Bellcat Fighter also has that little issue of being basically a Mecha Phantom Beast card but not having all the support because it has a different name
Gladiator Beasts, Neos, ABC, Masked Heros, Ritual Beasts, Legendary dragons, N'Tss & etc. Titan, Shaddolls, Nethersoul Dragon, Omni HEROs, First of the Dragon, & etc
@@rand6412 for the first one crimson nova trinity has a lot of good eff but the way u have to fusion summoned and there are no other poly spell beside the trap cards so trinity could fit in ur catagory easily
13:53 - Link Bumper is from Episode 5 of Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS, and acted as the Deus ex Machina “save the day” card pulled by main character Playmaker via his Storm Access character Skill (long story short, the player can use it at literally any phase to add a random Link monster from outside the deck into the Extra Deck; only good once per duel, can only be activated at 1000 LP or less). It was used to initiate a convoluted and situational Battle Phase loop where a souped-up Decode Talker attacked Gouki, the Great Ogre repeatedly until Great Ogre ran out of ways to cheat destruction by battle, at which point a different card offed the opposing GO with a Flame Wingman effect.
You forgot to mention that Linkerbell was only powercrept by LANphorhynchus is the OCG. In the TCG, Linkerbell came out two years *after* LANphorhynchus (and about a year after I:P and Beat Cop).
Right off the bat, Maxx C being at 3 over there is a huge deal. It’s why Dragoon did so well in the OCG. It was an oppressive boss monster that can be summoned in just 3 special summons, limiting how much the opponent would draw off of C, unlike most amazing boss monsters that usually require like, 5 or more summons. Basically, summon spamming is less penalized here in the TCG overall due to the Maxx C ban.
8:29 King's Knight isn't a normal monster just the other 2. It has the effect to summon Jack's Knight from the deck if Queen's Knight is on the field. So what you're supposed to do is use Arcana Extra Joker's floating effect to summon Queen's Knight and add King's Knight to your hand, so you can use King's Knight's effect to summon Jack's Knight and fusion summon Arcana Knight Joker
I could be wrong, but I think it’s because the synergy is a bit off. To use it on your first turn, you’d have to get Pendulum monsters into the extra deck first before you can even summon Linkerbell, meaning you’ll likely have little to use to summon Link monsters to Linkerbell’s zones, and will likely have already used your Pendulum Summon. On later turns, it can help, but only if you summon it before using your pendulum summon, which I think would usually mean you have to protect a 1500 attack monster for a turn, which isn’t happening :O
Something about agave dragon reminds me: my friends loved playing yugioh but when master link happened they weren't all too jazzed with buying new packs like I did, so I bought them all a copy of agave dragon and like 3 generic link 2s to force them to play by the rules.
Ah yes, Agave dragon, The monster that was so OP in school rules. And Bell Cat too! I gave that to my pop for his birthday because he used to work in the Air Force!
Most OP cards in school rules : - Mirror Force / Sakuretsu Armor / Yomi Ship... - any card in Italian as people were making up effects - that 1 guy who had a Raigeki - Magic cylinder (we were playing with 4000 HP)
Roboyaru series, early Elemental Heroes, every single vanilla monster most notably the gigantic pile of garbage that is Dark Magician, the Egyptian God cards...
Linklebell is bizarre. By the time this thing came out in the tcg, master rule 4 had been revised and several cards had powercrept it. There was no reason to play this. Konami screwed up by releasing most of the link vrains pack cards after the link era
I’m kinda surprised Duel link dragon, the link dragon isn’t on the list. Who wouldn’t want to link away their synchro to get essentially a vanilla with the same stats.
8:40 just a correction: Arcana Knight Joker nedds 3 specific warrior monster 2 normal and one effect monster. The material "King's Knight" is an effect monster with the effect, if queens knight is out with him, you can special summon "Jack's Knight"
My takeaway from 1:20 is that there's a Yugioh card designer who cared enough about Delaunay triangulation to name a card after it. Neat! I used a generalization of that concept in my research on protein molecules.
For the record: Link Bumper is in fact a card also in the anime, early in the VRAINS series, used by the main character Yusaku, no less. No wonder why it got outclassed easily.
Basically early rituals. Legendary Flame Lord and Cu Chulainn immediately come to mind as does Lycanthrope. Debatably Ruin since all she does is have an extra attack if she destroys a monster. Out of that batch I think only Paladin of White Dragon and Demise (not counting Relinquished because that was a great monster and still is) are decent to good. Doriado was... not great but it allows the use of Fu Rin Ka Zan, so she has something going for her. Paladin turbos Blue Eyes, Demise is a field nuke for 2000 LP and you get three. It's... not a great effect nowadays because of every deck mandating immunity and negates. Lycanthrope gains 100 ATK for each vanilla in your graveyard. ARA can help with that but then you run six level one normal monsters to get the best out of it when you can use it to turbo Chaos Max.
@@thatman666 oh definitely it was never bad. It just is a not very good effect nowadays because of boss monsters always being immune to effects/destruction/having omni-negates. It can have uses if you can somehow bring it in for an OTK though before the opponent gets the boss out.
@@nedrostram2360 doesn't excuse it being extra levels of bad. And konami obviously knew what they were doing if LANphorynchus came out so quickly after it
I actually enjoy using it in my casual dino deck where I run a couple of True Kings and Tenyi's. It makes a decent extra beatstick. Hearing it make this list made me a little sad.
When he said the name of that Nephthys link monster I thought I was having a stroke given how different he pronounced it from what it said on the card on the screen lol
Link Bumper was designed in the early MR4 period, so Konami was planning for duels to be mostly pure Link vs. Link with only occasional appearances by other monsters. So the idea was you'd summon your boss Link monster, then summon Link Bumper, then use that left arrow for a third (and possibly doing more depending on how many Link monsters you can summon), and then use the boss monster to wipe out the enemy's whole field. It's also designed primarily for non-archetypal Cyberse decks, which are all about swarming for the express purpose of Link Summoning. Which is why it did indeed get featured in an episode of the anime, where the protagonist ran precisely that deck.
