They also released a "counterpart" for this, Amabie was released during the pandemic as a symbolic gesture as in japan, the Amabie is a yokai that comes out from the sea and predicts whether there will be good harvest or an epidemic, in yugioh the card works in an almost similar fashion as, at the start of your main phase, you reveal the card (mimicking coming out of the sea) and each player gains 300 lp, as if she's predicting prosperity in the future instead of an epidemic.
You could also use Scroll of Bewitchment against Five-headed dragon, change your opponent’s monsters attribute to one you want to use against them, or change the monster to attribute appropriate material
Sword of The Soul Eater totally feels like a card Joey would use to pull a duel out of his ass after a gamble strategy didn't save him for whatever reason.
my first ever deck that I played back then was built around MokeyMokey being equipped with Sword of the Soul Eater and sending fairy type monsters to the grave while MokeMokey Smackdown is active.
tbh all those "lore accurate" awful equips like Pestilence or the Paralizing Potion have a soft spot in my heart, its just cool to see them actually create "realistic" cards, something that modern YGO basically doesn't have anymore
Making cards to counter one specific type/attribute are very rarely useful, but I appreciate how some of them countered everything except Machines. I wish we got a few more cards like that, even if trash.
@@ich3730 that's kinda realistic too if you think about it. I think he means archetypes like phantom knights or black birds for example, which have arbitrary effects not based on their naming and visual design
Fortunately Rush duel kind of goes back to that without slowing the pace of the game down. By getting rid of the extra deck in favor of speeding up normal summons, those cards now have more of a use again, which makes Rush duel a great way to modernize Yugioh before the horrendous powercreep. Though Link monsters really are what broke the game beyond repair as they don't have a mechanical weakness like the other summon types and while yes they speed up the game, they basically obsoleted almost every other strategy like these equips cause "you can just link it off" which is the most bullsh8t thing.
I know theres barely any monsters in the archtype, but I would so love a retrains of trial of the princess. pikeru and curran are fun to use, I just wish their princess forms were even remotely playable.
If they did a retrain of them, I would have them keep some measure of their old life gain and burn effects, but also add new effects that allow the pair to contribute more. Maybe the white magician could pay life to revive her fallen companion, while ebon magician might compliment burn with removal. Maybe continue the story with older more experienced versions of the 2 magicians who take a new trial... one reminiscent of the one from their youth only for darker secrets to be revealed, but with their combined efforts, they succeed and become even stronger.
Considering how much DuelLogs thinks most equip cards are essentially useless in modern Yugioh these the worst of the worst in one of the worst types of cards.
Equip cards should be placed under the monster it is equipped to because that would make things easier to track what is going on, and it still lets you use other spells/traps. I would also have it during your standby phase after a monster is destroyed, to re-equip a/the card(s) to another monster, or send it to the GY. (Maybe the last part applies to certain equip cards.)
I do like how he considers the casual/for fun strats this time. These are my favorite kind of videos, when he explains the most niche ways to make positive use of a card which either shows how it could be used, or objectively why it's not worth running even in gimmick games instead of assuming every duel is for tournament wins exclusively. A lot of people use casual cards JUST to see if we could pull off a rare 1/100 win with a 4k Ojama yellow, but every card has A strategy and outside of meme decks purely designed to make a bad card work, we can't always assume the opponent is going to draw the board wipes first draw that make many cards obsolete. So I appreciate this video not assuming EVERY duel will have the opponent draw the perfect hand and objectively focuses on why the player using the card has better options assuming the card DOES do it's intended job. Makes for much better videos than the "This card sucks cause it can't beat tears, so it's not worth using" some other videos do.
@@alexanderrobins7497it would definitely have to only work with certain equip spells if that mechanic were implemented, otherwise Mikanko Fire Dance would become a free special summon from the graveyard or hand every turn
These early equips were outdated in the tcg from the start. In the ocg, monsters gradually got stronger by release. Rogue dolls with a 1600 atk were incredibly strong back then, thats the time those early equips really were necessary
Paralyzing Potion is actually really strong in one very specific format. If you are playing a historic progression series, by the time it comes out, you might not have any other form of non combat removal or slow down, so you can run potion as a very desperate option to prevent getting killed
@@drpureinsanity That’s a different format. Progressions series are a draft format, where you are unlikely to have access to high rarity or structure deck cards. Especially in old YGO, where outside a handful of staples most cards did nothing. This means powerful removal like raigeki/dark hole or defensive options like Wabaku are unavailable. Leading to some desperate deck building choices So, in this format where you must choose between you 10th vanilla with 1400 atk or 2k def that will clog up your hand and a card that does almost nothing outside of stalling really badly, you choose the latter option. Sure it does almost nothing but almost nothing is still better than nothing at all
It's funny, cause if you hard cut to the early days of the OCG, that Sword saw play. It's almost shocking how many OCG cards became worthless by the time we got the game.
Talking about Equip Spell actually gives one idea : How about cards that are doing nothing alone, and need other cards to work well. Some sort like Broken Bamboo Sword
Not quite nothing, but both Eldlich's effects don't seem game changing at first. Until you figure out all of its Spell/Traps have GY effects, then it's "oh my god they're never gonna stop resurrecting that lich"
I remember using Paralyzing Potion in the old PC-game Power Of Chaos: Kaiba the Revenge. Not because it was good but because I lacked alternatives. And stalling is still better than being overrun by a tribute monster.
