I feel like the only reason low attack high level monsters existed back then was so they could show Dark Magician beating them and show how cool he is.
It's because of a problematic artifact of the game that existed prior to the Yugioh most of the world knows. Originally, Duel Monsters was extremely RP heavy in what is now called Season 0 of Yugioh. So, even if they are lower attack, putting them in the right circumstance ensures they can be stronger. This is actually what inspired the wackiness in the Duelist Kingdom arc, where the literal environment determined what the dueling field was like. and originally? Rather than getting like a 10% increase, it was 50% increase, so a rock monster like Sand Stone would be a 2050/2400 monster in a wasteland with a weird roleplay effect instead of an ass level 5 monster with 1300/1600 stats.
@@ab14967 what was the original point for the level stars? Those were across the board so we still lucked out a 2500 6 star and a 1800 4 star. Those few examples overrode the Atk standard so weaker monsters started out really weak and not the norm Atk strength of the game.
@@alfredgomez3128 funny enough before tributes existed it was simply the rarity of cards, which is why blue eyes is level 8 and why dark magician is level 7 and Summoned Skull is level 6. Summoned Skull was much much better than Dark Magician in the actual game but back then due to its card interactions and higher defense Dark Magician was better and thus rarer.
@@alfredgomez3128 If we're going with originally? Probably not for any reason that would be featuring game balance. Atem being the KING of Games was a literal title. He was the king of all games, and the original season had him deal with opponents in a variety of games, some of which were literal gambling. The card game we all know today was likely something the author made up on the spot and be used for one time like the other "monster of the week" antagonists, so he just made random cards, put relative context for power with level and stats, then went with it, using roleplay to compensate for weaker cards that become strong with that in mind... then the popularity of THAT arc where they introduced it blew up, and slowly became the main focus, which is why the relative powers of the cards now are much more standardized than the first set, which was all over the place. For a watsonian/in-story reason? More powerful cards are rarer (there are only 4 Blue Eyes White Dragon cards ever printed in their world, for example), so weaker/lower rank cards are put in as budget options when they can't get the ones they want, or even not ever able to in some cases.
"If you have a way to infinitely get cards on the field for it to tribute, what you could do is not use it on this card and instead play cannon soldier" that's just savage
@@magicwindow6682 i mean same atem aka Yami make bullshit up like ss2 monster reborn or fusing mammoth graveyard to ultimate blue eyes for passive stat decrease,Jaden have a very specific card that only use if that specific monster on the field which only show like 1 episode and never seen again,Yusei is actually the only one that rarely cheated since he basically otk shit opponent and actually have to do combo for actual opponent, Yuma isn't even a human and Playmaker is a protagonist that exist
@@13thKingMu okay Living Arrow is a bullshit card and I'm here for the cool mechanic. Maybe just something like banish one zombie monster from the GY and discard Polymerization to change the type of monster to zombie type, make it lose ATK equal to the ATK of the monster banished, effects negated, cannot be used as material or be tributed, cannot be destroyed, can't attack or block attacks, and if the ATK hits 0 it's sent to the GY. A bit busted? Maybe. Idk. Edit: also by battle city rules if you set spells before playing then you're allowed to activate them as SS2, oh and during your battle phase you can use them as SS2. It's tricky
Great Maju Gazett tributing Malefic Cyber end dragon was a key piece of my Malefic drain deck back when I played. I remember pulling it off, feeling really hyped, attacking then getting magic cylindered.
Great Maju Garzett and the other majus were actually meant for stall not beatdown, and with the right back row material, you can also burn opponents as well. I called them attack position walls, because they were hard to get around offensively and staunch defender, or rare gold Armor forced opponents to attack them.
You forgot to mention the real reason insect queen is number one. With the 100 Atk Position Token you are wide open for the feared Great Poseidon Beetle/Mist Body/ookazi OTK.
Not to mention a whole bunch of setup to get it at least a little over 4K ATK with dna surgery and your opponent to fill up their side with monster. At this rate you'd be better off playing obelisk or cyber stein+blue eyes ultimate who requires little to no setup at all to get a 4K beatstick
@TheRapper10000 By people you mean Joey from the Power of Chaos games? Cause I never heard of people making an insect barrier deck and using Insect Queen, because they're probably better off playing vanilla level 7 or something like Barrel Dragon
@TheRapper10000 that's like only for incredibly specific use which is still fun on the ds format. Plus the insect queen looks cool bc she looks like she jumped out of the bugs life
@@totalwartimelapses6359 I played from starter deck kaiba until the ancient gear set and casual players at the time loved that combo. Not competitive at the time obviously
@@BlindOracle00 This would do nothing. They need an actual way to swarm the field, and to make use of all the monsters they banish. The deck barely has any synergy, except "Banish your fire monsters to do mediocre stuff".
IMO, Laval need a way to make play without relying on drawing rekindling. Set-up the GY is not that hard and people, specifically the OCG, did find a few creative way to set-up. Problem is our deck lives and dies by Rekindling. New support will either need to help the deck not relying on so much rekindling and/or double down on rekindling by letting us getting easier access to it (which will result in rekindling in f&l again)
@@catisreckless4647 Well it depends. If the link monster's effect was something like you can special summon as many of your banished lavals as possible but restricts you to only special summoning lavals while face up or something then I think that would probably do it for them. Especially if the effect was not a once per turn. I don't even think it would be that broken since the laval synchros are not that powerful.
Sword Hunter was actually one of my very first ever cards in yu-gi-oh when it first released. Although the card sucks, it will always have a special place in my heart.
After my cosmo queen and dark magician were stolen sword hunter was my best card until I got xyz dragon cannon. My favorite combo was to use United we stand on sword hunter and then just start hacking away at the opponents field as it would beat over most monsters.
Hyozanryu for me. While it wasn't amongst my very first cards, I got it very early on. And somehow it's place in my heart grew after some scoundrel stole my Mirror Force back then. It's been almost 20 years and I'm still salty about that.
@@mrcx6142 yeah it sucks when your best cards get stolen, funny enough, after my Cosmo Queen was stolen I found a blues eyes shining dragon on the ground. I eventually got a blue eyes ultimate dragon and found a way to cheat it out of the fusion deck making it my best card but it wasn't all that easy to get out.
I find it funny that Weevil was going on about how great his Insect Queen was, but in reality it's no challenge at all. Just something to stomp on. Lol.
@@tommydurning9762 Yeah, but he snuck that card into Joey's deck though under-handed tactics, instead of using the actual card's effect. Also, it's called Parasite Paracide.
Sword hunter was really strong in my highschool. Since the original text said that the equipped monster "remains on the field until this card is destroyed", we thought that equiped monster had to stay in the opponent's monster zone as a equip spell until sword hunter is destroyed. So with each monster destroyed, it leaves the opponent with one less monster zone available on the field.
I believe Cockroach Knight was intended to be used as a combo with Insect Queen since it returns to the top of your deck whenever it gets destroyed so you can keep sacrificing it over and over.
The funny thing about Arcana Force 18 the Moon is that the tails effect lingers. Meaning that if you give the Moon to your opponent they will have to give it back to you at the end of their turn like some sort of "hot potato with the moon"
I love the artwork on the Maju cards so much. When I was a kid, I had all of them except legendary and would try to summon them all the time. Easily the coolest cards besides Endymion.
Top ten cards that can be used for things outside their stated effect, like how _Abyssal Designator_ (declare a type and attribute and your opponent has to send one such monsters that matches to the graveyard from their hand or deck) for you opponent to _Show their entire hand and deck_ if you deliberately state a attribute/type combination they simply doesn’t exist (Like DIVINE and any monster type not Divine Beast or Creator God), because they have to prove they “CAN’T” resolve the effect.
@@nnnp634 I mean knowing an entire enemy deck makes using cards that need to be properly informed to work _much_ stronger, and cards that let you look at _just_ their hand have been banned before. How many other cards in the game let you look an an opponents entire deck, let alone also their hand, and with an ultimately acceptable cost of 1000 LP?
Nothing more nostalgic in Yu-Gi-Oh than just two plus tribute monsters that aren't worth summoning even if you were getting paid. We used to be a country
Straight up, loved Maju Garzett as a kid. I really saw it as a cool beatstick that could be a signature finisher. Even now knowing its pretty bad, I have a fondness for it.