I've been waiting for this video for a long time as while I don't play Yu-Gi-Oh anymore I love hearing about the rules and combos made. Now can we get best link monster video as everyone on YT is outdated to as link spider and linkuriboh are cute.
@@emperorhadrian6011 honestly it got expensive as well and I stopped after xyz as honestly synchro is my favorite type and show. If I did play honestly link would probably be my second favorite as it's blue and I love how they work overall as even the ealry link are cool monsters to see combo play.
@@ivanbluecool I kept playing up until it became whoever had a hand trap first turn would win. Up until that point it was possible to play cheaper rogue decks. Early link was fun though, if only it worked like master rule five did.
@@emperorhadrian6011 guess after 5ds and zexal more hand traps came into play as yusie was kinda the original graveyard and hand trap user with how many cards he had back righr after fusion. Yeah I feel my deck wouldn't be able to keep up as a mix of xyz synchro but I did play duel link a few months ago and got pretty high in ranking as my deck was fair enough for the old format. If I could buy the original link deck I would. It has those cool old link monsters but I don't play with anyone anymore
@@ivanbluecool Do you have/have you tried EDOpro? It lets you set a room and what ban list and rule set for that room and for deck building you have access to all cards including all anime cards, it's how I've been playing for the past year and a half. Syncro and xyz era is pretty popular on there you should check it out.
@@TheDuelLogs yeah but agave Dragon is probably the best target to start it since it’s a extra deck monster and you are guaranteed to have a dragon in your Gy
Agave dragon is one of those links that you will somehow find in the obscure combos for me while the obscure carda are necessary for said combos i won't consider them good cause of said obscure relevancy but i would'nt consider them top 10 worst links
@@kefkapalazzo1 The worst messed up one is "Spacian" in any Neos-related video he does. He always says "spay-see-an", but it's supposed to be "spay-shan".
Extra Joker just makes me wish for a card knight deck, where it would turbo out arcana knight joker and their field spell would allow you to discard any card to get the negate effect, they could have a card called "shuffle" or something that would allow you to swap one card knight for another, and they could have a big boss monster that requires you to banish arcana knight joker, king, queen, and Jack from your hand, field, or graveyard and it would be called something like "Royal Straight Arcana Knight" or "Arcana Flush Knight", I just think if they expanded on those cards they could be REALLY cool
Using 3 Agave Dragons helps you activate the Wyrm supporting effects. I use 3 of them in a Dragon Deck, when the first one is destroyed and I bring the second one to the field, I have 1 Wyrm in my Graveyard AND Dragons. Same thing when I bring the third one. I also use it in my for-fun Dinosaur Deck. I use Uraby, Two-Headed King Rex, Crawling Dragon #2, Hyper Hammerhead etc in a Deck just because I am a Dinosaur nerd, so since this card seems to dwell on "Wasteland", I added it.
It was one of the first link monsters ever made. They put it in cyberse starter decks. It wasn't as bad as he said at the time. Honestly I don't think it should even be on this list let alone the number one spot. In fact I know that spot should've gone to Clara and Rushka the Ventriloduo.
@@dustinvance243 Yes, but on that set, you already had better things like Decode Talker, so it was useless right off the bat. About Clara & Rushka, is a pretty decent Link 1 monster for decks that go 2nd or after using Evenly Matched. While Link Bubper not only requires specific materials and has really bad arrows, but also has an almost useless effect.
@@gsdarkus5014 top and left aren't bad arrows. In fact they're a requirement for extra linking! And the materials aren't bad either because you were likely only playing it in a cyberse deck anyway. It was actually a pretty decent target for transcode talker to revive when we got that, and at least you can summon bumper without eating your normal summon because special summoning is cyberse's specialty. The only thing Clara and Rushka has going for it is Sangan and witch dump and Sangan can be used to summon salamangreat almiraj since it only has 1000 attack. There is no reason to ever run Clara and Rushka.
@@gsdarkus5014 yeah well knightmares are frickin broken and currently have 2 of their cards banned. And anyway knightmares are for competitive players that have developed experience with the game. Link bumper is a card from a starter deck that is meant to be an introduction for new players. It's a good card for beginners. Not everything has to revolve around meta. This is why yugioh has a new player problem. because meta players force everyone to play their way or not at all. It's stupid. I shouldn't have to play exactly like my opponent just to be able to play the frickin game!
That Nephthys one is supposed to actually go with Nephthys decks. They've got a Level 2 and a Level 8 Ritual monster that are summoned with the same Ritual Spell and can bring themselves back easily, especially the Level 2. They also REALLY like cards with Nephthys in their name and they have a bunch of weak Level 2 monsters the Link monster is clearly supposed to protect.
Just a few comments: 1: Nephthys could be used in a Cyber Angel deck as well. People think only about Nekroz when it comes to Ritual Summon decks, but Cyber Angel deckS can be pretty strong too and could easily summon Nephthys 2: King's Knight is not a Normal Monster 3: Battle Phase IS a good phase to special summon from the hand, if you have a good monster (such as a level 8, 3000 ATK monster). However, indeed decks that focus too much on Link Summon hardly will have such monster in hand
10: no real complaints, 9: I think this is probably understated, its main value is protecting the other nephthys monsters from battle, simply by laddering into it from protector. the other bonus effects can come up as the game progresses, since avatar can revive itself every turn and you wouldn't mind ritual summoning her again. 8: Yep, there just isn't a deck that want's to throw away link monsters in such a manner. 7: Ehh, like 100 per dragon isn't a bad deal though. cowboy was a very popular extra deck monster and it only did 800 damage, if you consider how many dragon monsters can end up in the graveyard in a single turn, its easy for agave to be just as big a finisher. 6: yep, I wouldn't call it bad exactly, but nothing really synergizes to make it good. 5: Awww, targeting protection, decent body out the gate, double floating, I'd still say this is a case of a good monster that doesn't have a deck it belongs to. 4: WHAT Special summoning from the hand during the battle phase is AMAZING, you get to attack with the summoned monster right away and don't have to worry about it getting disrupted as you enter the battle phase. at the end of the day, this card is an incredibly generic link 2 which can eat a removal. 3: yep, he's pretty awful. he might have seen a little more use if there were better options to ladder him into, but rokket, the deck he asthetically matches, can't easily use him for the borrel dragons. 2: no complaints, imagine getting powercrept by a vanilla, 1: Yikes this card is worse then I remember, I think it actually saw some use early on for extra linking because that specific angle is very rare, but now update jammer and knightmare cerberus fill the roll much better, Overall, I don't really agree with this list, recovery sorceress, binary blader, backup-point guard, progleo, duel link dragon the duel dragon, flash charge dragon, It seems like there are so many more link monsters that would be harder to find a use for then the ones listed here.