Prevention Star was an anime card. Yusei used it in round 2 against Akiza. If it also negated the enemy monster's effects and locked it out of being used as Synchro material, then it probably would have been at number 10 or 9 of the list because at the very least, the monster was unable to be used for a Synchro summon. It's absolutely just an anime card. It's super situational.
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Remember when Aster Phoenix drew 2 Cards in the Anime due to Spark Blaster + Guard Penalty? That's probably the best use We'll ever seen out of that card lol.
There is value in every card; you just have to find it and believe in it. Paralyzing potion may not be strong, but it has great artwork and poses a challenge if you play in an old-school Duelist Kingdom format.❤
Legendary sword is an odd choice IMO for representing the OG equips, because you can equip it to Gaia to beat over Dark Magician, which wasn't nothing in the very first release. I'd say Violet Crystal is far worse due to having no good targets in either the boss monster or 1200ATK monster strata (in OG Vol1 YGO)
Rusty Engine would be an interesting card if it wasn’t limited to an awful archetype, but to balance it, maybe make it a trap only activated on your opponent’s battle phase that destroys the monster and deals its attack to both players.
also the fact that you have to destroy a level 5 or higher monster with either Pikeru or Curran is a huge issue since most of them are still stronger even with the attack boost from the equip, making it an even harder strategy to pull off than would ever be worth it.
Their upgraded forms would need to have a minimum of 2,400 ATK and/or some huge DEF points to even consider going through the hoops. Such a shame because I liked their concepts.
Legendary Sword DID find a use. Somewhat. Kinda. In Duel Links, Joey has a skill that revolves around Phoenix and Immortal Phoenix Gearfried. When you drew Immortal, you could activate the Skill, putting Legendary Sword in the Graveyard and Salamandra set on your backrow, both from outside your deck. As such, you can use LS to Special Summon Immortal. Though the skill ALSO lets you Normal Summon Immortal without Tributing, so even then the effect is lessened.
I used to use Scroll of Bewitchment in my Hieratic deck in high school. Basically turn Atum in a rank 7 gaia, make it a dark monster with scroll of bewitchment and then rank it us into 92 heart earth dragon with Rank-Up Magic Astral Force if I couldn’t OTK. God I used to love this game.
I would like to add, that United we Stand gives more attack (except if you controll a full board) than Sword of the Soul-Eater, does not require the equiped monster to have any special properties, does not require your other monsters to have any properties and - especially - doesn't require you to sacrifice your board either.... ^^
3:04 shout outs to duel links having "legendary sword" as part of the salamandra / gearfried skill, mostly so you can banish it to summon immortal phoenix gearfried
Fun fact: Prevention star debuted in the same set as dupe frog and was reprinted a year later with the second printing of one for one! I would be feeling some type of way if I pulled prevention star and my buddy gets dupe frog lmao
That elevator bit gave me flashbacks to the elevator in Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy series that desperately wanted to go back down to the lobby and was terrified of going to the higher floors. Funny coincidence if unintended, amazing reference if that was the point!
I had an unusually successful Spellcaster deck that used Scroll of Bewitchment with Charmers. It allowed me to take control of any of my opponents face up monsters whenever I flip summoned. Granted, it wasn't the greatest deck and I made it 10 years ago but I like making strange cards work even if only moderately.
24:34 Idea to retrain Soul Eater to improve it substantially: _The Soul Eater’s Sword - Starvation Supreme_ Equip Spell: _Equip only to a Non-Effect monster you control. When you activate this card, Negate and banish all other monsters from your hand, deck, extra deck, field, and GY facedown. Increase your LP and the ATK and DEF each of the equipped monster by equal to the combined total ATK/DEF of all the monsters that were banished. While the equipped monster is on the field, Your LP, and the equipped monster’s ATK/DEF, are increased by equal to the total ATK/DEF of all monsters that are sent to the GY or banished_
Hey duel logs. Can you cover the lore of duel links? It's kind of a mess for me because I haven't watched anything other than of Yu-Gi-Oh. I thought it was the program kaiba made to recreate the pharoah but at the same time it's also a continuation of another version of Yu-Gi-Oh? It's confusing. Thank you!
Disagree with Legendary Sword. When he described the "early" days of Yugioh, it didn't tackle with the era this card was ACTUALLY released in, aka OCG Volume 1 (Shoutout to @HumanReverend). And back in those days, despite terrible, it helps the 800 atk beasticks to be able to trade better against other 800 atk beatsticks. It can also be equipped to Gaia to defeat an unboosted Dark Magician. It also shares type with another 800 atker, which brings up the synergy a bit.
You expect Duel Logs to know anything about OCG 1999? The man is extremely biased to TCG and modern TCG. Duel Logs even proven he has very little knowledge on the OCG Almost all of his worst lists is just to rip apart outdated card design and making extremely unfair comparisons
Ekibyo Drakmord wasnt THAT bad. The games were longer back then so you could tribute something like a lava golem onto the field and hit it with Drakmord to have it come back to your hand a few turns later to play again.
