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** [http://magiccards.info/lg/en/118.html Shelkin Brownie]'s special ability is to remove the "Bands with other" ability from creatures. In the history of ''Magic'', there are ''two'' cards with the "Bands from other" ability: the 1/1 tokens created by [http://magiccards.info/lg/en/108.html Master of the Hunt], and the ''Unhinged'' card [http://magiccards.info/uh/en/106.html Old Fogey], which is illegal in every format and only has the ability as a joke (the only creatures he can band with, aside from creatures that have the regular Banding ability, are other copies of himself). Oh, plus a cycle of lands that are serious contenders for "Worst card in the game" and probably shouldn't count. Good old Shelkin Brownie, keeping the world safe from four-mana 1/1s and legendary lands that don't produce mana!
** The infamously bad card [http://magiccards.info/lg/en/186.html Great Wall] is an enchantment that stops creatures with the Plainswalk ability. At the time of its printing, this included exactly two cards, both of them craptastic: [http://magiccards.info/lg/en/203.html Righteous Avengers], a 3/1 for 5 mana with no other abilities; and [http://magiccards.info/ch/en/5.html Giant Slug], which could only gain Plainswalk by paying 5 mana a turn. Good thing we built that wall, right?
* [[Useless Item]]: Battle of Wits makes you win the game if you have 200 or more cards in your library. Most formats have no maximum on deck size, so it's difficult to pull off and predictable (since nothing else uses a deck that big) in most formats, but not useless. In formats like ''Commander'', which requires decks have exactly 100 cards, it's useless.
** Two combos exist that could theoretically allow it to be played. Both amount to summoning nigh-infinite cards from outside the game, shuffling them all into your deck, then playing battle of wits. These have two problems 1: Having a nigh-infinite number of creatures on the battlefield pretty much wins the game anyways, especially as virtually all board wipes are banned in Commander. Shuffling them into your library then playing Battle of Wits is extraneous. 2: Commander's rules state limitations on pulling cards from outside the game have to be agreed upon by all players before the game starts, so you can only pull these off if all opponents let you.
* [[When I Was Your Age]]: The Unhinged Parody set has [http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid{{=}}74235 Old Fogey] and its accompanying flavor text.
{{quote|These kids today with their collector numbers and their newfangled tap symbol. Twenty [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid{{=}}600 Black Lotuses] and 20 [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid{{=}}3871 Plague Rats]. Now that's real '''Magic'''.}}
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