Yea, but she did do the OG time walk art so there's that

It took all the way of getting to the worst card in one of the worst sets, but I got a great laugh out of that, myself.

The Homelands devs DID hate the players 😂

The sad thing is, we have no way to tell of that's his usual self, or an AI not getting the nuance.

@@christopherb501this isn't ai

​@@christopherb501I was just thinking about that lol. There's always like one word totally off every episode. I think he does it to troll us.

KEKW

but tbf can you blame them, the theme of using leeches to remove poison is too good to pass up.

but tbf can you blame them, the theme of using leeches to remove poison is too good to pass up.

Poison is very unfun in commander, specially with Proliferate, and there is no counterplay other than "win the game fast" if you get at least 1 counter there, since the Poison player can just keep proliferating you to death with your counters and playing a control game. I wished there was at least cards that decrease the counter a bit so you can have counterplay

⁠@@NataliaNeeSamainfect usually is blown out of proportion. It can kill 1 player, and they usually run out of steam and then get ganged up on. It doesn’t help most infect cards actually really suck lol. It works well in modern or legacy because it’s a 1v1 format and you only need to take out 1 person. In commander, taking out 3 people is tough

​@@NataliaNeeSama ​There is already counterplay without having cards that decrease the amount you have. Original Melira, new Melira (though she isn't as good as it), Solemnity, and Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider, directly interact with how many poison counters opponents can put on you. Additionally, you can play various forms of regular interaction to stop things from giving you poison counters. Opponent has a lot of infect and toxic creatures? Play a fog, boardwipe, or a lot of creatures to block with. Opponent has a lot of cards that proliferate or otherwise directly put poison counters on you? Counterspells and stifle effects are your friend (Azorius Guildmage + Training Grounds is great at this; great against planeswalkers as well). Poison itself isn't really unfun if you are actually interested in participating in the game, it's Infect that can be unfun by allowing players to easily be killed in one hit. And if poison is really such an issue with your Commander playgroup, consider discussing raising the limit to 20 to keep it in line with the life point increase that the format has. It's really not a huge problem, just like commander damage isn't really a huge problem, and it enables a strategy that has huge issues in the commander format, aggro. Other than infect one-shots, poison is an aggro strategy, and is the only really successful one in Commander because of the increased life points and multiple opponents you have to chew through.

Exactly. Chandler can destroy Teeka's Dragon, how many other creatures can say that????

I genuinly wonder if back in the days they were making these cards bad on purpose or they were just overestimating cards so hard. Becuase I just don't understand how they could print power nine and think it's fine to then print cards like Joven's Tools. You don't need to be a genius to see that this card is insanely overpriced and not worth playing.

@@N4chtigall they Really didn't know what they were doing (in some aspects even today they don't. I'm looking at you Ragavan and Oko)

for me it was the cost that makes it so laughably bad. like ok, the effect isnt incredible but its usable, i can see and have been in situations where having access to that effect would be extremely helpful. but its not worth 6 mana. or 4. or barely even 2 and certainly nowehere near 10.

Good God, Veldrane is such a dumpster fire of a card. It was the second card that came to mind when I saw the title (the filter lands deserved to be at #1).

Also is a bauble, that costs 1 instead of 0 because it could gain you life, so you get deck info faster about your opponents decks.

@@atk9989 , yes, it even has text, also, its even better in legacy* as you can go play a discard spell, have your opponent brainstorm away their best cards to hide them on top, and then you come along with this banger, insanely evil.

I would agree that Dwarven Sea Clan even though it have restrictions doesn't look that bad when you think about the average toughness of creatures back in the days. Low toughness creatures were much more common.

@@N4chtigall I was trying to say the Dwarven Sea Clan is worse by a mile than any of the cantriping cards, since it does not, and is just bad. Yes, its benefit is great, since its power/thoughness matters more, however in early magic playing more than 2 colors was exeedingly rare because of janky mana bases, so the chance your opponent has an island is less than a 50/50, and while a 3 mana 1/1 was better than it is now, it is still laughably bad. If its benefit comes up, sure, its playable, however still not great as even the worst ping effects can take it out.

Yeah, there's sort of a limit on how bad a 1-mana cantrip can be (even a slow one). Now if this was a list of how *outclassed* a card is...well, this is no Gitaxian Probe.

When your deck is so bad your friend gives you *basic* *lands* out of pity, you know this expansion sucks.