The only somewhat ok Deck I think the Sword of the Soul-Eater can be useful in is Metalfoes. Say your opponent uses Banquet of Millions to start your Turn, ridding of you of all your Extra Deck plays that turn. Well, u can still use the Scale popping effects of Metalfoes to fill your Extra Deck as much as possible while searching, Pend Summon for 5, making sure of of them is LV3 Metalfoes card, then activate Sword to try to OTK. And, it's not that big of a minus, since all of the monsters u Tributed can be Pend Summoned next turn if you don't win.
Because that makes the Sword re-usable for Isolde's Effect. Isolde can send a whole bunch of Equip Cards from the Deck to the Graveyard to Special Summon a Warrior with a Level up to how many Equips you just sent. Using Phoenix Blade means you can basically turn Monsters in your GY that you don't need into more / higher-level Special Summons with Isolde more easily and without having to clog up your Deck with as many Equip Cards.
Fun thing about Legendary Sword is that there's a Duel Links Skill that sends the card to the graveyard from outside of the deck, the only card on this list that at least Konami seems to have a soft spot to include it on Duel Links.
Some of these cards actually can shine in niche formats featuring limited card pools like draft or set-pure preconstructed. Paralyzing potion saved me in multiple 25th an. retro booster drafts. Actually, quite a bit of early era ygo cards seem like they were tailor made for alternative formats like that which makes the lack of them (official at least) more surprising.
8:24 "Trying to to successfully use Trials is more of a Tribulation" I audibly sighed. I know this is a reference to a card. I don't remember the card but I know it exists. Edit: ...I shouldn't know the card, I've never seen it in my life before today but it's Trial and Tribulation
I actually used to use Sword of the Soul Eater in a Gravity Bind/Level Limit Area B deck back in the day. The primary wincon was Gren Maju boosted by cards banished with Skull Lair for spot removal, but in the case that Skull Lair was removed and Gren Maju would only be like 1200 atk or so, equipping a Jerry Bean or Sonic Duck (or even Gagagigo under ALO) with a card like Sword of the Soul Eater would provide a good beater that could still battle under Gravity Bind. Due to the stally nature of the deck, it wouldn't be uncommon to have 2 normal monsters on board since spot removal was less common back then and if those normal monsters were already too small to beat over whatever monsters they had (let's say Summoned Skull), then they weren't useful anyway.
Oh funny enough I see scroll of bewitchment here cause I made a cool 3 card combo to get a RDA abyss out without using my normal summon I just need that red layer and powers tool Syn
18:50 Idea to remake this card into a force multiplier for it’s fellows: _Morphtronic Pristine Machine_ Equip Spell _Equip only to a “Morphtronic” monster. If you summon a “Morphtronic” monster, you can immediately change it’s battle position. Face-up “Morphtronic” monsters you control gain ATK equal the combined original DEF of all face-up “Morphtronic” monsters you control, and DEF equal to the combined original ATK of all Face-up “Morphtronic” monsters you control._
I hate that konami is so against "silly combos" and supporting cards that havent kept up with the power creep in favor of supporting metas that move faster than speed monopoly. The state of the official game sucks for anyone who likes running gimmicky or slower decks and i think this list highlights the issue a lot 😅
I feel like Sword of the Soul Eater and other normal support can be useful when using Gemini Monsters with Catalyst Field and/or Inferno Reckless Summoning. The weird part is so many effects involving normal monsters also specify specific levels, making proper synergy a little tougher. I might give it a try though since it sounds so funny.
Can you make a video about what it takes for a normal monster to become viable? How much damage is the baseline for a lvl4 monster to become viable? 2000,2500,3000,4000,5000 how strong do normal monsters have to be to become playable
Bro, Pikeru and Curran were actually really good and they were used for incredible burn decks. Curran burns 300 LP for each monster ur opponent controls not just 300 like that and Pikeru 400 LP for each monster on your field....
@@gamefan56 it happenned in an episode, that was the joke, dont remenber witch but i clearly remember a duel in which jaden says "you destroyed my sparkman, now i get to draw a card"
back in school when me and my friends were playing with decks made up of whatever we could get from booster packs and trades, cards like paralyzing potion were definitely used to decent effect! :P I suppose that's probably the point of comparatively weak cards like that in a trading card game :D And as for Sword of the Soul-Eater, back then my deck with it and a bunch of cards like human wave tactics, enchanting fitting room, order to smash and order to charge was fucking amazing :D (in the context I've described above :P )
To powercreep Paralyzing Potion in it's entirety and with similar effect... Mask of the Accursed. Equip spell, works on ALL monsters and in addition to stopping attacks it does 500 damage to the player on your standby. Trial of the Princesses, it's not very good or usable, but I suppose it kind of exists more for lore that Konami does nothing with.
I was checking out my old cards, haven't collected in like 20 years, and I found soul eater among them. I think Dora of Fate is probably the worst card I found, though spirit Ryu is a canditate for a worst attack point gain list. But then theirs The Wicked Worm Beat. Pretty sure even teenage me would have realised how bad cards they are.
