Uh oh. This means Worst Red Legendaries are in the future. Nizzahon, as someone who shares a name with the Red legendary creature, Chandler, and has a deck with him as the commander, please show mercy.
Sure, Chandler is super inefficient. But at least he genuinely does something. I would be surprised if he makes the bottom ten out of all monored legends.
It's kind of surprising they haven't given him a card that doesn't suck considering how many opportunities they've had. Cold Snap would've been a perfect opportunity, as would Time Spiral, Modern Masters, commander products, etc. I guess they just don't care about this dude. 😔
If Rushida Scalebane had been in Tarkir block, I'd have tried running it in limited, and I wonder if it might have been good enough for constructed sideboards. There was a lot of dragons in limited, and some very notable ones in standard for a while. Alas, many years seperated the two.
Its about him being old and in need of a young successor. The artwork looks somewhat dignified, if they wanted to portray him as a bad abbot he would look much more goofy or sinister. The "or else we are lost" is about him possibly dying of old age, leaving the people unprotected.
1:23 - but in fairness, no one building Zuberi (or 99ing it for the upgraded descendant it got a bit ago, more likely) cares about only using the "good" Griffins. It's a pet deck, and it's gonna jank up the table with its head held high.
I traded a Mox Diamond for a Hazduhr the Abbot when I was 11 years old. I know that might sound like a bad deal, but what if I told you that I also owned a Sword of the Chosen and no Legendary creatures to use it with? Now it all starts to makes sense, right? I was desperate to get my hands on some legendarys to use my super sweet Sword with and I was absolutely hyped to finally be able to add it to my very first deck, an 85 (87 after this acquisition) mono white monstrosity that I was unable to beat my older brother with even once from what I recall. Great times. I couldn't've cared less about some dumb 0 cost artifact that made me discard a land just to basically be a land itself. I mean, what's even the point of that? No Ragrets.
I remember when ice age came out and there were all of these references to general jarkeld and when I actually opened one as my rare in a pack, I was so stoked. Then I read it.
Ahhh bad cards, I absolutely love bad cards. They're probably my third favourite genre of Magic the Gathering stuff, after green fliers and "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)"!
In Atalya's defense (not that it's much of one) if you do have something like Training Grounds to reduce activated ability costs, that does also count towards the X since you're not actually spending any mana, you're reducing the cost of the ability. ... As I said, it's not much of one, lol
I love how some of these cards were made with a specific theme in mind (Zuberi for griffins and Rashida targeting Dragons) and at the time of their printings, there were hardly any targets or creatures to boost for those cards. (and in Zuberi's case, still only really effective in a Changeling deck) I know by Mirage there were at least a few significant Dragons one could play, but such a narrow situation on top of being able to only go after one type. There were no Changelings near Mirage's time and probably what, two other Griffins???? Yikes.
Fully expected Soraya the Falconer to be on the list, but honestly I'd take her over any of the other cards on this list. So makes sense she's not on it. She was terrible for a long time though.
General Jarkheld "We must confound our enemies plans... Force them to face the wrong adversaries." Random advisor "We could send them down Sorrow's Path!" General Jarkheld "Are you f---ing crazy? That land is terrible."
Worst Legends should exclude both Legends and Homeland sets. Legends because creatures were so much weaker, and Homelands because it was set that made Legendary Creatures relatively (and lower case c) common.
Jarkeld's art is wasted on that card. Would genuinely like to see Magic use more art like that. A whole set of beautiful lineart with those lovely layered watercolor/water marker colors.
Zuberi??? I came in 3rd in a 250 person tourny m/v/w block with griffins. The only thing that beat me was wildfire emmisarry cuz i never even seen that card before 😂😂
Fun fact: the first three sets to contain mono-white legends are Ice Age, Homelands, and Mirage - and they're all here! The only cards from those sets to escape this list are Soraya and Sidar Jabari.
