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yeah, but it's red, which sort of makes up for its drawbacks. The normal two drop for red is goblin piker, a 2/1 no abilities.

I beg do differ. give it to your opponent, and they can't play creatures if they have no white.

Actually Alabaster Leech only effects white spells that you try to cast. So if you were to give it to your opponent unless they had white spells anyway it wouldn't matter. Nice try though.

Panters servant, and make everything white. Lands are not plains though, so they can't play any creatures.

I don't think you can consider this a terrible card. In early Stasis lockdwon decks, this card was CRITICAL. Only drawback was it's expensive activation cost.

Well I think that's the overall argument that many people have been making on this page, and the beauty of Magic. Every card has it's moment to shine. Except Zephyr Spirit. it just sucks. haaha

you are kidding right? 1/1 flying for 1 mana? how is that bad? sure, it isn't great, but not bad. not on the level of cards like chimney imp and ember shot.

No. Zephyr Spirit. 6 CMC for 0/6. When it blocks, return it to hand.

It's from Ravnica: City of Guilds.

oops, my bad. didn't read it correctly.

oh, I remember! Added.

Bog Hoodlums doesn't seem too bad, especially when compared to the other cards. For example it allows you to clash. Not a good card but not awful.

Wood Elemental is pretty terrible. It's a 0/0 if the forest that's sacrificed isn't untapped. If you read the oracle text it doesn't get any better. As it comes into play sacrifice any number of untapped forests. Wood elemental's power and toughness are equal to the number of untapped forests you sacrificed as it came into play.

As terrible as it is, I've seen someone build a deck around that card, magical hack, Urborg, and orcish squatters. It was pretty silly.

wood elemental works really well with knight of the reliquary.

Wood Elemental is really nasty with Knight of reliquary like Kazzong said. Play wood elemental, sac all untapped forests, attack with knight and next turn you have a big elemental too. If you're really worried about the lands play a crucible of the worlds too.

hahaha! Wow, thats so pathetic I shall add it!

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Scrambleverse is an amazing card simply because of what it does in EDH.

Ok, I have never played EDH, so I wouldn't have known that. My bad.

True that!

seriously, its shit

Isn't the point of scornful egoist to have a 3 mana card with a CMC of 8? There are tricks you can do with that.

birthing pod with scornful egotist is pretty good

very true, but it was made long before birthing pod, and sure there is cool tricks. but the limit of cool tricks is what makes it bad

very true, but it was made long before birthing pod, and sure there is cool tricks. but the limit of cool tricks is what makes it bad

Hell the Egotist and Hedron Matrix comes to mind.

incorrect. thats all i have to say

how so? the imp, yeah not a good card, The Hive... I can think of ways to abuse it... really easily actually. Phyrexian tribute gives black something that it almost never has, and with persist or undying there really isn't much of a downside. Archangel's light is very expensive, but in the right deck can be a game changing card. so...

I still think the hive is too expensive to use in any kind of combo. As I said earlier, gnaw to the bone is one of the many reasons archangels light is on this list, the imp sucks, and phyrexian tribute is just really sad....

NONE OF THEM ARE BAD.

Phyrexian Tribute is black's only artifact removal, which is a good thing. Archangel's Light can win the game, and it does refill your deck against, eg, mill.

Archangel's Light is Awesome I run it in my Modern deck. white blue control/ token generation/self mill sift. I can gain over 60 life easy! than get all my cards back Archangel's Light is an amazing card and should not be on this list.

there are several ways to cheat it out, or make the insane amount of mana it costs. It is a really good thing that it is not a legal card, because I would abuse it so badly. it would go in my Myr deck, or my Borderpost deck. crazy card. :)

I love Gleemax. If it was legal I'd build a deck around it. I've built several infinite mana decks. I'd play gleemax in a heartbeat

Embershot would have to be the worst card if I ever had to vote for one. It's so overpriced that Gleemax seems a bargain. A horse with no legs is less lame. At two mana embershot is good. At three is ok. At seven, it's totally unusable.