During the early days of yugioh I always felt like equips should have all had the inherent effect "if the attached monster would be destroyed by card effect, destroy this card instead". The minus one they caused in a meta full of fissures, dark holes, mirror force, and raigekis, on a card that was a dead draw during top deck situations (and frankly didn't give much stats) always felt too much, but if they offered effect destruction protection, perhaps it'd have been a different story. I always felt similar about sacrifice monsters as well, that the sacrificed monsters should have equipped to the monster and had that same effect... at least until Jinzo came around, but then if that had already always been how tribute monsters worked, he could have just had "tributed monster does not equip to him" added to his effect for balance. But legendary sword, for example, still would have been made obsolete quickly (assuming such a rule didn't impact how equips were designed in future sets as I do feel they realized they were bad and were always trying to see how far they could push them and might not have done so if they were more useful out of the gate) could have still been a useful protection even with that small stat boost.
These are so bad that if they were changed to quick play spells and said "on your turn target 1 monster and do X" with X being what the equip spell card did... they'd still be bad. That's pretty awful. Considering that a lot of mediocre equip spells are descent if they just did their effects to a target permanently.
I think paralyzing potion or whoever designed it rather is also the force behind the charmer deck archtype. I swear It's a bit dependent ongoing second, normally or knowing what your opponent has and some draw luck but you can just mine now everything
Hilariously, two of these cards, Spark Blaster and Prevention Star, have decent synergy together. Still not good, but Spark Blaster can still set up Prevention Star.
This has nothing to do with the video. I hate when ygo fanfiction tries to make Scroll of Bewitchment look good despite being a horrible card. Its used in a terrible Charmer deck (ignoring Charmer is not meant to be a deck.) just for the mediocre effect to take control of monsters of same attribute. The fanfiction itself that uses this is cringe as well
I didn't expect "Konami attempted to defeat COVID-19 by challenging it to a YGO duel" to be one of my takeaways from this video.
They tried to make the real world into the anime
“I negate covid-19 with infinite impermanence”
They also released a "counterpart" for this, Amabie was released during the pandemic as a symbolic gesture as in japan, the Amabie is a yokai that comes out from the sea and predicts whether there will be good harvest or an epidemic, in yugioh the card works in an almost similar fashion as, at the start of your main phase, you reveal the card (mimicking coming out of the sea) and each player gains 300 lp, as if she's predicting prosperity in the future instead of an epidemic.
Man I'm so sick of the top comment spoiling the vid
"COVID-19 i have to stop you the only way i know how! by challenging you to a children's card game!"
Funny thing is that paralyzing potion was one of the best cards in duelist of the roses since it completely stops a monster your opponent is using
The cards in that game were more akin to their duelist kingdom counterparts
@@cryosapien4607which made it even more fun. Shame that it didn’t do as well as hoped
@@crimsonmaelstrom573 it’s one of my favorite games for that exact reason.
@@cryosapien4607 same. It was like you were playing chess…but it’s yugioh chess
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Pity we do get games like that Falsebound Kingdom, Capsule Monster, etc. anymore ngl.
I see the editor had some fun with the subtitles this time👌
You could also use Scroll of Bewitchment against Five-headed dragon, change your opponent’s monsters attribute to one you want to use against them, or change the monster to attribute appropriate material
Failed archetype dinowrestler?
Funny how they banned Pestilence cause of the pandemic and not Pandemic Dragon, which literally has Pandemic in the name
Sword of The Soul Eater totally feels like a card Joey would use to pull a duel out of his ass after a gamble strategy didn't save him for whatever reason.
Its effect definitely screams "anime asspull moment", despite the irony that it has never been featured in any yugioh anime episodes.
with pendulum summon from the extra deck it could give a max of 5k atk
my first ever deck that I played back then was built around MokeyMokey being equipped with Sword of the Soul Eater and sending fairy type monsters to the grave while MokeMokey Smackdown is active.
Joey does use it during one of the filler arcs.
tbh all those "lore accurate" awful equips like Pestilence or the Paralizing Potion have a soft spot in my heart, its just cool to see them actually create "realistic" cards, something that modern YGO basically doesn't have anymore
Exactly I love the Fleur archetype because of this
Making cards to counter one specific type/attribute are very rarely useful, but I appreciate how some of them countered everything except Machines. I wish we got a few more cards like that, even if trash.
idk man, i take the clever flavor of suships simulating a restaurant through gameplay all day over "haha drink dont work on machine"
@@ich3730 that's kinda realistic too if you think about it. I think he means archetypes like phantom knights or black birds for example, which have arbitrary effects not based on their naming and visual design
Fortunately Rush duel kind of goes back to that without slowing the pace of the game down. By getting rid of the extra deck in favor of speeding up normal summons, those cards now have more of a use again, which makes Rush duel a great way to modernize Yugioh before the horrendous powercreep. Though Link monsters really are what broke the game beyond repair as they don't have a mechanical weakness like the other summon types and while yes they speed up the game, they basically obsoleted almost every other strategy like these equips cause "you can just link it off" which is the most bullsh8t thing.
I know theres barely any monsters in the archtype, but I would so love a retrains of trial of the princess. pikeru and curran are fun to use, I just wish their princess forms were even remotely playable.
Basically Maldoche then.