Agave Dragon could useful in a Dinosaur deck, considering Ultimate Conductor Tyranno Struggles very powerful Link Monsters with 3600 ATK or More, so using Agave would be a good counter against said monsters, if the amount of Dinos in you're graveyard are enough to give Agave Dragon the ATK nessarary to take them on one on one. It also helps if use 2 Reprodocus (which required 2 monsters to Link summon it) as added ATK point bonuses.
Linkerbell fascinates me with its design, given that LANphorynchus came out almost 2 full years prior. It reminds me of all the Level 4 monsters with over 2000 Atk that have some kind of restriction to them-but even those monsters are given some extra effect nowadays to make them worth using.
I was playing Agave in my dragonmaid deck, then I remembered, apollusa has better arrows for bringing out elpy and pisty, and 2-4 extra negates is better than dealing less than 1000 effect damage.
I love Nephtys in my Megaliths. It's really nice to end on because most of them don't have protection, or I want to push for game with this and Phaleg boosting it.
I think Linkerbell is supposed to be a pendulum support card, as pendulum cards on the field go to the extra deck when they leave, increasing the number in your extra deck when they do
1: Linkerbell is also useful in pendulum decks, which gives it an edge up over Link Bumper, which, you called it, was used in the anime for a specific combo. Especially since it hilariously has 100 more ATK than Link Bumper, which makes it even more useful. Link Bumper was used for its effect once, then used to Link Climb in its only other appearance. I'm pretty sure Jar of Greed was used more often than Link Bumper. 2: Still waiting on that Top 10 Revival Cards (Best or Worst. I honestly just want to see a list talking about revival cards).
Extra Joker is sort of helpful in Igknight, but that's not saying much even as someone who loves that archetype. Linkerbell feels like it was supposed to be an early Link era TCG premier, but got released latter than it should have. In my rough draft for my still somewhat active Vrains fan game, there's a character running Agave Dragon as an ace. The burn damage and ATK is supposed to make them nigh unbeatable for plot reasons. Sort of like a cutscene battle in an RPG only you actually have a chance at winning, albeit a slim one.
I'd argue that Backup supervisor is pretty decent. Nowadays there's a lot of monsters that are generic link 2s, but before backup was a great option to link off and make borrelsword savage.
I'd argue against Vorticular Dragon being on the list. I play a lot this card and it's really good, atleast to me. - Hibernation Dragon + Noctovision Dragon + Return of Dragon Lord = Summon Vorticular Dragon = Allow you draw 2 cards. - You can use Darkness Metal Dragon for Special Summon it from the graveyard and draw 1, also you have a Link-3 on the field (useful as material for Topologic Zeroboros, Borrelsword or Rokket).
Honestly, Duel Link Dragon should have been here. It's that Crimson Dragon retrain that banishes useful synchros for a token that can only be used as a beatstick. It's beyond salvation.
Some of those link monser are just "bad" because there some of the first, like: Doublebyte dragon Linker bell(it took a really long time to come to the TCG) Link bumper
I mean to be fair, Agave Dragon has seen play in a couple of otk decks for its burn damage by setting off infinite loops using Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon, so it has that. Albeit only it's a bit harder with Summon Sorceress being banned, but since Geonator Transverser and Beelze of the Diabolic Dragons exist, it is still possible. Also what about top 10 cards to combo with Mystical Refpanel?
I use the Nephthys sacred flame link monster in my Megalith. The entire archetype is almost designed to get as many ritual monsters on the board as possible. I can reliably pull it off with my starting hand about 60-70% of the time, and if not, i can almost always do it next turn, even after a board wipe. It works really well, but it relies on the ritual mechanic, so prone to bricks. Still fun AF
Decode Talker Heatsoul is basically a better Vorticular Drumgon in every way -Points down with two arrows -Draws a card as a quick effect at a cost of 1K LP so you can still chain it to whatever may remove it, also has no downsides to it except maybe paying Life Points (also has extra effect if you have ≥2K lp) -Still a link 3 but requires just 2 plus cyberse with different attributes, with is pretty easy in a dedicated deck With a this in mind, it's up to you to decide whether Drumgon is easier or harder to summon in its dedicated deck and what monster (between these two) has the better link arrows (Heatsoul has Decode Talker arrows so in the main zones it doesn't point anywhere while Drumgon could potentially help you extra link)
I actually run nephys in my machine angel extra deck. It's a situational gimmick play but since that deck has a decent amount of graveyard recursion it's not too bad either.
I question Double Byte Dragon being on the list. All that needs to happen to make it better is to have a Judgment Dragon and nuke the field. The Double Byte Dragon should still remain because it's unaffected by Judgment Dragon's eff. Though, your point about link monsters makes sense.
Btw, king's knight isn't a normal monster, it's an effect monster.Arcana Extra Joker was meant to set up King's Knight so you can summon Jack's Knight. Queen's Knight and Jack's Knight are normal monsters but King's Knight is an effect monster.
Love the video (as I do all), but this just feels so early (with Link monsters still being the most recent new summoning mechanic). Will there be a retrospective update or something like "top ten Link monsters that used to be good" a few years down the line?