Pretty much always enjoy the worst lists. Maybe it's because of actually referencing EDH, but honestly, it's just gun, sometimes, to see the cards no one should want. Usually not a list of the cards so good, and rare, that average people can't get them; instead one should just not want to get them. 😊 Of course, as a Blue player, that'll be the list I look most forward to, if each color is likely to receive a similar list, and between eating Islands, just to be there, or bouncing everything else you had, Blue definitely has some stinkers.
I am very proud to say I have played and successfully used general jarkeld once. In my equipment voltron deck. I dont know how the stars aligned that day and shortly after i removed him and havent played with him again. But maybe one day he can confuse people again.
I thought Sorrow's Path was terrible until I realized it will cause every dinosaur you have with an Enrage trigger to get angry right before combat damage happens and you can do some interesting stuff with that.
Hi Nizzahon. I just wanted to thank you for doing these Top 10 Worst lists: I've been playing Magic casually since 4th Edition and these videos have been the most educational things I've ever seen in terms of learning to evaluate cards. I really appreciate your hard work!
Kamigawa, Homelands, and 3 Kingdoms all have more than one entry on this list, and are frequent sources of other Worst Top Ten cards. At least Kamigawa got redeemed with a set of good cards. I doubt Homelands or 3 Kingdoms will ever get a similar redemption.
They’ll be making a bunch of new griffins in the end of 2025 or beginning of 2026 like how they just did a set full of creature tribes it bloomburrow, we’ll get a fantasy one next, UW griffins, GR dragons, RB demons, UR wizards, and RW humans. It will have some artifact stuff throw in all of them and the next set with be a big artifact one like duskmorn is enchantments.
I think it could be cool if you put the set and year the card came out, under the price, so people can get an idea of its relative power: a bad card in 1998 hits different from an equally bad card in Bloomburrow
I happen to prefer the era of Magic when Zuberi and Jarkeld were OK, rather than uncommon, three mana 8/8's with trample, infect, and haste (or whatever new power creep we see out of the next set). You know, the era when turn two wins weren't considered "slow decks".
im not sure those were ever okay... like those were always bad even in therr respective blocks. decks were still setting up combo kills are 3-4. creatures were worse on avergae but everthing else was still pretty crazy...
Maybe old white cards were just strictly that much worse, but this list really seems to be picking on the oldies (I think I played half these back in the day). That said, I can definitely agree the power level and abilities on these sucks (but don’t make me get out my Mirage block griffin deck).
I expected Isamaru to be #1 for some reason. It's a vanilla 2/2 Legendary Dog for one mana, and to add salt to injury they thought that was good enough to be a Rare. I guess he does something in a Dog tribal, but still...
Said to see Atalya on her I named my daughter after her I liked the name and the art a lot. I wished they’d make her a good card next time they go to that plane. I have foil signed one that I had graded. Cost me like $200 to buy it, get it signed and grade it worth it though it got a 9 though so I was happy
These videos are neat, but I think it would be interesting to see videos like this with the cards be judged based on the time the set was being played, most of these lists end up boiling down to "old card bad", but they were products of their time when magic was trying to figure out what it was doing, and compared to modern legendaries they are not going to stand the test of time.
They were all really bad even back then especially in the context of competative play. creatures were on average bad back then but legends all usually had niche effects but were costed as if they were amazing. thisndidnt change a bit until maybe original ravnica. were they were still overcosted but at least there effects were generally okay.
Would atalya not be in a mono white devotion deck I mean it's kinda like a worse version of alabaster potion except it's a creature which is generally upside.
The attitude all through the video has me rolling my eyes constantly. "This isn't super obviously useful. You'd have to use other cards to make it good. Therefore, it's bad." "This stat line is typical of the time period and we have much better ones now. Therefore, it's bad." Reading the card explains every possible use of the card, eh? You're not used to having to think about how to use them? This is what power creep has done. People can't even conceptualize how to use a card unless it's both super-efficient and all possibilities are printed right in the text box.
That is correct. if you have to jump through 15 hoops to elevate a card from bad to functional and build your entire deck around elevating it that card is worse then a card thats just able to do things on their own. That has nothing to do with powercreep though the cards were bad back then as well since being a legendary is in isolation a strict downside and their stats and effects were not good enough to make up for it
Uh oh. This means Worst Red Legendaries are in the future. Nizzahon, as someone who shares a name with the Red legendary creature, Chandler, and has a deck with him as the commander, please show mercy.