@@Silyon487 I dont recall maldoche having a burn and life point effect, I thought their whole deal was shuffling their graveyard back into the deck.
@@MrMariosonicman Maldoche have the aesthetic, but if it's the mechanics you're after it's Aromage you want.
They are so cute btw
If they did a retrain of them, I would have them keep some measure of their old life gain and burn effects, but also add new effects that allow the pair to contribute more. Maybe the white magician could pay life to revive her fallen companion, while ebon magician might compliment burn with removal. Maybe continue the story with older more experienced versions of the 2 magicians who take a new trial... one reminiscent of the one from their youth only for darker secrets to be revealed, but with their combined efforts, they succeed and become even stronger.
Mother Grizzly always fights bare handed
Bear handed*
Booooooo
I cant bear to see that thing... u can bearly win a fight against that bear lol
@@greyphaqse Knuckles: Oh, i get it!
She is ursa'd to it.
Considering how much DuelLogs thinks most equip cards are essentially useless in modern Yugioh these the worst of the worst in one of the worst types of cards.
It was like the Citrus/Orange-flavoured Shrine Maidens (Mikanko) archetype was made to spite DuelLogs….
Equip cards should be placed under the monster it is equipped to because that would make things easier to track what is going on, and it still lets you use other spells/traps. I would also have it during your standby phase after a monster is destroyed, to re-equip a/the card(s) to another monster, or send it to the GY. (Maybe the last part applies to certain equip cards.)
I do like how he considers the casual/for fun strats this time. These are my favorite kind of videos, when he explains the most niche ways to make positive use of a card which either shows how it could be used, or objectively why it's not worth running even in gimmick games instead of assuming every duel is for tournament wins exclusively. A lot of people use casual cards JUST to see if we could pull off a rare 1/100 win with a 4k Ojama yellow, but every card has A strategy and outside of meme decks purely designed to make a bad card work, we can't always assume the opponent is going to draw the board wipes first draw that make many cards obsolete. So I appreciate this video not assuming EVERY duel will have the opponent draw the perfect hand and objectively focuses on why the player using the card has better options assuming the card DOES do it's intended job. Makes for much better videos than the "This card sucks cause it can't beat tears, so it's not worth using" some other videos do.
@@alexanderrobins7497it would definitely have to only work with certain equip spells if that mechanic were implemented, otherwise Mikanko Fire Dance would become a free special summon from the graveyard or hand every turn
They should just make an extra deck for equip cards. You should just be able to make a Call of The Haunted mid-combo
These early equips were outdated in the tcg from the start. In the ocg, monsters gradually got stronger by release. Rogue dolls with a 1600 atk were incredibly strong back then, thats the time those early equips really were necessary
Good luck to the glitchstars girls. I knew you were a fan, but jesus christ I didn't think you'd actually start a corp
Paralyzing Potion is actually really strong in one very specific format.
If you are playing a historic progression series, by the time it comes out, you might not have any other form of non combat removal or slow down, so you can run potion as a very desperate option to prevent getting killed
true but u got other spell cards can do much better lol. like that one spell card where it keeps coming back and make them cant attack.
You're just better off using the trap gravity bind or the minion gora turtle for og yugioh.
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That’s a different format.
Progressions series are a draft format, where you are unlikely to have access to high rarity or structure deck cards. Especially in old YGO, where outside a handful of staples most cards did nothing. This means powerful removal like raigeki/dark hole or defensive options like Wabaku are unavailable. Leading to some desperate deck building choices
So, in this format where you must choose between you 10th vanilla with 1400 atk or 2k def that will clog up your hand and a card that does almost nothing outside of stalling really badly, you choose the latter option.
Sure it does almost nothing but almost nothing is still better than nothing at all
@@frankwest5388 idk anything about new formats, I just play og versions of the game.
It's funny, cause if you hard cut to the early days of the OCG, that Sword saw play. It's almost shocking how many OCG cards became worthless by the time we got the game.
Talking about Equip Spell actually gives one idea :
How about cards that are doing nothing alone, and need other cards to work well. Some sort like Broken Bamboo Sword
Not quite nothing, but both Eldlich's effects don't seem game changing at first. Until you figure out all of its Spell/Traps have GY effects, then it's "oh my god they're never gonna stop resurrecting that lich"
I remember using Paralyzing Potion in the old PC-game Power Of Chaos: Kaiba the Revenge. Not because it was good but because I lacked alternatives. And stalling is still better than being overrun by a tribute monster.
X2,it was a good way to stop BEWD until u can summon Dragon Killer(i dont remember exactly his name,just know he can pop 1 Dragon on summoning)
Scroll of Bewitchment might see a bit more play once the Clear World support comes in.
I laughed out loud when you read Spark Blaster's effect. We've come a long way.
Prevention Star was an anime card. Yusei used it in round 2 against Akiza. If it also negated the enemy monster's effects and locked it out of being used as Synchro material, then it probably would have been at number 10 or 9 of the list because at the very least, the monster was unable to be used for a Synchro summon. It's absolutely just an anime card. It's super situational.
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Top 10 cards better in real life than in the anime/manga
Remember when Aster Phoenix drew 2 Cards in the Anime due to Spark Blaster + Guard Penalty? That's probably the best use We'll ever seen out of that card lol.
