Top 10 Worst Planeswalkers

Since their introduction in the Lorwyn block in 2007, Planeswalkers have been a major part of Magic the Gathering in casual and competitive play. However not every Planeswalker has lived up to even the most basic expectations of viability. While we will be looking at the worst planeswalkers, we will specifically be referring to mythic rare planeswalkers. There have been both uncommon and rare Planeswalkers but those are both more recent and far less common, and by default are generally less powerful than mythic rare planeswalkers. We will also be excluding planeswalkers printed in Introduction decks, given that they were purposely designed to be unplayable in constructed formats and only really used by new players. Every other Planeswalker however is fair game for consideration.

Editing by Pumkinswift
Script by Uncrowned Jules
├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10. Sarkhan the Mad (0:33)
9. Dovin, Grand Arbiter (2:04)
8. Ajani Goldmane (3:38)
7. Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer (5:06)
6. Huatli, Radiant Champion (6:48)
5. Nissa Revane (8:20)
4. Jace, the Living Guildpact (9:57)
3. Chandra Ablaze (11:45)
2. Gideon, Champion of Justice (13:33)
1. Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded (15:18)

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(Just a note, we have people who actually know the game very well making the scripts for this channel. As the owner of the channel (Theduellogs/hirumaredx) is a total newbie to the game.)

[Spyromancy]

I will never get over the emotional damage of going to Avacyn Restored prerelease. My friend pulls a Craterhoof, I pull a Tibalt.

[Spooky_Bard]

I actually like Huatli, Radiant Champion in EDH, just because her abilities gel with the format much better. First, the four player nature tends towards gummy boardstates and makes Planeswalkers less of a target—after all, you’ve got two other people to worry about. Her second ability also helps pump up your commander to more easily threaten 21 commander damage. The emblem also lacks the “nontoken” stipulation, which turns token producers into crazy draw engines—and in a format where consistency is kneecapped and games tend to go very long, card advantage is king.

[dark_rit]

Goldmane was used in standard back in it's day IIRC due to token decks. Just used the 1/1 counters ability over and over until the opponent died. They also weren't sure what planeswalkers were capable of since they were a brand new card type.

[jaggededge]

Huatli has a specific role, and that is to be the top end in a token deck. If you have 4 creatures on board when you activate her +1 ability (Which is fairly easy in those type of decks), that sets her up to Ult range on the following turn (And likely enough chump blockers to see to it). From there, you basically hit critical mass with card advantage (As even something like Raise the Alarm allows you to draw 2 cards). The Emblem is effectively Beck // Call, as it does not care about you casting creatures (Unlike Beast Whisperer) and is optional (So you will not deck yourself because of it).

[amberhernandez]

Glad to see that Tibalt is still a top option in _something_ !

[ericgasper]

Ajani Goldmain was in LSV's top 8 black while tokens Pro Tour deck. He's actually fantastic, just not broad enough to see play outside go-wide strategies. That's not a bad thing though, because most are only good in the right deck.

[robertbeisert]

Huatli screams "token spam", to me. I used to run loyalty elves that could print tokens fast enough to make her pretty usable.

[brosam_]

The thing with a lot of these is that you don't mention how good they are in the specifics niches they fill and instead are basically just in the "I'm gonna build Atraxa superfriends" mindset. Like with Hualti, Radiant Champion, her +1 is meant to appeal to one of the top selesnya/naya strats of all time, being tokens. And also having at least four creatures out by the time you get Huatli out in selesnya is easy so idk why it's being seen as this huge endeavor in the reasoning

[matthewoliveira]

But that Tibalt has a history
In the in game lore, he was supposed to be a random character for Sorin (a REALLY powerful Planeswalker) to fight, he was even supposed to die upon his intro, he just stayed because there are very few characters in MTG who are borderline insane

[jphoenix]

I'm pretty sure both Huatli and Mu Yanling saw some competitive play back during their own standard formats.

[SnowyFoxxo]

Mu Yanglin, Sky Dancer is actually a really nice support planeswalker. It's probably not gonna win you the game, unless you really go ham with that 4/4 bird token, but the -2/-0 and loses flying is actually pretty relevant, especially against creature decks. Sometimes slowing down your opponent by that 2 damage multiple times is game changing in the early game

[seilaoquemvc]

thank you for finally making a list like this while ignoring the "planeswalker deck" walkers that are designed to be unplayable either way.

[beelor]

Thank you for not just putting 10 intro deck planeswalkers like other list on YouTube.

[jaxsonbateman]

There are way worse walkers than Mu Yanling, especially at 3 mana. A good walker typically needs to have at least one ability that protects itself to be good, and not only does she have that, but it's at +2 loyalty. Sure, it's not as good at protecting as creating a creature token (that can absorb more than 2 damage) or outright stopping something from attacking, possibly by removing the threat outright, but +2 on a self-protecting ability is nice. Plus, she's in blue - y'know, the control color. More than likely you can keep them down to their smallest creature (which you neuter with Mu) through your other spells.

[wjdelu]

Gideon, Champion of Justice was the first Planeswalker I ever pulled. I was so excited and jammed it in my GW token deck. I dont remember if I ever pulled off the ultimate, but I just really liked him.

[phyrexian_dude]

Compared to the rest, Ajani Goldmane actually saw successfull competitive play. Back in the day, you only used him for its -1 and with a bunch of Kithkins or token based decks after that. Sure, he has not aged like wine but it is at least more playable than the rest of the list.

The other that i will give some slack is Huatli, she is still not good but i have seen her using her ult in commander games, the only place were she can actually function.

[jettblade]

I do like that this list was restricted to Mythics because lower rarity cards tend to be less powerful intentionally. I don't think they any of these are unplayable they just need the right deck to shine. Chandra Ablaze is one where she wasn't printed with a whole lot of support to help her. She likes Maddness and can work extremely well with it. Also the fact she doesn't exile the cards from your graveyard really helps her because you can do some really stupid things with it.
I've actually had success with Tibalt, mostly in commander. Surprisingly the disrespect people have for him can work against them. Had this one game where I was just sitting there ticking up Tibalt while they were building up their board and I was able to take all their stuff slap them with it for the win, this actually wasn't a commander game. There is this card from Neon Dynasty called Containment Construct that can make Tibalt's +1 usable. He is still not anywhere 'good' but he isn't as bad as he was with some more support.

[VCV]

I mean, they are all pretty specific cards that want specific builds.

Also Tibalt is the only planeswalker ever available in white border!

[TheYIAmag]

I once placed top 24 in nationals using Sarkhan The Mad in standard, it was a really weird deck that primarily used his -2 ability to get rid of Abyssal Persecutor after getting my opponents below zero. There were other ways to sac the demon, but this card (2 of them in the deck) provided ways to do some of the interesting interactions, I also ran that sparkmage haste creature with the lifelink and deathtouch equipment.

[Jake-ewlg]

Mu yanling, sky dancer is a solid threat in 60-card formats.