as a whole is ok, it's just the activated ability that serves no purpose. Certainly better than the #2 that actively hinders you.
@MisterJackTheAttack
3 ай бұрын
We can still find a use for #1s ability. White has a few cards that care about targets being tapped such as seek vengeance. It's not great and really slow, but it's still better than probably the majority of this list.
@coletrainhetrick
Жыл бұрын
Master of arms at the very least allows you to tap a creature you need tapped for you to use an spells that interact with tapped creatures. You could have a scenario where you need to tap Atraxa who has vigilance so you can flash in wandering emperor so you can exile them. It might be niche but it has an actual USE.
@DutchBlackMantha
Жыл бұрын
I think the point of Break Open is to mess with morph creatures that have a triggered ability when turned face up that is only useful when used at the right moment. Not much use for a Voidmage Apprentice if it's flipped when the stack is empty. Of course, they'd get even less use out of it if you just Shock it instead. Costs a mana less too.
@channingtaintum
Жыл бұрын
Mudhole is good in izzet delver decks against lands decks trying to put together Marit Lage with Life from the Loam, Dark Depths & Thespian Stage, and other dredge decks that mill themselves then use Splendid Reclamation to put themselves way ahead in the curve. I'm surprised One With Nothing wasn't on this list.
@j_g_t6091
Жыл бұрын
One with nothing is crazy with madness! Or that is what I would say if LED wasn't a thing
@kennydarmawan13
Жыл бұрын
I think the more accurate title of the video would be "Top 10 Most WORTHLESS Effects and Abilities of Magic Cards." That way, I can see why Master of Arms is number 1. Regarding Scornful Egotist, it's meant to synergize with cards that work better with higher mana values, like Rush of Knowledge and Calibrated Blast. But considering cards with higher yet self-reducing costs exist that have strong abilities, like Earthquake Dragon and Shadow of Mortality, it does become useless in hindsight.
@Nobody-zl3kk
Жыл бұрын
Scornful egotist is the best card on the list so long as you see it in a vacuum called "scourge draft"
@ADVBCAT
Жыл бұрын
Sadly this is a clickbait channel with no actual understanding of what they talk about, they just harvest youtube comments into clicks. I don't know if this person even plays magic, based on how they pronounce "gaea's cradle"...
@zombiesatethevideostar1695
Жыл бұрын
It also pairs to make a 4 mana counter spell (If none have flipped yet, cheaper if flipped) with Voidmage Prodigy as it's a wizard
@RocKM001
Жыл бұрын
Scornful Egotist was the product of one of the more interesting but insanely clunky themes WotC was trying to do at the time... which was Scourge's mechanics of spells relying on casting cost for an effect. It was meant to be a "combo" piece for those spells where you place them face down so your opponent and then flip at the right moment so suddenly throw out a big combo.... ...the biggest issue of course was the fact Morph was such a clunky mechanic where you are wrecking your own tempo since you are forgoing spending on another creature by flipping the Morph creature instead and rarely did Morph creatures have any effects worth the double investment and the fact there was soooo many more effective ways to do the mana cost mechanics ie. just have an actual big card that can not only synergise with those spells and actually be able to be a board prescence.
@kennydarmawan13
Жыл бұрын
@@RocKM001 funnily enough, the idea of Morph is done WAY better in Runeterra. A 2-mana 2/2 alternate summon that either discounts a unit later or promotes a slower, more rewarding playing style. Really, the regenerating, regrowing mana system alongside the Spell Mana system REALLY is where a Morph-like mechanic works best.
@Luyspa13
Жыл бұрын
Seriously? Not even a nod to One With Nothing? One of the lost iconic "useless" cards ever.
@patstevenswhohatesbuttermi5861
Ай бұрын
There are ways to have fun and make use of One With Nothing. The effects aren't great, but neat if you've built around it. The downside is a bit much, but not unrecoverable. Also there's a combo with it in which you end the game with no hand, no library, no graveyard, and no permanents and it's absolutely hilarious.
