"WTF is this card" thread

[Sevryn]

1. Come up with a way to use a previously mentioned card profitably.
2. Name/Link a card that is goofy or unique and does not have obvious uses to you. No Gray Ogres!

Since this is the first post, I'll just name a card.

Manipulate Fate

[anonymos]

Play it in a color hosers deck. Use Manipulate Fate to remove inefffective ones o you don't draw them.

How about Guided Passage

[Leftconsin]

I think I remember someone once used Guided Passage as a tutor for the only creature in the deck. With the added bonus of also getting a land and a spell.

[TheInfamousBearAssassin]

Dwarven Pony!

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[Sevryn]

Dwarven Pony!

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Just wait 'til I hardcast Phage the Untouchable, make her a dwarf with Mirror Entity, Blood Moon your dual lands, and swing for the win. Just wait. And don't do anything.

In other news, Starke of Rath

[Bloodcookie]

In other news, Starke of Rath

Works great with Fade Away in UR Stax!

Now, go-go random card function... Crumbling Sanctuary.

[dahcmai]

Control type card to suppress burn decks. It's like having an extra 30 life or so. Not like control cares how much life the opponent has anyway.


Tahngarth's Glare I really have no clue what you could use this for. You try to mess them up, but then decide that's mean and you should let them screw up your draws too. Ok...

[HdH_Cthulhu]

False Memories Food for tombstalker!? Meh!

Whats the card that lets you unmorph an opponets creature?

[Offler]

well Defiant Elf

However i like One with Nothing. Even reanimator i know does not have a clue how to use such thing :D

[death]

Tahngarth's Glare I really have no clue what you could use this for. You try to mess them up, but then decide that's mean and you should let them screw up your draws too. Ok...

In casual, it's a fun way to mess up with an opponent who just Personal Tutor'd or Cruel Tutor'd or Jace +0'd..

One with Nothing, a poor man's LED in dredge or possibly in Alix Hatfield's new Vengevival combo.

A friend handed me his collection awhile back and just the sight of Goblin Ski Patrol annoyed me ever since, WTF:
http://magiccards.info/scans/en/ia/190.jpg

[kiblast]

that gobbo is the shit in berserk stompy.

btw:

http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardscans/MAGDRK/deep_water.jpg

http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardscans/MAG4TH/erosion.jpg

[Jonathan Alexander]

What about Camouflage or Raging River? These are awesome.

[Pastorofmuppets]

I like how people can't follow the rules of something that's relatively simple.
Deep Water could be used to run Cryptic Command in decks that run Tombs and Cities.
Oh, and One with Nothing is really, really good in Hive Mind Combo. your opponent's copy will resolve first, then you can play a pact before yours resolves.
And you can use Erosion with Mana Vortex and some bounce spells and Crucible of Worlds.
Volrath's Dungeon
Recuring Insight
Sedris, the Traitor-King (And don't say EDH).

[Nonex]

In other news, Starke of Rath

Not as bad as it seems in the correct Survival build.

What about Word of Command?

[yankeedave]

Not as bad as it seems in the correct Survival build.

What about Word of Command?

Ever put that on an Isochron Scepter? Its a mini-mindslaver :)

[kiblast]

Deep Water could be used to run Cryptic Command in decks that run Tombs and Cities.


oh.
sure Pastorofmuppets. Sure.

[Valdez]

How about Guided Passage
Show and Tell?

[gravemind123]

Sorrow's Path
Donate + Icy Manipulator/Twiddle effects. Or combo with Vigor.

Great Wall
Possibly the most useless card in existence?

[Leftconsin]

Sorrow's Path was the people in R&D forgetting that people want cards they play to benefit them.

Great Wall, as people are so fast to forget, is part of a cycle of "Creatures lose walk ability" Its just that Plainswalk is rare.

How about Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper? Four drawbacks for one extra mana? Why? They should have known better.

[cwt1220]

Selective Memory



Can't figure out a good use for it at all.

-Chris-

[Nonex]

I guess you can leave your library with only lands, then draw them with Treasure Hunt and discard them to Seismic Assault.

Roil Elemental anyone?

