Purify does NOT belong on here. To quote its description on hearthpwn "This card was the ultimate underdog story. Regarded originally as the worst card in the game, but over time, it rose from the ashes and became a staple for Silence Priest. In fact, it was this card and minions like Humongous Razorleaf that made this card actually viable."

I need a video essay on how Duskfallen Aviana is better than Deadly Arsenal.

Pretty solid list and I agree with a good chunk of it, but definitely not all. Millhouse Manastorm has actually seen top tier play, Paladin cheated it out with Call to Arms specifically because of how huge it was for a 2 drop. Silithid Swarmer saw use in Rogue. Purify was put into some legitimate Priest decks, alongside Inner Fire and cards with attack restrictions. There are a couple other ones I'd argue against, but I think it's fair to call those picks objectively incorrect since they've all seen competitive play at some point, although I know it's hard to keep track of every meta for a game that's been around this long. Also personally found the "this expansion was powerful, but a few cards were weak" repetition unnecessary and kind of grating, but I did like the brief recaps of each expansion and enjoyed the video overall!

As a former silence priest player purify was a great card. Silence a big "can't attack" minion early game, and cycle through your deck at the same time, helped make that deck viable.

Silithid Swarmer was definitely played in rogue.

Dreaded mount, really? It is not that bad, worst card from stormwind is two faced investor for sure...

Frozen crusher was almost auto-pick in the arena! Purify was in silence priest and he was solid tier-2 deck (I still had flashbacks). Blood herald was good at the arena too and saddlemaster too. Blizz like to print cards valuable for the arena.

So, in summation, you kind of missed the ball here, most players, myself included, that played during those expansions, know that most of the cards mentioned were not bad, just niche, and fit into specific decks. I understand that you’re a newer player and just by looking at the cards without context they do seem weak but they were far from it. Good quality vid, needed a bit more research.

murloc warlock was actually an extremely meta deck in beta and vanilla hearthstone

The visuals on this video are incredible. You forgot to include the worst card ever: Duskfallen Aviana (Druid Legendary)

Silithid Swarmer is definitely not the worst card. It’s even one of the better cards. It saw play in wild odd rogue and odd DH

Half of cards mentioned are actually good. Some of them were 2 good and had to be removed from arena. Sad list.

3:41 the funny thing is that Seadevil Stinger is really powerful in Wild now with the release of Gigafin in the last expansion, cheating out an 8 mana Colossal Murloc on turn 4 is really powerful

Expansion based on DnD: “I think it’s a Dark Souls reference.” 🙃

Millhouse has seen some play depending on the meta; I'd argue Magma Rager and Succubus are two cards that are boderline unplayable due to their downsides (1 health and the discard). Also, Rend Blackhand was used by Dragon Priest when that was a thing. Limited pretty much to that specific deck, but it was perfectly playable.

3 mana 3/4 that gives you unlimited beasts sounds like it probably was a top tier arena card. That's probably the only card in the list that screamed amazing to me. Gone are the classic days when a 3 mana 3/4 didn't even exist yet.

Gargoyle was a good target for inner fire priest. Good buff target.

swarmer was played a bit in rogue and purify was good in priest for a good while it was a T2 deck

Rarran I actually disagree with your Stormwind pick. I think Two-Faced Investor is one of the most pathetic card I've ever seen. Definitely even worse than the caravans. EDIT: oh, also the worst card in Boomsday was Harbinger Celestia and the worst card in Witchwood was Duskfallen Aviana

That feeling when you don't draw any of your hard counters after your opponent drops a 15/15 Blood Herald in arena...

I remember back then, old cards, especially Legendaries, used to suck even more due to the lack of dupe protection. Getting 5 Bolf Ramshields in an opening was the worst and most hilarious thing ever. It was a meme dream.

I feel like a lot of the cards u mentioned in this video actually were not "worst card".

4:08 Frozen crusher saw pretty decent play in arena and I even saw some silence priests using this at the start of ungoro, had good combos with sunfury protector or silence

I know saying "I think Toothy Chest" is a dark souls reference was probably just for the memes, but I still got a good laugh out of it. Imagine not knowing the RPG trope of Mimics in the RPG trope set Kobolds and Catacombs, a literal riff on Dungeons and Dragons.

purify is unironicly one of my favorite cards, silence priest was the first deck i hit legend with so it will always hold a place in my heart

I unpacked 3 Bolff Ramshields and no other legendaries out of 80 packs on TGT launch day. Suffice it to say, Bolff is not a card I remember fondly.

Zayle was awesome ! It was like whizbang but it targeted the classes associated with the league of evil. Good decks at the time.

Great video! I have to disagree on Purify. Didn't that see some fringe play in those Humongous Razorleaf decks?

My man's never heard of silence priest :(

Love the vids Rarran but IMO you're dead wrong about Kobold Taskmasker... very underrated card that can allow a Priest to have an attacking 15/15 minion on the board on turn 4 ;)

Looking back at this it felt really funny that gigafin was released, and the jailer after that

Millhouse? You mean Powerhouse Manastorm?