@God-ch8lq
Жыл бұрын
eldraine and the modern horizons block need their own apocalypse chimes
@SomeGuy712x
Жыл бұрын
It's kinda disappointing that Wizards didn't errata Master of Arms to make its ability prevent the creature it tapped from dealing combat damage this turn, since that's clearly what it was meant to do.
@soarel325
Жыл бұрын
I should note why Egotist exists - Scourge had a “high CMC matters”, with cards like Ancient Ooze, Dispersal Shield, Rush of Knowledge, Kurgadon, and the Dragon aura cycle all benefiting from playing creatures with CMC 6 or more (or “mana value” in today’s parlance I guess, still not gonna get used to that), so Egotist actually had a purpose in the Limited environment as an enabler for those cards you could cheat in with Morph. Also can’t see why Master of Arms, a 2/2 first strike for 3, is ahead of something like Wood Elemental which is perhaps the worst Magic card of all time.
@EdBurke37
Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised that One With Nothing isn't on this list. It's not a mistake but that's usually the go to "useless" Magic card.
@luciger_globus
Жыл бұрын
One with Nothing does *technically* do something to your game state, its not advantageous, but it doesn't whiff because the rules have outdated its affect. I suppose if you cast it when its the last card in your hand that would be the most useless card... Unless you were playing Uno...
@manwithavan6199
10 күн бұрын
People used to sideboard one with nothing against Owling Mine decks in its original debut in type II, but seems like if you needed to dump your hand for one black ouside of that format, there was always Putrid Imp who was much more versatile and actually a good card. :P
@lomenado
Жыл бұрын
Mudhole was printed back when Block Constructed was still a thing, and when one of the stronger lands in the block -- Riftstone Portal -- only did something if it got itself into the graveyard somehow. There was also a cycle of lands that sacked themselves for effect when you hit threshold (Cabal Pit, Cephalid Coliseum) and could be recurred by the reprinted Cartographer. Mudhole didn't need to cost that much mana and didn't need to be a rare, but it wasn't an unreasonable card at the time it was printed.
@TheSpiritombsableye
Жыл бұрын
And the list here is the most useless cards as rated today.
@0011peace
Жыл бұрын
I used riftstone portal with harrow and Crosis's Catacombs which mad it a 5 color land and 2 others become 4 mana land
@noname-mp6ox
Жыл бұрын
Scornful egotist is an 8 cost card for 4 mana to sacrifice to a pod effect. That is a useful skill in itself.
@JD-gk7eh
Жыл бұрын
Apocalypse Chime, you mention sideboard. It DID find its way into a few Standard sideboards in its day. Autumn Willow was really hard to get rid of in her day and she was the backbone of a reasonably popular deck (Willowgeddon, the successor to the more successful Erhnageddon, which used Erhnam Djinn). If you weren't in white and didn't have access to Wrath, this was one of the only ways to get her off the board. And frankly, it's not bad for that purpose. Colorless and 2+2 mana (easily usable after an Armageddon wiped your lands) to kill a Shroud creature at (presumably) no cost to yourself since you weren't playing any Homelands cards.
@dstreetz91
Жыл бұрын
Yeah they even had a rule for a short time about it being compulsory to include at least a certain number of cards from homelands in constructed decks IIRC and being able to kill serrated arrows back then with this was genuinely good because serrated arrows would destroy a lot of the early inefficient creatures at least by modern standards.
@ronaldwayne7092
Жыл бұрын
@@dstreetz91 That rule existed for only the very first Pro Tour event.
@Hanmacx
Жыл бұрын
Egotist was in a cmc matters set
@Digital_Butterfly
Жыл бұрын
Power Surge actually sees play in Yurlok of Scorch Thrash decks, where mana burn is essentially brought back.
@alp627
Жыл бұрын
It also combines well with Price of Glory
@VictorianoOchoa
Жыл бұрын
I def don't think it belongs on this list. For example, Sorrow's path or Aven Trooper may be better here.
