Can we get a thread going of bad cards with art that is good?
I for one am just fascinated by Uncovered Clues. Amazing art that looks brilliant as a foil with excellent flavor text, but it's practically a worse Divination. So disappointing. How could they mess that up?
Master Decoy, Tempest art. It's a zebra unicorn with a flag, and a rider with goofy feathers and a bunch of flags. Exactly what I imagine when I say, "Look! A great stampeding herd of well-placed distractions!"
Mirage is full of cards like that. Breathstealer is an incredible art on a mediocre card. Sure, it can help you summon the Spirit of the Night, but by itself it's pretty bleh. Malignant Growth looks horrid, but isn't that dangerous of a spell. Though I do feel a bit of pride knowing I've killed somebody with it before. Sealed Fate is a card that every B/U/x EDH deck I built I had around simply because the art is so amazing that I didn't want to believe the card itself was that bad. But it's a bad card with gorgeous art.
"If you knew anything about the lore you'd see that they were clearly hinting that the madness on Innistrad was caused by Uncle Istvan wearing Urza's Power Armor ... tainted with Phrexyian Oil"
Graham from Loading Ready Run
I for one am just fascinated by Uncovered Clues. Amazing art that looks brilliant as a foil with excellent flavor text, but it's practically a worse Divination. So disappointing. How could they mess that up?
UBRKess, Dissident MageUBR - Controlling Dissidents
GRhonas the IndomitableG - Indomitable Four Drops
WUBOloro, Ageless AsceticWUB - Loot & Renanimate
Love the artwork on this. But, really, it's a fluff card,
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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If it would at least draw a card or let me put two cards under the library, I would play it, just because of the artwork.
Or are you interested in a Fiora flavor cube? Conspire and win!
Level 2 Judge
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Silverskin Armor - Terese Nielsen's artwork is gorgeous, even if it shows up on some mediocre cards.
-- The Gatewatch
I'm sure that's impossible.
Mine will always be Kiss of the Amesha.
You are in no position to advise anyone on the wasted potential of anything when it comes to thread ideas.
Anyway, to the topic at hand, muthatruckin' Flame Elemental! Look at that guy!
My 720 Peasant Cube
Shard of Broken Glass
Contingency Plan
Something like that would be neat imo.
Ashling the Pilgrim just looks super dope to me.
Amass the Components
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
Graham from Loading Ready Run
Maybe not totally awful in edh, but bad enough in most formats that I think it qualifies.
Phenax - Mill
Breya - Combo
Sidisi, Brood Tyrant - Token
Oloros - Combo
Jeleva - eh...working on it
Yidris - Soft Combo