Second half of the video is a real 'Tell me you don't play wild without telling me'

Millhouse is amazing in decks that can cheat out low cost drops - was great with Call to Arms

Purify was in a very good priest deck that killed you on turn 4 sometimes. It was a silence priest. When purify was released, everyone did think it was garbage though...definitely was NOT.

-Complain about Blizzard printing bad cards -Complain about Blizzard's power creep Pick one.

Blood Herald actually won me a game more than once. A staple card in my Unseal the Vault deck My favourite instance was when my opponent had lethal on board and I dropped this 30/30 hoping to psych them out. It worked and they missed lethal, giving me the W.

fun fact: slithid swarmer sometimes used to see some nieche play in odd rogue/dh

3 mana 3/4 with a possible upside considered as worst card of the set? Holy-moly.

For the first couple expansions, Warlock was actually the only class that could reasonably play murlocs. Murlocs had a really low curve and no class synergies, so Warlock was the best fit due to life tap. I'm struggling to remember if any other class managed to play murlocs in a meta deck. I think Shaman may have worked because he had the best tools for buffing small minions, but Warlock definitely worked best.

The first 3 of 4 are funny due to each being very viable at one point or another. Mill house being a strong recruit minion, stoneskin gargoyle in inner fire priest, and rend black hand being premium removal when legendaries where becoming good. Still a nice video

Can u do a “best card of each expansion” Great video

Ogre Warmaul was a niche card, there were WAY worse cards in GVG

Remember that time when Reynad beat Rarran with Millhouse?

How did Two Faced Investor not make the cut for stormwind?

Now this is the type of content that I enjoy. This and commentary videos ala Zeddy. Keep it up 👍🏼

Toothy Chest isn't a Dark Souls reference. It's just a mimic. Dark Souls didn't come up with them. They've existed in RPGs and DnD for quite a while, being able to take the shape of ANY inanimate object, but are most commonly found to become chests, due to the huge amount of adventurers going for them, and falling for the trap over and over again due to greed.

Purify saw genuine competitive play tho (silence priest)

I love how "why did they make this" is a valid rank for some cards

It says a lot about power creep when a card like Stablemaster is seen as bad. I remember how people were talking about Spider Tank being amazing in GVG because it was a 3 mana 3/4. Stablemaster is a 3 mana 3/4 with quite a significant upside, and that is apparently seen as bad now

Purify was actually kinda choice during that standard meta. You ran big minions with debilitating effects like this minion cant attack and then you buff them like crazy

I’m pretty sure the reference for toothy chest is for babbling books ‘ do you wanna cast a spell? I want to cast a spell!’ play sound

Blood Herald worked well when showing up early in a Hunter deck with plenty of 1/1 beasts and others that have been sacrificed. Two uses of Storm of Locusts and suddenly you have a 5 cost15/15 ready to go.

I had a Blood Herald in a hunter and a similar demon hunter deck. I really liked both of those lol

Zayle isn't really a pick. It wasn't a meta pick, it was a free card. There are worse cards in that set. Example: Dr. Boom's scheme being a 4 mana gain 1 armor unless you held it all game in which case maybe it becomes a 4 mana gain 20 armor once you've already stabilized and you may as well just win

Kobolds and Catacombs. Toothy Chest. "Dark Souls reference"

Wow the seadevil stinger aged like milk

95% sure there was a unicorn deck that used Purify in standard, but since those humble beginnings it has risen to be a staple of silence priest decks everywhere.

If you ever played millhouse at any point vs a mage, you had a deathwish.

i haven’t played hearthstone since like one night in karazhan but i’m addicted to watching these videos about states of the game because it brings me back. early hearthstone days were the SHIT man. hope y’all are doing well also i think for BRM majordomo executus is an honorable mention. i loved playing him but holy shit did you lose on the spot like 90% of the time ahahaha edit: AND NAH !! purify was goated in that deck. i played it back in the day. there was a bunch of like, beefy minions (ironically, silithid swarmer might’ve been one of them), that had text like “can’t attack”, but you could silence them, power word: shield, then double their health with that one spell, sometimes twice, and play inner fire, and BAM, 30/30 minion lmao most of the time tho you could do this combo twice and those 14/14s you got pretty easy were hard to deal with.

Saddened that we didn't get to hear about the Silverback Patriarch ....and sorry, but the pick for Rastakhan's Rumble should have been Hi'reek, the Bat.

Seadevil stinger is laughing at you now

This video's the first time I've ever seen Saddlemaster and I've playing Hearthstone for a year now.

Actually, Generous Mummy is real combo card. All you need to do is gift this minion to your opponent (usually by using Brann+Sailas or Warlock's Treachery). It even can survive almost any AoE! I've seen a ton, no - *a ton* of clips working entirely because of that card.