I'm gonna say... agave dragon is basically a budget version of dinosaur decks (basically late game with gy filled for some reason) soo basically don't run it unless it's all you have as a acesscode or any other link monster (too rare to be played at all)
Based on its name and design, I'm like 95% sure Link Bumper has such a specific Effect because it's intentionally designed to be Anti-Link Support, rather than being an Anime-First Card they "forgot" to balance.
In my Megalith deck, I don't know how many times Link3 Nephthys has saved me after an interrupted combo or as my boss monster after I could comeback. TY indeed, Nephthys, you've been the opposite of useless or even a bad link monster to me.
Agave Dragon will actually be very useful in the upcoming “Transcendrake” deck! That archetype is gonna be very interesting since it can very much use all four Types!
One thing to note for Agave Dragon (besides that...interesting pronunciation) is that it says "The GYs" not "Your GY". Since you can't really control the monsters in your opponent's GY it's still not like good but it should at least be noted.
Isn't Bellcat Fighter supposed to be a Mecha-Phantom Beast monster? Its type, attribute, materials and token spawning effect obviously allude to that. Maybe they just to put it in the name. Though, if that was the case, it would be a shame that such a terrible link monster was in the same archetype as Auroradon.
Question about Agave Dragon: does the announcement of the card "Declaration Of Rebirth" change your opinion on that monster at all? It's true that you won't benefit from more than one of its effects but it will have a bigger impact when the one effect that can go off *does* go off. Also means you can consider splashing that card in other decks that don't necessarily have dragons, dinos, serpents or wyrm monsters.
Bellcat Fighter also has that little issue of being basically a Mecha Phantom Beast card but not having all the support because it has a different name
Fun fat: That card artwork is featured in Stall Turn, a new counter trap
I used to play in 2008 and desided to check in to see how things changed but what the quack happened to the power level.
@@erikburzinski8248 Man, it's all fucked up. Personally I miss the older versions of the game.
It may technically be a Mecha Phantom Beast, but they would never go into it.
@@erikburzinski8248 00 vCard
Next year on April fools, you should do a video called “top ten frog monsters” and each place should just be frog the jam.
People always say except Frog the Jam, not accept Frog the Jam.
Top ten Frog monsters, except [REDACTED].
I am still waiting for his top ten worst wifus.
@@alexanderrobins7497 u should watch davinator's video on top ten best waifus and husbandos. its not the same but close enough.
@@alexanderrobins7497 Every "Amazoness" monster including "Amazon Archer"
Top 10 Fusion monsters that can't be Fusion Summoned
Top 10 Fusion Monsters that must be fusion summoned
Gladiator Beasts, Neos, ABC, Masked Heros, Ritual Beasts, Legendary dragons, N'Tss & etc.
Titan, Shaddolls, Nethersoul Dragon, Omni HEROs, First of the Dragon, & etc
oooo i like the sound of this...
@@rand6412 for the first one crimson nova trinity has a lot of good eff but the way u have to fusion summoned and there are no other poly spell beside the trap cards so trinity could fit in ur catagory easily
RAINBOW OVERDRAGON. If you disagree I'll happily blast your field on End Phase and watch you eat a double dose of 4000 beatsticks.
@@joanaguayoplanell4912 I use super polymerization to fuse your over dragon with my elemental hero neos to create Rainbow Neos!
13:53 - Link Bumper is from Episode 5 of Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS, and acted as the Deus ex Machina “save the day” card pulled by main character Playmaker via his Storm Access character Skill (long story short, the player can use it at literally any phase to add a random Link monster from outside the deck into the Extra Deck; only good once per duel, can only be activated at 1000 LP or less). It was used to initiate a convoluted and situational Battle Phase loop where a souped-up Decode Talker attacked Gouki, the Great Ogre repeatedly until Great Ogre ran out of ways to cheat destruction by battle, at which point a different card offed the opposing GO with a Flame Wingman effect.
I didn’t even know that most of these existed lmao
This is the best part of the worst of videos
Same lmao
I only know the number 1 of every worst video because I always own that card😂😂😂
These link monsters are forgettable ☺✨
If you opened boxes then you probably have all of these. I do. I recognize all of these cards lol
You forgot to mention that Linkerbell was only powercrept by LANphorhynchus is the OCG. In the TCG, Linkerbell came out two years *after* LANphorhynchus (and about a year after I:P and Beat Cop).
Love the amount of thought put into that
Different than usual, but i think "Top 10 differences between the TCG and OCG formats" would be cool
Maybe top 10 TCG exclusive cards?
Right off the bat, Maxx C being at 3 over there is a huge deal. It’s why Dragoon did so well in the OCG. It was an oppressive boss monster that can be summoned in just 3 special summons, limiting how much the opponent would draw off of C, unlike most amazing boss monsters that usually require like, 5 or more summons. Basically, summon spamming is less penalized here in the TCG overall due to the Maxx C ban.
Yeeeees
8:29 King's Knight isn't a normal monster just the other 2. It has the effect to summon Jack's Knight from the deck if Queen's Knight is on the field.
So what you're supposed to do is use Arcana Extra Joker's floating effect to summon Queen's Knight and add King's Knight to your hand, so you can use King's Knight's effect to summon Jack's Knight and fusion summon Arcana Knight Joker
Is no one wanting to mention the adorableness of that star?
No one seems to be mentioning that it is aided by pendulum cards either.
I could be wrong, but I think it’s because the synergy is a bit off. To use it on your first turn, you’d have to get Pendulum monsters into the extra deck first before you can even summon Linkerbell, meaning you’ll likely have little to use to summon Link monsters to Linkerbell’s zones, and will likely have already used your Pendulum Summon. On later turns, it can help, but only if you summon it before using your pendulum summon, which I think would usually mean you have to protect a 1500 attack monster for a turn, which isn’t happening :O
You're not wrong, but I was just saying that as it was released prior to Lan it might have been a choice.