I love chaos orb!!

ten bucks says that one day you will eat your words for saying so. If it's future sight, it's gonna happen. I bet he is going to become ridiculous someday soon.

I was told they scrapped that project. But it's still not a bad card

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One of my buddies plays a janky dredge deck that uses Archangel's Light...It doesn't take much for him to blast up to triple digits of life in a very short matter of time.

it's one of the worst mythics every printed. Usually mythic cards are supposed to be epic and game changing, but I feel archangels light does not fit this category. In most decks with creatures gnaw to the bone will be better because of it's flashback, and that card is a common that costs 6 mana overall to play and flashback. But yeah, I understand why you would disagree with me.

Mythics are supposed to be extremely flavorful, that's all. Some of them are unfair good, but that's not the point.

There are decks that can kill you with wall of blood turn two

as a card wall of blood sucks. Not talking aboutthe deck you could build around it. Its a wall you can pump with life.

You better be joking about Serra Angel, it was a seriously good card in its day.

i think that the highway could be great. build a deck around it, and it is very powerful. white blue, with land manipulation cards, like convincing mirage and cards like that. could make short work of your opponent to take away a useful land, and make your creatures unblockable.

play any deck with Carinval of Souls + Suture Priest / Soul's Attendant / Soul Warden and you have very good mana sorce. That's why its not in there.

Why not just use donate to give them a plains?

sure, you could do that too. doing anything to give them a plains will work.

12? it is half of that... I am confused. Plus, you could cheat it out with show and tell, or something like it.

oops, must've been thinking of something else. But it helps your opponents, and isn't something that you would want to base a deck around.

only if your opponent is playing 1 of 5 colors. but, yeah, it could definately be risky if they do play white. then it make you very ulnerable.

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not a clue. I didn't like it, just commented. "decks" like this are stupid, seeing as how worlds "worst" cards are debatable, because almost any card can bemade good with the right deck. build a deck to suit it and it can be good.

Really? You don't think it could beat down an opponent because of a possible 3 turn clock it has? The only two cards on this list that deserve being on it are Aladdin's Lamp and Rakalite, but even those are playable. Sure, they (the rest of the list) aren't tournament quality, but they still work.

Hey man, chill out. I know the point and purpose if "decks" like this. And no, there is nothing wrong with debate, but I think that it should be on the forums, not here.

I suppose my wall of text suggested I was raging. That's not what I intended. The reason I made a deck for this list is so people can click on the names and see the creature without me having to type a whole bunch of stuff.

REALLY? Was it really that bad when it was released and there weren't cards 10 times better? Serra Angel used to be the best card in magic, now in uncommon and ALWAYS USED IN SEALED DECKS. I would use a LOT of the cards on this list if I pulled them in draft.

Easily something I would draft. So no, I did not forget it, it isn't that bad of a card.

Normally I would agree that it's absolutely terrible, but I managed to stall a werewolf deck with that card.

no no Splintering Wind really sucks

Vanilla creatures are never bad, and a four mana 3/3 is pretty insane for a common.

Totally agreed, except the flavor text is awesome.

I know, but it's not something worth using in any format except onslaught block, and even then I doubt it was a very popular card

Bad cards would kill you. If a card says you lose the game when you play this, and it forces you to play it, it's a bad card. Legends will never be bad.

Bad legendaries? NONSENSE!

Thats not true. And you guys really aren't making a very valid point since all you are saying is "These cards are good. Shame."

They are BAD. The cards that are slightly better versions of these cards are MEDIOCRE.

YOU are bad. Warping Wurm is a pretty sweet card (since it gets bigger each turn), Mud Hole is AMAZING against certain decks, Chimney Imp, Zephyr Sprite, Break Open (SB in block, and Wizards needed to print something like it), and Bog Hoodlums (actually really good in pauper/sealed) are all common and pretty good at what they do. Archangel's light is, again, very decent, and Rod of Ruin can be a combo piece in some decks (The Hive too), and also pretty good in the old days (the fact that it says "creature or player" makes it good).

