Summary

• Play with overlooked cards in Commander for unique strategies and surprise value.
• Even jank can be playable if you're committed enough.
• Maybe not Wood Elemental, though.

On paper, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering's Commander format is where you can play with just about any of its over 25,000 cards. 𒀰The weird, the wonderful, the janky, they're all up for grabs. In reality, though, you're likely only really playing in a pool of a few thousand truly viable cards, which can lead to some repetition.

Why not break free and try some of the least-played cards in the entire format? All of these cards are considered too bad, or too niche, to ever see play. B𝓰ut with the right buiild and a can-do attitude, you can live out your dreams of surprising your opponents with cards nobody has thought about in years.

To find the most unplayed cards, we used rankings. As meme decks will always exist,🌜 these aren't the least-played cards ever, but are among the least-played ones anyone could realistically want to use.

10 🥃 Woeleecher 🉐

Found In 28 Decks

Six mana for a 3/5 feels like a ripoff, even in white. However, this Elemental interacts 🌃with certain mechanics in a very handy way that makes Woeleeceher potentially something you'd want to run.

Specifically, Woeleecher enabled any creature with persist in a big way. If a creature with persist dies without a -1/-1 counter, it returns to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it. All you need to do then is use Woeleecher🍬 to remove that counter, and your creature can die and return again and again. It's worse than a Solemnity, but having backups for your game plan🌞s is always good.

9 🐓 🔥 Jeweled Spirit

Found In 36 Decks

A few cards on this list have you sacrificing lands for a bonus. In most decks, this would be an almost idiotic thing to do - giving up your key resource to protect a 3/3 from ar🌠tif💧acts and a single colour just isn't worth it. However, there is an interesting way to use this.

Naturally, any way to sacrifice lands will be right at hom꧑e in a landfall deck. Throw two lands into your graveyard, and they're ready to be replayed next turn with a Ramunap Excavator or Ancient Greenwarden. Putting this in your Yuma, Proud Protector deck isn't𒅌 a terrible idea as a way to quickly make tokens at instant speed.

8 ♋ Keeper Of 🧜The Light

Found In 43 Decks

Blimey, white had a lot of not-so-great cards back in the day. Keeper of the Light is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a lifegain piece with the added downside of not working if you've gained too much life. You'll always need to keep yourself in second place to ensure you can make use of it, but, again, there are ♛ways to abuse it.

Bloomburrow introduced a whole archetype built around both losing and gaining life in a single turn. With the added lifeloss cards like Lunar Convocation, you'll always be able to🤡 switch on things like Essence Channeller with ease. As Keeper of the Light is an activated ability, you also have added control over when you gain life.

7 🐽 Cunning Giant

Found In 44 Decks

Cunning Giant's ability is a really interesting one that, at first glance, doesn'ဣt sound like much. If it's unblocked, you can choose to deal the combat damage it would have dealt to any creature the defending player controls. But you're not hurting the opponent directly? Snooze central, right? Wrong.

Cunning Giant is a removal spell disguised as a creature. If your opponent is trying to hold on to a small creature, like a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:hatebear piece or an Esper Sentinel, you can swing out and force them to lose it r♓egardless. Add a way to make it unblockable, like Brotherhood Regalia or Sil🙈ver Shroud Costume, to force him through and just remove the big threats from the board.

6 💙 Topan Ascetic

Found In 59 Decks

It's surprising Topan Ascetic doesn't see more play, considering the ability is actually quite good for one of green's favourite things to do: going wide. Swing in with Topan Ascetic, an🧸d then, before damage, tap everything you can to make it as big as possible for massive amounts of damage.

It works even better if you have a way to untap creatures. With a couple of mana boosters you could infinitely tap and untap Pili-Pala to make Topan Ascetic arbitrarily b🦹ig, turning this slept-on uncommon into one of the biggest threats on the board.

5 🐻 Temporal Eddy

Found In 81 Decks

Most veteran Magic players would agree that having a card bounced to the top of y♊our library is far worse than it just being destroyed. You'll still lose that piece for your next turn, but you'll also lose the opportunity to draw a better card next turn, and you'll lose the mana on recasting it.

Temporal Eddy might only be a sorcery, but the fact you can target lands with it makes the heftღy four-mana cost worth it. Throwing a creature back to someone is bad, throwing back their land could stall them o🐭ut for multiple turns if you time it right.

4 🍬 Mole𝄹 Worms

Found In 87 Decks

Mass land denial is only accepted in the🐈 highest brackets of Commander, but Mole Worms offers you a way to shut down an opponent's awkward land in the softest, most low-bracket way possible. All you need to do is keep Mole Worms tapped, and the land will stay locked down too.

Though it doesn't shut down lands like Reliquary Tower, anything with a tap ability can no longer work. Cabal Coffers, for example, won't make absurd amounts of mana, because it's now too busy being tapped by a load of gros👍s worms instead.

3 ♉ Thick-Skinned Goblin

Found In 103 Decks

A lot of m🌟echanics in Magic are outright downsides, and among them is echo.🦂 Permanents with echo need you to pay two costs: one to cast, and then once on the next upkeep to keep the thing you've already paid for, or else it'll sacrifice itself. Time Spiral's Thick-Skinned Goblin lets you just say "nah" to that, and keep those echo permanents for free.

It's not so much the♊ Goblin itself that's good, but what it lets you keep🅰. Many echo triggers aren't worth paying for, but some, like Extruder, Deranged Hermit, and Thran Weaponry are things you'd want to keep. Not having to pay an echo lets you advance your boardstate further, all thanks to one plucky little Goblin.

2 🍰 Wood Elemental 🉐

Found In 116 Decks

Wood Elemental is infamously known as the worst card in all of Magic: The ♈Gathering. As a cost, you need to sacrifice as many untapped Forests as you want, and in exchange you'll get... a slightly bigger Wood Elemental. That the Forests need to be untapped means you'll have to have🌞 not just enough mana spare to cast the Elemental, but enough on top of that to sacrifice.

But, much like Topan Ascetic, there are cool ways to break Wood 𓆉Elemental. Throwing lands into your graveyard has a lot of payoffs not around when this card was printed, and enough 𓆉ways to replay them from the graveyard too. More importantly, it's a banger in Ashaya, Soul of the Wild, as you can sacrifice untapped creatures to it as well.

1 Ivy Seer

Found In 56 Decks

Having knowledge of your opponent's hand can be a vital tool - knowing if they have interaction, or if anything scary is coming out next turn, can help you plan out the rest of the game. But green 🅘doesn🅰't care about strategy and foreplanning, all it wants to do is smash, and Ivy Seer is an excellent way to close out a game.

Lands are colourless, so won't help buff a creatur🔯e with Ivy Seer.

Get a trampling creature on the board, fill your hand up with green cards, and you could easily be wiping an opponent out in no time at all. If you're using Ivy Seer in a deck, you'll likely also want to throw in something like a Return of the Wildspeaker to get as many cards into your hand as possible. After all, you only have to discard down to seven at the end of your turn - long after yoꦿu've hit someone with a +20/+20 trampler.