Worst card in Magic

[Aleksandr]

Honorable mentions:

Cathedral of Serra
Adventurer's Guildhouse
Mountain Stronghold
Seafarer's Quay
Unholy Citadel

Seconded. They cost you land drop and do nothing.

OTOH, they cost you only land drop and they can be easily throwed through Seismic Assault! But look on Great Wall. It is great for mana sinking and it makes absolutely nothing. (But... Great Wall can be throwed through Stormbind. Yeah..)

[Skeggi]

Is this even a contest?

Yes. The card you named is actually a key-card in some (casual) decks.

How about City of Solitude?

That's actually a pretty good card. What about it?

I believe this is the winner:

It generates mana to pay for its own upkeep! Yay!
Any creature is better than this because it can at least chumpblock, perhaps even turn sideways and hit the opponent.

[Aggro_zombies]

Any creature is better than this because it can at least chumpblock, perhaps even turn sideways and hit the opponent.

Opalescence much?

[evilchen]

Juju Bubble anyone ;)?

[bowvamp]

Oops, did I say solitude? I meant shadows... there are so many cities!
City of Shadows reads:
"
Tap: Remove a creature you control from game to add a counter.
Tap: Add X mana to your pool where X is the total amount of counters.

[Skeggi]

Opalescence much?

Damnit, you got me

[Leftconsin]

Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper is abysmal. Lets have four drawbacks for one more colorless mana!

[kicks_422]

Carnival of [fucking] Souls.

I'd love to be in that carnival when I die.

[Taurelin]

I win:

[Skeggi]

Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper is abysmal. Lets have four drawbacks for one more colorless mana!

Yeah, Ancient Tomb seems to be somewhat better

I actually played that card in one of my first decks. 7/7 First Strike is pretty awesome! Especially in the old days...but then again, I also played Lord of the Pit and Yawgmoth Demon...

[Lifeless]

I'm going to avoid creatures since they could theoretically swing for the win. Instead I'd say:

Rakalite
Helm of Chatzuk

[Skeggi]

Rakalite

Oh right, I forgot about that thing. What were they thinking, seriously?

[Jason]

I actually had a discussion with this not too long ago with one of my friends claiming Cosmic Horror.

But obviously Dripping Dead is far inferior to Cosmic Horror.

And Rakalite or Snowfall are in contention for my worst card.

Seeing as Snowfall can be pitched to Force of Will, my vote goes for Rakalite.

[georgjorge]

Great thread ! Way back when I was still buying Inquest magazine, they did those sort of lists. They even had their staff play out a multiplayer game of one against four, the catch being that the decks of those four could only include cards which had the lowest Inquest rating (one out of five)!

There are some pretty good (read: bad) cards in this thread so far. I'd agree that the "bands with X" lands are among the worst, Greater Wall as well, and then Untaidake. Snowfall is not far behind.

BUT: The Glyphs have to at least get a honorable mention !

Glyph of Reincarnation G
Instant

Play Glyph of Reincarnation only
during the end of combat step.
Destroy all creatures that were
blocked by target Wall this turn.
They can’t be regenerated. For
each creature put into a graveyard
this way, choose a creature card
from the graveyard of that creature’s
controller and return that card to
play under its owner’s control.

Another creature that could screw you over pretty well is Desecration Elemental, but I can at least imagine getting to kill an opponent with it at some point before he kills it.

[vigilante]

These ones. The Anti-Cube, consisting of the worst cards of all time un-pimped to the max with white borders and a pile of beaten-to-hell Revised basic lands. Do not attempt this at home.

[GreenOne]

This is one of my favourites:



Here it is:
- 3 colors
- Costs 2 Life
- Costs 2 critters
- CA for the opponent
- it's a legend

There are not many card capable of making a 5 for 1 + 2 Life for the opponent.
Get fun getting it bounced by karakas!

[Lifeless]

Do not disrespect Good Buddy. I used LoT back in the day in the sideboard of Vintage Masknaught. He's a lot better when you cheat your ass off and play him with no citp effect.

[Skeggi]

Lol, looking at that 'anti-cube', Apocalypse Chime would be totally broken in there, due to the high number of Homelands-crap, haha

[wolfstorm]

I submit, for your viewing pleasure:



Epic win.


I know Im boarding at least 4.

Secret tech sideboard card against anyone that uses homelands basic land IMO.

[centurion8]

Obviously this has since been the subject of errata, but as printed couldn't actually be played...