Tooth Chest is a Dungeons and Dragon reference to a monster called a Mimic that can disguise itself as mundane objects

My boy never played Lorewalker Cho + Millhouse combo. Randuin was the golden age of Hearthstone Twitch content.

In my experience “which is a lot” Firehawk is amazing in arena if hit on 3 it’s nasty

Purify was actually useful in silence priest, which was, at that time, a pretty good deck after Ungoro was released

5:13 no, it's DND reference.

> Every RPG in history takes influence from DnD, including Dark Souls > Kobolds and Catacombs is very obviously a DnD expansion > "I think it's a dark souls reference" Nailed it

I like how 2 of the cards are now in tier 1/2 wild decks

Really liking these commentary/Hearthstone historian kind of videos. Keep it up!

this makes reynad beating you with millhouse just sweeter :D

Would love a most broken cards in Hearthstone history!

3:20 wasn't Purify used for cards like Ancient Watcher in Silence Priest? I wasn't active during this "era", but my friend told me it actually used to be a thing :)

Seadevil stinger is going to age badly now that Murlock warloc is a thing

I'm kinda on the same page as you on every card, apart from Ogre Warmaul, it has been played in some aggro warriors in the old times, also, it can't be the worst card when there's Mini-Mage in the same set

Stoneskin Gargoyle was MVP for messing with the AI of several adventures though.

A few questionable picks, definitely surprised not to see duskfallen aviana there. Also kinda insane to me as a hearthstone boomer that saddlemaster with notable upside is seen as total trash tier.

Awesome video, love the new kind of content! Btw, Blood Herald has actually been great in Duels in token DH has it can become massive. It usually has a spot in the starter deck.

I'm pretty sure I've hit legend with two of these cards - Purify for sure, such an awesome archetype ('unicorn' lol). Rend Blackhand was a really fun meta tech at some point for control mirrors. And OMG toothy chest is a DnD reference, not a Dark Souls one lol.

The naxx gargoyle is actually really useful. Not for ladder, but for all the themed content and some of the brawls

I have found memories of playing firehawk on three and watching my opponent go into panic mode to remove it.

I just felt some crazy kind of whiplash as a player who stopped playing Hearthstone a few years ago and seeing that 'Saddlemaster' card as being the worst card in a set. To my early-Hearthstone brain that card just seems really good with no drawbacks.

Reminds me of the Purify parody video with Kripp, still great to this day.

Great video Rarran! A suggestion for you though. Some of the cards you read the card text and others you just said were bad without reading what they did. Sometimes I like to watch while doing other things and it would be nice if you explained what all the cards did so I can enjoy your content on the go. Just a thought, keep up the great work my dude!

Loved this video and idea, maybe try the best card next? Or most overrated/underrated ones? Very interesting tho, keep it up, love it!!

Rarran went Solem

Seadevil stinger seing play in t1 even lock for gigafin right now lol, how the tables have turned

As someone who still slots Rend Blackhand into several dragon decks, nobody ever expects it. I tend to sit on it until late game when a legendary is used to respond to my big dragon board. Then I just instagib it and continue on my merry way. Fire Hawk is useful when I'm discovering elementals against a high hand size deck, but not something I'd main board

This video in a nutshell: - Almost every expansion was one of the most powerful expansions ever - Cards that actually saw play, sometimes even in S-Tier decks, were the worst cards ever - The powercreep started to happen in every set - wHy WoUlD tHeY pRiNt ThIs, when talking about cards that could actually be used if the meta was slightly different

I'd like to argue that Majordomo Executus should have made the list. It's so bad that not only did it see only see play in meme decks, it was usually considered the worst possible card to get from random summoning effects.

Me smash u with Oger Warmaul. This weapon was OP

You've probably been told this by now but toothy chest is a reference to mimics which yes, exist in dark souls but have been around since super early versions of d&d

Tell me you don't understand set design without telling me you don't understand design

Drawing a Murloc every Turn for 2 Mana is REALLY good in Murlocdecks

I cant believe you are dishing millhouse manastorm the best zoo counter in the game back in the day

I do realize that Surrender to Madness was one of the most scuffed cards in the entire game at the time. But when I ran it with zombie resurrect priest it was hilariously broken. Remember that this was a time where you'd be fighting up until 10 mana and control decks were still active. What I would do is find a way to shuffle a bunch cards back into the deck via Spirit of the Dead over the course of the game, and around turn 9-10 I'd play Surrender into Mojomaster Zihi. Then if I was lucky I'd have Bwonsamdi on-hand and fill it with lots of 0 cost minions with +3/+3. It didn't always win but it did spite Mecha'thun players that dominated the scene so it holds a special place in my heart just for that.

I´m glad you limited it to one card per expansion, if not all the spots would of been taken by rastakhan's rumble cards.

The Kripp purify/Yu-Gi-Oh parody is perhaps the greatest piece of Hearthstone content ever produced. I suggest watching the version with Kripp's commentary. It's fantastic