The only thing I'll say about paralyzing potion is that it is "playable" in progression. Just because it is common and came out in metal raiders.
There is value in every card; you just have to find it and believe in it. Paralyzing potion may not be strong, but it has great artwork and poses a challenge if you play in an old-school Duelist Kingdom format.❤
Gotta believe in the heart of the cards
Inb4 Trial of the princesses archetype gets crazy support.
Legendary sword is an odd choice IMO for representing the OG equips, because you can equip it to Gaia to beat over Dark Magician, which wasn't nothing in the very first release. I'd say Violet Crystal is far worse due to having no good targets in either the boss monster or 1200ATK monster strata (in OG Vol1 YGO)
Rusty Engine would be an interesting card if it wasn’t limited to an awful archetype, but to balance it, maybe make it a trap only activated on your opponent’s battle phase that destroys the monster and deals its attack to both players.
12:31 Feather Shot...
also the fact that you have to destroy a level 5 or higher monster with either Pikeru or Curran is a huge issue since most of them are still stronger even with the attack boost from the equip, making it an even harder strategy to pull off than would ever be worth it.
Their upgraded forms would need to have a minimum of 2,400 ATK and/or some huge DEF points to even consider going through the hoops. Such a shame because I liked their concepts.
Maybe the idea could be revived with a reworking to make them more viable.
Legendary Sword DID find a use. Somewhat. Kinda. In Duel Links, Joey has a skill that revolves around Phoenix and Immortal Phoenix Gearfried. When you drew Immortal, you could activate the Skill, putting Legendary Sword in the Graveyard and Salamandra set on your backrow, both from outside your deck. As such, you can use LS to Special Summon Immortal. Though the skill ALSO lets you Normal Summon Immortal without Tributing, so even then the effect is lessened.
I used to use Scroll of Bewitchment in my Hieratic deck in high school. Basically turn Atum in a rank 7 gaia, make it a dark monster with scroll of bewitchment and then rank it us into 92 heart earth dragon with Rank-Up Magic Astral Force if I couldn’t OTK.
God I used to love this game.
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I would like to add, that United we Stand gives more attack (except if you controll a full board) than Sword of the Soul-Eater, does not require the equiped monster to have any special properties, does not require your other monsters to have any properties and - especially - doesn't require you to sacrifice your board either.... ^^
Have you ever thought about, going down?
3:04 shout outs to duel links having "legendary sword" as part of the salamandra / gearfried skill, mostly so you can banish it to summon immortal phoenix gearfried
Fun fact: Prevention star debuted in the same set as dupe frog and was reprinted a year later with the second printing of one for one! I would be feeling some type of way if I pulled prevention star and my buddy gets dupe frog lmao
That elevator bit gave me flashbacks to the elevator in Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy series that desperately wanted to go back down to the lobby and was terrified of going to the higher floors. Funny coincidence if unintended, amazing reference if that was the point!
I will never get over the fact that the duel logs will always look to cause problems on purpose during his ads
I had an unusually successful Spellcaster deck that used Scroll of Bewitchment with Charmers. It allowed me to take control of any of my opponents face up monsters whenever I flip summoned. Granted, it wasn't the greatest deck and I made it 10 years ago but I like making strange cards work even if only moderately.
Wait a second... Prevention Star is ideal for Ashoka Pillar since it can get searched by it and equipped right away.
24:34 Idea to retrain Soul Eater to improve it substantially:
_The Soul Eater’s Sword - Starvation Supreme_
Equip Spell:
_Equip only to a Non-Effect monster you control. When you activate this card, Negate and banish all other monsters from your hand, deck, extra deck, field, and GY facedown. Increase your LP and the ATK and DEF each of the equipped monster by equal to the combined total ATK/DEF of all the monsters that were banished. While the equipped monster is on the field, Your LP, and the equipped monster’s ATK/DEF, are increased by equal to the total ATK/DEF of all monsters that are sent to the GY or banished_
Uh, doesn't backrow removal blatantly kill this retrain?
@@RaceBandit doesn’t it with most equip spells anyway?
1) so you lose the LP boost if you lose the monster?
2) do you just forfeit if the monster/spellbis destroyed or is there some other synergy in mind?
@@alainsagori1234The LP boosts are meant to last even after the card had been removed, but NOT the ATK/DEF gains.
kinda wish we have a new pikeru type deck
Spark Blaster + Guard Penalty was such a neat little anime-exclusive strategy.
Shame it only works as a multiple card drawing combo in GX.
Hey duel logs. Can you cover the lore of duel links? It's kind of a mess for me because I haven't watched anything other than of Yu-Gi-Oh. I thought it was the program kaiba made to recreate the pharoah but at the same time it's also a continuation of another version of Yu-Gi-Oh? It's confusing. Thank you!
Disagree with Legendary Sword.
When he described the "early" days of Yugioh, it didn't tackle with the era this card was ACTUALLY released in, aka OCG Volume 1 (Shoutout to @HumanReverend).
And back in those days, despite terrible, it helps the 800 atk beasticks to be able to trade better against other 800 atk beatsticks. It can also be equipped to Gaia to defeat an unboosted Dark Magician. It also shares type with another 800 atker, which brings up the synergy a bit.