@stevenklnes7148
Жыл бұрын
Scornful Egotist was probably meant to be played with Dispersal Shield as a cheeky counter or with the other 5 cards printed in Scourge that had the "highest mana value among permanents you control" text. It certainly won't see play in any format these days but that probably why it was printed as it was.
@17klop
Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised one with nothing didn't even make the list😮
@therealgumdrop
Жыл бұрын
Maybe the egotist can work for something that depends on converted mana cost… idk
@williamdrum9899
Жыл бұрын
That was the card's original purpose. The set it came in had a lot of cards that benefitted from having a creature on board with a huge mana cost
@nack3665
Жыл бұрын
If Scornful Egotist was green it would be amazing for any of the sac to summon cmc+1 effects like birthing pod or vivian
@stigmaoftherose
Жыл бұрын
Scornful egotist is one of the best 8 cmc cards to run in a birthing pod deck, you don't need to flip it to sac it to pos to get a 9 cmc creature and you put it out for just 3 mana means you can often put it out the turn before you play pod as pod cost 4 mana total to use. 3 and 2 life to cast then 1 and 2 life to use. It simply is not a bad card there are much better examples of bad cards. Edit: I was wrong you do need to flip the morph first but even then it's still 4 mana for a 9 mana creature in any pod deck.
@poiri
Жыл бұрын
You don’t need to flip it? I get that it’ll be face up in the graveyard but the MV of a morph is always 0.
@stigmaoftherose
Жыл бұрын
@@poiri interesting, when I looked up the rules in the past I read that it looks at the cost of the creature as it exists after being sac'ed, but you are in fact correct. But that also means I've been playing wrong with tokens that copy the creature mana value as I assumed if the token is exiled pod sees a 0 and always grabs a 1 cmc instead of the cmc of the creature the token was a copy of.
@pyrotempestwing
Жыл бұрын
@@stigmaoftherose The mana cost/value of a token copy usually doesn’t matter, but as you’ve discovered, yes, it is copied over from the original. Which I suppose makes the Birthing Pod interaction even better. (For those who don’t know, tokens by default have no mana cost/a mv of 0, but it is a copyable characteristic.)
@accel738
Жыл бұрын
Master of Arms at number 1 on this list (or even being on it at all, tbh) is literally just incorrect. Lots of creatures are worse than a 3 mana 2/2 with first strike, especially from old magic before creatures were allowed to be good. I think you got super hung up on the vestigial activated ability and ignored the fact that it's a strictly better creature than a ton of creatures that never would have made this list. Break open is worse by a wide, WIIIIDE margin.
@KeroTheInvincible
Жыл бұрын
I think if the video was titled "Most Useless Abilities" it would cover all the points while being slightly more accurate.
@ameliaward7429
Жыл бұрын
Scornful always makes these list yet nobody ever references what the initial intention was in the Scourge set.
@matthewgagnon9426
Жыл бұрын
I played back then, no one used Egotist because you'd be using a terrible card just to make mediocre cards better. The intention was there, but it was a terrible idea.
@EnderLord99
Жыл бұрын
The point of Scornful Egotist is to synergize with MV-matters cards
@nouveauxh426
Жыл бұрын
In casual commander, my favorite deck is Yurlok of Scorch Thrash. Since he essentially puts mana burn back into play, I do get to use Power Surge on occasion. It's fun when you also have Helix Pinnacle or Horizon Stone out so that you can still tap out and not get burned but your opponent can't.
@ma3lstr0m5t0rm
Жыл бұрын
glad someone mentioned my boy Yurlok
@williamdrum9899
Жыл бұрын
Video Ideas: * The Dredge Engine Explained * The History of Time Vault (a.k.a. the reason Wizards doesn't do Konami-style power level errata) * Cards made better or worse by rules changes (e.g. Sunforger and split cards, or Captain Sisay and planeswalkers becoming legendary.) * Best double-faced cards * Most powerful tribal lords (creatures designed to assist one or more creature types) * Best/Worst Legendary Creatures * Best cumulative upkeep cards * Best/Worst mana dorks * Ten cards that fulfill a weird niche that are incredibly good in the right deck. (e.g. there's a 2 mana white wall that makes your green and blue spells cost 1 less)
@lord_wyran
Жыл бұрын
What happened with time vault?