Something about agave dragon reminds me: my friends loved playing yugioh but when master link happened they weren't all too jazzed with buying new packs like I did, so I bought them all a copy of agave dragon and like 3 generic link 2s to force them to play by the rules.
Wait, so put another way... you didn't allow them to screw the rules b/c you had money?
@@emerfirek Absofuckinglutely
Ah yes, Agave dragon, The monster that was so OP in school rules. And Bell Cat too! I gave that to my pop for his birthday because he used to work in the Air Force!
Most OP cards in school rules :
- Mirror Force / Sakuretsu Armor / Yomi Ship...
- any card in Italian as people were making up effects
- that 1 guy who had a Raigeki
- Magic cylinder (we were playing with 4000 HP)
Top 10 Cards that need a retrain but haven’t gotten one yet.
???
I wonder bout' when my grandpa bought a galaxy ciphe dragon ghost art
my mind goes ; WHTTTTt ?
GATE GUARDIAN
Roboyaru series, early Elemental Heroes, every single vanilla monster most notably the gigantic pile of garbage that is Dark Magician, the Egyptian God cards...
Neo spacians and neos fusion monsters
LGBT flag detected, opinion invalidated
Linklebell is bizarre. By the time this thing came out in the tcg, master rule 4 had been revised and several cards had powercrept it. There was no reason to play this.
Konami screwed up by releasing most of the link vrains pack cards after the link era
I’m kinda surprised Duel link dragon, the link dragon isn’t on the list. Who wouldn’t want to link away their synchro to get essentially a vanilla with the same stats.
Plus it's named after the worst Yugioh video game of all time.
@@Rabbitlord108 Is not called Legacy of the Duelist though.
@@decoy9854 Nah Duel Links is worse to me cause it's the only video game to influence card design.
8:40 just a correction: Arcana Knight Joker nedds 3 specific warrior monster 2 normal and one effect monster.
The material "King's Knight" is an effect monster with the effect, if queens knight is out with him, you can special summon "Jack's Knight"
My takeaway from 1:20 is that there's a Yugioh card designer who cared enough about Delaunay triangulation to name a card after it. Neat! I used a generalization of that concept in my research on protein molecules.
For the record: Link Bumper is in fact a card also in the anime, early in the VRAINS series, used by the main character Yusaku, no less. No wonder why it got outclassed easily.
“Hey baby wake up, new TheDuelLogs video”
Okay, im up
Sorry was sleeping in
That's how you would get a divorce.
Babe, BABE! TheDuelLogs just uploaded my sweet little angel
Equal parts cringe and sad
Top 10 worst ritual effect monsters, pleaseeeee
Basically early rituals. Legendary Flame Lord and Cu Chulainn immediately come to mind as does Lycanthrope. Debatably Ruin since all she does is have an extra attack if she destroys a monster.
Out of that batch I think only Paladin of White Dragon and Demise (not counting Relinquished because that was a great monster and still is) are decent to good. Doriado was... not great but it allows the use of Fu Rin Ka Zan, so she has something going for her.
Paladin turbos Blue Eyes, Demise is a field nuke for 2000 LP and you get three. It's... not a great effect nowadays because of every deck mandating immunity and negates.
Lycanthrope gains 100 ATK for each vanilla in your graveyard. ARA can help with that but then you run six level one normal monsters to get the best out of it when you can use it to turbo Chaos Max.
@@shis1988 Demise had history of competitive play, wouldn't be right to list as worst even by modern standards.
@@thatman666 oh definitely it was never bad. It just is a not very good effect nowadays because of boss monsters always being immune to effects/destruction/having omni-negates.
It can have uses if you can somehow bring it in for an OTK though before the opponent gets the boss out.
Every non effect ritual monster your welcome :)
@@inusan2198 it's why OC says "worst effect ritual monsters".
Don't you diss the best monster ever made Hungry Burger.
13:53 Your assumption is pretty much right, it was used once in the anime.
I KNEW LINKERBELL WOULD BE ON THE LIST! Its essentially a lose harder card.
@King of The Zinger but all that hard work for that when LANphoryncus is easier to get out and can do the same thing?
@@nedrostram2360 and? Its still a godawful card. Novody ever used it. Why are you trying so overly hard to defend it? You use it?
@@nedrostram2360 doesn't excuse it being extra levels of bad. And konami obviously knew what they were doing if LANphorynchus came out so quickly after it
@@nedrostram2360 Folks like you are why I think Davinator turning off the comments on his videos ala the Poketuber Tamashii Hiroka is inevitable.
I love agave dragon. Agave is like my ace. I am not competitive.
I actually enjoy using it in my casual dino deck where I run a couple of True Kings and Tenyi's. It makes a decent extra beatstick. Hearing it make this list made me a little sad.
Agave Dragon can be used in Pendulum FTK.
I wonder if Arcana Extra Joker is going to get buffed with the new Knight cards coming later this year or if they'll just leave it by the wayside
It will stay the same so...I have 0 hopes the new Arcana's will be good
When he said the name of that Nephthys link monster I thought I was having a stroke given how different he pronounced it from what it said on the card on the screen lol
Thats not stroke, unfunny redditor
Link Bumper was designed in the early MR4 period, so Konami was planning for duels to be mostly pure Link vs. Link with only occasional appearances by other monsters. So the idea was you'd summon your boss Link monster, then summon Link Bumper, then use that left arrow for a third (and possibly doing more depending on how many Link monsters you can summon), and then use the boss monster to wipe out the enemy's whole field. It's also designed primarily for non-archetypal Cyberse decks, which are all about swarming for the express purpose of Link Summoning. Which is why it did indeed get featured in an episode of the anime, where the protagonist ran precisely that deck.
I've been waiting for this video for a long time as while I don't play Yu-Gi-Oh anymore I love hearing about the rules and combos made.
Now can we get best link monster video as everyone on YT is outdated to as link spider and linkuriboh are cute.
It's just dragun of red-eyes and rainbow neos first turn and hand traps .
I can understand why you stopped.