[Blitzbold]

Orcish Captain

Even back in the days I opened that one there weren't enough Orcs for this card to be playable at all.

[Leftconsin]

Roil Elemental is a limited bomb, yo.

[Offler]

I am considering to add Selective memory for a combo deck. If you are unable to play first combo its better to remove all cards which depend on them from library to get better draw.

some people wanted to use this card with Mirror of fate to get perfect draw... however thats not a good plan.

Also there are some cards which are quite useful in some special kinds of crazy decks.

Mirror gallery "Hi I am Timmy and these are my four Akromas"

Moonfolks. Some of them are pretty good, some of them are totally useless (even with Landfall now).

Floodbringer Really no idea.
Oboro breezecaller This one work if you have at least one land which produces more than 1 mana.

[android]

Oboro breezecaller This one work if you have at least one land which produces more than 1 mana.

Easy, that was the old;

Intruder Alarm + Heartbeat of Spring + Meloku the Clouded Mirror + Forbidden Orchard + Sakura-Tribe Scout + Oboro breezecaller super deck. I actually played that one.

Divine Intervention - is this considered a win condition?

[atropos]

Divine Intervention - is this considered a win condition?

I'm so going to make a Show and Tell deck out of this enchantment. Fuck winning with Progenitus!

[THEchubbymuffin]

I'm so going to make a Show and Tell deck out of this enchantment. Fuck winning with Progenitus!

I would laugh so hard if a scenario like this occured in a game between show and tell and UW(x) landstill.
Show and tell wins game 1. Game 2 UW has answer to a progenitus or emrakul in hand and lets show and tell resolve. But instead you drop Divine Intervention which they dont have and answer for.

[mmmetaphor]

Scornful Egotist ... wtf?

[GGoober]

Scornful Egotist ... wtf?

That can be used with Erratic Explosion and yet still be playable as a morph creature where Draco could not serve that dual purpose. Think card flexibility and diversity yo!

Wood Elemental This card always makes me lol.

I guess I don't mind dropping a 4cmc creature after I Manabonded and Exploration'd out all my lands and then sac the other non-tapped lands to get a 'huge' creature with no trample, or I just like saccing my lands to give my opponents an advantage until I follow up with a Ward of Bones (Ward of Bones is actually bad-ass in EDH prison decks).

[Nonex]

I wonder where Blood Funnel could be broken.

[freakish777]

I wonder where Blood Funnel could be broken.

Creatures and spells that generate creature tokens somehow.

Sprout Swarm and Empty the Warrens seem like candidates. But it'd still be too slow for competitive play.

[Fuzzy]

Ward of Bones

You can play it in Belcher and lock the whole thing.

[Leftconsin]

Oh man, Ward of Bones is going in my creatureless EDH deck.

[Ubiquitous Druid]

I guess you can leave your library with only lands, then draw them with Treasure Hunt and discard them to Seismic Assault.

Roil Elemental anyone?

Azusa, Lost but Seeking and Meloku, the Clouded Mirror

[Pastorofmuppets]

I wonder where Blood Funnel could be broken.

Well, it probably can't. Though i do give it merit for making that 3-mana Red Ritual cost 1.

Here we go, Verdant Succession

[Roman]

I wonder where Blood Funnel could be broken.

Multani's Presence
Alot of <2 Mana Artifacts + Random Storm win condition ;)

[yankeedave]

Scornful Egotist ... wtf?

Ahh, play him face down, play Rush of Knowledge, morph him in response! Power plays, my friends, power plays.

[HdH_Cthulhu]

Multani's Presence
Alot of <2 Mana Artifacts + Random Storm win condition ;)

I saw that in a kobold deck with chalice at 0 + Glimps + Random Storm win condition xD

[lebarion]

Floodbringer Really no idea.


I used Floodbringer in a tribal wizard deck with Winter Orb and Patron Wizard. Really hard lock, and Floodbring has evasion :)

[Oiolosse]

Selective Memory



Can't figure out a good use for it at all.