@burner555
Жыл бұрын
@@lord_wyran essentially what happened with "Necrovalley", it had a lot of erratas that changed how it works
@williamdrum9899
Жыл бұрын
@@lord_wyran The TL;DR is that Wizards made a bunch of different attempts to change the card so you couldn't take infinite turns with it, all of which were exploited by the players. There's an article explaining it all somewhere
@lord_wyran
Жыл бұрын
@@williamdrum9899 yeah I looked it up. Go's I love mtg players casual disregard for wizards
@bluedestiny2710
Жыл бұрын
For the time vault thing, i think he already did a video with a segment detailing this. Something like 10 cards with thr most erratas?
@mstieler8480
Жыл бұрын
I could see Common Cause getting use when you know your opponent is playing with only artifact creatures. In that case it is a single-sided ability so long as all of yours share a color.
@SadPandaFace
Жыл бұрын
I was thinking that the only place it could even see play would be in vintage as a sideboard card for monoW initiative against shops decks.
@b-sideparadox
Жыл бұрын
Scornful Egotist's selling point is its CMC. It came in a set where CMC mattered, so getting it out cheap then morphing it was a big deal in limited.
@DoubleZDogg
Жыл бұрын
This is the worst top 10 video from this channel. It completely disregards the whole point of Scornful Egotist (CMC matters cards) and Common Cause (powerful sideboard tech against creatureless control decks or artifact creature decks), had nonsensical ordering (Great Wall, which has never done anything in a game of Magic: The Gathering since it was printed, is 6 spots better than a 3 mana 2/2 first strike???), and missed far more useless cards like Rakalite and Juju Bubble.
@natenathan2654
Жыл бұрын
1) master of arms is WAY more useful than break open. A 2/2 first strike for 3 isnt good but is far from abysmal, especially in early mtg when creatures were much weaker. True its other abilty isnt relevent often, bit still.... 2) the only mtg card that may be worse than break open is Sorrow's Path. And that didnt even make the list????
@williamragle1608
Жыл бұрын
A 2/2 first strike isn't useless Scornful Egotist had set design that it was intentionally breaking. I got blown out by this card when I learned to play magic by a wizards deck. Even mudhole has set design going for it - a red way to turn off threshold. You can still say those are useless, but at least give context. I'm shook that Force of savagery - a 3 mana 8/0 isn't on this list.
@tarjay-lx
Ай бұрын
I actually used to run Break Open against my friend's morph deck. There are a few morph cards that counter a spell when they get turned face up. One time they tapped out for Ixidron and I used break open on their face down Voidmage Apprentice and they had to counter their own Ixidron
@mbarker_lng
Жыл бұрын
Citadel of Pain should have gotten a mention here. It still has a slight amount of utility, but it was largely rendered useless in the same way Power Surge was by removing mana burn.
@nicholasvandonkersgoed3758
Жыл бұрын
This is perhaps the least-well researched video of yours. Still love your content, there's just a bunch of misses with Egotist, Master of Arms, Apocalypse Chime, and perhaps a few others I missed as per other comments.
@metal--babble346
2 ай бұрын
It's MTG, any card that's older then 2 years is wimpy. Buy the newest cards, keep spending money.
@gwenyurick9663
Жыл бұрын
This video is very frustrating. Some of these cards aren't useless unless you ignore the context they're designed for. Egotist and Bo are not intended to be constructed all stars. They're limited enablers for both Scourge's high cmc matters theme and Kamigawas Soulshift mechanic, respectively. This video very much feels like someone who isn't used to magics limited formats because they only really played other games where that wasn't a factor in set design.
