47 Bad Magic Cards You Won't Believe Used To Be Good

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• JO

  @JoeNeutrino · 1 year ago

  Back in my day, creatures had downsides. Nowadays Vivi doesn't even have to tap.

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• GA

  @GabAssbreaker · 1 year ago (edited)

  What i like about a lot of these cards, is that they weren&apos;t even that good back in the day, but they where correct answer againt an specific meta-game , or just the thing that deck needed at the moment.<br><br>A card like Iron-claw Orcs was below rate even during Alpha, yet it was the genious of the players of that era that made it a tempo staple. Same with the beloved Jackal Pup, terrible cards that did amazing works in the early Sligh decks

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• NI

  @NickHuntingtonKlein · 1 year ago

  A big component of all the Homelands cards on the list (esp Serrated Arrows) is that type II (standard) at the time had a rule that you needed 5 cards from each expansion. So every deck needed to figure out which Homelands card was the least-bad for their list. Often that was Serrated Arrows.

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• JU

  @JustaSmilingHedgehog · 1 year ago

  Reminder Rhystic study was a 5 cent bulk common.

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• TH

  @the-engneer · 1 year ago

  The nostalgia for a time when an 8/8 was the biggest creature in the game

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• UL

  @ulicknormanowen1801 · 1 year ago

  Damn, I miss the time when Urza&apos;s Rage was extreme anti-control weapon.

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• RA

  @rasmusforlorn7767 · 1 year ago

  Blinking Spirit does not fly. Funny you made the same mistake we did way back when… for years!

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• CL

  @cleanrefrigerator · 1 year ago

  I run 4 hypnotic specters in my arena mono black historic deck and it wrecks. &nbsp;Expecially when opponents ignore it over bigger &quot;threats&quot;.

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• NE

  @NessOnett8 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Pour one out for Mogg <s>Fanatic</s> Fantastic. Debatably the strongest red one-drop of all time(relative to the time). Made nearly unplayable due to fundamental changes to the rules of Magic. It didn&apos;t just get power crept, it literally doesn&apos;t do what it used to.

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• SE

  @senoreverything6366 · 1 year ago

  RIP Goblin Guide, gone but never forgotten

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• AX

  @axioms22 · 1 year ago

  i can feel my bones turning to dust watching this

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• FL

  @FlakManiak · 11 months ago

  One of my favorites is Scoria Cat, which has a sideboard appearance in a World Championship-winning deck in 2001. I&apos;m pretty sure the reason was that it was bigger than Blastoderm!

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