@@emperorhadrian6011 honestly it got expensive as well and I stopped after xyz as honestly synchro is my favorite type and show.
If I did play honestly link would probably be my second favorite as it's blue and I love how they work overall as even the ealry link are cool monsters to see combo play.
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I kept playing up until it became whoever had a hand trap first turn would win.
Up until that point it was possible to play cheaper rogue decks.
Early link was fun though, if only it worked like master rule five did.
@@emperorhadrian6011 guess after 5ds and zexal more hand traps came into play as yusie was kinda the original graveyard and hand trap user with how many cards he had back righr after fusion.
Yeah I feel my deck wouldn't be able to keep up as a mix of xyz synchro but I did play duel link a few months ago and got pretty high in ranking as my deck was fair enough for the old format.
If I could buy the original link deck I would. It has those cool old link monsters but I don't play with anyone anymore
@@ivanbluecool
Do you have/have you tried EDOpro?
It lets you set a room and what ban list and rule set for that room and for deck building you have access to all cards including all anime cards, it's how I've been playing for the past year and a half.
Syncro and xyz era is pretty popular on there you should check it out.
> calls agave Dragon bad
*laughs in using it in beelze ftk*
I have to assume you mean the ftk that can be done with literally any effect damage?
@@TheDuelLogs yeah but agave Dragon is probably the best target to start it since it’s a extra deck monster and you are guaranteed to have a dragon in your Gy
> calls agave dragon "a-GAVE"
Agave dragon is one of those links that you will somehow find in the obscure combos for me while the obscure carda are necessary for said combos i won't consider them good cause of said obscure relevancy but i would'nt consider them top 10 worst links
@@hiimemily I was looking for someone else who noticed that.
AGAVE Dragon?! Oh boy...
Lmaoooo it never ends
what is it with ygo players and pronouncing slightly non-english words wrong
@@the_breezyp what about “arc type” and “archeh fiend” and “tryo” lol he screws up English words too
@@kefkapalazzo1 The worst messed up one is "Spacian" in any Neos-related video he does. He always says "spay-see-an", but it's supposed to be "spay-shan".
Perhaps lists about the best/worst continuous spell and trap cards would be fun
I'm sad, because I unironically hard ran Agave Dragon in my Blue eyes deck, because I don't have a lot of extra deck monsters.
Finally :D I've been asking for this video for a while, it's refreshing to see you talk about cards we haven't seen before on this channel.
Extra Joker just makes me wish for a card knight deck, where it would turbo out arcana knight joker and their field spell would allow you to discard any card to get the negate effect, they could have a card called "shuffle" or something that would allow you to swap one card knight for another, and they could have a big boss monster that requires you to banish arcana knight joker, king, queen, and Jack from your hand, field, or graveyard and it would be called something like "Royal Straight Arcana Knight" or "Arcana Flush Knight", I just think if they expanded on those cards they could be REALLY cool
I just finished watching your "worst of "playlist and you post this. This made my day
I love how fast your intros are, the list started before i even realised it
Using 3 Agave Dragons helps you activate the Wyrm supporting effects. I use 3 of them in a Dragon Deck, when the first one is destroyed and I bring the second one to the field, I have 1 Wyrm in my Graveyard AND Dragons. Same thing when I bring the third one.
I also use it in my for-fun Dinosaur Deck. I use Uraby, Two-Headed King Rex, Crawling Dragon #2, Hyper Hammerhead etc in a Deck just because I am a Dinosaur nerd, so since this card seems to dwell on "Wasteland", I added it.
surprised that Clara & Rushka, the Ventriloduo didn't make the list
She used to be useful for dumping Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest back in Master Rule 4
Sangan and witch dump. She also had a niche use with mind control effects against true draco and especially against masterpeace
@@nodeberiaestaraqui93 so, it's not really useful
I like their artwork
How about "worst summon from hand, deck, or graveyard effect". Pretty hard to find but definitely interesting
I think a good double top 10 would be “Top 10 Cards banned in the OCG that don’t see play in the TCG” and vice versa
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For Doublebyte, wouldn't you be able to use two Link-6s or does Arrival prevent you from summoning a second one?
correct, can only control 1
@@TheDuelLogs Okay, I haven't actually taken a look at it or what is does
Link Bumper is indeed an Anime card created for a specific duel and nothing else.
It was one of the first link monsters ever made. They put it in cyberse starter decks. It wasn't as bad as he said at the time. Honestly I don't think it should even be on this list let alone the number one spot. In fact I know that spot should've gone to Clara and Rushka the Ventriloduo.
@@dustinvance243 Yes, but on that set, you already had better things like Decode Talker, so it was useless right off the bat.
About Clara & Rushka, is a pretty decent Link 1 monster for decks that go 2nd or after using Evenly Matched. While Link Bubper not only requires specific materials and has really bad arrows, but also has an almost useless effect.
@@gsdarkus5014 top and left aren't bad arrows. In fact they're a requirement for extra linking! And the materials aren't bad either because you were likely only playing it in a cyberse deck anyway. It was actually a pretty decent target for transcode talker to revive when we got that, and at least you can summon bumper without eating your normal summon because special summoning is cyberse's specialty. The only thing Clara and Rushka has going for it is Sangan and witch dump and Sangan can be used to summon salamangreat almiraj since it only has 1000 attack. There is no reason to ever run Clara and Rushka.
@@dustinvance243There's even less reasons to think about using Link Bumper for extra link instead of the much better Knightmares.
@@gsdarkus5014 yeah well knightmares are frickin broken and currently have 2 of their cards banned. And anyway knightmares are for competitive players that have developed experience with the game. Link bumper is a card from a starter deck that is meant to be an introduction for new players. It's a good card for beginners. Not everything has to revolve around meta. This is why yugioh has a new player problem. because meta players force everyone to play their way or not at all. It's stupid. I shouldn't have to play exactly like my opponent just to be able to play the frickin game!