@Malkie, None of the Mythic cards I've seen are bad cards, in fact, they're all very flavourful, which is what the rarity was made for, though Cast Through Time (when you can't cheat it into play) is the worst I've seen.
Imagine suspending a Greater Gargadon with Ensnaring Brige in play, then dropping Descent into Madness. Packed with a bit of hand disruption, and field control, it could be a descent (see what I did there) deck. And don't forget you can exile Descent with it's own ability when it activates.

Dude. Calm down. You should know better than to start a flame war where you eventually say I am bad.

Anywho, warping wurm is a four-drop that is a 1/1 that eventually warps into a 2/2, but only gets a counter every turn, meaning on the seventh turn you could possibly have a 4/4, and it would be below average if it weren't for the fact that you have to pay each turn or else it phases out. Now that just sucks.

Mudhole is bad because first wizards created tormods crypt, then created this train wreck. First off, you have to run red to use this, which means it's not a very good sideboard card for two thirds of the decks that play in that format. Secondly, mudhole costs three mana. This wastes a whole turn, and very much slows you down. Finally, this card only deals with lands. That means it works with one out of every hundred decks you end up facing, and still will not work as you'd expect.

Chimney imp is five mana, and it is a 1/2 with flying. You don't even get to look at your opponents hand and choose the card they put away. They don't even discard it. It is possibly one of the worst cards I have ever seen printed.

Break open isn't usable in any format, including onslaught block. Not even onslaught block constructed for christ's sake!

Zephyr sprite.... Nothing much to say here.....

Bog hoodlums is something I never even came close to considering in my black pauper deck.

Rod of ruin and the hive work in a combo deck. Thats great, but they don't work in any other kind of deck.

I'm sick of this whole archangels light thing, I'm removing it, but I still consider it the worst mythic ever printed. Then again... Theres always tibalt....

I see your logic on things here, but why is Cast Through Time the worst mythic, in your opinion? true it is expensive, but I am sure that I could find a worse mythic. etched monstrosity, phyrexian negator, abyssal persecutor, lotus cobra... ? Now, going on the assuption that by itself Cast through time is a bad card, then by that reasoning these cards are horrific to know they even exist. Particularly as "mythic rare" status cards.

Not trying to argue with you, just curious on your train of thought about Cast Through Time. although, like I said, I can see that you are trying to prove that even the worst mythics can be game changing cards. :) Which they are. For a while, I thought that Skaab Ruinator and Mirror-mad phantasm were Mythic crap status, but the deck type for which they truly shine hadn't been created yet.

crap through time looks like a lot of fun. But come on, seven mana?!

Also, lotus cobra is actually a very effective card since land fall is so easy to abuse. The only one you listed that's all that worse than cast through time is phyrexian negator, and if they reprinted it today, it wouldn't be a mythic.

Zephyr Sprite gives you card advantage in a sense, but there are cards that let you do things when you cast spells, and you can keep casting this one.

Mudhole is an instant and it is in an unknown zone until you cast it, they can't play around it since they don't know its there.

@ fluffyweresheep.
But, the qualifications that you seem to have implied were that BY ITSELF cast through time is a bad mythic, and by themselves, the other cards I listed are worse. But my question was why do you feel that Cast Through Time the worst mythic you have seen? Is it just because of the mana cost? Also, they did a fairly recent reprinting of negator, in a duel deck. Phyrexia vs the Coalition. It came as the Phyrexian mythic foil.

Now were debating the worst mythics?

Anyways, why I was saying was that if they reprinted negator in a set inside the standard format, it would be printed as a rare. I never said I thought of cast through time as the worst mythic, but I do think mythic is a bit much for a card that will be useless in most decks. I do think that cast through time is a fun card, and would probably be fun for commander.