I remember having sword hunter in my deck and I thought it was so cool having the card that Joey used in a one off battle! luckily I only played with my brother and friends so we only played with our "casual" handmade decks haha
@@tylerdurden8270 I remember taking all the "good" (preferred) cards out of my stockpile, and then bringing the rest to my friend at school, When everyone else would go out and play at recess, we'd put our desks together and challenge each other to a duel xD
Diabolos, lv 7 Dragon monster "Okay, it has a nice level and attribute support, let's see the rest" It can get info in the opponent's draw and interfere with it "Nice effect, can be used with some interesting cards" Can't be special summoned, and can't be normal summoned without DARK tributes "Ok, this is really necessary? All of this, to just look at the opponent's topdeck? Seriously?"
Now look at Simorgh, has the exact same summoning conditions (it needs Wind tributes instead of Dark), but all it does is inflict 1000 burn to *both* players during the End Phase. And the effect can be entirely negated just by having 2 spells or traps on the field
This draw controlling effect isn't good in YuGiOh where cards can mean so much. In Magic the gathering, that effect is way more of an issue as you can force bricking a lot easier. Though when I think about it Diabolos would be an expensive card that couldn't be cheated in even there.
Most of the original Structure Deck boss monster have the restriction of not being able to be Special summoned and if allowed..just under specifically conditions. Up until SD 10 more or less (being the only exception the boss monster in SD Dinosaur Rage)
5:34 You can also use the effect to send over _Heraldic Beast Basilisk_ to crash _Number C1000: Numerounius_ into it, thus if you cheat out _Number C1000: Numerounius_ and then crash into Basilisk, you can more easily get out _Number iC1000: Numerounius Numerounia_ to potentially win you the game then and there.
@@cyberend1863 Then again you can do that with _any_ card that hands over your monsters to your opponent, but at least this gives moon something going for it.
@@selectivepontification8766 Actually it looks like the playable version of C1000 doesn’t have a native 10,000 ATK like it’s anime version. It’s at ?, so technically that leaves it at 0 ATK/DEF. This should work.
your videos are really good for returning & casually interested players -- these lists give fun lil nostalgia as well as show the best of the best of the new. also the lil explanations u do with each card to show combos is sooooo fire hella appreciated ur definitely A tier minimum
Facts id be interested to see a synchro retrain… with some level of protection..like idk for ex: it can’t be targeted by card effects during the battle phrase maybe.
@@Qvmmy Maybe gains protection depending on the type of monster he's equipped with? Like can't be targeted by effects when equipped with an extra deck monster or something?
@@Qvmmy I feel like him having busted effects would be ok if he gained them through attacking and destroying monsters. That's a big prerequisite for an effect in modern yugioh
Top 10 Fusion Monsters that can be Special Summoned from Extra Deck without using Polymerization or any other Fusion Spell Cards (Alternative summoning condition or Contact Fusion like Neos or Gladiator Beasts)
@@alphabrother6823 the pure amount of advantage glad beast can get with their fusion thats cheats cards out of the extra deck is close for #1 too I feel
Swordhunter was my first win condition. This was around... 2005? I had very little access to newer cards at the time Needless to say, I never pulled off summoning it
I love Lair of Darkness. My favorite structure deck to be released so far. Hoping for some new support in monster form. There's plenty of good traps to use with Lilith and Malice etc. I love the "use opponents monsters as tribute fodder" style of the deck. I don't want it to be meta breaking, just a little better competitively.
Not just tribute fodder, but *replacements* for a tribute cost you'd pay for another card. Meaning you can just eat opponent's cards in a non-targeting, non-destruction way. Tributing a monster using LoD ignores SO many types of protection that it's actually hilariously useful.
Speaking of Darklord, I wonder why Marie the Fallen One was renamed Darklord Marie? I learned that recently and it blew my mind. I used to play Marie the Fallen One when I was a kid (2000/2001). -SirHonor
@@KnightlyBrosGaming in the ocg the name is datenshi mari. Datenshi is the japanese name of darklords (datenshi= fallen angel) Its another problem of misstranslation again with the tcg like frog the jam.
@@johnapple6646 im not writting about name censorship from ocg to tcg, just tcg messing arround with their "traduction" is like harpie's brother change to sky scout or frog the jam. Tcg always ruin original names and not because censorship
I always liked how some of Yu Gi Ohs worst cards end up having really solid artwork. Dreadscythe Harvester looks awesome, just not that great of a card.
Interesting that you started with Maju Garzette card. I wish that konami or whomever was in control when this series of 3 monsters came out, didn't nerf the rule on what a cards normal atk value was. The set, (IMO) if it was allowed to be what it was intended, would have been, summoning Gren Maju, gain a large amount of atk from its effects, then once you gain a second decently sized monster, tribute for Maju Garzette, then tribute into Great Maju Garzette.
DUDE, you just blew my mind away, by showing me how to pronounce this foking card Anteatereatingant, I never even realized this was a giant ant thats eating an anteater and i always was like "defok is this cards name, how am i supposed to even say that" i feel so dumb now lmao
The person who had to translate it in the German version also did not understand the name at all. It's just called "Anteating ant" without any mention of the anteater.
Or it’s could be a Lv 5 maju garzett retrain Its Effect could be Its original is Atk an Def Is equal to the sum total of atk and def points of the monster used for its tribute summoned. It also gains the attribute an type of the tribute summoned monster in addition to it still retaining its own fiend+ dark type.
If anyone thinks Dreadscythe Harvester's infinite ATK sounds appealing, just play Six Samurai Bushido Counter turbo instead. Battle Shogun can reach infinite ATK from just looping your combos with Gateway of the Six - and you can easily bring out up to 3 copies from the extra deck. And can loop those copies with Gateway of the Six. (Though admittedly the combo takes forever - but at least it is pretty consistent.) Honestly I don't think any card belongs on this worst of list unless it has the restriction that it cannot be Special Summoned - even Normal Monsters, since they at least have lots of really good support.
@@xatuyou8045 Personally I prefer to use a combination of 1 to 3 Saryuja Skull Dread, maybe Daigusto Emeral, maybe PSY-Framelord Omega, maybe Ferocious Flame Swordsman (as a generic materials Link-2 Warrior), 1 to 3 Toon Table of Contents and Toon Cannon Soldier to go for an FTK; though I can see the appeal of using Isolde to get Amazoness Archer from the deck, I tend to use her effect to bring out a Tuner from the deck instead. (As an aside - Infernoble Arms don't go amiss in Bushido Counter turbo if you are playing Mizuho and Shinai.)
The fact that Diabolos’ effect is really quite weak is really interesting, considering that a card in MTG with a similar effect (Jace, the Mind Sculpture) is considered one of the strongest and most hated cards of all time
Handsniping effects are much more potent in YGO compared to a near useless peeking effect. The opponent loses card advantage in the 1st example while the 2nd is a do-nothing effect. The retrain actually saw competitive play to boot. Darkest Diabolos handsnipes and has anti-Kaiju/Lava Golem/Sphere protection which handy for a boss monster. For the original Diabolos, its just a weak peeking effect. Which does nothing. Doesnt advance the game state, doesnt break boards. Just peeks.
The effect is good, it's just the cost for the card that's not appealing. As an mtg card it would kinda be a creature that takes 7 swamp mana to summon (with a 7/6 body), specifically forbids any sort of summoning it except by playing it from your hand for its exact mana cost and can't be tributed (despite being the boss of an archetype that's all about tributing high powered dark monsters). It's just waaaaaay to resource intensive, limited to dark only and there's barely any way to cheat it out. And it's super easy to get rid of. And for that the effect really isn't worth it. Jace is cheap to summon and it actually gains something from that effect too.
To be honest, he's little more than a cheater that has to use dirty tactics to get some advantage, and gets defeated anyway. At least Insect Queen is a bit easier to bring out than, say, Great Moth or its Perfectly Ultimate counterpart.
I mean it WAS pretty good in the source material especially for when it was around. I even made a deck with the real version of it back in the day. Wasn't good but it functioned.
Well to be fair, insect queen automatically has at least 2400 attack when she gets on the field since she gets a small boost for being a insect herself. And you can easily get her on the field via pinch hopper or resonance insect I believe. But still am happy she got an upgraded version of herself.
I mean, one way to take advantage of Great Poseidon Beetle would be to use Half Shut on an opponent's monster, halving that monster's attack and preventing it from being destroyed in battle that turn. And as an insect type, he does have a handful of cards to make summoning him easier.
