Thursday, January 5, 2017

The absolute worst planeswalkers in EDH

Right now we have 82 planeswalkers in magic. And a vast vast vast majority of them are shit in EDH. I'm here to rank every single one of them in order from worst to best.
One thing to note is I'm skipping Aether Revolts walkers because they're not out yet but from what I've seen none of them will impact the higher parts of the list where it matters so eh.
Also the Magic Origins Flip Walkers count here too. I will be looking at them as creatures/walkers.
And finally the planeswalkers that can also be generals will have that taken into value as well.
Cue that intro!

Today I'm gonna hurt some feelings and let you guys know the 12 WORST walkers in EDH. A lot of the things I'll be writing up is jokes because these cards are jokes.
These guys will include a score out of 100 and what you could do with them


Now all of this is subjective and hopefully I won't be telling you guys too much that your kids are bad. I'm hoping this because no one in their own right mind should be playing the cards on this list. Sure you can throw them in your tribal kill myself first deck but honestly the ones I'm listing today make me sad and hopefully make you sad too. Lets start at 82 with the absolute worst walker....ever



82: Tibbers....

Sigh....while I don't like being predictable and the rest of the cards on this list are shit I can maybe find spots for them in the most dedicated of decks....Tibbers....well...

He can't protect himself

His plus may actually hurt you

His minus 4 is just a direct damage thing. In commander who cares about that.

And his ult is will never happen because he's gonna die to the combo player or lockdown player before it's ever relevant.

I honestly don't even think Insurrection is a good card since some of the best decks don't even use that many creatures and stealing them for one turn to do some damage isn't gonna win games.

Tibbers: 0/100


Best place for Tibbers:
 Selling him for a Soda












81: Nissa Revane

You could make the argument that Nissa was made in a time where EDH wasn't as popular. But you shouldn't.

Nissa's Plus doesn't even work more than once
Here second plus gains life for elfs (Whoopie). In a format where combo and lockdown are the best routes to victory this isn't doing anything.
Her ultimate which comes 20 turns later gives you all your elves....without haste....so they die to any interaction.

Do yourself a favor and exclude Nissa from your elf decks.

Score: 0.5/100

Play this: Tier 8 Elfball decks




80: Chandra Nalaar



Poor Chandra. A vast majority of her cards are bad. Like really really bad. Nalaar in my opinion is the worst of the bunch. Yes her ult will hurt if she gets that far (She won't) but without much way to protect herself that's a pipe dream at best. She can kill creatures with her minus but only one at a time and if you're killing the biggest threat with her it's likely she will be down to very little loyalty to the point where the slightly boop will send her screaming into the graveyard.

Score: 1/100

Play this: Mono Red Burn? I don't know







79: Jace, the Living Guildpact

 Fun fact. This is the only Jace that can't draw cards. You'd think hanging around Niv-Mizzet would help but no. Just look at the top 2 and throw one in the trash.
Starting at 5 loyality is decent and that ult isn't too bad. It should win you the game (Like all ults should) but you're just throwing cards in the bin to get there. His minus is...underwhelming. Bouncing a non land is a decent way of protecting him if there's only one threat on board but he can't do this twice. You could argue that he should be a little higher on this list but he would still make my shit list. 79 and 78 are both bad and shouldn't be played.


Score: 1.11/100

Play this: Brago? Maybe?





78: Chandra Pyrogenius

Oh hi Chandra...it's been a while since you poped up....

This is pretty much Chandra Nalaar if she was slightly better. Doing an amazing double damage to each opponent with her plus and 4 damage for only 3 loyalty with her minus.

Does this sound underwhelming? Now you get why Nalaar was just behind Nissa and Tibbers


Score: 2.1/100

Play this: Mono Red burn? Ugh....





77: Jace, Memory Adept

This guy is amazing....in limited.

Milling your opponents can often just be bad as graveyard shenanigans aren't uncommon in EDH. The only reason he's higher than other Garbage Jace is at least this one knows how to draw cards, granted 5 mana for a draw one isn't super but it's still better than living guildpact.
Sure the ult will draw you a ton of cards but without a way to protect himself I don't see this happening. Especially with 3 opponents against you. You should never look at a walker for his ult anyway so what we have is a 5 mana mill ten or draw one.
Pass.


Score: 2.5/100

Play this: Mill decks (You'll lose a lot)



76: BeefSlab, champion of justice

 Congratulations. You have a decree of annihilation on a walker. And he can ultimate the turn right after he comes out. HOW IS HE A BAD CARD? Well...he doesn't do anything. He enters and becomes a 4/4....neat or just plus's and adds counters. If he doesn't ult he doesn't do a damn thing and in EDH planeswalkers will often not ult due to creatures being turned sideways or you know, comboing out.

Imagine you cast this guy on turn 4 and bring him to 9 loyality. Wow, you can ult soon....across the table the other player casts Ad Naseum and draws 26 cards...
Looks like you did the wrong play. The hell is wrong with you.