@mikeailey8727
Жыл бұрын
Just my opinion. i dont get why master at arms is number one, Chime and break open literally do nothing 99.99999% of the time. At least master at arms is a 2/2 first strike for 3 with a 2 relevant creature types (human and soldier) that can see some neich usage with things like odric and other things that can force blockers and tap them down for whatever reason. Thats certainly alot better than most cards on this list, certainly break open, chime, and the planeswalk card.
@profozpin227
Жыл бұрын
Huh, you sure a 3 mana 2/2 with first strike and an irrelevant ability is worse than a 2 mana instant that will literally only ever benefit your opponent IF it can even be played to begin with? This video wasn't about cards that got destroyed by erratas, this was a video about useless cards....
@NeoN-PeoN
Жыл бұрын
In all honesty, Master of Arms doesn't even belong on this list. You could have just put ten different versions of the old "Vanilla 2/2" on the list. He shouldn't even be on the list at all.
@falnica
Жыл бұрын
Next year there will be "Tarv who risks everything", a legendary dwarf shaman for 1rb with "whenever a land leaves a players graveyard deal one damage to every opponent". The idea is that you make a mill/spell slinger deck where Mudhole is your wincon
@thilavado
Жыл бұрын
How come the number 1 is a 2/2 with first strike and FASTING is not even on the list.
@greyphaqse
Жыл бұрын
Scornful Egotist was designed for a series of cards that allow you to draw, counter spells, deal damage, and even make mana. Energy Tap, Living Armor, Mercurial Chemister, Neoform, Birthing Pod, and Rush of Knowledge are some cards off the top of my head that work with Scornful Egotist
@ultratog1028
Жыл бұрын
Nah Master of arms is better then most of this list. The trick is to look at it as a 2/2 first strike for 2W. With no ability. It may be bad but it doesnt actively lose you the game like Wood Elemental
@gudaofujimaru4146
Жыл бұрын
3:45 Egotist is terrible, but it was a design gamble around Morph. There were a lot of CMC and Highest CMC dependent cards introduced in Scourge where Scornful Egotist was maybe meant as a "gotcha" flip on the table. It never ended up working that way, but there are interesting ways to use it with a bit of imagination and a willingness to lose.
@pkfatstephen6287
Жыл бұрын
With Apokolips Chime: you forgot it also hits Serrated Arrows
@randy5606
Жыл бұрын
Scourful egotist gets better in a scenario based off high mana values like the limited it was in an early game 8 mana creature is good if you have spells based on your highest mana cost or things that you reveal or exile it based on it's mana cost
@GigaLordShinyMudkip1
Жыл бұрын
I fell for the clickbait
@zebmaxwell7979
Жыл бұрын
I disagree with your take on the Egotist. It's ment to manipulate CMC with cards like Eldritch Evolution. You get a turn 3 CMC 8 creature and turn 4 or sooner get a CMC 10 creature. It's not useless, just not used much.
@draftmagicagain1000
Жыл бұрын
Master of Arms is a perfect flavor addition to an Equipment deck!
@ADVBCAT
Жыл бұрын
Scourge, the set Scornful Egotist was printed in, had a ""Highest Converted Mana Cost Among Your Permanents Matters" subtheme. The point of Egotist was to allow you to cheat your way to having an 8-mana permanent for only 4 mana across 2 turns. It was an early example of a draft card, being a common meant to juice up this theme in your deck, and the mind games of having a morph out were just icing on the cake. Did it work out? Not really. But that was the point, and the fact that you didn't do the research necessary to find that out is why this is a clickbait content mill channel.
@sovereignsrite5844
Жыл бұрын
Break open comes from the same set as Blistering Firecat so could use it at the end of their turn to force sacrifice it. I'm assuming that may have been the main target
@danielgraves13
Жыл бұрын
also, forcing a card to go face up removes it from combat.
@theasternaut
Жыл бұрын
Break open would also be really good against the new Praetors in MOM, basically making it so they wasted all their mana from flipping it over to the saga side. Even the other cards in the set that cost a good amount to flip over will be set back a turn. Really awkward timing for this top 10 list to come out when the latest set could make this card the most relevant its ever been.