Zephyr spirit may have a little bit of card advantage, but it's still pretty bad. Mainly its mana cost is what really sucks about it. I can pay six mana each turn to keep one of my opponents creatures at bay! Surely I will win!

No.

Mudhole is a stupid card, and tormods crypt is a artifact that can be activated as an instant. You can't surprise them at the end of your turn with it, but tormods crypt can easily intimidate your opponent, and then you can take advantage of that.

I like it, very flavorful.

Decent in a Griselbrand deck is stupid good. All you do is draw with GB and exile shitty cards from your hand while your opponent has to exile things off the battlefield. Eventually you will win and is a great way to end a stalemate.

no.. just no...


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I find that bog hoodlums is much worse than razorfield thresher. Guess why.

Your reasoning is kinda weird, so I can't guess.

razorfield thresher is a 6/4 for seven. The reason I didn't put it on the list is because it is an artifact. Artifacts are meant to be expensive, since all decks can use them

However bog hoodlums is black, and is either a 4/1 can't block for six, or a 5/2 can't block for six. Either way, it can be easily taken care of, and can't even block your opponents. Yes, you can get it out with a lackey, but since it's a goblin deck, bog hoodlums will most likely come out as a 4/1, which is absolutely terrible, even if you can attack with it turn three. Yes, you can use it's clash ability to get rid of the top bad card of your library. But for six mana, scrying one and getting either a 4/1 or a 5/2 (both can't block) is just the worst.

Thresher isn't on this list because it, just like all the other commons, is actually good. Bog Hoodlums is a 4 or 5 turn clock, which, for pauper decks, is really good. REMOVE IT ALREADY.

You have got to be joking. Why are you defending this card? It sucks!

heres an article that features it.

http://jmgariepy.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/the-top-ten-most-reviled-magic-the-gathering-cards-according-to-gatherer-part-2/

except heartstabber does not have fllash, nor is it limited to non-black creatures.

Believe me, I love the vizzerdrix, it's just a hilariously bad card. seven for a 6/6 aint bad, but its rare, and... Well.... Not much else to say about that.

Island fish is bad cause it has so many bad drawbacks. I love seven mana for a 6/8! Oh look, it's completely useless, and when it isn't, its hard to use!

fishliver oil is highly situational but if sideboarded has some value

ONe with nothing and Moonlace.
And sorrow's path.

one with nothing is good for madness.

One with nothing is actually an interesting card.

For one thing, it works pretty damn well with hellbent, (easily wins games) in some cases it works well with self milling, dredge combo goes into effect, madness cards become even better, and of course reanimator. Also, paying BBU to make target player discard their hand isn't too bad.

You'd be surprised.

Please do explain, surprise me.

T would be very useful to spawnsire of Ulamog, and the new griffin that you can cast from exile.

So you can cast up to 4 creatures while your ENTIRE deck gets exiled, and that card you can cast is a 4 casting cost with 2 blue; and all it is - is a 3/3 flyer oooooo so exciting. Having this card in your deck is a LOSING strategy at best.

Oh and he's a 2/1, dies to even the smallest of burns, not that your opponent would burn it since I'm sure they rather win by allowing you to deck yourself. Soooooooooooooooooo bad.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't cards that make you LOSE bad?

You're very narrow minded dude. And no one on this deck seems to know about eternal formats.

I wish that I knew more about eternal. So much potential, and so very expensive to be any good. a good legacy deck would blow standard away in a heartbeat. Just because you are not limited nearly so much. but I digress.

@Tallyaeon: what about the spawnsire? allowing yourself to cast any number of eldrazi cards for free from outside the game (exile is removed from the game, and thus would qualify I think) so... you have your creatures getting exiled, and you are slowly putting putting out more eldrazi pwn, until you have 20, then you use Spawnsire's ability and fill your side of the field with gigantic uberpowered creatures. Even the smallest of which are game changers in most decks. 7/7 is the smallest eldrazi, and that is nothing to sneeze at, considering how easy it is to get out. So, in an Eldrazi deck built around it... I think that gloom surgeon could be really good.