Eventually going +0 with a card is definitely better than never having a chance to play it

Agreed, I think overlooking the fact that the card replaces itself completely changes where this would be on the list. I’m not even sure it would be on the list honestly

I had the video on in the background while I was doing something else (like pretty much everyone does) and I needed to alt+tab to make sure I wasn't hearing things.

It's understandable. It's homelands.

Yeah I have no idea why prophecy was number 1. At worst it's like a mishra's bauble that costs a single white mana though shuffling afterwards means no info on what they are drawing next turn, but it does give info on stuff they may have boarded in or are playing maindeck. Winter sky is undeniably worse because a lost flip is just a -1 in card advantage and winning the flip still isn't that good unless there are a metric ton of X/1's. Honestly it's better than all the other cards on this list besides maybe that 4 mana artifact creature that loses a +1/+0 counter at end of combat if it attacked or blocked. 4 mana 4/3 was still above rate at the time although it only looks bad compared to juggernaut, a card so efficient it got banned in the early days of the game.

Not strictly better. Renewal cantrips.

I love the art on prophecy

Renewal is pretty too but winter sky is terrible

There is a list of most impactful set in magic on this Chanel already.

it can potentially do something, so its not top 10. Then again if they are using a lot of homelands cards you might be doing them a favor

I actually have a Kitchen Table apocalypse chime deck, using Barren Glory as the wincon

Agreed. No one uses Homelands permanents because they are horrible, so Apocalypse Chime will always do nothing!

at least they realized how bad it was and made a far better version later in Crop Rotation, which is 2 mana cheaper, an instant instead of a sorcery, and can grab any land

I don’t think its that terrible of a card since it cantrips

Oh, and Karn Mycosynth combo is my finisher. Usually by turn 3 or 4.

The Chime actually got some brief Meta relevance due to Autumn Willow and Ishan's Shade. Both were choice wincons for their time and are very hard to deal with for some decks. Therefore, a generic, splashable boardwipe that can deal with these 2 wincons is passable for players who cant deal with them with their color's cards.

Unfortunately, no. It requires an untapped creature. If you check the Oracle / Official ruling of thr card in MTG arena, it was errata'd to indicate it :(

@@bluedestiny2710 ahhhh the errata. that explains the untapped being added. thank you!

It's thematic (useless but thematic) Someday the prophecy will come true... I see... A FOREST

So true. She is such an under appreciated artist and her stuff is so charming

I still want it. Still sore about Ulgrotha's only inclusion in MOM being the obligatory battle card.

It’s still pretty horrible, you’d rather not spend your mana activating it compared to casting more defenders. And you will only realistically use it by tapping arcades or a summoning sick defender, so even using it is quite slow. It’s also where my mind went as I have an arcades deck, but it still sucks there.

1 pet pick does not absolutely cripple your deck, so while it's not a top-tier pick, if you want to try it, it won't absolutely make your deck just fail

When you have 99 slots to fill, every hole is a trench.

The best card in the expansion makes it so all instances of the expansion dissapears from the board 😂

For those who might be confused how a set-hosing card (Apocalypse's Chime) actually became good was mostly due to 2 cards: Ishan's Shade and Autumn Willow. For its time, both cards are really good wincons. Autumn Willow is a 4/4 with Shroud that can be changed into Hexproof (somewhat, since you can choose who can target her) for G mana. So unless you have a board wipe spell, youre gonna have trouble removing this card off the field. Meanwhile, Ishan's Shade is a 5/5 with protection from white. He is pretty much immune to spot removal during his time due to its color (most black spot removal doesnt effect black cards) and the protection effect makes it a threat against white players. Therefore, a generic, splashable card that can take down 2 of the more popular wincons at the time gets the attention of players who have no access to boardwipes

@@bluedestiny2710 very interesting. Thank you for the comment

@@shinkirou7095 it had its time in the sun... but it was very brief considering better wincons were printed soon after But hey... at least Chime can claim it was a choice sideboard card... 90% of the set only saw play as cup mats O.O

Except winter sky

@@DiscardatRandom oh c'mon that art is awesome,poor guy is on acid and have no idea why he is on the top of a mountain,i love it

@@7Alberto7 hmmm you’ve convinced me

When people talk about removing poison counters they talk about removing poison counters from yourself, because removing them from an opponent is worthless

@poiri that doesn't make my stamens any less factual nor does it make the statement in the video factual. They said "no other card can remove poison counters" when that is in fact not the case.

you didn't even spell it right TWO times. Sunclenaser doesn't do anything because that's not a magic card. Checkmate. @@stigmaoftherose

You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.