But what would the actual advantage be? You're losing out on a spell card (and a potentially strong insect you could've summoned instead) only for a bit of battle damage, and you can neither search Half Shut nor make that much out of it if you don't have that beetle.
Top 10 cards that were seen bad in the early days of the game and became tier 1 or 0 later on (due legacy support and changes in meta). I mainly remember Royal Oppression being seen as trash until Blackwings came by and suddenly was a must have.
Royal Oppression was already carving a pretty solid space for itself by that point--either as a staple in stun decks, or a means of screwing over your opponent after you were done making plays. Vayu just pushed it into "lmao" territory.
How to buff Sword Hunter into a better card: have the converted monster placed in the opponent’s spell and trap zone, so basically you can jam up their spell/trap zones especially if they’re using a deck that has continuous spells or traps that can’t destroy their own spells and traps
@@horribleville yes for sure but even in later sets at least in duel links they love to give you useless cards. Plus when you unlock new duelists their decks are all useless trash vanilla monsters with one decent rare.
They always have. Even a lot of the rare cards back in the day were complete trash. When 1800 for a level 4 was considered good, any normal monster that was level 4 or less with less than 1800 attack was automatically trash. I'd love to have a look into how some of these cards are designed because as a kid I was convinced they made like 50% or more of the cards in every set unusable garbage to suck kids of their allowance as they bought endless booster packs in search of Jinzo or whatever. It's one thing I appreciate about Magic: The Gathering. There's very few monsters who can JUST attack with no other keywords/effects and even the seemingly bad cards can still be decent in the right decks. There's no deck in Yu-gi-oh where a level 3 monster with 700 attack and no effects is useful. It's just worthless. The early days of Yu-gi-oh were truly a lawless wasteland.
@@FreddyChoppins yes I completely agree.yugioh seems like a total cash grab with it's imbalance, power creep, and no man's cost system. I'm surprised it's so successful. I only like it due to nostalgia from anime. Overall I prefer magic the gathering but I am looking forward to Yu-Gi-Oh Cross Duels. It adopts a more hearthstone style of gameplay and has a 8 turn limit so no annoying control matches that last an hour like in Yu-Gi-Oh and hearthstone. And the deck master/commander gimmick with leveling up your cards sounds fun. And the weak cards are useful now at least when using a specific deck master that relies on low level monsters.
Had a feeling Insect Queen would be number 1. The amount of restrictions on that card would make players think twice about playing it even if it was a level 4 beatstick, much less a level 7. It's kind of funny that in Duel Links it's classified as an UR just because it's the ace chard of Weevil. Although that actually explains why it's so bad. It was a boss monster from one of the earliest seasons of Yugioh and because this was before metadecks they needed to find ways for the heroes to win while looking clever and the best way to do that was to give a boss monster some inherent flaw that could be exploited. Sometimes it worked out really well (Yami Yugi using Slifer's effect to deck out his opponent was classic) other times the flaw was so blatantly obvious you wondered how no one saw it right away. Insect Queen was an example of the latter and for whatever reason when they released it as card they kept all those negative effects.
Sword Hunter was one I enjoyed playing just for the kind of unique effect. It's just for the the fun concept even if it is bad, but if I am playing a bad 2 tribute monster, then I choose Flame Ogre because it allows me to draw card. I remember Great Poseidon Beetle mainly because I've reread the first chapter of the 5ds manga a lot. I am probably one of the few people that played the CDIP column cards because I thought it was a cool concept. Then the Link era hit and someone remembered these cards existed and it led to the plethora of cards that care about where they are on the field, where other cards are and so forth.
I had a hilarious moment with Insect Queen in an early GBA game: Weevil had her out with another Insect against my Summoned Skull. Since she's an Insect herself, she gained 400 attack - 2600 total. Which is higher than Summoned Skull's 2500, so Weevil attacked - destroying the other Insect, and thereby reducing Insect Queen to 2400, running into her doom. I'm not 100% sure, but IIRC Weevil had exactly 100 LP left, so that move lost him the duel, too.
I made a retrain of Ally of Justice Thunder Armour that kept the piercing damage, but was also special summonable if both players control at least 1 monster, with the opponent needing to have at least 1 LIGHT monster, and can add an Ally card from your deck to your hand if it destroys a monster by battle.
7:09 Imagine a Yugioh game but every effect is zone based. Kind of like Link monster. Destroy a monster that this monster point to, destroy a spell/trap that this monster point to... And monsters and spell/trap have ability to move to adjacent unoccupied zone. It just turn into a tactic game.
I have to say Sword hunter is my favourite card, back in the old days on the school yard it was great for keeping people from monster reborning their cards. It basically meant they couldn't tribute summon anything if I got him out early enough and they wouldn't be able to get anything out that could challenge my steadily strengthening monster. It'd only last so long most of the time, but those one or two turns before they figured out a counter usually won me the duel. And honestly in today's meta, keeping your opponents monsters out of their graveyard is better then it's ever been. Most of the time floating effects would probably still go off but other activated effects may not have.
One thing about Insect Queen and some others on the list: They rely on you having other monsters on the board for their effect while they also need to be summoned by you tributing monsters. This means summoning them already works against their effect and makes it even more difficult to use them to their full potential. That doesn't really matter for those cards as they are already bad the way they are, but for cards that might be decent that would be another thing to consider.
I thought the condition for monsters on this list was that they cant have archetypal support that lets you summon them? If it is AF: The Moon shouldn’t be on this list since of AF: Empress and Lovers.
It's technically monsters that don't have archetypal support that inherently revolves around special summoning them. AF is mostly about just flipping coins to get good effects, with the two notable cards that facilitate getting high level monsters out. Something like BEWD, while it normally requires 2 tributes, the archetype is notable for facilitating getting it on the field
11:47 Instead of use cannon soldier as an example, we're talking about spamming infinitaly insect monsters, on that escenario anti-aircraft flower is way better than cannon soldier, because deals 800 instead of 500
Great Poseidon Beetle was actually used in the 5D's manga's first duel, and that was exactly how it was used. Yusei used a card to bring back a monster that had been destroyed in battle that turn, and also prevented it from being destroyed by battle for the rest of the turn, and his opponent used Poseidon Beetle to swing into it three times and deal massive damage to Yusei.
what makes me really mad about Insect Queen is that in Duel Links, she has a really good summoning animation. However, that doesn't apply to Metamorphosed Insect Queen, which is REALLY good. Nope. Only that really bad card, which isn't even good when you cheat her out with Pinch Hopper.
I found alot of success playing Sword Hunter. Funny enough the old version of that card was a normal monster and it didn't have that effect which made it even worse
its always nice hearing about the worst monsters, cause you get to learn about new cards, where as all the best cards tend to be the same pile of cards we already know about
Personally, I really like Insect Queen's restriction, for it is oddly unique. Obviously, I am not going by gameplay there, but more how it was shown in the anime, with her eating the other monster. Be nice to have other bosses use it.
maybe if they do another retrain of insect queen that had the old restriction, but was much stronger in its health and ability. like maybe when it destroys a enemy monster by battle, it equips the card and can sacrifice the equip to create a set number of insect tokens to the field based on the monster tributed(1/2 level or rank minimum 1). maybe call it something like Voracious Insect Queen. maybe make it a fusion using insect queen(or a high level insect monster) and 1 insect monster, using a card maybe called metamorphic fusion(which might also have the effect of being able to be banished from grave to special summon 1 high level insect monster by tributing a lower level insect monster on the field.) also speaking of monsters eating monsters, where is the rest of the fairy tale deck(golden castle in this case). why have we still got no forest wolf, red hood, huntsman, thorn princess etc.
@@Bezaliel13 yeah. reptiles, certain fiends, beasts, and the like. monsters that could eat something on your board to attack, but to help balance out the need to tribute to attack, maybe have it with incredibly high attack values for their stat. like a level 6 with 3000 attack, or a level 8 with 3600 attack. ones where you get more out than you put in.
Top 10 generic pendulum cards. Top 10 "trap" cards. (Cards that seem good at first glance but aren't really that good. Top 10 cards that reference the anime/manga. Top 10 parody cards. Top 10 cards based on other Konami games. Top 10 special conditions in the games. Top 10 anime/manga exclusive cards. Top 10 cards that newcomers shouldn't use. More Rescue Rabbit, please.