-Chris-

I made a deck that uses Dream Halls to chain draw a bunch of other chain draw to land a shared fate then use paradigm shift, diminishing returns, ancestral knowledge, mana severance and this card to kill my own deck so that they lose by drawing out my library. It's awesome and totally worth building.

In building it I have come to find out that ancestral knowledge, diminish returns and paradigm shift are solid. Paradigm shift needs to be broken. Ancestral knowledge is so good with treasure hunt and to a lesser extent, predict.

[Lorgalis]

Camouflage

Over-complicated oracle text for an almost negligible effect + one of the most heinous arts in magic history.

Nice package.

[Gui]

Camouflage

Over-complicated oracle text for an almost negligible effect + one of the most heinous arts in magic history.

Nice package.

Ok, I believe it results in: creatures are blocked at random.

If you got a lot of creatures in which some will die to a blocker, but some will kill the blocker, camouflage can let you attack with all of them for a cheap cost. Blocker will then decide if he wants to risk his blocker or not.

Or, it will give you a chance of hitting with a creature otherwise would be chump-blocked. Goblin Piledriver comes to mind :D

Have to admit it's a WTF card tho. XD

[bowvamp]

Blood Funnel's use is just way too obvious... donate anyone?
Also, that idea with belcher + altar of bones... not too shabby...

[Pastorofmuppets]

Someone find me a use for Altar of Dementia, because I have no idea why it's a $5 card.

[paeng4983]

tunnel

[Offler]

Altar of dementia can be used as alternative to Goblin bombardment in reanimator combo deck.

I have seen decks with this, Reveillark and Saffi.

[Phoenix Ignition]

Someone find me a use for Altar of Dementia, because I have no idea why it's a $5 card.

Dredge 3 instead of getting ichorid plowed? I'm in... if I thought 2 mana spells were good in dredge.

[fyrisen]

Dredge 3 instead of getting ichorid plowed? I'm in... if I thought 2 mana spells were good in dredge.

There was/is a combo in Vintage Dredge, with Altar of Dementia and Sharuum the Hegemon.

[perm]

One with nothing was actually used in sideboards at one point for protection against sudden impact/netsuke decks

[Tacosnape]

Oddball one. Use Altar of Dementia with Keldon Battlewagon and two Phyrexian Dreadnoughts. Play Nought 1, tap to pump Keldon, sac to mill 12, Play Nought 2, tap to Pump Keldon, sac to mill another 12, tap Keldon to itself, sacrifice it, mill 48.

I suppose Pulsemage Advocate's too easy, eh? (The answer to Vengevine lives!)

[Sevryn]

tunnel

The only card Tunnel combos with at all is Trickery Charm. Every other type-changing effect specifies that you cannot choose Wall.

How about Orcish Mechanic?

[Offler]

I said "WTF" when I have seen first Eldrazi cards. All of them. High mana cost, totally colorless. Since then I havent seen anyone trying to play them.

Except one... I have heard about austrian player who activated Spawnsire of Ulamog and his last ability, and revealed an album with 50-70 eldrazi cards :D

There is but one card i really decided to play - All is dust.

[TheArchitect]

Goblin Hero

For some reason it was a rare in starter, and let me tell you from experience, it's probably the most disappointing rare I've pulled. Also the original print of it (the dark) has absolutely hideous art.



Shelkin Brownie

Really weird art, totally useless ability.

[dahcmai]

Altar is an easy one. Two Karmic guides is good game. Old trick. It was actually in standard at one time.


Orcish Mechanics actually had a use too. Su-Chi. Sad, but we used to actually do crap like that when it wasn't such a fast game.

[perm]

http://www.magiccards.info/dk/en/18.html

the old oracle used to be awesome "if a land would come into play, instead it doesn't

[perm]

Altar is an easy one. Two Karmic guides is good game. Old trick. It was actually in standard at one time.


Orcish Mechanics actually had a use too. Su-Chi. Sad, but we used to actually do crap like that when it wasn't such a fast game.

how could two karmic guide go infinite?

[Ziveeman]

how could two karmic guide go infinite?

Sacrifice a Guide to the Altar in response to its ETB trigger so the one that comes it to play as a result of the ETB resolving can target the first one. Repeat until your opponent is out of cards.