What is the absolute worst card in the game?

Doesn’t have to be casual cards, can be wild too.

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Millhouse manastorm. The card is so bad it’ll often cost you a loss on turn 1.

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But is he not a 2 mana?

Silverback Patriarch. 3 Mana 1/3 Taunt

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1/4, but yes. He’s my pick as well.

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I vote Mindgames, 4 mana Priest spell; summon a copy of a random minion in your opponent’s deck. No synergy, no battlecry, just a body that’s almost certainly smaller than the 4/5 Tundra Yeti you’d probably be better off running.

Edit: Bonus points for when your opponent doesn’t have a minion, it summons a 0/1 to take up a space on your board. Even the “so it doesn’t do nothing” effect does nothing.

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Duskfallen Aviana. Milhouse may cost you a game in Wild but in Standard people don’t play spells too much. Aviana means you can die on the next turn or get it removed and they push face.

Close Number 2 would be Generous Mummy, this is the only card with which I have ever done a turn 4 kill. Same deal as Aviana but if you drop it on turns 4+, there’s a high chance you lose the game either on the spot or in 1-2 turns.

If you wanna go wild, Void Crusher - 8 mana destroy a random minion and your Void Crusher. 5 mana overcost on Deadly Shot in a class that has Twisting Nether.

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The card that wins the game for my opponent :wink:

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Silverback P carries with him a message.

A strong, powerful, easily-recognizable message.

You play Silverback: you dont info-share up meta, then play meta.
You play Silveback: You are an individual and expressive.

Silverback says “i play my own decklist, not meta, and i also did not go on the info-share internet to find my decklist and curve it out”. That is why you play silverback and company.

Example.
Wild.
Your opponent plays Bloomlock.
You play Silverback P.

Silverback bumps that Void or LK, and your opponent looks at your 1/4 taunt Beast-thing and goes “Look how good this decklist that i Youtubed is doing!” while you think “Look how much my opponent’s internet searching / 30 second brainstorming vomited on our board! Anyone got a towel, not for the board, for my own face?”.

Its like taking the high road in the internet age.
Do you stoop, or do you take the loss and do the good-citizen thing.

My vote for worst card in the game? Starving Buzzard.

It’s worse-stats, and less-effect than Silverback for 2 more mana. Runner up? Seeping Oozeling. Runner up again? 5 mana Tolvir Warden…Paladins do this for 1 mana lol…like completely. What other overcosted, heavily, severely, rexxar cards i could add to this list. Flare is up there becuase it’s 2 gigantic mana, same with Hunter’s Mark. Of course, Rhok Delar is up there, since when has a game gone on that long in wild in years? When has defensive, trading-oriented secrets, or minion-only damage mattered on turn 15? Etc Balance Rexxar devs, its aggro or bust, or like reno 1 card at a time anti-aggro only, or bust.

Starving Buzzard also carries the message that Silverback does, but the problem with going Buzzard is the game’s over by turn 5, like not on board, i mean actually death-portrait by turn 5 in wild, and it’s not usually by aggro, but from a from-hand combo.

Buzzard, can’t you defend against that Maly and spells you are about to face?
Agree SIlverback P is bad, but Starving Buzzard doesnt even get to see the board.

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It’s like Stonehill defender without Discover. He’s bad to a LOT of others cards, but not the absolute worst. Absolute worst is indeed Millhouse, none would put him in his deck at all.

I would argue Shadowform is probably the worst card in the game.

At least silverback Patriach can stop an attack and is some stats on the board, Shadowform is 3 mana reduce your hand size by 1, you can then pay the bargain price of another 2 mana to do 2 dmg, so that’s a mere 5 mana for 2 dmg! Doesn’t even kill our monkey friend.

With all the discover and card generation/draw now available the “value” side of the card is almost irrelevant, you can spend another 2 mana next turn to do another 2 dmg without using a card, but most decks don’t run out of cards and can just spend their mana more efficiently.

Now Team 5 have essentially said they will never support Shadowform, I think it genuinely has a shot of being the worst card in Hs.

How can you call a card worst, if there is no deck type for it? Shadowform is great (but suffers to DK Anduins OP HP) in a midrange / aggro deck, but there is no offensive decks for priest, that’s why this card is bad. And I dislike that Blizzard hofed this card, because now this card can never shine, because DK Anduin is just better in any way. Blizzard just failed once again and hofed the wrong card, I’d rather see PW:S banned…

I could fill this thread with just priest cards.

For starters how about surrender to madness - give your minions +2 +2 and auto lose the game.

Hard to think of a worse card in this game than duskfallen aviana though. Even Millhouse is better than that trash. At least he’s a strong turn 2 tempo play if your opponent doesn’t happen to have any useful spells in hand. Aviana couldn’t possibly be more useless.

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I will also say Duskfallen Aviana. Millhouse can be generated from RNG 2 drop summons which can actually swing the game if the tempo and value comes early enough (such as 4 mana Piloted Shredder summoning a 2 mana 4/4).

Duskfallen Aviana is slower in tempo at 5 mana, will have a negative effect as long as it is on the board (As opposed to battlecries being negated if summoned elsewhere), and if generated will likely already be after you have potentially used your side of the deal, making it a near guarantee loss (like playing cheap minions first then using The Stormbringer to turn them into Legendary minions; the cheap minions already count for the effect). This card is objectively so bad, it takes my vote as the worst card in the game.

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wth, terrible choice. hes just weak but its at least a 1/4 with taunt. millhouse will lose u the game. even magma rager is way worse at 5/1

I used Millhouse in a Call to Arms deck a long time ago, and it worked great. There are a lot of cards I’ve never used, so Millhouse is not even close to the worst card, for me.

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Angry chicken is far worse than millhouse.

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I don’t know by ‘worst’ you mean no value or to play against, but I would say Millhouse.

To play against? Fill the lot with Priest cards.

My first instinct was to scream “it’s the mighty Millhouse Manastorm”, but someone above reminded me that you can pull him from your deck with Call to Arms. Despite being nearly unplayable, he actually has some form of positive use. Duskfallen Aviana on the other hand…she’s just trash of the purest caliber. Her “potential” upside is so slim that nobody ran this card…ever. It was one of those cards where people saw her and immediately said “trash”. Even people who have tried to use this card have found no viable option for her. Millhouse was actually played in the OG Hearthstone days, but with the power creep of spells over time his downside became too harsh for him to stay relevant. Duskfallen Aviana was printed only 2 years ago…like it makes you stop and wonder what the devs were even thinking. Considering she was part of the final year of cards Ben Brode created, my guess is that he had basically mentally checked out by that point and didn’t really care.

Warsong Commander. It was a niche combo card and then they killed it and made what is effectively a vanilla 3 mana 2/3 class card. The only Class card worse than basic nuetrals.