Kaijus : Yes because they special summon themselves. Nibiru : Yes because Nibiru tributes and special summon itself as such, Vanity's Lord effect will prevent your opponent from even be able to activate Nibiru in the first place. Ra Sphere Mode : No because unlike Kaijus, it normal summon itself instead of special summoning by tributing your opponent monsters
It's funny how Weevil is supposed to be a "regional champion" (I think), and yet his two boss monsters, Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth and Insect Queen, are some of the worst cards in the game.
I've got a couple of ideas... • *Top 10 Joke/Bad Archetypes.* • *Top 10 Largest Archetypes.* • *Top 10 Oldest Cards That Have Consistently Seen Competitive Play (& Were Never on the Banlist in Any Way).* • *Top 10 Cards Which Could Be Unbanned Comfortably If Given An OPT Clause.* • *Top 10 XYZ Monsters* & *Top 10 'Number' Monsters* as separate videos. • *Top 10 Pendulum Monsters.* • *Top 10 Non-Targeting, Non-Destruction Removal Cards* (essentially top 10 cards which bypass target immunity & traditional floating effects). • *Top 10 Cards Which Lock Out Your Opponent's Battle Phase* (i.e have an effect that prevents cards & effects from being activated when they attack). • *Top 10 Cards With 'XX50' Stat Lines.* • *Top 10 Card Puns* (literally any card whose name is a pun; you could rank either by how good the pun is, or how the good the card is that just so happens to also be a pun). • *Top 10 Cards Which Mill* (e.g Foolish Burial) • *Top 10 Mill Targets* (e.g Trick Clown). • *Top 10 Non-Link-Monster Cards That Care About Columns/Specific Zones.* • *Top 10 Monsters Named As Specific Material For At Least 1 Extra Deck Monster.* • *Top 10 Monsters With Misleading Types* (e.g. Brionac as a Sea-Serpent Type despite being a Dragon in both name & lore). • *Top 10 Monsters Who Inadvertently Received Support* (e.g Red Dragon Archfiend received Archfiend Support despite not being created with that archetype in mind). • *Top 10 Best/Widest Searchers* - you've done the most searchable cards, but what about the searchers themselves that can search the best/hardest targets? Or even simply the most possible targets? • *Top 10 Comeback Cards* (essentially the best topdecks to try and make a comeback with). • *Top 10 Cards Added To Duel Links Too Early* • _Your Personal_ *Top 10 Favourite Archetypes/Decks to Play* or *Top 10 Funnest Playstyles*
Some of these are GORGEOUS tho, look at Poseidon beetle, it's so pretty! And ally of justice! Also, dreadsythe harvester has the dopest name I've ever seen!
Sword hunter. One of the most undervalued cards in early Yugioh. Its attack power and power increase from its effect always blinds ppl to its REAL value. Keeping monsters out of enemy GY. Lots of monsters back in the day had effects like when this creature is sent to GY by battle/card effect it triggers an ability. When sword hunter defeats a monster it gets equipped to him and doesn't go to the GY. Also when Sword Hunter dies the equipped monsters go to the GY by a mechanic not by an effect, virtually neutralizing low lv monsters with search or summoning effects. U can then wait by leaving him in DEF mode until u draw emergency provisions then sack those equip monsters for 1k LP per. Also prevents your opponent from using rez cards to resummon them out of the GY also slowdowns "Chaos" monsters like Black Luster Soldier envoy of the beginning which require 1 light and 1 dark monster in GY then remove them to special summon him.
I feel like the only reason low attack high level monsters existed back then was so they could show Dark Magician beating them and show how cool he is.
It's because of a problematic artifact of the game that existed prior to the Yugioh most of the world knows. Originally, Duel Monsters was extremely RP heavy in what is now called Season 0 of Yugioh. So, even if they are lower attack, putting them in the right circumstance ensures they can be stronger. This is actually what inspired the wackiness in the Duelist Kingdom arc, where the literal environment determined what the dueling field was like. and originally? Rather than getting like a 10% increase, it was 50% increase, so a rock monster like Sand Stone would be a 2050/2400 monster in a wasteland with a weird roleplay effect instead of an ass level 5 monster with 1300/1600 stats.
@@ab14967 this
@@ab14967 what was the original point for the level stars? Those were across the board so we still lucked out a 2500 6 star and a 1800 4 star. Those few examples overrode the Atk standard so weaker monsters started out really weak and not the norm Atk strength of the game.
@@alfredgomez3128 funny enough before tributes existed it was simply the rarity of cards, which is why blue eyes is level 8 and why dark magician is level 7 and Summoned Skull is level 6. Summoned Skull was much much better than Dark Magician in the actual game but back then due to its card interactions and higher defense Dark Magician was better and thus rarer.
@@alfredgomez3128 If we're going with originally? Probably not for any reason that would be featuring game balance. Atem being the KING of Games was a literal title.
He was the king of all games, and the original season had him deal with opponents in a variety of games, some of which were literal gambling. The card game we all know today was likely something the author made up on the spot and be used for one time like the other "monster of the week" antagonists, so he just made random cards, put relative context for power with level and stats, then went with it, using roleplay to compensate for weaker cards that become strong with that in mind... then the popularity of THAT arc where they introduced it blew up, and slowly became the main focus, which is why the relative powers of the cards now are much more standardized than the first set, which was all over the place.
For a watsonian/in-story reason? More powerful cards are rarer (there are only 4 Blue Eyes White Dragon cards ever printed in their world, for example), so weaker/lower rank cards are put in as budget options when they can't get the ones they want, or even not ever able to in some cases.
"If you have a way to infinitely get cards on the field for it to tribute, what you could do is not use it on this card and instead play cannon soldier" that's just savage
Reminder that Wevil had to cheat to make Insect Queen halfway threatening
It was before DNA surgery, which he used in season 5 with his insect barrier. I made someone quit by doing that combo too, it was great, lol.
it felt like every villain just straight up cheated lol
@@magicwindow6682 If everyones doing it thats just how the game works lol.
@@magicwindow6682 i mean same atem aka Yami make bullshit up like ss2 monster reborn or fusing mammoth graveyard to ultimate blue eyes for passive stat decrease,Jaden have a very specific card that only use if that specific monster on the field which only show like 1 episode and never seen again,Yusei is actually the only one that rarely cheated since he basically otk shit opponent and actually have to do combo for actual opponent, Yuma isn't even a human and Playmaker is a protagonist that exist
@@13thKingMu okay Living Arrow is a bullshit card and I'm here for the cool mechanic. Maybe just something like banish one zombie monster from the GY and discard Polymerization to change the type of monster to zombie type, make it lose ATK equal to the ATK of the monster banished, effects negated, cannot be used as material or be tributed, cannot be destroyed, can't attack or block attacks, and if the ATK hits 0 it's sent to the GY.
A bit busted? Maybe. Idk.
Edit: also by battle city rules if you set spells before playing then you're allowed to activate them as SS2, oh and during your battle phase you can use them as SS2. It's tricky
Great Maju Gazett tributing Malefic Cyber end dragon was a key piece of my Malefic drain deck back when I played. I remember pulling it off, feeling really hyped, attacking then getting magic cylindered.
Great Maju Garzett and the other majus were actually meant for stall not beatdown, and with the right back row material, you can also burn opponents as well. I called them attack position walls, because they were hard to get around offensively and staunch defender, or rare gold Armor forced opponents to attack them.
@@brandoncampbell7274 Blowing them up is more fun.
Hahahahhaa Magic Cylindering all that damage back to the opponent for game: good times!! 🤣🤣
Lmao
Imagine destroying garzett with pre errata ring of destruction. Enter tournaments with the sole goal of causing tie games lol
You forgot to mention the real reason insect queen is number one.
With the 100 Atk Position Token you are wide open for the feared Great Poseidon Beetle/Mist Body/ookazi OTK.
Not to mention a whole bunch of setup to get it at least a little over 4K ATK with dna surgery and your opponent to fill up their side with monster. At this rate you'd be better off playing obelisk or cyber stein+blue eyes ultimate who requires little to no setup at all to get a 4K beatstick
I actually loled of that
@TheRapper10000
By people you mean Joey from the Power of Chaos games?
Cause I never heard of people making an insect barrier deck and using Insect Queen, because they're probably better off playing vanilla level 7 or something like Barrel Dragon
@TheRapper10000 that's like only for incredibly specific use which is still fun on the ds format. Plus the insect queen looks cool bc she looks like she jumped out of the bugs life
@@totalwartimelapses6359 I played from starter deck kaiba until the ancient gear set and casual players at the time loved that combo. Not competitive at the time obviously
thank you for compiling this list of future junior journey staples
There are surprisingly few monsters that can trade favorably against BEWD for quite a long time in junior format.