That Nephthys one is supposed to actually go with Nephthys decks. They've got a Level 2 and a Level 8 Ritual monster that are summoned with the same Ritual Spell and can bring themselves back easily, especially the Level 2. They also REALLY like cards with Nephthys in their name and they have a bunch of weak Level 2 monsters the Link monster is clearly supposed to protect.
Just a few comments:
1: Nephthys could be used in a Cyber Angel deck as well. People think only about Nekroz when it comes to Ritual Summon decks, but Cyber Angel deckS can be pretty strong too and could easily summon Nephthys
2: King's Knight is not a Normal Monster
3: Battle Phase IS a good phase to special summon from the hand, if you have a good monster (such as a level 8, 3000 ATK monster). However, indeed decks that focus too much on Link Summon hardly will have such monster in hand
God I wish you’d do MTG as well. Your format & quality is better than anyone in that community
Maybe Blade will quit Yugioh eventually and become a full MTG channel.
I always forget Tindangles aren’t anime exclusives lmao
But Armatos Legio is...
Poor Tindangles multiple cards make us think they would make another Tindangle link but we never got another one.
Another downside to Vorticular Drumgon is the fact that just one extra material gets you a Saryuja with all of its effects.
10: no real complaints,
9: I think this is probably understated, its main value is protecting the other nephthys monsters from battle, simply by laddering into it from protector. the other bonus effects can come up as the game progresses, since avatar can revive itself every turn and you wouldn't mind ritual summoning her again.
8: Yep, there just isn't a deck that want's to throw away link monsters in such a manner.
7: Ehh, like 100 per dragon isn't a bad deal though. cowboy was a very popular extra deck monster and it only did 800 damage, if you consider how many dragon monsters can end up in the graveyard in a single turn, its easy for agave to be just as big a finisher.
6: yep, I wouldn't call it bad exactly, but nothing really synergizes to make it good.
5: Awww, targeting protection, decent body out the gate, double floating, I'd still say this is a case of a good monster that doesn't have a deck it belongs to.
4: WHAT Special summoning from the hand during the battle phase is AMAZING, you get to attack with the summoned monster right away and don't have to worry about it getting disrupted as you enter the battle phase. at the end of the day, this card is an incredibly generic link 2 which can eat a removal.
3: yep, he's pretty awful. he might have seen a little more use if there were better options to ladder him into, but rokket, the deck he asthetically matches, can't easily use him for the borrel dragons.
2: no complaints, imagine getting powercrept by a vanilla,
1: Yikes this card is worse then I remember, I think it actually saw some use early on for extra linking because that specific angle is very rare, but now update jammer and knightmare cerberus fill the roll much better,
Overall, I don't really agree with this list, recovery sorceress, binary blader, backup-point guard, progleo, duel link dragon the duel dragon, flash charge dragon, It seems like there are so many more link monsters that would be harder to find a use for then the ones listed here.
Agave Dragon could useful in a Dinosaur deck, considering Ultimate Conductor Tyranno Struggles very powerful Link Monsters with 3600 ATK or More, so using Agave would be a good counter against said monsters, if the amount of Dinos in you're graveyard are enough to give Agave Dragon the ATK nessarary to take them on one on one. It also helps if use 2 Reprodocus (which required 2 monsters to Link summon it) as added ATK point bonuses.
Hey you could do a 10 worst list of a really good effect just to show how good that effect really is, love the vids
Hi! excuse my ignorance, but what's so good about two downward pointing diagonal arrows?
Linkerbell fascinates me with its design, given that LANphorynchus came out almost 2 full years prior. It reminds me of all the Level 4 monsters with over 2000 Atk that have some kind of restriction to them-but even those monsters are given some extra effect nowadays to make them worth using.
I was playing Agave in my dragonmaid deck, then I remembered, apollusa has better arrows for bringing out elpy and pisty, and 2-4 extra negates is better than dealing less than 1000 effect damage.
I love Nephtys in my Megaliths. It's really nice to end on because most of them don't have protection, or I want to push for game with this and Phaleg boosting it.
Yooooo I love the tindangles. Turn 2 Cerberus with gorgonnes end and their continuous spell is kinda a beast set up.
I think Linkerbell is supposed to be a pendulum support card, as pendulum cards on the field go to the extra deck when they leave, increasing the number in your extra deck when they do
It was supposed to be released 2 years earlier than it did, given it came out AFTER I:P and LAN in the TCG. The OCG is where it got powercrept.
The only one I knew of was Agave Dragon because it’s popped up as a finisher in a few gimmicky FTK decks
Link bumper was an anime card. It was only used to link climb.
I cannot tell if I got this video idea bc I commented it but no one pays attention to my comments unless they are cool but great video as always
You missed the legendary dual link dragon on this list.
1: Linkerbell is also useful in pendulum decks, which gives it an edge up over Link Bumper, which, you called it, was used in the anime for a specific combo. Especially since it hilariously has 100 more ATK than Link Bumper, which makes it even more useful. Link Bumper was used for its effect once, then used to Link Climb in its only other appearance. I'm pretty sure Jar of Greed was used more often than Link Bumper.
2: Still waiting on that Top 10 Revival Cards (Best or Worst. I honestly just want to see a list talking about revival cards).
Extra Joker is sort of helpful in Igknight, but that's not saying much even as someone who loves that archetype.
Linkerbell feels like it was supposed to be an early Link era TCG premier, but got released latter than it should have.
In my rough draft for my still somewhat active Vrains fan game, there's a character running Agave Dragon as an ace. The burn damage and ATK is supposed to make them nigh unbeatable for plot reasons. Sort of like a cutscene battle in an RPG only you actually have a chance at winning, albeit a slim one.
I'd argue that Backup supervisor is pretty decent. Nowadays there's a lot of monsters that are generic link 2s, but before backup was a great option to link off and make borrelsword savage.
I'd argue against Vorticular Dragon being on the list. I play a lot this card and it's really good, atleast to me.
- Hibernation Dragon + Noctovision Dragon + Return of Dragon Lord = Summon Vorticular Dragon = Allow you draw 2 cards.