Score: 2.5/100

Play this: Swole ass Gideon tribal




75: Nissa, Nature's Artisan


Hey look. Both planeswalkers from starter decks are bad in commander. Well tickle me pink with surprise.

Another case where she doesn't actually protect herself. The minus could be decent but it's just a gamble on if you hit anything. Gaining life into a massive overrun is unlikely because you're not protecting her at all and if you have a bunch of creatures to protect her with why aren't you just overrunning the same turn instead?

Score: 2.5/100

Play this: Mono green decks built with only cards from starter decks




74: Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker

 Do you even want to ultimate this guy? Mono red has plenty of wheel of fortune effects so that seems bad already. Then you have a plus that just does 4 damage sometimes and a minus that brings him down to one loyalty to kill something. At 5 mana you can do much better.


Score: 3/100

Play this: Mono Red Unsleeved dragons next to a bunch of beverages









73: Gideon Jura
Yet another case of when a walker is good in 60 card doesn't mean he'll be good in 100 card
Conditional removal is still better than no removal but like Sarkhan and the Beefslab before him all he does most of the time is turn into a creature and then get chump blocked. You could make creatures attack him to pick some off with bigger creatures you have but at that point you already have a better army. Play something more relevant. Or just combo or lock the board down already. Stop turning things sideways you barbarian.

Score: 3/100

Play this: Bad Aggro decks






72: Ajani Goldmane


I hear this guy was real good in Standard years ago. Not good enough to be a mythic though (This is a joke please don't make fun of me)

Again, can't protect himself. His plus is underwhelming, his minus needs you to have other critters on board to be relevant and his ult gives you a creature that just dies to everything or is chumped blocked for years. The main reason he's the lowest Ajani is his interaction with plus one counters like the other ones is on his minus rather than his plus and every other Ajani does more with their counters.

Score: 4/100

Play this: Trostani? Probably not. Atraxa and Ghave, maybe



71: Chandra Ablaze

I'm sure many of you expected Ablaze to be one of the worst and technically you're right. She does have one thing that many on this list don't though. She can protect herself with a plus and draws cards with her minus. That's actually not the worst thing in the world but at 6 mana you have much better things to do. Compare her to every other 6 mana walker and she falls behind nearly every time. Her only saving grace was poor ways to protect herself and a wheel.

And she's still one of the worst

Score 4/100

Play this: Mono red if you can't afford better wheels.








Well there you have it. The worst of the worst, the last picks.
Did I call your cards bad? I could apologize...but I'm not gonna. We have 70 more walkers to go and they're all better than these guys.

What do you guys expect to be in the top? Will it be Kaya? (No), how about Gideon 4.0 (No way)
Let me know what you think and hopefully soon we will be into the EDH all stars

Doom Blade, signing out.

14 comments:

  1. Aw c'mon now, give Tibalt some credit! He can also go in Depala RW Vehicles now and can power out a turn 2 or 3 attacking Heart of Kiran!*

    That is my only defense for Tibalt. I don't know if I could even justify him in a bad RU Owling Mine-type deck that WANTS his Sudden Impact. Guess I'll have to use Stormbreath instead.

    Nissa, Nature's Artisan why are you so pretty but so terrible.

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    1. Tibbers has plenty of uses. You can sell him for almost 2 dollars

      That's a solid 7 gumballs

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  2. I happen to like Gideon, Champion of Justice. I've won games with him.

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    1. Ok, you can win with anyone listed here but my question is where you gonna win anyway?

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  3. Love how you describe how to play sarkhan. I think that's the perfect way to go. Dude. Spell check. Nice column.

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    1. Spelin gewd iz not my thing.


      But seriously I'm fairly bad. Need someone to edit my stuff in the future

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  4. Anime Jace is not as bad as the rest if your milling yourself. If everything is compared in/vs. combo and lock decks, you would save yourself ALOT of time by listing the very few PW (if any, cmdr teferi?) that are playable.

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    1. I don't think uncontrollable mill is good. Being able to sculpt your hand with draw/discard seems far better and if you are playing mill why not play Glimpse of the unthinkable and save yourself 3 mana?


      Also yes, a majority of the walkers are not good in competitive edh but I'm trying to find other uses for them outside of that. Someone mentioned that Ajani is decent in Atraxa now. The other 70 walkers have slots in decks. Just not in the most best decks. I think as the list goes on you'll see ones that are in tier 2 then tier 3 and so on

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  5. Nice article. When can we expect the next chapter?

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    1. I'm trying to publish at least two articles a week and working on the next installment soon. I'm busy on weekends often so Monday at latest

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  6. Chandra Ablaze pulls some weight in my Feldon of the Third Path deck... pretty niche but I love her

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  7. interesting, i have actually run ajani goldmane in an edh deck before. Though that was long before we had as many planeswalkers as we do now, honestly i could still see myself running him in marath if i played a pod variant with persist creatures.

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