What is Junior Journey?
@@garcardosotan6172 One of MBTs new series
@@garcardosotan6172 Fun
Hell yeah Lavals are mentioned in a top 10. As a loyal Laval player, I'll take anything at this point
lavals need a link so bad.
Lavaval chain got mentioned in a few lists too
@@BlindOracle00 This would do nothing. They need an actual way to swarm the field, and to make use of all the monsters they banish. The deck barely has any synergy, except "Banish your fire monsters to do mediocre stuff".
IMO, Laval need a way to make play without relying on drawing rekindling. Set-up the GY is not that hard and people, specifically the OCG, did find a few creative way to set-up.
Problem is our deck lives and dies by Rekindling. New support will either need to help the deck not relying on so much rekindling and/or double down on rekindling by letting us getting easier access to it (which will result in rekindling in f&l again)
@@catisreckless4647 Well it depends. If the link monster's effect was something like you can special summon as many of your banished lavals as possible but restricts you to only special summoning lavals while face up or something then I think that would probably do it for them. Especially if the effect was not a once per turn. I don't even think it would be that broken since the laval synchros are not that powerful.
This whole "is an Equip Card an Equip Spell Card" thing is probably the source of many bad judge calls in tournaments
Yes it is. Problem solved.
Sword Hunter was actually one of my very first ever cards in yu-gi-oh when it first released. Although the card sucks, it will always have a special place in my heart.
hard same. what a guy.
Mine was Beaver Warrior :)
After my cosmo queen and dark magician were stolen sword hunter was my best card until I got xyz dragon cannon. My favorite combo was to use United we stand on sword hunter and then just start hacking away at the opponents field as it would beat over most monsters.
Hyozanryu for me. While it wasn't amongst my very first cards, I got it very early on. And somehow it's place in my heart grew after some scoundrel stole my Mirror Force back then. It's been almost 20 years and I'm still salty about that.
@@mrcx6142 yeah it sucks when your best cards get stolen, funny enough, after my Cosmo Queen was stolen I found a blues eyes shining dragon on the ground. I eventually got a blue eyes ultimate dragon and found a way to cheat it out of the fusion deck making it my best card but it wasn't all that easy to get out.
I just want to say Anteatereatingant is a fantastic monster name/idea and I love him.
I find it funny that Weevil was going on about how great his Insect Queen was, but in reality it's no challenge at all. Just something to stomp on. Lol.
He mitigated the suck by cheating out summon requirements for his bugs.
there an field to set out wacth battle city joey struggle
A lot of Weevil's insect cards sucked.
It's no wonder he cheated so frequently.
@@nine_tails137 parasite parasict insect barrier 😅
@@tommydurning9762 Yeah, but he snuck that card into Joey's deck though under-handed tactics, instead of using the actual card's effect. Also, it's called Parasite Paracide.
Sword hunter was really strong in my highschool. Since the original text said that the equipped monster "remains on the field until this card is destroyed", we thought that equiped monster had to stay in the opponent's monster zone as a equip spell until sword hunter is destroyed. So with each monster destroyed, it leaves the opponent with one less monster zone available on the field.
If that effect was its true effect, that would he pretty good. Not amazing, but pretty decent
I could totally se a card with a similar effect being good in today's metagame, especially with Link Monsters.
My god the canon soldier burn had me in tears. Just came out of nowhere and crushed that poor insect fellow.
I mean, Insect Queen is at least very easy to summon now with the Weevil legacy support
But she is so bad that the retrain version is the best target of that legacy support
@@user-ashborn16 she’s still a target for the support, that’s something
@@brianaguilar8283 Technically any insect type, even Great Poseidon and Deadscythe Harvester, and both are in this video too.
I believe Cockroach Knight was intended to be used as a combo with Insect Queen since it returns to the top of your deck whenever it gets destroyed so you can keep sacrificing it over and over.
@@jadedheartsz except it eats your draw phase. Now you can tribute Black Ptera instead
The funny thing about Arcana Force 18 the Moon is that the tails effect lingers. Meaning that if you give the Moon to your opponent they will have to give it back to you at the end of their turn like some sort of "hot potato with the moon"
Yeah. Could be useful but not much.
@@Prince_Eva_Huepow Never said it was useful, its just really funny
I love the artwork on the Maju cards so much. When I was a kid, I had all of them except legendary and would try to summon them all the time. Easily the coolest cards besides Endymion.
But Insect Queen is one of the most powerful cards in all of Duel Monsters!
I thought that was Swordsman of Landstar!
It’s Jeff Goldblum
Its the mighty Kuriboh
was tin 🤗gift for 14$just but 6 pack 6 dollars
@@billding6032 Jeff goldblum? That's one of the most powerful cards in duel monsters!
Top ten cards that can be used for things outside their stated effect, like how _Abyssal Designator_ (declare a type and attribute and your opponent has to send one such monsters that matches to the graveyard from their hand or deck) for you opponent to _Show their entire hand and deck_ if you deliberately state a attribute/type combination they simply doesn’t exist (Like DIVINE and any monster type not Divine Beast or Creator God), because they have to prove they “CAN’T” resolve the effect.
Dark designator can also do that without paying LP although it only reveals their Deck :)
So the entire Kaiju archetype
I mean it is creative but incredibly bad.
@@nnnp634
I mean knowing an entire enemy deck makes using cards that need to be properly informed to work _much_ stronger, and cards that let you look at _just_ their hand have been banned before. How many other cards in the game let you look an an opponents entire deck, let alone also their hand, and with an ultimately acceptable cost of 1000 LP?
@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire Fengsheng Mirror lets you look at your opponent's hand. Doesn't see play :/
Nothing more nostalgic in Yu-Gi-Oh than just two plus tribute monsters that aren't worth summoning even if you were getting paid. We used to be a country
Straight up, loved Maju Garzett as a kid. I really saw it as a cool beatstick that could be a signature finisher. Even now knowing its pretty bad, I have a fondness for it.
You actually can use both of Darkest Diabolos' effects on the same turn. Just once each.
I remember walking around in First grade with Sword hunter. That card was the best in my eyes at that time 😂
Ah, I remember using Sword Hunter in my first deck I built. Not surprised I didn't do very well 🤣
You know there were easy way around tributing even back then right? Monster reborn, level conversion lab etc. Ring any bells?
@@Aloyus_Knight I played with my friends in primary school for 3 months. Then we moved on
I remember having sword hunter in my deck and I thought it was so cool having the card that Joey used in a one off battle! luckily I only played with my brother and friends so we only played with our "casual" handmade decks haha
@@tylerdurden8270 I remember taking all the "good" (preferred) cards out of my stockpile, and then bringing the rest to my friend at school,
When everyone else would go out and play at recess, we'd put our desks together and challenge each other to a duel xD
Diabolos, lv 7 Dragon monster
"Okay, it has a nice level and attribute support, let's see the rest"
It can get info in the opponent's draw and interfere with it
"Nice effect, can be used with some interesting cards"
Can't be special summoned, and can't be normal summoned without DARK tributes
"Ok, this is really necessary? All of this, to just look at the opponent's topdeck? Seriously?"
I think the whole point of the card is to resolve viruses. But obviously not worth the resources
Now look at Simorgh, has the exact same summoning conditions (it needs Wind tributes instead of Dark), but all it does is inflict 1000 burn to *both* players during the End Phase. And the effect can be entirely negated just by having 2 spells or traps on the field
This draw controlling effect isn't good in YuGiOh where cards can mean so much. In Magic the gathering, that effect is way more of an issue as you can force bricking a lot easier.
Though when I think about it Diabolos would be an expensive card that couldn't be cheated in even there.
Ink 8⁸y8y
Most of the original Structure Deck boss monster have the restriction of not being able to be Special summoned and if allowed..just under specifically conditions. Up until SD 10 more or less (being the only exception the boss monster in SD Dinosaur Rage)
I remember when I had the great maju Garrett As a kid and loved it
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You can also use the effect to send over _Heraldic Beast Basilisk_ to crash _Number C1000: Numerounius_ into it, thus if you cheat out _Number C1000: Numerounius_ and then crash into Basilisk, you can more easily get out _Number iC1000: Numerounius Numerounia_ to potentially win you the game then and there.