This makes me wish that had a cool name, like Maraxus.
I too share a name with a legendary creature, Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
Sure, Chandler is super inefficient. But at least he genuinely does something. I would be surprised if he makes the bottom ten out of all monored legends.
@@Waffletigercat That's my thought. He's repeatable removal. Especially with like mycosynth lattice.
Nizzahon: "I will destroy Chandler, he will suffer!"
General Jarkeld, the Artic Fox! He was referenced in a lot of cards back in the day. It's a shame he had such a disappointing card!
It's kind of surprising they haven't given him a card that doesn't suck considering how many opportunities they've had. Cold Snap would've been a perfect opportunity, as would Time Spiral, Modern Masters, commander products, etc. I guess they just don't care about this dude. 😔
If Rushida Scalebane had been in Tarkir block, I'd have tried running it in limited, and I wonder if it might have been good enough for constructed sideboards. There was a lot of dragons in limited, and some very notable ones in standard for a while. Alas, many years seperated the two.
lol the flavor text on hazduhr is calling out how bad he is at his job
He was probably a good Abbot 50 years ago.
Huge flavor win lol
Its about him being old and in need of a young successor. The artwork looks somewhat dignified, if they wanted to portray him as a bad abbot he would look much more goofy or sinister. The "or else we are lost" is about him possibly dying of old age, leaving the people unprotected.
It's more that he's super corrupt and working for the Sengirs, if my memory of the Homelands plotline is still working.
1:23 - but in fairness, no one building Zuberi (or 99ing it for the upgraded descendant it got a bit ago, more likely) cares about only using the "good" Griffins. It's a pet deck, and it's gonna jank up the table with its head held high.
I like the art on General Jarkeld, it makes me think of Bloodborne for some reason.
I traded a Mox Diamond for a Hazduhr the Abbot when I was 11 years old. I know that might sound like a bad deal, but what if I told you that I also owned a Sword of the Chosen and no Legendary creatures to use it with? Now it all starts to makes sense, right? I was desperate to get my hands on some legendarys to use my super sweet Sword with and I was absolutely hyped to finally be able to add it to my very first deck, an 85 (87 after this acquisition) mono white monstrosity that I was unable to beat my older brother with even once from what I recall. Great times.
I couldn't've cared less about some dumb 0 cost artifact that made me discard a land just to basically be a land itself. I mean, what's even the point of that?
No Ragrets.
I remember when ice age came out and there were all of these references to general jarkeld and when I actually opened one as my rare in a pack, I was so stoked.
Then I read it.
9:34 dang the oracle text is waaay more confusing lol
Ahhh bad cards, I absolutely love bad cards. They're probably my third favourite genre of Magic the Gathering stuff, after green fliers and "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)"!
I wish they could figure out a white damage prevented=draw cards card.
In Atalya's defense (not that it's much of one) if you do have something like Training Grounds to reduce activated ability costs, that does also count towards the X since you're not actually spending any mana, you're reducing the cost of the ability.
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As I said, it's not much of one, lol
I love how some of these cards were made with a specific theme in mind (Zuberi for griffins and Rashida targeting Dragons) and at the time of their printings, there were hardly any targets or creatures to boost for those cards. (and in Zuberi's case, still only really effective in a Changeling deck) I know by Mirage there were at least a few significant Dragons one could play, but such a narrow situation on top of being able to only go after one type. There were no Changelings near Mirage's time and probably what, two other Griffins???? Yikes.
Fully expected Soraya the Falconer to be on the list, but honestly I'd take her over any of the other cards on this list. So makes sense she's not on it. She was terrible for a long time though.
Yeah if she still only buffed Falcons she would be on here for sure haha
General Jarkheld "We must confound our enemies plans... Force them to face the wrong adversaries."
Random advisor "We could send them down Sorrow's Path!"
General Jarkheld "Are you f---ing crazy? That land is terrible."