@greatbrandini3967
Жыл бұрын
@@theasternaut as counter intuitive as it may seem, this interaction doesn't work. I believe Break open only works are cards that the game has specifically declared to be face down (manifest and morph). This is why the card doesn't work against double sided creatures
@ShuShu3131
Жыл бұрын
@@danielgraves13 i thought the whole point was to attack with a morphed creature and then paying its morph cost for a cheesy effect before the damage resolves... Am I missing something ?
@Kasamori
Жыл бұрын
@@theasternaut You couldn't target the flipped Praetors anyways, since they aren't creatures
@spudkin564
Жыл бұрын
It was a smart move leaving One With Nothing off this list. It's a terrible card, but people would have lost their minds if you called it useless
@fernandobanda5734
Жыл бұрын
I think this already happened in an old video, you're 100% right.
@gorghor
Жыл бұрын
Every other card on this list is worse than Master of Arms...
@gabrote42
Жыл бұрын
Now that we had Praetors without titles, what about top 10 legendary creatures/planeswalkers with the best titles in their name? At the very least it has to be better than Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant.
@danielgraves13
Жыл бұрын
Kmahl, Fist of Krosia!
@gabrote42
Жыл бұрын
@@danielgraves13 I'm talking more like Emrakul, The Aeons *Torn* but mostly I want TDL to do the video. There are some titles that at least to me sound rhythmic, rapturous or overall impactful. You know, like an Evangelion fan exclaiming "here comes Zeruel, The Angel of Might!!" in the kind of emotion that Jules puts into the quote from The Bodyguard in Pulp Fiction. I will be quite hyped if he ends up doing it.
@blackfistdeath1
Жыл бұрын
I stopped playing more than 20 years ago, so your video was informative in bringing me up to speed on some of the rules changes. I am not sure if it’s fair to single out cards that were designed to work under the older rules though. I still don’t get why scornful egotist was designed the way it was. Is there a reason a 8-cost creature was ever useful at the time?
@dapperghastmeowregard
Жыл бұрын
Scourge had a mana values matters theme such as Rush of Knowledge, so egotist was a way to get a high cost creature into play without actually spending 8 mana.
@muzukashi1141
Жыл бұрын
I am legitimately convinced that you made Master at Arms number one over some truly worthless cards to increase engagement. I guess it worked in mine and many others case, but needless to say it's not exactly a great tactic if you want people to watch you or take your videos seriously.
@ich3730
Жыл бұрын
new to the channel? Its basically the TCG version of a buzzfeed top 10 video :D The mcdonalds of content, easy to consume, copy-paste production.
@DirtyDog97
Жыл бұрын
Farmstead from first edition was pretty terrible.
@Beardhomestead
Жыл бұрын
Common Cause could give you some advantage if you keep up on removing your opponents creatures. Still unplayable, but I could see some sort of removal tribal getting some value out of it.
@TheSpiritombsableye
Жыл бұрын
I can also. Trade all your bad cards to that player. That's the use.
@Snipfragueur
Жыл бұрын
No way Scornful Egotist is useless, that's the kind of card that has to be useful just because of his cost
@EndlessZeroSoulX
2 ай бұрын
Shouldn’t one with nothing be on this list?
@masterfulmelon
Жыл бұрын
Where is Cocoon? It's worse than all of these
@breawycker
Жыл бұрын
I'm assuming the point of Common Cause as seen in the flavor text is all your creatures share a color and your opponents have no creatures which is a little better but still pretty useless especially in Commander and there are much better ways of getting +2/+2
@byeguyssry
Жыл бұрын
Shouldn't Power Surge be the most useless? At least Master of Arms does *something*
@calemr
Жыл бұрын
Power Surge is in my Yurlok of Scorch Thrash commander deck. It's a very niche use, but it's Good in that niche. It can also combo with Mana Barbs.