- You can use Darkness Metal Dragon for Special Summon it from the graveyard and draw 1, also you have a Link-3 on the field (useful as material for Topologic Zeroboros, Borrelsword or Rokket).
Honestly, Duel Link Dragon should have been here. It's that Crimson Dragon retrain that banishes useful synchros for a token that can only be used as a beatstick. It's beyond salvation.
Some of those link monser are just "bad" because there some of the first, like:
Doublebyte dragon
Linker bell(it took a really long time to come to the TCG)
Link bumper
I mean to be fair, Agave Dragon has seen play in a couple of otk decks for its burn damage by setting off infinite loops using Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon, so it has that. Albeit only it's a bit harder with Summon Sorceress being banned, but since Geonator Transverser and Beelze of the Diabolic Dragons exist, it is still possible. Also what about top 10 cards to combo with Mystical Refpanel?
fun fact, I built a deck that ended up beating my opponent with linkerbell, and popped off so hard afterwards.
Top 10 Mr. Logs' video that mentions Raidraptor - Ultimate Falcon
I use the Nephthys sacred flame link monster in my Megalith. The entire archetype is almost designed to get as many ritual monsters on the board as possible. I can reliably pull it off with my starting hand about 60-70% of the time, and if not, i can almost always do it next turn, even after a board wipe. It works really well, but it relies on the ritual mechanic, so prone to bricks. Still fun AF
Decode Talker Heatsoul is basically a better Vorticular Drumgon in every way
-Points down with two arrows
-Draws a card as a quick effect at a cost of 1K LP so you can still chain it to whatever may remove it, also has no downsides to it except maybe paying Life Points (also has extra effect if you have ≥2K lp)
-Still a link 3 but requires just 2 plus cyberse with different attributes, with is pretty easy in a dedicated deck
With a this in mind, it's up to you to decide whether Drumgon is easier or harder to summon in its dedicated deck and what monster (between these two) has the better link arrows (Heatsoul has Decode Talker arrows so in the main zones it doesn't point anywhere while Drumgon could potentially help you extra link)
I actually run nephys in my machine angel extra deck. It's a situational gimmick play but since that deck has a decent amount of graveyard recursion it's not too bad either.
I question Double Byte Dragon being on the list. All that needs to happen to make it better is to have a Judgment Dragon and nuke the field. The Double Byte Dragon should still remain because it's unaffected by Judgment Dragon's eff. Though, your point about link monsters makes sense.
Arcana Extra Joker is used in the Arcana Knight/Face Card Knight deck and it works amazing in it
Correction on Arcana Knight Joker, it uses 2 normal monsters, but King's Knight is an effect Monster which exists to make the fusion easier.
Link bumper was just used for link climbing in the anime, barely for its effect if I remember correctly
2 times. It counter gouki but it is horrible trash
Btw, king's knight isn't a normal monster, it's an effect monster.Arcana Extra Joker was meant to set up King's Knight so you can summon Jack's Knight. Queen's Knight and Jack's Knight are normal monsters but King's Knight is an effect monster.
Top ten worst level 4 or lower monsters with 2000 or higher defence! I would love to see it
Love the video (as I do all), but this just feels so early (with Link monsters still being the most recent new summoning mechanic). Will there be a retrospective update or something like "top ten Link monsters that used to be good" a few years down the line?
I'm gonna say... agave dragon is basically a budget version of dinosaur decks (basically late game with gy filled for some reason) soo basically don't run it unless it's all you have as a acesscode or any other link monster (too rare to be played at all)
Based on its name and design, I'm like 95% sure Link Bumper has such a specific Effect because it's intentionally designed to be Anti-Link Support, rather than being an Anime-First Card they "forgot" to balance.
Link Bumper was literally just pack filler. I have like 4 of them
...the hell is a Tindangle? I thought you were making that name up for a second.
Clara & Rushka, The Ventriloduo
You're right about Link Bumper. It's an anime card they turned into an actual card.
Does linkerbell work when you have pendulum monsters in your extra deck? Like if you have 15 extra deck cards plus 3 pendulum
In my Megalith deck, I don't know how many times Link3 Nephthys has saved me after an interrupted combo or as my boss monster after I could comeback. TY indeed, Nephthys, you've been the opposite of useless or even a bad link monster to me.
He was right. A lot of these cards appeared in the anime; like Tindangle Acute Cerberus & Link Bumper...
Agave Dragon will actually be very useful in the upcoming “Transcendrake” deck! That archetype is gonna be very interesting since it can very much use all four Types!
TheDuelLogs! This is a topic you're missing: top 10 best generic synchros! Please do
i am pretty sure duel link dragon is worse than link bumper. link bumper is at least easy to summon given how many cyberse monsters are.
Neat list video! Thanks for uploading!
I'd love to see a 10 BEST link monsters video
One thing to note for Agave Dragon (besides that...interesting pronunciation) is that it says "The GYs" not "Your GY". Since you can't really control the monsters in your opponent's GY it's still not like good but it should at least be noted.
Isn't Bellcat Fighter supposed to be a Mecha-Phantom Beast monster? Its type, attribute, materials and token spawning effect obviously allude to that. Maybe they just to put it in the name. Though, if that was the case, it would be a shame that such a terrible link monster was in the same archetype as Auroradon.
Are there ways to get to Extradeckmonsters to the hand first? yours or the opponents?
One time playing tenyi, i won a tournament because agave dragon give me the duel for the time rule
Top Ten worst link monsters
Number 10 tindangle acute Cerberus
Nice accomplishment Akira zaizen
I didn't even know about tindangle cards until I saw them in a box in Duel Links
Question about Agave Dragon: does the announcement of the card "Declaration Of Rebirth" change your opinion on that monster at all? It's true that you won't benefit from more than one of its effects but it will have a bigger impact when the one effect that can go off *does* go off. Also means you can consider splashing that card in other decks that don't necessarily have dragons, dinos, serpents or wyrm monsters.
Feel like an updated version of this vid could be cool to see sometime.