Opal-Eye is kind of neat as an evolution of the Veteran Bodyguard from the original core sets, but that's about the only appeal
Poor Homelands... I still love that set, no matter how awful it is.
I tried to make a griffon deck when Mirage came out. It was as bad as you'd expect. There's only so much you can do with a bunch of 4 mana 2/2 flyers.
I think Sorrow's Path is the better card overall, it'll at least trigger your dinosaur abilities.
Yesssssssss
2:03 the new dragons of tarkir timeline would like a word with you
Worst Legends should exclude both Legends and Homeland sets. Legends because creatures were so much weaker, and Homelands because it was set that made Legendary Creatures relatively (and lower case c) common.
Hrm. I'd forgotten about Opal-Eye; seems like it might be funny with Donna Noble.
I opened a Mirage starter deck, and i got a Zuberi AND a Teeka's Dragon as 2 of my 3 rares lol
watching this video looking for a new commander to build
Jarkeld's art is wasted on that card. Would genuinely like to see Magic use more art like that. A whole set of beautiful lineart with those lovely layered watercolor/water marker colors.
Zuberi??? I came in 3rd in a 250 person tourny m/v/w block with griffins. The only thing that beat me was wildfire emmisarry cuz i never even seen that card before 😂😂
Fun fact: the first three sets to contain mono-white legends are Ice Age, Homelands, and Mirage - and they're all here! The only cards from those sets to escape this list are Soraya and Sidar Jabari.
Pretty much always enjoy the worst lists. Maybe it's because of actually referencing EDH, but honestly, it's just gun, sometimes, to see the cards no one should want. Usually not a list of the cards so good, and rare, that average people can't get them; instead one should just not want to get them. 😊
Of course, as a Blue player, that'll be the list I look most forward to, if each color is likely to receive a similar list, and between eating Islands, just to be there, or bouncing everything else you had, Blue definitely has some stinkers.
I am very proud to say I have played and successfully used general jarkeld once. In my equipment voltron deck. I dont know how the stars aligned that day and shortly after i removed him and havent played with him again. But maybe one day he can confuse people again.
I’m nervous how this is gonna hit the other colors lol. I pray for green…
I thought Sorrow's Path was terrible until I realized it will cause every dinosaur you have with an Enrage trigger to get angry right before combat damage happens and you can do some interesting stuff with that.
Zuberi? Instant unsubscribe. I had a griffin deck back in the days!
Hi Nizzahon. I just wanted to thank you for doing these Top 10 Worst lists: I've been playing Magic casually since 4th Edition and these videos have been the most educational things I've ever seen in terms of learning to evaluate cards. I really appreciate your hard work!
Still have fun with my General Jarkeld/Raging River combo😂 Trying to figure out how to incorporate Space Jace🤪
Kamigawa, Homelands, and 3 Kingdoms all have more than one entry on this list, and are frequent sources of other Worst Top Ten cards. At least Kamigawa got redeemed with a set of good cards. I doubt Homelands or 3 Kingdoms will ever get a similar redemption.
It's amazing how bad and boring white was even as late into the game as Kamigawa. Now, White is not only dominating but fun.
General jarkeld would be great after goading the board
I always find Opal-Eye funny that it has reminder text for defender, and not Bushido
They’ll be making a bunch of new griffins in the end of 2025 or beginning of 2026 like how they just did a set full of creature tribes it bloomburrow, we’ll get a fantasy one next, UW griffins, GR dragons, RB demons, UR wizards, and RW humans. It will have some artifact stuff throw in all of them and the next set with be a big artifact one like duskmorn is enchantments.
I think it could be cool if you put the set and year the card came out, under the price, so people can get an idea of its relative power: a bad card in 1998 hits different from an equally bad card in Bloomburrow
General Jarkeld was easier to understand before the oracle text. 😂
Somebody make a white deck that plays all 10 of these
What happened to how good is it? I enjoyed the series
Episodes will come out when I find time for them. The Doran one is like half scripted.