It may not seem like the most usefull card ever, but I think that a determined deck builder can make really good use of it. and, to somewhat agree with dagbaker, eternal formats have way more possibilites than standard, and is bound to have SOMETHING that woul make jsut about any card useful.

Um... Why? They come into play untapped, they can produce 2 types of mana each, and they count as basic lands for the purposes of landsearching. At least, it is stated on the cards that they count as both land types, so I assume that you can search for them with evolving wilds or terramorphic expanse, or any other basic landsearching cards. True they have no particularly powerful abilities, but I don't think they need them. In fact the only thing I don't like about them are the price tag. The cheapest that I have seen them is around $50 or so. And that price tag generally cines with the fact that they are insanely useful overall.

Why? Looks like an amazing card to me. Enchanted creature loses flying and when it blocks or becomes blocked, the other creature gets first strike until and of turn.

cause its mana cost is to high (even for the time it was printed), take a look at:
Gravity Well,
Raking Canopy,
Plummet,
Wing Snare,

they are simply better ; )

Just because there are cards that are better than cards, doesn't mean they're bad. Say you have a Lord of the Pit and I play Mammoth Harness on it. Since I'm playing green, I have a bunch of fat creatures. I either kill Lord of the Pit with two First Strikers, I could let you take 7 then win because of fat creatures, or let you sac a blocker, kill your Lord of the Pit, then kill you with my fat-ass creatures. Every card is situational, and every card will do it's job when given the chance.

Yeah... This list is for cards that hurt you more than they could ever possibly help you to play. Or are just not worth the effort you would need to play them. Chimney imp, for example. 5 mama, for a 1/1 flyer that puts a card back on the library. You don't get to pick the card, and the creature is useless for attacking or blocking by the time you can cast it. That is the kind of cards here. Not just cards that are not the best at what they do.

ok, you guys convinced me.

Are you joking!? Jackal Pup was Sligh's (RDW) first Goblin Guide. Completely wrecked the meta for a while. Jar of Eyeballs wins games in limited, and I've never heard of Filthy Cur, so it might be...

Yup. As much as I dislike the pup, there is no way it's really that bad. And the jar, it's too awesome to put on the list.(and it acts as a re-usable tutor, so it has that going for it.)

As for filthy cur, at least it's a 2-drop in black that is the least bit usable. Although I do think of it as a pretty bad card, I don't consider it REALLY terrible.

It looks mediocre, but pair it with Archon of Justice or Bloodghast with Gravepact out and its a different story.

well gosh. That is sooo terrible. Can't believe that hasn't already been suggested.

razing snidd and scornful egotist aren't that bad. Razing snidd is junk, but at least it isn't the worst card ever. Egotist a a 2/2 for three. Not good, but not too bad, either. The thing that makes him good is the many ways you can abuse his mana cost.

Karona? That isn't even that bad a card!

I completely agree! I shouldn't have said "worse" I just find that no one takes the time to properly figure out how to use her and get around the complexities, therefore making them consider it rather useless or irritating

actually, I could find uses for that. put a vow aura on it, and you are good.

See! this is what I'm saying! ppl don't want to take the time to figure out ways to make it a decent card. Not saying it's gonna become a god tier card over night but it has some potential

Sliver EDH

I like it. Very flavorful.

I would say that I agree except for one thing: 2B. crazy fast for a 5/2 trample. also, if you can get it unblockable then you are golden.

admitedly by itself it certainly sucks. :)

Obliterator. Good game.

Ok, so it would take a good mythic rare to trump it. That kinda tells me something. Although there are other cards that would do the job. Point is it isn't a terrible card, just not a very good one.

At least not good enough to be a mythic. If it were uncommon, or even a rare, it would be better...but even if you play it turn 3, lightning bolt, sacrifice all of your lands, good luck coming back from that. At least they made up for it with the obliterator... I'd still include him in this list, it just isn't good.

I wouldn't, because he isn't that useless.