@BusinessSkrub
Жыл бұрын
Kinda crazy that Wrenn and Six is such an absolute powerhouse, everyone knows how insanely strong it is and how it does what it does, and here the first card is essentially stopping exactly what W&6 does, but it's entirely useless? You got me, dawg
@mazerinthemage2395
Жыл бұрын
Scornful Egotist was actually really good, when it came out. There were a lot of CMC matters cards.
@VCV95
Жыл бұрын
Apocalypse charm v2: destroy all permanents originally printed with the old card face, lmao. That would legit be super good imo
@williamdrum9899
Жыл бұрын
A bit too good since that includes basic lands
@VCV95
Жыл бұрын
@@williamdrum9899 there is totally a way to word it to target everything but basic lands, but I couldn't parse it out quickly. If it leaves nonbasic lands alone, it could be reasonably playable
@daftwulli6145
Жыл бұрын
what about one with nothing ??
@apoena-allnitemusic7203
Жыл бұрын
I made a pauper deck with egotist and I win several matches. Of course it's an weird deck but playable. It was a top of library manipulation deck with erratic explosion and miracle cards.
@camerons6028
Жыл бұрын
At one with nothing? Pyramid? Camel?
@nekosashi
Жыл бұрын
And one of my favorites: juju bubble
@TheRedGauntlet
Жыл бұрын
Common Cause's flavor text is kinda funny
@ADVBCAT
Жыл бұрын
Oh my god it gets worse. To read a Spirit-related card from Kamigawa, and analyze it in the context of Innistrad spirits, rather than Kamigawa spirits... Did you know Kamigawa was like half spirits? Did your clickbait-farming process inform you of that?
@thavonephanthavongsa4962
2 күн бұрын
how is scornful egotist not no 1, you paying 8 mana for a 1, 1, and master of arm you paying 3 mana for a 2, 2 first strike, reguardless of the useless text in master of arm its on par with like a common, which is better than the most useless card, now scornful egotist has to be the most worthless card of all time, 8 mana for a 1, 1 nothing is on the borderline of insanity to the hundreth power times infinity plus 5 , add 2 more infinity and mulitply that by 100 more infinity and you come up with noone in the history of magic would ever put that card in there deck for any reason what so ever
@manwithavan6199
10 күн бұрын
I'd like to say Divine Intervention is a pretty bad card, chiefly because it will absolutely *never* help you win the game. I have seen scornful egotist get played in some deck where the CMC was relevant, and also anything with the wizard type can be tapped to Patron Wizard and Azami.
@Tcgmaster808
Жыл бұрын
Comment baiting
@CajunCatguy
Ай бұрын
Windbreaker, Multani, land cyclers. As for the cost, that's just the downward creep (reverse inflation?) Of MtG in general. Look at what a 4/4 costs you in Ice Age, vs practically any now.
@Senbei01
Ай бұрын
I once built a Barren Glory deck, based around Apocalypse Chime (All Homelands cards, except for Barren Glory). Sadly the Homelands Land Cycle was just too bad to get anything much into play... before turn 15 or so. Those filter lands are just.. terrible.
@jonbrewer297
2 ай бұрын
Mudhole is so bad, Tormod's Crypt exists. Scornful Egotist is one of those cards that made sense at the time; Scourge had a "mana cost matters" theme. Great Wall is hilarious because they created Righteous Avengers just to have this one member of the cycle matter. And no one used Righteous Avengers, even when Legends was new. I remember having fun with Power Surge and Winter Orb back during the early days of Magic. Good times, though I can still see how the modern game is better without manaburn. I disagree about Homelands. Yes, it sucks, but it gives us such lulzy cards as Primal Order. Given how Commander decks love nonbasic lands, there is s niche for one- or two-color decks to exploit Primal Order. Still not enough to justify Apocalypse Chime. Why no Shelkin Brownie?