I happen to prefer the era of Magic when Zuberi and Jarkeld were OK, rather than uncommon, three mana 8/8's with trample, infect, and haste (or whatever new power creep we see out of the next set). You know, the era when turn two wins weren't considered "slow decks".
im not sure those were ever okay... like those were always bad even in therr respective blocks. decks were still setting up combo kills are 3-4. creatures were worse on avergae but everthing else was still pretty crazy...
Just was about griffin tribal that I’ve tried to make work off and on since 1999.
Looks like I'm staying up for another twelve minutes.
I work overnights so I always get these on my lunch break
Maybe old white cards were just strictly that much worse, but this list really seems to be picking on the oldies (I think I played half these back in the day). That said, I can definitely agree the power level and abilities on these sucks (but don’t make me get out my Mirage block griffin deck).
I expected Isamaru to be #1 for some reason. It's a vanilla 2/2 Legendary Dog for one mana, and to add salt to injury they thought that was good enough to be a Rare. I guess he does something in a Dog tribal, but still...
Isamaru has actually done stuff.
He was really good in Block and Standard in his day, and is one of the most heavily played Commanders in cEDH.
Said to see Atalya on her I named my daughter after her I liked the name and the art a lot. I wished they’d make her a good card next time they go to that plane. I have foil signed one that I had graded. Cost me like $200 to buy it, get it signed and grade it worth it though it got a 9 though so I was happy
This list is cool for commander, but top ten uncommon creatures would be great for pauper commander
Legendaries used to mean they were important to the story, now they just shove 100 unique named creatures into every set without lore reasons.
I try do a Zuberi deck on Mirage times XD
If Ma Ro (Maro) means Mark Rosewater, then Ki Yo could only be... That's messed up! Why would they do that?? Lol.
Is the title supposed to specify white legends?
Probably.
These videos are neat, but I think it would be interesting to see videos like this with the cards be judged based on the time the set was being played, most of these lists end up boiling down to "old card bad", but they were products of their time when magic was trying to figure out what it was doing, and compared to modern legendaries they are not going to stand the test of time.
They were all really bad even back then especially in the context of competative play. creatures were on average bad back then but legends all usually had niche effects but were costed as if they were amazing. thisndidnt change a bit until maybe original ravnica. were they were still overcosted but at least there effects were generally okay.
This has to be a banger list
When a literal vanilla creature is a better card...
1 - Ice Age, remember? "Y" sound.
Wayne John, Shoe General
I'd love to see the worst 2 color or the worst 3 color legends.
Welcome to the "Legends" set.
@@stuflames4769 Sometimes, he jams similar cards into one slot.
Would atalya not be in a mono white devotion deck I mean it's kinda like a worse version of alabaster potion except it's a creature which is generally upside.
😂 I made a griffin commander deck and give it away as a secret Santa on tiktok
First he rips on my boi Zuberi then he disses my girl Rashida 😕😂
General Jarkeld's art is so cool, it's too bad he sucks.
7:22 just play bristling boar
The attitude all through the video has me rolling my eyes constantly. "This isn't super obviously useful. You'd have to use other cards to make it good. Therefore, it's bad." "This stat line is typical of the time period and we have much better ones now. Therefore, it's bad." Reading the card explains every possible use of the card, eh? You're not used to having to think about how to use them? This is what power creep has done. People can't even conceptualize how to use a card unless it's both super-efficient and all possibilities are printed right in the text box.
That is correct. if you have to jump through 15 hoops to elevate a card from bad to functional and build your entire deck around elevating it that card is worse then a card thats just able to do things on their own.
That has nothing to do with powercreep though the cards were bad back then as well since being a legendary is in isolation a strict downside and their stats and effects were not good enough to make up for it
But I love General Jarkeld
glad to say i own none of these stinkers.
These are some terrible cards, but some great art on these cards!
So is the video just a bunch of overcosted vanillas from Legends?
All the legendary creatures in Legends were multicolored.
dude keeping his mouth nice and shut about the bad samurai tribal
idk if it's your mic or your voice or what but you are LOUD AF good lord. I had to turn the volume to 1% and it was still REALLY loud
Might want to add "white" to the video's title? Currently it's only on the thumbnail picture.