You expect Duel Logs to know anything about OCG 1999?
The man is extremely biased to TCG and modern TCG. Duel Logs even proven he has very little knowledge on the OCG
Almost all of his worst lists is just to rip apart outdated card design and making extremely unfair comparisons
Ekibyo Drakmord wasnt THAT bad. The games were longer back then so you could tribute something like a lava golem onto the field and hit it with Drakmord to have it come back to your hand a few turns later to play again.
The only somewhat ok Deck I think the Sword of the Soul-Eater can be useful in is Metalfoes. Say your opponent uses Banquet of Millions to start your Turn, ridding of you of all your Extra Deck plays that turn. Well, u can still use the Scale popping effects of Metalfoes to fill your Extra Deck as much as possible while searching, Pend Summon for 5, making sure of of them is LV3 Metalfoes card, then activate Sword to try to OTK. And, it's not that big of a minus, since all of the monsters u Tributed can be Pend Summoned next turn if you don't win.
NO HERO INSULTING IS ALLOWED!!!!!!!
Can someone explain to me why banishing two of your warrior monsters to return the sword is busted? 😅
Because that makes the Sword re-usable for Isolde's Effect.
Isolde can send a whole bunch of Equip Cards from the Deck to the Graveyard to Special Summon a Warrior with a Level up to how many Equips you just sent. Using Phoenix Blade means you can basically turn Monsters in your GY that you don't need into more / higher-level Special Summons with Isolde more easily and without having to clog up your Deck with as many Equip Cards.
Video idea. Best and / or worst "pay life for" effect cards!
Fun thing about Legendary Sword is that there's a Duel Links Skill that sends the card to the graveyard from outside of the deck, the only card on this list that at least Konami seems to have a soft spot to include it on Duel Links.
Some of these cards actually can shine in niche formats featuring limited card pools like draft or set-pure preconstructed. Paralyzing potion saved me in multiple 25th an. retro booster drafts.
Actually, quite a bit of early era ygo cards seem like they were tailor made for alternative formats like that which makes the lack of them (official at least) more surprising.
8:24 "Trying to to successfully use Trials is more of a Tribulation" I audibly sighed. I know this is a reference to a card. I don't remember the card but I know it exists.
Edit: ...I shouldn't know the card, I've never seen it in my life before today but it's Trial and Tribulation
To be fair, "trials and tribulations" is a well-known phrase outside the game.
I actually used to use Sword of the Soul Eater in a Gravity Bind/Level Limit Area B deck back in the day. The primary wincon was Gren Maju boosted by cards banished with Skull Lair for spot removal, but in the case that Skull Lair was removed and Gren Maju would only be like 1200 atk or so, equipping a Jerry Bean or Sonic Duck (or even Gagagigo under ALO) with a card like Sword of the Soul Eater would provide a good beater that could still battle under Gravity Bind. Due to the stally nature of the deck, it wouldn't be uncommon to have 2 normal monsters on board since spot removal was less common back then and if those normal monsters were already too small to beat over whatever monsters they had (let's say Summoned Skull), then they weren't useful anyway.
I wasn't expecting a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skit
Book of secret arts was competitive super early on in the ocg so dark magician could beat a blue eyes turned to defense by dragon capture jar
Oh funny enough I see scroll of bewitchment here cause I made a cool 3 card combo to get a RDA abyss out without using my normal summon I just need that red layer and powers tool Syn
18:50 Idea to remake this card into a force multiplier for it’s fellows:
_Morphtronic Pristine Machine_
Equip Spell
_Equip only to a “Morphtronic” monster. If you summon a “Morphtronic” monster, you can immediately change it’s battle position. Face-up “Morphtronic” monsters you control gain ATK equal the combined original DEF of all face-up “Morphtronic” monsters you control, and DEF equal to the combined original ATK of all Face-up “Morphtronic” monsters you control._
Why an equip spell? This is described as continuous and would be 100x better as such
I hate that konami is so against "silly combos" and supporting cards that havent kept up with the power creep in favor of supporting metas that move faster than speed monopoly.
The state of the official game sucks for anyone who likes running gimmicky or slower decks and i think this list highlights the issue a lot 😅
We are in 2024 and we still don't have Elemental Hero Sparkwoman.
Here's everyone's favorite golden girl!
I feel like Sword of the Soul Eater and other normal support can be useful when using Gemini Monsters with Catalyst Field and/or Inferno Reckless Summoning. The weird part is so many effects involving normal monsters also specify specific levels, making proper synergy a little tougher. I might give it a try though since it sounds so funny.
Can you make a video about what it takes for a normal monster to become viable?
How much damage is the baseline for a lvl4 monster to become viable?
2000,2500,3000,4000,5000 how strong do normal monsters have to be to become playable
Equips are some of the best cards in the game.
Bro, Pikeru and Curran were actually really good and they were used for incredible burn decks. Curran burns 300 LP for each monster ur opponent controls not just 300 like that and Pikeru 400 LP for each monster on your field....
I need a pikeru and ebon magician archetype 😭
What do you mean sparkman dpes nothing?? Jaden got tp draw a card when he was destroyed, i saw it on the anime!!