That's actually an interesting application.
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Then again you can do that with _any_ card that hands over your monsters to your opponent, but at least this gives moon something going for it.
Horray for Numerounius FINALLY being released in the TCG!
I mean if you attack Basilisk with Numerounius you've probably already won the duel through battle damage but okay
@@selectivepontification8766 Actually it looks like the playable version of C1000 doesn’t have a native 10,000 ATK like it’s anime version. It’s at ?, so technically that leaves it at 0 ATK/DEF. This should work.
your videos are really good for returning & casually interested players -- these lists give fun lil nostalgia as well as show the best of the best of the new. also the lil explanations u do with each card to show combos is sooooo fire hella appreciated ur definitely A tier minimum
I wish sword hunter got a modern retrain. The effect is cool and seeing a juiced up version high on adderall and link monsters would be sweet
Facts id be interested to see a synchro retrain… with some level of protection..like idk for ex: it can’t be targeted by card effects during the battle phrase maybe.
retrained version should can able to use his victims effects or boost himself depends on their element
@@Qvmmy Maybe gains protection depending on the type of monster he's equipped with? Like can't be targeted by effects when equipped with an extra deck monster or something?
@@bellystraw as long as its something cool yet not broken, it's okay
@@Qvmmy I feel like him having busted effects would be ok if he gained them through attacking and destroying monsters. That's a big prerequisite for an effect in modern yugioh
Top 10 Fusion Monsters that can be Special Summoned from Extra Deck without using Polymerization or any other Fusion Spell Cards (Alternative summoning condition or Contact Fusion like Neos or Gladiator Beasts)
We all know ABC Dragon is #1
@@alphabrother6823 the pure amount of advantage glad beast can get with their fusion thats cheats cards out of the extra deck is close for #1 too I feel
Thunder dragon colossus and rainbow neos inbound
@@sleachim2251 yeah but the way DL makes his lists, it’s about competitive success which ABCs have more than Glad beasts
Dark Law, if it wasn't on the internal ban list, would be pretty high up. Masked Hero Anki would probably see a place due to Duel Links.
I remember sword hunter being the coolest card ever when I was a kid. I made so many warrior type decks with him in it
That feeling when Thestalos the Mega Monarch is argueably a better Laval boss monster than Laval Judgement Lord.
This video felt like a personal attack. I have used all these cards in Decks.
so you deck lack structure 😐
@@tommydurning9762 Because I built a Deck around a bad card? That's the most fun way to build a Deck!
@@kirarakidohara1423 i build an deck around an level 4 dinosaur my strategi next year got bammed
Swordhunter was my first win condition. This was around... 2005? I had very little access to newer cards at the time
Needless to say, I never pulled off summoning it
I love Lair of Darkness. My favorite structure deck to be released so far. Hoping for some new support in monster form. There's plenty of good traps to use with Lilith and Malice etc. I love the "use opponents monsters as tribute fodder" style of the deck. I don't want it to be meta breaking, just a little better competitively.
Not just tribute fodder, but *replacements* for a tribute cost you'd pay for another card. Meaning you can just eat opponent's cards in a non-targeting, non-destruction way. Tributing a monster using LoD ignores SO many types of protection that it's actually hilariously useful.
Lair of Viruses. Pretty fun
Sword hunter is already power crept by Frightfur Bear who does the same thing, but with 1000 ATK per equip
I'd like to get a video on the Darklord archetype. It's just always felt so weird and interesting to me.
Speaking of Darklord, I wonder why Marie the Fallen One was renamed Darklord Marie? I learned that recently and it blew my mind. I used to play Marie the Fallen One when I was a kid (2000/2001).
-SirHonor
@@KnightlyBrosGaming in the ocg the name is datenshi mari. Datenshi is the japanese name of darklords (datenshi= fallen angel)
Its another problem of misstranslation again with the tcg like frog the jam.
@@ghostsherpard623 more like censorship. They changed the whole type of "angels" to "fairies" in TCG
@@johnapple6646 im not writting about name censorship from ocg to tcg, just tcg messing arround with their "traduction" is like harpie's brother change to sky scout or frog the jam.
Tcg always ruin original names and not because censorship
I always liked how some of Yu Gi Ohs worst cards end up having really solid artwork. Dreadscythe Harvester looks awesome, just not that great of a card.
Pretty much all neos fusion except rainbow neos having solid artwork with crap effect.
@@the13thjoker i mean marine Neos and Air Neos having decent effect,it just their summon requirements are not worth for their effect
Super vehicroid stealth union..
Machina force
@@the13thjoker Grand Neos literally yeets cards off the field, lol.
That feeling when you play the first card shown in this video in one of your decks.
Interesting that you started with Maju Garzette card. I wish that konami or whomever was in control when this series of 3 monsters came out, didn't nerf the rule on what a cards normal atk value was.
The set, (IMO) if it was allowed to be what it was intended, would have been, summoning Gren Maju, gain a large amount of atk from its effects, then once you gain a second decently sized monster, tribute for Maju Garzette, then tribute into Great Maju Garzette.
DUDE, you just blew my mind away, by showing me how to pronounce this foking card Anteatereatingant, I never even realized this was a giant ant thats eating an anteater and i always was like "defok is this cards name, how am i supposed to even say that" i feel so dumb now lmao
And the anteater is eating ants.
The person who had to translate it in the German version also did not understand the name at all.
It's just called "Anteating ant" without any mention of the anteater.
Seeing someone give credit to Duellogs guy for his pronunciation is pretty hilarious.
Top 10 cards that can cause a misunderstanding with your childhood friend when they walk into your room unannounced
Top 10 reasons why my dad hasn't come home from picking up cigarettes
Number 1: The winged dragon of Rah-Sphere mode
@@SomeRandomGuyOutHere It'on the list not because of its summoning ra effect
Spellbook of Judgement has to somehow be on that list in some way
Hey, sword hunter was pretty amazing back in its era!
Sword Hunter was my BOY briefly when I was a kid.
Preevolve maju garzett.
Garzett: lv 6 the atk of this cards becomes the atk of the tributed monster. That's it
Or it’s could be a Lv 5 maju garzett retrain
Its Effect could be Its original is Atk an Def
Is equal to the sum total of atk and def points of the monster used for its tribute summoned. It also gains the attribute an type of the tribute summoned monster in addition to it still retaining its own fiend+ dark type.
@@jayclearmen411 well that can only be useful for a specific type. Or maybe the name is treated as the tributed monster. That would be a better use
If anyone thinks Dreadscythe Harvester's infinite ATK sounds appealing, just play Six Samurai Bushido Counter turbo instead. Battle Shogun can reach infinite ATK from just looping your combos with Gateway of the Six - and you can easily bring out up to 3 copies from the extra deck. And can loop those copies with Gateway of the Six. (Though admittedly the combo takes forever - but at least it is pretty consistent.)
Honestly I don't think any card belongs on this worst of list unless it has the restriction that it cannot be Special Summoned - even Normal Monsters, since they at least have lots of really good support.
Nah.
Or you could just use amazoness archer and ftk
@@xatuyou8045 Personally I prefer to use a combination of 1 to 3 Saryuja Skull Dread, maybe Daigusto Emeral, maybe PSY-Framelord Omega, maybe Ferocious Flame Swordsman (as a generic materials Link-2 Warrior), 1 to 3 Toon Table of Contents and Toon Cannon Soldier to go for an FTK; though I can see the appeal of using Isolde to get Amazoness Archer from the deck, I tend to use her effect to bring out a Tuner from the deck instead.
(As an aside - Infernoble Arms don't go amiss in Bushido Counter turbo if you are playing Mizuho and Shinai.)
The fact that Diabolos’ effect is really quite weak is really interesting, considering that a card in MTG with a similar effect (Jace, the Mind Sculpture) is considered one of the strongest and most hated cards of all time
Handsniping effects are much more potent in YGO compared to a near useless peeking effect. The opponent loses card advantage in the 1st example while the 2nd is a do-nothing effect.
The retrain actually saw competitive play to boot. Darkest Diabolos handsnipes and has anti-Kaiju/Lava Golem/Sphere protection which handy for a boss monster.
For the original Diabolos, its just a weak peeking effect. Which does nothing. Doesnt advance the game state, doesnt break boards. Just peeks.