@Aikisbest
Жыл бұрын
I see I was not the only one reacting to MoA being in #1, as one of the abilities being obsolete doesnt take away from the fact that it still has First Strike and while Im not into MtG nearly enough nowadays to be able to mention any specific examples, I can imagine a plethora of worse monsters than a White 2/2 with FS costing P,2, though with the powercreep reaching YuGiOh levels (I checked out Arena the other day and was just flabbergasted at all the seemingly useless gimicks, op effects, 3+ effects on just about every monster and everyone and their mother having alternative ways to play them etc etc) MoA is probably outshined by just about anything nowadays, so yea, probably useless still.
@Leftists_are_Losers
Жыл бұрын
Chaos Lace, Life Lace, Death Lace and two more whose names I don’t recall were a cycle of five cards which changed the color of a spell as it was being cast. Yes, your fireball could be a black spell by interrupting it with Death Lace. And such. All five of these should be on the list. But they aren’t. Edit : PureLace. ThoughtLace. Were the two others in the color cycle. Later they added Prismatic Lace and Moon Lace to cover the ability to change spells into multiple colors and into colorless spells. All seven are nearly useless.
@blackgibson302
11 күн бұрын
Number 1 I would definitely disagree with. It might not be very good, but it still functions in a Hylda commander deck, so it's not entirely useless per se, but bad when there are other options. In a tight budget, it's still a pretty good option. Granted, your opponent could be smart and just not block it, but that's a free 2 damage in that case, or any more if you buffed it.
@zerazerazerazerazerazerazera
Жыл бұрын
Not a good list.
@CajunCatguy
Ай бұрын
Scornful Egotist + Narset of the Ancient Way. (As well as Marjhan, Thing From the Deep, most leviathan really...)
@pintpullinggeek
Жыл бұрын
3 entries in and I am already enraged. All 3 are BLOCK/LIMITED SPECIFIC CARDS. Mudhole was graveyard hate in a blovk that had Threshold, Scornful Egotist was from a set where CMC mattered and Nine-Ringed Bo stopped Soulshift strategies. Not every card is going to be a banger in Commander or Modern but that doesn't mean it's useless. Great Wall though, yeah, useless.
@foolishmetaunedited1920
Ай бұрын
play hidetsu, devouring chaos, exile scornful egotist with his 2r ability. Blast someone for 8, leave scornful in exile. Profit.
@rob679
Жыл бұрын
Scornful Egotist is not that bad for one specific use case - using its converted mana cost for something. While it's face down converted cost is zero, but if you face-up it becomes 8 mana creature for 4 mana.
@Conan_the_Based
29 күн бұрын
I feel like Common Cause had poor wording and was never fixed. It was probably meant to have each player's armies get +2/+2 as long as the creatures in their control were the same color. This would give mono-color players a generous advantage over multi-color ones. After all, it doesn't make sense aesthetically for a common cause to be shared across opposing sides.
@semicharmedlife311
Ай бұрын
As others have pointed out, even without a functional ability, Master of Arms is a mediocre but not "useless" attacker and certainly not the most useless card in the entire game. Most useless ABILITY, perhaps. 🤷
@FanaFinagicBall
6 ай бұрын
What a weird selection o.O I was waiting for, at least, Zephyr Spirit, which is my favourite nice-looking-though-useless card ever ! Master of Arms was ... unexpected, btw.
@Fayheurblode
Жыл бұрын
Break Open can be useful on some (quite niche, that's true) occasions though... Ascending Aven, Bane of the Living, Blistering Firecat, Charging Slateback, Foothill Guide, Hidden Dragonslayer Jeering Instigator, Karona's Zealot, Kolaghan Stormsinger, can be thrown off balance quite easily when prematurely opened, but none worse than Unstable Hulk, which then makes its controller skip his next turn... Which, if opened after the combat phase, means a second nearly free turn for the opponent
@lasarousi
Жыл бұрын
Duel logs is a master KZitemr. He got free engagement by hardcore try hards because he put, knowingly, a not so horrible card art top spot. Have people not noticed he does this, all the time? This channel is not really for educational or informational purposes, it's a dude listing cards, usually not using his own criteria.
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