Incorrect, even in the anime Sparkman was just a vanilla monster that did nothing in terms of effects.
@@gamefan56 it happenned in an episode, that was the joke, dont remenber witch but i clearly remember a duel in which jaden says "you destroyed my sparkman, now i get to draw a card"
I can't agree with Pikeru and Curran having awful effects. Curran can deal 1200 damage a turn if your opponent has a full field!
back in school when me and my friends were playing with decks made up of whatever we could get from booster packs and trades, cards like paralyzing potion were definitely used to decent effect! :P I suppose that's probably the point of comparatively weak cards like that in a trading card game :D
And as for Sword of the Soul-Eater, back then my deck with it and a bunch of cards like human wave tactics, enchanting fitting room, order to smash and order to charge was fucking amazing :D (in the context I've described above :P )
To powercreep Paralyzing Potion in it's entirety and with similar effect... Mask of the Accursed. Equip spell, works on ALL monsters and in addition to stopping attacks it does 500 damage to the player on your standby.
Trial of the Princesses, it's not very good or usable, but I suppose it kind of exists more for lore that Konami does nothing with.
At least spark blaster is searchable with spirit of neos and spirit of neos can switch places with sparkman. Lmao!
I was checking out my old cards, haven't collected in like 20 years, and I found soul eater among them. I think Dora of Fate is probably the worst card I found, though spirit Ryu is a canditate for a worst attack point gain list. But then theirs The Wicked Worm Beat. Pretty sure even teenage me would have realised how bad cards they are.
During the early days of yugioh I always felt like equips should have all had the inherent effect "if the attached monster would be destroyed by card effect, destroy this card instead". The minus one they caused in a meta full of fissures, dark holes, mirror force, and raigekis, on a card that was a dead draw during top deck situations (and frankly didn't give much stats) always felt too much, but if they offered effect destruction protection, perhaps it'd have been a different story. I always felt similar about sacrifice monsters as well, that the sacrificed monsters should have equipped to the monster and had that same effect... at least until Jinzo came around, but then if that had already always been how tribute monsters worked, he could have just had "tributed monster does not equip to him" added to his effect for balance.
But legendary sword, for example, still would have been made obsolete quickly (assuming such a rule didn't impact how equips were designed in future sets as I do feel they realized they were bad and were always trying to see how far they could push them and might not have done so if they were more useful out of the gate) could have still been a useful protection even with that small stat boost.
why does scroll of bewitchment reminded me of ecole de zone design wise?
Slightly tweaked design.
Also hate when ygo fanfiction trying to pretend scroll of bewitchment is good
13:41 wait actualy? omega based
Glitch Stars?! What? I'm kind of excited.
These are so bad that if they were changed to quick play spells and said "on your turn target 1 monster and do X" with X being what the equip spell card did... they'd still be bad. That's pretty awful. Considering that a lot of mediocre equip spells are descent if they just did their effects to a target permanently.
Soul Eater Max ATK gain of 5000 require the use of Pendulum monsters.
Before the EMZ, Soul Eater Max ATK was 4000.
I think paralyzing potion or whoever designed it rather is also the force behind the charmer deck archtype. I swear It's a bit dependent ongoing second, normally or knowing what your opponent has and some draw luck but you can just mine now everything
Hilariously, two of these cards, Spark Blaster and Prevention Star, have decent synergy together. Still not good, but Spark Blaster can still set up Prevention Star.
huh never seen prevention star before
I'd like to see Konami come back to the Pikeru and Curran theme. Although, I guess you could say that Purrely fills in that theme, but with catdogs.
This has nothing to do with the video.
I hate when ygo fanfiction tries to make Scroll of Bewitchment look good despite being a horrible card.
Its used in a terrible Charmer deck (ignoring Charmer is not meant to be a deck.) just for the mediocre effect to take control of monsters of same attribute.
The fanfiction itself that uses this is cringe as well
"No Officer, all I said to her was 'But if you go down, you can see the premiere of GlitchStars.' "
I don't make the rules. If you pronounce Celtic Guardian like the basketball team, it's off to the Shadow Realm with you.
“It isn’t worth tributing 4-5 monsters for a big beat stick” Arrival Cyberse @ignister has entered the chat
Cyber Shield deserves a special mention too. Only equipable by Harpie Lady and just a 500 ATK boost.
Bro seeing my fucking university halfway through this was unexpected. Is the world really small?
Soul eater = just run time tear morganite, swords of revealing light, and waboku with other normal monsters and a plethera of draw cards
I was afraid there won't be any more Worst Top 10 🥺
Let us enjoy his nerd sarcasm and light humor 🙏
Hmmm, it might be the case that no one in Master Duel has resolved Trial of the Princesses
I remember in middle school, playing my axe of despair against my friend's armed dragon deck
Top ten best/worst cards with a Polymerization effect.
I hate prevention star mostly cause i had like 30 copies of it from trying to pull a stardust in the yusei pack as a kid.
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Konami needs to hive us a pikeru and kuran archetype (with better retrains of the originals)
Is there a best equip cards list? If not could you make it? I think that would be so Kool 😎
make sword of the soul eater ojama turbo for a deck building challenge with hard leg joe
No matter what you say. Pikeru and Curran are my favorite cards ever ❤