The effect is good, it's just the cost for the card that's not appealing. As an mtg card it would kinda be a creature that takes 7 swamp mana to summon (with a 7/6 body), specifically forbids any sort of summoning it except by playing it from your hand for its exact mana cost and can't be tributed (despite being the boss of an archetype that's all about tributing high powered dark monsters). It's just waaaaaay to resource intensive, limited to dark only and there's barely any way to cheat it out. And it's super easy to get rid of. And for that the effect really isn't worth it. Jace is cheap to summon and it actually gains something from that effect too.
Maju Garzett has a lot of support being a Fiend type. It’s also a good card in Duel Links. I’m not gonna let my boy take #10.
Top 10 Worst shared effects of an archetype
Floowanderreze and ba
I predict the Neo Spacian fusions.
Malefics
Maybe crystal beasts?
After seeing Anteatereatingant, I propose Top 10 Best/Worst monster with puns in its name
The card that i like the most purely by name is Interplanetarypurplythorny dragon
F for Weevil lol 😂
It’s annoying how he kept bragging about how good his new monster was so good. But turns out it’s not 😅.
To be honest, he's little more than a cheater that has to use dirty tactics to get some advantage, and gets defeated anyway. At least Insect Queen is a bit easier to bring out than, say, Great Moth or its Perfectly Ultimate counterpart.
I mean it WAS pretty good in the source material especially for when it was around. I even made a deck with the real version of it back in the day. Wasn't good but it functioned.
Well to be fair, insect queen automatically has at least 2400 attack when she gets on the field since she gets a small boost for being a insect herself. And you can easily get her on the field via pinch hopper or resonance insect I believe. But still am happy she got an upgraded version of herself.
I mean, one way to take advantage of Great Poseidon Beetle would be to use Half Shut on an opponent's monster, halving that monster's attack and preventing it from being destroyed in battle that turn. And as an insect type, he does have a handful of cards to make summoning him easier.
But what would the actual advantage be? You're losing out on a spell card (and a potentially strong insect you could've summoned instead) only for a bit of battle damage, and you can neither search Half Shut nor make that much out of it if you don't have that beetle.
It always hurts seeing my favorite cards in lists like these
Top 10 cards that were seen bad in the early days of the game and became tier 1 or 0 later on (due legacy support and changes in meta). I mainly remember Royal Oppression being seen as trash until Blackwings came by and suddenly was a must have.
Royal Oppression was already carving a pretty solid space for itself by that point--either as a staple in stun decks, or a means of screwing over your opponent after you were done making plays. Vayu just pushed it into "lmao" territory.
You made a video on the top 10 best card effects a card can have in Yu-Gi-Oh…can we get a top 10 of the WORST card effects?
How to buff Sword Hunter into a better card: have the converted monster placed in the opponent’s spell and trap zone, so basically you can jam up their spell/trap zones especially if they’re using a deck that has continuous spells or traps that can’t destroy their own spells and traps
I love watching these worst monster cards videos. Feels like Yu-Gi-Oh loves to print useless monsters
Like every monster from LOB
@@horribleville yes for sure but even in later sets at least in duel links they love to give you useless cards. Plus when you unlock new duelists their decks are all useless trash vanilla monsters with one decent rare.
They always have. Even a lot of the rare cards back in the day were complete trash. When 1800 for a level 4 was considered good, any normal monster that was level 4 or less with less than 1800 attack was automatically trash. I'd love to have a look into how some of these cards are designed because as a kid I was convinced they made like 50% or more of the cards in every set unusable garbage to suck kids of their allowance as they bought endless booster packs in search of Jinzo or whatever.
It's one thing I appreciate about Magic: The Gathering. There's very few monsters who can JUST attack with no other keywords/effects and even the seemingly bad cards can still be decent in the right decks. There's no deck in Yu-gi-oh where a level 3 monster with 700 attack and no effects is useful. It's just worthless. The early days of Yu-gi-oh were truly a lawless wasteland.
@@FreddyChoppins yes I completely agree.yugioh seems like a total cash grab with it's imbalance, power creep, and no man's cost system. I'm surprised it's so successful. I only like it due to nostalgia from anime. Overall I prefer magic the gathering but I am looking forward to Yu-Gi-Oh Cross Duels. It adopts a more hearthstone style of gameplay and has a 8 turn limit so no annoying control matches that last an hour like in Yu-Gi-Oh and hearthstone. And the deck master/commander gimmick with leveling up your cards sounds fun. And the weak cards are useful now at least when using a specific deck master that relies on low level monsters.
Man, and some of these artworks are so cool too, Konami loves to waste good art with terrible card effects
Top 10 cards with only one word in their title.
(Jinzo, Honest, Invocation, Reasoning, etc)
I liked these retrained monsters. How about top 10 best retrained spells and traps?
Those sword hunter combos are pretty cool
I thought that number 1 would be the soitsu/doitsu cards
Ah yes, cards only Joey would use.
You could have also included the vanilla Red-Eyes
Better to put Gaia then since it has less attack or Slot Machine which has only 2000 ATK despite being a level seven monster
Had a feeling Insect Queen would be number 1. The amount of restrictions on that card would make players think twice about playing it even if it was a level 4 beatstick, much less a level 7. It's kind of funny that in Duel Links it's classified as an UR just because it's the ace chard of Weevil.
Although that actually explains why it's so bad. It was a boss monster from one of the earliest seasons of Yugioh and because this was before metadecks they needed to find ways for the heroes to win while looking clever and the best way to do that was to give a boss monster some inherent flaw that could be exploited. Sometimes it worked out really well (Yami Yugi using Slifer's effect to deck out his opponent was classic) other times the flaw was so blatantly obvious you wondered how no one saw it right away. Insect Queen was an example of the latter and for whatever reason when they released it as card they kept all those negative effects.
Sword Hunter was one I enjoyed playing just for the kind of unique effect. It's just for the the fun concept even if it is bad, but if I am playing a bad 2 tribute monster, then I choose Flame Ogre because it allows me to draw card.
I remember Great Poseidon Beetle mainly because I've reread the first chapter of the 5ds manga a lot.
I am probably one of the few people that played the CDIP column cards because I thought it was a cool concept. Then the Link era hit and someone remembered these cards existed and it led to the plethora of cards that care about where they are on the field, where other cards are and so forth.
The maju cards use to be my ace card in every deck.
I had a hilarious moment with Insect Queen in an early GBA game: Weevil had her out with another Insect against my Summoned Skull. Since she's an Insect herself, she gained 400 attack - 2600 total. Which is higher than Summoned Skull's 2500, so Weevil attacked - destroying the other Insect, and thereby reducing Insect Queen to 2400, running into her doom. I'm not 100% sure, but IIRC Weevil had exactly 100 LP left, so that move lost him the duel, too.
Dreadscythe Harvester looks like (by art design) it’s trying to be Tyrant Neptune but clearly could not match the same power
Sword hunter doesn’t sound like a guy you want to fall asleep around.
I made a retrain of Ally of Justice Thunder Armour that kept the piercing damage, but was also special summonable if both players control at least 1 monster, with the opponent needing to have at least 1 LIGHT monster, and can add an Ally card from your deck to your hand if it destroys a monster by battle.
I like this Chanel.
Good back ground sound when I do the dishes and such. No jarring noises or anything.
7:09 Imagine a Yugioh game but every effect is zone based. Kind of like Link monster. Destroy a monster that this monster point to, destroy a spell/trap that this monster point to... And monsters and spell/trap have ability to move to adjacent unoccupied zone. It just turn into a tactic game.
Duelist of the roses
Top 10 Banned Cards that got the biggest nerf
Ex: Sangan, Dark Strike Fighter, Chaos Emperor Dragon
Future fusion :(
Destiny HERO Disk Commander
Crush Card Virus
Witch of the Black Forest
Brain Control
The list goes on
I have to say Sword hunter is my favourite card, back in the old days on the school yard it was great for keeping people from monster reborning their cards. It basically meant they couldn't tribute summon anything if I got him out early enough and they wouldn't be able to get anything out that could challenge my steadily strengthening monster.
It'd only last so long most of the time, but those one or two turns before they figured out a counter usually won me the duel.
And honestly in today's meta, keeping your opponents monsters out of their graveyard is better then it's ever been. Most of the time floating effects would probably still go off but other activated effects may not have.
One thing about Insect Queen and some others on the list: They rely on you having other monsters on the board for their effect while they also need to be summoned by you tributing monsters. This means summoning them already works against their effect and makes it even more difficult to use them to their full potential. That doesn't really matter for those cards as they are already bad the way they are, but for cards that might be decent that would be another thing to consider.
I thought the condition for monsters on this list was that they cant have archetypal support that lets you summon them?
If it is AF: The Moon shouldn’t be on this list since of AF: Empress and Lovers.
Yeah, but AF is certified ass
It's technically monsters that don't have archetypal support that inherently revolves around special summoning them. AF is mostly about just flipping coins to get good effects, with the two notable cards that facilitate getting high level monsters out. Something like BEWD, while it normally requires 2 tributes, the archetype is notable for facilitating getting it on the field
Also they really don't help much in summoning it. The Lovers is literally a worse Kaiser Seahorse and The Empress is just on its own level of bad.
11:47 Instead of use cannon soldier as an example, we're talking about spamming infinitaly insect monsters, on that escenario anti-aircraft flower is way better than cannon soldier, because deals 800 instead of 500
Great Poseidon Beetle was actually used in the 5D's manga's first duel, and that was exactly how it was used. Yusei used a card to bring back a monster that had been destroyed in battle that turn, and also prevented it from being destroyed by battle for the rest of the turn, and his opponent used Poseidon Beetle to swing into it three times and deal massive damage to Yusei.
Sword Hunter is one of my favorite cards conceptually same with insect queen
Reminds me of Geminis, should be powerful to balance out, but weren't.
Honestly, be nice if Bosses moved back to the Main Deck.
what makes me really mad about Insect Queen is that in Duel Links, she has a really good summoning animation.
However, that doesn't apply to Metamorphosed Insect Queen, which is REALLY good.
Nope.
Only that really bad card, which isn't even good when you cheat her out with Pinch Hopper.
I found alot of success playing Sword Hunter. Funny enough the old version of that card was a normal monster and it didn't have that effect which made it even worse
its always nice hearing about the worst monsters, cause you get to learn about new cards, where as all the best cards tend to be the same pile of cards we already know about
Personally, I really like Insect Queen's restriction, for it is oddly unique.
Obviously, I am not going by gameplay there, but more how it was shown in the anime, with her eating the other monster.
Be nice to have other bosses use it.
maybe if they do another retrain of insect queen that had the old restriction, but was much stronger in its health and ability. like maybe when it destroys a enemy monster by battle, it equips the card and can sacrifice the equip to create a set number of insect tokens to the field based on the monster tributed(1/2 level or rank minimum 1). maybe call it something like Voracious Insect Queen. maybe make it a fusion using insect queen(or a high level insect monster) and 1 insect monster, using a card maybe called metamorphic fusion(which might also have the effect of being able to be banished from grave to special summon 1 high level insect monster by tributing a lower level insect monster on the field.)
also speaking of monsters eating monsters, where is the rest of the fairy tale deck(golden castle in this case). why have we still got no forest wolf, red hood, huntsman, thorn princess etc.
@@Motleydoll123
Honestly, I was thinking just some cannibalistically bestial monsters, like Dinosaurs, having it.
@@Bezaliel13 yeah. reptiles, certain fiends, beasts, and the like. monsters that could eat something on your board to attack, but to help balance out the need to tribute to attack, maybe have it with incredibly high attack values for their stat. like a level 6 with 3000 attack, or a level 8 with 3600 attack. ones where you get more out than you put in.
@@Motleydoll123 Indeed, for it would be nicer than more negates for a board of them.
Give a cost that balances out the spam.
Top 10 generic pendulum cards.
Top 10 "trap" cards. (Cards that seem good at first glance but aren't really that good.
Top 10 cards that reference the anime/manga.
Top 10 parody cards.
Top 10 cards based on other Konami games.
Top 10 special conditions in the games.
Top 10 anime/manga exclusive cards.
Top 10 cards that newcomers shouldn't use.
More Rescue Rabbit, please.
The maju archetype is basically boss monster who's whole effect been THICC
the cannon soldier bit made me laugh good job
Top 10 Cards that can reset Garnets back to the Deck.
Pot of generosity, jar of generosity
@@Kawaiisikkusu Or if you want to use actual GOOD cards, that won't neg you into the abyss, you can use Herald of Purelight, or Saryuja Skulldread.
Can "Vanity's Ruler" prevent the tributing effect of "Nibiru, the primal being"? Also Ra Sphere mode and the Kaijus?
Kaijus : Yes because they special summon themselves.
Nibiru : Yes because Nibiru tributes and special summon itself as such, Vanity's Lord effect will prevent your opponent from even be able to activate Nibiru in the first place.
Ra Sphere Mode : No because unlike Kaijus, it normal summon itself instead of special summoning by tributing your opponent monsters
I actually used sword hunter back in my old Yu-Gi-Oh deck when it was first released. It wasn't very good, but sometimes you'd get it to work.
I can’t explain it but I love the way this guy talks.
It's funny how Weevil is supposed to be a "regional champion" (I think), and yet his two boss monsters, Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth and Insect Queen, are some of the worst cards in the game.
Seeing Great Poseidon Beetle here hurts, because i considered it a target for Ninjitsu Art of Transformation and a combo option for Half Shut.
Unfortunately didn't have this idea until now, but...
Top 10 targets for "A Wild Monster Appears!"
Wouldn't be a "Top 10 Worst Monsters That X" list without an Ally of Justice monster!
I've got a couple of ideas...
• *Top 10 Joke/Bad Archetypes.*
• *Top 10 Largest Archetypes.*
• *Top 10 Oldest Cards That Have Consistently Seen Competitive Play (& Were Never on the Banlist in Any Way).*
• *Top 10 Cards Which Could Be Unbanned Comfortably If Given An OPT Clause.*
• *Top 10 XYZ Monsters* & *Top 10 'Number' Monsters* as separate videos.
• *Top 10 Pendulum Monsters.*
• *Top 10 Non-Targeting, Non-Destruction Removal Cards* (essentially top 10 cards which bypass target immunity & traditional floating effects).
• *Top 10 Cards Which Lock Out Your Opponent's Battle Phase* (i.e have an effect that prevents cards & effects from being activated when they attack).
• *Top 10 Cards With 'XX50' Stat Lines.*
• *Top 10 Card Puns* (literally any card whose name is a pun; you could rank either by how good the pun is, or how the good the card is that just so happens to also be a pun).
• *Top 10 Cards Which Mill* (e.g Foolish Burial)
• *Top 10 Mill Targets* (e.g Trick Clown).
• *Top 10 Non-Link-Monster Cards That Care About Columns/Specific Zones.*
• *Top 10 Monsters Named As Specific Material For At Least 1 Extra Deck Monster.*
• *Top 10 Monsters With Misleading Types* (e.g. Brionac as a Sea-Serpent Type despite being a Dragon in both name & lore).
• *Top 10 Monsters Who Inadvertently Received Support* (e.g Red Dragon Archfiend received Archfiend Support despite not being created with that archetype in mind).
• *Top 10 Best/Widest Searchers* - you've done the most searchable cards, but what about the searchers themselves that can search the best/hardest targets? Or even simply the most possible targets?
• *Top 10 Comeback Cards* (essentially the best topdecks to try and make a comeback with).
• *Top 10 Cards Added To Duel Links Too Early*
• _Your Personal_ *Top 10 Favourite Archetypes/Decks to Play* or *Top 10 Funnest Playstyles*
im glad you brought up giving them ra's disciple, i was thinking about that and impcantations when i heard giving the opponent a monster
Some of these are GORGEOUS tho, look at Poseidon beetle, it's so pretty! And ally of justice! Also, dreadsythe harvester has the dopest name I've ever seen!
Sword hunter. One of the most undervalued cards in early Yugioh. Its attack power and power increase from its effect always blinds ppl to its REAL value. Keeping monsters out of enemy GY. Lots of monsters back in the day had effects like when this creature is sent to GY by battle/card effect it triggers an ability. When sword hunter defeats a monster it gets equipped to him and doesn't go to the GY. Also when Sword Hunter dies the equipped monsters go to the GY by a mechanic not by an effect, virtually neutralizing low lv monsters with search or summoning effects. U can then wait by leaving him in DEF mode until u draw emergency provisions then sack those equip monsters for 1k LP per. Also prevents your opponent from using rez cards to resummon them out of the GY also slowdowns "Chaos" monsters like Black Luster Soldier envoy of the beginning which require 1 light and 1 dark monster in GY then remove them to special summon him.
Sword hunter can also combo well with mage power.